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Instead releasing a brief statement we respect senator mccains service to our nation and he and his family are in our prayers during this difficult time. but mccains wife cindy firing back at the aide on twitter. may i remind you my husband has a family, seven children and five grandchildren. it comes after mccain a former pow announced his opposition to president trumps cia nominee gina haspel who faced tough questions for her role in controversial interrogation tactics after 9/11. >> i dont be...

>> reporter: jenna is a junior. theres about seniors. 100 voter forms have been turned in. i talked to the secretary of state offices here. it 2018, doubled the number of 18-year-olds that registered to vote compared to 2017 the entire year. chris? >> thanks so much. appreciate that. von hilliard, one of several reporters across the country covering walkouts by students today. back to los angeles where we just were. remember, where president trump and representatives of president trump and law...

Here it is. >> thank you, everybody. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> make your way out. >> obviously, were going to see if we can play that back and find out what he said. thats the president there. four of them at the table get ing ready to eat. you saw the president make a brief statement there. you know, steve, when were talking about nick kay hakki ha. you dont metss with her. shes one of the few who says what she thinks even when it comes against the president. joe scarborough said she would...

Xwlo. welcome back. tonight aislen from president trump, the man who never holds back on his twitter account has not used it today as massive crowds rally. trump was not there, as it happened, hes actually in florida at mar-a-lago. he didnt tweet or speak. we got a brief statement from a deputy press secretary who said in part, quote -- we applaud the many americans who exercise their first amendment rights today. john avalon, april ryan, mark preston, amy kremer, keith

Him. it was the stars on his shoulders that was so appealing and it was a mistake for h.r. to stay on active duty in that role. thats a hard role, its never been done before. i think its also fox tv. he likes the television aspect of this and thats what strikes me. >> hes got television he wants to compete with and thats "60 minutes" this sunday night. well get to that and some of the legal questions in just a moment. the top attorney handling the probe of president trumps potential ties to russ...

Responsible. and also this occurring not too far tonight from where the sunday night explosion occurred as well. so i would imagine that investigators kind of feel whoever is behind this right now is making some rather brazen moves. >> do we know if authorities have been able to track the routing of those two fedex devices or packages? do they know, you know, was it a dropoff facility, the same dropoff facility? >> reporter: well, fedex officials told us theyve released a brief statement earlier...

This, how we should interpreter the presidents tweets. she says were looking forward to getting this wrapped up. muellers work has several more months to go. >> jeff thank you. ill see you in a bit. house speaker paul ryan is talking about the special counsel and talking about rob muellers job security. nbcs kacie hunt is on capitol hill with this development. the last couple of minutes when paul ryan wrapped up that conference. what did he say? >> there is the fir time weve had an opportunity...

Can you do things like this. >> hes acquitted, but to anybody who cares about the constitution, the rule of law, i would hope it at least gives them a degree of pause. >> the president walked out to the rose garden for a brief statement. >> now that the senate has fulfilled its constitutional responsibility, i want to say again to the american people how profoundly sorry i am for what i said and did to trigger these events. >> there have only been a a couple of things in my life that i could not...

Can you do things like this. >> hes acquitted, but to anybody who cares about the constitution, the rule of law, i would hope it at least gives them a degree of pause. >> the president walked out to the rose garden for a brief statement. >> now that the senate has fulfilled its constitutional responsibility, i want to say again to the american people how profoundly sorry i am for what i said and did to trigger these events. >> there have only been a a couple of things in my life that i could not...

What marco rubio said last night -- >> which he disagreed with the president on this. >> he disagreed. the police show up. who is the adult with the zbhun whats going on? i watched last a veteran secret service agent, our town hall. ive been talking to law enforcement officials all week long. >> actually, jamie -- >> there we go. >> good afternoon, everyone. since its founding in the 1940s, white house counsel of economic advisers has written and delivered a report to congress on the annual econ...