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With the prime minister, then attending that sumo wrestling match, handing out that 6-foot trophy rp trophy, the presidential trophy, its being called, the first world leader to do that. on the other hand, potentially undercutting all that diplomacy with his tweets and his taunts. that tweet you focused on, alex, lets just read the whole thing and pick it apart piece by piece. the president tweeting, north korea fired off some small weapons which disturbed some of my people and others, but not m...

Missile tests. nbcs white house correspondent is traveling with the president. kristen welker, good morning to you. so kristen, trump doesnt seem to be listening to bolton on north korea. what now? >> reporter: he doesnt seem to be. hes complicating his charm offensive here as well. first, kendis, to the tweet thats roiling this major ally as well as his national security adviser. the president writing, north korea fired off some small weapons, which disturbed some of my people and others but no...

There. >> not the actual mueller order to avoid serving in report, barrs summary. >> right. >> he got a running start -- vietnam. >> you believe he faked a disability. >> do you believe he has a >> there were ten points of obstruction, but it was very disability? yeah. at least not that one. little that the house could do with that. now hes giving them more he -- no, i dont mean a -- no, ammunition to do a lot more and i -- this is actually really the courts are backing them up every step of the...

Because in the end we know why these companies -- these countries often come in. this is more complicated because deripaska, oleg deripaska, as you pointed out, was an oligarch that we sanctioned because of the elections, his closeness to putin and all that. and hes had significant interest in rusal. thats why the house overwhelmingly did what you talked about and the senate would have if mcconnell hadnt worked his imagine wik a bunch of republican senators. >> i want to ask you about that part ...

>> the federal judge in new york, second time in three day, ruled against the president, in favor of what youre doing. congressional democrats involving deutsche bank and capital one. what message does this send? >> two different judges, same conclusion. not that youre wrong but your arguments dont raise serious legal questions. whats more, were not going to be a party to an effort to delay congress in the discharge of its oversight. were not going to stay our rulings and result in obstruction b...

Reason. you dont see house republicans to flout their trump administration very often, but it was an overwhelming vote in the house. youre saying in the senate the vote would have gone the same way, there would have also been another rebuke in the senate which effectively stopped them from lifting those sanctions but mcconnell is the one, he was the decider who, in fact, tilted the balance on this, himself? >> well, i think in the house, i dont know for sure, but in the house, it looked like bec...

Process cant testify, witnesses about the immigration and children in cages cant testify. if don mcgahn cant testify. these are all things that cannot happen. the judge wrote a very thorough and very well thought out opinion, and i think if anything is clear from watergate, its that you cannot just thumb your nose at congress and you cant thumb your nose at a justice department subpoena. and thats what the president is setting himself up to do is to be above the law and just say ill do what i wa...

>> yeah, lawrence, i want to borrow a phrase from the mueller report. judge metas ruling was a sweeping and systemic rebuke of the presidents claims that he, one, is above the law and two, is not susceptible to congressional oversight. when i sat in that courtroom, i was shaking my head because i heard the presidents lawyer william consovoi say things like congress cant investigate a president who violates criminal statutes and congress cant investigate a president who violates the constitution,...

Relationships with mexico and candidate da and that canada and thats a lot of broken pottery that others wouldnt do to get to that result. >> okay, thank you. and chris matthews, thank. "enemy in the foxhole, lets play "hardball." or for justin amash, "a republican rebuke, lets play hardba hardball." >> please use one. >> thats what you do. mika has like this alarm and if it is 6:57 p.m., she just pops up, she goes "hardball" starts in a few minutes. she runs in front of the tv set, i promise yo...

Between the recipient of the subpoena and the congressional committee. but when they have gone to the supreme court the supreme court has generally ruled in favor of congress. so there is broad authority for congress to act. >> and precedent. so april, on this poichblt the president has been weighing in, hes obviously making this personal and disparaging the judge. here he is. >> as far as the financials are concerned we think its the -- its totally the wrong decision by obviously an obama appoi...