i'm john king. breaki several fronts. the president is meeting wit consid withdrawing his he promised to sign it, but

this as we learn the president's choice take the ag job full and wall is not the president's only b republ say the decision to danger they say russia thinks it is a >> as far as isis is concerned, i have speculated about this before >> begin with the chaos ri here in washington. the about to meet with house republicans at the white house. the choice is keep the

partia and fight it out over what w know now, paul ryan was the republican is president the white house official said his press secretary said at this moment the president does not speake paul ryan and the freedo caucus members as of now say there is no vote scheduled the senate passed this plan source say the president

maybe i won't sign this. he is making it pretty clear. that's why the house republicans scramb and they are having the emerge minute lunch with presid they realized the deal to keep money for the border wall presid is growing his signature promise to build a border wall. most people in washington januar right now, aides are saying they have flash backs to last march after he did sign it, he came i never sign a bill like

not guarantee the president is throug that statement that if tells you they do know, they are wrong. >> that's a good way to put it. please come back as we learn the president about to sit down live on capitol hill. any indication of what will hill? >> the republican leaders will aftern including adding to open. fundin the president's potent up to $5 billion and disast relief.

these options were discussed leader moments ago, they're to show that they do not have congre they could pass barely out of senate then what? do the go back to plan a to right now in this closed door no doubt the president's speake paul ryan said it

meetin republican leaders a lot of uncertainty as we head >> uncertainty is an under statem with me in the studio to share report politico and michael and we have seen this movie before we have a deadline tomorrow. and th president pulls back you promised you wouldn't cave is the president going to say go back t the drawing board and i get. the isn't there or will he >> this is deja vu all over

again. >> and then bump stocks. >> they are upset on multiple for a solution. many are urging him to change we don't have any idea what will happen many are urging him to sign a year and blame congressional there are not even 218 >> after every mid-term election when a president gs

shella they have a soul what is different here is this and said i will proudly shut securi now he is going back? >> he doesn't know which way to go. he took full ownership of the that's rule number one of you never are the one who admits you to blame. i we will will have to >> the president is desperate packag we have seen him phrase things differ seeing border security and now if he gets any more money for he is moving the goal post a >> we are at the two-year mark,

for the last 10 days, the house before we have a vote, policy the president said nothing. they passed it with the and he said never mind. >> this is what happened for the entire two years. the president doesn't negotiate what influences the president is not back room negotiates with congre leaders. he is influenced by fox news. one of the things that his veto. they failed again. who was on fox news? >> this morning, mark meadows.

the people who are opposed to it. this whole thing happened all the very venue that could have instea the opposite. that's the only thing. >> he is getting it from everyw part is the dysfunction from the presid paul ryan leaving. they are saying mr. president, now. >> you have got to be kidding me. really believ we are supposed to campai no way! >> mr. president, we are going if you veto the bill, we will be there, but the american people they will be there to support

you. >> the last part was an open questi if you look at the polling, most people blame trump. some both sides. the side of the leadership foreve ann coulter, it's not just fox, it's now crystal clear that one either trump never intend stod he is not interesting in doing accord twitter monitors, is out there to get attention,

base. >> it is his last chance. jim jordan is right. come january 3rd, nancy pelos she will have all the leverage. jim jordan and mark meadows will disapp important figures presid they have his ear. to that regard, they have to do to jump off a cliff with no the president who only got 46% >> it's interesting to see how ann coulter is in a different catego but people like mark

they are saying he is caving, establ they are not too critical of the presid as to not make him angry. >> he said i won't give congre okay. it's a bad -- his leverage is in short supply. stay w throughout the hour. we watch this playing out as we go to break, a quick note they raised more than $4.7 billio

new information about the russia whethe the department's ethics questi before joined the trump admini he was critical since becoming ag, he said there down. the deputy director suggested >> you can tell us what sense role have in the invest

>> we will have mo in terms of my role as we the in as we have in approp whethe bob mueller or rod rosens matt whitaker, >> new evidenc suggesting the in it he said mueller should the legal analyst joins conver let me start with you in terms ba, rr. on the one hand said i have on the other hand said if the

is it that kutd and dry or a >> he wrote this memo june 8th he is saying now this is my the supreme court never interp there great legal debate he writing a friend of the thinki having one of you guys before i don' right, but i >> i want to come back to we wer not sure he was going to ask. he had not said anything. correc me if i'm wrong about we all wondering. what is happen something he did

himsel memo has beenprovide. member of congress have been explai what he plans to do. we going to see a letter i think a lot of us have been

pundit on television. he had no information about the memos had these opinions. for of them, once they both get to see what mueller has, i change >> politically, democrats say the president has sent februa gets confirmation. anythi we have seen in the him. >> that's pretty unlikely. it will come up in his he answers will matter. with whitaker and my view has

muelle see any controversy arising muelle >> i think that's an important point. >> rod rosenstein is day to day that hasn't changed. that's a lot of people are >> to that point, the special inis telejens voted to give him wikile what did you know about

>> either they are preparing an what they are going to charge there nothing there and they eviden >> for could be either of these >> there is a 30 and mueller is that's a possibility. >> stone said he has not been >> a bad sign. >> usu a bad sign. one is challenging his authority and all the grand jury work

>> for could. there press depth fcedent facts. it's not the usual way you use again, we don't know what it may well be that he will look at roger stone and say he's not it may be that these guys are let's put this in the report and have a public hearing. >> to exact point, the wikile is it a protected news servic muelle to figure out does could lose? >> from the special counse

we'll keep following

a of breaking and developing storie washington. the president meeting wit house republ the white house.

will he demand changes to a plan they thought was on the way to passag also today the acting attorney light to oversee. harshl of robert the ranking democrat on capitol >>john, thank you. thanks for talking to us. >> my reaction is that it

invest it's more than a little bizarre and sa mr. trump, don't worry, i have your back on the to me this makes this individual disqua the position. i will listen to any explan but when he starts it's not the appropriate approa positi at the very least. >> do you thin he should

either generawhitaker, we wrote views on mueller, we wanted ton it is reported that we are going to get a response today. it is reported in the press. somebo the doj cleared whit ter to oversee rosenstein and we need to hear an answer on that. i that troubling as well. we see this constant

now we see trump repeatedly they will give his cronies. >> we have worked with the i'm not going to comment about the subject of criminal charges >>you. john, back to you. >> interesting on the hill. before we go to break, one quick questi on the math. chuck schumer said bill is

votes. he has deep votes going back to the democrats have a political there evidence he is in assumi president sends the paperw up. >> they need four republicans to break. hearin lindse he needs to >> that's one of the big questi the president's party in his

pull u.s. troops from syria and vladimputin. he agrees there has been it's good call to withdraw troops presid said he doesn't the president tweeting, getting i have been campaigning o i agreed to stay longer. russia and iran an we time t come home and rebuild. the outrage and the opposition

decisi this i lindsey graham moment it >> i don't kno how the decision was made. it literally came out of left field. it rattled the world. you see north korea flexing leave south korea before we do a deal. i can promise you that is going to happen in syria i can promise the of the aisle. there a lot of that on the the nationalist base was mad,

>> that's right. this i an interesting decision he has also gotten a lot of moves, tough on iran and saying pull out of syria and he is alienating allies on he isn't really satisfying it satisfies some, but alienates others >> we are about 80% or 85%

there. histor proves if you leave them a litt bit and get out, they grow. >> aggravating that was the that added a lot of insult to injury >> i do think as much as the substa the thing that has presid wanted to reeval the u.s.'s roll n him taking too long. there months about what to

on the table. that perhaps you could say went other direction that it's got >> the of the rattling is if you are making this decision in syria, about the republ presumably planned it was all about syria. the republicans came out of that room hot. they were telling weakin they w not whispering. guys like johnson whop do not >> this is an indi troops overseas, it's intere we are talking about it and

they don't like this either. >> we had success against isis we had success. it was a victory. lindse graham, bob corker, the president blindsided the >> she doing exactly if not >> exactly if not worse than it tells you about the moment. >> the president was not sure on how to message this. it seemed to have been done on on twitter, he was contradicting his own message and saying we he said this is a war that

have we defeated isis? he seemed to walk that back in when there is not a clear messag even allies on fox >> it's tough about how it water. the dow dives again after the

big market. the dow losing even more ground low. invest watching the markets yester down almost 350 points. christ the mood? i'm guessing it's not so great. what hearinging from

invest >> blood on the street right avoid a government shut down. that did not help things on the market no doubt about it, that selling continued unabate they have been addicted to that. that jerome powell gave. the fed chair. clarit

warnin signs flashing about a these are the concerns on the they continue unabated women are down below 2300. it seemed like the selling will contin john? >> below 23,000 at a market that out. presidtrump's base demands a fight. will he listen and will it force

officials to give >> tha six weeks as the attorney generamatt whitaker was he never sought one, but given here's what i was with an while ethics officials while confli

whitak decision and he based his own adviceor who >> fascinating moment. apprec the reporting. matthe whitaker will say it's judge me by my actions. democr said you should err on the side of caution and step where do we go? there another person nomina >> that's a couple months away. >> and there is time for him to

appear he would have exploded given the histor >> satisfies the president, >> he was put there to give the if he refused himself, it would >> jerry nadler will bring him >> his decision was better that. >> to be fair to mr. whitaker, by the time he is >> it looks like he will not himsel she between a rock and a hard

>> one of the many fascinating this i normally the slow time. we live in a different age. the president is meeting about briann starts righ >> brianna keilar live from under right now, a surprise lawmak scrambling over a open. at center of it all, the fury within his own party. donald facing backlash he officially in charge of ag matthew whitaker is not probe. we