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Remember what those days were like and there is a fear that a return to one-man rule could have serious consequences not only right now but also when xi jinping begins to leave office, who will succeed him, what will that process look like, that has a lot of people nervous here in china. >> matt rivers for us there. thank you, matt. a u.s. president donald trump visited the state of pennsylvania to try to help a republican candidate in a tight congressional race. >> but that speech quickly tur...

The trump administration wasnt tapped into the idea. our rhetoric is forcing him to the bargaining table and hes now ready to make a deal. thats not what happened. what happened was very traumatic. i think you were there. the president sticks his head into the briefing room, a big announcement is coming. its playing to the idea that president trump wants the eyes of the world on him. he will do something hopefully that his predecessors failed to do and he will be able to say, i did it. >>john: j...

Not get nuclear weapons and he is worried that he may not have enough time and he doesnt need much to get across the finish line. in north korea, kim jong un and his advisers are sitting around saying where is this answer? would we do if he says yes to the author. >> they are using this to stall and scientists to continue to develop missiles that terms and how they paused until one day it all falls apart because theyve done the switch and bait. theyve done the switcheroo. switch around. for year...

The trump administration wasnt tapped into the idea. our rhetoric is forcing him to the bargaining table and hes now ready to make a deal. thats not what happened. what happened was very traumatic. i think you were there. the president sticks his head into the briefing room, a big announcement is coming. its playing to the idea that president trump wants the eyes of the world on him. he will do something hopefully that his predecessors failed to do and he will be able to say, i did it. >>john: j...

Chinas economic relations ability. leland: a little more about china in a minute. just to the south of china about north korea appeared at the rally last night, president trump touted his upcoming meeting with north korean leader kim jong un, saying he had made and roads his predecessors never could. gillian turner with us as we are learning now about what a meeting between these two men might look like. hi, gillian. >> high, leyland. after the first year in office touting the united states nucl...

Tired of being reined in, that hes frustrated at them telling him what to do. isnt that their job, though, to a certain extent, especially chief of staff john kelly? >> so trump won because he was trump, and he knew his biggest asset was to be trump. i think in terms of kelly, if the reports are true, and we dont know the full details, but if kelly is on the way out, he did show a tremendous lack of judgment as it relates to the rob porter issue which had nothing to do with the president. it mig...

>> thats something that will be determined through national security and intelligence community. >> the president has said his predecessors have mishandled this and misplayed this. why cant he be so confident when just in october he was saying it would be a waste of time. >> i think it is clear theyve misplayed it or we wouldnt be in the position were in. the president wouldnt be cleaning up the messes of the previous three administrations. the president is getting promises out of north korea ha...

They feel like this meeting may not ever happen because it may just not materialize to whats advantageous in the united states. but once the president gets in his mind to do something, hell probably not pursue it. theyre moving day to day on it, and the other thing about trump is he often approaches his relationships with other world leaders, just the sheer force of his personality will be able to broach these sort of vexing problems his predecessors have been unable to solve. thats a whole lot ...

Reduce the danger is through a political agreement and involving the two top leaders who can call the shots. if they are talking, i think the chances of a shooting war go down. whether by design or by accident. and i was horrified, i mean, we have arguably, how shall i put this the two most unusual leaders on the face of the planet, they walk into a room, what could possibly go wrong? you know, if this crashes and burns, and the president tweeted about this a day or so ago, if this goes poorly, ...

President -- or to what secretary of state rex tillerson is now saying just 24 hours later. >> in terms of the decision to engage with president trump and kim jong-un, thats the decision the president took himself. i spoke to him very early this morning about that decision and we had a good conversation. this is something that hes had on his mind for quite some time. >> reporter: now, fred, the decisions, the details of this are still being hammered out, where this meeting is going to take place...