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
Lawyer, william burke. However, the lawyer then says but they were okay with giving this information over. This administration isnt. Make some sense of this for me. Well, i think the thing to think about is this, im not sure at the end of the day how much difference its going to make. Partly this is a matter of arithmetic. The republicans simply have the votes. But secondly while this will be, and you can count on it, that the democrats will be following joe bidens advice, theyll be saying how can we vote on this guy until we know every possible thing about him. The crucial question will be how will he vote as a judge, what can we learn from his time on the Court Of Appeals here in the district of columbia. I think thats where the bulk of the questions will be. Whats going to be new and different about this Confirmation Hearing is questions about how far you can go in subpoenaing or possibly indicting or other Legal Process against a sitting president. That becomes important obviously
And canada. Called nafta. For many years nafta been as disaster. We are renegotiating it. If we dont make a deal ill terminate nafta. Dana chief is live on capitol hill. Tell us about the reaction to this. Theres concern and congressional sources are not afraid to take is some action if necessary. Paul ryan saying were worried about the consequences of a trade war and are urging the white house to not advance with this plan. The new law has boosted the economy and we certainly dont want to jeopardize knows gains. Maine independent senator kane is saying not all countries are the same. You want to do those things with a scalpel, not a chain saw. What worries me is the whole world he said 25 percent and 10 percent on the whole world in the name of National Security. I dont think we need to block canadian steel in the name of National Security. Theyre annoying theyre too nice. A key player in President Trumps team offered this explanation. It is to protect our steel and Aluminum Industrie
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We have the manafort filing that you talked about a moment ago on your show. Were going to get into it a little more. Rachel, thank you, have a wonderful weekend. Tonight, donald trump is once again forcing us to ask what is behind the president s public affection for russia . Its a question weve been asking since at least the summer of 2016 when donald trump and i had this exchange right after he asked russia to hack the emails of the democratic president ial candidate. You said the russians he has no respect. You said i welcome them to find those 30,000 emails. They probably have them. Id like to have them released. Does that not give you pause . No. You know what gives me more pause, that a person in our government, crooked Hillary Clinton be quiet, i know you want to save her. If russia or china or any other country has those emails, to be honest with you id love to see them. Donald trumps strange affection for russia has now opened a new rift between america and its closest allies