luis buried his grief in his great love of music. he began playing the violin so brilliantly and so beautifully. soon the regime saw his incredible gift and wanted to use him for propaganda purposes. when he was 12, they organized a national television special and demanded he play a solo for raul castro. who, by the way, is leaving now. i wonder why? they sent an official to fetch luis from his home, but luis refused to go. and a few days later, castro soldiers barged into his orchestra practice area, guns blazing. they told him to play for them. terrified, luis began to play.

and the entire room was stunned by what they heard. ringing out from the trembling boy's violin was a tune they all recognized. this young cuban boy was playing "the star spangled banner." [ cheers and applause ] >> luis played the american national anthem all the way through, and when he finished, the room was dead silent. when we say that america stands as a symbol to the world, a symbol of freedom, and a symbol

of hope, that is what luis meant, and that is what luis displayed that day. it was a big day. it was a great day. and that is what we will all remain. that was a very important moment, just like this is now for cuba, a very important moment. [ cheers and applause ] >> america will always stand for liberty, and america will always pray and cheer for the freedom of the cuban people. now that little boy whose story i just told you, the one who played that violin so beautifully so many years ago is here with us today in our very, very packed and extremely warm

auditori auditorium. of course, he is no longer a little boy but a world-renowned violinist and conductor, one of the greats. and today he will once again play his violin and fill the hearts of all who love and cherish cuba, the united states, and freedom. [ cheers and applause ] >> i would like now to invite luis to the stage. luis! [ cheers and applause ]

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[ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, lyuis. i just said, so where were you more nervous, today or then? he said, honestly, i think today. thank you, luis. that was beautiful. so i want to thank miami. i want to thank little havana. havana we love. do we love it? would you move anywhere else? you wouldn't move to palm beach, would you? no. no way. little havana. and i want to thank all of our

great friends here today. you've been amazing, loyal, beautiful people. and thank you. don't remind me. actual actually, i was telling mike, so it was two days, on my birthday, to a big day which turned out to be tomorrow, the 16th. that was the day i came down with melania on the escalator at trump tower. that's tomorrow. so it's exactly tomorrow two years since we announced. it worked out okay. worked out okay. it's a great honor, believe me. it's a great honor. right? ♪ happy birthday to you >> thank you. thank you very much. i just want to end by saying may

god bless everyone searching for freedom, may god bless cuba. may god bless the united states of america. and god bless you all. thank you. now i'm going to sign. thank you. [ applause ] >> donald trump there in miami right now talking about his promise to roll back obama era changes that eased u.s.-cuba relations. you heard him say it. this was a campaign promise and he lives up to campaign promises, and right now what he's doing is signing those policy changes at that little table surrounded by a number of vips. this is something that we expected, and because of that we have a great team right now to talk about it. we have kelly o'donnell, our nbc news white house correspondent. she is there in miami. we also have nbc's gabe gutierrez who is in havana,

cuba. and joining us, john cavik, senior of the trade council and senator jeb bush. let's listen to the president sign this document. [ applause ] >> so let's start with kelly o'donnell. kelly, this was something we expected the president to do. >> reporter: this was well timed, katy, and it was a promise kept by the president and those who are supportive of it is really calculable. there is support in this particular community to the changes in the obama-era changes on cuba. he is interested in not sending millions of dollars into businesses of the cuban military

and government. this will not change the fact that the u.s. embassy now has a home in cuba. that will continue. normalization of relations does continue, but travel will change for those individuals who might want to make cuba a vacation destination. there will be new restrictions, but there will be other ways for americans and groups and educational type sort of organized events that meet certain criteria would still be able to go to cuba. but in this room, what really struck me is how the president wove into his remarks very specific stories about individuals, about historical events that are important to the cuban-american community, and being in the room, you could hear when he would tell a certain anecdote, there might be someone in a corner or around us who would react "that was where my mother was," "that was where my father was," so very personal to those who live in the community. you also heard the president make a reference to the second anniversary of his campaign. however, he does not seem to be

aware today is the 16th. unless i'm somehow mistaken, it was two years ago that the president announced his candidacy. immigration was a big part of that when he outlined it. today we also saw from the department of homeland security changes that will mean dreamers, the children, who were brought to the united states and do not meet documentation and certain criteria will be able to remain with their parents. under a separate program, that program will not be continued. but for the cuban-american community, this was a chance for the president to sort of bask in a group of supporters and connect with public officials who have been very helpful to him. rick scott, governor of florida, and we saw a new partnership with marco rubio the senator, former rival on the campaign tail. no little marco today. this was a very strong endorsement from president trump about the partnership they had in crafting this new policy. katy? >> kelly, thank you. speaking of donald trump and marco rubio, they are getting along today, but let's take a look back on what their relationship was like just about

a year ago or so while they were still on the campaign trail. >> you defrauded the people -- >> little marco. little marco rubio. >> little marco. >> little marco. z >> little marco. >> little marco rubio. >> i want to express our deep gratitude to a man that's really become a friend of mine, and i want to tell you, he is one tough competitor. senator marco rubio. great guy. >> quite a change in tone right there. let's go to al in miami. al, you're the former adviser to jeb bush. what do you make of today's rollback? >> well, words aside, what the president really did looking inside our party is made senator jeff flake and senator marco rubio halfway. he kept the embassy that president obama started, he kept

the commercial air flights, the cruise ships. he allowed americans to continue to travel to cuba, only staying at bed and breakfasts instead of state-owned hotels, and he's allowed things to take place. he met halfway. if you think about it, based on castro's more repressed attitudes on human rights abuses, it's a reasonable policy to take, hoping the castro regime will recalibrate and do something. the truth of the matter is, it was all give on the united states side, and some of the improvements we thought the castro regime may make for the benefit of the cuban people have not taken place. who knows, we'll see how it works out, but the words have been different than what conspired today. what has remained a constant in miami, every time you talk about the human rights abuses and the suffering, the community responds and it responded to this event.

for us and for the families who suffered, it's always a depressing moment and the president spent a lot of time talking about that. >> i should note you are the current president of the economic foreign council, not the former president. what do you make of this rollback, and just realistically, what will it mean for americans who were hoping to visit that country? >> u.s. citizens can still visit cuba. the goal of the trump administration initiatives, just like the obama administration initiatives were to put more people into cuba, the trump administration wants to put fewer people into cuba. it's still going to allow visitors to go within those 12 categories, but everyone will agree there has been tremendous abuse of the statutes. people have been popping onto airplanes and going for purposes other than what they're supposed to go for. what we'll be able to see is we'll be able to hand your passport to immigration, the immigration office will say, oh, you've been to cuba.

did you have a good time? i had a great time. what category did you go under? people to people. great, i'm sure you have your expense report. oh, i don't. then you go over there. that's a secondary connection and you may miss your connecting flight. >> so what happens next? >> they have a 90-day window and they're going to try to narrow as much as possible what the president wants them to do. >> they said they haven't seen enough in the time since obama rolled these changes back and into today. is this the way to do it? >> it's a way to do it. wh would u.s. companies prefer nothing happened? absolutely. we're only sitting here and donald trump is giving a speech in florida rather than playing golf in florida because the obama administration failed to do more with what it could unilaterally and the cuban government failed to accept more. >> let's go to gabe gutierrez

who is in havana. gabe, what is the reaction down there? other than that car horn. >> reporter: hi there, katy, good afternoon. there are lots of car horns around here, very noisy street, katy. people in havana obviously listened to this speech and waited for information on what donald trump was actually going to say. in the state-run newspaper this morning, there was a full page article on page 7, it wasn't even front page news here in cuba. especially younger cubans do have a frustration and they feel the trump administration and also politicians in miami, they feel they are stuck in the past. listening to the speech that donald trump just gave, he did have many references to this long and complicated history that the two countries have had. the cuban revolution in 1959, in the early 1960s, the bay of pigs invasion, going back to the brothers rescue in the mid-90s. a among the younger generation, they don't see how the trump

administration plans to make any difference here in cuba. even those that will talk to you off camera and say, look, yes, our government is not perfect. yes, there may be political repression here, but the way to get the people involved is to have more interaction with the west. they see this as more restrictive, they think it might scare away travelers from the u.s., and it's been mentioned earlier by kelly o'donnell, part of this policy makes it harder for any american traveler to come here alone. he's talking about getting more of those travelers to air bnbs and private entrepreneurs. they will have to come perhaps in large tour groups that may not be going to those b&bs. they may not be equipped for that. >> gabe, anyone down there who is an american tourist? any reaction from them? >> reporter: yeah, we did speak with a few of the american tourists this morning right before the speech.

listen, they say -- what you hear often from tourists here in havana is they wanted to experience this, to have a cultural experience of the cubans, and yes, they are afraid it might be harder for them to come back or their friends to come back in the future, katy. >> gabe gutierrez in havana, nbc's kelly o'donnell in miami, guys, thank you very much. and when the president returns to washington today, he will be returning to this. the russia investigation, which he may have made worse with his own tweets. up next, president trump for the first time publicly admitting that he is under investigation. and he's also taken to twitter, targeting the man he claims told him to fire james comey. we also have exclusive reporting on who is lawyering up and why. stay with us. hear the difference versus oral b. in a recently published clinical study,

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we are back with our other big story of the day, the president's big twitter confirmation. trump turned to his favorite megaphone this morning to lash outs over the russia investigation once again, this time publicly acknowledging for the very first time that he is under investigation. but who is the man who told trump to fire comey? reporters try to get to the bottom of that mystery this morning, but the president was not giving any answers. >> are you under investigation by the fbi?

are you under investigation by the fbi? >> well, my guess is our word of the day: rosenstein. >> do we know who he is referring to in that tweet, the guy who is investigating him who told him to fire the fbi director? >> that seems to be a reference to deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. >> now he's back on twitter saying rod rosenstein told me to fire james comey. it shows you how muddied the waters still are. >> if i was mr. trump's lawyer, i would say i can't continue to represent you unless you give me all your twitter equipment and never go on there again. >> the deputy attorney general seems to be the target while exercising caution before

accepting as true the word of any officials. president trump has hired his own personal attorney, and now we learn so has his personal attorney, andrew cohn. his personal attorney hiring his own personal attorney. who else is lawyering up and has anybody been contacted by the fbi? we'll bring you our exclusive details. but first let's meet with our team of reporters and analysts. joining me from the white house is hans nichols. hans, let's start with you. the white house, are they confirming anything and is donald trump's lawyer confirming he is under investigation? >> reporter: nothing official from the white house, katy. what we have is a source close to the president's legal team saying the president was not, by this tweet, saying he was under investigation, he wasn't confirming that, and he instead was referring to the "washington post" report from the other night, and as this person is pointing out, based on anonymous illegal sourcing. the president's legal team is

putting these things out based on anonymity. you see mr. trump putting this stuff out and in this case try to say the president was not confirming that he's under investigation. i'm still having a difficult time trying to square with the legal team as saying here's what the president said, where he starts off that tweet saying, i am being investigated. sounds like a confirmation to me. indicate sni. >> so anonymous sources decrying anonymous sources. hans, we're trying to figure out exactly who he was talking about in that tweet. was he talking about rob mueller, was he talking about rod rosenstein? it sounds like rod rosenstein. because of that, let's go to donald trump's interview with lester holt and we'll try to shake out the truth on the other side. >> i was going to fire him

regardless of recommendation. he made a recommendation. he's highly respected. very good guy, very smart guy, the democrats like him, the republicans like him. he made a recommendation. but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. >> let's throw that tweet back on the screen if we can. he's talking about the guy -- i am being investigated before firing the fbi director by the man who told me to fire the fbi director. witch hunt. that would seem to be rod rosenstein from what he told lester holt. hans? >> reporter: and the president's official statement he said it was based on advice, and he mentioned rod rosenstein and he also mentioned jeff sessions, the attorney general. so we could make the argument, when he was talking to lester holt there, may have been talking about jeff sessions. doesn't quite seem to match up, especially this notion of highly respected on both sides. rod rosenstein is respected on both sides of the aisle. jeff sessions had a very

contentious confirmation process and almost didn't make it through senate confirmation. so even though he didn't specifically say rod rosenstein's name there, it seems clear to me and i think any reasonable observer that who he is referring to in this most recent tweet saying, i'm being investigated by the very person who told me to go ahead and fire jim comey. katy? >> hans, quickly, and i imagine i know the answer to this. is anyone in the white house happy about donald trump's tweets? >> reporter: i don't have an answer to that because no one in the white house will come close to this question. they refer everything to the counsel. katy? >> i understand. pete williams is also in the white house. they said americans should exercise caution before accepting as true any stories attributed to anonymous officials, particularly when they do not identify the country. that was rod rosenstein.

pete, there is some conversation about whether or not the president himself or the white house in some way was trying to force rosenstein's hand to issue that statement. >> i see no indication of that. justice department officials say he did this entirely on his own, that he's been fed up with a number of anonymous stories he thinks are wrong. ever since he became the deputy attorney general, a story early on that he threatened to resign over the way the white house initially revealed his involvement in the comey firing. another story that said he had turned down a comey request for more resources to do the russia investigation. then some of these recent stories and he just wanted to get the word out, kind of as a warning to justice and fbi employees, don't be leaking. although it has to be pointed out that mr. rosenstein doesn't really know what robert mueller is up to, so he really isn't in a position to say whether the latest leaks came from justice or fbi officials. a couple points here. number one, you have consistently said his name correctly. we've heard a lot of different

versions of it. it is rosenstein. if you need a npneumonic, diane feinstein if you need a reminder of how to say it. it is implausible at this point the special counsel investigating obstruction would have contacted the president about this at this point. i think at this point the special counsel team is just trying to learn the facts from others who can corroborate what james comey said. >> even if he's not being informed separately, is he just basically accepting as true that he is probably under investigation if he's taking -- >> so it would seem. i would seriously doubt that he has any independent information on which to verify it. and the only other point i would make is on this question of anonymous sources, of course, that goes on all the time. the official objection is to anonymous sources about investigations. that's what rosenstein is

complaining about, not just anonymous sources in general. i guess i would only make one other point about the president's tweet. he says he's being investigated for firing the fbi director. of course, it's not just that. it would be the totality of things that could constitute obstruction here, not just the firing but talking to comey and others about dropping investigations into michael flynn, for example. >> what about this word that the deputy ag might have to recuse himself? >> he himself said if it turns out he has to, he will, because of his involvement in the firing of james comey. he did write that two-page memo basically making a case for why mr. comey should be replaced. it doesn't say himself he should be fired, but he has acknowledged that they decided i

understand pen-- independently. the fbi director said comey should go. then it would go to the number 3 official in the justice department, the associate attorney general rachel brand. >> speaking of feins, diane feinstein. kasie hunt had some words on capitol hill. >> reporter: some pretty strong words, actually, from diane feinstein who is the ranking member on the senate judiciary committee. she essentially accuses president trump of potentially violating his oath of office. i'm going to read a little bit of the statement to you. she says, quote, i'm growing increasingly concerned that president trump will decide to fire not only robert mueller, the special counsel, but also deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein who appointed mueller. the message the president is

sending through his tweets is that he believes the rule of law doesn't apply to him and that anyone who thinks otherwise will be fired. that's undemocratic on its face and a blatant violation of the constitution. that's a pretty blunt statement. it kind of sends a message that obviously while many liberals in the country have been fired up opposing president trump, you've seen a relatively temporate response, i would say, from senate democrats, aside from using language that accuses the president of something of this magnitude that could positive tebl -- potentially have ramifications down the line. >> kasie hunt, pete williams, hans nichols, thank you very much. let's go to our panel now.

nick watergate, ari melber, and ned price is a former assistant to president obama, analyst and national security analyst and political reporter for the "new york times" and an msnbc contribut contributor. guys, thank you so much for joining us. it seems like the president may be building a case against rosenstein. ari? >> so it does. these tweets sometimes are revealing. the r&b singer of the weekend say, i can hear the streets that you keep when you're talking in your sleep. >> or on your tweets. >> or on your tweets. donald trump says more than he means to. the typical response would be to minimize it and keep your own counsel. that's how jared kushner reported. these tweets are damaging to the president as a legal matter, potentially as a civil matter.

but it is striking just two days out from the report that the president is under criminal investigation to see him assert in a tweet that he perceives himself as under criminal investigation. his reasons only he knows. >> i have some new exclusive reporting. not my reporting but nbc's reporting. the vice president has hired his own counsel and i found out today that donald trump's own personal attorney has hired his own counsel. cohn and caputo is supposed to be testifying. they have been contacted by the fbi. what does it mean when donald trump's own lawyer is lawyering up? >> i think it means this investigation is wide-ranging, that they're talking to everybody who may have knowledge of what occurred. i think they're really focused on this firing of comey because initially the white house used

this as an excuse and the reason why cohn is beitestifying. they also asked the two national security directors to assist in trying to the squealch the investigation. you had trump admitting he had a different reason for firing comey. it was only when the press started questioning this and people pointing out the hypocrisy of what trump said during the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and what comey said and what trump said are now completing 180 degrees. >> talk a little bit, there is the comey aspect and also the campaign alley expressway and

what potential other claims might be in there. altogether the people in the campaign i've spoken with say they are not guilty, but what are you hearing when mike caputo gets a lawyer, when the fbi says they've contacted caputo because they want to talk with him. >> in the case of cohn, a guy who has his own. you'll recall that it was cohn who tried to broker the sideways peace deal in the ukraine, bring it to the. if the president's lawyer, someone who works with him

closely, is being pulled into this, it's very bad news for the president and also shows that it's not just about comey. it's really also about russia and those personal and business ties. zds umz. >> the campaign, while it has not been asked by the fbi and congress to pursue any. he was also a senior adviser on donald trump's old campaign, the one that got him into the when it, to make sure that they preserve any documents, any e-mails, any text messages and the actual phones and other computer electronics that they may have that were given out by the campaign. ned, how confident are you that there still exists documents that fbi investigators, mueller's investigators, will

want to see. how long do people tend to save those sorts of things? >> katy, i'm sure rob mueller and his. >> katy, this is a prudent step on the campaign but it will have a chilling effect on a large universe of people who never thought they would be brought into this who now have become part of this straprawling investigation. let's not forget this investigation now has three prongs. there is the collusion with russia, there is the obstruction of justice, and then we learned this week there is this issue of money laundering. this issue of money laundering, i think, is important because it could involve campaign officials and could explain what heretofor was an unanswered question. what could be the motive of a major presidential candidate to

collude with russia? >> anyone involved in the campaign has denied any wrongdoing, but they're just waiting to get that call from investigators. >> there is no nothing that is unimportant because while they're getting lawyers, their testimony may depart from other entities. >> thank you guys very much for joining us. you can watch ari's special on watergate this sunday from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. eastern. don't miss that. also ahead the jury deciding bill cosby's fate have emerged today with more questions from the judge. but will it lead to a verdict? >> the wake of the shooting of

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supposed to be workforce development week at the white house. the president and his team were going to put the focus on jobs, jobs, jobs. instead they found themselves facing questions about the russia investigation yet again. joining me now, congressman denny hack, a democrat on the house intelligence committee. congressman, it seems like there would be a lot less talk about the russia investigation if the president stopped tweeting about it. >> so actually, katy, i think the president has placed an incredible emphasis on jobs, jobs, jobs this week. think about all the lawyers that got hired this week. mike pence hired a lawyer, everybody else is hiring a lawyer. former director mueller has hired 13 lawyers. he promised during the campaign to create jobs and he is. this is the attorney full employment act. >> that's some a-grade snark right there, congressman. are you concerned that the president might be going after rod rosenstein or laying the grou groundwork to go after his deputy attorney general? >> take a step back, katy.

first there was michael flynn and sally yates and jim comey all fired. jeff sessions recused himself, mr. rosenstein is considering recusing himself. evidently the white house is considering firing mueller. for the love of god, can we get back to the original thing that was proposed, the independent commission, and get away from all these entanglements? >> do you think it's a good idea to add another investigation into it? it would be the special counsel, the intel committee, both the house and the senate, then you have the justice department looking into things and you have the fbi investigating. isn't that just too many investigations going on at once? how many times can a witness talk to a number of different investigators? and at what point will one investigator say, i want to talk to him once and leave this witness be so i can continue on with my investigation? >> time out, katy. it would be if it were true but it isn't. the independent commission would

take the place of both the house and the senate investigations. you would be down to two and not three. we would be reducing it. they're not entirely duplicative. homeland security jeh johnson will talk about potential hacking of elections. we ought to be looking or somebody ought to be looking at how we can harden our elections i.t. infrastructure so that this never happens again. so they're not completely duplicative at all. one needs to be fairly forward looking to prevent the russians from doing this to us again. >> to be fair, most of your colleagues on the republican side have said they have kf confidence in robert mueller. the criticism of him is coming generally from those outside washington, people like newt gingrich, supporters of donald

trump but not necessarily lawmakers. so what is the need for a special counsel when robert mueller has the support of congress? >> robert mueller is the special counsel. >> i mean, what is the need for an independent commission, excuse me. there are so many different words. what's the need for an independent commission if the special counsel does have support of congress? >> the special counsel is looking at counterterrorism efforts and criminal behavior in the past. the independent commission ought to be looking at what we can do to best prepare ourselves going forward. the only conceivable work product, if they get to that, of the special counsel is an indictment, and that wouldn't be the purpose at all of the independent commission. katy, the question is, how do we avoid this in the future? how do we make sure that the russians, who we know for a fact are intent on doing this to us in the past and into the future, how do we prevent this from happening? that's not the job of special counsel? >> washington congressman denny hack who produced some snark

earlier. appreciate your time. >> thank you, katy. >> 44 hours and counting. that is how long jurors in bill cosby's sexual assault trial have been deliberating. the judge answered new questions from the jury but he isn't taking "deadlocked" for an answer. he sent them back to the deliberation room and he wants a verdict. ron is outside the courthouse in norristown, pennsylvania. ron, what is the latest? >> reporter: katy, right now in the courtroom the jury is hearing read back the testimony they requested, from andrea constand's mother, the testimony she had with bill cosby by telephone, and the testimony about phone records. this has to do with the dates she said the incident happened or didn't happen. but the bottom line here is that this deliberation process has now gone on longer than the trial testimony. a very unusual situation, and it's caused a lot of tension and anger in the courtroom. bill cosby's lawyers have constantly asked for a mistrial

to be declared at least half a dozen times while the deliberations have been going on. they are claiming that by asking for all this testimony to be read back that some of the jurors are trying to coerce some of the others. the judge's position, who has to declare this trial if that's going to happen, say the jurors are just deliberating and there is nothing in the law that says the judge must intervene at any time as long as the jurors are proceeding along, deliberating, discussing the case, having more questions and having more testimony. so we go on. but again, we're now past 45 hours, i believe it is, and there has been more deliberation than testimony during the trial. so meanwhile out here outside the courthouse, people are waiting, and obviously there is a lot of significance placed on this case because it is the only and perhaps the last time that bill cosby can be charged with a criminal offense for his alleged sexual misconduct. there have been, as you know, dozens of other women who have come forward in recent years. some of them are here watching this. they have their hopes pinned on

andrea constand because their cases are too old to bring before a judge. there is all that going on as well which the jury is not supposed to take into consideration and which the jury is probably not aware of. we go on. any minute we could have a verdict or we could be here all night. katy, back to you. >> nbc's ron allen outside the courthouse in pennsylvania. ron, stay rested. thank you very much. and there was a huge turnout for last night's congressional baseball game and it brought unity to a severely divided capitol. ♪ god bless america ♪ my home sweet home ♪ god bless -- >> but how long will that unity last? i'll ask congressman dan kildy who helped the congressmen walk away with a win last night. plus one more thing, a walkout and a break-in that each changed the course of american politics. stay with us.

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i talked to my team and what the democrats would like to do is to give you this trophy to put in steve scalise's office until he's back on his feet and healthy and joining us again. so here you go, to steve scalise. [ applause ] >> thank you. on behalf of the republicans, we congratulate our good friends on

the democratic side. we won't be this nice next year. >> a little honesty there. that was one of many movements -- moving moments from last night's annual baseball game between democrats and republicans in washington. the game took place one day after house majority whip steve scalise was shot during an attack on a republican practice session in alexandria, virginia. the hospital says he remains in critical condition, but has since improved. we're expected to get a further update from the hospitaln his condition in just a few minutes. 25,000 people bought tickets to the game last night, which raised more than $1 million for charity. joining us now is one of the players on the democratic side, congressman dan kildee of michigan. first off, congressman, congratulations on your win. >> thank you. >> what were your thoughts about this area's game? >> it was a really emotional night. that's probably the most important congressional baseball game ever played. you know, this is really a demonstration of bipartisanship,

of camaraderie. and it could not have come, ironically, at a more important time for us to show the country, the rest of the world, that despite this terrible act, we can still come together and we will pledge to continue to do that. >> anything different from this year's game than games from previous years? >> yeah, i mean, it was obviously a tough game and a well-fought game, a real competition. but there was this thread of unity throughout the whole game, even during the game, when we had a chance to interact with one another, it was the sense that we were all in this together and, you know, these are our friends. i think a lot of times, people get the impression that everything in washington is so divided, so partisan, but the people on the other side of that ball field, the people on the other bench, they are our friends. some of them i've known for a long time and we really care about them. so when this whole thing

happened, you know, my first thought was, my very good friend, john molnar, who is a republican who plays on the other team, i got on the phone and tried to reach him right away. i wanted to see how he was doing. we're friends. >> it's a good thing to remind the american public of, certainly, because of all of the fighting we see in washington day in and day out. i hate to inject politics into this, but the timing of this, it would be criminal for me not to ask you about it. president trump preached a message of unity in a video that played before the game. take a moment and listen to that. >> in washington, we have our zwree disagreements, but we all agree that we are here to serve this nation we love and the people who call it home. that's the source of unity. and more than ever, we must embrace it. >> so just a couple hours later, he started tweeting. one of the tweets said, "crooked h. for hillary clinton, destroyed homes with a hammer, bleached e-mails, and had

husband meet with ag days before she was cleared and they talk about obstruction. also, why is it that hillary clinton's families and dems dealing with russia are not looked at but my non-dealings are. he sends those tweets, congressman, specifically calling hillary clinton, "crooked hillary," right after he's calling for unity at the baseball game. what do you make of that? >> yeah, he can't have it both ways. it's really disappointing that this president does not live by his own words. he seems to think that there's a set of rules that apply to everybody else and then he gets to do whatever he wants. my hope is that no matter what the president does. we, of course, hope that he will grow up some day, but no matter what he does, the people in this building, in the capitol, democrats and republicans, can set an example, we can distinguish ourselves from that sort of behavior being civil to one another, but just being good to one another and calling one another out when we cross that line.

that's what i hope comes of all of this. >> have you seen or heard about a concerted effort among you and your colleagues to make sure that they keep the rhetoric cordial, at the very least, keep it fair, don't go on the attack or get overly heated when they're talking about policy. it seems things can get a bit out of hand the further we get from tragedy. after all, gabby giffords was shot in the head a few years ago and not much seems to have changed since then. in fact, it got worse in washington when it comes to the vitriol. >> the only thing we can do is try. and i actually think what we need to focus on, and i'm telling my colleagues this, is that we can't just leave it to republicans to call out democrats when they cross the line or democrats to criticize republicans. i guess the way i would put it is, we have to police our own. we have to be willing to stand up and say, look, you've gone too far.

so i hope that this can be a turning point. we need to get back to the things that people really want us to work on and get away from all of this vitriol. i hope this is a moment that takes us in that direction. >> and one final note. former president george w. bush shared his thoughts, posting on instagram about how he talked with steve scalise's wife and how he and his wife, laura, a praying for a full and speedy recovery. we should also mention that the president himself and the vice president both visited steve scalise in the hospital. congressman, thank you very much for joining us. congressman dan kildee of michigan. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and one more thing before we go. in case you didn't know, this weekend marks two pivotal anniversaries in the history of american politics. first, it was two years ago, just two years ago today that donald trump took that infamous ride down tesk lathe escalator announce his candidates for president. and overnight will mark 45 years since the break-in at dnc

headquarters at the watergate complex in washington. not saying there's a connection there, just two little nuggets for you. some news you can use, if you will, as we end yet another week of the trump presidency. and a reminder to catch our special presentation of "all the president's men revisited," a look pack back at the watergate scandal through the eyes of those who were at the center of it. that's tomorrow 9:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. ali velshi, i'm sorry i hogged 12 seconds of your show today. >> i always like listening to you more than i like listening to myself. i'm ali velshi. we're following a lot of breaking news this hour. any moment now, we're scheduled to get an update on the condition of majority whip steve scalise. we're going to hear that from the lead surgery at med star hospital where the congressman is being treated. last night the hospital released a statement saying the congressman was still in critical condition, but improving following his