ayman javers, an important meeting is about to get underway >> that's right.e are expecting that kim yong chol of the workers party in north korea will be arriving here at the white house momentarily and will meet with the president in the oval office it's something we haven't seen in about 20 year's time since the clinton administration, a north korean official stepping foot on the white house grounds meeting with the president of the united states. we expect he will hand the president a personal letter from the leader of north korea that's been much speculated about, the contents of that letter. we saw secretary of state mike pompeo meeting with this particular north korean official in new york earlier in the week. this is widely being viewed as an indication that things are moving along for that summit in singapore between the north koreans and the united states, possibly as early as june 12th but we don't have any confirmation that that date is pinned down or even that the summit itself is pinned down nonetheless we are watch willing a live picture of the

i'm ayman. if new comment from the president's personal lawyer don't blow the whole summit up before it even begins. take a listen. >> well, somehow north korea after he cancelled the summit because they insulted the vice president, they insulted the -- his national security advisor and they said they would go to nuclear war against us, they were going to defeat us in a nuclear war. we said, we're not going to have a summit under those su circumstances. kim jong un got back on his hands and knees and begged for it which is exactly the position you want to put him in. >> it's not the first time the president's personal attorney weighed in here. despite being unclear if he has the proper clearances to be able to have that kind of information. >> i'm going to bet giuliani is not headed to singapore. >> giuliani has made a string of predictions about what special counsel bob mueller's office is thinking with no response from the russia probe investigators and during interviews yesterday while on a t

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmine vossoughian and lewis berg door of. a report from the associated press answering a question that the trump administration dodged the last few days. where are the girls, where are the toddlers among migrant children separated precipitatfrs at the border. they are reporting they're being sent to three tender age shelters in south texas according to ap. lawyers and medical providers that visited the shelters describe play rooms of crying preschool age children in crisis, the report unconfirmed by msnbc says the government plans to open a fourth shelter to house hundreds of my grant children in houston. according to numbers from u.s. customs and border protection, 2235 families apprehended between may 5th when the zero tolerance policy was put in place and june 9th. among 4500 family members were 2342 children who were then designated as unaccompanied. the former head of u.s. immigration and customs enforcement told nbc's andrea mitchell some family separations will end up being permanent. >> how are these families supposed

. >> i have to wait to see if i get ayman's seal of approval.ay was such a great day because i got that. the temperatures are going to be the story. some thunderstorms too. overall father's day weekend, it says summer. that's pretty much the bottom line. thunderstorms erupting over wisconsin. madison being woken up with a couple lightning strikes nearby. and st. cloud, those are the areas that have a slight risk of storms. it will be late afternoon into the evening hours so if you have any after sun set plans that's when these storms will be erupting over minneapolis and st. paul. then on saturday, south dakota right through minneapolis again. this is the northern extent of the heat. it's going to be extremely hot, texas all the way up to about minnesota and this is where the boundary lies between the hot air and the cooler air and that's kind of why we'll see the storm there is. today's forecast, 97 in dallas. st. louis at 94. beautiful in d.c. today. same with philly, baltimore and new york. really great weather. get out there for your lunch t

i'm ayman man and yasmine vossoughian. newsom waceff against gavin trump republican business man jo cox in california's governor's race. former mayor finished distant third. dianne feinstein running a sixth term on track to win by far the most votes. the race to take her on is between kevin deleon or one of seven unknown republicans. >> and new mexico, former democratic party chairman could make history as the first native american woman elected to congress. she will face off with jones in the november elections. new jersey voters sent a message to bob menendez that underperformed in the primary. he recently escaped conviction on federal corruption charges earlier this yearhe wilac a rep former pharmaceutical company. >> sm the primaries, the president slings accusations of corruption and malfeasance at the justice department, they have a searc for new associate attorney general is on hold. three candidates have declined to consider the justice department number three position since rachel bnd resigned four months ago. by

ayman? >> thanks for that report. >>> in an interview that aired on fox news last night president trump shared his admiration or autocratic rulers again prizing chinese president for his iron grip on his government and dismissing kim jong un's brutal treatment, imprisonment and murder of those he suspects of opposing his regime. take a listen. >> i have a very good relationship with president xi. he's an incredible guy. they just, you know, essentially president for life. pretty good. chairman kim wants to resolve the problem. we have a very -- i really say for, you know, for a fairly short term relationship because it was unbelievably hostile. it was unbelievably hostile and i think we have a very good relationship. we understand each other. >> you know, you call people sometimes killers. you know, he is a killer. he's clearly executing people. >> he's a tough guy. hey, when you take over a country, tough country, tough people and you take it over from your father i don't care who you are,

i'm aim is n ayman mohyeldin. they're in and out both in singapore for the summit just 24 hours away. more to impress or threaten kim jong-un? he'll know within minutes, a former white house adviser who helped seal the deals for both iran and cuba is here to explain house diplomacy really works. lots to cover. here we go. >>> donald trump is not going to capitula capitulate, so there's really only two options -- peace or war. >> they have already gotten a concession by the president. >> they are trying to fit a nuclear warhead on an interconnell ballistic missile. when they do it gives them the possibility to hit the united states. >> we have not been included in any of the preparation for this negotiation. >>> so that's where we begin this hour. it's 4:00 a.m. monday morning in singapore. the summit between president trump and sim jeong eun just 24 hours away. both leaders arriving earlier today. kim was the first to arrive, deplaning from a chinese commercial airplane, while president trump touched down hours la

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman.to deny its policy separates migrant children in their parents at the southern border. nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell has more. >> outrage outside a detention center in new jersey. protesters railed against the trump administration action that separates children from parn parents accused of violating immigration laws. >> inside, democratic members of congress crammed into the lobby for what they called an unannounced inspection, but cameras could not follow. >> believe me, tearing children from the arms of their mother and their father is not the right decision. it has got to stop. >> father's day, damn it. and you have a right to talk to your children and you don't even know where your children are. >> the plight of children prompted a rare move by the first lady who weighed in with a statement fr her office. mrs. tump hates to see children separated from their families and hopes both sides can come together to achieve successful immigration reform. melania trump c

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ayman mohyeld >>> welcome back. let's turn to business.ase its may job report later this morning and some speculate it could show historically low unemployment and a slow willem e now have the aluminum trade tariffs going on as well. >> the estimate is for 324,000 jobs to be added this month we had huge numbers back in february, we're now expecting to see a little less than that perhaps, 324,000 number, but certainly better than march and april. unemployment rate, 3.9% is the estimate, pretty flat at the moment. that could change, we'll wait to see in the next few hours. >>> the other big story is the tariffs that the u.s. administration has decided to impose on the eu, canada and mexico. in march president trump announced 25% tariffs on steel, 10% tariffs on aluminum, he gave an exemption for those three entities. he's saying the exemption expires today. we're expecting to see retaliatory measures from all three of those. and bourbon and orange juice. another big story, the spanish prime minister is now out, a new guy in charge, pedro san

my colleague ayman mohyeldin picks it up from here. >> as expected immigration is going to be the center of our hour as well. a lot to break down this story and, of course, the hour that is dominating the headline is immigration. the debate over it continues. a sense of chaos in the process of reuniting parents and children and the question about how it's being done. protests continue around the country over the rescinded separation policy while the president pushes a new policy change stripping migrants of their legal rights. >> they want to hire now 5,000 more judges so the person puts the toe on the land we have to go to trial. this is crazy what we're doing. i don't want judges. i want border patrol, i want i.c.e. >> if that was too subtle, the president making it clear in tweets today that he wants no hearings, no courts and no due process. let's get into all of this and go straight to the front lines with gabe gutierrez who is following breaking news for us this hour. i know you have some new information on a migrant teen missing today from a shelter facility in brownsville, texas.

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmine vossoughian and lewisbu an active night on social media, the president tweeted about meeting with kim jong-un. twice thanking him for taking the first bold step to meet and suspend nuclear tests. he took aim at domestic critics said a ago that said the job couldn't be done begging for conciliation and peace. now that we met and have a great relationship with kim jong-un, same haters shoutout you shouldn't meet, do not meet. he said more in an interview on fox news. >> other administrations, i don a policy of silence. if you said something bad and threatening and horrible, don't answer. that's not the answer. that's not what you have to do. i think the rhetoric, i hated to do it. sometimes i felt foolish doing >> strategically you do it. >> yeah, and you gain respect. he is a strong guy. people say what's he like. he has a very good personality, he is funny and very, very smart, he's a great negotiator. he's a very strategic kind of guy. >> talk about the difference between past administrations. >> yes, but i can't say that, i don't want to be the one say

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louisb g burgdorf. president trump trump attacked journalis journalists, late night hosts and making claims about his policy from separating migrant children from their moms and dads at the southern border. watch this. >> last week they thought oh, they have a great issue and when i heard them talking about the children, first of all, they were using pictures taken in 2014 when barack obama was president. i wasn't president. and what i learned is one thing. our facilities are cleaner, better kept and better run. that's the one thing i learned. okay? i saw them. but what we have is two extremes and i liked it. i said hey, this is fine for us. the democrats want to protect illegals coming into this country, some of whom are not good. it was a disaster for bush although we very much appreciated laura bush's lovely letter. hey, look. i got a bad hand. >> the department of homeland security and health and human services have not issued an update on the number of migrant children who have been reunited with t

>> it appears not, ayman. the dow is opening up about is 50 points lower.we did break through that again a couple of days ago. but it looks as though all the indications are for a much weaker session. we did have a weaker session in asian equities as well with most of the bÖrses trading south and the german index trading down about 1.5%. elsewhere in some tech news, facebook is under scrutiny yet again, they have revealed that 14 million users had their settings changed for four days in may whereby anything they posted on private mode was switched to public and facebook has since corrected that. and if you were affected, you would get a notification the next couple of days telling you. i think the major question is whether or not it's scary it happened in the first place or it's still going on after all the scandals that facebook has been afflicted with. >> it's a lose-lose situation either way. before i let you go, i have to ask you about a very important story that's going to affect parents and millions of kids around the world. especially in the u.s. sum

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. the political battle lines are already being drawn over the replacement for supreme court justice anthony kennedy who has announced he is retiring. justice kennedy made that announcement yesterday saying he will step down at the end of next month. now, his decision paves the way for the most significant change in the high court's makeup in nearly half a century. the move will allow president trump the chance to shape the court into a solidly conservative one for years to come if not generations. despite his refusal to replace the late justice, mcconnell made it clear yesterday he plans to start the process of replacing justice kennedy as soon as possible. >> we will vote to confirm justice kennedy's successor this fall. it's imperative that the president's nominee be considered fairly and not subjected to personal attacks. >> and a number of senators are speaking out on the fight over kennedy's replacement. jeff flake told the daily beast yesterday he plans to block president trump's

>>> i'm ayman mohyeldin at msnbc world headquarters. a lot to break down this hour. showdown in singapore. president trump and kim jong-un arrive for the historic summit, what trump calls a one-time shot. the sun about to come up and the summit almost 24 hours away. art of the deal. can the president who prides himself on his deal-making skills really talk kim into abandoning his nuclear program? new details on what might be on the table. >>> and the growing divide the g7 summit ending with the united states more isolated than ever. the already harsh rhetoric between the trump white house and canada got even rougher today. we begin this hour though with president trump and his unprecedented meeting with one of america's top adversaries. north korean leader kim jong-un who arrived in singapore early this morning hours before the president for the hoy-stakes nuclear summit. the on again, off again meeting is now on just over 24 hours away at the capella hotel on sentosa island and they are set to discuss the future of pyongyang's new jersey program. as for how the pres

. >> any idea how this might -- is ayman still there?of the things that's striking to me is you look at this decision and it's talking about what we were talking about at the top just how much society has changed. they are saying that the quill court that gave the precedent case they did not have the present realities of the interstate marketplace. in 1992 less than 2% of americans had internet access. the internet's prevalence and power changed the national economy the court says and go on to cite number of sales versus internet sales so they are taking note of huge sweeping changes in the american economy and they say in this opinion that they are trying to make that economy and the taxation system there ultimately fair for both the states and competing retailers who are not competing with these internet giants like wayfair. so a win for the states and the language is striking to other retailers who are competing. >> i agree it has far reaching implications $25 billion is an enormous amount of resources they can redeploy >> that's a bi

ayman javers is covering it all for us from d.c.irst we will go to the location kayla tausche with all the joy and turmoil at the g7 summit >> tyler, blue skies and smiles, and happy hand shakes belying the difficult conversations being had behind closed doors here in quebec city where leaders referenced unprecedented tensions among these allies. a senior uk government source says prime minister theresa may plans to ask president trump for a full and permanent exemption from steel and aluminum tariff this is afternoon and told reporters this morning that the european union will respond if that exemption is not granted. other member countries plan to push for free trade language in a joint communique that the u.s. may or may not be signing off on and the french official told roid righters that the member countries may also push for language the in that joint statement urging caution toward russia after a surprising overture president trump made this morning about the one-time eighth member this group that was expelled in 2018 for inv

i'm aim is n ayman mohyeldin.ngapore for the summit just 24 hours away. more to impress or threaten kim jong-un? he'll know within minutes, a former white house adviser who helped seal the deals for both iran and cuba is here

my colleague ayman mohyeldin picks it up from here. >> as expected immigration is going to be the center as well. a lot to break down this story and, of course, the hour that is dominating the headline is immigration. the debate over it continues. a sense of chaos in the process of reuniting parents and children and the question about how it's being done. protests continue around the country over the rescinded separation policy while the president pushes a new policy change stripping migrants of their legal rights. >> they want to hire now 5,000 more judges so the person puts the toe on the land we have to go to trial. this is crazy what we're doing. i don't want judges. i want border patrol, i want i.c.e. >> if that was too subtle, the president making it clear in tweets today that he wants no ar

i'm yasmin vossoughian along ayman and let's start with the morning's top stories.t hours away from the first ever summit between leaders of the united states and north korea. we're also awaiting a press briefing by mike pompeo set to be in moments there. >> i think the minimum would be relationship. you'd start at least a dialog. as a deal person i've done very good with deals but at a minimum i think we will have met each other, we will have seen each other, hopefully we would have liked each over other and my touch, my feel, that's what i do. how long will it take to figure out whether or not they're serious? i said maybe in the first minute. you know, the way they say you know if you're going to like somebody in the first five seconds, i ever hear that one? i think of that very quickly i'll know whether or not something good is going to happen and if i think it won't happen, i don't want to herself his time. >> let's go to south korea. we're joined from there. obviously south korea a major player in this. many concerns, all eyes on this meeting from south korean

. >>> that does it for us, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf, "morningributor mike barn kill. washington anchor for bbc world news america, catty kay, and nbc news chill correspondent and host of kasie d.c. on nbc, kasie hunt. and pulitzer prize winning author and historian, author of "the soul of america" jon meachum will join news a morning. joe has the morning off. willie and i are here and we want to get to a lot this morning. there's so much to cover. more and more republicans speaking out finally against president trump's policy of separating migrant families at the southern border. kasie hunt will tell us what's happening on capitol hill. and attorney general jeff sessions pushing back against those who are drawing comparisons to nazi germany. arguing that the nazis were keeping jews from leaving the

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i'm in today for my colleague ayman mohyeldin.ing protests against the trump immigration policy that's tearing families apart on the southern

ayman jafrs has it. >> the president called the pool of reporters in to the white house speaking to them see this comment coming out on tape here in a moment but we are told that the president said that he's going to be signing something on family unification. he said that republicans want security and also want to keep families together amid this crisis at the southern border. the president says he's signing something later today that is going to keep families together. he also says that he'll do something preemptive and hopes it will be matched by legislation, he says later from congress he also said he's canceling the congressional picnic and didn't feel right to him at this point in time. the president still talking so we'll hear from him shortly. but he is signaling that he's going to be signing something that's going to keep families together at the southern border. now, this seems to be an indication that the president's going to be signing an executive order, direct presidential action coming after several days in which white house officials have insisted that only congress could

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that does it for us, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin, "morning joe" starts right nowre extremist open-border democrats. people are suffering because of the democrats. democrat-backed loopholes. the democrat-supported policies. democrats are causing tremendous damage and destruction and lives. they don't care about the children, they don't care about the injury, they don't care about the problems.

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf. top stories, president trump continuing to ramp up his rhetoric over the weekend. he made this argument for a merritt based system. >> we need merit based immigration. we're taking in people that will never help us as a country. we need people that can help us. we want a merit based immigration system. we need safety at the border. we need the wall. the wall is going to happen. >> but a study released last year by the department of health and human services found that refugees brought in billions of dollars in government revenue over the past decade. the study found that refugees quote, contributed an estimated 269 billion in revenues to all levels of government between 2005 and 2014 through the payment of federal state and local taxes. overall, the report estimated that the net fiscal impact of refugees was positive over the 10-year period at $63 billion. the times notes that the study was completed last july but never publicly released. >> president trump is also suggesting that the

i'm in today for my colleague ayman mohyeldin. this hour we're monitoring protests against the trump immigration policy that's tearing families apart on the southern border. american delegations are calling for a quick end to the zero tolerance immigration crackdown. >> it's father's day, damnit and you have a right to talk to your children and how dare you go not bible when you're trying to save your own rear end. >> the trump administration has announced a zero tolerance policy that has zero morality, zero decency, zero integrity, and we will not rest until we shut that policy down. >> this administration is behaving like a bunch of thugs and gangsters in trying -- in saying we're going to do terrible things, and it's everybody's else's fault unless you enable us to do other things. >> more now from mccallun, texas at catholic charities where a busload of migrants just arrived. what have you opinion seeing? >> reporter: we saw about 40 people arrive in the most recent busload to this respite center. i want to clarify that this i

then there's the question ayman really of the human rights violations, the atrocities that have taken place in north korea. hallie jackson actually asked how the president could call kim jong un a very talented man when in fact his hand was basically the -- was part of calling for many of these killings that have taken place in that country, if not all of them. the president also touched upon otto warmbier in his talk about 6 ominutes or so. let's take a listen to that. >> i think without the rhetoric it wouldn't have happened. i think without other things going along, i think the establishment of a new team was very important. we have a great team. but i do. i think he wants to get it done. i really feel that very strongly. >> otto warmbier is a very special person and he will be for a long time in my life. his parents are good friends of mine. i think without otto this would not have happened. something happened from that day. it was a terrible thing. it was brutal, but a lot of people started to focus on what was going on including north korea. i really think that otto is someone w

ayman. >> officials here at the white house are reportedly eyeing the exits, including mark short, rod shaw, and yourself. are any of those officials leaving, and what's the plan to replace all of those high level people? >> i don't know there is a need to replace them. as i stated last night in a tweet, i think cbs got ahead of their skis since they put out a story about my thinking without ever actually talking to he moo. seems be that problematic. in terms of personnel announcements, i don't have any to make. i can tell you that i show up here every day. i love my job. i'm glad to work for the president. and each and every day i'll play for clarity and discernment on what my future looks like. right now, i think the country's looks pretty good and i'm glad to get to be a part of that process and i'm going to continue to do my job. thanks, guys. >> sarah huckabee sanders issuing a non-denial denial whether or not she is thinking about leaving her be jo. it was speculated she and rod shaw and mark short the director of legislative affairs and the deputy press secretary were all thinki

axios's jonathan swan and cnbc ayman javers thank you for being on the show. >>> still to come.sman steve scalise will return to the annual congressional baseball game a year after the shooting that nearly took his life. nbc's kasie hunt will join us live from nationals park in washington, the site of today's game. "morning joe" is back in a moment. 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. 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

. >> ayman javers, thank y for the update. >>> north korea clearly one of the big topic here in washingt taxes and trade are still front and center ahead of the midterm election this is fall. joining us is kevin brady of texas, the chairman of the haste nice to see you. >> good. thks for having me >> congressman, clearly, the president has a lot of authority to implement his own trade policy without you but your committee does have a jurisdiction over trade. are you planning to block him in some of his recent efforts, especially putting tariffs on our closest trading partners and allies. >> yeah, so rinow we are focused on helping the president target unfairly frayed steel aluminum, intellectual property and technology transfers that china frankly abuse for decades. he is right challenge them. the challenge, as you know, is how do you punish china's misbehavior without hurting american businesses workers as well that's where we are engaged with the president. trade is a partnership the president has some authority we have delegated to him we have held most of it. we think a partnership i

ayman javers is there with the latest >> that's right. a president known here for doubling down is now today backing down at least part of the way here on immigration. the white house suggested ier in the week it didn't have the power to changethe detention policy around children had are detained along with their parents being separated from these parents today the white house saying and the president saying directly the cameras he is going to sign an executive order that would change exactly that policy here's what he said. >> so i'm going to be signing an executive order in a while before i go to minnesota at the same time, i think you understand we are keeping families together but we have to coop our borders strong. we will be overrun with crime and with people that should not be in our country. >> so the president said just a little while ago here at the white house that that action would solve this narrower problem. meanwhile the broader problem continues to move on capitol hill we are told a number of vans filled withu republican l

ayman? >> steven mnuchin recommended to the president this week that the president extend an exemption on steel and aluminum tariffs to the canadians? there was a report to that effect >> the report was incorrect. >> he did not recommend an exemption for the canadians? >> he did not. >> did anybody in th administration. >> there was articles written about a meeting we had i was in that meeting. i talked to the treasury secretary earlier today. this is funny, neither of us said a word in that meeting. so that story is patently false. patently false. >> a quick follow-up thank you very much. i appreciate it. it's one thing to talk a increaseffs with say mexico onada, whose economies are much more dependent on u.s. trade than, say, a more nefarious actor like china. how is it in china's interests to have a meeting of the mindser even come to some sort of agreement to level the playing field considering the massive amount of trade that happens between our two countries? >> you mean the u.s. and

that does it for us, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin, "morning joe" starts right now. . >> extremists, open-border democrats, they're extremist open-border democrats. people are suffering because of the democrats. democrat-backed loopholes. the democrat-supported policies. democrats are causing tremendous damage and destruction and lives. they don't care about the children, they don't care about the injury, they don't care about the problems. they don't care about anything. they have no policies that are any good. they're not good politicians, they got nothing going. their policies stink, they're no good. they have no ideas, they have no nothing, the democrats. >> just flailing that was president trump yesterday before kindly extending an open invitation for democrats to come to the white house to work togeth together. it's the "art of the deal." welcome to "morning joe," it's friday, june 2 2nd. what a crazy week it's been. with us we have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc, jon heilemann. donny is here, white house reporter for the "associated press," j

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf, "morning joe" starts right now, everybody. >>> it is very biblical to enforce the law. the laws are the same that have been on the books for over a decade. it's a moral policy to follow and enforce the law. it's the law, that's what the law states. the laws are the ones that have been on the books for over a decade. it's not a policy change to enforce the law. we're going to enforce the law, we're enforcing the law. >> the question is, is she ignorant, which would actually be better for her if she just were -- came out and said i'm ignorant and i don't know what i'm talking about. or is she a liar? because it's not the law this is donald trump, this is donald trump's interpretation of the law. >> it's the trump administration policy. i don't believe she's ignorant. >> you think she would lie that many times? i saw rudy last night, he was lying. but we're familiar with that we're used to that. do you think she really? i don't understand why, for somebody quoting the bible, as much as she's quoting the bible. i h

. >>> that does it for us, i'm yasmin vossoughian, alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf, "morning joe" starts right now. >>> good morning and welcome to "morning joe." we begin with four words "tone deaf, callous, heartless." we have the secretary of homeland security, kirstjen nielsen choosing to eat at a mexican restaurant last night where she was promptly heckled by protesters. we have that video for you, and we'll show it to you later. not sure why she thought that was the place to go after her presentation of lies and deceit about how children are treated at the border. >>> now to callous -- here's the president's former white house press secretary, sean spicer sharing a picture of a champagne celebration last night at trump hotel in washington. >>> how about heartless? here's the president's former campaign manager, cory lewandoski, about hearing of a child with down's syndrome being separated from her parents. >> read about a 10 grld girl with down's syndrome who was taken from her mother and put in a cage. >> wah-wah. >> how dare you. >> how dare you! >> illegally -- >> he

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf, "morning joe" starts right now. >>> meet the man who wants to put martha stewart in jail. >> martha stewart is being prosecuted not because of who she is, but because of what she did. >> 42-year-old james comey, the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. >> will president trump use the powers of his office to pardon martha stewart? the president floating that idea today. >> back in 2003, nbc's ann thompson introduced us to jim comey and he just so happened to prosecute the maker of the finest meatloaf sandwiches around. >> and i'm here with donald and melania trump and we're going to make a scrumptious meatloaf sandwich, which is donald's favorite sandwich, according to melania. >> i've never had meatloaf this good, but it's very good. >> also on forgiveness list, none other than a celebrity apprentice, who once compared his plight to that of nelson mandela and also gandhi. >> you are the project manager. >> right. i know. >> and governor, i have great respect for you, i have great respect for you