BREAKING: Kim Jong Un has invited Donald Trump to a meeting in North Korea
— The Spectator Index (@spectatorindex) March 8, 2018
BREAKING: South Korean official: Donald Trump says he will meet with North Korea's Kim Jong Un by May.
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 9, 2018
WATCH LIVE: South Korea's national security adviser makes announcement on North Korea. https://t.co/vaPakoPB7L pic.twitter.com/wGnvqLIzff
— ABC News (@ABC) March 9, 2018
Breaking news South Korea announces at White House that Trump will accept Kim Jong Un invitation to talk and will negotiate denuclearizing Korean Peninsula and freeze tests during talks
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) March 9, 2018
Breaking News: North Korea's leader invited President Trump to meet for nuclear negotiations. Mr. Trump is said to have accepted, a breathtaking gamble.https://t.co/x15AqpVuvB
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 9, 2018
Breaking: North Korea leader Kim Jong Un offered to suspend missile tests and invited US President Trump to meet in the message that was delivered by the South Korean delegation, according to a senior US official and a former US senior official. (via @eliselabottcnn)
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) March 9, 2018
North Korea has been seeking a summit with an American president for more than twenty years. It has literally been a top foreign policy goal of Pyongyang since Kim Jong Il invited Bill Clinton. (1/3)
— Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) March 9, 2018
South Korea says Trump will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un by May, and that North has pledged to refrain from missile tests. https://t.co/lIqhUX2YpZ
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 9, 2018
Whoa, hold on a minute there lads…
GOP lawmaker: Trump deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for North Korea talks https://t.co/qcBvnItXt1 pic.twitter.com/sNetNXfJOO
— The Hill (@thehill) March 8, 2018
A visit by Trump to NK would give Kim the narrative that his nuke program is working, he has gained stature, done what his father & grandfather could not do…and later he will give up not one nuke, not one missile and he will retain his capacity to grow his arsenal. Watch & see.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) March 9, 2018
Not kidding when I ask this: Has Trump talked with Dennis Rodman at all about Kim Jong Un?
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) March 8, 2018
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ELSEWHERE IN TRUMPWORLD
DEVELOPING: President Trump is expected to announce tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum, with carve-outs for Canada and Mexico for an undetermined period of time, a source briefed on the president’s forthcoming tariff proclamations says.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 8, 2018
Trump Tariff plan details:
-25% on steel, 10% on aluminum
-Take effect in 15 days
-Canada, Mexico exempt indefinitely
-Other nations can negotiate their own exemptionsOf course, this could change once the president starts talking
— Jordan Fabian (@Jordanfabian) March 8, 2018
President Trump when asked about tariff percentages on aluminum and steel:
"Sticking with 10 and 25 initially. I'll have a right to go up or down, depending on the country. And I'll have a right to drop out countries or add countries." pic.twitter.com/yzjUfUbKL6
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 8, 2018
Trump steel tariff could destroy 45,000 jobs in auto industry: study https://t.co/I8gMaucrAO pic.twitter.com/j05hxfPfbi
— The Hill (@thehill) March 8, 2018
Speaker Ryan statement on President Trump's tariff announcement:
"I disagree with this action and fear its unintended consequences." pic.twitter.com/DmVH1cKL0W
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 8, 2018
Charles Koch blasts Trump's steel and aluminum tariff plan https://t.co/AIpH92fhQo pic.twitter.com/iC2CK2YRJx
— POLITICO (@politico) March 8, 2018
Donald Trump's secretary of state is warning African nations that taking money from China puts their sovereignty at risk https://t.co/ftLjXWniWb
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) March 8, 2018
Meanwhile..
Erik Prince, under fresh scrutiny in the Russia probe over the Seychelles meeting, is hosting a fundraiser for …. none other than Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, perhaps the most Kremlin-friendly member of Congress. (via @rebeccagberg) https://t.co/tbeaYGJBdm
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) March 8, 2018
To show how far ahead Mueller is, Nader has been cooperating since mid-January and has already testified in front of a grand jury multiple times. Mueller knows all about the Seychelles meeting in January 2017 to set up a back-channel between Trump's team and the Kremlin. (1/2)
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) March 8, 2018
Here's our segment yesterday on that Seychelles meeting and Nader… https://t.co/VB88SkwUeA
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) March 8, 2018
Trump is delivering what he promised: A government with no experts https://t.co/Abp2xdcZYn
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 8, 2018
He also fundamentally misunderstands the structure of the Paris climate agreement. In both cases, he gazed upon positive-sum cooperation and could see only zero-sum competition, in which losers are mocked and "laughed at." He is a small, desperately insecure man. https://t.co/c0SUJUXsan
— David Roberts (@drvox) March 8, 2018
Michael Cohen spotted this past weekend in Mar-a-Lago – when Trump was there – even though he’s not a member and doesn’t spend much time there. Sarah Sanders has said she’s not aware if Trump knew of Cohen payoff to Stormy. via @ElizLanders @Kevinliptakcnn https://t.co/ODUis0qPg1
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) March 8, 2018
BOOM! Excerpts from Stormy Daniels NDA suggest that she may know about Trump’s “alleged children” and matters related to “paternity information”.
This has many legal experts wondering if perhaps Trump got Daniels pregnant, or someone else pregnant and Daniels knows about it. pic.twitter.com/2fawSHxPaE
— Ed Krassenstein 💎 (@EdKrassen) March 8, 2018
Judge to #Trump — If you "mute" instead of "block" Twitter followers, you're cool with the First Amendment https://t.co/6wrkoRTiyB @AP
— David Beard (@dabeard) March 8, 2018
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BATSHIT BREXIT BRITAIN (AND NORN IRON)
Boris Johnson claims no deal Brexit should not hold any 'terrors' for Britain because UK would 'do very well' under WTO rules https://t.co/YQc05A6zD9 via @Telegraph
— JonBrexit (@JBHTD) March 8, 2018
EU freezes Brexit talks until Britain produces Irish border solution https://t.co/Iq6BgfeTrk
— The Independent (@Independent) March 8, 2018
.@eucopresident Donald Tusk has just arrived back in @merrionstreet. We’ll be talking #FutureofEurope #brexit and preparing for the next @EUCouncil meeting later this month pic.twitter.com/n2A5pO8mcz
— Leo Varadkar (@campaignforleo) March 8, 2018
This makes me want to retire as a journalist, because I have been desperate to put Brexit in a simple nutshell, and the bloomin’ PM of Luxembourg has done it perfectly. Impossible to better. Sigh https://t.co/GwOi0vwX1e
— Robert Peston (@Peston) March 8, 2018
Professor Dan Wincott says four in five leave voters would be willing to destabilise the NI peace process to achieve the kind of #Brexit they would like #BrexitLocalGov pic.twitter.com/igL4VEZz16
— UK in a Changing EU (@UKandEU) March 8, 2018
An MP who’s being investigated for taking free luxury holidays in a country with an appalling human rights record hosts a dinner featuring a Tory Ex-minister who resigned in disgrace asked the council for £1500 for a table not mentioning it was for party funds? #DinnerWithTheDUP
— Danny Donnelly (@DannyDonnelly1) March 8, 2018
It will be good for ratepayers in Mid and East Antrim to have a bit of light shone on the #DinnerWithTheDUP scandal ! https://t.co/CVsRbihfNZ
— Danny Donnelly (@DannyDonnelly1) March 8, 2018
Worth a listen: Tense exchanges during @mea_bc meeting as councillors prevented by DUP mayor from asking Qs about council invites to 'DUP dinners'
Full story 📰 https://t.co/XPGH1SfRIb … @irish_news @politicsIN pic.twitter.com/YtmFKCEXBK
— Brendan Hughes (@brendanhughes64) March 8, 2018
Finally, sigh…
A story about digital journalism in 2018 in three parts. pic.twitter.com/uJch1P49fm
— Alan White (@aljwhite) March 8, 2018