President Biden announced during a state visit by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol that the U.S. will dock nuclear submarines in South Korea. NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Kristen Welker, former Biden Press Secretary and MSNBC Host Jen Psaki, and Victor Cha, the Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, join Andrea Mitchell to discuss the decision and the threat that North Korea poses for U.S. allies in Asia. “I'm sure that particularly the North Koreans are not going to like it and they'll try to find some way to respond to it. But it was important for the Biden administration to do. In terms of capabilities, there's no doubt the United States has all the capabilities it needs to deter North Korea from using nuclear weapons,” Cha says. “But there's the reassurance aspect of deterrence, with regard to the South Korean public, as North Korea keeps flying these missiles, you know, nearly on a daily basis all around the reg
On Thursday's broadcast of "NBC Nightly News," NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Kristen Welker reported on the Biden administration's review of | Clips
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NBC News Chief White House Correspondent Kristen Welker, former National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes, New York Times Pentagon Correspondent Helene Cooper, and New York Times Diplomatic Correspondent Michael Crowley join Andrea Mitchell to discuss the state of the United States’ relationship with France, as the White House prepares to welcome French President Emmanuel Macron for the first state dinner of the Biden presidency. “When there was that very dramatic blow-up over the submarines, because of the deal that the US struck with Australia, also involving Great Britain, which essentially cost France this enormous, multibillion dollar military contract, infuriated the French,” Crowley explains, “that was really worrisome, particularly because Biden came into office determined is one of his top foreign policy priorities, to rebuild relations with Europe.” Now, the relationship is “quite strong,” says Crowley. “In a way, Vladimir Putin kind of solved the problem.”
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has spent nearly a year investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and events that led up to it. The first hearing will be televised Thursday live and in primetime.