We were just talking about . Hey there, david. Long time koreawatchers say this is not at all a surprise. They point to the all too familiar cycle of hope and then inevitable disappointment when it comes to dealing with north korea on this issue of its Nuclear Weapons program. But the secretary of state went to north korea with a mission. He was there to flesh out the details of that vaguelyworded joint declaration that the president and kim jongun signed in june at the singapore summit. At the time, youll remember, kim agreed to work toward the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula, offering little in the way of specifics. Even so, President Trump tweeted that north korea no longer posed a nuclear threat. He said that americans should feel good sleeping well at night. But as it stands, north korea still has nuclear and ballistic weapons. They have not agreed to a disclosure of its weapons program, which would really provide a baseline for future verification, david. So at
Crews safely pulling all of the boys and their coach from a cave just before heavy rains move in. Hear about how theyre doing now. But we begin with battle lines both here in the u. S. And the world stage. Senate democrats are gearing up to fight President Trumps nominee for the Supreme Court. Brett kavanaugh started making the rounds on capitol hill today, and President Trump arrives in brussels soon for what is expected to be a contentious nato summit. The president accusing the alliance of failing to pay its fair share when it comes to defense spending. He sounded off on that and more before leaving for brussels. Nato has not treated us fairly, but i think well work something out. We have a long, beautiful week. I have nato. I have the uk, which is in somewhat turmoil. And i have putin. Frankly, putin may be the easiest of them all. Who would think . Boris johnsons a friend of mine. Hes been very, very nice to me, very supportive. I get along with him very well, have a very good rel
Plus what were learning from the explosive new manafort filing. Thats obviously what our position is. Plus inside the Green New Deal democrats unveiled today. This is such a water shed moment. And trump finally answers questions about the child policies. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im joy reed in for chris hayes. And we have breaking news tonight regarding to tabloid newspaper aligned with donald trump. Tonight the ceo of amazon and owner of the Washington Post, jeff bezos has very publicly accused the Parent Company of the National Enquirer of extortion and blackmail. The National Enquirer had already published intimate Text Messages between bezos and a woman not his wife. But now he says they threatened to publish compromising photos of him if he did not stop an investigation into how they got those texts. He posted the information himself, emails he says are from a and,executives that can scribe photo that enquirer was going to post, including a below the be
Deal democrats unveiled today. This is such a water shed moment. And trump finally answers questions about the child policies. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im joy reed in for chris hayes. And we have breaking news tonight regarding to tabloid newspaper aligned with donald trump. Tonight the ceo of amazon and owner of the Washington Post, jeff bezos has very publicly accused the Parent Company of the National Enquirer of extortion and blackmail. The National Enquirer had already published intimate Text Messages between bezos and a woman not his wife. But now he says they threatened to publish compromising photos of him if he did not stop an investigation into how they got those texts. He posted the information himself, emails he says are from a executives that can scribe the photo that enquirer was going to post, including a below the belt selfie. And weve reached out to both ami and amazon. He ebegan personally investigating after it published its intimate Text
His name from the nomination but is resigning from the pentagon friday due to a story about family Domestic Violence that likely should have been flagged when he was. The tension surrounding iran, its Nuclear Program and irans actions in the middle east. Security jennifer griffin. He said its a rough time for him, but i did not ask him to withdraw, that was his decision. The writing was on the wall for weeks, patrick shanahans nomination had hit a roadblock. First the pentagons Inspector General cleared him of bowling and then publish details of a violent domestic dispute with his wife at the time. Democrats slammed the administration for fourbetting. There was possibly a deliberate concealment here and i think there ought to be an investigation. The shanahan fiasco shows what a shambles, what a mess the Administrations National security and Foreign Policy is. We have a great vetting process but this is something that came up over the last short period of time. That was prior to an ear