Harris john roberts now on the north lawn. Great to see you and healthy, sir. Lets start off with the last hour of television with rudy guliani and we can catch everybody up quickly. He said some things twice in interviews on this Network Today that seemed to show a shift. I want to get your terminology for what we first heard and now what we just heard. Good to be back, by the way, harris. Good to see you. Weve been talking to guliani and his outside team for weeks. I developed some information that while theres discussions going on between the president s outside attorneys and Robert Mueller, that those talks dont seem to be going anywhere and the greater likelihood is that very soon, because a decision is about to be made, im told maybe within the next week or two weeks that the president and his legal team will tell Robert Mueller no, were not going to
sit down for an interview. There seems to be a growing consensus among the president s legal team on that ultimately as rudy gulian
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
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Going on here. The president tweeted over the weekend hes willing to shut down the government if he doesnt get the money for the wall and some bigtime immigration reforms. In the process, he may force Republican Leaders, thats his own party, and candidates into a fight they dont want to have, particularly with these midterm looming. But we know it is an issue that has been at the top of the president s agenda since he launched his campaign. Something he made clear again during his weekly address. We must enforce the rules against visa fraud, illegal overstay, Illegal Entry and other Immigration Violations and crimes, and crimes they are, believe me, crimes they are. The president is calling for several things. He wants at least billions more in funding for a border wall. He wants to end the policy of catch and release, which lets Asylum Seekers live in the United States until their cases are heard. And he wants to
The oval office, President Trump declined to weigh in on the Russia Investigation. At a News Conference with the italian Prime Minister do you feel betray ed by Michael Cohen, sir . A question about cohen and no response. Instead, the president unloaded in his usual safe space where there are no questions, on twitter, tweeting there is no collusion and slamming the Russia Investigation with a personal attack taz Robert Mueller rigged witch hunt and just after the president was tweeting there was no collusion, his outside lawyer was claiming on cnn that collusion isnt a crime. Which i dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. You tart analyzing the crime. The hacking is crime. Add about that, the president relied on his aides. If theres no collusion theres no crime in collusion. Giuliani suggested the Special Counsel may have a conflict and couldnt say what it is. You have to hear the conflict. Not the president. I cant tell you. Not sure. The former mayor railed against coh
Immigration. As you pointed out, he spent a threeday weekend in mara large reminding the president that the midterms are coming up. On top of the vocal criticism from ann coulter. We are told that the president was already frustrated that there has been a lack of progress in his view in building the border wall. All of this was exacerbated with the reports on fox news with the caravans coming. It isnt just on the Immigration Issue as you pointed out. It is a myriad of topics the president is touching on. Amazon, nafta, mexico. Some may say he has lost some of his moderating forces in the white house including hope hicks former communication director who left last week and this is the first week the president was without her by his side. Even when she was here, he still went through these fits of fury. At the bottom line here is this is the president being the president. It is obviously not the first time that the president has gone after multiple groups in just one day. Reporter absolu