. >> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt. we are live from washington every sunday night from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight we began with the kasie dvr for a change. and the mad cap cycle of rudy junian i's own making. the "the new york times" is reporting president trump knew about that $130,000 hush money payment to adult film actress stormy daniels months before denying any knowledge of it to reporters aboard air force one in early april. that is according to two people familiar with the arrangement. we should point out that the president's outside legal counsel would not comment on the times story. meanwhile giuliani confirmed on wednesday the president reimbursed his attorney michael cohen for that payment. that was a comment that stunned many of the president's own advisors and led to more than one clarification. >>> that wasn't confusing or anything. and when you separate it all out, it doesn't really become any clearer. >> that money was not campaign money. sorry, i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know. it

"kasie d.c."asie hunt. we are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, be cool. it will all workout. that is the president of the united states talking about china. plus, leaks and the leaking leakers who leak them. inside the art of sabotage in the trump white house. >>> and i talk with senator joe manchin about the looming fight he faces. later carlos curbelo and others taking things into their hands to deal with immigration. >>> but first the senior senator from arizona has endured insult after insult this week. at one point labelled songbird john, a reference to his time as a p.o.w. and while discussing votes for cia director gina haspel who mccain opposes, white house special assistant kelly sadler said, quote, it doesn't matter, he's dying anyway. apology for those comments. apology for those comments. >>> here's the white house's apology for those comments. >> does the white house not think you need to condemn these remarks or comments -- >> again, i'm not

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>>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt. we are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, breaking news. major development in the mueller investigation. as it hits its first anniversary, if you're shopping at home that's paper anniversary. plus, school turns deadly again. we'll talk about whether the will to do anything in washington has lost steam again. >>> and i'll have an exclusive interview with former secretary of education arne duncan who says students should boycott their schools until the laws change. >>> and later, my conversation with senator kiersten gillibrand. but first we are following a wave of breaking news. rudy giuliani tells "the new york times" and nbc news robert mueller will seek to conclude his investigation into collusion with russia by september 1st. so far we have not heard anything from the special counsel ourselves. robert costa from the washington post reports an important asterisk. that deadline might hold true if the president sits for an interview. at the same

♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, plans for a north korea summit hit a snag. as an initial coin offering from the white house falls flat. >>> plus, my exclusive conversation with senator james lankford. we talk about the president's insistence his campaign was spied on and we learn the senator is working secretly behind closed doors with a bipartisan group to resolve daca. >>> but first, we are trying to answer a simple question. will the president actually be able to have a summit on june 12th with north korean leader kim jong-un after he abruptly canceled it? on friday, "the new york times" wrote the following. quote, a senior white house official told reporters that even if the meeting were reinstated holding it on june 12 would be impossible given the lack of time needed. president trump 1307bded on twitter with this false accusation. quote, the failing "the new york times" quotes a senior white house official who doesn't exist, use real

. >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt. we are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, breaking news. major development in the mueller investigation. as it hits its first anniversary, if you're shopping at home that's paper anniversary. plus, school turns deadly again. we'll talk about whether the will to do anything in washington has lost steam again. >>> and i'll have an exclusive interview with former secretary of education arne duncan who says students should boycott their schools until the laws change. >>> and later, my conversation with senator kiersten gillibrand. but first we are flowing a wave of breaking news. rudy giuliani tells "the new

huge game seven win and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, host of "kasie d.c." on msnbc, kasie hunt. >> i want to chime in that every time i hear this kasie d.c./ac/dc thing. i think about the battle between westi westinghouse battle between when we should have ac current or d.c. current. >> holy moly, ladies and gentlemen, playing the role of jon meachum today, steve rattner. >> where we started, steve said, listen when you introduce kasie, i got something i want to say. i wonder what's coming in here. it was about thomas edison and westinghouse. >> i think we should devote 15 minutes of the show, it's been bothering me. >> mika is attending her daughter's college graduation, we look forward to seeing her back in a couple of days. >> big stuff, man, big stuff. of all the things yesterday that concern me the most, and there's so many things that are concerning me, i think we need to talk to ignatius and ask him if he's going to be an apologist for russian conspiracy, that's being launched in washington, d.c. in front of our very eyes and they don't even apologize

. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt. to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, breaking news. major development in the mueller investigation. as it hits its first anniversary, if you're shopping at home that's paper anniversary. plus, school turns deadly again. we'll talk about whether the will to do anything in washington has lost steam again. >>> and i'll have an exclusive interview with former secretary of education arne duncan who says students should boycott their schools until the laws change.

. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt. every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, plans for a north korea summit hit a snag. as an initial coin offering from the white house falls flat. >>> plus, my exclusive conversation with senator james lankford. we talk about the president's insistence his campaign was spied on and we learn the senator is working secretly behind closed doors with a bipartisan group to resolve daca. >>> but first, we are trying to answer a simple question. will the president actually be able to have a summit on june 12th with north korean leader kim jong-un after he abruptly

editor for the "washington post," david ignatius and nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d.cre we skipping it in. >> because of this. richard we're going to get to the news, but one of, one of the more concerning days in the middle east, in some time you could look at the chaos as "the wall street journal" says, that spread across gaza, and across the region yesterday. you could also look at what happened in iraq and america's sworn enemy throughout most of the iraq war. actually his, his, his group of politicians doing better than anybody else, does show you what a waste, an

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we'll get to that this morning and in washington, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d.c. on msnbc, kasie hunt. >> you wanted to start the show differently. willie and i you know what we do before the show. we go down the newsletter and the orphanage and we do that work at least. but on the way up from the orphanage, i just -- i saw i think it was guy vincent had tweeted out, hey, i'm all for investigating what we need to investigate. there's one thing that keeps bothering me. that is, if the deep state was really conspiring so elect donald trump, i just can't sort through this. why, why did they keep the investigation of donald trump private before the election, but of course comey sent out the letter ten days before -- i got to say -- if that in fact was the deep state trying to play puppet master, they are really bad at what they do. and "the new york times," one of the few times we'll say this "the new york times" editorial board, they write this about trump v. the department of justice. write quote there was a sophisticated multi-year conspiracy by russian government

on "kasie d.c." you can follow me on twitter or instagram. "deadline white house" with my friend nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york as another shoe drops in the obstruction of justice investigation into the president, donald trump flexes his pardon power to send a message. "the new york times" out with a stunning new report about a secret memo written by then acting fbi director andy mccabe with what the times describes as, quote, behind the scenes details on the firing of james comey. an event known to be under scrutiny by special counsel robert mueller. two days, two big developments in what we know about the obstruction of justice investigation. and the latest moves raising eyebrows at the white house? well, donald trump unexpectedly announcing a full pardon this morning for dinesh d'souza, a conservative commentator who pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations similar to the charges trump's former fixer michael cohen could be facing. he also hinted at more pardons to come for former stars of the

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and be sure to catch "kasie d.c." sundays at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc.nks so much for watching. "deadline white house" with my friend nicolle wallace starts right now. /s >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in washington, d.c. rudy giuliani's associates haar starting to express concern that the former mayor may be in over his head. two sources close to giuliani say they advise him against repping his pal donald trump, and one this morning saying he advised giuliani against sitting for the abc interview yesterday that landed the mayor in more hot water. the ensuing media storm and questions about whether giuliani is exposing trump to more legal liability touched a raw presidential nerve today and resulted in an early morning tweet storm. the president writing, quote, the russia witch hunt is rapidly losing credibility. house intelligence committee found no collusion or anything else with russia. so now the probe says, okay, what else is there? how about obstruction for a made-up phony

on "kasie d.c." you can follow me on twitter or instagram.house" with my friend nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york as another shoe drops in the obstruction of justice investigation into the president, donald trump flexes his pardon power to send a message. "the new york times" out with a stunning new report about a secret memo written by then acting fbi director andy mccabe with what the times describes as, quote, behind the scenes details on the firing of james comey. an event known to be under scrutiny by special counsel robert mueller. two days, two big developments in what we know about the obstruction of justice

new york times" and msnbc political analyst nick compasori and nbc news correspondent and host of kasie d.c. on msnbc, kasie hunt on set. still good with that? >> are you sick of that yet? don't get sick of that. >> i love her show on sunday night. >> it gets you ready for the week. kasie d.c. >> you have been waiting a long time. >> just to talk to her, willie? >> it's been worth the wait. >> it's been a long ride. >> and cj behind me, he's been waiting, too. >> there he is. we're going to get to -- the rose anne story, that was staggering in just a minute. great action i think by abc. >> quick, too. >> they acted quickly. >> they're on the west coast. when this stuff broke -- >> they went at it. >> anybody that has friends who work on the west coast, they don't get into the office until about 11:30. they have lunch at 1:00 and then, they got to go to a thing by 3:00. >> it's pretty crazy. absolutely horrendous what she tweeted. really raises issues about the level of racism that people don't even understand is you know, simmering between below the surface. >> i mean -- >> gene and i talk

host of kasie d.c. on msnbc. rsation, nbc news chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell. >> we're sorry, andrea. it's a bad morning. >> it gets worse. >> i'm here to protect kasie. >> and also the former nato supreme allied commander -- >> he might lob a missile at us. >> -- retired four star navy admiral, shame on you all, james stavridis. he's chief international security and diplomacy analyst for nbc news and msnbc. i will say the title is a little long, admiral. >> mika, come on. what do you have to do here? blah blah blah, admiral, awesome. >> andrea mitchell, a real thrill for you yesterday. i think it was yesterday. you got to deliver the commencement address at your alma mater. >> that was amazing. >> it was an amazing honor. i felt overwhelmed, just the joy. those kids are so smart. thousands of kids and their parents, of course in franklin field in an historic stadium so it was beautiful. quite a day for me. >> let's launch. president trump suggested sunday he wanted to help save chinese jobs.

join us for dateline at 7:00, >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.nited states talking about china. plus, leaks and the leaking leakers who leak them. inside the art of sabotage in the trump white house. >>> and i talk with senatojo

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correspondent at the "new york times," mark mazzetti and nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of "kasie d.cunt. >> metallica in the morning! >> it gets weirder and weirder every time we go. >> you have to laugh about something. it-- it feels like a very serious time in this entire process with this president, joe. >> it really is a serious time and i think most people looking at this and that have been studying it understand that this is, again, if not exactly where we were during richard nixon's saturday night massacre, certainly the possibility that we're moving quickly towards a constitutional crisis which will, of course, force republicans to act in a way that they haven't had to act before. i did want to ask, though, john heilemann, let's take a look from 30,000 feet for americans who are focused on how their kmee is doi economy is doing, how their 401(k) is doing, are they able to send their second child off to college, all of the things people worry about. they don't worry about robert mueller, they don't worry about donald trump's tweets, they don't worry about these things day in a

editor for the "washington post," david ignatius and nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d.c. on msnbc -- kasie hunt. >> let me turn right back. joe, you tweeted last night, bloodthirsty tyrants get no credit for kidnapping americans, using them as bait and releasing them for cheap headlines. north korea is a terrorist state. that has lied to the united states for decades. and we know that 22-year-old otto warmbier, was sent home in june of last year and later died because he was in such bad shape. joe, you tweeted that late last night. >> yeah i tweeted that late last night. i won't tell you what i was doing. >> what were you doing late last night? >> were you up watching -- >> don't, don't. >> let's, let -- let's just say our bull pen did not perform the eighth and ninth inning as it should have performed. but i don't want to talk about it. congratulations, willie. a couple of great games and last night, red sox, it was back and forth affair. red sox, 6-5, until the eighth inning and then the yankees just stepped on the gas. >> the playoff atmosphere, the stadium was rockin

with us we have nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d.c. on msnbc, kasie hunt. >> i've never been in the lightning bolt shot. very exciting. >> good to have you back. >> it was a joke up my spine. >> former treasury official and "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner is with us and look who's here. he doesn't smile because he's a strict journal. . "new york times" journalist, michael schmidt. >> he's actually an emotional wreck and sometimes we wish he could keep it in. >> i came here to confront you after you made fun of me yesterday. >> also with us, nbc news national political reporter, heidi przybilla. good to have you all on board. you were great on broadway yesterday. joe was on broadway. >> with jimmy buffett. >> i know we were going to wait to talk about this. but it was fun and everyone loved it. everyone was so happy. >> mika pointed out. my debut on broadway and she points out. she said you know what, you're wearing the same exact outfit you wore the night before coaching your son and the night before and the night before. >

and nbc news capitol hill correspondent oh yeah -- host of "kasie d.c." on msnbc, kasie hunt.e're never going to stop doing that, okay? >>> and co-founder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei. i think we'll start right there, we begin with the stunning revelation from president trump's attorney, rudy giuliani. last night, telling fox news, that trump reimbursed his fixer, michael cohen, for that $130,000 hush money payment to porn star stormy daniels. despite president trump's assertion last month that he was unaware of it. >> having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman $130,000? i mean which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal. that money was not campaign money. sorry, i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know. it's not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so -- >> they funneled it through the law firm? >> funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. >> oh. i didn't -- he did? >> yeah. >> there's no campaign finance law? >> zero. just like, sean -- sean -- everybody was nervous about this from the very beginning. i wasn't. i knew ho

d.c. i'm kasie hunt in for my friend craig melvin today. nbc news exclusive, medical records raid.personal doctor who vouched for his health now says trump's bodyguard and lawyer raided his office and took medical files. what he told the media just days before it happened. >>> plus, will he or won't he? president trump firing back after the "new york times" published a list of questions robert mueller reportedly wants to ask him. the big question now -- will he

d.c. i'm kasie hunt in for my friend craig melvin today. nbc news exclusive, medical records raid.resident trump's personal doctor who vouched for his health now says trump's bodyguard and lawyer raided his office and took medical files. what he told the media just days before it happened. >>> plus, will he or won't he? president trump firing back after the "new york times" published a list of questions robert mueller reportedly wants to ask him. the big question now -- will he actually answer them. >>> and get to work. the new secretary of state back on u.s. soil for his first day at the office. with two big international situations looming on the korean peninsula and in iran, he is about to share his opening message with his employees coming up this hour. >>> but first, i want to get to an nbc explosive new exclusive. president trump's long time personal doctor speaking out today about an incident at his medical office last year. what he describes as a raid. dr. harold bornstein says he felt, quote, raped when president trump's former bodyguard, a trump lawyer and a third unknown

kasie hunt in for my friend ali velshi. thanks for watching. "deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in washington, d.cor christopher wray and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein just left a meeting with the president after a punishing weekend long twitter tirade from the president. he unloaded on the d.o.j. and the fbi over the mueller probe and the original counter intelligence investigation into his campaign launched when the fbi found the interactions of two trump aides sufficiently fishy to ask an fbi informant to gather more information. one tweet veered way beyond normal presidential conduct, and even beyond normal trump conduct. one of the president's closest allies acknowledged today. "i here by demand and will do so

kasie hunt in for my friend ali velshi. thanks for watching. "deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in washington, d.c. where fbi director christopher wray and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein just left a meeting with the president after a punishing weekend long twitter tirade from the president. he unloaded on the d.o.j. and the fbi over the mueller probe and the original counter intelligence investigation into his campaign launched when the fbi found the interactions of two trump aides sufficiently fishy to ask an fbi informant to gather more information. one tweet veered way beyond normal presidential conduct, and even beyond normal trump conduct. one of the president's closest allies acknowledged today. "i here by demand and will do so officially tomorrow that the department of justice look into whether or not the fbi/doj infiltrated or surveilled the trump campaign for political purposees and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the obama administration. rosenstein responded swiftly kicking any such investigation over to the inspector general and issuing this statement