Got what they call state tv, and they just, they give them free rein. and, ed, you ve been in situations like this before, the u.s. tv pool often gets shoved aside when these dictators come in and say we want it the way we want it, and you ve got nothing to say about it. but the american team fought back hard. ed: that s right. we are now at the top of the hour in the united states, six a.m. eastern time. we ve been watching these historic pictures and moments at the dmz. president trump meeting directly with chairman kim jong un. pete: john, thank you very much, and we will continue to be lye on the ground live on the ground including with our own tucker carlson. he was in south and north korea with the president earlier and joins us live on the phone. you ve got a big interview coming up this week, tucker, thanks for hanging in there with us. you were there on the ground. walk us through what you ve seen this morning. well, it was amazing, actually.
Onboard. rllier today canada joined the european union and 40 plus nations around the world that grounded the max 8 planes or banned it from their airspace. joining me now is kelly o donnell, kelly? this was a surprise announcement from the president using a moment when the tv pool and journalists were gathered saying he spoke with all of the relevant parties and there is new information from the site of these crashes that will be part of the decision, but the cause of these crashes has not yet been determined. this decision takes on additional meaning because he has a personal relationship with boeing. it is a big american company, and so this certainly carries additional ramifications, not
Tolerate us. so it is more important than a specific deal, anything that we bring jobs into america. that s sort of how it went. there are a couple of facts and points that were woven together with a lot of words. it was a wild and weird press conference. that was kanye west with president trump in the oval office this afternoon. the president and rapper expected to discuss violence in chicago, mental health and prison reform over lunch. i don t know how much of that got discussed, a lot of it didn t show up in the press conference. kelly o donnell is joining me from the white house. we both together sometimes witness weird stuff, that was an unusual display. what in particular stuck out to you? reporter: this was scheduled as lunch as the president said, it was not intended to be on camera, and however that played out behind the scenes, the president invited the tv pool into the oval office and you had what in some respects looks like
America, a debate that continues today because on the eve of the anniversary of that deadly clash, where is the president s ire? it s focused on nfl players protesting racial injustice in america. the president tweeted be happy, be cool, and instructed the players to stand proudly for your national anthem or be suspended without pay. this as the city of charlottesville prepares to go under a state of emergency just hours from now. joining me is nbc news kelly o donnell in new jersey where the president is on his, quote, working vacation. kelly, why have we not heard anything from the white house other than tweeting about the nfl? reporter: well, there s no easy answer for that, katy. the white house has not put out a statement about this, the president has not. he did do an event on prison reform, which was covered by the tv pool and journalists in the pool. that was yesterday. that s part of the working part of working vacation.
Fix. that ain t happening. and another example of how congress doesn t do something especially on immigration that there s a crisis happening, there were going to act on family separations until the president did the executive order. they could pass a stand alone bill, but it seems like they ve kind of forgotten about that. they talked about it a lot two weeks ago. i think if i m just speculating here, this is something that the president wants to use as leverage. he wants to use this family separation thing. he says he doesn t. he says he doesn t, but he used daca as leverage. i think that republicans are reluctant to give this away on a stand alone bill. because they think he wants to be part of a larger immigration. i m sorry to interrupt, but the president also likes a hard line immigration policy. he used daca as leverage until he didn t and walked away from it because he thought it was a political loser. we asked as part of the tv pool in there that because the californ