The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. And then actually never really does do it. Like release his taxes, right. Then theres other cases where it overrides all common sense, all of his advice and everybody else and does do it. The big question is, is he going to do it in this case . We dont know what donald trump were fog to get on that particular day. Although his staff does say and his attorneys do say that his tweets, in effect, and his public statements amount to his own testimony so far and you can just read his tweets and read his mind and thats something muler is doing, to see if theres any condemning statements hes made in those tweets. Hes been warned about that for a very long time. The president continues, you know, to tweet. Whether he is saying disparaging things about the process, his own intel community, all of that. How will mueller use these tweets to his advantage . Even if they never get direct q a from the president . Yes, well, the twe
take a step back and say what do we want to achieve from the second summit? and from there, and only from there, look at what options we re willing to put on the table to negotiate with. we used to want denuclearization. it s unclear whether that is still possible or still something we re after. even if we re just after a nuclear freeze at this point, we have to insist on letting nuclear inspectors in so that kim doesn t keep making more nukes just as quickly as he s making more friends. this status quo we re in, ryan, is actually a concession. we have conceded that kim jong-un can keep proliferating weapons, and we re seemingly okay with it. if we really push for him to let inspectors in, we re saying that he has to please his program. so that s not the only national security issue. obviously the situation in venezuela continues to seem to get worse. this morning, the secretary of state said that president nicolas maduro, he called him a sick tyrant from blocking
but the problem is when the two leaders met and there s this agreement to kind of move forward, countries thought they could relax on the sanctions. so there s an oil ban, a petroleum ban, against north korea. now there seems to be transfers of oil, ship to ship transfers. and russia is responsible. china s responsible. they have pictures. also north korea s defying an arms embargo, trying to ship light arms place, proliferating weapons. so as the u.s. and north korea start to move closer together, countries feel that they can relax some of those sanctions and now north korea could get some of the retch knew that sanctions have been designed to put pressure to get them to give up the nuclear program. we ll see what s next. elise labbott, thanks so much. now to iran where the country s navy is holding military exercises in the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf and the war games come as the
intake of these kids. exactly. made any kind of, you know, record or cataloging of parents and children. but presumably based on the judge s ruling, the government would have done that. so is equipped or should be equipped to try to locate parents who have been deported or simply parents and children who have been separated. but the administration has already spoken essentially. saying it didn t do a good job of cataloging. so now why should anyone think that as a result of the government s actions, these reunifications will take place? well, the reunifications are going to take place for most because they have to. the judge has issued but if they didn t, if people did not do a good job of once they deported, they didn t find out how to, you know, reach that parent whose child is still in detention. why is anyone convinced, you know, that the government will then do the leg work to find a
parent who has been deported and reunify them with a child who may be in iowa, maryland, new york and in a facility in texas. there are about 100 children in the united states where the government doesn t know exactly where they are. the reason is because what came out of this latest hearing with the judge and the parties involved is that the government, number one, has had no plan. they re basically winging it in terms of the reunification. and there s no specific point person. what the judge said to them, the judge gave them very specific orders. number one, that the next status meeting on august 10th, the judge wants to see a specific plan. it wants a process in place. do you have confidence in that august 10th deadline being met? i think the government at this point is doing good faith efforts. but the second thing that the government asks for not asks for, ordered the government to do is to put a point person in place. one person to be in charge of leading this effort. bec