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Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Isis is escalating its Relentless Assault challenging areas of Northern Iraq now, areas that had been thought secure near erbil. Casualties on both sides. In washington president obama will be speaking this afternoon about how to counteract domestic extremism here in the u. S. But first for all of the developments in iraq and overseas nbcs keir simmons joins me from london. Lot of action and fighting and its hard to sort out from the battlefield who is gaining ground frankly. Yes, it is andrea. I think really the big picture is that the map is fairly...

You dont want it to be fake news. I want to hear from President Trump. You dont have to ask me. Why not is. Because i have my own opinions. You can have your own opinions. But i want to know your opinions. Youre the president of the United States. Thats enough. Thank you. All right, lets begin with cnn senior washington correspondent joe johns at the white house. Joe. Reporter hi, poppy. Well, it certainly seems that the president is, while he didnt say it explicitly, sticking by his guns on that allegation of president obama wiretapping him. Fascinating because thats been one of the underlyin...

We can each make great contributions to the other. Mr. Prime minister, i again want to thank you for being with us and being our true friend. Italy is a spectacular place. I know it well. I love the people of italy. We have 18 million italians living in the United States, people originally from italy. And its a great honor to have many of them as my friends. Thank you for being here. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you for hosting us here and an honor to be here at the white house today. Ill now speak in italian. [speaking italian]. We had a very fruitful meeting and the president reminded us ...

Thank you for joining us. We begin this hour with the developing news out of japan. Seven sailors are missing after a u. S. Warship collided with a larger merchant vessel. It happened early saturday morning. The warship is the uss fitzgerald. Three were evacuated but theyre all in stable condition at this point. The philippine merchant vessel has been identified. For more on this story, lets bring in a journalist with us live in tokyo. Good to have you with us this hour. Lets, first of all, talk more about this operation. Continues hour by hour. Now, what is the latest youre hearing from offic...

And using comedy to make a serious point about gun violence. Lets begin with what many in the media are calling a wild week in the white house. Id like to talk about what its like for all of us as viewers, as consumers of the news. Every hour it seemed of every day there were news bombshells, one after another, after another. What a week so far. What a day. A lot of breaking news tonight. Its entirely possible, of course, some other shocking news will break this hour. Were following multiple huge stories. Its a lot, so buckle up. Buckle up, indeed. We wanted to look at what all these explosive...