meet the woman who started it all. lucas is the first baby with down syndrome to represent gerber. this picture courtesy of cook s we agree. saying that s really . i m heading to the white house where see you later this afternoon. appreciate you joining us for this packed hour. tuing it over to ali velshi and s ruhle. who doesn t love a gerber baby? love that baby lucas. sweet pea. morning, everyone. i m ali velshi. i m stephanie ruhle. it s wednesday, june 6th. mexico firing the latest shot in the escalating trade war between the united states and the allies. how is this goingo play when the president sits down with the leaders of those countries on friday? how many people are in on forming this tariff policy and who is in charge? that s a great question. in fact, what you see right now is a big split inside the guns. we begin with the latest escalating trade war between the united states and the top trading partners including some of the closest allies and this one comes from mexico. the mexican president signed an order immediately imposing 15 to 25% tariffs on u.s. steel. also a 25% tariff on u.s. cheese and bourbon. plus a 20% tariff on american agricultural productncluding po potatoes, apples and cranberries. u.s. pork farmers alone could use $100 million a year. that s according to an estimate by the iowa farm bureau. this is after the trump administration eliminated tariff exemptions for our partners, mexico, canada, and the european unn. it also imposed a 25 % tariff on steel imports and 10% tariff on aluminum imports effective june 1st. with all this, the world bank has issued a warning that the escalating trade tensions between the united states and the major trading allies could have, quote, severe consequences for the trade and growth that would be equivalent to the 2008 financial crisis. nbc s von joins us from des moines, iowa where the u.s. pork industry is holding the annual expo right now. stephanie and alley, reminder. 10% of iowa pork alone goes to mexico. so we are he in des moines and the president is at the summit. this is the world s pork expo not only from around the country but 40 countries from around the world. there are individuals here. i want to bring in christy. she s a family farmer. you have 460 employees you re about two hours north of here and have a full operation. about 10,000 people here over the course of the weekend coming through. and you not only grill up the food but you also produce it and go through it. what do we see here? today we have whole pig and brats. pork loin and our baby bac ribs. family is involved? family is involved in the business. i am a fourth generation partf pork agriculture. my daughters are business. myfather, my sister, brother-in-law, and my husband. so we are not just a pork production family. we also employ a lot of other people s families. reporter: almost 500. that s correct. reporter: and stephanie and allie, there s a lot of people who are associated with the business as well. pork is foundational to the iowa economy. when you see the trade negotiations underway, the tariff that s put, what s your concern? well, the one thing is that if it s for the long term, that could be devastating for the industry, but wenow a lot of things because pork is a very flexible agriculture, some of these things are short-term. we feel like we re pawns in the chess game of the trade wars, but r the short time the american producers can have cheaper bacon and ribs for the summer. so in the 80s when ery wanted leaner pork, and all the pork fattier and bacony, we had to change the genetics. we had to make that fit the consumer s desires. so right now a lot of people are going for all naturalpork, antibiotic free, organic pork. we ve seen that on the american side as well where our con have become a more refined palate. how e ist f y adjust? it s not easy, but pork producers work hard, so they ll find a way to make it happen. a lot of people have been doing this for so many years. this is just one more bump in the world in the world market. that s great. that s about as an american response as you get. they re facing uncertainty. they re worried about it and coming up with innovation. that s remarkable. john, i shou tr you before, but when i saw von and the smokers behind him, i was dazed in a bacon bo nonza. sorry about that. made me hungry too. the eu announced it s going to be imposing retaliatory tariffs on u.s. steel and aluminum. canada also imposing tariffs starting july 1st can tariffs. that includes a 25 % tariff on steel and 10% tariffs on aluminum. you have yogurt, jam, whiskey. walk us through how this is going to play out. the fact we re hearing this could take us back tth 2008 nanciacrisis level. how bad can this get? well, i d be surprised if it got to that level, because it usually when president trump meets formidable resistance, he backs off. so it is possible that given all the alarms that are being sounded by republican members of congress from agricultural states, for the business round table yesterday, national association of business economists yesterday downgraded in their survey, their forecast for growth in 2018 from the previous survey, this trade overhang is bad for the economy. republicans need a good economy to succeed in midterm election one possibility is president trump in the face of all this makes a lot of noise, rattles a lot of kangs and steps back. but if he doesn t do that, we re rheaded for trouble with allies at a time when we re not even addressing in the trade discussions that we re talking about right now, are the indications that we have. we re not even addressing the big threat from china over theft of intellectual property. we re fighting our allies at a time when we need them to confront china. there are people with legitimate concerns about the trade deals and how they ve affected theirndustrieand jobs. and even president trump has campaigned saying he s going to do something and he s going out to do something about it. it is not business as usual he goes to the g summit in canada on friday where he s meeting with leaders of canada and the eu nations. at what point does this sort of bring a summit like this to a halt because everyone is angry at the u.s. or do they have business to continue to do while acknowledging the complaint on behalf of many american workers thew trade arrangements? there s some business they can do. there s a lot of routine business that goes on between finance and trade ministries of these various countries. but the united states, make no mistake, is becoming isolated. it is being condemned by its allies for the actions that king. and one of the things we ve learned about the world over the last couple of decades is that you need allies to get something done. the world is too globally connected. you can t america can t be the world s policeman, but it can t vindicate it s own interests by itself. so that s a difficult situation. the present is now talking about trying to break up nafta into separate categories with mexico and canada. that is going to be a nonstarter. ultimately, i think he s going to be faced with a decision of either pulling out of the existing nafta or getting nothing done at all. it is worth noting, though, that in those various industrialized countries that comprise the g7 or g-20, there are constitntil ns. almost everybody in the world thinks they got an unfair trade deal from someone else. i m sure there are canadians and we know there are britons because that s why they voted for brexit who feel we don t have trade deals with everybody else. that s why you have big multilateral trade deals. everybody has skin in the game. er has got to make compromises. so can a mexico were part of the transpacific partnership which renegotiated nafta. the president backed out, again, isolatinited stes on the world stage. thank you, john, and thank you to von in iowa. president trump reportedly obsessed with his ability to grant pardons, and we can see another one come any time now whether he s obsessed or not. that could be a woman who is happy he s obsessed. one of them would be that great grandmoer whom reality star kim kardashian is fighting for. we ll speak to her daughter coming up. george woke up in pain. i missed that. both of my parents haved away. i was not able to be by either of their sides and their f days. that s an ache i had that never goes away. alice s daughter joins us w. we have confirmed from inside the white house that the pahas been prepared on yourmom. the president has not signed it, but it s ready for his signature. has the white house reached out to you, and how do you feel about all of this? no, the white house hasn t reached o me. s surreal. i m just finding out now on live tv that the paperwork has been prepared. i mean, this is something that my family and i, we pray for for years. it s just it s just surreal. it s amazing. wow. did you think this would happen? last week it was obviously major for you and your family when kim kardashian west went to see the president. the next day the president didn t make an announcement. did you start to lose hope? no-ev let myself lose hope, because that s worse than anything. i don t think i could take not having anyhope. tentive, it s a reserved hope. we ve been through so many ups and dnsouout the years with different appeals and things. so it was we re hopeful, but it s a reserved hope. you know? until she walks out that door of th prison. she said what she said and that she was part of a drug conspiracy. she admits to what she did. you started a petition that you write since being incarcerated she s been a model prisoner who mentors women. tell us abo w she is. she s become an ordained minister. that s a long sentence for a nonviolent drug offense. for americans saying why are we committing people with nonviolent offenses, why are we doing this? she has tried the best she cano make a negative situation into a positive situation, as much as it can be. she really dedicated herself into helping owomen, and if she s plans on working with women who are incarcerated to help prevent recidivism. i think she d do a lot more good outside of that prison than she is even inside a prison, even though she s doing a lot of good in there. she s just taking the bull by the horns and is really trying to be a positive person as she can be. i mean, she made mistakes, but she s human, and she s worthy of being pardoned. she s worthy of a second chance. how did kim kardashian west get involved in your campaign, and after she met with the president, did s with you what he told her about your mom s case? yes. she got involved with the case. she saw the mike video and decided to reach out to my mom through her attorney. but the family, we didn t know who it was at first. shawn just told us i a female celebrity, a wealthy female celebrity who wanto advocate for he i had no idea. no idea it was kim be oprah. kardashian. when we found out, it was definitely a pleasant surprise. she has really been an advocate for my mom in a major way. she s really done a lot, and where she could have saw the video and said that s a shame and gone on with her life i wasn t privy of the meeting. wasn t there. all i heard was it was a po meeting, but i don t know exactly what was discussed. the exact language. we ll keep an eye on the story closely. we hope for the best for you and your family and mother. thank you so much. i m thanks. good luck to you. she has twins at home that haven t met her mom that will be amazing if they can. yes. also today rod blagojevich asked the president to commute the remainder of his 14 -year sentence. he was convicted on 2011 on multiple felony corruption charges. there s something else you prably didn t know about the privacy of your facebook acunt. i know nothing about that. all i know is i know nothing and everybody has amy informaon. enharing er infor wleast four chinese companies, including one flagged by u.s. intelligence as a security company. wasn t zuckerberg testifying before congress on this? did this come out? this is strange. first a new potential conflict for scoot pruitt. he s now accused of using a government aide to help score his wife a chick-fil-a franchise. pruitt never spoke to the ceo of than told the washington post mrs. pruitt didn t complete the frchise application. this is a weird story. this is the definition of swamp. no kidding. we ll be right back. welcome to holiday inn! thank you! wait, i have something for you! every stay is a special stay at holiday inn. save up to 15% when you book early at hollidayinn.com save up to 15% when you book early whent onbones, e you on theight path? we have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, so with our doctors we chose prolia® to help make our bones stronger. only prolia® helps strengthen bones by stopping cells that damage them with 1 shot every 6 months. do not take prolia® if you have low blood calcium, are pregnant, are allergic to it, or take xgeva®. serious allergic reactions, like low blood pressure; trouble breathing; throat tightness; face, lip or tongue swelling, rash, itching orivavhappened. tell your doctor about dental problems, as severe jaw bone problems may happen or new or unusual pain in your hip, groin, or thigh, as unusual thigh bone fractures have occurred. speak to your doctor before stopping prolia®, as spine and other bone fractures have occurred. prolia® can cause serious side effects, like low blood calcium; serious infections, which could need hospitalization; skin problems; and severe bone, joint, or muscle pain. if your bones aren t getting stronger isn t it time for a new prolia.ection?y wait? 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it matters in two if your d is going to the phone, it means your data could connect with other apps on the phone. th problem i why spreading the data through millions ofes around the world, through these partnerships and not through their own app, it puts your data at risk and creates vulnerability. this is not the app on your phone that says facebook. this is a streamf data from facebook central that goes to device makers and devices around the world. ook users ohese serve people devices. but it also putss data beyond the control of facebook. all right. facebook is banned in china. so this sort of begs the question why are chinese companies being given access to facebook data? and what do the want it for? we lo the main purpose of these partnerships on t surface, ali, is tha people using thes phone and the re eager to get access to their facebook information. if nicko see his facebook account on the phone, and the phone can t support it for whatever reason, the phone can my information from my account, but also the information of all my friends and some of their frie so you quickly get up to huge amounts of information flowing onto these phones. and the question for the company is if the phones for these are getting thedata, are s actors in china getting the information? okay. walk me through this. atme if any, could facebook face for doing this? again, they have very little regulation. aside from potential lawsuits in the u.s., there s a possibility of severe problems in europe where the rules are tighter. even here in the u.s., as y nodd into a consent decree that said you can t share the information of the ers friends without asking the friends first. you got to stop doing that. and facebook has said , look, when you agree to share information with your friend on to share it with that friend on andevice they use. and that s where experts we spoke to said t not what the ftc was expecting and it defies what consumers were expecting. the ftc would fine them as well. i have to go back over the testimony from mark zuckerberg at congress as to whether he was asked any of these specific questions and didn t give the proper answer, because once again, i sort of thought that once mark zuckerberg testified at facebook, we d be done with the new revelatio bad things that facebook has th your data, but it doesn t end. it s kind of fascinating. it s like ok has found people to give our data to who i didn t know were looking for it. and they haven t owned up to it. it s shocking they didn t describe it in the testimony. zuckerberg said you control all your information and you control it and have privacy. and never mentioned these partnerships. but part of the reason is that facebook s whole idea here is that these partnerships are actually part of facebook. so they re slight of hand in my opinion is to say tha it s not important, and these aren t outside companies if facebook information is going to a phone sker is part of facebook. and so from facebook s perspective, there wasn t any breach. what is facebook saying? give us the goods on when you go back and forth with facebook pr on this, and this clearly at best is slight of hand tactics. what are they really saying to you? what facebook is saying is our entire frame for this is wrong. what they re saying is look, there s no problem here. it s no big deal. so these companies, apple, samsung, blackberry, if they re carrying this data to users who want to use facebook, it s a part of facebook. it s all facebook. there s no third party involved and no breach of the ftc consent decree, but if you look under the hood, stephanie, if you look at how it actually works, facebook s own system, its platform, treats these phones like apps, and apps are third parties. it s actually a problem between how they describe it publicly and how it works. nick, good to talk to you as always. what a story. the chinese telecom giant zte is being rescued by the united stat why? well, what happened to the concerns about zte and our national security? we ll discuss that on the other side. why? 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they seem to have a deal in principle. whether anything has been signed is the question. in terms of the penalty that thay, that includes additial purases wou make of u.s. goods, and we want the united states wants contracts signed. not just promises. that s the context around th isn t j a deal with the commerce departmtnd zte. this has larger implications about trade between china and the united es. this is really important. at its face, you could say this is absurd. the united states government, the commerce department were going after zte. if the united states wants china to play ball on trade, do they need to do something to appease the zte situation? it looks le they do. they announced a lot of changes as they try to bring the economy into a more integrated trading system. this is caught up between t united states and china. and next week is the singapore summit. they need the chinese help with north korea. that s playing in to try to reach a deal to get the chinese to help with the issues. this is what regular folk think is swampy, the deals made. we ve made it clear zte did things that are regarded as bad and gone. chinese asked the united states to do this. what the chinese offer in return? what is america getting for doing this? it s the american worker, supposededly, we re doing this for. that s the real question. the chinese be ordering more american made goods because they need more. their economy is expanding. the question is what do they do in addition to that to get the deal done? we have reported that they re going to buy another $25 billion worth of oil and coal and some agricultural products. that s not very much. it s nowhere near the 200 billion donald trump says he wants. the question is is it enough and will they follow through? they announced earlier $70 billion in additional purchases and there were no contracts signed? so china agreed to i m saying, if we say zte is back in business. we re imposing smaller fines. change your board, we re putting that in motion. what china as promised thus far, you re saying they haven t signed contracts and haven t done? they are buying things, but the direct connection isn t there, and there s no signed deal that says in exchange for this, we will do this. they are just separately saying by theway, we re to buyeoil. donald trump is on saysed is so obsessed with the trade deficit. china is promising to reduce it a little. last year they came to the united states and agreed to buy more liquid natural gas. they need it, and now the trump administration is including that in the chinese is buying more because of the pressure, but that deal was already agreed to. michael, thank you for joining us. all right. a historic moment on the job hunt. for the first time ever, there are more job in the united states than people out of work. how that can actually hurt the economy and take money out of your wallet. i just want to know how people can get higher wages. can you actually love wearing powerful sunscreen? 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what does it pay? we don t just need people to survive. we need them to thrive. mla we re moving into this part of the conversation. me too. after the mass shooling at parkland high school, the government set up a commission on school safety. education secretary betsy devos says it is not examining the role guns play in school violence. huh? that is like trying to prevent a heart attack while your cholesterol level is at 300. and, in fact, it s like trying to prevent a heart attack and never checking your cholesterol. we ll talk about that when we come back. that s what s happening here. the federal commission on school safety will not study the impact on guns on school safety. the commission was formed after the parkland shooting where 17 people were killed. here is what betsy devos told a senate committee. the role of firearms it relates to firearms in our school. that s not part of the charge per se. you re studying gun violence but not considering the role of guns. we re studying school safety and how to ensure our students are safe as well. wow. in case there s any question about whether guns play a role in school violence, let s take a quick look at number. this year there s been 17 school shootings. that s the highestumber during any year in recent history. more students have bee killed at school this year than those killed while deployed in the united states military according to the washington post. just look at last month. in four separate school shootings in may, ten students were killed. 16 others injured. if you look back, nearly 20 years since columbine in 1999, 141 students and educators were killed in their classroo another 287 have been injured. beyond the dead and wounded, what about the kids forced to witness their classmates being murdered o cower behind a locked door or behind a desk to avoid gunfire. more than 215,000 students have experienced gun violence at their school since columbine. these fro yearlong investigation by the washington post. the federal government does not track school shootings. why not? let s bring in the president of american fed ration of teachers. the second largest teacher s unn in country. do your teachers have a role in this examination. we can t figure out why if the federal government is looking into school safety, there s more people getting killed byuns in scol g by anything else in school. why is this not the top of the list, yet alone not on the list? nothing any longer surprises me about what betsy devos does. it s just it s more than ridiculous. it says to people in america that the federal government doesn t work because it is the height of hypocrisy to pretend you re doing something but then actually not do it. stephanie just said the statistics that i would have said but let s put it this way. other countries have figured this out and betsy devos is not only not letting guns be an issue in commission that was set up after the murder of children in schools by guns but she s also not going t the hearing today where you have people like abby clemons who survived the 2012 sandy hook shooting testifying. i would say to betsy is this, maybe she read the new york times today, at least she ll get some indication of what happened, the terror that happened in parkland. if you re so intent ongoing out of town and out of the cnt today to study what switzerland is doing in terms of career tech ed, why don t you study what australia and great britain are doing in terms of gun safety in schools. it s just hypocrite cal and frankly the problem is given this administration, the only thing we can do is actually not have this administration. they don t want to solve it. i understand that s your position but this is our current administration. we ve got work with who the president is. i know you wrote a letter to president trump back in february. he never him to meet with you to discuss school safety. what happened? never answered. there are issues, mental health issues wrap around services ng that we deal the issues. the red flag laws where if law enforcement or families or what governor cuomo extendt to teachers feel like a child is a clear and present danger and could be, this goes to it. there are other things question do. the problem is this. it s this is increasing right now. kids in santa believe it s a matter of when, not whether. we ll have to work with governors. we ll have to work with legislatures. we will keep trying to get them to listen but if they don t show up at their ownhearings, the only thing one can do is kind of to shame them and to make what they are doing or not doing transparent. it was definitely shocking a hear a student say we expected it. this was just matter of when. good to talk to you as always. you re welcome. thank you for watching this hour of velshi & ruhle.ruhle. i ll see you tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. i ll see you tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. time for our friend andrea mitchell. right now, missing melania. the president attacks the media. the media reports questioning the first lady s 26th day public
unprecedented step further in what critics call an effort to is distract the white house now threatening to revoke security clearance from six former top national security officials, all of whom are fierce critics of trump s actions or inactions. these officials have served both democrats and republicans and have decades of experience in intelligence, law or diplomacy. for context, the heads of the intelligence agencies usually keep the security clearances unless there s reason to revoke them. it allows them mpay attentio to this: it allows them to speak openly about matter the. they keep the clearance so if the current administration needs some advice or help, they can talk to them. i want to point out something. sarah sanders was very proud to get up and change the topic because she didn t want to talk about the president s walk-back, disaster in helsinki, all the messes. certainly didn t want to talk about migrant children. but the people she listed, so proud they want to revehicle the clearanc revoke the clearance, two of them don t have clearance. if you want to pick a fight. do your homework. this is not actually a policy change. it would be one thing if you said everyone. i want to make that point again. it s one thing when you say rand paul. rand paul wanted a policy change. the president just picked a handful of people who he doesn t like and said we re talking your clearances, no the everybody. rand paul was making a recent argument. you ve got millions out there with clearance. they could make a mistake. maybe there should be a cooling off period. before they re working for private companies or speaking to the media. because what if president trump took that perverted it into here s six people who have smack talked me or gone after rush. let s pull their clearance. let s take a closer look. bush, clinton and george w. clapper called the threat to take away clearance quote petty. james comey, president obama nominated him as fbi director and he served until president trump fired him over the russia investigation. previously comey served as deputy attorney general under president george w. bush. threat is not much of a threat 25 at all. andrew mick kab. say that one more time. no more clearance. just to say it. for sar he doesn t have experience. andrew mick k andrew mccabe. james comey nominated him as fbi director in 2016. attorney general jeff sessions fired him just two days before that. i think its e s importance to remember john mccain, and see the attorney general there laughing, it s a little bit troubling. because the attorney general should be the person that is the rule of law. they are the person that is not part tis san and advancing justice around the country. so it s pretty discouraging to see that. this just meets a pattern for the trump administration, which essentially everything seen through a partisan lens. i think it s interesting with these former officials or in this case, with the attorney general, i think americans constituents expect more of the elected leaders and of the leaders that are representing these institutions. it only further erodes the faith and confidence. malcolm, if you look back at the last two weeks and things that have happened, some of which are of remarkable consequence, whether it s helsinki or the weird walk back or insults to the nato allies or calling european foes. this doesn t rise to that level. a tweet yesterday we should not move on from or stop thinking about how significant it is that after helsinki and the walk-backs, donald trump tweeted it was a hoax that russia interfered with the election, a spit in the eye of his intelligence community. donald trump s had a bad two weeks. this is really just a distraction. it sort of doesn t have long-term consequences. yeah. it s a distraction. about a year ago, when john brennan and jim clapper were making comments related to the flynn investigation, there was a lot of rumors back then they were talking about, taking their clearances or even having them arrested. this is just internal talk. it s like that scene in good fellas where they re all sitting around the italian restaurant slapping each other on the back and thinking up horrible things they can do to people. that s the trump administration when they do these attacks personally. they need to get the heat off of them over what happened in helsinki. even though donald trump s base thinks it s awesome, the rest of the country thinks it s awful. taking that focus off saying these people could divulge classified information. donald trump divulged classified information. in the oval office. there you have it. i want to point something out. during the campaign i interviewed richard branson, he was talking about the first time he met donald trump. he said what struck them, he was obsessed with talking about four or five individuals who he wanted to seek revenge upon and they were people he went to during one of his four or five bankruptcies to ask bail the out and they turned him down. he was laser beam focussed on seeking revenge on them. it feels like we re back in that lane. clint, as whether he would revoke president obama or joe biden s clearances, the press secretary they were not on the list at this point. if that happens, what message would that send? totally erodes the institutions. bigger message is what does it send inside the intelligence agency and law enforcement community. when i hear this, what i think, if i was working in the government i m basically being told unless i play to the president and tell him what he wants to hear i m not going to be heard and in fact may be punished. we saw this going back to alternative intelligence processes back during the war on iraq. we don t want this insulation. we want them to be able to provide the opinion of what s best for the country. looking at president obama or vice president biden, all have the clearance to come back and talk about issues they were involved with personally so provide perspective. they can hear information, updated inputs about what might be going on in the world currently that they re not aware of so they can help inform the current leadership. i think with all of these senior executives, for them, the clearance process ultimately helps the government more than it helps them personally. i m pretty upset to watch this sort of partisan play out. it could have detrimental effects. many of these people were involved in iran negotiations going back decades. wouldn t we want them to tell us what the thought process was. i think that s good for all americans. i hope this sort of partisan battle is there for the day and not forever. i think back a minute ago in my head. jeff sessions laughing as they chanted lock her up. that s the attorney general. the benghazi investigation took over four years, how many indictments? zero. e-mail investigation two years, robert mueller special investigation at this point has 35 known indictments and plea deals. 35. lock her up. what does that mean? unbelievable. thanks very much. all right. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says america s intel chiefs are nonetizing. and we are looking ahead to the midterms which could mark an historic turning point. right now, the state of nevada is poised to become the first state with a female majority in its legislature. at least eight other states have also have a shot at reaching or passing the 50% mark in november. there you go, government. maybe you re watching velshi & ruhle. even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there s a better treatment than warfarin, i m up for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. so what s next? seeing these guys. don t stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping 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properties is not like george w. bush staying at the texas ranch. this cost the taxpayers big bucks. secret service has to pay for room and board. u.s.a. today reports spending money on golf carts protecting the president at the properties. in fact, in his scotland resort i ahead of the putin summit, taxpayers picked up the $77,000 tab. that s more money than many teachers make in some states. back at mar-a-lago, the president s club doubled its membership fee to to 200 grand. it s not just trump hotels. the government of qatar bought a million apartment. and in trump tower here on fifth avenue, china s largest state owned bank rents a $2 million a year space for the biggest office in the united states. on sale at the shenandoah national park visitor center, trump wine. jared kushner and his wife who both took positions in the white house brought in anywhere between $82 million and $222 million last year, according to the disclosures, eyong ivanka p in. much of jared s ivanka got a nice little boost from counsellor to the president kellyanne conway telling fox viewers go buy her stuff. a big moneytizatiomoneytization. i need to remind you when the trump family did an interview on 60 minutes that nite ivanka s own employees sent out an e-mail telling us where we could get her bracelet. please, sarah sanders, gag me with a spoon on this. joining us john john harwood. before the inauguration, president trump said he would donate proceeds to the united states treasury. how closely is this tracking? well, i don t know how closely they re tracking it. they sayer they re going to donate the profits in 2017, they did. $150,000. but donald trump, remember, reported $400 million in income. more than $400 million in 2017 and more than $40 million at the trump hotel in washington where he said his profits in foreign business was just $150,000. okay. at worst, it s a conflict of interest, best, bad optics, the white house continues to say, well ivanka is not taking salary. great. you can blow your nose with the $130 grand in salary. we haven t even mentioned the clearances they ve got, from china, the approvals. para trademarks. ivanka got 13. coincidentally she had dinner 1 sitting next to xi. he has a series of income stream that is cos that come in. china s largest bank renting space. so does the pentagon. you ve got secret service following him everywhere, spending money at the clubs that he owns, at mar-a-lago, golf courses, and this is extraordinary because we ve had wet wealthy presidents before but presidents have put their assets in blind trusts so they removed a potential conflict between the private profit and the public interest, and donald trump simply hasn t done that. so you had a chance to talk to elizabeth warren, the senator from massachusetts. what does she have to say about this? we didn t talk specifically about donald trump s presidential money making. but we did talk about problems of capitalism, and elizabeth warren is a big advocate for regulations on wall street, on business, and i asked her if she recognizes how polarizing that makes her within the business community. john, good to see you as always. i get there are a lot of folks who like having the power and the riches they have. they like being able to tweak their little pinky and the united states government does just what they want. but my view on that is don t call me the polarizing figure, they re the one that is want to take advantage. you don t think capitalists are bad people. i m a capitalist. come on. i believe in markets. i don t believe in theft. i don t believe in cheating. so, john, that s not the elizabeth warren people often think she is. they think she is a anti-capitalism, anti-business and antibanks. it sounds like we didn t know or she s turning over a new leaf. part of the problem is that people hear what they want to hear. president obama said much the same thing and people thought he was viciously anti-business. we have a ix m tmixed economy. obama like bwarren favors. it s not capitalism or soe socialism. it s capitalism with what kind of rules. thank you for joining us. the russia investigation heating up on several fronts. now trump s attorney, rudy giuliani says the president will talk to special council rob mueller if there are no obstruction questions. i don t understand how he thinks he can make that type of requirement. why that could be so tricky. we ll break down his many ties to russia. you are watching velshi and ruhl ruhle . sore mouth, abnormalities in liver blood tests, diarrhea, hair thinning or loss, vomiting, rash, and loss of appetite. alice calls it her new normal because a lot has changed, but a lot hasn t. ask your doctor about ibrance. the #1 prescribed fda-approved oral combination treatment for hr+/her2- mbc. court. mr. trump called the investigation in russian attacks on the presidential election a witch hunt and totally discredited but the so called witch hunt has produced dozens of indictments. joining us now ken. give us the latest. in court yesterday, not in one of his what was it $5,000 suits but in a green jump suit. in a green jailhouse jump suit. trial was delayed because the new lawyers had been given tens of thousands of documents they hadn t had a chance to review. judge was concerned about an appeal issue. jury was told to come back in a week. trump white house has been pore t portraying this as something in the past. but actually, what this trial is likely to show is that paul manafort had been entwined with russian interest for year, came deeply in debt to these. and monetizing his services. raising the question of whether he was open to collusion with russia. ken, on twitter, the president said he quote, gave up nothing in helsinki and merely talked about future benefits for russia and the united states with vladimir putin. what do you make of that? first of all, he went out in public and sided with the russian spy master over his own intelligence community. damage will be felt for years to come. but the other issue here is we still don t know what deals were cut inside that room. in fact, dan coats, the director of national intelligence says he doesn t know. and the russians are saying that there was an agreement on syria. that s really crucial. question is what is that agreement? is iran going to with draw? we just don t know and waiting for donald trump to tell us what he agreed to. walk us through. the president is calling the investigation a hoax. sarah sanders is trying to clear it up saying he was referring to the campaign. but he wasn t. so, again, it s a black eye contradicting our national intelligence. we saw dan coats over the weekend, he was apologizing for being stunned when andrea mitchell told him putin was coming to the white house. what does this do to the position dan coats and the rest of the leaders of the intelligence agency do? it really undermines them. particularly coming after the statements he made in helsinki and this hoax thing puts him back. those officials were in aspen reiterating that russia did in fact interfere. donald trump has been briefed on intelligence far more detailed on this than we ve seen in the public. he is either being willfully fwlien blind or deeply cynical. he doesn t consume, but the bottom line he s been president for a long time. he gets the briefings and generally knows what the gist is. of the either he s not absorbing it or ignoring it. thanks very much. i used that word friday night playi playing scrable. coming up next. a shocking new court filing. hundreds separated from the children might have been deported. what happens to all of those children? you re watching velshi & ruhle on naich on msnbc. ps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. stop fearing your alarm clock. with 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contribute to the economy and take care and pay for those kids. instead, the parents are gone and now the kids have to find permane permanent homes. because two days away from the reunication deadline, there was never a plan. there was no way ultimately to put the people back together. there s no logic. just a failure? the whole thing has been an epic extraordinary failure. idea you re going to deiter them by separating at the border. today, 35% of the families that have been separated are not el valuable for reunication. 35% may never go back together again or have to go through some extraordinary process to find each other. i think this is what people don t understand. we re not saying they re not eligible for asylum, but to be reunited with their own kids. let talk about this. what s the plan? is there any plan? do the parents to the kids get shipped off back to wherever the parents are? ? i guess that s the best case scenario as terrible as this sounds. remember what they were fleeing. violence, gang vial lengs, domestic violence. sexual abuse. all things now many of those have the attorney general says aren t even grounds for asylum in the first place. best case scenario if you have been deported, is to have your child sent back to you in your home country. what the aclu is worried about is that these parents were given adequate access to legal counsel before they got deported. the idea these children are now stranded in the united states is because the government may have prematurely deported the parents, not given them access to the right type of information to understand they don t have to leave yet. because they didn t commit a crime buy seeking asylum in the united states. we keep reminding people. i think take politics aside. this is an epic policy failure. i didn t mention any politics. we seem to have a misconception amongst some part of the american population seeking asylum is a crime. you want to deter people from coming. what is the game plan for the children? why are they here? tell us, please. thanks very much for the coverage. thank you. okay. in the category of problems you didn t have to have, that you now have to try and solve, taxpayers are picking up the cost of president trump s immigration policy. now taxpayers are picking up the cost of another set of policies on trade. this part is just in, the trump administration is going to send billions of dollars in aid to u.s. farmers who have been affected by the president s tariffs. the announce. of what is called temporary aid will come this afternoon. america s farmers have been paying the price for the trade disputes. we have been telling you, prices for soy beans, corn, wheat, pork and other commodities have plunged. remember this. when you go to the grocery store and see the hamburger meet is cheaper, you think that s a good thing. it might be a good thing for the counsel super, but for those farmers out there, it s disasterous, the amount of meet they have sitting there. i love to know who approved this. did the white house say let s spend billions to our farmers to help them out here? for a problem we started. meanwhile former cia director tweeted it s not only short sighted about but plays into the hands i think we have the tweet to put up. we need to be smarter, more sophisticated and more strategic. we have to remember in terms of trade, we are not the only game in town. so if we don t want to play ball, these other large countries will step in and do so. when we said we did not want to be tpp, it was not torn up. congress has confirmed a new secretary of veteran affairs. we ll break down the many challenges he ll face. that s a tough job. i thought i married an italian. my lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16% italian. he was 34% eastern european. so i went onto ancestry, soon learned that one of our ancestors we thought was italian was eastern european. this is my ancestor who 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you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. is about to get a permanent secretary. senate voted overwhelmingly 86-9 yesterday to confirm robert will can i as the next secretary. he replaces david shill kin who was fired in march. taking over a department that has been plagued with problems for years. let s take a look at some of the biggest issues. department of veterans affairs provides health and other benefits to nearly 20 million military veterans. it s the nation s second largest bureaucra bureaucracy. there s a budget battle already under way. the va s proposed budget stands at $199 billion. part of the budget short fall comes from the va mission act of 2018, a massive restructuring of the medical care programs. this law signed last month consolidates the community care programs and expands veteran access to private doctors. wilkie is already on the defensive. he has promised to oppose the efforts. another problem is the work force. va employs more than 377,000 people with an additional 4,000 working outside the country. former secretary said there are about 45,000 job vacancies. this is a massive organization. joining us now is melissa, the chief policy. good morning. good morning. . you have interacted with him several times. do you think he s up to the task? is. i think he s highly intelligent. he s very thoughtful in his connection and wanting tone sure veterans are taken care of but he certainly has his hands full. vacancy, a lot of workers, budget short fall. but if you re an american veteran, a what s your biggest problem with the va now? it s access to care. va mission act that supposed to help resolve that, sun set the controversial choice program as you outlined earlier, that s something that our veterans tell us is their biggest challenge, getting va care, getting into the system. that s one of the biggest challenges he needs to reduce along with the suicide rates within our community. he also needs to really heavily focus on suicide prevention. seeing all the challenges, why is privatization such a bad move? privatization of the va would be disastrous in that it would send millions out in the u.s. health care system costing upwards offia trilliaons of dol. prosthetics used for amputees and a amputees. there are a lot of things that are germane to the veteran population that the va has specialized in for years and we want to see them continue that specialization. your group has worked with the va secretary since 2004. how do you go into this relationship with wilkie and by extension a good relationship with the trump administration? we have worked with secretaries and we have worked across the aisle, on the hill, ever since our creation in 2004. we look forward to working with secretary wilkie going forward and meeting with him routinely as other veteran service organizations work with us. we stand shoulder to shoulder with them in working with him. i ve personally spoken with him a few times. again, i think he s up to the task. we really hope he ll focus on imva s big six priorities which include suicide prevention and va reform such as the mission act. we look forward to keeping regular scheduled contact with him. it s a very, very big job with very challenges. we wish him luck. melissa, thanks so much, melissa bryant. thanks for having me. happy made in america week at the white house. the first family is making money selling their products, pretty much none of which are made in america. we ll show you the trump goods from ivanka, the first lady, and donald trump himself, made in india, china, mexico, bangladesh. so no matter what you trade, or where you trade, you ll only pay $4.95. fidelity. open an account today. welcome back to velshi & ruhle. breaking news right now, president trump has just tweeted this. i know you can get tired of link to his tweets. this one is interesting. i m very concerned that russia will be fighting very wbr id= wbr33148 /> hard to have an impact on the upcoming election. that s news. based on the fact that no president has been tougher on russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the democrats. they definitely don t want trump. we should remind our audience last week at the wbr id= wbr33326 /> press conference, putin said he did want trump to win the election. let s say i m trump, and you re putin. they were next to each other. last week, right? if he had these concerns with russia interfering in the election, he might have mentioned that to the guy standing next to him but he didn t. here s the interesting part of it. he s now twisted this around, after vladimir putin said very clearly that he was supporting /b> trump and wanted trump to win the election, he says the russians are interfering in the 2018 election on behalf of the democrats. it doesn t get weirder than this. actually it can. here s something that s pretty weird, made in america week. while we re waiting for the president to deplane in kansas city, missouri, he and the white house are celebrating made in america week. the plane is actually made in america. the president wasted no time touting made in america product. the president was full of praise for the manufacturing industry anded f ed foamerican . we re here to celebrate products made with american heart, american sweat, and american pride. after many years of decline american manufacturing is coming back bigger and better and stronger than ever before. it s happening. our leaders in washington did nothing. they did nothing. they let our factories leave. they let our people lose their jobs, given to other jobs, workers in faraway lands. that s not free trade. that s fool s trade. that s stupid trade. and we don t do that kind of trade anymore. so let s take a closer look at some products made in those faraway lands, products that the president talked about. let s start with those m.a.g.a. had hats. they come from china. they re reportedly sitting in u.s. customs amid tariffs on chinese goods. but those hats are just one of the many trump products not made in america. the washington post found in 2016, the president s clothing line including ties, shirts, and eyeglasses, are made in china, bangladesh, honduras, and vietnam. some of his suits are made in mexico and indonesia. the same investigation found trump home items particularly the trump by doria furniture line, they re made in germany and turkey. other items like mirrors and picture frames come from china and india. hotel items like trump-branded pens come from china and taiwan. things like shampoo and body wash, yes, you can smell like trump, and both towels, they re made in china. beverages, you remember trump vodka, is distilled in the netherlands and produced and sold in israel. the post in 2017 looked into ivanka trump s clothing line. many of her shoes are produced in china. as backlash for factory worker conditions, shoe production was reportedly moved to ethiopia, according to the new york times. those ivanka trump handbags. they have to be made here. many of those are made in china. first lady melania trump, her jewelry line with qvc, there was a brief period of time when her jewelry line was posted on the white house website and then taken off, you guessed it, made in china. no! the president of the united states is saying do as i say, not do as i do. i would figure after the first time they tried this made in america week and the first time you presented that to the audience, they would say, maybe we shouldn t have made in america week or maybe the president shouldn t be doing it, maybe someone else who doesn t make stuff elsewhere should be doing made in america week. they could take the position let s lead by example. over the last several decades, production manufacturing moved overseas. since they re pushing and pressuring so many companies to do the same a la harley-davidson, they could do that. months ago, the president of ivanka trump s brand said it s not an option for them, they have to focus on the bottom line. we get it, every company has to focus on the bottom line. oh, there he is. the president is arguing the companies need to focus on the american worker. we re asking the question, well,
thanks for watching. and to keep the conversation going, like us at facebook.com/politics nation and follow us on twitter at politics nation. i ll see you back here next sunday. now to my colleague kasie hunt. welcome to kasie d.c. i m kasie hunt. we are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, brand-new nbc polling just out about the president and his handling of all things russia in light of the historic summit. and senator richard blumenthal joins us as paul manafort s trial gets ready to start and michael cohen drops his first mix tape. plus this time last sunday we were talking to bill broader about the summit with putin. he s going to join us live tonight after the russian president name chikd him on the world stage. and later states of play. democrats are serious about taking back the senate. heidi high camp will have to hold on to north dakota. we have new reporting on why it could be tariffs, not russia, that make the difference there. but first it s hard to believe that this time last week we were previewing the president s meeting with vladimir putin. but, of course, we are apparently living in a different space time continuum here in 2018 where even gravity works differently. but more on that in a moment. all of that happened before friday when the new york times dropped that bombshell report about michael cohen and his recording of president trump. then came saturday when the d.o.j. made the documents about surveilling former trump campaign aid carter page public. and don t forget about paul manafort whose trial begins this week in virginia. along with a reminder that the president s former campaign chairman has been sitting in jail for over a month as he prepares to face a jury. but back to that part about gravity. the president s approval rating is ticking up, not down. a brand-new poll from nbc news and the wall street journal conducted before and after the helsinki summit shows the president approval rating at 45%. that is up 1 point from june. among republicans, that number is 88%, the highest ever his entire presidency. with that, i would like to welcome in my panel. joining me on set national nbc news julia ainsley. bbc world america and msnbc contributor katty kay. and principal at cogent strategy kevin mclaughlin. thank you all for being here. kevin, i would like to start with you. yes, ma am. i would like you to explain why it is 88% of americans approve of president trump considering what saw contradicts republican orthodoxy for years. president trump has shown throughout his campaign and polling what i took away from the 2016 election is the american people want uh th authenticity. may not like what authenticity is, what he s saying or how he s doing it, but he doesn t back down from it. when he goes out and does these events, i will call them, it actually helps him in fly over country. the outrage you see is in the corridor where we all live and work. when we get out of here people say he s a knuckle head and stuff like that. we understand what he s doing can hurt us personally, but we have to make sacrifices. when he says he could walk down 5th avenue and shoot somebody he defies political gravity. i was thinking the exact same thing. the poll number that struck me was the poll that came out earlier last week, reuters poll that said only 32% of republicans believe russia meddled in the 2016 election. they do not agree with the assessment of the intelligence community. for republicans to say we don t believe the cia, fbi and nsa, we are siding with the president on this is fairly remarkable. i think the one thing that is the divergence, the prospect of tariffs. you see signs republican voters are still not comfortable with that and the republican party is still not comfortable with that. if the tariffs start hitting the president, it s not going to be russia, it s going to be the economy. i would say that s very true. when you look at tracking, russia doesn t register on the radar for what people care about. it is literally not even close to the top 15 issue. julie, this is the strategy the trump campaign has been running as well, to cast doubt on whether this meddling ever happened. absolutely. we re used to seeing republicans go to war with democrats but not their own justice and intelligence community. what you re talking about, the polling, reuters poll, is showing that people are not trusting the intelligence community. they re not trusting the justice department. they re trusting the president s tweets. exactly. they re trusting that instead. they think they re living under a new time when it comes to the justice department. i hear that sometimes. what happened to the justice department we used to know? the majority of those career investigators are still there and they re continuing the same investigations. but we are looking through it through a different prism now. we re looking at it through trump s prism, at least a lot of republicans are who believe they have a president who wants to meet with people, reach across to people who used to be adversaries like kim jong-un and vladimir putin because they think it can help them in the end without actually looking at how this president is able to stand up to someone like vladimir putin amid all of these accusations not just accusations, documented evidence of 12 russian intelligence officers and the specifics and how they hacked into the democratic party. it strikes me that this is sort of the end game for talking about fake news and casting doubt repeatedly on the media, right? this is a situation where he has created a universe where nobody believes anything any of the fact checkers say. every single time the president tweets fake news or witch hunt, all of the polling suggests it s working. this is a very smart strategy from the president s point of view. he is leading public opinion in a different direction. one of the more startling shifts in public opinion that we have seen we haven t seen it on tariffs, but we have seen it on general attitudes with russia, with more republicans generally more favorable take the mueller investigation aside, take election meddling aside. views have changed in the republican party. that is almost entirely due to donald trump. but i think it is larger than that. i don t think this is an end game we re at with trump. it s a lack of faith in institutions. it s not just press. there s a lot of blame to go around from a lot of years. the most recent example for me i m not picking on nancy ploegs i, she said tax cuts would cause armageddon. manage expectations just a smidge. it s impossible. it s just not true. and i think that we ve seen that on both sides of the aisle from the press, from all over the place where people say, this is it. the deficit, everything, it s all going to explode. and people out where i m from, minneapolis, are like, we wake up in the morning. it didn t explode. so i think we have a huge problem. this is where i go back to with president trump and his authenticity. whether or not you like it is not what people are judging him on. people are judging him based on delivering. he knows that. do you think it s true for so many years, when i started covering politics, the action i don t mean w action i don t mean was people wanted to get things done. people ran on bipartisan ship. here are the examples of how i worked with people on the other side. that does not seem to be what the electorate is interested in now. i think we ve known that since the idea donald trump had a time frame in which he had to deliver on his promises. i think we all realized fairly quickly after the election that actually wasn t the case with him. he was not going to have to deliver on specifics that he had promised. he was going to have to talk the kind of language that his supporters wanted to hear and continually stand up for them in an emotional way, but made them feel they had a champion in the white house. i think kevin is exactly right. not to get too grandiose, but the big threat of the moment we are in democracy, i think it s this idea experts cannot be trusted. whether it s on the economic side or the security side, we ve had years of experts telling us what to do. why should we trust them? they absolutely are. while we re on the topic of russia and why the president doesn t want to believe anything about it, let s talk about the court-approved document granting the fbi permission to surveil former trump campaign advisor carter page otherwise known as a fisa application, has now been released. while portions are heavily redacted, the application alleges that page was the subject of, quote, targeted recruitment by the russian government. that russian efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election were coordinated with page, and that page established relationships with russian government officials including intelligence officers. here is how page responded this morning when he was asked if he ever served as an advisor to the kremlin. it s really spin. i mean, i sat in on some meetings, but, you know, to call me an advisor i think is way over the top. except in the 2013 letter you wrote, it says, quote, over the past half year i have had the privilege to serve as an informal advisor to the staff of the kremlin in preparation for the presidency of the g20 summit next month. informal, having some conversations with people, i mean, this is really nothing meanwhile, in the wake of its release, the fisa application has become something of a rorschach test on capitol hill. yeah, i don t think they did anything wrong. i think they went to the court. they got the judges to approve it. they laid out all the information and there was a lot of reasons unrelated to the dossier for why they wanted to look at carter page. a warrant on carter page was supported mostly by a dossier that came from michael steele who was being paid by the democratic party to do opposition research. was the surveillance justified? no, not at all in my view. my take is carter page is more like inspector gadget than jason borne or james bond. trump never met him, never had a conversation with him. i m sure he s been on the fbi s radar a long time before 2016. we ll never know whether the fbi had enough without the dossier. the unvetted dnc funded dossier, because they included it. and everyone who reads this fisa application sees the amount of reliance they placed on this product president trump issued his own response writing that they, quote, confirm with little doubt that the department of, quote, justice, and fbi misled the courts. witch hunt, rigged, a scam. first of all, julia, to your earlieri earlier point, casting doubt on that, jake tapper came back at carter page who said, look, i was never this. actually you claimed you were. he said he was a formal advisor to the kremlin. you can t have it both ways. you can t advertise yourself to the kremlin in one year and the other year try to completely distance yourself although we see the president do that often with his advisors as he s digs tanzaniaed himself from page and manafort. i think out of the damage done around this, especially when the president says the fbi is misleading people in court, we heard from christopher wray at the aspen security forum when he spoke to lester holt, the fbi director saying when this becomes a problem is when my agents aren t believed in court. not just in this case, but in the thousands of other cases that they re doing around the country, to have the president casting doubt on their evidence. and why carter page has been at the center of all of this for so long is because of how much the dossier was built around the fisa application. the nunes memo. what do you take away from getting a chance to see the application? so much of it is redacted. i think what the president is saying is no evidence to back that up. it really seems we ve known this for a while. there s a lot more behind the fisa application to carter page than the dossier. he was a target of this investigation because he was an advisor to the kremlin. that stands on its own without the dossier. and so i think what the president is saying, there really is no evidence i could glean from reading this to support what he s saying. kevin, where do you think republicans will come down on this? this has been devin nunes cause for better or worse for the last several months alleging there were abuses that took place here. is that a plausible arguments for republicans to keep pushing forward with? by and large i wouldn t put devin nunes in this surprised to hear you say that. i also think marco, senator rubio, i should say, hit the nail on the head. and i think that this is a 400-page fisa document. there is more than just the christopher steele dossier in there. although it is part of it. i also think there is a couple other things to fly over a country again on this. number one, no one knows who carter page is, no one cares and i think they ve rooted out this guy and they re trying to string him up. the second thing is they look at this like a foreign policy guy talking to a forbid government. it was russia, but isn t that their job? the third thing is i just think it doesn t resonate. and i think the last thing i would say actually, there is not collusion here that i ve seen. i haven t seen it, so even if carter page was colluding as a guy who ran campaigns, what would he do about it? a foreign policy guy on the k m campaign team, i have an idea, collude with russia? frankly if the fbi had not looked into what carter page had been doing, they would have been negligent in their duties. the wording is pretty strong. we didn t learn much from these justice department papers that were released, but we did learn that they felt that the wording from the justice department was strong, that they really felt they did have to go after this and investigate it. and although lindsey graham says the christopher steele document is a loaded garbage, we have not had that officially debunked. we don t know it was a load of garbage. he can call it that as frp as he likes, but we don t know that. nobody in the intelligence committee has been trying to figure that out. we don t know at what point draw information is what they have to base a lot of their decisions on. it could be commissioned by the hillary clinton campaign and be correct or it could be commissioned by the hillary clinton campaign and be incorrect. there is a difference between being a foreign policy advisor and campaign and recruited to be functionally a spy for a foreign government. sure. when we continue, democrats are pointing at public comments from brett kavanagh and the watergate tapes as red flags as the mueller probe presses on. senator richard blumenthal joins me live and whether it s much ado about nothing. as we go to break, though, it has been another whiplash week in washington. yes, all of this really happened in the last seven days. we re back after this. so, there they are, vladimir putin and donald trump sitting together. dan coats came to me and some others. they said they think it s russia. i don t see any reason why it would be. several republicans are criticizing what they saw at today s press conference. the d.o.j. charging another russian tonight. a russian national, mariah butina. they did interfere in our elections, it s clear. trump s top national security advisors. instead of should have been i don t see any reason why i wouldn t or why it wouldn t be russia. maria butina pleaded not guilty. maria butina in the last hour has been order today remain in jail. is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. president? he said no, i m not answering any more questions. is russia still targeting the united states? i think we would be foolish to think they re not. president trump is inviting vladimir putin to the white house. say that again? 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it is of profound importance to these confirmation hearings. the reason is very simply that u.s. versus nixon not only stands for the basic principle that the president must provide evidence that is relevant and cannot assert overbroad claims of executive privilege, but also that no one is above the law. no president is above the law. and here we have judge kavanagh questioning whether it was rightly decided after a unanimous supreme court in an opinion written by the chief justice, warren berger, who was appointed by nixon, said that the president, richard nixon, must provide these tapes. it is potentially a bombshell in these confirmation hearings. there have been some indications that senator grassley is not interested in forcing the executive branch to turnover more additional documents for democrats and republicans on the committee to review, and it s been reported that mitch mcconnell behind the scenes is potentially threatening to push the nomination vote until right before the midterm elections. are you seeing the documents that you need to? and do you think that chuck schumer should fight this to the point that you are facing down that vote right before the election? well, that s a really important question, kasie. first, we have yet to see all the documents that we need. and the recent rejection and withdrawal of the nomination of ryan bounds, he was nominated to the 9th circuit court of appeals, shows the importance of seeing all of the documents because his racial comments in the course of his past were extremely relevant to this nomination, and the excessive haste in that instance, the absence of adequate vetting, shows the importance of every single document here that we need to assess this nomination. the american people deserve it. and so far, we have yet to see all the documents we need. and chairman grassley has yet to provide, in my view, the kind of cooperation we need. if this nomination vote is delayed until literally the days or weeks before the midterm elections, it will be the height of cynical manipulation in a vote that is probably the most important that most of us will ever cast because these are lifetime appointments, the highest court in the land. and again, judge kavanagh has indicated in the writing you just mentioned, we just discussed as well as others, that he is an outlier in many of his views out of the mainstream and the result of vetting by extreme right wing groups, such as overturning roe v. wade and withdrawing protections under the affordable care act. so we deserve every document. what is the behind the scenes thinking of what kind of impact a vote so close to the election will have? there has to be some tension in the democratic caucus between those moderates facing reelection in red states who want to be out on the trail campaigning, and those liberal potentially 2020 candidates that, as we know, there are a number of them in your caucus. how is that playing out behind the scenes? what we need to do is to bring this case to the american people about how judge kavanagh has passed the trump litmus test, overturning roe v. wade, eliminating the protections for people who suffer from preexisting conditions, millions of americans who suffer from obesity or heart disease or alcohol abuse, and many other common conditions. but the tension is really, in my view, exaggerated on the democratic side. i think our republican colleagues are going to have to answer to history. you don t have any doubt mitch mcconnell will go through pushing this right to before the elections. i hope not. and i do have doubt that he will. i mean, you re watching as closely as i have. i just it seems to me like he makes these kinds of threats and he follows through on them. kasie, you may be right. but let me just say that when i go to work every day, i have to believe that as an institution, our leadership and most particularly the republican leadership, will recognize that we are answering not just to the politics of the moment, but to history. every one of us will be judged by history on this vote. and my hope is that mitch mcconnell wants to be recognized as a leader, not just a master politician, a leader of conviction and conscience. senator, i want to change gears quickly before we have to wrap up here. the events of the last week, what we saw with the president in helsinki, and then what we saw in aspen from dan coats, his director of national intelligence who was surprised by my colleague andrea mitchell and told that vladimir putin was had been invited to come here to the united states. some democrats have called for dan coats to step down in protest. do you agree with those calls? i hope that dan coats will stay. he is a former colleague. i know him as an individual of integrity and dedication to our country. i have disagreed with him probably more often than i ve agreed when he was a member of the u.s. senate. but he has stayed true to the mission of the intelligence community. donald trump likes to operate without intelligence. frequently disregarding his briefings, and keeping dan coats in the dark, very humiliatingly. but i m going to be su for thing, in fact, introducing a resolution that will condemn any second visit by vladimir putin to the united states. any meeting that rolls out the red carpet to vladimir putin while he is continuing to attack the united states as dan coats has said in ongoing and pervasive use of cyber, objective and verifiable evidence, that s dan coats speaking truth to power. i hope he stays in that job as long as he fulfills the oath of office to defend our country. senator blumenthal, thank you so much for your time tonight. really appreciate it. i, of course, will see you on capitol hill this coming week. thank you. coming up, the tale of the tape. we will talk about the secretly recorded conversation between president trump and his former lawyer michael cohen. we re back after this. you re headed down the highway when the guy in front slams on his brakes out of nowhere. you do, too, but not in time. hey, no big deal. you ve got a good record and liberty mutual won t hold a grudge by raising your rates over one mistake. you hear that, karen? 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the only reason i could think is that they think there is something in the tape that could exonerate them or something that could actually be damning to cohen and so they would waive their privilege. but i m head scratching on that. judging from the president s tweets today about this is exactly what julie thinks, he thinks this helps him and hurts cohen in some way. but for me, the fact that this tape exists just raises a whole host of questions about what other tapes exist and are there other cases we don t know about. and if so, were they recorded. i think that s, you know, that s what people are going to want to know coming out of this. and do they matter. deja vu all over again. i was going to ask you. we had a devastating tape i would have told you a thousand times would have ended anyone s candidacy or career. that doesn t matter politically. it does matter the president if there is some lawyers have suggested to me this is why they are so nervous about the southern district of new york, the whole case is there a pattern that would emerge. right. from what was seized in michael cohen s offices that would suggest that there were concerted efforts made to protect the presidency and numerous we have no idea whether that s the case, but that s the kind of question campaign funds. you re right. it could be an fec violation. court of public a opinion aside, if it s like a john edwards case, if he was using campaign funds to pay this woman and obviously he knew about it, that s the thing that could bring them down. the president from a political perception, a lot of damage was done just by that article coming out. the fact that it exists and maybe they think there are details in there that will exonerate them and will help shed at least a little more texture on the story than what we have already. right now it s not looking great. #understatement. julie ainsley, katty kay, thank you for your time. we appreciate it. when we continue, no pressure, heidi high camp. you re one of the last great hopes, i think, for your party honestly. i do. i haven t heard you equate helsinki to pearl harbor or 9/11. you re in a position, though, in a red state with an election in november, so you re our last hope for any type of reasonable rhetoric. states of play takes us to north dakota as the fate of the senate could come down to one red state democrat. allie joins us with her reporting up next. 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reporter: well, kasie, senator heidi high camp as you know is one of the most vulnerable democrats up for reelection this year. she s in a red state that has only gotten redder since she was on the ballot in 2012. we spent two days with the candidates and voters if it s possible for this democrat to win in trump country. nearly 2000 miles away from washington, it s a matter of putting north dakota voters first. we ve got a great story here in north dakota if washington would just get out of the way. if donald trump is with north dakota 90% of the time, he and i are going to be north dakota. that time i m going to be with north dakota the other ten. reporter: while not straying too far from president trump. after all trump, trump, trump, everything is trump. reporter: it s a delicate dance. one we saw firsthand in divide county and 120 miles away at the state fair in minot. kevin cramer, a three-term congressman, was one of president trump s earliest 2016 backers. it s a political loyalty he s tried to use to his advantage. i ve heard her say, gee, i voted with him 55% of the time. can you imagine going home and telling your wife i ve been faithful to you 55% of the time? are you kidding me? hi, guys. how are you? reporter: meanwhile, senator heidi high camp a democrat has worked hard to thread the needle. sometimes earning praise. everyone is saying what s she doing up here? but i ll tell you what, good woman. reporter: sometimes not. and we need kevin cramer to replace liberal democrat heidi hide camp in december. reporter: but in recent days the president has tested the limits of cramer s support. this week on the hill you were a little critical about his press conference with vladimir putin. i was reporter: and those comments that he made. was the walk back enough for you? well, his explanation, it was it was, he s going the right direction. he s explaining himself. reporter: do you believe that president trump believes it was russia? i don t know what he believes. i don t know what he believes. reporter: but you believe it was russia? i mean, you know, i believe it was russia as sure as i believe the sun comes up in the east. reporter: but it s tariffs, not russia, that could be the x factor in this already tight race. farmers are going to take a kick in the as with their soybeans. reporter: the state s agriculture, heavy economy makes it ground zero for trump s trade war and soybean farmers here are already seeing prices trending down. but not all are ready to cut and run from trump just yet. we have been taking it in the shorts for so long on our tariffs that it s time for somebody to stand up and say enough is enough. reporter: cramer can see the up side, too, even if he isn t a fan of the method. i don t like tariffs as a negotiating tool. i think the president will be successful at some point in the future. in agriculture, this is what i ve advised him more than anything. in agriculture the short term is the long term. one season can ruin a farmer. reporter: what is your message to the president? my message to the president is stop it. i mean, you know, hit a reset button. reporter: hide camp is the only democrat in north dakota s delegation. she eked out a less than 1 point victory in 2012. the same year that mitt romney won the state by almost 20 points. how do you win as a democrat in north dakota? it s always such an interesting question because people say how can you win? i say, well, i have. reporter: trump won big here in 2016. and the counties that pushed high camp over the edge in 2012 like this small one aptly named divide could reveal the bigger picture about high camp s chances come november. given the nature of this area, it s going to be uphill. reporter: though party politics rules most things these days, it might not divide voters here in north dakota. it s pretty rural life in north dakota. reporter: do you think that s it, the personal side of politics? i think so. she knows a lot of people. she gets out and meets people reporter: that could work in high camps favor unless they decide she is no longer the senator for the times. kasie, i think the really interesting thing we ve heard here repeatedly from folks is while tariffs will be one of the defining issues in this race, many of the republicans that we talk to here like kevin cramer, but also voters who are in tandem with him and president donald trump are okay seeing where these tariffs lead. they think maybe u.s. farmers have been taken advantage of too much, which sounds pretty familiar to how president trump talks about this issue. allie vitali in divide county. thank you for your great reporting. appreciate it. kevin mclaughlin, some of what she puts together, this president seems to do whatever he wants even if it causes personal harm and nobody seems to be willing to hold him accountable. i think it s totally true. i ve seen it in ohio voters, now in north dakota voters. the other thing that s crazy and i think the problem for heidi hide camp here is it s really hard to poll north dakota right now and find with a real sample and have her winning. that s not the real problem, though, as big of a deal that is. the other problem they said in the end there is everyone likes her. right. and it s the ultimate, it s not you, it s me. and i think the problem here might be that the earth has shifted underneath her and i don t know if she can pull it off like she did in 2012. it s a very, very heavy lift. and she, of course, her victory in 2012 was so, so narrow and obviously the dynamics were much different. the other thing they said in the piece i totally agree with, there s only 3300 voters in the district. it s personal. everyone knows heidi, they like heidi, but sorry, heidi, you re not for us. we ve seen this with kay bailey hutchinson in the primary against rick perry. the polling would show her approval was going in a straight line and her ballot was going down, down, down. everyone wanted to go the other way. all right, kevin mclaughlin, thank you so much. really appreciate your time tonight. just ahead here on kasie d.c. women in particular, by the way, i want you to get more involved. men have been getting on my nerves lately. i mean, i just every day i read the newspaper and i just think, brothers, what s wrong with you guys? 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who will share their story with the world? i said, me. and decided i was going to run for congress. i m jahana hayes and this is my truth. joining me now is jahana hayes. so nice to see you. thanks very much for your time tonight. i want to start, your biography and your personal story is one frankly is atypical for a lot of currents elected members of congress. can you walk through your life and tell us why now was the moment to try to make this leap? thank you for having me. you re absolutely right. my biography is very different from the traditional congress person. people like me live in communities and need to be represented. people at different points in their life feel like i, too, have value and want to have part of this conversation. i ve been asked many times to run for elected office. i said, no, because i wasn t sure if my story fit nicely within this narrative. i think it s time for people like me, all people to take a more active role in our government. the state democratic party has not backed you, they ve backed your primary opponent. why do you think that is? do you think the connecticut state democratic party is in touch with the current moment? well, connecticut is one of only two states that still holds a convention. so, either by design or default, it s very difficult for political outsiders to penetrate that first layer and get into the system. i had to reach out and try to get to delegates to try to get to the vote and get the ballot. i think i left as a first time candidate separated by only two votes says there s an appetite for change and the party should be listening to that and responding to that because people are taking notice and sitting up and getting engaged. i m not sure that s happening. i think it s to our peril if we re not listening and responding to what is happening in our communities. if you were to win this election, would be the first black connecticut elected to congress from connecticut. and there was a story about minority candidates running this environment. their campaigns face distinct challenge, difficulty finding initial support, a need to trust stereotypes and that members of their own party, a minority, that they can succeed in a predominantly white district. do you think that s a problem, that you can succeed in a predominantly white district? there are lots of conversations about my race that have entered this primary season. there s nothing i can do about that. i captain take the skin off. i live in a community that is predominantly white, this district. i ve always been represented by white congressman and women. they ve been able to represent my interests. i don t think you have to look like someone. there is something to be said about starting a conversation with all people feel like they re included, all communities feel like our voice is being recognized and we belong here. we get to be a part of this conversation. it is difficult because i was not a part of that inner circle. i have a message that is very different but it s a necessary message. you are often described as the more progressive of the two democrat candidates running in this primary. you support medicare for all and the other supports it as it is. if you were to get elected and come to washington next year, do you think the current democratic leadership is progressive enough in the house? is nancy pelosi and her leadership team, are they progressive enough for you? i think on some issues i m very progressive and on others, i tend to be more moderate. we are a country where, i know for me, i have been the beneficiary of so many programs and a good government that works. i also know when i got to the point i could stand on my own i was a contributor and i poured back into my community and into government. i think that s what it s supposed to look like. i believe government should be there when people need it. i also believe when people become socially mobile they should do their responsibility to engage in their government and communities and help other people around them. do you think democratic leadership in washington needs fresh faces? should there be some generational change? i do. i do. i think if we are having a conversation we need to broaden what representation looks like, what our leaders look like. if we want to engage young people and get the next generation encouraged to join. give them a reason to vote. make them feel like they re a part of the conversation. they have to be able to find theirselves in what s going on. i think the last few cycles have shown us that. we really need to listen and respond. johana hayes, thank you for your time tonight. appreciate it. thank you. thank you for having me. just ahead, bill browder joins me live as his public feud with the president of russia deepens. is the democratic party ready for the rise of democratic socialists? 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consumer spending, you see the fact that we are in a historic moment in terms of our economic growth, i mean, this is the first time in four years that we ve seen the gdp break at 4%. it was larry summers who said if we get to a 3% growth that it would be fair enough to say if you were to believe in tooth ferries. jon: allison barber is reporting from berkley heights, new jersey, near the president s golf club where he is spending this weekend. allison, how big a deal are these numbers for the white house? reporter: for the white house they seem to be an enormous deal. any time we speak to anyone from the administration or hear any interviews with president trump or even from vice president pence, what they want to talk about is the economy and gdp growth, despite warnings from some economists that the growth is not sustainable long-term. the president is telling americans the growth is here to An evening newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day. there s a lot of democratic voters there. that s why the economic message could work in those areas absent everything else. and what we just don t know is whether this message could be maintained for a week, a month, even a couple days next week. chances having else will come up and we ll be talking about something else on tuesday. jon: let s take a look at l poll numbers broken down state by state in some of the states that gave the president the white house. in michigan, 36% of voters say they approve of the job he s doing, 54 disapprove. in minnesota, 38% approve, 51% say they disapprove. in wisconsin, 36% say they approve, 52% say they disapprove. now, the president will tell you the polls are often wrong. if we believe the polls, he never would have been elected. he would i m sure take these with a grain of salt. how do you take them? i don t think there are many republican whose are comforted by the president saying the polls are often wrong. they read the polls. the polls are consistent. it is true that 2016 was a surprise. that doesn t mean every election is going to be a surprise. if you go deeper into those poll numbers, the president s approval on the economy is actually pretty high. the president s approval on other things is much lower, much lower on immigration which is something the president talks about regularly. he s constantly bringing it up. it s lower on trade, another thing he talks about regularly. it s lower on foreign policy, although he got a bump out of the north korea summit earlier this summer. i think this is the president s own instincts often working against him, at least that s the view of republican consultants. if they can get an event like they had friday after that gdp number came out every day out of this white house, i think most republicans think that they ll be in a much better position than they expect to be in. jon: michael sharon, washington post. michael, thank you. we ll have more with michael at the bottom of the hour as we discuss the president s evolving legal situation as allison barber touched on with his former attorney, michael cohen, now appearing to go on the offensive. efforts continue to reunite migrant children and their parents who were separated at the southern border. it s now two days after the courcourt ordered deadline for reunification. the trump administration said they met the deadline. activists say hundreds of children remain in government care, apart from those who were trying to get them across the u.s. border. let s bring in garrett teny from washington. how many children are still separated and how is the administration defending itself? reporter: about a third of the kids, just over 700 are still in government care. dhs says those children have not been reunited because their parents are not eligible for a vair ryslash rye at this varf reasons. they say some are not eligible or available for reunification today including some adults who are not in i.c.e. cuss and in i.c.e. custody. the administration will continue to make every effort to reunify eligible adults with their children. according to dhs, some of the remaining adults are ineligible because they have criminal records. more than 400 are ineligible because they ve been deported out of the country. dhs said 120 parents chose not to be reunited with their children before returning to their home country. the aclu is pushing back on that claim and argued in court filings this week that some of the parents either misunderstood or were misled by the government and never meant to leave their children in the u.s. the former i.c.e. director, tom homan argues that some of these parents leaving these kids here were part of their goal aall along. some of these people chose to leave the united states without their children because they basically got what they wanted. they got their child here to the united states to live with relatives, get an american education, take advantage of the social system and be the next daca applicant in 10 years. reporter: dhs says they will continue to make every effort to reunify the remaining adults and children who are eligible or find family members who can act as guardians for the kids until the process plays out. jon: how long will this take? reporter: the government hasn t given a clear indication of how long this will take. with more than 400 parents back in their country i. leland, dhsacknowledges it willg time for the process. chuck schumer suggests some families may never be reunited. hundreds of parents are faced with the painful reality they may never again know where their children are or if they will ever be reunited. we may get additional details on what the plans are on tuesday when the customs and border protection is scheduled to testify on capitol hill. jon: garrett, thanks. the white house today approving federal aid for california as that state battles 14 wildfires in northern california. the car wildfire almost doubling in size overnight, killing five people so far. in southern california, a man is charged with arson for starting a fire still tbhurng riverside county still burning in riverside county. the fire has destroyed hundreds of structures and forced tens of thousands to evacuate. an draw clost has more on the winds feeding the flames. we have more from southern california. reporter: in idlewild in the southern part of california, the kranston fire remains at 17% contained. firefighters believe conditions could get worse. that s why they ve been spending a lot of time out here mopping some of these hot spots up. it might not look like much but one of the firefighters we spoke with says he spent a half hour spraying down one of the trees in the area and it just kept pushing out smoke. further up north in redding the car fire remains the most devastating fire that s burning. it s doubled in size in the matter of about a day, now sitting at 80,000 acres with 5% containment. the fire is threatening 5,000 structures, that s on top of the 500 structures it s already destroyed. thousands and thousands have been evacuated, more now being urged to leave and firefighters say they hope those folks who are being told to leave listen. the fire ran with such officefeosity, there were tornae winds going through. the men and women, the law enforcement officers, the firefighters, they were in there when that happened. they re in there, trying to save people. in some cases, people didn t leave when they were told to and they re putting themselves in harm s way for those people. that s why we ask, leave when we ask you to leave. reporter: investigators say they ve received several reports of missing people up there in redding. they have resolved most of those cases according to them. they say they are investigating each and every one of those cases. jon? jon: we re hearing about criminal activity? reporter: yes, yes, definitely criminal activity. they tell us it s hard to imagine this not the car fire, so much devastation, they ve received several reports of looting, more than a dozen cases. they will be beefing up security around the redding area where the car fire is burning. they re urging anyone who is evacuating if they have time take things that are valuable or lock them up in a fireproof safe. this where we are is part of a crime scene. a gentleman has been arrested for arson. one man accused of starting the cranston fire. he faces 15 charges of arson and is accused of starting nine fires, including this one. jon: jeff paul in california, thank you. you heard that fire official saying how hot, dry weather conditions are fueling those california wildfires. in some spots, they re whipping flames into firenados like this. the weather is not helping crews battling to contain the fires in what was already brutal summer heat. is there any relief in sight? fox meteorologist adam klotz is here with th with the forecast. huge areas have been hard-hit. each one of these icons, a fire of 100 acres of greater. across the west there are currently 76 of them. fires are burning across a huge portion of the country. unfortunately, the weather not cooperating. elevated fire danger, everything highlighted in the pink areas, that s around redding, one of the fires we were talking about, areas where the humidity s very low, the winds are a little higher. you re looking at spots in northern california, portions of oregon, running up into washington and larger portions of nevada, stretching to colorado as well. the fire weather, the high winds will be continuing the next couple days and, again, it s not just about the winds. it s not just about the low humidity. it s also about the heat and the heat has been intense across portions of the west the last couple days. these are our heat advisories, watches, warnings, stretching across portions of southern california, into nevada, running up the west coast, all the way to the pacific northwest currently. that s going to be lasting for a little while also. the highs for today in phoenix running up close to 110 degrees, death valley always hot, 122, and then areas like the redding area getting up close 110 also. this lingers into your sunday with temperatures again running in the triple digits for a lot of these spots especially along california. that continues also for us on monday. heat is going to be a big part of this story where you re not going to get a lot of relief. on the eastern half of the country as we look at what s happening a across the rest of the country, yeah, still in the 90s across southern tiers. you notice relief along the east coast. heavy rain the last couple of days, now that heavy rain giving us a brief break as we ve seen the showers move off the coast glues the last little bit off the coast in the last little bit. another round of showers is expected in some heavily hit areas in the last seven days or so. how much rain have we seen? there were spots that ran up to 8 to 12 inches in portions of southern pennsylvania, running into baltimore, maryland. and there may be more rain on the way. there are areas where you could see 2 to 3 inches, more rain in virginia, more rain in the carolinas. where we could use a break, there may be more on the way. jon: that s the way it goes all too often. adam, thank you. one of the most prominent cardinals in america s roman catholic church resigns as the pope makes history by sending a strong message about sexual abuse allegations. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that s why there s otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it s a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and for psoriatic arthritis, otezla is proven to reduce joint swelling, tenderness, and pain. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don t use if you re 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allegations emerged in june. the pope formally accepted the resignation on saturday. the letter was received on friday. historical allegations of sexual abuse date back more than 50 years, first surfaced in june. one man claims mccarrick abused him when he was a teenager and another man alleges mccarrick forced him into an abusive relationship when he was just 11. the catholic church has been tainted by sex abuse scandals in the past and is now determined to clean up its image. the vatican says the pope wants to send a strong message that sexual abuse will not be some tolerated. what this means is no matter how important your position, no matter how prestigious, when it comes to sex abuse you will be held accountable. reporter: the pope has ordered mccarrick to go into seclusion for a life of prayer while theal le allegations are d into. there will be a full investigation into the allegations and perhaps ultimately a catholic church trial. the cardinal says he has no recollection of the initial allegations jon? jon: kitty logan reporting kitty, thanks. cbs is launching an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by its ceo. les moonves. this after six women told their stories in an article published in the new yorker magazine. the piece written by roman pharaoh also claims the misconduct extended to other parts of the country. moonves responded in a statement saying, quote, i recognize that there were times decades ago when i may have made some women uncomfortable by making advances. those were mistakes and i regret them immensely. but i always understood and respected and abided by the principle that no means no and i have never mis misused my permin to harm or hinder anyone s career. new reaction to north korea handing over what are believed to be the remains of 55 u.s. service members killed in the reason war. why vice president mike pence says the development reveals everything you need to know about president trump. plus, the legal implications for the president and his older son, don junior, after the president s former attorney reportedly claims mr. trump knew in advance of his son s meeting with a russian lawyer, something the president and the white house have repeatedly denied. if he s proven have not told the whole truth about the fact that campaigns look for dirt and if someone offers it you listen to them, nobody s going to be surprised. there are some things in politics that you just take for politics that you just take for granted. ahh. summer is coming. to keep forever. no matter where you go this summer make it better with audible. text summer10 to 500500 to start listening today. now claiming his boss approved the infamous trump tower meeting that s become a feature in the mueller probe. the meeting took place in new york city in june of 2016 and including paul manafort, jared kushner and a russian lawyer. the president reinforced the claim he made several times, saying i did not know of the meeting with my son, john don d. the president s song has insisted his father had no knowledge of this meeting. it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. i wouldn t have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was a waste of 20 minutes. reporter: this claim from cohen comes just days after someone leaked a recording of a conversation between him and president trump about hush money paid to a playboy model. now the president s inner circle is painting an unflattering portrait of could you hen. he lied to people about taping the president and other people. he went to subterfuge to do it, a whole game. reporter: looking ahead, the trial of former campaign manager paul manafort kicks off in arlington virginia. insiders anticipate that witnesses will be asked about the meeting. jon. jon: jillian, thank you. for more on this, let s bring back michael sharer, covering congress and the white house for the washington post. there s been a flip-flop from rudy guliani and some others at the white house regarding michael cohen. it used to be michael cohen was a stand-up guy. now he is not to be believed. so which is it? when it comes to trump and his inner circle, if you re helping him you re a good guy and if you re against him you re a bad guy. it can flip in an instant. that s what s happening here. i think cohen flipping, which is an appropriate way of describing what he s doing, it s remarkable. there was nobody closer in the political realm to president trump, going back to 2011. he was trump s enforcer. as we know from the allegations that have come out, he was allegedly read into the most private parts of trump s world, alleged payments to a playmate, from may boy, alleged payments to a porn star. this claim could be really explosive because trump has tried to define the russia investigation around the question of whether there was collusion or not. the don junior meeting is a clear attempt at collusion. it s in an e-mail. don junior has not denied he went into the meeting hoping to get dirt on clinton. jon: doesn t every campaign do that kind of thing, doesn t every campaign look for dirt on the opponent. they do. every campaign does not try to coordinate with a foreign adversary to get dirt on an opponent. there s a big difference between those two things. i think the tradition has been if a foreign government is trying to involve itself in the democratic process, senior campaign officials find out about it, that s a line where that s a place where a line is drawn. that line was not drawn here. we know now that russia did an enormous amount throughout the campaign to help president trump, going to the length of stealing e-mails from the dnc, from senior clinton campaign officials. we know that trump denied regularly and consistently up to a couple weeks ago it seem, until he took it back, that russia had done anything to help him. so no, i do think this is different. it s one thing to try to get opposition research on an owe poe meant to talk to owe pen opponent, to talk to other people but when you have a foreign spy service coming into the campaigned and a number of campaign officials taking a meeting, it s a different category. jon: the russias did try to hack the other committee and they were not successful. they russian intent was to help trump and not hillary clinton. even if they had gotten russian materials, it s not clear they would have released if they got republican materials. jon: let me read a quote from the hill newspaper regarding president trump and his former lawyer, michael cohen. it reads, both men face significant challenges on the credibility front. trump s propensity to exaggerate or give misleading statements is legion. cohen once said he would take a bullet for trump. he also has a history of bellicose better actions with reporters and others who challenged his then boss. those who have experience with both men are often skeptical about the veracity of either one. so both pots are calling both kettles black here. there s a lot of evidence that both kettles have been black frequently in the past. cohen went to congress and has previously testified about circumstances. we don t know what he said in those meetings. he s been under oath to discuss this stuff. he previously denied the meeting being much of an issue on twitter. it will be up to robert mueller and his team to decide where the truth lies when you have a number of witnesses basically whose motives are easy to impugn and whose history of truth-telling is questionable. jon: so far, though, nothing from mueller regarding collusion. we ll see. we ll get a report one day. jon: we will. michael sharer, washington post, thank you. thank you. jon: for more on this, be sure to tune in tomorrow to fox news sunday as chris wallace interviews the president s lawyer, rudy guliani. check your local liss dings for the time it listing for the time it runs on the big fox station in your area. brave americans finally coming home after a u.s. military plane on friday makes a rare flight into north korea, retrieving what are believed to be the remains of 55 u.s. service members missing since the korean war. u.s. officials hey the move as a hail the move as a sign of improving relations. vice president pence spoke about the return of the u.s. korean war heroes. the fact that this president sitting down with kim jong un to negotiate the complete denuclearization of the korean peninsula also had our fallen heros on his heart should tell you everything you need to know about president donald trump and my wife and i are deeply moved and deeply honored to be able to be there when we bring our boys home. jon: brian yenis is here with more on the story. reporter: the remains are believed to be part of the more than 200 that north korea has held in storage for some time. they weren t remains recently located and retrieved. this was not an exchange for any money between the u.s. and north korea. the remains under law, for instance, the defense secretary says that they can t under the law, the defense secretary can reimburse north koreans for excavating remains of u.s. troops. the state department said in this case that did not happen. that s important, because some critics believe any money sent to the north korean government will be used for no fa for nephs reasons. yesterday the remains were brought to south korea where they were met with military honors. the last time north korea turned over remains was in 2007, more than 36,000 americans died in the korean war from 1950 to 1953. of those, 7,699 are still considered missing in action and of those, 5300 are believed to be somewhere on north korean soil. yesterday marked the 65th anniversary of the end of the korean war and this was an especially poignant day for veterans. the importance of this dramatic return today is the sense that we who served in the military, world war ii and the korean war, will never leave one of our people behind. reporter: when asked if he could foresee sending u.s. military personnel into north korea for the first time in to conduct search missions for remains, defense secretary jim mattis said it s under consideration, absolutely. jon: what is the next step for these 55 cases of possible remains, they re going to try to figure out who these are, right? reporter: they need to figure out who they are. the 55 cases of possible remains will be sent to a forensics lab in hawaii to verify they are what north korea says they are. yesterday james mattis said this about that. we have no indication there is anything amiss but we don t know. we can t confirm one way or another. that s why we go through the forensics. we visited dover air force base last year where many unidentified remains are tested. over the years, the dna technology has improved. they re able to take bone fragment as small as a fingernail and extract dna from it. sometimes the dna is damaged. the pentagon is continuing to urge extended family members of the soldiers who were missing in action to donate dna, even second and third cousins, they should take part in this so the medical intiner in hawaii examine in hawaii can examine the dna. jon: president trump is counting on adding another member to the u.s. supreme court, one of the most closely watched battles in the midterms. how the race to a u.s. senate seat in indiana could come down to supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. also up, a brand-new episode of watters world. roseanne barr, he ll is bet warren and he elizabeth warren in the news this morning, the truth about socialism, tonight on water s world. at the alzheimer s association walk to end alzheimer s, we carry flowers that signify why we want to end the disease. and we walk so that one day, there will be a white flower for alzheimer s first survivor. join the fight at alz.org/walk. and i m the founder of ugmonk. before shipstation it was crazy. it s great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred 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facing mike brahn. a big factor is the supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. donnelly is the first democratic senator to agree to meet with kavanaugh. mike toe bin ha tobin has more. reporter: joe donnelly is up for re-election. he s in a pinch over president trump s pick for the supreme court, brett kavanaugh. mike brahn is in comfortable position as his opponent is caught between chuck schumer who vowed to fight the kavanaugh nomination and the will of voters who voted in favor of president trump. it s tough when you belong to a party like joe does where he would like to vote otherwise but he s got to check with chuck schumer on every vote. reporter: donnelly voting for kavanaugh would not come as a complete surprise. he is a pro life democrat and he voted to confirm trump s earlier pick, neil gorsuch. now he s under pressure, even on indiana airwaves to do the same for kavanaugh. will joe donnelly cave to the extreme left or confirm a new justice and protect our rights. the story remains the same. reporter: todd huff says his listeners want donnelly to give kavanaugh an unbiased look, absent of politics. people are tired of the vitriol. folks want a fair hearing for this guy. when you hear democrats come out and say we re against this guy without knowing who he is reporter: with the race neck in neck, indiana voters think donnelly will need to cast a trump-friendly vote. i think he ll have to vote in favor of the nominee. then we ll see where the chips fall. he could still lose in november. reporter: donnelly has been noncommit tall on this vote, releasing a statement saying he will take the same approach he did for the last supreme court veigh can circumstance adding that he, quote, will carefully review and consider the record and qualifications of judge brett kavanaugh. most senate democrats have been refusing the meeting with judge kavanaugh, demanding republicans produce paperwork about his past beforehand. senator donnelly scheduled one anyanyway. jon: facebook has been under fire for alleged political bias and for letting russian robo accounts sprea division in the d states. the same accusations are being made across the atlantic. details, next. lawmakers in new england want a national day to celebrate lobsters, as the lobster industry father fears the trader between the united states and china will rock their boats. rock lobster. you shouldn t be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia s add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels until the day you leave for your trip. add-on advantage. only when you book with expedia. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it s the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. susan collins leading the effort. the state s lobster industry feels the pinch with the trade battle with china. reporter: maine lobster industry is becoming a tragedy in the trade war between the u.s. and china. the hard part is, it was an up and coming market. reporter: china s appetite for-mile-an-houfor-mile-an-hourn seseafood is voracious. hit with new u.s. tariffs, beijing struck back, slapping an additional 25% levy on u.s. lobsters. the changes threaten profits for dealers. 50% of what we produce used to go to mainland china. as of july 6, we ve sent non. reporter: his company employs 20 people. worker hours have been cut. it doesn t affect just my crew. it affects the lobster catchers, their crews, the trap makers, the guys that do rope, the guys that do bouys. reporter: advocates fear lost access to the chinese market will hit the whole industry, from wholesalers to harvesters. it s about rural jobs for us. it has an impact on our rural communities, the islands and coastal towns. reporter: michael floyd has been pulling lobsters from the sea since childhood. right now the price is pretty stable. but the season has just barely started too. the lobsters arrive in mid-coast and whole state, we don t know how it will go. reporter: he s weathered many storms in the decades-long career and wonders what the latest one will mean. it s the old addage, we re not going to starve but i don t know if we re going to get rich either. reporter: the hope here is that the new chinese tariffs go away and fast before buyers in china establish new connection was lobster dealers in other countries like canada where the tariff stands at just 7%. the fear is that once the business is gone, it won t come back. in portland, maine, mo molly li, fox news. jon: if you re near latrobe, pennsylvania this weekend, look up in the schism you might see an sky. you might see an american flag flying at 12,000 feet. we ll plain, next. when my hot water heater failed it rocked our world. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? they took care of everything a to z. having insurance is something everyone needs, but 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declaration denouncing customs duties isolation and protectionism and promoting an open world economy. we must work together at the united nations the g twenty and the world trade organization to safeguard the rule based multilateral trading regime promote trade and investment globalization and facilitation and reject protectionism outright. this statement from china s head of state was met with a loss of approval but at the same time china itself has been accused of closing off its market to foreign goods it s known for copying products promoting its exports and giving preference to domestic companies when awarding contracts. on wednesday and thursday brian as stuff went on strike in several european countries to coincide with the summer holidays the airline has been forced to cancel around six hundred flights affecting tens of thousands of passengers ryan i was hoping to avoid the scenes of first straight to passengers in the mosque a thought that s a minus we thought everyone who s flight was cancelled had been informed we never thought they tell us half an hour before we were supposed to fly. in england i know our son has had a little boy they counseled off like to pisa we found out in the taxi have a lot of. ryanair had tried to limit the disruption caused by the company pre-strike it even pressured many of its employees to cross the picket lines the company management failed to find common ground with the union representatives. from brian is a textbook example of what you shouldn t be at work relations union relations all management style they abuse that because they humiliate them and you re out of breath the strikes are centered on working conditions rather the money the alice has been trying for brian after six years but despite the loyalty when he s sick he says he s on his own chemicals are going to do it again but if i get treatment i a german car brand opel from general motors last year now the acquisition is starting to pay off. during the first half of twenty eighteen opel returned to the block after almost twenty years of losses with profits of more than five hundred million euros. p.s.a. is restructuring pound for opel includes shutting a fifth of its former eighteen thousand staff. google s parent company alphabet has reported impressive second quarter earnings they tranced pref attest amounts boosted by strong growth and its advertising business. google ad revenues rise twenty four percent but a record trust fund from the e.u. is set to cost the internet giant billions european regulators accused of forcing my pal device makers to take its products when using android operating system alphabet says it will appeal. just three weeks ago china learned pakistan another one billion u.s. dollars a substantial part of the funds will go to. pakistan s infrastructure into the china pakistan economic corridor the project is part of beijing s plan to create a new silk road trade treaty. the key factor is access to the indian ocean to 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world is but. the capital city caracas is going hungry conditions are already bad and it s supposed to be worse in the countryside retirees a taking to the streets to demonstrate they can t live off the state pension on paper that million as but there is million as worth next to nothing. vote for the president promised four million two hundred believe us but they re not paying us off or pension are there any paying us two million which isn t even a for half a carton of eggs that way. the international monetary fund. has made a prediction that venezuela will reach a million percent inflation by the end of the year. the economic collapse affects all walks of life even state employees who work for the state energy company call pauillac workers that have gone on indefinite strike. going up only god can keep my bread there but even in my position after so many years working for the company conti can buy my clothes for an ice cream to give her bits of joy well i want a full day or you 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