my guests today, marco rubio and angus king. after a shooting at a republican baseball practice, both parties say it time to tone things down but how long will that sentiment actually last? we will take a look at why tuesday's special election in georgia is the biggest political test yet for this young trump presidency. it's all coming up on "meet the press." >> "meet the press" starts in a few right here on nbc10 at 10:30. >>> let's look at some of the stories making headlines today. overseas a defense official tells nbc news the investigators found the missing sailors in the flooded compartments on the "uss fitzgerald." three other crew members including the commanding officer were injured. an investigation into the collision is now under way. >>> we have an update about representative steve scalise shot at the congressional baseball practice this week. he underwent under surgery yesterday and his condition has been upgraded from critical to serious so he's improving. four others were injured in the shooting on wednesday, and

>> that was angus king asking jeff sessions.g me now from his home state of maine, senator king, welcome back to the show, sir. >> thank you, your colleague, i asked him, i asked him to react to that answer that the attorney general gave to you, and while he acknowledged that might be stunning or surprising to some that the attorney general did not get briefed, that it was a catch 22, and that if he were, he would have been rescuesed and -- >> i don't think so, i don't think he recused himself until some time in march. we're talking about when he was a senior foreign policy advisor. from january to february. the narrow engagement in the election and not digging into it. i believe it is one of the most serious ataxes on our country that we have had in years. mr. comey said he had nine interactions with him before he was fired. in none of those did he say what did they do, how do we know they did it, and what can we do about it. this is serious stuff, and it is on securing what i believe is the under lying story. >> do you believe

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joining us now senator angus king ever maine. he's an independent of the intelligence and armed services committees. we've got lots to discuss. senator, thanks for joining us. >> thank you, would have. >> we just heard from the senate majority republican leader mitch mcconnell. when he emerged from the white house, he was passionate at the very end of the q. and a. with reporters. what happens if the republicans fail to pass legislation, can you then go to the democrats and work on a compromise to fix obamacare, to improve it? he basically said no, he said because the democrats, they don't want any reforms of the market. they don't want any reforms of medicaid. what's the point? now, you're an independent. you caucus with the democrats. what's your response to the majority leader there? there's really no need or no opportunity to come up with a compromise with democrats? >> well, with the majority leader, i just don't think that's true. i've been meeting with a group of members of the democratic caucus for about three years tryin

and when angus king, i think this is what we're going to remember today is dan coats saying angus king, i'm not sure i have a legal basis for the fact that i'm not going to tell you what occurred. >> why aren't you sure. >> it's as if they just went up there today and said you know, i don't feel like it. >> let me play that exchange involving dan coats. watch this. >>> when i was asked yesterday to respond to a piece that i was told was going to be written and printed in the "washington post" this morning, my response to that was in my time of service which is interacting with the president of the united states or anybody in his administration, i have never been pressured. i have never felt pressure to intervenor interfere in any way and with shaping intelligence in a political way or in relationship to an ongoing investigation. >> you can clear up an awful lot up by saying it never happened. >> i do not share with the general public conversations that i had with the president or many of my colleagues within the administration that i believe are should not be shared. >> i'm not satisfi

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>> maine senator angus king at a hearing on the foreign intelligence surveillance act. >> i'll ask both are you the same question, why are you answering these questions? is there an indication by the president of executive privilege, is there or not? >> not that i'm aware. >> and was not answered? >> i feel it is inappropriate. >> what you feel isn't relevant, admiral. >> and changes to the dodd-frank act. >> and today, today we released a report titled was the cop on the beat? this is regarding the cfpb's wholly inadequate role in investigating the wells fargo fraudulent account scandal. we have received numerous records from both wells fargo and the occ and others that indicate that the cfpb was asleep at the wheel. >> c-span programs are available at c-span.org, on our homepage and by searching the video library. >> the senate gavels and today at 4 p.m. eastern, in about ten minutes, to continue debate on moving forward on sanctions against people and companies that help iran develop a ballistic missile. senators to vote on president trump's picked to be assistant secretary of defens

manes of angus king on the foreign intelligence surveillance act. >> why are you not answering these questions? is there an indication by the president of the united states of executive village? >> not that i am aware of. i feel it is inappropriate. >> what you feel is best released a report the beat? the cop on this is regarding the wholly inadequate role in investigating the wells fargo fraudulent accounts scandal. we have received numerous records from both wells fargo and others that indicate the cs bb was -- cf pb was asleep at the wheel. >> these are available at c-span.org our homepage and by searching the video library. >> monday night on the communicators -- >> i decided it was a column in andpioning average people, in challenging the companies, the industry to serve those people. >> the first of a two-part conversation with one of the nation's best-known technology watchers. he shares the best technology gadgets he has seen over the years and his productions of tech development. >> i believe we will see in the next five to 10 years a big first of new stuff. virtual reality,

angus king and marco rubio will be among chuck todd's guests. >>> cuba's government is reacting to president trump's new restrictions on travel and business in that country. in a statement, the government called it a backwards step and said the decision favors the political interest of cuban americans in florida, from havana, meanwhile, gabe gutierrez looks at the impact of the new travel restrictions. >> reporter: newly opened, this is the first five star hotel in havana, banking on u.s. twraflers, now it will be off limits to them. >> it's going to be a great day for cuba. >> president trump makes it harder for most americans to visit the communist island. colin just changed reservations for travel groups. the cuban armed forces control more than 60% of the economy. including a hotel chain, which is 26,000 rooms. >> i assume what the treasury department will do is issue a list of companies within the tourism sector that you're not allowed to do business with. >> the trump administration will also clamp down on people to people exchanges, forcing americans to come with tour groups, not alon

here is angus king. >> how are you preparing for tomorrow's hearing? >> basically reviewing the to prior hearings, discussing these issues and doing all the reading i can and trying to think of the questions. i will not be questioning until fourth or fifth down the list. a lot of what i will do will be filling in on the questions that have not been offered. >> what do you think you will get to? >> you have to wait until tomorrow to think -- to see that. host: that was senator angus king on capitol hill. he will get his turn later in the hearing. it will begin with opening statements of the chair and vice chair and then mr. comey, we will hear from him and he will be reading the words he put out yesterday. openingges, his statement, detailing conversations, and one-on-one meetings he had with the president. in baltimore, maryland, independent caller. good morning and what do you think? caller: i think we're watching and attempted coup to unseat a duly elected president of the united states. and the news media. i think this is just that. ever since this

senator angus king, thank you very much. >> he brings up a great point.ine. so barack obama had his red line. >> not just for syria. >> now donald trump has drawn a red line. if asaad does something, he has to act. >> it doesn't look like a lot of people were prepared for the statement. i think that's problematic. coming up a number of democrats are taking the obama administration to task for not doing enough against russia after the 2016 election. we'll ask congressman jim hines how he would punish moscow. he joins us just ahead. ♪ this is a story about mail and packages. and it's also a story about people. people who rely on us every day to deliver their dreams they're handing us more than mail they're handing us their business and while we make more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget... that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you ♪ so when i need to book a hotel to me tharoom,vacation. i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it, with grea

verbatim from the testimony, angus king, "the president responded no no, next question. is that an accurate statement? comey: i don't believe it is." it is the direct opposite of what spakovksy stated. thatd, spakovsky stated comey conclusively closed about whether trump colluded. let's look at the underlying issue, russia's backing of the e-mails and releasing them, and the allegations of collusion. do you believe donald trump colluded with russia? : that is a question i don't think i should answer in an open setting. that is a question that will be answered by the investigation." who some mayy, know from his so-called voter fraud investigations, made 2 completely false statements. our urge viewers to google "comey testimony." you can find it verbatim -- host: the whole hearings on our website. you some like you are a lawyer. caller: these are lies. host: from this cover story on "time" magazine out this week, " how the d.c. outburst became a deal makers paradise for diplomats, lobbyists, and insiders." "l.a. times" reporting about attorney general jeff sessions testify

joining me now is senator angus king, he serves on the intelligence committee. obviously a lot of focus on paris, especially so soon after what happened in london and manchester. these attacks on soft targets, different types of weapons, we don't know it is counter-terror or not, but that is the focus of the investigation by police. >> ken it a a few minutes ago. these are the attacks that give everyone nightmares. there is no plot, nothing to intercept, you have 20 people involved and you can talk about e-mails and that sort of thing. this appears to be a lone wolf attack where someone is self radicalized. we don't know anything about the attacker or what his motivations were. he was maybe a refugee out of syria, and he was angry from the french involvement. it is impossible to know motivation, it is very hard to prevent something like this in a free society. the only way to be fully secure is to lock everybody down and i don't think any of us want to live in north korea. >> onef the issues erging in the k. is that the prime minister is the home secretary and i

it was an interesting exchange with the senator from maine, angus king, the famous line about thomas beckett, who will rid me of this meddlesome previous. you don't tell someone but you know you send the message. there is also the point where there is the clearest conflict between comey and trump. >> because the president has denied -- >> trump gsdsaid i didn't make sort of order. so i think that remains the most important point of conflict. and the other point i think dana alluded to this, but i think it's very important, is there was a -- in the letter that trump wrote firing comey, he said three times you told me that i was not under investigation and that was in may. well, here we know in june donald trump is under criminal investigation, and that's a big deal and that's important. >> jim acosta. >> he's a mart guy too. i just want to focus on what we learned about the various investigations under way from comey today. one, as john king said earlier, that the flynn hope comment is clearly under investigation now. comey said as much. comey said it was immediately of investigative

angus king outlines the other key question. >> what role did he play if any again in the comey firingto be recused from this investigation, have nothing to do with it. and to the extent the comey firing had something to do with the investigation, i think % that's an area that we need to explore. >> reporter: sessions may also get asked if the president really does have a recording system in the oval office as mr. trump suggested in a tweet last month but refused to confirm again today. >> mr. president, are their tapes of you and jim comey in the oval office? >> reporter: his press secretary was no more forthcoming. >> what is he waiting for? what's the delay? >> he's not waiting for anything. when he's ready to further discuss it, he wil >> reporter: the secret service discussed it this afternoon revealing that it is unaware of any recording devices in the oval office. spicer declined to comment on that new information saying only that the president will weigh in at some point in the future. >> nancy cordes on capitol hill. you can watch the attorney general's testimony right here on

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number one -- and i don't think this number one will be directly confrontation but it's angus king. both the hearing with director of national intelligence dan coats as well as with james comey really able to elicit responses that made the ball move. >> listen to this exchange that senator angus king had with admiral mike rogers last week on the whole issue of executive privilege. >> right. >> why are you not answering these questions? is there an invocation by the president of the united states of executive privilege? is there or not? >> not that i'm aware of. >> then why are you not answering my questions. >> because i feel it's inappropriate. >> what you feel is not relevant, admiral. >> strong words. >> yes. but he's right. executive privilege is something that only the president can invoke. it's not called admiral privilege or attorney general privilege. if jeff sessions does today what mike rogers tried to do there and say under executive privilege or my conversations with the president are privileged, then it will be asked, did the president ask you to invoke executive privil

we have angus king joining us. we expect he won't be easy. why? here's a taste. >> why are you not answering the question. what you feel is not relevant, admiral. what you feel is not the answer. why are you not answering the questions? is it an invocation of executive privilege? k for you. the ultrasound that can see inside patients, can also detect early signs of corrosion at our refineries. high-tech military cameras that see through walls, can inspect our pipelines to prevent leaks. remote-controlled aircraft, can help us identify potential problems and stop them in their tracks. at bp, safety is never being satisfied. and always working to be better. yet up 90% fall short in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more. add one a day 50+ a complete multi-vitamin with 100% daily value of more than 15 key nutrients. one a day 50+. >> in two hours, all eyes will be on this hearing room inside the u.s. capital, this testimony certainly anticipated before the senate intelligence committee in a way we haven't seen in a long time. joining us

angus king/i-maine> "did you, in any way, initiate that dinner?" "no."he testified that the president lied about the reason for his firing. "the administration then chose to defame me and, more importantly, the fbi by saying that the organization was in disarray, that it was poorly led."as for the real reason... "it's my judgment that i was fired because of the russia investigation. the ex-fbi director said one meeting in february stands out. "general flynn at that time was legal jeardy, there was an open fbi criminal investigationcomey says that didn't' stop the president from making a bold request... pushing him to drop the investigation into ties between russia and his former national security advisor. "i took it as a direction. he's the president of the united states, with me alone, saying i hope this, i took it as this is what he wants me to do. "

>> well, what's interesting about this one -- and it was angus king who made the point.re not saying that this is claified, theu have no grnds on wch not to answer the questions we're posing to you. and i think that was very compelling when he made that particular statement. under closed session, they always are forthcoming. they're a little less forthcoming in an open hearing. but, again, they weren't being asked questions about classified material, and that's why it was very frustrating for everyone. they should have been able to answer those questions. >> the point about angus king is well taken. not just classified but he specifically says, look, are you invoking executive privilege to keep these sort of conversations out of our purview. i want to play that exchange because it illuminates what you just said. >> is there an invocation by the president of the united states of executive privilege? is there or not? >> not that i'm aware of. >> then why aren't you answering my question? mr. coats, same series of questions. what's your basis for refusal to answer these que

this is independent senator angus king of maine grilling sessions about his refusal to answer questions. >> what is the legal basis for your refusal to answer these questions? >> of protecting the right of the president to assert it if you chooses, and are maybe ever privileges -- other privileges that could apply the circumstance. >> the president can't not assert it and you have testified that only the president can assert it and yet i just don't understand the legal basis for your refusal to answer. >> it would be premature for me to deny the president a full and intelligent choice about exec a privilege. amy: attorney general jeff sessions testifying to the senate intelligence committee tuesday. kamala harris was interrupted by john mccain of arizona as she interviewed sessions also interrupted last week when she was interviewing rod rosenstein, leading many to charge them with sexism. the senate is slated to vote today on whether to impose a series of new sanctions against russia over the alleged interference in the 2016 election. we'll have more on jeff sessions' testimony after h

. >> after that, senator angus king of maine challenged their refusal to answer questions about conversationswith the president. >> so then i'll ask both of you the same question. why are you not answering these questions? is there an invocation by the president of the united states of executive privilege? is there or not? >> not that i'm aware of. >> then why are now not -- >> because i feel it isn't relevant. >> what you feel isn't relevant, admiral. what you feel isn't the answer. why are you not answering the questions? is it an invocation of executive privilege? if there is, let's know about it. if there isn't, answer the questions. >> i stand by the comments i made. i'm not interested in repeating myself, sir. and i don't mean that in a contentious way. >> well, i do mean it in a contentious way. i don't understand why you're not answering our questions. you can't -- when you were confirmed before the armed services committee, you took an oath. do you solemnly swear to give the committee the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you do. >> i do. and i've also answered

>> that was angus king asking jeff sessions. ing me now from his home state of maine, senator king, welcome back to the show, sir. >> thank you, your colleague, i asked him, i asked him to react to that answer that the attorney general gave to you, and while he acknowledged that might be stunning or surprising to some that the attorney general did not get briefed, that it was a catch 22, and that if he were, he would have been rescuesed and -- >> i . >> i don't think so, and we're talking about a period where he was a senior foreign policy in the election through the transition through january into february. i can't imagine coming into office with this fact of this russian engagement in our election and not digging into it. i lie it's one of the most serious attacks we've had on our country in recent years and the president doesn't seem interested in it, either that mr. comey testify in interactions with him before he was fired in none of those did the president say what did the russians do? how did they do it? can we do about it

senator angus king, independent from maine. i want to play the key moments of his questioning today. >> with regard to several of these conversations, in his interview with lester holt on nbc, the president said, i had dinner with him. he wanted to have dinner because he wanted to stay on. is this an accurate statement? >> no, sir. >> did you in any way initiate that dinner? >> no. he called me at my desk at lunchtime and asked me was i free for dinner that night. called himself and said, can you come over for dinner tonight. >> and then he said in one case i called him and in one case he called me. is that an accurate statement? >> no. >> in his press conference on may 18th, the president was asked whether he urged you to shut down the investigation into michael flynn. the president responded quote no, no, next question. is that an accurate statement? >> i don't believe it is. >> in terms of this is comments to you about -- in response to mr. reich, senator reich, he said, i hope you will hold back on that. when the president

and angus king was clearly frustrated because he said your answers aren't good enough for me. and the chairman of the committee chairman burr at the very end admonished them and said at no time should you appear before congress without an answer to our questions. i mean, this is their job. and they were saying well, this is mueller's investigation, it's not appropriate. and they were just saying it's our opinion that it's not appropriate. therefore, we're not going to answer. >> is there any other conclusion that they both made a judgment, dan coats appointed by the president, admiral rogers inherited about the president that they both made the judgment they were not going to embarrass the president because something was discussed. we don't know what. this they said they were not pressured. they did not say there was no such conversation. they could have said this never came up with the president. >> if it never happened, you bet they would have said it never happened. this was stonewalling. there's no other way to say it. they were stonewalling. frustration was bubbling over

republican senator marco rubio, and senator angus king.

dayaintenance or angus king -- maine senator angus king. >> why are you not answering these questions? is there an invocation of executive privilege? inappropriate. >> what you feel, is it relevant, admiral. >> and, changes to the dodd-frank act. >> and today we released a was the cop on the beat? this is regarding the wholly inadequate role in investigating the wells fargo fraudulent account scandal. see numerous records from both wells fargo and the occ and others that indicate that the cf bb was asleep at the wheel. >> c-span programs are available , on her-span.org homepage, and by searching the video library. night, on the communicators -- >> i decided there was a column in championing averages -- average people who never wanted to be techies, and in challenging the companies, the those people.rve >> the first of a two-part conversation with one of the nation's best-known technology watchers, and issues he seen over his career and his addictions of some tech developments. >> i believe are brought to see in the next 5-10 years of the burst of new stuff, virtual reality, artificial

joining me from capitol hill first is senator angus king of maine, who is a member of the committee. senator king, thank you very much for joining us. you had a ringside seat to what has been called, you know, an event of great drama of great consequence. how did you see it? >> well, i think the important thing, charlie, is some what obscured by all the attention to whether or not there was some kind of cooperation between the trump campaign or what did the president say to mr. comey. to me, we can't lose sight of the fact that we're talking about a direct attack on american democracy by the russians. a very big deal and a very important one because it is not over. there is no reason to expect that they're not going to be back trying to interfere in our elections in 2018 and 2020. so that's why a series of the questions this morning at the beginning of the hearing from chairman burr and others were to establish that this is important and there's to doubt that it happened. i think-- i love director kemy's phrase there is no fuzz on this question. we know that the russians did it. we kn

. >> maine senator angus king at a hearing on the foreign intelligence surveillance act. >> i will ask about the same question, why are you not answering these questions? is there an invocation by the president of executive privilege? >> not that i am aware of. >> why are do not answering? >> i do not feel it is relevant. >> and all of her changes to the dodd frank act. >> we released a this is regarding the wholly inadequate role in investing in the wells fargo fraudulent account scandal. we have received numerous records from both wells fargo and others that indicate that eb was asleep at the wheel. available onos are c-span.org on our homepage, or by visiting our video library. >> washington journal continues. >> joining us now, we have arelell burnett -- da rn

this is angus king asking director coates and nsa director rogers what was their legal basis for not answering the committee's questions. >> so what is the basis for your refusal to answer these questions today? i the basis is what previously explained. i do not believe it is appropriate for me -- >> i am not satisfied with i do not believe it is appropriate or i do not feel i should answer. i want to understand the legal basis to reduce worthy of to tell us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and today you are refusing to do so. what is the legal basis for your refusal to testify to this committee? >> i am not sure i have a legal basis, but i am more than willing to sit before this during thisd investigative process in a closed session and answer your question. >> we will have a closed session in a few hours. will you answer my questions in a direct and unencumbered way? involvedlosed sessions staff going over the technicalities of another -- a number of these issues and is not involved us -- >> but if you meet with a committee in the closed session will you answe