Up for the pomp and circumstance of a summit with the north Korean Leader . Plus, voe of peop. Voters in five states are at the poles right now. Well meet a brandnew candidate whos dubbed the little female donald trump in nevada. And talk about whether voters will push out an incumbent republican who has pushed back against the president down there in South Carolina. Also, best defense. President trumps legal Team Reportedly trying a new strategy in the russia investigation. How theyre coordinator with other people caught up in Robert Muellers web and why it is perfectly legal. Now what. Thats the question the world is asking in the aftermath of the meeting overnight in singapore. The president and north Koreas Kim Jongun met for the first time as they sat down to discuss denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and bringing peace to theregion. The meeting and an agreement, the First Step Towards that goal. But what is step number two. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell and bill legal neely are in singapore. Is the white house happy with the way things turned out . Are they happy with what donald trump and america walked away with in that meeting . So far, there seems to be a gloe after the summit. Er there in a window where they are really focused on the historic nature of it and believing that the meeting itself was an accomplishment and that there is a road map going forward. The president says that kim jocken has a total plan, those were his words, to denuclearize. At this point, i think it will take time for the white house to sort of digest the reaction and then of course the following steps that will be required as the president is now in guam, touched down there for the opportunity to refuel air force one. And he might be reminded of some of the threatatmosphere, because the governor of guam is possibly stopping by, were told, for a brief hello with the president. You remember, he had been threatened and the island had been threatened by kim jongun with his Nuclear Capability and s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile reach. So thatnt so long ago. But here is how the president described his sense of the direction this meeting is taking in rather lofty terms for donald trump. Todays the beginning of an arduous process. Our eyes are wide open. But peace is always worth the effort. Especially in this case. This should have been done years ago. This should have been resolved a long time ago. But were resolving it now. Chairman kim has the chance to seize an incredible future for his people. Anyone can make war. But only the most courageous can make peace. And the president also indicated that he expected that kim would follow through. He said that he found him to be very committed to this. He also said he was on time. There was no hurry up to get out ofsingapore. The president , though, did up his schedule. He said once meetings were done and he was confident in the way it had gone, he wanted to save time, as he described it to reporters and thats why air force one has already made part of the journey back to washington, katie. Interesting. Bill neely, the stopping of war games on the Korean Peninsula, that seemed like a pretty big concession on the american part. How is it plang on the ground there . Well, it was all going so very well for president moon. Here was the summit that he had dreamed of. Here was the historic handshake he hoped for. As you say, then the bombshell. The president , it seems like, had not informed anyone in seoul about what he w going to say because straight after he said it, both south koreas military and president moons office said we need to find out what this means. So it seems like it was a bit of a bombshell. And the second thing that will have cau g anxiety is what he said next about u. S. Troops based in south korea. Lets take a listen. I want to bring our soldiers back hole. We have right now 32,000 soldiers in south korea, and id like to payabbe able toring the back home. But thats not part of the equation right now. We will be stopping the war games, which will save us a tell men does amount of money. So talking about bringing u. S. Troops home will also cause alarm in japan. It will possibly cause delight in as for north korea, well, its got to be party time in pyongyang. Because theyve got the prize they dreamed of for so many decades. Theyve got the respect and the recognition of the United States as a nation and an equal partner. Kims sort of international isolation, you know, hes been praised not as a pariah now but too, from President Trump, ise katie. Bill neely, wow. Kelly odonnell, one last thing, in talking about the g7, which the president left a few days ago, now almost seems like it was a year ago, his chief economic adviser Peter Navarro said something inflammatory on the air, saying theres a special place in help for justin trudeau, for i guess defying the president or misleading the president according to navarro. Kelly, navarro is, lets put it kindly, hes backing off those comments, not fully apologizing. But listen to what he told the wall street journal. In conveying that message, i used language that was inappropriate and special place in hell for the basically lost the power of that message. I own that. That was my mistake. Those were my words. Not exactly an apology, kelly. But did somebody in the white house say listen, thats not okay . I dont know where the direction came from but this is unusual in the trump orbit for anyone at thatevel to acknowledge an error, a mistake, to recognize that damage was done. G7 feels like a long time ago, but the ashes seem to have spilled everywhere, especially the juxtaposition that should exist between the United States and canada, trump and trudeau, up against the imagery from here, where we saw President Trump and kim jongun. The kinds of words Peter Navarro used would have been more suited for the tensions that until just months ago were so hot between the United States and north korea. That, if it was a blind quote and we said, who is he talking about, it would have been far more likely kim jongun, not justin trudeau. So this is a way for especially as a trade negotiator be dealing with canada in the midst of nafta negotins, the tariff talks and all of that, he really needed to clean that up and at least he went further than some might have expected, if not a fullon apology. Its almost as somebody was saying we were actually just watching south park and it was the movie and it was blame canada and thats where that came from, not the actual chief economic adviser. Kelly odonnell, i hope youre getting some rest, thank you very much. Ll neely, thank you. Lets bring in jim walsh, Research Associate specializing in International Security at m. I. T. Security studies program. Peter baker, new es and msnbc political analyst. Ambassador chris hill, now an msnbc diplomacy contributor. Chris, you were shaking your head the entire time we played that president ial that president sound bite about what he believes hes getting in return from north korea, and talking about the war games being stopped. First of all, these are exercises. These are densive exercises ta which we test the capacity of our troops to work with south korean troops to come together and deal with a threat coming from the north. So far, no one has ever called them war games before, before last night. Secondly, the notion that we should go ahead and at the behest of kim jongun and dance el them and to the regret of the south koreans is rather odd in and of itself. So yes, the summit is historic, but maybe not for the reasons that the president would like. He comes out, he signs something with chairman king. Theres no explanation of what hes signing. E crowd doesnt know whether to applaud or do what as theyre signing a piece of paper. We had no idea what it was. Fortunately, he held it up in front of the press and someone took a photo of it and from that we wernd blown up able to figure out what it was. What it was was a step back from the agreed framework in the 1990s. From the sixparty talks how is it a step back . Because theres no verification . Theres no mention of ver fa i ka, there verification, there mention of any kind of time line. In the sixparty statement it said north korea will abandon all its Nuclear Weapons, a its nuclearprograms, return to the nonproliferation treaty. Thats very important because it means as a nonnuclear state. And it sets out at the earliest opportunity. Theres nothing like that in this document. It alludes to a peace treaty. But of course it doesnt mean who might be involved in that. This is not just for the North Koreans in the u. S. South korea has a vote in that, as does china. Its so vague that i think is worth putting aside, pretend it never happened, turning to secretary pompeo, and ask him, look, put together an action pl for example is china going to be part of this . Is this going to be the u. S. And north korea kind of dictating terms to everyone else . The oddest thing was this idea were going to cancel these s and the president says hed like to bring troops home. What kind of message does that bring to allies, not just asia but rest of the world. Hes been saying that for years. He believes the troops that are overseas are protecting the countries overseas. He believes that we are a Security Force around the world and thats what our troops are doing there. Not necessarily protecting our own interest. He also believes those countries should be paying us for the privilege of having our troops there and not the other way around. Its something that he has said over and over again. Despite when people like you have pushed back and said, well, hold on, theres a reason troops are there and its in o selfinterest. Was that your chuckling a moment ago . It was. I feel s pain on this. Obviously we would have liked something more, something substantive. Thats what you get when you have a summit and you have about a month to prepare for it. You get a sort of bad communique. But i am willing to give him time on this. As long as folks are talking, that means theyre not planning an attack. So the risk of accidental war, war by mistake, by miscalculation, that goes down as we keep talking. And we got our detainees back. And this freeze on a Nuclear Missile test will continue. Thats all to the good. Clearly theres a lot of work to be done. But still ill give the benefit of doubt with the skepticism, with the hope that this can catch fire and keep going, but obviously there are reasons for skepticism. Peter, im sure you heard this last night when the president or early this morning when the president talked about whether or not this is going to be successful. Hell say, in the future ill realize i made a mistake but if i do, ill never admit it. Ill just make up some reason or make up some excuse. Have you ever heard a president go on television and admit hes willing to lie about a mistake in order to not admit hes make a mistake . Its a pretty candid way to admit the way he does business. Hes in on the joke, if you will. He does not like to apologize. Does not like to admit hes wrong. There are times you could point too where heually has done that. It was obviously late in the day and he was tired, but it was a remarkable perrmance at this press conference. You saw a lot of donald trump classictype moments. Hes willing to flatter and praise somebody who is now his negotiating partner n matter what their history back in their own country is. Very talented man, this kim jongun, he said, of course very much a contrast to what he said about pierre trudeau, the Prime Minister of canada, who he called weak and dishonest, you know, this is the way he operates. What the others have been saying is correct. This isnt a particularly concrete document. Its more a statement of aspiration than it is anything else. I dont think we should have expected, i dont think anybody really did expect a concrete document to come out of this. The question is whether or not this can lead to something else. Weve seen this movie before. It hasnt ended well. Will we have a different ending this time . Peter, is there concern he may have agreed to something one on one, when there was just translators in that room, that he didnt realize he agreed to . Asked whether or not there will be a readout of that meet, the president saidwell, i have one of the worlds greatest memories so ill remember wsaid. Im not being glib here. He said the same thing to me on the phone about a Campaign Issue in 2015 when he was claiming that thousands of muslims were cheering on streets as the towers went down. Theres no evidence back that up that did not happen. When i asked him for it, he said, i know what happened because i have the worlds greatest memory. Flash forward about a year when hes under a deposition and lawyers ask him for one of the lawsuit hes in, hes bragging he has the worlds greatest memory, and he says, i dont remember saying that. Yes. Its the words greatest selective memory. The truth, proba would have been better for everyone if there were notes in there. Ving said that, it wouldnt surprise me if later on there was a claim an agreement was made in that room just between the two of them that they didnt report and if the president decided it wasnt convenient, he would say no, we didnt make that agreement. So he is he does tend to reinvent things. If he decided it wasnt convenient or it wasnt the right course to take six months from now, i think he would back off whatever it was that was said in that room. The question is whether that could blow up, you know, this trust they are trying to bui betwee leaders. You put two leaders in the room and the idea is to forge a bond. President trump said it would take just one minute to understand how well he would get along with kim jongun. A real relationship of trust takes time. You want to have a partner that you believe is going to live up to the things he said. Both cases, we have leaders who have been all over the map on some issues. Its going to be interesting to see whether they can genuinely over time a relationship to lead some place. Peter, ill it because i believe its fact, not opinion, he has a tendency to lie. Peter baker, ambassador chris hill, jim walsh, gentlemen, thank you. Disarming north korea. It will take years, possibly a decade to remove weapons of mass destruction from north korea. How will the Trump Administration handle the most challenging case of Nuclear Disarmament in history . Plus, the president may be ready to shift his focus from north korea to his legal battles. In the last few minutes, vanity fair published a new report citing a source that Matthew Cohen has told friends he expects arrested any day now, a report that he denies. And checking out races in the nevada district thats totally up for grabs. And met one candidate whos being prepared to President Trump. 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Purely fancy feast filets. The challenge ahead for the Trump Administration is how to ensure north korea sticks to its word and works to denuclearize. One step is to end joint military exercises with south korea. North korea has long objected, calling them practice for war by the u. S. Leng in kevin baron, executive editor at defense one. Kev kevin, you have some strong feelings about whether or not the president should end military exercises. Tell us why. Its not that i have feelings about whether he should or not, theres a lot to break down here. He said military exercises, he calls them war games, but we dont have any details beyond that. Ey do bilateral ones with the koreans. They do multilateral ones with other nations in the area. We dont know what it means hes going to stop doing. Is it going to be large multiforce events that really are designed to practice for the big korean war should it ever happen . Or is he talking about these flyovers from bombers . A lot of it goes back to the, remember, the North Koreans said they wanted this to be stipulation of them coming to the table. They wanted the u. S. To cease exercises. They wanted the United States to pull back the Nuclear Threat to north korea. Itould mean everything donald trump was talking about. Flying from guam six hours away. It could mean a missile threat. It could mean the submarine threat. The United States has many ways to deliver Nuclear Weapons t north korea. They have a bit of an out when they talk about saying, we want the u. S. To stop military exercises or else. Talk to me about the dismantling and removing of Nuclear Weapons. Its not just a quick process. The president has acknowledged this as well. He said hes read a lot of books about it, that it would ta