good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. what donald trump jr. would have done differently with controversy mounting. the meeting he had with a russian lawyer in the midst of 2016 election. plus, senate republicans delay their august recess. now mitch mcconnell has a time line for the obamacare replacement plan. and new information about the 16 american service members that died in a military plane crash. this morning, the cause still under investigation. good morning, everyone, it's wednesday, july 12th, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf.

well, apparently under pressure from "the new york times" donald trump jr. released e-mails in which he enthusiastically greeted an offer from a russian intermediary. understand the subject line, russia-clinton-private and confidential. and rob goldstone wrote. the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with. and especially later in the summer. on june 7th, goldstone to wrote to set up the meeting and identified as the russian government attorney flying over from moscow.

junior told that paul manafort would likely attend with him. this despite trump junior saying in his revised sunday statement, in quote, i asked jared and paul to attend but told them nothing of the substance. trump junior said he was releasing the e-mails. and yesterday, president trump released a short statement saying my son is a high-quality person and i applaud his transparency. but "the new york times" said it was doing a story on those e-mails and as huff post michael calderon reported, the response to the e-mails by 11:00 a.m. and that is exactly when he tweeted them out. >> and on fox news last night, donald trump said he realizes that meeting with someone as a, quote, russian government attorney could have been angled better. take a listen. >> in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little

differently. again, this is where the russia mania. this is before they were building it up in the press. for me, this is opposition research that had a contrast to you the stories i've been hearing about that have probably been reported for years, not just the campaign. so, i think i wanted to hear it out. but it was apparent that there was not what the meeting was about. >> and this morning, agency part of the e-mails, nbc's keir simmons has the exclusive interview. >> reporter: we showed russian lawyer natalia vesselnitskaya te e-mails. here, donald trump jr. is told that they want to schedule a meeting with him. and the russian government attorney who is flying over from moscow. the russian government attorney. that means you. >> translator: no, i'm certainly

flattered by being marked and called a government attorney. but i have never worked with the government in the first place. >> reporter: she said trump son-in-law jared kushner and campaign manager paul manafort was arranged but she never met any of them beforehand. once inside, only one person talked to her. >> translator: donald. she was the only one i was speaking to. >> reporter: she said she was there to lobby against a law that she said was affecting her client, a well-connected russian, a law that imposed sanctions on russia. but she said he was interested on information about possible illegal donations to democrats. >> translator: i can tell you right now, i have never referred to any compromising information. >> reporter: she said kushner left after seven to ten minutes of the 20 to 30-minute meeting

and that manafort was not paying attention. >> translator: the man was constantly looking into his phone. >> reporter: they had the impression, it appears that they were going to be told some information that you had about dnc. how did they get that impression? >> translator: it might be their desire to see that is my story, from the story i was telling them about. and they saw only something they can interested in. >> and that was keir simmons reporting. republicans, they've begun speaking out. at least one changing his tune. lee zeldin of new york told "the new york times" story that trump junior was told that the was trying to help as, quote, maybe some condamemecondiment on this burger. and then tweeted, i voted for

potus last november and want him to succeed. >> i can't imagine a world in which that doesn't happen. >> frankly, i think that's overblown. >> during your re-election campaign, if someone e-mailed you and said russia would like to support your campaign. we have incriminating evidence on your opponent, would you take that meeting? >> no. >> thanks, guys. >>. >> it concern you that a member of the president's own circle is meeting with damaging information? >> that's a whole different issue. meeting with an individual. i've got to find out all of the facts on this.

obviously, it's a concern, but it's a bigger concern because we're looking backwards at this point. >> if there's an e-mail to him from somebody in russia suggesting that the russian government wants to help, then that's problematic. and here's the question, why would they send the trump campaign to a lady who knew nothing? so, i want to know about that, too. >> as i've said many times in the past, there's another shoe that will drop. and there will be other shoes that will drop. >> it seems like the story is evolving. the white house story is evolving on this meeting. >> evolving on this whole issue for the last several months. this is a serious situation and one that's a long way from over. >> on all levels and one say lev leag legal level, but i think that's bob mueller's lane. another meeting, this one in july with a new revelation about russia. and the third which is more of a

medical issue is the amnesia of people in the trump orbit. someone close to the president needs to get everyone connected with that campaign in a room. and say from the time you saw dr. zhivago to the moment you drank vodka, that the drip, drip, drip is undermining the credibility of this investigation. >> that's quite a bit time line. joining us from washington, capitol hill reporter, glad to have you with us. we just saw the republican action there in congress. is there a sense that this subject is going to start to matter to their constituents and matter on capitol hill. they've been somewhat immune to it by saying it didn't care about the russian investigation, is that changing. >> i've talked to republicans and they still say, you know, constituents at home aren't talking about this.

they're talking about health care. they're talking about jobs. and they're talking about issues that we haven't been able to enact legislation on. and why this is tittillating on capitol hill, it doesn't resonate much. because when it did resonate back home, that's when you'll see senators talking to trump directly. even democrats in more conser conservative states are saying, you know, they're not promoting this as much as i would have anticipated. but it's an interesting -- it's an interesting topic, for sure. >> molly, it seems to me like a lot of people in washington and the white house, especially, trying to distance themselves from this. mike pence's office putting out a statement. i want to read that to you saying, quote, the vice president is working every day to advance the president's agenda. he was not aware of the meeting. and he also was not focused on

stories about the campaign, especially those pertaining to the time before he joined the campaign. and also donald trump jr. saying his sphere was not aware of the meeting. and saying, that president trump didn't know about this meeting. again, seems to me like they're trying to put some distance between themselves, the white house and trump jr. what are you hearing? >> well it's interesting because if you look at one of the republican congressman who was on one. other shows yesterday, francis rooney, he said that, you know, if he had been an ambassador, if he had been approached by foreign government, he wouldn't have taken this meeting but then he sort of pivoted to say that donald junior was not in a political scene. he was not a politician going into this. these were business people and they don't really know the ins and outs of campaigns. so there is sort of a way for people who like mike pence, who have been in politics forever,

this would be a big no-no. but if you look at somebody like francis rooney saying, hey, well, we'll give don junior a bit of a break because he's a businessman, that's where i think they're trying to distance themselves on it. >> i hope that dr. zhivago and vodka -- all right. great to have you with us. switching news on capitol hill, the senate is delaying their august recess for two weeks as lawmakers face a packed legislative agenda including the obamacare replacement plan. majority leader mitch mcconnell made an announcement yesterday. take a listen. >> we've got defense authorization. we've got debt ceiling. we've got the fda user fee and other important legislation that we need to address. and we simply, as a result of all of this obstructionism don't have enough time to address all of these issues between now and the originally amended august recess. >> under that political

pressure, mcconnell also said a revised health care bill is expected to come out tomorrow with a possible vote next week. but the legislation is still facing division among party members. >> what have you done, senator? >> i'm very pessimistic, but i think we also have the reality that we have a responsibility to the american people. and i hope that reality and our responsibility, we will deliver. >> to get this bill passed, it's not going to be the bill that i would write. it's not going to be the bill that rand paul or mike lee would write. it's going to have to be a consensus product. >> is this is a compromising ted cruz? >> listen, i'll compromise with anybody. republican, democrat, martian, if we're moving the bill forward. >> some of the expected changes in the health care bill include more money between opioid addiction.

and a 3.8 tax on the wealthy expected in the same place. coming up tomorrow on "morning joe" republican sanders will be a guest. an nypd police officer shot and killed last week in what police is called an unprovoked attack has been laid to rest. she was ambushed as she sat in a police vehicle in the bronx. yesterday, thousands of family members and friends, colleagues, gathered to pay their respects including new york city mayor bill de blasio, and nypd commissioner james o'neal. her mother spoke about her mother's sacrifice and support for the family. >> to my even bigger family of blue that's here for me -- >> camilla was promoted and

first to die in the nypd since 9/11. the pent green leased new information on the military plane crash in mississippi. and we're getting new details on who was on board. plus, president trump heads to paris today. we have a preview of the much anticipated visit. those stories and much more msnbc when we come back.

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on a station in upstate new york. it was traveling en route to california when it crashed in rural mississippi late monday afternoon. an eyewitness reports that he heard a bang but then thought it was car back fire. take a listen. >> then all of a sudden, my guys that work for me, they looked up and saw the plane coming down. at that time, i looked and saw the spoke from the wing. at first, i thought it was like a stunt plane, you know, acrobatic deal. the way it was nose-diving down. >> and the cause of the crash is still under investigation. president trump is traveling to france today, it comes on france president hollande invitation to attend bastille day celebration in france. and also the date of france entering world war i. president trump may not be in for a warm welcome, though, as various protests are planned upon his arrival. and as for president hollande,

it's been a short but contentious relationship, with the handshakes, and the trip also, the white house says the president's outcoming state visit to the united kingdom has been delayed until next here. prime minister theresa may extended trump the invitation shortly after his inauguration, although no dates were set. last week, trump was considering delaying the visit because of large number of protests. and let's go to bonnie schneider with a dangerous sapphire situation in the west. >> that's right. powerful storms north of chicago, on into wisconsin and even northern ohio. and we're watching for 33 million people to be at risk for severe weather today. another huge story, the central heat. it's building. heat index is all the way up to 100 degrees if the temperature doesn't get that hot. that includes kansas city and st. louis. and for tomorrow, that hit

spreads farther east, we'll see it in philadelphia. excessive heat watch in effect for thursday. that means it's going to feel like 100 degrees or even hotter than that in philadelphia. we're looking at muggy air across much of the country particularly in the mid-south, the gulf coast and areas of the carolinas. all of this oppressive air will persist where it will feel like 100 degrees or hotter in some places. we're looking at it spreading all the way to new york city. and for friday, not much of a change with the heat with triple digit heat indexes. we do have a tropical remnantses for impacting florida and much of the southeast with rain moving in, particularly on thursday. we'll see enhanced thunderstorms for florida. unfortunately, it's go to be really heavy downpours to contend with for the next couple of days. ayman, yasmin. >> thank you for that, bonnie. some heroics with baseball's

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♪ welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. it's the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. we're learning more about the victims of the military plane crash that took place on monday. officials say 16 service members would be killed. 15 marines and one sailor who was a specialist. based out of camp lejeune in north carolina. they're names have not yet been released. the fda is answering an air canada jet almost landed on a taxi way with four other planes. the plane ran on a runway that flies parallel with the others. and waiting to depart before being ordered to pull up for another approach. and president trump is said

to head to france he will join the french president emmanuel macron in france. we're going to have a live report previewing the trip coming up in just a few minutes. >> a quick look now at that early period in june to add context to the story about donald trump jr.'s meeting about gaining help from the kremlin and taking on hillary clinton. on june 20, shortly after trump secured the delegates. the intermediary rob goldstone seen on the scene reched you for for trump junior's support. on june 7th, donald trump made this promise, take a listen. >> i am going to give a major speech on probably monday of next week. and we're going to be discovering all of the things that have taken place with the clintons. i think you're going to find it very informative and very, very interesting.

>> then on june 8th, the website dc leaks to release data sent its first tweet on june 9th, top campaign aides, donald trump jr., paul manafort, jared kushner met with that tatia veselnitskaya. on june 14th, 2016 "the washington post" reports that russian government hacker has penetrated the computer network of the democratic national committee. and then june 15th, guccifer, or guccifer 2.0 also identified as russian military intelligence contacted the government regarding that dnc hack. >> and then a number of statements made by donald trump jr., the saturday statement confirming the meeting claimed we primarily discussed the

program of the adoption of russian children. but it was not a campaign mish. best summed up in the subject line, russia, clinton, private and confidential. and the one-time intermediary rob goldstone made no mention of the russians' reported links to the kremlin, though repeatedly refers to the replies. and then said i asked my client to attend, and most of all, donald trump jr. had denied in eye meetings took place in march saying, quote did i meet with people that were russian? he i'm hour sure i did. but none that i set up. and "the washington post" reports this latest chapter has soured the climate inside the

white house, quote, as the president fumes against his enemies and senior endyes circle with suspicion over who is leaking. the president has had no public events since his return overseas this weekend and reportedly frustrated over the coverage that the media has gotten. and the west wing staff is said to be irritated by this disclosure by trump junior and overshadowed the positive coverage of the trip abroad. and claims that a handful discrediting the journalists but their plan is to research the reporter's previous work. and in some cases going back years and to exploit any mistakes or perceived biases. and the trump errors on social media and feed them to conservative outlets such as fox news. joining us once again, capitol hill reporter molly hooper. molly, so much to cover.

given all. earlier denials here. is the trump team losing compeblt on capitol hill? what are you hearing? >> i'm hearing this is like tolstoy's "war and peace." just dripping outside. drip, drip, drip, a lot of republicans want it to go away. they're not necessarily hearing about it back home. it's not fun when you have a lot of issues on the table. it's distracting. right now, they're focused on tax reform, health care. and to have to talk about, as we heard earlier, when trey galloway was saying all the people in the white house need to get on the same page, to hear the drip, drip, drip, it's not what they want to be focusing on right now. >> molly, one of the reasons this story has dragged out as long as it has is because of the evolving story coming from donald trump jr. in particular. the "the new york times" as we were just saying that inside air force one saturday agency the president returned home a small

group of advisers essentially helped craft a statement for the president's son that we heard earlier. according to people familiar with the discussions. they reportedly debated how transparent to be. the president reportedly signed offer on that statement. that then had to be classified as we mentioned on sunday and addressed for three straight days after that, shifting from adoption to other explanations. what does this show us about the inner workings of the white house when it comes to crisis management and addressing these issues? >> well, i think if you're up on capitol hill again, a lawmaker, not wanting to face these issues, it shows that the white house kind of needs to get its act together when it comes to dealing with these issues. that is something that i've heard from lawmakers. democrats, of course, pounce on this. and they just say, oh, gosh, we have more things to investigate. smoking guns, so forth. but republicans, again, they need to get things done. look at what mitch mcconnell

just did yesterday, extending the august -- you know, the work period is going to be cut short. and senators are going to be in town for the first two weeks of august. they have big issues that they need to hammer out. including health care, tax reform. and they need to do it before a certain time, before october 1st. and to have these sort of distractions come out. just as they get back to town, it's not helpful in moving this process forward. and, you know, you know, it creates this narrative that the white house isn't, you know, isn't being serious about this. when, in fact, they just need to get on the same page. and move forward. and get these major issues taken care of. >> yeah. it doesn't seem likely to happen anytime soon. live in washington, d.c., molly hooper, thank you for that. >> what i quickly want to say how many thor operations of the story it has been. at the end of the day, the truth does come out why not be transparent from the get-go.

moving on the battle of the republicans' health care bill has become so challenge be. mitch mcconnell is now delaying the recess by two weeks. nbc's casey hunt has more from capitol hill. casey, good morning. >> reporter: yasmin, good morning. it was another rocky day for the senate health care bill yesterday as republicans try to figure out how to cobble together 50 votes to get this through with just republican support. you have ted cruz on the one hand. lindsey graham on the other. competing strategies. and at this point, no clear outcome. the republican path to repealing obamacare, uncertain. majority leader mitch mcconnell announcing he's forcing senators to stay in washington an extra two weeks this summer to try and get a deal. >> we intend to fully utilize the first two weeks in august. >> reporter: still at a fever pitch, now centered on a conservative proposal by ted cruz to let people buy cheaper insurance if they're willing to

trade away the essential health care benefits like maternity care or health services. >> expanding the freedom, letting you the consumer choose what health care you want to purchase. that's the key to lower premiums. >> reporter: but they can only lose two votes, alienating moderates worrying it could drive up prices for sicker americans. lindsey graham is already talking about cracking a deal with democrats. >> there's an emerging new approach that i will talk to you in the next 24 to 48 hours. >> reporter: he's already approached senator joe manchin, a democrat from deep red virginia. where one in three rely on medicaid. >> sitting down and looking at repairing what's wrong, we can do that. >> reporter: her son isaac has a rare birth defect, born before obamacare was law. >> when he was 15 months old, he hit his lifetime maximum for his insurance policy. and it was $2 million. >> reporter: now, she relies on

medicaid. >> we didn't need medicaid before isaac. this could happen to anybody. anybody could have a child with a need or catastrophic accident tomorrow. >> negotiations, of course, are continuing. republicans are now planning to keep the taxes on the wealthy that were originally part. obamacare. that was a key democratic attack line that might be mitigated a little bit under this new plan. right now, they are saying that they do want to release a new version of this bill on thursday. and vote on it. at least start voting on it next week. yasmin. >> thank you to kasie hunt for that. and while the former drug company executive was boast be about it, it was actually in the red. and shkreli's companies revealed his hedge fund was negative 33 cents in the summer of 2011. at the same time, shkreli was allegedly claiming the fund had

tens of millions of assets understand management. the account revealed that shkreli's funds at any one point never have more than $1.2 million in it. while another fund never topped $1.6 million. let's take a look at the markets where the u.s. dollar slipped amidst the latest scandal, when janet yellen begins two days of congressional testimony. also reporting overnight, politico reporting that gary cohen is the top candidate to replace yellen. gemma, a lot going on. >> a lot going on today. let's start with markets and how they reacted yesterday. to the news of donald trump jr. and his e-mail conversations with some russians. well, it didn't know what to do. it was an sluts roller coaster ride. it ended up with equity initially selling off quite drastically but then recovering throughout the day to finish after that drama more or less

flat. it finished at the high left level for eye dollar for a year. gold which mass had say tough time did better and closed up. looking at the markets today, europe is green across the world. all of the majors are trading higher. but all eyes are really on yellen's testimony today from the fed chair. now, speaks of the fed chair, there has been news out from politico overnight. now, let's just be very clear, there are reports at this stage, but politico is reporting that the president is increasingly you unlikely to dominate janet yell will be to a second term as fed claire. they say it's gore kohn who is in the driving seat. now gary cohn is the first noneconomist to take the reins in over four decades. we saw the shares bounce 3%

yesterday. and a third of a percent in overnight trade. this comes on the back of a news release saying they have a new cfo. this was ned segal, a longtime goldman sachs banker taking the reins from another goldman sachs banker. and stocks have been consistently falling since the end of early 2013. >> gemma acton, thank you so much. severe weather breaking out in the midwest. ivn concluding this tornado in the backyard of one iowa farm. >> we're going to get a look at who may be in for more storms today. and a check of your forecast when we return. stay with us, everyone. [music playing]

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were called to the blast. they have not yet released a name. the fbi says that what is believed to be a pipe bomb was thrown at the office. no one was injured since the recruitment center was closed at the time. officials say they cannot say whether the blast is a case of domestic terrorism, since they do not know a motel tiff just yet. and some scary scenes coming out of the midwest. severe weather pushed through the region coming out of conway, iowa. local media reports that the twister caused damage along with minor damage to buildings and homes. thankfully, there have been no reports of injuries but a scary scene there. let's get a check on your weather now with meteorologist bonnie schneider, bonnie, more bad weather in the midwest to be expected louis. we're seeing the storms in southern michigan. it's important to note this is a rainmaker for northern illinois

and not just pennsylvania. we have 33 million americans under risk for dangerous wind, that include heavy downpours and frequent lightning. we're also watching the heat. look at this. high humidity, going to feel like 100 degrees plus in st. louis and so many other cities in the country. and the heat will spread eastward to the mid-atlantic thursday. that is why there's an excessive heat watch already for tomorrow in philadelphia. because unfortunately, going to feel like 100 degrees. it's also heeltsing in the midwest where we dent want it to heat up because of the fires burning. look at these numbers, las vegas, once again at 107, well into the triple digits which is actually above normal for this time of year. now, it's going to get hotter for salt lake as we go into the weekend climbing to 100 degrees. hot and sticky across the south and also stormy. remember, tropical depression number four, well, the remnants of this system is drifting across the bahamas and

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welcome back. the u.s. defense department said that a thad missile attempt theth thethed detected and tracked, months before a missile defense system was tested. white house aides are reportedly looking at alternative plans, the pentagon's plan to send more u.s. soldiers to afghanistan. steve bannon and jared kushner are pushing a plan to rely on outside contractors instead of american troops. the "times" said this saturday bannon asked defense secretary

jim mattis to hear proposals from blackwater and the owner of military contractor dimcore international. >> president trump is traveling to france later today on the personal invitation of french president macron to celebrate bastille day in paris. the trip marks the 100th anniversary. the president's u.k. state visit has been postponed until next year. with a lot more on all of this, we are joined live from london by ali arouzi. last month trump was protesting that amid protesters over in the u.k., which could be the case in

france as well but he did not postpone that trip. >> it's said that the president didn't want to visit while there was a potential for protest against him after nearly 2 million people here signed petitions saying mr. trump shouldn't be invited to the u.k. and in paris there are ant anti-trump protests well, activists from a group called paris against trump announced a series of events designed to let the president know he's not welcome. there will be a no-trump zone featuring music and dancing where they want to protest everything from his immigration policy to climate change but his visit in paris will be a short one, 24 hours to celebrate, as you said, bastille day, france's national day and to commemorate 100 years since the u.s. entered

world war i, marking an important alliance between france and america. he'll watch a massive parade including u.s. troops between army and navy alongside the french troops. they'll discuss thorny issues but try to find common ground on countering terrorism in syria. >> coming up next on "morning joe", the latest on donald trump's e-mail released revealing he enthusiastically accepted an offer. >> plus house intel committee member eric swalwell will indicate the need for the independent commission on the

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you'll be hearing about in the days ahead. >> vice president mike pence heads to lexington, kentucky to make the case for repealing and replacing obamacare. >> and capitol hill today, the president's next pick for fbi director, christopher wray, will testify before the judiciary committee. >> and lawmakers in the house energy and commerce subcommittee will hear from health officials from several states this morning on this country's opioid crisis, focusing on steps taken in the states to combat use of the drawing. i'm yasmin vossoughian, along with louis burgdorf and -- >> things are going a mill miles an hour.

we just won indiana, things are going a million miles an hour again. i heard about this thing but maybe this is something i should hear now. in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. this is before the russian mania. before they were building it up in the press. for me this was opposition research but stories that were probably underreported for years, not just during the campaign but i think i wanted to hear it out but it went nowhere. >> in behindsight, meeting with a foreign national linked with a hostile government to trash an american political opponent may not have been the best place. >> it keeps changing. the explanations keep changing. the first someplace was actually drafted by the white house, the adoption lie and signed off by