phil rucker color me skeptical, cynical, but i think someone wants to change the subject. >> he sure does. trump has been feeling so much heat, including importantly from republican lawmakers over the retaliatory tariffs that other countries, including china, have put in place targeting farmers in this country. it's been a hot issue all week. the president pleaded for patience yesterday when he was in kansas city for the speech to the vfw. he's here at the road garden trying to make a big announcement, trying to announce the deal. i want to withhold judgment until we see sort of in writing what this deal is. and if it's a concrete deal or more of one of these sort of loose agreements to arrive at some sort of a compromise that we're used to seeing from this president. >> michael steele, if you look at our negotiations with north korea, their nuclear program, i'm going to bet my last dollar on loose as phil rucker just laid out the options when it comes to donald trump. but talk about -- and we are monitoring this rose garden event. if the president takes any questions that are about

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to phil rucker and anita kumar who write a version of this history every day. thank you, gang. appreciate its very much. coming up, former cia director john brennan calls its the heights of absurdity that the white house would consider letting the kremlin question a former u.s. bavr to russia. that ambassador is with us. later, did the u.s. home run u.s. catch an accused russian agent and did she use sex as a tool of her trade to burrow into american society and institutions? "the 1th hour" under way on a wednesday night. any paint can change the way a room looks. but only one can change how it feels. century, from benjamin moore, is the first-ever soft touch matte finish paint. its revolutionary texture unlocks 75 unprecedented colors, each with exquisite depth and richness. it's a difference you can see, touch, and feel. that's proudly particular. century. only at select local paint and hardware stores. . >>> "quote unquote crimes. including former ambassador to russia. does president trump support that idea? is he open to that? >> the president's going to meet with his team

phil rucker, you were on the campaign trail. eli, you were on the campaign trail as well. we heard the niceties from donald trump about vladimir putin while he was campaigning for office. i guess it shouldn't come as a surprise that he is being as nice as he is, but to stand next to the president of russia, the dictator essentially, of russia and to instead attack the democrats and attack our intelligence committees and doubt their assessment, doubt the work of the fbi, undermine robert mueller, the special counsel who just returned, by the way, 12 indictments for russian intelligence officers for hacking into the dnc and hacking into hillary clinton's -- or trying to hack into hillary clinton's server, just last friday they came out with this. to have him stand there and do all that and refuse to -- and i think we lost eli, sadly -- and to refuse to push back on the man who could have been in charge of it, that was shocking, to say the least, phil. >> yeah. it was shocking, katy. for a president who talked so much about strength, who wants to project his own strength, who

my thanks to chuck rosenberg, matt miller, ashley parker and phil rucker. that does it for our hour, i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now with the fabulous katy tur in for chuck todd. >> what a day. thank you. and if it is thursday, the president is inviting vladimir putin to washington. tonight, the intel quotient. dan coats sounds off on the president's conflicting statements on the intelligence community. >> well, my thoughts were that i needed to correct the record for that. >>> plus indecent proposal. what the white house is saying now about letting russia interrogate americans. >> unbelievable that they wouldn't confirm that they're not entertaining that for a second. >> we'll talk to one of the

i want badly to end on that word, but phil rucker, one more question. kaitlan collins of cnn, never met her, i watch her work every day, as a viewer, she seems like a first rate white house correspondent. what did you make of her being singled out for doing what we all do every day, yelling out in the oval office, many times the president is waiting on one and pounces on it to answer. what did you make of it today? >> brian, it was uncalled for and a sad moment not only for journalism but for the country. kaitlan collins is a first rate reporter. she asks tough questions every day. it's worth pointing out what she did in the oval office today in questioning the president as he was sitting there with the head of the european union is what reporters in the pool in the white house do every single day. we ask him questions every single day and most of the time he chooses to answer them. he engages with us on the news of the day. today he didn't happen to like the questions that kaitlan collins asked. that's why the white house retaliated. i think it was a g

matt apuzo, cynthia oxny, phil rucker, thank you so very much. coming up, plans for a second summit between president trump and poout putin are suddenly on hold. the president's national security adviser cites the witch hunt as one reason why they had to rescind the president's formal invitation on twitter. and later, "the 11th hour" is just getting started beneath the kocht dome on a wednesday night. if yor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough, it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. pml, a rare, serious, potentially fatal brain infection caused by a virus may be possible. this condition has not been reported with entyvio. t

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my thanks to chuck rosenberg, matt miller, ashley parker and phil rucker. that does it for our hour, i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now with the fabulous katy tur in for chuck todd. >> what a day. thank you. and if it is thursday, the president is inviting vladimir putin to washington. tonight, the intel quotient. dan coats sounds off on the president's conflicting statements on the intelligence community. >> well, my thoughts were that i needed to correct the record for that. >>> plus indecent proposal. what the white house is saying now about letting russia interrogate americans. >> unbelievable that they wouldn't confirm that they're not entertaining that for a second. >> we'll talk to one of the people in the kremlin's crosshairs. >>> and would he? wouldn't he? wouldn't you like to know what's really going on? this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd and welcome to "mtp daily." we begin with breaking news. get this, just moments ago the white house announced on twitter that

i want to bring in my panel, phil rucker, "washington post." celina maxwell, sirius xm, susan del percio, a republican strategist. let's start with the reports that john kelly, mike pompeo, vice president pence all intervened to force the president's hand. give us a sense of your reporting, how much pressure was there? was it mostly coming from capitol hill, his aides? what else can you add to kristen's reporting? >> well, the post is reporting as well that pompeo, kelly, and vice president pence were involved in helping to convince the president to come out yesterday and make that statement. but he's feeling pressure from all over. including on fox news where some of his regular reliable cheerleaders were sort of in a loss for words in the immediate aftermath of the helsinki summit. the president does not take kindly to these negative headlines. he watched i lot of it. he consumed a lot of it as he flew back home. >> there were reports that he was particularly upset when we saw what newt gingrich had posted because newt gingrich has never been

. >> all right, my thanks to phil rucker, frank, michael, joyce, eugene and ken. that does it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> bearing, bearing, i'm happy. >> you have to have mike pompeo before they got all the great folks here. >> that's all good. that's all good. i'm just happy to be back. >> we missed you. >> i missed you, i missed everybody, so it's good to be back. >> welcome back. >> thank you. if it's wednesday, it's a summer grilling on the hill. >>> good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." you are looking live at capitol hill where the current secretary of state, mike pompeo, is being grilled from both sides of the aisle basically by the senate foreign relations committee. he is testifying for the first time since last week's, i don't know what you call it, but that summit. don't call it a summit, call it a meeting, but it was a pr disaster between president trump and vladimir putin. the incredible fallout from that meeting, summit, whatever, continues to escalate to the point

. >> phil rucker, i want to ask him about the dynamic in the room when jonathan lemir and jeff mason challenged president trump and president putin. phil? >> i asked a colleague of there, they were direct of straightforward questions. i don't know if putin was expecting that. it was not what he's used to back in moscow. i have to tell you off to the side sitting next to sarah sanders was putin's spokesperson. he was chuckling at times and glee-full. i don't know what to make of it. that was a weird response that he had. repo repor reporters were all waiting for what jonathan lemir would do. do you believe what vladimir putin just told you and as we saw that the president declined to do so. >> when yyou know him very well. clearly they were coming out of that news conference. >> they could not ask for a better new outcome. it was shocking. the bar was so low for president trump. the expectations was so low. all he had to do is push back on what i thought were obvious questions that you knew were coming. he chose not to do that. he made a conscious decision deciding on putin against his

. >> one report i read a couple days ago maybe phil rucker, the president was bragging there were moreameras at the kim jong-un summit than there were at the oscars, as if that was a good thing. >>> also, just go back and read that 2013 tweet where the president said he wanted to be best friends with president putin. that's all we need to know. jonathan lemire, good luck out there. ahead, rod rosenstein's message for anyone get ag head of themselves when it comes to the status of robert mueller's investigation. when it comes to strong bones, are you on the right path? we have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, so with our doctors we chose prolia® to help make our bones stronger. only prolia® helps strengthen bones by stopping cells that damage them with 1 shot every 6 months. do not take prolia® if you have low blood calcium, are pregnant, are allergic to it, or take xgeva®. serious allergic reactions, like low blood pressure; trouble breathing; throat tightness; face, lip or tongue swelling, rash, itching or hives have happened. tell your doctor about dental pro

. >> there's one report i read over the weekend or a couple days ago from phil rucker talking about how president was brag is there were more cameras at the kim jong-un summit than there were at the oscars. as if that was a good thing. read the tweet where the president said he wanted to be best friends with putin. jonathan, lemire, good luck out there. evan mcmullin, thank you. rod rosenstein's strong message for anyone getting ahead of themselves when it cops to the status of robert mueller's investigation. (♪) i'm a four-year-old ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. still won't eat my broccoli, though. and if you don't have the right overage, you could be paying for that pricey love band yourself. so get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. can a ring bearer get a snack around here? if you have moderate to thsevere rheumatoid arthritis, month after month, the clock is ticking on irreversible joint damage. ongoing pain and stiffness are signs of joint erosion. humira can help stop the clock. prescribed for 15 years, humira targets and blocks a

your colleague phil rucker has been tweeting this leg of the trip. unbelievable press conference, i read jonathan swan was also in the room. said there was a palpable sense of shock at the president's answer that we played to the a.p.'s jonathan lemire at the top of the show. your thoughts on helsinki. >> sure. on the one hand there were indications of this, that this might not go exactly according to script. if you look at the president's tweets, if you looked at his past comments, but to get into the spectacle, it is one thing to criticize your justice department, your fbi, the democrats, the opposition party, the quote-unquote, fake news media on twitter, from the white house, in the united states. it is another thing to do that, not just when you are abroad and you know there is that old saying that sort of politics stop at the water's edge. but when you are abroad at a summit standing next to russian president vladimir putin, one of our biggest geopolitical foes, and that is what president trump did. and the spectacle is that putin, who as you k

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. >> phil rucker over at "the washington post" wrote trump has told investigators he is a looking forinsists on an extraordinarily well qualified nominee with a superlative resume. the president is especially drawn to contenders with name brand degrees such as from ivy league universities like harvard or yale. he also wants to see a portfolio of solid academic writing, those this adviser acknowledged that trump does not care to read it. he simply wants to know that it exists. michael steele? go! welcome back to "kasie dc." it's good too see you again. >> it's so good to be back in the neighborhood. it doesn't get any more precious than that. do you write well? yes, i do sir. have you read some of my work? no, but i'm sure you're good at it. here is the thing. i think that this is going to be a lot less drama than folks believe in the end. and i'll tell you one reason why is i think we're going to get gorsuch 2.0. i think the president is going to nominate someone for this seat that is not going to stir, because he ultimately, his political strategy is to get beyond movement so he -- t

i'm joined by the "hardball" roundtable, anita kumar, phil rucke rucker. every time i see the general, i look at a grown-up. every time i see the president, a see something a little different. all right? how does he get to tell the president what to do? it looks to me like he can't, and he has realized now he can't. >> well, he probably can't. he's having trouble with that. if he leaves, the situation at the white house, a lot of things are going to remain exactly the same, right? he's had two chief of staffs. they've had very different backgrounds. >> remind me. reince priebus. >> reince priebus and then john kelly. they have very different backgrounds, right? reince came from the rnc, political guy. and a lot of things have stayed the same. now, some things did change when john kelly came in there. but still trump is going to do what he wants to do, right? >> yeah. maybe the chief of staff's yob is job to say before you sit on a summit meeting with the dictator of north korea, you might check with the defense secretary, little protocols like that. trump

let's bring in analyst philip rucker. phil, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let's start withbine of the headlines this week as kelly was talking about michaelohen claiming that trump knew about the meeting at trump tower. it seems like a complete falling out of the two close lies. how concerned with trump's lawyers with the latest claim by hen and by coh in general? >> it is really a striking falling out between the presidentme and his f to attorney who has been his finx - figur fixer for a decade. the president is trying to prevent him from being a credible witness with the prosecutors. >> phil, as we heard from kelly o. putin inviting president trump tosc . sarah sanders says the president is open to doing that. how eager are officials for president trump to go to moscow meet putin? how likely is it to happen? >> i think ultimately it will happen, but not in the near inture. trump ted putin to come to washington and they delayed that meeting until next year until after theti mueller investi wraps up. there will be r

. >> phil rucker what are you looking at today? >> i want to see how the president reacts to this. heading to bedminster, new jersey, to his golf course over the weekend. tends to visit with a lot of new york friends there, let's loose on the golf course. see if there's a tweet storm tomorrow morning as there often is on saturday mornings. >> and rainy weather here in new york. important to point out. indoors. plenty of time to tweet. >> thank you so much. >> you know what schmidt's doing today? >> looking to see where all the bodies are buried on you. >> i've seen his work. i don't want him doing that. >>> and still ahead, ahead of midterm elections, "daily beast" reporting the story, and sam stein joins the table with what the "beast" found out. >>> plus, former chairman of the rnc michael steele joins us or sean spicer calls him in his new book, the author of that infamous trump dossier. what? we'll clear that up next on "morning joe." are you ready to take your wifi to the next level? then you need xfinity xfi. a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast spee