♪ this morning epa chief scott pruitt is out amid mounting public outcry and multiple ethics scandals. president trump says pruitt chose to resign because he felt he was a distraction. plus, president trump holds a campaign-style rally in montana and unleashes on some of his favorite targets. new overnight, secretary of state mike pompeo has landed in north korea. he is hoping to fill in some of the details on the agreement between president trump and kim jong-un. ♪ good morning, everyone. it is friday, july 6th.

i'm ayman mohyeldin. we begin with new information about the ongoing rescue efforts to raise 12 boys and a soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave in thailand. we learned a tiefr who was once a member of thailand's elite navy seal unit has died during a rescue operation. rescue teams have been working around the clock for days trying to figure out how to get the group out of the cave, but clearly the conditions are too dangerous. joining us live from chiang rai, thailand, what can you tell us about the setback, janis mackey frayer? >> reporter: this is a reminder of the dangers that this operation involves in trying to take these 12 kids and their coach out from this cave system to safety. this young diver is a former thai navy seal diver. he was here in a volunteer capacity almost from the beginning. he had been documenting the rescue effort on instagram and felt very proud of his involvement. he ran out of oxygen when they

were trying to take supplies into the cave system last night in preparation for a possible evacuation attempt. it is a reminder of the sort of risks that are being calculated here by thai officials as they decide how to bring the boys out and, more importantly, when. they need to decide the order of evacuation. do they bring the strongest out first, the weakest, the youngest? we are told there are at least three of the kids and the coach who are perhaps not quite strong enough to make this sort of escape, so we're awaiting hour-by-hour and, of course, watching the skies because there is the expectation of heavy rain. ayman. >> janis mackey frayer live for us in thailand. thank you. after months of headline-grabbing ethics scandals and allegations of abuse of power, scott pruitt has resigned as head of the epa. pruitt stepped down yesterday, making him the fourth member of president trump's original cabinet to depart from the administration. the president announced the move in a pair of tweets, writing in

part, within the agency, scott has done an outstanding job and i will always be thankful to him for this. speaking aboard air force one yesterday, he said that the allegations against his former epa chief, but rather he accepted his resignation because pruitt believed they had become a distraction, adding there had been no final straw. pruitt was the subject of 15 ongoing federal investigations by the epa's internal watchdog as well as the government accountability office and the house of representatives and the white house according to an account by nbc news. one additional probe by the government accountable office concluded he broke the law by installing the $45,000 phone booth in his office. other investigations or audits focus on a $40,000 trip to morocco, pruitt's meetings with industry groups and his use of security detail during personal trips to the rose bowl and disneyland. now, in his resignation letter

to the president pruitt offered glowing phra glowing praise of his former boss saying, quote, it was an honor to serve him. in fact, he used some form of the phrase eight separate times. pruitt also told trump, i believe you are serving as president today because of god's providence. i believe that same providence brought me into your service. i pray as i have served you that i have blessed you and enabled you to effectively lead the american people. questions now turn to where pruitt's political career goes next, as the paper from his home state of oklahoma points out pruitt has long been considered the heir apparent to senator who has not decided if he will run for election in 2020. whether he elects to run or if his scandals dog him, if he does remains to be seen. in his tweet confirming scott pruitt's resignation president trump also confirmed that deputy epa administrator andrew wheeler would become the

agency's directing director. he is a former coal lobbyist that shared pruitt's desire to undo regulations. he served as former chief of staff to senator, one of the most vocal climate-denying in congress. he is expected to continue the policies pruitt put in place, but perhaps with less drama and less scandals. he is viewed as an expert washington insider who avoids the spotlight, which friends and critics say could ultimately allow him to be more skillful at the job than pruitt was. president trump held a campaign rally in montana last night, giving a speech riddled with false hoods, once again wrongly claiming to the crowd he won states even ronald reagan could not. >> reagan had his big win. he won every state except one, the great state of wisconsin. i won wisconsin. first time, first time since dwight eisenhower in 1950. >> of course, republican

presidential candidates have won wisconsin seven times in the elections after 1952, including ronald reagan who actually won it by nine points in 1984. that year reagan won 19 states that trump did not. he captured nearly 59% of the vote to trump's 46%, and reagan won by nearly 17 million votes in the popular tally while trump lost by nearly 3 million. last night president trump took aim at other republicans, including his routine jab at the ailing john mccain for voting against obamacare repeal and criticizing former president george h.w. bush's thousand points of light rhetoric about volunteering. he also bashed nato allies who sent troops to fight in afghanistan but defended russian president vladimir putin. >> because we are finally putting america first. we're putting america first. you know, all of the rhetoric you hear, the thousands points

of light. what the hell was that, by the way? thousand points of light, what did that mean? does anybody know. i know one thing, make america great we understand. putting america first we understand. thousands points of light, i never quite got that one. what the hell is that? has anyone ever figured that one out? it was put up by a republican, wasn't it? we go away on monday. i'll see nato and i'm going to tell nato, you got to start paying your bills. the united states is not going to take care of everything. they kill us with nato. they kill us. germany pays 1%. 1%. and i said, you know, angela, i can't guarantee it but we're protecting you, and it means a lot more to you than protecting us because i don't know how much protection we get by protecting you. i'm meeting with president putin next week. they're going, will president

trump be prepared? you know, president putin is kgb and this and that. you know what? putin's fine. he's fine. we're all fine with people. >> all right. so during his rally last night president trump also launched an attack on senator elizabeth warren, a potential 2020 rival, and appeared to mock the me too movement while doing so. >> let's say i'm debating pocahontas. i promise i will do this. i will take those kits they sell on television for $2, learn your heritage. in the middle of the debate when she proclaims she's of indian heritage because her mother said she has high cheek bones, we will take that little kit and say, but we have to do it gently because we're in the me too generation, so we have to be very gentle. and we will very gently take that kit and we will slowly toss

it, hoping it doesn't hit her and injure her arm, even though it only weighs probably two ounces, and we will say, "i will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity, paid for by trump, if you take the test and it shows you're an indian, you know." and let's see what she does, right. >> all right. so senator warren hit back on twitter last night writing, hey, donald trump, while you obsess over my genes, your administration is conducting dna tests on little kids because you ripped them from their mamas and you're too incompetent to reunite them in time to meet a court order. maybe you should focus on fixing the lives you're destroying. switching gears, overseas secretary of state mike pompeo is back in north korea for a two-day visit, his third trip to the dprk this year. it comes amid reports that north korea is continuing to enrich uranium and is trying to deceive the united states about its nuclear stockpile arsenal and

secret production facilities. it also comes just over three weeks after the singapore summit, and per pompeo he is, quote, seeking to fill in some details of the agreement sign by president trump and kim jong-un. they're also expected to discuss the return of remains of u.s. troops killed during the korean war, which according to pompeo are not yet being returned despite trump's comments to the contrary. according to a report south korea shows signs which nbc news has not yet independently confirmed, pompeo brought along two gifts for kim. one, a letter from president trump, the other an elton john cd with his song rocketman which trump notoriously used as a nickname for kim in tweets and at the u.n. it was discussed with kim during their lunch and he asked the north korean dictator if he heard the song and kim said no. the president discussed the

situation with north korea on the record aboard air force one last night, saying that he trusts kim because, quote, i shook his hand, adding that he feels they got along and had, quote, good chemistry and understand each other. joining us reporter for the washington examiner, melissa quinn. great to have you with us on this friday morning. let's start with embattled former epa chief scott pruitt who handed in his resignation letter, but he is not out of the clear with the ethics probes still ongoing with the multiple agencies we listed. what could the open investigations mean for him going forward? >> i think it means primarily scott pruitt's problems really are not going away even as he leaves the trump administration. like you mentioned earlier, this is a man who is facing over a dozen investigations through just over a year and a half of serving as the epa administrator. for a lot of the months it really seemed like he was quite effective, and perhaps to the

president's pleasure at implementing the president's allege agenda, rolling back regulations and withdrawing from the paris climate accord, i believe the epa inspector general will be looking at whether or not the investigations should proceed now that pruitt has indeed resigned. i think there will be a number of questions that come up even as the weeks and months go on following his resignation that a lot of members of congress will want answers to. >> let's switch gears and talk about the politics of president trump who yesterday was at the montana rally, certainly did not hold back against his critics. he even went after, as we were showing there, senator elizabeth warren and his heritage. what are some of the other moments that stood out for you, either substantively or not? >> yeah, this was really just sort of a play back of president trump's greatest hits. what we've seen time and time again from him at these make america great rallies. like you mentioned, he took aim

at elizabeth warren, reuping his nickname for her. he criticized jon tester who is up for reelection in the state of montana, hitting him for his votes on tax reform, not supporting neil gorsuch during his confirmation fight last year. he reuped his criticism of the nfl, actually saying he thinks it may be worse for players to remain in the locker room instead of kneeling for the national anthem. and, of course, he once again harkened back to the moment during the crucial health care vote in the senate last year, saying john mccain -- again, criticizing him for opposing the health care bill. mocking him for that now notorious thumbs down movement. this comes after the white house has leveled so many criticisms against senator mccain. even though the president and some top administration officials have said that they do not plan to really bring this up time, you know, again, they have continued to do so, and trump continues to do so over and over again. >> and i'm sure he will continue to do so every chance he gets.

melissa quinn, thank you for joining us. we will touch base with you in a little bit. >> thank you. former television and raid wrote host ed schultz died of natural causes at his home in washington, d.c. from 2009 to 2015 he hosted the "ed schultz show" here on msnbc and later moved on to the kremlin-backed media organization rt america. he is survived by his wife wendy and six children. he was 64 years old. still ahead, president trump compares immigration enforcement to keeping people off your front lawn. the latest on his escalating rhetoric. plus, president trump has the weekend to settle on a supreme court nominee. what we know this morning about the top contenders. those stories and a check on weather when we come right back. ♪ ♪

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dozens of immigrant recruits and reservists who enlisted through a program that promised that a path to citizenship. the associated press was unable to quantify how many men and women who enlisted through the special recruitment program have been kicked out of the military, but immigration attorneys say that they know of more than 40 cases who have been discharged so far or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their futures. separately and somewhat ironically, 40 is also the number of foreign workers that president trump's mar-a-lago club is seeking to hire according to the labor department yesterday. spokes people for the pentagon and the army told the ap due to pending litigation they were unable to explain the discharges or respond to questions about whether there have been policy changes in any of the military branches. all right. so even after the backlash to his child separation policies, president trump continued to rail against due process for those apprehended at the border, tweeting, quote, when people with or without children enter

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♪ welcome back. i'm ayman mohyeldin. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the morning's top stories. new overnight we learned a rescuer has died trying to help self the boys and soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave in thailand. the diver is identified as a 38-year old who was once a member of thailand's elite navy seal unit. rescue teams have been working around the clock for days trying to figure out how to get the group out of the cave but conditions have been dangerous. joining us live from thailand, nbc news correspondent janis mackey frayer. what more can you tell us about what happened with the elite navy seal diver? >> reporter: good morning, ayman. it happened overnight. this young diver, part of the rescue effort almost from the beginning, he was a former navy seal diver but came here as a volunteer and had been documenting the effort on instagram. they were going in last night to take in supplies that would be

necessary to have an evacuation attempt of these boys and their coach. they were taking in air hoses, oxygen tanks, and he ran out of oxygen coming back out. his fellow divers tried to revive him and could not. it is a reminder of the dangers that lurk inside and the sort of decisions and risks that officials are calculating in trying to undertake this effort, which would involve taking 12 boys and a coach who don't know how to swim and getting them from where they are, which is nearly three miles deep into the cave system, to the cave entrance. >> yeah, absolutely heartbreaking, these images we are seeing of how somehow these rescue workers trying to clear the water to get from one tunnel turn to the other. tell us more, janice, about the conditions they are facing inside and the challenges these experienced divers have to go through to try to carry out this daring rescue operation.

>> reporter: the issue, of course, is that this cave system has been flooded. they've been pumping millions of gallons of water out for the past week or so. the pumps have been running 24/7 and it is now at a point that about a third of the journey -- it is a nearly three-mile journey. about a third is walkable, but it is an exhausting walk. it is from the cave entrance to where the water's edge is, it is about a 90-minute walk. for these experienced divers who are physically fit, the royal navy divers doing this for a living, they're exhausted by the time they reach the water. they need to sit, have a rest, eat, take 45 minutes, and the air inside there is also very thin. these are the conditions that they're grappling with and they're just not sure at this point if these boys are strong enough to do it. ayman. >> wow, absolutely heartbreaking to see this. it is a race against time as well. janis mackey frayer, thank you very much. president trump announced on twitter yesterday he has accepted the resignation of his

environmental protection agency administrator scott pruitt. pruitt was under fire, you may recall, for months facing more than a dozen separate ethics investigations. nbc's peter alexander has more. >> reporter: for epa administrator scott pruitt it is the political climate that got too hot. facing mounting legal and ethics scandals, pruitt, one of the most controversial trump original cabinet picks, is out. president trump aboard air force one tweeting, i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt. adding, scott has done an outstanding job. a relax pruitt spotted at the white house's 4th of july picnic, but under siege from at least 15 federal ethics inquirees, costing taxpayers millions, including a 24/7 security detail, frequent first class air travel and a $43,000 soundproof phone booth installed in his office. >> targeted towards me and my team has been half truths or at best stories so twisted they

don't resemble reality. >> just this week a school teacher confronting pruitt at a d.c. restaurant. >> i would urge you to resign before your scandals push you out. >> reporter: in his resignation letter obtained by nbc news he acknowledges the unrelenting attacks on me personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on all of us. pruitt, a hero among conservatives for aggressively rolling back obama-era environmental protections, undercutting the clean water act and stalling tougher fuel economy standards. the president praising him just last month. >> scott pruitt is doing a great job within the walls of the epa. we're setting records. >> reporter: this morning the president says there was no final straw, that scott pruitt first came to him a couple of days ago and chose to resign. still, his departure will not change the agency's direction. his replacement, his deputy andrew wheeler, a former lobbyist for the coal industry. ayman. >> our thanks to petr alexander for that report. now on to immigration. the trump administration is

racing to meet a court-ordered deadline to reunite families separated at the southern border. the department of health and human services secretary alex azar saying yesterday about 3,000 children are in their care. that number is hundreds more migrant kids than earlier counted, with hhs believing about 100 of the children are under the age of five. "the new york times" reports on friday the leadership of the department of health and human services sent out a plea to federal public health workers for help with an exhaustive manual search of records. that involved scrubbing the documents of an estimated 12,000 children to determine which had been separated from their parents by the authorities as opposed to arriving in the country without a parent or other relative. president trump defended congressman jim jordan against claims he ignored decades-old allegations of sexual abuse made by members of ohio state wrestling team against team doctor. he told reporters on air force one, i don't believe them at

all. i believe him. jim jordan is one of the most outstanding people i've met since i've been in washington. i believe him 100%. no question in my mind. i believe jim jordan 100%. he's an outstanding man. meanwhile, a fourth ohio state wrestler has come forward claiming jordan knew about the sexual abuse during his time as the team's assistant coach. sean daly told nbc news he was too embarrassed to report the abuse directly to jordan at the time, but said jordan took part in conversations where the doctor's abuse of many other team members came up. the republican leader of the house freedom caucus denied any prior knowledge of abuse allegations and says he only learned of them when the former students went public earlier this year. president trump short list for the supreme court appears to now center on three potential candidates. a source familiar with the selection process tells nbc news those candidates are appeals court judges brett kavanaugh, amy coney barrett and raymond kethledge. kavanaugh and kethledge are

former law clerks to retiring justice kennedy. barrett is a former law clerk as well to justice scalia. president trump told reporters on board air force one he expects to announce his pick on monday night at 9:00 p.m. joining us now, a reporter for the washington examiner once again, melissa quinn. good to have you back with us. the president says he has narrowed his focus down to a few supreme court contenders. run us through whom they might be and what their backgrounds could make one of them the right choice for trump. >> reporter: yeah, good morning. thank you for having me. of those three, it is widely agreed upon in conservative legal circles they are all originalists and textualists which was something important to president trump when he found out he was going to be tasked with naming not one but two justices to the u.s. supreme court. amy kony barrett is a current judge on the 7th circuit u.s. court of appeals. she was nominated to that position by president trump last year and faced a pretty brutal

confirmation fight. there was one exchange with senator dianne feinstein that really stood out, where feinstein told her the dogma lives loudly within you. that has made her a darling of social conservatives and she is really their choice. kavanaugh and kethledge are fed ral appeals court judges. both clerked for justice kennedy, which has been said enticed him a little more to retire knowing two of his former clerks are on the list. kavanaugh is on the d.c. circuit, which is considered second most powerful court in the country and has been in the position for a dozen year. he worked in the second bush administration, which could prove a little troubling for president trump. kethledge is also considered similar to justice neil gorsuch which could prove enticing for president trump. >> let's switch gears for a moment because i want to talk to you about immigration. the trump administration seems to be running out of time to reunite the separated immigrant families, the parents and their kids. they've now launched a dna program to try to help with that task.

could that be cause for some privacy concerns, especially for young migrants? >> yeah, absolutely. i think that this policy of doing dna tests on these young immigrant children is going to raise a lot of questions. there are already concerns about whether or not this testing is being done with the consent of those children. remember, some of them are as young as under a year old. there are also concerns about who has access to the information. how long is the government going to be keeping that information. where is it going to be kept. of course, this certainly is part of the administration's efforts to meet that court-ordered deadline, i believe by tuesday, to reunite families if their children are under five years old they have a little bit more time to reunite families with children over five. it certainly teams to raise a lot of concerns for immigration lawyers and their advocates. >> a lot of question and uncertainty. melissa quinn, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> still ahead, president

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welcome back, everyone. president trump's former long time personal attorney michael cohen has hired washington, d.c. lawyer lanny davis who was former special counsel to bill clinton. davis released a statement writing, quote, like most america, i have been following the matter regarding michael cohen with great interest. as an attorney, i have talked to michael many times in the last two weeks. then i read his words published on july 2nd and i recognized his sincerity. michael cohen deserves to tell his side of the story, subject, of course, to the advice of counsel. he is the latest addition to cohen's legal team which also includes guy patrillo, a former

federal prosecutor here in manhattan. former president bill clinton addressed his affair with monica lewinsky in the wake of the #metoo movement. take a look at this. >> it means i need to not react to the raw pain of having to relive something that happened 20 years ago, and i need to be aware that unfortunately there are still millions of people every day who face objecti objectification, disrespect in the workplace and at home. i regret what i did very much all of those years ago and i tried to paid for it and atone for it and tried to do right. >> clinton in an interview with nbc last month dodged saying whether he had ever apologized to liewinsky. bill karins with the weather.

>> good morning. have a piece of breaking weather news in the last 45 minutes. the first hurricane of the season has formed in the atlantic. it is not going to impact anywhere in the u.s. so we're okay like that, but just the fact it formed was a surprise. it is hurricane beryl, a tiny storm. it was a tropical depression yesterday. sometimes these tiny storms can increase in intensity quickly. they can also die quickly, too. winds are barely at the minimum threshold for a hurricane at 75 miles per hour, and the storm will head towards the lee ward and windward islands. the storm will be about 85 miles per hour, 75, 65, dying to a lower end tropical storm heading through the islands. they may get squally weather sunday night through monday. i don't have concerns with puerto rico or haiti or the dominican republic. we are watching a cold front heading through areas of new england. there's rain in areas between philadelphia and new york. it is about to rain in new york city in the next half hour, and then another line of storms will

come through as we go throughout the middle of the day and that will be the end of our really super humid air. so where did the heat wave go? the heat has moved to the west. record highs are possible today in many spots. yesterday it was 115 in phoenix, and afterwards 115 they had this. kind of looks like something -- you ever see the movie "mummy?" it was a good dust storm that kicked in and moved through the area. you get to clean that up with the hose. record highs are possible today. 104 in downtown l.a., the hottest of the summer for you. phoenix, about 112. salt lack city at 101. as far as the weekend forecast goes, everyone from the great lakes, ohio valley, mid launkt a atlantic. unfortunately for the south and south east we will be dodging thunderstorms. we can't get the cool canadian air all the way to the gulf. too far of a trip.

>> i think the folks in arizona would take cold air with about 115. >> it is hot, even if it is dry. >> thanks for that, bill. still ahead, china fires back at the u.s. over president trump's tariffs. we will go live overseas with the latest on beijing's retaliatory efforts in the ongoing trade dispute and whether both sides may find a resolution. ♪ (vo) lately, i've been selective about what i eat. this beneful select 10, has 10 amazing ingredients! (avo) with real beef, plus accents of sunflower oil and apples, suddenly your dog's a health nut.

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moment. china implemented retaliatory tariffs on some imports from the united states after u.s. tariffs on $34 billion worth of chinese goods officially kicked in earlier this london with the very latest. what is beijing targeting with its new duties against the u.s.? >> reporter: finally they've actually executed them. both tariffs on both sides implemented. of course, we've talked about it for a while. recap, china imposed a 25% tariff on $34 billion worth of goods. that's about 545 products including agriculture products including soybean, quite important, because they import about 60% of their share of soy from the united states as well as fruits, nuts, seafoods and light vehicles as well. there's also talk they may look to impose further $16 billion worth of tariffs in the coming weeking making it $50 billion on both sides. but markets behaved pretty well

overnight. asian equities trading in the green. perhaps the case of the fact we've been talking about it so long. now that it's actually happened, no one is that surprised, but also a little bit of negative news that came in yesterday. president trump warned he may impose tariffs on an extra $500 billion worth of goods. if that happens, may not be a good thing for financial markets. >> looks like it's not slowing down soon. neither side backing down. focus on the job report here in the u.s. switching gears. expecting that in the coming hours. what more can you tell us in terms of what we can expect about the june job report? >> reporter: the job situation in the u.s. is very strong at the moment. the job market is healthy. on average, the economy created 207,000 job as month for the year. for today, looking for 195,000 jobs, slightly lower. wage growth expected to come in at 2.8% and keep an eye on the

unemployment rate as well that currently is at 3.8%. if it drops to 3.7%, the lowest unemployment rate since 1969, ayman. >> perhaps the president may tweet about it earlier than expected. live for us from london, thank you. coming up, axis' mike allen, a look at the one big thing and coming up on "morning joe," the president, his rally in montana taking aim at any and all critics. a full breakdown of the president's long list of attacks in a speech riddled with falsehoods and yet his latest defense of russian president vp jrngs pl vladimir putin, and the former epa administrator now, scott pruitt. "morning joe," everyone, just moments away. use every possible resource. to fight cancer. and never lose sight of the patients we're fighting for. our cancer treatment specialists share

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>> great to close out this short week with you. i think you and i may be and our colleagues may be the only ones working. axis, nato's big night mayor. at the big sky rally in montana, the attacks he made on nato were the europeans worst nightmare and we see here the stories of his attacks on nato going into the summit next wednesday and thursday in brussels and trade war that you've had great coverage of, we see them coming together nap is the president in his words last night saying that americans are the schmucks paying for the whole thing. sincerely he believes that the united states is getting screwed by its allies and by its trading partners and thinks he is the one to rectify it. >> a complete misrepresentation how nato funding is working there. mike, focus in on the comments yesterday. are his comments, the president's comments last night, are they strategy or is it just

the president, you know, being in front of a friendly crowd and just venting? >> wow, ayman. what we call leading the witness. you're teeing me up. rarely is the president, what he says, strategy. aides will tell you that. that's part of what worries allies, bauer they're getting reassurances behind the scenes from the president's aides saying that we're not going to let the western defense fall, but they're not really sure that the aides speak for the president. as you talk to these other countries, what they know, the only person that speaks for the united states is the president, and the president can change on a dime, or a euro in this case, what he's saying. >> hey, mike, let me ask you quickly. how are nato laeaders bracing fr the meeting next month with trump? >> this president rarely

distinguishes between allies and foes. in fact, he tends to be harder on his allies. what they're very worried about is the fact that next monday, when they have the summit with the russian, president putin that will be friendlier than ones with allies. why does this all matter? asia is watching. china is watching, and the more that the united states makes it unclear how it's going to treat the west, when the president is out in a rally in montana, for heavens sakes, scolding angela, as he calls the german chancellor is a sign of weakness for the west and opportunity for chi china. >> quickly turn to the resignation of scott pruitt, epa chief. the wait of the scandals continuing to grow causing him to resign? >> the weight growing on the president and a senior administration official told axios' jonathan swan that he lost the war of attrition.

that was just so much piled on. the president liked what he was doing, as you've covered here. one of the most activist buildings in the trump administration. the president liked what he was doing but the president doesn't like people getting more coverage than him, especially more bad coverage than him. behind the scenes trump said that even though people wanted to dismiss what was going on with pruitt as fake news, in fact, the president's words, behind the scenes, he said pruitt gave them plenty to work with. >> mike allen, thank you very much. of course, reading axios in a little bit. and sign up for the newsletter, signup.axios.com. that does it for us. "morning joe" starts right now. we go away on monday. i'll see nato and i'm going to tell nato, you got to start paying your bills. the united states is not going to take care of everything. >> they kill us with nato.

they kill us. germany pays 1%. 1%. and i said, you know, angela, i can't guarantee it, but we're protecting you, and it means a lot more to you than protecting us, because i don't know how much protection we get by protecting you. >> i'm meeting with president putin next week. they're going, will president trump be prepared? you know, president putin is kgb and this and that. you know what? putin's fine. he's fine. we're all fine. we're people. >> the world according to a trump rally. >> so -- he says we get nothing from germany. >> uh-huh. >> by the way, from 1947 to 1991, we're on the front lines in our fight against soviet russia, and i mean, you ask -- they really were