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Jon: president trump continues to slam his own justice department as it faces increasing scrutiny over the employment of bruce ohr. the doj official spoke to house lawmakers this week about his ties to the anti-trump dossier and its author, christopher steele. the closed-door testimony sparking new questions over his future at the department. >> i can tell you the leadership of this department of justice is going to follow the same process that they did when they fired andy mccabe and peter strzok. they will let the inspector general continue his investigation, submit a report. if that report ...

Was dead, it was shut, it was bankrupt, it was out of business. they owed tremendous amounts of money. >> the island suffered the longest blackout in u.s. history, jon, in which elderly, those with chronic illnesses and the poor were at greatest risk of death. jon: bryan llenas, thanks. >> thank you. jon: the u.s. has stopped all funding to a u.n. agency that helps palestinian refugees. the decision fuelling more tension between the palestinian leadership and the trump administration. the state department says business practices of the u.n. agency are, quote, ir redeemably flawed. the trump ad...

Steele, who is working with both of them, and you have bruce ohr who is taking all of that information, presenting it to the fbi, who is then using it to get a fisa warrant on an american citizen who is a member or former member of the trump campaign. and so that interconnected web shows that the dossier really was the genesis for much of the investigation into president trump and actually even into michael cohen and paul manafort and all of the other associates that are currently under review by the special counsel. jon: yeah, and steele in the summer just ahead of the election that put the p...

Day window ahead of the midterm elections and the justice department typically doesn't like to do that. but that's not written in stone, is it? >> nothing is written in stone. and nothing really has come to play that way in terms of this investigation. the special counsel has indicated he's going to take this as far as he would like to go. every indication currently seems to be that the investigation will not end by september 7th. we have not yet seen any subpoena or interview by the president. as i understand it, the president has not heard -- the president's legal team has not heard from mr....

President notified congress of his intent to sign a trade agreement with mexico 90 days from yesterday. and canada too if it is willing, but on twitter this morning, of course, the president said, quote, there is no political necessity to keep canada in the new nafta deal. he added, congress should not interfere with these negotiations, or i will simply terminate nafta entirely, and we will be far better off. as you said, jon, these negotiations and talks between u.s. and canada are set to start back up this week on wednesday. jon? jon: i know the president made some remarks about canada and n...