hallie? there's so much to talk about today. right, the iq test. president trump essentially serving up some increased tensions with his secretary of state ahead of their lunch today, which will be tracked very closely. we wish we could be flies on the wall, of course. but he said this to "forbes" magazine in relation to news reports we broke that secretary tillerson referred to him as a moron over the summer. take a look at the quote. he said, i think it is fake news, but if he did that, guess we'll have to compare iq tests. and i can tell you who is going to win. that is a striking escalation of the tensions, hallie, between those two. and it raises questions about whether they can work together, about how tenable this situation really is. and it comes as the president is gauged in another face-off with senator bob corker, the chairman of the powerful senate foreign relations committee. bob corker telling "the new york times" he thinks some of the president's provocations could be leading t

>> no, i don't think it is dead, hallie. i think it is important and i have no belief this is dead in any way. >> okay. mark short, thank you. >> thank you for having me on the show. >> we'll have you back soon. thank you. >>> we also want to talk coming up after the break about a new report from the wall street journal revealing that paul manafort is facing another investigation, this time from the manhattan u.s. attorney's office. up next, we'll tell you what they are reportedly looking into and how it is connected to bob mueller's russia investigation. ♪ ♪ everyone deserves attention, whether you've saved a lot or just a little. at pnc investments, we believe you're more than just a number. so we provide personal financial advice for every retirement investor. (avo) but you also have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke. non-insulin victoza® lowers a1c, and now reduces cardiovascular risk. victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill. (avo) and for people with type 2 diabetes treating car

but, hallie, a major problem remains.12% or so of the island has power at this point. and not even a third of cell phone towers are working so as the aid is being distributed it is slowly trickling to other parts of the island. san juan is starting to pick itself back up but as the governor says, power is expected to be out for months. >> gabe gutierrez on the ground there in san juan. i want to bring in eli and sarah. in the last couple of minutes we have learned that the governor of puerto rico sent a letter to congress asking for more money. about $4 billion for different agencies saying that unless extraordinary measures happen that the humanitarian crisis will deepen. congress has given i think $29 billion disaster relief package for hurricanes harvey, maria, will they authorize more? >> i don't think there's resistance in congress to disaster assistance when the governor on the ground encountering the facts of what's going on every day is making that request. so clearly, i think that, you know, i can't imagine there

hallie, good to be with you.anding that we will not have the democratic party to say donald trump is that. everyone knows that trump and pence are bad. we are clear of telling them why we are good and convey the new dnc. >> but do you think, i'm sorry, but do you think you have been successful at that? what we heard over and over from the voters in the piece is we get the resistance message, but we're not getting what you're talking about, the proactive part of the message? >> the proactive part is happening on the ground across the country right now. you look at the special election victories we're having in oklahoma where we were able to pick up three special election seats that happened there. you look at in iowa, three election victories that happened there as well. you look at local race happening in racine tomorrow. so it's focusing from the statehouse to the white house and the school board to the city from city council to congress. so saying, we are going to fight for a better deal. a better do el to crea

hallie? >> kerry sanders, thank you. >>> tropical storm nate is making its way to alabama now where there are real concerns that the storm surge could flood homes and cars. nbc's kristen dahlgren is in mobile with more on that. hi, kristen. >> reporter: hey there, hallie. we can see water street in downtown mobile with an appropriate name. a six foot storm surge came in. the good news is, the water is receding. people tried to drive through this and got stuck. two families had to be rescued closer to dolphin island. 60,000 people remain without power in alabama. power crews going to be getting out there at first light. the good news, the water at least here appears to be rece recedi receding, hallie. >> kristen, thank you. >>> where is nate headed next? dave price is here for dylan. >> good news. the storm has lessened in strength significantly. center of circulation now just sitting over alabama but still pulling up plenty of moisture from the gulf and packing a punch. so what are the stats?

hallie, that doesn't mean you can't go to congress and ask for more funds. strong indications they will go to congress and this is part of an overall political discussion, about funding more. back in march the president inpaneled this group and chris christie was on that group. let's listen to what matt lauer and chris christie had to say about the president's intentions. >> do you think he'll follow through on that promise? >> i do. >> what would you say to him to do it sooner than later? >> i already said it to him. >> what is his response? >> he's ready. >> so, the declaration that we did get from the president does allow certain access to telemedicines and does allow some authorities to change, but this isn't the big national emergency the president claimed and, again, this is only 90 days. it needs to be renewed and can be renewed and this is only a 90-day timeline that we're talking about here. hallie. >> hans, thank you very much. >>> i want to pull up the graphic that ticks through some of what this public health emergency will do. including treatmen

this is, i think, consistent, hallie, with what is happening here. lots of data points that don't necessarily answer the question of why. but one of the big questions has been, what was going on in stephen paddock's life that might have pushed him in this direction of wanting to become violent? were there physical problems? was there a mental issue? now, we know that there were some mental health issues. we know that he was taking the anti-anxiety medication valium, although millions of americans do that, but what we are told is that marilou danley told the las vegas police and the fbi after being questioned from the philippines that sometimes he would lie in bed at night and cry out in agony, that he would sometimes cry out, oh, my god! and nonetheless, they say, they haven't found anything that they think was a serious enough issue that would push him into becoming a mass murderer. but this whole question about his physical or mental health is a very active part of the investigation. and they specifically want to know, did something happen a year a

>> reporter: well, hallie, i made that journey in two minutes. it's a short walk.ve a half dozen cameras here as does every other news organization in the western hemisphere. watching all the different entrances here. and nobody that i can find has seen that muddied-up dodge dur a durango leave the fbi office. the local district is across the street, those accused of crimes locally is that way, and a couple government buildings are right here in one area. why this matters is there are lots of ways that the government could take someone into this building and have them be seen. if they wanted to make a big scene out of bringing paul manafort into the building, there are plenty of cameras and doors to do that. there are also plenty of ways to do without being seen. there are garages to this building and garages to nearby buildings that would make it pretty easily to get somebody into this building. and i sort of feed this into the conversation that you have been having more broadly. because if you area prosecutor and trying to get somebody to work with you with a who

i'm hallie jackson in for andrea mitchell today with that story here in washington. secretary of state rex tillerson pushing back on that reporting from nbc news that the vice president essentially gave him a pep talk as tillerson was considering perhaps leaving the trump administration. tillerson not answering directly, as you just heard, on whether or not he did call president trump a moron as multiple sources have told msnbc. nbc news white house correspondent kristen welker and nbc national political reporter carol lee in new york. carol, let's start with you. you and i have had a busy 90 minutes as the secretary of state came out and pushed back in what was really a remarkable i impromptu news conference. >> yeah, it was. despite everything the secretary said, he actually didn't knock down our story. our story does not say that mike pence, the vice president, tried to convince rex tillerson to stay. it's very clear that mike pence's role in all of this has been to buck up the secretary, to give him a pep talk, to have conversations with him about how he might be

hallie. >> hans nichols at the pentagon. thank you. >>> i want to bring in our panel for the next 60 minutes, white house reporter for the "washington post" jenna jackson and nick johnston. let's talk about what the administration has been saying about options in north korea picking up where hans left off. listen. >> they will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. >> i'm perfectly happy kicking this over to general mattis because he has plenty of military options. >> you have got to be ready to ensure that we have military options that our president can employ if needed. >> 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. >> that is so much tough talk, right, but as hans, as richard point out there are not a lot of good options here. where is the red line for the president when it comes to north korea? >> well, they're waiting to see something actually happen. >> right. >> and they're being care

and hallie jackson as well. moving on, confirmed report of how -- defend against cyber attacks after a national security agency contractor placed that information on his home computer. such a breach could enable russia to evade nsa surveillance and infiltrate u.s. networks more easily. with me one of the "the wall street journal" reporters who broke this story. he joins me along with nbc's ken delanian. gordon, talk to me about the gravity of this hack and what it means for not only 2016 but for the future. >> yeah. it's a significant discovery that they made in 2016 that this contractor had absconded with material from the nsa campus, put it on his home computer, it was running this software which we now know enabled russian hackers to potentially suck it out of the computer and make copies of it. it's significant because it demonstrates the power of russian hacking in some of -- with some of the america's best kept secrets. these are sources and methods and they show the russians hackers a lot about what can b

in many ways, it's not a surprise, hallie, because he talked about the need for this to fall under its own weight. so he tweeted today, of course, the democrats obamacare is imploding. massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. democrat, should call me to fix. obamacare is a broken mess. piece by piece, we will now give america the great mchealth caret deserves. the president is antagonizing the democrats saying, you know my number. and antagonizing the democrats he's reaching out to by dismantling the structure to keep the aca going. >> kelly o'donnell, thank you. >>> the president is not at the white house but over to a hotel just a couple miles from the white house set to speak at the values voter summit. we'll bring you remarks live. and we have garrett haake here. this speech is focusing on faith and family. that's what the president has spoken for when he appear in front of the audience before being elected. he may talk about health care. and that is getting real blow-back from democrats and republicans. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, hallie. this cr

hallie, the contractors have until thursday to finish their projects.w, they are still in there hard at work when the breachability test begins, can people get over it, under it, through it. then the administration picks their favorite. then the biggest task of all, perhaps pardon the pun, getting over the tall wall and getting someone to pay for it. with apprehensions as low as they have been on track for the all-time low this year, it will be a tough task. >> jacob zoberoff, thank you so much. let's bring in sarah again. now it looks like it will have to be lawmakers to pass this. who is it going to be? >> that's a good question. the border crossings are heading into dramatic lows right now. the incentive to fund the wall is lower than it otherwise would be. and president trump was getting to the end of what he can do unilaterally. building the prototypes and bidding out to construction companies. this is generating interest on its own. he's getting to the end of what he can do. >> and this thing is not cheap, $1.6 billion is what the administration i

hallie? >> hans nichols following the story at the pentagon. we'll look for your reporting on "nightly news" later tonight. thank you. i'm joined by chris few sill, co-founder of the mccrystal group and author of the book "one mission: how leaders build a team of teams." and political reporter jonathan swan. and "washingtonso chris, we'll because we are going through the questions that we still don't know the answers to. and general dunford came out and was really blunt. he said, hey, we want to give you answers, we want to give you the families of the fallen answers, we are also wanting to do this investigation correctly. but let me start with one of them. what we learn is this unit waited an hour to call for air support initially. you have been on the ground, you have been on the ground in africa. why might that have happened? >> well, the pentagon will get the right answers to the families. and they want to make sure it is accurate when it goes out. the more gray area that forces are operating inside of, the harder it is to get up and into t

. >> hey, hallie. thanks so much. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm stephanie rhule. ali velshi is out today. it is tuesday, october 10th. let's get started. >> this is my neighborhood. in flames. >> it's pretty awful. we're all healthy and safe. and we have to try to be grateful for that. it's pretty awful. >> it's horrible. i couldn't stay because i couldn't breathe. >> i was very worried. my neighbor's house burned down. >> state of emergency in california this morning. more than a dozen wildfires rage from one edge of the state to the other. >> wildfires are raging through california's wine country. >> at least 1500 homes and businesses have been destroyed. >> and in southern california, thousands of people living near anaheim have had to leave their homes. >> with smoke and flames visible from disneyland. >> the president's bitter feud with bob

chief white house correspondent hallie jackson there on duty at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. shelby holiday, is here, so is josh barrow, msnbc contributor and senior editor at business insider, and rick tyler with us as well, msnbc political analyst. rick, let me start with you. this is as hallie just noted there, here's another controversy of the president's own making when he questioned president obama's actions, when it came to consoling families of fallen troops, why go there in the first place. >> i don't know, craig, it's extraordinary. hadn't called these families and it came up and was asked about it and then changed history as if other presidents didn't call for a new low and then we have another new low, when the family was all in the car with the congresswoman. so they have proof of what was said. and it seems pretty obvious what was said. one of the things most extraordinary about what was said was the widow, the gold star widow, myesha johnson, said the president didn't even remember his name, that is david johnson, the army sergeant. and that is just extraordina

. >> sure, thank you, hallie. what we know from two people familiar with the facebook ads, the list of states that the russian-tied ads targeted during the campaign includes not just michigan and wisconsin, which has been reported, but also maryland, new york, california, texas, ohio and missouri. and specifically on ohio and missouri, we're told that they were targeted to those states because they had seen police violence. and we know that these ads have been, in part, were aimed at sewing racial divisions. that is what these particular ads in ohio and missouri were believed to be designed to do. now, the interesting thing about this, and by the way, i should mention, this is not a definitive list of states, but what it gives is a broader picture of how russia was using these ads to target. and what it suggests is that there was not necessarily what you would consider a traditional presidential politics targeting. because states like new york and california are not decisive in a presidential election. >> so carol

pete williams, hallie jackson, garrett haake, thanks to all. ari, and former acting director of the cia. barbara mcquaid is a former attorney in michigan and msnbc contributor. ari, i'm going to start with you. let's put both of these events together. as pete points out, these are very different things. two men under indictment. another one who has pled guilty. but when you look at them in total, what does it tell you about robert mueller's investigation? >> it tells you bob mueller is using a surprise strategy, that he had arrested someone in the summer and flipped them into a cooperating witness, providing information about kremlin intermediaries offering dirt on hillary clinton and her e-mails. and no one knew anything about this. this was not the leak people who follow this stuff over the weekend, as you and i do, may be thinking, oh, what's going to happen? none of this was known. it raises other questions. are there other people who have been secretly arrested under seal, other people who have become cooperating witnesses at this moment a

hallie j., tell us about this lunch. as well as a new insult lobbed at senator bob corker. >> reporter: all right, let's start with lunch. we know secretary of state rex tillerson was just spotted walking into the grounds here at the white house. so lunch happening now. we're expecting to get a briefing from sarah huckabee sanders in just about an hour and a half or so. so presumably we'll find out a little bit more about the policy topics the two discussed. imagine north korea would be at the top of the list along with presumably iran with the president based on our reporting set later this week to decertify the iranian nuclear deal, kick it over to congress. that's what all signs are pointing toward. now the big question, though, is will this back and forth come up? the, hey, let's take an i.q. test, will that be brought up? will the president ask secretary tillerson to go ahead and do that with him? highly doubtful, but you would imagine that the interpersonal relationship between the two may be a topic of conversatio

coming up right any, my friend and colleague, hallie jackson. >>> we have a lot of news this morning. the president right now doing a series of interviews, including one in just the last five minutes here about his choice for drug czar withdrawing. the president saying tom marino was gracious and wanted to avoid even the perception of conflict, all of it coming after that explosive "washington post" "60 minutes" investigation into a bill that seemed to undercut the dea's ability to crackdown on drug companies flooding the market with pain pills. so on that topic, we're about to hear from the deputy attorney general. this is a live look right now, he's going to be making an announcement on the opioid epidemic. we are going to bring that to you live as we take a look at the new fallout from very tough comments overnight from a frequent faux of the president's. john mccain's half-baked nationalism. he said it's part of the family feud inside republican party. and in the middle of it all, we have to talk about what is happening in syria. with a major milestone this morning. the de facto i

hallie jackson has those details. >> reporter: for president trump, somber silence after a in moments of tragedy and horror, america comes together as one. >> reporter: the president responding to the attack with remarks that called for unity, but not gun control. making no mention of gun rights at all, as the combative debate resurfaces. >> it would be premature for us to discuss policy when we don't fully know all the facts or what took place last night. >> reporter: gun control advocates see it differently. >> if we don't act now, when will we. >> reporter: at the capitol, former congresswoman gabrielle giffords shot in the head in arizona in 2011 delivered a message to her former colleagues. >> the nation's counting on you. >> reporter: by now it's a familiar pattern, that not even the murders of 20 children at sandy hook could break. a devastating shooting, a national gun dialogue, then gridlock. with deep background checks and mental health regulations. >> you can't sit here and call for ban this, ban that. when you don't even know what was used. >> reporter: most republicans op

hallie, let me start with you. we couldn't make out that last question. not sure if you heard that particular question but some of the highlights from that back and forth, as you see it. >> there's a lot, bottom line, craig. because of the positioning and the president doing this in such an impromptu way,ist hard to hear even when you're on the south lawn. people are yelling this frl behind, my colleague kristen welker, was at white house, as peter alexander was here ready to report this all. let me step back for one second before we run through the headlines because i think it's important to remember what's happening here. this is donald trump coming out and doing these what can only be described as impromptu news gatherings with the press, calling on reporters, taking questions. you can tell he seems to enjoy it. he hangs outs in this instance for 15 minutes before he gets on his way to joint base andrews to head down to texas. he clearly wants to be engaging with the media. he had stuff he wanted to get off his chest. one of those was the first questio

lester. >> hallie jackson at the white house.nks >>> now to the cryptic comment from president trump that is rippling across washington tonight. surrounded by military leaders and their spouses, the president told reporters that they might be seeing "the calm before the storm," a remark that prompted many to ask was he referring to something specific. the white house isn't saying. nbc's peter alexander has more. >> thank you very much, everybody. >> reporter: from the oval office tonight president trump with a wink and a tease. >> thank you very much. you'll find out. >> reporter: revealing no new details about the meaning of this cryptic comment during a reception with military leaders and their spouses thursday night. >> you guys know what this represents? >> tell us, sir. >> maybe it is the calm before the storm. >> what's the storm? >> could be the calm, the calm before the storm. >> what storm, mr. president? >> you'll find out. >> reporter: what's he talking about? the white house insisting president trump never tips his ha

our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson tells us more. >> i will say this. think the republican party has a pretty good unity. >> reporter: tonight a victory lap for the president as a brewing republican resistance simply hasn't materialized one day after two retiring republicans slammed the president's character. [ inaudible question ] >> well, i think the press makes me more uncivil than i am. you know, people don't understand. i went to an ivy league college. i was a nice student. i did very well. i'm a very intelligent person. >> when is it okay for you to pull punches? >> i think it's always okay when somebody says something but that's false, i think it's always okay to counterpunch or to fight back. >> reporter: to senators bob corker and jeff flake, that's part of the problem. >> we can't continue to just remain silent when the president keeps going on like this. >> reporter: but the silence on capitol hill speaks volumes. many republicans moving on rather than rising up. >> we've got a job to do, damn it, and so all of this nonsense. i've got nothing

>> hallie jackson starting us off from the white house. off from the white house. thank you. >>> let's get out of washington and to the people living in the epicenter of this opioid crisis. perhaps no community is harder hit than the area around dayton, ohio, where already this year 517 people have died from an accidental overdose. nbc's kate snow traveled there to talk to people struggling with addiction either directly or through a loved one about washington's response to the crisis. >>> we're the experts. we're the ones that know -- >> reporter: at the weekly families of addicts meeting in dayton, ohio, they're encouraged the white house is taking notice, but not sure their leaders really get it. how many people here think that washington maybe doesn't understand what's happening here in dayton? they'd be happy to show the president around, though. >> he needs to come to my hood and ride around with me. [ laughter ] and see what it's like every day. >> reporter: the president? >> yeah. i could see that right out our window every day. drug -- drug deals right the

hallie jackson, nbc news, washington. >>> still ahead tonight, hotels on high alert. the enhanced security you may find next time you check in after the mass shooting here. hope you can stay with us. >>> we're back now from las vegas where tonight resorts have stepped up security as officials try to add extra layers of safety while trying to find the right balance between the ease of enjoying the hotels and casinos up and down the strip and the need to protect what could be seen as soft targets. here's nbc's jo ling kent. >> reporter: tonight, major new security measures deployed in las vegas, three days after sunday's mass shooting from a hotel room window. law enforcement stepping up security outside of hotels and inside at the wynn and encore, beyond the security cameras, new bag checks and handheld metal detectors for guests and staff. plus, k-9 units scouring the strip and searching hotel rooms for possible threats. jeff and penny chittendon have visited vegas ten times. this trip is different. >> last night we had to go through metal detectors, which was the fir

lester. >> hallie jackson is the the white house, thank you. today is just latest in which attacker used car or truck to mow people people around the world. isis and al qaeda have called on people to use vehicles to kill innocent civilians. and they're hard for law enforcement to prevent. more from nbc's tom costello. >> it's a growing terror tactic used around the world. july 2016, truck on the boardwalk in nice, france, 86 killed, 200 injured. similar tactics on the london bridge in may, eight dead. another five killed in march. around the world attacks in barcelona, stockholm, berlin and ohio state university, 11 injured. for years isis and al qaeda called for this kind of low tech attack, using cars to mow down as many people as possible. >> small-scale attacks using tools widely available make suppressing this entirely not just difficult but truly impossible. >> in new york last may wasn't a terror attack but deranged suspect on drugs who killed a woman and injured 22 after driving through a crowd in time square. james o'neill told lester

our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: late tonight, nbc news is learning the ambush in niger may have been a setup, a sneak attack by terrorists tipped off in advance about a meeting between u.s. special forces and tribal leaders in a village sympathetic to isis. three officials briefed on the matter say that's the emerging theory among pentagon investigators. >> a big part of the mission there is meeting with the locals and getting in with them, getting intelligence from them, but what this mission shows is just how dangerous that can be. >> reporter: today the nation's top military officer tried to explain what went so wrong. >> why owe the families of the fallen more information. >> reporter: in a rare briefing, general joseph dunford says u.s. special forces, who perhaps thought they could handle the fight themselves, waited an hour after the initial confrontation to call for air support. >> did the mission change? that's one of the questions being asked. that's a fair question, but i can't tell you definitively the answer to that question. >>

let's get more from our chief white house correspondent hallie jackson. >> reporter: trick-or-treat is the only question president trump's answering tonight. the white house strategy now, distance and deflect. president trump tweeting today, sorry, but this is years ago, before paul manafort was part of the trump campaign. but why aren't crooked hillary and the dems the focus? >> today's announcement has nothing to do with the president, has nothing to do with the president's campaign or campaign activity. >> reporter: sanders is correct that paul manafort's indictment never explicitly mentions the trump campaign, but it does accuse him and rick gates of misleading the government, a felony, even after they joined team trump in spring 2016. >> paul manafort has done an amazing job. >> reporter: as for george papadopoulos, his plea agreement directly relates to his work for the campaign, a role the white house today tried to downplay as limited. papadopoulos was never paid but he was named a campaign foreign policy adviser last march. >> george papadopoulos, he's an oil and energy consul

chief white house correspondent hallie jackson takes a look. >> reporter: reignited gun debate centers on piece of plastic like this. bump stock and law enforcement sources tell nbc news the las vegas hooter purchased two before the attack. allows a semiautomatic gun to fire faster like in this youtube demo video. almost like an automatic. they're legal but congress may reconsider. >> turn semiautomatic weapons into virtually automatic weapons, that's look at. >> all things that make america safer and don't infringe on the second amendment, count me in. >> you think it's time to have policy debate? >> good time have a hearing. >> reporter: some democrats agree. >> i would pray that nra did soul searching about the bump stocks. >> reporter: nra generally -- powerful gun lobby spent $54 million on the 2016 elections generally opposes more regulations on things like bump stocked. >> even if outlawed and restricted, it's unenforceable. >> reporter: says they don't sell any. >> due to the cost of the part and increased cost in ammunition when you fire, not something we necessarily see very

nbc's hallie jackson went to capitol hill to find out. >> reporter: president trump argues now's nottime to talk gun control. >> we're not going to talk about that today. we won't talk about that. >> reporter: the president visiting vegas where some 22,000 people experienced the deadliest shooting in modern u.s. history. dianne feinstein's daughter was almost one of them. >> they were going to stay at that hotel. that's how close it came to me. >> reporter: the senator whose daughter never ended up at the concert introducing a new ban on bump stocks, which legally allow a semiautomatic gun to shoot faster, like an automatic. democratic senator richard blumenthal co-sponsors the bill. >> there is receptiveness that i think is very, very significant. >> reporter: at least two republicans say they would back a bump stock ban. one texas lawmaker said there's no reason for the devices, which senator bill cassidy wasn't familiar with until now. >> who wants to see another las vegas. on the other hand, there's not going to be a single lay but stops somebody determined to do something bad. >

nbc's hallie jackson has details. >> reporter: after decades of republican resistance on gun control, tonight a new narrow opening on bump stocks, which let semiautomatic guns fire faster. >> apparently this allows you to take a semiautomatic turn it into fully automatic >> reporter: it's not just house speaker paul ryan but one of the highest ranking gop senators, john cornyn. >> i think it's worth our serious consideration. >> reporter: and the president himself willing to consider new regulations. >> we're open to having that conversation. we think that we should have that conversation, and we want to be part of it moving forward. >> reporter: the wild card through all this has been the nra, silent since sunday's shooting, today surprisingly supporting stricter rules. in a statement saying, quote, devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations, asking the atf to review bump stocks. but in 2010, that agency determined the devices are allowed based on federal law, meaning it would be up to congress to

lester. >> hallie jackson, thank you. for perspective, turn to political director and "meet the press" moderator, chuck todd. corker and flake have little to lout put other republicans in with this? >> it's clear we have a fight for the soul of the republican party. but right now not litigated on issues but character and personality. i will say this, it is putting on one hand, corker and flake are not alone. on the other hand they're free to make the charges since neither one plans to run for re-election in '18. it creates a divide inside the party that will play out not just in primaries with trump versus the establishment but general elections where corker may become asset to democrats. everything is going to be thrown up into the air. that's for sure. >> all right, chuck. thank you. >>> new developments into the investigation into the deadly ambush in niger on u.s. special forces. and new questions on whether the mission they were on changed to include hunting down a top terrorist. hans nicholls with details. niger's c

hallie, thanks very much. and as we watch these pictures of some of the high-ranking uniform members of the n.y.p.d. converging on the scene, let me walk you through what we have. this is a case we're going to tell you what we know, what we don't noech. we a -- know. we are waiting for a statement, a briefing from officials in new york city 20 minutes from now. what we know from wnbc, six people killed, 15 people injured. the reports are of a middle eastern man treated for a gunshot wound. authorities have described the driver as while carrying two fake weapons. police did open fire and we heard from a witness who saw the man alive being taken into custody and handcuffed by police. nbc also reporting that according to the n.y.p.d., they are looking at this preliminarily as a terrorist incident. they are unaware of any claims of responsibility. that's what we've learned so far. the vehicle was rented from home depot. it was a pickup truck you've seen in many of the pictures here. home depot has confirmed it's o

joining me from the white house, hallie jackson from nbc. just at the announcement of his new homeland secretary. so many topics. >> reporter: start here and with john kelly. kirsten nielsen presented by the president as it's new pick to lead the department of homeland security. her soon to be bosses former job, essentially and kelly appeared on the briefing room in the other wing of the white house where we normally come to you live from, and it was an interesting moment. kelly's first appearance in front of the press corps and took a fair amount of questions. specifically he took questions from somebody you know well, my colleague kristen welker sitting in the front row and had a chance to ask john kelly about something that created consternation for the white house time and time and again and that is the president's tweets. >> although i read it all the time, pretty consistently, i'm not quitting today. [ laughter ] i don't believe and i just talked to the president. i don't think i'm being fired today. and -- i am not so frustrated in th

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hallie, let's start with you. any sense the white house is at all concerned about setting yet another gop bridge aflame? >> reporter: not from president trump, craig. i think he's made that clear by what he's talking about online, on twitter. a real reversal from the president's prior attitude back in 2016 and even earlier this year towards senator corker. burning bridges, that is nothing president trump has ever been afraid of. setting aside whether that's legislatively smart for him to do. whether from a strategy perspective that's something he would want to be doing. i will tell you that privately, there's not a lot of push back when you talk to white house officials acknowledging it's not great for tax reform. but the strategy so far has been, turn the fire on corker, instead. point to, for example, what he did on the iran deal when that was happening under president obama. tried to drive a wedge between the base, donald trump's base and senator corker and make this a political issue, essentially. the white ho