Trump Planning Second Nuclear Summit With North Korea?
KEILAR: This just into CNN, new satellite images that show North Korea is significantly expanding a key long-range missile base, despite President Trump's historic summit with the country's leader, Kim Jong-un back in June. Trump often touts North Korea's lack of ballistic missile tests in recent months as a sign of diplomatic progress toward denuclearization. All of this comes as the Trump administration plans for a second summit with North Korea early next year. I want to bring in CNN senior national correspondent Alex Marquardt. Walk us through these new satellite images.</s>ALEX MARQUARDT, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT: All right, well, Brianna, what these show is clear evidence that North Korea continues to build up their long-range missiles capabilities, even as the two sides, the U.S. side and North Korea, say that they are working towards getting rid of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula. That was the pledge that they made back in June. Now, remember, these long-range missiles that we're talking about can carry nuclear warheads, and they can hit the United States. The images we're about to show you, we obtained them from the military -- from the Middlebury Institute -- excuse me. Let's first start with this map here of North Korea. This is the region that we're talking about, the expanded base, the new facility, right up here in the mountainous region of northern North Korea, right up against the border with China. There's already a base there called the Yeongjeo-dong missile base. That has already been well-known to intelligence agencies and analysts. But then just seven miles from there is this new base, is this new expansion that we're talking about. And when you look at that closely, when you zoom in on that satellite imagery, you can see this construction activity. And what you're looking at here is the headquarters and barracks of this new base. You can see the construction and maintenance there. This was taken on November 12, so just under a month ago, relatively new images. Now, Brianna, in addition to that, you also have these new administration buildings. You have got a massive amount of tunneling activity that has been carried out over the last few years. You also have what are called hardened bunkers that have been camouflaged, also drive-through shelters, which analysts say are large enough for those ballistic missiles, similar to the ones that we saw at the older base. Now, we should note that everything we're showing you here is not a violation of any agreements between North Korea and the U.S. or with South Korea. But the Trump administration has insisted that the North's ballistic missile program be eliminated as part of a future deal. North Korea so far has balked at that. Talks are very much at a standstill right now. The Trump administration is arguing that North Korea is not living up to their end of the bargain. And they argue that's why that second summit between the two leaders is needed -- Brianna.</s>KEILAR: Hmm. It's such an interesting argument. Alex Marquardt, thank you so much. The Trump administration is now pressing ahead with those plans for a second summit with Kim Jong-un early next year, National Security Adviser John Bolton saying the two sides will look at commitments made at the June summit and discuss how to them. Let's take a look.</s>JOHN BOLTON, U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: They have not lived up to the commitment so far. That's why I think the president thinks another summit is likely to be productive.</s>KEILAR: All right, joining me now, we have Bob Baer. He's a former CIA operative and CNN intelligence and security analyst. It's interesting to hear the rationale here, Bob, because normally the U.S. does not say, yes, let's have a second meeting when a country isn't holding up its end of the bargain.</s>BOB BAER, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: No, I mean, this is just -- you don't do that. You do the preparation. You make the agreements in advance, then you have the summit. If North Korea is not adhering to any agreements, you don't meet them until they're ready to do it, until you can show some progress, until you have done your homework. And they're not doing it. So Trump's shoot-from-the-hip international relations and the rest of it is just crazy.</s>KEILAR: How does the square that, what they say about ballistic missile tests, and then when you see these -- this activity in these pictures? You can't, right?</s>BAER: Well, I think anybody who knew North Korea knew they wouldn't disarm.</s>KEILAR: Yes.</s>BAER: I mean, that's their trump card. They weren't going to give this stuff up without a significant, significant agreement, and with Russia and China's input in this. And we have just ignored Russia and China on this. So, it was never going to happen.</s>KEILAR: Let's talk about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, the "Washington Post" journalist, at the Saudi Consulate in Turkey. You had Defense Secretary James Mattis, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo going to the Hill, briefing senators, clearly following the president's script on this. Lindsey Graham called it a technical interpretation of the evidence, as they declined to blame Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But, clearly, they're toeing the line here. Let's listen.</s>SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: As to Pompeo and Mattis, I have great respect for them. I would imagine, if they were Democratic -- in a Democratic administration, I would be all over them for being in the pocket of Saudi Arabia. But since I have such respect for them, I'm going to assume that they're being good soldiers, and when they look at the analysis, they're being technical in their statement, but they're not giving the assessment that I think the Senate will have. I would really question somebody's judgment if they couldn't figure this out. It is there to be figured out.</s>GRAHAM: Please let me finish. And I think the reason they don't draw the conclusion that he's complicit is because the administration doesn't want to go down that road, not because there's not evidence to suggest he's complicit.</s>DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Maybe he did, maybe he did. They did not make that assessment. The CIA has looked at it, they have studied it a lot. They have nothing definitive. Nobody's concluded. I don't know if anyone's going to be able to conclude that the crown prince did it.</s>JAMES MATTIS, U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: We have no smoking gun that the crown prince was involved.</s>MIKE POMPEO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: There's no direct evidence linking him to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.</s>KEILAR: Well, senators briefed on the intel believe something very different, Bob. And they got another briefing from Gina Haspel when they were upset that she didn't come up, that the CIA director didn't brief them initially. It was just Mattis and Pompeo. When you look at this, and you have Republican and Democratic senators saying they're being misled, what are the ramifications of that?</s>BAER: It's bad. I mean, what you're doing is, you're signaling the Saudi royal family is, maybe we can live with this guy Mohammed bin Salman, maybe we can't. So this doubt in Riyadh is going to cause instability. What this president should be doing is signaling the Saudis, we can't live with this guy. He's a murderer. He's a psychopath. He's definitely involved. When a senator comes out you could get a murder conviction in 30 minutes, when he says that, trust him. The guy is guilty.</s>KEILAR: All right, Bob Baer, thanks so much for your insight. Coming up: The midterms may not have panned out for them, but it seems rising Democratic stars Beto O'Rourke and Andrew Gillum both have 2020 on their minds. Are they getting advice from former President Obama about potential runs? And the day after the president declared himself tariff man and the markets tumbled nearly 800 points, is the White House now in damage control when it comes to confusion over its trade war with China?