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yasmin yossoughian. the president is preparing for his second summit with jkim jong-un. he said he and kim expect the progress made at the first progress in singapore. he also thanked china's xi for his support adding the sanctions placed on the border between china and russia have been helpful. last year the u.n. reported those sanctions on fuel shipment and trade have been rendered ineffective due to moscow and beiji beijing's actions. at the time mike pompeo and nikki haley called out russia for actively attempting to undermip andunde undermine and evade north korean sanctions. the president tweet eed yesterd chairman kim realizes perhaps

better than anyone else that without nuclear weapons his country could fast become one of the greatest economic powers anywhere in the world because of its location and people and him. it has more potential for rapid growth than any other nation. here's how the presidents did scribe e described his goals for the summit on friday. >> drawing down u.s. troops a consideration in your upcoming summit with kim jong-un? >> no. that's not a consideration. that's not one of the things on the table. what is on the table? >> you want me to discuss that now? >> i do. >> everything is on the table. immediately after his initial summit with kim last june, president trump tweeted a quote, there's no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. the president did not provide evidence to back that claim. and top administration officials as high up as vice president mike pence have recently stated that north korea's nuclear weapons still threaten our people and our allies. yesterday secretary of state

mike pompeo was asked about the president's position while also discussing the goals for the summit. >> do you think north korea remains a nuclear threat? >> yes. >> but the president said he doesn't. >> that's not what he said. >> he tweeted there's no longer a nuclear threat from north korea. >> he said theest est efforts m singapore have substantially taken down the risk. we're aiming to keep the people of the united states secure. secretary pompeo privately told north korean experts that the united states would be lucky if north korea dismantled 60% of what was demanded.

the intelligence agency assessments contradict the president on north korea, iran, saudi arabia and the islamic state. privately pompeo vents his frustration on those items including earlier this month on iran in poland. mike pence denounced several allies for not agreeing with m president trump to pull out of the iran nuclear deal. privately pompeo erupted in anger saying pence undermined diplomacy. publicly the secretary remains silent. president trump ordered a series of additional tariffs on china be delayed as washington and beijing work to hammer out a deal. tariffs on 2$200 billion worth f chinese goods were set to rise from 10% to 25% this friday, march 1st. trump announced the delay yesterday on twitter writing i'm

pleased to report that the u.s. has made substantial progress in our trade talks with china on important structural issues including intellectual property, protection, technology transfer, agriculture services, currency and many other issues as a result of these productive talks i will be delaying the u.s. increase in tariffs scheduled for march 1st assuming both sides make additional progress. we will be planning a system mitt for president xi and myself at mar-a-lago to conclude a agreement. according cnbc, that meeting could take place late next month. the trump administration officials are trying to down play a public split between the president and one of his top trade officials. during an oval office meeting between the president, his cabinet officials and china's trade envoy on friday, trump and

robert light houselighthizer go testy exchange. >> we expect to go -- i don't like mous. to me, they don't mean anything. you're just going into a document. i was never a fan of an mou. >> an mou is a contract. it's the way trade agreements are generally used. people refer to it like it's a term sheet. it's not a term sheet. it's an twul contract between the two parties. a memorandum of understanding is a binding agreement between two people. that's what we're talking about. it's detailed. it covers everything in great detail. it's just called a memorandum of understanding. it's a legal term. it's a contract. >> would think that would be a long-term deal, sir? >> contracts last while they last. there's no term. they last while they last. >> mr. president -- >> by the way, i disagree.

i think a memorandum of understanding is not a contract to the extent that we wanted. we are doing a memorandum of understanding. that will be put into a final contract, i assume. to me the final contract is really the thing, bob. i think you mean that, too. it's the thing that means something. the memorandum of understanding is that. it's a memorandum of what our understanding is. to me the contract is -- the real question, bob, so we do a memorandum of understanding, which frankly you could do or not do. if you do a memorandum of understanding, how long will it take to put that into a final binding contract. >> now i'm not using the word memorandum of understanding anymore. the word is trade agreement. >> all right. so despite the president's rebuke of lighthizer, administration officials are telling the "wall street journal" that trump was trying to make clear he wasn't interested in a short-term agreement but rather a long-term deal when it came to the mous.

following days of violence president trump commented on the coast guard officer arrested after stockpiling weapons and compiling a hit list of prominent trump critics. >> when were you briefed on the coast guard member arrested for threatening democrats and -- >> i'm getting a final briefing and complete briefing in two hours. >> any thoughts on this man? >> i think it's a shame. it's a very sad thing when that happens. i expressed that. i'm getting a complete briefing in about two hours. >> do you think you bear responsibility for moderating your language when it comes to that? >> no, i don't. i think my language is very nice. >> that was on friday. the president has not made further public statements on the matter. the white house claim that the president condemns violence but that is contradicted by multiple public statements. >> if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them.

would you? seriously. okay. knock the hell -- i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. i promise. >> we're not allowed to punch back anymore. i love the old days. you know what they used to do to guys like that in a place like this? they would be carried out on a stretcherment stretcher. >> maybe he should have been roughed up. >> try not to hurt him. if you do, i'll defend you in court. don't worry about it. >> if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. though the second amendment people, maybe there is. i don't know. >> when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you see them thrown in, rough. i said please don't be too nice. >> any guy that can do a body slam, he's my kind of -- [ cheers ] he's my guy. >> not sure kind are the words i would use to explain some of

that terminology he was using there. joining us now from washington, blake houndshel. good morning. >> good morning. >> talk to us if there's any reaction to trump finally breaking his silence about the recent threats against journalists considering some of the past remarks we just played. >> he did so pretty reluctantly. it's been several days. as we saw from the clips you showed, he has a long track record of saying things about violence against journalists, and if you have been in a bullpen at one of his rallies, it's frightening stuff. it's all egged on by this president. just saying he's sad about this incident, saying his rhetoric has been very nice, certainly doesn't make someone like me feel better. you know, politico spent tens of

thousands of dollars beefing up security. a lot of news outlets -- i'm sure msnbc spent thousands of dollars adding to security. just hearing that the president is sad about this when he's daily calling us fake news and seeming to egg on people like this, it's really disturbing. i think the reaction to this has been scoffing from lots of people. i have not seen anyone prominent. i would like to see other people condemn it. certainly people are not taking him seriously on this. >> i think it's a bit of an example of a double standard that he tweets out about other acts of violence or threats of violence when he knows the identity of the shooter and it fits in his political narrative. in times like these, he hides behind things and says i'm waiting to be briefed before making a political statement or conclusion. another interesting development here, there's an obvious disagreement between the president and some top national security intelligence officials about the threat posed by north

korea, even mike pompeo yesterday saying that north korea is still a nuclear threat despite what president trump was tweeting out that it was not. could this have an impacted on the upcoming talks between trump and kim this week when you have the u.s. really on -- senior members of the administration on disagreeing sides? >> yeah, absolutely. pompeo's job is really not an enviable one. he's been handed this sort of flaming bag of poop, i would say. i don't think that anyone besides this president is excited heading into this summit. north korea continued to expand its missile program. working on more material to make nuclear bombs. the more nuclear weapons and the more missile capability north korea has, the harder it will be to take them away. just like a kid with chocolate. the more chocolate they have, the harder it is to take away. so the -- it's understandable that pompeo and the president

would disagree on this. pompeo is staring reality in the face. >> that's the first time i heard about a flaming bag of poop on television at 5:00 a.m. >> certainly on this show. blake, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thanks so much. a look at all the highlights from last night's academy awards. we'll break down the big wins. and severe in the south. a strong line of thunderstorms spawned tornadoes including one that caused significant damage in mississippi. we'll have a full check of your forecast coming up.

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is proof that we're longing for stories like this. i'm the son of immigrants from egypt. i'm a first generation american. part of my story is being written right now. i could not be more grateful to each an every one of you, and everyone who believed in me for this moment. it is something i will treasure for the rest of my life. >> so many of the films that we saw this year were people triumphing through adversity. >> many parallels with what happens on a daily basis. >> exactly. welcome back. that was rami malek. >> one of the more poignant moments of the night. >> he won the oscar last night for portraying freddie mercury in "bohemian rhapsody." >> that was one of the big wins

last night. >> "green book.." >> reporter: a drama about a road trip through the segregated south of the 1960s won oscar's top prize sunday night, best picture. >> such a privilege. this is like a dream. >> reporter: "green book" also scored best original screen play and best supporting actor for mahershala ali. honors for best actor went to rami lmalek for playing queen's front man. the big upset came "the favourite." >> this is hilarious. she beat out seven-time nominee glenn close. >> you have been my idol for so long. best acting kudos went to regina king for "if beale street

could talk." >> i'm an exacting of what love means when poured into something. >> reporter: lady gaga performed her hit from "a star is born" with bradley cooper, and then minutes later they won best original song. >> there's not a single person on the plan neet that could hav sung this song with me than you. >> "blackkklansman" and spike lee celebrated his first career oscar, by jumping into the arms of presenter samuel l. jackson. part of an oscar night that will leave tinseltown buzzing. >> isn't it incredible thinking p spi about spike lee's career, and that was his first career oscar. you can imagine that? >> you can see how excited he was that he won. >> it was actually a historic night and cool that they didn't

have a host. i think it worked well it kept the show moving faster. >> was way more fluid and there's no one to attack at the end of the day. everyone likes to take down the host of the oscars. they didn't do this, they didn't do that. >> too political. >> exactly. >> with that, let's bring in bill karins. i know you stayed up late watching the oscars, right? >> what was on? >> the academy awards, bill. >> that the same as the oscars? let's get into this forecast. we had a wild weekend. we had a pretty epic rain event with flooding in mississippi, tennessee, arkansas. tornadoes in mississippi and columbus. one fatality there. did you see the pictures of the ice yesterday? we had incredible winds in the great lakes. this is off the niagara river. that is ice being piled up by the winds on the side of the rose going up and over. creating this -- it looks like a snow mound. it's incredible stuff.

it did knock down some trees. those winds will continue today. 82 million people. the winds were up last night. they've died off a bit. this morning and early this afternoon is when they'll peak once again. a lot of airport problems in the northeast. powerful gusts of 50 to 60 miles per hour in the northeast. we have about 700,000 people without power from the great lakes to the northeast. about 35 to 45-mile-per-hour winds, stuff blowing around. this is what we'll deal with today. airport delays, cancellations and power outages. i don't think we'll see too many gusts and significant damage today, but it will be a rough afternoon, especially if you're traveling the airports in the northeast. >> thanks for that. the owner of the new england patriots gets caught up in a prostitution sting. and singer r. kelly spent the weekend in jail. those stories and more coming up next. foto severely activerately crohn's disease,

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they have video of kraft in the act. he was caught during an eight-month police investigation into human trafficking which led to nearly 300 arrest warrants. kraft is not charged with human trafficking. a spokesman for kraft released a statement saying we deny that mr. kraft engaged in any illegal activity. because it's a gjudicial matter we will not comment further. the nfl said they are aware of the ongoing matter and will continue to monitor developments. the lawyer for r. kelly says the singer may not post bail for a few more days. kelly is being held in chicago on $1 million bond following his arrest on friday. his defense attorney says kelly is capable of posting his $100,000 bail, but with others coordinating to secure his release while kelly is behind bars. the payment may not be made until monday or tuesday. kelly surrendered to police on

friday night on ten counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse involving four victims. two 16-year-olds, a 14-year-old, and his then 24-year-old former employee. charges the singer and his lawyers strongly deny. the singer has been accused of multiple criminal acts of sexual assault dating back to 1998 including child pornography charges which he was acquitted of in 2008. kelly has consistently denied sexual misconduct. all right. still ahead, house democrats are gearing up for a possible showdown over the mueller probe. party leaders are considering subpoenaing mueller himself if the report is not made public. and president trump has a new pick for u.s. ambassador to the united nations. what we know this morning about kelly knight craft. we're back in a moment. that's why i take osteo bi-flex, to keep me moving the way i was made to. it nourishes and strengthens my joints for the long term. osteo bi-flex.

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. welcome back. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the top stories. deadly violence erupted on venezuela's borders over efforts to get humanitarian aid into the country over the weekend. saturday was the unofficial deadline set for juan guaido to move shipments of food and medicine into venezuela. nicolas maduro deployed troops that clashed with crowds trying to force their way into the country ahead of the trucks. the guards fired rubber bullets and tear gas at the crowds. demonstrateders reportedly threw

rocks and molotov cocktails at troops also setting fire to a bus. at least four people were killed and hundreds injured after the violent clashes on friday and saturday. over two dozen solders defected. republican senator marco rubio warned that the violence could mean possible u.s. intervention tweeting on saturday that after discussions tonight with several regional leaders, it's clear the grave crimes committed today by the maduro regime opened the door to various potential multilateral actions, not on the table just 24 hours ago. following that weekend of violence in venezuela, vice president mike pence will hold his first meeting with juan guaido today in colombia. the two will meet after venezuela's opposition leader, guaido, called for international allies to consider all options to free venezuela from nicolas maduro after the deadly clashes between the military and protesters at the border. according to aides to the vice president, pence's trip is a

signal of support for guaido who declared himself as interim president. the u.s. is considering announcing new sanctions that could cut off the maduro government's access to funding as soon as today. president trump has announced his pick for the next u.s. ambassador to the united nations. on friday evening trump tweeted out that he will nominate kelly knight craft for that position. she is the current u.s. ambassador to canada and also a major republican party donor. mitch mcconnell personally recommended craft forever the position. she is a kentucky native and wife of joe craft, a coal barron. they have given about 1.5 million dollars to gop candidates in 2016 alone, including nearly 280,000 to trump's campaign committee for his joint fund-raising committeed with the republican

national committee. according to the "washington post," the crafts have been repeat high-paying customers at trump's hotel in washington. according to a list of vip arrivals distributed to staff last season. that list was intended to help staff identify that trump international hotel's most important customers as they checked in. the house is expected to vote on whether to overturn the president's border wall emergency declaration tomorrow. in the senate democrats need to pick up four republican votes to pass it there. according to the "washington post," five republican senators say they're opposed to the emergency declaration. senator roy blunt is among those expressing concerns. here he is speaking yesterday. >> i think we'll have to evaluate whether this is really the intention of an emergency. is it really an emergency if, again, the president asked the congress to do it and they failed to, that's different than the way the law has been used in the past. >> you could vote to try to block the president moving

forward with this emergency. you just haven't decided yet. is that fair? >> i think fats fathat's fair. >> the president promised to veto any attempt to block his order. analysis by gallup found that president trump's state by state approval slightly improved last year. 17 states gave ratings of 50% or higher for trump. better than just 12 back in 2017. 16 states rated him below 40%. the states where trump is popular are far less populated than where he is chronically unpopular. judging by their weight in the electoral college, there are just 102 electoral votes in the 17 states where his approval is above 50%. trump's approval remains above

40% in every swing state he carried, so his path to re-election remains wide open. as speculation grows about when bob mueller will finish his final report on the interference in the 2016 election, house democrats are planning to take action if the findings are not released to the public. democrats are prepared to subpoena mueller and take the trump administration to court if necessary. >> we will subpoena the report. we will bring bob mueller in to testify before congress. we will take it to court if necessary. in the end i think the department understands they'll have to make this public. i think barr will understand that as well. if he were to try to withhold, bury any part of this report that will be his legacy. it will be a tarnished legacy. i think there will be immense pressure not only on the department but on the attorney general to be forthcoming. >> you're talking about public pressure. are you preparing to take the administration to court? >> absolutely. >> joining us once again from

washington, editor-in-chief of politico magazine, blake hounshell. really quickly, do you think the democrats could genuinely compel bob mueller to "a" disclose the findings of his report if it is not made public? or at least compel him to testify and in doing so release some information of the report? or is this mostly political posturing by house democrats? >> there's always some element of political posturing, of course. it is washington. i think they're working on william barr, the new attorney general. they're trying to make it clear, amp the pressure on him that they want him to turn over whatever he has. this is a highly unusual situation. we don't know what form the mueller report is going to take. it could be simply a letter to barr saying i'm done. mueller out, mic drop. so we don't know whether there's going to be some sort of cinematic level of detail like we saw in the 9/11 report after those attacks.

it is a question of what's in there. sometimes these reports can be as simple as here's what i decline to prosecute. as we know, nobody goes into front of cameras and says why they're declining to prosecute someone several weeks before an election. >> i wonder how this will play politically for the democrats, if they decide to go all in on this and the president is not necessarily implicated in these mueller findings. yet the democrats continue to try and hammer out more, let's say, and hammer out bob mueller and try to get more information from him. how will it play for the democrats as we look towards 2020? could they lose support i guess is what i'm asking. >> one thing that's interesting, this is very much a washington story. you have got adam schiff who is not exactly a household name working this here in d.c. where the 2020 democratic candidates are, you don't see them talking about the mueller

report very much. they're talking about healthcare, about the economy, they're talking about jobs. so i think politically it's probably something that most of the country is not paying much attention to. they're worried about their next paycheck. but certainly i think democrats would have egg on their face if nothing comes up in this report. i think given all we've seen from the president, everything he's said about the investigation being a witch hunt and all of the actions he's taken, allegedly intimidating witnesses and things like that, we'll expect something to speak to the claim that he obstructed justice. it's just a question of where that fits in the political arena and who wins the arm wrestling match on camera. >> speaking of political arena, this week you will have michael cohen testifying on capitol hill a few different times. i'm sure there will be political theater in that. blake hounshell, live in d.c. for us, always a pleasure. >> thank you. still ahead, president trump unveils his proposal to celebrate the fourth of july and

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deadline. president trump drew mockery this weekend for a tweet inviting people to celebrate the fourth of july on the washington mall, which hundreds of thousands of americans have done for decades. hold the date. we will be having one of the biggest gatherings in the history of washington, d.c. on july 4th. it will be called a salute to america and will be held -- >> guess what he's proposing? >> major fireworks display. >> wow. >> entertainment. and an address by yours truly, your favorite president, me. fireworks displays have been held in the capital for decades and the fourth of july has been a federal holiday since 1870. can you believe it? more than 15 years before the president's grandfather came to the united states a year ago the president directed the military to hold a have the rveterans pa

that was called off due to cost. his inauguration was the latest ever, and then -- >> there is a way to say i will be attending this year's events and participating in the celebration. >> he was missing something in that tweet. you know what it was? >> what. >> you're welcome. let's bring in bill karins with a check on your weather. bill what have you got? >> i want to show some pictures from the tornado that struck in mississippi on saturday. this was a lot of damage done. this is columbus, mississippi a fast-moving tornado. they did not have a lot of heads up on this one. they had the warning, but it was moving very quickly. went right through some of the business district there. a lot of cleanup to be done. all right. so the winds, yesterday in the

evening, the code front weld fr through, it was windy. right now, it's not too basd. rochester 53. new york city just had a gust at 47. the high wind warnings are in place. and the airports will have a lot of white-knuckle flights. snow continuing off the great lakes. new york state throuuway is not good right now. a huge snow event in california and heavy rain. there's one spot called larsen park. the forecast from now until wednesday night, 100 inches of snow. eight feet of snow. this whole area here, that's over three feet. many areas will be around six to eight feet. the week ahead, watching that huge storm in the west. the whole southern half of the country, it's not fair. it's already spring and beautiful.

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ryan zinke is facing new scrutiny. prosecutors have begun producing evidence to a grand jury in washington on whether zinke lied over his decision to not approve of a petition in 2017 by two indian tribes to operate a commercial iscasino. the bid by the tribes resulted in a lobbying campaign by mgm international which opposed the casino. the interior department's office of inspector general opened an investigation into the matter a year ago concluding that zinke had lied to them and referred the probe to the justice department late last year. now, both the justice and interior departments declined to comment to the post and zinke did not respond to the paper. in an interview with the post last month he denied wrong doing in connection with the casino deal. let's turn to business now ahead of a sitdo dosit-down wit

president xi jinping. president trump said he will postpone tariffs on goods citing productive trade negotiations. willem marx joins us good morn. talk about how the markets are reacting to this. >> both sides, both president trump and the chinese delegation has acknowledged there being progress. in china in particular, we've seen the shanghai, the major market there reacting very positive, up 5%. we've seen quite a similar story in hong kong, tokyo and europe. ahead of the market opening on wall street, it looks like all of the markets will open higher. >> and also the ntsb, national transportation safety board,

looking through the wreckage late saturday night. they say they're continuing it try to find the black boxes that could conclude what happened in that tragic event. amazon has two separate companies that provide these planes. atlas air was managing that particular aircraft. >> digital fitness retailer peloton planning to file it ipo, choosing to leave banks over the weekend. there's a peloton bank in almost every home in new york city. >> and i know you like spinning classes. >> i knew it! >> believe me, you are don't want to see me on a bike, willem. >> you look at those classes, $30, $40 a time, it might make

sense if you want to spend $2 tuesday $2,000, $3,000 on a peloton. >> coming up on "morning joe," president trump preps for round two with kim jong un. a preview of what to expect as the president plays done expectatiexpe -- down expectations of their meeting. >> and former governor of virginia, terry mcauliffe and chicago mayor rahm emanuel all join the conversation. rahm emanl

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joining us from washington, co-found are and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. talk to you about "1 big thing" today. >> we're talking about mike pence. behind the scenes he's showing he does have more juice than people think. if you look at what he's done on the abortion front but also with what's happening in venezuela. he really has been the driving force behind the scenes to get president trump fully engaged in wanting to overthrow the maduro regime. he's going to be giving a big speech in colombia with the opposition leader this week. behind the scenes he's been the one who keeps putting the pressure on and putting the right people in front of trump to keep this on the front burner. >> i guess the question is why has he taken up the issue of venezuela in this manner and

some of the issues he has. is it part of a moral clarity, political strategy for his future or how do you explain it? >> those are issues he's been interested in for a long time. he's a christian, he's been in the abortion wars for a while. it an issue near and dear to his heart. politically it plays very well for them. he's been very careful. he never, ever breaks with trump. i think in he understands one day he might be president himself and he's been able to navigate issues the way very few have. >> michael cohen is set to testify this week.

set the stage for us. >> this is an insane week. you've got not just the speech the vice president is doing in colombia where they're trying to overthrow the government, you have the president closer to doing a deal with china, and then you have this testimony back here where you're going to have michael cohen, who has been the right-hand man to donald trump, probably knows more about donald trump than anybody outside the trump family testifying in private, then in public. the democrats see him as obviously a great asset in their hunt to try to do a bunch of different investigations of the president. behind closed doors they're going to want to square why he's lied in the past and in public ne want to pull all these different threads that will be the beginning of investigations that the house democrats plan on trump. >> so how concerned should the president be as he head

oversees, particularly with the testimony of michael cohen. >> the thing with cohen, it really depends what recordings and documents he has. he has great incentive to squeal and be able to turn on trump because he wants to limit his own legal exposure but he does have recordings and he does have access to the files. he was in every meeting, nomt just the political meetings, be the business meetings, the family meetings. he is a rosetta stone. >> you, too, can sign up to the newsletter at actionio.com. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now.

if you would have seen what we had to go through with the darkened plane, with all windows closed, with no lights on whatsoever anywhere, pitch black. i've never seen it. i've been in many airplanes, all types and shapes and sizes, i've never seen anything like it. we're coming in and i know all of the things that were surrounding us for safety. so did i have a concern? yeah, i had a concern. >> it took him nearly two years burp but as you see president trump did visit a war zone. >> a lot of people would prefer given that he's done nothing but talk about how much he loves one of the most tyrannical and dangerous leaders on the planet that they'd we fer this time, 40 years later, he actually stay away from vietnam. i don't think anybody has a say there but the president.

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