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[ applause ] thanks for joining us tonight, happy friday. nice to have you with us. look at this awesome picture from 1968. i love every single thing about this picture. this is the central middle school band from orville, california. this is the majorettes part of the band and they are marching through downtown orville, california, on may 1, 1968. this picture is perfec and this picture the property of the california department of water resources. the reason the california department of water resources had a photographer on site taking pictures that day of the majorettes in orville is because that day the governor of california and his wife came too orville, california, to tour a really big awesome new piece of water structure the california governor at the time was ronald reagan. he and his wife nancy went to orville for the dedication of the brand new orville dam. it looks kind of fun. they got to go inside the dam, see in the white sneakers with the super cute hair cut? that s ron, jr., he got to go along with an unnamed friend. looks like they were having a good time. looks like a cool visit. ronald reagan made a speech. you can see next to him while he was giving the speech they had the big cooler of water. just in case. there had been a big parade downtown to welcome to governor and dignitaries. they had not just the majorettes from the middle school, they had the high school band, too. look how many people were there. look at that. thousands of people turned out for the dedication of the oroville dam. i think we have one picture of the crowd in color as well. look at that. who are the ladies in green? what was their role in the dedication? you look at photos like that it makes you realize being a governor has its ups and down. at the one hand you get to see stuff, take your family and go on cool behind-the-scenes tours, the local bands will come out to meet you when you do something. then there s the little indignities, right? this, for example, is what they gave ronald reagan as his soenirrom that day at the dedication. i know it kind of looks like a snow globe or a polished piece of granite or something. what that actually is is a ball of dirt. specifically it is dirt from this moment in history. ronald reagan was there in 1968 for the opening ceremony of the oroville dam but this was the moment they ceremonially broke ground on the construction. this was 1957. this was a previous governor of california, goodwin knight. everybody called him goodie knight, as in good night. he s got a shovel full of dirt there. somebody at the ground breaking had the foresight to save that exact shovelful of dirt they dumped it into a bag, saved it for the day the dam would be complete and up and running. they could have saved a little of it but they saved a lot of it. they saved a giant amount of dirt from that shovelful and gave it to ronald reagan. they sent ronald reagan back to the governor s mansion that day with a giant jar of a previous governor s dirt. thanks for visiting, mr. governor, give it pride of place somewhere. like if you moved into a new apartment and the landlord triumphantly handed you the vacuum bag from the old tenant. here s the original dirt from the former occupants of these rooms. congratulations. pride of place. but the oroville dam, they dedicated in the 1968. it s a big deal. it s huge, it s taller than hoover dam. it s the tallest dam in the united states. it s 770 feet tall. it was completed in 1968, took them almost a decade to build. it s one of those unimaginably large things we have made. you can see here the giant reservoir created when they built the dam, lake oroville one of the two biggest reservoirs in the state of california. and that reservoir, lake oroville, it s the central thing in the grand plan that made california work as a state with a huge population and big cities and tons of irrigated formland. this is the centerpiece of the whole system in california that moves water from the northern part of the state the sierra nevada into the central valley to irrigate the most productive farmland in the country and further down to the cities and population centers in southern california, lake oroville is massive. it is made possible because the oroville dam is massive, tallest dam in the country. now, in terms of sort of how it s situated, this gives you a good view, i think. you see below the dam is the feather river. the feather river, big river, flows into i think the sacramento river which ultimately flows into the san francisco bay at the end of the day. and what they do is they can release water from that giant reservoir into the feather river. they can do in the a few different ways. one of the things they ve got is a power plant at the base of the dam so they release water at great force to fire that hydroelectric power plant. they can release water through tunnels at the base of the dam, they had a drama with that a couple years ago. they were trying to open up the tunnels to let water through to the feather river and something went wrong and there was a giant suction failure with the opening and closing of the valves and two workers almost got stucked downstream and they had to hold on to some broken piece of railing they were able to grab on to. it s a good reminder this is like a big piece of infrastructure, a lot of water, a very, very powerful thing. but in terms of the way it fits together, there s a couple ways they can get water from the reservoir to the feather river below. they can move it through power plant. if they want to move water out of the reservoir down into the river, they use this big gutter. they use this big concrete spillway. looks kind of like a luge track or something, right? like a cross between an onramp and a ski jump. but it s a big concrete spillway and it does exactly what it looks like it does. it takes water off the top of the reservoir and can shoot it down that gutter into the feather river and it s really big. it s about a mile long. it s maid of concrete, a key part of this huge piece of american infrastructure. this is what it looks like in normal times when it s dry, when they re not using the spillway. this is what it looks like in normal times when it s on, when they are putting water down that spillway, very dramatic, right? but on tuesday afternoon this week, this is what it looks like again, normal times, tuesday afternoon this week something went wrong at the oroville dam and instead of the spillway looking like this, like it always does, like it has since ronnie and nancy reagan opened that up in 1968, for the first time ever this tuesday it did not look like that. instead it looked like oh, wait, that s not right. that s not what that s supposed to look like. that was tuesday afternoon. see it shooting out the side there? yeah. tuesday afternoon they realized something was going very wrong on that spillway. water shooting out, scouring down that hillside, the water not confined to the gutter, what s going on? they shut it off to have a look and what they saw is oh, this is what it looked like. this was tuesday of this week. see the giant hole there? that s a problem, basically a giant sinkhole opened up in the middle of this that spillway. every second they re going to put more water down that sluice it will erode that sinkhole more and more so they shut off the water initially. here s the thing, though, they can t keep that water shut off because even though that giant hole has opened up in that spillway, they actually have to run water down that spillway right now. they can t stop. because like oroville at the top, it s full? as of today it was 98% capacity. california is not having a rainy season this year, they are having a monsoon season and, oh, yeah, let s see what that means for the drought. i know, big questions about overall climate and weather and california s drought and all that stuff. but for the immediate problem at hand, if they can no longer run water down that spillway because the spillway is busted, if they can no longer run water down that spillway to relieve the pressure in the lake, if the lake fills up and overfills and overtops that dam, if that happens, the water doesn t run down the tidy little purpose built concrete shute into the feather river below, if it overtops the dam, instead for the first time in the history of this dam, where the water goes is what they call down the emergency spillway which is not really a spillway at all, it just means the water just comes down the hill. and if all that water runs down the hill at force it will at some point bring the hillside down with it into the feather river and eventually into the sacramento river and into the delta and out to the san francisco bay. there s the possibility that an uncontrolled flow could flood downstream towns all along the way. so this is a heck of a choice, right? you either shut down the water down that spillway, let the dam get overtopped and run instead down the hillside all the way downstream and see what happens to california or you keep thundering water down that broken sinkhole concrete gutter and see how long it holds. it started off as a 300 foot long gash, it s kept on spreading and spreading, look. they say presumably it will split down to the bed rook. but what are you going to do? they have to keep running water down that thing. they don t have a choice so they re running the destroyed spillway. they re running it to complete failure. hope for the best, the best option. pray for dry days. this happened to be the drinking water source for more than 20 million people in the state of california. now, the dam itself, they say the dam itself is safe. the dam they say is built into bedrock, even if that whole hillside gets scoured out, continues to get blown apart, they say the dam will hold, they re confident of that, that s good, because it s almost an 800 foot tall dam, tallest dam in the country. but i feel like grasp ago story like this is almost a test of perspective, a test of whether or not you can appreciate the size of large objects in the news. my dad, my dear old dad, worked in the california water system for years in various capacities and he s been texting and e-mailing me about this all week so i ve been looking at news coverage all week, looking at pictures on the california department of water resources web site all week and i could tell when i saw the pictures of the spillway something dramatic was wrong. i will confess to you, dad, i will confess to you right now, i do not truly appreciate what a literally big deal it was. what a large deal it was until i saw this one particular picture and at first glance it looks like the same old picture of that hole in the middle of the spillway until you realize that the tiny little yellow dot there is a full grown man and that shows you the scale of this thing. that s people inside there. that s how big that hole started out as. and that s okay, now i get it. that s the massive size of the undertaking it is going to be to fix this thing when it s over even if they somehow avoid catastrophic flooding or danger to the dam itself through this crisis. s like in king kong where you know you re dealing with a big ape, you know he s big, that s the pl of the movie, then you see him on the empire state building and you re like, oh! that s how big he is! so we will keep an eye on this tallest dam in the country and its travails through tonight and into the weekend. i feel like that is not just a story, it s a bit of a news help. i feel like that lesson in watching the story about the dam in california, that story about is data that can make the difference between winning and losing. the microsoft cloud helps the pga tour turn countless points of data into insights that transform their business and will enhance the game for players and fans. the microsoft cloud turns information into insight. but when we brought our daughter home, that was it. now i have nicoderm cq. the nicoderm cq patch with unique extended release technology helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. it s the best thing that ever happened to me. every great why needs a great how. washington post story. at one level, i can appreciate this story looks like oh, i ve heard something about this. the sinkhole is spreading a little further, right? seems like an incremental development and the ongoing concerning news about the new administration and its ties to russia. feels like an incremental little shift in something we ve been watching for a long time. but if you can step back from this story, look at it fresh, array some news stories we understand for the purpose of gaining perspective on it, i think what this new development is about the national security advisor is basically like an 800 foot tall dam that s about to be overtopped. this is not a little marginal development in a medium-sized story. this is like an, oh, my god, you can t run water down this thing, what do you mean we have no choice, she s gonna blow. we have congressman adam schiff from the house intelligence committee joining us live to give us his perspective on this story. he said if this new development, if this new report is true, the national security advisor must be fired. so he obviously thinks it s a big deal. but let me break it down this way. basic revolution is sort of simple and stubbing when you boil it down. right after christmas this year when barack obama was still president the u.s. government announced sanctions against russia in retaliation for them interfering in our presidential election. you might remember they took back that waterfront compound that had been used by russian intelligence in maryland and they kicked a bunch of russian diplomats out of the country immediately with no notice. at the time we expected real retaliation, a tit for tat reaction between either the soviet union and us and russia and us. so the obama admistration did their sanctions, kicked the diplomats out on the 28th of december and we braced on the 28th of december to hear what russia was going to do in response. but they did nothing on the 28th. then on the 29th there was this entire day in which they also did nothing and then when they did announce their response on the 30th, their response was we re not going to respond the kremlin responded that it would be sad for the kids from the families of the diplomats to be in transit. he explained he wouldn t be doing it the forral retaliation, he would not expel american diplomats from russia. in fact, american diplomats and their families, their children in particular would be welcome at the kremlin to come to his vladimir putin christmas party. it was so weird. but here s where the washington post picks up the story putin s muted response took white house officials by surprise. it triggered a search by u.s. spy agencies for clues. one former senior u.s. official tells the pos, something happened in those 24 hours between obama s announcement and putin s response. officials began poring over intelligence reports, intercepted communications and diplomatic cables. they found evidence that trump national security adviser mike flynn and the russian ambassador to the united states had communicated by text and telephone around the time these sanctions were announced. now, one of the nice things about this reporting is we get this kind of blunt admission that u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies routinely monitor communications with russian diplomats. okay. i mean, i guess we guessed that, but that s good to have bluntly in black and white. one of the other nice things about this reporting is this blunt force take it to the bank assertion by the washington post that their sources on this store nine rrent and former officials. nine. nine. were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls. the new york times similarly cites multiple federal officials who have read transcripts of the call. so we ve got u.s. intelligence and law enforcement agencies bugging the russians, right? listening in on this russian official s calls and what they hear, according to these multiple and multily corroborated reports is the man who s going to go on to be trump s national security advisor calling the russian government and essentially telling them don t worry about these sanctions that the u.s. government is putting on you. he s calling russia to undermine the sanctions that president obama has put on russia for the attack on our presidential election. he told russia in essence don t bother reacting to these sanctions, don t worry about it, once trump is sworn in we ll take care of it. now, working secretly with a foreign power to undermine the actions of the u.s. government, that s kind of a big deal. even the trump folks recognize somebody doing that would be kind of a big deal. they recognized it enough that they took great pains to deny the heck out of this for weeks now. the subject matter of sanctions or the actions taken by the obama administration did not come up in the conversation. they exchanged logistical information on how to initiate and schedule that call. that was it. plain and simple. they did not discuss anything having to do with the united states decision to expel diplomats or impose censure against russia. those elements were not part of that discussion. i can confirm, my credibility on the line. so this white house chief of staff, white house spokesman, vice president of the united states personally confirming ere s no way mike flynwould have crossed that line. there s no way he would have undermined the u.s. government with a foreign power. there s no way he would have talking about those sanctions and undermining the impact of those sanctions with the russians. no way. as of wednesday this week, mike flynn was still confirming to the washington post that he absolutely did not speak about those sanctions with russia. but then when the post went back to him with this nine-source reporting all but explicitly quoting what we now know, transcripts of the u.s. intelligence intercepts of that phone call, then, last night, mike flynn apparently changed his mind. now says i know that i previously said i definitely didn t talk about sanctions. now i don t remember if i talked about sanctions. bottom line, how big is this? is this a marginal development in this story we ve all been watching? first thing to appreciate is the lying. either the white house spokesman, the white house chief of staff and the vice president all bluntly lied knowingly about mike flynn and what he was doing with russia or they lied inadvertently, unknowingly because they were saying something they thought was true because mike flynn told them a lie and they passed it on thinking it was true. either way, that can t stand, right? that seems like a big deal for the top people in a brand new administration. you re going to lie to me and have me take it to the american public and it makes it look like i m lying or you re asking me to lie on your behalf and i do and get nailed for it? point one, the lying. second point to appreciate is the direct bottom line of this story which is that the senior national security advisor in this new administration personally interfered in u.s. government efforts to punish russia for interfering in our election. but in terms of assessing the size of this news, there s one last point that s starting to feel almost unappreciably big. and that s what i want to put to congressman adam schiff in just a moment because of his experience on the intelligence committee and it is this. buried in the seventh paragraph of the washington post story and in the fourth paragraph of the new york times story, buried well below the lead is the news that this discussion between mike flynn and the russian government undermining u.s. policy toward russia, undermining the u.s. effort to punish russia, undermining these sanctions, it wasn t stand alone thing. it was not the first of many conversations that have continued since the new administration was sworn in and he s become national security advisor. no, that wasn t the start of them talking. both papers are now reporting again with this sourcing that is deep, both papers where now reporting that mike flynn s contacts with the russian government started during the campaign. not since he s been national security advisor. not since the transition aftertrump was elected when the obama administration was still technically there but trump was on his way in but while trump was still running for president, during the campaign, while russia was interfering in the u.s. election to try to elect donald trump president, his top national security advisor on the campaign was in repeated contact with the russian government at that time. look, this is from the post. the talks were part of a series of contacts between flynn and the russian official which began before the november 8 election. here s the times, current and former american officials says the conversation about sanctions was one in a series of contacts that began before the election. during the campaign while russia was interfering in the election, the trump campaign was in contact with the russian government. we re now confirming? really? okay. well, cnn reports tonight that american intelligence officials have corroborated some of the disputed dossier that was assembled about trump in russia by a former british spy who has now disappeared. if you recall this very controversial dossier which was published by buzzfeed news contained two main allegations one was that the russian government had allegedly collected damaging compromising personal information about donald trump that was of a salacious and personal nature. the other main allegation in that dossier was that the trump campaign colluded with the russian government while they interfered in our presidential election. cnn reports tonight intelligence officials, u.s. intelligence officials who have been investigating that dossier, they have now corroborated parts of it. again, the two parts are the salacious personal stuff or donald trump s campaign collaborated with the russian government while he interfered in our election. cnn reports tonight the part that has been corroborated by u.s. intelligence is not the salacious personal stuff. so that leaves we should note that the white house is indisputg cnn s reporting tonight. they re calling it fake news. but that s where we are. is part of the reason we got this new president not just because some foreign government tried to make that happen? is part of the reason we got this new president because his campaign worked with a foreign government to influence the outcome of our election, to make that outcome happen? if so, it feels to me like that s not a sinkhole. that s not a busted spillway or eroded hillside. to me that feels like blowing the dam. tell your doctor if you have an infection, experience frequent infections, or have flu-like symptoms, or sores. liver problems can occur with entyvio. if your uc or crohn s medication isn t working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. at angie s list, we believe there are certain things you can count on, like what goes down doesn t always come back up. 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i don t know about it. i haven t seen it. what report is that? reporter: the washington post is reporting that he talked to the ambassador from russia before you were grated about sanctions. i haven t seen that. i ll look at that. 2 question now is once the president looks at that, do we expect him to do anything about it? joining us now is congressman adam schiff, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, congressman schiff, appreciate you being here on a friday night, thanks for your time. good to be with you, rachel. i m grappling with the size of this report. i feel like it s easy to see this as another incremental story in a slowly growing thing that a lot of people are concerned about at the one level. on the other hand it feels like a very big bad story. what s your assessment of how damaging and worrying this is. it s enormously damaging and worrying. you set up the context so well and i have to say you do a marvelous job in putting it together and letting the american people just see how big this is. you know, from my perspective, the context is as simple as this the intelligence community found that russia interfered in our election with the purpose of helping elect donald trump and having achieved that objective you have one of trump campaign s foremost surrogates, general flynn, having a private conversation with the russian ambassador around and having achieved that objective you have one of trump campaign s foremost surrogates, general flynn, having a private conversation with the russian ambassador around the time that president obama announces sanctions to punish russia for that very interference and flynn reportedly says don t worry about the sanctions on you for helping us win. once we take office we ll take care of it. if that s true, it s absolutely staggering. it certainly ought to result in his immediate removal from office and if the further actions are true that this was a course of conduct throughout the campaign then you have very serious legal violations as well and that is something we are investigating on the intelligence committee and we have to get to the bottom of. in terms of the legal issues here, some people have been talking about the fact that general flynn, when these contacts happen during the transition he was a private citizen although it was clear he was about to be a public official, people are talking about whether that violated the logan act which is a prohibition on individual private citizens undermining the u.s. government with foreign contacts. that s a law that s never been prosecuted even though we ad it on the books since the 1700s. when you say there may be legal issues here, is that what you re talking about or are there other potential difcult statute to prosecute. i think there would be heavy burden to make that kind of case. what may be more significant here in addition to the fact that the general flynn would be working against the u.s. national security interest is the fact that he misled the country about it afterwards. in that case, the coverup may be the worst element but the illegality i m talking about is if the trump campaign during the course of the campaign, including michael flynn, was collaborating with russia to interfere in our election, all kinds of laws were violated and that will have very serious repercussions. that is among the most serious allegations we re investigating. is that espionage? is that treason? is that are those the kinds of categories of laws we re talking about then? it s possible that it comes out to that. there frankly will be a number of statutes that would be implicated that would be far eastier to prove than those exceptional ones but if effectively the trump campaign was colluding in the illegal hacking of information, the illegal publication of information, the theft of data, was receiving essentially in-kind support from a foreign adversarial power there are any number of laws violated so if those allegations prove to be true, stepping down from office will be the least of worries from trump administration officials. congressman adam schiff of california. this is serious stuff. thank you for being so clear and straightforward and calm in your discussion about it. i get my hair on fire about this stuff but i feel like you are a beacon here, thanks, sir. very busy night, stay with us. i m all the techy stuff you got crammed into your brand-new car. i m so sexy, you can t keep your hands off me. do it again. there you go. i can do whatever you want. except keep your eyes on the road. now would be a good time to have new car replacement. so get allstate and be better protected from mayhem, like me. it s good to be in good hands. they keep telling me drink more water. exercise more. i know that. try laxatives. i know. believe me. it s like i ve. tried. everything! my chronic constipation keeps coming back. i know that. tell me something i don t know. 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nogales, mexico. she s being described as the first person reported as a result of president trump s orders, his executive order that ice should priorities deportations for anyone with any kind of criminal record, no matter what it is. in her case, her crime was using a made up social security number so she could work at a local water park a decade ago. she s been following the rules since then, checking in with ice every year, every six months, wherever they tell her to, she checks in. on wednesday when she checked in as she always has they arrested her and these protests erupted while her husband and kids waited outside. now it seems like her arrest and deportation may be the start of something bigger. after we saw that really emotional footage on wednesday night, all day thursday we started hearing rumors and reports that ice officers, that immigration and customs enforcement officers, started rounding people up that they rounded up over 100 people in southern california. that 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happening across southern california i didn t do ice told the media that reports of 100 immigrants being arrested were grossly exaggerated yet today they admit they arrested 160 people. ice told numerous media outlets that yesterday was a routine day, which it most clearly was not, and they have yet to disclose the crimes each person was convicted of to support their arrests. the disconnect out of what was publicly disclosed today is deeply troubling and needs to be fully explained by the trump administration. joining us now is kevin de leone, the california senate leader who issued that statement following these not just unannounce bud officially denied raids across his state. senator de leone, thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. thank you, rachel. we turn the federal government for an explain nation about the scale, the motivation and the results of sudden actions like this. in this case it feels like we can t trust what the government is telling us about their actions, what do you understand of the facts of what have happened in the last 48 hours or so. rachel, it s been difficult to get information out from ice authorities. historically under the obama administration they have been forth come and transparent with who they are detaining, who they re deporting and the reasons why. with the trump administration it s a new attitude, it s overly aggressive, a new tone and tenor and we re concerned because we tried incessantly last night to get the facts, to get the the fa in fact, i believe even worse, that they were misleading the public. i find it quite agalling that they attempted to lecture the public when it came to a sense of public misleading of what was actually happening yesterday. but it s been very difficult given a new trump administration. they re very overly aggressive with what they re doing and they said they did not arrest 100 individuals. in fact, we find out today it was actually 160 iividuals. onef the things that we saw we re showing footage while you re speaking about the spontaneous protests that happened last night in los angeles, people reacting in anger and clearly in surprise to what had happened. one of the other things that we re seeing is there s, for example, a pledge that people are taking called here to stay, where people are basically pledging to bodily put themselves on the line to try to stop people from being deported, to try to block arrests, to try to help people evade the authorities or to put themselves in the way while these arrests are happening. do you have any reaction to that? do you understand the impetus for that? do you feel like that might drive confrontation here? well, i can tell you this, rachel, that there is a lot of fear, there s a lot of panic throughout the community, not just in los angeles, but throughout california and throughout the nation. there s a lot of consternation. the anxiety is extremely high, especially among children who are fearful that they may not, no longer see their mothers or their fathers. children are being dropped off at school and are fearful that come in the afternoon that standing at the curbside waiting for their mother or father, they may not actually appear. panic and anger is so high that there has been talk about human shields, about ordinary u.s. citizens actually protecting nannies, gardeners, people who clean our homes and take care of our children and creating this sort of human chain to protect them. i don t condone this type of comportment, but i understand why the anxiety, the consternation is so high here in california. state senator kevin de leon, the california state senate president, thanks for your time tonight, sir. keep in touch with us about this. absolutely, thank you. we need good sources of information as this and i am as troubled as you are that we can t get it from the federal government. thank you. thank you, rachel. the weekend has not officially arrived yet, and already i can tell you next week is going 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congressional staffer. are you authorized to speak for representative zeldin? i am speaking for him right now, letting you know okay. so, the affordable care act, one of the provisions is that insurance companies have to dedicate 85% of your premium to actually delivering health care. does representative zeldin support or oppose that part of the affordable care act? i can get that information. okay. the affordable care act guarantees that women cannot be charged more for their premiums than men. does representative zeldin support or oppose that part of the affordable care act? again, i can get you that information. okay. the affordable care act guarantees that children can stay on their parents health care until they re 26. does representative zeldin support or oppose that part of the affordable care act? all i can say is that you know where i m going with this. we do see where you re going with this, staffer trapped in front of the ladies room there. that s what it s been like with constituents expressing themselves toward, in this case, new york republican congressman lee zeldin. today, the congressman canceled a town hall two months in advance of when it was supposed to happen in april because i think he is not particularly liking what it means for him and his staff to hear from his constituents these days. but you know what, i wanted to show you that clip of that confrontation over the affordable care act. i think it shows that people in general are getting very good at being very articulate about obamacare all of a sudden, right? whatever the fights in past had been about, right? with the people on the right saying, oh, it s socialized medicine and death panels and stuff, and people in support of it not necessarily being able to be that snappy. people all of a sudden are really good about articulating what s good about the affordable care act when they re talking to their member of congress, when they re talking to congressional staffers. this, for example, was last night in tennessee. my name is jessie, and i m in your district. it s from my understanding the aca mandate requires everybody to have insurance because the healthy people pull up the sick people, right? and as a christian, my whole philosophy in life is pull up the unfortunate, okay? so, the individual mandate, that s what it does. the healthy people pull up the sick. if we take those people and we put them in high-risk insurance pools, they re costlier and there s less coverage for them. that s the way it s been in the past and that s the way it will be again. so, we are effectively punishing our sickest people. that was at a meeting last night in tennessee with republican congresswoman diane black. people are getting very good at putting their member of congress on the spot about health care right now. and for people who want to save the affordable care act, that skill is about to become important, way more important than it s even been thus far, because last night at 2:15 in the morning, the senate confirmed tom price to be the new health secretary. zero democratic votes. 2:15 a.m. seems about right for that vote. i m sure it helps to have zero attention, zero audience on a vote like that, particularly thanks to tom price s ethics problems, his lots and lots and lots of ethics problems. but if republicans in congress have had a hard time sort of getting it together to start taking away health care yet they haven t even come up with a way to explain it to their constituents yet swearing in tom price today is expected to put some steam in that republican engine. so, tom price has been sworn in. in terms of what happens next in the cabinet, republicans could be voting tomorrow on treasury secretary steve mnuchin, if they wanted to, but they re taking the day off instead. they said they would work through the weekend. they re not working through the weekend, so expect a steve mnuchin vote on monday. that s also when we expect protests nationwide over the president s pick of labor secretary, the man whose pick of carl s jr. and hardee s, larry puzner. it will begin with protests in two dozen cities, protesters highlighting labor violations and discrimination cases at puzner s only company while he s been ceo. their contention is he s unfit to be in charge of labor laws for the country when he s been breaking them as a businessman. the following day on tuesday, a court in missouri will decide whether or not to unseal his divorce records from back in the day. the government watchdog is asking that those records should be unsealed because they reportedly include claims of domestic violence made by mr. pudzner s ex-wife towards him. he s denied the allegations and
the fisher director who is the only person who is independently leading this moving forward when you don t have him doing that you need an outside group doing it. republicans should call for that shouldn t be a partisan thing. cnn live coverage of this breaking news is obviously going to be continuing all night. jake tapper along at 11:00 p.m. eastern with a special report. first don lemon and cnn tonight with the latest. anderson thank you very much our breaking news tonight, president trump bombshell firing of fbi director james comey. this is cnn tonight i m don lemon let s put it as plainly as we can. the president of the united states has fired the man investigating his campaign s ties to russia. fired him. shocking confusion tonight on capitol hill. around the country and around the world. now questions being raised of whether there is a cover-up going on. this is definitely not politics as usual. we have said it before but it s look at this very brief letter the president sent to the fisher director hand tlifrd to the fbi late this afternoon, the second appraise of this letter perhaps says it all. let s take a look at it don. it says while i greatly appreciate you informing me on three separate occasions that i am not under investigation, i nevertheless concur with the judgment of the department of justice that you are not able to effective lead the bureau. now, all of in is coming the white house is explaining the firing because the director of the fisher had lost the confidence of the bureau. he said the deputy attorney general and the attorney general made this recommendation to the president. but in their memorandums and letters that they sent out here paul of them are talking about the clinton investigation, the 2016 campaign. they say director comey did not handle himself properly in that investigation. in the president s letter he does not mention the clinton controversy campaign one time. he brings up his own investigation, the russia investigation trying to make a point on that. don, this is not the end of the story. it seems it s the beginning of yet another chapter in washington, another controversy perhaps the biggest one yet with the trump administration. i think you re absolutely right as astonishing as that appraise in that letter is it s also astonishing to say they didn t perceive at the white house dana bash, weren t prepared for the reaction how about the reaction would be who is that naive in the white house that did not realize this would be a big story. it seems like that was a pervasive. naive is your word not mine but it s probably pretty appropriate here don given the fact that i was told by earlier tonight right when in news first broke that by a source familiar with discussions inside the white house, that they did not expect in to be the political explosion that it was. and it was hard for me to even believe that that was really the case. because it was so obvious. it doesn t take somebody like me or others here on the panel who are covered politics or you know have studied history to know that this is a really really big deal. but the way that it bore out as jeff has been reporting and taking pictures of the scramble that has been going on outside of the white house, in the dark, with white house officials trying to do damage control, and it s not as though this was an event that happened to them. this is an event that the white house did in and of itself. meaning, this is not like many, many times there is damage control that happens in washington because a force outside or an event outside occurs. this was something that was created by the president and the and the justice department. but you know the president himself is the one who said, you re fired, to jamestown comey, the fact that they were not prepared for the fallout. we re talking about fallout. we re talking about the fact that this has not happened in this way since richard nicken s administration. talking about the fact that republicans is who are loathe to criticize the president like the senate intelligence chair richard burr putting out a statement and issuing a tweet saying he is concerned about this. that kind of reaction they were clearly not expecting mindboggling that s the case. gloria i want to bring in dana you may not have it because you were just mentioning burr. but jeff lake a republican from gloria peting out i was food trying to find a acceptable rationale for the timing of the firing and i just can t do it. it s not just democrat it s republicans as well. it is republicans. remember you know jeff flake was not a donald trump republican. but richard burr was a donald trump republican. and i think right now you know the balance of power here is going to be really important. because we have to see how congress reacts to this. congress is going to want to investigate exactly what happened here. you don t fire your fbi director as he is investigating your campaign and russia hacking of the elections. just which willy nily. they re going to want to talk to comey i m sure. they were going to want to talk to jeff sessions i m sure and rod rosenstein who wrote the letter. let me say one thing rod rosenstein s long letter detailed a lot of complaints that a lot of democrats had about james comey, that he shouldn t have gone on on july 5th after he cheered hillary clinton and the email controversy and said, okay but she is reckless. and he shouldn t have sent that letter on october th and turned the election upside down maybe that s why dan an the white house wasn t expecting this to be a disaster. that s exactly right. for them. but you know rod rosenstein doesn t speak for the president who at the time these events occurred was applauding them. so, you know. is this a firing in search of a cause gloria. well i think it s a firing in search of a rationale, right. and and the rationale here was provided by the deputy attorney general. but and the deputy attorney general i m sure believes it as do lots of other people in this country, democrat and republican. but i don t know that donald trump really believes what the attorney what the deputy attorney general wrote. because he was applauding comey when he said that hillary clinton was reckless. he would have liked to have seen her indicted, sure. but you know i don t recall him complaining about comey s words at the time. yeah. and the president-elect also as a candidate applauding james comey at the time as well. and also as president as well saying he has taken some heat got a strong back bone pamela here is the really important question. comey was overseeing the russia trump investigation, fired by the people he is investigating now. so who is in charge what does it mean for the investigation. that is part of what makes this so extraordinary, don. as of ton the former deputy director of the fbi the andy mccabe is the acting director of bureau and the investigation is still being overseen by the deputy attorney general we were just talking about rod rosenstein, the person that recommended the firing of james comey to the president according to this letter. you know career fisher agents and prosecutors are still working on this case, still moving forward. they are issuing subpoenas as we reported tonight. but of course something of this magnitude happening could have a chilling effect among the investigators as you know don there are frohhing calls particularly from exactic lawmakers for independent prosecutor to take over the investigation. and rosenstein has said previously during his senate confirmation hearing that he would indeed appoint a special prosecutor if if enact necessary. i wouldn t be surprised if you continue to see these calls. um-hum. pamela, you also have some reporting tonight. regarding grand jury subpoenas have been issued in this fbi russia investigation. what can you tell us about that. that s right we learned that just in the last couple of weeks federal prosecutorers have issued grand jury subpoenas to associates of former national security adviser michael flynn seeking business records as part of the ongoing probe of russian meddling in last year s election. the subpoenas represent the first sign of a significant escalation of activity in the fbi s broader investigation that began last july into possible ties between trump associates and russia. they were received by associates who worked with michael flynn on contracts after he was forced out as director of the defense intelligence agency in 2014. robert kjell ner an attorney for flynn he declined to comment as to the justice dp, the fbi and the u.s. attorney s office. but you know just looking at the circumstances here just in the last couple of weeks you had the subpoenas issued to associates of president trump s former national security adviser. en and it s remarkable to think the man overseeing this whole investigation james comey has now been fired by the president. so that that information that you re giving now is exclusive information that you re giving. groeria i want to go back to something that you we talked about let s go over the letter from rod rosenstein deputy to attorney general now and going to be acting director. in the memo he points to the press kerns that comey held back in 2016 during the campaign saying he wasn t recommending charges against hillary clinton. he is pointing to how the clinton investigation was handled. really. ? why are they point pointing that out? you got me. look, i think it s something rod rosenstein probably believes it was mishandled as do lots of other prosecutors. that was july of 2016 though. right. and i and i think a lot of people believe that that was a mistake it s not a prosecutors job to tell people why i did not diet somebody for example. he also went after him for his testimony last week on on why his choice between conceal or speak. but but you have to put this in a wider context. we are talking about now president donald trump, who didn t find anything wrong back then with comey s behavior, more did he find anything wrong with the letter comey sent to congress, saying that he had to reopen the hillary clinton investigation. and so you have to wonder whether you know trump is saying donald trump is saying i want to fire this guy, give me give me the reasons here. yeah. i stand stsh shall have been stand by i want to bring somebody stand by you guys i want to bring in congressman elijah cummings. swal we chl congressman cummings start with you reaction to tonight events. well i m not surprised. it seems as if when miss yates appeared yesterday i said to myself, we re going to have a new issue tomorrow. and we have constantly seen don this movement of hoke us poke us when something gets close to the russian investigation, the next thing we know we moved on to something another issue. but there is something that your guests don t seem to understand. one of the reasons why keep in mind comey came to our committee, oversight committee back in the summer and made the announcement how he thought hillary clinton was sloppy but he wasn t going to prosecute. i told him at that hearing. i said, they are coming after you. that is the republicans don t like what you re doing. and they are going to put you on trial. the thing that your guests don t know is that after that decision was made not to prosecute they basically the republicans on the oversight committee subpoenaed almost every single document in the fbi file. and i think that what happened with comey is that he came back later on closer to the election to make those announcements because i think he was contender that they would come after him. that s what i believe. but, again, i think the timing of this is is horrible. i think i mean if we look at it, don, he the president treated flynn far better than he treated the fbi director. i mean the fisher director doesn t didn t even flow he was being fired. yeah. and while flynn had 18 days after the president even knew that he had lied to the vice president we ve got to get to the bottom of this. i think the fact that there is a grand jury and that questioning is now being opened up i think you re going to see a whole new escalation thereof case. i want to ask you going, congressman swal well i know both ever you congressmen have been privy to classified information and you know what s happening with the investigation. there is reporting tonight cnn and others as the washington post said reporting that the white house and the attorney general had pushed the fbi to pursue leaks rather than pushing them to pursue with the investigation was about and that was possible collusion from the trump campaign with russia. did you know anything about that congressman swalwell. well don i hope that s notes case. our country was attacked by russia. there is a sowers fbi investigation going on into whether any u.s. persons were involved. to make that a priority over protecting our democracy would be a serious misjudgment. as far as firing fbi director comey, to the average american this stinks. the united states is a democracy. the president can t fire the person who is investigating him. that violates bedrock principles of independence. elijah cummings and i also wrote legislation to have a independent commission that s the best way to get to the bottom of what happened to make sure we never find ourselves in a mess like this again. your colleague ranking intelligence committee member put pout a statement saying the decision by the president have under the investigation by the fbi fore collusion with russia to fire the man over the recommendation on the recommendation of the attorney general who has recused himsz from that investigation raise profound question base whether the white house is brazenly interfering in a criminal matter. congressman, do you see it that way and what is the recourse if so? jeff sessions should be noware near the firing ever director comey he was supposed to be recused remember he was supposed to be recused he was asked by the senate if he had any contacts with russia during the election. twice he said no we learned later because of press reporting he had. for him to be involved also raises questions on the judiciary committee where i serve i think we should have jeff sessions before us to explain just exactly why this was not just exactly why efts involved in this while he was supposed to be recused congressman cummings and go ahead, congressman. i m just going to say i agree totally with congressman swalwell. i was shocked we had a letter coming from the attorney general with the workmen s. isume any any recommendation would be solely that of the deputy attorney general who i know quite well and i think the world of. he is he was our u.s. attorney here in maryland over ten years. rosenstein. but i think rosenstein now has a duty i think we re going to have to do two things. one i think we need to to have the independent commission as congressman swalwell and i put forward. but we also have to make sure that an independent counsel is appointed by rosenstein because some kind of way you basically have to have both one checking each other. i want to ask you dwresman about a little bit more about the deputy attorney general since i recommended in firing because of how comey handled the clinton investigation. pointing to comey s press conference on clinton pointing to the letter before the election. but i want to you listen to president trump when all that happened. then we ll discuss. i respect the fact that director comey was able to come back after what he did. it took guts for director comey do make the move he made in light of the kind of opposition he had where they re trying to protect her from criminal prosecution. he has become more famous than me. so congressman, the president the didn t mind how it was alanda then so what changed? i think whenever. what change was that director comey. congressman cummings. i think whenever things are going going the president s way it s finite with him when they re not going with him it s not fine with him it doesn t say a rocket scientist to see this. that s why we have moved from one issue to another we will see that over and over again. basically what we need in this whole process is integrity, transparency and if anything wants to see what transparency and integrity is all about, all we have to do is rewind the tape of sally yates and clapper yesterday. those are the type of public servants who make sure that we preserve this democracy and preserve our system of justice. congressman swalwell some republicans right now are saying well wait hold on a second director comey was disliked by democrats too nobody was happy with him what s your response to that. well with whether people were happy with him or not he came to congress in march and told congress and the american people that the president s campaign was under criminal and counterintelligence investigations. at that point unless director comey commit add crime he should have been untouchable that s the only way we could have an independent prosecution an independent search for the truth by the fbi credible. and make progress. and now the president has violated that principal of independence and i m very concerned for our country. do you think we ll see a special prosecutor. don don one of the things we are missing here too is that it is not normal for one who is under investigation i practiced law over 20 years one who is under investigation or their associates under investigation to be doing things that stand in the way of that investigation. or saying things usually what i would tell my clients is we re going to cooperate with the authorities and move on. and not be constantly making comments. and i think that that s the way this should proceed. the president should not be involved in all of these tweets about how he doesn t think this is happening or that s wrong. let the process play itself out. yeah that was the opening to the show tonight that this is not normal for the person investigating this administration now fired by in administration and by in president. quick kwek do you think we ll see a special prosecutor congressman swalwell. i hope we do. i hope we have an independent commission a special prosecutor and that that person is able to find the truth and do it with independence so that anyone that worked with russia is held accountable because our democracy is counting on it. thank you congressman. i appreciate it. thank you. and i want. my pleasure. any republican congressman anyone out wants to come you re welcome to come on even later on cnn we ll be live throughout the day throughout the evening i want to bring in cnn senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin and laura coats. you have said you have been very outspoken about in jeffrey toobin. yeses. do you think there is a cover-up heres in just beyond the realm for you. you know, i don t know whether there s been a cover-up. what there has been is a travesty. i can t speak to the ultimate motivations of the president in why he did this. but the fact that he did this will disgrace his memory for as long as this presidency is remembered. there is only you know one- one day that will be remembered after january 20th so far in the trump presidency. and it s the day of the tuesday night massacre. in is the day that trump fired the head of the fbi. the only other time the head of the fbi has been fired was william sessions by bill clinton and that was politicly uncontroversial. so never in history have we had an fbi director fired by a president who was under investigation by the fbi. and it s just wrong. and it s obviously wrong. allen some are stay saying it a constitutional crisis for the president to fire the man investigating him do you grie with that. look i think there are four separate questions you have to ask. should comey be the director of the fbi? the answer to that is no. he shouldn t be the director. he should have resigned on show i called for him to resign. he lost his credibility. second question is should it be the president of the united states who makes the decision to fire him? not while he is under an investigation. third and where i disagree with my friend and former student jeffrey, is who he appoints next if he appoints a man or woman of great integrity in date will not go down and remembered in history because we will have been proved i don t think that it was some kind of a cover-up if he picks somebody who can pursue the investigation. fourth how about an independent existing not a peshl prosecutor there isn t probable cause but a independent investigation not done by congress but done by people appointed by congress. they can then decide whether to appoint a special prosecutor or recommend a preshl prosecutor i think to separate out the four separate questions. announcer: as a hypothetical if he payments one. who is to say he wouldn t fire them to a zblchlt preet bharara told he was going to stay, gone. james comey, gone. all three of whom had the potential to investigator and trouble the trump presidency. all three appointed by democrats all three appropriately replaced by a republican. but what we think. wait, wait. it was appropriately that james comey why do nef ten year terms. i think it s appropriate that he not be the director of the fbi. i think a lot of this is his fault. injury he should have resigned he should have looked in the mirror and said to himself i not trust the by democrats. i am not trusted by republicans. i am not trusted by the american public. and he should have resigned. yeah now he didn t and that s put the president. pick it back let s put the picture back up. the tlie people who are investigating this president are the administration fired. yates was a hold overshe was going to go only a question of which day she was going to go and be replaced. generally the u.s. attorney is replaced. and comey, is a unique situation. he really messed up. he may have changed the results of an election. yates. he could not he could not be the head of the fbi with credibility. yates wasn t investigating but he was the acting attorney general. do you find this do you find this fishy laura sfla arrive absolutely i do this is obviously a figure leaf the president was looking for a reason to fire james comey. james comey guy him a reason everyone is focuseding on the fact he had a testimony back last summer as one of the reasons he should have been fired by nonattorney general lynch but last week s testimony gave additional reasoning. remember he had the opportunity to say whether or not he was wrong for having done what he did and whether or not his motivation was in furtherance of the credibility of the department and of the fbi or whether it was some type of gratuitous task or journey for him personally. and the letter i saw today from the deputy attorney general i have to tell you a totally reading than we talked about my take is they were focusing on this particular point in time and comey s refusal to accept responsibility that he was in fact wrong don t get me wrong. this is still a pretextual reason but i walked right into the actual trap and grave guy are gave them the reason they needed. remember also he said my only choinss were either to speak or conceal. it showed a complete laps of judgment to recognize there was a very third obvious opportunity for him which was to follow the protocol of the department. and i have to say as a former prosecutor with the department of justice, he was wrong to usurp the role of the attorney general. and what he said was if you remember correctly he said i actually had the nerve to call the attorney general nonlynch and say, i m going to have a press conference. but i m not going to tell what you it s about. that was insubordination and he renewed and provided a different and more comprehensive reason for that last week. so he walked into it. i think it was a bit of brafd o and a bit of his lack of foresight to recognize that he had walked into a trap. i agree with everything you ve just said. that is so rare but i agree with every single word you just said. i sure don t. go ahead. look, i think comey made mistake sns the hillary clinton investigation. i i agree on that point. but these were not it had nothing to do with his firing today. if he was going to be fired for his behavior with hillary clinton investigation he should have been fired on january 20th. plus there is currently an inspector general investigation of comey going on why didn t they wait for that? the only reason he is being fired is because he is investigating the president. the whole hillary clinton thing is just pro post-errously irrelevant backup does anyone really believe that donald trump fired james comey because he was too mean to hillary clinton? absolutely not i don t think that and i think the question itself assumes the hyperbowl that i have not given i don t believe the reason that james comey was fired was because of simply the fact he was abusing his power last year. i think the curious dates here are when did rosenstein take offers about 14 days ago when did comey testify before congress again and really have the audacity to talk about why he thought he was still justified and had to come forward. you know six days ago now i m not saying it is relevant in terms of what i think they will come out as giving the comprehensive basis for why he was fired. that s what they re going to say. what i think actually happened was they were looking for a reason and he gave enemy one. because he was ignorant to the fact that he had not honored his initial role as no longer being a prosecutor and the final arbiter but as somebody who am paraphrasing him to put on the cape when he was capped off by miss furious and frustration with lor eta lynch on the tor mack he said that was what capped it off for me ffrmt what capped it him for him was the he still believed he had the right and authority to act the way did he. he did not. here is the question we don t know the answer to. rosenstein s letter on its own is absolutely correct. rosenstein absolutely believes that he should be fired because of the way he handled the clinton thing. remember rosenstein is nonpartisan. the question is did president trump ask rosenstein to come wup that letter or did rosenstein come with the letter on his own and president trump said, ah-ha i have an independent man of great integrity saying i should fire him. i want to fire him. and now i have the reason. i think that s the real question. what kim first the chicken are oh the egg. you know what his track record his track record here allen you make a good point. his track record here is somebody who has said when you talk about the travel ban and giuliani. i want tuesday something wrong figure it out a way to make it right and justifiable. now we have opportunity again i want to get rid of james comey give me a reason did he give you reason? that s the one we re going with. his track record makes this suspicious and justifiably so suspicious. he can eliminate the suspicion by appointing a terrific woman or man to be head of the fbi and agreeing to have an independent investigation. then what what jefferiry is speculating about although it may be true will be proved to be untrue by miss later axes. that s all after the fact though jeff. the timing is suspicious. my learned colleagues here my betters are overthinking this whole thing. i agree with you. is that you know they wanted to get rid of this guy and they got rid of him. and hillary sessions well i mean i don t know i am baffled by rosenstein s involvement. you poe him. i don t know him well but i interviewed him i heard nothing but good things about him. do you think rosenstein just at this point just came up said you know what i think he should be fired especially considering his testimony yesterday. i don t know. we can. i don t know what rosenstein s role in all of in is. but there has to be some person in the united states government who could just open their eyes and say, you know, you don t fire the fbi director when he is investigating you. you don t do this because the only other time there s been a comparable event in all of american history is october 20th, 1973, the saturday night massacre when president nixon fired archibald cox. that s the only comparable event somebody that that administration has to have said, you know, this is not going to look good. i think one of the most important things you said tonight jeffrey was sometimes the answer is the front in you the most obvious is answer is but sometimes more complex. sometimes but rarely. thank you all. president trump offering no further comment tonight after firing fbi director james comey but sending out. le counselor kellyanne conway who said this to anderson. the president himself skaus me is not the subject of investigation and most importantly are you talking about the folks who were involved in the campaign? yeah. okay well you said the people around the president. are you talking about people who were shall did dsh who were adviser. some of them may still be around the president. i don t know exactly who is being investigationed there is ongoing investigation by the fbi. but again you want this to be about russia when this is about quote restoring confidence and integrity at the fisher morrell is low. you wanted this to be about restoring confidence in fbi but i m not sure many people believe this doesn t restore confidence in the fisher in fact a lot of people are raising questions saying it destroys people s confidence in the fisher about whoever the president may appoint is going to be in charge of an investigation into people who have been close to the president during the campaign. any potential collusion with russia. and today s actions had zero to do with that. i want to bring in a close confidante of president trump that s christopher rud ceo of news max news max testify zblap why tuning the president fired james comey. i think he made it pretty clear that he wanted to have someone he got a recommendation from a former clinton administration justice department official rod rosenstein saying what he did as fbi director was not inconsistent with the neutral of the bureau he decided to act and ask for termination i think if the president did anything wrong was waiting this long. i think when he was inaugurated he should have asked for comey s resignation. and the reason is he had lost the confidence of both democrats and republicans. not only the hillary clinton email press conference, which is the basis of the rosenstein letter, but a lot of democrats if you go back you look at the clips, don, you ll see that they were calling for comey to resign because of the investigation he launched into hillary in the closing days. you agree that the timing by him waiting as you say he should have done it day one is that right. veshd it have done it earlier but i don t think he is wrong. it would have been better served. doesn t you think the timing makes it look suspicious now. i don t think it s you keep making comparisons and other guests have on the show about watergate. that was the middle of a major investigation. i haven t made the watergate. but it s wg been going on throughout the night. and the truth is three times the director of the fbi told the president you re not there is no evidence. we know that director clapper has said there is no evidence. other officials disbelieved. testified of. collusion between the trump campaign and russias. that s the whole point of the investigation is not finished and also since you bring it up it was very strange thatted he said he would mention that in a letter that he sent out to the media and to the fbi. and actually to the fbi director notifying him of his. so everything we say is really have to be cleverly and carefully looked at one of the things you said earlier was that this was stopping the investigation. the president has not stopped any investigation fbi investigation. i never said any investigation was stopped. by firing you mentioned earlier. i asked where does this leave the investigation not that it stops the investigation. there is no investigation that s been stopped so he is not acting to thwart anything. why is there anything spish if he was saying to the fbi close down your russian investigation, i think that would raise serious concerns but he is not saying that. i think the proof of the pudding here is going to be who he picks as the successor. and i think he will pick someone very bipartisan and respected and when they do that i think any questions but look the house and senate committees are investigating this. there is an independent investigation going on out of the justice department on this. so i don t think we really have anything to worry about. who might the person be that he is going to appoint. my god i don t know i m not in the legal law enforcement world i m sure there is a number of highly qualified people. i m sure with the scrutiny that s going to come with that. the president is going to if you look at all the choices the cabinet that he picked largely for the government these are not a people they re a-plus people. she has a number of people on the cabinet very independent of him have great experience. i think people are not we don t have anything to worry here and i think that people are making a lot more out of in than they should be. ask i ask you something because there is concern because we ve been talking about the investigation where you say there is there is no evidence. you said there is no evidence thus far. correct. the investigation is still going on not that there is definitively no investigation until the investigation comes to a conclusion. there is also reporting tonight from cnn the washington post process l it says the white house and the attorney general have pushed the fbi to pursue leaks. the fbi did not want to pursue leaks. they thought the most important part of the story was the probe into russian collusion, possible collusion with the trump campaign. do you know anything about that? why would why would the president. we know at a. be pushing the fbi or any agency to turn their investigation one way or another. well the president i think is frustrated he has talked to me about this in the past and he said it very publicly, that they want to investigate everything relating to his administration or to mike flynn but when there is clear evidence of classified conversations he had with world leaders clear evidence of other classified discussion that is yates had with counsels office all of that stuff leaked is in the press it s illegal chl no one self the press saying let s investigate that. is there not a separate investigation from in investigation. hur it may be but why is the fbi and others not interested in pursuing those investigations? but there really hell bent. do they have a leonard i would not know i m not with the fisher the media is not with the fbi. you look like an fbi agent. i ve been told that before but i look very official. wouldn t be the fisher have a legitimate reason not to pursue leaks maybe they know something we don t or they don t think 80s viable investigation because leaks should not be investigated. well, they. without the leaks flynn would be there. without the leaks richard nixon. i think there s been a selective decision to only go after or look the other way at any leaks that are harmful to the trump administration and they re very focused on anything that a trump official may have done or somebody associatewood the campaign. there seems to be a lack ever fairness i think there is a lot of frustration the whole white house about how they re being treated here. i think the president made a good decision because there s been a cloud on the comey. you know if you go through all of cnn clips a lot of cnn people a lot of democrats were calling for his head. i actually thought it was inappropriate for him to come out a few days before the election and make a comment about an ongoing investigation of hillary s email. having said that that was part of the rationale that the we are told cnn is told they didn t believe that the white house would be this fallout because they thought democrats would be on award did he really not think there would be this much fallout. i can t dwo into the mind what they thought would happen there was a lot of criticism of come in a lot of criticism of his testimony. a lot of people weren t thinking he was acting neutral way like director sessions or. no one accused them of the same degree of partisanship where he would like to talk about open investigations the way he did hillary s emails seemed inappropriate and rosenstein laid that out. have you spoken to the president since he made the decision. i have not no. do you think the administration feels feels that they are above the raw? absolutely not. thank you. you can go on. well i don t think interests anything they have done they re willing to what they do feel that the enforcement of the law should be done on an equal basis if there is classified data being leaked out classified agencies including classified conversations with heads of state why drnt isn t that investigated by the bureau but something mike flynn said which i don t think was illegal that he talked about the trade sanctions with the russians i don t believe was a violation of federal law to begin with. i love having you hear but i have to go good questions for the bureau that i cannot answer because i m not in the bureau please convey to the president. can i be nominate you zblool he is welcome to come on any time sit down with him anyway thung chris. definitely do that. tlaung i want to bring in karen finishy karen is senior adviser and senior spokesperson for hillary clinton ace campaign what did you make of what chris ruddy had to say. great spin. i think the thing we need to keep in mind we think how incompetent this has been how erratic this seems. the fbi director is involved in a lot more than just this investigation you know hillary clinton ace emails and the investigation into russia. think about counterterrorism think about any number of things. the fact that the white house did this without seeming to have someone or some candidate ready to go to replace him seems odd. it also seems odd that you know given the fact that we know that there is already an internal investigation by the inspector general at the fbi looking into this matter with comey, why not wait until the end of that investigation. so the timing i was i was joking with some colleagues in green room given how well sally yates did yesterday we should have expected this to something like this to come today. because i think it shows how far this president will go to change the headlines. it s very disturbing. this is rod rosenstein he sent the letter to the memo to attorney general jeff sessions who by the way announced efts going to rekeyes him from the russia investigation or anything to do with hillary clinton as well. as you and i discussed he says i cannot defend the director handling fortunate conclusion fortunate investigation of secretary clinton s emails the director was wrong to ewe turp the authority on july 25th 2016 and announced his conclusions that the case shb christed without prosecution what do you say to that karen. what i say is that certainly was not the position of donald j. trump during the campaign and when this initially happened. he was praising comey. if he had real concerns about his behavior i guess the question i would ask the president so therefore do you agree that it was inappropriate for director comey to send that letter to congress 11 days before the election? i mean he certainly had no problem with that. let me point out one other thing, don. i love the fact that within this document that roetsenants did he quotes and refrpss a document we put out from the campaign and he cites a former attorney general unthe bush administrationen a the fact that this that there were almost 10 oh other former officials. well that s a document that we actually put out from our campaign. so he is citing our campaign materials to make in argument. and again i think what we can t escape is the timing of this. we just can t you know underestimate what that means in terms of what was happening in the investigation. and the concerns that the white house may have had about you know who controls that investigation and i think you know think about just the chain of events here. so you know the assistant attorney general who sends this letter is the person who is in charge of the russia investigation. so he then sends a letter citing you know even campaign documents from the hillary clinton campaign to jeff sessions, who you know as apparently misled congress to then send that to donald trump. i mean there is so much in here that is so suspicious and so suspect. i think what the trump administration does not yet realize is that what they bought themselves is an independent counsel and having been part of an administration where that happen. i can t imagine that any credible republican would deny that the only way to restore any kind of integrity here would be to have an independent investigation. all right karen out of time thank you i appreciate you copping we have more on the breaking news tonight the white house confirming president trump will meet with russian foreign minister lavrov tomorrow and now i want to bring in cnn global officer. historian john meech nam and julia kai yam and kevin madden. you said something i think david very important to me about this decision. tonight by the president. what did you say about that? i don t understand the timing. i mean you just mentioned this meeting with laugh hoff tomorrow. it s sort of it s at least a political era if he is completely innocent. do you believe he will come to regret in decision. i think politicly yes he has relit the russia fire. again if he is completely innocent he is just gotten all the suspicion going. energized the democrats it s an unforced political error. listen the new thing we got now he is meeting with lavrov what do you think the foreign minister. they could wait, roll it out given comey notice. he is meeting tomorrow with the russian foreign minister. democrats don t trust donald trump maybe that s gnat fair to him but this is going to energize democrats raise suspicions. this is a huge issue there was a comment earlier about the leaks. process there was a story reuters wrote about a conversation between putin and trump details about nuclear accords trump didn t know embarrassing information. this is a investigation into colluding with a foreign country to change the outcome of a presidential election. so much more grave than embarrassing details about a president s phone call. john, i want to bring you in now. the president firing the fbi director. who was leading the federal investigation into possible collusion wean his campaign and russia. i mean how does this look? i don t think it looks particularly good. and i want to win the understatement cooky for the week. look, no president has ever done this in exactly in way. president clinton let judge sessions go 24 years ago on a an ethics question. you know this is the one and algae that has already been well chewed over fwu has the virtue of being true, is that of president nixon. president nixon fired archibald cox the special prosecutor in october of 1973. it was one of the most significant presidential assaults on the rule of law in our history. i think we re witnessing something akin to that. donald trump doesn t like he is a doory phrase here but important. divided sovereignty goes back to the greek city states the idea you have a rule of law and power is divided among different bodies so that you have a balance. balance is not what he wants. he wants control. and i think that s what we re seeing tonight. um-hum. i want to read something this was just tweeted by the president saying chuck schumer recently i do not have confidence in him james comey any longer then acts so indignant. kevin madden kefren what do you think of that? well i think that argument holds up for only a short period of time. i mean it is true that democrats on capitol hill have vested that they have lost confidence in james comey. but that only answers one question which is why didn t the president then do it when he first came into office. and i think the there will be continue to be questions about why the president took this action now. now you rod rossenants lay out a rather cogent argument in miss letter today. but there are still remaining questions. and to go back to what john said, whether you re a republican or a democrat if you are firing the the fbi director who is leading the investigation into your campaign, that is not a good look. and, against a back drop of that investigation they re going to continue to be more and more questions there will be more and more calls. i think as chaotic as tonight feels we are only at the very genesis of the chaos of the decision. there will be congressional hearings called. see congressional calls for a special prosecutor. they re going to have hearings for whoever the new fbi director will be. this is going to be a this is just the beginning. jason how could the white house know how could they not know that this would be a big story at the that the fallout would be what it is now. well i m not sure if that report was entirely for sure the white house would have known there would be significant amount of blowback from democrats. they re the same folks who are calling for the for president obama to fire comey last year and so i think president trump is right when he s calling out senator schumer. the only thing i want to say to the president he didn t call out the other senator who had issues. nancy pelosi had lost confidence in him. we had liberal columnists wanting him fired. i mean, this is i mean, look, don, nobody tonight you can also think that it was nobody standing up saying james comey should still be in this job. people might have an issue with the timing and i think that s a debate. i agree with what kevin said. i would have done it on day one, and actually i think president obama should have fired comey last year. so there can be an argument about the timing. there is nobody standing up saying he should still be in that position. he lost the confidenced of v hi people. you would have been on cnn screaming to high heaven that this was some sort of political stunt by the obama administration. but look, the indecisive back and forth trying to director comey trying to rationalize what he was doing with the clinton investigation last year, he kplooed completely lost control of what he was doing and i think we need to get someone in there who s going to follow the rule of law, who is going to take the fub and go do what they need to be doing and i think for all the people freaking out tonight, talking about investigations, look, this is not going to change anything about the investigation. did you proximate cause comey when he came out and said we have some information about the investigation? if you stay around long enough he s going to find a way to make everyone in town mad. so i m sure at a certain point i probably liked some of the things he was doing but this all adds up that he s out there trying to rationalize what he s doing. we need an fbi director who s going to enforce the rule of law. i m actually going to agree. nothing has changed since then. he made the decision. all he s done is come out to explain the decision that he s made, so nothing has changed with his decision making. he did it, you praised him and now you re saying that he should go. there was plenty of criticism as well. senator graham hit the nail on the head when he said we need a fresh start in the fbi. but again, don, the point that i made when he came on board, nobody is standing up saying director comey should still be the director of the fbi. he should not be leading and i think that s why president trump removed him from this position. julia, go ahead. i will answer jason s question or about who will stand up. there are a lot of people who may have criticisms about how comey acted or behaved in the last come of months, both from the right and from the left. but there are very few people who find any justification at this present moment to fire director comey in the middle of an investigation. and just getting to the timing issue, to remind jason in the last 48 hours between the yates end of course clapper investigation,some murmurings from the senate that they wanted information about president trump s financial dealings and of course now cnn s reporting about the grand jury that s a whole lot of reckoning for the trump white house. that has nothing do not interrupt me tonight, please. this is serious and it is nonpartisan. there is an investigation going on about whether the russians, let s remember who the enemy is, actually were influencing our election. that investigation has now led to specific investigations about people around trump and we have reason to believe based on cnn s reporting that involves flynn. so that is what is going on here and the firing the idea that this firing is somehow not only justified, but that the timing is justified discounts almost all of the activity in the last three weeks that is heading toward serious allegations not against trump, but against his associates regarding either republican influence in the campaign or financial dealings with the republicans. so you cannot surround yourself now with some notion that because people from the right and left criticize comey that the firing of the person in charge of the investigation is justified. it does not hold. and so so julia, even you think i ve got to go. thank you all. i appreciate it. jon i want you to stick around. i want to bring in john dean a former nixon white house counsel. also jon is going to stay with us as well. what s your reaction to the breaking news tonight? well, it certainly is not saturday massacre two. it doesn t quite rise to that level. it is clearly botched as well. the white house did not handle it well. they have acted in a way that raises the suspicions that you re hearing on your panel. they are widespread. i m hearing them on the radio and some people are confused about history and think this was another saturday night live or saturday night massacre, it was not. that was a unique situation where the prosecutor, the special prosecutor was doing exactly what the president had instructed him. he did not want done. they were each testing the other, and the prosecutor lost and they shut down the special prosecution office. that was the massacre. yeah. jon, since you mentioned that, this is from the nixon library. president nixon never fired the director of the fbi but he did fire the attorney general and the deputy attorney genre signed. will there be further fallout from this as kevin says? that s a great question and i think one of the things we have to figure out is to what extent what was the impo tus for the events that led to today. there is the memo from the deputy attorney general, questions raised about when did that start, did someone in the white house ask for a pretext to get rid of director comey? if they did that, why did they do it in may and not in january. or at any point going back. and just a general point is there s going to be a lot of talk and there already is and the president just tweeted about this apparently about hypocrisy. hypocrisy is interesting but it s not dispositive in this case. the rule of law is dispositive and there are reasonable people asking very reasonable questions about whether the president of the united states has something to hide in terms of the his campaign and potential collusion with russia. he has dismissed that. he has called it a ruse. he s called it fake news and what he s used to is when he makes a declaration like that we re all like fourth graders, we chase the ball to the other side of the field. i think we have to do everything we can at this point to stay in position. i asked chris ruddy who is a friend of the president, if they feel that they are above the law. he said no. what do you say? well, you know, i don t think they are deliberately trying to flout the law here. there s always been a question to me with this president of a lack of experience, and not really understanding the job and not bringing in peopl works. this could have all been avoided, don. they certainly all all they had to do is look at history and see how easy it would be to replay what they re getting tonight, so things that might be going on. one is a possible sinister motive, but we don t know that. we don t have those facts. the other is incompetence, which is if there s not a sinister motive is the other alternative. are you troubled by this? very much so. am i troubled? jon? very much so. i think that it s i think they wanted a result and they found a pretext for it. and i think that we have a real question going forward about the separation of powers. and the rule of law. and i i haven t been someone who s, you know, thrown myself in with tauthoritarian narrativs but this is not a step in the right direction. a serious question that was quickly here, staff writer for the new yorker said where are comey s files right now? who controls them. that is important. it is indeed. what would happen in a circumstance like this is very much unlike what happened with
ninety eight not for god d. w. s november focus. this is d. w. news coming to you live from berlin european union clashes once again with poland s right wing government the use top court orders warsaw to mediately reinstate supreme court judges who ve been forced into retirement court says poland s reforms which have triggered huge protests this year are a threat to judicial independence also coming up the killing of a powerful police commander sent shock waves through afghanistan and casts a shadow of a parliamentary elections this weekend as general is laid to rest voting is suspended in kandahar province. and in soccer the head office of buy in munich comes out swinging at the press a fierce attack against the german media in an extraordinary press conference and we ll hear why by on are slamming journalists for the treatment of their players. well i m terry martin good to have you with us the european union s top court has ordered poland to immediately suspend its forced retirement of judges calling it quote. a threat to judicial independence critics accuse the poland s virtues polled and current right wing government of replacing judges with those supportive of the current regime european court of justice has now told poland to stop the lowering of the retirement age of judges from seventy to sixty five the measure supposedly targets judges appointed under previous governments the move allegedly by lates poland s provisions under the treaty. for more now let s go to brussels were barbara standing by barbara why was the polish law enforcement targets of judges so controversial. the european union has been watching what this government in the martial of those the right wing government has been doing since two thousand and fifteen and since two thousand and sixteen just a year after it s been a constant struggle of the about the so-called judicial reform that the government sort of put in action piece by piece it s a large number of laws and if you look just at some of them for instance the prosecutors were put under the control of the ministry of justice they were before independent or for instance the judicial election committee where judges are elected voted into office has been put has been put under the control of the majority in parliament and that was of course before independent and so step by step the european commission says poland undermines the division of power in its country and of course this is the threat to judicial independence bill the european court of justice the justice is telling poled him to stop the forced retirement of judges is poland likely to accept this ruling. that s the one million euro question of course if we listen to what the one of the vice prime ministers of the country said in late august and he defined tone we heard from him they might not because he said that poland doesn t have to listen to luxembourg to the european court because they have no say over poland it was question of national sovereignty and one should absolutely just turn away and sort of ignore the verdicts coming from the european court of justice and we don t know yet whether the government will really sort of stick to this hard line that has been announced liberal forces in at that point already talked about poll exit meaning that. actively ignoring and defying the european court of poland would set itself on the way to leave the european union effectively barbara as we all know poland s right wing government and the e.u. commission have been clashing over a number of issues including press freedom what does this verdict now mean for the larger dispute between poland s government and the e.u. . it means of course terry that the heat rises because we also know that there s already an article seven. procedure underway against poland something that procedure that means that the used sees a systematic threat so the route to the rule of law in poland and this is what it s in brussels called the nuclear option because it could in taking away the voting rights of the country in the european council there it s quite away till then but this procedure has been sort of going up and down and around in the council here and didn t different ministerial meetings in brussels and if in fact poland should ignore an actively defied this verdict from luxemburg they really money to have to sort of speed it up and then it s an open fight between virus so in brussels and we don t know where that might end yet barbara thank you so much for now didn t we just barbara basell in brussels. afghanistan s parliamentary elections have been pushed back one week in kandahar province after the killing of one of the country s most powerful security figures the funeral has been held general abdul rudd zakk who was shot by a gunman along with two others of a high level security conference the deaths come as a blow to the western backed government and raise questions over stability in the south about gamester parliamentary elections will go ahead across the rest of the country to morrow despite the killings. for more let s bring in de w. s was. me who has reported extensively from afghanistan was what the vote has been delayed for a week income to horror how much of a setback is this killing for the election well i think it s a huge setback for the whole election process because people have been waiting for this election for years now it s been three years the election has been delayed over and over again and you can of course also say that this has been a major blow for the security situation and the south khandahar is one of the major provinces in afghanistan it s the second most important city in afghanistan it s also called the heartland of the taliban so killing the police chief of khandahar is a big deal and this wasn t just any police chief he was a very important figure for stability and i understand he s faced dozens of assassination attempts and survived them and this sends a message how afraid are people going to be now about going to the polls of course people are asking themselves if this important figure and he s one of the key figures he was one of the key figures and the south of ghana son gets killed what does this say about our situation about our security situation of course he was very important he is hailed a hero now in afghanistan but of course a lot of people also forget that he was accused of a lot of human rights abuses us. stay with us we re going to come back to you in just a moon. with all the uncertainty and potential for more violence that s surrounding a gather stones planned elections candidates have reason to be concerned ten have been assassinated in the last two months alone but. sadly among a colleague afghan american who was born and raised in the u.s. is undeterred she left behind her life as a businesswoman in the los angeles and moved to galveston six years ago and now she s campaigning for change. miriam solomon kale is not a typical candidate but she sees her mix of american upbringing and afghan family traditions as an advantage in a modern afghanistan that s looking for change that could she elders are standing behind me and every time i sit with them they tell me that the men were able to bring these changes but we have faith that women are women are able to feel our pain and see the corruption and see what s wrong she takes us along in her campaign trail to jalalabad here she meets with the local leader of her tribe the kuchi there nomads for whom a certain number of seats in parliament are reserved as a circle and carol has a good chance of being elected the tribal elders are dissatisfied with the male opponents who they see as only looking after their own personal interests in contrast salamanca listens to cooties are often discriminated against in afghanistan and have little opportunities to advance socially. but the ones who don t have schools they don t have water they don t have roads on one hand they re being killed by the taliban and used as shields and on the other hand the government accuses them of being taliban so they re stuck in between two rocks jalalabad lives in the east of afghanistan where the taliban still stage attacks when merriam s of the main colors here she brings a bodyguard with her she s already received many threats if i said i wasn t afraid i would be lying i am afraid but i m more afraid for these people who are coming and visiting me. so the man killed voices her support for the direct peace talks currently being negotiated between the us and the radical islamists even if the talks could lead to the taliban partially coming to power in afghanistan and i think that now that women are included in the peace process it s really a big step but at the same time i think that the taliban from what i hear realize that women in inclusive eighty in the government is really important for afghanistan in the future. and even if she doesn t win the election the manco wants to stay in afghanistan instead of returning to the u.s. she says regardless of the outcome there s much work yet to be done. a courageous candidate indeed was of how unusual is it for women to be involved in politics in afghanistan it really depends on whether you have the contacts and whether you have the money or not if you have all these things and the influence inside the right circles you can of course run for a seat in parliament actually around sixteen percent of the candidates are female and sixty eight seats are over two hundred forty seats are reserved for women ok it s not just women there a lot of young people women and men who are getting involved in this election to understand yes recently i spoke to the independent election commission in afghanistan and they told me that they don t have exact numbers but they estimated around. sixty to sixty five percent of the candidates are below the age of forty so this is a record number and of course i mean afghanistan is one of the youngest countries in the world i think is the second youngest country in the world so of course they need people who represent them and there s a lot of hope for these young candidates even though there s all the corruption and yeah but there s this hope for them what about the hope for afghanistan s future i mean this is this election going to give people a sense of of change or a new beginning i don t think so because i think it s a test for the upcoming elections next year for the presidential elections but i can sense that people already are very disappointed by what happened in the past weeks ten candidates have been killed today was a lot of violence polling stations still are closed two thousand polling stations from fifty five thousand which is a huge number well thank you so much of her feelings and there was a lot nicer out does the me from. some of the other stories making headlines around the world today at least fifty people are feared dead after a train ran into a large crowd at a festival near the northern indian city of rubber it s our local t.v. said people had gathered to celebrate it and you will hindu festival but they failed to hear the approaching train over the sound of firecrackers at the festival . but official memorial ceremony is being held in russian and x. to crimea for the victims of a school shooting that left twenty people dead the region is observing three days of mourning russian media is calling the attack on the black sea port catch an eighteen year old gunman the russian columbine. u.s. president has threatened to send the military to close the us mexico border against what he calls an onslaught of migrants this as around three thousand honduran migrants continue in their care of than heading for the u.s. . said it will ask the united nations for help with their arrival. u.s. treasury secretary steve minutia and will not attend a major saudi investment conference next week that s in reaction to the controversy surrounding missing saudi journalist. turkish state media are reporting that employees of the saudi consulate in istanbul are testifying to prosecutors investigating his disappearance assad is a washington post columnist or was a washington post columnist who s been very critical of the saudi government he banished two weeks ago now the u.s. is sharpening its time. with the evidence mounting the u.s. stance towards long time ally saudi arabia is hardening when asked whether he thought he is dead president trump left little room for doubt. it certainly looks that way to me it s very sad. that i have to be very severe i mean it s bad. but we ll see what out. pro-government newspaper in turkey says the month circled in these images is the head of a fifteen minute hit squad involved in the alleged killing of the saudi journalist he said to be moderate abdulaziz new tab a saudi intelligence officer and former diplomat with close ties to saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon earlier this year he was photographed during the crown prince s trip to the united states. was last seen on october second entering the saudi consulate in istanbul. turkish officials say they have video evidence of his murder state media have published details of the alleged audio including that saudi consul mohammed are all tightly can be heard on the recording he left to stumble earlier this week. g. had been living in the united states writing for the washington post he was a public critic of the government. you re watching the news still to come fighting talk in munich bosses attack against the german media in an extraordinary press conference we ll hear why by and are slamming journalists for the treatment of their players. germany s mighty out of industry is still reeling from the diesel scandal we ve got recalls now been one after the other way of finding out that it wasn t just ford s fog that was cheating it was a whole lot of other car companies as well more bad news for the well known car brand opel german authorities forcing it to recall another forty three thousand deal diesels worldwide if it with devices that over emissions levels and to situations cheating but did all part of the fallout from the diesel gate scandal opel has already voluntarily retrofitted twenty three thousand vehicles the comic was recently acquired by france s p.s.a. from its long time owners general motors. german comic dimas own diesel gate scandal is costing a plenty it s lowering profit forecasts for the second time this year the maker of the city s benz cars says the costs of a recent recall of seven hundred seventy thousand diesels in europe means earnings will be significantly below last year s profits that of first lowered its forecasts just four months ago saying you tariffs on cars it exports to china from the united states cartons of profits. and over to will be balanced as a correspondent in frankfurt how bad is the profit forecast. it was a shock to investors share plummeted when the news first came in the ending with minus of about two percent not quite that bad but still showing severe displeasure and that could carry on into the next week because people debate this sudden announcement and you know it s not just one area of mercedes-benz but it s the diesels it s a new emissions test it s probes by the authorities and it s just a long list and you know if such a c.e.o. were not retiring anyways and next may i think there would have to be discussion on his leaving after the second profit warning and such such a short time and you have to wonder why since june what happened to now that they would have to issue such a severe warning those questions of leadership also must be forming in the heads of investors at the moment is this a taste of what s to come next week. well there could be more displeasure next week because several companies have already disappointed and bester is with profit warnings or with bad results and share prices of plummeted for some of the blue chips in the dock so next week. bank will be reporting always good for a negative surprise a share price very very low modest profits only and the world s largest chemical company be interesting to see how it handles a trade tensions currency situation and rising oil prices and also next week look out for the european central bank not any big move expected but every word president mario draghi says on italy on the trade tensions on interest rates will be closely monitored by the market and might also trigger a reaction here one to look out for we will be following those stories thank you ali. facebook has hired former british deputy prime minister. nick clegg as its new vice president of global affairs and communications it comes as the tech giant faces intense public scrutiny over data security and other issues clegg has settled to take up his new job at facebook headquarters at the start of next year is a point that comes as a surprise but insiders say clegg could help the company navigate through rough regulatory waters around the world and help restore confidence after the cambridge analytical scandal in which the daughter of millions of facebook users and their friends was compromised. it s still not clear what the conditions will be for britain s departure from the e.u. the lack of clarity isn t making life easier for french customs officials trucks are still able to travel in and out of the u.k. without hindrance but what happens if import and export judi s put in place. most companies opt to cross the channel by ferry it s cheaper than using the tunnel each day up to fifteen ferries make their way from dover to cali carrying british goods to mainland europe two million lorries used the route last year but checks are only carried out randomly this trucks heading to the netherlands. we checked to see if he was carrying more than ten thousand euros because if so he should have declared it sometimes drivers are carrying as much as two hundred thousand and then they need to explain the source of the money it may come from arms trafficking. and we ll customs have more work post grex it will stricter controls increase congestion. to diminish there won t be more controls but there will be more customs formalities seven hundred additional customs officers will be employed over the next three years to process the flow this month french customs are working to raise companies awareness about the clearing process through customs we tell them it s a piece of cake and to get ready to. get ready fair enough but what for exactly this haulage company organizes sixteen thousand shipments to britain annually. i m not afraid of the changes in the customs process i m concerned about my customers not being able to export anymore or that they could face difficulties in the export process. i d lose some of my contracts. there are plans to expand the port of cali adding new deck owes and passenger terminals should we end up with a disorderly brecht s it things around here are set to become a good deal more complicated. well football world is getting shaken up larry and by a by a minute holding the extraordinary press coffers. today where the club s top brass slam journalists what they see is overly harsh criticism of their players chris harrington is here with me from did over your sports cress he did in rather bizarre press conference ever seen anything like it no i have not nothing so calculated from the brass of a club the c.e.o. the president and the sporting director made their message very plain and simple they re protecting their players the club and their coach and they re basically saying they re no longer going to accept this kind of media coverage this kind of disrespect they actually even threaten legal action is well they even it was revealed that the c.e.o. of barmy to karl hyde s roman to go it was revealed that they issued a cease and desist to axel springer group who own a german newspaper that built and failed so they re taking this very seriously in terms of their position they even targeted former players turned pundits karl-heinz who may get himself was literally pointing fingers we have a snippet of something he had to say the press conference terry let s take a listen to that now. to political news as he does a guy sitting right up here in the front row he goes on t.v. all the time making a big deal of how much they know and all the inside information they have to want that s a joke a complete joke and thus he said we re not going to accept that kind of thing anymore i want to make that very clear today. so what s really behind all this chris why do we see the top management there by and lashing out at the media well according you know to the information that came on the press conference monday last monday when germany s international performance there matching is netherlands you know came out the netherlands way that they convened and decided that they were going to address the media and tell them that they would no longer accept this title the style of journalism and just the derogatory type of reporting because we have to keep in mind byron munich have a lot of players that also play on germany s national team specifically on the d. . defense. lawyer homos are on board saying and the club president early on is was very harsh towards the media in terms of their criticism of the national coach your him look we have that sound bite as well terry let s take a listen. didn t you lou for those who tried to get you get love that that was disgusting. the high point was i think can choose day before the france game a camera sent to a kid s training session we see ten or twelve year old boys were asked if they think their lives should be fired. of course they said yes yes that was disrespectful. the man does not deserve that. you know i don t know what to make of it myself because you know i m a member of the press obviously and you know when you take on the press that way you can provoke them do you think this could backfire i think it definitely will backfire actually it s interesting you point that out because a union of german journalists responded in said that they cannot be told what to do by byron and they are unaware of any law that forces in that kowtow to byron s demands you know so i do think a tug of war will take place and if byron lose to wolfsburg this weekend. get your popcorn ready because i m sure it s going to be quite a show back and forth a shredder for the media chris harrington thanks so much ok. now with the violence in afghanistan still simmering some afghan war veterans are seeking respite in the invictus games talking sports and politics the global sports tournament is the brainchild of britain s prince harry and then is to give injured x. servicemen and women a goal to work towards after their time in battle this year s event starts in sydney tomorrow. a sponsor of last minute training for these afghan war veterans sitting volleyball is one of eleven sports being played at the invictus games but this is more than just about exercise in camera three. so hey unnecessarily lost both his legs in a land mine explosion in two thousand and twelve he says training for such a big event has given him a sense of purpose when so many other veterans struggle to cope with their day to day lives. disability causes great psychological problems and a lot of our disabled people become drug addicts or commit suicide. the members of the afghan team are among five hundred competitors from eighteen different countries taking part in the games. it s clear they re not there simply to make up the numbers. of those but it is that i want to i m going there to win a gold medal not silver or bronze just a gold one that s my only aim at these games. which is a way that. the fourth edition of the event has come to sydney it was all set up by britain s prince harry he was among a group who scaled the iconic harbor bridge to help raise the invictus flag ahead of the games opening a long way up the veterans competing hope to hit the heights. and just remember the top stories we re following for you here today on day to be a news the european union s top court has ordered poland to immediately suspend its forced retirement of judges holdings judicial reforms have triggered huge protests of oh critics say the right way government is using the reform to control the judiciary warsaw has clashed repeatedly with the e.u. and it s not yet clear how the government will respond. then parliamentary elections in afghanistan s kandahar province have been pushed back one week after the killing of one of the country s most powerful security thing the deaths come as a blow. so to the western backed government and raise questions about stability in the south of afghanistan. you re watching do the news we have much more for you at the top of the next hour of course you ll find all our stories online a d w dot com thanks for watching. on. 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