. >> craig melvin joins me now. craig, an amazing interview. first of all, what was going through your mind? a lot of us have been in the situation with the former president where when he gets angry, he gets angry, and boy, he unloaded. but you asked him whether he had second thoughts about it, now that things have changed. sgsz rig >> right. and the idea was to ask the president in light of the me too movement, whether there was anything that he would have done differently today. and the president essentially saying no. you know, when the interview wrapped up, he and i did have an exchange afterwards, we had another brief conversation, and he did want to make sure that i understood that the standard now versus the standard then is different. and that it should be different. he wanted to make sure i understood that, a and he wanted to make sure i understood the facts of his case were very different from the facts of a lot of the high profile cases that have been spawned as a result of the me too movement. so the president really wanted to make

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie moralez. >> this is "dateline." she's the little girl who won the heart of a big city. >> they call you the miracle baby. why do they call you that? >> shot in the head at point-blank range, a crime scene that shocked even hardened police. >> the pillow had blood on it. >> as she fought to live, this detective vowed to catch whoever left her to die. soon, he turned up a promising lead. >> bells and whistles go off in my head. >> in the hospital, she battled back. >> to know she had survived was a pretty powerful moment. >> not just her body, but her mind. >> it was the guy that come in the day care and erica said, don't let him hurt me. >> she handed investigators what could be a vital clue. would it be enough to crack the case? >>> hello and welcome to "dateline." i'm craig melvin. it all started with a crime that not even police could believe. a little girl, just a toddler, shot in the head, deliberately, left for dead by

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> this is "dateline." >> it was just chaos. >> a day at the mall descends into mayhem. armed men turn shoppers into prey. >> lots of screaming. lots of gunfire. they had a demeanor like they owned the place. >> panicked moms protecting their kids. >> i kept telling them to be quiet, like a mouse. >> cry, this is it. >> kids, forced to protect one another. >> he grabs your brother? >> yeah, and just ran. >> from out of the blue, a hero. could he rescue the very smallest of victims. >> when she got up and ran, did you have a moment where you thought, oh, my god? >>> hello. welcome to "dateline." newtown, orlando, las vegas, mass shootings are all too frequent in the u.s. overseas, in kenya, mass killings in a deadlier attack. a nar mall saturday afternoon of shopping. what i merged that day were remarkable stories of courage and survivor. here is kate snow. >> reporter: it's the modern day town square, a gathering pl

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >>> he had deeper feelings for me than just friends. he managed to get me to care about him. he had my whole life wrapped up. >> she's at the center of a riveting courtroom drama. the wife whose entrepreneur husband was found murdered one cold autumn morning. >> our whole family has lost its brightest light, and we don't know why. >> he's the one accused of the crime. so why is she under the microscope? >> she's gotten caught in the middle of this crossfire, and it's really unfortunate. it goes against everything that i know about andrea. >> was she cheating with her executive boss? >> "be with me forever." would that be normal communication between your boss and you? >> scheming widow or suffering victim? >> who kills someone else's husband? there was no affair. >> hello and welcome to "dateline." he was a young entrepreneur who wanted to change the world, but someone wanted him dead. firs

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm nat rnatalie morales, ans is "dateline. >> she was sooireceiving long, rambling e-mails saying her husband is cheating on her. she's telling her to watch her back. she better get out of the picture. >>> menacing emails sent to a newlywed. >> the new wife went to authorities and said that she was being harassed. >> that's kind of when the fireworks happened. >> obviously, this hasn't stopped. >> what arrived next was far worse. >> strange men appeared at her door and tried to attack her. >> somebody was posting ads on-line saying they wanted to fulfill a rape fantasy. >> everything pointed to her husband's ex. >> they said we're going to have to take you into custody. >> you're incarcerated? >> for potentially the rest of my life. >> with hiding behind the threats was a cyber secret. >> evil. something that the devil might do. >>> michelle hadley seemed to have it all. a loving family, solid education, with the opportunities and support to help her fulfill the promises of youth,

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is ""dateline."" >> all of a sudden i realized, what's going on? why are they late? something definitely was wrong. he said, your family was in an accident. and my whole world just dropped out from underneath me. >> the scene told the story. >> what did you find? >> something i don't want to see again. >> a deadly crash on a dark road, two gone, one barely alive. a tragic accident. but look closer. in all the broken glass and twisted metal, was there a clue to a crime? >> the last thing i wanted was to have to take a double fatality and have to now treat it as a homicide. >> murder and accusation no one saw coming. >> i couldn't deal with it. >> two families in torment. >> we were both just -- >> a small-town trial with big emotions. >> you took it. you did it. >> and the verdict -- >> we the jury. >> -- that would shake them all. >>> hello and welcome to ""dateline."" big sky country. a small town.

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> i'm freaking out. i walk in, and my sister's not there. her door is open, her lights are on, her bed's undone. everything was horrible. and i felt it. >>> she'd been fearless on the front lines of iraq. >> she was amazing. >> something had her terrified at home. >> scared. i don't feel safe. >> a desperate call to police, and then she vanished. somebody made her scared. >> yes. >> no one could say what that was? >> right. >> what had happened to this beautiful army sergeant? that question would launch a spellbinding mystery. >> there were a number of potential suspects. absolutely. >> was a killer out there? >> she was in danger. >> could police catch him? they'd hatch a plan of virtual genius. >> one of the detectives said, "you're not going to believe this." >>> welcome to "datelane." mirabelle ramos was a fighter. joining the army and doing two tours of duty before returning to c

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. i'm natalie morales. and this is "dateline." >>> houfl that so many people think seechb avery is innocent? >> it's emotional. they made him out like a nice person. what's happening is wrong. the evidence is beyond overwhelming. the story gripped the nation in a series, making a murderer. >> so many learned about it. >> 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. >> did you have any vendetta against steven avery? >> absolutely not. >> a lead investigator defends his interrogation which led to a conviction overturned. >> this was seen by many as a false confession. >> i feel it was a real confession. >> we just need you to be honest with us. >> those officers wanted the information in the worst way and they got it in the worse way. >> they fight back with an explosive book. >> they're going to hear the other side. >> and the -- >> you think you have new evidence that cou

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> this is "dateline." >> he married the woman of his dreams, beautiful and sweet. >> she was just angelic. >> and was folded into her tight-knit family headed by an elderly religious might arc. >> you were part of their family or you weren't. together they had a little girl, sydney. >> their view, sydney was their property. >> one day he went to pick up his little girl for a visit and was never seen alive again. >> he died right there. >> but who would kill a devoted dad? the unbelievable choice, his golden girl wife or the gracious family might arc? they seemed so loving, but was there another side. >> it's a monster that comes out of a closet. it's very ugly. >> how dark is that side? >> murderous. >> but which one was the killer? >>> hello and welcome to "dateline." he was a man suddenly confronted with something monstrous, evil at the door. this story is a mystery about a father of two young daughters. one night he left to pick up one of them and never cam

i'm craig melvin. thanks for watching. >> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> oh, please, god. why? >> it is the case that stunned parents everywhere, the dad whose young son died in the car. >> apparently, he forgot the child was in the car seat in the back and went to work. >> i know you didn't, baby. i know you didn't. >> i think any parent can put themselves in that situation. >> full denial, that it wasn't happening. >> then came the jaw-dropping news. police said it was murder. >> there was far more to the story that we were beginning to realize. this guy clearly was leading a double life. >> oh, my baby. >> could any parent ever do this on purpose? inside this landmark case. >> there were a whole lot of secrets about to be revealed. >> yes, ma'am. >> ross and leanna harris's seemingly picture perfect world was shattered one hot georgia day when their toddler cooper was left in a car for seven hours and died from overheating. was this a horrific mistake or murd

i'm craig melvin. welcome to "dateline extra." a young girl was abducted at the age of 4 and raised by her kidnapper. for the next four decades, she searched for her family, her name and herself. her story has an extraordinary ending and, as it turns out, that ending was just the beginning. here is keith morrison. >> our story begins with this mother of a teenage daughter. a woman who would spend most of her life trying to figure out who she was. what was her name? where did she come from? we'll tell you about her long search, her discovery finally of what felt like truth. but as you'll soon see, real truth can be elusive. it can hide. let's begin at the beginning. but at the beginning, all she had was a memory. >> a twin canopy bed with pink ruffles around it. kind of waved over the top of it. >> it was dream-like really. and for years it was all that felt real in her upside down life. >> and it was all pink and white. it was -- everything matched. >> the closet full of dresses. the dolls, the teddy b

that's all i have to say to you. >> president clinton with our craig melvin. you can see much more of that interview on nbcnews.com. >>> there is good news tonight from maine where former president george h.w. bush has been released from the hospital after more than a week. the 93-year-old bush was treated for low blood pressure and fatigue. the spokesman says he's back to his old self and looking forward to spending the summer with family and friends. >>> we'll take a turn the now former officer who was armed and on campus during the high school massacre in parkland, florida is breaking his silence. we're hearing his si of the story about why he didn't go inside the school as 17 people were gunned down inside. we get more from nbc's kerry sanders. >> i'm sorry. i'm sorry that i didn't. >> reporter: for the first time school resource officer scott peterson is speaking out to nbc's savannah guthrie months after security video revealed he didn't enter the school during the shooting. peterson says operators at two caused delays in information >> no real-time inte

craig melvin here, nbc news headquarters in new york city. ortsman- conduct. what he's dubbed a celebration of america event at the white house after canceling a celebration of the super bowl champion iladelphia eagles. last last hour, the white house issuing the statement about scheduling. but a new statement about bad optics. why the shifting story? why does the president keep going after the nfl? also, headed to jail. the man who ran the trump campaign for a time, paul

i'm craig melvin.low pilots were searching for mckenzie morgan. no one was sure what happened to her aircraft. was she seriously injured or even worse. returning to our story here is keith morris. -- morrison. >> nine small planes about to give up their search for a missing teenage pilot, hope dying with the set sun. >> we all looked until the last light. you know, the absolute last light. >> so as the minutes tick by, the passage of time changes somehow. doesn't it? >> yes. >> yeah. it felt like days. >> but here, in the outskirts of a little place called douglas, wyoming, an outdoorsman named josh alexander was about to get roped into the story. >> if you were given your choice of some way to spend two weeks, do whatever you want, what would it be? >> in the mountains hunting somewhere. that's what i live for. >> josh's friend and colleague nathan coyle feels just the same way. >> i mean, there's places, you can go and not see people for days. >> kind of sweet spots for you? >> yeah. very relaxing. v

that's all i have to say to you. >> craig melvin is joining me now.nnon and jonathan are here too. you do the interview, the camera is shut off, then what? >> the president really wanted to make sure that i understood that he felt like the standards had changed in our society since 1998, the way that we view power , the y that we even view sexual relationships in the workplace. those are standards that have changed. those are standards that should have changed, he said. but he said he wanted to make sure that i understand the facts of his case were such that they made it -- it makes it very different from a lot of the high-profile cases that we have been covering here over the last year as a result of the me too movement. those are two points that the president really wanted to make sure that i understood. we should also note that the lewsinsky question that we asked, we asked about that op-ed that she pinned in vanity fair just a couple months ago. in that op-ed she indicated that she had ptsd as a result of being aus tra sized and being outed. that

craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york. piece of trash.what an epa spokesman called a reporter when she asked for comment on one of two staff resignations from scandal ridden scott pruitt's office. it's just latest in a drama filled week for pruitt. is this what draining the swamp looks like? no respect from rudy jewel yagi. the president's lawyer standing by those blistering comments he made about stormy daniels. he told the crowd he doesn't respect a porn star the way he respects a career woman. and burning down the house. president trump adding insult to injury by asking if canada burned down the white house af

i'm craig melvin. a case centers on a mother that had gone missing and small town secret that led to a stunning revelation. here's keith morris. >> suppose you were sitting in your car smack-dab in the middle of tus sca tuscaloosa, alabama into a sweet place could moundville, one stoplight, one general street and store. been around a long time. it's a sad truth as the sheriff says, even here, where everybody used to know everybody -- >> it's not that way anymore. so many people moving in from around the world. >> trying to escape the crowds? >> trying to escape the crowds or running from something. >> reporter: where have you gone, mayberry? it went up and left us. he investigates real crimes. >> the same crimes you see here is the same as any larger city just a smaller version. >> reporter: moundville is moundville and they might know more than in tuscaloosa, for example, which can be a bit of a nuisance if you need to keep a secret, especially, for example, if your secret is about murder. to begin wi

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craig melvin.'m going to give a commencement speech this weekend. >> where are you going to do this commencement speech? >> uc santa barbara. my college. i am an alumni. >> good luck. >>> it is 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m. in washington, d.c. where the president's campaign chairman is now going to jail and the president himself had a really tough time with the truth this morning. more o

beth, thank you to you, as well. >> you can see more of craig melvin's stunning interview with president at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. >>> president trump says he's got the aolute right to pardon himself in the mueller investigation, but what does the constitution say about that? >> what does the department of justice say? >>> first, rescue operations are underway in guatemala after a volcano exploded near guatemala city yesterday, killing at least 25 people, injuring hundreds nearby. the volcano spewed thick, black smoke, ash, and lava on to homes and fields across three towns. it surprised communities that had not been ordered to evacuate. hundreds of rescue workers are searching for survivors and bodies. officials say entire villages are currently unaccounted for. teams are struggling to reach rural areas cut off by the eruption. more than 3,000 people have been evacuated from the area. we're going to continue to cover this and more. you're watching "velshi & ruhle." why? because ali is back. good news there. george woke up in pain. but he has plans today. so he took aleve this

i'm craig melvin. this is a story about a couple who made it big in a way you almost never hear about these days. they made a fortune in gold. but as the saying goes, money did not buy them happiness. in fact, it just might have been a motive for murder. pay close attention to the security camera video that starts our report because you just may see the key to this mystery. here's josh mankiewicz. >> take a look at this security video and tell me what you see. a woman walks alone to her car in a parking garage in century city, california. is she in danger? same building complex. different angle. a man focuses on his cell phone, oblivious to those around him. who is he calling? you are, in fact, watching scenes from a marriage, the final scenes as it turns out. the woman is pamela fayed, and the man is her husband, jim. at the time this video was recorded, one of them had just minutes to live. rewind the video to just a few minutes earlier. the fayeds have just had a meeting with their lawyers. they're

i'm craig melvin.he kidnapped victim, gerfa lunsmann released from captivity. what happened to her son? here is keith morrison. >> reporter: in the dark of a philippine jungle, surrounded by men with hate in their eyes, gerfa lunsmann looked, terrified, at her 14-year-old son. an approaching car had put the kidnappers on alert. and now one of them held an automatic rifle to kevin's head. >> i just said, "don't move, son" while my entire body was frozen. >> reporter: and then the car passed. and they kept walking. and several hours later they arrived at abu sayyaf's base camp. and this is where they were brought -- to a cage in the jungle. not this cage, we actually built this one, but to the exact specifications given to us by gerfa. five feet by five feet, some old broken boards for a floor, jungle sticks lashed together with bark. no roof, no protection from the elements. but a cage as secure as any cage in any prison. there were guard tents on either side of the cage. a sniper on a hill above, watch

. >> i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >>> and i'm natalie morales. >>> and this is "dateline." >>> three people come to me wearing suits, and one of them tells me that he hadn't made it. and i was like, no, he did. just go check. they come back and tell me, mrs. hall, your husband didn't make it. >> two women racing down a texas highway. >> she saw me, and then made the u-turn. >> bonnie, the mistress, in one lane. >> i looked in my rearview mirror, and it was frances. >> frances, the wife in the other. >> i get her little finger. >> the middle finger? >> right. >> i start following her. >> i said, what the hell? >> she brakes. and i brake. and i heard a thump. >> he's pronounced dead at the hospital. two women in love with one man. >> you're getting text messages from bonnie of the two of them having sex? >> uh-huh. >> a hollywood love story? >> this was the man i wanted to marry. >> or, a fatal attraction? >> he goes, i can't get rid of this person. >> and so many about to l

. >> joining me now is craig melvin and pete williams in our washington bureau. pete, in addition to everything we heard, the prosecutor said the suspect barricades the exit door to hold his victims in that news room. what are your big head lieps li far from everything we heard? >> one that a person that was shot tried to get out that door and couldn't because it was barricaded. secondly, the ramos bought the shotgun that he used this attack about a year ago. the fact they are confirming they did identify him through facial recognition software. we have been reporting consistently throughout this whole episode that he was not cooperating. he wouldn't answer any questions. he didn't want to talk to the authorities. he simply refused to tell them who he was. . they figured out by comparing a picture they took of him with a database that the maryland state police have that allows them to look at previous conviction pictures and remember he was arrested and charged with this misdemeanor stalking offense. they could look at the pictures they have on file and that's ho

i'm craig melvin. >> and this is "dateline." >> i can't believe that your baby is lying there lifeless. >> she was everything to me. she was so sweet to everybody. >> state troopers said bonnie had died in a hiking accident. >> they said she fell off a cliff. her mother said they were wrong. >> i'm screaming to them, these are defensive wounds. >> no witnesses, no weapon, nothing left behind but a stranger's dna. >> we no longer have some accidental death. this was a homicide. >> they had no suspect but for years her mother kept fighting to find bonnie's killer. >> bonnie's mother continues her own crusade. >> and then a phone call. >> there was a match. >> can we get a conviction on just the dna? and there was something else. something about bonnie herself. >> it was almost like she knew something. >>> hello and welcome to "dateline." we often see headlines about dna evidence exonerating the innocent. it seems we hear less about how dna from an unknown person might be used to track down the guilty. in

i'm craig melvin. 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. calimesa, california, riverside county. historic missions. sprawling suburbing creeping out to the rim of mounta

we also sent craig melvin to the border hoping to separate fact from fiction. he's in brownsville, the southernmost point of texas and it's a key entry point for people trying to come through mexico from central america and get into this country illegally. craig, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, hoda, good morning to you. we are standing in front of what used to be a walmart in brownsville. this is the largest such shelter, roughly 1500 boys between the ages of 10 and 17 have been housed here for a number of weeks now. nbc news has learned 500 more children over the past two weeks have been going into shelters like this. last night to try and clear up some of the misinformation you just talked about there, i spent some time with an activist, a civil rights attorney. the attorney, in fact, who released that audio tape. i also spent some time with a nun who runs a catholic charity who says this is just as much a moral issue as it is a legal one. this morning some key questions about the border policy answered. who are the children detained at the border? the

i'm craig melvin.>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> oh, please, god. why? >> it is the case that stunned parents everywhere, the dad whose young son died in the car. >> apparently, he forgot the child was in the car seat in the back and went to work. >> i know you didn't, baby. i know you didn't. >> i think any parent can put themselves in that situation. >> full denial, that it wasn't happening. >> then came the jaw-dropping news. police said it was murder.

he was asked a question by craig melvin about his behavior. proper response was it was wrong and i apologized to her and i'll apologize to her again right now. but instead, he made it a political argument that the american public sided with him on the impeachment battle. >> what would you have done? >> i would apologize. i would apologize. >> he should have just done it over again. >> he should have apologized publicly at the time. he went on national television and said i'm a sinner. i apologize to the country. i apologize to monica lewinsky and her family. he said it. it would have been the easiest thing in the world 20 years ago i said exactly this, and i'll say it again. i haven't talked to her personally, bud i'd be happy to talk to her in person and tell her what i say now. she has borne terrible consequences for this and i apologize. >> it definitely has legislation. i think it's going to permanently impact how bill clinton is perceived in public life in the years going forward. and i think it's long overdue that the democratic party ha

. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> this is "dateline." >> he said nicole's gone missing. we are frantic. calling, all her friends are calling. you think that that sort of thing happens to other people. it's the most frightening thing in the world. >> a young wife. >> she always saw the good in people. >> she had a way to make you smile. >> missing for nine days. >> it's so wrong, and nicole is somewhere where she shouldn't be. >> it was hard enough when they didn't know. much worse when they did. >> it came over the tv that a body had been found. i'll never forget that, as long as i live. >> this could go down any number of paths. >> and it did. >> had her troubled past finally caught up with her? >> i saw the pill bottle and i freaked out. >> or was it something much darker? >> he told me that he would put it in her red bull. >> how did she change? >> she became more sexual with people. >> who wanted her dead? >> he thought he was somewhat of a player. >> did it make him a killer? >> welcome to "dateline." nici pietz was married to the man of her dreams and one night sh

here is what he told craig melvin. >> do you feel you owe her an apology? >> i have never talked to her, but i did say publicly on more than one occasion that i was sorry. that's very different. the apology was public. >> mr. clinton was asked to elaborate on that mark during the book event tour last night. >> the truth is i got hot under the collar because of the way the questions were asked. the the suggestion was that i never apologized for what caused all of the trouble for me 20 years ago. so first one is i did. i meant it then and i meant it now. yes, but in a democracy. >> the president also says he is a supporter of the me too movement calling it quote long overdue. what d make of the tone of that interview with nbc? >> i thought craig's question was very fair and balanced where he used a piece of what monica lewinsky written in "vanity fair." in the new light of me too, do you feel differently about what happened 20 years ago. the president was defensive. he talked about how he left the office $16 million in debt. it wass if the president was talki

let's start with craig melvin in texas again for us. craig, good morning. >> reporter: the crisis along the borde here is only growing as more desperate families tryd to f out information about their loved ones. lawmakers back in washington are scrambling to fin some sort of sostion. this, anger boils over, and secretary nielsen passionately defended the zero tolerance policy. >> shame! shame! shame! >> reporter: homeland security secretary blasted by protesters overnight while trying to eat dinner at a mexican restaurant in the nation's>> capital. shame on you! >> nielsen tried to ignore the shouting before finally leaving, this as n a report surfaced overnight, not verified by nbc news saying the trump administration is housing hundreds of babies and toddlers in at least threeit facs in south texas. the associated press reporting lawyers and medical providers eso have visited the tender age sheltersibe play rooms of crying pschool age children in crisis. the mexican government condemning the president's zero torance policy, calling it

[laughte >> danhat i me i don't know how old craig melvin is but if you are 70, most people could be n. >> juan: 39 north 40. jesse, the critical point was on the card melvin thing, that clinton said hey, i did apologize but this guy doesn't remember. he went on, i think the part that got people really aggravated, especially his critics, he said he loved -- -- left the white house $16 million in debt. it doesn't speak to the issue of what happened in the oval office with an intern. >> jesse: i wish i was rich enough to be $16 million in debt. only a democrat can get a do over in the mainstream media. he just gets to go in there. if you had to say this again, what would you say, mr. president? come on. that was pretty nice of you. >> kimberly: it would be front page everywhere. >> juan: teflon don? jesse heldr apologize. that's the difference. >> dana: he would never be mad at himself. >> juan: what do you think? >> greg: here is the issue. no one is going to miss you if you never leave. as long as bill is no one is going to miss him. he's got to go away. you think about the president,

let's start with nbc's craig melvin in texas again for us. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. the crisis along the border here is only growing, as more desperate families try and find out some information about their loved ones. lawmakers back in washington are scrambling to find some sort of solution. this, as anger really boiled over at homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen, just a day after she passionately defended the administrations zero tolerance policy. >> shame. shame. shame. >> reporter: the face of the trump administration's controversial separation policy, holeland security secretary, kirstjen nielsen blasted by protesters while trying to eat dinner. >> homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen is in a mexican restaurant, of all places. [ bleep ] shame on you. >> shame. shame. >> reporter: nielsen tried to ignore the shouting before finally leaving. this, as a new report surfaced overnight, not verified by nbc news, saying the trump administration is housing hundreds of babies and toddlers in at least three

. >>> and craig melvin takes over in new york.g day at the white house. >> pick things up from there. good afternoon to you. craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york city. special delivery. got breaking news on this friday. any moment now president trump expected to meet with a high-ranking north korean official in the oval office. the highest ranking north korean official in some 20 years almost. we've been waiting for delivery of the letter from kim jong-un to the president. also watching for this meeting to start literally any moment. also -- breaking with the president. steve bannon, back in the spotlight. criticizing the president's attack on jeff sessions, and nation of outrage. the left celebrates the cancellation of "roseanne." the right calls for cancellation of samantha bee's show. have the standards in our culture shifted dramatically and perhaps permanently? those stories in a moment.

i am craig melvin.fter teresa mayfield's murder, a casual conversation overheard in a bar gave authorities their first break. a break which would lead them to the chilling tale of teresa's murder. once again, keith morrison. >> under a setting sun on a sweltering summer night, two years after her death, teresa mayfield's friends and family gathered to remember. >> i talk to her almost every day and i miss those talks. >> they took turns talking about the loving daughter, the softball mom, the sweet woman gunned down on that lonely country road. a murder that was still a mystery. >> my family will not stop searching or doing whatever it takes to find out who took teresa's life. >> when scott got up to speak, you can bet people were paying special close attention. >> yes, she was a loving wife, loving mother and a loving friend to the community, yes, she would do anything for anybody at any time. >> having discovered he was not exactly husband of the year, some people nursed a lingering suspicion and yet

craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york city. breaking news.resident trump commuted the sentence of 63-year-old alice marie johnson. this coming after kim kardashian lobbied the president for her release last week. right now the white house is also preparing dozens of additional pardons for the president to review. sources say that the president is "obsessed with pardons." some of which against the wishes of his closest add vidors. >>> also, it wasn't my finest hour. president clinton apologizing again for his behavior in the monica lewinsky scandal and raising questions about how he conducted our interview this week. what he's claiming and our

craig melvin is up next on msnbc. hey, craig. >> good to see you, my friend. thank you, andrea. melvin at msnbc headquartersneyork. we start with what andrea just talked about there, victory lap for the trump administration. the court ruling 5-4, upholding the president's travel ban libya, syria, iran, yemen, somalia, north korea and ven waila, the third attempt to put a travel ban in place. he first tried to put a ban in place about a week after he took office. hallie jackson is inside that white house briefing room, standing by. hallie, again, to pick up where you just sort of left off two or three minutes ago as we wait for this tape to start playing. the president a bit of an understatement to say he's taking a bit of a victory lap. >> we've seen it. that's exactly what we're hearing. my colleagues who are in the pool who goes in for these events walked out

. >> former president bill clinton is now getting pushback after he criticized craig melvin. bill clinton apologized. watch. >> i think the tape speaks for itself. you never asserted you ever apologized. you asked if he apologized. >> the interview started with a question. >> so richard, president clinton getting push back from the mainstream media. >> he deserved it. he said it wasn't his best moment. his conduct -- >> which one the affair or -- >> what he said in response to craig melvin interview and what happened in the oval office is unacceptable. why he was sputtering is for everybody to get on their high horse that supports donald trump that forget apologize, called liars, everybody that has accused him -- >> it's not sputtering. >> he's sputtering because he doesn't think he did anything wrong. that's what he really doesn't think he did anything wrong. very much feels like it's consensual. he doesn't understand that it cannot be consensual given the power dynamic. maybe there's people that agree with him. that's what is chapping his hide. >> the arrogance, big old bub

craig melvin is up next right here on msnbc and craig, i hand off a very busy news cycle to you, my friend. >> indeed it is. good to see you kristen welker. craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york. following eaking news. a legal split. trump's longtime personal lawyer and defender michael cohen plans to ditch his legal team. talk to a reporter who has sources saying cohen expects to be indicted. >>> also, drain the swamp. even more news about who else. scott pruitt. this time he reportedly asked a top aide to reach out to republican donors who might hook his wife up with a job. >>> and trumped. another blow to a republican who has spoken out against the president. mark sanford voted out of office last night and emphasizes yet again the gop is now the party of trump. so where do all of the republicans who do not agree with the president find a political home? get to that. >>> we start with breaking news in the michael cohen case. nbc news has learned cohen is expected to split with his attorneys and get new lawyers. we do not know whether this signals a change in legal strategy or, p

craig melvin in for savannah. hello, craig. >> good to see you. >> we have live pictures. prince william is visiting jerusalem. it's the first official visit of any member of the royal family. we're waiting for the arrival. we'll see that in a little bit. >>> we'll move on to the top story. president trump in full campaign mode at a late-night rally in south carolina, letting loose on a host of issues, including the uproar of immigration. we have full coverage, beginning with nbc's peter alexander. peter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. hoda, good morning to you. this is a remarkable moment. president trump, who has been fiercely criticized for his inflammatory comments since the day he launched his campaign, he's trying to shift the national conversation to focus on civility. several of his aides have been publicly shamed. the president here last night, personally and aggressively, going after his critics as democrats try to sort out how to turn their hostility to the president into something productive. overnight in south carolina, an animated president trump mo

i'm craig melvin. watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> i'm freaking out. i walk in, and my sister's not there. her door is open, her lights are on, her bed's undone. everything was horrible. and i felt it. >>> she'd been fearless on the front lines of iraq. >> she was amazing. >> something had her terrified at home. >> scared. do

now let's turn it over to craig melvin.eague in new york. >> good to see you, andrea. >>> good afternoon to you. craig melvin at msnbc headquarters in new york city. >>> law and order. the president of the united states who ran for office as a law and order candidate argues now that we should end the legal process for people who cross our border illegally and just send them back where they came from. can the president really get around that pesky thing calmed due process? >>> also, public shaming. the president's chief spokeswoman asked to leave a restaurant. a cabinet secretary heckled out of another restaurant. now a congresswoman calls for more public harassment of trump officials. what's happening to us?

i'm craig melvin. like so many others, this story involves a husband and wife. he was a military man, a respected major in the u.s. army, when he was attacked in the middlef the night, police launched an investigation that would reveal eyebrow raising secrets, secrets that might hold the key to murder. here is keith morrison. >> the wind in the northern prairie sweeps across a vast flatland. grave markers around a military ceremony. the final resting spot for a few dozen veterans, many of whom died in combat. this is where he is resting now. major david shannon, who lost his life in 2002. his mother shirley comes here to visit and remember. his sister brenda too when she's in town. oh, how they worried that war might put him here. except war didn't. no, there never was a thought back then about what cld happen far from combat, what did happen. all those strange things down south in north carolina. fayetteville is an old town, steeped in revolutionary and civil war history. smack in the middle of the bible belt. but now, cargo planes buzz in and out of pope air f

craig melvin is up next on msnbc. slow news day. >> yeah. right?ening. >> good afternoon, andrea. craig melvin here at msnbc head quarters in new york city. we start with the breaking news. headed to jail. president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort will wait for his trial locked up. a judge just revoked his bail, prosecuters claim he tried to tamper with potential witnesses in his own case. plus outright lies. the president of the united states clearly emboldened in a breathtaking performance at the white house. he talked to reporters from more than an hour selling mischaracterizations, provable falsehoods and bold-faced lies. and invoking the bible. two trump administration

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>ty'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "date line." >> it was the moment that i had been fearing. devastating when it happened. >> she was a reporter who suddenly became a prisoner. >> tonight they have brought me out to kill me. >> held captive in a land of chaos. >> i was in chains hanging on by a thread. >> her best hope for freedom -- >> i love you. >> her mother an ocean away. she would turn investigator, then negotiator. >> we are not playing games. >> could she save her only daughter? hello and welcome to "dateline." amanda lindhout was a freelance journalist when she was kidnapped and taken hostage in somalia. on the other side of the world in canada her mother was determined to secure her freedom before it was too late. here now is kate snow. >> amanda, i love you. >> it's hard to imagine being the mother on the other end of this call. if you guys don't pay $1 million for me by one week, they will kill me. okay? >> her daughter was on the phone a worl

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> everything just began to shake. i just kept asking where is she, have you seen her? i wouldn't know what i'd do without her. >> it looked like the world was ending. >> growing up in indiana, tsunamis and earthquakes are the things you only see in hollywood films. >> he was sure his world had ended. the love of his life was missing. >> that feeling that she's not all right began growing as each minute went by. >> strangers in a strange land had fallen in love, then the quake hit, and all he knew was her town was gone. >> literally come hell or high water i was getting into that damn town. >> that's where he headed, right into that hell, willing to risk his life to try to save hers. >> fires on the hill, fire on the water. >> but could he get there in time? >> i never loved someone the way i loved georgia. >> welcome to "dateline." it's an epic love story, a young man from small town

craig melvin reports from brownsville, texas, minutes from the mexico border where the heart break is very real and very personal. >> reporter: this morning government processing centers like this one are overflowing with thousands of migrants, fleeing gang violence in central america. in newly released audio said to be recorded in one of the facilities, you can hear the desperation of children separated from their parents. [ crying ] >> mommy -- >> we talked with the attorney who released the tape, which nbc news could not independently verify. >> the reaction has been more or less a primal scream from everyone. this cannot be happening. this is terrible. >> reporter: in april the trump administration started enforcing what it calls a zero-tolerance policy. migrants crossing into the u.s. illegally considered criminals arrested and put into detention facilities, their children sent to separate facilities. overnight attorney general jeff sessions defended the policy, arguing that it will act as a deterrent. >> hopefully people will get the message and come through the border at the po

craig melvin. have a nice evening. >> you, as well. >> it is 11:00 a.m. out west and 2:00 p.m.confidential memo to robert mueller has pulled back the curtain on how the president's team attorneys is trying to protect him. rudy giuliani made the sunday show rounds parroting some of the memo's most explosive claims. among them, that the president cannot obstruct justice, cannot be subpoenaed, cannot be indicted, even if he shoots someone. but can pardon himself. except giuliani claimed the president would never do that. >> the president of the united states pardoning himself would just be unthinkable. and it would lead to probably an immediate impeachment. >> but this morning the president couched that in a tweet. i have the absolute right to pardon myself but why would i do that when i have done nothing wrong. here's the thing. every tweet, every giuliani interview, every leaked memo, every lie looks like whatld be called a