we're joined by kristin welker to explain.

kristin welker joins us from the white house to take a closer look. >>> outside tampa, florida. this is the hometown of doug hues, the man who famously landed a gyro copter outside the u.s. capitol. his exclusive interview with news 4. why he thought he was going to die that day. >>> currently we are at 85 degrees and a beautiful dry evening in store. take a look. 78 by 9:00. by 11:00 p.m. still in the mid 70s. the heat is back tomorrow along s more importantly headsp u >>> you thought it was possible they were going to shoot you down? >> i knew it was possible they would. >> his stunt and arrest made headlines two years ago. florida man landed a gyro copter on the west front of the u.s. capitol. who is the man behind the headlines? he is now out of jail. >> scott macfarlane and news 4 i team learned the family tragedy may have inspired the protest seen all over the world. >> reporter: the summer heat near tampa can melt you. driving through the palm trees on the blazing asphalt, this lyft driver cranks air condition. he makes about five pickups a day. his name is to escape fina

kristin welker joins me live now. he will meet with world leaders, the big story, kristin, in the past hour, nikki haley warning china it could risk its trade with the united states if china's trade with north korea violates u.n. sanctions. how big of a statement is this? >> reporter: it is very significant, keith, no doubt about that. look, just to give everyone the backdrop, this comes after north korea successfully fired that enter continental ballistic missile, according to u.s. officials at the pentagon, that marking a significant escalation in the nuclear capables, so what you are seeing is a very firm response from the united states, ambassador hallie calling that emergency meeting of the united nations and -- and remember, this is a president who 'reached out to the president of china, inviting him to mar-a-lago, for example, and initially there was a lot of optimism that china was going to try to intervene in north korea's activities. now that optimism as waned, the president taking a tougher stance. the pres

for the time being we are looking for acting chief over there until things settle down. >> kristin welker as we take a moment and digest just the idea of the attorney general going across town to homeland security and the dominos that sets off, about mr. scaramucci. >> um-hum. >> it is roundly contended by all the former communications chiefs we have spoken to that the kind of barnyard language he used that would make a longshoremen plush would mean instant dismissal from any other white house. it appears at the close of busy won. he is a direct report to the president going around any other function in the white house and he is still there. >> not only is he still there, brian. but there is a sense behind the scenes that the president is okay with what happened. that perhaps he was in some whiches expressing part of what the president feels at least as it trelts to reince priebus. steve bannon's job it seems at this point is still safe. but i have to tell you what happened has further divided an already very fractured west wing. and what i mean by that is that you have some people behind

thanks, kristin welker and hans nichols. i want to bring in scott snyder. founder and directioner at council on foreign relations. expert on politics in the korean peninsula. also with us is a spokesperson for former ambassador to united nations, samantha showers. also covering terrorism and financial intelligence. good to see both of you. gar, let me star with you. we are looking at united nations on the screen. nikki haley calling this emergency meeting pf of what consequence is a meeting like this when talking about north korea. one has the sense that north korea isn't paying much attention to what security council is saying. >> usually in an emergency session, while it may not result in a resolution, we would probably know if a resolution was being debated. it rounds up the troops. they will take it seriously. figuringi figuring out what china could agree to in a future resolution. so they can rile up the troops and hopefully in another follow-on meeting propbably impose tougher sanctions. >> one problem with donald trump's strategy says they can be ver

kristin welker abjonathan le mere and phillip rucker thank you for joining us. coming up six people expected in the room as we were mentioning when trump and putin meet. this is the first time. we're looking at the politics, the persuasion and problems that could arise when "the 11th hour" continues. >>> she is saying russia, russia, russia. maybe it was. it could be russia. but it could be china. could be sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds. i notice any time anything wrong happens they like to see the russian. they she doesn't know it's the russian. maybe there is no hacking. you can talk all you want about russia which was all a fake news abry indicated deals to make up for the loss of the democrats and press plays into it. if you don't catch a hacker, okay in the act, it's very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said i'll go along with russia. could have been china. >> this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story, an excuse by the democrats for having lost. >> several of the times preand post-election that donald trump had

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>> kristin, welker, thank you. >>> president trump today kicked off his made in america week to promote u.s. manufacturing. it was the president's america-first messaging that helped him win the election, and while some recent numbers have shown his overall approval rating at a record low, a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll reveals his support remains strong in counties that voted for him last year. nbc's chief white house correspondent hallie jackson went to a trump county in michigan to find out how the president's latest message is being received. >> reporter: at the white house, president trump's focusing on what got him there -- jobs and manufacturing, showcasing products made in all 50 states. >> made in the usa. we're going to start doing that again. we're going to put that brand on our product. >> reporter: but on made in america week, critics counter the president never put his money where his mouth is when running his own business. >> we know that almost all the products that they sell are imported from abroad. it would be nice to see a lead by example there. >> reporte

let's bring in kristin welker live in washington. the president says there is no chaos. with just six days on the job, scaramucci is the shortest serving communications director in white house history. what could the latest shakeup mean for the trump administration? >> reporter: keith, there is no doubt about it, this is a stunning development. i think that this marks a reset, though, here at the white house. it's an attempt to reset things here because they have been quite chaotic since the president took office about six months ago. now he has a new chief of staff, a new sheriff in town, if you will. just to take you behind the scenes of how he got to this decision. you have anthony scaramucci come in brash and bold, a lot like president trump. you have that very controversial moment last week which he unleashed that profanity laced rant against reince priebus, former chief of staff, against steve bannon and it was after that that reince priebus left and a lot of question marks about what was going to happen to anthony scaramucci if he was the right person for the job.

let us bring in tonight's starting panel for a friday night nbc news white house correspondent kristin welker who was busy to do. "washington post" white house burrow -- bureau chief, white house reporter for politico. you reported what you saw contemporaneously, it speaks to the kind of continuing diminishing of reince priebus, but tell us what you saw when they landed. >> well, they were quite delayed in landing, about an extra half hour in the air coming down from new york. i think they were circling for sometime due to bad weather. when they finally landed and pulled up at the parking place there we saw a bunch of staffers come out of the back of the plane and we saw the senior staffers, reince priebus, and steven miller and the director there at the white house all go into a vehicle together. and this was just at the time that the tweet was coming out from the president that john kelly would be the new chief of staff. and then just moments after loading up in that car, the aide, miller and scevino stepped out and got back into the motorcade. and that was pretty much it for reince priebus

joining me robert costa and kristin welker and rich lowry at the national review and ruth marcus, columnist for the washington post. welcome to sunday. it is "meet the press." >> the longest running show in television history, celebrating the 70th year, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. good sunday morning. did you miss friday's meeting with vladimir putin and donald trump. this photo was took place behind closed doors with two translators. the meeting from secretary of state tillerson and lavrov and later mr. putin, near sanctions or denials and insisted to move on of the russian meddling. i strongly pressed putin twiced of meddling in our election and he vehemently denied it. it is time to move forward and working constructively with russia. still a at a time where our world is facing this threat. it is president trump's ambiguous relationship with america's chief officer that captured so much attention. >> reporter: on friday, president trump metapha face toe with the russian president. >> it is an honor to be with you. the sit-down began with putin who killed imprison germans. t

joining us with what is at stake with this trip is nbc white house correspondent kristin welker. today we saw president trump appearing to go after china for its role. what should we expect here? >> this is one of the biggest foreign policy tests for the president yet after north korea fired what pentagon officials have determined is an intercontinental ballistic missile with the capability of possibly reaching the united states at some point in the future. what we saw the swift rebuke from this administration. u.n. ambassador convening an emergency meeting at the u.n. warning china if it doesn't intervene that the u.s. may start a trade war. president trump expected to take a tough tone with the leaders of china, south korea and japan when he meets with them at the g-20 summit this week. this comes after president trump has really reached out to china particularly in the early day of his administration, tries to get china on board with putting pressure on north korea to stop its nuclear program. you will remember that president trump hosted the president of china in april. he ha

. >> capitol hill will also be lo and kristin welker has more from the white house.ter: good morning to you. president trump will head to ohio today for a campaign-style rally. in this comes monday he met with t thein and he has nothing to hide. now, his meeting with the senate intelligence committee was behind closed door and there. >> all right. our thanks to kristen welker for her reporting there. >> that does it for us. i'm ayman mohyeldin along louis burgdorf. "morning joe" starts right now. >> we won and won. so when they said there is no way to victory, there is no way to 270. you know, i went to maine four times because it one vote and we won. it was will the prpand we worked hard there pup know, my opponent didn't work hard there. the polls, that's also fake news. they're fake polls. but the polls will say but we won wisconsin. >> what was going on there? today could be the most consequential moment yet for the trump presidency and donald trump is still talking about hillary clinton. speak being last night to the national boy scott jamboree. today he'll find

>> that was kristin welker reporting. roughly 6,600 transgender military members are on active duty. gender transition related ==dical treatment would amount to a .13% increase in health care spending for those troops. >> good to have those numbers broken down for us. >>> up next, facebook wants to make elections safe again. the money that it's spending to make sure that everything is fair. >>> and the richest person in the world isn't the richest person in the world this morning. i'll explain coming up in business and tech. ==sam//natvo== =nats of opening bell= =runs 4= =cont vo= ad lib numbers [ applause ] >>> look at the new york stock exchange from earlier this morning as we are tracking your market. the nasdaq and the s&p both down a little bit. the dow jones industrial average up 32 points at 21,743, and a big earnings week already under way. >>> amazon doing well this morning, enough to make amazon's ceo the richest man in the world. scott mcgrew. >> yeah, replacing bill gates who had been on the top of the pile fo

we have our own reporters, kristin welker, shouldn't the president be held to a higher standard thanr the administration in the briefing room since day one. that's not it. the representatives of this white house, the cabinet members, directors, spokesperson, homeland security director, all of them are -- what they're doing now is pathetic. it is pathetic when they go out and try -- >> as a reporter, you have to address. >> hold on, katy first. >> i'm sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt. >> it is pathetic when they go out and say we don't see what is clearly in front of our eyes every day. and that's what they're doing. sorry, my hair was covering the microphone. >> the other side, sorry. >> it is sunday, guys. i'm not used to being on television today. it is pathetic what they're doing. they're going out and they're saying i know the president, his new clothes is wonderful. it is the emperor's new clothes every day. sarah huckabee sanders said he never condoned violence. >> a question a lot of people have is what do reporters do with that, you're told something you know is a lie, is fa