national political reporter carroll lee with me, michael steele, former press secretary to john boehner. nbc news diplomat sit expert chris hill, former u.s. ambassador to south korea and other countries and "new york times" correspondent mark landler, part of the team that wrote the corker story today. kristin, first to you. the fallout at the white house as they grapple with all of this and as people try to interpret the president's meeting. >> well, andrea, the white house is pushing back hard against the criticism from senator bob corker as you can imagine. top adviser kellyanne conway essentially accusing corker of playing politics saying look, he's not running for re-election. this is why he's waging this war of words with the president. but this really exposes a rift between the president and top members of the republican party that is bubbling up to the surface. the fact that you have a senator corker saying that the president could be leading the country toward world war iii is significant. and it raises questions about whether some of his other top republican colleagues will j

and what scares you about the reporting of carroll lee and her colleagues? >> this shows a fundamental misunderstanding by our commander in chief on the role of our arsenal and what's in it. we have far more nuclear weapons than we have war plans for. in every region of the world our regional leaders develop war plans and they say how many weapons do we need, how many nukes do we need. it will cause proliferation and make the use of nuclear weapons that much more likely. the reason i'm so concerned is because in our system only the president can order a nuclear strike. and once he gives that word, his word are taken literally, his order cannot be countermanded by anybody. >> anybody up and down the chain, five stars, three stars so on. >> no. the president says go, we go. >> after that sobering note, you were out on this story a couple weeks back. you too reported on this meeting at the so-called tank in this pentagon. specifically the way they drew donald trump in, remind our viewers why were trump's businesses around the world invoked at this meeting? >> j

the reporting is from carroll lee from nbc news. at a conference yesterday, secretary tillerson never considered quitting but he didn't defly he called the president a moron. he deny it a few hours later through a spokesman. here's the exchange. >> was the president upset that his secretary of state didn't deny calling him a moron in his public remarks yesterday? >> as the secretary state said, this is a petty ridiculous accusation. frankly i think it's beneath the secretary of state to weigh-in on every rumor out there. his spokesperson, however, did come out and clarify that the secretary of state has never used those words. >> shepard: back to kevin corke at the white house. kevin, carol lee is a well-respected journalist that says she has more than ten sources on the matter but the push-back is strong. >> here's more of what sarah sanders had to say about the president's accusation that this is another example of fake news. >> the president has a great frustration with the fact that a lot of times you have inaccurate information

. >> reporter: case that took at lee 20 years to crack but it was worth the wait. sometime around 1997, carrollouse then husband found two class rings while cleaning at dunk town high school west. >> i said maybe sometime we will find out who they belong to. >> reporter: one a 1994 purdue ring with a bluestone, engraved catherine bank croft, another 1990 downingtown high school ring with three initials, gfm. eventually they were packed away and nearly forgotten. >> so this is the college ring , small with the bluestone >> reporter: recently during a move, carroll found the rings again her daughter emily carlisle tried to find catherine bank croft. >> most of the people i found were like teenagers. >> reporter: then she found a kathleen bank croft, in kentucky. >> so my daughter said i will message her. >> reporter: emily asked kathleen if she went to purdue the answer came back, yes. >> did you lose your ring. i said yes, a long time ago. right away we got goose bumps thinking this must be her. >> a picture confirmed it but that was only half of the mystery. >> how will we find, you know who th

message was a mystery a case that took at lee 20 years to crack but as you'll see in tonight's brotherly love it was worth the wait. >> sometimes around 1997 carrollen husband found two class rings cleaning at downingtown high school west. >> i said maybe in time we will find out who they belong to. >> reporter: one a 1994 purdue ring with a bluestone engraved kathleen l bank croft other 1990 downingtown high school ring with three initials g-f-m. eventually they were packed away and then nearly forgotten >> so thinks the college ring. small with the bluestone. >> reporter: recently during a move carroll found the rings again. her daughter emily carlisle, tried to find kathleen l bank croft. >> most of the people i found were teenagers. >> reporter: then she found a kathleen bankcroft in kentucky >> so my daughter said i will message her. >> reporter: emily asked kathleen if she went to purdue the answer, came back yes. did you lose your ring? i said yes. a long time ago. >> right away we got goose bumps thinking this must be her. >> reporter: picture confirmed it but that was only half of the mystery. >> how do we find, you know who this ring mig