That moves markets. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters on a friday night here in new york. Day 498 of the trump administration, and the president said today the june 12th north Korea Nuclear summit is back on. He had canceled it just a few days back, and theres more. The wall street journal reports tonight the white house is planning for yet another potential summit, this one between trump and russian president vladimir putin. But more on that in just a moment. First, todays announcement on the Nuclear Summit came after the president met with a top north korean official for over an hour in the oval office, something historic in and of itself. Kim yongchol is the north korean leaders righthand man, former intel chief and top Nuclear Weapons negotiator. And as the New York Times points out, hes the first north korean official to set foot in the white house since the year 2000, only the second ever to meet with a sitting
Administration, and the president said today the june 12th north Korea Nuclear summit is back on. He had canceled it just a few days back, and theres more. The wall street journal reports tonight the white house is planning for yet another potential summit, this one between trump and russian president vladimir putin. But more on that in just a moment. First, todays announcement on the Nuclear Summit came after the president met with a top north korean official for over an hour in the oval office, something historic in and of itself. Kim yongchol is the north korean leaders righthand man, former intel chief and top Nuclear Weapons negotiator. And as the New York Times points out, hes the first north korean official to set foot in the white house since the year 2000, only the second ever to meet with a sitting american president. After the meeting, President Trump spoke to reporters about denuclearization, but listen carefully as he also here sets expectations. Mr. President , whats your
The trail, yes, they targeted, no, they didnt. Where are we in all this . Or are we back where we began which is we believe the intelligence agencies when they say there was interference in the 2016 election and President Trump doesnt want to say clearly it happened. For one of the first times i had flash back to the very beginning of this presidency when on Inauguration Day i was standing on the route for his motorcade and it was raining. We were all in ponchos and the president said, the sun is out. The sun was not out. He is asking us to not believe our own eyes when we see him say these things. We see him speak the words and then the white house tells us that thats not what they meant. Thats not what happened. So, i think, theyre doing a very messy job of cleanup and if the goal here is to protect the president s reputation a, they e doing the exact opposite. I will tell you what theyre doing that iserary disturbing, there was a poll out that said only 35 of republicans believe the
Good evening from here in new york. Im ali velshi in for brian williams. Hours ago, pruitt sent his resignation to the president for a list of scandals. They include a sweet heart deal on a condo rental linked to a lobbyist, and ordering aides to help him obtain a used mattress from trumps hotel in washington. Hes the subject of 15 ongoing investigations. Earlier today in a tweet, President Trump announced he had accepted the resignation. He wrote within the agency, scott has done an outstanding job and i will always be thankful to him for this. He goes onto write, the Senate Confirmed deputy to the epa Andrew Wheeler will on monday assume duties as the acting administrator of the epa. In his own Resignation Letter pruitt praised him. He goes onto say, its extremely difficult for me to cease serving you in this role first because i count it as a blessing to be serving you in any capacity bought also because of the transformative work thats occurring. However, the unrelenting attacks on
Multiple fronts. We learned omb director Mick Mulvaney is taking over as chief of staff. The president s former perm lawyer Michael Cohen is speak speaking out on National Television saying donald trump knew the hush money payments made just before the 2016 election were wrong. Also today, Robert Muellers Team Rejected former National Security adviser Michael Flynns suggestion that he should have been warned about the consequences of lying to the feds, lying to the fbi. In response to flynns sentencing memo filed tuesday, prosecutors said there was nothing about the way the interview was conducted in early 2017 that will caused flynn to lie about his meetings with the russian ambassador. In this court filing, they say flynns decision to make false statements was voluntary and intentional. Muellers team goes on to say, quote, a sitting National Security adviser former head of an intelligence agency, retired lieutenant general, and 33year veteran of the armed forces knows he should not l