for not contributing enough to the defense budget. they were very surprise d by his tone. >> not surprisingly, the white house deny these kinds of details. >> they seem to be pushing back but not giving detail. >> that's it for me, thanks for watching. "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, breaking news, white house chief of staff john kelly calls the president unhinged. kelly called trump an idiot. kelly denies that. is kelly the next to go? plus, talk of the president getting the nobel peace prize for north korea. and a top republican distances himself from the president, who will win that fight? let's go "outfront." i'm erin burnett. "outfron "outfront" tonight, a senior administration official telling cnn that white house chief of

staff john kelly is growing increasingly frustrated with the president, telling senior national security officials that the president is becoming, quote, unhinged. kelly making that comment specifically to the secretary of defense jim mattis, joseph dunford, and senior national security council officials and this happened during a discussion about syria. this comes as nbc news is reporting kelly referred to trump as an idiot. that's an accusation kelly denies. saying, i spend more time with the president than anyone else and we have an incredibly candid and strong relationship. he always knows where i stand and he and i both know the story is total bs. but cnn has reported tensions between kelly and the president have been brewing for some time. the president has been ramping up his personal cell phone use, one source saying that's because he doesn't want kelly to know who he's talking to. we're reporting the president has been bypassing kelly by

having john bolton and larry kudlow basically report to him and not to kelly. kelly, though, wouldn't be the first person to trump's staff to call him names out of frustration. in fact, that is the rule, not the exception. former secretary of state rex tillerson reportedly called trump a moron, something that tillerson never, despite being asked again and again, denied. >> i'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that. >> this is a town that seems to relish gossip, rumor, innuendo and they feed on one another in a very destructive way. i don't work that way. >> i'm not going to dignify the question. we got so many bigger issues that we could be talking about. >> as we know, tillerson is no longer working for trump. he was fired. and according to michael wolff's "fire and fury," he's not alone. ry priebus called the president an idiot. mcmaster called the president a dope. gary cohn called him dumb as

bleep. they're all gone too. bob corker, who once called the white house an adult daycare center publicly, said there are three people who matter in the white house. >> i think secretary tillerson, secretary mattis, and chief of staff kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos. and i support them very much. >> tillerson, of course is gone. and if kelly like tillerson previously, mcmaster and cohn is pushed out, that would leave only mattis. jeff zeleny is "outfront" at the white house. these sortss of words and descriptions are consistent with what many of us have heard. the president, though, is now firing back. >> reporter: he is indeed, erin, firing back with a couple different messages. one just literally a few seconds ago as you were speaking.

but first of all, let's look at this tweet he sent a few minutes ago. he said this, the fake news is going crazy, making up false stories and using unnamed sources who don't exist. they are totally unhinged and a great success of this administration is making them do and say things that even they can't believe they are saying. truly bad people. and he went on just a couple moments ago, as i said, to tweet again, basically the same framework there, saying everything is doing fine in this administration, everyone has good energy, stamina, things are going well. but the reality here is, you did lay out a pattern there. i'm told there's one difference, though, between white house chief of staff john kelly and that comment from the secretary of state. john kelly went into the president's office, he denied it to his face. he said i didn't do that. that is something that secretary of state rex tillerson never did. he never would deny the fact that he called the president a moron. and i was told at the time, the president was more furious about his refusal to apologize than

him actually calling it to him in the first place. so we'll see how this develops. no question that many people around here believe that john kelly is a short-timer, likely potentially to leave this summer. but who knows. the president makes these decisions himself. but there certainly is a pattern emerging here of so many staff shake-ups. >> jeff, thank you very much. and editor of the national review rich lowry and national correspondent for the nation, joan walsh. john kelly is the president's right hand. there's been some issues. john kelly has challenged him on policy issues. but putting aside idiot, they have eight sources saying idiot, but he it is he didn't say it. we're reporting unhinged, we're reporting it happened on a meeting about syria and who was in the meeting. that's pretty serious. >> we know john kelly went out,

said the president's position on the wall had evolved. he talks publicly kind of condescendingly about the president, which has annoyed the president before. we know that he did -- he's also purported to say in the nbc piece that the president doesn't know anything about daca, and i think that sounds close to the truth because the president was ready to make a daca deal with the democrats -- it was bipartisan, about youabut a lot democrats were driving it. that kelly had to put up a roadblock too. both stories have the ring of truth to me. >> speaking to people close to the president over time, these are the sorts of words and descriptions that come. there's a reason people don't want to put their name on them. because he'll be mad and won't talk to them. but we've all heard it. it has a very clear ring of truth, we all have spoken to people who know the president well who have said those words. >> if john kelly flatly denies he called the president an idiot, i believe him.

>> what about unhinged, which hasn't come up at all? >> i don't know what was said in that meeting, but -- >> it was worse, actually. >> -- when the president is going out without preparation or notice to anyone, saying we're going to pull our troops out of syria, all the professionals will be immensely frustrated by that and they should. one thing that's going on here, erin -- >> so you're saying that's where unhinged could have come from? >> yeah. the president shouldn't be doing that. it undermines us in all sorts of ways. this leak against kelly shows as a clack inside the white house that wants him gone. and this is a kill shot, because if the president of the united states believes he said that, he's going to be gone sooner than later. >> i went through the list of times that this has happened, apparently, purportedly to your point, but we're talking about kelly, we're talking about cohn, we're talking about tillerson.

i'm going through the list here. we're talking about mcmaster. >> priebus. >> talking about priebus. we're talking about everybody but mattis. >> right. right. that's a very interesting point, erin. >> so to your point, they're leaking on every single one of them. >> they are. >> who is this person? >> it's a snake pit inside. then there's snakes around. there's a moat. i don't know how to describe it, but they're all gunning for each other, and right now, they're all gunning for kelly. the knives are coming from all directions. people who seem loyal to trump, people who seem not so loyal to him. so he's made a lot of enemies. if he's made one in the president he won't be around long. it's just a question -- we've been discussing this for months. we have been hearing reports that he's soured on kelly, that he's tired of being controlled, that he's now using his cell phone, which raises national security concerns, but whatever. he's getting around kelly kind of like a child and that other

people are happy to collude with the president to get around kelly. so i don't see how kelly stays, i really don't. >> everyone has an expiration date. he's been there in july a year, an incredibly taxing position, even in the best of t circumstances, and this isn't the best. >> this will be the third chief of staff in how many months? >> it's just not a good arrangement. >> if the president wants to have people who aren't going to say these things about him behind his back, he needs "yes" men and "yes" women. whether it be gary cohn or tillerson -- >> given the way the president operates, given how immune he is to a plan and discipline, there's going to be muttering, eye-rolling, banging heads against the wall.

>> yet, joan, he knows this is going to leak out or not. he's saying he didn't, unhinged, we're being very specific, this is in a meeting with dunford and people on the national security council. he should know it's going to leak. he obviously didn't care. >> i don't know that he does care. he's denied it to the president, so that, unlike tillerson, so that indicates some level of caring. i also want to point out the nbc report has him saying nasty things about women way more emotional then men. rob porter's wife should have gotten over the abuse and moved on. he hasn't denied saying those things. >> and off the record he talked about the secretary of state being on the toilet when he fired him. >> i think that's widely misreported. i wasn't there in the room but he was actually defending tillerson and saying the guy was sick, he didn't mean to insult him or humiliate him in that way. that's why i have a big dose of caution about any of these

off-the-record unsourced stories. all the people talking to reporters, they have their own agendas. >> they do. both of you know, that's what journalism has been about. >> it's gotten worse, though. >> everyone always has a dog in the fight. >> more unsourced stories than ever before. >> it's gotten worse too because this white house is worse, worse than anyone we've ever seen. >> and you have clashing factions, so you get more leaks. but i take all the stories with a grain of salt. >> thank you both s. trump insists he will not get played by kim jong-un, but behind the scenes, is he just too eager for a deal? >> plus, the nation"the nationa enquirer" going after michael cohen. that's the cover. is trump using his friend's tabloid to threaten cohen? and breaking news, the department of justice charged suspected caravan members as the president slams immigration law. >> they are obsolete, and they

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cross-border hand shshake like t one beamed around the world. and he wants pictures if he decides to get up and walk out of the talks. but skeptics in the administration tell cnn president trump may be too eager for a deal with kim. worrying that holding the meeting at the dmz will appear conciliatory to the north korean leader. and trump himself who called him honorable, today continued to sing his praises in the rose garden. >> kim jong-un, who has been very open and very straightforward so far -- i can only say, again, so far -- but he's talking about getting rid of the site which was their big site. he's talking about no research, no launching of ballistic missiles, no nuclear testing. and he has lived up on that for a long period of time. longer period of time than anybody has seen. >> a longer period of time than anybody has seen. well, that's not exactly true. the country's last nuclear test was in september, that's eight months ago. when kim tested his most powerful nuke to date.

in the past, the kim regime have gone years between nuclear tests. trump, though, says, don't worry, i do not have rose-colored glasses when it comes to kim. here's what he said. >> i think it would be a great celebration, if it works out well. and if it doesn't work out well, that's the way it goes. gotta ged r gotta get rid of the nuclear weapons. if it's not a success, i will respectfully leave, it's very simple. >> the bottom line is this. promising to give up nukes is nothing new from the kim regime. in 2005, as part of the north korean talks agreement, pyongyang said it was committed to abandoning all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs. and that the dprk and the united states undertook to respect each other's sovereignty. if that sounds familiar, it's because it is. according to the denuclearization that kim jong-un signed last week, he said he would abandon his nuclear weapons if the united states agreed to formally end the korean war and promised not

to invade his country. same words. kim is now inviting experts in journalists to witness the closing of the nuclear test site the president referenced next month. new, right? nope. deja vu. june 2008, north korea inviting experts and journalists from across the world, including cnn to witness the destruction of a cooling tower at a nuclear plant. so will this time be different? michael anton stepped out as spokesperson for trump's national security council. michael, great to have you on. you've been on the inside with the trump administration, and obviously i know you parted on good terms. is president trump at risk of making a bad deal, of getting conned by north korea, as some skeptics in the administration say, because he's too eager for a deal? >> i don't think so. i think the administration from the president on down, knows what they're getting into. they know north korea's track record. they know its history. it's all been laid out in the past, explained. they went into this with eyes

open and i think they're aware of the nature of the country that they're dealing with and its past history. >> phil, do you agree? are the president's eyes wide open? is he too eager? >> this is not going to be a success. i think he should take the meeting. i don't see anything wrong with going to the dmz. but success means we have certified that the north koreans have taken steps that it will take us years to certify. this meeting, in my judgment could be a step. the certification we need to see is really detailed over years, erin. i need to see, what are the list of sites, do we have access to the sites, down to the nitty gritty detail. how do you certify destruction not only of sites but of missiles. how long does it take people to get into the sites and does north korea resist access to some sites? the meeting is important, but let's not talk about a success until we have evidence that the program's destroyed. >> are you talking about 48-hour warnings and things? wow, i'm having a flashback to

the iran nuclear deal. michael, the nobel peace prize talk has reached the president. he apparently according to our reporting has raised it in conversations over the past week. not clear if he's telling people he deserves it, but the idea has been planted in his head, and the president of south korea, as you know, said president trump should win the nobel peace prize and here's what happened at the president's rally on saturday night. so there's no chance he doesn't know about this talk. because the crowd is chanting "nobel, nobel." >> nobel, nobel! >> they're saying what do you think president trump had to do with it? i'll tell you what. like, how about everything. >> he is so humble, michael. nobel prize? >> i agree with the comment that this is going to be a long process, this is only a first meeting, and we will know whether these talks are a success based on the north korean regime's behavior going

down the line and real, full true did you nuclearization is a process of months and years. it's going to require very intrusive inspections, you know, complete verification, and all of that. so this is going to take a long time. however, i think it is correct, as president moon said, all the way back in february, that the reason we got to this point, where the north korean regime wants to talk, and they're the ones who asked for the talks, is because of the extraordinary pressure that's been brought to bear against them, and that included enlisting china which has often been reluctant to engage to the extent that it has and that is absolutely due to the pressure brought by this administration and this president. >> phil, this goes back to the iranian deal. netanyahu today coming out, saying the iranians are brazenly lying about their pursuit, and i mentioned the 48-hour rule, but there's also kinds of questions that have been raised about access and when you can get access and warning and confirming, et cetera. the president said if he pulls

out of the iran nuclear deal, that will not send a bad message to kim. >> no, i think it sends the right message. in seven years, that deal will have expired and iran is free to go ahead and create nuclear weapons. that's not acceptable. seven years is tomorrow. that's not acceptable. >> does it send the right message, phil, if he gets out of the iran nuclear deal? n >> this is more complicated than it looks. there's two ends of this spectrum. one, you look at this on the surface and say, anybody negotiating with the president will say, what if the next guy steps away from it? what are the chinese whispering in the north koreans' ears to ensure they get a good deal for north korea, but also to ensure that the president doesn't back out? that said, there's another piece of the story. i'm told in this town today as the conversation between the french leader and the iranian leadership about how to amend the nuclear deal, is that because the iranians got the message from president trump

that he's serious? i think this is pretty interesting. you could argue that the north koreans are going to be more serious about coming to the table because they're worried if they try to dance around this, they'll get the same deal at the end of the day that iran got. >> michael, before we go, netanyahu today pulled back a curtain on 100,000 pages of documents. you gotta say he's rather trumpian in his ability to present information. he said it's all about nukes. and the big question is how does the israelis manage to get this information? it's a pretty incredible thing. whether it was hacking, how did they do it? >> i don't have any sense of how. i will say, it proves what a lot of us have believed all along, that the iranian regime's denials over the years that it ever had a nuclear program, that it ever had any intent to build a nuclear weapon were not credible, not true. we know without a shadow of a doubt, they were lying all along. i always believed they were lying. they were caught trying to

enrich uranium, caught with weapons in their possession, working the black market to get those kinds of materiels. it's based on a false premise, which is that the iranians only want civilian nuclear power. just coming back to inspections, that's a really important object lesson for north korea. one of the flaws in the iran nuclear deal, the iranian regime gets to determine what sites are open for inspection and what aren't. they can deny access. a good deal with north korea would not allow for that. it would require full and free access to inspectors. >> and of course the jury on these things takes a lot longer than the nobel peace prize time-tining time frame. stormy daniels suing the president. and the justice department charging 11 members of that caravan as the president slams america's immigration law. alright, i brought in new max protein

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they've gotta change now for the safety of our country. >> so we got 11 charged tonight. we understand there are 100 migrants roughly who are part of this particular caravan which traveled from central america to the u.s. border, awaiting entry to an immigration processing center. kyung lah is out front. >> reporter: underscoring the pledge of a law and order administration vice president pence inspected construction at the u.s. border. 30-foot bollards replacing 20--year-old metal fencing stretching over two miles in calexco, california. the vice president made this vow. >> we are building a wall on the southern border of the united states of america. and let me make you a promise, when it comes to the border wall, we're going to build it all. >> reporter: tough talk as the migrant caravan drama unfolds

south of the border. pence calling the mainly central americans here victims of a broken system. >> this situation is a direct result of our weak immigration laws and our porous border. this caravan like those who have gone before, is also rightly understood as a deliberate attempt to undermine the laws of this country and the sovereignty of the united states. >> reporter: central americans make up the bulk of the migrants, traveling together, safety in numbers. isabel rodriguez is fleeing the violence of el salvador with her oregon, terrified gangs will get her grandkids. she and the children are among the approximately 100 migrants who just arrived at the border, hoping for asylum in the u.s. [ speaking foreign language ] mr. trump, she says, just like you allowed our fellow brothers and sisters from central america to live in the country, allow us the opportunity. we want to work. we don't want handouts. we want a better future for our family. the weeks-long caravan is a

yearly event. so what's different this year? it's drawing the administration's attention as congress failed to fully fund trump's wall in this year's federal budget. a month ago the president tweeted these pictures saying the clex co-wall was the start of the southern border wall. it's not. listen to the vice president's words. >> this is the beginning of the southern border wall. from fiscal '17 budget, a replacement project. but look at the border wall, this new wall is roughly two or three times taller than the wall that was here today. >> and you hear the vice president there acknowledging that this is, quote, a replacement project. so let's give you a look at this replacement project. what you're seeing over my shoulder, i've been watching it grow as the day has gone on, that is the new replacement fencing. that is replacing existing wall, this gap that you see, as my cameraman sweeps across, that is

the gap. all the way to the left, that fencing there, that is the old fencing. this plan has been in place since 2009. the funding, though, did not come through until 2017 in the trump administration. and erin, we should point this out as well. the u.s. congress has not passed any legislation specifically funding trump's wall. >> kyung, thank you very much. pretty amazing you can see the whole issue of new versus replacement. the old wall, the new wall, which as you can see -- sorry, fence -- is about two and a half times, it looked like, of the cab of that truck sitting in front of it. eric swalwell, democrat from california, good to talk to you. appreciate your time. first the breaking news, there are about a hundred people, we understand, in this particular caravan, which is now on the border. that right now the justice department is charging 11 suspected members of it with illegally entering the united states. unclear if there's more to come

what they're going to do. what do you think is going to happen here? do you think that some of these people are going to come into the country illegally? or they'll just go home? what happens? >> well, erin, this is an opportunity for us to go back to the table and pass bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform. we should recognize, though, that these are mothers carrying babies, they're fleeing violence. they don't have clean water and clean air or access to food. so we should not be inhumane in how we treat them. if they have an asylum case to make, we should, as every country does, allow them to go through and apply through that process. we should also understand the root causes, that if we don't work to provide economic aid to these countries so that there are economic opportunities and clean water where they live and that we fight the cartels who cause a lot of this, that it will continue to persist, whether we build a wall a hundred feet high or ten feet

high. the president should sit down in a bipartisan way so that we can address this crisis. >> immigration law, you heard the president today speaking referring to the immigration laws as weak and obsolete. is he right to call them out in those terms? >> no. he's not right. because he has ignored and actually refused to take on these issues. i thought his best day as president was when he had republicans and -- [ inaudible ] >> it looks like we just lost the congressman. we'll give it a second to see if we can get it back. all right, as we -- we'll try to get it back. as we try to do that -- oh, we got it. congressman, you're back. sorry, you froze in the middle of your comment. you were saying the president was wrong to use those words. >> he was wrong to use those words. his best day on the job was when he convened republicans and

democrats at the white house and he said, you solve the immigration crisis, i will sign the bill. lindsey graham and dick durbin brought him solutions and he refused to sign the bill. he insulted the nigerians as well as other countries. he needs to recon convenience democrats and republicans so we can address this crisis in a humane way, but also a way that we keep our southern border secure. >> so would you, congressman, give everyone in that caravan asylum? >> no, i would hear their cases on a case by case basis. and if there are smugglers, or people who have criminal records, i would make sure they get turned back, or that they're taken into custody so that we can protect the people around them and u.s. citizens. but to just -- the president heads enflamed the situation by essentially accusing all of them of being the rapists and the bad individuals that he called them out to be in june 2015. those are not who they are. there's a humane way to address

this. >> congressman, "the washington post" with breaking news at this moment, reporting that the house conservatives allied with trump has drafted articles of impeachment against the deputy attorney rod rosenstein who is the person overseeing bob mueller and his investigation into russia. this obviously would ultimately be preferred to your committee. what do you say? >> it's sickening to hear that, erin. there are no limits, or no length that they are not willing to go to just torch the department of justice, and every single floor that would work independently to uphold the rule of law in our country. you know, voters will have their own say at the ballot box this november and i don't think they're going to look too kindly on people who think their job is to protect the president rather than to protect our democracy. >> congressman swalwell, thank you for your time tonight. >> my pleasure. "the national enquirer" said trump is in the hot seat because of michael cohen.

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after president trump's personal lawyer michael cohen. this is the latest issue of the tabloid, take a look, the cover story. trump's ficker's secrets and lies. make no mistake the timing of this attack comes as speculation grows that cohen may turn on trump because of the criminal investigation into him. timing here is no coincidence, because the man who runs "the enquirer," david pecker is a long time friend of the president. he's faced multiple accusations of buying stories that put trump in a bad light and never publishing them, a practice known as catch and kill. karen mcdougal said she had an affair with the president. pecker denies any wrongdoing, just helping out a friend. and there are other headlines involving top trump allies. a month after flynn was fired for lying to the vice president, the world exclusive cover story was trump catches russia's white house spy, who it said was flynn. and the same day it was reported that the fbi raided paul

manafort manafort's home, this story, trump adviser sex scandal, paul manafort's sicko affair. to be clear, neither man has ever confirmed these stories are true. vp of communications for american media who ow-- and forr district attorney for the southern district of new york. do you have any doubts that this front page is sending a message to michael cohen with this cover? >> hi, erin. absolutely. i don't think -- their message is loud and clear, that if you turn, this is only the beginning of what we can do to you. >> so it's in a sense a threat. the threat from -- a threat to michael cohen, watch out, it can get worse? >> well, it a not so subtle way of delivering that message.

you have to understand the power that david pecker and "the national enquirer" have in this country. so whether or not cohen does decide to testify and what he says, this is a simple way of delivering the message that we want you to play by our rules or else. >> or else. because here's the thing, as he says, the power they have. everybody reads the headline when they're checking out at the grocery store. people do see it. what does this cover story say? >> i think it says a couple things. one, i think it says, as we've all been assuming that the trump administration is very concerned that michael cohen is going to cooperate. i think it secondly says they're already starting a public campaign, first in this form and maybe soon in other places to discredit cohen, to say that he's a liar. so if he comes forward with something about the president, already the story, don't trust this guy, he's a liar. there's no reason to take his testimony at face value. >> which is interesting. that's what the president's long-time attorney said here, jay goldberg.

flip isn't the word i'd use. i'd use turn, because he'll lie and make it up. it's that angle. t"the enquirer" regally wenular after trump's enemies. remember ted cruz's father linked to the jfk assassin, which ted cruise seez seems to forgiven the president for. ben carson leaving a sponge in a pare patient's brain. >> "the national enquirer" did a story, they have a very good record of being right. >> i've always said why didn't "the national enquirer" get the pulitzer prize for edwards and o.j. simpson and all of these things. >> you can't knock "the national enquirer," it's brought many things to light, not all of them pleasant. >> in your experience, how close were pecker and trump? >> they were very close. they've been friends since the '90s.

and when magazines ruled the universe in new york city. trump made a conscious effort to go after david pecker, to make him his friend. once again, pecker at that point, controlled a lot of eyeballs and public opinion, what better way to influence public opinion than having a media friend. >> that's for sure. this comes as we have more news on stormy daniels. her lawyer going ahead with the lawsuit, suing the president for defamation, which centers in on the president's reaction to the sketch. he put out a sketch saying this is the guy who threatened my life and my daughter in the parking lot if i talked about my affair with you. >> trump responding, a sketch years later about a non-existent man, a total con job, playing the fake news media for fools. con job, is there any way you can get a defamation lawsuit out of this? obviously they want to get him to testify. >> i think it's hard to get a defamation lawsuit for a couple of reasons. this is within what we call the opinion privilege in a

defamation context. you're hafeallowed to express opinions without running afoul of a defamation law. >> even as the president? >> even as president. because he's doing this as president, if this is somehow within his role and scope as a president, it's not clear here whether he's acting within the perimeter of his role as president, but if he is, that would be another immunity. i think we'll see a motion to dismiss in this case, that would be my prediction. >> thank you very much. next trump declares war on montana's democratic senator. >> well, i know things about tester that i could say too. and if i said them, he'd never be elected again. >> thing about trump, if he knew them, he'd say them. jeanne moos is digging into the disappearing tree that trump planted on the white house lawn. why is it gone? so if you have heart failure, ask your doctor about entresto. it helped keep people alive and out of the hospital.

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trump's ires. trump saying he quote knows things about tester. so is tester's seat in jeopardy? >> reporter: big controversy brewing. senator tester in the cross hair of the president >> i know things about tester that i could say too. and if i said them, he'd never be elected again. >> reporter: president even calling for the senator's resignation. >> i think tester has to have a big price to pay in montana. >> reporter: all of this over the airings of ronny jackson. >> this guy has a problem. in fact in the white house, they

call him the candy man. >> reporter: claims of jackson drinking overseas. did not take issue with tester's handling of the allegations. tester who was already a republican target in november may now be a bigger one. >> so what degrees does this turn you off to him, the ronny jackson stuff? >> pretty much reinvigorated me to work to oppose him. >> reporter: montana with population of just over 1 million, has 100,000 veterans. >> what did tester do that was wrong in your view? >> not a full investigation. brought it out in the open without doing a thorough investigation. >> reporter: tester saying he

was just doing his job sticking up for vets. >> the president is calling on senator tester to resign. saying he has secret information on him, what do you make of that? >> pardon the language, but i think it is ball butter. >> do you think this controversy will have legs to november? >> i think it will. >> reporter: veteran ann farmer saying he has done more for veterans. but complicated the road to re-election. >> it should make other voters more reflective on getting out to vote and saying this is important. >> reporter: that is the big question, who will come out to vote. the president's support may be

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body. >> read one tweet, the new soprano season is the best. someone dug up the tree just like the crime family dug up a body. actually, what happens is skin shrivels. wondering if the little oak is growing. didn't take much digging to discover where the tree went. the french ambassador tweeted it is in quarantine which is mandatory to the u.s. have to make sure it carries no pest. you know what makes even less sense? the planting, unplanting and replanti

replanting a sapling. official from macron's office is saying the oak tree is doing very well. just under going some good old fashion extreme vetting. >> maybe it needs a little love. >> jeanne moos cnn, new york. >> what is the point of all of that. you know, put it in quarantine. thanks for joining us, anderson starts now. good evening, we begin tonight with breaking news from the white house. chief of staff john kelly denying the report that he used the word idiot to describe the president. pamela brown joins us with details. >> reporter: senior administration official tells my colleague that john