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>> we are seeing continuity with the strategy. promise the world, buy time, accelerate the nuclear program. one continuity that exists in america is the idea that partisanship ends at the waters edge. this president has broken with that, particularly with comments and joe biden. >> 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 with him on that. >> sam? whats your take? >> my take is kim jong-un is executing the most basic ...

Everything that trump has been doing all to bluster is only causing china to dig in its heels. its increasing national sentiment within china and its going to make it much harder to extract the kind of concessions that we want, not only because trump is basically insulting china throughout all of this, but weve also alienated, of course, all the allies whose help we need in reigning in china including japan. >> your lying grocery store receipt is the least popular hank williams song. boris, the ...

Ballistic missiles despite the fact that just two launches just this month alone have happened most recently on may 9th john bolton says the tests violated a u.n. security council resolution, but today during a news conference with shinzo abe whose country views the missile launches as a threat, the president says this. >> my people think it may be a threat. i view it differently. perhaps he wants to get attention and perhaps not. who knows. i am very happy with the way its going, and intelligen...

Ohio. its as if they understand that appealing to president trumps ego will get them further than anything else. to president trump, foreign policy is personal. not about history or tradition. its what they say about him specifically. >> it ees extraordinary to seew they see president trump is susceptible to personal flattery and played to it. sometimes this is sinister stuff. sometimes all politics is local. one example had to do with the president weighing in and invoking kim jong-un against d...

Connolly on the oversight and foreign affairs committee and our correspondents and analysts, they have full coverage of the days top stories. but first, we begin with cnns senior white house correspondent, pamela brown in tokyo, and pamela, some extraordinary comments from president trump once again, siding with north koreas dictator. >> reporter: thats right, jim. president trump and prime minister abe aim to present a united front, but there was a clear divide on north korea with president tru...

>> 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 with him on that. >> thats a stunning statement, for a number of reasons. but in some ways, its not all that shocking that were hearing it coming from the president. >> i think it still is a stunning statement, because this is kim jong-un were talking about. i mean, were not talking about, oh, the french president thinks this of joe biden, and i agree with the french presid...

Ballistic missile tests that north korea conducted last month were of great regret. but he has to walk a fine line here, he sort of has to please president trump and court his support, specifically for a bilateral trade meeting that abe wants with chairman kim jong-un. but he also wants to call out kim not only for these missile tests but also for japanese citizens who have been abducted by the north koreans. this also shows just how much president trump trusts kim jong-un, taking his point of v...

Outlook from some of his closest advisers like national security adviser john bolton and even the prime minister of japan, shinzo abe. its not the only thing the president is siding with chairman kim on. last week north korean officials put out a statement taunting the intelligence of former vice president and current presidential candidate joe biden. listen to what he said about that. >> kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. he probably is based on his record. i th...

And intelligent people agree with me. >> youre not bothered at all by the small missiles? >> i am personally not. >> and the president wasnt finished. he dug in on his claim that kim jong-un insulted joe bidens intelligence. >> kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low i.q. individual. he probably is based on his record. i think i agree with him on that. >> cnn white house correspondent kaitlyn collins is there for us in tokyo. on the biden insult, i mean, do we even know where that c...

Violated u.n. resolutions with the short-range missile launch? and does it give you pause at all to be -- appearing to side with a brutal dictator instead of with a fellow american, the form vice president joe biden? >> 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 with him on that. but at the same time, my people think it could have been a violation, as you know. i view it differently. i view it as a man, perhaps he wants...