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Sided with russia over america's intelligence community. the president is now changing his message once again, calling the entire russia investigation a hoax. this as the president is privately frustrated by the lack of progress with north korea. and now kim jong-un's regime is making new demands on the u.s. on top of all of that, former trump campaign adviser carter page admitted he informally advised the kremlin. paul manafort's criminal trial is set to begin this week. the fbi has a secret tape of the president and his lawyer michael cohen discussing a payment to a former playboy model, and...

Publicly or even toiz his aides to our knowledge, given a reliable account of what happened. >> and the whole russia investigation, the president tweeted this morning, once again, it's a discredited mueller witch hunt. that's what he says. >> that's a disgrace. he's once again taking the word of putin over our intelligence agencies. >> he's going back and forth on this. all right, guys. thank you very much. as the president previously fumes about the lack of progress with north korea, cnn is now learning that kim jong-un's regime is making new demands on the u.s. plus, president trump makes ...

Nation-states about what's going on nucearized in north korea. there is going to be a push to try to get a better sense of where exactly all the sites are, re the components that make up north korea's arsenal and to get in outside actual iaea inspectors. >> bret: was all the troubles with iran and iraq and all of the verification processes. josh, the administration is suggesting they are not getting enough credit for just being here, that already the critics are turning and saying what's not going to happen out of this meeting as opposed to what is happening currently. >> that's right, but one...

State mike pompeo that the u.s. is not going to back off of their maximum pressure campaign t all. they continue to keep the sanctions on north korea and pyongyang until they see concrete progress and verifiable results. and so i do think that while this is an important and certainly a remarkable development, the white house is still extremely cautious and not taking the north korean leader at his word. >> how much of an impact do you they that the meeting that mike pompeo had influence on kim jong un? >> i imagine it had a great deal in sort of paving the way for these talks and also to sort ...

If north korea is not -- does not choose the pathway of engagement, discussion, negotiation, then they themselves will trigger an option. >> that's secretary of state tillerson warning the crisis with north korea is growing graver by the day, he says. raising the possibility of what he calls an ominous option. this despite the agreement between north and south to march together under a unified flag at the winter olympics next month. is that a real breakthrough in relations or only a symbolic gesture that plays right into the hands of kim jong-un? president of independent research and national ...