Good morning, wednesday may 23rd. We begin with the latest on President Trumps scheduled summit with north Koreas Kim Jongun june 12th, less than three weeks away. Yesterday, trump hosted the south korean president at the white house. They discussed the status of the summit, hedging on if it will happen at all. Take a listen. Well, were moving along, well see what happens. There are certain conditions that we want and i think well get those conditions. If we dont, we dont have a meeting. If it doesnt happen, maybe it will happen later, maybe it will happen at a different time. What are your conditions for a meeting . I would rather not say, we are working on something. Theres a chance it will work out. Theres a chance, substantial chance it wont work out. I dont want to waste a lot of time, im sure he doesnt want to waste a lot of time. Theres a substantial chance it wont work out and thats okay. It doesnt mean it wont work out over a period of time, but it may not work out for june 12
Theres a very substantial that it wont work out. Theres a good chance well have the meeting. He may have a meeting coming up. He may not. He may or may not. He may or may not. But well see what happens. Maybe nothing happens and maybe it did. Well see how it all works out. Cant tell you exactly how or why, but it always does, its going to work out. Wow. That was President Trump yesterday. Actually maybe it wasnt. Talking about trade with china. And the waning likelihood with his planned summit with north koreas dictator. Donald rumsfeld had his known unknowns, President Trump lives in a certain uncertainty. Welcome to morning joe, it is wednesday, may 23rd. With us, msnbc contributor, Mike Barnicle and president of the council on Foreign Relations and author of the book a world in disarray. Now in its 47th printing. Richard haass. I mean, come on, its, its barbeque season. Also we have republican strategist and political commentator susan del pursio. Columnist and associate editor for
person for themselves because it becomes about political survival. not what the white house would like to hear. let s look at the olympics. of course, all of the athletes packing their jackets, their gloves, whatever else they need but they re told to pack something else to take to china. what is it, jim? reporter: one word, pack your burner phone because the government is warning you just assume that people will be snooping on everything that s on your actual phone, which i think speaks to the political dynamic that you will see with these olympics. you have one of the few things right now that unites both parties, people are very skeptical of china. most see china as an adversary, certainly as the biggest competitor to u.s. strength over the next 20 to 30 years. so i think that backdrop is going to make this a very political olympics, and, you know, while you will have the olympics you are most likely going to be having a showdown between russia and ukraine. so you will have bi
as a flight attendant shellie thomas dreamed of becoming a pilot. today she is, teaching josh to fly and headed for her own career in the cockpit. the ultimate goal would be to fly a 777 for united, yeah. reporter: a 777? yeah. reporter: that s a big plane. bigger than this one. reporter: before becoming a commercial airline pilot the grads need to have 1,500 flight hours. most will start at a regional airline. as for josh. i think it was my best landing i have had yet. reporter: in a few years he may be you pilot. nice. thanks to nbc s tom costello for that report. joining us now with a look at axios a.m., co-founder and ceo of axios jim vander hyde. jim, what is the one big thing this morning? we are looking at how democrats are spooked with the idea of appearing with joe biden, which i think speaks to
about what are we going to do with vladimir putin, how are we going to confront him. he is having to do that in the context of people being demoralized by what happens in afghanistan and then you have people like tucker carlson on the right that are trying to get republican candidates to say, no, we re not going to be supportive of providing any assistance to ukraine. focus on america, not on russia, not on ukraine. it is a busy world out there. jim, thank you very much. thank you to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning. morning joe starts right now. a giant winter storm is heading for the east coast, but i saw this one tweet from nbc news that wasn t super helpful. it said, new york city could see between 2 inches and 20 inches of snow this weekend. thanks a lot. yeah, i know. pretty big range right there. i don t know who is making these predictions. the cdc? bill karins has tremendous