Video Shows Trump Saluting North Korean General
KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: North Korean state media is just releasing never-before-seen footage from the Trump/Kim summit in Singapore. Look at this. President Trump saluting a North Korean general. This video is being used as propaganda by the North Koreans. Pentagon correspondent, Barbara Starr, is joining me now. Barbara, any reaction from the Pentagon about this?</s>BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, they're looking at this perhaps through military eyes here. The president of the United States, there's no rules or regulations about who or when he salutes to anybody else in uniform. This is a protocol decision for the president to make. Our Jeff Zeleny, at the White House, has been told the president was briefed on all of these possibilities. And he clearly chose to return the salute from the North Korean general. This gives the North Koreans a very critical image that they can show their own people of the president of the United States making a gesture of military respect to the North Korean regime. Whether it was intentional or not, that is the result of what has happened. Again, it is a question of custom. A president of the United States often salutes American armed forces and may salute the forces, as happened, of U.S. allies. The most usual thing here is that he's saluting an adversary, a nation considered a state sponsor of terrorism. And he made a protocol decision to go ahead and do it, he wanted that deal with Kim Jong-Un -- Kate?</s>BOLDUAN: Let's talk about that deal. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in China today, Barbara trying to -- working on explaining what happened in Singapore. What are you hearing about it?</s>STARR: Here at the Pentagon, what they're waiting for is that decision to go ahead and suspend the so-called war games that President Trump talked about in Singapore. What we're seeing right now is, deep inside the Pentagon, military planners are looking at how to carry out the president's intent on all of this. Once again, the president makes big picture statements, he wants to suspend war games, wants to continue with some kind of readiness training. What the military now has to figure out what all of that means and how to carry out these big-picture statements from the president. It is very likely, we're told, that they will issue a statement about suspending planning for the big exercise already scheduled for August and then try and figure out what other kinds of training they can do and still meet Mr. Trump's intent. The key question here is the U.S. military trains all the time. And the U.S. has a security commitment for the protection of South Korea. Those two things haven't changed. They have to figure out now how to make it all work and work under the umbrella of the terms that the president has set -- Kate?</s>BOLDUAN: Trying to figure all of that out in real time. Barbara, thank you so much. I appreciate it.</s>STARR: Sure.</s>BOLDUAN: We continue to follow breaking news. New York attorney general filing suit moments ago against Donald Trump and his family for violating federal and state charities laws. This goes back to a big conversation, a lot of reporting that was happening during the election, what the president was doing, was he telling the truth about the money going in and out of his family's charity. The president calls the lawsuit ridiculous. The Trump Foundation is now responding.