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the attack took place in the achin district. they have been fighting against extremist factions in that area. the afghan soldier was a taliban militant. nbc's national security producer courtney kube is following the latest for us. what more are we learning about this insider attack? >> well, as you mentioned, richard, there were three u.s. soldiers who were shot and killed in this attack. they were shot by someone wearing an afghan commando uniform. we don't know yet whether that individual was in fact an afghan commando, someone who infiltrated the military or someone who may have just been wearing the uniform. in the years past in afghanistan, we've seen both things happen. it was an insider attack, what the military often calls a green-on-blue in eastern afghanistan which has been plagued by isis in the last year or two. they have tried to step up their offensive in the last few months. we saw where the u.s. dropped the largest bomb ever used in warfare that we know of. and then just at the end of april, two u.s. army rangers were killed during a nighttime raid there, richard. >> courtney kube, thank you for that report on the breaking news and we'll continue to stay on top of it. when we have more developments, we'll have it for you here. now to president trump, trying to move forward with his agenda while lingering questions regarding the russia probe. each suggested they did not tell the truth. it could all come down to the so-called tapes about the president that the president tweeted about a month ago. the topic came up with reporters again yesterday. take a listen. >> do tapes exist of your conversations with -- >> well, i'll tell you about that sometime in the very near future. >> you seem to be hinting that there are recordings of those conversations. >> i'm not hinting anything. i'll tell you about it over a short period of time. >> when will you tell snus. >> over a short period of time. >> nbc's kelly o'donnell is in branchburg, where the president is spending the weekend. the question may be, what is he trying to do? as they try to move past the russia drama and the hearing that happened this week. >> reporter: they certainly want to turn the page, richard, and that is difficult given the scope of the russia interference investigation and the prominence of james comey and the pointed accusations against the president, putting pressure on him, at least pressure that comey felt with the president sort of hinting about the investigation, as you saw the president denying that he did any such thing and felt that comey vindicated him in the words of the president and the white house. how do they turn the page? that is challenging. sometimes it is outside events like the tragedy in afghanistan that can help the white house redirect its attention. the president appearing in milwaukee today has already commented about the fallen soldiers and the country offering support and grieving with those families. we have not heard from the president on that issue yet, although we have been told by officials that he was briefed by the national security team about what he described as an emerging situation in afghanistan. that was several hours ago. no update yet from the president directly. but looking to the week ahead, they are trying to structure agenda items and the people's business to try to wall off all of the attention in the russia investigation, over which they have very limited control and there's not much good news in there for them. so we will expect to see the president travel to wisconsin this coming week and he will be enkourni encouraging the use of apprenticeships and ivanka trump will be part of that trip. they are trying to have her have a public role and the idea that there are jobs in the economy that need the careful sort of developed talent of atr apprenticeship training and that's what the president is expected to try t do this week. richard? >> and get the old band together if you will there in wisconsin. kelly o'donnell there with the president in new jersey. thank you so much. the deadline was yesterday at midnight providing the james comey memos leaked to the senate judiciary committee or else, says "politico." he may or may not have complied. politico says the source indicates that the columbia law professor daniel richmond will be addressed on monday. meanwhile, the president has been swatting back comey's claims. >> i hope -- this is the president speaking, i hope you can see yourself clear of letting flynn go. is he a good guy. i hope you can let this go. now, those are his exact words, is that correct? >> correct. he asked specifically of loyalty in the context of asking me to stay. >> there would be nothing wrong but i did not say that. >> well n. that same rose garden news conference on friday, trump promised that he's willing to testify on this. >> would you be willing to speak under oath to give your version of events? >> 100%. >> but if the president does indeed tell his story under oath, he's likely facing a grilling in an area where even comey was not willing to go. >> do you sense that the president was trying to obstruct justice or just seek for a way for ke flynn to save face, given that he had already been fired? >> general fnn at that point in time was in legal jeopardy. there was an open fbi criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the russian context a contacts and the contacts at the time. i don't know whether it was an effort to obstruct. i took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning but that's a conclusion i'm sure the special counsel will work towards to try to understand what the intention was there and whether that's an offense. >> do you believe this will rise to the obstruction of justice? >> i don't know. that's bob mueller's job to sort that out. >> with me now, political playbook co-author, jeff stein, you wrote this in newsweek about what comey did not say that should worry the president the most. what is that? >> well, whenever he was asked about collusion, whether it was by a friendly democratic senator or antagonistic on the republican side, he said i can't discuss this on open session, which means he had things to discuss in a classified setting behind closed doors and that would be information gathered by the american spies, the nsa through electronic intercepts of russia conversations. so the implication was that he has plenty to discuss about collusion between the russians and trump campaign behind closed doors. >> that is a $64 question. daniel, any indication about what was said in that closed session of the senate intel committee? >> so far, details of that have not leaked surprisingly in this waington power center where everything is getting leaked. but it does seem like that will be part of bob mueller's investigation and we will learn the facts eventually from that. i think trump -- he was worried about comey this week but it's really bob mueller who just hired a top criminal defense lawyer who knows everything about criminal law to be part of his investigation. it's bob mueller who trump should really worry about. it's less about comey and what he says sometimes. >> jeff, are you hearing from your sources in terms of what that testimony was like, the closed door testimony, the tempo of it, the blood pressure, if you will, that was felt on both sides, both from the democrats and republicans? >> yeah, i have. and not down to the specifics of exactly what charges he was raising but the methods to which they gathered this information which, as i said before, through american sources clan den sent sources, that's what comey talked about and that's going to be up to the justice department, the special prosecutor bob mueller to figure out what he can release and how this information can be used in a prosecution. >> one of the defenses that have come up, daniel, for instance, from speaker paul ryan, he said that the president was new to this, defending the president in the way that he has handled the testimony so far. some have been saying, well, is ryan new to this by saying that the president is new to this? >> yeah, it does seem like that was kind of a fig leaf defense. paul ryan realizes he can't just throw trump under the bus right now because they still want to get things done legislatively but you are seeing a lot of republicans think of trump as this wounded animal. he's at a 34% approval rating, according to kwquinnipiac. and that hurts republicans next year during the midterms and paul ryan is worried that could put his job in jeopardy. >> thank you both for that reporting and the new details of what happened. let's bring in trial attorney mark shamel. you were listening to reporting coming out from both daniel and jeff. to you on this, when you're looking at the legal questions here, mark, i want to get straight to special counsel mueller bringing in justice department deputy solicitor general michael dreeben. is this confirmation that they are looking at obstruction of justice? >> you were talking about the things that comey says and comey is a witness at this point. he's a former department of justice official. he's not going to be making -- he hasn't said it is obstruction of justice and then mueller says it's not, they are at odds with each other. he says, this is what i thought. it's very troubling and i'm bothered by this. mueller gets to go behind that, get the e-mails and notes that were taken contemporaneously and t the context to it to decide whether it is obstruction of justice. >> mark, what was your thought about jeff's reporting there from newsweek about some of the -- he was very general. he said he didn't have specifics. but what was discussed in the closed door and he's talking about intel, these intercepts as well of what may have been details relevant to the russia connection question. what do you think of that? >> tanytime you hear sources an methods, these are people risking their lives for our country. they have service with the nsa, fbi, cia, overseas, lives at risk. they have to make sure that doesn't get leaked. and what is going to be told when they get back into those closed door sessions in a sciff, that's where the meat of this is. it's a real problem for the president because that's where they will find the meat of it. the flip side in defending those types of cases is often -- think about the last time there was the hansen case, the different people that have gone for treason and espionage. they typically don't go to trial because the government says we'll take death penalty off the table and get your family members out of it so we don't have to disclose sources and methods. >> quickly on this, because i want to get this before we run out of time, is the president at risk of impeachable behavior? >> i think he's more at risk. what he's done here is enough to get us to muellernd now they have a real prosecutor. bob mueller used tory murder cases in d.c. he's a real prosecutor. he's going to have unfettered access to everything. just like with watergate and watergate became monicagate. this starts with russia. who know where is it goes after that. does it go to the money coming in and out of trump industries? he's now going to have tax returns and e-mails and bank records. he's going to be able to look inside the kimono on everything there is. >> thank you so much for your expertise. i want to bring informer independent special counsel and ex-fbi operative. there's so many hats that we can have you put on but tell me what your thought is right now, evan. how have republicans handled the testimony from comey during thursday but post as well? what's your thought? >> during the hearing, i thought they did a pretty good job. i thought they challenged comey more than i've seen them challenge president trump in two years. i thought it was interesting. but still i thought it was a professional -- i thought they did their job in general. it was professional. what's troubled me is the response from other republicans not in the hearing, other republican members of congress. not all of them but some of them. in which they've criticized comey as being untruthful or having a loose relationship with the truth or the law or making some other slanderous statement about him. you know, when i was there working in congress, i remember when republican members of congress were worried about whether the investigation into hillary clinton that comey was -- that he was leading would be done thoroughly and in accordance with the law. they then thought that comey would do it. they thought he had a lot of integrity and strength and no one would get in the way of that investigation. well now the shoe is on the other foot and comey is still maintaining his commitment to the law, maintaining his commitment to the country and some republican leaders are uncomfortable with that. >> a very impassioned opening two minutes by james comey. >> right. >> in the beginning, if you've watched it end to end several times as i'm sure you have. one of the things that came out of it is the talking points from the white house to republicans and the lead-up to that testimony not followed at all. do you see -- who do you see when you're looking at the right standing out in the leadership of this process, the russian connection question? >> who do i see in the government? >> on the right. that's right. >> on the right. oh, boy. well, look, i think in the senate you see -- you see some republican senators. i think mccain has been there at times. i think burr as the chairman of the intel committee is moving forward with the investigation in an acceptable way. >> right. >> i think more resources need to be given to that committee. i still think there should be a special select committee. again, these intel committees -- they are doing various things but, you know, when you look back at committees that the republicans have set up to investigate, for example, clinton, the benghazi committee had about 40 staff members, millions of dollars. this is much, much bigger. nobody has lost their life as a result of this directly but this is about our ability to chose our own leaders. this is a strategic threat of the worst kind and we need more resources. >> putting on your cia operative hat, any piece of information that you heard from the teimony? we also had the reporting there from jeff stein of newsweek who said he got some indication of what was discussed behind closed doors. anything standing out to you, putting on your cia hat? >> i don't know about that. i'll tell you that when comey says that flynn was in legal jeopardy, to me that seems like a euphamism that spells real trouble not only for flynn but what comes along for flynn and the administration and even president trump. i'd be speculating -- and i am speculating when i say that i believe donald trump is so sensitive about flynn because flynn knows something that can put or will put donald trump in a very difficult position and so when comey says that there are things like that that he can't discuss but that flynn was indeed in jeopardy, then i think that's very troubling. but i'll tell you, as much as we're focused on flynn and focused on some of these ancillary issues that are still important, donald trump fired james comey by his own explanation because he didn't like the way the russia investigation was going. comey focused on that at the end of his testimony as a big deal and i would stress that same thing. that is still the core of this issue, in my view. >> great to have you here, former cia operative, evan mcmullin, thank you. >> thank you. what will house democrat strategy now be going forward with signs showing that house republicans are unwilling to investigate possible obstruction by the president? 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that was the recent -- what we understand recent request. >> well, it's full speed ahead for that committee. in fact, they have new leadership on the republican side. mike conaway of texas, he's a suspected person and a level guy and working with adam schiff and i think both of them have a desire to get to the truth and to get -- follow the facts where they go. they will be doing their job on behalf of congress. so i think the intel committee in the house as well as in the senate are going to stay on this case and do everything that they can to get to the bottom of what happened, particularly the question of russian interference in the u.s. election and whether there was a trump campaign participation in that. >> and i think, after the testimony that we saw from the senate intel committee, the house intel committee now asking for copies of these james comey's memos as was reported. we are looking at a columbia law professor to potentially provide those to the senate intel committee at this moment. what do you hope to find in these james comey memos? >> well, what we're all looking for is more context. there's really three things at stake here. number one, what was the reason that comey was fired. was the president leaning on him demanding a loyalty pledge, wanting him to stop that investigation basically to obstruct justice? that's the question. bottom line, it's going to be mueller, i think, who will be able to get more information and it will come down right now to what president trump says and what comey says and a lot of folks, myself included, believe comey. but the second question and the one that i think has much more jeopardy for the president long term is was there collusion by members of his campaign with russians who were actively interfering in the election? and that goes to the heart of our democratic process and whether you're republican or democrat, we don't want campaigns messing and colluded with foreign powers to subvert the vote of the people of this country. and i think that's where there is some long-term jeopardy. and then the third thing, which is a danger for the country more than trump, is this is sucking out all the oxygen in washington from us doing our job. it's like there's a five-alarm fire every single day at the white house. and whether it's paul ryan and house republicans trying to work with the white house or even some of us who want to work with the president on infrastructure, no one is there to answer your phone call because they are totally absorbed in this mess about the reason comey was fired and also the question of collusion in the campaign. sohis is really thwarting the agenda and it is a great concern to me. >> quickly, the question of collusion which you brought up, there are many in the constellation that are supportive around the white house saying the president has now ducked that question. at least based on what has happened in the comey testimony. do you agree? >> well, yeah. there was some good news for trump there. he said -- comey said that the president was not under active investigation but the problem is that what isn't said is what one of your earlier guests just acknowledged or pointed out, and that is comey didn't say there was an investigation about collusion. and that investigation may well not have developed to the point where the president was a target of it. but if it turns out that some of his high officials in the campaign were involved and the question is what did then candidate trump know. so i think there's a lot of jeopardy there. there's some jeopardy from democrats. there's a danger that we are going to ride the trump investigations instead of offering our own affirmative plans that are going to help folks who have been left behind in this economy. >> uh-huh. >> so i really hope that we get out there and push how we're going to bring down the cost of health care and prescription drug and what we're going to do on infrastructure and what our tax simplification program is. it's important on the democratic side to understand this dynamic with trump is going to happen with or without us. so let's forget that we have some independent responsibility to be putting forward a good agenda for this country. >> and we'll be watching along with you, representative, as that kicks off in the september and october period. it's so close. we'll see what solutions come from the left. thank you for joining me, deputy welsh. a pop culture icon has passed away. adam west died today after a battle with leukemia. you'll remember he played bruce wayne and his superhero alter ego "batman" that ran from 1966 to 1968 but was watched by so many in reruns. he also did voiceovers as the character and several animated versions as well. west played himself in guest roles on "the big bang theory" and had recurring visits on "the family guy." adam west was 88. dear son, i know you worry i can't keep up with our weekly tee times. but i've been taking osteo bi flex ease. it's 80% smaller, but just as effective at supporting range of motion and shows improved joint comfort in seven days. which means you're in big trouble, son. you will bow to my exquisite short game. cower at mmajestic dr. i will makyou question everything, son. so don't worry about dad's joints. worry about your dignity. love, dad. 80% smaller, just as effective. osteo bi-flex ease. made to move. ykeep you sidelined.ng that's why you drink ensure. with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. the whole country booking on choice hotels.com. four words, badda book. badda boom... let it sink in. shouldn't we say we have the lowest price? 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>> the thing i'm worried about is the test on may 14th. they shot a missile into the atmosphere about 1300 miles. they were not testing range. it only went about 400 miles in the sea of japan. that's the only thing they really need to put a nuke on a long-range missile and hit the lower 48 states. they are a lot closer than everybody thought they would be a few months ago. >> because they have the nuclear device. they just need to get it to places and that's what they are trying to do. >> yes. >> what about their drone technology? is that of any concern or worry? >> the south koreans picked out a north korean drone which separates the two koreas. god know what is they can put on a drone these days. there's going to be a concern and progress and why there is so much concern this year? >> it may be that kim jong-un is going to be a freeze or possibility of a freeze sometime in the future and he wants to be frozen at the highest technological level. so they've gotten as far as they can. >> is there any vision from kim jong-un looking at the united states and saying that the united states, the white house specifically, is going through some turmoil, let's act now? 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>> oh, yeah, definitely. this is an important time in our history. i mean, we have a situation where potentially the president of our country manipulated an investigation to cover something up. i mean, with we don't know. we don't know all of the facts yet and the investigation has to play itself out, but really that is the situation and that is something potentially scary that implicates the presidency and its legacy and its authentic integrity. so it's something we should all as americans be concerned about. >>. >> reporter: what did you think about the things that rm toform director comey had to say? >> he's a private citizen now. there's no reason for him to worry about any position or anything. his credibility was really high for me. he didn't say anything terribly surprising that we kind of haven't heard through the leaks and other pieces of news. but to hear him say, the president told me this and i know for a fact, in my investigation, that these are the facts, is really telling. and so his credibility was really good and, you know, we'll have to see what happens. >> that's absolutely right. what do we do from here? thank you so much, jacqueline. do you believe this, richard, all of the great interviews we're getting out here? what is really compelling is that people were able to make up eir own minds after seeing the entire thing for themselves and that's why it was so important to watch it. >> then enthralled about what is happening in washington and this is just part of the latest chapter. jinah kim with some reaction of that. thank you so much. the explosive testimony of former director james comey and his contrasting views of conversations with president trump has been the topic of endless political debate. but in which ways do these events compare to past presidential investigations? joining us is presidential historian and author of "the case for impeachment," alan lipman. i was looking at a timeline that was put together with the watergate investigation and what we're going through now and as i know that you know like the back of your hand, we're seeing a lot in terms of just timing, a lot of parallels. >> yes. the parallels are truly striking. as i wrote in my book, fundamentally both nixon and trump lack core guiding principles other than a concern for themselves. for nixon, it was political. for trump, it's political and financial. and they both have followed an exactly parallel strategy, which i call the daft strategy. d, deflect. on july 24th, 1973, the day after nixon defied the subpoena to release his tapes, he trotted out the chairman of the national public coittee, none other thaneorge h.w. bush, to claim that one of the chief investigators of watergate had committed illegal water taps of richard nixon during the campaign. that sent the committee off into a fruitless several month investigation which turned up nothing, as we know. trump followed the same strategy with no evidence claiming barack obama had wiretapped him. second attack. when woodwin and bernstein began exposing the watergate scandal, nixon sent out ron zigler as press secretary to accuse of a vicious abuse of the journalistic process. and trump, of course, has accused the media of fake news, called them the opposition party in many ways. fire, "f," we know that richard nixon fired the special prosecutor and donald trump fired the man investigating the scandal surrounding his administration, james comey. "t," temperize. we know that richard nixon delayed everything as long as possible and we saw that on display yesterday with donald trump when he wouldn't even tell us something as simple that he knows about whether or not there were white house tapes. he's going to give us that in the future somehow. the parallels are amazing. >> daft. the question now is, as this white house looks forward to yet more questions, we have the four congressional investigations, as you know, we have bob mueller, the special counsel, that's the fifth and that's happening in parallel. is the white house ready with the right te, based on what the questions are that are going to happen? not only into his campaign but also into his personal business dealings? this can really be blown open, as has been said. the number of tributaries, the size of this kimono is only growing as the days move on. does he have the right team to defend himself, this president, president donald trump, compared to what you saw in watergate with that defense? >> well, in watergate, of course, the nixon team collapsed because they were so deeply involved in the scandal themselves. as we saw in the trump case now, there is the departure of michael flynn, who seems somehow to be at the center of this. he says he has a story to tell and that may be why, of course, donald trump is so sensitive about that. trump, of course, has turned to a private attorney. the problem with that is, the private attorney is accountable to no one other than the man who is paying him, apparently donald trump, if he doesn't choose to stiff him. he's not accountable to the american people or the congress. and here's the other critical thing about investigations. turn to the clinton investigation. that started out with an investigation of a land deal in arkansas but it went into bill clinton's perjury and obstruction of justice. >> right. >> this investigation can go wherever it leads. but there's one missing link here and that is an impeachment inquiry by the house judiciary committee because the special counsel looks at criminality. the houseudiciary committee looks at a broader issue of whether there is a presidential abuse of power, whether explicitly criminal or not, that rises to the level of the impeachment defense. we had a select committee, a special prosecutor during watergate but also had a house impeachment inquiry that went on for eight months. and by the way, had bipartisan cooperation because back then republicans put patriotism ahead of party. >> so american university professor and presidential historian, thank you so much. we could talk for a great deal of time. thank you so much. >> you know where to find me. president trump's relationship with fellow republicans, the balance between supporting the commander in chief and putting politics before country. a closer look at the debate. 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