Which should have stopped him from buying a gun. This as investigators learn more about a possible motive. And we hear from the neighbor who chased down the killer. Theyre friends of mine, theyre family. And every time i heard a shot, i knew that probably represented a life. I was scared to death. And virginia is for voters. Its election day. A tight race for a governor in virginia seen as the biggest price in todays offyear elections as Political Parties there brace for the outcome. In fact, this race is very, very close. Every vote will count today. I hope my supporters come down and vote because its going to make a huge difference. Hi, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Tracking President Trump, the diplomat. In south korea today expressing optimism about a negotiated solution to the north korea crisis instead of fire and fury, while here at home the spotlight is on the russia connection and attorney general Jeff Sessions as we learn that a trump volunteer, carter page, did mention plans to travel to moscow during the campaign with a Trump Campaign adviser. Ken delaney, reporter here at home. Chris jansing, first to you. A different tone by President Trump striking about the rhetoric. Reporter how different his tone when hes not being bellicose, and as you know, thats what they wanted to hear when he came here. He has been a strong and consistent voice for diplomacy, so the president has not incited kim jongun. He has not called him little rocket man. He has not talked about total destruction in north korea. He broke with protocol and he met the president s plane at Camp Humphreys when the president went to blue house, which is roughly the equivalent of the white house. There was a lot of pomp and ceremony. He talked about how the president is making progress toward making America Great again. The real test, however, and it is going to be a significant one, is going to come around 9 00 p. M. Eastern time, and that is when President Trump makes that major address before the south korean general assembly. Will we hear more of this moderate tone, or will he be someone who sees diplomacy as appeasement . Will he talk more about how much fire power the United States has here just alone in south korea, 28,500 troops. There is a lot of nervousness on the ground. There was a recent poll in south korea. Twothirds felt that donald trump was dangerous. Theres been quite a few protests. But so far this is the donald trump, certainly, that the president here and the south koreans in general had hoped that they would hear, andrea. What a fascinating trip youre on, our friend chris jansing. And ken delanian, this fallout from carter pages testimony. Well have Jeff Sessions prescheduled testimony next week, but hell be asked again, what about your previous testimony that no one discussed going to russia, you never had conversations about going to russia. Carter page has testified for five hours before the house intel committee. Reporter thats right, andrea. Whats clear now is while carter page portrayed this trip to moscow on july 16 as a personal trip unrelated to the campaign, he testified he cleared it with campaign officials. J. D. Gordon, a trump policy adviser, told us that he tried to block this page trip but that page went around to more senior officials, but he said he got approval from corwin lewandowski, who was the campaign manager, and sam clovis was also notified. As you mentioned, page testified that he was going with Jeff Sessions. While there he met with a deputy Prime Minister and he sent an email to gordon to talk about the insight he had gotten from russians. He was clearly advising donald trump and they were cultivating page as they were another policy adviser who now pleaded guilty and is cooperating with robert mueller, andrea. Ken, lets bring everyone up to date on michael flynn. Were waiting for other shoes to drop. Michael flynn, according to other news reporting, is really under the microscope from robert mueller, that mueller has enough to indict both flynn and his son and colleague michael g. Flynn, and this involves turkey and flynns unreported representation of turkey, correct . Reporter right, andrea. What were reporting is actually slightly different. Were saying mueller has enough evidence to bring charges in the flynn case. Were not trying to be cute there. Obviously both these men are in serious legal jeopardy. Charges are possible against both the father and the son. Its also possible theyre negotiating a Cooperation Agreement and thats why we havent seen charges yet. But youre right, whats also new here is that the fbi and mueller are looking into flynns lobbying on behalf of the government of turkey and what he did in the white house as National Security adviser to potentially facilitate the extradition of that turkish leader and the result of that attempted coup. Thats why were interested in that, andrea. Joining me now, ambassador Wendy Sherman for Political Affairs in john kerrys state department. She was also in the clinton state department. And victor cha for george bushs adviser. Welcome, both. Wendy, you worked for Hillary Clintons state department in a previous life from what were seeing now. The diplomacy was really shut down by the president s tweets against his secretary of state. Yes, i think weve all noticed the more moderate language in seoul. I think there are several audiences here. Of course, he wants a decent trip, he wants good press reports as hes getting. Hes also speaking to china which is the next stop on this trip and a fulcrum to this trip to say to the chinese, im going to be open to dialogue but i really want you to tighten the screws on north korea. I want to you join Prime Minister abe of japan and me, and now the president of south korea who actually campaigned on dialogue, not tough talk, but has been drawn into the tough talk to try to get everybody on board. And then hes also speaking to Vladimir Putin who he will meet in vietnam on the margins of apec to say, russia, youve got to get on board. If this is all part of a comprehensive strategy, this is a good thing to do. I was in moscow about two weeks ago at a nonproliferation conference. Madam chay, who often represents North Koreans out of the country often has tough talk, but it sounded like she was setting up a negotiation. Would that be possible, mr. Cha, after the president has called kim jongun rocket man leading to kim jongun going on camera, the first time, his grandfather and father didnt do that to respond to that speech from President Trump. The first thing i would say is the North Koreans are used to bellicosity, so when they hear forceful language, i think thats something they understand. Diplomacy is always an option. Its been set forth by this administration as something theyre willing to do if the North Koreans are willing to talk about denuclearization. The key piece, as wendy said, is the sanctions piece, and hes got japan and korea on board for sanctions, but the harder one is china. That is why the china part of this trip becomes very important. Hes leading with this issue of going into beijing. Its clearly the number one issue for President Trump, going to beijing. Does president xi, now that hes come through his partys congress which is their domestic politics, does he have so much power now that he can afford to take some risks domestically and be more assertive against north korea . He has enormous power. He is very much a strong man in his own country, and china is a country that believes in success and failure, strength and weakness. They really dont much care about good and evil or what is right and wrong. Theyre about seeing whether, in fact, they can get to success. They are really going to challenge, i think, the president for power. They want an equal seat at the table. The days of q2 that we used to talk about may be behind them, but china sees itself as a power equal to the United States. The president is going to have his work cut out for him. And victor, wendy and i were in pyongyang in october of 2000 when we thought there was going to be an opening of diplomatic relations. George w. Bush reversed that policy to south koreas surprise and certainly to the surprise of his own secretary of state at the time, colin powell. What is the possibility you a and i were there in 2006, i believe. Yeah. What is the possibility of china looking for a way out of this escalating crisis . I think its difficult, because if you listen to everything the North Koreans say, it sounds like theyre not willing to give up their Nuclear Weapons for anything. At the same time, though, gas prices have gone up in north korea year on year by 90 . Rice prices are up by 60 . This is all a function of the sanctions that have been put on the north korea regime. Not just by the United States and south korea, but china and all the u. N. Member states now are participating in, what, seven u. N. Security Council Resolutions on north korea. Every time weve negotiated with the North Koreans, theyve said, were not willing to give up x, y and z, but they do come to the table. So well have to see if this pressure will have the effect that it can in terms of setting up a negotiation. Pivoting to another part of the world, and its a world you know so well, wendy, iran. The saudis have now said what happened with a missile that was headed towards rihad was actually an act of war from iran. They claim the parts came from iran. We havent confirmed that with u. S. Intelligence that we know of. This is all a mystery coming out of the saudis. The Saudi Crown Prince has taken control. Hes arrested his cousins, the other princes. Theyre arrested in the ritzcarlton in rihad and this includes the prince who is a huge investor in apple and lyft and citigroup, known as the Warren Buffett of the saudis. It could not get more complicated. Plus the Prime Minister of lebanon resigned on saudi soil. Is he a prisoner of the saudis . This is all against iran, correct . Right, its all about iran. Every piece of it, including the war in yemen. The crown prince, who really is in control, is, yes, taking steps towards corruption in saudi arabia which has a very long and wide and broad history. He is also asserting his power in the region and setting up a monoamono against iran. He has to be careful here. There has been a consensus building in saudi arabia to take power in this way, to shut everybody down. You have to be careful not to go over your skis, and where yemen is concerned, there is a hue man taer crisis in yemen. So although theyve closed down all sea, Land Transport to yemen, i hope he finds where the world is trying to go here, and whether hes trying to draw the United States into a war with iran. We saw nikki haley, the u. N. Ambassador, say this is an iranian missile, although i dont know that we have proof of that. He definitely has support on twitter from the president of the United States and Jared Kushner who was just in rihad a week and a half ago. A lot to chew on. Thank you very much. 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I told bernie at the convention that i would get to the bottom of it, and i found no instances that the party rigged the process, and i wanted to make sure bernie and his supporters understood. Well, former chair of the Democratic Party, donna brazil, today saying the primaries were not rigged going back to the claims that clinton took over the role of the dnc before clinton clinched the nomination. Joining me now, jeff weaver, Senior Adviser to Bernie Sanders, and i should say, virginia resident. Have you voted, sir . I just did on my way over. Hopefully Ralph Northam will go over in the democratic ticket. You are a democrat . I am a democrat. I know Bernie Sanders has said hes not a democrat, hes an independent or a nationalist or he is a democrat. Donna brazil says it was no longer stacked against Bernie Sanders, as i understand it, but there was a disagreement. And in fact in her book she said clinton took de facto control before the nomination. You covered this race quite closely in 2016 i certainly knew the debate schedule was stacked against Bernie Sanders. No doubt about that. The Fund Agreement worked in a way against us. Youll remember the whole data debate which was so controversial. But look, what we have to figure out now is how to make sure this never happens again, how we put reform in the process so its fair, super fair. Opening up primaries and making reforms for the party to make it stronger. The new chair has told chuck todd on meet the press that he is going to change things and make things known to the press beforehand. There was this committee that i serve that has clinton appointees, dnc appointees. There are going to be votes on this commission and its going to the full dnc, and i hope tom perez and other leaders in the Democratic Party will support that. In terms of the debates, the truth of the matter is, as you know, more debates benefit some candidates, less debates benefits others. Maybe the dnc shouldnt be in the debate business at all. Maybe the media and the candidate should just work out a debate schedule. Something else donna brazil said that was so controversial, toward the end of the election when Hillary Clinton was having medical issues, she was considering joe biden. First of all, she couldnt remove a candidate, other people have to weigh in. But why joe biden . He got 43 of the delegates, 43 of the popular votes in that election. It was obviously a hardfought campaign. Obviously secretary clinton was fine with some dramatic video do you think she should have been removed . Absolutely not. Hillary clinton was fine. Weve seen other people with rigorous schedules, a u. S. President vomiting on a japanese official. These things happen. What she has written in the book has certainly reopened deep divisions in the party. How does the party come together . Donald trump, for all of his presumed failures, for his poll problems, he still has solid support from former democrats who were trump voters, according to a lot of analysis from the road. So theres a couple things here. First of all, i think we have to make these Structural Reforms not only to the nominating process but how the party operates, and i think the democrats have to work on putting out a broader agenda. You have to hold out an alternative thats going to lift up peoples families with a bold progressive, economic message. I dont think theyve been effective up to this point in ar particular lag articulating that. What weve seen is a discord and they havent been able to push forward their agenda, and that has not been positive for the country. Thank you. We will speak to donna brazil about all of this. You wont want to miss it. President trump toning down his rhetoric against north korea, urging the rogue regime to come to the table and make a deal. Joining us now is kay hutchinson. Shes a former leader in texas, of course. Thank you, ambassador, for joining us from nato headquarters in brussels. First, to ask you about north korea thank you. This is a different tone than we saw in the president s United Nations speech. From your perspective, is there a chance at dialogue which is what secretary mattis and secretary tillerson have called for, some other kind of approach before we consider Diplomatic Options . Absolutely there is. I think everyone is united on that point, that we want dialogue, we want all the help we can get from countries that have a relationship with north korea. I think that the whole administration led by the president is heading in the direction of using every avenue we possibly can to avoid a confrontation. How damaging is it when the president of the United States tweets about the secretary of state when hes just coming back from the region. I told rex tillerson, our wonderful secretary of state, hes wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man. Save your energy, rex. Well do what has to be done. Well, andrea, i think that secretary tillerson is in there, hes with the president right now. I think that t