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andrea mitchell picks up our coverage next. right now on "andrea mitchell reports," president biden signing an executive action to seal the southern border. he criticized the trump administration for a similar crackdown. he slams his predecessor as a convicted felon. opening statements at the presidents son hunter. merrick garland fights back as house republicans question him. >> did you have a family member profit off of the notoriety of any case you sat on? yes or no? >> you ar...

But was he asked to intervene in the fbi inquiry. Hello, i am katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. 12 hours from now pollings stations will open in the uk. Its an election the ruling conservative were expected to win in a landslide over labour. But during the Six Week Campaign the polls have narrowed. Were going to focus first on the front runners. Theresa may has her final event in birmingham whilst Jeremy Corbyn has two events in london before the campaign closes at midnight...

Obviously the investigators are still trying to figure out what was behind this, who the bomber is. Im told theyve identified a male as the bomber but theyre still trying to learn more about him. What is most striking to you . What was the bomb made out of . Because that leads you to oo lot of conclusions. This is the deadliest Terror Attack since july 7th, 2000 fiv 2005. And almost certainly a Hydrogen Puraukside bomb. Because the signature of al qaeda and isis are these kinds of bombs. So wher...

Senior director of the national security council and colin clarke. michael, you were in israel two weeks ago. the tensions are just increasing. there was a moment around may 3rd when there was a proposal. the white house was very positive about it. it was worked out between the intelligence directors. you know all that. netanyahu said, with or without a deal, he was going into rafah. then he started going into rafah. after that, rafah was closed. aid is not getting in. the fighting has become mo...

Whether you support the policy or not, the way its played out is not the way president biden or anybody else would have hoped because the pictures were seeing from afghanistan and the stories were going to start hearing in the days and weeking to come as the taliban consolidates its power, i think, will be, you know, etched in history as the, you know, one more embarrassment of a superpower after the british in the 19th century and the russians in the 20th century. >> were talking about timing a...

To remind everybody that oh with the alfred smith dinner yeah, jill stein did it to me last time and now they annual event everyone wear as white tie, elegant are trying to do it with tulsi gabbard this time? evening. here is what general mattis had to say about the >> this is not an excuse. treatment he has received its basically an important from the president of the united states. fact check. watch. >> im not just an overrated its sounding the alarm. this news may be stunning to donald trump....

President is doing. we have ukrainian prosecutors saying theres no evidence. as you have said on your show, multiple people looking at this. that theres no evidence that the vice president did something wrong here. and so what really matters is that the president was repeatedly trying to get dirt on a political opponent. that is the issue here. and we have seen this. weve seen this president. he does not know the line from the moment he stood in front of that wall of stars of the deceased cia ag...

Whether it is believing vladimir putin over his own intelligence directors or what weve learned now with this smoking gun of a summary of a call with a foreign leader. ukraine, a place that i actually visited with john mccain, saw that fledgling democracy. how much they depend on the strength of america standing with them. so now you have the president of the united states basically threatening this foreign leader saying, hey, freezing the aid and then saying i need a favor. and in the context o...

Deep inside the administration. used the phrase deep state again as everyone was expecting. is he allowed to talk about whistle-blowers that way? is there not some equivalent of witness intimidation in these cases? >> i think clearly they want to silence anybody who sees wrongdoing by the president or by somebody at the white house. they want to silence that person. they want to cover things up. but id like to see the leadership of the national intelligence directors office have at least as much...

Rudy tonight on cnn speculating this was a democrat holdover deep inside administration. used the phrase deep state again as everyone was expecting. is he allowed to talk about whistle-blowers that way? is there not some equivalent of witness intimidation in these cases? >> i think clearly they want to silence anybody who sees wrongdoing by the president or by somebody at the white house. they want to silence that person. they want to cover things up. but id like to see the leadership of the nat...