You are talking about years of hostility, years of problems, years of really hatred between so many different nations. President trump met with north korean vice chairman kim yongchol for more than an hour yesterday. The president says they talked about many things including sanctions and denuclearization. Mike, the president said that he explained that removal of sanctions would only happen if they were willing to denuclearize. At this point it is still incredibly unclear if thats something north korea would ever agree to. The president did say that he hopes eventually he can remove sanctions that are on north korea. Mike . Mike Ellison Barber leading us off from the north lawn of the white house, ellison, many thanks. You bet. Mike one issue that wont be up for negotiation on june 12th is the number of american troops stationed in south korea. Thats according to defense Secretary Mattis, who says the deployment is strictly between the u. S. And seoul. Garrett tenney has more from was
Putin. Well see about today. Were looking for the United States to improve this computer glitch. That does it for us. Well see you right back here tomorrow. In the meantime, Stephanie Ruhle picks up the coverage. Good morning, everyone. Im Stephanie Ruhle with a lot to cover today. Starting with answers, emails and calls. Some of President Trumps response to Robert Muellers questions now revealed has new details on the investigation emerged. Latenight phone calls between donald trump and his associate roger stone and the president dangling a pardon for, guess who, Paul Manafort. Emission failure. The va says it will not reimburse all veterans who were paid less due to a technical glitch. Taking stock. Markets surge after the fed chair suggests interest rate
increases might slow down. Now an expected meeting between trump and the leader xi jinping over the weekend. Theres a possibility a deal can be made. Having said that, some caveats as always. We begin with some of the very fest deta
[question inaudible] their party is in shambles right now. They have the squad leading their party. Take a look at so many of the people that were the most outspoken, and they say this was a devastating day for The Democrats, and you know it, john, and everybody else knows it. This is a devastating day for The Democrats. A very dumb and unfair question. If you look at his correction, he took that totally out of play. He made his decision based on the facts, not based on some rule, so you shouldnt even ask
that question because you know it is a phony. Go ahead. [question indiscernible] pres. Trump The Democrats had nothing and now they have less than nothing and i think theyre going to lose the 2020 election very big, including congressional seats because of the path they chose. Now who knows where it goes, from what i hear, theyre giving up. I just say, i know them too well, they will never give up. Theyll go back in the room and try to figure something out. This whole thing has been h
happen. sol wisenberg asked the question or made the point, this did not move the needle, amazing when nancy pelosi, who we are about to hear from in a short bit, nancy pelosi was asked about the hearing and she was watching it. she said just a little bit, only a few moments. greg: passed by a big box store and saw it. dems are caught in this dilemma, they love the indictment strl and collusion story but americans doesn t. the more they use these golf clubs, it keeps them from coming up and generating ideas that might attract voters. the collusion argument is equivalent of smoking pot when you wake up in the morning. you get nothing done the rest of the day, democrats. start collusion early, you re done. [laughter] sandra jesse? jesse: everybody knows collusion didn t happen. obstruction thing, you cannot impeach president for
democrats as well. it s complicated on both sides because the one thing mueller will make clear is there really was no conclusion, which is what trump was saying all along. and i think that s why nancy pelosi has been holding back. because the underlying claim mueller does not back that up. now you re in a situation it s the cover-up of a noncrime you want to go after. at the same time you can t just let the president of the united states do whatever he wants to do and have no accountability? can i just jump in here with a point about the no collusion argument. what mueller said was that there was no proof of a criminal conspiracy on the part of trump or his campaign to work with the russians on the to elect him president. that is a different thing from saying there is no evidence. what he found was there was insufficient evidence to build a case. and i think that distinction, if he outlines it directly i think