Your president says the iraq war was the single most difficult. Hes plud in a way that i think his inclinations are at least. So i think he does have good instincts and my main concern is will you be one to listen to what the president actually wants instead of being sun who advocat advocates. I dont think it reflects the million or so people who voted for President Trump because it would be different. So thats my main concern, and i just want to make sure thats loud and clear to everyone. That is my concern. Thank you, senator paul. Thank you, senator murphy. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Thank you, director. Good to see you. This is an extraordinary article, i believe, from late last year in the new yorker that speaks to chinas rise coinciding with an american retreat from the globe. And i think weve all seen that as we traveled the world the presence the United States used to have simply isnt there and other countries are taking advantage. This article in part describes a regular meeting
It is friday, may 259. Im Yasmin Vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf. Well begin with the big news regarding the Korean Peninsula and were learning more about the circumstances behind President Trumps sudden and surprise cancellation of his june 12th summit with kim jong un. Multiple officials now telling nbc news among the reasons the president was worried that kim would beat him to punch and cancel the meeting first. A senior white house official also saying that north koreas threat this week, that it was ready to meet the u. S. In a Nuclear Showdown and quote, make the u. S. Taste an appalling tragedy also had a big impact. The summit would have never been able to work under these circumstances. The North Koreans also stood up a u. S. Prep team for a planning meeting in singapore last week and less than 12 hours after the President Trump and his top advisors began contemplating cancelling meeting trump personally dictated the three paragraph leader to kim. Involved in those discuss
Telling her extraordinary story. After 13 years, cosby Accuser Andrea Constand breaks her silence exclusively to nbc news. I was crying out inside in my throat, in my mind for this to stop and i couldnt do anything. We begin today with diplomacy in action. Kim jonguns point man and President Trumps point man together in new york city. Make no mistake, this in the big apple is where the real work is getting done. I have a great panel here to break all of it down. First, lets explain where things stand. Any minute now, were expecting to see secretary of state mike pompeo and north koreas Kim Yong Chul. The two had dinner last night as a precursor to what expected to be meetings today. Discussions happening now along with one in new york. Officials are meeting in the dmz to talk diplomacy and teams are in singapore focusing on logistics. When asked about the significance of all these presummit meetings, a state Department Official said, quote, between now and a possible summit, the meanin
Acceptable situation. And ive been seeing this happening, theyre not sitting back idolly. Theyre setting off missiles, which they say are for television purposes much i dont think so. So well see what happens. Im not telling you what im doing, but a lot of people think they know. And on or before the 12th well make a decision. I think if anything, whats happening today and whats happened over the last little while and what weve learned has really shown ive been 100 right. With me now are jeff zeleny. The president made that comment at his joint News Conference with the president of nigeria a little while ago. Watching that press conference of netanyahus certainly seemed like he spoke in english, that he had an audience of one. Theres no question, the president was watching that im told from just off the oval office, he was watching that speech, hes he agrees with peng men netanyahu about this entirely, they had a phone call over the weekend on saturday they spoke. This is something tha
President trump prepares for the summit with kim jongun and escalating feud with the National Security adviser john bolton and the secretary of state mike pompeo. The rift leaving bolton out of the historic oval office meeting. All of that coming up. Fire, tst, two hours from n the white house plays host to a celebration for the country. The event is a lastminute replacement for the super bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles who were ysummarily disinvited. The president attacked the eagles as disrespectful and falsely criticized them for refusing to stand for the anthem. Lets go to jim acosta. How do we get to the Super Bowl Party that was anticipated on the south lawn of the white house to a concert over at the white house . Reporter wolf, this is part of the president s culture war designed to energize his base. The latest episode of that is the attack on the Philadelphia Eagles. Accusing them of not standing for the anthem. We should point out from the factual bases that there were no