we know when president trump pulled aside president xi and asked him to take a walk with him. you want no private conversations with putin. >> because even when the advisers are there, he called comey a nutjob and crazy. so good you for joining us. thank you to my panel. i'm sorry we were so short. that does it for this hour. "mtp daily" starts flights wiri with katy tur. >> good evening. i'm in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." we begin with some breaking news out of the bronx in new york. one person was killed and five more injured after a gunman dressed in a doctor's lab coat opened fire at are bronx-lebanon hospital amounts earlier today. the gunman identified as 45-year-old henry bello is dead

by a self-inflicted gunshot wouchbd. investigators say he was a former employee of the hospital ands incident appears to be a workplace incident. joining he me now is tom winter. tom, what more can he tell us about what is happening up there? >> so the shootinghe me now is . tom, what more can he tell us about what is happening up there? >> so the shooting happened around 3:00 today and we with know that there were multiple calls to 911 saying that there was a gunman in the hospital that was shooting, some callers identified him as wearing some sort of white coat. we've been told a rifle was used, possibly an ar style rifle. of course quewe've heard that before. six was shot, one has died, five others were wounded. their conditions are not clear yet. and we also know that the gunman as you said has also killed himself. the nypd responded as they have

now been trained to do which is the first patrol officers responded and then they send in the srg, their strategic response command which is this group of heavily armed officers themselves with rifles, semi automatic rifles, and their job is to enter in to that building and quickly confront whoever is shooting. there has been some conflicting reports about smoke on some of the floors where the shooting activity may have taken place. right now that is under investigation. it doesn't appear to have been a fire in the building and obviously as we've been looking he did pictures, there are no visible signs ever smoof smoke flames. >> we know that he was a former employee of this hospital. do we have anything more about his background, why he left the hospital, why or not anyone knew he was disgruntled before this happened? >> sure prp the investigative unit has gone through new york state medical records. we can't find anything that is a flag as far as his past. if he was a doctor that perhaps had an incident with a patient, if he was a doctor that had some

sort of disciplinary action. there is no records of that in there. so at this point, it's a little too early to say why he may be an ex-employee of the company, did he leave willingly or was he forced out and is that a reason why this happened today. but it does appear to be workplace related and not something else. >> and so far the local authorities have a handle on this. this isn't being passed on to any federal officials which means at least as of now, that terrorism is not being considered? >> that's correct. as you know from your experience and years of covering the nypd, the nypd is more than equipped to handle an incident like this and there are no indications of terrorism at this time. >> tom winter, thank you very much. we are expecting a press conference from new york city officials within the hour and we'll bring you any new information right as we get it. turning now to the big story in american politics tonight, president trump has left folks in washington dazed and confused after another whirlwind day.

mr. trump's tweet storm yesterday arguably sabotaged mitch mcabout con he willehe wie will mcconnell's last ditch effort on health care. and this morning the president threw his support behind a plan to immediately repeal obamacare and then replace it at a later undetermined date. but as with most things the president says these day, we're left wondering whether or not to take him seriously. first off, repealing obamacare without a replacement would be a dramatic departure from what he promised voters after they elected him. >> and there is going to be a period, if you repeal it and before yyou replace it, when millions -- >> we'll do it simultaneously. it will be just fine. that's what i do. i know how do this stuff. >> it will be repeal and replace. it will be essentially

simultaneous simultaneously. it will be various segments you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week, but probably the same day. could be the same hour. >> not to mention the promises he made on the campaign trail. as mr. trump himself made clear, pulling the rug out from under patients without a replacement ready to go is not a wise thing to do. some of the gop's number crunchers on capitol hill rbts ev aren't even sure if the parliamentary rules would law a su simple vote on the repeal. and republicans were mixed. >> i'd be fine with that. i don't think we have the votes in the senate to pass that, but i'd be okay with doing it that way. >> are you okay with that? >> no, i think its repeal hacan replace. we need a good system for the american people. >> in the house more than 50 times we have voted to repeal it, so i would put that vote up and dare republicans almost to vote against it. >> would you advise that?

>> that doesn't sound like a good idea to me. >> even senator rand paul who has been pushing the president to split the legislation into separate repeal and replace bills has warned against pulling the rug out from under the health care system. >> i think it's imperative that republicans do a replacement simultaneous. it's a huge mistake if they do not vote for replacement on the same day we vote for repeal. >> and senator ben sasse agreed that you can't do what the president is suggesting. >> i'm still on board with leader mcconnell's attempt to try to do this as a combination package repeal and replace at once. but if the leader can't get that accomplish the in the next ten day, i think swhooe do stand repeal, but not effective for a year and then get to work round the clock on a replace plan. >> so what with is going on here? is there mr. trump's way of

telling their caucus that layer plan is dead, is it his way of threatening them to get their act together? or is it his way of trying to buy them some time with is an gri constitue angry constituents, our is he just rattling off whatever is on top of his head and thumbs when he wakes up?r is he just rattling off whatever is on top of his head and thumbs when he wakes up? after yesterday he'd unpresidential display, we're left wondering about mr. trump's capacity to lead his party. after all, how can you lead a group of people when they are constantly insisting that you don't speak for them. i'm joined by kristen welker and kasie hunt. so kristen, first question to you. the president's tweet, is this the white house's way of signaling that somebody told donald trump that this senate bill is doa? >> sarah huckabee sanders walked back from this notion that the president is significantly changing his strategy. she says that the president still wants to see the senate

bill pass. he supports it, he wants to get done by fall. but there is no doubt that that tweet is sending mixed signals. and the bottom line is we saw this happen in the early stages of the senate trying to get a bill passed. remember, he privately told them he didn't think that the house legislation had enough heart. he wants this legislation to have more heart. that creates complications for senators who might be on the fence about getting behind him and then having him break with them. so i think that this mixed messaging certainly complicates things for senators who are working on this legislation. i do think that part of what you said right at the top is part of the president's calculation. he's trying to turn up the heat on them and say get this done or else we're going to have to significantly shift strategy. it is an incredibly risky strategy as you know, we've been talking about this for quite some time, to repeal obamacare without having something else to

replace it. even if you delay it for a year. politically it gets very tricky, what if congress can't come to an agreement within that year. we get that much closer to the midterm elections and then there is a real risk for people losing their health care. so that strategy is risky. i do think part of the president's plan though was to turn up the heat. >> and this isn't the only confusing or you could say unsettling tweet that the president has sent out. publicly the white house is defending his behavior on twitter. privately, is there any concern that this is causing him problems? >> i think there is no doubt that there is frustration, concern that this is overshadowing his message on a whole oath of othhost of other . health care has been at the center of the president's domesticed a yen today or today look at what happened, he had that joint statement with the leader of south korea, talked about the importance of turning up the pressure on north korea to get them to scale back their nuclear program and yet

reporters shouting questions at him to clarify that tweet yesterday personally attacking mika bring zin sbrzezinski. so this continues to overshadow his agenda. the white house on eager to turn the page. >> and the president might be tweeting about repealing and replacing later, but is that even a feasible option kasie hunt? >> not at this point based on what you heard the senators have said that the votes are just not there to do it that way. and with all due respect, i think that the sense i get from talking to republicans here is that they don't necessarily give a lot of weight or care what the president is saying in public about this or where he's urging them to go. i just don't get the sense that that is really at this point where these negotiations are

headed. senator mcconnell is the one who knows where the votes are in the conference. so does the vice president, mike pence, they care a lot about what pence is saying behind closed doors and they care a lot about the way that he is influencing these negotiations. and the one thing that i would say points to serious consideration of this plan is senator sasse in that same interview at the airport in nebraska said that the vice president and the senate were looking at this and talking it through and trying to see if this is a plan that they could get through under the senate rules and all of those things. so i do think this is something that they are taking a look at, but i think more from the perspective of trying to convince these conservatives that this is just not a plan that could possibly go anywhere. and there is a lot of reasons why they have always said that they want to repeal and replace together especially since they installed a republican president in the white house and whatever happens is actually going to be something that they are going to have to be responsible for defending if they were to pass

it, so i think that they have in a very difficult position and this would be the way to swing the whole thing towards conservatives. the other answer to potentially reform health care is to start to work with democrats and that is what you are hearing moderates start to say. >> rule of thumb is you might not remember who gave it to you, but you'll remember who took it away. thank you very much, guys. let's bring in tonight's panel. jonathan alter, daily beast columnist. amy holmes, and steve kornacki. jonathan, be let's start but. and this goes back to the question we asked in the intro.. and this goes back to the question we asked in the intro. how you can lead when your own party doesn't see you as a leader? >> it's a great question. xas ci kasie hunt put her finger on it. the president has no moral authority to lead anymore. people don't care what he says. and if you look to political scientists, they generally say that the president's supreme

power is nothing more than the power to persuade. if you can't persuade congress and the public, you really can't get very much done. so you see the big sucking sound you hear is the president's authority just going out like a balloon. and this tweet shows that they are just flummoxed. they don't know what do. this option of repealing without replacing is dead on rifarrival. it would send one-sixth of the economy into chaos. what business hates more than anything else is uncertainty. this would be very unpopular in the business community. so they have to come up with something else fast. >> steve, what is the senate going to do? are they going to haggle with mcconnell over the $300 billion in deficit cuts in order to buy people off for opioid treatment or other sorts of funding foe tho for those states? will they come up with a different plan? >> if you look at the divisions for those states?

will they come up with a different plan? >> if you look at the divisionsr those states? will they come up with a different plan? >> if you look at the divisions those states? will they come up with a different plan? >> if you look at the divisions those states? will they come up with a different plan? >> if you look at the divisions those states? will they come up with a different plan? >> if you look at the divisions, most direct route is you take those extra savings, there were $200 billion more in savings in the senate bill than the house bill, you take that $200 billionle and you start doling it out. its medicaid money, respect money for the opioid crisis. yet i saw another fracture emerge, and one that i thinkmon the opioid crisis. yet i saw another fracture emerge, and one that i think add as new wrinkle is bob corker saying this will look bad if we are making changes to medicaid, if about we're rolling back the rate of increase in medicaid spending, and at the same we're cutting the investment tax on upper income americans. that is one of those taxes that r republican leaders want to repeal. you have a mainstream conservative senator saying i don't want to do that. and you have pat moom toom many toomey saying we need to do

that. >> how do they sell that to the clintons constitue constituents? >> his base still cares about what he has to say. and i think he is aligning himself to that base sflp hold on. the base that voted for him, not the base that he told was going to repeal obamacare and then do something down the line. this is a base that he told we would repeal and replace immediately. so how is he am lines himself wi align williing himself with his? >> give me a moment. he would like to see it repealed because it won't happen because of all the reasons you laid out. my preference for republicans would be to work with the democratic party on reforming obamacare and ras mousse euouss rourts found that the appetite is only 40% and it's continually going down. so in terms of a political

success, take off little pieces that they can k. schew like bei to buy across state lines. i think they would get that easily. >> so the question that i have, though, how is he appealing to his base when he's talking about repeal just alone? >> at least that half. i'm talking about donald trump diehard supporters that they want to on see that he is conservative when it comes to health care. and with all of the back and forth, there have been questions about that. i think today was an effort for him to speak to those people. >> respectfully amy, i talk to those vote others a daily basis and they did not have a strong are opinion about just repealing boom ca obamacare period. they had an opinion that they wanted lower costs. ir talk with them every single day about 17 months. >> so where i agree with katy, i do think that there is an opening here for a bipartisan

initiati initiative. >> i think everybody agrees with that. >> for him to take the phone, call up chuck schumer, and say let's get to work repairing obamacare, that would be presidential leadership. his problem is that he doesn't have the authority inside washington. i wasn't talking about the base. i was saying among other key political players, he's no longer a leader among them. except for the base, that 25% that he could go out and shoot on 5th avenue and they would still be with him. but that doesn't help you very much in washington when it comes to cutting a deal. >> i understand that, but i think where he can be effective, and certainly i don't expect republican senators to be using the president's twitter account as a legislative strategy, but his campaigner in chief and go to the places where he feels comfortable which is on the road in front of crowds and leading from behind while republican leadership on the hill crafts the health care reform. >> i think the issue goes so

much beyond donald trump because this issue for republicans predates donald trump. this was a promise that was made in march of the year 2010 by every republican politician in washington. many of whom are still there. they said this health care law just passed by the democratic congress, we will not rest as you were till we g until we get rid of it. so whatever signals donald trump is sending day to day, a promise that republicans have made to their base for seven years now is we'll get rid of it. >> what happens going forward, steve? they control both parts of both houses of congress, they control the white house, they can't get the promise done and it seems like their voters have moved on past it. i mean the majority of the country likes the current health care law, at the very least wants it fixed. >> republicans when they look at their own polling, they are not getting the message that their base has moved on and they are panicked that this promise they made, if they say we failed,

their base will have another big sellout from washington. >> guys, thank you very much. steve, we'll see you later. amy and jonathan are sticking with us. he will be hosting "hardball," so he has to run. coming up, decoding the president. we'll be right back. there's nothing more important to me than my vacation. so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. and with their price match, i know i'm getting the best price every time. now i can start relaxing even before the vacation begins. your summer vacation is very important. that's why booking.com has great offers up to 40% off now through july 4th. find great deals now at booking.com. booking.yeah!

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we're expecting a press conference soon with an update on this afternoon's shooting at hot in bronx. police say the shooter opened fire at bronx-lebanon hospital around 3:00 p.m. killing one person and injuring at least five others. investigators say the shooter hit the rifle under a white lab coat before opening fire. while the motive so far is not clear, police have identified the suspect as a former hospital employee, his name is dr. henry bello and the fbi is not

investigating this as terrorism. after the shooting, nypd officers went floor by floor looking for the gunman and reported just before 4:00 p.m. that he was dead after apparently shooting himself. we will of course bring you updates on the investigation as they happen. meanwhile we're back with more "mtp daily" in just 60 seconds. david. what's going on? oh hey! ♪ that's it? yeah. ♪ everybody two seconds! ♪ "dear sebastian, after careful consideration of your application, it is with great pleasure that we offer our congratulations on your acceptance..." through the tuition assistance program, every day mcdonald's helps more people go to college. it's part of our commitment to being america's best first job. ♪

(upbeat dance music) (upbeat dance music) (bell ringing) welcome back to "mtp daily." as you've heard by now, president trump's morning tweet storm yesterday got very personal when he went after mika brzezinski. we won't read the offensive tweets again. you've probably already read them yourself, but we would like to dive into the man behind those tweets. i followed then candidate trump for almost two years spending every day with him on the trail. and on the trail, we were attacked by him and his supporters. we reporters were called scum, we were called liars, and some of us were singled out.

my take? he's not going to apologize, he's not going to change. i'm not saying you have to accept it or condone it, but it's clearly going to keep happening. joining me now is another person who knows president trump pretty well, a trump biographer, offer of the trumps, three generations of builders and a president. thank you very much for joining me. personal attacks, i mean he's always been somebody who goes after another personally if he feels disrespected. but talk about the way he goes after women in particular. is this characteristic? >> he's got a pretty long track record, didn't oesn't he, by th. but that is distraction, distraction, distraction, distraction. and let's see. what happened on tuesday? the senate wasn't able to have that vote on on the health care bill. he needed some distractions.

>> you being this is all distraction or just lack of impulse control? >> it's both.being this is all distraction or just lack of impulse control? >> it's both. to impulse control, he's managed to make it a sign of his authenticity for that in the previous segment when you were mentioning that that base that he said key go out to fifth avenue, shoot a gun, they would still be for him. that impulse -- that lask impulse control, he's turned into a sign that he's really telling people what he thinks. so when he said something like what he said about "morning joe," that is to a certain group of people, that shows that they can trust him, that he's not covering up how he feels. >> he's unfiltered, he's not speaking like a politician, he won't say one thing and do another. that's what people often have taken from him. but talking about a distraction, he wants to distract certainly from the russia investigation. the white house doesn't want to keep talking about it, donald trump has said that he doesn't

want to keep talking about it, but at the same time, he tweets about it all the time. we counted 60 tweets about the russian investigation or 60 tweets including the russian investigation and personal attacks in this month alone since may 30th. >> he's -- that is part of that, you know, unfiltered access to the public. he may have lost as again in your previous segment the discussion of whether or not he had really sort of political authority with congress. that is certainly i think open to question can. but he's holding on to his authority again with that base through, you know -- he's not afraid to talk about it. in fact he will tweet about it, but he's trying to own it, to set up his own counter narrative. so he's the truth. what you read in the "washington post," the "new york times" or for example on msnbc, that is fake news. he's telling you what is really happening. >> he says he's a count

counterpuncher, and oftentimes people say it lands right back this his face. and when he's trying to become a successful person obviously he wants to be accepted by people. he came in with a unique ability. he kept saying what a deal maker he was. and because he's not an ideologue, because he's not a traditional republican or conservative, because he's held democratic positions in the past, because he's donated to both parties, he had an opportunity to say, listen, i'm going to throw that campaign behind me and i'm going to find a would i ay to make sure congr works with each other. that's what i promise the american electorate. does he not see that he had that chance and that he has completely squandered it? >> i'm not sure that that is really the deal he was looking for. >> why not? >> i think the deal he's baeen looking for, he's turning the white house into a for-profit opportunity. he's a businessman. he's bringing that so-called

business beingacumen, but i thi what he's looking for with that acumen, whose interest is it? ? th ? >> do you think it's all self promotion? in that's pretty much what he's done the entire career. is it good for him. i think the dealthat's pretty m done the entire career. is it good for him. i think the deal s american public made is that that instinct he would put to the service of the country can and i think we now have that very, you know -- right in front of us. is he still thinking about what is good for the trump organization? >> do you think he cares about the american voter? >> i think he cares about the voter because that is putting him in office. but he's a performer. he's a salesman. he's selling himself. he is selling to a consuming public and the consumer doesn't think the same way about what they are hearing. they are not looking for the truth, for accuracy, for facts. they are looking for what they want to hear.

>> what about -- >> that they were right to be -- >> what about his kids, what are his kids looking for? >> i think they are looking for the future of the trump organization and not to get out in front of him because they have seen what happens to people that get out in front. do not do that. >> thank you sfroech joyou very joining us. still ahead, the resistance to president trump are goes local. i'll talk with los angeles mayor eric garcetti about how he's finding the trump agenda in his town. their experience is coveted. their leadership is instinctive. they're experts in things you haven't heard of. researchers of technologies that one day you will. some call them the best of the best. some call them veterans. we call them our team.

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new york mayor is addressing the shooting at the bronx hospital. let's take a listen. >> thank god this was not an act of terrorism. it was an isolated incident. appeared to be a work place-related matter. but that makes it no less tragic or no less horrible. one doctor is dead and there are several doctors who are fighting for their lives right now. amongst those who are wounded. as you know, the shooter killed himself but not before having done horrible damage. our hearts go out to the family of the doctor who passed away and both our hearts and prayers standing in solidarity with the families of all those who are wounded and all those who are

fighting for their lives right now. this was a horrific situation unfolding in the mimgd ofddle o place that people associate with care and comfort, a situation that came out of nowhere. but even in the midst of this horror, there were many, many acts of heroism. i want to thank our first responders, the police officers from the 44 and 46 precinct and from our strategic response group who entered the building quickly, went toward the danger to protect the many, many hundreds of people who were in the building. the firefighters who arrived, this was not just an active shooter situation, but there was a fire that comp on thatcomplic and our firefighters did an exceptional job addressing that situation immediately.

and then of course all of the personnel at bronx-lebanon hospital whose day went from normal to horrifying in a matter of seconds. the doctors, the nurse, all the personnel responded with extraordinary bravery, with cool professionalism, they protected each other, they protected their patients even amidst this horrible situation. i want to express to everyone at bronx-lebanon hospital our profound thanks for all they did to handle this situation and to immediately respond to support their compatriots who were wounded. there will be an opportunity in the coming hours to provide more details of this incident.

but at this point, there is a lot that we are piecing together. you will hear from the commissioner in a moment, but i want to say up front, there are many, many details that we're still putting together. that's why we are not in a position to answer questions yet. but there will be an accounting of detail shortly. but what i can say in the meantime is there were were many things amidst this pain to be proud of today and god bless our first responders and the hospital personnel for the way they handled this situation. they put the safety of their fellow new yorkers first as they always do. i want to thank the commissioner of the fire department, his men and women performed admirably in this situation. i want to thank bronx district attorney clark for being here, borough president of the bronx, state senator rivera, la toya

joiner and congressmen thanks to all for being here in support and solidarity. and with that i turn to our police commissioner james o'neal. >> as the mayor stated, this is all preliminary information. this just happened a couple hours ago. this is what we have so far. at approximately 2:55 p.m. -- >> new york city mayor bill de blasio just giving a statement on that shooting at the hospital in the bronx that left one person dead, five others injured. in addition to that, the gunman is also dead, an ap apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. what we know so far, the shooter was a former employee of the hospital. a there doctor at this hospital. we don't know why he came in today with a soft gun ahotgun ad

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against the trump administration policies have come from local democrats. when president trump pulled out of the paris accord, 60 mayors said they plan to stay. los angeles mayor eric garcetti said his city will continue to adhere to the greenhouse gas curbing pact. and garcetti backed the creation of a legal fund to pay for lawyers for those facing deportation. and as polling shows, president trump's credibility dwindling on the worldwide stage, garcetti is fighting to bring sbir national focus to los angeles in the bid for the 2024 or 2028 olympic games. so one has to wonder as democrats look to unify and rebuild, could local officials be the answer to solving their national election issues? los angeles mayor garcetti's name has been tossed around for california governor or senator and one of the many names tossed

around for a potential 2020 contender. he joins me now. con be great lagratulations on talked about, mayor. >> that you think. i've actually got a great new job that starts tomorrow, i'm being sworn into my second term as mayor of l.a. >> i want to start with something that mike bloomberg is doing. he started a $200 million initiative to essentially push back at the federal government and allow local mayors to maintain some international influence. how do you plan on trying to first obtain some of that money and use to l.a.'s advantage? >> well, mike bloomberg has been like the dean of the mayors around the united states. and even globally on on issues of environment, of gun control and violence. and the environment. and i sefrng rve as vice chair c-40 and we've been the recipient precursor grants, over

ten projects that we've done in combination with bloomberg fl p groups and he gets it as you said it, it's really that states are the laboratories of democracy, it's really now cities that are the laboratories of democracy and even more in the trump era. >> it will include a mayors' challenge. in order to get the six or seven figure grant. so what is los angeles going to be proposing, what sort of policy idea will you guys have? >> the two things that i had like to look at is homelessness and second one is looking at graduation from high school. i think that we know early on some of the indicators that cause people to be homeless and what can help them off the street. and secondly, we knee who the dropouts will be as early as fourth grade. and i want to see howwho the dropouts will be as early as fourth grade. and i want to see how we can create with the tech community

maybe a mechanism to find out who those kids are early on so we can get them and their families the resources that they need to graduate from high school and secondly to get people off the streets who sometimes require these days 20 or 30 interactions with somebody until they trust them enough to start dealing with whether the addiction that they have or the mental health challenges that they face. i think those are two of the most pressing issues in cities around the country. and here in l.a., we have some great data and some great people and a great proposal to put forward. >> let's broaden this out to the national news and that is sanctuary cities. the federal government obviously is not a fan of sanctuary cities, but you've said that you guys, the city of los angeles, will be a place for protection and refugee. what does that mean for you during the trump administration? >> well, it means, first of all, that i guess i'm too pro police to stop listening to police chiefs who say this is the way we make our streets safe by engendering trust, not distrust

between the people who live here and the people who police here. secondly it means that i want to have a strong economy and we see about 61% of our businesses in l.a. started by immigrants. in the trump era, it's important to come back to not only what is moral, but what is practical. sometimes we've seen these immoral acts come out of washington, but what is important to say is that they are also impractical. they don't help move our economy forward, they don't make our streets safer, they don't help the social fabric of our cities. we should fear these places that the trump administration, the president keeps telling us about, where immigrants live, they should be these dangerous horrible places, but look at us as we create glereen jobs, we a the counter to all the impractical things they are saying and doinging ouflgt d.c. >> so how will local mars play a role in shoring up environmental policy? the administration did pull out of the paris accord. >> i chair climate mayors, a

group that we had at one point about 30, then became 60. i got on the phone that the day the president withdrew from the paris agreements and today we have 339 cities in 44 states representing 65 million americans that have joined me he for taking the pledge for their cities to say we will continue this work. and the dirty little secret is it was always in cities where the action was even during the obama administration, we had a great federal partner, but whether building codes, public transportation, no white house can stop me from buying electric cars for my city employees to make sure it's a green fleet the and clean up the air. no white house can tell me i have to generate electricity for los angeles in the utility that we own from dirty coal. we're transitioning to being now the largest solar city in america. so those things that we are powerful about, we shouldn't cede to washington before of you try to exercise it.

sflnd the democrat >> the democratic party is looking for a leader. what qualities should that leader embody? >> i think all of us should be less focused on an agenda for the democratic party and more refocused on an agenda to the american peeople. we need someone who can hear, listen, and understand the great economic insecurity where people wonder does the future have a place in it for me economically, socially. and for us here i think as mayors, we get the privilege of waking up every day and we have thousands if not millions in a city like mine of people who are our neighbors who talk to us, that half of this country is living paycheck to paycheck, that higher education is out of our reach. we've just got to start relating to people and not categorize them as one thing or another. we have to universally protect the rights of everybody and make sure that there are opportunities in the future, not be talkers, but be doers. and that is important to showcase throughout the country. when i get together with my brother and sister mayors, mayor

benjamin in south on carolina, mayor hancock in denver, i see people moving things forward. mitch landrieu saying who we are, not just what we're not. we are about bringing people together and i think those are the qualities that this party need to get back to. >> mayor garcetti, appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you as always. and we'll have much more "mtp daily" right after this. you were made to move. to progress. to not just accept what you see, but imagine something new. at invisalign®, we use the most advanced teeth straightening technology to help you find the next amazing version of yourself. it's time to unleash your secret weapon. it's there, right under your nose. get to your best smile up to 50% faster. visit invisalign.com to get started today. i'm not a customer, but i'm calling about that credit scorecard. give it. sure! it's free for everyone.

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fraud commission that is really a voter suppression commission. why do i say that? because not just the head of it, but all the staff are experts in how to tamp down democratic turnout. that is what they have done for the last 15 years. literally that is how they spent their time. so now they will try to gather a lot of information from different states to try to further restrict democratic constituencies there voting. the interesting thing is 18 have resisted, and more are on the way in part because even kansas who the head of the xhilts coco comes from, they won't corpor e cooperate. >> and this comes because there must be fraud because trump didn't win the pup lar vote. >> if the states aren't cooperating, i don't see how valuable the commission will be in terms of the conclusions that they draw from it and it probably will just end up on a dusty shelf and donald trump

will take parts of it that back up his view of voter fraud. but i don't actually put a whole lot of stock in it. >> is this something that republicans on capitol hill are hoping the president gets done? >> no, theredone? >> there's no natural constituency for this. elections are a state issue. most of these secretaries of state, including in kansas take great pride in how they run these things. the idea that the federal government will reach in and ask for this data doesn't excite many people we have spoken to about it. there's also a huge privacy concern about this. for privacy hawks among the conservatives. giving this kind of personal information to the federal government isn't anything that anyone is excited about either. >> the other story today is the president's tweets and what's going on with his feud between our morning show and himself. the thing that struck me this morning is mika and joe were

talking about a national enquirer story and saying that senior members of the white house could call them and say we can get a bad national enquirer story to go away if you can call the president and apologized. she said her children were being harassed by the enquirer. the president responded by saying he has taken some time to watch the show and deny that he did that but he said they asked him to do away with the national enquirer story but he said no. is he implying that he could do away with the story if he wanted to? >> yes. he's implying that and this is where it got interesting is very legal scholars have said it would be a violation of federal law. it would be a form of extortion if it were proven to be true that the president was trying to use the national enquirer to manipulate this relationships.

it doesn't fall under an extortion s extortion statute. it's possible but it's conceivable now that robert mueller could expand his probe to include this. there's a lot of precedent to that. it seems like it's totally unrelated to the russia story. if do you look at what kenneth star did in the '90s they were constantly expanding the scope of the probe. >> because of that, they didn't renew the law that allow the special prosecutor to have that much leeway because kenneth star went so far. >> under the statute that mueller rawas appointed over, h can do that. >> one more time the presidential tweet has gotten

him into more trouble. if you remember when james comey said it was a presidential tweet that motivated him to release that memo to his friend at columbia in the hopes it would get to new york times and the hopes it would lead to a special counsel, which it did. >> an addiction to 140 characters. >> there's something that people say in washington, you're only as big as your bigst enemy. with donald trump going aftermika and joe this the morning he's simultaneously diminishing his office and elevating his critics. we've seen across the board, republicans, conservativeconser democrats who have said stop. just stop. >> don't punch down. garrett you were trying to jump in. >> let me make the counter intuitive argument. the tweet that will have more legs here in washington that might cause more problems for donald trump and the republicans than any of the things he said

about joe and mika over the last couple of days was his one about splitting up and repeal replace this morning. there's almost a paint by numbers response. people come out. they say he should stop tweeting. they are upset and then they move on. they hope they don't get asked about it again. donald trump wading in to a policy discussion that's been incredibly, i don't want to say tense but tightly watched, narrowly negotiated and incredibly managed from top down here on the senate side and saying look over here. here's an entirely different avenue. it's going to make things much harder for him and his party here in d.c. another in a series of insulting tweets is the kind of thing that people down here have gotten good at trying to dismiss and move on from. >> the net result of a lot of these tweets and we have seen it in polling, we have seen the

majority of the public thinks it hurts donald trump and hurts his reputation with the very voters that republicans on capitol hill need to be able to move forward. >> also these anti -women tweets. it demeans the office and embarrasses us in the eyes of the world. >> thank you very much for jumping in. appreciate it. we are going to be right back. ray's always been different. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china.

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in case you missed it, elections don't always have consequence, at least not the kind you think. you're looking at real headlines about an unprecedented troef of data gathered by the boaty mcboat face. that was the name of an online contest to name a british research vessel. they defied the will of the people and named it something else. the people spoke in 2006 after stephen colbert got his fans to overwhelmingly got his fans to name a bridge in hungary and he won. >> the winning name is stephen colbert. >> not so fast. he was later disqualified on a technicality. the people spoke in 2012 with a

contest held by mountain dew became a pr disaster. we can't even read you some of the top names on television. the people spoke in 2007 when greenpeace held a contest to name of the whales it tagged as mr. slashy pants. sometimes voters get trumped. sometimes they don't. that will do it for me tonight. we'll be back on monday with more mtp daily. have a good weekend. in any other white house, the headlines tonight would be north korea and health care. president trump meeting with the south korean president discussing the nuclear threat from north korea and senators leavi