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Hes leaving again under similar circumstances. its hard to call it sort of a respite from the stress of washington because its a different kind of stress but in some ways it might be nice for this president to get out of washington and spin his specific policies. >> as you can recall that first trip was fraught with all sorts of complications as well. now hes leaving gary cohen and treasury secretary mnuchin behind with the instructions get the tax bill done, which is a pretty tall order for bot...

Revealing contentious conversations, like with australias prime minister. president trump abruptly ending the call. saying, "this is the most unpleasant call all day. putin was a pleasant call. this is ridiculous." the president trump escaping washington, but not the russia cloud, still hanging over him. >> cecilia vega with us. congress also leaving town, but not before making steps to make sure the president is unable to make any appointments during the august recess? >> reporter: theyre using...

Anything. that hes squeaky clean is not the conventional wisdom around d.c. among people who knew him. paul manafort, remember, was fired from the campaign because of his work against the ukrainian government on behalf of the russian-backed faction in ukraine. so paul manaforts involvement if anything makes it more suspicious given his connections in the russian sphere. >> and paul manafort is not a young man. as donald trump said about his son. paul manafort would have known if something was go...

Sis tracked from brexit a good role. someone trying to enhance frances role on the world stage, a good opportunity. >> interesting. the pled is flying home now, spending the weekend at his golf resort in bedminster. sometimes watch cable tv on air force one. what is he flying back to right now? so much has happened while hes been gone on this trip. a trip a lot of people saw as successful with the french leader, but what can he expect in the coming days? >> become a depressingly familiar routine...

Couple of days. that will be a central question as investigators on capitol hill as well as investigators with the justice department hone in on the meeting. that could happen next week when senator chuck grassley, chairman of the judiciary committee, would like to talk to the presidents son before the committee on capitol hill. the questions of timing front and center in all of in as the russia cloud continues. the president will be here for the parade and flying to new jersey later today. >> r...

Approach to what is going on in terms of this russia story, and its hobbling if not their agenda certainly their ability to drive a message. theyll figure out independently what theyll do with health care, what theyll do with tax reform in theyre going to have a vote on any of those things. but in terms of branding this party as competent and giving any sort of messaging to americans, that makes the party and the presidents agenda looks good, theyre not able to do that with this russia cloud. >>...

White house, phil? >> well, what you saw right there is theres not really a willingness to get out there and forcefully defend donald trump jr., and thats in part because a lot of these aides in the white house dont want to create any legal exposure for themselves. my colleague, ashley parker, and i spent the last couple of days talking to a lot of white house officials about the environment and the situation, and we really struggled to get anybody to be willing to defend him and to be willing t...

Some of his predecessors have done a poor job of protecting whistleblowers. at the fbi oversight hearing on may 3, i said that a cloud of doubt hangs over the fbis objectivity. the previous director, james comey, said that the people at the fbi dont give a rip about politics, but mr. comey installed as his deputy director a man whose wife ran for the virginia state senate, accepted almost $1 million from the virginia governor, terry mcauliffes political machine. thats a lot of money for one stat...

Presidents decision, it does not appear that mr. comey was fired because the bureau was a mess, as originally stated. nor is there evidence that mr. comey was dismissed because rank and file fbi agents had either lost confidence in him or because of his handling of the clinton administration. investigation. rather, we find that rank and file agents of the fbi did and continue to overwhelmingly support james comey. in addition, deputy attorney general rosenstein told members of congress that when...

Terror groups have directed or inspired terrorist attacks in ft. hood, boston, san bernardino, orlando, st. cloud, new york city, columbus, and i suppose other places that we tend and shouldnt forget. tend to forget but shouldnt forget. uniformly, these terrorist attacks on the united states soil show the fbi must have the tools it needs to protect against and investigate terrorism and other serious violent crimes in the homeland and these tools must preserve civil liberties while being adapted ...