nbc news confirming an argument with the president came just before john bolton s departure, but what was the disagreement about? we ve got answers ahead on that. the question was about slavery. the answer included record players and venezuela. the fallout joe biden is facing today. plus, legacy shift. the change that happened at the presidential debate when it came to bringing up president obama. but now, with two stories breaking this hour, first, this fiery explosion you see here. it s the result of a drone attack. it hit a saudi arabia oil refinery. the wall street journal says this forced saudi arabia to shut down about half of its oil output, and that amounts to about 5% of the world s daily crude oil production. this all comes as the white house confirms one of osama bin laden s sons and a high-ranking member of al qaeda had been killed in a u.s. counterterrorism operation. nbc s hans nichols is at the white house with that story, but first, we re going to go to you, sar
troops that remain in afghanistan. they haven t given a lot of specifics, but they re kind of and the president, when you listen to him, seems to be hinting that you re still going to have a troop drawdown. he hasn t officially said all this. of course, the other big story this lands in is what s going to be and who is going to be the new national security adviser after john bolton was either resigned or dismissed, depending whose version earlier in the week. allern? i guess with regard to the timing of all this, certainly 9/11 and the dust-up with regard to what was scheduled to happen at camp david last weekend and then did not do we know when the white house got confirmation of this death? reporter: no, but we can presume some time before july 31st when nbc news reported it, unless nbc and other news organizations intercepted it before it went to the white house. but it seems like the president was made aware, at least the news organizations were reporting this, on august 1s
the next generation waits in the wings jockeying for position, feuding over status, knowing only one of them can be the heir. joining me now is the man behind that story. i don t know, are you watching entourage s succession right now you? sounds like the play of the roy family. so let s get into it. with the president as we know who love cable news, when it comes to winning his approval, how much does the image of each of the trump children get shaped on cable and then shape the president s feelings towards them? it matters a lot. i spoke to somebody who is close to the president and the white house who said that on any given day the president s attitude toward his children, especially his three oldest children, is shaped largely by how they are playing on cable news. so that might be an interview they do on fox, it might be what kind of coverage they are generating. for a long time ivanka s kind of
we are better off having him in moscow than we are having him in virginia or wherever he ends up. so given that you know the person for whom the person we re talking about worked, do you think that you know who this person is? no, i don t think that i do. i thought about it, but i don t think that i ve ever met him. but again, if the reporting is accurate, i want to keep echoing the reporting, he is as close as putin as you can get. you is in every single meeting with putin and prime ministers around the world. and so that means that he is preparing the paperwork for those big bilateral summits. so one step removed from president putin. michael mcfaul, thanks so much. and let s go to a new report with remarkable insight into the dynamics inside the trump family. in the atlantic new cover story, theyry while the president writes his chapter in history,
like on thursday night, there was a lot of question about is it going to be biden versus warren. the campaign did not necessarily go into that thinking that they wanted a lot of fireworks there. so i think when you look at how she came off the debate stage, it was sort of mission accomplished. as i reported, they wanted to do as much of the personal narrative, as. of the personal story telling mixed in with a bit of policy. and that is exactly what they got on the debate stage with elizabeth rren. and so she got to kind of shy away from the back and forth with biden and focus on policy. listen so what she said today. i loved having the opportunity to talk about the issues. as always, there are more issues that i wish we could have spent time talking about. i wanted to talk about canceling student loan debt and more time talking about universal child care, more time talking about the housing crisis in america. more time talking about the need to expand social security and to