This was supposed to be the crucial weekend of meetings with the president and Top Republicans and going to huddle at camp david to set the goals for the 2018 agenda. The strategy session that was overshadow by the president s insistence that he is a stable genius and his attacks against this new tellall book. Only because i went to the best colleges or college. I went to i had a situation where i was a very excellent student and came out and made billions and billions of dollars and became one of the top business people. Went to television and for ten years, was a tremendous success, as you probably have heard. Ran for president one time and won. And this guy that doesnt know knee at all. By the way, he said he interviewed me for three hours in the white house and it didnt exist. Its his imagination. We will talk more about the president s response to that book. There is also this this morning. A key u. S. Ally is defending the president against claims he is unfit for office. British Prime Minister theresa may says she has no questions about President Trumps Mental Health. There were quite serious questions being raised in the states about his mental state. Do you think they are serious . As i say, when i deal with President Trump, what i see is somebody who is committed to ensuring that he is taking decisions in the best interests of the United States. Cnns jamie diamond is live for us in washington. Jeremy, there were quite the distractions yesterday. But we didnt get a lot of specifics, though, did get some sort of idea what the gops ideas and goals will be the next few months, yes . Reporter thats right. The president is spending his weekend huddling with Congressional Republican leaders and key members of his cabinet on top item on the agenda there is discussing the 2018 legislative agenda but they are also discussing everything from National Security threats, including the threat from north korea. But they offered only a few pieces of insight into that 2018 legislative agenda and the priorities that republicans hope to engage in this coming year. One of the items on the agenda that they mentioned was welfare reform. But they also made clear that bipartisanship is going to be crucial in this coming year. And that the top of that bipartisanship agenda, the first thing on that agenda at least is going to be immigration reform. Republicans and congress and democrats are looking to strike a deal to keep to create into legislation a program to protect those undocumented immigrants who are brought to the United States as children. The program formally known as daca, of course. Republicans, including the president , are looking for a lot of different items in exchange for creating that kind of a Permanent Program for those immigrants. The president laid out some of those demands yesterday. We want the wall. The wall is going to happen. Or we will not have daca. We want to get rid of migration very important and the lottery system and in addition we want money for funding. We need some Additional Border security. Reporter there is, of course, a march deadline before those provisions run out and the Trump Administration has privatelily made requests it seems for 33 billion dollars in Border Security funding, including 18 billion for the border wall that, of course, the president has long touted. While the president did escape to camp david this weekend from washington to huddle with republican leaders, he hasnt altogether escaped questions about his fitness for office. That discussion, of course, sparked this week by the new book fire and fury by Michael Wolf Wolf fnch wolff. The president saying yesterday he is a stable genius so that discussion is likely sure to continue. Jeremy diamond, thank you. We will continue it right now. Errol louis is with us and writer and editor of the washington examiner. Zaran and Brian Stelter is with us. Brian, the tweets came out from the president during our show yesterday and ive been thinking a lot about them. Tell me if im overstating this. Modern president s, phrases iconic in which the president s, i guess, compensate for shortcomings. I am not a crook. I did not have sexual relations with that woman. We dont need to name the president and people know who we are talking about. We heard from an american president via twitter yesterday, im a very stable genius. Did we have another one of those moments . Yes, we did, because we have never seen anything quite like this. 24 hours later, we can step back and say that has never happened before in american history, at least not in modern times to have a president come forward and say, no, i am not struggling with my capacity to handle this job. I am actually fit for the job. My Mental Health is in order. But i think youre on to something really important. The quotes from past president is like, i am not a crook. It does happen from time to time with president s and its just never happened in this way on the subject of Mental Health and stability. And make no mistake, that is the point of Michael Wolffs book. When the book excerpt came out a few days ago it was all about steve bannon and what bannon is saying and what bannon is saying is truly shocking. At the end of the book trump says trump has lost it, lost his stuff. The overarching point of the book is not about bannon but the president s fitness. I think the issue has come to the forefront in recent days. Wolff is not a psychiatrist saying President Trump has a problem. Wolff is saying the own aides are concerned about trumps fitness. That is why this creates a fury, so borrow the title of the book. We need more. Not just arm chair psychologist and psychiatrists, more reporting is needed to know exactly how trumps aides and colleagues feel about his status. Errol, let me come to you and talk about the busy month ahead for the president. They have to get through funding the program and daca and Infrastructure Structure is planned to come out this month as well and he is focused on this book and you remember back during the summer, there were those themed weeks . Made in america week. There was technology week. And inevitably, the president would veer off or distract it to some other area. January is more than just a theme. How does the white house keep the president on track . Well, they have got something that is required according to the constitution which is called the state of the Union Address to congress at the end of the month. That is where its all going to come together, i think. Thats where you really have to sort of see this Administration Try and get itself back on track. We are not talking just about the president. I think to a certain extent im only about halfway through the Michael Wolff book. As brian says, its a startling portrait of a man who seems to be believed by his assistants, by his aides to be not quite up to the job is one interesting and important question. The larger question for the public is whether or not this administration can work and you put your finger on it. Can they sort of march forward in a disciplined orderly strategic fashion to lay out their priorities for the country and rally the country around those priorities, or at least lead a debate about them . I think, by the way, we are not necessarily going to have the luxury of waiting until march to see the daca question really flushed out because there are some leaning democrats who have said they are going to tie resolution to that issue to the funding of the government. So we may see that showdown in the coming weeks. Even before the state of the Union Address. Lets talk about that with the president , yesterday, saying that he believes that there should be one piece of legislation, that fixes daca, but also ends chain migration and the visa lottery system and provides funding for the border wall all in one piece of legislation. Has the president now created a 100 win or 100 loss situation for himself and democrats . He is the great deal maker. He is the author asterisk of the art of the deal. If he doesnt get everything he has put on one side of the scale against daca here, does he go into the state of the union as a loser . Does he go into the state of the union impaired . If we know anything about the White House Trump is spinning it in his favor. What you know about the daca bill and the democrats is if he is able to get a deal with the democrats, hell be table to say he was successful in getting that deal done and getting Border Security funding and 18 billion for the border wall. Is there any time for democrats to bend on the border wall . There is an appetite for them. If they are not able to get a deal done, then the president , as well as Congressional Republicans, will be able to point them as obstructionists and hurt them in the midterm elections which could be the biggest wet blanket for them coming up in terms of driving down turnout. But, again, President Trump will be able to spin this in a way make him look like the good guy to his base no matter what. Errol, i dont see how the democrats can keep that energy that they are relying upon the resistance if they allow for the 18 billion or even a portion of that for the border wall in defense of the daca recipients. Is there some way they can say yes for the sake of the 800 here are undocumented not fall of their own brought here as children . We will allow construction to begin for the southern border wall . I cant quite imagine it and having talked with members of the democratic leadership, you never know what kind of pressure they might be under. Look. Make no mistake about it. Certainly where the democrats are concerned and to a great extent the republicans too, the real agenda here are the november elections, right . So everybody is looking at key districts. Everybody is polling questions about the border wall, about daca in those key districts. What people think in those 24 odd districts or what the strategists think the voters are going to be willing to tolerate or be seeking in november is really going to dictate a lot of the course of this conversation. I mean, these are not just abstract questions. This is life or death for the leadership of congress. Brian, let me come to you and more about the book. The report from jake tapper and Jeremy Diamond that soon after the first excerpts were released from fire and fury of Steve Bannons interviews, bannon was minutes from attacking the book and the author, Michael Wolff, and defending the the president and don jr. Here is reporting from statements. After the white house in that scathing statement went after steve bannon, that was pulled at the last minute. If they had just pulled their punches, the president potentially would not be in this position . This feud maybe would not have become nuclear and became so intense in the last few days that it seems hard to come back from. But i think one of the important points in the book, one of the overarching themes is that bannon viewed himself as bigger than trump, that the president was just an imperfect vehicle for trumpism and that this is a revolution that will continue long after President Trump. Now, bannon, he may have that tested now. Lets see how much power he really has in order to crown future candidates and help them get elected but that was bannons view this time last year he was the lord and President Trump was just the vehicle for him. I think the key part of the don jr. , the treason quote this book reminds us how many might be implicated in the russia probes and new reporting on that on almost a daily basis and the overarching biggest problem trump continues to have. We have to wrap it here, unfortunately. Thank you. Dont miss state of the union later this morning. Bombshell revelations in this book fire and fury. Jake tarp speaks to Stephen Miller on state of the union on 9 00 a. M. Eastern. Another big headline out of this weekends camp david retreat. The president is open to dialogue with north korea and that he always believes in talking. What happened to all of those angry words about fire and fury and not negotiating with little rocket man . 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North korea has accepted south koreas offers to meet for talks and the first facetoface high level talk between the countries in more than two years. President trump said the talks would not be on the table if he had not taken what he calls a firm stance on north korea. The president has been sending mixed messages on north korea throughout the first year in office here, starting when he said that he would be open to meeting with kim jongun. That statement was back in may. I would absolutely, i would be honored to do it. If its under the again, under the right circumstances. Rocket man is on Suicide Mission for himself and for his regime. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. So then on october 1st, President Trump sent out a message via twitter. I told Rex Tillerson, our wonderful secretary of state, he is wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man. Cnn National Security analyst kelly is with us now. Kelly, thank you for being here. With that said, with the mixed messages we are seeing, when President Trump says he is open with talks with jim congress un, what does that diplomacy look like . You certainly do not start with President Trump and kim jongun. No. You most certainly dont. Well, the president is changing his tune and i think there is something going on here. Its a good sign, i think. Its a sign he is trying to get on the same page with our south korean ally to ensure there is not a gap between the United States and south korea on the diplomat im talking coming up next week. The two talks would be a win for kim jongun. I think this is a sign his National Security team is telling him its very important that he be supportive of this round of discussions. At the same time, i think we should keep our expectations pretty low when it comes to these talks. I think they will basically be just getting to know each other. They havent talked in over two years and discussing what might be possible in terms of improving the relationship or deescalating the situation. But i dont think we should be, you know, pinning our hopes that these talks are going to come up with something really substantive at this stage. I want to listen what mcmaster said just last month about north korea. There are ways to address this problem short of our [ inaudible ] but it is a race because its getting closer and closer. And there is is not much time left. What are the policy options now that there is some sort of understanding as to how north korea has been so expeditious with their Nuclear Program . I think the options are putting additional pressure on north korea. I think to the administrations credit, they have been doing a very good job on the pressure campaign, most recently with the latest u. S. Security council resolution. The other policy options include diplomacy. I think this next round of talks, its just between north korea and south korea but perhaps could lead down the road to u. S. And nort