Speech at the navy Academy Earlier today. For we are witnessing the great reawakening of the american spirit and of american might. We have rediscovered our identity, regained our stride, and were proud again. Our country has regained the respect that we used to have long ago abroad. Yes, theyre respecting us again. Yes, america is back. Earlier this morning, President Trump said the north korean summit might be back on. He told reporters the u. S. Was still talking to north korea and that when it comes to negotiations, quote, everybody plays games. Mr. President , is the summit still off . Were going to see what happens. Were talking to them now. It was a very nice statement they put out. Well see what happens. No, no. Well see what happens. It could even be the 12th. Were talking to them now. They very much want to do it. Wed like to do it. Were going to see what happens. Everybody plays games. You know that. Nbc news reported that trump canceled the summit fearing that the North Koreans might beat him to the punch and he wanted to be the one to cancel first. That is according to multiple officials. Nbc news also reported that there were significant disagreements among the president s top advisers, especially secretary of state mike pompeo and National Security adviser john bolton. One official says the process was, quote, like herding cats. Despite the continued public optimism, the New York Times reporting that the white house officials remain skeptical because as one senior official said, june 12th is in ten minutes. On the campaign trail, trump described himself as a deal maker and frequently touted his negotiating skills. I will bring america to a new level. I will negotiate deals that nobody can negotiate like i do. I know everybody that im running against. Nobody is going to be able to do the kind of things i can do. Its supposed to be you get along with congress and you cajole, and you go back and forth, and everybody gets in a room and we end up with deals. Youre supposed to gather people around and make great deals. I want to make great deals from my side of the equation. Otherwise youre going to have a stagnant country like you do right now. You have no negotiation. You have washington is in total gridlock. As the new yorkers Susan Glasser points out. Deal making has proven challenging for the president. Quote, there are no deals with trump, and there are increasingly unlikely to be, not on nafta, middle east peace. Trump is a much better deal breaker than deal maker. Im joined by nicholas kristof, New York Times columnist, jonathan lemire, and sui mi terry. Thanks to all of you for joining us. Jonathan lemire, let me start with you just on what is going on inside the white house to precipitate the cancellation and how active are the talks now in terms of getting this back on the schedule potentially . This is something that the president has really wanted despite some people around him, some of his closest advisers really urging caution to go ahead with this deal, even some suggesting by just agreeing to the summit in the first place, youve already given kim jongun an air of legitimacy he did not have. They made efforts in recent days to try to set up logistics to make this thing in singapore in the middle of june, and north korea suddenly disengaged on a lot of talks, setting off alarm bells in the white house and the state department. Therefore, would they actually be willing to give away what the president wants them to do . But you heard today a little bit of more optimism from the president and from those around the white house, that this is something he still wants. He sees this as not just something important for global safety, of course, but also as a real win for him. The idea that not just the nobel peace prize, but the idea of accomplishing something that no american president has been able to do, to bring peace to the korea ns peninsula, something that he thinks not only would bolster his poll numbers but would perhaps inoculate him from some of these federal investigations surrounding him and perhaps even have a trickledown effect to republicans in the midterms. The idea can you really vote against this president and his party if hes suddenly brought peace to korea, something no one else has been able to do. We are talk about this later at the board, but to look at trumps poll numbers. Nick kristof, in terms of the possibility this is still something the president very much wants to make happen, that line he had there today saying, everybody plays games, do you see any strategy behind the abrupt cancellation that would give trump, that would give the administration more leverage in terms of picking things up now . No. Sha essentially what it did was antagonize south korea and our asian allies in the same way that withdrawal from the iran deal antagonized europe. It seems to have been based as well, at least according to nbc, on a complete misunderstanding of north koreas position, an assumption that north korea was about to back out of the deal, which is preposterous just as earlier trump seemed to enter the idea of the singapore talks on a completion delusion that north korea was about to completely hand over all its Nuclear Weapons, which likewise was preposterous. So, you know, ive been covering north korea. Ive been visiting north korea since the 1980s. This is a moment of tremendous opportunity and risk, and it is so maddening to see this being mismanaged with this combination of ineptitude and innorrance and kind of obliviousness. Sui mi terry, as you watch everything thats playing out in the United States and north korea, do you think there still will be a summit . Could it still be on that june date . Will there be no summit at all . Whats your expectation at this point . I actually expect a summit to take place. Maybe time line could slip a little bit because of logistical issues but nick was absolutely correct. I think the Trump Administration really misunderstood north korea here. North korea had no intention of canceling the summit. The two previous statements that they produced, there was protest all this talk about libya and all this. They didnt mean to cancel the meeting. So when you look at the last statement they produced seven hours after trump canceled the meeting, it was very conciliatory. I have never seen a north korean statement actually personally praising trump, saying hes a Bold Decision maker and so on. So i think north korea is very much into having this meeting with trump, and summit will take place because President Trump also wants it. Nbc news reported there was significant disagreement within the administration over what to do about north korea. One person close to trump said the president was unhappy with Vice President pences public remarks appearing to threaten regime change in north korea. Meanwhile, according to several administration officials, secretary of state mike pompeo, who was taking the lead in negotiating with the North Koreans, blamed john bolton for torpedoing the progress that had already been made. Bolton, the president s National Security adviser, has a long history of calling for regime change in north korea. I think this is potentially a meeting that begins and ends with the president saying, tell me what youre going to do to denuclearize, and kim jongun saying, well, well have talks about this and talks about that. So it could be a long and unproductive meeting or a short and unproductive meeting. North korea has a playbook of phrases they use depending on what their propaganda strategy is. I think that their history over decades is that they, like iran, like others, use negotiations to buy time to conceal their Nuclear Weapons and Ballistic Missile activities. Are there any Diplomatic Options left in your view . I think the only diplomatic option left is to end the regime in north korea. Well, john, you see this is a priority of the president , something he cares about. Do you have a sense who has his ear . Were showing bolton there, pompeo. Is there a sense within the administration whose view of this hes most sensitive to . That changes minute by minute as with most things with President Trump, particularly with advisers who are in and out of favor. It is a truism in the Trump Administration he tends to listen to the newer voices in the room. Both pompeo and bolton are relative new additions to the administration. Tom p pompeo has made two trips to north korea. Hes urging the president to move forward, perhaps cautiously, but believes it should happen. Bolton has suggested he will go along with what the president has said but has advised against it. He does not think kim jongun is to be trusted. He thinks regime change would be the best course of action here. Within the white house, in the last few hours theyve said there is a team of staffers that are supposed to go to singapore in the next day sor or so to won logistics of the summit. That doesnt mean the summit will happen or will happen on june 12th, but its an indication they have not quite given up on the possibility of these talks. Its interesting too, nick, when you talk about bolton saying regime change, bolton talking about making another libya out of north korea, libya where gadhafi gave up the Nuclear Weapons and then a decade later hes taken from power and hes killed. It does raise the Bigger Picture question about any potential negotiations here, how there ever could be a middle ground if the goal from the u. S. Standpoint is denuclearization and trump has said basically nothing short of that, and then youve got a north korean regime that would say, well, look what happened to gadhafi. So there are people in the administration and i mean a lot of korea watchers who i think can envision a process, and it involves reaching some kind of a general statement and then north korea blows up some icbms. It freezes production of nuclear materials. It stops nuclear tests, missile tests. And then over time, sanctions, especially from china and south korea, are eased. And the main thing is were not shooting missiles at each other. Its not north korea denuclearizing, but its at least better than where we are now. But the problem is that john bolton is dead set against that, and, you know, look, at the end of the day, bolton has a perfect record of getting things rowron over the last 20 years on iraq, on iran, on north korea. In the case of north korea, in 2002 he helped kill the agreed framework which had halt the north korean production of nuclear materials, and he seems to have my reading of this is that he killed this pompeo outreach, possibly by misleading the president about what north korea was going to do. Likewise in 20032004, he killed an earlier european deal with iran, and now earlier this month, he helped kill the latest iran deal. So i think that john bolton is has this hes hit the trifecta of getting every major thing wrong, and now hes indeed doing it again. Sue mi from the north korean perspective, do you have a sense what the north korean regime, what their read is on trump . Do they think they figure td hi o o out, what his game is here . Its hard for any of us to figure that out so im not sure if North Koreans have figured it out. But certainly the last stiemt th statement that was released by north korea personally praising trump, that they also learned a few lessons of how to deal with trump. But i think trump canceling the summit to begin with, i think that did kind of surprise the North Koreans because theyre not used to u. S. President acting this way. They did get away with all these kind of antics before. So i think that did kind of surprise the North Koreans. So i think theyre still trying to figure out how trump works like the rest of us. We also we have some breaking news here. Its not actually on this topic. Its on the topic of trump and the russia investigation. But one of our guests has broken this news. Jonathan lemire on set with us here. Hes breaking the news that Trump Defense lawyer Rudy Giuliani telling him tonight that trumps, quote, legal team wants a briefing on the classified information shared with lawmakers and may take it to the Justice Department as part of an effort to scuttle the ongoing special counsel probe. Giuliani telling the a. P. , if the spying was inappropriate, that means we may have an entirely illegitimate investigation. Again, Rudy Giuliani telling this to jon lemire, who is with us now. What more can you tell us . I spoke to the former mayor a couple hours ago, and he said this. That the white house, these two meetings, sort of unprecedented meetings yesterday in which, in the president s parlance, a spy who had contacts with the Trump Campaign to determine their relationship with any russian officials, that they want a similar briefing or some sort of readout that the lawmakers got yesterday. And that has certainly raised concerns that that would give him information that perhaps would impact the president , who is a, if not target, certainly subject of this probe. But what giuliani told me is they want to take this information and if any dethey d damaging, they would take this to the Justice Department and make it part of this case, why this probe shouldnt be here, that it was founded on illegitimate means, that it was founded on information from this spy in their terminology that they think shouldnt have had this access, and jim comeys memos. They would make that case probably to Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein to say, look, maybe this probe should be halted in its tracks. This is news breaking now at the Associated Press. Thank you for joining us. Coming up, a milestone moment in the me too movement as hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein is arrested, handcuffed and charged with rape in a new york courtroom. The charges come after scores of women accused weinstein of sexual misconduct, accusations that triggered a Global Campaign to uproot powerful and predatory men. Plus more and more states are teaming up to ditch the Electoral College and go with the popular vote when it comes to picking a president. Chris matthews joins us for a look at that. And is there anything to the talk that the blue wave that some democrats have been talking about for this fall . Maybe its receding. Im going to be at the big board breaking down what we know and maybe what we dont know right now. Finally some new developments in the russia investigation which continues despite President Trumps attempt to distract from it. This is hardball, where the action is. Im your phone, stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hidenseek. Cold. Warmer. Warmer. Ah boiling. Jackpot. And if youve got cutrate car insurance, you could be picking up these charges yourself. 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