>> yes. >> when they got close to you what were they saying, garrett, garrett -- >> something like thatng, garrett, because they're going to fry your ass in the electric chair. >> excuse me. exseme. >> is that an objection? >> that is an objection. >> theuestion is, is that what they said to you? >> something like that. i'm going down for murder. >> you're going down for murder. >> i'm going to get the death penalty. >> you're going to get the death penalty. what finally made you give them some information? >> saying that juliet was in another room. they told me i was going -- i was going to go to jail for murder already so i ended up confessing. >> there was no doubt that kopp committed the murder, but maybe the case against christopher wasn't quite so watertight after all. maybe christopher himself could set the record straight. >> calling chris sutton. >> would jurors listen? >>> coming up, accused of murdering his mother and blinding his father, a son sheds tears on the stand for himself. >> that was when they called me in denial. >> when "dateline" continues. om just got reschedule

garrett haake on the move.ully we'll get your camera working again and come back to you throughout the morning. this isn't just happening in washington on the right side of your screen or in michigan on the left side of your screen. it's happening across the country. you've seen our reporters coast to coast bringing this to you live. we'll be watching it throughout the morning right here on msnbc. >>> to wrap up today's show, we're going to end with the big picture, and for it we're heading to oklahoma. there is real news happening there you need to know about. this is a firefighter trying to control the flames because oklahoma and places across the southwest are right now seeing fires so big they're called megafires. so big you can actually see them from space. these flames are like 70 feet high in some instances. oklahoma hasn't had rain in more than 150 days. that means there are perfect conditions for the fires. so far two people have been killed. the photographer here nick oxford. we'll monitor what happen

garrett missed out to england's charlie ca nfield.d out to england's charlie canfield. garrett evans one wales first gold of the games working as a painter and decorator a few years ago and had to fight funding issues to reach his first couple of games but what a win for him, he's guild first place on the podium in the 69 kilos category. as he sealed. england continued a good start to competition in the pool with therapy cannot be surprised gold in the 50 metre breaststroke world record holder alan also won gold for england in the f9 backstroke will stop tomorrow adam will look to add to the tally when he races in the final of the 100 metres breaststroke. that is it for me. as a lwa ys breaststroke. that is it for me. as always the bbc sport website has much more for you. bbc .co .uk/ sport. that is it for us and the rest of the sports team for tonight. now it is the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are torcuil crichton, political editor at the daily record and ly

they're ready to rock and roll and let's start with garrett hake over on capitol hill. in garrett, in our report thong the last couple days i have heard from celebration officials they are going fight. i'm told jackson does not want to back down. he wants this hearing. congress has giving him a red light, right? senator tester was out on our story on the today show this morning talking i lit bit about how he sees this developing and these acc zass again-- accusati against jackson. >> number one semiproper doling out of prescription drugs. it's a big, big problem to the point where some of the white house even calling the candy man. this often happens on overseas trips where there were many time zone changes. these are prescription drugs, they're controlled substances. as a medical doctor, you need to treat them as such. >> so, garrett, white house sources have pointed to what they say is an internal review that found no improper usage by dr. jackson. tell me what you're hearing on the hill because i understand in the last two minutes you tried to catch up with senator t

garrett, let's bring you in. do you know do you think the president is more receptive to the idea of an interview since according to the "washington post" mueller told the president his lawyers at least that he wasn't a criminal target but a subject in this russia investigation? >> yeah, you know there's been a lot of ink and air time spilled this week over trying to figure out what the difference between subject and target really means. partly because, you know, if we believe that the justice department sort of operating theory that the president is actually not able to be criminally indicted while in office, it might mean that bob mueller is simply saying you're the president of the united states, you can never be a target of this investigation. but you're still a subject to it, which means that we have reason to believe that your behavior in this is not entirely innocent, that you were sort of a material part of in unfolding story. and that is -- when you sort of combine it with some of what michael was saying

jackson and garrett haake on capitol hill. i want to start with ken. the report from the ig from 2012 saying there was unprofessional behavior saying the staff felt like they were working for parents caught in a bitter divorce because the way dr. jackson was acting with a rival doctor? >> that's right. it basically describes a power struggle in 2012 involving dr. jackson and a rival doctor at the time who was president obama's top physician, that there was a very high level of tensions between the two leaders of this unit. it provides some idea of what should have happened back then. it recommends that they should have considered replacing one or both of the senior leaders of the office of the physician to the president and the director of the white house medical unit. it also says there should have been clear lines of authority and responsibility needed. it doesn't get into any mention of overprescribing or drinking on the job. those questions have been raised as part of dr. jackson's nomination, but it does put him in the middle in the thick of a rea

garrett, i'm going to let you focus in the hallway. i want to bring in nbc chief political managing editor chuck todd who's joining us on the phone. chuck, racing back from the airport on what's a very busy news morning i want your overall takeaway from paul ryan the news that he won't run for re-election, he'll be gone come january. >> reporter: it's a piece of news that's not surprising, any of us that have been covering capitol hill over the last six months could sense conversations with him, could sense that he had made a decision. i at one time asked people close to him why is he letting this idea that he may not run stay out there? and somebody said to me, because he's seriously thinking about not running. and, you know there are r there are was a couple of scenarios they've been testing with different folks could have run and then resigned after the midterms because there is this concern that maybe in deciding not to run sends a message that other republicans that are on the fence look at the say gee, the speaker's not running f

garrett, start with you. you've been in the middle of the story. where does ronny jackson's nomination stand right now? >> reporter: chris, pretty well stuck. the top senators on the committee are not ready to move forward with a hearing for him until they get answers to these questions and accusations that have come up since last weekend. i talked to john tester, the top democrat on that committee about this, this morning. he addressed some of what needs to happen before they can go forward. take a listen. >> we have to talk to -- we haven't convened. talk to him individually. for the most part they're doing the same thing i am and just trying to figure out where the truth is. >> have you had anymore accusations brought to your office's attention? >> i have to go back and talk to my staff on that. there have been people come up and talk to people like you that we weren't aware of. >> reporter: chris, the reality here is no confirmation hearing this week. already canceled. there will not be one next week, because the senate is out. dangerous tore d

it was just political theater it wasn't actually a military strike it was political theater garrett i couldn't i couldn't agree more on that point and you know if you actually read the the the morning briefing that was given at the pentagon after the night that the strikes took place it was an amazing performance in the sense that you know the people doing the briefing absolutely would not answer a question that's not you know that had to do with for example you know with you know did did you actually do any air sampling to find out if you know when you hit this supposedly a place where they were making chemical weapons there was any pop problem of fact ing the air of the people surrounding it and it's clear that they hadn't done it and that they couldn't basically say what the consequences were of the target they hit and i think that what that means is that they really didn't have any information on the course was if they swear that i produce hearing this let me jump in here let me let me jump in here we've got to go to a hard break in after out of heart break we'll continue our di

let me get to you react to what garrett just said. you ready for that carpet bagger critique and are you worried that months from now we're not going to be talking about select elect mitt romney? >> no. governor romney is the overwhelming favorite for this seat. he's running a grassroots campaign. he was always expecting this primary, i think garrett laid out very well, the process. it's not unusual for figures like governor romney to not win the convention. governor gary herbert in 2016 running for re-election actually lost the convention by ten points then went on to the primary and won in a landslide by 44 points. >> but this is not how you thought it was going to go, that's a fair statement. >> they always expected a primary, that's why they've been collect signatures and going to the convention. governor's running a comprehensive campaign and he welcomes this effort because he wants to take his message to voters. the 600,000 or so voters that will vote in the primary in june. >> romney was out after this convention vote happened,

you can see our piece right there, garrett. so with that as the backdrop here, the big question is going to be what is going on? what are these allegations? and jon tester avoided that question, we heard, and then when is jackson going to come before this committee for his hearing? and it sounds like those are still two questions we don't know the answer to. gee, that >> reporter: yeah. forgive me for coming in hot. >> that's fine that's your job. it's good. >> reporter: here's what we know and what we've been able to report is that these concerns about jackson's background, including how he has handled his tenure as the whus physician started to bubble up over the last couple days and became an issue particularly over the weekend. the ranking democrat, jon tester who we were just speaking to and johnny isaacson, the chair on this committee worked together very closely and they had been work to the and had been having these conversations about what do about this. because jackson has been up here on the hill meeting with members

for effort there, garrett. >> reporter: hey, andrea, still with me? >> good job. reporter: we try. so this is the first of what we expect to be several meetings for mark zuckerberg here on the hill today. bill nelson is meeting with leaders of the committee on the senate site he'll testify in front of tomorrow and released a statement, essentially the start of his house testimony that happens wednesday. in it he really does three things. you hear contrition from zuckerberg saying this is my company. i started it. i run it. i am responsible for it and i am sorry. he talks about some of the fixes on the two big issues here. data privacy side. i tried to ask about. the thing that i think most facebook users are most concerned about. how the company protects the information we all give it. and then the election meddling part. where the company is working already ahead of the midterms. zuckerberg says in a statement they are committed to improving security on the election meddling side they are willing to spend money that will hurt their bottom line. hire as many as 5,

garrett: so that's like 300,000,000,000 we could save? and the countries from which these individuals come. secretary nielsen: it would save live, save money and protect our communities. mr. garrett: and paid for by the folk whors braking our laws thus reducing the cost would it not? secretary nielsen: yes, sir. mr. garrett: i'm just having fun but i think these are points that need to be made. as it relates to the homeland facility consolidation plan i would comment i'm as frustrated as anyone. having said that, sometimes i think it's time to start anew. i read the o.i.g. report when i read and a quote, perhaps too much time, energy and money was spent on revitalizing washington, d.c. neighborhoods, having said that, sometimes i think it's time to start anew. renovations. sit within the mission of homeland security to revitalize washington, d.c. neighborhoods? secretary nielsen: no, sir. mr. garrett: is this what the taxpayers expect their money to be spent on? secretary nielsen: i doubt it. mr. garrett: so there are large former governm

garrett, what is the breaking news? >> katy, as is so often the case with this president the news comes from twitter. although it's not the president's account making the news. but rand paul's in a series of tweets just now the kentucky senator says he spoke with president trump several times today. he spoke again with mike pompeo about some of his views. and after those conversations, he has decided to change his position and says he will vote for mike pompeo to be the president's next secretary of state. now, this changes the storyline here in this committee hearing almost entirely now. pompeo should be able to get through this committee with a favorable vote on a party line vogt. >> wow stereo we have not heard yet how jeff flake plans to vote. he has been the one person who has kept his cards close to the vest. but he hasn't in any way indicated that he would vote no. most of what we heard from him over the last couple of days is he has had some additional questions to be answered but with this last tweet from rand

joining me is garrett and former ambassador to nato. garrett, first to you.ms to me from the procedural vote which was 57-42 with john mccain absent. more of the democrats shifted over. is that a tell of some kind? >> that's correct. pompeo will be confirmed comfortably with that margin. this is an all politics is local kind of moment. you saw five democratics from the state that the president won in 2016. also bill nelson of florida who have been keeping their cards close to the vest decided they would vote in favor of confirmation. one surprising no vote, mark warner of virginia voting against pompeo. these two worked together quite a bit. he said i have some concerns about him as secretary of state. he hopes to keep working with him again. we see how this plays out now looking like he will be confirmed quite comfortably here. >> really interesting dynamics there as well. we expect that swearing could take place privately at the white house. we've been watching that. the plane is on the runway at andrews air force wasilla. he's going to his first nato meeti

garrett haake is also with us. garrett, who's telling the truth? shulkin or the white house? and if he didn't resign, if he was fired, why wouldn't the white house just say so? >> well, we've heard conflicting stories from the white house, even today, one white house spokesperson said that general kelly had reached out to david shulkin and essentially gave him the opportunity to resign, which shulkin says he didn't take. and that he waited for the actual tweet here, the axe to fall, to ultimately lose his job. it matters for a couple of reasons. on the perception side, it matters once again that you've got the president essentially forcing someone out of the job who this person says they were, in fact, doing a pretty good job, and trying to keep their reputation clean, and put this on the president and on some of the chaos of the white house here, making it sort of a political issue for them being pushed out. there's also an untested theory here about whether or not the president would have the power to name the successor acting director at the va, beyond whoever's next in li

msnbc's garrett haake joins me now. this dent announcement, garrett, how surprising was it? >> not terribly. as you pointed out, we knew he was going to be retiring at the end of the year. we don't know exactly what caused him to move up his timetable. whether it's just frustration for continuing to be the last member of a very endangered species, this sort of moderate northeastern republican that used to be quite common here in congress and is now very much on the endangered list. or an opportunity to make more money elsewhere. this is a guy who was on tv all the time. i would not be terribly surprised to see him continue to be on television in a paid capacity sometime after he leaves congress, but he did give us a little tip of his hand actually last week, talking to him after the announcement that paul ryan would be retiring at the end of his term. he talked about how tough it is to be his kind of republican in democrat democrat's washington right now. take a listen to part of that conversation. >> there's a lot of wariness, a lot of exhaustion, frankly. this is going to

our garrett haake also joins us from capitol hill. geoff, starting with you. the planning for this meeting. do you have any insight about what the team is looking at and what they are trying to get nailed down before the president sits in a room with kim jong-un? >> reporter: hey, katy. i think the biggest take-away at the moment are the president's comments from last night. he was doing some thinking outloud about how this meeting might go, what he might do. and the fact that he said that looks like he's getting rolled, he'll walk away? that's a fairly remarkable statement given that typically what happens with these high-level, high-stakes summits is that the planning happens months in advance. the outcome is often predetermined so the meeting itself is often a formality. in this case that is not what's happening. we know separately that the president says that the metric of success for this meeting is the complete denuclearization of north korea. although historically, kim jong-un sees his nuclear weapons program as an insurance policy for the stability of

but we didn't want garrett as the president. senator garrett would not commit to the committee that he was not out to destroy the bank and undermine the bank. we were willing to put mr. garrett there just not in the chairman's position. it is clear that mr. garrett, on behalf of the vice president, and a small number in this body want to destroy the export-import bank. the presiding officer: the senator from pennsylvania. mr. toomey: i would like to point out that included in the list of nominees that my colleague from ohio asked for unanimous consent for confirmation, included would be an inspector general for the export-import bank and that is a different function. that is a function i supported in committee and i would support today, and as far as i'm aware, there's no objection whatsoever on this side of the aisle, no objection to confirming the inspector general to this post. therefore, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of executive calendar 585, the senate vote on the nomination with no i

major garrett reports. >> it's a historic moment and possibly beyond that if it works out properly. >> after two days of private meetings with shinzo abe, the two held a meeting at the resort in mar-a-lago. >> if i think that it's a meeting that's not going to be fruitful, we're not going to go. if the meeting when i'm there is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. >> over lunch president trump described mike pompeo's secret trip to north korea. >> he just left north korea. he had a meeting with kim jong-un. he got along with him really well, really great. >> the meeting happened late last week. pompeo said it happened over easter. it was to lay the groundwork for a summit between president trump and kim jong-un sometime in the coming months. five locations all outside the u.s. are being considered, but it is unclear how far kim is willing to travel given the reliability of the aircraft they have to travel long distances. mike pompeo, a nominee, is facing a confirmation battle in the senate. >> mike will be in good shape. we'll see what happens. you know, a lot of peopl

major garrett is at the white house.ity mayor and longtime trump e pporter says he is joining the president's legal team to help thd the russia investigation. in an interview with the "washington post," giuliani said, "i hope we can negotiate an end to this for the good of the country." >> this is a hoax. >> reporter: just yesterday, the unesident again denounced special counsel robert mueller's work. >> we are hopefully coming to the end. it is a bad thing for our country, very, very bad thing for our country. r t there has been no collusion. e reporter: the president r:wnplayed the likelihood he would fire mueller or deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, who oversees the investigation. >> they've been saying i'm going to get rid of them for the last three months-- four months, five months-- and they're still here. >> reporter: mr. trump has also tried to undermine the investigation by attacking former f.b.i. officials. he has zeroed in on the conduct of former deputy f.b.i. director andrew mccabe, who has been accuse

here's chief white house correspondent major garrett. >> it's a historic moment. possibly beyond that if it works out properly. >> reporter: after two days of meetings with japanese prime minister shinzo abe, the leaders held a press conference at the president's resort, mar-a-lago. >> if i think it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we're not going to go. if the meeting, when i'm there, is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. >> reporter: over lunch, president trump described c.i.a. director mike pompeo's recent secret trip to north korea. >> he just left north korea, had a great meeting with kim jong- un, and got along with him really well, really great. >> reporter: on twitter, mr. trump said the face-to-face occurred last week. the white house later said it happened over easter. eompeo has taken the lead on outreach to north korea, and the meeting was held to lay the groundwork for a summit between president trump and kim jong-un some time in the coming months. five locations, all outside the u.s., are being considered, but it is unc

i am here today with garrett graff is the author of a book called raven rock. the story of the us government secret plans to save itself while the rest of us die. it's a sardonic book and makes amusing and instructive in frightening major issues of the government preparedness for continuity after a war, especially a nuclear war. garrett knows what he's talking about and writing about and he is an historian who is specialized in national security and author of a great book that has come to my class at the naval academy to talk about called threat matrix: the fbi wore in the age of global terror. he also has written for a number of journals but edited two of them. now he has turned his attention to the whole archipelago across this part of the us where there are shelters for the government to seek out in time of rate national emergency. how did you decide you would write such a book? >> thank you. it's great to be back here. i think this is my third time at the annapolis book festival and i don't know how the organizers do it but every time i've been here the wea

it was just political theater it wasn't actually a military strike it was political theater garrett. i couldn't i couldn't agree more on that point and you know if you actually read the the the morning briefing that was given at the pentagon after the night that the strikes took place it was an amazing performance in the sense that you know the people doing the briefing absolutely would not answer a question that's you know that had to do with for example you know with you know did did you actually do any air sampling to find out if you know when you hit this suppose that a place where they were making chemical weapons there was any part problem of of affecting the the air or of the people are surrounding it and it's clear that they hadn't done it and that they couldn't basically say what the consequences were of the target they hit and i think that what that means is that they really didn't have any information of course was always the case where the right producer in this let me jump in here let me let me jump in here we've got to go to a hard break in after out of heart break we'l

major garrett has more on that. >>> democrats have really let them down. it's a shame.ow people are taking advantage of daca, and that's a shame. >> reporter: at the white house easter egg roll, president trump blamed democrats for the legislative impasse over daca even though it was his own executive action that put the program in doubt. his comments follwed a weekend of tweets and remarks about the obama-era program that protects about 700,000 immigrants brought to the united states illegally as children. >> mexico has got to help us at the border, and a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of daca. and we're going to have to really see. >> reporter: new immigrants cannot take advantage of daca. undocumented immigrants are only eligible for protection if they were in the united states and under age 31 in june, 2012. the president also tied construction of the border wall to daca. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> reporter: even though he has largely abandoned the promise that mexico would pay for that wall. the president als

>> glor: all right, major garrett at the white house. major, thanks. police in fort worth, texas, are shnding themselves under harsh spotlight tonight. bystanders captured these images saturday as officers struggled to handcuff a black man they detained. a warning, these images can be disturbing. david begnaud has more on them. >> whoa. man, look at this here. ar reporter: the cell phone video appears to show a fort worth police officer punching 35-year-old forrest curry at least four times while trying to arrest him. a second officer is seen using his knee twice. according to a police statement, die officers were responding to a disturbance call. curry had allegedly become combative with fort worth fire department personnel who were already on scene. firefighters say he appeared to tointoxicated and attempted to assault them. police say when they arrived curry fled on foot. different cell phone angles capture what happened next. police say it was a four and a half minute struggle and it took three officers and one supervisor to take curry into custody

jeff. >> glor: all right, major garrett, thank you very much. the president today also addressed the continuing problems trailing the head of the e.p.a. nalianna goldman broke information on this story today. >> reporter: president trump praised his embattled e.p.a. administrator, but asked if he's bothered by a torrent of negative headlines about scott pruitt, mr. trump left the door open saying, "i have to look at okem. i have to make that determination. but he's a good man. he's done a terrific job, but i'll take a look at it." stong the stories casting an ethical cloud over mr. pruitt, sources tell cbs news that last year pruitt asked to use lights and sirens to get through routine washington, d.c. traffic his lead security agent told him ou could only be done in an emergency. two weeks later, that agent was reassigned. pruitt has also come under fire for flying first class at taxpayers' expense, and when pruitt first came to washington, he rented an apartment from the wife of an energy lobbyist, steven hart, paying $50 a night >> mr. hart h

here is chief white house correspondent major garrett. rr we're going to be guarding oir border with the military. it's a big step. >> reporter: without providing details, president trump said u.s. troops are needed to secure ice u.s.-mexico border until 700 to 800 miles of wall can be built. >> i think that it's something we have to do. >> reporter: mr. trump's predecessors took similar action. in 2006, president george w. bush sent 6,000 unarmed national psard troops to provide technical, engineering, and office support. president obama dispatched 1,200 members of the national guard to the southern border in 2010. in both instances, they did not act as law enforcement personnel. this so-called caravan of about 1,200 migrants moving through mexico appears to have sparked the president's interest in militarizing the border. >> now, the caravan, which is over 1,000 people, coming in from honduras, thought they were going to just walk right through mexico and right through the border. >> reporter: the migrants are primarily fleeing violence

we're going to go to major garrett now at the white house.major, how much did the white house know about these allegations before, and what's your sense of what they'll do now? >> reporter: well, not nearly enough to prepare for this battle, jeff. the white house knew there were general concerns that were likely to be raised about a workplace environment that might have been too hostile, and in fact, ran questions about that past jackson through no fewer than four confirmation hearing prep sessions. but the white house says it was blindsided by these accusations of either the excessive drinking or the too-freely dispensing of prescription drugs, and other issues. yesterday in the oval office, jackson met with president trump, said there was nothing disqualifying in his background, and he wanted a chance to clear his name. president trump said he would back him up. as ed just reported, the white house is demanding the republican-led senate provide that confirmation hearing so jackson can answer these charges in a public space. but officials he

ron mott is in washington and garrett haake is in washington.i think oyou spoke to one perso there in washington, d.c. >> reporter: yes, it has been run by students. it doesn't have the hollywood feel that the larger events have had. it is also reflected in the crowd size here, only a few hundred here in washington, d.c., but it does have a very organic feel to it. second, there's been a huge focus on voter registration. these students are eager to show their displeasure with congress and with this president by getting registered as soon as they're legally able to do so. and to vote out the people who they blame for this problem. and the third is the columbine part of this, which has been fascinating here on the anniversary. the idea that these students, all of them, were not yet born when the columbine shooting really made all the rest of us aware of even the concept of the school shooting. and one of the folks who was here that spoke was a columbine high school survivor of that shooting who expressed almost a certain amount of guilt that we ar

pe glor: major garrett, thanks very much. we go over to the pentagon where david martin has the latest on the president's plan hir u.s. troops in syria. it is creating a split in his administration. >> reporter: president trump wants to be out of syria in a tatter of months, which goes ceainst military advice he received from defense secretary james mattis and joint chiefs chairman joseph dunford. the u.s. military had estimated it would take two more months of olghting to drive isis out of the towns it still holds look the euphrates river valley, all oat's left of the so-called caliphate. >> well over 90% of the caliphate that they control, particularly in the north and epstern portions of the country, has been liberated. >> reporter: but general joseph votel, commander of the forces in the middle east, says offensive operations have now bogged down as u.s.-backed fighters have left the front lines to return to their yamilies. even if those last pockets of resistance are eventually eliminated, that will not produce what vote

garrett: thank you, mr. speaker. likes of onor the which i can't think of a comparison to stand here in , and eek of april, 2018 ommemorate a battle undertaken by a student that i would argue was a continuation of the american revolution. the american revolution began when a group of white male landowners cast off the tyrannical thrown which lorded over them across an ocean but it moved forward 80 years later when a million americans, through disease and starvation and battlefield death, gave their lives to rid their death to the horrific institution of slavery. and then 55 years later, i would argue it continued when had the franchise was extended through women's suffrage to women and then 30-plus years after that, a 16-year-old high school student at the r.r. moden high school in farmville, virginia, who had heard about the foundational ideas espoused by a slave owner named jefferson that wrote all people are created equal but couldn't reconcile that with her life experience because in the county where she lived, a

garrett and i were on the hill yesterday covering that. at the very last moment rand paul tweeting where they were going to vote against the favorable recommendation to pompeo as secretary of state. he said he was going to vote for it after a last minute conversation. we know about what was going on from rand paul today. >> that's right. yesterday in these tweets rand paul said he had these conversations with mike pompeo about his belief on the iraq war and the afghanistan war. he wanted bhiek p eed mike pomp with him and agree with what was really conditionandidate trump' position that the u.s. should be out of afghanistan and the iraq war as mistake. he said yesterday, paul, did, that he felt as though pompeo had given him assurances that was his view and that was good enough for him. this morning on morning joe, paul went further. it was a bit more of a suggestion it might be more of a quid pro quo. conversations about the fourth amendment. i don't know if we have that sound. >> we cued that up. let me put the context in. he's been very

. >> garrett haake joins us now.tt, to be clear, you spoke to the ranking member of the senate veteran affairs committee. he confirmed this is going to be delayed as they look into jax snn. >> yes, the ranking democrat on the committee put out a joint letter with the chairman saying that this hearing what was scheduled for wednesday will be delayed subject to the call of the chair. that's sort of senate terminology for indefinitely while they search for answers to come of the questions about dr. jackson's background that started to surface, i'm told, on thursday. senators had been reaching out to the white house kind of behind the scenes to try to get a little more information. in the letter from senators today, they formally requested documentation about dr. jack jackson's work. a host of materials that one would expect would be part of a vet if a substantial vet of him had been done. in talking to senators up here this morning, i picked up a lot of frustration not just from democrats but also from republicans that

garrett, to you in a minute. jeff, start with you. best we can gather here, this was essentially a meeting between pompeo and un. a meeting about a meeting. how are the folks at the white house responding to this criticism that pompeo's having a meeting like this essentially as the nation's top diplomat before even being confirmed? >> reporter: yes. a good point. right? white house officials make the point mike pompeo is likely the only person, craig, in the trump administration in a position of leadership and trust who could also carry out a mission like this and they say that the meeting itself is in many ways noteworthy. in many ways a victory in the sense it's been nearly 20 years since someone on the level of mike pompeo, a u.s. official of his stature met with a northern korean leader. that said, beneath the surface, white house officials are rushing, working as fast as they can, to do the vetting, put the pieces in place ahead of this meeting that could happen as early as next month, craig. >> what more do we know, jeff, about

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. >> garrett haake joins us now live from the white house. garrett, donald trump just spoke at the white house easter egg roll about this. what's the latest from him? >> reporter: he did, ali. the audio is not very good but we can show you the tape. the president was sitting at a picnic table with kids when he was asked a question by one of the reporters about daca and he repeated a version of that same line, saying essentially this is democrats' fault. democrats have left daca recipients down. this is the kid of thing that makes democrats pull their hair out of their head. not only did the president end daca in the first place, the president and the white house aggressively lobbied against the one bipartisan bill that came the closest to actually passing the senate, that got 54 votes. it needed 60 but got a majority of votes in the senate that the could have created a permanent fix for daca recipients. all that scuttled by the white house. it's tough to see how the congress breaks out of this log jam now, especially with this kind of rhetori

joining me now, nbc's military and national security correspondent courtney kube and nbc's garrett haake who is on capitol hill. courtn courtney, there's new reporting right now about what u.s. officials found in syria. >> that's right. one of the big questions we've had since this terrible attack over the weekend in syria that left more than 40 people dead and upwards of 500 injured is what was used in the attack and who did it. well, now u.s. officials are telling my colleague, ken dilanian and i, that there are both blood and urine samples that they have from victims at that site that have tested positive for chemicals. so some of the tests popped positive for chlorine gas, but there were others that tested for a nerve agent. we know, as we saw last april in syria, that the syrian regime has the nerve agent sarin and that they have in the past used it in both a combination of chlorine and sarin. so u.s. officials who we've spoken with today are now confident that in fact the syrian regime was behind this attack. so the question now becomes will the u.s. respond. we've seen a series of

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garrett, thanks very much. garrett haake for us at capitol hill. >>> french president emanuel macron visits washington as the trump administration juggles a host of foreign policy challenges. president trump is facing a may 12 deadline to recertify the iran deal. trump has called the iran nuclear deal a disaster. macron is trying to convince him to keep it in place. the iranian president has reportedly warned of severe consequences if the administration betrays the deal. trump is preparing to meet with kim jong-un in the next few weeks. he's hailed kim's promises to stop nuclear missile tests. the french president wants president trump to keep u.s. troops in syria. trump had said he wanted to withdraw u.s. troops although some of his advisers say that would be a mistake. then there's international trade. the president has roiled global markets with lis puhis push to tariffs on imported steel and aluminum and billions of dollars of products from china. europe wants an exemption from those tariffs. macron and don

joining me now from chill is garrett haake. garrett, the question here is twofold. one is was proper process followed. the general answer to that is no, with anything to do with this administration. i'm almost not as concerned about that part. the more important issue is whether lawmakers feel it is a net positive or a net negative that mike pompeo met with the north korean leader. surprisingly some senior democrats said they are okay with it. >> ali, pretty much every lawmaker i have spoken to today did say they are okay with this. just in part because they are glad that someone from the trump administration is doing the homework doing the prework before this planned summit between kim jong-un and the president. they like that there is someone who the president trusts who is clearing the path here a little bit. there was some concern that this would be -- the planned summit would be the kind of thing where the president just short of showed up and there would not have been this advance work. they are pleased about that i heard some pushback to your first question f

msnbc's garrett hake son the hill.rett, bring us up to speed on the latest because between mike and matd miller talk about this with us 40 minutes ago, things have happened. >> reporter: that's right. we're still digging through this report. it's only been out for about 45 minutes but we have seen complaints about it from both sides. some republicans don't like how much of the report was regakted by the intelligence community. democrats in their statement from adam schiff who's the lead democrat on this committee say not just the documented self is flawed but really the entire process by which it was introduced is flawed saying republican members of the committee refuse to pursue meaningful leads and subpoena folks who were not answering questions and the entire process resolved into a partisan sham. but, however, in the last 45 minutes we have heard from the president of the united states and he's thrilled with this report. the president tweeting a short time ago just out, house intelligence committed tee report relea

joining me now is garrett haake. we have seen this long line of people deciding not to run ag n again. >> no name bigger than paul ryan telling staff and frebs and others in congress recently he decided he will not seek reelection this year. this is a big blow to the republican party and their chances of holding on to the house in thov. ryan has been a prolific fundraiser and has despite how fractious the conference has been largely been able to hold them together on the big issues that they were able to accomplish this year. remember in the house, they passed their obamacare repeal bill. they passed the tax reform package. that was something ryan championed for a long time. while we haven't gotten the full read out into his decision, tax reform has been an issue that has driven him to congress and driven him through his congressional career. to not seek reelection in wisconsin. ryan has been saying for months that this is a decision he makes every spring in an election year. he sits down with his family and he talks

garrett headacaake from capitol. and sanders won't be mincing words about the democrats voting against pompeo saying they have to decide whether they love this country more than they hate this president. what's the white house strategy here? >> not the only one speaking no knows terms. also we heard from the legislative affairs director mark short he among many white house officials touting the resume, long resume of mike pompeo. number one in his class at west point. army service. mag in a consume loaude at harvard and serving at the cia director recently. the president set in a tweet. he said, hard to believe obstructionists may vote against mike pompeo for secretary. the demless not approve hundreds of good people including the ambassador to germany. maxing out the time on approval process for all. never happened before. need more republicans. already indications that the president may be in pretty good shape at least at the full senate chamber is to vote. we have heard now from one of those democrats, joe manchin

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on the bodywork every screw every wire if a car needs to be in the right place eighteen year old garrett gonzalez started training here seven months ago and because of that it's the third year in a row that audi mexico has taken on new apprentices when we were in the first week was really exciting especially the first day to see where it got to working and learning and then i saw the q fine which we make here in mexico for the first time . yara is one of eighty people doing a three year apprenticeship it's a two track training system structured the same way as in germany. eighteen months are spent out he's training center the rest is hands on training in the production plant. or is mainly interested in auto electronics she wants to be an electro mechanical technician. but i think there's a beginning. i fell in love with cars as a child i think it's really fascinating just knowing how a car drives how all the parts work together and why each individual screw is important. the instructor takes the students out to test the brakes. but yara is not yet allowed to drive the test car herself an

next up we're going to take a trip into space because the european space agency astronaut alexander garrett has how this final news conference today ahead of his next trip to the international space station in june this time he will take over as commander of the station it's the first german to do so he says he aims to be a nice boss to his crew made up of a u.s. astronaut and a russian cosmonaut and a rather unusual robot. this was the view of earth from space that greeted alexander guest on his last mission four years ago. now he's looking forward to his second trip to the international space station or. it's not just the one person project but a huge team project and seeing that makes me feel give me a feeling of completion of ok this is going to this point to the launch and then to the mission and everybody's ready seeing that this is fascinating. on his new mission called horizons gas will be the first german commander of the. chancellor merkel calls him the german ambassador to space guest uses the nickname astro alex on his last mission he conducted over one hundred scientific experi

garrett, any additional nuggets here? we know that prime subscribers have soared.ws has soared. what new analysis do you have? garrett: the big number of people are responding to his -- is shares increase for next quarter. analysts were expecting on average 52, and the range was at 154, so that pushes beyond what people were expecting in terms of next quarter. this quarter was great, next will be even better. they doubled the advertising revenues. this is a new business for amazon in the context of the company's history. online advertising, which google and facebook are dominating, amazon is the third player, dark horse in that space. it will be interesting to keep watching. emily: let's talk about aws because it is continuing to grow very fast from an already big base. how much bigger can it get? gerrit: this is the infrastructure of the internet, the future of business. aws is what any company can use to host their services online, store all their information, data. as more and more go online small to big, this category will grow. aws has a head start. that is th