we'll talk with peter baker of the "new york times," karen deyoung of the post-and ed luce of the "financial times." >> president putin, this is the fourth american president he's met. he has a lot of experience reading people, he's ex-kgb. i think however he reads trump tomorrow will be consequential and have repercussions i won't predict but i will say are going to be very significant. > we conclude with an all in the family conversation with peter baker and his book, barack obama. >> when you see a president leave office, for what his legacy will be, this is a unique president who seems to want to demolish the last guy's achievements in the way no other has done. richard nixon didn't undo all the great society lyndon johnson did, eisenhower didn't undo the new deal. president trump seems determined to take out parts of president obama's legacy. >> a look ahead to the g20 summit and president obama's legacy when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioni

let's go to peter baker and ross lind. peter baker, talk about whether or not this president realizes that even the idea of floating around whether he could pardon himself could be potentially extraordinarily problematic for his reception for his dealings with the congress? there was some republicans today that said if he tries to fire bob mueller, he's going to have a serious problem on capitol hill, and that's not just with the democrats. >> yeah. that's exactly right. i think the republican congressman was on andrea mitchell earlier stowed on your channel saying exactly that. that's a pretty stark message from a sitting republican member of congress. and i think that is one of the red lines right now that many members in congress have set at least in their own minds whether they would do something in that event weight. we don't know. there have been a lot of lines crossed, i think, in this administration so far, things that have been done that aren't normally done by most presidents. but, you know, whether he would pard

"new york times" chief white house correspondent and mns political reporter, peter baker. political analyst ashley parker and our very own kelly o at the white house. ashley, let me start with you. with the rainstorm racing behind me, talk to me about the storm on this white house staff. i understand that scaramucci and reince priebus were both aboard air force one. it can feel like a small aircraft when there are tensions within that senior staff. >> and you saw that picture of them also in the oval office where it looked like they were sort of standing off in a duel. i think it's an open question where things stand. i mean, clearly, first we should say up front that anthony scaramucci said in the interview in any other white house -- frankly in any other senate or house office would somebody get fired and escorted from the building. the fact that did not happen is sort of -- more than a sort of passive endorsement of scaramucci and that warped view and language. it's pretty publicly belittling and humiliating to reince priebus. reince, if he's willing to endure the publi

. >> peter baker, before we talk, a remarkable job by you and your colleagues. i want to play attorney sessions' response this morning. >> i have the honor of serving as attorney general. it's something that goes beyond any thought i would have ever had for myself. we love this job. we love this department. and i plan to continue to do so as long as that is appropriate. >> how do you feel like you can effectively serve from here on out if you don't have the confidence of the president? >> we're serving right now. the work we're doing today is the kind of work that we intend to continue. >> peter baker, congratulations on the interview. the transcript if i didn't have any names or headers on it could lead a few missing pages from a veep script or maybe "house of cards." i wonder what the reason is for him being angry that sessions didn't stay on and head up the russia investigation? what did he want from sessions as someone who might have overseen the investigation and stayed involved and stayed loyal? >> well, clearly he wants to keep control over the investigat

our friend peter baker of the times" agreed to stick around to talk about the subject. goodwin remains with us. doris, you and i are now old enough to have talked about the departure of the world war ii generation from our public life and elected office. and then before you know it, here's john mccain, age 80 as we start talking about the departure of the vietnam combat veterans from roles in public life. >> it's not a coincidence that is bipartisan has been diminished with the departure of these people who fought for our country and put mission first. john mccain is a fighter as mr. trump says he's also a fighter. in the military you fight with honor. you have rules of engagement and decorum. the world war ii generation were part of what made bipartisanship work because they put country first, loyalty to country first not to party. and if we keep losing those people without some sort of national service without more military people going into congress, we've lost something very big. >> peter baker, we're reporting nothing final here tonight. you and i both know he will

i want to bring in peter baker, "new york times." peter baker on the phone with us. and peter, i know that you just interviewed president trump. did you get any sense during the course of that conversation that this was something that was imminent? >> no. it didn't come up. but maybe we should have taken a clue from the fact that sean spicer was not in the room for the interview. it's very unusual to have an interview with the president of the united states, at least under previous white houses, where you didn't have the press secretary in the room as part of that. i think that, in fact, sean spicer had -- we're told was unhappy about the interview. that he was left afterward scrambling to figure out what was said during it. but, you know, we all know that the president of the united states, in this case, president trump, feels like he's his own best communicator. his own best press secretary. his own spokesman. and i think that's going to be frustrating for anybody who takes this job here. mr. scaramucci's job or mr. spicer's job in the days ahead. how do you repres

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peter baker, thank you for that perspective. thank you for joining us here. >>> this, of course, is not the only headline washington is watching today. >>> john mccain trying to figure out how to treat this aggressive form of brain cancer. he sat home in arizona recovering from a different surgery after doctors removed a blood clot from above his left eye. that's when they found this tumor. in the senator's hometown of phoenix, jacob rascon, talk to us about what we know about the diagnosis, any plans on how to fight it, how he might do that? >> reporter: as you said this is where, last friday, he had the surgery to remove the blood clot. subsequent tests revealed gioblastoma, very aggressive and deadly form of brain cancer. the senator and his family are reviewing further treatment options with the mayo clinic care team that may include chemotherapy and radiation. senator's doctor say he is recovering from his surgery amazingly well and his underlying health is excellent. it's important to point out they're talking about the su

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former moscow bureau chief for the "washington post" peter baker. and former senior writer for the counsel -- for the director of national intelligence. now adjunct law professor at georgetown. kari there were six people in the meeting. president putin, president trump, sergey lavrov and rex tillerson and we still didn't get agreement on what was said in that meeting. this is atypical. there's no third party read-out. in fact, we don't know what trump said to putin and what putin said back to him about hacking the 2016 election. >> you know, we don't. and what's interesting about what rex tillerson said is that -- what he said is that the american people, that the president expressed what the american people were concerned about with respect to the russian interference in the election. he didn't say that the president expressed his concerns or his grave concerns about what happened with russian interference in the election. so i thought that was an interesting -- whether it was a choice or not in terms of how he phrased it. it was interesting, the o

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wall peter baker kari cord roe peter has a new book it's called "obama, the call of history." the ambassador stick wg meem because we're looking at putin when we come back what it was like inside the room with the russian leader. "the 11th hour" is back after this. ♪ what should i watch? show me sports. it's so fluffy! look at that fluffy unicorn! he's so fluffy i'm gonna die! your voice is awesome. the x1 voice remote. xfinity. the future of awesome. >>> i think the president at this point -- he pressed him and then you know felt like at this point let's- let's talk about how do we go forward? i think that was the right place to spend our time, rather than spending a lot of time having a disagreement. >> that was secretary of state rex tillerson parting thoughts to the press corps about what it was like inside the room where the highly anticipated meeting between presidents trump and putin happened. tillerson areas comments revealed the strategy behind how far the administration was prepared to push russia for meddling in our election. ambassador mike mcfall still with us. al

hope was there, peter baker, mike schmidt and myself. the president has four chairs set up the same way he did at trum tower in front of his desk, in front of the resolute desk now. he previously had only a picture of his father on a credenza behind him. he's added a picture of his mother and veteran-related medals or something. it was -- it was very relaxed. i mean, he was pretty breezy, drinking a soda, had that red button that gets him a soda on top of the desk. at one point his granddaughter arabella, ivanka, ran into the room and i think it may have been the same thing as melania trump wandering into the putin interview meeting, that trump and putin had ended. i think this might have been an effort to cut this a little short but the president wanted to keep talking. he greated his granddaughter. he said hello, baby. gave her a kiss and told her to speak chinese to us. she did that twice and then she ran back out. she was very sweet. he was -- he was -- look, he was irritated talking about sessions, and he was irritates talking about

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white house reporter for the wall street journal eli stoeckles, shannon pettypiece is back and peter baker, who was, of course, one of the trio of journalists who took part in the interview of president trump we mentioned and, peter, that's going to earn you first question status tonight. the post piece uses the word tenuous to talk about sessions' hold on his job. we know how he is regarded or not by the president because of your interview. i'm interested in why this? why tonight? this is a hit on jeff sessions and if you don't want to discuss it in specificity, you don't need to, but can you remember other times when something was leaked that maybe hurt the greater good and continued a bad narrative but was targeted as one individual. >> oh, sure. that's been part and parcel in the last few months. pleasant bey of stories that came out about steve bannon, jared kushner. i don't know personally where all of them come from. certainly suspected by people inside the white house and in the greater body poll particular in washington that some of those are the result of internal feuds or intern

and white house correspondent peter baker, of course, one of the trio of journalist who is took part he interview of president trump we mentioned. peter, that earns you first-question status tonight. "the post" piece uses the word "tenuous" to talk about sessions' hold on his job. we know how he is regarded or not by the president. because of your interview. i'm a little bit interested in why this, why tonight. this is a hit on jeff sessions. and if you don't want to discuss it in specificity you don't need to. but can you remember other times when something was leaked that maybe hurt the greater good and continued a bad narrative for the white house but targeted at one individual. >> oh, sure that's been part and parcel of the last few months. plenty of these stories that can come out about steve bannon on the one side or jared kushner on the other side. i don't know personally where it all comes from. it's suspected by the white -- by people in the white house and the great body politic in washington that some of those are the result of internal feuds or internal power struggles. i

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peter baker, this was a story your paper broke. i'll ask you first, house big a story was this today in the whole scope of the russia collusion story we've been covering? >> well, i think it is a big story because it does sort of undercut the defense that there was no collusion, not only at a very minimum we learned from these e-mails there was a willingness if not even an eagerness on the part of the president's son to receive information that he was told anyway would be incriminating and directly from what was described as a russian government lawyer on behalf of the russian government that was supporting his father. one of the things that's interesting about these e-mails as you read them is that they leave very little ambiguity. there's not a lot of room for misconstruing the meaning here. the lawyer coming to meet him was described as a russian government lawyer. she didn't technically work for the government but described that way to him. that was what he understood. it was said very clearly it was to incriminate hillary. tha

joining me now is peter baker, my husband, my friend, my colleague, and chief white house correspondentor the "new york times." karen is the senior national , respondent and the u.s. columnist for the financial times. i am delighted to be welcoming all of you to "charlie rose" tonight. we are all delighted to be standing in his stead. i cannot think of a better group to talk about the trump administration and foreign policy. this is the beginning of this big second leg of his overseas adventures as president. peter, what do you think about what happened today in poland? this was a major moment i think for president trump. peter: the choice of poland is instructive. why does he go to poland before meeting with vladimir putin in germany? he goes to poland to reassure central and eastern europeans who have been dubious about his expressed friendship with the president of russia and feel the need for reassurance. he gave what his staff wanted him to give them, a robust speech in the center of warsaw. very pro-polish, and he said russia needed to be confronted on destabilizing activity in uk

also joining us, "new york times" white house correspondent peter baker and international affair columnist susan glasser and hans nichols at the pentagon. peter alexander, already i don't know if they're different versions but certainly different nuances on the question of meddling. it sounds like secretary tillerson who is really making his first high profile foray as secretary of state by coming out of the meeting and saying they had great chemistry and how president trump did raise the issue, but sergey lavrov who said that president trump accepted putin's denial. >> yeah, to be clear about that, nicolle, just as soon as we heard secretary tillerson wrap up his remarks and we heard also from the foreign minister lavrov, we reached out to the white house official who is disputing lavrov's basically the assertion that donald trump did accept that denial from vladimir putin. but be clear in simple terms. this is sort of an agree to disagree moment. this issue remains unresolved. even as the two sides said they had agreed to sort of a working group, a cyber security task force to talk about

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, peter baker and i wrote several weeks ago that the president is fuming at jeff sessions. this has been going on for quite some time over the recusal. the president sees the recusal as the original sin. what was striking and jumped out at me is that he said it to us. i was very surprised that he said it on the record. but as you guys know, the gap between what this president says privately and what he says publicly has always been pretty narrow. it's usually pretty consistent. but it was a remarkable disclosure and a remarkable public rebuke. >> the president seems to view sessions stepping away from the investigation as the main domino that has led to the special counsel, is that accurate? >> absolutely. that's not even a close call. i mean, he believes that it all leads back, mueller leads back to roserosenstein, who leads bao jeff sessions. and the president really laid it out that way. he sort of unfurled how he watched this in his mind develop and what has been frustrating for him. >> next, james comey. he shared more of his opinion about fired fbi director james come

peter baker, we've been talking about how nothing is sacred.binet is no longer something that trump-appointed cabinet official should expect. >> well, look, this is hardly the first president who was frustrated with his attorney general -- >> but it might be the first one who called the new york time and talked to them for 50 minutes without a white house steno in the oval and trashed his sitting attorney general on the record. i googled it. i couldn't find anybody else. >> that would be new. i can't remember that happening either. he says what he thinks. there's clearly a lot of consternation in the white house. >> come on. he trashed -- he appointed him. >> he did, yes. >> what makes my head explode is that he picked sessions, sessions made these omissions in the process of being confirmed as trump -- trump sets the whole thing in motion, and then trashes someone for doing something that probably -- he would have been much better off to have stayed in the senate and said thanks but no thanks, mr. president. >> in fact, he criticized sessions

there's more, but peter baker, what's happening here?eek where you see a white house operating on all cylinders. the president tries to impose a major change in policy in the military without talking to the secretary of defense and on twitter. that's not how it's normally done, and he leaves the pentagon sort of scratching his head trying to figure out what to do about this. he obviously has a desire to get this health care bill through the senate, but can't pull that off. and has -- is left without an agenda at this point to point to success. he has a staff in turmoil with reince priebus, the chief of staff on the hot seat, once again rumored to be possibly on the way out. he has a new communications director who is openly at war with his chief of staff with the profanity laced interview with the new yorker. and he as the attorney general who spent an entire 24 hours yesterday not serving as a punch bag for the president. >> it's curious, harold, if i could, and this is a really serious issue. it's not -- but melania trump, she was supp

thank you. ♪ ♪ >> we are back with peter baker from the "new york times."white house correspondent for the times, he covered president obama's two terms in office. i know this well because i am his wife as well as his friend and colleague. his new book, obama, the history is a look back at those eight years. you framed this up as an interesting moment in time for a book about president obama to come out while president trump is in the midst of trying to redefine or even demolish his legacy. barack d can trump undo obama's legacy? what does the evidence so far suggest when it comes to whether the obama years will survive the trump years? >> that is a great question. when you see a president leave office, normally you have a pretty good sense of what his legacy is going to be. this is a unique situation where you have a president basically seemingly determined brick by brick to demolish the last guy's achievements in a way other guys haven't done. ronald reagan and talked about eliminating the department of education that jamie carter started. he didn't do it

first we're going to hear from nick confessore of the "new york times," msnbc contributor and peter bakere "new york times." peter, first to you. the significance of jared kushner testifying. you don't get closer in the inner circle to president trump than jared kushner, his son-in-law. >> no, that's exactly right. this is a big week in that regard. not only is he testifying there's at least some negotiating still going on with his son, donald trump jr., his former campaign chairman, paul manafort, but you saw in that picture of jared kushner coming out of the office. it's an extraordinary moment. it's not a public hearing yet, but we're going to hear jared kushner speak to us in a few minutes from the white house. notice what you see in that -- in that driveway. you see a podium with a white house seal on it. you don't normally see that out in the driveway for people coming out to make a statement. they wanted to make a statement by putting that seal there. >> exactly. ni nick, the fact he put out an 11-page statement and embargoed for 6:00 a.m. to make sure it would be the last and firs

the way through the transition that, you know, raises questions that haven't been answered. >> peter baker, matthew miller, thank you for joining us here. >>> we're talking about members of the administration, right, coming out to defend don jr. but not seeing much of the president today. no public events on his schedule. but he is, perhaps, unsurprisingly saying plenty of twitter. hitting on health care which is the other big headline on capitol hill. firing this warning shot. tweeting, i cannot imagine that congress would dare to leave without a new health care bill ready to go. lawmakers back today after the break are looking at the chances for a bill passing soon getting worse and not better. nbc capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt joining us now. more republicans jumping ship. what are the chances they'll blow off august recess and stay in town to get health care done? >> i would just say, hallie, in the time i've been here never seen them cancel an august recess in many years. a little bit unprecedent. they have sometimes worked on christmas eve. but it is a big ask. and there are

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let's bring in peter baker, chief white house correspondent at "the new york times," also an msnbc politicalnalyst and the author of the new book "obama, the call of history." peter, always a big welcome to you, so glad to have you here. i was looking at your reporting from yesterday in which you said that the president has intentionally pulled from the clinton playbook to respond to the mueller investigation. can you explain his thinking in terms of the specific strategies he's using and why does he think it's going to work for him? >> we heard it last week in our interview with him, he started questioning the credibility of the investigator, robert mueller, investigating the collusion with team trump. he had meade a conflict of interest, the people around him had conflicts of interest and that is the strategy that the clinton team used with ken starr, not the first investigator that went after him but the second one, ken starr who they portray eed as partisa. they undercut his credibility as much as they could and something president trump seemingly wants to do here with robert mueller. th

peter baker, and howard fineman. thanks to both of you for your time. >>> new protests outside the offices of gop lawmakers. >>> a fight among republicans that's making big news. i'll talk to a democrat from mitch mcconnell's home state. president trump contradicts his staff and then himself on russia on cybersecurity. what the white house is saying today after major blowback from democrats and republicans. plus, democrats in the age of trump, does the party have a plan to start winning elections ahead of the democratic national committee? with me live. eart disease. you too, unnecessary er visits. and hey, unmanaged depression, don't get too comfortable. we're talking to you, cost inefficiencies and data without insights. and fragmented care- stop getting in the way of patient recovery and pay attention. every single one of you is on our list. for those who won't rest until the world is healthier, neither will we. optum. how well gets done. for over 100 yearsaking like kraft has,al cheese you learn a lot about peopl

. >> just quickly, start of peter baker to bring up the time line.it was three hours late they're he promised a big bombshell on this topic so that is somewhat damning. >> at this point it's hard to believe this all happened in the building that he didn't know that he detective know in advance, we've fot 8 million people, the number of people at this meeting, manafort, kushner, boris and natasha, smirnov, everybody was in this room. >> yakov smirnoff was not in the room. >> at this point i wouldn't doubt it nap's the thing. it's so disingenuous. i have to say this. this idea that this is just common politics, you get this e-mail, if anybody here got an e-mail from a deposed african prince saying i got $20 million for you, you don't respond to that either. the president to suggest from a foreign enemy that it was just okay that he would, this is a problem. >> nigerian e-mail scammers, get don junior's e-mail address. >> exactly. >> without sounding like an apologist for the president, i think this is yet another reflection of his inexperience in polit

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my colleague peter baker, he was pop of the people who i conducted the interview with along with michael schmidt. we had reported a few weeks ago that the president, you know, essentially had not stopped blaming sessions. that he had been angry at him the whole time. i've heard some several sources that has remained throurue in rt weeks, his frustration with sessions and belief he would not be in this situation had sessions not recused himself over russia is very well. i think he knows that he can't fire the attorney general. i think he recognizes that is not where this is going. i do think his anger at him is sincere and genuine. i'm not saying it's necessary, you know, where it should be, but that is how he feels. but if anything, i think he may be, and i am speculating here, trying to make it very hard for jeff sessions to remain on the job. remember, jeff sessions offered to resign in a sort of half hearted way several weeks ago. he has already been uncomfortable and put into a bad position and i think you could see a scenario where the president, who doesn't like to fire anybody und

joining us now peter baker chief white house correspondent for "the new york times." mika.k with us an staff former staffer on house intel and house armed services. robert costa has been nice enough to stick around to talk to us more. peter, i want to run one of your quotes from a piece you wroets with maggie hash man, scaramucci's uncensered rant appear foul words. mr. priebus's polite was good news for another member of the trump team. for the first time it was not attorney general jeff sessions turn to be the presidential punching bag. i guess these are the kind of times where in where that's what passes for good news at the justice department. but, peter, think about what times we're in, vis-a-vis what lindsey graham just said about trump proofing robert mueller, potentially. >> well it's interesting of course. after watergate the congress and the president came up with a solution to the problem called the independent law we can kenneth starr luring monica lunsky. beth sides said they wanted it and decided to let it laps. that was the ins tlags fl this whether a preside

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. >> bringing in chief white house correspondent from the "new york times" and nbc analyst peter baker who has been sent around the world by the "new york times," including time spent as moscow bureau chief. peter, let me ask you. is vladimir putin in moscow tonight saying this is just an incredible success beyond our wildest dreams, we have the entire american political system in chaos? >> well, i do think, to the extent that he has sewn disruption in our system and confusion and have us, you know, turning on each other, yes, i think that is in fact a goal that vladimir putin has sought over the years. to the extent that he wanted or his people wanted to create a political environment in which russia might actually do better in terms of american policy, then he failed because the political atmosphere here is so toxic there is no way president trump could ever think about lifting the sanctions imposed on russia in the current environment. what he is working on right now is to beat off an effort by the congress of the united states to force sanctions over his objections. a bipartisan ef

peter baker and i reported several weeks ago now that the president basically, you know, remained very frustrated with jeff sessions, that all roads in his mind related to the russia probes lead back to the moment when jeff -- under the current presidency, lead back to the moment when jeff sessions recused himself from anything russia-related after he had botched his answers, and it was disclose that had he had done that in his senate confirmation about his own contacts with the russian ambassador. the president is very frustrated and the president i think is not going to directly fire jeff sessions for a number of reasons, not the least of which, though i think he might not always be so swayed by this, but not the least of which that rod rosenstein who appointed the special counsel that is now looking in all of these issues would then become the acting attorney general, so there are a lot of complicated issues here. but the president other than at those moments when he was talking about russia was in a very, very good mood. >> okay. let's dive into what i think is certainly one of the

peter baker on the phone. i just want to drill down on the fact that you were in the oval office, as i understand it, that interview could have gone on even longer if the president -- the president wanted to. hope hicks was in there. no white house transcript. and it went from topic to topic. he obviously was really fired up on the subject of robert mueller. >> no question about it. this is on his mind. once we did, he went off, and he could have very easily said that's an investigation, i'm not going to comment on it. that's what other presidents have done in situations like that. as you know. but that's not -- this president's style. his style is to say what he thinks. now, we asked repeatedly what would be a condition under which he might fire mr. mueller. he never gave a direct answer on that. he was very careful about that. but he left very clear the implication that was on the table, should he decide that special counsel has gone too far. >> here with me now are still adam schiff and mike mccaul. congres

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. >>> peter baker has covered every administration since president bill clinton.of history." he's served as chief of the "washington post." good morning. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm okay. what are you looking for? what are you thinking? they say vladimir putin is very well trained. president trump, they say, is what are you looking for? >> that's exactly right. as major put it, that's a lot to pack in in a half hour with translation. the trick is mcmaster, the national security adviser, said president trump doesn't have a specific agenda. you can be sure president putin does. if he starts talking, heal dominate the conversation, lobbying, filibustering. it will be interesting to see how these two people have circled around each other with so many issues, syria, ukraine, the investigation here in the united states hovering over them, it will be interesting to see how they manage to present both body language and actual substance. >> how do you think the kremlin will exploit the advantage of this meeting? >> the very fact of it is what the kremlin wants. th