take a look at the number of ousters, hallie. just to put this into perspective. reince priebus joins a long list of people. ten, high-level people who have already left the trump administration. james comey, mike dubke the former communication director, anthony scaramucci has come in to replace mike dubke. and it raises the stakes for the new chief of staff. as you point out, he's facing a number of challenges, not just in terms of trying to right the ship of the trump administration, but they're facing some real foreign policy challenges, hallie, which i know you'll talk about throughout the hour. north korea's recent provocations and this is a tough task and i think we do have some audio, hopefully, of president trump just a few moments ago just after general kelly was sworn in. let's take a listen. >> we don't have that audio, kristen, but we are working to get it on what is a very busy day in the briefing room. let me talk to you about this. the word of the day, the buzz word so far has been discipline. john kelly will come in and instill discipline. snu chie

i think the president has to engage more, hallie, with the congress.de a hard push on this health care legislation. i personally think the right policy and the right politics is to take a step back, shore up the changes and then really be serious about a comprehensive bipartisan health care. we'll see how it plays out. >> senator grasso out just this morning on twitter urging the president to get out there. don't take august off. he wants to see action. this is a president who didn't mind being on the campaign trail, anna and matt, when he was in front of the supportive crowds and places he did well. while we have been talking about this "washington post"/abc news poll, giving the president a 50% approval rating. that is higher than where he is in other places. flip counties, 44%. these are counties that have voted for president obama and numbers are upside down there. if you're looking at this. where he can stand in trump counties. one is his approval rating is higher than it is nationally. two, that's actually down from november of 2016 from where he

hallie? >> hans, anything from pentagon officials on that aspect of it or too early to say for that? >> you know, in the past the pentagon has been very clear that they do not want to get into and, as well as the state department. this for that negotiation. >> got it. >> what they think is that they need to be able to conduct military operations with their south korean allies and that is not a bargaining chip. >> kristen, hans gave us the overview from the state department and white house overnight we saw the president reacting to this. raising eyebrows with this idea that china will have to do a heavy move. what does that mean? do we know? >> first, let's look at the president's tweet, hallie. north korea just launched another missile. does this guy have anything better to do with his life? hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with this much longer. perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all. we've reached out to multiple white

hallie jackson is standing by. she is in paris. hallie, what can you tell us about the scene?reporter: well, i'm watch this with you. i think back to the other two times the two met. first time, awkward. second time a little less so, last week in germany. we're looking for the body language, how they vibe off each other. we've talked on this program about their policy differences in some areas where they're hoping to find common ground but stylistically, these two men are very different as well. not just, for example, age. president macron is the youngest modern french president. president trump is the oldest elected u.s. president. but also just the way that they govern. macron is a little more aloof, a little more distant. there has been reporting that he modeled himself after jupiter, the king of gods, sort of ruling from a little bit of a distance. president trump is more visceral. he considers himself a populist. he likes to feed off the energy of his sort of crowd of supporters. i will tell you as we are watching and waiting, and i believe that that is the first lady of

hallie jackson is at the g20 summit in hamburg for us this morning. hallie, good morning. a busy morning for the president. what are the takeaways from the day so far? >> reporter: we're already halfway through our day here, dara. we're at the site of where some of these g20 meetings are happening. we have moved from our previous location. the president has had a pretty packed day. let me hit you with the recent highlights. we know that he held an impromptu side bar with other world leaders. he just emerged from a room in which he was seen with prime minister turnbull of australia. he's the prime minister who openly mocked president trump earlier this year. he was seen with theresa may, emmanuel macron of france and some of his key cabinet members like secretary mnuchin, secretary ross, his top economic advisor, gary cohn as well, presumably they were hammering out perhaps some of the details of the communique that will come out at the end of the g20 that all of the nations sign onto. that's just our best guess. he also held a meeting with the leader of singapore. the one

>> hallie jackson starting us off tonight from the white house. hallie, thank you. >>> as all of that plays out, the white house is playing defense amid reports the president's lawyers are targeting special counsel robert mueller and his team, trying to discredit the russia investigators and a report that the president himself has even raised the question of his pardon power. nbc's kristen welker has those details. >> reporter: tonight, the president and his legal team pushing back against allegations he's trying to discredit special counsel robert mueller. one of the president's attorneys calling reports that his legal team is scouring the background of mueller's investigators to find conflicts of interest nonsense, adding they are cooperating. >> the president has absolutely nothing to do with any of the allegations that are being made. >> reporter: u.s. officials familiar with the investigation say mueller is gathering relevant documents including financial records and business dealings of those close to the trump campaign. earlier this week mr

. >> just to set the scene here, hallie. this has to do with a meeting that took place two weeks after then candidate trump clinched the nomination. and it was his son, don jr., jared kushner, his son-in-law, paul manafort campaign manager at the time who met with the russian lawyer with suspected links to the kremlin. now, as you point out what has become so notable is the fact that don jr.'s reasons for having this meeting have shifted over time. first, he said that he met with her to discuss adoptions. of course, that came after putin controversially suspended adoptions to the u.s. and then, of course, late yesterday changed his story dramatically. saying that, in fact, he was promised some dirt on hillary clinton. as you have underscored, he's tweeting this morning saying, look, no inconsistencies. i've merely added to the narrative. in a statement over the weekend, he also said that the lawyer was vague and ambiguous and that she had no meaningful information about hillary clinton. that's a point that was underscored by

hallie jackson joins us for more on trump's day ahead. >> reporter: good morning.president trump is back home here at the white house after his visit over the holiday weekend to bed minister. it's here that he will be watching the fireworks in washington from the truman balcony. it comes ahead of his second international trip. this one is really critical. even russian officials at the highest levels acknowledge the first face to face between president trump and president vladimir putin will be crucial, and is highly anticipated. we believe that is going to happen on the sidelines of the g-20 summit in sermny later this week. it's an open question as to whether or how the president might bring up russian interference in the election. we know from the russia side that on their agenda are talks about syria, ukraine, the fight against isis, and those diplomatic compounds that the united states shut down as punishment for moscow's mettling in 2016. a top white house officials tells reporters that the president will talk about whatever he wants to talk about. we expect t

i'll go with you, hallie. you've been following the president's busy day of the g20 meetings and all the sitdowns with all the world leaders. big headlines out of those meetings today are what? >> reporter: let me run through a couple of them for you, alex. windy hamburg, the president as you noted just getting ready to leave and head back to the united states. we expect to hear more about how that meeting went, the many meetings he held today later today. let me run through a couple of highlights. we heard from the president directly this morning that his meeting yesterday with russian president vladimir putin was in his words tremendous. that is something he said at one of these so-called pool sprays as he met with about a half dozen international leaders. another headline is the division that is continuing to deepen here internationally when it comes to the united states' stance on climate change versus frankly the rest of the developed world, the rest of these g20 nations. the communique has come out. this

hallie jackson is on set. garrett haake is following the story from capitol hill where things are developing. hallie, we just finished one of those white house briefings, off camera, and sarah huckabee sanders, i think every question was about this or some relation to it, if not almost all of them, and she kept saying i don't know how many times i'm going to have to repeat myself but sdleehe directed all questi to donald trump jr.'s lawyer. >> reporter: correct. to outside counsel for donald trump jr. and for the president as well. notably, she read a statement from president trump because what has been noted today is that for all the tweeting president trump has been doing, he hasn't been tweeting about this. hasn't been tweeting about his kid. sarah huckabee sanders read a statement from the president. i want to play it. we will get into the details. >> i have a quick statement that i will read from the president. my son is a high quality person and i applaud his transparency. and beyond that, i'm going to h

hallie, these comments by the president at this news conference about the donald trump jr. meeting with the russians and also the suggestion that the russian lawyer wouldn't have been in the u.s. without lynch aprooufg hervey is a, we have to check on that, but the fact is no concession of the fact that this is a foreign -- >> zero. >> -- country adversarial country. >> full-throated defense of his son, andrea. we've seen that in the last 24 hours. president trump saying this on camera, very explicitly, that there was nothing wrong with that meeting, defending his son to about the full extent that he could saying that he believes a lot of people would have take than meeting. let's just be clear on this. political operatives on both sides of the aisle have repeatedly said, yes, people do opposition research, people take meetings about oppo. what tay don't do is take meetings about oppo from foreign nationals. that is what makes this meeting different and even members of congress will say highly ala alarming as you have heard on capitol hill. that's sort of one part of this p

good morning, hallie. >> reporter: good morning to you. all the action is happening just down pennsylvania avenue from where we are because as you know republican leadership is promising this vote to try to start debate on a health care bill, but at this point it's not clear what that bill look like or whether there is enough support. that is where these battle lines are getting drawn right now. you have some republican senators i'm thinking rand paul who says he's a no unless it repeals it now and delays a replacement plan. but a lot of other senators feel differently. and that is going to be the challenge for mitch mcconnell today. it's a real test of his leadership to see whether he moves forward. president trump is using the power of his bully pulpit to issue this warning shot even to his own party trying to get republicans to get on board here. he wants repeal and replace and he wants to get it done. remember, this is a president who six months into his administration is really looking for some kind of legislative win over on capitol

give us the reality. >> yeah, hallie, on those fronts and repealing obamacare.e in the united states senate right now, but barely. and getting that 50 votes right now certainly remains to be seen. when it comes to the border wall, that is going to be decided during the appropriations process for congress and notably there are republicans including republicans from texas who are opposed to that. and then on the travel ban, that is in the hands of the united states supreme court. and we're going to end up finding that out in the next year or so. >> anything the president can check off the list? >> i think we're all looking to see on health care? again, i think it is notable that they're not giving up and they're not quitting. the pathway to 50 votes don't seem to be there and next week will decide on whether they do it or start checking that off or if i give that a big fat x. >> if you go to what he has done, though, to what promises he has completed and there are some things that he said he was going to do, of regulations. that is something you hear from the whit

hallie's point about the media is important. if you look at breitbart news, very prominent in trump-space. used to be run by steve bannon, now the white house chief strategist. they've started siding with sessions. the main headlines today on their website have been anti-trump. >> thank you for spending time with us on this very busy day. >>> matt miller. former chief spokesman and now an nbc analyst. what is jeff sessions to do? now that he has been publicly undermined by the president. if he survives it seems like he is a super virus. like he's almost immune from further attacks. >> there is an opportunity for jeff sessions here. whether you agree with his policies or not, and i disagree with most of them -- one thing he preached as a member of the senate judiciary committee for years is that senior justice department officials needed to be independent from the president. honestly he kind of failed that test for himself when he signed off on the comey firing. now, with the pressure trump is putting on him, he could come out, m

as hallie said when donald trump jr. went on television and said he was giving all the information he had about this meeting. then, secondly, hallie said it was muddy. what isn't muddy is the language in those e-mails from rod goldstone where he was representing the family was offering derogatory information about hillary clinton through this lawyer. they tell an entirely different story. they say they didn't transmit derogatory information. that's the big question, that's muddy. the e-mails aren't muddy. there's no doubt they're taking a hard look at all the circumstances surrounding the meeting. >> the fact is this lobbyist, who has these other ties was very involved in the russian sanction issues, i mean, no matter what else he's done. this was a very big issue for vladmir putin. and still is, you've got controversy on the hill where the senate, by an overwhelming majority, 97 or 98 to 2 passed new russian sanctions and the white house is pushing back in the house. and that is a current issue right now on capitol hill

hallie sn hallie? >> kristen, thank you. >>> i want to bring in the folks sticking with us for the hour and one-time lawyer for president george w. bush, thomas dupree and josh barrow thomas. let me start with you. normally we're on the same set. walk me through the interview that keir laid out with the lawyer linked to the kremlin though she says yet no connections to the russian government in this interview. what is your take away from that? >> hallie, my take away is this just underscores that we are in the shadowy world of espionage. i think it is going to be very difficult for anyone to pinpoint exactly what led to this meeting and then exactly what happened during this meeting. we've gotten conflicting stories from the participants in the meeting. some stories have evolved over time and the lesson here is that this is a meeting that donald jr. should have stayed away from. nothing good is going to happen when you meet with russian, potential russian operatives. >> so, what is more concerning to y

this has been a morning of fast-moving developments. >> yeah, hallie.ast few minutes, we got this statement from shellie saying she would be a no on this repeal only plan. i just spoke to susan collins coming into a hearing here a few minutes before that and she confirms she remains a no on doing the repeal only plan. just the back of the napkin math here, unless john mccain is back here on capitol hill, they don't have the votes. republicans don't have the votes to pass this repeal only plan. they have the two noes and with mccain back at home in arizona recuperating, they're not there yet. we have heard from a lot of skeptical republicans on the hill today. they did not expect this thing to fall apart, at least not in the manner it did last night. everyone from people like rob portman to sort of more traditional conservatives, allies of mitch mcconnell like mike rounds of south dakota. everyone saying this is not ideal. this is not what we were hoping for and they're going to need to review it and they want to hear from mcconnell. this will continue t

we start tonight with our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. thank you guys very much. >> reporter: in a stunning staff shuffle tonight, a familiar face stepping down and a new one stepping in. >> what about your staff shake-up today? >> make america great again. >> reporter: former campaign adviser anthony scaramucci, the new communications director, with sean spicer long rumored to be on thin ice, resigning as press secretary. all smiles today after a dramatic 24-hour battle behind closed doors. multiple sources familiar with the fight tell nbc news reince priebus initially resisted the move. the chief of staff now tells nbc he's behind scaramucci 100% with spicer telling the ap the president could benefit from a clean slate. spicer's short tenure started with a splash. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period. >> reporter: often seeming to relish rumbling with reporters. >> quote, unquote, fake news. >> reporter: infamously spoofed on on fire. >> reporter: this shake-up, the sixth just six months into this you

our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: today, the retired general reorganizing his ranks, with new chief of staff john kelly pushing out controversial communications director anthony to sources familiar with the move. it comes not long after scaramucci, originally praised by the president, targeted white house staff with a profanity-laced rant in "the new yorker," one so vulgar it's not repeatable here. >> the president certainly felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position, and he didn't want to burden general kelly also with that line of succession. >> reporter: the white house publicly says scaramucci, spotted in the oval office just this morning, wanted kelly to have a clean slate. privately, it's a clear message to staff. there's a new chief in town. embraced. >> we just swore in general kelly. he will do a spectacular job. >> reporter: and empowered. >> general kelly will go down in terms of the position of chief of staff one of the great ever. >> reporter: for the west wing, a new era with a new manager but ul

>> they did, hallie. a lot of trump supporters in this flip county and health care was on the top of their mind. along the water here, you see a lot of small businesses and we spoke to a trump supporter who is also a small business owner and he said, listen. obamacare has become a burden for small businesses here in st. petersburg, florida. we also spoke to a local woman who is a trump supporter and she said she does not think that health care should be a right and she wants a straight up repeal. and then, finally, a lot of the trump supporters we spoke to, they blame congress and senate republicans for the health care debacle. let's listen to one of them. >> senate republicans as well as the democrats need to get together and work out a co compromise. neither plan is great. there needs to be a compromise. >> so, overall, hallie. not only trump supporters in this county but also the neighboring county of hur mando. mostly all of them. they want republicans to support the president. hallie? >> live for us

hallie?da, thank you. >>> i'm joined by two reporters on the front lines of o.j. simpson's trial. journalist and syndicated columnist diane dimond. cynthia, you were in the courtroom every single day of o.j. simpson's murder trial and covered it for hard copy. give me your expert perspectives here on what you expect to see today. >> well, i think that onc.j. simpson will be approved for parole. of course, i also thought he was going to be convicted for murder in 1995. you can take my prediction for what it's worth. but for all the reasons catie outlined, it is highly likely he will be released october 1st. >> isn't that ironic we would look at him as a sympathetic character at this point, deserving to get out of prison? but he will have served in october his nine years, minimum nine years on his 33-year sentence. i really do think they're going to parole him today in pretty quick fashion. >> he's 70 years old as well. that will play into it as well. >> carl douglas, as you know, on that '95 d

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thank you, hallie. peter baker on the phone. i just want to drill down on the fact that you were in the oval office, as i understand it, that interview could have gone on even longer if the president -- the president wanted to. hope hicks was in there. no white house transcript. and it went from topic to topic. he obviously was really fired up on the subject of robert mueller. >> no question about it. this is on his mind. once we did, he went off, and he could have very easily said that's an investigation, i'm not going to comment on it. that's what other presidents have done in situations like that. as you know. but that's not -- this president's style. his style is to say what he thinks. now, we asked repeatedly what would be a condition under which he might fire mr. mueller. he never gave a direct answer on that. he was very careful about that. but he left very clear the implication that was on the table, should he decide that special counsel has gone too far. >> here with me now are still adam schiff and mike mccaul. congres

hallie jackson, wonderful to see you in person. kaci hunt, let's talk about the investigations on capitol hill. what is this latest revelation going to do with those? >> well, katy, i think that the central issue for the investigators that has come out of the course of the last 24, 48 hours is the changing story out of the white house. you did a nice job of walking through what that means, but i also want to point you to something that mark warner said earlier today. he told reporters, listen, this excuse of naivete, of rookie attitudes, lying is not a rookie mistake. that's a pretty serious charge to hear from the vice chairman of the senate intelligence committee. the reality is they have been very careful about being bipartisan. members on both sides have been very careful to say look, we trust richard bush, the republican chairman, we trust mark warner. this i think has been a display of bad faith that has undermined whatever case the white house was going to make to these committe committees. their job is going to be harder. a

we have hallie jackson there, we are waiting for that.the meantime, there is this intensity, what's going on in the floor of the senate. let me go back to garek. set the stage for where we are now, what's the time line, because we still have two senators who have yet to vote, right? >> reporter: that's right, we have two republican senators who have yet to vote and all of the democrats. the democrats are going to sit on their hands here and wait for the republicans to finish voting. all the democrats are in the chamber. the two republicans who were missing, this is fascinating the dynamic we have here. we have john mccain on the way, we expect he will vote for a motion to proceed. remember in the last iteration, he said he had serious concerns. amendments that he wanted included, that hadn't yet done so. we have john mccain on one hadn't and the other vote we're waiting for is ron johnson, the senator from wisconsin, just reelected last year conservative, businessman, thought to be close to donald trump he was one of the four conservative

. >> the president was answering a question from our own hallie jackson. watch what happens when hallie attempts to ask him further in the question. >> thank you very much. thank you very much. you must go. thank you very much. >> can i ask the president. preside president. >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> thank you, everybody, very much. >> all right, kind of jaw dropping to watch that. joining us with more is peter alexander. good morning. >> reporter: good day to you here from warsaw. the president expected to speak to a large crowd. earlier today, during a news conference the president said that he was prepared to confront very strongly north korea in the wake of that rogue regime's recent test launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. the president says he's weighing several options. describing this a global threat. the president as we noted making though remarks to a large crowd of poles. thousands of people in this crowd, read make poland great again. similar to president trump's ideology. the president calling on western civilization t

but as we heard from hallie jackson on the ground. you have the leaders focused on three main things. immigration, free trade and climate change. those are not exactly areas of agreement with most of those countries and donald trump. so, the question is, can donald trump show these leaders that there's other places that they can work on? can he start focusing the issue on security more than anything else? that's what he's going to have to do. because he's still the president of the united states. they may not trust him. they may feel he's unreliable. but you cannot disz the president of the united states. >> he is still aggravating the other members on the same issues that there are disagreement. tweeting about china and trade and last week he made comments about how he's going to get tougher with south korea. so the very issues in which there is disagreement, he is highlighting rather. >> they can't discount the president of the united states. taking donald trump's personality out of it. it's still the president of the united states

we actually want to go to the exchange between the president and hallie. and then we'll talk. >> well, i think it was russia and i think it could have been other people in other countries. could have been a lot of people interfered. i said it very simply, it could very well have been russia, but i think it could well have been other countries and i won't be specific. but i think a lot of people interfere. i think it's been happening for a long time. it's been happening for many, many years. the thing i have to mention is that barack obama when he was president found out about this in terms of if it were russia, found out about it in august. now, the election was in november. that is a lot of time. he did nothing about it. why did he do nothing about it? he was told it was russia by the cia as i understand it. it was well reported. and he did nothing about it. they say he choked. well, i don't think he choked. i think what happened is he thought hillary clinton was going to win the election and he said let's not do anything about it. had he thought the othe

>> you know, hallie, i can't speak to that.on't know what paul manafort did or didn't do or other individuals. but what i can tell you with the utmost certainty is this. jared kushner has been completely transparent. he has provided information, which he was not required to provide. he has filled out his sf-86 form and all his contacts over 100 different contacts with foreign leaders were informed on that document. and, moreover, right, he has volunteered to cooperate in any investigation to prove beyond any doubt whatsoever no coordination, collaboration or cooperation between the trump campaign and anyone involved with russia. >> he's talking about that in this statement that we know he is going to be giving to members of congress and basically using this as an excuse. he was essentially overwhelmed and didn't know better in some of these instances. does that excuse hold water? is that good enough? >> when he was asked to attend a meeting and particularly a meeting that was call under to question here from his brother-in-law.

savannah. >> hallie jackson traveling with the president. thank you. >>> turning back home now to a new york police officer and mother of three killed in the line of duty. investigators say she was assassinated in an overnight ambush. tonight they're trying to determine whether the gunman, who was killed near the scene, had a grudge against the badge. nbc's ron allen now with details. >> reporter: an unprovoked random assassination. >> shots fired, shots fired! >> reporter: nypd officer miosotis familia shot in the head at point blank range through the window of a marked mobile command center. >> my partner's shot, my partner's shot! >> reporter: the desperate fight to save her life ending some three hours later. the gunman, alexander bonds, 34, armed with a stolen weapon, chased down and shot dead by responding officers about a block away. a twice convicted felon out on parole. senior nypd officials tell nbc news they're investigating whether bond is the man in these videos making anti-police statements posted on a facebook page believed to

russian president vladamir putin tells hallie jackson much more.sident trump leaving the g 20 summit that at times felt more like 19 on one. the u.s., mostly on its own, on trade, and climate. but it relationship raising the most questions. president vladamir putin, publicly pushing his own account of his talk with president trump. as a senior administration official tells nbc news, the president pushed putin on moscow's meddling in the 2017 election. >> far as i could. i answered. he noted. agreed. you have to ask him. >> kier simmons asking for a translator about putin's denials. >> he asked me questions. i answered. i clarified. and i think that he was satisfied with my answers. >> top white house officials today, declining to dispute russia's characterization of the conversation, saying the president would be happy to make a statement himself. but he did not in germany. skipping the customary overseas news conference. instead saying this. >> rex and i had a tremendous meeting yesterday. with president putin. >> everybody trying t talk is one th

thank you, hallie, garrett. we have a super sized panel. editor at large at the weekly standard, bill kristol. hugh hewitt. host of saturday mornings on msnbc. maria teresa kumar, msnbc contributor. if we don't have a plan, we don't know what they're going to vote on and they don't have a plan that has enough votes, what are they doing? >> well, i think they're going to get to the bare minimum that they can agree 50 votes on, that will include repeal of the individual mandate. probably the back signing of the device tax, and whether -- that seemed to bring back lisa murkowski to the fold of 51. >> but then the conservatives because of the cost. >> i don't know that you will. getting rid of the individual mandate, that will bring in 51. i defer to other people. i believe something will come out of the senate. only alarm bell, john mccain on the floor saying he needed that what doug dues ee, respected across republican circles, what does doug ducey want for john mccain's vote. we have to weight and see. >> the president is banking on the fact

>> hallie jackson at the white house, thank you. >>> the dog days of summer have arrived with nearly 80 million people today under heat advisories or excessive heat warnings in the northeast, midwest, plains and south. many enduring a heat index over 100 degrees. heat also a big factor in the west where wildfire has exploded to over 70,000 acres near yosemite national park. the flames have destroyed dozens of structures and forced thousands to evacuate. >>> still ahead as we continue here tonight, texting scam warning. what you need to know about the growing way thieves are targeting you through your mobile phone. >>> also, take a thrilling ride through the sky on the newest attraction high above one of the world's great cities. >>> back now with an alert about a growing cyberscam tactic. the fbi says americans lost $1.3 billion to cybercrime last year alone. criminals have known we've grown suspicious of emails so now they're increasingly targeting victims with scams that go straight to your text messages. nbc news business correspondent jo ling kent explains what you should watch o

>> all right, hallie, thanks. >>> let's drill down a bit now. those new numbers reverberate this evening, 10 million americans who receive their coverage through obamacare are essentially in limbo. if congress isn't going to replace or even repeal obamacare, what happens next? and what could be done to improve it? nbc's tom costello has that report. >> reporter: in west virginia, ron and marie logan both have pre-existing conditions and rely on the affordable care act, but in four years their premiums have skyrocketed from $1,000 to $1,800 a month plus a $14,500 deductible. >> that means that before the insurance pays anything, we are out of pocket for almost $30,000. >> reporter: it's a familiar story. this year obamacare premiums rose 20% on average. however, the vast majority of customers received subsidies to offset the increase. >> obamacare isn't failing. it's failed. >> reporter: not exactly. the independent kaiser family foundation reports in 2017 insurers are regaining profitability and there is no sign of market collapse. >> it seems t

nbc's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson now with the back and forth. >> reporter: on the world stage, the president's world view crystalizing with this ominous warning -- >> the fundamental question of our time is whether the west has the will to survive. >> reporter: that nationalistic speech warmly received in warsaw, is part of an overseas trip that so far has become a tale of two trumps. on one hand, the president talking tough on russia. >> we urge russia to cease its destabilizing activities in ukraine. >> reporter: on the other, declining to say for sure moscow meddled with our election even in the face of overwhelming consensus from the u.s. intelligence community. will you once and for all, yes or no, definitively say that russia interfered in the 2016 election? >> well, i think it was russia, and i think it could have been other people in other countries. >> reporter: that caveat creating the kremlin's opening to deflect blame just one day before that critical first face-to-face between presidents trump and putin. your intelligence agencies have been far more de

hallie jackson, nbc news, warren, michigan. >>> tonight o.j. simpson is back in the news nearly a quarter century after the trial and the courtroom verdict that gripped the nation. all eyes will be on simpson in a courtroom again. this time to see if he'd be set free after the robbery case that landed him behind bars. nbc's joe fryer has details. >> reporter: for the first time in four years, the public will get to see o.j. simpson when his parole hearing is broadcast live this thursday. another must-see tv moment for the former football star, who brought the country to a halt with his infamous bronco chase, and then again with the not guilty verdict during his murder trial. now age 70, simpson has served nearly nine years for the robbery of two sports memorabilia dealers at a las vegas hotel. >> i'm sorry for what has happened. >> reporter: like he did in 2013, simpson will tell commissioners thursday why he thinks he should get parole. >> i gave them my word that i would try to be or would be the best prisoner they've ever had here. and i thi

>> hallie jackson on the white house north lawn tonight. thank you. >>> on the jersey shore today governor chris christie is facing an unwanted moment in the sun. tonight a holiday storm is swirling around the governor who first orders state beaches closed because of a budget fight, then got caught on camera by a newspaper relaxing on one of those closed beaches. the backlash has been swift and furious, and we get new details tonight from nbc's morgan radford. >> i don't have any money. >> reporter: new jersey governor chris christie causing fireworks of a different kind this holiday. >> just not right. it's not fair. >> reporter: christie was captured on camera taking his family to the beach sunday, but they were the only ones there. thanks to a budget standoff, hundreds of would-be beach goers were turned away by police because state parks and beaches were shut down. >> he's allowed to have fun. not me, right? >> reporter: the governor stayed at a residence provided by the state. a decision he's defending. >> that's the way it goes. run f

we begin with hallie jackson in hamburg. >> reporter: heading from hamburg home, president trump leaving a g20 summit that, at times, felt more like 19 on 1. the u.s., mostly on its own on trade and climate. but it's the russia relationship now raising the most questions. president vladimir putin publicly pushing his own account of his talk with president trump as a senior administration official tells nbc news the president pressed putin for 40 minutes on moscow's meddling in the 2016 election. >> as far as i could, i answered these questions. he noted them and agreed, but you have to ask him how he really felt about it. >> reporter: nbc's keir simmons asking through a translator about putin's denials. >> when you said you didn't intervene in the u.s. election, what did he say? >> he asked me questions. i answered. i clarified. and i think that he was satisfied with my answers. >> reporter: top white house officials today declining to dispute russia's characterization of the conversation saying the president would be happy to make a statement himself, but he did not in germany. skipping

nbc's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson brings us up to speed. >> reporter: president trump not seen but heard from his new jersey home making calls and making waves with three international hot spots making headlines. in russia, europe and north korea. the president's first face to face meeting with vladimir putin set for the sidelines of the g-20 summit this week. now today, new tough talk from the kremlin, a warning it's running out of patience with the diplomat diplomatic compounds the u.s. shut down as punishment for moscow's meddling in our election, an open question as to whether and how president trump will bring that up in his talk with putin. the president's already laying groundwork for conversations with france and germany on the phone with their leaders, chancellor angela merkel acknowledging those discussions won't be easy, given u.s. positions on trade and climate. and the president also calling japan and china this holiday weekend to focus on north korea. the u.s. signaling it will get tougher on pyongyang, strongly suggesting beijing do the same. but preside

. >> nbc news hallie jackson is traveling with the president and has this report from warsaw. >> reporter: with a few final words before leaving washington, president trump predicting were we're going to do very well. stepping on to his plane, optimistic, stepping off it into the shadow of russia. in poland, the president's first stop, the threat from moscow looms. decades after the cold war as w warsaw looks for commitment from president trump. >> tends to be very, very close connection. what happens in poland only the pregame to what everyone will be in germany at the g20 summit, the first face to face between president trump and vladimir putin. >> right now we're not getting along with russia at all. we may be at an all-time low. >> reporter: on the agenda for russia, talks about syria, ukraine, and the fight against isis. the president's agenda, a little looser, with now even republicans calling on him to confront putin about russia's 2016 election interference. >> he is going to try to press president trump to say, we, the two of us, are allies, fighting for the interests of our two

we have the very latest tonight from chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. >> reporter: president trump not seen but heard today from his new jersey home making calls and making waves with three international hot spots making in russia, europe and north korea. the president's first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin set for the sidelines of the g-20 summit this week. now, today, new tough talk from the kremlin, a warning it's running out of patience with the diplomatic compounds the u.s. shut down as punishment for moscow's meddling in our election. an open question as to whether and how president trump will bring that up in his talk with putin. the president's already laying groundwork for conversations with france and germany. on the phone with their leaders today, chancellor angela merkel acknowledging those discussions won't be easy given u.s. positions on trade and climate. and the president also calling japan and china this holiday weekend to focus on north korea. the u.s. signaling it will get tougher on pyongyang, strongly suggesting beijing do the same. but presiden

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