political analyst abby phillip and david drucker as well as a.b. stoddard. a.b., this is the day no cbo score. a lot of talk of how to thicken out high risk pools. what do you see here? >> i do think they will put it up for a vote. they have the count. that is significant. i think it is a really great moment for the house leadership and the white house. president trump met with more than a dozen lawmakers. pressed really hard on this. what happens from here won't be great. it will go over to the senate and become a totally different bill. when it comes back to the house, the very people who designed this fix to get it through the house will bail. conservatives and freedom caucus will not like what comes back from the senate. this is just a first step in a long process. it will allow the leadership and the white house to say they got this promise delivered. they did an obamacare fix. not a repeal. many problems ahead, but i think they are relieved now that they were able to deliver on this promise. >> abby, let's talk about what we know and what's changed and

let's bring back john avlon and a.b. stoddard and david drucker. a.b., what is the play here? seems to be a feeling among our allies overseas that the rhetoric coming from trump is in congress. it is america first, but they will take a lead and have strong alliances. if only we can get things out of it. more payment from nato allies for their own defense. there's obviously some bad feelings at the end of president trump's trip. it started out well in the middle east. when he got to the nato part, it didn't go well. he scolded them in public in his speech which is something that could have been done more gently. you could have firmer discussions in priority. for merkel. angela merkel who is in an election campaign herself. for her to come out upon departure and say we can no longer depend on others as we have is a message. i thought it was interesting. when the president tweeted back and focuses on trade, it was interesting to me that actually sean spicer pretending everything was great yesterday and sort of pushing off a lot of the questions, did try, i thought with energy to

let's bring back our panel, david gregory, a.b. stoddard. the president has given a flurry of interviews in the last few days. they are more than eyebrow raising, eye popping some of the things he said. jennifer, you were just in the oval office talking to him. when he said andrew jackson could have stopped civil war, invites duterte to the white house, kim jong-un, honored to sit down with him. hijacking the news cycle. what do you think, having just spoken to the president, is behind some of these things. >> almost every interview he does reveals a parade of head scratchers. a fascinating look into his mind. his critics say he's a function al illiterate when it comes to history. his fans say this is a guy who loves media exposure. it dpifs usa chance to hear what he's thinking. it makes us feel like we can relate to him like he's a man of the people. it does confound. one interview in bloomberg news in 30 minutes, talks about how he felt like he could honored to meet with a member of the hostile regime. maybe he would be willing to conside

jeffrey toobin and a.b.ard. 24 hours later, he is accepting victory on stage in that special election. is there some deeper meaning here? >> i think we learned after the alleged assault that 7 in 10 voters in the district voted. that is a really hard number to turn around in a republican distri district. many upset democrats who turned out yesterday likely did not make up for what was probably already his seat in the bank. the interesting thing in the surprise was how many voters were pouring in yesterday who not early voted told reporters said how perfectly fine they were with the congress member-elect pushing the guy to the ground and according to fox news, punching him several times and breaking his glasses. this is an awkward situation for house republicans. i think they made a deal with him, probably. i don't know this for sure. that is why they welcomed him by a statement from speaker paul ryan. he named ben jacobs in the apology. >> ron, to prove a.b.'s point. there were despicable things to our kyung

let's bring our panel, steve hayes, interim chief with the weekly standard, a.b.with real clear politics, charles heard of "the washington times." let me start with you. president trump celebrating victory in the house, but the senate is going to be a different matter, tougher to get it through, how tough? >> i think very tough. no question this is a big victory for donald trump and house republicans, but it is a temporary victory. the senate has indicated, we have already seen, basically starting from scratch, starting over, working group of 13 republican senators going to be working to put this together. they are going to have to come up with a bill that meets this 50-vote threshold by pleasing camps that are arguably even more polarized than republicans in the house of representatives. you have bill cassidy cannot susan collins on the one side, moderate side cannot seem to about many of the arguments and the basic architecture and structure of obamacare. on the other side, you've got people like rand paul and tom cotton, others who want to rip obamacare root an

editor at large chris cillizza and a.b. stoddard. a.b. chris, what has happened with the health care plan, we think to get it over the finish line? >> the big thing is they took $8 billion and said we will put this in because it addresses the issue of what do you do because you are not mandating people be covered. that won't cover the cost. it mitigates worries by members. this is smart. if you think you have 213 hard yeses and you have five or six maybe yes or maybe no, call the vote. those people are never going to get off the fence until you say the vote is ones thursday afternoon whenever. i think it is a risk. i think they are taking this risk because they believe the alternative which is letting it fail again with no vote is worse. they promised their base for sevens years. from the second president obama introduced obamacare until now, if they got into hour, they would repeal and replace. to not do so twice in the first 105 days of the trump presidency -- voting on the bill with the expectation the senate will change it. >> they ha

a.b. stoddard and we have errol louis. the acting ag goes there and despite what the president said. you have trouble with flynn, act on it. the next day, the president meets with the director of the fbi and acknowledges he tried to interfere with the investigation and make sure that he was clear. we focus on that second paragraph in the letter dismissing comey for a reason. it is a window into what this was all about and the major concerns for impartiality into the matter going forward. >> that's the important point here, chris. two aspects of this which are troubling. the president of the united states on record on twitter and in person dismissing the importance of a probe into russia's attack on america to hack the election to manipulate the results. that is not to say they had an impact on the results. the president won fair and square. it was an attack on america. those are the words of republican senator john mccain. two, his open contempt for the investigation followed up by the fact he demanded loyalty of the fbi d

it was interesting contrast, a.b. a man so worried about power wound up getting caught up the way he did. >> right. we know that james comey because of the way he acted both in july and then october before the election in november. really sullied his reputation. he was above everybody in d.c. because of that exact anecdote you described. he stuck his neck out and wasn't influenced by politics. he was a man of integrity and took the risk all those years ago in the hospital room. it turned out he actually was protecting himself politically because he did not want to recommend prosecution for hillary clinton, but he indicted her politically on the 5th of july. in october, reopened the investigation and gave it to congress knowing it would be leaked. it was all really and he admitted this in testimony to protect himself politically because he did not want hillary to win and people to leak out later potentially from the fbi in new york. that's the branch he was most worried about where the leaks were coming from that he kn

james james rosen, a.b. stoddar, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. let's start with the first panel about why, why he was fired. james. >> james comey was fired because, due to many sets of eyes, in the congress, within the ranks of the fbi they are in the great american public, and most notably at the white house and in the department of justice, james comey had become a law unto himself. this was most clearly demonstrated in this series of times where he gave congressional testimony where james comey seemed to make up comey's rules as comey went along. as to what he was free to disclose about different investigations and when he wasn't free to disclose things pretty would tell lawmakers he had special authorization from the department of justice to confirm that the fbi is investigating alleged contacts between the trump campaign and the kremlin. but if asked about unmasking or asked about leaks and other issues come he would say i'm not authorized by doj to say anything on those matters. way back on july 5, he told us nobody at doj knows what i'm a

a.b. stoddard. and analyst patrick healey. cillizza, he made his people look like fools. press secretary and vice president were saying things that are false. the president made it clear this was about russia. his dislike of the investigation. his dislike of the man running it. >> that is a good summary, chris. his press secretary. his vice president. take a pause there. mike pence was the governor of the state. leadership of the house of representatives. this is not the press secretary. he is a staffer at the bottom and really a person who is supposed to represent the party line. to be honest about it. mike pence is the vice president of the united states. on capitol hill two days ago says this is because of rod rosenstein's memo. the president contradicts that in a high profile way. >> chris, let's take a moment and listen to that. this is the second time the vice president has been misled by seemingly by his own white house. first flynn and now the president himself. >> the mendacity montage. >> i was going to fire comey. >> he took the recommendation of the deputy att

and then, you know, kate a.b., what do we think about, you know, her catholicism. gets a chance to meet the pope that moment there, and then a little joke about the [ inaudible ] that she likes to feed him or dessert or bread? >> it's sweet. we're seeing a side of her we've never seen before. she's only the second first lady who's been catholic. jackie kennedy, of course, was catholic and jackie's meeting with the pope in 1962 was also really special. i think we saw some of that here. she brought a lightness to the meeting, a very heavy ceremonial meeting, and i thought it was a nice, light moment between them. >> and then kate a.b. -- kate, you mentioned jackie o., kate. everyone thinks about the style of a first lady, references with michele obama known for wearing designers who weren't necessarily on the big stage, but then as soon as she wore them they became hot designers. and this first lady, who is using very established designers, dolce & gabbana, with that jacket on the far left and, of course, it has a big price point there, but the michael kors, what do

james james rosen, a.b. stoddar, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.s start with the first panel about why, why he was fired. james. >> james comey was fired because, due to many sets of eyes, in the congress, within the ranks of the fbi they are in the great american public, and most notably at the white house and in the department of justice, james comey had become a law unto himself. this was most clearly demonstrated in this series of times where he gave congressional testimony where james comey seemed to make up comey's rules as comey went along. as to what he was free to disclose about different investigations and when he wasn't free to disclose things pretty would tell lawmakers he had special authorization from the department of justice to confirm that the fbi is investigating alleged contacts between the trump campaign and the kremlin. but if asked about unmasking or asked about leaks and other issues come he would say i'm not authorized by doj to say anything on those matters. way back on july 5, he told us nobody at doj knows what i'm about

we have analyst david gregory and aaron david miller and a.b. stoddard. david gregory, what do you see as you watch the historic visit? >> i think as the israeli prime minister noted with pride, this is a president who is putting israel at the e center of the foreign policy. the first foreign trip where he is kochcoming to the middle eas. he is putting reconciliation between faiths and reconciliation as a candidate and how he wants to conduct himself as a president on the world stage. coming to israel says two things. the relationship with the united states and israel as an unbreakable bond he pointed out and a policy vision. the president lining up with sunni countries like saudi arabia yesterday and singling out iran as an enemy which is precisely the world view that the israeli prime minister has as well. the israeli prime minister who railed against the president obama administration emphasis nuclear deal with iran. while that is continued under president trump, here rhetorically yesterday the emphasis of isolating iran and responsible for spreading t

. >>> joining us is a.b. stoddard and david, assistant editor for "the washington post" and patrick healey, "new york times" cultural editor. a.b., let's begin on health care. gary cohn is a guy with rising influence within the west wing, his words, we have confidence, we've got the votes. it's going to be a very good week. so? what do you make of it? >> right, in a normal situation that didn't involve a couple of health care fails in the last few weeks, and all the tension we know surrounding the divisions within the republican conference on the hill, we could take a signal from the white house and say boy, they have the votes. if he says so, but as the reporting shows, there's still a lot of skirmishing going on with incredible hesitance coming from the moderate republicans who are concerned as you mentioned in the open that if there isn't a threat to the coverage for the sick there is certainly the threat their prices will be raised and that house members voting to support a bill like this could see it die

. >> chris: a.b.?e great leader in pyongyang is making sure he is on a calendar of weekly agitation. five days doesn't go by without some kind of agitation or propagation, -- provocation, to which we don't have a response. but for a couple of coal shipments that were stopped, really actually giving us a material response, so we hear the australian prime minister, we are the administration saying it is really on the chinese. but we are waiting. >> chris: let me pick up on that with you, jason. are we getting anywhere in terms of putting kim jong-un and the regime in north korea in a box? speak up now, i see no evidence of that. no. this is in the context of our debate over the nuclear program. i think he wants an excuse to do yet another nuclear test. this will probably give him that excuse. also, chris, there are more than 50 vacancies at the department of defense. we need to fill those vacancies. it is a dangerous world out there. this twitter diplomacy is not going to cut. >> sometimes bait wiggles a

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a.b. mendez is management investor at frost advisers, thanks for being here. >> good to be here, sue. >> the f.a.n.g. stocks have been on quite a run. >> netflix is a bit of a different animal, but all those companies are creating tremendous value for consumers. pretty clearly they're creating transformations in the economy, in technology, in media, and in many other corners of the economy. so to the extent that they are driving a great deal of value creation, i think a lot of the move in the stocks is justified, although it has been a little bit of a breakneck pace over the last six months. >> if you are a long term investor, should you trim some of those positions and maybe wait for a pullback before you get back in or do you let it ride? >> it's a great question. we kind of grapple with these issues on a day-to-day basis. but we are long term investors as frost. we've been involved with all these companies except for netflix. netflix we added in fall of last year and it's worked well th

david gregory and phil mudd and editor for real clear politics, a.b. stoddard. >> we learned this doesn't just cover the campaign and the campaign advisers. now it reaches into the white house. what is the significance? >> the last point. it reaches to the white house. jared kushner emerged as the president's most important adviser and also family. those authority goes in multiple directions and who has business interests that raise real questions on behalf of the trump family that could have made the campaign vulnerable to being compromised by the russians. again, we don't know what all the facts are so we wait for investigation. we know through kushner's attorney he is happy to talk to all investigators. i think we can make a broader point right now about the attitude vulnerability. cavalier attitude by the trump campaign. russia is not going to do anything to us. there is something of concern here and kushner appears to be the person who had enough contact and meetings or knows enough to be able to really help investigators or though he is not a tar

let's go to a.b. stoddard from real clear politics. a.b.?hing that republicans are agreeing upon these days is they have a brutal summer ahead as mike emanuel points out, before they leave nor the august recess, which is 31 legislative days from now with the time that take off each week that i have to raise the debt celling with a bipartisan vote that requires 60 votes in the senate. they hope with that bill to actually pair something else, the end of some she questing cuts. the president wants to increase military spending. in order to do so, they have to change by law the budget control act of 2011. that also has to be a bipartisan vote that they have to do with democrat s. this package they hope to get out of the door in 31 legislative days. they haven't done much of the tough stuff since january. this is a huge, heavy lift. they hope some time that the senate will get along to healthcare. that trick of reconciliation that senator lee was describing only lasts for the healthcare vote until september 30th. so they'll have to get that done

it is a lack of discipline and to a.b.'s point, lack of anyone who says at 10:00, let's shelf the phone and you will be up early the next day. let's shelf the phone and go to bed. there's no one reining him in. it is telling. and deeply damaging to him. >> david, if there is nobody reining him in or telling him no, there appears to be a problem from sean spicer's point of view with asking the president questions and getting real answers. so sean spicer goes to the podium with the press and he cannot confirm or comment on the questions that the press has about jared kushner and whether or not jared kushner tried to set up the back channel. why is sean spicer holding the press briefings? what is the point? >> there is really no point. what is unfortunate for sean spicer the white house press secretary position under president trump doesn't have credibility. i've been in this job. i had interactions with press secretaries. i have a certain amount of sympathy for sean spicer. he has to do what his boss wants him to do. his boss

a.b., the trip. saudi arabia and israel and v vatican and europe at the time when the president has a boiling sea an of problems here in the united states. the white house in turmoil. facing report after report after report. nevertheless, he has to do his job. the job is the united states leader overseas. how is he doing so far? >> i think he is doing great so far. he stuck to the script. the speech was well written yesterday. he will have all of the symbolism is actually really important making the middle east his first foreign trip instead of canada or mexico. a ambitious and high risk and high reward. if he gets through it without a bump, it will help him reset confidence. confidence in congress and him and confidence on the world stage. what is happening in israel is going to look great behind the harmony of the headlines. what comes next is a question. he faces a deadline to sign another waiver of preventing the move of the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. netanyahu is under a lot of politica

we have cnn hosts joining us michael smerconish and david gregory along with a.b. stoddard. great to have you here. david gregory, when you hear james clapper saying our institutions are under assault externally and internally, how significant is that statement? >> it is incredibly significant. this is someone at the entire intelligence community of the government which is meant to be independent. making a very serious indictment of the president for abusing his power by firing comey with a false pre-text and now demanding loyalty and recording him and threatening him over twitter. this is not how the system is supposed to work. this is not normal behavior. this is crisis that the public and government has to deal with. it exposes the heart of the usual yo issue. you have the president who feels the community is conspireing against him to deny him legitimate as i as president. it is ridiculous. it is leading to destructive behavior that has to be dealt with. whether anythings comes from the russia investigation, we know the election was hacked. you have the president thinkin

let's discuss eyebrow raising interviews with chris cillizza, a.b. stoddard and cnn political editor and "new york times" editor patrick healey. >> eyebrow raising, head scratching, insert your own adjective here in terms of what president trump's goal is in saying some of these things in these interviews. patrick, let me start with you. let's play it one more time. he talks about the andrew jackson story more tan once. okay. he likes talking about andrew jackson. he talked to celine, gave her this interview. listen. >> had andrew jackson been a little later, you wouldn't have had the civil war. he was a very tough person, but he had a big heart. and he was really angry that -- he saw what was happening with regard to the civil war. he said there's no reason for this. people don't realize, you know, the civil war -- >> yeah. >> think about it, why? people don't ask that question. why was there the civil war? why could that one not have been worked out. >> patrick, what's happening here? >> president trump has such an attachment to andrew jackson. his

mollie hemingway, a.b. stoddard, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. mollie, this has been focusing, swirling on capitol hill but to see the actual fisa court rebuke is pretty stunning. >> to learn that the obama administration was routinely violating the privacy protections americans, violating their fourth amendment rights is stunning. god bless them for digging into it because we have an entire media complex that supposedly cares about democracy dying in darkness and when this ruling came out they accepted the anodyne statements from intelligence agencies that the big news is they were going to stop doing some email collection program they'd been doing. these are the types of stories that need to be dug into aggressively by as many reporters to find out more about what these violations were, who was impacted, and what's being done to correct it. this was the kind of thing they had previously been warned about and they didn't fix it. they didn't change the oversight and this is something that can't continue. >> bret: this comes as there is a renewal

james, steve, a.b., and charles.ms, our resident historian, you mentioned the comparisons to watergate that are already being made by democrats, our colleague gregg jarrett in new york as a lawyer, rights, obstruction requires specific intent. if james comey concluded that president trump's language was vague, ambiguous, or elliptical, then he has no duty under the law to report it because it doesn't rise to the level of specific intent. perhaps that is why he did not tell mccabe it seems or rosenstein. the question is, if this is the case, then why is it rising to the level now? speak of "the new york times" story has a line into it to the affected details of this memo wp within a very tight circle of department of justice and fbi officials. that had to be a very tight circle indeed of andrew mccabe was not included in it. i want to close at one point about dreams comey and one one t about donald trump. james comey was formerly deputy attorney general and the bush-cheney first term. at a certain point, his boss, the

. >> shepard: let's bring in a.b. stoddard from realclearpolitics.com.f this is true, what is this? >> senator graham describes this as someone that came from the outside, doesn't understand these are checks and balances built into the structure of our government and an important part of his job where he's not allowed to ask these questions and make these demands of people about investigations. if he has nothing to hide, he's still making a big mistake. it's crossing a line and going way over a line to ask people to come out and publicly disavow or, you know, deny the existence of certain parts of an investigation, whether it's about collusion or not about collusion. so the president has shown whether there's collusion or not, whether there's any grounds from obstruction. i'm not a lawyer and i'm not going to get into that. a willingness to step over these lines. in the end, because these stories have been leaked to the press about comey, he requested loyalty from comey, made the requests of rogers and coats, it leads to a story line that ends with the f

let's get back to our discussion of that with our panel, a.b. stoddard and stephen dimon. was asking about that first question from the chairman of this committee, chairman burr who wondered about the firing of the fbi director. >> acting director mccabe said he's not going to get into detailing those discussions that the former director might have had with president trump. interestingly enough, across the senate, and the senate judiciary committee, you have the top democrat in the top republican who both had a meeting with director comey a week ago confirming or saying that after their talk with mr. comey, they got no information but the president was wrong. it's a bipartisan backing to the presidents for a pointed statement that he had been told he was not a subject of that investigation. it's probably right that the fbi clams up about this sort of stuff. obviously, the excessive talking of investigation as part of what helped sink director comey. the fact that mccabe is not talking about this is probably a good thing. both of those senators, both said they wished for mo

stephen hayes, a.b. stoddard, charles hurt, opinion editor for "the washington times," and steve hilton, former advisor to british prime minister david cameron. charlie, your thoughts. >> well, i am particularly struck by the stark differences between what "the new york times" is reporting and what the white house has said. it's a flat denial. i do think, as you pointed out, it's very important to remember we are talking about parts of a letter that were read over the phone to a reporter. we don't know the full, with the full letter is. it is not in that context but we don't know what jim comey walked away from that conversation thinking, and i do think it's very strange that you have a guy like jim comey who has made no, has had no problems interjecting himself publicly at the height of campaigns to say wait a minute. if he felt like trump had attempted to obstruct justice, i just have a hard time imagining that he wouldn't come out and publicly say we have a problem. one last point is that this letter

. >> we have maggie haber man, errol louis and a.b.eak for myself, a.b., and the russians, zero collusion. what do you think? >> this is the first time we've heard the president sort of sounding like he might be separating himself from people who worked on his campaign. a number of them are under investigation for connections to russians. roger stone, carter page, michael flynn and paul manafort. that's not one, two, that's four people. we know his son snuck into not the front entrance of trump tower during the investigation. you heard all along this was a witch hunt, but that's the first time we heard president trump sort of say i can speak for myself, and i think that was noted by everybody. >> so that goes a little bit to the substance of this, but how about that line before, maggie, to the politics of the situation? "i respect the move." no, he doesn't. and that's the problem, that -- i get that this could be a little scary, i get that they're talking to lawyers. but the politics of this were corrosive, largely generated by the pre

a.b., listen to this. >> but if he does withdraw, that would be a definitive statement by the presidenthat he believes climate change is a hoax. stay in the deal, make it a better deal would be my advice. >> and so if he pulls out, what does that mean to you? >> it means that the leader of the republican party is in a different spot than the rest of the world. it would be taken as a statement that climate change is not a problem, not real. that would be bad for the party, bad for the country. >> although during the campaign, you and i remember he repeatedly said if he's elected, he's out of that paris climate accord. >> well, there are a lot of republicans like senator graham hoping once the president put this cabinet in of very respected trusted people, that the "grown-ups" would persuade him to take a different tacts and change his mind on some of his campaign promises. this is obviously, it's not only the pentagon has seen this as a national security threat for years. it is a real -- really affects our place at the able diplomatically. that's why secretary of state tillerson was weig

stephen hayes, a.b. stoddard, charles hurt, opinion editor for "the washington times," and steve hilton, former advisor to british prime minister david cameron. charlie, your thoughts. >> well, i am particularly struck by the stark differences between what "the new york times" is reporting and what the white house has said. it's a flat denial. i do think, as you pointed out, it's very important to remember we are talking about parts of a letter that were read over the phone to a reporter. we don't know the full, with the full letter is. it is not in that context but we don't know what jim comey walked away from that conversation thinking, and i do think it's very strange that you have a guy like jim comey who has made no, has had no problems interjecting himself publicly at the height of campaigns to say wait a minute. if he felt like trump had attempted to obstruct justice, i just have a hard time imagining that he wouldn't come out and publicly say we have a problem. one last point is that this letter

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. >> a.b. is so much nicer than i am, feels sorry for the white house staff.reputation. some things you defend, policy choices you agree with and try to make a best case for it and they are showing incapable of talking sense to their boss. if you showed me -- god knows i wasn't a trump supporter, reince priebus, jared kushner and his daughter ivanka trump, mike pence, lay 48 hours and call him privately to see if he wants to resign, the obvious things to do if you're a staff to try to protect your boss. they are ignoring him or won't speak up to him. you have,! president who is reckless, irresponsible, not very prepared for the job, i would say and now the staff,ñrÑ some of whom would know bert, seem incapable of doing anything and unwilling to do much to stop him. >> one. strange optics of this firing of comey during this russia investigation was that president trump earlier today met with both the russian ambassador kislyak who has been a key player in all this talk of espionage and the like as well as the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov who was asked

. >>> and a.b. amro beat expectations with 650 million net euros in profits. it is targeting a return on equity of over 13%. >>> bouygues had a stronger performance in the telecom arm which helped reports. they said profits should continue to improve in 2017 driven by all business segments. do e-mail the show. we love seeing your e-mails. the address is streetsignseurope@cnbc.com. you can find us on twitter, streetsignseurope@cnbc and tweet me at @carolincnbc. >>> amazon set its sites on a lucrative new market, which you e. bbut which is the new industry it hopes to disrupt? we'll bring you the details when we're back. >>> welcome back to the show. asian markets are mostly trading lower following the political turmoil surrounding president trump. the safe haven yen continues to climb as risk-off sentiment hits the asian markets. let's look at the extent of the selloff with pauline in singapore. >> you hit all the right points here of what's driving the asian markets lower. the nifti is the only one in positive territory. it's the turmoil stateside in washingto

i think i resigned from columbia a.b. four years later because i didn't want to commute so much from washington. brian: and you are at johns hopkins still? mr. brzezinski: i'm connected with johns hopkins and i taught at johns hopkins, and i have the title of professor. but my primary base is the center for strategic and political debate. you married when? mr. brzezinski: i married in 1955 to a graduate of wellesley college. she is of czechoslovakian origin. we met at a harvard-wellesley knicks are -- harvard-wellesley mixer. a week after we met, she told her brother she was going to marry me. i did not learn that until about a year later. brian: what year did you marry? mr. brzezinski: 1955. three children. they are here and in new york. is a republican, and he served in the senate, spend some time in ukraine. volunteered for the military at one point and became a reserve officer. he was a deputy assistant secretary of defense under rumsfeld. is now at booz allen. a second son is a democrat, their active politically. cur

a.b.e as original people of the united states and our people, canada, alaska, maybe it is time to exercise our sovereignty and our self-determination and serve papers on this president, to deport him. to deport him from this country because the laws that he is representing are not the natural laws that we are taught as date of people, to have respect for the sacredness of water. that is why we're here. we are bringing frontline communities who are fighting to keep fossil fuels in the ground. that is part of our campaign. indigenous, itas for all people to come to the consciousness that we have to change a system. we have to move to a new reality. that reality is part of mother earth. amy: tom goldtoth from the indigenous environmental network , just as the people's climate march was about to begin. we will be back to the streets of washington, d.c. for this epic people's climate march. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "the lonely cry of space and time" by anna coogan. this is democracy n

bret: a.b., interesting the merrick garland thing, i brought it up again, orrin hatch came up with it and called the white house directly. he's obviously the supreme court nominee that president obama put forward and put on ice in what many argue got president trump elected, now mike lee signed on, mcconnell signed on. is this gaining traction here? >> it could, it's a possibility he gets bipartisan support there. will be a push by people like senator graham, who is on the judiciary committee, to appoint somebody from within, someone who understands the sense of upheaval. bret: the culture of the fbi? >> exactly how it works. and cannot be a household name. i think that's really going to be a push. so instead of someone from the outside coming in, having a learning curve, that someone who knows exactly what the cross currents have been in the last particularly couple of years, through comey, post comey. i have a feeling that is likely to be a pick that would get the most support at this point. bret: michael, one of the things that came up today was about the statement that president t

a.b. stoddard, special counsel. for the first time we saw republicans and democrats saying, you know, this is a good move, this is the right guy, let's figure it out. now that they're figuring out what it means they're like, what about me, what about my say in the investigation? and they're dealing with that. the president saying it's a witch hunt, that this is a bad move, what has that done with his standing with the men and women of his party? >> that's the problem, is this week we saw a shift after the memo was reported. it's what seems like years ago in the republicans' posture in terms of defending donald trump. they ran for the hills. they didn't want to talk, and when they did, they said this is really of grave concern. we're going to have to find out what's in that memo, we're going to have to subpoena the memo, we're going to have to hear from former fbi director comey. so that was the break. that was the breaking point. it was after many other things, the firing of comey, the lester holt interview where th

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ron brownstein, jeffrey toobin, tim o'brien, a.b. stoddard, david fun, phil mudd.u are going to get smarter, your iq will go up just from watching "new day" this morning. >> we can't get any smarter! we're all set. >> well, right. not you guys. >> and i just heard john berman's there, so you have the bermanator! that is something. >> can you believe this show? >> speaking of raising the intelligence bar, yes. >> that says nothing about chris cuomo being on vacation. you're going to get smarter because chris cuomo's on vacation. >> those were your words, not ours. we didn't say that. didn't say that out loud. >> i'm sure you're not going to be in big, big trouble christine. >> all right. nice to see you guys. >> thanks, guys. see you in a bit. >> and the breaking news there is it is friday. it is friday at "new day" and "early start." first it was volkswagen and fiat chrysler, now another cheater on diesel emissions. that's "cnn money stream" next. finding time to get things done isn't easy. but we've got the digital tools to help. now with xfinity's my account, you

. >> unfortunately a.b. had to turn around a little bit earlier.ld it down. >> only cory made it to the top. with just 1,200 feet to go, his dream fell short. >> nothing was working right. i wasn't eating well, dehydrated, and i was cold. >> the paper expects to climb the summit together and share it with thousands atop of world. >> a reminder thattet's worth it, that all values are in the right place, we do it for the right reason and we do it. >> last year he spent juftz three minutes but his cell phone battery died, if you remember. this time they plan on bringing extra power so their snapchat foul others good news, nine sherpas laid down equipment. >> they looked really great and healthy at that point. >> we hope it for that reason too. they thought it might be a problem for his life and his partner. you sacramento ta slin. you want to see him a chime this. >> yes. >> next we'll look alt what mattered this >>> well, that does it for us. as we leave you, let's take a look back at all that matter this week. and happy mother's day to all those mot