the teaming masses would chance nobel prize. we ve gone from the certainty of a nobel prize to an an certain donald trump. well kim jong-un put him i think richard when the bar has been set at fire and fury, anything beneath that donald trump will claim as victory. if he goes on june the 12th to singapore, and comines home wit even a photo op he ll say he got something. even if it s not the stated goal. well he s note going to get north korea to give up its nukes. that s the only thing certain. i ll have to be willing to accept half a loaf or maybe a slice of loaf and declare
be quote, be strong and tight on the border of north korea until a deal is made adding quote, the word is that recently the border has become much more porous and more has been filtering in. i want this to happen in north korea to be very successful but only after signing. despite north korea threatening to pull out of the historic talking the white house communications agency has released a commemorative coin in honor of the meeting. one side of the coin depicts air force one flying over the white house. the other side shows both trump and kim s profiles under the heading, peace talks. in a statement principal deputy press secretary said the white house did not have any input into the design or manufacture of that coin. trump and kim are expected to meet on june the 12th in singapore. though north korea said last week it had no interest in one sided negotiations to relinquish its nuclear weapons. once a coin is actually
need to do more? wait a second, how do you know that the theft of intellectual property, the issue, will not come up more in the future? it will brain brian this is the time. how do you know technology transfers from to us them won t come up in the future? of course it will come up in the future. don t expect an immediate end to this. we have a truce. celebrate. your 401(k) as of this morning will be worth a whole lot more. brian: short-term. i m thinking long term. the long term is tree balance our countries. steve: stuart there, never was a trade war it was all negotiation. exactly. abby: classic art of deal. a truce. you should be happy. brian: happy for a week and chance to rebalance. this is the president s hallmark event and mnuchin is blowing it. wait a minute. these trade trafers are being delayed until we don t know when. probably until after june the 12th when our president meets kim jong un. and we need china s support for those negotiations there are lots of movin
kim knows that these take place and he understands that they have to take place, what game is north korea playing? you d have to ask north korea what game they re playing. i can tell you what we re doing. and we re continuing to move forward in preparations. the president, as we ve said all along, will be prepared and ready to meet and there s really not a lot to add beyond that point, john. what leverage does the u.s. have as it relates to having this meeting take place on june the 12th? and to that meeting actually taking place, if it takes place, what dev raj does the u.s. have over accomplishing the american goal of denuclearizing the korean peninsula? we re continuing in a maximum pressure campaign. nothing has changed on our end. this was an invitation that north korea offered and we accepted and we re continuinging to move forward in those preparations. sorry, i m going to keep going
about the suspicious activity reports that we were discussing before we went to the white house. but first let s go to nbc s hans nichols who is standing by for us. hans, there was a lot in that discussion right there with the president in regards to north korea. break it down for us. well, number one, president trump seems to suggest that china has somehow influenced kim jong-un and changed his thinking on what he wants to do in terms of negotiations with president trump. the president seemed to be going both ways on whether or not in meeting would take place, that june the 12th meeting. at one point he said that the north koreans were even negotiating about the location of the meeting. unclear if the president was talking about the location inside singapore, on what sort of back-and-forth there. i think the most significant thing in there was this idea of making distinguishing comments about the libyan model. remember, the libyan model is what john bolton, national security advisor