Dated january 29th, 2018. The president has added a new member to his legal team who giuliani did not write this letter, but the legal argument in it are strong. Giuliana also says that it comes to a sitdown between the president of special Counsel Robert Mueller he hasnt ruled it out, but its not particularly keen on it. Theres gotbe a high bar they have to reach in convincing that we look at two things we need. If they can convince us to be brief, to the point in five or six points they have to clarify and without the 10 at this nightmare the American Public over. The mac they argue that an inperson interview between mueller and President Trump is not necessary because the special counsel has all the answers in the form of document in interviews to any questions they plan on asking President Trump. They argue the president s actions could not be obstruction because he has a constitutional and Legal Authority to and the russia probe. Giuliani says constitutionally the president could
President trump and north Korean Leader kim jongun apparently back on track. The highest ranking northern official to visit america in 18 years was at the white house delivering a message. Christian fisher has all the details live here in washington. Shannon, to have a top north korean official in the oval office, thats a hugely historic day all by itself. On top of that, President Trump emerged from that meeting telling reporters, pack your bags, the summits on, today had all the makings of a true turning point in u. S. North korean relations. Now comes the hard part, convincing kim jongun to give up his Nuclear Weapons. June 12th well be in singapore. President trump made it official after meeting with Kim Yong Chol for over an hour. The former head of pyongyangs spy agency hand delivered a letter from his boss, kim jongun. I havent opened it. I didnt open it in front of the director. I said, would you want me to open it . He said, you can read it later. I may be in for a big surpris
Been propaganda. First, lets go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. Theres some reason at the same time to be skeptical . Reporter absolutely. It was on and off, and President Trump was all smiles when he announced the summit was back on with kim jongun. The question is is the president giving away too much . Giving the North Koreans what they want without delivering much of anything in return. Top Republican Senate majority leader, Mitch Mcconnell is worried the president could be sno snookerred in singapore. After meeting more an an hour, President Trump declared the singapore summit he cancelled last week is back on. Getting to know you meeting plus. June 12th well be in singapore. Itll be a beginning, i dont say it ever happens in one meeting. Reporter the president is making it clear hes not expecting to sign on to an agreement in singapore that guarantees north korea will give up its nuclear arsenal. I dont want to use the term maximum pressure anymore because wer
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 861 of the Trump Administration, and on this day after Robert Mueller broke his silence, not surprisingly the president attacked Robert Mueller and all those who have worked for him. The president started his day with this rather surprising quote. Russia, russia, russia, thats all you heard at the beginning of this witch hunt hoax. And now russia has disappeared because i had nothing to do with russia helping me to get elected. Interesting wording there. Lets give him that. Quickly walked back by the president on the south lawn in a predeparture flurry of misinformation. Do you believe that russia helped you get elect kwder. No, russia did not help me get elected. You know who got me elected . You know who got me elected . I got me elected. Russia didnt help me at all. Russia, if anything, i think helped the other side. They used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by
Plus, did kim jongun execute one of his top negotiators over the failed summits with primp and sentence another one to hard labor in the u. S. Is looking into it. And in the wake of two deadly 737 boeing max 8 jet crashes the president s threat to slap new tariffs on goods imported from mexico is also rattling wall street as we can see right now looking at the dow. Its down nearly 300 points at this moment in time, and the president says that hell impose new tariffs if mexico doesnt stem the flow of migrants into the u. S. The tariffs would begin at 5 starting in june and then they would go up each month to 25 by october. Our chief Business Correspondent Christine Romans has been following this, and she explains how new tariffs could affect the economy and your wallet. Reporter brianna, this is a new phase. Were entering a new phase in the president s trade war use tariffs as leverage not to push a trading partner on trade issues, right, but on an entirely different issue, and the outc