frank figliuzzi, and with us at the table jonathan lemire associated press white house reporter and evan mcmullen, former cia operative and former candidate for president as an independent. >>> the rally, even his friends describe that version of donald trump as slightly pathetic, as someone who is so desperate for attention, so desperate for the cheers and hoots and hollers from the crowd that he puts on a show that really isn't even remotely close to anything presidential. >> yeah, there is a show on comedy central where a guy makes an entire show of impersonating donald trump. that was like president trump impersonating himself. i've done dozens and dozens of these rallies. i was surprised by the me too moment, elizabeth warren, to make a joke about something that is obviously been a ground swell in the last year or so for a lot of people and has meant a lot of

number of prisoners have been tortured and sexually abused by soldiers witnesses showed the associated press news agency drawings smuggled out of prisons last month they show threats and beatings over him qatari is a yemen analyst based in new york he says there's plenty of evidence around of torture being systematically used in emma rotty run prisons in yemen. the torture by the us united arab emirates forces in yemen and their kidnapping of detainees and sexual abuse has been well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there will there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program not only that i think that is an obligation right now toward the yemeni government there is a moral legal and ethical

being well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there will there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program not only that i think there is an obligation right now toward the yemeni government there is a moral legal and ethical obligation application that the yemeni government should and the brandons of the united arab emirates and yemen given the these kind of crime the a lot of violations that committed by these forces in yemen so it is time to end their bread and yemen but asia's former prime minister is expected to be charged on wednesday over the disappearance of billions of dollars from the state fund while he was in office. because due to appear in court after being arrested by anti corrup

says a number of prisoners have been tortured and sexually abused witnesses provided the associated press news agency with drawings modeled out of the prisons last month they describe threats and things for him called to be yemen based in yemen analysts rather based in new york he says there's plenty of evidence around of torture being systematically used in amorality run prisons in yemen the torture by the u.s. united arab emirates forces in yemen and their kidnapping of detainees and sexual abuse has been well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there were there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program not only that i think there is an obligation right now toward the yemeni government t

been well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there were there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program not only that i think there is an obligation right now toward the yemeni government there is a moral legal and ethical obligation application that the yemeni government should and the brazilians of the united arab emirates and yemen given the these kind of crime the a lot of violations are committed by these forces in yemen so it is time to end their brothers and yemen malaysia's former prime minister najib razak has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges over the disappearance of billions of dollars from a state fund while he was in office nigeria's facing three counts of criminal breac

according to the associated press, republican senator rand paul has told colleagues he may not vote foravanaugh if he is nominated. a person familiar with the says he cited kavanaugh's role during the bush administration on cases involving executive privilege and exposure of documents to congress. meanwhile, senator susan collins said she won't support any supreme court pick who demonstrates any hostility towards roe v. wade. she said she talked to the white house counsel about some of the potential scotus nominees. >> i have done a lot of work on the list, and i have told the white house counsel, individuals that to me appear to meet the criteria of accepting that roe v. wade is settled law and who have extraordinarily good background. >> the trump administration is set to escalate its trade battles, even as the effects are beginning to be felt by americans. the administration is expected to impose $34 billion worth of tariffs on chinese goods. beijing has vowed to take equal measures. president trump promised if china retaliates the u.s. will impose even more tariffs, perhaps worth up

this according to the associated press.% over the calendar year-ending june 30th. that's according to analysis of white house filings. according to the most recent numbers, 141 staffers that worked for the president at that point last year are gone with 138 new arrivals. however, the figures don't include those who arrived and departed throughout the year. you may recall short-lived communications director anthony scaramucci or even those who departed before june 30th of 2017. also, some 61% of trump's senior-most aides have left the white house. only the bill clinton's 42% comes close for the last five administrations. incredible numbers there. >>> all right. so two of scott pruitt's aides reportedly provided congressional investigators with new details about the epa administrators controversial spending and management decision. according to "the washington post" the house oversight and government reform committed con tukted interviews last week. the post says the conversations shed fresh light on pruitt's willingness to u

. >> associated press, over there? yeah? yeah, thanks. >> secretary general lauren cook from the associated press. a question on iraq, please? you mentioned several hundred trainers. could you just flesh that out a little more? what -- how ambitious you can be in iraq, given the circumstances politically and otherwise. canada said that they are prepared to send up to 250 troops to take part with trainers. is that -- is that kind of the ceiling? is that the limit we're at? and isn't this kind of mission more what burden sharing should be about, rather than the money and investing in the defense industry? >> burden sharing is about spending. it's about contributions, it's about capabilities. so we speak about the three cs, cash, contributions, and capabilities. and of course, the cash money has to be put into good work. for instance, investing in new capabilities or financing contributions like training missions in iraq. the importance of the training mission in iraq is that we strongly believe that prevention is better than i

the associated press is reporting that th army is recruits.ation attorneys say in more than 40 minutes and women who enlisted through a special recruitment program have been kicked out of thethe program al with legal status to enlist and earn citizenship after receiving an honorable service designation. a pentagon spokesperson told the a.p. they couldn't explain the discharges because of pending litigation. >> the deepening mystery behind the poisoning of a british couple. and of course it's the really tough stains that nobody ever does ready? really? i didn't do it so when i heard they added ultra oxi to the cleaning power of tide, i knew it was just what we needed so now we can undo all the tough stains that nobody did dad? i didn't do it huh, he didn't do it introducing new tide ultra oxi; it's got to be tide ♪ ♪ the best way to get together is with a treat you make together. ♪ ♪ another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair works in just one week. with the fastest retinol formula to visibl

when i was working at associated dress, i was -- associated press, i was a photo editor. we saw everything. that you find out some people are not allowed to shoot some stuff. i'm getting a phone call saying, now you're telling me where to put my cameras up to our eyes. excuse me? they're telling you what? >they are telling us to leave or cameras on the ground until we can put them up. keep talking, negotiate. what do i do? i said if you take a picture, i'll be happy. to take a picture no matter what. well, ok. people to actors anyway. it started a fight between press handlers, everybody. people from the press office trying to tell people when to be creative. you know that ain't right. [laughter] >> one last question to the far right in the front. >> thank you very much. i was very interested in the photo that eric, you took with president bush and resident elect obama with the remote control, and i was curious what the rules of the game are with a that, if any -- with that, if any. can you shoot remote anywhere? it's one thing you are in the room if they know you are in t

. >> we have and gear and of the washington post, and lisa mascaro, from the associated press, chief congressional correspondent. anne will go first. >> i wanted to ask you a little bit of what seemed to be a pretty consequential week in foreign policy news, in general, but particularly on the question of russia and the u.s. relationship with russia going forward.

sexually abused by soldiers from the united arab emirates comes after witnesses provided the associated press with drawings smuggled out of iran to run prisons in yemen last month the pictures describe a system of sexual torture and abuse the u.n. says it's requested access to the prisons but has not yet been allowed in every in qatar b. is a yemen analyst based in new york he says there's plenty of evidence around of torture being systematically used in run prisons in yemen. the torture by the us united arab emirates forces in yemen and their kidnapping of detainees and sexual abuse has been well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there will there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program no

been well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there were there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program not only that i think there is an obligation right now toward the yemeni government there is a moral legal and ethical obligation application that the yemeni government should and the bresson's of the united arab emirates and yemen given the this kind of crime a lot of violations are committed by these forces in yemen so it is time to end their bread and yemen some yemenis fleeing the war are starting new lives in ethiopia officially fifteen hundred have moved there the number could be as high as four thousand one hundred out of some of them in the capital addis ababa. this is sort of buck

it was a question from a associated press reporter jonathan lemir, please listen to this. >> does the president have any compromising materials on president trump and his family. >> i did hear the rumor that we collected compromised materials of mr. trump when he visited moscow. eck tell y i can tell you this. when president trump was in moscow, i did not know he was in moscow. i treated mr. trump with the utmost respect. when he was a businessman, nobody informed me that he was in moscow. well, please, just disregard this and don't think about this anymore again. >> jonathan lemir, white house reporter for the associated press. msnbc's analyst to join me now. jonathan, take me inside the room, were you surprised by that answer? >> it was certainly one in the history book after president trump decided to say that he sided with u.s. intelligence and their finding and russia was responsible for the 2016 -- that in itself is already a moment in the room, it was sort of electric. and there at the end as you know there is unsubstantial -- of the dossier something to be true and something i

when i first started looking into this a few years ago i had seen some wire reports from the "associated press" from upi and it was widely reported but didn't realize the accident until i got ahold of the camden paper and newspapers in philadelphia and some new york ones, but because "the new york times" didn't volunteer order, i it didn't last to the same degree but there was a lot of coverage, and that's an interesting side point, too because the media coverage of a girl who has been kidnapped and sexually abused and recovered, it was alternately very very thoughtle and also weirdly sexist, descriptions of of her being plump and chunky and this is irrelevant and yet this is how such stories were done in 1950. so, that was also sort of a fascinating byproduct. the thing with writing the become, got me in a lot of different reporting tangents and research tan generals because trying to juggle sally horner's story and the writing of "low low feet to" and the other significant moments, challenge and also incredibly rewarding to stitch it together in this mosaic. >> why do you call sally horner t

identified those behind the poisoning of the script informed wild speculation on thursday the press association news agency citing their source close to the probe claim the perpetrators have been found. the media. police investigating this particular incident back in march believe that they do have the identity of two suspects press association says police believe they have identified those who carried out the novel chocolate sark in salzburg police in britain are reported to have identified several people they believe were behind the nerve agent attack on the former russian spies paul and his daughter yulia the media frenzy was sparked by just one tweet from a news agency cited a source claiming u.k. police have identified the suspect behind the screwball poisoning as more a source with knowledge of the probe told press association investigators believe they have a dent to fight the suspected perpetrators behind the novacek attack on the script . well this is all allegedly come from a source close to the police investigation into the original attack against the script powells back in march and

looks into the story a source with knowledge of the probe told press association investigators believe they have a dental fied the suspected perpetrators behind the novacek attack on the script files. well this is all allegedly come from a source close to the police investigation into the original attack against the script powells back in march and this source has spoken to the press association they're the ones reporting it and they've said that investigators are apparently closing in on the suspected perpetrators of the attack and the police have allegedly been looking at c.c.t.v. footage and they've been examining it and also looking at records of people who had entered and left the country around the time of the attack against the script piles in march because the bomb shell really in all these reports that is that these suspects are allegedly russian it is important to note that these are unconfirmed reports as yet so far it's just come from this one article by the press association but it's done the rounds and it's pretty big headline news here in the u.k. even though we haven't

he writes, quote, a meeting last year where associated press reporters discussed with federal officials the news outlet's investigation of paul manafort's finances may have led the fbi to a storage locker the bureau raided. a lot to talk about. the panel is standing by, but first we want to get more on the aforementioned -- from the aforementioned michael schmidt, pulitzer prize-winning correspondent for "the new york times." he is with us by telephone. michael, talk us through an eight-day period. what was happening in the turnaround from the comey firing to the mueller hiring? >> so donald trump wanted to send a letter to james comey about why he was firing him, but the white house counsel did not think that was a good idea. so he brought the attorney general and the deputy attorney general over to the white house to talk about this, and rosenstein agreed to write a memo about the firing. that memo was later used by the white house as the basis, the explanation for why the president was firing comey. the interesting thing about the letter, though, was that it was about how comey had b

i was also a photographer of the associated press for eight years covering every store you can think of, from campaigns to sports. and the 2000 campaign rolls around. basically it began as an assignment. i was the last one to get the assignment. you're covering texas governor george w. bush. said, okay, let's do it. but actually, my desire to pursue the white house didn't really start until after the election. you might remember the recount? yeah. i blame everything on the recount. because if the election was decided that night, i don't think i would have ever earneded up in the white house because during the recount is when i decided to pursue the position. the more i discovered, the more i realized i actually had a shot at it. they say timing is everything? so all the planets were aligned, all the signs were green and i had the opportunity to ask president-elect bush for the job. i discovered i was invited to a christmas party in austin, texas. i said, okay, i need to make my direct pitch for the job. so what i did was, at the party, my wife was there and she was coaching me on the

lawrence served his career wo working joining the associated press in 2000.e transferred to the ep bureau in washington in 2002 where he covered capitol hill, the white house and major sports team. in march 2009 he became an official white house photographer under the obama administration where he stayed until january 2017. in march 2017 he started his freelance photography business covering editorial, corporate and portrait photography. [ applause ] so we have a lot of photos. but before we get to those, i wanted to ask a general question to the panelists. and in your bios, it says when you became white house photographers, but i'm curious and i'm sure the audience is curious to know how you became white house photographers. if you could talk a little bit about how you got to that position. >> you mean what we ate and drank? >> sharon, if you don't mind starting? >> my parents always had a camera in the house. we got clean to go to church it was a miracle for me because staying are neat a long time was not my thing. and i'd rather play music. i played clarin

where it says a number of prisoners were tortured and abused by soldiers witnesses show the associated press news agency drawings smuggled out of the prisons last month they show threats and beatings abraham qatari is a yemen analyst based in new york he says there's plenty of evidence around of torture being systematically used in an iraqi run prisons in yemen. the torture by the u.s. united arab emirates forces in yemen and their kidnapping of detainees and sexual abuse has been well documented by a number of international human rights organizations as well as the associated press so this there will there is strong evidence and clear evidence that the u.a.e. has been committed crimes against yemenis run in secret detention kidnapping people and people who you know oppose their policies in yemen and bringing them to secret detention torture and them sexually abusing them committing all kind of violence against yemenis and so this is this is the time to end that kind of program not only that i think that is an obligation right now toward the yemeni government there is a moral legal and ethic

saying it's the press association. and they're quoting an unnamed police source as saying that the police have as you say identified a number of suspects they believe them to be russian involved in the poisoning with nabil chalk nerve agent of surrogate scribal and his daughter use they've done this according to reports after painstaking work involving hundreds of officers scanning thousands of hours of c.c.t.v. footage from the scene in salzburg where the pair were discovered also from their home and areas around where they may have travelled before the poisoning took place and they've cross referenced those images with c.c.t.v. taken at airports they've also looked at passenger manifests on flights and they seem to have drawn some connections suggesting that if they're not russian these people at least arrived in the country from russia as you said security minister has dismissed.

distorter you earlier this year the source with knowledge of the probe told press association investigators believe they have identified the suspected perpetrators behind the attack on the script. so let's go live now to. the big development here in the investigation at least according to this unnamed source what exactly has been revealed so far. well yeah this all comes from one source close to the police investigation into the original script poisoning back in march and this anonymous source has told the press association that investigators are closing in on the suspected perpetrators of the attack apparently they've been examining c.c.t.v. footage and they've cross checked it with the red cords of people who had come in to and left the country around the time of the attack against the script back in march because the bombshell in these reports really is that apparently police investigators are positive that the perpetrators of the attack were russian it's important to note that these are unconfirmed reports as yet so far it's just come from this one report by the associated press but nat

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this is what the sources are telling the press association. have checked with the metropolitan police this morning, and they are not commenting on these reports by the press association. all they are saying is, this investigation is ongoing. they are not commenting about whether there are any number of suspects lined up, any names or whether arrests are imminent. nothing like that from the met. the sources are coming from the press association. separately, the russian ambassador has responded to these claims this morning. he said ina very these claims this morning. he said in a very short statement, the british investigators have no evidence of russian involvement in the script skripal poisoning. this is what the russians are saying in response to these pa allegations this morning. thank you very much, duncan kennedy. the police watchdog is warning that there could be a rise in hate crimes after brexit — and that forces in england and wales already have "significant problems" in the way they handle the offences. it looked at how forces responde

white house reporter for "the associated press." >> thank you. eric: sizzling summer sunday.nt great heatwave temperatures up into the triple digits in some parts of the country. tens of millions of americans under some sort of heat warning for advisory. it is summer, so some folks are taking out whether in stride. >> we weighed all winter for this heat and i'm not -- [inaudible] >> we're sitting here in the nice air conditioned studio. right out the window behind me on sixth avenue, right back they are his brain dns in the heat. >> hey, eric when temperatures hit 90 degrees, it is officially a heat wave. new york city's first heatwave. temperatures are expected to hit 90 degrees and not the boy band. here are the current temperatures. new york city 92 in this this heat wave is actually the last seven days making it the longest in new york city since july 2013. raleigh north carolina 89 degrees. it feels like over 98 if you look at the heat index, it feels like 99 in new york are at 100 memphis, 101 in new orleans. he warnings in effect for chicago, st. louis, memphis, new yo

when i worked for associated press, i was an editor. we get to seer and we decide where people need to go and then you find out some people are not aloud. so i get a phone call saying they want us to put the camera up to our eyes. excuse me, wait a minute, they are telling you what? they say leave them on the ground until they tell us to put them up. we are mad. don't be mad. keep talking and negotiate. what do i do? i said, if you take a picture, i will be happy. don't -- take a picture, no matter what. okay. so people took pictures anyway. this started a fight between the press trying to cover the president. they made their own problems. not the photographers. you know that ain't right. >> one last question to the far right in the front. >> thank you very much. i was very interested in the photo that eric took bt with president bush and president electment other bam malt -- obama. i was curious to what the rules of the game was. can you shoot remotely anywhere? it is one thing when you are in the room and they know are you in the room

the associated press published a bombshell report reading u.s. army quietly discharging immigrant recruits but there are a lot more details. >> reporter: it was designed in 2009 is a win/when for the us military program, the military exceptions open the armed forces to foreign-born recruits expanding the ranks of those with specialized foreign language fields while giving them a pathway to citizenship. in 2014 the obama administration expanded the program to accept dreamers. at the same time the pentagon struggled to that the increasing backlog of foreign recruits, many with murky unverifiable backgrounds. last year after an assessment revealed some recruits headline on background checks the pentagon closed the program. >> we cannot continue what we were doing. we are taking steps to save the program if it can be saved. >> thursday the associated press reported the pentagon is further cracking down on the program on discharging as many as 40 foreign recruits. the ap story, crackdown was by the anti-immigrant policies, prompting a flurry of angry

the history of the department, weissmann engineered this meeting between doj lawyers and the associated pressamongst themselves, including grand jury information, and in order to put pressure on paul manafort, we are watching the destruction of the fbi by people actually inside the meal or investigations, like weissmann. this has to stop. >> lou: why isn't there -- why aren't they raising hell over this? why would anyone who knows that information from a grand jury is being set through a conduit that goes straight through the national left-wing media, that is a violation of law, as victoria said. >> i actually think the judge is going to granted. i think there is going to be a hearing. it will be an opportunity to put weissmann on the witness stand, along with a lot of other fbi and a doj employees. and the doj report about strzok and everybody else, laid out how the fbi had a policy of working with the media to leak information, and these people in the bureau lied about it, but they eventually had to admit that it was false. it is destroying the bureau, and it is destroying the department of

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middle east and also joining us from moscow via skype raul paris a global football writer of the associated press news agency a very warm welcome to all of you rob let me start with you because you've been there in russia covering the world cup you are now at the airport coming to us via skype and just about to leave was it the best world cup ever. well certainly on the pitch you do some really thrilling performances shock some great games that made it open field and indeed helps the television ratings and helps to sort of live out revenue fifty five and over sixty stadiums as well they've already owned all i mean the russian state was able to mobilize all its resources to ensure that the right career mrs ray in place in the white infrastructure is there around them so in terms of that it's going to be hard to judge that whether it's the best ever if you have to take a long term view or that it's a safety the legacy was the investment worth it with the stadiums actually used in the long term by regular and club sides and indeed how do the people react to other actually changes in the country as w

according to the associated press, some of the service members say they were not told why they were being discharged. others who pressed for answers said the army informed them they were labeled as security risks because of relatives abroad or they had not completed background checks on them. in your opinion, do these situations warrant a discharge from the u.s. armed services? >> personally, i think they should be allowed to serve armed services regardless of where they are from, whether they have relatives elsewhere, as long as they pass their security background checks. this is just another thing, this anti-immigration sentiment that's been going on a long time. >> so have people that are not americans serving in our military. that's been going on 250 years. >> one of the things i want to point out is our immigrants served in armed forces since the revolutionary war. at this moment, if there's a draft, we will take anybody, doesn't matter if you know english, have papers or not. it's when we need you, the vietnam war, world war i, world war ii, they will take anybody. during these time

. >> yeah, the associated press have this story of a little baby being brought into court and the judgeah, the judge says unless a one-year-old can understand immigration law, this is an embarrassment basically. you have been seeing this and watching it all throughout, give us your sense of what's happening especially how often something like this might be happening where little kids, i guess a little boy was asked how old are you and he held up five fingers. >> this is not new, i have been speaking to a lawyer working and help representing these kids who are unaccompanied child migrants. these kids have never have the right to an attorney in court. that's not new. it has always happened. what's new is you have nearly 3,000 kids who were separated because of this policy and are now having to go through these court proceedings alone pretty much and we know 102 of those are under the age of five. just the optics of those are devastating. it is always something that has happened according to these lawyers i have been talking to in an immigration court. because it is a civil proceedings and