After the next president ial election, as the former president and his codefendants in the georgia case have just one week more to surrender for booking at a Fulton County jail. Chris christie sharpening his attacks on ron desantis today in the florida governors own backyard. The American People want from a president more than anything else is authenticity. This campaign of his has gone from up here to down here because people are really beginning to wonder what the hell he stands for. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. President biden is hosting a diplomatic show of force this hour at camp david. A summit with japans Prime Minister and south koreas president , to discuss shared security challenges, chinas growing economic and geopolitical power and kim jonguns expansion of his Nuclear Weapons program. A new concern for these leaders, a north Korean Missile tested in july and as first reported by nbc, clearly identical or nearly identical in appearance and trajectory data to a Russian Missile that can penetrate u. S. Defenses and carry multiple warheads as far as the east coast. Joining me now, nbc chief White House Correspondent kristin welker, nbc Foreign CorrespondentJanis Mackey Frayer in beijing and victor cha, the career chair for international studies. The first to report the similarities between the north Korean Missile and a russian weapon. Talk us through the priorities for the leaders at camp david today. We saw them arriving. What do they hope to leave the discussions with at the end of a big day . Reporter this is hugely significant for all of the reasons that you laid out. We are expecting that there will be some deliverables. New joint military exercises, new intelligence sharing, including a way to communicate directly in case of a crisis. Essentially, what they are calling a threeway hotline. That is significant. It does come in the face of new aggressions by china. All of those provocations by north korea, which you laid out. The location is significant as well. Senior Administration Official saying this of camp david. Quote, i think theres a recognition that the venue is reserved for only the most important and significant such meetings. This official citing peace talks between the israelis and palestinian delegations under former president clinton as well as the critical talks that occurred at the end of world war ii. The symbolism almost as important here as the substance. What you are seeing is this push by President Biden to really try to get the two leaders of South Korea And Japan to put aside these long tensions that have been between the two nations and to come together to really have this united front in the face of the new aggressions by china and north korea. Its a critical Foreign Policy test for the president. Of course, it comes at a critical time when he is running for reelection. Chris kristin welker, thank you very much. Reporter for South Korea And Japan and the united states, the threats are very real. Theres chinas military and buildup and behavior in the south china sea. North korea testing new weapons and making advances in its weapons program. Also signs of growing Military Cooperation between russia and north korea. China has been watching this Summit Take Shape and not having flattering things to say about it. State media here has been characterizing the trilateral get together as a mininatostyle alliance. They say itsdestructive and going to cause more conflict. This is tricky navigating for South Korea And Japan, given chinas economic clout in the region. China is the number one Trading Partner for both South Korea And Japan. Beijing has warned seoul and tokyo against getting too close to the west. This sort of trilateral meeting and a deal might not have happened even a year ago. There have been a number of developments between South Korea And Japan and their reconciliation. There has also been a shift in this region in the way that leaders view security, because of the ukraine war. China and russia have obviously been forging closer ties in the wake of that. As well, this growing cooperation bringing in north korea. There is the sense that the u. S. , with this, is going to be able to lock in its two main allies in the region and take this trilateral cooperation and make it something more permanent. Victor, lets pick it up there and focus on whether or not this alliance can become real. North korea doesnt react overtly and the north Korean Alliance with russia, which you have laid out in the last 24 hours, is really a big new issue. Yes, it is. I completely agree that this is a very important meeting among the three countries. The first of its kind at camp david. Most importantly, i think theyre going to institutionalize this by having it happen every year, like as the nato Leaderss Summit or the g7 summit. In the face of what we think is growing russian and north korean cooperation, north korea has provided munitions to russia for the war in ukraine, the Defense Minister was given the Vip Treatment by the north korean leader. The missile that north korea launched that has the ability to penetrate u. S. Defenses looks like old russian soviet technology they have used in the past in terms of size and appearance, trajectory and acceleration rates. Theres concern here. Kim and putin have talked about deepening their Military Cooperation in letters to one another. Kim announced that north korea will ramp up their missile production. It starts to come together in a russia and north korea ificatio this meeting. I wanted to give you a chance to drill down a little bit more on chinas economy, whats happening with youth unemployment, they may raise their prime rate on monday. The problems they are having. Reporter yesterday, a big chinese Property Developer filing for Bankruptcy Protection in the u. S. , after another major developer was showing signs of struggling with liquidity. This is an alarm bell. The massive real estate sector here had long been the Growth Engine for china. It accounts for as much as 30 of gdp. Add in the other numbers, manufacturing down, imports and exports are down. Theres talk of deflation here. The central bank now making moves to cut Interest Rates to try to stimulate growth. All of this coming after there was the expectation of a postpandemic boom, when china relaxes the zero covid rules, that there was nowhere to go but up for the economy. That hasnt been the case. The concern now is that there will be contagion. The weakness here will spread elsewhere. The other concern is that with all of this evidence mounting of slowing growth, to this point, chinas leadership hasnt appeared to be rushing to revive the economy. Theres also a push within state media to not talk about the economy in negative terms. Dont use words like deflation. There is the sense that maybe if theres a plan thats taking shape behind closed doors, but there is the sense that chinas economy is facing real troubles. We are showing another picture of the photo opportunities, when they first made their opening statements. Its interesting to watch the seating arrangements. If we could widen out there on that picture. You have tony blinken on one side of the president , to his wide. To his left is gina romando, who is the commerce secretary. That, i think, is an important signal. Shes the next person to visit china, as you know, Janis Mackey Frayer, coming after yellen and blinken and john kerry on the china Climate Change issues. They are trying to build her up and signal to china this is what they are talking about also. Its not just weapons. Its economic weapons, right . Reporter she is the one official that beijing officials would like to see visit china. Commerce is the gatekeeper to export restrictions, the gatekeeper to trying to strengthen u. S. china trade when diplomatic relations are reaching new lows. So that is some important signaling on the part there. We appreciate you staying up late and being with us. And victor, your expertise is invaluable. Thanks to both. Trial balloon. Donald trumps lawyers making their first formal appeal to push his Election Interference Trial to 2026, beyond the 24 election. Can he dodge court until so long after the election . Thats next when Andrea Mitchell reports is back in 60 seconds. We will be right back right here on msnbc. Snbc ive got Home Internet from tmobile. It only costs 50 bucks at tmobile. Just one cord to set up. Say goodbye to that truck. Oh, what a beautiful mornin. Oh, what a beautiful day. They wont raise your rates at tmobile. Youll get a great deal every day Home Internet from tmobile. Just 50 bucks a month. Former President Trump has asked a judge to delay special counsel jack smiths federal trial on Election Interference until 2026. Thats more than two years after prosecutors asked for the trial to begin. Its a year and a half after the 2024 election. Smith proposed a january 2nd, 2024 start, which most lawyers agree was ambitambitious. Trumps attorneys say due to the complexity of the case, its an impossible date. In their filing, trumps team showing that if they were to print the more than 11 million pages of documents turned over to them by the prosecution, it would equal a tower of Paper Stretching Nearlytaller than thf liberty. Joyce, to you. Does the Trump Legal Team have to go through every page of a document . They said it was like reading War And Peace 78 times a day. Since this is all digital, arent there lawyers in a lot of big cases who can just speed through this process using Word Searches . Is that not fair . Exactly. An entire industry has grown up around discovery in criminal cases. You dont have to read War And Peace 78 times a day. You simply search for natasha and find every page where shes mentioned. You focus in there. A lot of this material will be the same. There will be emails and stuff like that. I think its misleading to use this sort of an analogy. Trump is a wealthy man. He has the ability to hire teams of lawyers. He has the ability to hire experts who do this sort of computer search. That will focus their endeavors and their efforts in a way thats more streamlined than the argument they try to make in this brief. Joyce, sticking to the federal case, Last Night Former attorney general bill barr said Donald Trumps run for white house should not dictate when he goes on trial. Barr suggesting that he expects trump to be convicted on some of the charges. Take a look. It was a calculated and deceitful plan to remain in office by nullifying and negating certified legal votes. The fact he didnt drop things could lead some to believe that he did feel that he was robbed. This was the good fight and the proper fight. Well, even if he did i am dubious about that. Even if he believed that, that doesnt mean you can use illegal means to rectify it. If you think the bank is unfairly keeping your money, there are many things you can do to get it back. You cant go and rob the bank. Your comment, joyce . Right. I think this is a great analogy. This is something that we will see as pretrial litigation advanced in all of the cases. This notion that as americans we have to abide by the rule of law, when we have disagreements about how things work, whether its a small personal case involving money or whether you are a political candidate who believes that you have lost a national election, there are steps you can take. At some point, you have to accept the judgment of more than 70 courts that said there was no fraud in the election and trump goes too far. It is interesting that we are hearing this from bill barr, who stood behind donald trump for so long, only resigning from the Justice Department just days ahead of christmas, after trump had lost that election. A good point. Gwen, lets turn to the latest trump indictment, which is georgia. Governor kemp of georgia was speaking about the indictment. Seemed to suggest that he doesnt think that this case could come to trial that quickly. Lets watch. Im sure i will be a witness in whatever goes forward. I cant say much about the indictment. Regardless of what you think about the indictment, when i came out two days ago now and tweeted the election wasnt stolen here and we needed to stay focussed on the future, one thing is certain about these indictments, in my mind, in my opinion, this trial, despite what dates anybody is asking for or anything else, its not going to happen before the election. What do you think about that, gwen . I think we need to wait and see what judge mcafee decides to do. Like you saw in the january 6 matter, where the prosecution put forth a schedule and the defense team put forth a counter schedule, those are far apart, you could expect to see a similar thing in the georgia case. The point is, every District Attorney bears the burden of proof to establish or prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. This District Attorney indicated shes ready to go on the schedule she suggested. I think that demonstrates her confidence in her case, recognizing that theres going to be extensive pretrial discovery, pretrial motions. That does not negate the fact that shes ready to go and seek justice on behalf of the folks that voted her into office. Gwen, i know you are a friend and mentor of willis. How is she handling Donald Trumps continuing online taunts and bullying in the federal case and in the state case of various participants . Let me be clear. I havent spoken to her directly about this case. I can only speak to that issue based on my Prior Experience as a d. A. I can tell you two things. One, its disheartening that any public servant, whether elected by the residents of the county or whether you are serving as an appointee as part of that elected officials office, nobody should have to bear or put up with the level of attacks and threats that seem to be going on now. Secondly, because both d. A. Willis and her team as her appointees have taken their oath of office, they are all lawyers and investigators that are committed to their craft, they are not going to be distracted by these threats and attacks. They will stay focused on what their oath calls them to do. That is to seek justice and investigate matters in a way that maintains due process for defendants and the integrity of the cases overall for the justice system. Joyce and gwen, thanks to both of you. Coming up, justice for all. Alberto gonzales sharing his thoughts on whether donald trump should serve prison time if convicted with our own jen psaki. She joins us coming up in a minute. My a1c was up here; now, its down with rybelsus®. His a1c . Its down with rybelsus®. My doctor told me rybelsus® lowered a1c better than a leading branded pill and that people taking rybelsus® lost more weight. I got to my a1c goal and lost some weight too. Rybelsus® isnt for people with type 1 diabetes. 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