back to president carter. he had and still has at the age of soon to be 93, the most amazing man i've ever known, actually. he has the ability to absorb, as chris said, and assimilate and organize and reduce to essential points enormous amounts of information. that is both a blessing and a curse. it's a blessing for the obvious ropes. it's a curse because if somebody doesn't protect him, he is going to be getting too much information, too much of the time, and what i was doing with president carter, it went in cycles. he would come to me, we'd give him too much and he would say, jack, you got to cut back. i was up until midnight last night reading stuff. i'd cut it back. three days later he'd say issue didn't get enough on this. you didn't give me enough on this. one thing that people learned -- did not take them long to learn it in the carter administration -- is that if you are going to have a meeting with the president, you better come prepared because he is going to be likely the most prepared person in th

one of the remarkable things about president carter which was a remarkable thing about governor carter too is that he would repeatedly say don't come to me and water down the recommendation of what needs to be done, what ought to be done, because you are factoring in all the political aspects of it. don't do that. i want to know what is the best solution to the problem, what is the best answer to the question, what is the best path to take on the merits. we will worry about the politics later. that too is an admirable trait. it is what you want your presidents to be like and how you want them to think. but again you have to protect the president against himself sometimes because there are some things that had such brave, in some cases dire, political consequences that no matter how worthy the goal was or the objective you ought not to do it now. there was always that tension with president carter perfect example is panama canal. every president knew and recognized we need do something about the panama canal. we need to give it back. he took it from them, violated their sovereignty and

they've established a relationship between the carter and lincoln families.rs, "a-l." would lincoln really inlay his initials on an old mallet? >> i think that abraham lincoln was tinkering. people did mark their stuff for ownership, to make sure that it wasn't stolen. >> the guys confirm lincoln did initial at least one other tool. in a blacksmith's shop in the 1830s, witnesses recall abe etching his initials into an iron wedge. it's on display at the smithsonian. those initials look very similar to the "a-l" on andrea and keith's wood mallet. that these letters are inlaid is another key to steve and tom's authentication. >> not just anybody could do inlay work. one of the questions you have to ask yourself, did abraham lincoln have the ability to inlay the metal into the mallet? >> if no, that's a problem. if yes, it's another reason to believe the tool was lincoln's. the guys find their answer in an example of abe's carpentry work, a cabinet door usually on display at a nearby museum. >> abraham lincoln inlaid the letters "e-c" because this cabinet was bui

they started the beverly carter foundation. travels the country training real estate agents about safety. >> it's a blessing for me because i get to not only raise awareness, talk about safety, best practices, but then i also use that as an opportunity for me to kind of slide in some great stories about my mom and so kind of keep her alive. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline extra." thank you for watching. >>> he said he couldn't handle talking about it. i was angry at him. if you're not going to tell me what happened, then you're going to dance around the issue and tell three different stories, what are you hiding? >> it started as a teen romance. >> two of my girlfriends are like, there's this guy, and you need to meet him. >> i was in love, yes. >> it ended in one of the strangest love stories you'll ever hear. >> i felt like i got hit by a bus. >> right before their wedding, her mother and his father got married. >> they told us, we ran off, we eloped. who does that? >> two families in a small town left stunned. bu

>> whenever he takes it out, grandpa carter recounts that equally cherished family lore about how abraham gave his friends the mallet before departing indiana in 1830. grandpa carter bequeaths the mallet -- and the yarn that goes with it -- to keith and andrea's father. but instead of hiding the hammer, their dad sets it out, right there, on the fireplace. >> we didn't really talk about it a lot, but when people came over to our house, they would see it, and it would be a talking point. >> we didn't really give a lot of thought to it. i think my sister took it to school one time. >> how old were you? >> it was kindergarten show-and-tell. >> did anyone believe you? >> my teacher questioned it, like that is amazing, but why would you have something that valuable in our classroom? >> you didn't trade it for a peanut butter sandwich? >> i didn't, no. >> thank goodness. so the mallet just leans against the fireplace in the carter home until keith and andrea's father dies in 2015 and the mallet is passed to them. >> my parents' will said that

detective matt carter. >> this entire structure had crumbled.s a pile of ashes that were on the ground. we didn't even know if anyone was home or not. we knew that they were in and out of town a lot. >> as firefighters carefully walked through t what appeared to be the master bedroom, their worst fears were confirmed. judy had in fact been home that night. >> it was to the right of the box mattresses we found the remains of judy. they were unsure initially it was human remains. >> even with all their experience. >> yes. everything was just consumed by fire to the point that things were unrecognizablunrecognizabl >> as for keith, he was away calling on customers in indiana. word of julie's death spread almost as fast as the fire had raced through the house. >> i'm getting ready for work, have the tv on in the background. >> we are live in the canterbury hills subdivision on tudor boulevard. >> then temple bradley's phone rang. it was a friend who also knew julie. >> she said you know there's the fire, yeah, i saw it on tv. he said, it's keith and

we are at the end of jimmy carter.he came to washington with the best of intentions but jimmy carter failed as president because he didn't understand washington but we had the recession. democrats needed to do something and willing to take a chance on reagan. >> back to trump. [laughter] the reason -- let me answers is diplomatically. people in the 80s thought reagan would be a failure. very high approval numbers, american historians moderating him high but looking at the reagan presidency, the last paul of american historians, 13 but steadily going up over the last 30 or 40 years. i don't have the newspapers of eight years or four years from now to tell you about donald trump, reagan was a different man, different styles, there is no comparison except both are outsiders i would or jew to go on youtube or whatever and look at it because it was a good speech for all americans is. >> i get the impression you did not think of mr.-- think much of mr. trumps speech at the coast guard academy? >> he uses first person pronoun

let's shift gears a little bit and talk about carter page. carter page's demeanor has changed. at first he very willingly said i have nothing to hide and i'm willing to talk to anybody and now sends this letter to the senate intel and now senate intel is talking about subpoenas. so what is this cultivating right now, this kind of back and forth, change of demeanor, and even strategy? >> yeah. right. well first of all let me say i've known carter page for a while, talked to him dozens of times. my take on him is this, you know, like mike flynn, he's a guy who just is handling this in the worst possible way. okay. you know, ever since he sort of came up in this investigation, he's been giving interviews and writing letters with a lot of crazy stuff in them claiming to be the victim of discrimination against white catholic men, you know, claiming that the obama administration was out to get him, actually they did have a fisa warrant about him so that part might be partially true. but in the end, carter page is -- was a low-level member of the foreign policy team for a limited time

defending carter page is sort of the right thing to do. being a staffer for donald trump is an impossible job. it doesn't mean these people should have sympathy. they knew what they were getting into. but it's an impossible job. he doesn't know carter page. the president of the united states knocks it down. it could happen over and other on matters big and small. he is his own worst enemy time and time again. >> spicer makes his own luck as well. fake news, fake news, fake news, all these fake narratives, give us an example and he comes up with a weak example about a tweet about whether the president was respecting an italian official. >> it's ridiculous, frankly. david made this point last hour and i think it's exactly right, which is typically a white house press secretary walks a fine line between maintaining credibility with the reporters who he's working with day in and day out and making sure that the boss is understanding of what he's doing. sean spicer has scrapped that and is just in save my job mode. yesterday's press conference

we're at the end of jimmy carter, and jimmy carter i will defend, i will always say he was a good man who came to washington with the best of intentions. but jimmy carter failed as president because he doesn't, ultimately, understand washington. but we had the recession. and so democrats knew they needed to do something, and so they were willing to take a chance on reaganomics. >> but get back to trump. [laughter] >> look, you know, the reason -- let me answer as diplomatically -- [laughter] is that there were a lot of people in the '80s who thought reagan was going to be a failure x he left office -- and he left office with very high approval be number bees. even so, american historians weren't rating him very high. now they're going back and looking at the reagan presidency, and he's now rated, hi, last poll of american historians had him 13th which i think is too low, but he's been steadily going up over the last 30, 40 years. i don't have the newspapers of eight years or four years from now to tell you about donald trump. i can tell you reagan approached the presidency differently

carter page never briefed donald trump. i think what you here is a group trying to deter from the facts and what donald trump has done in terms of pushing forward his reform and agenda. i'm pretty pleased with where we are on the 105-day mark and i think that at the end of the day what you're going to see is the administration keep pivoting toward creating jobs, towards real reform mechanisms. we've seen illegal immigration down 50% since they've taken office and we recently passed health care reform in the house. so this is the kind of reform and bold agenda that donald trump ran on. i don't think this should be a deterrence from that. >> can it be passed off this is coincidence there are players with ties to russia or does this also underscore there's been -- there was a vetting problem? >> of course it's -- of course not. we heard an example of change the subject which seems to be fate vorred response from the -- the favored response from the trump white house an its supporters. i the level of meddling that went on that

carter page and many others.re hearing now about the carter page testimony that he is saying i'm not going to be allowed to come and testify and actually rebutt some of these things that are not true? >> yeah, what's interesting is the report something accurate that committee democrats don't want to hear him certainly at some point it won't be defensible for the committee to just say we don't talk about witnesses. they will need to provide an explanation as to why he has been disinvited if he, in fact, has been disinvited. it's not as if the american public hasn't heard from carter page. carter page has been giving interviews for months now. people who wanted an opportunity to evaluate the veracity of what he's saying can do so in these other interviews. he, of course, is free to offer his, you know, a lengthy rebuttal to what has been alleged against him at any time. >> shannon: and, again, patience is urged in all of these cases. >> right, exactly. >> shannon: we are not in hurry. we are going to take our time.

carter. >> gld. sell. >> mike ko. >> you know, i like the gold call spread and farmer john's put spread, so. >> mike, las to get back from vegas at some point. >> he sounds roughed up. i don't know what's going on out there all week. >> he's in vegas. >> the gold thing is this, the stock is right at the point where it was when it reported its q1 earnings, it hasn't bounced a whole heck of a lot. >> our time is expired. thanks, so much for watching. i'm mellissa lee, check out the action. happy memorial day, >>> my mission is simple, to make you money. i'm here to level the playing field for all investors, there's always a bull market somewhere. and i promise to help you find it. mad muffin starts now. >> hey, i'm cramer, welcome to "mad money," welcome to cramerica, other people want to make friends, my job is not just to entertain you, but to educate and tweet you. every time i come out here for two reasons, the first one is

at some point, carter page, ph.d.o a piece of paper that the president of the united states read. what was the conduit by which carter page ph.d. entered the campaign of donald j. trump? >> the favorite term i like that you use there was hanger on. i think the biggest thing which i've been this year is hung on account of being a supporter, and that's in the end of the day my biggest -- >> i know that. i hear you out. i hear that you feel you've been unfairly persecuted because you're a supporter. i get that. but there is just a factual question here, which is that someone put you in touch with -- from was some way that you joined the campaign as an adviser. how did that happen? >> well, here's the thing, chris. if i tell you that, then that person will get dozens of calls within the next hour. >> right, but why not just -- >> when you look at the privacy intrusion -- >> no one thinks that person did anything wrong. >> other networks where they've got little wire diagrams of putin, carter page, and then puts an x -- >>

that was a month in but with jimmy carter it was two and a half years. the carter administration were warned the spokes on the whole didn't work. >> dick cheney was telling jack almost every day. >> yes, he was. he left when we took over and moved in on january 20th and moved into the west wing there was a broken bicycle wheel that

he says he doesn't know carter page. people call me all the time telling me carter page has nothing to do with the president. the president never met him. now he knows his testimony so well and knows it blows it out of the water so much so he can put him on even footing with james comey and brennan sf. what do you think? >> this is my viewpoint. do i think the investigation will not show any evidence of collusion? i think you had james clapper on yesterday. he said he hasn't seen evidence not just before the election, but three months after the election. he saw no evidence of collusion of russia and president trump. i think the investigation is going to bear that out as will. in the process, as you pointed out, there is a cloud. listen, let's bring all these folks in whether they are coming to the senate or house intelligence committee or mueller's investigation. with you are now in the system where the investigation is happening and everyone should cooperate and provide as much information. in the end, if the president

this is a favorite exhibit of mine from the carter library. this it was not in the original carter library, so this exhibit resulted from a renovation done in 2009, which was 13 years after the library opened, and one of the large changes in the new exhibited was a very expanded exhibit of carter's early years iss syears, and as from the heading on the side there, this exhibit really focused on the african-americans in his community who were extremely influential in the early years. not only did it do that in passing, but shared and named the people and really emphasize ed carter's -- what -- the advantages he gained from this intimacy from people who were different from him. this is not a display, but this is the outside of the clinton library. the clinton library was consciously model after the slogan of his re-election campaign, which was a bridge to the 21st century, and as you can a little tell here, the building looks like a bridge, and most importantly, it looks like an unfinished bridge with the end arking out of the arkansas river, an

we know a letter went to carter page. multiple reports also say they went to both mike flynn and roger stone. the "new york times" is reporting paul manafort got one of the letters from senators richard burr and mark warner. nbc news obtained carter page's letter. in it he calls his role with the trump campaign small, unpaid and informal. we are back with kristen welker, jeremy bash and jonathan swan. and matthew nussbaum all with me on a friday night. carter page. give me an explainer on this. how could someone have had so many interactions with so many russians, small, informal, and unpaid. >> he was one of the individuals who then-candidate trump specifically named when he was asked by reporters, who are your foreign policy advisors. >> it was the only name he could come up. it was an editorial board meeting and he said i've got a national security team. they said who have you got? he said i've got great people, i've got, i've got, i've got carter page. >> it undercuts his claim now that he had no role at all. i have b

has to come over. >> come on over, carter. >> carter, carter, carter. >> okay. >> sometimes, carter, you get off early. why would you put money that's clearly not working into the clearly working. that's sort of the dilemma. >> buyers, losers, or do you stick with winners? and there is no right answer for that. ultimately the thing that will make the most money in a period, bar none, if you can find the ford motor step, the person that's invented suspect brand-new. >> that wins, that's google, finding apple. eastman kodak. there is no such thing as growth stock. all growth at some point falters. the stocks go out of business. there is no better business than general motors. they went bankrupt. so the question is, though, if you are a more steady to long-term investor, to not think about dividends is to not think about half the gain. so the question is now, you said calendar year, any 12 months rolling period, can you take the names with the highest dividend and the fact that they will play catchup. the stocks in history show it's a fairly efficacious thing to do. >> does it matter wh

quite a turn from carter page. he didn't in his letter or interviews tell us why, what is behind this charge, against the u.s. government. but of course it is interesting it does echo things that president trump himself said about the obama administration. >> good point. intel committee wants records not just from carter page. >> right. carter page, paul manafort, chairman of trump's campaign. roger stone, allegedly in touch with wikileaks before targets of the democratic party. and michael flynn before he was fired. we don't know their spons yresp yet but we know the senate is prepared to legally subpoena page and others if they refuse this request. >> we will see if that happens. that would just be very unusual. all right, thank you so much, jim sciutto we do appreciate it. for the 14th weekend in a row, president trump is visiting one of his own properties. jim acosta is traveling with the president and jim the president left town with this health care victory in his pocket. tell us about what is going on where

now nuggs for carter takes the top spot. >> good job, carter. >>> okay, so we've all heard about theon but what about the cowardly bear? >> i don't know that, but a dog in southern california does because he came face-to-face with a wild bear that wandered into the neighborhood so at first the dog seems to be a little scared and they have a stare-down. and then -- >> oh. they're off. oh, and then this is your favorite part. the bear turns. >> the bear turns and the dog then backs up. but what i do love is the dog is so much faster than the bear and then kind of slows down when he realizes he's about to catch it. i don't really actually want to catch the bear. >> the bear was not up to the challenge. it said, you know what, forget about it, this is not worth it. i'm out of here and fled and that was the scene in southern california that people watched on their tv all day long. >> maybe the bear just wanted to play on the swing set. not a very good fence climber, by the way, that bear. >> the bear, by the way, did go after a deer. >> yes. he's not afraid of the deer. the dog, on the ot

the access from carter page is really important. he might understand the die na e e indynamics of the campaign. down to basic questions. where do they meet? where do they have coffee? a russian is behind them and says, how is your day going? in terms of an access agent, which he could have been, really important. >> he didn't have any access. but co-hahe could have portraye himself as somebody who did have access. somebody who said, you know, you ought to pay me. i'm in moscow all the time. i'm on this advisory board for donald trump. i met him. they may have thought, well, you know, this is a guy we have to look at who can provide access, even though he didn't have any. >> the russian spies talking about him in not the most glowing terms. >> in 2013, a russian spy called him an idiot. >> that doesn't mean he would et have access. >> he has a history. they have had dealings with him. he doesn't seem to care. >> will not say a negative word about vladimir putin or russia's international stance or human rights record. >> when does he

why do we care about carter page? donald trump named him as a senior foreign policy adviser we know from reports that the fbi was investigating him from years ago and despite the fact they were trying to recruit him during the 2016 election he goes over to moscow with permission of the campaign one month after it's revealed that russia is interfering in our elections. we want to hear from carter patriot missile, but you can never get a straight answer out of this guy. >> do you believe that this is something more than just coziness or inadvertent contact? do you believe that there's fire here? >> yes, i do, and i have seen the evidence on the unclassified and classified side, and i think the best thing we can do on our committee is to follow that evidence and review all relevant documents and hear from all relevant witnesses and see if carter page is serious about coming in and answering the tough questions. i know some of of this is classified and sensitive. what makes you sure that there's collusion? >> evidence tha

they got carter page's name. donald trump never met with him.er attended any meetings, he was never paid. gradually, he was basically let go and now they're denying he was part of the campaign to begin with. does that even matter in terms of whether russia might have seen him as somebody to approach? >> i don't think it does matter. he is missing a key point here when he says there's no cause for people to follow me, including to get a warrant. a judge isn't signing that if he's some peripheral player who spoke to a russian professor at some point. a judge is going to look at that and say that's the most intrusive technique we have, listen to somebody's phone or e-mail. i need something more than a little smoke and mirrors. to your point of significance, there's a difference between somebody who is a recruit in an intelligence service and somebody who is an access agent. access agent in my world is somebody who can -- who might be -- they might be a phone clerk. incredibly valuable in my world, because they can say, i can route you to the calls

my guess is that carter will confirm what i am saying. namely, i did not go to the president and gossip. to the contrary, i preferred him to remain secretary of state. frankly, i preferred him because it was easier for me. in the competitive relationship over policy, i felt i could handle him. if someone else came in who is very assertive and dynamic, i might not have had -- i might have had a difficult time. but also i liked him, and i think the president would concern that i never smacked against him. to my knowledge, he never did against me either. he several times raised serious objections and we had about -- had it out. and that was it. brian: what about these other cases? different groups begin to leak information out to try to embarrass the other side. staff do this awesome. -- do this often. mr. brzezinski: that happened in our case, too. there was stuff in late against me from the state department. i could name the people, but i am not going to. and i suspect some of my staffers were doing the same. after all, these people work v

. >>> social media record set by carter wilkinson with the assist from wendy's.h carter tweeted at wendy's asking how many retweets he would need chicken nuggets. wendy replieied saying 18 milli. >> well, the so-called nuggs for carter went viral and it's the most retweeted message of all time with more than 3.5 million retweets, which, wendy's says is good enough to earn him a year of free nuggets. >> carter's tweet actually topped the ellen degeneres tweet, that oscar selfie, previous record holder now nuggs for carter stops that. >>> the cowardly lion we've heard about but what about the cowardly bear. >> a dog in southern california does. he came face to tor face with a wild bear that wandered into the neighborhood so at first the dog seems to be a little scared and they have a stare down. and then they're off. >> oh and then this is your favorite part. >> the bear turns. >> the bear turns and the dog then backs up. but what i do slows down when he realized he's about to catch it. i don't want him to actually catch the bear. >> the bear said, you know what, f

and found carter beating another inmate and the inmate was rushed to the hospital. >> the individual who sustained the injuries was brutally attacked by his cell mamate ands not able to move when the deputies noticed him. >> no word on what may have caused that attack. carter is expected to be moved to the maximum security main jail in san jose and also expected to face new charges in connection with the new attack. >>> battle may be brewing between supervisors and the office over super cuts. the county is considering reducing the number of sergeants in tkpwurpbville and the lower russian area. with the growing number of homeless people, they need more and not less law enforcement. >>> turning to the warriors now, they are just two wins away from advancing to the nba finals for the third straight year. >> they had no problem last night crushing san antonio at oracle. the dubs, they just a pul durant said it will be tougher next game. >> we like our chances against anybody no matter who is on the court, but we have to be heady for game three, and they are going to be ready to play and

ken, first to you, who is carter page? >> carter page, greta, was a foreign policy advisor to the trump campaign although he doesn't appear to play a terribly significant role. he is a guy who has done business in russia, praised vladimir putin and criticized the u.s. he showed up in court documents as somebody who previously was recruited by russian spies. he claims he didn't do anything wrong and wa not charged with a crime in that case. >>matt, he has sent this letter to the senate intelligence committee, specifically to richard burr and mark warner, the chairman and ranking member. and it's sort of unusual. he says, first of all -- >> sort of >> sort of. he says he wanted to get back to the committee today, meaning yesterday, on the national day of prayer. having survived the hate crimes committed against me by the clinton/obama regime, due to in part my roman catholic faith, it goes on. you find strength in prayer. that's the first paragraph. >> yeah, it's a little bit like a letter, a little bit like a manifesto. he

jimmy carter tried to govern the sape way without -- same way. host: there's a picture in the book one of donald rumsfeld. when it came to governs, it was dick cheney that washed gerald ford. those are some of the things you'll find in the book. gary in baltimore, maryland, republican line. caller: good morning. appreciate your thoughts and your research, your book. guest: thank you. caller: i'm a trump supporter. i have been from the beginning. i believe there's -- there are many assumptions being made by people obviously and yourself included. you are not alongside the president. you are not in his oval office with him. you are not relating with him and priebus. you don't know, really know how he's empowering him and how he's working with his other advisors. he's formed a beautiful cabinet of the very best people in every field. i think you are just buying into the liberal bias media elite establishment type people. you probably one of them. in my opinion, with all due respect, i think you are down a wrong road. guest: let me address your quest

carter page is a problem because he just doesn't know how to shut up.t will be a problem for the trump administration. but not a significant impact on the investigation. >> i will say, katie, carter page is the kind of person who arrives at a campaign when the campaign is like kind of under dog campaign or a bit not traditional and they attract people who would normally not get within 30 feet of an advisory committee. i did some reporting on this, and perhaps is convennt,ut people who worked in the trump campaign cannot recall him being in many meetings or briefing the now president ever. he did attend a couple of the group meetings. it's not clear what real role he ever had. he obviously wants to present himself at different points as an important player. >> maybe that's why he was a target for the russians to begin with. >> maybe that's why he's on tv. >> he wasn't somebody we saw on a daily basis at the campaign at their side. he wasn't as visible as the high profile players of the trump campaign. >> their actual security advisor was working with --

thank you so much forjoining us, carter wilkerson.ng the story. i looked into the water and there was a mean nine ford —— foot gater grabbing my leg in the water. i tried to hit it but it didn't work. i put my fingers up its nostrils. it couldn't breathe. it had to open its mouth so it let my leg at. it didn't do anything, it was busy biting my leg and holding onto the sand. he was busy with that, so he didn't have any other attack moves to take out my fingers. and that was a brave girl. i really admire you. and just before we go, a reminder of the main story, president donald trump has sacked the head of the federal bureau of investigation, comey. the white house said mr comey has been dismissed on the recommendation of the attorney generaljeff sessions and his deputy. mr sessions told president trump that the director of the fbi must be someone who follows the fbi must be someone who follows the rules of the us justice department. mr comey was leading an investigation into alleged links between the trump election campaign and russia

. >> we've talked a lot about this guy, sceer just bragging rights for carter. he's 16 years old.carter wilkinson now the most retweeted tweet of all wendys how many -- he wanted chicken nuggets for a lifetime, wend can is said 18 million. he accepted the challenge, five weeks later he made history of 3.44 million retweets as of 11:00 this morning. that was enough to surpass the previous retweet holder by ellen degeneral rest. they're donating s $100,000 to dave thomas foundation which kepped did wendys controls. now i want to know what they taste like. >> a special visit from some local athletes after this. >> teacher' prerks day, dozens of teachers in fafa united players visiting their schools. players came to core kelly school for math, science and technology in alexandria to honor more than 830 teachers for their accomplishments and their work in the community. they also gave special recognition for 15 teacher united recipients. they will host a group of teachers at a home match this weekend. congratulations to them. that's it. fox5 local news at six starts right now. we begin

we're told we have on the phone president jimmy carter. mr.ank you. >> one of the things -- one of the most remarkable things about zbig brzezinski is how fiercely loyal he was to you. we know washington figures that love to talk about how they would have done things differently. i can tell you in all the years i've known him, all the years mika has known him, all he's done is said wonderful things about you in public, and more importantly, in private. >> well, the feeling was mutual. identify often said of all the people in government, there was no one more loyal to me than brzezinski was. even when he disagreed with me, he kind of stayed quiet, which was often. that's when we were in the white house together and also afterwards. he was a great public servant is and one of the best i've known. he was innovative and full of humor. we started out the morning at 8:00 every morning for four years. it was a pleasure to looking forward to meeting with brzezinski and learning what he thought and also getting his wonderful ideas. >> and now let's tal

and, fred, carter page is a key player in this investigation. exactly what he knew when he knew it and how close he was with russian officials is something that the senate intelligence committee is very interested in. and at one point page seemed to indicate he was going to cooperate, that he was an open book and had nothing to hide. but he has certainly changed his tune quite a bit. he wrote a very strongly worded letter to the intel committee basically saying that he wasn't going to cooperate or offer them any information. here's part of that letter to the senate intel committee. he wrote, quote, i suspect the physical reaction of the clinton/obama regime perpetrators will be more along the lines of severe vomiting when all the facts are eventually exposed regarding the steps taken by the u.s. government to influence the 2016 election. and page went onto say in this letter that if the intel committee is interested in his communications with russia that they should ask president obama because he is sure that he was under surveillance. now, the

but in terms of manafort and carter page -- and carter page, there's a lot of evidence that he reallydidn't have much contact. >> this one is very close for the president. i want to see how he plays this one out. jared kushner has his hands in a lot of pots at the white house. he's in the family. i mean jared kushner and ivanka are there and his own sons aren't there. this is close. but my big question is why is it coming out now? why are we just finding out -- if there was transparency about this, we should have known about this before. but this -- in going back -- >> these meetings -- the meeting with kislyak wasn't on the record. >> right, but still understanding that this is an issue, and it has been an issue. and the gravity of this issue. it should have been known prior to this. mueller is doing his job. we are finding things out. and the connection with flynn going into these meetings to talk about the sanctions, and also talking about, you know, the issues of banking with this russian banker. so my question is, my question is right now why wasn't this pointed out. but this is

let's go to three, carter page. carter page in this story undersold because so many other things coming out of the fire hose, this didn't make to be a big headline. "washington post" thursday, multiple people familiar with campaigns, carter page brought into the fold at a time of desperation with the trump team as trump was starting to win prim areas, he was under increasing pressure to show he had a legitimate presidential caliber security team. most wanted nothing to do with him. along came carter page. anyone who came in with a pulse, resume and seemed legit would be welcome. have you carter page, who has an office right down the street from trump tower in manhattan, walks across the trellis, walks himself in trump tower, presents himself with phd and background in russian business and he gets on the campaign. does it sound like somebody who was adding himself to the campaign for a reason? >> adding himself to the campaign or injecting himself into a network of assets. i think over at the national terrorism divis

let me ask you about carter page, all right?other not-to-be-named network -- >> moonlighting. >> moonlighting. >> two-timing us. >> excuse me. >> and you were talking about carter page. you were talking about carter page and the fact that we know he came out on friday and said that he's not going to give these committees the details of his conversations with the russians. he sort of quipped, they can go ask the obama administration for those, alluding to surveillance and the fisa warrants, et cetera. but you said look, he's chump change, don't pay attention to carter page. why do you think he doesn't matter at all? >> he matters halfway. i was saying he's out in the public domain, therefore, people like me talk about him. other people, for example, paul manafort, are less out in the public domain, there's less information, they're engaging less with the media, so carter page is the subject of an attack because he's made himself a public figure. that said, i do believe we shouldn't underestimate the fact that the russians might h

in bethesda, brianne carter, abc7 news.lison: it's time to talk about the weather. >> everybody talks about the weather. nobody does anything about the weather. alison: you are the one who should. doug: i don't do anything. i just talk about it. alison: it's cool and dreary. do to 20 degrees below average for this time of may. the third consecutive day of the clouds and showers. chance of showers through the holiday weekend. i'm just full of good news. last night national park the mariners in town. there are plenty of clouds. we will stay cloudy and cool. the rain is holding off. if you showed me the map and i didn't know what time of year it was okay, tell us what month we are in. i wouldn't pick may. probably you know late october. no sign of it moving out. until with storm picture out of the picture. that won't happen until friday. the satellite, claudedyness in the area. the rain and the shower activity. charlotte is being hit by the thunderstorms. this area is one large tornado watch box. there are warnings in effect.

almost no interaction with carter paige.ch there isn't, obviously the senate and other inquiries would want to have that conversation with him. but the bottom line is there's no collusion, but this is something they continue to look into. there's no evidence that anything took place that was inappropriate or wrong. not by the president. not by the candidate, the campaign, or anybody else. so it sounds like their case is already starting to fall apart before it begins. >> point taken. i know he wasn't part of the campaign at all. but it's part of their narrative to investigate. they really wanted to hear from him. what reason would house democrats on the committee to say no. no. we wanted you but now we don't. >> had a conversation with other people who looked for more information, and it clearly shows there's no coordination, no collusion, no interaction between the campaign and anybody from the russian government or russian officials and any information that carter page could have potentially provided would continue to prov

this comes as a new explosive report by surkin news john solomon and sara carter.nd obama intelligence agency violated americans intelligence privacy. today during his congressional testimony, john brennan had this to say about whether or not he personally requested to have americans names unmasked. >> we are talking about prohibitions that you place on yourself, with respect to identifying u.s. persons as part of our surveillance program. you just cited some of the very important reasons that we do that. i would assume there is a process, a protocol under which the intelligence community goes through -- if they seek to unmask a u.s. person. have you ever requested that a u.s. person's name be unmasked? >> yes, i have. >> sean: joining us from circa news, sara carter and john solomon. sara, let's start with you. a lot more to come tomorrow as i understand it. >> yes, yes. sean, what we know is this. we just broke the story yesterday. the cia is the largest consumer of unmasking americans of any agency that we know right now. we can't give you exact numbers because

they're not as vocal as carter page is.hy is he continuing to speak so much when he knows that there's this ongoing investigation? >> that is really a great question. you know, it's really unusual and kind of just bizarre to see someone who is the subject of an fbi investigation, multiple congressional investigations, to be so out front and be willing to put himself on tv and speak to, you know, newspapers and websites. it's -- you would think that it would be time to lay low and to be quiet. but apparently carter page has decided to take a different tack. i'm not entirely sure. i wish i had the answer to that question. i'm sure if a subpoena comes and forces him to testify in front of congress, maybe we'll get that answer. >> all right. stay with us. a little later this hour, we've got to talk about this new reporting from "the washington post" about former national security adviser michael flynn. thanks so much. >>> bombshell reporting surrounding former national security adviser mike flynn. claiming president trump's own

. >> carter, his name is carter. trying to see his last name. don't have it.ves chicken snuck ets. goes on and starts to tweet at wendy's, how many retweets do i have to get, to get free chicken nuggets. >> wendy's responds saying 18 million. thinking no way. well, guess what? carter took the challenge. went ahead. and now holds the record for most retweets. he did not reach the 18 million goal, but he did surpass ellen degeneres's previou well just over 3.4 million retweets. and oscar selfie. wendy's decided you know what, buddy, you earned it. he gets free chicken nug the for a year. and gave him $100,000 to donate to the dave thomas foundation. >> he doesn't get the money. but gets the free nuggets for a year. >> win-win. >> the kid to be around at school no doubt. apparently another student in iran who is pretty popular. but for all the wrong reasons. he thinks so at least at this point. he has a an uncanny resemblance to the greatest, soccer player, lionel messi from argentina. >> both, does? >> the one on the left is 25-year-old iranian student. he knew

the two most important elections in my lifetime was when jimmy carter -- jimmy carter against ronald reagan, and then reagan came in and two seconds later, iran give back our hostages, and then hillary clinton against donald trump. i cannot express to you the peacefulness and contentment i have and the renewed vigor to stand shoulder to shoulder with a basket of deplorables loving our country. i have never been so peaceful in my life over the last few months since he won the election, which has been outstanding. the final thing is the one greatest thing he did is he put a conservative judge on the supreme court. i just want to thank all of the basket of deplorables for making it happen. it just makes my heart so happy that the left-wing of the democratic party is running around with their heads on fire. thank you very much and have a great day. host: virginia. caller: for the last caller just called in regards to the reagan release, that already been done by the carter administration by ironically george bush of course, the director at the time. the previous caller also -- prior tome

right, yeah. - and jewel was playing june carter and i got to play ap carter, who was the godfather of country music. and reading all of the stuff on him, that was really the juiciest and most fun part. doing the stuff, you just have to kind of wade in, and-- - well like you go on law and order for an episode. that's like work for hire, right? - that was totally fun. the easiest character choices. what do i do? hmm, be a jerk. what do i do, hmm. be self-absorbed. what do i do, you know. (chuckling) it was all laid out, 'cause i was playing this rock star who was kind of the whitesnake, is that who is? - it was like a heavy metal or hair metal kind of. - yeah, where the tragedy in rhode island, the place caught on fire, that's what it was based on. - but so that's something you're continuing to do after all this time, that's fun? - [john] sure. - but i guess the thing that you're doing primarily right now is you're, this record that has just come out, you're about to go on a tour for a couple weeks. is this as much fun as it used to be to go on the road? i imagine after you get to be a