remember when mike flynn was national security adviser. he came out in the briefing room and said iran, you're on notice. nobody had any idea what that meant. it was completely dislocated from everything else that the administration was doing with regard to iran. tushd out it meant nothing and two weeks later mike flynn was gone. poof. is that what's going on here with this unprecedented threats to north korea or is this part of a plan. where would we look for planning evidence if it is a plan? how about the national enquirer? that's a blunt translation how trump would like the world to see him. it's a bizarre thing but if you're looking for something to strike your tuning fork, this is a supermarket tabloid that shows you more often than not exactly the way that trump would like to be seen. i mean this is what the national enquirer looks like now, trump takes charge, success in just 36 days. president trump tell all. how i'm cleaning up obama's mess. sense the election mixed in with all of these fox and friends style stuff, they repeatedl

two weeks later mike flynn was gone, poof. is that what's going on here with the totally unprecedented threats to north korea? or is this part of a plan? where would we look for planning evidence, if it is a plan? how about the "national enquirer"? that's often a surprisingly blunt place. it is a bizarre thing, but if you're looking for something to strike your tuning fork, there is this supermarket tabloid that shows you more often than not the way that trump would like to be seen. this is what the "national enquirer" looks like now. trump takes charge. success in just 36 days. president trump tell-all, how i'm cleaning up obama's mess. since the election, mixed in with all this "fox & friends" style stuff, they repeatedly keep going back to trump declaring war on dictators. there's kim jong-un. on the cover of the "national enquirer." what did the trump talk about with vladimir putin that only the national enquinger is reporting on? apparently he talked about his plan to overthrow the dictator of north korea. the ones under

mike flynn appears to be in legal jeopardy and the question is does the special counsel have the ability to charge him with crimes and then have leverage over him to testify about what he may or may not know regarding the trump campaign's collusion with russia. because after all he had some meetings with the russian ambassador sergei kislyak. he didn't tell the truth about them according to the former acting attorney general so that's where the mike flynn angle plays into this whole russia investigation. >> be nbc news confirmed mueller has gone to a couple different grand juries to continue with this investigation. how significant that? >> on the one hand you expect prosecutors to use grand juries to obtain records in a complicated investigation like that and we had reported robert mueller was using a grand jury in alexandria, virginia, where mike flynn's company is located. it's comforting he's using a grand jury in washington, d.c. it suggests he's looking at conduct that happened in washington, d.c., for example, he's investigating whether the president of the united states obstructe

the wall street journal bearing down on the idea that mike flynn, a trump associate who donald trump interfered on his behalf with jim comey. why so much interest in flynn that he was directly linked to the e-mail effort. i always say this, doesn't tell us the end of the investigation. intelligence there is something mueller is looking at. >> that's right. donald trump himself from the podium at a press conference asked russia for their help if finding hillary clinton's e-mails. one would be following the path here that perhaps they heard that call. they heard that inquiry and then according to the reporting sending it towards michael flynn who came national security advisor. paul manafort has been a part of this. repeatedly people try to down play him. they suggest he was on a short time and wasn't a vital role in trump's effort to become the republican nominee when he ran their convention and was the campaign manager for a short time. he's always been someone they have been worried about. he was part of the famous or infamous meeting that involved trump's son. that seems the preside

that's unclear, he would tell people i'm working with mike flynn. can get these to the trump campaign. that's what happened. he committed suicide after confirming that story and now there is obvious questions, you can understand the attention being paid to flynn, because mueller wants to know if flynn was working with him. >> condition you first, then malcolm. what do we know about that, about flynn, this guy smith, who committed suicide, who may have been able to get something from the russians, certainly went looking to the russians, as to the candidate, he wanted somebody to do it. get me what they got on hillary. >> there is one of the most incredible and bizarre stories in this whole russia saga, right? my hat is off to shane harris for bringing this story. peter mysmith was serious. if mike flynn was found to have participated, it will be a serious problem for mike flynn and the campaign. >> what, legally? >> i think so, there is a legal theory if you receive something of value from a foreign government, that's an inlegal campaign contribution.

meanwhile, robert mueller's team asked the white house to turn over documents related to ousted mike flynn. the request was not a formal subpoena ask marks the first known instance of such a request. here is what democratic congresswoman maxine waters told my colleague, chris hayes, last night about the russia investigation. >>. >> mueller is going to win, drip by drip. people are finding out that there's more to this than maybe some poout people thought. and, of course, there's a lot of smoke and even now i think people are believing that there's some fire. they are going to put their had team together, the right wingers, and they're going to roll out every day with a new accusation, but it's not going to hold. >> meanwhile, another critic of president trump is weighing in on where the republican party stands in the first six months of his presidency. sheer what congressman charlie denn told my colleague, chuck todd, last night. >> the litmus test has always been, there was a battle between i'll say the purists versus the pragmatists. now that donald trump is the president, i can the issu

the scope of the investigation. >> that scope, we know now, includes following the money trail to mike flynn. with the report over the weekend, mueller asking the white house for documents on flynn and asking witnesses whether flynn was secretly paid by the turkish government while advising this domestic american presidential campaign. now, obviously the most transparent way to respond to these requests is to simply pledge cooperation and move on. but to be fair to the white house, some presidents also try to counterattack the prosecutors. let's be clear, today donald trump went much further, suggesting that this entire investigation is politically useful for him to rally his, quote, trump base. we will show you the tweet there. you can see it for yourself. i want to get right to our guest. joining me is byron dorgan and olivia noozy. senator, even if the president is correct that his base is united, is this an appropriate response into the inquiry of how russia tried to attack u.s. democracy. >> not at all. i wish the president would say let me level with you. but after all he's done and sa

recently asked the white house to turn over the documents related to ousted national security adviser, mike flynnfirst off, is there a sense that the white house is going to comply? and what does this suggest about how far mueller's team is digging is into the michael flynn angle of the russia investigation? >> it's not clear to me whether or not the white house is going to comply. you would imagine they're going to comply, because this is a special prosecutor who has subpoena power. and the white house and president's counsel has been saying that they're open, they're willing to work with the investigation, so that bodes well for them actually getting these documents. but what it really says is that the investigation is expanding farther than just the idea of narrowly looking at kind of michael flynn's time, and whether or not he was untruthful about certain things. the idea is that this investigation, and this is kind of why i think president trump is so mad at jeff sessions and so mad at the fact that this special prosecutor is happening. once you impanel this investigation, they can kind of g

not only from mike flynn, the national security adviser but also from paul manafort. in "the wall street journal" with a report from the "washington post" indicating that robert mueller is issues subpoenas and seeking testimony from the grand jury, from public relations executives who worked with paul manafort closely during that time, when he was lobbying for a pro-russia/ukrainian political party. so there's a lot of focus on what these two individuals, paul manafort and mike flynn who seem to be in the most precarious position, what influence they had on the campaign and what they were trying to do. whether they were soliciting e-mails from russia of hillary clinton that had been on the server obtained through malicious means. and whether they were trying to set up meetings from the trump officials. >> so, no comment from the flynn attorneys. i wonder earlier in the probe, we know that the president had sent a message to michael flynn to hang in there. i'm paraphrasing in there. is there still any indication from the white house and the former national security adv

it's not mike flynn. it's not general mattis.s oncomion coming back in all of those transcripts. >> we may be jumping too far ahead. it's clear the president and general mcmaster don't have chemistry. that doesn't mean they don't agree but there's a chemistry issue here. you don't want to go through through security advisors in six months. >> the president may no have chemistry with mcmaster but he and jared kushner and his daughter have real chemistry with mcmaster's deputy. i can see the team getting through this period despite whatever tension. >> what i find interesting is if you're john kelly, you probably think all right i'm not a political guy but as chief of staff i know my way around national security. if you're replacing a national security advisor, seems he wants somebody lower profile. >> could be. i think he's in a good position to restore order where order hasn't existed previously. the big wild card is the president. >> that's for sure. well, another one of those days. >> yes and it's august. only august 3. >> neve

. >> all the talk about mike flynn is around payments from turkey.his predawn raid that we learned about from nbc's reporting it from carol's reporting is about money, ukrainian money. the red line that donald trump suggested and his lawyers suggested they might draw was around trump businesses. are these dots -- is this investigation following the money and is that something that is making donald trump and his associates nervous? >> absolutely, nicolle. look the fundamental premise of this investigation, one of them is that russia -- did russia seek to influence the trump orbit and trump associates with sweetheart financial deals, financial arrangements going back years? of course the fbi and special counsel have to look into that and of course that involves probing the financial dealings of paul manafort, mike flynn and potentially the trump family. and if donald trump feels like that's out of bounds it seems clear that robert mueller doesn't. another message that this raid sends is that mueller is treating this like any other investigation. he is

stage and you're looking at what's happening with pal manafort and stories we're hearing about mike flynn, you've got to be nervous about this investigation. the problem is mueller's too far along. this is before grand jury we believe. and from reporting. we do know subpoenas and investigations are ongoing. a firing would have implications that trump probably knows he could not control. >> so, matthew, he also said he wants mueller and his team to quote get on with the task. where did this newly cooperative trump come from, do you think? >> i think the tone has changed since he brought inside the white house, ty cobb. i think you've seen a different approach. i think the tweets have dimin h diminished and that's brought the seriousness for him and especially inside the white house. the two figures that are key to this right now are manafort and flynn, as she mentioned. and i would mention as a former prosecutor and someone who's defended the wrongly accused, manafort and flynn are having a tremendous amount of pressure put on them. and we're seeing that especially mann manifest right now.

there's a grand jury that has been looking at anything that they needed to look at as it pertained to mike flynn and paul manafort. so why a new grand jury in d.c. today? >> well, one could be a matter of convenience. the grand jury that we have reported on having been active in this case was in alexandria, virginia, and mr. mueller is operating out of washington, d.c. what seems significant to this story though it says he impaneled a special grand jury for this case. there always is a grand jury sitting in any federal courthouse that's dealing with all manner of crimes and issuing indictments and prosecutors use grand juries very commonly as tools to subpoena documents. but if mueller has in fact impaneled his own separate grand jury just to focus on this russia case, that seems very significant. it does track with our own reporting that this investigation is picking up speed. is very serious. is focusing on the russia issue and anything related to it. and is not going to be over any time soon, nicolle. >> kristen welker, one thing it tracks with is the president's frustration over the existenc

mcmaster fired an aide named higgins who had been working for mike flynn. apparently, this aide sent a memo to the president of the united states, it had not been vetted by others in the hierarchy and it warned about -- it's a seven page memo from rich higgins, he was in the strategic planning office, and it warns about the deep state, the marxists, globalists, bankers and h.r. mcmaster being threats to president trump. how out of control was the mike flynn nfc? i can only imagine them trying to get control of this. you have people embedded still loyal to mike flynn feeding conspiracy theories to the president. >> no previous nfc could i imagine anything like that happening. it's not only the impropriety of that individual communicating directly to the president without any filter, it's also the substance of what the person had to say, which is full of all of these ideas about deep state and such. perhaps as a representative of the deep state. i have a strong feeling on that. the deep state is basically our government working. and i think that was just an a

the name we are not hearing is mike flynn. has there been any new developments regarding him?. it's interesting because we believe that that is an active part of the investigation and there are people around mike flynn who are of keen interest to prosecutors, but none of that has surfaced in public recently. >> and this administration has been trying to distance itself from paul manafort, even from mike flynn to a degree. >> right. >> how concerned are they and is there a chance that paul manafort could be somebody that the prosecution could turn? >> i think there's the potential that he could turn, but i think we also have to look at these investigations, state attorney general, other things related to paul manafort's real estate have been going on for a very long time so it's not surprising that we would hear that there are advances in that part of the investigation or those subpoenas, evidence way in advance of these other angles that they might be taking in the investigation. so we're focused on paul manafort, but we should remember going back to last summer a lot of these

on the other hand, if he said lay off of mike flynn because flynn's got some stuff about me, that's amueller has the difficulty of trying to prove, if he wants to go after the president, what the president's purpose was. and mueller doesn't have a window into the president's brain, so he's going to prove it from the circumstantial evidence around him. what did he say to others? what did he say to comey? is comey's version verifiable by others that were in the room? stuart: that's the real threat at this point. >> yes. what has the president stopped doing in the past two weeks? calling it a witch hunt. his lawyers have told him don't taunt these alligators until after you cross the stream, to use a new jersey phrase. [laughter] stuart: i've got this, this is breaking news, judge. san francisco's suing the department of justice over the sanctuary city law. this is just coming this to us. this is another city suing? >> i haven't seen the litigation because it was just filed this morning on the west coast. but this is very similar to chicago. basically saying -- stuart: it's other conditi

you have mike flynn in one bucket. then you have got so many other potential options with it. russian collusion. other folks, within the trump campaign, potentially at the time. we know the president said he had nothing to do with anything illegal. so whether or not this is kind of crossed the lines, we don't know the journal reporting this has been going on potentially for several weeks at least. melissa: okay. to drill down on some of the questions, stand buy, blake. we'll bring in gregg jarrett, who is, or we will do this, i don't know. do we want to bring in brad blakeman as well. no? go with gregg jarrett. no one is talking to me. gregg, what do you make of this. >> brad is very fine lawyer. melissa: i'm sure he will pop up at any moment. we'll talk to him too. we'll go to you first. >> i wouldn't necessarily assume this means somebody will get indicted. while it is true a grand jury will indict, often times impaneled grand juries choose in the end not to indict because there is insufficient evidence. impaneling a grand jury accomplishes a lot of things. you can obtain sw

quickly, nicole, look, i think as i referenced earlier, if mike flynn has been one type of crypto nightlong history of financial relationships between the trump administration and the russia federation. it goes to how much lench does russian have over this president and this team. >> all right. thank you, jeremy bash and juan czar at that take. jonathan, you've been tracking the president. it is obviously still raining. his vacation day plans have been flartd. and he is still tweeting about jor blumenthal and about "the new york times" writing, how much longer will the failing -- i missed that one. i think senator blum that will should take a nice long vacation in vietnam so he can say he's been there. about "the new york times," how much longer will the filing -- these are moving foofs tore me to read. any way, the point being we end where we started with the president raging away with twitter on this rainy monday. >> lashing out at some of his most favorite targets. we see the president do this a lot, attacking someplace where he knows he himself is weak. >> i need a degree in psychol

instead we get examining what role, if any, mike flynn may have played so there's a possibility thatps there's a chance of maybe something possibly being maybe a little bit not right. that's a whole lot of nothing. >> liz: to your point peter smith according to the wall street journal on may 14 about 10 days after the interview with the newspaper basically passed away. he reportedly asphyxiated himself in a hotel room in rochester, minnesota. to your point he was 81 years old, mr. smith has passed away. curt schlichter, thanks so much for your analysis. appreciate it. thanks for having me. >> liz: now to florida former congressman retired lieutenant crenel alan west. what do you make of the story breaking about mike flynn and russian hackers and hillary clinton's 33,000 deleted e-mails and apparently trying to get them? >> obviously you have a news cycle trying to bring more attention against president trump in a negative manor, but the real question is why did she delete 33,000 e-mails and tear up all of these hard drives and cell phones in the first place and when are we going to h

trump, talk about korea, voting integrity, and you know that famous photo of mike flynn and a vladimirutin at a dinner in moscow? jill stein is in that picture. we will find out what happened. all that and more, coming g up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the white house on monday fired communications dirirector anthoy scaramucci, just 10 days after he was hired, capping a tumultuous week that saw scaramucci repeatedly insult his colleagues in vulgar and sexually explicit terms. scaramucci's departure came just days after trump fired his white house rival, former chief of staff reince preibus, and less than 2 weeks after former press secretary sean spicer resigned in protest of scaramucci's appointment. on twitter, president trump dismissed reports of turmoil within his administration,n, tweeting a boast about stock market and employment numbers and adding -- no white house chaos. sarah huckabee sanders speaking. >> if you want to see chaos, come to my house. this does not hold a candle to that. amy: scaramucci was reportedly fir

former national security adviser mike flynn and former campaign chairman paul manafort. late today "the wall street journal" reporting that mueller is looking at flynn's potential role in russia collusion, specifically an effort, a republican effort apparently to get clinton e-mails from russian harkers h e hackers. that is one big development tonight. nbc news has the other one, this involves paul manafort, reporting that mueller has now begun issuing his first grand jury subpoenas that seek testimony from pr executives who worked on an international lobbying campaign headed by manafort. the stated goal of the lobbying campaign, this was 2012 to 2014, was to build support for ukraine's entry into the eu. this report is big for a few reasons. but it is also the first public indication that mueller is now deploying the process of compelling witness testimony before the grand jury. that's huge. it's also the latest indication the special counsel has, this increased focus on manafort. he is of course being investigated for his work for the pro russian ukrainian political pa

house, mike flynn had to do a disclosure form, didn't initially disclose all the foreign contributionsr payments for work he had done, he had to refile three times to correct and amend the disclosure forms, anybody being a consultant for foreign agents or foreign governments needs to register with the department of justice. michael flynn had not done that but he disclosed and changed that. i think michael flynn is subject to this investigation, chances are it is more broadly than that. >> let's talk about the leaks that are coming, we heard from kristen fisher's resort, and the graham vessel robert miller had to get control of that. if he is responsible for that, could be other people thinking this information as well, trying in some way to embarrass the trump administration. talk to me about that if you will. >> there is so little we know. we know the result of the leaks, we see them on tv but we don't know the motivation of the leakers. usually people leaks to the press for tons of reasons. it could be these are sanctioned leaks coming from special counsel. we have no idea. could be

so, just about the time that mike flynn was levering, re-signing and macmaster was taking up the postthat's when they considered this enemiee list, and they brought in a staffer that got fired a couple weeks, and said what do you think. and harvey said, you know what, most of these people are temporary assignees from other agencies, they'll be gone by december. it won't be worth the aggravation. and the press coverage that's going to happen if you fire them so just let it be. he never told macmaster about that meeting and that was sited as one of the reasons i was told he was fired. although he's in line for a job elsewhere in administration, as oppose to other people who were let go, there's no such job waiting in the we thinks for them. and a combination of the three being let go at the same time has created this fire storm attacks aimed at general macmaster saying that he should be fired, he should step down. and the president himself had to step in and defend him. that's a little bit of the twisted back story that i've been hearing. >> and that i have been trying so much -- the ne

and mcmaster clearing out mike flynn -- before the national security adviser mike flynnites that theyee going to the heart of the trump agenda. >> reporter: mcmaster has fired five top officials of flynn causing fury. mcmaster had been on odds with president trump with some issues, such as more trips to afghanistan and had been undercut by bannon. and he has been under fire of taking the routine step of extending susan rice's security clearance. some conservatives accused rice of mishandling classified information involving trump campaign associates. a senior administration official says mcmaster wrote letters to all past national security advisers extending their clearances. now, political media across the spectrum are running stories within hours of each other, suggesting mcmaster could be pushed out and the right wing conservist is suggesting leaks, using imagery of mcmaster being controlled as a puppet, the cartoon the anti-dem makes league calls anti-semitic. a staffer who worked for george w. bush said it's unconscionable. with retired chief of staff there may be willing tons al

and the national security adviser mike flynn is now h.r. mcmaster.re's a lot of turnover in six months of this administration. what it tells us is this administration has not gotten its footing yet about how to deal with not only washington, but a unique president in president trump. this is a signal that john kelly has a lot more power and a lot more say, sway in that white house now. and it is being said that he was one of the primary reasons that bannon is gone. obviously the president makes the decision. but john kelly is trying to straighten out the inner workings of that white house. bannon, by the way, sandra, is telling people he offered his resignation august 7th but was told this would be his last day today. it's hard to believe that he thought that interview with "american prospect" was off the record. if you look in context of the final days here, he also talked to "the new york times" and "the washington post." and it seemed like a swan song kind of media, this is where he thinks things should go. >> sandra: so what impact will this have

robert mueller's team has asked the white house for documents on former national security adviser mike flynn. plus attorney general jeff sessions vows to crack down on leaks but is his tough message to leakers or the boss? and mattis, mcmaster and kelly trump's made no secret of of the love of generals but can they bring order to a chaotic administration? the friday edition of the 11th hour" begins now. >>> we've made it to friday. good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. day 197 in fact of the trump administration. and a long time trump ally and short-time white house employee is firmly back in the news tonight. "the new york times" is reporting, quote, investigators working for the special counselor robert mueller recently asked the white house for documents related to former national security advisers michael flynn and have questioned witnesses about whether he was secretly paid by the turkish government during the final months of the presidential campaign. that's according to people close to the investigation. it continues. the line of questions shows that

no a private agency because the investigation was in part about mike flynn. now he's using a grand jury in washington which suggests he's continuing to examine conduct that happened in washington. for example, allegations of obstruction of justice by the president of the united states and looking at whether people were honest on their security forms. look, this investigation is a serious threat to the trump presidency. it's here to stay. and it's not only the grand jury. robert mueller has brought in 16 lawyers, many of whom have left very lucrative jobs in private practice. they didn't do that to join an effort that's going to last a month and isn't going to go anywhere. these are serious people and a serious investigation. >> another busy week ahead for sure. ken and carol, thank you. >> thank you. >>> now to other news making headlines. a nationwide manhunt for two murder suspects, both connected to prestigious universities, is over this morning. 42-year-old northwestern university professor wyndham lat lathem, and oxford employee andrewar california last

work with federal prosecutors on investigations related to both trump national security adviser mike flynn and paul manafort. that was in may, by the first week of june it was reported that whatever prosecutors and grand juries had been working on manafort and flynn investigations, whichever grand juries and prosecutors had been issuing subpoenas in those investigations, both of them were being taken out of the normal course of justice department oversight. both flynn investigations and manafort investigations were being taken over by the special counsel, bob mueller. by the end of june, june 30th, we learned among the prosecutors and lawyers who bob mueller has been bringing on to his team at the special counsel's office, one of the lawyers he brought on is the prosecutor who was leading the paul manafort investigation in the southern district of new york. before that prosecution got subsumed into mueller's work. so in parallel with all of that attention and action, from federal prosecutors and grand juries and the special counsel's office, we also know that paul manafort was dealing simu

so just about the time that mike flynn was leaving, resigning, and h.r.king up the post, that's when the they considered this had enemies list. and they brought in one of the staffers that got fired in the past couple weeks, a man named retired colonel derek harvey and said well, what do you think? harvey said you know what? most of these people reply temporary assignees from other agencies. they'll be gone by the summer. it won't be worth the aggravation and the press coverage that's going to happen if you fire them. just let them be. well, he never told mcmaster about that meeting and that was cited as one of the reasons that i was told that he was fired though he's in line for a job elsewhere in the administration for a couple of the other people who were let go who were originally flynn acolytes, there's no such job waiting in the wings for them. the combination of the three being let go at the same time has created this firestorm of attacks aimed at general mcmaster saying that he should be fired, he should step down. and the president himself had to

difference in opinion between mcmaster and bannon and the view i think that mcmaster is clearing out mike flynnthe former security advisor. that is a problem bannon allies see as going directly to the heart of trump's own agenda. >> reporter: mcmaster has fired five top nse officials tied to flynn, causing some fury. mcmaster had been at odds with president trump on some national security issues, such as more trips to afghanistan and have been undercut by bannon. and he has been under fire for taking the routine step of extending former nse advisor susan rice's security clearance. some conservatives accuse rice of mishandling classified information involving trump campaign associates. a senior administration official says mcmaster wrote letters to all past national security advisors extending their clearances. now political media across the spectrum are running stories within hours of each other suggesting mcmaster could be pushed out. and fringe right wing personality mike cernavich is soliciting tips on the national security advisor on mcmaster leaks.com, using imagery of mcmaster being contr

we had known that they were using a grand jury in alexandria, that was in many ways related to mike flynn whose company was headquartered in alexandria. now he's using a grand jury in washington which legal experts suggest he's looking at conduct in washington. and yes, my understanding is that they think that the collusion investigation is bearing some fruit. but that can mean a lot of different things, right? i mean, obviously we have seen this donald trump meeting and the e-mail laying out a promise of help from the russian government and an acceptance by the trump campaign at the time. that raises a whole host of questions about what other meetings there were and the fbi is looking at that but they're looking at financial relationships between trump associates and russia and whether that in any way compromised the trump team. but then of course there's a separate track. there's the obstruction of justice investigation. the white house keeps saying we're not aware that the president is under investigation. to remind folks it's been well established an reported that bob mueller's invest

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at the revolving door, just since he's been in office, how quickly some of his top advisers like mike flynn, jim comey, reince priebus, the chief of staff and now scaramucci have gone in and now out of this white house. frances? >> wow, thank you so much. tracy potts for us in washington, d.c. >>> breaking news is bringing more legal scrutiny on the white house this morning, after "the washington post" reported that it was the president who dictated his son's misleading first statement on that controversial meeting with a russian lawer in 2016. keeping track of us nbc's ron allen. >> reporter: what's most important about this story is that it raises the question whether president trump himself tried to mislead the public and investigators about that meeting and whether the president is involved in a coverup. the meeting happened during the height of the campaign. several russians with times to the kremlin. and a statement released by donald trump, jr. first said -- >> reporter: according to "the washington post," president trump personally dictated that statement. a claim not independently

russia case has asked the white house for documents related to former national security adviser mike flynn. how is the president feeling about this latest revelation and also the investigation in general? here's kellyanne conway talking about whether or not the president wants to fire robert mueller. >> the president has not even discussed that. the president is not discussing firing bob mueller. >> will he commit to not fire him? >> he's cooperating -- he's not discussed firing bob mueller. >> that's not what i'm asking. >> well, hold on, i'm not the president's lawyer here, but i will tell you, he's not discussing that. >> reporter: of course, we now know there are multiple grand juries involved in that investigation. >> tracy, thanks. >>> tulsa, oklahoma is still cleaning up this morning following a massive damage from a rare late-summer it's the first august twister in tulsa since the late '50s. the winds ripped roofs off homes and businesses. officials say the tornado struck so suddenly, there was no time for warnings. >> it just happen today quickly. it was just all of a sudden it's

the problem ultimately for president trump is not steve ban bon or anthony scaramucci or mike flynn, and the fbi director before the recent firings those were fired and he has to have some self reflection but does he is the capacity to have self reflection. >>> breaking news steve bannon has resigned. we learned he resigned two weeks ago and this was effective on monday. we will stay on top of this story throughout the afternoon and have a full update on world news tonight with david muir. this has been a special report from abc news. ♪ >> announcer: today, get ready to rise, shine and dine because we're throwing an all-star brunch bash and you're invited. carla's in the kitchen with the fabulous amy brenneman and they're whipping up a dish so good, there won't be any leftovers. then kareem abdul-jabbar stops by for some hang time with michael, and to cook up a meal that's a real slam dunk. plus "the chew comes to you" week continues as clinton's revealing his secrets to making three delicious classics. it's time to get brunch-tastic up in here, right now on "the chew." [ cheers and

. >> mike flynn. >> anthony scaramucci. -- does he officially count. >> he counts. >> steve bannon. >> stev bannon. >> reince preibus. >> okay. >> how many do you know how many you guys have been through? >> we've only -- >> hhow many discounts you've ha we do the end by date for each person that's done. >> so this is the dead before dawn. you gave us the ingredients you mixed up. what does it go well with. you have a menu as well. >> our menu is fairly seasonal. each season we do something different especially with food and cocktails. >> cool. >> serve it up. we got to keep it rolling. serve it up for us. >> so, right now we have fantastic chicken that this will go with fried chicken sparkling wine go fantastic together. >> all right. [laughter] >> i like the way you think though. perfect. >> absolutely. >> all right. >> all right, so right now for happy hour cocktail you're mixing up is only four bucks which is great. we got about 20 seconds here. got to hurry up because i got to taste it here. >> give it to shawn. >> the

how much of a problem is this for mike flynn? >> i think it's a big problem. the prosecutors. mueller has brought on prosecutors who are known to flip witnesses. you do it by pressuring them. any crime they find, they can use as leverage. that's why there's been a lot of talk about the tactical use of pardons to pardon them and remove the leverage. but stuff like this is very, very serious. when you have a special counsel in the field, these things can be criminalized. it could be weaponized by a special counsel. >> all right. thank you so much, jonathan turly, as always. we appreciate you being on. still ahead over the past weekend, president trump first referred to the majority leader as senator mitch mcsen tall. now it's just mitch. is the kentucky man about to earn himself a new nickname like little marco or lying ted? we'll be right back with more "morning joe." with at&t you can get your entertainment right here. right now, when you get the incredible iphone 7 from at&t you can get unlimited data and live tv. the channels you love. your favorite shows and

mike flynn's son lashed out against the move to fire bannon and taking shots at hr mcmaster. and we'll see all of that intensify if bannon joins those efforts. >> mercer. a billionaire donor? >> a prominent donor on the right who has supported breitbart and media outlets that are supportive of the president at the end of his campaign and could offer breitbart unlimited funds to mount efforts he makes to pursue and try to keep trump to the themes he struck in the campaign and avoid him from falling in the globalist camp. >> shepard: and a war, jared kutcher and ivanka trump. how will that go over? >> the president hasn't defended them publicly to at this time degree he might have. there is a constant sniping back and forth between jared and ivanka camp and the bannon camp in the press. how much is coming from bannon or his ally and having that coming out in front of the curtain could be unpleasant. people on bannon's sign now the president has a democratic might white implying that jared or ivanka don't have the republican's party at heart. >> shepard: there are many stories h

reporting special counsel robert mueller is examining what role if any former national security advisor mike flynn may have played in a private effort to obtain hillary clinton's emails from russian hackers. the effort was reportedly led by peter smith who implyinged flynn was an ally and other trump supporters were helping which they denied. he made contact with five groups of hackers two of which he believe were compromised by russia. joining me, ed rollins. first of all, do you know this character, peter smith? ed: i do not know peter smith. david: this source like so many other, it quotes people familiar with the matter said. who do you think those people are? ed: when you get into things like -- he passed away from suicide shortly after this broke. this guy is kind of a long pattern from what i read playing with the clinton stuff when it was going on. but my sense is i don't know him. it doesn't mean it's not valid. but it doesn't sounds like a good story. david: we don't have the absolute proof that hillary's emails were hacked. so the entire story is prefaced on something we don't know is t

mike flynn gone, sean spicer gone, reince priebus gone and finally today, steve bannon. >> reporting from washington. within hours of leaving the white house, bannon was already back at breitbart news. he said he felt jacked up and free. the trump presidency we fought for and won is over. we still have a huge movement and will make something of this trump presidency but that presidency is over end quote. >> reporter: th >>> they want to see president trump fire more staff. nancy pelosi said bannon's rek resignation is quote welcome news and it doesn't disguise where president trump himself stands with white supremacists. it also followed the president's remarks about last weekend's violence in virginia. >>> and another california law maker is bringing up the 25th amendment which allows for the removal of a president unfit or unable to do their job. they asked that the president be examined by medical and psychiatric professionals. representative jacky spear on tuesday tweeted it was time to invoke the 25th amendment. in the history of america, keep in mind, it has never been used. >>

intelligence agencies and executive branch, within two days of that sharing, where did conversations of mike flynnnd ambassador show up, in new york times and washington post. lou: no investigation to obama administration, not by a republican led house of representatives. >> i hope that you and i are wrong. i hope that jeff sessions ordered the fbi on day one in office to commence an investigation and they are following the rule which jim comey did not follow, you do nonot revealic it -- existence of an investigation until you indict somebody. if they are, they are going very, very high in totem pole of the obama administration. who is at top, they have one boss, barack obama. lou: like you, i want to believe your scenario above all, but like you, i am highly skeptical. and their at-this-point, we have an attorney general who should be making noise. >> yes. >> lou: and beholding to account people this that administration, it should be public, it should be as energetic. >> i think these investigations take time, but we're now in 7th month, i would hope it is well on its way. you talk about hillary

. >> reporter: with the firing on friday of lost key backers when mike flynn and steve bannon were senta that secretary tillerson is going to discuss military matters is simply nonsensical. >> in his resignation letter, gorka noted the absence of the term rally islam from the commander and chief recent afghanistan address and a crucial element of the presidential campaign has been lost >> i believe he's completely wrong, chris and i think it shows a lack of understanding and the president's broader policy. >> reporter: in the same appearance, tillerson was slightly less, saying the president quote speaks for himself. >> are you separating yourself from that, as you are >> i've spoken, made my own comments as to our values and the speech i gave to the state department. >> reporter: on trade policy, the president maintains his own hard line, reporter jonathan swan reported the story, its details subsequently confirmed by fox news recounting a scene in which the president told vendorses in the oval office for last six months, the same group of geniuses comes in here all the time and i tell