the summit. press secretary jay carney explains we have reached the conclusion that there is not enough recent progress in our bilateral agenda with russia to hold a summit in early september. he added russia's disappointing decision to grant edward snowden temporary asylum was also a factor. in the last hour an aide to president putin said the kremlin was disappointed to the move and the invitation remains open. russia announced last week that it would allow snowden to stay in the country up to a year. following snowden's leaks and subsequent flight to russia president obama repeatedly expressed that he should not get in the way of u.s. and russia's relations. >> we've got a whole lot of business that we do with china and russia and i'm not going to have one case of a suspect who we're trying to extra diet

suddenly being elevated to the point where i've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues simply to get a guy extradited so that he can face the justice system here in the united states. >> amid bipartisan efforts to punish russia, calls to boycott the bilateral meeting to the 2014 olympics in sochi, things have changed. the white house announced the president will spend some time in sweden. quote, a close friend and partner to the united states. joining me today senior fellow at the center on budget and policy pry orpds akds an msnbc contributor, jerry bernstein, katrina van den huevel. brian grimm and nbc news white

house correspondent, kristin welker. kristin, i go to you first. we played the sound of the president about a month ago saying he wouldn't do any wheeling and dealing and trading over edward snowden. that line of logic seems to have changed. how much do you think the domestic political pressure is causing the white house to cancel this bilateral meeting? >> reporter: alex, there was certainly a lot of political pressure to cancel this meeting. the relationship between the united states and russia was chilly before today. i would say today it got a lot chillier. as you pointed out in your introduction, this was something the white house has been considering and there were bipartisan calls for last week when russia announced that it would grant snowden temporary asylum. it seems all but a foregone conclusion that president obama would be canceling his meeting with vladimir putin which were set to take place on the sidelines of the g-20 summit in moscow. the white house really stressing at this hour this is part of a

broader tension that exists between the united states and russia. that's something they pointed out in that statement. i'll read you a little bit more of that statement from jay carney which says, quote, given our lack of progress on missile control, global security issues and human rights in civil society in the last 12 months we've informed the russian government that we've believed it would be more constructive to postpone the summit until we have more results from our shared agenda. so that is the message from the white house at this hour. i can tell you it was senior administration officials that alerted russia about its position. president obama did not reach out to president putin directly. we're already getting some reaction from the hill. democrats largely supportive of this move. republicans a bit divided. you have u.s. representative ed royce who's the chairman who said this should help show this

is unacceptable. this representative for john boehner says quote the president's signature foreign policy accomplishment has just collapsed. that's the reaction that is coming in. alex, it's important to point out that secretary of state john carry, defense secretary chuck hagel will be meeting with their counterparts, the russian counterparts at the state department on friday. so while this is a setback and really a diplomatic rebuke, there are still some channels of communication moving forward particularly on the issues of afghanistan and iran. >> issues where we certainly need bilateral cooperation. thanks. >> katrina, there are so many questions. i ask you given your experience and your deep knowledge on russian affairs, "the new york times" says that mr. obama's decision to forego the summit with mr. putin is a blow to mr. putin that will deprive him of a high profile moment. i heard a russian analyst this

weekend saying the russians are going to consider this an act of weakness, that president obama cannot stand up to the angry voices. >> that's a very interesting point. what we have seen over this last -- well, first of all 22 years since the end of the cold war and u.s./russia did not have a cooperative relationship, we have even the emergence of an antirussian lobby in our government. snowden was a lousy christmas gift. that's how putin put it. so i think president obama got it right when he said a month ago, we have a lot of business to talk about. >> right. >> don't let edward snowden get in the way. there are issues of mutual national security concerns that russia and the united states should be engaged in, whether it's afghanistan, how to engage

iran, how to find a way out of the bloody sectarian conflict in syria. so i think it is damaging to that process for president obama to essentially see to this antirussian lobby and empower, as i said, the antiamerican/antiwestern lobby in russia. >> and, by the way, as kristin welker just pointed out, there are no kudos from the republican party. minutes later speaker boehner's office says failure of your first term in office, reset with russia. it begs the question, he wouldn't wheel and deal. i mean, it does seem like he is bound to domestic pressure on this one at the cost of important bilateral missions. >> he said he wouldn't scramble jets. >> if i were edward snowden i would be looking out the window. he might scramble some jets. the up side is this enables putin to deliver one of the

greatest quotes at a press conference earlier. he said dealing with snowden was like sheering a pig. a whole lot of squealing for not much wool. >> yes. >> which raises important questions, which is are there russian people who actually do sheer pigs. >> absolutely. >> if so, why. >> do pigs have wool? >> not much wool. >> a whole lot of squealing for not a lot of wool. >> everything everyone said, katrina, really resonates with me. i think that what he said a month be ago makes a lot more sense. this is starting to look like bobby fisher and kaspara moving chess pieces around. what would happen to the president in terms of domestic public opinion? i'm really asking this, if he just went ahead and met with putin and didn't raise the snowden issue. >> perhaps he could meet with the president -- with president putin to discuss this. >> winston churchill once said better to jaw, jaw, jaw than

have hostile cold war relations. i think we've lost sight of diplomacy. i think john kerry, by the way, has worked deciduously worked to find a way to conference syria. these are issues that should be discussed. "the new york times" and others repeated rightly have brought up the oppression of gays and lesbians in russia. i see to no one in my horror that in a country -- i do care for russia. you've seen this. decades behind in many ways, but if we boycott the olympics, we will again empower the very nationalist forces that are engulfing the country. we should as greg luoganis, the gay swimmer, we should use sochi olympics as a teachable moment. people should go. there should be engagement. i understand senator merkley's introduced legislation to protect gay athletes, all of this. it seems to me engagement is

needed. >> is part of the obama policy foreign strategy, right? we know we've not fared very well. that's part of the thesis of the obama project. i agree with them. the treatment with russia is deplorable. we do business with china and they don't have a great human rights record. our broader interests are such that we have to continue to talk to these people in a broader effort to move the ball forward glob globally. i guess i think this multipronged reasoning why he won't meet with putin is a little bit convenient. >> his cam page pledge that he tussled with clinton over was that he was willing to sit down with ahmadinejad. >> right. >> is putin, you know, that far -- you know, is he beyond the pale of ahmadinejad? >> putin in russia could be very constructive in resolving possibly an opening with this

new iranian president. chuck schumer, senator chuck schumer, this is bipartisan, but chuck schumer going on about he's a school yard bully, vladimir putin. you know, maybe chuck schumer knows school yard bullies, but is this the way you engage on the world stage? is this what our congress has become? talking about geopolitical relations? >> mccain wanted the president to move the g-20 out of russia. i mean, i just think that there is also sort of a precedence that's being set here, right? if there's enough outcry over something like this, the president dismissed something he said he would not engage in. >> the more we talk about it the more i'm convinced that you're right. i do think that the snowden piece is somewhat downplayed by some of the comments here but in fact if you want to continue the kind of focus that i think actually hurts the president vis-a-vis snowden is you should

treat it the way they are treating it, to elevate it. put this aside and let's not go to the cold war place which i do think this is where this is leaning and let's have a discussion of which snowden will be part of it. he paradoxically lifts the discussion. >> i don't think the discussion over the snowden effect, the discussion over national security, surveillance date at that. the nebulous unending war on terror ends. the questions -- >> absolutely not. >> this is nothing to placate the people who want to see justice done or a broader debate over the issues. >> the administration is better off if the focus is on snowden. his numbers are terrible. >> then we don't pay much attention to the revelations. president putin is a former kgb guy. he's not in love with facts. he said snowden can stay on the territory of russia if he doesn't endanger u.s. interests. there are negotiations right now with other countries to take

snowden out of russia. they did not want him. >> we'll see. that pig doesn't have a lot of wool. after the break, yemen becomes the latest focal point in the increasingly undefined war on terror. we'll discuss failing states and yemen migration. we'll be joined next on "now." i'm only in my 60's... i've got a nice long life ahead. big plans. so when i found out medicare doesn't pay all my medical expenses, i got a medicare supplement insurance plan. [ male announcer ] if you're eligible for medicare, you may know it only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. call and find out about an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan,

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this morning a second u.s. aerial drone strike killed 7 members in yemen. it was the latest in five strikes that have targeted the terrorist group over the past ten days. meanwhile, authorities in yemen foiled what they called an

audacious yemen niece attack. the sharp increase in drone strikes comes after the u.s. struck down 19 embassies in the u.s. and africa and ordered all nonessential personnel to evacuate the country. last night president obama addressed the situation for the first time. >> it's a reminder for all the progress we've made, getting bin laden, putting al qaeda between afghanistan and pakistan back on its heels that, you know, this radical, you know, violent extremism is still out there and we've got to stay on top of it. >> but at the very same time the president attempted to downplay the gravity of the threat. >> terrorists depend on the fact that we'll be terrorized. we're going to live our lives. sectarian strikes and political instability have

created a power vacuum that jihadists have used to their advantage. yemen, the ancestral home of osama bin laden has become the base of al qaeda. eight years later the terrorist organization targeted the u.s. embassy in the yemeni capitol killing one american. in 2011 robert worth wrote an article in "the new york times." it was titled "yemen on the brink of hell." yemen is a source of leverage for weakened regimes. quote, terrorism helps raise the profile of a country that had long been neglected. as one yemeni official put it to me, yemen used to be called the tail of the saudi cow. now it is its own cow. former president alley abdullah

saleh seemed to view al qaeda as a bargaining chip. he paroled convicted terrorists or allowed them to escape from prison, even as he cracked down on the peaceful protestors. i have two analysts joining me. in terms of being a partner, if you will, on the war on terror, can the yemeni redress it? as you pointed out, having al qaeda in their backyard has almost been a point of leverage with the west and we see what the sewing of those seas have brought in yemen today. >> that's true. on the other hand i think american officials think the current president who took over from the former president a couple of years ago, they trust him more. he's done his best to fight the terrorists group there.

the yemeni know the threat of al qaeda isn't something they can manage. they may have thought that in the past. it really breaks down their ability to sustain their own powers. that was especially true in 2011 and 2012 when you had al qaeda and its affiliates controlling a vast area of southern yemen. there was no government presence the there. that ended a year ago. they are doing their best. >> ayman, i want to ask you a broader regional question. you are in egypt where there is certainly a greatly unsettled governance there. the question of what is going on in syria, there is the question of the violence in iraq. i believe 1,000 people were killed in iraq in july alone. increasingly unstable situation where al qaeda is coming in. effectively you have states in transition, states that are failing, fates that are broken which makes for ripe fertile

ground for groups like al qaeda. the questions is what are the implications to the war on terror. when this began it was pakistan, afghanistan, now it's yemen. does it ever end? >> reporter: well, there's no doubt about it that a failed state is the perfect breeding ground for this type of extremist ideology. that's for several reasons. one, the poor central government, a lack of governance. poor socioeconomic evidence believe' seen this in the past. that's one of the dictatorships were able to exploit. in recent years since the arab spring we've seen some of that ideology lose some of its momentum with major groups coming in. that definitely has taken a little bit of the wind out of the salils of the extremist

groups. in the last couple of weeks in egypt after this military coupe, we are hearing groups like al qaeda and other extremists saying we told you democracy doesn't work, if you are an islamist political party the west and backers will never let you come to power. that's why they're calling on supporters to take up arms. they're taking root in the northern part of sinai in egypt. we're not saying it's al qaeda. al qaeda inspired ideology is on the rise. that has egyptian officials and western officials alarmed in the coming weeks and months if it's not put down quickly. >> robert, ayman says he's on the role of the west. i wonder what your thoughts are in terms of closing the embassies. one senior yemeni source told

kyra simons, we have to be brave to fight them, not run away. in my opinion, closing the embassies is not a good idea. do you think it's an overreaction? do you think it was the only prudent course to take? >> i certainly have heard people say that. you can understand given that the yemeni have always acceded to american requests to harden the embassy, to do whatever needed to be done. they were a little shocked when this happened the americans take out -- take off. i think obviously all of this needs to be seen in the context of the benghazi attack in libya last year that killed chris stevens. the obama administration has to be thinking about political repercussions and in a way who can fault them given everything that happened after that attack. it's difficult to fortify embassies. american embassies are to some extent already seen as these unapproachable fortressness that part of the world. it's very difficult to do diplomacy. yet, if you're going to engage

with people you have to get out of the fortresses and do the work. i think also the nature of this intelligence. some kind of conversation between the head of al qaeda and the head of the yemeni branch of al qaeda. it's an extremely unusual thing. we don't know what might have been in the works in terms of a plot. you can understand the desire to exercise maximum caution when you have something that unusual going on. >> ayman, a couple of things. you and i have talked many times about drone strikes and the effects those have regionally in terms of attitudes in america. it's worth noting in yemen in 2013 there were drone strikes, in 2012 there were more. our strategy is not talked about as much as embassy closures but one that may have much greater repercussions not just in yemen but of course in the arab world. i wonder sitting in egypt as you

are, is there attention being paid towards the drone strikes over where you are in cairo? >> well, at this stage not very much so and that is because the story in yemen is unfolding away from the political environment here in egypt. believe me when i say egyptians have been preoccupied with american foreign policy because of what is going on here. right now there is no doubt that american foreign policy on large across the region is coming under a lot of criticism from many different aspects including counter terrorism, especially the drone strikes especially given the fact that the united states operates with so much impunity. it comes into the context of egypt when people, particularly those here critical of u.s. foreign policy, when they want to highlight how the united states conducts its foreign policy in a unilateral type of way. that type of criticism is what we see over and over again. it's that type of interference in domestic affairs that the u.s. is willing to act unilaterally. more important, it is willing to

put its own interests above the interests of the domestic company. that is the result of what we see across yemen and elsewhere across the region. it does not hold water but it is the kind of rhetoric we hear in countries like egypt. that has negative impact in how the u.s. engages once it's trying to deal with egyptian counterparts on domestic egyptian issues. >> nbc's ayman mohyeldin and robert worth. coming up, they both sit atop the highest court in the land. that's where the similarities end. somehow justices ruth bader beginsberg and anthony scalia are laurel and hardy. we will explain just ahead. is like hammering.

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members of congress may be on vacation but many of their constituents with the obama care tea party wing are not. the fracture in the grand old

party continues to grow. the risk between republicans who wants to shut down the government in order to -- shorthand, the suicide caucus is at war. for the record, neither option sounds that great. on monday at a town hall meeting in north carolina republican congressman robert pittinger came under fire on his stance for the shutdown strategy. >> real quick, easy question, this is what the tea party wants to know. will you vote with mike lee to -- and meadows here to defund obama care? yes or no? >> thought full answer? >> i want yes or no. >> no. if every republican votes against it, it does not get funded. that's a fact. >> no, sir, it has to pass the senate and get passed by the

united states. >> will you take a stand? >> do you think harry reed is going to pass that? >> it doesn't matter. >> we need to show the american people we stand for conservatives. >> two things worth noting here. pittenger's constituents note they don't care about getting an appropriate response. he's authored a dozen bills that talk about the repeal of the affordable care act. one still needs to take a more definitive stand against the nation's health care law. >> well, there's confusion at the root of it. and john boehner contributes to the confusion when he was asked about the lack of productivity of congress. he said, well, you shouldn't judge us by how many bills we've passed, how many bills we've repealed. in order to repeal a law you have to pass a repeal law signed

into law. >> by the president. >> just voting on it in the house doesn't do it. he is the most successful speaker in the history of the united states if just passing obama repeal is -- >> is credibly productive, right. >> is what counts, right. the congressman is exactly right. harry reed's not going to repeal obama care, the president is not going to sign it. furthermore, even if you shut down the government, most of obama care's implementation is funded through mandatory spending which means that congress can't shut it down except bypassing a law which they will not do. >> which they will not do. >> jared. >> eric: -- jared, eric ericson is not satisfied. just because john roberts claims it is not a tax doesn't make it a tax and doesn't make it constitutional. he swore to uphold and support the constitution. two points.

>> john roberts is a supreme court justice and i believe his job is to determine what is constitutional and what is not. beyond that as tom coburn commissioned a report, one can continue to fund obama care even if a continuing resolution is not passed. >> correct. ryan made the correct point that because this is mandatory funding it will get funded as long as it remains law. it will remain a law unless the president decides to repeal it which he's not going to do. the thing that i wanted to stress here is that as the affordable care act is being implemented, we have a really interesting experiment going on. the states that are trying to abide by the law and bring up these health care exchanges and the medicare -- medicaid expansion are already showing potentially great success. if you look at the states that are working with the government to implement the health care exchanges, the price of premiums that people are going to have to pay, their insurance premiums, are falling by, you know, 20,

40, 50%. 50% in new york. so it's already having the effect that those of us who were there when we were building this thing were hoping it would have, in terms of slowing down the growth rate of health care costs. then if you look at 9 statthe s where they're doing what we're talking about, very much the opposite is occurring. it's still highly unaffordable. it's a great example of how dysfunction in government these days is undermining living standards for people who happen to be on the wrong side of that. >> attempting to put a stick in the spoke of the wheels, i just don't think that's a long-term strategy. >> no. it's a suicidal strategy. >> suicide versus surrender. >> i want to ask you, katrina, because it's not just the rhetoric and referring to it as a bill when in fact it's settled law. it's not sort of the maligning of the nation's health care law. there are efforts to convince young people to opt out, burn their fake obama care cards in a

sign of i guess solidarity against the government. the effects of not having health care can be catastrophic. >> freedom works should be paying for the millions who will not have health care when they need it. but it is -- freedom works is not that far off from the tea party caucus in the congress. this is governing by sabotage. savage sabotage and i think that is what the sort of political equivalent of the temper tantrum people are doing. this is not the way congress is supposed to work. now we've said that a million times over these last few years but that's what we're seeing. it's also, i have to say though, it's an insight into what steps these people will take to make sure that government is not -- >> functioning. >> -- functioning or able to improve the condition of people's lives. there's a reasonable bill crystal fought so hard against clinton's health care plan. the fear that a social security

program, social security or medicare would become integrated in people's lives would lead those people to reflect on the fact that you do need a functioning government and not one simply by sabotage. >> the interesting thing here is that i guess this is sort of a what's the matter with kansas argument. they're clearly operating against their own self-interests. >> it's asking young americans specifically to operate. they will still have to pay a penalty. it's one thing to burn your obama care card and get your photo taken burning it. you are taking a penalty not to get it. >> what happened if you severely burned yourself while you were burning your obama care card. is that covered? >> you were joking about it. it's an incredibly crass thing. the idea, the defense is, they can sign up for insurance if they get hurt. actually, the window for signing up is a limited window. >> you're also going to, it seems to me, see a country where some states will have more secure and healthy citizens paying lower rates. the reference to new york is

one, california another. then other states which will have unhealthy, unwell people because the ideology of their representatives will dominate over the security needs of their people. >> that dynamic will particularly renowned against the poor because the government will step in and set up exchanges for people who can't get health care through the marketplace. it's the medication expansion that states are turning down. the dynamic that they just described will hurt people. >> that's the irony, right? the poorest will be the ones that are hurt the most even though there are resources for them. i do want to talk though about the schism, ryan, and sort of where we're at at this point in party politics because as much as viewers of this program may find this hard to believe, i really do believe in a two-party system and i believe there should be debate and a robust debate. i just feel what has happened to the republican party is such a degradation of conservative

ideology and a real policy -- a real series of policy proposals. in new york magazine, they say conservatives have enthusiastically debated the distant future of their party, i.e.,, what do do if they regain the presidency about things. in the meantime the party has to figure out how it will spend the next three years. the only debate conservatives are having about that is to blow everything up unless obama surrenders to them. >> the entire structure of the mainstream might yeah takes as implicit that there are two competing parties, both of which are patriotic and reasonable and they're trying to jockey for advantage. they're both basically telling the truth and, you know, trying to make the country a better place. today's republican party undermines that entire way of approaching coverage of politics and it makes models like

politico where one's up, one's down kind of absurd in this situation. you do have some people in the republican party like john mccain and the gang around him who are willing to move forward here. >> or even mitt romney, that man from the past is saying we should not shut the government down. >> right. yeah. the idea that you don't follow the law is just a strange thing for a loyal opposition to say. it's the law. it's just inconceivable that in the past you'd have a major political party urging people not to follow the law and sort of law is not to be executed and implemented. >> i want to underscore that point because you don't just see it with obama care but you also see it with financial reform. it is a big fight to pass the reform of financial markets which is very important for the economy going forward. it's essentially untestimony me krat particular not to implement a law that was passed by a democracy. >> right. >> i think it really goes beyond the kind of skis ma particular dynamics to a level that strikes

me as even beyond dysfunctional. >> you could map that on to immigration reform. there is never an alternative that is supposed. there is never talk of a republican -- >> true. the difference there is we're talking about laws that were passed, laws that were passed and signed both -- i'm not saying that every partisan signed on to law. they were passed by the majorities that governed this country. they're not being implemented in a way to block them undermently -- >> the supreme court debated in another election a firmtd by the voters again. >> katrina, i guess i just wonder from your vantage point, do we end up in a government shutdown? >> well, this party has been willing to cripple credit markets in the government in the service of they said defunding obama care. never say never. never say never. cooler heads may prevail, if

there are any in the republican party. i step back and say i respect what you said, alex, and all of you about the need for a real two-party system. we could have more parties. >> that is the thing. >> i mean, i think ryan is absolutely right that in our media system there is this, quote, cult of false equivalence that treats the two parties in the same way. oh, there's the left and the democratic party. at the moment the democratic party with a few exceptions is a kind of centrist party and the republican party is on a suicide course. it may end up in shutdown but it's hard to say. one hopes for something better for this country because the problems are so severe. >> yes. >> that our system -- now the one -- there are cooler elements, my colleagues may disagree, but i do think the republican governors, some of them are really scary. they have to deal with the realities on the ground. there's a little bit of a break,

a little bit because some of them are refusing medicaid and others -- >> if we were at full employment, if this economy was percolating along and the economy was doing well, i would still be grousing about everything that we've been groutsing about but it wouldn't be the kind of self-inflicted wounds. something you said resonated a lot which was at this time. to be inflicting wounds, whether it's a debt ceiling threat, government shutdown, at the time when we need a functional government in the lives of working families is particularly egregious. >> i never thought i would say this but everyone in the republican party should listen to mitt romney and not should down the government. now we're going to break. liz cheney is treading in some deep wyoming water for something voters take far more seriously than, say, those in her other home state of virginia. we will discuss fishing license gate just ahead.

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liz cheney, who is taking on fellow republican mike enzi in the ohio senate race has many problems, whether wyoming is her home state. after she was two months late paying property taxes on her second home in jackson hole, remember, her primary residence is in mcclain, virginia. cheney wonders how she received a wyoming fishing license after moving to the state despite

regulations of getting a one year residency. there is no shortage of skeptics. >> her recognition is her name, not from anything that she's done. i couldn't name one thing that she's done besides was born a cheney. >> ryan, usually we don't talk about fishing permits with such verb on this show. according to republican strategists, wyoming people will take this very seriously. >> i believe that. people do -- do take conservation very seriously and take following these particular rules -- they don't want a lot of rules. >> fishing culture is a big deal in wyoming. >> it's part of the state's economy. >> you don't say you've been there for ten years if you've been there for one. >> true. i guess for me if you wanted to take this from the level of carping, floundering around --

>> you win. you win the special prize. >> -- you could see this as there are riff privileged people who are acting under a set of special rules for them and everybody who isn't. that probably resonates within the whole inequality discussion. >> dick cheney is not going to be doing as far as, yes, no campaign events to raise money for his daughter, liz cheney. >> that's too bad. but more seriously, i think i just heard liz claimy blaming the county clerk. >> clerk. >> and the question is raised, is she going to carry on the cheney legacy of lying and blaming others? >> wow. you just -- no shortage of cheney piling on. i will say a pp people last month found only 31% of state voters think liz cheney is a wyoming did buy only wyomingite. we'll join you tomorrow. until then you can follow us on

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