As he goes into it. However when you contrast it to what the president has said up to tonight. Here is how the administration has been describing its goal for the singapore talks. North korea has the opportunity to end decades of poverty and oppression by following the path of denuclearization. The conversation is going to be focused on denuclearization in the peninsula. The goal and the purpose of the conversations is to have denuclearization of the peninsula. The denuclearization of the korean peninsula. The president has laid out to what he wants to see as a commitment to denuclearization. I will be meeting with kim jongun in the coming weeks as we seek to denuclearize the area
and the entire korean peninsula. The stated goal and now, not so much. I think it is a gettingtoknowyou meeting plus. There is another one. Whatever else you might think of the summit, that sounds like a different agenda. Human rights might not be on the agenda either. Here is the president talking about toda
A roundup of the days events. The most powerful men in hollywood, ceo chairman of cbs les moonves under fire. And we hear from the reporter who broke the story, ronan farrow. Heres abcs chief National Affairs correspondent, tom llamas. Reporter tonight les moonves, one of most powerful men in hollywood, under investigation by his own company, cbs, after allegations of sexual misconduct. The accusations from six women from encounters that happened 20 years ago that range from inappropriate kissing to sexual assault, surfacing tonight in a new yorker expose by ronan farrow. In the article actress and writer Illeana Douglas tells farrow, what happened to me was a sexual assault, and then i was fired for not participating. She recounts an incident in moonves office. Moonves office. In a millisecond, he got one arm over me, pinning me, she said. Moonves was violently kissing her, holding her down on the couch with her arms above her head. Producer Christine Peters recounts a similar experie
He then added this. Based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the democrats. They definitely dont want trump. They didnt dont want trump, he said. Even though last week russias president admitted he did favor mr. Trump, at least in the last election, which is what Intelligence Agencies had been saying for a long time, but putin finallied a mid it. President putin, did you want President Trump to win the election . And did you direct any of your officials to help him do that . Translator yes, i did, because he talked about bringing the u. S. russia relationship back to normal. Now President Trump says the russians actually dont like him, despite what President Putin just said. Which is weird because not only did truputin say he liked trump the last election, but because of that Helsinki Summit, Relation Ares with russia had suddenly changed in matter of hours. He said that. It was recorded. Everyone heard that. Lets play i
Form of premeditated collaboration or attempted collaboration with a hostile foreign power in the middle of its attack on american democracy. Youll remember the meeting was in june of 2016, but we didnt learn about it until the following summer. The Campaign Never spoke of it nor the participants nor the Transition Team nor later the white house or the president. No one said anything until the New York Times broke the story last july. And when people did talk, the First Response was to be misleading about what was discussed and to loudly make the claim thats being disputed tonight that the president knew nothing about it before, after, and even a year after the fact. Did you tell your father anything about this . It was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. Look, here is what happened. Donald trump jr. Put it all out today. Its all out. Did you know at the time they had the meeting . No i didnt know anything about the meeting. Lets focus on what the president was aware of. Nothing
It took place. Did you know at the time about that meet something. No, i didnt know anything about it. It must have been a very important meeting, because i never even heard that. No one told you a word, nothing . I know we talked about this on the plane a bit. No, nobody told me. Sounded like a very unimportant meeting. Deep cuts there from haberman and schmidt. Thats not what Michael Cohen claims, alleging that he and several others were present when thencandidate donald trump gave his nod of approval for the meeting to move forward. That contradicts repeated denials from donald trump jr. And others in Donald Trumps orbit. Did you tell your father anything about this . No. It was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. I wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. The president said he became aware of it very recently, right before this came out, and thats when he was notified. Joining me now is jeff
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