health not just abortions by the way, reproductive health in general gets hurt when the laws are enacted. >> that's right. anna marie cox good to see you again thank you for joining us. and tonight's last word. the 11th hour with brian williams starts right now. tonight trump says it's about transparency. but this new power he has given to his new friend the attorney general to declassify documents about the start of the russia investigation, it has sparked legitimateware about our national intelligence, not to mention the president has already prejudged the outcome. plus dissecting the fight between the president and the speaker, now that donald trump has set out a doctored video of nancy pelosi the before departing for japan. and with our usual warning it's early yet. new numbers show where democrats stand in the race for 2020 as the 11th hour gets underway on this preholiday weekend friday night 3 and good evening once

again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york day 85 a of the trump administration, the end of a week that saw a public fight between the president and the speaker of the house. and of much greater importance just in the past 24 hours we saw the president hand his attorney general uni lateral authority to declassify any intelligence he deems necessary and related to the origins of the mueller investigation. tonight, the president is on his way to japan for a state visit. the traveling white house made a refueling stop at elmendorf in alaska. before leefraching the white ho the president expanded attorney general power. >> why should the attorney be able to select what's declassified. >> he is one of the most respected people in the country and has been for a long period

of time. he is going to look at a lot of documents. some he might find interesting, maybe he finds none interesting. but for over a year people have asked me to declassify. so what i've done is declassified everything. >> do you feel protected by william barr. >> no i don't want him to be for me or anybody else. i just want him to be fair. that's what he is. this is all about what happened and when did it happen. because this was an attempted takedown of the president of the united states. >> barr has opened what he has described as a review of the mueller inquiry with a focus on surveillance activities. you may recall barr drew a lot of attention when he agreed to use the president's preferred and much more nefarious term for surveillance. he deemed it was okay to call it spying when he appeared before a senate hearing last month. >> i think spying on a political

campaign is a big deal. >> you're not suggesting, though, that spying occurred. >> i don't -- well, i guess you could -- i think spy diagnose occur. >> in addition to giving the attorney general sweeping declassic power, trump also directed the nation's intelligence agencies to assist the attorney general in his investigation. today the director of national intelligence dan coates released a statement that seemed to be of an effort to calm fear that is this directive would make the intelligence community political. in read in part -- and we quote, the intelligence community [ ic ] will provide the department of justice all the appropriate information for its review of intelligence activities related to russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. i am confident that the attorney general will work with the ic in accordance with the

long-established standards to protect highly-sensitive classified information that, if publicly released, would put our national security at risk. more on that just a few minutes. trump's actions this week come amid his demands that house democrats end their investigation while at the same time he is attempting to block requests for related documents and witnesses to appear. for a while now the face of the democrat's effort in the house has been congressman jerry nadler, a exact who represents part of manhattan in congress. he is the chairman of the house judiciary committee. well today at an event with the mayor of new york the 71-year-old nadler had a health scare. as cameras looked on with everybody else he became briefly unresponsive. he was immediately attended to. he was taken to the hospital by ambulance. he insisted later on social media that he is feeling much

better. jerry nadler has been trying to get special counsel mueller to testify before congress. last night on in network he revealed that mueller has been pushing to do so in private. today the president who had said he would leave the decision on whether mueller could testify up to his friend the attorney general offered doubts about the democrat's motives. >> if they want to do a redo like even the fact that they're asking bob mueller to come and testify. he just gave them a 434-page report, which says no collusion, which leads to absolutely not obstruction. he just gave gnat report. why does he have to testify? it's ridiculous. >> newly retired deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who famdsly oversaw the mueller investigation also weighed in on the matter today and seemed to agree with president trump. >> the idea that they want to go harass everybody involved in the

investigation i think is inappropriate. and so i don't think that that's -- i mean it won't be fruitful. >> as we mentioned earlier, trump has been a -- been in a running battle with house speaker nancy pelosi. last night the president circulated a doctored video of pelosi. today he continued his attack. >> did you hear what she said about me long before i went after her? did you hear? she made horrible statements. she knows they're not true. she said terrible things. so i just responded in kind. look. you think nancy is the same as she was. she is not. i think nancy pelosi is not helping this country. i think the democrats are obstructionist. they are hurting our country very, very badly. >> on that note here for our lead off discussion on a friday night julia ainsley nbc national security and justice reporter. chuck rosenberg. former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official who served

as counselor to robert mueller, now the host of a new msnbc podcast called the oath this week's edition features a discussion with doj james baker. former fbi director for counterintelligence who also worked with robert mueller. good evening and welcome to you all. julia, i'd like to begin with you. we're 24 hours now into knowing about the president's action where the attorney general is concerned. now on a friday night, the question for you is what is the take away for our viewers on the weight of the president's action here? >> the take away -- i think we can read into the president's comments today to pretty clearly decipher in, is that the president wants to use his power, which he does have of declaskts classification in a very specific way as a tool in order to get out the information he wants. he wants to be able to allow his attorney general william barr to

declassify information as part of his investigation into the origins of the mueller probe. at the heart of this brian, if we can zoom out is the fisa warrants signed off on in order to open surveillance on carter page who worked for the trump campaign. those warrants had to be signed off on by a judge multiple times and renewed. and in order to get a judge to approve that the justice department had to come forward with evidence to show that there was a reason and probable cause to open those warrants. that is at the heart of this. there are two other investigations looking into these origins. and now the president has an investigation that he feels that he can more wholly control with his attorney general looking over it. and that is why in declassification is worrisome on two levels. one, of course -- i'll let our other guests get into this more -- what this means to future cooperation from informants, how this could endanger them. and what it also means in terms

of how he could selectively decide what comes out and he could politicize the narrative while he pulse back on information by asserting executive privilege that we may not get in terms of what mueller actually uncovered. and so he is able to further distort this narrative. that is what i think is our biggest danger. and i think 24 hours in that's what i'm on alert for. >> okay, frank, i'd like to play for you what former cia director brennan said on this network some three hours ago. >> i do hope that dan coates and gina haspel stand up to this effort by mr. trump which really does seem to go into the sensitive files, the very sensitive, whether technical, or human source files, and to pull out of that information that they may see fit as to defend mr. trump. so i again i implore dan coates, gina haspel and others to stand up to this i think unprecedented act on the part of mr. trump,

who doesn't understand nor care about the national security concerns of the intelligence community. >> frank, simple question, do you concur with that. >> i do. pifrpg the heads of our intelligence services nsap cia, fbi. and others are about to be tested more than perhaps they have in progressional careers. they have to make a decision about how their intelligence is used exploited, twisted interpreted for political purposes. intelligence is either done professionally and used professionally or used politically. but it really can't be both. and i fear here in this kind of declassification trap that we're all being asked to fall into that really this is a political exploitation of intelligence. understand when the president says i quote i declassified everything well of course he hasn't declassified everything. and by the way, the attorney general has all the clearances he needs to look at intelligence.

so what the president is saying i'm going to declassify what i think the public should see but i'm not going to declassify what i think the public would perceive me poorly by if they saw it. so we're about to see the attorney general joined at the hip with the president trying to convince the public that the foundation and the of the special counselor inquire is flawed that's where it's going. >> kmuk i've asked you this 500 times. let's make it 501. the charge is people including but not limited to carter page were spied on by our country. carter page an american working for a russian concern living for a time in russia. how hard or easy is it to get a fisa warrant to surveil an american? >> hard. it's a lengthy process. it's multilayered. many lawyers look it at the fbi and department of justice. by the way, brian as we discussed this is court

authorized surveillance. words matter. it's not spying. may i add one thing to what frank and julia said, because i think julia's idea of zooming out a bit is important. here is one other way to think about it. we have 17 agencies within the u.s. intelligence community, some quite large. frank mentioned them. dia, c. i. opinion nsa, fbi. some quite small all very good. when we declassify something -- and by the way the fbi is the one most likely to declassify it because i want to use it publicly in a criminal case. we run the declassification case through the entire intelligence community. we have the dni to oversee it so we only declassify things that are properly declassified. we never want to give in trort authority uni laterally to a attorney general. even if it was a really good attorney general and roint i fear we don't have that. the process matters. process sounds like a boring word but it really truly

matters. and we need to have agreement within our intelligence community before we declassify stuff. there is a danger to subverting the process >> chuck, i have two more elements for you. first of all what mr. comey put out on twitter today. investigate whatever you wish about 2016. but don't forget the people of the fbi must investigate and stop russian efforts in the 2020 election. what impact will loose talk about spying on disgraceful talk about treason have on fbi agents and analysts? and i also have this. our chief legal correspondent pete williams book took on this word treason bus our president is accusing americans of it on an almost daily basis now. we'll listen to pete come back, chuck and talk about it. >> first of all, it applies against the united states, not against someone running for president. donald trump when he was running for president was a candidate, a

private citizen. nobody can commit treason against a private citizen. it's just impossible. but secondly, it means more than just being disloyal. it's a totally different thing. it mean levying war with a designated enemy against the united states. julius and ethyl rosenberg who were convicted and put to death for giving away atomic energy secrets couldn't be charged with treason because at the time the soviets were not designated a enmanship of the united states. it has to do with helping people in wartime atack the u.s. >> this is hardly the first time we've heard sowers terms tossed around in the public space. but this one, the way the president is using it is truly dangerous. >> truly dangerous and completely wrong as pete points out. this is not treason. it's not a case of treason. but i don't think the president

means it in a legal sense. he means a rhetorical sense. he is not just wrong he is dangerously wrong. by the way jim comey asks a rhetorical question what does it mean for the men and women of the fbi when you use the terms nar rhetoric. it has a unintended benefit to the people of the fbi. as frank knows the men and women of the fbi, i imagine they are bearing down really really hard on duties right now that they're ignoring the non-sense from the president of the united states and doubling and tripling efforts to protect us. they would be more likely to succeed if they were supported by the man in the white house. but i can tell you they are working hard to make sure we're okay. >> frank, i got another one for you. related topic, related character, from the "washington post". rudolph gulini had a lengthy meeting last week with a former ukrainian diplomat as part of

aggressive efforts of gathering information to undermine democrats in the united states. gulini has previously talked with law enforcement and government officials in ukraine about the dnc claims and about hunter biden who served on the board of a ukrainian gas producer while his father was vice president. frank, is the thinking here that if they to this in plain sight it will make it somehow more right or it will help normalize the notion of the russians hacking into our election? >> boy, we are headed into an entirely dangerous zone in terms of what future campaigns are going to look like ifs in where we are going. you know, remember these are the same folks who screamed bloody murder when they discovered that in some part the opposition research, the dossier, the famous christopher steele dossier might have been used in part for spread casing for investigation now they are doing

the aim thing reaching out for dirt. opposition research. here is the big problem for me. rudy gul noy is the president's personal foreign. he is sitting down with foreign countries representatives, former diplomats, current diplomats with a country we need to get along with. an important country ukraine in the process of doing that he is in a bull in a geopolitical china shop. he is breaking things. he may brake relationships with foreign governments all in an attempt to get dirt and help his private client out. >> julia ainsley we started with you tonight and you get the last word. last night with rachel maddow chairman nadler almost casually mentioned that they believe mueller will give an opening statement and then go behind closed doors. we later can get the transcript, read what he says, interpret what he says. can you shed any light on the thought process going into this and the state of the talks to not be satisfied with that that just that arrangement.

>> i've heard two things about the negotiations that are going on with mueller right now. and that committee, that may shed light on why chairman nadler said that last night. it seems that robert mueller, unlike james comey we know is someone who does not want to be a political pinball. he does not want to be in a very public space where he might have to take what could be seen as politicized questions from republicans and democrats as they get their time on live television. being in a closed door setting would give him the opportunity even if the transcript came out later it wouldn't be live televised like other hearings we have seen. and the other is executive privilege we know mueller is concerned over what pieces of information the white house wants to assert executive privilege over. and he doepts want to put himself in a position where he goes out and gives information on something the white house can later say no you shouldn't have said that and then he gets into a back and forth with the legal team again. i think he gives himself some cover here. but i would stress that these are not final.

the idea of him going closed door is not final. the idea of him testifying at all is not final. niece are ongoing negotiations. they are taking longer than we expected but i think it's because of those two things, the incredibly hostile political nature that is surrounding this investigation and of course the white house and whether or not they want to assert executive privilege over how much of this information all of that remains to be seen, breyen >> thank you for that reporting julia. our thanks if to our big three for bringing the a game on this friday night before the memorial holiday weekend. julia assign chuck rosenberg. frank figliuzdi here. and how the president order to investigate the investigators could put allies at risk. and later a war of words wab, a fake video a call for prayers and intervention for a man insisting on his stability and genius. a look back at a rougher than usual week in our nation's capitol now in its final hour.

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new authority to declassify government secrets is raising a number of of alarms in the real world intelligence community about expose yurd of sources and methods while potentially putting the cia on a collision course with our own justice department. the directive may impact how we work with our allies, the so-called collection of five eyes, you just married a moment ago refers to the agreement between australia, canada, new zealand, uk and u.s. the best of friends at least they were to share intelligence. this is how one former fbi official described what information getting into the wrong hands could mean. >> it's damage to prior sources. it's damage to current sources and damage to potential future sources. because who wants to become a source of the united states if we can't keep a secret. >> counterintelligence of the fbi frank figliuzzi remained

with us for the conversation. frank, simple question who wants to share information with us after this? >> this is the greatest concern is that whether he is doing in deliberately or not, the president may be dismantling our allies relationship within the five eyes. and i cannot emphasize enough, brian how essential it is to have friends in the world. friends who have our back and we have their back and understand the relationship is that we don't spy on each other in in packet of countries and we share virtually everything with each other. and if we see a threat to one country we share that information and work to counter that threat for our friends. if indeed the president wants to expose the fact that the uk helped the u.s. intelligence community spot and work a threat, perhaps russia in our campaign for president, if he wants to attack the fact that an australian diplomat reported to us that george papadopoulos told

him that the russians were supporting the trump campaign, then he -- he could go about dismantling the crucial intelligence relationship. and that erodes our national security >> frank, i heard it asked to why aren't the intel chief justice resigning in protest, the cia. fbi. dn. and they would worry about who replaces them. at least by staying on the job they can get through. what do you think morale is like on the inside? won't there be a natural attempt to withhold the best stuff because of institutionalist worried about the institutions? >> yeah within i think what we are headed to here is a situation both external to the intelligence community and internal. by that i mean i think our friends will be reluctant to share everything with us because they can't be assured that the president won't somehow declassify it or release it if

it's to his political benefit. and then internally i can't imagine now the plight of the cia officer or the fbi counterintelligence agent. counterterrorism agent who has to convince a human source i've got your back. your identity is never going to be disclosed. you need to come onboard with team america. having that person look across the table and say your president is declassifying everything. everything is exposed you can't guarantee anything. that could lead to people resigning and leaving posts and that's troubling. >> frank, i hate to go out on that note but we must. thank you for sticking around for this part of the vital conversation. coming up for us, 23 people have thus far lined on the other side to take him on. but donald trump seems to be concerned with one man in particular in the democratic column. two veteran political journalists break it down for us when "the 11th hour" comes right back. "the 11th hour" comes rigt

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how about sleepy joe biden? sleepy joe. i don't know what the hell happened to bide. process. what happened to him? joe. sleepy joe biden. don't forget, biden ke did he certified he. he is not from pennsylvania. i guess he was born here but he left you, folks. he left you for another state. >> trump hasn't let up on biden since the former vice president

joined the race .as the "washington post" reports today by the time the president trump road tested his ut fourth nick name for biden it's clear they are treating the former vp abthe main rival. with considerable druks latest numbers out of the monmouth poll showing biden extending his lead over the democratic field. that shows support for bernie sanders slipping while senators warren and harris are gaining ground. for more to jonathan allen national political reporter and ken thomas political reporter for the "wall street journal." john, what is it about biden and by that i mean what is about his poll numbers and trump's fixation on him. >> it's a great question brian. most of the sources i talked to on the republican and democratic said eside that donald trump is

worried about biden. they look at the states that flipped to the accurate democratic column they see biden as a natural fit to take on trump there. and the president is obsessed with him because of that. there is a smaller group in both parties saying the president actually wants joe biden, that he thinks that joe bide isn't beatable, sees vulnerabilities. i think the president is just road testing somebody leading in the democratic polls using the nicknames. you are seeing mud fli at joe biden. kitchen sink fli at him and nay palm and the president will geet feedback poll snums numbers and see what works. it will sleepy joe unday. uncle joe. joe mama another day and the president will see what works with his own base and hurt biden a little bit. but for the moment without the democrat knocking him on the same thingts it's not having the

same effect as when you saw bernie sanders hitting hillary clinton on the same things donald trump was during the democratic primary. >> ken we'll see if even trump's base won't tire the nicknames after a while and demand some governance. the question to you is, what does this all reveal about either man, trump or biden? >> well, they seem to be on a collision course at this point. and to be clear, the biden team welcomes it at this stage. this is something that helps them get closer to the democratic base. every time trump attacks biden, you know, he elevates biden in this field of, you know, 23 democrats. so this is something that's helpful. the question, though, is if democrats begin picking up the arguments that the president is likely to take on, things like biden's, you know, lengthy voting record in the senate,

some of the roles he played, you know, as obama's vice president. if these are arguments that then will be reinforced by trump if bide isn't the nominee that could create some damage later on. >> ken, you've been out on the trail. let's talk about a story because of what we're talking about right here and for you, florida isn't getting a whole lot of ink or air time and that is the kind of slow and steady rise and the for the attitude behind the numbers of the major women in this race on the democratic side. >> yeah, this most recent poll from monmouth shows kamala harris, liz weight warren and amy klobuchar rising slowly, steadily making gains. it speaks to the sort of openness -- wide open field that we have. biden has established himself as the front runner in the first -- in the first month of his

candidacy and built a lead against bernie sanders. but there is still a lot of unrest and interest among exactic activists in finding a fresh face, someone new. and a lot of the senate women represent that. elizabeth warren has been leading in the ideas primary primary i think. and harris has been very effective in her appearances in the senate and grilling people on dsh dmsh the judiciary committee. clob char is someone who will appeal well to iowans. there is certainly an open lane for an alternative to biden. >> john, not to be a cynic here, but is it possible last time around, bernie sanders was seen as a better alternative to hillary clinton nan he is seen as a stand alone candidate this time around? i think that's certainly possible, brian. there obviously was a piece of the democratic party that was

anti-clinton. and bernie sanders was able to pick up on that and use that to gain track sthun and get interestness candidacy in the first place. i also think that our times have changed a bit. injury the republicans have done a very good job over the course of the last couple of months turning socialism into a four letter word. i think that's harmful to bernie sanders. it's made democrats take a hard look at what they want to put up in to 20 to. while there is a segment that's not afraid of the wore. there is a segment that embraces. there are other democrats who think that it's a bad idea to put forward somebody who is potentially going to not only embrace the ideas but have a hard time getting outside of them in taking on president trump. and if i could add one thing about the rice of some of the women candidates you talked about. one thing they've been doing is hustling on the campaign trail as compared to vice president biden who has just recently gotten in.

you know, elizabeth warren and kamala harris and amy klobuchar have been doing the hard work of campaigning in the early states. and elizabeth warren as ken said has put potting the policy ideas. she has a plan for everything. and owns that lane. no other candidate can say they have done more on that. kamala harris has been working various communities across the country, not just in the early states but in the -- in the midwest as well. and working across racial and ethnic lines. and so what you're seeing now is some of that paying off. >> i think that's exactly right. gentleman thank you for coming on this friday night before the holiday weekend. john and ken thomas. thank you. >> an eventful week. the the next guest says the president is painting himself into a corner he can't tweet out of. rick wilson, waiting in the wings. of ck wilson, waiting in the wings. ux and ux f sport. also available in hybrid all-wheel-drive.

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this time another temper tantrum again i pray for the president of the united states. i wish that his family or administration or staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. maybe he wants to take a leave of absence yoend. >> i was extremely calm very much like i am right now. and it was sad when i watched nancy all moving -- the movement and the hands and the craziness. and i watched her. that's by the way a person that's got some problems. i'm an extremely stable genius. >> the movement and the hands. this week snieping between the two of them, trump and pelosi proved to be each even or the host of the five on fox news the president's cable network of choice. >> think about how lucky all of us are to be alive at this moment. things are so good that two of the most powerful american politicians are in a public roast. >> washington is by and large a

pretty dplobl place for this very reason and i think a lot of people watched in and they think they're both nuts. >> it's like two people over 70 adds accusing 70 accusing each other of being mentally deficient. >> rick wilson. veterans republican strategy best summed which the title of the book everything trump touches dies. the updated death toll. take on two aspects what have we saw yesterday. >> sure. >> number one, the ritual of watching our president call his senior aides forward. including larry kudlow who had to limp forward on a cane and praise him and speak to his calmness. and number two, the president caps the day by redistributing on twitter a doctored video of the speaker of the house. >> you know, the lineup of his aides and staff to sing praises

reminded me of the guys standing up when saddam hussein was in power and shout out they were the most loyal no i'm the most loyal. the kind of the display you see in a third world auto californiacy. it's obvious trump went in the room and lost his damn mind and ran out after having an stompy foot hissy fit and embarrassed himself and he knew that nancy pelosi had owned him and owned him hard. and in distribution of the modified video, on the one hand it's a pathetic example of how silly and small this white house is. on the other hand it's a preview of something disturbing and troubling. and that is that they want to diminish the value of truth in our political space. they want to break down the value of fact and truth as much as they can and trump knows with

60 million people out there a certain percentage of the folks following him on twitter would believe him if he said that nancy pelosi was an alien lizard creature. and they will follow his lead on those things and he know that is well. and it shows he has no compunction about lying and using you know propaganda techniques that are far outside the main stream of american political discourse. >> let's talk about the arc of jerry nadler in this studio last night with rachel almost casually mentioned that he expects mueller. >> sure. >> to deliver an opening statement on camera and then go behind closed doors, give testimony. >> right. >> to house judiciary. a transcript of which we will be able to read. hours after that jerry nadler shows up with mayor de blasio at an event in new york city and becomes visibly and obviously unresponsive. for quite some time. medical attention is rushed in. he is rushed to the hospital. >> right.

>> he insists he is fine. 71-year-old chairman of house judiciary and now i'm going to show you the reaction of the woman who is the borough preponderate in nadler's manhattan. >> the whole entire country is on the shoulders of congressman nadler. that's what was going on my mind literally. >> that may be a bit of an overstatement of the chairman of the house judiciary committee. but look at the characters we are left with now, the democrats have had a little bit of an advantage vacuum here. they've been reduced to writing angry letters and empty chairs in lieu of people testifying. >> they have and it's time for them to step up and exercise the congressional prerogatives they have. and time to find some people and hold them in contempt and start taking scalps. you need to make sure there is a pain level that is attendant with this whole thing of thinking a congressional

subpoena is optional if the president's mood is a certain way about it. it's not optional. this is co-equal branch of government. they need to act that way. i think when chairman nadler's case. look everybody in politics hit the moment where they skipped a couple of meals have been running hard all day and the blood sugar crashes out. i hope that's what happened today. i'm hearing tonight he is okay from a couple of different folks. and i hope he is. because it is important that this committee continue to have somebody on it who is going to put the country first before partisan interests because the republicans on the committee right now are members of the donald trump cheer section and not actual members of a second branch of government. they're like employees at a trump golf course. >> let's talk about mr. barr, the attorney general. those of us -- how do i put this gently with graying or no hair who are old enough to remember incarnation of bill barr during

the reagan and bush 41 administration remember him as a republican, a bush era republican. but now he has proven to be so pliant to this president that he mab ritually rewarded with the new powers concerning our nation's intelligence. what do you make of it? >> well, there is a ripple going through the intelligence community today. and it's not a ripple of fear they're going to be caught in some conspiracy against donald trump. it's a ripple that bill barr will demand information from them, politicize, expose it, put it out there for donald trump's political benefit, because everything bill barr has done so far as attorney general has not been in service to the nation or justice. it has been in service to donald trump's political standing and security. so there is a great fear out there that he is going to start demanding human sources. he is going to start demanding intelligence materials that were used in the -- in the legitimate

fisa warrants in this thing and demanding the information from our allies to use for a political purpose for donald trump's benefit. and i think that this is something that is -- that has shocked the conscience of a lot of folks in the intelligence community. and i'm hearing it has pushback from the dni tonight that this is a bridge too far in giving a political hack like bill barr the keys to the intelligence kingdom in order to serve donald trump's re-election campaign. >> rick wilson, politico author one of the kings of twitter, easily the prime minister of periscope thank you for making time on this friday night. >> thank you, breyen. >> you may return to your viewers and offer the after action report on said periscope. >> thank you. >> coming up theresa may has given two week's notice. and no one here or there knows who will be the next person to lead our closest ally. we're back with that after this. . we're back with that after this. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job

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with us, good night from our msnbc headquarters from here in new york. good night. rachel has the night off but she will be back on monday with a special show. meanwhile, we have a lot to get to tonight on a packed news on friday. donald trump is off to japan after a week of strange news conferences with nancy pelosi. he leaves behind the house that seems to be very broken. the senate last night managed to pass the bill, the only way senate republicans are willing to with the bosses, trump's support. >> even