A roundup of the day s events. the most powerful men in hollywood, ceo chairman of cbs les moonves under fire. and we hear from the reporter who broke the story, ronan farrow. here s abc s chief national affairs correspondent, tom llamas. reporter: tonight les moonves, one of most powerful men in hollywood, under investigation by his own company, cbs, after allegations of sexual misconduct. the accusations from six women from encounters that happened 20 years ago that range from inappropriate kissing to sexual assault, surfacing tonight in a new yorker expose by ronan farrow. in the article actress and writer illeana douglas tells farrow, what happened to me was a sexual assault, and then i was fired for not participating. she recounts an incident in moonves office. moonves office. in a millisecond, he got one arm over me, pinning me, she said. moonves was violently kissing her, holding her down on the couch with her arms above her head. producer christine peters recounts a similar experience in the article saying moonves told her during the meeting this is really great, she recalled. shows like everybody loves raymond, survivor, and csi is credited with turning around cbs after taking a leadership role in 1995. thank you. reporter: in 2004, he married one of his employees, cbs host julie chen. moonves who is 68 is one of the highest paid ceos in the country. last year earning a pay package worth $70 million. tonight, in a statement to the new yorker, moonves says, throughout my time at cbs, we have promoted a culture of respect and opportunity for all employees and have consistently found success elevating women to top executive positions, but i always understood and respected and abided by the principle that no means no, and i have never misused my position to harm or hinder anyone s career. and tom llamas with us here tonight, and we took note today that cbs was out with a statement even before the story broke. they clearly knew this was coming, and they said, quote, all allegations of personal misconduct are to be taken seriously, and about the two women you mentioned, what is cbs russians in the trump tower before the election, and that he knew about the meeting before it happened, after dirt on hillary clinton was promised from a foreign adversary. this will likely interest robert mueller who by the way was photographed waiting at the airport in d.c. on the left. not far away behind him there, you see donald trump jr. standing in line. tonight, mueller s office issuing a statement after that photo, and here s abc s chief justice correspondent, pierre thomas. reporter: tonight, president trump fiercely denying the explosive allegation from his former lawyer and fixer, michael cohen. multiple sources tell abc news cohen claims trump knew in advance about that infamous june 2016 trump tower meeting. his son, donald junior, son-in-law jared kushner and campaign chairman paul manafort, sitting down with a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin. trump jr. had been promised high level and sensitive documents that would incriminate hillary clinton as part of russia and its government s support for mr. trump. the president s son has said repeatedly his father didn t learn of the meeting until well after the election. did you tell your father anything about this? no. it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i mean, i wouldn t have even remembered it until you start scouring through this stuff. it was literally just a wasted 20 minutes, which was a shame. reporter: the president also insists he was in the dark. did you know at the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. but, you know, you gave it must have been a very important a very, it must have been a very unimportant meeting because i never even heard about it. reporter: when news of the meeting broke, trump jr. released a misleading statement, implying it was about russian adoptions. team trump initially said, the president had nothing to do with that either. the statement that was released on saturday was released by donald trump jr., and i m sure in consultation with his lawyers. the president wasn t involved in that. reporter: it was later revealed the president actually dictated his son s misleading statement. the white house forced to backtrack. he weighed in, offered a suggestion like any father would do. reporter: today s allegations mark a major escalation in the standoff between the president and cohen, his long-time confidante. i always liked michael, and he s a good person. reporter: the president s new attorney once praised cohen. the man is an honest, honorable lawyer. reporter: but now? he s been lying all week or he s been lying for years. there s nobody i know that knows him that hasn t warned me if his back is up against the wall, he ll lie like crazy because he s lied all his life. reporter: on twitter, the president ripped into his former fixer saying, sounds to me like someone is trying to make up stories in order to get himself out of an unrelated jam. one person keenly watching all this play out, special counsel robert mueller, and for now, he is not saying anything. but the world did catch that rare glimpse of him today sitting at a d.c. airport, ironically just feet away from donald trump jr. a lot of people looking at that photo on twitter and on social media late today. pierre thomas with us live tonight from washington. pierre, sources say that michael cohen may be actually willing to share his story with the special counsel? reporter: that s right, david. cohen is under investigation by federal prosecutors in new york, and our sources tell us he is likely to cooperate with them, and now he may be willing to speak to robert mueller too. about that photo at the airport, mueller s team says he was unaware donald trump jr. was there, david. pierre thomas with us on a friday night. pierre, thank you. president trump meanwhile choosing to focus on the economy today, and it is a bright spot for the president and the nation. coming before cameras outside the white house, he announced a strong quarterly report promising even better numbers to come. he did promise during the campaign he would get gdp growth to 4%, and tonight it s there. will it stay there? he says yes, but he says a couple of factors that led to this, and it does involve american farmers. abc s terry moran at the white house tonight. reporter: the economy is soaring and so is president trump. i am thrilled to announce that in the second quarter of this year, the united states economy grew at the amazing rate of 4.1%. reporter: it s the best number since 2014. americans are spending more. businesses are investing more. the trump tax cuts and massive deregulation having a positive impact. these numbers are very, very sustainable. this isn t a one-time shot. i happen to think we re going to do extraordinarily well in our next report next quarter. i think it s going to be outstanding. reporter: but take a closer look at today s numbers and you see shadows. exports are way up, but that s partly because businesses and farmers raced to sell their goods and crops before china imposed tariffs in trump s trade war. soybean exports, for example, soared more than 50%. farmers like john kiefner in illinois, now worried about what comes next. i have to try to make do with less expenses. i want to save as much money as possible because i m unsure about the future. reporter: so despite today s rosy news, for many, it s still an uncertain economy. all right. so let s get to terry moran live at the white house again tonight, and the president promised strong growth will be, quote, very sustainable and he said it s not a one-time shot, but a lot will depend on the trade tensions. the president s tariffs and the retaliation from our trading partners. reporter: that s the big uncertainty right now. how long do the trade wars go on? how do they end? if president trump succeeds in opening new markets, there will be a lot more growth. he will have redefined how presidents do economic policy. if however, those retaliatory tariffs keep piling on, there will be a lot more pain out there, david. to be continued. terry moran, thanks all week. and overseas tonight, a promise kept from the summit between president trump and kim jong-un. what s believed to be the remains of u.s. servicemen killed during the korean war arriving from north korea at a south korean military base today. 55 small boxes draped in u.n. flags were carried to waiting vans. they will soon go to hawaii to be identified. the armstice ending the korean conflict was signed 65 years ago today. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this friday. the abc news exclusive. after the fbi joined the search for that missing college student, tonight we now hear from the mother whose daughter disappeared. she is breaking her silence amid a timeline now emerging and what we have now learned tonight. the carjacking escape. a 10-year-old boy running from the car. the suspect driving off though with his 5-year-old brother still inside. what we know about this. and tonight, the longest lunar eclipse of the century. the spectacular blood moon seen around the world. matt gutman is standing by to show you tonight, and it s really something. omething. i was just finishing a ride. i felt this awful pain in my chest. i had a pe blood clot in my lung. i was scared. i had a dvt blood clot. having one really puts you in danger of having another. my doctor and i chose xarelto®. xarelto®. to help keep me protected. xarelto® is a latest-generation blood thinner that s. proven to treat and reduce the risk of dvt or pe blood clots from happening again. in clinical studies, almost 98% of patients on xarelto® did not experience another dvt or pe. xarelto® works differently. warfarin interferes with at least 6 of your body s natural blood-clotting factors. xarelto® is selective, targeting just one critical factor. don t stop taking xarelto® without talking to your doctor, as this may increase risk of blood clots. while taking, you may bruise more easily, or take longer for bleeding to stop. xarelto® can cause serious, and in rare cases, fatal bleeding. it may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. get help right away for unexpected bleeding or unusual bruising. do not take xarelto® if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. before starting, tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures and any kidney or liver problems. learn all you can. to help protect yourself from another dvt or pe. talk to your doctor about xarelto®. it was panic because that is so out of mollie s character. reporter: the university of iowa student was last spotted going for a run in brooklyn, iowa july 18th. investigators believe she returned home that night. but are unclear about what happened next. the fbi zeroing in on mollie s digital footprint. critical information from the social apps she used including gps data collected from her fitbit. authorities now widening their investigation, searching a hog farm and other properties near deep river, iowa. david, those searches have turned up empty. investigators say they have ruled out mollie s boyfriend and siblings as suspects. her family says they will not give up hope, david. alex perez tonight. thank you, alex. when we come back here, the emergency landing on chicago s lake shore drive. details coming in now. and the stunning event that has millions around the world looking to the sky tonight. matt gutman standing by with the spectacular images already coming in. man 1: this is my body of proof. woman 1: proof of less joint pain. woman 2: .and clearer skin. woman 3: this is my body of proof. man 2: proof that i can fight psoriatic arthritis. woman 4: .with humira. woman 5: humira targets and blocks a specific source of inflammation that contributes to both joint and skin symptoms. it s proven to help relieve pain, stop further irreversible joint damage, and clear skin in many adults. humira is the #1 prescribed biologic for psoriatic arthritis. avo: humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened; as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you ve been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you ve had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don t start humira if you have an infection. woman 6: need more proof? 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Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on today s top stories. letting him ask about obstruction but doing so in written answers and limiting in-person questions to questions that dealt with things that events that happened before president trump was inaugurated, focus on the potential collusion questions and nothing about obstruction of justice. all of these debates over whether they will sit down are going on while giuliani is saying president trump does want to sit down with him, he is expressing interest. it s the legal team that has the reservations about that. this is happening while the president is continuing to lash out at the special counsel. that s because the president believes he can sway public opinion to agree with him that this is a witch hunt and be on board this investigation has gone on too long, that it s a witch hunt. whether or not that pans out is up to the president s twitter feed and whether he can convince his supporters. stand by to stand by. great to see you. thank you so much. joining me now for much to discussion, rob portman of ohio. senator, thanks for coming in. it wasn t a surprise to me. i don t flow know if that s thet time he said it before. not as explicitly is the point people are making. it wasn t surprising. i want to talk to you about trade. it s a very big deal for your state. it s a very big deal for you. the president is considering raising the stakes in the trade war with china even further. here is what he said this week about that during a rally. listen. china had others remember this have targeted our farmers. not good. not nice. you know what our farmers are saying? it s okay. we can take it. these are incredible people. we can take it. he is saying that farmers i don t know don t think it s a big deal, farmers say they can take it. that s not what i m hearing from farmers we have interviewed. do you agree with him? i think the community is split. i will be at the ag breakfast regard to mexico and canada in particular, because they are huge trading partners. our two biggest trading partners in ohio. the 232 tariffs i talked about are causing us, in my view to have a more difficult time, not just with the tariffs being raised on our products and our consumers being hit by higher prices, but not getting to an agreement on nafta. it should be updated. we need to come to a resolution. the uncertainty this is causing is i think a headwind in an economy that s otherwise very strong. i would want to keep this momentum going on resolve some of the trade issues. i want to ask you about judge kavanau kavanaugh. chuck schumer is saying republicans are concealing records about his past, about his record. they want to see more documents before anything happens with his confirmation process. why is more information a bad thing whether n it comes to a lifetime tenure, an confirmation? relevant information is a good thing. it s my understanding that chairman gas rassley, has offer up more documents by far than any other supreme court nominee has ever had, because he did serve in the administration as associate counsel of the president. he has a long record as a judge. issuing over 200 opinions. anything that s relevant to his legal thinking, how he goes about looking at some of the issues is appropriate. that will be there. the question what s schumer doing? what senator schumer is saying with regard to his role as staff secretary, which is basically you are the person the traffic cop for all information to the president, all information out, that is literally millions of documents. it s not a substantive document. it s him saying, i got this from the secretary of interior. i will send this to you, mr. president, and take out whatever the president writes on that. a lot would be subject to executive privilege. it s a fishing expedition. yes, if it s a document that he authored or a document that he was involved with as associate counsel, certainly, or certainly as a judge, that s totally appropriate. again, more documents are being offered than any time in history. i think we thethere will be ple documents. i don t think that s the that many democrats have with kavanaugh. the issue is not the number of documents they will look at. they decided they will be against him. i think he would be a terrific justice. he is a good person. he is humble. he is a good listener. he is compassionate. my hope is he will have the opportunity to have his hearing soon. the american people will see that in him. plenty of documents will be out there. we will have the opportunity to see what i think will be a nice performance by him and the opportunity for us to move together to a vote that i think will be bipartisan. i think he will be confirmed. it came out yesterday that urban meyer, one of the top coaches in all of college football right now, he is on paid administrative leave as the school is investigating whether he is aware or turned a blind eye to domestic violence allegations against an assistant coach. i just wanted to ask you, because it s rocking the college football world, what s your reaction? urban meyer is a friend. as you said, he is a legend, not just at ohio state, but florida and other places, just an incredible coach. i know him and his wife. they are good people, good character. we will see what happens. i don t know any of the details. i m learning as you are from the media. ohio state takes these things seriously, as they should. we will see what happens. i have a lot of confidence in him, not just his football skills, but also him and his character. senator portman, thanks for coming on. thanks. take care. coming up, the battle over paul manafort s luxury closet. prosecutors want to show these images of a python vest, a python jacket, i m confused by all the flashy items. it s why how they were paid for and also today, what the judge is now saying about who can and will testify. why on earth is the tsa considering removing screening for passengers at over 150 airports, when experts are blasting the idea as stupid? details on that coming up. en wer auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that s my robe. is it? 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the other thing here quickly is that this case is moving quickly. yeah. we can see it wrapped up by the end of next week. prosecutors ors intend to rest r case. we will see if there are witnesses who testify on behalf of manafort. it s moving really fast. thanks so much. let s talk about this with defense attorney who represented rick gates for a time and a former federal prosecutor, shan wu. you worked with gates for a while. if you were working with manafort, would you put him on the stand? that s the million dollar question for defense counsel. i am reluctant to put a client on the stand. it s pressure for any witness, much less a criminal defendant. i would really have to kind of vet him to see how he comes across that way. it may be though the only chance they have to humanize him to the jury. right now, actually, it s very early in the trial. i think things are going well for the defense at the moment. i can t tell if it s early or towards the end it. it s moving so fast. what do you think of the fact there was a question if gates was going to testify and they say they are going to bring rick gates to testify. what s this about? i think that was actually the judge s pressure affecting the prosecutor. under pressure, he was trying to rush him on a particular document relevant to gates, why don t you just ask gates about this. the prosecutor is saying maybe won t testify. i think he misspoke. i think it would be devastating for the government if gates did not testify. it would allow manafort to say, there s the person to blame and they are afraid to put hum im o michael, let me bring you in. trump clearly president trump is bothered by how things are going with the trial so far. look no further than his twitter feed. what do you think manafort testifying would then do? trump sees both sides of the manafort coin. he wants everyone to know that what manafort is under trial for right now has nothing to do with the 2016 campaign and his relationship with trump, which is true. on the other side, he wants to use the manafort case as a way of further discrediting which has been a campaign for a while now the broader mueller investigation, which brought these indictments. there are stakes here for the president. if manafort gets off of these charges or if there s a hung jury, you can look to president trump s twitter feed to say, you know, look, the whole game that robert mueller has been pushing here has been nothing from the beginning and this is proof of it. on the flip side, if manafort is convicted, trumgp will try to minimize this and say, he is just convicted for tax and bank claims. you saw the tweet yesterday about al capone. he was trying to make the case that paul manafort is not a hardened criminal or these allegations do not involve the sort of criminal activity of some of the country s most notorious gangsters. not compared to al capone, sure. michael, also, there s reporting in your paper that the mueller team is now open to limiting questions when it comes to a trump interview, allowing some answers from trump to come in the form of writing, reporting in the new york times to push for this. does it seem to you like this is becoming more of a reality? the likelihood of it an interview? it s hard to tell. there s two legal strategies going on here. one is the actual legal strategy to protect the president. the other is a public relations strategy to protect the president politically. on that latter one, the president is clearly making the case publically that this report that he wants to give an interview. we heard that before for many months. he has done nothing wrong, he feels like he is an innocent man. there s a lot of on the actual legal case against the president, lawyers for a long time have been advising him not to sit down. very often in these cases, the crime that comes out is misleading the fbi or misleading investigators in an interview. a number of the indictments have been along these lines. there is real legal jeopardy in submitting to the interviews. what we know about president trump is he has a hard time sticking to a script or sticking to the truth when he speaks. there s a real danger. as i said, the dance continues for now. thanks so much. coming up, do you want to get on a plane if you knew that fellow passengers and their bags had not gone through any security screening? 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a document that cnn obtained is recent. from june and july. they say tsa is considering allowing thousands of passengers to board commercial airplanes at small and some medium-size airports without being screened. they estimate the move would save $115 million. they could use that to bolster security at larger airports. the proposal doesn t say which airports would be impacted. we do know that it would be more than 150 airports. for perspective, tsa currently screens at 440 airports. the trend though has always been towards more screening. 311 and more restrictions on what you can use and how. why is tsa now okay with the idea of less? right. that is the key question. a lot of people are wondering why now. from everything we have seen within the documents, it s clear that there is certainly a consideration about cost savings. the issue of cost savings and the $115 million that would be saved annually is something that we saw in the proposal as part of the reasoning here. that is one factor. of course, many are wondering, is that cost savings at the end of the day worth the potential risk. what s tsa saying? we took this question to him. we asked them about the decision making process. we do know that they have told us that this is not a new issue, which we have reported. this idea was floated back in 2011. however, it gained no traction. tsa telling us that right now, this is just in the discussion phase. again, no decision has been made. they are not denying that this is under consideration. great reporting. thanks for bringing it to us. up next, former president obama puts out his first big list of candidates that he is endorsing in the midterms. how much impact will he have? will he be hitting the campaign trail later this fall? so many questions. let s get some answers. the day after chemo shouldn t mean going back to the doctor just for a shot. with neulasta onpro patients get their day back to be with family, or just to sleep in. strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. in a key study neulasta reduced the risk of infection from 17% to 1%, a 94% decrease. neulasta onpro is designed to deliver neulasta the day after chemo and is used by most patients today. neulasta is for certain cancer patients receiving strong chemotherapy. do not take neulasta if you re allergic to it or neupogen (filgrastim). an incomplete dose could increase infection risk. ruptured spleen, sometimes fatal as well as serious lung problems allergic reactions, kidney injuries and capillary leak syndrome have occurred. report abdominal or shoulder tip pain, trouble breathing or allergic reactions to your doctor right away. in patients with sickle cell disorders, serious, sometimes fatal crises can occur. the most common side effect is bone and muscle ache. ask your doctor about neulasta onpro. pay no more than $25 per dose with copay card. 81 candidates have his support. obama wrote this, i m proud to endorse such a wide and impressive array of democratic candidates, leaders as diverse, patriotic and big-hearted as the america they are running to represent. one notable absence from the list so far? the rising liberal star, democratic congressional candidate in new york, owe cass ocasio-cortez. was this an obama snub? was the impact of this? great to see you, julia. thanks for coming in. thanks for having me. it s great to be here. i appreciate it. does that surprise you, about ocasio-cortez didn t make the list? not really. president obama has a wide range of support from around the country and he is sporting a number of candidates. you will see the diversity on that list. we have so many wonderful candidates running around the country on the democratic side her win was amazing. she s in a great place. she will most likely win the general. i don t want her to yell at me for saying that. i think with a presidential endorsement, this elevates other folks around the country who are running great races but need to break through and be a little more noticed maybe. whether it comes to the fall, we heard president trump say that he is going to go out there he is thinking about going out there six or seven days a week, stumping for candidates. do you think obama going out there stumping six or seven days a week will be a good count counterweight? it will help in certain districts. president trump won t be able to go every place and campaign. i think it will depend on their staff figuring out where they can go to help. i think there are a lot of candidates who would be welcome president obama with open arms. in looking at the statement he put out with the endorsements that struck me that i have seen previously people know it president obama doesn t mention trump. he never mentions him by name. you can tell clearly when he is talking about him in his speeches. he never says his name. why not do you think? well, i think, you know, yes, trump is our president right now. i think there s so much more at stake in these elections and coming forward. we have redistricting in so many of the states. i know that s an issue that s near and dear to president obama s heart. he is looking at candidates that will be able to help affect that change. i think that s really important for the future of our country. it s not only about the president we have to focus. it s not about trump. it s about the folks running for in the great races in so many of the states around the country. let s jump ahead. forget 2018. talk about 2020 for a second. do not forget 2018, people. not what i meant. let s do it anyway. a lot of contenders, democratic, are in new orleans right now for the conference. i know you know your quote. i would say you have to have a path to raising at least $15 million or $20 million in the first quarter, which would end in march of 2019. i think there may be four or five who will be able to do that. why is that? i mean, the good thing is we have so many great possible candidates, i think, for our 2020 election. there are so many primaries leading up to who our final on the democratic side, who our final candidate would be. frankly, at built to be able to raise money is an important one. the republicans are going to have all kinds of money to try to keep trump in office. i will say that having money early on, i think it s important to have a plan, a road map. i will put out a pitch for my finance staff. they it can help first-time candidates at the national stage to map out a plan and be viable and get going. not lose before they even get into the race, if you will. that is raising big dollar donors, big donors, direct mail and online contributions from small donors. who do you think can pull that off? well, you never can tell. i think a lot are already doing such great work. give me some names. harris is that s one. i would think it would have to be biden and sanders, because of their stature. exactly. they have obviously the name i.d. and vice-president biden has a lot of large dollar donors that he has connections with. senator sanders did a great job in doing i will say, just last night though, act blue surpassed $1 billion in online contribution. it s the platform through which you give money to candidates, causes, democratic candidates and causes, raised over $1 billion as of last night. compared to 781 last cycle. there s an enthusiasm with small dollar donors and online contributors that it does leave the field wide open for being able to tell a story through online fund-raising. other than harris, who do you think can meet that mark? i think elizabeth warren is doing a good job raising the money online. i think there are a lot of senators who have thought about running. then you have howard schultz in washington state who probably has a lot of connections and can raise the money. i don t know if he would write his own check. there are a number of really talented, great people who can do this and be viable. it s a matter of doing the plan. figuring out your plan and working the plan. a huge field at this point. exactly. thank you for coming in. let s see what happens in 2018 and see what it means. 2018 first. cart before the horse. that s what i do all the time. every week this woman must nearly die before she can receive treatment for a chronic illness that she faces. why is that? s sanjay gupta is here to explain. -we re in a small room. what?! -welcome. -[ gasps ] a bigger room?! -how many of you use car insurance? -oh. -well, what if i showed you this? -[ laughing ] ho-ho-ho! -wow. -it s a computer. -we compare rates to help you get the price and coverage that s right for you. -that s amazing! the only thing that would make this better is if my mom were here. what?! an unexpected ending! about to die before you can get medical treatment that you need. it seems impossible. but that s the reality for some, undocumented immigrants in the u.s. illegally but in need of life-saving care. what do you do? you have been following one woman s battle with this. i have. i think it provides real insight into what happens in certain parts of our medical system, what happens with immigration and what happens when these two things collide. i will tell you as you watch this, a lot of what you are about to see surprised me. i hadn t seen how the system actually evolved. take a look.to really understan what s going on here, you need to suspend disbelief. this woman is dieing. her lungs drowning in fluid. her heart is close to shutting down. this 51-year-old mother and undocumented immigrant has end stage renal disease. full-on kidney failure. sg the function of the kidneys is to filter blood when both kidneys stop working, people on average will live anywhere from 10 to 14 days. so to continue living, you need some process to filter blood, which is a dialysis machine. for most people, that treats the problem. but here s the thing. lucia is allowed treatment only when she essentially arrives at death s door. the emergency medical treatment act of 1986 says hospitals in the united states must care for anyone with a medical emergency, regardless of their citizenship or ability to pay. but they re not obligated to prevent that emergency from happening in the first place. what is happening inside the body? for these patients, because they only come in once a week instead of the three times per week, excess fluid stays in their body and goes into their lungs, into their legs. separate from that, the toxins build up. one of the most important toxins being potassium, which at high levels can make the heart stop. this is no way to live. about as close to death as you can get. what s more, research shows that treating patients with emergency dialysis versus standard dialysis is nearly four times more expensive because these patients are so much sicker when they come in for treatment. they re literally pushing themselves to the brink of death. they are. to get this treatment. am i overstating that? no, not at all. there is no question it works. just look at lucia now. after dialysis removed ten liters of fluid from her body. how are you feeling? translator: right now i feel good. still, lucia is always worried. mostly about her family, especially her son alex. he watches his mother steadily decline every single week. this is their life. how hard has this been on your family? translator: it s been really hard. it s been really hard for my family. the worst is for my son. he worries about me. because just a few days from now, like clockwork, lucia will once again go to the precipice of death just so that she can live. kate, i ll tell you again, even among my medical colleagues, sharing with them this story, there s not a lot about this that makes sense, medically, morally, financially. why have a system that operates like this? i ll tell you as well, she is not eligible for a kidney transplant. that s not going to be covered. but she can donate other organs at the time of her death. that s what this law sort of allowser allows for her to do as well. in stark relief, just showing how two systems, immigration and what s going on in the medical community, the systems are broken, sanjay. thank you for bringing this story. you got it. thank you. really appreciate it. wow. coming up, we know what her father and her boss thinks, but what is ivanka trump s view on the media? 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yes, that was a low point for me as well. i feel very strongly about that, and i am very vehemently against family separation and the separation of parents and children. you know, she talks about this and her feelings about it. we haven t really heard the president discuss his feelings that much, but certainly it was interesting to hear from ivanka on how deeply it seems to have affected her, this family separation. and the break is notable, but it is all the more fascinating she you do wonder what the
that so directly today. also tweeting about paul manafort, feeling frustrated, even victimized you might say that if there was, in fact, this previous investigation that we now know did exist where authorities had been looking at paul manafort back in 2014 about his financial issues which are the subject of the trial now, not directly related to the campaign. the president writes, paul manafort worked for ronald reagan, bob dole and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. he worked for me for a very short time. it was roughly five months or so. why didn t government let me know he was under investigation? these old charges have nothing to do with collusion, a hoax. the president is right there that the financial issues that are being examined are not about the campaign. paul manafort worked for him for several months and he worked for him with the express purpose of helping the convention, people forget, you and i lived it, many of our viewers lived it with us that paul manafort was brought in to be the deal maker at the day two. we re starting to see the strategies laid out, shaking out on both sides, can you walk us to the framing of each of these arguments here and what we expected to? reporter: today the jury will hear from more people who knew about paul manafort s work in ukraine. the government is laying a careful foundation for his work, the president of ukraine who paid manafort millions of dollars. right now this is going to be a slog through emails, but with people who worked with manafort to try to sketch out the details of what the work he did for them and then the prosecutors will then proceed to how he got paid. what the government says here is that they didn t simply sign a check to paul manafort that supporters of the ukraine president put money in a bank in cypress so that he was not paid directly. what they said is, these oligarchs as the government called them in ukraine did not want it known publicly who they Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. the president is saying. the manafort trial prosecutors don t even expect their witnesses to say the words donald trump. it s separate issues, financial crimes, unrelated to his work specifically for the trump campaign. that said, the president is clearly upset about the special counsel investigation that is leading to this trial, a trial which is, in fact, concrete evidence of the special counsel s investigations work even though we don t know how it ll turn out. you have 12 russians indicted a couple weeks ago for interfering with the election in addition to the russians who were indicted before that. does the president also believe that work is a disgrace and should come to an end? i am almost certain he feels that way. he cannot separate collusion from election meddling from following the money with paul manafort. this is a big deal and sends a clear signal to the president that this so-called witch hunt is not ending. it is the first trial to come out of robert mueller s investigation and the president is getting freaked out about this and this is all coming as facebook just unveiled this coordinated campaign of election interference which is under all of this investigation applying to 2016 but 2018. you have what the president is about manafort in the past kellyanne conway was brought on when they were in a real hot mess. i brought paul in because a very, very smart friend of mine who knew him very well said he is fantastic and he s somewhat political. paul manafort who s a good man also, by the way, he was replaced long before the election took place. he was only there for a short period of time. he was with the campaign as you know for a very short period of time but i ve known him to be a good name. paul manafort s a nice guy, he worked for me for a very short period of time, literally like a couple months, little period of time. manafort has nothing to do with our campaign. sahill? it s the tip of the iceberg. it s the first of many i think prosecutions that mueller is going to pursue and it is a signal to people around the president as to how fearsome mueller is. can we fight him? do we need to cooperate with him? all of that is going to be out there. all of that is that people around the president including his family and former aides will watch closely. i just had a conversation with some sources over on the hillside and the conversation came up specifically surrounding election interference and the president s reaction to it. this is something that people are watching incredibly closely. the president s reaction and whether he actually takes any steps moving forward. now he has directed the attorney general to end the investigation, to end the special counsel investigation. what s happening at the doj right now? are they in crisis mode or pretty smooth sailing as they go about their work? you ve worked there. it s some where in between. in my experience the men and women at doj both within the main justice and fbi are simply going about their business doing their jobs, but it is not a good situation given the unprecedented comments by the president and the pressure that he s attempting to put on the department. i think largely and interestingly, the ag, the dep ty ag, the fbi director, they re more or less ignoring what the president is saying. thank you for coming on. we are just three months now away from the midterms and once again this election is under attack. you are looking live at the senate intelligence committee meeting right now on the role russia may be playing this time. what facebook is doing about it and what the trump administration is not doing according to its critics? 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thank you. joe, you ve been reporting so much on facebook, what they ve been doing. but we have some new reporting now and what else was involved in this foreign influence report that facebook did not reveal take us through it. that s right. the business went through some web archives to look at the ads that facebook provided yesterday, the accounts and the pages to see what else was underneath and what we found was much more divisive rhetoric. a lot of it was sewing division and discord among african-americans and hispanics. it s a covert operation, a lot of the issues that were put forward by facebook they say that people who were behind it are actually covering their tracks better this time around using virtual private networks and third parties as well. there s a senate intel hearing going on right now and we re getting some new reporting and new information out of that on examples of foreign influence in the lead up to the 2016 race. the reason this matters right now is that it s a nugget of hints of what we can expect for 2018 and ira activity that s been disclosed now is people most frequently interacted with po posts on facebook that were pro right wing so we re getting more of that picture, halle. jo ling kent, i know you ll stay on top of that. the big question, of course, and thank you, jo, is how might we protect ourselves moving forward? that s what lawmakers are trying to deal with. with us now is robert johnston. he founded the marine corps. national cyber protection team. thank you for coming on. when you look at the reporting we just laid out from kasie and jo, how much do we not have a handle on this and how much further to we have to go? is it going to get done in time for the midterms? the american people wanted to know whether indicts and public attribution were enough to deter the russian government, it was enough to deter the chinese but the american people have that answer. it s not enough to deter the russian government from acting out. you re talking about the russians, facebook didn t talk about the russians. they did not lay the blame squarely on the russians. others are like james clapper. watch. it s actually the russians. i m pretty confident it is, you know, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck sort of thing. this is only the tip of the iceberg and i think you also need to look at the other platforms, twitter, for example, and see what s happening there. i think it s much more widespread than what has been exposed by facebook so far. that is a scary as dan coats described it. is this administration doing enough to fight it? i don t think so. there s not a successful deterrent model. facebook wasn t ready directly to name the russians. they did say admin accounts were admin accounts they were deleted. i actually read facebook s post as a cry for help. it says, government, you need to step in and declare attribution. they say i will support and defend the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. it s a title 10 responsibility and title 50 responsibility. facebook isn t ready but the government should be and they need to step up. if you re not seeing it from the executive branch, are you seeing more potential of that through the legislative branch, through congress? well, i ve always been, you know, leadership comes top down. you need to see it from the executive branch. he s the one that owns the intel agencies. they work for him. his direct yifds are what they re going to push. it s got to come from the top. it s tough to see those two headlines side by side. the white house has no coseeive plan to combat it. thank you for coming on the show. president trump fired up in florida with another new campaign stop just announce this had morning in a different key state. he is on a midterm mission but is that a good thing or a bad thing for his fellow republicans? 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he ll be very active. he ll be out there making the case that he needs the votes here in washington. a note on that hot streak, it s one thing to do well picking primary candidates, it s another thing all together to help those candidates beat democrats. the president heads to pennsylvania tomorrow for yet another rally. i m joined by shawn sullivan, back with me is alex and sahil. thank you so much for being here. shawn, former white house deputy strategist told politico this, president trump now defines the republican party in the same way that the tea party defined it in 2010. all of the primaries run through the lens of president trump and here is what one supporter at that rally told our own ali about the president. it s great that he supports ron dean tis, if he thinks he s good, he might be good. he s right with everyone else. reporter: you willing to take his word for? i do. anything he says. he hasn t everything he says is true, it comes true. is this a winning strategy? it certainly is a winning strategy in these primaries. when i talk to republican strategists and candidates, they unanimously agree that there is no better stamp of approval you can get in a republican primary than president trump s endorsement. he has the ability to transform a race almost overnight with his endorsement. we ve seen this in numerous primaries across the country. he was able to oust mark sanford by backing his opponent. he entered the georgia and we re seeing it with desantis. this is the golden ticket for candidates but the question is, does this actually translate to a win in november against the democrat and that s what we ll find out. there s the trump factor, there s the koch factor. we had reports on our show on monday at that koch brothers conference in which they were going after it seemed or at least speaking out against president trump. he s speaking out right back and you re writing about how the trump feud with the koch network exposed this rift between the populist and establishment. absolutely and a lot of republicans right now are sort of caught in between the two of them. they understand that trump s influence is powerful in these primaries, but they also don t really want to alienate the koch brothers. a lot of republicans we talked to yesterday said we interpret this as a message. they re sending a message to republicans saying, its fine if you want to align yourself with president trump and his trade policies but they re trying to remind republicans there s a cost and the cost is their support in this case. the tennessee primaries tomorrow, you re writing about how marsha black burn who is wrapped herself in the trump flag could be in for a bigger fight than expected. she is facing a two term ex-governor. he s popular in the state. he s a pragmatist and he s not afraid to take shots at his own party. he s trying to de-emphasize the national side of this race. mars marsha blackburn is running a full on base strategy. it may work in places like north dakota and west virginia but is president going to campaign in colorado. that s a much tougher they have to appeal to a much wider swath of the electorate. one thing about a moment that we watched in that story setup there the president saying you need your i.d. to buy groceries. i get carded buying groceries because i buy wine. this was former president bush showing delight and surprise at the grocery scanner. is that overblown? trump is doing what he does best which is double down, triple down on these hard line hot button issues. he s turning these long shot candidates into instant favorites by talking about things like that. coming up next, we want to get into our north korea s keeping its promise this week to return the remains of fallen american soldiers to the u.s. when it comes to another pledge, it s doing the complete opposite. we have the new satellite images showing evidence denuclearization might be farther away than ever and another look at reaction on capitol hill to the president s latest tweet on jeff sessions. , these feet. .raised a good sport. .and became a second-generation firefighter. but i couldn t bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor, and he prescribed lyrica. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions, suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worse depression, unusual changes in mood or behavior, swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. common side effects: dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs, and feet. don t drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don t drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. those who have had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. now i have less diabetic nerve pain. ask your doctor about lyrica. now i have less diabetic nerve pain. my gums are irritated. i don t have to worry about that, do i? 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he knows sessions recused himself because that ticked him off. he wanted an attorney general who would have his back. jeff sessions knows he has a duty to the country not just to the president. there s a coordinated effort in the party to try to delegitimize this investigation in the eyes of the voter and shut it down. one thing that s really struck me there s a finance poll that shows that 40% of republicans either if the russians did meddle to help republicans keep congress, 40% of republicans think that s either appropriate or not that big of a deal. it s gone from the place where they say they doubt to it happens where if it did happen, a lot of them aren t bothered by it. remarkable indeed. we ll also going to dive into a different one, one you may have some questions about. a conspiracy theory movement making its way out of the darkweb and toward the political stage. what is behind that q symbol popping up on t-shirts and signs at the president s rally and why the group behind it is targeting some of the hollywood s biggest names? 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you should instead be asking, who is q? q is an anonymous user who started posting cryptic messages in the dark fever swamps of the internet last year, someone claiming to be a high level government official sharing bread crumbs about the deep state supposedly conspiring to take down president trump. this q network then tries to follow those crumbs, those conspiracy clues and floods youtube and other sites with what they found. in this fringy alternate universe, senior democrats were on a secret child sex trafficking network, in the real world, they do not. the special counsel investigation is actually just a cover to really take down hillary clinton and barack obama, because they were corrupted by the kremlin. another conspiracy theory. the hot topic right now, the military convinced donald trump to run for president in 2016, part of the long game so the president and his military allies can now take down the deep state. so here s the thing, the difference today these fringe theories are now starting to see the light of day. like, q supporters showing up at rallies like last night. more traction after some famous faces roseanne barr brought up these conspiracy theories online. i want to bring in ben collins. you have been owning a lot of the reporting on q. the washington post puts it this way, what tuesday s rally in tampa made apparent is that the devotees don t just exist in the far reaches of the web. we re talking videos with hundreds of thousands of views, probably millions of people believing this and you saw it last night at tampa for donald trump. this is showing up everywhere and it s showing up on amazon.com. you can by q merchandise. until last month, the number 10 paid app on the app store amongst mine craft was a q drop app. this is stuff like hillary clinton is mixing baby blood into cement, totally bananas, off the chart stuff. but people really believe this stuff and it s because the platform let it go unchecked. you say it s both emotional and socioeconomic like pizzagate on basically. it s every conspiracy theory built into one. it s all these things, if all of these things weren t debunked already, it s the concept a kava wlchlt has been running the united states. platforms haven t stopped it yet. the theories are not just targeting politicians some celebrities are caught up. youtube is one of them. you work with nbc s jo ling kent. two holley woods icons the targets of false conspiracy. stephen spielberg is a pedophile. i m just showing you that tom hanks is part of the system. casual search for tom hanks turned up videos accusing him of being a pedophile. direct ler steven spielberg getting the same treatment. it pushes false allegations that a child sex ring is being run by hollywood celebrities and democratic politicians. all of this uncovered by nbcnews.com. and by you, ben collins. what the ultimate goal? it absolves president trump of everything that he s done wrong. if their eyes, it s a great thing. there are ways they take tip pos typos to it s fan fiction. same way that if you were to read like people trying to put together two people in a sit-com on the internet, it s the same exact thing. people role playing politics. and the goal is to make it so the lives of their political are simply impossible. you saw it with pizzagate, private citizens affected by this. it s the same sort of thing. they try to make it so people whose lives are affected by the trump campaign, make it impossible. you know, this is really dangerous they re showing up to the rallies now. i would expect them in the future. but if we use the pizzagate as an example, that was one person who took this off line. now they are moving en masse to the physical space, we should not be surprised if any of this turns into protests at the very least, or something more scary and dangerous. a very scary thought. conspiracy theories are not new but it s much worse because of the internet. and president trump, he s in many ways a conspiracy theory president. his foundation, the birther won conspiracy about conspiracy theory ted cruz s dad involved in jfk, millions of illegal votes. these social media platforms have a difficult choice to make. they want to be a free for all and let free speech but they have a responsibility at some level to decide what content is acceptable. thank you. ben collins with the word of the day. banana as. thank you for coming on. we ll be right back with today s big picture. it s pretty amazing out there. the world is full of more possibilities than ever before. and american express has your back every step of the way- whether it s the comfort of knowing help is just a call away with global assist. or getting financing to fund your business. no one has your back like american express. so where ever you go. we re right there with you. the powerful backing of american express. don t do business without it. don t live life without it. with a $500,000 life insurance policy. how much do you think it cost him? 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ago, when the republican led by ten points. joining me now, senior political correspondent from the hill, amie parnes. good morning. good morning. let s talk about this. you ve seen the poll numbers. early voting, i believe, is already under way in ohio, and looks like the democrats, at least number of ballots that have been cast so far, more democrats. so, how worried should republicans be? a little worried. i mean, donald trump won this area by 11 points. republicans outnumbered democrats 2-1 over there. so i think this was sort of a safe seat for them. i think that it came as a big surprise that it was very close, but you know, o connor, the democrat, has been really trying to make inroads in appealing to people who have been a little bit upset with the way the trump administration has handled policy, the tone and tenor of his administration. and so, he s really tried to A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. they can pack e-mails, which is what they did in 2016 and tried to use the information that they get, if it s embarrassing, for example, to change preferences about a candidate. they can hack into the actual election infrastructure. and then there is the disinformation campaign going on. with regard to the hacking, both in the e-mails and in the infrastructure, part of that is going to be candidates taking their own precautions on their private information. and the infrastructure, that is up to the state mainly to take advantage of funding and services offered by the department of homeland security to address any vulnerabilities in their system. those are the short-term threats. the long-term threat is the disinformation, and that s a little bit harder to identify and patch. it s not just, you know, a loophole in, you know, the way that your voting system works. this is really about information that voters are being bombarded with that can distort their mr. panetta and say it s not just mixed messages. i think that on the international stage, and russia in particular, are paying attention to what the president says. and his lack of response, and indeed, his continued denials that there have been any there s been any election interference at all, in my opinion, is really giving russia the green light to continue and to, you know, basically have a field day with interfering both in our democracy, long term, and in our short-term elections. and i think that that is very problematic. i hope that to the extent that our agencies can take measures, like the department of homeland security and the fbi, that they can at least address some of the threats, but it does need to start from the top. okay, so, that was my question, because earlier this week we know that the senate voted down a $250 million appropriation to fund state election security. it failed right down party lines. but with that said, can you secure anything, even just the equipment? can you make any decisions and secure anything if the president himself is not on board? you can. it does take funding. so, if the federal government isn t providing enough funding, that s a problem. but for example, election experts have said that states should replace paperless voting machines with voting that produces voter-verified paper ballots that can be verified after the fact, if needed be. so, i think that there are sort of smaller steps that can be taken. it s not, you know, all or nothing, but i do think as a policy, in terms of sending a message, you know, before obama left office, he expelled 35 spies who were here posing as diplomats. i mean, there have to be certain, sometimes symbolic steps. there can be sanctions. there has to be some kind of cost that russia needs to endure for doing these kinds of things, and that s the step that only the president can take. all righty. i think at the end of the day, when people go to vote, they just want to know their vote counted, and they just want to be confident of that. absolutely. asha rangappa, we appreciate your insight. always learn from you. thank you. thank you. more details into robert heuler s russia investigation. they emerged overnight with new details about the woman known as the manhattan madam. kristin davis once ran a high-priced prostitution ring and went to jail for it. she has now agreed to an interview this week with special counsel robert mueller s team. now, on the surface, she doesn t appear to have a connection to the russia investigation, but she does have a close relationship with roger stone, a longtime adviser to president trump. sources say her testimony suggests mueller might be building a case against stone here. meanwhile, prosecutors slammed trump s former campaign chairman, paul manafort, during the fourth day of his trial, showing that he lied to his accountants and trying to prove that he also lied on his taxes. the jury saw evidence to support bank fraud charges and heard from a witness who said she discussed creating fake documents with manafort and longtime deputy rick gates. gates is the prosecution s star witness. he is expected to take the stand early next week. manafort s attorneys have pointed to gates as the man behind the alleged fraud. prosecutors say they will show evidence that manafort s own lawyer said gates was not involved with certain bank records. will president trump s rally in ohio tonight be enough to secure a win in the special election? we ll have ryan costello about that. plus, secretary of state mike pompeo and north korea s foreign minister shook hands and smiled at the cameras this morning as a u.n. report says north korea is still going ahead with its nuclear program. also, a mother s illegal status in this country is posing a threat to her health. they re literally pushing themselves to the brink of death. we are. to get this treatment. am i overstating that? no, not at all. potentially be. do they have any assets in turkey? we don t know, but it would seem unlikely that it s going to be a lot. so, there s something about this that looks as if it s a tit for tat, but it s a little unexpected and does hint at this deteriorating relationship. secretary of state mike pompeo in the last 24 hours met with his north korean counterpart. the meeting was said to be constructive, that they would go to their home countries and continue discussions, although the turkish said we can t fix our problems in one day. that s the thing, the united states and turkey have pretty big issues they could be discussing. syria would be high on that list. so, this is unexpected, hints that it s a deterioration. perhaps it isn t that significant because the people involved do not have significant assets in turkey, although we won t know until we know precisely who they are. so, it s, yeah, it s sort of come out of left field a little bit, but it doesn t really seem to give confidence that andrew brunson, the pastor who s just been released from jail in turkey, put under house arrest, it doesn t seem to hint that he s going to get home any quicker, which is, of course, what president trump wants to see. it is, indeed. he s not alone in that. nic robertson, thanks very much. republican congressman ryan costello of pennsylvania with us now. good morning, congressman. how are you? very good. you? i m well. thank you. so, your reaction, first of all, to nic s report about turkey. should the u.s. respond, and how? well, that s obviously a very complicated question. i have the same concerns that everyone else does. i think i ll take a pass on saying anything too dispositive there. okay. i do want to get into this back-and-forth that we re seeing when it comes to national security. president trump obviously giving a very different answer to what russia is doing, directly contradicting what all of his national security leaders came out this week and said, that russia is interfering. and i m wondering, what do you tell republicans where you are when they go to the polls? what is this doing to your party? what do you say to them to give them confidence that the president and that the republicans and that national security is intact? that we should have faith in the administration officials that were at the press conference, i think it was two days ago. the president has missed the mark here in terms of coming down forcefully and clearly against russia in its election interference, but the director of homeland security, the national director of intelligence, the national security adviser, those are the folks that we should be listening to as it relates to russian interference in the election. i think we are well positioned to fight back against this. you had a guest on a little while ago who really hit the nail on the head in terms of the different types of russian election interference. what we can do, what will be more difficult to get our arms around, the disinformation campaign is going to continue to persist. there s only so much we can do about that at any one time, but making sure that every vote that is cast is counted and that there isn t anyone getting in the way of that i think is the single most important thing that we can do. right. because like i said, i think people go to the polls and they want to know that their vote is counted. so, with that said, when we know where the president stands on this, where national security leaders stand on this, what is being done to secure the voting procedures, that equipment, that the infrastructure is solid? well, i think elections happen at the county level. a lot of this on the cybersecurity side are things that we don t know about on a day-to-day basis because it s highly confidential, but those things are happening, and that was the point of the press conference. our intelligence community, our homeland security community, they re doing what they need to do in order to make sure that russia does not interfere there. i have full faith and confidence in that. i was just going to ask, are you confident when you go to the polls? certainly. i certainly am. and to be critical here, we just have to set aside what the president may have said at a rally or at a summit overseas and place our faith in those administration officials who have been tasked with this obligation. they were very clear that russia is intending to interfere and that they are taking all precautionary steps and proactive steps to ensure that every vote cast is counted. i want to look at president trump s endorsements, because he s going to be in ohio today, of course, for this rally. when we look at, let s say his scorecard, 19 people that he has endorsed have won. there have been four losses, including rick saccone there in your state. how much weight does the president hold, do you think? how beneficial is he or not to these endorsements as we head into midterms just three months away now? this weekend s rally i think is important for the following reason. this is a tight race. everyone knows it. democrats are coming to the polls. republicans should be coming to the polls, but many republicans hold very strongly favorable views of the president, and this is a get out the vote election. we re in august. most people aren t used to voting in august. and so, getting your voters to the polls is extremely important. no one can do that better than the president as it relates to republican turnout. this election may ultimately hinge on independent voters, where governor kasich coming out and supporting the republican nominee i think is a step in the right direction. but if the president can get a couple extra thousand republican voters to the polls, that s very, very significant in a special election. when you talk about voters going to the polls, and we were talking about what the russia infiltration threat is here, how do people, or how would you convince people to disseminate between what is, you know, distinguish between what is noise and what is factual when they are deciding who they re going to vote for? it s such an excellent question. and to be honest with you, even if russia were not interfering, that s a challenge for every candidate, just given how much noise is out there on social media, even from your opponent, right, and from a lot of the outside special interest organizations. i think you have to look at a candidate s character. you have to look at what they themselves are actually saying, what their voting record is, what their record in business and in the community is, and focus more on that than what someone else is tweeting about or what some outside organization may be misrepresenting. that s ultimately what it comes down to, and that s why there s always a local element to every single race. you cannot discount, particularly amongst independent voters and swing democrats and swing republicans. they re going to look at the individual, even in this year where i think the president s going to probably be on the ballot in november for most voters. you have to make sure you re cutting your own message and you re making sure that you re leading with your personality and what your record is. that is, i think, going to be the secret sauce for winning candidates in november and next tuesday. okay. and last but not least, the economy. it is certainly in the president s favor, in republicans favor right now. is it going to be enough, do you think, as a campaign tactic, to make sure that people get to the polls? we re going to find out. the economy is doing very, very well. that s a big part of the republican message, but it can t be the only part. you have to be speaking about what you re going to be doing, where you may disagree with the president from time to time. but the other thing i might say is i think the challenge for republicans right now is when things are going well, oftentimes voters then start looking at other areas or other issues. it s when the economy isn t going well that oftentimes the focus in an election is on the economy. when the economy s doing well, it oftentimes is on other things. so we need to keep repeating the message of why our policies are helping improve the economy low unemployment, stock market, increase of wages. so, it s a tricky political environment when things are going well and you re saying this is why they re going well. mm-hmm. all right. congressman ryan costello, appreciate you being here. thank you, sir. thank you. secretary of state mike pompeo and north korea s foreign minister promise to cooperate on denuclearization this morning, but a u.n. report says north korea is still going ahead with its nuclear program. it s a high-tech revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? 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cnn s chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has been following one woman s battle in particular. take a look at this. reporter: in order to really understand what s going on here, you re going to need to suspend disbelief. lucia is dying, her lungs drowning in fluid. her electrolytes are fluctuating wildly and her heart is precariously close to shutting down. this 51-year-old mother and undocumented immigrant has renal disease, full on kidney failure. the function of the kidneys is to filter blood of excess toxins and excess fluid. when both kidneys stop working, people on average will live anywhere from 10 to 14 days. and so, to continue living, you need some process to filter blood, which is a dialysis machine. reporter: for most people, that treats the problem. but here s the thing, lucia is allowed treatment only when she essentially arrives at death s door. the emergency medical treatment act of 1986 says hospitals in the united states must care for anyone with a medical emergency, regardless of their citizenship or ability to pay, but they are not obligated to prevent that emergency from happening in the first place. what is happening inside the body? for these patients, because they only come in once a week, instead of the three times per week, excess fluid, it stays in their body, and it goes into their lungs, goes into their legs. separate from that, the toxins build up. one of the most important toxins being potassium, which at high levels can make the heart stop. reporter: this is no way to live. about as close to death as you can get. and what s more, research shows that treating patients with emergency dialysis versus standard dialysis is nearly four times more expensive because these patients, like hue slucia so much sicker when they come in for treatment. they re literally pushing themselves to the brink of death to get this treatment. they are. am i overstating that? no, not at all. reporter: there is no question it works. look at lucia now after dialysis removed ten liters of fluid from her body. how are you feeling? translator: right now i feel good. reporter: still, lucia is always worried, mostly about her family, especially her son, alex. he watches his mother steadily decline every single week. this is their life. how hard has this been on your family? translator: it s been really hard. it s been really hard for my family. the worst is for my son. he worries about me. reporter: because just a few days from now, like clockwork, lucia will once again go to the precipice of death, just so that she can live. i ll tell you, it s unclear how long lucia can carry on like this week after week going to this precipice of death. a kidney transplant would be something that would not only improve her life but also cut down on health care costs. she is not eligible for that. she is, however, eligible to donate her other organs whenever she passes. that is the reality of the situation for people like lucia. sanjay gupta, thank you very much for that report. meanwhile, a federal judge has just dealt a blow to the trump administration s efforts to end the deferred action for childhood arrivals program, otherwise known as daca. a judge in washington has ruled and that occurred friday that the administration has 20 days to fully restore the program that protects undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as children, protecting them from deportation. he said the administration failed to justify its proposal to end daca. the justice department indicates that it will file an appeal, saying in a statement, it looks forward to vindicating its commitment. but a face-off could be brewing since a judge in a related case in texas is expected to rule in favor of ending the program. straight ahead, one of bmw s biggest plants in south carolina is already feeling the brunt of the president s newly imposed tariffs. alright, i brought in new max protein itthat s why i lovel the daily fiber wfiber choice,ood alone. with the fiber found in many fruits and vegetables. fiber choice. the number one ge recommended chewable prebiotic fiber. . the bmw corporation raids tariffs. this week the president threatened to more than double proposed tariffs an chinese goods from 10% to 25%. i talked to some residents in spartans burg, south carolina, at a bmw plant there, where they are already worried about the potential impact. it may not look like it but spartanburg, south carolina is a trade zone, thanks to the president most folks here voted for. spartanburke is the largest to the bmw plant in the world. they employ 10,000 people pumping billions in the state s economy. is it safe to say how well bmw does is how well spartanburg county does? you might say that, there is a lot of industry directly connected to bmw. growth, jobs, and i know that that s brought in a lot of families into the area. it brings money into the area. reporter: spartanburg voted 63% for donald trump. president trump promised tariffs on bmw parts, that could make bmws made and sold in america a lot more expensive. the company is feeling the impact with china over 80,000 spartanburg made bmvs are sold in china every year. now china is striking back, placing tariffs on the american-made vehicles. it s an economic double whammy of trump s making, which bmw could have negative effects on employment in the united states, in other words, bmw might have to scale back production and lay off workers in spartanburg. i feel like ahelped spurt bmw. reporter: how concerned are you now talking tariffs and trade wars? i m extremely concerned, the impact the ripple effect goes beyond bmw and the automotive industry. reporter: he is one of the few politicians in the country willing to tell trump he is wrong. these tariffs could put the foot on the throat of growth and stop that. we don t need that. reporter: others here support the president s policy, some are concerned. none wanted to talk on kabul. reporter: they re not the only ones reluck tant to speak out. many south carolina companies are concerned but fear if they say anything, they will become a part of his twitter wrap. the president has shown you are better off working with his administration on issues to understand it and allow them to get to if right answer. reporter: ironically, trump s tough talk on trade was a part of his appeal in south carolina. now there is concern trump s trade war is about to backfire on them and possibly, eventually on him. i don t see this issue changing voters mind. now if you look down the road and there are concerns. reporter: worries about the current trade war between the u.s. and china, there is actually good news for the spartanburg line, that i are adding a new vehicle, they will be adding about a thousand more jobs over the next few years. all right, thank you, martin. so, nasa just picked nine astronauts who will launch the first spacex nutz. we will tell you their mission in a moment. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? 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encourages everyone to have of an open dialogue about issues facing children today. as you know mrs. trump has traveled the country and world talking to children about their well being, healthy living and the importance of responsible online behavior with her be best initiative. her platform centers around visiting organizations hospitals and schools. and she would be open to visiting the i promise school in akron. the i promise school is the school lebron james opened, who in an interview said he would not sit across from the president. the other part of the statement i find notable, ana, responsible online behavior coming on the heels of a tweet the president of the united states sent out insulting someone. ana. exactly. i also want to ask you, boris, about this familiar face. someone who used to to work in the white house apparently spotted boarding air force one. what can you tell bus hope hicks showing up? yeah, that s right, the former director of communications for the white house making a surprise appearance today, not only in new jersey but also boarding air force one apparently on the way to the president s rally in in ohio. you recall earlier in year in february she testified before congress she told white lies on behalf of president trump. one day later she announced her resignation. within a month she left the white house. it s surprising to see her on the landscape again. but we know that president trump occasionally even officials that have left his campaign or left the administration he often keeps in contact with them. corey lewandowski is another example. we ll see if hope appears on stage tonight. i find it interesting because i i remember a few weeks ago the president hinted at maybe she wants to come back to the white house. perhaps more to that. thank you, as you continue to cover ohio where the president will be speaking in a couple of hours with the back drop of the drama around lebron james and the first lady s public opposition to her husband s tweet coming hours before that rally in ohio. lebron james home state. let s talk about it with cnn The latest news and information from around the world with host Ana Cabrera. but, you know, the president uses the bully pulp it on a number of occasions to bully people and not to unite and bring the country together. and so this is just one example of that. and i don t expect le stop doing it. do you think he is going to be able to let melania s statement roll off his back heading into the rally, knowing he doesn t let go easily the slightest critique. we have seen him in condition contrast with another family member, ivanka trump saying the media is not the enemy of the people. we have seen melania have her own voice in the administration. draw contrast with her husband. we will see what his reaction is tonight. he has a rally where he is in campaign mode. we know what that looks like. and he is supposed to be there for a republican candidate, kathryn, because this is a district trump won by 11 points. and now look at the latest polls when you look at the republican versus the democrat here, the i think of conor lamb, in pennsylvania. . white house aides tell us that president trump is doing more rally. the third in this week in three states. they believe it lifts his mood and provides distraction from the russia investigation. do you think that s true. i think this is absolutely about playing the greatest hits. what we should expect is lots of crooked hillary, fake news media, trump is besieged and persecuted by the russia hoax. black athletes are unamerican. all of that. because that distracts from unflattering news coming out about trump himself, about his former campaign chairman, paul march. that trial is in the news. i m sure he doesn t want more attention paid to that. or if there is attention it s the sense of it s unfair and it s a witch hunt and they re going after me. the campaign rallies are not about supporting any particular candidate which is ostensibly the objective here. though we know that mueller is looking at tweets and the body of evidence in this investigation just earlier this week he was you know seen as directing his attorney general to end this probe entirely. which speaks volumes about where the president is. he is also trying to win a pr argument, kind of in the court of public opinion on this. trying to say, you know, look i ll cooperate with mueller. we really know how much legal exposure he could be. ladies good to have you with us. thank you very much kathryn, katlyn. nice to see you. she was hiding in plain sight, a suspected spy who had access to the state department and secret service caught meeting with russian bell. how she got away with working inside the u.s. embassy in moscow for more than a decade. we ll discuss. oh, no. oh, no. oh, god. caught on tape. proof of why it s never a -we re in a small room. what?! -welcome. -[ gasps ] a bigger room?! -how many of you use car insurance? 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again we know that russia is fairly fikted right when it comes to cybersecurity. right. russia is playing the long game here of intelligence collection. they re in the targeting one specific piece of information they wanted from this woman. they wanted over a longer period of time information about the agents, the case work, budgeting, a lot of administrative stuff that may see deminimum must to some. but to a sophisticated russian intelligence collection gathering operation it s critical. it fits different pieces along their puzzle line to string together their counterintelligence operations against u.s. assets not only in russia but worldwide. she is able to be there for teen years. she may not have information at her finger tips that they are concerned about as you spoke of, no classified information. abilitily. that she would have access to. she would know who is who get a lay of the land. this is a classic threat of the insider threat. the person that s a trusted betrayer. someone that has shone up every day, reporting shows that she was a quiet woman backup she was a mother, married. just went about her business every single day. she did interact with you know law enforcement sources as part of her job. where she was the remember, u.s. law enforcement has no authority in a foreign country. they have to rely on the host country to execute on law enforcement mission. she played the bridge between russian law enforcement and u.s. assets. that was part of her job. and that was disclosed by the secret service. however, what other information was she giving? what other types of information was it, about upcoming casework, was it about agents that could potentially be you know recruited or targeted? personal information on those agents. ? individual married or not? again, it goes into the larger collection process that the russians are running around, you know, u.s. diplomatic endeavors worldwide. when you talk about the vulnerability that maybe has always existed because of that, just the nature of the work and the location of the work. are there safeguards to avoid this situation. there are. you have to how you deal with an insider threat you have to have access control to information. you have to have it very segmented and siloed especially in a foreign locale. information is off to the side. but complacency kills in this time. he has been there more than ten years. they rotated in and out. she was the constant. so just that little bit, the drip, drip, drip of information that she was able to collect and potentially give over to intelligence services in russia, it s damaging. it s damaging to overall national security picture. thank you so much. jonathan. i appreciate it. good to have you with us. almost all undocumented immigrants living in the u.s. don t have health insurance. and that has some of them now waiting until they are on the brink of death to get emergency treatment. cnn s sanjay gupta takes a look at the crisis. ner literally pushing them themselves to the brink of death to get treatment. they are. am i overstating that? 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it s been really hard. it s been really hard for my family. the worst is for my son. he worries about me. because just a few days from now, like clockworks lucia will once again go to precipice of death just so she can live. i ll tell you it s unclear how long lucia can carry on like this. week after week going to this precipice of death. a kidney transplant would improve life and cull down on health care costs. she is not eligible for that. she is eligible to donate her other organs whenever she passes. that is the reality of the situation for people like lucia. dr. gupta, thank you for that reporting. it became an iconic political blooper. just cross this this open place. um-hum. more than 25 years after president bush seemed to marvel as a grocery store scanner president trump may have had a supermarket slip-up. we ll explain next in the newsroom. again. ooh, baby, do you know what that s worth? i want to believe it. [ claps hands ] ooh i m not hearing the confidence. okay, hold the name your price tool. power of options based on your budget! and! we ll make heaven a place on earth yeah! oh, my angels! ooh, heaven is a place on earth [ sobs quietly ] place. um-hum. you have to go where the code is. actually it s got a band. that was president george h. w. bush, of course in what became known as his infamiliarous grocery store scanner moment which is apparent for politicians seem out of touch. more than 25 years later president trump had his own supermarket slip-up talking about voter id. listen. we believe that only american citizens should vote in american elections. which is why the time has come for voter id. like everything else. you know if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. you need id. you go out and you want to buy anything, you need id. and you need your picture. the internet went wild on the idea of needing id for groceries. inspiring mock ups of shopping identification cards. and this instagram post from the late show we card under 18 no groceries. well joining us niepow presidential cnn historian douglas brinkley. when you heard that did it bring back memories of bush and supermarket or are the overblown. i thought about george bush and he paid dearly. he tried to say i eat pork riends and play horse shoen a he was from a wealthy family. it makes him seem incredibly detached from everyday life. trump says even worse. it s not about quizzed on the price of bread or milk. it s just thinking you need an id to buy groceries in america. that s somebody that doesn t understand the american way, that every moment right now everybody is buying groceries without ids. but it s the thing that refuse attention to he retract or say i m out of touch or make a joke. instead i blames the critics. i mean he could have also made a clarification. maybe he was talking of buying alcohol at the grocery store. i don t know. but it seems kind of silly. but historically the little political slip-ups do have staying power as you point out. but look at the others. gerald ford biting in the tamale without eating a husk. and eating a flel cheese stake with cheese whizz and dan quail spelling potato with an e. add a little bit to the end. spell that again. add one little bit on the end. potato. how is it spelled? you re right phonetically but what else there you go. all right. that kid was writing in cursive amgts. i mean what is it about the moments that stay in the public psyche doug. because bush 41 was a one termer and dan quail was a one-term vice president. all of us misspell words but if you are giving a lesson to school kids and misspell it lives eternally. wherever dan quail goes today people mention on daily basis. hey, potato man. it sticks to you. i think trump will get away with this. but there was a more menacing comment that trump made which is about voter registration-his desire to kind of stop disenfranchise voters trying to make this more of an id america. that doesn t go well with libertiarians people he has to court. and so it was a very muddled moment of a difficult week for president trump. there is one president that he loves to compare himself to. and that would be abraham lincoln. here he is this week. i could be more presidential than any president in history except for possibly abe lincoln with the big hat. i don t know. abe. abe looked pretty presidential. what do you think? he is tough. i admit it abe lincoln is tough. but we love abe lincoln. do you think he holds lincoln out as a goal post of sorts? i know he has never read a book about abraham lincoln. i actually asked president trump when he got elected about presidents. and he said he never read a book or bioography of log innen. he just knows the cutout characteristic of linking with the beard and hot. that s what he reflects on. but i think he is being funny. he knows donald trump that the big criticism of him is that he doesn t seem serious main. he blew it in helsinki. he doesn t seem to be up to speed on understanding how history is a tool to guide him through his white house years. hence, he made the lincoln group. and it s so self-agrandizing, only lincoln maybe is better than me. but truth is if you look at presidential polls donald trump right now is ranking around warren harden and james buchanan. hold that thought for a second. because i talked about polls and abe lincoln in a tweet writing highest poll numbers in the history of the republican party and that includes abe linkin and ronald reagan. there must be something wrong. check that poll. lincoln died more than 70 years before modern polls were taken. that aside, it seems clear he is obsessed with that. and he wants that number one ranking. he wants the number one ranking. and rinken is everybody s number one. the problem was when lincoln won. there was 7 states not in the union. and limited to the northern part of the country. we were fighting a civil war and people weren t taking quasi scientific polling of a president. he is just trying to have his name. trunk and lincoln aren t they dollar. the thing is all presidents try to claim lincoln. remember barack obama launched his presidential campaign from springfield. and george w. bush even now says his favorite president is lincoln. the recent director of the bush library in dallas is now the director of the lincoln library. everybody likes linking because whenever you get beat up no bad you think you have it it lincoln had it worse. he ends up being number one. doug, always fascinating conversation when you are on thank you. thank you. one of the most powerful men in television staying silent amid sexual harassment allegations. the growing controversy surrounding cbs ceo les moonves next. plans.ess it comes with a ton of entertainment options. great, can you sign for this? yeah. hey, uh.. what s in that one? that s a shark. new and only with at&t, you can get unlimited data, 30+ channels of live tv, and your choice of things like hbo or amazon music. more for your thing. that s our thing. visit att dot com. open today now has the first lady weighing in, seeming to take sides with lebron james. also there has been a sighting of hope hicks apparently traveling with the president today. it s not clear why she travels with the president after she resigned her post as communications director in february. but we are staying on top of all of this. again he is going to ohio to campaign in a very close race it appears going into tuesday s special election. in a district that has for a very, very long time gone republican, a deep red district. it has gone red in 88 of the past 98 years, if you can believe it. and the latest polls show this race twoon the republican and democrat neck and neck. he is going to campaign for the republican trey balderson. we stay on top of that as the evening continues. in the meantime cbs chairman and executive les moonves is staying silent about the sexual harassment allegation that is threatened to end his career. this week the network s board agreed to hire two law firms to conduct a full scale investigation after a report by the new yorker ronnen farrows accusesed of executive of making unwanted sexual advances advances over the years. in many facets of the company careful not to overgeneralize but there are a string of examples machinistsed in litigation and complaints inside the company where people said this happened to me too. this wasn t just les moonves this was a culture of protecting powerful people. many of the charges are decades old and pre-date moonves s arrival at cbs but this week the l.a. times reported cbs board members that several months ago los angeles police investigated moonves for an alleged sexual assault. joining us the founder of two women advocacy sites, the list and change the ratio. i m glad to have your voice on the show this afternoon. we have seen a number of other high profile people quickly lose jobs of allegations of sexual harassment. charlie rose at cbs. why do you think cbs is handling this differently holding back before taking action? well, i think there are a few reasons. i think probably one of the top reasons is the way the stock performed following these revelations from the new yorker. it tanked. who likes when a stock tanks. and cbs is a very big company. but also les moonves is very paufl. we are talking about the consolidation of power over years. the head of a network, someone extremely powerful. and these and the instinct of these companies is button down the hatches. go to the mattresses any other metaphor you might want. no, no we did never did anything appropriate. our kurmt is great. but if you read the new yorker piece there were harrowing ails of less moonves not only making unwanted sexual advances but enacting vengeance against women who rejected him. and there were economic and professional repercussions as a result that derailed many careers. so this is serious. and it wasn t just moonves. the larger question is the. right. the per missive atmosphere at cbs for men who misbehaved. and the tenure of jeff bigger from 60 minutes is called into question with the reports. and i will add that this is not the first time. this may be the first time the reports are officially coming out. but it s hardly not the first time it s hardly the first time that, you know, reporters have been investigating. right. and involving cbs specifically, i mentioned charlie rose there a moment ago. but the president of cbs films, terrie press, a woman put out a statement regarding the moonves situation. here is what she says. i do not believe it s my place to question the accounts put forth by the women but i find myself asking that if we are examining the industry as it existed decades before through the lens of 2018 should we also discuss a path to learning, reconciliation and forgiveness? outrage is a valuable commodity but its usefulness can be diminished by overuse and understanding and learning from the past is the way towards a future that reflects real change. again, as far as we know the allegations involving moonves are all from decades ago before the current me too movement which she seems to be referencing here. should moonves be given a second chance? is it possible he learned from lessons that have you know emerged after the me too movement or during this most recent me too movement. i don t understand i don t understand why these predators and these perpetrators of not just bad behavior but of, you know, of an overafternooning culture that was damaging to women these are just the ones willing to speak up on the record why are we giving him the benefit of the doubt? so far i haven t seen any evidence that he deserves the benefit of the doubt. so apologies for that. see if i can get rid of that. sorry. anyway, i think that in this case, anything from a cbs executive should probably be questioned because the i mean they have a vested interest in the result of this investigation not disrupting their corporate environment. but to say that outrage has its place but not always has its place, i mean that s very disingenuous. there is a lot to be outraged about in the reports of moonves s behavior. and there were 30 sources at cbs who came forward and attested to this, according to the new yorker. and they are they are well-known for the fact checking department. indeed. rachel, thanks so much. thank you. coming up, call it the trial of style, the ostrich coat, a python blaze are, a little plaid mixed on. joanie mos reports on the clothes at the center of the paul manafort trial. fish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. our new, hot, fresh breakfast will get you the readiest. 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