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A crisis

of the heart and a crisis of the soul.

How do I write?

Right.

Any questions at all?

I give the briefing room.

Take questions.

I will never, ever let you down.

I'm nothing at the Trump Organization
who's ever done

unless it was run through Mr.

Trump.

On his first anniversary in office,

Donald Trump woke
to division and disruption in Washington.

He's not. That is powerful.

Chants from protesters at women's
marches across the country,

echoing chaos on Capitol Hill as Trump's
America was closed for business.

The ayes are 50 and the nays are 49.

The motion is not agreed to the budget

impasse and shutdown paralyzing government
agencies.

Hardships, too,
for those on the front line.

Military will still go to work.

They will not get paid.

The border will still be patrolled.

They will not get paid.

No sign of a solution tonight.

Just a blame game.

We do some crazy things in Washington,

but this is utter madness.

Happy anniversary, Mr. President.

Your wish came true.
You wanted a shutdown.

The Trump shutdown is all yours.

Donald Trump had planned to mark
the milestone at his Palm

Beach resort tonight.

Guests paying over $100,000 to attend.

But as the stalemate continued,
he canceled his appearance, instead

sending a video message
and son Eric in his place.

Deskbound as the King of the Art
of the deal, works to salvage this one.

And America braces
for another day of uncertainty.

Mr. president,

I missed you for his first international
television interview.

President Trump chosen ally, friend and
former apprentice contestant Piers Morgan.

I'll never forget our years together.

After a quick lighting tweet.
I like it on the hair.

How are you?

The pair launched into a wide
ranging discussion

from President Trump's achievements
since taking office.

Stock market just hit another new high.

We've had 84 since the election.

84 new market highs to women's right.

I wouldn't say I'm a feminist.

I mean,
I think that would be maybe going too far.

I'm for women and for men
and for everyone.

Early morning tweets,
perhaps sometimes in bed

and perhaps sometimes at breakfast
or lunch.

His taste for fast food?

No, I think I eat actually quite well.

And Brexit negotiations.

Would it be the way I negotiate?

No, I wouldn't negotiate.
It was negotiated.

But I have a lot of respect
for your Prime Minister.

Fresh from his meeting with Theresa may,
President Trump confirmed

he's been invited to visit the UK twice
this year.

I think it's good.
I think I'm very popular in your country.

But he's yet to receive an invitation
to the royal wedding.

I really want them to be happy.

They look like a lovely couple.

Meghan Markle did say
you were a divisive misogynist.

Well, I still hope they're happy.

Washington, 1991.

The last time America held a military
parade, it marked victory in the Gulf War.

Now, President
Trump wants to put on his own show.

The president.

Respect his,
his fondness for the military.

I think that reflected in him
asking for these options.

The marching orders came after Trump

attended the Bastille Day parade in Paris
last year.

It's one of the greatest parades
I have ever seen.

I don't know,
we're going to have to try and stop it.

Now he's got the Pentagon
in planning mode.

The white House says a military parade

would be a show of respect to former
and serving American troops.

Others are already drawing comparisons
to Kim

Jong UN's missile parades in North Korea
several times a year.

The precision show of force plays out
as the dictator's warning to the world.

Anytime
you are staging a massive military event,

you can come across as over
militarized and over authoritarian.

President Kennedy included
military equipment in his inaugural parade

in 61, a fine demonstration
of military precision.

So did Harry Truman.

Now, November is shaping up
as the likely month to host a new parade

for a new generation of troops.

Donald Trump has long called claims

of a Russian conspiracy
to help him into the white House a hoax.

We'll use less sanctions on Russia.

But with his Justice Department
laying charges,

the questions are becoming harder
to ignore.

The defendants posed as politically
and socially active Americans,

advocating for
and against particular candidates.

They established social media pages
and groups

to communicate with unwitting Americans.

According to the investigation
led by special Counsel Robert Mueller,

the accused operated on a monthly budget
of well over $1 million.

These pro-Trump rally allegedly
one of the results

the Russians also recruited

and paid real Americans
to engage in political activities

from political campaigns
and staged political rallies.

One of those charged does catering for
the Kremlin and is known as Putin's chef.

But there's no evidence
President Putin was involved.

From President Trump
Russia started the anti US

campaign in 2014, long before I announced
that I would run for president.

The results of the election
were not impacted.

The Trump campaign did nothing wrong.

No collusion.

There's no vindication simply
because you're not mentioned.

The investigation into meddling
and potential collusion by Team

Trump continues.

One of the theories behind Donald Trump's
election win was that

Russia had helped him win,

that President Putin
had launched a campaign

to influence the election

and became the subject
of conspiracy theories,

and also eventually
a special counsel investigation.

That special counsel

investigation found that, yes,
indeed, Putin had attempted to interfere

in the election and had attempted
to help Donald Trump win.

In fact, it was a massive campaign,
but it found that

there were no links that they could find
to Donald Trump's campaign.

All the president himself.

This is the Russian troll factory,
where US investigators claim bloggers

were paid to spread false information
and incite hatred in America.

From their headquarters
in Saint Petersburg.

They organized these 2016
rally in the Texas city of Houston

with the Nazis. Now, a small group of

anti-Islamic protesters
picket a muslim community center.

According to the US indictment,
the Russians had a strategic goal

to sow discord in the US political system.

US investigators say
the operation was bankrolled

by a close friend of Russian President
Vladimir Putin.

He's denied any guilt, but at the moment,
Russia's foreign minister

also dismissing the indictment as blabber,
not facts.

But American officials say the evidence
is clear, with the FBI indictment.

The evidence is now
really incontrovertible

and available in the public domain.

It's our sovereign right

to be able to

conduct our elections unfettered.

Period.

From President Trump today,
a string of tweets defending himself,

saying there was no collusion.

But he failed to condemn
the Russian plotters.

Imagine if FDR

had denied that the Japanese attacked us
at Pearl Harbor and didn't react.

That's the equivalent.

So Trump's tough new tariffs
25% for steel.

It'll be 10% for aluminum.

Have sparked an international outcry
and threats of retaliation.

We are impressing
upon the American administration

the unacceptable nature
of these proposals, with unfair measures

that put thousands of European jobs
at risk.

There's concern Trump's policy
could eventually lead to a trade war

if China decides to return fire,
which economists warn could cost

Australia dearly.

We estimate a loss of 20,000 jobs

in Australia, some in construction,
some in mining, some in retail.

But the president has tweeted
trade wars are good and easy to win.

Malcolm Turnbull lobbied for Australia
to be exempt from the tariffs

during recent talks in Washington,
after receiving an assurance last year

that Australia's steel and aluminum
exports to the US would be spared.

But a phone call from the trade minister
this weekend to hold the United States

to its commitment could fall on deaf ears,
with senior white House

officials
insisting no allies will be excluded.

My guess would be

that Australia will not be successful
in being excluded from the tariffs.

Donald Trump is also warned
of further trade action, tweeting

we will charge other countries
the same thing as they charge us.

Further escalating tensions
and potentially this is very damaging for

world trade.

And that would be very bad
for economic growth in Australia.

The new tariffs will be signed off
next week.

America's new man in Canberra.

Admiral great to see you today.

Admiral Harry Harris greeted by a smiling
defense minister Marise Payne.

But the

looming trade war sparked by President
Donald Trump is no laughing matter.

People have to understand
our country on trade has been ripped off

by virtually every country in the world,
whether it's friend or enemy.

He's staring down pressure
from congressional Republicans

to abandon his threat to Jack up tariffs
on imported steel and aluminum.

No, we're not backing down.

Which means despite the special bond
celebrated at the white House

just ten days ago, 100 years of mateship
make ship.

There's no sign of a mate's rates
exemption for Australia just yet.

President Trump has doubted Australia
and indeed, Malcolm Turnbull.

I also think he needs to
just get on the phone.

I know that the Prime minister,
the trade minister,

continuing their discussions
at the highest level,

with our friends in the United States.

And now it seems Donald Trump is wielding
this threat principally to force

a better deal for America in its NAFTA
trade talks with Canada and Mexico.

And if he succeeds, might back down.

Although predicting what
this president will do is a fool's game.

Even Mr.

Trump's Commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross,
isn't sure if he says something different.

It'll be something different.

Labor says it will support a trade war
with the US if necessary,

but the government is decidedly cool
on that idea.

One part of the will
my might want to move into protectionism.

We don't.

Hoping the Trump threat

is only NAFTA bluster.

The porn star, the president
and the payout.

It reads like a gossip magazine headline.

Her lawsuit states that she had an
intimate relationship with the president.

But let's not bother to be delicate.

Did she have a sexual relationship
with the president? Yes.

An alleged relationship.

Stormy Daniels agreed to keep quiet
in exchange for $130,000.

Now she's suing the president
to have the hush agreement torn up.

She believes it's important
that the public learn the truth

about what happened.

Daniels signed the contract just a week
and a half before the election.

But she claims President Trump didn't,
making it invalid.

Trump's attorney says he facilitated
the six figure payout.

Does he know about the payment
at the time?

Not that I'm aware of.

And again, anything beyond
what I've already given you,

I would refer you to the president's
outside counsel.

If the case wasn't murky enough, it's
now been revealed.

Trump's lawyer also obtained
a restraining order here in Los Angeles

just last week, stopping Daniels
from speaking about the alleged affair.

Legal experts say the fact

she accepted the money in the first place
could weaken her case.

As sex scandals swirl,
the president walks away.

Thank you all very much.

Secretary Shulkin lying about the affair.

But Donald Trump can't shake off
this prime time confession.

I know it's a wrong thing to do.

Former Playboy

Playmate Karen McDougal claiming
she had a ten month affair with the now

president starting in 2006
when Trump was married.

His son Barron, recently born.

What everyone sees on TV,
I didn't see in that man

because that man was very sweet,
very respectful, very loving.

Were you in love with him? Last year.

And do you think he was in love with you?

He was. Yeah.

She says she ended the relationship
out of guilt.

If Melania Trump is watching this,
what would you want her to know?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I wouldn't want it done to me.

Miss McDougal
says she can prove the affair

with journal entries marked dirty
for the time they spent together.

And group photos with the president
and his family.

She's now suing a US publisher,
saying they bought the rights

to her story,
never intending to publish it.

The white House has dismissed
the allegations as completely untrue

and fake news.

But miss McDougal isn't the first woman
to come forward with a claim like this,

and she won't be the last.

Former porn star Stormy
Daniels is set to tell her

story of an alleged affair in a tell
all interview this weekend.

Her lawyer taunting Donald Trump
with a mysterious DVD saying

if a picture is worth a thousand words,
how much is this worth?

What I've said is it is a warning shot.

Knowing the personal
and professional stakes are high.

As hundreds of desperate

Syrians fled their besieged city of Duma,

Donald Trump's
first strike came on Twitter

a tirade against Russia, which has vowed
to shoot down any missile fired at Syria.

Get ready Russia, because they will be
coming nice and new and smart.

You shouldn't be partners with a gas
killing animal who kills his people

and enjoys it.

The so-called animal is Syria's
president Bashar al-Assad,

blamed for the latest chemical attack
on his own people, leaving 70 dead.

This is a shocking attack yet again,
a war crime by the Syrian government.

The British prime minister

gave his strongest indication yet
she would support military action.

The use of chemical weapons
cannot go unchallenged.

Despite his furious tweeting
President Trump is unlikely

to launch airstrikes
without first securing support

from here in Britain and in France,
and the countries are reportedly

still discussing details of the size
and timing of military action.

Even the president's own defense
secretary wants more time.

We're still assessing the,
the intelligence, ourselves

and our allies. We're
still working on this.

There is no advantage
to revealing that a strike is coming

and there is no advantage in taunting
Russia.

Russia says it does not participate
in Twitter diplomacy.

But Donald Trump says relations
between the two countries are now

the worst they've been
and likely to deteriorate further.

A fiery trail lights up the 4 a.m.

darkness in Damascus.

Residents woken by air raid sirens

screaming
the warning that airstrikes were imminent.

Precise missiles

fired from warships and fighter jets.

A combined operation with the armed forces
of France and the United Kingdom

is now underway.

A response
to last weekend's gas attack in Douma.

The evil and the despicable attack

left mothers and fathers,
infants and children

thrashing in pain and gasping for air.

These are not the actions of a man.

They are crimes of a monster instead.

That attack coming a year after another.

Back then, 58 airstrikes.

In response, today, Syria was bombarded
with more than 100 missiles.

In 2017, there was a single target.

This time there were three.

Rather than just wiping out an airbase,

the allies focused on chemical weapons
facilities.

Clearly, the Assad regime did not
get the message last year.

This time,
our allies and we have struck harder.

The Assad regime was the military target.

The political target is much broader
to Iran and to Russia.

I ask what kind of a nation
wants to be associated

with the mass murder of innocent men,

women and children?

The nations of the world can be judged
by the friends they keep.

Even this week,
the Russians vetoed a resolution

at the UN Security Council,
which would have established

an independent investigation
into the Duma attack.

Australia fully supports

the US led strikes against chemical
weapons facilities in Syria today.

We were not asked to participate
in this particular action, and

I won't engage in hypotheticals
about what is and could be.

In 2013, Russia promised the world

it would guarantee the elimination
of Syria's chemical weapons.

Assad's recent attack

and today's response are the direct result

of Russia's failure to keep that promise.

Through a scrum of cameras.

Story. Are you here to report?

Stormy Daniels faced off with
the president's so-called fixer for years.

Mr. Cohen has acted
like he is above the law.

Gatecrashing
Michael Cohen's court appearance.

A showdown

between the porn star with the payout
and the lawyer who wrote the check.

Cohen, Trump's private lawyer,

paid Daniels $130,000.11 days
before the 2016 election.

Hush money she claims for an affair.

He trusted him with his innermost secrets.

And I think that the chickens
are about to come home to roost.

Last week, the FBI raided Cohen's office,
home and hotel.

He's fighting to stop investigators
from sifting

through the trove of documents
they seized about the president.

But he did have to give up one secret
today.

The name of another high profile client.

Fox news host and fierce Trump defender
Sean Hannity.

I never paid legal fees to Michael.

But I have occasionally had
brief discussions

with him about legal questions
about which I wanted his input.

And perspective.

A judge ruled Cohen
will get to look at the seized documents

first to determine
what could be attorney client privilege.

But more secrets
are certainly on the line.

It was a

message from a dictator
the world never thought would come.

From April 21st,
North Korea will stop nuclear tests

and launches of intercontinental ballistic
missiles.

I have to say,
I am really, almost speechless here

at the pace at which North Korea has done
this U-turn, a stunning backdown

announced through his state run
media trade leader Kim Jong UN quoted

saying he would shut down a nuclear test
site in the country's northern side

to guarantee transparency
in suspending nuclear tests.

The dictator is due to meet
with South Korea's president in six days,

then a historic summit next month
with President Trump,

who tweeted tonight this is very good news
for North Korea and the world.

Big progress.

Look forward to our summit.

Little rocket man progress
after months trading personal insults,

perhaps they both came to their senses
and said maybe it's time for negotiations.

If that's the case, it's
good for everybody.

Others are watching with wariness.

This is, after all, Kim Jong
UN, who's a cunning political player

who's in there to last through and endure.

North Korea carried out 24 missile tests

last year, as well as its biggest nuclear
test to date.

Since coming into office, Donald Trump
has kept his own military options

on the table
while also hitting the rogue nation

with round
after round of financial sanctions.

We have asked the North Korean regime
to choose the path of peace,

and if they do, we would welcome them
back into the community of nations.

South Korea delivered

news of a diplomatic breakthrough
on the white House lawn last month.

This week, the president announced
he'd already dispatched his CIA director

to North Korea to lay the groundwork
for their face to face meeting.

Got along with him
really well. Really great.

The questions now, who will host
the leaders and will they make a deal?

We the media
became a favorite target of Donald Trump.

And I think we're perhaps with the
the scapegoat.

Any time that he thought the spotlight
was turning on him, he'd quickly

turn it back on to the journalists
many times.

I was sitting at standing at the back
of the room at his, gathering.

He would call us
the most despicable people in the world,

you know, fake news, mainstream media.

It was a favorite attack
line of Donald Trump.

And it certainly became
a favorite of his fans.

Any time you'd go anywhere, to cover
Donald Trump, his supporters

would certainly let you know
that they were not fans of us and media.

As white House reporters let their hair
down in Washington, so did Donald Trump.

Only a different Washington.

Choosing instead to hold a rally
in his voter heartland of Michigan.

I'd much rather be in Washington,
Michigan than in Washington, DC.

Snubbing the white House.

Correspond one's dinner
for the second year,

running in protest
against what he calls the fake news media.

I could be up there tonight smiling

like I love where they're hitting
you shot after shot.

These people, they hate your guts.

Instead,
they laughed at a cartoon version.

Hey, it's Donald J.

Trump where, as you all know
me, a source close to the president.

Very dishonest people.

Fake news.

He was preaching to the converted.

This is Trump country, a town
that was pivotal in making him

president tonight,
hailing him a peacemaker.

That's the

Nobel, as Trump claims credit
for bringing the careers together.

The North's most famous newsreader
proclaimed the words once thought

impossible,

saying her latest new goal is complete
denuclearization.

This morning, Trump was briefed
by South Korea's President Moon.

He gives us tremendous
credit, gives us all the credit.

Donald Trump might be able to claim
more credit if his proposed

summit with Kim
Jong UN goes ahead with some success.

While the time and place is still being
finalized,

experts are urging caution and patience.

He can't look for an easy
and early victory

because this may be a several year
long process.

Trump insists he'll do it his way.

I may go in, may not work out. I leave.

Long suspected, but never proven.

Iran lied.

Israel's prime minister claims
this is all the evidence the world needs.

More than 100,000 documents
and files reportedly

found in a secret Iranian bunker.

Iran is brazenly lying

when it says
it never had a nuclear weapons program.

If true, it would be a serious
breach of the deal signed in 2015.

What's happening today has really shown
that I've been 100% right

with his decision on whether to pull out
of that deal less than a fortnight away.

Trump denies doing
so would send a poor message.

One of the many agreements

Donald Trump promised to tear up
was the Iranian nuclear deal,

which basically allowed
Iran to escape sanctions

if it limited its nuclear testing
and its nuclear stockpile.

Donald Trump wasted
no time carrying out that threat.

He tore up the deal.

He said it was a bad deal,
that it didn't bring peace

and never
would be a sign of the tensions to come.

Minutes before

Donald Trump revealed his decision, Israel
installed its Iron

Dome anti-missile system and opened
air raid shelters.

Fears Iranian forces inside neighboring
Syria were preparing to launch an attack

in reprisal.

To this, the United States will withdraw

from the Iran nuclear deal.

Fulfilling an election promise
to pull out of the 2015 agreement.

It's a bad deal.

It was a terrible deal.

Horrible, horrible, horrible Iran deal.

Donald Trump claims he has proof
Iran was pushing ahead

with nuclear weapons, even though his own
intelligence leaders repeatedly agreed

the regime was in compliance
with the deal.

America will not be held hostage
to nuclear blackmail.

We will not allow American cities
to be threatened with destruction.

Both the French and German
presidents had made personal pleas

to Trump
releasing this joint statement today.

It is with regret and concern that we take
note of President Trump's decision.

Barack Obama, who signed the agreement,
called it a serious mistake.

Iran today

promised to stick with the deal,
but warned it could restart its nuclear

weapons program if the regime continues
its nuclear aspirations.

It will have bigger problems
than it has ever had before.

In just
three weeks, the leader of the free world

and the North Korean dictator
is set to meet.

But Donald Trump's not packing his bags
just yet.

There's a very substantial chance
that it won't work out.

But Singapore sit down uncertain after Kim
Jong un

last week threatened to pull out
of the meeting altogether.

Today, South Korea's leader
traveled to the white House

in an attempt
to salvage the historic summit.

But saying there's a 99.9% chance
it will go ahead.

Odds the secretary of State
wasn't backing.

I'm not a betting man.

The president
seeing China as the game changer.

I think that President XI is a world
class poker player.

In an 11th hour public pitch to Kim
Jong un, Donald

Trump committed to the future
safety of the North Korean leader,

a dictator whose human rights abuses
well-documented.

He will be safe.

He will be happy.

His country will be rich.

The white House already counting the cash.

Commissioning a coin
to commemorate the meeting.

This one featuring a face
to face Donald Trump and Kim Jong un.

As for the chances of that happening
may not work out for June 12th.

Might as well flip a coin.

A high stakes
meeting in a New York high rise,

and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo
face to face with a sworn enemy.

Kim Jong un's right hand man who is
carrying a letter from the dictator.

A letter is going to be
delivered to me from Kim Jong un,

so I look forward to seeing
what's in the letter. But,

it's very important to them.

Just one part of a frantic international
dash towards a possible June 12th summit.

US diplomats are in North Korea

and a third American team
in the host city, Singapore.

Our two countries face a pivotal moment
in our relationship, in which

it could be nothing short of tragic
to let this opportunity go to waste.

Kim Yong Chul is North Korea's chief spy

who sat behind a bunker Trump
at the Winter Olympics.

He reportedly ordered the hack of Sony
Studios for a film ridiculing Kim Jong un.

Now North Korea's top negotiator,
he required special permission

to enter the US.

But is the North ready to give up its vast
nuclear program?

Thousands of workers, hundreds of sites

in exchange for huge economic lifeline
from the West.

The president now suggesting
it could take more than one meeting.

That's going along very well.

But I want it to be meaningful.

It doesn't mean
it gets all done at one meeting.

Maybe have to have a second or third,
and maybe we'll have none.

Experts believe it could take 15 years
to disarm North Korea.

US officials fear
they could be setting Donald Trump

up for failure if the summit goes ahead.

But at this stage,
they appear willing to take the risk

as the clock counts down

to his historic first meeting
with the North Korean dictator.

Donald Trump's already
looking forward to the second one.

Maybe we'll start with the white House.
What do you think?

The president
dangling an invitation and projecting

confidence ahead of Tuesday's
Singapore summit.

I think I'm very well prepared.

I don't think I have to prepare very much.

It's about attitude.

It's about willingness to get things done.

Japan's Shinzo Abe showed his willingness
today, an 11th hour

dash to the white House to make sure
the allies were on the same page.

This will not be just a photo op.

This will be at a minimum.

We'll start with
perhaps a good relationship.

So could fire
and fury be replaced with friendship?

Normalizing relations
is something that I would expect to do.

I would hope to do
when everything's complete.

We would certainly hope to do that.

Making clear
what Washington wants Pyongyang to do.

They have to deny
if they don't denuclearize,

that will not be acceptable.

President Trump says if he doesn't
get that commitment on Tuesday, he's

willing to walk and potentially stiffen
sanctions on North Korea if necessary.

Secretary of state
Mike Pompeo, who's met twice

with Kim
Jong un, thinks that won't be necessary.

He, has indicated to me personally
that he is prepared to denuclearize.

A bold ambition, tried
and failed by presidents before.

But it wasn't so I'll solve it.

Having made

few friends at the G7 summit in Canada,

Donald Trump jetted off
hoping to make a new one in Singapore.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong UN

I think within the first minute

I'll know

I just my touch, my feel. That's what.

That's what I do.

Kim Jong UN is already here.

Well. Sort of.

This isn't little Rocket Man.

He's a little look alike.

I come peace.

I left my rockets back in North Korea.

Ozzy impersonator to Howard. Eggs.

Malcolm Turnbull
I'm looking forward to coming to Australia

and meeting your delicious wife.

The lookalikes
drawing a huge crowd on the streets.

Only adding to the anticipation.

Singapore,

Trump and Moon in Singapore is a big deal
for the whole world,

especially for Singapore,
when these historic talks take place

at the six star
Capella Resort on Sentosa Island.

Experts say it's likely
North Korea will demand the US

cut back
its military presence in South Korea

before they even consider
giving up their nukes.

If there's an impasse, there
could be an unlikely diplomatic savior.

Zany former NBA star Dennis Rodman

will be in Singapore ready to help out
mutual friends.

We've got the greatest negotiator
of all time,

Donald Trump, to show the world
how it's done.

Peace, love, he tweeted.

Kim Jong UN wants to do something great

for his people,
and he has that opportunity

and he won't have that opportunity again.

It's a one time shot.

The South Korean protesters
aren't convinced.

They believe this is just more North
Korean trickery.

The whole world is hoping

these peace talks
don't become a real live pantomime.

Let us set an example for you.

This is how
people are supposed to get along.

So this relationship

between North Korea
and the US was going from bad to worse.

And suddenly it took a turn
and they agreed to meet in Singapore.

The first U.S.

president to meet a leader,
a dictator of North Korea.

I was there for that meeting.
It was astonishing.

And from Name-Calling,
Donald Trump would go on to say that,

they had fallen in love with,
the letters that they had

exchanged, that he was a great leader
and a great negotiator,

and that he had prevented war
with North Korea.

It was just extraordinary to see a US
president, a sitting US president,

standing side by side, shaking hands
and being friendly

with the dictator of North Korea.

It was absolutely bizarre
because they demanded that

Kim Jong un
basically be kept out of the public eye.

He was so paranoid
about being out in the West.

This meeting took place in a resort
that had been barricaded off.

He had a huge entourage of dozens
and dozens of vehicles, reportedly

including a toilet in one of the vehicles

because he was so frightened
of assassination.

Donald Trump, after that meeting,

said he thought that he deserved
to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

They emerged from separate quarters
on a veranda from a distance.

They closed in their first face
to face encounter.

A 19 second walk before coming together.

It is a previously unthinkable moment,
now being televised

live globally
and then walking to a private meeting.

More smiles, handshakes, even laughter.

Translators followed

for the first media conference
in front of selected journalists.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.

Kim is used to controlling his.

Maybe I never I never stop. Trump is not.

I feel really great

because I have a great discussion
and I think tremendous success.

It is tremendously successful
and it's my honor.

And I
we will have a terrific relationship.

I have no doubt will

be as soon as

the passed fit.

I worked as fit as on our names and,
the old prejudices

and practices,
worked as obstacles on our way forward.

But we overcame all of them.

And we are here today
at stroke. What am I feeling?

Cameras stopped clicking and talks began.

They lasted 38 minutes.

Just translators in the room,
but for a walk and more smiles.

Then the real business began.

A first meeting with aides,

foreign and defense
leaders, chiefs of staff and diplomats.

Six from the US, seven from North Korea.

Both Trump
and Kim want something from this meeting.

America's president says the key to peace
is North Korea handing

over nuclear weapons
and ending the program that develops them.

Kim Jong un wants the trade sanctions
canceled.

Oil, gas, food to flow again.

We won't know word for word
what's been said behind closed doors.

Whether they address the fire and fury,
the name calling.

Little rocket man, mentally deranged.

Dotard.

The world watched
and reacted to any small insight.

Wall to
wall coverage in the North's firing range.

South Korea.

Fact is,

the President Trump, has been on this
like white on rice.

What was being said
always at the back of the minds of Japan

and Malaysia's leaders meeting and enough
to bring tears to Dennis Rodman,

basketball star says he pleaded for this
to happen five years ago.

A new thing was gonna change.

I knew it, I was the only one.

I never had no one to hear me.

After 3.5 hours, the leaders emerged

a walk down the garden path
after a successful lunch.

Prawn cocktails and avocado salad.

Korean stuffed cucumber for entree.

Beef short rib
confit with potatoes and steamed

broccoli,
plus sweet and sour pork for mains.

Chocolate tart and vanilla
ice cream for dessert.

A really fantastic meeting.

A lot of progress.

Really very positive.

And I think better than anybody
could have expected.

Top of the line. Really good.

We're going right now for a signing.

Talks went so well, Trump proudly
showed off his presidential car,

the beast so friendly,
suggesting an agreement had been made.

Emboldened by the summit, both leaders
have cut short their visit to Singapore,

flying home early
to spruik their successes to their people.

But backslapping is easy, making it
reality is tough.

In what looked like a prize
revealing the gameshow,

doors opened and the leaders
walked out to sign a document.

We had a historic meeting
and decided to leave the past behind,

and we are about to sign
a historic document.

The world will see a major change.

I would like to express my gratitude
to President Trump

to make this meeting happen. Thumbs up.

Thank you, Mr. President.

He has rebranded Nuclear Eyes for

starting that

process very quickly, very, very quickly.

Thank you, Vice
Chairman Kim, for the white House.

Absolutely.

I want then one final walk together
before they bid farewell.

And he loves his country very much.

And a hard handshake.

As the global sell of what today
will translate to in the future

begins.

Flying out with a fist
pump from a meeting, Donald Trump

will be remembered for

the confident
but relaxed global sell began.

Honestly,
I think he's going to do these things.

I may be wrong.

I mean, I may stand
before you in six months and say, hey,

I was wrong.

I don't know that I'll ever admit

that there was mixed support,
even from Republicans.

I don't know that there's anything to,

that have concrete

nature yet to trust,
but also strong condemnation

that with this

handshake, North Korea won
international legitimacy.

The dictator of this isolated nation
condemned over the poverty of its people.

Nuclear weapons, political prisoners
locked up in labor

camps appeared on the same level
as a US president.

Over my lifetime, I've done a lot of deals
with a lot of people, and sometimes

the people that you most distrust
turn out to be the most honorable ones,

and the people that you do trust,
they are not the honorable ones.

There is no timeline.

But under the deal, North Korea plans
to dismantle its nuclear arsenal

after Trump agreed to make security
guarantees to ease Kim Jong un's paranoia.

That means the end of military exercises
on the Korean peninsula.

It's inappropriate to be having war games.

So, number one, we save money a lot.

And number two, it really is something
that I think they very much appreciated.

Japan
tonight says it needs more information.

Wanting those games to continue.

None of the details have been decided, but

we believe the military drills are vital
for the security of North East Asia.

Pictures of the meeting
haven't yet been broadcast in North Korea,

but this four minute propaganda video
organized by Donald

Trump
was shown and gifted to the dictator.

History is always involved,

and it makes Kim Jong un look like a hero.

If he chooses to destroy these weapons.

Two men, two leaders, one destiny.

This is how North Koreans are being shown.

The president of the United States.

Saluting a fully uniformed
North Korean general.

The state TV video, part of a 45 minute

montage of Kim Jong UN's greatest moments.

It's a common courtesy
when a, military official

from another government
salutes that you return there.

It is military practice
to return a salute from an officer

of a friendly foreign nation.

But North Korea is still considered
an adversary.

The political optics of it were bad.

This is a murderous, brutal regime.

He should have just nodded his head
and shaking his hand.

There was no comment
from the president today.

He took the day off
to celebrate his 72nd birthday.

But his home state of New York was quick
to spoil the party, issuing a lawsuit

accusing Donald Trump of using his charity
as a personal piggy bank.

The New York attorney general alleges
the president and three of his adult

children used his private foundation
for personal and political gain.

For over a decade, comparing
the foundation to a checkbook for Mr.

Trump.

More nonsense, more nonsense.

They're saying there's
misconduct of funds.

You don't think any of that is legit.

A timing couldn't
be more coincidental, right?

Donald Trump senior took a similar
response, proclaiming he won't settle this

case.

Back on North Korean soil to shake hands
and shore up the commitment.

Secretary of state Mike Pompeo
visiting Pyongyang for the third time.

The first since Kim Jong UN's historic
meeting with Donald Trump.

The first time.

One more time catches him tweeting along
the way, the president believes that

Chairman Kim sees a different, brighter
future for the people of North Korea.

Kim Jong un
promised to give up his nuclear arsenal.

Pompeo is mission
now keeping him true to his word.

That, number
one is a full declaration of your program

with an agreement
to intrusive verification.

If you don't get that, you've got nothing.

Period.

The president at a rally in Montana
overnight defended his art of dealmaking.

Remember, they said he's too tough.

He's going to cause a war.

It's too tough.

Now they say he's too nice.

He's Juna. He's too nice.

I got along very well with Chairman Kim.

I got along very well.

That's a good thing. In just over a week.

Another high stakes
summit, this time with Russian President

Vladimir
Putin, will come under global scrutiny.

But just like his meeting

with the North Korean leader,
the president is dismissing the skeptics

and playing down Putin's former role
with Russia's intelligence service.

You know, President Putin is KGB
and this and that.

You know what?

Putin's fine.

250,000 people marching and chanting

through London city center, protesting
against the presence of one man.

Donald Trump so welcome him.

Racist, fascist.

Disgusting human beings.

It's a terrible role model for young
people, and it's important to speak out.

And as they rallied in Trafalgar Square,
a giant balloon

depicting the US president as a baby
in a nappy floated over protesters.

Is, a brute and a bigot.

I'm dangerous for the world.

But Donald Trump avoided the city, instead
heading to Windsor Castle

with wife Melania to meet the Queen.

It was clear, though
the president had not paid close attention

in royal protocol lessons, forcing
the monarch to awkwardly step around

him, inspecting the guard of honor
while the first lady then played balls.

Her husband was with the British Prime
Minister, Theresa may, trying to fix

the damage caused by a scathing interview
he'd given of his strategy

to leave the European Union.

Whatever you're going to do is okay
with us.

Just make sure we can trade together.

That's all that matters.

And while no one would call
the two leaders friends,

he had this assessment
of the Uk-us relationship.

I would say the highest level of special.

These British people, though,
clearly disagree.

This is what the white House
feared, and partly

why Donald Trump's visit here was delayed
for so long that the defining image

of his first visit to the UK as president
would be the biggest protest here

in years.

Donald Trump has now flown to Scotland,
where he plans to play golf before

heading to Finland to meet the Russian
president, Vladimir Putin.

So every step he made seemed to involve

controversy, insult, upset.

But still he was widely popular.

People either loved or hated
Donald Trump.

There were very few people in between.

And to this day, that's the same.

You either love or you hate Donald Trump.

Playing on the Scottish course
that bears his name,

Donald Trump may have had trouble
concentrating

on getting away.

As nearby protesters

jeered the US president,
who took out his frustration on the green.

He is a racist and misogynist.

That is a whole list,
a catalog of insensibility.

There was a security scare

when a paraglider managed to fly
Greenpeace's anti-Trump message

right above the president,
who quickly moved inside the resort.

Protesters again
took to the streets, this time in nearby

Edinburgh, along with the controversial
Baby Trump balloon.

There were minor clashes

when Trump supporters turned up outside
the US embassy in London.

He's an absolute
fantastic businessman and politician,

and he is someone who's
actually a man of his convictions.

Before and after his golf game,
the president tweeted

his frustration about the Russian election
hacking probe,

not blaming those indicted yesterday,
but his predecessor.

These Russian individuals did their work
during the Obama years,

he tweeted, adding it had nothing to do
with the Trump administration.

Democrats are calling for the upcoming
summit with Vladimir Putin to be canceled.

Within a single hour.

Two of the president's men become felons.

Inside

a New York courtroom, stunning admissions
from Donald Trump's former lawyer.

He worked to pay money to silence
two women

who had information that he believed
would be detrimental to the 2016

campaign money to adult film
star Stormy Daniels and a Playboy model.

A bombshell directly
implicating the president under oath.

The man who once said he'd take a bullet
for Donald Trump testified

the payments were made in coordination
with and at the direction

of a candidate for federal office,
only months after Trump said this.

Did you know about $230,000 payments to

Trump's former campaign manager?

Paul Manafort
was convicted of eight financial crimes,

the first court victory
for special counsel Robert Mueller.

Neither Cohen
nor Manafort were the targets of Robert

Mueller's Russia investigation,
but he has the power

to investigate other crimes
that arise during the inquiry.

One the president has continued
to call a witch hunt.

The very sad thing that happens.

This has nothing to do
with Russian collusion.

I can tell you that, Mr.

Cohen has knowledge on certain subjects
that should be of interest

to the special counsel and is more
than happy to tell the special counsel.

The stakes never higher for the president
or his men facing jail time.

Stephanie Clifford, probably
best known to the world by her full name

Stormy Daniels, claims she had a one year
relationship with Donald Trump

back in 2006, after Donald Trump
had married his wife, Melania.

Donald Trump's right hand man, his lawyer,
his fixer Michael Cohen,

reportedly paid Stormy Daniels $130,000

to keep quiet during the election
so that it wouldn't hurt his chances.

Donald Trump still denies, by the way,
that he had an affair with Stormy Daniels.

He often calls her her horse face.

Michael Cohen would end up going to prison

for three years for that $130,000 payment
to Stormy Daniels,

because it was decided
it violated election finance laws.

In the end,
Michael Cohen would turn on Donald Trump.

So once his greatest protector,
his fixer,

his lawyer would end up
becoming his greatest enemy

and something that Donald Trump
is still battling to this day.

The president's made it clear
how he feels about the mainstream media.

When you want to kick out someone.

But now he's taken aim at social media

to Google and Twitter and Facebook.

They're really treading on very,
very troubled territory,

and they have to be careful.

The most powerful man in the world
admits he's googled himself,

but he doesn't like what he's found,
tweeting the search engine is rigged

so that almost all stories
and news is bad.

The white House warning it's exploring
regulating the tech giant.

We're taking a look at it.

Let you know.

Google denies any bias, saying

we never ranked search results
to manipulate political sentiment.

Trump's attack on the media hit
a sensitive note today,

with the Wall Street Journal reporting

he believed the media coverage
of John McCain's death was over the top,

before eventually voicing his condolences
two days after the senator's passing.

Our hearts and prayers are going
to the family of Senator John McCain.

We very much appreciate everything that
Senator McCain has done for our country.

So thank you very.

Any thoughts on John McCain today?

Again,
refusing to answer questions on McCain.

As the nation prepares
to lay the statesman to rest.

The relationship
with China was an interesting one.

He campaigned that China
was manipulating its currency.

That was taking advantage of the trade
deficit with the U.S.

so Donald Trump
quickly started a trade war with China.

He introduced trade barriers with China
in the hope

that that US jobs would come back.

The jobs that had gone over to China
would end up coming back

to the US, whether he's successful or not.

That's a big question.

But that was the motive.

Donald Trump was all about protecting

American jobs and American industry.

He's chaired board meetings,
cabinet meetings.

And today, Donald Trump wielded the gavel
for his first UN Security Council meeting

order after savaging Iran 24 hours
earlier today.

China was in the crosshairs.

China has been attempting to interfere

in our upcoming 2018 election.

They do not want me or us to win,

because I am the first president
ever to challenge China on trade.

Sitting only three seats away,
shrugging his shoulders,

China's foreign Minister Shita Khawaja.

We refuse to accept
any unwarranted accusations against China.

President Trump followed up with a tweet
posting newspaper clippings

critical of US trade
policies, labeling it Chinese propaganda.

Later, in front of the world's media,
he changed tack.

China has total respect for Donald Trump
and for Donald Trump's

very, very large a brain.

A verbal attack
like this on a global stage has made it

clear the US considers
China a threat to American democracy.

Interference denied by the Chinese
but supported by the president's

intelligence chief.

The Chinese government uses
all of the capabilities at their disposal

to influence U.S.

policies, spread propaganda, manipulate
the media, and pressure individuals.

An ongoing trade
war and a new war of words.

It's been

so long since
the white House held a press briefing.

They had to dust off the podium,
all in preparation for a big announcement.

The president has received
a letter from Kim Jong un.

An invitation for a second summit.

The president has achieved tremendous
success with his policies so far.

And this letter was further evidence
of progress in that relationship.

But senior US officials
have found evidence to the contrary.

The construction of up

to eight new nuclear weapons
and new structures to hide them.

They'll be completed this year.

Despite Kim's promise to denuclearize
at the last summit.

But the intelligence community
is saying they're building more.

We don't know where they are.

We don't know how many there are.

There's no specific agreement
as to how that's going to be defined.

Just yesterday, Donald Trump publicly
thanked Kim Jong un for his commitment

to denuclearization, saying that the pair
would, quote, prove everyone wrong,

adding that there's nothing like dialog
between two people who like each other.

That dialog is set to continue.

The white House
accepting the invitation to meet again.

We are open to and are already
in the process of coordinating that.

It started off rocky. Threats of war.

Name calling.

Little Rocket Man, then eventually
a history making handshake.

Now, the

tumultuous relationship
between the US President and North Korea's

supreme leader has crossed
into supremely bizarre territory.

When I did it and
I was really being tough, and so was he.

And we were going back and forth.

And then we fell in love. Okay.

A declaration for a dictator made
before thousands of supporters at a rally.

Now, really, he wrote me beautiful
letters, and they're great letters.

We fell in love.

But it may be unrequited.

At the UN General Assembly a day

earlier, the North Korean foreign
minister told world leaders

they won't dismantle their nuclear weapons
if they can't trust Washington.

So let me just.

But the problem is that the continued
sanctions are deepening our mistrust.

But Trump's administration
won't consider lifting any sanctions

on North Korea
until it surrenders its nuclear weapons,

bringing any progress towards
the country's disarmament to a halt.

Trump's secretary of state
will travel to Pyongyang next month

in the hope of setting up a second summit,
more than three months

after their first meeting,
a second date appears on the horizon.

Great, guys.

Smart cookie.

Smart. He gets it.

Kanye West
holding court in the Oval Office

was something about when I put this hat on
and made me feel like Superman.

The rapper unfiltered, unconventional.

Trump is on his hero's journey right now.

Unbelievable.

He might not have expected to have a crazy

like Kanye West run up and, support.

This was a presidential invite to discuss
social issues at the white House.

The president
got perhaps more than he bargained for.

What I think is we don't need citizens.

We need partners.

We? The vodka.

Trump and husband Jared Kushner
looking on.

Kanye freestyled for ten minutes
on a perplexing range of issues.

It's a hydrogen powered, airplane.

And this is what our president
should be flying and look at this year.

If he don't look good, we don't look good.

This is our president.

He has to be the freshest.

The fly is following in the footsteps
of his wife, reality star Kim Kardashian,

who also visited the president
in the Oval Office

to lobby for her grandmother's
release from prison.

But today, this former reality star,
rarely lost for words,

could only find a few.

That was quite something that was quite
so from the superstar ambassador.

A surreal day at the white House.

I love that right?

Into a packed

media conference, a post-election
president defiant.

I thought it was a very close
to complete victory.

Mocking.
Defeated members of his own party.

Mia love gave me no love.

And she lost before a question

about immigration sparked open combat.

Here we go. Well, if you don't mind, Mr.

President,
there are hundreds of miles away,

though there are hundreds
and hundreds of miles away.

That's not an invasion.

Honestly,
I think you should let me run the country.

You run CNN.

And if you did it well, your ratings.

Let me ask you
if I may have a question. Mr.

president, if I may ask the question,
are you worried that's enough?

That's the president.
That's one of the other folks.

That's enough.

Pardon me, ma'am. Mr. president,
that's enough.

Mr. president, I had one of these.

That's enough. Put down the mic.
He pauses.

But Donald Trump is far from done.

CNN should be ashamed of itself,
having you working for them.

You are a rude, terrible person.

You shouldn't be working for CNN,
and the way you treat Sarah Huckabee

is horrible.

And the way you treat
other people are horrible.

You shouldn't treat people that way.

Ahead. In Jim's defense,
I've traveled with him and watched him.

He's a diligent reporter

who I'm not a big fan of yours either,
so I understand, to be honest.

So let me ask you a question if I can.

You repeatedly say you are the best.

Mr. president,
you repeatedly over the course of.

Just sit down, please.

When you report fake news,
which CNN does a lot.

You are the enemy of the people.

Go ahead.

87 extraordinary minutes
ending with the CNN reporters.

White House access
suspended to the Secret Service.

The administration claims
it's because of this moment saying

we will never tolerate a reporter
placing his hands on a young woman.

CNN called that a lie.

A day after losing the house
and facing years of Democrat

investigations,
the president flipped to fight mode.

If they do that, then it's just all
it is is a warlike posture,

a power shift in Washington
and a shakeup here at the white House.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions,
long out of favor with Donald Trump

resigning today at the president's
request for stout, fired a relationship

that all but ended when sessions recused
himself from the Russia investigation.

He's acting replacement.

Matt Whitaker has openly criticized
the scope of Robert Mueller's inquiry.

Now he'll oversee it.

Thank you all very much.

Thank you.

It didn't matter where you were from.

In the world, if you're a journalist,
Donald Trump supporters hated you.

That was it.

Sometimes with a chuckle,
sometimes with a lot of vitriol.

They did not trust journalism.

And it's a strange thing,
because while it was an attack

on journalism, I believe it
actually bolstered good journalism.

It meant that, readership viewership

would actually increased
during Donald Trump's time in office,

because the whole world became fascinated
with what this president would be doing.

He was certainly the most
watched individual,

the most watched politician in the world.

And that helped journalism.

I think the rest of the world,
Australia included, became fascinated

in American politics
like they'd never been fascinated before.

We were concerned
by what Donald Trump was doing,

the decisions he would make because
you'd never know what was coming next.

So all of a sudden, people in Australia,
people right across the world,

were tuning in to this president to see
what on earth he was going to do next.

It was the allegation that undermined
the Clinton campaign.

Think she should be in jail
for what she did with her emails,

a war cry that's now left Donald Trump
eating his words.

Ivanka did some emails.

The first daughter under investigation
for violating federal records rules

by using her personal email account
to conduct government business.

They were classified like Hillary Clinton.

They weren't deleted.

Like Hillary Clinton, who deleted 33.

She wasn't hiring.

She wasn't doing anything to hide her
emails.

Ivanka Trump publicly silent,
a spokesperson conceding she occasionally

used her private email account
before she was briefed on the rules.

Volker can handle herself, but
the Democrats want Congress to handle it.

Crying hypocrisy,
they vowed to use their new majority

to investigate the hundreds of emails
sent by the president's daughter.

Donald Trump has two words in response.

Fake news. But it's these three words.

Giving his critics new ammunition.

The problem solver set to become prisoner.

Michael Cohen broke the law, paying hush
money to Stormy Daniels and another woman

to keep quiet about alleged
sexual encounters with Donald Trump

and lying to Congress about the extent of
Trump's real estate dealings in Moscow.

Prosecutors say he should be jailed
for more than three years.

But those investigating Trump's

possible links to Russia
also say he's been helpful to them.

Less helpful?

Trump's former campaign

chief Paul Manafort, who lied to Robert
Mueller's investigators.

But they're not saying what about
that means that there are ongoing

investigations, sensitive information

that the Mueller team
does not want to make public right now.

Donald Trump responded by tweeting,
totally clears the president.

Thank you.

He's announced a new attorney general
and new ambassador to the UN.

Former Fox News TV host Heather.

Now it's who critics say
has no diplomatic experience.

And there could be more changes
to come with reports.

President Trump is now facing
the resignation of his current chief

of staff, as he got into a war of words
with his former secretary of state.

Sacked in March, Rex Tillerson
speaking out about how challenging

it was to work for President Trump.

For a man who is pretty undisciplined,

doesn't, doesn't like to read,
doesn't read briefing reports, doesn't,

doesn't like to get into the details
of a lot of things, but rather

just kind of says, look,
this is what I believe.

And I'd have to say to him, well, Mr.

President, I understand what you want to
do, but you can't do it that way.

It violates the law.

It violates the treaty.

Trump fired back, calling
Tillerson dumb as a rock and lazy as hell.

Michael Cohen says he was Donald Trump's
lawyer and liar.

You lied for him for a long time.

More than ten years. Why?

Out of loyalty now.

Sentenced to three years prison.

He's implicated the president
in his paying hush money

to two women
to stay quiet about alleged affairs.

I never directed him to do anything wrong.

He directed me to make the payments.

Nothing at the Trump Organization was
ever done unless it was run through Mr.

Trump.

The payments broke campaign finance laws.

They put that on to embarrass me.

They put those two charges on
to embarrass me.

I did not do it to embarrass
the president.

He's also been talking

with investigators about links
between the Trump Organization and Russia.

Do you think President Trump
is telling the truth about that? No.

The former fixer says the man he once said
he'd take a bullet for has changed.

I think the pressure of the job

is much more than what he thought
it was going to be.

The white House today hitting back.

He's a self-admitted liar.

You guys all know that Michael Cohen
was also convicted of lying to Congress,

but he insists he's now telling the truth

because he says he doesn't
want to be the villain of the Trump story.

I am done with the lying.

I'm done being loyal to President Trump.

Do you think it started with a laugh? Mr.

president,
that quickly turned into an embarrassment.

Let me just finish.

Because you can't get your way
as a fight over

funding
the border wall spilled into public view.

I don't think we should have a debate
in front of the press on this debate.

Let's debate in private.

The president's demanding
billions of dollars to build

the border wall, the same wall
he said Mexico would pay for.

The fact is, we do not have
the votes in the House, Nancy.

I do. He doesn't.

And this was his first sit down
with the party that,

as of last month's midterm elections,
does.

Mr. president, please don't characterize
the strength that I bring to this meeting.

As the leader of the House Democrats,

who just won a big victory which gained
in the Senate, Nancy gained in the Senate.

Excuse me. Did we win the Senate?

We won the Senate.

The senior Democrats highlighting
something Donald Trump

was learning in real time.

Elections have consequences,
Mr. President.

This standoff could also have
consequences.

Donald Trump has threatened
to shut down the government by Christmas

if he doesn't get his way.

I am proud to shut down the government
for border security.

The president offering his take
on this surreal scene.

And I think it was
a very friendly meeting.

No surprise, his opponents
saw it differently.

This temper tantrum that he seems to
throw will not get him his war.

They rose to power with

barbaric brutality,
recruiting foot soldiers around the globe.

Now America's claiming
victory over Islamic State in Syria.

We have won against ISIS.

We've beaten them
and we've beaten them badly.

President Trump
announced at first on Twitter, confirming

he'd withdraw 2200 American ground troops.

Our boys, our young women, our men.

They're all coming back
and they're coming back now.

We won.

And that's the way we want it.

A declaration
reminding the world of the premature

mission accomplished,
claimed by a previous president.

The United States
and our allies have prevailed.

US officials say ISIS has lost
99% of its territory.

More than 60,000 fighters killed,
but as many as 30,000 remain in Iraq

and Syria.

Withdrawing
troops was a key Trump campaign promise,

but it's drawn criticism
within the president's own party.

They fear
the terror group could stage a comeback,

and the winners will be America's
strategic rivals.

Colossal.

In my mind,

the stake we have basically turned

the country over to Russia
and to an even greater extent, Iran.

If Trump withdraws from Syria and they do
come back, like I think they will,

he'll be one of the reasons I came back.

The Defense Department says
troops will remain in

neighboring Iraq
and continue their results from the year.

It was a surprise appearance for

the commander in chief in Iraq.

In secret, with smiles, selfies
and a show of thanks

to the 5000 troops for what he calls
the near elimination of Islamic State.

They were very dominant.

Today, they're not so dominant anymore.

But allies in the region are worried

who will be dominant now after Trump's
sudden move to pull U.S.

troops out of Syria?

These troops in Iraq told
they would now be the ones taking on ISIS.

Should anything happen, we can hit them
so fast and so hard they will.

They really won't
know what the hell happened.

We're no longer the suckers, folks.

After two years as president,
this was Donald Trump's

first visit to a combat zone.

He admits he was worried.

I had concerns
for the institution of the presidency

because not for myself personally.

I have concerns for the First lady.

I will tell you.

President Trump will return home
to a political combat zone in Washington.

As the partial government
shutdown over his border wall

heads into day six,
hundreds of thousands of employees were

told to stay home today
with no pay and no end in sight.

Whatever it takes,
I mean, we're going to have a wall.

We're going to have safety.

After 18 years in America,

married an American, lived there

for so long,
I felt the America that I left

in 2018 was more divisive than it had ever
been before.

There was so much anger.

You either

liked Donald Trump or loved him
or hated him.

And there was no in between.

You couldn't have a discussion
on politics anymore

without often there being anger.

Sometimes violence.

It wasn't
the America that I'd grown to love.

I felt like it was tearing itself apart.

Despite a still day in the Capitol,
the political winds of change were strong.

Democrats taking control of the lower
house for the first time in eight years.

We're now entering a period
of divided government.

The 116th House of Representatives,
the most diverse ever,

with the most women
leading the charge of regulations.

Madame Speaker Nancy Pelosi
taking the gavel for a second time.

Two months ago, the American people spoke
and demanded a new dawn.

America's first female speaker back again
to the third

highest position
in the land, co-equal to the presidency.

The sign of change at the Capitol.

Signifying a new reality
at the white House.

I'd like to welcome

a very special guest for an appearance
here in the briefing room.

Our very great president, Donald J. Trump.

Donald Trump

making a surprise appearance in the press
briefing room is a beautiful place.

I haven't seen it.

To plead with his newly empowered
opposition to fund his border wall.

We're going to make it good.

The people of our country want it.

But he doesn't want to talk about it.

You're not taking any questions at all.

The briefing room is to take questions.

The question now is when the need to weak
government shutdown will end.

The Democrats first order of business is
to get the government back up and running.

But there's a catch.
We're not doing a wall.

The Republican led Senate
has vowed to block anything not supported

by the president,
leaving day one of the new Trump

era in deadlock,
rolling into the white House.

But the government remains closed.

This was the 15th day of negotiations
to end a partial government shutdown.

The president tweeting,
I'm in the white House ready to go.

Where are the Dems?

The Democrats were there,
but Donald Trump didn't meet with them.

The impression you get from the president
that he would like to not only close

the government, build a wall,
but also abolish Congress.

Instead,
he left it to a team of senior staffers

to push the case for his border wall.

We put together a team of people
that will work over the weekend.

The vice president tweeting a photo of the
meeting before the president tweeted.

There was not much headway made today.

Second meeting set for tomorrow.

With the government shutdown
now entering its third week.

800,000
federal workers are not getting paid.

Ironically, today, senior members of
the government would you for a pay rise.

The vice president rejected his.

Mr. Vice President, let's turn down
your waste with other cabinet ministers.

Told it would be prudent
to keep the current frozen rate,

at least until the government itself
can reach an icebreaker.

Backed against the wall.

The president tried to go around it.

My fellow Americans, fed up
negotiating with a hostile Congress.

Donald Trump went straight to the people.

This is a humanitarian crisis.

A crisis of the heart
and a crisis of the soul.

A bold attempt to convince America
a wall is needed to fix that crisis.

When I took the oath of office,
I swore to protect our country.

Every American TV network showed Trump's
first Oval Office address live.

Hopefully
we can rise above Partizan politics,

but did the president's prime time
pitch pass the pub test?

What did you think about the president
had to say?

I mean, same old, same old hogwash.

You know, just diverting your attention
to something else.

You can't put a wall up
and have that solve your problems.

The ongoing government shutdown,
now the second longest in US history.

A more pressing emergency for many.

The federal government remains
shut down for one reason

and one reason only because Democrats

will not fund border security.

President Trump must stop holding
American people hostage.

Far from a border crisis, Trump's critics
say this is a credibility crisis.

The Democrats have labeled his address

propaganda,
demanding the same platform to fight back.

This president just used the backdrop
of the Oval Office to manufacture

a crisis, stoke fear and divert attention

from the turmoil in his administration.

Donald Trump's invited leaders

back to the white House tomorrow
before heading to the border himself.

With the standoff now in its 18th day.

Stonewalling over
the wall is expected to continue,

with his

government shut down for a record 29 days.

The president was working overtime.

I want this to end. It's got to end now.

A public pitch for a compromise
to get nearly a million

other Americans back to work.

I am here today to break the logjam
and provide Congress with a path forward

to end the government shutdown and solve
the crisis on the southern border.

He's offer extended legal status
with 300,000 refugees

and for young undocumented immigrants
brought to the US illegally as children.

In return,
he wants funding for his border wall.

But it now doesn't have to be concrete
or complete.

This is not a 2000

mile concrete structure from sea to sea.

These are steel barriers
in high priority locations.

Donald Trump says
his offer is a common sense compromise

that both sides of politics
should embrace.

But before he'd even announced it,
the Democrats had rejected it.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
labeling the plan a nonstarter,

claiming his proposal is nothing
new and has already been rejected.

With the stalemate set to continue.

Both sides will return to Washington
on Tuesday, which is coincidentally

the payroll deadline for 800,000 workers
set to miss another paycheck.

So we don't know whether Donald Trump
will get a second term in office.

But I guess what

we do know is we've had a sample
of what the first term is like.

And if he does get into power,
will he be even more unconventional?

Will he throw off the shackles
that were applied to him?

Because there are still people

who tried to keep him on a path
and not let him stray too far?

Will he throw off those shackles?

Will he be more unpredictable?

So Donald Trump, as unpredictable
as he was in his first term,

what's the second term going to look like?

Will there still be adults in the room
to keep him on the path?

Will he throw
all those so-called adults out

and have the enablers beside him
so he can do what he likes,

when he likes, to whom he likes?