Verification is central to that. Complete verify indicatis encom that deal. Verification is required to the north korean denuclearization. And the president is now focusing on the russia investigation. He is sit to talk with the special counsel. And the possible tornado tears through northeast pennsylvania. Cars overturned and power is out for thousands. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. Happy 72nd birth day to presidet trump. Secretary of state mike pompeo flying from seoul to beijing. He will discuss north korea with president xi and other officials from china. He is stating that north korea must denuclearization before sanctions relief. As we hahave kmen straighdme. As we have demonstrated. We must shape the relationship with the United States and north korea. Verification is central to that. Complete denuclearization. That encompasses that idea clearly. Pompeo rejecting and lashing out against criticism that the joint declaration signed by t
Nothing like hearing that music on the actual election itself. Good evening, im chuck todd here on nbc news, election headquarters here at 30 rock. Theres the ice rink, as you can see. And welcome to msnbc, special coverage of the 2018 midterms, the mini president ial. Youve got a front row seat to history and to the. First National Test of the Trump Presidency at the polls, amid an increasingly volatile, partisan and unpredictable political environment. Its all about the voters tonight. Were less than two hours away from the first statewide poll closings in key races. Folks, were Just Moments Away from bringing you the first look at the nbc News National exit polls which should give us Important Information about the electorate, including their views of the president as they went to the poll. So buckle up, it will be historic. We just dont know why or how. Democrats are expecting to flip the house. And republicans hope to add maybe a seat or two to their senate majority. If they can g
Democrats move to impeach President Trump. Calling it the most rushed and unfair process in history. He said democrats talk of a senate delay shows they are getting cold feet about their case. This particular house of representatives has lent its partisan rage at this particular president create a toxic new precedent that will echo well into the future. It was made even more clear last night when Speaker Pelosi suggested that House Democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product of the senate. This impeachment was so urgent that it could not wait for to process and now they are content to sit on their hands. Harris the speaker fired back at Mitch Mcconnell equivalent and defended her decision. I was not prepared to put the managers in that bill because we dont know the arena we are in. Frankly i dont care what the republicans say, our founders when they wrote the constitution, they suspected that there could be a rogue president. I dont think they suggested we ne
incredibly unusual and upside down the sentiment is and this phenomenon is for anybody else who is not named donald trump. what do you make of these development on this the campaign trail and trump s mindset as he potentially faces yet another criminal indictment? one of thing i ve been talking about the last few days is how all this is playing into his decision about that first debate. we re less than a month away from when they re going to be on stage in milwaukee. we ve seen the candidates who are qualifying. obviously trump meets the threshold. right now based on the private conversations he s having, he s not planning on showing up. and that s despite people like rana mcdaniel, the republican national committee chairwoman, going to him personally and urging him, making their case for why he needs to shown up. as his legal troubles are piling up, as you noted, how well he s doing in the polls and whether or not republican voters whether it registers and affects
she s been quite friendly to ron desantis, and i think he s just ticked off. and in addition to which, you know, i know that we love to get ahead of ourselves here, laura. but i think what happens in july of 23 is going to have a limited effect on what s going to happen during the caucuses in january of 24. me get ahead of my skis, never, chris wallace what do you mean? i ll tell you, speaking of the republican race, you did sit down with the rnc chair, rana mcdaniel, for your show this week. she s frankly hedging on whether biden actually fairly won the 2020 election. let s have a listen. when did you stop being an election denier? i think saying there were problems with 2020 is very real. i don t think that s election denying. chris, i am from wayne county. we had a woman send a note saying, i m being told to back date ballots. we had to look into that.