at the table, brett stevens, "new york times" op-ed columnist. mike murphy, republican strategist who's advised bush, mccain, and romney, the good old days. heather mcgee, now president of the advocacy group dimos action, all msnbc contributors. what is the latest from the white house? i had heard that some of the backlash about how our closest allies didn't know and members of congress who are inclined to support this president on foreign policy were left out of the loop, that the reason for that was that they needed it to be final, they didn't want to it leak. what are you hearing today about where things stand? >> that's definitely becoming an increasing concern from this white house is they're trying to tamp down on it. the message that we're really hearing today and that my colleagues have been reporting out today is really that the president doesn't see this as the end of the road. the president doesn't see the summit as now being something that's never going to happen. there they're still holding out hope, suggesting that the june 12th dat

. >> can we even -- brett stevens, this is -- and even by reading it these are bold-faced lies. >> all right, sarah, putting you on the spot here as a cnn white house reporter, how do you handle these situations, when we are, both of us covering tweets on the air that are full of holes? >> that's a remarkable response from nicole wallace because it's not one you see too often. president trump exploits our journalistic im -- by saying something that's blatantly untrue, he knows we aren't going to be able to help ourselves, we have to fact check it. so we are talking about ms-13 when he makes unrealistic claims about their affects on society and stuff like that. we are being led to cover the things he wants us to cover in the form of fact checking, but we're still talking about it. >> he's using his bully pulpit very effectively. i do think ms-13 is a threat, it's very complicated. want to take a quick break here and then look at how some liberal columnists have pulled a page from president trump's playbook putting a spotlight on my fwramigrant missing children on a cloud that runs on pr

you know what, brett stevens, this is -- and even by reading it, these are bold-faced lies and his audacity sort of fantasies expand, i just wonder what role you think the truth plays in any of this for them. >> you know, speaking about north korea just a minute ago, i said what is really at work is a kind of neurosis. here i will say what is at work is a strategy. because donald trump is setting out to basically throw enough mud at the investigation to cast a kind of -- mixing metaphors -- a cloud, sorry, a cloud in people's minds over, well, you know, there is something, there is something wrong with the investigation. this was started on false pretenses. there is a kind of deep state loathing for the president, the mueller investigation should never have begun, and anything that it turns up will therefore be, will therefore be colored by questions about its origins. and what's so particularly frightening is the president seems completely incurious about the possibility that russia was making attempts to infiltrate his campaign in exactly the same way that they had infiltrated campaigns i

brett stevens, "new york times." and mark thompson, radio host on sirius xm progress. ambassador, i'm going to you first on this. can you set up a summit like this, this complicated, with less than two weeks to go? >> sure you can. i mean, joe hagan can handle the logistics. they've done logistics in far less time than he has here. the white house is calling it a preadvance team, meaning they'll have other people coming in. that i think will be squared away. a big issue of course is what's going to be in this joint communique. now, soung kim and choe son hui worked on this during the bush administration. they know what the problems are. they know what north korea agreed to. the complete abandonment of all their nuclear weapons. they also know what tanked the process, which was north korea's failure to give any kind of verification protocol worthy of the name. so i'm sure there's a lot of focus on that. given the fact that the president really wants us to move very fast, i'm sure there's an effort to kind of look at what would be a quick start. for example, do you want

brett steven, conservative op-ed columnist for "the new york times." matt, i turn to you first, how extraordinary is this request from the president, and how important are the details? meaning, does he need to put this thing in writing? or is it just red meat for the sean hannities of the world to talk about all day and all night instead of them having to discuss paul manafort's son-in-law pleading guilty or the latest story about don jr.? >> you know, i think it's a bit of both. for a year and a half, we watched the president interfere with the justice department usually in a generalized way. always generally, never specific. never, you know, going to the lengths he did or i should say rarely going to the lengths he did yesterday, demanding up a specific investigation. you know, this has always been the red line we've been waiting for. the moment we know where the justice department and rule of law is severely under threat by the president. what i think we saw yesterday in response was the justice department not completely cave but begin to wobble a l

so people like me, brett stevens from "the new york times," but also racists like richard spencer andalled the far right along with jordan peterson, a psychologist from canada isn't right wing at all. you find these people who think -- all they want to do is go and prove a story line that reaffirms what people in the sort of the new york bubble or coastal bubble already think about conservatives. and i just found the piece -- i wasn't angry about it. i thought it was hilarious this woman had this thumbless grasp of this claim of this whole subject that she claimed to be an expert on. >> sandra: you get to some specifics in your piece in the national review looking at the "vanity fair" piece and the writer tells the reader that she is exposing the new right wing digital rabbit hole and how it is designed for precisely the sort of self-radicalization kanye west is going through but reads more like she is the alice who fell through the rabbit hole and the hero of the story she has no idea what's going on around her. >> there is a website prager university. i've done videos and other prom

even people opposed to the iran deal said most of the same thing yesterday whether it was brett stevens writing in "the new york times," he thought it was a good idea. or whether it was "the wall street journal" editorial board. a lot of people were cheering that move on. but they also said the same thing -- donald trump bet ver a plan b. we won't know that for quite some time. >> and you, you have to wonder what he's deflecting from and what exactly he might be doing to deflect. i hope he's not playing around with our national security. let's start with the claims of pay to play. with the president's personal attorney. the lawyer for porn star stormy daniels alleging that the company set up by trump attorney michael cohen to buy her silence in october of 2016, went on to take in over 4.4 million, through january of 2018. nbc news has reviewed financial documents that appear to support the account of the transactions from daniels' lawyer, michael avenatti, including $500,000 from a company columbus nova, that is controlled by a russian oligarch viktor vanselberg. "the new york times" re

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two of his other teammates, steven turbo tobas and brett mogante both suffered very, very serious legbritt helped them to safety and called in air strikes as continuous fire drove them ever further down the face of the mountain, got worse and worse, more and more dangerous. he kept going. in a treacherous descent, britt and his men carried turbo through the snow. at one point they fashioned a makeshift harness out of their gun straps to hoist turbo down a 13 foot cliff. in itself treacherous because if you missed that little area, they go down the mountain and no stopping them. when they could go no further, britt tended to the wounded and coordinated their escape until his team was finally evacuated from enemy territory. seven of the brave men who fought with britt are here with us today and maybe they'll stand up as i call their name. petty officer second class brett morgante. pretty dangerous place, huh? way to go, brett. chief warrant officer kieyle soderbergh. thank you, kyle. petty officer second class steven tobas. chief warrant officer al mack. thank you. sergeant christopher

brett. chief warrant officer kyle soderbergh. thank you, kyle. petty officer 2nd class steven tobas.nks, steven. chief warrant officer al mack. thank you. sergeant christopher cunningham. master sergeant eric stebner. a chief petty officer who is still on active duty is it quietly not with us today. i just want to thank you all. unbelievable acts of bravery. thank you very much. thank you very much. incredible. today, we also remember the brave soldiers who gave their lives on that mountain. tactical sergeant john chapman. corporal matthew commons. specialist mark anderson. sergeant bradley cross. senior airman jason cunningham. tactical sergeant philip stebac and neal roberts who met a horrible death, for whom these events are now known -- it's called the battle of roberts ridge. incredible event. to the gold star family members of those heroes who are here today, please stand up. please, stand up. >> it is an honor to have you accept or nation's pro found sorrow and a deep love and everlasting gratitude. these are incredible, incredible men. and you could be proud that they were in

more i'm joined by susan page from "usa today" and brent stevens "new york times" columnist and msnbc political contributor. susan, you first then brett. this is something else. he's willing to destroy anything right now but i'll tell you, i think lesley stahl is a match for him in terms of credibility, more than a match. >> actually, what she said relating his comments to her make perfect sense. that is exactly what president trump has tried to do with the news media. it's what he's also tried to do with the special counsel and with the justice department to preemptively raise questions about whether these fundamental american institutions can be trusted so that if at some time he's in a war with them as we think he might we'll be that americans at least the american who's believe him aren't sure whether they should trust what they read in the newspaper or what they hear the courts say or what the justice department officials are telling them. >> let me go to brett. we all know fbi agents from our families where we went to school. you know, they don't make a ton of money. they go in it mostly for a career and spend their lives in law

steven piscotti was not with the a's tonight. playing with heavy hearts tonight against houston. her initials on their hats. as for the game, houston scoring early and often. george springer crushing the brettnderson offering into orbit. 5-0 after two. top four man on for marwin gonzalez. that's deep into the night, 11-0 astros after four. and dallas keuchel wuss cruising. houston right now up big. 16-1 in the ninth inning. giants open a four-game set. philly the phanatic doing his thing. jeff samardzija still struggling. two homers on the night. the sharks gave up five runs and was gone after four. bottom five, two men on. carlos santana with a shot. the pittsburgh penguins were eliminated. the pens were trying to become the first team to win three straight stanley cups in 35 years. >> showing off his arm. the word is he stepped up to the mic with no practice. his dad used to sing when he was a boy and he's been singing ever since without any practice, although he says he does sing in the shower. i sing all the time in the shower. still sounds offdee. this abc 7 sports report has been brought to you by toyota. >> he's pretty good. >> you don't walk up to a mike do you? >> it's shower acous