traffic. you see at the base of the arc de triomphe. a huge stretch of the champs-elysees remains closed after a police involved shooting. more coverage throughout the evening. for now, chuck todd takes over "mtp daily." if it's thursday, president trump meets the press. tonight president trump ramps down the rhetoric on north korea. >> as far as north korea is concerned, we are in very good shape. we're building our military rapidly. a lot of things have happened over the last short period of type. >> rhetoric aside, is president trump pretty much following president obama's foreign policy play book? plus, shattered. a devastating new look at hillary clinton's campaign has the clinton campaign a bit fired up. we've got their first response

to the controversial new book. and some real news that is straight out of seinfeld. >> why couldn't you make me an architect? you know i always wanted to pretend that i was an architect of the. >> we promise, we're not going to yada yada yada over the best part. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >> good evening. we begin tonight with more questions piling up about this administration's foreign policy. what are they trying to say? what are they trying to show? especially in hot spots. moments ago, prurp wrapped up a press conference after meeting with italy's newest prime minister. he did not tip his hand with regard to north korea. he was asked about kim jong-un's mental stability but he didn't take the bait. on iran there was a lot more bluster, especially when it came

to the nuclear deal. they said vann in compliance and president trump sound ad different tone. >> as far as iran is concerned, i think they are doing a tremendous disservice to an agreement that was signed. it was a terrible agreement. it shouldn't have been signed. it shouldn't have been negotiated the way it was negotiated. i'm all for agreements but that was a bad one. as bad as i've seen negotiated. they are not living up to the spirit of agreement. i can tell that you and we're analyzing it very, very carefully and we'll have something to say about it in the not too distant future. >> the key word was spirit. and this would be a case of do you follow what they do, not what they say on iran. wee have more on that in a few minutes. but he didn't indicate the u.s. would pull out of deal. ultimately not a lot of clarity on what comes next. the president's comments are playing out against a global

drama that is confusing and at times ridiculous. he confirmed the deal with the nuclear deal yesterday which the administration is panning but tellingly hasn't touched. rather predictably, and you might say ridiculously, north korea is making a super mighty preemptive strike against tuesday, according to a reuters translation. you have to wonder did the south park boys write that response. and at the center of drama is mr. trump whose foreign policy has been all over the map. at times he sound like dick cheney while acting like hillary clinton. he makes lindsey graham the happiest person in america while copying obama's play book. he cause himself a nationalist but he hasn't pulled out of any major disease in the mode of gary cohen. and he changes his mind with dizzying frequency, often moving

toward same policy that he excorated. >> joining me, ben carden was one of those on the deal. >> good to be on your show. thank you. >> you were a no on this deal. what do you make of the administration's decision to aif i recall the deal? >> well, that iran is in compliance with the nuclear deal is that they are many compliance with the nuclear agreement. what they've done many their ballistic missile violations, hup rights violations, these are of great concern in the united states. and we are free to take action in regard to these other actions. in regard to the nuclear agreement itself, they're that

compliance and we need make sure the united states does not do anything that would violate the nuclear agreement. clearly on the other issues, we're free to act and we should act. >> so do you want the president to use the agreement as lenk on iran or not? >> we have to be clear eyed about it of the it is an agreement. they can't become a nuclear weapons state. but after eight more years there is a likelihood they could be close the breakout. so we have to monday toirt very closely. make sure we have our monitors in place, that iran complies with the terms of the agreement. that doesn't there are keep us from taking action for activating the ballistic missile violations and they're very active in support of terrorism. and we should take action in that regard. >> i want to button hole this.

when you put in your op ed. you said this deal legitimizes iran's nuclear program. would it provide iran an international endorsement of industrial scale nuclear program. you want this deal complied with and not potentially ripped up? >> the green has gone into effect. we can't rewrite history. we can't say we won't obligate ourselves under an agreement that we've already signed. we don't want the united states responsible for iran being able to move forward on a nuclear program. and we certainly don't want the united states to be isolated internationally in our efforts against iranian activities. so if i could rewrite history, i thought this agreement was not in our best interests. it has been signed. it is now in our interests to make sure iran could that applies of will. >> would you like the

administration to aggressively make sure they're complying? meaning, if we find one dot missing from an i, use that as evridge to get out of the agreement? or should they not be that aggressive? >> i want them to aggressively oversight to make sure that iran complies with every part of the agreement no.. i don't want them on look for an excuse to break it. i'm not suggesting that, but we want to make sure that iran complies with the agreement. and bingts like in we don't have strict compliance, iran will look for ways to do things they shouldn't do. >> on north korea, the president seemed to hint that china had made some progress with north korea of the steps were being taken. it was extraordinarily vague. what do you know some have you gotten any briefings or updates based on the president's meeting with the chinese president

mar-a-lago? have you gotten a briefing on what china plengd to do? >> i'm not aware of any briefings to congress regarding the premiere of china the and the united states. also not in regard to north korea. we will have a briefing next week when congress returns to north korea that has been scheduled for the members of senate. i am concerned about what is our policy in regard to north korea of the i understand we don't like what the young leader is doing. he is violating international agreements on his nuclear proliferations swes the missile tests that he is attempting to do. it is a very dangerous situation. we have to make sure that they're strong mature u.s. leadership to prevent north korea from having that capacity deliver a nuclear weapon against our interests. we have to do that in a way in support of international community.

the best way food is to get china to take a much stronger position against north korea. i hope that was accomplished at the meeting in florida. we have just not been briefed on it. >> the president made it clear trade policy with china is part of negotiations when it cops to north korea. if they want better terms, they need handle north korea. appropriate to use our trade disagreements? or shall we say, agenda as part of north korean discussion? >> i think we need handle north korea with china in regard to north korea. china has interests to make sure that north korea does not become an aggressive nuclear state. they're better off with a non-nuclear korean peninsula. we should concentrate on that. we have other issues with china including trade and the china seas. these issues we have to deal with china and find ways to make

progress. but i don't think we should sacrifice our economic trade. these should be issues that are dealt with on their sxharts i think wave common interest with china to prevent flouk continuing down this path. >> and find question. looking at the president's actions, not his words but his actions, go are you getting more comfortable with his foreign policy? >> i see it as reactive. i don't see it as having a coordinated strategy. i would like to know how will we engage the international community is this i would like among regard to syria, what is our policy in regard to russia. we haven't seen a coherent policy on the major policy challenges that america has. he needs consult and work the members of congress, we need to be united with strength working our aize around the world. that can be done in a bipartisan

way. we haven't seen that today. i'm hoping there will be more consultation with congress. sir, thank you for coming on. i'll bring in the pan. susan page, senior political editor, staff writer with the atlantic, hint, hint. i think her birthday today. >> thank you of the. >> you look pretty good for 25. >> thank you! >> to me the most remarkable thing about the president today was he didn't want to make news. he was trying to be, tough rhetoric on iran and he found a new word but it was rhetoric. it wasn't an action. he seemed to walk back pledges. >> particularly on the north korea issue. a few days ago it was an issue that seemed like it was going to explode. on iran, he ended up deviating a little bit from rex tillerson,

are president trump ended up saying, it was the spirit of iran deal. a little slippage. a little news. for the most part, this is a white house that is still getting, we're not even 100 days in and they're still feeling out the issues. >> i could have pictured hillary clinton saying, iran the complying but they're violating the spirit of it. she was more skeptical. >> you mentioned that he didn't take bait on the, is the leader of north korea mentalory unstable? he didn't take the bait on libya either. he didn't write there isn't a coherent strate. he is pulling ba from the rhetoric that was so hot. you really see it from day 91.

>> it actually looked perfuncto perfunctory. we hadn't seen that from this president. just a bilateral press conference of. >> words are wlakss it cops to diplomacy. the way you speak to and from leaders has a lot 22to do with w they react. at the same time i thought your point at the top of the show about this foreign policy being all over the map was true. we have no idea what if any strategy there is. whether what happened with trump seeming to say something different than his secretary of state was actually a nuance they

were trying express on purpose. >> could you picture it being nuan nuance. israel wants tough talk. but don't break up this deal. we have to keep this deal. has the high wire act diplomatically. so perhaps this wasn't unplanned. >> to me what has been so constructive is what he's been consistent on. always on strength. airing on, you might be doing something. you're not living up to the spirit of the deal. that's consistent. but also the consistency on but also on america first. that's the deviation of cruise missiles in syria. is that putting america first? >> the one thing he showed his

old habits. he was asked about this incident in france. i think coverage has gotten ahead of zpakts nobody knows what it was. i think people assumed terrorism, maybe too quikt cklyt even he pulled back. >> a lot of people are quoting him. >> on iran and other issues, he is giving rhett pick shows some consistency with what he promised in the campaign. while his actions are somewhat different. the effective meeting with these foreign leaders, you can see with the king of jordan, he came without a different tone when it came to moving the american embassy in israel. after meeting with these leaders, the leader of china who gave him a tutorial on the history of north korea and acknowledging that and said i learned a lot. you see the impact of the

education on the fly from foreign leaders. >> there's another agreement the u.s. may or may not stay in. the climate agreement. >> it seeps like what he swanlts what he wanted during the campaign. to have it both wats on everything. please whoever it is he's talking to. when you're president, you have to pick a side. you have to make a decision. you can't please both sides of a particular debate at any given time of one thing donald trump did promise he would be is unpredictable. and he also said, you shouldn't tell your enemies this advance what your strategy is. the most charitable interpretation of his inexplicable sort of foreign policy is that nobody knows what he's going to do. he has put the word on notice that co-do anything at any time.

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a political plot twist worthy of a tv show. guess who is overseeing a case by a dreamer who says he was wrongly deported. he was the judge unwittingly thrust into the pot light when he happened to be the judge who had to oversee a trump university lawsuit. and then he became attacked by the candidate mr. trump who accused him of being biased because of his mexican heritage.

>> we have a judge who is a hater of donald trump. a hater. his name is -- gonzalo curio. the judge who happens to be mexican, i think that's fine. >> now, the judge has been randomly selected to oversee a federal immigration lawsuit. juan manuel montes, the act that brought children to the united states from being deported says he was recently deported. the government did not provide any documentation to explain the legality of his deportation. we don't know if the producer simply invited judge curiel back because of his great importantance in season five now, season six. watch.

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the trump administration said he never gave up on health care reform but down played reports that it could come as early as next week. >> we're doing very well. we'll see what happens. it is a great bill, a great plan and it will be great health care. it is evolving. wave good chance of getting it soon. i would like to say next week but i believe we'll get it. whether it is next week or shortly there after. >> a member of the more moderate tuesday group on the gop side, and mark meadows from the freedom caucus is being circulated on the hill. it is the same proposal that was floated around before the recess. it is and far from clear. let's get more on this.

it seems fast the white house is very optimistic. every time we hear the optimism, you come in with some cold weather reality from the hill. >> i have more ice water for you. part of this is, the members are not here. there's no way to get in touch with poe tlings tensionally get everybody. they'll need legislative language. we're very far away from an actual vote any time on. at least not this week. they have other things to do like fund the government. the reality is i don't see so far a path between the moderates and the conservative that's gets enough votes between them. every time conservatives have made more demands, you've lost moderate votes on the other side. this is an attempt to state

difference. okay. states will be allowed to opt out of certain parts but we'll take pre existing conditions off the table. that was causing a lot of headaches and causing the tuesday group to panic and break down. at this point it is not clear there document represents a major break through that will change the calculus. >> the most important piece of news was, he's not demanding a vote next week. i'm sure that's relief to them. >> i'm sure it is. >> kasie hunt, it could be an interesting week next week. speaking of members of congress, one of them is joining me now. congressman, thanks for coming aboard. >> let me start with the news. are you ready to vote on health care? and what do you make of the compromise bill circulated around? >> i'm certainly not ready to vote for it. pre existing conditions are extremely important to me and my

constituents. i've only seen an outline. i haven't seen any details. so the outline is that a state in lue of pre existing conditions can do a high risk insurance, we had one of those in colorado of the it is a question of how robust is it and where does the funding could that from? >> what's real on health care? do you think this can be done with republicans alone? >> i prefer not. i don't think it all can be done by republicans alone. certainly the first phase, budget reconciliation process. i have no idea what will happen on the senate side. then you have a lot they can do to stabilize the system through regulatory process. there are lots of delegations to the secretary of hhs in terms of making it.

and then i think we'll need bipartisan support on it. >> you may say it is a bad comparison but it was interesting to me. i just had ben cardin on. a democrat against iran deal. he's saying, it's in and you have to do it. are you at the point of saying you didn't like obamacare but it is in place. as much as would you like to repeal, it can't be done? >> this is about fixing our health care system. the president says sometimes, oh, we should walk away and let it implode. there is part of that it would implode. throws the insurance exchanges. and i think we have an obligation to fix it even if it is just a stand alone bill. it's unfair to use it as political weapon. >> should the appeal rhetoric be

dropped? >> well, the reality is, we're talking today about preserving pre existing conditions at the national level. so it is not a full repeal. we're trying to fix health care system. and this is now the health care system. i think that's what we ought to focus on. if we do that, i think we'll get some bipartisan support. >> in the town hall, you are broke the president in a few places and it garnered some applause. do you think the president should release his tax returns. you think sean spicer should go. we start with an independent commission. >> i really think that the house intelligence committee has been too politicized.

which is contrary to the committee. it is doing better on the senate side. i think the fbi under comey is a little questionable, too. i think it might be time for an independent counsel. >> on the issue of attatax retu tax reform is something that it seems like the president wants to take up. are you comfort passing a new tax code? >> the president has to disclose his assets, his liabilities. the one thing he doesn't have to disclose is his tax liability. m saying perspectively, should we have a law, the president, vice president, all the appointees and every member of

congress should on an annual base i release their taxes? >> so you're in a position the influence the tax code, you should be able to show the public what you pay in attaches. >> we have to report our liabilities in terms of finances, why not tax liabilities? the american people want to know those making policies that affect them are subject to they will as well. and aren't just dodging taxes. >> all right. republican from colorado, i have to ask you. it is a celebration of legalization day. jeff sessions said he would

think about shutting down colorado. what would happen if he did that? >> well, certainly, there are members of congress on a bipartisan basis from colorado and other states as well that are preparing an amendment in the appropriations process to block the attorney general from doing that. no funds shall be used for the enforcement. i disagree. i didn't vote for the legalization of marijuana in colorado but the majority of our citizens did. knits our state's constitution and i believe colorado has a legal right to have made that decision. >> all right. i promise, that was you the th question. er we have the first official response from hillary clinton. (announcer vo) when you have type 2 diabetes,

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the first major post mortem on the xin ever clinton campaign is out and they're making it clear they don't like it. the book is called shattered. inside hillary clinton's doomed campaign. it is actually the pair's second book on secretary clinton. this purports to be on the infighting and gridlock that aides say paralyzed the campaign right from the start. they said hillary's campaign was so spirit crushing that her aides eventually shorthanded the feeling of impending doom with a simple mantra, we're not allowed to have nice things. books come out about the clintons all the time. the interesting thing about this one is how vehemently the staffers are pushing back on it. they've been tweeting photos of aides working together saying

there was no animosity behind the scenes. this afternoon we received a statement from the former press secretary on behalf of secretary clinton. it reads in full. at the end of the day, this was our lives for nearly two years. we lived it. to say it as a sendation alliesed campaign book with these inaccuracies is disheartening. for example, president obama and secretary clinton spoke only once on election night. the rest of that is recounting is simply incorrect. it was a knowable fact we made clear didn't happen. we understand the book they had written about a win had to be turned into one about a loss. but we don't believe that history should be written through a series of cobbled together anecdotes. we feel it is important to set the record straight. joining me now, the authors.

okay. you've been hit with the clinton campaign response. so do you describe two phone cause that night on election night with president obama. a second one, she said i'm sorry. care to respond? >> look. i understand why they feel the need to put that statement out there but we stand by our sourcing on both those cause. and everything else. one of the things was the tick tock in the suite where she is finding out that she's losing the presidency. this crushing, heart breaking moment for her described by people in that room. this book goes far behind the curtain. our sources on this are impeccable. not only that particular part but throughout the book.

>> you've had a lot of clinton campaign people over the last two days really push back hard. probably people who have been good sources over the years. has it given you qualms, wait a minute. they're pushing back that hard? >> not really. we talked on more than 100 sources and people at the highest levels, the mid levels down to the bottom. and wasn't just a couple people west feel really good about our reporting. we talked to a lot of people and we stand behind it. >> i want to talk about a few of the anecdotes. the first is regarding the presidency and whether he had a scale on the finger of hillary clinton. that seemed fairly obvious. that he didn't want to deal with clinton or biden. if he was sending signals that way. vice president biden's response was what?

>> he's so annoyed by it. he is having to make a really tough gigs whether to enter the race. donors are calling, the clock is ticki ticking. he has to make a decision but he's cornered. she has boxed him in. he's saying, if she's playing ugly, and she thinks she's going to do that. it is really not right. so i think he was really, really frustrated. >> he was angry at secretary clinton or president obama? >> i think secretary clinton. he understood that president obama had to stay neutral in that moment. >> all right. walk me through this. one of the more starting parts was that hillary clinton after the 2008 campaign had somebody go through the e-mail server, obviously written without irony. go through the server of the 2008 campaign and try to see who had been talking behind her back. i have to say this is shocking.

did you see the e-mails? >> i'm just shocked by it. >> i don't want to go through the exact methods of reporting but this is a bombshell in the book. she wanted to figure out what was happening. she was putting together a post mortem on her campaign and she instructed one of her aides to basically access the server and get the e-mails from some of her senior aides to figure out who had been leaking to the media, who was back stabbing, who might have been saying nasty things about her west talked to one source who wasn't aware that she had been through the e-mails and said it was amazing how much she knew what had gone on at campaign headquarters in 2008 even though she was on the campaign trail. so i think the lesson from this story, the reason that it matters is, here's someone who really understands the vulnerability that someone has. if their e-mail is read by others. and she did that to her own staff.

>> and it cost two people jobs. right in front of you. >> it may have been a factor. there are people who believe the guy cecil was believed to be a leaker and that was an issue for him. i don't want to get too deep into methods. if you look at it, the question of whether she really understood what she was doing by setting up a private server, that the state department wouldn't have access to. this is somebody who understands how the flow of information works. >> and let me get you another set of e-mails. what about the wikileaks play in your own work? did you have qualms that using it as source material? >> we didn't because -- >> you didn't have qualms our didn't use it? >> it is always a little tricky. we did use it. it is interesting. in a way they dove tailed and highlighted our reporting that

we were learning. so when we actually went through e-mails, they highlighted and enhanced what we had already. and they kind of spot lighted, they showed different things in a different light. and in a way, brought out new things that we had unearthed. >> this was asked of me by some producers. was there going to be the name of the book no matter what? >> it was a top three contender. so if she had won, it would have been shattered glass ceiling? >> so it was long before it got underwargs shattered was one we liked because it could have worked either way. >> guess what? people are talking about your book. you must feel really good about that. >> okay. up next, i'm obsessed with the buzz around legalized marijuana today. stay tuned. at lincoln, we're all about making things simpler for you. like, imagine having your vehicle serviced...

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seen anything, i think it's clear, no vote next week. the question is is there really momentum? >> it doesn't seem like it, no. i don't understand why the white house seems to continue to think that they can just make this happen by saying it's happening. that was basically what they tried the first time. they just kept saying it was really happening as if that would make it true and it didn't make it true. they don't seem to have learned anything from that experience. this is not a different strategy. this is not working behind the scenes to bring people together. this is not coming up with something detailed that people could actually look at before they try to get them on board with it. so, no, i don't -- when you have the congressional leadership of your own party saying in response, you know, the white house says we're going to vote on this next week and the congressional leadership comes out and says, no, we're not, that's a pretty good sign you're not on the same page. >> what i don't get here, to me the lesson learned should have been it's hard enough to get this through the house and oh, by the way the senate, you need a larger negotiation here that includes senate republicans if you even want a chance to get

something through reconciliation. >> i think they may have had something short term, the landmark next saturday. there is concern they're going to get bad reviews. not a single major legislative initiative having gotten through either house of congress. and i think they have also concluded it's hard to do anything else unless you do something about this very fundamental promise on health care. it's hard to do the tax bill because you don't get the tax numbers you're going to get. it's a numbers issue when it comes to the tax bill. that's why i think president trump has, in fact, reversed himself from the idea of moving on to the next thing and they've circled back. now, actually members of the freedom caucus are optimistic that they found something that they can work with moderates and get at least through the house. they figure you leave the question of the senate to the senate. >> wow, mitch mcconnell's nightmare. they don't want this thing. bill, that they know they can't pass handed to them and have all the base say, blame the senate, blame the senate, blame the senate. >> hears apt fundamental problem for republicans right now. their party is about 50% all on

the same page. democrats for all the war and problems with the obamacare presented, this stage of the game 95, 97% in. they argued over the next 3 to 5%. republicans are so far apart, even mike kaufman saying, hey, this isn't repeal or replace, this is to fix obamacare. if the party is in that kind of fund anltal difference, i'm not optimistic about any kind of bill. >> let me shift gears. postmortem, clinton campaign. it's interesting, molly, there is so much of this book feels like reinforcing what if you've covered the clintons for 25 years, like a couple of us at this table have, right, susan? it felt very familiar. >> absolutely. and as you know, the candidate is always the ceo of the campaign and whatever mess or not mess is happening in a campaign always flows from the top. whatever the people supposedly running the campaign are doing, it is the job of the ceo to make

sure that they're doing it right, make sure that they're executing that vision. so, that's why the same kind of management difficulties seem to follow hillary clinton around wherever she goes. >> susan, look, what's funny here is had they won, infighting against turned into oh, they had spirited debates. when you lose -- >> a team of rivals. >> when you lose it becomes everybody disagreed. sometimes a lot of stuff can get lost. >> if you win you're brilliant, if you lose you're an idiot. that's not true, but that's how things -- in either case. but that's how it looks. the book, even if they quibble about specific facts in the book, the tone of the book is very consistent with what all of us saw day in and day out in the clinton campaign and it's hard not to have the feeling that secretary of state clinton and her team have not yet come to terms with why they lost and their own responsibility for much of that loss. >> mark, you and i keep having this conversation every morning when we go back. every day, every day, it goes, wow, that whole election was a referendum on hillary clinton. boy did we miss that aspect of

it, right? >> it was. you look at clinton, her campaign, one of the flaws that she had in 2008 was you learn from the last battle. and again, it just seems like they learned from 2008, but didn't learn how to win the 2016 election. >> for sure. guys, thank you very much. after the break, hello, numan. stay tuned. , she's a dog. [ whimpers ] find ping-pong. okay, let's go. find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. that's amazing!

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