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Cnn debate on tax reform. jay tapper and dana bash will moderate. thats at 9:00 p.m. eastern. if you are going to do the drinking game to that debate tonight the word i would pick is rigged, because you will hear bernie sanders use trumps word against him, and say this tax bill is rigged to help the upper class and not the middle class. confusion, we still dont know who gets the parking space. which of these two is the boss? its going to be a legal battle and take time and the man that set o...

In the russian investigations exclusively with diane feinstein. tax overhaul. house republicans unveil their tax plan and president trump gives his stamp of approval. but democrats are crying foul. >> its really making suckers of the american people. democratic leader nancy pelosi joins me for an exclusive interview live. next. hello im jake tapper. this morning president trump is in tokyo wrapping up the first full day abroad on a nearly two-day trip on the asia-pacific. clearly on the pr...

New york times" thinks there are limits and lines the special council cannot cross. that is not the definition of transparency. >> i think what hes saying is its transparent in the sense you know what trump is thinking all the time. you never had a president tweet his inner monologue as soon as he had it. you know what he is thinking. they are doing a lot to go around traditional transparency rules in the white house. they have rolled back a lot of what former administrations have done on this. ...

President said he wanted to do is not -- shouldnt be a surprise. >> interesting note, brian. our jay tapper sat alone with four sitting senators and concerned about the language the president used to attack his justice department in his interview with "the new york times." one said to jake, leaving the door open to the possibility of firing bob mueller is, quote, chilling and congress could figure out how to hire someone on their own. the issue is the independent statute tharks protects them, la...

Trumps eldest son. fake news and witch hunts. thats what theyve been calling it. is this going to continue to fly? >> no. to go back to your network, theres that moment, its been replayed a lot we embedded it in my column. a month after the meeting -- a month lair didnt junior is on cnn talking to jay tapper saying this is so phony and disgusting the mere effort there could be any information from the russian government and the trump campaign could be involved in it. had he forgotten that e-mail...

Whats -- its all centered on russia. we dont know yet whats here but the russians do. >> ron, what do you think the fall out will be from all this? >> i think the fall outs going to be very significant. right now as the new york time says you got a white house with -- you saw the spectacle this weekend with white house staffers telling people that donald trump himself signed off on donald juniors statement. white house people reading out a private conversation between jared kushner and donald tr...

Answer to that from the president himself this week. john, back to you. >> either yes or no have been very difficult to say for the last month. joe johns at the white house, thanks so much. lets discuss with jackie, simone sanders, former national press secretary for the bernie sanders press campaign and alice. alice, i want to start with you. from a communications standpoint, how is jay, the lawyer for the president doing right now? is he sending a message you are comfortable with? you know wha...

Agenda. >> ill let simone respond in a second here. first, jackie, i want to point out what i thought was a revealing moment in an interview that marco rubio, the republican from florida did with jay tapper. it speaks to the point alice stewart was making. listen to marco rubio and see if you can see what jumped out to me. listen. >> what i would communicate to the white house and the world is let this thing work its way through, be thorough and complete so no one will have a doubt. what struck ...

Steve scalise and other gop members of congress at that baseball practice. and so this talk of tapes just wasnt priority issue number one. he suggested that we could get an answer this week. but its hard to know if thats really going to happen considering it didnt happen before. >> all right. athena jones, we wait for more answers. i want to bring in my panel. joining us, former adviser to four u.s. presidents, both republican and democrat, david gergen and the former director of the cia former ...

Seems to be the crucial fact here, not, you know -- what his base is going to be happy or not. >> wolf, was asking me the political question and when jay tapper today asked the epa administrator, mr. pruitt about whether the president believes in climate change he didnt really answer the question. >> im sorry. the other thing is this is going to go on without the united states and thats the point. globally you already had germany, italy and france say that this is not going to be renegotiated. c...