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Before he embarked on his trip to the g20. president trump was asked about the subject by reporters. >> . >> ill have a very good conversation with them. what i say to them is none of your business. >> well one of my colleagues asked the president the same question at the start of a bilateral meeting yesterday between president trump and president putin . >> >> dont meddle in the election. >> an astonishingly light-hearted reaction. for the first meeting with russian president vladimir putin. on...

You, rachel, just wrote a piece about this rift that has developed between house leader nancy pelosi and minority leader chuck schumer over a border funding bill. tell us about whats happening. its really complicated about what democrats in the house and the senate want and feel they can demand or feel that there may have been some missed opportunities. >> a lot of the rift were seeing in the democratic party, particularly between schumer and pelosi, the two leaders of the chambers, is coming in...

Coming out of the white house and the briefing tom lawmakers received. our pamela brown joins us now with that side of the story. so president trumps message on iran seemed to shift over the course of the day. can you explain that? do we know what was behind the thinking? >> reporter: thats right. were seeing the president downplay this once again, calling it a big mistake, literally saying whoever did this was loose and stupid. all of this happening around the same time, anderson, that congress...

The president is seeing the scene now as it stands in making some different decisions. >> ooh toipt ask you one other thing. i dont know if we got video of this by the way. senators mcconnell and schumer have arrived at the white house for this meeting and we will of course be monitoring that. kelly, one of the issues when it comes to iran. this isnt sort of traditional warfare. iran has a lot of proxies around the middle east, the united states has said any of them that act against any american...

Hill. >> reporter: a spokes person for mitch mcconnell confirmed that briefing to us not long ago, saying the majority leader is going to attend it. sources are telling fox news the white house invited all four top congressional leaders. thats pelosi, mccarthy, mcconnell and schumer. the briefing is on iran in the situation room at 3:00 p.m. today. the president is expected to attend. sources are telling mike emanuel 12 lawmakers are invited, the big four, as well as the chairman and ranching me...

Thats one of the reasons he was able to work as an acting secretary of defense for so long because he was already senate confirmed, and that process went on what we think would be in a normal fashion. there are questions and questionnaires and personal interviews and all kinds of things related to that and senator dick blumenthal of connecticut said that he wants to see an investigation now because he believes there is a possibility of a criminal activity here to withhold that from the committee...

Schumer, the top democrat in the senate for democrats said that he believes the vetting process is flawed and its a part of the chaotic trump process and white house. so a lot of certainly discomfort here on capitol hill about the developments this afternoon, notwithstanding the global threats that the u.s. faces, the need to have someone in that powerful position for all of the reasons and the senate is about to consider whats known as the nda, the national defense authorization act which is a ...

Counterparts, to see whether this is going to pass, how confidence are you, how hopeful are you? >> im very confident because its the right thing to do. we still are to get it out of the house of representatives and on to the floor for a vote. but that day, well take it to the senate and hopefully by fire truck, deliver it to the senate, and ask them to put it on the floor immediately. senators gillibrand and schumer are leading the fight there. and mitch mcconnell has said, when asked about it,...

Primary chuck schumer or kristen gi gillibrand? >> talk democrats talking about this possibility for months now. a few things recently put a dampen on that in terms of her state-wide polling. its not that strong. but shes got a huge profile. the base absolutely loves her. as was reported, she playing more of an inside game in washington than people expected. most recent example of that is teaming with ted cruz, an unexpected person to team up with, to try and get a lobbying ban for members of co...

With the president. well do whatever he wants to do and mexico would fold like an umbrella. and now i have these people, and im saying there are some republicans, too, they should ba ashamed of themselves, but we have pelosi, we have chuck schumer, who is a disaster, by the way, a total political jerk but we have schumer, and all of these people, they come out and they talk about tariffs, or this -- they hurt my negotiation, because i go into the room with the mexicans, im auasking them for ever...