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Where hes not exactly welcome and seen as somebody who is leading the world. as you were saying a few moments ago, it feels very much like hes an outcast in some of these summit events. of course, the day is not over. well see how things play out with justin trudeau. hell have a chance to brush past angela merkel and the british prime minister and so on. tomorrow i think well have a better sense as to what was happening behind the. a much frostier g7 summit than weve seen in american administrat...

Happen in one deal. maybe it can. >> reporter: look, he loves a deal and lets hope he can strike a deal. christine, this is an extremely complex situation that previous u.s. administrations have attempted and failed. many experts believe that kim jong-un will never fully give up his nuclear weapons program because it is so vital to the regime and also to his leadership. christine. >> a longer process now with the north korea issue. we are further along than we have been in years. no question. an...

Contributor. other previous administrations have attempted diplomacy with north korea and failed. that is fact. can you give us a look back at the history thats led us up to this moment. >> i would go back to 1994 when we detected north korea detecting unloading fuel rods at their facility and at that time the cia with an assessment they could build one to two plutonium based weapons. his military advisors said it would result in a million deaths and cause a billion dollars worth of damage and t...

Plays out. remember now, president trumps defense department has promised to crack down on leaks here is what the president had to say before heading to canada. >> very interesting that they caught a leaker and a very important very important leaker. so its very interesting. im getting information on it now. it happened last night. it could be a terrific thing. i know i believe strongly in freedom of the press. im a big, big believer in freedom of the press. but im also a believer in classified ...

Bureaucrats who worked so hard to make the summit happen. this morning, all the american bureaucrats who worked hard. >> but is it a grenade? look at the markets. its not necessarily that the markets believe in the president. >> do we have the dow to put up? >> its like his rhetoric has become impotent in the beginning of this administration, if you were a ceo, you were panicked. you were panicked if the president said anything about your company, the industry. you would see your stock plummet o...

Out of the unauthorized disclosure of information. all right, so theres been an unauthorized disclosure of information. the senate has information about it. the justice department wants that information. the senate is now approving handing that information over so the justice department can act on it. what is all that about? then later on tonight we started to get reporting from multiple sources that the unauthorized disclosure of information was from somebody who had been a long-time staffer on...

The obama administration did conduct more of these justice department leak investigations than all previous administrations put together. that began what seems to be a trend that may well have intensified under -- its worrisome -- under the trump administration. jeff sessions says he now has three-times as many leak investigations going on as were left open by the obama administration. that tends to suggest that this -- this is intensifying. and it does have a chilling effect. this particular ca...

There have been scandals about it in democratic and republican administrations. there are supposed to be rules about that, but you can tell from the "new york times" reporting that they are ripping mad about it, as will most news organizations be when this news gets out. >> the senate staffer involved is a 31-year veteran. he left the staff this year. that means that all of the senators on the committee know this staffer. and 31 years means hes obviously served in a bipartisan way over those -- ...

Conduct more of these justice department leak investigations than all previous administrations put together. that began what seems to be a trend that may well have intensified under -- its worrisome -- under the trump administration. jeff sessions says he now has three-times as many leak investigations going on as were left open by the obama administration. that tends to suggest that this -- this is intensifying. and it does have a chilling effect. this particular case seems to have all sorts of...

Why they passed this unanimous resolves. but it said that it was -- what they needed to hand over was documents in connection with some sort of pending investigation arising out of the unthorsoned disclosure of information. so untloerzed of disclosure of information. the senate has information the justice department wants the information. the senate is pruchgt hand going over so the justice department can act on it. whats that about? then later on tonight we got reporting from multiple sources t...