Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. It is tuesday, may 29th. 529. College savings plan day. The president heads to nashville for a Campaign Rally and he is expected to focus on the economy. And jobs. Plenty to fact check there. I bet you get a nobel chant from the crowd. Make lock her up. It is two weeks until the on again off again and now maybe on again summit with donald trump and kim jongun. Sur urgency is escalating to make that meeting happen on the original target date of june 12th. A meeting President Trump canceled five days ago. The report that the u. S. Has decided to hold off on pushing for major new sanctions against north korea. The white house was set to announce the sanctions as soon as today, but decided to press pause while talks with pyongyang proce proceed. Lets check in with matt rivers who is live in seoul. Where are we at 5 01 eastern time . Reporter we are in the same couple days where we see reporter we are in the same place we were the last couple days. Every
Involved in the russia investigation. Plus, does holder have plans for 2020 . Thats straight ahead on msnbc live. We begin with a new warning from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell to President Trump as he gets ready to come facetoface with kim jongun months from now. I think for these situations to work, you have to not want the deal too much. If you fall in love with the deal, and its too important for you to get it and the details become less significant, you could get snookered. Meanwhile, new details in what appears to be a hurdle in theistical planning for summertime. The post says the president ial suede where the north Korean Leader wants to stay costs more than 6,000 per night. This comes following a historic meeting with the president and a white house aide. Appearing together after a nearly 90minute oval office meeting, President Trump and Kim Yong Chol announcing the summit is now a go. June 12th, well be in singapore. But mr. Trump dialing down expectations. And sayin
With kim jong un. Now, upon learning that kim jong un has agreed to do an interview with these two goofy americans from the tv show, the u. S. Government decides to take that opportunity to train those two americans to kill him, to kill kim jong un while they are sitting next to him to be able to do that interview. You are ten teentering into most dangerous country on earth. Kim jong uns people will believe anything he tells them, including that he can speak to dolphins or he doesnt urinate and defecate. Whoa, whoa. Youre telling me my man doesnt pee or poo . Everybody pees and poos. Otherwise wed explode. But he does talk to dolphins . Thats the movie. At least thats part of the trailer from the movie. Its called the interview. Produced in 2014 by Sony Pictures. And north korea got very angry about that movie, as you probably remember, and as you might imagine they would, right . They complained to other countries. They complained to the u. S. Government. They complained to the united
Chairman on june 12th i think its probably going to be a very successful ultimately a successful process. Well see. Remember what i say. We will see what we will see. And thats not the only headline in flux. 24 hours after launching the country into a trade war with its closest trading partners the president broke decades of protocol tweet being a confidential jobs report hours before it was released. Looking forward to seeing unemployment numbers at 8 30 this morning. The u. S. Added 223,000 jobs in may. The unemployment rate, 3. 8 , beating expectations. Whats the problem then . Well, the government keeps this monthly report closed off from the public until its official release because the reports can have major effects on the markets. Well, the markets have been up all day long. Right now take a look. You see where the dow is up 220 points. Lets start at the white house now, with nbc newscally odonnell. Kim yong chol was at the white house. Meeting goes over an hour. We were waiting
Here today, he is announcing hes giving him a full pardon. Now, dsouza is a very controversial figure. Typically president s in the past have waited until the end of their term to issue pardons like these. Either after lobbying from that persons friends or because they have a personal relationship with them, but the president here tweeting this out now. But i should note that dsouza is a controversial figure, hes made some inflammatory remarks about president barack obama, adolf hitler, several other people as well. Certainly someone very interesting for the president to pardon, but it does seem to fall in line with other people that the president has pardoned. Of course, theyre also controversial in their own ways. You think of to come to mind former Vice President dick cheneys chief of staff Scooter Libby who was recently pardoned. Joe arpaio as well, the president s first pardons in the fall. Several figures like that, and, of course, this here is going to raise questions of whether