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this is not to counter from a state actor like russia or china. they simply have too many missiles. it could overwhelm the u.s. system. if they knock this one down successfully, it'll be a 50% success rate. throughout the morning at the pentagon, talking to officials, they're saying, look, just because we don't fully knock it out of the sky, we'll still learn something with this test. in a lot of ways, stephanie, it's what they say about north korea, whenever they test. even though it might blow up on the launch pad or travel a few thousand kilometers, every time there is a test on either side, the side doing the test learns something. >> hans nichols, thanks. >>> i want to share this. new pictures this morning of what is reportedly north korean leader kim jong-un's personally overseeing the country's latest missile test. two tests done in just two days. kim jong-un threatening to develop more powerful weapons in multiple phases to defend his country against us, the united states. i'm joined now by nbc's janice in beijing. any reaction from north korea as the u.s. readies to test fi

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he did with ping from china and decided not to label china a currency manipulator as he vowed to do during his whole campaign. he did the same thing with the general of nato and said nato's no longer obsolete after i was in office for two months and just because he had these personal meetings. and i think the kremlin understood trump's psychology to do this. so if they could get him in a room and jump start the talks. >> what is it like to watch this play out given your experience? >> where to begin. the idea that president putin can swing leaders, that was the way they talked about obama and putin in the early days and the record's pretty clore that president trump is influenced by these individual meetings. i wrote a piece for the post saying you hope it's learning but it often times looks like it's just ad-libbing and that meeting. they have a lot of hope on that. the problem is there's this big 800 pound guerilla that won't be dismissed from the room just because he fired fbi director comey and that is we need to know the facts of a, what's the russians did. and b, was there any collus

champi china, bad guy. when the world was changing in my life, the berlin wall was coming down, one of the big events like the kennedy assassinations, i found out that the last bad boss of east germany, his number one dream in life was to be received at the white house. and we never understood that part of him. add bad as these people with be, they had a notion of wanting to be respectable someday. and in some dark, crazy part of kim jong-un's mind, maybe he wanted to be respected. i don't know. that's what trump may be working. i'm trying to think this thing through. >> this is a cultural off ramp for someone like un who very much absorbed american culture through basketball to reinforce that mind set. here's the rub with all of that. you're still a bad guy. >> i agree. how do you work a bad guy out of nushlg weapons? >> you know, i don't care how much we kind of mesh up -- >> anything that gets this guy away from the trigger. >> every time we try to ascribe some sort of master plan and rhyme and reason to

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china continuing to urge restraint and wanting to move towards talks. nikki haley, the u.s. ambassador to the united nations says there's no way president trump is going to sit down with kim jong-un if this weapon testing continues. south korea is now having to plot its next move, new president openly embraced talks. he may run into some opposition and have little room for maneuvering. >> thank you so much. >>> still ahead, 6 million people at risk of severe weather today. >>> plus, it was a big weekend for commencement speeches, including president trump to bill clinton and this funny man. >> i would also like to recognize my esteemed fellow honorary doctrine. great visionary in the field of social work. one of the great actors of our time. dame helen muran. and then there's me. will ferrell. look closely. hidden in every swing, every chip, and every putt, is data that can make the difference between winning and losing. the microsoft cloud helps the pga tour turn countless points of data into insights that transform their business and will enhance the game for players and f

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when he offered me a coke, it came right at the end of a fairly le fairly lengthy discussion on china and north korea, a fairly substantive discussion, then, do you want a coke? and presses the button and the butler comes in with a coke. it's watching a guy who comes from a totally different world settling into the most establishment job that exists. it's fascinating. >> fascinating indeed. we never run out of things to talk about. >> i had a bar fridge. >> hit the button, i know, freaked you out. ali almost fell off his chair again. >> thank you to all of you for staying up so late. that does it for this edition of 11th hour. i'm nicole wallace in for brian williams tonight. have a great evening.

china. oh ... he got there. that's the power of and. >>> oregon could become the first state in the country to offer a gender neutral driver's license. the change if approved here follows the history making case of army veteran jamie shoop. we'll have more on that story coming up right after a short break. but what we're watching here at headquarters today are some top headlines. president trump wants to name quickly a new fbi director. so far eight are being considered including acting fbi director, andrew mccabe. lindsey graham told chuck todd that the president should someone within the fbi agency. >> he has a duty, an obligation to pick somebody beyond reproach, outside the political lane. >> in france, a transfer of power as emmanuel macron was sworn in this morning, vowing to heal the divisions in the country. the inauguration comes one week after his divisive victory over le pen by some 30 percentage points. >>> in texas, hundreds of protesters marched to governor abbott's home. they were protesting the s

tweeting north korea has shown great respect for china by shooting another missile, but china is trying hard. >>> over the weekend defense secretary james mattis laid out the threat posed by north korea in no uncertain terms. >> a conflict in north korea, john, would be probably the worst kind of fighting in most people's lifetimes. why do i say this? the north korea regime has hundreds of artillery cannons and rocket launchers within range of one of the most densely populated cities on earth which is the capital of south korea. the bottom line is this would be a catastrophic war if this turns into combat, if we're not able to resolve this situation through diplomatic means. >> staying overseas, newly elected french president manuel in that case krone had his first meeting with vladimir putin yesterday. the meeting that was held in versailles was aimed at establishing a personal relationship after paris accused moscow of trying to interfere with their recent election. macron described their private talks as extremely frank and direct and blasted russian state-run media which he called,

ambassador to china. governor reynolds will hold the office through 2018 when she is expected to attempt to run for a full term. nothing is guaranteed. she will face a primary fies and tough challenge in a general. she may get primary challenge from the mayor of cedar rapids. one thing it seems the new governor can count on, her predecessor pledged 100% of his support for her. and friends are good to have even in politics. even if they're on the other side of the world. but as for that branstad, mark, who is going to pass 22 years as a sitting governor in this country ever again? that's all for tonight. we'll be back tomorrow with more p dail for the record with greta, though, starts right now. grets a, lots of news to chew on today. >> i know. sounds like he's a cal rip kin of goerchz. >> -- governors. he set a mark. thank you, chuck. we have breaking news, the russians may have fed a fake document to the fbi last summer and that this document might have duped former fbi director comey and influenced his

which is propping up the bottom of the european indices, thought to be on the back of the news from china. the new york stock exchange, stock closed about 4% lower after the u.s. government filed a civil lawsuit accusing it of illegally using software to by pass emissions controls on over 100,000 diesel vehicles sold since 2014. louis, back to you. >> the trump administration's 2018 budget proposal was sent to congress yet, being criticized by both sides of the aisle. deepest cuts to programs for the children, poor, disabled including medicaid food stamps and social security disability insurance. while some fiscally conservative republicans found parts praise worthy like the boost in defense spending, many thought to distance themselves. several top democrats pounced on the proposal immediately. >> the president's budget is a recommendation. we'll be taking into account what the president is recommending, but it will not be determinative in every respect. we'll have to negotiate the top line with senate democrats. we know that. they will not be irrelevant in the process and at some point

away from china and that can only be a good thing, also suggesting chinese diplomats now think their best strategy is to praise the president. they think if they praise him in general they will move him towards their position. >> interesting to hear. i'm sure that ambassador is not the only one fielding questions. keir simmons, thank you. >>> coming up next on "morning joe" we'll talk with independent senator angus king of maine who has an idea for james comey's next job, leading the senate's probe into russia. >>> plus shawn patrick maloney joins us by up staging an opponent by showing up in his district. "morning joe" is on the way. [boy] cannonball! [girl] don't... [man] not again! [burke] swan drive. seen it. covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ (vo) more "dper rollres for mom" bounty is more absorbent, so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brand. so you get more "life" per roll. bounty the quicker picker upper whattwo servings of veggies? v8 or a powdered drink? ready, go. ah

confirmed to be secretary of the air force, and governor branstad was approved to be ambassador to china and is moving on for a vote on the floor of the senate. president also looks forward to see dr. scott godly approved by the null senate to serve as commissioner of the fda later today. finally with regard to the paris climate agreement, the president has been meeting with his team for quite a while on this matter and he will not be making announcement regarding that agreement until after he returns from the g7. with that, be glad to take your questions. caitlyn. >> thank you, sean. we got two questions for you today. first one is, why did the president wait 18 days to fire mike flynn when the white house was informed of his conduct and warned that he was a potential target for russian blackmail? because you realize the timing of this makes a lot of people think that he wouldn't have been fired if the story had not come out in the media. >> well, first of all, let's look at the timeline. sally yates came here on the 26th of january. then she informed the counsel's office that there wer

he did when he met xi jinping of china, and immediately backed off. he said he had great chemistry with him, and decided not to label china a currency manipulator, as he vowed to do during the entire of his presidential campaign. he did when he met the secretary general of nato. and standing side by side with him said nato is no longer obsolete after i was in office for two months. it was just because he had these personal meetings. and i think the kremlin understood trump's psychology to be like this. so they were hoping that they could get them together in a room and jump-start the talks. >> ambassador, from the comfortable distance of your alma matter at stafford, what it is like watching this play out with your experience? >> where to begin? first of all, the idea that president putin can swing leaders, just to echo what julia just said, that was always the way they talked about obama and putin in the early days, by the way. they believe their guy is good at this. and the record is pretty clear that president trump is influenced by these individua

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they went to china the real estate investors asking them to pour hundreds of dollars into a real estate exchange for a new jersey project they have going on and in doing so they get an investor visa. jared kushner's attorney has told "the washington post" that kushner himself has divested from the family business when the family put up the slide show in china they had a slide of the president in there saying that he makes big decisions about the eb-5 visas known as this investor visa described as a key decisionmaker. kushner, his attorney has said that kushner has no involvement in the company and divested his interest by selling into a family trust that he and his children, wife and children are not beneficiaries are. the office of unpublic ethics saying he will recuse himself that the eb-5 visa program, but not only think about this and the fact that there is a slide of the president and we know that he is a senior adviser to the president and the kushner family also had reporters thrown out of this event. so that they couldn't talk about it when kushner's sister was approached there

then his daughter gets another number of trademarks in china. this is all about increasing the trump organization bandwidth and the dollars. >> unbelievable. thank you so much, congresswoman jackie speier. tough statement, but we'll be following it up. >>> up next, we've been waiting for that white house shake-up. one key member is out. a guy i never really thought about. by the way, that's an oxy morin. communications director of the trump administration. how do you direct that? that's coming up. he's out. he just quit. you're watching "hardball," where the action is. will your business be ready when growth presents itself? american express open cards can help you take on a new job, or fill a big order or expand your office and take on whatever comes next. find out how american express cards and services can help prepare you for growth at open.com. hey, i've got the trend analysis. hey. hi. hi. you guys going to the company picnic this weekend? picnics are delightful. oh, wish we could. but we're stuck here catching up on claims. but we just co

it came at the end of fairly lengthy discussion on china and north korea. he is like you want a cok and presses the button and the butler comes in with a coke. it's watching a guy who comes from a totally different world settling into the most establishment job that exists. it's fascinating. >> fascinating indeed. we never run out of things to talk about. >> i had a bar fridge. >> thank you to all of you for staying up so late. that does it for this edition of 11th hour. i'm nicole wallace in for brian williams tonight. have a great evening. congressman adam shift live here with us tonight, looking forward to that. we've got one of the chief architects of the affordable care act with us here tonight to talk in some detail about the consequences today of this huge political news out of washington. republicans this afternoon at the white house, republicans celebrating. people who support the affordable care act or who depend it on the family's access to health care, on the other side, despondent today. if you are in either of those camps, or neither of those

. >> china patterns. >> who knows? >> china, his portfolio is everything. >> it's everything. and, you know, so this -- you know, having this cloud over him without -- with a big question mark as to how long this will go on. remember, he's also people on capitol hill are very interested in hearing from him as well. he and his team have said that they will comply with all of the questions and that they -- you know, his lawyers have said they'll comply. but to have this lingering over while the president returns from this and wants -- if he wants to focus on other things that remains a big question mark. we see the president already tweeting about other things this morning. coming back from that trip. so it just guarantees to be a lingering kind of thing. >> wi-fi is working. wi-fi works now. jane and caitlyn, thank you so much. so later we'll dig deeper into the topic of who the jared kushner and whether he's a true believer in the president's brand of politics. break through your allergies. try new flonase sensimist allergy relief instead of allergy pills. it delivers a gentle

by shooting off another ballistic missile but china is trying hard. no one wants war with a nuclear north korea. james mattis warns it would be catastrophic. >> a crown flionflict in north would be one of the worst kind of fight in most people's life tooims. this is so threat to the region, to japan, to south korea. s it is a direct threat to the united states. >> the u.s. officials are working to father more information about this latest launch but say the u.s. will support or allies in the region, japan and south korea. everyone is watching to see what their response will be but the rhetoric is strong coming out of to both of those countries today. >> you were talking about the ninth test this year. given the pace of these tests is there growing concerns about how frequently they're becoming and what that may prompt for some of the allies that you were talking about? >> absolutely. particularly since kim jong-un increased the tests from his father. and the concern is that with each of the tests it shows the growing capability of north korea because

last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. at&t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques. remote moisture sensors use a reliable network to tell them when and where to water. so that farmers like ray can compete in big ways. china. oh ... he got there. that's the power of and. every to be heard... ♪ to move... with you... through you... ♪ beyond you. ♪ did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back? say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet that's over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. and add phone and tv for only $34.90 more a month. call today. comcast business. built for business. >>> we've got more "mtp daily" just ahead. tom price will be on to talk about the republican health care bill and its next big battle in the senate. plus an exclusive interview with diane feinstein of california. that's this sunday on your local nbc station. we'r

china is exploiting them. donald trump literally invited this into his oval office. and showed them that with the slightest massaging he will give up information to impress people to the dismay of our own intelligence agencies and quite possibly this relationship will end with this third country or second country that shared this information with us or we may have to exhaust an enormous amount of intelligence assets, including special operations, to extract that operative out of that situation if isis internal security doesn't find him first. >> admiral, the washingt washington post cited their sources for their report as current and former u.s. officials. help qualify that for us. leakers are often considered traitors. whistleblowers are often considered heros. what's this? >> this would be somebody who is looking at the read out from the meeting and every presidential meeting i've been in the oval many times, has a detailed record of what was said, that is then circulated to the intelligence community and my suspicion, i do not know this, but my suspicion is, that

>> well, the fact that we have got china working with us against north korea when there is an unstable dictator running that country who is going to do everything he can and has done for decades now to try to in his own mind intimidate the united states. remember it wasn't too long ago in the clinton administration, stephanie, that a deal was made to give hundreds of millions of american tax dollars to north korea to allow them to stop developing a nuclear weapon. that didn't work out too well for us. and now president trump and his administration, the one left to deal with that situation. >> it's a complicated situation no doubt. a scary one as well. thank you for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. >> coming up, more details leaking out of a possible shake-up in the white house. how chaotic are things in west wing? and how big of a problem is that? former white house chief of staff andrew card will be here but before we go, russian president putin showed more of an artistic side this weekend while waiting to meet the chinese president ping. descent just play hockey. he doesn't

joining us from beijing, china, nbc news correspondent janice mackey fair. the thing is you're normally reporting about an intercontinental ballistic missiles and you're saying it's intercontinental cyber warfare. >> considered just as dangerous. investigators say it could be months before they're able to make any definite connection between this typer attack and pyongyang, but for now at least, north korean cyber hammers are among the suspects. investigators say there are digital clues, similarities in some of the computer code lines that were used in this latest attack with an earlier version of the wannacry ransomware that has suspected links to the sony pictures hack, the attack on the central bank of bangladesh and also banks in poland. so there are a lot of dots and nobody is connecting them just yet. experts say it could be a series of false flags that hackers use to cover their tracks, but there is a enough to warrant at least further investigation. a big issue, of course, is that this latest attack was crafted on vulnerabilities in the microsoft sys

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china correspondent of the "new york times." javier, wave delay. so i'll ask you what exactly was the scene there? what was the goal of the event that you attended? >> it was a very high-end event, no, i don't, attract the wealthest of chinese who are interested in getting green card to come to the u.s. we went to the ritz-carlton. it was a publiclily advertised event and listened to the pitch for investors about this new zblilgd and the idea here is that if you invest a certain amount of money, you get a visa to the u.s.? that's the basic through it of it? >> that's right. it's $500,000, and that puts you on the path to a green card much for a lot of chinese, that's a popular idea. they want to escape the smog, poor education system, and so they're willing to put up that money. for investors they get a source of relatively cheap financing. there's a lot of interest right now. >> tell me about the connection in which jared kushner and the president, donald trump, were mentioned in the course of this pitch. >> jared kushner's sister, nicole mentione

china. oh ... he got there. that's the power of and. >>> so tonight we are following this new breaking news from the "the washington post" and from the associated press about fired national security adviser mike flynn. new reports that trump transition officials and outgoing obama administration officials were aware of mike flynn's frequent communications with the russian government and that it raised alarms both within the trump transition and the outgoing administration. this of course raises yet more questions about why the trump folks went ahead with hiring him then as national security adviser where he lasted for all of three and a half weeks before he got fired. after mike flynn didet fir, one of the interesting things at happened that i think maybe should have been a little bit of a warning sign for those of us watching this administration, is that the white house had a remarkably difficult time replacing him. u.s. army general ray odierno they apparently wanted for the job, he took himself out of the run

trump again said the hacking of the dnc and other efforts to influence the election could have been china, could have been a lot of different groups. is that contrary to what the intelligence community has said? >> the intelligence community with high confidence concluded it was russia. in many circumstances, it's hard to do attribution of a hack. sometimes, the intelligence is there. we have high confidence that the north koreans hacked sony. we have high confidence that the russians did the hacking of the dnc and the other organizations. >> i have a lot of other questions but before it sounds totally negative, i want to praise the response of the fbi in south burlington, vermont. we had had anonymous e-mails coming in, threatening serious action against students in the high school. cyber threats, including detailed death threats, multiple lockdowns. the fbi worked closely with the college's digital investigation, which you visited a couple years ago. it was a textbook example of collaboration between state, local and federal authorities, and i want to thank all those. turned out to be a

. >> the president questioned whether russia was behind the medaling and said it could have been china. is there any doubt that russia was behind this? >> no doubt in my mind. everything we have been able to see and you reported that we can talk about that russia definitely was involved. russia was involved more intensely this past election cycle than ever before. we see no evidence that any of the votes were changed or the out come would have been different. with that being said, we are seeing him involved in paris and germany and could they have done more harm to us and are they waiting to do harm at a later date, we can't let that happen. >> appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me. >> amid the debate, the health care debate went viral after this emotional monologue from jimmy kimmel about his newborn son battling heart problems. >> before 2014, if you were born with heart disease like my son was, there was a good chance you could never get health insurance because you had a preexisting condition. if your baby is going to die and doesn't have to, it shouldn't matter how much mo

could have been china. could have been a lot of different groups. >> first to beiana. then to the ambassador. then we've got to scoot to a break. still this effort to bepd over backwards to cut some slack. >> music to vladimir putin's ears. remember what he said a few weeks ago, he said it earlier when asked about this, read my lips, niet, i did not hack into the elections i did not do that in other countries even though we have evidence that he is in fact doing that. the president seems to be feeding into the narrative that we can have a relationship with vladimir putin without having repercussions whatsoever to what he was doing to democracy in the u.s. and around the world. >> no fair being able to speak the same language. ambassador, same question. >> we do know, brian. i had to dispute question. we know russia violated our sovereignty. let's call it what it was. in 2016. most agree with it. the fact that our president continues to deny it makes me nervous not because to argue whether or not he ran a good campaign but we need to be protected for the next time it's

there is all kinds of information we know in the public record right now about his sister going to china selling visas. >> and what they have on 66th avenue. those are just questions that are now coming up. could it be part of this, could it be part of any debt he may have on buildings or the company may have? these are all questions that are unanswered right now, and as far as we know, jared kushner hasn't necessarily done anything wrong. just because you or somebody has this in focus or under scrutiny doesn't necessarily mean you have committed a cre, doesn't necessarily mean you are the target of an investigation. we should make that very clear. we just don't know right now. >> we don't know and the question is how far is he going to cooperate? is he going to waive the spousal privilege of ivanka, for example? >> so far the lawyers say he is red did i to cooperate. nick ackerman, thank you very much. matt zapitosky, i hope i said it right that time. all of you, thank you. >>> later today, chuck todd will have a one-on-one interview with former secretary leon panetta. that is tonight o

and i want us to have the markets that we're going to have -- china is choking on it's fumes, and i want minnesota scientists and engineers and manufacturers to be selling that technology to the chinese. and this is a disaster in so many ways. you played a little clip of me saying that i don't want, in 50 years, for my grandchildren to say you knew climate change want happening, why didn't you say anything or do anything? i want to be alive, but my grandchildren will be and the end of the century, and i don't want them to live in a world of millions and millions of refugees. that is just unstable. we know the coal jobs are not coming back and that is because of natural dpas, and because of the automation in the coal industry. we need to go to the new jobs. wind and solar are now less expensive than coal and we need to make the tran sis. >> the other day, i was interviewing a colleague that is working -- working to go to appalachia and try to connect some of the young high school and young aspiring kids with coding jobs. >> yeah, we need -- >> with apple and google because they not going

the pressure is on china and south korea. there needs to be an organizing structure at the white house. i'm sorry. i think we've got tremendous talent over there people that i really have a great relationship with, but thus far, it's not hitting on all eight. and there's so much good that can be done right now. as i mentioned, with all the complexities that take place. and i hope that over time that struct surgoiure is going to be place so we're moving on all eight. i thought the call to erdogan after his unfortunate victory if you will in consolidating power, you know, again, it affects our allies in the region. it affects what's happening on the ground in syria. and again, i just think sometimes there's not enough effort put in place to make sure that this is all aligned in a proper manner. >> your assessmentbout the president's foreign policy team being a good one seems to be the consensus in washington. obviously there are some great people around him. if that's true, though, why can't they impress upon the president the

the criminal justice system, reforming veteran care, tackling opioid epidemic, lee son to mexico and china, liaison to the muslim community. big list, would you agree? >> it's a big list. i'm sure other people work on some of those things as well. i just don't know the difference of laying low and not doing that job. he's not an ambassador. he's not out making large scale public statements -- >> which leads to another problem. at least with an ambassador, secretary of state, with the ambassador of the united nations, secretary of defense, we in the media can hold these folks to account. they don't let us in, they don't let us on trips, they don't let us in press conferences. with informal advisers, whether or not they are the president's son-in-law, and these advisers have been around in many administrations, this is the kind of discussion we get caught in. >> i don't have any problem. i think you and i might not agree on this. i don't have any problem with the president getting advice from whoever he wants. jfk, who would have been 100 years old today and was a very good president, he got

as it was flying south of hong kong in the south china sea. so one of the chinese j-10 aircraft, it sort of settled in in front of the u.s. navy aircraft and it made some erratic turns that caused the u.s. navy aircraft to swerve off its course. the other one came in at a slow rate of speed but within a close distance within about 100 feet of the u.s. navy craft, according to one u.s. navy official i spoke with. which is deemed by the u.s. navy as not just unprofessional but an unsafe movement in the air. >> any official reactions from either side? >> not yet. we got a statement from the pentagon but it was very brief as most of these. are as you know, intercepts of one aircraft between one nation and another is not unusual. we hear about one or two just about every week. we heard about the u.s. military intercepted several russian aircraft last month near alaska. there were several cases with russian aircraft last month as well. so it is not terribly uncommon. >> this one was just a little close. >> exactly. what stands out is when the milita

the president has obviously engaged in a fair amount of robust diplomacy with china to get that leader to ramp up pressure on north korea to stop these types of provocations. it clearly hasn't worked yet. it's a reminder that the north korea crisis continues to loom large even as president trump is here trying to reset relations with the muslim and arab world. >>> kristen, later today, the president is set to make a major speech about their relations. whatan we expect out of that speech? >> reporter: this is going to be the capstone speech of the president's trip here to saudi arabia. potentially, this entire trip. he has a very lofty goal for this speech. he wants to really encourage the muslim world to ramp up its en ganl the in the fight against isis and extremism. according to white house officials, his message will be one of encouraging everyone to get engaged in the fight for peace and prosperity. he's going to cast it as a fight as good versus evil, though. he's an unlikely messenger. he made all of the inflammatory comments on the campaign trail, called for a muslim ban. as a c

that the transcontinental railroad, at least the western portion, was largely built by a labor from china. the reason you don't know about that is because in the history books they were basically asked not to be there. in the point in utah when that golden spike was hammered in. this was an important recognition of the obama administration that these laborers reserved a place in u.s. history. it also speaks more broadly to the important role that immigrants play in our country and that's a lesson we ought to think about in this point in our history when immigrants and refugees are being ossttra size by the current administration. >> the first and only major federal law that targeted a single ethnic group as you know. thank you so much. i appreciate your time. >> thank you for having me. >>. >>> next how an incident at boss ten fenway park raises some questions about racism. my doctoe helps ease fibromyalgia pain. she also prescribed lyrica. fibromyalgia is thought to be the result of overactive nerves. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. woman: for some, lyrica can significantly reli

we know that the kushner family had attempted to use that in china very >> is there any line that you can draw including that you can direct us to that suggests what any connection might be between trump business ties and russia, trump, russian financing or having russian buyers for his properties and what that has to do with the russian attack on the election. i feel like i'm starting to learn a lot about each of those two things, i'm not sure how they connect, though. >> well, it probably has more to do with whether or not the president is going to be willing to take on president putin. if, in fact, he is tied to him for financial reasons within his real estate development empire. and there are a number of them, most of them is open source information, that has close ties with the trump organization and who have done deals with the trump organization. so you couple that with the fact that so many of the campaign operatives have relationships with russia, with president putin and provide services or with some of the -- and it looks like a web that is so intertwined that there's no do

we know that the kushner family had attempted to use that in china very recently. >> is there any line that you can draw or any reporting that you can direct us to that suggests what any connection might be between trump busins ties in russia, trump russian financing or having russian buyers for his praurptds and what that has to do with the russian attack on the election? i feel like i am starting to learn a lot about each of those two things. i'm not sure how to connect them. >> iterably has more to do with whether or not the president is going to be willing to take on president putin if in fact he is tied to him or the russian for financial reasons within his real estate development empire. and there are a number of russian oligarchs who have close ties with the trump organization. you couple that with the fact that so many of the campaign operatives with relationships with russia, with president putin, have provided services to them or with some of the russian oligarchs and looks like a web so intertwined that there is no doubt that we have finding concern that we don't have a pres

china with a new role, a new strategy from iran, and we have a lot of balls in the air. to is really and meeting of course down the road with putin in july. a big foreign policy agenda. >> a big foreign policy agenda, and the choices on domestic policy including the stiering of the chief are an opportunity cost of discussions that we are not having on national security. the important ones that you just mentioned, i add into it the economic basis for the president's budget, whether or not we should be increasing defense spending and by how much. we're not having those conversations because the president's domestic policy choices are sucking all of the air out of the broader national security space. the second is that it leaves stunting for america's advers y adversari adversaries. and the third is, as john mclaughlin suggests is it is harder for them to stand next to the president, to support our initiatives, and say yes to what the president is asking when his behavior is less like the president of the netherlands and more like the president of turkey or russia. >> and a