coalition in american history. he wants to have volunteers in every state and reach 1 million volunteers nationwide. he s hoping to engage people in a different way this time, not just by talking about his policies but talking about some anecdotes from his upbringing, namely living in a lower middle class family, the son of a jewish immigrant, who fled anti-semitism from poland. eric. eric: thanks so much. arthel: another round of wintery weather pushing across the u.s. as a massive snowstorm spreads from the central plains eric: well, it s been said for a to the northeast. a live forecast ahead. couple weeks now that special plus, spacex is kicking off a counsel robert mueller s new era of space exploration. investigation is near the end, we ll speak with the former nasa but the big question, how much of that report will actually be astronaut who piloted the apollo released to the public? this, of course, comes as former seven mission, that s up next. trump personal attorney michael
finger on the biggest undiscussed aspect of this. mission. i think both president trump and and three and-a-half months after that, that crew was president moon, obviously, it was not a victory for either of they died in a fire on the pad them, but it was a particularly and as their backup crew, we bitter pill, i think, for inherited the first flight and president moon. you ll remember, he s sort of another year and-a-half later we the one that s been the match maker in all of this, you know? got to launch. sending envoys and getting both sides to agree to the first so things today in many ways are summit in singapore and then pursuing his own policies, going smoother on that. inter-korean relations with the north. at the same time, man s role in well, that has sort of hit a barrier, an obstacle. those first flights has been and that is the international deteriorating significantly over sanctions. moon doesn t want to get on the the years. eric: that was such a tragedy wrong side of
president trump made that statement about ending the joint military exercises and the blue house here, the president s office then issued a statement saying, we need to kind of figure out precisely what president trump means here, the accuracy of that and what the intention is behind that, but then this evening about two hours ago we heard president trump had called president moon while he was flying back to washington. the call lasted about 20 minutes. the readout that we ve had of that call between president trump and president moon doesn t make any mention of those joint military exercises at all. what it does, however, conclude is that it s a foundation for peace, the summit so far. that very important point that s emerging from the south korean side they want closer coordination and cooperation with the united states as they move forward. president moon said he s willing to take significant steps to
the president refused to say whether he has confidence in rod rosenstein. he dodged that question whether asked about it. saying president moon doesn t want to hear about it. the question now is he is sending some kind of a signal about his standing inside this administration. hallie jackson, thank you for that. i know you have to run and get ready for nbc nightly news, so we ll let you know. but we will continue to conversation here with everyone else who is joining us. i want to start with north korea. mirra hooper, you are our resident expert on this. up wi one of the questions that stuck out to me in that briefing is this question of why it seems as though kim jong-un has changed his tune recently. and whether that had to do with something that may have happened in a meeting with china. what was your takeaway from that? what do you think is driving this shift? yeah, it s a great question, kasie. i think the shift in tone from kim jong-un is frankly a product of a reckoning th
he says essentially president moon doesn t want to hear about this. a lot of other people do. specifically a lot of other people inside the justice department. given we re now on day five or six of the president railing against what he believes was a spy embedded in his campaign during 2016. there to surveil or infiltrate the trump campaign. when you speak with law enforcement officials, they say listen, that did not happen based on their view, they say the fbi might have had an informant talking with people, but that s because they were investigating russian interference in the election. the president said if this were to happen it would be a huge unprecedented scandal. but note that key word there, craig, if. i think we need to highlight that. the president made that remark. i imagine in just about an hour and a half from now when sarah sanders comes out behind me, they ll have more to say about this. will be asked again. a lot of headlines coming out of that 35-minute discussion com