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adviser. "the washington post" reports that jared kushner wanted a secret channel to communicate with the kremlin before trump took office. also, kushner met with a russian banker who is a crony of vladimir putin. then, there's the president's domestic agenda. his budget proposal is blasted and an appeals court stops his revised immigration ban. plus, his plan to repeal and replace obamacare fades even more as the days go by. first, russian ambassador teing moscow that kushner wanted secret communications channel with kremlin. that was the headline in "the washington post." next up, trump's son-in-law had undisclosed contacts with russian envoy sources, that coming from reuters. and then, senate intelligence

committee requests trump campaign documents that coming from "the washington post" as well. so we're still a long way off from understanding what, if anything, was going on. this says nothing of donald trump's own family. >> this one incident requires jared kushner and all of his immediate staff to have their clearances pulled right now and to have the fbi descend. >> regarding those phone calls with the russians, kushner's attorney says, "mr. kushner participated in thousands of phone calls." no comment from trump or his team who are now on their way to washington, d.c., after they

wrapped up his first foreign trip. nbc's kristen welker has been traveling with the president and has the latest from italy. hey, kristen. >> reporter: he's traveling back to the u.s. and left without holding a news conference with reporters. this is striking because typically presidents, when they are doing overseas travel, particularly a major foreign trip like this one, hold a press conference and if they can answer questions about their trip, the president's top advisers asked about this. their response is that he was very busy and had a number of meetings. of course, his predecessors had similar schedules and still managed to hold press conferences. look for that to get some scrutiny in the coming days. president trump delivered a speech to u.s. troops serving here in sicily before he took off and touted what he sees as an accomplishment. he is still talking about that

arms deal he struck with saudi arabia about a yeweek ago. he says it's going to bring jobs back to the united states. today, "the washington post" reporting that his son-in-law and top adviser jared kushner tried to set up a back channel of communication with russian officia officials. "the new york times" creating dialogue about the syria strategy moving forward. so the white house pressed for a number of questns abo that. h.r. mcmaster and gary cohn held an off-camera press briefing where reporters peppered them with questions, which they dodged. take a look at one exchange. >> this issue that you're talking to the general about is not one that he's spending time with on this trip. >> are you saying no foreign leaders are asking him about his relationship or his staff's relationship with russia? it hasn't come up at once?

>> no, it hasn't. >> can we assume he's going to maintain that position for planned future trips? >> we're not going to comment on jared. >> reporter: so president trump bracing for more tough questions. some of his top advisers setting up a war room led by reince priebus, steve bannon and jared kushner, all as that special counsel gets under way. richard? >> kristen, thank you so much. kristen welker, white house support following the president. the news about mr. kushner rebalances reports he and steve bannon that they were about to kick off a war room to deal with the five russian connection probes. congressional testimony of ex-fbi director james comey. joining us now is white house reporter for politico and matthew with "the hill." matthew, we'll start with you. kushner back in the washington, d.c., leaving before the

president had left. any sense of what has been reported as chaos, a big concern here based on the three reports within 24 hours. >> these reports are really explosive. i think with the flood of news we've had in recent weeks on russia and all the ties there, it's sort of easy to get used to it but these reports seem to be a cut above. those allegations of flynn and kushner trying to set up this russian diplomatic facilities, to have discussions that wouldn't be picked up by u.s. intelligence, those are explosive allegations and there's been talk for weeks about a communications shake-up and how to get back on message. but whoever is trying to message this one is in an extremely difficult situation because of the nature of these investigations. >> not only that, but as you

look at this, if the allegations turn out to be true, is jared kushner in the crosshairs of being removed? >> again, jared kushner, to some extent, is protected by virtue of being a member of the trump family. >> right. >> he's married to the president's daughter. that's one of the reasons why we have anti-nepotism laws, because of this idea that people who are family members can, frankly, escape with conduct that would likely get nonfamily members fired and i agree with matthew and i can only imagine who this would be if it was the obama administration. if someone had been talking about setting up a secret backchannel to the kremlin, the

poll lit cal roof would have fallen. >> this is a game-changer when those reports came out yesterday, matthew. and some of the ways to fix it, which is typical and now you hit it on the head there, this is a family member but even the removal, potentially, of those who are causing these questions that jared kushner in this case, would that even fix the situation, one might ask? would the war room fix this situation and who mighting leading that war room to maybe potentially combat some of these reports coming out in the press? >> i mean, so many people are getting wrapped into this. michael flynn, jared kushner, it's hard to see how they escape from under this and we know trump had a hard enough time firing flynn because of how hard he had campaigned for him. kushner is family. that raises all sorts of difficult questions. there's talk about bringing in

cor corey lewandowski. it's hard to see how bringing in another lightning rod and another controversial person would make this go away. you can see how that makes it worse and keeps it in the headlines and we won't be talking about tax reform in the budget and health care. we'll still be talking about russia. >> when we look at the white house here, nile, do you expect the white house to simply give up all of the e-mails and i'm shifting to the third piece of the news that's come out in the last 24 hours. and that is that the senate intelligence committee is saying trump campaign, we want documents from you now. do we expect that they will just go ahead and do that? >> well, it's difficult to always call what to expect from this administration, but that's clearly a very serious request and i think we're getting to a point where the issues of coverup would arise if they were not forthcoming. i think it is a problem because

it distracts from their agenda but i don't see the option of denying documentation to a congressional probe because you then illicit what is more damaging than simply giving up the documents in the first place. >> in terms of jared kushner and back to him for a second here, matthew, it was said by malcolm nance, contributor, if the reports are correct that jared kushner's security clearance should be removed, how does one talk about that? is that even being discussed that -- from what you're hearing from your sources? >> so i haven't -- i certainly haven't heard that discussed. that would be a drastic move, a serious move and it would be hard if something like that were done for him to continue in his role in the white house. like we've been saying here, it's the nature of these latest reports, of these latest

allegations that are a step above what we've heard so far that go beyond the pale. and if fru, ttrue, the white ho going to have to figure out how they want to grapple with this and, if true, how they can stay in the president's inner circle. >> a friday before a long holiday weekend. all three of us watching this unfold in front of us. it's certainly been that sort of political year. thank you both. matthew, always appreciate it. >> thanks. president trump's revised travel ban may remain on hold but the number of refugees entering the united states is still on the decline. we take a closer look at why after the break. [radio alarm] ♪ julie is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread

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day of ramadan. they will begin fasting from dawn until dust, refrain from eating and drinking throughout the day. during the holy month, it's considered a time for muslims to pray and read the koran and dona to charity. nearly 1 blion muslims are expected to take part in this celebration. the fourth circuit court of appeals has kept trump's travel ban on hold. the executive order discriminated on the basis of religion. the travel ban, quote, in text speaks with vague words of national security but in context drips with religious intolerance, animus and discrimination. jeff sessions has sought a review of the ruling and says a new report indicates visas to muslim manufacture majority countries are down 20% and the number of refugees entering the u.s. have also sharply declined

by more than 300 states between last october and april of this year. joining us now is the woman who wrote about the big drop in visas. thanks for being with us. in these latest developments, that of the court upholding the, if you will, hold on the travel ban, the immigration ban, the executive order that came from the president, is that a major development? >> it's certainly a blow to this administration's efforts to implement this ban overall. but what we're finding is through administrative processes, they seem to be able to slow down the visa process so much that we're already seeing drops in the number of people who are being allowed into the united states from majority muslim countries. >> why is it slowing down? >> there is what you call extreme vetting. they are doing a lot more vetting from countries like saudi arabia or iran and at the same time there's the sense that there are fewer people applying

from a lot of these countries. they feel like the united states is not a welcoming place anymore. we're not entirely certain what the biggest factor is but there seems to be a combination of things. >> the process was already very extensive, long durations of time, and one might ask what were they able to change in the process of these visas? >> one of the things that we're hearing that they are trying to do is get more information on applicants and social media activities, for instance. but also, they can put stuff on hold. they can decide they're going to take another extra month to look at one thing and, you know, it's very hard to nail down because the state department releases very little data on this sort of thing but from the few pieces of data available, it does seem like there's a dip. >> there's a dip. in addition to that, we were just saying that the attorney general may try to take this to the supreme court. what would that look like? >> that would be a really

extraordinary case. the journalist in me is quite excited about that prospect but it would be a very from religious rights to discriminating people based on their nationality. i think it would be an extraordinary thing. if the court declines to take the case, that would mean that the california ban can't be implemented and that's something that's really extraordinary and it would be another damaging thing that has happened to this administration. >> this, as we look at what judge roger gregory wrote, and i'll read it again, in text, speaks with vague words of national security, drips with religious intolerance, amimus and discrimination. strong language coming from a judge. >> yes, it is. i don't think you're going to see a lot of administrations saying we want to ban muslims. but at the same time, there's a lot of power in the executive government and in the executive

branch of the government to control immigration to this country. a lot of courts have recognized that. >> how do you put this together because, as you may have read in "the new york times" on balance here when we're looking at refugees as well as visas, they quietly have lifted the limitations on refugees coming to the united states and it's estimated it will go from 830 people to over 1500 that now potentially could come into the united states that are refugees. how do you put that on balance? >> i would not necessarily bet on that figure becoming that large so quickly. one of the reasons is that even if the state department wants to bring in more refugees, they still have to vet that refugees and the vetting process is what takes time and john kelly, secretary of homeland security, he's very clear about his support for the travel ban and

refugee ban. so he, i'm sure, is going to put in strict standards that will slow down the process. >> nahal, thank you so much. appreciate it. we're going to go live to manchester in a minute. and ariana grande will return on june 5th for a benefit. dear predictable, there's no other way to say this. it's over.

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now, lucy, that you're seeing on the streets? we can see the scores of flowers and notes for people. reporter: it's a memorial, one of many here in manchester. people have been here to pay tribute to those 22 people who lost their lives in that attack. people have been writing chalk messages of support to the victims and their families. the mood is somber but also one of defiance. ariana grande is returning to the city to perform another concert. there will be a large marathon here, one of the largest in europe, tomorrow. let me bring you up to speed on the latest in the investigation. a total of 11 people in police

custody. three raids carried out this morning. a total of 17 different locations either had been searched or are currently being searched as police try to tighten the net around the suspected terror network behind salman abedi, the 22-year-old manchester bomber. we heard from the uk's top counterterrorism officer this afternoon who said there will be more arrests and more searches. this, despite as you point out, the threat level getting taken down from critical to severe. richard, that still means an attack is highly likely. it's not imminent but we're not in the clear just yet and this is still a live investigation. 000 police officers on this case. and they will be appealing to the public for more details as they try to piece together the movements of the attacker and how this was able to take place. now, there are new questions emerging right now about whether british authorities could have done more. we're learning that several people notified the authorities about salman abedi, including possibly his family. we know that he was known as a

person of interest to british security officials and so there are some very tough questions about why he wasn't investigated, why they didn't keep tabs on him, could there have been more here that the officials could have done. as you can see behind me, the mood is not one of people caving in the face of this terrible attack. people have been walking around in the streets. i was out earlier. the streets have been crowded. there's a new presence of armed police officers on the streets. that's quite unusual. it's something that you and i may be used to in new york or other european cities but it's very much a jarring sight here and one that is important that is to help with the security and safety of the people here. >> lucy, can you and the photographer do this, but some of the messages behind you that have been written, is there a way for you to focus in and read some things in terms of what

people are thinking? because there's so many behind you. >> reporter: yh, let's see if we can zoom in here. manchester, stronger than hate, unwilling to fear. we see others, "rest in peace, 22 angels gone. ariana, we love you." that's whose concert was under attack. here's another one. "eternal rest oh lord let perpetual light shine upon them." messages of support and grief but people are coming out here. they are not staying home. the authorities, in fact, are encouraging people to continue about their lives, not to cower in the face of fear. they are encouraged to go to the marathon tomorrow. people are not going to be staying home and letting the terrorists here, so to speak,

win. >> definitely not going to let any sort of terrorist act stop you from living your life. thank you so much, lucy kafanov, appreciate it. british airways is canceling all flights from heathrow because of a global computer glitch affecting check-ins. thousands of passengers took to social media to describe the chaos in the terminals. long lines, a sea of luggage on the floor. british airways' ceo says this -- >> if you were due to fly with us, please, do not come to the airport. we're extremely sorry for the huge inconvenience this is causing our customers. >> he went on to say there's no evidence of a cyberattack. the airline is offering full refund for passengers unable to fly out today. count it. 23 million people could lose health care under the

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that is one-thousand times more sensitive, and built a state-of-the-art gas operations center. we can never forget what happened in san bruno. that's why we're working every day to make pg&e the safest energy company in the nation. welcome back. i'm richard lui. here are some of the top stories. president trump spoke to u.s. troops in italy before boarding air force one with the first lady. the white house is not commenting, meanwhile, on a "washington post" report that during a meeting at trump tower last year that donald trump's son-in-law jared kushner at the time discussed setting up a secret and secure communications channel between trump's transition teemg a transition team and russia. in portland, oregon, a suspect was charged with two counts of aggravated murder and

other charges and being held without bail after stabbing two people on a commuter train. president trump celebrated the success of his foreign trip. >> from saudi arabia to israel to nato to the g-7, we made extraordinary gains on this historic trip. >> he made gains and also plenty of headlines. earlier in the day, there was this bit of news. president trump declined to joi the six other world leaders at the g-7 summit. he later tweeted he would decide next week. joining me now, howard gutman. when you look at this am bass are do, he not signing on, being the only member of the g-7 to the climate agreement, what do you think will happen next week when he says he will make his decision? >> frankly, it really doesn't matter. he told europe he doesn't care about what europe thinks. whether it's about trade issues or financial issues and

certainly climate and whether or not he officially signs onto climate. it didn't require any country to do any specific act. it's about buying in and we know from his epa actions, we're not buying in. the good news is, we will meet our climate goals that president obama set anyway. since we've been fracking, in a world where tesla is worth more than ford, the u.s. is going to meet its climate goals and not because donald trump believes this one way or the other. >> that was not the only thing on the plate for the president. you being an expert on foreign affairs, how do you think with the russian question coming out, how common specifically when we look at the report from "the washington post" on back channel communications, how common is that? >> richard, the most iornt of that story is it is fantasy to think that that story

is about jared kushner. jared kushner does not go talk to the russians about secret back-channel negotiations that won't be detected by our intelligence community on his own. he's not seeking like vacation advice for he and ivanka this summer in st. petersburg. he could have only gone there unless the president-elect asked him to. so talking about jared kushner's security clearances or, oh my god, look at the president's son-in-law, this is about the president. >> let me ask you this, though. given the reasoning coming from "the new york times" and reporting coming from the knew times, this private back channel connection that was discussed would be for discussions between michael flynn at the time to discussion kremlin officials the issue of syria. does that mitigate some of the criticisms that have been made about that report? >> can you imagine the president of the united states turning to his son-in-law and saying i

don't want anything he's saying to be known to syria? it could be transferred ba being to putin and implemented without our intelligence community. i was special assistance for counterintelligence and counterterrorism. they will know about that as soon as kushner gets there, nuer one. number two, the president of the united states is supposed to learn from the intelligence community how to deal with russia and what's going on. he's going to deal with putin behind the back channel of our intelligence community? if the president of the united states asks you to do something, you do it. >> you've attended events with kislyak. he was reportedly taken aback by an american using russian communications gear to accomplish what this eventuality may have been.

do you believe kislyak was taken aback? >> taken aback in the sense that he would have shook his head and called putin and said, you won't believe what just happened. trump wants to go around the cia to talk to you. so, yeah, he would have been taken aback in that sense. he's smart enough to know that that's being listened to. >> do you mean in a gleeful way? >> well, not hip, hip hooray but could not believe what was going on in front of his eyes. just like of us saying, can you believe what he just said? >> great conversation. thank you. >> all the best. this week, the congressional budget office released some estimates. the number of uninsured would

rise to 19 million in 2020 and 23 by 2026. they asked on monday for another 90-day extension over the future of health care marketplaces around the country, which are already shaky this week. for instance, bluecross blueshield announced they would be exiting the obamacare exchange in kansas city, missouri, and then raising rates in north carolina by nearly 23%. joining me now is john geramendi also serving as the state insurance commissioner. good to be with you. >> good to be with you. >> put on your insurance hat for a second, if you can. what do you make of the new assessment by the cbo and what assessments do i think the senate should make based on that number? >> first of all, the new adjustment is a repeat of the old one. the house bill is a disaster.

it's a disaster for human beings in the united states, 24 million. 14 million losing their insurance in the next year or so. it's a major problem. also, at the same time that the legislation is running through, the entire insurance market has been turned upside down. uncertainty is throughout the entire state and you mentioned missouri. it's inevitable th the insurance companies wil move out of the exchanges because th have no idea what kind of support will be given to the exchanges. we know that the advertising budgets have been eliminated by the republicans. we know that most of the supports through the tax systems will be eliminated, also, and then you've taken the government programs, the medicaid program and it gets whacked over $800 billion over the next few years. so the entire system is in total disruption as a result of what

the republicans are doing -- >> representative, if you're talking about what the republicans are doing and that hasn't been passed as of yet but as it stands right now, obamacare is seeing insurance companies, as you and i are just discussing, leaving the system. how do you get into the brains and get them to stay and why are they leaving right now because they can't make money? >> well, you just said it. how do you get into their brains? you stabilize the system. you carry out the underlying subsidies and programs that are in the affordable care act in obamacare. those are not happening. the legislation creates the uncertainty. the insurance companies have to know what their policies are going to be and have to price them now in this moment because it's just four months and they'll have to go out and begin to sell those policies and take on customers. they won't do it because they simply don't know what the

marketplace is. >> you've heard the criticisms of the cbo this morning and that is, well, when we look at the cbo scoring from before during obamacare, those weren't accurate either. how would you respond to those criticisms? >> well, it turns out that they were mostly accurate but not in the same time frame that was initially known. there was said to be significant growth in the number of people insured and, in fact, 20 million americans do not have insurance as a result of the affordable care act. a little slower an initially, obviously the rollout and it was rough and understandably so with the scope that was attempted at that time. eventually it got in place and in many parts of the country it's working very, very well. but we need to do more. we clearly need to shore up some of the holes. for example, it's just outrageous that the law passed by the republicans back in 2003

prohibits the federal government from negotiating the price of drugs. this is a huge amount of money. in addition to that, we know that currently you cannot sell insurance anywhere without advertising and yet the republicans have pulled the money out of advertising for the affordable care act. so these are just some very simple things that can be done. we also know that we need to continue to maintain the efforts to provide the providers money that was net and where people came onto insurance money was stripped out by the republicans. so guess what, we have doctors. really? why? because you just stripped out the money. >> representative john garamendi, thank you, sir. >> good to be with you. removing confederate monuments, a bill was passed

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the united states postal service. priority: you these statues are not innocent remembrances of a benign history. they ignore the death and terror and enslavement that it actually stood for. >> new orleans governor mitch landrieu talking about why he removed statues in his own city. in alabama, lawmakers moved to protect their confederate past. kay ivy signed a bill making it illegal to remove monuments more than 40 years old. the bill's sponsor defended that move saying the alabama memorial preservation act is designed to preserve all acts of our

history. condoleezza rice stating, "destroying our history, including its most painful parts, does a disservice to future generations wishing to study it." hank sanders opposes the new law. he joins me now from montgomery. how do you respond here -- and thank you for joining us here today. >> thank you. >> how do you respond to what condoleezza rice and matt butler are saying? >> well, first, let me say that monuments are not history. monuments are symbols of how somebody feels about history. we're not destroying any history. the history is history and remains the history. that's simply about a monument that's about how somebody feels about something or somebody that happened in history and it's a symbol. it doesn't destroy history.

and anybody who says that monuments are history are really confusing the issue. >> how does one not confuse the issue, then? what would be your suggestion to both the matt tler, responser who defended the move, as well as condoleezza rice, how do you -- >> go ahead. >> this bill started out with just protecting monuments that are 50 years old. and if you go back to when the bill was first introduced in 2015, that was the time of the 1965 voting rights act. so they were trying to protect monuments that was -- that were established before 1965. not all monuments. it grew into that. second -- or third, these -- these are statues and names and

buildings and bridges and other things of people who not only believed in white supremacy but they also believed in slavery and who vowed to keep people in slavery. they are messages to our children that these are people that we should emulate and these are people that we should be like. imagine having black children having to go to school here in montgomery, alabama, in a school named after jeff davis who did everything that he possibly could to keep black people enslaved. or robert e.lee, imagine what that does to them psychologically. can you imagine any white person allowing their children to go to a school that was named matt

turner, who was enslaved himself and struggled to free himself and others? they would object to it strongly. in fact, that was a fellow senator who said, well, the monuments are all right. they don't do any good. and i asked him would you allow your child to go to a school named after malcolm x? and i said malcolm x hadn't killed anyone, he hadn't struck anyone. he spoke out for his people. and he said absolutely not. but he also then said, well, i see your point. >> right. >> and then people you have who are like nathan -- not only fought to keep black people enslaved but he expanded the klan all over the country and then the klan waged a hundred year terrorism. and it was state sanctioned. and i say it was state

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