Good morning, everyone, its tuesday, may 22nd. I Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian. We begin with the campaign on the department of justice. Top doj and fbi officials have agreed to meet with congressional leaders to review classified information that lawmakers have been seeking related to the russia probe. This comes after President Trump demanded the Justice Department investigate reports that his campaign had been infiltrated or sur veiled by the fbi. White house correspondent Hallie Jackson has the story. Reporter the deputy attorjo walking into the west wing. I think it would be very troubling to millions of americans if that took place. Reporter democrats say not so fast. The president s claim that there was a political spy imbedded in his campaign is nonsense and the country needs to know this is nonsense. Rosenstein under orders to do something, finding a middle ground, expanding an existing internal review but not starting one all together. Now it will ask the Inspector General to look into irregularities and tactics concerning the Trump Campaign. Rosenstein publicly silent on that, but poking fun at whats become a very visible role. Deputy attorneys general are very low profile, tend not to be recognized. En a fbi informant did speak with several members of the Trump Campaign in 2016 according to a New York Times report but experts argue it would have been standard procedure to talk to people during what was at the time the fbi investigation into russian interference. Theres nothing wrong with this. In fact, its really the least intrusive means that the fbi could have used. Now the president furious and fixat fixated. Rod rosenstein is in the most difficult of anybody in the department of justice. Hes trying to thread the needle between a president whos pressuring him against protecting an institution, the department of justice and the fbi. Reporter and the white house is now saying chief of staff john kelly will put together a meeting between the fbi intelligence officials and some law makers to let them review certain highly classified material related to all this. This is something some republicans had been pushing for, but some if law enforcement, officials have been very hesitant to reveal anything that could compromise what they call an asset. Back to you. All right. Thanks to Hallie Jackson for that report. Last night Maggie Haberman reported a new detail about the president s quote, i here by demand an investigation tweet. Quote, trump who is being investigated for obstruction of justice by a department of justice appointed special counsel consulted with his personal lawyer on his order to the doj to investigate the investigation into himself. And when asked last november about why he had not ordered an investigation into Hillary Clinton, this is what the president had to say about his relationship with the Justice Department at the time. You know, the saddest thing because im the president of the United States i am not supposed to be involved with the Justice Department. Im not supposed to be involved with the fbi. Im not supposed to be doing the kinds of things id love to be doing and im very frus tratdtr. Expressing shocks over reports that a secret source met with three members of the Trump Campaign back in 2016. You know, we dont know what happened. We read the press reports, but its all very troubling. Its all very troubling to those of us that hold the fbi in such high regard that theyre even allegations that people were assigned to sur veil or spy on our campaign. But news that the fbi was concerned that russians were trying to infiltrate should not have come as a shock. In fact, since senior fbi officials warn trumps team of just that by late summer of 2016 which was reported by nbc news in december. Both trump and Hillary Clinton were urged to alert the fbi about any suspicious overtures to their campaigns, multiple government officials told nbc. Secretary of state mike pompeo making his presence known yesterday delivering a stiff warning to iran if a list of 12 u. S. Demands are not met regarding Irans Nuclear ambitions and destabilizing activity in the middle east. Take a listen. We will apply unprecedented financial pressure on the iranian regime. The leaders in teheran will have no doubt about our seriousness. Thanks to our colleagues at the department of treasury sanctions are going back into effect and new ones are coming. This is just the beginning. This sting of sanctions will be painful if the regime does not change its course. These will indeed end up being the strongest sanctions in history. After our sanctions come in force it will be battling to keep its economy alive. Okay. So iranian president has responded saying quote, the world today does not accept that the u. S. Decides for the world. Irans foreign minister was even more blunt calling u. S. Diplomacy a quote, sham. British foreign secretary said he cant envision the trumps administrations goals and demands being achieved in anything like a reasonable time scale and a top official at the eu says that pompeo did not explain how walking away from the deal makes the region safer or puts the International Community in a better position to influence irans behavior. Last night Vice President mike pence jumped into the conversation going even further and pushing for regime change, perhaps with u. S. Involvement. Look, the people of iran deserve better than a regime that sponsors terrorism across the region. The people of iran deserve better than a regime that continues to focus its resources on threatening the world. What would we do to help that or encourage that . It would all begin by withdrawing from the Iran Nuclear Deal and making it clear that were to longer to abide an agreement. So heres the point really quickly. Theyve taken off the constraints that were part of the gcpo away. Iran if it wanted to because the deal is effectively dead could start acquiring a nuclear bomb, but the years the sanctions are going to kick in, to force iran back to the negotiations, then to try to work out a new deal i think thats why a lot of people say the deal neutralized it. All right. Vice president pence also addressed recent reports that President Trump is reconsidering going through with his summit with kim jong un partly over concerns that if it fails it could be an embarrassment to the administration. I dont think President Trump is thinking about public relations. Hes thinking about peace. Hes thinking about how we achieve what has alluded successful administration. The clinton administration, even the Bush Administration got played in the past. It would be a great mistake for kim jong un to think he could play donald trump. President trump is also hosting south korean president moon jae in at the white house today. He could on china to continue to be quote, be strong and tight on the border of north korea until a deal is made adding quote, the word is that recently the border has become much more porous and more has been filtering in. I want this to happen in north korea to be very successful but only after signing. Despite north korea threatening to pull out of the historic talking the White House Communications agency has released a commemorative coin in honor of the meeting. One side of the coin depicts air force one flying over the white house. The other side shows both trump and kims profiles under the heading, peace talks. In a statement Principal Deputy press secretary said the white house did not have any input into the design or manufacture of that coin. Trump and kim are expected to meet on june the 12th in singapore. Though north korea said last week it had no interest in one sided negotiations to relinquish its nuclear weapons. Once a coin is actually issued you know at that point they have to have the meeting. All right. So theres a growing belief on both sides of the aisle that the President Trump and his administration is being outmaneuvered regarding the trade dispute. China is winning the negotiations, their concessions are things they plan to do anyway. They get no tariffs, can keep stealing intellectual properties and can keep blocking our companies while they invest in the u. S. Without limits. The New York Times reports that so far any time china resists an american trade demand the u. S. Backs down. Such as refusing to commit to a fixed dollar reduction in the massive trade deficit. In addition, the paper writes that while china has streamlined its ability to make Economic Policy decision it is u. S. Has shifted its demands and struggled to send out a consistent message partly due to various high profile public disagreements within its own trade team. In addition to the president s own conflicting messages and tweets. The times notes that the u. S. Is exporting 130 billion in goods to china each year. It would be extremely difficult for the country to significantly reduce the imbalance by imports alone unless it cuts its own exports back into the United States. Joining us from washington d. C. , world editor for axios. Good to have you with us. Lets start with the president s deal making skills. Hes obviously somebody who is or he praises himself as the i guess the name of the book was art of the deal. So hes obviously fallen short when it comes to reaching a trade deal with china. Is the u. S. Backing down in the face of some of these chinese standoffs . So right now weve got a trade war truce more or less on chinas terms and in terms of the art of the deal my colleague has written about what he calls trumps wild predictability. Basically he makes these big demands, in this case that china reduces the trade deficit significantly with the u. S. , stops steeling u. S. Intellectual property. He backs them by big threats. He said trade wars are easy to win and good for the United States. But then ultimately when it comes time to make a deal he tends to settle for pretty conventional outcomes. These are promises that china has made in the past, nothing really new to see here, but this isnt over. Well have further talks im sure and probably further threats. All right. E lets talk peace talks here. We are nearing the summit of north korea and the u. S. Despite what seems to be some road bumps, i guess shall we say, have the chances of the meeting improved since last week . We havent heard much from the north korean side since last week and the administration seems to be taking no news as good news. Theyre planning to go ahead with the sum met set for three weeks from today i believe. Theyve already got the coins, so in that sense theyre very much committed to going ahead with this. It seems likely to me that were going to have this summit, mainly because President Trump clearly wants it and from kim jong uns perspective backing away from the summit is going to put him right back where he was in a standoff with the u. S. So he problem by doesnt have huge incentives to cancel at the last minute but north korea is pretty unpredictable. Thanks for that. Stick around for us. Well talk to you in a little bit. Its primary day in four states across the country and we err breaking down the competitive races. Obama is adding a new line to their resumes. Well explain that coming up next. Ive been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. 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