independence of the attorney general which is exactly the topic the president seems to want to avoid. >> jeremy petersgood morning. >> yes, joe? >> go ahead, jeremy. >> good morning, senator, it's jeremy peters. as you say the democrat also try as much as they can to block any confirmation of a new attorney general, should it come to that. however, it's my understanding the parliamentary procedures really limit what you guys can do short of 51 votes. so it's really incumbent on the republicans, isn't it it, to block this ultimately and would you go as far as to say to your republican colleagues, don't confirm anyone else if trump fires sessions? >> no, let me be clear. we'll try to block a recess appointment so the president can appoint someone without a confirmation hearing or a vote by the senate during a full recess. during the obama administration, republicans then in the minority in the senate for afternoon of it refused to recess, so every three days we would have what's called a pro forma session, that's what i think will block so there is a confirmation hearing at which i would expect republic

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jeremy peters in washington, thanks so much. and amie parnes, see you in a bit. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> you got it. >>> new concerns after north korea launches a second long range missile in less than a month. coming up next, the growing frustrations with china. >> i think the only solution is a diplomatic one. i'm very disappointed in china's response that it has not been firmer or more helpful. >>> in the wake of the latest north korean missile launch, the state-run news agency claims its latest test of an icbm proves the, quote, entire u.s. mainland is in the firing range of the missile. ambassador nikki haley pushed back against reports the united states is calling for an emergency meeting of the security council tomorrow. basically asked, what is the point. haley said it's up to china to decide if it will step up pressure on north korea. ambassador haley warned, quote, the time for talk is over. with us now, "daily beast" columnist, author of nuclear showdown, north korea takes on the world. gordon, good to see you.

i'm joined by msnbc contributor and political writer for "the new york times," jeremy peters who wroteow can taxes go? outside washington, republicans find limits. good to see you. kansas was the site of a remarkable experiment to lower taxes, to prove to people who said trickle down economics don't work anymore. that they actually will work. kansas tried it. louisiana tried it. in both cases, it didn't work and they have had to reverse course. >> that's exactly right. this was held up by the governor in kansas, sam brownback, as a -- as what conservative governance could do. what conservatives could deliver if they were given control of the executive and legislative branches. he said that president trump and the republican congress should follow suit and one of the most extraordinary set backs we have seen to conservative economic policy the tax cuts were largely repealed a few months ago. and what you have right now and not only that, the situation in tennessee and in south carolina where conservatives are agreeing to raise taxes and in some cases like in south carolina, rejecting a

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>> i've got to say this idea of moving sessions over to dhs was another idea floated to me by jeremy peters on my broadcast, saving the part about firing mueller. that part was not discussed. but how do you think democrats would respond -- >> saving that part. >> yeah, we don't know what would happen for sure. but in terms of moving him, how would democrats respond if sessions moves from a.g. to dhs? >> i think this whole idea -- look, i have real problems with jeff sessions. i voted against him for a.g. he responded to questions of mine not truthfully. i have real, real problems and i think he needs to come before the judiciary committee. >> again? >> yeah. once, since it's his confirmation hearing, it would be for the first time since those statements that he made -- he said he had not had communications with the russians and it turned out he did. there seems to be a collective amnesia on russians when it comes to the trump administration. so he needs to explain himself in that. all that said, this idea of getting him out of the way so that the president can fire mueller is something that

joining us, ned ryan, jeremy peters and katherine lucy, white house reporter with the associated press. big welcome to the three of you. ned, i want to reach out to you first. as you worked for president george w. bush, you have a sense of some of the white house inner workings there. i'd love to hear your reaction to scaramucci's rant and the priebus departure. >> first of all, i think with some of the scaramucci stuff, i would like to see some of those debates -- first of all, having debates and having differences of opinions in a west wing, not unusual. seeing it litigated this publicly, not the greatest. i'd love to see them take this internally, have these conversations, have these debates. in regards to general kelly, you're looking at a four star marine general who is known for bringing discipline. i hope he comes in empowered to bring discipline. the white house needs to look at being disciplined on messaging and narrative, being disciplined on decision making. i would argue, too, there needs to be team discipline. there's only one team in the west wing, that's president trump'

joining us now, jeremy peters. the party if the republicans can't get health care done and how do they keep up with the president? >> i think, mika, the biggest threat from this failure, this collapse, is not the kind of voter anger that you saw in 2010, 2014, 2016 in which a lot of republicans were primaried from the right. i think the real danger is going to be in voter disallusionment and apathy. they're going to look at republicans in congress and say okay, we gave you the house, then the senate, and the white house, and then you still can't do what you promised to do. i was on a call with conservative leaders yesterday, and one of them summed it well by saying this is a read my lips moment for the republican party. they have broken a fundamental promise. a promise on an issue, by the way, that as galvanized them more than any other in at least a generation. >> bill crystal, that is true. you look at 2009, 2010 and then the elections in 2012, 2014, and 2016. and yes, obama care galvanized republicans and the ba

but there are so many false statements there, talk about conflating things, it's staggering, and jeremy peters, if you look at what jake sekuen low was forced to go out and say last weekend on the sunday shows, if you look at the statement that the president of the united states signed off on with all the president's men around him on air force one, coming back from europe, lying, lying to the "new york times," lying to the american people, saying this meeting was just about adoption, and then the next day lying about the people that were in it. then going on a tv show that basically a state-run television and being asked at the end of that tv show, is there anything else that we don't know about? and don jr. saying that's it. and the next day we find out another person attended the meeting and the next day we find out that somebody connected with the kgb that basically was an intel officer at the meeting and the next day finding out there are two other people at the meeting. these people keep getting caught in their lies, day after day after day, and jay sekuen low and the president of the un

i'm joined jeremy peters who just wrote "how low can taxes go?" jeremy good to see you. thanks forring with about you. >> hi, ali. >>> kansas was the site of an experiment to lower taxes to prove to people that trickle-down, kansas tried it, louisiana tried it. in both cases it didn't work and they've had to reverse course. >> that's exactly right. this is held many by sam brownback as what conservative governance could do. what conservatives to could do, and he even said that president trump and the republican congress should follow suit. in one of the most extraordinary setbacks that we have seen in recent years, these tax cuts were largely repealed a few months ago. what you have right now, not only that, a situation in tennessee and in south carolina where conservatives are agreeing to raise taxes, in some cases like south carolina rejecting a series of tax cuts that were supposed to go along with the tax increases. there's only so far you can go, only so much you can cut. >> when i talk to art laugher or grover norquist, they say the cuts weren't pure enough, not de

. >>> and let's bring in jeremy peters and josh dosse. skrar a jeremy, the comments from anthony scaramucci saying that the president called him from air force one to try to cast doubt on whether russia hacked the election, do you find that remarkable basically the president saying that the russians are so good at hacking we wouldn't be able to find them doing it? >> i don't find it remarkable or all that surprising at all. and that may be part of the problem. donald trump has shown an extraordinary lack of willingness to even acknowledge that the russians could have had something to do with this when he has his law enforcement agencies investigating this and already reaching the conclusion that indeed russia was involved. so it's a peculiar stubbornness and it raises questions about scaramucci and the role that he will lay. if you look at donald trump and scaramucci, they are similar in tempt p temperament and tone and style. so will scaramucci be able to reignn in some of those impulse or just enable them? and i think the jury is out on

joining me is ruth marcus, columnist from "the new york times" jeremy peters, also an msnbc contributore. first of all, health care. >> oh, that. >> oh, that. here you had republican congressman on the bob jones show, okay, no idea i'd ever be saying this, say ing thing that we have the tape. you'll hear for yourselves. i for if -- the problem is, the -- some of the people who are opposed to this, there are some female senators from the northeast, if it was a guy from south texas, i might ask him to step outside and set this will aaron burr-style. >> i don't think that he knows how tough susan collins is. she responded to the texas congressman saying in 20 years in the senate i've had a lot of people make suggestions how to resolve legislative disputes but until today nobody ever suggested a duel. ruth, what is going on? >> female senators from the northeast. one's from alaska, one's from west virginia. i know he might be from south texas, but he might kind of want to look at a map. >> man from louisiana, too, let's not forget. >> and a man from ohio, potentially. >> isn't it interestin

philip rucker, white house bureau chief for the "washington post," jeremy peters political reporter for the "new york times" ] shannon petty piece from bloomberg and michael crowley, senior affairs correspondent for politico. mr. rucker, you contributed to a piece in the "washington post" tonight by abby philip, the headline a million miles an hour. inside trump's campaign when trump junior met with russian lawyer. because it's still the story, because it has changed the direction and scope of the investigation and it's still germane, take us back as a result of your reporting. what was going on at that time that week, that day? >> yeah, so this was a really critical moment in the campaign. it was as the primaries were transitioning into the general election. donald trump had become effectively the republican nominee but had not yet secured the nomination. there was all this talk about a delegate fight at the upcoming convention. but he was behind hillary clinton in the polls. he was getting hit by her. he was underfunded. he didn't have the political organization in place. he didn't ha

msnbc contributor and reporter "new york times" jeremy peters joins me now along with my panel eddie d mike. so, jeremy, trump strategy right now does seem to be insulting, threatening. but the very people he would need if health care legislation is going to actually get through, i mean, it's interesting. do you think that he's convinced this is the way to go? i have to say when he tweets something like why should congress not be paying what the public pays, that's the kind of olike common sense thing that help get him elected. >> that's exactly right. what's going on here, chris, trump is doing what he does best. which is finding someone else to blame. so far republican voters, conservative voters and the activist groups that have been pushing an obamacare repeal for the better part of seven years now have blamed the republican congress and not president trump. so, he's able to, so far at least, deflect some of the criticism for failing to push through what was a promise that he and the republican party have made. you know, i don't know how long that works, but for now, he seems to b

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correspondent andrea mitchell is here with us tonight, politics reporter for the "new york times" jeremy peters co-author of today's front page article in trump's world very weak sessions twist in wind and michael schmidt who covers national security at the "times." welcome to you all. mr. schmidt, you're going to get the first question because you cover justice and then some. i suppose you're getting asked this a lot. it may be unanswerable. is sessions safe? if so, for how long? >> well, i think at least for now, he looks like he is safe. it looks like the folks around the president were able to convince him that this would be a very, very bad thing to do. i think the president has seen that he, the huge fallout from the comey firing and the impact of that. and i think that he's afraid of what could happen, you know, certainly the people around him are afraid of what could happen if he were to fire sessions and implications of that. i think there's a real fear that the republican congress which has largely supported him may actually back off that support and may create some problems for the p

and "new york times" political reporter and msnbc contributor as well, jeremy peters.u wrote earlier this week about the hurricane hitting the white house. and now there is more of a hurricane. they're ramping up the legal team with the admission of ty cob as another expert, experienced washington lawyer. how do you deal with the fact that don junior didn't tell anybody there was this russian operative, former -- former counter intelligence official, also at that meeting? >> well, i think that's incredibly problematic. and that's one thing the white house has been grappling with, is that they don't seem to have the full scope of information, and they're sort of handling it in this drip, drip, drip. oftentimes, as it's presented to them by the news media, which is how you don't want to handle sort of crisis communications. and another problem is that this white house already had a lot of factions even in terms of just pr people. there's the press shop and people who sort of handle pr for the president and jared kushner and ivanka. and with don junior, he's now another p

joining that discussion right now, jeremy peters, ace political reporter for the "new york times" andnbc contributor. jeremy, the mood on capitol hill, we keep trying to get at it. it's very difficult to get at it. the difficulty that so many republicans must be in but are not really talking about. >> exactly, mike. and once again you have republicans having to answer questions about the latest donald trump controversy rather than talking about what they're accomplishing. even if they were accomplishing much, which they are not. it would be very, very hard to move on from the fact the donald trump russia scandals are casting a huge cloud over the republican party. in that bite you just played ted cruz is right in one crucial key respect, that voters back home in a lot of conservative-leaning states aren't really asking about russia. i've been to a lot of these states, and i've covered town halls like this. you don't hear a lot of it when you go door to door with campaigns, especially in the one that just happened in georgia which i covered. however, what you do hear is a sense of fati

>> joining us now, jeremy peters. good to talk to you.tol hill you have a contention that republicans are more concerned about looking not corrupt but incompetent. tell us about it. >> well, it all boils down to the question of are they able to govern. this was, after all what t vote them the house, the senate and the white house and ultimately voters did that of course. and one of the things you hear when you go into districts, i heard this a lot, especially when i was reporting on the 6th district race between handel and ossoff in georgia, come on, guys, we deliver all of this to you and you can't even pass a health care vote? it was a real demoralizing moment. while some of the energy -- or the air has come out of the balloon on health care and conservative groups like the koch networks have pulled up their anchors and is giving up, their energy is shifting toward tax reform. if you doesn't see a legislative victory for republicans on tax reform this year, this could be a really water shed moments where it will prove that under trump w

. >> thank you, peter alexander. >>> jeremy bash, nbc security analyst. let's pick up where peter just left off. donald trump jr. and the peting with a lawyer that some say has links to the kremlin. how devastating would that be? >> it's devastating they never met with any russian and had no intent to collude with russian operatives. and campaigns often times look for opposition research. but here, we're talking about a foreign adversary government working with a u.s. presidentia. >> the idea that you would have paul manafort and donald trump jr. with an attorney in a room, does that smell right to you? >> it doesn't. and the meeting was billed by donald jr. to his colleagues on the campaign, to the campaign ja chairman, as a way to affect the outcome of the election. this is what everything people have been looking for. this is not only devastating to the narrative. i think it's potentially incriminating. >> now, we have conflicting stories about how hard the president pressed putin about the election meddling. and the russians say one thing. and now, sec

peter alexander and ashley parker and white house reporter for the washington post. ken dilanian, national security reporter and jeremy bash, national security analyst and former chief of staff for the cia and department of defense. peter, i want to get you right here. we just heard new reaction from the white house. sarah huckabee sanders in her off camera briefing was asked about this repeatedly. let's walk through the highlights. >> reporter: well, that was the highing -- hiring of alan futerfas, working on behalf of donald trump jr. he's a 25 year veteran of criminal defense cases whose expert east is in ethics investigations. that's the breaking news within the last minutes and specific to your questions about sarah huckabee sanders the deputy press secretary is speaking off camera a short time ago. following the defense we have heard from other white house officials. first kellyanne conway. among them today saying that donald trump jr. did nothing wrong and remains no evidence and there was no collusion between trump campaign officials and any russian operatives. here's sarah huckabee sanders in her own words a

>> let me bring jeremy bash into the conversation. can you pick up on what peters talking about, about sort of the multidimensional nature of a full scale bilat with vladimir putin with a civil war raging in syria and with north korea becoming more and more aggressive and determined and with the cloud for lack of a better word of the investigation into potential collusion between president trump's orbit and the russian government. >> any other president would use this meeting as an opportunity to put the proverbial finger in the chest of putin and say, hey, buddy, we have clear differences. yeah, i'm willing to work with you on some things like countering radical terrorism. but before we can talk about working together on some things we have to talk about some important differences. we do not support what you're doing in ukraine. we do not support what you're doing to threaten our allies in nato. we do not support what you're doing to prop up assad and push us out of the way in syria. overriding all of those is the fact that you meddled in our most precious instit

jeremy corbyn. this is bloomberg. ♪ rishaad: let's continue our conversation with the former eu trade commissioner peter mandelson.-20, but let's talk >> it and british politics. you were saying this deal the eu has signed with japan, the free trade agreement, took years and coming, and other deals as well. how do theresa may and company hoped to get the trade deals lined up >> it does take place in two years. have you been tapped for a job? >> not yet. and i don't know who is going to negotiate these great free trade deals, partly because we can't begin to negotiate until we are out of the european union to . free trade agreements are not like fruit waiting to be plucked from low hanging branches around the world. they are tough things to negotiate, and there have to be real advantages and benefits on both sides. you are sounding pretty bearish in terms of the optimism there, peter. >> i am being realistic. when i was trade commissioner, i came in in 2004. within 18 months of my arrival, i lifted the moratorium on negotiation of bilateral trade agreements between the european union and the rest of the world. we a

>> peter alexander, thank you very much. jeremy, come on back in here for a second. you worked with general john kelly. you know the guy. you know his personality. all this talk about back-stabbing and infighting in the west wing of white house. does he have the personality to accept that or deal with it? how is it going to hand tell? >> no, he won't tolerate that. i know john very well. he and his wife, karen, are the real deal. they are patriots. they have given the ultimate sacrifice. they lost their son, robert, killed in action in afghanistan. november 9th, 2010. they know the meaning of public service. i think john is doing this job for the right reasons. he will be able to succeed if and this is a colossal if, if the president gives him the authority to end the chaos and dysfunction in presidential decisionmaking. it's unclear if the president will do that. >> and if the president listens to him. >> that's right. the president has to take his advice. and he has to make clear that john is in charge of the entire staff. there aren't just pop-up walk-ins that are

>> peter, thank you very much. >>> let's bring in jeremy bash. good morning to you. >> good morning, savannah. >> let's start with all this going on around jeff sessions. we saw the president trash sessions to "the new york times" last week. now, he tweeted, called him beleaguered. he rolled his eyes. you once staffed a cabinet member. can you put in perspective how unusual this is. >> it's astounding. the president of the united states is online bullying the attorney general. he's trying to twitter-shame him into quitting his post. let's make no mistake. what the president is trying to do is trying to say, sessions get out of the way so i can put in my own attorney general, who will fire bob mueller and shut down this russian investigation. >> if you were advising jeff sessions, what would you tell him to do? should he quit? >> don't quit. >> i think he should make the president man up and fire him. if the attorney general wants to stand his ground, he should be able to do so. >> carson daly, good morning. jared kushner, another busy day in fron

back to the program jeremy the interior minister says the country expects freshened to interfere in september's general election peter on the how to tell interior minister thomas to marry as they were speaking at a press conference here in berlin where he said that in his opinion russia will try and influence the twenty seventeen general election here in germany he said that he expects data that was stolen during a computer on the bundestag back in twenty fifteen will be made public over the coming weeks now back in twenty fifty when that happened or fingers of blame were pointed out of russia however still no proof of an investigation was proved that it had to be a russia had any involvement in that subtle longside him at the same time was hans mohsen he's the head of germany's interior security services the bear file very similar in many ways to say m i five in the u.k. or the f.b.i. in the united states he said that there wasn't any indication that russia would try to influence any particular or support any particular candidate or party which then clover or begs the question why would they do it in the first place

jeremy. bash is an nbc national supreme court analyst. let's pick up where peter left off, donald trump jr.nd this meeting with links to the kremlin. >> it is devastating to their narrative they never met with any russians and they had no intent to collude with russian government operatives to affect the outcome of the 2016 election. i will say that campaigns oftentimes look for opposition research but we are talking about a foreign adversary government working with a u.s. campaign. it is unprecedented. >> this idea they didn't think that the meeting itself may have been campaign related, you would have paul manafort, you would have donald trump jr. together with this attorney in a room, does that smell right to you? >> no, it doesn't. in fact, the meeting was billed leagues on the campaign, to the campaign chairman and to the president's son-in-law as a way to work with the russian government operative to effect the outcome of the election. this ever everything in effect is what they're looking for. i think it is potentially incriminating. >> let's talk about the meeting the president had

jeremy corbyn? we will ask him later. the have a midmorning interview with him. 20 of questions. some suggest he could be the new prime minister. what would that mean for the uk's economy? peterould the market react? the first impact, particularly in the gilt markets, would probably be looking at how much spending the labor government is putting out and that is probably going to be yield increase at the long end of the curve. i guess the initial reaction would also be negative for sterling but one has to see because there is a range of other things. that is the way i would be looking. guy: is that going to go up anyway? look at theu just manifestoes put out before the election, it was evident the government less likely to spend is the one we currently have. things have turned out a little differently. we will have to see. that is the current debate. how much relative to what the opposition is opposing remains to be seen. guy: borrowing will go up? the debate in the u.k. is centered around a number of polls, one of which is public sector. the wage story and spending on public services and whether -- where the wage gap goes. the pressure is mounting and you wonder whether that

jeremy bash, ourexusive. >>> there's mounting pressure for jared kushner, trump's son-in-law and senior officer, to resign over his participation in it. peter alexander with this piece of the puzzle. peter, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. once hailed by his father-in-law, as a plrodigy, sy they he is full steam ahead. there's a growing chorus of democrats calling for the son-in-law to lose his access to the nation's secrets or simply to be fired. not beside the president in paris. instead, jared kushner and his wife, ivanka trump, were in idaho. this morning, kushner is the focus of renewed questions in the light of revelations that he, paul manafort and donald trump jr. met with a kremlin lawyer. a kushner confidant telling nbc news that kushner has amended that three times. adding 100 foreign contacts, all of them undisclosed, including the russian ambassador and head of a russian state-owned bank. kushner's lawyer says the form was prematurely entered with errors. the 36-year-old is drawing fire from democrats, calling for his security clearance to be revoked or kushner to be removed. >> any other white house, somebody that had