Safe scott pruitt. Scott pruitt is standing strong in his job. Plus, new evidence of a russian attempt to hack state voter systems. And rebecca trayce traister on the glaring difference between samantha bee and Roseanne Barr. Americans are finally paying attention. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes with two big Foreign Policy moves just today, the president is turning away from the western democracies that have for decades been americas closest allies, aligning the u. S. Instead with autocrats and strongmen who practice the type of leadership that this president admires. In the process he is reshaping our relationship to the rest of the world. The president announced today his june 12th summit is back on fulfilling a long time goal. North koreans meeting with the u. S. President without securing concessions in return. The announcement came after the president welcomed a top aide of kim jongun to the white house later bragging to the press corps ab
Heart disease and leukemia later on in life. Amazing to eliminate. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Ne romans. Itmoay, june 4th. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. Lets start here. United states is isolated. The canadians are insulted and the finance ministers of the six largest economies issue a rare rebuke. Concern and disappointment in the metal tariffs. U. S. Hit the eu, mexico and canada with steel tariffs. Citing National Security threat which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calls offensive. The idea that the canadian steel in the military vehicles in the United States. The canadian aluminum that makes your fighter jets is somehow now a threat. The idea we are somehow a National Security threat to the United States is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable. The president and his team are steadfast on this. Economic adviser larry kudlow says this is not an attack on canada. Mr. Trudeau, i think he is overreacting. Nt want to get in middle of that. Fine friend of th
Mexico, every day, every year. But this president , he seems intent to letting the agreement slowly collapse. Remember when he imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum, on mexico rehataliated with riffs. Anit could yacost u. S. Farmers 100 million a year. Canada has imposed tariffs on more than billion worth of u. S. Produc. But the administration indicated that it is looking towards the shortterm disputes and focusing on the long term. Instead of keeping one trade deal, the president now indicates he wants to two. Members of his own Economic Team talked about that on tuesday. I think the president s approach is to negotiate with mexico, negotiate with canada and make better deals. Canada is a whole lot different than mexico. Its got different problems. So, i thitant thought he he be moving quickly toward these bilateral whoa. Instead of as a whole. If the president wants bilateral trade deals hes going to have to convince canada and mexico to get on the train because right now, simply no
Good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Im Steve Kornacki in for brian williams. Hell be back on monday night. Day 533 here of the Trump Administration. And the pressure is on. The president is facing a complicated week ahead with high stakes at home and abroad. Its all still taking place beneath the cloud of the russia investigation. There is brandnew reporting tonight about negotiations for a facetoface interview between President Trump and Robert Mueller. The New York Times says the president s lawyers set new conditions on an interview with the special counsel and said that the chances that the president would be voluntarily questioned were growing increasingly unlikely. The article goes on to say that the special counsel needs to prove, before mr. Trump would agree to an interview, that his testimony is essential to completing the investigation. Thats what Rudy Giuliani said recently in the case. Tonight it appears the president and his legal team
Tour de france french mint is really on a friday when state sixteen after an eventful day in the period. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the polls have opened in pakistans general election after a Divisive Campaign it is a close race between former cricket star imran khan and Shahbaz Sharif he is the brother of former Prime Minister now us and was among the first to vote in the eastern city of lahore tens of millions of pakistanis will vote today it is set to mark the countrys Second Democratic transfer of power but will the poll be fair the influential military has been accused of interference and of favoring khan over sharif and theres already been violence on election day that after a campaign during which more than one hundred seventy people including several candidates were killed. Armed soldiers like these are some of the roughly three hundred seventy thousand troops deployed across the country not only are they guarding Polling Centers but are also helping with