great win in montana. president trump of course a couple of hours ago during a photo op at the g7 summit in sicily. he s talking about last night s closely watched special election in montana won by republican greg gianforte. the win came one day after gianforte was charged for manhandling a body slam is what it was, a reporter who asked him a question about health care. nbc s garrett haik is working overtime. steve kornacki joins the table and we re back with the panel. it s extremely unusual for a victory speech to come with an apology for throwing someone down on the ground with your
golf club. but romney supporters say he needs to direct his attacks toward newt gingrich. joining me is garrett haik. what are they saying now? this has been the subject of the day for the last few days since newt s seen this rise in the most recent polls. i saw a quote saying that romney has to step up and go after newt. they can t sit back and watch him rise. it s a question of how deeply do they want to engage? do you send romney out there to attack newt gingrich? do you stay back and not say anything at all and risk newt pulling a mike huckabee and rising even farther or do you go a middle path and have surrogates like chris christie or maybe romney s superpack sitting on mountains of cash try to engage him. but mike huckabee snuck up on him in ohio and they re determined not to let that
but will it still fly in the house? if it does, will the president sign off on it? one senior administration official tells msnbc, yes, but does that mean the president is on board? it s not clear as donald trump himself has been anything but clear on what he wants from congress. what is clear is that there is still no deal on d.r.e.a.m.ers, no deal on immigration, no concrete deal to fund the government either. this one only keeps the lights on for three more weeks. let s get the latest from our reporters. garrett haik is in capitol hill. and kristin we will ker is at the house. let s start with you. what do we know right now from the white house? is the president himself okay with this deal that the senate has come to? that s still a question. based on my conversations here, katy, the answer to that question is, yes. the president, the staffers here are very eager to get the government back open.
schumer, pelosi, the whole group, and i think we re close but we have to get border security. i think he s on board, yes. mitch is on board, paul ryan s on board. we all feel look, 92% of the people agree on daca but what we want is we want very, very powerful border security, okay. we re going down to florida. we ll see you in florida. that was president trump just moments ago preparing to board marine one en route to joint base andrews. we start now with nbc s garrett haik, he s live in the capital. a lot of moving parts in the last 12 hour, let alone 24. where do we stand right now? right now, i think we ve got republican leaders on the hill in a very small box as the president continues to make deals with his new friends, chuck and nancy, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi, the democratic leaders of the house and senate
details his side of the story about the controversial june 9th meeting with a russian lawyer. let s start with nbc s kristen welker, who is at the white house. garrett haik on capitol hill. we were listening to nick con if he sorry on andrea s show saying how unusual it is to have the seal of the white house outside there on a podium like that, something i certainly never saw in the time i covered the white house. describe the mood, describe what we re expecting here. reporter: well, a lot of anticipation, chris, as we await jared kushner. as you point out, this is a unique setting for him to make this type of a statement. what s called the sticks area. this is typically where we hear from officials after they have met with the president. sometimes we hear from interest groups. for example, when he meets with the heads of health care companies, they would come and we shout questions at them after they make remarks. as you can see, there are a crush of reporters here from all the diff