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Russian foreign minister sergey lavrov faced off over new sanctions on russia and the state of relations between the united states and russia. back here in washington, the deputy attorney general weighed in on the scope of the russia investigation, rod rosenstein saying independence counsel robert mueller can pursue any evidence of a crime that he uncovers. and north korea today threatened revenge against the united states over new it sanctions. the united nations security council unanimously approved the sanctions in response to pyongyang's ballistic missile tests. north korea calling it's sa...

Committees. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> like almost everyone else in the house and senate you strongly support this sanctions bill, passed, as i said, overwhelmingly in the house, 92-2 in the senate. if the president were to veto the bill i assume you and your colleagues would quickly override that veto? >> we absolutely would. i don't think there's a question about that. if the president would try and do that, i'd be surprised, the comment about tougher sanctions. if the president certainly wants to add on to those sanctions he certainly can. >> did that ma...

Manu, thank very much. manu raju on capitol hill. meanwhile, white house communications director anthony scaramucci tells cnn the president might veto a russia sanctions bill passed overwhelmingly by the house and senate. the popular bipartisan legislation would not only hit russia with new sanctions but also give congress the authority to block the president from lifting those sanctions. but listen to scaramucci earlier today on cnn. >> keep looking at these it sanctions right now. he may decide to veto the sanctions and -- >> why? >> and be tougher on the russians and congress. >> you thin...

Calls, 35 minute phone conversation, is to make sure the two leaders are ahead on the g20 summit pairwise at important and how important is that? >> trump has flip the tables, and he is playing a rope-a-dope with the chinese and russians. before they promised to do nothing. the chinese promise, and did nothing, and so with the administration is set to do, we will work with the chinese, and then a freedom of navigation operation in the south china sea, which they hate. we sold arms to taiwan, which they hate, and we sanctioned them, which they hate, and them he called and said, let's work toget...

Nikki haley says the u.s. cannot let up. >> i think you have to get into kim jong-un's head. he is in a state of paranoia. he is concerned about anything and everything around him. this was a message to south korea after the election and what we will do is tighten the screws. he feels it. we will continue whether it sanctions, press statements, anything we have to do. laura: caroline shively is live in washington. if this is a medium range missile, what damage can it do? >> it can do some definite damage. within the last hour, the news agency said the aim was to verify that the missile could c...