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jonl lamier and ashley parker, reporter for "the washington post." ashley, you're a stylist among stylists here. i would like to begin here. michael cohen had a vision of life far different from the life he's having in new york right now, living in a hotel because a pipe in his trump apartment building burst. everyone now knows where to try to see him as he gets into any er of cabs and lifts and ubers to go about his business. this is a guy who thought he might be white house counsel. what are you hearing on the other end from people in the west wing about the plight, the life and potentially the future of mr. cohen? >> son the one people inside the white house are not particularly sympathetic to him. there's a reason that his life has turned out very differently than he envisioned it. and sort of almost since the campaign, it's been a series of disappointments. he expected a huge role on the campaign. he didn't have that. he was sort of shunted off to an office in trump tower but not officially part of the campaign. he expected to come to wah theesid

ashley parker, pulitzer prize-winning reporter for "the washington post." robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post," moderator of "washington week" on pbs. and daniel goldman is back with us here in new york, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. well, matt, this is your beat. i think reuters came out with this story first tonight. you have since written and reported about it. tell us what you've learned, what we should know about this court filing tonight about paul manafort and what he is alleged to have been up to on the witness tampering front. >> just when you think you can, you know, put the news down for a minute, right? what happened was bob mueller's team filed a motion tonight and ge basically an emergency hearing to either revoke paul manafort's bond or basically rewrite and tighten the restrictions on him. they said that he has been, over the last several months, trying to get in contact with a pair of public relations officials who could, in turn, get in touch with some former european l

panel is still here along with ashley parker.ley, some of the reporters who covered that trip said they've never seen anything like it. i used to get to go on those trips because i was outranked by dan and others. nothing ever happens. there is never any news. everybody getsalong. there's a photo op and you go home. but not donald trump. >> no, you're right. those are sort of the easy trips, the prelude to the summit. but the thing that was most striking about the president's behavior in canada, in a sort of classic to himn general is that, yes, we have reports that inside the room he arrived at the summit late. he left early. he did that very trumpian body language where he tells you he's unhappy by scowling and crossing his arms. you know, kind of hitting the leaders here and there especially on trade. but again, what was striking was that the president, while he loves a good enemy or adversary and loves to be a counter puncher, he's not actually that great at doing it person to person when he's in the room. so, he left the sum

ashley parker, thank you as well. >>> home from prison.an exclusive interview, a grandmother telling nbc news what it was like to have kim kardashian west plead for her freedom to the president. and she also talked about the moment her lawyer told her she was getting out. >> when she said that, i went into full-fledged pentecostal holy dance, i started screaming and jumping. >>> and pardons are becoming a big part of trump's son-in-law jarrett kushner's agenda. a new report lays out how it fits into a larger strategy for kushner and the specific part of his work that drives attorney general jeff sessions bonkers. her salon was booked for weeks, until her laptop crashed this morning. having it problems? ask a business advisor how to get on demand tech support for as little as $15 a month. this week get boise case paper for only $29.99 at office depot office max. i saw my leg did not look right. i landed. i was just finishing a ride. i felt this awful pain in my chest. i had a pe blood clot in my lung. i was scared. i had a dvt blood clot. h

ashley parker, you're a white house correspondent for the "post". a new sophisticated listening devices are being around 17th and pennsylvania that are trying to suck up every electronic signal in the vicinity. what are you doing about that as a reporter that has to live there? >> well, i mean, one thing is -- and this is not specific to that. but just in this media environment, and i can't really go into specifics. but the "washington post", like i imagine just about every other major publication, we take as many precautions as possible from usingen cry en crypted mes apps. meeting people in person. not doing something over the phone. not doing something over text message or even an encrypted app. that is for our protection and our source protection. i can say on some of the more sensitive stories i've worked on, the people we deal with have a similar sense of i want to say healthy paranoia. it is not quite meeting in parking garages but meeting face-to-face off site in person in a pretty protective, proactive way. >> that is the new norm. josh, th

ashley parker, you, too, thank you for spending time with us. both of you come back if anything dramatic happens in this hour. you never know. we'll be right back. inds? or plan for tomorrow? at kpmg, we believe success requires both. with our broad range of services and industry expertise, kpmg can help you anticipate tomorrow and deliver today. kpmg. >>> how do you justify this policy? >> it's zero tolerance. i don't think you have to justify it. it's a crime to come across illegally and children get separated. i hate to say it that's the law and he's enforcing the law. >> ay-ay-ay. nearly 200 minors a day are being detained in the united states. many fleeing unsafe homes. many of them ripped from their parents. and steve bannon who says he speaks for the president's base says there's nothing to justify. joining our conversation now, heidi, national political reporter for nbc news. heidi, what are you picking up from your sources about the ripple effects? we made a list and it took us 1 1/2 seconds of the republicans who have spoken up. susan

factor to this president and this administration. >> eli stokols, peter baker, kristen welker, ashley parker. ashley, have a good weekend. everyone else as well. but ashley, have you a good weekend. >> coming up -- the president is not telling the truth. >> there was no obstruction and if you read the report, you'll see that. >>> again, fact check -- not true. congressman jim jordan joins me next. if yor crohn's symptoms are holding you back, and your current treatment hasn't worked well enough, it may be time for a change. ask your doctor about entyvio, the only biologic developed and approved just for uc and crohn's. entyvio works at the site of inflammation in the gi tract and is clinically proven to help many patients achieve both symptom relief and remission. infusion and serious allergic reactions can happen during or after treatment. entyvio may increase risk of infection, which can be serious. pml, a rare, serious, potentially fatal brain infection caused by a virus may be possible. this condition has not been reported with entyvio. tell your doctor if you have an infection, experien

ashley parker, white house reporter for the "washington post" as well as "new york times" reporter charlie savage. both are msnbc political analysts. ashley of course pulitzer prize winner. ashley, i want to start with you just because it's been your reporting that a white house official says that the president is oesse with these pardons and it's his you in favorite thing to talk about. but there is a lot of tension there behind the scenes? >> there is. if you take this recent commutation today, the white house was very divided over it. this was something that jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser who has been described to us as newly emboldened back with his security clearance was pushing. he was instrumental in setting up that meeting in the oval office last week with kim kardashian. he attended it. but not everyone was in favor of it, notably chief of staff john kelly didn't think this was a good idea on the substance. and white house counsel don mcgahn was opposed partially because of the process and because he felt it was an unnecessary pardon -- in this case c

courtney kube, josh of the national journal and ashley parker of the "washington post". courtney, we're lucky to have you. you broke a story about what the chinese are doing in preparation for the summit. cue us up there.

joining me now to sort this out, kristen welker, ashley parker, and harrylitman joining me from new york. harry, to you first, just on the law here. is what rudy giuliani and the president is asserting and what was asserted in the letter to mueller last january? >> yeah, i think it's really confused. let's start with what trump tweeted this morning. he seems to agree as does giuliani, well, i can pardon, but i would be immediately impeached. what that has to mean, of course, is that's an improper use of the pardon power. it's not in tederal code, it's because the pardon power remedy is in the remedy is impeachment. but in terms of the firing of -- the killing of james comey in his office, of course that would be a crime. we know without a doubt that a vice president could be prosecuted for it. we know without a doubt that a president could be out of office and there's simply no reason, and they've offered none, that a president couldn't be. in fact, they're getting pilloried sort of on all sides of people taking issue with that royalist view. so i think it's basically you bankrupt and wo

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. >> white house reporter ashley parker is a political analyst and vice president for national security at third way mieke eoyang. thank you for joining us. what happened today? >> well, what happened was basically a top envoy from north korea went to the white house, delivered this sort of oversized personal letter that the president may or may not have read depending which version of his you believe. it started the ball back rolling to a summit that despite harsh language about a week or so ago, no one including in the white house ever believed was 100% off. >> what is this meeting going to be? it was to get rid of their nuclear weapons. now the president says it's going to be a get acquainted meeting, just lunch? it's not a big deal like dinner. he's lowering the bar what they expect. it's a familiar -- go ahead, mieke. >> every time he talks about this, he's lowering expectations about what we're going to get. he's not actually trying to negotiate to address the real security threats that face america. he's no longer talking about the ballistic missiles or reducing the nuclear weapo

times and omwaington, ashley parker, white house reporter for the "washington post." and from new york, daniel goldman for the southern district of new york. christina, since we're in california, sitting here today, start with you. what's up with paul manafo why is he continuing to flout the law? >> it's reallyonfusing to mebeu good advice for someone, you're not supposed to do this. this is something that could land you in jail. >> it's a pretty clear thing. don't tell witnesses what they are supposed to say. >> what you want them to say. >> or get in contact with anybody. and clearly -- the appearance is if he's doing this in encrypted messages he knows he's doing something wrong and that's really baffling. >> this is the second time he violated a gag order by trying to write or co-write an op-ed about the lobbying -- >> he already knew better if he didn't know before. >> daniel, when the judge looks at this, wants manafort to go to jail while he awaits trial, saying he violates terms of the bail. is the judge -- is that judge going to decide yeah, he should go to j

ashley parker is with us. betsy woodruff is with us. jonathan lhnathan lemire has ju us. i believe the thing donald trump fears most is appearing weak which is why he's always defaulted to the hardest line position on anything. when we were talking about terrorism, he was saying we should bomb the families of terrorism. when we asked him about abortion, he said women should be punished for abortion. muslims should be banned from entering the country. we need to build a wall to keep mexicans out and build a wall or separate families to make immigrants not come across the border. he always defaults toward the hardest line position because he thinks that's what makes him look strong because the hardest line position was what got him the loudest cheers. we heard him say it just a moment ago in the white house when he was meeting with those lawmakers. he said i don't want to look weak. i'd rather look strong. it's weak to allow people to come over the border and keep them together and allow a catch-and-release. i am going to default toward being strong. how does he -- is this

friend of the show, ashley parker, married her now husband mike bender, wall street journal reporter.their home here in washington. we are all thrilled for them. i also want to say happy father's day to my dad who, of course, i have watched many orioles games with over the years. and there he is with my mom on the campaign trail. also to my grandfather. he is there with my dog radar. you know him from online as well. that's when he was a puppy. i want to remember on this father's day what we have been talking about all night, that is these families separated. my what to watch for is laura bush, a rare step outside writing an op-ed saying this is a cruel, inhumane policy. >> monday, 2:00, reverend barber, religious leaders will be at the capitol. it's going to kick off a week of protest and marching, not just for poor people but for the immigrants that are being held captive. >> the pressure is building on this story. i will watch with a congress does and if they can put pressure on the administration in a bipartisan way. it's going to take some republicans and the president's rally on

speaker, they are the words of the "washington post," i'd like specifically ashley parker, who wrote the piece. if the president is watching i think it's helpful for me to read because i know he doesn't read so maybe he can hear this. he's done it on twitter, he's done it in the white house driveway, and he's done it in a peech to a business group. president trump, a man already known for trafficking in mistruths and outright lies, has been outdoing himself with falsehoods in recent days repeating and amplifying bogus claims on several of the resident trump, a man already pressing controversies facing his presidency. since pressing controversies facing his presidency. since saturday, trump has treated false or misleading information at least seven times wn the topic -- on indulges in frequent twitter screams. in june, trump has been tweeting at the fastest rate of his presidency. so far an average of indulges 1 messages per day. inside the white house, aides and advisors say they believe e media is unwilling to give trump a fair trump a fair shot and is knee-jerk ready to accuse him