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Needed. wrong again. use real people, not phony sources. but according to cnn reporting, this official, a real perpendiculperson, a real source, said this in a background briefing on thursday. in the meantime, the white house says its advance team is heading to singapore as previously scheduled. i want to bring in jack kingston, a former georgia congressman and senior advisor to the trump campaign. he is now a cnn political commentator. nina turner is a former state senator from ohio and cnn pol...

North korea? >> so i think both president trump and chairman kim jong-un really want this meeting. and im not at all surprised that after what looked like a temporary break, when president trump said that he was calling off the meeting, im not at all surprised that it now looks like its back on track. i think for both men this is a historic meeting. im not sure the summit is going to resolve the fundamental disagreements between the u.s. and north korea on denuclearization, but i think it will s...

Mike: i realize you are in washington and not in vegas or atlantic city, but how confident are you that this summit will happen on or around june 12th in singapore? >> i think it will be really difficult to pull off june 12th. thats what senior white house administration officials have said. the president tweeted that they, you know, that person didnt exist, but this was a background briefing organized by the white house, it did happen. theres a little skepticism that they can meet this june 12t...

The job for me covering the white house. there was a background briefing of chief of staff kelly. after five minutes the door swings open and lo and behold its president trump. breaking news, president trump speaking to reporters moments ago in a surprise question and answer session. >> he was just freewheeling. fortunately we were already recording on our phones so we were able to capture everything. >> do you want citizenship for our dreamers? >> were going to morph into it. >> are you going...

-- listening in on the call and have you ever had problems getting a background briefing? >> ive prepared many of these calls, brian, youre right, both with president medvedev and president putin. you get a package with the security council and in that package there is a lot of talking points for the sole purpose of advancing american interests, right? these calls are very precious amounts of time for heads of state to interact, so thats what theyre all about. in terms of the modalities and the ...

Balances the absence of the president being more forceful on this issue. so thats whats unfolding right now. details still coming into us in terms of a detailed background briefing. chris? >> kelly, well get back to you as we learn more from that briefing with administration officials. but i want to bring in nbc news investigations reporter, tom winter, as well as msnbc justice and security analyst, former doj spokesman, matt miller. my panel is still here. tom, youve been reading in on this. i ...

Would you find your work fulfilling? joining us now, andrea mitchell chief foreign affairs correspondent and the most of andrea mitchell reports weekdays. i am glad you could be here. >> thank you. >> let me ask you a couple specific questions here. if anybody knows this, you will know this. why wasnt the south korean national security adviser who got to announce this and once they decided he was going to announce this, why did they have him standing on the white house driveway making the announ...

Correspondent and the host of "andrea mitchell reports" weekdays at noon. thank you so much for being with us. i am glad you could be here. >> thank you. >> let me ask you a couple specific questions here. if anybody knows this, you will know this. why wasnt the south korean national security adviser who got to announce this and once they decided he was going to announce this, why did they have him standing on the white house driveway making the announcement outside? >> in the dark. >> do you kn...

Unimportant. what were going to see next is this hopeless cycle that this kind of downward spiral for staff, where its harder and harder to get people who want to go in because the mess gets worse and worse, so the mess gets worse and worse. >> let me stay with you, because one of the other revolutions today was about four white house reporters being brought in for a background briefing, arranged by sarah huckabee sanders, where the individual accused, rob porter, defended himself. im told that ...

Nice to have incentive for people to do well, and so forth. there is a much harder line than members of the administration and white house were expected to take in a background briefing, but i think the other thing you saw honestly what this was about is not the president wanting to stake his stance on immigration policy, i think it was the president wanting to demonstrate to a chief of staff who he felt one-upped him, essentially, by going on fox news and by telling "the hill" that the presiden...