i'll talk with senator richard blumenthal. the white house is clearly on the defensive right now over this truly stunning revelation by donald trump jr. let's begin with our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, take us through the e-mails and the president's rather subdued reaction. >> they are not loving it over here at the white house, wolf. the president defended his son today not in a tweet but in a sober statement read by the white house. aides to the president say he is frustrated with the russia story, but today he only has his eldest son to blame. the e-mails are astonishing. released by the president's own son, donald trump jr., the messages reveal top level officials with the trump campaign met with a russian lawyer, who an intermediary suggested was offering support from the kremlin. the e-mails first reported by the "new york times" promised, quote, very high level and sensitive information that would incriminate hillary clinton. the messages between trump jr. and an acquaintance, rob goldstone, outlin

i'll talk about those stories and more with senator richard blumenthal. he's a democrat on the judiciary and armed services committees. and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. >>> first, let's go to our white house correspondent sara murray with more of the growing concerns about jared kushner and security clearance. sara, there is apparently a lot of pressure on kushner right now and the trump white house. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. democrats are calling on kushner security clearance to be revoked and while republicans have not gone quite that far, there is certainly concern on both ends of pennsylvania avenue about the future of kushner's security clearance. >>> jared kushner, the president apartments son is in law and senior advisor is regularly at president trump's side. whether the president is mulling national security decisions, meeting with foreign leaders, or attempting to strike a mid east peace deal, a key component of kushner's white house portfolio. without a security clearance, some experts say it would be practica

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senator warren and richard blumenthal cosigned onto a bill that would require professionals applying for federal licenses to learn about dust practices for pain management, alternative their peace, and methods for diagnosing and treating substance abuse disorder. so that legislation in the hopper. we will see what happens to it on the floor of the senate. oxnard, calm california, medical professional, go ahead. >> a few caller: a few comments. i have some patience with pain. i have some training in pain management. california once upon a time had a permit that you had to take a two day pain and end-of-life issues course, because pain was so badly managed in an opposite .ay, not enough pain medication people's pain was not being managed. i was glad to hear the comment just before there's going to be issuance of an educational outline about prescribing. so number 1 -- host: that legislation has not been passed yet, just introduced by those senators, but go ahead. i -- sorry, i just woke up. yes, there are principles that you use when someone has to be on long-term pain control. conting

. >> reporter: senator richard blumenthal is calling for kushner's resignation says it's inappropriate for someone in fact white house to have attended that meeting. >> he apparently concealed a meeting that is harmful to our national security. >> reporter: cbs news confirms kushner had to update his security clearance forms three times. he added more than 100 names of meetings with foreign contacts during the election and transition after initially saying he had no such meetings. he only added natalia veselnitskaya's on the final update. senate intelligence committee members say kushner and donald trump, jr. will be called to testify. but first, they are requesting documents from both men. >> we feel it's very important that we have all the appropriate information so we can ask the right questions. >> reporter: kushner's attorneys say he will cooperate with investigators. seth lemon for cbs news, the white house. >>> still ahead, a nightmare situation for some brides across the country when a popular dressmaker closes up shop. the scramble now ahead of the big day. >> plus, it's a sta

late this evening i spoke with richard blumenthal who sits on the senate judiciary committee. >> senator blumenthal, do you have any understanding why we're just hearing about this other meeting that the president had with vladimir putin? >> there seems to be a pattern of reckless or willful concealment of contacts with the russians involving jared kushner, other members of the trump family, and now the president of the united states. and maybe the president was embarrassed or in some way reluctant to disclose the fact that this meeting occurred with him alone with a russian interpreter and vladimir putin. we still have no idea what was discussed exactly. and this kind of private meeting is virtually unprecedented in the diplomatic world. >> i also don't understand how the white house wouldn't think that this story would get out at some point and at least just get ahead of it or just explain -- do you think the white house owes the american people at least a readout of the meeting especially if the meeting did last a full hour as is being reported? >> a full hour meeting certainly merits

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senator richard blumenthal has introduced legislation to require cruise likes to notify the fbi within four housrs of a crime, turn over video evidence and he wants to mandate that federal officers be on board all ships. in her case, no criminal charges for the bartender, and the cruise line didn't respond to our questions. she doesn't know if the man who allegedly assaulted her is working in the cruise industry. and that uncertainty weighs heavily on her. >> the nightmares are haunting. i'm no longer the person i was. i'm working on that every single day to get back to how i was. >> reporter: nbc news, miami. >>> still ahead tonight, saving wild horses from potential slaughter. proposed federal budget cuts cause growing concern. >>> we're back with a symbol of the american west. wild horses and how it's becoming increasingly difficult to manage the population of these magnificent animals. it's an issue previous presidents have grappled with, as costs have skyrocketed. under president trump's budget proposal federal funding would be cut significantly. and there's growing concern about

democratic senator richard blumenthal has called for his resignation. >> he apparently concealed a meeting that is harmful to our national security. >> reporter: that meeting involving a russian attorney who said she had dirt on hillary clinton has placed members of the president's inner circle including his oldest son under a cloud of suspicion. a russian-american lobbyist alleged to be a former soviet spy confirmed to the "associated press" that he also attended last june's meeting. the president said his son did fog wrong. >> it's called opposition research or even research into your opponent. >> reporter: the senate intelligence committee says donald trump, jr. and kushner will be called to testify. kushner's attorneys say he will cooperate with the investigation. and the top democrat on the house intelligence committee representative adam schiff of california says that donald trump, jr.'s shifting explanations about this meeting calls them deeply worrying trend and says they paint a portrait of deceit. >> yeah. seth, i think the key question we heard from his attorney yesterday, was p

senate, with the consideration of health care, we will welcome senior senator from connecticut, richard blumenthalto have you with us. sen blumenthal: thank you. david: we have been talking about possible alternatives going through the vote-a-rama. you are there, how do you see it playing out? sen blumenthal: simple answer, we have no idea how the senate is going to proceed. we know we will have a vote today on repeal and run, as it is called, repeal without replacement. which will go down to failure, just as the proposal last night went down to failure with nine republicans voting against it. in some ways, even more significant than the first want to proceed on that motion. so the path forward is by no means clear. what the outcome will be is even less clear. everye basic problem is one of these republican plans puts tens of millions of americans out of insurance, it costs states hundreds of billions of dollars, and it provides tax cuts for the richest while it deprives americans of basic health care. republicans have not been able to surmount that dilemma. david: your colleague john mccain came

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richard blumenthal, the senator from connecticut. they are embarking on what it seems as though you are saying, professor, dangerous territory in that they are threatening our democracy with throwing around terminology like these? >> i agree with you. i wish these senators who i support, i voted for them, would read the constitution and see how treason is defined. the british used to cut off the heads of their none as because they committed treason. treason was defined broadly. so the united states government defined treason very narrow. trish: is this all for political purposes? i should point out, professor, president trump did tell reuters that he had no advance knowledge of this meeting. not that that would necessarily matter? >> it would matter politically, but it wouldn't matter legally. if the president went and called before he was president, candidate trump called vladimir putin and said, look, i'm a deal maker, do i have a deal for you. if you can give me neck negative research you have on hillary clinton i will call off th

one democratic senator, richard blumenthal, a critic of the president,ers specially all things russia, he said the president is offering more evidence of obstruction of justice. do you see that, michael? >> two things about this. first is whether mueller is investigating financial matters related to the trump ecosystem. i think the answer is most likely yes and that is already within his mandate. the mandate that rosenstein gave him on may 17th says all matters related to russia and anything that may arise out of it and whether or not the financial dealings provide motive why the russia/trump team met is within his per view. he is not going to see that as a limitation. secondly, whether or not this is an obstruction of justice, i don't think it's obstruction of justice. i think were mueller to be fired, it would be an abuse of office, an abuse of power that would lead to consideration of article of impeachment. i don't think legal indictment before a grand jury says you are going to get obstruction of justice out of that. what is obstruction of justice or abuse of power is much the sa

. >> joining me now is richard blumenthal a member of the senate judiciary committee. who has preapproved subpoenas to force paul manafort and donald trump jr. to appear before the committee. do you have any reason to believe they will refuse to testify and you will have to use the subpoenas. >> there is no reason to believe they will not appear. they said they have nothing to hide. but personally, having talked to the chairman of the committee, he is intently serious on a bipartisan investigation and uncovering the truth. >> why do you want to talk to those two? what elements of the russia investigation would you personally want to probe with them. >> what i want to know from them is the background of the meeting that occurred in early june. one of the really shocking revelations in the "new york times" interview was the president acknowledging that he saw the e-mails offering -- in fact, promising dirt on hillary clinton before that june meeting. although he claims he didn't know anything about the meeting. i want to know what he knew and when he knew it. and they ca

senator lindsey graham of south carolina, sheldon whitehouse of rhode island and richard blumenthal oficut on board with that potential legislation. we'll keep an eye on it and let you know how it goes in the u.s. senate. >> melissa: we want to take you right now to house speaker paul ryan. he is holding a his weekly press briefing. he said that he thinks reince priebus is doing a fantastic job, let's listen in. >> i'll reserve judgment until i see what they release. >> reporter: of the senate does pass something, what's the chance -- >> extending our session is obviously an option that we are considering. the majority leader will make some sense of that later on. what does the senate do? we don't know what the senate is going to do, so therefore we will reserve judgment as to what our responses until we find out with the senate actually does. you've got a scar if, i can't see. there it is, just making sure. i don't read that stuff. [indistinct question] >> i think what you saw, it was 19-3. you had all but three republicans voted for tough sanctions on these three regimes, north korea

. >> i'm joined by richard blumenthal. andy carney, and you're all joining us now.enator blumenthal, i've been waiting for a republican to stand up, man or woman, southerner, northerner, and stand up for the constitution and our american form of government. i'm beginning to see a couple of them do that. they're standing up against this wild narcissistic manner of this president. >> i've been talking to senator graham and a number of my colleagues about exactly this topic houflt to protect the integrity and independence of the spounl. let me say very bluntly. the president of the united states firing bob mueller would be an historic admission of guilt without a scintilla of cause. to fire a special prosecutor whose career is beyond reproach, and who has engaged in absolutely nothing challengeable, would be an historic admission of guilt. this investigation will go forward. the remarks that you heard from senator graham a clear reflection of a growing sense on both sides of the aisle that there need to be efforts to protect the integrity and independence of the depart

that was democratic senator richard blumenthal calling on white house senior adviser jared kushner toing and failing to disclose the meeting with the russian lawyer last summer. "the new york times" said that after they omitted that meeting and others on the security clearance, he supplemented the list of foreign contacts three times adding more than 100 names. msnbc has confirmed that reporting. investigators are trying to figure out whether he aided the disinformation campaign by helping the kremlin spread misleading or otherwise fake news in key states and districts during the election. sources close to the inquiry says that kushner's role is a possible conduit including his niche overseeing the operations will be closely looked at today. in an article titled, all roads now lead to kushner. one next step is clear. take away jared kushner's security clearance immediately. let me start with you. give us some context here. we have this news that kushner over mid 100 names from the forms he has to fill out to get the security clearance. 100 names. a lot of people aren't familiar with t

democratic senator richard blumenthal has called for kushner's resignation. >> he apparently concealed a meeting that is harmful to our national security. >> reporter: that meeting involving a russian attorney who said she had dirt on hillary clinton has placed members of the president's inner circle including his oldest son under a cloud of suspicion. a russian-american lobbyist alleged to be a former soviet spy confirmed to the "associated press" that he also attended last june's meeting. the president says his son did nothing wrong. >> it's called opposition research or even research into your opponent. >> reporter: the senate intelligence committee says donald trump, jr. and kushner will be called to testify. kushner's attorneys say he will cooperate with the investigation. seth lemon for cbs news, the white house. >>> the man behind one of the deadliest bay area shootings will spend the rest of his life in a maximum security state prison. this morning, 48-year-old one goh was sentenced to 7 consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole. in 2012, one goh ope

senator lindsey graham, a republican obviously, richard blumenthal, from connecticut, a democrat, proposing legislation that would protect the independent counsel, not allow him to be fired without congressional approval. does that, do you think, stand a chance of going anywhere? >> chris: i even wonder whether that has -- i mean, you'd have to pass a whole new law, because under the current law the -- he's a member of the executive branch. he isn't a truly independent counsel. he's a special counsel. that was because the independent counsel law lapsed. you'd have to make it a completely different law to make it independent and therefore not subject to being fired from within the administration. i will say, lindsey graham has not hidden anything about it. he's indicated publicly that it will be catastrophic politically if the president fires -- in his opinion, if the president fires jeff sessions as attorney general, but that it might be the end of the trump presidency, as he put it if he were to fire robert mueller. that would be his second lead investigative person he would have fired, an

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. >> senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, washington bureau chief from usa today p national security reporter for nbc news. senator this is interesting. a russian lawyer has dirt on hillary clinton. we don't know what the dirt was. supposedly something to do that's bogus with campaign contributions coming from russians. i don't know if there is anything to that. i doubt it. of course donald trump jr said i will be there. and i will bring manafort. the russian guy. i will bring jared kushner. i'm bringing them all for this meeting and they kept it completely secret as of this weekend until the new york times caught them and exposed them. >> and he came for the express purpose of seeking and soliciting damaging information. and he was disappointing. >> colluding with the russians. >> and this meeting and most respectfully donald trump jr's reason for it is bomb shell evidence of conspiracy and criminal intent. because he went to that meeting for a purpose and that purpose was seeking dirt on hillary clinton. potentially in violation of the law. >> what statute would that be? >> united

trish: uh-huh, but politically speaking you can understand why the likes of tim kaine or richard blumenthale? >> absolutely. they will continue to work that angle because they work optics. right now it is optics more than it is substance. could be substance but it is not yet. trish: he well, senator hello by, we hope you really do get down to some stub stance on health care. >> thank you. trish: country is with you on wanting to see something get done on that. senator, good to have you here. thanks for joining us with intel. >>> we'll go out to sun valley where jared kushner and ivanka trump are just arriving. that is next. we will see you right here after this. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage. fidelity, where smarter investors will always be. and at $4.95, you can trade with a clear advantage. i enjoy the fresher things in life. fresh towels. fresh soaps. and of course, tripadvisor's freshest, lowest prices. so if you're anything like me... ...you'll want to check tripadvisor. we now instantly compare prices from over 200 booking sites... ...to find you the lowest price.

joining us now, richard blumenthal of connecticut, a member of the senate judiciary and armed servicesees and also the comments science and -- commerce science and transportation committee. excuse me. let's start with this, mitch mcconnell may have a revised bill. is your heart and mind open to these changes? >> my heart and mind are open to working constructively as long as this revised bill avoids repealing and december mating the affordable care act. the reason for all of this drama is that this bill has been reached just like the last one in total secrecy behind closed doors. and seems to involve the same decimating cuts to medicaid which will affect middle class people, poor people, the most vulnerable and seems to betray the fundamental values of providing coverage to all americans. >> there seems to be two distinct issues they have to come to terms with. one which you just stated, the medicaid expansion under obamacare to many people is the biggest part of obamacare. it affects 79 million people or something. but the other matter, the matter of the individual markets, this has s

like when i heard connecticut democratic senator richard blumenthal ominously wondering about a conversation serves me right, he didn't say boo about another presidents conversations about which he very much did no. barack obama's incredible exchange with then russian president caught off mike about waiting for a certain presidential election. >> after my election i have more flexibility. >> neil: i understand. i don't recall mr. blumenthal steamed over that, just over this. some media coverage of that, nothing approaching this. another news network even expressing horror at the site of melania trump sitting next to vladimir putin. no historical reference at all to assert another first lady once seated next to a fellow named nikita khrushchev. we would later learn john kennedy was sending secret notes to the russians through his brother bobby to solve the cuban missile crisis. not a word about this president talking to his russian counterpart, may be to prevent a future crisis. no, kennedy was brilliant and working a connection. trump is a boob and -- if this was a super secret powwow, news

. >> i heard richard blumenthal honestly wondering about a conversation he will never know. yet, if memory serves me right, he didn't say boo about another president's conversation about which he very much did know. barack obama's incredible exchange with then russian president caught off mic about waiting for a certain presidential election. >> after my election, i have more flexibility. >> i understand. you know, i don't recall mr. blumenthal steam over that, just over this. some media coverage of that, nothing approaching this. another news network even expressing saying horror at the site of melania trump sitting next to vladimir putin. no historical reference at all to a certain other first lady once seated next to a fellow. we later learned that john kennedy was sending secret notes through the russians to his brother bobby to solve the missile crisis. not a word talking to his russian counterpart maybe to prevent a future crisis? no. kennedy was brilliant working a connection. and then the media truth to power, please, save the outrage for someone who cares. if this w

if there's drifting, we're going to object," but richard blumenthal who sits on one of the committees investigating russia's interference in the election says looking into mueller's team raises serious questions. >> trying to draw lines, redlines or boundaries, and then intimidating or threatening a prosecutor, i think verges on potential objection of justice. >> sandra: , newt gingrich questioning why mueller would put such a team together, suggesting that something sinister may be a play. >> it's hard to understand why he would assemble such a team, unless it was a deliberate effort to go after the president and the president's team. i don't understand why the house and the senate judiciary committee's aren't investigating a lot of the stuff. i think it's very reasonable to say that this is a very dangerous witch hunt that mueller keeps it standing because can't find anything. >> sandra: there is no doubt that this russia investigation is expanding. of course, a lot going on. >> steve: the first thing we should look at is aren't we all just sick and tired of hearing about russia, t

outfront with me now richard blumenthal. senator, thanks for the time. >> thank you. good to be with you. >> more people added to the roster of attending this meeting. three new people just today, not previously disclosed, including that russian american lobbyist we're learning more about. what is your take on this, senator? >> more bombshell news as part of a pattern of concealed and secret meetings with the russians, despite the repeated denials by the president and everyone around him. it really disastrously undercuts their credibility, not to mention donald trump jr., who has said recently all there was to know had already been disclosed. but even more fundamentally it strengthens the case for revoking jared kushner's security clearance. here he was at a meeting with a former counter intelligence officer of russia who, according to that letter from the republican chairman of the judiciary committee, was described in public report as active in foreign operations, subversive political operations involving hacking and measures that intruded in political operations. s

. >> senator richard blumenthal is saying tonight, threatening the mueller investigation is more evidence of obstruction of justice. a criminal case unfolding in realtime before our eyes. mieke, to the substance of what the president said, he said if jeff sessions told me ahead of time that he would have recused himself on this, then i would not have appointed him. how do you read that? >> how i read that is that the president prefers personal loyalty to following the rules. remember, jeff sessions recused himself in following department of justice guidance because the chief law enforcement officer of the country, he has a higher responsibility to the constitution. trump wants a loyalist in there, and you have to wonder whether or not he could get someone who was loyal enough to him past the united states senate after he fires someone like jeff sessions for not being loyal enough in this investigation, which senators want to continue as impartial. >> yeah, it's very clear that jeff sessions recusing himself was the right thing to do. so what donald trump doesn't understand tonight is that

joining us now, democratic senator, richard blumenthal of connecticut.t's nice to have you here, and i understand, in the green room, you saw, as we saw for the first time, the handshake between the two men. what would satisfy you to come from president trump in this meeting with vladimir putin? >> what president trump has to do is leave no doubt in putin's mind that he knows and he accepts the unanimous findings of the intelligence agencies that, in fact, russia interfered ho in our election and that russia will pay a price for it. and an even higher price in the future. there's a sanctions bill that passed the senate overwhelmingly with bipartisan support -- >> 98-2. >> 98-2. it's now in the house and it's stalled there, largely because of tacit resistance from the trump administration. so, president trump has to tell putin, who is an adversary, not an ally, that russia will pay a price if he repeats this kind of meddling in our election. >> i'm sure you heard what president trump said yesterday in that press conference in front of our viewers. here's

joining us now is democratic senator richard blumenthal. good morning, senator. >> good morning. the good to be with you. >> do you think that jeff sessions will be the attorney general a month from now? >> i do think he will be, because there would be a fire storm of opposition to the president firing him, or forcing him to resign. the only reason that the president has said he wants jeff sessions to resign is that he recused himself, which means he can't fire bob mueller, the special prosecutor. if the president wants a political lap dog to fire bob mueller that will meet with very strong opposition on both sides of the aisle here on capitol hill. >> it's interesting you said that because we just had senator from ohio on with us in the last hour who said what he thinks is going to happen is that the president is going to fire jeff sessions and then he will rely on an august recess appointment. so that all of you will not be around to try to stop him and then the president would fill that slot with what brown's words were one of his fliunkief >> there would be republican strong

joining me now to discuss this and a whole lot of other stuff going on overnight, senator richard blumenthal of connecticut, a member of the senate judiciary committee. senator, thank you so much for being with us. now, digging up dirt is one thing, but discussing or raising possible conflict of interests, even small conflict of interests that may arise within the investigative team, is that out of bounds? paul begala is on before. he did it famously back with kenneth star during the impeachment proceedings. >> it's a standard tactic, as a former prosecutor, i can tell you that there were defense counsel who attacked me in the courtroom and before we reached the courtroom. but bob mueller is a prosecutor's prosecutor. apart from his war record and all of his personal credentials, he has been around this track quite a few times. and he has the grit and backbone to stand up to those kinds of tactics. >> you know, i'm old enough to remember, obviously, the impeachment proceedings, and you were also with president bill clinton. and it feels like the president's team went after ken starr every da

i sat down with senator richard blumenthal to talk about all this. >> this is part of that pattern of concealment beginning in june but going through even the period before and after the election and the inauguration. >> back now with the panel. one of the things trey gowdy said last week who is certainly a supporter of the president said anybody who is in the white house and has had a meeting should just hold a meeting with special prosecutor mueller and get it out of the way. it seems such a cliche to talk about the drip, drip, drip, but it doesn't help the white house, does it? >> i agree, and i think they're going through the process of figuring this out. clara mccatskill forgot she met with the german leader. there was a time the trump campaign had a difficult time colluding with the rnc. this is a campaign that doesn't look like other campaigns because the candidate was the communications director, the campaign manager. the campaign won because donald trump had a message and a vision and he got it to the american people, and he didn't have an additional campaign structure undern

outfront we have democratic senator from the state of connecticut richard blumenthal who sits on the senate judiciary committee. senator, your reaction to the breaking news this evening. "the washington post" reporting that according to current and former u.s. officials, there are intercepts in which the russian ambassador sergey kislyak in 2016 described conversations he had with then senator and trump campaign adviser, now attorney general jeff sessions in which they did in fact discuss campaign-related matters, discuss president trump, then candidate trump's position on his issues having to do with russia, despite what he has said publicly to the contrary. your reaction. >> if these reports are corroborated and they can be corroborated by the intelligence community, they are very damaging to jeff sessions. in fact, devastating because they indicate that he was clearly untruthful in his confirmation testimony at the judiciary committee, and his subsequent supposed clarifications, as well as his under oath indications on his security forms as to what these contact were. but they're

so you've already seen senator risch richard blumenthal tweet today that these comments are inappropriate, bordering on obstruction of justice s. whether it's obstruction, what they say is it's extremely politically inadvice believe aam it looks like the are president is trying to pressure investigators r threatening to fire lawyer. he's a defense lawyer's worst nightmare in this respect because he's sending the impression that he's trying to interfere. >> what can they do? just ignore him? >> they have to just ignore them and keep on doing what they're doing. robert mueller, don't forget, is a republican who is one of the most respected professional investigators in washington for years, and he has a group of people around him, both democrats and republicans who have terrific reputations and they are backed up by hundreds of fbi agents and i think they're just going to follow the evidence where it leads and eventually we'll see a report on this case. >> so the president is questioning the motives of the attorney general, the deputy attorney general, the fbi, the special counsel, all beca

i spoke with richard blumenthal who sits on the senate judiciary committee investigating aspects of thestory and just got the green light to hear from donald trump, jr. and jared kushner. >> this eighth individual who represented a family with potential financial or other ties to the russians is part of this pattern of concealment. beginning in june, but going through even the period before and after the election and the inauguration. >> back now with the panel. mike, one of the things trey gowdy i think said last week, he's a supporter of the president, anybody in the white house who has had a meeting should just tell the special prosecutor and just get it -- special counsel mueller, just get it out of the way. it does seem like this is such a cliche to talk about the drip drip drip, but it doesn't help the white house, does it? >> no, i agree with that. and i think they're going through the process of trying to figure this out. but people forget about things that they did. claire mccaskill forgot she met with the russian ambassador, so did nancy pelosi. they're trying to gather this i

but while we're waiting for reince priebus to get ready, senator richard blumenthal of connectic connecticut is joining us right now, the democrat. senator, give me your reaction to these latest developments. >> i certainly wish general kelly well. if anybody can bring order and discipline to this white house, it is general kelly, whom i tremendously admire and respect and share all of the high opinions that have been expressed about him. i opposed his nomination, voted against him because of my apprehension about his immigration policies and his adherence to the potential muslim travel ban and draconian and sweeping policies that unfortunately have been adopted. but i think one of the key points here is whether the president will let him do this job, but equally so, whether he will be loyal to general kelly just as he demands loyalty of the people who work for him. and unfortunately, the kinds of lack of loyalty he's demonstrated beginning at the top really have to be reversed here, and the lack of leadership that we've seen, indeed in the health care debate, that has just been finished whe

. >>> joining us now, members of armed services and judiciary committees, senator richard blumenthal.you went to the world famous boom box -- >> yes, in wind ham. how was that is this. >> boom box parade is incomparable. there is nothing like it. no longer boom boxes, but such a great spirit and outpouring. the weather was beautiful. >> yor like your iphone, do the hold that up? >> you can use the iphone and wioi is getting that message out continually. >> i bet you have that in your house. alexa, play the rolling stones. >> i'm waiting for version three. >> i didn't even know there was a version one until last week. there will be a version three? >> well, yeah, they will constantly improve it. and i think it will get better and better. >> so right now you just call your butler and say can you can please put on your rolling stones. >> i actually don't have to call, i just turn to him and say i'd like to play the beatles taand it happens. >> how the other half lives. >> let's start with russia. we were talking about whether or not the president should go heavy on meddling with the elec

members of the judiciary committee, democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut is calling for attorney general jeff sessions to testify under oath. but first, let's go to bill karins track something fast moving storms. bill? >> good morning. we may have a tornado overnight in maryland of all places. i want to show you the picture from bay island. this is near kent island out in the chesapeake. there are numerous homes that have significant roof damage. power is out to the area. there was one house fire. we're still waiting for confirmation it was a tornado. it was definitely radar indicated. this was 1:00 in the morning. we'll get better pictures at day break. still one flash flood warning outside of philadelphia. a flash flood watch has been dropped now for trenton and philly and much of new jersey. new york city still under a flash flood watch. 18 million people included. the heavy rain is now ending in new york city. so that's good. but out on long island, a lot of heavy rain. all the heavy rain on i-95 now from southern new york and connecticut and rhode island and boston.

i talked to richard blumenthal yesterday who called on kushner to resign completely from government.iously been a lot of pressure around the idea of revoking his security clearance, it sounds like. you know, that's not something the president can give security clearance to whomever he wants to. so i don't think there's indication that's going to go very far, but i think those bells are going to get louder. >> gene robinson writes in "the washington post" today, ivanka and jared begin the plunge from grace. jared kushner and ivanka trump have tried their best to soar gracefully above the raging dumpster fire that is the trump administration. unhappily for the handsome couple gravity makes no allowances for charm. kushner is arguably the individual with the most to lose from the revelation that the campaign did after all at least attempt to collude with the russian government to boost trump's chances of winning the election. ivanka trump's name has not surfaced in the russia affair, but she like her husband is serving as a presidential advisor. jared and ivanka were expected to at leas

. >> as richard blumenthal said yesterday, he suspected it's not this first meeting, katty, it's all those that follow. >> we want every single meeting or any person in this white house has had with the russians. clearly the kremlin felt that the trump campaign was vulnerable to be penetrated or at least targeted in this cam pan. there must have been something that made them think this was worth a go. >> mike barnicle, you have this meeting with a kremlin-connected lawyer, a contact comes forward that says, hey, the criminal wants to help you out here, talk to this lawyer. you got paul manafort running the campaign, jared kushner, the president's closest sayyid during the -- closest aide during the campaign and then you have don jr. how does kushner forget to put this on any of his disclosure forms -- >> that's jared calling. >> exactly. >> with the answer. >> -- when he knows that there's been an e-mail sent to the campaign, to don jr. saying, hey, the russian government wants to help you get elected president of the united states. so you've got jared kushner forgetting to put an am

areas, the promise to drain the swamp has been hypocrisy, that from senator richard lowenthal from connecticut. -- blumenthalrom connecticut. many have ties to the tobacco industry." democrat, florida. go ahead lease. caller: i just wanted to comment on the health care bill. you know, they try to make it problem in the health care situation is very complicated -- it is not that complicated. think about this. 34 nations in the world offer universal health care. it would be very simple and easy to sit down, come up with a way in which everyone can be covered , but everybody participate and contribute to the health care cost. they are trying to eliminate benefits for the poor, give to the rich, and they really do not need it. this is not complicated, this is not rocket science. we are not going to the moon. 34 nations have solved this. why not use those 34 nations as a model? france, england -- there are so many nations that do this, and nobody is crying in those nations about contributing to health care benefits for everyone in those countries. host: our call from riverview, florida. trump's, page for the a da