Handshake. This is my honor. This has been in particular a great friendship. President trump meets with come jongun on north korean soil. As he defends his warm ties to dictators. I get along with everybody. Like the saudi crown prince. I get along with mohammad. And jokes with putin. In their first meeting since the mueller report. Insight and analysis from our powerhouse roundtable. Well break down the politics, smoke out the spin. The facts that matter this week. Announcer from abc news, its this week. Here now, chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning. We want to get right to that breaking news. A bit of history made just hours ago. President trump, the first sitting president to set foot in north korea. There you see him at the dmz, that dangerous dividing line for more than 60 years, shaking hands first with kim jongun and then together, they cross over into north korea. History right there. And after that, a 40minute private meeting in freedom house. With the south korean president. Eygreed to restart the Nuclear Talks that collapsed in hanoi earlier this year. President trump clearly thrilled with the result. Historic moment. I think the relationship that we developed has has meant so much to so many people. And its just an honor to be with you and it was an honor you asked me to step over that line. I thought you might do that. I wasnt sure, but i was ready to do it. I want to thank you. Its been great. Our chief White House Correspondent jon karl on soil in seoul. The president wasnt sure it would happen but hes pleased that it did. Reporter in terms of sheer performance, george, this may be the biggest moment of the Trump Presidency so far. The president took a big gamble by issuing the lastminute invitation and that he let the cliffhanger play out as nobody knew whether or not kim jongun would accept. After all, north korean dictators arent known for impromptu meetings. Its the hermit kingdom. But 32 hours after he issued that invitation over twitter, there he was, shaking hands with kim jongun and taking those steps those historic steps into north korea. There wasnt much substance behind all the symbolism. But the president did announce that they would begin lowerlevel talks again aimed at getting that elusive nuclear deal. As you know, george, those talks had really completely broken down after the hanoi summit back in february. Yeah, that was the hanoi summit back in february and the singapore summit last year. When the president said the Nuclear Threat from north korea is over. But in fact, the Nuclear Program in north korea is intact as ever. Reporter it sure is, in fact, intelligence estimates say its growing. That said, there have been no more nuclear tests. And the sense here on the korean peninsula, clearly, is the tensions have lowered significantly. In fact, the president of south korea today said that donald trump is, quote, the peacemaker of the korean peninsula. Perhaps, quite a bit premature, but thats clearly where they think things are going here. They think theyre going in the right direction. Was this meeting really impromptu . Well, certainly preparations and a possibility of a meeting. In fact, i met with a very senior u. S. Official involved in these talks a week ago who told me that it was possible that this could happen, but he thought it was a very low likelihood and in fact put the odds at about 5 . It wasnt completely out of the blue but certainly came together at the last minute and in that sense it was very much an impromptu meeting. Okay, jon karl, thanks very much from seoul. A response from the democrats. Julian castro joins us now. Thank you for joining us this morning. Lets start out with the first president to stand on the north korea soil. Would president castro have made the same move . Look, im all for speaking with our adversaries, but whats happened here is that this president has raised the profile of a dictator like kim jongun, and now three times visited with him unsuccessfully, because hes doing it backward. Usually what happens, as you know george, that theres an intense amount of staff work that goes into negotiating how one of these talks will go. So you hopefully can get something out of it. We havent gotten anything out of it. After they had the first summit, the singapore summit, he told the American People that north korea was no longer a threat. Then after that, they continued to test their Nuclear Weapons. And they havent even abided by one of the commitments that they made originally which was to given a inventory of their nuclear stockpile. So, you know, its worrisome that this president erratically sets up a meeting without the staff work being done, it seems like its all for show, its not substantive, as jonathan said in his report. Were left to believe, what progress are we making . At the same time the cost to the United States and his allies is that hes raising a profile, growing the strength of a dictator. So you think he gave a gift to kim jongun . I think that he should put the work in beforehand and hold him accountable to the commitment that he made in the singapore summit. I dont think its fitting for the United States to continue to erratically meet with a dictator when they havent abided by the first terms. A year ago. Okay, lets talk about the debate wednesday night. You had a breakthrough performance. You talked about wanting to decriminalize of immigrants coming into the United States. Right now, make it a civil penalty. Youre drawing a lot of heat for that also for the plans that all democrats they wanted to give access to health care to undocumented immigrants. President trump had a tweet while he was overseas, all democrats just raised their hands for giving millions of illegal aliens Unlimited Health care. How about that taking care of american citizens first . Thats the end of that race. Followed by the new york postnext morning. Who wants to lose the election . As all democrats raised their hands. Did you given a opening to republicans . Not at all. What id like all american taxpayers to know, right now, number one, undocumented immigrants already pay a lot of taxes. Secondly, we already pay for the health care of undocumented immigrants. Its called the emergency room. People show up in the emergency room and they get care as they should and then third, its the right thing to do. Were not going to let People Living in this country die because they cant see a doctor. Thats not who we are as americans. The question is, at what cost . When you add up all the proposals youre calling for crossing the border, no deportation, absent other crimes, the offer of health care benefits, a possible path to citizenship, isnt that effectively open borders not limiting immigration in any real way . I would challenge you there, george, on a couple of things. Number one, theres no way we can call that open boarders. We have fencing. Because we have thousands of personnel at the border, we have planes, we have helicopters, boats, security cameras, guns, thats by no stretch of the imagination open borders, and secondly, theres still a civil court process. There are still people who are being deported, there are people applying for asylum who dont receive or not granted asylum, so open borders is just a rightwing talking point. It always has been. And ill say, it doesnt matter what democrats do on this issue. President trump and the republicans are always going to say democrats are for open borders. I have a completely different vision a better, stronger vision of how we can be more effective, more humane and smarter on Border Security and immigration. You know, this president has wasted 2 1 2 years, he knew that we had a flow of people that were coming from Central America when he became president in january 2017. He should have done what i called for, 21st century martial plan, with those northern triangle plans so they can find safety and opportunity at home. What is your limiting principal on allowing people in and giving them asylum. There are wide swaths of the world mired in poverty, mired in areas where theres high crime, anyone whos facing that kind of poverty, that kind of crime should get asylum . No, and thats not the system we have now. We have a system to consider asylum claims, based on certain criteria. I agree with people who say look, in theory can we take everyone who would like to be in the United States . Nobody has called for that. I do believe, however, and i have put forward an immigration plan that would accept more people. Ill give you an example of that. My statute for the late 70s, early 80s we can take in 110,000 refugees annually. Right now, were only taking in between 30,000 and 40,000 refugees. Id like to see that go up to the statutory limit. So nobody has called for unlimited number of people coming to this country. But i do believe that we should expand that significantly and were big enough to do that. There have been times in our history in this country where we have taken in a lot more people and we have become a stronger nation. What is underlying this is the fear and paranoia the president is stoking. I refuse to believe, because its not true, the people are coming because theyre desperate, lot of the women and children represent some sort of National Security threat or cultural threat to this country. Thats bull. Lets talk for medicare for all. Something thats dividing democrats right now and whether or not private insurance should be eliminated. You werent on the stage on thursday night with Bernie Sanders. Youve been against eliminating private insurance. Why is Bernie Sanders wrong . Well, i think that bernies right in the sense of that everyone who wants medicare who should have it. I believe if you want medicare in this country, we should strengthen medicare for the people on it. And then make it available for all who want it. I also believe that someone who has a private Health Insurance plan and they want to hold on to it, they should be allowed to hold on to that. I think we can accomplish both of those things. I also agree with Bernie Sanders when he says that, you know, theres a lot of profit that goes into these Insurance Companies and big pharma. We need to put more of those resources into actually providing care for americans. So, you know, we agree on a lot of it. 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We asked nate silver, do you buy that medicare for all that label that brand polls really well. When the Kaiser Family foundation asked people if they support medical for all . 56 say yes. But if medicare for all meant taking away private insurance, support was at 37 . Long history of people opposing, obama care, for most of his time in office, most people disliked obamacare but once President Trump took office, the repeal of the aca became a real possibility, it became quite popular with democrats and independents. Meanwhile, hell care was the top issue in the 2018 midterms. 80 of voters said it was very important. So, that should give any party pause in Offering Health care too much. More modest proposals having medicare option or public option. Polled relatively llg ong reans. President trump, when his Approval Ratings fell after he tried to pass his own health care legislation. Could the democrats hurt themselves in 2020 by going too left on health care . I buy that. 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Lets expect more from technology. Lets put smart to work. Everybody said our ideas are crazy and wild and extreme. And now, it turns out all of the other candidates are saying what we said four years ago. Bernie sanders campaigning in New Hampshire on saturday. He joins us live from New Hampshire this morning. Senator sanders, thanks for joining us this morning. Lets dive into one of those ideas right away. You just heard Julian Castro and nate silver on this idea of medicare for all. They say its a popular program. But want to pick up on that Kaiser Family poll, when you talk about eliminating private insurance, support flips. It gets even worse when you tell americans theyll have to pay more taxes, which you conceded. It flips. It appears youre pushing something people say they dont want . No, were taking on the pharmaceutical industry, which charges us the highest prices in the world for Prescription Drugs while they make tens of billions of dollars in profit. Were going to lower Prescription Drug costs in this country by 50 . Were taking on the insurance company, also making massive profits. Now, if you tell the American People what medicare for all really is, and that is for the elderly, were going to expand benefits to include dental care, hearing aids and eyeglasses. And most importantly, when you tell the American People, and Small Businesses, that they are no longer going to have to pay any premiums, any deductibles, any copayments and for the overwhelming majority of people, health care will be much less expensive under medicareforall. By the way, medicare today is the most popular Health Insurance program in the country. Private Health Insurance isnt particularly popular. And when you tell people all of that, then your numbers go up. Bottom line here is, the United States must end the International Embarrassment of being the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to all people as a right. We have some 80 Million People in the country who are uninsured or underinsured. Cant afford to go to doctor without did stress. And as you know for a lot of democrats, the question is, how you get there, and its true. You tell people youre going to raise their taxes, support goes down. Thats led to some of your opponents to say, how about medicare for everyone who wants it, and if it works, this public option works, then the private Health Insurance is going to wither away anyway. Well, two things. Again, its not a question of paying more taxes or not. Its a question of not paying any premiums. If i said to you, george, lets say, youre selfemployed and youre spending 15,000 out of pocket expenses. I said, george, youre going to pay 7,000, 8,000 more in taxes but you wont have to pay your premiums. Youre probably going to say, where can i sign up . People are going to spend less. Ill tell you what i might say, senator, those taxes are going to be certain. Those taxes are coming no matter what with the hope that your program