mcmaster was the father of former trump national security advisor h.r. mcmaster. the case is raising troubling questions for families with loved ones living in homes for seniors. stephanie gosk has details. >> reporter: the death of h.r. mcmaster's 84-year-old father was sudden. police now say it was also criminal. a nurse at the facility is charged with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and records tampering. >> gainey could have saved mr. mcmaster's life had she simply done her job. >> reporter: gainey will plead not guilty to the charges. her attorney telling nbc news, gainey is a single mother and was simply doing her job. we fully expect her to be exonerated but police say she failed to do the required neurological checks on mcmaster and released a detailed time line of what happened. april 9th, herbert mcmaster is admitted for rehabilitation for a stroke. and april 12th, at 11:30 p.m. mcmaster is found on the floor of his room with a gash on his head. 6:30 a.m. a concerned nurse assistant asks about his condition. gainey says he's okay. 7:00 a.m. the staff d

mcmaster care. the lpn has been charged with a neglect of care of a dependent person, tampering with regards. the attorney general said that she recklessly caused serious bodily injury to mcmaster by failing to cause treatment or care. >> she could have saved mr. mcmaster's life had she simply done her job. instead, she ignored her job responsibilities, falsified paperwork and lied to her supervisors to cover up this inexcusable conduct. >> according to investigators, she filled out neurological flow sheets all those she was conducting neurological evaluations as required by policy. but video shows that she did not do any of that. after hours went by, she checked on mcmaster and said he was okay at 7:20 a.m. he was already dead. when she was asked about that in the record, she said, well, i falsified that one. the family has issued a statement that reads in part "the best way to honor his memory is to get those that lack impassion and lack the most basic standards of human decency." officials said t

mcmaster had died in plain sight, gainy did not perform -- not one of these checks on mr. mcmaster. despite completing paperwork saying that she did. >> reporter: including one check that said he was fine. 20 minutes after he had died. according to the criminal complaint, gainy admitted to falsifying a record. but her attorney tells nbc news, mostly sunny gainy is a single mother and was simply doing her job. she had nothing to do with causing the death of mr. mcmaster. adding, when all of the evident is heard, we fully expect her to be exonerated. police say surveillance video at the elderly home revealed gainy had falsified mcmaster's record. the best way to honor his memory is to prevent others from suffering at the hands of those who lack compassion -- >> stephanie gosk reporting there. and now gainy is pleading not guilty to charges and the elderly care facility is cooperating with authorities and said the care and well being of the residents is top priority. >>> coming up, we want to get the forecast just in case you have plans with mom. >> and if you don't have plans yet, mak

mcmaster, the father of h.r. mcmaster, was a retired li colonel. he died in his room at the care facility in philadelphia. this morning, a nurse at the elderly home is charged with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and records tampering. >> she could have saved mr. mcmast ercmaster's life hade her job. >> reporter: he suffered a stroke and was admitted. three days later, an assistant nurse found him on the floor of his room with a gash in his head. authorities say she was alerted and supposed to keep a close eye on him. neurological checks every 15 minutes, to make sure his condition didn't worsen. >> by the seventh hour, mr. mcmaster had died in plain sight. gainey did not perform one, not one of these checks on mr. mccastmr. m mr. mcmaster, despite paperwork that said she did. >> reporter: including one check saying mcmaster was fine, 20 minutes after he died. she admitted to falsifying the railroad. but her attorney tells nbc news, ms. gaingainey was doing her jo. we expect her to be exonerated. surveillance video at the home said that gainey ha

mcmaster is the president's former national security adviser until recently. nurse christian grainy allegedly left mcmaster's father in the lobby of a hospital after he fell and had a cut on his head. she is accused of failing to check in on him and falsifying records. police say mcmaster's father would be alive if this nurse had done her job. >>> the suspected golden state killer has been charged with four additional counts of murder. authorities believe that joseph james deangelo was responsible for a dozen killings and at least 50 rapes. he was arrested last month. he has not yet entered a plea. >>> a texas city on edge this morning after a package exploded outside a church. this is the second unexplained explosive device found in beaumont in the past two weeks. >> remember two months ago austin was hit with a series of bombings where five packages exploded killing two people, injuring five others. let's go to nick valencia with more details. >> reporter: scary times right now for residents of beaumont. this package was found exploded sometime after the wed

mcmaster. they would deny things on behalf of the white house such as, on this day just a year ago, in 2017, "the washington post" reported that president trump had disclosed information to the russian ambassador in the oval office. tillerson essentially confirmed it. powell and mcmaster denied it. so i do think that the element of truth within the administration always was a problem for rex tillerson. >> do you think tillerson is going to want to talk more about his time and maybe what the president said to vladimir putin during the meetings? do you think we'll ever hear about that? >> frex wrex tillerson was the male at the top of the most powerful corporation in the world, exxon-mobil. then he goes into the trump administration and is treated pretty terribly, the way john kelly noted him while he was suffering from -- >> if you need to, look it up. >> that was just disgraceful. he was treated pretty terribly by the administration and by the president himself getting fired by tweet. i think i

. >> the nurse accused of leaving hr mcmaster to die is charged with involuntary manslaughter. christian gainey never checked on hr mcmaster senior after a senior living center left in his wheelchair in the hallway for 7 hours. >> gainey could have saved mr. mcmasters's life. >> american soldier found guilty of deliberately destroying military humvees, video showing humvees crashing to the ground after sgt. john skipper cut their parachute straps during an exercise in germany in 2016. court-martial punishing skipper with a demotion from sgt. to private and bad conduct discharge. they can cost $220,000 each. another campaign promise fulfilled, the us embassy in tel aviv making the move to jerusalem monday. pastor robert jeffers will be there to lead the prayer at the historic events, good morning. what this means individually, what is the mood among evangelicals in advance of this? >> they are ecstatic as our committed jews. this has great spiritual and historical significance by recognizing jerusalem and moving our embassy, our country is saying what we know from history in the

mcmaster is a wonderful man, in my opinion. i am worried mcmaster's departure, we will pay more of a price for that than people think. theever, trump did not like way he presented things, which was fairly lengthy, detailed, scholarly memos and briefings. pompeo somehow was able to convey the stuff to trump in a way that trump liked. trump is unusual in so many ways. the white house, the president's daily intelligence briefing comes first. security advisers sit in, the cia director comes over. was a team of people who did the presidential daily briefs. occasionally the ciba director or deputy director would come with the news. but those were always at 7:30 otr0 when i worked -- 8:00 when i worked for the vice president. early,ets up pretty judging by his tweets, but he likes to watch "fox and friends ," so he does not like to have his cia briefing. he has his cia briefing at 11:30 in the morning. the world does not run on american eastern standard time, so it probably does not change things. that hisld me it meant whole day was

mcmaster. mcmaster's father died last month inside of a philadelphia retirement facility. authorities say that the elder mcmaster died from blunt impact head trauma. pennsylvania's attorney general said today that the nurse did not perform the necessary neurological checks that would have saved his life and then lied about it. and we are told that the nurse could face up to 20 years in prison. >> breaking news on what happened to four u.s. troops ambushed and killed in niger. the pentagon report was released today, citing multiple failures but no direct blame. we're learning more about what happened to sergeant la david johnson. he was one of the soldiers killed and his remains were found later, farther away from those of his comrades. take a listen. >> he was never captured alive. his hands were never bound. his serviceable equipment was stripped and taken from him. but he was never in enemy hands alive. they did have access to his remains and to beok his equipme. that first mission was not properly characterized. it was focused on the isis g.s. sub commander. there were

mcmaster is a wonderful man, in my opinion. i am worried mcmaster's departure, we will pay more of a price for that than people think. whatever, trump did not like the way he presented things, which was fairly lengthy, detailed, scholarly memos and briefings. pompeo somehow was able to convey the stuff to trump in a way that trump liked. trump is unusual in so many ways. when i was in the white house, the president's daily intelligence briefing comes first. security advisers sit in, the cia director comes over. in the old days a staffer from -- and there was a team of people who did the presidential daily briefs, and on occasion the director would news, andsome big after 9/11, thanks changed. -- things changed. but those were always at 7:30 when i worked -- or 8:00 when i worked for the vice president. trump gets up pretty early, judging by his tweets, but he likes to watch "fox and friends," so he does not like to have his cia briefing. he has his cia briefing at 11:30 in the morning. which is fine, it doesn't matter, the worl

mcmaster's father. prosecutors say christann gainey failed to check on herbert mcmaster sr. after he fell last month at a senior community center in philadelphia. gainey is charged with involuntary manslaughter and she's accused of falsifying records. she intends to plead not guilty. >>> and spotify has pulled r. kelly's music from its playlist after the company announced a new policy on hateful conduct. the r&b singer is facing allegations of sexually abusing women for decades and he is the target of recent campaigns #muterkelly. well, his music will still be available to stream but spotify will not promote it. the company says what they choose to program should reflect their values. kelly's management says spotify is acting on false and unproven allegations. >>> a bit of caution ahead of the summer vacation season. the tsa is predicting record crowds at the airports this summer. about 4% more than last year. okay, so here's a tip to save time in that line that you see there. agents say they're less likely to stop you for closer inspection if you take all of the larger obje

they're much more anti- deal than thehe predecessors rex tillerson and hr mcmasters. president hearing it from critics in addition to supporters. >> can you explain while john kerry was speaking with the iranian foreign minister about this? >> john kerry was the lead negotiators for president obama in securing this nuclear deal at the 15 so he has an interest in making sure it stays intact. he was talking at the un a few weeks ago with the iranian foreignsi minister in the former negotiating partner in this angered president trump. he was raising accusations he was improperly trying to influence us policy and it through a fire in this fierce debate over the deal. >> and we've seen from president trump specifically targeting john kerry in what he is calling the shadow of diplomacy. before you go is there anything the white house could do to formally sanction john kerry for doing that? can they shut down his discussionss with the iranian officials or is this something that a former secretary of state is allowed to do? >> well, some trump supporters have raise the possib

mcmaster and rex tillerson. he has to be sitting somewhere in texas going, how in god's name did this to happen to me? remember, a month ago he said it tongue in cheek and john kelly said something like god is punishing me and why i have this job. can you speak about the trump touch? >> that's the amazing thing. i wrote about nikki haley in a column recently how she was the only one able to push back essentially call the white house team a bunch of liars trying to scapegoat her recently on russia sanctions because she is physically in new york. james mattis to deal with the relationship of trump staying quiet, no interviews. and he's sort of still retains obviously the respect of the president. and then, actually gina powell made it into the administration and out quietly and effectively without staining herself either. every single other person -- >> straight back to goldman. it was her junior year abroad and most people join the administration, they leave to go on and do bigger and better things, not a junior

governor hutchinson, governer ducey, governor bryant, governor martinez and governor mcmaster, they are doing a fantastic job. we are going to be talking about numerous things. one of the elements so important to us is to discuss the border and border security, crime and other things, but that's what we will be focusing on tonight. we are grateful also to be joined by secretary nielsen, who is really working very hard. bad laws. we have laws that are the worst anywhere in the world as far as stopping people from coming in, but with that being said, we are down over 40% border crossings. we've been able to do what i think nobody else has been able to do, we are down over 40%. tonight we will be discussing joint efforts to stop illegal immigration and secure the borders also. we are going to be discussing the deadly ravages of drugs, gangs and crime that is pouring across our border and we are stopping it and getting them out when they are able to get through and the only reason they do get through is because of our weak laws that really have been given to us by week people in congress, t

this required mcmaster approving what went on. of course, we know mcmaster, thank god his been fired but he's in with mueller and rosenstein and those that want to see trump run out of office. >> julie: i want to get to your op-ed piece. a couple of media bomb shells. nbc running with the story that michael cohen's phones were tapped. >> we don't know that for sure. >> julie: okay. so we're going to wait and see. then they retracted the story and said it was not true. i'm not sure why any news organization would not go and make sure to get their facts straight before reporting it. that's not the point. the op-ed piece that you write about mueller wasting millions of dollars, let's throw it up on the screen. millions of tax dollars and endless hours of time. let's start with a few on the present run-away railroading of the president and looking back to prior instances only same sorted behavior but mueller. care to expand? >> yeah. mueller has a history of not being a man of integrity but of using and abusing the law to go after peo

up trade.a huge bolton for mcmaster, more complicated. contributed to "the weekly standard many times, but national security adviser is a tough job, i would say, especially managing the relationships of the defense department. that will be an important job for the next few months. anything else we're not thinking of, coming up in the next few months? >> are you asking me? .> at a no, i'm just thinking >> i think that john was basically right. they have got their big things more quickly and easily than it looked like it was going to happen. look at the obama administration. obama was there for eight years and have these great democratic majorities in the first two years and then you have the 2010 republicans had 63 he seats in the house and so on. years, obamae faced the republican house and ultimately gave up on doing anything with republicans in congress. he didn't want to compromise. he didn't want to see him much. as little as possible. remember, he was going to do everything unpadded paper and so on and he did. of these things by exec

mcmaster came in. he is more hawkish. he cleared out the crazies and now that mcmaster is in and he is reshaping the national security council in his image and we''re going to get a more intensely hawkish and more homophobic -- nermeen: you compare the response that keith ellison received for his previous associatations with the nation f islam when he was running for dnc chair and the response of have islamaphobic figures received as they've been appointed in the trump administration. could you talk about that? >> this is very well illusustrad that we live in a a country whee bigotry against muslims is fundamental he seeeen as acceptablele. keith ellison when running for dnc chair was a congressman from minnesota who had decades ago relationship with an organization -- in 2006, he denounced louis farrakhan, denounced in testament to them, bigotry, had no relationship with them for a decade. he also spent most of the pastor campaigning for a jewish candidate for president. nonetheless, none of this resolved that the facts

hr mcmaster was gone by the end of march. often the stories they squeal the loudest about turn out to be true in the shortest order. >> that's absolutely true and it kind of undermines those objections. how seriously are we to take it when the white house denies something if it's quickly verified? why are these leaks happening? it has something to do with the high turnover on the staff. there's some lack of cohesion, i think, within the ranks of the white house where you don't have staff members who feel they have each others' back. they have competing agendas. that's some of the root causes of these leaks. we saw more of that i think in some previous administrations than we're seeing in this one. >> jonathan swan, one of the people about whom the most people leak the most egregious things is john kelly. people leak around the rob porter incident. you couldn't get off the phone before someone else was calling to tell you how responsible kelly was, that his initial statement about his reaction was a lie. wherever there's a com

a flynn hire was removed by kurnt are current national security adviser mcmaster. mcmaster himself was ousted himself in march by john bolton who made his presence known by getting rid of four national security staffers in the very same week. other staffers have left including a staff secretary, high-level communications aide, a high profile office of publicly a son staffer and top tv sur row gated and presidential assistant sebastian gorka. and of course four communications directors came and went since the inauguration, this position actually remains unfilled still. and even though still in the administration aren't totally on solid ground, there's no one in the administration the president has heaped more abuse on that attorney general jeff sessions, the former alabama senator has been open the outs with president trump sips he recused himself from the russia investigation last year. secretary neilson's threat to resign takes a page out of her mentor's book. chief of staff john kelly is reported to have made the same threat several times in recent months. here's

but there are people that the president essentially turns to -- mcmaster was one of him. he embarrasseds him and same with tillerson. the president said people are knocking down the door to get into the white house and that is not view and very evident with the search for the v.a. secretary that they cannot find anyone and having trouble picking just one person. so certainly the president does have a history of -- >> i love the book of genesis and yet the president turns into salt. a little sodom and gomorrah. and is president trump using a supermarket tabloid headline to send a message to his fixer and personal attorney michael cohen? stay with us. >> tech: so you think this chip is nothing to worry about? well at safelite, we know sooner or later every chip will crack. these friends were on a trip when their windshield got chipped. so they scheduled at safelite.com. they didn't have to change their plans or worry about a thing. i'll see you all in a little bit. and i fixed it right away with a strong repair they can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is

mcmaster who is trying to connect the normal processes of making better informed reality-based facts decisions to the decisions made by the president and make those gears mesh. i'm not even addressing questions of lawfulness. that's a separate issue. we will follow the law. i'm not worried about that but what i say in the book is those things over here, the cia and the nsa we always accommodate the president. each human being is present in a different way. president obama learned from a quiet moment. he was a reader rather than a conversationalist for the intel folks. president trump has his own. we accommodate to that. the last thing in the book and an answer to your question would i say in the book is you cannot accommodate so much to one president that you undercut the legitimacy of institution and in the eyes of institution, the eyes of the people which are really important in the eyes of the next president. you are what it is you pretend to be a fact based intelligence service so that's why they need to hold their ground. >> you can do that by continuing to speak the truth. >> t

and kelly and mattis, it fell apart with mcmaster and intentions for a while with kelly. but trump hates being managed, hates even more the image that he is this whooild chichild whoe managed. mattis rrtd third prong, seems to be totally immune from that so far. >> carol, i know had you an early morning and then a late night so i'm glad you're able to join us. >>> after the break were we're keeping a close eye on that migrant caravan that's at the board they're morning. dozens of people waiting for their shot at a new life in the u.s. we'll talk about who's made it through, who's still stuck and why. >>> plus, our interview with the former attorney general after the break. most familiar companies, but we make more than our name suggests. we're an organic tea company. a premium juice company. a coconut water company. we've got drinks for long days. for birthdays. for turning over new leaves. and we make them for every moment in every corner of the country. we are the coca-cola company, and we're proud to offer so much more. it was always our singular focus, a distinct dete

>> when i was a mid range officer probably you tenant colonel i read hr mcmaster's book on this which is a description of the joint chiefs of staff during this very time and fundamentally h.r. condemns that she for not pressing their case, for agreeing with the-- in real life when you go in there with a case that cuts across the presidents preferred policy, narrative, preconceived belief you got to buckle in and you got to push back hard. i-- i have a minor version of that with president bush as we were describing what the war in iraq was. it went from dead ender to an insurgency to a civil war to something worse than a civil war and as we made each analytical leap we had to sit down with the president who is not being made happy that the signal foreign-policy action of his administration was doing this, but we dug in and said it, so in that case-- and hr makes it clear it was the truth tellers not doing their duty, not insisting. >> thank you for being here. >> thanks. >> i understand you are speaking about this dynamic of post truth administration, post truth base in america, but i

a spokesperson denied mcmaster made the comments. sparks really flew when a tell all book fire and fury came out in january. it quotes the president's top economic adviser calling the president dumb as something that starts with an "s". the white house said it was ridiculous. it quotes others as calling their boss an idiot. priebus claimed he never said it. mnuchin called the book a fake. joining me now is my co-host on velshi and ruhle, stephanie ruh ruhle. earlier today she said i remind her of brad pitt. >> i said to me you're my brad pitt. while i have reported on john kelly calling the president an idiot and rex tillerson calling him a moron, i cannot speak to the other claims out there. >> right. with the moron from rex tillerson, the president, again, tweeted that nbc is lying and the reporting is fake. >> the president can tweet that all he wants. we've spoken to eight people who through the course of our reporting and we've been working on this for weeks have been speaking about the erosion between president trump and john k

mcmaster. he fell and hit his head at senior care facility and accused of falsifying documents to make it appear that she followed the necessary procedures, sad. and a disappointing stock debut for largest initial public offering of the year receiving weak reception from investors yesterday, far below 27. weak pricing after several insurers reported disappointing earnings. you have to be a tech stock to get better valuation. cheryl: no kidding. we have a lot coming up in the world, june 12th, the date, we've got it in singapore, time and date set with the president's historic meeting with kim jong un but trump is make it clear he's not going to agree to another bad deal for america. >> i think it's going to be a very big success but my attitude is and if it isn't, it isn't, okay, if it isn't, it isn't, but you have to have that because you don't know, we are not going to be talked into an iran deal with the negotiator john kerry refused to leave the table. cheryl: let's move to what's going to

mcmaster. herbert mcmaster died last month after he fell and hit his head at his nursing home in philadelphia. kristin ganee was charged with involuntary manslaughter and neglect. she's accused of failing to give him exams after his fall. >> cairo tv reports on a sad end to a mystery. 10-year-old lindsay disappeared in 2009 while walking home at night from a friend's house. investigators announced yesterday hunters found her remains in a remote area of eastern washington last year. the search for her killer or killers continue. >> and our partners at c-net say google will design its human sounding virtual assistant duplex with disclosure built in. we talked about that yesterday. the new technology allows google assistant to have a conversation when calling to make appointments and reservation. there's concern the robo voice doesn't sound robo at all. it sounds so real it could deceive people. >> how may i help you? >> hi, i'd like to reserve a table for wednesday the 7th. >> for seven people? >

mcmaster has stated we have a military option. i go back to the letter. it was very carefully crafted in such a way that it showed sensitivity in tone, and i don't know if my line cut out when i made the point that he did not hurl insults at kim jong—un. i think we have made tremendous progress just coming to the table to negotiate, and i would say once again that we have an expression in texas, don't mess with texas, and don't mess with president trump. don't mess with trump. is the world closer to what one might call an accidental conflagration? and this might be the cost of a more capricious diplomacy, that accidents are more likely to happen. is that correct, jarrett? one thing to say quickly, i think the reason kim jong—un stopped testing is the reason he successfully tested a thermonuclear device and didn't need to do any more. in answer to your question, right now the world is in kim jong—un's hands. that's not a comfortable place to be because he can raise and lower the temperature. i would have preferred not to have ceded initiative to him.

mcmaster leave the white house a couple weeks ago. i mean, h.r. spent a year trying to connect the processes of government to the decision-making of the white house, and it just doesn't seem to have worked. >> that's a frightening statement that the decision-making is just divorced from the -- from the actual intelligence. >> so, for example, and this may be a minor issue, but it's current that. press release tonight. in my life experience would have had the white house not ever issuing that without running it by the intel guys to make sure they could live with the statement. i don't see that pattern in this administration. >> but it's interesting. we're at a point now where the folks on capitol hill almost ignore what the president is saying. it's sort of like, oh, he's just that guy, you know, who is mumbling that stuff. it doesn't actually necessarily mean that's what the new policy. >> you know, the american presidency is a powerful offices. one of its great powers is the bully pulpit and one of the great powers is what the president says. you

mcmaster strategy was pressuring the pakistanis who we argue now that we tried that and it never did any good and just keep fighting because now i'm like david petraeus who screwed up doing what we can do in the year to half trump said give the four years. we have a four-year plan and maybe at the end of another four years of fighting and will be in a position of strength to negotiate with the taliban to do what we wanted. in the book "fire and fury" powell who was the deputy national security adviser and she says exactly what's going on here in trump referred to this in his speech and not as announcing the escalation. outlook if we withdraw the troops that means trump lost the war. trump can't lose the war. that's what they told him and he bought that and yet we all know he is donald trump. he could have said this is all president obama's fault. the posture never were enemy and they are now. that's we could done. to end the war and have a parade do i have any time left? five minutes. i'm sorry i thought it was going way over time there. so now i to talk about the importance of wars

hr mcmaster had left. they may not have had a process many place to get everyone around the table and kind of much toward a coordinating decision. it feels that way to me based on my experience. >> with bolton getting rid of a number of people from the national security counsel. the whole deputies process in which this was all up in air. >> we can come back on track. >> we'll leave it there for now. a lot more breaking news today at this hour. now including the top democrat on the house intelligence committee at the very last moment. adam schiff throwing a wrench just before his republican counterparts. to look at classified information about the fbi russia probe of which the president is a subject. nunes and trey gowdy are viewing the documents trying to prove the president's allegation there was a spy in the campaign even though there's no evidence of that. this afternoon a second briefing with members of the bipartisan gang of eight will take place on capitol hill. that was announced at 10:00 last night

then he had rex tillerson as secretary of the state and mcmaster national security advisor. he had two people, as well as the defense secretary james mattis who has been arguing forcibly in favor of the deal. now he has john bolton and pompeo and two advocates for getting out of deal. let's talk to ckasie hunt about politics. it's tuesday, primary day. west virginia front and center. >> reporter: that's right. this should be a prime pick up opportunity for republicans. west virginia voted more for trump than any other state in the union. it's still represented by a democrat, joe mansion who i know you know well. he's somebody who is well known, well liked across the state who comes across with charm but really has a very sharp political mind and understanding of his state. but, that said, the numbers really are against him. his state has swung the other way. this should be a place where republicans could pick up a seat. add to that extraordinarily narrow majority. any single seat could sing this one way or the other. the republican primary a complete mess because of don blak

mcmaster, now he has to reach out to a tv host. you were great, i was great, mueller's awful, what do i do? he's looking for a shoulder to whine on, every day. this is just crazy. and that new york piece that says hannity is just the leader of the kitchen cabinet who else is in that cabinet is this alex jones? they sped past humiliation a lock time ago. >> the most fundamental thing is not about ideology, and in fact these are dwactual top advisors and they're not contractibaccou the american public, that's a problem. >>> ahead, i turn to a special report on the coordinated attack on trump's enemies with dmunew attacks on roger stone and randy credico. did you say yes? good, then it's time for power e*trade. the platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. looks like we have a couple seconds left. let's do some card twirling twirling cards e*trade. the original place to invest online. i'm lucky to get through a shift without a disaster. my bargain detergent couldn't keep up. so, i switched to tide pods. they're sup

mcmaster gone, and replacing them are people who top wanted to rip this up from day one. >> the chancellor from germany was here, left disappointed. president macron from france, left disappointed. there was a phone call between president macron and president trump. we don't have exact details what the president is going to announce, but that leaves one to believe it's going to be more dramatic than, i'm going to impose some sanctions ask thnd we have a few months to think about this. >> president macron came here to keep the president from ripping up that deal. that obviously didn't work. the question going forward is what is the white house going to do about this? the president has long said this is an insane deal, he can't believe the united states got into this, but he hasn't said what he's going to do differently. he has said he believes he's the person who can change it. one of the sticky points that he doesn't like this deal is because it came about when barack obama was in office. it's not a surprise to anyone, but the question is what does he do going forward, what language does h

mcmaster. the new secretary of state is going to be in a very interesting role. we will see where he fits in between bolton and mattis and how this effects foreign policy going forward for the rest of the trump administration. >> to that end john bolton is guest on state of the union. the president tweeting yesterday another thank you to north korea which be skeptical and more skeptical but north korea is showing good will. north korea announced it will dismantle nuclear test site this month, a very smart and gracious gesture. one of the things that was interesting this past week, it's a p.r. stunt in some ways. they released the three americans. listen to the president's tone. is the president suddenly too kind to kim jong-un? >>> the white house team said the president is just trying to keep the good will into the summit. critics would say this is a regime and this dictator has fired missiles over japan and south korea not someone you call excellent and nice. >> i was talking to members of congress after the remarks. republicans are generally supportive of the

mcmaster. there's reporting today in multiple news organizations that there was some disconnect among the national security team. what are the prospects at this moment for getting this back on track, and do you believe that to be the goal? >> yeah, it's a great question. look, i think one thing we've learned with this president is nothing is permanent. nothing is final. the fact that the summit is off today doesn't mean it won't be back on tomorrow or some later date. the president clearly was signaling that today both in his comments and his letter. he clearly still thinks this is a possibility, and you can see him, you know, coming around to finding a way to put it back on the schedule at some point. the trick is putting it back on the schedule is going to be harder than putting it on in the first place because he's going to have to explain what would actually convince him to change his mind again. it would look bad to simply say, sure, let's give it another try if he didn't get something mor

rex tillerson and national security adviser general mcmaster were both not proponents of withdrawing from the deal. and as you know, this had to be renewed every 90 days and -- and so the president unwillingly do that because he was being advised to do so. now you've got john bolton in there as national security adviser, you have mike pompeo who by the way is on his way to north korea, as a p-- a recursoo that negotiation and who are on the president's side. as we've been talking about, i would say for the six weeks to two months now, this is the different president from the president who entered office. he believe he he has control of this and how to run it and he will keep his promises no matter what. and so while the heads of european nations try to do an intervention basically on donald trump, meeting with him and talking to him and telling him don't do this, in every way they possibly way they could, it seems his mind was pretty made up and that there was nothing even until the 11th hour that they could possibly do. >> and bianna golodryga, how this will affect relations with ge

john bolton is much more skeptical of the iran deal than the previous national security adviser hr mcmaster. and three, everything the president has said in recent weeks suggests that he thinks that it is a bad deal and he doesn't support it. so reading the tea leaves it looks like he will withdraw. but who knows ultimately what he'll do. >> the boston globe out with a story about how john kerry has been work back channels, in touch with iran's foreign minister, with allies with the u.s. and it is something that has ticked off the president, this idea of shadow complacencha sha. what has kerry been up to? >> "the boston globe" did an extensive report and i don't have anything to add. but one thing that he has been doing is trying to tell members of congress what will happen if the deal is ripped up because he supports the deal, he helped negotiate the deal. he even was on capitol hill last week, he met with house speaker paul ryan in february to try to make the case that the deal as it exists, however flawed it might be, is better than ripping up the deal. so he has been out there, you hear

the way he dealt with mcmaster, where he was contradicting where he was saying. it was a big signal being sent out standing behind him. but, and there's always a but, we'll know when the rubber hits the road. when the first time pompeo recognizing the realities of his job finds himself in a place saying something that contradicts what the president says. how they behave when that happens, that's when we'll know how close they are. or when the president overrules him and says something in public that contradicts what pompeo says. does pompeo move the president quietly closer to his position or simply agree with the president? that's when we'll understand how much power this secretary of state has. >> i just think back to when rex tillerson was first holding the position, sort of that shadow secretary of state role that president trump put jared kushner in. when was the last time you heard president trump talk about jared kushner? no longer does mike pompeo have the overhang of the president's son-in-law looming about in charge of peace in the middle east and china

mcmaster -- >> chris, sorry to interrupt. let's go to the white house for the briefing. >> richard who lives in austin, texas is turning 112 years old. he served in the pacific theater from 1942 to 1945 as part of the all-black battalion. happy birthday and thank you for your service. i'd like to wish general john kelly a happy birthday. looking ahead to sunday, happy mother's day and as a note of free advice, don't forget to buy your moms, you might even buy flowers if you feel inclined. with that, i will take your questions. jonathan. >> reporter: on the kim jong un summit, we're told that the summit will be a day-long, possibly extending to a second day. what is the best case scenario for what can be accomplished in a single day? what does the president think can be done in a single day with kim jong un? >> certainly not going to get ahead of those conversations. as you stated, we plan for a full day of meetings on the 12th with some time reserved to carry over if necessary. certainly the best outcome would be an agreement

mcmaster called him a kindergartner, so you see people who spend a lot of time with the president are coming away with startling indictments about his leadership and management style, and i don't care who you pick as the next chief of staff, i think it's pretty clear that john kelly's got to go, he's lost both the president and the chief of staff, and those are the only two con stitch wen whistituenci president cares about. but whoever takes over next isn't going to succeed because donald trump doesn't want him do. >> thanks to both of you for joining us, and of course we are just moments away now from a white house press briefing, with press secretary sarah huckabee sanders. >>> but first, it is secretary mike pompeo's first day at foggy bottom, can he turn the beleaguered state department around? you totanobody's hurt, new car. but there will still be pain. it comes when your insurance company says they'll only pay three-quarters of what it takes to replace it. what are you supposed to do? drive three-quarters of a car? now if you had liberty mutual new car replacement™, you'd get

he was no fan and assumed to be a general belief there will be several key advisors around, notably mcmaster, holding the deal in check. i think we very much have been through unchartered territory we pull out of this because it is clear the europeans are still very much behind it, as was president macron's visit to the united states showed. this is something that we have been expecting. i think what president macron said as he left probably indicated the fact this is not going to be a surprise. amy: and a thank you both for being with us, phil chetwynd editor-in-chief at agence , france-presse. ali latifi, freelance journalist based in kabul. stay safe. this is democracy now! when we come back, we will speak the foundervenson, of the equal justice initiative, the grip on the national memorial for peace and justice in new monument to victims of white supremacy, slavery, and lynching has just opened in montgomery, alabama. ♪ [music eak] amy: "gar konad saheb-e-man" by the afghan singer mahwash. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on thursday,

and in this instance, i mean in some instances likerf the firin of mcmaster or tillerson, you could argue that a lot more people should have been brought into the loop. in this instance, though, the point was raised to us that this was a personal matter t. was something between the president and his personal lawyer. it did not involve white house business, and that bringing it into the white house and exposing other staffers to it could have put them in some legal liability. but of course the press secretary, who is going to have to go out and defend this issue in the morning to a gaggle of reporters who greeted her the second she showed up at work, would have been a good person to have brought in the loop at some point probably before the words came mouth last night on fox. >> shannon, i heard a white house correspondent on onen6ém o the cable networks tonight said she has lost the room. would you put it thatox3 dramatically? >> um, i mean it's a tough job, and she's been put out there in a number of positions where either she's not given the full information or, you know, she can't --

was no fan and assumed to be a general belief there will be several key advisors around, notably m mcmaster, holding the deal in check. i think we very much have been through unchartered territory we pull out of this because it is clear the europeans are still very much behind it, as was president macron's visit to the united states showed. this is something that we have been expecting. i think what president macron said as he left probably indicated the fact this is not going to be a surprise. amy: and a thank you both for being with us, phil chetwynd editor-in-chief at agence , france-presse. ali latifi, freelance journalist based in kabul. stay safe. this is democracy now! when we come back, we will speak the foundervenson, of the equal jusustice initiati, the grip on the national memorial for peace and justice in new monument to victitims of white supremacy, slavery, and lynching has just opened in montgomery, alabama. ♪ [music break] amy: "gar konad saheb-e-man" byy the afghan singer mahwash. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. on thur

in iraq with general mcmaster he did something very successful. the first person to pay attention to these identities and he turned it around. one thing he said it's if you use a derogatory term to refer to all arabs are all muslims you're basically handing the enemy of victory. they all look the same we have a negative view. >> take this to the domestic policy realm. i remember being in new york city and attending a party held by the republican leaders who did not think it would go especially well. around 9:00 o'clock were sitting around drinking hoping that by 11 or 12 we've had enough that we won't be so sad about the news we hear. there are many trump skeptical republicans. they expected the room to go against the entire republican party. i remember getting a call around 930 or 10:00 p.m. they called me and said we need you to come in. i said why? and they said we need someone to talk about the white working class. this is not going the way we expected. i said okay i'll come in. so i went to the studios and i remember arriving there and there

the only thing that changed is that hr mcmaster is not there and john bolton is. >> and pompeo is tech tear of sta -- secretary of state and tillerson is not. >> it seems pretty clear to me they didn't think through the next steps that come after this. we'll see how grave those steps will be. >> he also cited israeli intelligence as one of his proof points in his prepared remarks today that the iranians were essentially cheating on the deal. the two figures who are ascendant in the president's foreign policy inner circle, they are historically very close allies of israel, very trusting of israeli intelligence. >> also i would add that our own american officials such as defense secretary jim mattis and also mike pompeo, the secretary of state emerged too. i think that we are going to look back on today as the most isolationist move made by a u.s. president in the postworld war ii order. i think this is a very huge move in terms of the united states literally going at it alone. you pointed out iraq, you pointed out afghanistan. there was multilateral support for those interventions, the

and in this instance, i mean in some instances like the firing of mcmaster or tillerson, you could argue that a lot more people should have been brought into the loop. in this instance, though, the point was raised to us that this was a personal matter. it was something between the president and his personal lawyer. it did not involve white house business, and that bringing it into the white house and exposing other staffers to it could have put them in some legal liability. but of course the press secretary, who is going to have to go out and defend this issue in the morning to a gaggle of reporters who greeted her the second she showed up at work, would have been a good person to have brought in the loop at some point probably before the words came out of rudy giuliani's mouth last night on fox. >> shannon, i heard a white house correspondent on one of the cable networks tonight said she has lost the room. would you put it that dramatically? >> um, i mean it's a tough job, and she's been put out there in a number of positions where either she's not given the full information or, you kn

by the way, echoing the general mcmaster who reportedly called him an idiot and a dope, gary cohn who called him an idiot, secretary of state rex tillerson had adjective in front of idiot. i think there is a reoccurring motif here in the trump administration, people closest to the president don't think he's that bright. >> tillerson called him a moron. >> moron, sorry. >> moron there. scott, i want to shift gears, i want to cover more ground here and put up the national enquirer headline. it is in the supermarket near you, this is the cover -- trump's fixers, secrets and lies, talking about michael cohen, very supportive of the president, jim acosta reporting that people close to the president think this is a very strong sign the president is turning against michael cohen and michael cohen, had asked if a message was being sent by this cover, michael cohen said what do you think? kind of a big yikes around that, isn't there? >> yeah, and there ought to be, frankly. with the mueller investigation, we pretty much know everything. heck, we even had the list of questions now that the pres

mcmaster thought there was a real chance the pentagon would have to confront kim jong un militarily. the u.s. was preparing for military contingencies with enough specificity that spooked the south koreans who were worried enough that they brokered the conversations with the north that led to the summit offer. is that same dangerous uncertainty, nicholas, now back? >> well, we have to recall, we've been a heartbeat away from a resumption of war in the korean peninsula. there has never been a peace treaty. there only was a cease-fire brokered in 1953. the level of tension has always been extremely high due to north korean intentions. sometimes we recognize this. sometimes we don't. we should be very clear that the north korean side's long-term objective is to prepare to fight and win a limited nuclear war against the u.s. and her allies in the korean peninsula when they are sufficiently confident they can have such a showdown. that is more or less of what the north korean foreign ministry threatened the u.s. with on wednesday evening. >> sandra: you know, i want to transition to some