that makes it interesting. if this is a trial balloon, michael cohen getting the message out there that i have got problems and this could go the wrong way, tell me how you see this playing out. because it has to be the worst news possible after donald trump crowin about his north korea summit that maybe michael cohen s considering flipping. l well, let s go to a number of different points here. one is trump sent out a signal a lot earlier when he said i don t see it that michael cohen is going to flip. he said that. that was a central. michael cohen, don t flip. don t flip. i mean president, chiefaw enforcement officer of the united states, takes oath of office to take care that the laws of the office are faithfully executed. don t flip. number one, that s a possibility that trump is signaling don t cooperate. the second thing is, we have the issue of pardons here. which he has been floeg
over his nuclear weapons. but president is trying to sell this as a victory for a couple of reas one he thinks it s the a comp compelling pitch to make during the midterm elections. two he thinks it will help mitigate some of the risk he faces from tussia investigation if he gets the public on his side as a result of these talks with kim. and three, this is a man who is focused on his legacy. you heard him try to cast this agreement as something that no other administration could do. this all coming even as white house officials make clear that a diplomatic breakthrough is not the kin thing that comes from a one day summit. option two that you point out is meaningful. around the world in through history when leaders have been in trouble taking a tough stance or some sort foreign policy br shiny object does tend to help. donald trump s poll numbers as indicate that americans even with res
this takes them off track. ert that. first, michael cohen, the president is silent so far at least on twitter. the white house isn t commenting. officials previously tried to create distance between cohen and the president for all of the obvious reasons. look, in the paz past president trump signalled that he underseriousness o cohen s legal exposure. you remember the in april, the president cabinet room surrounded by his military generals was asked about the raids on cohen s properties athe time. the president described that as an attack on the nation, said it was a disgraceful situation. so there is that. e other we are tracking here at the white house today of co is rea. the president trying to sell this agreement to the public to a skeptical congress. you heard the president at least on twitter earlier today say that north korea no longer pose as nuclear threat even though kim coming out of that summit did not dpre to timetable as to when or whether he might hand
a lot of americans think tough talk is good talk. that s right. even as the administration talks about the potential for peace in that part of the world it s undeniable that domestic polics are a primary motivation here. jeff ben it for us at the white house. coming up, much more on the outcome of that singapore summit laid they are hour, including what it would actually take to confirm that north korea is no longer a nuclear thr let give you a hint. it s not tet. next, as president trump was heading back to the.s. primaries were underway in five states. what those results tell bus the republican party, its allegiance to the president and what one senior gop senator is take about his own party. a live look right now at washington, d.c. where hundreds of people are marching to demand an ep to trump s family separation policy. we will continue to monitor this and bring you developments. you are watching msnbc. no. with claim rateguard your rates won t go up
giving them access to the whole country and disabling all of its nuclear sites permanently. none of that is in the agreement. no steps are laid out. no conditions. not even an outline has been put forward. yet donald trump says there is no nuclear threat left. asor how long denuclearization could take, experts at stanford esmate take u to 15 years. the iran deal came about ten years to negotiate. and iran never had a nuclear weapon. north korea actually does. for more on the process of denuclearization and the outcome of the summit i m joined by lacy healey, the founder and editor of ink stick media. she also hosts a podcast, things that go boom with p rirksor, and a partner at the truman national security project. lacy, i wanted to hold my fire on what came out of the summit. it was definitely historic. on monday we were watching kim