good day, everyone, i m andrea mitchell in washington where the biden administration is bolstering support for close ally south korea in response of course to kim jong-un s nuclear threat, a growing threat for the first time in four decades, u.s. nuclear armed submarines will dock in south korea for what national security officials are calling official visits, but no american nukes will be deployed onto the peninsula as part of the new agreement. and the u.s. has agreed that south korea will have a role in any u.s. use of nuclear weapons in a conflict with the north joining me now, nbc white house correspondent and today co-host, kristen welker. also jen psaki and victor cha, senior vice president for asia and korea chair at the center for international studies. the biden strategy on north korea is nothing more than love letters from president trump and kim jong-un. that s absolutely right what we re seeing today is effectively this show of force, pomp and pageantry that
is yet to come and on day one of their re-election campaign, vice president kamala harris makes it clear she won t shy away from the campaign spotlight, so why are both her supporters and her critics cheering we re also keeping an eye on the white house where president biden will be holding a joint press conference with the president of south korea we are now hearing from the white house that should roughly start 30 minutes from now. we begin in new york where two trials involving former president trump are unfolding just blocks apart, and in both cases, prosecutors and judges are going to extraordinary lengths to protect the ordinary people working on them their concern that those people could be singled out by trump or his supporters by harassment, intimidation or personal attacks. donald trump just got a warning from the jungdge for going afte the woman suing him on social media. we re not just talking about the civil case in trump s criminal trial, prosecutors filed
for being there. that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports. follow the show online on sfab a facebook and twitter @mitchell reports and that news conference with the south korean president coming up probably now, at 1:30, they pushed it back. chris jansing will have all of that for you coming up good day, i am chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we learned just an hour ago that e gene e. jean carroll the woman suing donald trump for defamation is taking the stand in new york in her words, quote, i m here because trump raped me the case, though, is about trump calling her a liar, something he did again this morning just minutes before today s proceedings got underway plus, a slow motion natural disaster happening right now along the mississippi river, melting snow has already pushed water levels above flood stage in several states and the worst