. ♪ >>> we'll start this show with the president's national security adviser susan rice on the fightgainst isis, on the president's controversial trip to hiroshima, and what she said is a lack of diversity in the u.s. foreign policy establishment. >> in the halls of power, in the faces of our national security leaders, america is still not fully represented. >> and, there is a way to have predicted the rise of both isis and donald trump. >> president obama, you're fired! >> joshua cooper explains how some people can -- can't see through the flood of data that we all get hit with every day and see the patterns. how we can all learn how to have a seventh sense. >>> and waziristan. it's been called the most dangerous place in the world, and it's especially inhospitable to women. so one girl there disguised herself as a boy in order to be educated and compete in sports. and she went all the way to the top. the amazing story of maria torpakai. >>> but first here is my take. while americans have been obsessing about the presidential election, half way around the world, iraq is collapsing a

. ♪ >>> on friday i sat down with susan rice at the eisenhower executive office building on the whiteouse grounds. it was an important time to talk to the national security adviser as president obama is about to head out to japan and vietnam as isis continues to wreak havoc in the world, especially the arab world, and just days after ambassador rice made controversial remarks about the lack of diversity in her own cohort, the u.s. foreign policy community. >> ambassador rice, pleasure to have you on. >> great to be back. >> the news reports suggest that the battle against isis is not going as well as it was initially thought because it is proven more difficult to get the turks and the kurds and the iraqi army to work together and most importantly that the iraqi army, when it goes into places, is viewed by a lot of the sunnis on the ground there, the locals, as an army of occupation. are these political, regional problems slowing down the fight against isis. >> actually, i would argue in the last several months the isis campaign has made great progress. we've always taken the view and

do you want to add anything, kirsten hagland, to susan rice's statement?mment because we do have brilliant students there schools all across this country. and i think you see a lot of, you know, going to harvard, going to yale, going to these ivy league schools. they're all across this country. i do see the value in different perspectives and as a millennial, that goes on in the recruiting. that's why i think it was great to have this at the university but not the expense of security. that's the point. not at the expense of security. stuart: america's security officials are meant to defend the american interests. >> absolutely. stuart: does a black american defend america's interests in a different way from a white american or an asian american or a hispanic american? >> yeah. stuart: surely there is one american interest. >> yeah, absolutely. but the face of america looks different, and there are different perspectives, and that's what makes us stronger. so i think it's good for recruitment for the future to see a wide varian tiff of people -- variety of

so, lieutenant colonel, can susan rice's statement, that is ben rhodes's boss, right?ut can her statements outweigh an admission of deseparatetive practices? >> well, i don't think it can. i will tell you, deirdre, i traveled all over the united states from january until now, from albuquerque to boston doing town hall meetings, talking to moms and grandmothers what is going on, when we hear these kinds of false narratives as americans, especially from the same crew who spun the benghazi narrative, it is very hard to believe we're being told the straight truth here. in my book, "game-changers," i talk about if we're going to inwith the war, deirdre, we'll have to tell a better story than isis and starts by telling it to our own people and i don't see us doing that. deirdre: that's a great point indeed. larger picture, where can the u.s. go from here with this nuclear deal with iran? >> well, i think it is just a bad deal all together. i would like to seat whole thing scrapped. it is not a good deal. the entire basis for the deal, as we're learning is a false narrative.

> powell says the group was briefed about the president's trip by the national security adviser susan rice. she says her organization neither supports nor opposes the visit. she referred to the message president obama plans to deliver. >> we definitely want the president to stress that the american people are honored for the service and sacrifice that our world war ii veterans made. >> the american legion strongly opposed a 1995 plan by the smithsonian museum in washington to display items showing the destruction from the atomic bombings. the museum abandoned the plan. >>> local high school students want to convey a message to president obama. they've been collecting signatures calling for a treaty banning nuclear weapons. the students gave the mayor more than 80,000 signatures collected over the past year. >> translator: i hope he will convey to president obama our message calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. >> translator: we want to help president obama create an environment to realize his ideal of a world without nuclear weapons. listening to atomic bomb survivors could be an

says the group was briefed to the president's visit to here oak sma by national security adviser susan rice. she says her organization neither supports nor opposes the visit. powell also discussed a message obama plans to deliver in hiroshima. >>> we definitely want the president to stress that the american people are honored for the service and sacrifice our world war ii veterans made. >> the american legion strongly opposed a 1995 plan by the smith sewn yam museum in washington to display items by the atomic bomb dings in hiroshima and nagasaki. the museum abandoned the plan. >>> the governor of okinawa is in washington to present his argument concerning the relocation of a u.s. marine corps base. governor met on monday separately with the state department official and members of congress. he said he conveyed his determines to move a u.s. air base on oak in that case wah in line with civilian. >> translator: the meetings were valuable. we received questions and opinions from all the participants. onaga said he plans to meet more members of congress and former u.s. ambassador to japan walt

white house officials say national security adviser susan rice spoke to the veterans thursday. she told them obama's visit is to honor the memory of everyone who died in world war ii. and she referred to strengthened security and economic ties between japan and the u.s. obama will be in japan later this month for the group of seven summit. he is not expected to give a major speech during his may 27th visit to hiroshima. hiroshima's mayor, kazumi matsui said he wants obama to meet atomic bomb survivors in the city. >> translator: i will ask the japanese foreign ministry to arrange an opportunity for president obama to meet survivors so the president can show he has acknowledged their wishes. >> matsui reflected back to obama's 2009 speech in prague. he said he wants the president to reassure people he is still working toward that vision of a world without nuclear arms. >>> one of tokyo's biggest festivals is in full swing with people parading down the streets of the asakusa district. about 1.5 million people are expected to join the sanja matsuri before it wraps up on sunday. th

susan rice is there as well with president obama. we'll have much more coming up right here on msnbc. i'll see you in a little while on "way too early." right now, we take you over to "first look" with my colleague, betty nguyen. >> thank you so much for that. of course we'll have much more on the president's historic trip to japan. but right now, into some politics right here in this country. donald trump is now officially the republican nominee for president after racking up new unbound delegates in north dakota, colorado and pennsylvania. armed with his party's delegates, trump unleashed attacks on hillary clinton while laying out the general election pitch in an energy speech yesterday, but word of a debate between trump and bernie sanders that is making news. nbc's hallie jackson has more. >> boy oh, boy. >> reporter: with his presidential bid already making history, donald trump's ready to make more. >> i would love to debate bernie. he's a dream. >> reporter: the business man hoping to make a deal with democrat bernie sanders

like susan rice. >> i'm having a flash back. >> i remember -- >> it would be that -- >> i was justing say sarkozy was cozy when he was talking about -- >> not sarkozy. >> that makes me suspicious. my worry is that this is the future politicians cut what they don't like. >> really? >> yes. >> this administration, juan, and your buddies. >> this maybe a year and year and a half ago. >> i remember after -- don't they know we're watching? >> that is right. it was a glitch. he had a glitch. >> hats off to james rosen. yesterday, he came up to the aftermath of all of this talk and said wait. only then, he went back and looked. nobody had looked. this is as far as a record. >> there you go. >> that is because we're doing real journalism. >> is there a reason to do it? this is a glitch. i could not conceive of a single instance. >> generally, people edit things out that make them look bad. remember? >> yes. yes. >> that is wrong. >> people edit stuff out and they claim it's for time and space. >> npr did that. i told that story about president bush. they cut that out and had the other part. >

. >> when president obama sends out national security adviser susan rice and she says that, in fact,owe bergdahl served the united states with honor and distinction -- >> well, i about threw my television out into the yard. both me, his fellow platoon mates, my men, my fellow green berets that nearly died looking for him were outraged. it shows how tone deaf this white house can be to how military members think and feel. they take words like that, served with honor and distinction, very seriously. >> frankly, the white house probably should have made no statement whatsoever. >> leon panetta told us he was dismayed by how the white house handled the bergdahl case. >> i don't mind, obviously, the effort at negotiations, but you don't just walk in and say, oh yeah, we'll give you five bad guys. these are individuals who killed in many cases our own soldiers. what assurance do we have that they're not going to wind up blowing up american innocents? >> demoralizing? >> incredibly demoralizing and to the men and women in uniform, as well. when you're out there in harm's way and your comman

by susan rice.le about what happened and that becomes part and parcel of any trial in washington, d.c., or anywhere else in the country with regard to this defendant. this defendant if he is guilty and the evidence i believe shows that he's guilty, i haven't seen it all -- >> is he a ringleader and where are the other guys? >> i don't care about ringleader. they said he's part and parcel of it and for them to walk away that's an absolute injustice. >> because maybe -- >> that's wrong. >> maybe they have an underling. maybe the guy drinking frappuccinos -- is that the guy? >> get them all. >> we have one and we're not even -- >> death penalty is deserve. >>> coming up -- thanks a lot, peter. >>> janet napolitano, remember her? the former head of homeland security, found a way to give illegals a break on college tuition while you're paying full price. >>> it's the story that the establishment doesn't want you to see. the son of chuck norris is here next. ohomestyle sounds good.. country style, not wit

there was a lot of talks at the time that it was a number of female advisors, samantha powell, and susan rice really show that this is how she would engage in the world. the fact that thing haves fallen apart so badly is going to be a difficult issue for her to answer on the trail and you know, donald trump made it very clear he did it in his foreign policy last week that he will go after her. that'll be one of the areas he will go after her from the right and other areas where he will go after her from the left including her votes for r the iraq war. >> yep, what's very clear is from your book is you bring it all together is how political her state department is and how political the white house was. you have the former staff and these two rivals and the principles trying to get along with each other. >> as president obama, we want you to know that every foreign leaders, acted as this surrogate for him. boy, those stats were going out and she, you know, populated her state's department with political advisors. >> that's right, one of the things i try to show in this book is -- there was all

the president has worked closely with susan rice, national adviser, on a range of issues. she served at the united nations representing the united states in the united nations for a number of years during the first had bothhe's influential positions as well as the kind of relationship with her tosident that allows influence his kneeing. thinking. somebody like ash carter who has years of experience working at of pentagon, the department defense, and he can use that experience to help the president make difficult policy decisions. so there are many people that that play an influential role in guiding the president's when it comes to a range of foreign policy issues accounts, iby all think, an influential figure. talks of the things he about in this article is the foreign policy blob, something the president is thought to stand against. says the blob includes hillary clinton, robert iraq war other promoters from both parties incessantly about american security. it foreign policy blob, is the white house view that thatry clinton is part of foreign policy blob? >> i've spent a

. >> here's national security adviser susan rice talking about the fight against isis with fareed zakaria always taken the view and had the expectation this was going to be a long-term challenge. this was a fight to be measured in years, not months, it was not going to be a linear progression, we've had progress and setbacks and over the last several months by any number of metrics, i would say things have progressed quite well. >> lieutenant colonel, you agree? >> yes and no. i think we have made progress and it's good but we're not fighting a geographic battle right now. if you look at the progress now measured on how much land we've taken back and how many of them we've killed. but what we're trying to do is stop an idealogy here and we're seeing isis morph into this worldwide organization. libya is becoming a hot bed of activity and springing up all over the middle east and going as far as south asia. it's not just going to be won on the ground in syria and iraq. although that's important. it's going to be a longer term effort and hard to put efforts on the degraphic areas. >> the u.s

points which the white house had told us over and over and over again that they never touched before susan rice went out and said this is about a video. it turns out they did touch it and why don't you tell the audience who was the one who authord those talking points. >> there were basically two sets of talking points and ben offered one of the key sets of white house talking points that blamed the attacks on a video. it was basically made up from beginning to end. ben played a key part in those talking points. he played a key role in the original talking points that original natd from the state department and cia and were by the state department of other parts of the administration. >> directly misleading us. they're on camera saying they had nothing to do with those talking points and ben wrote the memo. here they are directly telling reporters who pushed past the talking points, no, it's not happening and now we know that's not true. what do you make of it. >> i remember distinctily watching them ask the question about the fact that these attacks took place on the anniversary of 9/11 and ka

. ♪ >>> we'll start this show with the president's national security adviser susan rice on the fight on the president's controversial trip to hiroshima, and what she said is a lack of diversity in the u.s. foreign policy establishment. >> in the halls of power, in the faces of our national security leaders, america is still not fully represented. >> and, there is a way to have predicted the rise of both isis and donald trump. >> president obama, you're fired! >> joshua cooper explains how some people can -- can't see through the flood of data that we all get hit with every day and see the patterns. how we can all learn how to have a seventh sense. >>> and waziristan. it's been called the most dangerous place in the world, and it's especially inhospitable to women. so one girl there disguised herself as a

benghazi was under attack was sleeping and then the next morning she concocted some bizarre story with susan riceoutube video so we won't take lectures from crooked hillary about leadership and also the american people most importantly are looking for leadership on the economy they're looking for jobs and wage increases and we'll ask tough questions when trump becomes president, don, like -- one thing, don, why in china has the middle-class income risen by over 80% over the past 15 years whereas in america it's risen by less than 2% over the past decade. >> andy, i have four other people on. >> don't worry about them, don. don't worry about them. >> go ahead. >> well, first of all, him asking questions that's the only thing he can do because he doesn't have any answers. he's a master, the master of giving you an explanation that there is a problem without telling you how he can possibly solve it. if he tells you how he's going to solve it, he'll change it the next day. i think it's a very, very sad day in america. andy is 100% right. nobody thought this was possible because nobody believed that s

now i heard today susan rice, the national security adviser and ben rhodes saying no, everything we said is truthful. and factual. i would have questions there. but it's not what you're saying. >> it's like walking into a car dealership and saying i won't deal with the options on the car. kÑdr/d24o the damage is done, i think it does help donald trump or other candidates. the troubling thing is on substance of it. i understand why the white house wouldn't is send ben rhodes to testify. i understand that why chaffetz would have the hearing. it's a little stunt. the truth is we have a deal with iran. and congressman forbes says when we learn the details of what happened to our soldiers who were held captive and held for 24 or 36 hours, we will be shocked. these are not the kind of people that are moderating. >> again, all of this is true. but it's not about ben rhodes. think that's what chaffetz is saying. >> we're moving on from ben rhodes. >> but ben rhodes and chaffetz is the story of the day. ben rhodes' example was, i had to do this because there's no way to have reasoned sober debate

. >> speaking of "the wall street journal," they also invited christie turlington burns, susan rice.urns family outing. i saw donald trump junior as well. both of his sons are there. no sign of his daughter-in-law. >> according to someone here on there's one protester out front. i'm trying to get the gist of why they are protesting. the black guy with the saxophone we saw earlier that nobody recognized was larry wilmore, you know, the host. >> that was not larry wilmore sorry, dr. sinister. the think he will be at reception for the president. have you attended that? >> i have. one of the things we tend to do , we have beention lucky in the white house has been gracious enough to do that. had a chance to see the man himself, which was quite an honor. >> they have been with them for years and years, haven't they? helped them fire people. >> now, we are looking at michelle dockery, best known in this country as the unfortunate for her badness-plagued lady mary from "downton abbey." but she seems to be doing well. she got her happy ending at the end of the show -- spoiler alert if you ha

. ♪ >>> we'll start this show with the president's national security adviser susan rice on the fight president's controversial trip to hiroshima, and what she said is a lack of diversity in the u.s. foreign policy establishment. >> in the halls of power, in the faces of our national security leaders, america is still not fully represented. >> and, there is a way to have predicted the rise of both isis and donald trump. >> president obama, you're fired!

personally, i'm a nonintervention noninterventionalist, but i remember clearly samantha powers, susan ricetary of state, all pushed for intervention and they convinced the president to do it. trump apparently was part of that line back then. now he's saying he was against that line, as of this morning. where is he wrm where was he? >> he was somewhere and now he's somewhere else. the same with the iraq war, right? because he now has been in this case, and this campaign has been very critical of the iraq war, but he's on the record from before the war saying he supported the invasion. so this is attention in his rhetoric, when he says that -- >> why will it change? he says he's militaristic. >> motive? >> because he's running this time as an noninterventionalist. >> why would he switch? >> that's where he sees the electorate, presumably, and it seems to have worked for him so far. >> matt, sound right to you? what you just said? >> yeah, i agree with molly. >> if you want to tune your instrument to the current note, the note is nonintervention. >> right. what's the common thread? america. l

rose garden ceremony with his parent and susan rice's comments serving honor and distinction were anin-chief to influence the military judicial process. that is why it drug out. bill: hang on one moment. >> yeah. bill: you think that photo-op was designed for a debate like we're having right now? >> absolutely. look, bill. bill: wow. >> he he politicized this instantly. the fact he took sides in a situation where he had to know, this has been documented again bit network, your network and catherine, the chairman of the joint chiefs at that point in time, admiral mullen had told the president in great level of detail about the circumstance of his departure. the president chose to ignore the facts and decided to politicize this for purposes of returning taliban to qatar, from guantanamo. bill: you're making the argument he can't get a fair trial as long as president is in oval office. i don't buy that! >> to play it safe i think the army is doing the right thing. get it past the presence of the president, allow a new chain of command to decide his ultimate fate. let's face it. i think

>> i can tell you this afternoon susan rice is meeting with a group of veteran service organizations, leaders of the veterans organizations to talk about the trip to vietnam and japan and she will make clear that in addition discussing some of the issues that i outlined with margaret related to tpp and the economic relationship with asia, that she will spend time talking with getting a full accounting of pows and mias in vietnam. this is a priority for many organizations and certainly a priority for the commander in chief. as it relates to the agent orange situation, i am not aware that the president has any specific meetings planned with victims of agent orange. obviously our veterans organizations that advocate for america's veterans are concerned about this issue. the president is making sure that our veterans get the benefits they deserve. >> not surprisingly you mentioned tpp is one of the subjects. this will be the first trip to asia since trump essentially clinched the republican nomination. so we now have both the democratic front-runner as you know and the presumptive republi

benghazi was under attack was sleeping and then the next morning she concocted some bizarre story with susan riceoutube video. the american people are looking for leadership on the economy. they're looking for jobs and wage increases and we're going to ask tough questions when trump becomes president, questions like why in china has the middle class income risen by over 80% in the past 15 years whereas in america it's risen by less than 2%. >> i have four other people i need to get on. >> don't worry about them. >> first of all, him asking questions, that's all you can do because he doesn't have any answers. he's a master, the master of giving you an explanation that there is a problem without telling you how he can possibly solve it. if he tells you how he's going to solve it he'll change it the next day. i think it's a very sad day in america. andy is 100% right. nobody thought this was possible because nobody believed that someone with this little of experience and this sort of temperament and tone would be able to secure the nomination for a major party. i hope that this fact will sober up am

house over the signature of sean donovan, the director of the office of management and budget, and susan rice, the national security advisor directed to the speaker of the house of representatives, paul ryan, on april 26, 2016. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. hastings: thank you very much. excerpting from that a portion of the first paragraph of the second page, let me read what is said in partial response to my good friend from oklahoma. without significant additional appropriations this summer, the nation's efforts to comprehensively respond to the disease will be severely undermined. in particular, the administration may need to suspend crucial activities such as mosquito control and surveillance in the absence of emergency supplemental funding. state and local governments that manage mosquito control and response operations will not be able to hire needed responders to engage in mosquito mitigation efforts. additionally, the administration's ability to move to the next phase of vaccine velopment which requires multiyear commitment from the government to encoura

susan rice says the white house did not deceive americans about the iran nuclear deal.the administration manipulated sources to tell the agreement to the public. >> there is nothing that ben or the president or i or anybody who was involved in explaining the iran deal to the american public said that wasn't factually correct. >> right went on to defend the iran deal calling it a net positive by any measure. >>> and finally, a meteorologist facing a cold front after viewers got a bit heated over her strappy onair cocktail dress. look how she's forced to cover up on live television. >> into tomorrow. what's going on? you want me to put this on? why? because it's cold. >> getting a lot of e-mails. >> what? really. >> there you go. there you go. >> i look like a librarian now. >> no offense to librarians. a co-anchor hands her this gray sweater. now she and the station and chan are under fire. some say it was a sexist move and others call her dress totally inappropriate. chan says people should focus on the weather and not her wardrobe. >> that's part of the format. that's

how do you feel when you're susan rice and you have a mind meld with the president of the united statescy expert is a moron. people like jim baker because he worked and surveyed the iraq study group and he worked on the 9/11 commission. he is a novelist, a fine arts major who walked into that job and is now reconfiguring our entire middle east policy saying hit the road, egypt, saudi arabia, jordan, and israel. we are going to now side with iran and for two years prior to what they were telling us, james rosen asked the question. they were having one-on-one negotiations with iran hard-liners instead of leveling with the american people and not having relations with iran. >> to summarize facebook is cens censoring, the white house is lying and the state department edited out eight minutes of history. >> wow. on that need we go to heather childers with a fox news alert. >>> breaking overnight a deadly train station attack in germany. a knife-wielding man screaming allahu akbar went on a rampage near munich. one person dead, three others injured. the german is now under arrest. and the mot

and yet she went out, as did susan rice, representing this administration, and told us all, oh, it was all about the video. telling victims' families, we're going to get the guy who did the video. victims' families from benghazi have told me personally, when secretary clinton said we're going to get the guys that did the videos, which she now says she didn't say, how tragic is that, so basically, calling these victims' families liars, but the families say when she said we'll get the guy that did the video, they were infuriated. they said, we didn't care about the guy that did some video. we wanted our government to get the guys that killed our loved one. and that was not the message. but you have to understand, there were a lot of things to do , there were promises to keep and miles to go before they slept but we don't know if they just went to bed and slept when they found out the ambassador, personal ambassador of secretary of state clinton and president obama was missing, did they just go to bed? they won't tell us. we know president obama had a very important engagement the next da

director shean donovan and national security advisor susan rice said without emergency supplemental funding, mosquito control, surveillance, may need to be suspended. state and local governments that manage mosquito control may not be able to hire personnel for mosquito mitigation efforts. and vaccine developments, which require multiyear funding commitments, may be jeopardized. to make matters worse, mr. speaker, house republicans sent to the floor last week and again this week a bill to undermine the clean water act and protections for our waterways under the guise of helping to contain the zika virus. but the truth of the matter is, the legislation is nothing more than a carveout for pesticide special interests and would have absolutely no effect on spraying pesticides to combat the spread of the zika virus. it's a bill my friends have brought to the floor in the past but they are trying to further undermine environmental protections. so instead of working with democrats to address this public health emergency in a serious bipartisan way that puts the health and safety of the american pe

by susan rice. that lied to the american people about what happened and that becomes part and parcel of any