of the victim's families oppose the idea of giving a second chance to these juvenile lifers stephanie mitchell grandees of rodney cork spoke in support of retroactivity my deepest condolences to all the families out here there are some that that these people don't need to be released but there are some that do in certain circumstances the prisoner does deserve a second chance in two thousand and eight sally road to run the corpse family asking for their forgiveness he received no reply three years later after a local newspaper published a feature story about his life and answer finally came. many missteps any iraqi court scrutiny. after the grand rapids press published your article there was something you said that touched me if i had to make a choice i would choose forgiveness from the victim's family over getting out of prison that is why i would like to start this letter by saying we forgive you. after writing to sallow in prison stephanie connected with sal as wife laura and this teacher. six months ago stephanie visited sallow in prison for the first time . i'm a. family. now . i asked hi

stephanie mitchell was only fourteen when her great uncle. was murdered my uncle rod was very caring he would do anything for anybody and was often remember him laughing and. when he entered a room you knew it and everyone enjoyed having him around. with my grandma was watching the news and she you know. and. she knew it was him because his loafers. and all you could see was this. that's how our family found out about it. during the trial two of these boys they were just so heartless about it they would turn back and just laugh at our family. i mean are you kidding me i feel anybody family would want to see justice. at the time of sentencing judge dennis had two choices send sallow as a juvenile which meant release from prison in five years at age twenty one. which at the time it mandatory life in prison without the possibility of parole. lawyer larry fail and pleaded with the court to give salah the juvenile sentence but judge kalinda chose the adult life sentence. today the two men have agreed to meet me at a local diner to discuss the case

certainly in reaction to this press event, we're going to be seeing andrea mitchell on this beautiful afternoon in helsinki. stephaniewe saw briefly that table, these two kind of glum teams. we saw pompeo. we saw trump. we saw kelly. the meeting i'm told lasted two hours and ten minutes. after time to gussy and nose powder, they will head into these two side by side podiums and take questions from both press corpses. >> i didn't see the expression on john kelly's face but i can only hope they served a full menu because if they only go continental, you know it makes him very upset. the one thing andrea mentioned, we keep hearing, you know, trump sort of tipping his hat to putin when he says our good friend shshxi. we have to remind our audience xi jinping and vladimir putin were not freely elected by their people. these are authoritarian leaders. >> we say elections, we don't really mean it, yes. >> so while you watch him muscle his way because he can't let the guy from montenegro be in front, just think about it, yes, the united states is more powerful than places like montenegro. when you're truly the guy in charge

stephanie ruhle. right now we hand you off to our colleague andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> and right on "andrea mitchell reports," the president threatens to yank the security clearance of his critics. >>> more than 460 migrant parents separated from their children may have already been deported. msn msnbc's mariana atencio talks to one father who got

stephanie ruhle. right now we hand you off to our colleague andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> and right now on "andrea mitchell reports," the president threatens to yank the security clearance of his critics. >>> more than 460 migrant parents separated from their children may have already been deported. msn msnbc's mariana atencio talks to one father who got his child back. >> reporter: i spent 20 days without being able to speak to him. every time they move me from one facility to another, i would say, and my children, what about my children? >>> and no laughing matter. how the attorney general of the united states responded to chants from a high school audience echoing trump campaign rallies. >> ha ha ha. lock her up. [ audience chants "lock her up" ] >>> and good day, i'm andrea mitchell in washington. president trump is setting off political fireworks with an an unprecedented threat to strip security clearances from half a dozen former top national security and intelligence officials, veteran officials, some of whom worked for decades under presidents of both political parties. >> t

mitchell reports." stay with us on msnbc and remain on msnbc for complete coverage of putin and trump's summit here on helsinki, stephanie will be taking over for us. >> good afternoon, i am stephanie rulhe, we got big coverage. president trump and putin taking questions from reporters. vladimir putin flat out denying in meddling into our 2016 election. >> shameful and bizarre and flat out wrong. that's the response rolling in from some republicans to what we just withined from our president. the same time under muller's microscope, the who men at

stephanie ruhle. my partner ali will be back tomorrow. now i hand you off to andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> coming up, conservative republicans trying to impeach rod rosenstein. the house speaker making it clear moments ago he will not let this go forward. >> i don't think we should be cavalier with this process or this term. number two, i don't think this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. >>> defiant. national security adviser john bolton called the mueller probe a witch hunt. as the secretary of state is put me he wi me -- pummelled by the senate committee. >> i've listened to your political soliloquy. if you want to talk about politics, if president obama did what president trump did in helsinki, i would be peeling you off the capitol ceiling. please. >>> and race against time. the trump administration has just 12 hours to get 1,600 kids back to their parents as confusion reigns over what rights these parents still have. msnbc's mariana atencio spoke with one father who was lucky enough to be reunited with his daughter. >> reporter: "a

stephanie ruhle. my partner ali will be back tomorrow. now i hand you off to andrea mitchellandrea mitchell reports." >>> coming up, conservative republicans trying to impeach rod rosenstein. the house speaker making it clear moments ago he will not let this go forward. >> i don't think we should be cavalier with this process or this term. number two, i don't think this rises to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors. >>> defiant. national security adviser jn

stephanie ruhle. i will see you at 9:00 a.m. on monday. right now we hand you off, "andrea mitchellts," andrea mitchell is live from aspen, colorado, where this woman has been working overtime. >> thank you both so much. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell at the aspen security forum in colorado. we continue the coverage, reporting out moments ago from "the new york times," president trump's embattled former personal attorney michael cohen secretly recorded a conversation with then-candidate donald trump months before the 2016 election regarding payments to a former play b playboy model. joining me now by phone, matt apuz apuzzo, one of the reporters who broke the story in "the new york times," and our k

stephanie ruhle. i will see you at 9:00 a.m. on monday. right now we hand you off, "andrea mitchell reports," andrea mitchell is live from aspen, colorado, where this woman has been working overtime. >> thank you both so much. >>> good day, i'm andrea mitchell at the aspen security forum in colorado. we continue the coverage, reporting out moments ago from "the new york times," president trump's embattled former personal attorney michael cohen secretly recorded a conversation with then-candidate donald trump months before the 2016 election regarding payments to a former play b playboy model. joining me now by phone, matt apuz apuzzo, one of the reporters who broke the story in "the new york times," and our kristen welker at the white house. matt? >> thank you, and amazing work out of aspen. >> thank you. >> what we know is that michael cohen who had a propensity for secretly taping conversations with his adversaries, also taped a conversation with donald trump about whether or not to make a payment to this former playboy model who claimed an affair. and this payment is super importa

stephanie will be back on monday. check us out on social media and connect with your show. i'm handing over to our friend andrea mitchellchell reports." >>> is he flipping? donald trump's former personal lawyer reportedly ready to tell prosecutors that candidate trump knew about that infamous trump tower campaign meeting with the russians before it happened, something he and his eldest son

stephanie will be back on monday. check us out on social media and connect with your show. i'm handing over to our friend andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." >>> is he flipping? donald trump's former personal lawyer reportedly ready to tell prosecutors that candidate trump knew about that infamous trump tower campaign meeting with the russians before it happened, something he and his eldest son have long denied. >> it was such a nothing, there is nothing to tell. i wouldn't have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was literally a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. >>> family values. up against a mandatory court deadline, the administration reunites migrant families and children after being separated for months. but hundreds more remain in custody, these children's fate unknown. >> it's terrible. the case, the immigration case itself is already confusing and very difficult. add on top of that weeks or in some cases months of having been separated from your child. >>> and coming home. north korea turning over what it claims are the remains of 55 american service members killed d

stephanie ruhle. thanks again. >> i'm ali velshi. i'll see you back at 3:00 p.m. >> thanks so much, we'll be watching at 3:00. >>> right now on "andrea mitchell," what now? the backlash of the intelligence community is building today as the director of national intelligence stunningly breaks with his boss, the president, after he sided with the russian president. and now the former director of the cia is calling president trump's praise of vladimir putin tre treason us. >> i equate it to the betrayal of one's nation, aiding and abetting, giving comfort to the enemy. >> i think the outcry needs to be strong. it needs to endure. and they need to then also take action, whether it's a censure or whether or not they are going to decide that this is not the republican party that they once knew. >>> pressure point. will republican criticism of the president's comments actually lead to any action? one gop leader who doesn't have to worry about reelection because he's on his way out, says things may change soon. >>