president s engaged in or potentially engaged in this kind of international diplomacy, the concern is raised about does the president want it too much in a way that might affect the deal in a negative way, that might cloud judgment. when reagan was president, i remember some hard-liners in his party were saying, you know, don t be too desperate to make a deal with the soviets. the republicans against obama a few years ago with the iran deal says he was too eager to do that. how does that enter into it, trump s desire, his strong desire to be seen as succeeding where his predecessors failed? well, i think that s the overwhelming conclusion just from the last 24 hours of head-spinning, on again, off again romance. the white house was very eager to let us know yesterday that that very strangely and very undiplomatically letter to kim had been dictated personally by president trump himself. and so then to turn around on a dime not because of any policy change on the part of the north kor
views are articulated in some of the places mr. trump reads or watches, they can win the argument there even if they can t win it in the meeting. so they re relitigating or pre-litigating a lot of these policy discussions in conservative media, on twitter, in the new york times, on shows like this, trying to have an upper hand over their colleagues. none of this is happening at the deputies level. none of it is happening at the principals level. cabinet secretaries are finding these decisions are being made based on re-tweets, likes, and what the conservative echo chamber is creating for the president. so nancy, in terms of the president himself, is this something where he sees all of this chaos, the leaking and just the swirl around his administration, and he sees an advantage strategically in that, and he actively promotes it, actively cultivates it, or is it just a president who sort of doesn t care about, it doesn t want to be engaged and this is a consequence of that?
donut holes in rachel s office. i m joy reid, i ll see you tomorrow morning. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. morning. at 10:00 a.m. on a.m. joy. the 11th hour with brian williams starts now. tonight rudy giuliani and the trump legal team looking for a classified briefing of their own. now as news of another trump tower meeting emerges, this time between michael cohen and a russian oligarch. plus, is it on or is it off? a reading of the tea leaves on that summit with kim jong un from his tweeting about it tonight. and trouble brewing behind the scenes in the west wing involving the president and one of his top cabinet secretaries. the 11th hour on a friday night begins now. good evening from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. i m steve kornacki in for brian williams tonight. day 491 of the trump
it is just silliness with mr. adam schiff said. he said there s a growing body of evidence. i would ask what world is he living on? the foundation of this has been dissolving for eight or ten months now. here s the thing, for more than a year we ve heard collusion, collusion, and there is virtually no evidence of that. it s a fair question, to go back to the fbi and doj. if there is no evidence of collusion, on what basis did you begin this investigation? what evidence did you have that cause you concern? we ve been trying to find that out for months and months come with stonewalled us again by the way on another subject. finally they provided and we learned we suspected from the beginning. they have no official american intelligence that led them to believe there was anything here to investigate. that is a meaningful thing for the american people. i don t know why mr. schiff would defend that behavior. shannon: somebody who might have more information is the former deputy director
murder charges for dill rememel driving into counter protesters, after protesting, house speaker paul ryan was asked how he squares his role as washington s leading republican with president trump s views on race. i think, like i said before, he s learning. i know his heart is in the right place. how do you know that? i ve had some candidate conversations with him about this, especially during that time. i ve had candid conversations. so i do believe his heart is in the right place. at that time he means after he praised the neo nazi. how do you know that? on what basis does paul ryan and other republicans that support the president in congress, on what basis would you think that the president s heart is in the right place on this subject? i mean, whatever your own views