d streamsaver with apple tv+, netflix and peacock included for only $15 a month... and stream all your favorite entertainment, all in one place. call (800) 378-9643. >> call now. >> what was it like when trump got elected? what was the mean? what was the reaction? do you think about ice coming to knock on your front door to you. >> for president trump's first 100 days? alex wagner travels to the story to talk with people most impacted by the policies. >> were you there. on january? >> i was. >> there on. >> january 6th. >> did it surprise you that you were fired, given how resolutely nonpartisan you have been? >> and for more in-depth reporting, follow her podcast. trumpland with alex wagner. >> well. >> i've been in my fair share of oval office meetings, but fortunately none quite like that one. most of the world has been reacting in horror to the way trump and vance berated ukraine's president on friday,

but not the kremlin. this morning, they said it all aligns with their vision. david remnick is the editor in chief of the new yorker and served as the washington post moscow bureau chief. michael mcfaul is the former u.s. ambassador to russia, and both of them joined me live in just a moment. plus, i'll ask senator mark kelly about his republican colleagues who are twisting themselves into pretzels to defend donald trump in this moment, as one of them actually decides to speak out. okay. well, we saw on friday in the oval office is one of those things. even if you had a crazy week, you almost definitely heard about, even if you don't follow the news closely, my bet is you heard something or saw something about what happened between donald trump, jd vance and vladimir zelensky. lots of people were appalled for good reason. vladimir putin was delighted, which tells you something. but it was something that the whole world kind of stopped and watched. i mean, in

the aftermath of that horror show, the uk and france felt the need to develop their own peace plan with ukraine that they will present to us. the front page of one of the biggest british conservative newspapers called trump a bully who is no longer welcome for his state visit. and here at home, protesters in vermont lined up to greet vice president jd vance, carrying signs with slogans like compassion is not transactional democracy, not fascism. and my personal favorite gucci and russia, jd. that's creative. but hey, guess at least someone was happy. kremlin spokesperson dmitry peskov came out and said today that trump's foreign policy, quote, largely coincides with our vision, a statement, by the way, that would have made the skin crawl of former republican leaders like john mccain and mitt romney and many others. well, let's just back up for a second, because there were some things that happened before friday, before that meeting on friday that just gave you a sense it was going to be a bonkers day at the white house.

i just want to focus on one of them, just for a moment, because i think it's telling, because earlier in the day, we started getting reports from journalists at the white house that a member of russian state media had gained access to that meeting in the oval office. we also learned that reuters and the associated press were left out. now, just to be clear, to put a fine point on this one, that means an outlet that literally takes direction from the kremlin briefly had access to a meeting between the sitting u.s. president and the president of the country that their bosses invaded. it also means two global wire services, known for reporting straight news around the world were denied access. and we know that decision to kick out the ap and reuters was made by the white house. and they made that decision, despite the fact that these outlets have been permanent members of what's known as the protective pool, which is basically a small group of reporters who are always there to witness things the president does to represent the larger press corps, no matter how big or how small the events are. now, the pool exists to ensure the media, and therefore the public, is protected from

missing out on an expected news story. this dates all the way back to eisenhower. i mean, the pool was there for the assassination attempt against ronald reagan. it was there on nine over 11. and the pool was there. when the president is on vacation, on any travel whatsoever. they're there for everything, and they're there for everything. because at any moment, news can happen. and having journalists present to ask questions of the president is very much in the public interest. but the trump administration obviously sees things very differently. they don't want outlets. they're focused on reporting the actual news. they want outlets that will report mainly, only primarily the version of the news they want, the way they want it reported, which sounds remarkably russian, by the way, doesn't it? and so on friday, it looked like the ap and reuters were out and a russian propaganda outlet was in. now, after that news broke, the white house claimed that this russian reporter was not on the approved list of reporters and said they were being kicked out. and do mistakes happen with pools? i can tell you they definitely

happen with pools. sure they do, but it feels like one heck of a coincidence given the context, doesn't it? i mean, the only reporter who was able to sneak in happened to be from a russian outlet during donald trump's meeting with the president of ukraine. again, consider the context because a russian reporter being accidentally let in while ap and reuters are kicked out is also right in line with everything they were doing before friday. i mean, it's also in line with what they were doing back in 2017. remember when trump met with russia's foreign minister and ambassador in the white house, and just so happened to reveal highly classified information to them? well, the only reason we saw images of that meeting was because a russian photographer took photos that were released by the very same outlet that was briefly in the oval on friday. what we saw on friday was also in line with what they were doing earlier in the week. to take a look at this headline. from tuesday, white house moves to pick the pool reporters who cover trump. again, that means choosing much friendlier outlets to cover the president. and i guess for a moment on friday, it could have also meant looking

the other way. while russian state media wandered into the oval office. when you try to control the media like that, when you try to control who is covering your events at all, you're pretty obviously trying to avoid scrutiny and just put on a show instead. so on friday, donald trump put on his show, and even though that russian reporter was discovered and kicked out, trump's buddy vladimir putin still got the show that he wanted. because over the course of nearly an hour, donald trump and jd vance berated the president of a country that is fighting for its survival and unloaded talking points that the kremlin could have scripted themselves. i've been in the oval office for countless meetings between u.s. presidents and world leaders and many other meetings, and i have never seen anything remotely close to what we saw on friday, the very end of the show. trump reminded us what it was all about. >> this is going to be great television, i will say that. >> this is going to be great television. there it is. it's

all a show. never mind all the people in ukraine. never mind the europeans. and maybe, as some have speculated, that show is some kind of premeditated ambush. a setup cloaked as a pool spray, an excuse to abandon ukraine. or maybe that show was designed for trump to seem rough and strong by screaming at zelensky, even though real strength is, of course, not bullying and bigfooting. it's standing up for what's right. that's actual strength. or maybe that show was just a big old gift to his pal vladimir putin. maybe that was it. maybe it was all the above. but whatever the intention, it's clearly part of an ongoing effort by the trump administration to control the narrative, to avoid accountability. so only let the public see a sliver. and it's all what they want them to see. and i want you to keep that in mind when you listen to this exchange from friday's meeting. >> why don't you wear a suit? >> why don't you. >> wear a suit? >> you're the highest. level in this. >> country's office. >> and you refuse to wear a suit. just want to.

>> see if you own a suit. >> that was actually a thing that happened. that is footage from the. from the press, from the event in the oval office on friday. and that hard hitting question came from a host from the far right cable channel real america's voice. his name is brian glenn. and for what it's worth, he also happens to be dating republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, who congratulated him for that question about the suit. now, by choosing to put that guy in that room and by allowing a russian reporter to find his way in the room earlier, however, that happened. that's exactly the kind of question trump wanted to hear. that's exactly the show that donald trump wanted to put on. david remnick is the editor in chief of the new yorker and the former moscow bureau chief for the washington post. michael mcfaul is the former u.s. ambassador to russia, and they both join me. now. i can't think of two better people to help us understand what just happened on friday. let me start with you, david. i mean, i, i want to start by just getting your reaction to what you saw on friday. you've covered how many

meetings in the united states, in moscow and other places around the world. what were you thinking when you were watching that? >> i've never seen anything like this. it's absolutely unprecedented. and carried out if this if this goes in the direction that it seems to be going, this meeting will be remembered as a moral and a strategic disaster initiated by the president of the united states and his vice president. and it had all the uplift and spectacle of a mugging. this was this didn't happen by accident. former vice presidents and presidents don't don't pull off something like this spontaneously. they waited to the last question. it was apropos of almost nothing. the vice president got immediately in the face of zelensky and asked him, demanded why didn't he thank him enough? and zelensky had thanked the united states over and over again, including in this meeting in

private and in public. it was under totally false pretenses. it was a performance of the most of a vile kind. and what are the consequences? the consequences are the possibility that the united states, after 80 years, is going, in a sense, to switch sides to the autocracy, to the to the dictator vladimir putin, and leave behind europe to its own devices, not just ukraine, but europe itself. thankfully, in europe today, you've seen the leadership in france and in britain do its best to clean up after the elephant. the united states, it is. it's a shameful spectacle and i have a hard time believing that it will end there as, just as something of little consequence. it's going to have great ramifications. >> and i want to get into the substance of this, what i think is so important to discuss. ambassador mcfaul, though i think we've heard the speculation, david just mentioned that it was a setup. it felt like a bit of a setup.

what do you think? and to what end? what do you think they're trying to achieve here? >> well, they were trying to achieve messaging to their base. vice president vance is running for president. just as he did at the munich security conference ten days ago or so, i was there. that speech was a campaign speech for his base and insulted the entire continent of europe. and this was designed for that. and this this incredibly insulting. why don't you thank us? again with david, i just it was so embarrassing to me as an american. i just want to say that publicly. this is not the way our leaders have ever behaved. i've been in meetings with our former boss, jen, that got heated from time to time with leaders, including with russian leaders, but it was behind closed doors. and that's the way diplomacy is supposed to take place. and the fact that this took place with the cameras rolling suggests that it was for the cameras. and one last thing

on the. thank you. why don't you thank us? i want to remind everybody that this team, trump and vance, has done absolutely nothing for president zelensky and the ukrainian people. the american people. yes. thank you, thank you, thank you. you said that a thousand times. but what have they done? they've told him he has to give up his territory. they told him he can't join nato. they told him americans will not participate in a peacekeeping force. they have not given new assistance. and by the way, the last package of assistance, they're party delayed for six months while ukrainians were being slaughtered on the battlefield. and senator vance voted against that package. so why in god's name should they be be seeking a thank you from president zelensky? now, i want to say it ended badly for everyone. i think the ukrainians regret this meeting, too. i hope they can get it back on track. but i'm not optimistic because i don't

think fundamentally trump cares about a peace deal. he cares about his relationship with putin. whether there's peace in ukraine or not is entirely a secondary or tertiary concern of his. >> david, let me ask you about the kind of the what next of this? all because there are reports over the course of the last 24 hours, the europeans are going to present a plan. obviously, the united states has long been a huge provider of security equipment, financial assistance. what what are what are the european? what are they capable? what do they have the capacity to do and what gaps can they fill? will they'll still be big ones here. >> well, the europeans have great wealth, and it's quite possible that they're going to kick in even more. and it should be said that they have contributed, contributed mightily in the effort to hold off the russians so far. it shouldn't be discounted at all. and the united states also, we haven't mentioned why there was a meeting in the first place in washington. the trump

administration was basically extorting the ukrainians, saying, we want half your mineral wealth. nice country you got there. that deal ultimately did not get signed, not least because zelensky was kicked out of the white house unceremoniously. it's just one humiliation after another. and this, this. it should be noted that volodymyr zelensky will be counted in the annals of history as an immense hero and not just a hero to his own people, the ukrainians, but a hero to what we call the west, the free world. he is right. he never demanded that the united states send troops. he never demanded the europeans send troops. he asked for as much assistance as he could get, even as he was watching tens of thousands of his citizens being killed on the battlefield. and the other dynamic here is the opponent of vladimir putin has seen hundreds of thousands. we don't know the

exact casualty rate, but certainly several hundred thousand have been killed and wounded and combined, we don't know. again, we don't know the exact numbers, but the damage to his people is immense. and here's the punch line. he does not care. he is willing to put as much meat into the meat grinder as it takes to subdue and conquer ukraine, because he sees that as his historical duty. he wants to reestablish a greater russia in the 19th century sense. and he's willing to let as much blood flow as possible. that's the dynamic here. >> ambassador mcfaul, we kind of saw i mean, dmitri peskov, you're very familiar with him. i'm very we're all very familiar with him, the three of us. but he came out and said today that the trump administration's foreign policy largely coincides with our vision. that, to me was a pretty chilling statement to hear from him, a longtime spokesperson for vladimir putin.

how did you read those comments? how should people read them? >> i'm so glad you put that up and acknowledge that. yes, i used to deal with mr. peskov. he used to talk about you, jen, back in the day. >> he. >> hello there. dimitri. if you're watching. yes. >> he chooses his words very, very carefully. they all do. ushakov. lavrov there chose his words carefully and note what he said. he didn't say. oh, i'm glad that u.s. russian relations are on to a new, new footing based on win win outcomes, right? the kind of normal diplomatic thing you might hear even from, like, chinese leaders. no, what he said is trump is adopting our side, our worldview. in other words, he's talking about capitulation. we're coming over to their side. and i think this is really important for the american people to focus on. so let's just even leave aside what's good for ukraine or not. and let's talk about what's good for america. what happened on friday was not good for the united

states of america. it isolates us. it's not america. great. it's america alone. and this play to try to be friends with vladimir putin will end in disaster, because putin has no love for our country. he hates our country. he wants to destroy our country. he wants to destroy the free world that david was talking about. and he sees trump as a useful instrument for that. he's not going to abandon xi jinping. this crazy idea that some are floating, he's going to come to our camp. that is entirely hogwash. and i think the american people need to understand just how dangerous this is for us, not just for ukraine, but for america's long term national security interests. >> david remnick and ambassador michael mcfaul a little dark conversation, but important for people to hear. thank you so much for joining me this morning. coming up, senator mark kelly joins me after meeting face to face with president zelensky this week. but first,

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my time working for two presidents, watching republican republicans in that oval office. but i wanted to start by just asking you about that meeting with zelensky. you attended, attended by a bipartisan group. what was that like, and what was the response in the private room to him? >> well, jen, i. think we all have a. >> little. >> bit of. >> ptsd. >> even though we weren't. >> in the oval. >> office meeting. right. i think all of us. >> you know, a lot of. >> people across. >> the country, collectively. i the contrast. >> between the two. meetings was. >> quite remarkable with zelensky. >> that morning. i think there were about ten, maybe a dozen. >> of us democrats and republicans. >> it was very constructive. i would i would say one of. the most interesting things about it was that at the beginning of the meeting, the chairman. >> of the armed. >> services committee. >> roger wicker. >> senator from. >> mississippi. >> asked the cameras. >> to leave. and then we. >> got down. >> to business. so lenski. >> as he. >> always is, this guy. >> is habitually.

>> thankful to. >> the american. >> people, to the united states congress. >> to the president. >> so it was constructive. not a single one of us expected what happened in the oval office to happen. and i have to say that was a mistake. i think it was a miscalculation. >> by. >> the president. bullying an ally of ours makes us look weak. and when we. >> are. >> weak, we are less safe. the american people should make no mistake about that. >> what happened in the oval. >> office was a. >> complete and utter. >> disaster, and. >> it puts. >> us in a much worse situation, not only with the russians and the ukrainians, but with our european allies. and i hope we can repair repair it. there are people in that. room that i think are responsible adults. they weren't speaking out. marco rubio, i voted for him. he got strong bipartisan support in the senate. i wish he would have

said something. mike waltz. the same. i think he spoke a little bit in. >> the room. but i. >> think it's going to be up to them and other folks in the. >> administration like them. to try. >> to put this back together. >> let me ask you about i mean, secretary rubio was one of the biggest defenders of ukraine and supporting ukraine for many, many years. he looked very uncomfortable in that meeting. but none of us know what was exactly going on in his head. have you or other colleagues reached out to him, or are you hopeful that he'll reach out to you all to explain where he stands on this, at this moment? >> i don't expect him to reach out. i did send a text message to mike waltz after the meeting, you know, encouraging him to, you know, stay engaged on this and try to fix this. i, you know, i feel horrible for ukrainians. vladimir putin is. murdering their citizens, raping

women, stealing children. and he goes into that office. >> into a. >> into a. >> press conference before the deal is signed. i mean, it. >> seems to me. that trump doesn't maybe. >> he doesn't want a deal. i think one of. >> the things he said that is rather instructive in the middle of that meeting, he says, putin went. through a lot of hell with me or something to that effect. and i don't quite understand why donald trump feels that, you know, that's something you would say as a combat veteran with your brothers in arms, that that this was hell or we went through hell together. and he seems to have that kind of relationship with putin. and i don't get that. >> putin is a dictator. >> this entire situation has made us less safe as a country. and you know who is watching this, jen? the chinese are

watching. >> i mean. >> us standing with. >> the. >> democracy, standing with ukraine, standing with our allies, you know, makes us safer. the chinese are looking at this in how they're going to one day, you know, handle the situation as they view it with taiwan. and if they don't think we can stick together with our allies, that might be all they need to take the next steps. >> this is such an important point. the europeans are also moving forward with trying to come up with a plan without the united states leaving, leading it, which is also something significant to watch. let me ask you, because part of what needs to happen here is there needs to be bipartisan support in congress in order to provide additional assistance. senator graham is another senator who has long been a strong supporter of ukraine, who was critical even of the obama administration when i was working for them of not doing more. he came out and essentially ran to the cameras and called for zelensky to resign. what do you make of that? and how disappointed are

you? >> very disappointed. surprised it happened. lindsey graham has always been a big defender of ukraine, as obviously john mccain was. and they were very close and they worked on a lot of this stuff together. and for him to jump in there with the president in this, what what feels to me like we like the united states suddenly switched sides in this conflict. we've never done anything like this before. so i'm disappointed in some. >> of my republican. >> colleagues, but not all of them. lisa murkowski put out a statement last night and, you know, and very plainly said why this is important to the united states, that we fix this. and sounded like she was rather disgusted about what happened in the oval office. >> senator mark kelly, let's hope there's more like her, even privately. thank you so much for joining us. it's really

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people you don't know. okay. so using that logic, let's just take a look at what musk has done. cancer research. apparently that's a waste, even if it's for nine over 11 firefighters, still a waste. how about medicaid health coverage? you know, for people in or near the poverty level, apparently that's both fraud and waste. spending money to try to hire more veterans. well, that's a d-i program, according to musk. so that's a waste, too. and it also seems that a lot of the so-called waste is in the agencies that just happen to be overseeing or investigating the companies that elon musk runs. just consider what's been on the chopping block so far. the folks setting rules around self-driving cars. well, that's a big business project for musk. he calls that waste and gave them a 50% cut. the national highway traffic safety administration investigating car safety and crashes, and recalling cars like, say, 2 million teslas back in 2023. i

guess they're a waste. he gave them a 10% cut, working to make sure that neuralink brain implants are safe. apparently, those folks are a waste since now they're gone. the folks at usda working to make sure neuralink's animal experiments that have killed over 1000 animals follow rules against animal cruelty. looks like musk says that's a waste, too. the inspector general at the defense department investigating whether it's okay for musk not to disclose any foreign government ties before taking on a bigger role in national defense. you're not going to be shocked here. but elon musk thinks that's obviously a waste. so as random as these cuts may seem, it's striking how well they also serve his bottom line. it's pretty ironic, given that musk basically owes his success to the federal government. the washington post reported that at least $38 billion of your dollars have propped up musk's businesses for about two decades. yes, you, the american taxpayer, were a crucial early investor who saved a struggling tesla and a struggling spacex.

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former domestic policy adviser to president joe biden. i could ask you about every policy issue on the planet, but i just wanted to start. i mean, you and i have seen each other, but i haven't talked to you about how you've been digesting what musk and trump have been doing over the last several weeks. what concerns you the most? >> well, i think it's obvious that this is a massive effort at corruption by elon musk, as you pointed out, how much he's gaining just his own personal wealth from what he's doing. obviously, this is a huge conflict of interest, but i think what's most important is to remember is what the impact on the american people are. when we have air traffic controllers, staff who are really there to ensure that your pilot does not fall asleep when you fire those people, you and i are less safe. your family is less safe when you fire people who deal with drug shortages at hhs, at

probably agencies, you don't even know what they do. that means that the american people will find it harder to access drugs needed medications. so as i look through the federal government, what i am really worried about, and it's heartbreaking, these stories about federal workers. but the thing that we should all be really worried about is how those how those public servants were protecting our families, our children from measles outbreaks, from air, from, you know, just accidents on the freeway. and this wrecking ball approach is one where you know, it's going to be okay for elon musk because he has a private jet. for those of us who are just flying normally, who actually drive ourselves on on the roads and bridges of america, we are getting less and less safe. and i think that's what's really crucial about all of this, which is, again, the

federal government does many, many things, but just basic protection to you and your family is a critical role. >> let me ask you, you know so much about the inner workings of government. you're a nerd. i'm a nerd. welcome, nerds. is there anything. >> more than elon musk? >> well, that's true. what i was going to ask you about is what in the system of the federal government, yes, trump is in the white house, but can prevent him from doing this stuff. we've seen the courts take steps. is there anything else in kind of the checks and checks within the federal bureaucracy that can prevent him from benefiting so much financially, from getting as much access to people's data as we're seeing? >> yeah, i think absolutely, the courts have to play a central role here. unfortunately. one, you know, our systems do rely on leaders who have the broad public interest in mind. and if they are actually empowering an oligarch to basically derive wealth from the federal government, it is really the courts that can take action. of

course, as we look forward to how we, the congress, deals with the government shutdown, i think it's crucial that there are aspects of that. there are protections to ensure that actually, congress still has the power to appropriate. i mean, stepping back this entire what elon musk is doing is taking the decision making power from the congress and giving it to himself and the president. and it's crucial that if we're going to actually have a functioning government and constitutional checks and balances, that we actually have a congress that does that. and again, it's really not about the bureaucracy or this service. it's really about protecting the public from an operation in which we just ignore basic protections for people. >> congress. i mean, democrats are in the minority in the house and the senate, which gives them limitations on what they can do. you've been in this town for a long time. i have been to what are you when you're watching? what's happening? what are you

screaming at the tv saying, why don't you do this? please, can you do this? maybe you're calling people up to what do you wish the democrats were doing? >> look, i understand everyone is angry. and it's really not just angry. it's fearful. i mean, people are scared. people in this town are scared not just for their livelihoods, but what it means to protect other people. and i understand that fear and anger. i also think we have to recognize that the single most important check on donald trump today is a republican party that is willing to hold him accountable. i absolutely think that democrats should ensure that republicans produce the votes they need themselves to fund the government and take strong stands on, actually, the constitutional order. but let's just remember that thom tillis is senator from north carolina. he's up in two years. he's acting like there is no there are no democrats in north carolina. he's he's supported kash patel. he kind of did a 360

degree on pete hegseth in a really disturbing way. it's you can hold people like that accountable. we can actually call make calls to republicans. i think it's important that we recognize, like we did, you know, years ago with defending the affordable care act. that pressure does work. a lot of number of republicans, not just in the senate but in the house, voted against that. the affordable care act repeal, because america stood up, woke up and actually said, no. >> this is such an important reminder. there's also governors races this year. there's lots of things coming up. neera tanden, thank you so much for joining me. it was really great to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> coming up, a sneak peek at two brand new episodes of the blueprint coming up tomorrow. blueprint coming up tomorrow. we'll be right back. (vo) what happens when one of the most famous dunkers of all time goes to the greatest lobsterfest of all time? (blake griffin) i make red lobster famous. (vo) no blake, dunking happens. (blake griffin) yeah, you're right. (vo) create your own lobster lover's dream

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in the world. >> it's unbelievable. so yeah, that that drives me nuts. >> you know. >> because you. >> you see, i. >> mean, it's you. >> live with people. >> who are are struggling. >> and i think in a lot of ways he. >> he has forgotten. >> where he came from. >> and the. people that that are still out there struggling. >> he knows how. to use it as a. >> tagline or a punchline or, you know, a talking point. but i. >> don't think he. >> remembers exactly the, you. >> know. >> kind of. pain that people are still going through. those new episodes with tim ryan and stacey abrams will be available tomorrow wherever you get your podcasts. that does it for me today, but stay right where you are because there's much more news coming up on msnbc. >> on this new hour of ayman. europe comes to ukraine's defense after that oval office debacle between zelensky and trump. jeffrey sachs helps us make sense of what is going on, and we're going to talk about the next p