monday at 9:00 a.m., but right now i'm handing you to andrea mitchell. >> right now on andrea mitchell reports, a victory lap? the bill celebrating a house passage to replace obama care. how am i doing, okay? i'm president, can you believe it, right? how close are they to making it law. >> the senate will review the house bill and we will go to work on a senate bill. >> the fine print, so what is in the bill? >> congressman, have you read the bill, are you concerned about voting on it? >> have you read the health care bill. >> have you had time to read the health care bill. >> have you read this bill. >> we're in a hurry, we'll be back. congressman, have you read the health care bill? >> well, we did, we have the answers coming up. and what did he say?

. >> joining us from jerusalem is correspondent andrea mitchell. andr andrea, what is in store for president trump? >> reporter: first of all, it is historic for him to fly on air force one on a u.s. military plane from riyadh to tel aviv. that is historic. no commercial flights. no military flights can go from riyadh to israel because of the 70-year emnity. there have been reports from y cairo to israel because of the peace treaties. none from saudi arabia. there is a break through in terms of aviation. i should point out the commercially chartered press charter for the white house press corps cannot fly directly. they have to take a lengthy hours long route and detour through cyprus and land in cyrus and rebooked and the aprirplane from cyprus to tel aviv. they do not have the same privilege that air force one. peace is not about to break out. the president in his landmark speech in riyadh said he is hoping for a break through. he is hoping for first by uniting the arab world and u.s. and arab leaders talking to israel and united against iran and

monday at 9:00 a.m., but right now i'm handing you to andrea mitchell. >> right now on andrea mitchell reports, a victory lap? the bill celebrating a house passage to replace obama care. how am i doing, okay? i'm president, can you believe it, right? how close are they to making it law. >> the senate will review the house bill and we will go to work on a senate bill. >> the fine print, so what is in the bill? >> congressman, have you read the bill, are you concerned about voting on it? >> have you read the health care bill. >> have you had time to read the health care bill. >> have you read this bill. >> we're in a hurry, we'll be back. congressman, have you read the health care bill? >> well, we did, we have the answers coming up. and what did he say? president trump raising eyebrows with this comment last night praising australia's single payer health care system. >>e have a failing health care, i should not say this to our great gentleman and friend from australia because you have better health care than we do. >> they have universal health care. >> wait, chris, the president just s

andrea mitchell is filling in for chuck todd. she's going to sit down with health and human services secretary tom price and talk exclusively with dianne feinstein. we'll have a preview of the show in just about ten minutes here in studio. >>> in just a couple of hours, a group of veterans will reach their destination after walking hundreds of miles. >> derrick ward is tracking that group. they started walking from north carolina in order to raise awareness about mental health. hi, derrick. >> hey, good morning again. we're about a couple miles north of where we were the last time when we caught up with them. they just rounded the bend there, so we can't see they will. but they are, indeed, on a long march. it's a long drive from camp lejeune to but imagine the march. they're doing it for a cause. brandon powell, one of the people involved in this lost a brother to ptsd.. he committed suicide after returning from iraq. and this is the great awareness to that cause and to hopefully find a solution to treat soldiers with this disea

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. we're tracking two big stories involving former trump national security adviser michael flynn. first, the breaking nbc news exclusive. three former obama administration officials say president obama warned president-elect trump against hiring flynn when they met at the white house two days after the election. >> my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that insures our president-elect is successful. >> we discussed a lot of different situations. some wonderful and some difficulties. >> this afternoon, another major voice will be heard from. former acting attorney general sally yates will testify to the senate about her warnings to the white house about flynn's russia connections. today, president trump tweeted in defense of flynn, quote, general flynn was given the highest security clearance by the obama administration. but the fake news seldom likes talking about that. joining me now, nbc's kristen welker at the white house and two national

right now, andrea mitchell reports. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports" president trump at the coast guard economy in connecticut speaking for the first time since the news of the comey memo as the white house tries to down play the crisis. a tight rope, republicans on capitol hill trying to balance supporting the president and the political fall yoult from the chaotic white house. >> it is just an understanding, but unfortunately, we continue every -- now it is accelerating. watergate took 18 months and it seems to be taking hours. >> i'm sure we will want to hear from mr. comey why, if this happens how he describes, why didn't he take action at the time. >> from rush that with love. putin says he can prove to congress that president trump did not pass classified records to them. >> mr. secretary, vumt is offering congress a transcript of that oval office meeting, do you think the russians were bugging the oval office? >> i have no way of knowing that. >> what do you think of his offer. >> do you have any comment on the violent protests outside of turkey embassy? >>> good day,

right now, andrea mitchell reports. >> right now on "andrea mitchell reports" red flag, the former acting attorney general explaining why her alert was so urgent. >> not only did we believe the russians new this, but they likely had prove, and that created a compromised situation where the national security advisor could be blackmailed by the russians. you don't want your national security advisor compromised with the russians. >>> back to combat, they back a and will president trump now sign on? >> first of all, in afghanistan we're up against a determined enemy. >> and the kimmel test. outrage over the voters back home over health care, jimmy kimmel follows up on his emotional monologue on pre-existing conditions like his instant sun. >> i saved health insurance in the united states of america, thank you. >> what's in a? i didn't? i didn't save it? they voted against it anyway? i really need to pay more attention to the ws. and good day, everyone. i'm anda mitchell in washington. a possible increase of more than 3,000 u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan after he spent years calling on h

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live in washington right now "andrea mitchell reports." >> comey fired. the president fires the fbi director, the man in charge of investigating possible links between russia and the trump campaign. >> did the president fire director comey to impede the russian investigation. >> as you know very clearly and stated repeatedly and the president has been told, he is not under investigation. >> democrats calling for a special prosecutor. >> our democratic colleagues are complaining about the removal of an fbi director that they themselves sharply and repeatedly criticized. >> i think that the committee can carry out it's responsibili responsibility. >> if there was ever a time you could warden a special prosecut prosecutor. >> i can't go into the specifics, but we know it was rather kpre siecomprehensive fo briefing. it was clear the fbi was taking it's job seriously and a substantial investigation was under way. >> senator diane feinstein hinting that james comey had a lot say about the classified briefing about the russian investigation. how can the preside

nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell, jeremy bash, chief of staff to both the director of the cia and the secretary of defense during the obama years and former counsel to the house intel committee, matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department and an msnbc justice and security analyst, and here in new york, nicolle wallace, former white house communications director for bush 43 and host of her own broadcast here, deadline white house here at 4:00 p.m. weekdays. welcome to you all. matthew, because of your experience at doj, i'm going to begin with you. chiefly, most importantly, what does this do to the investigation? >> well, i think first of all, it's a sign there is going to be a robust investigation that looks at every possible act of wrongdoing. one of the things about bob mueller, you know, he has -- he's really unique in that he has both investigative experience by leading the fbi and prosecutorial experience as a u.s. attorney and as a leader in the criminal division. i think what you'll see from him is an investigation that is very qu

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[hero] i'll take my chances. >>> and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." g the president's first foreign trip. follow us online, on facebook and twitter. and katie is up next right here on nbc. hi, katie. >> hi, andrea. good afternoon. i'm filling in for craig melvin. my big foreign trip, that's what donald trump is calling it. this hour, we'll see the president leave for his first overseas trip as commander in chief. this morning, the president tweeting he'll protect american interests. but how will other world leaders receive him and his policies? >>> new reports that vice president mike pence was kept out of the loop 5babout the investigation into michael flynn. >>> and the right stuff? why joe biden saying hillary clinton wasn't a great candidate for president but he was. >>> we start with that big international trip, though. a nine-day visit will take the president to the middle east and to europe, two areas of the world that have not taken kindly to his past rhetoric about islam. president trump leaves the fbi without a nominee for director and a dome

i'm andrea mitchell in jerusalem. you have been hearing extraordinary temperature, the first time we have heard john brennan testifying in front of the house intelligence committee today. he is now at johns hopkins university. first, you held that job, you know how tough it is, he said that he had seen enough intelligence before he left office to warrant the fbi to investigate possible connections between what he called u.s. persons connected to the trump campaign, and russian officials. break that down for us. >> i expect what he is talking about here is that he saw contacts between members of the trump campaign or entourage. and perhaps russians that were acting as intermediaries. that would not be surprising at all. we don't know exactly what happened, but a typical way for an intelligence service to operate, especially a skilled, experienced one like russian, is to basically take some time to build relationships, develop contacts, and just start a relationship with someone to see where it goes. this is before you

andrea mitchell also standing by, our chief foreign affairs correspondent. so is steve clemens, editor at large at "the atlantic." and we also have the ambassador with us, as well. andrea, let me come to you for a moment. again, you've watched this play out here since trump touched down in saudi arabia to great fanfare. what do you make of the president's visit so far? as we watch president trump and melania trump make their way up the step there is to greet mr. and mrs. netanyahu. >> reporter: let's just listen in and hear what they may say, craig, as they're greeting each other. >> welcome to our palace. just sign the guest book. [ inaudible ] [ no dialogue ] [ inaudible ] >> andrea, i'm not sure if you know the answer to this question, but it's not going to stop me from asking it. what exactly is the president signing leer ining here in the do we know? >> yes, he's signing a guest book and writing quite a bit of an inscription. i can't read the inscription, nor should i. but they usually release those afterwards. but he's signing a guest book, and we heard

that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports". show on-line at facebook and twitter @mitchell reports. craig melvin is up next on msnbc. >> hey, andrea. good afternoon to you. craig melvin live at msnbc headquarters here in n yor on a busy tuesday. strong armed tactics. president trump on the offense with tweets and a speech going after congress and democrats. what's behind his latest attacks? also, russian connection, the president speaking with russia's president vladimir putin on the phone in the past hour. what their conversation could mean for the growing tensions between the united states and russia. and hillary speaks. the former democratic nominee making a very public appearance any moment now. when it happens, when she starts to speak there, we will bring it to you live. >>> but we start with president trump's speech just a few minutes ago, it was a deeply political speech, using the armed forces as a backdrop. the air force football team came to the white house rose garden in recognition of its most recent winning season

joining us live from jerusalem host of "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell. what did we learn from the president's remarks there? what does it mean for the rest of his trip that he had this incident with the russians overshadow his meeting with the israeli prime minister? obviously, the media asked him about it, but do you think it came up privately? >> reporter: i don't know if it came up privately, frankly, but i think it was something that the israelis had hoped would not be mentioned. the last thing they wanted was to draw more attention to the incident itself and his mentioning, it his bringing it up was clearly a flub. you could call it a rookie mistake. he's not as familiar with intelligence and how to handle intelligence and how sensitive that intelligence was. and why mentioning it was israel would only be the first official confirmation that it was israel that was the injured party here in terms of the israeli intelligence having been the source of that information -- the sensitive information about the laptops and potentially coming from isis. and

we get more from andrea mitchell. >> reporter: tonight hillary clinton not holding back. >> i'm now back to being an act vest citizen. >> reporter: blaming vladimir putin and wikileaks. >> every day that goes by we learn more about some of the unprecedented interference, including from a foreign power whose leader is not a member of my fan club. >> reporter: she says it was not a perfect campaign, but no mention of her failure to go to wisconsin, to campaign earlier in michigan, connect with rust belt voters in pennsylvania. all blue states that went for donald trump. or why the first female nominee could not win a majority of white, college-educated women. >> i was on the way to winning, until the combination of jim comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me but got scared off. >> reporter: clinton's explanation that wikileaks dump of her campaign manager's e-mails planned to distract from the "access hollywood" tape. >> within an hour or two of the hollywood access tape being made public, the russian theft

that does it for this edition of andrea mitchell reports.aty tur is here next on msnbc. >> looks nice down there in d.c. i'm katy tur at msnbc news headquarters. several big events happening. the white house press briefing and president trump is meeting with the crown prince of . today president trump is trying to project the image of a leader in charge even injecting an element of politics into what was supposed to be a solemn memorial day service for fallen police officers around the country. >> i want you to know that patriotic americans of all back grounds truly support and love our police. and a very sad thing is that many of today's politicians don't want to say that, don't want to talk about that because it's not politically correct

andrea mitchell's conversation with james clapper. new details. plus this. >> i think what needs to happen is to clear this cloud. the cloud that's hanging over the administration, over the president and the white house. it would be in he have one's best interests to get to the bottom of this and for the untry. otherwise, this is going t continue to linger as a dark oud over, in my opinion, over this administration. >> we have a lot to get to this hour. and fortunately the best in the business are here to walk us through it. so let's get right to it. kelly o'donnell on the lawn of the white house. pete williams from the d.c. bureau. manny gomez is a retired fbi agent, jeremy peters with new reporting from "the new york times" and allan dershwitz was specifically mentioned by sean spicer last hour. kelly, i'll start with you. we just heard sean spicer pass on questions about whether or not there are recording devices in the white house. it started with the lester holt news making one-on-one exclusive interview yesterday which sparked a series of tw

andrea mitchell has the video and the fallout. >> you could call it a bodyguard riot. security men guarding turkey's president erdogan in one of washington's fanniest neighborhoods. 11 people injured, two seriously. two protesters arrested. only blocks from former president obama's house. and where ivanka trump and jared kushner live as well as secretary of state rex tillerson. erdogan's men stomping on victims. >> it appears to be unprovoked. and appears to be brutal. >> the attacks only hours after president trump rolled out the red carpet for turkey's strong man. >> it's a great honor to have president erdogan from turkey here. >> reporter: protesters crying out on erdogan's crackdown on dissidents back home. none of that mentioned at the white house. >> it's outrageous. we ought to stand for something in our country. and we should say very strongly, that is not the way we do things in america. dictator in turkey may do it, but it's not the way we do it in america. >> reporter: tonight the state department is protesting to turkey, the police chief says those respons

"andrea mitchell reports." you are joining us here on president trump's fourth day of his first foreign trip. >> reporter: in fact when we see the president in the west bank for the first time he can certainly get a better understanding of the geography. that's something that all presidents i have covered have noticed when they come to israel, how close everything is, how small it is. how close as ayman knows so well knowing this hour, how close these people are living. and perhaps going to bethlehem it's not as graphic as it is going to ram allah because of the wall and the security checkpoints that proliferate in that section n that route to ramala, the capital of the palestinian authority. that's even more dramatic that the people who live in the best bank have now become -- living in such a divided area because the settlements have now become large cities, pockets expanding within the west bank. and that is the complaint that he is going to hear from mahmoud abass today. the fact that they longer have the v

. >> nbc's chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is in jerusalem this morning. good morning, andrea. what's the latest on the president's trip this morning? >> reporter: right now he's just arrived at the jewish museum, a cultural institution, archaeological muse sem. it also has ancient texts, the dead sea scrolls. he's going to give the final speech of this trip. earlier today, as you just pointed out, he was in bethlehem with mahmoud abbas, the palestinian leader, pledging to do everything he could to help israel and the palestinians try to reach peace, although he has certainly not embraced the palestinian claims that go back for decades now and have been endorsed by not only the u.n. and international community but previous u.s. presidents, democratic and republican alike, that they should be negotiating along the terms of the 1967 borders for land, for statehood in the west bank and they should be deciding on the future of jerusalem with each having its equities. that's not the position of israel. the president has not weighed in on those details at all. bu

>> andrea mitchell, at the state department. thank you. >>> tomorrow, i'll travel to the white house for the first interview with the president since his firing of the fbi director. it's an nbc news exclusive. we'll have it here on "nbc nightly news." >>> still tonight, more on the day's other headlines including the dangerous operation at the largest nuclear waste site in the nation, after a radioactive scare there. >>> also, child safety alert, a warning over something that sends 50 kids an hour to emergency rooms. stay with us. >>> we're back now with details to the in the largest radioactive scare at the largest nuclear site. today workers took on a dangerous and delicate operation. nbc's gadi schwartz with the details. >> reporter: crews carefully filling a partially collapsed tunnel with soil, inside cars with toxic waste in the days processing weapon's grade plutonium. >> it's like having fukushima sitting in your backyard ready to go off. >> reporter: the cars were sealed in tunnels to contain the radiation. plans called

that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." how on-line and facebook @mitchell reports. craig melvin is up next. >> good to see you. good afternoon to you. craig melvin from msnbc headquarters in new york. we start this hour at the white house. you can see the roosevelt room there. any moment we are expecting to see president donald trump and the visiting president of turkey, they will be making statements. president erdogan in town. moments ago we just saw them in the oval office. we are, of course, waiting to see if the president addresses the controversy surrounding whether he disclosed class fide information to the russians. "the washington post," the first to report that sources inside the administration say the president shared highly classified information with the russian depp mats who visited the oval office last week. the only pictures of that meeting are pictures th were provided by russian media because u.s. journalists were not allowed in. few republicans coming to his defense yet national security adviser general h

nbc's andrea mitchell has more on that. >> reporter: october 2010. authorities find a printer cartridge loaded with explosives on a u.p.s. plane thanks to a tip from the saudis about an al qaeda bombmaker. june 2009, iran's critical equipment misfires the result of a computer virus created by israel in partnership with the cia. april 2012, a saudi and british spy gives the cia plans for an al qaeda bomb designed to bring down a passenger plane. the fear now foreign intelligence services will not share top-secret plots like those with the u.s. because they do not trust the president of the united states to keep a secret. >> this reinforces a concern they've had for a long time but it takes it to another level, i think. >> reporter: today britain's prime minister deflecting questions but they say they are worried. >> it's not up to me what president trump says. >> reporter: the germans not happy the way the president treated their leader, angela merkel, now angry he is sharing intelligence with russia. >> it sends a very bad signal that president trump

our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell has more. >> reporter: awkward timing for the white house, russia's top diplomat visiting washington hours after president trump fires the fbi director investigating possible links between the trump campaign and russia's election hacking? >> did the comey firing cast a shadow? >> you're kidding. you're kidding. >> his reaction after all reporters were barred but official photographers let in. russia's agency releasing more than 20 photos of the meeting from every angle. president trump with the russian foreign minister, president trump with the foreign ambassador, a central figure in the controversy over fired national security advisor. no pictures released yet by the white house. not a lot was released about what they discussed but we know they agreed on one thing, the russia investigation is fake news. vladimir putin today after skating in a celebrity hockey game asked by cbs how comey's firing will affect u.s. russia relations. >> translator: will will be no effect he says. we have nothing to do with that. president trump is a

. >>> this is andrea mitchell in jerusalem. president trump dining with the netanyahus and tackling middle east peace, learning on the job. >> i've heard it's one of the toughest deals of all. >> reporter: realizing that a peace deal is harder than he thought only a few weeks ago. >> it's a -- something i think is frankly making not as difficult as people have thought over the years. >> reporter: on a trip filled with symbols, holy sites, welcome, dances and a glowing orb, it's a challenge just to get israelis and palestinians talking to each other. instead today, anger in israel over a palestinian protest. the hostility decades deep on both sides. >> today there was a strike to support palestinians in jail for killing israelis? give me a break. you cannot. you cannot seek peace when you support terror. >> what they are trying to do is forge an agreement that will simply be shoved down the throats of palestinians. >> reporter: and donald trump with a new approach, hoping stronger relations with israel can produce small steps wi

has forever changed the way the united states -- >> it is corrosive. >> andrea mitchell, thank you song on this morning. >> final thoughts to andrea. >> i can just hear zbig talking now, speaking, we can hear his voice. his thoughts live on in the straj teamingic vision, and the thoughts he transmitted to all of us, the inspiration he was. and what's really saddening in what we're seeing now is as europe is understand at least rhetorical attack of the u.s., the victor is vladimir putin and this newly conceived russian empire that he imagines. as weak as russia is economically, he's doing extraordinary damage and we're seeing the fallout of that every day. >> mika, also, for the white house what has to be maddening is there are a lot of thing you can look at in the trip to saudi arabia and the trip to israel and score some of those as actually positive developments, as possibilities at the very lea least. we talked about his reaching out to the sunni world in a way united states hasn't in eight years. but europe completely eclipsed that. >> it sure does. we haven't gotten to the questi

>> andrea mitchell, thanu. continues his trip abroad, the russia investigation continues to make headlines at home as former national security advisor michael flynn says he's taking the fifth and not cooperating with a subpoena and there is word from a top democrat in congress saying he has documents that show flynn lying to investigators about money from russia. nbc's peter alexander has late details. >> reporter: tonight, ousted national security advisor michael flynn facing fire according to this letter from the democrat on the committee. flynn appears to have lied to security clearance investigators by telling him he was paid by u.s. companies when attending this gala with vladimir putin. in fact, the moscow trip was financed by russian state media. flynn now planning to plead the fifth invoking his right against self-incrimination after a senate subpoena for personal documents. a source close to flynn telling nbc highly imprudent to compile. >> i don't believe someone this high up in the food chain will be

nbc's andrea mitchell leading us off tonight. james comey has the green light to testify to congress as early as next week. permission from special counsel robert mueller and expected to be asked about what the president said to him about the russia probe. nbc news previously reported comey told friends he felt pressure to back off from the investigation. this is the house intelligence committee approved seven subpoenas, four for michael flynn, trump lawyer michael cone and their businesses on the russia probe and three for classified reports related to whether former obama officials improperly accessed the identity of trump associates and intelligence reports. rice strongly denied it to us. >> did you leak the name of mike flynn? >> i leaked nothing to nobody and never have and never would. >> reporter: meanwhile, hillary clinton blasted russian spies for hacking her campaign manager e-mails and working with american political operatives she said to target her campaign [000:02:58;00] opinion, and based on the intel and counter i

andrea mitchell, thank you v much. >> we'll be getting back to andrea.nd the world is watching president trump this morning with america's closest ally under attack. and a white house facing striking and stunning new allegations of trying to influence u.s. spy services at the very highest level. just moments ago, the president took part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the holocaust memorial in jerusalem. is he expected to make remarks at the israel museum at any moment now. that will be his last scheduled address in the middle east before leaving for rome later this morning. back at home, new reporting says president trump not only pushed james comey to squash the russia investigation but leaned on the head of the nsa and the director of national intelligence. joe, this appears to be closing in on president trump. i understand that mueller has a major investigation before him and there are many more details to come out. but what are we looking at right now? >> well, what we're looking at is a president, and many people around the president, who seemed to

her name is andrea mitchell. not to be confused with nbc andrea mitchell. this is the young woman who got that hug and promise he would not take away her health care. she joins us now from albany, new york. thank you very much for being with us. i appreciate you making the time. >> thank you so much for having me. >> so when you talked to the congressman earlier this year, we caught that exchange. we found it online. we gave it some national attention. it felt like a very personal and a very conclusive moment. he gave you that promise. i have to ask what your reaction is now that he voted to repeal the affordable care act today. >> going into the fit vote, to repeal and replace. i really thought and hoped he would not vote to repeal the aca based on that promise. and a lot of my friends and fellow constituents thought that that was very naive of me that he would vote the party line. but i honestly believed that i had talked to him and i honestly believed his promise, which may be naive. but i like to believe the best in people. >> if you don't mind me askin

we're live right now on "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. all finished. umm... you wouldn't want your painter to quit part way, i think you missed a spot. so when it comes to pain relievers, why put up with just part of a day? aleve, live whole not part. you want this color over the whole house? >>> back now live on msnbc. breaking news from capitol hill where nbc news has learned the former national security adviser to the president, michael flynn, will invoke the fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination and will notify the senate intelligence committee today that heal not comply with the subpoena seeking personal documents in the russian investigation. nbc's kasie hunt joins us now from capitol hill. casey, walk us through this a little bit. you've had a chance to speak to someone close to flynn about the circumstances here. what is their argument for his making this decision. >> reporter: the source close to flynn con confirms he intends to not respond to the senate intelligence committee doing a broad investigation into russian meddling into the

. >> andrea mitchell? >> well, not only was the u.s. wires and others kept out, this is a government agency from russia. and the russian foreign minister tweeted out the pictures of the president and lavrov immediately. we were told we were going to get a white house photo. they immediately tweeted out those pictures within minutes. so the russians had it all out globally. well, the white house press corps was kept out. it's unprecedented. >> kristen welker, who also covers the white house today happens to be on capitol hill. kristen, i guess this will put to rest any complaints about press access, because after all, they were allowed in. >> reporter: well, of course, those questions are just going to continue and undoubtedly my fellow colleagues at the white house have been pushing back againsthat toughout the day. in terms of what happenedere on capitol hill, the headlines we had a chance to ask vice president mike pence about all of this. this is an administration in damage control for all of the reasons chuck and andrea and kelly we

here's what the health and human services tom price told my colleague andrea mitchell on the issue of nearly $1 trillion in medicaid cuts earlier on "meet the press."" >> so what we're trying to do is improve the medicaid system, make it more responsive to patients so there are more resources to be able to be utilize for the disabled and aged. >> i think a lot of people will wonder how taking more than $800 billion out of something is going to put more resources in it. let me ask you one final question -- >> we'll have more of that coming up, plus the congressional budget office gets ready to score the health care bill this week. house speaker paul ryan talks about the controversy surrounding the millions at risk at loss of coverage. >> the 24 million statistic, what the cbo is saying and agree with, if the government is not going to force somebody to buy something they don't want to buy, they are not going to buy it. if they are not mandated by something unaffordable they are not going to do it. under this bill everybody gets a refundsable tax credit. >> here's moderate republican su

andrea mitchell shouted a question about comey.ait until you hear lavrov's response. >> is the comey firing shadow your talks? >> was he fired? >> yes. >> you are kidding. you are kidding. >> little sarcasm, you think? we'll have updates between that meeting, the president and lavrov as we get them. joining me now, former deputy campaign manager for martin o'mall o'malley, and then the former spokesman for speaker boehner. michael, i want to play you senator grass leley, talking ab the president's decision. >> you get a business person in there and business people are really geared to making decisions quickly. i guess that's what he was doing as a businessman. >> we learned that the president made the decision the same day he received the memo, fire james comey. took him 18 days to fire mike flynn because the white house said they were deliberating about that. what's with that? >> it feeds into the impression the white house is being run in a last-minute decision wa there weren't surrogates lined up. leaders on the hill hadn't been

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neutrogena® >>> and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports." right now on msnbc. >> good afternoon. i'm in for craig melvin in new york. toxic move? president trump is considering pulling out of the paris climate agreement. what it would mean for climate change, not to mention our relationship with the rest of the world. >>> communication breakdown. more talk of staff chicshakeups the white house. cod new communication strategy glet the focus back on their agenda? >>> sounding off. americans are still angry. more of those town halls for you. >>> we start with the president and his decision whether or not to stay in the paris climate accord. despite the onslaught of headlines saying trump is going to exit it, white house sources tell nbc news no final decision has been made. and trump is being coy on twitter, seemingly hyping this decision like another reality show. i will be announcing my decision on the paris accord over the next few days. make america great again! hallie jackson is at the white house. and anne thompson is here to discuss the

>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington watching hillary clinton just completing her commencement speech today at her alma mater. she was the speaker at her own commencement in 196. joining me now, two fellow road warriors from the 2016 presidential campaign. and you also had covered hillary clinton at the state department along with me when we travelled around the world with her. this is a speech that reflected more self confidence, and the first time i heard her directly go after president trump. >> certainly since the election. she went after him on policy grounds, grounds of legitimacy. she had specifics. she called his budget a kahn and ticked off the reasons she finds it objectionable. but mostly it was a speech aimed at young women. the people she feels were inspired by her, and who she very much doesn't want to disappoint. and it was a much more, i think, speech aimed at the resistance, that she says she is now part of, and the women's role in that, than it was about the election. >> and the comparison is explicit with the 1969 speech when she gave when richard nixon had b

nbc's andrea mitchell.hank you very much for joining us. >> still ahead we're tracking a severe storm system that could bring flooding, halarge hail an wind damage. >> plus the latest on that deadly terror attack in manchester england and how people in that city are banning together in the face of adversity. re are expecting to hear from british prime minister theresa may this morning. back after this. . >>> we are up early this morning covering two major stories. 22 people slain and dozens more wo wounded in a terrorist attack. police say the bomber is among the dead. president trump is meeting with mahmoud abbas. they gave a joint statement a short while ago. later this morning the president departs for rome after visiting the holocaust museum. >> it's also known given the display of -- one user tweeted about the cam raraderie and how some residents were inviting strangers in for beer and how they felt pride living. some offering rides saying that their meters will be turned off. one hoelg tel took in doz

right now on msnbc, a jam packed hour of "andrea mitchell reports." >> shifting stories.tradicts his top aides saying the comey firing was all about russia and he want today fire the fbi director all along. >> regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. i said to myself, you know, this is a made up story. >> the former head of u.s. intelligence james clapper's testimony backs him up, but is he mischaracterizing the chief? we ask him moments from now. dinner for two. >> the dinner arranged, he want today stay on as the fbi head, and i said i will consider, we'll see what happens, but we had a very nice dinner and he told me you're not under investigati investigation, which i new. >> and standing by your man, president trump continues to defend former advisor mike flynn. s he is a very good person. and i don't think you hear from someonyou d't even know and immediately run out and fire a general. >> why is thpr

that does it for me, we're going to hand it over to andrea mitchell who has just been at the white house. >> right now, second opinion, how republicans taking another whack at obamacare today. can they find a cure? i think you will see a vote today on the floor. >> church and state. signing their latest executive order promising change to their evangelical supporters. >> we will not allow people of faith to be targeted, bullied, or silenced any more. >>> adding this big announcement. >> my first foreign trip as president of the united states will be to saudi arabia, then i israel, and then to a place my cardinals love very much, rome. these visits will take place ahead of the nato g 7 meetings and will begin with a truly historic gathering in saudi araise ya with leaders from all across the muslim world. >> and the kremlin connection. the fbi warning russians are still meddling in u.s. politics today. >> what do you feel is the current threat. >> my view of the greatest threat of any nation on earth, given their intention and capability. >> good day, everyone. i'm ahead of what could be

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chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. chief chief of staff and former kouns thool house intel committee. matt miller, former chief spokesman for the justice department and a security analyst, and here in new york, nicole wallace, former white house communications director for bush 43. al welcome to you all. matthew, because of your experience at doj, i'm going to begin with you. most importantly, what does this do to the investigation? >> i think first of all it's a sign that there's going to be robust investigation that looks at every possible act of wrong doing. one of the things he about mueller is he has both investigative experience by leading the fbi and prosecutorial experience as a attorney and leader in the criminal division. he won't be testifying about it before congress. it will be less leaky than the investigation has been up until now but very aggressive and will move as quickly and as far as he can possibly justify. >> you've work would him. in bearing and demeanor and even his physical height, he could be

. >>> joining us in jerusalem, host, andrea mitchell.resident trump will visit some historic religious sites in israel. tell us about the agenda and how the white house has prepared for this visit. >> the white house has really prepared down to every minute. he's been running behind schedule throughout the trip so far on the saudi leg of the trip but no matter how the schedule evolves, it's going to be very tightly controlled. no news conferences, no opportunities to question the president. he, in saudi arabia was very much on script, on teleprompter in his speech. one change in his wording, which is significant, although his aids described it to fatigue. you've been pointing out radical islamic terrorism. and criticized those in the diplomatic community for not using and he used islamist extremism but actually slipped and said islamic extremism which refers more to the religion than those who try to destort the religion. he was very much on message in every regard and diplomatic and sober and i think that's what we're going to see as we

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