Examined by a doctor and a memo released by democrats is an uncorroborated laundry list, including drinking on the job and crashing a government vehicle after a party and overseeing a hostile work environment. The white house says it has documents exonerating jackson from some allegations, and the president weighed in this morning on twitter saying, quote, allegations made by senator jon tester against admiral dr. Ron jackson are proving false. The secret service is unable to confirm, in fact they deny, any of the phony democratic charges which have absolutely devastated the wonderful jackson family. Tester should resign. The great people of montana will not stand for this kind of slander when talking of a great human being. Admiral jackson is the kind of man that those in montana would respect and admire. And now, for no reason whatsoever, his reputation has been shattered. Not fair, tester Cnns Abby Phillip joins us now from the white house. Give us some background on these documents that the president is referring to. Reporter hi, ryan. Theres a lot here. The president has been going after jon tester for a few days now because he believes that Ronny Jackson has been unfairly vilified in some of these incidents. These are allegations, but allegations that have been brought forward by current and former colleagues of jacksons here at the white house medical unit, who spoke not only to cnn, but also to other Media Outlets and also to the Senate Veterans affairs committee. In some of these allegations, jackson is accused of, in one case, being intoxicated and banging so loudly on the door of a female employee, during a foreign trip under president obama that, according to a source who spoke to cnn, the secret service had to intervene. But the secret service is denying that they intervened in that particular incident and thats one of the incidents that President Trump was referring to in that tweet. In another incident, there is an allegation in senator testers document that he released this week that Ronny Jackson had crashed a government vehicle while intoxicated as well. Again, the white house yesterday released some documents showing that between 2013 and 2014, there were no records that jackson had crashed a government vehicle while intoxicated. There were three incidents that seemed to be traffic incidents involving jackson. None of them appeared to involve alcohol. And, finally, theres the question of prescription drugs and how he handled them while here as the white house doctor. These allegations, according to his current and former colleagues, they were just too freely distributed, pain medications, sleeping medications. There are some records at the white house medical unit in the last 2 1 2 years were audited for their Proper Storage of prescription drugs and they found no problems, but theres no information that we have so far about whether or not these medications were properly prescribed. So, its a bit of a mixed bag here. But, again, one of the big problems for Senate Republicans and democrats about Ronny Jackson was that the white house didnt appear to have investigated any of these things before putting his nomination forward. And now the white house Officials Say that jackson is back here in the medical unit, but he is not, at the moment, serving as the president s personal physician. Its unclear how long thats going to continue or whether that change is permanent. Ryan . Abby phillip live at the white house. Were wondering now if this is about defending Ronny Jackson or attacking jon tester ahead of the 2018 midterms. Thank you, abby. Meanwhile the president is talking about the findings from the house intel committees reports. House Committee Rules theres no collusion between the Trump Campaign and russia, as ive been saying all along. It is all a big hoax by the democrats based on payments and lies. There should have never been a special counsel appointed. Witch hunt, one of his favorite terms. A dissenting report, accusing republicans of not conducting a real investigation. Same time that was happening, we learned that the russian lawyer, a key player at the june 2016 meeting at trump tower was much more than that. [ speaking Foreign Language ] i want to bring in our Political Panel now to discuss this. Michael zeldin is a Senior Analyst at the justice department. Sean lu, and jeremy herb is a cnn politics reporter. I want to ask you about this russian lawyer. How does her revelation and this email exchange, what does this state in general about the investigation . Well, it says that she had close ties to the prosecutor general of russia and that when she came to the june 9th trump tower meeting with don junior, manafort and kushner she was essentially bringing information that was official governmentrelated information. If you look back at the email chain between Ron Goldstone and don junior on june 3rd before the june 9th meeting was set up, the prosecutor general has important information, derogatory of Hillary Clinton and helpful to the Trump Campaign and we would like to meet of that. Now we seem to have corroboration of that email, that this june 9th meeting was an orchestrated meeting between russian officials or officials acting at the behest of russian officials and the Trump Campaign. So, thats something that mueller has to look at to see whether there was coordination in an illegal way, in violation of Campaign Finance laws or u. S. Conspiracy laws. Right. And, sean, does this move the Mueller Investigation forward at all . And what if nothing was revealed in these meetings, the fact that theres intent there, is that the problem . That is the problem. The question is, what did the trump folks know about the meeting . It certainly does open up a new area that mueller absolutely has to follow up on in this instance. So, jeremy, lets talk about it from the house intelligence perspective. The report says there were inappropriate meetings, but nothing came of them. So, its all about efforts here to create a back channel of communication between the Trump Campaign, perhaps officials that are in some way, shape or form connected to the russian government. What are democrats trying to zero in on in terms of their investigation, and are they running into road blocks with their republican counterparts . What we saw yesterday was democrats and republicans are taking these same set of facts, trump tower meeting happened. Eric prince in the seychelles and republican say this was not the smartest thing to do, but its not collusion. Democrats say, of course this is collusion and we have to figure out now if theres criminality. The republican report yesterday, that is the conclusion of their effort on the house intelligence committee. Democrats say theyre going to keep investigating. They brought in Cambridge Analytica whistleblower this week and adam schiff says hes going to continue to bring in witnesses. They dont have subpoena power, that will be the challenge. So the only people theyll be able to talk to are people who want to come in to them. That obviously changes if the house flips next year. Until november, its only going to be friendly witnesses. Does it also open the door for republicans to cast dispersions on these interviews that take place if theyre not willing parties to it . Yes, and republicans arent participating. The whistleblower from cambridge ana will. Ytica met with democrats and republicans said were not taking any part of this. Theyre standing by the report, saying they thoroughly investigated this for more than a year and say that they didnt find conclusion collusion, excuse me. What well have to see now is what mueller does, what the Senate Intelligence committee does, if those conclusions actually stand up to the test of time. Michael that, is a big point here, right . Investigations are going on, on the hill. Theyre almost completely separate from what Robert Mueller is doing, right . Exactly. They are a political activity and his is a Law Enforcement activity. Theres a big difference in terms of what you need to prove in one forum versus another forum and what evidence you want to acquire to make that level of proof. In the republican report, as you point out properly, they said these were inappropriate meetings, but not illegal meetings. Of course, that report is written before we get the revelations about the russian attorney meeting with the trump tower folks and the emissary of the russian government. That might tilt from being inappropriate to illegal. But theyve already completed their report. Theyre not going to receive this new evidence and figure out how that factors in to the conclusion. Its an ironic thing that they found inappropriate that comey said about Hillary Clinton, that her activity was inappropriate but not illegal. But here they are, mimicking the exact same language. Exactly. If i may on that, such a rush to judgment sort of on the russia issue for them because as someone who has been in that probe, i cant talk about confidential issues but i can tell you it takes a long time to adjust all that information. Right. And its really quite phenomenal, the spooeed at whic they reached that conclusion. For a long time the trump team has said that trump tower meeting took place. Nothing happened after that. Nothing was revealed. We havent learned anything. At least two of the players in that meeting attempted to contact the campaign afterwards and even after the president was elected. Could that be a damning piece of information for the trump team . I think it db. Aga can be. First of all its terribly naive on their part to have had that kind of contact without disclosing it and defies comprehension that they would cover it up later. Jeremy, a quick point before we wrap up here. Is there any hope that the house intelligence committee, in particular, can release some sort of conclusion that both sides would agree upon that wont be beneath the shadow of politics . It doesnt look like it. Weve seen over the past year this committee has just really devolved into a partisan brawl over this report, over the witnesses that are coming in and over, dont forget, the memos, where we had the republicans alleging there were fisa abuses. The committee right now is really struggling to kind of bring it back up. Traditionally, this committee has been one of the bipartisan committees in congress that works together, that does things together. Right now theres no sense of thats about to come back. And you alluded to the fact that democrats could take back the house in the fall. How difficult will that make it . Could it make even more especially if the republicans lose the senate . Absolutely. Congressman schiff has made it clear theyre going to want to restart this investigation. Theyre not even ending it. I think well see the same partisan fighting just with the shoe on the other foot where republicans are saying democrats are trying to extend this out, calling people that arent relevant and well see a whole lot of subpoenas from the House Democrats if that happen. Seems like weve got a long way to go on every front. Michael zeldin, jeremy herb thank you for being here. 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Also spoke to Prime Minister abe of japan to inform him of the ongoing negotiations. I want to bring in cnns will ripley, live from seoul. Will, how much did the meeting between north and south korea move things forward . Reporter it absolutely moved things forward because president moon jaein raced back to seoul where he had that very important phone call with President Trump and we know he will be flying to washington for an inface briefing with the president , to try to prepare him, what President Trump can expect when he walks into the room with kim jongun. Weve seen him for six years in power, this image from afar, militaristic, defiant, bellicose rhetoric. The image we saw at the Demilitarized Zone yesterday was extraordinarily different. A Charm Offensive for the going off script, urging south korean president moon jaein to cross the demilitarization line on his own turf, kim writing his own rules in the peace house guest book. A new history begins now. Each carefully choreographed photoop, a surreal first date between two leaders that seemed to go so well, you could almost forget just 12 months ago, north korea threatened to turn seoul into a sea of fire. Rolling away in a black mercedes, flanked by his elite security detail, north koreas strong man made an abrupt uturn, cracking jokes about his countrys lack of infrastructure. Our roads are uncomfortable, kim said. I know it because i just came down here. A self depricating dig on the struggling north korean economy, a situation made worse by the biting sanctions led by president donald trump. South korea and trump himself giving credit to his maximum pressure campaign. They said there were two alternatives, let them have what they have or go to war. And now we have a much better alternative than anybody thought even possible. Secretary of state mike pompeo, after his own meeting in pyongya pyongyang, says he believes kim is serious in his efforts. By days end, kim and moon signed a stunning, but vague statement, pledging to end the korean war and denuclearize the Korean Peninsula, without specifying what denuclearization actually means. One question is simply how far does it go, and the other bigger question, to me, is what would north korea ask in exchange . Kim jongun, projecting confidence and swagger, giving an Unprecedented Press Conference before the international media, serving up a side of himself the world has never seen, at a lavish banquet, featuring pyongyangs famous cold noodles and a Champagne Toast to peace. Now the question many are asking, what happens when the buzz wears off . And if you thought the visuals at the interkorean summit were extraordinary, wait until you see this planned summit between President Trump and kim jongun. The white house, at least Administration Officials familiar with discussions indicating that the white house prefers singapore as a neutral location for those talks. A lot of people are talking about whether President Trump deserves credit for this. The south korean government certainly says yes. They say President Trumps maximum pressure campaign, which included sanctions and threats of military action did help push north korea to the table. Ryan, i would also say ive been to north korea the last several years and spoken to officials who have always said they wanted to grow their Nuclear Arsenal to a point where they felt they would be coming to the negotiation table from a position of strength, not weakness. In fact, this might be a longterm plan by kim jongun, going exactly as he has always seen. These talks with President Trump, could it all go horribly wrong or will kim jongun get what he wants in the end, probably will be recognition as a Nuclear Weapons state even if its not officially recognized, at least tolerated, allowing him to keep some of his arsenal and also get some economic concessions as well. 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That means that Michael Avenatti, for example, will not be able to deoppose tpose the p or Michael Cohen or anyone else involved in the case because the judge has put a hold on it. Why did the judge do it . He gave examples and reasons for why he did it. He said first of all, look, theres a lack of significant prejudice to the plaintiff. Basically its not going to hurt Stormy Daniels if he holds off on this case for 90 days. One of the really big reasons why this is happening and why Michael Cohens attorneys asked for this is because of the potential Significant Impact to the investigation, the criminal investigation against Michael Cohen right now, realizing that his properties had been raided by the fbi, they were looking for information that had something to do, according to our sources, with the 130,000 that he paid to Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet just before the president ial election and also mentioned in the judges reasoning, mr. Cohens significant the right against self incrimination, playing a big role in this. One more thing to mention that we should point out, the judge also said in his ruling that judging from what has happened in the criminal investigation, that court believes that there will be an indictment, considering that this is no ordinary investigation because it involves the personal attorney for the president of the United States. Sara sidner, cnn, los angeles. Sara, thank you. Lets talk about it now. Im joined by lynn sweet, Chicago Bureau chief of the sun times. Just put it out there, lynn, is this a win for the president . No, its not. A stay is really meaningless. It could be if you want to say, a sugar high. It maybe puts something bad or not great off for a while but, no, this is meaning really that the judge is saying everything can go ahead. Im not ruling anything against what you want. Im just holding off. 90 days in a civil lawsuit is not a lot of time. Stormy daniels legal team is not very happy about it. Listen to what Michael Avenatti had to say about this. We dont know that its only going to be 90 days. If we knew it was only going to be 90 days, that would be different. We dont have a whole lot of comfort that the stay will not be renewed after 90 days, that Michael Cohen and mr. Trump wont try to further delayconce will continue and aching to get the opportunity to depose mr. Trump. How messy could things get . They could get messy. I agree with lynn, for the president s point of view this is just pushing things down the road, closer to the 2018 midterms t makes sense that Michael Avenatti and Stormy Daniels wants to get this in court so he can depose the president and keep his client front and center and win a case or get some kind of preliminary ruling that lets her speak more about what she says went on between her and the president. But if you take all of the our interests as journalists out of it, the publics interest and the fact that the president of the United States is involved in it, you really do see this, as lynn just said, logical from the point of view from a normal legal proceeding. Lets not prejudice a criminal proceeding by what happens earlier in a civil suit. Right. And the fact that theyre not going to talk about that civil suit is couched against the fact that theres a criminal investigation against Michael Cohen that its being put on hold. Right. Lynn, the president talks about everything. Not afraid to talk about any topic. He rarely talks about Stormy Daniels. He talked about it this week. Listen to how his tone has changed from early april until now. Take a listen. What do you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . No. No. What else . Then why did Michael Cohen make this, if there was no truth . Well youll have to ask Michael Cohen. How much of your legal work was handled by Michael Cohen. As a percentage of my overall legal work, a tien, tiny little fraction, but michael would represent me, and represent me on some things. He represents me, like with this crazy Stormy Daniels deal, he represented me. And, you know, from what i see, he did absolutely nothing wrong. So, consistently the trump team has said he knew nothing about this payment, the president himself said he knew nothing about this payment, that Michael Cohen was act iing on h own. Then he told fox friends this week that Michael Cohen was representing me in this Stormy Daniels deal. Does that affect his reputation . In Public Opinion maybe not a court of law. Judges will see this differently, damaging because he also went on to say that when he cleared himself, as he often does in his he tries to put out what he thought was exculpatory information. Right. He said there were no payments from the campaign. Thats the whole point. One of the criminal issues or more serious issues would be if cohen made a payment that is not allowed under federal campaign laws, that wasnt reported, isnt permissible to help the campaign by hushing up Stormy Daniels. He put a whole heap of trouble out there in that one sentence. It doesnt matter whether or not cohen in this case did it, what did he say, tiny fraction . Its what he did do that counts, not what he didnt do. May be one of the reasons we seldom see the president do interviews even to friendly outlets. The president s reaction to Ronny Jackson being forced to withdraw as va secretary, mounting a have you gone ruvigo him. I want to read to you a statement i received from johnny isaacsons spokesperson who talked about jon testers role in all of this. Johnny isaacson, telling me senator isaacson has a great relationship with senator tester. He doesnt have a problem with how things were handled and she also said that i dont know for sure, but highly doubt he has seen the president s tweet this is morning. I followed up with amanda later on and said senator isakson has not seen the president s tweets. Fact that senator isakson, a republican, would defend senator tester, who the president is calling for his resignation this morning, thats significant, isnt it . It is significant. If you have senators on both sides of the aisle saying this Committee Process has to play out, regardless of the president s annoyance over the fact that the president s nominee got caught in hot water, that suggests theres impatience around the way these hearings have gone in the past. Republicans on the hill want to support the president , want to support his nominees, but it suggests to me theres a little reluctance to defend a situation where clearly their candidate admiral jackson was put forward out of full vetting. 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And what about your message, do you think, propelled you to the top in that convention . Not surprised at all. Thank you, ryan, for the question. The reality, this has been a personal campaign. We worked really hard to reach out individually to our delegates. Theyre outstanding intelligent people, very capable, disturbed distinguishing between one candidate and the other. Its relevant as a doctor, as an attorney and as a state representative that the delegates recognize im a viable candidate and ultimately made the right choice, i believe. Obviously President Trump will be a big initial this race. President trumps already endorsed governor romney in this race, despite the tumultuous relationship the two have shared. You can see his tweet there. Where do you stand with President Trump . What is your feelings about his job so far . Thanks. Ive been really impressed with the president s performance, whats happened in north and south korea, another good reflection of this president knows how to get things done and im happy to support the president in his conservative agenda. Ive been really impressed with what he has done and we would love to support him as he pushes forward and does the important things we need to do for this country. As a supporter of President Trump, the president not quite as popular in utah as he is in some other red states. When you get into a general election, if youre able to defeat governor romney, are you worried that your support of the president could be problematic for you . Not at all. Actually, thats one of the interesting things as i walked around the state and talked to literally hundreds of people. We found a lot of support for the president in this state. I believe the people in the state of utah have they understand what President Trump is about and are willing to support him and moving the conservative agenda forward. We feel he needs to move forward. Let me take you to task then on one of the issues that the president is front and center on right now and that is the attempted confirmation of the white house physician, Ronny Jackson. The president , of course, was tweeting this morning about the ranking democrat on the Senate Veteran affairs committee, jon tester, from nearby wyoming. He is suggesting that senator tester should resign from his post for the way that he conducted the vetting process of senator or dr. Jackson that led to him stepping down. Do you think senator tester should resign from his position . Do you believe dow agree with the president on this point . When it comes to the president and his interactions with others, ill leave that between him and them. Im not going to render an opinion about two adults that certainly can make decisions for themselves. Are you concerned at all about the level of vetting that went on into Ronny Jacksons pick . Not just Ronny Jackson but other of the cabinet secretaries that the president has appointed throughout his administration . Not being privy to how those vetting processes work, im just a consumer of the media like many people, im not going to be able to render an opinion about that either but thank you for asking that question. But you will be a senator at some point, if you win this election. That will be part of your job, to confirm some of these cabinet secretaries. Would you like to see the white house be a little bit more careful with their vetting process before one of these nominees comes before you, to cast a vote for their confirmation . Good data drives good decisions. One of the things as a senator i would have access to a lot more information than i currently have. The reality is that i presume the process is moving forward, as it should. As a senator, i would insist on that process moving forward as it should. Good process makes good policy. And im invested in making sure that those that vet these candidates have access to all the information that they need and if im lacking information as a u. S. Senator, ill demand it, because we need good information. Good information drives good decisions. So, to that point, there have been several of your republican colleagues who have been less than willing to press the president on some of these issues, even in areas where they disagree. I know you support the president but will you be willing to stand up and challenge him when there are times you disagree with the decision that he makes . Absolutely. There are times when we can disagree, respectfully, and we should Work Together as people who want to make things work for the american people. And disagreement invariably comes up, especially in politics. Theres a lot of disagreement all through politics. The reality is that theres a way to do that in a productive fashion. As a doctor, as an attorney, as a state legislator, ive spent my adult life in trying to work with people with solving problems and not denigrade people. Make sure that especially it represents the people of utah and their needs as well. Mike kennedy, state representative, challenging mitt romney for the republican nomination for u. S. Senate. Mr. Kennedy, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, ryan. It was a pleasure to be here. All right. And there is much more ahead in the newsroom. First, this weeks cnn hero. According to the cdc, homicide is the number one cause of death for black men between the ages of 15 and 34. It is a staggering statistic that pushed one doctor to take action in and out of the hospital. I dont like pronouncing people dead. Its probably the worst thing that ive ever had to do. I want to preserve life. 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Brokaw vehemently denies the allegations, calling vester a character assassin with a grudge against nbc news. Cnn has the details. Hadas, vester detailed what happened to her and the reason she is speaking out. Why is she talking now . Well, you cant deny a lot of this has to do with this whole me too movement of women coming forward now about their experiences. Shes saying shes coming out in part because she doesnt think nbc has done enough to investigate these allegations. She gave a statement where she said to the Washington Post, im speaking out now because nbc has failed to hire outside counsel to investigate a genuine longstanding problem of Sexual Misconduct in the news division. Shes also done an oncamera interview with variety where she details some of these allegations including, in a way, acting them out. I had felt like this man could destroy my career. So if he said hes coming over, i have to let him come over. Hes the most important man at nbc news. I was terrified. It was in no way ever consensual. But i didnt say anything because he could ruin my career. I was deeply traumatized by being groped and assaulted by tom brokaw. And this is, again, a situation were seeing where a woman is claiming that she was in a sub board nat position to a wellknown person that she felt she was forced into this situation. This situation, though, is a little bit different than what weve seen from Harvey Weinstein or matt lauer. Thats partly because tom brokaw is no longer sitting in the anchor chair every day. Thats partly because this might be what weve heard from some people, this might be that gray area. Theyre not quite sure what to make of this. And now were seeing a lot of people come to his defense. And of course brokaw himself is vehemently denying these claims, right . Yes, he is very much denying these allegations. He actually not only has given out statements, he also wrote a letter to some of his colleagues. What he said is hes not a perfect person. Ive mad mistakes personally and professionally but did i write this on dawn on the morning after a driveby shooting by vester, the Washington Post and variety, i am stunned by the free ride given a woman with a grudge against nbc news, no distinctive credentials or issue passions while at fox. Clearly he is not taking this standing down at all. He is automatically going and airing what he says are inappropriate allegations that he says are just not true. He is getting some defense from his former colleagues. He works at nbc so many are his current colleagues. 60 women have signed a letter in support. Some big names on this. Mika brie skin zi, brzezinski, rachel maddow. What can this tell us about the support he is getting, should we take credence in what theyre doing to defend him . Its notable some of these women are so willing so quickly to put their names down. Ive been speaking to people at nbc news over past few days. A lot of them are saying what these women said in the letter. That they never, ever experienced anything untoward with tom brokaw, they never heard anything in the Whisper Network that we all know about. As weve seen in previous instances, a man or anybody can be wonderful colleague with one person and have different experiences with a different person. Now the question is what does nbc do, how do they investigate this, how do they handle this. Because they clearly went through something similar that was huge for them. Losing matt lauer not too long ago. This is still a very fresh issue. It seems in almost every one of these cases, there have been women willing to say this man never did anything to me. But pthen theres evidence that shows they did act inaprop praept lly inappropriately in other cases. Coming up next, our top story. President trump calling for a sitting u. S. Senator to resign. Why Donald Trump Blames democrat jon tester for ruining his pick to lead the va. What do you think when you hear him talk about the wall . 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Hello, im ryan nobles in washington, d. C. Filling in today for fredricka whitfield. Thank you so much for joining me. As President Trump golfs at his club in virginia ahead of his reelection rally tonight in michigan, its clear whats on his mind. The allegations swirling around white house dr. Ronny jackson who withdrew this week as trumps nominee to head the va. Now the president is calling on democratic senator jon tester to resign from his role in a democratic laundry list of uncooperated allegations against jackson from current and former colleagues. Including improperly dispensing drugs, drinking on the job and crashing a government vehicle after a party and overseeing a hostile work environment. Now, the white house says it has documents that show some of these allegations are false. The president tweeting this morning, quote, allegations made by senator jon tester against admiral dr. Ronny jackson are proven false. The secret service is unable to confirm, in fact, they deny any of the phony democrat charges which have absolutely devastated the wonderful jackson family. Tester should resign. Great people of montana will not stand for this kind of slander when talking of a great human being. Admiral jackson is the kind of man those in montana would most respect and adm