watch highlights from today's show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden wrapping up his trip to europe in finland today, which shares an 830-mile border with russia and just joined nato this week, by reaffirming america's commitment to this critical defense alliance. when asked by a reporter about political opposition back home to nato in the coming election year. >> no one can guarantee the future. this is the best bet anyone could make. you can't tell me whether you are going to be able to go home tonight. no one can be sure what they're going to do. i'm saying as sure as anything can possibly be said about american foreign policy, we will stay connected to nato. breaking news here in washington, where the secret

service and fbi have come up empty, failing to find fingerprints, video or dna to link any individual to that small bag of cocaine found in a west wing lobby. another massive hack from china on u.s. organizations, reaching as far as the in box of the secretary of commerce, even as secretary of state blinken today was trying to warm up relations with a top chinese official in indonesia. i will get reaction this hour from senate intelligence committee chairman mark warner. good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell back from the nato summit in lithuania. president biden continuing his foreign trip in finland today, nato's newest member. was pressed whether the allies could trust the u.s. to remain in nato despite opposition by

trump republicans to remain in the alliance. president biden also was trying to patch over differences the u.s. has with allies, including great britain, our closest ally, over not giving ukraine a clearer time line of when it could join nato once the war is over. there were disagreements over the president's decision to provide ukraine with cluster munitions, which have been banned by more than 100 countries, including many nato members. peter alexander is in finland and has been with the president throughout the trip. the president just wrapped up that press conference with finland's leader, an hour ago. we saw the reporters asking tough questions about back home. >> reporter: you are right. that's a concern not unique to finland but across much of europe, particularly among nations like finland that border russia right now, amid real concerns that if former president trump, the republican frontrunner, were to become president of the united states again, that the u.s.' strong

commitment could easily cease. the president said that he guarantees the u.s. will stay a part of nato. then he acknowledged he can't guarantee anything. as you heard in the moment that you played earlier, he did try to reaffirm the u.s. commitment. he says the u.s. has a real investment in this and it will be there as he said for the long haul. that was one of many headlines the president made. having traveled with the president over the last several years, i think it was one of the more interesting news conferences in terms of his comments. he had tough words as it related to vladimir putin saying that he has already lost this war. the president saying that he didn't believe the war could go on for years because vladimir putin won't be able to keep that up that long. he was asked a question as it was related to the former wagner group commander, prigozhin, the man who hasn't been seen in days if not weeks, who tried to lead

that rebellion against vladimir putin. here is part of what the president said on that issue. >> god only knows what he is likely to do. i'm not even sure, we're not even sure where he is and what relationship he has. if i were he, i would be careful what i eat. i would keep my eye on my menu. all kidding aside, i don't know. i don't think any of us know what the future of prigozhin is in russia. i don't know how to answer that question beyond that. >> reporter: one of the many headlines from the president's comments today, as it related to prigozhin, the wagner group former commander. i think it was notable that sitting in the room this on this same week five years ago, former president trump stood opposite vladimir putin at the time, president trump said of putin that he believed his denials,

notably today about election interference. president biden said they have been interfering in u.s. elections for years. >> peter, as while you were talking, we saw a picture of that handshake with putin, but also the president now on the tarmac shaking hands with people, with well wishers there from the departure ceremony there. he will be heading home after a really -- a very impactful trip, as you pointed out. thanks for all your work, your extraordinary work. we will see you back here at home. jen psaki is host of "inside with jen psaki" and the former white house secretary during the biden administration. you have done these trips before. you were in geneva with putin and brussels, of course, warsaw then the next year. you have done all these trips.

the president had a lot of tough navigation here with the allies. that was reflected in finland's questions, the reports' questions. you don't usually see that. >> that's true. there are difficult questions. we are seeing that play out. one of the big ones which peter and others have talked about, you are standing by ukraine, the need to address the need to address the global crisis. but for how long? what happens if power changes in the white house? >> play that exchange. >> what actions will you take to assure finland that the u.s. will remain a reliable nato partner for decades to come? >> i absolutely guarantee it. there's no question. there's overwhelming support from the american people. there's overwhelming support from the members of the congress, both house and senate. both parties, notwithstanding the fact there's some extreme

elements of one party, we will stand together. >> what's your evaluation of what you have seen today and what you saw importantly in vilnius with zelenskyy and the allies? >> i think the president is trying to keep hold of those alliances that he has worked very hard to rebuild in the last couple of years, in the wake of the trump administration, where they were shattered, to be honest. it is exactly the right question, because what allies have seen around the world is when there was a change in leadership, for the first time -- there's been agreement over decades on what our norms should be and what u.s. policy should be on a number of issues as it relates to the strength of nato and what our values should be. that changed with trump. that makes a lot of our allies and partners nervous. you are seeing that reflects. it's in the u.s. interest for finland to be an important partner. that reporter and that journalist knows that. the president feels that. yes, we have seen politic shift

how that is handled from the white house. >> it's fascinating to me, over the decades, finland has been neutral. the fact that finland and now sweden as well -- finland is joining. sweden now is at least gotten past the opposition by erdogan and will be joining. they have very good militaries. they will be really important partners. they have such assets there. this 830-mile border we haven't seen fully the putin reaction. he was supposed to have a big tech conference, his annual meeting today. i have to check what's happened in the last hour. it seems that we will see some other reactions from him as well. this has been tough for the president. >> yeah. >> we have to say, he has papered over a lot of the differences pretty well. >> what people don't see behind the scenes and what is happening at the white house and when i was there is the president is working the phones constantly with partners and allies. jake sullivan is working the

phones constantly. tony blinken is to keep everybody on the same page or close to the same page in supporting ukraine, providing military support, providing financial and economic support. that's not easy politically in every country in europe, not necessarily politically here in the united states. there are these valid and understandable questions about the long-term commitment of the united states because what they are seeing about shifting politics and skepticism among some in the right wing in congress, and some presidential candidates. that's a valid concern that the president is trying to navigate. >> they see how divided we are as a country and how the divisions are when you look at races. they read the polls as well as we do. jen, one of the big issues was cluster bombs. the brits are not happy about it. german, france. even with the administration's

cabinet, the u.n. ambassador called it a war crime. >> yes. i did -- i said it could be a war crime for when the russians were using it. how jake sullivan, the national security advisor, talked about this is ukraine is being attacked on their own home soil. they are trying to defend their people and their land. that's how they made this decision. i'm certain it was not an easy one. i'm certain it was a divided decision. a lot of difficult decisions around it. they felt it was needed to help the ukrainians in this time to try to make progress in defending their country. >> what it tells you is how critical they think the counteroffensive is, which is not going as well as they hoped. >> it's not as quickly as any of us thought it would be in watching. >> jen psaki, we will -- if we don't see you before then, we will see you sunday at noon. be sure to tune in for "inside with jen psaki" right here when

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breaking every aspect of it, including the news today of the results. we expect that the president's opponents will try to make hay out of the fact they couldn't come up with anything. it's a heavily trafficked area. >> it is. in the world we live in where a crime drama is solved in an hour on television, this is different. they did do extensive dna testing, some fingerprint testing, going beyond the normal work of the fbi crime lab to try to get some sort of physical evidence that they could then connect to the group of several hundred individuals who they identified by looking at records going in and out of the white house, video and so forth. there was not video that could capture the moment when this was placed in that cubby, the storage area that is used for people to put their electronic things before going deeper into the white house. there are sources who are familiar with this who say the

leading theory is that it was a visitor. by visitor, that could include people working at the white house on construction projects or being a part of a staff-led tour. there were several of those over the weekend prior to this being discovered on sunday night. the frustration for everyone involved, of course, is a lot of effort and time has been expanded here without a solution and without any expectation that they will be able to determine who was involved. >> of course, republicans had seized on this immediately, even though the president's family was out of town and the family doesn't use that entrance, it's the working entrance. hunter was brought up immediately. nancy mace of south carolina was speaking -- coming out of a briefing, let's watch. >> for me, it's interesting that every time there's something strange going on with the president biden or his family or anything regarding his administration or the white

house, no one can ever seem to find an answer. just from my perspective, it's frustrating. this is one of the most secure places in the world and they don't have any answers. >> as you know, the cubbies are for people visiting. family members don't put their things in a cubby. senior staff are not doing that as well. it's frustrating there isn't an answer. it will be unsatisfying to critics of the white house and raises questions about how an illegal substance got in there in the first place. >> to be continued, i'm afraid. thank you, kelly, for all your work on this. hollywood is on the brink of a shutdown. 160,000 actors threaten to walk off sets for the picket lines. it comes after studios failed to meet demands by last night's deadline. since may, they have operated with skeleton crews as the

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transgender troops. all this is complicating efforts to pass that bill in the narrowly divided house. garrett haake, who has so kindly been filling in for me this week so i could go to the nato summit, joining me now from capitol hill. thank you for everything you have been doing. >> of course. >> tell me how this will work. how are they going to pass this defense bill? >> what's going to happen is we will have a very late night tonight in the house, with all of the amendments, several hundred expected to get votes tonight. many of them, as you describe, put forward by some of the house's most conservative members to make what in some cases are social policy changes to pentagon policies, things like stopping the process of renaming bases that are being renamed for confederate generals and the like. the theory from the speaker is that it's better to let the votes be had and succesfully pass or get the concerns out of the way and prevent the far right members from sinking the

rule, the procedural vote that would proceed the vote. it's a massive bill. it has passed every year for the last 60 years. the senate version is getting worked on this week. this will end up in a conference committee. it's a question of whether the product the house produces is to the right of what the senate produces and complicates the process further, or if the bills look more similar and we are on a better track to actually getting this done in a timely basis. >> there's an update on marjorie taylor greene. she was kicked out of the house freedom caucus. >> that seems to be the case. this is an instance in which i have not seen congress act more like a high school cafeteria that i have covered here. we have at least one freedom caucus member, ken buck, on nbc news now saying marjorie taylor greene has been kicked out of

the far right group within the house that doesn't disclose its membership, doesn't talk about internal dealings. she has been saying to some reporters that she's a free agent now. she's a huge fund-raiser within the republican party, for herself and for other conservative members. she has the strong support of the speaker of the house, kevin mccarthy. we will not hear less from marjorie taylor greene because of this move by the freedom caucus. >> my only quibble with your reporting, which i would never question, is that it's more like junior high school -- middle school, not high school. >> fair enough. >> thank you very much, garrett. see you later. joining me now is congressman john kasich, who ran for the republican nomination in 2016 against donald trump. do you miss congress, sir? >> you know, it was so different back then. you know. you covered it.

>> i know. >> now what it gets to be is everybody has their special little deal where they are driving things to satisfy some narrow group. when we think about this problem, it's with the defense bill, it's with all the appropriation bills, all these problems started with the election of mccarthy and how it got done. at the time, i made an argument that the democrats should have come in, the moderate democrats working with moderate republicans and kind of be able to reduce the power of extremes on both sides and elect a speaker who could lead the house in a way that made a lot of sense. the democrats kind of loved fact that the republicans were falling apart. the republicans, of course, thumbed their nose at the democrats and said, we will do it. now you have this problem. the chickens have come home to roost. i don't know how they will get through any appropriation bills. i was there when we had to collect votes to pass a balanced budget, which we did.

it's tough. now it's a mess. genesis was the way in which they opened the house at the beginning of the year. >> you are so right about that. let me switch gears to presidential politics, which sin forming a lot -- or exacerbating the divisions. governor desantis laying in to donald trump for potentially skipping the first debate and skipping the family leadership summit in iowa tomorrow. let's play some of what the governor had to say. >> he may not be entitled, but

he has a huge polling advantage. >> that sounds like a little whining. >> how important is iowa? >> iowa is always important. then new hampshire comes in the blink of an eye. i don't know what trump will do. he doesn't like to be out of the action, even when there's bad stories about him. he loves his name to be in the stories. it's like nothing we have ever seen. if i were to predict, i think i would predict he skips the first debate and he sees how it goes. then he probably would be in the second one. you know what's going to happen. everybody will hammer him. i don't know whether he will listen to his advisors or say i will go. he is attacking the governor of iowa now. to me, that's not very smart. trump operates at -- by look at -- he looks at things differently. it's like desantis is whining,

please, please come so i can do better and i can catch you. i understand that but i don't know how effective that is. it doesn't seem like a strong message. desantis' challenge is, he is not doing well. his national polls have slipped. he is behind as i have been told two to one in iowa. people gotta like you. we have to see if that likability for him improves. >> chris christie wanting a shot at trump to be on the stage. for a chance to go after him. i want to ask about the democrats. they have problems. they have a potential third party run by -- >> cornell west. >> they tried to put it to bed. now joe manchin is speaking to no labels next week. are you thinking this might have some affect of electing donald trump? >> don't forget cornell west, running as the third party,

there could be democrats that would say i'm tired of biden and i will vote for west. in terms of no labels, what democrats are concerned about is they will take votes from biden and drive the thing towards trump. what i'm told is happening now, by the way, is that secretaries of state are slow rolling the ability of no labels to be able to get access to the ballot. that is what i would call voter suppression. if you want to put somebody on the ballot, you should have a right to do it. the secretaries of state should stop and let people who want to run, give them a chance, give them access. >> so you think that's the heavy hand of the white house? >> i don't -- i don't know. it could be the heavy hand of the republicans that don't want that no label on there. i don't know. it's hard to predict it's so crazy out there. i wish i had been at the nato summit with you. why didn't you invite me? i would have loved that. >> i wish i had. >> next time. >> we would have had a lot of fun there. thank you very much.

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in indonesia, secretary of state tony blinken met with a

top chinese official at the sidelines of an asian summit, one day after the state department confirmed its emails were hacked in a major breach. the chinese-backed hackers hack ed the emails. here is evidence of what they have been doing in terms of cyber. how serious is the damage? how well defended were we? it was unclassified email. >> it was unclassified. it feels like every six months or so we have a major hack. so much of this is coming either from china or russia. it was a few years back it was hacking into all the office of personnel management, current and former employees. then it was equifax, personal information.

hacked the pipeline, a gas shortage. hacked other systems around the country. there are three lessons. one is that all of us have an obligation to do better cyber hygiene. that means, don't click on a link you don't know. turn your phone off -- turn the power off so it resets once every 24 hours. do the upgrades. that's basic 101. two, we need to implement -- we passed a bill that became law a year ago that said when the private sector is hacked, tell the government. microsoft did that. not because we want to penalize somebody, but because 85% of the infrastructure is in the private sector. we need to share that. we have to warn other sectors in the private sector. it has taken five years to implement this bill, pass the law a year ago. that's crazy. we have to realize china and

russia -- but china is very aggressive on not only hacking into senior leadership, but they steal $500 billion a year of intellectual property. we have to engage with the chinese government. there are things we have to cooperate. but we do have to realize, this is -- communist party of china has a goal of trying to not only hurt our economy but in many ways hack into all of our systems. >> the timing of this is suspicious or auspicious because it happened, we believe, after the balloon incident in february and before the may efforts to try to restart relations where secretary blinken was getting ready to go. how does that affect us diplomatically when he is there today? >> i think the timing was actually -- the discovery was

into the june time frame. regardless, we have this dual track. there are things like climate change, things like how we deal with those nations in the global south who are in huge needs of debt relief, that we have to find a way. this is the world's second largest economy. we have to work with them. we need to understand the authoritarian regime of the chinese communist party wants to undermine the united states. they try to do it through hacking, stealing of intellectual property. i believe and have made the case that some of their technology applications like tiktok, they are collecting data on americans. they don't need to hack into somebody's file. they collect information. tools like tiktok can be used for misinformation, disinformation. we need to be conscious that this is a challenge. america spies as well. the nature of intelligence communities is nation state spy on each other.

china is so aggressive in a series of the technology domains outside the normal classical spying. we have seen this in the wireless communications with their huawei equipment provider. they are a worthy getter and in some case adversary. if they can gain more information from lacking the systems, they will do it. >> let's turn to moscow. a russian general says he was fired for telling the truth about the war in ukraine with a message to the troops i think on telegram which was verified by them, by parliament members there, that he said in the name of our fallen brothers in arms, i have no right to lie. i have outlined the troubles that exist today. this is more evidence of dissent in the ranks. do we know more about prigozhin?

>> the prigozhin issue of where and when or if he will turn up, we need to stay tuned. remember, prigozhin, as he launched his effort to take on the russian military leadership, he laid out in vivid detail how putin's invasion was not based on facts, that ukraine was never full of nazis or fascists, there had been no provocation. he told the truth. what will happen to prigozhin is a question. clearly, it shows a putin that is more and more removed. nobody wants to tell him the truth about what really is happening on the ground. i think we are seeing increasing instability in the senior russian leadership after prigozhin's activities. >> briefly, the president said today in finland that we don't know what's happened to prigozhin, but that he would be careful if he were prigozhin about what he eats or watch himself. >> i think -- >> do we have good intelligence

on the kremlin? >> i'm not going to talk about what kind of intelligence we have, what visibility we have. i will tell you that we were not engaged. let me reinforce that. in any efforts by prigozhin or others. i think it was curious when he was first reported going to belarus, this didn't come from intel, it came from open source reporting, that for a while prigozhin checked into the only hotel in minsk that didn't have open windows much whether that -- whether that was true or not, you do wonder about prigozhin -- how he will -- where he will be and how he will be a few months from now since putin called this guy a traitor. prigozhin led the hacking into our 2016 elections with the so-called internet research agency in st. petersburg.

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senator tuberville is opposed to the pentagon covering the cost for service members who may need to travel to another state now because of statewide bans. president biden blasting the republican senator when asked about it just this last hour in finland. >> he is jeopardizing u.s. security. i expect the republican party to stand up and do something about it. it is within their power to do that. the idea that we don't have a chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, that we have all these promotions that are in abeyance and we don't know what's going to happen, the idea that we are injecting into fundamental foreign policy decisions what, in fact, is a domestic social debate on social issues is bizarre. i don't recall that happening ever. it's just totally irresponsible, in my view.

>> joining us now is democratic senator jacky rosen of nevada. thank you for coming. this hold, it's not just the joint chiefs chairman. we don't have a senate confirmed marine commandant since the 1800s. that's how long it has been. it's pretty extraordinary, because as secretary austin was saying, this affects families, morale and readiness. families, if someone is not promoted, they can't move to the next post. therefore, their house, their base lodging is not vacated for the next team to come in, the next family to come in, children, schooling, spouses. >> i totally agree with you. they are literally over 250 promotions that are not being moved up. this really puts our readiness at stake. this puts our readiness in our domestic security, our national security and our global

security, because whether people can't move -- first of all, a lot of anxiety for the family. spouses or partners may be changing jobs, kids are changing schools. our adversaries are watching. people in these key positions with this knowledge of our national security, whether it's the marines, the army, our national security agencies, this puts us at extreme risk, at extreme vulnerability. senator tuberville is doing this for purely political reasons. we urge him to take off his hold. if he says he is a patriot, then he understands what this means, and he will remove his hold. >> in the house, there are amendments being put up on cultural issues, diversity, transgender troops as well as abortion, reproductive rights, so the defense appropriations bill is now bogged down in that. >> you know, i think this is inherently wrong. we have a national defense strategy. we have all of our servicemen and women in place to protect

our country. if everyone says they are a patriot, they will support our military and the mission they have to take care of us. we can have these discussions, these policy discussions that are domestic. but we need to have them in another space. >> i was to ask you also about the 2024 campaign because now you're up for re-election, and you've got a challenger, declared challenger in sam brown, former army captain. so how does this, you know, affect the politics back home? >> well, it's going to be a very crowded and messy primary because that's nevada. races are always tough. races are always tight, but let's be clear, i have tremendous respect for sam brown, his military service and his family's military service, but this race is going to be about policy, and what i can show is i'm in two top ten lists i'm very proud of. i'm one of the top ten most bipartisan senators, and i'm one of the top ten most effective

democratic senators. we've been delivering for nevada families when it comes to veterans. we're bringing a new veteran hospital to the reno area. we brought -- i brought the first veterans outreach center, business outreach center working with our newly formed veterans chamber of commerce to nevada, and we're working on veteran cybersecurity to protect their data and their information, and the most important, we passed -- i helped pass the pact act, so when it comes to veterans, we've been very busy delivering for them. this race is going to be about policy. all my opponents, extreme maga, they're outside the mainstream of nevada. they believe in the big lie. they believe in a nationwide abortion ban, and they believe in eliminating some of our agencies like the department of education. >> senator rosen, this is the first conversation on that of many to come, but thank you very much, and the defense bill of course front and center.

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airport mail facility, secretary of homeland security alejandro mayorkas laying out the agency's new plans to try to stop fentanyl from coming into the u.s. over the southern border and through the mail. with new technology, customs and borders protection is now able to scan the mail for fentanyl and test packages on site. nbc's homeland security correspondent julia ainsley joins me from queens, new york. surrounded by mail, boxes and boxes of mail, tell us about new technology. it sounds very exciting. >> yeah, andrea, i'm here outside -- or inside, rather, the u.s. postal facility just across the street from jfk airport. this is where packages and cargo from around the world are coming into this facility, and they have customs is border protection on site. i got to see new machines they're using where they actually teach machines using ai to detect fentanyl. fentanyl can be so potent in just a small amount. so they have to use this technology to very specifically target that fentanyl. if they get a hit they think

they might suspect fentanyl, they'll take it across this big warehouse to a lab they're just now bringing online to be able to test these packages right here at the site. it's something that secretary mayorkas got to see firsthand. he's just leaving now as you met the men and women conducting this test. fentanyl continues to be a huge problem across the u.s. and for some families who have already lost loved ones, it's too late. >> and tell us how this works, how can, you know, this equipment scan for fentanyl? >> reporter: well, it's interesting. i actually just got the opportunity to talk to secretary mayorkas, he talks about how the machines they have here are similar to ones they have at the border. right now there's been a switch in this trend. we used to see more fentanyl coming through the mail. now more of it's coming across the southern border. there are more details about how they're going after mexican

cartels, using ships to mexico being manufactured there and brought across the border. the same technology where they're able to tell the machines what you just detected was fentanyl. we want you to hit this again. they're able to use that on a bigger scale and with trucks coming through ports of entry at the u.s. border. they're building it out, they're making it bigger to try to stop the fentanyl that's coming into the united states, but as we said, it's an uphill battle, especially because it's so hard to get china on board, cooperate with them to get them to stop the source of these drugs in the first place, andrea. >> julia ainsley in queens, new york city, thank you. julia's going to have a lot more tonight on nbc "nightly news" so watch that. before i go i want to thank garrett haake for being here for me, and for filling in last night while i was flying home at the young survivor's league

softball game to raise more than half a million dollars for breast cancer between the women in the press corps and women in congress, the press corps won 9-5, a big victory for the press against congress. that does it for us for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." follow us online and on facebook @mitchellreports. chris jansing starts right now. good day, i'm chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. the danger signs are literally all around us, from catastrophic flooding and wildfires to punishing heat on an historic scale, the latest on the warn signs coming from planet earth itself, and what they tell us about what the future will look and feel like. plus, president biden just 120 miles from russia's border tells vladimir putin that even