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, anthony, u.s.-backed syrian forces now have isis surrounded in raqqa. but when weep were there on the outskirts of the city just over a week ago, those u.s. backed forces looked to us to be overstretched, they seemed to have very few fighters on the front line. and indeed at around the same time, isis apparently retook a neighborhood from them. so the fight for raqqa may be just as challenging as mosul even though the city is a fraction of the size. >> holly williams in istanbul tonight. thank you, holly. >> still ahead, a close call at the airport in san francisco. and, a star is born at a cold play concert.

christmas with the baby. ♪ >> justin bieber is still on his tour which lands here in the u.s. in arlington, texas, on the 29th, but he's recently faced quite a few issues after that song went to number one. in spanish, desposito means slowly, but it's amazing how quickly the bieber bashing started. think fast, justin. the biebs recently had to play dodge bottle on stage in stockholm after an apparently disappointed fan hurled a bottle at him. the crowd had been pleading with justin to sing the heat. >> i can't. >> the bieber backlash has been building since may when he ♪ justin is featured on the remix, which has now been number one for seven weeks. initially for bieber, that was a blessing. ♪ but since he recorded it using a cheat sheet with the spanish lyrics spelled out phonetically for him, performing it live has been a curse. but not everybody's bieber bashing. >> i think you did very, very well. >> really? >> i was actually pretty surprised when i heard it. his accent is really good. >> justin is in london this sunday night after which he'll have a month off. maybe he can brush u

possible return of two compounds here in the u.s. that were seized by the obama administration in response to that russian election hacking. >> margaret brennan at the white house. thank you, margaret. the "cbs evening news" will be right back.

set up hundreds of accounts for russian brokers in two u.s. banks. the report said the accounts were used to possibly launder over $1 billion from russian and eastern european companies. kaveladze was not charged in that case. his lawyer said at the time that he did nothing illegal, and he accused th

and more unfolding as the u.s. is one step away from imposing new sanctions on russia. but will the president sign that bill? first off for you for now, all eyes on the white house where president trump has a new chief of staff, four star marine general john kelly. the now outgoing secretary replaces reince priebus a little more than six months into the trump administration. president trump tweeted the news while sitting on air force one at joint base andrews just outside of washington, then said this as he walked off the plane. take a listen. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a good job. general kelly has been a star, done an incredible job thus far. >> priebus was then spotted getting off the plane. he says he'll stay on the job for a few more weeks to help with the transition. we're live at the white house and kelly, another one of those saturdays, another one of those fridays, 24 hours and lots of different details here. we've got a new coo, if you will, a new chief of staff that's about to get into the white house come monday. >> and i expect he will be here over the

korea escalates. the u.s. condemning north korea's first intercontinental ballistic missile test launch tuesday. pentagon officials saying today, it's a weapon the u.s. has never seen pyongyang use before. it is a major escalation of north korea's nuclear weapons program. north korean state media said it traveled 580 miles from the launch site before going into the sea of japan. in stark terms, it's a missile u.s. officials believe is capable of reaching alaska. north korea's leader, kim jong-un, calling the test a gift to the trump administration and vowing never to give up the nation's nuclear weapons. responding with a show of force, the u.s. firing warning missiles off south korea's east coast and this afternoon at the united nations, ambassador nikki haley had strong words for north korea, saying the window for any diplomatic solution is closing fast. >> the united states is prepared to use the full range of our capabilities to defend ourselves and our allies. one of our capabilities lies with our considerable military forces. we will use them if we must, but we prefer not to have

edward mcmullen, and john wood the former u.s. u.s. attorney. the idea that he might fire robert mueller is key in the investigation. take a listen to what the chairman of the house oklahomaland security counsel sill said? >> it looks paranoid to me. the fact is that i have known bob mueller for a long time. i work in the justice department. he is a man of integrity and he is very highly respected. there was a lot of bipartisan support for this man. we need to let him do his job. i think if he fired bob mueller you would see a bigback lash. >> he says a tremendous backlash. what are the political con consequences for the nation if they fired him the way they did jim comey. bob mooul sere highly respected by republicans and democrats a like. there would be a huge political fire storm, but the president might still end up doing that. he creates chaos. i think if he were to fire bob mueller, it would create a constitutional crisis, but that could be the very reason that he would do it. if he is concerned that mueller is looking at his personal finances, and he fires mueller, that plays righ

south korea. when you add up all of the u.s. troops in the area, total nearby that includes the number in south korea and japan and philippines, we end up with 79,000 u.s. troops in the area. and all of them are in danger the minute there's war with north korea. >> they are in danger in south korea and dependence and families are in nger. that's one indication they were not quite at tgger level. that fils have no bn recalled in the past and difficult situations whether been turkey or bahrain, you've seen families and dependents get recalled. publicly the pentagon this morning it seems to be strategic studied silence. they are not necessarily teasing out what president donald trump meant by severe consequences. have a list en to how trump put it hours ago in poland. >> we must also confront the threat from north korea, that's what it is, it's a threat. we'll confront it very strongly. we call on all nations to confront this global threat and publicly demonstrate to north korea that there are consequences for their very, very bad behavior. i don't like to talk about what i have planned.

holding. we know that u.s. troops don't have a presence there. there's a lot that came out of that first meeting. the president saying he did speak to him several times and brought it up at multiple points. that was the first part of the conversation. the challenge at the white house will be trying to figure out what was said between president trump and vladmir putin when there weren't aides or note takers present. >> we showed they were at opposite sides of the table. we're not just making a reference to the fact there was a couple only's dinner. the implication from the white house and ian brenner is there was a conversation between them. >> a separate side bar conversation where the two of them spoke one-on-one. that's what these dinners or for. you have these dinners for informal heads info informal conferriversations fors of states. whether or not you want to couch that as a meeting they had as a separate conversation, we don't have a lot of details. the white house doesn't appear to be forthcoming about this at this hour and providing any sort of read out. >> you could sort o

comey's must stop. he also tweeted the failing "new york times" foiled u.s. attempt to kill the single most wanted terrorist, al baghdadi, their sick agenda over national security. that's a couple things we've heard. nbc's ken dilanian joins us from aspen, colorado. the president tweeting leaks must stop. what's the rebear on this new story about "the washington post" and u.s. spy agencies having monitored kislyak, who told moscow he had access to sessions and talked campaign details? >> reporter: thomas, this is a story that's been around for a while. if you recall, nbc news and other organizations reported on questions about a meeting sessions may or may not have had at the mayflower hotel with kislyak. "the washington post" is reporting there are intercepts suggesting kislyak reported back to his bosses in moscow that he spoke to sessions at that meeting at the mayflower and at another point during the republican convention, about trump campaign platforms and about the trump relationship with russia. that is contrary to what sessions has said. he adamantly denies that. the is

from their talks about russian interference in last year's election. >>> the u.s., meanwhile, with a stern warning to north korean leader kim jong un, military bombers conducting a strike drill over the korean peninsula less than a week after north korea issued a warning of its own, the launch of an ki intercontinental ballistic missile. >>> you see the president and first lady after spending four days overseas. their foreign trip began last wednesday in poland. this morning, several key meetings taking place with international leaders on the final day of the g20 summit, including an all-important session with chinese president xi jinping. the day began with a bilateral meeting between president trump and uk prime minister theresa may. >> prime minister may and i have developed a very special relationship and i think trade will be a very big factor between our two countries, so i want to thank you very much. >> mr. president, did the russians lie about your meeting yesterday? >> thank you. >> mr. president -- >> thank you, mr. president. >> as you can tell, of course, a great deal of

organization in the u.s. is responding. >>> plus, more sanctions on russia proposed by congress. why it might put president trump in an uncomfortable position and at odds with some high-profile republicans. details right now here on "msnbc live." >>> but we begin with breaking news from texas where at least eight people have been found dead in the back of an 18-wheeler in san antonio. 30 others were taken to area hospitals, many of them in critical condition. police say the temperatures had been in the 90s just before the people were found and the truck did not have a working air conditioning system. police are calling the case horrific. >> the air conditioning was not working. paramedics and firefighters found that each one of them had heart rates over about 130 beats per minute, which, again, they were very hot to the touch so these people were in that trailer without any signs -- any type of water, so you're looking at a lot of heat stroke, a lot of dehydration. >> police say that all the victims appear to be undocumented immigrants. officials believe there were more people in the ba

familia's wake last night. >>> looks like the olympics could be headed to the u.s. the international olympic committee is meeting in switzerland and award the 2024 summer games. an official announcement is expected in september. remember, the last time l.a. hosted the olympics was back in 1984. >>> so, within just the last hour or so here on this network, ranking member on the house intelligence committee congressman adam shift responded to that tweet from donald trump jr. where he wrote media and dems are extremely invested in the russia story. if this nonsense meeting is all they have after a year i understand the desperation. here's what congressman shift had to say. >> there's an awful lot more even in the public domape, bin. but the events don't inspire a lot of confidence. >> chris stewart of utah a member of that house committee. thank you for being here with us. we appreciate it. >> good morning. >> let me get your reaction to what adam shift had to say. do you think the shifting accounts also do not inspire a lot of confidence to you? >> well, i think there's actually a lot of thing

complicated. >> no. and the u.s. has been cutting back on allowing chinese companies to buy u.s. operations. chinese government has tied the hands of some chinese corporations in expanding their reach overseas as well. i don't know if it's a done deal. it's hard to tell when these types of deals -- it's very much a private transaction. it's a privately held enterprise, hedge funds that anthony ran, bought the majority of assets from citi group when they were forced to divest. it's been reasonably successful. one would assume u.s. regulators might be in favor of it, given that he now has a job in the white house. >> anthony scaramucci had said -- excuse me, donald trump had said it was in josh's book, i deal with steve wynn, carl icahn, killers that blow these politicians away. it's not even the same category. this politics is a category that's like 19 levels lower. yes, he has dealt with killers like carl icahn and others for years but is playing a completely different game, different scrutiny, different accountability. you can play buff against carl icahn and walk out the door.

cia director moom mike pom pompeo where the director suggests the u.s. is in favor of regime change in north korea of removing its leader kim jong un. of course, the tension has been increasing over north korea. the u.s. now signaling that it intends to ban american citizens from travel to go that country amid the continuing missile tests there. but sergey lavrov had only what can be interpreted a as a warning for washington. take a listen. >> we don't believe in regime change anywhere. i hear very enthusiastic voices in the united states including in some parts of this administration that the patience has been over and they must do something because the threat is growing and growing and the intercontinental ballistic missile was launched. but a month ago, i think, a month and a half, maybe, secretary mattis answering a question bluntly stated that the use of force against north korean regime would mean a disaster, a humanitarian disaster in the region. >> and he had tough words, too, over syria where a u.s. and russian brokered peace deal has been holding. and today, news of a further

of the u.s. president. and a lot of the public here are seeing their own far right populist groups, political groups and candidates surging, so a lot of them are a little more loathe to criticize a lot of these politicians like marine le pen and others. they're definitely more decor rum when it comes to social media. >> the president's going into g-20, a lot of serious issues roiling around the world. how does this affect what they see when their local media covering of what they know of what this president has tweeted and communicated. how does this affect their view of him going into these important meetings? >> i think it damages the credibility of the united states in these meetings and i think it sends a message to other leaders that they're not quite sure how to have a stable and consistent relationship with the president of the united states because he just comes off as too impulsive like he's winging it and the kind of crowd that he's playing to in these tweets are the sort of folks that actually don't believe in this sort of international deals and the kind of global socia

overnight, north korea launched another ballistic missile. u.s. officials say it landed in the sea of japan but the technology test could be the most successful yet. and given its potential range to reach alaska, it sends another message to washington, president trump responding on twitter saying, does this guy have anything better to do with his life? hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with this much longer. perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all. nbc's ali arusi is in london. good morning. this isn't the first time north korea has tested missiles on the fourth of july? >> good morning, dara. that's right. they tested a flurry of missiles in 2009 on the fourth of july and this latest test, the 11th one this year, seems to be designed to have maximum geopolitical effect. again on the fourth of july, just after president trump spoke with the leaders of south korea and japan on sunday, about how to deal with north korea and ahead of the g-20 summit later this week. now according to u.s. pacific command, there was a l

russia and the hacking into the u.s. election. that is what president trump opened with. rex tillerson saying the president repeatedly went back to this, but, ultimately, that the issue was intractable and the two leaders and two countries with the most nukes in the world needed to find a way to move forward. there was no use in relitigating the past said secretary rex tillerson. we have a whole lot of great folks to break this down. kelly o'donnell is in hamburg, germany. christopher hill an ambassador to iraq. david ignatius, michael schmidt reporter with new york times, heidi, a senior political reporter with usa today and msnbc political analyst. could not have asked for a better team. kelly o'donnell, let's start with you in hamburg. the president pushing vladimir putin on the issue of hacking, but then again, it doesn't sound like there's going to be more sanctions put in place, at least as of now. he did mention the sanctions going through in congress. they are held up in the house at the moment. rex tillerson, repeatedly saying the two leaders needed to find a way to move forwa

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they can reach the continental united states. just a quick background on this. u.s. intelligence assessment is now that north korea can marry a nuclear weapon and reach the united states by 2018. before that number was always 2020. and just yesterday we heard from the army chief of staff, general milley, saying that north korea has accelerated and gotten a lot quicker a lot faster, and they're really developing this technology. now the question is, what sort of military options are there? they talk about the importance of having military options. they don't necessarily telegraph them. >> military options are there. the problem is, none of them are good. hans nichols at the pentagon, thank you so much. >>> and coming up, more on the west wing war. new communications director, anthony scaramucci, taking center stage after some very public and vulgar shots at reince priebus and steve bannon. is the real risk here that he's upstaging the president. >>> and russia retaliation. the kremlin already taking action against the u.s. in response to a new sanctions bill approved by congress.

u.s. troops there, some 28,000, but there are also 300,000 americans. so when you talk military options at the pentagon, faces get ashen, they talk about having levels of civilian casualties that we haven't seen frankly in our lifetime. >> hans nickels for us, thank you for joining me. to kristen welker, white house correspondent. i know you have the reaction from the kwhouwhite house. what are we hearing this afternoon from the administration? >> the administration say they're waiting for the pentagon's final assessment in terms of what type of miss this will w-- missile this was befor they have any kind of response. the president tweeting north korea has just launched another missile. does this guy, apparently a reference to kim jong-un, have anything better to do with his life? hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with this much longer, perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea and end this nonsense once and for all. so what specifically does the president mean by a heavy move? well, the white house isn't saying. but we know the administration has r

to trust u.s. intelligence on matters of russia, on north korea, on other issues around the globe, that's not the time to take cheap and ultimately misleading swipes at the intelligence community. >> and at the same time, why does he keep looking back? talking about obama did nothing. first of all, he's not president anymore but he did eject 35 intelligence operatives, and he did other things so you can't say he didn't do anything. you could argue about whether he did enough. there certainly is an argument by democrats about whether he pursued it publicly enough. but why is he doing that? >> i think it's a distraction. i think it's an effort to avoid addressing this issue head on, and i mean i agree with rick completely that the day before you're about to meet with president putin, you want to appear strong. you don't want to undermine the intelligence community. you want to be a force to be reckoned with. that's not the message he conveys if he's being wishy-washy about the issue. he did talk about one other issue. >> america is committed to maintaining peace and security in cent

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a former soviet counterintelligence officer by chance. he's suspected by some u.s. officials of having ongoing ties to russian intelligence, something that he denies. >> donald trump jr.'s lawyer futerfas says he showed up with two people, one he described as a friend of e diagnomin and anos introduced as a translator. that now makes six people in total attending don jr., paul manafort and lobbyist and unknown person said to be a translator. the russian lawyer told nbc news she was accompanied by at least one other man at the meeting though she declined to identify him. in an exclusive interview earlier this week she denied having any connection to the kremlin and insisted the meeting was to discuss sanctions not the presidential campaign, sanctions not orphans. but there is so much to get surrounding this fast moving story. we have the best team of reporters and guests covering all developments, starting with peter alexander live at the ite house and national reporter for nbc news investigative unit ken dell lain yan and michael is kof. >> what do we know about these two people

u.s. ambassador at large for the former soviet union and is now a counsel on foreign relations. ned brice is with the national security council and served as special assistant to president obama. steven, good to see you. what do you think this means? they call this guy a master of the dark arts, and said that he's a real practitioner of this research. what do you read from that? >> this is a guy who made his career in washington, d.c. so they're alive and well in our capital, too. he has a lot of russian clients. and what the russians call black pr is a very rough game. it involves blackmail, and sometimes violence. it's not usually about elections. it tends to revolve around lawsuits, getting people out of businesses, taking property away. and so forth. but he has also made a career in legitimate washington pr, and we don't know exactly which area he was operating in here. >> ned, there's this adoption thing, it's a remarkable red herring. because the magnitsky act, sean spicer should learn how to say it, because it was about a man who was killed, but it's about the specific sancti

against them or adhering to enemies giving them aid and comfort. this is the u.s. constitution article 3, section 3. anything you see fit this? >> treason is a little extreme for this. they may not be our friends, we're not a war. it's not clear this violates. >> a person under oath statesny material matter which he does not believe to be true, would be constituted as perjury. >> with the possible exception of jared kushner filing those forms to get security clearance, i'm not sure under of it has been under oath yet. on those there is maybe it's not perjury but there is a crime of lying to the u.s. government but they have to prove he was doing it knowingly falsely and his claim is i forgot. we're in the gray area there. >> can we add then, the "time" magazine currently has don jr. on the cover but in the piece they say in the e-mail chain between don jr. and russian intermediary. kushner maintains he failed to read to the bottom so he didn't understand the russian promise. yet in the subject line it says russia, clinton, private and confidential. >> it's irrelevant. the thing

governments against the interests of the u.s. public. can you briefly explain for this committee and the american people how you believe that wikileaks came to be an outlet of foreign and specifically russian propaganda? >> senator, i don't have access to that information. so i don't know how that came to occur. i certainly share former director comey's concern about that. and i have no reason to doubt his description. but that's something that i would have to learn more about once i had access, once again, to classified information. but i'm -- wikileaks was not a thing when i was in government before. so my observations of it have been solely through, like any american, watching the news media in bits and pieces. >> i recognize that you've been in the private sector, so you're not up to speed on all of these issues yet. but is it your sense as you're arriving to lead a critical agency that is a part of the intelligence community, it's broadly law enforcement agency, but obviously has the national security division, and you have lots of other ic relationships. is it your view that we

others. tweet -- here is his tweet. while all agree the u.s. president has the complete power to pardon, why think of that when only crime so far is leaks against u.s. fake news. joining me now is legal analyst and former federal prosecutor paul butler again. paul, thanks for being with us. so a lot happening there. is the president, is his right here to pardon power, could he pardon himself? >> that is an open question, richard. the supreme court has never opined on it. i think the best answer is probably not. what the constitution said is the president could pardon anybody for a forward crime. it explicitly states however, he cannot thwart an impeachment proceeding. so that suggests that the nature of pardon is an exercise of mercy against another person. it is probably not something that you can bestow on yourself. but the way that we find out is if the president does actually pardon himself, then the supreme court would review it. >> can he pardon without us knowing it? >> no. it would have to be a public act. it is complete in the sense that he can pardon anybody else for federal c

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than 750 u.s. diplomats from his country as president trump prepares to sign a bill imposing tough new sanctions, in part because of election meddling. nbc's matt bradley is in london with more of the interview putin gave. it is now airing on russian state tv. we got a rough translation of it. talk to us about how angry vladimir putin is in this interview at donald trump and the trump administration. >> well, you know what's really fascinating about this decision, jacob, the american sanctions bill hasn't even become law yet, so he's made this decision, of course, before president trump has had the chance to either sign or veto the sanctions bill that just passed the house and senate with near unanimous support. the white house has indicated they are probably going to be signing this bill, and, of course, even if they didn't, the senate and the house have the votes to override a veto, but let's be clear. this is a huge setback for russian-american diplomacy and as putin said, this would restore, quote, diplomatic parity. by that he means that expelling some 755 american personnel from

very confident, and the other, the u.s. president, is facing multiple investigations for having been manipulated by the other leader. >> richard, here's a man who has enjoyed a reputation as being a master of mind games. there's that story that surfaced a few days ago of when president putin met angela merkel some years ago, he knew that she was afraid of dogs and what does he do? shows up with his lab. based on what we know about interviews that have been conducted and perhaps through some of your own reporting, what can we glean from president putin's past statements in terms of his opinion of president trump? what do we know about how he feels about president trump? >> well, the impression that is consistently brought up to me is that putin is someone who understands power keenly. that he's a card player, effectively. he likes to gamble. he will push as far as he can. he will cheat if he can. he will stack the deck. he will try and read his opponent, and that he read in his opponent here, president trump, a weakness that he has a weakness for flattery, so the russian kremlin, the

or not it gets the official designation of an icbm, right now alaska/u.s. territory could potentially be in range. when you talk about the continental united states, you remember in may there was that ground base intercepter test, hitting a bullet with a bullet, officials at the time said this basically kept the west coast of the states safe until 2020, but what they're doing right now is doing all kinds assessments on the missile, just what happened. when you look at that initial picture, take a close look to see if you can see any fins on the nose. that may 14 that was very concerning, there weren't any fins on the nose of that missile. whenever they bring it don't, they don't have accuracy. that's the other thing that concerns officials at the pentagon, whether or not they know how to bring it down and then the crucial question that we simply do not have an answer on, has north korea miniaturized a nuclear warhead to put on the tip. >> is this the type of missile that can reach the united states or points further out and number two can they miniaturize a nuclear warhead

of this a bombshell policy change on transgender soldiers in the u.s. military. all of this on the white house's american heroes week. >> the ban on transgender people from serving in the u.s. military was announced by the president on twitter. after consultation with my generals and military experts, please be advised that the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. our military must be focused on zee sisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical cost and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. thank you. now, we've heard from the former secretary of defense, ash carter who has said the only requirement should be capability and ability. we've heard from rand corporation to say there was no material increase in costs by having transgender people in the military. >> it is voluntary, to those serving defending this country are choosing to be there to protect you and i and our civil liberties. >> joining us now, hans nichols and military analyst and r

that putin denied it. putin is saying publicly that the president accepted his response. u.s. officials are not characterizing it that way, although the president wasn't specific about that. so in many ways they are talking about the same things. there is one area of discrepancy that i haven't been able to sort out yet. i've asked white house officials for clarification. the president tweeted today that sanctions did not come up and that until syria and ukraine are resolved as issues, they would not come up against russia, whereas secretary tillerson did tell reporters that the president raised the issue of sanctions. he was referring to congressional sanctions that people like lindsey graham and john mccain and others strongly support. so there's a little confusion there as to what was talked about with sanctions. of course, we know that putin would love to see some of the things that president obama enacted himself. executive level sanctions. he'd like to see those rolled back. maybe that's what president trump was referring to. richard? >> let's stay on the topic of russia

any capacity in the u.s. military. our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory, and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. and he ended with thank you. hans nicoles, kelly o'donnell, we are expecting an on-camera briefing at the top of the next hour. and kasie hunt is on capitol hill for us this afternoon. hans, let me start with you. this new policy on banning transgender people from the armed forces. were your folks at the pentagon caught off guard by any of this, or were they expecting this announcement today from the white house? >> completely caught off guard, craig. no one here that we are talking to had any idea that this was coming. i just ran into a general, got an eye roll and a shrug from that general. now, to give you a sense of just where it is, it's not actually official policy. this is just guidance from the president's twitter account. to actually change policy, you're going to have to have an entire process here in trying to figure out what to do with the transgender ind

the u.s. military because i love america. when we send our troops into harm's way, they need to know the president is of sound mind, rationale and doing it for the right purposes. and these tweets make us question that. >> ted lew is frequently a critic of the president and he put it in that very personal context of his own experience, having served and continuing to be a part of the reserves. so lots of different ways of looking at this, thomas, as we've seen. and so much of the conversation is deeply partisan. and both sides are really clashing over this. and then there are questions about how best to try to interpret what the president has said. we've reached out to the white house. his use of this video. what did he mean. what was behind it. we have not heard officially back from them yet. we will see if they response as the day rolls on. thomas. >> nbc's kelly o'donnell there in bridgewater, new jersey, kelly, great to see you, thank you. joining me is congressman zellen of, no. congressman, thank you for your time. your reaction to how the president is spending time over his ho

holding talks with british prime minister theresa may. the president said the u.s. and uk will reach a deala on a new trade deal quickly. >>> and hackers have launched a series of cyberattacks targeting a dozen nuclear power plants in this country. several u.s. intelligence officials are telling nbc news that russian hackers are strongly suspected. the fbi and homeland security say the cyberattack appears to be limited to administrative and business networks, not plant controls. >>> in southwestern japan, cleanup and rescue efforts are underway following devastating rain and flooding. leaving at least ten people dead. one village yesterday received 5.5 inches of rain in just three hours. >>> want to bring you more on the g-20, and peter alexander traveling with the president and joining us from hamburg. what are the headlines from the president's events today so far? >> reporter: thomas, right now the president is wrapping up another bilateral meeting, this one with the prime minister of singapore. it's one of five bilateral meetings over the course of the day. later this afternoon h

of the u.s. conference of mayors, a bipartisan group looking for solutions at the state level while we witness the d.c. gridlock here. explain the situation in dayton right now. what's it like there? >> well, thanks for having us on. yes, mayors are really at the forefront of all of these issues. that's why the health care battle we've seen, washington at its worst, is one where we've tried to have common sense approaches because we know things need to be fixed with obamacare. we want to make sure people have high-quality health care at lower costs but the gridlock in washington and the games being played, we haven't seen that movement at all. now today with the president deciding not even to follow the law to make sure that people can get the access to health care that is the law today is problematic to mayors across the country. >> with the trump organization -- excuse me, the trump administration, ending contracts with organizations, these different sign-up centers for 18 cities, explain what you're trying to do or what you can do or have done on the local level to make sure that

storm. having so far sent out about a dozen tweets. in one he says "while all gree agree the u.s. president has the complete power to pardon yrks think of that only on crimes against us. fake news. >> and sean spicer on what led him to resign yesterday morning. here's how sean spicer talked about it last night in an interview on fox. >> i recommended to the president that i give anthony and sarah a clean slate to start from so that they can talk about the president's agenda and help move it forward. and he after some back and forth understood that the offer that i was making was something that was in the best interest of this administration. i thanked him for the opportunity and i'm looking forward to watching anthony and sarah do a tremendous job. >> i have no regrets. i can't thank the president enough for this unbelievable honor. >> meanwhile, we're learning about jared kushner. new documents provide more than 70 assets that he had inadvertently left out of the original filings. those reports coming at a time when the house intel committee will interview him coming up on tuesd

. >>> happening now in iraq. u.s. backed forces are in the final stage of fully liberating the city of mosul. the islamic state's former iraqi capital. isis militants however are desperately of striking back. this morning female suicide bombers targeted soldiers in the city killing at least 15 people in two separate attacks. and this comes just days after iraqi forces took this site. the grand al nuri where a caliphate was proclaimed three years ago. richard engel is in mosul with more. >> reporter: we're now in the center of the old city in mosul and this is the front line in the war against isis. you can see there's smoke rising from almost everywhere in the skylines. most of that is where there have been air strikes called in by u.s. forces. americans are backing up this operation but it is iraqi troops like this man right here who are doing the front line fighting. they are clearinghouse to house. and we have seen difficult fighting. when you go into some of to houses they're booby-trapped. we have been with some of the soldiers who are not with us because they were injured in the fighti

the u.s. senate suggest to me he may not know the difference between medicare and medicaid. that's what they're dealing with. is this really a situation where the white house -- and i think you sort of implied this with your previous answer, it doesn't matter to him what's in this bill at this point. he just wants a win. >> it seems that way. in the campaign he talked about, you know, providing health care for all, extending coverage. this is a bill that would not do that. so, you know, the president has contradicted himself. this is something he's done on other, you know, important issues as well. but, you know, he sort of ran people know on immigration and national security and trade and economics, you know, sort of his mainthroughs. certainly the repeal of obamacare is something that he and leaders in republican leadership in congress and republicans running for office who sort of swept to power ran behind that concept. they didn't off a lot of detail. president trump sort of talked about it in a different way than other republicans in terms of how he might provide coverage. but

srtedn some of the q and a, i would like to bring up tom, the acting director of the u.s. i'm graduation a-- immigra customs enforcement. what they are doing to eradicate criminal divisions. and tom will stay and answer your questions. as always, i would like to put out a friendly reminder for you guys to stay on topic and after that i will come back up to take your questions, thanks, guys. >> good afternoon. i'm robert hurr. about five weeks ago i was sworn in as the principal attorney general at the department of justice. i appreciate the opportunity to talk to you about the aggressive efforts to achieve thdiscuss tht goal of dismantling a gang. we are fighting to e vad waradi 13. the salvadorian prisons that house the leaders of this gang. they will meet with members of the anti-gang task force. and the attorney's general from the northern triangle countries to discuss joint efforts to disrupt and take down ms 13. earlier in my career, i was a federal prosecutor in maryland where i prosecuted a number of ms 13 racketeering cascases. they including racketeering cases. they s

in 2000 there is a gao report and ike kaveladze was setting up u.s. bank accounts in delaware where, you know, corporations are easy to set up. some 230 bank accounts that were set up and they moved some $1.4 billion. now, at the point it was a congressionally requested report about russian laundering money in the u.s. so, we're learning more as the day continues. we've placed him at that meeting. nbc news has confirmed that and we'll try to figure out just what his role was there and what questions robert mueller might have asked him. separate from this, sarah huckabee sanders in that briefing was just asked if there are any efforts under way to repeal the act and she seems to something around the corner with sanctions on russia. have a listen. >> it's been concluded that the the meeting that mrs. veselinitskaya lifting the sanctions which targeted top officials in the kremlin. now since january secretary tillerson has said none of the sanctions will be listed. many of the russian ex-patriots and opponents of the kremlin regime have suggested that if the president could put this is

already in the debate, he's most certainly slowing down new sanctions the u.s. congress has proposed. >> michael mcfaul, thank you very much. >> thanks. >>> that does it for me today. ali velshi picks things up right now. >> you have had a busy one. >> it's not over. i got 5:00 today, too. >> i will see you at 6:00. >> are we? did that happen on my phone? i just don't realize it? >> exactly. see you later on. >>> i'm ali velshi. when the book comes out about president trump's time in office and the ongoing russia probe, today might very well get its own chapter. the president's son, donald trump jr., tweeted out a series of his own e-mails. they detail the leadup to that now infamous campaign season meeting with a kremlin-linked attorney. the person trump jr. was e-mailing was this fellow here. music publicist rob goldstone. he said an attorney had quote, information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. talking about hillary clinton and donald trump. and more than that, the e-mails indicate that donald trump jr. was told

after the congressional baseball shooting that wounded several including the majority whip of the u.s. house. the conversation about how far should language and behavior and tweeting go, the president has picked plenty of fights over the last couple of years since he became a candidate and now president and says he will stick with his twitter habit. he believes that it is his way to go around the media and many of his top aides say that is something that should be one of his tool to fight back. others are saying this is inappropriate. that the president did cross a line. it also serves as a distraction because as you pointed out, there's a health care debate, b problems within the republican gop conference on trying to revolve some kind of bill. that isn't going anywhere at the moment. there's the russia veinvestiga n investigation. there are other big policy issues that aren't getting attention. when the president says very conversation sparking tweet. >> richard. >> kelly o'donnell there in new jersey. thank you. with the senate in jeopardy, the point care seems to be b trying to do

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other issues, especially on a fourth of july weekend where we honor all the things that make the u.s. a special place. certainly freedom of the press is one of those elements that makes the country celebrate on a fourth of july weekend. so the president's feud has come to life in his twitter feed, with the video that he put out and what he said to those gathered last night in washington. richard? >> thank you so much, kelly. nbc's kelly o'donnell in new jersey. >>> following the holiday break, president trump heads to germany to participate in the g20 summit. that's the gathering of the world's top economic powers. russia will be in attendance, as president trump is expected to have his first face-to-face meeting with russian president vladamir putin there. the topic of russian interference in the presidential election has dominated much of the trump administration's first 164 days in office. joining us now, sarah westwood, white house correspondent for the washington examiner, and ken vogel from "the new york times." sar sarah, what's the word you're hearing in terms of the president p