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Have enough changes been made to get enough votes to pass? cnns sarah murray kicks off our coverage. shes traveling with the president in paris. sara. >> reporter: president trump is slated to take questions today alongside french president emmanuel macron, this as a political firestorm is still brewing back in washington, this one centered on the presidents own son, donald trump jr. and his meeting with a russian lawyer. this will be president trumps first opportunity out in public to take ques...

>> as i said earlier the president has nothing further. >> are are their recording devices in the oval office or the residents. >> as the i said for the third time there is nothing to add on that. >> does he think its present to threaten director comey to speak. >> i think thats not act fall. he stated a fact. the tweet speaks for itself. im moving on. >> bret: amy? >> and the president himself telling in your first clip in that interview saying im not going to get into that either. so, there is...

Of them are very well known. you know, theyve been vetted over their lifetime, essentially. but very well known, highly respected, really talented people. and thats what we want for the fbi. >> reporter: before -- the four be other candidates who are reportedly interviewing are alice fisher, acting fbi director andrew mccabe, michael garcia, a judge from new york, and sitting texas senator john cornyn who seemed to downplay this interview saying in a statement, quote: >> reporter: alice fisher a...

From that. >> as i said earlier the president has nothing further. >> are are their recording devices in the oval office or the residents. >> as the i said for the third time there is nothing to add on that. >> does he think its present to threaten director comey to speak. >> i think thats not act fall. he stated a fact. the tweet speaks for itself. im moving on. >> bret: amy? >> and the president himself telling in your first clip in that interview saying im not going to get into that either. s...

Wednesday or on a vote at all this week, if they have to pull this new version of the bill because they cant cobble together enough yeses to get to 216, that is a problem and the more political capital they extend and the more statements that you have from the president tweeting in an interview saying, oh, were going to get a vote, dont even worry about it, it is going to be easy, it is going to be great, ultimately there is no amount of window dressing that can cover it up when that is not the ...

Thats probably a good thing in dealing although he did tweet last night and lean on the china relationship a little bit. speak to that issue, the way in which the president treats kim jong-un. >> hes very careful when speaking about kim jong-un. thats not necessarily a characteristic that applies to all of the things that he says. sometimes he is a little bit more impulsive. i think youre right to say he has been careful about kim jong-un. in fact, he braced him a little bit in our interview say...

It off as something else. theres no walking away from that history and i think it is pertinent to the legal issues that the court has to decide, but i think also on the broader merits the administration will have a very hard time demonstrating that the selection of these six countries was something other than arbitrary and that it was somehow a good indicator of who might hoo later commit an act of terrorism. if that was the criteria, youd have to put pakistan or saudi arabia or others at the to...

It was interesting when you think back to 5:00 this morning, 6:00, kellyanne conway earlier in the day on another network gave an interview saying that they hadnt gotten as much support as the rnc, from the republican establishment as they liked. a lot of people online interpreted that as theyre trying to set the stage for a disappointing night. that is certainly not -- whatever the mood night have been essentiinternally early on >> its beyond that. there was a story that broke many moons yester...

Him over this period of time. so hes raised a lot of questions and im glad hes coming forward giving us new pieces of information. because hi campaign did not agree to cooperate with us. when we went to them and asked for the identities of these people some time ago they did not give us names and all of a sudden these names are fictitious he says. >> right. i know that you emailed them twice before and also once you had your findings and the campaign said they werent going to comment. >> correct...

Look, this is invest gatded by seven congressional committees. this was set up by john boehner to try to hurt hillary clinton and nothing more. >> meanwhile, how are they trying to say that this former staffer, luke, is nothing more than a person with an ax to grind and trying to maybe take advantage of what kevin mccarthy said and seize this as an opportunity? >> well thats what i think you saw from the interview saying, look, this guy is pointing to dubious reasons as to why, in fact, he is go...