. you are the project manager. >> i know. >> i have great respect for you. fact you just don't give up, but, you're fired. >> i'm here with donald and melania trump and we're going to make a scrumptious meat loaf sandwich. >> the president and celebrity pardon, we're going to dig into the message the president may be trying to send. >> plus new insight in just how

badly the president wanted his attorney general to unrecuse himself from the russia probe. we have new reporting. >> and donald trump fires the first shot in a trade war with u.s. allies hitting the european union, mexico and can in a da with new tariffs and his party is not happy about it. >> good morning everyone i'm' friday, june 1st. we begin with president trump's out-of-the-blue pardon of conservative de nesh d souza and considering rod blagojevich as well as martha surt. as for d souza, he pled guilty after directing two associates

to make donations and then reim burrireim -- d 'souza said he now what he did was illegal and he regretted it. still the president claimed he was treated very unfairly by our government. here's d 'souza reacting yesterday. >> what my case shows is the way in a obama and hillary too have gangsterized the u.s. politics, because if you think back, it's really unimaginable to say jimmy carter, he would no more dream of locking me up, or targeting me than either of the bushes would dream of doing the same to michael moore or rosie o'donnell. trum in some ways -- >> the case against d 'souza was

prosecuted from -- the investigation also reportedly includes campaign finance violations, many are concerned that the president is signaling to cohen and others ensnared in the russian investigation that if they look out for the president, they too can be pardoned. yesterday, the vice chairman of the senate intel committee democrat mark warner tweeted this, quote, the president's ad hoc use of the power is concerning enough but could be sending a message to witnesses in a criminal investigation in h his -- the president also raised the possibility the pardon for martha secured an commutation for rod blagojevich.

convip convicted of justice and for lying to the fbi during an investigation into insider trading. in fact, the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani recently used stewart as an example of why the president should not sit down for an interview. president said quote i think to a certain extent martha stewart was unfairly treated. . former illinois governor rod blagojevich whom the president fired off the celebrity apprentice is currently in year six of his sentence. convicted of charges including trying to sell barack obama's senate seat. if you look at what he said he said something to the effect like quote what do i get? stupid thing to say but -- the

president add the quote, plenty of other politicians have said a lot worse. he shouldn't have been put in jail. he was prosecuted by patrick fitzgerald who happening to be a close friend and current attorney or jim comey. >> the united states has issued a trade war citing national security. trump administration yesterday announced massive new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. 25% on steel, 10% on aluminum. move is expegtded to raise the price on everything from canned soup to cars. 150,000 jobs potentially could be saved, experts in the u.s. chamber of commerce warn at least 2 million jobs are at risk. following the announcement president trump tweeted in all caps quote, fair triade. visibly frustrated, the canadian

prime minister said they are totally unacceptable and an affront that canada could be considered a threat to the united states is inconceivable. mexico responding saying it would impose tariffs including pork pellies, fruits cheeses and flat steel. the eu is saying it's launching legal proceedings. it will also react in a swift, firm and proportional manner imposing tariffs on a list of american products. back here at home much of the harshest criticism has come from the president's own party. speaker of the house said quote instead of addressing the real problem ep also. it targets america's allies. there are better ways to help

american workers and consumers. kevin brady echoing that sentiment. put american workers and families jobs at risk. meanwhile senate finance committee called them a tax hike on americans. you don't treat allies the same way you treat opponents. blanket protectionism is a big part of why america had a great depression. make america great again shouldn't be make america 1929 again. switching gears to mike pompeo sitting down for a second round of meeting with the kim

yong-chol. talks are centered around setting a time line for the summit which may or may not be on. around if so may or may not be still taking place on june 12th in singapore. pom thea pompeo said they made progress. >> i just want to tell you we're doing real well with north korea. hour secretary of state has very good meetings. he's meeting again today. i believe they'll be coming down to washington on friday and a letter is going to be delivered to me from kim jong-un. so i look forward to seeing what's in the letter. >> what's the letter going to say, sir? >> i don't know. i don't know. i think it will be very positive. i think it will be very 0 positive. >> it all comes as russia's foreign minister met with kim jong-un yesterday. he invited him to russia to meet

vladimir putin. he said he highly values the fact that putin's administration strictly opposes the u.s.'s dominance. >> joining us live from seoul. so we have china, russia appear to go make moves to get themselves a seat in resolves this crisis. what are you hearing this means for this may or may not maybe summit? >> may be on may be off. >> reporter: maybe on. it is mind boggling to think that less than two weeks before what could be the most historic summit in decades and nobody knows if it's actually going to happen. secretary of state saying those talks are going well, but the working level groups that have been meeting at the dmz took a

break today. presumably the north korean side is waiting for cues from the talks in new york. there's still no agreement at least that we know of on an agenda or joint statement. we shouldn't expect it's going to be anything sweeping. probably a commitment to explore a new avenue. but it really puts in sharp relief where things are at, that two weeks before, that we don't even know if it's going to go ahead. meanwhile, the talks were continuing at the dmz between north korea and south korea. they've resolved to have the military aides meet. president trump's long time lawyer michael cohen making multiple legal threats to a reporter. it was released from an interview with cohen. working on a piece about trump's

first wife who testified during a deposition that trump had raped her. he had reached out to the spokesperson hope hicks for more information and that's when he zooef received the angry phone call. >> if there's any -- headline or any aspect of our article that indicates a rape. and i don't care about some -- i will make sure that you and i meet one day over in the courthouse and i will take you for every penny you still don't have. swear on god and my children. i will find you. i will serve you personally, and i be nothing but happy when i turn around and get a judgment for defamation against you and the people you work for.

>> couple bleeps there. cowitne cohen never filed after that story. >> i don't believe talks to people like that. >> i will not be bleeping today. aassure you. that's not normally. >> one of our producers has his hand on the button. >> you do actually make a case like that. >> i do that every day. >> sorry. >> no, but seriously, in all honesty. this is the president's attorney, right? or has identified himself as such. but that phone call, to me, sound as heck of a lot more like a fixer than an attorney. >> it always-- >> a lot more like bullying than an attorney should be doing. >> it always concerns me when i hear things like that because that is the way a lot of people perceive as operating. it doesn't benefit attorneys to act that way. in their dealings with other lawyers or principals. but i will say we are governed

by the rules of civility which all of us have almost run afoul of or crossed a few times in the past. i've lost my temper but never to that degree. >> losing your temper is different than threatening someone. >> yes. you can always say we'll see you in court. we're going to file our lawsuit if we can't resolve this. those are not threats. that's just negotiation. but there's a difference between negotiating and flat-out threatening people like this. not necessarily in a criminal fashion, but in this way. >> to that point, then, could michael cohen face any legal cons kwent consequences now in a this recording has been made public. >> i would say is baaed on that he could face disciplinary consequences which are different than legal. >> bar association. >> yes, rules of ethics. and one of those specifically in new york, is an obligation, a

duty of civility not just to other lawyers but civilians as well. >> let's talk about the sort of pardoning power. den ni d d d 'souza. >> conservative commentary. >> and rod blagojevich. what do you make? >> when you look at the common theme. joe arpaio and these three. what is the theme that emerges and what is that saying to. >> could this be a signal to those of you out there, manafort, flynn, others who have been vconvicted or considering taking a deal that hey, pardons are abundant to you. hey, the pardon power in itself

is a way controversial. it's a tradition that was brought over from hundreds of years ago from the royal tradition. framers debated as to whether or not it should be included in the constitution because it's a paradox. you're undoing the work of your own u.s. attorney. it's almost unlimited. there are very few things the president can't pardon, so it's a power that we will maybe never know the strictures of. >> there's a lot of undoing these days. we're going do talk to you again. >> still ahead, bill clinton responds to senator kristin j-- >> median samantha b gets fried for her vulgar comments.

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welcome back everybody. samantha b apologizing after using a vulgar slur to describe ivanka trump on her show. b tweeted yesterday quote i'd like to sincerely apologize for using an explicative on my show to describe her last night. it was inappropriate and inexcusable. i crossed a line, and i deeply regret it. hours before her apology, b's comments received backlash from both sides. white house press secretary called her vial and vicious. chelsea clinton tweeted it was grossly inappropriate and flat-out wrong. don trump jr. tweeted good thing there's no double standard. imagine anyone said this about michelle obama or the obama girls. meanwhile auto strayeder and state farm announced they have suspended their ads from the

show. controversy comes a day after abc quickly canceled "roesz anne." >> former president bill clinton tells cbs he disagrees with chris tan jill i branld's statement he should have resigned. he said his extra marry tal affair had been taken out of context. senator has taken up confronting sexual harassment in the me too era and was one of the first to call forr al frankenen answers resignation. let's switch gears and get a chicago on the weather with our meteorologist. shaping up to look like a soggy weekend. >> i'm tierds tired of giving bad news.

looks soggy and cool and chally. fighting the heat wave in texas. this morning watching thunderstorms moving through tennessee, nashville. as we go throughout the day severe weather tus ca loose is a to atlanta. mostly wind damage down here. northern plains and up through the dakotas. as far as the timing goes with all the rain we're going to have this upcoming weekend, as we go through the day today, hit and miss showers and storms moving through north georgia, appellationing and pennsylvania. then as we go through saturday we'll focus on the mess in the mid atlantic. at times and new york and norfolk. but the worst will be right through the mid atlantic.

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welcome back. time for sports, starting with game 1 of the nba finals between the cavs and golden state warriors, warriors heavily favored. faced a cavs team that would not go down without a fight. it did not disappoint. lebron james carrying them with a 51-point performance joining miking jordan as the only players to score plus-50 in a finals game since 1970. cavs overi-all outbounding. george hill missed a go-ahead free throw with a little oefrp 4 seconds remaining. but jr smith with a play that may go down in infamy got the offensive board and passed to hill who got blocked as time expired. he must not have known the score. game could go into overtime and it was all warriors from there.

golden state finish off the cavs in ot, outscoring them by 10, getting the 124-114 victory. game 2 sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. fourth go-round of the cavs warriors reilly. but aman yasmin in the final. >> so stressed. >> i need to have a word. >> screaming. four times already. >> frustrating enough because i'm not going to talk too much about it but lebron james expecting his teammates to rise to the occasion and jr smith with this massive bad mental decision. anyway, heart break. definitely take lessons away. >> it will be okay. >> o still ahead, the latest on the trade war. >> we're going to talk to a former u.s. ambassador who was

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♪ ♪ welcome back everybody. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. u.s. allies around the world are taking swift action following the trump administrations decision to slap tariffs on certain imports. >> the moves have set off a

trade war which could result in consumers paying the price. nbc's kristin well ker has the news. >>reporter: now the retaliation from some of america's closest allies already under way. mexico vowing to slap fees on american fork, fruit and steel. europe threatening new tariffs on everything from whiskey and motorcycles to denim and cigarettes. >> in particular, an affront to the thousands of canadians who have fought and died alongside their american brothers in arms. >>reporter: and now u.s. consumers and businesses bracing for impact. >> it could lead to higher prices on everything from beer to automobiles that. could mean job cuts at some companies. >>reporter: brent bible is a soy bean and farmer.

he supports the president but not this latest move. >> the farmer is being drafted as a sold ner this trade war. we're not being given any weapon to use on the front line and we're very vulnerable to price fluctuation. >> reporter: stocks dropped on the nicews which comes after th trump administration failed to reach trade deals. white house wants less imported steel and aluminum and more made at home arguing american-made materials are critical to national security. >> are you -- >> i think the president's protecting american aluminum and steel. >>reporter: for the president, it's a campaign promise kept, tweeting late thursday, fair trade, but many in his own party are critical. house speaker paul ryan saying the action targets america's allies when we should be working with them. senator ben sasse simply calling it dumb. >> thanks. joining us here on set, mmd

-- you've led eight trade missions. what are your thoughts on the moves yesterday? >> it's unfortunate. president seems determined to engage in a zero-sum game on trade. it's hard to really figure out, after now, a year and a half, the underlying principle that the new administration seems to apply to trade issues, but if there's one common thread, i think it must be that if other countries, including our friends and allies, are pen fitting, it's coming at the cost of america. which is contrary to what has been a very kusuccessful 70-yea run which the united states has enjoyed the free and open markets. >> i know you're also viewed as a champion of expanding business in asia.

how do you put what we saw yesterday in the context with our european allies. we also have an ongoing trade dispute with china as well. >> yeah. look, i mean we're in an environment, a global environment that really cannot easily be disrupted. greatest american companies rely on global supply chains. and the u.s. economy and the chinese economy is interconnected, and interdependent. so i have some real concerns to the exp tend we're exchanging in rhetoric or actual actions that increase the pressure and tension between the u.s. and china. american businesses and american consumers might very well draw the short straw. >> let's switch gears and talk about the summit with north korea, the possible summit, shall we say. you served as ambassador to singapore.

tell us why that's a good place for a summit between president trump and kim jong-un. >> well it's an ideal location for this type of meeting. singapore is a young country, only been independent for about 53 years now, but over that time they have very carefully and deliberately, i think, developed a reputation as a place where east meets west. singapore is a strategic partner of the united states and has been for many years. but they're also a place that has maintained diplomatic relations with north korea. they have a north korean embassy, very active ambassador there and engage in diplomacy in pong yan pyongyang. it's a place that has hosted very important high-stakes summits in the past. in 2015, they hosted a historic meeting between president xi. president taiwan, something that

hadn't occur nds a 50-year history of tension. in 2008, singapore was a place where north korean diplomats met with american diplomats to discuss many of the same issues that are likely to be on the table in a trumt/kim summit. >> a safe and secure environment where both sides feel safe. >> i think that's right. singapore serves that purpose on a few different levels. >> ambassador, great to have you with us. all right. prosecutors have reportedly interviewed former fbi director jim comey as a part of their criminal investigation into his former deputy andrew mccabe. according to the washington post, comey recently spoke with prosecutors in the u.s. attorneys office for the district of columbia. mccabe was accused in april of having lied to federal investigators and comey four times, three of them under oath

about improperly authorizing the disclosure of sensitive information to the media. mcca mccabe insisted comey knew. it does not indicate prosecutors have reached any conclusions so far. in a statement to the post the attorney said he was confident the u.s. attorneys office would ultimately conclude his client had done nothing wrong. new details emerging about president trump's efforts to pressure attorney general jeff sessions over his recusal from the russia investigation. according to axios, that's last year, according to sources familiar with the conversations. those conversations allegedly happened three times in person. and one attempt happened over the phone. "new york times" reported earlier this week one such attempt by trump during a dinner with sessions in march of 2017. according to the axios report,

the president never explicitly ordered sessions to reclaim control of the probe though he repeatedly asked him if he had thought about it. trump also reportedly told him he would be a hero to conservatives if he reclaimed the russia investigation and launched a probe into hillary clinton. axios adds that trum privately upon terred whether it would be possible to limit the scope. white house declined to comment, a z did a spokesperson for sessions. now the cofounder of axios will have more on that coming up in just a few minutes. >> joining us here legal analyst. let's talk a little bit about what we can expect to happen if in fact the president is going to face any potential problems or legal pressure based 0en this new reporting that he tried to pressure jeff sessions to once again assume control of the russian investigation. what is the potential legal

fallout? >> we're all learning a lot about federal criminal law during these investigations. one rule that emerges is that there need not be any actual russia collusion underlying the facts, if investigators come to you and ask you questions and you mislead them intentionally about a material issue, then there are a number about of federal crimes that can exist, even if there was no underlying criminal activity lied about. any time of have any of these statements given to ekt havers either under oath or a private interview, you have that potential for a criminal charge. when it comes to president trump, potentially ordering jeff sessions to do or not do something, the critical analysis is why did he do it? did he do it because in his good faith he believed it was the right thing to do? or was it for what we call a corrupt purpose. and corrupt lee is defined as an improper purpose, something that

advanced his own personal interests. that is the magic word in looking at all of this conduct. >> i wonder if it's legally subjective that the point well the president would say i didn't think i was asking him to do anything corrupt. >> he can always spin it that way. >> it's very significant. informati in fact the core inquiry is why were the actions taken. if there's a benign reason, no problem. but if they decide it was for a corrupt purpose. improper, personal gain or to protect yourself from criminal liability, now we're veering into the world of corrupt. but make no mistake about it, in the federal criminal context, two equal acts can be very different depending on what was in the person's mind, the other official's mind. >> is there any legal precedent to someone unrecusing themselves

from an investigation like this in history? >> unrecusing themselves. in other words bringing themselves back. i can't think of anything off hand but i can tell you the very essence of recusal is making a statement that i am conflicted or bias so i can't participate. >> potentially new word of the year. thank you for joining us. still ahead, john boehner weighs in on the state of the republican party. blistering critique the former speaker of the house has for his party under president trump. >> plus bill is back with us with a check on a soggy forecast.

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republican party. >> there is no republican party. there's a trump party. republican party is taking a nap somewhere. >> now notice that big glass. we assume to be a bloody mary. i want to say. >> that's what happened when you no longer have to run for reelection. you get to sit. >> speak truth. ba he went on to explain the relationship saying trump would call him when he was speaker. he also says he believes trump had told his wife melania that he would not win the election. he says i wake up everyday drink my morning coffee and say halleluliah. and enjoy a margarita and talk to people about it. >> we're going to have to have a bloody mary after this weather report. bill, what have you got? >> like a warm drink. hot cocoa.

let's get into the mess that it is out there. right now the worst of the weather headed through tennessee into the mountainous areas, a lot of thunderstorms. tup a low, mississippi a thunderstorm knocking on your door and a couple areas with severe weather. northern alabama, georgia, atlanta. delays possible with the thunderstorms. watch out in any through the dakotas. how about the heat? this has been one of the hottest early summer seasons in texas. it's just been ridiculous, it continues today. now we're adding in the humidity. 99 for the temperature, feeling like 106 in austin today. starting to spread northwards. oklahoma city will feel like 104. d.c. heat index of 94. cooling off with thunderstorms later. on saturday, dallas feel like 108. memphis, 103. really sweating it out this weekend in areas of texas and

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ayman mohyeld welcome back. let's turn to business. department of labor will release

its may job report later this morning and some speculate it could show historically low unemployment and a slow willem e now have the aluminum trade tariffs going on as well. >> the estimate is for 324,000 jobs to be added this month we had huge numbers back in february, we're now expecting to see a little less than that perhaps, 324,000 number, but certainly better than march and april. unemployment rate, 3.9% is the estimate, pretty flat at the moment. that could change, we'll wait to see in the next few hours. the other big story is the tariffs that the u.s. administration has decided to impose on the eu, canada and mexico. in march president trump announced 25% tariffs on steel, 10% tariffs on aluminum, he gave an exemption for those three

entities. he's saying the exemption expires today. we're expecting to see retaliatory measures from all three of those. and bourbon and orange juice. another big story, the spanish prime minister is now out, a new guy in charge, pedro sanchez, so something new that the markets are are watching. >> aluminum is how you pronounce it? >> it was just the scripps spelling bee. in less turbulent news, the national doughnut day is upon us. the real question here is where are we getting the doughnuts and how should i spell it for my instagram caption? >> it's another spelling question. in this part of the world we spell doughnut with dough, d-o-u-g-h. a lot of them are miami-based,

they will be looking for the d-o-n-u-t. i'm had my breakfast, but i'm peckish, near to lunch. it's all right. you know your team very sweetly sent out to the cnbc news room around 24 and we managed to demolish these in about ten minutes flat. so cheers to you guys. >> willem marks, live from london. >> a little something on the corner of your mouth, a little something there. >> appreciate it, yasmine. coming up, axios's mike allen has a look at this morning's one big thing. and morning joe, shots fired on the global trade war. more on the international fallout over president trump's decision to slap tariffs on america's allies and who stands to be the big loser in this international economic battle. and former c.i.a. director john brennan joins the conversation to discuss the president's recent attacks against him and his own blistering criticisms for the

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joining us from washington with a look at axios a.m., coat founder of axios, mike allen. mike, good morning to you, happy friday. >> welcome to june. >> welcome to june. >> date check. >> talk to us about axios's one big thing this morning. >> axios's one big thing is why president trump loves pardons. we saw that axios scoop by jonathan swan about the president's unusual actions in pressuring attorney general jeff sessions. these unusual comments about pardons, yesterday. and what we realized is that the pardon power is the one place that the president can have the sort of snap your fingers presidency. that he wanted. your viewers will remember the campaign trail, the president talking about just put me in, and we'll solve the national debt. just put me in, health care will be easy to fix. and it turns out that pardons,

the executive clemency power is the place where the president can do this. the "washington post" pointing out this morning that a lot of these pardons the president done had gone around the normal process. where it works through the justice department, they can serve a thousand of them and they bring them to the president. and instead he's watching tv, and he reacts and that's the kind of presidency the president loves. >> read between the lines for us a little bit when you look at the messaging behind who he is pardoning, the frequency that he is starting to pardon more people. what does that send to those that are watching this very closely? what kind of message something coming out of these pardons. >> leading the witness and you're right. the message is -- this can be you, michael flynn. this can be you, michael cohen, the president reminding people who are talking to the special

counsel robert mueller, who are considering cooperating, reminding him, daddy can pardon you, i have this power and i'm willing to use it. >> i hope they don't call president trump daddy. >> what are aides and allies telling saying about the actions the president is using and the consistent pressure he's been putting on jeff sessions. >> this is something that the president knew that he was going to get criticism for. and this is also partly a reflection of the fact that the president is all of his top staffers, he doesn't have the strong advisers that he has in the past. and so the president is very much doing what he wants. acting on instinct, and impulse. the same "washington post" story pointed out that, that there may be a flurry of more pardons coming. a bunch under consideration.

and a bunch are likely to happen. >> mike, let me switch gears, i want to ask you about exclusive reporting that you guys have at axios regarding pope francis' efforts to tackle climate change. very significant development. he's obviously been a very outspoken pontiff about a lot of social issues. what are you learning this morning about that? >> so this is fascinating. next week at the vatican, the president is going to host a number of oil companies, and energy investors, to talk about climate change. so today is the one-year anniversary of the president deciding that the u.s. is going to get out of the paris climate accord and axios's amy harder who covers energy. hee does her weekly harder line energy call. picked up on the fact that the pope had invited a number of energy companies to this vatican meeting. several have accepted. and the fact that a, the pope is

willing to do this, is using his progressive instincts. and b, the fact that these oil giants and these energy investors want to engage in this way, shows that the way that the conversation is moving on climate change. >> we know the pope had taken the environment and climate change on for a number of years, we know this is sort of been his big issue, his major issue. but how much of a factor is the fact that the president decided to pull out of the paris climate accord, being taken into the pope's decision to take this topic on now? >> that's a great point, we see around the country various governments, state and local governments here, other governments around the world saying if the president is to be on the sidelines for this, if the president is going to pull back. like other institutions, are going to step in. and this is a great example of that. >> mike, let me ask you, it's friday, june 1, jobs