i'm sort of going to steal sam stein's off-camera questions.money laundering. i know the report doesn't go that far. put this in context for people, why is this such a big deal? >> well, it's a big deal because nobody does this, right? nobody buys giant golf courses. we're talking about in these cases golf courses that cost $80 million for just 2 of them and lose money year after year, requiring more money to put in. moeb b nobody buys that thing in cash. it's risky to sink your cash into something. >> you borrow it from the bank, you spread the risk around. >> get co-investors, you borrow it from a bank, this is what trump did his whole life until he started doing it totally differently in 2006. the question was why would you defee something that seemed to be at the core of his identity as a developer? the answer from trump, they felt like it, felt it was too risky to borrow money starting in 2006 and had the money, had so much money coming off their other businesses that they could invest this way without any problem. >> what is the potential

aging teenage heartthrob and current prep school pop star -- >> just moves in and grabs that job. >> sam steine. >> sam, what does it say? >> well, this just in. this is a lot. since they moved to 280 characters, it's a lot more. this is from donald j. trump. >> somebody's upset. >> so disgraceful that the question concerning the russia witch-hunt were quote/unquote leaked to the media. no questions on collusion, with a capital c for some reason. oh comma, you have a made up comma phony crime comma collusion comma that never existed and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. nice. >> willie, it's all about eve. sam comes in and takes -- >> it's a cruel business. >> it is a cruel business. it got old fast. >> i don't understand the commas, first of all. >> there's so many commas. >> maybe willie can be upgraded to analysis of the tweets sam reports on. this is okay, we're placing you in a position that is -- >> sabotage. >> this is a promotion. we're cutting your salary. >> how about the first sentence where he says "the russian witch-hunt were leaked to the media.

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reacting to the news by falsely blaming democrats, tweeting saturday -- >> joining me now is my panel, sam steinrdan frazier, and a.b. stoddard. sam, it was everything in one tweet. if you could break it down and tell us where this policy came from. i know that sessions -- jeff sessions announced the separation policy, and they view it as chief of staff kelly said, as a deterrent to try to stop migrant families from coming, because they might be separated from their children. >> a few things going on here. one is that with regards to the missing children, they're missing in the sense that these are unaccompanied minors who have come to the border. there's a policy where they're put with foster family, and hhs keeps track of them. for 1500 or so of these kids, they lost the ability to keep track. they may still be with their foster parents, but hhs does not know the status of them. that's causing a lot of concern and consternation on capitol hill. they fear in part, they might be sent into human trafficking or terrible working conditions. there's a trump administration policy that says you can --

we're going to go to katty kay in a minute, proving to sam stein that it's only when sam stein is int we ignore you. >>> andrea, i want to talk about north korea but first i want to talk about another breach of constitutional norms. another example of regardless how you feel about this president we have a man who has no respect for the rule of law or the traditions surrounding what has made america what it is, the constitutional republic that does put the rule of law first and believes no man is above the law. you get donald trump sending his personal lawyer who may have to defend him on criminal conduct coming out of the mueller probe into his attempt to investigate the people investigating the criminal probe. >> his personal lawyer and the chief of staff going to the justice department where confidential documents were supposedly being reviewed. we don't know what happened inside doj and then going to a gang of eight meeting, this is a decade's long tradition since the intelligence committees were form formed, bipartisan support of the intelligence agencies and the fact that this w

. >> sam stein, ann guerin, thank you. we all wish her well. and to kristen welker.ion of "andrea mitchell reports." i want to thank the staff and administrators at the university of pennsylvania, all that they did yesterday. they honored me when i gave the commencement address to the class of 2018. i was humbled to receive an honorary degree. it takes a lot of people to put something like this together. to all the students and their families, many, many thanks. and in particular to the staff of a great university. chris jansing is up next, right here on msnbc. hey, chris. >> dr. mitchell, congratulations. >> how about that. >> and thank you, andrea. >> completely unearned. >> that is not true. good afternoon from msnbc headquarters in new york. i'm chris jansing in for craig melvin. elephant in the room. right now, president trump is in a closed meeting with republican senators on capitol hill. but everyone seems to be talking about someone who's not in that room. senator john mccain. it's the first face-to-face between the president and many of mccain's colleagues

sam stein, politics editor for "the daily beast." and steve schmidt. peter baker, let me start with you. you and your colleagues have been on this all day ahead of the announcement. the last story i read on this, you've included the joint statement from president macron of france, prime minister theresa may of britain and angela merkel of germany urging iran to continue to meet its own obligations under the deal despite the america withdrawal. you quote them, we encourage iran to show restraint in response to the decision by the u.s. it sounds like we have a real policy dispute and split now with some of our closest allies. thanch >> we have a big schism with the biggest allies we have in europe on one of the most important issues to them and the united states. they're saying that they're still in this deal just because president trump has gotten out and they want to find a way to salvage it with iran. despite the statement, it's going to be hard for europe to do. american sanctions will force european banks, european companies to pull out of iran. the

i think we want to recognize willie's contributions to the tweet desk as he passes the torch to sam stein. this is your cake saying good-bye. >> step aside, my retirement from the tweet desk. >> that's a princeton professor right there. >> that's a good look. >> there it is. >> joe, final thoughts? >> final thoughts, i mean, i think right now, eddie says it all. put the glasses back on, man. >> because if you don't, i will. >> eddie channeling elton john at dodgers stadium in 1973, '74, that's beautiful. all right. happy birthday, willie. >> thanks, guys. >> that does it for us this morning. >> stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage. >> happy birthday, willie. good morning. i'm stephanie ruhle. with a lot to cover today. starting with what? rudy giuliani revealing the president did reimburse michael cohen for that hush money payment to one and only stormy daniels. derailing the president's previous story, making him a liar. >> they funneled it through a law firm. funneled through a law firm and then the president repaid it. >> mm, that was just the beginning. the president's lawyer also cl

sam stein, veteran political journalist. and jill colvin, white house reporter for the associated press. frank, you're the former fed here. we read the statement by latham & watkins. we'll let that speak for itself. what do you make of tonight's development? >> brian, i think we're much closer tonight to seeing what collusion looks like. i think we're much closer to the original core of the special counsel's purpose, which is to determine the extent to which foreign powers have influenced this campaign and influenced this presidency. and i think that michael cohen is much closer to criminal charges tonight, and our president is not going to sleep well this evening because it's going to be very hard for him to assert that he did not know that cohen had this firm setup, that money was flowing from columbus nova, whose biggest client is a russian oligarch, who has written checks to the campaign, who has signed on with columbus nova, who's been interviewed by the fbi at a new york airport, and we're supposed to believe that the

i think we want to recognize willie's contributions to the tweet desk as he passes the torch to sam stein the tweet desk. >> that's a princeton professor right there. >> that's a good look. >> there it is. >> joe, final thoughts? >> final thoughts, i mean, i think right now, eddie says it all. put the glasses back on, man. >> because if you don't, i will. >> eddie channeling elton john at dodgers stadium in