Missouri on the only remaining Abortion Provider left the entire state, Missouri Department of health and Senior Services has now denied the license application of that very clinic of planned parenthood in st. Louis. It does remain opened for now thanks to a temporary injunction. The faith of the clinics future is in the hands of the judge whether or not to extend that injunction. If the clinic is shut down, missouri will become the first state operating without an Abortion Facility since 1973 when the Supreme Court ruled on roe v. Wade. Joining us now from st. Louis is rahema ellis. This planned parenthood clinic does a lot more than provide abortions. If the clinic loses its license, will it be losing its licenses for all services or just Abortion Services . It would be just for Abortion Services. Planned parenthood will be able to provide clinical and medical services for women who are in need and come into their offices. They want to be able to continue services. This ruling and decision by the Health Department of the state of missouri is in application applies only to the services they provide around abortions, stephanie. What do we know of the timing of this. There is an injunction and a judges decision thats going to come. Talk to us about how this works. Well, what happens is, there is an injunction in place, the judges preliminary injunctions issued more than a week ago. He cited today of a deadline for the department of health in missouri, will you or wont you renew this license . This is a day everybody is expecting. This is a day that everybody was expecting the state of missouri to come in and say we are not going to issue that license which technically expires on may 31st. The judge says my preliminary injunction stands. It is still in place. So planned parenthood and abortions can be operated here in the state of missouri. He says i am going to rule further on my in function as soon as possible but thats not going to happen today. So we are looking at sometimes next week, the judge may make a decision about whats going to happen here as far as his injunction is concerned. Rahema, thank you for joining us in st. Louis. President trump confirming the United States was moments away striking iran. President trump ordered a military strike against iran then called off the operation and shifas ships and aircrafts were already in position. We were cocked and loaded to retaliate last night when i asked how many people will die, 150 people, sir with the answer from the general, just ten minutes from the strike. I stopped it. Growing disputes over claims of where the drone was when it was shot down. The department of defense Officials Say the drone was on that spot to the left of International Waters in the strait of hormuz. Tlg a there is not a lot of difference in those two spots. One is International Space and iranian space. Our friend and colleague charles todd sat down with the president with an exclusive interview and discuss his order to cancel the retaliation. Did you green light something . What was the order you gave . Nothing is green lighted until the very end because things changed. You never gave a final order. We had something ready to go subject to my approval. They came in about half an hour before. We were about ready to go. Planes in the air . We were about ready to go. No. They would have been pretty soon. And things would have happened to a point where you would not turn back or could not turn back. So, they came and they said sir, we are ready to go, we would like your decision. I would like to know something before you go. How many people would be killed . How many people will be killed . Sir, i would like to get back to you on that. Great people, these generals. They came back and said sir, approximately 150. I thought about it for a second, they shot down an unmanned drone, plane, whatever you want to call it and here we are sitting with 150 dead people that would have taken place probably within half an hour after i said go ahead, i didnt like it. I didnt think it was proportionate. Joining us now the moderator of meet the press. Things changed. The 150 people. The president could have known that days or weeks or months or hours. Before the strike. Did he give any sort of explanation why or when at that moment when things were already in motion . He asked the question and got that answer and changed course. I think stephanie more of the you know him pretty well, too. You no e hknow how he works. He wants everything in front of him. He wanted john bolton to push the envelope. He likes all of that. He likes this idea that he makes the final call. And that sense, this is actually very much how he always operates whether it is a decision about painting air force one or a decision about this. He likes to get all of these options in front of him and be the decider on these things. In some way, i know there is been he should have known about the casualty counts earlier. I dont think he ever planned on giving the green light. He didnt say that but he seems to be inching away the entire time. You can see it yesterday. So, i cant help but wonder if some of this was about okay, bolton and pompeo, show me what you got. Is there any impact . We know to your point this is how he rolls professionally. He knows how to produce a tv show and create drama. But, in doing Something Like this when lives are at stake, is there any impact whether to our military or his colleagues a t the white house or our allies overseas. Stoo it it is the same impact as barack obama had when he set the red line and made that decision. I was at the white house the day dennis mcdonough, he pulled back the situation and ready to go. Here i am of a similar situation. I do think that this does not help and in some ways the president already has a reputation for sort of not telegraphing it very well and seemingly doing one thing and another. It is not like thats a new issue when it comes to alle alleys. Hes making it clear that he does not want to kill anybody and hes sending a message to iran that we want to talk. What you said right there was the president s worst nightmare. You said it was reminisce of barack obama. Earlier today Ashley Parker says you need to define President Trump policy. What hes doing in your situation is obamalike, is that stunning . I have had a followup question thats reflective of that statement, you will have to wait on sunday. You are absolutely right. I did ask him, what would candidate trump would say about President Trump going there or not going there. We all know what candidate trump would say about that. He would not fully accept the prem leon premise when i said it. It is a classic case of he suddenly sitting in that chair. I suspect the white house is calling your office right now and they want to discuss exactly what you guys covered. Fair enough. Nice to see you. Thank you, stephanie, thank you ali. Chuck todds interview with President Trump, well air it on sunday. Nbcs hans nichols and ali arouzi. This is a remarkable twelve hours for you. What has happened in iran since news broke 13 hours ago that the United States was on the verge of launching air strikes against iran . Ali, there is a flurry of activities here and a lot of comments coming out from many, many different branches of power in iran. Irans ambassador to the u. N. Has been defending the shooting down of the drone and arguing that iran wont be forced back to the negotiating table by the white house. He made an analogy of saying if somebody puts a knife to your neck and any reasonable person cant negotiate while you are being threatened of accusing america, unleashing Economic Warfare against iran. But, you know, a lot of other things have happened. There was a report that came out last night from reuters saying that a message is being sent to iranians. Warnings of an imminent attack and authorities i spoke to this morning says thats entirely false that no messages were sent to iran about some imminent attack and they have been trying to portray strong images here since yesterday and throughout the day, they retoauting a shooting down of the drone as a major victory and warning it is a clear message to the u. S. That iran is tough not to crack. Officials here have been comparing it to sadam hue sassa. It comes down to hans nichols, too. The New York Times broke this story around 11 00 p. M. Eastern time noted that when asked about the pentagon and the white house, nobody there said hold the publication of the story. Why is it significant . Sometimes that does happen. The pentagon or the white house will say please dont report on this, american lives are at risk. The first indication was there were no american lives at risk. They did not invoke of what we call the National Security. It was so widespread and nothing could have been done to keep it. Listen to chucks interview and analysis of his interview, it is clear that the president wants this is message out. They wanted this to be part of the whole campaign because the president likes the image and it is becoming more clear in that tweet and the interview with chuck that hes a regulator on some elements inside of h is administration, he may think that could give him into a better decision of cutting a deal and sitting down with the iranian leadership. He does not want us to be seen as a hawk. He wants us to be seen as the dove in his administration. Ali. The president in his tweet series this morning did say they imposed even more sanctions last night. Is there any inclination that the iranians are going to pull back on this escalation because we know how much sanctions hurt them. There is no information right now, stephanie. Irans mantra, moderate to hard liners here that theyre not going to negotiate with the United States while the status quo is like this. If we are on the heavy sanctions and threatened by american military, there is no point in coming around to the negotiation table to america and they need to show much stronger sides of themselves which is what they have been doing. They are saying shooting down that drone yesterday was no mistake and no miscalculation as the president alluded to yesterday. Theyre saying that was calculated and it was done in order to send a message to the United States the u. S. Military aircraft that was carrying 20 or 30 passengers was also in their cross hairs but they decided not to hit it and hit a drone instead to send a warning signal to america not to encroach on iranian. This came as a big surprise. We have found out the u. S. And iran, there was huge animosity between the two of them that there were back channel told between america and teheran. Who knows if thats going on. Ali arouzi for us in teheran and hans nichols for us. Joining us to discuss that possibility, our lieutenant colonel. Lieutenant colonel, good to see you, sir. We heard chuck todd talking about the fact that iran should not be mistaken for iraq. What are the things that we need to worry about strategically as this escalates . Iran is a major factor throughout the middle east and it has the ability to influence inside iraq. He has a major influence in the world and syria. Iran has the ability to escalate this thing in a number of Different Directions and cause problems throughout the middle east. It is a corner cap at this point. It is dangerous and it is doing some unpredictable things. It is attacking shipping in the streets of hormuz and sitting down what the pentagon was saying international aerospace. It is clear that iran is both trying to escalate this and has the ability to do so in a number of different places. The president s last minute pull back, he seems to feel pretty good about it, almost as though he planted that way. Help us understand the impact to the men and women in the military who have to do that reverse course in such a late moment. You got to conflict in style and character at least between a Reality Tv Show host and men and women whose lives are on the line of these operations. It did appear with the president that perhaps he never in debited to go forward. We made preparations not to come back home. This is not the normal way of doing business when the National Security councils make this kind of decision when the president says go, lives are on the line and it is not usually used as a negotiation tactic that appears the president is doing in this case. I want to go back to that for a second, the map, i would like you to help us understand the term asymmetric air force. There are questions whether we can hit all of the nuclear targets there some where between 70 and 120 and some of them are deep and underground. You talked about the region, the influences in the region. Iran has influences in iraq and syria and lebanon and yemen and some degree in afghanistan. There is a way that iran can fight this war that is not the same as america can fight this war. Thats exactly right. Ali. When i was fighting in iraq, more than a decade ago now, we were most concerned of iranian explosive devices that is could cut through a tank. Iran has the ability to do real damage to americas interest and American Partners and forces spread throughout the middle east, you dont expect the Iranian Forces to line their tanks up to take on the american air force, the American Navy in the air and conventional battle. Theyre going to fight insurgence and terrorists and east symmetrically and do as much damage as they can all in an attempt to get the United States back to the negotiating table and get sanctions lifted which are clearly doing real damage inside iran. Lieutenant john, thank you for joining us. Good to see you. Coming up next. Coming up next. Oh sorry joe biden called a rival cory booker to smooth things over about working with segregation in the past. Were there any apologies . Well find out, you are watching velshi ruhle. Well find out, you are watching velshi ruhle. Wanna take your xfi to the next level . Now you can with xfi advantage. Giving you enhanced performance and protection. 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Or why racist senator like those would look at him and call him son as seeing themselves in him and seeing in a black man and calling him boy because they dont see themselves because they see someone they are dehumanizing or degrading. Having conversations like that, thats the kind of dialogue thats a constructive thing. Joining us now from Columbia South carolina, garret haake. What are people on the ground telling us . Reporter the Biden Campaign would like to turn the page on this. You saw they had a number of surrogates out yesterday and talking about this on tv, trying to put on his comments in his fundraiser in that context and explaining what he meant. He got some air cover from members of congress including speaker pelosi. Joe biden is an authentic guy. They know where his heart is. In my conversation with voters in South Carolina. I heard a lot of the same. The two big aways from the voters i have been speaking with in africanamericans here. They do give joe biden the benefit of the doubt. We dont think hes a racist person, we think it is a mistake on his part. We understand the point he was trying to make. The other thing that i heard from some of these voters, they would like to hear an apology of some kobe bryant. T kind. The idea that you push ahead and never apologize does not sit well with democratic voters. They would like to see bidens acknowledge, and like to hear people talk about race in 2019 and then move on. Talk to us about the event that you are at down there, it is not just biden whose there and nearly all the democratic contenders are attending. Reporter yes, just about anybody. This is jim clyde burn in the whip and hes been doing this for 20 years. We got the party raising money and candidates will speak there and theyll go to fish fry and eat fish and some of them may try to dance and some may do it well and some may not. There is additional events related to the Democratic Convention and a planned parenthood event in town. A big opportunity for all these candidates to introduce themselves to South Carolina voters. Many reminding me today they see this as so early and a lot of these folks are not familiar with the names of the candidates they are talking to. Big stage for all of them. Mayor pete was supposed to be there be hes not going to be there, correct . Reporter hell be missing some of the events to go back to attend a business in south bend where there was a lot of Police Involved shooting thats taking his time and attention. We are expecting him back in to South Carolina. Hell miss a portion of these events to take care of businesses. Garret, thank you, as always. Glutenfree and the bread. You can go and dance, ali. I could go and dance. I can eat both for you. We are five days away from the debate campaign, a twonight event live from miami right here on msnbc and nbc news and telemundo. 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So every country has its own strategy for defending itself, israel has nuclear weapons. I has a massive armed forces. Irans strategic strength is army. Really its power is through its proxies. Iran has powerful allies, malicious that it funds and funded for many years and it uses them so that it can carry out conflicts outside of iran so that if there is ever to be a war, iran would not have to fight on its territory. It could use its malicious in iraq, for example, to fight against u. S. Troops that are there and u. S. Interests that are there. We saw that happening during the iraq war where american troops were in iraq fighting against shea and malicious groups. In syria, the same thing, the iranian government backs the eye s assad government. Lebanon, a powerful president by that country which could be turned onto put pressure on israel. Influence over hamas and it also has influence over some malicious in afghanistan. There is a different kind of power than we have seen used by other countries in the middle east. If there were ever to be a conflict between the u. S. And iran, it would look nothing like the 2003 invasion of iraq where the u. S. Fighting against the army. That was obliterated by the american forces. Iran has these spread out proxies that are quite effective and that i think the u. S. Would struggle to deal with it in a way that it did not struggle fighting the much and more dated conventional army in iraq for example. I want to put that map up that was next to you while you were talking of the region. You went through it effectively. You got to all of the country. You are in qatar right in the middle of that mess. Qatar is an arab country and allies of saudi arabia, another major power in the area and always in competition with iran which was a shea country. In fact, when qatar needed supplies and food and arrest space to fly through, iran actually everyo actually even moved in there. The lines across the middle east is not clear. There is a very intense fight going on right now within the golf countries over the state of qatar. If you pull up the map right now you will see that qatar is a small peninsula that sprouts out from saudi arabia reaching out to the persian gulf. The saudi arabia and its allies primarily the uie have been imposing on qatar and making it difficult for this country to survive and making it difficult for this country to trade for the people to move around and qatar has enormously deep pockets and huge resources so we have been able to do fine thus far. There was once a saudi project where they were going to dig a trench along the border between qatar and saudi arabia to almost turn this country into an island. The relations within the gulf nations are not at all mar harmonious right now with qatar because of the split of iran. Israel being a three pillars of that alliance. Qatar is trying to balance the interest and having a shield world with iran and the zuni world and saudis. That balancing act has not always been the saudi arabias liking. So much of the point where they turn it into an island. Always getting an extra content from you. Thank you very much. The latest numbers on wealth in equality in america are staggering. The top 1 increased its network by 21 trillion and the bottom 50 has lost 900 billion. Well break down what these numbers mean. You are watching velshi ruhle right here on msnbc. Tchi ruhle right herone msnbc everyones got to listen to mom. When it comes to reducing the sugar in your familys diet, coke, dr pepper and pepsi hear you. Were working together to do just that. Bringing you more great tasting beverages with less sugar or no sugar at all. 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Lets talk about this for a men. What is wealth . These are your assets, house or tv or computer or fridge. The things thats in your house. Your durable goods. Stocks or Pension Plans or Bank Accounts or Car Insurance and things like that. All of that minus this, your liabilities. Mortgage or car loans or credit card debt. Every three years the Federal Reserve releases a record on consumer finance, giving us a telling picture of Wealth Distribution in america. Here is a chart showing the Fourth Quarter total network of the top 1 of wealth holders and the bottom 50 . This is the top 1 , this is the bottom 50 . All in 2018. Over the course, this is zero. If you go on this, the top 1 in 1989 all the way to 2000s, adjusted for inflation basically lost money. The top 1 has done this. This is hard to see. It sort of flat lines in order to give you perspective. I am going to take this line and blow it up for you on the next screen. Lets go to the next one and i will show you what it looks like. Thats what the bottom 50 network looks like by itself. I want to bring our guests in. I think there are maybe something we are not getting completely incorrect. I am switching this up a little. The top 1 is flat. It is the bottom 50 that stayed flat. This is not flat because we had to concentrate to put it on one chart. If you look at the bottom 50 , thats what it really looks like. This is the sharp drop that you see during the housing crisis here. It had been going down but in 2007 and 2008, thats what you saw. The bottom half lost about half its network over the last 30 years period. In total, the top 1 gained 15 trillion in wealth normmoren doubling the groups net worth. We have already done the hard work of introducing our guest whos here to talk more about this. Hes an msnbc political analyst and editor for time. And the author of winners take all, anand giridharadas. A lot of things we talk about input variables in to this american economy. When you look at wealth over this period of time, you are looking at how things end up at the end of the year or era. This is an era full of promises that in fact things are going to get better for people at the bottom and rich people at the lead making it happen. Thats an interesting testable hypothesis. Silicon valley promised us theyre going to empower everybody and Free Education and videos and everything. Philanthropy, well give money and thats going to empower people. Any number of things you talk about in the show. Great, all of thats happening and it is there. At the end of this, this is the wash at the end of it. At the end of the day after all that happened, after tax cuts and tax increases and everything happens, all the giving happens. At the end of the day, the rich ended up trillions richer. The bottom half of this country are poorer than before the internet was invented than the revolution happening or everything thats happening in medicine since 1989 has happened or china kind of opened up with all the opportunity and the opportunity that created. We have managed to se quest. Lets talk about where angry america lies. In that bottom 50 , you can look at the absolute bottom. There is all the philanthropy and those people being helped. The people on the top are giving in theory starting programs helping the people in the bottom. Who are these people that are between the 30 a and 50 who ud to be able to pursue the american dreams. If you are in the middle, you cant pay for college and cannot see the american dream. Two schoolteachers live their entire lives, in their 60s. I went to their bathroom and photos of their lives. They had a boat or cabin some where and second home. Two schoolteachers, Public Schools living a life and being prudent and a nice Beautiful House and a second home. No one in my generation who pursue that is kind of professional choice they chose will ever have this life. Thats true for so many people in the middle. As we live in new york, you are seeing this happening much faster than a lot of people in america are. We are moving towards the country where there is more middle. What year was this . Can i ask if credit, access to credit had anything to do with this. When you think of our parents generation, they did not live until credit card debt. People today have mortgages and car loans and Student Loans and massive amount of credit card debts because it is so easy to take out loans. That was not the case before. Thats debt and thats important. It is Consumer Protection around debt. You can have debt if there is a regulatory authorities of the kind of thing they try to gut, p if they are safe guard. I think what americans need to realize whether on the left or right listening to this. If you are a patriot, those are not the graph who does that make proud . On the left you are in that top 100 which is some people watching this. You are not benefiting from what is essentially a systematic hording of the future. I hate the word inequality because it makes people go to sleep because we have heard it so many times. Yes. You have to shift the metaphor of the way you say in this country, the future has rained abundantly on us. I dont think spain has had enough future in general for everybody. The United States of america have plenty of future rain on it. Yeah. 1 of people have harvested most of the rain water of the future for 30 or 40 years. You get to a place where people are angry and lose hope and people dont start businesses and people dont live the kind of lives, promise inventions. This country thinks it is a signature. Thank you anand for joining us. Next, as horrific scene at the southern border, Migrant Children claiming they had inadequate food and gone weeks without bathing. Well speak to a reporter behind the story. You are watching velshi ruhle. You are watching velshi ruhle. music plays throughout the way you triumph over adversity. And live your lives. Thats why we redesigned humira. We wanted to make the experience better for you. Now theres less pain immediately following injection. Weve reduced the size of the needle and removed the citrate buffers. And it has the same effectiveness you know and trust. Humira citratefree is here. A little change can make a big difference. Humira can lower your ability to fight infections. Serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. 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We are seeing sick children, we are seeing dirty children, we are seeing hungry children, children who have been separated from their parents and other family members, children who within the facility are being separated from their siblings which they need to be with their siblings right now. Joining us now an ap reporter, garanz burke who works on family separation and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. Thank you for this allimportant reporting. I want to start with this. What specifically do we know about who those children are . Because the kneejerk reaction we often here is they were sent by their parents by themselves. What did you expect . Thats not what the case is. Thats not who these kids are. Yes, i mean one of the most poignant stories i heard was in talking with a father of a little girl who was separated from her aunt, the aunt had managed to put a bracelet on the little girl that said u. S. Parent, the only way advocates could find this little girls dad. Apparently she was crying so much that the attorneys who went to this customs and Border Protection station couldnt figure out who she was. We also heard of a 2yearold who was very sick and a group of little girls were trying to take care of him. Its a situation in this particular cbp station where there arent enough adults to take care of the children. What is cbp, customs and Border Protection, saying about all this . Cbp we know right now is in active conversation with attorneys who represent Migrant Children in detention as well as with a special monitor who is involved in a legal settlement that governs how migrant kids are held in u. S. Custody, but cbp acting commissioner did tell us in an interview, you know, he feels that this situation is really untenable, and what he is hoping is that congress will allocate more funding, both to Border Patrol, as well as to another federal agency that takes care of Migrant Children, the office of refugee resettlement. Thats the hope that congress will take action. Thus far, are they actually doing anything . You know, as best i can ascertain, the house and the senate right now are in negotiations over a spending bill. That may come before for further consideration next week but the problem really is that there are really huge numbers of children arriving at the border this summer, and children when they get in to government custody are also staying much longer, which results in this shortage of beds. There are a variety of Different Reasons why children are staying so long in government custody, but what we know from talking to pediatricians and Child Welfare experts is regardless of the reason, its leading to more lasting trauma for these kids. Garance burke, thank you for joining us. Garance we should note we reached out to customs and Border Protection as well and we havent received any response either. Thank you so much. Ahead in the next hour, todays big question, what is the president s strategy when it comes to iran . Well try to answer that. Youre watching velshi ruhle. And with bank of america and merrill, the benefits you get can grow, too. As a preferred rewards member, you can enjoy Priority Service and exclusive discounts. So your growing life can be more rewarding, too. What would you like the power to do . Thank you for watching todays velshi ruhle. Ill see you back here 3 00 p. M. Eastern and tonight at 9 00. Ill see you next week. Our dear friend and colleague Chris Jansing picks up for. Were down in florida. Something going on there . Well all be there. Five days. Velshi ruhle, thank you very much. Good afternoon im Chris Jansing. Today the president is repeatedly defending his decision to call off the air strikes on iran, with just minutes to spare, including in a new exclusive interview with our own chuck todd. Did you green light something or had you said if we do t ill do this . What was the order . Nothing is green lighted until the end because things change. You never gave a final order . No, no, but we had something ready to go, subject to my approval. They came in a half an hour,