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on the way with more rain in the extreme weather center. and the rain continues this saturday here in washington. hope it s a little drier where you are at home. i m leland vittert. elizabeth: great to be with you, i m elizabeth prann. voters in france will have a runoff that will have a global impact. one campaign trying to deal with fallout after claims it was the victim of a massive and coordinated hacking attack designed to destabilize the election. the french are about in a 48 hour blackout period before the vote takes place. greg palkot is in paris, france with the latest. hi, greg. hi, elizabeth. taking a page out of the u.s. election playbook, the leader here in this presidential elections here in france has been hit by a massive cyber attack. thousands of e-mails and documents seized have the computers of campaign safer of emmanuel macron, they were posted online. while moist of the material is kind of mundane, it is combined according to authorities today, with fak ....
weapons attack. look at those pictures. if russia has the influence in syria that it claims to have, we need to see them use it. we need to see them put an end to these horrific acts. how many more children have to die before russia cares? the trump administration s foreign policy certainly being put to the test this week. he s meeting today with jordan s king abdullah, just the latest in a series of high-profile meetings with world leaders. let s bring in our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. jeff, the white house condemned the attacks in syria. but the administration suggested in recent days that the syrian president bashar al assad could remain in power. what does that mean for today s very important meeting with king abdullah? wolf, it is critical in this critical meeting. more importantly, we re waiting on word from the president himself here. what he says about syria. we saw, you know, a quick remark there in the opening. but will he embrace, will he ampl ....
bill: should he step down or not? should not. adam schiff was a staunch supporter of secretary clinton while involved in the benghazi investigation and nobody s calling on him to recuse himself. devin is the chairman of house intel whether they like it or not. what we need to do is focus on the witnesses and accessing the documents and find the facts for our fellow citizens. it should not be a bipartisan investigation. let s meet witnesses. bill: nunes has said it had nothing to do with russia. if that s not the case why not clear it up? what s his source and what information was he given on the ground of the white house? on the source i found it interesting last week parts of the main street media beat the daylights out of republicans for 12 years to successfully win the electoral college. what do you want to start with? that s a good place to take our lead. bill: does that suggest you re confused what his priority is? i ve talked to mick mulvaney more than i want ....
but i am watching over everybody, jerry. you re in good hands, okay? thank you. you re in good hands, believe me. you can tell the people of new york. even though i didn t win new york state. i should have won new york state, but i didn t. mr. president, cathy. i want to return to a conversation we had with ivanka, dean and wilbur on jobs, the work force of the future. as we think about that and think about our skillsets, in new york city alone, our public high school graduation rate is at 70%. but the readiness of our students for college and careers is only assessed at 37%. as we look at the pace of change, we look at the digital transformation we all see in business in the marketplace, and look at the skills, this disconnect between what employers need and what our students are coming into our work forces are prepared to deliver. it would be great to get your thoughts on the priorities of the administration around education, around, again, what i like to call not the ....
here. and the white house ought to explain why that wasn t followed here, but there is a good way to answer these questions and we will do our best to answer these questions but we will not lose sight of the russia investigation and we are going to keep focus on that. yes? has there been any uptick in attacks on your or your staffers computers or i.t. networks since this investigation has been going on? i m not aware of anything like that. thank withdrew veyou very much. thank you. okay. steve kornacki in new york. that is adam schiff. just finishing up u a press conference there on capitol hill. adam schiff the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, of course, the house intelligence committee had been pursuing interference of the status of that committee s investigation now some quwhat i question. there s been all sorts of controversy about actions, about statements from the republican chairman, devin nunes, in that statement you just heard there, th ....