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Jong-un. first, trump announced he had talked with chinese president xi jinping last night about the possible meeting and now, tweeting just moments ago, spoke to prime minister abe of japan who is enthusiastic about talks with north korea. joining me to discuss, cnn military and diplomatic analyst retired rear admiral john kirky. all right, admiral, good to see you. do you think this is a good sign that the president is reaching out to other world leaders about this potential meetup? >> i certainly do. i'm not surprised that the reaction he's getting is enthusiastic. normally this is the kind...

Have made anyone say, rob porter should not be working here. >> yeah, and jim -- >> they didn't do that. >> jim, do you really believe that the white house has been handling this in an honest way? i mean, again, sarah sanders, every time she's asked point blank about what kelly knew and when, she dodges the question. she says, well, i'm not going to go into levels of detail, same thing for don mcgahn and just yesterday, he's pointing the finger at the fbi and law enforcement communities and intelligence communities and now she's bringing up this white house office that doesn't have any investi...

Applies. we take allegations of domestic violence, other issues like that very seriously. we're concerned about them. in this instance of rob porter, we relied on the process. the process wasn't completed so we relied on the information we had. >> two questions on two different things. i want to understand, you used the term "fully aware." what does that mean? >> i do know for instance that he had not seen images prior to his -- the statement tuesday night. >> the allegations? or -- >> say again. >> did he know of some of the allegations -- >> i'm not going to get into the specifics of what em...

He's not been proven guilty. we have to force him a chance to defend himself. >> harris: majority leader mitch mcconnell came out inside he believes moore's accusers. the women accusing him. and that moore should step aside. burgess, what are your thoughts? >> burgess: no question, if it was done, he should step aside. it's unfair to the voter into moore and to the folks that are saying. 30 days is not a lot of time to vet this process. it's unfortunate that this process wasn't started earlier. we want to make sure you are doing the right thing. i'm not even sure. based on what i'm hearing. ba...

For more on that, we're going to bring in general wesley clark, former nato supreme allied commander. there is the general. general, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> for joining me. just first of all, your general reaction. again, reporting that israel is the source of this information. >> well, first of all, presidents do sometimes talk about things that are classified, and legally they have a right to declassify it. the right process wasn't followed in this case. i'm sure that h.r. mcmaster is going to be very, very careful of the future to work with the people who brief the president and...