advances and unending commentary on the female form. and, in some cases of allegations of physical aggression. >> we'll talk to one of the women at the center of that times article. graduation day now trump is the presumptive nominee, the president made his force full case against him yet. >> if you were listening to today's political debate, you might wonder where this strange of anti-intellectual came from. [ cheers ] >> so class of 2016, let me be as clear as i can be. in politics and in life, ignorance is not a virtue. [ cheers ] >> and special relationship,

trump takes on america's closest al lies after his ban of muslims is called stupid and wrong. >> i don't think i am a decisive person. i am a unifier. >> good day to you, i am peter alexander for this monday for andrea mitchell. following two battles that's brewing right now for trump. first is within his own party, making a late push to securie some sort of a -- the times quoting eleven women who gave their descriptions of trump through the decades claims of

unwelcoming advances and unsettling work conduct. trump latched on social media, calling it lame and a joke. trump is pouncing on comments made by rowan lane saying she spunned her sto spun her story saying she had a negative with trump. the cover story on me yesterday was blown up by rowan brewer who said it is a lie. rowan, as the host of "click on this show," thanks for being here and nice to speak to you. >> thank you very much for having me. i appreciate it very much. >> i want to start and get your gut reaction. when you read the times article, your gut reaction was what? oh my gosh, they did not do what they did. i was is extremely disappointed

when i saw that and i was promised so many times by them and to my manager and myself just over and over again that it was a positive article that i was giving them. it was not a hit piece and each person rendition with their experiences with donald trump. >> it spun into a negative. >> they absolutely did. i don't have a negative story to give about donald trump because i don't have a negative, you know, account of anything. we had a great relationship. i just really felt that they misled me into that of the entire time into that article and it was almost a trap. >> i am sorry to interrupt. i want to ask you about this specifically. i want to play the times of what you told the paper. take a listen.

>> i am going to let her speak for herself. readers can digest what happened. they're in a evening party if she brought a bathing suit and when she said not, he opened a drawer of bathing suits, he asked her to put on one of those bathing suits and she did. he brought her out back to the pool with the crowd and ask the crowd, did they all think she was a beautiful trump lady and i recall in my interview with her that she expressed some -- i was taken back by this. people can evaluate the story kind of on its own merit. >> is that an accurate depiction of your consideration? >> if he would have written more like that it would have been closer to the truth.

still, you know, the way that he's using it makes it looks like -- i never said he paraded me anywhere. he didn't force me to put anything on or ask anybody what he thinks. >> you said you were flattered. >> he didn't ask anybody anything. he said now, that's a stunning trump girl and i was very flattered. i was indeed flattered and i was clear with the writer that i was flattered by that. >> you said donald trump is nothing but a gentleman for you. old clips of him trying to cast a different life, here is one example of which i want to play. >> she ate like a pig. i look at her fat ugly face of

her. a person who's flat chested is hard to be attended. >> what do you make of those comments from donald trump's own mouth over the years. >> i didn't hear any of them in the context of which she was using them. playing like that it sounds like somebody just saying whatever that comes to their mind. i cannot make apologies for that or what context they're being used again. so, i am sure donald has his version of what he was saying and why and how he feels about that. that's his deal. >> is that kind of language make you feel generally uncomfortable or no? he's never ever like that anywhere near me. he was nothing but a gentleman and gracious to women, they like him and they were pleasant. every women i met had respect for him and extreme respect he

had for them as well. >> everybody was just, you know, i never saw or heard him speaking ill of anyone. >> the new york times released the statement. "miss brewer lane was quoted fairly." i know i have heard you in other conversations over the course of what they are saying. you are a trump's supporter. have you or your agent had any conversations with him or his staff since this article came out? >> not to my knowledge at all, no. as of the last time i spoke to my manager, no. i was not happy with the way the article was written and i was promised that it would not be done that way and it absolutely was. i don't think it was fair to me or fair to him. it seems to me they must have some sort of agenda and they're

following it. hearing what you play back from michael, it was a much buffer version of what was actually printed and if they are saying if those were direct quotes for me, they were not direct quotes. again, even the parts that were quoted, immediately, the rest of the sentence would be immediately following. the rest of the sentence was and i was flattered by that. it was such a boyish charm of his that i was not used to. you would expect something bold and rash. he would have a gentle personality compares to my judgment of it, coming into meeting him. he was a down to earth, lovely person. >> ill never see anything harsh. >> we appreciate you spending some time with us today, thank you very much for talking with us today. >> thank you for talking to me. we want to turn back to

donald trump's party, rick wilson, he's an out spoken opponent for donald trump's candidacy. i spoke to some of them yesterday, no chance, sass is giving a speech on economy here this evening and i know you and others will be watching that. is there any real progress to report of finding a third party named? >> i think there is still a great desire outside of the 35% republicans voted for donald trump in the primaries. among that 65% remaining, there are a lot of folks who are nervous that this is a disaster. they're nervous that donald trump is going to treat us to many more weeks of the kind of circus covering that we are seeing today. it is going to eventually alienate more folks. in states like georgia that we should be doing very well and

basically a tie ball game and a lot of folks are looking at this and saying if this guy is our nominee, are we looking at an electoral wipe out. the answer is yes. >> if that's the case, if the republican party still poses th opposes this guy, why is it so difficult and all of a sudden steal the pot ligspotlight. >> none of us have said this is an easy operation. and that's something that you have to find a person with the right motivation and resume and the right fit. it is a difficult thing to do. none of us have ever said it easy. none of us are quitters and we all believe in the republican party and we believe in conservative principles. we are trying to find options that can save both of those enterprises. >> i want to ask you of the new york times today where he plans to throw bill clinton's

infidelity on hillary's face on live tv questioning if she enables his behavior and stop to discredit him. most of the campaigns have been driven by them and they want to be unpredictable and flexible. what do you make of that strategy, is it a winning strategy? >> we tested then and it is been tested repeatedly against hillary in terms of bringing that angle up against her. it is a blow back effect of a large number of independent leaning and republican leaning women voters. it is a risky strategy, donald trump does not care about the number because he's kept in this bubble press wise. if he tries it, i think it is going to blow back on him. that's not a defensive bill clinton character or hillary

clinton enabling of it. voters were not engaged in all of this and not looking back and say why is he bringing up a 35 or 40 years old set of behavior by bill clinton that everyone acknowledges it. it does not seem as relevant to voters who have not been engaged in the process from the beginning. >> what is your strategy, this team of individual strategy to get another republican if you cannot get another candidate on the ballot. what are conservatives like yourself are going to do between the convention and election day? >> well, look, as i said from the beginning, i don't know anyone in the never trump movement who's prohillary, i don't know anyone in the trump movement thinking that hillary is a great option. we'll focus to save the rest of the party that's trump and you will see us working hard to over come a lot of the dead way that

he's going to impose on every republican and conservative candidate in the country. at that point, come election day, if you are a person like me, you are going to have to vote for a third party candidate or write someone in or under vote. you got to make a choice at that point. we see that donald trump is not the solution of the problem. >> rick wilson, we appreciate you spending time with us today. >> more on this bush to stop donald trump today at 5:00 eastern time with mark cuban, the millionaire, among those names being floated as a possible third party option. he says there is not enough time. the war against zika, the u.s. is gearing up to battle this potential outbreak for the summer and mosquito season quickly approaches.

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back now on "andrea mitchell reports" of a new concerns of the growing threat of the zika virus back here in the u.s. zika virus is transmitted to a fetus in puerto rico. now, around the corner, a lot are ramping up for congress to pass an emergency funding to help in this fight against the virus. we are joined by the nation's top expert infection diseases. doctor vauchi, nice to speak to you. >> good to be with you. >> i want to get your taste on this case of portfoluerto rico. how big of a threat of zika

right here in the u.s. now? >> certainly as you mentioned, puerto rico is facing a serious challenge of a rather serious potential outbreak there starting to see rather high escalations of cases and you just mentioned correctly of the first case reported connection between an infected women and the baby. the threat of united states are as fallollows. people have been infected in puerto rico or whatever and come to the united states. what we have not seen thus far is a local transmission, namely people getting infected bhiwhil they're in the continent of the united states. we have seen it with similar types of infection like chikungunya, we need to be

prepared for those local outbreaks. in the past when they occurred with the aggressive mosquito control and jumping on it, we have been preventing it from becoming sustained and d discrimina discrimina disseminated. that's what we need to do as we get into the late spring and early mid summer. that's the challenge that's facing us right now. >> that challenge means what is being done sort of a response to it. but, this is obviously of what president obama asked for. it does have a better chance of passing, is it enough tolessen the risk to americans or the resources to respond if the worse case scenario only become realized. >> well, we ask for $1.9 billion because we need it. when i say we, i mean most of

the agencies. we certainly need it and i hope we get that. if we don't and not get exactly that, we'll have to make the best of what we have. it would be important that we get the full amount that we ask for because there was a good rational for asking for that much. >> then finally the olympic where a lot of conversations we get ready for brazil and a lot of calls of the game to be postponed because of the fear of zika. what is your best advise to american athletes and other americans traveling to that region? >> well, i think it is important to look at what the real threat is. we got to protect pregnant women. the cdc recommendations that are in place right now is applicable for women. if you are pregnant or going to be pregnant, don't travel to the areas where there is outbreak as we know now in south american and brazil and particularly

where the olympics are held. if you go down there, there are guidelines which tells you how to protect yourself as best as you can from mosquito bites but also we know that since this is transmitted sexually. if a man gets infected, the virus tend to sequester in the semen. if you are down there, you have to take a look at guidelines of avoiding sexual interactions or correct use of condoms for a period of time depending on your status. if you have a pregnant wife or girlfriend and you go down there and maybe infected, you have to have safe sex of the duration of the pregnancy of your partner. >> all things are spelled out on the cdc website for anyone that's going to the olympic game. >> doctor fauci, always a pleasure to visit with you. thanks so much for helping us to

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as the fight against isis rages on in iraq and syria. the terror group recruits americans to join its rank. a special report nbc's richard angle identifying these americans. richard is joining us now. first thing first, were you surprised by what you found? >> not really. we always knew that there were going to be americans who were interested in this kind of group and ideology, it is quite a small number compares to the population of this country of 15 american names list inside the thousands of other names that we

found on that thumb drive. there were over 4,000 names and it took us a long time, weeks knain fact to go through those names. once we picked out the 15 americans, this list was confirmed by u.s. government officials. >> it was confirmed by think tank at west point. it has a degree of autonomy. we kris crossed the country and we spoke to friends and relatives and i was some what surprised by the number but i actually thought it would be bigger. >> i know we have a piece of you're reporting here. what was striking from your experience? >> there was no specific pattern, they were generally the children of immigrants from

muslim countries and we found among the 15 there were a small cell, there was a family that had become radical and found each other and becoming morad calli radicalized. this was a cell of three people living in columbus, ohio. we got reactions today from columbus, from family and friends. the mayor put out a statement. what we really focus on in this piece that aired last night was the path that they took and how these people became more and mor more radical and how they start to become isolated and broken relationships with their family and friends. >> let's take a look at richard's reporting right now. >> no one else were close to me.

>> amed sed jeffery was in rap music and marijuana and internet. he started watching propaganda videos. >> he was getting more angry and hateful towards americans. >> it was around that time amed said that jaffery met and qui quickly married a woman. >> how did they meet? >> online >> she covered her face and wore the hijab. a family was becoming a cell. >> the 17 years old was spending more and more time with his sister and her new husband jaffery. >> we don't know if jaffery had brainwashed him. >> his mom had called one day and she was like, i was like how

is jaffery doing. and she said he went isis and went over seas with his wife and also took his brother. they all went to go fight. >> that was new to phil choo in columbus. >> when did you learned that he went to syria to join isis. >> i didn't know about the isis part until today. i didn't know until right now. >> yeah. >> what ad dam shame. >> more with that reaction today as they are digesting the news from this report that 15 americans went and left communities in this country and some of them had comfortable

lives and some were top students in their schools and decided to join what is effectively a death call in syria. >> it is a remarkable piece of reporting, richard engel, nice to speak to you. good to talk to you. >> breaking news, this is from the supreme court of religiously affiliated organizations should be exempt. nbc's pete williams is at the court right now. help us understand. >> reporter: when the obamacare law was passed, the government gave an exemption that says churches themselves and mosques do not have to provide contraceptive to their employees. seminaries and charities and colleges and so forth. the government says all they

have to do is fill out a form and tell the government they don't have to provide that coverage. even that made them complacent for providing coverage for something they believe is a sin. today the supreme court declined to answer that question. they said we are not going to get into issues involved here. clearly the court is elevenly divided 4-4. we'll send it back to the lower courts but it did so with a strong endorsement of peter of a potential compromise in which the affiliated organizations would do nothing simply when they made arrangements with their insurance company for coverage. they would not seek contraceptive coverage. the insurance company would be responsible for getting that coverage to the employees and the government could not find the group and could not punish them and could not say you are violating the law if they did that. that's not the rule now and that's not the law.

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why is he telegraphing these moves. its got to be unpredictable. >> it is a beautiful november morning in manhattan, it is quite cold. but, in terms of telegraphing attacks, this is not unusual. we have not heard him lay out a strategy against the competitors in such blunt terms in the past. this is the same strategy that his aids were telling me about last week. he never publicly confirmed an internal strategy for that matter. with that being said, what he has laid out is getting nasty with clinton is not going to work he says. he cannot seem to be bullied by him. he wants to have voters doubt her character and doubt her sincerity and judgment. he will do that in a couple of ways. he will get to it by talking about her husband and infidelity and asking the question whether

she was loyal to bill and her husband and her political career than to the women who may have beenaffected. whether she's on the side of women in general or the side of herself. a benghazi, questioning her judgment there and bringing up phone calls and also saying she was telling the american people one thing and then telling her daughter another when it came to benghazi and telling the american people that this was about a video the attack on benghazi while telling her daughter in an e-mail that it was a terror attack and that e-mail came to light during the e-mail and the benghazi testimony. donald trump believes this will hillary clinton is a flawed candidate when it comes to her character and the american people don't trust her.

>> to you, knowing the trump's play book now how is the clinton campaign prepares to respond to this. you have to be careful in the attacks that they don't somehow backfire against him. >> great point, peter. i think to katy's first point that he's going to go after bill clinton's former discretion and painting her as an enabler. she's not going to get down in the mud with him as the campaign. she's not going to take that head on and instead she's going to stick up for the other people who donald trump going after like women arguing of the minority. i do think she's going to aggressively go after him for r a number of different points and she's going to try to essentially attack his character and attack his being and she's slamming him for his tax proposal and refusing to release his taxes. i spoke to one campaign

officials last night who told me look, this is a couple of different points and allows her to get to the point of transparency. we know the clinton campaign is looking and dwellgoing into his records. she's going to try to paint him as dangerous and we keep on hearing her using the term "lose c can." we got a little glimpse, from president obama went after donald trump. when he hits the campaign trail, he's going to be her attack dog. >> not entirely this is an inspired campaign. now, preparing of the $6 million anti-trump ads. the stakes are high in nevada and virginia. among them, how did they

accomplish what trump's republican rivals unable to accomplished in the fight. >> reporter: it is unclear of the strategies going forward for these superpac is to find ways of the attacks on donald trump and making it consistent and un un unrelenting. these superpacs did not work at all during the primary season. frankly, donald trump's history is well known. he's been vetted in their eyes and in the public eyes now for many decades. there is not any surprises when it comes to donald trump. the primary voters, the republican voters were already on his side and they decided they're going to vote for him long before many these attacks were able to land. with that being said, that is general election and you are

going to hear us saying this over and over again. it is extraordinary from the primary election. will donald trump charm his ability to turn to be enough to convince independence or soft democrats who do not like hillary clinton. >> finally to you, hillary clinton sort of telegraphing she will name her husband as an economy zar to try to revive the good times of the '90s. >> i think you are seeing two front strategies here. on the one hand, look, we are the campaign that's going to be stable and lead with a steady hand. i think, peter, it comes with somerisks. some people will look at bill clinton's record and say this is a great economy and young voters will say, wait a minute, do we want somebody who led the economy during the '90s. this is a campaign about the outsiders and politics.

does this not reenforce the idea thatentrenched. that's one of the reasons where you saw today she's not going to make bill clinton to be apart of her cabinet. >> kristen and katy, both of you, thanks very much. >> coming up, donald trump's search for a running mate, getting the snl treatment. >> i need someone who could lead, where do i find that? >> oh my god, how did this get in here? look at that, maybe yes or no? >> now, this next one is a little outside the box but i feel strongly about it. bruce springsteen. come on, he's the boss, you are the boss. he was born to run. >> he's a democrat. >> he's a god! gynecologic can- cervical, ovarian

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political jean, nice to see you. you are seeing him topping it on a bit and doing this on a day-to-day basis. how important is he and not just to hillary clinton, can he be the guy that brings the bernie sanders folks into the fold? >> potentially, yes, i think he helps her and his popularity has gone up and up during this campaign process. he's not all that bad compare to this field that we have. i am sure he still remains extremely popular with the democratic base, african-americans and whites. it is a major concentric circle with the bernie sanders' base. i think he will be out there and he's going to be certainly a lot

more popular than george bush than john mccain running. >> i want to turn to jean, one of the women who profiled inside this new york times article discussing to trump's treatment to women. let's take a look at what she said. >> i was not happy with the way how the article was written and i was promised it would not be done that way and it was. i don't think it is fair to me and i don't think it is fair to him. it seems like they must have some sort of agenda and they're following it. >> what is your take from this, in fact, i think a lot of people are reading this, new york times g gave it the big sunday. treatment, is this all that its got? donald trump turned this around quickly. the article paints a complex

relationship between trump and women. some parts are good and some parts not. she's sort of in the middle. if you read the entire article, the times does get to her point. she had a -- she dated him and liked him and had a good relationship with him. it is in there. you know, i think that what donald trump and donald trump's own words are going to be the bigger blew it that we'll see the democrats use against him. the stop trump pack, when they put that ad up in wisconsin and virginia, that was the most powerful ad during the entire primary and i believe it did have an effect. >> we have an ad right now that's being used against arkansas, having donald trump's

words and all sorts of things and entertainment tonight and all these places. i don't know the context on that stuff. it is hard not to be uncomfortable with that kind of language. >> right, and any contact some of the things he said should not have been said. they're rude so it should not have been said. >> to your point about a senate republican candidate now has to defend or explain, that is the real thing that scares the republican party >> chris, your take away from this. what's the net effect. >> well, he's done a very good job of muddying the water which she's good at. the story is now debated over whether the new york times liked the washington post and often takes arrows from the right as being too liberal supposedly. he painted this into a story of new york times allegedly, i don't think there is a mischaracterization here, it is in the piece.

painting him as something n not -- obviously, helps trump in that regard. his base is going to be for him and the question is to the extent of ahm middle exist anymore. but, what is it due to overall impression of those folks. some of his words cannot be taken back. you will see a lot of ads in virginia and ohio and florida and we'll see if the numbers move. they did not in the primary all that much and totally different electric in the general. can we have a kubaya moment here. we expect john boehner to campaign the party this summer. here they were playing like champions at notre dame in the locker room ahead of the commencement ceremony on sunday. bringing people together.

you thought the out spoken race in this race is joe biden, biden, sitting there thinking how the heck is this going to happen. >> he loves campaigning and hillary clinton needs him and he can talk to those working class better than anybody in the top tier of the democratic party now. >> he and trump are competing for a similar audience. >> chris, nice to see you. coming up, president obama grants the nation's highest honors to 13 police officers. that's next right here on "andrea mitchell reports," only on msnbc. ♪ ♪jake reese, "day to feel alive"♪

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if they can go back in time, i suspect they prefer none of this happening. all rising above the beyond the call of duty. all saving the lives of people they did not know. president obama awarded the medal of valor of 13 officers recognizing pu recognizi recognizing putting themselves in harm's way. >> robert the third was kill inside the line of duty. his grandmother accepted the medal on his behalf. that's it for "andrea mitchell reports." you can follow me on mitchell reports. thomas roberts is up next right here on msnbc.

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hi everybody, it is good to have you with me. i am thomas roberts. today, the new york times are firing back of donald trump's history with women after drawing criticisms from the story's main character. >> i don't have a negative story to give about donald trump because i don't have a negative, you know, account of anything. i just really felt that they misled me into that the entire time into that article and it was almost a trap. >> i am uncomfortable with the journalism of this story. >> i think the story helped him. i do. i think it is going to create worse problems for hillary clinton. >> i don't think donald trump in his personal life did something that people are looking at and saying oh, i am surprise that he has had girlfriends in the past. that's not what people are looking at donald trump. >> president obama talking to graduates making his force full case yet against the gop presumptive