david gregory joins us with more of his exclusive interview with former president bill clinton and the role clinton is prepared to play if his wife does run. >> you're just a bit player as to whether secretary clinton runs? >> that's exactly what i am. i'm a foot soldier in an army. i will do what i'm instructed to do. >> plus, team usa survives the group of death. moving on to the world cup knockout run, the sweet 16. how sweet it is. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. not all there, but back well enough, i hope. we just heard from president obama in the last hour. right now there's plenty of buzz about the comments made by another commander in chief in an exclusive "meet the press"

interview. david gregory, moderator of "meet the press" joins me now. that was some interview. i want to throw to the first part of it which was clinton talking about iraq. >> okay. >> the former vice president dick cheney said of president obama in an op ed that claims that al qaeda is decimated, is clearly not true. that al qaeda is on the march. the argument that america is less safe under president obama. do you believe dick cheney is a credible critic on these matters? >> well, i believe, you know, if they hadn't gone to war in iraq, none of this would be happening. mr. cheney has been incredibly adroit for the last six years or so attacking the administration for not doing an adequate job of cleaning up the mess that he made. and i think it's unseemly, and i

give president bush, by the way, a lot of credit for trying to stay out of this debate and letting other people work through it. >> fascinating stuff. just to pull the layers back. he doesn't mention the fact his wife did vote for the war. she wouldn't have proceeded the way the bush team did but she did vote for the war which is why in many regards she lost the prinear barack obama. >> knew of the intelligence that a lot of the world shared at the time that led the bush team to act. what's interesting, too, i interviewed tony blair recently who said we've got to stop this. the notion that just because the invasion that none of these things would have happened, that you would have not seen an al qaeda on the march, or jihadism flaring throughout the region is simply misguided thinking. so this debate continues.

the other layer to this, of course, is how close president bush and president clinton have become. they are on the speaking circuit all over the country. but taking on dick cheney is much safer ground here if you are president clinton. >> we saw in one of the pictures just now, hillary clinton is in the audience along with laura tyson, chelsea clinton. you go on and ask him about what role he'll play in a campaign. i want to play a little of that and then ask what was the dynam ic as you as an interviewer. >> you are just a bit player as to whether secretary clinton runs? >> i'm a foot soldier in an army. i will do what i'm instructed to do. you know, it's funny. you reach our age, you just look at it differently. we've had wonderful lives. we've been incredibly blessed. >> i thought he was -- where i thought he might be going was,

so is there a chance she won't run? the other piece of it is, look, we're all fascinated by bill clinton and what he says as journalists. i don't see him becoming less great copy as he gets a little older, a little freer. >> what is the dynamic then in a campaign and potentially in a white house? >> it's not only conflicts written about, what he does with the clinton global initiative, what he does with speaking but it is the fights he takes on. the next day secretary clinton said i don't need my husband to defend my record. he wants to. he's her husband and also a great explainer. there can be a great campaign astoets her as he's been to president obama, but he can also be unwieldy for candidate clinton as we saw in 2008. >> as a key observer in all of this, here you have john boehner saying he's going to sue the current president. now obama has responded to that. let's play a little of that.

>> they've decided they're going to sue me for doing my job. you know, i mean, i might have said in the heat of the moment during one of these debates, i want to raise the minimum wage so sue me when i do, but i didn't think they were going to take it literally. >> this was a fired up barack obama. the speech he just gave. we aired some of it in the last hour. he was saying, i'm listening. i've got your back. and he was going after the republicans. this is all about the midterm. >> you are hearing in the virginia senate race, for instance, ed gillespie going after the epa. the epa out of control. it's a big republican argument around the country in these senate races. and the export/import bank and the excesses of the federal government. the excesses of, you know, a president, the argument, you can't get his agenda through, do

what he can on immigration and other things and you see what the response is. that's that piece of it. and it is interesting that we have all of these large debates over what the limits of executive power are in foreign policy, national security and domestic policy. but mostly this is the politics of this election year. >> against the backdrop of this continuing crisis in iraq. it only got worse. the fighting intensified today. secretary kerry in saudi arabia meeting the king trying to persuade them to stop supporting the militants. >> you know this covering -- having been with secretary kerry covering that region. what i'm hearing out of that region is people saying, look, unless you get rid of maliki, we're not going to fight isis. nobody is going to stand up and fight isis if it makes maliki stronger. we, kurds, sunnis, sunni governments in the area. the aid to syria is interesting. the president saying there's no good way to arm the opposition but we've got to do something,

lest isis continue to take more territory in syria as well. >> right now it's really a political standoff which is an inherent problem. >> david gregory, thanks so much. of course, see much more of david gregory's exclusive interview with president bill clinton sunday on "meet the press" on nbc. and new violence in iraq as isis does get closer to baghdad. human rights watch reported today a possible massacre. this as secretary of state kerry was meeting with king abdullah of saudi arabia today saying the saudis should stop supporting isis. ayman mohyeldin joins us from erbil. it's really troubling and doesn't seem as politically or militarily this thing is coming together. >> absolutely.

in fact, from a military point of view, the iraqi army today said it was trying to retake tikrit and twhen did so it had one of its helicopters shot down. it's struggled to get a military foothold to deploy soldiers in some of these small towns, let alone trying to make it ultimately to mosul in the northwest part of the country. even in the small towns and strategic cities on the outskirts of baghdad, they are struggling to advance on to those and to hold them. at the same time as you were saying, politically, there's a huge vacuum still in the country. the country is scheduled to convene its first parliamentary session on july 1st and ultimately try to put together a cabinet. there's no indication that prime minister maliki is going to be able to meet some of the demands of sunni arab leaders and the kurdish leaders and try to form a new national unity government. so far that's been pretty much shunned by him and those around him. >> what do you see happening with the leaders such as the saudis and the qataris and kuwaitis whom kerry has been

trying to bring into the fold. pressure the sunnis in iraq to do something and come up with a leader. and also pressure them to stop supporting isis. >> you're right. it's a twofold process right now with the sunni community here. the sunni arab community. on one hand they have isis. isis is the tip of the spear. there's a groundswell of resistance against the government. that's really where saudi arabia and qatar and some of the other regional countries have influences. with the sunni arab community here, they want to at least the united states wants to put pressure on saudi arabia and qatar to force some of the senior politicians in this country to sit down on the table with maliki. but from all of the talking that i've been having with arab diplomats in the region, it's unlikely they are going to put any weight behind prime minister maliki. they won't agree to any political process so long as prime minister maliki remains in power. it's become really a proxy war of sorts inside iraq like we saw in syria.

and that seems to be the major challenge for secretary of state john kerry to try to get these sides to put their weight behind some of the sunni politicians in the country to sit down and talk to prime minister maliki. >> ayman mohyeldin, thanks for being with us. staying alive. team usa surviving the swampy conditions yesterday in brazil. moving on to the world cup's sweet 16. with a 1-0 loss against germany and portugal's win over ghana it was just enough. barely enough for the u.s. to survive the so-called group of death and advance to the knockout stage of the tournament. back stateside, the football frenzy is in full force from workplaces to city centers. the midday match was must-see tv. even on capitol hill as it was being played during a news conference and on air force one. team usa will face belgium next. it's a tough team. this morning goalkeeper tim howard told the "today" show, they are feeling confident going into tuesday's match. >> we've been using the ball well.

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i'm not going to apologize for trying to do something while they're doing nothing. >> even if you get sued? >> the suit is a stunt. but what i've told speaker boehner directly is if you're really concerned about me taking too many executive actions, why don't you try getting something done through congress. >> president obama and speaker boehner are a long way from that friendly round of golf they shared three years ago this month. joining me for our daily fix, chris cillizza, managing editor of postpolitics.com and "washington post" editorial

columnist ruth barkus. midterm elections coming up and he's on the road. let's play a little of that and get some reaction. >> they've said no to raising the minimum wage. they've said no to fair pay. some of them have denied that there's even a problem that, despite the fact that women are getting paid 77 cents for every dollar a man is getting paid. no to extending unemployment insurance for more than 3 million americans who are out there looking every single day for a new job. over and over again, they showed that they'll do anything to keep in place systems that really help folks at the top but don't help you. >> so, ruth, he's on the road. he's campaigning. getting outside of the bubble. all of these stops. ice cream, little league.

>> the bear is on the loose. >> chipotle. >> so does it work? >> there's two levels to that question, right? one is whether it works for him. i think it makes him happier to be out on the loose and not just cooped up in that jail cell that some presidents have described the white house as being. and the other is whether it works in terms of his connections with voters. and the answer to that, it's a little like chicken soup. it can't hurt. you need to be able to make a connection. when you are sitting there in the diner talking to the woman, you sort of look more real than if you are sitting in the cabinet room with your advisers all around you. >> is it a way for him to really learn? he reads some of these letters. they give him letters every day. how do you avoid being completely in the bubble? >> you can't. i think ruth's first point is the one. this makes him personally happier. and i think the basic philosophy

at this point in his tenure, given that things are not going to happen in congress, whether he spends every day here in washington or doesn't spend any days, let's try to get him as comfortable and as happy as he can be because that's going to -- >> you make him sound like a cancer patient on his last legs. >> i think some of it is that. that he needs to be in a place where he can deliver a message that he believes in. he is not, and it's important to note, he is not someone -- many politicians are pretty good at faking it. that's sort yf they sgoget into politics. he is not. i always think back to when he campaigned for martha coakley. he doesn't want to go up there. he sort of got pushed into it and it was sort of like, hey, i hope martha coakley wins. he's not good at that. putting him in his best frame of mind should not be underestimated as a way to get his numbers, which are not good, better. >> and response now from michael

steele on boehner's behalf. the american people, their elected representatives and the supreme court have all expressed serious concerns about the president's failure to follow the constitution dismissing them with words like smidgen or stunt only reinforces their frustration. >> it's a battle for the bases now. what's interesting, i thought about that obama speech, you heard him earlier this year talking about don't boo vote and all those. now it's more like, here are the policies that republicans believe in trying to get the base more angry as opposed to saying, there are big stakes here. here's what they stand for. you know, the lawsuit and the statement by michael steel, it's all midterm election strategy. it's about the bases of the two parties and firing them up. >> and his final part of the speech was, i'm listening to you. i'm listening to you. i'm hearing you. he's trying to say, i'm not in

the bubble. >> not just that i'm not in the bubble, but i feel your pain. message he cares. and i think that to the extent that he is out and hearing those stories, it really does kind of give him more ammunition to display his caring. i think the lawsuit is fascinating. i can't wait to -- >> what is your take? >> many hurdles. not completely frivolous but two main hurdles. do they really have standing to sue, and if they even have standing to sue, what will they sue over? a question that hasn't been answered. do they have standing to sue and will the court decide it's a political question that it doesn't want to get involved in? one of the main tests of a political question is whether it's demonstrably committed by the text of the constitution to another branch of government. we have this little thing called impeachment if the legislature thinks the president is not -- is exceeding his powers or not fulfilling his constitutional responsibilities. so i don't really expect a

boehner win at the end of the day. >> terrible things that happen in politics but this one is truly terrible and fatal. in richland, mississippi, the police chief is confirming that the tea party related attorney mark mayfield has been found dead of a gunshot wound. he is the man who supposedly was being investigated for the video of thad cochran's wife. and now it is being investigated as a suicide. >> just one real quick thing. we, myself at least, you focus on these races and then there's a vote and then you move on. you realize that what happens in these states, the high-profile instances like this, they have usually not this terrible repercussion. they have repercussions. these are people's lives. >> they are human beings, whatever party. >> they live in that community,

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abortifacients for their employees. and on the other side, the administration says this is the law. we will have preventive care for everybody. we have standards for what is preventive care. and that includes contraceptive care and we deem none of these to be abortifacients so they have all been approved by the fda. you can't leverage your employees by imposing your rights on them. that's the administration's point of view. it's also a lot of women's rights point of view. but it's a humongous case because this is the first time if the supreme court rules for the hobby lobby folks it will be the first time that a for-profit corporation has claimed a religious exemption to comply with a generally applicable law. >> waivers already for religious organizations, for the churches, for religious non-profits.

but this is the for-profit. justice kennedy might be pivotal in this judging from the oral argument, if one can. an excerpt of his questioning to paul clement who was arguing for the hobby lobby, he said justice kennedy did in a way, the employees are in a position where the government through its health care plans under your view is allowing the employer to put the employee in a disadvantageous position. the employee may not agree with these religious beliefs of the employer. does the religious belief just trump in is that the way it works? we asked other questions the other way. so i don't want to imply anything about where he's coming down, but it shows he's really on top of, as he would be, of both arguments in this case. >> at one point, the chief justice seemed to be looking for a way to slice and dice this a bit. and he said, well, if this were a wholly owned company, not a public company that has

shareholders, would that make a difference? >> a small family organization? >> you know, there are lots of dell computer, i think, is owned by -- is not a publicly held corporation anymore. there are heinz products, the heinz corporation is not a public -- it's not controlled by shareholders. so, you know, there are huge corporations in america that are not publicly held corporations. >> even though they have stock, they have the majority shares within the family, "the washington post" company was that way until it was sold to jeff bezos. so the issues really come down to whether obamacare and contraceptive. this isn't a debate over abortion. this is contraception which most women in america of all faiths thought was decided in the 1970s. >> they think it's a question of abortion because they believe an iud is -- it creates an

abortion. but iuds turn out to be one of the most effective ways of having contraception. and they are expensive. they are between $500 and $1,000. so a lot of times women can't afford to have them. from a lot of healthy, younger women, contraception is the most important health cost that they've got. and so this is a big deal. and paul clement, for the hobby lobby, admisted it would be -- if he wins, the exemption would be true for all contraception, not just for ones deemed to be abortifacients. >> rachel maddow drilled down on the fact that cardinal dolan in new york said publicly that, well, this doesn't really matter because you can get contraceptions at any convenience store which ignores the fact that contraception is something that a woman is prescribed by a doctor and it is a medical procedure, a medical

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rebel. >> his name is paulo, an italian surgeon and scientist who takes on the cases and patients that nobody else will. doing operations that are so experimental and so risky, even his own colleagues questioned whether he is going too far. >> some people say that he's a cowboy and really should not be allowed to do this. >> i do believe he's in the gray zone. >> some say he's on the brink of a brave new era in medicine. >> i see it as being trying to imagine what neil armstrong must have felt like when he was strapped into the capsule on top of the rocket. >> others call him rebellious. but he says he pushes the medical envelope because he has no other choice. >> you see a patient, and this patient has no other alternatives. and he will die very, very soon. as a human and as a doctor, are we allowed to say no? i don't think so. >> it's easy to be critical any

of kind of pioneer. but the fact is there are patiented alive today who would not have been if it weren't for paulo. >> and meredith vieira joins me now. so great to see you. this is fascinating. tell me -- you've been working on this for two years. what do you think? rebel or hero? do you have a conclusion? >> i think he's a little bit of both. you have to be a rebel on the cutting edge of anything. this is the only man in the world doing this kind of surgery. transplanting these artificial bioengineered tracheas into human beings. he'd say he's got 20 to 25 years of science behind him. he's done this on animals before he ever did it on a human being. but his critics say he's experimenting. you ask his patients and every single one is so grateful that he is here for them, they have no other options. they consider him a hero, plain and simple. >> we all know people who have been through terrible injuries. i'm very close to someone with a

spinal cord injury. is there really a chance that this could work in that kind of profound case? >> absolutely. in this case, we're dealing with takias, but the science is building. right now they are working in texas on artificial hearts being placed into animals. hopefully in time, they'll be able to do this with human beings. but the doctor has transplanted 17 patients. of those, ten are still alive. he's done several now. started with donor tracheas, where the cells were removed and receded with the patient's own stem cells and then the artificial tracheas. it's much easier if you don't have to rely on a donor. eight patients with the artificial tracheas. three of those have passed away. five are still living and doing very, very well. >> i wanted to ask you about one of those cases of someone who was operated on, hannah, and dr. pearl was her attending physician. tell me about that case and then we'll play a bit from the documentary. >> sure, hannah warren is a

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and we were waiting for her to die. >> so you detached yourself emotionally? >> yes, we did. >> how does a parent do that? how do you do that? >> we didn't know how. we just knew we had to to survive. we couldn't deal with it. all the tubes around her. we couldn't pick her up. we could only make eye contact. it's not enough if there's no hope. eye contact is actually torture. >> you can't look away because -- >> you're helpless. >> we can't help you, baby girl. we're so sorry. >> how honest that family was to say something like that. that they had to look away from their child. that's why when they had that moment of hope, when he gave them that hope, they leapt at that opportunity. >> this is so fascinating, so heartbreaking but also

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author of the new book "the new art of capturing love." the essential guide to lesbian and gay wedding photography. this really is a whole new experience. there have been less formal, you know, not legal pairings for many years. but this, what is the difference of having the actual ceremony and having a legally recognized marriage? what does that mean? >> it means so much. certainly means so much to couples who really need those legal rights, whether they are dealing with hospital visitation issues or immigration situations. it's all very important. but for us as a community, we were always having commitment ceremonies and finding ways to celebrate our relationships. but once that legal recognition came along, not only is it an incredibly empowering opportunity to feel we have that place within the marriage equality landscape but it's also

been helpful because it has been impactful for our friends and family who perhaps didn't necessarily think about our relationships previously but that has brought more credibility if you will, to our relationships. >> the pictures in this book just capture the joy and just the personal connections and commitment. and it makes it really accessible to people who are not part of the lbgt community because it just shows how normal it all is. one of the things that's really special about this book, ypd that it's the first of its kind, it's the most comprehensive of its kind. 180 photographs. 48 photographers and 72 couples and thea, my co-author and i worked hard to make sure we had as many couples represented as we could because what we know is that seeing our relationships and meeting us if you will, whether it's at a wedding or as friends or co-workers or in a book, it helps people to understand who we are and that

we are just like so many couples in love who want the opportunity to be together and to be recognized in a way as you said before, normal. >> because marriage is not available to all gay and lesbian couples and has only recently become available to some, same-sex weddings are considered something special. the lgbtq community does not take for granted the right to marry. they can be powerful and transformative for the guests in attendance bringing a new understanding and appreciation of same-sex relationships. that's really changing the dialogue which has just really been transformed in the last couple of years in terms of mainstream public opinion. >> for sure. our advocates, folks who have done a lot of the work in trying to advance marriage equality, i think many of the unsung heroes are the lgbt individuals who have been willing to share their stories and be out of the closet if you will, so folks could know

us. weddings themselves have been as the word in the book reveals, very transformative. in that we find whether it's wedding professionals or whether it's friends and family, it's very difficult not to be transformed by the experience of sitting in on a same-sex wedding because it is a very visceral experience. >> we have an appeals court ruling in utah overturning the ban there, which is one of the more conservative states, obviously, so it's becoming, according to the gallup poll, it's majority support, whereas it had been majority against. >> yes. >> only a couple of years ago. where do you see this going? >> i think we'll ton have same-sex couples choosing to get married. it certainly has always been happening but more couples will. and one of the things exciting in the wedding industry is what we'll see is that some of the ways we have come to design our rituals to create them and repurpose them for ourselves, straight couples are starting to

do that which is really exciting because that's getting back to what ritual really means and why people are there in the first place. but i think we're also going to see same-sex couples as we follow the more normal course of engagements and weddings if you will. we'll see that our trajectories look a little more like the average relationship in that sense as opposed to couples rushing to city hall because they've been together for 20 years waiting for that opportunity to have a legally recognized marriage. >> kathryn hamm, the book is beautiful. many congratulations. >> thanks, andrea. >> congratulations on what you've achieved. >> thank you. and howard baker, a man who many believe would have made a great president, but would never have been partisan or mean enough to win the office, has died at the age of 88. the long time tennessee republican senator, the first republican senator from his state, served as majority and minority leader in 18 years in the senate. he was known as the great

conciliator, forging compromises when no one else could. courageous enough to stand up to his own party leader richard nixon asking this pointed question as the vice chair of the watergate committee -- >> what did the president know, and when did he know it? >> nixon, of course, was impeached, but baker also helped save a presidency, ronald reagan's. nancy reagan helped bring him to in to replace the hot-tempered chief of staff during the iran/contra scandal. an arms for hostages secret deal that almost brought down reagan's secret term. he persuaded the president to give two major speeches acknowledging his involvement for the first time. and cooperating with the investigations on capitol hill. i interviewed baker on the "today" show the morning after an oval office speech the president gave in august of 1987. >> you were still on the hill, would you accept that -- would you accept the fact that shots were fired on saturday, the war powers act doesn't apply, that

congress shouldn't be told the following week when it leaks out? >> the important point is the president is trying to reach out and establish a new cooperation with congress. >> and that was after another story had broken overnight on shots being fired in the persian gulf without notification to congress. baker is also the son of a legendary tennessee congressman and son-in-law of senator everett jerkson. after his first wife died he married kansas senator cassenbaum. nancy reagan issued a statement saying his integrity and ability to create cooperation between the congress and the white house was unparalleled. most importantly, mrs. reagan wrote he was a good and trusted friend. he served his country with great distinction and i remember that at one point ronnie called him a hero of the republic. our condolences to senator castlebaum who survivors senator baker and his children including cisse baker, friend and colleague, formerly cnn's washington bureau chief in the

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so which political story will make headlines in the next 24 hours? maybe a little longer than 24. chris cillizza is back with us. we want to talk about football. >> forget politics. >> so belgium. what's the -- over/urn on belgium. >> we play tuesday at 4:00. belgium is very, very good. not a huge country but a very good team with a lot of -- >> good chocolate. i was just there this week. >> they do have good chocolate. >> they won an exhibition match in march against us. they are quite good. they have a number of really high priced players who play in the english premier league, which is one of the best leagues in the world. they are not -- here's the thing

i would say. they're not better than germany. we're not going to play a team better than germany. we didn't play all that way against germany but it was only 1-0. any of these games, this is a great and horrible thing. any of these games you can win or lose. we're not going to win or lose any game at this point 5-0. it's going to be 2-1, 1-0, maybe 2-0, which means we can -- >> but this is elimination. >> this is the knockout round, exactly right. this is a knockout round. if we lose, that's it. it's not a perfect matchup. in an ideal world we would have won our group b germany yesterday. that would have given us a better matchup against algeria. it would have been hard to win that group in the first place. and i think we can beat belgium. there's only 16 teams left. the teams you'll play are by and large going to be pretty good teams. and this is a good team. >> and the spirit -- the spirit. reminds me of lake placid in 1980. we were up against the russians.

beat them in hockey. why can't we beat belgium in soccer? >> the one i saw yesterday was in dumont circle, relatively close -- >> sponsored by the german embassy. >> and it was packed with people. really cool only because living here, i know what it looks like when there aren't that many people. when you see all those people, it's great. i hope it carries over. i will tell you soccer in america has one gigantic fan in my 5-year-old son. he watches every game running commentary in every game. now the one bad side of this, his favorite player, this might say something about my parenting, his favorite player is luis suarez. >> no. >> is he a biter? >> my son is not a biter. we're trying to explain to him -- we're using this as a learning lesson. >> i'm going to took you about your parenting. chris cillizza, thank you very much. sdhthat does it for "andrea

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