good afternoon, welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. and we begin with the toll the politics news and new stunning information about the trump tower meeting involve members of trump campaign. natalia veselnitskaya has close tied to the kremlin. she disclosed to nbc news she was the source of information for russia s chief prosecutor saying, quote, i am a lawyer and i am an informant, since 2013 i have been actively communitied with the office of the russian prosecutor general, unquote. in june of 2016 she met with officials of the trump campaign, jared kushner, paul manafort and donald trump jr. after they were promised dirt on hilling. they mailed a european move: the house intelligence committee down played it as an act of poor judgment in the newly released report that the president is celebrating this afternoons evidence of no collusion between his campaign and the russian government. we have all angles of this story covered with the reporters from the capitol and le
Said they would completely denuclearize the peninsula. just minutes ago president trump said he has a responsibility to help bring peace to korea. i have a responsibility to see if i can do it. and if i can t do it, it will be a very tough time for a lot of countries and a lot of people. it certainly is something that i hope i can do for the world. joining me now is global affairs analyst max abud and you are skeptical this will end the way president trump and frankly the way all of us in our hearts want it to. you wrote, kim is a more adept con man and trump an easier mark than i had imagined and in the washington post piece you wrote, don t let the kariya summit hype fool you, we ve been here before. have we been here at this moment, north and south meeting and talking about denuclearize is. we ve been exactly at this