all right. in my final seconds, i'll put a reporter on the spot. what happens next. >> assuming that the north korean negotiations go well assumes that a white house that has gotten all of the little things wrong can get the big things right. i think that's a big assumption to make. >> you think that's the assumption they are making, that's their gam be, they are going to stumble along. >> i think pop of audio is competent ten and knows exactly what he's doing. again, pompeo is not the one in charge. >>ly not going to be the one on the ballot either. my thanks to my panel. that does it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace, "mtp daily" starts right now. hi chuck. >> happy friday. >> happy friday. >> you got it. if it's friday, war and peace meets the art of the deal. tonight, the president tauts a step ahead in his korean peninsula peace talks. >> that i hope i can do for the wore. >> while getting ready to step

back from the iran deal. plus, no translation required. reading in between the lines of trump/merkel meeting. finally the russia report. house intelligence committee republicans are out with their repo report. did they do much investigating? this is "mtp daily," and it is start rights now. good evening. i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." the president's allies are saying he might deserve the nobel peace prize for what's going on with north korea while his critics worry he is being played and he might accidentally set off world war iii, with not with north korea, then with iran. right now the president is barrelling towards a pair of complications both of which have nuclear implications. how do you take his statements. they are usually full of

contradictions. at this time he says he is sbep on making a deal with north korea on denuclearization while at the same time saying he wants to break a deal he has with iran. this afternoon president trump was asked specifically about making a deal with north korea so he doesn't get played and he basically offed a unch about of vague assurances. >> things have changed radiallically from a few months ago. we are doing very well. they are treating us with great respect. a lot of great thing are happening with respect to north korea. i think some very good thing can happen with respect to north korea. we will handle it. we are handling it well. >> as you can see there he said a lot of words but there weren't a lot of specifics there. here's some of what the president said about what to do if he pulls out of the iran nuclear agreement. >> in the absence of a new agreement, are you prepared to use military force to reign in

the nuclear program in iran? >> i don't talk about whether or not i would use military force. that's not appropriate to be talking about. but i can tell you this, they will not be doing nuclear wes, that i can tell you. okay? >> we'll handle it. bank on it. but to be fair on the issue of north korea despite the out about on taunts involving nuclear war with the warnings of fire and fury and suicide missions we have just witnessed something historic, diplomatic developments with kim jong-un as he gears up for that high stakes meeting with president trump. kim met with south korea's president and vowed complete denuclearization. and he also vowed a formal end to the korean war which still technically hasn't clkded in the 65 years since hostilities ceased. and today kim jong-un became the first north korean leader to ever set foot in south korea. it is a small step in the hopes of giant leaps.

but it should be treated with caution. trump is giving kim the validation he craves by meeting with him one on one. but today the president insists he is not being played. >> how are you sewer that kim is trying to play the u.s.? >> i don't think he is playing. it has never gone this far. i don't think it has ever had this enthusiasm for them wanting to make a deal. and i agree yeah the united states has been played beautifully like a fiddle because you had a different kind of a leader i'm to the going to be played. >> i'm join by victor cha. he was a top white house adviser on korea during the bush administration and reported the top candidate for mr. trump to be the baghdad to korea until

they decided not to. what do you think of what we saw overnight on the korean peninsula. >> this is the first time the south koreans hosted the north koreas. this is the third meeting between leaders, it was in 2007 and 2001. i was in seoul this week. and message was like a party. before success could be declared they were claiming success right away. for the south koreans and for the north koreans, very historic, talking about peace. it's very foreign and represents the views of the korean people in general. so it's important. >> one of the things that has some people skeptical already of the north koreans was the simple fact they didn't televise this at all. it was as you just said, party atmosphere in seoul. bill neely our global affairs correspondent was saying the same thing. this sort of hopefulness. and the way he is describing it. the descriptions of remembered during the fall of the berlin

wall. it fell that momentous. are you concerned that he is not advertising this to his own people? >> sure. the question always is, is this just an act where he's hoping to get these meetings to remake his own image? i mean six months ago he was the reclusive rogue leader who wanted to fire missiles at the united states. and now he is like everybody's darling, smiling on the cameras and waiting for a meeting with president trump. >> a lot of conditions did change in the last year. number one was a new president in south korea what won on a mandate of per sursuing peace. is that fair to say? >> yes. >> the china for the first time seemed participate in the of course is as that we hadn't seen before, when we did sanction the north koreans. and then of course you had what some might describe as the "madmen" theory of how to deal with kim jong-un where donald trump made it clear he wasn't afraid to quote punch him in the

nose with some sort of military shot. all those changing conditions, should we look at that and say that's why we saw what we saw yesterday? >> i think that's one of the main reasons why we saw what we saw. the unanswered question is whether kim has had a come the jesus moment, will he has decided to trade in all of his nuclear equipment for assistance and security guarantees. this summit between south and north korea didn't help us determine any of those things. >> it was precooked. i want to play something from the president and his press conference with angela merkel. >> i have a responsibility to see if i can do it. if i can't do it, it will be a very tough time for a lot of countries and a lot of people. it's certainly something that i hope i can do for the world. this is beyond the united states. this is a world problem. and it's something that i hope

i'm able to do for the world. >> what it does -- he clearly is the person that probably has to close this deal, right? if we accept it, it's about troops and all these things. if you were back in that room and you were the current ambassador, how would you advise the president on how to be cautiously optimistically skeptical i guess of the north koreans? >> yes. so i think the main thing is that this whole issue of denuclearization is the key to everything. right? if north korea is willing to difficult up their weapons, peace treaty, normalization, all that is possible. >> do you think we have the same definition of what denuclearization looks like. >> that's the big question because i think right now there is nothing that the north koreans have said thus far that leads one to believe we have similar denuclearizations. the simplest thing would be for north korea to reaffirm statements they made in the past, 2005, 1992 which were money more definitive about

giving up their weapons. but they chose not to make those stumts. that puts pressure on the next summit between trump and kim. it is going to be extremely important and the expectations have grown even more as a result this summit. >> quickly, the main motivation for kim jong-un here, do you think it's more likely on the economic front that the sanctions have had a bite and he is trying to dpt out of the sanctions and that's the moment or could it be his program isn't working and it's actually going to take him longer to get the nuclear weapons and now he realizes he may not get them and mights well cut a deal now. >> i think he sees a pause working to his advantage right now but his main goal is to be recognized by the united states as nuclear weapons state. trade down some weapons but he wants to keep them. >> victor cha, thank you. almost in that administration. do you understand why you weren't picked now or not? or is it more opaque. >> every administration has the choice to pick one and to change

their mind. i'm at peace with it. >> victor cha, let's hope that there is peace. things were a bit icy at times between the president and angela merkel at today's press conference. these two don't see eye to eye on a number of issues. boy did it show is this we have a far greater burden that than we should have. other countries should be paying more. we are protecting europe yet we pay by far more than anybody else. nato is wonderful but it helps europe more than it helps us and why are we paying a vast majority of costs. >> we had a exchange of views on the current state of affairs, the negotiations respective assessments of where we stan on this and the decision lies with the president. >> the united states right now has a trade deficit with the prooen of $151 billion. >> germany and you were have to take their destiny into their own hands because we can no longer as we used to during the

period of the cold war during the years when germany was divided relie on america coming and helping us. >> when i look at the numbers in germany and some other countries, they may not like donald trump, but you have to understand that means i'm doing a good job because i'm representing the united states. >> let me bring in tonight's panel. matthew couldn't netty. joshua johnson, and jennifer palmieri, the communications director for the obama white house and the clinton campaign. she is also author of a new book, dear madam president an open letter to the women who will run the world. thanks for coming. let's stick to -- i want to get quickly on the korea front. joshua johnson put this in perspective. what did you see today? >> a big step, a symbolic step. i think koreans are excited on the peninsula about the prospect of peace as a big deal. of course part of me is cynical a little bit whether or not kim jong-un is serious. in some ways he has been driving

this process quite a about it. remember he was the one who fired missiles over the korean peninsula and japan and then he was the one who crawled for a peace summit. he was the one who crossed into south korea. and then he was the one who walked president moon into the north. in some ways he has been driving. it's great they turned the demilitarized zone into a peace zone. easing some of the issues with maritime areas so fishermen from the north and the south don't clash but part of me is still concerned that he is driving so much that by the time the u.s. gets to the point where it is part of the talks the train has literally left the station and there is not much more to negotiate without blowing up what leader kim has already laid the foundation for. >> matthew, why do you have a feeling you are going to agree with almost everything joshua just said? >> well said. the key dynamic is both of the leaders want deals. >> what does that mean?

are you too eager? >> there is one person who isn't. and that's national security adviser john bolton. he said there is two ways this can go. long talks that end in failure or short talks that end in failure. >> that's what is amazing here. what john bolton would be saying about this development if the he was currently just a fox news analyst. >> that's right. so the question is, will reality hit? and will the staff in terms of bolton and pompeo be able to maybe walk back trump's eagerness for a deal so you don't concede too much. >> there was a lot of mention of president obama during his presser today. >> yes. >> i -- what do you think he makes of what kim jong-un is up to? forget president trump here a minute. >> what president obama makes of it? >> what he -- it's sort of stunning this sea chain with him. >> it's stunning. i feel that there is a vacuum of leadership on the world stage from the united states that used

to be there, which is allowing these kinds of conversations -- could be allowing these kinds of conversations to happen that wouldn't otherwise happen. >> is that oddly a good thing, though? >> in some ways i wonder if people are step up to the plate in ways they wouldn't before because they were too rely an on america. china and india, a meeting with their leaders today. too. what matters is the staff work that happens ahead of time and then there is the chemistry of the actual leaders in the room where the human element really take over. and with president trump you have an impest youous leader who wants to make a deal and that's -- >> somebody made a good point when this first came out. it was somebody close to the president. it was an anonymous quote for obvious reasons. listen, have you ever known donald trump to have had a bad in-person meeting with somebody? i want to move to the iran deal

because i was stunned today that nobody asked the president about what his secretary of defense said the day before on capitol hill about the iran deal. here it is. >> i have read it now three times, all 156 pages or whatever it is. and i will say that it is written almost with an assumption that iran would try to cheat. so the verification, what is in there, is actually pretty robust. >> that's quite an endorse men of the iran deal, matthew. >> right, and baghdad nikki heyly would disagree, secretary of state mike pompeo would disagree. and national security adviser john bolton would disagree. mattis is going out on limb. part of this axis which includes macron and merkel in order to preserve the deal unlike three to work. >> he innel, mattis, macron trying hard to save the deal.

>> if the iran deal falls apart and other aroundments have to be tee employed who has to deal with it? secretary mattis is thinking about the worst case scenario. i'm interesting to see what happens when pompeo meets with benjamin netanyahu on sunday i think it is. i'm not clear what the plan is if the iran deal falls apart. you mentioned the art of the deal at the top of the show. one of president trump's key points from the book the art of the deal is to deal with the downside and the upside will take care of itself. i'm not sure he has communicated to the world what the plan is in case the downside materializes. >> ma'am? >> mattis may be the minority but i think he is speaking for a majority of where the national security career world is in trying to maintain the iran deal. but whether his -- you know,

trump's e trump's ego is such that he will let it go after may 12th is a game day call. >> the way to talk him into it. may be do you want to kip the chit, do you want to keep the threat of pulling out. i think matthew is right. it's unlikely to happen. they want to see what happens if they pull out. let's pause it here. up next the house intel committee's new report on the trump campaign and russia and the backlash on the hill. that's next. k guts to start my business. but as it grew bigger and bigger, it took a whole lot more. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. everything. and that 2% cash back adds up to thousands of dollars each year... so i can keep growing my business in big leaps!

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committee released their final report from a year long probe of russia's meddling in the 2016 election today. their report says it found in evidence of ties between the president trump campaign and russia, which he quickly claimed as vindication. >> we were honored. it was a great report. no collusion, which i knew anyway. no coordination. no nothing. >> but the republican report also says the investigation did find poor judgment and ill considered actions by the trump and clinton campaigns. democrats on the panel say republicans rushed to end the investigation prematurely. the panel is back. matthew, joshua, jennifer. before i get into some of the details of this report. is the house intel report matter is this? is anybody going to take it seriously as a genuine document or is it a political document? >> ill i think there were a few revelations both from the report and from the minority view, overall this gets thrown auto the partisan maw of the russia

story and there is really only one investigation that matters and that's robert mueller's. >> i don't think history is going to be kind to this report down the road but i don't know it has much of an impact today. >> it lets us know how the committee operated, in a bipartisan fashion. that has a real impact on things. you know, you should have -- you do need serious oversight of the intel community. let me repeat, you need serious oversight of the intel committee. that is no joke. >> i don't understand why paul ryan and nancy pelosi accident sort of set aside partisanship and clear this thing up. >> nancy pelosi and paul ryan. >> the two of them could have figured something out. >> paul ryan was not going to do that. >> they acknowledged more information may be found in the

report. we acknowledge additional investigations by other committees, the special counsel or the media may be found that were outside the scope of our investigation. i think one of the criticisms of their committee is they drew a collusion conclusion without talking to most of the people who had meetings with russians. >> that's part of what a congressman said today on this network. that there were a number of people that the minority wanted to talk to but the majority did not. and it's interesting that this information about natalia veselnitskaya has come out. >> i agree that robert mueller's investigation is the one that really counts particularly because i feel like this idea of collusion has gotten a little bit too noisy in terms of the public understanding of this matter. let's remember, collusion is a scriptor. it's not a law. there is no crime in the federal statute -- >> the law actually would be

conspiracy. >> exactly. conspiracy is a crime. you can end up being part of a conspiracy unwittingly even if you did not clued to be part of it. >> right. >> i have kind of learned to ignore the house and frankly the senate investigations. the congressional piece of this to me is decreasingly important. i'm much more paying attention to robert mueller, if he releases anything. it's possible at the end of this if he finds nothing that's actionable or that can be released to the public without compromising national security the investigation could just end. even if that happens that's saying something. >> that's how fbi investigations are supposed to go. they are supposed to end privately. >> you know, matthew, it is in an attempt -- i guess the house republicans were trying to create a both sides lecture here. they said the trump campaign, what they did, their poor judgment was the trump tower meeting. and candidate trump's praise of wikileaks, they say to the clinton campaign their bad judgment had to do with paying for opposition resource obtained

from reason officials and the steele dossier. seemed like they went out of their way to throw the clinton campaign into this when it wasn't part of the scope this investigation. >> it was definitely the scope of devin nunes's investigation. it was getting to the source of where the original counter-intelligence probe came from and the focus was on that original dossier by chris teefr steele. whether that piece has anything again with what mueller is looking into i'm not so sure. we probably would have heard about this. though i think we will hear more about the trump tower meeting. >> the roster of people in that room is going to become an important roster. >> high up in the report it made the very clear point that the u.s. is not really ready for cyber attacks. >> i have it here. on the state election infrastructure. communication between the department of homeland security and state election officials was impeded by state officials

mistrust of federal government overreach coupled with russian cyber intrusions. >> that's what we need to take seriously. it's gotten lost in partisanship over the house intelligence committee investigation. but this is the real thing. this is part of the challenge of paper trails and funding election departments and the need for every day civilians to volunteer so you understand how the system works. >> another thing. inadequate fbi notification to hacked victims. meaning they didn't let people know the russians were hacking them in real timer near time. were you hacked or attempted to hack? when did you find out about it? what was the lag. >> i personally was attempted a hack. you find out abuse dealing let you know that someone tried to do it. >> you didn't click on that link, click here for a great recipe or something like that. >> i didn't click on that link.

but as has been publicly documented the fbi showed up at the clinton heads in april to say we have reason to believe that a state actor is attempting to hack into your e-mail. we are like thanks we got that. >> that was six months ago. >> yeah. thanks. i did agree with that part of the report. >> i'm going to pause it there. we will come back one more time. we have real work to do today. it's friday. i know. up ahead, president trump more verbal ammo at former fbi director james comey. what's behind his latest tweet storm.

welcome back. tonight i'm obsessed with president trump's obsession with the past, especially when things are awry. in his news conference with the german chancellor angela merkel today the discussion turned to achieving peace in north korea. >> i think i have a responsible. i think other presidents should have done it. >> remember that last guy? he should have done imt where have i heard that before? >> i didn't want to do this. i would have been very happy had obama been a great president. >> i'm angry at our president for being a grossly incompetent president. >> perhaps the worst president in the history of the united states. one hell of a lousy president. george bush gave us obama. >> i'm not blaming george bush. fit weren't for george bush, we wouldn't have bee obama. incompetent president. incompetent. the worst president is an

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trump to the friend. that friend passed on the memo to the media, which resulted in the appointment of a special counsel. listen to the president. >> comey is leaker and he's a liar. not only on this stuff. he has been leaking for years. et cetera a all classified. it was totally classified. so illegally -- he did an illegal act and he said it himself, in order to get a special counsel against me. >> comey responded in an interview of his own last night, part of his media junket after the release of his book. he says the memo he gave to a friend to leak to the media was not classified. >> he is just wrong. facts really do matter, which is why i'm on this show to answer your questions. that memo was unclassified then. it's still unclassified. it's in my book. the fbi cleared that book before it could be published. that's a false statements. >> joining me now, ben with it

-- wittes. >> what do you believe james comey's goal was with this book? >> i would have to ask him that. i think he has a story to tell. and he has an argument that he wants to make about what ethical leadership is and is not. and he wants to talk about that in the context of both decisions that he made in leading the fbi and in other context and in the context of looking at the incumbent administration and its behavior. >> do you rememberious wh >> do you rememberious what you remember about this critique from susan collins about comey's book. >> is it potentially disruptive to the mueller probe? >> that's what worries me. i cannot imagine why an fbi director would seek to essentially cash in on a book when the investigation is very much alive. he should have waited to do his

memoir. that critique specifically, he should have waited. >> i don't know the details of mueller probe. so i don't know what would and would not interfere with it honestly. i do not that there is rather little factually that comey revealed in this book that is not also in his public testimony before the senate intelligence committee on which senator collins sits. so i -- and i know that -- i have a lot of confidence that jim would never do anything that he believed would impair an investigation that he headed and cares deeply about and that bob mueller now head. and so you know, what is the impact on that investigation? my suspicion is little or nothing. i can't promise you that, not knowing the details of it. >> it's pretty clear the president does believe that this is the root of all his problems

is somehow james comey. >> i can't help him with that problem. >> it seems that's what he believes. it's going to lead him to get more involved with the justice deputy. i have to play this excerpt from yesterday. >> they have a witch-hunt against the president of the united states going on. i have taken the position -- and i don't have to take this position, and maybe i'll changed, that i will not be involved with the justice department. i will wait until this is over. i have decided that i won't be involved. i may change my mind at some point because what's going on is a disgrace. it is an absolute disgrace. >> now, there is two race to read that. you could read his tone and he seems angry and ready to meddle or you can look at his words and say he is pledging not to meddle. what did you hear there? >> it's both, of course. first of all, his tone and his words are both consistent with his prior actions in which he h has meddled. he in fact meddled repeatedly

with the investigation when comey was running it. he has publicly meddled with the investigation since then by threatening to remove the special counsel on repeated occasions, by menacing the attorney general for his quite correct decision to recuse himself, and by attacking the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. he also demands prosecutions of people he doesn't like, particularly his predecessor and his competitor for the presidency. he in fact meddles with the investigation. when he says he has made a decision not to get involved in the justice department, that's not true. >> i'm curious what you think rank the file member of the fbi are seeing with all of this. they see comey who personally was popular we know with many in the rank and file. this war of word between the president, the fbi president and comey. you are director ray, how do you handle this with your rank and

file? >> this is a complicated question. and i have a weird window into it because, you know, people sometimes get in touch with me. and so look, the rank and file of the fbi is experiencing something that it has never experienced before, which is attacks by the president of the united states against the institution of the bureau. and they are being called corrupt and they are being called politically in the tank for the other side. and their leadership has been rather quiet. now, i don't know what the right way for chris wray to handle this is, but it goes noticed within the bureau when the fbi leadership does not say something about attacks like that. so i suspect that it is animating and encouraging for a lot of people to have the former director out there speaking about this in the way that he has. >> how much of this with director wray has to do with

waiting for the i.g. report on the clinton e-mails? >> so i don't know. >> okay. >> and i also think there is a -- after what happened to comey and after the trouble that jim got himself in with the clinton e-mails stuff and other decisions, there may be good prudential reasons for chris wray to simply keep his head down and run the bureau. >> the lesson from comey is don't say anything? >> don't say anything. that may be in some way as good lesson. but it does leave the rank and file very exposed to the political criticism. and so you end up with this -- and i really -- i really don't mean to criticize him. it's an impossible no-win situation. >> the two leaders of the fbi -- the actual attorney general and the director of the fbi essentially could be speaking out both probably feel a little bit gun shy because the president might lash out at them. >> might lash out at them. yesterday the president talked in the present tense about the

witch-hunt at the fbi directed at him. he's not just talking about jim comey and andy mccabe, right? he is talking about chris wray and the current leadership, too. so under those circumstances keeping your head down and doing your job running the bureau makes a certain amount of sense. on the other hand, if you are rank and file at the bureau, you feel pretty unsupported right now. >> morale and recruitment has to be a difficult circumstance right now. >> it will be very interesting to see the 2018 employee climate survey at the bureau which is now complete and which i have requested under the freedom of information act. >> i think ben wittes will have that scoop as soon as your foyer is approved. thank you sir for coming on. >> you can catch jim comey right here on sunday morning. he will be my exclusive sunday morning guest on meet the press. one more note before we go. a colleague of ours is in the news today.

two publications the "washington post" and variety report that linda bester says that tom brokaw twice forcibly tried to kiss her and once suggested that the two have an affair. she says brokaw once showed up at her new york hotel room where he grabbed her while trying to kiss her. she says a similar incident happened at her apartment in london years later. in a statement, brokaw says the following, quote. i met with linda vester on two occasions both at her request, 23 years ago because she wanted advice with respect to her career at nbc. the immediatings were brief, cordial and appropriate. and despite linda's allegations i made no romantic overtures towards her at that time or any other. brokaw has denied the allegations in an even more forceful language in an e-mail to friend and colleagues that has unfortunately been leaked. at the same time the "washington post" is reporting that 12 current or former nbc staffers say they were sexually harassed at the network but did not

report it. two of those allegations are against former "today" show anchor matt lauer. andy lack said in a statement we take allegations such as these seriously and act on them quickly and decisively when the facts dictate. we'll be right back. the kayak price forecast tool tells you whether to wait or book your flight now. so you can be confident you're getting the best price. giddyup! kayak. search one and done.

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new jersey senator bob men ends as he runs for a third term. they quote severely admonished him for refusing the advances of a wealthy donor that gave him gifts. he face as corruption trial that ended late last year. the senate ethics committee found that men ends failed to abide by senate rules and ordered had imto repay the market value of all the improper gifts. his lawyer dismissed the findings but it could have been worse for men ends. the committee didn't issue this rebuke until yesterday more than three weeks after the filing deadlines for candidates to launch perhaps a primary challenge for senator men ends. the point is he may not like this ethics committee but they did him a favor by releasing this after the filing deadline. we'll be right back with more "mtp daily." elevated comfort powerfully efficient

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he said this week -- oh, my god. we didn't start the fire. i mean, wow. this is every time we say, yeah, we haven't seen a week like this, and yet, it's another week like this. >> every week we do a friday news roundout. last week it was midweek and we still had things to talk about on friday. >> i left some headlines off that would have made it too. >> it's just -- i am fond these days of saying just another day at the office. this is the way it duos. >> -- goes. >> we have so many ways to express and report and analyze on what's happening. i wonder sometimes whether the news overload is a function of our technology and anything that passes in front of our view is

tweeted, podcasted and dissected. >> all week long i avoided kanye trump. i want to let record show, i did not mean to. >> sometimes we'll say there was so much news activity. i'm not sure. there was a lot of activity. >> right now a lot hasn't changed. but it sounds like it has. >> there's a lot of activity and he does -- he doesn't particularly interest me. from my point of view, you do things to contain him. i'm interested in what we do in response to him and what comes next, but that's a lot of activity. >> it is. i want to bring up a story that i think is symbolic for the era we live in which is what happened to the chaplain in the house. i don't want to get into the specifics. to me it's symbolic. you're like how polarized is congress? it's so polarized they can't even agree on a chaplain. >> there's a bible story where

jesus is asked do you believe we should pay taxes to caesar. jesus says why are you trying to trap me. give me a penny. they say whose face is this. it's caesar's. he says render unto caesar that which is caesar's and what is god's to god. there's something to be said about religious leaders speaking their mind. the bible also says a soft tongue stirs away wrath but a strong tongue -- do you want something who says things so you feel guided. maybe you have to take both together. >> congress wants the former. >> yeah. comforted and stay out of it. >> they -- >> what strikes me is for paul ryan who has announced his retirement and is an open

question of how long he remains in the congress, he took this dramatic move. i think there was a lot of internal disend. >> there's something else going on what that we don't know. >> either there's something that ryan is shielding or there's something -- or there was something else politically at stake by getting rid of him. i don't know -- i think it speaks to a bigger thing about the world we're living in now where i don't even know it's so much the people are politically divided as they so identify with the particular issues as part of who they are. they feel the need to express it. that's being revealed to us in the house chaplain too. i don't know i see it as a reflection of something happening in the house as it is a reflection of everyone is one team or the other. >> i want to build on that.

i do think that people think they're searching for a way to find politics in every issue. rather than us looking for it in the media, they're searching for it. >> i'm not sure paul ryan was searching for it in this case. >> i think it was rank and file. >> i think some people just feel there's so much at steak in the country -- steak in the country. >> it was a short job loss for the chaplain. i can easier see nancy pelosi rehiring him as one of her first acts next january. >> or who else. you never know. >> i think maybe this dove tails with what we were discussing with regard to the russia investigation. how polarized things are right now. >> i feel like this is a historian will go they even had a fight over the chaplain. they couldn't agree. these cats couldn't agree on anything. >> that's why this list is so important. it's not in priority order, i

find. >> matthew, joshua, jennifer, thank you. exhaustion friday is up. up ahead, gripping developments and world diplomacy.

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in case you missed it world leaders seem to be getting it right this week and gripping it tight. kim jong-un and president moon reached an agreement to bring peace back to the peninsula. that's days after president

trump and president mo kroen had a productive meeting in d.c. it's been a good week for diplomacy and handshakes. here's textbook. the squeeze and freeze. okay. hold those camera smiles for a few more awkward seconds. all right. nice work. here's trump executing a one quarter turn with a double tap with angela merkel, aka, the berlin twist. the more elaborate performances came from fred and ginger, i mean from the duo of presidents trump and macron. the firm grip and locked in eye contact transitioning to a shape shape. this is called the wing man. and finally this one. we haven't seen anything like this before. it's the rarely spotted in the wild, the rose garden grab. get him off the stage. anyway, fancy handy work aside, all this diplomacy seems to be a good sign at least maybe as a planet we're finally getting a

grip. anyway, that's all we have for tonight. we'll be back monday with more mtp daily. if it's sunday, it's meet the prez. jim comey, the book end of the tv interviews on sunday. the beat starts now. >> i'm shaking my hand toward you. in a sign of respect. >> i'll give you a fist bump. you and i, we're new school. fist bump. >> we are no school. thank you, i watch sunday. a revelation tieing the kremlin to the trump tower meeting. the key russian at the trump tower campaign meeting offering dirt on clinton. this matters because this person is now and this is really arguably for the first time in public reports linked to the kremlin. richard engel is reporting that natalia vefl