You are talking about years of hostility, years of problems, years of really hatred between so many different nations. President trump met with north korean vice chairman kim yongchol for more than an hour yesterday. The president says they talked about many things including sanctions and denuclearization. Mike, the president said that he explained that removal of sanctions would only happen if they were willing to denuclearize. At this point it is still incredibly unclear if thats something north korea would ever agree to. The president did say that he hopes eventually he can remove sanctions that are on north korea. Mike . Mike Ellison Barber leading us off from the north lawn of the white house, ellison, many thanks. You bet. Mike one issue that wont be up for negotiation on june 12th is the number of american troops stationed in south korea. Thats according to defense Secretary Mattis, who says the deployment is strictly between the u. S. And seoul. Garrett tenney has more from was
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Or observed it. I think if this is true, its a very important development. Its always been hard to accept trump juniors characterization of this meeting as unimportant because of the timeline that it happened on and because of the participants. You have microsoft, the then campaign manager, along with trump jr. , kushner and others meeting with russians. That didnt look like an unimportant meeting that you would runt after the fact which is what trump jr. Said. If there were setup meetings in advance, this will take on increasing significance as a key part of the narrative involving collusion between the campaign and the russians. And barbara mcquaid, the fact that the proximity of the then candidate, just one floor away from when that meeting took place, the fact he then went to a Campaign Lunch later that day with his son, the likelihood they never would have discussed that becomes even more implausible just because of the relations
I havent heard mueller say a word in a year. The lead starts right now twitter, pressure, President Trump calling on his Attorney General to quote stop the investigation into himself and his team. He may have given the Special Counsel all new evidence in the property sechlts a lead exclusive, something that may have been unthinkable the tsa considering ending security screening at 150 airports in this country to save money. Is this what President Trump meant by make america safe again . Plus from the target corners of the web to the trump rally who are the fringe theorists who call themselves qanon. Hello, im jake tapper, President Trump escalating the russia version going each further in his calls to shut down a Law Enforcement investigation into his team, far
before from this president or any president since richard nixon. Trump tweeting quote Attorney General jeff session should stop this witch hunt right now bist continues to stain our country any further, this is now official whit
secondhand, third hand. this is why we have hearsay rules in court the further you get from the source the less reliable the information comes. great analysis, as usual. eli honig, thank you so much. tweet me or go to my facebook page. i will read some of my stuff from facebook. does the whole fiasco put pressure on mueller to work quicker? ashton, i don t think he feels any pressure whatsoever to deliver this report before it s time and probably what makes his job that much more difficult is that as he investigates new leads come up to take him in a whole variety of directions he never could have forecast. that s speculation on my part. it makes it harder and harder to wrap it up. i get your point. we all wish we could move on one way or another. go to my website at smerconish.com. answer the question do you believe krob rakes will emerge in the form of e-mails, texts or
gentlely public diplomacy signaling, so they re trying to put some get the case out in public. and put some pressure on mueller. and i m sure mueller s supporters have doing very much the same thing. i do think it s good going to come to a conclusion soon. if you a prediction from me. melissa: yes, go ahead. i do not see such an interview taking place in large part because i think, unfortunately, the special counsel appears to be heavily invested in the whole obstruction narrative and, again, tounder score nothing to do with guilt or innocence. the president such narrative would inflict institutional melissa: meeting did take place and about potentially getting oppositional research on the opponent but he didn t know about it? he made this statement over the weekend, what was your take on that and how it impacts this case?