. >>> this hour i'll discuss those stories and more with congressman gregory meeks. he's a democrat on the foreign affairs committee and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. first let's go to our justice correspondent jessica snyder. jessica, the president's widely condemned tweet is turning into an even bigger story a day later. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. the president's two tweets criticizing the cable hosts have now prompted joe scarborough and mika brzezinski to hilt back with the explosive allegation that top white house officials urged scarborough to call the president to make a negative national inquirer story about them go away. a white house official is now countering saying it was actually scarborough who made the first call. tonight a new allegation from the msnbc hosts engaged in the war with the white house mika brzezinski and joe scarborough claim they were threatened by the white house this spring. >> we received a call saying the national inquirer is going to run a story about you guys. they said if you call the president up

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i'm joined by gregory meeks who is kind enough to be with me on a friday night in june.bout "the washington post" reporting. let me ask you about president obama. it seems like he was in a damned if he does and damned if he doesn't situation. how do you address this? >> hindsight is 20/20. >> of course. >> i think he felt that everything was on line for hillary clinton to win and we'd deal with this russian problem. unfortunately, that scenario did not take place. we've got to fix this problem. the problem is what russia did, when they did it, how they did it and how do we prevent them from doing anything like that in the future. so it's clear from this report that the former president put things in place for the current president to take advange of it if he should choose. >> any confidence that he will -- >> he's not done it thus far. we've seen him joking and giving intelligence information in the white house to the very same russians. >> let me ask you quickly, what do we do as a country to protect ourselves from russia? >> i think that number one, what we should do i

joining me now is democratic congressman gregory meeks new york. congressm congressman, three weeks after the election then president trump called me and said he wanted to get together, we've debated and fought for 30 years here in new york and i said only if he would meet with all the civil rights leaders. never heard back from him since the honorable miss managault but it seems like they just wanted a photo op but i wouldn't do t the caucus said the executive committee they had an extensive thing they laid out when they met saying you said during the campaign, president trump, that black americans had nothing to lose, here is what we had to lose, he has not responded. and now you get this invitation, the caucus does, for all 49 members to meet with him and there's reluctance. i just wanted our viewers to have the context of these engaging both elected black leadership and civil rights leadership and where this reluctance if not outright rejection by the caucus has a context. >> and it does. look at his budget. look at his proposals. look at what

royce: i want to recognize congressman gregory meeks, the ranking member of the europe subcommittee and congressman paul cook. mr. cook is the vice chairman of the house foreign affairs committee and i recognize them for this timely and important resolution. on may 22, as the world knows, in a cowardly act of terrorism, suicide bomber attacked those exiting a concert in manchester arena in england. these were principally teenagers and children who were attending that concert. in some cases, parents. and what many had planned to be , a ght of joy, a festival chance for them to gather to celebrate. turned with one horrifying blast into a nightmare of chaos and devastation. and 23 innocent people were killed, 166 were severely injured and many of those victims were children. and this past week, in another cowardly attack, terrorists struck unsuspecting and unarmed pedestrians on london bridge and those terrorists went on an attack against innocent bystanders in london's borough market area slashing and killing. and thus far, seven victims have died and 48 have been seriously wounded. we gr

. >>> welcome back to the 11th hour" i'm joined on the busy news day by gregory meeks congressman ofnew york memoranda black caucus so kind to be with me on friday night in june. let me ask you first about the "washington post" reporting. we both shook our head a little bit. let me ask you about president obama. it seems to me like nefs a damned if he does damned if he doesn't situation how do you assess the judgments he made. >> hindsight is 2020. >> of course. >> i'm sure that he was confident and we thought that everything was online for hillary clinton to win the presidency. and we would deal with the russian problem. unfortunately, the scenario didn't take place. we have this guy now who is president, donald trump is president, hillary is not there. but wove got to fix the problem. the problem is what russia did, when they did it, how did he did it and how do we prevent them from doing anything else in the future. it is clear from the report that the former president put things in place for the current president to take advantage of it if he should choose. and. >> do you have an

joining me now, gregory meeks and claudia tenney, both from the great state of new york. great to have you here. look, you are sitting here together, democrat and republican, on a day when we need to see a lot more of that. and frankly, for a nation that needs to see a lot more of it moving forward. is this a moment of change, congresswom congresswoman? >> i think it is. and actually, i'd like to point out something really important that me and our freshman class did. we signed a commitment to civility on february 14th, of all days, valentine's day. and as our freshman class, we got together in our orientation and thought we should do that. and in that commitment to civility, we agreed that we would include our democratic colleagues, and vice versa, on bills and resolutions, and stick together. and in fact, tonight, i am going to be attending the game with congressman brad schneider, who also has a son who's deployed. my son is deployed as a marine and his son is deployed as a navy officer. so, we're both, you know, very close and we're sponsoring legislation together. so

i want to yield time to congressman gregory meeks, who represents queens, new york, which is one of the backbones of caribbean-americans and as my parents, and congressman you have been so good to the people you represent as well as all the american people. you sit on financial services and you also sit as a member of the foreign affairs committee where you advocate and speak up for individuals who cannot speak for themselves. mr. meeks: i want to thank representative plaskett for leading this special order on behalf of the congressional black caucus. it is extremely important that we first thank our caribbean brothers and sisters. my sister, representative clarke stated, the history of so many individuals who have made substantial contribution to make this a more perfect union, who, but for their labor and hard work, would not be the country we are now in. but also as representative plaskett has indicated. when i think about the average, everyday person who came across to america from the caribbean islands, the school teachers, the plumbers, the lawyers, the doctors, the sanitation wor

gregory meeks of new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, thank you for being here. let me just first say, mr. secretary, that what we're looking at, i understand the difficulty with the paperwork, just noted that the bush and obama administration was way ahead at this point as far as hiring and number of individuals we had at various levels at the state department. let me ask you a couple of questions and maybe you can clear them up for me. as i travel around these are questions i'm often asked. and i've been unclear with some of the answers. maybe you can answer them in the vein of what we talked about here in a yes or no answer. are you in favor of america first nationalism? >> america first as we've said does not mean america alone. we will continue our strong alliances and partnerships and maintain the friendships, relations that we have around the world. >> okay. so now, because of, you know, some of the -- i guess statements that the president has made about america first and he has said that a lot of the other countries around the world have to give things ba

. >> gregory meeks of new york. >> thank you, mr. chairman. madam ambassador, i actually stunned at the responses you just gave back to mr. sherman that you've never spoken to the president of united states about russia's involvement in our democracy. never talked to the president of the united states, we've got to do with russia, and the biggest question that we've had recently is russia's involvement in what they've done to our democracy. or you do not have had a conversation with the president about that involvement is absolutely shocking to me. secondly come jamaican the word betrayal in your opening statement. i want you to know that that's an appropriate word to discover what i'm hearing from my constituents and fellow americans and our allies all across, at home and abroad. they feel a sense of betrayal because of the way that the trump administration has diminished america's leadership in global standing. our allies have expressed their sense of betrayal and mixed messages coming from the president. and i believe this budget proposal i

gregory. pretty strong coffee. i don't drink coffee myself. ambassador haley: i don't either. i might start. rep. meeks: i don't drink coffee either. i'm just concerned about my nation. >> ok. well, let me just note that i think betrayal is a very rough word, and i would suggest that anyone who voted for giving $150 billion to the iranian government, making that available should not be talking about the words rich rail. rep. meeks: i did not use it she , did. rep. rohrabacher: ok. noted. madam secretary, i'd like to, number one, join my colleagues in suggesting that venezuela is something really important to look at and those people down there. venezuela used to be a shining -- basically a shining example of how freedom can work, and although there were a lot of problems, people there were working there together peacefully, and now for that to degenerate into what it is, if we can lend a hand there both at the united nations and through as our, as your spokesman there in the united nations, make sure they know how concerned we are. we should be concerned about turkey. turkey's going exactly in the wron