o donnell: nancy joins us from the hill. so ambassador taylor says he sent a cable with some concerns to washington and he wrote it in the first person to secretary pompeo. tell us why that s significant. it s significant because it s very unusual to write a cable in that format. he says it was meant to convey urgency. he even signaled that he might resign over this but he got no response from the secretary of state. interestingly, norah, taylor says the person who advised him to send that cable was the president s own national security adviser, john bolton, who is scheduled to appear tomorrow, but we don t know if he will show up. o donnell: that s a new wrinkle. nancy, thank you. tonight the white house has a new impeachment battle plan. the president has said tonight they don t need a war room but they are trying to put more soldiers on the field. paula reid is at the white house tonight with details on these new key players. mr. president, are you concerned about the hearin
there have been no ballistic missiles going out. reporter: trump s view breaks with japan s prime minister who directly contradicted him on the issue. even the president s own national security adviser john bolton said there is no doubt north korea violated international agreements. president trump also praising kim jong-un on the world stage. he knows with nuclear, that s never going to happen. only bad can happen. he understands that. he is a very smart man. he gets it well. i m in no rush at all. the sanctions remain. reporter: the president used the press conference to attack the democratic frontrunner. kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. he probably is based on his record. i think i agree on that. reporter: trump and shinzo abe making news on escalating tensions with iran. i know so many people from iran. these are great people. we are not looking for regime change. i want to make that clear. we are looking for no nuclear
reporter: trump s view breaks with japan s prime minister who directly contradicted him on the issue. even the president s own national security adviser john bolton said there is no doubt north korea violated international agreements. president trump also praising kim jong-un on the world stage. he knows with nuclear, that s never going to happen. only bad can happen. he understands that. he is a very smart man. he gets it well. i m in no rush at all. the sanctions remain. reporter: the president used the press conference to attack the democratic frontrunner. kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. he probably is based on his record. i think i agree on that. reporter: trump and shinzo abe making news on escalating tensions with iran. i know so many people from iran. these are great people. we are not looking for regime change. i want to make that clear. we are looking for no nuclear weapons. reporter: president trump indicating that he may lean
it is up to the president of the united states to be able to confront the russians and be able to talk very publicly and directly about the threat that they pose and the consequences that they will face if they continue to do this. but up until now, i think he just continues to donald trump continues to point the fick the fingers of blame at others instead of his responsibilities as the president of the united states and that includes keeping our democratic foundations and elections as secure as possible. that is former cia director john brennan on the president s failure to publicly hold russia to account for meddling in the 2016 election. it is six days since deputy attorney general rod rosenstein announced 13 indictments against russian nationals. five days since the president s