>> richard engel in seoul for us tonight. thank you. and meantime, as president trump prepares to sit down with a dictator, he's fresh off a new feud with some of america's closest allies, including our neighbors to the north in canada and prime minister justin trudeau. our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has that end of the story for us. >> reporter: as president trump tries to find peace with an enemy, he's fighting with a friend. he and his advisers throwing punches at canadian prime minister justin trudeau. >> he really kind of stabbed us in the back. >> there's a special place in hell for any foreign leader that engages in bad-faith diplomacy with president donald j. trump. >> reporter: the president calling trudeau dishonest and weak after the g7 summit in quebec. that's where trudeau made a measured comment calling new american tariffs on steel and aluminum insulting and promising to retaliate. >> canadians, we're polite, we're reasonable, but we also will not be pushed around. >> reporter: president trump keeping

richard engel returned last night from a trip to el salvador where he reported why people a willing tok this dangerous journey and family separation to come to the united states and richard joins me now from seaside, california, where we made him stop he to get on our show. richard, thanks very much. let me start with this. normally i'm talking to you and you're in a war zone somewhere, maybe you're in syria, maybe africa or maybe somewhere in asia, but here you are in central america. does it feel like the war zones you cover when you cor the war? >> reporter: ifelt very much like a war zone, a low-grade war zone and there were places in el salvador where you can't go, and where the police and government don't feel safe to go. 0e're talking about a population of000 active gang members and when you have that many people with guns and when you have ao government thatn't feel in control of the capital city, then you're having a zone dynamic. people we talked to said they're afraid to go out in the countryside. when they do they see gang members carrying their weapons openly there are gan

our chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in seoul tonight. richard, what's the thought and feeling there? >> reporter: well, i think nowhere in the world are they watching this summit more closely than they are here in seoul. this is seen as a matter of life and death. right now, today, every day, in fact, tens of thousands of north korean rockets and artillery pieces are pointed right here at seoul and the calculus has long been if the u.s. attacks north korea that north korea responds by destroying this city. just six months ago here in sel, there were protests on the street when there was all the talk of rocket man and north korea was testing its nuclear weapons and its missiles. people here thought donald trump was a warmonger who was going to bring this country and perhaps the entire world to war. now, everyone's hoping that this summit will be successful. there's talk of peace. and i don't think there's anywhere in the world where they're more optimistic, more hopeful that donald trump will be able to pull it out. but there is also this

richard engel, nbc news. >> there is more ahead including the question, do you want to lower your risk for one of the deadliest forms of cancer? experts say there is something you need to make sure is in your diet. we'll tell you more on that. >>> also we tag along with a real-life friends who have been playing the same school yard game for more than 30 years. their hilarious story and studio visit now a big hollywood movie. >>> we're back now with important news in the fight against one of the deadlyest types of cancer. researchers found vitamin d could play a key role in lowering your risk of colorectal cancer diagnosed in more than 140,000 americans a year. nbc's kristen dahlgren has details. >> reporter: vitamin d may be important for more than your bones. in one of the largest studies of its kind, the american cancer society and more than 20 other medical organizations found having higher vitamin d levels than are currently recommended reduced the risk of colorectal cancer by 22%. while having lower levels of vitamin d increased risk by more than 30%. >> the evidence is certainly

>> all right, richard engel in seoul for us tonight. than >>> sue th did not receive much discussion during this summit was the brutal reality of life in kim jong-un'regime has been accused of appalling human rights violations against his own people as well as the mistreatment of american prisoners. nbc's hallie jackson has more owhat wasn't said at this historic face-to-face. >> reporter: in singapore, smiles and a stroll from kim jong-un but back home, a u.n. report paints a much more grim picture. one of extermination, murderenslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, crimes against humanity. >> his country does love him. his people, you see the fervor. they have a great fervor. >> reporter: what he calls fervor, the u.n. calls indoctrination. another in a long and disturbing list of human rights abuses kim's accused of. >> it was discussed. it was discussed relatively briefly compared to denuclearization. obviously that's where we started and ended. >> reporter: president trump didn't dwell on the negative, instead repeatedly pointing

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we want to show you this report from our nbc news report from richard engel. it stopped a lot of us in our track when we started reviewing in the newsroom. you don't see it report anywhere else. richard is in el salvador reporting with the story with one man sent home in the u.s. without his daughter. >> nearly 100 my dpraigrants ar today in south florida deported for entering illegally. many did not want to show their faces. among these arrivals, we saw no children. where are they? >> it has been 26 days since i have seen or heard from her about his 6-year-old daughter may maybeline. he says the dangerous trip was worth it for reasons americans just don't understand. they don't know what it is like in el salvador. they don't know how bad the violence is here. they say we are like a plague but that's not true. his daughter were arrested in texas by border agent. i was told my border and i had to get on different buses because there was not enough room he says. when they were driven to mccallan, the 6-year-old was suddenly nowhere to be seen. i said where is my

bottom line, richard engel was exactly right. woody allen said 90% of life is showing up. the two leaders have sho up. compared to where we were six months ago, this is an improvement. >> yeah, and let's not forget your point about china. even president trump had noted when he originally canceled this meeting that he thought that china had gotten into kim jong-un's ear to some extent. so they are a player, as well as japan. let's not forget that japan is in range of the medium range missiles from north korea. and prime minister abe recently met with the president, expressing his concerns that while they may not have an official seat at this table, they are an important part of this conversation. i want to bring in now our nbc diplomatic analyst chris hill, former u.s. ambassador to south korea. he joins us from new york. i'm fixated a little bit with this body languag thing. what have you seen not only from their gestures but what we heard from the brief snipts that stands out to you? >> i'm not sure it's a lot, but clearly president trump is just all in. he's not going to

it is now afternoon in seoul and that's where we find nbc's chief correspondent richard engel. >> reporterth korea today, hope this historic hand shake means peace is finally in the r. president moon jae-in said he was so excited he couldn't sleep last night. now focus is turning to the curveball. president trump saying while u.s. troops would remain in south korea no, more war game. >> we will be stopping war games which will save us a treme amount of money unless and until we see the future negotiation is not going along like it should. >> reporter: but it is the one of the military alliance between the and u.s. south korea. we visited themiv extey. f-16s, firingranges, patrols, always said they're essential for the safety of south korea and american troops and their families based here. but apparently no one told the south koreans president trumppr ised chairman kim he would scrap them. a south koreanff militaryial told nbc news, we need on find out the exact o meaning intention behind his comment. american forces in south korea said they, too, received no updated guidance onti exe or c

. >> let's bring back to the conversation, richard engel who joins us from seoul and who was talking to us for the first time this evening when president trump and kim jong-un so rudely inupted him. richard, we're hap to have you back. one of the things we have been talking about tonight repeatedly is the prospect that one of the things that may be on the table tonight for lots of different reasons is a reduction of u.s. troops in south korea. how is that playing? how does that look from where you stand right now in seoul? >> reporter: so one of the things i noticed about this moment, as i was speaking and then the two of them came out, is how many photo ops there have been. there was the initial moment where prentrump and kim jong-un came out and they shook hands, then they walked in together into the room. and then they came out and very deliberately paused at the balcony and then there was the other photo on in the extended conference with president trump and kim jong-un reaching over and shaking hands. so you have to think, who was the audience here? how are each of these countrie

we want to show you this report from nbc chief fornt correspondent richard engel. it stopped a lot of us in our tracks when we started reviewing it in our newsroom this evening. and you won't see this report anywhere else tonight. richard is in el salvador reporting with the story of one man who was sent home from the u.s. without his daughter. >> reporter: nearly 100 migrants arrived today nell salvador, deported for entering the united states illegally. many didn't want to show their faces. among all these arrivals we saw no children. so where are they? # "it's been 26 days since i've seen or heard from her," says ornovez guido about his 6-year-old daughter maybelline. the two left el salvador for the united states last month. he says the dangerous trip was worth it for reasons americans just don't understand. "they don't know what it's like in el salvador," he says. "they don't know how bad the violence is here. they say we are like a plague, but that's not true." arnovis and his daughter were arrested in texas by border agents. "i was told my daughter and i had

>> richard engel in el salvador, thank you. >>> we'll take a turn now to the protests erupting in the streets of pittsburgh after police officer shot and killed an unarmed high school student in a neighboring community when he allegedly fled on foot during a traffic stop. the deadly shooting was caught on camera. nbc's ron mott has the story. we want to warn you some of these images are disturbing. >> so no justice, no peace! >> reporter: tonight, calls for justice for antoine rose. >> why they shooting at him? all he did was run and they're shooting at him. >> reporter: cell phone video showing the 17-year-old black nnpittsburgh police after running from a traffic stop, shot three times. protesters rallied outside the county courthouse, the county leading the investigation into what happened. donna giles came with her 18-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter. >> they didn't have to shoot him in his back. >> that could have been my brother or my friend. like, anybody that i know. >> reporter: police have not identified the officer who opened fire on rose and another male as they were

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richard engel has more for us. >> reporter: what may be the world's worst and least known humanitarian crisis tonight is on the verge of becoming catastrophe. at least 2,000 fighters backed by saudi arabia are advancing on the ground and from the sea and air on the port city. this is day two of a long-planned and potentially decisive battle afterhree s of civil war. an estimated 8 million people are at risk of starving and 70% of humanitarian supplies come in through this now nearly impassable war zone. >> 8 million people, even before this morning were already at risk of starvation. if the port is closed even for a day, thme s these people will die. >> reporter: food and water are in chronic ilhort supply, more than 1on people have been struck by cholera. one of the world's large st outbreaks. the u.s. has quietly backed saudi forces driving them out. the pentagon called for maximum efforts to avoid civilian casualties and for all sides to engage in negotiations. >>> there is more ahead including the question do you want er your risk for one of the deadliest forms of cancer? experts s

richard engel is in seoul for us. reporter: bombshell announcement that caught many off guard, and not in a good way, and already we are seeing north korea trying to capitalize it and saying it was the real winner. >> secretary of state pompeod at a military air base on what has become a cleanup mission. both the south korean government and militaryaid they want to knsi what prent trump meant when he canceled long-standing military exercises. >> we will bein sto the war games, which will save us a tremendous amount 6 money. >> for south korea these are not games at all,ti but ccal training missions,hat along with jointe exercises filmed extensively on patrols, on ranges and in the sky. >> even the u.s. military in south korea was apparently left in the dark, issuing a statement saying they received no updated guidance on execution or cessation of exercises. >> to be very honest with you, i uldn't believe m ears. i am hoping the united states and its president will comep with solutions that will protech the ifocent peo

nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is in seoul for us. richard, good morning. >> good morning, canceling the military exercises was a bombshell announcement that caught many people here completely offguard and not in a good way. and already we're seeing north korea trying to capitalize on it, saying it was the real winner from the summit. secretary of state pompeo arrived at a military air base in south korea today on what has become a clean-up mission. both the south korean government and military said they want to know what president trump meant exactly, when he canceled longstanding military exercises. >> we will be stopping the war games. which will save us a tremendous amount of money. >> for south korea, these aren't games at all. but critical training missions that along with frequent joint exercises, we filmed extensively on patrols, on ranges, and in the sky. allow american and south korean troops to practice fighting together. should they ever need to confront north korea's 1.2 million man army together. north korea's propaganda

. >>> richard engel watched the events unfold from south korea. he's with us along with jeremy bash and dr. victor cha. dr. cha, we want to start with you for a minute. this isn't the first agreement between the u.s. and north korea. you were in the bush administration when another agreement was written up. you know what goes on during this movie. what do you expect? >> what we got was a broad statement, which will require negotiations to try to put meat on the bones. but the statements of denuclearization that we care the most, as americans, are so broad, you can drive a truck through them. there's nothing on timetable. there's nothing on the stockpile of weapons. there's nong -- nothing on long-range missiles. >> what is the agreement you tried for back in the bush years and this one? >> back in the bush years, we got a commitment by north korea to abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs, which is a much more definitive statement than what we achieved yesterday by president trump. having said that, the north koreans violated th

joining me now is richard engel, chief correspondent for nbc news in seoul south korea. and peter alexander, nbc news national correspondent joining us from singapore. richard, as always, i count on you for the big picture. is this an inflection point? are we going to see kim jong-un as one of president trump's friends in the months ahead? friends, public friends. >> reporter: well, that's a very hard question to answer. the government here of south korea certainly hope so. a statement from president moon came out just a short while ago and he said that he was watching these talks with great hope and excitement and hope that it's going to bring peace and prosperity. that he was so excited he couldn't sleep yesterday. however, there are other south koreans who are a lot more skeptical. they say this is all about show, that this is a photo op, that the two leaders, kim jong-un and president trump each want to get something out of this and that it is really more about optics than real diplomacy. that president trump wants to distract from his problems at home and show that h

his top diplomat is reassuring allies that substantive discussions are ongoi ongo joining me is richard engel and jeff bennett. so far to reporters it's been that north korea understands there will be in-depth verification. he also says he's very optimistic that they will agree to major disarmament. how do you think that will go over where you are right now and what do you make of secretary's message? >> reporter: officially the south korean government is getting on board. there was a statement from the government here saying that it understands that the cancelling of the joint military exercises may have been necessary in order to support the talks toward denuclearization. you're seeing the south korean government which is very closely allies with the united states. tryi to make sure there's no distanceenit. there was a lot of surprise here, a by of annoyance that they weren't consulted. wanting to know was it really over? would these military exercise vs to be scaled down. wanted to know what the intention was. today trying to put the best foot forward saying they understand why they might

trump also agreed to halt military exercises in south korea, a move that took seoul by surprise richard engel has more >> reporter: across south korea today, hope this historic handshake means peace is finally in the air presiden jae-in, who met kim jong-un to help organize this summit, said he was so excited he couldn't sleep last night. but now, focus here is turning to that curveball. president trump saying while u.s. troops would remain in south korea, no more war games >> we will be stopping the war games, which will save us a tremendous amount of money, unless and until we see that the future negotiation is not going along like it should >> r but twice annual war games and joint exercises are the cornerstone of the military alliance between the u.s. and south korea we visited them extensively in f-16s, on firing ranges, on patrol, always told by commanders they're essential for the safety of south korea and american troops and their families based here. but apparently no one told the south koreans president trump promised chairman kim he'd scrap them a south korean military official tol

richard engel, el salvador. >> thank you, richard for that reporting. a story of one father deported without his daughter. i think we can imagine how difficult it will be for this person to reunite with his daughter because this person doesn't know where she is. it is proving incredibly hard for the parents inside of the u.s. so closer to their children. over 2,300 chirp ldren removed m the parents and distributed in the shelters and foster homes around the nation. babies as young as eight or nine months showing up in the middle of the night to shelters in michigan and new york state. an attorney heard that more than two dozen stories detained for weeks without the children and that attorney said they have not been able to locate one of the children. it is just a total labyrinth. the government officials saying they have given detained people a flyer with a number. providing shelter for unaccompanied immigrant children. none of the clients received one. when they call the number, often known answers and when they pick up, that person refused to offer de

next more extended bilateral discussion we're going to bring in nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel who's been watching tonight's proceedings from seoul. richard, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, people here have been watching this very, very closely. if you think it has been an emotional roller coaster watching president trump's foreign policy, particularly regarding north korea, from the united states, it has been an absolutely wild ride in this country. people have so much at stake here. they feel that their lives are being debated in real time. six months ago there were protests on the streets here in seoul. i was in the middle of the protests. people were calling president trump a warmonger. they thought he was going to provoke a war with his rhetoric with north korea, that north korea was demonstrating its willingness to have a war every time it launched another missile or blew up another nuclear weapon. and people here that seoul was potentially going to get destroyed and that hundreds of thousands of people in the city were going to get killed. now they are watching

. >> richard engel is in seoul where they're, of course, watching this quite keenly because they're profoundly of time in south korea, trying to understand the tension it's and what it would take there to make people there feel fe. what are your thoughts? >> reporter: well, i think this document, we've seen the text by now. it is so vague as to almost be meaningless. it's declaration of principles, in which the t sides, president trump and kim jong-un agree to work for better relations on the korean peninsula. north korea works to denuclearize, although that's never exactly spelled out what that is. there's no time frame. there's no enforcement mechanism. so it looks like president trump spent a great deal to get this very vague agreement. he came to asia. he put his own credibility, he put the united states' credibility on the line. spent american political capital, in order to get this unenforceable commitment. where i am in south korea, the south korean government is going to be very pleased by this. while president trump is going to spin himself as a win because he got some piece of paper

what happens with the parents like the one richard engel showed us that have already been deported backsaw the kids, especially the infants, toddlers, people like my assistant has a baby who couldn't tell you his name, he is a baby, are these children in some way having these identities recorded in a way that the parent could even figure out -- let's say they've been sent to michigan and the parent has been deported back to guatemala. how would that parent in guatemala who can't get back in find that kid? >> one is hhs tells me, yes, we record specific information about every person that we have in our custody and the border patrol and homeland security assigns an "a" number to every undocumented implant that they take into their custody as well. it's very hard to get that information if you're trying to track folks. but the second part of this is if you're deported back to guatemala or honduras or el salvador, you are not a rich person. you are no the hiring a new york city attorney to go chase -- michael avenatti who is down there talking to people -- to chase after these folks and yo