berman is in singapore, where the whole world will be watching for this unprecedented handshake between two leaders. president trump and kim jong-un meeting face to face for the first time. no one else except their translators will be in the room. talks are moving faster than expected. faster than expected many very careful language from the secretary of state, mike pompeo, then put out an official statement by the white house which said, discussions with this working group a going more quickly than expected, s very different than better than expected. we don t know if these talks are going well. there are some signals the u.s. negotiators are realizing it might be hard to push north korea toward specifics. and the specifics really really count. what we have seen over the last few hours has been remarkable. this surreal spectacle. with kim jong-un taking a surprise late night walk about with his entourage, a motorcade tour of the city. he was met by crowds and chees s in s
pillars that the president laid out. dana: new data from a showing a surge in the number of family and unaccompanied minor border crossings arrests. those numbers rising significantly compared with the same time last year. the acting ic director is pushing back against liberal criticism with some surprising information. look at the numbers last year, 72% of arrests were convicted criminals. if you look at criminal history, those that work computer pending charges, 89% of everyone we arrested had a criminal history. dana: democratic mayor of philadelphia celebrating a court ruling against the trump administration on sanctuary cities by doing this. the white house is calling those dance moves quite disgusting. the arrest of an illegal immigrant, new york city pizza delivery man, is making headlines. pablo villavicencio facing deportation after being detained earlier this month while dropping up food at a military base. guards discovering and acting ic warrant while doing
thousand words. it was the photo to sum up u.s. relations with allies. welcome to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. 4:00 p.m. in singapore. trump was colleelected to disru. he did that this weekend. threw out the playbook and writing his rules on the global stage. now doing something no sitting u.s. president has ever done. he will meet face-to-face with the leader of north korea. it is late afternoon in sipping importa afternoon in singapore. president trump met for a working lunch with officials. he is joined by top aides and including secretary of state mike pompeo and chief of staff john kelly and adviser john bolton. president trump says this is a one-time shot to achieve peace and prosperity for his people. i think within the first minute i ll know. how? my touch. my feel. that s what i do. i think i ll know pretty quickly whether or not in my opinion something positive will happen. north korean state media
and somebody in san jose is $522 million richer this morning, before taxes. one jackpot winner in last night s mega millions drawing, as evidence by the fact i m here, it s not me. i m not regretting the $10 i spent on that, my financial analyst. all right, if it makes you happy. welcome to early start. i m dave briggs. i m christine romans. it is july 25th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. michael cohen s flip on donald trump is all but complete this morning. a cnn exclusive breaking overnight. the attorney for cohen, president trump s fixer has presented eye-opening audio to cnn. candidate trump and cohen discuss buying the rights to a playboy model s story of her alleged affair with mr. trump years earlier. just before the election, the trump campaign denied any knowledge of a planned payoff to karen mcdougal, but the 2016 recording seems to confirm mr. trump knew at the time about the proposal. listen now as cohen tells trump about his plans to set up a company to purchas
wieselberg about how to set the whole thing up so, what are we going to pay with funding yes. and it s all the stuff all the stuff, because you know, you never know where that company, you never know where he s going to be he gets it correct. so, i m all over that. i spoke with allen about it. when it comes time for the fansing, it will be listen what financing? we ll have to pay won t pay with cash? no, no, no, no. i ve got no, no, no the audio at the end is muddled, and it is unclear whether mr. trump suggests paying with cash or not paying. the president s attorney, rudy giuliani, has said no payment ever came from his client. giuliani tells the washington post it sounds like cohen is explaining something to trump that he doesn t understand. and now giuliani disputes that the recording shows mr. trump knew about the mcdougal deal at all. i don t think anyone can suggest that this represents anything where the president did anythi