or have flu-like symptoms, or sores. liver problems can occur with entyvio. if your uc or crohn's medication isn't working for you, ask your gastroenterologist about entyvio. entyvio. relief and remission within reach. we begin the hour with more breaking news on the russian investigation. today has been pretty much wall to wall with it. this information involves what the trump campaign and has been saying about connections. what have you learned, jim in. >> we were talking about this yesterday that then candidate trump had this meeting with his national security advisory board. the picture has been up on our screens over the last 24 hours repeatedly. it's been there for a while now

that george papadopoulos, the former adviser to the campaign made this pitch to then candidate trump at the meeting he could set up this meeting between trump and vladimir putin. also in the room was then senator and now attorney general jeff sessions. we told you a couple days ago, this was brought up in the meeting and sessions shut it down. the man in between sessions and papadopoulos there, he is now confirming to cnn at that meeting, then candidate trump heard out george papadopoulos. that's very important. because that is not what the white house is telling us, i asked the white house press secretary about this yesterday, whether the president recalls that kind of conversation going on at that meeting. here's what happened. >> does the president recall at

that march 31st, 2016 meeting, mr. papadopoulos suggesting a meeting between then candidate trump and vladimir putin. does he recall that? >> no, i don't believe he does. >> you have sarah sanders saying she doesn't believe the president remembers having that conversation, hearing out george papadopoulos. anderson, look at what the president said at his first full news conference while in office, this was on february 16th, earlier this year. he was asked this critical question about whether or not he was aware of people inside his campaign having contacts with the russians and here's how that played out. >> can you say that you are aware whether anyone advised your campaign had contacts with russia during the election. >> i told you, general flynn was dealing -- >> during the election?

>> no, no, nobody that i know of. >> you're not aware of any contacts during the question. >> how many times do i have to answer this question? russia is a ruse 37. >> there you go. the president saying at that news conference that he was not aware of any contacts. we now have an official with the trump campaign saying that then candidate trump was in the room with jeff sessions, hearing out george papadopoulos proposing this meeting between then candidate trump and russian president vladimir putin. this is a critical question. remember that infamous press conference. that was the question i was trying to ask when he called me and the rest of us fake news. i was trying to ask that question. did any of your associates with the campaign have contacts with the russians. and he would just not answer that question at that press conference. as you saw at that february 16th press conference, he did go on to say, no, he did not believe

or he was not aware of any contacts with russians. clearly we do know. officially now on the record. and that attempts were made and then candidate trump heard him out. >> jeff sessions, his account underoath and how carter paige's testimony today may have cast doubt. tell us what carter page said today. >> for more than 6 1/2 hours, carter paige did testify behind closed doors on the russian investigation. one of the questions he was asked about is this july 2016 trip to russia. paige said that had nothing to do with the campaign. if was a speech he delivered overseas. he was asked about that trip and whether he informed anybody about traveling to russia. he did disclose that he told

jeff sessions that he was in fact going to go travel to russia, the following month. this is significant because sessions has said repeatedly under oath. he was not aware of any interactions between russians and anyone associated with the trump campaign. he denied certain communications that occurred. and he was asked directly in a june hearing by joe manchin of the senate intelligence committee, whether or not carter page himself had met with any russian officials during the campaign season. and at that time jeff sessions said, i don't know. so he was informed of this meeting by carter paige, now, paige told me that he mentioned this in passing. it happened at a dinner with the capitol hill club near the capitol, the trump national security team.

and mike conley, the top republican said he didn't see anything nefarious in jeff sessions actions here. it's understandable why he may not remember it, but still a lot of questions today about why jeff sessions has not disclosed this and other contexts with russian officials. on -- given questions that persisted. >> well, it comes on the heels of the questions regardng sessions meeting with george papadopoulos of course. >> that's right. jeff sessions was at that meetsing. we're told by a person in the room that sessions rejected that meeting. from actually taking place. the question is. from democrats and republicans i spoke to today. why didn't jeff sessions disclose this. democrats calling on him to testify again before congress and explain what happened to amend his testimony. even some top republicans telling me that perhaps he should -- they would want to look into this a little further.

chuck grassley said he's looking into it. and john cornyn, the number two republican on the senate also told me this is something that's a legitimate question to explore, and also they want to get more information about that, their question is not going away. >> appreciate that. >> now, the jared kushner story, what his latest actions regarding special council mueller may reveal. >> handed over documents, can you tell us what the documents are? >> jared kushner turned over documents he had in his possession from the campaign and the transition, and related to any contacts with russia. these documents that are similar to the ones kushner had given to congressional investigators. this all comes as investigators began asking about kushner's role, the firing of james comey. we know that before the special council, mueller was appointed in may, the fbi had begun looking at kushner's failure to disclose russia contacts.

what's known as an fs-86 form. those are all documents the fbi had in its possession long before mueller got there. >> why is the special council interested in the comey firing? >> we've heard dinner accounts from sources about why the firing occurred. some say kushner was a driver of the president's decision. others say he didn't oppose it, it was something the president made his mind up about. based on what they know at this point, kushner is not a target. >> how significant is this? >> the fact that mueller's team is asking questions about kushner is a sign that investigators have reached into the inner circle of the president, extending beyond the 2016 campaign to, as taken at the white house by high level officials. a white house official says mueller's team's questions about kushner are not a surprise. kushner would be on a long list

of people they would be asking about. the white house declined to comment. >> evan perez, appreciate that. lots to discuss. i want to bring in my panel. michael, let's start with you there's a lot of moving parts on this, given your experience with mueller, what stands out today. >> what stands out most is, the president of the united states cannot go under oath. his disconnected stories over the course of these months that we've been following this create for him the possibility of a perjury trap if he goes under oa oath. i think ty cobb knows this. >> can he avoid going under oath? >> no, probably not. they'll try to stretch it out as long as they possibly can. so they know as much as they possibly can. so they can create a narrative he can hopefully stick to as a

witness. >> he can't go under oath because he's not being truthful or he can't go under oath because he may not recall or he doesn't have the ability to recall all these moving parts? >> i think he can't tell the truth, that's what i'm saying. i think he can't go under oath from a legal jeopardy standpoint because he doesn't tell the truth with respect to what he knows. that is a problem, and if you're ty cobb or john dowd, you have to make sure the president is protected. the way you protect him is by keeping him from testifying under oath if possible, or have him testify at the very end, when you know as much as you can about people, you can create a narrative you can stick to that's truthful. >> what do you think? >> i think that the fact that they're getting kushner's take on what happened with the comey firing makes it pretty clear that mueller has an obstruction case on the president and he

intends to build it. remember when -- obstruction is, when you take an action which may in itself may be legal, but you do it for corrupt reasons. you do it for reasons that you know of wrong. that's difficult to prove. it's hard to get into somebody's mind. mueller is many things, but he's not a mind reader. >> he's going to go to things that were said and done and written before and after. >> this is an administration that has loose fingers. we know that they are not careful about what they've been writing. >> it seems like loose lips also. >> the president himself tweets. half of the obstruction case has been created by the president himself against himself. this tells me. >> kushner is of interest because not only -- his entire role in the campaign and financial dealings of his own, that may be an issue, but in terms of the comey firing and also on the flight where they're

crafting the letter for donald trump jr. he's called. >> here's where the russia ties come in, if there are connections between kushner and russia, that creates a motive for trump to want to make this go away. so again those contacts will help bolster mueller's case of obstruction against the president. as will any financial shenanigans that may have been happening in the past, that all of these give a vested interest on the part of the president to want this investigation to go away, which will help mueller in his obstruction case. >> just to follow up on that, to my point that the president is having trouble telling the truth. the air force 1 story that was put forth initially about the june 9th meeting was just not true. >> right. >> and if he said that under oath to mueller, the initial story that i had nothing to do

with that, i don't know anything about it. that would be a lie, it would be an actionable false statement for which papadopoulos tells us, you could go to jail for several years, that's the greatest risk for the president. >> ed? >> i'm almost stunned to listen to this. i mean, we're speculating about things that didn't happen, might happen, you have him on perjury charges. today's news is that we have a junior staffer who says in a meet i meeting that he was big timing. i don't know if anyone's ever been on a campaign. there are people who say, i'll do this, i'll do that. i have donors, whatever. >> how do you know he's big timing. he did have contact with -- >> you can see it, and they've all said that they -- no one did anything with it, the fact that it's not remembered by anybody, is an indication this is a guy

who's trying to -- >> it seems it's remembered by this guy, j.d. gordon who is sitting there. >> okay, but he's another junior staffer. the fact that trump and sessions don't believe it, oh, my goodness, let's go to russia, they don't remember that conversation of some staffer, now we're all the way back to some kind of convoluted theory of perjury, i've never heard anyone talk about that. >> the president does not tell the truth, and under oath has a history of under oath not telling the truth. in his lawsuit against tim o'bri o'brien, he was lying dozens of times. >> whatever it is in the past we want to point to that says, what's true is a russia conspiracy, there's no evidence of a russia impact in the election. there's a hunt on to think that jared kushner. they were interviewed before, on the show with schwartz, he said, mueller will get him. not anything to do with russia, he will get him on something

from his past, financial. if that's the goal stated by mueller or anybody else, that's the problem, right? this is a coup of the american people's election. >> mueller has not stated that. we're talking about speculation. that is speculation on your part. i've been on campaigns, i've never seen could havepy boys be able to have meetings with the top echelon of the campaign. i think what we see here is how focus focused, how concentrated bob mueller is, he's not paying attention to the noise around him. he's amassed an impressive entourage, an impressive team of the best prosecutors and investigators in this country. he's peeling away the layers of this onion, and somebody's going to end up crying. >> as a nonlegal expert, not a prosecutor, not a lawyer.

i have no idea what if any case mueller may be trying to build. it's clear some of trump's most sensitive areas are under the micro scope right now. that's part of what a prosecutor does. the fact that he's looking into old financial dealings, things from long before the campaign. all this stuff that man for the and gates are being indicted for. this is way before the campaign. trump may be looking at, they're looking at old tax returns, they're following the money. >> the activity in the indictment for the most part. had nothing to do with the trump campaign. >> except for the part about the republican convention that manafort managed where the republican platform specifically on ukraine was changed to

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the president's weighing in tonight on the kind of russia investigation he would like to see. when asked about leaks and hillary clinton, he lamented his limited options. >> the saddest thing, because i'm president of the united states. i'm not supposed to be involved with the justice department, with the fbi i'm not supposed to be doing the kinds of things i would love to be doing. and i'm very frustrated by that. >> we didn't get to hear from you what do you make of all the day's developments today. >> i guess there's three, we'll go one by one. jared is fully cooperating, he volunteered the information to all the congressional committees. he's been transparent. i think that's what you want. that's not somebody who's hiding anything, that's someone who is focused on the president's agenda. >> a number of his declaration forms had to be amended. >> sure, and others will be

amended as they go forward with other people. he amended them, he didn't stick to whatever was there. he acknowledged a mistake was made and he amended them. i think that's what we have to look at. as for should the president should go on -- he should be put through -- asked questions by the investigator, i think the president knows what the stakes are, and he's going to answer all those questions honestly, yes, somebody who worked on the campaign, i sort of sit here and i get a -- it's obnoxious to hear everyone talk about collusion, when you know the facts don't bear out. there's one campaign that hired a foreign national to get involved with this campaign. and that was the clinton campaign. >> you don't know what went on? you weren't involved with their conversations? >> right. i don't know what went on. >> on air force one when they coordinated -- >> you were not on air force one

when that conversation about coming up with a reason for donald trump jr.? >> right. >> i'm talking about my campaign experience and the facts that exist right now, the facts are what they are. you have a lot of conjecture of what the trump campaign did or didn't. you have a vendor who reached out to assange. we didn't know anything about it, and assange turned them down. we have one campaign. >> were you aware during the campaign that pop dap house had this conversation with the rush professor and had been in contact with paul manafort about it? >> no. >> let's look at what the facts are. george tap dap house is a con infected felon. he lied to the fib. it's not like nobody knows not to lie to the fbi there's enough information out there. the way that mueller's going to get you is by lying to the fbi and he still chose to lie.

>> why would george papadopoulos lie to the nib? you've worked with mueller, why -- anybody's watched a cop show and knows -- >> well, they haven't been watching mat lock. >> i think he thought -- i'm reading into his mind, which i'm not very good at. i think he thought he could get away with it or thought he was protective of the institution he worked for and may want to work for, it makes no sense objectively, why would you lie when the fbi asks you a question. . he had to have some rational for it. usually it's because they think they'll get away with it. >> he was a small fish in a big pond. one of the interesting aspects of jared kushner angle, they

can't deny jared kushner. papadopoulos, his name rolls off the tongue. we don't know who he is. manafort, he had a minor role, he was around for a few months. rick, who's that one? with jared curbier, you can't deny jared kushner. >> can i make a comment on what we heard the president say in that interview? i think it's important. we're coming toward a crisis, i suspect. at least a crisis of understanding. if the president of the united states is not in charge of the justice department. if he's not in charge of the justice department, then no one is. >> you want the president of the united states to be able to. >> yeah, i want the president -- >> to thwart the course of justice? >> no, i want him to be the president of the executive branch. >> you don't want the fbi to be independent? >> ed, i think you can get

exiled in cuba, maybe venezuela, the philippines if you want that kind of dictatorship. >> that's not dictatorship, it's exactly the opposite. >> you said you want the president of the united states to be in charge of the fbi in terms of -- well, i will tell you that is scary, particularly when you have a president that goes off and has a tantrum. >> the irs, there was a big question the irs targeted people that was shown to be somewhat true. >> mostly false. >> okay, one infringement on people's rights is okay with you, but not mostly -- >> no, no. let me finish. >> either we have a constitution that allows an election to be meaningful or we have a country run by bureaucrats. we have a country run by the deep state, i don't think we do, i think we have. >> so you want any

administration who comes in to be able to determine who should get investigated? you don't want a permanent class of professionals. >> ultimately when the fbi does something wrong, who is responsible for that, who is accountable for that. you go to the elected official who's accountable for that. >> the president is in charge of the executive branch, and with respect to policy he sets policy for the justice department and for the fbi. with respect. >> that's not the con sti fusion. >> no, it's not. >> yes, it is. >> let him finish. >> that is the manner in which by policy for 50 years, the president interfaces with the bureau and the justice department and all other branches of the executive with respect to defining the policy of the executive branch. what he cannot do is interfere with specific criminal cases,

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at the top of the hour, jim acosta reported that then candidate trump heard out his campaign adviser papadopoulos

hear out a man in a meeting. >> are you aware of everyone in touch with your campaign had any contacts with russia? >> general flun was dealing, so that's one person. >> during the election? >> no, nobody that i know of. >> you're not aware of anybody -- >> look, look, how many times do i have to answer this question. russia is a ruse. >> is there a contradiction there? >> maybe, we don't know. there is a lot that we're trying to read tea leaves on and speculate about. it is clear that the president is extremely sensitive about this. he's very obsessed with this investigation. we know that from what he said, his tweets. that's what the people around him who are trying to keep him under control and not do anything rash, what they fear is, he may act on ilpulse, he may simply get so annoyed by

what he sees as a nothing investigation. whether it is or not. that he will sort of fly off the handle. because he is a very unpredictable personality, and this strikes at one of his fears, his election win could be seen as illegitimate. >> do you think he should fire mueller? >> i don't think he should fire mueller, but he should watch mueller. physical mueller's far afield. we have what we describe as a rogue prosecutor. i'm not saying he is yet, but the idea that we're going to allow this guy to tie up the white house. did the russians influence the election the answer so far is no. and what happened. then let's go forward.

i think that's happening, after that, all the rest of this, i don't think there's any reason he couldn't fire comey, i don't think that's a proper area to be digging into either. the president has the right to do that. but we're in a constitutional question, this is a problem. he won the election. he gets to be the president. >> the ken starr statute was allowed to expire. he was constitution ali an independent council. that was passed by the congress, and he was appointed. this is a special council within the justice department. if the president goes too far, then the way it's addressed is through the courts. somebody can say, you went too far, you're breaking the law on this or there's a political solution. either the election in three years or impeachment. that is the way the constitution is set up. >> may i give you my impression,

the difference between what you said and the law sets out. >> the regulations that govern mueller which are presidential regulations the president can change if he wants to change them. provide that mueller can only be fired for cause. rosen stein gave mueller a mandate. he has to operate within that mandate or go back to rosen stein to get that mandate expanded. the system is working just fine. nobody is -- i'm saying, so nobody is rogue. the independent council stat toot doesn't provide any more protection than the current regulations do. i have no doubt but that this regulatory structure works just as well as ours did. >> you have to be clear to the viewers. the independent council was a law passed by and signed by the president 37 so the president couldn't disregard that under the constitution, he can, as you

pointed out. all the authority of all the special councils and rosen stein comes from the president. >> i have to get another quick break in. brian, you didn't have a chance to -- >> yeah, i would say everybody says, should the president be aggressive against mueller? it's important to remember at the end of the day, this is going to be a political trial, the information is going to be sent back to congress. any time you're dealing with a political trial, you have to deal with it politically, not criminally. i'm not going to tell the president's lawyers they're doing anything wrong. you can't forget the political part of this, if we're going to play politics with this, we should be more aggressive in highlighting the politics behind it. i would call this the dream deem of democratic activist donors. maybe it's mueller's approach to say, if these guys look through everything and can't find anything, that's what exists. >> more ahead with the panel and the president calls on congress to end the program that brought

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today the president said in the wake of the terror attack in new york that killed eight people, he's calling on congress to immediately end the diversity immigrant visa program, calling it a disaster for our country. >> this program grants visas not on a basis of merit.

because applicants are selected in an annual lottery. the people put in that lottery are not that country's finest. >> we know that the program presents significant vulnerabilities to our national security. it's a very unsafe program for our country and we're not going to allow it to happen. >> yesterday sarah huckabee sanders said there's no vetting in the program. that's not the case. they're vetted as much as anyone else who comes to this country. >> what do you think of this program? >> it was a bipartisan program when it was developed. >> a lot of people have been trying to get rid of it. >> absolutely. but let's make sure. >> i take umbrage as a new yorker that it got blamed on chuck schumer. i don't think there's anything

wrong with wanting to have eye debate about different programs in immigration. this isn't that. this is immediately in the wake of a terrorist attack. in the city that suffered the worst terror attack in history, moving immediately to rock 'em sock 'em politics many it's drawing conclusions based exclusively on the program that this killer got through. none of that is helpful, thoughtful or will address the problems as it relate to terrorists coming into new york. but what it also really did, and i want to be clear. democrats can can be criticized of this just as much as republicans. in the wake of a tragedy, the president and other elected officials did it too, didn't take on the job of uniting. didn't take on the job of bringing us together. he took on the mode of splitting us apart. we're new york, we will always

take care of ourselves and push on. but that's not right for america, and it clouds this whole conversation, which is an important one. >> you know, listen, both sides do it all the time, what you're saying, take advantage of the dynamics to push a public policy. the democrats are guilty, i guess the republicans are guilty of it. what is wrong with reviewing our immigration laws to protect americans? >> nothing is wrong with it. what is wrong with it is doing it. moments after people were bloued down, a stone's throw. >> when you hear the president say, the people in this lottery are not the country's best. >> right. >> yeah, let's -- >> i think there's a pretty good argument to get rid of this lottery program. but let's be clear about what trump's agenda is. he wants to cut immigration in half overall. regardless of how people come in, secondly, he wants fewer mexicans and fewer muslims, it's absolutely obvious, if you go back to the campaign, that is

the agenda, that is -- and he should be honest about that, right? if he wants -- yeah, the problem with it, he is for a muslim ban. he doesn't -- >> wait, one at a time. >> i'll tell you. i'll tell you why you're wrong. >> i'd like to hear why i'm wrong. >> wait. we can't hear anybody. >> brian, go. let peter finish. >> the thing about chain migration, is clearly aimed at the fact that we have a large latino population that is bringing in family members, if you don't think that's a dog whistle to people who watch breitbart -- >> brian, respond. >> it's the whole thing that he was targeting mexicans i find offensive, i myself am from hispanic dissent. >> when he attacked just cure yell you weren't bodgered by that? >> that did make me uneasy. the blanket statement that he doesn't want mexicans in here.

>> he called them rapists. >> what is wrong with that system? >> this is the -- >> on the point that christine made about his attack on chuck schumer, it was inoperate. he attacked the mayor of san juan right after the hurricane there. that's not the time to be making points against a hometown elected official. >> on the lottery visa, i think politicians have a right and responsibility to take a look at what's best for the country. we should have a conversation about a modern immigration system that meets the requirements of the modern economy in america. we have right now the dream act that's being discussed. there's a deadline for it. we have this lottery visa program being discussed.

all of that was part of the gang of eight comprehensive immigration proposal a few years ago. it's time to take a look at a bipartisan proposal and address these issues. >> i think you're missing what's happening. you're right, that was on the table. amnesty for illegals, rejected not only by the congress, but the american people. the president ran, donald trump ran on a message. from the time he came down the escalator, he said, we're sick of an immigration system that allows these people to come and kill us. whatever the system is, bad or good. we're sick of it, when he says, we're going to change the system, he's turning up the pressure on politicians that have shown that they're spineless and feckless. and the fell are sick of it, the harshness of it, all that, hey. you know what, eight people are dead because of a system that is broken. >> we have to go. >> i find it the vast --

greatest example of hypocrisy, that when eight people are dead, appears to be killed by a muslim, we immediately attack that group of people. when a white man -- should we not let people from florida go to nevada because of what that man did in las vegas? >> it's not the same. >> yes, it is the same. the president picks out people who -- i am talking. the president picks out people who he believes will easily be hated that other people will turn against, and he rips us apart. he is a hypocrite, and if he really was going to be straight across the board, we would look at issues in the way ana said. all he wants to do is engender fear, he doesn't want to find solutions. what he did say, nothing about las vegas and perpetrated that. do florida ans have to stay in florida? house republicans unveiling their tax plan, there's already some push back. t-mobile's got your netflix subscription covered... ...when you get a family plan with two or more lines.

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house republicans relead their new tax bill today. the headlines are it lowers the number of tax brackets. increases the standard deduction, reduces the corporate tax rate. it would also eliminate the state and local tax reduction and for that reason not every house republican is on board. congressman, thanks for being with us. can you just explain why you oppose this bill and what you'd like to see changed? >> so i am an american but i'm also a new yorker representing a new york congressional district. well aware that if i'm not

representing my home state, i can't expect some other member in some other state to represent my home state for me. i look at the proposal to eliminate the state and local tax deduction as a geographic redistribution of wealth. you're taking money from a state like new york in order to help finance deeper tax cuts in other places. there are many good things inside of the proposal, but on balance, while i'm pleased that there were some progress with bringing back the property tax deduction up to 10,000, that's good progress, but it's not enough. so we're going to keep fighting for my home state and fighting for my middle income, lower income constituents looking for the maximum relief. i want tax relief not just for americans everywhere else but also back home in new york. >> so is that something you actually think you can get movement on? >> well, we've already seen movement, because the original proposal was to completely eliminate the state and local

tax deduction. it was good progress to get to this -- keeping the property tax deduction up to 10,000, but you still have on the table a proposal to completely eliminate the state and local income tax. it's not lost on me that one of the reasons why our state and local tax deduction is as high as it is is because our state and local taxes are as high as they are, it is important for all levels of government to be working on tax relief. for those who say they're stsdsing new york city, new york is a net contributor. and if you look at tax policy and spending policy, new york sends more money to washington than we get back. and that's with the deduction. >> so passion lg a tax reform is difficult to do. do you think the republican party is united enough to get this done on the president's timeline, which is by christmas? >> i do. even though i am opposed to this bill in its current form, i'll tell you looking at my colleagues today, they were

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