washington us president donald trump continues to chalk up significant victories on the foreign policy front the latest being the freeing on wednesday of three american prisoners by north korea even as his personal troubles in the domestic sphere including disclosures of his alleged dalliance with a pornstar and the russia connections continued to haunt his presidencytrump himself revealed the homecoming of the three prisoners on twitter exultantly announcing that he would go to andrews air force base at 2 am thursday to greet them on their arrival as they return to the us with secretary of state mike pompeo he also disclosed that pompeo had set the stage for his meeting with kim jong un including a date and place he did not fully reveal after a good meeting with the north korean dictatori am pleased to inform you that secretary of state mike pompeo is in the air and on his way back from north korea with the 3 wonderful gentlemen that everyone is looking so forward to meeting they seem to be in good health also good meeting with kim jong un date place set trump tweeted on wednesday morning adding secretary pompeo and his guests will be landing at andrews air force base at 200 am in the morning i will be there to greet them very excitingthe upbeat announcements on the north korea front came just hours after it was revealed that trumps personal lawyer michael cohen received into a business account he controlled 500000 from a russian oligarch with close ties to vladimir putin the same account in the name of a cohencontrolled company called essential consultants llc was used to pay off the porn star stormy daniels whose lawyer brought all this to the notice of the mediaother companies notably att swiss pharma major novartis and a korean aerospace company also paid into this account ostensibly to glean more insights into the trump administration the payments raised questions about the propriety of the dealings and whether trump who came to office promising to drain the swamp that he said washington is was aware of all thisthe disclosures not only eclipsed trumps torpedoing of the iran nuclear deal earlier in the day but also angered the president who went on to threaten the media for what he routinely terms as fake newsthe fake news is working overtime just reported that despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy all things else 91 of the network news about me is negative fake why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt take away credentials he tweeted first thing on wednesday morning as the disclosures on cohen erupted in the media sandwiched between trumps torpedoing of the iran nuclear deal and the north korea prisoner release which again bumped it from the headlinesthe president appeared to be referring to a study from the rightleaning media research center that showed 91 percent of the coverage of