Yasmin vossoughian and louis burgdorf. We begin with with mike pompeo who appeared before the Senate ForeignRelations Committee. The nearly threehour hearing included several tense backandforths between pompeo and senators from both sides of the aisle on topics including russia and north korea and generally overall foreign policy. Has the president told you what he and president putin discussed in their twohour closeddoor meeting in helsinki . President s have the choice to attend i just asked a simple question. You cant eat up my seven minutes, mr. Secretary. Did he tell you whether or not what happened in those two hours . Yes. The prepping of your question implied there was something improper about having a oneonone meeting. I just asked a simple he question. Did he tell you what transpired in the meeting . I had a number of conversations with President Trump about what transpired in the meeting. I was present when with he and president putin gave us a sense of what they discussed. I had a chance to speak with Sergei Lavrov on the russian view of what took place. I have a complete understanding of what took place. Did you speak to the translator at that meeting . No, i havent. Is there any verifiable evidence of progress towards denuclearization . Oh, yes. Absolutely. What is verifiable . We are sitting at the table having conversations. We have had lots of discussions that im not going to get into here today. I am afraid that at this point the united states, the Trump Administration is being taken for a ride. Fear not, senator. Fear not. Theres no evidence to the contrary. Fear not, senator. Theres no evidence. Senator, fear not. You draw a distinction between the president s comments and u. S. Policy. Senator, the policies are themselves statements as well. Indeed, theyre the most important statements that the administration makes. Well, policies are statements and statements are policies, it goes both ways. Thats not true. I make lots of statements, theyre not u. S. Policy. The president says things, the president makes comments in certain places. We have National Security council, we meet, we layout strategies, we develop policies, right. So how do i know the difference . The president set the course. How do i know the difference between a president ial statement thats not a policy and a statement that is . Senator, here is what you should look at. Compare compare the following. Barack obama speaking tough on russia and doing nothing. Thats not true. It is true. I understand you want to rewrite the obama policy on russia it is not true. Can i speak. You can, bought when he speaks, that is the policy. I misspoke. It is the case. The president calls the ball. His statements are, in fact, policy, but it is the case when all of us speak in informal settings in response to questions were not covering the full gamut of things that impact the world. Thats what i intended to say. I saw the glee on your side walking away, trying to make a political point from that. Thats silliness. This president runs this statement. His statement now we understand that when the president speaks it is the policy. Geez. Im exhausted. Imagine that for threeandahalf hours. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin will not be visiting the white house this year. National security adviser john bolt onsaid yesterday in a statement, the president believes the next bilateral meeting with putin should take place after the russia witchhunt is over. So we have agreed it will be after the first of the year. It is a major change of opinion for bolton who last summer called russias interference in the 2016 elections an act of war. The Washington Post trump ordered bolton to officially invite putin to the white house after watching negative tv coverage of the sehelsinki summ. 64 say they dont believe trump is tough enough on russia, far ahead of the secondheld opinion unsure at 18 . 10 say his toughness is about right. Only 8 say he is too tough. When looking at republicans alone, almost half, 47 , say trump has not on been tough enough, while 24 are unsure and just 20 say he has taken the right approach. Poll ingalls shows a Strong Majority of americans, about seven in ten, believe there was russian interference in the 2016 election. That includes 51 of republicans versus 41 who say there was no interference. Looking ahead to the midterms, 57 of americans think it is likely russia will try to interfere this november versus 38 who say it is unlikely. However, the majority of republicans are skeptics. Fewer than one in four in the gop believe russian interference is, in fact, likely. Switching gears from russia, according to the Washington PostMichael Cohen may have already released his most significant tape of President Trump, a sign cohen is going beyond words into action in his wish to make a deal with prosecutors. Two sources familiar with with the tapes will tell the post that the government has seized more than 100 recordings that cohen made of his conversations with people discussing matters that could relate to trump and his businesses and with trump himself talking. They say trumps voice is on several of the recordings, but only in snippets. Typically when he is returning a call from cohen or asking cohen on voicemail to call him back. The only recording in which trump an cohd cohen have a substantive conversation is the one davis released tuesday. The post says much of the recordings are of him and reporters discussing donald trump, like one the wall street journal is reporting on of a conversation about the Stormy Daniels payment with chris cuomo in which cohen says allegedly, kwo, i did it on my own according to people familiar with the matter. The white house clashed with the press yesterday and restricted access after a Television Pool reporter did her job. It happened after the president ignored questions after his photo spread with the European Commission president. Watch this. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Reporter thank you. Reporter mr. President. Thank you, everybody. Did Michael Cohen betray you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Reporter mr. President , are you worried about what Michael Cohen is going to say to prosecutors . Are you worried about what is on the other tapes, mr. President . Thank you, everybody. As you can see, the president ignoring a lot of questions. The reporter you heard there though was Kaitlyn Collins of cnn. Her questions about Michael Cohen caused the White House Press office to retaliate. Cnn reports a few minutes after her questions collins was asked to come to bill shines office. Shine is a former copresident of fox news and the new deputy chief of staff for communications. Press secretary Sarah Sanders joined them. According to collins, quote, they said, you are disinvited from the press availability in the rose garden today. They said that the questions i asked were inappropriate for that venue, and they said i was shouting. In a statement the white house said, at the conclusion of a press event in the oval office a reported shouted questions and refused to leave despite repeatedly being asked to do so. Subsequently, our staff informed her she was not welcome to participate in the next event, but made clear that any other journalist from her network could attend. Quote, she said it didnt matter to her because she hadnt planned to be there anyway. And to be clear, we support a free press and ask that everyone be respectful of the presidency and guests at the white house. Yet the footage shows collins was far from the only member of the press to stay and ask questions after the poll spray ended. A common practice for anyone who has attended any of those. Really common practice. Bilateral meetings when the press shouts. And elevating your voice to be heard. Yes. Joining us a reporter for the Washington Post, eugene scott. Good to have you with us. Thanks. Lets talk a little bit about mike pompeo, secretary of state. He had a testy testimony yesterday on capitol hill, talked about a lot of different topics. What stood out the most for you . What was the, i guess, most interesting part of that confrontation . I think what stood out the most for me was mike pompeo saying he had complete knowledge or understanding of what happened in that personal meeting between trump and putin because no one else seems to, and we would like to know what he actually said. The next question will be, will he play a part in making that available to people even on the National Security council who feel left out of the loop. Well, you would think when theres so many questions about what was actually said between the two leaders they would want to make it available in order to clear up any sort of misunderstandings that may be out there. Indeed. I think it would be the logical next step, but doesnt seem theyre going in that direction to say the least. Lets talk about the Oval Office Meeting that was supposed to happen between president putin and President Trump, obviously on hold after the, quote, witchhunt as said by the Trump Administration is said and done. What do you think it means . Yeah, i think the administration is paying attention to just how poorly the president was perceived to have performed in his first summit and feels like this is not something that they can risk happening again, especially given recent intelligence. All of us are expecting, you know, more indictments and more information to be made clear regarding the relationship between russia and the 2016 election in terms of its interference, and having this type of summit could only make things look worse and not make things look as if the Trump Administration is being as tough on russia as they claim. All right frm euge thank y very much. Today is the Court Ordered deadline for parents and separated children. Heartbreaking audio of two undocumented mothers pleading to be reunited with their kids in immigration court. Here is one mothers plea. The court hereby orders the decision of the asylum officer is affirmed. [ speaking Foreign Language ]. And your case is returned to the department of Homeland Security for you to be removed to your home country. [ speaking Foreign Language ]. Maam, i do wish you good luck in your home country. [ speaking Foreign Language ]. That is all. Interpreter and my daughter . Where is your daughter, maam . [ speaking Foreign Language ]. Interpreter new york. Do you want to take your daughter with you back to your home country . [ speaking Foreign Language ]. Interpreter yes. You might want to talk to the department of Homeland Security to see if its possible to remember yu nig reunite you and your daughter. Just incredibly heartbreaking to hear that. Imagine as a parent it sounds so cold as well, no sympathy. And shes like, my daughter, wheres my daughter, my daughters in new york. It doesnt seem the judge has a good awareness of it because hes saying check with the department of Homeland Security. Suddenly you are deported and your child is left behind you. Nbc received permission from the womans attorney to show that audio of the hearings on the condition that they not be identified by name, although 2,551 children were separated from their parents. Justice Department Officials said they plan to reunite just over 1600 eligible families by end of the day. However, the l. A. Times reporting as of yesterday the government was, working to reunite more than 1500 parents with their kids and about 900 parents were fighting final deportation orders. The aclu suspects the 463 parents already deported may have waived their rights to be reunited with their children without knowing their legal standing or what exactly they were signing. Absolute mess. Still ahead, a possible breakthrough in alzheimers research. Details about a new drug to slow the disease. A swos woman for Melania Trump reports the president was upset when he saw his wifes tv tuned into cnn. Those stories and a check on your weather when we come back. Drama. Into cnn. 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The drug removes buildup from the brain called amyloid plaques thought to be responsible for alzheimers. While similar drugs failed, the key difference is that the drug was given to patients at the earliest of the disease. We can slow or reduce the shrinkage of the brain. It is important to detect this as early as possible . Absolutely. While researchers continue to study the drug they asked the fda to fast track approval. The news giving hope to Craig Donovan who lost his father and grandfather to the disease. It is a critical societal need and theres so much human suffering involved with alzheimers. I hope that research continues. That was dr. John torres reporting. In a surprise announcement President Trump and Jeanclaude Juncker has a truce. As part of the truce both sides agreed to work towards zero tariffs in exchange to minor eu concessions, the promise to purchase more liquified gas when the u. S. Builds more stations in the future. There was no definitive agreement on the tariffs already in place. Now, the deal was announced before republican lawmakers who went to the white house to express growing alarm at trumps protectionist policies at the expense of farmers. The president levied a 12 billion farmout to a mixed republican reaction. Lets switch gears for a moment and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. I assume it will be a rainy day, same assumption . Things are getting better, ayman. We are watching the heavy rain exiting areas of the mid atlantic. Here are some of the pictures from yesterday, fairfax, virginia, washington, d. C. , baltimore, it poured. Rush hour was a disaster. Hundreds of roads were under water. We had almost every small stream and creek was overflowing its bank at one point from virginia up through pennsylvania. We still have about 10 Million People under floor warning in pennsylvania. Theres hershey park which had to close yesterday because of the creek that runs through the park. We even had issues in florida with rip kuntz. The heavy rain has shifted to the north. The flood watches have been cansed, thats an improvement. We will still he see isolated downpours, a couple popping up in southern financinew jersey. It will not be the pouring rains we saw in days past. Around 8 00, hartford, still some storms. By 5 00 we watch the front kick through with leftover showers, not a lot. Notice we cleared out philadelphia to d. C. Friday, watch out. We will see a line of thunderstorms coming through. So we only get a brief break this afternoon and tomorrow, ayman, we will have a chance for Severe Weather. We will talk more in the next half hour about the excessive heat in the west. Thats not going anywhere any time soon. Thanks for that. Still ahead, at nfl Training Camps open, one nfl owner is calling the president s interest in the National Anthem problematic, while out in anaheim one hall of famer moves up the list. Details next in sports. 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