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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, executive disorder. the president puts his pen to paper, but this nation's immigration policy mess isn't going to be fixed overnight. >>> plus, i traveled to the border to talk exclusively with senator kamala harris. i asked her whether it's time to abolish i.c.e. and she said, we might need to start from scratch. >>> and just in tonight, the washington post reports stormy daniels will meet with federal prosecutors tomorrow. >>> but first, when we came on the air last week, the country was at an impasse. the president calling on congress to act on sweeping immigration legislation to end the separation of immigrant families at the border with mexico. the president insisting he couldn't fix it alone. republicans in congress were by and large horrified and for the first time since the president's election, they said president trump, you've gone too far. and with every senate democrat also taking a stand aga

♪ >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.e are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, paper tiger. a document from the president's lawyers gives us a breath taking inside look at the mountain battle to come. we'll dig into why the president's legal team says the president can't obstruct justice. and that he doesn't have to sit for an interview with robert mueller. >>> plus, the first-ever admission that the president worked on the statement explaining his son's meeting with the russian lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton. >>> and later, an exclusive interview with former governor terry mcauliffe. we'll talk about everything from the russia investigation to the health of his party when he joins me live onset. but first, the start of this week, believe it or not, marks 500 days of the trump administration, and the mueller investigation rolls on with it. this sunday morning we were presented with an evolving posture from the white house. there was the scripture of a secret legal memo that

. > welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt. we are live every sunday from washington from o 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight zero tolerance. the white house defends separating families at the border. as lawmakers, clergy and everyday americans say this is a bridge too far. >>> i'll talk to republican congressman tom cole as the house tries to end the immigration stalemate this week. >>> later i'm joined exclusively by senators jeff merkley and chris van hollen as they descend on the border detention centers to try and find some answers. >>> now, every president, every party has left their fingerprints on the state of our immigration system today. the reagan administration's amnesty policy drew widespread backlash and still gives some conservatives pause today. the inistrion had its faults. the obama administration struggled to handle a spike in migrations amid mass deportations. but at the moment, the current administration is separating families from their children at our border with mexico, not because of a law, but because this ad

♪ ♪ >>> 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 is actually tomorrow. president trump is waking up in singapore ahead of an historic summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. after a dramatic several days of will they or won't they, it looks like they will indeed meet. will trump's intuition help him close the deal? >>> plus, fallout from the president's performance at the g7 summit. basically up ending years of global diplomacy with, you guessed it, a single tweet. and the debate rages on over presidential pardon power. a special counsel robert mueller files new charges against paul manafort. i'll ask connecticut senator richard blumenthal about that when he joins me live. >>> but first, they say a picture is worth a thousand words. and as with everything in the trump administration, that may be an understatement. of course, there is this photo from the g7 tweeted out by a spokesman for angela merkel showing the german chancellor with her hands planted

. ♪ >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.ve every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, paper tiger. a document from the president's lawyers gives us a breath taking inside look at the mountain battle to come. we'll dig into why the president's legal team says the president can't obstruct justice. and that he doesn't have to sit for an interview with robert mueller. >>> plus, the first-ever admission that the president worked on the statement explaining his son's meeting with the russian lawyer promising o

. > welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.unday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight zero tolerance. the white house defends separating families at the border. as lawmakers, clergy and everyday americans say this is a bridge too far. >>> i'll talk to republican congressman tom cole as the house tries to end the immigration stalemate this week. >>> later i'm joined exclusively by senators jeff merkley and chris van hollen as they descend

. >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.ery sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, executive disorder. the president puts his pen to paper, but this nation's immigration policy mess isn't going to be fixed overnight. >>> plus, i traveled to the border to talk exclusively with senator kamala harris. i asked her whether it's time to abolish i.c.e. and she said, we

. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.n from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight is actually tomorrow. president trump is waking up in singapore ahead of an historic summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. after a dramatic several days of will they or won't they, it looks like they will indeed meet. will trump's intuition help him close the deal? >>> plus, fallout from the

/s >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.day from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, executive disorder. the president puts his pen to paper, but this nation's immigration policy mess isn't going to be fixed overnight. >>> plus, i traveled to the border to talk exclusively with senator kamala harris. i asked her whether it's time to abolish i.c.e. and she said, we might need to start from scratch. >>> and just in tonight, the washington post reportmy

. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.unday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight zero tolerance. the white house defends separating families at the border. as lawmakers, clergy and everyday americans say this is a bridge too far. >>> i'll talk to republican congressman tom cole as the house tries to end the immigration stalemate this week. >>> later i'm joined exclusively by senators jeff merkley and chris van hollen as they des

washington anchor for bbc world news america, catty kay, and nbc news chill correspondent and host of kasie d.cor and historian, author of "the soul of america" jon meachum will join news a morning. joe has the morning off. willie and i are here and we want to get to a lot this morning. there's so much to cover. more and more republicans speaking out finally against president trump's policy of separating migrant families at the southern border. kasie hunt will tell us what's happening on capitol hill. and attorney general jeff sessions pushing back against those who are drawing comparisons to nazi germany. arguing that the nazis were keeping jews from leaving the

please be sure to catch "kasie d.c." sundays at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on msnbc. watching. "deadline white house" with my friend nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. as she has at the lowest points of donald trump's brief but jarring political life, melania trump today attempted to clean up some of the mess made by her husband's near universally canned policy of separating children as infants at the border at a detention center in mcallen, texas, the first lady thanked doctors and medical staff. it stands in stark contrast that looked more like a walk of shame when he was forced to retreat from the actual awakening of his cruel policy of prescriptions. the recriminations continue. the "wall street journal" editorial board writing today, quote, in classic trumpian

. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.ngton from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, paper tiger. a document from the president's lawyers gives us a breath taking inside look at the mountain battle to come. we'll dig into why the president's legal team says the president can't obstruct justice. and that he doesn't have to sit for an interview with robert mueller. >>> plus, the first-ever admission that the president worked on the statement explaining his son's meeting with the russian lawyer promising dirt on hillary clinton.

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. ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "kasie d.c." i'm kasie hunt.o 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight is actually tomorrow. president trump is waking up in singapore ahead of an historic summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. after a dramatic several days of will they or won't they, it looks like they will indeed meet. will trump's intuition help him close the deal? >>> plus, fallout from the president's performance at the g7 summit. basicaup

in washington, we have the host of kasie d.c., kasie hunt, peter baker, jeffrey goldberg, also senioriser at the center for strategic and international studies, juan zarate, a senior national security analyst for nbc news and msnbc. so now jeffrey that we have gone from act one at 6:00 was horror, shock, and act two now we're trying to laugh a little bit about it. >> act three is building the wall between canada and the united states which will be a very expensive wall. very, very long. >> it will be a beautiful wall. and let me tell you something -- >> with maple syrup taps in the wall. >> we'll make the canadians pay for it. but there will be taps in the wall and molson beer will flow unabated? >> and maple syrup. >> is molson beer canadian? >> molson is canadian. >> i think it is. >> we're looking at peter. >> so i guess what is so surprising is you have justin trudeau's very measured remarks. >> even by canadian standards. >> even by canadian standards, polite by canadian standards and then you have navarro and, my god other administration officials coming out, kudlow coming out a

washington anchor for bbc world news america, catty kay, and nbc news chill correspondent and host of kasie d.c. on nbc, kasie hunt. and pulitzer prize winning author and historian, author of "the soul of america" jon meachum will join news a morning. joe has the morning off. willie and i are here and we want to get to a lot this morning. there's so much to cover. more and more republicans speaking out finally against president trump's policy of separating migrant families at the southern border. kasie hunt will tell us what's happening on capitol hill. and attorney general jeff sessions pushing back against those who are drawing comparisons to nazi germany. arguing that the nazis were keeping jews from leaving the country. so we'll have that sound for you in a little bit. we appreciate his explanation as to why that parallel doesn't work. >>> but first we want to get into the performance we saw yesterday by homeland security kirstjen nielsen. >> i would love to see if i can help explain some of what's going on and give you some of the facts. >> so what you're about to hear are not facts. it's

jeremy bash and nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of "kasie/d.c." on msnbc, kasie hunt. >>> the press briefing seemed like sarah sanders is just prng herself? how would you read that? it's frustrating. >> she's not protecting herself if she tells obvious lies, she's not protecting herself if she gets caught telling a lie. either because she knew it was untrue or because the president lied to her. so she's not really protecting her reputation. in fact she's hurting her reputation. by referring it to somebody else. she knew the correct answer, the correct answer was -- yeah either i did not tell you the truth or the correct answer was, i was given misleading information. or you could even polish it up even more than that by saying i was not given complete information during that briefing. you don't refer it to outside counsel in that case. because it's your credibility that's involved. now speaking of credibility, i found yesterday absoluty fascinating. i know we're going to get to the main manafort story. throughout the day we started talking about ye

my friend, kasie hunt, is in washington, d.c., also known as reality. nt, take it away. >> katie, nice to see you. i don't know how many americans feel as though we are in reality here in washington, d.c. but we are happy to be here. good afternoon. i am kasie hunt in for ali velshi at this hour, all eyes are on the white house and the man who occupies it. many are wondering why he can't hear the outcries over his administration's policy to separate children from their families at the border. in some cases, they are literal cries from the children themselves. [ speaking foreign language ] >> no. that gut wrenching sound, these images of children crying, separated, sons in cages. it's not enough for the trump administration to call for an immediate end. more than 2,000 children are now in custody and designated as unaccompanied minors. to put this into perspective, that's an average of 67 children taken into custody per day since may 5th. our reporters are still trying to get access to many of these shelters. in many

editor for the "washington post" david ignatius, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kas kasie/d.cnbc, kasie hunt. and we have white house reporter for the associated press jonathan lemire. we lost last night 4-2, jonathan, but tonight is another night. we have chair of the department of african-american studies at princeton university eddie glaude jr. and pulitzer prize winning historian and author of the new best selling book "the soul of america, the battle for our better angels," jon meacham. david ignatius, let's talk about italy. we've seen what happens in poland, what's happened in bulgaria, sort of this populist move that's going across europe and may put in danger the gains the united states and western europe have made since 1945 in danger. talk about what's happening in italy and what threat it poses for the american experiment with the marshall plan and the truman doctrine and all the things we fought for that helped us win the cold war and have inseparable allies in europe. >> joe, calling it the american experiment in a week when the united states has identified europ

nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d.c. on msnbc, kasie hunt.e to see steve scalise come back on the diamond. >> reporter: that wi i. >> that was a difficult day for those who were wounded but today i am thrilled to be able to be covering a much happier story and, of course, as the situation in washington can be, we are out here practicing on nats field today which is where the game will be held tonight and steve scalise was able to get out and practice with his team ahead of this big game tonight. >> it's been a long journey back to the baseball diamond for steve scalise. the number three house republican nearly died a year ago this morning. he was shot in the hip at practice at last year's national baseball game. >> there's a trail of blood. we can't help him. we're helpless. we've got bats versus rifles. >> three others were shot but scalise and his teammates were lucky. >> scalise's security detail and capitol hill police immediately began -- to return fire. >> reporter: it took three months and multiple surgeries but scalise was back at wor

and "morning joe" economic analyst steve rattner, nbc news capitol hill correspondent and host of kasie d.c., kasie hunt and pulitzer prize-winning historian, and author of "the soul of america: the battle for our better angels." jon meachum. we'll enjoy joe coming back together and hearing his voice on this. in a moment we'll get to president trump's meeting with house republicans on capitol hill. first we think it's important to update you on the scene at the southern border. a report overnight from the "associated press" attempts to answer a question that the trump administration has dodged for the last few days. where are the girls? and where are the young toddlers among migrant children separated from their families at the border? the a.p. reports that babies and other very young children are being sent to at least three tender-age shelters in south texas. that's what they're called according to the a.p., lawyers and medical providers who have visited the rio grande shelters described playrooms of crying preschool-age children in crisis. the report unconfirmed by msnbc says the governm

/d.c., kasie hunt, tell us about it. a brief conversation and we'll be covering him more as the primary day unfolds. tomorrow we presume he will become the likely senator elect after he likely wins his primary tonight. obviously, the results are not in yet. i asked him about the supreme court decision. you'll remember romney spoke out against the muslim ban in 2015 when president trump floated this idea the first time. take a look. >> i'm not surprised by that. the president does have responsibility and if he legitimately feels that something is a threat to the country i can see the supreme court saying yeah that makes sense. >> reporter: he's essentially saying because of the changes that were made. it was a little difficult to hear him in there. he said he's not surprised that the supreme court decided that the president has the power to protect the country in certain instances. you, of course, have been talking already about how this ban was revised a couple of times because of court challenges and it has gotten to th

d.c. on msnbc kasie hunt is here with us as well.ef of staff of the cia and department of defense now nbc news national security analyst jeremy bash is with us. also former nato supreme allied commander now the dean of the school of law and diplomacy