tell me what you think. that's it for this evening. plus, fireworks on capitol hill as house lawmakers question the fbi agent removed from the russia probe after a series of anti-trump text messages came to light. the trump administration reunites about half of the youngest children separated from their parents under the zero tolerance policy. many more have been deemed ineligible and at least a dozen parents have already been deported.

good morning. this friday, july 13th. today is friday the 13th. i'm yasmine ves suingian. we're following live pictures of president trump departing the british residence of the u.s. ambassador en route to sand hurts military academy set to hold a news conference there and have a working lunch with the british prime minister in a short time from now. we are going to be tracking the president's move ps as the day proceeds. start with president trump waking up today in the uk, second leg of a four-nation european trip. his first visit to america's closest ali. the stop comes on the heels of a highly contentious nato summit and now with that explosive interview, the president gave to the sun as a backdrop, i'll get to that in a minute, the president is notably not staying

in the heart of london where massive protests are under way which include this enormous caricature blimp of the commander in chief. prior to departingnate taupe trump said he is "fine" with the protest while asserting they wlooik like me a lot in the uk and he has great friendships. theresa may hosted the president and first lady for a dinner at blenheim castle. trump will head to checkers for a working lunch with theresa may before the pair participate in a joint news conference. joining us live from london, white house correspondent geoff bennett, also international correspondent cal perry. jeff, i'm going to start with you. in addition to his meetings with prime minister may which should it be interesting to say the least consider reggie everything that was said in the sun newspaper, i'm sure israeli something to say with regards to

that. he's set tote have an audience with the queen, as well. take us through trump's day. >> reporter: yasmine and david, one imagines the president and prime minister will have a lot to talk about given that stunning interview where trump undercut theresa may whose political standing here in the uk is fairly tenuous. to give you a sense of the day, the two begin the morning by taking in the military demonstration at sand hurts which is notable given the president has been leaning on may to increase her country's schaefer defense spending. from there, they'll head to checkers, her official country house. they have a working lunch planned. i'm told they'll talk about north korea, iran and trade. remember this trip comes against a backdrop against the tit-for-tat tariffs. then the two will hold a joint press conference and open themselves up for questions from the british and american press. the conference won't take too long because they can't be late

for tea with the queen. the first lady and president will head to windsor castle and spend about 45 minutes with queen elizabeth. from there, the president and first lady head to scotland. they're spending the weekend there at his private golf hours. >> tell us how the president is being received. there was that moment gleds that unscheduled news conference in brussels during which he said he's very popular in the uk. you look at polling. maybe that tells a slightly different story. what's the reception been like so far, jeff? >> reporter: well, fact check false on that one. there was a poll out this past week that showed that 77% of britons have an unfavorable opinion of president trump. now, as you mentioned at the open of the show, he's not spending any time here. he won't be seeing protests and he's not getting around by motorcade but helicoptering from here to there. this trip has been put off several times. it was downgraded from a state

visit to a working visit in part because is he so unpopular here. >> geoff bennett, thank you very much. reprice what's in the article in the sun while trump was being treated to brit hospitality, the sun tabloid published an interview with him being highly critical of may's brexit strategy to abide by many of the eu's trade policies saying it will kill a deal with the u.s. >> i would have done testimony much differently. i actually told theresa may how to do it but she didn't listen to me. >> what did she say in. >> she didn't listen. i told her how to do it. that will be up her to say. she wanted to go a different route. >> so you would be prepared to walk away if they didn't give you the right terms? >> absolutely. i think what's going on is very unfortunate. i did give teresa who i like, i did give her my views what she

should do and how she should negotiate. and she didn't follow those views. i would actually say she probably went the opposite way. i think the deal she's striking is not what the people voted on. it's a much different deal than the people voted on. it was not the deal in the referendum. they have a lot of resignations. a lot of people don't like it. no, but it will definitely affect trade with the united states unfortunately in a negative way. >> if they do a deal like that, it will most likely because we'll be dealing with the european union instead after dealing with uk. so it will probably kill the deal. if they do that, their trade deal with the u.s. also probably not be made. if they do that, i would say that that would probably end a major trade relationship with the united states. >> president trump deployed his rhetoric on immigration while

abroad but this time directed at the policies of his host country and continent. >> i think what's happened to europe is a shame. i think the immigration allowing the immigration to take place in europe is a shame. i think it changed the fabric of europe. unless you act very quickly, it's never going to be what it was. and i don't mean that in a positive way. so i think allowing millions and millions of people to come. to europe something very, very sad. i think you're losing your culture. >> as that interview in the sun spread online, aides confirmed his comments to the west josh doesy expected peace to post tomorrow morning per senior u.s. official saw the piece when he left the dinner tonight. press secretary sarah sanders put out a statement "the president likes and respects prime minister may very much as he said in his interview with

the sun. she is a very good person and he never said anything bad about her. is he thought she was great on nato today and is a terrific person. he is thankful for the wonderful welcome from the prime minister here in the uk." as maggie haberman reacted, "sounds like trump dictated it." cal, what's the reactioning in london to this? this came out about 6:00, 8:00 eastern time. how quickly did it reverberate? >> immediately. this was an insulting hit job on not just the prime minister but the entire country. here's the cover. some of those bullet points. >> show us again, cal. show us the cover again. >> here you go. >> i wanted to see it again. >> this is the scottish daily came out with this. i was just handed this by the desk. that's the reaction. here's some of the bullet points reading them in morning newspaper on "first look." some of the bullet points you were not able to mention, knows

sla chuck poisoning, the death of as uk citizen will be no barrier in his meeting with putin. the prime minister should be boris johnson would do a better job. europe is losing. your culture. look around. the nhs, there are blood on the walls of the hospital in the nhs. worse than a war zone. talk of the town right now is how does the prime minister have a bilateral meeting with the president of the united states and then a press conference in about 2 1/2 hours. that's the question. >> we talked about this yesterday as to whether or not the president was going to meet with boris johnson who stepped down from the cabinet there. and then mentioninging that boris johnson would make a good prime minister. i like theresa may is what the president said. but johnson would make a really great prime minister. the optics of what he said severe really interesting are to say the least. and again, like you said, how is may going to react to everything

that he said considering the fact they got alerts this interview was released as they were driving away from that dinner yesterday evening. >> right. she has dinner with the president of the united states and then a hit job that had to be premeditated, it's a rupert murdoch newspaper. we've heard rumors of steve bannon running a war room. this was clearly planned. he is destabilizing the government of the united kingdom. he is meddling in the sovereignty of a country supposed to be an ally. the iraq war, the line was friends are honest with friends. there's no way that the u.s. and united kingdom with this leadership structure right now are friends. those days are over. >> he also said that there is going to be no trade feel may wants to take the route she's taking which is more of a soft brexit approach. and also attacking ca zir kahn,

the mayor of london and getting into that and and say aghe doesn't have a hard approach on terrorism, allowing terrorism to take over the city which i thought was. >> london is modernizing but he's talking about race. that's what he's talking about. that's what people in london will see. that's what we're really talking about here is the changing of london and he doesn't like the way that it looks. >> cal perry, we'll talk to you in a little bit. >> thanks, guys. >> it was a fiery day on capitol hill as the fbi agent peter strzok testified before congress. he faced attacks from republicans for sending critical text messages of trump during the 2016 elections and later defended his role in the russia investigation and the clinton e-mail probe. nbc's kasie hunt has more. >> do you wear that the testimony you are about to give in the fireworks starting moments after peter strzok was sworn in. >> mr. chairman, order. >> reporter: lawmakers shouting over each other while strzok who

led the probe into possible russian collusion testified about his anti-trump text messages. >> not once in my 26 years of defending our nation did my personal opinions impact nel official action i took. >> reporter: for republicans it's proof of bias. forcing strzok to read some of his anti-trump messages with fbi lawyer lisa page with whom he was havinging an fair. >> miss page said not ever going to become president, right? right? >> no, no, he's not. we'll stop it. >> strzok trying to explain into it was in response to a series of events that included then candidate trump insulting the immigrant family of a fallen war hero. and my presumption based on that horrible disgusting behavior that the american population would not elect somebody demonstrating that behavior to be president of the united states. >> reporter: in a heat the exchange, strzok insisting he was not removed from the investigation over bias.

>> i don't appreciate what was originally said being changed. >> i don't give a damn what you appreciate. i don't appreciate having an fbi agent was unprecedented animus work on two major investigations in 2016. >> reporter: democrats defending strzok and the legitimacy of the mueller investigation. >> here are the individual who are already admitted their guilt. >> reporter: next in the hot seat lisa page testifying behind closed doors. kasie hunt, nbc news. >> thank you for that report. what a day it was. a new report claiming the white house overruled the fbi and director of national intelligence and ordered them to give lawmakers more classified information. according to "the new york times," it the white house we buffed the concerns of christopher wray and dan coats about widening the circle of access to details about an informant the fbi used in 2016 to investigate possible ties between the trump campaign and russia. citing two american officials with knowledge of the decision,

both coats and wray tried to keep the documents tightly reooh striktded fearing broader dits semination of reports and other sensitive material could lead to more leaks. some american officials believe the white house made the decision to provide political ammunitioning to president trump's republican ally who have argued without evidence that the fbi investigation was opened in july of 2016 as an effort to keep mr. trump from becoming president. the fbi files about the informant will now be available to all members of the house and senate intel committees instead of just to a group of leaders known as the gang of eight. it is unclear whether trump or lower level white house official authorized this move. still ahead, an inside look what paul manafort may experience at his new virginia jail. and it could be a stark contrast to the vip treatment he got at the last place. >> plus the charges against porn

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and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wifi experience. xfinity xfi, simple, easy, awesome. former trump campaign chair paul manafort has been transferred from a jail where prosecutors say he had "vip treatment." manafort is now being held at maximum security detention centering in alexandria, virginia, a short distance from the courthouse where his trial is scheduled. this new center will be a stark contrast to his previous arrangement at his last jail. manafort described to friends getting vip treatment including use of a private bathroom, access to a phone and laptop computer in his private cell and separate work space he could use from 8:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.

politico reports at his new jail, meals are known to be carbohydrate heavy have i and the internet except in rare cases is nonexistent. manafort is still expected to be segregated from the general prison population. a city sheriff's official says he is unlikely to have a cell mate. he will get only limited breaks during the day for recreation activities in a common area without other prisoners around. >> charges that stem from the ohio strip club arrest of stormy daniels have been dropped. daniels who claimed she had an affair with president trump was arrested wednesday night during a performance in columbus. the white house has denied any affair. she was charged with three misdemeanor sex offenses during a sting operation by three female advice officers who claimed she touched them during the performance. the city attorney says the

crimes alleged were not committed. michael avenatti claims the charges were bogus and tweeted news of the dropped charges. the columbus police chief saying "one element of the law was missed in error and charges were subsequently dismissed. a mistake was made and i accept full responsibility." >> senior white house adviser jared kushner lacks the security clearance required to review some of the government's most sensitive secrets cord according to two people familiar with his access. "the washington post" reports the white house granteded you of kushner only top secret status that does not allow him to see some of the country's most guarded intelligence according to people who spoke to the paper on the condition of anonymity. he has not been approved view sensitive information which blocked him at times from seeing parts of the president's daily

briefing. the reasons for the constraints on his access are currently unclear including if it is related to the ongoing mueller investigation. in a statement, kushner's attorney did not deny the report saying "after review done in the normal course by career officials, mr. kushner was given his permanent white house clearances back in may and has access to all the information he needs to do the domestic and international work the president has asked him to do." >> still ahead, the trump administration has reunited 57 migrant children under the age of 5 with their families. what about the parents who have already been key pored? nbc news has new reporting on that coming up. (alex trebek) but you don't need any of those numbers to get affordable life insurance. you just need this number. i'm alex trebek, and if you're between age 50 and 85,

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welcome back. president trump tweeting a personal letter from north korean leader kim jong-un that praised the two's great progress. that let ser dated july 6th. that is the same day secretary of state mike pompeo arrived in north korea. kim did not meet with pompeo during the visit and pyongyang later said the secretary of state had issued gangster-like demands and ignored north korean concerns. officials were no shows with meetings to united nations command officials to discuss returning the remains of u.s. soldiers killed in the korean war. trump and kim pledged to recover more remains. the president told supporters last week the remains of 200 americans have been sent back.

military officials later denied that claim but told reporters they expected the remains to arrive within days and made arrangements for their arrival. >> amid outrage over separations at the border, the trump administration stated reunited 57 out of 103 migrant children under the age of 5 with their parents. a u.s. district judge imposed a series of deadlines for the administration to reunite on nearly 3,000 kids separated from their families. of the 103 children under the age of 5, 46 were acknowledged by the court to be ineligible for reunification. 12 parents who have been deported remain separated from their young children. when asked if the parents would see their kids again, officials frbs dhs and hhs told reporters they're "understand no obligation to bring people who have no lawful status to be in this country back flk this country for that reunification."

many more of their parents are expected at that point to have been deported, as well. really tough and sad situation 0 say the least. still ahead, much more from the fiery hearing between fbi agent peter strzok and house republicans. we'll tuke a legal expert what exactly went down yesterday. >> more departures inside the white house. what we know about mark short stepping down. we'll be right back.

welcome back. i'm yasmine ves ewingian alongside david gura. lewis burgdorf is with us, as well. start with the morning's top stories. president trump in the uk. the second leg of a four-nation european trip and his first visit to america's closest ally since taking office. these are actually live pictures that you see from london where large protests are currently under way including this enormous caricature blimp of the commander in chief portrayed as a baby holding a cell phone. >> i didn't notice the cell phone before. >> yes, i imagine the cell phone is an ode to his tweeting. exactly. prior to departing nato, trump said he is "fine with the protests while asserting they like me a lot in the uk," interesting as we look at the

protests. last night the prime minister hosted the president and first lady for a black tie dinner at blenheim castle. he will head to checkers for a working lunch with may before the pair participate in a joint news conference. the stop comes on the heels of the highly contentious nato summit. with that explosive interview the president gave to "the sun" as a backdrop where in addition to slamming the prime minister trump said that london mayor sadiq kahn "has done a terrible job." >> incredible. as that interview spread online white aids confirm the comments to be josh doesy. "expected piece to post tomorrow morning per senior u.s. official. saw the piece when he left the dinner tonight. sarah sanders put out a statement "the president likes and respects prime minister may very much as he said in the interview. she is a very good person and he never said anything bad about

her. he thought she was great on nato today and is a terrific person and thankful for the wonderful welcome from the plirmt in the uk. maggie haberman reacted "sounds like trump dictating." >> nbc news international correspondent and paper reader on air, cal perry just developed a new segment for us. we knew the president was not going to be well received in london despite the fact he says a lot of people in the uk like him especially when we heard about baby trump, cell phone carrying baby trump. now we have the interview in the sun coming out just after the dinner last night at the castle with theresa may. how is that going to play out? not only with theresa may but also with the people. >> reporter: here's the shot that he took at the mayor you were talking about earlier. so he lashed out on all of these different fronts. it wasn't just on the prime

minister and on brexit. it was on the national identity of the united kingdom. it hit on all of these issues at the core of the stress that the prime minister is feeling, that the country is feeling that europe is feeling. it comes on the heels of his taking a shot at nato and its importance. and it comes right before he is supposed to have this working lunch with the prime minister and then a press availability which should be super awkward as that balloon seems like it's getting off the ground. the timing of this was seemingly very obvious from the trump camperspective i think. >> help us with the trade issue here. that is the biggest take away every that interview. there's the distinction between hard and soft brexit. you got the sense listening to the president yesterday he doesn't understand the distinction completely. he interprets hard has being more difficult than the other. what's the difference between the two and what has theresa may

decided to do here? >> reporter: after the vote, the two afternoons that politicians the way a soft brexit is we withdraw but maintain the trade in a seemingly similar fashion. hard is we want out. isolationist. go our own way. makure own trade deal. the thing that makes this inherently dangerous is when president trump opens his mouth he affects global markets, currencies. the pound right now is down. that could play out throughout the day. if you're a foreign leader and you look at how this visit went, there's the chart right there on the pound, if you look how this visit went, you have to think what is the risk i'm taking in inviting the u.s. president to my country. >> we spoke yesterday about the trade deal and how may needs to be able to be strike a trade deal in order to maintain her leadership there. all signs point to the fact that donald trump is not going to strike a trade deal with may considering what he said in the sun.

if this doesn't happen after there lunch, then what, cal? >> reporter: he basically said he wouldn't. he basically said that boris johnson would make a good prime minister implying he would rather deal with him. i'm sure that the prime minister would want to talk about steel and aluminum and the 10 and the 30% tariffs on those, 30,000 people employed by that industry. if he continues to snub the prime minister which it seems he will, he's tipping his hand he wants boris johnson to be the next prime minister of england which is straight meddling. thanks, cal. >> similar to his summit with kim jong-un, president trump held a news conference after the meetings and an eerie echo trump once again made multiple false claims, one of the main items he is touting as a success is that he was able to secure significant defense spending increases from nato allies. however, just minutes later before he had even landed in the uk, french president emmanuel

macron refuted trump's statement saying that the allies reaffirmed their commitment to reach the 2% target by 2024 and nothing more. and nato secretary-general ian stoltenberg said yesterday speak we have agreed 0 make good on the commitments we have made." >> back in the u.s., peter strzok who has been the target of the president's tweets and republicans' conspiracies about the russia probe testified yesterday where he gave over nine hours of testimony about those text messages that got him removed from bob mueller's investigation and written up in an inspector general's report. from the on set, committee republicans threatened him with contempt for not providing more details about the investigation of the trump campaign's suspected ties to russia. watch there. >> between july 31st and august 8, how many interviews did you conduct related to the alleged

collusion between russia and the trump campaign? >> congressman, as you know, council for the fbi based on the special counsel's equities has instructed me not to answer questions about the ongoing investigation into russian attempts to interfere. >> agent strzok, i will not, based on direction of the fbi, to me, based on that, i will not answer that question. because it goes to matters which are related to the ongoing investigation's being undertaken by the special counsel's office. >> you have not stated a valid legal basis for not responding to a question directeded to you by a member of the united states house of representatives. i am specifically directing you to answer the question in response to our subpoena, notwithstanding your objection. >> point of order, mr. chairman. >> mr. strzok, please be advised

that you can either comply with the committee's directive to answer the question or refuse to do so. latter of which will place you at risk of a contempt citation and potential criminal liability. >> point of order. >> do you understand that? >> point of order, mr. chairman. >> the question is directed to the witness. >> i have a point of order before he answers the question. >> the point of order is not well taken. >> you don't know what it is. you can't say it's not well taken. >> the point of order -- the witness will answer the question. >> mr. chairman, i raise my point of order and i insys on it. >> what is the point of order? >> the tunts attorney's manual instructs department personnel not to respond to questions about the existence after ongoing investigation or comment on its nature or progress pursuant to fbi policy which is necessary so as not to allow us to subvert an ongoing criminal investigation. he is right. >> twhap man has done. >> the gentleman from texas will suspend for a moment. >> there is the disgrace and it

won't be recaptured anytime soon because of the damage you've done to the justice system. i've talked to fbi agents around the country. you've embarrassed them. you've embarrassed yourself and i can't help but wonder when i see you looking there with a little smirk how many times did you look so innocent into your wife's eye and lie to her about. >> oh, mr. chairman, this is outrageous. >> the credibility of a witness is always an issue and. >> mr. chair, please. >> have you no. >> this is intolerable harassment of the wit. >> you need your medication. >> in front of you you have one sheet of paper presented to you a few minutes ago. and i'm going to just go to a date and ask you to read your own words. on october 20th, 2016. >> i can't pull away what the -- i defer to the chairman whether or not. >> you can use one letter if you don't mind. >> what the f happened to our country. >> read it again that way.

>> sir, did you not, was it not intelligible be? you just want me to repeat it. >> sure. >>. >> happy to indulge you. read these in the context of what was going on at the time. when i make the comment about trump having no idea how destabilizing his presidency would be, that came on the heels of a speech where then candidate trump said he didn't know whether or not the united states should honor its commitment to mutual defense under nato. >> i appreciate that. thank you very much. mr. chairman. >> mr. chairman, the witness -- >> no, no, no. >> he should be permitted to answer his questions. >> everyone will suspend. i told the gentleman he could answer briefly. >> today the fbi a lawyer who traded texts with strzok -- lisa page will testify before the joint judiciary committee for a transcribed interview. she did not attend an interview

on wednesday after her lawyer said she did not receive access to the documents she needed to prepare. bob goodlatte and paul ryan threatened to hold her with contempt of congress. >> danny savalas, are you ready to break this down? >> there's a lot. there's reams of stuff to go through here. >> it got heateded to say the least. i was exhausted watching it what's happening in washington, d.c. in general i think was front and center during the testimony. >> you pulled the clip, no, he didn't clip of the day though just before with the question about peter strzok's wife. that was mind blowing and so out of bounds. >> i wanted to talking about that. i think it was go motor addressed that and said is that how you talk to your wife? is that the smirk you had on your wife when you were having this affair with lisa page? that's what he was implying. is that fair to do in testimony

like this> >>ing. >ing it doesn't go to any issue other than if he's trying to make some point about his credibility which is what he was trying to do. for a lawyer like me who does trial work, watching these hearings violates every rule of evidence, every rule of questioning, some of these weren't even questions, they were statements that went on for a minute or so. >> to me it seems like it didn't matter to them. this was all about the optics about a public releases sort of campaign for each and every one of them to get their message out there. >> that's exactly right. there was information that peter strzok could have provided but it didn't seem like this nine hours of questioning was tailored to obtain that kind of information especially when you have questions that run on for a minute or two of statements and maybe some kind of question at the end. had this been a trial and obviously the rules are very different at trial, no judge could have allowed these kinds of questions. these are just somebody making a

question and asking a question at the end. >> there was a moment when the congressman from brooklyn said this is something that doesn't warrant investigation by ace venture rare pet detective. we've heard from peter strzok. lisa page will testify behind closed doors. where does this investigation go next? >> it's hard to say. in many ways there were no surprises yesterday. you have an fbi agent we knew was not a huge fan of donald trump and by the way, lest you think the that this team of congress persons was going to eviscerate or damage peter strzok, remember, he's an fbi special agent. he has experience testifying. law enforcement are the best witnesses. they're better than lawyers because they do it every day and know how to answer questions. so what did we learn yesterday? what we already knew which was if he did have a bias, it was his own political opinion which is lawful. the first amendment writes of

federal employees are a little different than private employees but being a member of a political party, having a personal opinion is allowable so long as it doesn't interfere with your mission. peter strzok is absolutely right. fbi agents work in a large group on an investigation and if one wants to go rogue, the others are going to see it and they're going to bringing it to someone else's attention. >> yesterday i felt like strzok held his own despite the fact he was being attacked left and right. what was your take? do you feel he statute his ground there. >> we already knew what he had sent the texts that he sent. so that was nothing new. yes, i thought he acquitted himself very well. i didn't expect anything else because law enforcement, everyone from the beat cop all the way up to an fbi special agent even a supervisor is essentially by their career a professional witness. they're experts at this. i didn't. >> they prepare for something like this. >> i would expect today as a

preview. if you might expect lisa page not to do as, as well because lawyers are not on the witness stand as much as fbi agents and cops and people who are investigator who have to make the government's case. >> she's going to be very aware of what to say and what not to say. >> absolutely. nothing substitutes for experience and repetition when it comes to testifying whether it's in court or even before congress where the rules of evidence aren't even remotely in the room. the rules of evidence i'm accustomed don't apply at congressional hearings but it doesn't remotely resemble the kind of questions trial lawyers are used to. >> danny, thank you very much. >> still ahead, president trump's supreme court bret cavanaugh gets a big endorsement amid his confirmation process. >> details who is speaking out in the favor of the judge next.

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welcome back. more than a dozen former female law clerks much bret cav anyway's are speaking out vouching for him as a good choice for the high court. in a letter to the senate judiciary committee sent yesterday, the 18 women said that kavanaugh is a strong supporter of women in the legal profession. they write in part "we know all too well that women in the workplace still face challenges in equality and even harassment among other things. woman do not enjoy a representative schaefer prestigious clerkships or high profile legal positions but this committee should be aware of the important work the judge has done to remedy those disparities. in our view they write the judge has been one of the strongest advocates for women lawyers. a variety of women's groups on the left are speaking out against the nomination arguing his confirmation to the court is

likely to provide the decisive vote to overturn roe versus wade. >> a check on your weather with bill karins. you're tracking some severe weather in the midwest. >> happy friday to you. good morning. the thunderstorms overnight have recently been on the down swing. usually this time they start to weaken. our severe thunderstorms watches have been dropped. lightning and maybe minor flooding. southern minnesota lacrosse okay for right now. we'll watch some of the storms continue towards sioux city this morning. the forecast today plain old july heat from the southeast through the central portion of the country, chicago today 94 and humid. st. louis the same for you. kansas city same for you. still a beautiful day today. it's a nice morning in new england. mid stlask not bad today. 88 in d.c. here's the cold front cooling you off but it's triggering storms. so areas like green bay and milwaukee will have a chance of isolated storms this afternoon

into this evening. this is at 6:00 p.m. the line of storms near lacrosse heading towards ames and through omaha. they weaken as they approach chicago and milwaukee overnight. tomorrow we do it all over again as the front lingers in the area. this is p.m. saturday. you'll be dodging the storms kansas city, st. louis, most of the storm should be just to your north. from peoria to springfield and chicago you'll have storms to dodge saturday. today's forecast very warm in the middle of the country. as we head towards the weekend, this is when we'll watch the midwest storms on saturday especially heading around areas like chicago and iowa. southeast will dodge some storms and finally heading into sunday, we continue to watch isolated storms notice ohio valley. notice we hid 95 in d.c. on sunday. things warm up on the east coast. it looks like a nice beach weekend for many areas of the eastern seaboard. >> monsoon storms on saturday in the southwest?

>> phoenix, that whole area we've had a lot of sandstorms harkes bobs in that area. there's been a lot of it and it will continue. >> thank you very much. still ahead, the justice department goes after the recently approved at&t time warner merger. why the federal government is appealing that union now. >> plus the trump administration loses another high profile staff member. why mark short is leaving the white house.

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in another white house aide announced departure from the trump administration. legislative affairs director mark short revealed yesterday he is planning to step down at the end of next week. a short one of president trump's longest serving and more frequent spokespeople is taking a job at a consulting job and will teach at the university of virginia's business school and be as a senior fellow at the university. his exit comes as the trump administration prepares itself for a major battle in congress over supreme court justice nominee brett kavanaugh as well as the midterm elections ahead. he's among the growing list of senior white house staff members who left before the president's two-year mark in an unprecedented level of turnover. the white house announced shahira knight would succeed short. knight previously served as deputy assistant to the president for economic policy. and played a central role in writing the president's tax

plan. and the justice department says it's appealing a judge's decision to allow at&t/'s time warner takeover reopening the government's anti-trust. the deal approved last month created a media giant with television stations, movie studio, 160 million wireless customers and nationwide satellite tv service and ignited merger talks among other industry leaders including comcast, 21st century fox and disney. an at&t executive has been placed in charge of hbo and cnn. however, at&t kept most of its communications assets separate from the time warner cable networks in anticipation of government appeal. the justice department has not commented beyond the filing but at&t is ready to defend the decision telling bloomberg they're prepared to take the case to the supreme court if necessary. >> the latest on another rocky

day abroad for president trump. broadsiding another american ally. >> we'll have more from london as president trump faces backlash over his stung comments about theresa may over her brexit plan and leadership. we're back in three minutes.

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today president trump and the first lady are to meet with queen elizabeth at windsor castle, this after he criticized british prime minister theresa may over brexit negotiations. plus fireworks on capitol hill as lawmakers question the fbi agent removed from the russia probe after a series of anti-trump text messages came to light. the trump administration reunites about half of the young migrant children separated from their parents under the zero tolerance policy, but many more have been deemed ineligible for reunification and at least a dozen parents have already been deported. ♪ good morning, everybody. it is friday, july 13th. i'm yas