today president trump and the first lady are to meet with queen elizabeth at windsor castle, this after he criticized british prime minister theresa may over brexit negotiations. plus fireworks on capitol hill as lawmakers question the fbi agent removed from the russia probe after a series of anti-trump text messages came to light. the trump administration reunites about half of the young migrant children separated from their parents under the zero tolerance policy, but many more have been deemed ineligible for reunification and at least a dozen parents have already been deported. ♪ good morning, everybody. it is friday, july 13th. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside

david gurra in for ayman. we're going to start with president trump waking up today in the uk, the second leg of a multi-nation european trip, and his first visit to america's closest ally since taking office. the stop comes on the heels of a highly-contentious nato summit. now with that explosive interview the president came to "the sun" as a backdrop. more on that in a minute. the president is notably not staying in the heart of london where massive protests continue to be under way, which include this enormous caricature blimp of the commander in chief named baby trump with a cellphone in hand. prior to departing nato trump said he is fine with the protests, while also asserting they, quote, like me a lot in the uk and he has, quote, great friendships. last night prime minister theresa may hosted the president and first allied for a black tie dinner at winston churchill's birthplace.

within the next hour or so, trump will head for a bilateral and working lunch with theresa may before the pair participate in a news conference. "the sun" tabloid published an interview of him being highly critical of the brexit strategy, to abide by many of the european unions trade policies saying it will kill a deal with the u.s. >> i would have done it much differently. i actually told theresa may how to do it, but she didn't agree, she didn't listen to me. >> what did she say? >> she didn't listen. no, i told her how to do it. that will be up to her to say, but i told her how to do it. she wanted to go a different route. >> so you would be prepared to walk away if they didn't give you the right terms? >> oh, absolutely. i think what's going on is very unfortunate. i did give theresa, who i like, i did give her my views on what she should do and how she should

negotiate. and she didn't follow those views. i would actually say she probably went the opposite way. i think the deal that she's striking is not what the people voted on. it is a much different deal than the people voted on. it was not the deal that was in the referendum. you know, they have a lot of resignations. so a lot of people don't like it. no, but it will definitely affect trade with the united states, unfortunately, in a negative way. >> if they do a deal like that it would most likely -- because we'll be dealing with the european union instead of dealing with the uk. so it will probably kill the deal with -- if they do that, their trade deal with the u.s. will probably not be made. no, if they do that, i would say that that would probably end a major trade relationship with the united states. >> forceful rhetoric from the president on immigration as well, this time directed at the policies of his host country and

continent. >> i think what's happened to europe is a shame. i think the immigration, allowing the immigration to take place in europe is a shape. i think it changed the fabric of europe. and unless you act very quickly, it's never going to be what it was, and i don't mean that in a positive way. so i think allowing millions and millions of people to come into europe is very, very sad. i think you're losing your culture. >> joining us live from london, nbc news white house correspondent jeff bennet. also with us nbc news international correspondent cal perry. we haven't heard from the prime minister since the interview was published. we got a statement from the press secretary. they indicated the relationship between these two is still good. what are we expecting to hear from prime minister theresa may about this interview? >> hey there, david.

the latest i'm hearing the downing street said they expect the prime minister to comment on the president's remarks in that press conference we are set to see in a few hours from now. but to explain this, first of all, to our viewers who may not fully understand theresa may's kbreks i think strategy, she is trying to leave the european union by keeping the best parts of the deal, the ability to trade with some members of the e urk. the president is saying that's not good enough, to kind of have a soft landing for brexit, the president is saying that would kill hopes of a direct trade pact with the u.s. that's one of the things she was hoping to get the president to agree to during his three-day trip here. the other point of the trip was to cement the special relati relationship. you will hear that phrase a lot over the next couple of days, between the u.s. and the uk. but the president as we have seen is starting this trip by knifing theresa may, suggesting her arch rival boris johnson, is a great leader and would be a

great prime minister. so there are questions obviously about that. there are a lot of questions about the other part of this trip where the president goes to helsinki to sit down with russian president vladimir putin. russia is accused of those nerve agent attacks here on british soil. there's a question whether or not the president will press putin about that issue and others. one of the questions i know we have, when our colleagues go into the press conference, whether or not the prime minister is confident the president will advocate for basic norms when he sits down with putin. david. >> besides what we heard from sarah huckabee sanders, is there any fall-out from within the white house you are hearing from or you are hearing of with regards to the interview that the president gave "the sun?" and especially with what he said about boris johnson, which he basically said he would make a fantastic prime minister. not to discount theresa may, but he thinks boris johnson would be a great prime minister. >> you know, people here aren't

really surprised by what the president said. i mean he's been saying it for years really even as a candidate. i think the surprise is that he would say it in the venue where he did, coming along this really high-stakes visit ahead of this working lunch, ahead of this press conference with the prime minister. the person who did that interview for "the sun" says at several points during the interview sarah huckabee sanders who was in the room said, okay, that's the final question. the president, as he often does in these settings, decided he wanted to say more. the interview he gave "the sun," which we should mention is owned by rupert murdoch, the interview went for about 30 to 40 minutes, which is remarkable. >> it definitely seems that the timing of the release of the article seemed very strategic to say the least. nbc's jeff bennet for us. thanks so much. good seeing you. >> sure. >> i want to go to cal now. talk to us about the reaction you are hearing with regards to this interview.

>> as jeff said, look, the real question is how is the prime minister going to play this. i think the idea of standing next to a president who has been so insulting not just to her, but to the british people, the mayor of london, if you were to sort of say what are the notes he could hit that would cut the deepest, he hit all of them. the timing of it, as jeff said, is extraordinary. if you look at the video of theresa may literally rolling out a red carpet for the u.s. president, showing him this honor guard, here were the headlines that were crossing twitter. he accused european leaders of destroying culture by letting in migrants. he said that the london mayor was not doing a good job on terrorism. he said he would rather deal with johnson as prime minister. he said that the novichok poisoning which recently killed a citizen of the country, would not get in the way of his discussions with putin. he said there were blood on the national hospitals here in the uk.

it was incredibly insulting. >> i'm looking at this agenda for the visit and comparing it to the nato agenda. both were tailored to this president. he's at hand hurst right now. he is going to chequers. so much was put into making the trip go as well as he could be, and here it is being scuttled in the same way the nato summit was scuttled, right, cal? >> and to salvage something that was supposed to be a bigger visit, that was supposed to take place in the city, supposed to open the new u.s. embassy, look, this president is tearing down the institutions that defined the 21st century. he is trying to tear down nato, openly trying to tear down the european union and now he is destroying this special relationship that the u.s. has with the united kingdom. today will be a serious day when we hear from the prime ministers, see these protests and this balloon that is now aloft over the capital.

>> cal, i was expecting you to be out there with the balloon. what happened there? >> i'm on my way right after this show, seriously. >> i would appreciate a selfie. >> instagram gold. >> i'm on it. count on it. you got it. >> cal, we will talk to you again in about 30 minutes or so. >> thanks, guys. it was a fiery day on capitol hill as embattled fbi agent peter strzok testified before congress. he faced attacks from congress for sending critical text messages of president trump during the 2016 elections and later defended his role in the russia investigation and clinton e-mail probe. kasie hunt has more. >> reporter: the intense fireworks starting moments after fbi agent peter strzok was sworn in. >> mr. chairman, order! >> lawmakers shouting over each other while strzok, who investigated hillary clinton's e-mails and lead the probe into possible russian collusion, testified about his anti-trump text messages. >> not once in my 26 years of defending our nation did my personal opinions impact any

official action i took. >> reporter: but for republicans, it is proof of bias, forcing strzok to read some of his anti-trump messages with fbi lawyer lisa page with whom he was having an affair. >> ms. page said, not ever going to become president, right? right? >> no, no, he's not. we'll stop it. >> reporter: strzok trying to explain. >> it was in response to a series of events that included then-candidate trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero, and my presumption based on that horrible, disgusting behavior, that the american population would not elect somebody demonstrating that behavior to be president of the united states. >> reporter: in one of the most heated exchanges, strzok insisting he was not removed from the mueller investigation over bias. >> i don't appreciate what was originally said being changed. >> i don't care what you appreciate, agent strzok. i don't appreciate having an fbi agent with an unprecedented level of an must working on two

investigations during 2016. >> reporter: democrats blasting the hearing as a show trial. >> here are the individuals who already admitted their guilt. >> reporter: next in the hot seat, lisa page testifying behind closed doors. kasie hunt, nbc news, the capital. >> need a snack after watching nine hours of that. still ahead, everybody, the trump administration has reunited 57 migrant children under the age of five with their families, but what about the parents who have already been deported? we have new reporting on that. plus, an inside look at what paul manafort may experience at his new virginia jail. it could be a stark contrast to the vip treatment he got at the last place. those stories and much more coming up next. ♪ your heart doesn't only belong to you.

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insist the crowd-funded blimp is merelily, quote, poking fun. i don't see cal perry there quite yet. >> he's making his way, journey from the bureau. he will be there. >> maybe holding one of the strings or taking a picture or something. joining us from london, white house reporter for the "associated press", jonathan lemire. thank you for joining us today, jonathan. we have been talking about "the sun" article. i want to get your take on it as well. president trump hitting theresa may pretty hard in the interview yesterday. the timing of the release of the article, as i mentioned earlier, pretty strategic to say the least. what has the relationship been like between the two leaders leading up to this point and how do you think it could affect things going forward, specifically when it comes to trade, of course, which we know theresa may has been banking on? >> reporter: yeah, this is another moment, a pretty stunning breach of diplomatic protocol from this particular president. donald trump's predecessors

tended to avoid criticizing their hosts right before they show up as their guests on a foreign trip. may really made an effort to establish good relations with trump. she rushed to washington soon after trump took office and was a guest of his at the white house. though this is not technically formally a state event here in the united kingdom, certainly they rolled out the red carpet last night. i was there at winston churchill's birthplace, up at a countryside estate outside of london where it was a very beautiful ceremony that may presided over, welcoming trump to england. and while they were in there, trump in his black ties, this article drops with these rather sort of bombshell claims and criticisms of may, who already is in a weakened state here based over how the brexit process is unfurling. >> how is this reverberating, jonathan, around the

communications camp, the president's communications camp? we got a statement last night from sarah huckabee sanders, but put it into some broader context. you have bill shine, the new deputy chief of staff overseeing communications in some capacity, all the while you have an unprecedented press conference. the president going on and on, probably to the dismay of his communications staff. now you have this article. what does it say to you about the president's relationship to his advisors? >> reporter: there has never been a communications advisor who could control this president. he does what he wants when he wants it, and that is something that we're seeing, whether he's in the united states or here in europe. yes, he is bringing chaos with us, chaos of his own creation. we saw this yesterday in brussels where the leaders there in nato had to have an emergency meeting to discuss funding in the wake of the president's sort of threats to them. and whether he actually went to the point so far as to say we'll

pull the united states out of nato, people have disputed those reports. but certainly there's a very uneasy feeling across european capitals about how this president views them and how he views nations that have been traditionally rivals like russia. and then we see this. bill, you mentioned bill shine. let's remember a key player, rupert murdoch. it is a murdock publication that printed this piece last night as trump was here. shine along with "fox news" has shown he can't control this president like any other advisor. >> thank you very much. jonathan lemire of the "associated press." >> thanks, jonathan. amid outrage over family separations at the border, the trump administration stated it has reunited 57 out of 103 migrant children under the age of five with their parents. the u.s. district judge imposed a series of deadlines for the administration to reunite nearly 3,000 children separated from their families of the 103

children under the age of five, 46 of them were acknowledged by the court to be ineligible for reunification. according to nbc news, 12 parents who have been deported remain separated from their young children. when asked if deported parent would see their kids again, this is extraordinary, officials from dhs and hhs told reporters they are under, quote, no obligation to bring people who have no lawful status in this country back into the country for reunification. well, the federal government has until july 26th to reunite the remaining children, ages 5 to 17, and many more of their parents are expected to have been deported. former trump campaign chairman paul manafort has been transferred from a jail where prosecutors say he had vip treatment. manafort is now being held at a maximum security detention center in alexandria, virginia, a short distance from the courthouse where his trial is scheduled to start later this month. now, according to "politico", this new detention center will

be a stark contrast to manafort's previous arrangement at his last jail where he had described to his friends getting vip treatment that included the use of a private bathroom, access to a phone and laptop computer in his own private cell and a separate workspace he could use from 8:30 in the morning until 10:00 p.m. "politico" reports at manafort's new jail meals are known to be cash ojai drat heavy, and internet except in rare cases is non-existent. because of his high-profile status he is still expected to be segregated from general prison population. an official tells "politico" he will only get limited breaks during the day for recreation activities in the common area without other prisoners around. all right. still ahead, i have never been more excited for sports than i am now. >> serena williams. >> my hero, serena williams, cruising to the wimbledon final.

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♪ welcome back, everybody. i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside david fwgura in for ayman. it is the bottom of the hour. let's start with the top stories. president trump is in the uk for the second leg of a four-nation european trip, and his first

visit to america's closest ally since taking office -- these are live pictures you are seeing in london where large protests are underway, including this enormous character blimp with the commander in chief portrayed as a baby holding a cellphone. prior to departing trump said that he is, quote, fine with this protests while asserting that they, quote, like me a lot in the uk. last night prime minister theresa may hosted the president and first lady for a black tie dinner, and within the next hour or so trump head to chequers for a bilateral and working lunch with may before they participate in a joint news conference. the stock coming on the heels of the highly contentious, to say the least, nato summit. now with that explosive interview the president gave to "the sun" as a backdrop. let's bring in live from london nbc news international correspondent cal perry. cal, what can you tell us about what they hope to accomplish

during the visit, what the u.s. and uk want to accomplish? now i think we are laser focused on the news conference in light of the publication of the interview, the president's comments about theresa may, the brexit, the mayor of london, a long list of things he covered in that 30-minute interview. what are the deliverables the u.s. and uk hope to get out of the visit? >> i think there were the deliverables before the interview and now realistically what are the deliverables after the interview. before the interview, the prime minister was looking for some kind of movement on trade, looking for some kind of support politically as she continues to sort of struggle for leadership, and what she got was a professional hit job in a newspaper done by the u.s. president. we have talked about how he was sort of insulting and how this interview is playing obviously very poorly around the country, but one thing we haven't mentioned is that it was right on point for donald trump and his base. it talked about all of the issues that he hammers out in the united states, immigration, trade, identity.

these are the sort of pieces of red meat for his base in america, and he took the opportunity to hit on them even here in the uk when he was invited by the prime minister on a visit that was supposed to be a very different visit initially, david. >> yeah. you talk about sort of the deliverables or lack thereof. to say the least, we talked yesterday about how the fact that theresa may really needs to strike a trade deal here with the united states. don't you think though that the prime minister is walking into this meeting and thinking to herself, this is really just rhetoric from president trump that we're seeing in "the sun" newspaper? he says these sort of bombastic things all the time, it doesn't necessarily mean he's not going to necessarily strike a trade deal with me going forward? >> this is the great debate we are having in the newsroom and people are having on the streets of london, is that prime minister may is probably of two minds on this. one is that she grits her teeth, she gets through this sort of on-camera thing. england has this amazing ability to kind of absorb the gas

baggi bagging nature of president trump. the other sort of thinking is, look, i was already in political trouble, this is the prime minister, i'm in worse trouble now. i lose nothing but coming out and criticizing the u.s. president. she could just go to wimbledon and i could do the sports from london on monday, which i know -- >> cal, i am doing the sports on monday, okay. tennis is mine. i know you guys own the world cup, and by "you guys" -- i know david watches the world cup, but i mean you and ayman, but i'm doing sports on sunday. don't try to take it away from me. >> but i brought it back to wimbledon, you saw that. >> but you didn't bring it back to serena williams, my friend, and that's what it is about. >> i know. i should have done. >> cal perry joining us from london. thanks very much. fbi agent strzok who has been the target of the president's tweets testified on capitol hill yesterday where he gave over nine hours of testimony about the text messages that got him removed

from special counsel bob mueller's investigation and written up in an inspector general's report. from the very outset committee republicans threatened him with contempt for not providing more details about the investigation of the trump campaign's suspected ties to russia. watch this. >> it wasn't the discovery of your text, mr. strzok. was the existing of yoence of y that got you kicked off. >> i'm stating it was not that he kicked me off because of any bias. it was done because of the appearance. if you want to ask, i don't appreciate what you say being changed. >> i don't care what you say. i don't appreciate an fbi agent with your level of an must working on two investigations during 2016. >> what this man has done -- >> the gentleman from texas will suspend for a moment. >> there is the disgrace and it won't be recaptured any time soon because of the damage you

have done to the justice system. i have talked to fbi agents around the country. you have embarrassed them. you have embarrassed yourself. and i can't help but wonder when i see you looking there with a little smirk, how many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eyes and lie to her about lisa page? >> oh, mr. chairman, this is outrageous. >> this ability of the witness is always an issue. >> mr. chair, please! >> have you know decency? >> this is harassment of the witness. >> what's wrong? you need your medication? >> yep, he went there. stow the last voice you heard was democratic congresswoman bonney watson coleman of new jersey, who had her own review of trump from the other side of the aisle. >> if anybody should be upset at the fbi because you all helped this unfit man become president of the united states by not revealing to the people that he was under investigation and his

campaign, it should be me. they should be applauding you, kissing you and giving you all awards because but for you we would have had a legitimate president elected. >> we've heard this over and over at this point, but every time it is still shocking, some of the testimony from yesterday. joining us from washington, nbc news national political reporter mike numley. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> so many moments in these nine hours of testimony yesterday. talk us through some of the most heated moments from your perspective. >> i have to say i sat in that hearing room for all nine hours at 41 minutes. >> wow. >> who is counting, mike? >> 60 rounds of questioning between agent strzok and the republicans and democrats on the committee. we had this behind-the-scenes battle playing out between republicans in congress and the justice department, and we really saw that tension erupt publicly yesterday. we had obviously very palpable tension between strzok and some of the republicans as you saw

there, bringing up his extramarital affair that he had with another agent, saying flatly to his face they just didn't believe him even though he was under oath. you had democrats not necessarily defending strzok's conduct but giving him procedural cover as he was threatened to be held in contempt. what was called a show trial, an effort by the republicans to undermine the mueller investigation. i think the heart of what we saw in the back and forth over the text messages strzok was exchanging wi exchanging with page is what represents bias. in the text messages about trump and other political figures were on its face that this investigation, both the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and the russia probe was tainted. strzok was saying there was no bias there, that whatever political views i was expressing did not affect any official actions i took. if anything, he could have stopped trump from being elected president, but he never

disclosed the existence of the russia probe before the election. >> he kept referring back to the inspector general report as well. >> what was the rationale for having this hearing? he had been on capitol hill, he testified befohind closed doors. in many ways it was the house being the house. there was a lot of grandstanding. why did they have the hearing yesterday? >> he testified for 11 hours several weeks ago before the very same two committees. what the republicans who run these two committees have been trying to do, first their probe opened up as to investigate what the justice department did in terms of the clinton e-mail investigation, but now what i've heard from republican sources over and over again is that this is an attempt on their part to prove what they believe is that politics were infecting decisions made at the justice department to begin that investigation into the trump campaign and possible ties with russia. we're going to see lisa page, the other end of those text messages, with strzok, testify behind closed doors today on

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the stories and dealing with thunderstorms. a typical summer-like weekend. most of us will have it okay but there's exceptions. this morning a drenching rain through southern minnesota. if you are in sow city, iowa, you are about to get a storm to roll through. we have 10 or 20 million people under heat advisories from central louisiana towards davenport. kansas city one of the hot spots again. mid 90s, and then you add the humidity and it feels like 100, 105 through the region. every where in the magenta and red is 90 plus. you expect it in the southeast. this is typical of jacksonville. huntsville, alabama is a little warm, 105. kansas city, once again, 103. houston at 102. going into the weekend, it is not like it goes anywhere. if anything, it begins to spread. cincinnati, 100 on saturday. not too areas in the northeast, still feeling the 80s and 90s,

typical, not excessive. by the time we get to sunday, feeling like 102 in louisville. texas the same and in tallahassee. who gets the wet weather through the upcoming weekend? the areas in green on this map show you the best chance of showers and thunderstorms. on saturday, we're including kansas city and st. louis, but it is so hot you will be able to get the afternoon storm. chicago has the same thing on saturday. much cooler, chance of thunderstorms. southeast, same for you. by the time we get to sunday, some of the storms towards inyai inyai inyand indianapolis. in new england, looking at another beautiful summer weekend. >> appreciate it. still ahead, the justice department goes after the recently approved at&t and time warner merger. >> why the government is appealing the union now. across the country, we walk. carrying flowers that signify why we want to end alzheimer's disease.

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welcome back. let's turn to business. the justice department will appeal a judge's decision which green lit the merger between communication giants at&t and time warner. cnbc joanna joins us from a busy day in london. >> a very busy day. look, the department tried to stop the deal from happening last year. if you remember back in june, a federal judge had ruled that this $85 billion merger deal is legal and that it can -- does have the green light to go ahead. the story has been ongoing for a couple of years now. the latest twist is that the

case is going to go to the d.c. circuit court of appeals where a three-judge panel is going to hear the arguments and determine whether or not it is actually in the public's interests. but it needs to be fast tracked, becausetracked. if you remember, at&t was quick to close the acquisition of time warner and quick to create the company called warner media the day afterwards and it should tell you the ceo said he's not surprised the federal justice department has decided to go ahead with this and not worried at all thinking ultimately they will be given the green light. >> other legal news. a jury ordered johnson & johnson to pay $27 billion to women who developed cancer from using their product? >> johnson & johnson is facing

27 case and 22 women said using their product caused them to have cancer. they alleged they knew the talcum powder had carcinogens and they knew it. shares down 2% in trading. ongoing issue and not a good thing for p.r. for johnson & johnson's. back to you. >> thanks so much. coming up, axios has one broad thing. and also the backlash facing over stunning comments on theresa may's brexit plan and also questioning her leadership. caucus share mark meadows gives his take what the president is

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welcome back, everybody. joining us from washington with a look at axios, the co-founder mike allen. good morning to you. >> happy summer friday. >> happy summer friday. what is axios' one big thing today? >> one big thing, the trump tornado. the president royals the nato summit, crossed the north sea and as we just saw he's also in england stirring things up. so this interview with the "sun" the president gave. like coming over to my house for dinner and on twitter attack me, say i'm bad at my job and

shouldn't come on your show. going to make for an awkward dinner and exactly what is happening here. the president, at theresa may's weakest moment. speculation on msnbc whether her government will fall, and then trump saying that she's mishandling brexit. for her, the most politically sensitive issue. he would say she's been soft on it. she would say -- her supporters would say that she's been more business-friendly, but the irony of this is that the brits tried to tee this up as a great victory lap for trump. as a little break between the craziness of the nato summit and the high stakes of the putin summit. we've seen these very, like, easy visits for him outside london, but he just wouldn't take it. >> mike, help us with psychoanalysis. difficult with this president in

particular, but why do this? why take 30, 40 minutes to sit down with "the sun," a rupert murdoch tabloid and say what he said about theresa may knowing about the fallout from it? >> great point, and the largest circulating paper in britain and this is the president just not thinking about other leaders, not putting himself in the shoes of other leaders. just saying what's on his mind, and not worrying about the consequences. when theresa may visited the white house, she wasn't great at small talk. that's very important with the president. so he doesn't have great relations with her. his relations with her have been better than with the german chancellor, angela merkel. now, i'm not so sure. >> hmm. >> this was supposed to be a pretty well-rehearsed visit, to say the least. how much chaos could some of the comments that the president made cause? >> well, so we see the pound is falling this morning, because

the repercussions for the british government can be real, and sort of twisting the knife, the president drawing out there that her nemesis boris johnston could be a great successor as prime minister. definitely frosty pictures we're going to see between the two of them. for once it may be the visit with the queen is the warm one. >> mike, a lot of the president's comments centered on the process of brexit, whether a soft or hard brexit and that has to do with trade, and trade policy is something the president continues to hammer on, on this trip to europe. how is it reverberating here for those seeking re-election here in the u.s., the president's trade policies? >> you did a masterful job connecting those two stories. that was very clever, and we do see here at home a rising fever among republicans who are running for congress.

especially in farm country. already, they say, the president's tariffs are biting, and they're very concerned it's going to mess up the best story the republicans had to tell. you remember we thought we would be talking about tax cuts? that's not their main message now. now they're main message is how great the economy is, and real fears, like, backed up by stats already, and by top economists that these tariffs could mess up the president's economy and by extension, perhaps this global synchronous rise, something so rare if history. >> have a great weekend. >> happy weekend to y'all. thanks for a great week. >> reading axios in a while. sign up for the newsletter at sign signupaxios.com. >> "morning joe" starts tririgh

now. not once in my 26 years of defending my nation did my personal decisions impact any personal action i took. >> i strongly believe today's hearing is just another victory notch putinal belt and another mile snoen our enemy's campaign to tear america apart. >> ask you to read your own words. march 4, 2016. >> you want me to read this? >> yes, please. >> omg, he's an idiot. >> august 8, 2016. preface saying this for context, ms. page said, not ever going to become president. right? right? >> no, no he's not. we'll stop it. if you want to represent what you said accurately i'm happy to answer that question, but i don't appreciate what was originally said being changed. >> i don't give a damn what you appreciate, mr. strzok. >> i've talked to fbi agent it's around the country. you've embarrassed them, you've embarrassed yourself and i can't help but wonder when i see you looking there wit