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show. but first, it was a big week for president trump on the international stage, meeting with a number of g-20 world leaders including vladimir putin. among topics of discussion was the escalating tensions with north korea. joining me is gordon chang, a columnist for the daily beast and author of the books "nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world" and "the coming collapse of china." also with me is malcolm nance our msnbc terrorist analyst and executive director of the terror asymmetrics project. he is the author of "the plot to hack america, how putin's cyber spies and wikileaks tried to steal the 2016 election." gordon, how does the world look this morning at the united

states? i mean, we saw this week g-20, first time the united states was not front and center on a lot of the issues in terms of dominating, had stepped out of the climate change accord in paris, some were even saying it was the g19 plus 1. how do we look to the world this morning? >> we look different. it was clear from the photograph. you had angela merkel the host in the center. president trump was five down in the front row. normally he would be very much closer to the host. and the people are saying -- and it is true -- that you have a g19 right now. now, the united states -- and they got a different position, we have many different interests than the rest of the world, but then theless it is an uncomfortable position for american policymakers because since the end of the cold war we've been at the center of the international system. >> malcolm, the fact that you had this -- the president not

centered not only in photographs but not really centered in the discussions, stepping out of climate change, really not saying -- coming with a definitive move on north yeah which even by timing or by their own schedule had come with this missile test right before g20 and with the fact that his meeting with mr. putin lasted over two hours and he seemed to bring mr. putin back on the equal footing with the united states, something that he had slipped away from. do you think that donald trump tripped up and played into putin's hands, especially when we even have conflicting reports on how they dealt with the hacking of the election of 2016 in the united states, done at putin's order?

>> well, certainly donald trump is completely obsessed with anything that questions his legitimacy and the u.s. intelligence community aside, which he insulted the day before, he is just going to play to his strength, which is on if i say kagt the entire issue, but doing that on a world stage in front of the g20 and doing it essentially hosting a subsummit with vladimir putin shows that the alignment that he sees in his head of the united states is actually to bring us down and bring russia up. you know, gordon is absolutely right, it comes off almost as if there is no g20 anymore, that he sees his america first movement as removing us from all of the general nation states who comprise these top biggest economies. even worse, it's the running away from the globalization that the united states created after fighting world war ii that he thinks is going to move our

economies forward. it's the exact opposite and you can just see that in that image that mr. chang was discussing where trump is off to the side, to the left-hand side of the koit ri that was there and essentially everyone else. and, you know, this is not going to bode well for our economy and certainly in terms of the north korean peninsula, he had an opportunity to rally the entire world, certainly through the g20, against north korea and he did not. >> gordon, isn't that what should concern or at least interest people watching us this morning? one, that we're dealing with a global economy, but we have a president that clearly went in there on an american first nationalist kind of mentality. two, that there was no real definitive answer to what we can deal with in terms of north

korea. i mean, we saw what happened with the potential danger, the whole exercise right before g20. i'm not sure that we have any assurance, any strategy, any plan after g20 or g19 plus one in terms of north korea that i could be comforted by. >> yeah, those two issues you discussed, trade and north korea, are linked because the united states needs to lead an international coalition against north korea and that's clear. we have some of our friends on side, japan and maybe south korea, but we need to rally others as well because we are going to need europe's help on this and clearly this is what the frictions that you saw at the g20 it makes it much more difficult. when president trump withdrew from the trans-pacific partnership he gave up a little bit of leadership in the pacific where we're going to need help from all of our friends and all of the other countries there. >> well, the whole world is interconnected. on the international stage, malcolm, very quickly, do you give the president's performance

an a, b, c? >> well, i would say it's more like a d. i mean, the united states, the global bulwark since world war ii has removed itself from the world and that's how it appears and to his, you know, political audience and base in the united states that's great, but they don't understand that we have also removed ourselves and are damaging u.s. trade and our ability to control foreign policy in the future. >> well, and when his base starts losing some of the jobs based on the trade, i don't know how much that base remains there. thank you, gordon chang and malcolm nance. >> joining me with more is congressman conner of california, a democrat who sits on the armed services committee. thank you for being with me this morning, congressman. >> thank you for having me on. >> north korea, you served on the armed services committee.

do you hear any definitive answer to the threat of north korea? they have now launched a missile, shown that they can reach alaska. what is the strategy? what is the plan? what are we doing here? >> i think president trump missed a huge opportunity and there is bipartisan consensus on what needs to be done. bill perry, george schultz wrote a letter to him and sam nun saying let's en ga i think in direct negotiations with north korea. we did that in the 1990s, there was the 1994 framework, it was successful. there is no plan of diplomatic outreach or negotiation and so we're waiting for a strategy and the people who know that area have outlined what a strategy should be. >> but he was there in hamburg meeting with the world leaders, he met with president xi of china, he met with putin.

when are we going to come up with a strategy and tried to have partners in that strategy or deal with china in that strategy if we couldn't do it this week? did he just choke? is he nept? or is there some hidden strategy that even the armed services committee of the u.s. congress doesn't know? >> i think there is an ineptness, one, there is no nuance. just having bluster and saying, we're going to take care of north korea doesn't solve anything. we know in the 1990s the framework negotiated under the bill clinton administration succeeded, partly because you had a negotiation, you had nuance, and then george bush came and declared north korea part of the axis of evil. john bolton got rid of all of those agreements and we have the situation we do now. we need to go back to diplomatic approach and the president has

shown no even understanding of what we need to do. and then he has ceded as you mentioned any moral authority. he never spoke about human rights to putin, he never brought up issues of climate change. i've never seen an american president cede moral authority on the world stage like the president has. >> now, let me ask you, there are some even saying that maybe this can lead or should lead to a conversation with the head of state of north korea, mr. premiere kim. would that be something that you would say is way off the scale or way out of line, or would that be something that you would say is possibly productive? >> i think we have to keep that option open and have direct negotiation. you know, bill perry who is so thoughtful about these things said that the risk of war is

largely because of misunderstanding and we saw that when we engaged in direct negotiations with north korea we had a program to buy up their intercontinental ballistic missiles in the 1990s, it worked. there were accusations of cheating on both sides but there was a framework that was leading to a solution and we ought to have that on the table. that's not just me as a democrat saying that, that's people like george schultz who helped negotiate the end of the cold war saying that. what i don't understand is why the president isn't bringing in these people like sam nunn, george schultz, bill perry and saying let's have a strategy. he has offered no strategy. just tweeting is not a strategy when the safety of the united states is concerned. >> let me go to healthcare. you are, as you said, a democrat in congress. we are seeing the congress is getting ready to come back from the fourth of july break. we're hearing on one level that the senate has a secret strategy

now to try to come and -- in my terms not yours -- bum rush something through, others are saying that they've gotten even more people in the senate that are saying they are not going to support this, they are not going to vote for the senate plan on healthcare. how do you read it? what's going to happen? what's your prediction? >> well, i don't think the votes are going to be there. when the cbo came out and said 22 million people would lose their healthcare coverage with this plan, i just don't see how in good conscience people can support it. and i will give you credit, when you ran in 2003 and you were talking about medicare for all, you were quite a visionary back then and i actually see now a lot more appetite in the house about a real plan of getting medicare for all which will deal with the costs and also help expand coverage. if we really want to improve healthcare, we should do what you were talking about back in

2003. >> i thank you for giving me credit, but i also give credit to president obama. he not only talked about it, he did it. but i will take my credit as starting to talk about it. thank you, congressman conner this morning. coming up, the ongoing shootings on the streets of chicago, a look at some answers to what it feels like. it feels like an ever lasting loop of violence to so many. i will talk to one of my mentors, reverend jesse jackson about it. this is "politics nation" on msnbc. ime of your dog's nutritional needs... all in one. purina one. healthy energy, all in one. strong muscles, all in one. highly digestible, and a taste he loves, all in one. purina one smartblend is expertly blended... with 100% nutrition, 0% fillers, always real meat #1. lifelong smart nutrition.

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the nation celebrated its independence this past week, partaking in the usual grilling and fireworks and fun and sun --

and fun in the sun i should say, but in parts of chicago it was a much different story. more than 100 people were shot, with 13 of them dying over the holiday. chicago police report most of the violence took place in a six-hour period monday night and early tuesday, predominantly on the south and west sides of the city. now, the trump administration says it will send an additional 20 atf agents to the city to stem the gun violence. that violence has left more than 1,000 dead over the past 18 months. it's mind-boggling. many of us have been wrestling, i even took an apartment out there for a while, but it keeps coming. so when i want to know what we're going to do i go to our -- my mentor in civil rights who is in chicago and has been leading

there for many years since his days with dr. king, reverend jesse jackson, the president and founder of rainbow push coalition. reverend jackson, yesterday you and father michael flager and others had a vigil to demonstrate the outrage and to call on the government to deal on a multi-level way of stemming this violence. tell us about that. >> al, thank you very much for allowing me to be with you today. it's not just emergency, it's more than that. this is an international scene of terrorism. guns have been run in from across state lines, drugs are being trumpeted in from across international lines and jobs are going out to third world countries. so drugs in, guns in, jobs out. it takes more than 200 police to stop that. you cannot police poverty. nine areas in chicago where unemployment is 22%, poverty

40%, medium income $10,000 a year. they closed 50 public schools and around those schools, al, the housing value went down, the businesses closed. so it's a disaster zone. we need a plan for reconstruction. >> now, when you talk about a plan for reconstruction, i remember when i was a teenager and was youth director under you and reverend william jones, i would go to chicago and we would see where martin luther king stayed on the west side, you would show us in the youth of the black businesses, john johnson and george johnson and others. what happened to all of that? why is all of that gone and why is the sacred view of where dr. king and others built the movement that produced you, what happened to that chicago? >> well, in part you have a case where the banks are using subprime lending schemes to dee capitate this community. 80,000 vacant homes and

abandoned lots. if there were a plan to remove lead paint from the walls, which is the law and lead from the water which is a health issue, to clean up the vacant lots, jobs. to demolish those homes that cannot be rebuilt, jobs. to fix up those that can be fixed up, jobs. there may be more jobs than people. there is no plan to reinvest. even there is a transportation problem. there are three shoes, north side, unemployment less than 2%, suburb job wanted signs and on the south and west sides unemployment 20, 25%. we deserve a plan. unless you break the cycle of guns and jobs and drugs out nothing is going to happen. you talk about grassroots. we asked last year for a white house conference on violence, causes and cures, look at the disparities in healthcare, education and jobs. it is the number one state in america in black unemployment, number one in the nation in

black employment. we seem to have everything except jobs, education and healthcare. >> number one in the nation in black unemployment, they just overrode the governor's veto in terms of a budget there in illinois, there's no real plan in terms of education and the gun legislation has not changed so they can import guns. so it's in this climate you have this kind of gun violence, rampant violence, young people out there on the street unemploy unemployed, they are not regulated, there are not gangs like there were years ago when i would come out there as a teenager, it's just random unemployed well armed desperate -- >> just zones of abandoned property, zones of dilapidated housing, zones of banks that will not lend. realignment by banks and insurance companies. we deserve a plan. it will cost more to he had can a kate in the jail. the 10,000 on clark county jail

in pretrial detention. some have been in jail five years awaiting trial. you can't just give this kind of answer 20 police -- 20 police cannot stop gun running from down state illinois and kentucky coming across these borders, cannot stop the drug flow coming across the international board borders. this is a scene of international terrorism. this is what terrorism looks like. children trying to study, afraid to go to school, afraid to go to the park, this is what international terrorism looks like at home. >> all right. thank you, reverend jessie jackson. let me say coming up we're staying in chicago. a questionable incentive for high school students trying to answer the age old question what do you do when you grow up. but let me say i will be in chicago this week, national action network and i are meeting with ministers when the federal government should be challenged on how they're going to come in

and supporting the call we made for 1,000 ministers to march on washington on the anniversary of the march on washington. i will also be joining reverend jackson and andrew young and c.t. vivienne and other leaders of the king era as they join reverend jackson in chicago this week. we're going to focus every generation on what's going on in chicago. ♪

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they need to have a demonstrable plan after they graduate in the form of a job, a college acceptance letter, military service or a trade apprenticeship in order to graduate. emanuel's plan will take effect in 2020, which hopefully will give the chicago public school systems enough time to right its ship, because it was forced to lay off 1,000 teachers and staffers in 2016, and had to turn to private lending just to keep doors open this year. i'm sure some will say, rev, don't we want our youth, especially our poor black and brown kids to understand that high school is just the beginning, especially in chicago? i hear you, but now hear this, it's precisely because of those disadvantages that this plan is so counterproductive, because it

places an extra challenge on overburdened, outnumbered guidance counselors already fearful of a pink slip, and as bad as it is for them, try to imagine a poor kid in rough neighborhoods already scarce on opportunity having to present a plan for the future when getting through the day can literally be a matter of life and death. as for the so-called options, let's start with college. as of 2015 only 16% of chicago high school students start college immediately after graduation. to get a job there have to be some and the unemployment rate in chicago's black male teens is already the worst among the nation's major cities. and while military service is admirable, we should not expect our kids to have to risk their lives just to be able to move on

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that's all we're asking for. the vast majority of states said of course we're going to provide this information. >> that was kentucky secretary of state chris kobach vice chair of the trump administration's voter integrity commission which is having a real hard time fighting a problem that doesn't exist. because as of today 48 states and the district of columbia have refused to comply with the commission's full request for sensitive voter information. 21 giving a hard no, 27 says they will only provide what is already publicly available. their reluctance stemming from concerns about voter privacy and the risk of hacking. and we learned this week that the commission is already facing legal challenges from lawmakers and privacy advocates. while kobach himself is being

sued by a legal group, the lawyers committee for civil rights, for allegedly using the commission to garner support for a 2018 run for governor of kansas. joining me now is the president and executive director of the lawyers committee, kristen clark, and dale ho the director of the aclu's voting rights project. dale, let me ask you, many of us in the civil rights community has been very concerned about a series of things that we feel have been really suppressing voters and denying voting rights one of the real tenets of the civil rights movement. do you feel this commission and what kobach is doing is some inadvertent way of continuing the suppression that we've seen around some of us questioning the voter photo id and ending

early voter days or cutting them down or ending sunday going to the polls? >> i think it absolutely is. the only word that i would disagree is inadvertent. there are two purposes of this commission, one, to sell the lie that trump won the popular vote when in fact he lost by almost 3 million votes. >> right. >> and, two, to use exaggerated stories of fraud to attempt to justify new restrictions on the ballot. look at who is running this commission, it's chris kobach as you mentioned, the aclu had to sue him four times last year, we won every time to stop him from suppressing votes. >> kristen, you have say in a lawsuit, the lawyers committee has said in a lawsuit, that this, in fact, is something that he -- he being kobach -- is using to raise money and to really set up a kind of support base for his race for governor

because he's trying to deal with a problem that does not exist. >> there is an important federal law called the hatch act that prohibits federal employees from using their official government position to promote political and partisan activity. the president appointed chris kobach to serve as vice-chair of the so-called election integrity commission in early june and weeks later chris kobach announced that he was running for governor of kansas. and at every step of the way chris kobach has used his official role as vice-chair of this commission to promote his gubernatorial run. the hatch act prohibits this kind of conduct and we believe that we have set forth extensive evidence that shows that chris kobach is using everything that he does with this commission so

that he can ultimately secure that gubernatorial position in kansas. we think it's unlawful, but more importantly, we believe that this commission is a dangerous and unprecedented attempt to promote voter suppression across our country. it's dangerous and we encourage states across the country not to participate or turn over data to this commission. >> now, when they have named it the integrity commission, i mean, the integrity commission in and of itself i found very interesting because they are really trying to claim that there were millions of fraudulent votes that no one has seen but them. i mean, it's largely been in their heads and if there was integrity involved you would have to come out and say that we misled, we either hallucinated

or we just deceived the american people into even the need for such a commission. >> i think that's absolutely right. i mean, let's remember that the president's own legal team during the recount litigation in michigan told a court all available evidence indicates that the 2016 election was not tainted by fraud or mistake. so if that was true then, i think it's a reasonable question to ask what has changed? well, what's changed there has been one conviction for voter fraud in 2016. >> one out of how many votes? >> over, you know, about 140 million votes. and here is the conviction, a woman this iowa who voted twice for trump because she thought that the election was rigged. >> christian, one of the tenets of the civil rights movement and when you look at dr. king and john lewis and i heard reverend jackson on and all and then you and i, others that are out here now with national civil rights concerns. the basis of it to protect it

was the civil right to vote, voting rights. all of this kinds of undermines is in a 21st century way. they no longer ask you questions like how many jelly beans in a jar or some other kind of ridiculous question, but they set up ridiculous policies and i think that at the bottom of this that's the concern of this integrity commission. invasion of privacy and looking for people other than us, almost like birtherizing the voter process and it's really a diversion from protecting people's right to vote. >> the right to vote is the most important civil right in our democracy and we expect government to take action and do work to promote and safeguard that right. what i find so incredibly shameful is that since this commission has gotten under way

we're hearing from election officials in colorado and in arizona who are reporting that voters are asking that their names be taken off the rolls because they don't want their data to be subsumed in this big brother attempt to warehouse data on more than 200 million registered americans across our country. i find that disgraceful. i hope that voters will stand firm and take no action to remove themselves from the rolls. we want americans to participate in our democracy and we intend to do all that we can to resist and terminate this commission's dangerous agenda. >> i'm running out of time, but aclu, how do you intend to confront those acts that would in any way interfere with people's privacy rights? >> the first thing that we need to make sure that everything that this commission does is

transparent. under federal law a commission like this has to be open to the public, they have to make all of their documents open to the public, but they have already met, they've conducted business and they gave no public notice of that meeting. the public wasn't allowed to listen in on that meeting and we haven't seen their documents, that's the first step. >> thank you, kristen clark and dale ho. a quick update, education secretary betsy devos is on the hot seat again, this time being sued by 18 states and the district of columbia over her last minute, quote, reset of an obama era rule that helps student borrowers saddled with debt from for-profit colleges accused of fraud. for-profit colleges accused of fraud, maybe she can ask her boss for advice. up next, florida's stand your ground law was told to take a seat this week. more on why it matters when we

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♪ social justice advocates logged a win this week as a miami judge ruled that an update to florida's stand your ground law brought to national attention in 2012 shooting death of trayvon martin violated the state's constitution by forcing prosecutors to disprove defendant's self defense claims before a case can reach a jury. on on the ground in florida after the killing of trayvon martin and can attest directly to the harm this law has caused by enabling private citizens to become execution nurers.

it found that the law overwhelmingly favors whites to blacks in a four to one margin. even though the decision is sure to be challenged starting with the florida attorney general's office which says it will appeal the decision, i have to appreciate this news because in this climate a win is a win. joining me now is sema ayer civil rights attorney. we know it is going to be challenged but i think the ruling in itself really underscores what many of us were concerned about from 2012 -- >> right. >> -- with trayvon martin on through other cases and many groups, not only mine, but dream defenders and others were really trying to dramt advertise. >> sure. listen, this is a win, but stand your ground in and of itself, right, it's self defense plus no duty to retreat. what this piece of legislation was saying was now prosecution

not only do you have to have your own burden, but you have to disprove that there was no stand your ground. this is so ridiculous and is a win that should stick at this point. >> now, the basic law as you said, and that's what upset and concerned me when we went in to help to bring a lot of attention on trayvon martin because at that time they wouldn't even arrest and bring into court what had happened based on this. is that there was no duty to retreat. >> okay. right. so number one you're justified in the killing. number two, there is no duty to retreat. what florida does, it expands what started off as this castle doctrine, that you were the king of your castle and you can protect your home, to the street, to the store, to the bar because what happened with george zimmermann, they were in the street, but it still protected him in the sense that there was language given to the

jury instructions which we know about. >> right. >> so that's why they're saying there is no duty to retreat. and we understand exigency, emergency, imminent threat of great bodily harm, but, rev, what the law is saying is that there should be a moment to reflect before taking another life. >> right. >> because as also we both know that even when you are justified in taking a life, there is a great trauma there for the person taking the life. >> absolutely. and on the other side of that question is the race question, as i said. >> yes. >> that when you deal with it, with white to black -- >> right. >> -- there is a huge difference in how the law was used. i remember there was a case where a young black lady who had been abused by her husband -- >> right. >> -- and she defended herself, they put her in jail, and she was in her castle with a record of abuse by the person and was

claiming self defense. she went to jail. so it was not even like this was across the board used as a defense based on -- it was more based on who you were and who your victim was than, well, this is a way we protect people. >> right. and this has been seen throughout the country that these type of laws favor white people over black and brown people, but there is also the question of maybe there needs to be uniformity withstand your ground and self defense in general. >> now, the question is that other -- well, not only the question, but the problem that comes to my question, that other states began doing variations of stand your ground. >> right. >> so this is not a florida issue. >> right. >> which is why i went back to this florida judge's decision, has emanated, became known out of florida because what many did around the zimmermann/trayvon martin situation, but other states started doing this and we

can see whatever is done here on appeal, this going all the way up to the supreme court at some level. >> it should, but also let me just be clear that what the court says is that, listen, be , in and of itself, what stand your ground is, that is the substance of law. that is your job legislatures. our job, the court's job, is to deal with the procedures. you tell me the law, legislatures, and the court finds the vehicle to make it happen. the vehicle in this case being pretrial motions. >> i think that is part of what disturbed us. no one has the right to prejudge a case. zimmerman's case, you can't let

someone be killed and you don't try the facts, but the law is standing there where you don't even try the facts. >> so you get a judges on whether or not the stand your ground -- >> it's not like the life is in front of a jury. >> i agree with that, it should be in front of a jury. >> up next, my final thoughts, and i'll take a selfie. i noticed it as soon as we moved into the new house. ♪ a lot of people have vertical blinds. well, if a lot of people jumped off a bridge, would you? you hungry? i'm okay right -- i'm... i'm becoming my, uh, mother. it's been hard, but some of the stuff he says is actually pretty helpful. pumpkin, bundling our home and auto insurance is a good deal! like buying in bulk! that's fun, right?

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anti-police. we want law enforcement to work when a mother of three in law enforcement was killed viciously in new york this week. we join new yorkers. we want to support her family, and the national action network that my daughter ashley sharpton and group dave a check there for the family of that police officer of $5,000. but one of the things that i really had to think about a lot this week was the power of selfies. i took note when representative clay higgins got in a controversy because he did a selfie video at auschwitz as he was narrating his own review of what had happened during the or

riffic holocaust, and many attacked him for it. it brought to mind that there was a lot of reaction that on father's day at 5:00 in the morning i took a selfie of me before i went to do my workout that day and then come to the studio and do politics nation. came pretty much close to -- it was viral. a lot of reaction, pro and con. one person put my selfie on their birthday cake. but let's get past your opinion of the congressman or me, the power of selfie to me is here. so the question is, what do you with a selfie. my question is what you're doing with yourself. if i'm showing i want to stay fit even though i have a full day schedule, i'm not ashamed of

that. the question about arguing about selfies is you want to argue about what you're doing with yourself. as long as i'm doing something positive with myself, i'm going to keep taking selfies. that does it for me, thanks for watching, i'll see you back here next week.

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