the video, the audio from the billy bush thing but i stayed with him and i got my television butt kickedn a daily basis. it wasn't easy being pro- trump for a long time. there were probably six months and it wasn't because i was liberal. anyway, he knew that and watched a lot of tv. after the election he calls me, the phone rings and i put him on the speaker. you know, you were with me from the start. i saw this coming and always had confidence in you for the first time mr. president. he said you know something else when it didn't look so good for me, you were there but here's the point. the reason that was relevant to me, universal about on the campaign trail. you never saw a doubt in his mind. he didn't want to portray that he wanted to confidence straight through. you know the media business and i've been honest about this as often as i can because it is important to be honest i voted for donald trump never in a million years thought i could possibly weather or the billy bush thing. you know the news media. this is the moment. think about this for one minute if it isn't a donald trump

unwelcome hand grab, and what's worse, is that after that, president macron bragged about it to billy bush"you should have seen him. "i moved on him like a bitch. "ah, when you are famous, you can do it, yeah. "i just grabbed him and he was like, "'let go, macron. let go.' "i said, 'you like that trump, don't you? "'you like that? "'yeah, you like it. you like it.'" now, uh... [cheers and applause] now, of course, that handshake didn't distract from trump's hands' real agenda at the nato meeting, and that was finger wagging. because during his speech, trump lambasted the europeans for not spending more on their militaries, and he wouldn't reaffirm america's commitment to defend europe. "look, if it was up to me, "i'd fight for you, but it's up to the orb now." [laughter] "and the orb says no." so in one day, trump may have done what russia has been trying to do for 50 years. right? and that is break the alliance between the united states and europe. - multiple signs of deep divisions between the president and other leaders. - an extraordinary rift has appeared between transatlantic friends

two days after the hollywood tapes came out, where donald trump was with billy bush talking about howomen's genitals. all week we have reported on the collision between a us destroyer and an oil tanker. this happened on monday, the fourth major accidents in the us fleet this year. now the us fleet commander, vice admiraljoseph o'cathain, has been relieved of his duties. the navy says he no longer —— it's no longer has confidence. this collision happened close to singapore. the vessel was moving eastwards. these are the faces that have lost the us seventh fleet commander his job. they are the seven young sailors who died aboard the uss fitzgerald when it was struck off the coast of japan in fitzgerald when it was struck off the coast ofjapan injune. now there are almost certainly ten more faces to be added to these. victims of the latest collision of the uss john mccain of the coursed... coast of singapore. the vice admiral was due to retire next month. instead, he is being very publicly sacked. this is the man who today fired him. us specific commander admiral scott swift. he said he

fits into this is what happened inside the trump campaign after the access hollywood tape, the billy bush one where trump said horrible things come all the mainstream republicans, looks like that was the end of the race and i described a scene in the book of how bannon fought back. he decided that the problem was the only story on cable news for 72 hours was the access hollywood tape so you need to change the imagery. how do you do that? bannon's answer was bring out clinton accusers, accuse bill clinton and hillary clinton of having committed and enabled sexual violence and it will be such a circus, such a display the cable news cameras or race to cover it and what is on tv? is that access hollywood? may be a little bit but that is not the only story, muddy the waters, create controversy and have a guy like trump who went in during the second debate and attacked clinton to her face for this very thing and we as the media are in a difficult position was on one level we know what they are doing, trying to muddy the waters and cause misdirection. on the other hand the republican candidate i

thing was an issue, the reporter for "the new york times" was an issue, the video, the audio from billy bush's thing was an issue but i stayed with him and i got my television, let's call it teeth kicked in, my butt kicked in on a daily basis, if you watch the five, it wasn't easy being protrump on the five for a very long time. there were probably six months where it was four on one and it wasn't because i was the liberalist because i was the protrump guy. he knew that. he watches a lot of tv. after the election, he calls me, i didn't even though, i'm driving home with my wife from dinner and the phone ring and it's caller id is blocked and it's donald, eric, it's donald, i'm like hey, i put him on speaker so my wife is listening. you know, you were with me from the start. i know, i saw this coming. i always had confidence in for the first time, mr. president. you know something else, when it didn't look so good for me you were there and so here is the point, the reason that was relevant to me was that you never saw that on the campaign trail. you never saw a doubt in his mind, but that's don

whether what he said to billy bush on that bus or what he says now about naziism. a whole exponential difference about treatment of women. here he's saluting the people. marching i know what swastikas and some of them using the nazi salute and he's defending them in spirit. is this equivalent to shooting someone on fifth avenue? how far can you go with this guy? >> i was very critical yesterday in my tweet and there should be no place in america for neo-nazis or anti-semites or white supremacists or members of the kmpkk. >> a leaked talking point memo suppose the white house is officially doubling down on the president's position. catch this. this is what they're told. the president was entirely correct, says the talking points. both sides of the violence in charlotte vilt acted inappropriately and bear some responsibility. politico reports, the president felt news conference went. better than his statement on monday. so he's happy with who he is now. and according the vice news, the president has yet to call the mayor of charlottesville. it seems like the presiden

or are they innocent, like his private messages with billy bush? we don't know. ( laughter ) all we know so far is, according to one of the president's lawyers, the messages expressed "appreciation and greetings. "appreciation and greetings." which must have looked pretty strange scrawled across a horse's head. i have to say-- >> jon: that mob stuff. >> stephen: yeah, take him out. i have to say, it seems strange that trump would be complimenting mueller in private, since publicly he's called the russia investigation "the single greatest witch hunt in american political history." unless "witch hunt" is also intended as a compliment. "super great witch hunt, bob. i hope you throw me in the river. i can't wait to find out if i float." we'll be right back with robert pattinson. ♪ ♪ ( applause ) [cup hits floor] [tray clatters on table] [improvised musical sounds] [improvised musical sounds] [bell rings] welcome to our school! [ gasps, laughs ] you ever feel like... cliché foil characters scheming against a top insurer for no reason? nah. so, why don't

we fellow about the billy bush tapes and they still vote ford him. there is a lot of the tension between the president and republicans on the hill. >> interesting. having said that, abby, the president has done a lot of things to get his party to condemn him in the past. as david just mentioned, there was the "access hollywood" video. there was saying senator john mccain not a war hero because he was captured, attacking john mccain, mika brzezinski and megyn kelly. it seems like no what happens, they just continue to support him. do you think this time it's going to be different? david says they're not ready to jettison him now, throw him overboard. what do you think? >> i think david's right. that's the big question here. there are a lot of republicans saying i think pretty vocally that they disagree with the president's behavior, that they refuse to listen to his agenda that they believe that some of the things that he's said and done are not befitting of the office. at the same time, they kind of want the same agenda that he does. and when push co

billy john needs two more surgeries. he has received letters of support from president obama, clinton and george w. bush. visited his dad's office for the first time. he said the baby is doing great, is smiling and is very interested in ceiling fans. >> way to go, billy. >>> a pounding hail storm slammed people east of the rocky mountains today. >> oh, my god. >> look at the cellphone video taken in fort collins, colorado. shows quarter-size hail stones coming down fast this afternoon, stripping the leaves off trees. and in kansas hail the size of baseballs destroyed a car windshield. the person who posted these pictures said, i'm alive, barely. >> wow. >> that's intense. >> certainly is. >>> nothing like that around here. it was a bit breezy again today. >> it was. meteorologist sandhya patel is looking ahead to the weekend. >> that's right. they have hail to worry about, dan and ama. here we have drizzle to worry about. i want to show you from our "abc 7 news" exploratorium camera a time lapse from earlier this evening. you will notice trans america pyramid, the financial district sock in. marine layer

billy john needs two more surgeries. he has received letters of support from president obama, clinton and george w. bush. visited his dad's office for the first time. he said the baby is doing great, is smiling and is very interested in ceiling ll. y.nsf >>> a pounding hail storm slammed people east of the rocky mountains today. >> oh, my god. >> look at the cellphone video taken in fort collins, colorado. shows quarter-size hail stones coming down fast this afternoon, stripping the leaves off trees. and in kansas hail the size of baseballs destroyed a car windshield. the person who posted these pictures said, i'm alive, barely. >> wow. >> that's intense. >> certainly is. >>> nothing like that around here. it was a bit breezy again today. >> it was. meteorologist sandhya patel is looking ahead to the weekend. >> that's right. they have hail to worry about, dan and ama. here we have drizzle to worry about. i want to show you from our "abc 7 news" exploratorium camera a time lapse from earlier this evening. you will notice trans america pyramid, the financial district sock in. marine layer was healthy until

whether or not he would accept the words and sentiments, it is anyone's guess >> if we go back to the billy bush tape where he came out and his wife came out, that is not who i am, et cetera. tla wou that would appear to be the greatest crisis moment of the campaign we look to see how he obviously recovered from that. >> i think he needs to remember that defiant and defensiveness are not very good. who knows whether this president has it in him to do it >> i worked for a president that had a crisis of his own, bill clinton. he was impeached it was a crisis, dominated the headlines. any policy objectives he may have had, domestic or international, were overshadowed by monica lawinsky how do you recover >> well, i was not working for him there. >> he was the president that you did serve under. >> wone of the things the president was good about was keeping the white house and his policies focused on the work of the american people even during the impeachment process. that is why and how he came through it bill clinton got up every day to help move forward an agenda that is helping them. that came t

he was making comments to billy bush, he didn't admit to that. >> he did it.ten to this, it sounds like that that was -- this is one of the central issue of her campaign is that she struggled to be herself or that the american people or at least voters weren't sure who she really was because she was so guarded and she was basically focused grouping every action and reaction she had on the campaign trail. >> right, she sounds like an absolute robot and that's what the american people saw, moreover she's so worried about donald trump f she wants to be the president of the united states, she's going to deal with many, many difficult tough and potentially creepy men so getty up hillary clinton, moreover, there are so many problems with the democratic party and stop boring about this, she should start to rebuild the democratic party. right now there's no voice in the democratic party. look what happened this summer with special elections, democrats outfund raised and they won 0-4, the republicans took all special elections, right now who does the party have, chuck

bush as well. billy just visited his dad's office for the first time.mel said the baby is doing great, smiling, and very interested in ceiling fans, he says. >> okay. it's like a mobile. >> yeah. >> a happy hour and wine tasting, maybe even a museum. the oakland a's want to know what you want in the new ballpark. >> what happens next on this surveillance video. >> we're all anxiously waiting for the solar eclipse. the warning astronomers are giving if you want to catch it. first this morning's tech bites. >> in today's tech bites, amazon is trying to become your source for concert tickets. >> the online retailer is trying to find a partner to distribute event tickets here in the u.s. and that would put amazon in direct competition with ticketmaster. >> consumer reports has pulled its recommendation of microsoft surface laptops and tablets. >> after a survey of nearly 91,000 users say they break too soon, especially compared to other brands. microsoft disagrees with the findings. >> nba fans in miami will have to be sure to bring their smartphones to the