peter baker let's talk through some of this. you and i were speaking on the other side of this before this news broke and talking specifically about how the president, the administration has been addressing the situation with his son and keeping it a personal matter. it seems like they're sticking to that line right now. eventually they're going to have to pivot. this is going to become very much a political matter as the president is running for re-election against someone possibly like donald trump when may be indicted for a third, possibly fourth time, who will very likely bring up the issues surrounding the president's son. yeah, of course. obviously there's the legal issues as harry and tom have filled us in. then there's the politics of it. the politics of today you're going to hear republicans say see this deal is so smelly that the judge wouldn't just accept it off of face value and wants to know more about it. it sound like what she's concern about is a process thing, rather than the substance of the deal, whether hunte

nbc's matt bradley is reporting from seoul, south korea, and peter baker is back with us.re can you tell us about king, and what's being done right now to try to get him back? >> reporter: chris, we have been hearing from king's family once again, and this time they've given us more information. they are shocked and surprised, not just because king threw himself over the border into north korea. that would be surprising behavior even for the most troubled youth, but his run-ins with the law in seoul and he was facing disciplinary charges that might have seen him. >> i want to know what was going on in his mind. i can't see him doing it. he's the type of person, to himself, that's out of his character, then even like drinking and stuff like that, that's out of his character. he never did that around us. >> reporter: and, you know, chris, you were mentioning what efforts have been done to get him back. we heard from the united states government, courtney kube said it was almost certain he was going to face further disciplinary actions when he went back to the states and said

peter baker, to you first about mitch mcconnell. again, this was such a striking thing.or a figure in washington politics for as long as he has been. to be such an influential figure, he says he's going to continue his term and there are no changes in leadership, but it sounds like republicans are concerned about this. what is your sins? peter: yeah. mitch mcconnell has been a giant in washington now for many years. he has been one of the most successful party leaders we've seen in a long time in the senate. to see him so, you know week in this way it was striking and disturbing for a lot of his friends as well as for some of its rivals. he of course had a fall in march i believe it was where he tripped and broke -- he got a concussion and he was out for six weeks. and now we are told he had a couple other falls that we did not know about. and they use a wheelchair when he goes to the airport to try to get it through. and that is the best way to go forward. so it reinforces that at 81 he is having trouble. like a lot of 81-year-olds would have. this is something we have

it was just a unilateral step. >> peter baker, you make a fascinating point in some of your reportingthe "new york times," as we're watching live pictures in tel aviv, you see opposition demonstrators, waving the israeli flag, these protesting have been going on, and what's so different about this moment in time, especially when it comes to u.s., israeli relations and others, is that this is a purely domestic issue. >> yeah, right. there's been tension, of course, between the united states and israel as close as they are. going back since the founding of the state 75 years ago. i mean, every president at some point or another has had something of a quarrel with his israeli counter part over many issues, whether it be arms sales, strategy toward iran or particularly the situation with the palestinians. this is an unusual situation in which it is a domestic situation. it is a situation where israel is trying to decide what kind of government it wants to have. what kind of democracy it wants to have, and that's a rare thing for an american president to get involved in, and president bide

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joining me now with much more is "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker. almost made you an nbc correspondent, i'm sorry about that. let's talk about jfk, and these files. i mean, 60 years later, the question, what could they possibly have that they don't want to release to us, and does that mean it's something that's really damming for the government? >> that's the big question, of course, because we don't know what we don't know. the government says, look, there's nothing mysterious here. they have released 99% of the documents that have been reviewed other the last 30 years ago the remaining few thousand that haven't been fully released, a small reactions about the names of the individuals of addresses and social security numbers and things the president doesn't have the authority to release. grand jury secrecy information or tax information. beyond that, there's nothing all that mysterious about it. of course you can imagine that's not an answer that satisfies researchers who spent a lot of years looking at this. what do they have after 60 some years s

and it was peter baker at "the new york times" tweeting about the communications change, the languageat the white house briefing. whether it is inadvertent or not, may be karine jean-pierre thought she was saying the exact same thing but i doubt it because there is a distinction between joe biden never discussed fitness with hunter to joe was never in business with . reporters who are paying attention, and apparently some of them are, recognize that is different. now, once you have a little crack in the dam like that, reporters can start chiseling away if they want. i also wonder, where is the senate on this, senate democrats, the busload demanding clarence thomas resigned because he has a rich friend. >> greg: that's right. >> dana: where is sheldon whitehouse on this? sheldon whitehouse, clarence thomas, he thinks things are corrupt, you have seen hunter's art, okay? is it worth $1.3 million? to a major democratic donor who wants to be appointed to a board, and might be worth $1.3 million and got away with that. >> greg: jesse, as you know, i am your rich friend but you will get not

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peter baker, katie benner, charles forman, joyce vance, frank --, thank you so much. but before we go to break, let's stay on the truth and remind our audience of this important point. for those who like to compare joe biden, and mike pence's handling of classified documents to donald trump, these new charges are another blaring example about how different these situations really are. trump is now accused of attempted destruction of evidence of sharing classified information. those are crimes. there you go. coming up, we're going to talk about these new charges for the former president with conor lamb and stuart stevens. what it could mean in washington and on the all-important campaign trail. , and later, the house beds out of town for a five-week summer recess. we all need a break like that, what republicans have been up to before their august break. and what will be waiting for them when they finally get back to washington. the 11th hour, just getting underway. on a very important thursday night. back now, to breaking news, donald trump still faces new charges in t

attorney barbara mcquade and "new york times" chief white house correspondent peter baker.here kept politics out of their response. they didn't respond to the trump team saying that this is a joe biden prosecution when it's not even a merrick garland prosecution. you have a special counsel. all of the other issues about the campaign. they didn't respond to the politics at all. >> they didn't. they pointed out that the right to a speedy trial is not some favor the prosecution grants. it's the bedrock of the constitution. they really squarely attacked what donald trump's lawyers say is his defense, that supposedly the presidential records act makes these charges inappropriate. they said, that's ridiculous. presidential records act is not a criminal statute. they say -- they call it a baseless and bordering on frivolous argument that should not be as an excuse to delay the trial. >> let me read an excerpt. they write -- boom. >> yes. it's strong language but deservedly so. president trump has made it a point of saying that the presidential records act is what exonerates him. i

foreign columnist and associate editor with "the washington post," also an msnbc contributor and peter baker, chief white house correspondent with "the new york times" and an msnbc political analyst. he's also the former moscow co-bureau chief for "the washington post." so, peter, first to you, if prigozhin is in fact still in russia, what do you think putin is trying to achieve here? do you believe the kremlin's statement that they're not tracking him? >> no. i mean, i think we should take everything the kremlin says at this point with a grain of salt to say the least. there is a whole lot of intrigue going on here that we don't fully understand. there is a whole lot of speculation now as to who is behind what and where this is going. i would be very cautious about taking anything that is official at this point from moscow at face value. prigozhin is, you know, he was, of course, for years a top lieutenant of president putin, he was an instrument of putin's power when it came to election interference in the united states in 2016, when it came to overseas, you know, interference in places li

. >>> joining us now, ben rhodes, an msnbc contributor, and peter baker, an msnbc political analyst.en, to you. the palestinians are cancelling all security cooperation with israel. as well, the embassy spokesperson was just here on our previous hour telling us that that is part of the problem. at the same time, aren't we facing a more escalating situation? there's the claim by hamas of the sponsorship of a terror attack in tel aviv just the other day in retaliation against the jenin incursion. >> yeah. it feels like we are heading into a more volatile period. keep in mind that there has not been an incursion like this into the west bank, which is supposed to be under the authority of the palestinian authority, whereas, we have seen incursions into gaza, which has been under the authority of hamas. i think what it does to palestinian authority is it very much humiliates them in front of their people. they didn't control a lot. they lost control of some of the places like this particular part of jenin where we see militants gaining more support or at least being able to operate. for t

with me now, nbc's kelly o'donnell at the white house, and peter baker, chief white house correspondentw york times" and msnbc political analyst. so kelly, what do we expect to see during yellen's trip? >> reporter: this certainly signals a high priority from the biden administration to try to improve the conditions between the two largest economies in the world. this is secretary yellen's first visit in her role, and it is significant because china's own economy has been struggling in the post covid era, and they have a lot of concerns about trying to establish better relationships with the u.s. in recent years, of course, the u.s. has also been trying to in some ways get a little separation from some of the workings of business with china, things in the area of semiconductors, and biotechnology. some of the things that during the concerns about supply chain that we live through that those became very heightened, so there are points of tension. there are points of opportunity. and at the same timehere are those other parts of the diplomatic conversation that always have to be a part of

peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the new york times.bennett, host of the pbs news hours, and msnbc political contributor. and how it is here at 30 rock in the flesh, former u.s. attorney and former assistant deputy attorney general. i will start with you since you are here, this new york times reporting. what does it tell you about jack smith's strategy? >> most important words that you gave up front. in a circle. and combine that with knowing that this happened last month. so it is not just that these penetrated the inner circle, he has gone all the way around it. we've got kushner, we have mark meadows, we have rudy giuliani, and this is a month ago. this is just a little bit that we get from the mountain that he already has. that's the first thing it tells me. you look ready to go for it. >> a, just because they talk to them does it mean that they said anything. >> you want to talk to everyone. in fact, kushner on the actual, that trump feel he lost? he's gonna testify, it seems, that he actually believed that it was stolen. no big d

peter baker is "new york times" chief white house correspondent and an msnbc political analyst who spenton, peter. i want to talk about the level, both internally and externally of pressure that vladimir putin is under right now. do you think he's ever experienced anything quite like this? >> no, this is nothing like he experienced in the 23 years since he came to power, he has spent those two decades consolidating authority first in the kremlin, and on the international stage and what he has found finally are brick walls that are blocking his aspirations and an undercutting of his position at home. the idea right now that prigozhin could get away with the mutiny that he launched without some sort of an obvious punishment, without some sort of obvious retribution underscores, i think that putin is in a more tenuous phase than he's ever been before. >> we've seen russia try to hurt other countries, they've used their supply of oil, grain, different things as leverage. how many more cards does he have to play? >> well, look, we shouldn't underestimate them, they're still a super power with

we will do it with your help for sure, peter baker. thank, you have a good rest of your weekend.sh list. can democrats in the senate change the defense bill? and if you are alive rather living here it is more than just an average summer day, we will tell you why so many are in danger. i bet you all a very good day for nbc news here in los angeles, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we have this breaking news from israel, prime minister benjamin netanyahu is in the hospital after feeling unwell as we give you a look at that she bought the medical center in tel aviv. that is where he is right now. and we see matt bradley is joining us from tel aviv. matt, welcome and what more can you tell us on netanyahu's condition and if he is saying anything? anybody putting out statements? >> yes, actually the prime minister that just put out a statement and it looks as though he's actually doing quite well. we don't know if you're spending another night there, but it looks as though he is another victim of the heat wave that you are talking

jane harman, senior fellow at the chicago council for global affairs elizabeth shackelford and peter baker, chief white house correspondent for "the new york times," someone with a lot of experience in russia, he used to be the bureau chief there for "the washington post." thank you all for joining us. so, jane, russia is already responding to these developments this morning by saying they will, quote, take appropriate action and that they would protect their own security interests. do you think the introduction of sweden to nato and this show of unity is giving any pause to president putin? >> probably not. but it should. he is delusional about what is going on in ukraine and the fact that he is driven 32 countries, 32, 3-2, countries together with increased defense expenditures, another thing announced today, for their solidarity against russia. it is a big deal. president biden deserves a victory lap here, given the fact that when he became president the prior president had basically dissed nato, saying he wasn't sure that we would observe article five, the common defense provision, and

joining us now are nbc's julie tsirkin on capitol hill and peter baker, chief white house correspondent" and nbc news political julie, julie, what are you hearing on capitol hill about these two >> reporter: >> reporter: well, we're hearing very different things privately and publicly and it is in part because age and the issue of health concerns that have plagued the senate and also washington in general have been the topic of conversation, not just this year, but in the years and before. and so privately in the case of mcconnell, for example, we are hearing some concern from his colleagues that he may not be as sharp as he was before he suffered that fall in march, that took him out for about a period of a month. he dealt with a concussion and broken rib during that incident. he had some falls following that, including that strange moment that you're seeing all over your screens that you were just playing and another fall actually that my colleague garrett haake reported earlier this week that happened when he was deplaning at dca, the airport a couple of miles from capitol hill. now,

peter baker, lisa rubin, and charles coleman, thank you so much for getting us started. coming up -- after so much interference in the 2020 election cycle, state officials are grappling with how to proactively protect future elections. michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson joins me. and later, russia targets ukrainian port cities, as the -- bill browder's sat with stephanie ruhle two -- defense. >> i spent the last couple of days at the aspen security forum, where nbc's a media partner. and we covered all sorts of important topics about national security, cyber security, global competitiveness, education. but it was the conversation i had earlier today with former secretary of state condoleezza rice, and we talk about who our biggest adversary is -- she gave quite a surprising answer. >> our biggest adversary is us, that we don't get these things right. i really don't fear a country out there. i'm often asked, you know, when you look at the future, what is the danger that you see? and the united states can handle any challenge. we will handle the challenge of china

peter baker, kelly cobiella, thank you very much. and joining me now is jim towns end.nk you so much for being here. let's talk about what president zelenskyy got, this idea that they are basically a nato member without being a nato member, without, i guess, article 5. >> well, that's exactly right, and, you know, that was the point of this new nato, ukraine council. that will give a seat at the table for ukraine, almost as a colleague among all of the nato members. as an e-mail, sitting around the table, talking about nato issues. having a voice, not a vote, and not the article five, but an elevation in how ukraine relates to nato. so that's something that actually means more than one would think, and fits well with what the g7 can do in terms of the assistance and long-term pledges. >> the expansion of nato, and the assurances to ukraine, does that hasten the end of the war or do you foresee vladimir putin looking at what we were talking about at the american election and thinking i should at least hold out until november 2024. >> well, it's interesting what putin mig

peter baker, thank you for being with us. looking at these pictures of zelenskyy surrounded by european leaders and when historians write the history of this chapter. of european history of russian history and they talk about the grand failure, the epic strategic failure the historical failure of vladimir putin to achieve the aims he was hoping to achieve while invading ukraine this is a picture they're going to show to prove just how historically wrong he was. >> yeah, you know, it's interesting to me because this relates back to our story about tommy tuberville in that exposed how weak his military was. they were not ready. they were not trained. they were not capable. it's weakened him forever on the world stage. it's an important moment in history. you know, what i'd like to point out, everyone's giving a lot of time and ink to the fact that zelenskyy went off yesterday and was angry and passionate about the failure of nato to let him in during the middle of a war, everybody has to remember who he's speaking to first, eve

joining us now is jonathan allen and also peter baker. ump seems to actually solidify his base. and a poll taken after the last indictment, his lead over his gop rivals grew. will this election be any different, is this a pattern now? >> well, it has been so far and so we ought to be cautious about making predictions about any other result at this point. there is a difference of course between this indictment and the previous two if this one is issued. this one goes to the heart of our democracy in a way that the other two don't. first one is about hush money, second one about the handling of classified documents. this one is about an attempt to overturn an election that the president lost. and spreading lies about that. that goes to a much more fundamental question and it will be a real challenge i think for republicans to decide whether that is something that they still support if donald trump will be their nominee. >> jonathan, the other gop candidates are being overshadowed by all the legal developments. several address the target lett

. >> dana i love this a kid that broke the story is peter baker of "the new york times" and suzanne glasserhis pretty well there's a big investigation initially story was like he's a total fraud that's not the how it turned out but credibility did take a hit so he's deciding to leave. jessica: retracted it. dana: university of chicago a new guy coming from university of chicago friends of mine who work there that are on the conservative side of things are excited because that's really considered a pretty good university on the beach so pleased to see what happens there. jessica: jesse what are your thoughts? jesse: this is how you fake a study i own all of the sirloin west of the mississippi and i pay stanford university a quarter million dollars to their science department and perhaps i suggest to the researchers that we're looking for a study that says that meat is really good for you. voila, a studies comes out a year later that says meat is good for you. greg: done for 40 years. jesse: done in the food and pharmaceutical -- greg: no such thing -- jeanine: that goes back everything to th

. >> jessica: dana, i love this and the kid that broke the story at stanford is peter baker of the newr's son. >> dana: yeah, and i think the president of stanford has handled this pretty well and a big investigation and initially the story was like he's a total fraud. that's not how it all turned out and his credibility took a hit and he's deciding to leave and the university of chicago -- the guy who's the new president of stanford is coming from the university of chicago. friends of mine that work there had that are on the conservative side of things are excited and that's really considered a pretty good university on free speech and we'll see what happens there. >> jessica: jesse, what are your thought s? >> jesse: how you fake a study. say i'm big meat and own all the sirloin west of the mississippi. and i pay stanford mississippi a quarter million to their science department and perhaps i suggest to the researchers that we're looking for a study that says that meat is really good for you. wala, a study come thous saying meat is good for you. >> greg: it's been done for 40 years.

any of the other reporters ask anything about hunter biden and stuff like that because i saw that peter bakerm the "new york times" essentially quoted your quote. >> a lot of folks reported about it on social media after but nobody followed up with karine in that briefing yesterday. it was just us. >> steve: all right. well, good job. thank you very much for the live report. let's see what shakes loose tomorrow -- today, actually. >> ainsley: let's talk about democracy 2024. there are a lot of headlines this morning about joe biden. is he going to run? democrats sounding the alarm over embarrassing incidents he has had. for instance, there is one democrat that's in congress who namesly went to nbc. they are releasing the person's name the number of text messages i got after the president fell, my phone was blowing up. people are like oh, this is bad. apparently the aides got together to talk about how to make sure this would never happen again there are talks that he is seen using the lower staircase to board air force one and extra large font on his teleprompter. >> it's one of those things

joining me now, peter baker and eugene daniels.cousin will be there. >> it's a moment that i think black americans are excited for. something they have been looking forward to for a long time. this moment where this child was mutilated, beat up and murdered, revitalized and created the civil rights movement we ended up knowing. it told and showed thanks to his mother's courageous telling that she wanted everyone to see what happened to her son. it went on the cover of "jet" magazine and around the country where people saw what was happening in the jim crow south for the first time. folks in the north had no idea how terrible things were for black americans in the south. it's a big moment, the fact it's happening where you have the first black woman who is vice president, a president who has promised to be a friend to black americans and who was the vice president for the first black president in the country. all of these things are tied together as an important aspect of what's going to happen today. more importantly, the fact it's

that's bring in peter baker msnbc political analyst, chief white house correspondent for the new yorke divider. trump in the white house. peter, thanks for being with us. the doj have asked for december 11th. trump lawyers asked for postelection, 2024. she landed at may, 2024. is this a compromise? >> well, it is obviously just geographic, colonel logically, right down the middle. but it's an extraordinary day, if you really think about. it it's going to put this trial right in the thick of the election, right? by this point, 2024, we presumably will know who the republican nominee is, that's when most of the moments are held in the size of primaries, and two months before the republican national convention that will formally anointed that nominee. obviously, it will be the start of the general election season between the republican and democratic candidates. so it, to have a trial, one person who, could in fact be that nominee in the middle of that, is extraordinary. obviously, there is no precedent for that in american history. >> and how will this sort of lay out and affect the cam

joining me now is peter baker, msnbc political analyst, chief white house correspondent for the new yorkcoauthor of the divider, trump in the white house 2017 to 2021. welcome, my friend. hey, by the way, peter, your book coauthor and wife wrote that last one. and the indictment record says, the boss. wanting a security tape server the leader. so, before i get the specifics on that, how surprised were you by this new indictment? and is this where we talk about the cover-up being worse than the crimes? at least the allegations? >> yeah, it's a pretty serious offense to be charged with trying to destroy evidence, basically. now, you know, president trump, former president trump, put out a syncing nothing was destroyed, but he did not deny that he actually tried to get it destroyed. he in fact told his employees to go ahead and wipe those servers, that there wouldn't be any evidence of, you know, whatever they were trying to do in terms of hiding these documents. that's about as straightforward obstruction case as you would imagine, at least according to the lawyers who were familiar with t

my colleague, peter baker and i reported on it that sunday. and trump went ballistic.and he cannot handle any perception of weakness. tensions began to rise around 11:00 pm as the landmark st. john's church was vandalized and set on fire. donald trump demanded a forceful response from his advisors. he hated how he was being portrayed as bunker boy. and he also wanted to invoke the insurrection act to call in active duty uniformed military on the streets of washington and other cities, saying, we're tough. we're not gonna accept this. [kris] cbs news has learned president trump demanded 10,000 active duty troops be deployed in a heated oval office meeting. [mark] the president is enraged. he's in a fit. i am quite insistent, pushing back on the president. the violence is not as bad as it may appear on tv. law enforcement should take the lead. and at one point, he leans over the table and looks general mark milley in the eye. general mark milley was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. and he says to him, "just shoot them. can't you just shoot them or something? shoot

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