might vote on roe v wade in. >> that's a big one. probably not. they're all saying don't do that. i'm putting conservative people on. >> you would not support a nominee who demonstrated hostility to roe v wade. that would mean to me their judicial plhilosophy did not include a respect for established decisions, established law. >> now according to an exclusive report, multiple sources say that u.s. intelligence agencies believe that despite the agreement, north korea has increased its production of enriched uranium for nuclear weapons. >> we have developed a program. i'm sure that mike pompeo will be discussing this about how to dismantle all of their wmb and ballistic missile programs in a year. >> big sit down you had with michael cohen. he's breaking his silence. >> he said this to be crystal clear, my wife, my daughter, and my son and this country have my first loyalty. i will not be a punching bag as part of anyone's defense strategy. i am not a lain in any story and won't allow others to try to depict me in that way. so much to get to here. we're racing head first into a trade war. it's the first day of trading since canada's retaliatory tariffs came into sight. >> if they're not fine, i'm going to tax their cars coming into america. that's the big one. we can talk steel. we can talk everything. the big one is the cars. >> now that they are on board, they have indicated tariffs the administration has proposed for auto imports would raise costs and lead to high r prices for consumers. that would likely dent car demand which would lead to job losses at automakers and part suppliers. john, good to see you. >> morning. >> to a lot of people this makes logical sense. you stick tariff on something that people by from other countries and by definition people will buy that product from your country and create jobs. what's wrong with that argument? >> because it's policy designed for a world that doesn't exist anymore. we have seen that foreign automakers locate here, make cars here. our automakers go make cars elsewhere. the supply chains are all mixed up. it's not some simple way to reward u.s. workers and consumers at the same time. you're going to raise prices on cars. you're going to hurt the economy. this is really geared toward a kind of fantasy idea that the united states can be walled off and make itself more prosperous by limiting profits for others. we have seen a world of global trade expand that's lifted living standards around the world. united states has some particular problems because we used to be dominant in the world economy, now we're not. this is way that people who are displaced by that can sort of lash out and donald trump is number one among those people and say we're going to try to make it like it used to be. >> their concern is legitimate. if you've been displaced by manufacturing and trade policies, that's not ill legitimate. whether it's cars or anything else, there's a tension between the consumer who has been enjoying prices that have not gone up along with inflation and the producers who want to do things. in this particular case, general motors has said we think this is a bad idea. if we cut off fair access to other people selling cars in america, other countries will cut off access to general motors and ford selling cars overseas. general motors is one of the biggest car sellers in china, for instance. >> it's an idiotic idea that would harm the economy. we have some issues for trade in particular with china. involving protection that the chinese are doing to try to key industries build up their capacity at the expense of others. that is not the case with europe and autos and the flaw of the president's policy is that while targeting the genuine bad actor in terms of china, it's targeting everyone else to diminish the fights we ought to be fighting in is no economic economics. the question is is the president going to do the rational thing and not impose these national security linked auto tariffs. i don't know if he's rational or not. >> the president sgeting out of our commitments to the world trade organization. the dangers could become like the brexit. th the rest of the world could go it alone. charge us and we'll charge you. decades of working toward building international relationships when it comes to trade and lowering barriers could be given up. it could have the opposite effect. american workers should know that. this could have the effect of the world blocking u.s. trade to them. >> absolutely. donald trump seems to have a fantasy in his led that the united states is so big and so strong that we can dictate terms of deals with the entire world. that is not true. that world does not exist. to lash out europe, canada, mexico, foreign autos at the same time you're trying to counter china. you've broken up the transpacific partnership -- >> that would have been the most impactful thing to china. >> this is simply a case of an ir rational policy. >> as you point out there's valid concerns about some things that china does on the international level that the united states has the power and authority to deal with but we're messing up the board. that's the problem right now. president trump remains defients cad defia defiant calling for the abolition of i.c.e. protesters took to the street demanding the dismantling of the relatively new organization. prove believes the democrats are making a strong push to abolish ice. one of the smartest, toughest, most experienced group of law enforcement i've seen. i've watched ice liberate towns and clean out of the toughest sbagss. they are great. what is this business and i've got no unique criticism of ice. what is this business of ice literaling towns from the grasp of ms-13. >> reporter: while ice agents have arrested hundreds of gang pl members, there's no evidence to suggest any particular town was overrun by the gang and since has been liberated as the president suggests. fact check false on that. he offen uses ms-13 to stoke unfounded fears about undnlted immigrants. i think this language suggests even though the president had to copit copitchlate he's not issuing off this issue of illegal immigration. we have seen just now as some democrats are calling to abolish ice, the president is using that to pivot away from weeks of negative headlines about this family celebration policy to attack democrats as being radical leftist who is he says are weak on crime and immigration. >> 2,047 children are separated and in their custody. we continue to ask for up dadat figures. we haven't gotten them. the white house said the zero tolerance policy still stands but they're not going to separate families. where are we on this? >> reporter: the department of justice said the official policy is to hold families. what no could mean is some asylum seekers could face months in detention, possibly longer or others could face ha really could be like an assembly line form of justice where they are rushed through the system too quickly to have any sort of real due process. we heard from the head of department of human services last week. he said the agency can pinpoint the location within a matter of seconds. if that's true, it's up to hhs and dhs and the martishal servi to bring them back together. even if they are detained in a family detention center, as we reported last week, the government is running out of space to hold families indefinitely. >> let's talk about the supreme court. the president tweeted over the weekend, a big week especially with our numerous victories head back to the white house now. focus will been o tn the selectn of a new supreme court justice. exciting times for our country. economy will be stronger than it has been. we think the president was supposed to meet with some potential nominees this weekend at his golf club. do we know anything about this process? >> he said he was going to have the meetings and as best we can tell is that didn't happen. i'm told the president is following the advice of the white house counsel who is taking the lead many this court pick and the president is having those conversations with his team of advisors today. all the people on the short list are federal appeals court judges and that's for a reason. the republican party doesn't want any surprises from this list of five the president has widdled it down to. they don't want any surprises when this person sits on the bench >> thanks. a lot of topics to cover. president trump said north korea is no longer a nuclear threat. u.s. intelligence officials say it may have increased nuclear production at multiple secret sites. next, the latest signs that north korea is still working on its nuclear program. first, mexico has elected its next president. a left leaning populist. he won more than 50% of the vote on a promise to transform the country and end corruption. he's calling for better re relations with the united states and will defend migrant citizen who is live and work honorably in the united states. (vo) i was born during the winter of '77. i first met james in 5th grade. we got married after college. and had twin boys. but then one night, a truck didn't stop. but thanks to our forester, neither did our story. and that's why we'll always drive a subaru. take prilosec otc and take control of heartburn. so you don't have to stash antacids here... here... or, here. kick your antacid habit with prilosec otc. one pill a day, 24 hours, zero heartburn. welcome back. nbc news has new reporting on north korea. u.s. intelligence agencies believe it's increased its nuclear weapons fuel production in recent months despite kim jong-un's pledge last month to work toward denuclearization. the develop is happening multiple secret nuclear facilities. sunday morning national security advisor john bolton acknowledged the difficulty of working with north korea. >> we're very well aware of north korea's patterns of behavior over decades of negotiating with the united states. there's not any starry eyed feeling among the group doing this. >> president trump has boosted expectations for the rogue nation tweeting there's no longer a nuclear threat from north korea and claiming the north is negotiating in good faith to justify cancelling joint military exercises with south korea. the trump administration is tried to focus on supposed progress in the north korea nuclear situation. let's get rae fresher on what north korea has in its arsenal. puts the number of nuclear weapons held by north korea in the neighborhood of 60 bombs. the biggest point is we don't know the full extent of kim jong-un's nuclear stockpile and no public disclosures of that number at the singapore summit last month. you think that would be a good starting point for negotiations. let's find out what their capabilities are. we didn't do that. the bombs are a serious threat when coupled with north korea's advances in rocket technology. the latest missile is now believed to put all the u.s. main land within range. that's nuclear stuff. in terms of conventional military, north korea is huge. north korea has more than 1,000 aircraft. about 1600 aircraft fix and rotary wings. thousands of tanks. armored vehicles. thousands of rocket launchers. this stuff is all there. it's also hidden. there's hidden artillery positioned along the demilitarized zone pointed directly at south korea's capital seoul. the north's cyber capacity are the country's most potent weapon. it flexed that mus cle in the 2014 hack of sony pictures. there's increasing evidence they were behind the 2016 new york reverve on the bangladeshi bank that netted them $81 million. the president points to the fact there's been no missile launches or nuclear tests since november. the intelligence community says that's not telling us the whole story. >> that say it is true and a hopeful sign. the new intelligence assessment that we learned about totally contradicts the president's assertion there's no longer a threat from north korea nuclear's program. what this intelligence shows us is that the north koreans are enriching nuclear fuel at multiple secret sites and working to deceive the united states about the locations and the nature of these sites and also trying to deceive the u.s. about the number of u.s. weapons and the nature of the missile program. the bottom line here is that what this intelligence suggests is north korea has not agreed to complete and verifiable denuclearization contrary by president trump. >> john bolton says the administration has plan to denuclearize within a year. this is complicated. thinking about the iran deal it was years and years after negotiations has begun. what do intelligence officials say about that assessment? >> they say it's wildly optimistic. in fact, some of the foremost experts on north korea's nuclear program have put out plans and schematics about how long it could take to denuclearize north korea under the best of circumstances. they say it should take about a decade. ten years. that's if north korea is cooperating and fully declares all of its sites and materials. this intelligence shows they are not cooperating. they intend to try to sdooef the united states. the idea it could happen in a year is not consistent with the facts. some people are speculating he's setting this as a way of sabotaging any potential deal. we'll have to see. >> there's some reporting on a so called round two of negotiations or another summit coming up later on the year. what do we know about that? >> axios, it's hard know what to make of this reporting. trump administration officials are so optimistic about the progress they are making that they want to have a second meeting between trump and kim jong-un in sent around the united nations general assembly in new york. that suggest they are not coming to grips with this new intelligence or spinning like crazy. the real question is does president trump understand the reality of the situation. is he listening to his intelligence community that's telling him the north koreans are trying to deceive him and do not intend to denuclearize as they said they would. >> september in new york city. that's what we need an international high security summit. good to see you. it's president trump's lawyer and fixer michael cohen getting ready to flip. he once said he would do anything to protect the president. now when asked what to do, he said his family is my first priority. several trump administration stap staffers left their financial disclosure forms almost entirely blank after taking job at the government. one employee doesn't list his old job at the nra and in the space to show his income, it says none. the interior department says many of the employees forms were not reviewed and certified properly and blamed it on not having adequate resources. you're watching "velshi & ruhle." i'm to your bumper, cause.... i don't think enough people heard about your big day. but nothing says "we got married" like a 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little of the fire out maybe in even unconsciously. it's an important thing and he's sending a message to law enforcement and to the public that is judging him every day that we haven't heard from him. >> he's got a isn't it true lawyer. a former federal prosecutor. he used to run the very office that is investigating cohen. what's the relevance of that? >> that and he's just won some acquittals in securities cases. he's got experience in economic type crimes. that signals that cohen is expecting possibly criminal liability in the economic crimes area but he's not necessarily expecting liability in the russia collusion area. still his new attorney has experience in criminal matters both here in the u.s. and abroad. that's a possibility. everything about this interview screams to me that cohen is saying, look, i may be on the hook for shoddy business practices and some economic crime like that. >> which is what his lawyer is good for. his lawyer is not the lawyer you'd have if you were being accused of collusion with russians? >> exactly. co comementalize that but i'm not on the hook for the russia stuff. i thought that was a bad idea. i'm not part of that. >> the stormy daniels thing is the complicating factor. there's some shoddy lawyering and business stuff over here. there's whether he was donald trump's guy with respect to communicating with russians on the other end of the spectrum. in the middle is this $130,000 payment. if it helped the president win the election social security a much more serious matter. >> more than that. if the president gave an order, what was the nature of the order. did he say make it go away or what if he said something more nefarious like i want you to go in there and threaten here. soon as something like that happens we're into extortion and criminal threats. that is a very significant inquiry. the reason cohen says i will tell you some day but not today. he's got one bargaining chip or maybe just a few bargaining chips left and that is something he has to hold onto until he gets the best possible deal assuming that there is criminal inindictments or criminal charges coming down the pike. >> needs that information for prosecutors, not tv interviews. >> exactly. once it's out there in the open air and it's no longer useful to him then maybe and only then might we hear his story. >> one day we'll get the truth. >> thanks very much. still haeld, the end ahead, small american dairy farm and way of life. >> how do i fix this problem? it's a great place to raise a family but his dream is gone. >> a kentucky family running their dairy farm for almost 70 years is forced to sell off their cows because of a single decision by walmart. we'll explain. there's little rest for a single dad, and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. here are the top stories we're watching right now. the fbi has made an arrest in the terror plot in cleveland. the suspect wanted to target july 4th parades and people gathering to watch fireworks. a knife attack at a 3-year-old's birthday party saturday night in idaho left nine people injured include six children. some of the people were refugees fleeing violence in other countries and vresettling in idaho. in the northeast, no relief from the heat for at least 59 million people now under heat warnings or advisories. the hottest places include new england and pennsylvania near the new jersey border. there's a chance d.c. could see 100 degrees today. lebron james made his decision. he's leaving the cleveland cavaliers and taking his talent to the west coast announcing he sign add four year contract with the los angeles lakers for 1$15 million. one decision by walmart is threatening a hundred american farms across eight states. the business is already been in a steady decline for the past 50 years according to the u.s. department of agriculture. the number of deairy farms has dropped from 648,000 to just over 40,000 in 2017. a decrease of almost 94%. there was some hope when president trump expressed his support of the dairy industry but experts and farmers say he should have focused on an american industry that's increasingly hostile to small time operator instead of focusing on tariffs. we visited the combs family and their third generation in ten tuck i can as they milked their cows for the last time before sending them off to be slaughtered. >> i've been on dairy farm for 30 years. i grew up in it. something i always wanted to do. it's just hard to believe it's over. >> it's a bad time to be an american dairy farmer. since 1970, the u.s. has lost more than 90% of the its dairy farms. the small farms have been replaced by fewer, larger farms and a national milk surplus makes it harder to turn a profit. after nearly 70 years in operation, kurtis family is about to shut down. he's more than 100 dairy farmers that lost a contract with dean foods and the company's processing plant in louisville, kentucky. they are closing the plant because walmart, it's primary customer has decided to cut out the middleman. walmart streamlined its milk operation by building its own processing facility and buying milk from large suppliers. now walmart no longer requires dean services or its farmers. >> i guess today is a big deal because it's the last day we'll milk cows that the milk will be shipped out. >> what you going to do today? >> our biggest problem is our land is not paid for. we've got to figure out some way to make enough money to make farm payments. >> dad rented us some land in 50s and moved here in '52 and rented this farm. it was five of us born and raised here. guess it became our life. >> after losing their exclusive contract with dean foods, the family is left unable to sell their milk to anyone anywhere. so now they are forced to sell the last of their dairy cows to 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director of the white house national economic counsel, larry kudlow is trying to clarify this eyebrow raising remark that he made on friday. >> as the economy gears up, more people working, better jobs and careers, those revenues come rolling in and the deficit, which is one of the other criticism is coming down. it's coming down rapidly. >> the deficit is coming down rapidly. later that day cnbc washington correspondent said kudlow called him and the quote was misinterpreted. he said he have referring to future deficits thanks to a boom he claims is happening. i also spoke with the chairman of the council of economic advisors later that day. here is what he said. >> i just feel that what larry kudlow was said is inaccurate. >> you'd have to talk to him about it. what larry is convinced of is we're going to have capital spending boom, which we are. growth will surprise on the upside. >> okay. for fact sake let's take a look at what's really going on with the deficit. this will involve some numbers. i'm going to make it real easy. these claims that kudlow take only take hold if people don't understand why they're wrong. let's get a quick refresher on what a deficit is. it's the difference between revenue and spending. if spending is bigger than revenue we end up with a deficit. if the government spends more than it takes in, which it does in most years, it's a deficit. that's different from the debt. that's the accumulation of the deficits plus interest. there's many ways to calculate and discuss deficit but none of them lead to kudlow's conclusion. the federal budget was $99 billion higher in may or this year than last year. it's going up. certainly not the coming down rapidly that larry kudlow claimed. that is going to continue. in february the white house office of management and budget estimated that the deficit will keep rising. it's expected to reach $984 billion in 2019. as for kudlow's caveat that he meant future deafficits. it's expected to rise from colon current level to 9.5%. this is a different way to measure it. my point is that there's no way you can calculate this and get to a different conclusion. even factoring in economic growth, by the way, which is what kudlow likes to do, the con gre -- congressional office says it's $1.27 trillion to the deficit over the next ten years. again, i say there is no coming down rapidly of the deficit. it's not projected to come down either. debra, what am i missing here because i've run the deficit numbers every way one can run them. as a percentage increase, percentage of gdp, as a measure of a month this year versus last year. in no circumstance is it lower. >> no. the deficit is going up. it's going up. it's going to near $1 trillion next year. even if you look at the economic growth projections that the administration puts out, it still would not be enough for the debt that we are issuing and bringing onto pay for things like the tax cuts. there is a sense that the government is about to undercut itself with the trade wars and you've got to factor in what's happening with the federal reserve as well which is starting to raise interest rates which will bring down economic growth. >> larry kudlow is claiming an investment boom. the idea that companies are paying lower taxes, lower corporate taxes and hence they will invest. when companies invest they get more factories, more people make money and that becomes the sierk l. are we seeing that happen? >> not yet. i think what we have seen are stock buy backs. companies are buying back their shares which helps enrich investors and that's supposed to translate into an invest ment boom. we're not seeing the business spending that we thought we would see. it is higher at this point but it's on track for the same amount for the overall year. companies are saying they might be spending some of it in the beginning of the year or second quarter. what you're seeing is a decline in the corporate receipts. tax receipts from companies are much lower than even the economic offenices projected afr the tax cuts. which means companies misinterpreted how much it was going to lower taxes for the companies or there's something else going on in terms of what the overseas regime was supposed too. donald trump talks about bringing back $5 trillion from offshoring. we're not seeing that come up in the treasury numbers which means we're going to continue to see debt and deficit. >> the president and his add visors continue to claim, he's been doing this since the electionincreased economic activity would pay for these growths. the economy grew at a rate of 2% in the first quarter. now we're expecting the numbers for the second quarter to be a bit better. they had to revise the number down. when the president ran he talked about four, five and six percent growth. that could help in that's true. i just don't know if it's true.. i just don't know if it's true. >> well, the fed says that long term -- their long-term economic projections for gdp is is 1.8%. so that's a far cry from what, you know, the 3%. now let's just say, the economy is doing incredibly well. it's very strong. companies are feeling positive. the jobless rate is incredibly low. people who want to find jobs are generally finding them. so we're in a boom period. but there are a lot of factors that can undercut that, including the trade fights the president has started with other countries and the fed is tapping the brakes slowly to avoid overheating. i don't think there's any scenario in which we'd be able to grow ourselves out of the deficit. and deficits aren't necessarily bad but saying that we're coming down rapidly -- >> that's correct. it is what it is. peop people who think they're good, people who think they're bad. but we have to have the truth of the story. thank you to the reporting you at "the new york times" have done. we've been able to show our viewers all of that stuff. the key here is just knowing what the truth is, making your own interpretations. deborah, good to see you. >> right. thank you. >> deborah solomon, the economics editor at "the new york times." great stuff they're doing on the deficit. a tearful reunion between mothers and children. in fact, one particular mother and her child. migrants from guatemala who had been separated for two months by the u.s. government. we are live with their story and the latest efforts to reunify more than 2,000 immigrant children still in u.s. custody. first, we're remembering the journalists killed at the "capital gazette" newspaper in annapolis on thursday. a memorial service will be held today for rob hiaasen, assistant editor and columnist. colleagues remember hiaasen as a terrific reporter who would try to bring out the humanity in all his writing. he leaves his wife of 33 years, a son and two daughters behind. with expedia's add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. we're following president trump's immigration policy. new numbers on arrests at the border. a report from the associated press claims border patrol arrests dropped 16% in june compaird to may. it's unclear why. could be related to seasonal rising temperatures. could have to do with president trump's zero tolerance policy. we want to remind you that 2,047 migrant children remain separated from their parents because of this policy. the number is the most recent count that the department of health and human services has made available to the public. nbc news continues to ask for more updated figures, and we have not received them. msnbc's marianno has witnessed a 7-year-old girl being reunited with her mother after 61 days. i can't imagine what that's got to be like for a 7-year-old. >> ali, the truth is also that it was bittersweet. it was bittersweet to watch. i was with this mother a few hours before. the anticipation, watching her buy clothes for this little girl who is coming here and has no belongings, effectively. buying her a little toy and the anticipation as she was walking in the airport clinging to the documents, to her 10-year-old baby brother. this little girl is traumatized. you and i were talking last week about the fact that many of these children speak indigenous languages. this little girl does not speak any english, barely speaks any spanish. her first language is actually mon, which is an indigenous language in guatemala. she made these heartbreaking calls to her mother every week. when she got torn apart from her father, her father told her, i'll be praying for you every day. so these are wounds very hard to heal for many of these young children. and this is what her mother told me about her message to other families thinking about embarking on this journey. >> what is your message for so many mothers who are coming here with their children seeking a better life? >> translator: i advise you to find another country to seek refuge in. too tough. people here don't have a heart. the kid is a treasure you have in life. you've been talking about it all throughout the morning. 2,047 children, that's the last hhs number for the number of children that remain separated from their families. i've been speaking to other mothers who are being asked for dna samples, for other paperwork who know where their kids are but fear that they just might be kept in the hands of the government. ali? >> "the new york times" is reporting that parents and relatives of separated children are in some cases being forced to pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to be reunited. what do we know about that report? >> i did ask this one mother about that fact, and she said that the government asked her if she had any money to pay for this child's flight ticket from michigan to miami. and when she said she didn't have the money, they footed the bill for this child's flight here. so i just know that one case. but certainly as we continue to talk to these families and to these organizations working overtime with these reunifications, we'll try to get more facts for you on that. >> so we separate the kids at the border. the kids get flown somewhere or placed somewhere else and then the reuniting cost falls upon the parent. this is truly -- the story gets more remarkable every time i hear a new report from you but please continue with this reporting. we will continue on the story, are getting the truth from you and continuing to try and get the information from the government, the department of health and human services about how many children are being held. mariano. 2,047 is the current number we have. we've not had a recent update from the department of health and human services. thanks for watching this hour of "velshi & ruhle." i'll see you back here at 3:00 p.m. check us out on social media. time to hand over to andrea mitchell for "andrea mitchell reports." right now -- supreme showdown. donald trump has 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