traumatized other the death of his girlfriend and suffers ptsd. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ >> tim howard saved the u.s. >> more trouble looming. tim howard to the rescue. looking for a solo goal. he does it again. >> tim howard with a historically great performance for the united states men's national team. there's only so much one man can do. good morning, it's wednesday,

july 2nd. "morning joe" contributor, mark halper halperin. director of city soccer, gary hopki hopkins. associate editor of the washington post and eugene robinson. in nashville, another pulitzer prize winner. belgium clearly was the better team. they were playing in the american zone the entire game. man, we had a chance at the end. >> it was one game too many for the u.s. this belgium team is a tough team. a very, very good team. i think probably the best team we have played so far. if you look at the game itself, without tim howard, it would be

a two, three, four or five to nil game. 16 saves is a record in world cups. he's a tiger woods type performance. all day, it looked like he was never going to get beat. ultimately, you can't carry on doing that. tim was never going to do it on his own. he was on his own. you know, it's been a great run, a great performance. it's going to be a tough day. >> it's hard for anyone to do, especially you. how does, what is his name? how does he feel today? he's right there, at one point, i don't know if we have the clip or not, he's right there and the ball is right there and the moment is right there and he misses. >> moments change world cups. he was born to do that job.

under pressure, bring one and get it. that's what he did for a living. at least it was in front of the goal, a 90 second regular time. this world cup and at this level, you just don't get a chance to redeem yourself. that has to go. that would have been one of the great highway robberies in soccer. that's the difference. >> when it happened, you have the feeling as a soccer watcher, boom, it's gone. >> this is a world cup issue. a clear chance of that. you look at klinsmann, he would have scored that. he knew it. the look on his face told you, that was a moment all the work tim howard did could have come to something brilliant. it's a great shame. we went to extra time. let me tell you, in extra time,

we were down 2-0. teams don't come back from that. normally, teams collapse. you give up your packet. the usa has become the world's second team. talk to brazilians and europeans, they love the u.s. team. not because they are the best. they never give in. they work hard and push. that game was dead and buried. >> then the fresh legs of the 19-year-old coming in, that is what got us all excited. i jumped closer to the tv set saying this is our chance, we are back in it. >> we were. donovan and green comes in. green scores. you know, the 2-1 goal. belgium rattled. this game could go anyway. we have a free kick that was well worked. the game, i hate to say it, but at that moment, they score and we department get it past.

he's a great goalkeeper, he's world, world class. at this level, you score that goal. that's what the big teams are doing. all the top seeds in the group have all gone through the quarters. they have taken those moments. argentina could have gotten beaten by iran or beaten yesterday. unless they come up with something, the chile/brazil game. brazil was a goalpost away from going out. it's moments. we are not quite at the level where we take the critical moments. we surely can't keep it on one guy, he should have scored. he knows it. klinsmann knows it. tim had a great day. we could have gone to the quarterfinals had we taken that chance, but we didn't. tim howard, 16 saves, unlike anything we have seen in the world cup. afterward, he said you can hold

and hold and hold. if you play like that, the levee is going to break. you have that feeling he would v couldn't keep doing it. one was going to sneak past him and it did. my gosh, what a show he put on. >> we have a superlative now. we have the best player in a world cup, ever although in a losing cause. he was incredible. what a show. but, look what he faced. where were the defenders? they were supposed to keep, you know, keep him from having to face, make 16 saves. i guess my question to gary is, you know, look at the final eight and you see costa rica there. not a traditional soccer power, tiny country. you know, why not us? what do we need to get over this hump of the last 16 to get into the final eight and beyond?

>> we need to keep klinsmann. he's got a long time plan for the u.s. team and developing the style of soccer that is going to allow us to go further in the world cup. keep klinsmann. we need a breakout players. you can work hard for so long. ultimately, you score goals and have to have breakout players. we were shy of three or four breakout players to help us go the next level in the world cup. if we stick with klinsmann and he stays with us, more important. the world is going to look at him. we can find the players. those players will come from, you know, cities, playing in leagues. this is a great world cup for us. we gained a lot of respect

around the world as up and coming country. this proved it. it proved, i think, the fan base in america is the best after world cup. the world cup -- we were phenomenal at home. we have young players coming through. we need to stick with klinsmann and have three or four players that make the difference. it's not in quality. we need more quality to make the chances go in. that's how thin the margin is at this world cup. we fell short. >> the match up in some kind of perspective, the value of the teams you pointed out. $30 million to $40 million is how much they are valued at. belgium at $340 million. that speaks for the talent. >> you play well yesterday. he has $80,000 a year.

a year. howard, $1,000 a week. it's going to tell somewhere. in the key moments when tough score a goal. the belgium team is playing with $15 million to $20 million. they have a golden generation coming through. you know? they will be very, very strong in this world cup and the next world cup. they will win one of those. >> all right. gary, thanks so much. great to have you hear. soccer this time officially has turned the corner in this country thanks to people like you building in the inner cities of this country. thank you so much. tim howard will be joining us live from brazil later this morning. we will talk to the man himself next hour. turning to weather and the

first tropical storm, arthur is spinning off the coast of florida just in time for the fourth of july. nbc meteorologist bill karins is tracking it all. >> many are looking at their plans wondering if they should change them. let's talk about the storm. what happened over night? it got stronger. it should be a hurricane in 24 hours from now. it is just off florida and the east coast. the right side is usually the stronger side. that's the case with this one. much of florida, not going to be a bad day. breezy, in most cases, dry. the beaches will be dangerous up through georgia and south carolina as the waves grow and the rip currents. if there's going to be a deadly part of the storm, it's the beaches, for those who are inexperienced swimmers. stay in front of the life guard or if you are not a good

swimmer, don't go in the water. 60-mile-per-hour winds. we have 15 miles per hour away from being a hurricane. arthur is beginning to take the journey up the eastern sea board. here it is in radar looking to try to form a bit of an eye. if it forms an eye it will become hurricane status. it's fighting dry air from the north. that's preventing it from becoming a bad hurricane. this is the 5:00 a.m. advisory. these paths come out every six hours. 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. is the next one. brushes outer banks, possibly cape cod with the northern, mid-atlantic and new england. here is a closer view of the track and the damage. gusts up to 100, sustained at 80 to 85 in eastern north carolina mostly on the outer banks under a hurricane catch. emergency managers have a tough

time to tell people to hunker down in houses or hotels thursday night into the fourth on friday. they don't want to send everyone home if they don't have to. it's a lot of money lost for the businesses. the storm parallels the coast. as we go throughout the fourth of july, fireworks should be fine. it will be dry and breezy. the problem is at the beaches from maryland to cape cod. it may be sunny and dry, but the rip currents and waves will be a problem through saturday. >> a lot of people wondered and asked a key question. a lot of people, including me. what about my flight tomorrow back to boston and noontime out of new york city? i'm talking me now. >> we are going to get strong thunderstorms moving through the east, including today and right into tomorrow. there's actually 57 million people at risk of severe storms today including the d.c. area,

philly, new york. we expect strong storms late today. this front is going to linger over new york as we go through thursday, periods of rain into boston. we will see airport delays. it has nothing to do, what so ever with arthur. good news, bad news. everyone in new england not having to deal with it. bad news for you going to the airport. >> bill, thanks. we'll talk to you in a bit. joining us now, former communication director for george bush. good morning. >> good morning. >> news from california. the surge of children illegally entering the united states. hundreds of protesters forced three buses of immigrant detainees to turn around from the u.s. customs and border patrol in california. they blocked the entrance waving american flags and carrying protest signs. the move was designed to prevent

overcrowding near the texas/mexico border. alan long urged people unhappy with the decision to protest the transfer. more than 52,000 unaccompanied children entered the u.s. since october. president obama is doubling down on his promise to use executive orders to achieve results if congress fails to act. he urged members of the cabinet to be creative in finding ways to use his executive authority. john boehner is vowing to sue the president to bypass congress and ignoring laws of the land. president obama is not backing down. >> i'm going to keep on taking action on my own to help the middle class. and they criticize me for this. boehner is suing me for this. and i told him, i would rather do things with you. pass some laws. middle class families can't wait

for republicans in congress to do stuff. so sue me. as long as they are doing nothing, i'm not going to apologize for doing something. >> president obama criticized republicans for playing politics with the plans to build highways and bridges that could affect up to 700,000 jobs. >> people want to see results. and objectively, if you look at the agenda i'm putting forward, the things we are trying to get done, like just fix some bridges and roads, it really shouldn't be controversial. not crazy. not socialism. it's not, you know, the imperial presidency. no laws are broken. >> mark halperin, this is a

strange way to do business. the house speaker is threatening to sue the president of the united states. the president using executive order. what do you make of what we are seeing here? >> it's unplugged and speaking from the heart. he's frustrated. he wants the last couple years of his presidency to not be made up of nothing. i think john boehner and others nitpicking at everything he tries to do realize we need to fund construction projects and deal with immigration. i think the president needs a slightly tweaked strategy because i think he's right that some of these things are done better working with congress. find out if there's a way to get things done, particularly transportation with congress opposed to trying to go around them. >> john mayer says we are not

going to pass the bill. the president says then i have to go around you. you studied presidents over years and years and centuries. how unique is what the president is doing right now? >> well, most presidents find great virtue of executive power once they are executive. i think right now, the president is working in a tradition fdr put it best when he said try something, experiment, but, you know, if it fails, admit it. but above all, try something. there's an increasing hunger for there to be action on problems like the construction and i think immigration. you saw it in the california story. it's becoming increasingly

emotional. >> george w. bush wasn't afraid to use this action. is the president within his authority to use the language he's using? >> the language he's using, i agree with mark, unplugged and interesting for us to see him six years in like he's watching a lot of fox news. he's listening to conservative talk radio or watching fox in his free time. what's interesting to me is how he seems to have these feelings in a vacuum but he has no role in arriving at this place where he can do anything with congress. whether or not the american people buy that remains to be seen. he will spend two years speaking to a smaller slice of america, his base. they will write checks to his

library and have success. on immigration, this has gone from being, you know, what i think at one point for a long time was the greatest legislative failure of both parties of congress to the most grave humanitarian crisis in the country. we have tens of thousands of children living in government detention centers. we bring people on this show all the time to talk about refugee crises and we have one in this country and they are children. he is not to blame completely for the fact we are where we are. but, you certainly wish that we had leaders in both parties who could go down to the border. i went to the border with george w. bush a dozen times and bring the focus on the humanitarian tragedy and try to lead our way out of this whether it's executive action or limited legislative action. >> john boehner is saying

nothing is going to happen. >> it's not clear who has a grasp on it. there's enough information out there. i have to assume they all have a grasp on it. the legislative process failed. it's failed. >> if you were the president would you sign executive action on immigration reform? >> he thooz do whatever he has to do. lawyers can create a rational for executive action. if that's what he feels comfortable doing, that's the deal. the immigration crisis is so urgent and so desperate if you are going to string your political credibility, it's a good place to do it. >> the phrase lead our way out of this whether it's immigration or the fact the country is literally crumbling around us, bridges coming down, roads

coming apart. how difficult is it in terms of the history and the now that we seem to have a republican party. sorry, nicole, intent on not governing, not governing? >> you know, i think now is different from history. it's so different from -- george w. bush, for example, had a completely different view of the immigration crisis than today's republican party does and especially the republicans in congress. george w. bush understood, he was a compassionate conservative and had a totally different mind set about it than the one today. i can see why the president would be really frustrated because, you know, congress doesn't want to do anything. i think nicole is right. i think the president is going to have to act. it is a humanitarian crisis. i guess the only thing i would

like to hear, you know, you spoke with leading our way out of it. i would like to also hear the plug me in version of the talk he gave yesterday about immigration, specifically. look, this is a humanitarian crisis and here is why we have to act and here is what i'm going to do and the plugged in version of the transportation and infrastructure issue, which i think is also critical. >> 52,000 minors without their parents have been caught at the border. >> horrific. still ahead, one of the best performances ever by a goalkeeper. we showed you a bit of it. we'll speak to tim howard about his record setting day. summer blockbuster season is under way. tony scott joins us with the pick for the must see movies.

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4g lte network. welcome back to "morning joe." let's look at the morning papers. usa today, one person dead and five injured following chemical explosion at a general motors plant in indiana. a leak from a chlorine dioxide tank. those being treated sustained non-life threatening injuries. the philadelphia inquirer. a food truck explodes in philadelphia injuring 12 people. investigators say a propane tank blew up inside the mexican food truck shooting ten feet in the air. a mom and daughter were inside

the truck at the time of the explosion. four people remain hospitalized, being treated for severe burns. the u.s. navy has the first female four-star woman in the navy. she was promoted to the new rank at a ceremony at arlington national cemetery. she will become the vice chief of naval operations. this is the image that got everybody this morning. the center of the new york coast, the so-called cannibal cop, his conviction was overturned by a judge citing a lack of evidence. the cop left jail yesterday on a $100,000 bond. in 2013, he was arrested and convicted of a plot to kidnap, torture and eat women. it was part of a twisted fantasy and he never planned to carry out the plot. prosecutors plan to appeal the

decision. >> the san jose mercury news is facing a backlash for the social media experiment. they admit it manipulated the news feeds of half a million random users in 2012. it did so with the users consent. the language of the policy allowed them to conduct the research. that policy was later revised months after the study. >> such a weird story. >> bizarre. >> we signed up for it not knowing. >> exactly. the new york daily news after a string of bizarre behavior, actor shia labeouf is being treated for alcohol addiction. labeouf is not in a rehab facility, but is receiving treatment. he was arrested after disrupting a broadway performance of "cabaret." he was muzzled with a face mask because he wouldn't stop spitting while in custody. >> bizarre story. >> los angeles times, more

details in the case of the so-called nightmare nanny. in a recent interview, the live-in nanny was fired and refused to leave the home. she says the family mistreated her and offered her dog food as a substitute for a full meal. >> ain't no mary poppins. she's got a list of demands, access to food or $200 to go out to eat. stocked bathroom with soap and toilet paper. she says if the family complies, she'll leave the house july 6th, as long as weather cooperates. >> she should have done it in cut-out letters from a magazine. >> is she a squatter in the house? >> yeah. >> john, are you happy now? we have done it for three days in a row now. >> why isn't she booked as a

guest? >> tim howard, tim howard, tim howard. >> the family didn't take her stuff and throw it out in the lawn. >> the person that takes care of your kid is not the person you want to do this with. >> the hand that rocks the cradle, remember that movie? >> this is the most important person in your life. my nanny took six weeks off. the book, my husband left with my nanny and i miss her. sh she's the central person in the household. a terrifying story. >> that's the first time in trouble, you don't try to negotiate it, you say good-bye. >> sounds like they tried to. they were pretty nice. the family appeared, not on this show, why not? >> tim howard. >> we'll get on that one. with us now the chief white house correspondent for politico, mike allen. good morning. >> good morning. >> what is your view on the

nightmare nanny and the view in washington? >> this is going to be a central plot twist in the cold. >> i'll always side with the nanny any novel, always. >> nightmare impact 2016 coming up tomorrow on politico. a bit of a troubling picture tr president obama. voters ranked president obama the worst president since world war ii followed by george w. bush and richard nixson. 60% say the country would be better off if romney beat obama. 38% say the country would be worse off. 85% of republicans believe president romney would have the u.s. in a better direction. 47% of the independent voter haves that view. 70% of democrats say the country would be better off -- is better off with president obama. mike, those are extreme numbers

there. what do we take away from that? >> edging out george w. bush for worst president, two numbers really fascinated me here. one, just because it's interesting. the other, troubling numbers in the poll if you are in the west wing. first of all, twice as many democrats picked bill clinton as the best president in history. pick barack obama or jfk. 34% say bill clinton is the best president, ever. 18% pick the current president and jfk. the number you really worry about, almost all these numbers reflect a split country within a margin of error. it's a divided country, we get that, including those who think we are better off with mitt romney. 54% saying this president is not

competent to govern. 54-44 criticizing his handling of the government. that goes beyond a split country. a little vindication in this for romney. romney not only with the number of people saying the country would be better off with him, he gets the spotlight again today. he's a bittersweet farm in new hampshire. a great name where he announced his campaign in 2011. he's appearing there today with scott brown in new hampshire. scott brown is going to be cast midterm as the last chance to pass judgment on barack obama. mitt gets his day, a tough day for the president. >> jon meacham, i'm looking at the political poll. the thing that jumps out at me and i would like your perspective on this, we are back in iraq, afghanistan is a mess. the worst president since world war ii, barack obama? >> seems a bit extreme and i

think i would treat a poll like this with a very long stick and gloves, whatever the image would be. our friend michael has a good rule, it's really impossible to judge a president historically until 20 to 25 years later. i know nicole's old boss, president bush, george w. bush, it's going to take a while for historians to figure it out. truman left with a poor rating. now every politician wants to be harry truman. the confidence number is interesting. i think trying to rate president obama historically is probably a end at the moment.

>> nobody knows president george h.w. bush better than meacham and now he's among people's favorite president. >> or george w. bush, his numbers have gone up as well. coming up, defiant in defeat. the u.s. goes down in brazil. highlights are next. you know something is not quite right when serena williams is unable to serve or catch a ball. why the 17 time grand slam winner had to withdrawal from the match at wimbledon. >> that's painful to watch.

>> i believe -- >> i believe -- >> i believe that we can win! i believe that we can win! i believe that we can win! i believe that we can win! >> president obama at the white

house yesterday for the big u.s. men's national round of sixteen games. belgium, united states, american goalkeeper tim howard showing he is the man. fending off a scare 40 seconds into the game. playing the hero, u.s. was unable to do anything. deadlocked regulation and added time. two minutes into the extra period, belgium breaks through, gets a window there. the first lead of the match, 1-nil. belgium scores on the 31st shot of the day. the early goal gives the u.s. enough time to try to even things up. belgium wasn't done. 12 minutes later, fires a clincher. crushing the hopes of a u.s.

comeback. but in the 107th minute, julian green, 19-year-old kid with fresh legs gets the united states on the board with a beautiful touch there. youngest player for america every to score in a world cup. 2-1. the u.s. has a shot here. the best chance of equalizer off the 114th minute. clint dempsey cannot score. they just couldn't get anything past this guy. belgium hangs on to eliminate the united states, 2-1. an emotional tim howard spoke after the game. >> can you put into word what is you are feeling right now? >> no, i think, you know, it's heart breaking. i don't think we could have given anything more. what a great game of futball. we left it out there. we got beat by a good team. took our chances well. heart ache. it hurts. >> reporter: what was it like

being under constant siege? >> it's what i signed up for. i gain, hats off to belgium. they were fantastic. >> howard was astounding. 16 saves he made. the most in a world cup game in the last 50 years. he will join us live at 7:00 a.m. stick around. the other game yesterday, argentina and switzerland. teams with opportunities. they can't convert in regulation. they went to extra time as well. the 118th minute. argentina sets up on the wing. the shot is good. argentina eliminates switzerland 1-nil. the quarterfinals start friday. the match up, france/germany and brazil/columbia saturday. we took out the united states and the netherlands with costa

rica. nid a,l was eliminated by nick kyrgios. the first time a top player beat the number one in 20 years. sharapova was sent home after three sets. williams pulled out of the doubles match with sister veen us being diagnosed with an illne illness. she has trouble collecting the ball. couldn't catch it on the bounce to set up the serve. certainly not feeling well. the williams sisters pull out of the doubles match. coming up on "morning joe," today marks 50 years since the signing of the civil war act.

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welcome back to "morning joe." people across the country today are marking the 50th anniversary of one of the most pieces of legislation ever passed in the country. today in 1964, president lyndon johnson signed a landmark civil rights act into law. it wiz illegal to discriminate because of race, color, sex, religion or national origin. president johnson carried on president john f. kennedy's push for the act after he was assassinated. eugene robinson, what are your thoughts this morning? >> you know, the civil rights act of 1964 changed my life. it changed the life of this country. you know, it's useful to remember. people think this is ancient

history. it wasn't that long ago and remember the context of the civil rights act. the momentum of the passage really happened after the horrific murder of the freedom writers in mississippi. and it's just incredible to recall that things like that happened with some regularity in this country in my lifetime. so, you know, we have come an enormous distance. it was one of the landmark achievements, i think, in the history of this nation. >> jon meacham, we have come an enormous distance on one hand, that landmark legislation changed america. we changed the face of america. if you look at the visuals that we were showing, we have receded a bit, you could argue politically. around the table, with the president of the united states,

you saw dirkson, a republican leader in the senate and several republicans with the president of the united states as he signed the bill. your views on the regression in terms of the way we govern today? >> gene is right about the murders in mississippi. it was also made possible by the two tragedies of 1963, the murder of the four little girls at the 16th street baptist church in birmingham and president kennedy's murder in dallas. it was president johnson's insight to take the bill that president kennedy proposed back in june and say there could be no greater memorial to john kennedy than the passage of this act. then johnson did what johnson did better than almost anybody, which is, he went to work twisting every arm he could find and putting his finger in every chest he could find of senators and congressmen to get that bill

out of -- it was bottled up in the rules committee. he helped get it out of there. he worked the senate. there's a wonderful story about when he was working dirkson, the senate minority leader, the republican leader from illinois that you alluded to where he was spending -- johnson was spending so much time with dirkson that he called him up one afternoon and said i want you to come down and have a drink with me. dirkson said, mr. president, i can't tonight. i have to go home. before dirkson had a chance to leave his office, he heard the president's beagle barking outside. he got in the car, went up to his office before he had a chance to leave. it was a time when washington worked but we shouldn't sentimentalize it. it was a day before yesterday.

apartheid was alive and well in the united states 50 years ago. >> part of the magic is among his best friends in the united states senate when he was the leader, john, dick russell, is steeped in segregation. obviously, he didn't get him to go along with the vote, he managed the united states senate as president of the united states. >> he did. and he was -- he had something else to prove here. all politics being local as an old friend of yours used to say. he was the conservative on the conservative side of the democratic party. he wanted to prove himself to the liberals. he wanted to prove himself to the eleanor roosevelt wing of the party. he wasn't a hick from texas. he wasn't one of the segregationists. he could deliver what they promised. he was driven by that. >> gene, do you see any scenario

where the current congress and the current cast, the future leaders running for president could accomplish anything this profound in the future? >> no. almost full stop. it's unimaginable that a piece of legislation of this scope could get through congress today and i think, you know, and signed by the president. i think that's kind of tragic for this country is that we can't move forward. nor do we need to move forward. it's useful to remember how different the political alignment was back then, by the way. it was southern democrats who, in large part were standing in the way of legislation and it was northern republicans who helped push it through. obviously, the parties have changed and have calcified in very different positions now.

but, it was different. >> the republicans of their time? >> exactly. they were. >> lyndon johnson closed the deal, but let's not forget the bloodshed leading up to 1964 to get there. coming up, tens of thousands of people remember the lives of the three israeli teenagers killed. prime minister netanyahu is promising a tough response to hamas. "morning joe" is coming back. at every ford dealership, you'll find the works! it's a complete checkup of the services your vehicle needs. so prepare your car for any road trip by taking it to an expert ford technician. because no matter your destination good maintenance helps you save at the pump. get our multi-point inspection with a synthetic blend oil change, tire rotation, brake inspection and more for $29.95 or less. get a complete vehicle checkup

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coming up at the top of the hour, 31 shots before belgium scored against tim howard. he was incredible in goal. the u.s. keeper joins us live in minutes. president obama has a message for republicans critical of executive authority, so sue me, and they will. a heated stand off between protesters and u.s. officials in southern california as residents block immigrant detainees from entering a customs center. the crisis continues to unfold along the united states border. all that and more when "morning joe" comes back.

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the response by israel was quick and powerful after three israeli teenagers were found dead. >> they carried out dozens of strikes. they fired rockets into southern israel. >> hamas has not claimed responsibility for the murders. they claim any attack will open the gates of hell. >> fighters everywhere to avenge muslims worldwide. >> u.s. government sources

believe the talk is bluster. they are concerned about the number of fighters from western europe and the u.s. >> 140 undocumented immigrants from central america have been diverted from this facility. they have been turned around. >> forecasters are predicting a hurricane with 90-mile-an-hour winds moving up the atlantic coastline. >> the president made clear he's devising ways to go around the gop. >> boehner will sue me for this. so sue me. >> usa! usa! >> i believe that we can win! i believe that we can win! >> the end of the road for the u.s. >> extra time for the u.s. >> they fell short. it's an incredible group. >> welcome back to "morning

joe." the managing editor of bobby. welcome back to the coach. in washington, nbc news chief white house correspondent, host of the daily rundown, many chuck todd. good morning. >> good morning. >> we are going to talk to tim howard. you just saw him. americans are feeling the heart break he talked about here. the usa falls to belgium 2-1. they knock in two goals in extra time. the final outcome could have been much worse. tim howard had a brilliant day. he kept the united states in the match for more than 90 minutes. it was the most saves by a keeper in a half century. here at home from coast-to-coast, millions of americans supporting the red white and blue making it a special run by the men in brazil. we'll talk more about the u.s. men's national team and the

tight loss yesterday and talk to tim howard in a second. we want to get to politics. a front page story examines bill and hillary clinton's buddy machine. the article notes how the couple's fund raising within the financial sector could cut both ways in a white house campaign. according to the journal's analysis, they raised more than $1 billion over two decades from american companies and industry donors including speaking fees for their political and policy operations. 12% of the total alt raised came from financial services firms on par with what romney raised in 2012 and considerably more than president obama's share during his campaign. the clinton's long standing ties could bring wealthy donors back to democrats. the opposition carry as risk in public opinion. 13% of voters were confident in

large corporations and the financial industry. even the irs had better numbers. nicole, i wonder what you make of this story. the clintons have had a cozy relationship with call street in many ways. if she decides to run, how does it impact hillary clinton? >> it's not what happens to the campaign, it's how the campaign deals with it. the same goes for wealth. it's not how wealthy you are, it's how you deal with it. she's not dealing with it in a nimble way. that's the problem for her. i think that if she is incapable of sort of feeling proud about her success, her family's success and what she's done, she'll have a hard time, maybe not with the democratic nomination, but winning the election. they haven't studies the mccain slip ups or the romney slip ups. there are plenty of wealthy

politicians who stumbled in the recent political history. the fact she didn't learn from those is a distinction between the obama campaign where they were very, very careful students of the bush campaigns and the kerry failures. so far, the clinton team, they don't seem to be good students of wealthy candidates. >> i was going to say, i agree with what nicole is saying about the message but there's a reality. in a quote from the republicans in that story, if you have a candidate who can raise $2 billion, it's not automatic if the republican nominee can raise it. not automatic at all. if you are a democrat, not just wall street, but big business around the country. if you can keep your base satisfied and raise that money, it's huge. it's a reason she may find running irresistible. fund raising for most candidates

is a nightmare. for her,itis going to be easier. she may have the easiest time raising money of any running incumbent including george bush and president obama. >> within the media, already right now, clinton exhaustion from covering the early stages of not even a campaign yet? >> i think it's one of the clinton campaign's use neek challenges they have to face. there is a fresh core out there, particularly one that mark and i have been a member of for 25 years that covered the clinton's for their entire existence on the national political stage. so that, you know, you are only human as a reporter. i remind friends like nicole, we reporters are also human beings, too. you react in human ways. when you have covered the same group of people 25 years, there is going to be that. that is going to be an

interesting challenge, i think, for the clinton campaign. it's going to be one of their constant frustrations in dealing with the press, the new press core versus the old press core. part of it is going to like the older press core. the good old days, they at least dealt with things that way. they gave us time and there's the new press core, the instant gratification they are not going to like at all. a quick thing on the money front, this money thing is interesting with the republican party. you are going to have a fight between a couple republicans at the end, we assume, one who will have the opportunity to raise money on wall street and one who will chase donors into the arms of the clintons. that will have an impact on the national fund raising. >> we are going to take a turn for a minute because we have roger bennett on the phone. men in blazers, roger bennett,

good morning, sir. >> oh, good morning, america. sad, sad day. battered and bruised. bruce springsteen's album. >> look how sad that man is. roger bennett wrapped in a scarf. >> i'm american, willie. >> walk us through what happened. we all saw tim howard stand on his head, give the performance of a lifetime. there just wasn't enough offensive fire power from the united states men's national team. >> correct. the emotional and rational, willie. emotionally, there's a lot to be proud of with this team. they were young, they were inexperienced. they got out of a group like the hunger games, their opening group. young guys step up.

it could have been 9-0 if it wasn't for tim. there's a petition to rename the washington national airport after mr. howard. the rational was this is an uneven fight. it's like watching george mcfly fight back in "back to the future." we didn't have tenacity, tactic or skill. on the longhand, you have to ask where are our skill players coming from? it's going to be ten to 15 years before we really get to the level of the skill that the other teams have shown in this tournament. you look at soldier field, dallas and the thousands that have watched the game there. something changed in america about the relationship in futball. i can't wait to get back. >> clearly, the better team one yesterday. there's no doubt about that.

if you watch the game, so much time was spent in the american zone. it was a matter of time before they got one past tim howard. >> we were hoping it would be rocky 2 and it turns out to be rocky 1. it turns out to be rocky 2. there's a lot of reason for home. amazing young players. they are world class and very young. this kid, green, his first touch of the ball, he's 17? he's going to be a great player. with those two players, you have the colonel of greatness. if you can build on that, a question is will klinsmann stay? i think four years from now, the u.s. is a much more powerful team and the love affair can continue and grow. >> do you think this is the moment, for real, that soccer arrived in the united states. we have heard it many times. soccer is here. do you think it is for real this

time? >> i have a feeling it is. i live on the upper east side, nine floors up, i heard cheers from the street when we scored. i heard groans when the final whistle blew up nine floors. this is in the middle of a workday afternoon. there is something, some chemistry that has taken place over the last couple weeks. i think it has the potential to stay. >> roger, gene robinson has a question. >> watching that match yesterday, i had to ask myself, is belgium just that good? they were all over the u.s. in a way that other powerful teams were not. germany wasn't, not to that extent. is belgium just that good of a team? >> belgium is a phenomenally challenge european giant. man for man, they should have

crushed the united states. what the states have the team play. they always have. teams come together, they gel, they are tenacious and compensate for their lack of skill with courage and togetherness. it's a great american quality. the game will set up here. it's absolutely here to stay. when i first met willie geist, he never thought about the game. these young players, now, green, just think how good when he has his bar mits fa. we need to start america's next top american strike. we'll fix all our problems with a reality show. investing in soccer. 18 to 34-year-old males in a way nothing else does right now. it's a ten-year project for

klinsmann. he will see it through. the pain of losing, it could be worse. you could be english. believe me, it could be worse. >> roger hang in for a second. we have the man himself with us joining us from brazil, the keeper for the u.s. men's national soccer team, mr. tim howard. let's begin with a round of applause. [ applause ] >> tim, absolutely incredible performance by you. i know you are not aware yet, but there are petitions for you to run for president in this country. the wikipedia page for the united states secretary of defense has been changed from chuck hagel to tim howard. they think you are the best. i know it was a bitter, bitter loss. how are you feeling about the performance of your team in this world cup? >> um, you know, i couldn't be more proud of the boys. i heard roger talking there, there's some star performances in this world cup.

a big moment, showing no near against the best player in the league. rock star for us. you know, the whole tournament. guys really stepped up. it's been a special run. it ended short, but ended short for 31 teams. >> describe for us mortals what it's like. i was stressed out watching at my home and people watching in bars and stadiums to be under siege for an entire game. you couldn't let up for a second. how do you stay focused and be successful over not 90 minutes, but 120 minutes, eventually? >> you just zone in. you know, it's hard to explain. once that whistle blows, everything else disappears. you are focused on the ball and the men in front of you. it's a blur. you are trying to organize a

bunch of guys and put out fires simultaneously. just kind of zone in and get the flow of the game. hopefully you are not under too much pressure. when you are, it comes natural. >> roger bennett has been going through cells of weeping because of the loss. he pulled himself together to ask you a question. roger, go ahead. >> tim, congratulations, you are a total hero last night. last year, you played belgium and cleveland. belgium were convincing winners that night, 4-2. i asked you afterwards, how long it would take to close the talent gap between the united states and america. you told me it would take years last year. how do you feel today, after last night's performance? >> i mean, i think we have soun we can compete on that level. we played against world class

teams and world class players. i'm not overstating that. they really are. we held our own. we made teams have to defend us. we were in every single game. you know, i think this team has come a long way. i'm excited for what the future holds. >> gene robinson with "the washington post" has a question. gene? >> tim, you did play some really powerful teams, presumably you have gotten to see the teams you didn't play, film of them. who is going to win the world cup? who do you like? >> you know what? honestly, brazil that has momentum of a country. i think they will be a tough opponent. columbia. i still say germany. there's something about that german team, the way they are playing. i feel like they have an extra

year. we'll see. i think germany. >> tim, everybody wants in on this. chuck todd, go ahead. >> tim, there's been a lot of talk this is your last world cup. say it ain't so. >> i don't know. you know, i think it's an emotional time. i want to let the dust settle in. there could be important people in the decision making process. i take my time with that decision. >> tim, watching the game yesterday, as it progressed, it appeared to me, an occasional soccer viewer, that you, as the keeper, were almost in a trance, a trance-like way of keeping the goal. do you have awareness of the time, of the clock ticking away as you perform your defender duties?

>> yeah. not every minute, probably. i recognize or have a look at the clock maybe every ten minutes or so. sometimes it seems like the clock is broken because it takes so long. yeah, there's so much going on that you have to you couldn't check the clock. you are too focused on the ball and the guys in front of you. >> tim, we have been wondering whether america's love aware with soccer can continue after this sort of heart breaking defeat last night. we have been in several world cups and you have a sense of how america's passion for the game has been evolved over your career. what is your sense? do you think this is something that will last? >> you know, i think because of the enormity of the world cup,

it's hard to sustain that day-to-day. we should be proud of ourselves as a country. you know, i think the way we rallied behind our team has been incredible. i played europe and i see some of the european countries, fortunately, that don't get behind their teams as our fans have. so, i think we have the upper hand there and to see how special it was, you know, to all the people watching back home. i think we can sustain, it's difficult in our country. >> on behalf of millions of people here in the united states riveted to their screens not just yesterday, but throughout the world cup, thank you. thank you for the effort the team put out there. you took a giant leap forward for soccer in this country. you will realize how big it was once you get home. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> tim howard. roger bennett, go back to bed. i know you have been up all night crying. >> thanks, willie.

he sounded exhausted. it's an honor to be on. we'll win the world cup in 2018, i promise. >> in russia? i like that prediction. >> thanks, guys. >> roger, we'll talk to you. >> chuck, thank you. see you at 9:00. still ahead, nearly 35 years after espn introduced the world to 24/7 world television, a new site is trying to do the same with sports on the web. israel is mourning and responding to the death of three teenagers missing for a month. we'll speak to benjamin netanyahu's chief spokesman next.

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welcome back to "morning joe." a somber day in israel as loved ones said good-bye to three teenagers killed by hamas. one had israeli and american citizenship. israeli prime minister benjamin

netanyahu attended the funeral grieving. a series of rockets into israel. they responded with air strikes on hamas targets. they vowed to do whatever it takes to find those responsible for the death of the teens. the israeli ambassador echoed that. >> the leader of hamas has made statements in the last 24 hours for those who perpetrated the crimes and calling for more kidnappings in the future. we know who they are and where they are. we will bring them to justice. >> hamas denied being behind the kidnapping. meanwhile, the body of a 16-year-old palestinian boy was found in jerusalem. police are investigating if there's a link of it being revenge for the three israeli teens. joining us by phone is key spokesman for the prime minister of israel. mark it's good to talk to you

this morning. >> good morning. >> hamas said they are not behind the murder of the three teenage boys, the terrible murder of the boys. what evidence do you have that it is, in fact, hamas. >> we know for yur it was hamas. the kidnapping happened on a thursday. we waited until the sunday after that before we said it was hamas because we wanted to be absolutely sure. the two individuals, the two terrorists who conducted the kidnapping and murder are key members of the hamas structure of hebron. their pictures have been all over the paper. they are hamas terrorists. i hate to say it, but they are probably proud to be hamas terrorists. >> what are the range of options the prime minister is considering and how important is it that he act quickly? >> caller: we have a range of options, political, military and between. it's important to understand the

cause of what has happened. the reason we have seen this up surge of violence from the west bank over the past few weeks is because of the signed pact. the p.a. brought hamas into the framework. it allowed hamas to rebuild on the west bank, a terror structure responsible for many attacks that crescendoed in this kidnapping of these three young men. >> bobby? >> you just mentioned the fact that hamas is united. are you seeing a scenario where they can be split up again and is this value to that? can there be progress in talks between israel and the palestinians if hamas is not talking in the same voice? >> reporter: look, president abass of the palestinian authority comes to washington and tells everybody he wants peace. he says he's going to fight

terrorism. yet he, a few weeks ago signed a pact with hamas, the same terrorists we have seen target children. now, he can't have it both ways. he can't embrace hamas, which is a brutal terrorist organization and at the same time be a partner this peace. he has to get off the fence. i hope he chooses peace. if he does so, it's good for the palestinians, israel and everyone who wants to see peace. >> jon meacham has a question for you. jon? >> i wonder what contacts you have had with the obama administration and this tragic incident and how you would clarify the israeli relationship at this point? >> caller: we welcome a strong message from president obama following the tragedy. the united states, you know, has

expressed what israel condemned this brutal murder. unlike some countries, the united states has been talked about hamas involvement. so we are being very appreciative of that american role. >> chief spokesman for prime minister benjamin netanyahu. we send our condolences on the death of the three boys. >> caller: thank you, that's appreciated. a long holiday for millions of americans. a strong storm system coming up. bill karins has an update, next.

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the first tropical storm of the atlantic hurricane season is happening now. it's spinning off the florida coast in time for the fourth of july. we have a special report from nbc meteorologist, bill karins. how does it affect me? >> how it affects you, we'll get to at the end. the storm is looking more impressive than it has over the

last two days. it's getting a well-defined eye to the storm. this is the first thing that will transition into eventually a hurricane later tonight or tomorrow. it's close to florida. it's paralleling, moving north. it's not going to make a land fall in florida. there's the center there. for the first time, there's been a lot of dry air so there's not a lot of rain or thunderstorms. we are getting a band on the north side of the storm. the atmosphere around the storm is becoming more humid and moist. this is expected to intensify from now up to the point of coming close to land fall in eastern north carolina. doesn't look overly impressive on the satellite, but there are thunderstorms that just formed. 60-mile-per-hour winds, a decent sized tropical storm, moving to the north. it it's parallel and going to travel north and parallel the coast. georgia and south carolina, rip currents and large waves. you should be fine.

you probably won't see much rain. north carolina is the nose of the country. it sticks well out into the atlantic. that's why this is going to be a very close call for you. you could get a hurricane land fall. right now, category one in areas of north carolina, especially the outer banks of cape hatteras. it's not out of the question to be a category two. there's a lot of tough questions for the emergency managers. are they going to ask for any non-voluntary or voluntary evacuations? are they going to tell the tourists to leave? are they going to stay and hunker down? those decisions will being made today. the money losses for the businesses, if they send people home on the fourth of july holiday weekend. again, that's friday at 2:00 a.m., closer to the outer banks. paralleling the northeast coastal areas friday into saturday morning. the forecast for the fireworks should be just fine. just the rip currents and large waves, mike.

>> bill, bill, bill, thanks for that information. what about me? >> didn't we tell you last hour? >> give him your flight time. >> noontime tomorrow. 11:00 a.m. >> a personalized weather forecast. >> it's horrible. you should walk. >> there you go. you deserve that. >> get my sneakers. >> bill, thanks. we'll check back with you later. next, the top travel trends. we have the exclusive reveal of travel and leisure's new list of where to go, how to stay and how to get there, unless you are going to boston for the weekend. we'll be right back.

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of travel and leisure. trafl and leisure is out with the 2014 world's best award. good to see you. >> thanks, willie, good to see you. >> we are going to start with the megaship cruise lines. who came in number one? >> disney cruise lines. it used to be the top family cruise line, only. now, it's gone to the top of all megaship cruise lines for its great service, the on board experience, the food. so they do a fabulous job. >> do they have -- i'm an adult and i want to go on a grown up cruise. do they have a cruise where mickey is not there? >> well, they don't -- i mean there is a family aspect of their cruises. they have terrific excursions,

terrific activities. it appeals to people of all ages. are you cruise people? >> never been on a cruise. we watch the commercial and we look at each other and say are we going to do that? who is cruising on the disney cruise line? >> children do determine some of the choices their parents make. >> yeah. >> let's move on to top domestic airline. what is the top? >> virgin america. for four years now. you know, they do something different. they have leather seats. they have special, fancy lighting, a sense of fun. >> awesome snacks. >> awesome snacks. they separate themselves from the crowd. what is interesting, too, is that the legacy carriers, american, and united don't

place. there's a lot of frustration right now at them, at the extra fees for bags, you know, their miles programs are becoming more restrictive. it's harder to get seats. it's kind of a rebellion against them that you see. >> they yell at you for not cleaning up the plane. >> i know. >> it's awful. >> then when you get on, the plane is never clean, right? >> you feel like you get pinched at every turn when you travel. how is virgin able, as a bottom line to do things others can't? >> they have been smaller. now they are adding lots of routes. i think the richard branson gloss and excitement rubs off on them. you know, they offer something different. i think their newness may help, too. people, you see in hotels and everything.

people want to have the sense of exploration throughout their trip. you know, a sense of something they haven't seen before. something different. >> let's explore the islands. you list the top, overall islands. number one is on the cover of your magazine. >> santorini. it's amazing. different kind of beaches, charming towns. a real greek flavor. you know, wonderful white houses in the cliffs. it's very romantic. >> it's distinct. when you see it, you know where you are. i have been there a couple times myself. it's a great, great experience. >> the list goes down to keep things more doe mystic, hawaii. >> lots of hawaii this year. three in the top -- three islands in the top five. they are actually four islands in the top ten. i'm really happy to see it.

you know, hawaii has a lot of new hotel products. it's still -- there are still parts of the island where you can have a wonderful experience of nature, a lot of adventure, the hotel properties, they are really great. i mean food is wonderful. it's kind of the birthplace of fusion food. it's just a great experience and pretty accessible. >> your list of top overall cities jumped out to me not just because the number one, kyoto, japan, but number two, charleston, south carolina. you think of rome and paris but charleston, south carolina is number two. >> people love, charleston is a great food city. our readers love the people there. they love the sense of sun.

it's really become an interesting place to visit. what is also noteworthy is that three of the top five cities in the u.s. are southern. >> what are the other two? >> the other two are new orleans and savannah. >> savannah? >> yeah. yeah. >> not surprising. >> great cities. >> charleston is a great, great town. >> the food is unbelievable. people are so nice. >> i think that the southern cities offer a sense of exploration and kind of ease. maybe authenticity, which is a big driver for travelers now. >> i would throw in nashville, too. that's exploding. a great american city. let's go to top hotels. number one in the world is in montana. the triple creek ranch darby. >> that is, you know, people are

looking for a place that's different from where they are. they want a little bit of digital detox, a little bit of a sense of getting away from it all from their normal lives. it offers this. i mean the wonderful cabins with fireplaces. the service is extremely well for service. i have been there. the service is really relaxed. you know, it's american kids serving you, but they take care of everything. i think, also, it reflects a new kind of -- a new desire for naturalism or informality in travel. >> what time of year did you go? how does that impact -- >> i went for christmas with my family. there's skiing, there's a real mountain that's very montana about 40 minutes away, but there's a lot of snow shoeing, horseback riding, ice fishing, sledding. you know, you can do a million

things. it's amazing. archery. i haven't done that before. >> nancy -- >> i believe you. >> nancy, we love this list every year. it's so cool. the editor and chief of travel and leisure. still ahead, 2014 set up to be a monster year for hollywood. we break down the hits and the flops. summer blockbuster season with tony scott. plus the first of its kind, a digital network that is going to change the game of professional sports. you are watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. at every ford dealership, you'll find the works!

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welcome back to "morning joe." here with us now the ceo of major league baseball advanced media, our good buddy bob bowman. they are partnered up with time, inc., to create 120 sports.com, a network for the digital age. sounds fancy, bob. >> it's a heck of a name, isn't

it? the theory is every story is two minutes long, 120 seconds. >> is that right? >> it's built for a digital age. digital first, not even on tv today. every story is two minutes along and that gets to the attention span. we laugh at teenagers, but all of us, even people as old as we are, our attention span is getting shorter and shorter and shorter as well. every story is two minutes long, tries to move quickly. it's mobile, it's shareable. >> and it's all original to the site. it's not derivative of anything on television or anything else. >> it's a set not unlike this, but we have two or three people that talk about today's stories and move quickly. if there's a tweet that comes out, the story line gets interrupted and they talk about that for two minutes. >> well, bob, thanks very much for joining us today. we appreciate it. >> two minutes? >> that's your attention span. >> see ya later. >> what's on it? what do i see when i go on it?

>> whatever the most topical sports story is. today i'm confident will all be about u.s. soccer and the great game and great run the team had and certainly about baseball games. so there will be baseball. last week it was about the nba draft. who went where and why. there will be some highlights and some live look-ins. the day we launched, which was a week ago today, we were fortunate having lincecum throwing his second no-no so they did a live look-in to watch that. >> do you have a sense of how many people were watching yesterday, soccer? >> yeah. we do the back end for espn. the concurrence were the millions. espn knows the total number so they'll release that when it's appropriate to release that, but in terms of concurrence it was 1.5 to 1.6 million peaking so those numbers blow away anything weather everywhere ever seen. we've never seen those kinds of numbers. so the sense y'all had about the

importance of soccer was true. everyone was watching and cheering for the u.s. and it was a great run. but now it's about baseball again. >> bob, when it comes to what you're doing in this new venture, is it exciting like the wild, wild west when you think of the mobile consumption and what we're doing now with being able to have services like this and the access just at our fingertips, whereas before it's never been like this? >> it is. the only limitation is your imaginati imagination, but it still takes hard work and cooperation. what we like about 120 we have the nba, nhl, mlb, pg tour, nascar, the first time all those entities have gotten together and done it on their own without espn or fox involved. pay tv is very important to everybody but this is an over the top, direct to consumer video only mobile only product that we think is going to do quite well. >> bob, tell us about some gee whiz technology that makes this possible that you all are

pioneering. >> the first thing we did here, you have the video. everybody talks about the second screen or third screen. what we did here is made one screen become a second screen. so the video is playing, down below you'll see three relevant data cards. so whatever they're saying there's a data card that says if they're talking about -- if they're talking about billy hamilton, how fast he is, there's a data card saying here's his stats for the year. >> so two videos streaming at the same time? >> one video but the data card. hit the data card but the video still plays but you can go to the data right there. so we're taking one screen and creating a second screen within that one screen. no one has done that before. and we think for this generation, for all of us, the ability to move within an app and get all sorts of different data points at the same time will be appealing to them. >> time will tell. >> this man proves we all continue to act like teenagers no matter how old we actually are. >> he lives on your apps.

when he's not on the set -- >> an incredibly wise man. he's incredibly to be on at-bat. >> he should be the face of at-bat actually. i take that back. >> with the apple. >> help him out. red sox got any chance? >> absolutely. >> really? >> most competitive balance we've ever seen. it's going to be an exciting september, exciting july. don't miss. >> it thomas is an orioles guy. >> they're right there. and the red sox, they're playing okay. >> that a.l. east. bob, it's good to see you. we'll check out 120sports.com online. get the app, you get the whole thing. >> congratulations on your book, by the way. >> thank you very much. a beautiful game that ultimately ended in disappointment for the u.s., but a 19-year-old kid and goalie tim howard made the u.s. world cup game an instant classic. and speaker boehner is

threatening the president with a lawsuit over his use of executive action. we'll show you how the president responded yesterday. plus after a series of public meltdowns, actor shia labeouf getting some help. why the star's rep says it's technically not rehab. all that and more when "morning joe" comes back.

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it's 8:00 on the east coast, 5:00 a.m. as you wake up out west and a live look at new york city. with us on set, msnbc contributor mike barnicle, "morning joe" contributor mark halperin, host of "way too early" thomas roberts and the director of city soccer in the community, gary hopkins. associate editor of the "washington post" and msnbc political analyst eugene robinson and in nashville another pulitzer prize-winner, historian, jon meacham. jon, good morning, sir. >> how are you? >> i'm doing well. gary, that close. belgium clearly was the better team. they were playing in the american zone the entire game but we had a chance at the end. >> it was sort of one game too many for the u.s. this belgium team is a top-loaded team, a very, very

good team, probably the best team we've played so far and we never really got going. if you look at the game itself, without tim howard this game would have been a 3, 4 or even 5-0 game. but tim had one of those games where he saved everything thrown at him. 16 saves is a world record in this game. all day it looked like he was never going to get beat, but ultimately you can't carry on doing that. you're going to eventually concede a goal. the defense hung out as long as it can but tim was never going to do it on his own. he looked at some stages like he was on his own. but it's been a great run, it's been a great performance. we just walked into a team that's starting to come into its own and it's going to be a tough day. >> it's hard for anyone to do, especially you, but how does -- what is his name, wondolowski? he's right there, i don't know whether we have the clip or not,

he's right there and the ball is right there and the moment is right there and he misses. >> moments change world cups. he should have scored. he was brought on by klinsmann to do that job. klinsmann thought he could get a goal at the end. that's what he does for a living. it's like the designated hitter in baseball. that's the guy you bring out to score when you need it, and he missed. at this world cup and at this level, you just don't get a chance to redeem yourself. that had to go. that would have been one of the great highway robberies in soccer but we'd have been in the quarterfinals in the world cup. >> when it happened, you just had the feeling as an amateur soccer watcher that, oh, it's gone. >> this is a walk-up. he should have scored. it was a clear chance. you look at klinsmann on the bench, klinsmann would have scored that and he knew it and the look on his face told you that was a moment where all the work that tim howard did could

have come to something brilliant and we could have gone to the quarters but it wasn't to be and it's a great shame. we had to go to extra time and we ended up -- but in extra time we went down from 2-0. teams don't come back from 2-0 in extra time. normally teams collapse. and usa has become the world's second team. you talk to brazilians and europeans, they love the u.s. not because it's the best but they never give in. they're work hard, they're brave. 2-0 down, that game was dead and buryed. >> and the fresh legs coming in, that was excite. i thought this was our chance, we're back in it. >> that was a brave choice. julian green comes in, scores. the 2-1 goal. at 2-1 belgium were rattled, this game could go either way.

we had a beautiful free kick but i hate to say it but at that time messi or robin scores. the belgian goalkeeper is world, world class but at this level you score that goal and that's what the big teams have done. all the top seeds in the groups have all gone through to the quarters because they have taken those moments when they have come -- argentina could have gotten beaten by iran. argentina could have gotten beaten yesterday but messi comes up with something. the chile/brazil game. brazil was a goal post away from going out. it's moments, and we're just not quite at the level where we take those critical moments. wondolowski should have scored, he knows it, klinsmann knows it. tim would have been not vindicated -- he had a great day but we'd have gone to the quarterfinals had he taken that chance and we didn't.

>> gene, it really was a jordanesque performance for tim howard, 16 saves unlike anything we've seen in the world cup. he talked afterward and he said you can hold and hold and hold but if you play like that, the levee is going to break. you got that feeling he couldn't save every shot coming his way but my gosh, what a show he put on. >> we a superlative now. we have the greatest performance by a goalkeeper in a world cup game ever although in a losing cause. you know, he was just incredible. w what a show. but look what he faced. where were the defenders who were supposed to keep him from having to face -- make 16 saves. and so i guess my question to gary is, you know, look, look at the final eight and you see costa rica there, right? not a traditional soccer power, tiny little country.

you know, why not us? what do we need to get over this hump of the last 16, to get into the final eight and beyond? >> what we need to do is keep klinsmann, definitely keep klinsmann on the job. i think he has a long-term plan for the u.s. team and country in soccer and developing a style of soccer that's going to allow us to go further than the 16 in the world cup. so keep klinsmann. we need three or four -- we need some breakout. everyone says you need a messi and robin which you do but we need more breakout players. you can win with systems for so long, you can work hard for so long, you can have great structures for so long, but ultimately you've got to score goals and have breakout players. i think we're just shy of three or four break outplayers to help us goat next level in the world cup. but i do believe if we stick with klinsmann and he stays with us more importantly because the world will be looking at clin

klinsmann again and hunting him down, we can find those players. they'll come from abroad, playing from leagues like the premier league but this was a great world cup for us. i think we gained a lot of respect around the world as an up and coming country. this proves it. the fan base in america was one of the best at the world cup. and i've got friends in brazil who said the best fans were there the usa. we've got young players coming through, stick with klinsmann and in four years time we need to have three or four more player that say can really sort of make that little bit of difference. it's not in quality, we still need a little more quality to make those wondolowski chances go in. turning to weather and the first tropical storm of the atlantic hurricane storm, arthur is spinning off the coast of florida just in time for the fourth of july. nbc meteorologist bill karins is

tracking it all for us. hey, bill. >> good morning to you, willie. millions of people are considering their plans and wondering if they should change them. some of you may want to. others i think you can hold to course with your east coast vacations. let's talk about the storm, what happened overnight. it got stronger. that's not what you want to hear but it's what we expected. it should be a hurricane in about 24 hours from now. it is just off florida's east coast. thankfully with all of these storms, the right side is usually the stronger side and that's the case with this one, so much of florida, it's not going to be a bad day today. breezy and in most cases dry, but the beaches will be dangerous not just in florida but up through georgia and south carolina says the waves grow and rip currents. if there's a deadly part of this storm it's at the beaches from people who are inexperienced swimmers. stay right in front of the lifeguards and if you're not a good swimmer, don't go in the water. that goes all the way up the coast. so 60-mile-per-hour winds, only 15 miles per hour from being a hurricane. so arthur is beginning to take

the journey up the eastern seaboard. here it is clearly on radar, almost looking to try to form a little bit of an eye. if it does, it will likely become hurricane status. it is fighting dry air to the north. that's the one thing preventing this from becoming a really bad hurricane. the forecast from the hurricane center, the 5:00 a.m. advisory, remember, these paths come out every six hours, so 5:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. is the next one. it brushes the outer banks, brushes cape cod up in nova scotia sparing a lot of the northern mid-atlantic and new england. here's a closer view of the track and the timing. if we're going to get any damage out of this storm with the winds, maybe gusts up to 100, sustained 80 to 85, that would be in eastern north carolina, mostly on the outer banks who is under a hurricane watch. emergency managers have a very tough decision whether to send tourists home or tell people not to come. maybe they'll tell everyone to hunker down in their houses or hotels as we go through thursday night into the fourth on friday. of course they don't want to

send everyone home if they don't have to because that's a lot of money lost for the businesses. but safety first. the storm on friday parallels the coast. so the bottom line, willie, is we go throughout the fourth of july, fireworks should be fine, d.c., macy's should be fine, it will be dry, it will be breezy. the problem will be at the beaches even from maryland all the way to cape cod. it may be sunny and dry but the rip currents and waves will be a problem for a lot of people right through saturday. >> bill, a lot of people have wondered and asked a key question, meaning me, what about my flight tomorrow back to boston at 11:00 or noon time out of new york city, how's that going to hold up? i'm talking about me now. >> actually what's interesting is we're going to get very strong thunderstorms moving through the east, including today and right into tomorrow. there's 57 million people at risk of severe storms today, including the d.c. area, philly, new york. we do expect strong storms late today. so late today your flights will have delays. this front will linger over new york as we go through thursday,

periods of rain and into boston. so, you know, we will possibly see airport delays the next two days but has nothing to do whatsoever with arthur. it's good news/bad news. good news for people in new england not having to deal with the storm, bad news for barnicle going to the airport. >> i'm going to go today then. joining the table now, former communications director for former george w. bush, nicolle wallace. >> good morning. >> the surge in children and families illegally entering the united states led to a heated standoff in california. hundreds of protesters forced three buses of immigrant detainees to turn around from the u.s. customs and border patrol station in muir yetta, california. they carried protest signs in opposition to new illegals. it's to prevent overcrowding at border facilities near the texas/mexico border. the mayor urged people unhappy with the decision to protest the

transfer. more than 52,000 unaccompanied children have entered the u.s. since last october. that leads us to this. president obama doubling down on his promise to use executive orders to achieve results if congress fails to act. he urged members of the cabinet to be creative in finding ways to use his executive authority. house speaker john boehner is threatening to sue the president for using executive actions for bypassing congress and ignoring laws of the land but president obama is not backing down. >> i'm going to keep on taking actions on my own to help the middle class, and they criticize me for this. boehner sued me for this. and i told him i'd rather do things with you, pass some laws. middle class families can't wait for republicans in congress to do stuff. so sue me. as long as they're doing

nothing, i'm not going to apologize for trying to do something. >> president obama also criticized republicans for playing politics with his plans to build new highways and bridges, which he says could affect up to 700,000 jobs. >> people just want to see some results. and objectively if you look at the agenda i'm putting forward, the things that we're trying to get done, like just fix some bridges and roads, it really shouldn't be controversial. it's not crazy. it's not socialism. you know, it's not the imperial presidency. no laws are broken. >> mark halperin, this is a strange way for a country to conduct its legislative business. you have the house speaker threatening to sue the president of the united states. president then using executive authority, which he has used less than many of his

predecessors. >> speaking from the heart, he's very frustrated. he wants the last couple of years of his presidency to not be made up of nothing. he's got a responsibility to govern. i think john boehner and the others who are nit-picking at everything he tries to do recognize we need to fund construction projects, we need to deal with the immigration crisis even if we can't have comprehensive immigration reform and i think the president needs a slightly tweaked strategy, because i think he's right that some of these things would be better done working with congress. i think he needs to figure out whether there's a way, even in the context of the midterms, to try to get some things done, particularly transportation and skp infrastructure with congress as opposed to working around them. >> jon meacham, with reference to immigration reform, it's through the senate. john boehner says we're not going to pass that bill through the house and the president says we have to go around you. you've studied presidents over years and years and centuries, in fact. how unique is what the president

doing right now? >> most presidents find great virtue in executive power once they're the executive. one person's imperial presidency is another person's attempt to make a recalcitrant congress -- to go around a recalcitrant congress to do good. and i think right now the president is working in a tradition fdr i think put best when he said try something, experiment, but if it fails, admit it frankly, but above all try something. and i think there is an increasing hunger for there to be action on self-evident problems like the construction and i think immigration you saw it in the california story is becoming increasingly emotional. >> nicolle, president george w. bush wasn't afraid to use executive action. we know this congress has been recalcitrant for some time as jon points out.

is the president within his authority to use the power that he's using and the power of the pen. >> well, the language that he's using is pretty unplugged and interesting to see us six years in speak like he's watching a whole lot of fox news. imperial presidency isn't a term you hear thrown around on this network or any other news channel, it's a term on fox news. so either he's listening to conservative talk radio or watching a little fox in his free time. what's interesting to me is how he seems to have these feelings in a vacuum as a victim, that he had no role in arriving at this place where he can't do anything with congress. whether or not the american people buy that i think remains to be seen. my sense is he will spend the next two years speaking to a smaller and smaller slice of america, his base. the people who write checks to his library and the people most invested on him having some success. on immigration, this has gone from being from what at one point was the greatest

legislative failure to the most grave humanitarian crisis in the country. we now have tens of thousands of children living in government detention centers. you know, we bring people on this show all the time and we talk about refugee crises on the syrian border and other places. we have one in this country and they're children. and he is not to blame completely for the fact that we are where we are, but you certainly wish that we had leaders in both parties who could go down to the border. i went down to the border with george w. bush a dozen times and bring the focus of the country on the humanitarian tragedy of what's going on and try to lead our way out of this. still ahead, female-driven stories making a play for box office dominance this summer, pushing the typical summer blockbuster movie to the side. we'll explain why when tony scott joins us. plus a scary scene in philadelphia when a food truck explodes. we'll tell you what exactly happened. and the nightmare nanny,

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welcome back to "morning joe." let's take a look at some of the morning papers. "usa today" one person dead five years following an explosion an a plant. it involved a leak from a

chlorine dioxide tank. hospital officials say those being treated sustained nonlife-threatening injuries. the "philadelphia inquirer," a food truck explodes in philadelphia injuring 12 people. investigators say a propane tank blew up inside the mexican food truck sending flames shooting 200 feet into the air. police say a mom and daughter were inside the truck at the time of the explosion. four people remain hospitalized and are being treated for severe burns. "the washington post," the u.s. navy has named the first female four-star admiral in its 236-year history. yesterday admiral michelle howard was promoted at a ceremony at arlington national cemetery. she will also become the vice chief of naval operations. that's the second ranking officer in that branch of service. >> this is the image that grabbed everybody's attention on the cover of "the new york post." the so-called cannibal cop is

freed after his conviction was overturned citing a lack of evidence. the former nyc cop left jail on a $100,000 bond. in 2013 he was arrested and convicted in connection with a plot to kidnap, torture and eat women. it was part of a twisted fantasy on a fettish website and he never planned to carry out the plot. prosecutors plan to appeal that decision. the "san jose mercury news," facebook is responding to backlash regarding its social media experiment. the social network admits it manipulated the news feeds of more than half a million random users in 2012 but claims it did so with those users' consent. facebook says the language of its policy at the time allowed them to conduct the, quote, research. that policy was later revised months after the study. >> that is such a weird story. >> it's bizarre. >> we signed up for that not knowing we had signed up for the research probably. so "the new york daily news"

after a string of bizarre behavior, actor shia labeouf is being treated for alcohol addiction. the actor's rep says he is not in a rehab facility but he is receiving treatment. he was arrested last week after disrupting a broadway performance of "cabaret." she was muzzled with a face mask because he wouldn't stop spitting in custody. more details coming out in the case of the so-called, here we go, nightmare nanny. in a recent interview, the live-in nanny who was fired and refused to leave the home of her former employer said the family mistreated her and even offered her dog food as a substitute for a full meal. >> ain't no mary poppins situation. >> she looks so nice, look at her. >> she's written a list of demands, including access to food or $200 to go out to eat, a stocked bathroom with soap and toilet paper, access to wi-fi, tv, air conditioning and water.

she says if the family complies, she'll leave the house on july the 6th as long as weather cooperates. >> it sounds more like a manifesto. >> she should have done that with little cut-out letters from magazines. >> so she's a squatter in the house now? >> basically. john tower, are you happy now? we've done this for three days in a row now. >> why is she not being booked as a guest. >> tim howard, tim howard, tim howard. >> the story is the family. the family who didn't take her stuff and low throw it out on t lawn. >> the person that takes care of your kid isn't the person you want to go to defcon four with. the nanny is like the central person in your household. to go to war with your -- this is an inexplicable and terrifying story. >> that particular nanny, at the

first sign of trouble you don't try to negotiate it, you say good-bye. >> it sounds like they tried to and it sounds like they were pretty nice. the family has appeared, not on this show. why not, john? >> see, tower, you've created a discussion at the table. tower, get on that. we need her on the show. with us, mike allen with a look at the playbook. mike, good morning. >> good morning. >> what's your view on the nightmare nanny and the view down in washington, mike? >> the view down in washington is that this is going to be a central plot twist in nicolle's next novel. >> i will always side with the nanny in any novel. always. >> nightmare nanny impact in 2016. a brand new quinnipiac poll paints a bit of a troubling picture for president obama. voters rank president obama the worst president since world war ii. wow, he's followed by george w. bush and richard nixon. the poll also shows close to 50% say the country would have been

better off today if mitt romney beat president obama in the 2012 election. just 38% say the country would be worse off. 85% of republicans believe president romney would have the u.s. in a better direction. and 47% of the independent voters have the view but 74% of democrats as you might imagine still say the country would be better off -- is better off with president obama. all right, mike, those are some pretty extreme numbers there. what do we take away from that? >> yeah, edging out george w. bush for worst president, two numbers really fascinated me here. one just because it's interesting and the other, the really troubling number in this poll if you're in the west wing. first of all, nearly twice as many democrats pick bill clinton as the best president in history as pick barack obama or jfk. so 34% say bill clinton is the best president ever.

18% picking the current president and jfk. the number you really worry about, almost all of these numbers reflect a split country. within the margin of error, it's a divided country, we get that, including the people who think that we'd be better off with mitt romney. but there's a number, 54% say this president not competent to govern. 54-44 criticizing his handling of the government. that's something that goes beyond a split country and is worrisome if you're here. a little vindication in this from mitt romney. mitt romney, who not only with the number of people here saying the country would be better off with him, he gets the spotlight again today. he's at bittersweet farm in new hampshire. a great name. that's where he announced his campaign back in 2011. he's appearing there today with scott brown, now running for senate in new hampshire. scott brown is going to cast the midterm election as the last

chance to pass judgment on barack obama. so mitt gets his day, a tough day for the president. >> jon meacham, i'm looking at the political poll, some of the numbers here, but the thing that jumps out at me and i'd like your perspective on this, we're back in iraq, afghanistan is a mess, the worst president since world war ii, barack obama? >> it seems a bit extreme. and i think i would treat a poll like this with a very long stick and gloves, whatever the image would be. our friend michael beshlaw says a good rule -- it's really impossible to judge a president historically until 20 or 25 years later. i know nicolle's old boss, president bush, george w. bush, certainly believes that. if they're still writing books about george washington, it's going to take a little while for historians to figure out a judgment on more recent times.

harry truman left washington with a dismal approval rating and now every politician of both parties wants to be harry truman. so i agree with mike, the competence number is troubling. the debate over ends and means of executive action is interesting right now, but i think trying to rate president obama historically is probably a fool's errand at the moment. coming up next, it's already a busy summer for hollywood. film critic tony scott joins us with his list of the movies you don't want to miss over the next couple of months. "morning joe" will be right back. when folks think about what they get from alaska, they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology.

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brian: 25 years. matt: that's how long we've been talking about the most important social issues. savannah: education. al: conservation. chris: uniting the nation. jim: with a bit of imagination. the more you know. hey, welcome back, everybody. time for business before the bell with cnbc's sara eisen. sara, good morning to you. wow, what a banner day yesterday and more good news rolling out this morning. >> not a bad way to start off the trading month of july, the second half of the year. record highs right now for the s&p 500, the broader index and the dow. we're closely watch get dow because it is approaching that key 17,000 level, a key psychological barrier, if you will. it looks like futures are higher today. we just got word from adp that

private sector jobs did really well in the month of june. 281,000 jobs added in the private sector during the month. that was way better than economists were looking for. they were expecting a number more like 200,000. tomorrow is the big government jobs report. they release their report on private sector and public sector jobs. economists are optimistic we should see a number over 200,000 which would mean we're finally getting over the cold weather slump that dragged our economy down in the first quarter. i mentioned the stock market. one winner in particular is gopro. this is the camera maker action camera. it's actually the top-selling camcorder in the u.s. market. that stock has been on a tear. it went public on thursday at $24. doubled in price. it's up more than 100%. it has gone up every single day since it's been public. it's under pressure a little bit in the premarket but it's worth mentioning because investors have been euphoric about this ipo. and the founder, nick woodman,

who is a surfer, founded this company, is now worth $2.5 billion. he owns a great percentage of this stock. and also nice to hear that his father, who invested a few hundred thousand in the early days is worth $280 million. so getting rich off gopro. >> they encourage you to buy them, break them and buy them again because you're doing adventurous and dangerous stuff. so they make them affordable and encourage you to break them and reinvest in a new one. >> i don't know about that but they have big plans. i think that's what's behind some of the positive sentiment on this stock. so having channels where people wear their gopros and broadcast it on youtube or online. >> so we'll be wearing them on our head from now on is what you're saying? >> if you are into action sports, which i have to say not so much. i'm good with my camera phone. clearly at a $6 billion evaluation, investors are

optimistic. also want to mention jpmorgan will be a stock to watch after it was released jamie dimon has been diagnosed with throat cancer. he's going to undergo treatment. chemotherapy and radiation. the bank says it's going to be business as usual. he's going to stay as the ceo in the spot. the board has been discussing succession plans immediately and for several years out, but all the division heads should run smoothly. the stock got hit a little bit on the news. of course jpmorgan, one of the biggest banks in this country so very important. >> certainly want to witch dimon and his recovery all the best. coming up next, film critic tony scott revealing what he says is the best movie so far this year. we'll also get some of the winners and losers coming up for the summer. don't just visit rome.

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mom. >> have you been partying? >> a little bit. >> oh. >> what do you want to be, mason? what do you want to do? >> all right. so that was a look at the new film "boyhood." it may not look like the typical summer movie but tony scott says it is the best movie so far this year and tony joins us now. so nicolle is about to cry as the mother of a son. she's getting a little teary-eyed but explain what "boyhood" is all about. >> well, i had the same experience. i have a son that's 18 that just graduated from high school and

seeing this movie just kind of emotionally destroyed me because it's about real life in a way that very few movies are. the director started making this movie more than 12 years ago and his idea, which is kind of a simple, brilliant idea when you think about it, it's surprising no one has done it before, was to tell a coming of age story not by having a bunch of different actors play the main character at different times but to start in realtime when this young man was about 6 years old and to keep coming back every year and filming new scenes and telling the story as it develops. so you watch him grow from this cute little 6-year-old through the awkward stages of middle childhood and adolescent into a young man. and the world kind of goes along with him. the parents are played by patricia arquette and ethan hawke. and they change too. >> so they all age each exactly the same amount?

>> right. exactly the same amount. and they change as actors too. ethan hawke not only looks different when you see him in 2002-2003 as the young, irresponsible father of this young man, but he also changes as an actor. his body changes, his manner changes, as the kid's does. so it is this incredibly rich portrait of american life, of an individual child and an individual family and also of a place. it's really a movie about texas in a way where it all takes place and it's really -- you know, i see a lot of movies and i'm not inclined toward hyperbole but this is one of the most amazing things i've seen in a very long time. >> tell us about "planet of the apes." an anticipated blockbuster? >> well, i have not seen it yet. the first press screening that i've been invited to is tonight, so i'll be there.

but this -- you know, the first reboot of this franchise that a lot of us remember from, you know, growing up in the '70s with those ape masks is what was really good. this one pushes the story a little bit further along, on the path to human near extinction and ape domination. and it's a very -- i mean i thought the first one was good. i think the performances of some of the actors, in particular andy circus playing the main ape, caesar, has great potential. so this one i'm looking forward to. i can't judge it yet, but i'm hoping. >> so you're going in with good expectations. >> i always do. i always hope -- no one likes to see a bad movie, least of all a movie critic. >> so let's talk about "tammy" which is a comedy with melissa

mccarthy and susan sarandon. if you read "the new york times" today and the film review, you might not want to go see the film but i think it's still going to be -- >> i think so. my friend and colleague whose judgment i tend to trust, even though i don't always agree with her opinions, but i think that melissa mccarthy is a huge movie star right now, is the kind of comic powerhouse of the moment. every few years i think a performer comes along who's just -- everyone wants to see. >> people love her. >> now it's her. she's really funny. the physical comedy, the verbal comedy, the zany unpredictability of the character she plays. so even in movies that are maybe not all that great as movies -- >> people will see it. >> people are going to go. and if you're looking for a comedy, there's not a lot else, you know, to see right now. you know, if you kind of need maybe to recover from three

hours of the "transformers." >> so must-see favs for you are what? >> i really like this movie called "snow piercer." it's a somewhat smaller film, not from a big studio, but it's a really interesting movie. it's got a great cast. the idea -- it's this dystopian thing where the world has been frozen by a misguided attempt to deal with climate change and all of humanity is stuffed onto this train that's moving very, very fast and never stops moving and keeps going around. >> is there a quiet car? >> there's a very noisy car actually. once the fighting starts, there's no quiet car. but there's a second class car, there's the back of the train where all of the poor people are huddled in steerage and eating,

you know, protein bars made out of cockroaches and up in front there's the 1% of the train. this may be an -- >> when i was a boy we called that soylent green. >> so a group of rebels from the back of the train tries to make their way up to the front. >> who plays elizabeth warren? >> i don't know. probably not -- i guess elizabeth warren -- yeah, you know, i would say octavia spencer is the closest, is sort of one of the leaders of the rebels. she's great. it's a great cast. and it's just really fun. it works in the way that these science fiction action movies are supposed to. there's lots of great action and excitement and there's some humor. and the story you don't really know where it's going. >> is that open? >> yeah, it's open and that is a great alternative to some of the bigger, dumber ones. >> before we let you go there's

a film called "obvious child" taking on a hot social topic. >> yes, it is. >> is finding the right mix of approaching that topic with seriousness and humor. >> yeah, i think "obvious child," it's about a young woman who -- a stand-up comedian played by jenny slade who has a one-night stand, finds herself pregnant and decides to terminate the pregnancy. it's a movie that deals very frankly and honestly and matter-of-factually with abortion. and i think it's a movie that will certainly outrage people who are opposed to abortion who don't think that it could ever be dealt with in a comic way. but i think what it tries to do and succeeds in doing is sort of say, well, you know, this is something that happens in real life. like anything that happens, it has, you know, some humorous potential as well as some serious potential. i think it's a very well done, very honest and interesting

movie. >> all right. we will look to see what you say about "planet of the apes" after you go tonight. we look forward to that. but always great to have you here, tony. thank you so much. it is a great list. up next, members of congress often take free trips. they do so overseas lavishly, but at least they have to report it at the end of the year. well, not anymore. the big change on capitol hill. when it comes to those junkets that are a big boondoggle. keep it locked in on "morning joe." (vo) after 50 years of designing

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so we teased you going to break about the fact that it's going to be a lot trickier for reporters and voters to find out which of the elected officials are taking free and often lavish trips overseas. the house ethics committee has eliminated the requirement that lawmakers report free travel on their yearly financial disclosure forms. while they're still going to have to report the gifts to a congressional office, critics say the move eliminates a key tool to ensure accountability. the agreement was made behind closed doors by members of both parties, yet came as a surprise to minority leader nancy pelosi. the new change reverses decades of precedent at a time when lobbyist-sponsored travel for lawmakers continues to grow. mark, you look a little strained by that. >> as brent hume would say, nancy pelosi said it best. she said congress must always move in the direction of more

disclosure, not less. this isn't the biggest deal in the world but why in this age when people are demanding more disclosure, why they would make this move is beyond me and i bet it gets reversed. >> what is one of the most lavishly sponsored government boondoggles you've ever heard of. >> ever? >> ever. what is the biggest one you've ever heard of. >> i think a lot of these trips to western europe at this point in the history of nato are probably unnecessary. >> it used to be the paris air show was huge. you'd have 100, 125 members -- >> slash shopping side car. >> and so you think this will get reversed? you don't think that this is going to -- >> i would bet almost any amount of money it will be reversed. >> pesky reporters? public right to know. and nancy ploety. when nancy pelosi and brent hume are on the same side, watch out, america. up next, what, if anything, did he learn today.

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okay. it's that time of the show where we reveal what we have learned today. nicolle wallace. >> i'm going to see "boyhood" first and maybe "the obvious child" and i'll avoid everything with robots and monsters. >> i'd say there might be a run for office in new jersey.

>> mike barnicle. >> that it's impossible to pin bill karins down in a individualized weather forecast. >> and also along your lines, i want to go with tim howard. what a great guy. i also learned that jen litman wants to be jen litman howard. so we don't know if there is a female counterpart but jen loves him. she wants us to wrap because she is embarrassed. anyway, if it is way too early, it is "morning joe." time now for chuck todd and "the daily rundown." as this nation of immigrants gets ready to celebrate the fourth of july and officially welcome aboard thousands of new americans, a special look at the drastic demographic change across the country and the politics of the protests that it's now provoking. also this morning tropical storm arthur gets set to rain on much of the east coast holiday weekend. we'll have the