i'm going to cede to my colleague, david gura. >> i'm david gura. the blame game. as thousands of migrant children remain in shelters separated from their parents, president trump continues to point the finger at democrats for breaking up families, a situation entirely of his own creation. >> i hate the children being taken away. the democrats have to change their law. that's their law. the democrats forced that law upon our nation. i hate it. >> we're going to go live to the u.s./mexico border. behind bars, former trump campaign chairman paul manafort sent to jail over witness tampering and hillary clinton said james comey also used personal e-mail to conduct official fbi business. but let's begin with immigration. president trump again pointing the finger at democrats for not working with republicans on immigration, writing this today on twitter. "democrats can fix their forced family breakup at the border by working with republicans on new legislation for a change. this is why we need more republicans elected in november. democrats are good at only three things,

>>> i'm david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. the battle at the border. more than 11,000 children living at government shelters, part of the administration's zero tolerance policy that separates undocumented children from their parents. >> many of these mothers have been there in detention, various detention facilities for over a month. not a one of them had spoken to their children. >> i hate the children being taken away. the democrats have to change their law. that's their law. >> democrats and republicans outraged by what they've seen and heard, but president trump is using this as leverage. paul, we hardly knew ye, or so says the president, who is trying to distance himself from his former campaign manager. paul manafort woke up in a rural virginia jail. and rudy giuliani walking back comments on who could be pardoned when the russia investigation concludes. in the six weeks since the trump administration began enforcing the policy, more than 2,000 children have been separated from their families after crossing the southern border. that's led to an o

i'm david gura.w today, u.s. secretary of defense james mattis said sanctions relief is off the table for north korea for now. he was in singapore ahead of the summit between president trump and kim jong-un outlining the u.s. position to his japanese and south korean counterparts. >> we can anticipate at best a bumpy road to the negotiations. north korea will receive relief, only when it demonstrates a verifiable and irreversible steps to denuclearization. >> we're now nine dayeds away from the june 12th summit in singapore. john hudson was one of the reporters who was there in singapore watching the summit planning take place. he landed back in d.c. hours ago. he covers national security for the "washington post" and joins me now. thank you for coming in on such little sleep, i imagine, john. you were there -- >> good to be here. >> what do the preparations look like on the ground? we heard the kdeputy chief for the white house has been in singapore beginning to hammer out what the talks are going t

i'm david gura. the outcry against the policy on immigration comes after a roller coaster week on capitol hill. on tuesday, a federal judge issued a nationwide injunction, forbidding the department of homeland security from separating migrant families at u.s. borders. it ordered the reunification of the 2,047 children still separated. i'll repeat that, 2,047 children still separated from their pare parents, within a 30-day period. on tuesday, the supreme court gave the president one of his biggest legal victories yet, uploading the third version of his controversial travel ban, targeting muslim-majority countries. on the hill, a bill was voted down in the house of representatives. joining me now iswin wine-banks, a former prosecutor, along with the political editor at the "atlantic." jill, i'll start with you and this injunction. this was something we were focused on last weekend. just read a little here from the judge on that decision. she talked about how the facts set forth by the court, before th

i'm david gura.en days away from that on again/off again june 12th summit in singapore between the u.s. and north korea. it is on now. a minute mini summit of sorts off on thursday. followed on friday with president trump hosting kim in the oval office, that included the delivery of this giant sized left from kim jon and a 90-minute meeting with president trump, the effort resealing the deal for that official summit. >> we're meeting with the chairman on june 12th, and i think it probably going to be a every successful -- ultimately a successful process. we'll see. >> president trump characterized that june 12th meeting as a beginning and confirmed that the u.s. will not sign an agreement with north korea at that time. before any of the meetings got under way this week, the white house communications department on monday released this trip coin to commemorate the summit. we're waiting for that coin there, john. let me jump in and ask you about something i read in "the new york times" about david sang

i'm david gura.ith the singapore summit focused on north korea's nuclear program, what are the capabilities of those weapons? u.s. intelligence officials estimate that north korea has between 30 and 60 warheads in the country's atomic arsenal. to date north korea has conducted six knee clear tests since october 2006. four of them were conducted under kim jong-un's leadership. in july 2017 north korea fired its first land-based intercontinental little bit aa missile which flew for 37 minutes and landed in the korean peninsula. experts say the ballistic missile launch put alaska within reach. >>> today there's not much we know about what the u.s. wants and what north korea wants. the big question is whether kim jong-un is willing to give up his weapons. john park, from the harvard kennedy school. patricia kim, nuclear security fellow at the council on foreign relations. we were just speaking about ambassador wendy sherman about the term "denuclearization." how much of this is just ensuring that the u.s

my colleague, david gura, picks it up from here. >> thanks, richard. >>> i'm david gura, everybody, heremsnbc headquarters in new york. >>> still waiting, many of the migrant children separated from their parents because of the white house's tough immigration policy remain parrot four days after president trump ordered families to be re-united. >>> the resistance. more protests and rallies along the u.s.-mexico

i'm david gura. more intrigue in the russia investigation today. here is how a new story begins in the "washington post." photo. one day in late may 2016, roger stone, the political dark sourcerer and long-time confidant of donald trump, slipped into his jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a "make america great again" hat and a vicious russian accent. that man identified himself as henry greenberg. according to roger stone, he offered dirt on hillary clinton with a $2 million price tag. roger stone tells "the washington post" the conversation did not go anywhere but it is of interest to special counsel robert mueller and his team. joining me now, charlie savage, "washington post" for "the new york times." barbara mcquaid, former u.s. attorney and now the university of michigan law school. charlie, help me make sense of this story. it is a thorny one to be sure. tell us a little bit about who henry greenberg is and what he was proffering? >> this is a fascinating story as "the washington post" ro

i'm david gura.resident trump making it loud and clear he wants undocumented immigrants who illegally enter the country to be sent back without due process. this is what he wrote on twitter, and it is extraordinary. quote, we cannot allow all of these people to invade our country. when somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no judges or court cases, bring them back from where they came. our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and law and order. most children come without parents. our immigration policy laughed at all over the world is very unfair to all those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting online for years. immigration must be based on merit. we need people who will help to make america great again. some legal perspective on this from danny cevallos, an msnbc legal analyst. jill wine banks, former watergate prosecutor who has years of working on immigration law. jill, the president seemingly unaware of the process of asylum, that people flee their cou

we asked nbc's david gura to get some insights from those who have dealt with the north koreans before. >> reporter: madeleine albright remembers months of prep for meetings with the current leader's father. president clinton sent his secretary of state to pyongyang to help him decide whether to travel there himself. >> you really do do a lot of work. the intelligence community is always very important in terms of giving you a picture of what the person was like. >> reporter: but north korea is the most isolated country in the world. and intelligence reports only tell you so much. secretary albright says some things you just can't prepare for. >> i'm standing next to him, and we're the same height. and i had on high heels. then i looked over, and so did he. >> reporter: something else surprised secretary albright, when she sat down with kim jong-il. >> one could have really very substantive discussions with him. >> how are you, my friend? >> reporter: ambassador bill richardson has traveled to north korea eight times. >> they're very disciplined. they know exactly where they want to be

tripadvisor. >>> welcome back, i'm david gura.nt trump once again playing the role of disruptor in chief, this time with u.s. allies at the g7 summit in quebec, canada. after arriving late to a breakfast discussion on gender equality, the president shaking things up with regards to russia to the group of global economic leaders. >> this used to be the g8, not the g7 and something happened where russia is no longer in. i think it would be an asset to have russia back in. >> the president spoke about trade and tariffs. >> well, if they retaliate, they're making a mistake because, you see, we have a tremendous trade imbalance. when we try and bring our piece up a little bit so that it's not so bad and then they go up, right, the difference is they do so much more business with us than we do with them that we can't lose that. >> joining us is josh barrow. peppered throughout his comments this morning was this through line of trade and tariffs and the folks on the trade deficit. square that with what he's saying about inverting the int

. >>> welcome back, i'm david gura.e new york times" releasing a report just moments ago in a confidential memo to robert mueller president trump's lawyer claim the president's presidential power can exempt him from being called to testify. you've been talking to rudy giuliani, trying to get some sense of the thinking that the president's legal team has vis-a-vis this interview, this sitdown with the robert mueller team. let me get your reaction to what the times has put up, all 20 pages with annotations. what's your reaction to it? >> we've seen for months the actions they've taken to discredit mueller, even today tweeting this is a costly pursuit, even as the mueller investigation racks up indictments and gives no suggestion it's going to wind down any time soon. but what this letter is in black and white provides the legal underpinnings of what the trump legal team has been telling us for months, that the president could not illegally obstruct any investigation, let alone the russia investigation, because the constit

i'm david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. it is noon out west. 3:00 p.m. here on the east coast. we begin with an outcry from the voices of the people from across our nation, gathering in more than 700 cities today to oppose president trump's zero tolerance immigration policy, which separates migrant children from their parents at u.s. borders. even as the marches and protests take place, more than 2,000 children remain separated from their families. 2,000. want to reiterate the number. 2,047. as for president trump, he has not weighed in yet on the protests, but he has weighed in on i.c.e., vowing to protect it from efforts to abolish the agency, and implying democrats will go after the police next. we've got reporters fanned out across the country. my leagucolleague, garrett haak in washington, d.c. cal perry is in el paso, texas. we begin out west with mariana in los angeleangeles. john legend speaking now. let's take a listen. >> it means we treat asylum seekers with compassion. we don't seek to punish them for trying to do what's right for their famil

i'm david gura.isting again that russia be admitted to the g7, making it the g8 once again. that was shortly before the president left the g7 summit early to travel to meet with kim jong un. joining me, maxine waters. let me start with the call from president trump saying the g7 would be stronger if it were the g8. >> i think americans should find it curious why the president advocates so much for putin and russia. why is it that at every turn he promote them? this is a country who hacked into our dnc, undermined our k electoral system and yet their biggest promoter is the united states of america. i think it's more than curious. i believe this president has an agreement with russia and with putin to lift the sanctions, and i think the president thought it was going to be easier than it has been for him to do that. but i think he's continuing to send a message to putin that he's with him, that he's looking out for him and that he's going to get there. this business of wanting putin involved in the su

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i'm going to cede to my colleague, david gura. >> i'm david gura. the blame game.rant children remain in shelters separated from their parents, president trump continues to point the finger at democrats for breaking up families, a situation entirely of his own creation. >> i hate the children being taken away. the democrats have to change their law. that's their law. the democrats forced that law upon our nation. i hate it. >> we're going to go

my friend david gura up next. handing over the reins on msnbc. how are you? >> good.on. >>> good afternoon. from msnbc headquarters in new york, 500 million children reunited with parents. what about the other 1,800? the process is difficult to manage. >>> plus, red tide. moderate republicans are scrapping together every vote they can to pass an immigration bill, and the president just lob add bomb into that process. you've heard of the blue wave. he's telling them to wait for the red wave in the midterms. >>> and major overhaul. the white house wants to take the departments of education and the department of labor and make them one. so what would that mean for our kids' education and for the workforce? >>> new uncertainty and confusion among migrant families separated at the u.s./mexico border. many parents don't know where their children are and when, or

i'm david gura. you can join me tomorrow at 2:00 and 3:00 p.m. eastern time. you can follow me any time on twitter @-david gura. >> you have a good one. hello i'm richard lui: thanks for joining us on this saturday. following two major stories this hour. under the banner of families belong together. that is till happening today across the country. dam straiters are demanding migrant children be immediately reunited with the parents and they're taking to the streets. protests held in more than 600 cities in all 50 states. meanwhile, we're also following the latest out of bnew jersey where president trump is preparing for a battle. he's going to be interviewing supreme court candidates this weekend while pledging an announce the on july 9. we'll start with the immigration protests. we have correspondents fanned out. sitting here with us in studio, as we are going to be covering it over the next hour or two. we want to start in minneapolis. a reporter for the star tribune joins us on the phone. what are you seeing? >> reporter: hi, richard. there are quite a lot

. >>> to talk about a little bit of what we just heard, msnbc's david gura joins me. david, you know obviously the business world, foxconn world very well. the president wants to tout this as a big success story. what's the story with foxconn who only know it as having something to do with their eye phones? >> they make the liquid crystal displays on your iphones and other smartphones. back a year ago the president was casting about looking for big investments in manufacturing in the u.s. this was a gigantic one. i don't think we've had a state incentive package as this one before. talking $3 billion then. it's crept up a little bit since then to $4 billion. in state incentives. but the president said this will be a huge factory if it is accomplished. $10 billion in total, 20 million square feet. there is a lot of promise that's here. i noted as the president talked about what it is going to be, the big question is how fast can this be built, when will it be open, will it live up to all the expectations placed upon it by the president and his cabinet as well? >> what i

i'm david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york. this saturday. 72 hours after president trump signed that executive order to reunite them. there is the practical question, how do you reunite these families and then there's the political question. is congress ever going to pass immigration reform. >>> cruel intentions. what was the real thinking behind the administration's immigration policy. >>> table for none. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders asked to leave a restaurant because she works for president trump. >>> president trump about to dive head-first into the midterms as he flips back and forth on immigration. he is spending the day in las vegas campaigning for a vulnerable republican senator. the president trying to move past the fallout over the separation of migrant families. three days after that executive order, nearly 2,000 children

i'm david gura for alex witt. three senators visited a holding facility in texas yesterday.they were not allowed inside. nbc's cal perry joins us now from torneo, texas. what can you tell us about that visit. we know it's the place where the so-called tent city is located. that facility for young men ages 16 and 17, young migrant men ages 16 to 17, what did the senators say about their visit there yesterday? >> well actually the tent city is behind me. it's on that compound that you see over my shoulder. but it's been built in a way that it's out of view. of the media. we cannot get any decent shots of it really from where we are. it's not just being kept out of view of the media. it's being kept out of view from elected officials as well. those three senators, udall, hinrich came here to try to pressure authorities to let them see the tents. they came here, spoke to the media. they walked to the gate behind me. they had an interaction with homeland security. then they were allowed onto the compound, but they were taken into a control room, david and shown some cctv footage

. >>> good morning, i'm david gura in for alex witt at msnbc world headquarters in new york.s :00 in the east, 6:00 out west and here's what's happening. where are they and what's being done to get hundreds of migrant children back into the arms of their parents? live reports on the chaos from the u.s./mexico border. >>> and the president pointing to what he calls waves of migrants as a security threat. and the report about michael cohen and his connection to a tabloid during the 2016 campaign. >>> we begin with a live picture of the white house. any moment now, president trump scheduled to leave for las vegas for events with nevada's republican party. he lives for the trip amid fallout over his separation policy and his row luck tans to end it on thursday. fresh insight into what led president trump to retreat on that policy. and the confusion his executive order created between the justice department and the department of homeland security. meanwhile, the administration is reportedly trying to figure out how to reunite more families through a nowly-formed task force, accord

. >>> hi, everybody, i'm david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york.ated meeting is back on. but new questions today about kim jong un's personal letter to donald trump. >> i think it's going to be a process. >> the russia investigation shines a spotlight on a new person of interest. why jared kushner should be

i'm david gura. i will be back at 2:00 tomorrow afternoon and hand things over to aaron gilchrist. congratulations to your caps. >> the party's never over in d.c. thank you, sir. appreciate it. see you tomorrow. hello everyone i'm aaron gilchrist. heart break at the border. 2,000 children separated from the parents in just six weeks and president trump is till blaming democrats for his own policy. are these kids nothing more than bargaining chips? >> i hate the children being taken away. the democrats have to change their law. that's their law. >> if you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you. and that child may be separated from you as required by law. >> smoke signals. as paul manafort spends his first full day behind bars, rudy giuliani says the russia investigation could get cleaned up with pardons. is he sending a message? truth lies and the president. we're counting the many ways president trump made false statements during his impromptu with reporters on friday. >> there is no seeming consequence to the president and lies. and if we accept that as a society, it is

as i toss to my good friend david gura, let's put up a picture from canada.a picture worth a thousand words? particularly the president's

. >>> hey, everybody, i'm david gura at msnbc headquarters in new york.age secret memo from president trump's lawyers to robert mueller, revelations

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i'm david gura. many of the 2,300 mig grant children separated from parents at the border sent to temporary housing across the country. there are 100 sheltsers in 17 states run by the department of health and human services's one reporter got a rare look inside another facility for unaccompanied immigrant in florida. joining me live, catie beck. big questions throughout the entire story. a huge one, where are the migrant girls? as i understand it, you have insight from the tour you took today? >> reporter: that's right. we actually saw girls for the first tile. girls and boys inside this facility. ages 13 to 17 years old and told there's more than 1,100 of them inside this facility. one of the largest of its kind in the country. inside the facility these children have a very structured day. they wear badges that have bar codes on them. they scan those bar codes as they move between buildings. they have teaching instruction. took us through the dining hall where they eat breakfast, lunch and dinner an

i'm david gura. attorney general jeff sessions ba backpedaling now saying he never intended to separate children from their parents. put intentions aside, nearly 2,000 migrant children remain split from their parents and there's still no clear plan in place for reuniting these families. joining me is jeremy peters, a reporter for "the new york times," natasha is a staff writer at "at the lanticthe atl" the date line is leesburg, virginia, you talk to trump supporters across the country about many things, in part, how they reacted to this story that i just mentioned, this immigration story. what did you hear inning aggreg? >> i think there are a lot of people uncomfortable with the policy of separating young children from their parents, but at the same sometime, if they support president trump and they see president trump taking heat from a left and a mainstream media they see as hostile and hell-bent on taking out this president, they kind of retreat into this almost defensive, like, crouch. there's

>> that does it for me program i'm david gura. i'll be back next saturday and southbound, @davidg rushgs a between now and then. i hand it over to may colleague yasmin vossoughian. >> have a good time. i'm yasmin vossoughian. how far does the president's power go? rudy giuliani making the case for the leaked memo. president trump cannot be forced to answer questions, cannot obstruct justice and can even pardon himself. the question we've been asking himself, because he's in charge of the justice department and the fbi. plus, if he is subpoenaed his lawyers are ready to fight and are even threatening to take special counsel to court. we may reveal something about donald trump jr. that was denied oath and lots to break down. let's get started. >> somebody who wants to question that has a big, big burden. >> do you believe the president has the power to pardon himself? he's not, but he probably does. pardoning himself would just be unthinkable and it would -- it would lead to probably an immediate impeachment. >> there's absolutely n