announcer: on the senate floor, senator ben sasse criticized the president for the summit. your is a look. : let's not mince words , today was a terrible day for the american brand, for the american people, and for all of our allies. we did not negotiate from a position

announcer: on the senate floor, senator ben sasse criticized the president for the summit. your is a look. : let's not mince words , today was a terrible day for the american brand, for the american people, and for all of our allies. we did not negotiate from a position of strength. we negotiated from a position of weakness. as a result, one of the world's worst despots walked away with a win. has an undeserved legitimacy. the united states took a loss when we backed away from our long-standing commitment of principled american leadership. likely, we walked away from basic reality. the president of the united states was asked who he believed on the operations in 2016. did he believe in the men and women of the u.s. intelligence committee or did he believe in vladimir putin a member of the russian intelligence community, a thug turned russian desperate. the choice was between people risking their lives on behalf of our freedom and people who go around the world taking people's lives to limit freedom. the president of the united states, how did he answer? he answered "did not

republican senator ben sasse of i spoke with one of them, republican senator ben sasse of nebraska and asked for his response to mr. trump's claims of success. >> whenever you're having a trade war, something is going wrong. when there is more trade in thew world, america. frankly, our trading partners win as well, because trade is ai win. but when you have tariffs, that will lead to more tariffs, which ad to moreariffs, which lead to more tariffs, which means less trade, which means amerans lose. we lose as consumers and we lose as producers. i think that quote from the president, it's important to point out what a bilaterrade deficit is. we've had one with mexico for 40 years in a row. that means they sell us more stuff and we t sellm more services or they invest in the united states. so regularly the president obsesses over bilateral trade product deficits where oftentimes it's not a problem at all, and with mexico and the u.s., we've had win-win for 40 years in a row. with china we have different problems, and he's right part of that, but that quote, that doesn't really represent w

beijing responded with tariffs on american products including pork and nebraska republican senator ben sasse is a frequent trump critic and represents many farmers taking the brunt of the impact. >> what the administration is offering them instead is $12 billion of gold-plated crutches. that's not what anybody wants. >> reporter: sasse is among a growing list of republicans rejecting the president's trade policies, and this morning's tweet calling tariffs "the greatest." >> at no point have i heard a farmer or rancher say you know what we want? we want more bailouts. we want more welfare. what they want is less trade war. >> reporter: we expect more trade tension tomorrow when president trump meets with the se cautioned the european uniond administration against acting like everybody the u.s. does business with should be treated like anon ve in nicaragua could soon become this country's probanng that president daniel ortega step down. now, many see leaving the country as their only option. manuel bojorquez remains the only network correspondent inside nicaragua. >> reporter: anti-government

ben sasse has been a long-time never trumper. lindsey graham was critical but certainly not as critical as probably he would have been if this were a democrat. but to your point when you came to me, so far we have not heard from the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, we have not heard from paul ryan. i have reached out to both of these offices. we'll see what they're saying. i'm guessing they're trying to figure out exactly how to put lipstick on this pig frankly and try to figure out how to explain the inexplicable. you know, what should happen is this should be a nonpartisan situation, that people who have a lot of support and love for this country, who have said that there is no question that vladimir putin and the russians interfered in american elections, if they just saw what we all saw, that it shouldn't take very long for them to release a statement giving their thoughts, if their thoughts are going to be consistent at all. we'll see. >> you know, it's so interesting, dana, because president trump is obsessed with th

to say, ben sass doesn't like donald trump. so are we going to bring him up? that's a ridiculous point. a first-year law student would know that. >> but what is perverse is that sass sat on the -- it was a twisted way to look at it that somehow he helped. >> laura: i don't think we would want to be investigated for something we were accused of by someone who had an innate animus toward us. why are you leading this investigation? hold on. >> strzok is the only person in america who opened up a counter intelligence investigation. >> laura: and he can sign off on a fisa warrant. >> exactly. >> laura: there was a moment where peter strzok seemed to contradict whether he was under a particular type of investigation. let's watch. >> so you think it's okay for the target and you are a target, of an investigation, to determine what should be delivered, rather than, if you will, the government, right? >> i'm not aware of any investigation i'm a target. >> are you under review of the fbi office of professional responsibility? >> yes, sir. >> laura: lpr is another wing of

that's ben sasse, conservative senator from nebraska.emarkable is listening to the farmers, this is from npr, most of the farmers don't like this, they're worried about it. a lot of them voted for the president and they're saying, okay, mr. president, we'll give you some time. we can't give you two or three years. if this stretches out too long, we'll be under water. >> i think there's still overwhelming support for the president because of his intent. what we're afraid of is slipping into a long-term situation here. we'd still like to see, in my personal opinion, i think most farmers i've talked to at least here in wisconsin, we want trade, not aid. >> we don't give common sense, hard working americans enough credit in the sense that, okay, you're the president, but -- >> there is patience for him doing things differently because that's why people voted for him. this scenario where you bail out farmers because you're hurting farmers is a little healittleal hand. the top line numbers are so good it's almost impossible to rain on that par

senator ben sasse is more critical, calling the aid gold crutches. he says tariffs and bailouts won't make america great. it's going to make it 1929 again. gop lawmakers, with few exceptions, expressed concern about the plan. senators john thune, bob corker, jeff flake, they say farmers need trade deals, not welfare. >> this $12 billion announced today suggests that this is going to be a longer-term problem than the president said. you know, this trade wars are easy to win, you know, not so much. >> the aid starts in september, just in time for elections. but the "wall street journal" editorial board says that the president fixing a problem of his own making won't fool voters. trump may think his farm tariff bailout will get republicans past the november election, but sooner or later, bad economic policy becomes bad politics. a band-aid on a broken leg. >> wow. >>> okay, president trump drawing comparisons to george orwell after turning his appearance at a vfw convention in kansas city into a campaign rally. the president used the event to defend his

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let's talk about it now with book and senator from nebraska ben sasse, a member of the senate judiciary committee, for his reaction. good to have you with us. you have been. glover president when he felt it was warranted. how do you think is doing with these court picks question mexico he done a great job. this list of 25 that he campaigned on will be a great thing to go forward in presidential politics. one of the fundamental powers the president has is to nominate people who have convertibles or for a lifetime and telling voters who you would pick, it's a really good tradition and the president has talked with less. >> shannon: how do you think it's going to go on the committee because we heard a number of democrats, some on that committee, but are opposed no matter whom the president picks. >> last year when gorsuch was packed, you are not supposed to be doing the interview -- when gorsuch was picked, i went over to engage some of the protesters. i was at the warehouse to eye. a year ago the president had them over when he's like gorsuch. i was headed to my office i thought i would g

. >> reminder, that was ben sass, the republican from nebraska. and going out of business. new details this morning about ivanka trump's decision to shut down her name sake fashion label to focus more on her work inside the white house as an assistant to her father. if you thought jared and ivanka were going home, you're wrong. we begin today with a tape that appears to show the president discussing hush money payments with his lawyer just weeks before voters headed to the polls in 2016. i have a great team here to break all of it down. it's a lot. first, i want to play the tape for you. to set the stage, the recording was made secretly in september of 2016. that's two months before the presidential election. it was one month after the national enquirer's publishing company bought the rights to karen mcdougal's story about an extramarital affair she claims to have had with the president. it was bought for 150 grand, a number that comes up in the conversation with trump and cohen. what you will hear is donald trump talking to his attorney, michael cohen, but i want you to li

but it's not just ben sasse or lindsey graham or bob corker or jeff flake, traditional voices that may be will raise concerns about something the president said. when newt gingrich, former house speaker says he must clarify his statements, it's the most serious mistake of his presidency and they must be corrected immediately. you have a problem and a cleanup on aisle five that may need to be made still. >> i don't think any of the criticism was a personal attack on the president, listen. i have that sound now. this is a first time we are hearing this and hearing from you. >> believe the european union these are our friends and the russians are not. they have demonstrated that in the fall of the over the last few. the annexation of crimea, the invasion of ukraine. the indisputable evidence that they tried to impact the 2016 election. >> any president has the ability to send foreign policy for the united states and congress can kind of be a check on it and they can so that they can do something through the judiciary. but i think what you're saying here is members of congress reacting. do

like senator ben sasse, saying this is bizarre and flat out wrong. >> i never thought i would see an american president throw the intelligence community under the bus like that. >> senator john mccain called it one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. >> millions of americans will continue to wonder if the only possible explanation for this dangerous behavior is the possibility that president putin holds damaging information over president trump. >> putin denied having anything damning on trump. as for meddling, president trump's own intelligence director released a new statement saying the intelligence community has been clear about russia's ongoing pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy. >> you said that like a wet noodle, like a fan boy. >> that is former republican california governor arnold schwarzenager mincing no words in his take on the putin press conference. in a 45-second video, he said president trump sold out the intelligence community and our country. >> meanwhile, senator kamala harris tweeted the whole world just watched as th

. >> nebraska senator ben sasse lled the fundbailouts saying this trade war is cutting the legs out fromnder farmers and the white house's plan is to spend $12 million on gold crutches. the aiarican soybean asson called for a longer term plan that includes removing harmful tariffs. >> there are still a lot of unanswered questions about how the aistance will work and how long it will last and they'll work all of that out in we next weeks with the first payments expected to go out around lab day. for nightly business report i'm kayla tausche in washington. >> word helped lift shares of farm-related compani today and companies like deere, caterpillar and agco which in theory could benefit if farmers continue to benefit on tractors and other gear and the meat industry is also bracing for the effects ofariffs which could add to the surplus. aditi roy reports from san francisco. >> at marina meats in san francisco, the butchers here say the prices they pay for bee and pork haven't changed much this year despite the increasing supply of meat. >> sonoma county to everywhere in the proximity of 2

one of the first republican ben sasse, releasing a statement, saying, "this is bizarre and flat-out wrong." and then senator jeff flake -- "iever thought the day when our american president would stand on the stage with the russian president and place blame on the united states for russian aggression. this is shameful." and before the president left helsinki, the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee unloaded on him -- >> the president's comments made us look as a nation more like a pushover. >> reporter: the top democrat says that putin must have something on trump. >> in americans are watching, if he doesn't have something on him what is it? what could it be? >> reporter: weighing in from arizona, senator john mccain called the president's press conference a "tragic mistake." and quote, one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. no prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. and then the reaction on the president's favorite cable news channel. >> that's what made his performance disgusting, i'm sorry th

. >> you've seen some republican, john mccain, ben sasse from nebraska saying he ought to cancel if he won't hold vladimir putin accountable. that's been picked up by democrats too, jon. >> democrats across the board are saying this meeting should have been canceled once that indictment dropped, once we saw its stark detail, exactly what the russians did to interfere with the u.s. election. stark detail, what they did to hack into the emails of the democratic national committee and the clinton campaign. that's obviously not going to happen. so now the question is, will the president directly bring this up in the meeting and as we've heard from his advisers that is supposedly on the agenda. one real area of concern here is that this first meeting is going to happen as you mentioned one-on-one, the two presidents, trump and putin alone with just translators. none of the president's national security -- >> which has so many -- and we are about to see the presidents right there. >> no handshake. [ speaking a foreign language ] [ speaking a foreign language ] . >> thank you. >> thank you ve

let me show you senator ben sasse released a statement saying, this is bizarre and flat out wrong. senator john mccain called the news conference with vladimir putin, quote, one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory and the senate foreign relations committee said his comments made the u.s. look like a pushover. >> it was not a good day for our country and a very good day for him. i don't think president trump gained anything. >> i thought it was shameful and i never thought i'd see an american president throw the intelligence community under the bus like that. >> reporter: even ardent trump supporters are denouncing his comments. arkansas senator tom cotton said russia's aggressions are, quote, not the actions of a friend or ally, and newt gingrich tweeting, the summit is the most serious mistake of trump's presidency. it must be corrected immediately but as we mention at least one gop lawmaker is defending trump this morning, kentucky senator rand paul expresses approval saying it's important for the u.s. to have open dialogue with its adversaries

. >> well, ahead on "cbs this morning," republican senator ben sasse of nebraska called the president's remarks bizarre. we'll ask senator sasse about putin and the meeting with president trump. and wednesday night on "the "cbs evening news,"" jeff glor has a follow-up interview with president trump, his first since returning from helsinki. >>> a hearing is scheduled for tomorrow for a russian national charged with conspiracy to act as an unregistered agent of the russian government. maria butina is being held without bail. prosecutors say that she has ties to a senior russian government official. her alleged job was to gather intelligence on american officials and political organizations while coordinating back-channel communications with the kremlin. her attorney called the investigations overblown. >>> a federal judge has temporarily stopped the federal government from deporting immigrant parents after they are reunited with their children. the court order is in response to a suit by the american civil liberties union. the government is working to reunite more than 2,500 children sep

nebraska senator ben sasse said the president's trade war is cutting the legs out from under farmers and the white house's plan is to spend $12 billion on gold crutches. >>> a georgia lawmaker is resigning after shouting the "n" word on a cable show. fellow republicans had called for state representative jason spencer to step down following sunday's episode of sacha baron cohen's program entitled "who is america?" spencer was duped into thinking he was getting counterterrorism training. in addition to the racial slur, you see these scene. cohen convinced spencer to pull down his pants. spencer apologized and said the show took advantage of his fears. >> a federal judge in california said the trump administration is now on track to meet tomorrow's deadline for reuniting immigrant families. the government says of the roughly 1,600 families eligible to be reunited more than 1,000 already have been and nearly all those remaining are expected to be reunited by the deadline. >>> an undocumented immigrant from ecuador is back with his wife and daughters after spending nearly two months in c

graham ben sasse the chairman of the foreign relations committee corker on down the line roundly condemned the president as being and that confused. ill informed on the facts in berra saying i mean these are not words from democrats these are words from a puppet republicans have used in the last week so i think there's been a firestorm of criticism from his own party and i would point out to my friend the criticism and the sanctions are not just about the interference in the elections which is now undisputed essentially by everybody other than the president the president has different stories depending on which day of the week it is but it's also because of the annex ation of crimea it's the interference in syria and the attempt to bust buttress a dictator in syria it's what's going on in north macedonia what happened in the united kingdom it's a whole series of things that republicans have taken a starkly different position republicans and democrats alike and taken a starkly different position from this white house on john it's the most investigation is not wrapped up before the twenty ei

they want to work. >> noah, you had ben sasse speaking again and again on this yesterday and the day re about this idea that the president set up the problem with the tariffs and his correction is a bailout for tariffs and senator sasse says they don't want a bailout. they want free trade. >> right. when the bailouts are distributed, it's more likely they'll go to big agra business not the really small farmers. sometimes you see flashes of the republican dna. conservative dna, for re-emerging. >> somewhere. >> every so often -- >> right. one of the things we're going to start seeing now is the usda appealing to a depression era commodity credit corporation to start buying up surplus goods that they can't sell on markets. producing a lot of food no one will be eating, snit a pile a id rot. incredibly inefficient. the sort of republicans know in their marrow is wrong, bad economic policy and is something they have opposed all the way up until january 20th, 2017. but you know, you can only go so far. you can't directly oppose this president because he is still so popular with the base re

i look at ben sasse on the republican side. good politicians. howie: how much do the media inflame this, exacerbate this in the search for rates and circulation. what sells on the right and the left to also be angry and indulge into debate the politics of rage. frank: look at the headlines online. they are awful. everyone is always slamming or damning. the language they use in the headlines to get people to click on it is causing this. you read the headlines on foxnews.com. it will be frank luntz and kurtz go to blows over the media. howie: is it increasing liang are you or unscuffle debate as you pointed to some politicians. if you try to be polite. people are going to tune out? frank: the media puts on people with the most of extreme language. you put on conflict was conflict sells. you succeed. we are in a conflict that jeopardizes democracy as we know it. you hold everybody accountable. howie: we try to do that in a civil way. i think of it in the spirit of the late charles krauthammer who took his shots and was what conservative but did it

graham ben sass the chairman of the foreign relations committee corker on down the line roundly condemned the president as being and that confused. ill informed on the facts in berra saying i mean these are not words from democrats these are words from repugnant republicans have used in the last week so i think there's been a firestorm of criticism from his own party and i would point out to my friend the criticism and the sanctions are not just about the interference in the elections which is now undisputed essentially by everybody other than the president or the president has different stories depending on which day of the week it is but it's also because of the annex ation of crimea it's the interference in syria and the attempt to bust buttress a dictator in syria it's what's going on in north macedonia what happened in the united kingdom it's a whole series of things that republicans have taken a starkly different position republicans and democrats alike have taken a starkly different position from this white house on john it's the most investigation is not wrapped up before the twen

nebraska republican senator ben sasse is a frequent trump critic thd represents many farmers miking thent of the impact. >> what the administration is offering them instead is $12 billion of gold-plated crutches. that's not what anybody wants. >> reporter: sasse is among a growing list of republicans rejecting the president's trade lllicies, and this morning's tweet calling tariffs "the greatest." >> at no point have i heard a farmer or rancher say, "you know what we want? we want more bailouts." we want more welfare. what they want is less trade war. >> reporter: we expect more trade tension tomorrow when president trump meets with the president of the european union, ngich he has called a foe when it comes to trade. senator sass cautioned the stministration against acting sike everybody the u.s. does business with should be treated like an enemy. jeff. >> glor: weijia, thank you. the ongoing violence in nicaragua could soon become thi. hundreds have been killed since protest began in nicaragua in april. protesters are demanding president daniel ortega step down. now many see leaving t

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has john swift rebuke -- that has drawn swift rebuke from prominent lawmakers, including senator ben sassewho says that is flat out wrong. shery: again calling that investigation a witchhunt. we'll bring in congressman john garamendi from california and a member of the armed services committee. he is with us from washington. thank you so much for your time. give us your reaction from what you've heard from president trump and president vladimir putin. rep. garamendi: i am not surprised. i am disgusted. cannot believe the president of the united states was unwilling to stand up to vladimir putin to protect the american democracy. when asked a question about the investigation, he punted. not punted. he handed everything over to putin and said the problem is here in the united states. the not stand up with the intelligence agencies and the fbi. the leader of american intelligence said friday that russia continues to a hack into our electoral system and critical infrastructure and this president has done nothing. total dereliction of the oath of office to protect america. you say he is in tota

lou: you've got ben sass running around, lindsey graham.range place nlt it's little cuckoo over there. lou: let's turn to brennan coming out against the president. i mean, you tweeted this, am i correct. whenever john brennan opens his mouth or tweets he removes all doubt about his ignorance. i like that. >> you like that? well it's true. he accused the president of trees. treason. there's the tweet. that's ridiculous because the treason laws in the united states are very specific. the u.s. has to be at war with another country. and we're not at war with the russians. and you know, the julius and ethel rosenburg case in the 1950s, they gave nuclear design secrets to the soviets, they were not charged with treason. lou: i'm sitting here grinning right now. only a great attorney could take a 140-character tweet, limited tweet, and turn it into a brief and go from there. i thought -- you had me at ignorance. i really think you nailed john brennan right there. >> thank you very much. you know, john brennan says dope things all odopey things all

ben sasse has released a statement that reads in part "this trade war is cutting the legs out from farmers and the white house's plan is to spend $12 billion on gold crutches. this administration's tariffs and bailouts won't make america great again. they're going to make it 1929 again." the house speaker paul ryan says he's made it clear he does not believe tariffs are the right answer. the president is standing by his import taxes. >> you have to see the trade deals i'm working on. they're a disaster. the farmers will be the biggest beneficiary. watch. we're opening up markets. you watch what's going to happen. patient. >> shepard: so far they're not beneficiaries. the united states trade representative office holding a hearing today with representatives from companies that could also take a hit from the tariffs. let's bring in ken thomas, white house reporter from the associated press. what is the goal here? >> the president is trying to buy some time essentially. he's trying to help farmers, especially soy bean producers that have been hit hard by the tariffs by china in response to th

republican senator ben sass said this. >> today was a terrible day for the american brand, for the americane and for all of our allies. we did not negotiate from a position of strength. we acted from a position of weakness. as a result, one of the world's worth despits walked away today with a win. >> jeff flake said this. >> i thought it was shameful. i never thought i'd see an american president throw the intelligence community under the bus like that and agree with a dictator authoritarian like he did. so it is not a good day for the country. >> no republican was more forceful than senator john mccain who issued a written statement saying today's press conference was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. the damage inflicted by president trump is difficult to calculate. but it is clear that the summit was a tragic mistake. no prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant. joining us now presidential historian and author of "the soul of america, the battle for our better angels" and richard stengle is with us. he once had the

as ben sasse of nebraska put it and i quote, "putin is a murderer.apons to murder and he overseas units that shot down malaysian airlines flight 17 and murdered almost 300 civilians." let's grow to michael gorden from the "wall street journal." the journal and fox news channel and their parent company share common ownership. he was in moscow as the bureau chief from "the new york times" from 1996 to 2000. good to see you. >> good to be here. >> shepard: his past was absent today but do you bring that up at a summit? >> i don't know if it would be appropriate for president trump to raise it in a public context but you're dealing with an individual that really sees relations with washington as a zero-sum game. he's skilled and practiced in using the the language of arms control and he talks about the end of the cold war. inside, it's a cold person who is putting his own national interests first at the expense of others. >> shepard: is that what he did today? how would you categorize the news conference? >> he tried to put the best face on what the amer

senator ben sass was as equally as blunt in his approval of the aid. >> when you choose a war of choicewhich is what this trade war, you say afterwards, let's solve it by buying people gold plated crutches. the farmers of america, they don't want crutches. they want to work. >> here's what house speaker paul ryan had to say about tariffs as well. >> the president says tariffs are the greatest at bringing negotiations to the table. >> in all caps. >> how long do you give him to see if this strategy works? >> look, i made it pretty clear, i don't think tariffs are the right answer. i they they're taxes. i think there are better tools we can use to hold abusers of trade laws and people countries that perpetuate unfair trade practices, i think there are better tools to use to get them to play fairly. >> reporting now, reporter for the daily beast, let's talk about this aid package, $12 billion the price tag there. what could the impact look like for farmers down the line after the money has run out and do we have any idea where this money is coming from? >> reporter: the impact is likely to

harassment, it should not be -- >> jesse: they will have to get rid of "the new york times"" >> lisa: ben sasse zuckerberg to define hate speech and he stumbles. my favorite tweet. a reporter tweeted said mark zuckerberg has every millennials worst fear, trying to explain technology to the elderly. >> greg: hate speech, sorry to say, is in the eye of the beholder. it depends on who is in charge. you are going to say you're being mean to me. the problem with hate speech is that it's subjective. >> jesse: it's like it. >> greg: it is. i don't think people understand algorithms. just because someone is using an algorithm on you isn't wrong. everybody does testing with companies. let's say mcdonald's. they will try make ribs in one place but not another place. that is testing. when they test algorithms, oftentimes they test them on some people and see how it works. dating sites do this. they test a dating algorithm. people go i want the other thing. this could be better. it's not wrong to use an algorithm. >> dana: i have an idea. you should create a character named al gore rhythm. harvard takes th

so, to say ben sasse doesn't like donald trump. that is a ridiculous point. a first year law student would know that. >> he sat on the joke about trump in the elections. he helped put out about the emails. it is a twisted way to look at it. >> laura: i don't think any of us on this table would want to be investigated who had an innate who would be satisfied. we would all be like, what? why are you leading this? >> he is on the person in america who opened a counter intelligence committee. >> laura: there was a moment where peter strzok seem to contradict whether or not he was under a particular type of investigation. let's watch. >> so you think it is okay for the targets, you are a targets of an investigation to determine what should be delivered, rather than if you will the government. >> or i'm not aware of any investigation that i am >> >> l: well. he is under investigation. are we nitpicking here? republicans can sometimes gets in the position where they are perceived to be nitpicking on issues that are not the primary issues. >> he is also under investi

ben sass, this trade war is cutting the legs out from under farmers and the plan is to spend 12 billionhes. >> farmers really want trade and markets and not necessarily any kind of bail out or aid. >> and the pressure on the president could grow. a steady has concluded that most of the chinese tariffs are targeted at people in counties that voted for trump. >> thank you so much. you can follow me on twitter. i will be on steven kolbert tonight. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation room. >>> happening now, breaking news. trump's money man, the financial chief for the trump organization report reportedly is in the michael cohen case and a source says he knows everything about the president's business including where all the financial bodies are buried. >>> tweet intentions. robert mueller is reportedly examining the president's tweets as part of a wide ranging obstruction of justice probe. could the president's twitter habit lead to legal trouble? >>> some conservative

and senator ben sass blasting the claim that both countries are responsible saying quote, this is bizarre and flat out wrong. the united states is not to blame. america wants a good relationship with the russian people but vladimir putin and his thugs are responsible for soviet style aggression when the president plays these moral equivalence games, he gives putin a propaganda win he desperately needs. tonight, president trump's former national security counsel spokesman, michael anton cancelled his interview with erin burnett because he can't defend when president trump said and did today. so i'm going to bring in now senator amy and a member of the judiciary committee. good evening to you. thank you so much. what do you think of what the republican leader said? >> there is not much more to add to that except to say we need to also move forward and figure out what will happen now, and i think we need to bring in before congress some of the people that were there at that meeting to figure out what really happened, not the meeting was private but were with him and then also to make putin e

a bigger part of the problem as my friend ben sass says, a civics crisis in this country, we do not teachpeople how the system works or how to be grateful for what they have inherited or the idea that there should be a partisan valence to the concept of free-speech is insane, a suicidal choice we are making of the culture to do that and the way we teach history so much in this country is we teach that american history or western history is only one story after another of things we should be ashamed of and a lot in our past we should be ashamed of. we should also be proud of how often we have overcome those things we are ashamed of. take slavery. slavery was a profound moral horror and properly hypocritical of the founding fathers to say all men are created equal and still have slave that not given the right to vote, i want to teach that stuff but i want to teach that stuff to show what an incredible story this country had the we overcame those things. we are not done fixing them, we still have improvements to do. every civilization since the agricultural revolution had slavery to what ext

republican senator ben sasse says trump gave putin a propaganda win. republican lindsey graham called it a "sign of weakness". republican justin amash says something )s not right here. republican bob corker.. says trump made us look like a pushover. republican liz cheney.. says she )s deeply troubled by the president )s behavior. the intelligence community is pushing back as well. the director of national intelligence.. dan coats.. released a statemetn this morning.. that says in part.. we have been clear in our assessments of russian meddling in the 2016 election and their ongoing, pervasive efforts to undermine our democracy. a live look at san jose. it )s hot in the south bay. a live look at san jose. it )s hot in the south bay. the temperatures are climbing. meteorologist kari hall is watching those temperatures rise. kari -- a developing story -- >>> and much cooler temperatures here but then you make your way inland and skies are completely clear. microclimates in full effect today as the temperatures head into the upper 80s in the south bay and

this is ben sasse, not a trump fan, but on this particular issue, he says the president has it backwards>> when you have tariffs, they're a bad thing and then try to solve them with bailouts, you're not heading in a good direction. you're trying to make america 1929 again. that's not what the people in the state i represent want. we want more markets and more trade. >> a broader, deeper, more sustained republican pushback to the republican president we've seen on any other issue. are they going to do anything about it or just keep complaining about it? >> i think the short answer is, no, they're not going to do anything about it. the effort to do something legislatively and frankly take back what the power was initially that belonged in congress when it came to trade is not going to happen any time soon. that creates the space. the president clearly has. you make a crucial point and the one that defines why is not going to change his stance. this is always where he's been on trade. sometimes people chuckle at larry kudlow trying to explain where the president is. he's explaining the stra

. >> it is stunning, because ben sass of nebraska is going against this, because he says $12 million of golden hand cuts. he said they don't want a marketplace, but they want to work. so how does this administration make the argument that the economy is stronger than ever when they are using a provision from the depression. give me a break. >> and doesn't this feed into the i alone can fix it and i can fix everything persona that he has? >> yes, he is the best salesman for himself, and you know how hard this is hitting the farmers and the people it is not hitting is my mom who is going to grocery store and saying that corn is cheaper, and meat is cheap cheaper, and it is cheaper, because they have supply and not enough places to sell it. >> stephanie ruhle. i love you so much. >> i love you. >> and president trump's legal team has new potential condition s for robert mueller. new conditions to the sit down. your mornings were made for better things than psoriatic arthritis. as you and your rheumatologist consider treatments, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-da

nebraska senator ben sasse. this trade war is cutting legs out from under farmers and the white house plan to spend money on gold crutches. and john thune, this is not the right remedy. speaking more than an hour to veterans. >> we don't apologize for america any more, we stand up for america. >> reporter: the president didn't mention putin or the helsinki summit and didn't say whether he intends to go ahead with the plan to strip security clearances from former top intelligence officials simply because they criticized him. paul ryan had this to say about what call a trump enemies list. >> i think he is trolling people, honestly. i think he's just trolling people. >> reporter: all this as some trump supporters can't quit hillary clinton. with jeff sessions laughing along like this to a high school group. >> i heard that a long time over the last campaign. >> reporter: as for that suggestion that the russians are interested in democrats winning the midterm elections, we checked with office of director of national

ben sass, this is bizarre and flat out wrong. this is bizarre and flat out wrong.these statements and remind our viewers that republicans have criticized our president before on the issue of tariffs in strong language. the question remains what are they going to actually do about it. will they do anything about it and we are going to be hearing from the democratic leader of the senate, senator schumer this is what he said, they'll be holding a press conference at 2:30 this afternoon. schumer writing what we can expect to hear from him, in our entire history, we have never seen the president of the united states supported our american adversary where president trump supported vladimir putin. what could cause president trump to put the interest of russia over those to the united states. >> president trump is headed home and there is a whole agenda that he's doing to focus on. he's going to arrive to some sharp and bipartisan, reaction and criticizing what we saw and witnessed and heard today, steph. >> moments abercrombie, bob corker echoed lindsey graham's comment a

"ben sasse saying russia and china understand that successful operations do not create new problems,ut exploit existing fissures, that's why moscow is working to divide americans by stoking both sides of nearly every culture war, the message here is washington and silicon valley must do better. midterm elections just 14 weeks away." dana. >> dana: no more than in 2016, mike emanuel, thank you. >> let me be clear, our intelligence community has it right, it was the russians, we know that, they know that. >> dana: kirstjen nielsen this morning on who is behind efforts to meddle in the last election and in just a few minutes, i will ask the secretary whether she thinks russia is behind the latest influence campaign. i will also ask her about the ongoing things at the border including hundreds of migrant children not reunited with their parents. keep it here. much more to come. ♪ sometimes, bipolar i disorder can make you feel unstoppable. ♪ but mania, such as unusual changes in your mood, activity or energy levels, can leave you on shaky ground. help take control by talking to your doct