nbc political director of "meet the press" chuck todd has been all over this story. >> chuck joins usn studio. the big take away. i said this before, i think that the president said he can't change this quickly, other ople said yes, you can, and then he changed it quickly. >> look, he implemented the policy in the first place. some say it was intentional as far as some part of the government was concerned. it wasn' articulated well. it helped cause more confusion. cok, the presidented to political pressure which he doesn't do very often, but he did. closest thing he came to before caving was on birtherism. he did this. i think the bigger challenge is then implementat of the new executive order. it was chaos separating parents from the kids. how i chaotic willt be, the reunification process. dlthe government b came out, we know where every child is. when they announced that, that's an indication we don't know where every parent is. they say the child part, don't know whet every par is. how complicated is the process. i thi it is a huge competency test for them. if thisoesbadly, this is

chuck todd is off today. suspicious timing indeed. >> the caps have won it!playoffs. washington capitals for the first time in their 44 year history are the stanley cup champions. >> maybe chuck is off because the washington capitals are now proud owner of lord stanley's cup. they bested the vegas knights last night and washington just about lost its collective mind. caps fans clogged the streets of d.c. in celebration. i wonder if a mr. todd was one of them. so capitals, congratulations. also, you're welcome. "meet the press" may very well be your good luck charm. did you happen to notice the stanley cup paid a visit to our washington studios last week? that's why i say the "meet the press" team and not me, because i'm usually in new york. and chuck todd went to meet justin trudeau in canada. your cup literally runeth over. i think it's fair to say, so does ours. that's it for tonight. we'll be back monday with more. "the beat" starts with ari melber. >> thank you. bob mueller indicts to 20th person in the russia probe. bob mueller making two big moves late

. >> nowhere to go after small hands except to chuck todd. my thanks to the panel. that does it for our hour. i'll nicolle wallace, "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> hi. are you wearing black today for a reason? >> there is always a reason to wear black in ump from's america. >> i will leave it there. thank you, nicole. happy friday. if it's friday, go directly to jail, and do not pass go, and do not collect $200. >> tonight, bail revoked. paul manafort is trading in home detention for a jail cell. as the president's own legal troubles get worse. >>> plus, you a authoritarian envy. >> he speaks and his people sit up at attention. i want my people to do the same. >> why the president continues to lavish laiz praise on kim jong-un. >> do you know why? because i don't want the see a nuclear weapon destroy you and your family. >>> and how the white house is dodging al days agos of separating thousands of families at the border. >> i hate it. >> who the president is charging with the zero tolerance immigration order. this is "mtp daily," and it starts right now.

nbc political director chuck todd has had atherusy week. >> also moderator of "meet the press."'t want to forget that title there. in all seriousness, the debate this week to me was you can end this with one phone call, no, i can't, and then h did. >> look, it is the first time he has responded to political tessure. firse we have seen him he doesn't cave often and he caved. heost everybody. lost most of the party, including people like ted cruz. he had to do something. now there's more chaos. nowhe administration, you know, looking heartless is a bad ok. looking heartless and incompetent is a horrible look. this is what made katrina inhe bush years a political disaster. heartlessness on top of competency issues. have they kept track of them all? it is not clear. who takes point on this. ow many kids are they planning to have. why are they going to the pentagon for military beds. there are all these questions. 10%. have maybe answered this could be one of the crises that doesn't end. >> y mention that he caved on the issue, but he has alsoome out and stood by it, saying he thinks

you todd, how are you. >> i'm okay, let me start --. >> chris. >> stephen: it's okay, he called chuck todd, todd. then corrected himself to chris. (laughter) that's the sort of attention of detail, i look for in a lawyer. >> your honor, my client pleads todd-- i mean chris-- i mean guilty, he's so guilty. i'm sorry, your honor, go on. do you believe the president could also pardon himself? >> well, it's not going to happen. so it's a hypothetical point. i think the presidential power, there is nothing that limes the presidential power of pardon from a federal crime. >> stephen: he has a point. there is nothing in the constitution that stops him. after all it says in article 2 section 2 the president shall have power to grant reprieves and pardons, which i guess hypothetically includes himself. (laughter) huh. is it too late to get that king back? and according to giuliani, it goes further than just ending the investigation. he told the huff po i done know how you can indict the president wile he is in office no matter what st, even if he shot james comey. so there st. the president can com

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not to put my chuck todd hat on, but there are political aspects of this as well. when he brings back these formaler detainees, these prisoners, and they're reunited with their families, people like that. >> so this unprecedented summit is under way. we'll be here through the night covering it all. we'll come back on the air just as soon as events warrant with president trump's news conference. that is expected to happen at 4:00 a.m. eastern time tuesday morning. for now i'm lesr holt in singapore. good evening and than joining us on this historic evening. i )m raj mathai. and i )m jessica aguirre. we continue our live coverage from s >>> the news at 6:30 starts right now. thank you for being with us on this historic meeting. i'm raj. >>> that highly anticipated summit between president trump and kim jong-un is under way. you're looking at it right there. that's a live picture of the capetella hotel. both leaders are inside that hotel. they initially planned for three days, but now the white house says the president will be leaving singapore in less than 24 hours.

the latest from the border and chuck todd just ahead. >>> breaking news this morning.unfire erupts at a cultu l festival in trenton, new jersey. one person is dead, at least 20 others injured. we are live at th scene. >>> later, a sunday sit down with daily show host trevor noah on his seemingly impossible road from apartheid, south africa to the big chair held by jon stewart. now l ce nightedy in the age of donald trump. >> i was in a state of outrage. i think at times people allow themselves to get outraged at everything donald trump does. at some point, i'm going toin accept cerdeas and norms of him as a president. doesn't mean they're normal but they're his. >> a sunday sit dow with trevor noah, and trip to puerto rico for a progress reportmoine hs after the storm. all of this later in the show. >>> let's begin with growing outrage over the trump administration's zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration as more families are attempting to enter the united states are separated overnight. we report fm the frontlines on the mexican border. >> reporter: mores detent

chuck todd, nbc's political director and moderator of "meet ree." chuck, let me begin with you off the president's comments. used to be we had to read between the lines what the adminiration was thinking. this president just says it out loud, despite that he signedhe executive order wednesday, he believes and has said all along this is a good issue for republicans politically.s he beliet is about ms-13 as you watch images of children taken from parents. he says it is not unlike nfl he kneeling, cultural wedge issue he believes is good for him, good for republicans. >> one thing you learn about president trump i what he believes is good for republicans is just about his own personal experience. in his own personal experience, immigration has been great for his political ride. it is the tough immigration rhetoric that got him a republican nomination, got him where he is. he is speaking for president trump, that is correct, for the arepu party. places to claim this, nevada is about one of the worst to claim that immigration is a good thing. i think the

. >> meet the press moderator chuck todd will join us later to talk about the policy and what else is on the show later on nb. >>> six leading candidates for governor square off in a final televised forum before the june 26 primary, it was hosted bnbc4 and telemundo 24 and monitored by tom sherwood. immigration was front and center with candidates talking about vowing to help. >> we have to end the terror, this is one thing we can do. >> we have too many families afraid to send children to school. >> i.c.e. officers are bullies. thugs. as donald trump said, let off the leash. the only way to stand up to bullies is you have to fight them. >> you can watch the ente forum with the democratic candidates in the race for governor of maryland. it airs here on news4 later this moheing at 11:30 after "meet press." >>> d.c. voters decide on the issue of tips, minimum wage. they can be paid 3.33 an hour. goes up to $5 in 20 to. if this passes, tipped employees -- in 2020, and if initiative 77 passes, employees woul earn $15 by 2025. darcy spencer talked with workers and diners ahead of the big v

us chuck todd was onset wit today at 6:00 to talk about all of the events of the past week.ained why this is a political problem thatould linger for the trump administration. >> the lack of focus and understanding of what is happening, the threat of having your child separated from you is still less of a threat than the violence they have to deal with in their countr we're n fully appreciating -- and the idea that the president said he was going to take away foreign aide from countries, and that is the exact wrong approach here. we need to figure out a way to make sure they't want to have to lead. we have no central ameri policy, but president trump is not the first president to endorse central america. i think we're paying the price right now. i think this is one that leaves a mark on him about competency. competency when people think you're not competent they run for the hills, your party will get punishes. obama with healthcare.gov. >>> he will d deeper into that sundayt 10:30. >>> xt, police body cameras capture what happene to two people left in a house that was in a ho

and chuck todd, the moderator of meet the press. just off the comments there, chuck, we'd have to read between the lines to see what they are thinking. this president says it out loud. despite the fact he signed the order wednesday, he believes this is a good issue for republicans politically. he believes it's about ms 13 as we watch images of children taken from parents. he says it's not unlike nfl kneeling, a cultural wedge issue he believes is good for him and good for republicans. >> well, look, one thing you learned about president trump is what he believe is good for republicans about his own personal experience. well in his own personal experience immigration has been great for his political rise. it's the tough immigration rhetoric that got him in the republican nomination. it's what got him to where he is. so he is speaking for president trump, that is correct, for the republican party -- by the way, of all places to claim this, nevada is about one of the worst places to claim that that immigration stance is a good thing. i

we'll get into all of it with chuck todd in just a moment. plus, is a serial killer on the loose in arizona? four people have been shot to death in just three days including a psychiatrist who's worked on some of the nation's most notorious criminal cases. police say at least three of those murders are connected. and later, a sunday sit-down with oscar nominee andrew garfield. the actor, known in the movies as spider-man but on broadway as the tony nominated star of the iconic play "angels in america." >> now there are people who have never been to the theater coming to see a 7 1/2 hour play as their first play possibly because they saw me in a spiderman film. i mean, that makes me so happy. >> a sunday sit-down with andrew garfield. plus, a truly amazing story as we approach the anniversary of d-day this week. all of it a bit later in the show. but let's begin this morning with that bombshell report in today's "new york times," revealing why president trump's lawyers believe the president cannot be subpoenaed by special counsel robert muelle

"mtp daily" starts right now with steve kornacki in for chuck todd. doing double duty, my friend. >> on a day like this, it's -- [ no audio ] ♪ >>> good evening. i'm steve kornacki in new york, in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." we begin tonight with that breaking news that could reverberate through american life, culture, politics, for a generation or more. this afternoon, supreme court justice anthony kennedy, he is widely considered the swing vote on that court, he announced his retirement effective next month. that means that the makeup of the court could move to the right. you can bet that president trump's nominee to replace kennedy is going to be someone at least as conservative, probably significantly more conservative than him. that could mean we are gearing up for one heck of a political fight. kennedy has been the deciding vote on landmark cases involving affirmative action, abortion, the death penalty, same-sex marriage just to name a few of the hot of the buttons he has touched. president trump says the process to pick kennedy's r

nbc's gabe gutierrez reporting the crisis at the border will be the big storyow tomoorning with chuck todd you can watch right here at 10:30onbc 4. >> players and well wishes pouring in for congressional candidate critically hurt in a wrongway crash. katy arrington was a passenger in a car that was hit last night in south carolina. the driver died. donald trump tweeted his condolences. she upset markhe sanford in primary earlier this month. >>> a sad update a in family missing from springfield. a body has been found butar the waiting for dna tests to confirm it is. yfairfax couolice have suspended their search and the case is now a death investigation. they do not suspect foul play. gavin disappeared in d.c. sunday night after the concert. and graduated last year from high school and was set to attend wilam & mary in the fall. posted this morning her son is at peace and they are grateful to all who helped with the search. >>> drivers on a bus stretch of thern virginia will soon notice a name change and tonight we'll share why. and tonight we'll share why. and a landmar d in saudiay tearing

part of the legal team when that letter was sent to mueller in january, but here's what he told chuck todd earlier. >> he has very broad powers. and somebody who wants to question that under article 2 has a big, big burden of showing there is no innocent explanation of what he did. they just can't do that. so i would like to convince them to exercise some constitutional restraint here. what's involved here is a simple exercise of constitutional power with very good reasons for it. you can always come up if you want toith some noninnocent reason. >> guiliani also weighing in on whether the president can pardon himself. >> he has no intention of pardoning himself, but doesn't say he can't. it would be an open question. i think it would probably get answered by gosh, that's what the constitution says, if you want to change it, change it, but yeah. >> president trump wrapping up a trip to camp david, attacking the fbi and justice department for not warning him during the campaign that an investigation was under way, although they did. nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell has more

i hope they are ready to go. >> thanks to chuck todd there.resting final discussion about the late charles crokraut hammer. you are watching the beat. it is friday night. there is a lot of news, including this. the trump administration getting busted for plans for detention camps on military bases. we are learning how the trump administration is plotting to punch back after the president partly folded on the border cries thinks week. a secret memo leaking. it exposes plans for new detention camps for over 100,000 migrants at military bases across the country. it reveals the president's state of mine saying plans for an immigration reform bill next week are a waste. i have this story coming up. plus a fox whistle blower will join me to talk about what he calls propaganda that's hurting our democracy. >>> we begin with one of the stranger hail mary as we have ever seen. michael cohen is locking arms with one of trump's celebrity enemies. this move comes amidst a new ruling tonight in the fed's

. >> sleepy eyes chuck todd. he's a sleeping son of a -- they call her pocahontas. you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them. i don't know if i would have done well, but i would have been boom, boom, boom -- >> reporter: congressman waters encouraging her supporters to protest over the weekend. >> if you see anybody from that cabinet you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them. >> reporter: president trump responding by insulting waters' i.q. and falsely accusing her of calling for harm to his supporters, before seemingly shooug issuing a threat of his own, tweeting, be careful what you wish for, max. waters denying she encouraged violence. >> i believe in peaceful, very peaceful protests. i have not called for the harm of anybody. this president has lied again. >> reporter: democratic party leadership denouncing her behavior. >> no one should call for the harassment of political opponents. that's not right, that's not american. >> reporter: democratic leader nancy pelosi tweeting a rare rebuke, trump's daily lack

"mtp daily" starts right now with steve kornacki in for chuck todd. doing double duty, my friend. >> on a day like this, it's -- [ no audio ] ♪ >>> good evening. i'm steve kornacki in new york, in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." we begin tonight with that breaking news that could reverberate through american life, culture, politics, for a genera

. >>> nbc news political director chuck todd joins us on set. discussed manafort, the trump administration's controversial policy of separating migrant children from their pare the key role virginia could play in who will control congress. chuck says special counsel bert mueller could be sending manafort a message. >> there's somhoht that if he may be in d.c. jail, the ones with a lot of cockroaches, the flat metal beds. i don't know if that's an accident. menaing that could be a sig that bob mueller is once again putting more and more pressure on manafort. >> theresident coming out and saying that this is a democratic rule, this is a rule or law that was enacted by democrats. what gives here? >> he's making something up. and, i mean, it's toets totally -- nobody understands at he's talking about. virginia now has about a four-state p pce of thezle here for democrats to win control of congress, and suddenly virginia might be among the most importst. >> and t just in, nbc news has confirmed that manafort was oked into a facility in warsaw, virgini

let me bring in chuck todd right now, our political director and moderator of "meet the press." n washington. chuck, everything these days is through a political filter, and certainly, there has been a lot of back-and-forth of what democrats want to see come from this versus republicans. but at the end

probably had the power to he pardon himself, only to backtrack and tell "meet the press" moderator chuck todd this. >> the president of the united states pardoning himself would just be unthinkable. and it would -- it would lead to probably an immediate impeachment. >> it all comes as a legal memo gets leaked, showing the clearest view so far of mr. trump's legal strategy in mueller's investigation. let's go to nbc's tracie potts in washington with more. >> reporter: good morning, everyone. this is a me memo are coming fr that report. it's the latestn e trump legal team's strategy trying to get the president out of testifying. it claims that as the nation's top law enforcement officer president trump cannot obstruct justice but he can shut down any investigation including presumably the russia investigation and he could even pardon himself in the times they're reporting that this memo says, in this confidential memo he could unfettered authority over all federal investigations. aln this memo we are learning that president trump did in fact dictate that memo abt his son donald trump jr. meetin

his press secretary this week, they come back and say he called chuck todd an s.o.b. what about this one and this one and the whole culture seems to go into the gutter. mollie: most of americans aren't like this. the way to achieve better outcomes is to be better yourself and reaching out to people with different policy views. howie: are commentators doing it because you know it will get picked up on the website? mollie: i think there is something inherent in social media that incentivizes people to act crazy. there is not a lot of pushback in news rooms when you are saying something outrageous to the country. howie: my thoughts on charles krauthammer's impact on journalism. his memorial service currently his memorial service currently under ahh... summer is coming. and it's time to get outside. pack in even more adventure with audible. with the largest selection of audiobooks. audible lets you follow plot twists off the beaten track. or discover magic when you hit the open road. with the free audible app, your stories go wherever you do. and for just $14.95 a month y

let's bring in nbc's chuck todd. chuck of course moderator of "meet the press." it was such a wide ranging interview, chuck, we should tell our viewers and listeners to probably go to the inner webs and watch the full thing. >> craig, it was breath taking. >> it was. >> look, it was breath taking in so many ways. he was misleading, outright lies at some point, mischaracterizations, just all sorts of falsehoods. but it tells you something bigger, craig. he's feeling emboldened. he feels more in control of his political party. look at those election results on tuesday. he feels more emboldened now because he feels as if he was at least justified in his firing of comey. he feels more emboldened because he's got another text message from the one fbi agent to use as a sledgehammer. i have to tell you, i think anything is possible in the next few days, in the next few weeks when it comes to rosenstein, mueller. this president may be willing to test the limits of his constitutional authority. >> chuck, let me pick up right there because we heard rudy giuliani last night

. >> the longest-running show in television history, this t "me press" with chuck todd. >>> good sundayning. for perhaps the first time in his presidency donald trum lost an issue that was defined by television. not the facts that parents and children were separated at the border, that was the administration's policy,hat ttered was what happened next. it was the wall to wall parade of desperate parents and the first ladies and the growing number of reps wublicans, and i was the sound administration officials articulating a policy from separating children from their parents and then denying that their policy was to separate children from their parents. in the end, president trump didh agree to do whinsisted could not be done. he signed an executive order ending the policy. there are reports of tense infighting at the white house over how to reunite families anu confusion where to house tens of thousands of people. o be fair, this crisi immigration crisis which more properly should be called a refugee crisis has confounded presidents beforehand, with children at shelters at the border thk

. >> sleepy eye, chuck todd, is as sleeping son of a -- >> maxine waters have a very low iq individualf course, there are a lot of others on twitter or elsewhere. when it comes to double standards, the examples are many and varied. >> she wants to blame everyone else for her legal troubles but she has no one else to blame but herself. hillary is the one that set up up an illegal e-mail server to shield her criminal activities. a few days ago, revealed by plit cou the question is does anyone these days seem to care. that's a question for jason miller and michaela davis who is joining us after a very quick break. i've been making blades here at gillette for 20 years. i bet i'm the first blade maker you've ever met. there's a lot of innovation that goes into making our thinnest longest lasting blades on the market. precision machinery and high-quality materials from around the world. nobody else even comes close. it's about delivering a more comfortable shave every time. invented in boston, made and sold around the world. now starting at $7.99. gillette. the best a man can get. i'm a smal

his press secretary this week, they come back and say he called chuck todd an s.o.b.the whole culture seems to go into the gutter. mollie: most of americans aren't like this. the way to achieve better outcomes is to be better yourself and reaching out to people with different policy views. howie: are commentators doing it because you know it will get picked up on the website? mollie: i think there is something inherent in social media that incentivizes people to act crazy. there is not a lot of pushback in news rooms when you are saying something outrageous to the country. howie: my thoughts on charles krauthammer's impact on journalism. his memorial service currently under way in a synagogue in chevy chase, maryland. howie: a towering example for us in the news business. and not just for the obvious fact he overcame his physical disabilities. he rarely spoke by the and most of people didn't know he was in a wheelchair. he was a powerful journalistic force for "the washington post," and "time" magazine. i would read a krauthammer post and say i wish i had written that

i was critical of rudy giuliani for raising it, but he didn't raise, chuck todd raised it. the manner in which he answered it ginned up his own client. the mayor said he could have had comey shot and not be prosecuted for it. the imagery is horrific and i don't know why mayor giuliani would that imagery. kennedy: we talk about the constitution. and you talk about the federalist papers. it was never designed protect the president from any accountability at all. >> the president is not a king. he, the president of the executive branch of government. he would be arrested, charged and prosecuted. the president can't be put on trial while he's president. but he would be rye -- would be rearrested the minute he left ce. can he pardon himself? the supreme court said the pardoning power is plenary and there is no check on it. the other argument is we have a rule of law in this country. the supreme court expressly embodies it. no one can be the prosecutor and judge in his own case. pardoning himself would make him the prosecutor and judge in his own case. i can't imagine the framers

. >>> i'm chuck todd here in washington. we begin with the imperial presidency. the president is a but arguing that the president is above the law. the republican reaction. here is the top gop senator. >> we're witnessing a constitutional crisis. it's incumbent on republicans in congress to use every single constitutional tool we have to defend the rule of law. to rein in a president so the president doesn't become an unaccountable monarch. >> i'm guessing the meghan kelly aspect of that clip that was senator cruz standing up for under the rule of law under president. at the time he have talking about the daca decision. this is cruz standing up under the rule of trump. >> would you agree that the president can pardon himself? >> would you agree with that? >> that is not a constitutional issue i've studied. i will withhold judgment at this point. >> i do know we did a tweet storm later and we'll talk about that in a minute. here is another reaction to the president's argument he's basically above the law. >> we've seen repeated differences. it's a consistent and w

let's bring nbc news political director and mod tator of "mee press" chuck todd. this one is especially painful for people in our community and those of us who work in the media. do you think this has any effect at all on the president's attacks on the media? >> everybo [inaudible] >> there's a social media permission slip out there. there is -- [inaudible] saying you w knowt? i'm tough on those guys. it's all in fun or this or that. that's what he tells me one-on-one. when you tell him, hey, you know what, this doesn't help when you do this. a bunch of us have h conversations with candidate trump about hey, when you single out an individual, you increase the threat levels to them. they may be threats that are not aserious as they look, but that's what happens when you do it. it's not meant to be anything. i took him at his word that it's not meant to be. is is the larger conversation. somebody's got to heal this toxic divide that we're in. maybe the president is not thee bestn right now considering he participates in some of this. maybe this is a lesn for him. ma

sleepy eye chuck todd. or pocahontas.e waters a low iq individual. >> a lot of others on twitter and video and elsewhere. the examples are many and varied. >> she wants to blame everyone else for mounting legal troubles but has really no one else to blame but herself. hillary is the one who set up an illegal private e-mail server to shield. >> just a few days ago, it was revealed by politico that the president used a pair of nonsecure iphones and does not have them scanned for intrusions. the record is full of double standards and does anyone these days actually seem to care. question for our next two guests, jason miller. most-reliable 4g lte network in america. honey, what if it was just us out here? yeah well, i guess, uh, didn't think about that. verizon did. (vo) go with the best. starting at $40 for four lines. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla,

. >> jay, let me vent the same frustration that you saw from chuck todd there. this could be solved quickly, if not immediately, and somebody is saying nobody likes this policy. clearly somebody in that building with a lot of power does like it, because it persists. >> absolutely. this is a re-interpretation of a law by the trump administration that has, as kellyanne points out has existed for decades. it's obviously it is again to come into the united states, but this is the first time we are separating children from their families as they do this, as they enter the country. it is clearly a new interpretation of a very old law the trump administration is taking, and they're doing it clearly to create political pressure, and doing it to try to get democrats and try to get republicans in their own party to pay for this wall that trump so dearly wants and to get something moving in congress. the problem is this is a -- not the right people they are looking to talk to, in the sent that republicans are not talking to democrats. they're not part of any kind of negoti

this is after the prime minister strongly objected on meet the press with chuck todd to this national security clause by which the president could unilaterally slap tariffs on canada without having congress' approval. it's not clear he would have gotten congress approval. they have been with us and are with us in afghanistan. canadian men and women dying in the service of multilateral global goals. >> many americans don't realize that just in our most recent in afghanistan, canadians lost more troops during parts of that war than american troops. they fought and bled as much as any u.s. marine, army soldier. i think that really does -- it's a punch in the gut to say there's this national security interest with the canadians which is very hard for them to stomach. >> the juxtaposition of his leaving early from the g7 summit to go to meet with the north korean leader. the notion that the only diplomacy is doing in the world today is with north korea while at the same time we're slapping tariffs on our allies. abandoning them in meetings. it's just unbelievable in many ways. >> let me ta

i'm in for chuck todd. in today's supreme court ruling, is the presidency more powerful than ever. one is potentially congress. congress has not shown much willingness to exercise that power. not with trump's republican party running it. the other becomes the judiciary. today the supreme court affirmed trump's broad bower power to ac. today the supreme court upheld the revised version of the travel ban which impacts muslim majority countries. five of the seven countries affected are muslim majority. reason in that 5-4 decision it grants the president broad discretion. it has a legitimate grounding in national security concerns quite part from my religious hostility. make no mistake about it here. this president ease religious hostility towards muslims has already been well documented. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims into the united states. >> the hatred is beyond comprehension. it's going to get worse and worse. you'll have more world trade centers. >> fdr's solution for german, italians, japanese. we're at war. we are now at war. >> i thi

chuck todd spoke with prime minister justin trudeau. >> the idea we are a national security threat to the united states is frankly insulting and unacceptable. >> reporter: unfazed by the protest, the president stood his ground. >> i agree. i love canada. >> reporter: mr. trump hinted about historic outcome in singapore because the korean war was never officially declared over, resolving now is on the table. >> can you believe we are talking about ending the korean war. 70 years. >> reporter: white house officials say the president read the contents of the letter from kim jong-un after the meeting. they said there were no surprises. president trump is at camp david with members of his family for the weekend. he has a number of phone calls scheduled to discuss trade and north korea. sheinelle and craig. >> thank you. jeremy bash is a security analyst. jeremy, always good to have you here, sir. >> good morning. >> kim yong-chol becomes the second ever north korean to meet with the sitting president. that picture there of him in the oval office with president trump. this is a big step tow

i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily."ight now we are dealing with the sequences of a president who has bit of a wartime approval rating among members of his own party, and a president who is seemingly fix ated on a warw his political enemies. at 87%, only george w. bush in the aftermath of 9/11 has had a higher approval rating amongst members of their own parties at this point in his prency. in this case, it's republicans and republicans. according to a new uhl gallup poll. as a consequence, that 87% rating wrong republicans you might argue isdeal. we are endith a unending blitz of conspiracy theories maligning and smearing the russia investigation. here's today's fabrication. >> they are a group of 13 highly partisan democrats that make up the mueller team, excluding him, are trying very, very frame him. folks. the trump administration appointed mueller. think about that. is giuliani arguing t presenthe groundwork to frame himself? still, the president has an 87% approval rating among republicans. as a consequence of tha

the longest-running show in television history upon this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. we have two big interviews lined up and we'll get to them right away. rudy giuliani has been a supporter of president trump. this morning i'll ask mr. giuliani about the novel legal strategy that argues that the president's powers are essentially unlimited and when the president does it that means it is not illegal. so does this mean that no matter the president's motive for firing fbi director james comey it was legal and does this mean president trump will never sit down with special counsel robert mueller under any circumstance? i also had an exclusive sitdown with prime minister justin trudeau of canada after he responded to tariffs on steel and aluminum. we'll hear his thought and what he believes trade wars between neighboring allies could mean and this comes after what president trump did or said was about him, the i alone can fix it president sought to fix nuclear sengzs with nor nuclear tensions with north korea's kim jong-un and sought tariffs with canada, an

. >>> chuck todd is nbc political director and moderator of "meet the press."'s first start with the russia investigation. there's newn pressure manafort and now there are perhaps multiple reports that michael cohen i looking to cut a deal. so how is the president responding to all this? >> paul manafort, since we're talking here in washington, d.c. t there are thoughtst he may be in d.c. jail, the ones with a l of cockroaches and the flat metal beds. i don't know if that's an accident. t could be a signal that bob mueller, once again putting mord an more pressure on man fort. it was interesting to watch the president this morning before the manafort news, everyone knew this was the likely result, before the news and the crazy scrum the president did this morning in the white house north lawn, he did his usual, he wasn't on the campaign very long and even in the tweetoday he id it's unfair, but again tried to provide -- hey, this was bdole's guy, too, a long time republican operative. he had rudy giuliani say, well, we might be able to clear this up with pardon

a few days later, sunday on meet the press, check todd asked you -- chuck todd asked you and you said you don't know. ifsecond question for you is there was an informant on the trump campaign to protect the trump, why wasn't there one in the clinton campaign? on the first question on collusion, what i said and i think the caller is referring to an appearance i made on meet the press in march of 2017. i stand by that statement that when i left the government, we saw no direct smoking gun evidence of collusion. that is not to say there wasn't, i don't know if there was. someone argued that there had evidence. hopefully that will be resolved one way or the other by special counsel robert mueller. whether there was or not, but is a cloud hanging over the country and over the presidency. with respect to the informant, these are tactical judgments that the fbi makes about informants and where to recruit informants and why. i am not in a position to , aond-guess an investigation law enforcement investigation that the fbi conducted. in the case of the informant that has been revealed, the tar

and chuck todd went to meet justin trudeau in canada. your cup literally runeth over. i think it's fair to say, so does ours. that's it for tonight. we'll be back monday with more. "the beat" starts with ari melber. >> thank you. bob mueller indicts to 20th person in the russia probe. bob mueller making two big moves late today, charging a new person in this russia probe, a russian national linked to putin's intelligence services who spent years working for paul manafort. mueller adding new charges in this indictment. that includes witness tampering. the definite is konstantin. now, when that news broke, basically everyone understood it because mueller was asking a judge to revoke manafort's bail over the allegations that he was trying to get witnesses to lie for him. the people turned over text messages from manafort and he had been trying to conceal all that effort to encrypted messaging apps. tonight, mueller is not only say thoegz everies should land manafort in trial, as we learned earlier, tonight, bob mueller is saying those efforts constitute new crimes and thu

but let me get your reaction to an interview that aired on this morning's nbc's meet the press, chuck todd with this line of questioning the justin trudeau. our soldiers who had fought and died together on the beaches of world war ii and in the mountains of afghanistan, and have stood shoulder to shoulder, always there for each other. that somehow, this is not something to them -- that this is insulting to them. the idea that canadian steel and liry vehicles in the united states, it is canadian aluminum that makes year fighter jets. that it is somehow a threat? next week, we are hosting did you send it -- the g-7 summit of world leaders. -- was put there in world war ii to protect and aluminum smelter providing to the military efforts. the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is insulting and unacceptable. >> so, what do you feel the president wants from you? >> i don't know. >> you don't know what he wants? is it nafta? you have no idea? >> he has talked about the fact that he's worried about trade surpluses, trade deficits around the world. they have a

but let me get your reaction to an interview that aired on this morning's nbc's meet the press, chuck todd with this line of questioning the justin trudeau. our soldiers who had fought and died together on the beaches of world war ii and in the mountains of afghanistan, and have stood shoulder to shoulder, always there for er. that somehow, this is not something to them -- that this is insulting to them. the idea that diel a milita vehicles in the united states, it is canadian aluminum that makes year fighter jets. that it is somehow a threat? next week, we are hosting did you send it -- the g-7 summit of world leaders. -- was put there in world war ii to protect and aluminum smelter providing to the military efforts. the idea at we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is insulting and unacceable. >> so, what do you feel the president wants from you? >> i don't know. >> you don't know what he wants? is it nafta? you have no idea? >> he has talked about the fact that he's worried about trade surpluses, trade deficits around the world. they have a $2 billion surplus on

justin trudeau slammed the tariffs in a new interview with nbc's chuck todd. >> the idea that our soldiers who had fought and died together on the beaches of world war ii and the mountains of afghanistan and have stood shoulder to shoulder in some of the most difficult places in the world that are always there for each other somehow this is insulting to them. the idea that the canadian steel that's in military vehicles in the united states, the canadian aluminum that makes you fighter jets is somehow now a threat, the fact that -- next week we're hosting the g-7 summit of world leaders and the airfield the military base that air force one is going to land in was put there in world war ii to protect an alup numb smelter that was providing to the military effort. the idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the united states is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable. >> the new tariffs come exactly one year since the president announced plans to withdraw from the paris climate agreement about the u.s. is now the only nation on earth to reject the climate pact. the tariffs com

i'm curious here on a saturday evening, what is rudy giuliani going to say to your colleague chuck toddto blow this thing up. >> what is he going to say. >> i don't know. but we will talk it at great length and it will almost put this story as a back burner to whatever he says tomorrow. >> you will be watching in earnest tomorrow, won't you susan. >> watch meet the press. >> that's a great plug. do not miss that on your nbc station locally, check your local listings. 15 seconds to you though. wrap it up for us. >> let's remember, this was written in january. we don't know where the president's newest lawyer, emmitt flood, comes down on all of this. are we watching old news? are we watching a trial balloon being floated to the public? where is emmitt flood on all of this? we have got to stay tuned for all of that. >> i appreciate all four of you. frank, glen, retired just yesterday. now he knows what it's like, he has been on air since 7:00 a.m. this morning. julie, susan del percio, newly minted msnbc contributor but old friend. thank you to all four. that wraps it up for us on msnbc th

. >> reporter: yet he's called mexican immigrants, rapist, mocked a disabled reporter, mocked chuck toddets. instablts is not an itmpeachabl offense. trump supporters spin it into a positi positive. i can't say that on tv. >> one of the reasons he won in a sit ng the oval office is because he isn't a scripted robot. >> reporter: economics might not be trickle down but instability just might be. >> they do it because we have a white trash racist president. that's a fact. >> reporter: too strong tom. i demand you apologize and are fired. >> david is back with me now. david, on this idea of civility, we've had so many things that trump himself has said that been jaw dropping and we keep hearing you can't normal ieize this. now we have rudy giuliani, i'm just getting this crossing the wire telling the huffington post that trump could have shot comey and still couldn't be indicted for it. >> we were just talking about that. the california law review the president murders his valet and he can make this argument. now he's making that argument. it's pretty incredible. i think to be fair, we shou

. >> sleepy eyes chuck todd, he's a sleeping son of a bitch. >> they call her pocahontaspoca >> reporter: congresswoman waters encouraging her protesters over the weekends. >> if you see anybody from that cabinet, you get out and you push back on them. >> reporter: president trump responding by insulting her iq and falsely accusing her of calling harm to his supporters for issuing a threat of his own. be careful what you wish for, max. waters denying she encouraged violence. >> i believe in peaceful, very peaceful protests. i have not called for the harm of anybody. this president has lied again. >> reporter: democratic party leadership also denouncing her behavior. >> no one should call for the harassment of political opponents. that's not right. that's not american. >> reporter: democratic leader nancy pelosi tweeting a rare rebuke, trump's daily lack of civility has provoked responses that are predictable but unacceptable as we go forward, we must conduct elections in a way that achieve unity. the firestorm coming as president trump continues to downplay the outrage over thousands of

clearly talking to chuck todd on "meet the press" saying hey it's important we have people to stand updidn't really try hard enough. >> well i don't know if it's a matter of effort. i don't know if it's a matter of the extreme frugality or overconfidence, given the last race, but he ended this race with more than twice as much money in the bank as his opponent spent, and if you look ound at some other things that happen in south carolina, we have an incumbent republican governor henry mcmaster who was endorsed by the president who was on tv like nonstop with videos of him and donald trump standing together and he's an incumbent and the state where the economy is doing well, managed to get like 42% of the vote. i don't know there's necessarily this 1:1 correlation with support or opposition to trump and electoral outcomut like i said, i'll be the first to admit if you're criticizing the president you're swimming up i give credit to mark sanford. he's going to say what he believes, consequences be what they are one way or the other. >> guy cecil, weigh in here as a democrat watching t ev