president trump with an unprecedented slam on a former vice president for second day on world stage. taking political shots at joe biden which critics are say out of place on a diplomatic mission. >> i can tell you that joe biden was a disaster. i'm not fan. path of destruction. tornadoes tearing across the midwest killing at least one person in what is now the longest stretch of daily tornadoes in almost 40 years. >> we did have some seven injuries last night and we did have one fatality. an 81-year-old man that was alone in his house. who is to blame? the nation's first major opioid trial begins in oklahoma. a critical test today of whether big drug companies will be held accountable for the epidemic of opioid abuse. >> i believe the evidence will show that justice for oklahomans means requiring the defendants to clean up the terrible, tragic mess that they have left us with

in our state, whatever the cost. good day, every one. i'm andrea mitchell. president trump going after joe biden during a state visit to japan. carrying the 2020 campaign overseas in spite of diplomatic protocol. trying to exploit differences over biden support for 1994 crime bill that passed overwhelmingly back then but is now controversial. joining me now nbc white house correspondent kirsten welker, and garrett ahead of a biden town hall. joe krcrowley and bill crystal. kristen, first to you, the

president has taken off. he's heading back here. he will be back at andrew's air force base this afternoon. he has left path of diplomatic destruction, if you will, by bringing the campaign front and center onto the world stage. you and i have never seen anything quite like this. >> reporter: no, we haven't. as you know, typically traditionally, politics stops at the waters edge. presidents do not take aim at their political rivals on the world stage and yet president trump did break with norms in doing that. took direct aim at joe biden. also sided with north korean leader kim jong-un in his criticism saying he does agree that he has a low iq individual. he was pressed on the fact that, look, this is a murderous dictator that you're siding with. president trump drubrushed that aside and said he thinks joe

biden has been a disaster for the country. then he took to twitter hours after that and took aim at the former vice president for the 1994 crime bill. this is something that biden has spent a lot of time talking about already on the campaign trail. he said parts of it were not the right path, did lead to mass incarceration but he also defended parts of the bill. the fact it did prevent some weapons getting into the hands of would be criminals. the fact it included the violence against women act. interestingly president trump trying to make the case that biden will not get a whole lot of support among african-americans because of that. take a look at that. according to a poll, biden's favorability stands at 71%. for president trump it's at 8%. we know it's a constituency that candidate trump struggled with. he knows it could be critical to his re-election.

that is why you're seeing him take this course, but again, this remarkable and sort of unprecedented move by bringing 2020 politics into his visit here in tokyo, andrea. >> garrett, you're in houston, texas. biden will have a rally there today. we haven't seen very much of him. he was not among the many democrats campaigning on memorial day. there's been some note taken of the fact that biden has not been out there. ten days off the campaign trail. he's not responded and they have said to some of our people here at msnbc, that he's not going to respond while the president was still overseas. he's not going to engage. that means he might engage later today. >> reporter: yeah. i think it will be unlikely that biden would not have something to say about this or would not get asked about it at his town hall tonight. the biden campaign is a holding to the idea that they don't want

to get into a back and forth. they don't want to get into a fight with the president of united states when he's overseas. the only official response of any kind from the biden campaign to the president on the crime bill was a tweet from simone sanders that says donald trump doesn't have any credibility on this issue. part because of his calls for the death penalty for the central park five who were later exonerated. this is not an issue that donald trump has a leg to stand on. the second part of sanders tweet is interesting because she chastises the media a bit for letting donald trump be our managing editor here and insqulaeinject a 20-year-old piece of legislation right back into the front of the democratic campaign. here we are talking about the crime bill. i hear this from campaigns when the president does this. the idea the president sets the agenda for what democrats are talking about. the flip side is the answer to

your first question. if joe biden were on the campaign trail, he might be able to dictate more of that coverenacoveren a -- coverage himself. he can let the schedule that they want to se at and the temp drive the rest of the race. we're talking about, as it was not that long ago, two months ago whether someone like beto o'rourke was going to drive the schedule by doing five or six i ven events a day. you have joe biden setting a pace he wants to keep. when you have a 20-point lead over your next closest competitor, you can do that. >> that crime bill was very p popular. i covered it at the time. bill clinton was trying to pick up support from the center and from more conservative democrats as well as some republicans for re-election. the fact is, 100,000 more police. that was widely supported in

urban communities. joe crowley you can talk to that from a new yorker standpoint. people are heralding the assault weapons ban after some horrendous mass killings out in california in her state. there was a lot to like about that crime bill as well as the incarcerate rate went way up and now the sentencing provisions were too harsh among many people. it came up in 1996 and hillary clinton got herself in a jam speaking about the super predators about those teenage gangs. >> it was envogue during the time. i was in the state legislature. i remember well. state legislatures were passing two strikes and you're in legislation. three felonies and you're in for life. it wasn't just here in washington. it was all over the country it was happening. i do think it's important to note here that there were other aspects of the bill that were positive. >> community policing. >> it's also important to note

that donald trump fueled the fire of those flames of that fire by taking out a full page ad in every new york city newspaper going after the central park five and calling for the re-instatement of the death penalty. talking about the pot calling the kettle here. >> rudy giuliani, bill crystal, was in favor of the crime bill and tweeted in favor of it on may 15th of this year. that's last week, i think. >> democrats and the house voted 3 to 1. republicans were mostly against it. john lewis was an original co-sponsor. the congressional black caucus endorsed the bill. >> they were divided. >> they were divided. the reason republicans were against it, it was a lot of money for welfare. it's a little ridiculous to

pretend that joe biden was out of the mainstream. seeing a president of the yiunid states with the american flag behind him and the flag of the host country saying something, attacking the most recent vice president of the united states on the most vulgar kind of political grounds. not criticism him respectfully or differing with him on a policy issue is really astonishing. you can say i'm old fashioned, but it does damage to the country, i think and our ability to conduct a serious foreign policy in ways that we'll pay a price for. >> only peter king were tweeting and speaking out against the president on this. we didn't hear from a single republican senator that i could find speaking out against. here when we have had norms in foreign policies, especially from the senate foreign relations committee, from joe

biden as well as his partner on many of these things, there was never this kind of partisanship on foreign turf. >> can i tell one story. in 1990 we led a bipartisan party to the funeral of duerte. it was ted kennedy, who had been opposed to reagan central american policy. i was young. i was the chief of staff. i said here the the plan, the schedule. >> especially because of the deaths in el salvador. >> very controversial area. ted kennedy who i didn't know well. i was kind of in awe. i was doing little briefing for every one and he said can i interrupt. i said certainly. he said i just want to remind my colleagues that we are representing the yiunited state.

we have a lot of differences back home but let's leave them behind and speak in unity about the u.s. and our ability and willingness to work together to help central america move forward. i know you don't need this reminder, looking around but i want to offer you that. that still sticks in my mind that ted kennedy said that aboard air force two with dan quayle. >> that's such a wonderful story. >> people criticize the contract overseas as well. i remember three of my colleagues when they went to iraq just before the invasion and criticized our entering into that war, be excoriation that they went through after that was unprecedented. at the same time it's the president of the united states. our president making statements about a potential candidate or a candidate against them.

it's probably without precedent. >> kristen, before we let you go, we want you to fly home because we miss you. the other thing insulting his host. i know that abe would be the last of our allies to criticize or respond because they are so polite but emphasizing he didn't care about short range missiles even though they are u.n. violations and emphasizes that short range missiles are not a problem. we only worry about the big missiles that can reach hawaii or california. how about the fact these are what are so threatening to japan, south korea. the implication is he might cut a deal with kim jong-un and cut out our closest allies in the region. there's a lot of damage left behind. >> reporter: you're right. it's remarkable. i am going to be getting on plane heading home soon.

it was remarkable. they rolled out the red carpet for president trump here and during that joint press conference he was pressed on how he viewed those recent missile tests by north korea. president trump saying it doesn't bother him. guess what, it does bother prime minister abe. this is the chief national security concern here because japan is in range of north korea's rockets. prime minister abe was clear during that press conference that he does see those missile tests as a violation of u.n. security resolutions. not a whole lot of deliverables from this trip. president trump wanted to get a trade deal. that didn't happen. they are looking past that date. president trump will be back here though in just a few weeks for the g-20 summit will trade and north korea will be front and center one geagain. >> thank you so much.

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the clean up is under way after a series of destructive tornadoes touched down in indiana and ohio overnight causing widespread damage. there are reports of multiple injuries and one death. overnight residents raced for cover. >> we got out in maybe ten minutes later it came through. >> thought i was going to die. it's like out of a movie. you can never prepare for something like this. >> so much. snowplows had to be brought in. tens of thousands of people are without power. there's been 13 consecutive days of tornadoes in the u.s. with eight tornadoes a day. the longest stretch of daily tornadoes since 1980. nbc gabe is in ohio. there's a report of one death in ohio overnight, is that correct? >> reporter: that's right.

the town of salina, ohio, the mayor says one person was killed. at least a dozen people or so. seven people in that town. 40 people in ohio overall have been injured. as you can see behind me, the damage is extensive and a massive clean up effort is under way. we're going to start walking now. we will pan around and take you through some of this damage. earlier we were speaking with the owner of this car dealership. this was destroyed. it's been here for almost 20 years. he said it's a total loss. you can see all this destruction here. we have been walking down the street. you can see the power crews working very hard to restore power. this is another car dealership that was heavily damaged as well. that roof was just torn off of that car dealership as well. we can see that this is extensive. it's almost incredible to note there haven't been more injuries or sadly more deaths. emergency crews are going door to door trying to rescue anybody

trapped inside of their homes. we can see just the extent of all this. just look down that street. traffic has been blocked if many part offense the dayton area. it's difficult to get around. as you mentioned, snowplows were brought in to clear some of the debris here. this is an extensive cleanup effort that we're seeing. this swath of severe storms tore through not just ohio but the town of pendleton, inindiana. we have been seeing so many tornadoes for so many days. this is some of the damage that authorities here are assessing right now. the governor is expected to tour this part of ohio in a short time. >> thank you so much.

those tornadoes had also been in oklahoma which is sort of an awkward turn to a big case in oklahoma today. the multibillion dollar pharmaceutical industry facing a critical legal test. in oklahoma courtroom where the first major opioid trial starts today. attorneys are arguing that johnson and johnson is partly responsible for sparking the deadly epidemic. >> there's a very simple truth with opioids. if you over supply, people will die. the reason we have an opioid crisis is that simple. >> msnbc legal analyst danny savalles joins me. this is the first big drug company being put on trial. this is a civil case and how did

they make the link in civil law between something which is fda approved and legal but is abused by people and is it their responsible to not have the advertisements that push this without proper warnings. is that the tort case? >> you've stated a lot of it right there. the issue is going to be causation. the plaintiff should try to prove that the drug manufacturers caused through their marking, a doctor to write a prescription. doctors have independent medical judgment and that prescription caused the patient to become addicted and then that independent addiction became the fault of the drug manufacturer. the bottom line is this is a challenging causation case because there's so many intervening factors compoundsed by the fact this is not like tobacco litigation.

opiates have a health benefit. it may be outweighed in the future by the risk of abuse but the question here is did the marketing campaign by the drug manufacturer cause, make, result in these doctors writing the scripts that resulted in this addiction. it's a novel application of a public nuisance theory of liability and while the pharmaceutical company should be very concerned, at the same time they have a pretty good legal argument. >> do they have to establish that the drug companies misled or encouraged doctors through any kind of pay offs or subsidies. do they have to make that link between the over prescribing and the drug companies? >> they have to make the link between the causation link. the issue here is the pharmaceutical companies were engaging in first amendment protective activity by advertising. they were engaging and

advertising things that were fda approved and that ultimately that gave information only to doctors who then independently wrote prescriptions. there is a legal challenge here. it's interesting that opening statement that we're reducing all of our trials to a johnny cochran type, if you over supply, people will die. we need thoehold defendants to higher standard of causation. >> that's so clear. thank you very much. coming up, abortion showdown. talk about legal cases. what could the supreme court's move on an indiana abortion law today signal about the court potentially overturning roe v wade? e v wade

in the renewed fight over abortion, the supreme court weighed in today on a restrictive indiana abortion law signed by mike pence when he was governor keeping a potential

fight of roe v wade off the docket for now because they side stepped it. they confirmed a lower court's ruling. the other part of the law that requires fetal remains to be buried or cremated goes into effect. comes as several republican led states move to pass sweeping abortion laws. let's get the inside scoop from nbc news justice correspondent pete williams and at the table sam steil and kimberly atkins for wbur and msnbc contributor as well. pete, first of all, what did the court do? am i correct that two of the justices both said they shouldn't have taken it up. 7-2, shouldn't have taken up the fetal remains burial issue.

>> reporter: that appears to be the vote. this is what's known as a unsigned opinion. unsigned order of the court. in the difference the justice didn't get into the merits at all and justice ginsberg did. the unsigned opinion is that number one, the state has a legitimate interest in how human remains are disposed of. it cited an earlier ruling and said that provision of the law that the court lawed to go into effect was rationally tied to that even though it may not have been a perfect fit. as for the other question, though on the characteristics of the fetus law, that was -- the lower court ruling remains in place. the court said we're not

expressing any view at all on the merits of that question on who should win or who should lose or whether it's constitutional or not. we just don't like to take up issues like this when there's only one ruling from the lower courts. typically the supreme court most often cited reason for taking a case, there's a split among the surrogates and they like to let the lower courts chew on the issues first before it gets up here. for that reason, alone, the court said we're not going to take that up and we're going to leave the ruling on that in place. the upshot here is the supreme court is signaling its willingness to upholds abortion restrictions to the extent that the fetal remains provision is a restriction on abortion but no big appetite to take up the big question on roe v wade right now. >> this comes pete and kim and sam as louisiana house is set to debate a bill that could severely restrict abortion once

a fetal heartbeat is detected six weeks when many women don't know they are pregnant. the bill passed the senate there and the state's democratic governor said he supports it and will sign it. you have in missouri, the planned parenthood is warning they will have to close the only clinic that they have. >> i know. basically in missouri you have what is a defacto ban on abortion because if there is no access to an abortion clinic, where can women go? what you have is a sweeping set of laws happening across the south. some of which the constitutionally will be debated and end up in the supreme court and then you have the practical application of the procedural abortion which is being curtailed simultaneously. it's a one-two punch to abortion rights add voe indicatvocates t

to protect. >> the court is not stepping on this but still indicating that this court is willing to upholds restrictions on abortion which i think is a big signal moving forward. i think this court has been weary to strike down major precedent. i think they are excited about the prospect of going to roe v wade. it's still moving faster. the more of these laws pass, the more challenges there are it's going to come to the court. >> i have a question for pete. does the ruling signal a time line for the court to entertain some of these other questions of constitutionality when it comes to these restrictive anti-abortion laws that have just recently passed? >> reporter: louisiana case already pending up here. similar to a law that was passed in texas. this louisiana law say a doctor performing abortions have to have admitting privileges.

the court hasn't yet said whether it will take that case or not and it's been debating it for weeks now. much more modest provision in los angelo louisiana is stit -- still waiting for a decision. the supreme court said it was never attacked as an undue burdens on a woman's right to choose. the court seemed to be seeing we're not getting into that fundamental question about roe. the undo burden test is the key to whether roe v wade will stand or not some of these really harsh restrictions in the states whether they will be constitutional or not. the supreme court said today, we're not touching that third rail. >> pete williams, thanks so much. i know you're going to be on watch for all of this. these cases, these new laws are going to take a while to move up to the high court. justin amash is going after

bilge bbill barr and the way this republican congressman who has set himself aside from his colleagues saying after receiving the mueller report barr wrote and released a letter on march 24th describing barr's own decision not the indict the president for obstruction of justice. that letter select i haiv selec and summarizes in misleading ways. this is quite a new front. >> remarkable. >> saying he deliberately misrepresented key aspects of the mueller report. >> to me it's remarkable in two ways. one is that you have a sitting republican who is willing to do this. the second thing is, objectively and we can all observe it. bill barr did misrepresent. you look at the report and the summarization and it's evident he misrepresented. we know people on mueller's team reached out worried about the

representation he gave. while justin amash speaking up is remarkable to see a republican do that. it's remarkable that no one else in his party is willing to just acknowledge the reality in front of us. >> and the person who the really clear us up is robert mueller. this puts increased pressure to testify on this issue what he said, exactly what he meant in this report and not what bill barr classified. >> kimberly and sam, thanks so much. thanks for getting me through my coughing. trading secrets. conflict brewing between top intelligence and bill barr over the president's demand for the secret origins of the russia probe. that's next right here on andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. t riga mitchell reports on msnbc. i'm allergic to all things green. (sigh) ♪ who can say why your heart sighs ♪ kraft. for the win win.

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my goal here is not to win by a smidge, not to win by an amount that could be contested but to win by a russia proof majority. [ cheers and applause ] >> there's a serious undertone to that because of russia continuing to meddle, elizabeth warren is warning democrats not the take anything for granted. this as the sweeping authority the president gave his attorney general to declassify sources of the russia probe could set up a conflict with top intelligence

officials who have been stripped of their control over the secrets. joining me is james baker. this is real concern with all the signals the president has sent from day one about challenging the russia probe, standing in helsinki, siding with putin over his own intelligence agencies and not directing a top down government wide effort to go after these issues and stop, prevent russia again, it diminishes the effectiveness of the cyber event. >> the men and women of the law enforcement, of the the intelligence community, of the the department of homeland security are all working hard to make sure our election in 2020 is secure. however, it's a big bur r bur -

need guidance from the president to make it do what it needs to do. to pull together and pool its resources to deal with a threat as large as this. >> kirsten nielen was praised and tom bosert has never been replaced. also of concern, dan coats statement very dip employlomati that he's confident the attorney general will work with the intelligence community in accordance with the long established standards to protect highly classified information that if publicly released would put our national security at risk. this is a warning shot that this attorney general or any attorney general but this one in particular who has been so partisan in the language he uses and his misinterpretation of the

mueller probe conclusions should not be yun lunilaterally decide. >> they are less alarming but the executive order from the president was a slap in the face to the dni and i think he's left in a difficult situation to try to figure out how to respond. i think he will be in a difficult situation if he disagrees with the ultimate determinations by the attorney general on what to declassify from this report which it will be a long time from now. the review, the investigation will take place over a number of months, i would expect. i don't think we'll get to these declassification issues for some period of time. >> one of the issues that was so conce concerning and the president has concludesed what the result should be of this investigation. he is saying that he's calling it treason and when asked about

g jim comey, he's calling it treason. he's concludesed what the results are and what we would have to expect from the attorney general is an investigation. is he prepared to say we have not come up with anything to back up your conclusions? >> i would expect the attorney general to be a person of intellige integrity who will speak truth to power. not with standing political pressure he needs to make a fair apolitical decision. >> justin amash said he deliberately misrepresented the mueller report. at risk here, according to the

new york times the most prominent of the cia sources of intelligence on russia was a person close to mr. putin who p provided information about his involvement. >> i would say the attorney general has a heavy burden to make sure he protects sensitive sources and methods. i would expect him to consultive extensively. he needs to do that because he needs to execute these responsibilities effectively in an effort to protect the country for the future. >> james baker, we'll have to leave it there. thank you very much. coming up, one world. what possible cuts to global hiv

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the global aids epidemic is far from over. every day 2500 people around the world die from the disease. the trump administration is proposing cuts in global aids funding that has always had strong bipartisan always had strong bipartisan support, thanks in part to being championed by george w. bush when he was president. joining me is gail smith. the ceo of the one campaign, former administrator of the us aid. it's good to have you. >> thanks, for having me. >> you have done so much for years now, inside the government. why suddenly is this becoming a challenge? >> you still have bipartisan support in congress. congress has demonstrated continued bipartisan, almost non-partisan support since george w. bush proposed to lead the efforts to fight global aids. what we have seen is repeated foreperson cuts, broadly to foreign hiv and aid.

congress in most cases has reinstated those cuts. we're hoping they'll do so this year. >> and has the state department has the secretary of state tried to fight for this budget at all? >> we haven't heard a lot. i think there is a dedicated team and hhs that are working this disease full time and consistently but as you know a white house puts together a budget from across agencies, puts that forward and everybody supports it. again, we've seen proposed cuts on foreign aid and specifically for hiv and aids. so we are working closely with congress to make sure that doesn't happen. >> it's gone with support. it's likely to pass the house what about in the senate? >> we have seen them and we anticipate and hope that they

will restore full funding. with all the progress we've made, we've cut in half the amount of people out of the woods yet. unless we have the momentum and visibility that's needed we won't be able to keep this on track. >> there is a growing issue with ebola we last saw becoming such a huge issue here domestically and overseas in 2014. >> right. and i was a part of that ebola response in 2014. this outbreak is even more complicated. it's a country actively and loosely governed. >> talking about the congo. >> the one thing that's shocking is the world hasn't immobilized like it did in 2014. i think have a values

perspective we should this is in all of our interests to respond and quickly. >> and the response the last time you were in the middle of it. jeff seines moved in. >> so there was a concentrated effort. we don't see that kind of commitment from this administration yet. >> we haven't seen that and there are security constraints which are real and harder than we faced in west africa. but nonetheless, what we've seen on ebola on global hiv and aids. when the u.s. steps up, the world follows. the opportunity for this moment is if we do that again on hiv and aids, if we choose to do it on ebola, i'm confident the rest of the world will follow our lead. >> gail smith. as always, thank you so much for what you are doing. >> thank you. >> coming up, miracle in maui. the hiker rescued after 17 days in the forest speaks out how she survived. a live report from hawaii next. stay with us. a live report from hawaii next

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the hiker that got lost and spent 17 grueling days in a hawaiian jungle is speaking out. amanda eller, a yoga instructor and therapist suffered fractured legs, severe sunburn and skin infection. she is out of the hospital, thanking rescuers monday who spotted her from the air and

never lost hope. >> i'm so blessed for every blet that i take. you guys are the he. >> reporter: i'm not the hero. i'm a girl sitting here healing my ankles. i never experienced anything like this where the community is showing one so much frisking heart and packs and these guys are fought going no give up on me. >> mollie hunter spoke with the rescuers. it's remarkable. the official first responders from the government gave up after two days. you spoke to these rescuers who never gave up hope. >> andrea, it's pretty extraordinary, that's right. the official police search gave up and the family hired private rescuers, these three guys headed out every single day biation, by land, on foot, looking for amanda. we actually spent time with troy homer yesterday. take a listen. >> she ran up and then she cut

sideways and ran a mile across the woods on the top of the mountain. she ran down the road. >> reporter: as opposed to coming the back way. >> i don't go in that valley it's so steep and so many boxed canyons that you're not coming out of there. >> that's what's so extraordinary. he says this is an experienced searcher. he hunts wild boar. he knows the terrain. we heard from amanda, she said she 8th jungle berries and drank river water to stay hydrated and she crawled as soon as she broke her leg. i'm sure she will talk about her injuries and her spiritual journey. she talks about being guided spiritually every step of the way. it's an incredible will to survive. >> it was just amazing, she had lost her shoes and socks in a storm and kept going. mollie, that itself so fascinating. thank you so much for being with us today. we appreciate it. and that does it for this

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