thank you for being here with us. good night from new york. a shutdown showdown. the president is suggesting a shutdown later this year to fix the mess in congress. how is health care coming, following beings? we're moving along? i think it's time now, right?be? we're moving along? i think it's time now, right? >> the fight over health care continues. house republicans are working to shore up enough votes as opposition within their own ranks continues to grow. and hillary clinton making her most candid comments yet about why she lost the 2016 elections to donald trump.

good morning. it's wednesday, may 3. after congress struck a bipartisan deal to fund the government through september, president trump got defensive yesterday explaining his reasoning for compromise and threatening a standoff when the money runs out in the fall. he tweeted the reason for the plan negotiated is that we need 60 votes in the senate which are not there, we either elect more republican senators in 2018 or change the rules now to 51. our country needs a good shutdown in september to fix the mess. now, the source of the president's agitation was spelled out later by budget director mick mulvaney in an impromptu press briefing. >> i think the president is frustrated with the fact that he negotiated in good faith with the democrats and they went out to-to-try to spike the football and make him look bad. i think it's a terrible posture to take. if we're trying to prove to

people that washington is going to be different, that we're going to change things and figure out a way to work with them and they do that to this president, listen, i would have taken offense at that. so it doesn't surprise me at all. i don't anticipate a shutdown in september, but if the democrats aren't going to behavior any better than they have in the last couple days, it maybe inevitable. >> the white house went on to defend the budget deal as a clear win kritding more money for defense and border security, school vouchers in washington, d.c. and no language requiring future subsidies for obamacare. but at the same time democrats cheered the continuation of the subsidies along with no funding for a border wall, billions in nondefense spending for items like the national institutes of health, assistance to puerto rico and obama's cuba policy left untouched. at a white house event, president trump reinforced the message and mike pence pushed

back. >> mr. vice president, we've been told this for 15 years. we'll get em next time after every continuing resolution. we'll kick the can down, we'll get em next time. >> we got em this time. $21 billion in defense spending. >> this week our republican team had its own victory under the radar. in our new budget, we've ended years of painful cuts to our military and just achieved a $21 billion increase in against spe dwerns spending and we didn't do any touting like the democrats did. very importantly, there is no long term bailout for the insurance companies that the democrats guess 3r s desperatel subsidize donors the badly failing obamacare. do you know what a donor is, fellows? you'll learn when you get alw s little older. i used to be a donor. used to get everything i wanted.

this is what winning looks like. >> while the president floated changing the filibuster rules from 60 to 51, mitch mcconnell and other republicans quickingly dismissed the notion. >> not interested in changing the way the senate operates on the legislative calendar. and that will not happen. >> why not? >> it would fundamentally change the way that the senate has worked for a very long time. we're not going to do that. >> the president has insisted he has no deadline on health care reform, a lesson learned from the first failed attempt. but with the recess bearing down, house republicans are increasingly under pressure for grind out a deal amid high profile defections in their ranks. mark meadows for example, chairman of the house freedom caucus, told the "new york times" it's imperative they have a vote before leaving at week's end. and huffington "post" reports that behind closed doors yesterday, kevin mccarthy told members, quote, now is not the

time to decide what do or how to do it, now is the time to do it. and in about public party leadership tried to allay concerns over pre-existing conditions coverage. >> our bill protects people with pre-existing conditions and actually provides multiple layers of protection in ways that obamacare doesn't do. >> but republican fred upton swing to a no is an ominous sign bringing the nbc news whip count to 21. he's the former chairman of one of the committees that authored the original ahca and latest plans of pre-existing coverage is what dissuaded him from supporting it. his reservations are reverber e reverberating throughout the party. mark sanford says that with up t upton as a new, the bill's prospects are dim and it was 00 pipe dream start. outspoken ceo of a california health company has been ousted.

koorgd fr accordi according to the "new york times," he and his brother were removed. he has been a critic of the president and congress' overhaul attempts. the company specializes in providing low income care to people under the medicaid program adding 1 million customers in the united states and puerto rico, the company had been struggling financially, in fact they blamed the lots on a problematic government formula. nearly six months after a stunning loss, hillary clinton is going into detail about what she believes happened in november. she blamed the final ten days of the campaign. >> do you take any personal responsibility? >> oh, of course. i take absolute personal responsibility. i was the candidate. i was the person who was on the ballot. and i am very aware of, you know, the challenges, the

problems, shortfalls that we had. it wasn't a perfect campaign. there is no such thing. but i was on the way to winning until a combination of jim co y comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were in-clibed to vote for me but got scared off. if the election had been on october 27th, i'd be your president. within an hour or two of the hollywood access tape being made public, the russian theft of john podesta's e-mails hit wikileaks. what a coincidence. so you just can't make this stuff up. so did we make mistakes? of course we did. did i make mistakes? oh, my gosh, yes. you know, you'll read my confession and my request for

absolution. but the reason why i believe we lost were the intervening events in the last ten days. >> clinton gave no explanation of her failure to campaign in wisconsin or how she failed to win over college educated white women. president trump fired back on twitter last night writing fbi director comey was the best thing that ever happened to hillary clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds. the phony trump russia story was an excuse used by democrats as justification for losing the election. perhaps trump just ran a great campaign. meanwhile during a news conference alongside angela merkel, vladimir putin claimed once again that are russia did not meddle in the u.s. election. >> translator: we never interfere into political lives and political processes in other countries. and we would very much like that nobody interfered in to our political life and into the political life in russia. these are just rumors used in

the struggle in the u.s. >> is it looks like president trump is working to repair what he had hoped to be a warmer relationship with vladimir putin. he spoke with putin yesterday by phone, the first conversation since the u.s. launched an air strike against the syrian military last month. according to a read out of the call, they agreed that both sides must do all they can to end the violence in syria, but that failed to mention that president trump and mr. putin also discussed the possibility of meeting in person at the g-20 summit in germany later in july. a spokesperson for the national security council later confirmed that discussion but said nothing has been solidified. north korea's state run news agency has confirmed reports from last month that the country has detained a third american citizen for, devote, hostile acts. the announcement comes after a north korean tv anchor accused the u.s. of driving the sensitive situation to a point close to nuclear war.

while a north korea state newspaper warns south korea will be submerged in a sea of fire, japan will be reduced to ashes and the u.s. will collapse. the remarks come after the u.s. air force conducted bilateral training missions with south korea and japan earlier this week. back at home in just the past few days, president trump has both praised the north korean dictator calling him a, quote, smart cookie and it would be an honor to meet him while also saying he's a big threat to the world. joining us here onset is director of the global strategy project. mark, great to have you with us. so do you think that one day when we look back at these first 100 dies of president trump, how would his foreign policy doctrine be described? >> first of all, there won't be a trump doctrine anytime soon. it will take time to develop over a four year period. but what i think you can say is many of the questions, a lot of the skepticism at the beginning, by the end of the 100 days, there was a sense of a level of

certainty and degree of stability when lieutenant general are mcmaster became national security adviser and increased role also for general mattis. so mattis and mcmaster are key to maintaining a certain element of stability which is also ensuring not only domestically, but -- >> yeah, this notion that a lot of our allies were worried seems to have settled down a little bit. >> slowly over time, increasingly, but it will be a process. >> let's talk about his schedule. he is supposed to be meeting with mahmoud abbas. there are is talk about the u.s. possibly moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. what is at stake here, what are we expecting to see here? >> a conversation meeting with abbas, it's an issue that obviously during the campaign then candidate trump had made many firm statements, obviously moving the embassy to jerusalem, but once he became president, it becameambiguous.

it's a new president, he's not a politician, he's coming slowly into foreign policy. many statements that he makes are retracted a few days later. i think that is the beginning of the process. the stages of getting involved in the world. overall i think the lessons of the 100 days is that on the domestic front, thereneeds to be greater consensus building and on the foreign policy front, more constructive engagement and more calorie greibrated rhetori. >> okay. thanks. still ahead, a manhunt taking place in chicago after two police officers were shot on the job. plus heavy rain is causing flooding in missouri and severe weather threat continues for 19 million people today. we'll get a live check on the forecast when we come back.

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welcome back. a manhunt is under way in chicago after two on-duty police officers were shot last night in the south on side. the officers were conducting a followup investigation into a previous incident and were sitting in their car when two other vehicles pulled up and opened fire. the officers returned fire although it is unclear if they hit anyone. one of the officers was shot in the back, the other in an arm and hip. both are in serious but stable condition. police say they are talking to multiple people of interest and have covered multiple -- recovered i should say multiple weapons that splay bemay have b involved in that shooting. a police officer who fired a 15-year-old has been fired. the police chief says that the officer identified as roy oliver violated several departmental policies when he shot a rifle into a moving vehicle full of teenagers, killing jordan edwards who was seated in the front passenger seat. police officials initially stated that the car was driving,

quote, aggressively toward the officer prompting the officer to fire. but after reviewing body camera footage, the chief said he misspoke and that the video showed that the vehicle was actually driving away from the officers. let's get a check on your weather now with bill karins. and bill, some bad weather for the middle part of the country. >> once again, it's not going to be as horrible as this past weekend, but we will have light threatening weather today and into tomorrow morning. we're still dialing with these rivers that are still rising in some areas. meramec river set a record high in areas of missouri, this is just to the southeast of st. louis. that is a bridge. and you can see this water is still very high, still at record level ts levels. and a new storm is coming in about that will dump another 2 to 4 inches on the same area. so just very cruel to these people, trying to wait for the rivers to go dund n down and no will go back up. the storms exploded overnight in kansas and oklahoma. flash flooding is under way.

tulsa, strong storms to your north and this is heading into missouri all day today. we have a flash flood watch in almost all southern missouri through st. louis, southern illinois and now spread all the way through indiana and even a sliver of ohio and southern michigan. some areas could get as much as 5 inches additional rainfall. and late today, thunderstorms roll through missouri and mississippi, so much more coming off the gulf that we have more people under a flash flood watch. in total, 16 million people. here is the rafinfall predictions. up to 4 inches of rain st. louis. and the other area is between houston and new orleans. and then on top of all of this, we have life threatening weather with severe storms in the same region from houston to new orleans, many ina few tornadoes later today. so yeah, east coast is great, west coast is great, the middle of the country though a lot of issues and hopefully we won't lose any lives today like we did over the weekend. >> and that footage was incredible when you see how high

that water would you sas gettin. thanks very much. still ahead, a standing ovation for baltimore's adam jones last night after he says he was the target of racist taunts. sport is next. who's the new guy? they call him the whisperer. the whisperer? why do they call him the whisperer? he talks to planes. he talks to planes. watch this. hey watson, what's avionics telling you? maintenance records and performance data suggest replacing capacitor c4. not bad. what's with the coffee maker? sorry. we are not on speaking terms.

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happy birthday, she would have been 23. everything i do is for her and she's watching over me. my family, my friend, they tell me to just keep going. my sister wouldn't want me to stop. only thing about it is once i leave this gym, i hit reality and she's not here. so that -- >> tough time for him there. to oakland, warriors over the jazz in game one, and it was a well rounded effort from golden state. they led by 22 points from steph curry with kevin durant and draymond green both adding 17 a piece. the series remains in oakland for game two tomorrow night. turning to major league baseball where in boston, it was a different scene for the orioles adam jones last night, a day after the bolt more outfielder endured racist taunts from fans at fenway park. >> number ten, adam jones.

>> the fenway crowd this time greegt jones wi greeting jones with a warm ovati ovation. orioles wouldn't do much with the bats in the contest as red sox ace chris sale fanned 11 batters in eight innings of work on the way to a 5-2 boston victory. sale also fanned the flames in the ongoing feud between his club and the orioles machado throwing a pitch that prompted a warning to both dugouts. machado had strong words for the boston organization after the game. take a listen to this. >> they are still thinking about that same slide that i did that was no sbrenks intention on hur anybody and still trying to get hit at. get thrown at [ bleep ] head, blown at [ bleep ] everywhere. i've lost respect for that organization and somebody should do about [ bleep ] pitchers trying to hit people. i could go up there and crush somebody if i wanted to, but

i'll get suspended for a year and pitchers only get suspended for two games. that's not cool. >> a lot of profanity there. and finally we go to the ice for the stanley cup playoffs. predators defeat st. louis 2-1 in game four. nashville lead best of seven series 3-1 there. and in new york city, rangers get on board in their eastern conference semifinal against the senators with a victory in game three last night. henrik lundqvist had 26 saves and they take a 4-1 victory there over ottawa. happy the rangers are back in it. >> yeah, something tells me that series still has more life in it. rangers looking to make a comeback. still ahead, conservative think tank heritage foundation ousts its president plus a number of airline executives in the hot seat on capitol hill over passenger treatment. we've all been there. and lawmakers issue a warning, improve service or we'll step

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welcome back. al he ex witt is on assignment. and intense manhunt is under way in chicago after two police oifrn officers were shot. they were conducting a followup investigation to a previous incident and were in the car when another vehicle pulled up

and opened fire. both officers are in serious but stable condition. a suicide bombing in the capital of kabul overnight has killed eight people and injured another 25 including three u.s. service members. the attack was targeting a play toe convoy during the morning rush in one of the city's busiest areas. we're told that three wounded coalition members are in stable condition. the islamic state have claimed responsibility for the attack, but have yet to provide any evidence to support their claim. and former acting attorney general sally yates is expected to clarify the warning she gave the white house about former national security adviser like and he will flynn's contacts with russian ambassador. she gave the heads up about flynn possibly be compromised, but yates is likely to tell the senate judiciary committee that she approached the white house with alarm concerned about discrepancies between what the administration was saying about flynn's contacts with the ambassador and what actually happened. that hearing is set for monday. hillary clinton is back in

the spotlight this morning after opening up about her 2016 election loss at a woman for woman international forum yesterday. the former presidential candidate talked about a number of factors that she said contributed to her get. andrea mitchell has all the details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. hillary clinton in hir most candid comments yet about the election, her loss and firing back at donald trump. hillary clinton not holding back. >> i'm now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance. >> reporter: her most frank comments yet about losing the election, blaming not herself, but james comey, wikileaks and vladimir putin. >> every day that goes by, we learn more about some of the unprecedented interference including from a foreign power whose leader is not a member of my fan club. >> reporter: she says it was not a perfect campaign. but no mention of her failure to go to wisconsin, to damage pain

earlier in michigan mitch, connect with rust belt voters in pennsylvania.mitch, connect with rust belt voters in pennsylvania. all blue states that went for donald trump. or why the first female nominee could not win a majority of white college educated women. >> i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim comey's letter on october 28 and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds ever people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. >> reporter: clinton's explanation that wikileaks's dump of her campaign managers' e-mails timed to distract from the "access hollywood" tape. >> within an hour or two of the hollywood access tape being made public, the russian theft of john podesta's e-mails hit wikileaks. what a coincidence. >> reporter: what about her responsibility for failing to have a better message? >> did i make mistakes? oh, my gosh, yes. but the reason why i believe we lost were the intervening events

in the last ten days. >> reporter: even some of clinton's former campaign aides say she is not confronting her own political failings for what they acknowledge was a devastating loss from which she has not yet recovered. >> all right, andrea mitchell, thank you very much. former senator jim demint has been ousted as president of the heritage foundation amid growing concerns over direction of the conservative think tank. the board of trustees voted unanimously saying that the board determined there were significant and worsening management issues that lead to a breakdown of internal communications and cooperation. while the organization has seen many successes, jim demint and a handful of his closest advisers have failed to resolve these problems. demint however released his own statement defending his tenure and stated that the board's reasoning is, quote, puzzling given the board of trustees has praised our work for four years and approved performance bonuses for the entire management team each year for a job well done.

the foundation's founder will serve as interim president and ceo. there may be a new executive order coming down the pipe, this one more controversial than what we've seen from the president so far. according to politico, conservative leaders will gather at the white house tomorrow for a signing ceremony on a religious will i be bei ilibert. it is being pushed hard by mike pence whose own attempt at religious freedom legislation in indiana generated a huge backlash when he was governor in that state. the issue deals with allowing people and groups leeway to claim religious objections to certain anti-discrimination laws. politico says the language on the executive order is still being fine tuned. let's turn to business where apple is reporting an increase in second quarter earnings this morning. carolin roth joining us live from london. but it's not all positive for investors, some are concerned about the future of the iphone as the number sold globally has dropped by 1%. >> reporter: you're right. and shares after hours down by

1.3%. so some concerns about the future given that we saw shipments of its flag ship product the iphone dropping 1% in part because of 14% drop in chinese sales, but also because fewer sales in the u.s. but that is for one very good reason according to tim cook the ceo, he says that people are not upgrading right now, they are simply waiting for the new phone which will be launched later on this year. he also says he wants to double the company's services business which include yous s apple pay 2020. and an interesting finding by facebook engineer reported by the "wall street journal," that engineer found that code written by women was rejected much more frequently than code written by their male colleagues. talk about a gender bias here. and last but not least, also want to tell you about the latest auto numbers for the u.s., and those were somewhat disappointing after the auto industry had been on such a good run. u.s. auto sales for april

showing a decline of 4.7%, gm and ford 5.8% and 7.1% respectively because of less demand for suvs and trucks. back to you. >> thanks so much. former south on carolina police officer michael slager has plead guilty in the 2015 shooting death of walter scott. he pleaded guilty to a federal charge ever violating scott's federal rights by shooting him five times as he ran from a traffic stop. the video has been viewed online millions ever time s fs of time. this is just days before his federal trial was set to begin. last year slager's murder trial ended in a hung jury. meanwhile we've learned the justice department does not plan to bring charges in the police shooting death of a man outside of a baton rouge convenience store last year. officials were investigating if police officers violated 37-year-old alton sterling's civil rights when he was tackled and shot at point blank range.

at the time, police said they were looking for a man matching sterling's description who had allegedly threatened someone with a gun. they claim sterling was armed and allegedly tried to reach for the weapon prompting an officer to open fire. prosecutors don't believe there is enough evidence to bring charges against the officers prompting an emotional reaction from the community. >> it's been almost a year and we're still suffering like it happened yesterday. we need closure. we need a conviction. we need justice. >> the justice department has not officially announced its decision. the mayor of baton rouge says he's appalled that the news ever no charges leaked before sterling's family could be notified. still ahead, heads of four major airlines grilled in the wake of viral videos calling attention to how passengers are being treated on flights. we'll have the warning from lawmakers. plus, flash flooding and possible tornadoes, some 19

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update on weather with bill kirn karins. >> we'll be tracking severe weather as far as damaging win and hail and we'll have the potential of flash flooding. already this morning in areas ever oklahoma, the storms have erupted. tulsa north driving on i-44 from joplin up to st. louis, that will be a miserable drive. i know we'll have water in many places where it will being impassabl impassable. so flash flood watches up for 13 million people from indianapolis down to tulsa and just are outside of houston and areas towards mobile. not including new orleans, but you have to watch out for possibility of severe storm. let's take you through the timing of the event. as we go through the day, all the heavy rain is through missouri, that's where the worst conditions will be. eventually towards tonight it goes from st. louis to indianapolis and even by tomorrow afternoon, still heavy rain back through missouri into indiana, that's why we could get upwards ever 4 of 4 to 6 rain.

maybe an isolated tornado or two around new orleans and severe weather threat is little rock down to the gulf coast. there is some beautiful weather on the east coast today, west coast is warming up and friends in seattle will have their first 70 degree weather day in five months. can you imagine going that long before you have a 70 degree day? so they can get out and joy that today. >> some pockets of the country look beautiful, others still risky. all right, bill karins, thanks for that. lately it seems we can't go a week without a viral video showing some kind of confrontation in an airplane cab pi dltd in. the latest came on the same day the airline ceos were testifying before congress. >> reporter: it was an all out brawl as passengers boarded a flight in tokyo. the man in red exchanging punches with another passenger. the suspect described as an

american, allegedly ib tox indicated, was arrested and charged withes a sault before the flight ever took off. >> i said this is kra. and then kind of triggered him and he said you think this is crazy? the government is crazy. he's like the government ruined my life. >> reporter: the airline apologized saying the passenger was physically aggressive to other passengers. the incident coming after a string of violent videos that cast a black eye on the entire airline industry. members of congress told a panel of airline execs much of the country is fed up. >> so to you they may be your customers. to us, they are our constituents. >> reporter: both american and united airlines promising significant changes in customer service. >> our, as will speak definitely longer than our words. we will do better. >> reporter: consumer advocates say among the problems, more flyers and less competition. over the last 12 years, mega mergers have cut the number of big carriers from eight to just four. meanwhile it's the flight

attendants who are very often left trying to keep the peace. >> that's what we're doing every day, deescalating issues between passengers so that we don't have a really big problem in the air. >> and we're all sitting closer together. >> and packed in about like never before. >> reporter: back in congress, a threat. if the airlines don't improve their customer service, congress could impose tough new customer service laws. >> seize this opportunity because if you don't, we're going to come. and you're not going to like it. >> that was tom costello reporting. yesterday we brought you late night tv host jimmy kimmel's impassioned monologue speaking about police newborn heart condition and now his concerns for americans with pre-existing conditions is getting heard around the country. >> so friday, april 21, my wife, molly, gave birth to a boy, baby boy, his name is william john

kimmel. billy was born with a heart disea disease. something called tetralogy of fallot. and this is what he looked like on monday. but this is what he looked like yesterday. president trump last month proposed a $6 billion cut in funding to the national institute of health. we were brought up to believe that we live in the greatest country in the world, but until a few years ago, millions of us had no access to health insurance at all. before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease like my son was, there is a good chance you'd never be able to get health insurance because you had a pre-existing condition. you were born with a pre-existing condition. if your parents didn't have medical insurance, you might not live long enough to even get denied because of a pre-existing condition. if your baby is going to die and it doesn't have to, it shouldn't

matter how much money you make. i think that is something that whether you're a republican or democrat or something else, we all agree on that, right? >> president obama later reached out to kimt he wikimmel saying exactly why we fought so hard for the aca and why we need to protect it for kids like billy and congratulations, we're happy things worked out is during a very scary time. switch heing ge ining very scary time. switch heing ge ini gears h. a former science teacher in new mexico has pleaded guilty to manufacturing methamphetamine. john gose was arrested after a traffic stop. they found enough materials to make about a pound of meth worth about $44,000 on. he could face up to 20 years in prison. still ahead, reporters erupt yesterday and this time sean

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as a candidate donald trump vowed to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. he's apparently stepped back from that issue for some time. yesterday speaking at a white house ceremony honoring israel's independence day, mike pence reignited the debate. >> the president of the united states, as we speak, is giving serious consideration to moving the american embassy in tel aviv to jerusalem. >> joining us is nbc's bill neely. certainly the issue is likely to come up.

>> reporter: yes, ayman, just one more unwelcome headache for mahmoud abbas. the interesting thing is this is taking place at all, not because donald trump is president but because abbas still is. he's under tremendous pressure, he's in office but not really in power. he's aging, 82. under huge pressure for not having delivered for palestinians, hasn't faced an election since 2005, 12 years in power. he's facing the most pro israeli president in decades in donald trump, a man who very warmly met benjamin netanyahu in february. for mahmoud abbas he's getting his meeting, his face time. he's not likely to persuade donald trump of anything. remember he said he wasn't even committed to a two-state

solution after meeting netanyahu. i think expectations for these meetings are often very low. i think dennis ross, a former u.s. point man in the middle east has said expectations for any kind of ground deal or ground bargain as a result of this meeting are probably at their lowest for decades, ayman. >> given the notion that president trump hasn't taken a position whether a two-state solution or one-state, as he made with that news conference, is there any indication efforts are under way to try to get a piece process or some kind of negotiations between the two sides under way? >> reporter: well, there are reports that donald trump may visit israel and the west bank as early as late this month, they're talking about possibly the third week in may, but you know the interesting thing was that on monday, hamas came out with a statement.

it's always been against a two-state solution but suggesting it would be prepared to accept an interim palestinian state within 1967 borders. clearly something is going on. hamas, we've been waiting for that kind of statement for two years from hamas. let's see what happens from that meeting between mahmoud abbas and donald trump at the white house later today. >> nbc's bill neely live in london, thank you for that. in a moment from the white house that caught our eye, budget director nick mulvaney just finished discussing the bipartisan budget agreement when members of the press were expecting sean spicer to take questions. instead he made a quick exit. >> thank you very much. >> will you e-mail where that is from exactly so we can identify location? >> sean. >> sean. >> sean, come on, sean. >> what about the putin call?

>> no one leave. sit and wait. let's see. >> he said he's not coming back. >> that was nbc's peter alexander who went looking for spicer. obviously he wasn't able to find him. when he came back, the press secretary did not give any response. >> an interesting development there. didn't even offer an explanation. up next on "morning joe," senator elizabeth warren is going to join joe and mika as she chastises -- and steny hoyer discussesing the republican health care overhaul. later republican congressman who took a call from the president himself pushing him on the health care fix, but still has concerns about pre-existing

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"morning joe," fbi director james comey set to go before the senate judiciary committee in just a few. lawmakers are expected to question comey on the fbi's investigation into the relationship between associates of president trump and russia. >> meanwhile, the president is set to welcome another foreign leader today. nbc's kristen welker is at the white house with more. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. house republicans appear on the verge of another failure for their health care plan today with more republicans defecting. this comes after the president lashed out tuesday, venting his frustration on twitter arguing the government needs a good shutdown in september to fix washington's mess. the president clearly upset at the perception democrats got the better end of a budget compromises that avoids a government shutdown, saying in a rose garden ceremony, this bill is a clear win for the american people. still the vote on that spending bill is expected today. today the president will meet with the president of the palestinian authority mahmoud

abbas, signaling they want to make peace for the palestinians. >> that does it for this wednesday morning. i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside louis burgdorf. "morning joe" starts right now. when you heard in the last 48 hours about the deal, did you think we could build this? i bet you didn't. nobody did. is it a replacement for existing wall? yeah, that's fine. is it new wall? no. this is what's out there right now, this is what's going to be put in as a result of this bill. that is better border security. you can call it new wall, you can call it replacement, maintenance, whatever you want to. this construction you see here, i don't know if it's this exact construction because i don't know where this is, this wall is being installed in the southern border today. >> i can't mime right now. pick a wall, any wall. it's a wall. that was amazing. the trump administration spent