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Controversy. especially the doping scandal surrounding the 15-year-old russian figure skater kamila valiyeva who tested positive for a banned substance. "usa today" sports columnist and sports analyst christine brennan noted ottawa high school green bear noted by myself, joins me. look, when the story broke i started chuckling because i knew you were probably behind breaking of it and would have another busy couple of weeks at the olympics, but medals for the team skating event still in question...

Welcome back to "morning joe." mike barnicle joins the table. russian figure skater kamila valiyeva placed fourth in the womens individual skating event in beijing. the 15 year old, who was heavily favored to win gold and was in first place before the free skate, made a series of uncharacteristic falls and stumbles during her program, knocking her out of a medal. she was later seen sobbing as the scores were read and seemed to be admonished by one of her coaches as she left the ice. had she made...

South korea today. the vice president saying he was encouraged by talks with president moon. this despite discussions between the south korean leader and the north korean delegation and an invitation for a future meeting with dictator kim jong un. we have the latest from south korea. >> reporter: there was a diplomatic break dis breakthroun saturday. the sister of kim jong un met with south koreas president, moon inviting him to pyongyang for a summit with her brother. moon said they should work...

Pickthe olympics insouth south korea today. the vice president saying he was encouraged by talks with president moon. this despite discussions between the south korean leader and the north korean delegation and an invitation for a future meeting with dictator kim jong un. we have the latest from south korea. >> reporter: there was a diplomatic break dis breakthroun saturday. the sister of kim jong un met with south koreas president, moon inviting him to pyongyang for a summit with her brother. m...

If it happens it would be the highest level meeting between the two countries in years. moon said they should make conditions to allow it to happen. vice president pence who was in south korea for the games said saturday said there was no daylight between the u.s. and south korea. pence and president moon watched a skating event on saturday before the vice president returned to the states. moon also watched a joint korean hockey match with north korean officials. we were at the olympic site on s...

Skating event at the site and moon played both sides of the political divide with the north koreans, watching the joint womens korean hockey team. got to play both sides at dmz. eboni: i understand that you got to go to the games yourself today. how was that? >> absolutely. cameraman mel james and i went over to pyeongchang and took in the action. there was, obviously, a lot of focus on sports, but also, a little bit on politics. take a look at what we saw and what we heard. >> the flags flying ...

Theres a fear it wont be cold enough to have snow but the venues are out of town. the skating event is 17 miles out of town and the skiing and bobsled avents are 29 miles and you have to travel on a two-lane road through the mountains to get there so that travel, the transport to get to the venues makes everybody vulnerable on the road. and going through the rail and airport hubs to get to sochi is also going to create vulnerability. i think thats the message the terrorists are sending here is t...