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is that the bob corker that is doing all of this? a temper tantrum, and it is while the president's way. that looks really badly, mostly on bob corker. >> well, it is a different temperature, certainly. trifling, in my opinion, and this is exactly why judge kavanaugh is being nominated, because i think one of the big things that we are not talking about, roe v. wade is being talked about a lot, but i think that they will be supporting a lot about checks on presidential authority. this is one of those sort of things, you're going to see this over and over again. going forward, because i think that the senate is concerned about how much power he has. >> harris: kevin, there is news coming in now with that chairman corker of the senate foreign relations committee, saying that his motion opposing the president actually puts him in check. what the president is doing is absolutely wrong. this was a test vote of sorts. >> and it was clear that the committee did it? the committee chairs, right? so that is what this is. i don't know the compo

senator bob corker, on the senate relations committee, doing the same thing. we can actually look at orrin hatch speaking in the halls as we speak. looking at senator hatch with brett kavanaugh. that was just right there, with the supreme court nominee. before he and kavanaugh got behind closed doors, the two of them, senator hatch, spoke about what's happening here in brussels. to talk more about what's happening in brussels, i want to go to my colleague, kristen welker, who is covering this with me on our road trip together. we've been talking about the domestic response and the response from allies. what about the response from the president's own inner circle? it was striking to watch the president in some settings, looking at john kelly, looking at secretary pompeo, secretary mattis here, and thinking, man, this is not quite how they wanted this thing to go. >> >> reporter: i think it is a fair assessment, hallie. you could see it in their facial expressions. these summits are all about the optics. secretary mattis though, the defense secretary, is one to

and bo bob corker. >> i think he is trolling peop people.his is in the purview of the executive branch. >> that happens in venezuela, where i just was. you don't do, that i can't believe they allowed it to be aired. to be honest. it is a banana republic thing. kennedy: what did adam schiff and nancy pelosi have a baby and name it bob corker? this not venezuela, with all due respect, we're debating about it. and lawyer speaker, the president buzz to the bluff. and political analyst say he does have the right to evoke security clearance for whoever he wants to no longer have it, great sentence. is trump playing hardball? or empty threat. joining me now mollie hemingway, welcome back to the show. >> great to be here. kennedy: for fans of limited government, and certainly shrinking the scope of government, why do so many people have continued security clearance to begin with? >> there is an idea when you have a transition from one administration to next, it could be helpful for people to have the security clearance in case they need to be called

bob corker criticized the summit.sn't he the chair of a committee that could compel testimony from the administration and other experts about what exactly was agreed to in helsinki, what the preparations were for helsinki? could not republicans pass legislation to defend robert mueller? could not a single republican in the senate refuse to vote for -- move forward key legislation until the president -- administration agrees to testify about what happened in helsinki? they are voluntarily choosing to abdicate their responsibility for oversight for the reason that matt alluded to, which is that there is a bargain here. the president is giving them their judges, their tax cuts, regulations they want that they did not have the power to achieve without oat vthe oval o. in return, they are turning away from what might have been impeachment hearings if hillary clinton -- >> maybe this is the straw. i don't know. >> i don't think there's a straw. >> thank you both. >>> top house republicans are set to speak after they split w

lisa mccow ski, the two most moderate republicans who support abortion rights and jeff flake and bob corker, two senators who are retiring and emboldened. he needs to win those folks over. if he can't win those over, he needs to hope he can get at least the same three democrats that voted for neil gorsuch last time. and ansion, joe donnelly heidi of north dakota. host: joe crowley lost that seat. you tweeted about it in the victory of alexander ria cortez saying politicians face a rorschach test. what did you mean by that? how do you think democrats will tailor eir message or their message? david: mr. crowley was trying to position himself to be the lead next leader to have house democrats. cortez represents a generational breakthrough for the democrats and an id logical breakthrough for the democrats. how much that is going to be repeated, i don't know. i do think her message or what she wants people to remember as her message was something that i'm going to guess that we're going to hear more and more from democrats between now and the election. not so much her message of progressivism. s

we think also jeff flake and bob corker, two senators who are retiring and feel somewhat emboldened. so he needs to windows folks over. and at the same time if he cannot windows over, he needs -- he has to those over, hope for those three democrats who voted last time. mansion, joe donnelly, and heidi heitkamp. >> let's talk about one election in particular, the new york 11, joe crowley losing. you tweeted about it, saying politicians face a rohrsach test as they assess the defeat of joe crowley. what did you mean by that and how do you think democrats will tailor their message ahead of the midterms? story with is a multifaceted story lies behind it, not the least of it that mr. crowley was trying to position himself to become the next house leader of democrats. and not that -- not just that ms. cortez represents a generational breakthrough for the democrats. an ideological breakthrough. we don't know how much that will be repeated. what she wants people to remember is her message was something that i'm going to guess that we are going to hear more and more from democrats between now

why is bob corker so weak and feckless in the chair of cabot lodge and william fulbright? >> and jonathan capehart, james comey has really stepped into this now politically, calling on voters to get rid of this republican congress. >> look, he had a partisan message there in the tweet that you just showed. but i think helsinki sort of highlighted that what is happening now is no longer partisan. it is now an american issue. to watch the president of the united states throw his intelligence advisers, throw american democracy under the bus the way he did, standing next to america's chief adversary, against a president and a nation that would love nothing more than to see american democracy disintegrate and crumble is just galling. and i think democrats and republicans, independents, anyone who loves this country must demand that the white house be held accountable. and if congress isn't going to do it, then it's we the people through our power at the voting booth who will have to do it by putting people in congress who will hold the executive accountable. >> yeah, james come

i just spoke with bob corker, the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. he is not fan of the proposal. >> i can't even believe that somebody at the white house thought up something like this. i mean, when you're going to start taking retribution against people who are your political enemies in this manner, that's the kind of thing that happens in venezuela, where i was just recently. you just don't do that. i can't believe they even allowed it to be aired, to be honest. i mean, it's a banana republic kind of thing. >> reporter: banana republic comparison. it will not be well received at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. corker, as you know, we talk about this all the time, is pretty critical of the white house on things like this, but his general frustration there, almost throwing up his hands that this was discussed, much less something being considered as administration policy, speaks to, i think, the larger frustration that folks have on the hill when the white house rolls things like this out with little or no consultation with their own party her

but before he could even begin, republican chairman, bob corker, who is not running for re-election, unloaded on the nation's top diplomat. >> you come before a group of senators today who are filled with serious doubts about this white hoe and its conduct of american foreign policy. in the summit's aftermath, we saw an american president who appeared dismissive and deferential. from where we sit, it peers in a "ready, fire, aim," fashion, the white house is waking up every morning to making it up as they go. >> pompeo tried to reassure senators on the ruy,ssian pol announce what he called the new crimea declaration. in 2014. after the u.s. imposed snctions and refused to recognize crimea as part of russia. pompeo reiterated those policies. >> i want to ensure this mmittee the united states does not and will not recognize the annexation of crimea. >> both republican and democratic senators expressed repeated concerns about lasekt summit in helsinki, and what the president did and did not offer, led ranking member new jersey democrat bob menendez. >> did he tell putin i'll release o u

a fellow republican, chairman bob corker, expressed very dep concerns about president trump's approach to both summits with president putin and chairman kim jong-un. and not only, that the white house's general foreign policy. do you share those concerns? >> well, first of all, bob corker is a really good fri of mine, and i have great respect for his opinion, but he and i do differ significantly on a number of these issues. i think that secretary pompeo really laid out an excellent case today about how tough president trump has been on russia, more so than any of hise predecessorst sanctions, be it money spent on helping nato, being money spent on helping people in easternac ukraine, thet that they are absolutely refusing to acct russia's annexation of the crimea, and the list goes on and onnd on. i think he did really an excellent job ofu ptting to rest the national media's obsession with thiissue. >> as you know, a lot of people were concerned witidh prt trump's poldsicies tow russia acknowledge this administration's policies towards russia, as youd- mentiofor example sangzs with eas

i heard pompeo who does impress me said today he agreed with the chairman of the can committee, bob corker that they should be looking into tougher sanctions against russia. >> the way the president describes how he has reacted to russia, the tougher he has ever been. people may remember the u.n. ambassador. there are all these ways in which president trump is doing separate from the administration and he tries to take credit for it. >> the administration has been reluctant or unable to say. the need for secrecy and contentious back and forth with senator bob menendez. >> have the president told you what he and president putin discussed. >> presidents have a prerogative who they choose to be in meeting. >> did he tell putin that our relaxed sanctions. >> senator, what you need to conduct, your appropriate role, i will provide you today. i understand the game you are playing. >> i don't appreciate you characterizing my questions. my question is to get to the truth. we don't know what the truth is. >> let's talk about this. the president hasn't apparently told his secretary of state what wen

the chairman bob corker had the striking criticism. >> the president's actions that create tremendous distrust in the nation among our allies. it is palpable. it appears in a fire action the white house is making it up as they go. >> reporter: pompeo did state clearly that president trump accepts the intelligence community assessment that russia did interfere and he has a complete understanding about what happened. remember, trump would not say anything like that. not even close when he was there right by vladimir putin. >>> thank you, michelle kosinski. michael cohen's problems could get tougher now a secret recording has been leaked. it is a conversation with cohen and then candidate donald trump. they discuss a proposal to buy a playmate's story who had an affair with donald trump. it could hurt his ability to get a cooperation deal. a former federal prosecutor telling cnn they don't like to be part of any media circus. on wednesday, the president lashed out at cohen tweeting what kind of lawyer would tape a client? the president did not comment on the substance of the tape. >> cnn

senator bob corker a republican oftentimes ally of president trump. he also sounded off on that. suggesting the president was trying to tear dow nato. >> the rhetoric to me is is just damaging to us. and damaging to others unnecessarily. i there are ways of communicating with your friends and sometimes it feels like we punch our friend in the nose. and hold our hand out to people that are working strongly against us. >> the president allies also appear a little bis disspirited by the comments yesterday. particularly during the meeting with the nato secretary general. when the president was going after germany. you can see the white house chief of staff shifting uncomfortably in his seat. looking away as the president made the remarks. white house press secretary was asked about the remarks by the "washington post." and responded the chief of staff was displeased because he was expecting a full breakfast and there were only pastries and cheese. >> she was trying to make a funny there. >> everyone hates to show up and not have a full breakfast. where's the bacon. >> peter strzok te

but if you are bob corker do a 180 on nato. you don't get an invoice.hen you are belgium you are not invoiced for 1949 through 1992. pompeo as a former u.s. army aftearmyofficer, i trust him and president mattis to explain. i trust them to explain to trump that nato is crucial. kennedy: thank you. "topical storm" is next. ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ uhp. i didn't believe it. again. ♪ ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? ♪ i want to believe it. [ claps hands ] ♪ ooh i'm not hearing the confidence. okay, hold the name your price tool. power of options based on your budget! and! ♪ we'll make heaven a place on earth ♪ yeah! oh, my angels! ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ [ sobs quietly ] ♪ ooh, heaven is a place on earth ♪ that's the same things i want to do with you. it's an emotional thing to watch your child grow up and especially get behind the wheel. i want to keep you know, stacking up the memories and the miles and the years. he's gonna get mine -but i'm gonna get a new one. -oh yeah when it's time for your old chevy truck to become t

but if you are bob corker do a 180 on nato. you don't get an invoice.n you are belgium you are not invoiced for 1949 through 1992. pompeo as a former u.s. army aftearmyofficer, i trust him and president mattis to explain. i trust them to explain to trump that nato is crucial. kennedy: thank you. "topical storm" is next. ♪ a hotel can make or break a trip. and at expedia, we don't think you should be rushed into booking one. that's why we created expedia's add-on advantage. now after booking your flight, you unlock discounts on select hotels right until the day you leave. ♪ add-on advantage. discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. only when you book with expedia. kennedy: i have got some happy news to report. former mtv vj jessie kemp has been located. a vj is someone who played music video when mtv played music videos. this is the "topical storm." topic number one. we begin in gainesville, georgia where a shortage of uber drivers is causing people to make other arrangements. witnesses say the good on the hood got in argument with a female d

watch what bob corker will do. corker is uniquely positioned in the coming months to begin to ask questions why. and will corker be willing to say perhaps the tax return should be on the table in this conversation? we'll have to see. >> that's the thing. robert costa tweeted yesterday congressman mark sandford says the president should release his tax returns in order to clear things up this week. i don't know if russia has anything on the president and wants more answers on the president's finances. >> do you expect phillip we'll see more republicans who are running for reelection joining this call to see the president's tax returns and join the call for the interpreter who's in the room there to be called to testify? >> i hope he gives away the ending but absolutely not. >> why? >> the republican party have made clear. we are all stuck in this ground hog's day. the president, donald trump, tells the truth the first time then he gets into it with his staff and they ask him to walk it back and he does so reluctantly

this is bob corker. >> felt like the dam was breaking. you know, people -- i was really glad to see people on both sides of the aisle condemning what happened yesterday strongly. look, i think that in the foreign policy, we've had some good things happen here domestically. several things that have happened, in part, passing bills that i think people are glad we've been able to pass, some of the judicial issues have been excellent. but i think on the foreign policy piece, there are significant concerns, and have been, and you're finally seeing people speak out. >> interesting comment there. at the beginning, he said the dam is breaking. bob corker on terms of capitol hill, attitudes toward this administration, the president, his at constitutitude toward ru. ben, i wonder how this plays. the amount of political debate that's been stirred in this country around the issue of russia, around the issue of russian interference, around vladimir putin, how does that play in russia? is it seen as, wow, we've really gotten into the americans' heads?

we had the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee bob corker expressing support for nato and a little bit of concern how the president has been handling the meetings with u.s. allies. listen in. >> the rhetoric to me is just damaging to us and damaging to others unnecessarily. i absolutely agree on the substance. i think there are ways of communicating with your friends. times we punch our friends in the nose and hold our hand out to those against us. >> reporter: yesterday, you saw the president's staff appearing disspirited about the comments on germany in particular. you saw john kelly shifting in his seat and looking away as the president made the comments. the ambassador with similar body language there. the white house press secretary sarah sanders addressed the chief of staff's body language saying john kelly was displeased because he was expecting a full breakfast because there were only pastries and cheese. >> jeremy, thank you. i think it is subjective when you are reading body language. they are on an all-night flight. cameras flashing. >> you can read our body

tennessee, because it is an interesting race where you have a republican nominee, an open seat with bob corker a former democratic governor who is ahead in the polls. this is a seat republicans thought they would keep. guest: tennessee is a state where if you just said, what does a generic republican or democrat do? they are giving the former two-term governor, he is probably be the only living democrat in the state that could win. on the republican side, marsha blackburn will be the republican nominee and she has got a very strong personality. a polarizing person. she might have a tougher time than joe or jane generic republican. that is what makes this race so close and one of the premier races. host: nancy pelosi is running in her congressional district but she is on the ballot in a lot of key races. aca help or hindrance? want this tot sound disrespectful in any way to nancy pelosi, but if she announced today that she was resigning from congress, there would probably be people jumping out of windows at the national republican congressional committee because they do not really have hillary

here you have bob corker talking about how president trump tearing down an alliance. >> yeah. listen. so it's no surprise senator corker and this president have not gotten along very well during his tenure. senator corker's not running for re-election because of i think probably losing in tennessee quite frankly running again and the president has not done anything to step away from article 5 and mutual -- the president is there fighting for america. the eu roughly $150 billion trade surplus. stack on top of that 28 member countries of nato not paying a fair share, not even close, but yet -- >> well -- 24. >> excuse me. >> 24 aren't. >> poland and estonia. >> uk. >> solid. big countries, spain, italy, germany, france. not close. >> right. >> so is it fair for folks in pennsylvania to sit back and say, geez, my kids don't get to go to school for free and universal health care. everybody in europe benefits on that for our back. he's fighting for fairness. >> the big concern sh obviously, mike, is that the article 5, the attack on one is an attack on all. that's part of the nato c

chairman bob corker expressed concern to corey gardner, the head of the campaign committee, says theresident was simply motivating allie, mitch mcconnell said he would stay out of it. >> we need to absolutely stand firm with our nato allies and the transatlantic partnership, in general. i think what would be disastrous is for us to have a negative nato meeting and then do something with putin that further destabilizes the relationship. hopefully, what will happen is that we will have a good nato meeting and that the putin meeting will almost be a non-event as far as commitments made. >> reporter: i think he is simply trying to say to our great nato allies and friends, let's make sure we are all rolling in the same direction, so to speak, let's make sure we are living up to our expectations and obligations. i think the president knows the challenges with slatd vlad. i hope when he peet's with our nato allies, we will talk about the international law and sounds luke he may have an opportunity to address that same concern with vladimir putin, himself. >> should the president meet alone

bob corker who was quite critical yesterday, he sits in the same chairman as william full bright did,ir of senate foreign relations committee in 1966, held landmark hearings on vietnam that changed the debate over the war, over strenuous objections of a president from his own party who deeply didn't want him to do it and yet he did. bob corker can complain, but the fact is that he is not and none of the other republicans that complained are moving to hold hearings, summon people involved in the summit to give testimony about exactly what was agreed to, what the planning was. there are things they can do other than carp. but to do that without consequence is to send a message to president trump that in the end they will back down. >> do you think this could be a turning point or are we back to charlottesville last year when he said very fine people on both sides. >> so many events are happening so fast, wolf, it was a week ago we talked about brett kavanaugh nominated to the supreme court. it seems like ancient history. i'm not sure this will last that much further into the future. it

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. trade wars are easy to win, not so much. >> an admission that the president's trade policies will hurt american farmers. the aid to farmers kicks in in september. many notice that's just in time for elections. but the "wall street journal" editorial board says that fixing a problem of his own making won't fool voters. trump may think that his farm tariff bailout will get republicans past the november election, but sooner or later, bad economic policy becomes bad politics. >>> 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 tariffs on u.s. trading partners, telling his supporters, we don't apologize for america anymore. then he took a page straight from orwell's classic "1984." >> what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's

it's something bob corker expressed to cnn multiple times this week. >> yeah, i, you know, i hope there are people present during the meeting. >> why do you say that? >> i just -- i just -- i just hope there are people around him, mattis and others, hopefully pompeo. >> in light of the indictments, top democrats are calling for the summit to be called off. it draws no conclusions about the guilt or innocence of americans. it does mention how russian intelligence officers posing as a hacker, how they communicated with a person who was in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of donald j. trump. we do not know how or whether any of the officers indicted had anything to do with alleged efforts by the kremlin to reach out to donald trump jr., with dirt on hillary clinton, or george papadopoulos, who was told about clinton e-mails with ties to the kremlin. nor do we know about the potential impact of that moment on july 27, 2016, during the democratic national convention when candidate donald trump shared a message he had for russia about e-mails hillary clinton de

mueller's investigation and future special counsel having the senate forgn relations committee, bob corker is holding a hearing next week with secretaryf state mike pompeo to hear about what his perspectiv in the helsinki is meetings. ey're steps in the right rection, not there yet >> we've seen a lot of reaction from the helsinki press that.rence and moving on from was it overkill because know, obviously, i think we can agree any time the president g says anything you aoing to have an opposite and equal rack from the other side. ae difference this timround was that you had republicans, many republicans coming out and yi wa se. ahiwas unique opportunity for a lot o republicans. especially in an election year, to get some distance away from president trump.more importantl time you push ao negative to hard, it flip. a lot of treason, impeach, all this good stuff. and that's going to point president trump almos as a vict. that's a rule that he pys very well. plays right into his face. again, if everything is outrageous, then nothing is outrageous. >> the democrats, some democrats have been ca

what i find so interesting is that bob corker said the dam is breaking.le i think that might be going a little too far from what we have seen so far, we are seeing some republicans we don't normally see coming out and distances themselves or criticizing the president. take peter king, for instance, peter king has been very fawning about the president of late, most especially. think about what he said to fox news after that putin-trump summit. >> first of all, to take the word of a former kgb agent and a liar like putin over dan coats, a dedicated patriot who is appointed by the president himself, to me and to do that on a world stage is to me indefensible. >> it is not just peter king or jeff flake or the democrats that say that. it is also mike turner, a republican from ohio. listen to this. >> i think what's important, though, in this is that we really wanted our president at this time because of the nerve agent attack that's happened in london, the invasion of ukraine, the meddling in u.s. elections, the indictment by the u.s. department of justice to

what are people like bob corker concerned about? >> i think they're afraid the president has a tendency to say all kinds of things that he -- any other president probably wouldn't say in the meetings. for instance, we had a story at the times last year about how he had a meeting in the oval office with the russian foreign minister and he just disclosed all kinds of things, criticized james comey, a nut job. the white house argued nothing wrong with that. true trump said that publicly and sets a different tone saying in it a one on one meeting and i think the concern is going to be at minimum that the president is going to be led into saying something or voluntarily say something that he might not do if someone else were present and then there's the concern of vladimir putin to portray this meeting and how he then turns around and says what he was told by the u.s. president, whether it's grounded in fact or not. it is hard to combat it when you don't have a witness on your side. >> scott, let's put up items on the agenda according to

take senators john thune, bob corker, jeff flake. 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, no, 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 will not 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." >> wow, okay. joining us this morning to talk about all this, cnn politics senior writer and analyst harry enteron. good morning to you, sir. >> hi, harry. >> good morning. >> the "wall street journal" is one thing, but we have republican senators from iowa, nebraska, wisconsin, harsh criticism of the president's tariff plan and this welfare, essentially, to farmers. what's the impact? >> well, i think the impact is that this election

this is something that the republicans on the hill have taken seriously, and bob corker has said it isreat about the security clearances that in some ways evokes a banana republic for example and in your view, what should republicans be saying about this? >> well, two things. one, paul ryan is probably factually correct to think that it is factually correct that trump is trolling here, but i think that bob corker is responding with the better response that we don't want the president of the united states threatening to use the power of his office to punish people because they have opposed him political politically, and that is sort of constitutional 101, and in an important way, ryan is factually correct, but i think that corcoran has the better response. >> jonathan capehart, please weigh in here on how the republicans are handling the threat. is this simply the president trying to troll as paul ryan suggests? >> well, i think that david is absolutely right. you think that speaker ryan is probably factually correct, but senator corker has the right response, but we shouldn't have this

republican senator bob corker said it's fine, while democrat bob menendez called the idea another recipe for bad outcomes. and senator menendez was referring to mr. trump's meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un, who promised to work toward the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. but it's reported that north korea is working on new nuclear-capable missiles at the same factory that produced its first intercontinental ballistic missiles. new evidence, including u.s. spy satellite photos, apparently indicate work is under way on one or maybe two icbms, according to the "washington post." >>> jury selection begins today in paul manafort's financial crimes trial. the trial in alexandria, virginia, will focus on manafort's ukrainian consulting work. he's accused of bank and tax fraud, but president trump's former campaign chairman is the first trial coming out of the robert mueller investigation. manafort is the only american charged in that investigation who has opted for a trial instead of cooperating with the government. >>> leslie moonves remains in charge here at cbs. the boar

and you mentioned the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker. he just laid it all out there from the beginning, starting with this striking criticism of not only president trump, saying that he creates distrust in america and beyond, but also of his entire administration. i mean, corker said that he feels that the trump white house wakes up every morning and just makes up foreign policy, as they go. saying this to the secretary of state, mike pompeo, who was absolutely on the defensive. so, remember, this was the big chance for all of these senators to finally get some answers, on what exactly happened between president trump and russian president vladimir putin during this two-hour-long closed-door meeting in helsinki. but time after time, pompeo just would not answer these questions, often with this snarky attitude, saying these were private conversations. even the simplest question, did trump tell you what happened? the best pompeo could muster was that he has a pretty complete understanding of the conversation. listen to some of this exchang

a refrain echoed by tennessee's bob corker. >> the administration's own policy that are driving theseeople to a bad place and then you want to provide welfare. >> defense secretary jim mattis said the president's reaction to the iranian government, the all caps tweet, he said it simply proves that iran is on the wrong track. but there are those here in washington who wonder if the president's bombast as a prelude to an outreach much in the way we saw, of course plenty on twitter with that summit. >> bret: kevin corke live on the north one, thanks. you do not have to look very far from the shores of the u.s. to find places where religious persecution and discrimination are very real problems. today delegates from dozens of countries met at the state department to talk about it. tonight, religion correspondent lauren green reports on whether that talk will translate into action. >> we need you in this cause. if we are to make progress, we need more people to get in the ring. >> a call to action by the ambassador at the state department's first ever -- >> it's a right given by god and it

. >> woodruff: but republican senator bob corker, who chairs the foreign relations committee, suggested ngress may need to take some new action. that could take the form of additional sanctions on the russians. as for reaction in europe, the office of british primminister theresa may said today she does not think the trump-putin summit undermined the trans-atlantic alliance. but, a german member of the european pliament had a doleful assessment. he said, "we europeans must take our fate in our own hands." for more on the fallout from president trump's meeting with vladimir putin, i'm joined by "washington post" reporter carol leonnig. carol, welcome back to the "newshour". what sort of reaction has the white house been seeing and hearing, especially from what's coming through to them? >> well, i think susan collins actually captured the word, astonishment, quiet-faced, red-faced astonishment, and in the case of mitch mcconnell, swallowing your togue astonishment where people are not coming out and complaining directly aut the president, but some are very concerned ebout what has transpi

bob corker should think about it. senator flake should think about it.ator mccain depending on his ability. there are some senators here who can make a strong mark for history. >> i hope they heard that. harry litman, thank you for spending some time with us today. when we come back, it's been called mandatory patriotism. the nfl rule requiring players to stand for the anthem or stay in the locker room. after the break, a conversation with the legendary warren moon, the nfl hall of fame's first black quarterback. t's next. and i'm still going for my best even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i'm up for that. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. so what's next? seeing these guys. don't stop taking eliquis unless your doctor tells you to, as stopping increases your risk of having a stroke. eliquis can cause serious and in r

bob corker was talking about it yesterday, guys, as you know, but bob corker has since backed away from it as well. peter, in trying to figure out what he said in this private meeting how unusual or how normal is it for u.s. officials to have such hard time getting a hold of what the president may or may not have agreed to? >> well, very unusual. it's not unheard of that a president will have a one-on-one meeting with a counterpart with translators. that's happened. what's unusual is the degree of, first of all, suspicion about this particular meeting because of the obvious things we talked about, and because even his own people don't know whether they can completely rely on what president trump tells them afterwards if they ask him what happened in the meeting. they are relying on his memory, his word, his interpretation of events. as we have even repeatedly, his interpretation of events can vary depending on the day. the last few days have been the obvious example of that. so what you have is an american government at a disadvantage to the russian government which has a clearer versio

one other question to you, garrett, bob corker said the dam is breaking. what did he mean by that? >> well, corker has long before a foil of the president on issues in which conservatives and the republican party led by president trump no longer align. corker's someone who has been against tariffs. he's been a free trader. he has pushed back when the president has strayed away from what have long been sort of dogmatic points on republican foreign policy. and he has been a lonely voice in that regard a lot of the times. was buoyed this morning by hearing so many of his colleagues, including those who typically defend the president, start to speak out a little bit. as to the question of the dam breaking, whether this substantively changes how a republican-led congress deals with this president is something that has to be proven out over time. how many times have we had conversations about something incredible that the president has said over the last year and a half that hasn't really, beyond a few days in the news cycle, changed the status quo? i think a lot of folks, like myself ar

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. >> another republican, senator bob corker said the questions reflect a concern that the president'sctions are creating distrust. pompeo disagreed with that assertion. >>> a man destroying the president's star on the hollywood video -- hollywood walk of fame. tmz released this footage of a guy swinging a pickax at it early this morning.at one point sparks flying. the guy left behind a hole in the ground and broken concrete. the suspect turned himself into police right away. a man who vandalized the same star in the past is trying to raise bail money for this suspect. >>> tech stocks expected to take a hit tomorrow morning after facebook saw its biggest plunge ever in after trading hours. ceo mark zuckerberg lost nearly $17 billion in just two hours today. kpix 5's maria medina on what has investors spooked. >> we are investing so much insecurity that it will significantly impact our profitability. we are starting to see that this quarter. >> reporter: that was facebook ceo mark zuckerberg today during the earnings call with investors. even before the call ended, the company's k nearl

bob corker, chairman of the u.s. senate committee on foreign affairs said he was disappointed, that he thinks trump's comments in helsinki made the u.s. look as a pushover and senator mccain went even so far as saying that what we saw in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by the american president in memory. phil: yuri in moscow. what do you make of president putin's denial of any connection to alleged russian interference in the 2016 u.s. presidential election? yuri: from vladimir putin's perspective, there is no contradiction at all. he repeatedly said what donald trump obviously wanted him to say on election meddling. putin assured that russia never had interest in interfering in u.s. domestic policy although he had hoped trump would win the presidency in 2016, because trump has always said he wants to improve u.s.-russian relations. but this meant, mr. putin, that he just had a preferred candidate which didn't necessarily mean state-backed interference and if plenty of prescription russians pre

bob corker/ -r- tennessee: "it was saddening and disappointing to see our intelligence agencies on parodyre coming out of president putin's mouth." chuck schumer/ -d- senate minority leader: "what the president did, side with our number one enemy...is just appalling and demands some kind of explanation other than it's self-serving of the president.">( james ) but kentucky senator rand paul is defending the president... saying that the positives of the meeting should not be lost in the criticism. ( james ) a judge has temporarily halted deportations of families who have been recently reunited. this comes after the a-c-l-u filed paperwork saying their attorneys were concerned about rumors of "mass deportations" government lawyers have one week to respond to those concerns. the judge will then make a permanent ruling after going over the paperwork. has said it completed re-tion unifying all eligible children under five years old. ( darya ) coming up on the kron 4 morning news... we're learning new information about the man accused of posing as a ride-share driver to prey on women. ( darya )

. >> reporter: senator bob corker says it's impossible to understate the magnitude of any commander in chief's actions. >> the president in 15 minutes at press conference can do more damage on the foreign policy than months of us passing resolutions. >> reporter: but the president has some support for opening a line of dialogue. >> open lines of communication is important to avoiding war. >> i commend him tore take the meeting. >> reporter: chuck schumer is demanding mike pompeo out what in private. rich dennison fox news. >>> there's a new effort underway in washington to pass a law to reunified families separated at the border under the trump administration's zero tolerance policyis among a grou of senators who introduced a bill to reunify the familiessaying current policy is lacking and human rights violation is committed by the government against those families. >> it is not reflective of the ideals of who we are as a country. it is not reflective of a civil society and it has got to stop. >> senator harris says the unite act is design to reunified thchare still separated from thei

senator bob corker said to mr. pompeo, look, we have faith in you and it is the president we are concerned about. another senator said, i know you are making theeeistinction bethe u.s. policy in the but thet's statements, president's statements are u.s. policy. jane: are we any clearer about what happened behind closed medoors at the two-houing between president trump and presidentutin? barbara: not rea ny, jane. he h given detail about what took place in the composition. he defendethe president's right to have a conversation with the adversary, and is a protest to argue again and again that it remains what it is -- his approach is to argue again and again that it remains what it is. e secretary of state has been careful not to contradict or upsiage the pnt. jane: what about north korea? he said he would not allow the negoations to drag on. does that mean we are getting closer to a timeline for denuclearization? barbara: no, it doesn't, and he said that he doesn't know what t e timeline is, he did acknowledge thatu