i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> a this is "dateline." >>> he said he couldn't handle talking about it. i was angry at him. if you aren't going to tell me what happened, then you're going to dance around the issue and tell three different stories. what are you hiding. >> it started as a teen romance. >> two of my girlfriends were like, there's this guy and you need to meet him. >> i was in love, yes. >> it ended in one of the strangest love stories you'll ever hear. >> it felt like i got hit by a bus. >> right before their wedding, her mother and his father got married. >> they told us, we ran off, we eloped. who does that? >> two families in a small town left stunned. but it was nothing compared to what happened next. >> he looks like he's been shot. he said someone broke in last night. >> a deadly attack in the dark of night. her mother murdered. >> i realized that last conversation i had with her, that was it. >> his father bruised and bewil

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> i fell to the floor. i don't remember anything. >> she's dead, she's dead. and i was so confused. i was saying what's going on? what happened? >> reporter: a small texas town. two super close friends and a summer night in the park. >> they have this lookout you could seat harbor bridge lit up. it's really pretty when the stars are out. >> reporter: it was the next morning that they found them. >> i could see two girls laying there, it was horrifying, there was duct tape on their mouth and hands. >> reporter: a mystifying scene. >> the only thing we have -- >> reporter: dna would point one way. a bombshell message would point to another. >> i looked at the letter. >> takes a special mind that wants to do something like that. >> reporter: to crack a case this convoluted it might just take a miracle. >> that was strorld. >> extraordinary. i just couldn't believe it. >>> welcome to "da

and i'm craig melvin. and this is dateline on mynetworktv. steven avery is innocent? it's emotional. they made him look like he was just a nice person. free steven avery! tom fassbender: what's happening is wrong. the evidence is beyond overwhelming. steven avery is guilty. i'm innocent. craig melvin (voiceover): the story gripped the nation in the series "make a murderer." so many americans have learned about it. laura nirider: it's being heard by people around the world. craig melvin (voiceover): steven avery and his nephew convicted of murder in the haunting killing of a young photographer. but were they really innocent? i didn't do it. somebody is doing a good job on me. andrea canning: did you have any kind of vendetta against steven avery? absolutely not. craig melvin (voiceover): for the first time on television,

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >>> i'm natalie morales. >>> and this is "dateline." >>> when i saw her, i lost concept of time. i reached in, pulled her out, and started screaming help. >> please! oh, my god! wake up! wake up! >> it was the worst seconds in my life. >> how was it possible? >> i would give anything if she were alive today. >> such a sweet young wife and mom. such a shattering death. >> i cried all night long. >> he was downstairs with the kids. she was upstairs in the bath. then it happened. >> please! oh, please! >> how long has she been in here? >> i don't know. she was taking a bath. >> we didn't know if it was a tragic accident or something else. >> questions quickly swirled about a wife's secret. >> what did you do today? >> she did have an addiction to prescription pills. >> and a husband's story. >> she just flopped on the floor. >> was it an accident, or maybe murder? >> she said, i'm scared of him. >> the whispering started almost immediately, y

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >>> i'm natalie morales. >>> this is "dateline." >>> her name is pepper. >>> i lived a secret life. >>> she was kidnapped at age 4. >>> we got in the car and we never went back. >>> she spent decades trying to find her way home again and she finally made it. or so she thought. >>> i said i think i'm rhonda christy or do you know her? >> there was a long pause. >>> pepper's story had many ups and downs. >> when i looked at the e-mail, i couldn't even believe it. >> but after so many tears, so many years and so many turns in her story. >> i said whoa -- >> there are still more stunning twists to be revealed. >> that's amazing. the best gift ever. >>> welcome to "dateline." a 4-year-old girl was abducted and raised by her kidnapper. for decades, she searched for her family and her identity. her story has an extraordinary ending. but as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. >>> our story begins with this mot

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i'm craig melvin.ig sky country. a small town. and a famously dangerous highway. that was the setting for a deadly crash that left shock and heartbreak in its wake, except they were about to find out that this tragedy was also a mystery and the truth about what happened on that late winter night might be darker than anyone knew. here's keith morrison. >> march 19th, 2009. night fell heavy in montana's flathead valley. something off that night, something wrong. at mary and randy winter's house, anxiety spiked. where was she? >> it just felt like something was not right. >> it's hard to explain that there's something not normal. >> you could set your clock by their daughter, justine. that reliable. but a new driver, too, just 16. on her way home from her boyfriend's house. and though she wasn't very late, the feeling seeped in like a poison. something wrong. >> i called her starting about five after 8:00, no answer. called the house where she was at and they said she had left 15 minutes before that. >> i

i'm craig melvin. at first, a fatal fire that struck a young couple's home appeared to be an accident. then investigators took a closer look, and what they discovered about this fire and this couple left them with "burning suspicion." here's keith morrison. >> is everybody out of the house? >> i don't know, but it's on fire. >> the fire in the cottage on addison avenue was hungry, devouring almost everything in the bedroom. >> we'll have fire department on the way. do you see smoke coming out of the windows? >> it's pouring out of the house. >> within minutes, the firefighters knocked it down. the smoke clearing. the sooty water running in the streets. and then as the mop-up began, the word flashed out like something electric. the house was occupied. someone didn't get out. and up through the ashes, a mystery flared like a stubborn ember that glowed and smoldered and demanded an answer. the inhabitants of the rented cottage, as investigators soon learned, were two young, beautiful people. the successfu

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> she had missed a meeting and then not to hear from her, this isn't right. it would have been impossible to get up every day knowing that she was gone. >> i had to believe we would find her alive. >> narrator: text her, she always got right back. >> i i'veeen her ste out the shower to answer her phone. >> then one day she didn't. >> immediately my spidey senses were high. >> where was nailah? >> i sent her an e-mail, all caps, are you alive? >> there was no sign of her, and such a confusing trail of clues, even calls from 911 were silent. >> no voice, no struggles could be heard. >> this could be kind of eerie. >> yes, it is. >> in my heart i knew she's not coming back. >> one of the suspects had an alibi, until a camera caught him in a lie. >> he lived a life of a lot of smoke and mirrors. >> and the strangest clue of all, there in an empty parking lot. >> six perfectly stacked cardboard boxes. >> narrator: what was in there? what was in there? >> i watch e

i'm craig melvin.e laut was murdered outside his home, and then police found the gun that killed him inside. calling the story his wife told detectives into question. but what she told them next would send the investigation hurtling in a whole new direction. a stunning allegation pointed to another explanation for dave's death. here again is keith morrison with "the hometown hero and the homecoming queen." >> sweet jane laut now accused murderer, and now that dave was dead, stories emerged. >> it seemed like she was controlled, in my opinion. >> an across-the-street neighbor. >> i mean, he's there, standing there, while she's, you know, pulling weeds, cleaning out gutters, washing his truck. and he's not lifting a finger to help her? come on, you know. >> while jane seemed, what, nervous? >> almost like a scared little rabbit. >> i was always a little leery about what was actually going on in the home. >> this close friend said jane's fear reminded her of another vulnerable creature. >> jane looked lik

i'm craig melvin. how long does it take a killer to stop worrying about whether he'll ever be caught? a couple of weeks? a couple of months? 25 years? if he's still a free man then, he's probably pretty sure he did, indeed, get away with murder. detectives retire, witnesses forget. the trail grows cold, never to warm up again. until one day it does. here's keith morrison. [ car starting ] egsced >> what a time it was. the year he turned up in that crazy little car. but a sweet, impossible, unexpected last chance at love, that red, passionate sin. just for marianne, it was 1985 and it was magic. >> all right. call your first witness. >> and now here she was, 2011, in a courtroom of all places. forced to confess her forbidden love, account for her sins. this grandmother, widow, penitent. what story would she tell? >> the main thing going through my mind is to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may. >> the truth, such a difficult word. especially when it bubbles up from a past which mary ann

i'm craig melvin.ker player ernie sheerer was a professional bluffer, a keeper of secrets. he had shown that he was practiced at deception away from the table as well. holding his cards close, but was he a killer? here, again, with our story is keith. >> he was, to says least, eye-opening. when detectives encountered adrian and heard her account of the secret life of ernie sheerer iii. >> i had a thought, you know, he stole two years from me. >> not to mention the truly audacious extent of his philandering. this, after all, was not some tabloid smackdown. ernie's parents had been callously and brutally murdered. en the sort of thing at all you would expect of some hopped up lover boy, and detectives poured over the evidence, they encountered lots of the victims' blood, but very few useful clues. >> we were looking for everything. every blood stained fingerprint. >> they found nothing that pointed to ernie. after all those mysterious bloody nike shoe prints were consistent with a size 12, and ernie wore

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> this is "dateline." >> it was tough to think anybody could do that to someone. to look at the pictures of what they did to her and hear details of how it was carried out, it's just, it's devastating. >> reporter: shauna tiaffay, loving mom by day, vegas cocktail waitress by night. >> i was at one of the bars and i saw her walk by. every single head turned. >> it was after her shift that they found her, the victim of a ruthless attack. >> i mean, your heart just drops to your stomach. >> reporter: potential suspects? how about a casino's worth of customers? >> we didn't know if there was some psycho watching us girls work at the paul ms. >> or did the answer lie in the dead woman's past? >> shauna started thinking, i have got to get out of this situation. >> reporter: from out of the blue, a tip. >> he had some information that was connected to her murder. >> reporter: that would reveal a diabolical plot. >> i just could not understand how this was reality. >

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> we were in love. >> they were so happy at first, sharing a lover's perch high atop a cliff. but romance turned to danger. she fell from the edge. >> i would call this an accidental death. >> but was it? >> she said that, if anything happens to me, you will know who did it. >> a mystery of nearly 20 years heads into court, and the husband is on the precipice. >> did you kill your wife jodie? >> i did not hurt jodie? >> what happened on the cliff's edge? >> hello. welcome to "dateline." when police got word that someone had fallen off a cliff, they weren't surprised. the place was known to be dangerous. but even they could not get that it would take almost 20 years to find out what really happened to a woman out on an evening hike with her husband. here is chris jansing. ♪ ♪ >>> every couple has it. a shared song, a favorite movie, or maybe a special place. steven sharf says for him and his wife jodie this was it. two rocks forming a lover's chair on the edge

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. and this is "dateline." >>> charlie has epilepsy and the one thing that seemed to help was an oil made from something you might not expect, marijuana. >> nothing had ever done this. nothing had ever touched her seizures. >> the oil is legal where charlie lives, but not where these families lived. >> i looked to see if my daughter's lips are blue. i watch when she sleeps. i look for the rise and fall of her chest at 14. >> now, these parents are fighting to make this oil legal and we're with them every step of the way. >> anybody say, well, that's crazy 'cause it's never gonna happen? >> you say marijuana, they are like -- [ gasping ] >> how much are they willing to gamble? if i have to choose between losing my job or losing my kid, what would any mother do? >> the promise. >> this is what you give up when you start using cannabis. >> the risks. >> we don't know the potential side effects. we don't want to make their seizures better and make their lives worse. >> and the families caugh

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >>> i'm natalie morales. and this is "dateline." >>> she was a married mother two of. >> there was nothing about her life that would raise any red flags. >> she amazed them all. her whole group of girlfriends at the gym. >> she was totally dedicated. >> heather, turn around. you've gotten smaller. >> a stunning 200-pound weight loss. and a whole new life came with it. >> you could see that transformation. you could see the confidence in her. >> then, she was gone. missing at school. >> i called all the girlfriends. >> we're going to find you one way or the other. >> the clues. an e-mail to her husband. and a secret she was reluctant to share. >> kind of a bombshell. heather was possibly seeing another man. >> what was really behind her sudden disappearance? that would be the most mind-blowing twist of all. >> do you think that heather would still be alive if she hadn't gone through this transformation? >> gosh -- >>> welcome to "dateline." heather jones, a motivational teacher had shed pounds and her past. sh

craig melvin takes over in new york. hey, craig. >> hey there, andrea. good to see you. >>> good afternoon to you. craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. >>> spygate. another day, another tweet or half dozen tweets from the president railing against the russia investigation. his rants come as two key people who helped him get to the white house feel the squeeze from law enforcement. >>> also, protest penalty. breaking news here. nfl owners decided if you're on the field for the anthem, you better stand up and show respect. the penalties that a team will face if a player or team staffer breaks these new rules. >>> and selling your privacy. the controversial new facial recognition technology that amazon is selling to the government. it can pick your face out of a crowd without you even knowing. a lot of folks talking about this story. we'll get to those stories in a moment but start with the president's relentless attacks on the russia investigation. the latest seven tweets in the last 24 hours. the most recent, simply tweeting the word

craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. >>> inside the meeting. thousands of pages of interview transcripts shedding light on what happened inside that infamous meeting at trump tower, including, according to testimony, a question that donald trump jr. asked about hillary clinton. >>> also -- the message trump voters have for the president. do not fire special counsel robert mueller. why even if they think it's a witch-hunt, they think it should go on. >>> and -- turning pain to public service. talking to two parents living through the unimaginable. losing their children in the parkland shooting. now they're running for office with a powerful message to make sure no parents have to deal with the grief they experience every day. we'll get to those stories in a moment, but we start with the latest from those highly anticipated documents on the june 2016 trump tower meeting between trump campaign officials and russia. a story still unfolding at this moment. transcripts released by senate intelligence committee chuck grassley giving a bit of a window

craig melvin takes over in new york. hey, craig. >> hey there, andrea. you. >>> good afternoon to you. craig melvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. >>> spygate. another day, another tweet or half dozen tweets from the president railing against the russia investigation. his rants come as two key people who helped him get to the white house feel the squeeze from law enforcement. >>> also, protest penalty. breaking news here. nfl owners decided if you're on the field for the anthem, you better stand up and show respect. the penalties that a team will face if a player or team staffer breaks these new rules. >>> and selling your privacy. the controversial new facial recognition technology that

good afternoon, craig melvin here at msnbc in new york city.e're following two breaking news stories. first, summit scrapped. president trump canceling the planned meeting with north korea's leader kim jung-un. we'll talk about where we go from here. also, controlling the message. right now we are in the middle of two highly controversial, highly political sized meetings between members of congress and justice department. it is all about how the fbi carried out its russia investigation. a lot of folks asking why are there two separate meetings for the same intel. maybe the question should be why are there meetings at all. plus, anthem outcry. the president now says nfl players who kneel for the national anthem or stay in the locker room, maybe they shouldn't even be in this country. i'll talk to a former army green beret and nfl player about the new rules and his goal just having people fight less and

craig melvin is up next. >> royal wedding fever.ountry. >> you're on your way, aren't you? >> i'm here, i'm the designated survivor, i'll be staying back. good to see you. craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york city. an interview with the president. new details right now about negotiations between robert mueller and president trump's legal team as we enter the second year of robert mueller's russia investigation today. are we closer to president trump going under oath? plus, animals, that's how the president of the united states described some who come across the border illegally. his comments coming as a group of rogue republicans are standing up to party leadership to try and get a bipartisan deal on immigration done once again. we'll also be reminding you of some of the other incendiary and racist things this president has said. and breaking news right now. shelter in place. that is the order from emergency officials for many on hawaii's big island. a massive volcano has erupted from its summit, sending ash, shooting thou

craig melvin is up next in new york. >> we'll show the hat toss in a moment, i know you will. >> good head headquarters in new york city. >>> harvey, charged with rape and criminal sexual acts from two different women. what happens next as his case moves from the court of public opinion to a court of law? >>> and everybody plays games. that's what the president said today about negotiations with north korea. he also said the summit that he just canceled could actually still happen. we'll pull back the curtain on how the meeting fell apart and where things stand right now. >>> plus -- showdown. congress finally taking up central harassment le

craig melvin takes over next right here on msnbc. hi, craig. >> hey, andrea.snbc headquarters here in new york city. unrecused. president trump says he wishes he picked a new attorney general. it's his latest attack on jeff sessions and his comes as the president's personal lawyer just left court. and stormy daniels's attorney was there as well. i'll speak to michael avenatti about a ruling to keep him out of the case for now. and president trump just weighed in on the roseanne barr controversy, but he did not call out the actress. instead he called out abc. meanwhile, roseanne is

craig melvin is up next. >> good afternoon.elvin here at msnbc headquarters in new york city. deal breaker? president trump, ready to reveal his decision on its ran nuclear deal in about an hour. will he undo yet another piece of the obama legacy and live up to a campaign promise to rally his base? also, voice of the people. primary polls are open right now in several states with key races. they're poised to pick whether trump's washington will be built in his image or built to resist. and resignation fallout. the attorney general quits among accusations of violence against women. so what happens to his legal battles with the president and that investigation into harvey weinstein? we'll get to those questions in just a moment. but we'll start with our top story. in just about an hour from now, president trump will be announcing one of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of his administration so far. we will learn whether the president will drop waivers. a move that would most likely end the agreement reach under the

here's nbc's craig melvin. >> reporter: overnight barr returned to twitter sending out several apologies, saying, don't feel sorry for me, guys. my words meant hundreds of people losing jobs. it was 2:00 in the morning, and i was ambien tweeting. then she claimed the comment wasn't racist. >> what's up, deplorable? >> it all stems from an early tuesday morning tweet storm, barr replying to a tweet about the obama conspiracy theory, writing this about former adviser jarrett. jarrett addressed the tweet during a planned msnbc town hall on racism in america tuesday night. >> first of all, i think we have to turn it into a teaching moment. i'm fine. >> hours after tuesday's post, barr tweeted an apology for making a bad joke and declared that she is now leaving twitter. but those tweets did little to calm the firestorm already ablaze. hours later abc canceled the hit show. the network's entertainment president writing, barr's statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values. some are praising the station for dropping the sitcom, while others say the network should have seen

craig melvin here in new york city. pardon me?ealing that he is considering a pardon or granting clemency for two controversial figures. marsha stewart and former illinois governor rod blagojevich. >>> also her story, the woman whose sexual assault allegations against bill cosby led to a guilty verdict shares her story for the very first time in more than a decade. how her years long legal battle, how her battle, could affect the fight that lies ahead for harvey weinstein and his accusers. >>> also racist politics, the number of people running for office with white supremacist ties is on the rise. we have truly jaw-dropping interviews with two of those people on why they're running on racist policies.

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales.nd this is "dateline." >>> charlie has epilepsy and the one thing that seemed to help was an oil made from something you might not expect, marijuana. >> nothing had ever done this. nothing had ever touched her seizures. >> the oil is legal where charlie lives, but not where these families lived. >> i looked to see if my daughter's lips are blue. i watch when she sleeps. i look for the rise and fall of her chest at 14. >> now, these parents are

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >>> i'm natalie morales.is "dateline." >>> she was a married mother two of. >> there was nothing about her life that would raise any red flags. >> she amazed them all. her whole group of girlfriends at the gym. >> she was totally dedicated. >> heather, turn around. you've gotten smaller. >> a stunning 200-pound weight loss. and a whole new life came with it. >> you could see that transformation. you could see the confidence in her. >> then, she was gone. missing at school. >> i called all the girlie

craig melvin takes over. >> thank very much. msnbc headquarters in new york city. more on that in a minute. >>> backlash to disrespect. mocking john mccain for not backing gina haspel. many wonder why that aide has a job this morning. >>> and getting away with murder. what trump said about how much charged for medicine. now, perhaps action. expecting his plan to cut drug prices within the hour. >>> and can bad mean change? in this me-to-a#metoo era, exam why there's a double standard when it comes to the men accused who are rich and famous. good to natthat in a statement. >>> a stashl incense live remark leading to outrage by some but a strange silence by others. nbc news confirmed comments first reported by the hill. a day after mccain announced he was opposal gina haspel nomination to run the cia "he's dieing anyway" said kelly sadler. for now she is the white house director of surrogate and coalitions yau s outreach. her comments confirmed by three sources with direct knowledge of the meeting. the white house has not denied that sadler said it, by the way. senat

i'm craig melvin.this hour, a story that calls to mind the master of suspense. a plot straight out of an alfred hitchcock film. a young woman peers into her neighbor's yard and sees something for a few seconds. a man, a woman, and a moment that's unsettling. was it some kind of accident? a crime? maybe even a murder? what she saw and what she did would set in motion a chain of events that would divide a family and a jury. here is keith morrison. >> we know the truth. and we know everything that happened. >> how do we know what we know? >> it's emotionally unsatisfying not to have that answer. >> though it is, even if we've seen something, or if we think we have. and thus the question at the heart of the whole puzzle. is this woman right? >> i know what i saw. and i know the conclusion of my story. >> of course she does. of course she does. so why does this other woman think this? >> she doesn't know for sure what she saw. >> a question, we say, on which all the rest will turn. why don't we begin here.

i'm craig melvin. this story involves a woman who disappeared one morning. her husband says she went for a run and never came home. it was a puzzling place, happened in a safe suburban neighborhood where crime is unexpected. even more unexpected, a tiny clue buried in a computer that unlocked the mystery. here is keith morrison. >> nothing about that morning made any sense. >> it all seemed like just such a bad nightmare. this doesn't happen in our happy little world. >> it was a saturday morning in july 2008. the happy little world, a sweet and leafy suburb of raleigh, north carolina. a place a young family would aspire to. if you were someone like hannah pritchard, for example. >> there's always lots of friend-making going on through someone you meet. lots of cookouts and family functions. >> like the one in the neighborhood the night before. so hannah would have heard party stories that saturday morning from her friend nancy cooper. would have. because nancy didn't show up. >> i hadn't heard from he

craig melvin is up next in new york. >> we'll show the hat toss in a moment, i know you will. >> good afternoon to you. craig melvin at msnbc head headquarters in new york city. >>> harvey, charged with rape and criminal sexual acts from two different women. what happens next as his case moves from the court of public opinion to a court of law? >>> and everybody plays games. that's what the president said today about negotiations with north korea. he also said the summit that he just canceled could actually still happen. we'll pull back the curtain on how the meeting fell apart and where things stand right now. >>> plus -- showdown. congress finally taking up central harassment legislation, but the house and the senate passed very different plans. now critics worry a compromise may not go far enough. we'll get to those stories in just a moment, but we start here. over a 40-year period. 95 different women have accused harvey weinstein of doing despicable things, but it could be the claims from two of them that force him to spend his twilight years in a prison somewhere. he is wearing a

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >>> a very good morning to you. ic i'm richard lui here in new york. it's 7:00 out east, 4:00 out west. here's another report with the president's son having another meeting in trump tower. >>> and new reports of an fbi informant looking into the trump campaign. >>> and ready to launch? the actions democrats want to take after november. and the long list of targets on their list. >>> plus, rudy giuliani, what he said about robert mueller and agreed to do about a potential interview with the president. >>> we'll start this hour with a live look at the white house wrapping up the attacks against the justice department amid the reports that the fbi used an informant in the early stages of the russia investigation. president trump tweeted, if the fbi or doj was infiltrated a campaign for the benefit of another campaign, that is a really big deal. only the release or review of documents that the house intelligence committee, also senate judiciary, is asking for can give the conclusive answers. drain the swamp. the white

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> our hearts break for this mother.ristina, the fashionista. it was news nationwide when she vanished. >> we realized this was real. >> who was the last to see her? and where was her ex-model boyfriend? >> he doesn't call when she's missing and he wouldn't say where he was.

craig melvin here in new york city. pardon me? in the last hour or so, president trump revealing that he is considering a pardon or granting clemency for two controversial figures. marsha stewart and former illinois governor rod blagojevich. >>> also her story, the woman whose sexual assault allegations against bill cosby led to a guilty verdict shares her story for the very first time in more than a decade. how her years long legal battle, how her battle, could affect the fight that lies ahead for harvey weinstein and his accusers. >>> also racist politics, the number of people running for office with white supremacist ties is on the rise. we have truly jaw-dropping interviews with two of those people on why they're running on racist policies. >>> but you first, on a day where all eyes should be on that critical meeting under way at this hour setting up a showdown between president trump and kim jung-un, the president has managed to once again upstage his own message. trump on air force one a few minutes ago revealing that he is

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> good morning. i'm dara brown in new york at msnbc headquarters. 7:00 on the east, 4:00 out west. here's what's happening. >>> back in line, new comments from rudy giuliani defending the payment to stormy daniels and insisting the attorney general dismissed the investigation. >>> and keeping his friends close. robert mueller interviewed one of the president's confidants. what could mueller have obtained? >>> and live from new york, it's stormy daniels. >> okay, michael, i can take it from here. >> okay, but as your attorney, i highly advise against you to -- >> so what up, girl? >> hello, donald. >> the porn star takes on the president during "saturday night live." >>> and let's get right to new reaction from rudy giuliani returning to fox news to insist president trump didn't commit any crime in regards to michael cohen's payment to stormy daniels and also to explain why just a few days ago he misspoke about it. here's what giuliani said about it last night. >> the facts, the facts, i'm still learn

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> good morning. i'm dara brown in new york at msnbc world headquarters. it is 7:00 in the east, 4:00 out west. here's what is happening, mixed signals. new comments from president trump saying organizers are still planning for the summit with north korea. so is the meeting on or off? >>> good advice? a former independent counsel says the president's lawyers could be right when it comes to an interview with robert mueller. >> you hear the criminal defense say, and i understand the perspective fully, he shouldn't go to sit down with bob mueller. but he is the president of the united states. >> but could the recent allegation of placing fbi informant within the trump campaign lead to questions of obstruction? >>> ivanka hitting the trail for a loyal republican. why this could be seen as a warning sign, coming up. >>> we begin with a live picture of the white house after an oval office welcome for another american citizen who had been imprisoned abroad. president trump celebrating the release of 26-year-

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> good morning. i'm dara brown at msnbc world headquarters. in new york, it is 7:00 a.m. in the east, 4:00 out west. here is what's happening. rudy giuliani and the trump legal team now asking for a briefing of their own. >>> could it still happen? new tweets from president trump say there are very productive talks with north korea to reinstate the summit, but has damage already been done? >>> and a hint on where the midterm elections are heading as democrats hope to retake the house. details next on msnb c live. >>> we begin with a live picture of the white house appearing to not err on the side of caution and express optimism that a meeting will take place. >> if it does happen, it will likely remain in singapore on the same date, june 12th, and if necessary will be extended beyond that date. but it is unclear the type of contact officials are having to prepare for that summit. >> we'll continue to have conversations. we'll continue to have close contact with our partners and allies. >> on that one

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> good morning, i'm dara brown in new york at msnbc headquarters 7:00 in the even, 4:00 out west. here's what's happened. when did trump know? new reporting says the president knew about the alleged hush money paid to stormy daniels months before this denial. >> did you know about the $130,000 -- >> how president trump is handling damage control following rudy giuliani's admissions to the payout. >>> plus, back fire, giuliani's attempt to clarify the statements made expose president trump to even more legal risk? >>> and midterm predictions, why you should pay attention to who comes out on top on tuesday's primaries but we begin with two big stories shedding light on the length michael cohen went to protect them and at what point the president found out about alleged hush money payments like the one to stormy daniels. "the wall street journal" reports federal prosecutors and the fbi are looking into the two lines of credit cohen took out as the 2016 election

craig melvin, thank you. >>> it's 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m.ay the president of the united states sarcastically marked the one-year anniversary of the mueller investigation, quote, "congratulations, america. we're now in our second year of the greatest witch hunt in american history. and there is still no collusion and no obstruction. and despite the disgusting, illegal, unwarranted witch hunt, we have the most successful first 17-month administration in u.s. history,

craig melvin, thank you. >>> it's 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in washington where today the president of the united states sarcastically marked the one-year anniversary of the mueller investigation, quote, "congratulations, america. we're now in our second year of the greatest witch hunt in american history. and there is still no collusion and no obstruction. and despite the disgusting, illegal, unwarranted witch hunt, we have the most successful first 17-month administration in u.s. history, is "it"? >> if there was collusion with the russians, they would have used it. >> "it"? is he implying there isn't "it"? and what about all the times the president used wikileaks on the trail? couldn't have be "it"? and if so, isn't that trump clearly using "it "? headline two -- senate intel's break with house republicans. the senators instead siding with the intel community's assessment of the probe that russia intended to help trump win the presidency. headline three -- more heat for the president's personal attorney, michael cohen. t"the new yorker" rep

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm dara brown in new york at msnbc world headquarters. it is 7:00 in the east, 4:00 out west. do the right thing. new calls today for an apology from the white house following what one republican senator calls a disgusting joke about john mccain. >>> what deal? new details this morning from the trump attorney rudy giuliani on what the president knew and didn't know about michael cohen's deal with at&t. >>> and sharing the spotlight, why jared kushner won't be front and center at tomorrow's embassy opening in jerusalem. >>> we begin with a live picture of the white house pushing back on how it is handling the controversy surrounding the staffers' sensitive joke about senator john mccain and dealing with mounting pressure from democrats to condemn it. the reaction from lindsey graham in an interview airing later this morning. >> it was a pretty disgusting thing to say. if it was a joke, it was a terrible joke. i just wish somebody from the white house would tell the country that was in

let's get to our correspondent, craig melvin, outside of the police precinct. bring us up to date.t found out is what is the nature of the accusation and who is making the accusation? >> reporter: savannah, as you saw, weinstein walking in slowly. he took no questions. he will go inside and be processed here. that won't take very long. he will be fingerprinted and given an arrest number. his picture will be taken and he will be transported a half-mile away to court. that's where the district attorney's office will take his mug shot. we're told by sources he is going to be putting up $1 million in cash, as bail. his passport will be taken and he'll be wearing one of the ankle bracelets. as for the charges, as for the specific charges, we don't know precisely what he is going to be charged with just yet. we know there are two women specifically, lucia evans, a marketing consultant and aspiring actress. just days ago, she said she planned to file formal charges against weinstein. evans came forward and said, when she was a rising college senior, she took a meeting with harvey weinstei

let's get to our correspondent, craig melvin, outside the police precinct. bring us up-to-date.ne of the things we have not found out yet is whatxaly is the nature of the accusation and aho is making the accusation? >> sava as you just saw there, by the way, weinstein lking in slowly and he took no he will be processed here. we are told that won't take long, but he will be a fingerprinte given an arrest record number, a then he will be transported half a milert away to cnd that's where the district attorney's office will take his mugshot.d we are t sources he will put up $1 million in bail, and his passport will be taken and he wil wearing an ankle bracelet. as for the charges we don't know what he will be charges with just ye but we know there are two women specifically, evans, th woman you might remember last fall that came forward and said when he was a rising college senior she took a meeting with harvey weinstein in that meeng where he forced her to perform a sex act, and c another womane forward and said harvey weinstein raped her twice in 2010. at least one of those women

we have complete coverage and will start at the courthouse with craig melvin. craig, good morning. mar vee wi harvey weinstein in court just a few moments ago. >> reporter: good morning to you. harvey weinstein expected to walk out of this courthouse any moment now. he has surrendered his passport. he will not be allowed to travel outside new york state or connecticut. we're also told that his attorney is going to be holding a news conference here any moment now. weinstein this morning facing a number of charges. the most serious, of course, being rape. what's curious about this rape charge, though, is that the victim is not going to be known to the public. a judge issuing an order of protection. this was a woman that we had not previously known of. meanwhile, harvey weinstein now, there is some activity here outside the court house. weinstein not leaving just yet. a number of his accusers, though, not thinking that this would be a day that would ever come. this morning harvey weinstein turned himself in to new york city police. the former movie mogul now arrested, processed and ch

. >>> that's all for this edition of "dateline extra," i'm craig melvin. >> she was a college student found on a lonely road in texas. >> we figured she had been sexually assaulted and dumped here. >> tough questions for her boyfriend. >> where was i the night before. what had i been doing. when had i last seen her. >> i really thought he could be her killer. >> but while police try to prove it, another attack. >> he's got me by the throat and he's shaking me and yelling at me not to say a word. >> you're a prisoner in this apartment now. >> yes.

and i'm craig melvin. and this is dateline on mynetworktv.ovely robin, the late shift was her last. jeff lancaster: she was laying face down, a pool of blood on her one side. natalie morales (voiceover): just one tiny clue. a piece of curved foam rubber. natalie morales (voiceover): there was a suspect, but he had an alibi-- until this revelation. i said, i have something that you need to know. [theme music] welcome to "dateline." it sometimes takes a special eye to look at a crime scene and spot the one thing that's out of place, the clue that will crack the case. in this story, that thing appeared so inconsequential no one even knew what it was,

and i'm craig melvin.his is dateline on mynetworktv. ): a doctor's wife dies after a minor fender bender. so why do her brothers believe this was no accident? so then i pulled my brother out, and i told him, you are not going to believe what i just heard. natalie morales (voiceover): the startling news came from their sister's friend. and she just kept insisting-- promise me you'll get a full autopsy. natalie morales (voiceover): the brothers kept it a secret. we wouldn't tell our parents, we wouldn't tell my sister deanna, we wouldn't tell anybody. natalie morales (voiceover): it was information about a family member they love. would they point the guilty finger? there was no way we were going to accuse him. hello, and welcome to dateline.

. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >>> a sprawling farm with church parents. >> there was end like this. >> she took me by the hand and said charlie has been murdered. >> the former church decon and his wife. who would p them dead? >> it doesn