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Arabia on friday with the president , will it be a highlight or is this noise going to muddle everything . Stephanie rule, thank you, thank you all of you for watching this hour of msnbc live. Right now, Andrea Mitchell reports. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports President Trump at the coast guard economy in connecticut speaking for the First Time Since the news of the comey memo as the white house tries to down play the crisis. A tight rope, republicans on capitol hill trying to balance supporting the president and the political fall yoult from the chaotic white house. It is just an understanding, but unfortunately, we continue every now it is accelerating. Watergate took 18 months and it seems to be taking hours. Im sure we will want to hear from mr. Comey why, if this happens how he describes, why didnt he take action at the time. From rush that with love. Putin says he can prove to congress that President Trump did not pass classified records to them. Mr. Secretary, vumt is offering congress a transcript of that oval office meeting, do you think the russians were bugging the oval office . I have no way of knowing that. What do you think of his offer. Do you have any comment on the violent protests outside of Turkey Embassy . Good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A big news day. Peter alexander is at the white house. Peter, lets talk about the comey memo, the white house push back against that, and why did james comey wait to reveal all of this . To be clear right now, the white house is lurching from one crisis to another. A memo kept by james comey. Were told he kept memos after every phone and in personal conversation person conversation he had with the president. This one says the president asking him to back off of the investigation of Michael Flynn. The white house is pushing back on that vigorously. They say it is not truthful or accurate. They say at no time would or has the president doesasked for an investigation to be shut down, but it was striking in a conversation that i had here earlier today, they did not deny the memo exists, but they say this is simply the way the president speaks. Not that he was trying to shut down an investigation, but he was trying to express his personal affinity to james comey for Michael Flynn saying dont pile on her, and they are trying to push back the idea that james comey sat on this information saying if he had it for so long, why didnt he communicate it to the acting fbi director who testified about this last week saying tlfls here was no effort impede the investigation. Was he keeping memos because he was trying to write a book or advance an investigation . A quick question about the fact that netanyahu spoke with the president , is there any readout yet on that important conversation as the president did reveal classified information to the republicans. The white house has publicly not provided any readout. It was a senior aide here who confirmed to me it was a conversation between Benjamin N Netanyahu or President Trump. That is as this explosive allegation was coming out about israel and it being the third party source. Here at the white house they are pushing back on the leaking of the classified information. Focussing on the leaks and not the leaker. Senatoor laihee is joining m now. You have seen this before, where do you stand on what the president did with president james comy, could reach the level of obstruction of justice . I have seen this movie before. I came here at the time of watergate, but the revelations almost hour by hour, if you were to submit a script for a movie like that, they would say its too preposterous. It is not, it is real. And when the president has everybody go out and say no, we never discuss classified material with russians, he has all of his people put their neck on the line saying that then they find out the russians take the meeting, and then the president tweets of course i did talk about classified matters, who is running the show . Russia or the United States . Do you think there was a tape . I know that Vladimir Putin said in a use Conference Today there is a transcript, but he could be been referring to a notetaker. We know both sides had note takers, but did he notes from that meeting. But when i was a child i believed in the tooth fairy too, but i assume they made a full recording of it. But its just like the president kept the American Press out of his meeting because he did not want to be seen with the ambassador after all of his meetings with the leading to the firing of general flynn. He says even though i was under oath, i gave you the wrong facts, so they did not want american facts in there. You saw it on every single newspaper in our country, they shipped that around the world. Again, its a case, amateur hour at the white house, and the russians pulling strings. They have invited james comey to testify, should it be in an open hearing to the American People get to hear his side of the story . I want him to testify in an open hearing. They talk about the memos he made, well that is tradition. Any age of the fbi, certainly when i was a prosecutor, any time they interview someone, they immediately wrote a long interview afterward for what was said. James comy did comey did the same thing. I would take his version toe the trump one that seemed to change by the hour. And there was a request to andrew mckab for all of those comey memos that are the property of the fbi. I think i want to see the memos. And i dont care wra thhere the i want to see them and the American People ought to see them. If youre going to try to tell the fbi director you to be loyal to me, not to the rule of law, we have a real problem in this country. This is something where republicans and democrats align should unite and say is the white house being dangerous . Is the white house spending too much time planning with the russians and not worrying about our process. He wants to sue the media, he went off the federal courts, he went after Law Enforcement and anyone that may disagree with him. Hements to set a religious test. This is not america, and this is a threat to america. And it is being dangerous. I think the republicans and democrats are going to say hold on a minute, lets find out exactly what happened. I think we have that duty to the American People. I know you to go vote, a quick question now, the body guards for erdogan were beating up protestors right there on embassy road, no comment yet . I saw those pictures on your network this morning, of them beating them up. It is outrageous. We ought to stand for something in our country. We ought to stand for peoples rights. We ought to stand for the right of decent. And we should say very strongly that is not the way we do things in america. A dictator in turkey may do it, but thats not how we do it in america. We have to come back to american values. Thank you so much, senator, i know you have to go vote. Thank you for taking time to be with us. Now lets take a deeper dive into the legal issues. Justice and security analyst matt miller who served as chief spokesman and pete williams, our own correspondent. Thank you, both. Lets take a big view now, take a step back, there is a lot of murkiness about this. We know what james comey has supposedly written. We have not seen the memos ourself, neither has the New York Times, but they were read in part to the reporters of the New York Times. A lot more questions to be annalsed. They will want to see the memos, talk to mr. Comey. They asked him for any other memos he wrote about his interactions with the president. Well see how the government responds to these. If there is an assertion of privilege or if they just turn them over. But there are all of these requests now for him to appear. Since he was fired he made the decision not to say anything in public. He already said no to one request to talk about the russia investigation. I dont know what his response will be to this one. I know he is eager to tell his story at some point whether he thinks this is the point now or if he wants to wait till later i dont know yet. You were predicting last week there would be memos because of the way fbi agents and career people operated. It is to write a memo after something this critical. Why did the president , you think, is there any way town fer from what the president did asking attorney general sessions and others from the Justice Department to leave that meeting. Rob rosenstein i guess it was, to leave that meeting and speak one on one with james comey. It is a very good question and if a prosecutor was going to make an obstruction of justice case, that is one thing that you would say the president was trying to conce his acons. He knew what he was doing flwas inappropriate and he didnt want any witnesses. Were going to see what jim comeys take is on this. We know there are other memos. Is rod rosinstein and states attorney general sessions going to allow these to be turned over to congress. I think the political pressure in this instance, given this goes to personally a hugely inappropriate act by the president , i think it will be very difficult for them to assert those privileges. And they proceeded that critical offense meeting and it was the day after mike flynn was fire fire. I think the First Respond is to resist turning it over to congress. The Justice Department hates to share with congress and they never like to change that long standing thing. They may may put up a fight. I suppose in theory they could also exert sective privilege. And the question is suppose the conclusion is that the president did obstruct justice. And there is a wide divergence of the lawyers and the prosecutors that prosecuted these cases about whether or not there is, a lot of it has to do with the president s intent, and they may be doing it for this guy that got canned. So it will be up to congress and it is the longstanding view that you cannot prosecute a sitting president. It becomes a decision for an independent council or more likely a commission if they go that route. As pete says, a sitting president cannot be diindicted. The final decision on that is the supreme court. But i dont think the way it is currently constituted will bring a case against the president. It is the only thing in theory you can see a special prosecutor bringing. It is the kind of thing you would see from congress. I think one of the questions that people asked about jim comey, why didnt he tell the president this is inappropriate. One of the Unanswered Questions is whether or not jim comey was trying to build an obstruction of justice case against the president. If he thought the best course of action would be to record them in case they were useful. Probably not in a criminal indictment, but to turn them over to congress in impeachment hearings. Does that create motivation questions about his impartiality. They didnt want to get involved because of how it may affect them. Coming up, fight or flight . Are republicans digging in to back President Trump or are they ready to break ranks. And the Senate Intelligence committee has a new invitation out to james comey to appear in a committee hearing. Stay with us. David. Whats going on . Oh hey thats it . Yeah. 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Lendingtree, when banks compete, you win. Okay . Awkward. Everything your family touches sticks with them. Make sure the germs they bring home dont stick around. Use clorox disinfecting products. Because no one kills germs better than clorox. Look, there has been a lot of reporting that requires close examination. We need the facts. There are some people that want to harm the president , but we have an obligation to carry out oversight no matter what party is in the white house. That is paul ryan saying we need the facts. Where do you stand, senator, on what congresss appropriate role should be given the investigation. Lets get the facts and make sure that we go where they lead. The wall street journal now is also talking about the issue of the classified information that was conveyed to the russians. There is no denial that classified information was said, and they said this. The general has been very supportive all along editorially of the president. This is a turn. Do you sense the ground may be shifting among some of your colleagues . We have three investigations going on, one by the senate, house, age intelligennd intelli committee. Lets go through there, get the reports, and get answers to the questions made on facts and not on anonymous reports or something else. It is not just about looking at the allegations, but also these leaks that were seeing in the Intelligence Community and other places. So that is why for everyones benefit, lets go through the process, go through the checks and balances, get the reports and understand what the pacfact are. On the face of it, the quotations from the jim comey memo, the day after mike flynn was fired, all of the things the president said publicly, including to our own lester halt last week, are you disturbed that the president was even bringing mike philip up wiflynn fbi director in the white house alone. Why didnt director comey go back and make that part of the investigation. Why did Andrew Mccabe testify there had not been any interference. We have to be careful in this case about an anonymous source readi ining part of a memo, get memo and get the temperature. Understood. One thing that is a bit inconsistent, that we general mcmaster said it was appropria what the president said. He was very sensitive, one that involves a human agent, and it is very hard to invert agents into isis. All of that being said, he said it was still appropriate that the president can legally declassify anything he wants. If that is the case, why have we now confirmed is the administration asking the Washington Post, us, and at least four other news allegations to not publish everything we know, and the Washington Post is withholding. Why is it not okay for american journalists to published . That is why we have to go through property accescess. Those are the questions we have to answer. Im very impressed with hr mcmaster, but the questions have been raised, lets make sure we get the answers. Senator, thank you very much for being with us on a busy day. Lets take a quick look at the market, down triple digits throughout the morning. It is investors concerns over the latest wave of problems in the white house. The dow is dn about 2 points. Coming up, taking note, what the secretary of state had to say about Vladimir Putins claim that he has proof, a transcript, he said, that President Trump did not pass classified information to the russians. Ready or not, here i come. Ek. anyone can dream. Making it a reality is the hard part. Northrop grumman command and control systems always let you see the complete picture. And were looking for a few dreamers to join us. Tech when your windshield trust safelite autoglass. Our exclusive trueseal Technology Means a strong, reliable bond. At safelite, we stand behind our work. 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Youre asking the secretary of state a question as a result of what he said, he is projecting his own power reminding everyone, including President Trump that the russians, just like james comey keep records of any conversations they have with him, records that could be used against him, it is also a little perverse of putin offering himself as some trustworthy help. He is insisting that trump didnt pass on classified information. How would putin know what is classified and what is not. The investigation that trump disclosed was secret enough not to have been shared with allies like france and so on. I think she also mocking the whole incident. He is recommending lavrov did not share the secrets with the rest of us, he said it was very bad of him, and there he was in the front row laughing his head off. Also seriously though, he is criticizing once again what he calls the histeria about russia saying it is damaging the United States. While the kremlin might be worried that their first joint for presidency being down by scandal, they will been rubbing their hands as the drama at the heart of americas government. They said this is the greategreat greatest covert opha the russians have ever pulled off, first with the hack, and what they are reaping is confusion an dysfunction in the u. S. Government. And not just dysfunction in the u. S. Government, and i think youre right, but the dysfunction in the alliance. There are many nato allies, especially those are the uk, australia, new zealand and canada who are saying why should we offer the United States pieces of information if that information is suddenly going to be blurted out in front of the russians. We dont know exactly where this information came from. The New York Times we confirmed it came from israel. It did come from israel, nbc news confirmed that. Exactly, and many are saying that iz rsraeli officials are furious at donald trump. So even that will be of great pleasure, i suppose to the kremlin. Theyre seeing splits, decention in the political establishment. Bill neily, thank you so much, great to talk to you. House of cards. President trump preps for his first trip to israel. A key al lly at the classified controversy. Oscar mawe went back toig the drawing board. And the cutting board. We removed the added nitrates and nitrites, byproducts, and artificial preservatives in all of our meat. Every. Single. One. Why . For the love of hot dogs. Take 5, guys. Tired of your bladder always cutting into your day . You may have overactive bladder, or oab. Thats it we really need to get with the program and see the doctor. Take charge and ask your doctor about Myrbetriq Mirabegron for oab symptoms of urgency, frequency and leakage. Its the first and only oab treatment in its class. Myrbetriq may cause serious allergic reactions. 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Donald trump preparing fir his first visit. It was israel in a provided the u. S. Highly sensitive intelligence about an agent that penetrated isis in syria. Information that trump shared with russias Prime Minister without permission. The president can legally declassify anything he chooses, but former intelligence Officials Say there is a very careful protocol for how and what to share with russia. Joining me now is ruth marcus. Jeff, first to you, israel has a close relationship with donald trump, but intelligence, these are the crown jewels when you have a secret agent in a Counter Terrorism investigation. Yes, i bet their relationship is less close today than it was a couple days ago. This is what you dont mess arnold with and peoples lives are at risk. Obviously, for israel, and we dont know all of the truth of this penetration, but one has to assume that is one of the high level programs theyre running and the danger level is high. So to casually share unnecessarily data from these operations i would say it is unbelievable but i guess it is. Almost anything is believable these days. Ruth marcus, he is preparing for this first trip, israel should have been the easiest part of the trip, and there will be 50 arab leaders and now the saudis are wanted no comment from the white house yet about that piece of the trip that would be all about arms deals and isolating iran. Anything can happen on this foreign trip. I think there is a serious question, and i mean this respectfully, and that is is he ready for this trip . Given this seemingly unplanned incident that happened in the oval office, is he ready to play on this very volatile, dangerous, and important stage. Jeff goldberg, there was a lot of confusion over the refusal of officials, mcmaster, sean spicer, to acknowledge that the western wall is in jerusalem the western wall is the holiehol holiest site in judaism. Lets step back to talk about something that ruth is talking about. This trip is highly volatile. M president s for any number of reasons usually go to canada and mexico first. Theyre important allies but it is easier. The middle east is a vast mind field as were finding out again and the administration seems to be driving into every possible controversy. The western wall is just one subsidiary controversy, it is a carefully scripted trip to this part of the world that can go awry. We have been on that road together. Theyre not easy for experienced president s, for barack obama, for george w. Bush, you can go all of the way back to things that can go awry on these trips. The western wall is the last standing part of the original temple. Right, and it is an amazing look, it is always go ahead, sorry. Jeff and i are being too polite to each other, its very uncharacterist uncharacteristic. Its true, were only polite on television. The u. N. Ambassador nikki haily said for me it is part of israel. She understood the deal better than the peoplelanning is trip for the white hous jeff . Right, i mean were in the area of metaphysics now. You dont start by telling the israelis that their holiest sight is not part of their country. Its like saying were going to vatican but not st. Peters square because we dont know who it belongs to, and your audience is watching this aghast. Your jewish audience, they have no idea why these things are being said. Neither do we. Jeffrey goldberg, thank you so much, ruth marcus, of course to you. Great to see you. Coming up, our exclusive interview with the top democrat, senator mark warner, up next. Stay here on Andrea Mitchell reports. Do you play . Use the chase mobile app to send money in just a tap, to friends at more banks then ever before. You got next . Chase. Helping you master whats now and whats next. beckin einstein since he hange started eating beneful. 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That he wanted to take a few days to clear his head, and i have a high level of expectation, high expectation that he will appear before the senate in an open hearing and tell his viside of the story. But i think that the real thing that the American Public wants to hear is they want to hear from jim comey and they want to hear from him in an open hearing, and the senate intel committee, as long as he gets a chance to make his case. If this becomes a he said he said because there was only two people in the room, how do you get the white houses version of what happened, how do you find out if there are white house tapes. Lets go way back to last thursday and friday when the president changed his story about why comey was fired, because of the activities with the investigation of hillary clinton, and then the president said there may be secret tapes, and the white house refused to tell anyone in the pss if the tapes exist or not. If a president has secret tapes, that normally does not end up in a very good spot. We will continue to pursue that. Then, this week the president may have relayed inappropriate information to the russians, and there is a question of or trans that meeting . And now we have in the last 24 hours indications that jim comey, and this is very believable about jim comey, after he had any meeting would take meticulous notes. I believe if he took notes that were coincident with that alleged meeting with the president , and they are anything close to what the press has reported, then we have really broken into a new realm in this whole investigation. Have you asked Andrew Mccabe, the acting fbi director, for those memos . We have asked him for those memos and any other documents he may have relevant to exchanges between comey and the president and relevant to our russian investigation. Have you asked the white house for any tapes or any notes . We are in the process of trying to find out whether the white house has any of those documents or tapes, as well. We have not i dont believe we have yet formally requested that. But that will be in process shortly. The meeting that this refers to happened the day after mike flynn was fired. Do you have concerns that the president , after a National Security meeting, a Homeland Security meeting, asked the others, including the attorney general, to leave and met one on one with james comey, was that appropriate . Andrea, we have seen throughout this investigation a series of dots that seem to be connected. Or ive used the analogy a lot of smoke. Whatever analogy we want to use, i want to give this president and the white house the benefit of the doubt. But that benefit of the doubt only goes as far as them being forthcoming with tapes, with transcripts, with the truth. And so far at least we have im not sure we have gotten the full truth, at least from the white house. Whom are you dealing with in the white house, the general counsel . Chairman burr has had a number of conversations i know with the general counsel. But im not going to get into the particulars between the committee and the white house. You met with the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein who is handling the russian probe because of the recusal of the attorney general. You met with him last week along with senator burr. Did he give you assurances that everything is going to proceed and be above board . Well, im not going to comment on the specifics of that private conversation with the deppky attorney general. I do know hes coming back tomorrow afternoon. And a whole lot of members every answer doesnt necessarily have to be classified are going to ask him the same questions i asked last week and theyll make their own judgment about how tainted or not he and some of the other people who have been affiliated with the Trump Administration may be in terms of overseeing this investigation. One of the things that didnt get that much attention last week was that acting director mccabe, a career guy at the fbi, said that the fbi will not succumb to political pressure, that they have put all the resources needed into this investigation, and theyre going to follow the truth, no matter what. How do you roncile mabe saying there has been no interference in the flynn investation with the comey notes and memos, which indicate his concerns that there are interference from the president himself . Well, thats one of the things we need to ask jim comey. But it could clearly be the case that acting director mccabe may or may not have been aware of the comey memos. But im going to trust again, im going to trust acting director mccabe until i cant trust him. So far hes been a straight shooter and he seemed to have steely determination that he and the men and women of the fbi are not going to be intimidated and follow the facts. General mccaster said everything the president told the russians was appropriate. How do you reconcile that with the fact that the white house is continuing to ask the Washington Post and others who have information about that classified source not to public everything that we know . To me, it seems very curious to say the least, that theres still attempts from this white house to rein in the press from publishing all the information that the president relayed to the russians. What makes it further outrageous is you have Russian Media in that meeting but not american media. And now you have vladamir putin in what is frankly an insulting gesture offering to provide russian intelligence about what took place in that meeting. As if anybody in this town, democrat or republican, would believe that. Do you think theres any possibility that they bugged that meeting . Andrea, a week ago i said i didnt think there was anything this administration could do that would surprise me. And then they fire jim comey. So im not going to say im not going to speculate on what may be in the realm of possibility or not. I know that normal administrations are very careful about what kind of cameras, other devices are taken into the oval office. But im not going to speculate. I do know this, if there are any kind of transcripts out of that meeting, ultimately we in congress are going to have to take a look at it. Youve got a lot on your plate. Thanks for taking a moment to talk to us. Thank you. Much more right ahead. 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The russian president offering to release the transcript of the president s meeting with serge lavrov if the white house says its okay. It is all moving so very fast. Lets bring you up to speed. President trump spoke at the Commencement Ceremony for the coast guard. He talked about the border wall, health care, money he saved the country, and also the way the media has treated him. No politician in history, and i say this with great assurety, has been treated worse or more unfairly. I didnt get elected to serve the washington media or special interests. I