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He s been convicted of lying to congress. so michael cohen s credibility will be on the line. so will president trump s. a.b., i want to ask you about something, a subject you have strong feelings about, and that s the relevance and attention north korea craves on the world stage. i think in all our conversations we forget how rare and unusual it is that an american president has agreed to sit down with chairman kim. this is what they ve always wanted. talk about that dynamic. and in that regard they kim jong-un has prevailed. he got a head of state to head of state meeting with the u.s. president last summer. afterwards they got rid of some anti-american propaganda on the streets, but then soon were so belligerent that secretary of state mike pompeo had to cancel his visit there. our own pentagon has assessed they remain an extraordinary ....
Developments. and the formulation the president has i m not in a hurry is really an analytic mistake for this reason. as the program continues they continue to at least put themselves in a position to make more and more nuclear weapons, that s a difficult problem for the united states, and in terms of missile defense. so we should wish our president success, but he needs to level with the american people about what s really going on here. and that s not been the case to date. when you see the president tonight he s done this before, but tonight he puts it right there in writing, kim jong-un is my friend, what would you tell this president that he apparently does not know about the man he calls his friend? well, it s as you said earlier it s a murderous dictatorship with large gulogs, history of incredible human rights oppression. ....
That country. that gives you the setting for these two guys to sit down. it s a perfect metaphor. the economic need. the sanctions have hurt. but there s also cheating from china and russia, playing both sides against the middle. and there is sort of a metaphor there, and it may be more than symbolic of him going through china, through chinese territory, paying respect to china on the way to this critical showdown with the leverage that china uniquely holds over whether any deal will ever be consummated or obeyed. and yet at the same time the cult of personality cultivated of course by kim jong-un and his entire dynasty going back three generations. it s a state and a cult really. what do we have here? we have a president of the united states who believes he is uniquely capable through his own personality of somehow breaking through as no other president has with that shiny nobel prize as the allure over the horizon. ....
Summit gets under way in a matter of hours, as the 11th hour gets under way on a tuesday night. and good evening, we come to you tonight from our nbc news washington bureau. this was day 768 of the trump administration. 7 the president for his part is in vietnam, a country where as it s been pointed out many times na these recent days he tried mightily to avoid visiting as a young man. it s just after 11:00 a.m. there, and the visiting american president is beginning a series of meetings with the president and prime minister of vietnam. tomorrow from hanoi to washington it s going to be something of a split screen between donald trump and a man he fears could do him great damage. not his summit partner kim hi jong-un of north korea, rather i his former personal lawyer michael cohen whose testimony will be televised live. ....
Tie tonight for our top story, so what we will present to you are series of top stories including an overwhelming vote in the house of representatives to rebuke the president of the united states. president trump was on the losing end of 245-182 on a resolution to terminate the president s declared emergency at the southern border to build his wall. the author of that resolution congressman wakeen castro will joins us and will also be one of the members of congress who will question michael cohen in a closed door hearing later this week. he has much to say to us tonight. tomorrow when michael cohen testifies publicly to the house oversight committee president trump will be watching his former lawyer s testimony in his presidential hotel room in vietnam where the president is meeting with the north korean dictator kim jong-un. we are lucky to be joined ....