president. amount of pride that the president thinks it's the best place to come. hate to say it but the complaint, you will the news crews. >> stephanie gos, bedminster, new jersey. >> those darn news crews, always bothering people. i'll see you back here at 5 on "meet the press" daily. hey, ali. >> have yourself a great afternoon. i'll see you later. north korea says it's ready to give the united states a severe lesson with nuclear force if washington takes military action against the north korea. as it's testing intercontinental ballistic missile the latest comments come after the yuptd nations security council unanimously aprooud sanctions against north korea over those missile tests. both russia and china voted in favor of that measure. it bans north korea from exporting coal, iron, lady and

see ford, which amounts to about one-third of its export revenue. for an already poor country this is meant to be a sightable blow to the economy. the north also said it will never put nuclear women's or ballistic missiles on the negotiating table. president trump tweeted last night, quote, just completed call with president moon of south korea, very happy and impressed with 15-0 united nations vote for sanctions. i want to bring in nbc's peter alexander. he's near where president trump is continuing his working vacation. peter, the white house clearly happy with these sanctions, but what's next? do they think that more has to be done sooner rather than later. >> yeah. what's been interesting is you watch the way this administration has reacted to what's been taking place in north korea in recent weeks and it amend increasingly cheer that the president has had this sense that deterrence was failing

giving up on effect in china, just recently reporting that we have reporting that within the west ring they're increasing discussions about the sengs that fl might be a need nor a preemptive military strike. right now of the priority is on getting these new sanctions enacted right away. you talked about how big they are. that's about a third of their foreign revenue right now. what is most important here obviously is the fact that russia and china both signed on as part much this unanimous vote from the united nations security council. so we did hear from rex tillerson today. he has not called for regime change in pyongyang. he has in fact said he believes diplomacy is the best path going forward right now, but obviously tough talks talk from the north koreans in recent days. today spending an hour of his time on the phone with secretary tillerson. his it new chief of staff john kelly beside him as well. >> we're going to talk about north korea and how effective these sanctions are and what's

next in the coming few minltsz. i do want to ask you because you're near where the president is, what's the schedule for the next couple of weeks for the approximated? >> good question. we know he's here for for the next couple of weeks. that's paul that's certain. he has said on twitter today that he'll be taking some meetings in new york city at some point next week but no specifics. he's here. he's working hard. a lot of calls and meetings as he describes it. obviously the reason he's here and not at the white house is because there are renovations taking place right now. the over office itself is simply empty, but so far the only citing of the president has been greeting some wedding guests at his bedminster club in his golf attire. so how much work gets done, it remains to be seen. >> thanks very much. peter alexander in bridge water, new jersey. as he mentioned, the secretary of state rex tillerson has been in the philippines. the issue of north korean missile tests was front and

center after the u.n. resolution was passed on saturday. nbc news has a full report from the southern philippines. bill. >> reporter: good afternoon, ali. yes, that international summit is now over. it was domestic nad by the north korean issue, an issue that certainly isn't over. and what an extraordinary few days of diplomacy it's been. it really started with that vote at the u.n. security council over the weekend. it was unanimous to impose punishing new sanctions on north korea. and today north korean's foreign minister hit back saying that north korea would retaliate against those u.n. sanctions. didn't saw how, but mainly blamed the united states, saying that north korea is ready to give the u.s. a severe lesson if the u.s. attacks north korea. there's always an if in there. but it also said that we will never put our nuclear capability or our long-range missiles on any negotiating table. and it said there's no bigger

mistake than the u.s. believing its land is safe across the ocean. now, many of these threats we've heard before, but object united states you will as this crisis escalates, those threats become all the more menacing. and the north korean had an international stage to make his threats. he was in the room with the foreign ministers of russia, china, japan and so on, but not the secretary of state, the u.s. secretary secretary of state rex tillerson he did not attend that meeting. presumably not wanting to be in the same room as the north korean minister. pile the pressure on north korea here. he had by laterals with just about everybody. it is on an almost united summit of 26 nations against one here, against north korea. even china giving the north koreans a very public dressing down, saying that their missile tests were provocative and had to stop and that it was

destabilizing the region. and tonight secretary of state rex tillerson has been meeting the philippines president the hard-liner criticized around the world for his human rights record. but on two issues they do agree. he has been very critical of kim jong-un, calling him a fool, calling hm a lot worse than that, a man who likes to play with very dangerous toys. so rex tillerson and even the philippines president united on the need to confront north korea. of course, this summit has all been about talks, how do you get to the stage where north korea will talk, and the precondition, if you like, has always been that north korea should give up its nuclear missiles. but indeed, rex tillerson didn't spell out those preconditions today in some respects he contempt the door open. so this crisis will go on. north korea, though, absolutely

determined and defiant as usual that it lp not buj on its nuclear program. ali. >> all right. bill thanks very much for a great set up for this. he is in the southern philippines for us. when you're talking about sanctions there's one person who knows this topic better than anyone. i want to bring in nbc news national security analyst david cohen and under secretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence in the obama administration. how do you get to the point where north korea will talk? north korea says we're not talking if anything to do with our nuclear military capability is on the table. we're not talking about regime change. scenario where do you go from here? >> well, what you need to do from here is to capitalize on this very strong security council resolution. as you reported, this has a really significant economic impact on north korea, cutting by a third its legitimate

revenues. there's still a sizeable amount of illicit revenue that north korea earns. but this will have a very significant impact on the north korean economy and on in particular north korean elites. and what the administration needs to do is to take this new tool, this security council resolution, and use it as a way to try to bring about, if it's possible, a negotiated -- at least the start of a negotiated resolution with north korea. and that's what secretary tillerson seems to be working towards. >> so david, i guess the problem is, there are -- you can look at sanctions as one option and in a lot of discussions or negotiations the other option is something that's not palateable but manageable. the problem here is are we right to say it's either sanctions or it's military action? >> no. what i think we need to do is to pursue a multi-pronged strategy

that includes both some carrots and some sticks. the sticks are, you know, quite obviously. it is the threat that we have that we have had, you know, consistently over the years that if north korea does something that is intolerable, that we will essentially eliminate the regime with, you know, a massive attack. i think kim jong-un p understands that. he may not be the world's most rational actor, but he's rational enough to understands that if he attacks us, that's the end of him, his country, his regime. but what is important is not just to layer on additional threats. you they'd to if a negotiation is going to succeed, you need to offer some approach, some possibility of a path towards a resolution. now, north korea, not surprisingly, is saying that they will never negotiate about their missile or about their nuclear program. and it very well may be the case that a negotiated resolution is

not attainable. but we can use these sanctions as a way to try to induce north korea into a negotiation if we work with others around the world to put this pressure on north korea. >> so let me just ask you about that. china voted in favor of these sanctions, which is unusual because china hasn't taken great stops at moderating north korea's behavior. do you have taste -- because most of these sanctions are on stuff that north korea selsz to china. that's their biggest client. do you have any accepts that china will live up to their end of this sanctions? >> i think we can expect that china will buy and large live up to these resolution. the chinese do not vote in favor of security council resolution unless they're prepared to abide by them. as they have in others, north korea and iran, for that matter, and what you hear from the chinese repeatedly when you talk to them about sanctions is we will abide by our security

council obligations. there are some very stringent ones in this new resolution. i think we can expect the chinese that by and large to enforce them. >> and one thing you've told me before is that if you are going down this road of sanctions, there are a lot more things you can do, but they would probably involve the chinese. i spoke with gordon chang this morning who said the rate at which the north koreans are gaining nuclear capability is far greater than the incremental rate at which people imposing sanctions upon them. >> well, look, the -- china is still the key to putting pressure on north korea, and the sanctions here will impair to some extent north korea's ability to earn revenue, which is plows into its nuclear and missile program. but it's also important, as i mentioned earlier, to focus on the illicit re news that north korea earns. and much of that comes through china. the sanctions are not an end in

themselves. they will not by themselves stop north korea's nuclear program or its missile development. but they can be a part of an overall policy to both limit north korea's development and to create the conditions, if it's possible, for a negotiation. >> david, good to talk to you as always. up next, new developments in the bombing of a mosque just outside of minneapolis. the govern is calling it an act of terror right here on our own soil. is so far president trump has yet to address it.

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the governor of minnesota is calling it an act of terrorism, an kbroe viesd explosive device thrown into a mosque. the room where the bomb went off was damaged. the people there are shaken. this afternoon the fbi is looking for suspects and trying to determine if this was a hate crime. here is my colleague blake mccoy with the story. >> broken glass and scattered did he brie at a bloomington mosque. into the office of the eman. >> this is an act of terrorism. >> minnesota's governor visiting the islamic center sunday. also on hand representative keith eli son, the only muslim member of congress, who

represents minnesota's large sew male population. >> i wish i could tell you this is an isolated thing, but we have seen an up particular in anti-mus lime hate crimes and it's happened. >> there were some people in the building but no one was hurt. >> if you were to change the circumstances just a little bit, it could have very easily resulted in death or serious bodily injury. >> here, and here. >> the imam says he would have been in his office at the time of the explosion, but thankfully was running late. >> it looks like it grind some person, some muslims in general because i don't have specific problem with anybody. >> federal agents have collected fragments from the bomb in homes of tracing its origin. investigating an october of hate as this community responds with a message of solidarity. >> together. >> we can. >> we've seen out pour of love.

we have seen cries for tolerance. >> an attack on a synagogue is an attack on a church. it's an attack on all faith communities. >> that was blake mccoy reporting from bloomington, minnesota for us. i want to bring in dino. the only daily national radio show hosted by a muslim american. we have two muslim members of congress in the united states, right. >> yes. >> andre carson of. there were faith leaders who came and stood with the imam and you say the gathering of people outside. a couple of hours before this bomb was thrown in, there were 300 people in that mosque or it was a couple of hours afterwards there would have been. so this could have been a very different story that we're talking about. >> certainly. and we can't look at this in a vacuum. that's why i wrote the article for daily beast. my facebook page is filled daily

with young muslims talking about being harassed, bullied, attacks on the mosque, death threats. you know you live in a country now where you're a parent of muslims, you fear your kids going out because they might be attacked at a mosque. this is a place of worship. there should be a zero tolerance policy about any of this. so it's great to see jewish mousse limb christian leaders united. >> so message from the president dwret. we don't know what this is. we don't know if it's a hate crime. we doemt know what it is yet. the dporch or has called it an act of terrorism. does it surprise you and does it matter that the president hasn't chiemd in? >> it p doesn't surprise me. even if it turns out to be a true act of terrorism, i don't expect donald trump to stand up for the american muslim community. this is a man who campaigned in ways we never saw, demonizing our community, saying islam hates us, saying thousands of americans cheered on 9/11. calling for a complete shut down on muslims.

he demon iced our dmunt where what we're saying today, thanks to donald trump. our community feels very alone, and not only alone, we feel like we have a president who demon ice us to win votes, doesn't care about us, and it's a too many of fear that's palpable and it should not be something in 2017 you should worry about. because your faith, you or your family might be attacked or killed. >> but ultimately i spoke to the executive director of this movg earlier today, and sefs saying that the relations that they enoi with the community are generally strong. >> sure. >> muslims have been in america for a long time. in some of these they're slightly newer communities. some of them are first generation. and he feels that the community is not hostile toward them. >> and that's a great thing. i saw immediately that within hours of the attack the leaders of different faith communities standing up and saying we're with you. this movg according to local media reports they did get some

e-mails and mate mail before. just a week ago another muslim cemetery was vandalized. since january we've had five mosques burned down in america by arson. that's according to the police. we've had swas advertise cass painted on mosques. for some the word trump is becoming a modern day swasicca -- >> my point is there's something else that's bubbling up around that is -- are we just becoming a more hateful society in some ways or is hate just allowed to bubble in a way that we used to not allow? is that a good thing or a bad thing. >> i wrote it a few days before the election saying if trump wins i feel the big onset will be elm bold end. like in george wallace, within months of him being elected the 16th street baptist church was blown up and four young girls were killed. this is the climate. they're elm bold end.

i don't think he truly wants violence against muslim americans. he'll speak out against blum that will. elnot call the people attacking our community or spike in anti-semiitic attacks. i want to see his passion against the big yots and the raceists and some are in his face. it's about time. stand up against big on thery and hate. >> he said the base is growing. we're going to examine that very shortly. he's the host of seerous xm. it is on 6 to 9 eastern every day. >> yes, it is. >> okay. coming up next, chicago has filed suit bens the justice department against trump's efforts to withhold funding from sanctuary cities. >> it is wornt that we make very clear to them and to all the residents of the city of chicago that we are going to fight and stand up for our values as a welcoming city.

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rights isolated and violated. and chicago will never relinquish our status as a welcoming city. >> that was chicago mayor ram emanual anoupsing that he is suing the department of justice for what he says as them trying to block funding to the city because of its sanctuary policies. late last week the department of justice released its application which provides states and cities with federal funding to support local law enforcement efforts. two new provisions in it. the first requires the city to give access to the democratic of homeland security to check detention centers for people they believe might be undocumented. the second says the city must give two days' notice before releasing anyone who may be wanted on immigration violation. city officials argue that if they agree to these provisions, they effectively fefrl eyes local detention centers. the justice department quickly responded saying, quote, in 2016

more chicagoness were murdered so it's egs specially tragic that the mayor is less concerned with that tragic figure than he is put protecting criminal ale lanes. but aside for a second that chicago's very troubling murder rate has no tie to immigration, legal or otherwise. but for more on this i'm joined by ed sis cal. god to have you here. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> what do you hope to gain by suing the federal government on this? >> well, we filed a lawsuit this morning in federal court here in chicago because fundamentally the actions tape by the trump justice department this week in imposing these new conditions on an essential public safety grant program are unlawful. they violate the constitution, and they will make our community less safe.

key to our strategy in fighting crime is the fact that we work with all communities in the city of chicago, and we have our police out there fighting crime rather than investigating immigration status. and our values as a welcoming city. >> right. >> which are at stake here are in peril by this action. >> chicago has had 323 homicides from january to july. obviously this is a topic that is discussed across the nation, chicago's high murder rate. what do you say to people who see the government's response that attempts to tie chicago's mufrd rate to -- it does seem that they're linking illegal immigration and the murder rate. >> well, you know, there has been absolutely no evidence linking increased crime rates to rates of illegal immigration.

and in fact, there are numerous studies that have shown that welcoming cities or so-called sanctuary cities, have lower crime rates and that it is part of an effective crime fighting strategy. and in chicago fundamental to our community policing strategy, that we build on and strengthen relationships wp communities throughout the city, all of our residents, so that they are not living in fear of repercussions based on immigration status -- >> so let's explore that a little bit more. i'm going to put up a map of the sanctuary cities across the country. chicago is not on that map but is one of them. these are the cities of that group who are taking legal action, in addition to chicago. when people who don't follow this very closely say what's the problem, here? how does it affect -- how does enforcing federal laws about immigration affect community

policing? draw a picture for me here about how the -- what the effect is. >> well, really it goes to the heart of the relationship between our police force and the communities that they serve. they want people in the city of chicago as other cities, i'm sure, do as well, to feel comfortable coming forward, reporting crime to the police, serving as witnesses in cases, avalg themselves of city services, whether it is, you know, our city colleges, our hospital system, and if people are living in fear that their interactions with the local police department are going to be a vehicle for them to be ensnared in immigration enforcement and potentially deported or friends, neighbors, family, loved ones will, they're not going to come forward. and people are going to stay in

the shadows. and that is directly contrary both to our values as a city, and to our straenl in community policing. >> all right. and what do you think, then -- and i'm asking you really on behalf of sanctuary cities or welcoming cities. what is the strategy, then? should local police and municipalities have no involvement whatsoever in immigration matters as far as you're concerned? >> well, you know, our welcoming city ordinance even includes certain exceptions in cases where there is a criminal warrant or where you're dealing with somebody where there's been a judicial determination that they are in violation of a criminal statute or have a serious criminal background. this goes well beyond that and requires unfettered access to our local police stations and detention facilities for i.c.e.

agents to come in merely on the suspicious that someone may be here illegally and to essentially interrogatory detainees on a suspicion that they might be here illegally. >> good to talk to you. thanks so much for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> lead counsel for the city of chicago. coming up on the break, venezuela continues to descend into chaos getting closer to civil war. why this matters to us after the break. president trump isn't the only leader enjoying some downtime. check out vp without a shirt filled his days fishing, hunting, hiking and campaigning. sanctions? what sanctions? comfortable you are in it.

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vls continues in venezuela during a failed military up rising sunday that left two dead. despite last week's election win, anger and unrest remains. now as many worry about the increasing power he seems to be gaining, the u.s. is closing watching everything unfold in the south american country. last week the treasury department issued new sanctions against venezuela and specifically against ma der row. the u.s. is also considering sanctions on the country's somewhat profitable oil sector. for more on this i'm joined by cynthia. good to have you here. thank you. >> thank you, ali. let's just set the stage for folks who haven't been following venezuela as closely. this was a place where they

remarkable unbalanced unequal economy. hugo chavez comes in to try to do things about that and ends up tripping the economy up desperately. and then maduro comes in after that as his pick and the place has descended into entire political chaos. >> i think that about sums it. during the 12 or so years that hugho chavez was in power, there was an enormous concentration of power and authority in the executive branch, but there is still under the 1999 constitution that was approved during the early years of the chavez administration a constitution that was put in effect that allowed for periodic elections. and the regime actually used this over and over again as a way of rallying its supporters and constantly validating its own rule. and now, of course, maduro has donna way with those electoral

mechanisms in the constitution at a time when, again, chavez benefited from the very high price of oil throughout the first two-thirds of the decade of the 2000s. oil prices are down, but it's not just the price of oil. i mean, there were systematic undermining of the private sector, all kinds of distortionary price controls and controls on foreign exchange that have -- and the deterioration of the oil sector itself. >> right. so it's not just the price of oil. they're producing less oil than they should have been because they've let the whole thing go. i mean, venezuela was an unequal society then. it's an unequal society now. is there some middle ground, some future that you can see for venezuela that is balanced and sustainable? >> well, it's very difficult to see the path towards that right now. the country is deeply polarized. the situation of violence in the

streets i think is getting worse as the military -- as the up rising that you opened with has indicated. there have been four months plus of demonstrations in the street, day after day, over 110, 120 people have been killed. hundreds are in jail. thousands have been wounded. and these kinds of confrontations, as much as the opposition, i think, is getting exhausted by the constant inability to produce any change, i think the situation is only going to deteriorate. and now you have this so-called constituent assembly through essentially illegitimate and fraudulent elections where the vote counts were inflated, even by the count of the company, the u.s. based company that provided the software. this is really becoming a dictatorship. it's eliminating any form of independent control or check on the executive. and there will be harsher and

harsher penalties against people engaged in opposition dissent. so it's very, very difficult to see, you know, where this is headed as long as the armed forces and the national guard and the police remain unified behind the president. >> all right. what's the other side of it? in other words, you're saying it continues to descend. venezuela will face worsening economic problems. it's gotten flags is almost in the -- in four digits now. 720% was the last count. but one can't tell the way things are going these days. you've got what is becoming, as ugsd a dictatorship. what's your bad scenario. >> well, the bad scenario is that people who have seen that all electoral possibilities have been exhausted or closed off will be radicalized and try to take a more violent and confrontational approach. they are woefully outgunned and

out manned. there are par amilitary groups that are loyal to the chavez movement. the national guard and the armed forces, you know, number -- vastly out number whatever kinds of radical, you know, vij lan tease there might be in the street, but there could be increasing blood shed. in the meantime, the economic situation continues to deteriorate. there is a lot 6 expectation that venezuela, which has less than $10 billion in reserves, will not be are able to service the next round 67 payments on its debt, that it will enter into default, and the economy which has been in this just completely downward spiral, especially over the last two or three years, will simply bottom out. >> wow. >> and there will be prooifation beyond the scope of what we've seen until now. >> okay. thanks very much.

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what. but how big is that group really and how much of what president trump has done these past 199 days has served to make those people happy? well, hooer is the president's view of it courtesy of a tweet this morning. hard to believe that with 24 seven fake news on cnn, abc, nbc, cbs, new york times and "washington post." he's the cnbc editor at large. stand by because i want to take you through some recent polling for a second. this is all from quinnipiac. right now president trump has an approval rating of 33% compared to a 61% disapproval. that's a 28 point deficit. 76% approve of trump but that number has fallen six points since may while the disapproval has gone from 13 to 17%. zoom in now and what's been considered president trump's most supportive groups white voters without a college degree. he's even lost the approval of

of 4 percentage points of them since may. so that group as a whole is now a net negative. 43 to 50. so, john, given that information, what do you make of donald trump's argument that his base is growing? >> well, i think it's a week argument. and, you know, the only way you can really get an answer to these things is to have an election and it must be said that donald trump's performance surprised a lot of people, including me, in november of 2016. but all the available evidence we have is that his base, and the core of his base, as you kad, ali, was those white none college voters. they're the one whose intense support and cohesiveness lifted him to the republican nomination and put him over the top in these key industrial states in the midwest that made him president. that group still is there as his base, but it's just getting smaller and smaller by the month as washington looks dysfunctional and they don't

dpli results. >> but john, i would point out -- let's call it 20, 25%, when you see polling it does show that there's a core group. 22% of people would support him if he shot someone on fifth avenue. so let's say it's would support someone on fifth avenue, that's still a bigger base that most politicians start off with or have. >> true, but it's not enough to win an election. you know, donald trump won in november 2016 on the basis of a group of people who believed intensely in his cause and then a larger group or an additional group of people who had misgivings about him but decided given the alternative in hillary clinton and their frustration with the system to go along with him. if you start melting away the people who had misgivings about donald trump, that's when the juggernaut of trump starts to look much more vulnerable and certainly going to be vulnerable for those republicans on the ballot in the house and senate

in 2018. they're going to have to take into account as they figure out how to deal with president trump how formidable that base is. no doubt that it's less formidable than at the beginning of the year. >> one thing that stephanie and i were talking about this morning, ultimately at this point in the presidency, 200 days in he should be concerned less about the base and the broader number. he's the president of all americans, not just his base. >> that's exactly right. that's one thing he's never done during the course of his first 200 days in office. he's made no serious attempt to reach out beyond his base. i think that's partly strategic and in the sense of the policy commitments he's made flow in that direction. i think there's also an emotional component. he likes in hard times to file the roar -- to feel the roar of the crowd so he goes to west virginia twice in ten days. he goes to youngstown, ohio, which he didn't carry but he did better than republicans usually do. to hear that applause he loves that. and he's going to look for that

when he's getting knocked around by the media and by other critics. >> and the roar of the crowd is loud as we have heard in the rallies. john, thanks so much. john harwood, cnbc editor at large. ladainian tomlinson was inducted into the nfl hall of fame on saturday night. he spoke openly about his heritage and the unique ability that pastimes like football have to transcend normal political boundaries and bring us closer together. his former team tweeted out a portion of the speech saying, ladainian tomlinson spoke, you should listen. we did and here's a portion of the speech that's been deemed the best of the night. >> i'm of mixed race and i represent america. my story is america's story. all our ancestors unless we're american indian came from another country, another culture. football is a microcosm of america.

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it's 4:00. donald trump did not have a rain plan in bedminster where he's spending a 17-day working vacation. he hit twitter early and hard in a tweet storm that encompassed the known triggers. the size of his base, quote, the trump base is far bigger and stronger than ever before. despite some phony fake news polling. look at rallies in pennsylvania, iowa, ohio and west virginia. the fact is that the fake russian news collusion story, record stock market, border security, military strength, jobs, supreme court pick, economic enthusiasm, deregulation and so much more have driven the base even closer together. will never change. at 7:18 a.m. he moved on to his disdain for the press, quote, hard to believe that with 24/7 fake news on cnn, abc, nbc, cbs, ny times, "washington post" the