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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 yong-chol 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 that s 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 won t be up for negotiation on june 12th is the number of american troops stationed in south korea. that s according to defense secretary mattis, who says the deployment is strictly between the u.s. and seoul. garrett tenney has ....
we ll see. thank to you phillip, zerlina, john. thank you for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. tonight on all in. i don t want to talk about pardons for michael flynn yet. a new york times bombshell. can you say unequivocally no one here has discussed pardons in this case? the president s lawyer reportedly floated pardons for flynn and plfrt before they were charged. i ve always found paul manafort to be a very decent man. tonight it the reporter who broke the story and what this means for the obstruction case against the president. then, did the special counsel just file evidence of trump campaign collusion with russia? that s what he said. that s what i said. that s obviously what our position is. plus, the president announces the firing of the v.a. secretary on twitter. and apple ceo tim cook on mark zuckerberg s current predicament. i wouldn t be in this situation. okay. more from kara swisher and my exclusive intervi ....
The day s biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. donald trump saying bob mueller has a conflict of interest. what s he referring to? a dispute i imagine he disclosed it to rosenstein when he appointed him because it involved something last year wasn t settled to this day. that s up to the president and mueller to describe. what s the conflict? i can t tell you. are you saying the business conflict mueller and president trump had, is that about his golf course. i m not going to go any further. he s not going further on that. there were some specifics when guiliani talked about other alleged meetings before the trump tower meeting. the meeting with the russians, how can you be sure that the president didn t know before. it s he said she said. nobody can be sure of anything. in a situation like this you have two things that argue against cohen. two-on-one sorry, three like an independent contradictions. he ....
right now. it s not an order, the president s opinion. are president trump s tweets considered official white house statements? the president is the president of the united states, they re considered official statements by the president of the united states. wow. good morning. and welcome to morning joe. i m confused. so confused. what is that line from the office ? universe, you win. it s thursday, august 2nd. and what a way to start the day. what a way. so, is it the official policy of the president or not? i think the most telling thing of the whole story is how much his lawyers freaked out immediately and started calling around immediately. he was just venting. just like a baseball game. when he s actually doing what talking about what would start a constitutional crisis. or obstruction of justice. as brian clause pointed out yesterday is exactly what he did in turkey back 2013, 2014. talk about fake news. you talk about deep state conspiracies. you ....
have constant exchanges with president trump. i share his goals, sometimes we say we don t agree on methods. but i want to get there. i want to have an agreement. and i think there s been a true change. this morning president rouhani showed himself to be open to this meeting happening and president trump has been saying for weeks that he s been demanding, he s been tough, he s put sanctions, but i m ready to have a meeting to make a deal. i think we re making progress. i want this meeting to happen and i want there to be an agreement between the united states and iran and france will play the role together with united kingdom and germany and all the other signatory powers and the permanent members of the security council. iran is a country that is not the same country that it was two and a half years ago when i came into office. iran was the number one state of terror throughout the world. there were 18 sites of confliction in my first week when i spoke with the folks at the pen ....