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Moments ago, president trump just tweeted his first public statement since the stunning press conference just hours ago here in helsinki. president trump writing, quote, as i said today, and many times before, i have great confidence in my intelligence people. however, i also recognize that in order to build a brighter future we cannot exclusive focus on the past. as the worlds two largest nuclear powers we must get along, unquote. lets talk about it with my experts here. during the conference h...

Confidence in the intelligence community. but he only went to that after he went on and on about hillary clintons e-mails and where is the server and went on this rant about that. then almost as an aside at the end of that he says oh, i do have great confidence in my intelligence people. or something like that. so its not as if he went right to that. you know what? he had confidence in british intelligence over the poisoning of the skripals and thats why the u.s. expelled 6 russian diplomats. yo...

Weve been talking about arm-twisting on jeff sessions recusing himself with the russia investigation. here with us tonight is our panel. jack, the -- actually, phil lets start with you. this new reporting that it wasnt just don mcgahn trying to basically arm twist or pressure jeff sessions, there were two other high-ranking senior white house officials involved with that, does that raise the stakes in this? i mean, it seems like everybody would have to have their stories all on the same page in ...

And our military affairs analyst. thank you to both of you for being here. mira. lets talk about this, the president had been clear on twitter and in person talking about fury and flames how terrible it would be if north korea did anything. we missed this own friday but any fired a if you duds on friday and then fired a missile across japanese airspace today. >> this comes at the end of about a two-week pause in the war o war of words with north korea that erupted two weeks ago when president tr...

Arpaio jumps into the race makes it all that much harder, and makes it easier for the seat to turn blue. >> phil lets listen to president trump. he was asked about this in a press conference today by foxs john roberts. he -- i want our viewers to listen carefully. the president at one point in comparing this pardon to previous presidential actions -- let me ill just tell you about it. he sort of conflated pardoning with the commuting of sentences. he only referred to things done by presidents ob...

Sweetness of the avocado and play up against the chile and lime juice. i reported on it. >> you reported on it two years ago. and not a peep about it. >> not a peep about the peas. >> i will say what they did, again, i dont think that it was necessarily a, hey, this is the best guacamole youre going to have there are other ways to use peas. this is from the fresh market down the street. lets try to make people eat more healthy. however, that is not guacamole. >> you are a guacamole purist. >> th...

Materials. several were hospitalized. the train operator is working with relief agencies currently. theyre working to determine a cause of that accident. so as the summer travel season is hitting its peak were seeing some major news about the countrys airlines. the department of justice saying its investigating currently whether the airlines are colewding to limit the number of available airline seats and in doing that keeping their airfares high. phil lets talk about the investigation and which...

Years ago, five years ago, there was a big group of somali men who decided to travel over to somalia to join the shabab group. this is different. this is isis. quite a surprise for law enforcement. they are wrestling with how to deal with this and clearly its a big problem. >> phil lets talk about that peer to peer recruiting. the reason the fbi was able to get these guys is because one in the group decided to turn informant and they were able to tape conversations from these fellow would-be ter...

Breaking now, the deadly and deteriorating crisis in yemen where an american citizen has been killed in the escalating fighting. its getting worse right now. we are back with the saudi ambassador to the united states. we talked about yemen. lets talk about the iran nuclear deal right now. if you read the "wall street journal" today which i assume you did, you saw richard hass current president of the council on foreign relations, a man you know saying the great fear that many u.s. officials have...

Fran townsend peter bergen general mark hertling and philip mudd. he is the author of an important brand new book just coming out this week entitled "the head game." there you see the cover. phil lets talk about the two british teens, a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old presumably wanting to go support -- fight for isis. whats causing these teens to join a terror group allegedly like this? >> i think naivete. its like we are in the third stage of the war. we started with the core of al qaeda. the gu...