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Have the intent to sit with the u.s. side, to solve problems regardless of ways at any time. again that coming from the vice minister of foreign affairs to north korea there. and ned price, msnbc national security analyst and ambassador christopher hill, former u.s. ambassador to south korea currently a professor of practice and diplomacy at the university of denver, also an msnbc diplomacy contributor. ned, nbc news reporting here that president trump feared that the north koreans might just be...

>> neil: you hear that ex-president-elec expression damned if you do, damned if you dont. you remember not long ago, getting overtures from the north koreans would have seemed unimaginable. now were told that the clueless handling of the president is to blame. i can go on. i dont know if its fair and balanced but does bring into question whether the medias that this right. if they were so wrong seeing it ahead of time, are they right now bashing it after and assuming its the end of time? lets as...

Know that individuals evangeliclevel of clearance, and they hold each other to that. but this is not just any ordinary briefing, not just any ordinary administration. you get the impression there is high level white house input into this. you remember this briefing was not going to happen, doj, fbi and the director of national intelligence they were dragging their feet until john kelly called all of them together and lo and behold within hours this meeting was announced. you get the impression t...

But i think the second, and possibly bigger piece that we just dont know the answer to yet, is was there some kind of bribe going on? in other words they paid cohen to get a meeting with trump. what came out, what we know from the report assuming its true, is ukraine changed its policy, they stopped investigating manafort. that also benefitted trump because it hurts the mueller investigation because then they werent cooperating with mueller digging for more information about manafort to cooperat...

Rhodes, is tweeting about this with a different perspective. he says president trump has never explained what hes trying to to achieve in north korea and how hes going to achieve. hes only raised expectations on himself which gives research away to everyone else. thats from ben rhodes. >> thats right. and i think the problem is in all of this, that donald trump gave the leverage away at the start. he accepted the south korean invitation on the spot to meet with kim jong-un. didnt even convene hi...

You get the impression there is high level white house input into this. you remember this briefing was not going to happen, doj, fbi and the director of national intelligence they were dragging their feet until john kelly called all of them together and lo and behold within hours this meeting was announced. you get the impression this was coming from on high. and when you have principled and dedicated intelligence officials and law enforcement officials behind this, if its coming from the presid...

Mueller do an interview after june 12th when he had gotten north korea off the plate. he was so busy, he didnt have time. well, if theres no summit, he could talk to mueller tomorrow. >> do you think he will? >> i know that is the million dollar question. >> that seems highly unlikely. ned, i want to play something from mike pompeo. >> i think part of the reason were in the mess is donald trump was leading the nobel chance at his rally. and he gave the impression that this was a done deal. that ...

Ukraine, it would be hard to get them without the government. getting leads from a foreign country, even a cooperative one can be cumbersome so thats very important. >> ned, how weird does this strike you? if you want to be real politic about it, people would say there are countries that do amoral, unethical favors for other countries. >> im less concerned with the money changing hands here. well all become used to the pay for play schemes from this administration. im more concerned about the uk...

President trump. we are continuing to get more reaction from the hill. well bring that to you the second we get it. ned price, where does this go from here? >>st its hard to say. the letter leaves a lot of wiggle room for something to resurface. >> do you think i could be going on june 10th and keeping my plane ticket? >> i think there was a foreshadow when he was about the summit. he said explicitly, theres a substantial chance. he gave the impression in his mind then that the summit would take...

Before. what is important to point out, james clapper said, look, even if they were spying its to determine what was at the root of russias meddling. president trump has tried to cast this informant embedded in the campaign. theres no information to that case. president trump is going to attend a roundtable in new york. were hoping to ask him about this when he gatdeparts the whi house. >> ned, i want to point out something you tweeted out, no dems are invited to the meeting trump demanded on th...