one day after kim jong-un appeared willing to enter a dialogue during new years address. protest continue in tehran. president trumps returns to washington. back at the white house. facing heavy to duolist as 2018 gets underway. hey, good morning. it's tuesday, january 2. i'm ayman mohyeldin. alongside yasmin vossoughian.

we begin with what appears to be a major breakthrough in diplomacy between north korea. developments are moving fast. on new year's day, kim jong-un suggested talks to possibly send a delegation to the winter olympics in south korea and this morning, the south responded with a proposed date exactly one week from today. now that country's unification minister wants to meet january 9 at shared border village located in the joint security area. this would be the first formal talks between north and south career since december of 2015. south korean president moon jae-in favors dialogue with the north and could be a step to easing nuclear tension. suggested delaying joint military exercises with the united states until after the winter games. that is only part of the reason why the move could drive a wedge between washington and seoul. while kim struck a conciliatory tone with the south, blustery rhetoric against the united states remained. warning america his nuclear

weapons can reach the united states while claiming, quote, the nuclear button is always on my desk. president trump has yet to respond. however, we did hear from senator lindsey graham concerning the olympics. he tweeted out, allowing kim jong-un north korea to participate in the winter olympics would give legitimacy to the most ill legitimate regime on the planet. if north korea goes to the olympics, we do not. now to latest on ongoing mass of violent protest in iran. most dramatic since 2009 election in the green movement. ap is reporting that per iranian state media. nine more people were killed overnight. several of which apparently tried to break into a police station to steel weapons there. so far, at least 21 protesters are died. along with one police officer after that began late last week. a small localized rallies against the ongoing economic

problem spread too much of the country and morphed to encompass anger at the government and religious leaders as well. hundreds of people have been arrested. feared volunteer militia nor the revolutionary guard have been deployed. although the protest looks like a threat, we need to turn it into an opportunity and see what the problem is adding however that the government would crack down on lawbreakers. president trump weighed in via twitter yesterday tweeting iannetta is failing in every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the obama administration. the greet iranian people have been repressed for many years. hungry for food and freedom. along with human rights the wealth of iran is being looted. time for change. vice president pence foreshadowed the administrations response. tweeting the united states will not repeat the shameful mistake of our past while others stood by and ignored the iranian

people as they fought against their regime. we must not and will not let them down. joining us live from london. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley, good to have yo with us following this story. appears the trump administration lending its full throat backing to the protesters. let's talk a little bit about what kind of appetite there is among the public for trump's support. not just trump. heard from mike pence and nikki haley at the u.n. especially after the nuclear play in the deal after the conclusion of the trump's travel ban. >> you know, some of the experts that we've spoken to have said the u.s. president's tweets aren't likely to have any effect on the situation on the ground in iran. that's too bad that from the president's perspective because the iranian people are actually by middle eastern standards they're quite secular. a lot of them are quite sympathetic to the west because they've lived under what is a very religious dogmatic regime

for so many decades. if these tweets to anything, they would be to backfire against the protesters. donald trump is so reviled in iran for repeatedly insulting the iranian people. mentioned attempted travel ban. accusations of terrorism. he's repeatedly threatened to dismantle the 2015 nuclear deal. given vocal support to israel's right wing. list goes on and on. no love lost between trump and the iranian public. some of the iran experts we spoke with said the tweets from the president are likely to backfire if anything because most people won't listen to the president, but there is this risk that might actually turn them off. because like any middle eastern, many of the iranian regimes first moves when confronted with the protest was to blame foreign interlopers. trump and pence cheer leading on the sidelines could put pay and make it years for the iranian regime and powerful groups to accuse the protesters of being little more than traders.

>> live for us in london. meanwhile capitol hill has been swift to the responses of the iran. graham echoed president and vice president. saying trump should do quote the exact opposite of obama. while adding that he has to do more than just tweet about the situation. two of his republican senate colleagues, tom and rob portman both say america should support the demonstrators with portman adding all freedom loving countries around the world should support them. democratic senator bob menendez said he was inspired bid the demonstration. tim kaine offered advice on what the u.s. could do to help the democracy movement. drop the iranian travel ban. president trump's first tweet of 2018 has sparked tensions between the u.s. and ally pakistan. trump tweeted the united states has foolishly given pakistan more than $30 billion in aide over the last 15 years and given us nothing by lies and deceit. thinking of our leaders as fools. gave safe haven to the

terrorists we hunt in after began stan with little help. no more. pakistan fired back saying pakistan is anti-terror ally has given free to u.s. land and air communication, military bases and intel cooperation that decimated al qaeda other the last 16 years, but given us nothing, but incentive and minus trust. they overlook cross border. "washington post" reports officials are expected to hold a cabinet meeting today to adopt a response to trump's tweet. meanwhile, the white house noted it intends to continue withholding aide to pakistan. already appropriated by congress. that aide has been on hold since august. speaking of president trump, returned to washington last night after a ten day vacation to florida. according to nbc news's count. it was 117th day that the president spent at all trump owned property. including 91 days at a trump golf property.

approximately 34% of 347 days in office so far have been spent at one of the president's residences. scheduled to meet with mike pence and alex acosta today. rex tillerson and jim mattis tomorrow. they're going to meet at the capital with senior members from both parties about the deferred action for childhood arrives program. daca, that is set to expire on march 5. upcoming deadlines whether to extend government funding and warns of electronic surveillance. march, decisions must be made on the children's health insurance program and raising the debt ceiling. >> let's talk more about this. dave, happy new year to you. good morning. thanks for joining us. talk to us about congress's very full to do list.

everything ayman just talked about whether it be daca or people talking about wanting to get infrastructure legislation pushed through there. what in your opinion is going to be the most difficult stuff congress has to face. >> all tricky. another thing we're hearing about the welfare reform. agenda for the first half of the we're. they've said i think one thing we're still not moving past even though it's a new year is obamacare. president trump is continuing to bring up repeal and replace. now the individual mandate is gone and so there might be some impetus there. they lost a vote in the senate. likelihood of moving that forward is as low as it's been if not lower and it's something they're still going to have to try to move forward on in 2018. >> we know mitch mcconnell has kind of thrown some shade on the idea of obamacare being repealed in 2018. do you see any areas where there's a potential for bipartisan ship agreement and one that is often cited as infrastructure. do you think that infrastructure

is still possible? >> this is a really interesting case because the votes are probably there. a lot of democrats have made infrastructure priority dating back to obama administration. it didn't get done there. partially because republicans didn't want to work with president obama. now it's the flip side. there's really no political reason for democrats to work with president trump. he's very unpopular. going into 2018 midterms. talking about a wave against president trump. so can they put that aside and hammer out a infrastructure deal and can president trump get out of his own way in terms of working alongside them. seems unlikely to happen the way things are going right now. things can change. there's reason for optimism. >> i want to touch on north korea while we have you. maki making a blunt statement, if north korea participates in the olympics, u.s. will not. are we going to see more of

this. >> it does hinder democratic talks if it comes from the white house too. south korea has said we're willing to sit down with north korea and hammer this out if the message comes from washington is hey, there's no reason -- there's no room for compromise on your side. that can't help. other republicans are more willing for lindsey graham to wait for the white house line on this. live for us in washington, d.c. thanks. still ahead as the new year gets underway, take a look at new laws now in effect in different states. plus temporary computer outage causes airport delays across the country. very latest on that plus a check on your weather. it's cold. when we come back. shawn evans: it's 6 am.

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welcome back. new year has ushered in a number of state laws ranging from the legalization of marijuana to paid family leave and restrictions on talking on your cell phone while driving. nbc pete williams has a look at

new rules. >> reporter: the new year brings retail sales of recreational marijuana to the nation's most populous state. it's legal in california for adults over 21. rules are strict. it must be sold in sealed child resistant packages. shops must close by 10:00 p.m. >> make sure these businesses are not located near parks or schools or churches. things of that kind. >> oregon banned selling cigarettes to anyone under 21, including e cigarettes known as vapes. fourth state to do so. maine becomes the fifth in july. in law in tennessee makes it illegal to drive through a school zone while holding a schbschcell phone. that includes, texting, reading, talking. drivers under 18 can't use the phone at all in school zones. not even hands free. most comprehensive law require employers to give paid family leave. up to 12 weeks a year. newborn or sing family member at

home. at this brooklyn catalog and online retailer said it's good for the bottom line. >> providing workers with opportunity to balance personal needs and work requirements is something that we think is in our business interest as well. >> in vermont, the boss can no longer demand user names or passwords to get into the social media accounts of employees or job applicants. gun owners in california cannot get ammunition through the mail. they must buy it in person at a licensed dealer. a step towards eventual background checks. >> new year brings 1.9% pay raise for nation's federal workers. on average, $140 a month. no celebrating the new year in las vegas with shark fin soup. illegal in nevada. pete williams. washington. at least 79 women running or seriously considering a run for governor according to the tally. politics in rutgers university. women, 39 democrats and 49

democrats likely to become one of the trends of the 2018 elections. more women than ever running for public office. according to "washington post," the rutgers tally more than doubles that of four years ago. and is on track to surpass the record 34 women who ran for governor in 1994. the resurgence and political activism among women has already turned over seats in several state houses, but the position of governor has been a hard reach for female candidates. 39 women held the position. there are only six female governors currently in office. new york city mayor bill cosby worn in. speaking to the crowd. both men made less than subtle references to the trump administration. check this out. >> when mayor de blasio and his administration understand is that in this country, the in the home of ellis island, our job is

to bring people together with love and compassion. and to end the divisions. and the attacks. >> in this hay day of hatred, this new dawn of divisiveness, we in our city refuse to be dragged down to a place we know is beneath us. we know that the gaudy celebration of discrimination based on faith or color or nationality is simply un-american. it is a violation of who we are. >> now mayor de blasio was easily re-elected back in november. first democratic to return to city hall in new york since edward conch did it back in 1985. switch gears a moment and get a check on weather with meteorologist michelle grossman. >> frigid once again today. going to be freezing all the way down to the south. take a look at numbers. this map here is our highest for the day.

kind of looks like the lows. waking up to. many spots not getting above freezing as we head throughout the afternoon. dallas below freezing, 29. 12 degrees today in chicago. 26 in new york city. factor in the winds. feels colder than that. dangerous windchills once again. practically the half east of the united states under a windchill warning or windchill advisory. you see this dark pink here. windchill warning and advisory. lighter pink. once again, layers, that's going to be the name of the game as we step out today. a lot of kids back at school. suffering through all the cold. jet stream far south allowing cold air to come down from canada and keep us cold today. little bit of a break tomorrow before colder air comes in for the weekend. right now looking at seven below zero in chicago. that's a cold bus stop i would say. six below zero. keep factoring winds. feels like 19 below. 12 in oklahoma city. over to the east, five in boston, seven below zero as i

mentioned in chicago. not warming up on wednesday morning. two in indianapolis. 13. we're above the single digit mark in philadelphia on wednesday. thursday, a little bit better as i mentioned on friday looking at another cold weather. look at friday. this will set us up for snow. potential nor'easter. talk about that when i come back in just a bit. >> oh, man. >> do you know this new year's eve was the second coldest new year's eve on record since the 60s. it was that cold. >> should we fact check that. can we look at that. i think so. i think i'm correct. i do. still ahead. college football national championship is finally set. it only took one of the greatest granddaddies of them all to get there. very exciting game. all the highlights in sports next. he start of a new year for you and your family. and we'd like you to be part of ours. happy new year! so our chevy employee discount is still available to everyone. you pay what we pay, not a cent more.

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welcome back. time now for sports. only thing to talk about is college football. playoffs finally over. oklahoma squaring off against georgia for the first time ever. playing the rose bowl with chance to punch tickets to title game. this one would be a game for the ages. oklahoma got out to a fast start. stretching their lead to 14 going into half time, but that was cut back in part to georgia running back sensation. had three touchdowns including this 38 yard run. tieing the game at 31. michelle compiled 181 yards rushing on the night. georgia then takes the lead early in the fourth quarter with a four yard pass to david.

set up by may field. inter interception. ain't over until it's over. take the lead. stephen parker recovers. returning it 46 yards for the touchdown you see there. sooners go up 45-48. georgia again ties the game with under a minute to go. two yard running. run in by nick. overtime we go. oklahoma with a chance to retake the lead. settling for a field goal. austin gets blocked believe it or not. tie at 48. georgia with a chance to win. let michelle take the snap. he takes it in for 27 yards. sealing the deal. georgia punching ticket to college football playoff game next monday night. you know where that game is being played. atlanta gentleman. home field advantage there. waiting to see where they play. number 4 alabama faced off against clemson. rematch of title game. the third in a trilogy is often the weakest.

same rule applied last night. alabama in control. throws a 12 yard pass to calvin to give the tied the 10-0 lead. respond with field goals. capitalized on turnovers. intercepts kelly bryant returning 21 yards to set up alabama touchdown. find pain in the end zone as the crimson tide goes up 17-6. bryant picked off gwen in the third quarter. this time by mack wilson. returns it. 18 yards for the score. crimson tide head to their third straight title game. looking for fifth crown. they will face georgia bull dogs. the team we were just talking about there in an s.e.c. national championship game in atlanta monday night. two played early in the year. georgia winning that game. still ahead, on the sideline

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welcome back. sit the bottom of the hour. start with the top stories this morning. appears to be a major breakthrough in diplomacy between north and south korea. south korea's unification minister proposing high levels of talk one week from today. move comes after kim jong-un

suggested on new year's day the possibility of talks and sending a delegation to the winter olympics in south korea. just a couple of minutes, we're going to go live to seoul for the very latest on that. president trump is back at the white house this morning. after returning from his ten day vacation to florida last night. trump is scheduled to lunch with vice president mike pence and labor secretary alex acosta today. comes as the president faces a number of agenda items including the january 19 deadline on whether to extend government funding. and decisions in march on the children's health insurance program. of course you also have the raising the debt ceiling debate. >> president trump kicked off the new year by criticizing u.s. ally pakistan on twitter writing the u.s. has foolishly given pakistan $30 billion in aide over the past 15 years and they've given us lies and deceit. expected to hold a cabinet meeting today in response to

trump's tweet. per iranian state media, nine more people killed overnight. several tried to break into a police station to steal weapons. 21 protesters have died. along with one police officer. began late last week a small localized rally against iran's economic problems. began to spread to most of the country and morphed to encompass anger at the government. eventually at the country's religious leaders. hundreds of people have been arrested. however, so far neither iran's feared mailitia nor the guard have been flodeployed. >> nine more people have been killed. raising the death toll to over 20. threatening thing is one member of the security services was also killed other over the weekend. three were injured. very threatening new development

because it could elicit an even more forceful response from the regime. ayman just mentioned. we haven't yet seen the volunteer militia being deployed on the streets and we haven't seen the iranian revolutionary guard corps. two groups we can expect to see on the street. what the regime back in 2009 during the green movement. when they did that, we started to see real repression. we started to see a lot more fighting from the government. we started to see many, many more arrests and many more deaths. dozens of deaths and that debate is still going on about how many people were killed during the green movement uprising. again, if we're going to be comparing it back to 2009, these protests are quite different. quite a bit smaller. leadership of these protest is much more diffuse and genesis of the protest isn't in tehran and the capital. it's in the countryside. totally different demographic of people who have started this and continuing to sustain this.

they could very well peter out on their own. there isn't a political opposition leading the protest. it's anyone's guess where this goes from here in the next couple of days. yasmin. >> matt dradly for us. thank you. if the revolutionary guard were to be deployed. that would come from the top down. i think an interesting point bradley brings up is what's so different about this compared to 2009 is this is a working class protest. in 2009, it was very middle class. the middle class are very comfortable right now. they don't want to rock the boat. whereas the working class are most affected by the economic issues that are happening in iran right now. they're the ones really that can make their votes heard more so now than ever. for the most part, majority of iran is really working class in general. >> no doubt about it. keep in mind you had millions of people line up and go to the

votes. go to the polls a couple of months ago to re-elect. he still has support. that's what is making this story particularly challenging to find out what is the stamina of the protest. how large they are. the government has shutdown the internet and social media. making it hard for them to get that information out. still having a hard time of how big this is. >> i just want to say it's not president trump that iranians don't necessarily want intervention from. historically. >> it's westerners in general. >> if you think all the way back to the 50s when they overthrew in 53 fueled by the u.s. there's an inherent mistrust with any sort of intervention from the west. house chairman devin nunez is preparing to move past russian metaling. fbi and justice department. fox news reported in a thursday letter to deputy attorney rod

rosenstein. nunez wrote to dnj and failed to produce in subpoena related to dossier. doj fbi's intran gent is part of a prodder part of behavior that can no longer be tolerated. seems the doj and fbi need to be investigating themselves. by tomorrow, january 3, the justice department must provide all records and available dates for witnesses to testify. "the washington post" reported that republican negligence committee member trey gowdy of south carolina said his heart would be broken if follows through on a corruption expose about the fbi. gowdy suggested nunez has taken some of these steps without the express blessing of house speaker paul ryan. in october, speaker ryan

appeared to show frustration over the response to subpoenas about the dossier. take a listen. we have had document request with the fbi for a long time. they've been stonewalling. the fbi and justice department need to give congress the documents it's been requesting. they need to do so immediately. >> you used the word stonewalling. you think there's intentional stonewalling. >> we've had document requests out there for sometime. >> president trump pledged to shrink the federal government. would seem he's making good on that campaign promise. shows by the end of september, all cabinet positions with the exception of homeland security veteran affairs and interior shed hundreds of employees since trump took office. by the tend of last september, the number of permanent federal workers, 1.94 million was down nearly 16,000 since the beginning of last year. that compares to obama's first year in office in which 68,000 employees were added.

decline is result of exodus of career employees. few were political appointees and hiring freeze. warn to brace for deeper budget cuts in 2019 as part to pay for tax law. according to officials briefed on budgets for their agency. editor for axios. good to see you. looking at this sort of decline in the number of federal employees while fulfilling a campaign promise as i mentioned and very sort of thrilling, we could say for conservatives who want to sea a smaller government. isn't there a risk that too few workers at other agencies can hamper priorities. >> the things going on at the cabinet departments are really one of the most underdiscussed aspects of this presidency, i think. especially looking at staffing

levels. you have low moral at the staffing agencies. we're cutting spending. there's certainly a downside. something we might be feeling for years to come. >> switch gears for a moment and talking about the russia probe. particularly devin nunez seen stepping out into his own calling for the fbi to be investigated. appears to have at least some support from paul ryan. do you see broader support on capitol hill, maybe in particular among the republican party that this call for investigating the fbi and doj may gain some traction. >> the kind of things he's talking about are also the things other republicans have talked about. they've said this is an overreach by mueller in terms of his mandate. and also you know, the way that this investigation got started was murky. and maybe there was some as nunez would say corruption

there. so there's definitely some momentum on that front. the tricky things is nunez himself. he started this whole thing by recusing himself. now he sort of eased himself back into this role. he's kind of caught in the middle in a way that some republicans i would guess are feeling pretty uncomfortable with, but like you said, paul ryan has spoken more faifvorabl than unfavorably. >> george papadopoulos had a night fuelled bid alcohol when he talked to australian diplomat and spilled the beans on meetings and fact russians may have had attack on hillary clinton. for a while, washington thought that the russia probe was fueled by the sort of controversial dossier that came out. what is the reaction now in washington with this clang of gears that "new york times" reported on. this is one of the frustrating things about this story. both sides just cherry pick the pieces of information that they choose to believe and base their

analyses on. this papadopoulos information would seem to undermine a key claim that nunez and others have made which is that this dossier is what launched all of this. this was the first domino to fall. and now we're hearing that's not the case, but again, that's something that democrats will seize on and republicans seem more than happy to ignore. >> dave, live for us in washington, d.c. thanks for insights this morning. new report examining efforts by china to step up on the world stage in era of donald trump. making china great again examines how america first policy and reduction of u.s. commitment abroad has allowed china to peruse that larger role. country's leader predicted a time would come to predict value abroad. those leaders have expected that shift to happen midway through the century. article states in the the age of trump, that time has come far sooner than ever expected. it sites one example.

trump's decision to withdraw the u.s. from a trans-pacific partnership on his third day in office. u.s. allies in asia told the articles author that decision damaged america's contribute on the same day as trump's inauguration. the new yorker says that major general strategist at china's national defense university celebrated trump's expected announcement regarding tpp in that speech to communist party officials. the magazine reports trump had given china a quote, huge gift by withdrawing from tpp. adding as the u.s. retreats globally, china shows up. the piece adds that former president obama's foreign policy was characterized as leading from behind that president trump's doctrine may come to be defined as retrieving from the front as he continues to sever u.s. commitments. he considers risky, costly or politically unappealing. the author of that piece joins morning joe in just a little while. what a way to start the new

year. thousands of passengers left momentarily stranded after a computer glitch. cnbc joins us live from london. what an annoying thing it must have been for people trying to return from the holidays dealing with this glitch. what more can you tell us about it. >> most definitely, ayman. that indeed happened. immigration desk computers were closed on monday. outage happened between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. affecting thousands of passengers at the time. some of the airports affected were denver and jfk. as of yet, doesn't appear as though the disruption was malicious in nature and all flights are back to normal. hopefully not too many plans got disturbed. it is the first trading day of the year. asia equity markets are having a strong day. up 2% on stronger chinese manufacturing data. and news of north and south

korea. unfortunately, european markets are not fairing as well. being dragged down by a weak performance in the auto sector. u.s. sectors pointing too much happier open. i should tell you as a reminder that both dow and s&p did end out the year respectfully 20 and 25% last year. people definitely hoping they can put in a repeat performance for 2018. >> see how that fairs when the markets open up. still ahead, some of hollywood's most powerful women join forces to put a stop to sexual conduct. new role for fox news host within the mrs. america organization amid sexist e-mail scandal. those stories plus the first possibility of the snowstorm for the new year and rest of your forecast when we return.

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celebrities including sheryl streep, carry washington among 300 actresses, directors, producers, writers, agents and entertainment executives to have launched initiative called times up to fight systemic sexual harassment in hollywood and workplaces nationwide. times up says it will support laws that penalize companies that tolerate persistent harassment and established $13 million legal defense fund reports times up has asked women to wear black at go-- former mrs. america has been asked to be ceo. former fox news anchor sued the company back in july.

2016. alleging that then ceo sabotaged her career after she refused his sexual advances. he resigned days later and the two settled for reported $20 million. former mrs. america ceo, coo and chairman lynne resigned last month after huff post cited leaked e-mails from 2014 and 2015 showing leaders at the organization making inappropriate comments about former pageant contestants. in a statement last month. described report as vicious and said it was edited e-mails. he resigned next with no comment. let's switch gears, bring in michelle brogrossman. using the word freezing in more ways than one. >> we are looking at frigid air. dangerous air. no matter how you look at it. freezing for weeks. continue through the next two

weeks. let's take a look at highs for today. looking at temperatures below freezing in most spots across the u.s. with the exception of the southwest. those are lucky one us. get your plane ticket there. 36 in atlanta. right above freezing there. 29 in dallas. 24 in oklahoma city. and 12 in chicago. look at this map here. windchill warnings and advisory. factor in the winds. feels like on your body. feels a lot colder. the air temperatures than i showed you. windchill warnings in the hot pink. windchill advisory in lighter pink. a lot of cold air across the way. down to the south jet stream dipped all the way down to south. allowing canadian air to come down. seeing freeze warnings in texas, mississippi, alabama. even parts of northern florida. we're seeing temperatures that are below freezing. so as we go throughout the rest of the week, we're going to have a little reprieve on thursday. then as we go towards thursday and friday. looking at an area of low

pressure. right north of the bahamasbaham this will strengthening through the next couple of days. wednesday wintery mix along the carolinas. further to the north. could see first nor'easter of the season. parts of maine and massachusetts. bill karins will be back tomorrow to refine the track. still ahead. much more on the developing situation on the korean peninsula. south proposing talks with the north. >> live to seoul for the very latest on what the country's president calls a ground breaking chance to improve relations with to improve relath kim jong-un and the forth.

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. welcome back. now to this fast moving diplomatic development. on new year's day, kim jong-un expressed talks to possibly have talks about, if. >> let's go to seoul, south korea. kelly kobiaya joins us. how is it playing out in south korea this morning? >>. >> reporter: ayman, yes, that's right. president kim jong-un sees it. he said it this morning. it's why the government moved so quickly to propose a date to the north koreans. as you said, next week tuesday in the truce village in the demilitarized zone, the topic of

the talks would primarily be the olympic games, forth, kim jong-un, proposing that he sends a delegation here for the games if just a month's time. so how would that happen? what would be the logistics? will they come through the demilitarized zone, make a big deal of snit would they march with the south koreans in the opening ceremonies as moon has suggested in the past. moon is also talking about how this is potentially going to open the door for further talks. he says that, interestingly, those further talks would have to include a discussion of the nuclear program ayman and yasmin. >> kelly, help us understand what these talks could mean for the relations for u.s. and south korea? >> reporter: well, a lot of analysts have suggested that perhaps the north koreans see an opening and a possibility of

creating wedge between the south koreans and the u.s., president moon and president trump have very different ideas on how to engage or isolate north korea. those are their differing views there. but again, interestingly today the south korean government said they are in close consultation with the u.s. they've consulted the u.s. in offering up this date. so if the lan is to drive a wedge, it hasn't worked just yet. also, guy, i should mention, no response yet from the north koreans on that proposed date. >> we spoke with the u.s. olympic committee earlier saying they were going to participate in the ongoing tensions, it's hard to see how senator lindsey graham's comments may change for us. thank you. coming up next on "morning joe," the deadly protests in iran. the latest on the government's violent crackdown on the sharp criticism. the president gets back to work

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welcome back, everybody. for president trump today, following his return to d.c. yesterday, the president has a light schedule for his first official day back at the white house. he will have lunch with vice president pence and alex acosta on his agenda. al frank isn't scowled to resign over allegations of sexual misconduct. lt. gov. tina smith is expected to be sworn in tomorrow as his replacement and will if ill the seat until the 95 election. >> "morning joe" starts right no now. 2018 will be a year of opportunity and extreme danger. the president has drawn a line telling the regime, i will never hit you with a missile, if i have to, you will engage with

you. the koreans are listening. we have a chance to deliver fatal blows to bad actors if 2018 f. we blink, god help us all. >> iran, north korea and you can now throw pakistan into that mix. president trump is staring down leaders from nuclear armed nations in a test of his foreign policy and america first strategy. this morning, there are big developments concerning each country and uprising in iran and few moves from korea and pakistan reacting sharply to a trump tweet. as america moves back, china steps forward seizing a level of influence that beijing's own government thought it would take decades to achieve. and loose lips sink ships, with the russia investigation stemming from a night of bo