general kelly has on. jason, dan thank you very much. following a lot of news for you. talk to one of the reporters that broke that bombshell report in the washington post. let's get right to it. >> i wasn't involved in the statement drafting at all. nor was the president. >> new report finds the president personally dictated the initial misleading statement about his son's meeting with the russian lawyer. >> it could be evidence of a pattern of obstruction of justice. >> donald trump's legal team is failing him, staff. >> special counsel going to get to the bottom. >> look, the president definitely felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate. good morning.

welcome to your new day. it is tuesday, august 1, 8:00 in the east and there is a big head line this morning. "the washington post" reporting president trump personally dictated his son's initial and misleading statement about the meeting with the russian lawyer. >> this report comes after repeated denials from the president's attorney and the white house and now is worried that the president has somehow exposed himself and others to addition additional scrutiny. joining us now is a reporter from "the washington post." >> give us the head line here and what your reckoning is of the development. >> the real significance of this report and shout-out to my colleagues. the story wouldn't be possible without the four of us. ashley parker, phil rucker, the really significant thing here is that the president is the moving hand that misleads the public, the press. the it's not a lie to mislead

the public or the press, but it is a major problem for the president, and everyone who is involved in crafting this statement with him, because we have a special council who's investigating obstruction and any effort to lie or mislead is part of a narrative of potential obstruction if indeed the special council finds evidence of that, this helps play into that pattern, why did the president share something that wasn't true? why did he order that information be concealed? >> so you have potential illegality, that's for the special council. then you have just wrong. the being wrong, doing the wrong thing. jay, one of the president's attorneys on this show, said the president had no role in the drafting of that statement. what do you make of those types of answers? is this just protecting the

president? do you think everybody knows within that white house and the legal community that is representing different members of the white house that the president had a heavy hand? >> so i think jay certainly knows this now. whether he knew that at the moment, i can't say. but remember this is a moment, as our reporting shows, when the president, his daughter, son-in-law, and some of his closest advisors are in europe. they're far away from the legal team. and the president, being donald trump and the businessman that he is, he decides to take this bull by the horns and handle it himself. actually our reporting also indicates that of the lawyers were shell shocked when they found out this statement had been issued and were trying to find out after the fact what in the world had happened. >> of course there are plenty of businessmen and women who wouldn't have done it this way, who would have left it to the

people who were supposed to do this. but his decision leads to a very important question, which is what did he know when he helped to draft this statement? did he know about his son's e-mails, the wa i jarrod kushner's attorneys knew about them, and if he did know, did he know their content, which was to suggest this wasn't about adoption, which really wasn't about adoption, but sanctions but put that to the side. what do you think on that point? because that's most important, because if the president knew that his son took the meeting because there was a promise of russian dirt on clinton, this was grossly misleading. >> in talking to advisors, they're not sure that the president knew every sort of disaster kind of line in some of those e-mails, particularly when donald trump says if it's what you say, i love it, with regard

to dirt on hm hillary clinton. it's unclear to me whether he knew those takeaway lines but he knew this was more than a meeting about adoptions. if you remember, the statement very clearly says this was really about adoptions and was not a campaign issue. we know he knew more than that. and what's, i think, amazing about this incident and people are sort of recoiling about it now, especially lawyers around washington is how different the trump administration is handling this crisis with an investigator in the field compared to the way that george w. bush administration handled this when their administration was under investigation by a special counsel for leaking a cia operaative's name. the president in that instance, president bush was walled or from any discussions. if he ever had to be asked a question it was with his lawyer present and not any other aides around him. you don't want any whiff of

people comparing notes or shaping their stories and certainly not concealing information. but in the trump administration the president, really as his advisers have told me really views himself as tackling a pr problem, does not consider this a legal issue for him and is basically like hey, this is the way i run my business, the white house, i know the best thing to do, i'm the best lawyer, pr man. that's not a good idea in this situation. >> well i'd an important premise that you laid out in the piece, because if the president believes he has nothing to conceal, has done nothing wrong, then that gives him full intellectual cover if not legal cover, to spin it any way he wants because he doesn't believe there's any substance to any of the suggestions anyway. what do you believe the big questions are going forward? we >> well back to your smart point just thin. remember underlying conduct is

critical but also remember that vice president chainny's most trusted aide was not convicted or prosecuted for leaking information. he was prosecuted for obstruction and false statements. the so we don't know how everything is going to play out but central questions are going to be here, especially for bob mueller, how did that statement come to be, who advise at the president to say what? how many did they enkouj or disoudi encourage or discourage what he did and who agreed to a statement that was very misleading in the best possible reading. >> the obstruction is always useful to prosecutors because if you don't get an nevaunderlying. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> all right. >> let's bring in our political

panel. cnn politics reporter and cnn political analyst. it was very interesting to hear carroll there just talking about how they're reporting this morning that it was the president of the united states that dictated that message shows he is the sort of unseen hand that is attempting to mislead the american public. >> well, what i thought was so revealing by the reporting is something that we see evidence of on a near daily basis in this administration. especially with regards to russia. the president thinks it's all a setup. that it's not a real thing. the he always believed that russia was not a real threat, that was arrogance and naive to just be uninformed. despite what was known before the election and what has been confirmed since. the president, now, has just cast all that aside. and sees all of that as part of

an effort by some in the government or democrats to embarrass him. he doesn't think it's a really issue. and so you see then him deciding to treat this as a pr issue. saying there's nothing to conceal. nobody did anything wrong so we're going to fight. we're going to fight all comers and not going to treat the special council as legitimate or congressional inquiry as legitimate. there's evidence of that throughout including when it's so close to home where he's got his own son involved in a meeting with russians where he can be compromised, that is something he knew would be so debilitating because of the publicity it would generate, or worse, that he decides to get personally involved and dictate the statement, and then deny it afterwards and have others deny it. >> you had a couple of layers of trouble with this statement. the initial statement. the first one was boy, these guys are blind to the fact this wasn't about adoption, it was about sanctions and getting put tin's money back.

that's why they pulled the adoption program. that was relatively benign. listen to the attorney. not just some random friend. he asked about this on new day. said this. >> so he didn't have anything to do with the statement that don junior put out that was being worked on? >> no. at the statement that don junior put out -- you talking about yesterday's? >> the one over the weekend. >> no. that was written by donald trump jr. in consultation with his lawyer. at the "new york times" is wrong. >> is that shocking that sometimes they make a mistake? >> what is shocking would be chr chris, if the president's lawyer didn't know the president had been muscling up the statement. do you think that's more likely or is it the worse case scenario which is he came out here to try

and sell us? >> no. i don't think jay would put his entire professional reputation on the line for that. i could be wrong, but my guess is he didn't know that. now, the question is did he not know because he asked president trump, or someone close to president trump, did the president have any input on thisnd at president said no or whoever he asked said no. or did he not ask. those are the questions we don't know the answer to. the what we do know the answer to is i think we should play that tape at the top of every hour, today, because that is not -- what the attorney said there is not true. right? i mean there's no -- if you belief "the washington post" reporting and i no he all those folks intimately well from having spent a dedecade over th. those things can't be true. >> why can't he not have known?

he might not have known that the president dictated. >> absolutely true but that's not what he said. he could have said to chris, i don't know. i didn't ask the president that. what he said is, the president had nothing to do with that statement. it was done by don junior's and his lawyer. the so you're right, it is possible he didn't know but that's not what he said. and he has been around the block long enough, talk to jay and donald trump frankly did you jay, to know that your words matter this these situations and i'm sure he chose his words carefully based on what he did know. >> bad or worse situation for the attorney. the i have a billy joel song banging around. saying that -- >> piano man. >> you may be right. i may be crazy. >> but it just may be a lunatic i'm looking for. >> of course. >> thank you. for now planting that worm in my

head. >> i can't wait for the segue. >> here it comes. the in 3, 2, 1. they need a new communications director because obviously the message is all over the place. the somebody has to rein it in. they now have know communications director. >> it should be carrot top. >> because anthony's scaramucci's rapid demise that you were in the center of. any reporting on what is next and how they're going to tackle all this. >> mario can tone's available. he did a great impersonation. >> i think up until this point, really, president trump has been the communications director. right? i mean that's what that washington post story suggests, and just to go back to that for a second, think of how mind boggling -- think of the how mind boggling it is and the poor judgment that it shows that president trump, who had a special council on the case,

looking into obstruction of justice, decides to overrule his staff, staff is saying hey, boss we should really put out something that gets this information out. let's do something that's more fullsome. who knows what the "new york times" has. basically what the post is saying is no i've got a better idea. let's not disclose all that. let's just say the meeting was about adoption and literally dictates it himself. politically and legally, the fact that his advisers let him do that is really nuts. and suggests that for a while now, he has been the chief of staff, the communications director. someone who is just sort of micro managing the operations in the white house that would make jimmy carter blush. that's the first point. >> but its it's not just a matter of him not listening to advisors. the communications problem in

the white house is the fact that the president is the problem in the white house. the and that he's not listening to people who are giving him the right advice, or those people don't have enough forty tud to then leave. he has an opportunity here with general kelly, if he means it, if he's really going to listen, to change a little bit. i think what's striking about all of this, we'll continue inside washington to go over names and dissect how the west wing is operating but the rest of the country is moving past this. look at corporate earnings, the performance of the market, overall economy. corporate leaders are looking at washington and saying ift's a mess and it's irrelevant. nothing is going to strike at the ego more to president trump than the fact that his washington is now irrelevant. in kind of global commerce. that can change on a dime of course with regard to how the government inserts itself into the economy, or outside factors.

that's the thing we have to keep our eye on. all of this may be kind of gossip fodder but when you get outside events in north korea, or any kind of crisis that befalls the white house, you have to ask yourself whether they're up for the task. >> i think that's a really good point. sort of we like covering the soap opera, like showing the "new york post" head lines comparing to to a season of survivor but this has real world consequences if you have a white house that is in chaos, a white house that doesn't have the trust of the public because it obfuscates. if we hit a real crisis, this is not going to seem like such fun and games anymore. i'm going to depend on this white house to lead us through a serious crisis as ever administration experiences in h the first year and it's not going to be pretty. >> i'm not sure the president sees a gang buster's stock market as him being irrelevant. they obviously pick their successes or what they see as

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a new report in the wo"the n post" says the president dictated. joining us now republican senator ron johnson of wisconsin. what do you make of this washington post report in light of the fact that the president's attorney said right on this show he had no role in drafting that statement. now "the washington post" said he dictated it? >> good morning, chris. i'm not involved in any investigations. so i'll leave those capable individuals and committees to get to the nine nal facts of these things. we need to find out what the facts are. whether we need to take any additional action but i'm not going to comment until we have their reports. >> not concerned by that report? >> chris, there's so much out there being talked about right

now. pretty interesting article who funded the russian dossier on trump. i don't have any information on that. i think you could do all kinds of reporting. what i'm focusing on is how do we fix the messes, obamacare, get tax relief to the american taxpayer. the how do we grow the economy so we have greater opportunities for americans. >> disfunction in the white house and how we are led matters though, right? one of your fellow senators from arizona, wrote on op ed saying it's time for conservatives to stand up against this disfunction, to realize that they own, in part, making donald trump president. the what do you make of his op ed? >> well, i wrote my own op ed about. >> i know. >> disfunction -- i'm not a fan of washington, d.c.

it's going to be more efficient and more accountable. i'm not going to depend this process or this place. i'm here to limit the influence of the federal government over people's lives. one of ways so do that is to turn back the clock. we need to actually have the senate function. of the for example, right now the senate, were primarily the personnel business and both parties have obstructed presidents trying to make appointments. i think we're ahead of the obstruction of past administrations and one of my simple proposal is let the committees primarily vet administration nominees, do a good job of it and just limit debate on any nominee that's sub cabinet or other than supreme court justices to two hours so we can actually turn our attention to the enormous challenges facing this nation. right now precious center floor time is being wasted on nominees. >> let's talk about the word

wasted. isn't it about garbage in h, garbage out? isn't it part sanship, tribalism -- they blog everything they can. your leader going as far as saying that's our plan is to obstruct everything and now you have the democrats who are in that position. that seems to be part of their modus opper ran die. >> i'm proposing let's not allow either party the ability to block a president being able to staff his administration. let's not use senate floor time that should be used to debate for example, the debt ceiling, tax reform, how you fix this mess that is obamacare. that's what we should be using the senator floortime to debate those bills. all the foreign policy problems we're faced with today. right now we are primarily using senate time to really just have an empty -- go to the senate

chamber sometime you might have one senator talking to an empty chamber and the block is running because we have to go through all these proceeds to get to a vote on a nominee. i say limit it to two hours. the. >> there's some rationale in there you'll want to read. let's talk about this business of the american people. senator graham says you guys in the senate are going to listen to the president, not move on from health care. what do you see as most likely? >> well, we can't move on from health care because obamacare is a mess. wrote another column talking about the forgotten men and women. 60 hours a week, premiums have doubled, sometimes tripled. those are the people largely ignored in the health care debate because we haven't focused on premiums that have sky rocketed because of obamacare. obamacare, these markets are

collapsing. premiums have sky rocketed. it's certainly within our ability to bring the premium us down. maine did it. they instituted preexisting coverage. they premiums doubled. they didn't repeal it. the sup planted it with invisible higher risk pools. the cut yums premiums in half. >> how do you get it done? you had several iterations and couldn't get it done. what do you think might work in your own party let alone with the democrats. >> it what i've already announced in my committee homeland security, senate oversight committee, we're not the committee of jurisdiction to write lending legislation. i come from a manufacturing background. there's a problem solving process you go through, starting with information. in this alternate universe, if you get information it's at the tail of the process. we're going to thoughtfully go

through the problem solving process. get the information, do a root cause analysis and try to focus on achievable goals. the i think if you lay it out that way, under president trump we had 49 pieces of legislation signed into law going through the problem solving process. that's i hope other committee chairman do the same thing. >> good. that was a big part of the criticism of this ro proses was that you didn't have these hearings. see what it yields and let me repeat the promise. senator, you are welcome to come on here to new day with your charts facts and figures and sell what you think is the right proposal to the american people. it would be a great use our time. >> i will absolutely do that. look forward. >> senator thank you. >> okay, chris with the new chief of staff in the white house, could this be the reset the trump administration needs?

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washington post reports this morning that it was president trump who personally dictated the misleading statement about don junior's meeting. joining us now is senator. good morning, senator. >> good morning. >> from your perch on the submit how do you -- let me read it for everyone. this was the statement that we, according to "the washington post" was crafted on air force one. it was a short introductory meeting. i asked jarrod and paul manafort to stop by. we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families. but it was not a campaign issue at the time. and there was no follow-up. i was asked to attend the

meeting by an acquaintance but was not told who it was beforehand. we now know the reason don junior went to the meeting is because he was promised research on hillary clinton. that was omitted from the statement. you sit on the judiciary committee, what lens do you see this through? >> of course when donald junior, it was obviously misleading to the say the least. i thing be the president is viewing this as a family problem. pr problem. it's not -- it's serious. it involves a foreign power trying to invade our election process. the it involves the highest level of security when it comes to the united states' relationship with russia, and it's the subject of a criminal investigation. the i know he would never hire me as an attorney but i can't imagine having the president as a client if he would do something this rash. >> do you think that he's put

himself in some sort of legal jeopardy. >> i won't go that far but i will tell you i can't believe any worthwhile prosecutor can ignore this. this is a reality. it was poor judgment on the president's part to 0 inject into this conversation about his son's meeting facts which frankly had no basis. >> but a misleading statement, it's been pointed out many times -- even not american people, that's not a crime. >> well i didn't say it was a crime. but i'm saying you have to take it seriously. the when a president is making a representation about a meeting of this gravity and seriousness, and saying that i'm not making the statement. it's my son making the statement. there's some serious questions. >> there's been no tweets from the president this morning. that's sort of notable. we often get a flurry of this at this hour. the what do you think about general john kelly and what impact he will have on the white house and whether or not you as a democrat will be able to work with him. >> i voted for general kelly to head up the department of homeland security. i certainly don't agree with

president trump's immigration policy in general though i think his statements have been encouraging to me. i want to work with general kelly. i did before and still do. he is in a position where he can stablize this white house. that's good for this country. the president has to be part of that. when you think of a marine corps %-p and respect. those are qualities which this white house hasn't really displayed a lot of in the last few weeks. >> health care. are we going to see anything on health care? any new plan, any progress at some point out of the senate or the house this summer? >> yes, i think so. i wouldn't be surprised this week if the health committee doesn't come out with an agenda of things they want to get into. serious issues that need to be resolved. some of the things bipartisan things are happening in the house of representatives. the this is where we should have started months ago, identifying

the issues on a bipartisan basis and working through the process with the expert the and amendments. let me say this. in the meantime, this administration has to do everything in its power to stablize health care in america. the president's notion we can let it sink and fail and the democrats will come running and begging for help, the president ignores the reality. doing that is going to hurt a lot of innocent people and push premiums through the roof. let's do the responsible thing. keep the system afloat but make it stronger in a bipartisan way. >> senator, the president has gone further than i think what you're suggesting. it's not just saying ihe'll stad idly by but with hold subsidies. he thinks you all are being subsidi subsidized with federal dollars. >> if you break it you own it. if he breaks this health care system in h some spiteful rage,

people will suffer and he will suffer the consequences for being held responsible. in terms of lashing out in every direction, it's nothing new from this white house. >> senator, thank you very much for taking time. >> thank you. >> all right. los angeles and paris duking it out for a slot to host the summer olympics. find out when this summer games may return to the u.s. next. whoooo. finding the best hotel price is now a safe bet. because tripadvisor searches... ...over 200 booking sites - so you save up to 30% on the... ...hotelock it in. tripadvisor.

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consequence, the characterizations are misinformed and not per nent. which is this is not a big deal. >> which is what you would expect from him. i think one the things it's significant story is because of sec ca low as comments. that's a problem for the president. this is the lawyer that goes out and speaks on his behalf related to the russia investigation. i'm no lawyer but i think the other reason why he's saying there no consequence here. kbro -- pattern building exercise the mueller team might be doing as they're investigating possible sub struck shn. there's nothing wrong with lying in a press statement. but if you're a team of investigators, this is now a knew data point you're going to build into seeing if there's a pattern. there's the larger question, guys, again, what is it with donald trump and russia that no story is as it first appears to

be? that, to me -- why does that keep happening. >> on this one i think we can answer that. on this one, there actually was evidence of, if not collusion, an interest in collusion. this is the one where the e-mails reveal that don junior is excited when the russians offer him some sort of research on hillary clinton. this one of everything does feel like one that they wanted to say, let's not talk about that element. >> notice that you didn't say don junior was excited to have a meeting about russian adop shns. but that's not what the president if this report bears out, dictated as the response. the larger question is for me, remember,000 this all came to light. this is jarrod kushner and his team preparing to testify. how does jarrod kushner allow the president of the united states to dictate that st.

>> we'll soo what kind of responses you get. it does raise the question of forget it. it's not el lyingillegal on sev levels. now, it seems one senator from arizona has. he wrote an op ed and said to carry on in ht spring of 2017 as if what was happening or anything approaching normsy required a determined suspension of critical faculties and tremendous powers of denial. he's saying time to step up and call out the president. >> it feels a little like 2015 all over again. i think that the split we saw in the republican party during the nomination season is reemerging but now with six months of a trump presidency as sort of evidence that some of the trump critics from inside the operator are using. he is certainly doing that. he's trying to make the conservative mainstream republican case against the president exactly as that was

being made in 2015, and it fell on deaf ears. does now six months of the way donald trump has acted in office change that cal cculus for vote? >> chris has been monitoring this. maybe john kelly was already hiding the twitter machine. hear's what he says. stock market could hit ant all time high. election day, mainstream media seldom mentions. we did do a whole segment on the gang busters the stock market's reaches. >> no, sir media organizations note the dow at the close almost every day. the. >> they say there's all sorts of good stuff happening. the we're allowing ourselves to be dissfrakttracted by russia. >> so it's fine to tout the good stuff. the i think all presidents do

that. but it's then when you add the line there's no chaos, this was a great day at the white house, all of a sudden, you're then defying reality of what people are seeing with their own eyes. i think that's where it becoming more problematic. >> and also, notable, that he did not insult us, though he is inaccurate in his statement about reporting. >> thank you very much. the good stuff. should we do that? >> indeed. >> let's do it next. show me minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.com. i'm leaving you, wesley. but why? you haven't noticed me in two years. i was in a coma. well, i still deserve appreciation. who was there for you when you had amnesia? you know i can't remember that. stop this madness. if it's appreciation you want you should both get snapshot from progressive. it rewards good drivers with big discounts on car insurance. i have also awoken from my coma.

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time for the good stuff. people are good and they give. two strangers connected to help save someone's life. a woman's selfless act. nicole, heart broken when she read a post about a single mom covering of suffering from lupus. she was in dire need of a kidney. she decided to take action. >> that's wh it hit me. i can do something about this. le maybe i'm a match. >> that's rare. gave kara a gift she will never forget. >> giving me that time back with my children. and allowing me to be involved in their lives in a way i haven't been. >> the two women now of course the best of friends.

>> oh, my gosh. >> it's not like giving you a ride. lending you a dress. it's a tandem organ. you only need one kidney. >> down playing it. >> its a huge thing. >> it's amazing. let's end on this note. late night comics. here are your late night laughs. >> today, president trump officially removed anthony scaramucci as his communications director. and this was a little awkward when he call alled an uber, sean spicer was driving. the front stabber has been back stabbed. he said he was going to fire everybody and i got to admit. he delivered. that's thorough. he had a number of unflattering and fillny things to say about his colleagues reince priebus and steve bannon. president trump apparently thought they were inappropriate.

he's a very say what you like about him, very appropriate person. scaramucci's official start date was supposed to be august 15th. or, as president trump put it. see, we're setting so many records. the he's the first person to get fired before they start working. kelly let the mooch go. because he wanted more structure, less of "game of thrones." that's not fair. >> wow. >> that's not a fair comparison. you have to wait a whole week for a new beheading. >> now ten days may not seem like a long time but consider all the mooch got accomplished. he told his company, gave a vulgar damning interview to the press. his wife filed for divorce. he missed the birth of his son. that's more than trump has done in his entire presidency. >> i know. i know. some of those veer into the tragic personal side of this.

>> it does. it's the first time i've ever seen where you don't have to ax zaj rate reality to create comedy. >> i don't know what loyalty is in that white house because if scaramucci wasn't loyal, i don't know who is. >> tune in tomorrow for more on that. cnn news room with poppy harlow and john berman pick up the ball. >> don't wait until tomorrow. stay tuned. we had a camera waiting to see this anthony scaramucci shows up to work. all right. guys, thanks so much. let's get to it. good morning everyone i'm poppy harlow. >> im john berman in h what would have been day 12 of the scaramucci error. we are in day one of can you take a memo era. a new controversy. the president accused of personally dictating a