a dramatic test of the policies at the u.s. and mexico border. a caravan of migrants arrived overnight and have a political target on their backs. the group vowing to stay put. >> we know the risks. we will negotiate in a different way. u.s. gearing up for talks as north korea on the heels of the korean summit. how soon could kim jong-un lose the nuclear testing site? we are live in seoul.

a mega merger for two mobile phone companies. why a union with t-mobile and sprint could mean you pay more for service. they say leads to lower prices, though. we will discuss? >> we will. i wonder what regulators will say. >> that is the question. good morning. i hope you had a great weekend. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. >> i'm christine romans. it is 4:00 a.m. in the east. right now, immigration showdown playing out at the u.s. and mexico border. a caravan of migrants camped out at border. dozens of asylum seekers are outside the immigration processing center. >> at a rally in michigan over the weekend, president trump talked about the approaching caravan. he did not sound sympathetic.

>> are you watching that mess that's going on right now with the caravan coming up? are you watching this? our laws are so weak, so pathetic. given to us by democrats. they are so pathetic. nancy pelosi, chuck schumer. our laws are so corrupt and so stupid. i call them the dumbest immigration laws on earth. >> the homeland security would arrest anyone crossing the border illegally. today, vice president pence will be near another border crossing 90 miles away for a wall construction update. for the latest on the migrants in tijuana, let's bring in leyla sani santiago. >> reporter: they will wait to reach the united states and reach the asylum officers.

we are seeing some of the central american families that put down blankets with intentions of staying the entire night here. they say they will get to the united states to seek asylum. what is the problem right now? the united states is saying that they do not have the capacity to process these claims. these migrants. they had a long day and long month in this caravan as it has made its way north. right now inside behind the gates, there are 20 to 40 women and children who made their way inside, but they were told by the u.s. officials they don't have the capacity to process their asylum claims. they are waiting to see if that will change overnight. in the meantime, they plan to stay here. again, it has been a long journey for them. march 25th is the day they

started at the southern border of mexico. they stayed in shelters and riding on trains and riding on buses and walking for days. they say it is important to do this the legal way. they turned themselves in or trying to turn themselves in at the port of entry as u.s. federal law permits. they are waiting to see when asylum officers and u.s. officials will allow them to go through with their claims. christine. dave. >> leyla on the border there. u.s. agencies are right aiee surveillance of north korea and now the two leaders of korea have committed to peace and denuclearization, the spy agencies are briefing the u.s. daily. >> mike pompeo sees an opportunity to rid the peninsula of nukes, but insists a deal

must be irreversible. >> we use the word with great intention. we will require the steps that demonstration that denuclearization is achieved. we will not take promises. we will not take words. we are looking for actions and deeds. until such time, the president has made it clear. we will keep the pressure campaign in place until we achieve it. >> the progress on the korean peninsula had the president's support supporters in a frenzy at a rally in michigan. >> that's very nice. that's very nice. nobel. >> nobel peace prize for president trump. think about that possibility. for the latest developments on the korean peninsula, we go lvee to seoul and bring in paula

hancocks. paula, what is the latest there this morning? >> reporter: dave, we have more information now about exactly what kim jong-un was talking about at the summit on friday. the blue house says he will shutdown the nuclear test site in may. may starts tomorrow. that is a very tight fatimefram. they have two extra tunnels within that site. they are in good condition according to kim jong-un. he will shut it down. he will invite journalists to view it to make sure it is transparent. we had a quote from kim jong-un through the blue house that he is not the kind of person to launch a nuclear missile against the united states. clearly this is a different kim jong-un that we are seeing at the summit as just months earlier. that is the threat that north korea was leveling against washington and seoul and new york.

certainly a very different situation now. from the south korea side, we know tomorrow, tuesday, they will start dismantling the propaganda broadcast speakers to pull back on hostilities. we heard the u.s. is waiting for actions rather than words. we heard that from john bolton. they will not give concessions before they see physical evidence. >> we will hear they will unify time zones. they were a half hour apart. there were reports of the mountain where they tested was ready to collapse. do you know anything about that? >> reporter: that's right. this is what we heard from chinese biologists. they say it is irrelevant because it is not able to be used. kim jong-un addressed that. he said that is not true. he said we have two more tunnels we never told you about which are in good condition. they will still shutdown. >> hence the importance of of

journalists. paula, thank you. reports this morning say white house physician ronny jackson is not going back to his old position. he withdrew his application of v.a. secretary after the allegations he emerged. an official told cnn that jackson returned to the medical unit, but not as the president's doctor. >> sean connolly will take over the job. and the president called on the democrat tester to resign after going public on the allegations of jackson. he kept up the attack in michigan. >> tester started throwing out things he heard. i know things about tester that i could say, too.

and if i said them, he would never been elected again. >> tester calls it his duty to fight for veterans to get what they need and have earned. to money news. t-mobile plans to buy sprint for $26 billion leaving three wireless carriers in the u.s. the two will merge after years of negotiations. t-mobile and sprint are the third largest companies. the deal still needs regulatory approval. t-mobile and sprint discussed this in 2014 and it was blocked. if the deal going goes through, customers could pay more. t-mobile's ceo says this time u.s. regulators will see the

benefits of the deal. he said on the call sunday the merger will create thousands of jobs, but beat china in the race to 5g. breaking news. at least 25 dead and 45 injured in the pair of blasts in kabul. among the dead, nine journalists and one for the french agency of afp. a suicide attacker on the motor bike detonated explosives. someone disguised as a cameraman carried out the attack. that killed the chief photographer. the attack targeted a group of journalists who rushed to the scene of the first explosion. ahead, the secretary of state in the middle east with the major decision approaching. will the president pull out of the iran nuclear deal next week? we are live in the middle east.

t clean as often as you'd like. for a quick and convenient clean, try swiffer wetjet. there's no heavy bucket, or mop to wring out, because the absorb and lock technology traps dirt and liquid inside the pad. it's safe to use on all finished surfaces tile, laminate and hardwood. and it prevents streaks and hazing better than a micro fiber strip mop, giving you a thorough clean the first time. for a convenient clean, try swiffer wetjet with a money back guarantee. brand power. helping you buy better.

i had a doctor's appointment. when you said you were at the doctor, but your shirt says you were at a steakhouse... that's when you know it's half-washed. now from downy fabric conditioner comes downy odor protect with 24-hour odor protection. downy's powerful formula conditions fibers to lock out odors all day. hey, your shirt's making me hungry. ha ha, derek. downy and it's done.

he will make the decision. it's his call. on the iran nuclear deal issue, i have presented him with options. i'll continue to do it right up until he makes the decision. >> national security adviser john bolton confirming president trump has not decided whether to back out of the nuclear deal. he has less than two weeks to make up his mind. bolton says there is hope to try to convince the president to amend the agreement rather than abandon it. that is one of the issues tackled by pmike pompeo. he is in jordan this morning. during a visit to saudi arabia on sunday, he spoke as well. when he was in saudi arabia, he slammed them as the greatest sponsor of terror. ben wedeman, what are we

expecting from him in jordan? >> reporter: after israel and jordan and slamming iran, he will have to change gears in jordan. here in jordan, the main concern is u.s. policy toward the palestinian/israeli conflict. jordanians were unhappy when in december the president trump announced the embassy was moving from tel aviv to jerusalem. king abdullah went to a meeting in turkey and stood on the stage with the president of iran and they condemned that move. it is a different set of priorities here. iranian threat is presented by the americans and saudis is not felt so much here. here, the main concern is instability spilling over from syria into jordan. this country has more than 1

million syrian refugees and last week, we were covering joint military exercises between the united states and jordan and preparing very much for the possibility of limited military action just on the other side of the jordanian/syrian border and preparing for the possibility of terrorist attacks and possibility of evacuating u.s. embassy staff. the concerns are more focused than the broad iranian threat that the trump administration likes to talk about. >> ben wedeman in jordan, thank you. syrian tv reporting a new round of missile strikes in hama and aleppo. earlier this month, receiseven military personnel with killed in strikes. syria, iran and russia blamed

i israel. upon t pe pentagon officials say the u.s. was not involved in the attack. and tv sets were not the only ones shocked by the white house correspondents dinner. >> if a tree falls in the woods, how do we get kellyanne under the tree? >> now the head of the white house correspondents association says she won't stand behind the comedians act. n evenadve wiible with the largest selection of audiobooks. audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. or discover magic when you hit the open road. with the free audible app, your stories go wherever you do. and for just $14.95 a month you get a credit, good for any audiobook. if you don't like it exchange it any time. no questions asked. you can also roll your credits to the next month

if you don't use them. so take audible with you this summer... on the road... on the trail... or to the beach. start a 30-day trial and your first audiobook is free. cancel anytime, and your books are yours to keep forever. no matter where you go this summer make it better with audible. text summer5 to 500500 to start listening today.

if you'd have told me three years ago... that we'd be downloading in seconds, what used to take... minutes. that guests would compliment our wifi. that we could video conference... and do it like that. (snaps) if you'd have told me that i could afford... a gig-speed. a gig-speed network. it's like 20 times faster than what most people have. i'd of said... i'd of said you're dreaming. dreaming! definitely dreaming. then again, dreaming is how i got this far. now more businesses in more places can afford to dream gig. comcast, building america's largest gig-speed network. the head of the white house

correspondents association is offering a mea culpa after the comedian. margaret talva released a statement. our commitment to free press and great reporting and scholarship winners. unfortunately the monologue was not in the spirit of that mission. >> michelle wolf's comments were jabs at president trump and top aides and his family. one of whom was sitting next to michelle wolf. >> there is, of course, ivanka. she was supposed to an advocate of women. it turns out she is as helpful as an empty box of tampons. she has done nothing. i guess like father like daughter. she is the diaper genie of the administration. she looks sleek from the

outside, but on the inside it's still full of [ bleep ]. i actually like sarah, she burns facts and she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. maybe she is born with it. maybe it's lies. probably lies. and i am never really sure what to call sarah huckabee sanders. sarah sanders. sarah huckabee sanders. is it anti-huckabee sanders. what is uncle tom, but for white women who disappoint other white women? >> a lot of people did not know what to make of it. you heard awkward silence. many members of the media agree that wolf went too far. the president declined to attend for the second year in a row.

he said the comedian bombed. the washington post media agrees. >> in the article "for the sake of journalism" stop the dinner. it sis a new low. president trump constantly pounds the news media as a bunch of out of touch elites. the optics of the dinner seem to back him up. let's get back to our show. journalists were killed covering a war region. that is what journalism is about. the white house correspondents association got what they got if they did not vet her. she went way too far with sarah sanders. they should have expected it. they should have watched her

routine. >> i was surprised there wasn't a preview of the remarks. >> some of the comments were used in her stand-up routine. president trump holds the third necessaws conference toda. new developments out of north korea and the caravan of migrants at the u.s. border gives us plenty to address. my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish

but now, i take metamucil every day. it traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. nobel.

>> and efforts to get north korea to give up its nukes. we're live in seoul. a dramatic test of the policies at the u.s. and mexico border. as a closely watched caravan of migrants draws closer. the group vowing to stay put. >> we know the risks. we will negotiate in a different way. >> welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. developments as it looks like we will see denuclearization on the korean peninsula. what does it mean? let's talk about that. u.s. agencies ramping up their surveillance of north korea as the summit with president trump and kim jong-un draws closer. now the leaders have committed to peace and denuclearization, the pentagon spy agency and

other branches briefing the white house daily using data from the satellites and drones. >> mike pompeo sees an opportunity to rid the peninsula of nukes, but insists any deal must be irreversible. >> we use the word irreversible with great intention. we will require the steps that demonstrate that denuclearization will be achieved. we will not take promises. we will not take words. we will take actions. we will keep the pressure campaign in place until we achieve it. >> the progress on the korean peninsula had the president's supporters in a frenzy at a rally in michigan. >> nobel. >> that's very nice. that's very nice. nobel. >> for the latest developments

on the korean peninsula, let's go live to seoul and bring in paula hancocks. paula. >> reporter: christine, we are getting more details of what happened at the summit between moon jae-in and kim jong-un. north korea agreed to close its nuclear site in may. may starts tomorrow. a tight timeframe there. they will invite experts and journalists to make sure they are transparent. we heard from kim jong-un through the blue house. he said the chinese geologists said the site was obsolete and it collapsed. it was incorrect. it had two tunnels that were in good condition. if the u.s. is not going to have a hostile policy, they don't need the nuclear program. he said he is not the kind of person to launch a missile against south korea or the

united states. this is a very different kim jong-un that we are hearing from. months ago, that is the kind of threat we were hearing from north korea. now also on the south korean side, they are trying to show the hostile policy is gone. they are dismantling the propaganda broadcast speakers along the demilitarized zone that used to blare propaganda into north korea. the u.s. wants to see actions rather than words. john bolton saying there will not be concessions before evidence that north korea is dismantling the nuclear weapons program. christine. >> paula, thank you. in an immigration showdown at the u.s. and mexico border. a group of central american migrants camped out at the border after of a hard month-long journey. dozens of asylum seekers are vowing to stay outside of the processing center until every one is allowed into the

u.s. >> the president spoke out about the caravan at the rally in michigan. he did not seem sympathetic. >> are you watching the mess with the caravan coming up? are you watching this? our laws are so weak, so pathetic. given to us by democrats. they are so pathetic. nancy pelosi, chuck schumer. our laws are so corrupt and so stupid. i call them the dumbest immigration laws on earth. >> the homeland security would arrest anyone crossing the border illegally. today, vice president pence will be near another border crossing 90 miles away for a wall construction update. also a meeting with border agents. for the latest on the migrants in tijuana, let's bring in leyla santiago. >> reporter: christine and dave. what remains of the caravan, the migrants here is a they will

wait to reach the united states and reach the asylum officers and make their claims. we are seeing some of the central american families that put down blankets with intentions of staying the entire night here. they say they will get to the united states to seek asylum. what is the problem right now? the united states is saying that they do not have the capacity to process these claims. these migrants. they had a long day and long month in this caravan as it has made its way north. right now inside behind the gates, there are 20 to 40 women and children who made their way inside, but they were told by the u.s. officials they don't have the capacity to process their asylum claims. they are waiting to see if that will change overnight. in the meantime, they plan to stay here. again, it has been a long journey for them.

march 25th is the day they started at the southern border of mexico. they made their way up. they stayed in shelters and riding on trains and riding on buses and walking for days. they say it is important to do this the legal way. they turned themselves in or trying to turn themselves in at the port of entry as u.s. federal law permits. they are waiting to see when asylum officers and u.s. officials will allow them to go through with their claims. christine. dave. >> leyla on the border there. trade tensions and team trump heads to china to avoid a trade war. president trump sending officials to beijing for talks. the meetings start thursday. each country is threatening with billions of tariffs. the hope is the talks will result in a trade framework both sides can live with. one potential problem is trump's team must have a united front.

the delegation includes representative robert lightheiser and peter navarro. economic adviser larry kudlow and steve mnuchin. all four are critical of the trade practices. before officials head to china, the u.s. has another trade fight. steel and aluminum tariffs in march and the countries with exemptions expire in 24 hours. that accounts for 2/3 of an aluminum and steel imports. multiple reports say the white house physician ronny jackson is not going back to his old job of the president's physician. he withdrew as secretary of v.a. after allegations emerged with nearly two dozen sources.

jackson denies the claims and an official said jackson returned to the medical unit. sean connolly took over and will keep the job. over the weekend, the president launched a twitter tirade over senator jon tester for going public for the allegations against ronny jackson. >> tester started throwing out things he heard. i know things about tester that i could say, too. if i said them, he would never been elected again. >> tester calls it his duty to fight for montana veterans to get what they need and have earned. sources tell cnn that president trump is expected to speak at the meeting of the national rifle association in dallas this week. it comes two next after the president had covers from conservatives when he told lawmakers not to fear the gun

lobbyist and they should be taken away from dangerous people without due process. the parkland school shooting ignited a national debate of gun laws and student-led push for gun reforms. vice president pence is said to address the flurrinra on friday. many claiming a good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun. 29 dead and 49 injured in kabul. officials in the afghan capital says a suicide attacker on a motor bike attacked. the spokesman says someone described as a cameraman carried out the second attack. that attack killed a french journalist. the attack targeted the

journalists who rushed to the scene to report the first explosion. all right. 40 minutes past the hour. secretary of state in the middle east with the major decision approaching. will the president pull out of the nuclear deal next week? we go there live. ve cha but the challenge remains the same. and the generation may be different, but the color needs to endure. and the toughest stains come with their own rewards. we've re-engineered tide because no matter what life brings, our commitment to clean remains the same. now with 10x the cleaning power. tide, america's #1 detergent.

he will make the decision. it's his call. on the iran nuclear deal issue, i have presented him with options. i'll continue to do it right up until he makes the decision. >> national security adviser john bolton confirming president trump has not decided whether to back out of the nuclear deal. he has less than two weeks to make up his mind. bolton says there is hope to try to convince the president to amend the agreement rather than abandon it. >> the iran deal is one issue

tackled by secretary of state mike pompeo. he is in jordan this morning after slamming the saudi arabia trip. we have more with ben wedeman. ben, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. certainly when secretary was in r riyad and tel aviv, the issue was the iranian nuclear deal and the woirries about iran's nucler missiles. here in jordan, it is a different set of concerns. when we saw secretary pompeo meeting this morning with the jordanian foreign minister, most of the talk was on the palestinian/israeli conflict , which is the main cause of concern in jordan where the

majority traces roots back to historic palestine. they were unhappy when the u.s. announced the embassy would be moved from tel aviv to jerusalem. jordanians are concerned with the rising tensions on the gaza border where thousands were wound wounded. they are worried about those problems and those tensions which could spill over into jordan as well. then this threat the israelis and saudis is coming from iran. that is a different point of view in jordan. >> ben wedeman live in jordan, thank you. syrian tv reporting a new round of missile strikes targeting government military administrations in hama and aleppo. it doesn't say who fired the missiles. earlier this month, seven

iranian military personnel were killed in the strike against the syrian air base in homs. they all blamed israel which denied it. britain's home secretary resigning. amber rudd stepped down sunday saying she misled the government committee about deportation quo quotas. she said she had no knowledge of the quotas. then a memo written by her said quotas have been set. tv sense censors were not ty ones shocked. >> how do we get kellyanne under the tree? >> now the head of the white

house correspondents association distancing itself from the comedianne's act. t a steakhou but yortyou that's when you know it's half-washed. now from downy fabric conditioner comes downy odor protect with 24-hour odor protection. downy's powerful formula conditions fibers to lock out odors all day. hey, your shirt's making me hungry. ha ha, derek. downy and it's done.

does your business internet provider promise a lot? let's see who delivers more. comcast business gives you gig-speed in more places. the others don't. we offer up to 6 hours of 4g wireless network backup. everyone else, no way. we let calls from any of your devices come from your business number. them, not so much. we let you keep an eye on your business from anywhere. the others? nope! get internet on our gig-speed network and add voice and tv for $34.90 more per month. call or go on line today. 4:53. the head of the white house correspondents association offering a mea culpa after michelle wolf's performance. margaret talav released a statement. our commitment to free press and

great reporting and scholarship winners. not to divide people. unfortunately the monologue was not in the spirit of that mission. >> michelle wolf's comments were jabs at president trump and top aides and his family. in case you missed it, here is a sample. >> there is, of course, ivanka. she was supposed to an advocate of women. it turns out she is as helpful as an empty box of tampons. she has done nothing. i guess like father like daughter. she is the diaper genie of the administration. she looks sleek from the outside, but on the inside it's still full of [ bleep ]. i actually like sarah, she burns facts and she uses that ash to create a perfect smoky eye. maybe she is born with it. maybe it's lies.

probably lies. and i am never really sure what to call sarah huckabee sanders. sarah sanders. sarah huckabee sanders. is it cousin huckabee? is it anti-huckabee sanders? what is uncle tom, but for white women who disappoint other white women? >> that, of course, is where michelle wolf went over the line. many members of the media agree that wolf went too far. the president declined to attend for the second year in a row. he said the comedian bombed. the washington post media agrees. in the article "for the sake of journalism" stop the dinner. trusts -- trust in the ma mainstream media is low. president trump constantly pounds the news media as a bunch

of out of touch elites. the optics of the dinner seem to back him up. that is spot-on given the dynamic of what happened saturday night. taking shots at press secretary sanders. that did not look good. >> he doesn't want to get made fun of. that is why he is not there. he likes praise. >> she went after the media. saying we're all a bunch of hip cra hipocr -- hypocrites. she was making fun of the room. >> let us know what you think on twitter @earlystart. let's get a check of money. global stocks are higher.

troub t-mobile plans to buy sprint. economic growth slowed in the first quarter. wages jumped at the fastest pace in 11 years. that renewed concerns of inflation which could many interest rate hikes. the fed reserve starts a two-day policy meeting. and fears of higher rates and the profit growth is strongest in receiseven years. amazon stock is on fire. amazon's profits doubled in the first quarter to $1.6 billion. sending shares up 4%. just below an all-time high. that lifted the market value to $735 billion. only apple is worth more than amazon. jeff bezos is worth $135 billion. the amazon stock up 35% this year. s&p 500 is down less than 1%. everybody in the room has

seen this movie over the weekend except me. "avengers infinity war" made $630 million globally. $250 million in the u.s. alone. that edges out "star wars the force awakens." the biggest winner is disney. it holds nine of the top ten biggest openings in north american history. >> it looked like a down year for the box office. that one movie put it in positive. chris cuomo saw the movie. >> jimmy saw it twice. >> must be a good film. "early start" continues right now with the north korean situation. >> we know the history. we know the risks. we will negotiate in a different way. >> rapid developments to get north korea to give up its

nukes. and the immigration policies with a caravan of migrants at the border. they are vowing to stay put. mega merger for two mobile phones. t-mobile and sprint. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. noon in amman, jordan. look at the cover. "let's make a deal." a deal with north korea on denuclearization. that's where we start this morning. korean peninsula seems likely and more likely by the day. u.s. agenciy ies ramping up surveillance of north korea as the sum with president trump and kim jong-un continues to draw closer. secretary of state mike pompeo sees an opportunity to rid the

peninsula of nukes, ybut insist a deal must be irreversiblevan e reverr -- irreversible. >> we use the word with great intention. we will require the steps that demonstration that denuclearization is achieved. we will not take promises. we will not take words. we are looking for actions and deeds. until such time, the president has made it clear. we will keep the pressure campaign in place until we achieve it. >> the progress on the korean peninsula had the president's supporters in a frenzy at a rally in michigan. >> that's very nice. that's very nice. nobel. >> for the latest on the korean peninsula, we go live to seoul. paula hancocks. nobel peace prize. a lot of work to do,