Addon advantage. Discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. Only when you book with expedia. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, critical mass. Thought our politics were explosive before . Try replacing the swing vote on the Supreme Court. Well talk about the wild conjecture and whats actually about to happen. At the same time, democrats take stock after a top member of leadership is upset in new york. Rising stars ben jealous and jason candor join me live to talk about what their party should do next. And later i travel to utah
to talk with mitt romney on the campaign trail. Hes set to become the republican senator in the age of trump. Plus, do not congratulate. Russia stuns spain at the world cup. But first the interviews, the Lobbying Effort and even the ads are underway to replace Justice Anthony kennedy on the Supreme Court. The president is back home after spending the weekend at Bedmin
Canceled it . On friday, the New York Times wrote the following. Quote, a senior white house official told reporters that even if the meeting were reinstated holding it on june 12 would be impossible given the lack of time needed. President Trump 1307bded on twitter with this false accusation. Quote, the failing the New York Times quotes a senior white house official who doesnt exist, use real people, not phony sources. The source was, in fact, a senior white house official speaking to a large group of reporters in the White House Briefing room. We journalists try as hard as we can to always identify our sources on the record so that we can tell you, our viewers, watchers, listeners, why you should trust our information. Sometimes we agree to allow people to speak anonymously. Well refer to that as talking on background. Nbc news does know the identity of this official, although were not identifying him because we agreed not to. We, however, do not invent people. If we did, we would an
President sits down with kim jongun. But on this day, Three Americans who were in prison in north korea yesterday are on the way home. And there is no nothing else to say except a good deal for america and great deal for these americans and good for you, mr. President , right . No question. They are flying as we speak with the Secretary Of State. Theres going to be an Arrival Ceremony sometime after the Early Morning hours. And the president said hes going to be there. He wants to celebrate this as an accomplishment and sit an accomplishment. And it does set the way for the summit. The president ruled out the dmz. He said its not going to be there. Singapore is the most likely site that will be announced. But no question, this is going to lead to, you know, a historic session between these two leaders, which i was skeptical was ever going to happen, when the president walked into that
briefing room and agreed to that. The outcome, though, is impossible to predict. The stakes are incred
Over two weeks ago. And so the Border Patrol was arresting dozens and dozens of kids a day at that time, sometimes as many as 100 a day. And so the real total by the time the president changed his mind about this was about 3,000. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has visited facilities in new york state that are holding some of these children, and he does not believe the president s new task force will reunite parents and children. Its impossible legally to reunite the child and the parent. By law, they cannot put the child in a Detention Facility and what the administration is still doing is keeping the parents in a Detention Facility. So you cannot unite them with a parent. When they talk about reunification, theyre talking about trying to find another Family Member in this country,
an aunt, uncle or something, and see if that relative will take in the child. Andrew cuomo knows how the federal bureaucracy works and doesnt work. He was the secretary of Housing And Urban Development in th
For months. His longtime lawyer, business associate, one of the men he is closest to is under investigation, has been braid the fbi, and could be indicted at any moment. And we just learned his own son held multiple meetings with agents of Foreign Governments offering help in the 2016 campaign. Thats just the tip of the iceberg. Now, it also turns out that the fbi back in 2016 was so alarmed by the Trump Campaigns various suspicious contacts with russia, it reportedly sent an informant to meet with three Different Campaign aides starting the summer before the election. And now the president , his lawyer, and his allies in congress are trying to use that incriminating fact in a kind of weird jujitsu move to discredit the investigation itself. Just a few weeks ago, the president warned us this moment might come. Ive taken the position, and i dont have to take this position, and maybe ill change, that i will not be involved with is the Justice Department. I have decided that i wont be inv