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>> not your typical family vacation. trump packed up on air force one and off to a 7 day get away and track ca being down on leaks and learning more about how the fbi had russia on election day and climate deals takes a step forward and west virginia gone nor make the greatest political party official. but first it's vacation time at the white house. >> good choice. president left today for extended working vacation at golf club in
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he was just there last year when the club hosted u.s. women's open golf tournament. i'm waiting for him to dance too. that would make this better. this is the first official vacation. trump spent half weekends as president away from whi house and even though highly critical of pred sos or for going on vacation and plague golf it was something he brought up often. take a listen to candidate trump in march of 2016. the white house is this inceld i believe place and you're here for a limited period of time. it's the white house. you have so much work. why do you ply. why do you leave so much? you think wow want to work, work, work, straight ten out and ge it done fix it up and make it great and when you finish you can be proud. boy are we a mess. >> president trump will be way from e
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days and won't be the only one taking off from the white house because all of the west wing clearing out while work crews replace the white house heating and cooling system and make other repairs while the president is gone. meanwhile congress is on vacation now. lawmakers leaving d.c. without getting anything done on major issues like the debt ceiling, budget and healthcare. paul ryan did a town hall in wisconsin and he thinks gop will have easier time producing taxes than they did in failed effort to overhaul the health care situation. >> the problem we have when you tax your businesses and your companies and much, much higher tax rates than foreign competitors they win, we lose. so this is among the reasons why we're pushing tax reform. >> what we want to do is make sure we get tax rates on our businesses counsel at the same kind of rates that our foreign competitors are. this is 21st century and it's a global economy.
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labor day and when at the get back a few weeks to face a government shutdown yet again that deadline is october 1. >> all right. so we know the president has been angry of all the leaks coming out of the white house and not thrilled are turn general either. we saw the tweets. he called jeff sessions out. he wants ag to be tougher on leaks. sessions must have cord brownie points he held a press conversation of cracking down on classified information. sessions says the justice department is looking into surprises for media outlets that published leaked information. >> first let me say that i strongly agree with the president and condemn st strongest terms the st stingerring numbers of leaks undermining ability of our government to protect this country one of the things we're doing is reviewing policies affecting media surprises. and we respect
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role that the press plays and will give them respect. but it is not unlimited they cannot place lives at risk with imputety. >> remember president owe ba areally got the ball roll when he saw several admission crack down on leaks big time. we're seeing it continuing now. announcement from sessions comes a day after linked to special council robert mueller was empaneling grand jury in russia investigation. as for the rshia investigation mullers tapped multiple ground juries including d.c. and virginia in effort to gather evidence and tonight cnn reporting fbi monitored social media on election day last year in an effort to attract russian campaign. fbi analyst rather good luck june analysts identify social media counts behind big news stories. some based overseas. they suspect somewhere part of ush russian influence to vo
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election day that was completed but not disruptions to the voting process. >> decision that caused friction with other world leaders out of the climate accord. it's one step closer to official. the statement state department informed un it will pull out of the paris agreements. u.s. will continue to participate in climate change meeting during the wraul process and president announced decision to pull out in june saying it would cost americans billions kill jobs and behinder energy. other world leaders including germany americale and mccall expressed disappointment with the president and said it was irreversible. as for the president relationship with lead avenue of australia malcolm insits signatures it's all good. transscripts published shows tense knks between two men after the president took office. th
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deal made between the two countries. he called it stupid and horrible and ultimately agreed to honor it. >> it was a courteous, frank conversation as president trump said. and we had i stand up for the interest ago he stands up for america's interest and we have a warm repingship you've seen that with the meeting in new york and meeting in hamburg at the g owe 20. we have a good relationship between president and myself. but above all the relationship between us veilia and united states is deep, very enduring and one of mute tuille support in every field. president trump had reports calling conversation testy where with fake news insist the call was civil. >> west virginia governor officially made the switch to republican party and you saw this last night. jim justice told thousands of trump supporters he was changing political party and won the
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as democrat and previously as a republican. he made the change due to frustration with democrats in west virginia due to legislative system he talked after filing paper wore to go back to the gop. >> i rap as democrat and was proud of it and i came here to help and get something done. and when it games right to crunch time nitty gritty is simple, democrats walked away from me. and i deposit walk away from them. >> justice was elect nod november 49% of vote. 20 percentage points behind president trump tote fall west virginia you. >> next up final five fixing crumbly was a campaign promise for president and what goes in to repair our nation's aging bridges and we talked to a guy that learned quite a bit about it next on the final five.
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>> welcome back infrastructure is trump administration we will talk to a guy that seize firsthand for repairs and restoration of bridges. producer of bridge brothers is live tonight via skype. matt it's good to see you. >> jim, long time. >> people don't know at home we worked together a long time ago in upstate new york you moved into the role in documentary film making and tell me about bridge brother what's gave you the requested to do this. >> bridge brothers really is the idea of who takes care of america's large bridges. order any brims and it steamed fr t
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scenes of bridges and then starty of who are these people this the work on bridges that you know don't have a fear of hight and soy basically em emerged myself over the course of a year that we filmed with the bridge painlters and we filmed down in philadelphia where we got permission to film on the walt whitman account bridge. >> we're looking at it now it's amazing. >> yeah so these guys basically these guys keep bridges standing and if they did not restore these bridges, which restoring is sand bl blasting old coatings that rusted and deteriorated and then they repaint it, but the hardest part of the job is actually getting to where they need to paint. none of these bridges ever thought when they were built how do we get painter up there to restore the bridge. >> here'
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you went and talked to all these people ape told youer yes when we as drivers look at bridge construction we see inconvenience and when these people see bridge work and construction they see jobs and opportunity. so i mean these are brave people that go up and climb on bridges and depend on instra truck tour spending to make that happen. >> yeah, exactly. i mean we all can relate driveing across the bridge and one plain is lowsed because the crew is doing work and it's annoying because traffic backs up. but, in essence in reality, that annoyance would be much worse if the bridge was not restored. and it rust away and then the bridge collapsed. because they could not support its own weight so. then you have to be driving you know if maybe i don't know how many miles up the river before you could get over. and so what these guys do is you know it's not just annoyance of -- you know they
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cosmetic and it's all about codings -- coatings and it's one of the guides vokz in the interview you know people think we're painting bridge as if they're painting living room. but painting of bridge really have nothing to do with cosmetic view of the bridge or -- but the actual protective coatings that prevent the rust from deteriorating the steal on the bridge. >> there's so much money our country spends billions across -- you mentioned structural integrity we see that in the video. it was a week ago we had ten year an jersey of bridge collapse in minneapolis and investing in nation's infrastructure. are these workers and seeing more work these days or moving from one project to another with ease or is there layoff in between
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>> so a lot of these guys will basically work out of up to. because you have to go with the bridge contracts are. >> yeah. >> where they need to be restored. so a lot of guys will spend months and months away from families because they have to live out of town. and a lot of these guys do as you just said they will go and find different bridges after projects complete. so i -- after you get done with a project or bridge and sometimes there's different phases on the bridge with different contractors and because they're generally all public bids from the agencies that operator own the bridges and these dwiz basically will yes when the bridge project is done they have to go find another job and now they are all union workers and they're with the international union of painters and allied tried. so they do have very good pay and very good
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know they are, of course, treated much better today being in union than back in the days of you know there's a lot of things like safety and health concerns. today, we're back in the old days if you were bridge painter it was basically you had a bucket, brush, and scraper and you had -- >> hang on with one hand and paint with the other. i mean the old stuff is crazy and stories people tell me. even the pictures you can see about it. >> we see right there the covered bridge brothers matt white you're director producer you can do everything. where do people see this you're getting before we go about 20 second left where can we see this. >> it's available to watch n i tunes. and am sdop and industrial on demand and it's also available on blu-ray and dvd. >> excellent. >> but it's really a story like i said a
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talking here. >> quantity, not quality. >> i bet this is also like gas station bathroom quality toiletit paper. >> amazon put these on this is toilet paper printed with presidential tweets on it. >> okay i mean i get it it's look a gag gift for friend who loves or hates president tr trump. >> but $10. >> whoever is making this is making a killing. >> you know what this is ingenuity there. >> and they sell the same thing with say president face on it or president obama face you can get toilet paper -- >> there's a toilet paper for all seasons. >> yes, uh-huh. >> and anthony scaramucci could be a good deal to lead him a tv series. in touch to produce a white house version of spin city. does this mean charlie sheen plays him. >> i think the much demand he play himself although
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sheen would be at this point i don't know. my question is shoe though how does he have any material for a white house show. he was there like 11 days. >> ten days and reason that's important is because one of the working titles is ten days in july and they're also looking at -- >> are they entire episode that will be how he did paperwork with hr. what did he even know that's going on there. >> is that how the white house processes work. when i game here my my first daypro duceer christie and i started on the same someday here. we were stuck in the lunch room doing paperwork. >> and exactly i'm sure it work the same in every office. he probably still has not been reimbursed for parking he paid for in the interview. like. >> do you think he paid for parking on interview. >> by the way the other name attack of swamp monsters i have to get that out there. >> i like ten days in july. >> i like attack of the swamp monsters i
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the view rz that dvrs thad on the discovery or history channel or something. >> no. >> more red tape. >> speaking of people at the white house no longer there shawn spacer working. tmz says he will not do dancing the stars after all. >> spicer why? >> proceedy he said he "had over quell ming number of commitments in the fall." >> ohh is he -- >> i'm trying to think what jobs are open that somebody as big as he is can take? >> i mean i think he'll probably be apun didn't of some sort or gawm show. >> sarah pallin did match game. >> press your luck. >> bring back pressure luck with sean spicer. >> no whammys. >> i don't know. >> did you watch that we were having the discussion downstairs sex and the city would you ever admit to watching an episode
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>> yes i watched it multiple times i know what's going on mr. big the handsome guy that built furniture or something that was the guy. >> and bariznkoff was on the show. >> and the shoot. >> yes. >> this is not a good topic. >> anyway. >> running for governor of new york it's random. >> it's so miranda. >> in the a samantha move. >> no. it's new york. >> so with al the scandals their politicianshood you may have heard this. >> cynthia nixon was approached by groups to run for governor to challenge c cumo. here's the thing tell me. >> have we run out of actual experienced politicians everywhere? is it going to be every famous person runs for office. >> think this way you mentioned game shows. remember we used
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of wink martin dailz and chuck woothrly. >> they all were on game sh shows. >> and seeing politics with some of them i'm surprised but at this point yeah we focused on professional actors. ronald reagan starting with that one. >> right you do need name recognition but come on. >> upstate new york will not vote for cynthia nix sglon that's not her demo. >> that's not her demo. >> new york city though. >> oh, yeah. >> british punk singer claiming band from the u.s. over imperson nation of president trump and. >> because it's so bad. >> you can't even get proper let's talk about statue of liberty. >> this guy should be banned. what's going on with lady liberty here. >> immigration officials say peter by waters member of the ba t
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band test tube babies was not band. custom and border protections said he was denied entry because he did not from proper visa to get into the u.s. the rest of his band went on but humid in california. >> thank goodness. >> you're a huge test tube baby man. more than a fan really. i'm happy. >> super. >> i like their myspace page if the day. >> i never had a myspace p page. >> no. >> is that the claim to fame. >> i never had myspace page. try to find it good luck. >> good luck. >> challenge is out there we're back after this
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advisor michael flynn. there are reports tonight special counselor robert mueller requested documents on flip from the white house questioning whether or not he took payments from electricy duing the cam pain and lasted 24 hours and national curety advisor or 2 1/2 times longer than scaramucci did. and giving you to the president. we'll lead that grand jury step aside. president keeping one prols. today's job report puts potus at the one million jobs created mark. u.s. created million jobs six months since 2011 after recovery from great recession and obama second term it is still significant milestone for that and for that let's cue the balloons. >> yes. [ applause ]. >> thank you proceedy. >> these are for your m mr. presidentfy watch usness new jersey tonight. >> and that's the final five on this friday night. thank you for joining us.
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harvey: this is weird. caitlyn jenner is not letting donald trump's transgender ban get in the way of making america great again. >> she was out in malibu driving a sports car, wearing the make america great again hat. >> which matches the car. harvey: you don't go into your closet and get all of that. >> you don't know. >> ryan reynolds, his trainer for "deadpool 2" posted this photo of him throwing some shade at josh brolin. josh brolin is 49 years old and it says josh, you have more work to do. does it make you guys feel bad? these guys are in their 40's. step it up, man. harvey: jennifer lopez, do you feel bad about yourself? >> i think she's not reliable because she doesn't eat or drink alcohol. no alcohol. >> anthony scaramucci might turn his 15 minut o
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