Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Putin meeting all around us in that setting. But they are also hearing the president in very few words undercut the investigation. The president also hit some other big topics like the border wall and of course smacking the media. Heres some of the highlights. Were fixing walls all over the border. And were going to start to get very nasty over the world. Anything i want, they want to oppose. I just figured out how to do the wall. Ill say, i dont want to build the wall and theyll insist on building it. I just figured that out right now. They can make anything bad. Because they are the fake, fake disgusting news. So fake, fake disgusting was a sort of updated iteration. There was cheering and jeering at us in the work area that is
the president getting funding for the wall. Remember, a Republicanled Congress has not supported the president in funding such an endeavor. Joining me to discuss, matt miller, an Msnbc Na
continuinging to show his support for roger stone on twitter over the weekend i feel like we re having a paul manafort replay but it didn t work out for manafort. it didn t work out for manafort and yet manafort did potentially protect the president, right, if, in fact donald trump is directly related to working with the foreign government and therefore a conspiracy to defraud the united states then yes, it may have worked out quite well for donald trump but we don t know, right, we don t know the facts. here, in this case, we have a pattern where what the president does is if you refuse to participate in a law enforcement investigation that goes directly and central to the integrity of the election system and of the relationship of power that s running our country to a foreign government, that is not aligned with our interests
a serious problem for himself. the problem is, you can t on the one hand admit to election interference and admit that the russians are continuinging to try to interfere in the elections as they did by sending this parade of national security officials out yesterday. and still call russian interference a hoax and attack the investigation that is holding russians accountable. that has indicted 25 russians accountable so far. so the president has this problem. he believes politically he has to continue to attack the investigation because he doesn t know where it s going to go and it might get awfully close to him. either people around him or to him himself. but at the same time, politically, the white house seems to know now, they is there to be more up front and honest then they have in the past. the problem is, the two don t work together. they re an obvious tension. you can t do both. who in the white house knows what? because it seems like john bolton knows what went down but dan c
kim knows that these take place and he understands that they have to take place, what game is north korea playing? you d have to ask north korea what game they re playing. i can tell you what we re doing. and we re continuing to move forward in preparations. the president, as we ve said all along, will be prepared and ready to meet and there s really not a lot to add beyond that point, john. what leverage does the u.s. have as it relates to having this meeting take place on june the 12th? and to that meeting actually taking place, if it takes place, what dev raj does the u.s. have over accomplishing the american goal of denuclearizing the korean peninsula? we re continuing in a maximum pressure campaign. nothing has changed on our end. this was an invitation that north korea offered and we accepted and we re continuinging to move forward in those preparations. sorry, i m going to keep going
people ask, you know, what do you think about this issue or that issue? i say, i don t know. we don t know how it will play out yet. you look at something like health care. we ve provided 20 million people with health insurance. the affordable care act, obamacare, for those 20 million people their lives are better. now if 20 years from now we look back and despite efforts by the republican congress to roll it back, we end up seeing that it set the bar. it was sort of the starter home for everybody in this country getting the health insurance that they need and us continuinging continuing in to make progress and reducing costs, we ll say we re sure glad the president got that started. if it gets completely reversed and 20 million people, and maybe