5 00 a. M. In the east. A sobering reality check for the Trump Administration courtesy of north korea. State media declaring pyongyang will not be pushed into a corner on abandoning the nukes while threatening to cancel the summit with President Trump in singapore next month. The kim regime suspending talks with south korea that were scheduled for today. The reason well, u. S. south korea drills already scheduled that north korea considers provocative. There was such goodwill and such a Rapid Improvement of relations and developments on the Korean Peninsula and with the United States and then this. This feels like the north korea of several months ago. Absolutely. And we just heard a statement from the south korean president s office, trying to call this growing pains. The fact that north korea put out overnight here in asia a series of pretty strongly worded statements saying that the u. S. Has to think twice if it wants to have a summit with north korea while conducting these joint m
And Robert Mueller also has an issue with Michael Flynns sentencing memo seeking no jail time. Tomorrow, Michael Cohen faces sentencing in new york and maria butina has a plea hearing. More on that in a moment. And on friday, a sentencing request for Michael Flynn and then a dispute with special counsel Robert Mueller and a witness. Thats all we know. If you are keeping score, we have 16 associates who had contact with russian associates. Everyone on the list denying colluding with russia in any way. A source telling cnn accused russian spy maria butina is now agreeing with prosecutors. The 30yearold used connections she built with the National Rifle association to work her way into the 2016 campaign. She was photographed with gop hopefuls and lobbed a question at trump at a 2015 conservative event. Do you want to continue the politics of sanctions that are damaging both economies . Or do you have any other ideas . I believe i would get along nicely with putin. I mean, where we have th
there s a lot where you don t answer a question before it is asked. because it is an honor, i m inclined to have a discussion with the president. let s bring in zach wolff live in washington. this report says mr. trump hates discipline. he may have to settle for someone in the reality of trump versus the world. mr. trump s style is so outside management norms that we hesitate to suggest any names. zach, this is one of those plum jobs in washington. when you are chief of staff to the president of the united states, there is a lot you can do to build from there. why aren t there a bunch of people beating down the doors for the job? it is traditionally a plum job in washington.
outside of these meetings. it s just nobody seems to be talking to him in person. somebody said of rubio making a compelling point, if you re going to trade you know concessions for zte to protect american farmers who shouldn t have been put in a position to need protection in the first place, you know, i mean, that the point you bring up when you re sitting with the president of the united states. all right. zach wolff, we need your answer, laurel or yanny. stand by. but right now, the trump administration is exploring using the military bases to keep the children caught crossing the board illegally. a defense department official says staffers from health and human services are informally looking at three states three sites in texas and another in arkansas. earlier tuesday, homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen defended policies that would separate children from their parents.
that were scheduled with south korea along the demilitarized today and they have called into question the summit with the u.s. after just yesterday, christine, inviting south korean journalists to attend a ceremony scheduled for next week for what is supposed to be the dismantling of north korea s main nuclear testing site. christine? ivan watson, thank you so much for that. let s go live to washington and bring in digital director zach wolff. good to see you, sir. here s the white house statement on all of these developments. we are aware of the south korean media reports and we ll continue to coordinate closely. what is missing here is anything from the president, not a tweet, from a statement. what do you make of the white house reaction or lack thereof? it was always going to be very difficult to make these talks happen. and they still could, by the