negotiator was dispatched to seoul a week or so ago. there s been talk, i m told, for many months about something like this, going to the dmz, trying to get a quick meeting with kim, much like he had with south korean president moon jae-in. people say it s a hail mary pass. too risky. why do it? trump road through that, said i m going to wing it, take the risk. it seems like it came up. david ignatius, phil rubbinger, interesting times. thank you. going rogue, top trump financial regulator challenging the president on the impact of global climate change joining us next here. stay with us on andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. reports only on msnbc v-power nm gasoline is engineered with four levels of defense against gunk, wear, corrosion and friction.
danger wherever and whenever any duty calls. there is no one like you. you are special people. you are prepared to defeat and defend against any threat. you little by the u.s. forces motto, we go together. we go together. many of our soldiers today also serve with the 2nd infantry division. republic of korea. the only combined with allied troops. today, mobilized to seoul. i heard you were fantastic, by the way. your valued actions helped save thousands of homes and countless numbers of lives. congratulations on a job well done. everyone is talking about it. you walk in the foot steps of
it is possible. it is possible. hard to say. jim sciutto live for us in osaka. jim, stand by. let s bring in nic robertson. nic also live in osaka. and one of the big headlines as well, the u.s. president traveling from japan to seoul, set to meet with moochb jn jae- there. but he has signaled that he would like to possibly shake hands with the north korean leader. listen and we ll talk about it on the other side. kim jung-un was very receptive. he responded. and so we ll see. tomorrow we re going to the dmz. i said while i m there, i ll shake his hand. we ha we get along. there has been no nuclear tests. no long range ballistic tests. gave us back our hostages and a lot of good things are happening over there. so we ll see. i can t tell you exactly.
with more coming near future. good question as to what exactly near future means as far as specifics. they re still working that out. secretary of state is on his way back right now from his trip to asia, that included a five hour stop over the weekend in pyongyang and another meeting with kim jong un. secretary of state says the chairman agreed to allow outside inspectors analyze nuclear and missile engine test sites to ensure they ve been destroyed. pompeo says the u.s. and north korea are negotiating logistics for those inspectors. the state department as they re also working out a time and place for a second summit between president trump and chairman kim. after his fourth visit to pyongyang, secretary pompeo traveled to seoul and then on to beijing. while in china, he received a public reprimand for the trade policies and rhetoric despite that, he stressed the two countries must continue working together to push north korea to dismantle its nuclear weapons.
a senate hearing lawyers for christine place before an investigation would allow the senate to be fully informed when they siding on cardinals nomination hearing appears likely to go ahead with or without forward next week statement the. employees of a fast food chain mcdonald s went on strike across the united states demanding an end to sexual harassment participants accuse the company of failing to adequately address what they say is a widespread problem inspired by the may two movement they re also calling for anti housman training at the national committee to address the issue. of the leaders of north and south korea have hailed the deal to improve ties between their countries in a symbolic move the south moon j n even invited to kim jong un to seoul in what would be the first ever post war visit by north korean made progress on reducing nuclear tensions in the region was less clear cut him jiang on promise to close the country s main nuclear complex if the united states made recip