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president he could get accomplished. anything he needs congress for so far hasn't happened. >> we're going to watch it every step of the way. guys, thanks. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, not coming clean. a senator calling out the trump family for lack of transparency as cnn learns the identity of the eighth person in the room. that person's attorney is outfront. trump and putin had a second previously undisclosed conversation at the g-20. what happened between the two men? and trump vows to let obamacare fail. is the law here to stay? let's go outfront. good evening. outfront tonight the breaking news the top democrat of the senate intelligence family calling out the trump family for not coming clean.
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senator wark warner reacting to the news that an eighth person has been identified. that meeting set up with the promise of incriminating information on hillary clinton, information that was said to be from the russian government. we now know that the name of that eighth person in the room is disclosed. he is ike kavalatse. you see him in las vegas in 2013. now, he is a senior vice president at the real estate development company run by ar ris ago lar rov. that is the russian billionaire whose family help set up the meeting at trump tower. the senator clearly outraged from the lack of transparency from the trump family. >> it is very strange to me that this meeting that was supposed to be originally was related as three or four people about russian adoptions. i doubt if this individual who had a history of setting up
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thousands of fake accounts in delaware was really there to talk about russian adoptions. so what we see here is, again, senior levels of the trump administration and now the trump family not coming clean with information. >> not coming clean are some extremely strong words from the senator. warner referring to a congressional administration in 2000 where he was linked to american bank accounts under skrut nooi for money laundering. he denies to my wrongdoing and never changed in that matter. the question is what was he doing in the meeting and how wul does he know donald trump? and what are his ties to the russian government. we will ask his lawyer in a moment. paml pamela, what are you learning about this eighth person in the room? >> cnn has learned the identity of this mystery eighth person in the room, and he is a close
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associate of the russian oligarch going back decades and someone previously had interactions with donald trump. >> this exclusive video obtained by cnn appears to know ike in the background right next to donald trump in las vegas in june of 2013. he has now been thrust into the spotlight as the mystery eighth person at the trump tower meeting with donald trump jr., former campaign manager paul manafort and jared kushner. his attorney says he was there acting as a representative of ross and ar mean ago lar rov along with their publicist who promised a meeting, quote, some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary clinton and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father. in an interview for a russian web portal in 2016, he said he
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has a long history of working for the ago lar rov family and their real estate company. >> i have been working with this company since 1989. when i was just a little boy doing my fifth year at moscow finance institute, i arrived and since then i have worked there. >> cav latte's personal website says he holds responsibility for multiple elements of company's russian development project, including a russian 24-hour super store. he was linked to u.s. bank accounts that came under congressional investigation for possible money laundering tied to russian brokers. at the time he denied any wrongdoing, calling it a witch hunt. his facebook page says he was born in the soviet union, studied in moscow before receiving an mba. he is now a u.s. citizen and works in the united states. i. we activity represent interests in the usa. a lot of goods, construction
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equipment was purchased in the u.s. >> he attended the meeting with russian american lobbyist, translator and russian lawyer. that meeting now under scrutiny by special council robert mueller. his client is fully cowob rating with investigators who have already reached out and he said his client has never had anything to do with the russian government. and his attorney says his client had very little to do with this meeting. he says he initially thought he would be coming as a translator for the russian attorney who didn't speak english and didn't realize that she had already brought her own translator. erin? >> thank you very much. i appreciate it, pamela. let's start with the eighth person in the room, your client. we have been reporting now for
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five days there was an eighth person in the room and now we know it is your client. why didn't he come forward imimmediai immediately? >> everyone else in the room knew who he was. he's a private individual who had a very tangential role in this meeting and didn't want to thrust himself into the media spotlight which of course was ultimately inevitable. >> okay. so that's your reason there. i want to play more. let me play a little bit more of the detail. here's senator warner. >> this individual who at least had a colorful past, if not a potentially criminal, it is very strange to me that this meeting that was supposed to be originally was related as three or four people about russian adoptions. i doubt if this individual who had a history of setting up thousands of fake accounts in delaware was really there to
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talk about russian adoptions. >> pretty irresponsible comment by senator warner. first of all, what mr. cav latte did back 20 years ago was absolutely unequivocally legal. there was never any allegation of him engaged in any criminal activity. >> he was not charged. >> and did absolutely nothing wrong. the focal point of that report was about the banks onboarding of client accounts, a compliance issue. he has never been implicated in any wrongdoing whatsoever. to say he has a colorful is quite unfair and quite frankly dishonest. >> there is a couple of points from this. first of all the exclusive video. your client is in the background next to donald trump. your other client speaking there with donald trump in las vegas 2013 at a miss usa pageant.
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how well does he know the trumps? >> i don't think he knows them at all. he did attend that meet anything las vegas with many other peoples. i don't believe he had any other contact with any trump other than those two occasions. >> okay. when senator warner raises a question about whether he'd be there to talk about adoptions, among the eight people, right, your client, donald trump jr., jared kushner, paul manafort, you have said that your client went in thinking that perhaps he was going to be translating for the russian attorney who was there. turns out there was another translator so he wasn't needed to do that. you heard him there in pamela's piece. he is an incredibly accomplished guy. he has a lot on his plate. why would he be in that meeting as a translator to begin with. >> he was there as a staffer who was there to make sure if meeting happened and facilitate logistics and, yes, he believes serve as a translator. he did not know --
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>> he was not in there as a translator translator. he was there as a representative of the family. >> he was intended to be there to be actually a translator, interpreter for the russian lawyer who speaks no english. before that day, he had not met any of the other people in that room. prior to one hour before the meeting, he had no idea what the meeting was going to be about. he was asked by his boss, go to the meeting, make sure it happens, facilitate logistics and that's all he knew. then he learned magnitsky act. he had a one hour conversation and he learned it is about the magnitsky act. >> so he wasn't aware of the conversations in the e-mail with rob goldstone and donald trump jr. about the russian government highly sensitive information and support for donald trump? >> they didn't see that information until it was tweeted publically a couple days ago. >> why did the family only set up the meeting, right, that they
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didn't have any role in the content of the meeting was going to be about. why then did they have two representatives inside that meeting? >> they had one representative that was iek cav latte. mr. gold stone was also there -- >> he's a public relations representatives. there is no question that he is a representative of family. >> he was also facilitating the meeting. threfs there for that purpose. the meeting was between the russian lawyer and the trump campaign folks and everybody else there was just as far as we know there to facilitate the meeting, make sure it happened and serve in your capacity. >> your client had no idea this was anything other than magnitsky act? >> that's correct. >> does he have any proof to show that or did he have no other contact other than phone conversations before that hour before? >> he got a call saying go to this meeting. he showed up at the meeting an hour early. heard about magnitsky act. accompanied her to the meeting. was at the meeting for 30
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minutes. does not recall saying a single word other than his name. >> did he know there was going to be another translator before the meeting? >> no, he didn't. >> so he couldn't back out before, okay. so when you have said that the family didn't know about these crucial e-mails. we know. let me quote again for people. highly sensitive information from the russian government that could incriminate hillary clinton. you're saying that is not what the ago lar ra family intended the meeting to be about. but i wanted to go through a key e-mail exchange if i could with you, scott. on june 2nd, don junior replies to this e-mail about all of this information saying i'm on the road at the moment. perhaps i speak to amin first, your client. let me know when you're free to talk about this hillary clinton info. >> what number could he call? >> my cell, thanks.
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okay. he's on stage in moscow but should be off within 20 minutes, so i'm sure could call. 55 minutes elapse. it implies a conversation took place. one would make a circumstantial argument there, right. goldstone writes don, amin asked i schedule a meeting with you and the russian government attorney for this thursday. it sure seems like your client had a phone conversation with don junior which corroborated the russian government having incriminating information about hillary clinton. >> let me answer that in two ways. i have read the e-mails obviously now. my client has no recollection of such a call taking place. we are going back -- >> your client saying he doesn't recall. >> and i have heard that donald trump jr. has no recollection of a call taking place. we are going back to try to identify what phone it could be, checking phone records and the like. >> and you are going to give those phone records of any phones he may have, all phones? >> we are looking at everything he may have, exactly. he was on tour that day.
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we know that. we don't know that a conversation took place, that's one. two, the other part of it, i'll be unequivocal about again. there is absolutely no conversation between either ago lar rov and the russian prosecutors or russian government that hillary clinton or the u.s. campaign ever, didn't happen. >> you're positive? you have seen those e-mail trails and those phone records? >> there is no such conversation that happened, that's right. >> that they tell you. would you agree with me, though, that when you read this e-mail trail and you look at the time stamps and you look at what it refers to, a normal person would look at this and say it would seem there is a phone conversation. >> i can see why you're drawing that inference. but the e-mails don't say thanks very much, i spoke to amin or thanks for helping. >> simply an implied one. >> i understand the suggestion and all i can tell you what my folks say and what those folks say, and they have no recollection of a conversation
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happened. we're checking. but that is not definitive to me and it is inconsistent with what i understand to be the case. >> and in terms of phone records, ago lar rov and his father, are they going to be giving all phone records over, even ones in the per view of russia and russian authorities. >> i'm not sure what you mean giving over or to who. these people with multiple means of communication, we're trying to find out if there is a record of any call between these two individuals in that time frame. i haven't seen it yet. >> to bob mueller. that's what you would be giving it to you. >> we've talked about that as well. they have asked to talk to my client. we are going to cooperate fully in that regard. we're going to cooperate fully in that regard. >> do you know when that will be? because i want to make sure our viewers know he is an american citizen so he can be called and he can be called to testify and
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answer questions and you're saying they want to and do you know when? >> i don't have a date yet but he is willing to go speak to them in person at their convenience. >> did he have any follow up with anyone after this meeting? >> what do you mean by anyone? not with any of the people in the room regarding this issue, no. i mean, he certainly has that follow up with amean argue lor rov, who were his employers. >> someone in the room says that the russian lawyer left behind a document, told the associated press, a document that laid out her case for russian funding of the clinton campaign that was so-called incriminating, that this document was left behind. does your client recall? >> he doesn't recall a document being left behind. he does recall seeing a document at some point in time in anticipation of the meeting in the hour before when he met with natalia. we're looking for that document. i have not seen it yet. >> you said in the hour before that all he thought was the
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magnitsky act. this document was not about the magnitsky act. this was about incriminating information about hillary clinton. >> that was some kind of powerpoint about the magnitsky act. i've heard some stuff from other people about there being a hillary clinton related document. >> that's the one that the associated press was told. >> the document le saw before the meeting was about the magnitsky act. >> was there any follow up to your client from anyone on the trump campaign, jared kushner, paul manafort or anyone who worked for them during this meeting? >> absolutely not. >> thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> okay. outfront next breaking the news, the president has a second meeting with vladimir putin and we are just getting more information about that. a top senator saying it went on for a long period of time. we have more details coming up. plus opposing the push to
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breaking news, we are learning right now about a second conversation that president trump had with russian president vladimir putin while at the g-20 summit earlier this month. it was completely undisclosed by the trump administration. the conversation took place at a dinner. you'll member the first sit-down lasted over two hours. wait until you hear about this one. jeff zeleny outfront. you were with the president at this time, and you are learning a whole lot more about the second conversation, which does not seem to have been a quick sort of hello, how are you sort of thing? >> reporter: it was at the end of their -- end of their day last week or actually two weeks ago on a friday evening after the president of the united states and president putin of course met for two hours and 15 minutes. that was an extraordinary period of time. but then they went to a dinner and musical concert as often is the case in these meetings. but at the end of this dinner,
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we are being told there was indeed another meeting between these two leaders here. and the reason it is so interesting, erin, such a focus on, you know, here at the white house on a russia, it is one of the reasons that of course this is drawing new attention tonight cht but the white house is only disclosing it now. they are saying, look, it was not a huge meeting. it was just a conversation. but i am told informs nearly an hour long meeting. you have to, you know, with translation, dual translation, you have to sort of do the math. it is about 30 minutes of a normal meeting here. but certainly significant at the end of the long day when they were talking about election meddling, other things. but if you remember the pictures from that' evening, melania trup is sitting next to putin. at the end of this dinner, president trump walked over, had more of a conversation. but erin, the u.s. translators were not even prepared for this meeting. the u.s. translator on hand spoke japanese and actually
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happened to speak russian. but the translator from earlier in the day was not there. so this is all happening in real-time here. no staff was present. no white house staff, no national security aids were present. it was just world leaders. it is one of the reason these summits actually pop. but erin, we do not know exactly what they talked about, if they continue their conversation on election meddling. but the reason this is drawing sop such new attention now is because of the intense focus here at the white house on everything that happened in russia with that meeting on june 2016 which we only found out about after the fact. >> this seems to be possible very significant even what the white house is saying tonight. as news of this is coming out. the white house is putting out a statement saying that the meeting was not merely perfectly normal, but part of a president east duties. they continue to say it was a brief conversation at the end of dinner. there was no second meeting. and, quote, the insinuation that
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the white house has tried to, quote, hide a second meeting and false, malicious and absurd. they are coming out aggressively here. but everybody would agree whether it's 30 minutes or one hour without staff, without national security representatives, that's something pretty significant that you would think would have been mentioned before. >> it is significant only because again of the focus here to much on what is going on between the u.s. and moscow and the kremlin. erin, i can tell you i was on air force one that next day flying back to the u.s. that was not mentioned at all by three senior u.s. officials who were briefing us about the meeting here. it is unclear if they knew about it or if they had the read-out of it. the reason it is interesting is because this white house has been reluctant time and time again to talk about, you know, sanctions, other things relating to russian. it has become the achilles hill of this white house. i'm told it was a social
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gathering, which we can see at the end of a dinner here, but still another sense for these two presidents adversaries and linked in this unusual way here having more time than we initially thought. >> a lot more time and something people would have a lot of interest in the fact of knowing it actually happened. let's go to phil mud now, april ryan and richard painter. phil, the breaking news here, president trump having a second undisclosed conversation with vladimir putin. maybe it was about all personal things. the point it was long and a real conversation and no one president other than themselves other than the russian translator that worked for vladimir putin and we didn't find out until tonight. how big of a deal is it? >> i don't think it is a big deal from the white house perspective. we have a president not known with dealing with detail. if you look at the health care
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legislation, a lot of criticism about lack of detail. you go to the earlier meeting. you are dealing with ukraine, crim crimea, north korea and syria and then they talk later on through translators for an hour. if i were the white house, i don't understand why they weren't out weeks ago saying they got along well. the conversations were so serious. so serious the president decided to continue those conversations that'vening. i think it is good news for the white house. >> let me ask you about this. they are being defensive. they're not acts like it is good news. look, they should just come out and said they had it. the delaware senator said he heard it also went on for quite some time. you heard an hour, but you have to account for translation time. >> i just heard about it this morning from a source that suggested not only did he get up
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and go all the way over the dinner to talk to putin, but he did so for a long period of time, did so with other heads of state and didn't bring an american translator. he relied on putin's translator for the understanding of what the conversation was, a basic failure in terms of national security protocol so there was someone who could help him understand what was being said. >> right. obviously the translator issue significant. you heard the reason for that was that donald trump's translator spoke japanese and not russian. richard, why would the white house, if this is something that is just showing they could get along and trump will be able to have some influence over putin, which would not be a bad thing, why wouldn't they disclose this conversation at the time? >> any normal white house would have disclosed it upfront because it is a good thing to have the united states and russia talking about having our presidents talk, even though we have some sharp differences between these two countries.
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it is important for world peace and any normal white house would have disclosed it. the problem with this administration is that the administration, multiple people in the administration and now the trump family have for months been persistly dishonest about their contacts with russians. some of their meetings were illegal like the meeting in the trump tower before the election. other meetings are suspicious, for example, jared kushner meeting with russian bankers. others are perfectly legal and appropriate. but why lie about it? it makes the situation much worse when they lie over and over again to the american people and in some instances lie to congress and lie on their security clearance forms. >> april, you obviously covered this white house. what do you think the reason is for their error of omission in this case on a meeting with the world leader that frankly is a very significant conversation,
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whether you think it is a good or bad thing, it is a significant thing they had a conversation at this dinner with the russian translator. >> it is very significant, erin. this administration has thumbed its noise at the press. this administration has thumbed its nose at protocol. this really is causing many of the critics of this russia investigation, this russia conversation to once again raise an eye brow saying here we go again. for this president not to have his staff around or somewhere near, we have seen this president talk to a russian ambassador before and say things that other presidents would not dare say. he's still very new. we don't know what the conversation was about as of yet. but it was omitted. that raises an eyebrow now the question is what was the conversation about and why was it so long? and so, phil -- >> and indeed it does -- i'm
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sorry. >> phil, are we going to find out what it was about? obviously we don't know anybody who may have heard or something, and that obviously we could find out. but we go know in terms of the key participants, the president and president putin, it was a russian translator. so we would have to rely on the russians to know what came out of the meeting. >> i don't expect to find out what's coming out. when we had an american translator there and talking about the discussions of the last meeting, there were different answers from the russian side and the american side. we're expecting president trump to come out and declare what he said weeks ago. that ain't going to happen. >> which of course is deeply unfortunate. i think we could all agree on that. thank you all. in the meantime republican efforts to repeal obamacare are dead on arrival. president trump said, fine, just let obamacare fail.
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>> we'll just let obamacare fail. we're not going to own it. i'm not going to own it. i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. >> and breaking news just moments ago cnn confirming that all gop senators have been invited to the white house tomorrow to talk about health care. jason carol is outfront. this is a sign the white house is not giving up yet. >> yes. it is definitely a sign that the president has been criticized for not getting activity involved in the legislative process up until this point. so clearly this lunch is a sign that this administration is not giving up. what is also clear, the blame game is not over, not yet. >> i don't think it's no, but i'm certainly disappointed. >> one of the president trump's signature campaign promises sidelined. but the president defiant, saying let obamacare collapse and not to blame him or his party. >> we'll just let obamacare fail. we're not going to own it. i am not going to own it.
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i can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. we'll let obamacare fail and the democrats will come to us saying how do we fix it or how do we come up with a new plan. >> the administration defending the president's position to allow the health care system to fail, which could leave countless number of people struggling to find insurance. >> democrats have refused to join in fixing the health care problems that have plagued our health care systems and hopefully with the collapse of the program that they put in place, they will be more willing to come to the table and clean up the mess. >> the vice president who took the leading role to work with gop leaders on capitol hill said lawmakers need to do more. >> congress needs to step up. congress needs to do their job. and congress needs to do their job now. >> the president is blasting democrats for the collapse of this senate bill which they had no part in crafting. >> it would be nice to have
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democrat support, but really they're obstructionists. they have no ideas or thought process. so the way i look at it is in '18 we will have to get some more people elected. we have to go out and get more people elected that are republican. >> even with republican majorities in both the house and senate, republican efforts to replace obamacare have stalled. the health care failure is a stunning blow to the president's agenda, who just two months ago celebrated the passage of the house bill in what could only be described as a victory lap. >> we're going to get this passed through the senate. i feel so confident. >> so again erin, in one breath you have the president saying that he's basically washing his hands of it, that he does not own it, not responsible for it. but then you have this lunch that is going to take place tomorrow with gop senators here at the white house where the topics of discussion will be health care and other issues. >> jason, thank you. outfront now the chair of the
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house budget committee of tennessee, who is also a registered nurse. i appreciate your time. you heard the president earlier saying just let obamacare fail. if obamacare fails, obviously that means many americans will see a surge in health care costs. is it right to have that attitude, to just let obamacare fail? >> i think you're seeing that right now. i can tell you throughout my state there are pockets of our communities where they have no insurance providers on the exchanges. so obamacare is failing. it is not let it fail. it is failing. you take iowa that has no providers in the market. and so we see the system is failing and that's why i think we have to do something. we passed our bill here in the house of representatives and the senate has it and i don't think they can give up. i think you cannot give up when the american people need help. i think it is up to us to come up with a program where we can rescue them. >> so the president is going to have that lunch tomorrow. the first three senators who
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said they would not vote to repeal obamacare without an immediate replacement for republican women. none of them, of course, representative were part of the initial senate group working on a full repeal and replace. that group was made up of 13 men. did senate leadership make a mistake by leaving women out? >> i think everybody should be included in the conversation, whether they're a female or male, everybody should be at the table. that's the problem. when you don't have everybody in the room where you can actually all talk together about where you have differences and be able to find a sweet-spot, this is what you get. i think they all have to be thrown in a room together frankly, pretty much the kind of thing we had to do in the house where we had to get our members in the room and let members talk to one another and figure out a solution. the american people need this. it is not a fact of whether this one gets their way or that one gets their way. we have to find a way or they have to find a way to get
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together to find a solution for the american people. >> so the gop health care bill as it was and obviously it is no longer would have meant about a trillion dollars in tax cuts, which is now off the table or in limbo because the bill is doa for now. if a trillion dollars in health care taxes is now unknown, it is a complete question mark, how are you able to go ahead with a budget resolution on tax reform, which i know you're putting forth today if you have that big question mark? >> what we put forth is a budget. and in the budget resolution we make some assumptions. and our assumption is there will be a health care reform. obviously we passed the health care reform in our body, and so we do assume that in our budget. now, if that doesn't occur after we pass our budget, we will have to adjust things, but we make those assumptions. we also were concerned because taxes will make a difference in the tax reform. again, the budget doesn't actually do the tax reform.
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it sets up a mechanism where tax reform can be done through reconciliation. >> i want to jump in there quickly. that would mean you work together and you can win with 51 votes in the senate. >> that's right. >> that obviously is very significant. you can't get a filibuster then. do you have the votes to get this done? >> i have the votes to get it out of my committee tomorrow. i'll take one step at a time. it has been a product we have worked on for four and a half months now. i'm proud this is a committee product and we worked together. we worked all the way from the freedom caucus over to the tuesday group, and we were able to get a product that we're really happy with and we're proud of. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your time. outfront next, what happens when your republican that senator trump really doesn't like? he's finding out. we have a special report. an american nightmare. a bride shot by police after
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happen. >> reporter: the seth and chris show is on now. >> is jeff flake in trouble? if so, why? >> the answers lighting up conservative talk in the red state of arizona. >> if he's in our party, i would expect him to vote along with the majority of our party. >> early on he was very, very much against trump. >> do you have to support trump in this state right now to win? >> that's the question we're going to test with the jeff flake candidacy. >> arizona senate's 2018 election already been challenged as a white house hunts for more loyal republicans. senator flake every endorsed trump's candidacy. instead of going to the convention, telling a reporter, i've got to mow my lawn. in september still lukewarm. >> i would still not vote for donald trump. >> trump calling flake very weak and ineffective. their relationship ins. >> it was a bit tense. >> uh-huh. >> he started out saying that
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i've been critical of him, and i have been frankly. >> a perilous path under a president that has a pension for revenge. >> i think it is really important if somebody screws you, screw them back in spades. >> you have the trump sign. >> yes. >> on the wall. >> i do. >> why is that trump sign there? >> because i want to make america great again. >> she lost in the primary to senator john mccain last year, but thinks its different this time. >> has someone from the white house specifically called you to encourage you to run against senate flake. >> i was there a couple of weeks ago. >> how real is this effort to oust senator flake? >> i would say it is extremely real and i would be concerned if i was the incumbent right now. >> robert graham, another trump loyalist being courted to run for his seat. meeting with team trump half a
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dozen times. graham says arizona state treasurer is also in conversations with the white house for a senate run. >> is this a battle worth happening? >> you start saying, okay, are we going to lose that seat as republicans. so if you lose another seat, what happens? >> flake's re-election campaign says the senator is closely aligned with the president, voting with him 95% of the time this year, whether that resonates with the arizona republican base. >> oh, my god. i would never vote for this guy. >> the interest in senator flake's seat isn't just coming from the white house, from external forces. it is much more intense internally within the state, says graham, when you consider the amount of calls he's had from do nors and the interest he's had from activists within the state. that he says is where the real action is when it comes to trying to put someone more conservative into senator
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flake's seat. >> thank you very much. and a fascinating report when you think about it, right. republicans challenges republicans. next, a woman who called 911 to report a crime ended up being killed by police. it is gripping people all across this country. >> and don and hillary about to confront each other, this time as giants storms. what are the odds? award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. this july visit your local volvo dealer to receive sommar savings of up to $4,500. this july visit your local volvo dealer [music playing] across the country, we walk. carrying flowers that signify why we want to end alzheimer's disease.
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developing tonight outrage across the world after an always train y'all woman was shot and killed by a minneapolis police officer. how this happened, though, is still unknown. what we do know is she called 911. moments after police arrived she was shot dead and now the victim's family is demanding answers. ryan young is outfront. >> female screaming behind the building. >> 5:30 shots fired. >> the mystery surrounding the shooting death now the focus of international outrage. it began saturday night just before midnight when the 40-year-old australian born woman called 911.
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>> where is ems on this? >> ems is coming. rescue is coming. >> officials have given new gi details. reports that ruszczyk was unarmed wearing her pajamas when she went to the driver side door ot police car. sources tell ruszczyk was talking to the driver when the officer in the passenger seat shot across his partner striking ruszczyk in the abdomen killing her. there is no video. neither officer activated dash cam ore body cam. she was engaged to be married next month. life coach and yoga instructor. >> don damond was her fiance. >> she touched so many people. with her loving, and general heart. she was a teacher to so many. and living a life of openness,
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love and kindness. >> the deadly shooting splashed across newspapers over seas. one headline calling it an american nightmare. >> we now know the identity of the police officer. >> second year officer mohamed noor. his arrival had been highly celebrated. his attorney released a statement extending condolences to ruszczyks family. saying in part he's a caring person with a family he loves and empathizes with the loss others are experiencing. a makeshift memorial has sprung up at the sight of ruszczyks shooting. one card asked what so many want to know. why did you shoot sdp kill our neighbor? and friend. >> just tonight we're getting new information from the investigators who are involved in the case. learning the driver of the car the officer talked to
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investigators. when they went up the alley they were startled. startled by a large loud sound near the car. they reacted and his partner fired across hi. hitting ruszczyk once in the abdomen. they got out and started aplying first aid immediately. at this point that is the first time we're getting that kind of information from officers and investigators about this case. the fact the officer who was driving said they heard a large noise and the shot was fired sp immediate immediately got out. unfortunately it was too late. she was pronounced dead on the scene. >> out front now. former nypd lieutenant. she was calling in to report a sexual assault. you know she thought was happening to someone else. hugely tragic that happened. explain what could have happened here. you would have had one police officer shooting across another which seems to be completely not what you're supposed to do. >> highly reckless act.
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when police officers respond for a call for stance. one of the first things the officer does is radio into the dispatcher. for confirmation as to who the caller is and parties involved. that doesn't appear to be the case. if that was the case the officer would have understood this was the lady standing outside of the vehicle was in fact the caller. so it created a very dangerous situation to say the least. where we have an officer sitting in a passenger seat firing across the officer in the drivers seat. shooting and killing the lady. >> reckless. they haven't activated the dash cam. are we going to know exactly what happened or how this happened? >> it's interesting you bring out the body cam. as a result of the shooting that happened with kas till, this department elected to use body cams for all officers. however unfortunately they weren't on. one of the things about body cam the officer had the ability to turn it on and off.
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the reason being is if the officer uses the bathroom or if the officer is in conversation with a confidential informant. it allows the officer discretion. unfortunately the officer never turned on the body cam. in addition to that dash cam footage wouldn't have showed us a true vision on what was taking place. because the footage would have focussed on what was in front not on the side. >> you might have gotten audio. which is not the full story. >> when tropical storms meet. don with hilary lurking. choicehotels.com. badda book. badda boom. that's it? he means book direct at choicehotels.com for the lowest price on our rooms guaranteed. plus earn free nights and instant rewards at check-in. yeah. like i said. book now at choicehotels.com
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there's a tropical storm brewing named hilary. and a tropical storm don which is fizzling. >> hold onto your hat. it's tropical storm don. >> this is tropical storm don. pretty small. >> reporter: small. small and not organized. forecast to den generate. is that anyway to talk about don? people have been reading a lot into the caribbean storm that shares the president's name. the actual storm has unleashed a tweet storm. national weather service releases first picture of tropical storm don. warning tropical storm don just turned into a category 1 covfefe. don the storm has no connection to donald the president. it's all coincidence. >> comes up with the names sdp these are decided years and years before the storms actually happen. >> reporter: when this don coincided with this donald.
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trump critics flip their wigs. tropical storm don is expected to be the first storm in u.s. history to cause widespread damage in every state of the union. actually the storm prognosis is poor. will dispate within 72 hours. low energy. sad. but there's an even freakier coincidence. in the forecast. >> tropical storm hilary. hilary and don. >>. >> reporter: we kid you not. tropical storm don is weakens in the atlantic. the name is officially bestoued once the tropical depression becomes a tropical storm. hilaryfuls simply next on the official list of pacific storms. tweeted one critic, well the good news is the tropical storm hilary has no chance of hitting the white house. who could have imagined these two would coincide two forces of nature in a forecast of cloudy
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with a chance of collusion. >> i know you are excited about that one. cloudy with a chance of collusion. anyway. pretty amazing right to come up with the names years in advance. g gives us some humor. ac 360 is next. >> mccain compares the russia story to a centipede. there's always another shoe to drop. one more piece of foot gear goes trump in the night. one more piece of breaking news. a surprise and a mystery. it's also now the case the white house disregarding advice today from the normally friendly wall street journal editorial panl to disclose everything russia related now all at once. instead we got confirmation of a second meeting at the g 20 summit between trump and putin. undisclosed by the white house