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This is why many of us cautioned that perhaps the best way to approach this summit would be to start at lower level negotiations, figure out what exactly they mean by denuclearization which they have traditionally always meant first you end the u.s. south korea alliance. you get rid of american troops. then we feel less threatened and dont need as many nuclear weapons, et cetera. >> thats traditionally the preamble to the summit. traditionally there is legwork and meetings before the two leaders...

Trying to excerpt its influence after feeling blindsided by this summit that president trump will have with kim jung-un? >> china has a tremendous amount of influence with north korea. that is not in doubt in any way. china has been helpful to the united states. and man other countries in the maximum pressure campaign that the president constructed, that our president constructed last year. so we continue to ask china to use its unique leverage on north korea to get north korea to come to the ta...

University of alabama. and when we went, when mika and i, harvard fellows this year. because, you know i want to share some of what i learned at the cap stone. i told those harvard students, because theyre very polite to us that night, that i was very proud of them. i did. i said im very proud of them because they exhibited a civility that made me very proud as a man who had always talked about harvard as the university of alabama of the north. and they truly are. >> and you share the crimson, t...

Without putting out any evidence -- >> do you remember the calls for the congress to investigate this? it was the president. >> yeah, we still didnt get the info that they asked for. look, i feel bad for robby in this. i understand somewhat what its like now to have an allegation thrown out and for them to walk out and leave this cloud there. to not put some sort of cap stone on it, i think this throws a cloud on what were trying to do in washington. i think its irresposible. >> jeffrey, why are...

Important moment. and to me thats the cap stone. thats the cap stone. thats this man not just rediscovering who he is, but rediscovering who this country is. >> may god continue to shed his grace on the united states of america. when we come back. >> the banking system remains in deep trouble. worst showing ever on an inaugural day. >> the first day, a day from hell. >> we could have a second great depression. >> nearly 1.2 million jobs have geared. >> it was a stunningly scary moment. >> welc...

What was the rationale from the obama administrations standpoint? why this speech from john kerry? why now? why the language hes using? >> what this speech does, it was an extended repudiation regarding settlements. then kerry laid out his parameters for potentially negotiating a two-state settlement. that isnt unprecedented. at the end of his presidency in 2000, bill clinton did a similar thing. in the final weeks of december, emheres what my parameters would be. now that kerrys team has been a...

Obama administrations standpoint? why this speech from john kerry? why now? why the language hes using? >> what this speech does, it was an extended repudiation regarding settlements. then kerry laid out his parameters for potentially negotiating a two-state settlement. that isnt unprecedented. at the end of his presidency in 2000, bill clinton did a similar thing. in the final weeks of december, emheres what my parameters would be. now that kerrys team has been able to put on it record saying t...

Younger people have a question, theover reach of government. they see overpolicing of black community. sandra bland, michael brown, walter scott, and they see policing of their community, overpolicing of their community not recognizing the dignity of african-americans, and they see the death penalty as the cap stone of a criminal justice system that continually disrespects the dignity of the black community. to preserve that penalty and the trial of dylann roof may have that impact to preserve t...

Year. as one piece put it, vladimir putin just bought a country, should the u.s. care. in a four-hour press conference, he called it our brotherly love and called it a good will gesture. >> president putin pulled out all the stops to threaten ukraine away from europe. he stressed on tuesday that russias financial assistance to ukraine is free of conditions. if you believe that, i have beachfront property in arizona to sell you. >> he is warning the west not to forever. he said i am against anybo...

>> joining me now, msnbcs joy reid and director of the center for the study of race and democracy at tufts university, and the author of badark days, right nights. your reaction to this? >> i think it is a disgrace for democracy, because when we think about the voting rights act it will be a cap stone between 1954 and 65, i call the heroic time period, we think about the brown period, rosa parks, little rock, the movements of february 1st, 1960. medgar evers, the freedom riders, and 1965, you ge...