Leftist Lopez Obrador Win Mexico's Presidential Election; Analysts: North Korea Satellite Images Show Missile Plant Construction; Trump Administration Drafts Bill To Abandon Key WTO Allies.
CAMEROTA: We do have breaking news in Mexico. The country's leftist presidential candidate, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, sometimes called AMLO, riding a populist wave to become the country's next president. CNN's Leyla Santiago is live in Mexico City with more. What a night, Leyla. Tell us what's happening there.</s>LEYLA SANTIAGO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Alisyn, what really has been made clear by voters is that they are looking for someone to tackle corruption and violence in Mexico. That was made very clear by the choice of AMLO, that was his platform. But also, what's very clear is that this could be a big change in the U.S. and Mexico relationship. I mean, last night when he spoke of the U.S., he says he wants friendship and cooperation in development. He wants mutual respect between the two countries. President Trump also making a statement, he took to Twitter saying, "looking forward to working with you," but there's some pretty big issues to tackle here. Immigration, I mean, AMLO wrote a book called, "Listen Trump," in which he really spoke out against this idea of Trump's wall, saying that is not a solution to anything. Then you have NAFTA, that free trade agreement that has been going back and forth for months now. And initially, AMLO was very critical of that and he sort of softened his tone with some pressure of the business leaders here throughout the campaign. But he is much like Trump in saying this is not the best deal for my country. I want a better deal. And he is saying Mexico first, a lot of analysts have said that this is Mexico's Trump. So, it will be interesting to see the dynamic change in this relationship and where it will go from here.</s>BERMAN: Leyla Santiago for us in Mexico City. Joining us now, our chief international correspondent, Christiane Amanpour. Christiane, this is a land fly victory. We can talk about what it means for Mexico. But if you look at this from a bigger picture, whether it's from the left or the right, around the world for the last 12 months we really have seen the up-ending in some ways of the entire world order.</s>CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: You're absolutely right. In fact, for more than two years it started with Brexit here and traveled to the United States with Trump and now it's in Latin America, not just Mexico, it's Colombia's recent election and obviously in Europe as well. So, yes, this is a big sort of seismic shift. The real question, real question is whether these populists or nationalists, whatever you call them, can actually deliver the promises that they have made. And in the case of AMLO using his acronym, he obviously breaks with decades of tradition. The two main parties are out of the picture for a moment and he's a leftist leader for the first time in decades in Mexico. He has a coalition that somewhat unweirdly very far right conservatives, very sort of left wing unions and religious groups as well. And he's promised big, big promises. Like taking on corruption, which is incredibly important and vital for people's daily life and business and health of the country. Tackling the violence, which is endemic and constant and of course, the poverty that springs up in many pockets of Mexico, but there is no set plan or nothing we know about how he's going to pay for all of this. On other hand, as Leyla was talking about, he's going to have to figure out how to thread that needle in his relationship with Donald Trump's America and with President Trump himself. Because yes, the president sent out a nice tweet, but he has to really sort of straddle the line. How do you stand up for Mexico and refuse the wall, refuse to pay for the wall? Don't look like Donald Trump's puppet or lap dog and at the same time, don't antagonize your big neighbor to the north that it back fires on you. So, a huge amount of balancing act and no clear design at the moment of how they are going to do it. But this is replicated now, Canada, Europe, all over the place, people trying to figure out how to deal with this massive disruption and dislocation that's happening now in many parts of the world.</s>CAMEROTA: And it's just all happening so fast. We see it cascading from country to country. Let's talk about North Korea. They don't appear to be denuclearizing at any rate that was anticipated perhaps by President Trump. They seem to be beefing up some of their facilities. What do we know?</s>AMANPOUR: Well, again, you're absolutely right. Look, we were all there in Singapore several weeks ago and reported on this summit and there was a lot of good will and it looked like potentially there might be a psychological break with the old order, that potentially Kim Jong-un was going to take on a new vision for his country. But we all were skeptical because at that time, the basic minimums had not been delivered. A declaration of the missile and nuclear technology and assets, a time line of how, what, when and where they were going to do it and any specific promises from North Korea. Some could say it was early and just a meeting but even now three weeks later we're not any clearer. As you say there are significant numbers of reports that cast doubts on what North Korea is actually doing right now. Are they building up more nuclear assets? Are they really going to admit to the secret size they have that the United States knows and intelligence knows about? Are they going to destroy that engine test site that President Trump claimed they were going to do immediately on the return home? They have not and there are reports that they are actually building more nuclear assets rather than decreasing them. So, a lot of questions still out there. And at the same time, you've had President Trump's officials, backers over the weekend talking about regime change and sort of -- in Iran. So, these two nuclear balls up in the air look very, very complex. And some people in the United States trying to seek an alliance with the MEK, otherwise known as national resistance, which they know nothing about, which is like Iran's version of Marxist (inaudible) cult. A (inaudible) Marxist cult that is not by any means democratic. So, a lot of balls in the air and we don't know where they are going to land.</s>BERMAN: Christiane, overnight there's a piece of news in the United States, the president wanted to draft a bill to rundown the WTO and it reminds us in the last two weeks he's made moves to perhaps undermine the E.U. saying France to withdraw from the E.U. And then, of course, there's NATO. He has a big NATO conference just before he meets with Vladimir Putin and there are signs that he's not perhaps looking at America's long-time allies as America's greatest friends going forward.</s>AMANPOUR: This sends seismic waves of terror, I don't think that's too strong a word -- of real worry amongst America's European allies. On the one hand according to the military, according to various different politicians, you know, the alliance continues on the ground. On the other hand, from the very top, again, this flame throwing going on, and we don't quite know why. We do know that the president insists all of the NATO members pay out their 2 percent of GDP. That, though, has been a demand of the United States going back at least to 2014, the last major -- a big NATO summit and made a declaration that the United States absolutely wants all the rest of the countries to pay their fair share. To be fair, some countries are moving towards that. Then we don't know what President Trump is going to say to President Putin and we don't know whether they are going to create some kind of a deal over Syria, that's been in the press. And we know that President Trump is taking a lot of advice and foreign policy direction from the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu and from the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, known by acronym, NBS. And so, what they are trying to do, we understand, is seek Russia's help in getting rid of Iran, getting them back out of Syria, in return potentially for allowing Assad to stay in place. So, all of these weird balls are up in the air again, nobody quite knowing where they are going to fall. Of course, NATO does not and cannot afford the European alliance cannot afford another disruptive summit so closely on the heels of the disrupted G7 Summit in Canada. So, there's a lot going on and of course, it's really odd to see President Trump beating up via Twitter on one of the key linchpins, main leader of the European alliance and that's Angela Merkel, who is facing a very tough time right now.</s>CAMEROTA: John -- thank you, Christiane, very much. John, you've been listening -- nodding your head.</s>AVLON: Pointed out ably, this is stunning, we have the president of the United States, leader of the free world consistently seeming to take aim at international institutions that protected the free world sense the second world war. These are the larger stakes and of course, over the weekend, National Security Adviser John Bolton basically sounding like the southern bell of the ball saying don't get the vapors when it comes to this upcoming --</s>CAMEROTA: Very Scarlet O'Hara.</s>AVLON: Mustachioed Scarlet O'Hara. But that's the least disturbing part of what's maybe coming down the pike.</s>BERMAN: I saw the midnight showing of that film, never be same again. All right, 2,000 kids separated from their parents by the U.S. government. Where are they? We keep asking and the government will not tell us.