. >>> good morning, everyone, it's wednesday, july 12th, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. well, apparently under pressure from "the new york times" donald trump jr. released e-mails in which he enthusiastically greeted an offer from a russian intermediary. understand the subject line, russia-clinton-private and confidential. and rob goldstone wrote. the crown prosecutor of russia met with his father this morning and their meeting offered to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with. and especially later in the summer. on june 7th, goldstone to wrote to set up the meeting and identified as the russian government attorney flying over from moscow. junior told that paul manafort would likely attend with him. this despite trump junior saying in his revised sunday statement, in quote, i asked jared and paul to attend but told them nothing of the substance. trump junior said he was releasing the e-mails. and yesterday, president trump released a short statement saying my son is

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf and ayman mohyeldin.me from? they're pointing to a protesters. honestly, if you don't point, no one is going to know he's here. he's a young one, going back home to mommy. he's in trouble. he's in trouble. and i'll bet his mommy voted for us, right? sometimes they say he doesn't act presidential. it's so easy to act presidential but that's not going to get it done. in fact, i said it's much easier, by the way, to act presidential than what we're doing here tonight, believe me. with the exception of the late, great abraham

it's wednesday, july 5th, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian.ensions on the korean peninsula are reaching new heights as concern grows that missiles for north korea are growing closer to reaching the united states. now in a joint military exercise as the united states and south korea have fired warning missiles into the territorial waters off the south korea, it comes after what secretary of state rex tillerson confirms was an intercontinental ballistic missile. south korea's newly elected president says reacting nearly in a statement of its own. in a series of trumps, president trump tweets, north korea has just launched another missile. does this guy have anything better to do with this life? hard to believe that south korea has anything and japan will put up with this much longer. it appears to be a test of icbm by the north korean regime. the missile flew for about 39 minutes before crashing into the sea of japan within japan's exclusive economic zone. or state-led media, north korea says that the nation is now, quote, a proud nuclear state.

i'm yasmin vossoughian. president vladimir putin announcing yesterday he's ordering the rust mission in russia to slash its staff by 755 people. it comes after the russian foreign ministry said on friday the u.s. would have to reduce its diplomatic staff to 455 by september 1st. in a statement, a state department official tells nbc news that the move is quote a regrettable and uncalled for act, adding the department is quote assessing the impact of such a littleation and hmitatio will respond to it. putin is saying he's against any retaliatory measures quote as of today. so where does this sort of quickly escalating situation go from here? >> well, thanks, francis. there's no understanding the significance of this latest move. vladimir putin doesn't want to see this necessarily escalate any more but in his television appearance just yesterday he did say these relations could deteriorate much further. there's no understating the significance of this. the washington post said this is more like the cold war tha

. >>> good morning, everyone, it's wednesday, july 12th, i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside yasmin vossoughian

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf, "morning joe" starts right now. >> the american peopleed in saying that any politician who told me that and voted the other way -- >>> the gop faces a failing presidency. you want to know what failure looks like, take a look at the last 36 hours of the trump presidency. president trump tried to lay blame for the health care failure at the feet of three republicans and the democrats but in the end he wasn't able to keep his

learn more at esd.ny.gov i'm yasmin vossoughian at msnbc world headquarters.on the russia investigation in the wake of what some are calling the smoking gun e-mail involving donald trump jr.'s meeting with a russian lawyer, and the president sending a flurry of tweets and putting his lawyer out on all of the sunday shows to push back against that story and a delay in the health care battle and senator john mccain means no vote on the gop bill this week. how will the extra time affect the republican effort to repeal obamacare and the next hour, you don't want to miss it. "trump at 6 months." we'll look at what donald trump has done, the good, the bad and the downright crazy and an in-depth look about how trump voters feel about him now and would they or

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian.right now. >> i will never allow the fbi's work to be driven by anything other than the facts, the law and the impartial pursuit of justice period, full stop. my loyalty is to the constitution, to the rule of law and to the mission of the fbi and no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath at any time during this process and i sure as heck didn't offer one. >> the man poised to take over the fbi says he has no intention of grabbing a private dinner with president trump. christopher wray won praise from both parties as he jumps head first into questioning surrounding russian meddling, collusion and obstruction of justice. there are a nbe

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf and ayman mohyeldin. >>> good morning.w have reached its pinnacle. it has now expanded to the west wing taking on the department of justice. and anthony scaramucci referred chief of sta

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian for louis burgdorf.vels of the trump campaign meeting with russians to try to on it and information that might hurt the campaign of hillary clinton. >> do you want to speak to don jr.? >> absolutely. for a campaign and now a president who continues to say there's no there there, yet virtually every week or two there's more stories of meetings -- undisclosed meetings with russian officials that beg the question if there's no there there, why aren't more of these people coming clean at a more regular fashion. >> the vice chair of the senate intel committee wants to have a word with the president's son and that was before the new york city reported that don jr. was sent an e-mail saying material he might be given in a meeting with a

i'm yasmin vossoughian alo.place it with something far, far better than the failing obamacare. we're going to get that done. they're pushing very hard. the republican senators are great people but they have a lot of different states. some states need this, some states need that, but we're getting it together and it's going to happen. right, mike? >> yes. >> i think. and when it does happen, that will be a big day in america, a big day in america. >> well, it didn't. that w

i'm yasmin vossoughian at msnbc world headquarters. a full-court press from the white house on the russia investigation in the wake of what some are calling the smoking gun e-mail involving donald trump jr.'s meeting with a russian lawyer, and the president sending a flurry of tweets and putting his lawyer out on all of the sunday shows to push back against that story and a delay in the health care battle and senator john mccain means no vote on the gop bill this week. how will the extra time affect the republican effort to repeal obamacare and the next hour, you don't want to miss it. "trump at 6 months." we'll look at what donald trump has done, the good, the bad and the downright crazy and an in-depth look about how trump voters feel about him now and would they or would they not change their vote? >>> an investigation in the white house launching a new more aggressive counter campaign after a week of explanations, team trump is punching back hard to keep the president out of the story. take a listen. >> no, i don't represent donald

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf, "morning joe" starts right now. >> the american people are entirely justified in saying that any politician who told me that and voted the other way -- >>> the gop faces a failing presidency. you want to know what failure looks like, take a look at the last 36 hours of the trump presidency. president trump tried to lay blame for the health care failure at the feet of three republicans and the democrats but in the end he wasn't able to keep his party unified and failed to deliver on a key campaign promise for his base. the president has failed in his attempts to bully his attorney general into resigning. jeff sessions vowing to stay on as long as trump sees that as appropriate. the president did succeed in unifying practically all of washington against his treatment of the attorney general. the president has failed in his attempt to change the conversation with his tweets, banning transgender troops from the military. the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff saying the pentagon will not make any changes to its transgender policy until tru

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf and ayman mohyeldin. >>> good morning. welcome to "morning joe." we've seen plenty of chaos but it may now have reached its pinnacle. it has now expanded to the west wing taking on the department of justice. and anthony scaramucci referred chief of sta chief of staff reince priebus over to the fbi for a possible leak of his forms. >> we have president of the council offn foreign relations, richard haas, national political reporter for nbc news carol lee, political editor for "the daily beast" and nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt. does anybody here know who gary kasparov is? he's spent years speaking out against vladimir putin. he knows a thing or two about oug autocrats. "who do my supporters hate?" . he was responding to donald trump's tweets yesterday. it was as kasparov called it, an autocratic distraction, calculated red meat, a cynical attempt to distract, from his failure to get a health bill passed and the ongoing investigation closing in on himself on family. this morning the west wing continues to pu

. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian. "morning joe" starts right now. >> i will never allow the fbi's work to be driven by anything other than the facts, the law and the impartial pursuit of justice period, full stop. my loyalty is to the constitution, to the rule of law and to the mission of the fbi and no one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath at any time during this process and i sure as heck didn't offer one. >> the man poised to take over the fbi says he has no intention of grabbing a private dinner with president trump. christopher wray won praise from both parties as he jumps head first into questioning surrounding russian meddling, collusion and obstruction of justice. there are a number of new reports and developments out this morning on that russian probe. good morning, it's thursday, july 13th. we're he on capitol hill. had a great night last night. >> great night. i made this terrible mistake. i get an invitation for crimson, something i thought they were talking about alabama, crimson tide, it was harvard.

i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside louis burgdorf and ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" is next. >> where the hell did he come from? they're pointing to a protesters. honestly, if you don't point, no one is going to know he's here. he's a young one, going back home to mommy. he's in trouble. he's in trouble. and i'll bet his mommy voted for us, right? sometimes they say he doesn't act presidential. it's so easy to act presidential but that's not going to get it done. in fact, i said it's much easier, by the way, to act presidential than what we're doing here tonight, believe me. with the exception of the late, great abraham lincoln, i can be more presidential than any president that's ever held this office. that i can tell you. >> the president of the united states continues to hammer his own attorney general after laying off senate republicans long enough for them to narrowly push ahead debating the issue of health care. when it came down to actually voting on a comprehensive plan, joe, packed with new amendments, it was soundly defeated. according to the

>> i'm yasmin vossoughian for louis burgdorf. now to "morning joe." >> senior levels of the trump campaign meeting with russians to try to on it and information that might hurt the campaign of hillary clinton. >> do you want to speak to don jr.? >> absolutely. for a campaign and now a president who continues to say there's no there there, yet virtually every week or two there's more stories of meetings -- undisclosed meetings with russian officials that beg the question if there's no there there, why aren't more of these people coming clean at a more regular fashion. >> the vice chair of the senate intel committee wants to have a word with the president's son and that was before the new york city reported that don jr. was sent an e-mail saying material he might be given in a meeting with a kremlin-connected lawyer was part of a russian effort to aid his father's candidacy. good morning, it's tuesday, july 11th. welcome to "morning joe." with us, we have columnist mike barnicle, former fbi special agent clint watt, katty kay and a