>> reporter: u.s. and iraqi troops paying the toll over the years, woman. remember 30,000 u.s. troops wounded in iraq during the heavy fighting and more than 3,000 killed. >> thanks very much. erin burnett out front starts now. >> next breaking news. the house intelligence committee investigation into trump and russia in shambles at this hour. the fbi chief directly contradicting the committee chairman. has evan nunes lost all credibilit credibility? le. >> so what's happening? the father, once a devoted trump supporter now changing his tune. he's out front. let's go out front. good evening i'm erin burnett. breaking news, credibility breakdown. the fbi at this hour directlily contradicting the embattled

house chairman devin nunes. nunes is said not to have formerly invite fbi director james comey to testify about russia. that's not what nunes told reporters. he's now pointing the finger, blaming his democratic counter part adam schiff said the invitation went out last night. the investigation is in shambles tonight. no more hearings scheduled now. at the center of the stalemate is nunes himself and who he's working for. democrats asking if he doing the president's bidding. he said this about nunes. >> the chairman is going to have to find a way to lift this cloud. otherwise, we're going to need someone else to preside over this. i think we really do need someone else to preside over

this if we're going to do this credibleably. >> this is a crucial question for the country, this investigation. with the investigation in turmoil, the senate intelligence committee trying to step up. there you see the democrat and republican on that committee sading they're going to conduct a comprehensive investigation. but is it too late? evan perez is out front tonight. evan, i want to start with what's going on between the fbi director and the chairman devin nunes. what's going on? >> reporter: erin, this is the only leverage the democrats have on this committee. they can't officially invite comey to testify in a private setting as the chairman nunes wants him to do without getting the signature of adam schiff and the fbi. they don't want to be drawn in to what essentially is a food fight. they want -- this has to be done in a bipartisan manner. that's where everything is stuck now. the chairman nunes has not been able to formally violet j lly i

comey that he wants to talk to. until schiff and nunes can get on the same page, comey's not going to come up there. the next time we'll see him, we expect, is at a snetd hearing. i got to tell you from the fbi's perspective, comey is kind of done. >> right. >> he doesn't want to talk about this investigation anymore. >> it's not public, right? >> reporter: you know, from the beginning, the agencies involved here including the intelligence agencies and the law enforcement agencies, they were a little ankles and suspicious about the house version of this investigation. they didn't know whether these guys were actually serious and wanted to get to the bottom of this. you heard chairman nunes over a period of weeks say there was nothing to see here. this is almost confirming what people really already suspected, that this is not a serious

inquiry. it's kind of imploding, as you've seen. >> and the intelligence committee has questioned the investigation all the way along because of what nunes sewed. it leads to the question tonight which is does chairman nunes have any credibility left. jessica schneider is out front. >> reporter: staff members pouring through thousands of court documents as part of its bipartisan investigation into russian med allege in the i lex. >> we're going to get to the bottom of this. >> former trump campaign chair paul manet forth will talk to the committee and jared kushner has extended the same offer. questions have mounted about kushner's meetings with

russians. sources tell cnn the committee also wants to hear from cristian steel, the former british intelligence operative who created a dossier alleging clugs. >> we're both willing to wish subpoena. it's tough to make a subpoena go outside the united states. we understand the limitations. >> reporter: the committee at a stand-still. democrats continue to call for the resignation of devin nunes. >> we can'ting conduct an investigation that way. >> reporter: nunes at odds after he canceled an open hearing featuring forum acting attorney general sally yates and refused to hold meetings this week. >> a lot of us without any information from the chairman are bond everying why have the investigation and the committee been put on ice? >> reporter: nunes raced to the

white house after reviewing classified documents apparently showing trump's communications had been picked up as incident al. tonight, nunes tells cnn's manu raj u, he's finishing talking about the controversy and is vowing to move forward with public hearings but not better easter. they want adam schiff to meet with james comey. >> i think they'll be active participants. >> reporter: tonight chairman nunes not confirming whether or not a white house official let him on to the white house dwrounds to view those classified documents. sean spicer not revealing any details or about whether the white house knew. erin? >> thank you. let's go straight to the former

republican mike rogers. he was chair of the house intelligence committee. he's also retired fbi agency. nobody knows this situation better than he. and kirsten powers, columnist for usa today. thanks to all. david, since you're sitting here. let me start with you. the fbi is saying nunes's claims about comey and this whole being asked to testify don't add up. ok? can the investigation go on? >> thank goodness for the senate investigation, rights? i think unless the chairman resigns, the leadership and others need to shut down the committee. maybe they can start over with an independent committee. fundamental we had an independent committee linking both chambers together we would be better off. we don't know. maybe chairman nunes is telling the truth. it looks as if, just from the outside it looks like he's trying to sabotage the investigation. you know, it looks as if he's in

effect trying to provide a -- he's -- you know, this may not be a coverup, but, boy, it sure looks like a could haveup. one would like to believe it's not true. >> phil, nunes and the fbi are at odds. you heard what he said. that the intelligence community has been skeptical. do you believe nunes? >> i believe nothing that the man says, and i agree with david gergen. this isn't a question about the chairman recusing himself. this is a question about whether the committee should conduct the investigation. if you're the fbi or one of the targets in the investigation, flex, jared kushner, now you got to talk to the fbi, you got to talk to the senate committee and the house committee where the chairman says i'd rather target the white house before i notify adam schiff. you can't take this seriously. we saw this contrast today when

two senators got in front of the microphones, a democrat hand republican, it was likes a model t versus a porsche. we saw the porsche today. let's shut down the model t, they are cooked. >> you were chair of the house intel committee. you've been in the fbi, so you know where they're coming from. would you recuse yourself if you were devin nunes tonight? >> well, i like to think i wouldn't have found myself in this position. and if i were the fbi i wouldn't want to walk down into this food fight, either. there were days and days passed in the intelligence community that they argued so much, the speaker sat through the entire time, never even got to a question. it appears the committee is walking down that path. that takes two to tango. that's both sides. none of that is helpful. so there's really three issues.

there is the issue of leaks, which is serious, needs to be investigated. i think the fbi's probably got that one. there is the issue of the overall russian engagement and information operations, both methods and sources and where they're going and what can be done about it and how can we stop that. that's the second part of the investigation. the third part is were members of the trump campaign engaged into unlawful activities. here's how he fixes it. they need to sit down tomorrow. the fact that it took a week is both of their problem, but they should sit down. they can work out the parameters of the investigation. le. >> do you think its doable? >> if they do it on and the food fight continues you'll never see anything meaningful coming out of the house. unfortunately. >> he asked him the chairman about questions whether he would answer all the these rising questions out there. here's how he answered the

question. >> i'm not going to answer anymore questions about this. you guys asked all these questions. i've been very, very clear with you. all last week i answered all the questions. this week i've answered all the questions, so -- but i appreciate the attention. >> just to make a point, that's patently not true. he hasn't answered any questions rgts right? >> no. devin nunes actually is sbhoob has had a pretty good reputation in washington. he has been seen as somebody who has integrity and is trustworthy. the way he's basic is bizarre, really, when you get down to it. he is not being forthcoming to say the least. there are some basic questions about who waved you into the white house grounltds. just a basic question that's so easy to answer.

and he isn't answered questions, and everything looks like he's doing the bidding of the white house and that's not what he's supposed to be doing. he's supposed to be doing an independent investigation. it seems like at a minimum he needs to recuse himself. i don't see how nij can think that this could possibly be taken seriously with him at the helm. >> on this issue that you raised, that he hasn't answered the question of who let him in the white house. if information he said he got from someone on white house grounds. sean spicer was asked about this rooeptdedly. for days and days he's been asked who cleared devin nunes on to white house grounds, who did he bheet when he was there. these are basic questions. three days. that's how sean spicer answered the question today. >> i have asked some preliminary questions. i have not gotten any answers yet. >> i'm asking about what you told us -- >> i'll look into it.

>> you'll live up to that obligation? >> i said i will look into it and i will continue to do that. >> why won't the white house just answer this question? say who let him in. >> they have computers. they can come up with the answer like that. they know, i'm sure they know and they're not saying it. that's what is created suspicion. i don't know why they persist in letting stories blow up like this where it would be so simple to cut it off unless you have some kind of you will tear i don't remember motive in mind. it's not only a question of whether the trump administration is clouding the russians. >> phil, what do you say? why? why won't they give the information? >> this is pretty straightforward. the story is he walked into the executive office building. if my mom came in, i had to put

her in through the entry system. they know the answer. i can tell you my suspicion, which is this is not about nunes. this is about whether a white house person revealed information he shouldn't have revealed. i think this is about the white house, not nun eggs. >> thank you very much. and next, bill o'reilly called out sexist comments and congresswoman. what exact trump revealing his plan to stop the opioid addition. he has a message for trump doesn'ttonight.

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. tonight the white house insisting president trump was joking when he said a health care deal, take two, would be easy. >> he was having a light hearted moment. it's on tape. everybody watched it. he was poking fun and making a joke. >> ok. but was ate joke? listen for yourself to what he said last night. >> i know that we're all going to make a deal on health care. that's such an easy one. sol i have no doubt that that's going to happen very quickly. i think it will, actually. we've all been promising, democrat, republican, we've all been promising that to the personal people. >> phil mattingly is on capitol hill tonight. phil, pretty stunning. right? you heard him. there may have been a couple of chuck it is in the room. it's unclear whether they were with him or not. is there a new effort to bring health care back right now like the president said? >> yeah, erin. in short, the answer is no. the prevailing strategy is that

they were moving on to tax reform or in the near term trying to maintain the government's open status through april 29. that remains what's happening right now. let me takes you behind the scenes. according to multiple people with direct knowledge. over the course of the weekend, how it's been described to me is the white house had a pan hik moment realizing how big a failure this actually was. as such, they started reaching out to individual members, seeing if they could spark movement on those issues. the members also had a panic moment as they got home and recognized that the thing they campaigned on for sechbl years, election cycle after election cycle dissolved into nothingness over the 24-hour period. they also want to work on something. here's the reality. in a perfect world they would come together and try to figure out a solution to the problems they couldn't solve last week and bring that to leadership.

here's the real world. there's no optimism that that will happen in the near future. representatives have said if they find a way to bridge the large gaps, great. we'll talk about about i would. until then, nothing's really happening. erin. >> let's go to congressman steny highwayhoyer. you' -- hoyer. if hotel care was back on the table you'd know about it. has trump reached out to you in the past 24 hours on health care? >> no they have not. yol expect them to do so anytime soon, because i think that unlike the president's statement, it is very difficult. he was right when he said it was complicated and he was also right that he had no alternative. he looked at the american people in the eye, when he talked to

the joint session of congress and said i want to assure you that i'm going to cover everybody with insurance. i didn't say i'm going to have access to insuringance. i said i'm going to cover everybody to insurance at a lower cost and better quality. if he has such a bill he should submit it to the congress of the united states. frankly, i've told people if he has such a bill and it does what he says, i may export. i haven't heard anything from my republican cleergs in the house that they have such a bill. >> nothing from him even in the past 24 hours as he said he was going to move with this. >> no, not that the point. >> what about the other issue we're learning about in the house. the house intelligence committee's investigation on russia, the chairman, devin nunes of the intel community says he invited director comey from the fbi to come back and testify. tomi says there was no official request. does paul ryan need to remove

nunes from his post as chairman? not just recuse himself but remove him from role after chairman? >> i think that would be in the best interest of the congress of the united states and the best interest of the country and the best interest of getting to the bottom of the truth here, when i think will be good for the country, the president, and the congress. i think mr. nunes has disqualified himself and many of his republican colleagues think that as well. certainly senator mccain said that the krebltd had been undermined. senator graham said the same thaing thing. and walter jones, republican in the house of representatives, gave the same view. i think that's accurate. whatever mr. nunes thought he was doing or what -- we don't know exactly what he did, but clearly he has said enough, done enough and acted as an add cat of the president's progs position rather than as a dispassionate person who could

oversee a fair inquiry. i think that the answer to your question is yes. >> yes. in terms of removing him from role of chairman? >> yes. >> i want to ask you one other story tonight, congressman. >> maxine waters is in the middle of a russia stunning set of developments. she said she won't be intimidated. bill o'riley made a comment about her hair, an offensive comment. i want to play what he said, original comment and what he said afterwards when it caused a firestorm. here is bill o'reilly. >> i didn't hear a word she said, i was looking at the james brown wig. >> it's a simple jest that the congressm congresswoman's hair distracted me. i apologize. it had no place in the conversation. >> you heard him. i don't know if you could tell he was laughing a bit there. is that an apology?

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a. breaking news, ivanka trump becoming an official white house employee. she will be assistant to the president. it is the highest paid position in the white house. $196,000 but she won't take a sally. athe athena, she was going to work for her father. she had said that. why is it now official with an official title and office, all that goes with that? >> hi, erin. she said she wouldn'ted to make her role official in part to allay some of the ethics concerns that have been raised. she said i have heard the concerns some have had with my viesing the mtd in my personal capacity while complying with all ethics rules. i will serve as an unpaid

employee in the white house, subject to the same rules as all other white house employees. ivanka and her husband is already serving as an unpaid government employee in this administration. this latest news could raise questions about whether the white house is violating federal nepotism laws. the white house would argue that they are not, because the president has wide discretion to decide who he wants on his advisory staff. as you mentioned,ee advantagea trump has lsh moved into her west wing offers. so it appears the shift was in the work. >> thank you, athena. kaley and amanda carpenter join me. aman amanda, you wrote a powerfully written editorial entitled "her new role is an insult to women."

is your opinion changed by this sno. >> no. it makes the charges of nepotism worse. the statement she put out today saying i heard the concerns. my piece got a lot of feed bark. there was a lot of visceral reaction that she's doing this. she's telling us that she's going to abide by all the rules by the federal employees. except nepotism. everybody abides by them. somehow because she works in the white house they have to argue that she's privileged, she's different, she doesn't have to abide by the same rules as everyone else. i think we should step pack and say why dood we have ethics and nepotism rules? it's to avoid the appearance or actual occurrence of corruption, to stop officials from abusing the government's largess.

they don't care if they're giving the appearance. >> there was explanation that she was going to be in the white house. there was always explanation. show did everything she could to dampen it out. here she is on 60 minutes. >> people think you're going to be in the white house. >> no. i'm a daughter. i'm very passionate about knish tifrs and i want to fight for them. so there are a lot of things that i feel deeply, strongly about but not in a formal administrative capacity. >> that's exactly what she said tonight. >> she wanted to be ha mother but wanting to vies her father as she's done her whole life. i think advisors told her to take a title. she basically did that. she came in, she has a formal role. i think some important facts

have been left out. there is are press department for this. hillary clinton had a west king office space. she was working on health care reform. federal judges said we doubt that congress intended nepotism laws to apply to the white house. they went on to say she could have avoided this. >> if you're for working women, i don't see how you could advocate for a working woman, ie advantagea trump who challenges -- >> she's not qualified. >> i'll let you finish, amanda. >> security clearance? >> amanda. >> qualified to equality that information. it is complete -- she's in a completely privileged position. >> thank you. >> in no way qualified for and it's insultling that donald trump works for women's empowerment the same day he gives his daughter a swanky

position. >> allow me to respond. it's not a monologue. >> you can't defend this one. >> amanda let me speak. if you're for working women you would advocate for the woman who walked into the republican party and challenged orthodoxy and said no. working women deserve pay. she pushed her father on that and donald trump was the first candidate, only candidate to put forth a plan for working women who need pay leave. donald trump did that and ivanka trump is imminently qualified. >> there are other qualified people for the role. the fact that she's taking up swanky white house press space when another qualified woman who spent years working in that spot is an insult. >> what you wrote in your article is she's taking away a life changing opportunity from another woman. you said she should know he's giving off the air of an

entitled princess. >> yeah. because she's not qualified for this job. everything kwhapgd she sought that national security clearance. hillary clinton never had that. she's not qualified to look at that information. >> so is a person in the room -- >> amanned di. >> -- information. >> why should she have access to that information? >> amanda. >> i know you're upset by this. >> don't talk down to me. >> imminently qualified. graduated consume lauda. was a president of a multi-million dollars business and you are doing more harm to the cause of feminism -- >> because she's a woman i shouldn't disagree with her. that's what you're saying. >> the american people elected president trump because they didn't want the same washington bureaucrats in there who wine and dine on cocktail parties.

>> and i don't think having family members serve in the government was not on the ballot. le. >> they want add businessman. she's an executive vice president, a multi-billion dollar company highly qualified, very -- >> yeah, because she has money she should get the job. >> that's a disservice to feminism. >> she has -- many people have spoken highly. one of the questions amanda seems to be raising is would she have any of the job she has now if it weren't for who her father was. >> i think shltd. she's a very talented individual. i have no reasoned to doubted that she should rise to the heights today on her own. i really think we should try to respect other women, build up other women, not tear them down because we're envious of what they have. i respect her.

>> bad luck. bad luck. >> you should be cheering the fact that we have a working woman sitting next to the president who wants to highlight women's issue as ie advantagea has done. >> she wants to be treated like a political person. i'm going to take shots at ivanka trump like a political woman. i'm going toe treat her like any other white house employees. if you want to say i'm jealous, that's fine. >> that's what i did in my column. that's what i'm doing now. if i'm not supposed to do that because ivanka is a woman. >> should hillary not been in the white house? >> of course not. yol think so. i am the one that's being consistent here. you can't always do this but hillary, but obama.

i'm a consistent conservative. i have a problem with nepotism, no matter who it is. there's no, sir there there kailee. you're the one going back and forth. >> kailee -- >> i'm not going to. >> why do you think she should have a security clearance? >> she's communicated with foreign leaders left and right when shefsz executive vice president in the trump organization. >> is your argument that because she's going to tell her stuff anyway because he can't be stopped -- >> i think she's very qualified, worked at the trump organization communicating with foreign leaders. i think she has more influence than people -- >> some say otherwise. >> i think, no, no, no, no. i think you should sit back amanda and ask yourself if you're doing a service to feminism. >> i'm not going to tear down

another woman ---le. >> kailee, you're making its way too personal. >> well, i -- it's pretty personal calling her a princess. we should work to build up one another as women. we really should. >> you did a great job of that tonight. >> i appreciate it. trump saying he's going to save coal mining jobs. do miners even think that's feasible snm i'm going to talk to a once incredibly trump supporter who lost his son to an overdose. he has strong words for the president and his campaign promises tonight. >> they meant nothing to him. they meant everything to me. ♪ ♪

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. jieshlgs tonight, big celebration in coal company as president trump signs an executive order ending what he calls the war on coal. three miles below ground, a shutter coal mine is back in business. we go inside that mine tonight. >> reporter: kingdom coal mine

number nine in red fox, kentucky. back in business. how rare is it to reopen a mine here? >> it's pretty rare. >>. >> reporter: shutting down last year, the mine once employed more than 120 miners. >> we have 20 employees and we probably take in 260 to 300 applications. >> reporter: this is three miles in. they just started moving coal out of this mine this week. it is the first glimmer of hope this area has had in a long time. that glimmer starting with president trump's pro-coal agenda. >> it's made a big improvement. roiptd you've already noticed it? >> yes. >> reporter: you've seen it. >> yes. we probably wouldn't be working. >> we're going to bring the goal industry back, folks!

>> reporter: even with the president rolling back obama-i ra environmental regulations, no run expects coal to come back the way it was. >> at the end of the day it comes to the market and whether the price of the market's there. so we'll just have to see if the price goes up, then they're going to mine coal. >> reporter: president trump promises to bring back jobs. do you think the price of coal and the industry will come back to where it was ten years ago? >> no i don't think it will ever be backs to that point. if it will just level out what we've got, i think it will be good. >> reporter: knot county alone, population 16,000, lost about a thousand high-paying mining job over the last several years. ancillary jobs like interrogatory numbering also disappeared. >> it's pretty big deal. >> as coal declined business

owner deon sloan closed one of his convenience stores and cut hours on his remaining businesses. >> how is this? >> it's great. if you can put a couple hundred people back to work, that means the world. >> reporter: the big question is is there a trump effect? it is not clear yesterday. the mine was in the process of reopening long before the election and probably would have reopened whether clinton or trump had won. people are grateful for what the president says but they don't think coal is not going to come back like it was before. what they want are more jobs to diversify the economy and join the digital economy across the country. erin? >> thank you. >> a hard thing to do. >> thank you very much, miguel. this plant reopening ksh mine,

i'm sorry -- had been in the works long before trump won. rick santorum is from one of the top producing coal states in america. senator, is it good to get the coal jobs back? >> first of all. it's keeping a promise. it's one of the best things a president can do. if you promise something, you've got to follow through and do it. i think mike's report was.yept in that most mines are in small areas that don't have a lot. this is a breath of oxygen into the lungs of small-town rural communities in very depressed areas of the area, kentucky, west virginia, parts of ohio that really need that hope. that's what he gave them today. >> the analogy might have been

slightly troubling to some that you just made about lungs. but let me ask you about something. >> you're talking to a guy whose grandfather had black lung. so i know all about it. it was a deliberate analogy to actually breathe some good air into this economy, because the obama administration basically suffocated this industry, basically took all of the oxygen out of the mine and with it went the miners. that's what donald trump has brought back. >> part of the reason is because of environmental concerns. the president has promised again and again that he's going to bring the coal industry back. here he is. >> we're going to bring the coal industry back, folks! coal is coming back. clean coal is coming back. the miners in west virginia and pennsylvania, which were so kbratd to me last week, and ohio and all over are going to start to work again believe me.

you're going to be proud again to be miners. >> senator, on the practical basis of keeping his promise, some of the top buyers are buying less. the netherlands, canada, they're going along with climate restrictions. they're phasing out coal. if the people who want to buy american coal don't buy it, trump's promise will not come true. >> refiring some of those plants up. as well as being able to export. china and india are building more coal fired power plants. other countries will do that the same because it's a very efficient way to produce energy. look, with the president backing away as i'm glad he's doing from paris and some of these other radical climate things i think you might see other countries heading back to a more

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plans to fight the opiod epidemic. he put chris christie in charge of that epidemic. a once devoted trump supporter attending nearly 45 rallies. he's going to be my guest in a moment. but now his story as he's singing a very different tune, a story from our elizabeth cohen. ♪ what's going to happen and how is it going to play ♪ >> he was a true believer in trump. >> reporter: during the presidential campaign, he followed trump to 45 rallies across the u.s. ♪ trump train keep rolling >> reporter: and he did it for a very personal reason. >> i came home and found my son rob j.r. moss dead in bed. >> reporter: he died of a heroin

overdose. >> we'll get those addicted, we'll get them some assistance. >> i know what you went through. and he's a great father, i can see it. and your son is proud of you. your son is proud of you. >> reporter: but moss is a trump supporter no more. tell me about this guitar. do you play this guitar anymore? >> nope. >> reporter: why not? >> i'm not on the trump trail anymore. >> reporter: craig, no one can imagine what its like to lose a child, he was 24 years old, and he was an addict. you saw trump reach out to you and say that your son is proud of you. and you really felt those words were insincere? >> they meant nothing to him, they meant everything to him, and they apparently meant nothing to the president. you know, it's -- i don't have any other explanation, why would

a man try so hard to push this health care bill through well knowing that it didn't clover anything that he talked about on the campaign trail. >> this opiod group that he put together, chris christie, is going to be in charge of that, the governor of new jersey, do you think chris christi could turn this around? change this? >> yes, i think if he could put all his time into it. but being the in fact that it's a voluntary position, it's a part-time position for him. he's already stated in the open forum that he intends to direct all his attention to new jersey in his last term here. and so when he has time, he is going to address this issue. and along with that, i didn't see any names of any medical professionals or any addiction

specialists that were going to be assigned with him. or even some former addicts that might be able to help at this table, to figure out how we can reach these addicts. again, for treatment. >> trump as you said was going to solve the problem of opiod and heroin abuse in this country. here's what he said. >> i hear so many stories and pleas, from women especially from drug addiction and opiod abuse. this is a scourge. we lose thousands of our foello americans every year to opiod abuse. we're going to stop the drugs from flowing in, we're going to stop the drugs from pouring into our country. >> as you try to come to terms with what's happening, craig, why do you think he said that so many times and of course it

wasn't as you point out in the health care legislation, even though he now does have this task force. >> maybe we should ask donald trump that, what he meant when he made all these promises. he made all these promises and then made a statement, who would know that this health care was so complicated and to give you and everybody you have had on your show throughout the 2016 campaign season so much credit because you had the professionals on there that said, i don't know why he here's saying he can do this, because what he's saying he can do, he can't. my concern now with all his other promises is that is he going to be able to followthrough with those? or is he going to run into complications with the veterans affairs, in order to make their veteran card be used in any medical facility. he's already running into complications with his bans.

>> when you're back, or has anyone from the administration reached out to you? you were loyal, you were at 45 ralli rallies, he talked to you personally, has anyone reached out? >> nobody reached out one little bit. nobody has tried to contact me or -- of any sort. and i don't know what to make of it. you know, that's why i feel the way i do. but, you know, the fact of the matter is, this man is your president, he's our president, somehow we have to do whatever we can to put things in front of him, to maybe lay a path for him to follow, let's face it. two weeks ago, i was on this show with elizabeth cohen, and it just so happens that they have been talking about this, putting this task force together for the last two weeks. so what you're doing is working to reach out. >> we very much appreciate you taking the time, i know it takes courage to talk about this and your loss, i'm sure never feels

any better. craig, thank you. >> thank you. and thanks very much to all of you for joining us, don't forget, you can watch "out front" any time, anywhere. just go to cnngo, "a.c. 360" s.t.a.r.t. starts right now. and good evening, thank you for joining us. we're waiting to hear from fbi director james comey who's going to speak at a dinner for the intelligence community. we'll bring you those answers to questions live when they happen. earlier today, the top two members, the senate intelligence committee spoke to reporters in advance of their first public hearing tomorrow into all things russia. and while it's obviously too soon to draw any conclusions as to the shape of their investigations, the shape it's going to take, it's hard to miss the sharp contrast between today's rollout between