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vance left behind a legacy with spokes from all walks of life. think abo all tha happened this past year, we can only imagine your commentary evoking the tears and cheers. vance's last interview was with ie bunch, the foundingdi rector of the national museum of african american history and culture. as it turns out, it was an emmy awardie winning inte vance earning his own place in that very smithsonian. it's a place where we can all go one day toee and hear that laugh. a year later, and we still miss the soul of our newsroom. we're grateful f the time we had with him. >> vance liked to close friday evening broadcasts with my mood, and as we say good nighgo we're ing to play some of that song for you. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ ur ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ look, i never wanted to hebe the popular day. hey look, it's thursday! but in this place, it's just getting out

welcome back, kathy griffin, vance joy. today those on twitter know, mark the company's much anticipated crackdown on fake accounts. twitter today deleted millions of phony accounts. bo bots and whatnot. as a result. justin bieber lost 2 million followers. president obama lost 2.3 million. even i lost 200,000 followers today include might dad turned out he was a russian bot. in't know, you know. i don't know if i like this. they take our fake followers away, how are we supposed to go about having a fake sense of self? all right, now time for something, i don't know if this will be educational. but, the president is overseas. visiting belgium, england, scotland, and then his pal putin in finland. a big trip with many important ramifications. it is imperative that america has strong relationships with. and knowledge about people in other lands. and that responsibility extend to all of us. not just the president. so we cam up with a test. the test is very simple. when on the street, we asked people passing by, to name a countr

vance left a largega with lots of people from all walks of life.nt to leave y with a song "mod mo." it was vance's idea manyears ago to close out each fridayin g newscast. a good idea. still have a great weekend. ♪ ♪ summer's calling. the 2018 escalade is ready to move. our best offers on the 2018 escalade are here. join us for the made to move sales event. get 0% apr financing for 60 months, plus $2000 down payment assistance when financed through gm financial on a 2018 escalade. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- jamie foxx and taron egerton -- zoey deutch --

we know that you miss vance, too. from the e-mails you send us and the messages you point online it's very clear that vance left a large legacy with lots of people from all walks ofife. we're feeling grateful tonight for all the time we got to spend with him. vance's last interview was with lonnie bunch, the founding director of the museumf african-american history and culture. it an award-winning interview and we're going to share it again tonight. >> oh, my god. yo know what? this -- this -- excuse me, folks, foreing excited. here we are with, as you said before, not just black people's story but america's story, and i step outside, and there is the washington monument. that was not by accident, was ? >> no, no. i mean, for me it was so important, because, look, washgton, lincoln, jefferson, you know, ifhis is america, then why isn't this story right here, and so now everybody is going to get n it, matter what they do. even if theyeon't come in th building. they will walk by it, the african museum is ther y >> give

joyce vance former u.s. attorney now an msnbc contributor. with us at the table, jonathan lemire, associated press white house reporter and sliding in as only he can do, john heilman is back. got sechlt entitles i'm nven ti to read because i didn't think he would be here. if you could, underscore the significance of learning that donald trump was aware months before the election of these hush money payments to karen mcdougal. >> in early november of 2016, w "the wall street journal" wrote an article about the payment. they said it was news to them. what the article shows is the president clearly knew about it at the time. this is something michael cohen updated him on in september. he was briefed on what was going on. this is obviously something they were trying to do to keep this quiet leading up to the election. it now raises these legal questions, whether there were campaign finance violations or campaign finance laws that were broken because these payments were made and they were not disclosed and done in secret. >> we've had a lot of con

carol: taylor riggs talked to reporter ashlee vance. as>> they have a different pitc. of taking existing cars and putting sensors onto those, they want to build a robot from the ground up that is purpose-built to be a self driving vehicle. for aboutbeen around four been years and has been super secretive. for years and been super secretive and this was the first time we had any look at this company. taylor: is that what has made this story standout? you describe the vehicle as too many coopers merging together. mini-coopers merging together. ashlee: it is difficult from any vehicle. wheel, theteering car makes all these strange noises. it has speakers on the outside to talk to pedestrians and say, i see you, or to talk to a driver who might be coming in t o crash. will have your picture on the window and greet you if you do a rideshare. there are all these pieces built into this car to make it part of the self-driving age. the goal is to operate a robot taxi service. ylor: i wonder how receptive customers would be to that. i wonder if they would see it on the street an

fridays, joyce vance takes us to law school. mike schmidt, thank you for spending some time with us. thank you for the story. when we come back, an attorney for another woman paid hush money after an alleged sexual relation ship with donald trump joins us to discuss breaking news. also donald trump's war on intelligence may be backfiring. detailed reporting on the malaise inside donald trump's west wing as the country's top intelligence official seems to laugh at donald trump's stunning embrace of vladimir putin. and is rod rosenstein getting his groove back? he was greeted with a standing ovation from national security experts and he appears to be finding his sea legs after months of being on the receiving end of pointed attacks from the president. but is he safe? two motorcycles, a boat, and an r.v. i would not want to pay that insurance bill. [ ding ] -oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. saved me a ton of money. -love you, gary! -you don't have to buzz in. it's not a question, gary. on

in seventh, jd vance rails his childhood in a rust belt town in ohio in hillbilly el gelling and then a recount of a serial killer at the 1893 world fair in "devil in the white city." after that new yorker staff writer david grand writes on murdered that targeted members of the osage indian nation and wrapping up the look at the audio beaked from audibles nonfix bess seller list is "west cork" about an unsolved murder in irelands. some over the odder have appeared on booktv. you can watch them on the web site, booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening and thank you for coming. my name is mark bodanza and i'm the author

attorney and msnbc contributor joyce vance. joyce, i'll start with you on what we just saw.nd i know you were paying attention to it over the course of the week. it was really, i thought, a remarkable display for them to so publicly attack rosenstein. >> it was incredible. this was the deputy attorney general, the number two guy in the justice department, testifying under oath and being accused of lying by a member of congress. while that deputy attorney general is in the middle of supervising the turnover to congress of an unprecedented level of documentation in an ongoing investigation. >> and the president has -- he did an interview with maria bartiromo of facts and talked about why he -- or how his involvement is coming to be. we'll take a look the about it, and paul butler i'll ask you about t. >> are you going to ask them to get those documents over to congress? >> i may get involved. i've been told by so many people don't get involved. it's not good. and they'll get the documents and it's getting and they're getting them, and they're great people. i didn't like the sc

let's bring in our financial correspondent only vance and frankfurt only trump tower of policies have a ripple effect across markets quoters the right way. it's protectionism by a different name you know they're taking a three year average and of steel imports go over that three year average then boom you have tariffs slapped on it and you know with the customer side you have a certain amount of first come first serve there when the amount imported exceeds the three year average so presumably you might have some very unfair treatment of the people who are first in line get no tariffs and the people who come after that they get slapped and who knows how steady the companies are to get slapped. the e.u. can do that it's a measure that it can take in response but the european car industry association is warning it's going to lead to higher steel prices but demand having gone up recently and that's to the detriment of the people involved we every day we're getting news of new tariffs new counterterrorist new counter counter terrorist markets should be quite volatile with all this or inves

i touched on it briefly with joyce vance.hy not privately tell mueller about it if you have this information. why leak it right now across the air waves? no one knows the answer to that at this moment. as for the legal implication, cohen is effectively accusing trump junior of a new crime because in september he told the senate judiciary committee that he did not alert his father to this meeting ahead of time. ditto for his reported comments to the house intelligence committee in december. so if this news about what michael cohen is willing to tell mueller is true, then it does obviously call donald trump jr.'s testimony into serious doubt. now, the leading democrats on the senate judiciary committee, feinstein and leahy, are already saying they want donald trump jr. back in for questioning. senator leahy wants to question him in public. that would be different, as well as under oath. adam schiff says he also wants trump junior back. he wants to extend an invite to michael cohen as well while they're at it. democrats do not c

i turn now to former federal prosecutor joyce vance who has much experience here. i don't think there's any doubt that donald trump is not taking mike cohen's advice and counsel anymore. how do you view the significance of this rupturen at types of leaking and back biting that we're seeing tonight? >> this is potentially very significant, ari. you know, prosecutors are hardwired to be cautious. so it's important to say that we haven't heard this story in cohen's own words yet. that will matter. it will also matter if he has any evidence, text pessages or e-mails that were sent contemporarily ha back him up. so far the reporting we've heard is there is no evidence of that nature. but this really is a bombshell. this idea that the president knew about this meeting before it happened and signed off on it, places him squarely inside of collusion with russia. >> when this kind of information goes public, obviously, prosecutors would rather they held it and no one else knew. how do you interpret that? >> it's interesting. we don't know the source of these leaks. and fran

joyce vance former u.s. attorney. julia, let me start with you. this new reporting we cited there about michael cohen and his motivation where he talked about putting country, putting family first. the idea that he wants to change the narrative. i guess what i am wondering is why, when you are in the legal situation he is in, shouldn't you want to be dealing with the legal predicament first? when that is all settled, then you worry about the pr. >> i am wondering if it has tong with subtle messages that are going to two different camps. not just the message that he is sending to donald trump. since he hired rudy giuliani has been on a blitz trying to distance himself from cohen. some of the tape you played there saying he wasn't my lawyer. he has already thrown him under the bus saying he was responsible for the payment. and then the other side, the message he might be wanting to send to prosecutors right now. if you want to talk about the switch flipping, realized that donald trump wasn't going to bail him out. he changed his message. no longer g

bloomberg's ashlee vance, or is it? in the latest edition of hello world. that was awesome.for this edition of bloomberg technology. from san francisco, i'm emily chang. this is bloomberg. ♪ rising trade tensions send wall street down. the s&p 500 fell the most in two weeks while the dollar fell saw its first rise and a month. tariffs willra hurt demand for commodities. tension is in the air as nato leaders meet. president trump says u.s. allies should spend twice as much on defense. a leading tesla

joyce vance thank you.'m so glad we tricked you into waking up early. >> it wasn't a trick it was a threat. >> the last word, week nights at 10:00 p.m. on msnbc. still ahead a federal judge has rejected president trump's latest effort to stop a lawsuit that alleges he's violating the constitution by continuing to do business with foreign governments. we're digging in to that new reporting when "morning joe" comes right back. are you ready to take your wifi to the next level? then you need xfinity xfi. a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. >> look at those cameras. all those cameras. all these stops. this never happened to obama. this never happened to bush. this didn't happen. they just follow. they are dying to see us make a little bit of a mistake. they analyze every word. they say did

and joyce vance. let's start with peter. the report is fascinating. just because you do something in public doesn't make it legal or innocent. you can kill people in public and it is still murder. your thoughts >> it is striking that the things that he has said in public and said out loud, had they been in secret memos, people would say aha. a conduct or pattern of conduct that might be questionable or criminal. the fact that he says it out loud has gotten people desensitized. up front about what he thinks about sessions and about comey. trying to weave it together to see how it fits into a pattern. no single tweet or statement. whether you add it up, does it add up to witness tampering or impeding the investigation. >> demanding the loyalty of comey before firing. or let michael flynn off the hook or he said tell the public i'm not being targeted here. all of those demands we have learned he is doing. they could be potentially be, i'm asking you, obstruction of justice. >> peter is right. trump doing it in broad daylight has desensitized the public.

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emily: that was bloomberg's ashlee vance. you can catch more on bloomberg.com.next, opening up the android market. what does the eu decision against google mean for its competitors, smartphone makers, and android? just a reminder, we are live streaming on twitter and follow our news network on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: welcome back. it is a record google wishes it had not set. the eu has fined the company $5 billion over its android policies, the biggest ever in an antitrust case. the eu says illegal practices pushed google services in front of users, and google was ordered to change the way it puts search ask on android smartphones. caroline hyde caught up with the eu commissioner after this decision was made. >> the key takeaway was the fourth of the way she describes this. these are very serious illegal behaviors. you don't hear that often. the size of the fine is so eye-popping. sure it is a drop in the ocean , compared to the amount that google can afford. they have more than $100 billion in terms of cash and investments, but it is a record-break

attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years a as federal prosecutor. joyce, if this isn't crazy, it will due until crazy gets here as they say. what strikes you about this case of this young woman again who was apparently fixing to leave town? >> you know, it looks that way and looks like we're finally getting to watch that season of the americans that the producers wouldn't run because it seemed too farfetched, right? >> yeah. >> all joking aside, i think this is a very serious case but not currently being handled but mueller's team, it looks like a case that could end up there or be a companion case because of the serious nature of allegations russians were trying to influence the nra and we know $30 million in money funneled out of the nra into the presidential campaign more than the nra ever contributed so there are serious questions that need to be answered here. >> i know you're not a political analyst, if that's proven, if russian money was in an nra pool, you got all these people running for reelection in the midterms whose opponents can say my

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all right for more on this now we're joined by vance riggers in london brianna as you saw right there lots of theatrical inside the british parliament today and you could think that theresa may have standing on firm ground tonight but she's standing on shaky ground can she survive what has happened today. well the prime minister says in very very deep deep trouble it's the biggest crisis she's ever been in about she's still fighting the still hanging on and still clinging to power so for the mutiny did not take place the backbenches of the conservative party met here in the house of commons just behind me about not enough votes to try to have a confidence vote they need forty eight votes but that one about not enough and actually mrs may also attended this meeting got some applause some round of applause by the direct city is that so she's trying to survive now although the party is very divided in the cabinet is a very divided she needs is somebody from the bracks it's from the hot rocks at the front to support her and she's trying to find somebody in the now former top u.k. diplomat

across much of indo china to vietnam through laos towards me i'm all likely to see some heavy downpours vance the forecast through to monday not a great deal of change the saracens still looking very wet once you get north of hong kong towards food shanghai weather conditions cherry not too bad and you can also see that flows generally bringing a lot of rain into northern parts of the philippines so expect very wet weather in the lower but as you get into central and southern areas it's a different picture brighter conditions indeed say for the two showers in the far north of borneo the south the region is generally looking final word down to java on broken sunshine temperatures low thirty's very nice indeed cherami looking fine up through so much on the plane and then once again to thailand then again we pick up on that heavy rain that continues across cambodia and into central southern parts of vietnam south asia looking live in most areas and see across western areas down through the western ghats the circulation in the east is also going to bring some very heavy rain till calcutta still s

carol: taylor riggs talked to reporter ashlee vance. >> they have a different pitch. of taking existing cars and putting sensors onto those, they want to build a robot from the ground up that is purpose-built to be a self driving vehicle. they have been around for about four years and been super secretive and this was the first time we had any look at this company. taylor: is that what has made this company standout? in your story, you describe almost two mini-coopers merging together. that is what it looks like. ashlee: it is difficult from any vehicle people are used to. from day one, it will have no steering wheel, and has a deal of almost a london taxicab, and the car makes all these strange noises. it has speakers on the outside to talk to pedestrians and say, i see you, or to talk to a driver who might be coming in to crash with the car and say, you need to slow down. on the windows, it has a communication system, so unlike when you get into an uber or lyft, and they say, is this your name? it will have a picture on the window to greet you, so it has all these p

attorney and msnbc contributor joyce vance. joyce, how do you interpret these latest indictments and the president's take on extraditing the 12 russians charged and does that have anything to do with the fact it happened during the obama administration? the activity? the actions. >> the first part of your question, many of us in public have been trying to put together the evidence we're seeing reported by news outlets and add up the dots and many people aren't surprised to see this indictment coming down saying that russia hacked in essence with the intent to throw the election towards president trump in 2016. what's significant about the indictment is that federal prosecutors took the evidence and put in the front of a grand jury and that grand jury after considering the evidence did what prosecutors called returned a true bill giving prosecutors the permission to go forw5rd with that indictment. that means there is a serious quantum of proof to back up this evidence. it's not to be taken lightly at this stage. the president's

>> jim vance, loved his . corvet >> he loved his corvette. >> chuck bell does, too. >> oh, really? >> he loves car. >> oh, yeah. >> we're not even going to get into chuck's car story because i think i it's stillthe shop. unfortunately, got into an accident when i started working other fe years ago and i believe it's still in the shop tohis day. >> in florida? >> everybody here knows the story. >> poorhuck. anyways, the weather. fabulous today to be out with the top down or just enjoying the low humidity levels. theity levels nice and low again tomorrow. so another nice day, but it is going to be hot during the afternoon. a high temperature around 90, but that mugginess just isn't out there. however, you do start to n hice thidity a little bit on sunday. maybe an isolated shower or othunderstorm, but most us are going to have a completely dry weekend. also some me cloud cover o there on sunday. we do have storm chances in the forecast more so on mday and especially on tuesday. and, of course, we're keeping a very close eye on those with the mlb home run derby and all-star game on mo

joining us now, joyce vance who is kind enough to explain these things to me when they happen.ere tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> so first of all, should i see these two peas as being in the same pod? the keeping the identity of these five possible witnesses secret and under seal? and them being granted immunity in exchange for their testimony? do they always go together oris? >> you know, they don't always go together. they're two separate but related issues in this case. >> on the matter of immunity, prosecutors are saying that they couldn't -- these people are not people who've been mentioned in previous indictments, they've not been publicly described as being associated with the case, but they wouldn't testify unless they're granted immunity and they want the judge to grant something called use immunity in order to compel their testimony. what does that mean? >> so you can't be forced to testify against yourself. we all have a fifth amendment privilege that keeps us from incriminating ourselves with testimony. this means that mueller's lawyers believe that these five

we'reoing to have much more on vance's legacy tonight on news 4 at 11:00. he likes to close the broadcast with "my mood." and as we go to break, we'll play se of that song for you. >>> president trump is again lashg out againsthe russia investigation. this after an unsealed warrant igines new on why the government had a former trump caaign aide under surveillance. and mr. trump continues to defend his one-on-one meeting with putin. we have a report. >> reporter: in early morning tweet stormet up by an overnight development, court documents detailing why former trump campaign adviserarter page was under surveillance by the fbi. illegesident calling it spying on his campaign. saying the department of justice and the fbimisled the courts calling it a rigged witchunt and a scam. page pushing back against the allegation that's he conspired with thean rus >> no. i have never been an agent of the foreign power in any -- by any stretch of the imagination. >> reporter: even some in the president's own party say the documentsmion't show onduct in the investigation. >

. >> joyce vance, will special prosecutor robert mueller link donald trump at some point, link that comment, to what the russians did on that same day? >> you know, that has to be the question that we're all asking tonight, lawrence. this is what prosecutors call a speaking indictment. it tells a narrative story instead of just reciting the elements of the statute. and, so, mueller had a lot of discretion about the language that he chose to include in this indictment, and he's very deliberately setting the stage here, making sure that none of us could miss this conduct on the 27th where he notes that russia hacked the dnc hacked clinton's servers for the first time trying to get this information that trump asked them to get for him on that date. and, so, i suppose much like watergate, we're back to this question of what did the president know and when did he know it? was it just a random, lucky chance guess of a question that he asked russia to do this? or had someone told him there was a realistic possibility? you know, law enforcement folks say there is no such thing as a coincidence in l

joyce vance and the panel are back with us right now. harry, let me get to you quickly.ould we read into the fact that they have not set a sentencing date. they said hey, we're going wait a little longer here if >> although it was initiated by the government and the -- and flynn making a joint request, let's start to get the process for sentencing going, at which point the judge said, that's unorthodox, i want to see michael flynn in court and see him eye to eye. so i think we can take two premises from it. one is, they're hm doalmost don. they envision his cooperation won't last much longer. but there's still a little more to do. >> let's drill down on this. is the end on sight for michael flynn here? >> i think the end is in sight. the reason the government -- this is just my suspicion -- the reason the government tried to move up this presentencing report, which happens once you set a sentencing hearing, michael flynn wanted a job and they wanted to speed up the process by which this ends. so don't set the date far in advance. now we see him taking a job. the weird th

thank you so much, joyce vance and nina totenberg. >>> coming up, could a meeting with vladimir putin jeopardize president trump's nato summit before it begins? (♪) i'm a four-year-old ring bearer with a bad habit of swallowing stuff. still won't eat my broccoli, though. and if you don't have the right overage, you could be paying for that pricey love band yourself. so get an allstate agent, and be better protected from mayhem. like me. can a ring bearer get a snack around here? you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed?m let's get someone to say it with a really low voice. carl? lowest price guaranteed. what about the world's lowest limbo stick? how low can you go? nice one, carl. hey i've got an idea. just say, badda book. badda boom. badda book. badda boom. nice. always the lowest price, guaranteed. book now at choicehotels.com >>> the kremlin announced today that if both sides agree, president trump and president putin could actually meet privately without their aides before the start of that official summit in helsinki. the summit is set to take place less than two

attorney and msnbc contributor, joyce vance, katie and navid jamali. kate, do you think the timing help bolster president trump in some of his allies' views that the mueller investigation is actually a conspiracy to undermine the administration? >> i think that the president and his allies will look for absolutely anything to be able to find a conspiracy, so of course you could say the timing did help them with that. but the timing is also fascinating because it shows that the justice department in particular has a lot of cards to play and that while president trump can win the short-term pr battle by attacking the mueller investigation, the mueller investigative team can always come back with hard facts that support them that will be remembered long after the president's complaints are done. >> joyce, what about the fact that the americans that were listed in the indictments were not actually named? what does that tell you? >> it doesn't really tell us a lot because doj policy is not to name people who are unindicted co-conspirators. so this indictmen

and back with us joyce vance. a gold mine. could they potentially be that? >> yeah. first in general, tapes are always the strongest kind of evidence. to actually hear the president being contradicted from his public statements on tape really matter. but, look, here the crime is the cover-up. and in order to effectuate it, they needed other people to -- other people's help. and you can just ask yourself who was fooled? who was defrauded here. there is the federal election commission. there is the possibility of campaign finance problems. but also karen mcdoogle, certainly, was hood winked here my cohen, probably by her lawyer, probably with the knowledge or possibly with the knowledge of the president. it's possible there were banks that were used here and that cohen was not completely truthful to them. these could give rise to wire fraud and bank frauds charges and if there is an agreement here, there could be the possibility of conspiracy, including with the national inquirer and david pecker, who did this very remarkable thing of just smothering a story and tellin

and our own recently departed jim vance is on the mural on the side of the building. the restaurant is celebrating its 60th birthday in august, so the emergency decision nation ti this legis is designed to speed things along so that signs can be changed in time for the anniversary. and so, the hope here is that they could get thatdesignation, everything will be ready for the big celebration, and there is a going to public hearing on it on monday. back to you guys. >> megan mcgrath for us on u street. th07k you. right now. >>> some breaking news this morning. the death toll just rose after a boat carrying tourists overturned in thailand.e chris lawres at the live desk. >> we're updating the story from last hour. thailand's nav says now at least 17 tourists have now been confirmeddead. this horrible accident happened yesterday off the coast of phuket, a popular resort island. right now, thailand's navy has divers in the water searching r dozens of missing people. 93 tourists were on board when a orm whippedp some of the high waves and capsized the diving boat. at least

i'm joined now by former federal prosecutor joyce vance, jennifer reuben, and david corn has been covering this story since day one. david, as we look at that photo, and we'll put it back up on the screen, walk us through what you see between these men here separated by just a few feet, the special counsel's office tells us bob mueller was not aware that that was donald trump jr., and that they are not confirming that aspect of it. but what do you see in this photo? >> what i see is the guy in charge of an investigation and a guy who is the subject of an investigation that just got more profound. we have to preface everything, ari, with if the account from michael cohen is true, but, but, but. so if the account is true, it is a tremendous change in the landscape. what it does is show us two things. one, that donald trump, from the very beginning, was in on an attempt at collusion, an attempt to conspire with a plot that was described to donald trump jr. as a secret operation by the kremlin to help trump. so if trump knows about that from the very beginning, and is in on it, i think that ha

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you know, they were novices. >> i want to thank jennifer rubin and joyce vance. david real quick, have you ever been on fallback friday? >> no, i have not. could it perhaps happen today? >> it could happen today. a year in we will take you. i would hope to get both of you in some day as well. >> thanks to each of you for being part of our top of the news coverage here. >>> coming up, new reporting on how trump's legal team says they might, quote, bury michael cohen. >>> michael avenatti is here live. coming out of his court fight in the stormy daniels case. >>> plus, we're debuting a new series today with tony schwartz, author of "the art of the deal," and talking about the pressure facing trump. all that, plus, of course, fallback friday and our most awkward moments of the year. you're watching a special edition of "the beat" on msnbc. when heartburn hits... fight back fast with tums smoothies. it neutralizes stomach acid at the source. tum tum tum tum tums... smoothies... ...and introducing new tums sugar-free. sharper vision, without limits. days that go from

famous hi, secretary of state cyrus vance resigned because of his opposition to the desert one invasion of iran during the hostage crisis of president carter. there is a tradition of honorable resignation in american politics, and in all honesty when we have a president who gives aid and comfort to racist, as the president did a year ago in charlottesville. when we have a president who treats president putin as a closer friend and ally than the leaders of our long-time nato partners, when we have a president who produces the most concept of economics, i don't understand why people are so eager to hold onto their jobs that they don't resign in principles. >> going back to the base and trade and economics, the farmers have said that these $12 billion in subsidies will not make up for the amount they're losing because of the tariffs. and yesterday, president trump, you know, there's a huge controversy of don't believe your eyes, and he said the following about tariffs, and i want to ask you about what he said when we have heard it. >> other countries have tariffs on us. so when i say i'm g

msnbc contributor joyce vance and former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor charlie savage, washington correspondent for "the new york times" and nbc intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian and pete williams at the white house. pete, what happened in the pretrial hearing? >> well, it's still going on, andrea. and it's going to be going on later this afternoon on some other issues that paul manafort wants to raise about how much evidence can be admitted about the work he did for ukraine. but today the argument has been for the last hour and a half or so about whether this trial should be delayed. it's scheduled to start on wednesday with jury selection and probably opening statements on friday. but manafort's defense lawyers told judge t.s. ellis just a short time ago that they've been basically overwhelmed, swamped with 120,000 new pages of documents that the government has produced just within the past weeks. much of it from a personal computer, and other storage devices belonging to rick gates, the former mana

. >> joining me, nbc white house correspondent kristen welker and two msnbc contributors, joyce vance and barbara mcquaid, both former u.s. attorneys. welcome all. first to you, kristen, what the heck are they talking about today? this is a much more aggressive attack from both the president and his lawyer. >> it was striking. we started to see this more aggressive attack roll out over the weekend when president trump directly attacked robert mueller calling him out by name. calling the investigation an illegal scam saying that he had all sorts of business conflicts with him as you just pointed out. rod rosenstein testified to the fact he saw no conflicts of interest and then you had rudy giuliani really trying to undercut michael cohen, the president's former personal attorney and personal fixer really. giuliani tried to argue that tape that was released by michael cohen in which you hear cohen and the president talking about a payout may have been doctored in some way shape or form. and really calling the very credibility of cohen into question saying that he's a liar and a scoundre

nick akerman and joyce vance, thank you both for joining me. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> next, one of just three people that michael cohen claimed to have given legal advice to in the last year. that would be gop fund-raiser elliott broidy. is now ending hush money payments to a former "playboy" model. the bizarre, always bizarre details of that story in two minutes. >>> a really weird story about a prominent republican making hush money payments to an adult performer has just gotten even weirder. no, it's not the one you're thinking of. back in april the "wall street journal" reported that this guy, elliott broidy, who was at the time the deputy finance chair of the rnc, had agreed in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million, not a small amount of money, to a former "playboy" playmate named shera bechard. in a statement broidy said, "i acknowledge i had a consensual relationship way playboy playmate. at the end of our relationship this woman shared with me she was pregnant. she alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy and i offered her financial help during this dif

joyce vance, we always learn a lot from you. thank you for joining us tonight. >> thanks. >>> nbc news national reporter ken delanian is reporting. his story headlining, the trump administration has no central strategy for election security and no one is in charge. ken, thank you for joining me tonight will. >> great to see you. >> your story digs in deeper than just what is blatant odd about this meeting and its brevity. walk us through what former and current officials are telling you. >> yeah. this is not some great scoop. this is simply talking to folks and listening to cabinet officials talk many public about their efforts to combat foreign election interference. what they say, the department homeland security secretary with our own peter alexander in aspen talked about the things dhs is doing, working with the states on election security. then she said, that's not enough. we really need the whole of government strategy. what she didn't say there isn't one. that's what everybody you talk on has said. i was flabbergasted whe

attorney joyce vance and nbc news justice correspondent pete williams. pete, what can you tell us?se are the main points. now agent is a term that has to be understood. in the law it's someone acting on someone else's behalf. they're not accusing her of being a spy. but they're saying she came here as a graduate student in august of 2016 with one goal in mind and that is to try to insinuate herself into the political process to advance russia's interest. this is not a robert mueller case. she's not accused of trying to affect the 2016 election by hurting clinton or helping trump. but what the indictment says here is that she became friendly with a number of conservative organizations and a large donor to the republican party and became a member of the national rifle association. the charges don't actually mention the nra, they call it the gun organization, but law enforcement officials say it was the nra. that she organized dinners in washington and new york for people to try to come together and talk about russia's interests, that she got herself invited to the national prayer bre