starting with the panelist katie tur who covered the donald trump campaign effort from the beginning. be michael schmidt back from "the new york times" and msnbc national contributor. you heard him questioning sarah huckabee sanders. phillip rucker "washington post" bureau chief and newly minted msnbc political analyst from his seat at the white house. welcome to you all. michael i'll begin with you. just about every night there is a -- a print journalism development that causes us to ask a nice guest like you, usually a print journalist, how does this change everything? and i'll ask that about the reporting of your colleagues at the "new york times." how does tonight's story now change everything? >> well, this story by my colleagues really raises new questions about why is it we continue to learn about the meetings and we weren't told about them before? march don jr. told us at the times that he had no meetings as part of the campaign with the russians, that there had been nothing -- nothing there. and it had to be clear to them at the time that the russia story was going to continu

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katy tur.h goes to vice president mike pence and sneaky impressive twitter game this week. thursday, the vice president visited kennedy space center in florida along with the state's junior senator marco rubio. one photograph from their day caught fire online. look closely, shows pence touching something labeled critical space hardware with giant printed warning do not touch. social media had a few things to say about that image. the vice president seemed to enjoy it, tweeting sorry, nasa, marco rubio dared me to do back, in fairness, i warned the vice president you break it, you own it. >> damn the man. >> damn the man, right? with president trump away at the g20, the vice president had free time. he got on photo shop and went in for another round, tweeting okay, so this isn't exactly the first time this has happened. nasa put out a statement saying the equipment was due to be cleaned and it was fine for the vice president to touch it, the space program was not compromised. sense of humor from

katy tur covered candidate trump during the campaign. she's an anchor at msnbc and the author of a book called "unbelievable" about her time covering the campaign, available now for preorder, good morning, katy, chuck, good to see you. playing off these tweets from the president, basically backing of rex tillerson's account, he pressed putin on whether or not there was meddling, "did you do this." it was described by the tillerson camp as a heated exchange. that's one description. the other side coming from russian foreign minister sergei lavrov, saying actually president trump sort of accepted our assertion that we didn't do anything and complained that his opponents had been exaggerating the issue. what are we to believe without an independent confirmation of either? >> i think president trump's tweet just now says it all, willie. he said, "i've already given my opinion." we know the opinion he gave 24 hours before meeting vladimir putin while in poland when he said, it could have been russia, it could have been somebody else. and ques

ntp daily starts now with one of my favorite people, katy tur, in for chuck. katy, how are you doing? >> mike, i'm great. i was going to say you are a wonderful man. that's my compliment to you. at the top of the hour. thank you very much. if it is tuesday, it is clear don jr. was eager to accept russian help to hurt clinton. tonight, the e-mail trail. the president stands by his son's e-mail release but no reply on any other questions on russian connections. >> i would refer you to don jr.'s counsel and outside counsel. >> plus, deny, recant, repeat. >> we see again a kind of a shifting defense from the trump administration. >> where does this leave the congressional investigations? and the august rush. >> i'm less concerned about the timing and more about getting it right. >> leader mcconnell delays the senate's summer vacation. so will republicans now be able to check off health care or anything else from their agenda this summer? >> listen, i'll compromise with anybody. republican, democrat, independent, libertarian. martian. if we are moving the ball forwa

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. >> later he dismissed katy tur's question. >> it gives me no pause, if they have them, they have them. you know what gives me more pause, a person in our government, crooked hillary clinton -- here's what gives me pause, be quiet, i know you want to save her. >> we know that president trump wanted clinton's e-mails, the ones that had been deleted from the server, we know that his close adviser michael flinn had contacts in the russian government and intelligence apparatus, including famously having attended a dinner with vladimir putin, flynn even boasted that he was the first u.s. officer ever allowed inside the headquarters of the gru, the russian intelligence agency. trump badly wanted clinton's e-mails, he believed russia had them or had access to them, he knew michael flynn had connections to russia, a question, did the president ever ask michael flynn to help him acquire hacked hillary clinton e-mails from the russians? >> yesterday, the wall street journal reported that before the election, peter smith embarked on a freelance campaign to get clinton's missing e-mails from the r

. >> katy tur, ken vogel and ken rucker. this purging, one person after another, anyone offending this guy is gone. and it doesn't look like it is going to stop. >> i don't think so much that scaramucci offend he the president, he offended kelly. kelly came in with the full authority of the property to bring in changes and put order in the west wing which has been chaotic for the last six months. he wanted scaramucci out, sew is gone. >> if you want to be sophisticated about this, the backdrop isn't just chaos. i think he is afraid. i think trump, i think he was nailed this week and he is weak and afraid. what he is afraid of is of course the russia investigation. afraid of bob mueller ultimately. and trying to shape up his team so he can face them down. sometime between now and when he fired the guy or gets him fired. what do you think? katy? >> listen, i think that whether donald trump decides to fire robert mueller is something that remains to be seen. certainly a possibility. you can't discount it when it comes to donald

katy tur has the latest. >> it happened on june 9th of last year.t up there on the 25th floor of trump tower, that meeting. i was standing right below it, right there, covering a campaign that i learned prided itself on defying the rules. tonight, people with first-hand knowledge of this unconventional campaign, of russian spycraft and of the trumps, take us inside, and tell us why that meeting might have happened at all, and why the russians might have wanted it to. in attendance at the now infamous meeting were donald trump's son, donald junior, his son-in-law jared kushner, and campaign manager paul manafort. they were meeting with a russian lawyer who, don junior had been told by e-mail, was coming to present damaging information about hillary clinton. donald trump jr. said he was interested in getting information from the russian government. should that have raised a red flag? >> for an experienced campaign operative? yeah, it should have raised a red flag. for a family member, for a first time candidate for president of the united states in a

"deadline: white house" with katy tur in for nicolle wallace starts right now. >>> hi, everyone.ing in for nicolle wallace today as new developments continue to unfold in the trump/russia collusion investigation and donald trump jr.'s meeting more than a year ago with russian lawyer natalia veselnitskaya who offered to help swing the election in trump's favor. nbc has learned that two people not previously disclosed by don jr. were also present in that meeting. along with then campaign manager paul manafort and jared kushner. one of them is rinat akhmetshin with reported ties to russian intelligence agencies. he denies having any current ties to the russian government. akhmetshin offered "the washington post" his own account of the controversial meeting disclosing the new detail that the lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya quote left a document behind after the meeting. possibly containing information she believed could incriminate the democratic national committee. this flood of new information is coming just days after don jr. said on television that he told us everything there was t

also, katie tur takes us inside the revelations about russia. >> donald trump jr. said he was interested in getting information from the russian government. should that have raised a red flag? >> for a experienced campaign operative, yeah. for a family member, i'm not surprised. >> and one of the most inspiring stories you will ever see. >> i felt very much alone. >> your interview, kate, with star ballerina. born in a war zone, or orphaned at 3 and now she's earning applause on stages across the world. >> the only way i could survive was to prove everybody wrong. >> over and over -- >> it helps me to continue to fight. >> a journey nothing short of miraculous. looking forward to your report, big time. it's unbelievable. i've seen it, the michaela deprince piece is powerful, kate. >> thanks so much, megyn, appreciate it. stay tuned right after this program, tonight, 7:00, 6:00 central time. >>> still ahead tonight, words of wisdom. a new way to talk to young children so that they learn more earlier, and become smarter in the process. >>> also, a light show you will

we also have our team standing by for us here in new york, as well, katy tur. and steve kornacki, as well. let me come to you, because i know you've got a lot of sources inside this administration, a lot of folks you have been talking to. is it true that spicer last night was telling folks that he would walk if they hired scaramucci -- >> yeah, according to sources that i spoke to. spicer said last night, when he found out the news that scaramucci was going to be named communications director, that he had been offered the job, said, i will resign if that happens. my sources didn't believe him at the time. but ultimately, he went through with his word. he said he couldn't work with scaramucci, because scaramucci -- not that he had anything against him personally, but that he didn't know the job. he didn't know what was necessary to do that job. he didn't have the experience to do that job. he said it was a lot bigger than anthony scaramucci expected it to be. and he wanted someone with more qualifications. this was kept in a tight hold, this decision. i mean, sc

demand text to reorder blades with gillette on demand... ...and get $3 off your first order >>> i'm katie turuaintances and buried them on his parent's property. the victims were reports missing. a second man is also charged in connection with the killings. >> and shocking new numbers to tell you about. the new england journal of medicine says that more than 2 million people around the world are overweight or obese. >>> check it out, today beyonce gave the world a first look at her and jay-z's new twins. she uploaded the photo online today. the twins were welcomed on june 13th in los angeles. >> trump 3.0 is 24 hours hold and on life support. two say they will breed with debates on the bill, mitch mcconnell cod -- cannot afford to lose any more votes. president trump released a bunch of tweets on the way to the bastille day celebration. >> president trump also called several senators from paris to apply more pressure. he called them while he was in paris. garrett is joining me now, an po important distinction. let's get to the news, mitch mcconnell, will he have a chance? >> he still has a ch

good evening i'm katy tur. the clock is ticking after north korea shocked experts yesterday by testing a missile capable of striking the u.s. moments ago president trump landed in poland. he begins a crucially important trip abroad. the president will meet with g-20 leaders including china and meet one on one with putin. russia and china put out a statement urging diplomatic talks. they are urging they freeze all military drills. this afternoon the united nation security council which includes the u.s., russia and china held an emergency meeting on north korea. they condemned the regime's action, threatened military action against it and warned of a trade war with north korea's allies. >> their actions are quickly closing off the possibility of a diplomatic collusion. the united states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies. there are countries that are allowing, even encouraging trade with north korea in violation of u.n. security council. such would also like

. >>> welcome back, i'm katie tur. look at this eye opening video out of florida, a home getting swallowed whole by a sink hole. two homes were destroyed. the sink hole was more than 200 feet wide and 50 feet deep. water testing is under way to ensure that drinking water in the area is still safe. >> delta airlines is pushing back against ann coulter after she went went on a tweet storm after they made her move from a seat that had extra leg room. >>> and roger federer is once again a champion. he won his 8th title at wimbledon. he now has 19 grand slam titles in all. that's a lot. >> i won the first one 14 years ago, i don't even remember how it felt any more. and now i'm a previous champion, i'm a father of four, it is crazy and it feels so amazing. >> can we just do a whole hour of roger federer. tomorrow. 2:00 p.m. eastern. moving on. this week, an infamous inmate will be asking a po role board to be set free. >> at this thursday's hearing that is expected to be, of course, and why not, televised, he will be able t

peter alexander, katy tur, thank you both.l bring in nbc news intelligence and national security reporter ken delaney, the revelation there was a fifth person in the room, former soviet counterintelligence officer in that meeting june 2016 included donald trump jr., paul manafort, jared kushner and russian attorney natalia veselnistkaya. much more straight ahead. i realize that ah, that $100k is not exactly a fortune. well, a 103 yeah, 103. well, let me ask you guys. how long did it take you two to save that? a long time. then it's a fortune. well, i'm sure you talk to people all the time who think $100k is just pocket change. right now we're just talking to you. i told you we had a fortune. yes, you did. getting closer to your investment goals starts with a conversation. schedule a complimentary goal planning session today. binders, done. super-cool notebooks, done. that's mom taking care of business. but who takes care of mom? office depot/office max. this week, get this ream of paper for just one cent after rewards. ♪ takin

my colleague, katy tur, is in the studio in new york, she is asking me to ask you about the name of the protest, "welcome to hell" which doesn't sound peaceful. >> i think the organizers want it make it clear for the 20 head of state that we are not happy with what their politics stand for or what they are are doing. this message doesn't have anything to do with that anybody is aggressive. violent demonstration or anything like that. so you know, the only violence came from the police so far. >> the police tell a different story. appreciate you talking to us. thank you very much pz. >> as you can see, we are making our way in protest. there is chapting, clapping, all of the things you see in everyday protest in an ordinary democratic country like germany. so there are moments when the police appear to be firing water cannon further back but they are now moving slowly back and allowing this demonstration to continue. and just left with slightly stinging face from the tear gas that was fired right at us at times earlier in the day. >> kier simmonsville yantly covering this protest. hans n

katy tur up next. hi there, my friend. >> it is 10:00 a.m. in the west and 1:00 p.m. in the east. here is what we're watching this hour. twitter mackdown, the fallout from the president's tweet showing a body slam editing the media affecting his ability to do his job. >> diplomat in chief making calls to world leaders preparations ahead of his second overseas trip while in office. >>> beach backlash. new jersey shorelines are closed because of a government shutdown for everybody except chris christie and his family, who enjoyed what amounted to his very own private beach this weekend. can his approval rating go any lower? we start this monday with president trump beginning his war on the media but awol when it comes to the republican agenda, even as republican senators are at home handling the fallout from that stalled healthcare bill. the president is on twitter again today continuing to attack journalist. on sunday, he posted an altered clip from an old pro wrestling appearance in place of the wwe's vince mcmahon, the president is seen tackling the cnn logo on top of a guy's fac

katy tur up next. hi there, my friend. >> it is 10:00 a.m. in the west and 1:00 p.m. in the east.atching this hour. twitter mackdown, the fallout from the president's tweet showing a body slam editing the media affecting his ability to do his job. >> diplomat in chief making calls to world leaders preparations ahead of his second overseas trip while in office. >>> beach backlash. new jersey shorelines are closed because of a government shutdown for everybody except chris christie and his family, who enjoyed what amounted to his very own private beach this weekend. can his approval rating go

here's katy tur. >> thank you, andrea.oming up on this hour, we start with that highly anticipated meeting between president trump and russia's vladimir putin. any moment, we're expecting a briefing from senior administration officials on the details of that meeting. the two leaders wrapped up their first face-to-face about a half hour ago. it lasted more than two hours behind closed doors. and it comes during a second day of protests at the g20 conference in hamburg, germany. prior to their meeting, both leaders spoke to the press. take a listen.

network, the head of the commission, the former secretary of state of kansas, was interviewed by katy turquestion in effect the outcome of this past election as a whole. >> you think that maybe hillary clinton did not win the popular vote? >> we may never know the answer to that question. >> how do you say we may never? you really believe that. >> what i'm saying is let's suppose that the commission determined that there were a certain number of votes cast by ineligible voters. you still won't know whether those people who were ineligible voted for trump or clinton or somebody else. >> joining us now our pulitzer prize winning columnist for the "washington post" eugene robinson and long-time radio talk show host in his native state of wisconsin and about to be best selling author charlie sykes. gentlemen, good evening to you both. charlie, i know this is the kind of thing that ignites you. now they're messing with the laws of civics. and in a democratic society or most other societies, when the voters are told they need to abide by the choice made at the polls to then question those resul

i'm katy tur in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." it has been a stunning day. in less than 24 hours, we've seen the republican plan to repeal and replace obamacare collapse. we've seen a plan b and we've also seen that collapse, too. we have brand new results from our nbc news wall street journal poll of trump counties out right now with new insight into why this effort may have imploded so spectacularly. more on that in a moment. but we begin with president trump today at the white house basically giving up on his republican congress. >> i'm certainly disappointed for seven years i've been hearing repeal and replace from congress. and i've been hearing it loud and strong. and thp when we finally get a chance to repeal and replace, they don't take advantage of it. so that is disa pointing. so i'm very -- i would say i'm disappointed in what took place. it will go on and we'll win, we'll win on taxes, we'll win on infrastructure and lots other things that we're doing. the way i look at it, in '18, we'll have to get more people elected. we have to get more people

i was telling katy tur, they are worried about losing basic care for their families, for them sem selves. we spoke to doctors, nurses, patients. we set the scene for what this is all about. i want to play that for you right now. >> it is about health care being a human right, as opposed to an option. about giving patients the fighting chance for their life to also pursue having patient be able to have primary health care services and not using the emergency room as their primary source of health care. >> reporter: another good example of this is joanna joshua wp her beautiful daughter, jasmine. one of the jungest patient here. talk about your story and why you came here. >> definitely. so jasmine has hypo plastic left heart. she has heart of a heart. and a lot of her organs are flip end in opposite sides of where they should be in her body. when ways four months pregnant, i found out that jasmine had this condition. and she's had two open heart surgeries with one to go. and she will need an event you' eventual heart transplant. >> what is your fear? >> my fear is she will lose a lot of p

ntp daily starts now with one of my favorite people, katy tur, in for chuck. how are you doing? >> mike, i'm great. i was going to say you are a wonderful man. that's my compliment to you. at the top of the hour. thank you very much. if it is tuesday, it is clear don jr. was eager to accept russian help to hurt clinton. tonight, the e-mail trail. the president stands by his son's e-mail release but no reply on any other questions on russian connections. >> i would refer you to don

. >> at the meeting our own katy tur that covered donald trump on the campaign that donald trump was in the building, not the meeting, at least for part of the day on june 9th. here is my takeaway, robert mueller and his team are canceling their summer vacation. >> they have a lot of work to do. >>> president trump seems to be giving president putin some easy victories on several front. for one donald trump is tweeting he did not talk sanction wall street putin when they met at g-20. is he letting russia get away with election interference with no punishment? >> coming up, at this hour, we'll be speaking with chris ullman, his scathing review has gone viral around the world. >> the president of the united states has a particular skill set that he's identified an illness in western democracies but he has no cure for it and seems intent on exploiting it. here's to the safety first... i think i might burst... totally immersed weekenders. whatever kind of weekender you are, there's a hilton for you. book your weekend break direct with hilton.com and join the summer weekenders. >>> we are

an extraordinary interview that chris kobach who is leading this task force had with my colleague katie tur, the secretary of state of ohio. and this was the back and forth about the election result s from 2016. >> do you believe hillary clinton won the popular vote by 3 million to 5 million votes? >> we may never know the answer to that. we probably will never know the answer to that question. even if you can prove a certain number of casts were cast by ineligible voters, for example -- >> is that why this commission exists, because the president believes he would have won the popular vote. >> i'm glad you asked that question. that's not the reason why the commission exists. >> you think that maybe hillary clinton did not win the popular vote? >> we may never know the answer to that question. >> i misspoke, from kansas, your reaction to it. >> it is a statement from someone and, let's start with the facts. hillary clinton won more than -- nearly 3 million more votes than donald trump nationally. he won the electoral college, we accepted the results. that doesn't change the fact that she wo

katy tur joins me. you have new reporting.s extraordinary is it was official that anthony was getting a job months ago from reince priebus and -- >> that's the thing. this white house, you can't believe anything they say until the president himself says it. they go back and forth on things. what i am hearing, what i've been hearing last night is that anthony scaramucci, who's been a longtime friend of donald trump, close to the family, is going to be offered the white house communications director job, a job that hasn't really been open because sean spicer was filling in two roles after mike dubke left. that being said, also as with this white house, there is a lot of pushback and a lot of drama behind the scenes. reince priebus, the chief of staff, does not want anthony scaramucci there. >> they're foes. >> they don't get along. let's put it that way. reince priebus was left out of this decision, told -- wasn't told about it. so i'm hearing that he is really pushing back hard against this. also steve bannon is pushing back ha

we know from katy tur's reporting that at the time, you were around it as well, the campaign was very chaotic. there did seem to be a lot of jockeying for position. what was going to happen, who was going to have donald trump's ear. some people are saying, do we really believe that if someone thought they were going to get the goods on hillary clinton that the boss, donald trump, now the president, didn't know about it? where was he that day? what was he doing? >> well, it is the time line that some people are focused on today, obviously. it was june 9th of 2016, the day this meeting took place. we went back and searched our records. donald trump, the president, then, i guess candidate trump, spent most of that day at trump tower. he briefly broke away to go to the four seasons midtown for a republican donor luncheon. but to give a better understanding of what else happened that day, it's also the day he tweeted about hillary clinton's missing 33,000 e-mails. he said, where are your 33,000 e-mails you deleted, he tweeted that same day. and to more broadly give a sense of paul manafort

here's katy tur. >> thank you, andrea. coming up on this hour, we start with that highly anticipated meeting between president trump and russia's vladimir putin. any moment, we're expecting a briefing from senior administration officials on the details of that meeting. the two leaders wrapped up their first face-to-face about a half hour ago. it lasted more than two hours behind closed doors. and it comes during a second day of protests at the g20 conference in hamburg, germany. prior to their meeting, both leaders spoke to the press. take a listen. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. president putin and i have been discussing various things, and i think it's going very well. we've had some very, very good talks. we'll have a talk now, and obviously that will continue. but we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening. for russia, for the united states, and for everybody concerned. and it's an honor to be with you. thank you. thank you. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> we spoke with you several times.

. >>> that wraps this hour of msnbc live, katie tur is picking things up now. >> 2:00 p.m.ast, sean spicer is moments away from briefing reporters at the white house, another briefing where we will only get the audio released after it is over, no cameras are allowed. we will monitor it and bring it to you as soon as the briefing is over. donald trump making history not because he passed a comprehensive health care bill or overhauled the tax reform, he now has the lowest approval rating of any president in 70 years. >> had is approval ratingings are the lowest ever from the first sixth months in office. >> those are pretty devastating new polls out now. >> our word of the day is family. after trump down played his poll dive in this tweet, he said most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one don junior attended in order to get info on opponent. that's politics. and making the media rounds against this weekend. what he wanted america to know is donald trump senior knew nothing about the meeting, 59% of americans in a new poll have now called inappropriate. >> the

look, it's fair, and enough people who have covered this campaign, like howard, like peter, like katy tur, have described this environment of chaos, and the left hand not possibly knowing what the right hand is doing. i still can't buy that the president of the united states didn't hear, the donald trump candidate at the time, didn't hear that someone came offering potential scoop on the hillary clinton campaign. but is there a danger of this argument of naivety, coming in the way of the fact that someone showed up and got a meeting on the strength of having stolen information potentially about hillary clinton? >> that's right. donald trump jr. tweeted, i guess i'm the first one who had a meeting with someone who potentially had information on our opponent. what is unusual it would be a foreign national, especially with russia with which we've had tense relations, and basically the relations between his father and vladimir putin was already sort of a public issue at that point. so that's what makes it odd. the other thing i would take today that i find interesting to note is you did see t

katy tur picks things up from here. >> we'll hear from the white house and senate leadership, and theyxplaining to do. the gop repeal and replace bill has flat lined. what was mitch mcconnell hoping to do? now a straight repeal. that effort is also doa. murkowski joining other members and saying no to repeal only. our word of the

katy tur picks things up from here. >> we'll hear from the white house and senate leadership, and they have a lot of explaining to do. the gop repeal and replace bill has flat lined. what was mitch mcconnell hoping to do? now a straight repeal. that effort is also doa. murkowski joining other members and saying no to repeal only. our word of the day is fail, or some version there of. >> i regret the effort to repeal and immediately replace the failures of obama care will be unsuccessful. that should not mean we should give up. >> the definition of insanity is to do again what has failed sefrlt times before. >> you have to be able to resolve all these issues. >> it's not good news for the country, we have to move to the next steps. >> now that one party effort has largely failed. we hope they will change their tune. >> inaction is not an option. congress needs to step up. congress needs to do their job and congress needs to do their job now. >> take a look at this, when the drudge report calls this congress the most unproductive in 164 years, republicans know they are in trouble. as for

. >> and katy tur, republican reaction. this is a week where kasowits has taken a big step back. we don't know what the future is for reince priebus. it's a major shake up for a white house. >> this is tumultuous. this is the way donald trump has lived for the past two and a half years. this constant tumult. the news stories break all of a sudden. they're a slow build and then they break suddenly and everything happens all at once. listen, i've been talking to somebody, a gop strategist, a former swing state director who is telling me -- it was suspicious of this whole thing of the campaign, republican swing state director, and she was saying, listen, this is a big problem for the white house. a big problem for the gop, though, more. a big problem for republicans. ultimately, the people in the white house who were safeguarding the republican agenda and the republican brand or trying to at least, are sean spicer and reince priebus. and those are the ones that are trying to remain loyal to the presidency, to what republicans want to do with the presidency. and to getting things don

to all of you it afternoon nap will do it for me, i'll see you back here tomorrow, my colleague katie turrow. >> can't wait to see you back here tomorrow if. >> really? >> it's going to be great. >> the president of the united states just unleashed on obama care democrats and republican senators that blocked efforts to repeople the aca with no replacement. >> people are hurting and action is not an option. and frankly, i don't think we should leave town unless we have a health insurance plan. >> deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders is set to give an off camera press briefing once again. she will be answering questions about health care and our other top story of the day, russia. we now know there was a second meeting

. >> he had a smooth press conference earlier, but that's as katy tur reminds us so did sean spicer whenstarted and sarah huckabee sanders when she started. it was the let's get to now owe a little bit. let's see what our relationship will be like. he got specific questions about that. what's your relationship with the press and he sort of sounded like i like it to be smoother and better. there's nothing really wrong here. we have to understand each other. >> like him or hate him, he was one of the president's most useful surrogates on the campaign trail. let's not forget health care has not gone through. the president is under siege. >> can't really help that. because the problems with health care are not anything that scaramucci to do with. >> the one thing to take away today, this administration is an opportunity lost. all the power and the control that they have and we are not talking about any agenda items, any real legislative moves. we are talk about talking a new press secretary in place. >> their priority is to get russia off the news cycle or out of the news cycle and talk abou

kris kobach saying something pretty extraordinary to our own katy tur. >> you think that maybe hillarypopular vote. >> we may not know the answer to the question. >> really? you really believe that? >> let's suppose the commission determined that there were a certain number of votes cast by ineligible voters. you still won't know whether those people who are ineligible voted for trump or clinton or somebody else. >> the votes for donald trump, that led him to win the bex as well? >> absolutely. >> sharon, this is a legal case. so presumably there has to be data floated in this. is there any evidence whatsoever we cannot know who won the 2016 election? >> no, there isn't. but that is consistent with what has been this drum beat and claim that widespread in-person voter fraud happens in this country. and it's a claim that's been perpetuated by the vice chair of the commission who you just played but also other members here. these are all people who have perpetuated the myth of voter fraud without any evidence of in-person widespread voter fraud. each of them in turn premised that on the

joining me, katy tur, anchor and author of the upcoming book you will buy, unbelievable. raziest campaign. carol simpson, jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com. thank you all for being here. katy, let me start with you, get you to respond, get your reaction to donald trump's tweet just this morning in which he retweeted himself when he was performer on the wwe. here it is. i'll describe it to you. it is basically for those viewers who haven't seen it yet, it is donald trump showing himself body slamming a character in the wwe. there it is. and he put there fraud news cnn. #fnn which i laughed is fox news network, is fraud news network. here is tomorrow as boss earth on this week responding to that tweet showing trump in his mind beating up cnn. take a look. >> is that the kind of communication you want, that he's beating up on somebody? that he's beating up on the media? you're in charge of homeland security there. that seems like a threat. >> certainly not, i think no one would perceive it as a threat, i hope they don't. i think he is beaten up in a way on cable

nbc news's katy tur and stephanie ruehl are saying sources told them that bannon told mu credicc over my dead bol he get the job that's pretty clear in terms of where they stand on this yet he's gotten the job. >> yes, that's right so we were asking on cnbc yesterday, would the attorney general be able to say can reince priebus stay after this i think he will because i don't think there's someone to move into that job either the job insecurity these people have, there are not the usual line of people at the door to take these jobs. here's a twist that will interest your viewers. if you are a corporation, if you are a government that's under investigation, especially under criminal investigation like this robert mueller probe that's going on, you usually want to keep people close. you want to keep people on the inside that's another reason the shakeup that kept it look like charlie brown and the football, kept looking like it was going to happen based on the president's comments and questions to the many people he consults by telephone. one of the reasons that shakeup hasn't happened i

. >> joining us now, nbc news correspondent katy tur, department of defense now msmnc news national securityd university, former ambassador to russia michael mcfaul, ambassador, m ambassador mcfaul, this has been going on for check dazed according to cia director. what are your thoughts about what he said? >> i thought it was a flippant answer for a serious situation. i worked in the government for five years, i don't recall reading an intelligence report about russian interference in the previous elections. maybe he should clarify what he meant by that. there may be something on his mind, but to somehow suggest that what happened in 2016 is just standard operating procedure is flatly incorrect and i think he is just trying to monday 99 thor is yuszness to what we should be devoting to january, 2016. >> do you agree with the ambassador? >> more pomptly i agree with the analyst intelligent assessment that this attack, this years attack was unprecedented scope and scale and, in particular, the use of cyber tools, hacking that is unprecedented. yes, they've engaged if propaganda, nothing to thi