John good afternoon, dana. The president meeting this hour with the secretary of state to go over final strategy before secretary pompeo heads up to new york for meetings with Kim Young Chol who you pointed out just landed in new york. Whether or not this summit goes ahead on june 12 could well hinge on how those meetings go. They are clearly going to see if they are enough on the same page that they can have the two leaders sit down with each other and try to forge an agreement going forward. Kim young chol is someone who secretary pompeo has gotten to know over recent weeks already meeting with him twice. Here is the state Department Spokeswoman heather nauert. This will be the secretarys third meeting with Kim Young Chol. They have had obviously very deep conversations where they have talked about a lot of detail about what the United States expectations are. I think its important that we are going to new york. I know the secretary looks forward to engaging him in new york. John the
So it looks like it was a wonderful game. It was. Mike, talk about a fall classic. That one really was a fall chassic right now. There are really no words other than just extraordinary baseball. And it was just, what, 15 minutes ago that that game ended. Just 15 minutes ago. And you know what, willie, it was an entire nine innings. The game started with a call that joe west made, possible fan interference. Altuve puts it out, mookie goes up, try toes catch the ball. A fan youll go back and youll see that a fan actually closes his glove so he cant make the catch. Of course, its a homer. Oh, editorializing here. Look at this. Goes up and hes right there. No editorializing. The fan actually closes the glove but, of course, willie, that Houston Astros fans will forever say that should have been a home run because it looks like he was over the fence when he was doing it and fans can do whatever they want on their side of the fence. I was watching a fixer upper marathon on hgtv so i didnt wa
House republicans argue barr bound by the law to not release the full Mueller Report and supporting evidence. And Justice Department late this afternoon called the contempt boat politically motivated and unnecessary. All of this comes hours after President Trump and voted invoked executive unredacted version of the Mueller Report and extra supporting documents front from congress and the public. Chief white house john roberts at the white house with the latest from the president s team but we began with chief intelligence Catherine Herridge at the capital went up for our battle is heating up to take good evening, catherine. Catherine good evening the executive privilege over the record of the Justice Department said 11th hour negotiations broke down in the House Democrats forced their hand. Late today the Justice Department issued a statement highly critical of the democratic chairman jerry nadler that reads in part it is deeply disappointing elected representatives of the American Peo
Democrats to compromise. I watched Speaker Pelosi sit there and would not negotiate with anything. So i give President Trump a lot of credit. He put the American People before politics. What people are celebrating, saying Speaker Pelosi is strong because she got status quo . Thats not what the country wants. Country wants to find common ground. Dana peter doocy is live on capitol hill. Do democrats sound any more likely to consider border wall money by february 15th, the new deadline . Reporter some in the rank and file do, dana. Theyre starting to use more open minded language than their leaders who still refer to a border barriers a midevil. Were not trying to draw any lines in the sand. I want to vote to have border protection, to reduce the flow of drugs and illegal immigration. I wouldnt rule out barriers in places where its appropriate. I think thats acceptable. Reporter the heavy lifting on a possible border wall bill will be done in a conference committee. They meet wednesday.
Jussie smollett took an unexpected turn as charges against him were unexpectedly dropped. If the actor was accused by police and the prosecutor of staging a racial and homophobic attack because he was unhappy with his compensation on the Television Show empire. His attorneys say the 16 felony counts have been dismissed, the case sealed and his 10,000 bond forfeited to the city but denied that a deal was made. The prosecutors say they believe smollett lied about the attack despite dropping the charges, he says hes been truthful and consistent since day one. The chicago mayor rahm emanuel said it was a whitewash of justice. Jussie smollett was scheduled to appear in court for 16 felony counts of lying but then in today a shocking twist, the case was suddenly dropped. Chicagos Police Superintendent and mayor rahm emanuel are slamming the Cook County State Attorneys Office for suddenly dropping 16 felony counts of lying to police against actor Jussie Smollett. This is all of the name of se