our police should get the death penalty. bring it forth. one of the most alarming crimes taking place against our police are ambush attacks. think of that. ambush attacks. i have directed the justice department to do everything in its power to defend the lives of american law enforcement. we are honored to be joined today by the family of detective miositis familia. detective familia was a proud member of the new york police

department. where is that family? where is that great family? great family. [ applause ] >> thank you so much. thank you so much. can you come up here? this is a great -- come up here, please. i'd like to have this family. new york police department close to my heart. come on. can you open those gates, please?

>> i promise i had wouldn't tell you that she's 90 years old, but you know what? she is really something, right? you look 55, maybe? huh? i tell you what, you got up

those stairs better than i did. thank you. great guy, right? friend of yours. so i just want to say the officer -- say something. say how great you are. say how great you are. you just told me something. this was a great partner. >> that was unexpected. yes, my name is samar. i was a detective on the east border the night she was killed.

i knew her about 10 years. i worked with her on and off. this is a woman who got injured a while ago and volunteered to come back to patrol. it's one of the roughest places in new york city. she volunteered to come back, to leave a cushy job and come back to patrol. she was only there about two weeks and god was with her that night. she may have been lost that night but she saved a lot of lives in return because of her memory and everything that transpired after the fact. she was an incredible person. she is missed by family. this family is incredible. thank you. [ applause ]

>> thank you very much. these are special people. special, special people. and i want to tell you that last year just a few hours after the city of new york celebrated the fourth of july, detective familia was on duty in her vehicle not far from yankee stadium. big yankee fan? we're all yankee fans, right? she was ambushed by a man for the simple reason that she was a member of the police department. she was a member of law enforcement. that was the simple reason. the attack, because she was so incredible, was just looked upon so horribly.

her family, when people met the family, they saw what an incredible person she was. i just want to say that, to your entire family, it's such an honor to have you up here. we weren't going to bring you up, but i looked at you in the audience and i said, you have to come up, because you're representing something so important. you understand that? she loved the department. she loved being a police officer. she loved her job. she was respected by everybody. they told me all about her. she was respected by everybody. so right now she's right there, and she's looking down and she's so proud of you. you are great. you are great. thank you very much. [ applause ] >> stay. we'll go down together, okay? i told them to stay. we'll go down together.

i'm almost finished. so to all the families here today who have lost a loved one, i'd like to ask you to all please stand. please stand. you lost mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, sons and daughters. and america lost incredible heroes. but they will endure forever and ever, you know that. she will endure forever in our memories and our hearts and in the countless lives they touched through their courage and through their grace. their legacy will never die. your mom's legacy will never, ever die. you have good genes. good genes. the best genes i've ever seen.

in a moment we will listen to the roll call of these great fallen officers. as we read the names of your loved ones, we engrave them into the eternal chronicle of american valor. and when that siren blares, when the squad car races down the street, when the police officer steps forth confident and proud and strong, so brave in that crisp, blue uniform, we will think of you. we will think of your incredible daughter. we will be thinking of all of the heroes we lost, and we will thank god for the men and women

of law enforcement. thanks again to all of our wonderful police, our sheriffs, and all of law enforcement and law enforcement officers. you're incredible people. you're the finest. you are the greatest, you are our heroes. god bless you, god bless our fallen heroes, god bless their families and god bless america. thank you. thank you very much. [ applause ]

>> we're going to stay with this scene. the president of the united states at capitol hill in a very emotional event. the president is speaking here to honor the fallen police officers who have lost their lives in the past year right here. the president brought a family of the new york police officer slain in the line of duty up on stage. quite an emotional moment there, paying tribute to the family, paying tribute to her partner. the president now is going to participate in a replay of part of this very important annual ceremony again up on capitol hill. we'll watch the president head down the stairs here shaking hands. this is an annual event. president trump taking his time to thank the police officers nationwide who have fallen in the line of duty. a very touching moment. he brought up the familia family. a new york city police officer, a woman. her mother was there, her children were there. now he's going to make his way through the crowd here to thank some of the other families. we'll take a quick break on

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welcome back. you see the united states capitol there. this is the annual ceremony honoring police officers killed in the line of duty. president trump finishing up his remarks, now greeting families at that ceremony. he is sitting down for lunch with senate republicans. both the president and republican senators have some big wants but some competing priorities as well heading into what looks like a challenging midterm for republicans. the president, for example, wants to put some wins on the board. that starts with judicial nominations. he also wants a confidential vote for a cia pick and trade talks ongoing this week with china. and don't forget he wants real money for his border wall. the majority leader wants many of the same things, especially more conservative judges. but some key demands could produce some fresh friction between the gentleman from kentucky and the president of the united states.

one likely land mine, republicans want the white house, preferably the president, to say anything about the tasteless remark by the white house staffer about john mccain. and a recognition from him that he does not help republicans everywhere. phil mattingly is standing by on capitol hill. it's a rare visit from the president. it comes at a fascinating moment in politics. what are those senators looking for most? >> of all the things senate republicans want from president trump, a direct confrontation is certainly not on that list. what's been real clear in the last hour or so is very few of them, if any, expect to confront the president over those remarks by a white house top aide about john mccain. some of them say something should be done but most are resigned to the fact that an apology is not forthcoming and they're ready to move on. most notably i've heard people

want information on what's happening with north korea right now. they want to know how the setup for the summit is actually going, what the administration is doing, any details they can get. on top of that, trade. it's a huge issue right now and we've seen this crop up in the last 24 to 48 hours. zte, all of a sudden the national security concerns and aspects related to that firm now being compared with the trade negotiations going on in washington this week. i talked to a number of senators who is very concerned that the president is not making negotiations. you know the president making it clear that on judicial nominations for mitch mcconnell, he wants to press forward. a lot of concern about government funding as well. the president saying they shouldn't go home for the august recess in the hopes of getting appropriations bills done. as you and i know, giving up

august is always out there. what do republican leaders want out of this lunch? they want things to stay consistent. keep in mind it was just october of last year that a republican senator actually brought popcorn to a closed door lunch with president trump. that's how bad things had gotten figuri between the senate republicans and the president. they just want information about how these next couple months will go before the midterm. >> keeping an election year even more complicated. we may see phil mattingly throughout the rest of the hour. hopefully the president will take some questions while he's up there. sharing some reporting and insights, ileana johnson with politico. it is a rare visit, number one. number two, the timing is just very important with where we are on the election year. and where we are with the question of is congress going to do much of anything between now and the election? traditionally, and republicans especially, given the wind in

their face this year, they want to pass whatever will keep the government open. they want to confirm judges, and then they want to go home and campaign. when the president walks in the room, we know judges. beyond that, what will he say, i need you to do this? >> i think the president has almost entirely turned his attention to foreign policy, because he knows the prospects of accomplishing anything big is limited, so i think he's going to press on confirming gina haspel. he needs a cia director in order to make this summit happen with north korea and to do some of the other things he wants to do. i think he'll really press them on that. he may give paul rand some grief for his continuing focus. they may discuss that, but they are of a similar mind on pushing as many judges through as possible before the november election. >> judges is easy for republicans. that's like the one thing they can all agree on. i think we're seeing with haspel her latest outreach, the letter

to mark warner, saying in hindsight it's clear to her the enhancement terror program wasn't the way for the agency to go. senators may not get the apology from donald trump about how senator mccain was treated. >> manu raju has reported in private meetings that, yes, i believe torture is immoral. yes, i believe some of the tactics used are immoral. she didn't do that because she didn't want to pull the rug out from under her. she says, look, i understand, i have to leave this agency. >> it already has been enough to win over two democrats which may be enough to get over the top. rand paul and john mccain were not expected to vote, anyway. her confirmation hearing, she kind of spouted a lot of questions that were not

inspiring to democrats. she's going to lose a vast majority of them simply over the fact they don't want the symbolism, someone who was identified in this chapter in history, to lead the cia. >> is there any hope for the american people -- congress does not have very good approval ratings, in part because they don't do anything relevant to lives. it feels that way, anyway. this is what congress would be doing if it could get enough votes for things. daca, neutrality. especially in an election year and especially when the president is tossing tariffs around. additional nominations, including sexual harrassment, a new plan for congress? where is that one? rescisions package, faa, faa reauthorization.

>> mr. president, how is your wife doing? >> the president was asked if he is going to apologize and he was also asked about the first lady. the president now going into the lunch with republican senators. there you see some of the president's staff as well. always great to see the president of the united states wandering the halls. let's come back to this point of the apology. you have a white house staffer who said something tasteless and reprehensible about john mccain. john mccain issues a statement about gina haspel, that she isn't moral. the staffer said it doesn't matter because john mccain is dying, anyway. she assured meghan mccain in a phone call she would say

something publicly. she hasn't said anything. the president himself tweeting out this morning, the so-called leaks coming out of the white house are massive, overexaggeration to make us look as bad as possible. he said, leakers are traitors and kourds acowards and we willt who they are. and kellyanne conway says this. >> sometimes they're leaks because they don't agree with the policies put forth. i will tell you something going on in this white house but not as badly. it's not so much leaking but using the media to shimmy each other. >> expect personnel changes as a result. these are your colleagues using

the media to shiv each other. >> that's a weird way to approach things at the white house, right, the president calling his own staff a traitor. there is usually loyalty in the white house, so this is all kind of strange. >> whatever you think of the president's policies, they have a point. you would think 16 months in, if you were working for the trump white house, you would either want your job and remain loyal or you would leave. >> you're absolutely right, you can't runny type of organizat a organization that the climate is so charged you can't have a private conversation. but thaet nt's not the most successful conversation. whenever you think of john mccain's political career, he's an american hero. people on both sides of the aisle agree on his value and what he's done for american life

and governance over the last several decades. and to decline to address any of that and only focus on this, you know, i think is not a winner if you're trying to reach across the aisle or anywhere in the middle. there is a segment of the republican base that doesn't like john mccain and is completely fine with not addressing that issue. it's hard to get your head around the inability to separate the politics. >> from the lack of institutional responsibility. >> that is our politics now, is equating the person with their politics. i do think there is a certain extent we've been missing the forest from the trees. i don't think this is a case of a junior white house aide making an ill-considered comment. i think that sadler's comment really does reflect the views of the president who made a comment, a disparaging comment, about mccain during the primaries and the two of them have had sort of an ongoing view that stretched through the first year of the administration with

mccain giving its famous thumbs down vote, scuttling the president's first major issue which was obamacare replacement, now trying to settle gina haspel's nomination. now trump is trying to explain to his friends about john mccain. there is no love lost between the white house and john mccain. >> we'll see. what's interesting is phil mattingly not expecting the senators to bring it up. a lot of senators have been complaining to every tv camera they can find about this, to every court reporter they can find about this. up next, deadly violence on the israel/gaza border leads tie very high stakes blame game. ing. and the decisions you make have far reaching implications. the right relationship with a corporate bank who understands your industry and your world can help you make well informed choices and stay ahead of opportunities.

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more violence on the border of gaza. they say the president moving the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem is to blame for the violence. hamas organized the protest and sent women and children to the border. >> make no mistake, hamas is pleased with the results from yesterday. i asked my colleagues here in the security council who among us would accept this type of activity on your border? no one would. no country in this chamber would act with more restraint than israel has. >> that's the u.n. ambassador nikki haley speaking in an emergency session of the security council. that session called by critics of israel and the trump administration. the human rights council added this to the debate. it seems anyone is liable to be shot dead or injured, women, children, press, first responders, bystanders.

and almost any point up to 700 meters from the fence. white house council is extremely worried about what may happen today, an emotional day on all sides, and in the weeks ahead. we urge maximum restraint. enough is enough. the contrasting images were remarkable yesterday. they're opening the embassy, a lot of media counts contrasting the pictures along the fence and the border and the deaths with ivanka trump unveiling the plaque in her father's name in the embassy, then the blame game. the blame game is not new, what is being said is not new, it's just being framed on this new event. but ambassador haley seemed pretty bent to push back hard today. >> i think the administration knows they have to. the optics of this are bad, and i suspect they're going to get worse because the palestinians see what's happening and this can invoke international outrage. people are throwing rocks getting shot. i think we're going to see an escalation of this and it's probably going to be a difficult

issue for the trump administration to move forward here. they're going to have to maintain a defense. in some ways they're isolated. some of our own allies are really critical of israel. it's a blame game that's gone on as long as a conflict itself. what is not debatable, though, is the fact that the trump administration and embassy in jerusalem is in conflict. i don't think it's seriously deniable given that jerusalem has hung up peace negotiations for a long time along with the issue of settlement of borders. you can't have a third-party person come in and solve that without getting backlash. >> it is not president trump's fault this happened any more than it would be true to equate hamas with the palestinian people. let's get real for a second. the administration said what they wanted to do was get a peace deal, but in their

actions, they have chosen not only to put this move on a fast track but to do it in a way where the leverage, the incentive for the palestinians to reach this master peace deal was to basically give in to a bunch of their demands by taking saudi arabia and egypt and other countries in the region and moving the goalpost. so that's a different way to achieve a big-time peace plan than by making everyone feel good and equal. >> iran is is a much ba much bi to the players. in the "new york times" editorial page today, it lays out this is a debate that may not be settled today, it may not be settled in our lifetime. on the other hand, the "new york times" editorial board talking about the failure of the palestinians, and particularly

hamas in gaza, are corrupt. they have failed again and again to make their own efforts toward peace. ev you cannot argue with that statement. they insisted they had no peace partner on either side. the possibility of peace has continued to recede and israel's democratic character has continued to erode under the pressure of a long-term occupation of millions of palestinians who lack sovereignty of their own. things can be true in the same -- forgive me -- mess. >> bill clinton would have had a peace agreement were it not for yasar arafat, and the first thing he told george bush is you can't trust yasar arafat. waving swastikas on them, they

said they hope jews burn in hell. i do think some of the news accounts take away the agency of the actors on one side and they had no choice but to do this, and the "new york times" also featured on op-ed that the leader doesn't believe in borders, and no borders means no israel. i think you have to pay attention to that, too. >> that is an absolute valid point. the question here is what next? what next? the administration made its decision about the embassy. it's taking the heat for it. the question is, and this is for the president, for jared kushner and everyone else involved. will they try to get the palestinians somehow back in the situation involved? big policy change in four states, none bigger than pennsylvania. they're turning things back their way.

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topping our political radar today, president trump thanking the country for supporting the first lady as she recovers from a kidney procedure. >> i want to start by saying that melania is in the hospital doing really well. she's watching us right now. and i want to thank the incredible doctors at walter reed medical center. they did a fantastic job. so thank you. she sends her love. >> the white house says mrs. trump underwent an embolization for an underlying kidney condition, but they're not specifying exactly what that kidney condition is.

we're watching elections in ohio, nebraska, oregon and pennsylvania where for the first time voters are selecting candidates for their newly redrawn congressional districts which should help democrats. they hope to pick up five house seats. republicans need a net gain of 23 to retake the house. music lessons. smoky robinson on the stand today standing up for musicians. it may change the rules for how musicians are compensated. he said it's not fair how some older musicians cannot collect royalties because the contracts they signed didn't anticipate things like satellite radio. >> seconded a motion in 1967. those happen to be some of the biggest records i've ever been associated with, and to not be

paid because it was prior to 1972 is ludicrous, as far as i'm concerned. >> the e prkepa administrator s pruitt, it turned out the security he told congress he needed because of death threats was put in place before any threat assessment was done. his first day on the job and at his request. that's according to an internal review. that contradicts what pruitt told lawmakers just a few weeks ago. >> when folks read about trips to disneyland, professional basketball games, rose bowl and the additional security detail related to that, that doesn't sit well with a lot of people. >> pruitt, i'm going to find you and put a bullet between your eyes. don't think i'm joking, i'm planning this. these are threats that the ig has documented. the ig said the threats against the administrator are unprecedented. >> taxpayers last year spent some $2 million on pruitt 's

security detail and expensive travel. scott pruitt is in the hot seat. he installed a private booth for $40,000 in his office. chuck grassley, the chairman of the judiciary committee, but more importantly, iowa's senior republican senator, on a conference call with ag reporters was asked about epa waivers for large refineries. grassley said he may call on pruitt to resign over the issue. of course, ethanol big in iowa. >> don't mess with corn country. i think that's what the message is there. you can do some of the other things, but if you are -- this has always been an untouchable thing in iowa, and maybe mr. pruitt is now going to learn what a lot of presidential candidates have learned in primaries going into iowa, is

don't mess around with ethanol. >> is there a straw that ultimately breaks pruitt's back? there is so much in this body. he hasn't supported anything so far. >> it depends how much the president will tolerate. new allegations keep coming out. it is the conservative movement, as you pointed out. it's a strong movement on the right who likes what he's doing. >> there is also kind of a disappearing cabinet and the president's challenges in replacing them. i think if gina haspel is successful in her confirmation, it removes one big obstacle. >> i think the senate wants to go home, they don't want to deal

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vice president pence is nothing if not consistent. when he speaks the president gets praise and more praise and generally more praise. but headlines have reached a tension at the top and they're likely to make whispers. politico puts it this way. with the vice president taking a higher profile on the campaign trail, the president has stepped in to assert his dominance. another one, pence is trying to control republican politics. trump aides aren't happy. there is often tension between the president and vice president, but -- >> right, so some of this is normal. but i think some of it's not. the key takeaway is while the

tension has not bubbled up to the top between pence and trump, the staff is at each other's throats. trump staffers are concerned that pence is taking an outside role on the campaign trail and wary of his attempts to hire staffers, and the roles of the president and the vice president were more defined in previous administrations. i think the days of trump staffers have eaten up so much of this white house drama that it leaves a wide opening for vice president pence to move into a role usually handled by the president. >> here's the times story today. republican officials now see mr. pence exercising substantial control over the political party

ostensibly helmed by mr. trump, tending to his own allies and interests even when the president's instincts lean in another direction. >> i do think mike pence is a sensitive guy who watched joe biden be constructive. let's say they're planning for 2024 and something happens. what are you going to do, not be ready because you didn't want it to look weird? so there's that. there's also the truth, the fact that president trump was very content to have mike pence prosecute a lot of the foreign policy strategy in those early months while he focused on either domestic issues or foreign policy issues that were really domestic issues. but now that the president has turned more toward foreign policy which is generally a tactic for the president, he wants it back. pence is in a tough spot. you see him at these rallies.

i was in indiana the other night when he gave the president an incredible warm-up act. trump was ready when he took the stage. he does all of that. maybe he has to grit his teeth sometimes, but still -- >> you heard the vice president going to davos, and he said, nope, i'm going. >> i will add it was the vice president's doctor who scuttled the president's pick for va secretary. and somebody on the president's team who then torpedoed the vice president's choice for national security adviser john lerner. the vice president clearly sees nikki haley as a star, wants her guy on thhis team. so there is real tension between these two. i think about the aspirations of

what his staff are for the future. >> kcory lewandowski on the president's team will make it right. >> everything is being coordinated with the rnc and the dnc and the president's party. they are very eager to portray this as everything is cool, there is no tension there. and it is a prime directive in terms of staying in the president's good graces. you can immediately snap back in and put out a statement publicly pledging your loyalty to him. >> just because i like history, i want to show you some quick headlines. vanity fair apologizes to obama for jumping the gay marriage. the "new york times," gore keeps a distance. history does repeat itself. up next, a democratic

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a democrat driving her party, you might say, by the caller today. with a message she hopes they will listen to. a democrat from minnesota says her party must stop constantly degrading trump. he can be called out when he needs to be, but the voters she talks to, she insists, have other concerns. >> how the tax bill will affect them, those are things on their mind, health care premiums, those things. i'm well aware they're not asking me about russians, they're asking me about soil exports. >> welcome to 2020. but what is the importance of that where you have a prominent democrat saying, easy, people.

don't just russia, russia, russia, or don't count on this coming to us. >> i think she's doing a couple things there. she's trying to differentiate herself from some who are seeing her as a more progressive candidate for the candidacy in the coming year. but we're starting to hear from democrats, hey, this can't be totally about trump. we have to do other things. they're seeing trump's numbers go up a little bit. they're nervous right now that maybe the environment isn't going to be quite what they thought it would be. i think that's a warning from her but she has political reasons for doing it. >> i don't disagree with you, carl, but as much as i've heard democrats talk about trump, i've not heard anything from them anti-trump. >> they do have a message. what do they highlight going after trump personally? it doesn't move voters. i think people made up their minds on this, unless there is a

massive event. i don't think people are going to move on this. the more economics and the more issues in the news, and it's -- >> she hopes there will be a lot more women in the house and the senate. >> and the reason we will take back the house and hopefully the senate is because we have great women candidates all across this country running in record numbers, and there is a powerful wave of women activists who are going to get it done. the next chapter of the women's movement is being written right now. >> and the first chapter is the 2020 auditions, right? that's just the way it works. >> i'm going to give a quick buzz for the tracker which has an entire segment.

everybody is campaigning right now. the democrats want to win. what do they do if they do and some of this beyond the 2020 stuff is trying to start this conversation with how hard do you hit the impeachment lever and how hard do you attack. thank you for joining us on "inside politics." hope to see you back here tomorrow. wolf starts right now. >> hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington, 8:00 p.m. in gaza. wherever you're watching from around the world, thank you very much for joining us. right now senate republicans in washington possibly talking to the senate behind closed doors as they refuse to publicly apologize for a joke about senator john mccain and the president trying to save chinese jobs. the president says, cowards