. >>> and when i saw ivanka trump and jared kushner, i was kind of surprised. i didn't know they were on the invite list. turns out senator graham, you were behind that? >> so how did they get there? questions about how jared kushner and ivanka trump ended up in the cathedral. >>> and we begin, the family of senator john mccain makes its way to the u.s. naval academy for one more ceremony before he's buried at the cemetery and president trump still taking heat for his handling of senator mccain's send off including this tweet shortly after mccain, meghan mccain's eulogy in which she attacked the president's policies. reaction from some of the president's alliy ies fuming at addresses. at least one republican on capitol hill is pushes back on the criticism the president has gotten. here is senator dan sullivan on "me ""meet the press." >> there is tension between them. i'd say the trump administration was very engaged. you had an important speech the vice president gave at the ceremony of a laying in state in the dome. yesterday there was a number of folks from

and jared kushner. it's widely believed that both of them are under scrutiny, under investigation as well. obviously, michael cohen, we know from that raid that the hush money to women. that's under investigation. russian business ties under investigation. donald trump jr.'s willingness to take a meet with folks with ties to russian intelligence to get dirt on hillary clinton. the trump tower meeting under investigation. efforts to cover up that meeting and lie about it. part of the obstruction of justice investigation. the list goes on and on. would it surprise you if this cooperation wasn't in some way or another already ongoing, emily? >> i don't know that it's cooperation yet. all i know is that it is conversations that have happened. i know that for months michael cohen has been signaling he's willing to cooperate. whether or not robert mueller finds him a credible witness or a useful witness, that will be the ultimate determination of whether or not he becomes a cooperating witness here. but it's

it's jared, jared kushner, his son-in-law.all night last night, i'm totally convinced it's him. let's think it through. first off, could you imagine having donald trump as a father-in-law? [ laughter ] looking at you across the table, that orange puss on all the time? [ laughter ] judging, resenting you for all the disgusting things he knows you're doing to his shiny and beautiful daughter. [ audience moans ] every i day you come to work, your boss has your wife sitting in his lap, it's a lot to swad low. the name of jared kushner's real estate company is cadre. as in a group of activists in a communist or other revolutionary organization. a revolutionary organization? like maybe a member of a secret white house resistance? you know, jared kushner's father, charles kushner, went to prison partly for hiring a prostitute to sa deuce his own brother-in-law. he hired a hooker, this is true, to meet his brother-in-law outside a restaurant. she pretended her car broke down and asked him for a ride. and then later took him to a motel

i can tell you that jared kushner is very engaged with this specific issue.nderstanding of it. having that meeting was a really good idea. a lot of people paid attention to the fact that kim kardashian was there. it makes sense, in a way, to have people with facts, people with fame, and people with power sit in the same room and talk about an important subject like this. i can write a law review article with clemency reform, but if that's all i do, might as well throw dirt on top of it. >> we read those things, just so you know. >> well, that's good. but most people don't. if kim kardashian tweets out the idea, people may read the article and at the least they'll start thinking about this subject which is really important. >> there's no kidding. for people who criticize the kardashians, this is a good road to go down. there was a judge in here -- just to illustrate what this is about. kevin sharpe was in the meeting as well. he sentenced a man to life in prison at the age of 26 years old for drug related charges. now, sharp has since said that chris should be

and jared kushner. is there a sense, julia, that the white house had any idea this was coming from paul manafort? >> yes, this was certainly a surprise for everyone watching this play out. there were some people that suspected there could be a guilty plea, but i don't think a lot of people suspected manafort would eventually flip. obviously that trump tower meeting in which manafort, jared kushner, and donald trump jr. were present at could very welcome into play with this. >> what do you think, jonathan in terms of context of this agreement with the latest developments to come out of the investigation. last weekend we talked about george papadopoulos being sentenced to prison for 14 days. how big a deal is this? jonathan, i don't know if you can hear me. julia, i'm going to ask you that if you were able to hear me. yo question. >> it's absolutely a big deal at this point. as much as the white house says that manafort, these allegations have nothing to do with the trump campaign, manafort was heading th

. >> how did ivanka trump and jared kushner wind up with an invitation? >>> brett kavanaugh's hearing takes off this week. what could make or break the nomination? >>> oh canada. president trump threatened to leave canada out of a nafta deal. this morning, whether he is winning or losing this fight. >>> reporting on the mood of the white house during senator mccain's funeral. the president going on a tweet storm before and after he left the white house to golf. at one point, hitting back at meghan mccain who took several swipes at her. the president focusing his grievances on the probes. we have more on president trump's threats to leave canada behind. >> how are things with the canadians? >> reporter: no deal, at least not yet as the trump administration re-negotiates nafta. the catch, canada. >> we will only sign a deal if it is a good deal with canada. again, no deal is better than a bad deal. >> reporter: officials hitting an impasse, failing to meet a friday deadline set by the white house. president trump signaling he might leave canada out in the c

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people point out that jared kushner has done an interview with the special counsel's office and jared kushner and donald trump jr. testified before the house and senate intelligence committees and the office of special counsel has all of those documents. so it's not clear at this point, shep, what manafort might have to add on that particular issue or other issues. certainly paul manafort is going to milk them for all he's worth. >> shepard: thanks, john. straight back to hurricane coverage. jonathan hunt will be leave in myrtle beach, south carolina as the hurricane coverage rolls on and we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. if you're waiting patiently for a liver transplant, it could cost you your life. it's time to get out of line with upmc. at upmc, living-donor transplants put you first. so you don't die waiting. upmc does more living-donor liver transplants than any other center in the nation. find out more and get out of line today. thousands of veterans get the money they need for their family and home... thank you, admiral. by helping them use the valuab

senator kelly ayotte greeting jared kushner. and ivanka, ivanka trump. invited toepresent there d as w staff accompanying cindy mccain to the vie seeing many more now approach that wall. >> george, you can see the tears streaming down their faces as they gather there to photograph the wreath that was left by cindy mccain. we've seen obviously john mccain's sons and his daughter meghan mccain who, george, we know well, one of our colleague, you can see her standing off watching her mother this morning at the vietnam memorial visibly moved, breaking down and meghan who wrote that heartfelt tribute in the very early days after the loss of her father, and, george, you showed earlier that powerful image of roberta mccain, that so many people were sharing through social media in the last 24 ho06 yurrs old and i'm not sure how many people know the story, obviously, of -- they know his famous father, his famous grandfather but his father, an admiral did not ask for special favors for his son when he was held prisoner of war in vietnam. but he did travel there ev

that would involve jared kushner, roger stone.dent of the united states. he was in trump tower. he was in the building. he was many the 26th floor. there's a lot he would have heard. a lot of conversations and a lot of moments and a lot of rooms that manafort will be asked about. i do think because he was drawing for his own activities in ukraine from the same pool of money that the oligarchs were filling, that's one of the key aspects of what mueller wants to go after with him. >> david. >> there's one name we haven't talked about on this show. one of the top oligarchs to vladmir putin. paul manafort and he had been business partners for some time. they had a bit of falling out. by the time manafort came to run the trmp cump campaign, he owed maybe as much as $30 million. he owed 30 million dollar to putin's close buddy while running a presidential campaign. we know for earlier mueller filings that his partner, manafort's partner, a former russian military intelligence officer with current ties to russian invery wetelligence was

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people in that meeting, elliott, from the trump representing the trump folks is paul manafort, jared kushner, and don jr., the president's son and son-in-law. one of the reasons not cooperating. the other have to be sitting around tonight, thinking about what's going on. >> which one of these three is not cooperating like the other pretty much. the interesting thing as you discussed earlier on the show is that with these plea agreements or with these cooperation agreements, you know that mueller or whatever prosecutor already has the information, he already knows that there is going to be more. so you're going to see more indictment, more pleas, more statements. and frankly, at a minimum, paul manafort now has to be sentenced twice, once in the district of columbia and once in virginia. these are times that this is going to stay in the news. >> yes. >> it's a huge distraction for the president at a minimum if it doesn't make it all the way up to his son or like jared kushner or anybody else. >> well, that's the question. the issue is what does the president do in response to this getting clo

and jared kushner. i think those are the people as exposed as anybody because they were in that june 26 meeting. i will reiterate what i've said in this meeting any number of times, chris. the walls are closing in on the president. and here's the simple fact of the matter. it's time for him to resign the presidency. if he loves his country, if he loves his family, if he wants to put them first, he should resign now and spare the country and his family what we are continuing to go through. >> and yet i think we all can agree that that is not going to happen. so given that, and assuming that if nothing else this brings robert mueller yet another step closer to some conclusion of this, there is a lot of talk about what happens next. we talked about it in the last hour. thafrz been an argument made by some prosecutors that maybe the watergate report should be released as sort of a way going forward should there be a report that then goes to congress that gives them an idea of what we'll see. what do you thi

v invitation to yesterday's memorial. >> we know ivanka and jared kushner's presence at the memorial service yesterday raised some eyebrows. they were there for the trump administration which led to questions from advisers. but president trump was respectfully asked to stay away. the "new york times" said mrs. trump was asked to attend earlier in the week by senator lindsey graham, a close friend of mr. mccain's, who had cleared his invitation with the senator's widow. he pushed back on that a bit. >> when i saw ivanka trump and jared kushner, i was kind of surprised. i didn't know they were on the invite list. it turns out, senator graham, you were behind that? >> no. nobody at that funeral was invited by the family. ivanka said some very nice things about senator mccain after his passing. it was not unnoticed by the family. >> reporter: senator graham is pushing back on the notion that it was his idea for ivanka and jared to attend. a white house official tells us that the senator is the one who facilitated the invitation to the services, again with cindy mccain's blessing. it's a

and jared kushner?s there any sense of how they are processing just how real this is getting, considering that the trump tower meeting on june 9, 2016, is one of the main things that manafort could tell mueller about, and those two guys were there, it could possibly incriminate them, right? >> we don't have any insight into their reaction to the manafort plea deal. but i mean, they're lawyers, and they would probably be very nervous, because if it they've given certain accounts to prosecutors about what happened in the trump tower meeting and manafort gives an account that differs from them, it puts some liability on their backs. they'll potentially be nervous about that. of course if there was nothing that was wrong or nothing misstated, then they don't have anything to worry about. but if i was a lawyer to one of those two, i would be prepared to fend off against any concerns about what manafort might say. >> are we getting signals, stef, about any of the others caught up in this investigation, potent

robert mueller this week. >> i think we can assume that that is true, that it would either be jared kushner or donald trump jr. or the president himself. there is, of course -- i want to caution, there is the possibility that it was just, i'm willing to take responsibility, i'm willing to plead guilty to my own crimes, i don't want to pay for a defense, i don't want to make the government pay for the prosecution and i'm just giving up. he's forfeiting almost all of his assets, his real estate, his bank accounts. so he may just feel like, well, that's what i'm doing and there may be nothing more. but given the language that was used in court in terms of the plea agreement itself, i agree with glen that it is very likely that he has told them quite a great deal and glen is right, you wouldn't take a plea agreement unless you had had a proffer of all of the evidence that the witness has before you would agree to it. so i think we can look forward to many weeks and months of disclosures and new indictments that may be the result of this and to the investigations that will follow up on the detai

we're looking at ivanka trump, jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and daughter. >> speaking to joe lieberman. that's who they're speaking with. mccain's probably closest critic -- >> former senator -- >> former senator from connecticut, one of his democratic partners in the senate. >> i was looking at mccain's concession speech when he lost to president obama, and it's all in here, you know. he talks about right off the top, i had the honor of calling barack obama. he talkedut t fact that candidate obama commanded his respect for his ability and perseverance. he said he admired him and commended him. this is just in the first two paragraphs. recognizing after a bitter fight and one in which he expressed and behaved in all of those ways we were just talking about, you know, that very pointed behavior he could have, but immediately recognized that his duty as the defeated was to honor and raise up and commend in public the person who had just won. >> my president, he called him. >> his president, that's right. called him my president. that's very much a part of him. >> i noted, y

. >> jared kushner is meant to be the guardian of the new u.s. peace plan. jared kushner is also saying at the same time, he's kind of playing hardball in the last couple of weeks we've seen the united states increase its pressure on palestinian civilians, frankly, withdrawing money from unra, from ngos and israeli/palestinian civilian organizations that might be able to promote a little peace and tolerance and understanding, obviously closing down the office here in washington and et cetera, et cetera, not to mention moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. they believe, because they've said it, this increases the odds, this pressure of punishing the civilians increases the odds of the palestinians coming to the negotiating table in a serious way. is that the saudi position? >> our position is that the palestinians are the ones who have to make the decision in terms of what they accept and what they don't accept. our position is we support a two-state solution with the palestinian state within 67 borders and we believe that putting pressure doesn't wo

in june, paul manafort, jared kushner, donald trump and don jr. meet with this russian lawyer in trump tower. in july, paul manafort offers briefings. the rnc platform change in july. trump's russia if you're listening, that period of time, how much culpability do you think that means? are we at conspiracy? >> i think we need to call clarissa because we found another witch. we all know the quid. manafort can tell us the pr pro quo. we know what trump wanted. he wanted to be president. what did russia want in exchange? was it enough for them to say be racist and incompetent, and we'll call it even. maybe. but maybe they wanted specific things, and paul manafort will know what russia wanted and what russia got. if he gave them stuff and trump knew he was giving them stuff, that should be enough. we know what trump wanted what trump got. we know what russia wanted, we know what russia got. that should be the four corners. >> manafort has represented bad guys. he represented some pretty tough customers. he wants very much involved in that change of go

. >> do you remember paul manafort and jared kushner at the meeting?ide them. >> did he stay for the entire meeting? >> i believe he did. >> manafort, there at the beginning? >> yes. >> did he stay for the entire meeting? >> that i know because he was just in front of me on the way out. >> you mentioned three candidates in 2016. >> wait. can i stop you for a second? jared kushner said he left early because he was so bored with the meeting and it was a ruse. but that's not your recollection. >> my recollection is we all left at the same time. now, whether he got up and dashed out and we all lagged behind him a minute or two, that's -- >> do you recall joe biden's name being mentioned? >> no. >> do you recall bernie sanders' name being mentioned? >> no. >> do you recall hillary clinton's name being mentioned? >> i'm not sure. at the beginning, they did have some opening remarks. i must say i wasn't supposed to be at that meeting. but don jr. said to me, why don't you just stay and you can take the mat. which to me was heard these people out. >> how long

that it would either be jared kushner or donald trump, jr. or the president, himself. there is of course, i want to caution there is the possibility i'm willing to take responsibility. i'm willing to plead guilty to my own crimes, i don't want to pay for a defense, i don't want to make the government pay for the prosecution and i'm just giving up, he's forfeiting almost all of his assets, his real estate. his bank accounts. so he may just feel like, well, that's what i'm doing. there may be nothing more. but given the language that was used in court in terms of the plea agreement, itself, i agree with glen that it is very likely he has told them quite a great deal. glenn is right. you wouldn't take a plea agreement unless you had a proffer of all the evidence the witness has before you agree to it. so i think we can look at many weeks of diskoes years and few indictments as a result of the and the investigations that will follow up on the details that he provided to them in the proffer leading up to the plea agreement. >> let's listen to some of the spin that rudy guil

manafort, his top adviser and george jared kushner -- son-in-law jared kushner all were in attendance actually may change the know that trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen, has indicated that he's ready to testify that mr. trump actually did know about it. now, of course, the other side will attack his credibility, and there's still a lot more to come. but i think focusing on a lack may of 2017 is sort of beside the point because there have been later, subsequent material developments. eric: and as you just pointed out, what does it mean if, indeed, manafort, donald trump jr. and jared kushner, as you said, were aware of the action of that meeting? critics would point out that's, you know, collusion or conspiracy they think, and that's something that the special prosecutor is really zeroing in on. >> right. so, you know, on one hand i think trump's lawyers can legitimately say that collusion itself is not a legal term of art. collusion by itself is technically not a crime. ranking members of the trump campaign actively knew about russian attempts to interfere with the election and

or jared kushner, mr. abbie lowell, what are you thinking tonight? >> it is concerning, certainly those lawyers have talked with both of their clients of what happened at that meeting, will understand why they have exposure. no doubt, paul manafort will be asked many questions, he will be shown document, e-mails, notes and whatever they have about that meeting to try to understand what happened and so if they have any exposure about what happened there, i think they may be in trouble. that includes any false statements they have made in their testimony before congress. >> michael schmidt, i'd like to get your ae recollection from harvard professor lawrence tribe, his political persuasion i agree is on the left. he has enjoyed his economics as a commentator on our times, he tweeted this, out of the blue, anyone recall who hand picked pence as trump's vp? paul manafort. and recall who led the squirrely transition? mike pence, watch what untoms as manafort tells mueller all he knows. what on earth could he be talking about there? >> i don't know this sh

it's great to watch ivanka trump and jared kushner hug lindsey graham, but the reality is that jared and ivanka are on the side of a movement that stands for everything that john mccain was against and opposed and fought against for his entire life. trumpism is antithetical to everything that john mccain believed in, and so when we see the republican party given over completely to trumpism, this is what john mccain is trying to send a message to us about, that this is not the right path, that this is not the right direction, and that there's a moment of choosing. republicans and democrats -- and chris, we came up, you and i, in different political parties and we fight in this country fiercely. there was never a jen teal period of american politics, but all of us largely and certainly in the post world war ii era were animated by a common set of beliefs. our debates were fundamentally about how do we achieve a result in the same direction. what we see now today in the country is a real questioning whether it is the hostility to immigration, whether it is hostility to the animating ide

everybody from eric prince to roger stone on jared kushner to donald trump jr. if there are going to be witnesses for lying to congress on this sub, where do we start? we'll have more on that coming up on that as well. if you know anybody who has testified to congress on this subject, if they seem more nervous than before today, this sam patent a statement where they nail him to lying sub, if they seem a little more nervous than they can before today, this sam patten guilty plea today and this statement where they nail him for like to congress, that's probably why your pal is nervous today. on this guy, sam patten pleading guilty and agreeing to cooperate, i mentioned, it is true in general. there are a few important objections. this spring, a couple of eagle eyed journalists did interesting interviews with, and particularly focused on his relationship with konstantin and the former soviet political universe that started to come into focus in this investigation when manafort first got in trouble. natasha was one of those journalist who's interviewed sam patten t

or jared kushner, mr. abbe lowell, what are you thinking about this development tonight? >> it is concerning. certainly those lawyers will already have talked with both of their clients about what happened at that meeting and will understand whether they have any exposure. no doubt paul manafort will be asked many questions about what happened at that meeting. he will be shown documents and e-mails and notes and whatever they have about that meeting to try to understand what happened. so if they have exposure about what happened there i think they may be in trouble. that includes false statements they have made in their testimony before congress. >> michael schmidt, i would like to get your reaction to a tweet from harvard law professor laurence tribe. his political persuasion, i think he would agree is on the left. i think he has enjoyed his new position as kind of a commentator on our times. he tweeted this out of the blue, anyone recall who hand picked pence as trump's vp in paul manafort. and recall who led the squirrelly transition? mike pence. watch what unfolds as

. >> even though president trump did not attend the fhteral, his da, ivanka, and jared kushner was there. >>> and if you missed any of the tribute to senator john mccain, head to our nbc washingtonpp. we have complete coverage of all of the honors. just search mcc>n. nd the ashes of one of the victims of theapital gazette shooting are at the nationals his widow placed his ashes in ba go pa gone yas. she was one of five staff members killed when a gunman entered the newsroom in late june. he was told the baltimore sun baseball park was a sacred place for john. >>> donald wuerl will meet with police in d.c. to talk about the sex abuse scandal involving him and the church. somebody walked out on sunday mass. >> considerable animosity. >> shame on you. >> cdinal wuerl kept speaking as the man walked out of the church in northwest d.c. the outburst dame as the cardinal asked parishioners to keep pope francis in their procedures. this is the visible sign felt by some catholic another parishioner turned her back on the cardinal as he spoke. t>> i don't thinky did this out of malice at all. but

. >>> new information on how jared kushner and evan ta trump ended up as surprise attendees at the cathedral. >>> the gop candidate for governor in florida being accused of racist remarks. the whole affair may be spurring more racially charged fallout. details ahead. >>> o, canada, the battle over trade with neighbors to the north. who is really winning a fight the president started? >>> we begin with new reporting this morning in the mood in the white house during senator mccain's funeral. the president going on a tweet storm before and after he left the white house to golf, in one tweet appearing to hit back at meghan mccain who took several swipes at him during her emotional eulogy. the president focusing most of his grievances against the mueller investigation and giving congress an ultimatum over nafta amid negotiations with canada. let's turn to nbc white house correspondent jeff bennett who has more on that. can you describe what happened yesterday in d.c.? it's really kind of a split screen moment. >> reporter: it really was, frances, good morning. it's hard to know for sure what dro

for example, if jared kushner were to come under scrutiny, then there would be essentially a pardon proof way in terms of state crimes for paul manafort to testify against people. >> do you see that collecting the dots closer in proximity to a jared kushner or somebody in the trump family to roger stone? >> without a doubt. because now what does bob mueller have for the first time? an insider to the trump tower meter. paul manafort was there. he will get a word for word break down as best paul manafort can recall it. i don't think there is anybody who believes, for example, when don jr. floats information out there. well, i suspect that is not going to turn out to be accurate and what the special counsel now has is an insider to that meeting. i tell you, when you're dealing with conspiracies and tight knit groups whether family and associates having an insider and criminal conspiracy means everything to a prosecution and that is what the special counsel now has in paul manafort. >> we'll see what the trump team, his lawyers, their counsel and how they'll play it on their end. natasha, tha

we saw the presidents daughter and son-in-law, ivanka trump and jared kushner and cabinet members as hearse pulls up there was a stop briefly at the vietnam veterans memorial. where senator mccain placed a wreath there in honor of all those that died in vietnam. her husband, of his spending five and half years in captivity as a prisoner of war. martha: these services, and life john mccain was always rushing around, this is about 15 minutes early, the arrival of the hearse at the national cathedral. everything is better than on time. as they like to do things in the military. we're going to get ready for the beginning of this service. as chris wallace was saying earlier on our fox news coverage, this is going to be an extraordinary service. the music, the speakers, megan mccain. we will hear from early on in the course of this service, she has been very emotional throughout the course of the last few days. very close to her father. i remember one of the first times i met senator mccain, he pulled his phone out to show me her picture is graduation from columbia. she just graduated and

the notorious 2016 meeting at trump tower, where donald trump junior, jared kushner, and paul manafortith a russian government connected lawyer. the purpose of the meeting, get dirt on hillary clinton. how do we know that? because of the e-mail written by my next guest, the man who set up the meeting. his name is rob goldstone. but before we talk with him, let's run down quickly what we know. goldstone met trump through his work as a publicist for a russian pop star, emin agalarov. it was goldstone who helped make trump's dream of bringing his miss university pageant to moscow a reality. and as i said, goldstone is also the author of his now-infamous e-mail exchange with donald trump jr., in part, promising information that would incriminate hillary and that the high-level and sensitive information was part of the russian government's support for mr. trump. the meeting that ensued from that exchange is now at the center of the probe. goldstone was in the room at trump tower. critics of trump say the evidence, at the very least, about that meeting, could show an teemt collude with russi

but i think that as we now know, jared kushner got his top secret clearance back, and that is an importantt never, to my understanding, will give out top secret clearance to somebody who is under serious investigation, so that suggests that that may not be one of the investigative trails that lead somewhere. >> i love following you down these paths. this is so great. >> there are so many paths. >> i know. >> i've never -- i've done this for 47 years. i've never seen so many paths and i've not -- and i've never seen so, so much of a -- well, as i say, i want to repeat myself. there is a war on truth, and that -- you know, we have a contest in this country, not just a political one, but a moral one, a religious one about what's true, right? and people debate it and argue very intensely about it. that's kind of the life force of democracy, isn't it? >> bob woodward is the author of "fear: trump in the white house." thank you. >> thanks. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. we distribute environmentally-friendly packaging for restaurants. and we've grown substantially. so i switched to the sp

so craig, where does this come into play as far as arrows that may point to don jr., to jared kushnerident himself? >> right, it's helpful to have the context. i don't know exactly who paul manafort is. he and roger stone were sort of known as the dictators' loppiests, the torturers' lobbyists. they reveled in taking millions of dollars to represent really sort of sleazy autocrats. when you look at what he did in ukraine, he was working for vladimir putin. he was installing a pro-putin president in ukraine. and it's almost as if he was -- that was a dry run for the events of 2016. so when that meeting took place, he knew exactly what was going on. people repeatedly misrepresented what happened there. one of the people there was a guy named kaveladze who said he was there as a translator. that's really not the story. he ten years earlier had started many, many cell companies for laundering money. so there's a whole story that has to be unraveled here, and manafort would know the answers. >> when it comes to unraveling, malcolm, i want to ask you, does that really put donald trump jr.,

you look at the decision to make mike flynn to make him national security advisor was pushed by jared kushner and ivanka trump and then jared kushner pushed donald trump to fire jim comey and said it would be politically palletable to democrats. these are the most destructive political decisions and they were pushed by the family. >> okay, zerlena. he only trusts people he shouldn't trust. he puts jared as his vice roy for the middle east. what is his knowledge? >> nothing. >> he puts his daughter, everybody who people sort of like, in charge of the sun. it's insane. she's going to protect us in the beginning against climate change, against global warming. these are insane decisions. >> essentially what it demonstrates is that he doesn't really care about the underlying policy. he doesn't know anything about the policy and he doesn't care about the outcomes and how that impacts people because if you put ivanka trump in charge of climate change, you're basically saying i don't take climate change seriously. he's setting it up. those are the folks he's going to pardon. the reason why the circle

i wish that secretary pompeo, and if jared kushner has done anything wit, and he has mar-- h it, and he has marched us backward which has are refuted president obama, president george w. bush and president clinton, and to make everything an interlock ter between the palestinians and the israelis, and i am sorry about it, but as they go into the important meetings on the back foot, because of what is happening in the middle east, and the preside president's transden shall at attacks on our ally, and it is not a time of american strength. >> and martin fletcher, you have covered not only that region, but the world for us, and europe as well, and certainly iran. and the transatlantic relationship is fragile, and the criticisms of some of the closest allies getting out of the paris accords, and now, of course, getting out of the iran deal. >> well, if i could just add to something that what nick burns has just said and i agree with everything that he said and to add to it, the pressure on the palestinians has a goal. it may not be a good one, but it has the goal to increase talks, and ev

again now that senator mccain b and we're learning just when it counted for ivanka trump and jared kushner's presence at saturday's memorial service. lindsey graham facilitated the invitation with cindy mccain's blessing. >>> chaos after gunfire interrupted the next to last day of the 2018 horse racing season at the california track. police say a man fired his gun near the racetrack and in the area where rapper ice cube was getting ready to take the stage for the performance. the sold out sw was part of the del mar summer concert series. sheriff deputies returned fire, hitting the officials, that suspect was then taken to a local hospital with unknown injuries. there are no reports of others being hit. the motivation is still unknown. the racetrack's verified twitter account said the situation was contained and the concert would be moving forward. >>> unity amid grief. ron tibbetts, father of mollie tibbetts, who wasll undocumente immigrant is pleading with politicians not to exploit his daughter's death for their own agenda. nbc's matt bradley has details. >> reporter: in iowa, a father in

. >>> given the week that his father-in-law's had, maybe this was some sort of omen for jared kushneradviser showed up for nafta negotiations ready to work, and then -- >> whoopsy. >> hello? >> anybody there? >> the door was locked. so he waits, and he waits. and he waits. >> awkward. >> an a little chuckle out, and he takes out his phone. so what, was he trying to look busy? >> right? >> or was he texting someone? hey, dude. >> open the door. >> open the door. >> don't you have that person on speed dial you can call when you need a person to talk to in an awkward moment? >> you don't need someone on speed dial. you just, you know. >> and there's nobody on the phone. >> okay. bye-bye. >> i have to work on that, that was good. >> love you. see that? just like that, i took a very important phone call. >> done. >>> coming up, football is back. the nfl season is officially under way, but fans in philadelphia had to wait a bit longer than expected to see their team take the field. >>> and ryan reynolds is at it but also throwing some shade. got it all in "the skinny." you're watching "worl

that will likely include the now-infamous trump tower meeting -- donald trump jr., jared kushner and manafort sitting down with a kremlin connected attorney they told had dirt on hillary. manafort is the fourth trump campaign official to plead guilty in recent months. just weeks ago it was the president's former personal attorney, turning on trump. >> this whole thing about flipping, they call it. it almost ought to be outlawed. it's not fair. >> pierre joins us live from washington. how is the president's team responding to news that manafort is now cooperating with the special counsel? >> reporter: we have a statement from rudy giuliani, once again an investigation has concluded with a plea having nothing to do with the president. the president has done nothing wrong, and manafort will tell the truth. >> thank you. >>> and in massachusetts, the deadly gas explosions. dozens of homes burning at the same time, in several communities. police with infrared imaging stopping another major explosion before it can happen. here's linsey davis tonight. >> reporter: tonight, residents still r

both jared kushner and don jr. who are likely indictment targets down the road must be very worried about what actually went on in that meeting. remember, they told seven different stories now. each one undoing the previous story. when you lie that much you know what really went on is much more serious. >> let's listen to don jr. i think you also said yet when we did the round table of who was in the most jeopardy, you said don jr. let's listen. >> your father has denied reports that he's worried that you might be in legal jeopardy because of the mueller investigation. but are you scared you could go to jail. >> i'm not because i know what i did and i'm not worried about any of that. that doesn't mean they will try to create that. but, again, i'm not. >> your thoughts? your witness. >> what do you want him to say? right? i'm terrified. my pants are wet. right? you're not going to say that. look, i would -- my mother would not put me in this kind of jeopardy, right? >> yeah. but his father would. >> that's the probl

there was that meeting that took place in trump tower between paul manafort, donald tru, jr., jared kushner, and a russian lawyer with close links to the kr hillary clinton.rt on as part of the plea deal that has been arranged today, paul manafort has agreed that he will give interviews on any and all matters to which the government deems relevant. in other words, robert muellers got a wristband now which has access to all areas written o it. he can gerever he likes in his questioning of paul manafort. that is a big change from the la 24 hours. rajini: paul manafort isn't the onlyormer member of staff working for donald trump to now cooperate with robert mueller. what trouble could thpresident potentially be in? jon: well, when you have got now is that we don't really know -- we haven't really known what robert mueller has been doing. he has been on the outer edges of the trump circle with people no one had ever heard of. but gradually he is moving cler and closer. not only has he got manafort, former campaign chairman, helping the mueller investigation you have , former personal lawyer mic

jared kushner is intimately involved with negotiations but trump needs the success and if he can pullwill boost him. i am not surprised if president trump has been interfering by military means, saying, enough is enough and trying to divert this from the crisis inside the united states and go to syria. we don't know yet because there is honestly a threat. many people in the middle east are saying we could have a confrontation between russia and the united states in syria. i hope it doesn't happen. well, we will see how this develops over the next week or so, or days, in terms of what is happening in idlib. let's turn to the other big issue, certainly in the uk and around europe. so after a long, hot summer of skirmishes and political in—fighting outside westminster, parliamentarians can return to open warfare on the green and red benches back inside the palace of westminster. time is running out in terms of any deal. theresa may is still clinging to her so—called chequers proposal — and even cut short her alpine summer holiday to pitch it directly to emmanuel macron. steve, bring us u