who was here that that turned out to be such a successful project so i want to thank you ambassador halley for your introduction and for your steadfast advocacy for american interests on the world stage on behalf of the cohost countries i would like to also thank secretary general good or us for and you have been fantastic for joining us and we affirm our commitment to the united nations reform and reform is what we're talking about i applaud the secretary general for laying out a vision to reform the united nations so that it better serves the people we all represent we support your efforts to look across the entire system and to find ways the united nations can better and be better at development management peace and security the united nations was founded on truly noble goals these include affirming the dignity and worth of the human person and striving for international peace the united nations has helped advance toward these goals in so many ways feeding the hungry providing disaster relief. and empowering women and girls in many societies all across the world yet in recent years the

i think on that front temporarily but halley, let's be realistic. every time we think we have one of these moments where we'll have bipartisanship and maybe the political rhetoric will cool, it lasts literally for moments. and then we move on. i think september they'll get past these rough things but he'll be right back to the brinksmanship type politics by the end of the year. >> watching it all from washington, chuck todd. thank you very much. be sure to watch "meet the press" today as the city tries to recovery after harvey. dylan is here now with a check of the weather. this other powerful hurricane, it could be taking aim at us this weekend. >> next weekend it is still very far away. it's worth watching at this point. i'll get to that in just a second. harvey is now finally moving away. we're starting off with heavier pockets of rain in new york city and northern new england will see the heaviest of the rain and finally will get harvey out of here. we are going to see some improvements there. the heat out west, we have temperatures that are mos

that are you know despite the presence of anti russian voices in the administration such as licky halley view a similar sort of to your way to mr trump doesn't appear to have given up but it seems that misty on his efforts to improve the toys between the u.s. and russia although how much will be successful is something which is open for debate now as well as the sideline talks between russia and the u.s. the u.n. general assembly this week is likely to be on the korean peninsula and washington's into a bit it's pretty much exhausted every diplomatic possibilities jaclyn they get now reports. really sort of sounds like the military option is sort of becoming the frontrunner for them we've had the american ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley saying that she feels that the united nations security council has really already done all that they can when it comes to north korea and that she's really already prepared to hand off the crisis to the u.s. secretary of defense adding that in that situation north korea would be quote destroyed and that's something we have coming from a diplomat i said

envoy to the united nations said that washington's patience with north korea is not unlimited he halley told the emergency security council meeting that pyongyang appears to be begging for war. to the members of the security council i must say enough is enough nuclear powers understand their responsibilities kim jong un shows no such understanding his abusive use of missiles and his nuclear threats show that he is begging for war. war is never something the united states wants we don't want it now when our country's patience is not unlimited also speaking this afternoon as china condemned north korea's latest nuclear test on sunday and called for all countries to return to the negotiating table however washington does seem to be pushing in the opposite direction the u.s. defense secretary james mattis has said that america is preparing a wide range of military responses to the crisis. president trump reaffirmed the commitment of the united states to defending our homeland territories and allies using the full range of diplomatic conventional and nuclear capabilities at our disposal. we

be destroyed and we all know that and none of us want that none of us want war so there we have halley's saying she's happy to hand it over to mattis and not long ago we had he himself describing briefly what that would sort of look like what a military option with north. area would look like and very best word saying that the response would be both effective and overwhelming any threat to the united states george territories including. or our allies will be met with a massive military response the response both objective and overwhelming we are not looking to the total annihilation of a country namely north korea but as i said we have many options to do show and in the same light many remember all of the comments that we've had from trump himself fire and fury and whatnot and amid those threats that we've had coming from the president he's repeated a number of times that talking with north korea just isn't going to be effective not really diplomatic words that we have coming from the president himself and on sunday trump also referred to the north korean leader as rocket man and the twe

halley? >> i want to follow-up here. will the white house commit to releasing private e-mails related to government business? >> i'd have to ask. i'm not aware of something. >> does it seem like something you would do? >> i'm not going to get ahead of the conversation that hasn't taken place. >> will you let us know? >> sure. >> my other question is, when you talk about the president wanting to defend the flag. you know the oath of office was to defend the constitution. does the president have a problem with the first amendment? >> not at all. the president is simply stating that pride in our country is a good thing, it's something that we should all celebrate, something that should bring us together not divide us. standing up for the national anthem he feels is support of that. >> why is it that the president over the weekend is going after or seeming to go after african-american athletes and then this morning he's putting out a tweet praising nascar, which obviously is geared towards a different demographic, and the wa

handle the harder decisions if donald trump will allow that to happen on a multilateral way through halley and madison tillerson i think this can be resolved regardless it was donald trump or hillary clinton can john whom was going to go in the same direction the test of u.s. leadership is to make sure we minimize the threat and the chapters that come you think. do that do you think you can listen to joel. well i mean david put it as well i think it's a big open question he was advised by his chief of staff general kelly and by his national security adviser general mcmaster to not use the language at the u.n. general assembly that would inflame the situation and he did the exact opposite when he said that he would totally annihilate north korea and belittle the leaders rocket man so the words matter and diplomacy words create reactions and impacts and i do hope that he will listen as the congressman said to his advisors maybe in the last few days it's settled down but we really do need to let our diplomats and our defense officials get to work to resolve this joel rubin thank you so much f

will be the determinants of halley get value out of these value -- how we get value out of this technology. there is a new excitement about a.i. however that excitement comes with the downside. they are hard for people to understand. with thetes very much comments about, if i know when my algorithm is doing the wrong thing,-override it. statistical techniques when the algorithms are learning from large amounts of data, it is quite impossible to understand what the algorithms are going to be doing for each case. the algorithms get updated pretty often. for example, tesla car. there are questions about how they will be driving if they change every week. as the driver you were expected to understand. there is a transfer problem between the ai algorithm and the user or the controller or the supervisor of the algorithm. you need to do a lot of work to make that later transparent in the sense we can actually create a transfer a partnership between the human and the machine so they can work together. so we can get to that case where, ok, i know might algorithm is not doing the right thing. i shou

you heard nikki halley's commens yesterday. concerned are you kim jong-un will take her on, you want a war, i've got one for you. >> with all respect to nikki haley, i think it's misread of the situation. i think they are trying to demonstrate they have the ability and the will to respond in such a strong way with an operational nuclear program that they are going to prevent the united states from considering attacking it. i think actually what north korea wants is to make sure the united states is going to take military options off the table and preserve their regime. i don't think what they are actually looking for is to nish yalt a conflict. kim jong-un is not crazy. he recognizes if it actually came to a conflict, he would lose. his regime would end. and that's not what he wants. >> let's just listen to the latest comments from nikki haley, this was just moments ago at the united nations. >> i think if you look at north korea now, the reasons we're pushing for so many sanctions, do we think more sanctions are going to work

halley promised us a busy hour, and it was one. thank you for watching "velshi & ruhle."ali velshi. >> and i'm stephanie ruhle. now it's time for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> president trump taking a hard line against both north korea and iran. >> the united states has great strength and patience. but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime. the iran deal was one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the united states has ever entered into. frankly, that deal is an embarrassment to the united states, and i don't think you've heard the last of it, believe me. >> coming up here, nbc news nightly news anchor lester holt who just sat down with iran's president rouhani. our first look at lester's interview.

ambassador nikki haley calls concrete action against north korea after its most recent missile launch halley a national security adviser h r mcmaster teased a special upcoming week at the un with a u.s. delegation including president onil trump as kim jong un's the recent missile launch demonstrates north korea remains one of the world's most urgent and dangerous security problems it is vital that all nations work together to do our utmost to solve the problem without all turned over to ambassador hill it is a new day at the u.n. the u.n. has shifted over the past several months it's not just about talking it's about action the members are starting to get used to act whether it security council resolutions whether it's with u.n. reform whether it's with peacekeeping we're starting to feel a lot of changes that the u.n. they are all anxious to see what the u.s. delegation looks like next week and i think they will be heavily impressed with the fact that we have the president the vice president the secretary of state many members of the national security council coming to really show the u.s.

>> i'd have to go for halley. i could never do that. we'll say that. you're practically a regular around here. i say said it when you came out. you've been here a few times. have a lot going on. will you get time off soon? >> i get a little bit of time off. i got three movies coming out. >> i know. congratulations. >> doing a lot of -- [ applause ] >> thank you, yes. >> you got this one. this one and a movie called "the only living buy in new york." which was out a little while ago and the movie "only the brave" about those hot shots that team of firefighters that lost their lives in arizona, yeah. >> so when you're done promoting and making what's your perfect idea for down time? ? oh, maybe picking a little guitar, you know, doing a little clay thing. maybe painting. >> you're an artist? >> you throw a pot or two. >> i don't throw. i hand build. i used to throw in high school. don't do that. see my grandkids. i got two grandkids now. >> that's nice. >> that will keep you busy. >> oh yeah. >> you're working so much to keep yourself bus

congressional pressures that despite the presence of anti russian voices in the administration such as licky halley deal with a message to the u.n. to mr trump doesn't appear to have given up it seems in a city on his efforts to improve the toys between the u.s. and russia although how much will be successful is something which is open for debate of the ukraine issue as well there have been some tensions in eastern europe some maneuvers in sweden as maybe you know there was also a message here trying to reassure the russians that there was no card that escalation they want a solution in ukraine so i think it's generally you know the fact that there are some middle east and developments european developments which imposed to the americans to hold this meeting at the same time it reflects the fact that the trumpet astray ssion as i said despite all the local difficulties domestic difficulties and still wants me. b. to improve toys with the russian government yeah things are things looking up after the last diplomatic spat the tit for tat with the closing of the embassies do you think this is a step b