india and pakistan will also be at that summit. matt, is this being seen as sort of an alternative to the g-7? yeah, you could certainly look at it that way, george. i don t think most people would argue it has the same kind of global impact as the g-7 potentially could, but you do have a long list of very powerful leaders. pakistan, iran, russia, china. so clearly there is is a lot going on here. this is the shanghai cooperation organization. it was actually started with only five members back in 2001. and it was deposited as a kind of alternative kind of summit. as china really has gotten more powerful on the global stage, the importance of this summit has become more acescent as well. and that s why you see the leaders of these other countries also taking a role here. and, look, this is cement like many others.
let s get you caught up on some of the stories we are following. history is about to be made at singapore s hotel. luxury resort will play host to president trump s june 12th summit with north korean dick carat kim jong un. president trump is expected to stay at the hotel which sits on a secluded island which once served as a pirate hideout. also coming along from the summit is dennis rodman. he could play a role in the talks. we will keep you updated. secret service agents busting white house contractor wanted for attempted murder. martise edwards taken into custody at the check point as he headed work. outstanding warrant after he shot ex-boyfriend exex-girlfriw boyfriend: the president disinvited the super bowl champs after only a small number of players planned to show up. the white house calls the team s move a political
environment where it is antagonistic and it alrea s alr hostile environment and you re asking them to be the bigger men. quickly, ben. i got breaking news. a friend got asked to go to the white house with obama and he said should go? i said yes, go meet obama. he s the president the united states america. forget your politics. you got asked to show up for a michelle obama to get kid active and to lose weight and be healthy. i don t care if you don t like the president. you show up for that moment and have a dialogue. that s the right thing to do. people wanted to go. they were disinvited. i want to get to this breaking news out of the state department t. youhe conversation. here s what we have from the state department. officials believe national security adviser john bolton made the libya model remarks, wanted to deliberately blow up those talks with north korea. this was all across of this june
thing and seals a peace deal with trump or a warning sign it is hard to trust kim meeting with asad and attacking u.s. troops to claim territory in syria? there are reports this could be a diplomatic misunderstanding and they will not meet before the june 12th summit. well is a language friendship her in 2007 isrile war planes bombed a nuclear facility in syria believed built by north korean scientists. there has been reports and allegations that neither korea shipped chemical waps comappointments to syria. the hope is what you mentioned the purge of tle senior military commanders, young are loyalists to kim who will go toward denuclearization a sign a peace deal may be at hand we will watch, a lot
by this notion. graham ong-webb, thank you very much for sharing your analysis with us. we ll be watching closely on june 12th to see what does come out of this summit. well, a deadly volcano erupts in guatemala for the second time this year, sending thick clouds of smoke high into the sky. and we will have the latest on the destruction there. and u.s. industries are not the only ones who feel the impact of steel and aluminum tariffs. next, how consumers will be affected. we re back in a moment. from the very beginning .