administration and yes mr bennett i'm going to need to the european union i'm going to give mr bennett a loss would miss clode ashleigh because we don't have very long left the can the european union remain united against this trump presidency do you think it is not united on on a number of issues for example the north stream dealing with russia there are divisions already and the administration if it still wants can play divide and rule very effective the europe that's why countries like germany france really need to invest very hard in maintaining european unity there are no. of pills are probably have to swallow as germany or along the way that means we cannot go against the liberalism domestically of poland hungary as forcefully as we would like to if we want to keep for example born and hungry in the board in confrontations with china and. and the us and russia saw a tricky situation but we have to keep trying mr bennett thank you very much i will have to end all that somewhat positive note that is thoughts and banned in berlin or catherine clutha ashbrook and harvard and daniel g

administration and yes mr bennett i'm going to need to the european union i'm going to give mr by the last would this clip ashleigh because we don't have very long left the can the european union remain united against this trump presidency do you think it is not united on on a number of issues for example the north stream dealing with russia there are divisions already and the administration if it still wants can play divide and rule very effective the europe that's why countries like germany france really need to invest very hard in maintaining european unity there now. of pills are probably have to swallow as germany along the way that means we cannot go against the liberalism domestically of poland hungary as forcefully as we would like to if we want to keep for example and hungry in the board in confrontations with china and. and the us and russia saw a tricky situation but we have to keep trying mr bennett thank you very much i will have to end that somewhat positive thoughts and in catherine clutha ashbrook and harvard and daniel gross and brussels and frank you too for watching

administration and yes mr bennett i'm going to need to the european union i'm going to give mr benton last would this clear the ashbrook because we don't have very long left the can the european union remain united against this trump presidency do you think it is not united on on a number of issues for example the north stream the dealing with russia there are divisions already in the administration if it's a wants can play divide and rule very effective the europe that's why countries like germany france really need to invest very hard in maintaining european unity there are no. of pills we're probably have to swallow as germany along the way that means we cannot go against the liberalism domestically of poland hungary as forcefully as we would like to if we want to keep for example the line and hungry in the board in confrontations with china and. and the us and russia saw it's a tricky situation but we have to keep trying mr bennett thank you very much i will have to end that somewhat positive note that is the list and banned in berlin or catherine clutha ashbrook and harvard and d

administration and yes mr bennett i'm going to needs to the european union i'm going to give mr vedder the last would this clip ashleigh because we don't have very long left the can the european union remain united against this trump presidency do you think it is not united on on a number of issues for example the north stream dealing with russia there are divisions already and the administration if it's a wants can play divide and rule very effective the europe that's why countries like germany france really need to invest very hard in maintaining european unity there are no. of pills are probably have to swallow as germany or along the way that means we cannot go against the liberalism domestically of poland hungary as forcefully as we would like to if we want to keep for example bawling and hungry in the board in confrontations with china and. and the us and russia saw it's a tricky situation but we have to keep trying mr bennett thank you very much i will have to end all that somewhat positive note that is thoughts and banned in berlin and catherine clutha ashbrook and harvard and

with partners and trying to work with the practical realities that exist on the ground right now mr bennett do you think this is thinking actually more long to him or long to than just counteract and the u.s. sanctions. yeah the iran sanctions are just a trigger and europe is well aware that they won't likely won't pull this off until november when it would need to be in place to salvage the iran deal for salvaging the iran diaz thing we very much have to rely on china providing a lifeline to iran by increasing our securing the oil oil exports and also using an independent payment systems that the chinese have but clearly this is triggered to rethink in europe actually a rethink that was predicted by u.s. secretary of treasury secretary jack lew during the obama administration he said like he warned of sanctions overreach i do think that this weaponize ing of interdependence and choke points and swift is one swift may be a european institution but it's at the mercy of of american pressure and we've seen that many times with regard to iran that's why it is indeed important for europe to deve

with partners and trying to work with the practical realities that exist on the ground right now mr bennett do you think this is thinking actually more long to him or long to than just counteract and the u.s. sanctions. yeah the iran sanctions are just a trigger and europe is well aware that they won't likely won't pull this off until november when it would need to be in place to salvage the iran deal for salvaging the iran diaz thing we very much have to rely on china providing a lifeline to iran by increasing our securing the oil oil exports and also using an independent payment systems that the chinese have but clearly this is triggered a rethink in europe actually a rethink that was predicted by u.s. secretary of treasury secretary jack lew during the obama administration he said like he warned of sanctions overreach i do think that this weaponize ing of interdependency and choke points and swift is one swift maybe a european institution but it's at the mercy of of american pressure and we've seen that many times with regard to iran that's why it is indeed important for europe to develo

mr. bennett.gento was a leading voice in the #metoo movement after saying weinstein raped her when she was 21. weinstein faces multiple charges of sexual assault and rape. none including argento. he denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex. >>> leaders of the #metoo movement are reacting to this report. the moit movement fonder had a lot to say. i'm going to read a series of the tweets that put it into context. she says i've said the moit moveme #metoo movement is for all of us. it will be jarring when we hear the names of our favorites connected to sexual violence unless we shift from talking about individuals and begin to talk about power. sexual violence is about power and privilege. that doesn't change if the perpetrator is our favorite activist, actress or professor of any gender. and we won't shift the culture unless we get serious about shifting the false narratives. this is complicated. this is not what the last year of #metoo has sort of prepared us to hear. >> it is a challenging situ

the country a higher profile a high profile challenger to uganda's longtime president you wearing mr bennett he was arrested in august after stones were thrown at the president's convoy he was released on bail this week on crutches the w.'s are two lives reports on how ugandans are venting their frustration over the case what they think of the man taking on the country's political elite. shortest in uganda's capital kampala. the focus of the be more stringent this month known as bobby rush i just as demanded his release after hearing about easily torture under our wrist. in an interview will be one told d.w. about his role in uganda's party takes nobody should look at me as a messiah nobody should look at me as a solution i'm just part of the puzzle and you out there that i was that is watching me you also part of that puzzle not to do it unless if we choose to do it to get that and yes that is this solution because if we are to attain. what we want as a country they need to get. a large majority of ugandans population is under twenty four and many see they thought the six year old hopes to

stresses those guilty verdicts yesterday all that a fourth president has said some things about mr bennett what he's called a good manager the person that feels badly for what has happened to him he tweeted today i'm like michael cohen he refused to break make up stories in order to get a deal he tweeted such respect for a great man is this tremendous work a simple matter to work presidential pardon once again that's not something that has been up for discussion i don't have anything or you just happen on nomination or some democrats that are saying that the delamination should be put on hold because of the legal developments just today why and senator the zero put out a statement she said just president is an unindicted coconspirators conspirator in a criminal matter does not deserve the courtesy of it's not what your reaction to that's here this is a desperate and pathetic attempt by democrats to obstruct a very highly qualified nominee the hearing date has been set for september fourth and judge kavanaugh will be their state yes they're out on trade talks between the united states and c

mr. bennett? >> reporter: the hope is that this meeting can breathe new life into the u.s./africa relationships which washington neglected of other countries and china stepped into fill the void. kenya owes 70% of its external debt to beijing, one of the things that kenyatta wants to get is he wants to get better business from other countries. you have the u.s. spending so much money on aid and security across the continent but there is no denying that the president's own comment made it a heavier lift as you mentioned he decembisparaged some of the countries. the other day he was falsely floating the notion of killings. kenyatta is hoping for a business deal that he can take back to his country. >> while we can show that live look there. i want to get your take on something else here. ivanka trump will be speaking on women empowerment in america. ivanka trump got a bit of a blow back for tweeting, quote ", on women's equality day, 98 years ago today, american women were given the right to vote." twitter responded to vaivanka trump quickly. >> reporter: ivanka trump has mad

mr. bennett at all. the fact remains that we have not heard from argento.t continually to her. >> which is stunning. "the times" have been reaching out to her since last thursday. no word to any reporter on this. thank you for the update. let's talk with my friend, my former colleague and host of "entertainment tonight," nichelle turner. i wish this was on better news. when you -- it is stunning. we haven't heard anything from argento. this is also the woman that in so many ways was the face -- a prominent face of the must too movement. what's your take and what are you hearing there? >> you know, you are right, she was a very early accuser of harvey weinstein, one of the first to publically come out and accuse him of rape along with rose mcgowan. people are looking at her story. does this mean she's lying about what she says happened to her with harvey weinstein in 1997? absolutely not. i think that people are looking at this with a more skeptical eye because of these new allegations. as they should. we should say though, however, harvey weinstein's team h

mr bennett had initially not spoken out when the article was published.eved there was still a stigma to being in the situation as a male." ms argento has admitted making a payment but denied any sexual misconduct. peter bowes, los angeles. hi, peter. iguess hi, peter. i guess is that lots of cases of sexual allegations when two people saying completely different things, and it's very hard to assess one against the other. yes, this is extremely competent and of course bearin extremely competent and of course bear in mind that she was a key part of the movement making the allegations against harvey weinstein about a year ago, and this young actor who says that they had both been friends for some time it was not until she went public about her claims that he says it brought back memories of what he claims happen to him that she was the person who assaulted him as a 17—year—old in a hotel in los angeles just outside of la. he didn't make a statement of the time he was ashamed as you would say and basically he was saying in his statement that they did not want

mr. bennett.ento became a leading voice in the #metoo movement after telling new yorker weinstein raped her in 1997 when she was 21. weinstein faces multiple charges of sexual assault and rape, none including argento. but he denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex. >> steph, what will this mean for the harvey weinstein case. do you think? >> well, it's important to know that argento is not involved in the criminal charges here in new york. there are two ongoing criminal investigations, one in london and one in l.a. we don't know the details. those investigations whether they will result in charges themselves. so it's a little unclear. >> this all came about a tip to a newspaper. >> that's right. an encrypted set of e-mails to the "new york times" from an unknown person. yep. >> okay. >> all right, steph, thank you. >>> now to this dramatic video we were showing earlier, a father and son barely escape with their lives after being caught in the middle of a raging wildfire. look at this. the home

mr. chair. bennett: senator cassidy. senator cassidy: thank you for being here. you probably know from previous lines of questioning, i am concerned about priority in spending. a couple background things. roughlythat there is 1/5 of disability, adjusted with my colleagues -- just an amalgamation, how much do we lose in terms of productivity with an element of death or sickness? from 2015, thety funding levels from 2016. we see at societal cost, there is a correlation between how and thecosts, society, disability and death rate it causes. i have figures for obesity. one is how the cdc says this is the folks who died. this is everybody for whom obesity is lifted on the coroner's report, knowing that obesity leads to other conditions that might be primary cause of death, for example, heart disease. can you hold that the other? my continued concern, senator collins -- to the side and do not lock the camera because the camera will want to see their pretty faces -- hold it up higher -- higher -- here you see nih funding. obviously a lot for hiv, there is diabetes. soci

mr. bennett earlier, it is about the fact you never can solve a problem unless you start with bipartisanshipho defeated john mccain for president. george w. bush and barack obama. the message he is trying to send we're americans first and that's the single message he wants everyone to take away at the end of this week. >> you heard in a lot of references in this service to mccain's intensity. whatever he was saying whether he was making a joke or yelling at you or whatever, there was this intensity. i think he hasn't spoken enough. he was incredibly ambitious. we talked about his time in the senate and house. he really wanted to be president. in 2007 i remember his campaign. he wanted the run a big, rich, corporate kind of campaign that george w. bush had used to defeat him eight years earlier but it went bad. his campaign went broke, almost imploded. so we were out in person iowa staying in a really budget hotel, smell of manure was rather strong everywhere. the bus breaks down. the straight talk express breaks down. they scramble and rent a small van to go around in and he is in excellent

mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator bennett. >> i had a couple of remaining questions. after we passed 21st century cures we worked on and were able to pass the race for children act as part of the fda user fee package. i know that nci has been collaborating to create cancer drugs for children. some of these treatments and immunotherapies. some of these therapies have been successful in treating certain pediatric cancers and other approaches have not been as effective. i wonder if you can talk about what nci is doing to advance immunotherapy. >> it is an exciting area. as you alluded, there is a lot f progress going on. because of the structure of mutualization, there is not a lot of encouragement. the race act was to encourage companies to develop it for years. i think it is a sharp way to do it. it does not hurt innovation, but it provides a real emphasis on childhood cancer, which was an area we had seen a lot of progress but we need a lot ore. the race act directed the nci to develop a list of targets. it has been published online, it is seven pages. if you are maki

mr. trump, this one. jeff bennett has more. let's talk about it. what are the numbers that you are seeing in the interpretations of it all? >> reporter: the numbers look pretty good for the president, alex. after a week that saw president trump's former campaign chairman convicted on eight counts of fraud and his lawyer to a felony, you have the president's job approval rating remaining virtually unchanged. this from "the wall street journal." the day the news broke about mfrt and cohen, it stands at 46% approve, and 51% disapprove, but look. despite the durability of trump's approval, most voters are not convinced that the president himself is completely insulated from the legal problems of his associates. you have got fewer than 3 in 10 voters convinced that trump himself is not implicated, not involved in the wrongdoing of these six trump associates who have either been convicted of crimes or pleaded guilty, and on that point, you have the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff. he was on the sunday shows today da talking

mr. trump. >>> starting at this hour, jeff bennett and laura basset and john harwood. we'll begin with jeff. let's get to what the president is saying about this with a good day. >> president trump is lashing out again at former cia director john brennan. it's the president's latest effort to counter criticism he's faced since deciding to strip brennan of his security clearance. the president is hitting back predictably on twitter, and now he's suggesting that there's some misdeed or mistake in brennan's past which the president says warrants further scrutiny. the president saying it without offering any evidence. here's the tweet. has anyone look add the mistakes brennan made while serving as cia director in he'll go down as the worst in history and since getting out, he's become nothing less than a political hack who cannot be trusted with the secrets to our country. and we should point out that before being named cia director by former president barack obama, john brennan served in the agency for more than two decades where he briefed both democratic and republican presidents. but the pre

mr. trump king kong behind his back. joining me now, jeff bennett, chief white house correspondent.operating with mueller investigators? >> for a lawyer to share so much with investigators scrutinizing his client is unusual, but white house counsel don mcgann views his role as protecting the office of the presidency, not specifically the president, so that makes him different from rudy giuliani, the president's outside attorney, so mcgann has an entirely different motivation, but "the new york times" reports mcgann's cooperation began partly as a result of the decision of the result of the president's team of outside lawyers to fully cooperate with the mueller team. the president's lawyers at the time said they believe president trump, their client, had nothing to hide and that they could bring the investigation to a quick end by collaborating with the special counsel. that has clearly changed over time as the president's outside legal team has changed. eric? >> geoff, what do we know about the relationship between don mcdan and president trump? >> first, we should say don mcgann is

mr. trump taunting his attorney general on twitter, saying sessions doesn't understand what's happening beneath him at the justice department. jose? >> jeff bennett at the white house. thank you. >>> in ft. worth, texas, today a deadly collision between a passenger train and a dump truck. the truck was nearly destroyed on impact, two people inside were killed. 11 people aboard the train were taken to the hospital, two in critical condition. >>> tonight marks the one-year anniversary of hurricane harvey, the wettest hurricane ever measured, dumping more than 27 trillion gallons of rain on texas. the flood waters have long receded but a recent study found 40% of residents are still struggling to rebuild. >> reporter: the flood waters have long receded, but what hurricane harvey left behind -- struggle for kim charles. >> it's anshell. >> reporter: it's home. >> that's where we are right >> reporter: it's been a year and charles is one of the many residents in hard hit southeast texas that still feels underwater. >> we're still in limbo trying to figure out what to do. >> reporter: she's applied to fema twice, but says her applications were kicked b

mr. trump is taking on one of the state's native sons, basketball icon lebron james. nbc's geoff bennett picks up our coverage from lewiscenter, ohio. >> reporter: it's the latest skirmish in the ongoing battle between the president and professional athletes. friday night, trump tweeting, lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do. earlier this week on cnn, james slammed the president. >> what i noticed over the last few months, that he's kind of used sport to kind of divide us. >> reporter: the trump talk sparking a torrent of tweets from top athletes in support of james. even the first lady weighing in. saying in a statement, it looks like lebron james is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation. this week, james opened a new public school for underprivileged children in his ohio hometown. >> kids just want to know if we care about them. >> reporter: president trump ended his twitter insult with "i like mike." an apparent reference to the ongoing debate over whether james or nba lege

mr. trump has done and is doing and is bringing this country down. >> geoff bennett, although he is very respected, director john brennan, former cia director, lots of criticism in the beltway about what he is doing and how he might be affecting the hue of the intelligence community. >> the president take refuge in a talking point that was offered up by richard burr, the republican head of the senate intelligence committee. burr's point was if john brennan had any misgivings, he should have made this known some time ago. brennan makes the point what he is referring to is activity in the public view. of course, the fact that don jr. and the top echelon of the campaign met with that russian lawyer. the president's behavior in the helsinki summit. one he said in the interview with chuck todd that i was particularly interested in is the potential for retaliatory legal action. remember, there are some 13 guidelines that set out whether or not someone's security clearance should be reviewed or revoked. saying negative things about the president is not one of these criteria. lawyers have reache

mr. kessler was for upwards of 400 people. he showed up with just two dozen. jeff bennett, thanks very much for your reporting. we'll be checking back in with you tonight. >> sure. >> meanwhile i want to welcome in my panel with me on set, former rnc chairman and political analyst, michael steele. whouts reporter for l.a. times and nbc political analyst eli stokols. polster and msnbc political analyst cornell belcher and the president of the national urban league and former mayor of new orleans, mark morial. thank you all for being here tonight. michael steele, i want to start with you as somebody who is -- there is a lot being ascribed to what i think is still your party, although you have had some major differences over the course of the last year. >> we're working that out. >> but what do you read into what you saw today with this frankly dismal showing, and what the president had to say about it so far? >> i kind of ignore the showing in all of that. that's "melodrama" that will play itself out one way or the other. 24 people, 400 people, that is what it is. how that is ultimately framed in my view is what

mr. weinstein were actually vetted. according to the "new york times," actor jimmy bennett said he was 17 when asia argento had sex withrni hotel room in 2013. an encounter according to a notice of intent to sue, quote, threatened his mental health. the l.a. county sheriff's department said it is onsidering opening an investigation. the legal age of consent ili cafornia is 18. the "new york times" reports that argento pd benne 00,000. anthony bourdain, her previous boyfriend, took his own life last june amid reports their troubled. p was >> this is difficult for people in bourdain's circle to know how much he knew about it and helped her navigate it. >> bourdain's attorney did not reond to our request for comment. argento has been one of the most publiceinstein accusers, alongside rose mou go ban. who tweeted. i got to know asia argento ten nths ago. our commonality is the shared pain of being assaulted by harvey weinstein. my heart is broken. i will continue my work on behalf of vicms everywhere. sara massey writes, nothing has changed. i believe survivors. this is a deeply emotionally troubling situation for me perso

mr. weinstein were actually vetted. according to "the new york times" actor jimmy bennett said he was 17 when argento had sex with him intel room in 2013, an encounter that according to a notice of intent to sue, quote, threatened his mental health. the l.a. county sheriff's department says it is considering opening a criminal investigation. the legal age of consent in california is 18. the "times" reports that argento paid bennett nearly $400,000, a negotiation that the paper said her then-boyfriend anthony bourdain helped navigate. bourdain tragically took his own life last june amid tabloid reports their relationship was troubled. >> this is difficult i think for people in bourdain's circle to realize how much he knew about this and helped her navigate it. >> reporter: bourdain's attorney did not respond to our request for comment. the news shook the foundation of the #metoo movement. argento has been one of the most public weinstein accusers alongside rose mcgowan who tweeted, i got to know asia argento ten months ago. our commonality is the shared pain being assaulted by harvey weinstein. my heart is broken. i will

bennett, thank you for that. >> jeremy peters and our msnbc contributor, and glenn kershner. jeremy, let me start with these people. this is what the "time" wrote. they took mr. trump at his words that he did nothing wrong and sold him on an open book strategy. i mean -- i guess one moral of the story is be honest with your lawyers or maybe just he really does not believe that he has done anything wrong in any case not once arguing executive privilege apparently even mechanic gain mcgahn's lawyer were flabbergasted by that, right? >> there is despairty of what's reality and what donald trump's mind has going on in there. i think that there is no question that trump is somebody who believes at times that what he's saying is the truth when in fact it is certainly not. to have your lawyers put you down in front of prosecutors when you know your client is preexposed to not telling the truth. that's why we have not seen donald trump sitting down with bob mueller's team at this point. i think something's critical to remember here as my colleague here pointed out in the story that don mcgahn never saw himself as the president's personal attorney. he saw himself as

bennett at the white house, thank you. >>> joining me now, natasha bertrand and franco ordonez and glenn kercher, former federal prosecutor. i'll start with you and "the new york times" report saying mr. mcgann laid out how mr. trump tried to control the investigation, giving investigators a mix of information both potentially damaging and favorable to the president. mr. mcgann cautioned to investigators that he never saw mr. trump go beyond his legal authorities, though the limits of executive power are murky. that's in that "new york times" reporting. what's your reaction to that? >> right, so what mcgann can offer to the special counsel is an important look into perhaps the president's state of mind, right, he can offer examples of specific episodes perhaps that can show mueller's team what trump was thinking when he did certain things. when he fired jim comey, for example, when he wanted to fire mueller himself, of course. don mcgann actually threatened to quit, so that's an episode he could shed light on for the special counsel's team, but i think it's important just to remember how much the president really does not understand his legal exposure here. i mean, the fact that his

bennett. if you have any questions, —— with in it. bbc 0s or e—mail us, we are on the screen throughout. more reaction to show you. rudi giuliani is now mrf wrongdoing against the president. maybe worth mentioning that a few days ago mr giuliani generated a lot of publicity when he said ‘truth isn't truth‘. you can imagine what rebublicans would be saying if a democratic of publicity when he said ‘truth isn‘t truth‘. you can imagine what rebublicans would be saying if a democratic president were caught up in this. but they‘ve largely steeered clear of the white house today. mitt romney, former republican presidential candidate. strong language — though not directed at the president. a spokesperson for republican house speaker paul ryan and this was republican senatorjohn cornyn who was equally vague. all of this conduct looks like from what i‘ve seen so far has no relationship to the president and is related to the misconduct that has occurred outside of that should. another clip to play you — this is republican senator lindsey graham. any time your lawyer is convicted it is not a good thing. the bottom line is not a good thing. the bott

mr. lowe looking for an outcome that would involve the overall sale of the company but they've both taken a proxy fight to replace the directors of campbells soup. those include bennetto owns as much as 17.7%. these are estimates based on people who at least have been trying to puts them together for me for some time arch burin on the board. so he's moved away from the rest of the family. what is unclear, and i've reported on this a bit in the mornings is what stance the family will take overall on the potential sale of campbells soup it's still unclear they would want to go down that road, but there may be further pregtser here given the entire board is up for election, and you could have an interesting scenario where they try to replace the entire board, but would they get the votes in a deal if it were to come to fruition to support it from the rest of the family a lot more going on, bill. was that big enough for you? >> very big. although the stock is up a rather luke up 1.75% right now power lunch. back after this. you always pay your insurance on time. tap one little bumper and up go your rates. what good is your insurance if you get punished for using it? news