transitioned nicely. there entrepreneurs and clothing designers. to know that this is. >> dana: i have to run. i love it. i'm going to listen to this podcast. i will see you on "the five." bill hemmer. >> he's a great guy. joey jones, really a good man. i'll see you at 5:00. moments ago, we got word that there will be a briefing this hour. we expect it to happen 30 minutes from now. it should be a hot topic given what we watched a few hours ago. good afternoon. i'm bill hemmer. the gloves came off today. here we go. the former vice president joe biden taking questions for the first time and nearly three months. he sounded off on president trump sandia administration waved the white flag of the pandemic, failed to safely reopen the economy.

in a moment reaction from the trump campaign senior advisor mercedes schlapp. first though, doug mckelway was at the event and he is live and delaware to lead here. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. this is a big day for the biden campaign because this was the day he took questions from the press. 90 days give or take since he lasted this, so he's out of the gate and running. the obvious reason for his press conference is to embark on a normal campaign. the psyche and is that he is 77 years old so he's in the target range for the worse symptoms of that virus. thirdly there is speculation and its widespread that based upon several gaps that he is made and several months and recent years, he's experiencing the first effects of some sort of mild dementia or cognitive impairments.

he has an address that. i asked him directly and here's what he had to say. >> i've been tested and i'm constantly tested. all you have to do is watch me and i can hardly wait to compare my cognitive capability to the cognitive capability of a man i'm running against. >> he's out of the gate. he said he wants to do more of this campaigning so i think we can expect more press conferences. he also committed to three debates, at least three debates. he said he's willing to do that. i asked him about the description of monuments across the country and he seemed to draw a line between the destruction of the forefathers, washington, jefferson, less inclined to protect the monuments of confederate heroes. >> i think the elected officials have a responsibility to move. put them into museums. get them down. don't expect if you have sitting

in front of you after all these years and you're finally are going through another phase of major responding to the systemic racism in america. and what we've seen happen. don't be surprised if someone pulls down the statue of jefferson davis. it's better they do not. >> this appearance was primarily designed to criticize president trump's handling of the coronavirus. he went through a five-point plan. he has laid it out since the the month of march to combat the virus which would involve federal spending, a federal approach as opposed to a piecemeal. he called for testing, testing, and federal funding of a 100,000 person contact tracing lyrist task force. more to come on that as he now gets out of the basement so to speak. >> bill: one of the few reporters that got some news out

of him. good questions, well done. doug mckelway. moments away now from a major vote in new york city. the city council will vote on a plan to cut $1 billion from lita police department $6 billion budget and use that for social services. outside of new york city hall showing police pushing back against protesters who have been camped out there for about a week. former new york city police commissioner ray kelly is here to evaluate this. good afternoon. does this pass today? >> i'm sure they have the votes lined up, but i don't know what's in this package. obviously the whole concept of defunding is ludicrous. taking resources away from the police. right now this looks like a kabuki deal going on. you're talking about a class in july, about $40 million.

you're talking about something with a capital budget which is usually five years out. cutting back on overtime. you always talk about that. nowhere as far as i know so far does it come close to a billion dollars. we will have to see. maybe it's a con game. >> bill: how do you evaluate the fate of the city? and the safety for the people who live here? >> i'm very concerned about it. it's much more than just head counts. even if you were to go down a significant number, the police department has the resources they need. however they have been told to hold off, to back off, and that's what's going on in the city. that's why you see this explosion of gunfire, assault. the mayor eliminated the anticrime units in the city which was a clear signal that

the surrender is ongoing. people are afraid. i get calls that people are afraid. there is a different feel in the city now. >> bill: especially after the sun goes down. there is a different feel. we did some number crunching. budgets about 5.6 billion work currently. if you caught a billion that's 18% of the overall budgets. l.a., 1.7 billion, hundred and $33 million cut. a percent if you do the math. chicago the budget as 1.6 billion. no proposed budget cut in the city of chicago. could you reallocate the money and do it successfully? >> reallocate -- >> bill: the mayor wants to put it in other areas like social services, could you do that and make the city a better

place? >> i think it's about attitude and direction and leadership. so far the police are getting the direction. coming directly from city hall. to pull back. a light touch is what he said. you saw the cops that were injured, the mayhem that went on. what you see, people provoking, taunting the police. it happens virtually every night, someplace in new york city. very tough to be a police officer these days here. when you talk about resources, probably no other city in this country spends more per capita on social services then new york city. i don't know how much you're going to be adding to that with the reduction with police resources. we haven't seen the old plan. playing peekaboo with the budget. >> bill: we will see what

happens at 6:00 p.m. it's a different town. ray kelly, good to see you. the archbishop of new york weighing in on this debate over removing statues and monuments. he writes in our corporate because of "the wall street journal" "even the bible is full of flawed characters. the destruction of monuments only impoverish he is our sense of history." good afternoon. interesting conversation. i read your piece. >> ray kelly. >> bill: i read your piece with great curiosity. make your case. >> to me it's a no-brainer. i come as a man of faith. for us as catholics, memory and tradition are very important. it's a vehicle of god's revelation. to do anything to chip away is careless to the human project.

secondly, i'm coming at this as an american historian who knows the quote that those are not familiar with the past are bound to repeat the mistakes. i'm saying one of the ways we remember the past and learn from it, statues, monuments, dedicated buildings, books. all of these now are under the gun. we are in the book burning, a cultural revolution like he tried to do in china. we are trying to cleanse and erase the past and that is very dangerous. you know the experts tell us if were going to have an enlightened civilized society we need a memory and we need drea dreams. you don't -- were not going to have a need dreams left if we erase the memory. that's what i'm afraid all of this statue -- >> bill: that's interesting. you point out mary magdalene and your piece. that's where you begin.

>> i recall an anecdote when i was in another place where i was assigned. we opened up a new parish and i suggested to the name st. peter. he was one of the people closest to jesus and i got this letter saying, he was a sinner, he denied him three times when he needed it most on three times on good friday. i said, i know you. you're from st. mary magdalene. do you want to change that name? we all have the light and darkness. >> bill: i want to share this with our viewers. this is what you writes. it literature that depicts prejudice, words are scenes that are rightly a port is to be banned, i don't know if the bible can survive. if we only honor perfect, saintly people of the past, i'm left with the cross and some people would be in that. what's the approach?

>> the approach is to remember, to acknowledge with realism and honesty. sometimes contrition about what went on in the past. i love to walk in the city and very often i will go to central park and guess what, i will go by columbus circle. very often i will see a teacher there with her class or his class. i hear the teacher say, this is christopher columbus. here are the good things he did. and you need to know some of the questionable things that he did. some of the things that are embarrassing. you need to know both. all of us, we hope the good of us conquers the bad. i don't know about you, but i think those kids have a great teacher and i think we use that money meant to way it's meant to be, to teach us about greatness and the flaws. >> bill: thank you for your message your eminence. >> happy fourth.

>> bill: thank you. enjoy your weekend. several big stories developing at this hour. we learned there will be a news briefing at the white house at 3:30 p.m. east coast time. we will take you there the moment it starts, but first there is this today as well. >> we can't just focus on those areas that are having the surge. it puts the country at risk. we are now having 40 plus thousand new cases a day. i would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around. >> bill: one of the top doctors warning about the virus. cases continue to rise across the country and some governors slow down the reopening. what is the best course of action? we have our doctor on deck for that. another big story dominating washington, what we are learning this hour about the russian bounties. who knew what and when, live from the pentagon on that in a

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>> bill: top white house officials knew early last year about and tell that russian spies were operating bounties to kill u.s. troops in afghanistan. the pentagon says there was no cooperating evidence to support recent media reports about those bounties. jennifer griffin picks up the story. jennifer? >> the pentagon was caught off guard this week it by

"the new york times" report. leaders were not involved in the white house discussion and it took several days to find any mention of the raw intelligence about the russian bounty progr program. candidate joe biden blamed the president who said he was not briefed even though officials say it was written and his presidential daily brief in february. >> he should have immediately contacted our joint chiefs of staff and gotten them all in one room and said okay, what are we doing to prevent this? the idea that somehow he didn't know or isn't being briefed, it's a dereliction of duty if that's the case. if he was briefed and nothing was done about this, that's a dereliction of duty. >> close to midnight last night we received a statement from the pentagon, "the department of defense continues to evaluate intelligence that russian operatives were engaged and

maligned activity against united states and coalition forces in afghanistan. he has no cooperating evidence to validate the recent allegations." we've confirmed there were white house meetings involving an official to come up with "a menu of options to respond to russian support of the taliban." the information is based on several streams of intelligence of concern. some of the intel is contradictory i'm told. some could be interpreted in multiple ways. we have confirmed there was a raid involving u.s. special forces earlier this year in afghanistan that found a large amount of cash and interrogation with an afghan fighter who said the money came from russia. it was viewed as human and was not verified. "the new york times" is reporting american officials intercepted electronic data showing large financial transfer of's from account controlled by

the russian intelligence agency. secretary of state pompeo spoke to the tele- bandleader today, reminding them of their commitment not to kill american troops. >> bill: jennifer griffin, thank you. jonathan swan, axios white house reporter. thanks for coming back. republican senator said the end tele- briefing provided no cooperation on the russian bounties. that was in "the new york times." that's what she said an hour a ago. where does the story go? >> the white house from the communication standpoint is in a difficult position because they've already said the president wasn't personally briefed. they had not answer the question of whether it was in his written presidential daily brief. and then you get into the question of, does he read his intelligence briefing every day? is he relying on the verbal

brief? i think it's a lot to come out here. this is a fast-moving story. i think it's prudent to be cautious in the way that we talk about it. we just saw a report from "the new york times" and the last, you know, very recently about money transfers potentially to the taliban from russia. electronic transfers being monitored. there is a lot of new information coming out and i'm just trying to be very careful in the way that i talk about it. >> bill: why don't we see what kayleigh mcenany has to say in about 10 minutes. a lot of time and the briefing room. i know you watched the joe biden press conference. questions like what keeps you up at night, what would you do to prudent and can you get america on the same page. to which ari fleischer tweeted this "the difference between the tenor of the questions with biden compared to trump is striking.

after eight years of going easy on obama, for years to being brutal to trump. the mainstream media seems happy to go easy again." was that your observation? >> i think it was a gentle session with biden not really being tested. he wasn't asked anything about the revelations about michael flynn and the discussion of the logan act or anything of that nature. one thing i thought was interesting was biden himself injected the issue of cognitive abilities and raise the issue of president trump's cognitive abilities. we know that's been a line of attack for the trump campaign. it was surprising that biden is now actively picking up on this and putting it into his messaging. >> bill: nice to see you. more on this and a couple of minutes. senate republican say a new bill is on the way.

republican senator david perdue out of georgia will tell us what might be a net. he is coming up live next.

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>> bill: on the covid front of the cases continue to spike in georgia. one of the first states to reopen. the governor urging but not requiring people to wear masks. he's also extending the public health emergency including bans on large gatherings. more than 81,000 people infected and georgia, 3,000 deaths with 11,000 hospitalizations. david perdue of georgia with me now. good afternoon. thank you for your time. why are we going back? why did the reopening go this way? >> we have seen an uptick in some areas, but remember, the

new cases are trending much younger. it's summer, young people are being active. some people are not wearing a mask. i applied what the governor has done. we opened our economy, one of the first and what we are seeing if we follow the protocols we can continue to open up this economy. here's the problem, while cases are going up, deaths are continuing to decline. >> bill: okay. let's hope that continues that way and you're right about the young people. do you support wearing a mask? >> absolutely. we wear them here in the senate. we follow the protocol does the military has been following and are essential workers. we watch our hands, we wear a mask, and if we follow that the infection rate can be managed. we have two great control groups to learn from, or essential workers at a military, and south korea and sweden have been doing this longer than we have. >> bill: i wear a mask here

and you need it. just so you know. the new covid a bill, mitch mcconnell says republicans and the senate will take it up after the july 4th holiday. what will be in it? >> the issues are really liability and what are we going to do? we have a lot of small communities in my state that need help, but if we take the hundred $50 billion that's been allocated and give our governors more latitude with how to use that, i believe we need to see that first before we have another allocation. we don't want to bailout the states as a part of this next package, but we do what liability protection. >> bill: you will not get that from democrats. is that where the rubber meets the road? >> i think that is. we really want liability protection and they been talking about some kind of bailout for the states. what's in the heroes act is untenable. they want $400 billion to pay

off loans, other things that are necessary. over a trillion dollars for bailing out these irresponsible states. that's not a starting point. >> bill: let's make you a deal, they give you liability and what do you give them? >> we have so much right now that has not been put out. only half of the $2.9 trillion has been allocated. we have half of that money out there. if we give the states more latitude about how to use what we have already given them and then we will see better results. >> bill>> bill: it's editor, thank you. nice to see you. as i mentioned, in a minute there'll be a briefing at the white house. we will take you there live once he gets underway. a lot of topics to cover including this from joe biden from two hours ago. >> it seems like our wartime presidents rendered, waved the white flag, and left the battlefield. today we are facing a serious

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♪ >> month after month, as other leaders and countries took the necessary steps to get the virus under control, donald trump failed us. month after month as many of us stepped up, he failed us. >> bill: joe biden slamming president trump's response from the cobit pandemic talking with reporters, first news conference and 89 days and we are waiting to hear from the white house any moments. we want to bring an mercedes schlapp. welcome to the program and good afternoon. in a general sense.

he went after your boss pretty hard today. what did you think? >> he finally came out of the basement, but because he has been in the basement for so long he must've missed all the action that president trump took to make sure we combat coronavirus. it was very clear early on back in january that president trump called coronavirus a public health emergency. what we know from joe biden is that he is pretty much put out this op-ed back in january where he called it a possible pandemic, and even "the washington post" said the article was more an attack on president trump then it was with providing a detailed plan. as we know, his plan is testing, testing, testing. we got news for you, were talking about 30 million tests. >> bill: he called the president's plan wishful thinking. because of the lack of supplies he suggested the presidents

responsible for perhaps, it sounded as if he was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of health care workers. did you hear it that way? if so how do you respond? >> that's just ridiculous. what we do know is the stockpile was depleted under president obama and under biden. it was president trump who took the leadership in assuring that we are restocking, that we have the personal protective equipment necessary so that all these states have the resources they need to deal with the pandemic. >> bill: he said he was surrendered, or the president did. he said he was whining too much. now you moved to jacksonville in august were that state is in a face mask suggestion. how will that interfere with the convention? >> look, we had our wonderful

chairwoman on earlier today talking about the fact that we will be working with the local and state officials. obviously it's important, the safety of those delegates are a priority to us. we will be following the local ordinance. at the end of the day this is an opportunity for president trump to highlight what he's been able to accomplish and then we can of course move forward and secure that nomination for president trump and the enthusiasm continues to build. >> bill: how does that interrupt your plans? how is the convention itself changing? >> we are definitely going to take the necessary precautionary measures for our delegates. the safety is the priority. >> bill: i domain to interrupt, but does that mean the delegates will be wearing masks in jacksonville? >> we will be working and following the local ordinances.

this changes day by day. at the end of the day for the president, his top priority has been the safety and health of the american people. it is why he has lead on ensuring that we are able to flatten the curve and what we have seen and so many of these states. we have seen spikes and certain areas, but there are milder cases. mortality rates are declining and the president obviously is working and investing the therapeutic, and the vaccine to be able to deal with the coronavirus that's impacting all of us across the country. >> bill: earlier today there is an event in alabama that's been rescheduled. will there be a rally on the president's schedule? sometime in the next week or month? >> we don't have an announcement in terms of the future events. i will tell you one thing, we have launched back in march. we get about 2-3000000 viewers a

night. it really is a remarkable platform and reaching out to our voters, to the grassroots to get them activated. we know the campaign is focused every day. i just attended a leadership training initiative and i have to tell you, the motivation is there. people are making phone calls, recruiting about 1 million volunteers already. and obviously all our infrastructure is very strong compared to biden who is trying to figure out who is state directors are. >> bill: the first part of that answer is interesting. are you suggesting the president could have these rallies virtual virtual? >> at this point we don't have an announcement to make only rallies. i think what we saw with the case of oklahoma is the fact that we saw over 12 million people watch online. that is remarkable. the largest political event.

and so across our digital media platform. i think that we are going to see how this goes. this is obviously a day by day situation feared we are all having to adapt to the new reality where you see a mix of in-person events and virtual of vans. it does change the dynamic. i will tell you something. it took joe biden 89 days to get out of that basement because he realizes that he can't hide from the press. the press ended up really giving him softball questions. goodness gracious, i would love for our secretary to have questions like that. >> bill: i think we can project -- >> a standard for these outlets. >> bill: mercedes schlapp. thank you. i hope you come back. many states are expanding their voting options for this year's election. president trump tweeting support

over this weekend and suggesting voting could lead to fraud. tom rogers, the first homeland security secretary and cochair of the safety coalition. how are you doing? the trump campaign in your state of pennsylvania to overcome that. do you have a problem with it? >> i have a problem when i think both the president and the republican party, democratic party ought to be working in a covid-19 environment trying to expand options. i know pennsylvania, apparently the secretary of state got the complaints. i know colorado today is dealing with these ballot things, so i would hope the president, i'm not sure he will prevail, but i would like to see the president and the line of covid-19 focus on making safe and secure

options, whether it's in person, a drop off box, or absentee ballots. the previous speaker talked about having 50 million vehicles, that's a great opportunity for him to encourage maximum participation and the political process and at the same time encourage safe and secure options because there is a lot a people where they might want to go to his rallies, perhaps some didn't go and they may not go and vote. you would think you would like to give them the option for absentee voting. >> bill: 2016 election, 33 million americans cast vote by absentee. that's a big number. 24.8 by absentee. he doesn't trust male and voting. does he have reason to be suspicious or not? >> there is no question about it, there are imperfections, but its distinction without a difference. all the states, i would presume

he agrees if he lets the states handle this. you don't want to nationalize elections like the speaker of the house, but you have to trust republicans and democrats at the local level who are protecting the sanctity of that ballot. both he and person ballots and, not online, have been for a bed, but the end person ballots and the absentee ballots. the fact that some people need to request a ballots and others have it mailed to them directly, the authentication process has been pretty good. 250 absentee ballots cast in the past 20 years with the presidential election. the heritage foundation discover there were only 200 times where they had to prosecute for fraud. i think it's counterproductive. this man has a massive war chest, he has 12 million people watching, i would think he, because he wants to keep the senate would be encouraging more safe and secure options and his

voters to use it. be you and i understand your point. tom ridge, good to see you. heaven forbid. come on back soon. european union now keeping its borders closed to travelers from america as cases surged. dr. anthony fauci and other officials talking and testifying about where reopening in america might go from here. >> we should not look at the public health endeavors as being an obstruction to opening up. we should look at it as a vehicle to opening up so that you don't want to just restrict everything. people are not going to tolerate that. ♪ or psoriatic arthritis, little things can become hashtag otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats differently. for psoriasis, 75% clearer skin is achievable, with reduced redness, thickness,

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themselves. i'm very conserved and i'm not satisfied what is going on because were going in the wrong direction. if you look at the curves of the new cases, we really got to do something about that. >> bill>> bill: dr. anthony faui testifying earlier today. requiring travelers from 16 states to self-quarantine for two weeks, that doubles their previous list from last week. 15 states are pausing or delaying their plans ahead of the fourth of july weekend. new york medical college professor of medicine at st. joseph university chairman. how are you? welcome back. we might be interrupted, let's see much we can get to. what did you take from dr. fau dr. fauci? >> i think dr. fauci is rather disappointed and this was rather predictable. we said two weeks ago, with all the people on the beach and the borrowers, without masks there was very little social

distancing. the spikes were going to happen. now they're happening. it's logical to think that people who don't pay attention to appropriate protection will have this happen. >> bill: i'm going to bring you back. i promise. kayleigh mcenany. >> secretary mcenany: the information on a newspaper. specifically there are two bad scenarios that emerge from this report. number one, this report makes it more difficult to come to a consensus on this matter, to verify intelligence, and this level of controversy and discord plays directly into the hands of russia and unfortunately serves their interest. since before president trump assumed office, damaging and often times erroneous leak seeking to undermine or delegitimize the duly elected president have been published. according to the doj classified

leaks surged in this administration. there were under president obama just 39 on average criminal leak referrals. this administration we have seen 100 referrals for the doj and 2017, 88 and 2018, and 104 on average per year. we have seen targeted leaks as classified information against his presence anthis president. reports of alleged intelligence. make no mistake. this damage is our ability as a nation to collect intelligence. as the national security council noted, to those officials who betrayed the trust of the people of the united states by leaking classified information, your actions endanger our national security. they said of the selective leaking of any information disrupts the vital agency work to collect, assess, and mitigate

threats and places are forces at a risk. it is simply put a crime. and finally, the cia said this, "it compromises and disrupts the agency work to collect, assess, and prescribe capability." to the anonymous sources will leaks, you should know this. you may seek to undermine our president but you undermine our country's safety at our country's security. with that i will take questions. >> one did white house officials first learned that the intelligence about russia? >> secretary mcenany: the president was never briefed on this. the intelligence still has not been verified and there is no consensus. >> reporter: does the president way she had been briefed? today joe biden called it a dereliction of duty. >> secretary mcenany: this is information that had no consensus, has not been verified and has not been verified today.

there'll several agencies on the record noting that you have the department of defense saying that they have no cooperating evidence to validate the recent allegations and allegations have not been verified or substantiated by the intelligence community. we are still investigating the intelligence and recent reporting's, but that didn't stop "the new york times" from putting it on the first page of their newspaper. and stopping us from getting to an ultimate conclusion and place of having a consensus on the intelligence. >> reporter: one more question, if this intelligence does turn out to be true, is the president prepared to take some serious action against russia and vladimir putin? >> secretary mcenany: the president has always taken action. we saw that there is no diplomatic presence of the west coast and our presence of russia because the president closed the consulates.

we saw 60 officers sanctioned hundreds of targets from the treaty, the open skies treaty. try to halt, try to impose these sanctions and many other actions. make no mistake, this president is prepared to act and will always act with attracting our troops. we saw that and syria and the strikes 2018, he will always ac. that is his track >> secretary mcenany: the president has been briefed in the public domain in "the new york times" and the irresponsible leak. that is not change the five that there is no consensus on this intelligence that has yet to be verified. >> another subject.

kevin mccarthy has said that it would be great if the president would wear a mask in public sometimes to set an example. how much weight do words from kevin mccarthy -- >> secretary mcenany: the president has said he has no problem with masks. he encourages his people to make whatever decisions are best for their safety and follow whatever their local jurisdictions say. the president is the most tested man in america. it is his decision whether or not to wear a mask. >> i wanted to look back and say -- there is some dispute over whether in february tb d included this intelligence. he may not have read this on this list. was he at some point given access to this information? >> secretary mcenany: this is a top secret document. i will never sit here and

confirm her t or deny what is ia top-secret document. one thing that is routine is when there is intelligent speaking with folks about this earlier and other folks. around the white house. when we get intelligence, verified or unverified, incredible or not credible, deemed consensus or no consensus. if that information in any way impeded upon the safety of our troops, that information goes to our troops on the ground into our allies so that they could take the appropriate measures. what is briefed up to the president in this case was not the case, it was never brief to the president of the united states, because there is no consensus. what is briefed to the president as a strategic decision to be made, vis-a-vis russia. those are the kind of things that are briefed to the president when they are deemed credible. in this case it was not briefed

to the president. it was not credible. make no mistake, this president will always protect american troops. >> there's two points. one, i would say that in the past, they've disclosed in certain instances -- secondly, this is a relevant issue because -- if the president isn't reading, they may not know -- if a president was presented with this information, it is unverified. he could be alarmed and change his posture towards russia and intelligence officials to work harder to confirm whether this is true and a series of judgments. and so, i guess more broadly, i would ask the question of whether it was in his material or why the president isn't reading it when there are those

types -- >> secretary mcenany: the president does read it and he consumes intelligence verbally. this president i will tell you is the most informed person on planet earth when it comes to the threats we face. you have ambassador o'brien who sees him in person twice a day who sometimes take the upwards of half a dozen calls with this president. he is constantly being informed and briefed on intelligence matters. but i'm not going to allow "the new york times" to dictate when we give top-secret information and don't give top-secret information. >> does the white house have any comment on testifying before the senate judiciary committee today? >> secretary mcenany: no comment on that today. bruce ohr and others, the obama era governments have to answer for is quite substantial when they have a dossier full of lies weaponized against this president, bruce ohr's wife is

involved in the creation of that dossier which was funded by the democratic national committee in coordination with the hillary clinton campaign and was used to spy on the trump campaign to be the basis for the warrant to launch a three year investigation that ultimately ended in an exoneration of the president. a full line of questions to answer for. >> why wasn't it televised? >> secretary mcenany: that would be a question for congress, but i think the public deserves to know. >> one more thing. it democrat lawmakers are calling for operating from intelligence officials. they are concerned -- adam schiff on the committee -- >> secretary mcenany: i think that democrats should come forward in good faith. if anyone has politicized

intelligence, they've had "the new york times" acting incredibly irresponsible and politicizing this information which i think is incredibl absoy disgraceful. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said today that russia should "absolutely not" be allowed back into the summit. does president trump agree with mitch mcconnell? >> secretary mcenany: the president believes that we have to have diplomatic relations with the top economies of the world. there has been no one that has been tougher on russia that has president. i went through several of those actions. also, i would note that when it comes to acting on viable actionable credible intelligence, there has been no one who has acted more forcefully than this president. he has a track record of that. he has made protecting our troops overseas his highest priority. as you know, responsible for the deaths of 600 americans