information that leads to my dad getting home, and we want to emphasize that. i know this is being watched around the world. so that s right. we re being simulcast right now. we re always just yeah. so we re always looking for the opportunity, and i m always going to be optimistic and look for chances to press for both our governments and make sure they know it needs to be a priority. let s stay in touch. certainly, i hope we have a happy ending for your dad and family. thank you very much for joining us this afternoon. thank you. president trump rolling the dice this week with three significant foreign policy moves. again, he ripped up the iran nuclear well, welcomed home three american detainees from north korea and set the date for the historic talks with kim jong-un. let s talk it over with a democrat on the house armed services committee. congressman, lots to talk about. i know you were worried about a pullout from the iran deal, that
we are back. within the last couple of minutes we learned the when and where of the potentially historic talks between president trump and kim jong-un. they will happen june 12th in singapore. the president tweeted it after teasing for 48 hours or so the news would come at any moment. he says we ll both try to make a special moment for world peace. he calls it a highly anticipated meetings. i would say fact check, zero pinocchios. phil, you are writing about the president s foreign policy moves as he s dealing with other issues at home. let me start with the breaking news, singapore. why singapore? it s an interesting pick. it s been rumors for some time. it s a country that trump has been looking at. it s a place where both the u.s. and north korea have diplomatic presence. it s sort of a natural neutral ground, if it were. and then the locations were limited in part because north
for pulling out of iraq too quickly. there s an interesting, mark landler write in the new york times how the credit on foreign policy seem to be at this point reverted to canada trump. information he pushed on the campaign trail over to the advice of some of the advisers. the other side note we re expecting from the white house, we ve been told is an announcement and the president eluded to this in a tweet about the border of mexico and the potential for military action there. the president clearly is making some of those foreign policy moves and this is top of line for him. and that was reflected in he has speech yesterday when he said we need to get back to building our nation. late february he prose the $200 million in funds that were to help syria rebuild. so, pulling out early because he thinks we have defeated isis is only one part of it. hee not interested in helping rebuild which is the interesting
you all very much. america s top diplomat says the u.s. has a poor relationship with russia, defends the president s foreign policy moves and then russia fired back. also, forget head winds. a republican congressman said the party is facing a hurricane in this year s midterms. hear what he said next. with expedia, you can book a flight, then add a hotel, and save. everything you need to go. expedia
president? and i think this is really pertinent to the whole question of the fbi investigation, because allegedly, or reportedly, these meetings took place during the transition, which is a time period when jared was very much running the show. i mean, the trump campaign i think won maybe even to their own surprise, and much of the transition was very improvised. you may recall that chris christie was sort of booted out. right. he was in charge and then quickly not. and jared took over. and so, they were sort of improvising everything on the fly, including contacts with foreign governments. russia wasn t the only one. they were having back-channel discussions with israel at the time, and really, they were kind of almost running interference against the obama administration s closing foreign policy moves. so, this all happened in the context of this transitional period. fascinating. and lindsey has written extensively about kushner and ivanka and kind of their power