are dead and emmet till is dead? regards sessions the third and donald trump should present themselves as defenders of civil rights and racial justice whether they are -- having children of color in cages all along the border when they are engaged in the relentless attack on african american voting rights all over the country. the men who murdered emmet till said afterwards that they had killed him to take a stand against public school integration and against black voting and neither of those things do donald trump and jefferson bowl regards session support. i find that deeply ironic in the timing of this remarkable. >> yeah. thank you so much for being with us, timothy tyson. >> thank you for having me. >>> up next, my final thoughts. stay with us. - i love my grandma. - anncr: as you grow older, your brain naturally begins to change which may cause trouble with recall. - learning from him is great... when i can keep up! - anncr: thankfully, prevagen helps your brain and improves memory. - dad's got all the answers.

emmet's cousin who was with him the night he was kidnapped told me last year the family wanted the case reopened. >>> can you forgive? >> oh, yes, i can't afford hate. hate is for the hater. i can't carry that. >> reporter: regardless of whether charges are ever filed, the new investigation means emmett till has not been forgotten. rehema ellis, nbc news, new york. >> we'll take a short break here and still ahead, vacation horror. an american tourist celebrating the first wedding anniversary in mexico when tragedy struck. >>> also the toy store that led to truly unbearable lines. >>> we're back now with some fresh concerns about summer vacations south of the border after an american woman celebrating her wedding anniversary was killed in mexico city while leaving a restaurant. the 27-year-old woman was in an upscale shopping area when she was hit by gunfire. apparently meant for someone else. we get details from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> reporter: just days before her murder, tatiana shared this photo from her wedding. the 27-year-old was celebrating her first anniversary with her husba

. >>> and will smith gets emmet's feelgds with the latest viral dance craze. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning. i'm phillip mena. we begin this morning with the president's war of words with the u.k. launching into a tirade directly aimed at britain's prime minister saying theresa may ignored his advice on brexit while never divulging details of the alleged advice, accusing may of wrecking brexit negotiations, even warning she might kill off a crucial trade deal with the u.s. mr. trump's words coming just as he sat down for a black tie dinner in england, undercutting the dinner's host theresa may herself. while protesters lined the streets of london making their displeasure with the american president known. let's go to nbc's cal per is at our london bureau for us this morning. cal, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, phillip. an absolutely explosive interview given by the u.s. president. we understand that prime minister may actually heard about this interview last night at about 7:00 p.m., no reaction from her yet. but expect to hear some

. >> brangham: emmet till was a young boy from chicago who in 1955 was visiting family in mississippi when he allegedly whistled and made a sexual remark to a white woman named carolyn bryant and grabbed her. this was the jim cw south, and for his alleged actions, emmett till was kidnapped by ard men, brutally beaten and shot in the head. his killers took a heavy pieceeq of farm pment, tied it around his neck with barbed wire and threw his body into the tallahatchie river. it was discovered several days later.ot till's mr, mamie till bradley, demanded an open casket funeral for her son in chicago. she wanted to show the nation exactly what racist violence looked like. tens of thousands of people came to see till's mutilated body, and photos were published nationwide in mainly black publications. the next month, two me carolyn bryant's husband and his halfrother-- were tried for till's murder and acqud by an all white jury. in an interview aftefrards, the mely admitted they'd killed the teen. last year, timothy tyson's book "the blood of emmett till" had this revelation: carolyn bryant

behi behind the scenes you have emmet flood who is new.s team absolutely does not want donald trump to sit down with robert mueller. the president of the united states lies 6.5 times a day according to fact checkers. to put him in a scenario where he would be sitting down under oath where anything he said that came close to a fib could put him in more serious legal jeopardy, is something they want to absolutely avoid. these new lawyers are making that case to him very clearly. that's what you're seeing, is trump's team putting up new legal hurdles for that kind of scenario to play out. >> rudy giuliani said if "the new york times" can come to us and show the basis, that it's legitimate and they've uncovered something, we can go from there and assess their objectivity. in that case is giuliani setting up the president to where it implies they have something on the president? >> that's right. obviously there was already a lot of -- the stakes were high heading into the interview without this new legal hurdle that mueller would have to clear.

emmet flood is a smart lawyer. >> who knows that just as bill clinton was forced to testify, relateda relationship with an intern, chances are good the supreme court is going to give an independent counsel appointed by the justice department an opportunity to talk to the president of the united states under oath in this case as it pertains to the 2016 election and what the president -- >> and our national security. >> obstruction of justice and our national security and russia trying to interfere in the 2016 race. >> we have two tracks going on here. you just referred to both of them. you have emmet flood internally in the white house a very smart lawyer knowing that his client the president of the united states, ought not ever to testify before bob mueller. and you've got rudy giuliani on the outside playing a very public track a foolish track. the internal intention at some point within the white house between the two lawyers -- >> i can't even imagine. >> emmet flood, from everything we heard a very, very, competent bright attorney. he knows at the end of the day the supreme court

reluctant to do an interview or that they are advising them not to do an interview, the influence of emmetod who understands very well the role of the executive branch in a congressional branch and legislative branch on the separation they are in and he is a very skilled lawyer. >> sean: i am a fan of his as well and i think you're right. up to this point, jessica, zero evidence of any collusion. the idea that robert mueller didn't think that the 13 russian bot companies would fight back, that may be his biggest mistake. he is trying to stop them from getting discovery in this case which will go nowhere. then you have paul manafort in jail for 23 hours a day in isolation, convicted of nothing. he didn't kill anybody. he's not accused of killing anybody. this is a 2005 tax case. >> jesse: i don't really feel sorry for paul manafort. kind of a greedy, shady guy. innocent before proven guilty but he doesn't deserve to rot in solitary confinement. your point about mueller, you follow court proceedings which they are not allowing us to do come he's being humiliated at every step. if you go back

when we return, the justice department reopens the emmet till case more than six decades after he wastally murdered, and it's already getting political. gianno caldwell joins us. he has late-breaking details. this story took an interesting turn. stay with us. ♪ it is such a good time to [ laughing ] ♪ scoobidoo doobidoo ♪ scoobidoo doobidoo [ goose honking ] ♪ [ laughing ] a bad day on the road still beats a good one off it. ♪ progressive helps keep you out there. i'm ray and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried cold turkey, i tried the patch. they didn't work for me. i didn't think anything was going to work for me until i tried chantix. chantix, along with support, helps you quit smoking. chantix reduced my urge to smoke. i needed that to quit. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood, or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or blood vessel problems, sleepwalking

no. ( laughter and applause ) >> stephen: did anybody-- because the president's impeachment lawyer, emmetorked on the team. >> stephen: he worked on the team. >> yeah. >> stephen: sure. i've never met this mr. flood. >> none of us-- none of us ever considered that. but the-- one of the things that-- if you look at the way the book opens and you look at the questions you just asked me. >> stephen: yes. >> one of the things that every president has to do, if you're going into a hearing, you're going into a news conference, you do what i didn't do before i did that interview. that will never go down as my finest hour. that is, you go through what you call "a murder board." your own staff sits there and asks you meaner questions than colbert would. >> stephen: i'm the nicest guy on television. ( laughter ) >> and so you will see that in the paper-- in the video-- and the president will go along, and he'll be just fine. and finally, they just hit his hot button, and he gives the answer that his heart wants to give. and he's all hot up, and they say, "okay, that's answer 'a.' let's go to plan '

documents that were shown at the meeting that at least at the beginning of the meeting white house lawyer emmetso chief of staff john kelly were at the beginning of that meeting and there was a lot of controversy about that. what are you hearing from your sources in the intelligence community about the effect of this, and why the white house was asked not to do this? >> well, the impact we will see. the suspicion is that the white house is sort of intervening in this law enforcement investment, sort of 3u9ing its thumb on the scale. as uchd, it was very strange that a white house lawyer and chief of staff attended at least part of that briefing about this informant. about an investigation that involves the white house. they say they left the briefing before there was any substance. but again, it is the appearance that has people concerned and certainly very unusual for the white house's lawyer to be present for someone when the white house is involved in the investigation. >> any defense from the white house on this, any comment? >> there has been no comment from the white house. >> mark, appre

well that new information could be from a book titled "the blood of emmett till" emmet till" publishede lied about her encounter with till. with me is the author, timothy tyson, research scholar at duke university and gloria brown marshall, associate professor at jay college. timothy, first to you, do you believe the new evidence is, in fact, from your book? and tell us about the interview. >> the most important thing to remember about emmett till case is not the crucifixion of a small black child in mississippi in 1955, but the resurrection that his mother and her allies in chicago were able to ring from this, this ongoing movement that they so transformed with their energy and courage and brilliance. and, you know, the virtue or lack thereof of caroline bryant seems a matter -- minor matter to a historian, but i understand people's interest in it. >> can you fill us in on the details, the circumstances of what led up to you getting this information, this new information? >> i got a call from a nice woman in raleigh, who said she liked my previous book and had given it to her mother-i

quote, a penny for white house counsel emmet flood's thoughts as he watches rudy incriminate the president on live television. possibly with actual evidence of wrongdoing, possibly with third-hand gossip. >>> here to help us sift through the day's developments favorite reporters and friends white house bureau chief of the washington post phil rucker, former assistant director if he fbi for counter intelligence frank figliuzzi in new york. keir simmons and jennifer ruben, opinion writer with the washington post. let me start with you, frank figliuzzi. i understand the talking point is collusion is not a crime. to be clear, robert mueller is not investigating collusion, he's looking for crime. >> he is looking for crime. if you look in the dictionary, which i did, it says illegal cooperation or conspiracy. so really we should stop using the phrase collusion and just say criminal conspiracy. there is a host of criminal charges that could come into play here if it's proven that there was so-called collusion. what are those charges? look, if it's proven that russian money was flowing into the c

. >> reporter: emmet and cheryl. >> reporter: the two-time mirror ball winning champ "dancing with thelong lost sister, ina. >> we saw each other, honestly all the nerves went away. >> yeah. >> reporter: now sitting down for this "gma" exclusive, the two sisters reunite telling their emotional story for the very first time. sharing the same father and some of the same facial features. >> freckles. >> same amount of freckles. >> reporter: both revealing they knew about each other growing up but only met once. >> it's so crazy because i don't remember that at all. >> i said to her, i was a chunkster. surprised you could carry me. >> why was it you didn't really want to reach out right away when you found out, oh, i have a sister? >> i think i was so damaged as a kid through just the divorce of my mom and dad, and so that was really difficult. i guess i had this kind of like, wait, dad, you loved somebody else? >> reporter: several years ago their father was in a bad accident, prompting ina to reach out to cheryl by text. >> i just judged it -- i judged her too quickly and i just also --