reporter: the first handshake between the u.s.resident donald trump and german chancellor angela merkel delivered the friendly symbolism that was widely expected. the agreement on defense and security, but especially on trade. donald trump pledging to put america first, and he wants to reduce the gaping trade deficit. he feels his country has come second in the past. donald trump: i would say negotiators for germany have done a far better job than negotiators for the united states. hopefully we can even it out. we want fairness, all i want is fairness. reporter: and angela merkel saying the past to trade agreements as proof that they can deliver that, offering a positive assessment of the talks. she left no doubt that there will be no deals with germany that leave out the eu partners. >> germany's successes in terms of the economy and security are always successes where one side of the coin is germany's success and the other side is that of european union he -- unity. but the first meeting between the most powerful man in the worl

we know about the relationship potentially between president trump and president putin. we know about some of the communications that have gone on but we haven't gotten half that picture in the middle of the puzzle, which was what was the role of donald trump? what was the role of people working for him as agents of him? we don't have that but we have an awful lot about the circumstances around it. andrea, you want to start with that? as a reporter, that's where we're coming from. >> and today the house intelligence committee republican and democrat, put out their guidelines for what they'll be investigating. they said very specifically, certainly adam schiff, the ranking democrat said contacts, relationships between anyone connected or associated with donald trump and the russians. they didn't say russian intelligence, they just said the russians because as was pointed out, it is so difficult to define who is intelligence and who is not around that may have the problem with one of the pieces of the reporting the contacts were with russian associates. i met with top demo

we know about the relationship potentially between president trump and president putin. we know about some of the communications that have gone on but we haven't gotten half that picture in the middle of the puzzle, which was what was the role of donald trump? what was the role of people working for him as agents of him? we don't have that but we have an awful lot about the circumstances around it. andrea, you want to start with that? as a reporter, that's where we're coming from. >> and today the house intelligence committee republican and democrat, put out their guideles for what they'll be investigating. they said very specifically, certainly adam schiff, the ranking democrat said contacts, relationships between anyone connected or associated with donald trump and the russians. they didn't say russian intelligence, they just said the russians because as was pointed out, it is so difficult to define who is intelligence and who is not around that may have the problem with one of the pieces of the reporting the contacts were with russian associates. i met with top democr

topics include efforts to defeat isis and the relationship between the two nations. the foreign minister criticized the obama administration and told reporters he expected better cooperation with the current administration. this is 25 minutes. [inaudible] >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome. we will address after which they will take two questions each. and when the question is ended they will step forward to shake hands. please remain seated until after the program. thank you. >> members of the press, today, they're hosting the new secretary of state of the united states, rex tillerson. we're pleased to host in. as in the following quite closely where having quite high-level administration and the two presidents talked on the phone. our prime minister talk to -- and i was with my colleague in ministers meeting. today, is a very good indicator that how much importance is attached to the importance of two countries. secretary of state tillerson was prime minister in the morning, and then. [inaudible] it is very important that we should create a new energy in the relation

there cannot even be the shred of a connection between the attorney general, mr. sessions, and this department of justice investigation into the events of 2016. second, if the justice department drags its feet and refuses to appoint a special prosecutor or select someone with insufficient independence, there is another route. we will then urge senator mcconnell and speaker ryan to work with democrats to create a new and improved version of the independent counsel law which would give a three-judge panel the authority to appoint an independent counsel. this was a law that was on the books, put in place after watergate, to avoid a repeat of events like the saturday night massacre. it was designed for this purpose. unfortunately, it was not drafted with enough constraints. congress allowed the authority to expire after ken starr's investigation into whitewater went out of control. ken starr went too far he tested the boundaries of the authority he was given. the law, the original independent counsel law, went too far. sorry, the law, the independent counsel law, was

what about this flow of back and forth between the united states? what is the historical context for that? ms. cullison: the historical context has a lot to do with the fact that much of the u.s., the western region used to be mexico. so, there has for more than, you know, more than a century, been a circular migration of people just with families just with , mercantile kinds of circuits, this sort of natural human travel where the border to not -- did not really have any significance in a political way to these people that were making this circular migration. what happened over the 20th century with the invention of border patrol in the 1920's but then with increasing enforcement efforts, starting especially in the 1960's, what starts to happen is people start to decide that it's too risky to return to mexico for fear of being able to come back in. to be stopped at the border. if they have already got a family established here, if they have other ties and interests, it is better to stay here. so what some scholars have called the unintended consequ

while police say the fight was between opposing teams...nesses we spoke with say the fans involved in the fight were both fans of team america... from mexico city. "fans from the same team just different clubs, it's weird, it's weird." (jr stone) we are now less than 24 hours ahead of a meeting that could decide which city the raiders will call home. kron4's mark carpenter is live in phoenix, arizona tonight.... mark? (jr stone) we have team coverage tonight on the raiders relocation vote... oakland's final push to keep the raiders in town is not getting high praise from the n-f-l commissioner... roger goodell responded to mayor libby schaaf in a letter friday, and now - less than 24 hours before n-f-l team owners are set to vote on the proposed move -- we know more of what he wrote to her. kron four's spencer blake looks at what might be sinking raider fans' last hope. the big word in commissioner roger goodell's letteris viability.an n-f-l dot com article highlighted some of his concerns with oakland's final proposal.for example, he says,

schuylkill expressway eastbound shut down between passyunk and broad street.nvolving a box truck. facing sideways across the road. a mess of a situation right now. stick to oregon avenue. big problems as you're heading eastbound trying to get towards the walt whitman bridge. meanwhile looking live outside on the vine street expressway, some of your roads a little bit damp but not causing a major problem. no overnight construction there. it's our second morning we have a problem on 130. another issue in new jersey in burlington county were it some and downed wires. this time it's at new albany road, tam. >> okay, thank you, karen. >>> taking a look now at business, some interesting news. expect month are traffic at the airport this spring. airlines for america expects 145 million people to travel between march and april 30th. that's up 4 percent from last year. they say fares have gone lower and people have morehouse hold wealth so they're taking more trips. >>> credit card applications are down by 55 percent for wells fargo. the numbers for last month show the

the fbi is investigating possible links between donald trump and the russian government.he fbi director -- we will bring you these latest comments including his response to president trump's claim that former president barack obama wiretapped his thoughts. angela merkel warns that turkey's president against continuing to compare the german government to the nazis. that is after president erdogan says chancellor merkel was employing nazi methods. heavy rain in peru causes deadly flooding as well as mudslides and avalanches, and there is still more bad weather to come. ♪ i'm sarah kelly. thank you very much for joining us. the fbi says that is looking into whether or not donald trump's presidential campaign work together with the russian government to win trump the white house. the united states intelligence community has long expressed the belief that russia's interference with last year's presidential election could have actually happened. but this is the first time they have confirmed an investigation into possible coordination between the trump team and moscow. reporter

so what is the purpose of continuing to describe between being divided between sunnis and allies.and i urge everybody to be careful about these descriptions. we don't want more religious sect tyrian strife in our region. we've had enough. [applause] and this is an issue here that many in that administration think it could be done. let's bring the saudi's, amorous, both countries and try to make them sends this common danger with the country, regional power power in iran and hopefully maybe israel can manage to convince them to accept to make peace before they make peace with palestinians. >> this has been tried many times before. it did not work. even if there are different circumstances who want to do that in the region, it is not going to happen. it's going to be difficult to justify two arab people in all these countries why their governments are making them lasting peace with israel before the palestinian conflict is not resolved. instead of doing that, instead of circumventing the arab peace initiative, but pushed the arab peace initiative which will enable israel to have pea

he's described as being between 5'6 and 5'8 and between 35-40 years old and weighing between 190 and00 pounds. the victim said he was wearing a green hooded sweatshirt. "we want the publics help, look at this sketch, do they recognize him." the second sexual assault happened about a half mile from the caltrain station exactly one week later on march 8th at about 9:17pm. the victim in that case was actually walking home from this transit station on 200 block of alma street when the suspect grabbed her. in this case the victim fought back and then chased after the suspect. this is a picture of the suspect from a surveillance camera of the suspect. the suspect in that case also described as being in his thirties or 40's, about 5'8 and wearing a green jacket. "it is kind of scary to think that where i think that i'm relatively safe, may not be." the sheriff's department has increased patrols in this area. while i've been here i have seen a strong police presence. reporting live in palo alto, lydia pantazes kron4 news. in santa clara, one man is dead in the city's first officer involved s

closehailing a cooperation between the two and syria. >> hailing closer ties between moscow and ankara, russian president vladimir putin offered a warm welcome to the turkish president. >> we are very happy connections between our countries are being reestablished quite quickly. we are actively working on solving the most acute crises in the world. first is the syrian one. >> relations between the two men weren't always so cordial. whenhit an all-time low turkey shut down a russian fighter jet after it had string to turkish airspace. thehe aftermath moscow band -- and halted agricultural imports, moves that hurt the turkish economy. moscow has yet to lift all the economic restrictions. at their meeting president erdogan urged russia to do so and restore visa free travel between the two countries. >> our expectation is to maintain reciprocal trust and expand dialogue on a political level. we expect russia to completely lift economic restrictions. way to achievey our $100 billion trade target. over thely at odds syrian war, the two countries have been core donating their military efforts

i want to sea peace between israel and palestinians and between israel and her neighbors, and that is what the vast majority of americans want. the u.s. has a strong national interest in securing this peace. the last thing we need is another active military conflict in the middle east which could draw in u.s. forces. that's why over 40 years u.s. policy has held that the only realistic path to peace is through a two-state solution. the palestinians are entitled to a homeland. and a two-state solution is the only viable path forward for israel. as secretary kerry said, and i quote, if the choice is one state, israel can either be jewish or democratic. it cannot be both, end quote. given mr. friedman's past staunch support for a one-state solution and expansion of israeli settlements, is he really ready and able to embrace and put forward opposing policy positions? can he ever be viewed by the palestinians and the international community as an honest broker? i'm under no illusion about how difficult it will be to achieve peace between israel and the palestinians. many presidents and abl

meddling since july, and now, for the first time, he says that includes alleged links and coordination between moscow and trump associates. >>> no wiretapping. the fbi chief publicly dismisses president trump's claims that he was wiretapped by president obama, saying there is no information to support those allegations. >>> on defense. the white house is not apologizing, saying nothing has changed. while the president's tweets suggest a new conspiracy theory. >>> after an ominous rocket engine test, north korea says it's not afraid of the u.s. and threatens to use what it calls its nuclear sword for self-defense. >>> i am wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." >>> breaking news. fbi director james comey today publicly rejected president trump's claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. and then comey dealt the white house a stunning new blow, saying for the first time that the bureau is looking into alleged links and coordination between russia and trump associates, part of a criminal investigation into russian meddling in the u.s. election. that investigation has been going on,

day, and also contacts between russia and the trump administration itself. he needs to recuse because of all of that. the department of justice rule i think is very clear. but the news this morning about his misleading comments at the confirmation hearing suggest that. that's number one. second, i think the judiciary committee should bring him back before the committee. put him under oath and ask him questions about the answers that he gave both in his verbal testimony and in his written answers to questions that were prepared -- presented by senators. >> even without jeff sessions, do you believe that the justice department can conduct a fair investigation into russia's interference into this election? >> i think this will be very, very difficult. i do believe that there ought to be an independent prosecutor, and i certainly believe that this is something that congress has to take very seriously. currently the intel committee in the senate is taking this very seriously and moving ahead. whether that will be sufficient, i think determines -- will be determin

most of the fire was between the election‘s two leading contenders.agreed on |anuel contenders. marine le pen and her centi disagreed on almost everything. they disagreed on almost everything. immigration, free trade and the place of immigrants in france. a few yea rs place of immigrants in france. a few years ago there were no bikinis on the beach and i know you are for them. it is a trap to turn the bikini intoa them. it is a trap to turn the bikini into a big debate about secularism. that is the trap we are falling into. it is to divide society and turn the 4 million muslims living in our country into of the republic. francois enemies of the republic. francois fillon was for once is not the centre of attention. he may have been hoping for a presidential kind of reserve. but, after all the surprises in this election, it's not clear as to the kind —— that is the kind of president france once anymore. supporters of marine le pen are seen as fiercely loyal and she is expected to get through to the second round of the election. the debates are largely a

this is a period between the two countries. but of course after, we have a chart with 100 then you can see this as no surprise to anyone they've done very well and the successor states have done poorly. but if you go back to 1985 what becomes clear from the entire postwar period it wasn't in a state of crisis and it was basicallbasically at this year k power and then it catastrophically collapsed. why did that happen? those are the basic schools of thought one is on the left end of the political spectrum and the other is on the right and they make reference to china so on the left, the soviet union should have followed the transitions of the idea that capitalism created too much corruption or output and if only they followed the chinese economic there would have been better results. on the right end of the authoritarian right that we see in russia today, it's different but is made reference to china if only they had abandoned democracy that kept the authoritarian rule they could have pushed through the resistance that would hav

the alternative are admitting there is no difference between the pkk and ypb. pkk is a listed terrorist but in there has over in been a pkk in syria. the previous administration supported yp x. that was saddening because this terrorist organization is targeting us and affects our relationships and the perceptions of turkish people towards the united states and the united states government. there -- therefore we are expecting a better cooperation in that sense because cannot be understood that it is not correct to fight against with one terrorist organization, whereas cooperate with the other. this will mark a big risk and threat for the united states for future. today i shared concerns with my colleague today. we can fight against daesh together. 68 countries came together in washington last week, hosted by mr. tillerson. that 68 countries, as nato, as the old international organization, if we cannot defeat one terrorist organization, if we need another terrorist organization to defeat daesh, then we should all check ourself how capable we are we can do that fo

a period of new relations between the two country's governments. after 1989, the two countries diverged sharply, here's a chart of chinese and russian gdp. and china has done very, very well, and the soviet union and its successor states have done rather poorly. if grew back to 1985, the year that mikhail gorbachev took power, becomes clear that although the soviet union is in stagnation from the entire post war ford 1985 it was not in state of crisis in 198 5689 the budget deficit is at zero when gorbachev took power and then the budget collapses and the question i would to ask what was about perestroika that led to the entire country hurdling towards economic disaster. why did that happen? there are two basic schools of thoughts in explaining the collapse. one on the left end, the other on the right end and beth arguments make reference to china. on the left of the political speck truck the argue. is that the soviet union should have followed china's more gradual economic transition. that capitalism created to much corruption or not enough output

then we have an accident in hamilton township, new jersey, 195 west is closed between 130 and hamilton square road, your nate route 130 is going to be your best bet. i will let you know it has been out there and we are slowing down, just a little bit around that accident. then we have another accident, car went in the pole here, roosevelt boulevard north bound at red lion road starting to slow down, around that area as well. then we have a lot of congestion to talk about when we come back in the next 10 minutes, jim and rahel, back over to you. >>> this morning a major marijuana growing operation is busted in chester county. >> police say a hunter tipped them off after noticing a strong odor of raw marijuana search warrant in this north coventry home turned up mature marijuana plants worth half million-dollar. three cuban nationals tied to mexico lived in the home. also found inside an exotic monkey. >> when you go in the drug house you never are sure what you will fine. we found snakes, we found alligators. you know, that you will find money, you might find guns, you will find drugs.

we are seeing increased tensions between israel and syria.y is it that this might escalate into a war? >> our policy was clear. the brutal civil war in syria with many casualties, we decided not to interfere unless are direct interest are under affect. seems that there is on iranian attempts to transform syria into some kind of extension of iran. ofmake syria some kind iranian military stronghold. this is a great to israel, but to all around the region, saudi arabia and others. peninsula will be affected by iranians in syria. this is something the international community under the leadership of the united states and russia should prevent. aria should not become military extension of iran. not now, in not in the future. yousef: we will have to leave it there. we are out of time. for is israel's minister national infrastructure, energy, and resources. still to calm, we are going to talk about bond yields and the crude oil markets. we have libyan exports looking to come back online. what are the implications of all of that? this is bloomberg. ♪

not would say they are aware of exchanges between countries.e have an image of international students being but in many times scholarships allow them to come. if we want to have a diverse group of mexican students in the united states, we need to con tinue to support scholarships. host: does the mexican government continue to keep up the scholarship or grant? absolutely. i think the scholarships have been protected even when there are budget cuts. newman andl grace jennifer collison. thank you for being with us here on american history tv. >> thank you. >> you are watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like is on facebook. on lectures in history, shepherd university professor benjamin bancfirst teaches a class on appellation in the american imagination. he describes how the stereotype has changed over time from being hillbilliesackwards " to people respected for their folk culture. hour.asses about one benjamin: all right. let's go a a

was an that there altercation between two people. one person was injured and it was not clear the type of left and that was used. the second incident happened short time later at the gallery , involving atation manager in the passenger. the passenger reportedly refused to leave and assaulted them before they took off. they were caught just a few blocks away from the station. breaking this morning, investigators pinpointing the case of an overnight fire in montgomery county that broke out this morning in the basement of a home on sheridan street. improperly dispose of smoking materials started the flame. fire was quickly brought under control, no one was hurt, but the family living in the home is now displaced three larry? in thethe man accused deadly firebombing of a home, turning himself in, cameras were rolling as police arrested antonio right, he threw two molotov cocktails into the home, trapping eight people inside in leading to the death of two teenagers. a 20-year-old woman remains in critical condition after jumping from the

again i would say between 12:30 if well off north and west to 4:00. primetime for thunderstorms across the region. some could be strong. okay, warm weather momentarily and -- >> big problem on the roads a lot of slow downs and cooshs and negotiate baltimore washington crash jammed bang to the beltway take 95 northbound to get to baltimore beltway this morning and southbound congestion 95 copeston and 95 northbound stafford keep it to fox news morning. we'll look at metro as we continue grit. some have it, some don't. when the odds are stacked against you, you either hide or stand up. at strayer university we've seen it in our students for 125 years. and if you ever think of quitting, our success coaches will be there to pick you up and work with you every day to put you on the right path. it's time. strayer university. let's get it, america. >> we're a country that stand united in condemning hate and evil in all of the very ugly forms. >> a new tone from xhapdner chief during first address to a joint congress. >>> reaction pouring from both side of th

undisclosed contact between russia and donald trump associates during and after the campaign. one after the other after the other. just weeks ago, president trump flatly proclaimed he had nothing to do with russia and no person he deals with does. well, his attorney general did. today, he recused himself from any campaign investigation because of it. tonight, we are learning other advisers did, too, during the republican convention. cnn's jim acosta has that. he joins us from the white house. what are you learning? >> reporter: that's right, john. we understand from talking to a former national security adviser, j.d. gor ddon, he and others met with the russian ambassador during the republican convention in cleveland last july. according to j.d. gordon, the me meeting occurred during it. gordon said he and other advisers explained how they would like to see and the campaign would like to seibert relations between u.s. and russia. all this is important because gordon says he was part of a trump campaign effort to put a change in the republican party platform that advocated agai

>> know, what i think we see right now is between -- this tug-of-war between economics and politics,bly economics is winning right now for politics in the market discounting the rates. probably they are right to because political risk what we have seen over the past few months, whether in the u.s. will -- thehat judiciary power can actually hinder the executive willingness. i guess making the parallel with -- whatwhen people's people start to realize is that after the presidential election, there is a parliamentary election and that the road for the president to call a referendum on the euro -- ngings is actually quite goes for everybody as well. what you are telling us is whoever wins this in france is unlikely to be able to significantly change the economic trajectory of france question jean: what i am saying is the presidential election is not the end game. after parliamentary election. that can be a strong mitigating factor with regards to any kind of direction the president wants to take. either way, the two candidates, which are leaving in the poll right now with marine le pen

you've seen this serious disintegration between relations between north korea and china over the lastears. a serious challenge and may be the first real crisis this administration will face. what to do? i think we need to look at the sanctions regime. i would recommend looking at a regime that gets to the level that we got to, for example, with iran where there were regime threatening sanctions. second, this is a real test for the u.s./china relationship in our ability to work together with them on a serious security issue which we have not been fully aligned with to date. some progress, but not fully aligned. third, we need to continue to put in place the kind of defensive measures that we need to have in the region. and at that point from a position of strength, you'd want to have a negotiation get under way that would address the program. but this is very serious problem. >> steve, i hate to do this to you, but you have one minute to solve the north korean problem. >> we tried negotiations, we had an agreement in the clinton administration and in the bush administration for north k

we moved quickly to the collusion between, the coordination between americans and the russians. we didn't hear a lot about the attack, itself, and i hope in future week and months we get to know more about that so we can begin to talk about the prescriptions for preventing it in the future. >> name some of those for our audience. what would you recommend if you were called as a witness tomorrow by the intelligence committee? >> i would want to know more about the capacity of the russian government to interfere in our elections. we know they stole data from the dnc and stole data information from mr. podesta then published it. it sounds like they also stole data from the republican party. why didn't they publish that? we need to know more about that. were they really as partisan as -- >> at the second -- >> go ahead. >> the second thing i would say is at the time remember there was lots of reporting about oh my goodness, they might actually be getting into the computer and network systems that are in charge of tabulating the votes. now, they didn't do that. i think the evidence i

it was a thriving port, midway between belfast and dublin.al advantage with partition was a major disadvantage. it was tied up in the hard border. our sister town across—the—board, dundalk, was labelled al paso. the rural hinterland was stigmatised by the british media during the troubles as bandit country. little wonder no—one wants a return to hard border. london and dublin both say cross—border trade should remain free. but how, when the uk might well be porting goods from around the world that contravene eu import rules, could you stop those goods moving illegally across this border and into the european single market? again, no one knows. but if you live here, it's the most urgent question. i didn't sign up for this, this is not my dayjob, i'm not a politician, i don't want to be doing this. but i have grown up in this place, and i've seen it at its worst, and i've had the privilege of participating with others in its rebirth. and i don't want to lose that. membership of the european year has also transformed the irish republic. europe i

we have our first morning accident on the majors blue route, this is 476 southbound between right betweenwill get for a ride here on the southbound side between route three and the macdade boulevard interchange, heading on down maybe get an early flight out of philly international, not blocking any lanes but that stretch that they don't have overhead street lamps. coming up, jenny joyce live at the shooting location, germantown avenue blocked right here near upsol so watch out for local detours as that investigation goes in the beginning of the morning. lower merion a crash, haverford road at medford road and they are working on the turnpike between route 13 delaware valley interchange and the philly interchange. not a lot of traffic at this hour but that route one philadelphia bensalem interchange is where they advised everybody to jump off to avoid that turnpike connection bridge closure. they are still working over here in south jersey on the ramps between the 25, 42 that whole interchange there construction until about 5:30 or so. good morning to northeast philadelphia, live look at i

while police say the fight was between opposing teams... witnesses we spoke with say the fans involved in the fight were both fans of team america... from mexico city. "fans from the same team just different clubs, it's weird, it's weird." (jr stone)only on kron 4 - tenants at the kean hotel in san francisco's soma district are frightened after video surfaced of what they believe is their neighbor killing his pet kitten.they say cameras captured their neighbor 44- year-old kenneth price slamming what looks to be a pet carrier onto the hallway floorwith his kitten inside. before seeing the video shot on march 11th.... another tenant says price called him up the night crying that his cat died but his stories of áhow it happened didn't add up. when they found the video tenants and employees say the cat had to have been in that carrier and suspect that was how it broke it's neck and died. .... octavia dijon, tenant"the night clerk called me up and asked me to called me up and "the night clerk tenantoctavia dijon, tenant"the night clerk called m

between the differences the labor and student migrants were not always so clear. sometime students work in similar jobs that labor migrants did. they could be confused for labor migrants in some situations, which students could take offense at, because of their own prejudices. fall within the broader group of mexicans in the united states. obviously students, come from better backgrounds and perhaps laborers in terms of their wealth and their parents, were the way they were treated by the u.s. government, by immigration officials, were they different? ms. cullison: i would say soap . -- i would say so. for the laborers, it was very much a process in the 1950's, i go forward to 1996 and i can explain that more later, but it was very much a process of screening who would be good potential laborers and agricultural and some industry at the time. thist was very fluid with program but the program would only allow people to be here for a certain restricted period for a season or two. then they were supposed to return to mexico. the program was, as continued from 1942-19

between route 30 and boot road. right lane block, between nine a.m. and 3:00 p.m. it doesn't start until 9:00 a.m. which would be nice, we push past our first bulk of the rush hour first, also more construction here 313, between blue route road and 113 closed until may. more on that coming up in the next ten minutes, rahel, over to you. >> new this morning, man shot and killed at philadelphia olney section, police were called out to fourth and ralston streets after 2:00 a.m. found 23 year old man shot in the head, what they believe to be point blank range. pronounced dead at the scene. police have not released the identity of the victim. they are still looking for shooter and motive. >> well, following some breaking news from overnight. the us has banned carry on electronics from son non-stop flight coming from the middle east and part of africa. >> expect to get more details on the ban from officials later today. right now our trang do is live at phl with more on the temporary ban. good morning. >> yes, any electro

i thought the conversation was good between them.here they agree d and where they didn't. that's an honest place to begin. i think chancellor merkel would have liked a stronger response from the you sats on the european union. every american president since harry truman has supported euro european unity. this administration apparently is not. i think the germans will take that away from the press conference. >> i don't think that you can say every president going back to truman -- we didn't have the european union in its current form. isn't there a difference between, quote, supporting europe and then supporting the european union or european monetary union in the form in which it exists today? they are different things. >> i disagree. harry truman supported the steel and coal community, eisenhower, the treaty of rome. every president the common market. european unity means peace in europe between france and germany. the germans and europeans are afraid, especially the steve bannon faction wants the european union to disintegrate and

between donald trump and the russians, between his campaign and the russians, between his -- let me finishtween his campaign and the russians and between his associates and the russians, we are seeing impediments thrown out by the white house and by republicans on capitol hill, almost every day now, particularly in the house, to keep the truth from being known wherever it goes. this is an extraordinary situation, and the important thing is that the leaders of the counter intelligence investigation by the fbi and the intelligence investigations by the other government agencies, understand there's a cover-up going on. >> we have got to take a quick bra break, we're going to continue this discussion, we're also following what director comey says tonight. we'll have that after a short break. kevin, meet your father. kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin kevin trusted advice for life. kevin, how's your mom? life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you. >>> gloria, there's new information on jared kushner? >> i have been told by someone who's famil

anything that anyone could do to achieve peace between israeli and the neighbors. in short, i believe that david friedman deserves the support of the committee and the full senate, and if u i may, mr. chairman, and senator cardin, i will say that i hope that the support is bipartisan, because it would be a shame to have this committee and the senate dividele along party lines on a matter so central to america's relationship with israeli which has historically and importantly been a safe zone of nonpartisanship even when just about everything else was divided among party lines. i thank you for this opportunity, and i am proud to introduce david friedman to you and the committee. >> thank you so much. we appreciate both of you being here with the comment, and you are welcome to know that we did not consider that impolite. and if you are going stay, it is likely that you are going to be interrogated and so with that i would leave. and now, with a brief comment for senator cardin and for the state of play, we have a vote at 10:30 to drag on a while, and hopefully we ca

. >>> relations between the united states and russia been icy at least. now the revelation that two russians behind the yahoo cyberattack, only escalated. spoke with the counsel general of the russia federation in moscow. >> innocent until proven guilty in court of law. >> responding to fbi announcement that the agency filed criminal charges against russian intelligence agents and two hackers working for them. fbi says they stole private information from millions of americans after hacking into half a billion yahoo accounts. >> let's not talk about them like criminals. >> counsel general in san francisco would go no further, not even say if russia would hand over the intelligence agents if found guilty. he was adamant though that russia had no influence in the november u.s. elections. >> as far as i know my government approached the u.s. government requesting this evidence and never received anything. >> he's cautiously optimistic under president trump the relationship between the two countries will improve. insists under president obama things deteriorat

he asked was there any contact between the campaign and russian officials.e did not use the word collusion. >> he said if there was, would you recuse yourself. >> no, no. he asked him point-blank was there any contact and jeff sessions said no, when he had met with kislyak twice. >> do you have the tape? >> so many other sketchy characters that also happened to have met with kislyak. >> we'll be right back. an unlimited data plan is only as good as the network it's on. and verizon has been ranked number one for the 7th time in a row by rootmetrics. (man) hey, uh, what's rootmetrics? it's the nation's largest independent study and it ranked verizon #1 in call, text, data, speed and reliability. (woman) do they get a trophy? not that i know of. but you get unlimited done right. (man 2) why don't they get a trophy? (man 3) they should get something. (woman 2) how about a plaque? i have to drop this. my arm's getting really tired. unlimited on verizon. 4 lines, just $45 per line. >>> i'm back now with my panel. i promised liz wall she'd get the first answer. >>

this idea there's a feud between the fbi director and the white house. the fbi director incredulous that president trump accused president obama of wiretapping. if director comey has something to say, perhaps he can issue a statement or be more explicit. we know he's not shy. alice, those seem like loaded words from kellyanne conway. do you think it's toime for jams comey to speak up? >> there were a lot of people concerned when they saw the tweets come out about accusing president obama of wiretaps. and i think comey was right to be concerned about that. but whether or not he should be the one to come forward remains to be seen. look, if i were him, i wouldn't want to know unequivocally that i have the full faith and confidence of the president because general flynn had that and was gone a few days later. it's right to sit back and let the information present itself, but i do think it's important that if the president is going to make such a claim, i think it's important to put some more information out there because i think a baseless claim like this w

and germany and particularly between the u.s., europe, and russia. the refugees really feel the issue of how the west deals with the syrian crisis. and has a deal with russian intervention in the syrian .risis about the refugees, they are the key issues they need to get over to create a productive relationship that deals with some of the trade issues, climate change, and other priority issues with merkel and president trump. david: given the viewpoint from donald trump's point of view, what does it take to get a win today? -- that is ahim great question. we saw a little bit of awkwardness, the meeting in the oval office when they seems to decline to shake hands. i think a win would be a promise to keep discussing how to deal with the u.s. trade deficit with germany. a win for merkel would be getting trump to maybe stop cheerleading the dissolution of the eu the way he did with the brexit folks. tony, are you with us? can you tell us what a win looks like for berlin? tony: merkel will have to play a balancing act. bill is right. that is one of the thi

>> yes, the center pole is the link between the world and the earth.e are connected. >> and this is the center of every vodou temple? >> this is the center of everything. >> and these designs -- >> these are called veve. they present a spirit. what it is, it's a canal for the spirit to come in. >> john's has separate rooms, each dedicated to a specific loa or spirit. each room is decorated to represent the loa's distinct personality. there's a saying that i've heard before, it says something along the lines of, you go to a catholic church to talk to god, you go to a vodou temple to become god. >> god is far away, up there, but to become a god. that's not so good to see a god because we believe there is one single god. >> so there's one god, and that's the creator god, but he's distant. >> very distant. >> you know, he's unconcerned with us, and the loa are how we, in a sense, communicate with that god. the loa are aost intermediaries between us and god. >> you're totally right. >> the knocking is to let the spirits know we're coming. >> to let the spir

. >> islamophobia is at the heart of a breakdown in relations between turkey and germany. that is the accusation of the turkish foreign minister after meeting his german counterpart on wednesday morning. the meeting had been billed as an attempt to calm relations between berlin and and kara, which hit a new low this week after the turkish president accused germany of nazi -- relations between berlin and ankara. see islamophobia extension it. very dangerousa trend. >> the german foreign minister strauch a more placating tone, saying the nato allies had no choice but to keep talking. >> despite the differences on both sides, there is no alternative to dialogue. that is the only way we can return step-by-step to a normal and friendly relationship between germany and turkey. >> these -- the inflammatory statements followed a decision by several to cancel rallies in support of an upcoming referendum in turkey on sharply increasing the president's powers. anger in germany at the reference to the darkest period in its history has further soured an already tense relationship with

there cannot even be the shred of a connection between the attorney general, mr.essions, and this department of justice investigation into the events of 2016. second, if the justice department drags its feet and refuses to appoint a special prosecutor or selects someone with insufficient independence, there is another route. we will then urge senator mcconnell and speaker ryan to work with democrats to create a new and improved version of the independent counsel law which would give a three-judge panel the authority to appoint an independent counsel. this was a law that was on the books, put in place after watergate to avoid a repeat of events like the saturday night massacre. it was designed for this purpose. unfortunately, it was not drafted with enough constraints. congress allowed the authority to expire after ken starr's investigation into whitewater went out of control. ken starr went too far. he tested the boundaries of the authority he was given. the law, the original independent counsel law, went too far. sorry, the law, the independent law, was not draft

there is no contrast between what they did and we did. this was a full effort to reach out to members of the house and senate. it's going through regular order in the house. every member of the house and sthatd will be able to have their opportunity to have amendments offered through the committee process and then on the floor. so the idea they can compare the date they got a score is reaching deep. there's been an opportunity for members to have their input on this and to talk about their concerns, to give their input on it, especially the governors, who were left on the sideline last time. you have such an important role in administering health care when it comes to medicaid. the idea anyone talks about when a score was issued. there will be a score in all due time. the cbo was way off the last time. i don't think we're waiting to -- that that's a big issue to us right now. >> doesn't cost matter before -- >> of course cost matters but look how off they were last time. if you're looking to the cbo, you're looking in the wrong place. the

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a contrast between the house intelligence committee and senate intelligence commission.here's gridlock on the house side. a fight over chairman nunes and whether he should go forward. they do not like the way he briefed the president last week. nunes saying he's not going anywhere, he's going to continue to move forward, the question is how? leaders say they're moving forward in a bipartisan manner. and asked them yesterday will you look into this issue of russia collusion with the trump campaign and do you believe there's nothing there as the white house has suggested over and over again? >> we would be crazy to try to draw conclusions where we are in the investigation. i think mark and i have committed to let this process go through before we form any opinions. and i would hope that's what you would like us to do as much as we would like to share minute by minute even the snapshots we get as a team going through it are not always accurate when we find the next piece of intelligence. >> reporter: really leaving open the possibility there could be some collusion between

the other semi later today is between rafa nadal and italy‘s fabio fognini. centuries on his way to victory, with breaks of 100 and 106. the 22—year—old from iran now takes on mark williams for a place in the final, after he beat shaun murphy. that‘s all sport for now. i‘ll have more in the next hour. news coming into us about google‘s tax affairs, google, shrouded in controversy in the past, they have announced they have paid tax of £36 million, in the uk, for the year between july 2015 and june 2016. £36 million on a turnover of more than £1 billion. that is what we are hearing. we hope to speak with our expert on all of this next two minutes. —— july 2015 and june 2016. we will talk more about "brexit" later on but one of these stories is something we touched on earlier. china is closing almost half of its official ivory carving factories and shops today, with the rest due to close by the end of next year. the news has been welcomed by conservationists, in their battle against the illegal trade in ivory. despite a global ban on international sales, a surge

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