Address the Naval Academys graduating midshipmen this hour. Well talk about the likelihood of the conversations with north korea will happen. We have a lot to get to this morning and i want to start with north korea. Just in the last hour the president is talking about that canceled singapore summit now saying, hey, maybe june 12th should be back on the calendar after all. Were learning that the president has been in touch or at least hiS Administration with counterparts in pyongyang. Well see what happens. Were talking to them now. It was a very nice statement. Well see what happens. No, no, well see what happens. It could be were talking to them now. They have you much want to do. Wed like to do it. Were going to see what happens. Nbc Kelly Odonnell for the white house. Kelly, apologize to you if i have to interrupt you in the middle of a sentence as we wait for the big story with Harvey Weinsteins lawyers. Talk about where this goes next. Reporter no worries i can slam on the brakes
That nato is much stronger now than it was two days ago. Are you still threatening to potentially pull the United States out of nato for any reason and do you believe you can do that without congresss explicit support and approval . I think i probably can but thats unnecessary. Im very consistent. Im a very stable genius. President xi spent two days there, among the most magical two days ive ever lived. And i think were going to end up doing something good with china. I hope that were going to be able to get along with russia. Somebody was saying is he an enemy . Hes not my enemy . Is he a friend . I dont know him well enough. President obama allowed that to happen. That was on his watch, not my watch. People like to say oh, crimea. Lots to unpack here. Lets do it with jeff bennett back in brussels, what actually went on behind closed doors with President Trump and our allies . Some heads of state have come out and said the president does not deliver a threat or ultimatum and others ar
And investigators conducting this deposition. Lawmakers can be in the room, right . Reporter right. They can, and in fact they are. And we actually heard from some of the republicans in the room who came out to brief us reporters. Ill get to that in a second. I can tell you that nbc news has learned that congressional House Democrats served fiona hill a subpoena this morning to compel her testimony. And we should mention that this is testimony that she was already agreeing to give. So its perhaps an indication that the white house, that the Trump Administration sought to block her appearance perhaps at the 11th hour. Based on our reporting, we know the hill plans to tell house investigators that Rudy Giuliani, the president s outside attorney and Gordon Sondland sidestepped normal procedures to run a shadow Foreign Policy in ukraine. Hill will tell the investigators that they went so far as to sidestep john bolton, who at the time was the National Security adviser. Now, fiona hill is a
Yovanovitchs lawyer walk in. When this deposition starts up, and we expect that it will at this point, lawmakers have a lot of questions. They want to know what yovanovitch knows about this influenc we know from the evidence that exists in the Public Record that she is one of the former state Department Officials who raised a lot of concerns about the work that giuliani was doing outside of official state department channels. That is precisely what led to her ouster. Giuliani sent a pact of misinformation to the state department which house investigators have now released to the press. President trump referred to her as bad news before recalling her from her post in the ukraine. She spent the last several months here teaching at georgetown. Shes still a state Department Foreign service officer. When she shows up here, theres a big question as to whether or not shes doing it with the approval of the state department. Because earlier this morning we learned that ambassador Gordon Sondlan