That moves markets. The 11th hour on a friday night begins now. And good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters on a friday night here in new york. Day 498 of the trump administration, and the president said today the june 12th north Korea Nuclear summit is back on. He had canceled it just a few days back, and theres more. The wall street journal reports tonight the white house is planning for yet another potential summit, this one between trump and russian president vladimir putin. But more on that in just a moment. First, todays announcement on the Nuclear Summit came after the president met with a top north korean official for over an hour in the oval office, something historic in and of itself. Kim yongchol is the north korean leaders righthand man, former intel chief and top Nuclear Weapons negotiator. And as the New York Times points out, hes the first north korean official to set foot in the white house since the year 2000, only the second ever to meet with a sitting
I was going to fire comey. He made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. When i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. The president s comments to lester holt instantly became an enormous component in what is now a yearlong russia investigation. Tonight theres new reporting on one of the largest remaining questions about this inquiry, and that is whether or not the president will sit down with mueller and his team. Jonathan lemire of the Associated Press has just spoken again with trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Lemire writes, quote, any preparation with trump for a possible interview with federal investigators would likely be delayed until after this june 12 summit in singapore because, quote, i wouldnt want to take his concentration off something far, far more important. Giuliani, who
Right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. The president s long time lawyer and consigliere is losing his own personal legal team and that could be really bad news for the president. Mike willing con who was raided two months ago by fedal investigators in manhattan is about to part ways with his own attorneys according to multiple reports and expected to hire new counsel to represent him the ongoing probe. This comes ahead of a june 15th deadline this friday two days from now to review all the materials seized in those raids, 3. 7 million files including shredded documents the fbi agents had to piece back together. The legal scrutiny on cohen unnerved his former boss who lashed out over the raid memorably during an unrelated National Security meeting. So i just heard that they bre into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man, and its a real disgrace. Its an attack on our country in a true sense. Its an attack on what we all stand for. That is really now in a wh
The staffer who mocked senator john mccain in a closed door meeting. New reports of the meeting that followed that and Sarah Huckabee sanders selffulfilling prophecy. Plus Rudy Giulianis marks about a major merger put him at odds with the white house again. An awful house . Another Violent Arrest at the waffle house calls for requests to boycott the restaurant evoking outrage across the country. We begin at the white house where kelly sadler who reportedly made that remark about john mccain still has a job nearly 48 hours after the remark surfaced. Colleagues on both sides of the aisle have had a different take. On Something Like this you apologize. Something that is this bad, you ought to just apologize and get past it. In my lifetime hes one of the most remarkable patriots our country ever produced. The comments by a white house staffer in regard to john mccain were just outrageous, totally out of line. And, frankly, i think it ibt s incumbent on the white house to apologize. Jeff, t
Monday after july 4th. Ill be announcing it. We will have more on the president s list of nominees just ahead, but we begin with the war between the Trump White House and the department of justice, specifically the president s own Deputy Attorney general, rod rosenstein. The man overseeing the special counsels russia investigation. The president and his allies in congress have been hammering rosenstein over this mueller inquiry, and the house has given the Deputy Attorney general until july 6th to turn over some sensitive documents related to that investigation. Some House Republicans have floated the threat of holding rosenstein in contempt of congress, a potential first step to his possible impeachment, if he doesnt comply with this request. This afternoon, trump was asked about that. I think the whole thing is going to work out. I think that hell give what is necessary. I really believe its going to work out very easily between rod and between the rest of the group. I think theyll g