because it's that important to the indianapolis 500. >> which is whole, skim, 2% before the race. we'll find out soon who's going to be chugging a nice, cold jug of milk. >> have fun, coy. >> all right. thanks for watching today. >> inside politics with don king starts now. blunt as always. >> 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they believe be paying. >> ruffled feathers at nato and a spirited climate debate at the g-7. plus, a loss back home. a court loss on the travel ban and a stalled agenda in congress. and as the russian meddling investigation expands, nixon comparison. >> we were furious. about the past presidential election. of o a man whose presidency

would eventually end in disgrace for impeachment for obstruction of justice. >> inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. >> welcome to inside politics. i'm jon king. to our viewers, thanks for sharing your sunday. president trump is back home from a debut international trip that left key allies frustrated, but that mr. trump labbels a hue success. >> i think we hit a home run no matter where we are. we're thrilled, getting back on the big plane and heading back to washington and the united states. >> it is a consciousal week ahead. he promises a decision this week on where to withdraw united states from the paris climate accord. that was the subject of a fierce debate on the trip and it is a subject of a fierce debate within the trump inner circle,

first though, the president's mounting frustration with the cloud over the white house. the president vents to friends that the russia meddling investigation is in his view, out of control and there are white house meetings today, a sunday, as the president said to be mulling big staff changes and hiring muhr lawyers. the president's own conduct is investigation. now, we know so rngs too, is the conduct of his son-in-law and top adviser, jared kushner. he's among several loyalists whose russia contacts alarmed u.s. intelligence officials! frequently, individuals who go alo along a tremendoussonnous path don't realize until it gets to be a bit too late. my radar goes up early when i see certain things when i know what the russians are trying to do and i don't know whether or not the targets of their efforts are as mindful of the russian intentions as they need to be. >> abby phillip of "the

washington post," jeff zellany, michael warren. is this a little odd, but o'dka or is this the act of someone, someone on a tremendoussonnous path. they meet with russia's ambassadors to the united states in december. kushner proposes a secret back channel so the two can pom pair notes. barack obama is still president. tensions with the kremlin are high. kushner says this needs to be b hush hush and "the washington post" says the russian ambassador told his bosses in moscow kushner proposed using russian diplomatic facilities for these calls so that u.s. intelligence agencies would have a harder time eavesdropping. that is the question the president came home to. his son-in-law, one of his

closest aides, a person who's supposed to be involved in policy, keeping the trains on track at the white house, how do they explain this? jared kushner meetings with the russian ambassador he did thot disclose, now this idea of a back channel that some say frankly is un-american. >> how they're trying to explain it is they're meeting at the white house this afternoon to try and figure this out. it's naive at best. even though he was a private sipt senne, this is not a business deal. not establishment people, but people who have been in this town, why did they do that. there's also not been a full accounting of all the meetings that jared and all the others had with the russian officials. this could have been dealt with weeks and months ago, but it hasn't, so now, they are sort of stuck with this, but the whole specter of russia was hanging over the p president. his silence about it.

he's afraid to talk about this investigation. it had european leaders wonderfing why is is he being s silent about russia. is he going to stand up to putin here, so, i think that the you know, jared kushner was always sort of the invincible one to the president. if he did anything or thot, we don't know, but it's a huge problem. >> if he did anything or not, it's a key point. congressional investigations four months into a presidency that's had a cloud from day one, it's getting thicker, not liger. when the president came back last night if you didn't notice, when he landed, he was reminded this isn't going away. >> mr. president, did jared set up a -- for russia? >> go ahead. >> how typical is this for the trump presidency? every time they have a good political moment, neil gorsuch, most of this trip overseas,

there's something else, you have something else they weren't clear on or weren't entirely truthful on that seems to interrupt it. this is a real problem. an ongoing problem. you wonder at what point do the staff and does the president break from this sort of constant barrage of scandal after what ought to be a good news cycle friday. >> it's also a problem because some of the explanations don't pass the smell test. back channel communications. why do you do track two diplomacy in the first place? to keep it from the b public. not the executive branch. talking about is syria. that's because you don't want politics to get involved. so, if you're going to set that up, why do it in a way where the fbi, the cia, all the intelligence community can't hear what you're doing. that doesn't really, that's not how it works. also, the fl low up meeting a raising a big question. it was with the head of -- which in russia means outside economy banks and they do foreign investments to benefit the

russia state and they manage the state pension funds. and they're under sanctions and the guy has a history as fsb. he's not a military guy to talk about syria. none of these things seem to match up if it's an innocent meeting just because they want to do a better job in the middle east. >> who's at that early december meeting? mike flynn, who has a very interesting relationship, with the u.s. intelligence community and sort of intelligence infrastructure and you know, does raise those questions. >> michael hayden was on with michael smerconish yesterday. to that point, he is of the opinion now this is just stupid in the sense that because of mike flynn perhaps talking to kushner, kushner decides we can't trust the obama people, so let's have this back channel communication. here's general hayden's take.

>> is this nefarious or nigh ef ta? >> i'm going with nigh ef ta and that's not particularly very comforting for me. i mean, what manner of ignorance, chaos, human being rouse, suspicious, contempt, would you have to have to think that doing this with the russian am babassador was a good or an appropriate idea. >> yeah, i mean, it seems like a couple of things going here. both kushner and a lot of people close to this president have never seeped to really grasp what they lack in terms of their understanding of how things work in washington. how diplomacy works, how foreign policy works. and so, they charge forward in the transition and elsewhere, doing things without really con stult sulting with people who did know. and the question of why does the white house not create some kind of narrative around these meetings to help explain their side of the story, you know, one

of the things i constantly worry about is how much does the president know about what happened around him during the transition and during the campaign. and it's hard for him to understand this russia investigation, why it exists in part because some of these things he may just be learning about himself b and he thinks it's all overblown, but if he doesn't have a full understanding of the picture here, it's hard for him and his staff to figure out what can they say to make this make sense. for the rest of the country. and it's you know, it seems like they're going down a tunnel. not really even knowing what is ahead of them. >> and they do know though. kushner knows and to karen's point, if you wanted to just say look, we wanted to get off the ground on day one run ining so wanted to open this channel of dmun communications with the russian bs so it doesn't take weeks and months to get to know each other, then don't disclose all the meetings. explain why you met with former spy who now runs a bank who's

close to putin whose job is to move money around and he's under sanctions. hillary clinton recalled this week, she was the student speaker at wellsly college 49 years later in 1969, the it was richard nixon. she did thot say this by accident. >> we were furious about the past presidential election. of a man whose presidency would eventually end in disgrace with his impeachment for obstruction of justice. after firing the person running the investigation into him at the department of justice. >> the democratic base loves that. they loved that. we don't know where this is going, but the cloud does have the president meeting today with his legal team. the senior staff m coing in on a sunday after an international trip where everybody's tireded

to talk about a staff shake up. the president's mad, he's venting, he thinks his staff isn't doik a good job. how serious does this talk of a major white house staff shake up? >> it's pretty serious. more serious than it's been at any other point up until now, but there are limited options. a, there are not a lot of people in washington who are eager to go inside and work there. b, there's still a sense of you know, division inside the west wing here. everyone's not on the same page, but one of the things i was seeing when trefling over the last week with the president, the administration is not clear on its policy toward russia. on thursday b i believe it was, the chief economic adviser said the president didn't know his view on russian sanctions. that sort of created a bit of an uproar. the next day, he said of course he knows he's going to leave them as they are or strengthen them. the policy toward russia has

been muted or confused by all of this and i think until the president sort of realizes that this investigation is serious, not fake new, not sore loser democrat, i think that's a huge challenge. if wrou talk to a lot of democrats who are eager to do the right thing, not sure how helpful it is to this process to have secretary clinton out there doing this. that injects politics into it and this is much more serious. >> joined her from republicans is going to be well the only president who was impeached, to that point, you read all these accounts of the potential white house staff shakeup. you take a crisis team, you have a government team. if you're asking about health care policy or tax reform, you talk over here. if you're talking about monica luns ski, something like that in the trump white house now. if you see these stories, they want to follow the clinton model. clinton got humiliated and

impeached. >> this white house is fixated op this idea that this is a pr problem, which it is not. it is a real thing. the source of a lot of their grief has been the president himself, so they're working hard to try to figure out how do we restructure the press office and communications job to deal with these inquiries to communicate better. at the end of day, that's only a part of the b problem. t not the full picture and the clinton model was in part successful in a limited sense because they actually had policy to kind of go back on. but they had some sort of track record of governing, where as this white house is really struggle iing to get their feet under them in terms of real policy and real agenda items they want to put out there. >> they had an economy, wooem see what happens to your point about a nine-day international trip, no press conference from president of the united states, no tweets either. so he seems to be listening to the attorneys. up next, a public break with

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it should no longer surprise anyone that president trump is different and disruptive. still, it was fascinate tog watch the trump effect these past nine days. he sees it as a big win. >> saudi arabia to israel to nato to the g-7. we made extraordinary gains on this historic trip. to advance the security and prosperity of the united states, our friends and our allies. >> monitoring the president on twitter, he's repeating this that this morpg, saying it was hard work, but great progress from the yit, but a rot of grumbling on the style and substance. yesterday in italy, the president refused to sip on to a communique, so the g-7, the leaders of the world's biggest

economiesished a statement while noting the united states is still debating whether to walk away. the president tweeted he will make that decision this week, he was heavily lobbied on the trip by the pope and other world leaders to stay in the paris accord. his chief economic adviser, listen here. >> if he were standing here, he would tell you he feels much more knowledgeable an the views today. he came here to learn and get smarter, to hear people's world leader's views. >> it's interesting. number one, they wouldn't do these briefings on camera. part of the new white house media strategy. number two, does the president take that as a plus, he came here to listen, to learn, to get smarter. he's evolving. it sounds like the president came here not knowing what he believed and is is still searching. which is it? >> yeah, it's hard to see, hard to know how he's going take that, but it's a common thing

with his aides describing him as someone who's constantly evolving on terrorism, islam. the paris climate agreement. if he's tired of it, he hasn't said so. the message has not been delivered to staff to stop characterizing him in that way. and but i think it's also true in the sense that trump is actually learning about these things and remarkably is going to have to make up his mind in a very short amount of time based on information, some of which he is just internalizing, so that's a lot to ask of him. in some ways, there's a lot of people hoping there's a certain inertia where the existing policy is so hard to get out of and causes so many other problems, it makes it harder for him to make a decision. >> almost certain to announce we believe that he will withdraw

from this climate accord. people would be very surprised if he had been doing anything by that. but that is sort of interesting. just b wonder why he didn't say so. this evolving and learning is interesting. one thing i was struck by on this trip, he said in saudi arabia, i do not come here to lecture you, but in fact, in brussels at headquarter, he was indeed lecturing the u.s., the alliances. >> a monarchy with a horrible human rights record that has not kept his promises, but he did come to lecture nato. >> we don't know if any of this will work. maybe it will. i think we have to keep an open mind in terms of his ability to unite the arab world around the fight against extremism. it's a huge challenge. no one has been able to do it, but let's be an open mind. but the whole lecturing idea, the trip started off in a positive way. the skept advertise m toward him and his administration, he did nothing to reset that. america first agenda was out

front there, but second part of the trip so interesting. >> in terms you mentioned they don't have a clear russia policy, they're back and forth. the paris climate accord, he said he was against them. they've had meetings and he's had cabinet secretaries go on television because they think that's the best way to lobby the president. now, the pope says stay. listen to the italian prime minister saying we need american leadership if we want india, china, the countries with the developing economies who are using more and more carbon, if we want them to pay attention, we need the americans on board. >> we have simply taken note of the fact that six out of the seven countries fully confirm the commitments taken under the paris agreement. it's very difficult to have an uncertain position on the part of the most important economic power in the world.

>> this was among the many complaints. you were on the trip. i was e-mailing and texting with diplomats and representatives that where is the american leadership, take a position. they disagreed with president bush quite a bit. this is going to happen. there are going to be disagreements. he told them where he stood. they thought he had too much swagger, but he explained his positions. the uncertainty is driving some theuts. sxwl. >> sure, but you have to remember we're talking about donald trump here. he's not a guy to join a group. american leadership is is not going to be linking arms with my allies even though they're not paying enough defense money into nato. he's going to take the time he needs to separate himself so people, we are paying attention now to the decision he makes. it's like iran choosing with team he's going to go to. i know that's a joke, but it's kind of serious. this draws the attention on him, when he makes a decision one way or another. if it's to leave, it's going to be whoa, if it's to say, it's going to be like whoa. a similar thing to his talk

about the iran deal. whether he was going to blow it up. he didn't. >> but if america is the leader, why not announce your decision especially if it's a bad one to their face? >> why come home first? i think he doesn't have a strong opinion on and on anything he doesn't have a strong opinion on, people have realized worship the white house and outside the white house, influencers that they can influence the president and try to be b that last person in the room talking with him. i think that's part of what gary cohen was talking about. he represents "the new yorker"s who support this. most of the republican presidents would have said we're not going to stay in this paris climate change accords. but the president likes to be, likes to have people come to him and have to make a decision. and he be the one who has to make that decision. >> next, more on the big trip. praise of kings and dictators. lectures and a shove to europe's democracies. he kitchen.

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kremlin, too. for trump's many critics, this shove became the metaphor of his international debut. moving the prime minister of montenegro aside so he could get to the front of a photo op and this. a public tongue lashing. >> 23 of the 28 member nations are still thot paying what they should be paying and what they are supposed to be paying for their defense. this is not fair to the people and taxpayers of the united states. and many of these nations owe massive amounts of money from past years and not paying. >> to the president's supporters, that's a welcome and trademark moment. call out the free loaders. to his critics, an unnecessary lecture and public gift to putin, for whom nato is public enemy number one. so, which is it or is it both? >> probably both.

in a weird way, it does sort of send a message dmesically back home, listen, the guy at the end of the bar who i think trump really represents, this is the kind of thing they've been talking about for years. why don't the europeans pay up? why do we have so many military insulations all over the world. but there's a problem there, which is it's not really how it actually works. you know, these aren't sort of dues. there's no debt being owed by these countries. they're all sort of paid up, but there are sort of guidelines by which these nations are supposed to be paying a. it's just not exactly what the president -- >> the incoming from the europeans is that the president has won this argument. that president clinton raised this. president bush raised this. president obama raised this. it started to improve late in the obama administration, but they lost most of them, had said we would spend more. that's the point. you spend a percentage of your gross domestic product, that he was winning this and he could

have said thank you, but i'm going to keep an eye on this. they could have delivered the same message. >> european lewders will tell you they started doing this before trump was in the white house. maybe he's just cracking the whip and being more brusque about it. but that's kind of a minute ago, this is the class iic americans aren't european, they drink their tea with crooked. we're the wild west. it's a very different approach. it's almost caricatures how stark that difference is on display. >> the style of trump, the push to the president of montenegro. it's how he does things that sometimes offend people, but on the substance in the incoming that was most interesting, the president came from saudi arabia where he received a commitment to crack down on terror financing, on promoting extremism. now, if that happens, the president will have changed the world. the problem, nato leaders have

heard this repeatedly for years and the saudis have not followeded through. when he said this, many found him to be nay eve. >> there, i spent much time with king solomon. a wise man, who wants to see things get much better. rapidly. the leaders of the middle east have agreed at this unprecedented meeting to stop funding the radical ideology. that leads to this horrible terrorism. all over the globe. >> many of those leaders will tell you, they have moderate islam in their european countries and the saudis over the last 15 or 20 years have funded the mosques that have become much more radical. if the saudis follow throw on what they promised president obama, i mean, president trump, the world will change, but those leaders think, come on, buddy, you got had. >> you could practically hear the eye rolls as he said that. it's also the juxtaposition, the

tongue lashing, to our allies who are fighting with us in the middle east. who came to our defense after 9/11. and the praise for the saudis. before the saudis have even really done anything. they've made a sort of verbal commitment to it, but they haven't yet done it. i think there is some weariness that the president is is hoping that this deal comes through. but the proof is going to be in the pudding. this is a long game. it's not just you sign a piece of paper. t like what are they actually going to do. to stem this really deep problem that pits you know them against each other. there is not just a piece of paper you can sign that can do away with that. >> ipg about this, because three times in briefings, senior officials said the president has united the muslim world against

extremism. that is simply wishful thinking. if that would be reality, that would be amazing, but i think there is this sense of just g e giving one speech does not solve the problem. >> it speaks to about half the muslim world, also. king salmon is a spin artist just like anybody else. they were pissed at the obama administration towards the end of presidency because the obama made a turn toward iran. he did not jump in fropt of the moving train, just let congress do its thing. they were very, very angry about the way the situation was an they see a friend and ally in trump. they flatter him. he's learning on the job. incredible. >> president obama going there in 2009, i was on the trip as well. >> they bring out the blowing orb, everything. really, they knew how to cater to him and he is responding in kind because he is learning on the job and so, and he's got a

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disapprove of how he's handling his job ch only 37% approve. so the president is profoundly underwater. key to republican agenda is the big health care bill. well, 62% disapprove of how the president is handling health care. 57% disapprove of the current house u republican health care plan. this was the subject of a big debate this week. republicans are promised to repeal and replace obamacare. speaker ryan says we have to do this. democrats say the republican plan is a disaster. >> under obamacare, average premiums have gone up by nearly $3,000. this law did not drop premiums by $2500 as promised. between premiums searching up and choices going away, obamacare is on an unsustainable path. >> unless you're a healthy millionaire, trump care is a nightmare. this report ought to be the final nail in the coffin of the

republican effort to sabotage our health care system. >> it's a defining debate for the country, for the republican party. it is something republican leaders wish the president if he's beginning to have political capital would spend his time traveling the country, trying to sway republicans ab the country. instead, this is what frustrates him. it's his first sunday morning back in the white house and he's up tweeting this morning. in my opinion, the leaks are fabricated lies made up by the fake news media. when you see the words, sours say, they don't mention names. it's possible those sources don't but are made up by fake news writers. if fake news is the enemy, why do we hear from people on the president's staff, people the president hired, people he trust, very close to the president, that he wants to fire people because they've identified leaker inside the white house? >> he once said that the leaks were real. to get to the bottom of them.

if now, they're fake, that's confusing. the thipg that is frustrating many republicans, the people who want him to succeed, is he has not ak cemented this is a real vest dpags. it's not a fake investigation. like it or not, sort of accepting this is to first thing to getting your taf back in order. so there may not be shake ups if he is saying this isn't real here, but it starts with him and his sense of grievance from the oval office and it seems to me the sense of this blast this morning as he is trying to program our counterprogram the sunday talk shows that that sense of grievance is alive and well. >> didn't really have to do. just a couple of weeks ago, bob mueller was named to the special investigation here. now, we have these new revelations about kushner, but this is an opportunity and i think a lot of people thought that the trump administration would take the tupt opportunity to step back, stop talking about push toward this agenda. that's what capitol hill republicans would like. >> with or without them, can

they advance their agenda right now? we are four months in. the white house said give us the white house, we will govern, pass tax reform, get the economy going, wipe out the obama legacy. too much government involvement in things like health care, education, where is the republican governing? >> i think they probably can advance an agenda without the them. what they're concerned about is that trump is is just going to show up and throw a monkey wrench into everything. members who are basically in his districts essentially and that can really complicate things, so they're trying to get ahead of that by working with the white house a little bit more. trying to hold their hand as they walk here. because they don't want any sort of 11th hour surprises. the difficulty for trump always with policy is that policy doesn't always give you an enemy. and trump kind of always needs

someone to push up against. and that's what these, what these tweets are about this morning. the russia investigation is. it is something he can fight back on. and it's been so hard for him and his white house to focus on policy. because it just doesn't give them that same kind of you know, person on the other side of the line that they can fight with and they have to get over that if they're going to deal with that and move forward. >> before we get to the republicans in congress too much credit, sorry, they have a lot of internal problems that were there before. the way they got a lot of stuff done when obama was president was by working with democrats and they had an incentive to do that because they wanted to make their guy in the white house not look so bad, now, democrats in congress have little incentive to work with the president. that doesn't mean across the board. they don't want to be blamed for a government shutdown for example, what trump is is really good at is is exploiting weak points. right now, it seems like he cares most about trump, b not about the cohesiveness of the gop. we reported when it came to the health care bill, he wanted a

role call bill taken on something that wasn't passed to get the nonloyal people on record in the party. when you've got the freedom caucus, the tuesday group and leadership trial holding everybody together and the president exposing those weak points, they just turn on each other more and haven't figured out how to overcome that, so -- >> the democrats have perfected the circular firing squad, but the republicans have taken their place. how about the former house speaker, john boehner, who left town because of these disagreements. he had a speech this week said everything else he's done in office has been a complete disaster. he's still hearning how to be president. he said the border adjustment tax is deader than a door nail. it's just a bunch of happy talk. >> he's using his bully pull pi for that. the president is using his bully pulpit to complain about the fbi

investigation, which is heig heightening the discussion about that. why not talk about his very successful journey last week in his view. he's right back at this this morning. but what republicans i talked to on capitol hill are so frustrated by the fact he's not setting this aside like you said earlier and going out to sell his agenda. he had one schedule on his schedule this week to go to iowa on thursday. the only red the blue state he has not visited. he canceled that, so he's going to stay in his bunker this week talking about this, not that agenda. >> crisis mode at the white house. sit tight. reporters next including fresh insights on jared kushner standing with the boss who of course happens to be family. got it. rumor confirmed. they're playing. -what? -we gotta go. -where? -san francisco. -when? -friday. we gotta go. [ tires screech ] any airline. any hotel. any time. go where you want, when you want with no blackout dates. [ muffled music coming from club. "blue monday" by new order. cheers. ] [ music and cheers get louder ]

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let's close, head around the inside politics table. get you out ahead of the big political news. >> right now, the white house is seeking some back up from the

outside to deal with this deluge of russia related stories. one of the things they're trying to do is beef up the rnc. they need research help, rapid response help and they need essentially, the republican national committee to kind of restaff after so many of its staffers came into the white house after the transition to help staff donald trump's administration, so, i'm told they're coordinating with the rnc right now, trying to get that situation rectified so as they go forward in addition to some of the war room efforts they're considering creating within the structure of the white house, they desperately need some outside group help. they have a couple of superpacs out there that are a will the l bit outside of their circle of criminal. the rnc, they have a little bit more say over and trying to work hard and get help as they head into a tough string of news in

the next couple of weeks. >> the rnc should be focused on 2018. we'll see how that plays out. jeff, welcome home. >> we've been talking about the cascade of stories about jared kushner have drawn this russia investigation within steps of the oval office, but overnight, we're learning one of the reasons he came home early was he knew "the washington post" soir was coming. he didn't want to be at the president's side when that happened. this is all settling in to the west wing, yes, he's not specifically the target of the vest gag, but he is front and center in the middle of it now and this creates an opening, a power center shift for steve bannon to have much more power and the aides private sly that jared kushner is going to remain, keep his head down, but this raises more questions about him. the best defense explanation so far, if he was back channelling with the russians, he wasn't

colluded with them during the campaign, but that is probably not you know, the best answer there. >> we'll get a better answer. >> well, i think the perception has always been that jared kushner because he's the son-in-law of donald trump, he's sort of untouchable or invince bable. that's almost entirely true, but not. i've heard from senior white house sources that trump himself has told jared kushner, look, people like you, young, wealthy, new york liberal democrats are not the reason i'm in the white house. now, despite that, he brought jared kushner into the white house because of his loyalty, because his usefulness within the white house, now, if jared kushner becomes unuseful to the president, you might see a shift. the caveat as jeff you mentioned, jared has a lot of n enemies within the west wing, chief among them, steve bannon. we have to keep that this mind. we hear this talk about the potential for jared to even

leave or get a demoted role within the white house that could be coming from the enemies looking at an opportunity and taking it. >> a game of thrones. >> as these other chapters unfold in this drama of what's been going on between the trump administration team and russia, congress has been pushed off to the side as these different have appeared. it's going to be very telling for how they assert themselves because there were several investigations that were going on. there is a one pocket of -- out p for michael flynn, but the two heads of the senate intelligence committee were given unbridled authority to start to take much better news. we have dead lips coming up in the next few days. the authority now for the two leaders just with the phone call to try to attack, not attack, but require and compel legally more information from other people and you're starting to

see that even though there was a sense of oh, we have time, we're trying to do this right just a few weeks ago as everything else kicks into high gear, you're going to see some kicking into high gear on capitol hill, too. the question is, if they end up getting compliance from people, does it mean they won't get what they want. >> probably special counsel. get ready for a presidential road show here at home with the focus that just might annoy republican leaders in congress. the white house is making plans for its version of antique road show. travel designed to promote president's big infrastructure ideas. the plan tentative, but cincinnati is pencilled in as a stop next week. unhelpful was the reaction of an aide. a constant complaint from gop leaders on capitol hill is that the white house political strategy is to them, scatter shot and often counterproductive. keep an eye on that. thanks for sharing your sunday. up next, state of the union.

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close to home. president trump's son-in-law jared kushner now a focus of the russia investigation. after reports he tried to set up a secret back channel with the a russians. just how far does trump's loyalty go? plus, hillary's back. >> you know what, i'm doipg okay. >> revealing how she felt watching trump's inauguration. >> i won't lie.