>> thank you so much. that is going to wrap up this hour of msnbc live. andrea mitchell is standing by. >> thank you. right now, the crown. the royals roll out the red carpet for president trump on his long awaited state visit. >>. >> nasty. before his arrival, the president insults the american princess when asked by a british tabloid about her comments during a presidential campaign. >> she said she moved to canada if got elected. turned out she moved to britain. >> a lot of people will be here. what can i say? i didn't know that she was nasty. >> and red flags. before arriving in london for the state visit, jared kushner was grilled by axios about the

controversial trump tower meeting with the russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. >> i stay for 15 minutes. it's a clown show. let me finish this. i text and say get me the hell out of here. i leave. i never would have thought about that meeting again. >> and good day everyone. president trump is diving head first into british politics by trading insults on twitter with the muslim mayor of london just before beginning his first state visit to the united kingdom bringing his family to visit the queen and the royals, making a sermonnial tour. the pomp and circumstances competing for headlines with the president's undiplomatic support. the controversial former foreign secretary and rival of prime minister teresa may. johnson is leading a crowded field competing to succeed may.

all of this political drama taking a back seat for royal watchers captivated by the president denying he called the duchess of sussex nasty. joining me now msnbc contributors and washington anchor for bbc news and eugene robinson, "washington post" columnist. thank you all very much. the royals know how to do this kind of state visit. for all the tension and controversy about this president who was denied the state visit he wanted last year, he is now there and they are doing it with the utmost of grace. >> well, that's the thing here. actually, the royals are renowned. she is the most travelled and

most experienced monarch in history. because of her, very soft touch when it comes to these charm offenses, it means so far it has gone without a hitch from the royal side. the president landed here in a controversy criticizing london mayor with a series of fairly aggressive tweets. i'm not sure whether that has been mentioned over the royal dinner table at lunch tioday. i think the spin on it from the white house perspective is that he didn't call megan nasty as in a nasty person. he said she wasn't aware she made nasty comments. >> at the same time, peter, the president was even trading those insults with mayor of london. peter, we are straightening out his audio there. you have seen it from both sides of the pond. you know better than anyone as the bbc main anchor here what

this means in terms of the british politics getting into that are boris johnson saying he might meet with -- he is just not treading lightly on a sensitive difficult time in the u.k. post brexit. >> so officials on both sides of the atlantic have been working for weeks meticulously to get the details of this visit which is meant to be all about pomp and ceremony and pitch perfect getting it right. what does the president do just as air force one touches down in london. he sends a series of tweets about the mayor of the city that cause something of a political fire storm. i think officials are holding their breath hoping that the next three days all go fairly smoothly. president trump is going to carry on doing it his way. this is the president we have come to expect to does weigh in on things that are political. it's the end of prime minister

may's time in office. she'll start the process of stepping down on friday. and president trump has managed to weigh in on the leadership contest, criticize the mayor of london and say comments being seen as critical about meghan markle. it is taking on every element of politics at the same time of having these kind of picture perfect images to being back meeting the royal family. >> indeed. apologizes for that. i think everything is hooked up properly for you. it's been a long day for you. you have the president not hesitating to dive pin. tough enough and he initially did this a year ago. the british tabloid praising boris johnson saying he could have handled brexit better, that teresa may didn't take his advice and now he has done it yet again.

>> you're exactly right. the president having a pair of interviews with british papers. he said the son of the sunday times. the president on his last visit here last summer was heavily critical of prime minister teresa may just in advance of the two of them being together where she would be hosting them at this formal dinner to take place at the childhood home. and the president was critical of her handling of the departure from the eu. he has sort of put his finger on the scales of domestic politics, as well. he said when asked about it, if you are going to be upset about answering the questions, then stop answering the questions. it is remarkable to hear the president speaking so highly of boris johnson, the former foreign minister known as the former mayor of the city of london, someone who shares the

aggressive pro brexit strategy. the president saying if necessary, the u.k. should basically walk away from the table to get a better deal as it is here. what strikes me is this day comes to its real punctuation mark with this banquet at buckingham palace. this is a president who knows television well and knows the power of images. he was side by side with the japanese emperor. here he is side by side with the british queen. these are moments, images that his allies hope will reinforce the idea that he is above the fray back in washington. americans may disagree on his success of accomplishing that, but his desire is to appear stately and statesman like as it were while looking back at the domestic politics and the conversations about impeachment. >> resonating is still what he said on departure from washington last night. this is what he had to say about

boris johnson. >>. [ inaudible question ] >> people ask me questions like you. you are asking me a question. don't ask me the question if you don't want me to talk about it. well, i may meet with him. he has been a friend of mine. i have a very good relationship with him. i have a very good relationship with many people over there. we'll see what happens. >> getting out of europe party. very controversial. that's what bedevilled teresa may. you have lived on both sides of the atlantic and know very well what he is contributing to the man that we are not responsible for the mishandling of what's happened so far and the reason why teresa may is really forced

to resign. he is not making it any easier. >> you know, boris johnson and donald trump probably deserve each other. we should recall that in 2015 boris johnson gave an interview in which he spoke of president trump's -- or candidate trump's stupefying ignorance and unfitness to be president of the united states. all is forgiven now that they decided they agree politically on certain things. this is really a terrible moment for him to -- for the chaos president to descend upon chaos in the united kingdom. teresa may begins stepping down at the end of the week. he stepped down as party leaders, will stay on as prime minister for some time until the party gets its act together. that is a myth. i don't often feel sorry for the british royals.

i do this week. i imagine prince harry, what sort of conversation is he going to make with the president, prince charles, his life long passion is environmentalism. what is he going to say to the president who believes climate change is a hoax. i think they may all fall back on the finalefinely honed techn i think they are geeg to talk about the flowers a lot this week. >> the queen is amped to talk about the dogs. dogs, flowers and weather. that said, you know all this far better than any of the rest of us. what the president had to say about meghan markle, let me play a little bit about that. this is the interview with the sun. the correspondent prompted the president and they were off to

the races. >> she can't make it because she's on maternity leave. are you sorry not to see her. >> i didn't know that. i hope she is okay. i did not know that. >> she said she would move to canada if you got elected. turned out she moved to britain. >> a lot of people moving here. what can i say. i didn't know that she was nasty. >> and he is clearly saying he didn't know she had made those nasty comments. it was one step removed the white house was quick to say. he denied he had said it. is that going to strike a nerve? we know that harry, of course, the devoted husband, was at buckingham palace today for the greetings? prince harry was there in his capacity supporting the queen. you will have noted that the queen's husband who is now

retired from public life wasn't by her side. a little bit like the trumps in bringing the children. it was a sense that she needed her family around her, as well, so other people could be vauchb involved in the visit. it was notable that prince harry stayed back and wasn't engaged with mr. and mrs. trump directly. over lunch there is something to be said for meeting with royals because it is perhaps the only meeting that politicians get involved in that the contents doesn't leak at least not from the royal side. if frank conversations have taken place over lunch and over that tea, i think most people would find it astonishing if they didn't mention climate change because it is one of the pet subjects, then that would be quite something. we will never know because unless it is leaked by the trump side we won't get details from the intimate conversations. i won't take the boat that it

won't be leaked in some fashion. i know he stepped back from official duties. but would it have been expected that he would be there today? do you think there is a health issue or just having stepped back from official duties he does not appear at her side. >> it's nothing to do with health. it is simply the case that these days he wakes up in the morning, he is 98 in a couple of weeks time. he is 98 next week. he decides whether he wants to do an engagement or not. clearly the couple met president trump last year in july. and perhaps he didn't fancy it. so we don't expect him to be involved in the state banquet either later. >> very good to have you here for your perspective. i know you have to go do all of your other duties. please stand by, we will all be returning to london shortly. coming up next, what would

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president's son-in-law tried to defend himself when talking about an e-mail he received to set up the trump tower meeting. >> why didn't you pick up the phone and call the fbi? it was an e-mail that said the russian government was trying to help. why didn't you do that? >> we are in a place now where people are playing monday morning quarterback and are being so self righteous. i'm running three companies. i'm helping run the campaign. i get e-mails that say show up at 4:00 instead of 3:00. i show up at the meeting and stay for 15 minutes. it's a clown show. let me finish this. i text and say can you give me a call to get me the hell out of here. this is a waste of time. >> joining me now are peter baker and an msnbc political analyst and former assistant u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst. peter, that was very testy. there was a lot in that

interview about mbs, a lot of stuff in that interview that he is not normally asked as well as the much wanted middle east peace plan which is now so complicated by netanyahu's value to make a government. all of this. how can he not say next time i would handle it differently? the fbi director testified that one of the lessons out of all of this is next time if you are a candidate or campaign adviser and you get an inquiry from russia or another foreign country, call the fbi. >> a couple of things. we don't see jared kushner questioned on the record very often. so the fact that here we are more than a year or roughly a year since the story first broke and we are only now learning about it, his reaction to it is rather remarkable. he obviously is quite testy

about it. and i think you are right. i think the fact that he is willing to say that i didn't do anything wrong, even in hind sight -- put yourselves in my shoes. i now understand that that wasn't something that i should be involved with, that would be one thing. he is saying that nothing happened that is wrong. his excuse is i was running three companies. why do you go to a meeting if you don't know what it is about? why would it be something that wouldn't bother you afterwards when you realize what it was about? it was a really interesting interview. >> one other things was about khashoggi. the fact that he was for the first time questioned about mohammed bin salman, the saudi leader who is his friend really and fellow young leader, they have been very close, the cia has said that he was involved, that he ordered the killing of

khashoggi. the chief -- his chief aid is still at large even though he was supposedly the person in the field who did all of this. this was that exchange. >> how many conversations have you had with mohammed bin salman about the murder of jamal khashoggi? >> again, the discussions i have with whether it is individual palestinians or with world leaders or with other people, i keep those discussions to myself. the people who need to know about them in our government that it is relate today the jobs that they are doing, they know about those discussions. >> and again peter, he again said that they are still investigating even though this investigation can go on forever. we are now giving them without congressional authority weapons, the resumption of the relationship uninterrupted really and also saying he won't talk about who in the palestinian world he talks to. we don't know of anyone that he

talks to in the palestinian world as he has worked on this middle east peace plan. >> certainly nobody in power in the palestinian world. he may talk to individual palestinians who are outside of their governmental structure of the palestinian authority. the people who in theory are not speaking to him. they have decided this administration is not on the level when it says it wants to broker middle east peace because it has already recognized jerusalem as the capital of israel and move the embassy there because it shut down the palestinian office here in washington because it cut off aid to the palestinians. that's not to the palestinians' view the actions of a neutral broker. that's the action of somebody who is deciding that the plan is not something they are going to accept. it makes you wonder where we will go with this. jared kushner says once they see it they'll see that their lives are going to be better. this is just going nowhere.

i think because of the israeli do over election it means we are not going to get to political peace plan probably until closer to the end of the year. >> i want to ask you about former lawyer to the president and the transcript that we had some visibility into but we have had the full transcript of his conversation with flynn's attorney. and it does seem as though there is a whole agenda here. it wouldn't surprise me if you have gone on to make a deal with the government then you have a national security issue. we need some kinds of heads up for the sake of protecting our interest if we can. seems to be a pardon angle. >> even standing alone, it is a serious question as to whether dowd himself was involved in some kind of attempted witness tampering here in trying to get flynn either not to cooperate and/or to pass on information

that he shouldn't be in violation of the agreement at that point with the government. the question really is did trump know what dowd was doing? and it's hard to imagine just in the common sense level that he didn't and that, in fact, he was involved in it and directed it. mueller decided not to go there and not to press dowd on this because of the attorney/client privilege. frankly, i think that is something that other prosecutors would have treated differently and been more aggressive about. that's one area where mueller didn't go. i think a lot of prosecutors would have gone there because of the crime/fraud exception. i think it's part of this bigger pattern that we see with trump, with his lawyers that now is clearly laid out in the mueller report of trump trying to get witnesses not to cooperate against him by using this power of the pardon in a corrupt way. and that is still the shocking

conduct that is just hanging out there and we're waiting to see if anyone is going to do something about it namely congress. >> and john dowd in parted this is clearly a baseless political document designed to smear and damage the reputation of counsel and innocent people. thank you so much. and coming up, special relationship, some of britain's top officials not exactly thrilled with president trump's first state visit. you're watching andrea mitchell reports. stay with us. g andrea mitchell reports. stay with us. do your asthma symptoms ever hold you back? about 50% of people with severe asthma have too many cells called eosinophils in their lungs. eosinophils are a key cause of severe asthma. fasenra is designed to target and remove these cells. fasenra is an add-on injection for people 12 and up with asthma driven by eosinophils. fasenra is not a rescue medicine

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so let's go back to london. back with us. there are some differences between the president and the mayor of london. and they started with the muslim ban well before the state visit. there was an op-ed in the guardian. he wrote donald trump is just one of the most egregious examples of a growing global threat. the far right is on the rise threatening the hard won rights and freedoms and values that defined our liberal democratic

societies. rather than bestowing trump with a grand platform of acceptability we should be speaking out and saying that this behavior is unacceptable, that it poses a grave threat to the values and principles. so the president then tweets just before arriving in the u.k., slamming him. he writes on twitter he has done a terrible job as mayor of london has been foolishly nasty. i guess nasty was in his mind, by far the most important ally of the united kingdom. he reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent mayor of new york city who has also done a terrible job, only half his height. the insults. you can just aggregate it better than anyone. p. >> the president clearly not

holding back when it comes to his relationship. there is no love lost between them as you suggested. this dates back to the election campaign back in 2016. but to some extent the mayor of london is reflecting the views of those who think the president should not be here for a state visit. and there is a poll taken last year showing that the two thirds of brits think that president trump has been a bad or terrible american president. so we know this. we know there is a lot of opposition to him. this is not the first time in living memory that an american president has come here and been met by protest. george w. bush came here on a state visit, the first american president to get a state visit to the united kingdom and be offered one by the queen. brits don't hold back when they feel their opposition to american presidents. what british officials are keen to say is this is not really just about president trump. this is about the importance of this relationship, the relationship between the united

kingdom and the united states. there are difficulties in this relationship in the moment, substantial ones. there are issues to do with iran and gigzs over what to do about china. there is the prospect of trade and the new trade relationship and issues over climate change. all of these are substantive issues that need addressing. what officials are trying to say is this is about honoring, of course, the d-day commitment and honoring 75 years of the american british alliance. >> one of the big issues right now under the radar is this whole intelligence sharing issue because the president a week and a half ago on the eve of memorial day weekend signed a waiver. and mike pompeo announced not only arms deals that are not favored by the brits, but also

th that intelligence would no longer be controlled. it could be declassified by the attorney general william barr who has been quite partisan and not by the head of national intelligence who has been much more careful about what is appropriately shared among allies. this is very tricky for the brits who are our closest intelligence allies and are i understand very concerned that there will be some secrets disclosed including what the president plans to bring up with teresa may going into the origins of the russia probe that did have origins in london with intelligence sources. >> you know the so-called intelligence network or in formal agreement is the most important such arrangement in the world. they share everything and

cooperate in intelligence matters and are used to doing so. that decision by the president to perhaps politicize intelligence or the release of intelligence information threatens to upset that relationship as does the conflict with hauwei. britain has to decide whether it will follow the u.s. lead and declare it and its equipment non grata in patrioten as it builds out a 5 g network. and that's a contentious issue because it could effect the willingness of americans to share with the brits if they go a different direction. so that's all important. i wonder if all this is upper most in president trump's mind these days or if he is thinking of comparing this visit to the one that president obama was able to make.

he is always comparing himself to obama. obama got to stay in buckingham palace. i wonder if those aren't the issues upper most. >> thanks so much. we'll be back in london visiting with you tomorrow. coming up, pressuring pelosi. house speaker nancy pelosi interrupted by cries to impeach during a speech to california democrats. you are watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. e watching anl reports on msnbc. free shipping. you get everything you need for your home at a great price, the way it works best for you, i'll take that. wait honey, no. when you want it. you get a delivery experience you can always count on. you get your perfect find at a price to match, on your own schedule. you get fast and free shipping on the things that

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and reduce your risk with repatha®. pay no more than $5 per month with the repatha® copay card. house speaker nancy pelosi feeling the impeachment pressure this weekend. >> the president's campaign welcomed russian interference in the election and the report lays out 11 instances of possible obstruction of justice by the president of the united states. >> she handled that about as gracefully as one could. this as the president is fighting back who calls for the president to censure the president calling -- joining me

now is george wills, msnbc contributor and author of the monumental, the conservative sensibility, extraordinary book. and associate editor and columnist for real clear politics. you have written against impeachment and writing that impeachment would be a debacle. let's talk about that and what you said. you said congressional republicans blinded by their puppy-like devotion impeachment can be an instrument of civic hygiene. with most scampering are implausible. explain more broadly although i think you have capture tornaed right there why you think impeachment is the remedy. >> it is only a remedy if the

president is removed from office which he will not be because you will not get sufficient republican senators to vote him out of office. if you think that impeachment should be retrospective and act avenge or punishments then the past deed would have to be obstruction of justice, principally the firing of mr. comey of the fbi. everyone has agreed that the president was exercising a core presidential power so the charge would have to be that he exercised the power for corrupt motive that he is trying to obstruct an investigation into an offense that the investigation itself did not find therefore you can have a prospective, prophylactic, if you will, impeachment that would be to protect the country from further anticipatable harms. i do believe that the president's behavior, the lowering of the bars to what can and is acceptable to be said in

our public life is doing lasting damage to the country. but it's very hard to make an impeachment case out of that. so if the democrats go down this road, remember every hour they spent talking about impeachment they are not talking about things the country is actually interested in, something they can go to the country on. >> i'm picking up on what you said about the kind of damage that this president can cause. one of the things that was so striking has been the political interference with the military. let me ask both of you about the insult or the implied insult to john mccain, his father and grandfather who are the original two admirals honored and the fact that someone at the white house would now think it appropriate to call the military and ask that the mccain be disguised, moved or otherwise

camouflaged for the visit of the president in tokyo. this is what the acting chief of staff had to say to chuck about this on meet the press. >> are you confident that it was nobody in the white house or white house advanced person that made the request to the navy to cover up the uss john mccain? >> i believe it was probably somebody on the advanced team. >> is there any consequences for this? >> an advanced team is hundreds of people. you have been overseas with the president of the united states. the fact that some 23 or 24-year-old person went to the site and said we know how the president feels about the former senator, maybe that is not the best back drop, that's not an unreasonable thing to ask. >> seriously. >> it's not. is someone going to get fired for this? no. >> i found it remarkable that

mr. mull vein mulvaney was tryi diffuse this. this seems because president trump has politicized the military, he is being warned by the acting secretary of defense not to politicize the military. he has politicized the judiciary and the boy scouts and the post office. this was an opportunity for this administration to say this was unfortunate. we can't really talk about what is geoing to happen to the persn who made the order. instead, you found the chief of staff out there protecting the president or the whole feeling from the top down about president trump's view of senator mccain to be acceptable in sort of any future actions would be reasonable. that's what you conclude from what he said yesterday. i found it amazing he didn't take the opportunity since apparently it wasn't president trump's decision to agree with the secretary of defense and say

we never want to politicize the military. >> and the acting secretary of defense. george will, to paraphrase, they never seem to miss an opportunity to be presidential. >> well, this would be far less alarming and disgusting, frankly, if the president had ordered it because we know that would have been in kwarcharacte i do not think the president has politicized the military. i think they politicized themselves. what's shocking about this is that someone in the pacific fleet didn't have enough sense to tell a 24 year old, if such it was, to buzz off and quit trying to move american war ships. so what's really alarming is that the saturation of all of american life by politics and by animosities generated by presidential politics has reached the highest levels of the military such that a senior officer didn't have enough sense

to say no. >> well, the book is the conservative sensibility. much more conversation about that to come on a day when we don't have a state visit in london. thank you very much for being with us today. coming up, mic drop. the campaign incident raising questions for security for candidates. you're watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. ang drea reports only on msnbc. etsy is the place to find new favorites. the things we hold on to. sold by real people and made for all of life's moments. our belongings don't just show what we care about. they show who we are. shop etsy.com

briefly for democrat presidential candidate and senator kamala harris over the weekend. a protestors rushed the stage during her appearance at a forum in california. he was blocked from getting to harris. harris' husband jumped in to grab the guy. the incident sparking concerns over the candidates' safety on the campaign trail. >> hey, hey, hey, hey. >> hi, hi, hi. wait a minute, sir.

>> asking for your attention to a much bigger idea -- >> thank you so much, sir, for your big idea. but we want to make sure we are able to get through this. it's okay, folks. >> she was amazing. joining me now, "washington post" opinion writer. and douglas was jumping up on stage. things like this have happened on campaigns before and none of these early contenders have protection or anything like that. there was an incident when bernie sanders was rushed by a black lives matter group. shouldn't there have been better organization by t organization? >> without question, moveon.org should have had security people at the stage, off stage, to

prepare for something just like that. and thank goodness corine was there. to pick up on senator harris, she was calm, cool and collected. she's a former district attorney, she's someone who has been in tough situations being a member of law enforcement, but also if you've read her book, the name of the book is escaping me right now, but the major theme throughout her book is she's not afraid of a fight. she's a girl from oakland. if you want to understand why senator harris was perfectly calm in that moment, that's all you need to know. >> and her husband is douglas, he tweeted, thank you for all of

the kind notes. i want to ask you about the liberal more progressive candidates all beating up on joe biden this weekend. they're really seizing the opportunity to say he wasn't there, he doesn't subject himself to this particular audience and someone who did, by the way, is da delaney. >> his not being there, gave them the perfect opportunity to call him out. if you look at all of the polls, he is leading in the polls by a lot, and in some cases more than ten points or double digits. they have to. in a field of 23, 24 people, they're all going to have to distinguish themselves and they're going to have to do something to drag vice president biden down. if anything, to give themselves some kind of leg up.

>> this campaign -- it does seem as though the conservative -- the more moderate candidates are really being pressured more and more because they staee that bin is holding onto that lead and doesn't feel he has to campaign as much as they are, but they're going after him. >> they're going after him also because -- attack him because he's the front-runner. but try to say something that can distinguish themselves from the other people who are attacking joe biden. with this big of a field you have to do something. >> thank you so much. and tonight, chris matthews hosts a live town hall with democratic presidential hopeful pete buttigieg. and john hickenlooper joins ali velshi and stephanie ruhle for a live interview. stay right here on msnbc. oh no,.

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anderson anders "andrea mitchell reports." on wednesday and thursday i'll be live in normandy. the president attending and all of the other foreign leaders. here's ali velshi and stephanie ruhle for "velshi & ruhle." >> you have yourself a good afternoon. >> it is monday, june 3rd and today all eyes are across the pond for president trump's first official state visit to great britain, a trip already clouded by some self-inflicted diplomatic controversy. >> they were greeted by queen elizabeth the second and prince charles. an historic day following president trump's recent insults against meghan markle and sadiq khan. get us up to speed on what we've been watching between the president