reporter: good evening, we know the talk of election meddling done by james mattis. that was not a conversation had here at least publicly at the g-20 summit by the president or others. the white house has very much wanted to move beyond that at every one of these world gatherings that they have and we do know that the president was meeting on the sidelines with the russian president vladimir putin and came at a dinner last evening when all the world leaders were there. there was no sense of if that was an extensive conversation or not. it appears to be a very brief conversation. so certainly, i would say a lost opportunity at this world summit here, the g-20 summit by not, again, having a chance for the two leaders to speak face-to-face but we did hear from vladimir putin before he left town, he said this about president trump. of course, we were there and we were talking to each other. i had to talk with president
world gatherings, not only in europe, but now here in the united states, that that is not going to affect this president s language. what do you make of rocket man based on that context? well, it s interesting because there was never any question that north korea was going to be the number one topic on leaders minds heading into the u.n. general assembly this week that president trump is tweeting with b it the day before he heads to new york for the summit is not entirely surprising. the president is fond of applying nicknames to all of his opponents, in the primaries and once he s become president to his political opponents in congress. but clearly, that s not the kind of language leaders want from president trump. they ll be looking for clarity on the administration s policy when it comes to north korea. because on one hand, you have nikki haley, ambassador to the u.n., calling these the toughest measures imposed against north korea and then president trump calling out hours later