>> hi, hallie.inistration, the white house is, in many ways, the driver of foreign policy from a purely policy perspective, right? it's the president's choice whether we want to make certain diplomatic outreaches or pull back from other countries and so forth. and the state department implements that. but what's really different and really hasn't changed in this administration from the beginning is the level of influence and input that the state department appears to have in making, informing some of those policy decisions. secretary of state tillerson does have a good relationship with president trump. they speak almost daily. he's over at the white house all the time. but that doesn't translate at least yet into broad -- a broad sense that the rank and file diplomats, the people who run the specialty bureaus, who have the specialty expertise are being really included and listened to. and the hiring freeze, and the lack of people in senior jobs at the state department has only compounded that. >> a

two things, hallie, that really stands out. it appears just prior to the attack, a man had collapsed. a group of people were around helping him. so, good samaritans, if you like. and that they were themselves then hit in this attack. that's one part and then afterwards, this man appears to have been, according to witnesses, waving and looking, a group from the mosque and actually protected him from the rest of the crowd and waited for the police to arrive for him to pea arre be arrested. then preventing this man from facing some kind of a street retribution. inead, aing the rule of law was seeing to be played out in the right way, hallie. saying a lot for the kind of community this was and making people think about what all this means. hallie? >> keir, thank you very much. >>> the white house is confirming that u.s. counterterror officials have been in touch. also coming out of the white house this morning a cleanup in the way after the president's lawyer blitzed the sunday shows insisting the president was not under investigat

let's go back to where hallie is. hallie? >> reporter: as we talk more about the suspected shooter in this case, i want to bring in now from the washington bureau pete williams with what he has learned. pete, what do you have? >> chris was talking about across that field from her is a ymca. that's important because people say they saw him, saw james hodgkinson at that ymca in the past couple weeks. the former mayor of alexandria, virginia said she actually talked to him and knows he has been in this area for at least five weeks. his neighbors in illinois said he left his house, he had been there recently, and came to washington. but we still don't know why he came to washington. his friends and neighbors have described him as someone who was distraught by the election of president trump. he was a prolific writer of letters to the local papers. didn't like the republican party, didn't like republican tax policy. but whether that was the motive for the shooting, whether it was some mental health issue or something else, we don'

hallie good morning to you. we're at the high school where otto went to school here, just behind me. this press conference lasted a bit longer than some of the organizers said it would go. the critical question of the day remains unanswered, how is otto doing? we know that he arrived here limpless, carried by his legs and his underarms. his mother, cindy, is at the hospital by his bedside according to his dad, fred. we just learned that in this news conference. we're expecting to get more information on his health at a news conference at 3:00 at the university of cincinnati medical center. one of the things of note in this particular press conference here is that several times fred warmbier talked about the regime there and talked about the tour companies that organize tours for americans and other foreigners to tour north korea. he says that they are "lured" by these tour companies under the guise that this is a safe place to visit, this secretive nation many people are fascinated by, his son being one of them,

interesting timing yesterday, hallie. within an hour after the intercept published the story about this, the justice department announced that this woman was arrested. the government says, after being arrested she admitted sending this document to the intercept. >> pete williams. kristen welker. look at this from the administration's perspective. first arrest of somebody leaking classified material. the president has talked about this a lot before in general, the idea of trying to plug up the leaks. >> right. we know the president has sent the message internally that he is serious about that. he wants there to be a crackdown on leaks, hallie. it's a message, as you point out, that he sent publicly as well. take a look at some of his past tweets that he sent out in the wake of some of these leaks particularly about russia. the real story, surveillance and leakers. find the leakers. february 24th, the fbi is totally unable to stop the national security leakers who have permeated our government for a long time. they can't ev

>> it is kind of disjointing, hallie. up having a talk about a non-binding agreement that has these type of draconian impositions. the truth of the matter is that the paris climate deal is non-binding. it allowed countries to set their own targets, as well as abilities to meet their own goals. critics say the president administration could have stayed in the paris accord and made its own kind of commitments, as well as how to achieve them on its own. >> on that same point, one of the other things the president talked about is leaving the accord would help the coal industry. is there a consensus there? >> not a consensus. of course, most coal industry is against -- was against former president barack obama's energy policies and also the paris deal. but there were some coal interests that were part of remaining into the paris accord. hallie, to me, the biggest story when it comes to the coal and coal jobs, coal jobs have been on the decline well before the paris accord, well before barack obama's own presidency. one of the

nbc news chev white house correspondent just off the phone with her sources hallie jackson. let white house reporter for the "wall street journal." eli stokols. here in new york white house reporter for the associated press. jonathan le mere appear hallie i'll begin with you because of a piece of paper that came out of the white house communication shop tonight. and, again, germane probably this is a white house that ceased communicating with us at least on television and ceased communicating with the american people for now that way. statement from the press secretary, it reads, the united states has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians including innocent children. the activities are similar to preparations the regime made before its april 4th, 2017, chemical weapons attack. as we have previously stated, the united states is in syria to eliminate the islamic state of iraq in syria. however if mr. assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons he an

one important note, hallie. we know that dennis rodman is in the country.the statement from the pentagon -- excuse me, from the state department is they are claiming credit for the release. they are not saying this is in any way related to dennis rodman. i asked a couple officials at the white house this morning. no one seems to have any sense on whether dennis rodman has arrived or what his itinerary is. they're claiming credit for his release. we'll try to find out more about his medical condition. >> you mentioned secretary of state tillerson who is testifying right now. our team confirmed he is talking about this and has confirmed what you've just reported when it comes to this now released student, apparently in a coma according to the secretary of state. we are working to turn around the sound for you. hans, for people who are not familiar with otto, the student. uva junior at the time that he went to north korea. can you give us a little background on him and how this all happened. >> it was new year's eve, 2015, heading into 2016. his last day on a

hallie?of what happened to otto warmbier has horrified so many folks and including president trump. i think what we saw before the syrian strike when it was the faces. it was seeing the faces of the foreign policy that seemed to have the most impact on the president or at least played into his decisionmaking process. do you think now that there is a sort of face and a family to this that we may see from president trump less of the i'd be honored to meet with kim jong-un. >> seeing faces -- >> having that emotional connection. >> back when he made the decision about the missile strike, clearly he had been moved. and, obviously, heard from yesterday with this case, it's such -- he's expressing a lot of sorry about the tragedy. concern for the family. we have -- really have to see how this plays out now. this really does put more onus on the president and the white house. and i think it does, he's someone who tends to deliberate on things, ask for a lot of input and really, you know, sort of mul

hallie. >> kelly, thank you very much.huck todd is the moderator of "meet the press" and he joins us now. hi, chuck, good morning to you, and happy father's day, sir. >> thank you, hallie. good morning to you. >> listen, we saw this week this moment of unity that happened after the congressional baseball game shooting. people on both sides of the aisle said this is now a time to tone down the rhetoric, tone down some of that divisive talk that we often see. you've been around politics for a while. do you think this time-out is going to last? >> i think it really depends on what the leaders of both parties do and how much they do it. i think on capitol hill between members of congress, it's it does in the populous as a whole. i think it really did sober up individual members. this was a -- this was rough. this was -- you know, this was personal for them. i think without the president having a leadership role here, it's not going to last. i think the fact that he did not come out and also join in this chorus and say, you kno

hallie? >> hans, the intelligence side of it corroborated by the pentagon and the latest military strike was pretty limited. do we know anything that could happen next if assad goes through what the u.s. believes he is preparing for? some kind of political weapons attack. >> will the response be proportional. the tomahawks in hitting that air base, they thought that was proporti proportional. two things. in part because you buy some concrete really inexpensively and those t-hawks are about a million bucks a pop. they did strike one of the shelters that they're observing now that they say some of this activity is taking place. just to be clear what we know about the acivity. this is the same hardened air raid shelter that they're using. they say aircraft are am volvin. what we don't know if munitions are being loaded on to aircraft. hallie? >> what is up with russia, right? with any kind of expanded strike you can run the risk of a conflict there. do we know if military counterparts here in th

let me check it over to hallie jackson who is on capitol hill. hallie? >> members of congress are still processing what happened, and the discussion now has turned to security and vulnerability for the lawmakers. kasie hunt is inside the capitol. we are outside. what are you hearing from folks as you see them in the hallways? see people you talk to every day about policy? this obviously very different tonally and emotionally too. >> reporter: this is normally a place where we have a friendly but adversarial relationship with the people that we cover, at least on our best days. i think that the mood here has shifted pretty dramatically to one of camaraderie. as we have talked about the course of this afternoon, members of the capitol police, lawmakers, reporters, aides, everybody works in the same set of buildings. we come in and out of the same entrances every day, and we see a lot of the same faces every day, and you can really tell among the members themselves, the way they are talking to their staff, the hugs i have seen exchanged at random between pe

hallie, i don't have to tell you, this is the big show in town.s decision now to hear the case in october will set up the largest debate of the trump administration. i know that many trump allies and supporters feel that he ran on a travel ban, he should have lawful power to execute it, at least try to do it, which he hasn't had the chance legally yet. a lot of critics as you know felt this is one of the largest overreaches of presidential power in this era. so it will be a big fight leading up to october to see what the supreme court says about it. >> ari, hang tight a second. i want to get back to elizabeth wiser. two questions for you. can you say as you look to what ari is talking about, the october supreme showdown what you could call it, who would be arguing that for the administration, how do you think we're going to see it play out. kind of fast forward in time here. >> i imagine the solicitor general would argue the case himself. if the nominated solicitor general is confirmed at that point. noel francisco has been named but right now jef

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. >> hallie, that's right. this kind of roll out of the bill has been a little bit rocky for mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader. four conservat out, saying we have problems with this bill. you listen to senator rand paul tell it and how he thinks it keeps the basic framework of obamacare. this doesn't appeal obamacare. that's what i came to washington to do. senator ted cruz has been a little bit more open in his language to saying, okay, i want to work here. to be constructive and to get to where we want to go. i have to tell you down here in the basement talking to republican lawmakers and aides in the house, we talked about the freedom caucus. senator cruz works with and talks to a lot. i think republican leaders on this side are looking to see if those members start to agitate against the senate version of the bill to say it's unpalatable to them. those will give us significant clues on how the senate process may play out because of cruz and lee's involvement in that. if leaders go towards where th

that is a significant legal problem for the white house. >> so, hallie, we sawhe outward confidence fromhe white house, donald trump, his personal attorney both saying this is about comey being a leaker, he has nothing to hide. what, though, as you talk to your sources, is the most concerning element of thursday's testimony to the white house? >> the potential that it has, i believe, willie, to overshadow what the president really wants to be talking about. we're already seeing that. you have the president hitting the road this coming week, he wants to talk about workforce development, the way that infrastructure was talked about last week, he will be outside the belt way, you will see ivanka trump getting more involved. despite the president wanting to move on, despite the white house saying case clouds, it's in the hands of outside counsel, marc kasowitz, there are going to be questions, specifically in 48 hours from now when jeff sessions gets up on capitol hill. these questions aren't going away as matt is talking about the cloud still hangs, and you have, for example, donald trump j

>> so there's two tracks here, hallie. one is this russia investigation, which you were just talking about with pete williams that involves jim comey, both committees looking into russian meddling and influence in the election. so, all of the new news if you will in the last 24 hours taking place on the house side you have four subpoenas in that russian investigation jointly issued by republicans and democrats on the committee, jointly supported for michael flynn and michael cohen, former national security adviser and president trump's long-time personal attorney. michael cohenles with business entities associated with those. there's not a ton of controversy around those. it's note worthy they did issue the subpoena for michael cohen. the flynn subpoena is what the intelligence committee has been up to. the second piece are the additional three subpoenas that are around unmasking of names and requests from the obama administration and you can see obama administration officials there on the screen, that may have made these

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nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has those details. >> reporter: new questionser the president's own words could come back to haunt him as he attacks travel ban, now in the hands of the supreme court, describing the current version as watered down and politically correct. and, yes, the president's reiterating, it is a travel ban. >> i don't think the president cares what you call it. >> reporter: his administration used to. >> its not a travel ban. remember, it's a travel pause. >> its not a travel ban. >> this is not a travel ban. this is a temporary pause. >> when we use words like travel ban, that misrepresents what it is. >> reporter: why does it matter what it's called? because the president's words can and probably will be used against him in a court of law. other judges in decisions to block the ban already pointed to the president's rhetoric on the campaign trail. even supporters like conservative lawyer george conway, husband of kellyanne conway, says these tweets on legal issues undercuts the president. >> many people would say it undermines their krib

our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. we're following a protest against the health care bill near senator marco rubio's office in doral, florida, where we find mariana otencio. what is going on there now? >> about 60 or 70 people were protesting on this very street in doral, florida, in front of senator marco rubio's office. the protest has since dispersed, but as you mentioned, we have been talking to protesters for the past couple of hours. and we heard from people from all backgrounds, all age groups, floridians concerned about obamacare being taken away. 1.5 million floridians are currently enrolled in obamacare. you had a lot of people concerned about these steep cuts to medicaid we have been hearing about with this new senate bill. 4.3 million floridians are on medicaid right now. so a lot of people arguing they stand a lot to lose and one of them is paul thomas. he is actually from an lgpt organization called save. paul, you helped organize this protest today. tell me what is the one issue for you as a floridian th

. >> with the nbc chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. how is the jay johnson testimony resonating at the white house? >> reporter: quiet day at the white house. the president has left now. he's headed to iowa. he's got that rally coming up later tonight. that's something we'll be watching to see if and how he responds to a lot of conversations we have been having on this. you heard jay johnson talk about

nbc news chev white house correspondent just off the phone with her sources hallie jackson. let white house reporter for the "wall street journal." eli stokols. here in new york white house reporter for the associated press. jonathan le mere appear hallie i'll begin with you because of a piece of paper that came out of the white house communication shop tonight. and, again, germane probably this is a white house that ceased communicating with us at least on television and ceased communicating with the american people for now that way. statement from the press secretary, it reads, the united states has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians including innocent children. the activities are similar to preparations the regime made before its april 4th, 2017, chemical weapons attack. as we have previously stated, the united states is in syria to eliminate the islamic state of iraq in syria. however if mr. assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons he an

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>> reporter: hallie -- katy, sorry, i have to say. sorry, i was talking to hallie a couple hours ago. they have not really been particularly optimistic that this is something that they can get done by tomorrow. i talked to senator rob portman. he has been in meetings all day on health care. he is somebody who has been a holdout on kind of the basic fundamentals of this bill, the deep cuts to medicaid and that seems to be a fundamental disagreement here and you heard shelly moore capito say this morning she didn't come to washington to hurt people, for example. and there's a lot of talk about what should actually be a bipartisan negotiation. mcconnell and other leaders are working hard to try to keep it so they can pass it with just republican votes, but there are democrats starring in, joe manchin talked about it this morning. take a look. >> spoken to mitch mcconnell and i heard him say democrats don't want to work with him. that's not factual or accurate. i'm one that wants to work with my friends. i've been reaching out and shelly

ari, the practical effect we've heard laid out from pete and hallie. but he brings up an interesting point. the prior lower court cases. they reference the president's tweets. and the question is was this a muslim ban. is that likely to be the key point that the supreme court looks at? >> that's still something that the people challenging this order will be pushing. and so we could expect the lawyers in that october argument to bring it up and see what the court does. but to the premise of your question, it's good news for the trump information that this ruling doesn't go down that rabbit hole. you look at the countries up on the board here. this supreme court did not get into how those countries were picked, did not do that analysis and get into the religious questions but rather just said let's focus on what is fair as we lead up to the ultimate case. and they say the fairness, the balance of the equities is that you can enforce it against the foreign nationals. i want to read the key line. they say the travel ban may not be enforced against foreign

not just to get health care done, hallie. but to move on to his other agenda items like tax reform which is in peril. >> kristen welker there at the white house. thank you very much. >> i want to bring in our panel for the morning. jonathan swann, senior political reporter for usa today heidi and white house reporter from bloomberg news shannon. a lot to talk about and i want to look ahead to what is next for health care. senator rand paul did not like the direction that this bill was headed in. here's what he had to say about the timeline just this morning. listen. >> something to be done. it will be a vote. i actually predict we will get to a majority. i would like to be part of that, but only if the bill repeals obamacare. i won't vote for it if it keeps obamacare. >> august 1st. we have another deadline. do we have another delay? >> the reality is his reality. all artificial deadlines. >> not artificial in the sense that republicans have to go home and faceconstituents. >> i have been talking to sources close to mcconnell

hallie jackson was references that. in a few hours, the president back in the rose garden, set to announce whether or not the u.s. will stay in the paris climate accord. staffers and family on both sides making last-ditch efforts to sway president trump. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm stephanie rhule. back with you. we begin with these dramatic developments in the russia investigation. you could say that any day. a source close to james comey telling nbc news that james comey is, quote, cleared for takeoff by robert mueller, the special counsel, overseeing the justice department russia investigation. also new this morning, new subpoenas issued by a house intelligence committee in its russia investigation. two sets of subpoenas, actually. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker joins us live. "new york times" is saying this comey testimony would be the most sensational development to the russia saga. >> there's no doubt that all eyes are going to be on capitol hill next week when former fbi director james come

nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson joins us now.e of the legal experts think the president is sabotaging his own case with these tweets. >> reporter: that's it, doreen. a question tonight whether the president's words could end up coming back to haunt him in the long run as the supreme court takes a look at the travan constitutional. let's break it down. why does it matter what the president called it, whether it's a travel ban or executive order. here's why. other judges in lower courts have used the president's words as reasoning to block that ban and so there is an expectation that tweets like this one, tweets like the ones he had today could in fact end up in some of those arguments. and it's not just outside legal experts too. one of the president's biggest supporters, a well known conservative lawyer, george conway, husband of kellyanne conway, was out today saying essentially that tweets on legal matters could hurt the president's argument down the road. the white house seemingly unconcerned about this, they said today, deput

my colleague hallie jackson is live on capitol hill.n msn brks krrkbc li shooter opened fire. republican congressmen were practicing for a game. congressman scalise, who had emergency surgery this morning, he is now in stable condition. all of this taking place a mile south of the capitol in alexandria. chaos happened on the field. >> we were doing batting practice, and all of a sudden we heard shots. it was clear pretty quickly there was a shooter there with a high-powered rifle. >> a shooter came out to practice, started shooting. he shot at trent kelly, our third baseman, and shot at steve scalise. >> there were dozens, if not hundreds, of shots fired. it was scary. >> i looked up and saw is a guy with a pistol. i thought, oh, my gosh, is that one of our guys or a double shooter situation? it took me a minute to see that it was one of our guys and he was firing back at the shooter, and it was one of the best sights i've seen in my life. >> we were getting ready for a game and something like this happens, and you can't believe it. >>

hallie jackson, thank you as well. worked in five terms as congress and republican strategist, and we have a reporter of the "new york times" and an msnbc contributor. gosh, stumping pete williams on something. that's tough stuff. >> "new york times" stumped on monday, pete wmore stumped on t. >> tomorrow we're going to see sessions go up and we're going to -- he's going to get peppered with a lot of questions. how likely is it that he is going to answer much, or is he just going to do what coats did the other day, and rogers, saying, i'm not going to talk about my conversations with the president? >> it will be a combination of both. i think we'll see him do that. what's particularly interesting is he decided to do this in an open session, which i think was twofold. one was because we know if he wants to set up a political fight, him going in as a former colleague, he'll have the democrats coming after him. he'll be able to set this up as a fight, republican-democrat fight. and he can also do the fallback to a closed

i'm joined hallie jackson and susan pates. whatever spicer says for misdirection, the president has got to be worried about a man with a firsthand knowledge of what he said to him in private. >> everybody in the white house is talking about this testimony and thinking about it and knows it's happening on thursday, chris. i mean there's no doubt about that, right? this is a huge political event. that said, you're seeing what you could call the comey counterprogramming move by the white house. the president, they're going to keep him in the words of sean spicer at the press briefing today, very busy. he's got a speech at the faith and freedom conference. he's going to be talking about infrastructure as well, essentially trying to keep up what they're going to call the focus on the agenda. the question is, of course, you still are going to have james comey testifying on capitol hill. so what is the white house going to do behind the scenes? order to provide some kind of crisis management to conin any potential fallout from testim

. >> hallie jackson is at the white house. hallie, what is the white house saying? >> reporter: we're looking to the president at the rose garden in just under an hour. i have to run in there and get all set up and we'll talk to you on the hour. this is something where you talked about a lot of it, the facts internally at the white house, those pressing the president to stay in. obviously the voices of steve bannon, epa administrator, are urging him to stay in. that's where we're leaning at this point. it's never really final until it comes out of the president's mouth himself, and this is not necessarily a black and white decision. there could be room for caveats, room for shades of gray. i was just said inside a couple minutes ago. i expect to see a lot of people in the rose garden and i would note the president is not expected to take questions in this setting. it doesn't mean he won't get them shouted at him, but at least at this point it is not going to be a formal news conference. >> all right, hallie, i'll let you run over there. thank you very much. nbc's ha

hallie jackson, kasie hunt, david knack what murrah thank you. joining me today is brett stevens, msnbc contributor. >> congratulations. >> so lucky to have you. >> elise jordan. and princeton university professor, just as happy to have you. joining me from washington, my friend, chief national correspondent for "the new york times" mark liebovitz. you have to join us at the table next time. >> i probably will. >> we'll call you and book you a flight as soon as this show ends. >> i'm ready. >> what do you do with the president who does not understand the conservative policy making impulses of a republican president when it comes to crafting legislation? i mean, what is mitch mcconnell supposed to do now? >> i think if i were in his shoes, i'd want the president to go away. talk about infrastructure. >> go where? >> anything else. golf. tweet. whatever. just stay away from health care. and i actually would want this bill to fail. i think whoever owns health care as a party is going to suffer for it. and people forget yes, obama was re-elected afte

. >> hallie, i apologize. i think the sound was a little off.e hearing from the officials is there's no operational impact. when you look at the long term challenges that are going to take place in syria after the collapse of isis, it's focus of secretary mattis to have hand entire arab coalition working together. the rift calls into question a lot of the whole entire pan arab approach. what secretary mattis as well as president trump was talking about when those guys were there a couple of weeks ago. >> that's exactly right. that iranian national security official was saying this morning if differences between saudi arabia and qatar are a result of donald trump's vision to the region. what's the connection? >> the connection is the policies that donald trump favored. the united air of emirates and saudi arabia are pushing the u.s. to consider the muslim brotherhood in egypt as a terrorist organization. they want to see the united states take a tougher position on iran. when president trump visited the region, you heard that theme constantly com

hallie, let's start with this lawsuit that's been filed, what do we know about that? >> reporter: you ran through the nuts and bullets, ali, the idea that this group is suing, essentially these attorneys general, the president for profiting, getting rich they say, from payments by foreign governments, which violates the constitution's emoluments clause, a word that everybody has learned over the last few months. we learned from white house press secretary sean spicer 90 minutes or so ago here at the white house, this idea, as spicer said, that this is a politically motivated move. he pointed to both attorneys general, democrats both. and essentially made the argument that this is motivated by nothing more than pure politics. i want you to listen to what he had to say and then we can talk about it. >> the president's interests as previously discussed do not violate the emoluments clause for reasons at length the department of justice filing enumerates in their friday night filing with respect to the crew lawsuit. this was another iteration of the filing by that group,

hallie was asking you about russia and the interference and i just wanted to ask you because you were just commenting that the president does believe russia is behind the interference last -- in the election, that he is concerned, that the administration is taking steps, so to follow up on her question and steve's question, is it the president's desire to speak directly to putin, if he gets that chance, to say that u.s. officials believe that russia poses a risk to the 2018 and 2020 elections and the united states would like russia to be on notice or on warning that the united states disapproves of this. >> if and when there's a meeting, we will have a readout for you. yes, ma'am. >> thank you, sean. there's a play, a rendition of julius cesar in new york city where the character portrayed as president trump gets assassinated. is the president aware of this play and if so, what's his reaction. and also, is the secret service investigating it? >> that's a question for the secret service. you can call cathy over there and ask her. look, i think it's troubling whether it's that or johnny

hallie, thanks very much. good to see you as always, chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. there is senator tammy baldwin, democratic senator from wisconsin. she sits on the senate committee on health, education, labor and pensions. thanks for being here, good to see you again. >> thank you. >> i want to ask you -- looks like somebody is being arrested. we have two people being arrested for protests at the senate. let me ask you ant this this conference about bipartisanship, the idea that lindsey graham says if we don't have a deal by friday between remembers we're going to have to go to democrats. we've heard a number of democrats, including susan collins, say the same thing. are you not participating with republicans because you dislike the deal so much? are they not asking you or allowing you to be part of the process? which of these three is it? >> let's be clear, the people of wisconsin didn't sent me to take away people's health care so long as they're pushing a bill that does that, 22 million

nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has more on what comey is expected to say. >>reporter: less than three weeks after reportedly calling james comey a nut job, president trump sending a more magnanimous message. >> i wish him luck. >> reporter: luck to the fbi director he fired set to testify publicly. he's likely to lay out a pattern of what he believes were inappropriate conversations about the russia investigation according to sources close to him but is not expected to accuse the president of obstruction of justice. the president who's consulting with outside counsel will speak maybe more online, too. >> the president is expected to be tweeting on thursday in response to comey, not to stay quiet during the testimony because he himself wants to be the one driving the process. >> the president is the most effective messenger on his agenda. >> reporter: that agenda seems jammed up now with a capital consumed by comey. >> this one is going to take all the air out of the room for everything else. >> reporter: the white house hoping to start movement on the presiden

nbc news chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: tonight, more than a month after a mystery he made himself, president trump's putting it to rest, revealing he has no tapes of talks with the fbi director he fired. in a carefully phrased tweet, he writes, i did not make and do not have any such recordings. six weeks after implying he might have. quote, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. >> why the game? >> i don't know that there was a game. >> reporter: no games and no regrets, his spokesperson says, about the original tweet, which set off a 41-day stretch unlike any other in a modern presidency. the tweet may 12th, led james comey to give his memos he says to a friend that following monday to share publicly hoping that would trigger a special counsel. it did. may 17th. now, according to a former intelligence official, an investigation into whether the president tried to obstruct justice in his conversations with comey. tapes could have helped prove it or not. >> lordy, i hope th

here's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. >> reporter: one of the most important voices in the president's ear using it publicly for one of the first times today. >> this is technology week here at the white house. >> reporter: jared kushner, low volume but high profile. leading a series of tech sessions with some of the industry's biggest names, the leaders of amazon, apple and google. >> many warned me that the bureaucracy would resist any change that we tried to implement. so far i have found exactly the opposite. >> reporter: it's part of a massive portfolio for the president's son-in-law and top adviser which includes overhauling the federal bureaucracy and mideast peace. for that, kushner will head to jerusalem and ramallah this week to jump-start those negotiations with israelis and palestinians. >> there's a lot of audacity on the part of donald trump in tasking his son-in-law with achieving middle east peace, something that diplomats with decades and decades of experience have come up short in doing. but sometimes in american history the break-throughs are done

>> hallie jackson at the white house, thank you. >>> a second mistrial has been declared in the case of a former cincinnati police officer who was charged with fatally shooting an unarmed motorist in an incident caught on camera. he's now the third former officer to avoid conviction for a deadly shooting in the u.s. within a week's time. nbc's ron mott now with the story. >> do you have a license on you? >> reporter: what some see as a clear case of excessive force, former university of cincinnati police officer ray tensing opening fire on unarmed driver sam dubose has once again confounded an ohio jury. the case ending in a mistrial for the second time as prosecutors argued tensing claimed he was in danger. >> we've got a problem when the justice system doesn't apply equally to everybody. >> state of ohio versus raymond tensing. >> reporter: though tensing was quickly charged with murder in 2015 after a confrontation that began as a minor traffic stop, prosecuting the case has proven far more challenging. >> this is the most asinine act i've ever seen a police officer make. >> repor

hallie jackson has the details. >> reporter: more than a month after a mystery he made himself, presidentrump putting to rest revealing he has no tapes of talks with the fbi director he fired. in a carefully phrased tweet, he writes i did not make and do not have any such recordings. six weeks after implying he might have. quote, james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. >> why the game? >> i don't know that it was a game. >> reporter: no games and no regrets his spokesperson says about the original tweet which sen set off a 41 day stretch unlike any other in a modern presidency. the tweet may 12th led james comey to give his memos he says to a friend that following monday to share publicly hoping that would trigger a special counsel. it did. may 17th. and now according to a former intelligence official, an investigation into whether the president tried to obstruct justice in his conversations with comey. tapes could have helped prove it. or not. >> lordy i hope there are tapes. >> reporter: the president and his team letti

>> hallie jackson in washington, thanks. let's bring in our political director, moderator of "meet the press" chuck todd. chuck, with all the information we heard from that statement today, talk about the questions that will likely drive the comey hearing tomorrow. >> well, look, i think the first question is going to be there are three conversations that comey had one on one with the president that he does not detail in the opening statement, so if that's probably going to be among the first questions, what about the other three encounters, anything of significance there. but look, on the big, i think the drill down that i expect a lot of, the code word satellite associates, that the president himself is at least introducing the idea someone with his campaign may have been doing something he didn't know about. let me tell you something else they will be looking for, lester, and i know we'll talk about this tomorrow when we're together. how do republicans question comey? how many of them look like they are questioning on beh

nbc chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: new questions whether the president's owns words could come back to haunt him as he talks travel ban in the hands of supreme court describing the current version as watered down and politically correct and yes, the president's reiterating it is a travel ban. >> i don't think the president cares what you call it. >> reporter: his administration used to. >> it's not a travel ban, it's a travel pause. >> it's not a travel ban. >> this is not a travel ban. this is a temporary pause. >> we use words like travel ban that misrepresents what it is. >> reporter: why does it matter what it's called? because the president's words can and probably will be used against him in a court of law. other judges in decisions to block the ban already pointed to the president's rhetoric on the campaign trail. even supporters like conservative lawyer george conway, husband of kellyanne, argues these tweets undercut the president. >> does it make their legal position harder but many would say undermines their credibility as well. >> d

hallie jackson at the white house. thank you. >>> president trump today jumped back into the diplomatic crisis surrounding qatar, a key ally in the fight against isis. within about an hour of each other today, the president and his own secretary of state appeared to deliver contradictory messages about the u.s. stance on qatar and the crisis that has left it largely isolated. nbc's andrea mitchell now with more on that. >>> stop teaching people to -- >> reporter: today the president accusing a major u.s. military ally in the war against isis of financing terror. >> the nation of qatar unfortunately has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level. >> reporter: slamming what he called qatar's extreme ideology. but only an hour earlier, mixed signals. his secretary of state urging calm, even calling on qatar's powerful neighbors led by saudi arabia to lift their embargo on qatar. >> we call on the kingdom of saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, bahrain and egypt to ease the blockade against qatar. >> r

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