Bill Cosby to Stand Trial
BLITZER: A Pennsylvania judge has cleared the way for Bill Cosby to stand trial on felony charges. The 78-year-old comedian is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004. She's one of more than 50 woman who alleged sexual misconduct by Cosby. His lawyer blasted the decision to allow the case to go to trial, saying there's no evidence Cosby did anything wrong. Cosby was arraigned in December. He's free on $1 million bail. He faces sentence of up to 30 years if he's convicted on all three charges. North Korea shooting down the idea of talks between the dictator Kim Jong-un and the presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who raised eyebrows by raising the facility of a face to face meeting. Our global affairs correspondent Elise Labott is here with us. Elise, Trump drew a lot of criticism for saying he would meet with Kim Jong-un. There's new developments.</s>ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: There are, Wolf. New warning tonight from America's top diplomat who says Kim's growing nuclear arsenal is the world's number one threat. Donald Trump says he's ready to talk to the reclusive North Korean leader to try and curb that threat. But Kim is rejecting to offer as not serious and nothing more than a campaign ploy.</s>LABOTT (voice-over): Tonight in Asia, Secretary of State John Kerry warning about the dangers of Kim Jong-un's growing nuclear arsenal.</s>JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: The primary threat of the entire region is North Korea, Kim Jong un and the proliferation activities of the DPRK. That's the primary thing. It's actually perhaps the lead threat globally.</s>LABOTT: This just a week after presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump told "Reuters" he's ready to be the first sitting American president to sit down with the reclusive North Korean leader to try and stop his nuclear program.</s>DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I would speak to him. I would have no problem speaking to him.</s>LABOTT: Now North Korea is responding, the country's envoy flatly rejecting the suggestion, calling it nonsense and propaganda. Trump himself called Kim a maniac after his fourth nuclear test in January, but warned such a violent dictator must be taken seriously.</s>TRUMP: He wiped out the uncle, he wiped this one, that one. I mean, this guy doesn't play games and we can't play games with him.</s>LABOTT: A confident Kim was just bragging about his regime's nuclear progress at the country's first workers party Congress in 36 years. His ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva who attended the event, said his boss would decide whether to meet with Trump if he is elected, but called his offer to talk insincere, part of the campaign bluster. Bill Richardson, a former ambassador to U.N., and veteran negotiator with North Korea, favors talks but he calls Trump's idea naive.</s>BILL RICHARDSON, FORMER NEGOTIATOR WITH NORTH KOREA: You can't just shot and say, like Donald Trump, let's meet, let's talk. That's not going to work. That's not diplomacy. That's reality</s>TV. LABOTT: In the meantime, North Korean workers are fearing Kim's reach, even in neighboring China, where his regime runs several restaurants. South Korea says several workers pled their jobs to seek asylum in a third undisclosed country, this after 13 North Koreans defected from a restaurant in China earlier this year, in a daring act of defiance.</s>LABOTT: And a senior policy adviser to the Trump campaign tells us, as president, Donald Trump's foreign policy would be more disciplined than Hillary Clinton's, bringing North Korea into line for the position of strength, using U.S. economic leverage with China and this aide pointed to a failed agreement under Clinton's husband, President Bill Clinton, that he said helped give birth to the North Korean nuclear threat. It's pretty clear that President Clinton's foreign policy is fair game to the Trump campaign in this election.</s>BLITZER: A serious issue that they should debate, obviously. Elise, thanks very much for that report. That's it for me. Thanks very much for watching. Please be sure to join us right here in THE SITUATION ROOM tomorrow. "ERIN BURNETT OUTFRONT" starts right now.