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am simmons. we heard from vladimir putin a couple of times now within the last 24 hours. one of the headlines in russia saying? >> reporter: yasmin, good morning. many are taking in the faces of vladimir putin that we saw in the last 24 hours. from angry to joke around. for me, some of the headlines including megyn kelly in the interview we will hear on nbc, vladimir putin suggests that perhaps the cia could have been behind the hacking of the u.s. elections. this morning, the cia pushing back hard on that suggestion. other headlines for me, vladimir putin seeming to align himself with the positions on pulling out of the paris climate accord and nato. within the next hour, we will have analysis and more on what president putin had to say when

he was speaking here in st. pet pet petersberg. >> we will have more with your run in with gorkov. that is dog ed reporting at its best. here is what he told my colleague megyn kelly in the forum in russia yesterday. take a listen. >> president putin, there are reports in the american press that the trump administration took active steps to ease sanctions on russia. almost immediately after trump took office. was this possibly ever discussed between the trump team and your representatives prior to president trump inaugurated? >> translator: no, i saw what was happening. to be frank, it was a great surprise. that's just absurd what they're

saying. >> more on this in the next hour as well. new today, james mattis is in asia stepping up calls for china to curb the nuclear program in nblg north korea. here is what he said in singapore earlier. >> as a matter of u.s. national security, the united states regards the threat as a clear and present danger. the trump administration is encouraged by china's renewed commitment to work with the international community toward denuclearization. ultimately, we believe china will come to recognize north korea as a strategic liability, not an asset. >> a lot happening. back here in the united states, mike pence will travel to iowa to try to unite the republican base. he will join lawmakers at the roast and ride fund-raiser. i want to go to the white house and kelly o'donell. former fbi director james comey

will make a highly anticipated testimony on thursday. what are you hearing from the white house? are they concerned about what he could say? >> reporter: the white house wants all of the information out and want the investigation to be thorough and over. at the same time, we know there is also a lot of controversy that swirls and has been nothing but trouble. either the miscalculation of the firing of comey. they thought it would be more popular among democrats and they got the opposite result. there is a challenge. a legal tool available to any president to protect conversations had in the executive branch. the fbi director falls under that. we don't know the conditions are right for that because the president has been talking and tweeting about his interactions with james comey. so will the white house try to use its own tools to keep comey quiet? president trump and james comey. the fbi director he fired could strugg ts week. new power

comey is set to go public thursday. about the russia investigation. but the white house is not ruling out a move that could block comey from testifying on capitol hill. by claiming an executive branch privilege that protects the privacy of a president's conversations with senior officials. in a new letter, democratic lawmakers warned the white house. any assertion of privilege by the president would be seen as an effort to obstruct the truth. that preemptive strike came after white house officials, including sean spicer said legal options are on the table. >> i think obviously it has to be reviewed. >> so that's not a no? >> i have not spoken to counsel yet. i don't know how they respond. >> reporter: getting answers proved difficult on another issue. >> thank you very much, everybody. this is slightly less controversial than yesterday. >> reporter: after trump broke

with nations around the world over climate change. temperatures rose in the briefing room. the press secretary deflected all questions and the president's view on climate change after candidate trump mocked science. >> does the president believe that climate change is a hoax? >> yes or no, does the president believe climate change is real? >> what does the president actually believe? does he believe it? >> reporter: neither pruitt or spicer had an answer. >> i had not have the opportunity to have that discussion. >> reporter: and either way it is a problem for the president. if he changes his mind and embraces the science with climate change and human factors, that opens up questions when did he change his mind and why and alienate his base. if he says he still holds on to the views he has as a candidate, that could alienate others when he said he would like to renegotiate and work on ways to reduce carbon emissions which

would be better for the u.s. the white house is not answering the question. when it comes to executive privilege, we don't know the timeline on the decision. it is difficult. the legal case they have to make to say that james comey should be protected by privilege is a tall order. in past administrations, that kind of authority has been used from time to time, but usually happens at a point when they are trying to set the terms for congressional testimony or limit what a witness would say and less high profile than james comey. the russia investigation and circumstances we find ourselves in now. yasmin. >> a lot of people saying if he invokes that privilege, it will be detrimental. all eyes and ears on the testimony. kelly, thank you. i want to turn back to russia and keir simmons. keir, beyond the word from vladimir putin in the megyn

kelly exclusive. you ran into sergei gorkov. he is at center of the investigation of jared kushner. tell us about the confrontation and what you heard from him. what went on there? >> reporter: yeah, look. we were just trying to get answers into what happened with that meeting with jared kushner. we didn't get many answers. you will hear a bit of that exchange a little later and more of it later in the hour. in terms of what president putin had to say here. he denied and denied again. he denied that russia had been involved in hacking the u.s. elections. he denied that russia intervened in the elections and denied any kind of a deal with the trump administration and the kremlin over lifting russian sanctions. president vladimir putin on the defensive last night telling

megyn kelly that hackers elsewhere could have framed russia. >> translator: hackers can be anywhere. they can be in russia, in asia, even in america. latin america. they can be hackers, by the way, in the united states. very skillfully and professionally the shift of the blame on to russia. can you imagine something like that? in the midst of the political battle and by some calculations, it was convenient for them to release this information so they released it. citing russia. could you imagine something like that? i can. >> reporter: putin back pedaling with a comment made the day earlier that private russian hackers not connected to the government could have been involved. if those hackers feel patriotic, putin said, they may try to contribute to the fight against those who speak badly about russia.

the russian leader enjoying the attention of the international economic forum in st. petersburg. while the investigation into the meddling in the election widens. the fbi looking into president trump's son-in-law jared kushner undisclosed meeting with the russian banker. >> you are under scrutiny because of the meeting with jared kushner. >> no comments about that. >> reporter: escaping questions, gorkov caught between kremlin and the white house. the russian banker who is close to vladimir putin not annualing to talk about why he met with kushner in december. >> was it -- can i ask was it a political meeting or economic meeting? can we interview you? is that possible? >> no comments. >> reporter: now after that

interview with president putin here in st. peter's, nbc's megyn kelly revealing he suggested that the cia could have been behind the hacking of the u.s. elections. cia spokesperson pushing back on that to nbc news saying it is not worth responding to and pointing out that is the same argument made on a number of state news channels here in russia. suggesting, yasmin, that argument by president putin is predictable. >> keir, i know you spoke with sm economic voices in russia with the u.s. pulling out of the paris agreement. we will hear more on that in a bit. you can watch the interview with vladimir putin tomorrow during the premiere of sunday night with megyn kelly. let's get into this. molly hooper and jeremy is with

the reporter of the new york times. what is your reaction to the putin remarks? not unexpected? what do you gather from the economic forum? >> vladimir putin is backtra backtracking from the statements earlier this week. maybe it could have been someone from russia. some russian patriot who wanted to help the cause as he put it. let's not forget who we're dealing with here. we're not dealing with the russian president, but skilled manipulator. former intelligence officer himself. a spy at one point. he is expert at trolling the united states. i think it is worth pointing out it is no accident that he is conducting an interview with a respected journalist who happens to be one of donald trump's least favorite reporters. i don't think that was a coincidence. >> molly, i hear your reaction in my ear. what was your overall take? >> come on. all i can say is vladimir putin

telling us that the cia might be behind this. you know, he has known it to happen. is that because the kgb has done it to russia to his opponents? i heard of these things happening. okay. were you orchestrating those happening in your country? it stretches. i think it was a very entertaining response. >> it is interesting to go off what arjeremy said. vladimir putin knows his audience. that is why he said it. he knows by saying the cia could be involved. the people that support him from other countries, they know when they hear that that it is believable to them. that is their mind set. jeremy, i want to turn to james comey's testimony or set to testify this coming thursday before the senate intel committee. this time he is there as a former fbi director. how much do you think he is actually going to say? >> it is worth noting also that he is testifying for the first

time since we learned jared kushner withheld and did not disclose his contact with russian officials during the transition. it will be interesting to see the senators probe him on that subject. i don't know how much he will be willing to give up on that. i'm actually interested less in what comey has to say than in what donald trump's response to comey is. a president who has shown very little ability to restrain himself when it comes to responding to comey. comey seems to push certain buttons with trump like few others do. i don't know he will be able to help himself from tweeting. i know his lawyers told him not to. his aides have pleaded with him to stop. >> we know it doesn't work. >> i know. the reaction that trump has to comey will be just as interesting as whatever comey says. >> let's hope he doesn't tweet out covfefe during the comey testimony. let's talk about the trump response, molly.

do you think he can invoke executive privilege here? >> there is a possibility. since trump has said so much on camera and you know it is like one of the situations where maybe comparable when lois lerner behind the targeting the conservative groups and went to capitol hill in front of the oversight committee under oath and said she was pleading the fifth. she wasn't going to self incriminate after a lengthy statement about why she was innocent. if you are going to plead the fifth, you can't say anything. the second trump opens that box of worms, or can of worms, it is difficult, i think, for them to exert executive privilege. >> jeremy, let's move on to the pulling out of the paris accord. actually, you have trump in the rose garden saying we are pulling out of the paris accord.

very committed to that. if we look at the underwriting, you can't pull out until 2020 according to the agreement that we made. actually, if you think about it, that's going to be the next presidential election. is there a referendum on trump during that election? could it not matter ? if we get another president in the white house, they can turn an around. >> that is right. a lot of this was symbolic. in a lot of ways, this was vintage trump. it was not quite what it seemed on the surface. you pointed out this cannot be unravelled for another four years. one day after the date of the next presidential election in 2020. this was also just a fulfillment of a campaign promise of donald trump. let's not forget how important this is to him. he travels around the country with promises kept banners behind him because he knows how

important it is to hold on to his base. let's face it. his disapproval ratings with the rest of the country are extraordinarily high. he doesn't have anybody else to cling to. this fulfillment of a central nation nation national state is a important one to many in the administration and to trump himself. withdrawing and becoming more isolationist. >> you feel like his real major goal is to say i fulfilled a campaign promise. molly and jeremy, thank you. as the investigation turns, what will criminal investigators look for in jared kushner's meeting with the russian banker? that is coming up. you don't want to miss it.

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hackers can be anywhere. they can be in russia. in asia. even in america. latin america. they can be hackers by the way in the united states. very skillfully and professionally shift of the blame as we say on to russia. can you imagine something like that? >> shifting the blame there. that is russian president vladimir putin in the sit-down with megyn kelly. let's bring in michael tabman. former fbi special agent in charge. michael, thank you for joining me. how do you respond to president putin and what he said? hackers could be anywhere and it could be anyone. >> our intelligence communities are aware cyber criminals can leave behind false digital evidence. you have to remember we have multiple agencies reporting to

determine it was russia. that intelligence in addition to the cyber slueuthing. when we listen to putin speak, it is laughable. he sounds just like trump. just making these very broad statements that offer no insight. i dismiss what he says on surface. >> you make a good point. we need to remember the cia. they present hard evidence of the fact this is russia that did it. putin trying to spin it. you have to remember putin's history. he was the head of the kgb at one point. talk about what is happening with jared kushner, the senior adviser and, son-in-law. the meeting he had with the russian state bank. that bank sanctioned by the obama administration. how do you see them investigating him going forward? >> that's very troubling. one would have to believe the

nature of the jared kushner family business and really state. he is meeting with the banker to raise the conflict. the question is if he could not remember that and reporting that is looked into. the cia wants to determine if there are witnesses to shed light. are there other communications? were there transactions that occurred after the meeting to indicate criminal activity or conflict of interest. we don't want this to come down to he said-he said. we will never get to the bottom of it. it may be where it ends. looking for evidence. communications. documents. transactions or witnesses or recordings of the meeting. >> you think there is anything nefarious going on in that meeting? >> i didn't catch that question. >> is there anything necessity

fa nefarious going on with kushner and gorkov? >> we have the smoke coming from many areas all involving russian players and involving trump administration who forget they have the meetings. other individuals who met with russia and have the need not to disclose it. >> i want to talk about the comey firing. the mood within the agency after comey's ouster. she said comey was a controversial figure in the political system, he was not a controversial figure at the fbi at all. nearly everyone loved him. the degree of consensus on the point has been incredible. it is almost hard to believe. does her assessment match up with your experience with what you hear from people in the fbi? >> yes. comey became director after i retired. with my communication during his tenure there was a lot of disagreement on the hillary clinton e-mail determination not to prosecute. all in all, he was considered a

man of inn integrity. >> and we don't have a replacement yet. could that hinder the investigation? >> i don't think so. we had transitions of fbi directors during my career several times. that never seemed to impact the operations of the fbi on the day-to-day basis. i'm sure the acting director came up through the rangks. he has been there a long time. i'm sure that the fbi will continue to operate seamlessly. >> michael tabman, i appreciate it. coming up, we go back to keir simmons in russia for the encounter with the banker caught between the kremlin and the white house.

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the russian banker who met with son-in-law jared kushner a month before the election is refusing to say what was discussed and whether he has been contacted by the fbi. keir simmons joins us now. he ran into sergei gorkov yesterday. it was an interesting exchange. tell us about it. >> reporter: we didn't learn a great deal, yasmin. we chased him through the halls of the conference center behind me. we wanted an answer to a simple question. simply what happened hat tat th meeting with jared kushner. we wanted to clear up some inconsistencies. the white house suggested that jared kushner was at the meeting in his role as trump transition official. the bank that gorkov runs, they suggested that it was a business

meeting. we tried to ask that question and others and didn't get many answers. take a listen. >> mr. gorkov. good to see you. keir simmons of nbc news. you are the intense scrutiny in americ america because of your meeting with jared kushner. there is confusion over what happened. were you talking about business or were you talking about politics? >> no comments. >> have you been contacted by the fbi or would you be prepared to talk to them? mr. gorkov? just a question of understanding of what happened into the meeting. >> no comment. please. please. >> can i ask, was it a political meeting or economic meet? can we interview you at a later date? if it is an innocent meeting, why don't you want to talk about

it? >> sorry. >> mr. gorkov, if it was an innocent meeting with jared kushner why don't you want to talk about it, sir? i'm sorry. please don't push me out of the way. i want to ask you about the meeting you had with jared kushner. >> no comments. >> please explain. if it was an innocent meeting, explain what happened in the meeting, mr. gorkov. >> i did my best. we reached out to jared kushner's attorney. no response this morning. a source close to kushner tells nbc news he was at the meeting acting in capacity as a transition official. yasmin, maybe that tells you something. >> keir, i was nervous as i watched that video. i was nervous. you were so dog ed and committed to get an answer from him. you only stopped because there

was a security barrier there. i have to ask, was there ever a point when you are trying to get after gorkov to get an answer that you were nervous for your safety? you are not in the united states or uk. you are in russia. he was surrounded by many security officials. >> reporter: he was. you know, this is a tough place for journalists to operate. particularly those prepared to be critical of the government. you have that in mind. equally, people do have open discussions here. these kind of practices are not unfamiliar to the russians. yes, of course, we're glad the team we're still here and not in any trouble for what we did there. i think the risk was moderate. i don't want to exaggerate. >> it is good the camera was there. keir, we will check back in with you. catch megyn kelly's one-on-one with vladimir putin on the

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on thursday, president trump announced a shakeup of the largest alliance in history. casting the paris accord as a financial albatross. >> the paris climate accord is the latest example of washington entering into agreement that disadvantages the united states. to the exclusive benefit of other countries. leaving american workers who i love and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs and lower wagers and shuttered factories and vastly diminished

economic production. the united states will withdrawal from the paris climate accord. >> there you go. the news that echos across the world. how credible are the claims about the economic impact? joining me is nat cohan. a former special assistant to barack obama. i want to get your reaction to the claims that the paris accord would cost the u.s. jobs. >> it is about jobs, but not in the way the president thinks. if you look at jobs today, clean energy is the biggest job creators. more jobs in wind and coal. more jobs in solar power than oil and gas extraction. that is why you have the ceos from dozens of fortune 500 companies saying this is the wrong thing. you have exxonmobil saying we

should stay in and you have labor leaders saying this is the wrong more. for american businesses and workers, the voices that speak says this is a bad move. >> if you have coal miners at home watching the president's speech in the rose garden, they could lose their jobs. those coal miners under the paris accord. >> if you look at coal mining jobs over the past century, they have been steady for the past couple decades. the reason we lost coal mining jobs is because of greater productivity in the coal mining industry. we ought to be doing something to ensure a fair transition for every american worker. the truth is if america's economy will grow and we stay competitive, we should be at the cutting edge of the clean energy revolution. donald trump has put up a closed for business sign on clean energy in the country. >> that is an interesting point. listen to the harrowing predictions that trump put out there. >> the cost to the economy at

this time would be close to having $3 trillion in lost gdp and 6.5 million industrial jobs while households would have $7,000 less income and in many cases much worse than that. >> 6.5 million jobs and $3 trillion lost in growth by 2040. are these accurate? is he accounting for the clean energy jobs under the paris accord? >> it is fake economics. they have been debunked by economists who looked at this. >> fake economics? >> yes. a trade group that funded that study. i'll point you to where we should look. california and new york have done more than anyone else on clean energy and climate action.

california's economy growing faster than any other state. it is attracted more clean energy investment than all 49 states come binbincombined. the states are where to look. >> can you reiterate where the numbers came from? >> the study he cited was by the national economic research associates. it was paid for by industry groups. they pay for the assumptions that get made. every economist that looked at this says the cost of inaction is greater with more extreme weather and hurricane sandy and flooding. the cost of doing something is investment in clean energy. >> so what is the bottom line here? when will we see the cost of inaction by pulling outs of the accord? >> we are seeing some of the cost of climate change. the good news is the rest of the world said we're moving ahead. if the u.s. wants to retreat.

it is amazing. china and the eu said we will lead if the u.s. doesn't. >> a lot of people saying this is handing the keys over to china by pulling out of the paris accord. >> we are talking $1 trillion economy over the next few years. that is a huge prize. we seated those jobs to china and europe. >> nat, thank you. how states can forge ahead on battling climate change without the president. former maryland governor martin o'malley shares his shthoughts the top of the hour. and the ripple effect of the issues on sanctions with russia and how it is felt there. ♪

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in his argument than the average businessman in the average country. >> reporter: now president putin also appeared to back president trump's decision to pull out of the paris climate accord. i have been talking to the russian direct investment fund leader. i asked him about his reaction to that decision by trump? >> i think there are benefits to business in that decision. i think of this administration felt the benefits outweighed the negative aspects. some people believe it is the right decision. some people don't. environmental technology at the end of the day will succeed. >> reporter: you can see that full exclusive interview with president putin with "sunday night with megyn kelly" tomorrow night. we'll be back after the break. a. this is the new new york.

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president bannon is on the wrong side of the majority. president bannon may be right. when president bannon is bannong at president bannon's primary base. but when president bannon is looking at the overall scope of american voters, you can talk about the past three decades, president bannon is not even reading the polls right for today. >> the "morning joe" team making reference to steve bannon on the rise again in the white house. joining me ser lena maxwell, former director of progressive media for the clinton campaign, now the director of progressive programming for sirius radio. george watkins and rick tyler, former cruz campaign spokesperson. he's an msnbc political analyst. thanks for joining me. joe, i'll start with you. your reaction to that. is bannon the loudest voice in the white house?

>> clearly the president is listening to him. this decision to move out of the paris climate accord the clearly to appeal to the base. bannon is winning right now. he's listening to what bannon is saying and getting out to really mollify the base. >> we talked about the fact that bannon could be losing his job, on his way out. and now we're saying bannon has regained support of the white house, the only one that hasn't been connected so far to the russia investigation. so a lot of talk surrounding bannon, to say the least. ser lena, there's a lot of fluff pieces out there, and there's a theory as to why, some observers asking if she's the white house leaker. >> it's definitely someone who likes ivanka trump very, very much. it could be her. it could be people close to her. it's quite disturbing because i

think she's trying very hard to market this brand of chic -- women in sheath dress, being moms, going to work, but that does not actually match-up with the policies or the rhetoric of her father's administration, and i think we have to hold her to a higher standard now. she's not just a daughter as she said famously during the campaign. she's a senior house adviser with security clearance working in the west wing, and we should hold her to account on what she's able to accomplish in that role. and i think that the impulse that her allies have to put out positive stories about her that are really lacking substance -- there was a piece yesterday that said she was the most influential jewish woman in america. there is a jewish woman on the supreme court. it's ridiculous. >> taking that into account, maybe in actuality we shouldn't even consider her a daughter of president trump anymore, but more as someone that's working in the white house.

zerlina, turning to the paris accord. is pulling out of it worse for the american environment or leadership from around the world? >> i think both. this is going to have deadly consequences. this is something that's very damaging. as we've been saying all week since this announcement, it doesn't go into effect until 2020, so i think it's going to now be a campaign issue, not just in 2018 but also 2020. i think president trump has to expand his base of support. he's making decisions that essentially consolidates a very small portion of the american electorate. i think that's going to be damaging going into elections because people understand that climate change is real regardless of what the science deniers say. we want clean water, clean air. we don't want there to be many more flints in the united states. i think this issue is something -- i think people can university accept it if they're thinking rationally and believing in science which we

all should. >> understand that it's crossing political lines. both republicans, democrats, both sides of the aisle, a lot disagreeing with his decision to pull out. rick, bringing you into the conversation, trump supporters saying his decision actually shows leadership, he's take action against something that trump and his followers believe is bad for america. you worked for ted cruz. he pushed to pull out of the accord for quite some time. is there a win for your side? >> i don't know if it's a win. as zerlina says, you can't pull out of the climate accord until 2020. i doubt seriously it will become a campaign issue. the environment, as important as it is, usually registers in the single digits for voter concerns. that's probably going to remain to be the case. i'm very skeptical of these world agreements. you can look at a lot of world organizations like the un. they almost unfairbly seek to undermine the interest of the united states even though we pay a disproportionate share for a

funding for a lot of them, that would include the u.n. the paris accord, it's not compulsory. it's all guidelines. i still think meeting the objectives of the paris accord would likely hurt the economy. this is something donald trump did promise in his campaign, he is going to work on the economy and he would pull out of the paris accord, so i don't know that it's a big surprise. >> rick, sticking with that and seeing that 2020, we can't necessarily pull out until 2020, you think with the upcoming presidential election -- upcoming, we're many years out. but do you think this is going to be a referendum on donald trump when he runs for president again? >> no, no. there's a lot of talk about the environment. the environment is important. conservation is important. typically voters don't make up their mind on climate change or the environment and certainly not the paris accord. most people don't even know what it's about. >> what we're seeing happening so far, this country isn't

voting tically anymore. >> what do you mean it's not voting -- >> typically, if you look at history. people say typically voters don't vote on the environment. i think by the election of donald trump we saw that things sort of went in a very different direction in the way people were predicting. >> that's true. attitudes change, cultural things change. we've seen that over our own lifetime. the environment could become so important that it's a top issue. i remain skeptical if it will be. >> joe, if you look at all the editorials the day after president trump pulled out, all of those are really negative. what do you think is the upside? is it getting rid of an obama legacy, or checking a box on president trump's campaign promise? >> it checks a box certainly on a campaign promise. it helps the base to feel like he's overturning the previous

administration's policy. and think about it. he's paying attention to the folks that brought him to the dance. he got elected because of pennsylvania and wisconsin and michigan, states that otherwise weren't expected to end up in his column. he's paying a lot of attention to them. rick is right. this is not an issue that's going to either win him or lose him the campaign down the road. but right now at a time when he needs to have some support, he's going back to the base and saying, hey, base, remember why you elected me? you elected me to do this stuff to do what i said i was going to do. >> thank you for joining us. that wraps it up for this hour. keir simmons in st. petersburg, russia. one last word from you. what are you looking forward to now? >> how about this, yn. think of what happened here as the appetizer. the entree whenrump and putin meet. we think that will be in july at the g20. what kind of exchange will that

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