Were right. X rated. A vulgar rant from the new White House Communications director. Sanctioned by the president , eviscerating Reince Priebus and steve bannon. We serve at the pleasure of the president. If it gets to a place where that isnt the case, hell let you know. For goodness sakes, to have this kind of open warfare going on between the president , his staff, and his cabinet members is an absolute disgrace. Tit for tat. M moscow shuts the doors after congress sanctioned the russia for hacking our election. Ive gotten no indications that theyre considering vetoing it. And, again, i mean they can count. They understand math. And i just cant imagine theyre considering doing so. And escalating threat, the pentagon confirms it has detected a launch of a Ballistic Missile from north korea, which landed in japanese sea lanes off the coast of japan after flying for about 45 minutes. Well have a lot more details coming up next. And good day, everyone, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A busy day where john mccain lived up to his maverick reputation, standing up to the president casting the deciding vote to save obamacare. Now the challenge for both sides can they Work Together to repair what needs to be fixed in the healthcare system. Or will the president deny subsidies to insurers and carry out his threat to let obamacare implode on its own. Joining me now nbcs kasie hunt and kristen welker. An all nighter for all of us watching and for you guys tracking the floor. This is so extraordinary. The action overnight, and now the prospects of what the president will do next. How is the capitol reassessing . Just a stunning evening at the capitol, everybody, really, on tender hooks waiting to find out what john mccain was going to do here. And he lived up to every dramatic you know, he has had a flair for this kind of a moment in his political career and in his life more broadly. And of course, his actions here have taken on a new tenor in the wake of his diagnosis with brain cancer. And so to have him he walked out on to that floor, was cajoled by mike pence. He stepped out to take a phone call. The president says i really need your vote. It was not enough to sway him and he walked forward, gave that thumbs down, you could see Mitch Mcconnell standing with his arms crossed. Republicans shocked. And this, really, changes the debate in a way that, you know, were still sorting through, even this morning. Republicans are trying to regroup up here on capitol hill. We dont know what mcconnells next move is going to be. Senator schumer saying, look, lets get together and work on something bipartisan. The future of that very uncertain. And as you be been pointing out, it was extraordinary because they were voting for something with the promise from paul ryan it would never become law. Which was sort of alice in wonderland, you know, legislative action. This is what Chuck Schumer had to say not too long ago this morning. I hope what john mccain will be regarded as a turning point. Sometimes you need a spark that inspires the forces of coming together to outweight the forces of pulling apart. John mccain may have done that. And kristen welker, in the midst of the turmoil at the white house, youve got this vulgar rant from the new Communications Director, sanctioned by the president. And now heading towards air force one that hasnt left for long island where hes going to give the speech on these gang and the latest killings. He is going to be out there on long island accompanied by a chief of staff, Reince Priebus as well as Anthony Scaramucci. How do they get along on one airplane . Its going to be an interesting one, thats for sure. Look, lets just take this in the wake of this stunning healthcare defeat. Theyre regrouping here at the white house as well. Officials still trying to figure out what the next steps are, how the president would like to proceed. Whether he wants to just move on to tax reform. And the fact that you have this internal fighting, this war, if you will, Anthony Scaramucci, the new Communications Director lashing out in that yorker article with all sorts of obscenities aimed at the chief of staff and chief strategist, steve bannon as well. I am told that, look, this is creating an even more complicated backdrop to what is already an incredible defeat here for this president. As you point out, the attack sanctioned president today thinks its okay. The big but is, its one thing to have a lot of discord behind the scenes. Its another thing when you arent getting legislative wins. And so i think there is deep concern starting to set in here within the administration that this discord has to be dealt with, it has to be essentially knocked out or else its going to really serve as a barrier for this president , for his domestic agenda. Of course, it raises the question, andrea, will we see some departures at the white house. You had Anthony Scaramucci saying hes going to fire leakers, pointing the finger who he thinks the leakers are. Sean spicer resigned. He is a Reince Priebus ally. Another Reince Priebus ally resigned. All eyes are on Reince Priebus. He is on that trip today. He has been a big part of the healthcare fight. So theres no doubt the political intrigue will continue to deepen. But no sign at this hour that we are seeing any departures in the imminent future. And as if they needed concentrating of the mind, now youve got the renewed threat from north korea. We dont know yet whether this was a long range or short range missile. That analysis is yet to come. But the fact that north korea is still flexing its muscles, and that we reported this week that the timeframe for them to achieve the weaponization of a long range missile that can hit the u. S. Mainland has been shortened by two years, by next year according to all of my sources. They could be ready with a Nuclear Warhead on top of one of these icbms. It adds to the urgency, andrea. I think it underscores the fact that the stakes are so incredibly high for any white house for this white house and so for there to be this internal discord could be problematic as they face those type of challenges domestically and on the Foreign Policy front. In terms of north korea weve reached out to our sources, were waiting for a reaction from the white house as they assess what happened. This is, obviously, something the president has been increasingly concerned about. He has spent a lot of time trying to reach out to the leader of china to try to get china to ramp up the pressure on north korea. The administration wants to see a diplomatic resolution to this. At the same time, this is a leader of north korea who has launched 11 missile tests since february. So this is at the forefront of concerns here at the white house. Its something that former president obama warned incoming President Trump about. Its something that continues to really roil this administration. They havent figured it out yet. Thanks so much, chuck todd, of course, is nbc news political director, moderator of meet the press. Host of msnbcs mtp daily. We also have new information that russia has been propping up north korea as much as china is. Russia has greatly increased its economic support for north korea just since february. Which means that at the same time that this president is trying to reset relations with Vladmir Putin and having a cozy conversation at the g20. Russia is behind his back taking steps to undermine his efforts against north korea. You know, i go back to something i thought it was missed a little bit. I think i was speaking with ambassador chris hill a little while ago, trying to understand why is it in chinas interest to continue to prop up north korea and russia a little bit. And i thought the best analysis that i heard had to do with the fact that china in particular, russia less so, but they both studied german reunification. The great fear, the great fear with china is that the Korean Peninsula unites, becomes this giant economic power that is aligned with the United States. Thats why its in their interest to continue to keep this south korea north korea spl split. Prop north korea up just a bit because it causes a problem for the United States. You have to say, the actions of both china and russia seem to at least underscore that that is the long term both fear and goal here. Because no other if that isnt it, then what is the other motivation here . Nothing else makes sense other than that. Its the fear of the eventual economic power a united Korean Peninsula could be. Just like what happened when germany came together and look what germany is today. Bottomline is they are more afraid of the u. S. Being dominant on the Korean Peninsula than they are afraid of north korea. Unpredictable leader with Nuclear Weapons. Lets talk about healthcare, because being the junky that i am, i couldnt turn it off. So up until 3 00 this morning watching msnbc and, of course, Brian Williams and just the drama of what was happening. And the grainy cspan pictures, because thats all were allowed to watch. Watch john mccain put his arm around Dianne Feinstein after standing up against mike pence with Mitch Mcconnells body language slumping and then finally seated as they all sat down to take their votes. I mean, all the Milling Around and arm twisting stopped. It was one of those moments weve seen. A moment unlike any other in that it was a seven year effort and it was asking them to vote for something that they were promised would never become law. What did you expect . What i find interesting, and i think a couple of less covered parts of this, john mccain is not getting criticized by many any Senate Republicans as far as i could tell today, publicly or privately. You know, there had been a running assumption if this went down in the senate it wasnt going to go down by one vote, it was going to go down by ten. The surprise was that somebody was willing to be the deciding vote, in this case, john mccain. If you think the position he is in right now let me point out we have new pictures just moments ago, john mccain with cindy mccain, hes pausing in the hallway leaving. Just what he did last night, standing up to the president of his party, standing up to his Party Leaders in the senate to save a healthcare program, put through by the president who defeated him in 08. Let me look, john mccain was consistent here. John mccain was john mccain. He cares about the United States senate as an institution more man his party. Pure and simple. This wasnt about saving obamacare in his mind either. Everybody is trying to say john mccain has picked sides, hes with the democrats. No john mccain is an institutionalist. Pure and simple. Hes not been happy how the senate has been run over the last decade. Hes made that known multiple times. It might be a snarky aside at a press conference or sometimes directly and bluntly. He gave mcconnell some benefit of the doubt by saying, look, ill give you your vote to get this bill on the floor. But he made it clear he likely that was all he was going to give him. And so there you have it. Thats what he did. This was about john mccain, senate institutionalist. And, chuck, i cant leave you without talking about the disarray, i dont even know what to call it. Ive run out of adjectives, too. Scaramucci. I dont know how long Reince Priebus is for the white house, but how does any selfrespecting chief of staff who has not been exerting power, whose aides have been fired keep hold on to the job after being excoriated in a sanctioned vulgar rant, the likes of which has been printed by the newspapers, but we cant mention on television. I would say this, i dont think this is a reflection of Reince Priebus or Anthony Scaramucci. Who runs any organization like this . For those of us who have spent a lot of time studying donald trump and watching him over decades, this is how he does manage his business. You know, hes not a ceo, not that mentality. Hes more of a, you know, its a family business. He runs it that way. He expects people to fight for his affection a little bit. So i think hes very comfortable with this idea. But he has a west wing that is totally paralyzed right now. You have folks that are, you know, not in any camp, whether bannon camp or priebus camp or scaramucci camp who are looking around. They dont know who they report to. This is a west wing that is totally unprepared for an unforeseen crisis. And i think the president this weekend, this cant stand if he expects to be able to be nimble and run this and run a put it this way, if this is true, that hes considering a secretary kelly to be his chief of staff, well, that would tell you he wants to run a tighter ship. You cant run a tight ship if you have people, a sifiring squ. If scar meeamucci is his guy, h got to man up and fire priebus and bannon. This is a west wing that even aaron sorkin could not have managed. It wouldnt have been believed. Oh, thats too crazy to happen. Reality tv come to washington. Thank you so much, and, of course, much more about all of this on mtp daily and every sunday meet the press. Check your local listings. Coming up, russia retaliating after Congress Passes new sanctions now awaiting the president s signature. A live report from moscow. Well have Richard Engel. Stay with us on Andrea Mitchell reports on msnbc. This is crabfest at red lobster. And right now, were serving up more delicious crab than ever. Classic favorites like crab lovers dream. And new dishes like southern king crab and dueling crab legs with delicious dungeness and sweet snow crab. Its all happening at crabfest. And crabfest is only happening at red lobster. Now this is seafood. Hey youve gotta see this. Cno. N. Alright, see you down there. Mmm, fine. Okay, what do we got . Okay, watch this. Do the thing we talked about. What do we say . Its going to be great. Watch. Remember what we were just saying . Go irish see that . Yes im gonna just go back to doing what i was doing. Find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. The sanctioned were put in place because the United States its illegal action, look, its illegal action punish you dont punish anybody. Anybody. That is not your right. Your rights and the rights of your congress and the rights of the white house, only inside america and thats it. Well, supporters of the sanctions would argue that russia had no right to try and interfere with the u. S. Political process. Thats nonsense because we have no reason to do that and it is not possible to change american political system. And that was a russian senator talking to Richard Engel. Well bring you richard in a moment. Hes got a big program tonight at 9 00 on the russian cyber war against the u. S. Joining me now William Cohen the former secretary of defense in bill Clintons Administration and served in the senate and the house with a lot of drama there. First i want to ask you about our breaking news on north korea. It looks according to some sources, both u. S. And japanese, as though this could be another icbm, another long range missile after their successful launch of july 3rd and 4. The fact is according to my reporting, they are now two years ahead, closer to the timeline of militarizing a warhead if they get the reentry fixed and they seem to be making a lot of progress. They could reach the american mainland. We have to assume that is the case. If you were secretary of defense what would you be doing . Intensifying the sanctions thats being done. I would build up the defense capability on the south Korean Peninsula. Id be doing the same thing with japan and perhaps even talking about giving them offensive capability in the region in order to have a really strong deterrent in addition to ours. A number of other things, but i would intensify the sanctions to say to the north korean regime were going to try to bring about a collapse of your economy. So that you cant keep doing this. It may not be possible. We wont have the support of the chinese or russians so it will have to be unilateral or as many friends as we can get to shut down their ability to generate the revenue. You travel all over the world and speak to world looereaders. This worked with iran when we applies sanctions and stopped iran from dealing in dollars in the Banking System that dominates the world. We can do that to chinese banks and russian entities as well. Weve done it because of ukraine to russia already. Why cant we ramp it up . I think we have to. That is one of the major goals right now is to ramp up the sanctions to say were not going to sit back and allow him to continue to test and test and 2018, a short year from now or less, say that we can hit San Francisco or hawaii or california. Southern california. We have had successful tests recently of missile defenses based in the kodiak region in alaska off the coast of alaska. But they cant be 100 certain. We keep hearing reports from the white house about a preemptive strike. All of our reporting is their facilities are underground. They have mobile launchers now. We dont know if this was a mobile launcher. Maybe solid state fuelling which gives us less time to spot them overhead from satellites. We dont know where their stuff is. A preemptive strike doesnt make sense, it