this morning dozens of palestinians dead after violent clashes between protesters and the israeli military. it came as the u.s. opened its new embassy in jerusalem. the white house though is blaming hamas for the violent. >> and first lady melania trump hospitalized after undergoing kidney surgery. she is said to be in good spirits after condition her office describes as benign. >> and no apology from the white house as an aide mocked senator john mccain. instead the president trump has some harsh words for white house leakers.

good morning, everyone. it's tuesday, may 15th. i'm here in jerusalem alongside yasmin vossoughian and luisberg door f in new york. surrounding the opening of the new embassy in jerusalem. as today's new york daily news cover demonstrates it is a jarring juxtathat position of what happened here. on the left, jerusalem. officials including the president's daughter all smiles, dressed to the nines and there on your right, less than 50 miles away in the occupied gaza strip where at least 58 people died yesterday and more than 2,700 wounded as they convened near the border fence. that's on top of the more than 100 people killed and more than 11,000 wounded since the protests in gaza began at the end of march.

this is according to gaza's health ministry. >> the red cross has issued a dire warning that the health system in gaza is on the verge of collapse due to the strain. several nations have called for an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council with the palestinian rep causing the actions war crimes. nato ally turkey has declared three days of mourning and solidarity with the protests and has announced it is withdrawing its ambassadors to israel and the u.s. there will be a big demonstration in istanbul on friday. the israeli military says it acted after nearly 40,000 people descended on the border with quote, fire bombs and ex- ploes ifz devices and rocks as part of violent riots in an attempt to breach the border fence including one group who tried to

set a bomb. >> netanyahu says that israel's actions in gaza were self-defense against hamas tweeting that quote, every country has an obligation to defend its borders. hamas' terrorist organization states it intends to send thousands to breach the border fence, to realize this goal, we will continue to act firmly to protect our softvereignty. president trump spoke from a live feed. >> at my direction the united states finally and officially recognized jerusalem as the true capital of israel. as i said in december, our greatest hope is for peace. the united states remains fully committed to facilitating a lasting peace agreement. >> by moving our embassy to jerusalem we have shown the world once again that the united

states can be trusted. we stand with our friends and our allies and above all else, we've shown that the united states of america will do what's right. president trump was very clear that his decision and today's celebration do not reflect a departure from our strong commitment to lasting peace. a peace that overcomes the conflicts of the past in order to give our children a brighter and more boundless future. as we have seen from the protests of the last month and even today, those provoking violence are part of the problem and not part of the solution. >> now, in the white house's official transcript of kushner's remarks that last part that you heard there where he blames the protesters for the violence, that was not included. >> all right. so meanwhile, the house is standing by jared kushner and leaving no room on who the officials feel is to blame which

kushner has said is hamas. talk to me so far what we've been seeing on the ground there today. >> yeah, this is the third day of the three-day period that a lot of folks were watching very carefully because of the spike in violence. as we mentioned it began on sunday with jerusalem day. yesterday had the embassy opening and that was also marked with the violence we saw there in gaza. today is catastrophe day. this is is the beginning of what palestinians say is 70 years for their struggle for independence. the palestinian authority has called for nationwide strikes so there will be a general strike. we are expecting ceremonies and commemoration events to take place across towns and cities across the west bank. hamas is calling for protests to commemorate, but it also comes after the deadly violence that we saw yesterday. health ofirms say the health

system is on the verge of collapse. the egyptian government has as we understand opened the border to allow for medical supplies and for those critically wounded to be transported to hospitals in order for them to be treated. a lot to watch out for. >> and to what was going on at the embassy versus what was going on in gaza, it was just astounding as a viewer from this point of view. talk about how pal tin stans are seeing the role of americans now. is the united states now seen as an adversary versus as a peace broker? >> well, it's safe to say the tone that's coming out both in official statements and what officials are saying off the record, well, on background, not off the record. but the united states can no longer be trusted as an honest broker. by the united states moving to jerusalem and recognizing jerusalem as the capital of

israel, it has essentially ended a two-state solution. it has essentially pushed israel to a full fledged apartide state. in the blooder context of wh-- broader context, this certainly weakens the united states standing and credibility among anyone who thought it could play an hon e an honest broker. let's cross over now to london, bring in our colleague, international news correspondent cal perry. good to have you for your perspective. several of america's closest allies, they were against moving the embassy to jerusalem. we know that many of them did not attend that official opening yesterday. how were they reacting though to the violence and how is it different than what we're seeing from the united states? >> i'll pick up right where you left off. the two main critiques and we've

seen widespread condemnation from around the world. you heard from germany saying that israel had the right to defend itself but should quote, do so proportionally. france saying he was concerned, emmanuel macron was concerned by the level of violence. tur key called it a quote, vile massacre. the united nations human rights and what i think you're talking about is key to this entire thing is what is the role that u.s. plays going forward. how do countries gauge their ro role in the peace process? we heard from the king of jordan and said quote, the moving of the u.s. embassy will have dangerous implications on both the security and stability inside the middle east. >> yeah. and to two points on that really

quickly. the united nations secretary general has asked for an independent investigation. that is not likely to happen according to israeli officials that we've been speaking to and the other point not to mention among those killed yesterday a 18 month old girl and a paramedic. thank you very much. back to you. >> an 18 month old baby. incredib incredib incredible sad. >> according to ms. trump's office the first lady was admitted to walter reed national military medical center for an embolization procedure. president trump visited her yesterday evening and tweeted that the procedure was successful. he also said the first lady was

in good spirits and thanked well wishers. >> and harry reed is also recovering this morning to remove a cancerous tumor from his pancreas. doctors caught the symptom early. they say his prognosis for recovery is good and will undergo chemotherapy as the next step in his treatment. >> president trump has weighed in on the controversy surrounding kelly sadler's insensitive comment mocking sena senator john mccain's diagnosis. >> the white house has not publicly apologized to the arizona senator for the closed door remark. press secretary said sadler has

apologized privately to the mccain family and had been dealt with internally. buzz we fuszed to say how. white house officials condemned the recent leaks though. take a listen to this. >> there are all kinds of leaks, some leaks exist to hurt i guess colleagues. some disagree with the policies being put forth, but none of them are helpful. >> when you work in any work environment, you with your colleagues at nbc or elsewhere, if you don't -- if you aren't able in internal meetings to speak your mind or convey thoughts or say anything that you feel without feeling like your colleagues will betray you that creates a difficult work environment. i think anybody who works anywhere could recognize that. >> john kennedy of louisiana had this to say about sadler's comments. >> you know, everything happens for a reason and sometimes the reason is you're stupid and made

a bad decision. i don't know ms. sadler so i don't know whether she's stupid or not, but she sure made a bad decision. >> all right. still ahead, everybody, how vice president mike pence is gearing up for the midterms by adding a former member of team trump to his political action committee. plus, a supreme court decision that could open the door to legalized bedding in college and professional sportds. and a check on your weather when we come back.

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it's hot and humid and we e'll t the storms. it's going to spark the storms and they're going to be pretty strong. that's why 47 million are at risk it's the urban corridor up to providence and just barely to the west of boston. this orange area in here is the enhanced risk of severe storms if we get any tornados and we do have a chance, maybe one or two or three, it would most likely be in this area. the poconos through the cat skills, back into the springfield hartford area, those are the areas most at risk for maybe an isolated tornado but everyone has a chance for gusty winds and for large hail. >> buffalo to syracuse, to rochester and that line dies out over southern new england but here comes the main event, 3:00

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welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. we start with the very latest out of the middle east and the jarring juxtaposition. on the right, gaza where at least 58 people were killed yesterday and more than 2,700 others were wounded as they convened near the border fence. that's on top of the more than 100 people killed and more than 11,000 wounded since the protests in gaza began at the end of march according to the health ministry. >> the israeli military says that it acted after nearly 40,000 palestinians descended on the border with fire borms and

explosive devices and rocks as part of violent riots in an attempt to breach the border fence. it included some who attempted to set a bomb at one section of that fence. >> i know that today we're expecting even more protests today. what are we going to see today and are we expecting these protest to subside? >> yeah, we're seeing a lot of different pieces unfold right now. we'll start with what is officially happening as what palestinians know as the catastrophe day. it led to the mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of palestinian refugees and begin for them years and decades long struggle for independence. to commemorate that we're expecting to see marches and protests take place across the west bank cities and towns. we expect some to take place in those arab towns and cities and we're expecting many protests

along the gaza/israel border inside the gaza strip. in erps livents like this in th, when they get close to military bases in the west bank there are clashes. but the real place to keep an eye on is gaza. we know the israeli military has sent reenforcements down there. there is a possibility that we could see another deadly day there. >> if israel gets more pressure from the international community to stand down with regards to the border with gaza, is there any indication from any reporting that you've heard or from people that you've been speaking to that they will? >> certainly not after the statement that came out from the white house yesterday. keep in mind israel does, you know, very much listen to its european ally but the only ally that it is going to be concerned with is the tone that comes out of washington, d.c. and yesterday the white house did not mince its words about who is to blame for this deadly

violence. they squarely put the shoulder on hamas. you heard it when jared kushner made a veiled swipe at the protests taking place. they're the ones to blame for the violence but it was much more clear when you heard it from the white house podium saying that hamas is to blame, those that are being killed are part of a propaganda that hamas is exploiting. so when the u.s. gives israel the green light they know they had the freedom to do what they need to do. and they're going to protect its border no matter what it takes. >> we're going to get back to you in just a little bit. stand by. i want to get to some other stories that we're following. ukranian politician linked to president trump's attorney has been called to testify before a grand jury connected to bob mueller's investigation. he told politico that he received a subpoena last week and that he would appear in person in february of 2017, the

new york times reported that a member of ukraine's parliament to michael cohen. cohen told the times that he had given him the written proposal in a sealed envelope and when cohen met with president trump in the oval office in early february he said he then left the proposal in michael flynn's office. now, days after the times report, cohen told nbc that he met with him but denied delivering the document. he was later accused of treason over the peace plan, he told politico he assumed investiga r investigators will ask him about it. and a company is seeking to see secret information while mueller's lawyers say a hearing on leaks would show nothing to do with them. paul manafort alleged that the leak campaign against their client has tainted the case, but

mueller's team responded last night that manafort offered no evidence of leak from inside the special counsel's office in his filing. meanwhile a russian firm indicted for allegedly funding foreigners to pose as americans on social media and interfere in the 2016 election is disputing this charge. lawyers for concord management and consulting calling it a quote, make believe crime, claiming that they did not knowingly or willfully violate any u.s. laws. they also allege that the investigation is political and that to justify his own existence the special counsel has to indict a russian, any russian, citing the movie casa blanca when captain says quote, round up the usual suspects. and president trump is defending his decision to call on u.s. officials to overturn penalties against a chinese telecom giant who initially

sounded like a presidential push to help save jobs in china. the president tweeted yesterday, zte, the large chinese phone company buys individual parts from u.s. companies. this is also reflective of the largest trade deal we are negotiating with china and my personal relationship with president xi. on sunday the president pledged to work with president xi to help zte. it shut its main operations after the u.s. commerce department banned. this as the chinese government is expected to contribute half a billion dollars to a trump organization linked project in e indonesia. they will help build a theme

park and the white house struggled to explain that ffrsing yesterday. take a listen. >> can you tell, or you know, explain the administration's perspective how this wouldn't violate the clause and b how it wouldn't violate the president's own promise that his private organization would not be getting involved in foreign deals while he was president. the trump organization can't speak on behalf of the president, the head of the federal government, the one who is responsible. >> you're asking about a private organization's dealing that may have to deal with a foreign government. it's not something i can speak to. >> joining me a member of the house armed services committee, congressman, thanks for joining us so early. >> good morning. >> good morning to you. so president trump on sunday announcing on twitter that he and chinese president xi jinping

are going to work together to get zte back in business. what's your reaction to this? >> strange. i can't figure out what this president's talking about. he spends his entire campaign talk about american jobs and then comes out with an announcement that his real concern is jobs in china, chinese jobs in china. it makes no sense to me at all. i'm not sure what his strategy is and what you just talked about the emoluments clause is in the constitution. this is just out of control. >> why do you think americans' security and safety is at stake here? >> well, certainly if we're allowing this chinese company that has already at least been accused of by the department of commerce of breaking the sajss that is providing material aid to north korea in violations of the sanctions and then the company getting sanctioned by the united states and now the president reversing that.

maybe there's some hidden agenda here having to do with the north korea meeting coming up later this month. i don't know but it really is strange for this president to be so concerned with jobs on china and not so long ago he was saying 70,000 american manufacturing companies have disappeared and gone to china. he seems to be promoding chinese jobs, chinese manufacturing. >> he said, be cool, it's all going to work out. but i understand that you think that china is in the driver's seat with this negotiation. >> certainly china is. we know the north koreans are going to respond more to south korea more than they are to the united states. quite probably the break through had to great deal to do with kim jong un's trip to beijing. first ever for him. and the chinese back and forth on whatever discussions they may have had. so certainly china is extremely

powerful in the situation. they are the -- i would say the protector of north korea and not much is going to happen in north korea until china agrees that that's what should happen. we'll see what goes on. i'm pleased that the negotiations are going to go forward. i am perplexed and don't understand why the president seems to be so concerned about jobs in china rather than in the united states. >> i want to send it to ayman who's standing by with a question for you. >> certainly. >> congressman, great to have you with us this morning. i know you're one oaf the few that has spoken out about the violence that is taking place in gaza we've heard human rights organizations describe it as a war crime. you've got 8 month old babies that died. how concerned are you about what we are seeing here and the reaction from the white house? >> well, i think all of us wherever we happen to be in the

world need to be concerned when people are dying but we ought not be surprised. let's remember that the previous three presidents have all said the capital of israel is jerusalem and that the embassy belongs there but they did not move the embassy there because they suspected that this exact demonstration and violence and tragic deaths would occur as a result of it. and then that moved to the blushment of the embassy in jerusalem came just a week after the iran nuclear deal was thrown out the window. i saw this as many, many reasons that we all expected that iran and others would create a very tense and dangerous situation. it is coming to pass now. hopefully the whole thing will cool down, although the long, long history between the west bank, gaza and israel is one in which is tit for tat and it's headed in a dangerous direction.

we ought to find ways to cool it down, try to prevent any more violence taking place. but i'm not hopeful. it looks very, very bad. >> really quickly, there has been almost a deafening silence coming out of capitol hill talking about the violence coming out of gaza. are you at all disappointed with the democratic party who has been absolutely silent on what is taking place here? >> i think it's every human's responsibility and those of us that have these elected positions to speak out and to do the best we can. to find paths to peaceful resolution, a very difficult and long lasting controversies. certainly israel has a right to protect itself. the ensuing violence that came about as a result of the demonstrations is tragic. laying blame one place or another isn't going to do much good here. what would do good is try to cool it down, let's figure out

how we can find paths forward. that may sound like a pie in the sky in some unnecessary hopefulness but we have to continue to try. it is all of our responsibilities an those of cuss in congress bear a heavier burden. >> the supreme court hands down a major decision on a federal law banning sports gambling. what that could mean for those ready to cash in. and bill karins is back with another check of your forecast.

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the southern tier of new york and then they're going to sweep towards the big cities. rush hour, isolated tornado with the strongest storms is a possibilities along with guaranteed damaging winds and also large hail. i do expect power outages of downed trees. the leaves are on the trees now and there will be issues in here in the northeast with these storms not to mention the fact that we'll have a lot of airport problems later on in the day. yesterday we were tracking that tropical disturbance. it's still spinning down here and it's going to slowly spin all this moisture into the southeast. already a rainy morning from jacksonville, florida. and eventually this mess goes all the way up the east coast. so we had the low pressure. then our bermuda high m we're pumping a lot of human air up the eastern sea board. air conditioners will be on for most people. flood watches are up from areas around philadelphia right through southern pennsylvania including portions of new jersey

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>> and in the latest poll president trump is seeing some of the best job approval ratings since his first weeks of his term. the latest numbers show 43% of approve of the job he's doing while 52% disapprove. >> we have a look at this morning's one big thing and coming up on "morning joe," the contrasting and jarring scenes outs of israel and gaza. as the u.s. celebrate with pomp and circumstances. israelis kill dozens of palestinians at the border. president of the council on foreign relations will break out

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with a look at axios a.m., political reporter for axios, alexi mccammen. talk to me about your one big thing this morning? >> it's a look inside president trump's 2020 re-election campaign. staffers close to him have told us they have about fewer than 10 staff members working on this quiet re-election campaign for 2020 in the basement of the republican national committee here in washington, d.c. and the message they're going to push in 2020 during the election is one of the economy and security and change. >> interesting. change. from an incumbent to say the least. talking about the stakes they're focusing on and how they plan to focus on those states, which they think are most vulnerable come 2020. >> there are two states that president trump's re-election campaign is focusing on, minnesota and colorado. in 2016 president trump barely lost minnesota without even really trying or catering his

campaign message to minnesota and his strategy for colorado is emphasize the message that he's been hands off in marijuana laws and try to use that as a selling point to pick up two states he lost in 2016. >> i know that axios is looking at the role of brad pascal, who is president trump's digital media director in 2016. now serving as the manager of the 2020 campaign. quite a jump for him. what are you learning about his strategy going forward looking ahead to 2020? >> that's the interesting thing about brad pascal. he was the digital director in 2016. now the campaign manager for 2020. it shows just what the trump campaign team is successful for him. focusing on the digital-first strategy. that's what we can expect from brad pascal. nothing thing that helped president trump in 2016 was the element of surprise. came into the election in 2016 and ambushed the other

candidates and media and voters with how successful he could be. they will not have that advantage now, so brad pascal, we can expect him to work on a longer-range strategy and digital-first that incorporate this technological innovation and corporate efficiency. >> so just how involved is the president going to be working with pascal going forward? >> we're told that he and the president are talking pretty frequently, almost daily. pascal is showing him polling numbers, disapproval is getting lower and we know how much the president loves seeing polling numbers about his approval rating. they're talking on the phone. hitting the road together. this is something that brad pascal's baby. he has to sell his strategy to the president. reflected in the way they're communicating often and extensively about what to expect in 2020. >> i know axios is looking at a lot today, what are you going to be watching? >> today there are four primaries in different states

happening across the country from idaho to pennsylvania. i would suggest viewers to focus on pennsylvania. there are 18 congressional races, one senate primary and those will show, i think, whether or not we're truly in the year of the woman. because there are 21 women running for the u.s. house of representatives in pennsylvania. >> alexi mccammen, we're going to be reading axios a.m. in just a little bit. you can sign up for the news letter at axios.com. >> i want to go back to my colleague, ayman mohyeldin standing by in jerusalem what will you be watching today with the protests that we are expecting in. >> we're going to be watching for those protests in gaza to continue. interestingly enough, we're going to be going out to the occupied west bank to see for ourselves what is happening there. we're getting reports of clashes between the israeli military and protesters who have gathered to commemorate what they call the catastrophe day. so there's a lot to watch for as tensions continue to rise by the hour. yasmine? >> that does it for us on this tuesday. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside

ayman mohyeldin in jerusalem and louis burgdorf in studio. "morning joe" starts right now. >> on behalf of the 45th president of the united states on america, we welcome you officially and for the first time to the embassy of the united states here in jerusalem, the capital of israel. >> all right. we pointed out the juxtaposition of the scenes in the middle east yesterday morning on the left jerusalem. officials from israel and the u.s. at the embassy opening ceremony. and on the right, less than 50 miles away, gaza where at least 58 people were killed yesterday, more than 2700 others wounded. as they convened near the border fence. welcome to "morning joe." it's tuesday, may 15th, with us we have white house reporter for the "associated press," jonathan lamier. the president of the council on foreign relations and author of

the book "a world in disarray" richard haas. columnist and associate editor for the "washington post," david ignatius and nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d.c. on msnbc, what's the deal? why are we skipping it in. >> because of this. richard we're going to get to the news, but one of, one of the more concerning days in the middle east, in some time you could look at the chaos as "the wall street journal" says, that spread across gaza, and across the region yesterday. you could also look at what happened in iraq and america's sworn enemy throughout most of the iraq war. actually his, his, his group of politicians doing better than anybody else, does show you what a waste, an