extraordinary. thank you for watching this hour of msnbc live. i am stephanie rule, i will see you tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. let's go over to my friend and colleague. >> right now, heating up, is the president about to get out of that landmark global client deal. >> i have three grand children, and i50 years i don't want them to say you knew climate change was happening, you were a senator, why didn't you do anything? >> terror in kabul. more than 80 people killed, hundreds injured when a truck bomb explodes on embassy road in

kabul. asking for thousands of additional troops, what does it mean for america's longest war. >> palace intrigue, and what is with the strange tweet, is it a secret code? >> that unique online megaphone is raising new questions about who is monitoring the president's primary means of communication. >> good day, everyone. president trump may be getting ready to back out of a global climate agreement. with reports that he is leaning towards dropping out of the deal, he said "i will be announcing my decision on the paris accord in the next few days, make america great again. joining me now is halle jackson

and ann thompson. halle, first to you, what are the tea leaves. >> we can tell you we have heard from multiple administration sources that the president is leaning toward pulling out of the paris climate deal, not surprising given his rhetoric, but the sources also caution that no final decision has been made just ye it is the caveat that we hear when people talk about the desions that the president is making or may make that it is not official until it comes out of his mouth or is released in a statement from him. i will tell you as well there are concerns that aare potentially a tactic intended to push the president in one direction or another. i think it speaks to some of the behind the scenes discussion, but from a policy perspective,

this is a significant move. this is going to be the withdrawal heard around the world. you know they are listening and watching this very carefully. the siren that he would make this move came last week and the united states did not join the other six nations in backing consensus on the paris deal. that was a red flag. it is not -- it is not clear how he and his administration intend to make it. >> the oil man from exxon mobile is one of the people that are advocating to stay with the

deal. >> absolutely, you have people like the secretary of state, you have ores widely reported to have made their voices to stay in. others pushing to do what they said they would do i note that the president indicated that maybe he would be open to finding compromise. on the second point, you have seen this president weigh desions in this manner the way she doing this right now, andrea. >> we'll talk more about the white house ins and outs, i want to bring in ann thompson. how would it work and how would it work if the world's tect largest polluter backs out of

it. >> the last three years have been the hottest years on record. it is signed by 195 countries including the u.s., and it keeps the temperature from riding more than 3.6 degrees fahrenheit, and it does that by reducing ar bon emissions. they agree to increase them 26% in 2025. we're almost halfway to that goal. the epa says that the u.s. reduced their carbon emissions by 11.5%. and that was gone as they turned away from coal and went to

renewables and natural gas. tomorrow there is very public pressure that will be put on trump to apple, facebook, google, general mills, bp, have all they're running adds in the wall street journal, the new york times, the new york post, pull page adds, urging him to stay in the paris agreement saying it makes the companies more competitive, it will solve new technologies and it will reduce business risks. it will be interesting to see how president trump reacts to that pressure. >> and briefly, what do we know about staff shakeups, and if it is code, convfefe. >> the president had that tweet overnight that had late night twitter all abuzz. you know, on the one hand, here

it is, covfefe. who knows how to pronounce it, and there is a sense of who cares when you have consequenpe talking about reform at the va and other things, but there is a question you heard raised. it doesn't seem like it means much, but it does provide a good encapsulelation of what we see offer here which sr. a juxtaposition of the trifl y-- trivial and inconsequential.

the president weighing this decision, and he can pull out completely and the under lying treaty, the u.n. treaty, this was hard fought over many years and a signature legacy of achievement viewed by the obama team. put it in context now, if you can, in terms of u.s. leadership. >> i think it is i did vas trous. every other country in the world, i think, except for syria and nicaragua sign on to this. the client scientists all say this is happening, we know it is happening. the military, the u.s. defense department knows it is happening, and understands the threat to our national security if we allow this to happen, if we allow sea levels to rise. we know that our forest service

knows that climate change is increasing the length of our wild fire season and we're spending more and more money on fighting those, and we have an opportunity with paris, in our country, to lead the world on renewable energy and energy storage and energy efficiency. and i want us to have the markets that we're going to have -- china is choking on it's fumes, and i want minnesota scientists and engineers and manufacturers to be selling that technology to the chinese. and this is a disaster in so many ways. you played a little clip of me saying that i don't want, in 50 years, for my grandchildren to

say you knew climate change want happening, why didn't you say anything or do anything? i want to be alive, but my grandchildren will be and the end of the century, and i don't want them to live in a world of millions and millions of refugees. that is just unstable. we know the coal jobs are not coming back and that is because of natural dpas, and because of the automation in the coal industry. we need to go to the new jobs. wind and solar are now less expensive than coal and we need to make the tran sis. >> the other day, i was interviewing a colleague that is working -- working to go to

appalachia and try to connect some of the young high school and young aspiring kids with coding jobs. >> yeah, we need -- >> with apple and google because they not going to get jobs in the coal industry. >> future jobs are in science, technology, engineering, and math. we need to be developing a high skilled workforce. those are the jobs of the future. . we need to be going to the future and not back to the past. >> the world you came from was humor, "snl," there is a growing controversy especially now that first lady melania trump issued a statement about it about the attempt of satire or political

humor on twitter, the photo shoot that kathy griffin posted. she has apologized now, but have we reached a point of political debate that is so toxic that people lott what is appropriate? >> i know kathy, i condemn this, i talked to her and she did make a very heart felt apology. i think she thought she was making an artistic statement, but that image has no place in our political dialogue. >> what did you say to her? >> i said that we can't be showing images of a president who has been decapitated, i mean i don't even want to say what it

was, but i tad you can't do that, you can't do that, and she made a very, she begged for forgiveness, and i believe in forgiveness, maybe this photographer is an artist that does things with, i think he did a picture of her having her tongue cut out by a guy, that was about her being sensors by men, or women being censored by men. this was just so wrong headed and i told her it was, and soon after she made a very fulsome apology and begged for forgiveness. >> i want to ask you about your book, al franken: giant of the senate. you came into the senate, i

think there was a little recount, it took alittle while. >> yes, you recall directly. >> and you were very serious. they could not get you to crack a joke, every tried, and it was clear that you were the new guy, and you wanted to prove your seriousness. are you now willing to joke? >> yes, than is my announcement today, i did crack jokes to my colleagues, but i want to make sure the people of minnesota knew that i had gone to the senate to do a serious job, and to prove the lives of people in minnesota, the united states, and it was incredibly close election. i was reelected comfortably in 2014, and i think the people in minnesota have gotten it and so i freed up a little wit, i

decided to be a workhorse when i came to the senate, and now i am but i'm a workhorse with a sense of humor. >> you have proved yourself over and over again. >> thank you so much pb t. the wook is call-- book is call franken: giant of the senate." we have a update now on the bombing in kabul. 280 injured, the blast from a bomb inside of a truck stopped at an end point. the u.s. embassy is just a few blocks away and it was shaken by not damaged. there are so many terror grows in that region, but it comes at

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as we were saying this morning the president treats his outrage at kathy griffin who was holding a fake severed head of the president. first lady melania trump issued a statement saying a mother, a wife, and a human being, that photo is very disturbing. a photo opportunity like this is wrong and makes you wonder about the mental health of the person that did it. stephanie gosk has the back story and some of the images are disturbing. >> kathy griffin is all apolo apologi apologies. >> i am so very sorry. >> after a stroefrl photo shoot showing the 59-year-old comedian showing a bloody likess of the

president's head. >> the behind the scenes video of the photoshoot begins with a warning. i won't give away with what we're doing, but we're not afraid to do images that make noise. she joked about the reaction the photo shoot would get from law enforcement. inappropriate, disgusting, upsetting, some just calling it dumb. >> let's get the inside scoop from the "washington post" white house editor. the reaction from the white house, and the secret service, saying without saying this deals with this specific incident, saying they always put the lives and safety of protectees their

highest priority. protection never rests. it is a serious deal at the white house understandably. >> understandably so, and it was interesting to see, obviously the condemnation from every corner was swift and strong, but the white house especially, president trump said that his kids were disturbed, and you do forget sometimes that it happened with the clintons and chelsea, and the obama's and their daughters, but this is a tool, these images are most unsettling, you know, for the president's family, and i think the reaction is understandable. >> and we just spoke to al

franken who suppose to kathy griffin, and this is what he has to say. >> i know katy, i con demted this, i talked to her and she did make a very heart felt apolo apology. that image has to place in our political dialogue. >> jonathan, we really reached a terrible state in this country in terms of rhetoric, but the imagery as well. >> yes, and as you the conde condemnation came from all corners, and the first time i ever heard about what was happening was from a progressive friend on twitter that put out a statement saying you can basically dislike or hate the president, but something like this goes way over the line.

i applaud her for her apology, taking the photos down, for being public with saying what she did was dumb, but for some progressives out there thinking this is just president trump and what he did to nation nag political discourt, any images of violence against the president, that goes to the heart of what we are as a people. those that did it to president obama should have the same outrage that it was done against president trump. this sort of thing has no place in our political discourse. and she did the right thing by taking the images down and apologized. >> the first family is a family and these are people who are

involved in public service. ashley. very separately you were writing in today's paper about the white house turmoil and the way the president treats his staff. >> yeah, so the president, you know it depends on who you talk to. his allies say that he has a teasing way with his staff where he jokes around, they argue. it makes them feel included, but if you talk to people, they don't feel that way within a lot of the comments are cutting barbs. and he likes to remind people that he is the president of the united states, and that vice president pence has smaller crowds, or that he can fire nikki hailey. he likes to talk about being in charge and holding their fate in

his hands, and it has been corosi verks corosive. >> and the talk about different names that are coming up, gary cohn is one, david urban, who was in harge of the trump campaign. this has to be very unsettling. >> yes, as ashley was speaking i think wassing these cutting remarks and this banter that the president has with his staff i think would be paletteable if he was effectively managing the government and running the west wing if he was someone that was not the chief cause of his problems rather than being someone who is trying to manage

these sort of, competing sources of rivalry, but instead he is the major problem. these jokes that he has with his staff, of course it is unsettling. >> ashley parker and jonathan capehart, thank you. >> call me maybe? president trump tries iphone placy as he sparks new feuds wi old allies. you're watching "andrea mitchell respo reports." ♪ fun in art class. come close, come close. i like that. [ music stops suddenly ] ah. when your pain reliever stops working, your whole day stops. awww. try this. for minor arthritis pain,

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the west wing is stuck in legislative limbo, priorities on hold as the white house staff braces for the likely shake up to come. the president is considering making changes, consults outside advisors and talking about key white house positions including possibly a new chief of staff. joining me now is george will. thank you have much. we have seen this movie before, but not usually in the first three months of an administration. and the fact is that fax reform, health care, they're big legislative priorities and they're running out of time and

calendar. they have the pending debt ceiling crisis looming at the end of the summer and early fall. how do they -- >> and they're real world consequences, the so-called trump bump in the stock market was the advanced bidding up in anticipation of tax reform, but it is not going to happen, i think we can say there will be a fax cut, but not by form. it is minimal economic distortions. that is not going to happen. >> and itas going to pay the way for a tax cut, so without doing it first, they don't really even have a path compared to the big tax reform rationalizing. >> and while again, there may be something that you can dress up

as repeal and replace, it is really not going to do either faster -- as far as i can tell. it is a wall with mexico that will not be funded and planned parenthood will be defunded. >> and the base unhappy. at the same time, replacing reince priebus, if you still have all of these different power centers, and a president who is covering by some would say whim, or tweet, or whatever in the middle of the night, that will not rationalize the process. i think back to when i was covering the white house, jim

baker as chief of staff would get everyone together morning and night. this is the game plan, these are your assignments. what have we achiefed, what have we checked off. there was an orderly process. >> an orderly process enforced be a tough and experienced man in james baker. trump is more inexperienced than anyone else because he has no experience in government civilian or military. second he has a unique temperament that means he more than anyone in the history of the office needed someone in the knowledge of the city, with it's own culture, that people have to understand and someone strong enough to turn to the president and say stop it, act like a grown up, i don't think that

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breaking news. 11 u.s. citizens injured in that massive attack today in kabul. joining me now a former u.s. ambassador to nato. this is the war that will not end and there are recommendations from the meant gone to send troops to afghanistan.

>> we're 16 years into the war and president trump will support the current troop levels that we have there. there are about 5,000 nato troops there, do we put more on the ground in the training mission or the counter terror mission to try to help the government survive and the dilemma is the government is big enough to hold most of the city, they have a larger share of the country side, and the taliban has a capacity to inflict a brutal bombing on the people of kabul this morning. it is a very difficult choice. i think the argument that we have to stay with it, that if we leave the entire government structure could come cotumbling down. >> i can only imagine what will happen when the president picks

up the phone and calls angela merkel and says let's get more german troops from nato, as they have for all of these years, for 16 years. i can only imagine in the middle of an election campaign, the kind of reaction that he would get. this, by the way, this also striking imagery yesterday when the president was tweeting about fake news regarding russia. thatussia officials must be laughing at the u.s. and why the dems are talking about the election. and vladimir putin is giving the exact same messages. donald trump absolutely in sync with the russian leader. >> i thought it was unseemly for the president to be arguing with the german chancellor via twitter. they today have had a conversation in brussels about

nato sporting with further troop deployments and increasing the size of the military contingent. it doesn't make it easier if they are so ambivalent about nato. we need these allies on afghanistan. we need to help them contain iran and keep them focused on the nuclear deal. we need them on climate change and that is another big story today. will the president pull the u.s. out of the agreement. i can't remember a time when they have been so distrustful. that was a bad time between the united states, are germany, and france, but president bush, it was never in doubt that he supported nato and the european union nap is something that president trump managed to achieve with that ineffective trip to brussels. >> and following it up with a tweet for angela merkel on the

german trade surplus. trying to explain what the trade surplus with germany really is. they have a very large trade surplus. they also have an enormous amount of car production here in the united states. and the cars are being exported from u.s. manufacturing. i think president trump is in danger when he treats europe as a competitor. we always had dirnss of opinion on one issue or another from many, many administrations on europe. we're used to competing with europe on trade, but we never let that dominate the relationship because of the value strategically to the united states. to have 28 european allies, so contain russia, to be with us in

afghanistan. you remember it was on september 12th, 2001, that the germans, the french, and the prettyibrit decided to go with us. i will never forget it. it is good to have friends in the world, where we would be without them, and i they is what president trump is missing here. he needs to recalibrate and treat our democratic allies as our best friends in the world in europe becausehat is who they ar >> and very briefly, nick, some security concerns about his other habit. he has been criticizing them on one hand, but he has been giving them his cell phone number. for them to be giving out his phone number to other leaders, is that good -- i don't know, good security? the presidents for whom i worked, george w. bush, president clinton, george hw bush, you speak to your allies

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about the biggest biomedical crisis facing the world today. back again to focus your brains on this killer. we haveours. we have to fund this disease at the level it deserves before it levels all of us. >> that was moving testimony on capitol hill earlier this year. maria shriver sharing the story of her father, founding peace corps director sarge shriver. she's the special anchor for nbc news and joins me now. great to see you. >> thank you, andrea. >> talk to me about your program with the sports clubs. i know something about it, because we're going to be doing an event here in d.c. on sunday. and're doing this around the

country, focusing on what can be done to mediate some to have effects, perhaps prolong healthy living as this disease affects more women than men. >> every 66 seconds a new brain in this country develops alzheimer's, and 2/3 of those belongs to women and nobody knows why that is. so that's really my mission, to try to figure out why that is. i think by studying women, hopefully we'll find the cure that will benefit women and men. so this sunday at eight places across the country, we're gathering together to learn about what is the latest in cutting edge research, about how to prevent alzheimer's, what we can all do to keep our brains healthy and keep our bodies healthy. what's the right stuff to eat, how much sleep do we need.

2/3 of all the caregivers in this country are also william. and they suffer incredibly in doing this round the clock care. so i'm hopeful that this event will educate women and empower them. we don't have a cure for alzheimer's, but we do know that lifestyle impacts your cognitive health. >> you're doing this at a time of deep budget cuts in basic science, in national institute of health research, national institute of the aging. the primary government agency that coordinates all this federal research. talk about that. >> well, i testified about there was a projected cuts at nih. those didn't happen. the good thing about alzheim alzheimer's, it's a bipartisan su people of both parties have parents and loved ones affected by alzheimer's, which is one

form of dementia. they know what it's like to be caregivers up front. we can all agree that funding science and finding cures for whether it's alzheimer's, m.s., all of these brain-related diseases is in our national interest, because this is an incredibly expensive disease, on track to bankrupt our country. 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day. so it behooves us as a nation to come around this issue to do a brain shot, much like my uncle did with the moon shot, to fund the research and find a cocktail or something that would benefit people as they grow old. people want to grow old. we know how to grow old physically, but we don't know how to grow old and be cognitively healthy. >> as you talk about healthy brains and the need for sleep and good nutrition, the fact is,

there's a lot you can do in the way you live. >> exactly. >> and the genetic determination, predetermination is not everything. >> that's a really impornt thing. people wonder should they be teed for the apoe-4 gene. gene is not your tedestiny. i'm doing a series on people that live to be 100. what are they eating? we discovered that diet is about 50% or 60% of how you age. so those people are eating, you know, plant-based diets. they're eating a lot of beans and grains and greens. but they're also moving throughout the day. they're not only going to the gym and exercising, but moving through their life. they all have strong spiritual lives. they're also in community, isolation is a big issue in this

country as is the fast food diet, processed foods, sugar many people think is a huge danger when it comes to your cognitive health. so we know these things. now we're trying to spread the information, getting people to do it. i know a lot of this information and getting me to give up sugar is a challenge on a daily basis. but i think there's hopeful information about -- out there about what we can do today, and i'm trying to reach 20, 30, 40-year-olds to get this information to their parents, to have them do cognitive baseline tests, to encourage them to see neurologists and exercise and adjust their diets. >> don't make me give up my chocolate, maria. >> dark chocolate is okay. >> so great to see you. it's inspirational and so educati educational.

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and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." katie is here right now on msnbc. >> good afternoon. i'm in for craig melvin in new york. toxic move? president trump is considering pulling out of the paris climate agreement.

what it would mean for climate change, not to mention our relationship with the rest of the world. communication breakdown. more talk of staff chicshakeups the white house. cod new communication strategy glet the focus back on their agenda? sounding off. americans are still angry. more of those town halls for you. we start with the president and his decision whether or not to stay in the paris climate accord. despite the onslaught of headlines saying trump is going to exit it, white house sources tell nbc news no final decision has been made. and trump is being coy on twitter, seemingly hyping this decision like another reality show. i will be announcing my decision on the paris accord over the next few days. make america great again! hallie jackson is at the white house. and anne thompson is here to discuss the climate change impact. so