. >>> this sunday, those ruia hacking indictmentsry >> 12 militafficers by named for conspiring to interferewith the 2016 presidential election. >> president trump says he remains nvunced. >> i call it the rigged witch-hunt and it really hurts our relationship with russia. >> and still looks forward to meeting tomorrow with vladimir puti >> i think that we will have a chance to have a very good relationship with russia. >> the question -- is this the right time to hold a summit with putin? my guest this morning, the u.s. ambassador to russia, jon huntsman. warner ic senator mark of virginia and republicanse nator dan sullivan of alaska. plus, confronting allies. president trump

dell in the election >> my people came to me, dan came to me and some others and said they think it's ruia said it's not russia. reasont d hybe., >> host chris wallace sat down for an exclusive interview with vladimir putin anight. putingain, denied russi meddling the people are talking about interference of russia with election process in the united stat. ive mentioned this i hwatn ur aca listeners to listeno what isay. first all, russia as a state has never interferedffh the internal aairs of the united states.>> president's comments did not sit well on capitol hill. lawmakers both sides of thed aisle the president missed an opportuty to confronts putin directly about election meddling >> the president of the united states to sideed with p american intelligence law t, am encies, is thoughtless, dangerous, and it's weak. >> the president's comments made us look as a natio more like push-over. >> during the summit, the leaders discussed a lot of of su p,resion argued heantsnt betterions thusat r telhe two cou ca work togetheesntri to helpol theld's problemsor. metro union workersc cauouse

meddling with 100 days until the midterms after the white house releasing a statement that doest n ruia but insists mr. trump will not tolerate foreign interference but publicly the president sent mixed messages. >> i accept our intelligence community's conclusion that russia's meddling in the 2016 election toalso. r contradicts his own intelligence agencies who say russia was the sole actor and is still ramping up its attacks. >> they are the ones trying to wreck havoc over our election process. >> reporter: tonight president putin said he invited mr. trump to moscow, something the white house says the president is open to, even as fallout mounts from their first face-to-face. kristen welker, nbc news, the white house. >>> it's been a long time coming before the day has arrived for families of fallen american heroes for the forgotten war. today on the 65th anniversary of the korean armistice, the remains of dozen of american servicemen killed in the korean war are coming home. nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel has the story. >> reporter: in a solemn ceremony in south k

thank yo >>> new details on the woman accused of being a secret agent for ruia. mariia butina was arrested for allegedly working with the russian government to gain influence in americanlitics. people who knew butina during her time at american university, said there were some red flags, like her support for vladimir putin and guns. a neighbor said she saw nothing suspicious until one night when a swarm of fbi agents showeup. >> i hear a banging. the man says, please, miss, stay inside. so, i did. andthen, i heard -- they continued to bang really loudly. they said, we know you're in there. >> butina has moved out of that now, she faces charges of acting as an unregistered foreign agent in the unistates. her lawyer says she has done nothing wrong. >>> if maryland governor larry hogan wins re-election, he says he will do i without the help of the nra. he told student w that held reject a potential endorsement from the national rifle associatio that's according to "the washington post." the republican said he backs strengthening a law that holds parents responsible

. >> they think it's ruia. i have presint putin he just said it's got russia. i will say this. don't see any reason why it would be. >> out raiming and disbelief comi f

he said it is not ruia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. on russian meddling, blaming the fbi, the democrats refusing to hold moscow to account. -- the democrats, refusing to hold moscow to account. the president has left helsinki and is on his way ba. to washingt if he had hoped this summit would allow him to move on from quesinons of russian rference, he is in for a nasty surprise when he lands back in d.c. christian:on sopel reporting there. maybe it was that moment in the press conference when he was ked about the indictments of 12 russian military officials, ducking the que that did bringsp howls of r not only from democrats but republicans back at home. incapable, th president, to separate collusion from the russia investigation and the findings of histe own igence agencies. when he was asked pointedly about the russian investigation, offnso a off --eered ramblingr about hillary clinton's e-mail servers. he sees the investigation as a deep state plot against him to undermine his election victory and re-freezes point blank to criticize

worth of cleanups, another one tonight after the art of the deal president didn't reject one from ruia fast eno the deal would have let the specl counsel question 12 recently indicted telligence officials if and only if russia could then interrogate 11 americans putin has oblems with. that includes the former u.s. ambassador to russia. >> what is your message today, right now, to donald trump? >> the president of the united states needs to come out and categorically denounce it. >> t white house today is not denouncing putin but is insisting the president won't play ball on this. quote, it is a proposal that was made in sinrity with president putin. the president focused on the economy but that made waves in the cnbc interview he publicly disagreed how the fed chair raised enates even though pres stay out of those decisions. it's another unorthodox move for a president whose made lllenty. >> aight. hallie jackson at the white house, thank u. yo >>> more breaking news, a major outbreak of tornados, the severe wther threat stretching from iowa to arkansas with kansas city, st. louis and

jane: as we mentioned, the idea for letting ruia question 11 americans sparked a fierce reaction. browder, whoill urged greg s to pass the -- who urged congress to pass the magnitsky act. my colleagues katty kay and christian fraser got his reacti. bill: i'm glad president trump will not hand me over to president putin, but i do wonder .hat it took him three days to come to the respon i understand why putin is so mad at me, because of the magnitsky act and the fact that his money is at risk all over the world. but i'm a little amazed that this whole conversation has taken place over a three-day period when trump should have immediately rejected it as any othe.head of state would have christian: you are not the only one the russian prosecutors wanted to spk to, because ambassador mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia, was also named as one of the 11 they would like to speak to. you are annoyed, are you, that the president or at least the ite house through sarah sanders was equivocating yesterday. bill: yeah, it is absurd. just look at the situation. vladimir putin wants me dead.

white house made the announcement, saying it would be better if he came in the new year "after the ruia witchhunt is over." this just happened toom minutes before the secretary of state went before lawmakers to answer questions about helsinki and what exactly was promised.cr ary pompeo began his comments with a statement on crimea. i want to assure this committee that the united states does not and will not recognize the kremlin's crpurported annexation oea. we stand together with allies , partners, and the international community in our commitment to ukraine and its territorial integrity. there will be no relief of sanctions until russia returns control of to ukraine.peninsula jane: joining us from capitol hill is state department correspondt-t barbara plher. he was clearlyrying to clarify s. policies towards russia. were they convinced? barbara: that's a good question. his approach was to try the argument that mr. trump is not soft on russia. you heard that the u.s. continues to reject the annexation of crimea, that there was no change in sanctions on russia, that theca ame gave $200

. >> they think it's ruia. i have presint putin he just said it's got russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> out raiming and disbelief law makesm makers own both sides of political aisle after presidt trump sides with vladir putin against the u.s. intelligence committee. >> there it is. >> center field and bryce ha hasba thrown his in the air and won the 20 t-mobile home run derby. >> nationals outfielder bryce harper wowetsown crowd on national sting the stageet for t stahe all star gat great 9/11 dollacketcket offer offer. starts right now.at 5 a.m. >> and good morning to you. thank for joining us. >> is tuesday. it is july 17 j00t past 5: now. we have our gaping in plkee. in the studio and erin down near the bat park. e's all ready for the all star game. everybody is wondzer wha g will bee time. >> we have a chance for shows and storms today. the best news is that it does look like it will be through before the game. much like yesterday. we'll show you future cast and bout the risks comingcoming u p up. hi, erin. >> beaoriful mng to be out here.

and honestly, she wasn't wrong. [ laughter and applause ] things were pretty messed up in ruia back thenr starters, even though it was 1991, everything was still in black and white. also, it was dangerous. we're jewish and jews were beinf thrown in ja no reason, they couldn't get jobs and officials constantly asking to e our papers. russian jews got asked to show their papers more than american jews get asked which summer camh went to. [ light laughter ] t nore's a lot of talk lately about what immigrants are like. people say we're trying to sneak in and steal thia.s from amer but the only thing i've ever stolen is refill of soda at burger king. [ light laughter ] >> seth: dina, those refills are free. >> really? >> seth: yeah. >> man, this is a great country. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] now, some people say we shouldn't lerefugees in because we have no idea who they really are. but the truth is, refugees who e are grasylum into the u.s. are vetted for up to four years and screened by at least five different government agencies. by the time i was five, i was more thoroughly vett

theories as to why trump behaved the way he din at the pressrence was that any admission of meddling by ruia's any weight to that theory. >> i think there's a lot of weight to that theory. onthink he can't decouple it. he sees any indicar any hint that russia helped him will put an asterisk by his name, and he doesn't want an asterisk by his name. he wants his namto be bolder, and a little bit bigger font than everybody else. >> seth: right. and i think he also knows that whether he coordinated, or collud knew about it, or not, he knows that those emails helped him. >> seth: both your parents were reporters, as well. >> yeah. >> seth: this was in your dna. but they were in los angeles, they were helicopter rorters. >> they were much cooler than me. >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] >> yeah. >> seth: would you actually see helicopters when you were a kid and be like, "oh that's one of -- my parents are up there?" >> so, when i wasn't in a licopter, i would see them above. my parents, they worked a ton. it's the news business, it's crazy. and so they would miss things like baseball games, or b

>>> this sunday, those ruia hacking indictmentsry >> 12 militafficers by named for conspiring to interferewith the 2016 presidential election. >> president trump says he remains nvunced. >> i call it the rigged witch-hunt and it really hurts our relationship with russia. >> and still looks forward to meeting tomorrow with vladimir puti >> i think that we will have a chance to have a very good relationship with russia. >> the question -- is this the right time to hold a summit with putin? my guest this morning, the u.s. ambassador to russia, jon huntsman. warner ic senator mark of virginia and republicanse nator dan sullivan of alaska. plus, confronting allies. president trump threatens nato. kes on o theresa mayn brexit and praises her rival. >> i actually told theresa may how to do it but she didn't agree -- she didn't listen to me. >> and t gop versus the fbi. peter strzok is charged with bias against presirump in the russia investigation. >> that is bias. agent strzok may not see it, but the rest of the country does. backd strzok fights >> i strongly believe today's hearing is just another

. >> that's deputy attorney general rod rosenstein friday announcing robert ruia invtion.t'ininherhouseab,"ratic strategist donna brazile, she served as the dnc chair in 2016 after the hack and leaking of emails from the democratic national committee. chris christie, former new jersey governor and abc news contributor. he led president trump's transition team in the final months of the campaign. steve inskeep, host of npr's "morn edition" and elisabeth bumiller, washington bureau chief of "the new york times." so, donna, this had to be a personal experience reading this indictment. what went through your mind as you read the details, the exhaustive details? >> first of all, it is finally acknowledged that the hacking was a crime. that's number one. number two, at the time of the hacking no one believed us. and we didn't have anyone to come to our defense. president trump this morning said that the democratic party should be ashamed of itself. well, my response to the president is that there was no way we could go to staples or best buy or office depot or office max to buy anti-gru milit