Pennsylvania. Human remains were found in the search for four young men who disappeared last week. Good morning. Its thursday, july 13th. Amidst fallout from his sons meeting with a russian lawyer in an effort to gain Opposition Research on Hillary Clinton, President Trump is today in france. French president Emmanuel Macron personally invited him to attend bastille Day Festivities in paris. Soon the president and first lady will head to a short ceremony and tour before traveling to a palace for a meeting with macron. Trump and macron will also hold a joint News Conference. Joining us live now from paris, northbound news chief White House CorrespondentHalle Jackson. Good to have you with us. Weve been talking a lot about this trip anticipation. President trump extremely unpopular at the moment in jurp and in france. Nbc news has learned of various protests and marches that are planned during his visit. Whats the atmosphere like now on the ground with his arrival . I would say we just saw the president come in not long ago, right . This is sort of the beginning, the key up, to what will ultimately be a very short trip. You sort of ran through the highlights there. I think most notably youre going to see that press conference thats set to happen later today. Youre going to see dinner actually up just behind me here over at the eiffel tower. The president , the first lady along with president macron and his wife. Then tomorrow, of course, is that military parade essentially. That is going to be a mix of not just french troops but u. S. Military troops as well. As you talked about, 100 years since the First American troops arrived on french soil. Remember what the anniversary is here too. The commemoration of one year since the attack in nice. That terror attack when somebody drove a truck into crowds of people celebrating bastille day. Terrorism, Cyber Security is set to be at the very top of the agenda for these discussions now between President Trump and president macron, and this according to a senior white house official, is at the request of the french president. That is the area where they can find Common Ground and where we expect to see a lot of the policy discussion. Less so, on, for example, climate and trade. Areas where they dont always see eye to eye. Were going to be watching for more protests here. You mentioned the president not popular in europe. Its what we saw in hamburg, germany, last week. Were keeping an eye on it here. Well see if the crowds turn up like they did in hamburg. Thank you. President trump says there was nothing wrong with his son welcoming a reported offer from the russian government that could help them win the 2016 election. The scrutiny continues for the trump tower meeting which donald trump jr. Gathered top Campaign AidesJared Kushner and Paul Manafort after being promised official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary Clinton. Part of russia and its Government Support asked if he wishes his son had not taken the meeting. He said i think many people would have held that meeting. On whether he wished he had known, the president said, it was a wild time, and we would meet with many people. It was a 20 minute meeting, i guess, from what im hearing. Many people and Many Political pros said everybody would do it. Many people and Many Political pros said everybody would do that if you got a call and said, listen, i have information on hillary and the dnc or whatever it was they said. Most people are going to take that meeting, i think. The president said he didnt know anything about the meeting until a couple of days ago. The ranking democrat on the House Intelligence Committee wants to bring one of the president s closest aides before congress. Congressman adam schiff says white house advisor and president ial soninlaw Jared Kushner should testify about that meeting as well as Paul Manafort. Donald trump jr. And anyone else who helped organize it. Now, this as Republican Senate judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley says his committee agrees to have manafort enter their questions. Meanwhile, House Speaker paul ryan tried to put the focus on russia. It said he is staying out of the way. It is absolutely unacceptable that russia or any other country but russia meddle in our elections. Thats period right there. Second, we have a special counsel thats doing an investigation over at the justice department. We have an investigation here in the house. We have an investigation in the senate. I think its very important that these professionals and these committees do their jobs so that we can get to the bottom of all of this. Mr. Speaker, would you accept a meeting with a representative im not going to go into hypotheticals. Would you accept a meeting with somebody who said i have information from a foreign adversary that will help you beat your campaign opponent . Look, im not going to go into hypotheticals only because i think its important that we get to the bottom of all of this. As you all know, i supported bob mueller being appointed special counsel, and i think we need to let him and his team and our investigators here do their jobs and follow these leads wherever they mellet and follow wherever they may go and follow the facts. Meanwhile, the president gave a pair of what has become increasingly rare interviews. Top of mind was russia and accusations of collusion in the 2016 election, and he turned heads in an interview with christian broadcaster Paul Robertson on cbn when he said putin would have been happier had Hilry Clinton won. He wants whats good for russia, and i want whats good for the United States. If hillary had won, our military would be decimated. Thats what putin doesnt like about me, and thats why i say why would he want me . I want a strong military. He doesnt want to see that. Were going to be exploiting energy. He doesnt want that. He would like hillary. She wants to have windmills. He would much rather have that. I think probably not. He also told reuters there was zero coordination. Its the dumbest thing i have ever heard. When pressed on his meeting with Vladimir Putin, he said the two talks about interference for the first 20 or more minutes of their twohour talk, the president telling reuters i said did you do it, and he said no, i did not. Absolutely not. I then asked him a second time in a totally different way. He said absolutely not. When reuters asked if he believed putins denial, trump paused before saying, look, something happened, and we have to find out what it is because we cant allow a thing like that to happen to our election process, so something happened, and we have to find out what it is. He later added somebody did say if he did do it, you wouldnt have found out about it, which is a very interesting point. Big day on capitol hill after facing tough questions from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle. President trumps nominee for Christopher Ray is widely expected to be confirmed with bipartisan support. During the confirmation hearing ray faced question after question about russia and the departments independence. Nbc newss justice correspondent Pete Williams has all the details. Christopher ray repeatedly pledged to steer the bureau clear of any political influence from the white house. Reporter Christopher Ray entered the Senate Hearing room with one overriding mission, demonstrate his independence from the president who nominated him after firing fbi director james comey. I will never allow the fbis work to be driven by anything other than the facts, the law, and the impartial pursuit of justice. Period, full stop. Reporter he said no one, including donald trump, asked him to pledge loyalty. Something comey says the president asked of him. It got very awkward, and i then said youll always have honesty from me. No one asked me for any kind of loyalty oath during this process, and i sure as heck didnt offer one. If the president asked you to do something unlawful or unethical, what do you say . First i would try to talk him out of it, and if that failed, i would resign. Ray was careful to defend comeys character discounting the president s description. You dont think director comey is a nut job, right . That never has been my experience. Yeah. But ray also said comey was wrong to publicly criticize Hillary Clintons handling of classified emails when announcing last year that she should not be charged with a crime. Ray said he would make sure special Counsel Robert Mueller has everything needed to examine russias election meddling, despite the president s dim view of that investigation. Im asking you as the future fbi director, do you consider this endeavor a witch hunt . I do not consider director mueller to be on a witch hunt. Reporter he says he has no reason to doubt russia was cyber hacking the president ial election. Reporter Many Senate Democrats say theyll vote to confirm him. Despite the strong opposition to how the president created the job opening, it appears Christopher Ray will be confirmed by early august with bipartisan support. In washington d. C. , steve williams, thank you for that report. Sarah fisher joining us. A lot of fastmoving developments here. Were going to talk about the confirmation in just a moment, but i want to start with donald trump jr. Here. Is there a sense that everything thats been going on with him is overshadowing the agenda and all that needs to get done before the recess, which, by the way, theyve already delayed. Theres definitely a sense in washington that everything thats going on has paralyzed the white house. These reports that you continuously hear. Trump supporters are going to point to the ceasefire agreement in russia. Theyll point to things like sending 87 nomination confirmation hearings to the senate. Theyll tell you that theres movement on health care. Theyre going to say that the white house is doing their job and that theyre doing it well. Testimony seemed to come, though, as the sigh of relief for a lot of democrats on the hill. Theres a lot of democratic support here for Christopher Ray, which is an encouraging sign for them after an encouraging sign for everyone in congress after theres been so much deadlock. Yes, were hearing not just support from democrats, but just democrats writ large. Ray has the support of people like eric holder. A lot of people think he will get confirmed. Its looking likely that he will get confirmed to be the eighth fbi director to serve a tenyear term. You know, sarah, in hearing lewis earlier recount President Trumps conversation with president Vladimir Putin of russia, you cant help but think the white house is still not saying how they see moscow, right, as a friend or as a foe. Lets take a listen to Sarah Huckabee sanders here and the comments over the last couple of days through the course of really three days or so. Take a listen. Do you view russia as a partner . Do you view them as an ally . Do you view them as an adversary . Does the president trust president putin . I havent asked him that question. Could you please ask him that question . Yeah. Do you think of them as friend or foe . I havent had a chance to have that direct conversation. Ive been a little preoccupied with other things, major, but i will check on that. Do you have answer an on that question . I do assure i will certainly work to make sure i get that answer to you. Its a little concerning that the White House Deputy press secretary is unable to answer questions about the white houses relationship with russia. The president s two interviews have been telling. First he tells the Christian Broadcasting Network that theyre both powerful nations, and so its important that they have a relationship and that they have a good relationship. Then youll hear him tell reuters i pressed russian president Vladimir Putin very hard on whether or not that they meddled with the election, and he said he did not. He said i asked them again in a different way, and he said he did not. This is sort of an interesting thing juxtaposition. He said its important that we do have a good relationship, and then he said the Intelligence Community says they repeedly have a good reason to belief that russia meddled with the election. There are a lot of mixed messages coming out of the white house as to what the status is with that relationship. Certainly is. Thanks so much. Thank you. Police in pennsylvania have made a grim discovery in the search for four missing young men. Human remains have been found on a farm outside of philadelphia. They say that one set of remains has been identified as one of those missing men, drew smith, from our nbc affiliate wcau has more from balbury township in pennsylvania. Drew, good morning. Good morning. The d. A. Promised major developments in this case, and he delivered on that telling us that they have now identified human remains of a 19yearold who was found in a 12 1 2 foot grave. Workers have been out on this rural farm outside of philadelphia since the beginning of the week searching for these four men who reported missing late last week. The person who owns that property is actually the parents of a young man who has now been arrested on unrelated charges. He is being held on 5 million bail because he is the person of interest in this case. Wcau drew smith. Thank you for that. 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