julia michaels.o you think thnch. >> this is amazing, i can't believe it. >> you're going to perform, we're so happy to have you. >> i'm so happy to be here. this is amazing. >> we have a concert with julia michaels. she's wherein fritten for every. more on that coming up. >> we're going to get to that concert in the next half hours. >>> this bomb shell allegation breaking over night about what president trump knew and when he knew it about the trump tower meeting. the russian meddling and the 2016 election, and nbc national correspondent with the latest. >> literally within the last couple of minutes the president responding on twitter dismissing reporting that his former lawyer is willing to inform robert mueller that when he was a candidate donald trump knew about the meeting ahead of time. the president writes i did not know of the meeting. sounds to me like someone is making up stories to get himself out of a unrelated jam. this morning here is where things stand. >> reporter: new overnight a so

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for more on the president's relationship with vladimir putin i'm joined by julia ioffe, correspondent for gq and michael isikoff with yahoo! news and co-author of "russian rule evident: the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump." julia, what do you make of what we've been talking about so far? at some point one goes tired of thinking the president's just not listening to his advisers or the president must know better. you've got to arrive at the conclusion that he knew what he was doing. the whole world told him he wasn't prepared for this meeting and he said he'd been preparing all his life for it. he went in there apparently knowing what he was doing. >> i think that's probably true. i think he went in there knowing that he was meeting with a man who expressed a clear preference for him during the election, after the election. donald trump has seen even more than we've seen in terms of classified intelligence on what the russians did to help him win. so you know, and i think that he -- you know, he again thinks it was a brilliant campaign, the russians helped a little

doing the honors on friday, rising pop star julia michaels.friday. she's written songs for justin bieber. she wrote "sorry." now she's singing on her own. >> she's got issues. >> i see her concert and raise you one concert by one country superstar keith urban. he's going to be here next thursday. he wants all of us to pick one of his songs. let me tell you, here they are. wasted time and somewhere in my car. use the hashtag. >> you can program his concert right here. we have a great crowd moment. let's go over here. where is yolanda and preston. give it up, everybody. how are you guys? where are you from? >> thanks. mississippi. >> i heard you had tough travels here. >> a little bit. >> how much were you delayed? >> about twelve hours delayed. >> we were supposed to be here yesterday. >> but we made it to the "today" show. >> yes, you did. i love your sign here. tell me who made the sign. >> my boyfriend preston made it. >> was that a surprise to you? >> yes, it was. >> did you know you were coming here? >> i knew it but i didn't know he made

a rising pop star, julia michael. going to take the stage tomorrow.as just talking to them. they he the absolute best sign i've ever seen. i love this. e've got our today show family. we're working their family into the sign. whose idea was it for the sign? >> mine. >> yours? >> yes. >> did anybody help youaket? >> all three of us made it last night. >> where are you guys from? >> kansas city. >> you're on an east coast sa eventure. we lhis sign. we love having you here. have fun. love them being part of our family too. >> how cute was that? >> adorable. >> i've got another great sign. i'm missing fortnite. if you have a child, you know this. that's a sacrifice,nick. thank you for being here. >>> coming up as you saw before the break, we are honod to have a true hollywood legend in the house. the remarkable glenn close is he reviews, early oscar buzz. >>> getting more stuff for last. we've got jill here with steals and deals full of barga bundles for your face and body and home. >> then it's taco time. how to put a fresh summer spin on somethingry eon

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julia ainsley. and danny. good to see you all of you. michael cohen having his name dragged through the mud and into this federal investigation. i want to remind people what he said then. >> it is not comfortable but i am okay with it personally because it benefits mr. trump and i will do anything to protect mr. trump, the family and now vice president-elect pence. >> of course, the difference now is he's facing the real possibility of an indictment and possibly being separated from his family. different message now. it is. >> i actually don't think the message is directed at the president. i think it is directed at everyone else in the universe. prosecutors and law enforcement and the public and everyone the press. what michael cohen is saying and it is a smart strategy. in reality, i am a family man and i respect this country and i

we have julia coronado plus michael mckee and jerome schneider.on the t word. trust. did we destroy a little bit of trust with this cnbc interview yesterday? i think it puts into question their ability to maneuver but ultimately the fed were being that. it's the data. jerome powell is going to maintain his trust in that structure and normalize monetary policy in that regard. did you see any movement? jerome: rates rallied a little bit with the possibility that the fed doesn't normalizes quickly. if you look at where we are and more importantly the iterative fed program, they are still gunning for a 3.4% tim and a rate over the perceivable horizon. bright.s is let's go to the iterative wonder, michael mckee. does the press conference change with jerome powell now? he has to respond. it will depend on whether he has an opportunity to september because there's no press conference and no dots for the august cap -- calendar. tom: it's a different world, mike. living in al is news transfer media that mcchesney martin and and earns never knew. -- and bur

stand up and have to face legal consequences, they often back down. >> and the michael cohen tape being one headline. julia, this now, of course, coming on the heels of the helsinki summit. president trump's back and forth on russia mudd meddling and now inviting president putin to washington. the post says this morning that russia continues to shape the narrative of the helsinki summit. especially about the narrative that the two made. what does it mean to have president trump tell the american people what he agreed to during that private meeting with vladimir putin? >> i think there's a split in the white house. we've seen reports that chief of staff john kelly has has, you know, reportedly pushed republicans on capitol hill to come out at least, you know, privately against the president, but we've seen many of them come out publicly kind of in a signal to our nato allies, you know, as a way of saying we're not going to let russia come between us. we are on your side. within the white house i think there are two different camps on this. i think you have president trump and many of his staff that disagree

a criminal defense point of view. >> erin, that relationship between michael cohen and donald trump, we played the tape there, julia talking about maybe cohen doesn't feel the president has his back. and the president down-playing the relationship, and at the same time i've always liked michael cohen. do we have any sense how this new turn by michael cohen, how trump is interpreting it. >> it is the trumpian. putting out these bizarre statements. we are trying to figure out if he is being strategic or worried about his image. if this is about him trying to run a pr campaign, the idea that this is going to have impact in the long run is short cited. if he is going to be the john dean of this case, that is determined at a later date. the idea that people are going to remember this interview with george stephanopoulos from july of 2018, is short-sighted. it doesn't seem to be sound advice. >> michael flynn will make his first hearing. quote the repeated delays in flynn's sentencing has led to speculation that prosecutors believe his testimony could be useful at some future trial or that the sentencing process might di

julia ainsley, national security and justice reporter. michael mcfaul, former u.s. ambassador to russia. also the author of a new book, "from cold war to hot peace." michael, i want to start with you. i think it's important to realize that when donald trump tells americans about what with regard to nato is good for the united states, i think it's important to realize that only once in the history of the nato alliance was the so-called article v invoked, the idea that an attack on one is an attack on all, and all the 22 countries come to the aid -- there are now 22 countries -- of the attacked country. only once in history has that actually happened. >> that's right. and after it happened, many of those countries sent their soldiers to die in afghanistan next to american soldiers. and they were there for several years. i think up to 1,100 soldiers died from countries all throughout the nato alliance. so when we talk about what they have done for us, they've given their ultimate sacrifice for us. remember, we were attacked. canada wasn't attacked. germany was attacked

julia, are we reading too deeply into this? >> you know, i don't think so necessarily. michael been sending a lot of signals this week really starting with the george papadopoulus interview and cnn also reported that michael cohen told a friend that he's not so sure that the president will pardon him and he's leaning toward thinking the president won't pardon him if that comes down to it. so there was a lot of debate after the abc interview basically saying well, is he signaling to the president that he's looking for help or is he signaling that he's willing to cooperate and we're seeing that with these signs on social media, his talking to friends and what he's been saying. it seems like he's leaning away from the president, really focusing on himself and trying to distance himself. >> meanwhile, michael cohen picked a long time bill clinton confidant as an advisor. is this another sign he could flip? >> he obviously spoke to george, michael cohen hires as a lawyer someone who worked for clinton. all he sees is you're either with me or against me, michael cohen is clearly putt

obviously they are in a position to make a lot of money if it michael n the way that bell wants it. juliaball, soccer. mean.: i know what you julia: thank you. david: i watched it. ulia: there were incredible games. david: france-argentina great match. they are in. jason: cristiano ronaldo and messi out. said that they'd be out and russia in, what? julia: i know. if there's a shootout after two overtimes, they played their , the whole max on end of the pitch. jason: they did, the first time years, i believe that there was - it went to penalty a ks in both of the games on single day. all penalty kicks. exciting. jason: amazing saves, russian saves unbelievable. nearly as exciting as lebron james playing for the cleveland board, back to cleveland and now to l.a. la land. it ain't show friends, show home and the lakers - this is a huge move and shows - talked about this offset on the desk. it is during. the brass ring to own a basketball team or a know a sports team, you lot of guys that do. it's tough. dan gil bert. a tough day for dan gilbert eveners,other teams and including the 76ers mad

julia looking happy, healthy and fit. rocking a bikini nearly six months since undergoing surgery for breast cancer. so great seeing her doing so well. >>> thankfully, so is michaelle's 4-year-old son noah. two years after michael stepped away from the spotlight to focus on noah's cancer treatment, buble is back and sitting down exclusively with "e.t." canada 's cheryl hickey to talk about the darkest time in his life. >> the perspective came on halloween, which was the day that we got the diagnosis, and my whole life changed and my perspective on life, my philosophical idea of what it's all about and what matters just in one snap it changed. >> his mom revealed they were in argentina when he was diagnosed with mumps, when further tests revealed he had cancer. the family sought treatment in the u.s. michael said they couldn't have gotten through the ordeal without the spot of their families. >> i wish that we never -- that my boy never had to go through all the things that he had to go my sisters took their kids out of school both, they left their jobs, they left everything and they came to be with us and they just held us. coming back like this, because people c

julia, the southern district of new york. give me a distinction here. what's going on? >> we don't know michael cohen's strategy. >> i totally want to say of jim's reporting, what jim will never tell us as he should not is michael cohen is the source. we don't know that at this stage. if the reporting is accurate, what does it say? that says this is the first time and news organization has reported that someone in the room or close to the discussion of the june 9th meeting is willing to testify in some manner that donald trump knew about it before. he knew about it after and he lied about it. he's the one that air force one, drafting the faith press relief about the russians. he knows about it before. one has to assume that he knows the substance. >> can i pose this to you? this is from a legal mind. i think i can go to jack. >> this person says you have to remember, 90% of crime cases involved with key testimony. it is the basic m.o. of prosecutors, putting those witnesses on the stand and more importantly corroborating information makes them sufficiently credible. sammy the bull, had a lot mo

julia: huge uncertainty. rufus, great to have you with yerxafus usurer -- rufus and michael mckee.elle, very small so far, but the prospect is limitless. investors can go about this in two ways, the direct impact would involve greater escalation of these terrorists which could reduce output -- these terrorists -- tariffs which could reduce output. i think we are very much on watch for both of these factors and for the uncertainty. david: have we seen any direct effect yet? gabriella: we haven't seen any yet. you did see a little bit of a drop in output expectations, that could be an expectation of some of these trade tensions but not big enough to train -- to change the growth picture. thea: how do you invest in second half of this year in light of everything we discussed? gabriela: we still maintain a risk bias. we still want to be a little bit overweight equities relative to fixed income. we don't want to swing too far because we have a lot of uncertainty. regionally, we want to focus on the u.s. as a safer trade and because we are seeing good growth, but we don't want to forget

to help break down the latest on michael cohen and the manafort trial i'm joined by nbc news national security and justice reporter julia ainsley, who has been covering both. julia, let's start with manafort. the two big pieces of news today, the five witnesses being unveil unveiled. my sense were those names were all new toefrn covering the trial. >> they were to me p. and they're definitely not household names. i thought what was significant, chris, is the name that wasn't on that list, and that's the lobbyist tony podesta who coincidentally he's the brother of john podesta, whose e-mails were hacked and have been investigated through the mueller probe. but tony podesta is a lobbyist who ran the podesta group, now defunct, really as a result of this work he did with paul manafort when paul manafort was working for pro-russian interests in ukraine and those financial dealings are at the heart of this whole matter. we knew, tom winter and i reported last fall that tony podesta was under some scrutiny by bob mueller. sought fact he's not on this list could mean two things. it could mean that robert mueller simply isn't a

michael cohen recording those tapes? i think you know, the president has tried to go after him for that. >> i think a lot of people want to know that reason. >> julia, let me play for you what rudy giuliani said right after this allegation was made. let's listen. >> ip expected something like this from cohen. he's been lying for years. i don't see if he had any credibility. if you had a trial and there won't be a trial, which lie do you want to pick? the first lie, the second lie, some new lie? there's nobody that knows him that hasn't warned me that if he's backed up against a wall he'll lie like crazy. >> just a few weeks ago president trump and rudy giuliani were singing his praises saying what a big guy he was and doesn't this speak to how much the president's inner circle has changed since the beginning of the campaign and his presidency? >> it absolutely does. if there were so many allegations against michael cohen from those around the president about him lying for so many years as rudy giuliani says, then why did the president keep him so close and keep him so close as a confidant? i mean, those statements don't seem to make sense to me rea

michael bloomberg and barry diller it will be a busy day. we'll have lots more from sun valley. >> those arrivals never get old, julia.ou can tell it's a little chilly there, too. julia borstein up early to bring us guests from sun valley. walter, allen and company is inconsequential, do you think it will make a ripple effect regarding disney and comcast >> sure. i would love to be out there with julia today because that's really, other than the nato summit, an amazing c conglomeration of people to be competitors or coop ray or th--r the -- cooperators you have fox, disney and comcast, all who have leaders out at sun valley today. the leaders are very smart about bob iger or you can't divvy this up because you'll have enormous losses but as each says something publicly, perhaps if comcast gets sky tv, it will be less likely to have to bid for the fox asset. and it will be more difficult to bid for the fox asset. so that is in disney's interest. so even without any collusion just in the atmosphere, the charged particles out there in sun valley, you can probably see some virtual deal making happening. but being careful

michael cohen. >>> two people are sickened by an agent that allegedly sickened an ex-spy. here is juliae again police are investigating, this time in amesbury in this brand new housing community that's only been open for a few months. this small town miles away from salisbury where in march a former spy and his daughter were poisoned by a nerve agent. they're in a critical condition, being treated in the same hospital as sergei and yulia skripal. experts are assisting with the investigation and police have taped off areas nearby where the couple are known to have visited before they became ill. the incident a few months ago is still on everyone's minds here. but it's still just a low-level police presence for now. authorities say it's uncertain if there's any kind of connection with the attack on the skripals. police for now keeping an open mind. julia mcfarland, abc news. >>> people across the country celebrated the fourth of july by becoming citizens. some of the nation's newest citizens shed tears of joy as they sang the national anthem and recited the pledge of allegiance. on this c

julia davis, national security. veterans administration. public school system. judicial corruption. i'm going back to you. michael horwitz is here. he is the inspector general of the department of justice. he is responsible for the oversight of the fbi. since 2015, he is also served as chair of the council of the inspectors general on integrity and efficiency. an organization comprised of all 73 federal inspectors general. this is a very important man. he is one of the good guys. please, come forward. >> thank you for the very kind introduction. thank you for having me today. this is tremendously important, steve makingate time available so i could be here today. i had agreed to speak down the street. at a judge's invitation. very much appreciate steve making time in the soft me to be here. seven iimportant and want to be here to speak to you about. follownown as going to the senator, i am not sure i would've come back even later to speak. what great presentations and discussions. do aslue all that you whistleblowers to come forward. this is the 40th anniversary of the passage of the -- in 1978. we had an event here in the capita

julia, let me start with you. you know, she got in the same room with some really important people again and again, the national prayer breakfast, general michael2017. donald trump, jr. at an nra event. donald trump himself at a campaign event in las vegas. i mean, that's pretty impressive. i don't know anybody who could have pulled off that trifecta that easily. how sophisticated was she? >> she seems like she's pretty sophisticated. you know, i have to say that that january 2017 national prayer breakfast, there were a lot of other russian politicians there and there were others trying to come whose either invitations or trips got scuttled for various reasons. it was kind of the dawn of this weird symbiosis between russia and the u.s. what is interesting about butina is not so much her -- what she was doing here. it's that she was constantly relaying it back to alexander tortian back in russia. he is a really important figure. he headed the central bank. he was a russian senator. but more importantly he was named by spanish -- the spanish law enforcement as being very kind of heading up an organized criminal group that was laundering russian m

julia. i just wanted to get your take real quick on facebook and whether you think this is oversold, undersold? >> it's michael'sny to cover. it is an extraordinary thing for somebody who covers telephone companies where at&t is growing at negative 3% to see a company where 30% growth is a giant miss and projecting 30% growth in the second half is terribly disappointing is an extraordinary thing. i think michael's argument is that probably the guidance -- >> michael >> michael nathanson. his argument is they're being a bit conservative and the phrase he used, there's -- we're sorry and look we're paying for it in all kinds of way. >> lowering the temperature, lowering the bar now and maybe to the extent that they have outperformed even their own expectations in previous quarters we go back to that cycle in the future. >> i think that's the suspicion. that's not to say that there's nothing going on here. >> there's no incentive for them to come out and say everything's great, we're set up perfectly heading into the midterm elections. >> that's right and making the arguments that privacy is so much stricter it's g