it's really nice. >> i want to come. >> he just upgraded with petra just like that. >> say goodbye. >> i'm stephanie ruhle. right now "andrea mitchell reports." and right now on "andrea mitchell reports," war of words. donald trump calling the leader of north korea a madman after kim jong-un calls president trump mentally deranged. this after the president gets china's help. finally tightening the screws on the rogue regime. >> the brutal regime does not respect its own citizens or the sovereignty of other nations. a new executive order will cut off sources of revenue that fund north korea's efforts to develop the deadliest weapons known to humankind. >> the social network, facebook reversing itself under growing

pressure, agreeing to turn over 3,000 russian-linked ads to committees investigating russia's meddling in the 2016 campaign. >> we're looking to foreign actors, including additional russian groups and other former soviet states, as well as organizations like the campaigns to further our own understanding of how they used all of our tools. >> and no laughing matter for the third straight night. jimmy kimmel using his late night comedy show to go after republicans who are trying to repeal obamacare. >> a lot of people have been saying i'm not qualified to talk about this, and that is true, i'm not qualified to talk about this. but i think those people forget, bill cassidy named this test after me. am i supposed to just be quiet about that? good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. president trump hurli ining ins

at north korea, tweeting, kim jong-un of north korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn't mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before. kim jong-un said president trump will pay dearly for calling him rocket man in that u.n. speech. he also called him a dotard. translation? a senile, old person. most recently the chair on international cybersecurity. good to see you, tom. what a week in new york, back and forth. the fact is the president kicked off his first u.n. speech with an unusually personal attack against the north korean leader, as well as a threat to destroy north korea if north korea continues on this path. now we have the tit for tat, which is an unprecedented personal on-camera response. >> i think counterproductive.

we actually had some positive developments with respect to north korea yesterday, i think. the president announced sanctions, unilateral sanctions. he announced them in coordination with and when he was actually with the south koreans and the japanese yesterday. but that gets displaced by the rhetoric back and forth. i think it's ill advised from three or four perspectives. it supports european propaganda that the united states is the aggressor. it makes it more difficult for the parties to climb down to get to a negotiation. where secretary tillerson has said and the administration has said where we want to get with a peaceful pressure campaign. it makes it more difficult to uni unify, i think, the world around our effort here to pressure the north koreans. i think we had positive developments yesterday. >> i want to stress that because one of your former colleagues mw

yesterday. he was announcing also that chinese central bank was joining in that crackdown of the very uncommon economic sanctions, the financial institutions, that helped iran get to the negotiating table under president obama and you as the former point person for china. how unusual is it that china finally said its central bank will monitor any financial transactions with pyongyang? >> a couple things. number one, there is a discussion, i think, going on in china right now about the cost of continuing to support the regime in north korea. >> because of its last nuclear test. >> because of the last nuclear test and a lot of dynamics. as you alluded to, our pressure campaign for the better part of five years on iran and the purpose of the pressure campaign. and we're just getting now this week to the level of pressure, i

think, that we need. the purpose, of course, is to bring the party to the table, right? so i think that has to be, as the president alluded to yesterday, it has to be the goal of the pressure campaign. it's not pressure for the sake of pressure. it's towards a goal of bringing him to the table to have a negotiation. i think we made some steps yesterday on that. the fact of china, i think they were trying to get out in front a bit of the announcements they knew were coming on sanctions because a lot of these sanctions will be targeted on chinese entities. >> iran unveiling a new ballistic missile, clearly in response to the rhetoric coming from washington and all of the signals. i was at a briefing with rex tillerson the other night where he said that iran is in tactical compliance but not political compliance with the goals and with the preamble of the iran nuclear deal because the region is not safer. because iran is still, inarguably, supporting assad regime and weaponizing and

training groups in yemen and iraq and syria. the whole long list of iran's other behaviors which were never addressed by the iran nuclear deal. they seem to be wanting to not technically break out but find a way to get the allies despite president rouhani's insistence there will be no renegotiation to toughen up. >> they have admitted and indicated that the iranians are in tactical compliance with the deal. and the entity that oversees compliance has indicated they are in compliance. it would be a tremendous mistake to lelt t the iranians off the k with respect to their obligations of the nuclear deal by walking away. we have the ability to target sanctions for their behavior tha that's outside the deal, diplomatic pressure. it would just be terrible to walk away. i would argue three things if i were briefing the president

today. one, hold the iranians to the deal because it has resulted in them rolling back their nuclear program significantly and putting a freeze on various aspects of it. i would address the range of non-nuclear-related bad behaviors by the iranians aggressively. i think that's exactly what to do, and i would start to have conversations with allies and maybe the iranians about changing the terms of this deal. but walking away from this deal would be a terrible mistake. we made a mistake like this in 2003 when the iranians walked away from an agreement with the north koreans and look where we are today. >> when it turned into rhetoric with the state of the union, in fact. president trump said the region is not safer, like it's supposed to be. how much safer would it be if iran had not been constrained on the nuclear front and now we're developing the kind of weapons that north korea already has? >> exactly right, and the

principal security challenge we faced with north korea was the nuclear program, and we have addressed that. the region would not be more safe if they were unconstrained with respect to the nuclear program, no doubt about that. >> let me ask you about facebook. finally caving in, i would say, and reversing themselves on this whole issue of how they accepted russian-linked ads that may well have had an influence on the campaign. the congress up in arms over this. you've got competing issues here, which is privacy and the whole essence of what the internet has always meant, but the fact they can be played by foreign actors meddling in our campaign has to be addressed, doesn't it? >> i think exactly right. and i think what needs to happen is that we need to have a plan for how to prevent what russia did in 2016 from happening again in 2018 and 2020. and the refusal of the administration, the white house, really, to kind of embrace the

findings of the intelligence committee. in fact, there was an attempt by the russian federation to affect our election really has prohibited us from moving ahead with forward planning. if i were to advise the administration on this, i think they could get themselves in a much better place and put the country in a better place by having a frank discussion about what happened and have a plan going forward to make sure it doesn't happen again, including the abilities of the social media companies. turning now to a story right now unfolding at howard university. former fbi director james comey facing loud protests during his keynote address to kick off the school year in his new role as an endowed professor there. >> welcome to howard. i'm honored to be here with you and i look forward to adult conversations about what is right and what is true. thank you. >> nbc news justice correspondent pete williams joins me now with more.

pete, you covered james comey for so long, you know him well. this is an unusual experience. can you explain what's going on there? >> yeah, that was the end of the speech. what you didn't hear was that for the entire time he was speaking, which was about 12 minutes, there was a ceaseless protest going on from about 20 people in the audience. maybe we can listen to just a bit of this here. about 20 or 25 people in the back of the hall, they held up signs at one point that said "black lives matter" and they called themselves hu resist, howard university resist. they said afterwards to our michelle dubert who was there at howard, the justice department doesn't care about us, they are racist. so they were speaking about the justice department and james comey was as the fbi director. as for the text of the speech,

it was pretty much what you would hear at any connotation at any university about the importance of university education, about the importance of getting diverse point of views from different people and trying to reach outside yourself, and the question of whether the university is really part of the real world or not. so it was a surprising welcome, shall we say, to james comey. nothing at all about the topic a here in washington, nothing about the russia investigation, nothing about his time as fbi director, nothing about being fired by president trump. none of the sort of things that we were all waiting to see if he would talk about, and i'm sure for him it was a surprising experience. >> indeed. and if he thought he was leaving the fray of the politics of the white house, of the trump white house, to the groves of academia, this is hardly the welcome he expected. another moment potentially next week.

christopher wray is going to have his swearing in as the fbi director, obviously he's already on the job, and the secretary of states show up as well as all the former directors. is this going to be a reunion of sorts? >> i doubt it. we don't know whether the president is going or not. certainly all the former directors have been invited and there still are several out there. the big question is whether robert mueller, who is running the russian investigation, will show up. one former justice department official told me today he very much doubts mr. mueller will go there. a question whether mr. comey will show up along with president trump. that would be, shall we say, awkward. we're all going to be watching to see. they've all been invited. we don't know how many will show up. it will certainly be an interesting moment. >> people you should not have at the same dinner party. pete williams, thank you very much. and time could be running out. mexican officials racing to free any survivors trapped in the rubble following tuesday's devastating earthquake.

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the massive effort to save lives continues across mexico city. the focus today is on a factory in the heart of the city where two people were rescued overnight. as you can see, there are hundreds of state workers and

volunteers at the site working nonstop hoping desperately to find more survivors. at least 286 people have died. that number, of course, can change as events are unfolding. mexican navy officials did clear up the confusion we saw at an elementary school on thursday. what crews said was not correct when they said students were caught beneath the rubble. all students and teachers are accounted for, but they say they're still picking up signs of life. mariana, what are we seeing today? >> reporter: i'm in a corner right now to not disrupt the efforts on the ground. there are hundreds of people here at this textile factory where i am, and no one is making a sound because those fists have gone up in the air, meaning they need silence to possibly detect any signs of life under the rubble. the fists have gone up for, i would say, the sixth or seventh

time in the span of the five hours i've been here as rescue workers and the military continue to workd day and night to save lives. overnight one rescue about eight miles from this textile factory and two rescues here witnessed by nbc news. the factory is known as -- seamstresses and others are digging through the rubble. they say 200 people at this point are unaccounted for. they're confirm, 44 claollapsed buildings and 66 officers on the ground. but today, this silence we're witnessing here at this textile

factory means hope is still very much alive here in mexico city on day 4 of this national tragedy. andrea? >> mariana atencio, thank you very much. the ambassador joins me here. our condolences. i know your family's home had some damage but thankfully all are well and alive. >> all are well. >> tell us about the rescue effort. there's been a lot of diplomatic tension between the u.s. and the mexican leaders, but that really did evaporate in the wake of this tragedy. >> well, look, i think as always, when tragedy hits, whether it's in hurricanes in the u.s. as we've seen with harvey and katrina when mexico sent personnel across the border, the l.a. -- the city of l.a. rescue teams that are in mexico city right now, these are two countries that are joined at the hip for the good, and both countries and peoples understand

the well-being, security and prosperity of each other impacts their own prosperity, security and well-being. what i think is very impressive that mexico is certainly shaken, stirred, but not broken. and what you're seeing there in these images of civil society working hand in hand with authorities is a very inspirational message of civility and superhuman strength. so many times when people bang their drums saying mexico is a failed state, i think what we're seeing here is society is alive and kicking and it's working hand in hand. >> how is it different from the 1985 quake and its aftermath? you were a student in the streets, volunteering, trying to help. >> well, first of all, the massive scale of what occurred in 1985, there are estimates that up to 12,000 people died in that earthquake in 1985. what has happened between then

and now is obviously a huge curve of learning both in terms of building codes and regulations, mexico and japan, for example, being two of the few countries that have seismic alerts that go off 10, 12 seconds before an earthquake hits which has proven to be a very important tool. and also the institutional standard operating procedures that were put in place after '85 when the mexican government at the time basically just collapsed with the buildings and was unable to respond quickly. and that's when mexican civil society occupied that vacuum. and, in fact, a lot of ngos that we see in mexico today were born as a result of that social mobilization back in 1985. >> and what lessons do you think we should take from this? we have a lot of vulnerability, particularly on the west coast, and we don't have those seismic alerts that you mentioned to

save lives in tokyo and now mexico city. >> i think building codes and seismic alerts but also protocols for collaboration. andrea, you also have had some very important tragic learning experiences. 9/11 in new york, i think, triggered a new way local law enforcement, city standards work together to confront things like this. in many ways, this is what has developed in mexico, too. so i think a lot of what we can see happening right now across the border is this exchange of experiences, of best practices and of collaboration. >> arturo sarukhan, always good to see you. thank you very much. >> thank you. republicans making one last stab at repeeling obseraling ob. chuck todd joins me next on "andrea mitchell reports" on

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. i don't know what the point of speaking to him is. we spoke, he told me one thing, he did another. are we supposed to do that again? some people tell me i should

gifr him the benefit of the doubt, and i know what, i do give him the benefit of the doubt. i do all the benefits he claims will turn to something. >> he talks about bill cassidy's personal commitment to protect families with preexisting conditions, such as kimmel's newborn son's harrowing open heart surgery. will it stall the momentum of the republicans' last ditch effort to pass the obamacare repeal before the deadline? joining me, chuck todd, host of mtp daily right here on msnbc. chuck, let's talk health care. this is touch and go. there has been a lot of benefits offered to alaska after the alaska governor and other republican governors came out against this. and alaska, of course, is critical because lisa measure c -- murkowski's vote is hanging in the balance. >> one of the things i heard

they're trying to do is create a special alaska-hawaii deal so that it looks like it's not a deal that is just for one vote with lisa murkowski, but this idea that both alaska and hawaii share the same challenge, which is you don't have as many providers, you don't have as many doctors you can see, so you have to give them more of that. i think if they get caught looking like they're buying a vote with lisa murkowski, i think politically that becomes even more problematic, perhaps for her as well. i think she's mindful of that. look, andrea, it appears they've got the same issues. you've got four potential no votes sitting out there, lisa murkowski, susan collins, rand paul and john mccain, and all of their previous complaints, this bill doesn't answer any of them, right? rand paul believes you got to repeal the whole thing. this essentially keeps a lot of the architecture in place. john mccain is a no because he wants regular order. they are obviously not doing regular order. susan collins and lisa murkowski

are worried about the substance of the bill, worried about the medicaid expansion in particular, but also the issue of preexisting conditions. the fact of the matter is, this is the problem. they have not been able to successfully defend the idea. they claim those with preexisting conditions are going to be protected, but there is no guarantee that the states will do that. they're hoping the states will do that. they're incentivizing, they believe, the states to do that. they're trying to push them to do that. but there is nothing that guarantees it, and i think that's their trouble. that final sale, i think that's going to make it why they may come up not just one vote short but maybe a couple. rob portman? do we know for sure he's voting for this? i wouldn't be so sure. >> this is touch and go, and just to explain to everyone, september 30 is the point beyond which they would need 60 votes, not the 50. so under the rather arcane rules

of budget selection, that is the hard line. let's look at the nbc news poll because it shows the president's approval rating has ticked up, and if you scroll down through it, it's apparently because people like him reaching across the aisle to chuck and nancy. 71% like that. >> there is a specific area where he spiked. 10 points among independents. independents love bipartisanship, so that's why that deal in particular, the most approved thing he's done since we measured anything in his presidency, and that is where the uptick was. interestingly, it's not just independent, it's white male independents is where the spike came from specifically. he still actually didn't make any progress among women. in fact, actually went down a point among women from the previous poll. but it really was with independent men in particular where this bipartisan deal, his

trying to triangulate a little bit, the optics on the hurricane. we haven't had bombastic president trump in quite some time, really, since the storms started hitting this country. all of that, you assumed that it would be the middle of the electorate that would be pleased with this ask thatnd that's whaw in our poll. >> that should be a warning sign, though, to democrats who think they're well positioned going into the midterms, and of course 2020. i want to ask you about mitch mcconnell's ratings in this poll. not so strong. >> mitch mcconnell is becoming as much of a political problem for republican senate candidates, potential, as nancy pelosi is. here's what's happened over the last three months. mitch mcconnell never had very positive ratings, but for the most part he's been sort of under the radar. more than half the country hasn't really known who he was. the president has, in his criticism over the last two

months of mitch mcconnell, raised mitch mcconnell's name i.d. and not in a good way. now his negatives nearly match, for instance, nancy pelosi's negatives. the difference is nancy pelosi's negatives are all coming from the democratic side. in mitch mcconnell's case, his rise in negative rating is coming from trump supporters. not necessarily republican party supporters, but trump supporters, let alone democrats. but that is something where suddenly mitch mcconnell may become a liability in campaigns in the same way republicans believe they can use nancy pelosi to drive wedges in the way they have in house races. you suddenly have to ask yourself, is mitch mcconnell going to become a figure like that? perhaps in primaries. we're going to find out all of this, i think, in alabama of just how toxic or not. >> i want to quickly talk about private planes. what is it about this

administration and private planes, expensive travel? now according to hallie jackson, our colleague over at the white house, the hhs inspector general is investigating tom price, the cabinet secretary, for taking at least 24 flights on private charter planes at taxpayers' expense since may. one of them to philadelphia. i still for the life of me cannot figure out taking a charter to philadelphia from washington, d.c. it's about an hour and a half on the train. steve mnuchin had a request to try to take the plane on his honeymoon. scott pruitt going home on weekends at the administration's expense. this is a lifestyle of the rich and famous. >> it is, and it's interesting with tom price. you and i have covered a lot of politicians over the years who -- i don't know what to call it, but when you're surrounded by wealthy people but you're not

wealthy, and you're in public service, it's amazing how many politicians rationalize going, well, geez, look at this cabinet. it's filled about wealthy people. tom price doesn't have near the wealth that a mnuchin or devos. and he sees, though, that they have all this wealth and perhaps are using it to -- they have their own plane or they have access to a plane the way devos does. and then they think, well, i need the same thing. and you start rationalizing it. i'm not saying that's what it is, but i have seen this in the past where you see politicians who rationalize taking the money from the public dole or traveling in a first class way because they're surrounded by people and donors and supporters or others that do, and it's sort of a keep up with the joneses aspect, or whatever you want to call it. i can't help if that's an

environmental -- tom price, the congressman, railed on this. >> exactly. >> so is it just -- there is a climate that was created in the trump cabinet that said, hey, you guys are special. you're executive vice presidents. this is the way you should travel. >> well, they are working for the first president who thinks he's a step down, or at least for whom air force i is less luxurious than his own private plane. >> i have heard that he does believe that while maybe the technology is better in air force i, i think he thinks his plane is, shall we say, better laid out. >> to be continued, of course. much more today on "mtp daily" at 5:00 eastern. if it is sunday, it is "meet the press" on nbc. check your local listings on "meet the press." we have new details on hurricane maria's path. the category 3 hurricane

powering through turks and caicos. it's expected to hit the bahamas, take a turn and avoid most of the coast. we're seeing flooding along with the destruction of the storm in puerto rico. most of the area without power. could be months. people desperate for the bare essentials to survive the next few weeks. tami leitner is amid all of this in san juan. tami? >> reporter: andrea, this entire rescue mission started with a single s.o.s. text message that went to the mayor of san juan. it came from this ocean park neighborhood behind me, a plea for help that people were trapped in their homes. the mayor came out here, she called police, she called rescue, she called ambulances and they all rallied and went in right behind me. four rescue boats, humvees. they went through the streets here. we went alongside with her, and you know what we saw?

we saw a lot of people that were trapped. eight rescues made within an hour and a half. half of those people were elderly, the other half had medical issues. we did see some people that chose to stay. the waters came up to about our chest. we were walking through the water with her, and i was asking her, why are you doing this? why are you risking everything right now? and she said, this is my neighborhood, these are my people, and i just want to help them get out safely. so again, eight people were rescued while we were there. some of them had medical conditions and they were taken to an area hospital. andrea? >> such courage. it's an incredible resilience. thanks so much to tammy leitner and all our crews down there who are going through this together with the people of puerto rico. thank you, tammy. coming up, getting personal. donald trump name-calling the north korean leader much like his name-calling tactics.

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written that. third-rate reporter, remember that. third rate. >> donald trump on the campaign trail of a personal bullying on the podium by a candidate. bullying that led to serious concerns when the crowd turned on katy tur. a personal account who found herself suddenly assigned to covering donald trump's campaign from vet first dthe very first . we learn a lot from her in her book "unbelievable" about the way donald trump is conducting himself as president. that book is now number 2, debuting on the times best seller list. anchor of the 2:00 p.m. msnbc, frequent anchor daily. my colleague, my friend, katy

tur. >> i like friend the best. >> i like friend the best, too. you have had the guts to write about this experience, and ba basically it took me back to the way i tackled covering ronald reagan which is to get to know the person you are covering so deeply by going every step of the way that when something untoward happens, a tweet against kim jong-un, you can explain with experience, well, that's why he reacted this way. that's why he called him rocket man despite advice from diplomats not to. you understand the president because of the way you covered the candidate. >> was invaluable to be there as long as i was there. i was there for 510 days or so. the first rally i went to was june 30th of 2015. this is when nobody, andrea, was taking him seriously. there wasn't a gaggle of political reporters there to cover his every move like there was for somebody like jeb bush,

say, during that time or hillary clinton during that time. so because i was there from the beginning while nobody was taking him seriously, and because nbc news decided to take him as seriously as they did, i was able to see him evolve, i should say, as a candidate, see where he evolved and where he did not change at all. >> there was a key moment when he was talking about hillary clinton's e h-mails. i wanted to play that and your questions to him afterwards. >> you said i welcome them to find those 30,000 e-mails -- >> well, they probably have them. i would like to have them released. >> does that not give you pause? >> no, hey, you know what gives me more pause? that a person in our government, crooked hillary clinton -- be quiet, i know you want to save her -- that a person in our government, katy, would delete or get rid of 30,000 e-mails.

>> now, that really resonates now after the fact, but you were pushing back on him, and that's another one of the reasons they got so angry with you. or he personally did. >> it was astounding not only his friendliness toward vladimir putin about the campaign. that raised a lot of red flags. why was he so generous toward somebody who has been -- >> he still is. >> -- still is, but has been accused of not being nice to other state people or other journalists. so in the middle of the democratic convention, and hillary is supposed to be hogging the spotlight at that moment, he comes in and tries to take it from her. and for him to call on a foreign government to nose their way into the e-mail of a private citizen in this country or a public citizen in this country was remarkable. and i thought it was important to ask him whether he was kidding there essentially, does

it not give you pause, does it not concern you to have a foreign government meddling, and he said, no, it didn't. little did we know how valuable that moment would be looking back on it all these months later. >> the president has just tweeted that the greatest influence over our election was the fake news media. he's going back to that again, that we're screaming for crooked hillary clinton, next she was a bad candidate, all this. he just can't let this go and he's president, and the fact that he's still going after hillary clinton today -- >> part of the reason is he's always needed a foil. and he realized that early on. he's somebody who works from the gut, he is somebody who is very intuitive. so when he started railing on the press and he got cheers for it, he kept going with it. t it inoculated himself. i think one of the big things

that people overlook is i was there from the very beginning. i was the most familiar face to him for long stretches in the beginning of the campaign where we would go places and i would be the only person he knew at a rally, the only person in the press. so we built a reels shlationshi strong relationship, strong meaning we interacted a lot early on, and that meant that he really wanted favorable coverage. i'm nbc news. i was there from the beginning. he wanted favorable coverage from me. i wouldn't give it to him so he would push back and try to charm, and when that didn't work, he would go on the attack. it was really illuminating about who he was as a person, who he was as a candidate and who he is now as the president of the united states. 2016 is a road map, and the book lays that out. >> well, in fact, my theory of the case is that part of the reason that you were so successful in covering him, still are, and part of the reason why this book resonates is that you brought fresh eyes

to it. you had not covered politics before. >> no. >> which was a virtue. because you had no preconceived notions. he was new to politics. and you looked at him through of eyes of an outsider, and i think that's what made you such an insightful reporter all along the way. >> i empathize with trump voters. i understand where they're coming from, i understand why he was appealing. i think everybody in washington does an amazing job covering politics. the amount of knowledge you and other political reporters have at their disposal is remarkable. and it's valuable. i think with donald trump, what made him hard to cover was that he broke all of the long-established rules. he defied, as i like to say, political gravity. and for me going in, when he would say washington and politicians are a bunch of liars, i understood why he might

say that. i understood why people might want to believe him when he said that, even though he was not truthful by any stretch. there was just this deep-seated frustration that washington didn't care, that the politicians they elected didn't actually care about them, and what could go wrong. i mean, what could really go wrong? how could it actually function worse than it was functioning right now. why not bring somebody in who would at the very least shake something up. >> katy tur, i can't tell you how happy and excited i am. and again, i've learned so much. >> every day it's a love fest, but if there was anybody to get experience or to learn from, covering a candidate who at times was a bit of a bully, it was you. from frank rizzo, the mayor of philadelphia. if you don't know this story about andrea, you should go and

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