he wishes he had picked a different attorney general. as we learn the president tried to press his a.d. to reverse his resue c recusal in the russia probe. it was president trump himself who said number one, i didn't collude with russia but if anyone connected with my campaign did, i want the fbi to find that out. it looks to me like the fbi was doing what president trump said i want you to do. find it out. tweets and consequences. ro roseanne barr blaming everything from ambien to humor. valerie jarrett speaking on msnbc. >> i think we have to turn it into a teaching moment. i'm fine. i'm worried about the people who will don't have a circle of friends and followers who come right to their defense.

>> now for the first time the president just now responding to abc's decision to cancel roseanne's show. president trump on the campaign trail stoking supporters with a cheap shot at john mccain even as the senator battles brain cancer. >> then, of course, repeal and replace obama care. we had it done folks. it was done. then early in the morning somebody turned their hand in the wrong direction. good day. i'm andrea mitchell in washington where president trump's latest line of attack on the russia investigation is unraveling from a top house republican about the fbi's use of informant to investigate.

>> i'm more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got and that it has nothing to do with donald trump. >> when the president says spy gate, there was no spy insert into the campaign? have you seen any evidence of that? >> i have not. >> trey gowdy splitting with the president's erroneous spy charge. before the president fired james comey mr. trump pressured jeff sessions to reverse his recusal and take over the russia investigation. this president repeating on twitter he wishes he never appointed sessions in the first place. the president's person attorney back in manhattan in court with the judge telling cohen's lawyers and the government to speed up their review of more than one million files for mr. cohen's personal cell phone.

former assistant u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. welcome all. tom winter first to you. what happened in court today? >> reporter: at a hearing that wrapped up a few moments ago and lasted about an hour we learned the government turned over 3.7 million items from the search warrant of michael cohen's office, apartment and his hotel room. that includes hard drive, 19 of them. 19 hard drives and thumb drives. phones. they are in the process of going through a shredder they seized, putting back the materials if the shredder and hope to share that with mr. cohen as well as several blackberries they are still trying to get into. the judge made a key ruling. the judge said michael cohen's team has until june 15th to review the millions of items

that have been sent to them that they have yet to review. get any items they believe are attorney-client privilege, get that to a special master or she's going to send the balance of material a government impressi impressive lenl team. a separate group to pour over those documents. see what might be relevant and what is relevant to that search warrant and they will make the decisions as far as what the investigative team, the team looking into michael cohen to see what they look at. the second thing that happened today is michael avenatti, his motion to be admitted to practice law in the southern district has been held in aban yans by the judge. the judge said to stop his publicity tour of talking about the case. if michael avenatti was to be admitted to practice law in this court, he could not talk about

items that were non-public. he would have to curtail a lot of statements he's made on this network and on many networks and have to keep himself within certain boundaries when he made those appearances. michael cohen's attorney took quite a shot at michael avenatti. stephen ryan said i've never seen an attorney conduct himself the way mr. avenatti is conducting himself. he said what he did in releasing those records referring to the financial documents when we became aware of involving michael cohen last week was quote entirely improper. he said it was a premeditated drive by shooting of my client's rights. there were definitely some back and forth twobetween michael ave noot tee. the judge said she will hold his right to intervene in this case. right now he doesn't have standing to appear in court. two significant rulings today as this ongoing criminal

investigation moves forward and that's the latest here from lower manhattan. >> we should point out that michael avenatti came out and went right to the cameras but more briefly than usual. whether that brush back is having an affect yet, remains to be seen. matt miller, first of all, we don't know what they are looking into. we know that there has been this extraordinary series of raids. the raids on his apartment, hotel room, office. four different locations. millions of documents, items, all these devices, cell phones opinion good look with them trying to get into a blackberry. can they really reconstitute shredded documents. >> they can. they can get into blackberries. they are little older technology. they are very good at reaseemabling shredded

documents. it's something they do well. they are looking at a huge volume of evidence. we saw of the documents seized the special master has gone through. only 250 documents out of 1.3 million they have reviewed so far are privileged and it confirms what the justice department said is that michael cohen wasn't acting as a larger. he was acting largely as a fixer. they have a lot of evidence to go through. what we have seen at every piece of this investigation, he's facing multiple, multil charges. >> we don't know where this the going but trey gowdy breaking with the president. here he was a participant even though he was not a member of the gang of 8. the eight members of congress who get to look at intelligence. he was at both of those meetings at doj and the second meet that devin nunes and others demanded from the republican side.

he may be there as a watcher on devin nunes to keep things on the straight and narrow. trey gowdy, conservative republican, now affirming there was nothing wrong, that he saw, using an informant was exactly the appropriate thing and in the president's best interest. >> right. on the one hand i'm not surprised that he's saying that. part of the reason that doj probably did let people look at this information is that they knew how strong it was and that once anybody who at least could objectively look at it would say, oh, okay. nothing wrong here. this was the right thing to do. what also isn't surprising is you won't hear the president say that. he's going on and on about his claims of spy gate not with

standing the fact ths say sometg completely differently. this continued attempt to smear the mueller probe because it's getting closer and closer to him and the facts that are coming out seem to be, i think, damaging to the president and to his team and he doesn't want us talking about those facts. he'd rather people be talking about fbi and not him and that's just classic tactic of distract and smear. >> what is your take on today's new york times piece which says that even before the comey firing that mueller already looking back at jeff sessions, at his conversations with the president. that he went down to mir-a-lago. the president wouldn't taken his call. the president was telling he should not have recuse and he

had to given his involvement during the kpacampaign. >> we knew trump was upset about sessions recusing himself. we heard the statement where he said something to the effect of i should have an a.g. who is there to protect me like obama did which is not the job of an attorney general. the job of the attorney general is to enforce the laws and protect the rule of law and not the president. he's got that wrong. we heard him say that before. i thought what was interesting in the article is there's quite a bit more detail about the process by which sessions arrived at that decision to recuse himself and it was very much the department of justice ethics lawyer who is are always asked to opine in situations like this and who department of justice employee must really take the advice of and that they told him that you must -- it didn't seem like it was a close call. you must recuse in this case. the president is saying that sessions should have ignored the advice of department of justice

ethics lawyers and i think that's very interesting for someone who is constantly attacking the very department of justice we're talking about. it sheds more light on his decision to fire comey. now you have not one but two different people he's going after because he thinks he can somehow at that point get the investigation shut down. >> we're going to have to leave it is there. thank you all so much. meanwhile, former senior advisor to president obama valerie jarrett speaking out during msnbc town hall on race last night only hours after she was swepted up in racially charged twitter storm who referred to jarrett as the offspring of muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes. >> i think we have to turn it into a teaching moment. i'm fine. i'm worriy eied about the peoplt

there who don't have a circumstance of of friends and followers. the person who is walking down the street and see somebody cling to their purse or want to cross the street or ever black parent who has a boy who has to sit down and have a conversation. >> barr's hit show on abc was immediately cancelled following that tweet. despite a halfhearted apology from the star who initially tried to pass it off as a joke. now barr is defiant. today flooding her twitter page overnight with retweet from fans portraying herself as the victim and blaming her racist tweet on ambien. the president attacking abc. speaking out saying abc never apologized for the horrible statements made about me.

professor, first of all, let's talk about what happened here. the blatant racism of this and it was not the first time with roseanne barr and abc is being praised for killing a profitable show. yet, with roseanne, you now what you were getting. she did it years ago. the same kind against susan rice. >> i think that we have watched a major network attempt to broaden the conversation about race that was very much a part of the 2016 election. the president made it very clear that he had strong objections to the racial justice movement known as black lives matter. so much of mainstream media has attempted to try to understand working class americans. in this way the roseanne reboot

was an attempt to try a middle ground. she is a flawed actress and individual in terms of her opinion. that erupted in her twitter feed and this is a predictable outcome. >> ruth marcus, what are we learning here about ourselves, about television. this is big business and also about what is tolerated these days. we saw valerie jarrett classy response taking the high road. the president weighing in for the first time and with an attack on abc without ever, ever commenting on what a woman he had praised publicly and bragged about her ratings and said she represents all of us. >> not exactly the high road. it was very interesting yesterday the word from the

white house was the president is too busy to -- has more important things to do to comment on this. apparently that's no longer the operative thing. he has enough time to comment on this in his favorite way which is how it relates to me and i donald trump and i am the victim in this. i have to say i was relieved when he did not affirmatively bring up roseanne barr at the rally. first of all, he had time to bring up roseanne barr and talk about her ratings when they were good and when that was good for him. silence in the aftermath was better than praising her and then this tweet is so disappointing. what we want a presidential president to say is what she said was repugnant. it went too far. expecting that from this president is probably more than we can handle. for him to turn this into how he

was victimized when whatever abc has said about him, which we do have a first amendment for that wasn't racist. >> we have no idea, by the way. we don't know what he's referring to because he doesn't submit to questions on things like this. this is another part of valerie j jarrett speaking on msnbc and a town hall on racism last night. >> tone does start at the top and we like to look up to our president and feel as though he reflecks the values of our country but i think every individual citizen has the responsibility too. it's up to all of us to push back. our government will only be add good you are. >> that was a previously scheduled town hall meeting which happened to coincide. it was questioned scheduled bec

starbucks tra starbucks training. what have we learned about the way people are demeaned in one of the things that cheryl and i said last night was that by diminishing and demeaning african-americans, it's way of also dangerously putting thu itt risk and making them believe they are subhuman, attacked by law enforcement unfairly. speak to that. >> i think she's right. i think that what she is speaking to is a longer history where the equation of black life to apes and gorillas wasn't just the consequence of racist that we might imagine and the klan a long time ago. it was central to scientific racism well into the 20th century. even irish americans were

caricatured for looking like apes. t there can't be any diminishment in the way this legacy carries forward. someone pointed out last night at the town hall that president obama and the first lady were both caricatured as apes. these are issues we must call out, are repugnant and speaks to the broader crisis of how well we teach our history in our k through 12 classrooms. we immediate to be smarter about our history so we can learn from it and move forward. >> just to share in what the president said was specifically bob of abc called valerie jarrett to let her know abc does not tolerate comments like

those. he never called president donald trump for the horrible statements made and said about me on abc. maybe i just didn't get that call. that was the literal -- that's all we've heard from the president so far about any of this. jimmy kimmel saying maybe you were out playing golf. this has reached a level which so completely misses the point of the continuing hidden racism, not so hidden two african-americans and other minorities in this country. thanks for being with us today. coming up, coming to america. kim jong-un's right hand man heading new york as plans heat up pr the north korean summit. . ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal.

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welcome back. kim jong-un's number two, a former spy chief will be landing this afternoon in new york in a couple of hours to meet tonight with mike pompeo. we think they're having dinner. the strongest signal yet that both sides want the singapore summit to take place as scheduled on june 12th. to get here the man needed a waiver from u.s. sanctions. he may be carrying a personal

letter from kim jong-un to president trump. kristen welker is at the white house. this was a guy someone you were targeting because of his past activities including being responsibility, we believe, for the cyber attack on sony. >> he's not a good guy. he was responsible for the 2014 cyber attack against sony that destroyed their servers. he had a hand in the 2010 attack on warship that killed 46 south korean sailors. the u.s. treasury department has designated him for trafficking in conventional arms as well. there's lots of reason to see this as someone with dirty hands. how the times have changed. remember that when iva inka tru was seated in the same box as this general. didn't acknowledge each other.

now just a couple months later here he is arriving in new york going to haveompeo. this underscores this erratic nature of this administration foreign policy. we go from rushing to war to rushing to a summit. >> which a lot of people say is better than the alternative. one of the things that victor said last night at the 11th hour is protocol would cig asignify taught to be meeting the president of the united states. pompeo twice met with kim jong-un. no plans that we know of because that would require the president going to new york or him getting another waiver to come to washington, d.c. >> reporter: there's no sense he will be meeting with president

trump. those meetings will be taking place with secretary of state mike pompeo. the white house signaling they are moving forward, repairing for this summit to take place. in terms of what we expect to come out of meeting with mike pompeo that will deal with the substance. we know there's another team that is at the dmz and then a third team that is actually in singapore working on the details. the substance is where this gets very tricky. will north korea agree to denuclearize. according to a nbc news report based on intelligence from three officials, north koreans have no plans to denuclearize any time soon and in fact, one of the concessions they may be looking at is opening up a western style burger joint in pyongyang.

all sides seem to want that o be the ultimate outcome here. >> the big ets -- the best experts we know had a report just out this week which says, in fact, denuclearizi izizing t expansive program that has thousands of people working would require 15 years minimum. this is far more complicated than opening a hamburger joint. >> it is. at the end of the day we'll know this is a good deal if we can answer two questions in the affirmative. does kim jong-un retain his nuclear arsenal and does kim jong-un still retain he has nuclear weapons. if we can answer he's given both up. the north koreans want us to answer a different question. would you like fries with that?

those two things are not going to get us the same place. we have to decide whether the north koreans are actually going to denuclearize. the north koreans have to decide if they are going to make these concessions or if, i think a lot of us fear that trump administration will settle for a very hollow agreement. a paper agreement that will not make us long safer and lead to complete verifiable denucle denuclearization and will look good for trump and he can cater to his base. >> reporter: they don't want this summit to take place without some agreement going into it. we heard president trump's

language twakmang change on the denuclearization. last week in the early part of the week he indicated it might be more realistic to be looking toward a phase in of denuclearization. even the president walking back some of his sharp comments. can they get to that and agree to language. that remains an open question. >> it would be very interesting to see what john bolton's role in all of this. thanks very much. still ahead, families untied. how the white house is making it even harder for immigrant children to be reunited with their parents. you're watching andrea mitchell reports. stay with us. man: it takes a lot of work to run this business, but i really love it. i'm on the move all day long,

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>> a lot of it was business. a lot of it was pharmaceuticals. a lot of it was insurance. a lot of it was liability. i said you take care of that stuff. that's what we did. today i'm proud to keep another promise to the american people as i sign the right to try legislation into law. [ applause ] >> if i looked like that i would have been president ten years earlier. if i had that face. if i had that head of hair i would have been president so long ago. that's great. i want to thank couple of people. >> the president in the old executive office building. i guess it's now called the

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the welfare of children and families and the law enforcement side and clearly the balance of power is shifted in this administration to the law enforcement. >> that's right. what we're seeing too from people like stephen mill who are are driving these policies is they want to blame all of this on democrats. the separating of children from their parents a t tt the border stricter restrictions on who can come forward to claim a child. these are all being driven by there are democrat loopholes. loopholes caused by democrats that need to be closed. when we pushed them on what they were, a lot of them were court decisions from the '90s, which has nothing to do with today. they want to push this as a midterm issue. >> thank you for your reporting. midterm hay hem. the president firing up a nashville crowd, rolling out his midterm strategy. more coming up on msnbc. this is frank. sup! this is frank's favorite record. this is frank's dog.

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>> i don't say easy and then of course repeal and replace obama care. we had it done, folks. it was done and then early in the morning somebody turned their hand in the wrong direction. that cost our country a lot. that was a very, very terrible thing that happened that night. >> a terrible thing that happened. just moments ago the president repeated that line at a bill sieng he signing here in washington. joining me democratic congressman steve israel, author of the novel "big guns" and rick tyler. msnbc political analyst. welcome to you both. when referring to turning the hand down was the moment on the sno senate floor when john mccain came back from his sick bed and

gave the thumbs down saying to the senate days before we're better than this. we have to get things done. rick tyler, as a republican, watching the president attacking a man who is dying of a fatal form of brain cancer. i just watched the hbo documentary the other night, it's heartbreaking. to see him do that and again today on the white house grounds. he was not at a political rally. after not criticizing him own staff person for that really corrosive thing that she said about john mccain, what is going on with the character of this man? >> the first thing is that the president said there that it cost our country a lot. this country could not pay back john mccain for everything that he's done and went through. not only his service in vietnam being an person prisoner of war, his service in the united states senate and frankly his leadership and he doesn't hold a candle to donald trump.

donald trump is a classless person. donald trump echoed roseanne barr who is also a classless person. this is the classless person he is leading here. i don't think that will bode well for his legacy or in the midterm elections. >> is it working for him, steve? nancy pelosi blamed her for this m-13 gang at the rally last night. >> i know a midterm strategy when i see one and that's what this is. look, we're five months away from a midterm. the republican party knows this will be a very difficult challenge for them. there's about 62 competitive districts. the threat to a president's party in a midterm is low voter turn out. right now republicans are divided. they are demoralized.

what donald trump is trying to do is create energy by getting out his base. the problem with his strategy is there are about 23, 24 republican held districts that voted for hillary clinton. when he says that stuff, when hi tries to rile up his base, he may be keeping republican voters at home or insent viesing them o vote for a democrat. it's a risky strategy but more important it's a repugnant strategy, in my view. >> there's the sudden resignation of one time star, this new governor, eric greitens on all counts of charges. campaign finance abuse and bipartisan effort to impeach him. he's be replaced on friday by the lieutenant governor. is the republican party donli b injurying a bullet here.

>> for sure. it doesn't help the republican party. that doesn't mean his story won't be told and he won't be attacked. i remember a republican party we used to stand up for family values and we would have condemned someone like that and i guess they now have. he'll be leading office so it it's not going to help the senate race in missouri but it's probably better he's gone. >> before you go, i want to ask you about your hope to instill more voluntaryism in america as a way to get people to do voluntary service. tell me what you're thinking. >> andrea, we live in a climate that i call the great disconnect. we were a country that used to be bound and bold in big endevou endevours. we fought wars together. now we're completely unmoored from one another. if you're a strong democrat, you probably live in neighborhood with other democrats. if you're a strong republican, you live in a republican with

other republicans. we're just so divided. what can bring us together is the concept of national service. let college kids take a semester in service to america. instead of tax cuts to the rich people, how about giving back to volunte volunteer. the biggest need we have is to come together add a country again. that's what national service does for us all. >> thank you for that. we'll follow up indeed. right now, in fact, thanks to you, we return to the white house where the president is signing the bill and this is the bill which will permit people who have terminal illnesses to try experimental drugs.

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to begin later this week, puerto rico is already bracing and not even recovered yet from last area's devastating hurricane maria. according to a new harvard study, at least 4,645 people died in puerto rico as a result of that storm. this in dramatic contrast to the official u.s. government total of only 64 people. a bad toll, but still, the current toll estimated by harvard is more 70 times higher than the official estimate. president trump back in october praising his administration's respons response. >> in texas and in florida, we get an "a" plus. and i'll tell you what, i think we've done just as good in puerto rico. >> how would you grade the white house's response so far to the hurricane? >> i would say it's a ten. >> a ten? joining me now, retired lieutenant governor russel honore, who led relief efforts during hurricane katrina. general honore, very good to see you again. how do you explain what's happened in puerto rico, where

they still don't have power in large portions of the island, don't have potable water. what more should have been done? >> well, we could have responded quicker. there's a lot of excuses about being an island surrounded by water. but the united states military got capacity to open ports, we have capacity to open airfields. none of that was used. we waited on fema to call forward contractors. we never got passed 100 clor helicopters in puerto rico. remember, puerto rico is about the size of connecticut, about 13,000 square kilometers. whereas in comparison to what happened in new orleans, new orleans and biloxi gulfport, which you are very familiar, were right on the coast and they were urban areas. this is an entire island, again, the size of connecticut, where the entire infrastructure laid bare. and i think, andrea, the

confusion on the numbers, and again the government will want to capture the first number it gets and stick with it, and the government doesn't recognize tribal data. we've been hearing all along more people died and the same thing happened in new orleans. the official count is about 1,800, but if you count days after katrina and weeks after, more people died as a result, they didn't have their medicines. they were moved from their homes. the government will count people that died as a result of flooding and of infrastructure or damage or wind damage. whereas, we got people died the day after maria that were not counted. people died a week after. why? the government didn't know, because the infrastructure was broke. so i think this is a fair study, and if you went back and did it for katrina, you would find more people died days and weeks after prema prematurely, because they didn't have the right medication, the right medical plan, and a lot of

them died from stress. and that's what we found from tribal information in studying katrina. >> and finally, do you think that anything can now be done? can the government mobilize? what needs to be done to help puerto rico get back on its feet before the next storm hits? >> well, we asked for the congress to give a directive under the defense authorization act to make sure that the military had a task force standing by, with ships that could go out to sea and come in behind the storm as it come to puerto rico or in the virgin islands. that needs to be a part of the plan. u.s. northern command, which was organized to do this, failed miserably during maria, because they didn't have those ships ready to move in behind the storm. the other thing is, you have the port opening battalions, because you're going to have to get into puerto rico. get the "uss comfort" ready. if we see another hurricane three or five coming to puerto

rico, we've got to be procan i have -- proactive. we can't wait until after this. we have to use the best response force we have, and that's the united states military. and the last time i checked the constitution, the purpose of the united states military is to protect the american people and the puerto ricans are american people. >> and that has got to be the last word. we're going to, of course, revisit this. thank you so much, general honore. very good to see you, sir. still ahead, legal fight. craig melvin talking to stormy daniels' lawyer michael avenatti, ahead -- right ahead. stay on msnbc.

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and that does it for today's show. follow us online, on facebook, and on twitter @mitchellreports. craig melvin takes over next right here on msnbc. hi, craig. >> hey, andrea. good to see you, msnbc headquarters here in new york city. unrecused. president trump says he wishes he picked a new attorney general. it's his latest attack on jeff sessions and his comes as the president's personal lawyer just left court. and stormy daniels's attorney was there as well. i'll speak to michael avenatti about a ruling to keep him out of the case for now. and president trump just weighed in on the roseanne barr controversy, but he did not call out the actress. instead he called out abc. meanwhile, roseanne is