Assurance and political normalization, and denuclearization, completely, verify bring and irreversibly for that to take place weve got to make bold decisions and i am hopeful that chairman kim jongun is prepared to make that decision for his country. A big shift in the strategic understanding of his security. Are you thank you. So you said that you were the president s prepared to talk about security guarantees for north korea. We have seen in this administration that you can that when new administrations come in they can undo things prior administrations have done. How can President Trump guarantee longterm security for north korea . And for kim in particular. Well, look. We will have to do things that convince chairman kim thats the case. All right . Thats what we will have to do. Let me give you an example. We are hopeful that well put ourselves in a position where we can do something the Previous Administration didnt do. All right . They signed a flimsy piece of paper and were hoping to submit a document that congress would also have a say in, that would give currency and strength and elongation to the process so that when administrations do change as they inevitable briy six and a half years from now, that chairman kim will have comfort that american policy will continue to down the same past that on the course that we hope were able to set in singapore. Well take one last question. Zeke . Thank you, mr. Secretary. First, follow up on your comment on asia and document that congress would sign off on, a treaty . Second, the top of your remarks you said that theres allies from north koreas wmd and ballistic missiles. Is that the condition of the president with chairman kim that the chemical weapons part of that and finally can you discuss the format . Ill leave it to the white house to talk about the format of the meetings when the time is right. With proliferation risk, it is real. Theres a history of with respect to north korea and the other difficult challenges in the world today. Theyre connected. The reason you want complete, ve if iible and irreversible is precisely. To the extent of knowledge bases, warehouses, systems, infrastructure, production facilities, i could go on, to the extent those remain the risk of proliferation continues and it is our aim through the cvid process and providing security assurances that chairman kim will want that we can greatly reduce the risk of proliferation ever happens as a result of of north korean action. Thanks so much. One more, please, sir . Sure. One more. Sarah . Mr. Secretary . Mike here in the front. Can you explain the president s shift when hes gone from talking about a defining success for the meeting and denukization of the peninsula and now talking about the need for more meetings and what happened there and why the shift . And can you also describe your disagreements over north korea internally with the National Security adviser . Yeah. With respect to the second one, i have read a little bit about this. I love good fiction as much as the next person but it is without so much so that, you know, ill be polite since im a diplomat now. Suffice it to say, those articles are unfounded and a complete joke. Also well disagree with great, great consistency over time. Im confident. Great. Two individuals and present the views. Im confident that will happen on issues from how long this press conference ought to go to issues that really mat tore the world. So its absolutely the case we wont agree. I think the president demands we each give them our own views so yeah. Your first question, ill try to answer. Ill try to answer your first question, too. The president s always understood that this was a process. Its been very clear there would be a great deal of work to do this. I think youre you can interpret how you will but the characterization of that doesnt reflect the president s understanding about this process is pretty consistent since ive been working with him now almost a year and a half ago. Thanks so much, guys weapons on the that was secretary of state mike pompeo. West point class of 86. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. The secretary answering questions about President Trumps upcoming summit with kim jongun saying north korea confirmed to the administration its willingness to denuclearize and to do so in a big and bold move. And also, that the u. S. Wants concrete steps, not just words from north korea. My panels here with me. Lets dive in. First of all, one of the questions, phil mudd, start with you, was about President Trump saying he didnt think he needed to prepare much for the summit and more about attitude than anything else. The secretary asked and said hes confident President Trump will be fully prepared. Are you concerned about that . He is a pro. We went from the president of little rocket man and the u. N. To a secretary of state of a clear sense of where we need to go and be complete and irreversible. He came from the cia and im well aware of a recent history of dealing with verification of iraq and got burned there and i guarantee you heard a lot about questions like what facilities do you get access to . How much time do you give the north koreans to respond to a request of inspection . The president will have to be involved in details but anybody watching secretary of state pompeo has to say hes game on regarding david urban, another thing that secretary pompeo said he was assured personally from kim jongun was that the north koreas prepared to dem denuclearize, the current model doesnt work and needs to be done in a big and bold and major way. Does that suggest to you at all that possibly u. S. Troops, the presence of u. S. Troops in south korea, is one of the big and bold ways that there would be some sort of deal . Yeah. So look. There are a lot of things that could be on the table. Right . In terms of the presence of u. S. Nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula and neither confirm or deny right now. There are a great deal of troops on the Korean Peninsula. That could be drawn down to some extent. This president likes grand gestures, love to talk about the release of these prisoners. Those things show and demonstrate goodwill. At a minimum of this meeting is a takeaway of Something Big on their side, Something Big on our side. Thats a takeaway. First steps to continuing dialogue, perhaps a visit of kim jongun to the white house as it was discussed earlier and theres more to come and see has to be grand gestures out of this initial meeting, maybe not, you know, ultimately this wont ultimately result in denu denuclearization the first step. One thing i heard from trump skeptics, simone sanders, President Trump might talk a big game with how good of a deal maker he is but the evidence is not there and a lot of skeptics point to the president in the public negotiations hes invited cameras into with lawmakers back in january. Sat down with lawmakers to talk about immigration reform. He seemed to agree to a clean bill for the dreamers. Take a look. What about a clean daca bill now . I think thats basically what dick is saying. And then there was the meeting on guns. You might recall that. President trump said this. To go to court would have taken a long time. You could do what youre saying and take the guns first and go through due process since. Theres no big legislative achieves on immigration or guns. This skeptics say what happens when President Trump is not prepared. Absolutely. You know, i was actually reassured by secretary pompeo just a moment ago but secretary pompeo is, in fact, not the president of the United States. Why could donald trump not come out in that press conference with Prime Minister abe and speak with the depth and knowledge that secretary of state could . That is concerning. When it is donald trump that will be in the negotiations. Im i havent drank the koolaid yet, jake. Im not convinced. I really think that what were going to see when it comes to these negotiations is a president that is willing to put on a show for the cameras and doesnt have the depth and breadth to go in there and have the hard talk negotiations. You cannot leave it up to secretary pompeo. I want to bring in cnns jeff zeleny at the white house. In the last hour, President Trump seemed very optimistic for that meeting with kim jongun. Reporter he did, indeed, jake. He opened the idea of inviting kim jongun here to washington here to the white house if those meetings go well. This certainly was a stark contrast to how the president anticipates allies in canada as he heads to the g7 tomorrow. President trump saying today his landmark north korean summit could lead to an invitation to kim jongun to visit the u. S. But only if hes serious of abandoning the nuclear program. The answer is yes to the second part of the question but certainly if it goes well and i think it would be well received, i think he would look at it favorably and i think it could happen. Reporter with japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe, President Trump said hes approaching the meeting with wary optimism. Well all i can say is im totally prepared to walk away. I did it once before. You have to be able to walk away. If you cant walk away, we didnt walk away from the horrible iran deal that was signed. And if you look at whens happened since i signed that deal, iran is acting a lot differently. Reporter the president isnt cramming for the summit. He said in the oval office earlier today hes barely studying at all. I think im very well prepared. Its about attitude. Its about willingness to get things done. Reporter he said hes relying on the dealmaking instincts for diplomacy. It is a question of whether or not people want it to happen and well know that very quickly. Reporter as mr. Trump is poised to shake hands with one of the biggest u. S. Enemies, his relationship with longstanding and loyal u. S. Allies is taking center stage. As he travels to the g7 sum in it canada on friday, leaders of canada, france, United Kingdom and germany are ready to give him an earful on tariffs that could spark a trade war. It will be a pretty crowded number of days but very exciting and i think a lot of good results can come about. Reporter the president complained that the summit in canada is a distraction from the north korean meeting. Cnn learned hes asked whether the presence is required. But Officials Say he is on track to spend a day and a half there before leaving early on saturday. Well have some pretty good discussions and as you know we leave from there. We leave for singapore. Reporter leaves little time to win over angry allies. The president made the priority is the summit with kim and keeping sanctions in place but hes retiring the term maximum pressure for now at least. Maximum pressure is absolutely in effect. We dont use the term anymore because we are going into a friendly negotiation. Perhaps after that negotiation i will be using it again. Reporter so the president saying repeatedly the meeting in singapore next week far more than a photoop and could be extended longer if the meeting goes well. Jake, at the briefing a few moments ago, the secretary of state was asked about Rudy Giulianis comments about kim jongun. Of course, he said in the last day or so, kim jongun was begging for the summit, begging for this meeting. The secretary of state says Rudy Giuliani does not speak for this administration on Foreign Policy matters. Jake . All right. Jeff zeleny at the white house, will have more on Rudy Giuliani in the next block. After all, the president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani has been saying all sorts of things, speaking candidly about Foreign Policy and any number of items. Yet the secretary of state as you note just said that he doesnt seek for the administration. That story next. Touch shows how we really feel. But does psoriasis ever get in the way . Embrace the chance of 100 clear skin with taltz. Up to 90 of those with moderate to severe psoriasis had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. Most people were still clearer after one year. 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Liberty mutual insurance. Moments ago secretary of state mike pompeo said the president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani coming to north korea does not speak for the administration. I know rudy. Rudy doesnt speak for the administration when it comes to this negotiation and this set of issues. He was referring the normer new york city mayor saying this in israel about kim jongun. Well, somehow north korea after he canceled the summit because they insulted the Vice President , they insulted the his National Security adviser and they said theyll go to nuclear war against us, they were going to defeat news a nuclear war, we said we wont have a summit under those circumstances. Kim jongun got back on his hands and knees and begged for it. Hands and knees. Not something that the administration wanted to convey to north korea. Thats only the half of it. Bring in cnns dana bash. Dana, giuliani stirring a little bit of controversy. Thats an understatement. I thought what mike pompeo did there trying to laugh it off and send a message to pyongyang he doesnt speak for the administration actually spoke volumes because there was concern. Barbara starr did reporting at the cabinet level of being spooked again in north korea as before. As you said, thats one of the controversial things that Rudy Giuliani has said in the past 48 hours. Hes on a trip to israel. Another one was talking about Stormy Daniels. I asked if he wanted to clarify or recant the remarks, the answer was no. And in a donald trump way, he doubled down. Reporter americas mayor visiting the holy land talking about a porn star. The business you were in, entitles you to know a degree of giving your credibility any weight. So youre gong to sell your body for money and just dont have a reputation. Reporter in the face of a firestorm about antiquated comments, Rudy Giuliani told cnn in a phone interview hes Standing Firm even waxing about his idea of feminism. If youre a feminist and you support the porn industry you should turn in the credentials adding about Stormy Daniels our real point about sher that she is not just generally uncredible, she is uncredible from the point of view of wanting to get money. She is a con artist. His comments are pigish. Theyre outrageous, especially in todays day and age and should be fired immediately by the president. Reporter dont hold your breath. Julia any regularly makes attention grabbing comments that many dismiss as irresponsible. Do you think that the Mueller Probe is legitimate . I not anymore. Reporter or way over the top. High ranking official in the Justice Department. So you got to a group theres a lynching mob. Reporter so far, his client, the president is largely okay with it all. First, because the slash and burn style is decidedly trumpian. Second, because giuliani is chipping away at public support for the russia investigation. We are defending here for Public Opinion because eventually the decision here is going to be impeach, not impeach. Reporter but many fell he republicans are exasperated by giuliani. If i were president of the United States and i had a lawyer that told me i could pardon myself, i think id hire a new lawyer. Reporter especially this week after he openly talked about a Trump Legal Team memo suggesting a president may be able to pardon himself. So help me god. Reporter and then the reality that trumps lawyer also the former new york mayor, a past president ial candidate himself who likes to comment on topics beyond the russia investigation and even sensitive ones. Kim jongun got back on his hands and knees and begged for it, twaktly the position you want him in. Reporter in a phone cal