Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Came out and supplied South Koreans with a number of those in his own administration by the fact he would meet with kim jongun. The parallels go on and on. The Secretary Of State just hours later came out and said there would be preconditions for President Trump meeting with the president of iran. But this comes against the backdrop of the president and a number of his top aides really escalating the rhetoric. Threatening to impose new sanctions. To criticize iran sharply for its acts of terrorism. The president of iran not responding to the president s offer for a meeting. Instead, he decried what he called United States illegal pulling out of its ran nuclear deal. The stakes for the president couldnt be harder. Because the president really railed a number of allies. Lawmakers on capitol hill when he pulled out of the nuclear deal. A lot of those people saying look, that is what was holding iran to account. Keepi
mike pompeo has been on capitol hill testifying he believes negotiationings as are moving f. is that the case? the administration working very closely on this as well because obviously high stakes with north korea. even so, there s a pretty big gap. and the summit was a huge success. north korea is no longer a threat. remember, that s what the president told us. i want to bring in my panel. it s an excellent one. steve clemens, he s a washington editor at large for the atlantic. noel noelle is a political strategist. steve, what is it about the summits that s so attractive to the president? i think donald trump looks at it as a big show. he s going to be the star. he s able to do something we ve seen over and over again which is deploy this dr. jekyll and mr. hide approach. so he s good cop and bad cop both. we see him disconnected from many of his own cabinet
at them nationally, they re breaking from republicans that we didn t see in 2006. we ve been talking about an energy gap, an enthusiasm gap that the democrats are hanging on to or they have more enthusiasm than republicans do. the opposite was true in 2016. this is primary voting. republicans easily outnumbered democrats at the polls on tuesday. 1.5 million to 1 million basically. that s a pretty big gap. for democrats that s a big deal a record. when you re looking at o rourke, what would you say he needs to do? do you dare give advice to a liberal man in texas? you re asking me? yeah, no, cornell. not you, rick. i was confused.
crisis in the republican party, and we saw it continue throughout 2017 as the president was serving his first year and it s going to play out through much of 2018. there is a divide in the party. jeff flake and charlie dent, arizona and pennsylvania are not utah, right? there are rich opportunity for democrats in pennsylvania and arizona to try and make hey of the fact that there s a rift inside the republican party. our latest poll on the 2018 midterms, which party are you likely to vote for, democrats 56% and republicans 38. that s a pretty big gap, isn t it? it s huge. historically, it s huge. we will see if the democrats can maintain that kind of sort of unprecedented edge throughout the entire election year, and one would imagine that could narrow. but even if that number was an eight-point gap, that would be significant for the democrats here. there s a wave coming and the
that s a pretty big gap. one good piece of news. discussion about a cease-fire between assad and moderate opposition forces. if that comes to fruition and happens in a couple of weeks, that would be good for us and people that we re supporting on the ground. your experienced eyes on that part of the world as we see russian military there involved and now special ops from the united states. perhaps some sort of conflict resulting from that since they re both in the same arena? would you see an unintended conflict? i know people in the obama administration were very worried about that. some of the initial attacks from russian aircraft were against those that we supported. not kurds. i want to be clear about that. they were arab forces but they are the very people we were supporting and there s just no way we can stand by and let that happen and i think that s why you have seen both upping the ante with boots on the ground with our kurdish partners but