Asked about all of this. We have seen the written statements and the message is blunt. This pandemic is not going to end anytime soon. Our team is frspread out coveri it all. We start with Geoff Bennett at the white house and Jacob Soboroff at the border in yuma, arizona. His book separated inside an american tragedy looks at separations of migrant families by the Trump Administration, this is a subject he knows extraordinarily wellbeing at the border. Geoff, what can we expect from the president s visit in arizona today . Look, President Trump returns to arizona, where hes going to return to a familiar issue that he thinks helped fuel his rise and win in 20 16. That is border security. Hes going to go to yuma, arizona, where jacob is, to tout the progress made in his long promised southern border wall an then heads to phoenix where hell talk to a crowd of thousands of young supporters, many of them students who will be packed into a phoenix megachurch there one reason hes going to ari
Also, bold accusation. President trumps lawyer now claiming special counsel bob mueller unlawfully obtained thousands of emails in the russia investigation. And hitting the campaign trail. The president plans to aggressively campaign in next years midterms, but do all republicans really want him by their side . Those are the big questions. We begin with Vladimir Putins phone call to President Trump, the second call in just four days. There are reports that putin called President Trump to thank him for a cia tip that helped thwart a terror attack in st. Petersburg. We have an Incredible Team of reporters for us to break all of this down with, of course, the latest developments. Nbcs Geoff Bennett is at the white house. Ill start with you. What more can you tell us about this phone call between putin and trump . Reporter good afternoon. We know that Vladimir Putin initiated this phone call and hes making it public. We know he called President Trump, whos spending the weekend at camp davi
Theres a lot you may not know about this guy, congressman devin nunes, hero to some on the right, hated by some on the left. A deep dive later in the show. Plus other breaking news, this is unbelievable. New video just coming in. The former gymnastics doctor at the center of that Sexual Assault scandal, look at this, targeted by a dad of some of his victims, rushing to attack him. Were going to talk more about this in just a minute on what went down but first we want to get to the political story of the day. I want to start with Geoff Bennett over at the white house. Theres a lot happening, geoff. This week started with memo headlines, were ending this week with memo headlines. What do we know about timing of when this memo might get groeen lit and whats happening in the door behind you there . The exact timing is still unknown given how cumbersome and complicated this process has been. But we do expect at some point today President Trump to approve the release of the memo. We expect a
At the turkey pardon. He had to pardon roy moore at the same time for child molestation allegations and then you have yesterday he takes this nice ceremonial event honoring war veterans and has to be dominion in crass. Zplp also we have in washington the great host of casey d. C. Good morning. Laser rock. Casey in d. C. , any. Actually i think theyre playing it eastern longer, even more inappropriate. I cant hear. What the what the heck . Were baaack. What the heck was the reaction on camille . Reporter to pocahontas, specifically . Yeah. Reporter well, i think many of them took it in stride as per usual. I think there is a sense that this president is regularly insulting to people. Its easier to brush it off when its one person instead of an entire group of people given the context of the room and the people that were supposed to have been honored at this ceremony made this particularly troubling to the couple of people that i talked about as i was leaving the building last night. Eli
It was just a normal day and the fire alarm went off. Down the back staircase down the second floor and once we reached there you heard loud pop, pop, pop. And one of the administrators came out screaming, code red. Code red. Everyone get inside. As we were leaving the classroom i saw two bodies on my right side, i saw two bodies in front of me. And i was walking down the left to the hallway, i see a four more bodies. I know your best friend was shot right next to you. Do you know how shes doing . Have you heard what happened to her . Yeah. Unfortunately she didnt make it. I want us to take action and i dont want this to just be another mass shooting. I want this to be the last mass shooting. Today President Trump said were a nation in grief and the American Flag above the white house is flying at half staff. He expressed sim path your fo foye sympathy for the victims and those who feel alone and absent from his comments any reference to the guns or the assault style weapon used. I wan