Connection. i m jason johnson in for tiffany cross. we have a lot of trending topics to get to but first we begin in jolly old england where president biden is attending the annual g7 summit meeting. he just met with french president emmanuel macron and has more meetings before his meeting with russian president vladimir putin. i m joined by nbc news white house correspondent mike memele. you have the best background i have seen this morning, mike. i ve got to start with this. this is a key part. as a political science professor, i have long studied the sort of special relationship that the united states has had with the u.k. i want to play a montage of joe biden s interactions with boris johnson. the special relationship, it is not said lightly, the special relationship between our people. our special relationship is
Wanted a photo 4,000 people a fifth of the total crowd in a one-woman retail politics marathon back for our double jeopardy round, mike memele and eliza collins. eliza no, gentle way to say this but a friend of mine put this question to me today we re going to i guess find out what 20,000 people in washington square park translates to in non-coastal americans in the states the democrats are going to need not only in the primaries but in the general right 20,000 people is impressive. it is a large number it does show elizabeth warren has momentum we talked about that poll in the last round but she needs to win in states like pennsylvania, in michigan, in wisconsin and she s not drawing 20,000 people at this point so she ll have to go out and campaign the other democrats are also campaigning in those states. and that s where it really matters. that s what could flip the election mike memele it also strikes
Real populism is not anti-semitic. real populists don t engage in hate speech and don t rip babies from families at the border. i m joined by nbc news national political reporter mike memele on the hill, doug thornell, host of the electables podcast. ayesha and shannon are back with us as well. doug, i m going to ask you to explain something to me. this is not a snarky thing at all because i have no dog in the fight. but when howard schultz says i ll not do anything to be a spoiler in the race, isn t the only way to do that not to run? or run as a democrat. so i m not missing something. i mean, i just no. he s making a political decision here. this is the best he believes this is the best pathway to get to the general election. is to run as an independent? look, the reality is his big disagreement with the democratic party is the mechanism to
And i think that every step of the way, we ve seen that robert mueller, with his investigation, is leaving no stone left unturned. he is being incredibly diligent. if something is there, i believe we re going to get the answer to that. all we can say for now is that the trump administration isn t doing themselves any favors by continuously lying, even with the president s response to these indictments that came out, by saying, oh, but guess what, it wasn t me, when that wasn t the initial issue at hand. it just makes you feel like there s something suspicious going on, they re not doing themselves any favors. and, you know, my guess is that if there are any kind of interests, any kind of financial ties or interests, that mueller s investigation will get to the bottom of it and hopefully we ll have those answers soon. mike, with all the indictments that have come before, they ve been followed by cooperation agreements. will that happen here? that s interesting, there was one america
reporter: so the thing we re trying to get answers to right now is what next. will this indictment force the president s hand? will he for instance levy the new russia sanctions that congress passed last year? there are also what next questions for the mueller investigation. we reported last week steve bannon, the president s former campaign chairman, white house chief adviser, met with the special counsel team for 20 hours. the president s legal team, alex, tells us there are ongoing negotiations for the president himself to potentially sit with robert mueller s team. those have been going on for a while. thank you so much, geoff bennett in pompano beach. mike memele, nbc national political report, and a russian american journalist from salon.com. mike, we ll reach out to you first. this indictment names 13 russian individuals and three companies, not the russian government. what do you make of that? well, it s interesting because we know that while the russian government itself