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deal in the works with iran. >> this was built as a leader summit. many leaders are not coming. whether perception or reality, perception is this is a symbol of tensions that exist there. >> more fallout. we'll talk to senator john mccain. back to church. cuban's leader castro is so impressed with pope francis, he may return to his roots. good day everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. mourners in hattiesburg, mississippi are gathering for a service this afternoon remembering two police officers gunned down and killed this weekend in a routine traffic stop. the community came together for a vigil last night in honor of 34-year-old benjamin deen once named officer of the year and

25-year-old liquori tate a rookie graduated from the police academy less than a year ago. tate's mother had an emotional mother's day interview. >> they took away my baby. the hurt is unbearable. i forgive you. >> four suspects have been charged including two who face capital murder charges. they'll be arraigned in court later this afternoon. gabe gutierrez is live joining me now. what are authorities saying about what happened here? >> reporter: hey there andrea. this community has been shaken. this is the first time police officers have been killed in the line of duty here in hattiesburg in more than 30 years according to the mayor. four suspects are due in court this afternoon. they're scheduled to be arraigned. here's who they are. marvin banks and joanie calloway charged with capital murder and

curtis banks, marvin's brother charged with accessory after the fact. he denied he had anything to do with this. a fourth suspect was later arrested and charged with obstruction of justice, cornelius clark. in the past hour or so we spoke to the mother of marvin banks. she has not spoken with her son since the incident but here's what she had to say. >> why do you think marvin did this? >> i don't know. he was out of his mind. he wasn't the same marvin. >> because he was on drugs? >> he was on drugs, that spice. he wasn't the same marvin. i've got live with this the rest of my life too. i'm hurting too like they're hurting. i'm sorry. lord jesus. >> you have a 6-year-old? >> marvin does. >> reporter: now she says marvin's brother curtis she did speak to him. he denies having anything to do with this.

we have not heard marvin's side of the story. he's scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon. this comes with police officers are on edge. last year more officers were ambushed and killed than ever before. in this case it is not believed the police officers were targeted. >> i think we had police officers in the wrong place at the wrong time. someone that didn't want to go to jail would rather shoot his way out. that's a sad commentary. >> reporter: again, the community stunned by this. the memorial service this afternoon. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. meanwhile, in washington, saudi arabia's king is the man not coming to dinner. america's most important arab ally has pulled out of the summit later this week. president obama called the leaders to address the nuclear

deal with their neighbor iran. two of the six gulf states invited are going to be there. i'm joined by julie pace white house correspondent for the associated press. the white house claiming this is not a snub. saudis say it's not, but there's no other way to interpret it. >> reporter: it's a confusing situation. friday the white house announced the king was coming for a summit and bilateral meeting with the president wednesday. they announce had the friday and then sunday saudis announced the king is not coming. it's hard to understand how they could have gotten wrong information about the king's plans. there are saudi officials that are coming with good relations to the white house. it adds to the impression the summit isn't going to have the significance that the president would hope. >> now of course some of the leaders say -- some of the arab state ambassadors and such are

saying you can get more done with the crowned prince who's a mayor player counter intelligence minister there and someone the u.s. has dealt with all along. that could be true. he speaks for the king no doubt. that said there is certainly significance of having heads of state. >> reporter: absolutely. it's not as though countries are sending people who are not real players, but look at the optics of this. the president first of all is bringing these leaders to camp david. it's the presidential retreat. he rarely goes there and holds meetings. there was significance around the setting first of all. some was optics of having the president stand side by side with gulf leaders sending the message to iran and other actors in the region u.s. has these

country's backs. while you may still have significant discussion, it's unclear the message sent will be as strong as it would have been if you had heads of statecoming to washington. >> and still to be sorted out, how did the white house get this wrong friday? they certainly should have had communication via john kerry unless this snub took place after he left? >> reporter: absolutely. you know better than anyone how this works. bilateral meetings are not announced from the white house unless all eyes are dotted and t's are crossed. the fact the white house would announce the bilateral meeting was happening. this happened friday. officials say friday night they heard maybe the king wouldn't come. huge unanswered question about how this happened. whether it was simply miscommunication or whether a change in saudi changing and decision to snub the white house. >> julie pace thanks for being there today.

good to see you. >> thanks. we have breaking news out of l.a.x. you're looking at sky west regional jet 5316 that had to make emergency landing after a left main landing gear was stuck in up position. passengers were taken off the plane safely. much more on the tensions with saudi arabia coming up. much more with john mccain, armed services chairman. first, president obama says elizabeth warren is wrong when it comes to specific trade deal he's pushing on capitol hill. coming up here a democratic candidate challenging the trade deal. independent vermont senator bernie sanders. you're watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc.

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cuba's president castro is praising pope francis for thawing relations between u.s. and cuba. the president met with the pope sunday where he said the pontiff inspired him to return to the catholic church. pope francis visits cuba in september before his trip to the u.s. in the tell constitution president castro vowed to attend. thanks for joining us. >> hi andrea. >> this has been interesting to all of us that follow pope francis and covered cuba. there's been other pope visits. i've been there. previous popes, benedict most recently. there's a great welcoming of pope to havana despite the communist party anticatholic ideology. this is a completely different message from raul castro after meeting the first latin american pope.

>> i think pope francis has tried to put a little heart into a man who was once described to me as by another vatican official as being like a stone. if he can reach this man, that's good. that's good for the people of cuba who have been impressed by this dictatorship for 50 years now. it's good for the church in cuba that needs to rebuild itself after a difficult five decades. pope francis is shrewd man. he knows as you know that a raul castro is a cunning character who may be using the pope even as he professes to be rethinking his religious position. >> raul castro -- let it be said -- understands that this opening is so important to him. the opening negotiated partly with the vatican intermediate rare. we're learning additional

details that cardinal ortega was invited to washington last summer by the retired cardinal. that was the pretext but carried a message from raul castro to president obama. the fact that pope francis, the vatican, has been so deeply invested in this opening which follows his philosophy that there shouldn't be barriers that this embargo is wrong. 50 years, so close 90 miles away -- that's partly very much in the havana a regime's interest. >> pope francis knows the people of cuba are real victims of cuba being cut off from the word. john paul ii said in 1998 let cuba open itself to the world, and let the world open itself to cuba.

if this is another nudge in that direction, that's a good thing. it would be interesting to see president castro make a concrete gesture of real intention to change. for example, widespread release of political prisoners, some reconciliation of ladies in white. remarkably brave women that demonstrate sunday on behalf of their imprisoned relatives. i think everyone would like to see something a bit more reference to where raul castro went to high school in havana. >> i think george the pope is also reflecting very widespread from the u.n. to oas disagreement with embargo, u.s. mandated embargo -- that the policies -- no one questions the issue of policy in havana. the law in the united states has blocked an opening.

>> it will be interesting to see if the pope brings that up when he comes to washington right after he visits cuba in september. seems to me that the question is how do you use any easing of restraint on trade with cuba as a means to empower the people of cuba to take control of their own future which they haven't been able to do for five decades. that's what pope francis wants to see happen. >> george michael, thank you very much. 43 million in the u.s. are directly in the path of dangerous storms from the upper midwest to texas following a weekend of deadly storms. rescue and recovery operations are underway in van, texas after a powerful tornado ripped through the community last night. this in from officials on the ground there. two were killed in those storms. at least 43 people were transported to hospitals with injuries. eight people are still missing amid the rubble and debris.

>> we're working very hard to get van back to normal. please be patient with us. there's a lot of work going on behind the scenes. van is a strong city. strong community. we will rebuild. i would ask that you continue to pray for all the lives that were affected in this disaster. continue to pray for the families and everyone and for the city of van. >> the weather channel from van, texas. thanks very much. what is the situation there now? is it over as far as poor people are concerned, or are there more tornados under threat? >> reporter: there's no tornado threat at this point. good morning andrea. good morning to you at home. we're on east main street center of town here in van, texas the. that press conference happening just about a quarter of a mile

down the street. you can notice the american red cross. they've been here since last night. they helped about 100 people seek refuge. 20 remain in the shelter that the point. this particular area i'm going to walk to has been a focal point throughout the morning. we've been here since 5:00 a.m. local time. the national barg rolled in. eight still unaccounted for in this town. two have been confirmed dead following these storms. authorities believe the storms came in from the southwest. i'm walking over towards the area where there are a lot of mobile homes. this is the southern part of van, northern part over here. sustained devastation but not as much as this side of the town. you can notice galvanized steel, stop signs peeled over trees uprooted, homes levelled mobile homes ripped off their

foundation and tossed hundreds of yard across the street. we noticed an anchor from mobile homes hanging from a tree. this is the local elementary school to my left if we can pan over to show how the roof was uplifted there the elementary school. windows have been boarded up. they're trying to contain the damage. to the right is administration building. notice the column has been dislodged. these are the indicators that the national weather service is going to survey and analyze throughout the day. they have a team on the ground to determine just how strong this suspected tornado was. we're going to continue to give you live updates on the weather channel as well. for now, we know that two have been confirmed dead. eight are still unaccounted for after a barrage of severe storms sunday night here in van, texas. >> thanks so much from the weather channel. talking trade with democratic

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what's wrong with hillary clinton? where is she vulnerable? >> to give you an example, right now as you know congress is in the midst of a debate on the transpacific partnership. i'm opposed to that agreement because it follows in footsteps of other disastrous agreements that cost us millions. >> bernie sanders, independent senator that strongly opposes the trade deal. on friday president obama criticized those fighting the deal especially elizabeth warren saying they're plain wrong. so far hillary clinton is trying to stay out of the fray. thank you senator for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> tell me why you're right and president obama is wrong. >> i'll tell you why. andrea, the middle class of this country has been disappearing

for 40 years. despite a huge increase in technology and productivity, we have millions of americans who are working longer hours for low wages. since 2001 we have lost some 60,000 factories in america and millions good paying manufacturing jobs. why is that? how did that happen? there are a number of reasons. central to that are disastrous trade agreements which have allowed corporate america to shut down in this country, move to mexico move to china, move to other low wage countries, produce their products there and then bring those back to the united states. the tpp in my view is continuation of disastrous trade policies. enough is enough. we need new approachers to trade which creates jobs in america and not in china. >> the president says that things would be worse if not for trade agreements that this trade

agreement is better than previous trade agreements has better protections and that it's wrong to blame all the ills of the shrinking -- growing wage disparity, shrinking wage increases, shrinking manufacturing base on trade agreements. >> well again, i was on the floor of the senate a couple of weeks ago. you know what i was doing, reading the quotes from people like president clinton and mitch mcconnel and all advocates of free trade right wing think tanks, corporate people wonderful things they promised if we passed free trade with china et cetera et cetera. it turned out almost every instance they were wrong. i'm not saying trade alone is the reason why the middle class is disappearing. i am saying and we have all kinds of economic studies to back it up that it's one of the central factors.

look, nobody doubts that corporations have shut down in america and gone to low wage countries. it makes sense to them. why do you want to pay an american worker 15 to $20 an hour when you can go to kvitova tham -- to vietnam. it's 56 cents an hour there. that's what corporate america wants. when you have corporations, wall street and drug companies telling us this is a really good agreement and meanwhile trade unions and environmentalists saying this is not a good trade agreement, i will listen to those people who represent workers not large corporations. >> here's president obama. he was as you know at nike headquarters in the export state, oregon in favor of trade deals. then sat down with matt. here's what he had to say about elizabeth warren. >> the notion i had this massive fight with wall street to make sure we don't repeat what

happened in 2007-2008. then i sign a provision to unravel it? i'd have to be pretty stupid. it doesn't make any sense. this is pure speculation. she and i both taught law school. one of the things you do as a professor is spin out hypotheticals. this is hypothetical speculative. >> so it's just hypothetical? >> i'm not a law professor, but this is what i know. within this provision agreement, there will be provisions for investor state relationships. what this agreement will allow is for corporations to sue governments, local, state, federal, countries around the world if they're inhibiting the future profits of that corporation. let me give you an example of what happened. in the tiny country of uruguay,

you have strong regulations trying to keep children from smoking and getting hooked on cigarettes. this threatened the prophets of phillip mars. phillip has taken them to tribunal to betget back profits they would lose. i think that's outrage. governments have the right to protect the health of their people. >> just briefly, senator, i wanted to ask you -- one of your opponents, hillary clinton, according to your officials, they're not going to have former president bill clinton campaign for her. is that relief for you, or would you rather see him? >> i'd love him to debate my wife jane. she's pretty smart. >> i love that. she'd have to be to keep up with you senator. or has to be i should say.

former president jimmy cart area cut short a trip to guyana for health reasons. he's 90 years old of course. he's in guyana for what would have been his 39th mission. he returned to atlanta. now we know that he is back better today according to twitter, the non profit organization describing the president as under the weather adding the center election mission will continue. this morning the carter twitter tweeted out this picture of him at a conference. you can't keep him down. big set back for president obama's summit this weekend. a major player dropped out. >> john mccain joins me next here on "andrea mitchell reports." even if you're treating your crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis an occasional flare may be a sign

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decision to cancel the trip to washington is a clear setback for the white house. the white house organized this to modify iran's neighbors about the proposed nuclear deal. i'm joined by john mccain. they just announced the meeting with the saudi king friday and now he's not coming. >> well andrea i think it's indicator of lack of confidence that the saudis and others have. i understand two of the six countries that were invited are indeed sending their leaders. because they do not see a way to reach to be satisfied with the situation when it's clear that iranian nuclear deal is number one priority. and this administration feels that they can some how make

agreements with iran throughout the region when these countries view iran as a direct threat. that certainly is the case when you look at iranian aggression and four different countries that is destabilize them and given the iranians a lead role. >> isn't it more awkward john kerry was just in a meeting with a king. how did the white house miss the signals the king was not coming? >> i have great respect for john kerry but noticed here in tenner of the senate and secretary of state, he sometimes interprets things as he wants them to be rather than what they really are rather it be convening 40 nations in geneva to arrange the departure of assad from syria as you might recall he did. the palestinian israeli failed peace talks, and of course there's other examples of it

particularly the failure to restrain vladimir putin and continued aggression in ukraine. >> we'll see what happens when kerry goes to russia and moscow and meets with putin. let me ask you about the isis threat, social media, increased security threats at bases around the country. how concerned should we be about lone wolves, aggressive social media effective by isis and other terrorist groups. >> the recent deputy head of cia and others say it's a very serious threat. it's a recruitment tool. isis and radical organizations are using internet in a most effective fashion.

i don't know how many there are, but i do know as long as you have a situation where they're able to penetrate into the consciousness of a lot of young people which use this as their only means of communication and receiving information that it's a serious long term problem. by the way, one of the things that we should -- one of the aspects of this challenge we should be really focussing on is having the muslim clerics condemn isis as being the proversion of islam they are. we need a lot more of that. >> finally, i wanted to ask you about the article that in fact nbc has not independently corroborated the white house, pentagon are knocking it down. hurst, well known investigative reporter in a london newspaper is claiming the raid on osama bin laden, the take down was not

described by the administration. that in fact the pakistanis were involved in it, aware of it helped deliberately didn't martial air defenses. do you know anything that would contradict the initial version so profoundly? i should also add the white house price from nsc said today there are too many inaccuracies and baseless assertions in this piece to check each one. as we said at the time knowledge of this was confined to a small group of individuals. the pakistani government was not notified until after the raid occurred. we have been and continue to be partners with pakistan in joined fight to destroy al qaeda, but this was done solely through and

through. >> andrea put me down on the side of the statement made by the administration. i simply have never heard of anything like this. i've been briefed several times. this is a great success on the part of the administration and something that we all admire the president's decision to do. i'm not in the business of knocking it down. i'm going to have a lot more persuasive information before i believe that. i cannot diminish the fact the president and his team did the right thing here. i regret deeply that we haven't done more to get the doctor out. the fact is the operation was a success. i think it's going to take a lot more information before we diminish it. >> the doctor of course was cia asset went to the house on a

false mission vaccination mission to get dna to establish more credible proof that that was in fact osama bin laden's hideout. what would be motivation to spin this tail if it's a spun tail? >> well you know i admire the pakistani government but a lot of strange things and theories and comments have come out. if i were in the president's shoes at that particular time i'd believe there's so much leakage within the pakistani government that to air on the side of caution and carry out the operation themselves was the right thing to do. i think that's what the president did. with all do president to pakistani sovereignty, this is temperature man who was responsible for murder of thousands of americans. >> john mccain thank you very much. thanks for being with us. >> thank you andrea. up next five republican men, woman woman, and then

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>> thank you for stealing my analytical thunder. i think this is true in any poll you see which is a clump of candidates. none of them are all that well known with exception of jeb bush. we see the way scott walker moves rapidly up beginning of this year and way marco rubio moved up the last two months or so suggest the field is very very fluid. this is not george w. bush in '99-00 when he was overwhelmingly the choice of the republicans. jeb bush will have to fight much harder for it. >> south carolina was the place to be this weekend at the freedom forum event. here's part of what it sounded like. >> we saw the ugly face of islamic terrorism in my home state of texas. thankfully one police officer

helped them meet their verges. >> i told the president last summer if you won't secure the border texas will. >> we got this piece of garbage called bergdahl who years ago -- [ applause ] who years ago we would have shot for treason. now they're saying he doesn't feel good had a hard life. >> anne gurrin -- we cleaned up what we can't put on the table. >> i know what that was. >> here we've got the republican field. which does hillary clinton want to run against? >> this is great for her. the more they do that and the more she can sit a side from her perspective the better. >> the less she has to talk about the trade dispute in the democratic party. >> absolutely.

the less she talks about her own negatives. long range they're more worried about jeb than anybody else. right thousand the spotlight is less on jeb than people who have far less chance of he than getting nomination. >> some say she should be worried more about marco rubio. >> absolutely. >> jeremy you were with rand paul in san francisco. >> a world apart from south carolina. >> his main speech out there. >> yes, so it's interesting because there's certainly no daylight whatsoever between the candidates in south carolina who are basically competing to see who could sound the most bellicose on foreign policy. >> that is not rand paul. >> that is not rand paul. the coming weeks will be to see how he positions himself. he's been criticized for being too skiddish on foreign policy. the patriot expiration coming up

end of may is giving him the opportunity to reassert himself and find the voice again on issues of national security. how he handles that will really determine how he does going into the summer. >> he's now armed with a new york appeals court ruling as well on the nsa book data collection process. >> that's right. >> chris, let's talk about bill clinton for a minute. phil rucker of the washington most reporting from morocco that aids to the clintons say bill will not be part of the 2015 campaign top. you and anne gurrin covering the campaign intensively, he's going to have a role behind the scenes and in front of the scenes. >> yeah. i'm going to defer to anne on the specifics. here's what i know about bill and hillary clinton and how that

works. i'll believe it when i see it. i'm sure bill clinton has said i'll do whatever is necessary, whatever will help her win, right? he said that last time too i'm certain. when the rubber met the road there were some -- he sort of takes on the big dog like i'm the former president of the united states i'm coming in top strategist. >> and cynthia's interview last week. >> that showed bill clinton less than his best. when he's on his game there's probably no finer campaigner in american politics. he uses that to his advantage. there will be many many people including many very strong hillary supporters who want to see him do that. for now, what the campaign hopes to be able to do for as long as possible is to have him in the back seat and really show case hillary on her own terms. i agree with chris that's unlikely to hold forever, in part because bill clinton may

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in boston today, dzhokhar tsarnaev's team. the defense completed its case by calling sister helen to the stand, a nationally recognized opponent of capital punishment, best known for her book and academy award winning portrayal in the 1995 film "dead man walking". this moved very quickly today. we're going to get the closing arguments, charge to the jury on thursday. the case is then in their hands. >> reporter: it is.

we're coming to the end of the trial that began march 4th. we've seen over 154 witnesses called to the stand over the 27 days of system we had in guilty and penalty phase. what happened this morning as the defense presented its closing part of its case in an effort to try to spare tsarnaev the death penalty. you point out they called to the witness stand the catholic nun sister helen. she gave testimony. for the first time we got the chance to hear someone talk about the demeanor of tsarnaev. we have heard people talk about when he was little as a college friend but not at this time. she said he said emphatically no one deserves to suffer like they did. she said he seemed absolutely sincere and sorry for what they

did. she was never asked if she thought he should deserve the death penalty or not. she was not allowed to do that. you can infer by the introduction to me you pointed out she's against the death penalty and would be opposed to it. as you point out, we're at the end of the penalty phase in terms of testimony on this. and then on wednesday, they'll come back for closing arguments. we'll talk about the judge charging the jury. then this case will actually go to the jurors for deliberations. he's got 17 counts of which he was convicted of which carry the death penalty. we have to see how this jury will decide on those 17 counts andrea. >> they only need one to persuade one person in order to prevent that death penalty from being imposed. thank you so much from boston. that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." thanks for being with us. follow the show online facebook and twitter @mitchell reports.

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