that's it for our hour, i'm nicolle wallace.p daily" starts now. >> you are my unicorn riding across the rainbow. >> we'll talk about spicy later, i didn't get enough of it later. >> nicolle wallace, thank you very much. >>> if it is tuesday, all roads lead to russia. tonight, autocratic instincts. by the partisan outrage grows as the president weighs stripping security clearances of some of his critics. >> it's banana republican kind of thi-- banana republi o

have one eye on the football game, so i am going to watch that with one eye and another one on nicolle wallaceat's it for me this hour. i'll be back here at 11:00 a.m. with stephanie and 3:00 p.m. nicolle, it's alma yours. peter in for nicolle wallace. all yours. >> it is 4:00 here in washington. i'm peter alexander and again for my friend nicolle wallace. president trump may have crossed a new red line today at a nato summit performance, so adversarial the current and former officials from both sides of the aisle are sounding alarms. the president today fueling the growing chorus of concerns that he came to the conference prepared to obliterate america's deepest alliances and instead cozy up to vladimir putin. here he is lashing out at germany in what is being described as a masterful display of projection. >> germany is totally controlled by russia. because they were getting from 6 to 70% of their energy from russia. you tell me if that's appropriate. i think it's not. jrm any is a captive of russia. they got rid of their coal plants, got rid of their nuclear, they're getting so much of the

i'm nicolle wallace.tp daily starts right now with chris jansing in for chuck. >> just another day at the anchor desk for nicolle wallace. and if it's thursday, scott pruitt is out. >>> good evening, i'm c

that's it for our hour, i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts now. >> you are my unicorn riding across the rainbow. >> we'll talk about spicy later, i didn't get enough of it later. >> nicolle wallace, thank you very much. >>> if it is tuesday, all roads lead to russia. tonight, autocratic instincts. by the partisan outrage grows as the president weighs stripping security clearances of some of his critics. >> it's banana republican kind of thi-- banana republic kind o thing. >> plus the president bets the farm on his growing trade war. >> just be a little patient. >> and crisis at the border. can the feds reunite families after hundreds of migrant parents have already been deported? this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. ♪ >>> good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." more fallout from the trump/putin summit. yes, we're still talking about this. we're getting a look at one of the first reputable polls taken entirely after the president's disastrous press conference with vladimir pu

i'm nicole wallace. mtp daily starts right now. >>> yep, it's wednesday.alking politics and patriotism on this fourth of july. a big happy fourth of july to everybody. i'm chuck todd here in walk. welcome to a special edition of "mtp daily." today is a day when many of us celebrate the birth of our nation, firing up the grill, popping open a beer or taking in a blockbuster or watching fireworks with the family. it's also a day when a lot of folks think of

i'm nicolle wallace. mtp daily starts right now with chris jansing in for chuck. >> just another day at the anchor desk for nicolle wallace. and if it's thursday, scott pruitt is out. >>> good evening, i'm chris jansing in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." we begin tonight with breaking news. epa chief scott pruitt has resigned after a shocking number of scandals and controversies simply proved too much, even for an administration that has become rather adept at powering through scandals and controversies. pruitt's ouster is an unbelievable development in that he lasted this long. as scandals piled up, the president continued to dig in, defending pruitt for his work in dismantling epa programs and regulations. as of last week, we counted a total of 15 ongoing federal inquiries into pruitt. there were allegations he abused taxpayer money via personal travel and other expenses. there were the allegations that he used the office in an attempt to enrich himself and his family. there were rep

i'm katy tur in for nicolle wallace. donald trump gets the last claim this is a witch hunt. vladimir putin, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, today announced a dozen new indictments in mueller's probe. 12 russian military officers charged with hacking the democratic national committee. hillary clinton's campaign and voting technology ahead of the 2016 election. >> today a grand jury in the district of columbia returned an indictment presented by the special counsel's office. the indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. according to the allegations in the indictment, the defendants worked for two units of the main intelligence directorate of the russian general staff known as the gru. the units engaged in active cyber operations to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. the conspirators corresponded with several americans during the course of the conspiracy through the internet. there is no allegation in this indictment that the americans knew they were corresponding with russian intel

this has just become beyond what nicolle wallace once called it a goat rodeo. i think it's easier to conduct a goat rodeo any day than what's going on in this white house. >> it's not merely his own staff that he throws under the bus. the walk-back or the first walk-back was crafted for the benefit of hill republicans, to give them an excuse to come out today and yesterday and say, look, i take the president at his word, as rob portman said, senator portman. >> or marco rubio. >> and he just immediately threw all of them under the bus and made them all look like fools today. >> don't worry, lindsey graham has a statement that says there's no bus for lindsey graham, don't worry. i've just been reassured unequivocally by the white house legislative team that the president's response to shouted questions was not intended to suggest that president trump doubts the intelligence community's assessment that russia is continuing to attack our critical infrastructure in the 2018 elections. i'm very pleased to hear this and stand ready to work with the administration to

i'm peter alexander and i'm in for nicolle wallace. the president has made his pick for the supreme court. he is of course keeping that name close to the vest. just hours away from this big made-for-tv reveal. here's what we can tell you right at this hour. a source with firsthand knowledge of the president's thought process telling me heading into this day of the top four contenders, two front runners had emerged. judges brett kavanagh and thomas hardiman, appeals court judges. though my sources stressing that no one, at least heading into this morning, had been eliminated. that now changing. the reality show president spending the weekend jenning up all this intrigue around the primetime roll out keeping the thought process under wraps leaving even some of his own aides basically in the dark about what is happening here. "the new york times" writing the following. quote, mr. trump, while an incorrigible gossip, over the past three days he has stoked uncertainty even among his closest aides by asking lots of questions but offering lit

that does it, i'm nicolle wallace.ere for chuck. >>> if it's monday, it's like a ross between a hurricane and a ship that's run aground. good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." are you all ready for this? the president's lawyer himself is denying the president himself hacked into the dnc and the clinton campaign, which is strange because no one has accused the president of hacking into the dnc or the clinton campaign. the president's lawyer is now denying that the president himself me

nicolle wallace, thank you very much.ack. >>> if it's monday, president trump stands by his man. tonight, red flag. the president is standing with the russian president while trashing his own country. >> i think that the united states has been foolish. i think we've all been

. >> nicolle wallace. let's start where the president left off. he's telling supporters yesterday what you see and what you hear isn't what's happening in reality. now we have a tape. stated simply, what does this tape show? >> we live in this political climate where there's a lot of news but not a lot of revelations. the significance of the tape is the revelations that we now have. one, donald trump was deeply involved in all the intricacies of the payment of hush money with women with whom he had had alleged sexual relationships. karen mcdougal is one of them. two, the idea that he is not in trouble is knocked down by the idea that he's now telling his supporters -- we view his supporters as, we can shoot someone on fifth avenue and they won't go anywhere. donald trump seems to be worried that supporters might go somewhere if they see the truth, if they learn the truth, turn on the tv and watch the news. he's telling people not to believe what they see with their own eyes, not to believe what hear with their own ears. that's always trouble. numb

i'm nicolle wallace. >>> a star witness. let's play "hardball." >> donald trump's lawyer, the friend he honored with praise now looms as the state witness against him. michael cohen says that donald trump, the man sitting in the oval office knew beforehand about his son and son-in-law and paul manafort's meeting in trump tower to obtain from the russians on hillary clinton. repeat. michael cohen says trump knew ahead of time. good evening. i am chris matthews in washington. sources confirmed what cnn reported last night that trump's former lawyer and fixer that trump knew in advance about a meeting at trump tower in june 2016. the source told nbc news that cohen -- that meeting with russians has long been a key focal point in the mueller investigation. it involved three top campaign officials. donald trump jr. jared kushner and paul manafort. information that would incriminate hillary which he was told was quote part of russia and his government's support for mr. trump. the assertion that trump had knowledge of the meeting b

"deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york.a single round of media appearances rudy giuliani today torched two years of donald trump's collusion denials. muddying the waters to a near unrecognizable condition as he spirals deeper into incoherent scenarios about what the president did and didn't know about the trump tower meeting. that meeting is now at the heart of the obstruction of justice investigation and is perhaps also being investigated as part of a conspiracy to coordinate with a known american adversary. here are two of the president's closest allies

. >> speaking of enormous power of the office, nicolle wallace, former white house communications director, said today on her broadcast, say nothing of 27 hours. you can get a transcript of your own remarks if you're president in about 60 seconds. why the 27-hour wait and why the need, jim warren, to write there was no collusion on your own remarks, since it's something you have worked into every set of remarks you've given? >> because presumably he was resisting that for all this time. he didn't want to say what he said. leon panetta hit it. i also think one should note something charlie sykes said just a few minutes ago, which i think reflects, perhaps expectedly, a sort of cynical orthodoxy. we've seen this before. we've been here again. we've had a whole day of cable news about this and that. we've said a million times this is beyond the pale but nothing has changed. for sure i think in the short term, and judges by some calls i made tonight to trump supporters in chicago said they were unchanged. certainly by looking as i did all day for my new job at websites this got less play than

"deadline white house" with my friend nicolle wallace starts right now. nicolle?veryone. it's 4:00 in new york. a tweet is just a tweet except when it isn't. that's donald trump's new reality today. brand-new reporting in "the new york times" reveals that special counsel robert mueller is examining donald trump's tweets and public attacks on witnesses in the obstruction of justice investigation. special counsel is stitching together details of the president's private conversations with witnesses such as ousted fbi director james comey and embattled attorney general jeff sessions to see if the private h

that does it for our hour of nicolle wallace. daily" begins with chris jansing. >> i guess we don't want to go on vacation. nicolle, thank you so much. if it's tuesday, heated rhetoric and the heated search in the heated political environment. tonight, meet the picks. >> has got a great list and we're excited about who -- >> what the president's supreme court short list tells us about the long-term political fallout ahead. plus, war and peace. the president slams nato allies while once again boasting his

"deadline white house" with my friend nicolle wallace starts right now. nicolle? /s >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. a tweet is just a tweet except when it isn't. that's donald trump's new reality today. brand-new reporting in "the new york times" reveals that special counsel robert mueller is examining donald trump's tweets and public attacks on witnesses in the obstruction of justice investigation. special counsel is stitching together details of the president's private conversations with witnesses such as ousted fbi director james comey and embattled attorney general jeff sessions to see if the private harassment of both men combined with the public abuse of them paint a clearer picture of obstruction. the times also reports that the special counsel's office is examining the president's tweets under a wide ranging obstruction of justice law that was beefed up, their word, after the enron scandal. from that times reporting, kwoelt, the investigators did not explicitly say they were examining possible witness tampering, but the nature of the questions they

i'm nicole wallace. we will be back monday for deadline white house. >> it's a fest us have for the rest of us and the president is airing grievances. let's play "hardball." good evening. i'm steve kor nabbingy for chris matthews. the shock jock is at it again. fresh off the resignation of his administrator scott pruitt, president trump did what he does best. riled up the base and attacked critics. he was at a rally in montana and trump delivering an hour long speech that played like an extended airing of grievances. he mocked the media and the democratic party. congresswoman maxine waters and senator john mccain and gorge h.w. bush. the democratic senator and possible 2020 candidate, elizabeth warren and the me too movement. >> say i'm debating poke hopt as. i promise you i will do this. you know the kits they sell on television for $2? learn your heritage. in the middle of the debate when she proclaims he is of indian heritage because her mother said she has high cleek bones. we will take that kit and

i'm peter alexander in again for my friend nicolle wallace. president trump touching down in brussels ahead of the nato summit. it's now the latest background in the president's war of words with long standing american allies. president trump spending much of this day enroute to nato, attacking nato countries. calling them delinquent for many years, complaining the u.s. is spending many times more than any other country in order to protect them.

i'm peter alexander in again for my friend nicolle wallace. president trump touching down in brussels ahead of the nato summit. it's now the latest background in the president's war of words with long standing american allies. president trump spending much of this day enroute to nato, attacking nato countries. calling them delinquent for many years, complaining the u.s. is spending many times more than any other country in order to protect them. very unfair, he writes. our allies appear to be bracing for this fight. "the washington post" reporting leaders converged on brussels, fearful of what the combative u.s. president might say or do to rupture the liberal world order, with some european diplomats privately predicting calamity. there are fears mounting on the fears of war of words. take a look. >> i have nato, i have the uk, which has been somewhat turmoil, and i have putin. frankly, putin may be the easiest one of all. >> would you say vladamir putin is a friend or foe? >> i really can't say right now. as far as i'm concerned, a competito

that does it for this hour, i'm katy tur in for nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts now with chuck. hi, chuck. >> katy, i'm thinking about taking this hour off. do you have time to anchor another hour? >> sure, why not? >> just keep going. >> take it away. you're going to knock 'em dead today. >> thank you. >>> well, it's friday the 13th, who's feeling unlucky these days? the nightmare scenario for the trump/putin summit. tonight, new indictments in the mueller probe. >> the indictment charges 12 russian military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. >> so why is the president still slamming the special counsel? >> i call it the rigged witch hunt. >> and still planning to meet with vladimir putin? >> i think i'd have a very good relationship with president putin if we spent time together. >> this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." today's bombshell mueller indictment has dropped just three days before president trump sits down one on one with vladimir putin. puti

i'm peter alexander and i'm in for nicolle wallace.esident has made his pick for the supreme court. he is of course keeping that name close to the vest. just hours away from this big made-for-tv reveal. here's what we can tell you right at this hour. a source with firsthand knowledge of the president's thought process telling me heading into this day of the top four contenders, two front runners had emerged. judges brett kavanagh and thomas hardiman, appeals court judges. though my sources stressing that no one, at least heading into this morning, had been eliminated. that now changing. the reality show president

i'm nicole wallace. mtp daily starts right now. >>> yep, it's wednesday. we're talking politics and patriotism on this fourth of july. a big happy fourth of july to everybody. i'm chuck todd here in walk. welcome to a special edition of "mtp daily." today is a day when many of us celebrate the birth of our nation, firing up the grill, popping open a beer or taking in a blockbuster or watching fireworks with the family. it's also a day when a lot of folks think of what it's to be american. so we begin our show with the raging debate right now about what it means to be american at a time when the line between your politics and your patriotism has begun to blur. particularly under this american president. practices the biggest ways those lines are blurring are how the president has seemingly attempted to co-op patriotism in his own way to mean a certain level of loyalty and love to him. according to mr. trump, if you don't standing and applaud for him like during his state of the union, you are not being patriotic. >> they were like death. and unamerican. som

that does it for our hour, i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now with the fabulous katy tur in for chuck todd. >> what a day. thank you. and if it is thursday, the president is inviting vladimir putin to washington. tonight, the intel quotient. dan coats sounds off on the president's conflicting statements on the intelligence community. >> well, my thoughts were that i needed to correct the record for that. >>> plus indecent proposal. what the white house is saying now about letting russia interrogate americans. >> unbelievable that they wouldn't confirm that they're not entertaining that for a second. >> we'll talk to one of the people in the kremlin's crosshairs. >>> and would he? wouldn't he? wouldn't you like to know what's really going on? this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd and welcome to "mtp daily." we begin with breaking news. get this, just moments ago the white house announced on twitter that president trump is inviting vladimir putin to co

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> bearing, bearing, i'm happy. >> you have to have mike pompeo before they got all the great folks here. >> that's all good. that's all good. i'm just happy to be back. >> we missed you. >> i missed you, i missed everybody, so it's good to be back. >> welcome back. >> thank you. if it's wednesday, it's a summer grilling on the hill. >>> good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." you are looking live at capitol hill where the current secretary of state, mike pompeo, is being grilled from both sides of the aisle basically by the senate foreign relations committee. he is testifying for the first time since last week's, i don't know what you call it, but that summit. don't call it a summit, call it a meeting, but it was a pr disaster between president trump and vladimir putin. the incredible fallout from that meeting, summit, whatever, continues to escalate to the point where we're starting tonight's show with a question facing republicans that sh

"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone.t's 4:00 in new york. president trump started the day lost in sseinfeld's "the opposite" episode saying -- >> but it's president trump's own intelligence agencies who have determined that north korea has increased nuclear production at secret sites. that reporting is based on interviews with more than a dozen u.s. officials. but president trump didn't stop his attack on american intelligence agencies there. this morning, he also carved out time to attack the nsa, led by admiral mike rogers tweeting -- >> if you're keeping track at home, that's two more new

that does it for our hour of nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" begins with chris jansing. >> i guess we don't want to go on vacation. nicolle, thank you so much. if it's tuesday, heated rhetoric and the heated search in the heated political environment. tonight, meet the picks. >> has got a great list and we're excited about who -- >> what the president's supreme court short list tells us about the long-term political fallout ahead. plus, war and peace. the president slams nato allies while once again boasting his peacemaking skills. >> to say that the threat is over as the president has done repeatedly is simply nonsense. >> and why the political climate keeps getting worse for the head of the epa. >> i just wanted to urge you to resign for what you're doing to the environment. >> this is mtp daily and it starts right now. >>> good evening. i'm chris jansing in new york in for chris todd. we begin tonight with the president and his pick. just moments ago, the white house said the president spoke to three potential supreme court nomine

"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. donald trump's helsinki hangover stretches into its ninth day today. the president tweeting another bizarre message designed to m t muddle the endellible image of vladamir putin's role in the 2016 election writing -- >> that's funny. here's vladamir putin on the question of whether he wanted trump. >> did you want president trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that? >> translator: yes, i did. yes, i did. because he talked about bringing the u.s.-russia relationshi

"deadline: white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone.in new york. president trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort is on trial today. the trial is the first criminal trial in the mueller investigation. it will offer the public a glimpse at the evidence gathered against man fauafort and could serve to squeeze on manafort to cooperate on the broader investigation into russian collusion with the trump campaign. "the subtext whether he knew about russian efforts to influence the election and whether the threat of conviction could lead him to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller weighs not just on the prosecution and the defense, but on the white house, as well." among the americans charge sod far by prosecutors, mr. manafort not only held the highest position in the campaign, but arguably has the deepest connections to russian political forces. then manafort trial commences on the same day that p

i'm nicolle wallace. i'll see you back here on monday for deadline: white house at 4:00 p.m. >>> resisting trump. let's play "hardball." >>> two huge stories tonight. first deputy attorney general rod rosenstein said trump used him. then he gave trump cover, the l alibi to fire fbi director james comey. second, the resistance emerges to trump as he grabs the chance to change the supreme court for generations and by doing so, drive his own reelection. good evening, i'm chris matthews in washington. as the only person with ultimate authority over the special counsel's probe, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is the only person standing out there between president trump and robert mueller. his defense of mueller and the justice department have made him a prime target of the right wing. however, rosenstein has -- was also instrumental to the white house in may of last year when president trump decided to fire fbi director james comey. it was rod rosenstein who ultimately drafted that memo that the presid

"deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. donald trump today left his entire national security team with a clear choice. align yourself with the commander in chief who stands by an american adversary, or resign in protest of the president's refusal to accept the universal assessment of the american intelligence community about russia's role in interfering in the 2016 election. here's the president's stunning embrace of vladimir putin. >> thank you. question for each president. president trump, you first. just now president putin denied having anything to do with the election interference in 2016. every u.s. intelligence agency concluded russia did. who -- my first question for you, sir, is who do you believe? my second question is, would you now with the whole world watching tell president putin, would you denounce what happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again? >> so, let me just say that we

nicolle wallace, thank you very much. if it's monday, it's a perfect legal storm for the white house. tonight, from the page fisa release to manafort in courts and the cohen tape. we're tracking the growing legal fallout for the president's inner circle. >>> plus, all caps locked and loaded. what's behind the president's new war of words with iran? >> the president's been, i think, pretty strong since day one in his language towards iran. >> and pole vault. while the president's popularity with his base is at a record high, there is new evidence of a blue wave building. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." we begin tonight with all the president's men. clearly fueling all the president's tweets and all the president's threats. the latest being a threat to revoke the security clearances of his political rivals. this comes as three key members of the trump team, his campaign chief, his personal attorney and his campaign's foreign p

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> bearing, bearing, i'm happy. >> you have to have mike pompeo before they got all the great folks here. >> that's all good. that's all good. i'm just happy to be back. >> we missed you. >> i missed you, i missed everybody, so it's good to be back. >> welcome back. >> thank you. if it's wednesday, it's a summer grilling on the hill.

"deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. /s >> hi, everyone.t's 4:00 in new york. we come on the air with some extraordinary breaking news. donald trump today releasing an enemy's list. a list of former national security officials that his white house is targeting for the possible punishment of stripping these officials of their security clearances. now, the pretrump tradition is that all former cia, nsa, fbi and dni directors hold a security clearance for the purpose of strengthening the collective wisdom and expertise of the u.s. government and the american president who heads it. it's an alarming move to deprive the federal government of institutional knowledge on the graveest threats facing the country. they helped capture osama bin lauden and terrorist groups shall and they know better than anyone the nation's adversaries including putin. the list includes former cia director john brennan our colleague at nbc news, former fbi director james comey, michael hayden, susan rice, former acting director of the fbi andrew mccabe, and former direc

but for now, i'll hand it over to nicolle wallace for "deadline: white house." >>> hi, everyone.s 4:00 in new york. president trump is locked in a crisis that rivals his charlottesville equivocation of good people on both sides. and it has shaken even his most ardent fox suppo ardent supporters. president trump woke up to withering headlines for accepting vladamir putin's denial of election meddling over the universal assessment of the u.s. intelligence community. the president engaged in feeble cleanup this afternoon. >> i have full faith and support for america's great intelligence agencies. always have. and i have felt very strongly that while russia's actions had no impact at all on the outcome of the election, let me be totally clear in saying that, and i said this many times, i accept our intelligence community's conclusion that russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place. it could be other people also. there's a lot of people out there. there was no collusion at all.

i'm peter alexander in for nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. chuck is back in the chair. chuck, it didn't take long for the president to start antagonizing our allies. >> apparently it does not. i have a feeling he's not going to stop, that's for sure. thank you, pedro. nice to see you. if it's wednesday, why is the president looking for loving in all the wrong places? tonight, the fate of nato. how president trump is taking aim at the alliance. >> germany as far as i'm concerned is captive to russia. >> plus, can republicans stop the president's trade war? >> i don't want to hamstring the president's negotiating tactics. >> and later, what if the midterm elections ran more like mad libs? this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington. welcome to "mtp daily." we begin tonight with the unraveling of 30 years of republican party orthodoxy on nato, russia and trade. much to the benefit arguably of one person, vladimir putin. at today's nato summit in brussels, president trump trashed our allies, ca

nicolle wallace, thank you very much. welcome back. >>> if it's monday, president trump stands by his man. tonight, red flag. the president is standing with the russian president while trashing his own country. >> i think that the united states has been foolish. i think we've all been foolish. >> plus, how do you say witch hunt in russian? >> you would say that was a total witch hunt. thank you very much, everybody. >> and where do we go from here? >> translator: mr. president, i'll give this ball to you and now the ball is in your court. >> this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily" on this extraordinary day when president trump stood with vladimir putin literally and figuratively. this extraordinary day where president trump praised the president of russia, undermined u.s. intelligence agencies, cast doubt that russia would interfere in our elections, and attacked the mueller probe all while standing with vladimir putin. this extraord

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> and they were in the dreaded 35x gate which is the single worst gate to be at. you're already miserable when you find out you have to take off from that gate. guess what, you have to take a bus. don junior and mueller had to be on a bus before they got to get on a plane. >> i'm surprised that you didn't find your own seat on that bus. >> well, i have to work today. no work on fridays for don junior and mueller, right? >> sign me up. >> there you go. thank you. if it's friday, trust but vilify. tonight, did the president know about the infamous trump tower meeting before it happened? michael cohen may be ready to say yes. the president emphatically says no. what will the special counsel say? >>> plus an invitation from russia with love? why vladimir putin wants president trump to come to moscow. >>> and spy games. inside the real-life washington spy drama made for hollywood. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm chuck todd here in washington.

that does it, i'm nicolle wallace. katy tur is here for chuck. >>> if it's monday, it's like a ross between a hurricane and a ship that's run aground. good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd. welcome to "mtp daily." are you all ready for this? the president's lawyer himself is denying the president himself hacked into the dnc and the clinton campaign, which is strange because no one has accused the president of hacking into the dnc or the clinton campaign. the president's lawyer is now denying that the president himself met with a group of russians at trump tower, which is strange because no one has accused the president of meeting with a group of russians at trump tower. the president's lawyer is now denying that there was a meeting to talk strategy ahead of the trump tower meeting, which is strange, because no one has mentioned anything about a strategy session ahead of the trump tower meeting. so what the heck is going on? well, the president's lawyer is arguing that colluding with russia isn't a cr

"deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts now. /s >> hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in new york. in a rally speech better designed for a shrink's couch than a public setting donald trump aired grievance after grievance after grievance and made an obvious grab for the spotlight that for much of the day yesterday was owned by his disgraced epa administrator scott pruitt. pruitt resigning amid a sea of ethical scandals and withering criticism from across the ideological spectrum. trump, who one close friend and outside advisor once described as the sun king because he wants all the media's attention for himself, lashed out at the press, at john mccain, at george h.w. bush, the fbi, democrats and the me too movement. >> democrats want anarchy. they really do. we call them the democrat party. you know why? the democratic party sounds too good. yes, she is a low-iq individual. i said it the other day. she's somewhere in the mid 60s. let's say i'm debating pocahontas, right? i'm going to get one of those kits. in the middle of the debate when she complains she's of indian heritage becau

i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now with katy tur. >> hi, miss you in new york.back soon, please. if it's wednesday, the president muddling on meddling just got messier. tonight, the laws of distraction. >> there's never been a president as tough on russia as i have been. >> why many republicans are defending the president's contradictions on russian meddling. >> well, he said he misspoke. >>> plus, war of words. we'll talk to former cia chief john brennan about his clash with the president. >>> and russia's revenge. why moscow now wants to grill former u.s. officials. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now.

dead lo "deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. in new york. "the new york times" out with a new bombshell report about the president's long-time fixer and former personal attorney michael cohen. the times reveals for the very first time that cohen secretly recorded at least one conversation with donald trump and that the fbi now has its hands on it. in the recording, donald trump and michael cohen discuss hush money payments to karen mcdougal. she's a former play boy model who had an alleged affair with trump. the fbi seized the recording of trump and cohen in a raid on cohen's home and offices earlier this year that donald trump described at the time as an attack on the nation. >> i just heard that they broke into the office of one of my personal attorneys, good man, and it's a disgraceful situation. it's a total witch hunt. it's a disgrace. it's frankly a real disgrace. it's an attack on our country in a true sense. >> an attack on our country, wow. times writes of the significance of today's revelation. quote, the record ings'

i'm peter alexander in today for nicolle wallace who will be back in the chair next week. "mtp daily" starts right now with katy tur in for chuck. katy, what the president does could stick. >> it will stick. this will change the court for at least a generation. peter alexander, good to see you, thanks so much. >> nice to see you. >> and if it's monday, supreme suspense. the president has made his pick. tonight, judgment day. president trump gets ready to reveal his supreme court pick as democrats try to gear up for a fight. >> enormously important issues hang in the balance. >>> plus, how the trump/putin meeting is casting a shadow over this week's nato summit. and will the president's legal limbo pay off in the mueller investigation? >> the president is very anxious to testify because he knows he's done nothing wrong. >> this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> good evening, i'm katy tur in new york in for chuck todd, welcome to "mtp daily." we begin with democratic visions of vengeance, payback, retaliati retaliation, whatever you want to call it for the presiden

"deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york.nt's long-time fixer michael cohen has drawn a new line in the sand, telling abc news that his loyalty lies with his family and his country, not donald trump. cohen also signalling his willingness to cooperate with special counsel robert mueller and breaking with the president by claiming that the mueller investigation is not a witch hunt. but of even greater significance, cohen will break a joint defense agreement with the president as soon as his new lawyer is fully on board. that's according to abc news. it's a move that could suggest cohen's plans to cooperate with federal investigators. for the nonlawyers among us, national security advisor mike flynn broke his agreement with the president and became a witness in the mueller probe. there are more signs cohen is willing to stand up to trump. he tells abc news, quote, i will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy. i am not a villain in this story, and i will not allow others to try to depict me that way. but if c

nicolle wallace, thank you very much.y, it's a perfect legal storm for the white house. tonight, from the page fisa release to manafort in courts and the cohen tape. we're tracking the growing legal fallout for the president's inner circle. >>> plus, all caps locked and loaded. what's behind the president's new war of words with iran? >> the president's been, i think, pretty strong since day one in his language towards iran. >> and

i'm katy tur in for nicolle wallace.ast word on trump's claim that the russia investigation is a witch hunt. just days ahead of trump's first summit with putin, deputy attorney general rod rosen tine today announced a dozen new zips in mueller's probe. 12 russian military officers is charged with hacking the democratic national committee. hillary clinton's campaign and voting technology ahead of the 2016 election. >> today a grand jury in the district of