regulate what you are doing, go out there and develop and we didn't cut the first online before alexander grahamell made the first phone call, we are past that, but that is the message we are hearing. expectingt are we with regards to u.s. competitiveness with other countries like china? waysina is in a lot of animating this whole conference and it is unclear to me how much that is work to be the focus of these individual make out sessions. the agenda focus is on applications and sectors like energy or logistics. there's no question the white house is feeling pressure here to make sure america stays competitive. we feel we are first but the pressure that you and i hear a lot from the industry is we are worried are going to lose our advantage in the coming years. emily: when it comes to ai in particular, talk about what amazon might be pushing for with respect to other tech companies like google and facebook and apple. spencer: amazon what's to steer the conversation towards how ai is beneficial and get it away from this notion of job killing robots. in particular what they want to do is try to i

into th what you are doing, go out there and develop and we didn't cut the first online before alexander graham bell made the first phone call, we are past that, but that is the message we are hearing. emily: what are we expecting with regards to u.s. competitiveness when it comes to other countries like china? >> china is in a lot of ways animating this whole conference and it is unclear to me how much that is work to be the focus of these individual breakout sessions. the agenda focus is on applications and sectors like energy or logistics. there's no question the white house is feeling pressure here to make sure america stays competitive. we feel we are first, but the pressure that you and i hear a lot from the industry is we are worried are going to lose our advantage in the coming years. emily: spencer, when it comes to ai in particular, talk about what amazon might be pushing for with respect to other tech companies like google and facebook and apple. spencer: amazon wants to steer the conversation towards how ai is beneficial and get it away from this notion of job killing robots. in par

i remember at one of my regulatory hearings, i quoted the first words that alexander graham bell said over the telephone, which, of course, was come here watson, i need you. in the world of m.c.i. when they relayed the first-ever communication between st. louis and chicago, this all seems add to some of the younger pages here, but at the time the bell companies dominated all telephones and you only had those old dial telephones and you only had one company in your area that offered you service so m.c.i. came in there to compete by building their own line between st. louis and chicago. and one of their investors,er within her -- erwin sp hersch said, i'll be damn, it actually works. if it wasn't for antitrust law, m.c.i. never would have worked. we would have no competitors, we would be stuck in the old bell company world. m. clmplet i. took on at&t and broke up that monopoly. it lowered long distance prices for consumers across the country and ushered in an era of innovation and revolutionized the telecommunication industry and brought the long-distance prices down. antitrust may not

graham in just a moment. but first, nbc's peter alexander is at the white house for us. peter, good morning. >> reporter: hey, willie, good morning to you. i was just on the south lawn where the president addressed this just moments ago. president trump saying the june 12th summit with north korea could still happen, insisting the u.s. is talking to north korea right now, which if it's true would be significant because his aides just yesterday said there had been radio silence from north korea. he asked if north korea is playing games and the president said everybody plays games. >> i have decided to terminate the planned summit in singapore. >> reporter: the president this morning speaking out, hinting the summit may be back on. >> no, no, we'll see what happens. it could even be the 12th. we're talking to them now. they very much want to do it. we'd like to do it. we'll see what happens. >> reporter: it comes after north korea responded overnight, calling president trump's abrupt announcement a surprise and totally regrettable, saying it remains ready to meet with the

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