he s fine is not good enough. he owes people more than that. the white house s response to that poison, they just sent me their response within the last hour which we ll share with you after this break. let me invite you guys in quickly and read something from the washington post i think is interesting as it relates to the risks associated with what the president wants to be a one on one meeting, again, just him and vladimir putin and a couple interpreters in the room. wall street journal writes, based on meetings he and other senators held with russian leaders in moscow senator jerry more an has a few words of caution for president donald trump as he repairs to meet russian president putin. if it is any indication the president will find it will be denial, hostility and long and tedious responses, the kansas republican said, i understand why the president feels the need to meet one on one, but based on my experience, more americans in the room would be better for the president s p
pressure from national security advisor john bolton who seems to think this whole thing is a trap and keeps using language that suggests bolton is trying to find a way out of it. so, sarah, the president just a month ago said there is no longer a nuclear threat when he came back. he said, sleep well tonight. does this hang on the president? does he try to hang it on mike pompeo? where are we right now? well, it s interesting, you know. if we have many more episodes like the one this weekend, it will be interesting to see who he hangs it on. it is going to hang on him. he did come back, he said america can sleep well tonight. and the reality is at this point, north korea hasn t made any steps to denuclearize. we hope that happens. it s possible it will happen. the world is working on that, not just united states, but you know, we re not farther along today than we were a month ago. the question being asked now, we talked about trump the showman in the last segment. whether that th
you know what, here s your grand jury subpoena. we ll see you in court. donna, let me ask you about this, then, more broadly. you have trump defying a subpoena. would that, could that trigger a constitutional crisis? what is the risk of the president pushing back and effectively defying a snp i think, you know, the reality is that the president were to defy a subpoena, you can hear this coming from republicans in the senate in particular that that would be a line that s too far. i mean and this would be tested before the supreme court. but defying the rule of law, and i think for some senators more than a constitutional crisis, it would signal a crisis for this presidency in the form perhaps of an impeachment should he defy it. it will end up being decided by the supreme court, but the politics of it, i think, are going to drive the decision of senators about how to judge this president. sarah? well, it might end up in the supreme court. i mean, we re all assuming it s go
the mueller probe. signs that trump s legal team is recalibrating its strategy, raising concerns that the president may be backed into a corner. joining me now on set, chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and former senior fbi official now an msnbc contributor. former democratic congresswoman donna edwards is here. sarah f sar sarah fagan, a cnbc contributor. and heidi przybyla, the nbc news national political correspondent. heidi, let s talk about this if we can. this is a show man. this is a guy who did the apprentice. this is a guy who likes primetime. now he s trying to put on a show for americans, building this sort of bachelorette type theme where he s going to hand out the rose at 9:00. this is a white house that 0 said they don t set artificial time lines. he set one for himself here. one of the favorite parts of the job, he s a showman. it s reminiscent of how he picked his cabinet. it s reminiscent of how he
hannity was the last one in his ear? that is a disconnect in the reporting showing amy coney barrett is not one of the final picks. sean hannity may have a final word, but that is a separate story about the tight connections between this white house and fox news, also coming at the same time that former executive bill shine is now taking over the communications job. help me, sarah, if you can, and donna here, help me get a better understanding what message each one of these picks would send. amy coney barrett would fire up the base. we know he s all in at his base. there is a different calculus here. how do you see any of these picks sending messages and to whom? for starters, all these four picks are strict constructionist. they re all going to be great. the base, any problems they may have had with one individual pick or one case, they would quickly unite behind whoever the president picks. having said that, though, there