andrea mitchell.me. i remember telling everyone, andrea freaking mitchell came up to me and she introduced herself to me, which is crazy. because i admired you for decades. at that point 20 years. it was 20 years ago. the second thing was they threw me on the air with breaking news. i was a rookie. do you know what you said to me? tell me what i can do to help. andrea mitchell. four years. >> well, here we go. >> no one would be surprised if you did another 40. thank you for everything. >> thank you. >> thank you so much. but we also have other news to do. good afternoon from msnbc headquarters in new york. i'm chris jansing. once again taking it from the great andrea mitchell. i'm in for craig melvin. political influence. breaking news. facebook says it found a new and covert disinformation campaign.

we have nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports," a andrea mitchell. also with us, christopher dickey. and in washington, former senior director at the national security council and former special assistant to president obama ned price. welcome to you all. thank you for joining us so early on what should be a monumental day, to say the least. president trump is in finland, where later today he'll sit down with his first official meeting with vladimir putin. this summit comes on the heels of his controversial uk visit and that highly contentious nato summit from last week where among other things, the president asserted that the russian leader was not a friend nor an enemy but actually a competitor. over the weekend, trump discussed his goals and expectations for this meeting. watch this. >> what's your goal from the putin meeting? >> i'll let you know thafter th meeting. nothing bad's going to come out of it. i go in with low expectations. i'm not going in with high expectations. i don't really -- i can't tell you what's going to happen. i don

>>> and that does it for this edition of "andrea mitchell reports.":35 eastern this afternoon right her at the aspen security forum, i'll be interviewing director of national intelligence dan coats, who has stood by the intelligence about russia despite the president's obvious doubts. watch that interview live right here on msnbc and at nbcnews.com. follow our show online on fab and on twitter @mitchellreports. craig melvin is up next right here on msnbc, hi, craig. >> looking forward to that interview, my friend, take care. >> thank you. >> craig melvin here, msnbc headquarters in new york city. good afternoon to you as well. summit 2.0. in a week, the president has faced intense bipartisan criticism for his meeting with vladimir putin. he seems ready for another meeting. he hinted at it today on twitter and nbc news also has a new interview with new dissent from inside his administration on russia's role in attacking our election. plus, not a witch hunt. the fbi director christopher wray reinforcing his belief that the russia probe is, in fact, not

he's going to respond to all of this live with my colleague, andrea mitchell. joining me now from the white house is nbc news hans nichols. hans, we just found out the white house formally rejected vladimir putin's request from the russians to interview bill browder, mike mcfaul. what do you make of all of this? >> it's another day, another cleanup. now we're at thursday. this press conference happened earlier in the week. the white house is still trying to clarify things. as of yesterday, they're openly entertaining the idea of having those individuals that you mentioned go to russia and potentially be investigated. that was the intriguing proposal that mr. putin made. what you heard from sarah huckabee sanders today is that donald trump has now disagreed with that proposal. a few days ago he thought it was something that was worth pursuing. now they say it was made in sincerity, to use sarah huckabee sanders quote. it was made in sincerity but something they disagree with and will not be pursuing. at the same time, there's talk of a second meeting. as all thi

we will break it down with andrea mitchell herself right after this. >>> did you know beforehand that kislyak and the ambassador of the foreign minister were going into the oval office that day? >> i did not. >> what was your reaction? we learned about it from texts. >> probably not the best thing to do but no, i was not aware of that. >> one of the big take aways between dan coats and andrea mitchell, is that he seems to be on an island. according to the washington post, trump revealed highly classified information, coats admitted to not being briefed between what trump and putin talked about it behind closed doors for two hours. >> basically, how do you know what happened? how do you have any idea what happened in that meeting? >> you are right. i don't know what happened in that meeting. if you had asked me how that would have been conducted, i would have suggested a different way. but that is not my role. that is not my job. so it is what it is. >> at one point coats said he was just doing his job when he felt the need to correct the president on monday after the president suggest

andrea mitchell of nbc news.n counter andrea mitchell. >> should clarence thomas be willing to take a polygraph test? >> you've said what you're against. what are you for. >> with all due respect, there is a perception that people in power, particularly her in washington, are a closed club. >> take a look at the e-mail trail -- >> that is just factually not correct. >> andrea mitchell. >> andrea mitchell. >> if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." >> andrea mitchell, fort years. >> started as a kid. >> how is it possible? >> a high school reporter. >> yeah, i was just going to say. how does it feel? >> it's been -- this show above all shows, above all programs is the heart and soul of nbc news. i have been proudest of appearing here. my folks always watched it. i watched it as a kid through all of our wonderful moderators, and the legacy continues with you. >> some of the best, most uncomfortable questions you have made male senators -- it's been very interesting now. you were asking some questions about the cultu

. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," what now? the backlash of the intelligence community is building today as the director of national intelligence stunningly breaks with his boss, the president, after he sided with the russian president. and now the former director of the cia is calling president trump's praise of vladimir putin tre treason us. >> i equate it to the betrayal of one's nation, aiding and abetting, giving comfort to the enemy. >> i think the outcry needs to be strong. it needs to endure. and they need to then also take action, whether it's a censure or whether or not they are going to decide that this is not the republican party that they once knew. >>> pressure point. will republican criticism of the president's comments actually lead to any action? one gop leader who doesn't have to worry about reelection because he's on his way out, says things may change soon. >> it feels like the dam is breaking. i was really glad to see people on both sides of the aisle condemning what happened yesterday strongly. >>> and str

i'm handing over to our friend andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> is he flipping? donald trump's former personal lawyer reportedly ready to tell prosecutors that candidate trump knew about that infamous trump tower campaign meeting with the russians before it happened, something he and his eldest son have long denied. >> it was such a nothing, there is nothing to tell. i wouldn't have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was literally a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. >>> family values. up against a mandatory court deadline, the administration reunites migrant families and children after being separated for months. but hundreds more remain in custody, these children's fate unknown. >> it's terrible. the case, the immigration case itself is already confusing and very difficult. add on top of that weeks or in some cases months of having been separated from your child. >>> and coming home. north korea turning over what it claims are the remains of 55 american service members killed during the korean war. the first tangible result of

andrea mitchell conducted that interview with dan coats today.in brian williams "the 11th hour" which starts now. >>> tonight after days of bad it was news to our director of national intelligence who learned about the putin invitation while being interviewed by andrea mitchell. and he like the rest of us says he has no idea what the two men may have agreed to in private in helsinki. >>> and behind the scenes the mueller team prepares for the glare of federal court. what we learned today about the manafort trial which will be under way by this time next week. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. day 546 of the trump administration. and at the height of the hubbub over helsinki, donald trump has invited vladimir putin to washington this fall. as "the new york times" and

that is factually not correct. >> andrea mitchell. >> andrea mitchell. >> andrea mitchell. >> if it'sok at any major news event from the last 40 years and chances are you will find andrea in there potentially getting covered with a bunch of balloons, you never know. she's most likely in the center of the action, tenacious, always hungry for the next big story. after four decades, how does she do it? with drive and focus and unwavering commitment to journalism. i'm also pretty sure there are 16 expressos a day and that probably doesn't hurt either. maybe 16 bags of peanut m&ms as well. thank you for embodying what journalism is all about and setting the standards and being a personal mentor for me. that is all for today. chuck will be back tomorrow with more. "the beat" starts now? what a remarkable inspiration. as everyone says, there can only be one queen bee in every newsroom. that's andrea, without a doubt. >> on that note i have to do my show. bye. >> bye. >> the pressure is building on president trump that there may be evidence linking him to that trump tower meeting and links hi

andrea mitchell conducted that interview with dan coats today.illiams "the 11th hour" which starts now. >>> tonight after days of bad headlines after their summit together donald trump invites vladimir putin to washington this fall. it was news to our director of national intelligence who learned about the putin invitation while being interviewed by andrea mitchell. and he like the rest of us says he has no idea what the two men may have agreed to in private in helsinki. >>> and behind the scenes the

andrea mitchell is with us. she is of course is the nbc news foreign affairs correspondent and host of andrea mitchell reports at noon eastern on this network. she's in aspen tonight along with jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia and the pentagon. and with us from washington, robert costa and moderator of washington week on pbs. so, andrea, here we all were watching your interview as covered on this network on live television. it occurred to us in realtime this was nothing less than someone at long last in a way putting his job on the line for the cause. were you surprised at that, and were you equally surprised that he was in the dark as much as he was, especially this invitation for putin to come to washington? >> well, that's the way president trump operates. i've seen it with secretaries of state and other cabinet officials completely blindsided over and over again in the last 18 months by a decision from the president. and in fact members of the white house staff often shut out of a decision that

andrea mitchell conducted that interview with dan coats today. she will join brian williams "the 11th hour" which starts now. >>> tonight after days of bad headlines after their summit together donald trump invites vladimir putin to washington this fall. it was news to our director of national intelligence who learned about the putin invitation while being interviewed by andrea mitchell. and he like the rest of us says he has no idea what the two men may have agreed to in private in helsinki. >>> and behind the scenes the mueller team prepares for the glares of federal court. what we learned about the manafort trial which will be under way by this time next week. all of it as "the 11th hour" gets under way on a thursday night. >>> well, good evening once again from our nbc headquarters here in new york. day 546 of the trump administration. and at the height of the hubbub over helsinki donald trump has invited vladimir putin to washington this fall. as "the new york times" and others have been saying trump long ago became the first american presid

that is factually not correct. >> andrea mitchell. >> andrea mitchell.t's sunday, it's "meet the press." >> andrea mitchell, 40 years. >> started as a kid. >> how is it possible? >> high school reporter. >> yeah, i was going to say. how does it feel? >> it's been -- this show of all shows, above all programs, is the heart and soul of nbc news. and i have been proudest of appearing here. my folks always watched it. i watched it as a kid through all of our wonderful moderators. the legacy continues with you. >> some of the best uncomfortable questions you've asked male senators. it's been interesting, i'll say 2 this. you were asking questions about the culture before anybody else was doing it. >> the culture has been so toxic lately, we forget we've had previous difficult times here. the resilience of this country and of the news media is extraordinary and profoundly moving. but the fact that we've got big problems still to solve in our society. >> which means you're not going anywhere. you have a lot more stories to report. >> thank you. >> and we have c

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right now we hand it over to our colleague andrea mitchell. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," supreme battle. conservatives rally behind president trump's pick of brett kavanaugh and democrats try to beat the odds. >> my judicial philosophy is straightforward. a judge must be independent and must interpret the law, not make the law. >> there is no one in america more qualified for this position and no one more deserving. >> i will oppose this nominee with everything i've got. >>> reunion delay. the federal judge extending the deadline to reunite migrant children taken from their parents, as president trump issues a sharp message to others thinking about crossing the border. >> i have a solution. tell people not to come to our country illegally. >>> and mission accomplished. all 12 thai boys and their soccer coach now rescued after 18 long days, with the final five making it out today after a dangerous escape capturing the attention of the entire world. >> an absolutely remarkable operation, as the commander said, it has never been attempted by anyone, anywhere. >>> and good

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take a look. >> here is andrea mitchell. >> andrea mitchell. >> correspondent andrea mitchell. >> whate broads out of broadcasting. >> they started as a copy boy, which is what we called them. >> she's a legend, a total legend. >> she's a trail blazer, a pioneer. >> i love you, andrea, you are indefat eyeingable. you're my kind of woman. >> i'm somewhere on the floor of the convention. >> the great andrea mitchell wasn't having it. >> what about the russian investigation? >> sometimes i just pinch myself i get to work with andrea mitchell. she's one of the people who inspired me to get into this career. she's become such a mentor to me. i've learned so much. a lot of people would be surprised, we laugh a lot, too. >> gas lines can be avoided. the accident at three-mile island -- preaching mass suicide. >> not what you said sunday night, sir. >> yes, it is. >> white house say that's terrific. >> andrea. >> not to risk losing last landing opportunity so the president could get an extra hour of sleep. >> what do you say to those who feel there's a perception america is weakened. >> i'm as

so witness this, our own andrea mitchell was interviewing dan coats who happens to be the director of national intelligence in aspen, colorado, this afternoon when the news broke, and it was immediately apparent it was news to him. >> we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again? >> you -- vladimir putin coming to the -- >> yeah, i hear you -- >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. that's going to be special. >> the associated press reports putin told russian diplomats today the helsinki meeting was successful. he has briefed his own diplomatic core on the meeting. president trump has not done the same. in that same interview today dni coats in aspen dp gave the assessment of the meeting in helsinki. >> moments after the president appeared to be siding with vladimir putin over you, you personally by name, you stood up and spoke out. >> i just felt at this point in time that what we had assessed and reassessed and reassessed and carefully gone over still stands and that it was important to take tha

is unclear but certainly a surprise to the nation's top intellence official what learned from andrea mitchell during an interview at an event in colorado. >> we have some the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again. [ laughter ] >> vladimir putin -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. >> yeah. [ laughter ] >> that's going to be topecial. >> dirof national intelligence dan coats, one of several top officials nbc news questioned exclusivy appearing to the aspen security forum where the helsinki summit is very much top of mind. christopher wray said nothing said at the summit chang the bottom line about russian election meddling. tonight, two of president trump's law enforcement with remarkable push back, director of national intelligence dan coats on the president standing with vladimir ng putin dismisntel agency conclusions on russian meddling. >> obviously, i wished he made a different statemenbut i think that now that has been clarified. nd about that one on one meeting between the president and putin. >> if

now i hand you off to andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> coming up, conservative republicans trying to impeach rod rosenstein. the house speaker making it clear moments ago he will not let this go forward. >> i don't think we should be cavalier with this process or this term. number two, i don't think this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. >>> defiant. national security adviser john bolton called the mueller probe a witch hunt. as the secretary of state is put me he wi me -- pummelled by the senate committee. >> i've listened to your political soliloquy. if you want to talk about politics, if president obama did what president trump did in helsinki, i would be peeling you off the capitol ceiling. please. >>> and race against time. the trump administration has just 12 hours to get 1,600 kids back to their parents as confusion reigns over what rights these parents still have. msnbc's mariana atencio spoke with one father who was lucky enough to be reunited with his daughter. >> reporter: "all we want is to have our kids back. so they sold us you're going to ha

. >> we hand you off to andrea mitchell. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell reports," wrecking ball. president trump blasts our nato allies, accusing germany of being, quote, captive of russia. >> germany is totally controlled by russia. they're getting 60 to 70% of their energy from russia and a new pipeline. and you tell me if that's appropriate. >>> growing despair. migrant parents pleading to be reunited with their children, including dozens of babies and toddlers, after the government misses the initial deadline to bring them back together. and many have no idea when they will see their kids. >> i met with another mother yesterday that has been detained here for almost six weeks now. and she has yet to have a phone call with her son. >>> and victory at last. high spirits in thailand as the 12 boys rescued from the careful recover in the hospital, flashing victory signs today. >> at the hospital, more celebrations. inside, the boys reunited and well. >>> good day, everyone. i'm andrea mitchell in washington. president trump hijacking the opening of the nato summit today with a bl

it's a professional investigation conducted by a man i consider a straight shooter. >> andrea mitchell, that was an extraordinary interview with the intelligence chief. what do you make of what we've been witnessing the last 24 hours? >> it's just amazing, lester. my big takeaway after a remarkable 24 hours is that it is very rare for two top officials in law enforcement and intelligence to stand up to the president of the united states. both chris wray and dan coats are putting their jobs on the line, frankly, making it clear they will not compromise national security or let intelligence be politicized despite politics. they agree that russia is a danger, as coats told me today, they are the ones, russia, who are trying to undermine our basic values. they are the ones trying to wreak havoc with our elections, and, he said, eigit's critical that we call them out on that with the elections coming up. >> andrea mitchell in aspen, thank you. >>> now to the immediate fallout, a day after the white house said trump was considering putin's proposal to have russia question americans. we get a

i just have to say a word about andrea mitchell. she was a part of the press corps at the state department that covered me when i was secretary and the truth of the matter is if she had been a great journalist she would benefit policy specialist. she truly loves it. thanks for all your great work max those are the days. [inaudible] how i define and think about political risk? we wrote this book out of the class that amy and i talked together. we had talked together in a course called the global context which was really about everything that happens in the world that affects business and we taught it for mbas. one of the things that was never covered very adequately in this course were political risks in the way that political scientists might think about them. not investment risk. political risk seemed to have been overshadowed or have the shadow of the way people thought about political risk in the 1960s and 1970s. some socialist dictator going to appropriate your property or nationalized industry and of course today that's almost

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they asked her a question and then andrea mitchell says what does somebody have to do i guess andrea didn't get the memo but she says what does somebody have to do to get fired from what they say on social media and joy read look and i see more passion than hostage videos she looks like the deer in the headlights like what are you asking me this for so add it can only conclude that they're hanging on to her for reasons that transcend. apparent talent maybe there's something else i don't know i'm not kreskin i'm on a mind reader well well we found out this week that what you post can end your career you know. roseanne but this is an activist not a journalist and she appears on meet the press she appears with andrea mitchell who has got a story book journalistic career there their lead talent. rachel maddow yet they seem to embrace a woman who does puts things on her posts and has a passive is very questionable why isn't her past questionable and why isn't this coming into play what is the network trying to protect in your opinion why why would they do this and the other thing is is yo

right now we hand you off to our colleague andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> and right on "andrea mitchell reports," the president threatens to yank the security clearance of his critics. >>> more than 460 migrant parents separated from their children may have already been deported. msn msnbc's mariana atencio talks to one father who got

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. a colossal political showdown is shaping up over the president's choice to replace retiring supreme court justice anthony kennedy with the announcement now scheduled for a week from today. major flash point, roe v. wade. the landmark 1973 ruling legalizing abortion. a litmus test for at least two female republican senators whom the president needs in his corner. one of them republican senator susan collins of maine, already signaling she could break with her party. another republican lindsey graham telling chuck todd on "meet the press" that roe is settled law and should not be overturned. president trump making it clear during the campaign that any of the conservatives on his list that he would appoint would go after abortion rights. he told fox business news' maria bartiromo he expects democratic opposition. >> i think, yes, we will go very quickly. i believe that a lot of people think it's going to be a very -- it's probably going to be vicious because the other side, all they can

well, here to talk about all of it, andrea mitchell, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent. and retired four star army general barry mccaffrey who is a democratic veteran of vietnam, former battlefield commander in the persian gulf. welcome you to both. the only way to start on north korea is in simple english and that is did we get played? >> we sure did get played. and pompeo with the best of intentions to try to flush out what in fact was agreed to in singapore if anything, he got snubbed. sarah sanders said he would be meeting with kim jong-un. he was not. that meeting was never in the cards. and, in fact, he spent two days going through endless long, multicourse dinners, lavish dinners that he had no taste for, appetite for and didn't get to the substance. they never got to the meat as to what really was agreed to in singapore. and that's the problem. the president referring to a contract? what they signed were promises, empty promises, in fact. when he said in the tweet today that he relied more -- put more importance on the hand shake with kim jong-un, why on earth wo

let's watch the moment when andrea mitchell broke the news on the air and told director coates about the invitation from ambassador bolton to vladimir putin. >> i do want to say we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. >> say that again. [ laughter ] >> vladimir putin coming to -- >> did i hear you? >> yeah, yeah. >> okay. [ laughter ] >> that's going to be special. >> to be clear, he did not know. matt miller? >> that's no way to run a railroad. there are a lot of reasons why he might have done it. one reason is to get ahead of the russians, one. i was thinking the same thing you did. the interview was carried on all three networks. we know the president watches a lot of cable. one of the first questions andrea mitchell asked him was about the president's siding with vladimir putin over the u.s. intelligence -- >> you think it was a screw you? >> and dan coates very pointedly in his low, kind of understated way said that he disagreed with the president, wish he hadn't said that. wouldn't surpri

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reports andrea mitchell, former u.s. ton, d.c. department of defense, nbc news national security news analyst, jeremy bash. andrea, give us your sense of what the president has brought over the last seven days, culminating with that interview in which he talked about the biggest foe of the u.s. being the european union, he listed russia, he listed china but the first name to roll off his tong the european union. how much have things changed from a foreign policy perspective here over the last seven days. >> very dramatically. you could take it back even earlier to the g7 meeting in quebec and singapore summit. to focus on europe for now, the head of eu responded and the german foreign minister today telling the press in germany that he can no longer entirely rely on the united states. think of it. and now we have these tweets from the president running up to today's meeting with vladimir putin saying that the relations with russia are the worst they've been in years but blaming it on the united states, not blaming it on t

and from helsinki finland, chief correspondent affairs, host andrea mitchell reports nbc, andrea mitchell such an honor to have you here. thank you for staying up with us. >> thank you. absolutely. >> i have watched so many of these meetings, dozens of types of meetings with foreign leaders over the years. this seems like everything this president does, stunning in a way that is extraordinarily difficult to kind of understand and explain. what's your latest reporting going into this summit? and can you put it in some historical context? what do you think is important here and different than what you've seen before? >> sure. i think this is unique because we've never had a summit with a kgb spy master, someone who has, you know, completely studied and examined donald trump, and a president who spent the weekend golfing and has not been preparing. there were no principal meetings, no planning for the summit, no deeply organized strategy sessions, what is the agenda, what are the goals, what do they want to get out of it. so, we could be surprised, they could come out and say we've made prog

affairs correspondent and host of "andrea mitchell reports" here on msnbc and tonight's panel, danielle pletka, an nbc news contributor, jonathan lemire, an nbc news contributor and heather mcghee, senior fellow at demos action and also an nbc news contributor. andrea, let's start with you. you were able to break the news to the dni in the moment, vladimir putin is coming to the white house. your reaction to that and the interview as a whole. it was remarkable. >> what was so remarkable was that, first of all, he honestly did not know that putin had been invited. he acknowledged that he would certainly recommend that there not be a one-on-one again without note takers, that he did not think it was a good idea. still does not know what took place in helsinki in that private meeting, has not been fully debriefed. there have been some comments by the president, but they don't fully know and don't know certainly how to counteract what is being said in moscow. he said that he did not know in advance that foreign minister lavrov from russia and ambassador kislyak were going to the white house

right now on "andrea mitchell reports," tale of the tape. the president's reaction today following the release of a recording secretly taped by his lawyer michael cohen, of the two men talking two weeks before the election about hush money, trying to silence a former playboy playmate who alleges a ten-month affair with mr. trump. >> so i'm all over that. and i spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing -- >> what financing? >> well, we'll have to pay. >> we now have the leader of the free world on tape, two months before election day, really enmeshed in the details of the payment of hush money to a woman they wanted to keep quiet. >>> diplomatic insecurity. the former american ambassador to moscow heads to the white house. state and justice departments. trying to get the administration to tell vladimir putin not to dare prosecute former officials on trumped-up criminal charges. >> if that happens, then we all have to worry about, when we travel abroad for a red notice to be put out by interpol asking for us to be arrested

i'm andrea mitchell in washington. it's only just past 11:00 at night in thailand where four more boys are safe and being treated in a local hospital after 17 days trapped in a cave with their soccer team. today's massive rescue effort means a total of eight boys have now been rescued while four more boys and their coach still remain trapped in the cave where heavy rains obliterated their path out 17 days ago. janis mackey frayer is in thailand with the latest. there has somebody a lot of excitement and still trepidation as eight are now out but they have to worry about the four remaining and, of course, the coach. >> they need to also take some time to prepare for this last and what could be the final phase of the rescue mission. they've been employing a system where they've been bringing them out two at a time, but only four per trek. so they aren't sure if they're going to have the capacity to alter that system that they have in place so that they can bring five out tomorrow. they need upwards of 20 hours where they

right now we hand you off, "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell is live from aspen, colorado, wherewoman has been working overtime. >> thank you both so much. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell at the aspen security forum in colorado. we continue the coverage, reporting out moments ago from "the new york times," president trump's embattled former personal attorney michael cohen secretly recorded a conversation with then-candidate donald trump months before the 2016 election regarding payments to a former play b playboy model. joining me now by phone, matt apuz apuzzo, one of the reporters who broke the story in "the new york times," and our k

right now we hand you off to our colleague andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> and right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the president threatens to yank the security clearance of his critics. >>> more than 460 migrant parents separated from their children may have already been deported. msn msnbc's mariana atencio talks to one father who got his child back. >> reporter: i spent 20 days without being able to speak to him. every time they move me from one facility to another, i would say, and my children, what about my children? >>> and no laughing matter. how the attorney general of the united states responded to chants from a high school audience echoing trump campaign rallies. >> ha ha ha. lock her up. [ audience chants "lock her up" ] >>> and good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. president trump is setting off political fireworks with an an unprecedented threat to strip security clearances from half a dozen former top national security and intelligence officials, veteran officials, some of whom worked for decades under presidents of both political parties. >> t

we hand off to andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> right now, fighting words. president trump goes on a late-night tweet storm threatening iran in all caps while his secretary of state encouraged iranians to overthrow their own government. >> while it is ultimately up to the iranian people to determine the direction of their country, the united states in the spirit of our own freedoms will support the long-ignored voice of the iranian people. >>> court date. paul manafort has his day in court. one last argument to delay the trial. his request, a trial slated to start later this week. the government has so far won every round. >> these are top prosecutors. and they are going to be ready and they're going to be polished and prepared. what you're going to see, i believe, is a very, very impressive trial presentation. >>> and embracing russia. for the fifth time in a week, the president reverts to calling russia's election hacking a hoax. while the justice department for the first time in history releases a secret surveillance order that controversial fisa warrant

and our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell is here with me for more analysis on what we might expect going into this. >> lester, former officials who dealt with this in the past are alarmed. they say this is the first such summit for which there is no agenda, no advance gn national security meetings to iron out a strategy. putin, a former kbg official, will be prepared even if president trump is not. they could do serious business, like reviving nuclear arms talks and dealing with syria. overshadowing everything now will be whether he challenges putin on the indictment of those 12 russian military intelligence officers. rather than going in with a plan to challenge putin, this weekend the president is blaming the victims, saying the democrats should have done more to protect themselves from being hacked. another concern, will he freelance the way the president did with kim jong-un in singapore, giving away military exercises in the baltics, even recognizing russia's annexation of crimea. >> not a lot of time to get it all in. >> exactly. >> andrea mitchell, thank you.

right now we hand you off, "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell is live from aspen, colorado, where this woman has been working overtime. >> thank you both so much. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell at the aspen security forum in colorado. we continue the coverage, reporting out moments ago from "the new york times," president trump's embattled former personal attorney michael cohen secretly recorded a conversation with then-candidate donald trump months before the 2016 election regarding payments to a former play b playboy model. joining me now by phone, matt apuz apuzzo, one of the reporters who broke the story in "the new york times," and our kristen welker at the white house. matt? >> thank you, and amazing work out of aspen. >> thank you. >> what we know is that michael cohen who had a propensity for secretly taping conversations with his adversaries, also taped a conversation with donald trump about whether or not to make a payment to this former playboy model who claimed an affair. and this payment is super important because ultimately she sold her story about her affair with

and certainly the president has reportedly been upset with that exchange between andrea mitchell and dan coats. a remarkable statement there. so you would have to think that word from the white house got to coats, ask that led to that statement. >> jay, your thoughts on that one? >> when he heard the news, he said, well, that's going to be special, in a way that clearly meant that it was -- i mean, almost sarcastic. and so he's clearly trying to pacify the president and say i didn't mean to insult you, i didn't mean to undermine your messaging here. and that, you know, i respect you as president. obviously he was the one who appointed dan coats as the director of national intelligence. so he's trying to walk it back and trying to manage his boss. >> jay newton-small, john cue zach, thank you so much. >>> why vladimir putin wanted to interrogate michael mcfaul as part of what the president called an incredible offer. >>> but our next guest says the president may not have committed tre treason in helsinki, but there are grounds for impeachment. guy! let's do this. (♪) okay you gotta be

that's going to do it for this edition of "andrea mitchell's report."as the interview with dan coats. the director national of intelligence. you can follow the story online. i am chris jansing, craig melvin is up next on an incredible busy day. >> thanks so much chris. good afternoon to you, craig melvin here in new york city. no, the last hour, president trump just said no he does not think russia is targeting the united states. to be clear again, that's contrary to what his intelligence have said and what leading lawmakers of his own party have said. with that, he digs deeper into the controversies that he's trying to put behind ever since he left hin helsinki and a russian woman accused of being a spy will be in court. the plan that