Safe scott pruitt. Scott pruitt is standing strong in his job. Plus, new evidence of a russian attempt to hack state voter systems. And rebecca trayce traister on the glaring difference between samantha bee and Roseanne Barr. Americans are finally paying attention. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes with two big Foreign Policy moves just today, the president is turning away from the western democracies that have for decades been americas closest allies, aligning the u. S. Instead with autocrats and strongmen who practice the type of leadership that this president admires. In the process he is reshaping our relationship to the rest of the world. The president announced today his june 12th summit is back on fulfilling a long time goal. North koreans meeting with the u. S. President without securing concessions in return. The announcement came after the president welcomed a top aide of kim jongun to the white house later bragging to the press corps about their strong relationship. It was actually very interesting because this was literally going to be the delivery of a letter and it ended up being a twohour conversation with the second most powerful man in north korea. I think the relationship we have right now with north korea is as good as its been in a long time. They had no relationship under the previous administration. There was nothing. Its a slightly strange attitude it might seem to have about one of the worlds most prepressive totalitarian regimes. If you paid attention you know the president has a certain respect for kim jongun. This guy, this hes like a maniac. Okay . And you got give him credit. How many young guys, he was like 26 or 25 when his father died, take over these tough generals and all of a sudden, its amazing when you think of it. How does he do that even though its a cultural thing, he goes in and takes over and hes the boss. Its incredible. He wiped out the uncle, this one, that one. This guy doesnt play games. Boom, boom, hes killing everybody. You have got to tip your hat to him. The president expressed similar regard for putin, duterte, erdogan, even xi jinping, mohammad solomon, even Saddam Hussein who got a frequent shoutout on the campaign trail. At the same time hes embracing closer relations with dictators, the president is systematically eroding the United Statess most important alliances. At midnight last night, new steel and aluminum tariffs went into effect against our closest foreign allies, canada, mexico, and the european union. To be honest with you, they cannot believe that theyve gotten away with this for so many decades. Theyre our allies but they take advantage of us economically. I think we have a good chance of doing some great trade deals that will make America Great again, right. U. S. Allies strongly condemned the move and announced plans to retaliate, raising the prospect of a damaging trade war. Justin trudeau slammed the tariffs in a new interview with nbcs chuck todd. The idea that our soldiers who had fought and died together on the beaches of world war ii and the mountains of afghanistan and have stood shoulder to shoulder in some of the most difficult places in the world that are always there for each other somehow this is insulting to them. The idea that the canadian steel thats in military vehicles in the United States, the canadian aluminum that makes your fighter jets is somehow now a threat, the fact that next week were hosting the g7 summit of World Leaders and the airfield the military base that air force one is going to land in was put there in world war ii to protect an aluminum smelter that was providing to the military effort. The idea that we are somehow a National Security threat to the United States is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable. The new tariffs come exactly one year since the president announced plans to withdraw from the paris climate agreement the u. S. Is now the only nation on earth to reject the climate pact. The tariffs come a few weeks since the president butted out pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. Days later, the president of the European Council wrote looking at the latest decisions of donald trump, someone could think with friends like that, who needs enemies. To help break down the way President Trump is changing the american role in the world, ted liu joins us. First i guess your reaction to whens tariffs do to americas relationship with some of its closest allies. Thank you, chris, for your question. Its clear that donald trump is much more comfortable with autocrats and nondemocracies such as russia and china. At the same time, offending our own allies such as canada, mexico, and then the entire european union. Whats disturbing there doesnt seem to be any longterm strategic policy. The president wakes up one day and says hes going to do tariffs. A few days later hes going to exempt all these countries. Now we learned easy not going to exempt those countries. Its very erratic and making allies think we are an unstable partner and that is not helpful to the United States. One thing here, just to be clear on there. The reason Justin Trudeau referenced this. Its important for people to understand whats going on here. The reason that the executive, the white house, the article two branch of the constitution can unilaterally impose these tariffs is under a National Security provision. So the logic that must follow is that there might be a war with canada in which we couldnt use their steel and aluminum. And is there any person in the world who thinks that is true . Not at all. And in fact, the law was put in place to deal with situations that look nothing like this one. Canada is one of americas oldest and strongest allies. By the way, the president just makes things up. He keeps saying somehow canada is taking advantage of the United States. The u. S. Actually has a 13 billion trade surplus with canada. We wrote a letter to u. S. Trade representative who actually says the u. S. Has a trade surplus with canada. We asked the trade representative to say thats not true. He has not done that. Were going to assume that is still a true fact. Right. So first of all, we have a trade surplus with canada. Were not going to go to war with them and not use their aluminum and steel. The question is, congress should wrench back the power. Honestly, this seems an obvious abrogation of congressional power here. You have bipartisan outrage against what donald trump is doing. Speaker ryan, mitch mcconnell, a number of democrats have all said this is stupid the way that the president is doing this. And we know its really quite insane when both u. S. Steel companies and u. S. Steelworkers oppose the tariffs on canada and then the Aluminum Association opposes trumps tariffs on aluminum against these other countries. Theres no one supporting these tariffs. Thats a good point. We had leo juriard who is a head of the Steel Workers union, who is a supporter of the idea of tariffs on imports of metals from china even he opposes tariffs on canada. There is no one as far as i can tell aside from literally the president of the United States making the case for that. Absolutely true. Something else to consider, i dont think the president understands that the world order that was created as dominating the world and the economy benefits the United States. Were at the center of it as are western democracies. When we dont work with allies, countries like russia and china are happy about that. Its already pushed other countries who were our allies to work with countries like china and russia. So, for example, japan and china have now held their first trade talks in over eight years precisely because japan views america as an unreliable partner. Putin critic Garry Kasparov tweeting in january 2017, i gave putin ins wish list to explain what he most wanted from trump. Trump blew it up, a trade war with nato allies was number two. Thank you for joining me. For more on the president s turn away from American Allies im joined by ambassador wendy sherman, and former congressman Mickey Edwards who represented oklahoma as a republican. Wendi, i want your reaction to watching what happened at the white house today where the president rolls out the red carpet for a representative of north korea which again, peace talks and north korea seem like substantively might be the right thing to do on the same day hes declaring a trade war against our closest allies. Indecember indeed, chris. I just returned this afternoon from europe. My last stop was in paris. And we heard from the french finance minister that the g7 that comes up the 8 skptd tand of june is really a g6 plus one with the u. S. Being the outlier. I would not be surprised if the president doesnt go to the g7 in canada but sends Vice President pence instead. Hell probably say he has to get ready for the singapore summit and how can he face all of these folks in canada . Ive got to tell you, i was in europe as these tariffs came through. And people were just gobsmacked and ready to retaliate because theyve just had enough. Thats interesting. Theres also, mickey, it seems to me a kind of dispositional aspect to this. President really has affection for strong men. This is a consistent part of his personality. I want to play a little bit of sound of him praising them and get your reaction how thats orienting american policy at the moment. Take a listen. And i think i would have a very, very Good Relationship with putin, and i think i would have a very, very Good Relationship with russia. The man has very strong control over a country. Its a very different system and i dont happen to like the system. But certainly in that system, hes been a leader far more than our president has been a leader. Chinas great and xi is a great gentleman. Hes now president for life. President for life. No, hes great. And look, he was able to do that. I think its great. Maybe well have to give that a shot some day. Saddam hussein was a bad guy. Right . He was a bad guy. Really bad guy. But you know what he did well . He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didnt read him the rights. They didnt talk. They were a terrorist. It was over. What do you think of that, mickey . Well, he killed terrorists. He also killed his own people. You know, donald trump has a love for authoritarians because thats the way he thinks. He thinks youre supposed to have an strong man at the top and that strong man makes decisions and youre supposed to carry them out or who knows what will happen. He seemed very happy with the way the people who were not on board got dealt with in north korea. But you know, the problem, chris, is not just what the president s doing. I was listening to the segment with ted where you were talking about it. He was talking about the fact that the president is unpredictable and its not a good policy and all these people are against it including republicans, as well. But thats not the point. You know, the constitution very clearly says article one, section 8, subsection 3, the congress is in charge of regulating foreign commerce. All of our commerce with other nations. So its congress not doing its job, not just donald trump. Wendi, i keep thinking about this point which theres a fundamental problem which is democratic qualities in the g7 countries have to respond to domestic Public Opinion as opposed to donald trump. They dont like donald trump. Places like turkey or saudi arabia or russia or china dont have to do that. Theres like a structural advantage to nondemocracies in sort of bribing and flattering this president. Indeed. I think people have seen if you just give him a little sugar, it goes a very long way. I think the other thing were seeing here, chris, is hes really trying to do a little bit of a kamikaze kind of act here. I think he believes if he puts pressure on europe that europe will then follow through on sanctions on iran but what he doesnt understand is europe has leverage, as well. Hes not the only one who has leverage. I think the europeans will retaliate. The next time he needs europe, europe will be slow to come forward. Its interesting as much as he hates multilateralism and the or, e the oecd meeting which just happened in paris, indeed the u. S. Said dont want that word anywhere in the communique. Hes using multilateralism in this summit in singapore. It wouldnt be happening without south korea or china. Wouldnt be happening without japan. Mickey, theres the fact theres going to be economic effects of this. Cnbc did analysis of the ways in which the savings from the tax cut, which for working people is already quite quite slender will be entirely eaten up if the retaliatory tariffs go into effect. Chris, in 1930, we imposed the smoot hawley tariffs that resulted in cutting u. S. Exports to other countries by more than half. And they made the Great Depression even worse. You know, these other countries arent going to just sit there and take it. So they may be our allies. They maybe our friends, but they also care about their own citizens and their own economy. And think are going to retaliate. Its not going to be you know, Donald Trumps going to get hurt. Its americans who work in fiscal trees all across this country. American who have to buy products. Every politician has their own youngstown and their own factories. Great to have you both. Thank you, chris. Still ahead, audacious piece of propaganda rolled out at local news stations across the country to stave scott pruitt. First a look at new evidence showing exactly how russia tried to hack into actual voting systems in 2016. Weve got the actual email here in two minutes. That goes into making our thinnest longest lasting blades on the market. Precision machinery and highquality materials from around the world. Nobody else even comes close. Its about delivering a more comfortable shave every time. Invented in boston, made and sold around the world. Now starting at 7. 99. Gillette. The best a man can get. Mitch mcconnell, Chuck Schumer and i sent a letter to the secretaries of state before the election saying heads up, be on the watchout. Somethings happening. Guard your data. We all knew this before the election. We all knew russia was trying to meddle with our election. View of the Party Leaders has been russia was determined to interfere in the 2016 election. We have an example what one of those attempts looked like. Heres an email published by the intercept that russia hackers used to try to break into state voting is systems appeared to be from an election venr and came with a word attachment that when open would give Russian Hackers control over the computer in question. Whether they succeeded in changing data inside the systems, thats a question for the person who broke the story. Joining me now is reporter sam biddle whose story was published today, and malcolm nance terrorism analyst and author of the plot to hack america. First, sam, talk what you found and what the significance is. Right off the bat, the email is amazingly simple. Its only a couple lines of text coming from a g mail account which isnt exactly the most devious smoke and mirrors approach. But i think most troubling was the response from the company vr systems. They arent really sure who opened this email and whether it worked, which is two years after the fact not what you want to hear. Meaning this got sent out to a bunch of state election systems. Correct. We know that for a fact . The nsa assessed it was well over a hundred. We dont know who opened. Correct. I guess i want some definitive ruling. Theres always the reporting where they attempted to gain entry into state voter files. I also want a definitive ruling, were they successful . Did they get in there . Did they change data . Do we have an answer to that . No. And its been two years since this happened. Almost two years. It will be two years in november. Malcolm that strikes me as remarkable. Its remarkable because everyone refuses to do an audit on their systems after that election. Look, i got into an exchange with the former Florida State secretary of state when i made the assertion that floridas subcontractor had apparently been one of these systems that was penetrated. And they denied it. I mean hard. But so long as youre denying it, you will assume nothing is wrong. We have to assume from a Counter Intelligence and counter cyber warfare perspective that something happened and it needs to be checked. Yeah. I guess the other issue is here is like this is trust a phishing email . Am i right . The same kind someone would use to get your youtube or netflix log in or your bank account. Pretty simple stuff can have big effects. This is the john podesta phishing email. Hi, john, someone tried to use your google account. Google stopped the sign in attempt, you should change your passwo password immediately. Thats what led to the. The simple ones work. Which is another reason to think someone clicked on that malware. We would love to know the answer. I guess i feel like this is a more urgent question than its been treated, malcolm. Were state voter systems comprised. Were they compromised . And by who . Do people still have access to them . Was any data within them changed. There are no answers, apparently. There are no answers and they dont want to have answers. Were about to go into an election season with the exact same systems in place with also you have to remember you have half a country that doesnt believe any of this took place and has no legitimacy. Right. So were in trouble. Yes, i think something that was really telling is when i went to vr systems, the vendor in question. They service election software. Yeah, they service a handful of states including swing states like virginia and north carolina. He when i went to them to ask about the email, they put me in touch with basically a hr person. Theres a lot of face saving going on. Thats plane why were not getting answers here. Vr systems is a business. Theyre not accountable to voters. Is t