Kim Jong-un Goes to China
BRIGGS: Breaking news at 5:15 am. Kim Jong-un visiting China today and tomorrow. The North Korean leader expected to bring President Xi about his summit with President Trump last week. Let's go live to Beijing and bring in Matt Rivers. Matt, this is the third meeting in less than three months. It appears President Xi Jinping looms over all of this.</s>MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is hard to overstate the role China has played in the ongoing negotiation with the United States and North Korea. Although China wasn't at the Singapore summit with Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, the presence was felt. Kim Jong-un coming to China for the third time. As is typical when North Korean leaders come to China, not a lot of details. We have not seen a picture yet of Kim Jong-un here. Officially we're expecting that in the next couple of hours or so. That is usually how it works. You can bet they will be talking about that summit. What was the conversation between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un like? What was said that didn't make it into that document? What does denuclearization really mean to Kim Jong-un? And for China's point of view, they want to talk about their strategic interests, not the least of which is the suspension of the military exercises, which everyone viewed as a win for China, when Donald Trump agreed to suspend them and also potentially the removal of the U.S. troops way down the line from the Korean Peninsula. But it is just incredible, remarkable, that Kim Jong-un continues this diplomatic push. The third time he has been here to China since the end of March. That was his first time ever leaving North Korea as its leader -- Dave.</s>BRIGGS: Totally normalize on the global stage. Matt Rivers in Beijing, thank you.</s>ROMANS: President Trump is ordering the Pentagon to create a new space force. He wants it to be a sixth branch of the armed forces.</s>TRUMP: When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space.</s>ROMANS: The Pentagon says it will begin working on the president's request and seeking input from multiple stakeholders.</s>BRIGGS: It takes an act of Congress to establish a new branch of the military, great strides have been made in international diplomacy to avoid the militarization of space. Also the U.S. already has a space force of sorts in the form of the U.S. Air Force Space Command. Twitter was in all its glory on the story yesterday with, "Spaceballs" and "Star Wars" references throughout. Ahead, after winning the first Family Cup in Washington Capitals history, Barry Trotz is out as the team's head coach. We have got Caps insider this morning. Lindsay Czarniak has more in the "Bleacher Report" next.