please welcome willie geist, ladies and gentlemen!know because -- so this is a a very weird story. because we've -- i've been on your show with you. >> thank you, yes. >> jimmy: which i love, by the way. you're fantastic. i love the show, it's so good. >> thank you, man. >> jimmy: but running into each other in the hallway, has only happened twice, i would say. and both times i was dressed as kenny rogers. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: and it's a very odd thing for me, but i know you don't believe me. because i don't dress up like kenny rogers. >> no. so the last two times i've seen you, at least two, maybe three, you'ven which is the beard, the hair. like 1981 kenny rogers with a a vest. >> jimmy: yes, yes. >> like the country music awards. >> jimmy: dolly, kenny and dolly -- yes. but i'm in like a tuxedo and a a vest as kenny rogers. and i saw you and i go, "hey, what's up, buddy?" and we were talking, and i just go "take care and see you later." and then hoda and kathie lee were celebrating their anniversary. and so i wanted to d

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here's a preview with the aforementioned willie geist. >> good morning, guys. this week. on sunday today, my guest is homeland star claire danes. we talk about her growing up in show business, the role of cia agent carrie mathison thatchall while expecting a second child. our sunday sit-down with claire danes plus the latest news and politics as always this weekend on sunday today. you can catch us in the morning or set the dvr and watch us anytime you like. back to you, frances and phillip, and i will see you on sunday morning. >>> in just hours, president trump will head to quebec for the g7 summit days ahead of his face to face with kim jong-un in singapore. but it's trump's own war of words with some of america's closest allies that's worrying many after he accused canada, frantz, and the eu of harming american farmers and levying massive tariffs against the united states. it has prompted the leaders of france and canada to respond in kind, threatening the u.s. by joining forces with other members of the g7. the white house now says president trump will be

here is willie geist. >> good morning. i'm willie geist in new york.n nbc news special report. president trump is arriving in singapore as they we speak ahead of the high stakes summit with north korea's kim jong-un. air force one has landed at a military base in singapore. kim jong-un met ahead of trump and met with that that country's leader. let's go to hallie jackson. >> reporter: we will see the stairs pulling up tolt do the df air force one. president trump will be stepped out and greeted by the singapore minister here and the question is how history will judge these talks between president trump and kim jong-un who is already on the ground, as you mentioned. he has already met with the singaporean delegation. president trump is expected to do that here tomorrow. then we expect much of the day he will be in prep and he will be holding briefings with his top staffers including his national security adviser john bolton who traveled here with him to singapore ahead fed discussions and the big morning is tuesday morning when the two leaders come face

. >> it's willie geist.resident had the meeting with the republican conference and in it there was a moment where he mocked mark sanford, who wasn't there. we had sanford on last week after he lost his primary and he said his message to those people running this fall, republicans, is to pledge allegiance to donald trump or else. what do you think the state of the party is if you're running for office and try to cross donald trump in some way? >> steve schmidt is right. it's not the republican party anymore. i could go on a long history about what the true republican party is, the party of lincoln, the party of thomas jefferson, et cetera, and republican ideas. we're not that anymore. we've become a regional myopic angry party that is afraid of the demographic shifts in this country, that doesn't understand diversity and what it means to be a true big tent and a party that has tolerance for ideas both on the left and the right and in the center. that's not the republican party i grew up in with jack kemp and

i'm willie geist the debate and public outcry remain eat heated. the end of the week and ening the administration of separating children from parents and detaining them at the border. more children were reunited with families as protests grew across the country. president trump speaking at a campaign event in las vegas, again blamed democrats ee roenzly for the separations and argued that his hard line immigration policy will be good politically for republicans come fall. we are live at the border and will talk to chuck todd and jacob who spent week reporting from the front lines of this issue. >>> and later a sunday sit-down with blake shelton. blake invited us to his new bar in nashville to talk about the long road to success. and how his life changed when he sat in the big red chair on the voice where he met coach and girlfriend gwen steph i guardian after their divorces. >> i think in the back of our mind we both thought, this is a rebound deal. i mean, because, we were both coming out of a pretty low spot in our lives. and we were kind of clin

i'm willie geist. a major new twist in the standoff between president trump and special counsel robert mueller. "the new york times" has obtained the 20-page memo sent from the president's lawyers to the special counsel in january. arguing that the president cannot be forced to testify. that he could not have obstructed justice by firing former fbi director james comey, and that he has the right to terminate the investigation. we'll get into all of it with chuck todd in just a moment. plus, is a serial killer on the loose in arizona? four people have been shot to death in just three days including a psychiatrist who's worked on some of the nation's most notorious criminal cases. police say at least three of those murders are connected. and later, a sunday sit-down with oscar nominee andrew garfield. the actor, known in the movies as spider-man but on broadway as the tony nominated star of the iconic play "angels in america." >> now there are people who have never been to the theater coming to see a 7 1

i'm willie geist. happy father's day to all you dads out there, especially to you, dad. we are waking up to an increasingly heated debate in this country over children separated from their parents as they attempt to enter the united states over the southern border. overnight more detention tents were built to detain those children. jeff sessions quoted the bible to argue the migrants entering illegally with their children are not above the law. president trump claiming falsely that the separations are the result of a democrat's law. critics saying the trump administration simply being inhumane. the latest from the border and from chuck today justd just ahe >>> breaking news, gunfire erupts at a cultural festival in trenton, new jersey. one person is dead and at least 20 others are injured. we are live at the scene. >>> later, a i sunday sitdown with daly host trevor noah. on his road from apartheid, south africa. to the big chair held by jon stewart. now doing late night comedy in the age of donald trump. >> i refuse to exist in a state of outrage, you know? i think at t

today with willie geist." >> you know, who people are when they're sitting at home with their familying instead of just statistics. >> reporter: there's no place anthony won't go. >> maggots load the chickens? >> reporter: no matter how dangerous. >> not going full geraldo in my flak jacket poking myself head up over a foxhole but i'm curious about the world and if there are manageable risks in return for satisfying my curiosity about a place, i'm willing. >> he made so many millions curious about the world. his girlfriend asia ar jend oh release add statement saying he had a brilliant and fearless spirit and called her her love, rock and protector. joining me now, nbc news medical contradicter dr. natalie a asar. two iconic people gone who had an impact on so many people and almost simultaneously cdc report saying suicide rates in the u.s. are up 30% since 1999. talk to us about the main contributors to suicide. could it have a heavier impact if you're in the spotlight? >> i know. depression still is definitely considered the number one cause, but the irony or important thing about

i'm willie geist the debate and public outcry remain eat heated.

. >>> it is time now to check in with our friend willie geist to see what he's ginning up for sunday y. willie, good morning. >> good morning, guys. good to see you as always. this week on sunday today, my guest is country superstar and coach on the voice, blake shelton. i sat down at his nashville bar with the reigning sexiest man alive. we talked about how the voice changed his career and how his relationship with gwen stefani saved his life. plus all the latest news and politics this weekend on sunday today. you can catch us in the morning or set your dvr and watch us anytime. i'll send it back to you frances and phillip and i'll see you sunday morning. >>> the president is hailing it as a win but it is a legal decision that could have really big implications for your wallet. the supreme court says online retailers can be forced to collect sales tax. is a ruling that could have a major benefit for states all across the country. but at what cost? nbc's jo ling kent has more. >> reporter: your online shopping may get more expensive. the supreme court ruling that internet retailers ca

head out to celebrate the special guy in your life make sure to tune in to "sunday today" with willie geisted up. willie, tell them what you have this sunday. >> good morning, guys, good to see you as always. this week on sunday my host is daily show host trevor noah. we talk about his astounding journey from apartheid south africa where his biracial background literally was a crime. now to sitting in the chair previously occupied by john stewart. our sunday sit-down with trevor noah plus the latest in news and politics this weekend on "sunday today." remember, you can catch us in the morning live or set the dvr and watch us any time. for now i'll send it back to you, frances and phillip and i'll see you on sunday morning. >> looking forward to it, willie. thank you. >> now to the top stories, the president's long-time fixer and personal attorney michael cohen is looking to gag the lawyer for lawyer for actress stormy daniels. he is filing an order asking the judge to ask him to stop speaking with reporters and giving information about the legal case about cohen and the president. avenatti

with our friend willie geist. good morning. >> good morning, good to see you as always. ahead of the 4th of july. bobby invited me to his summer home in the hamptons to talk about his rise from high school drop out to a food empire. i hit the grill with bobby to get tips from the master that we'll share for your barbecues this summer. our sunday sit down wit bews an or set your back to you, phillip and melissa, and i'll see you on sunday. >> sounds good, willie. thank you, sir. m'll leave you the sounds of the back slive pictures from thi valley - our dublin camera - >>> and it is finally friday morning to you. look at the people on the road ready to go. i guess this is the early fourth of july weekend. >> you've got to get in to get out. >> these are live pictures from tri-valley. get ready, everyone. things are about to heat up. kari has been telling us about that and will fill us in more in just a moment. thank you so much for starting your morning with us, i'm marcus washington. >> i'm kris sanchez, laura is off today. the traffic situation is going to build and heat

i'm willie geist. happy father's day to all you dads out there, especially to you, dad.arated from their parents as they attempt to enter the united states over the southern border. overnight more detention tents were built to detai

i'm willie geist.ew twist in the standoff between president trump and special counsel robert mueller. "the new york times" has obtained the 20-page memo sent from the president's lawyers to the special counsel in january. arguing that the president cannot be forced to

willie geist, it bears repeating about rudy giuliani.in the mueller investigation saying things that are constitutionally inaccurate and hurt the president's cause, but he's interfered with the work ott president and the national security adviser and the secretary of state by saying stupid comments that, again, they had to disassociate themselves with and inserting himself with his stupid comments, the president's marriage and the first lady clearly it could not have been more explicit in saying he doesn't speak for her. he hasn't talked to him about, quote, anything. it bears -- it bears reminding viewers and i know for those of us who have spent a lot of time in new york, it bears reminding viewers that this is a guy who not only guided new york through 9/11 in an admirable, i thought, remarkable way, but also, as i wrote in one of my columns, a column that rudy giuliani attacked, called me stupid and reminded me i had never been knighted by the queen of england. one of the great achievements of the 20th century was the turn around of

john torres and my friend willie geist. ie, i just saw the absolutely awesome beautiful profile you did of anthony bourdain on your show. >> he was exactly who he appears to be on tv. the best thing i can say about somebody on tv. he was irascible. he was funny. he had no tolerance for b.s. he attacked things like pumpkin spice latte and the terms farm to table. he was working in the back of a kitchen until he was 44 years old. >> get out of town. >> yes, he was dunking fries as he says in our interview. and he wrote a magazine piece exposing what happens in the back of a kitchen, which turned into a book, which turned into a tv show, which turned into -- >> wait, until he was 44? >> he died at 61 so that was only 17 years ago. what he did, what i loved about him, is he went around the world to places cooking shows don't go. it wasn't as some kind of anthropologist who is saying this is different and weird or this is different and gross, it was this is different and how great is this place. he always said he was happier sitt

nbc's willie geist spoke for him with his sunday sitdown on "weekend today." >> anthony bourdain neverndering how he feels. >> i'm thinking, really? are these prime fishing waters? i don't know about this. >> that blunt personali alality combined with an endless curiosity of food made the chef a global star. >> i'm in love. that's good. >> for decades on a nearly constant culinary tour of the world from historic rome. >> actually one of the best. >> i want that. >> reporter: to war-torn libya. >> especially a cross-mode of firing molotov cocktails. >> reporter: leading viewers off the beaten path. and challenging our appetite for the exotic. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> anything you've had on the show you're like, good god, never again. >> yeah, yeah. they do a funky fermented fish in island that's just -- it's a has mac situation. >> here's the tongue. >> hmm. it's good. >> yeah? >> i'm eating tongue with anthony bourdain. >> nice to know who we're talking about when we talk about places with really complex problems. some knowledge of, you know, who people are when they're sitt

i am willie geist. happy father's day to all o you dads, especially to you, dad.e are waking up to an increasingly heated battle over ae fate of children separated from parents they attempt to enter the united states at the southern border. overnight, more detention tents were built to detain the growing number of children. jeff sessions quoting theible toay migrants entering illegally with children are not above the law. president trump claiming falsely separation are the rults of the democrats' law. sritics say the trump administration ieing inhumane. the latest from the border and chuck todd just ahead. >>> breaking news this morning. gunfire erupts at a cultu l festival in trenton, new jersey. one person is dead, at least 20 others injured. we are live at th scene. >>> later, a sunday sit down with daily show host trevor noah on his seemingly impossible road from apartheid, south africa to the big chair held by jon stewart. now l ce nightedy in the age of donald trump. >> i was in a state of outrage. i think at times people allow themselves to get outraged at

i am willie geist. debate and public outc remains heated. at the end of the week that saw president trump sign an executive ord ending his administration's policy of separating children from theirn parents detaining them at the southern border. protests ctinue to grow across the country. president trump speaking at a campaign event in las vegas, blamesme democrats erroneously r the paration, argues its hard line immigration policy will be good politically for republicans come fall. we are live at the border, talk to chuck todd and jacob sober off who spent weeks reporting from the frontnes. >>> later, sunday sit down with country>> superstar blake shelt. blake invited us to his new bar in nashville to talk about the long road to success in that town, how his life changed when he sat in that big red chair on the voice where he met fellow coach and girlfriend gwen stefani after both of their very public divorces. >> i think in the back of our mi , we both kind of thought this is a rebound deal, i mean, because we're both coming out of pretty l

was the last bastion for people and only a year ago, last year, he said this to his colleague willie geist>> it's just not what i do. i think it would be weird for me to start doing it now. i don't even really care that much about politics. i've got to be honest. i love pop culture more than i love politics. i'm just not that brain. >> do you ever feel pressure to talk about donald trump or go political? do you hear that noise? >> i think the other guys are doing very well. when it's organic, i will dip in as well but i've always made jokes about the president. >> laura: fallon was really smart there. why cut your audience in half? why do that? >> i will tell you ways doing it now. doing these mea culpas. colbert was beating him in the ratings. i dug up the man we heard about earlier, johnny carson, who talked to barbara walters about politics and why he stayed away from it in his show. watch. >> i think one of the dangers, if you are a comedian, which basically i am, if you start to take yourself too seriously and start to comment on social issues, your sense of humor suffers somewhere. "

. >> senator, it's willie geist.n colleagues in the senate a move to your position on this one particular issue of family separation? we saw ted cruz proposing legislation that would go pretty far to stop this pretty quickly. doubling the number of federal immigration judges, creating new temporary shelters where parents and kids could be housing together while they await their hearings. . will there be a move on this quickly or are some people slow walking this? >> i think so but there are a lot of republicans on the house side that slow walks all of this and they really like what the president is doing and you know we just heard that there may be more tougher immigration policies coming down the pike from the likes of stephen miller, to me, stephen willer is like iago whispering in the president's ear along with john kelly. these people are totally anti-immigrant. and for people like ted cruz and orrin hatch to come forward to finally say this is not good, the image of children crying for their mommies and daddies,

willie geist, he asks, perhaps -- this side of the pittsburgh steelers, the most important franchise in the nfl, if you're just looking at it for shrewd political calculations, the philadelphia eagles andoh, they have some fans in i don't know if you've heard of them before, the philly suburbs, well, just elect presidents of the united states. >> it had the feeling of someone who was putting on a birthday party, saw no rsvps coming in and canceled it before he thought everyone else was going to cancel on him. only a handful of the eagles players were going to show up. it should be pointed out that the eagles were not among the player who is kneeled for the national anthem. but were not going to come because theidn't like donald trump's politics. i think you're right, joe, it was at the end of the terrible day for him, he puts something out that he wanted to change the subject. we'll talk about the eagles a little bit. but i think there are much bigger fish to fry here. >> we've got a huge fish to fry. new overnight, prosecutors working for special counsel robert mueller are accusing

i will say this, willie geist. some elections last night that happened.ction in new york state that we're going to talk about. but first, mitt romney, a guy who when he moved to utah, i'm sure a lot of people didn't think that mitt romney was going to get back involved in politics. he did. he won by a massive landslide last night and willie, he won saying, i'm going to washington, but i'm not going to be like mitch mcconnell or paul ryan, i'm not going to be trump's puppet. if he does something i disagree, i'm going to speak out. >> imagine that. somebody who's consistent that way. >> loves the country. >> when he is appalled by something the president does, will say so. and it was actually just a couple of day before utah republicans chose mitt romney as their senate nominee last night, he published an op-ed, this is two days before the election, declaring his independence from president trump. he wrote this. i have and will continue to speak out when the president says or does something which is divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest or des

i am willie geist. happy father's day to all o you dads, especially to you, dad.ly heated battle over ae fate of children separated from parents they attempt to enter the united states at the southern border. overnight, more detention tents were built to detain the growing number of

i am willie geist. debate and public outc remains heated.at saw president trump sign an executive ord ending his administration's policy of separating children from theirn parents detaining them at the southern

craig melvin here alongside willie geist. savannah has the morning off. hoda will join us in just a few moments. it was a surreal scene a few moments ago. >> the president of the united states found his way down out of the white house to do an interview on fox news. when he was finished with that, stopped on the driveway there on the north lawn for about 30 minutes and answered questions ranging from russia, from this new i.g. report, to his relationship with north korean leader kim jong-un. >> even as the president spoke, paul manafort was heading into court. this was the scene just a few moments ago. president trump's former campaign chairman across town walking into a courtroom there. kristen welker was right there at the white house in the thick of it. kristen, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you. i think it's safe to say in the entire seven or so years i've covered the white house, this has never happened. the president walking out to the north lawn for an interview with fox news. our only warning was a tweet just moments earlier. h

. >> congressman, it's willie geist, the president hasn't shown any willingness to budge, as you've heardharder to this policy. steve bannon said yesterday, quote, this is why america elected him, it's not doubling down, it's tripling down. as you know well there are a couple of bills floating through the house right now, republican bills. it appears many republicans disagree with this policy and are willing to do something about it, but then chuck schumer said legislation is not the way to go. it's up to the president. shouldn't they be more open to a legislative fix if it looks like the president won't move on it? >> i think we should do everything in our power. we should be first of all not taking the weight off of the president as he goes around and tries to blame everybody but himself. we need to put the pressure there. if there are legislative fixes we ought to try them. but usually what has been asked is for -- to address these issues, you've got to pay a high price. like paying billions and billions of dollars for a wall that the president said would be paid for by the mexicans. o

. >> it's willie geist, congressman, good to see you. as you mentioned, the race was tight.eve the presiden late tweet in which he criticized you saying you hadn't been helpful to the maga agenda and then talked about your recent scandal in venezuela, did that work against you? >> well, i think there are a couple interesting things about that tweet. one, when's the last time a republican gpresident got into congressional race if you're supposedly negotiating a deal in the far east. so his degree of focus on personal things, if you offend me, i'm coming back to get you, is, again, a little outside the form to say the least but more interesting is it wasn't the truth. it was just a flat out lie. that's why mark meadows and jim jordan and people like that have risen to my defense and said wait a minute, this guy voted for the president's agenda yet he sends a tweet out saying you're not supportive of my agenda. >> what do you suggest as we come up on the fall to candidates running for reelection? on the one hand you want to keep your job to push in washington conservative ideal