chris phillips, former head of national counterterrorism security office, thank you very much indeedeing treated at eight hospitals in and around manchester, one of those is the manchester royal infirmary, we will go straight there now, anita mcveigh has been there all day for us. mcveigh has been there all day for us. nine of the 59 injured are here at the manchester royal infirmary, one of eight hospitals, as you say, involved in looking after the 59 injured as a result of last night's horrendous attack. we have seen throughout the day and heard about the huge wave of support for the emergency services. first of all, we have had all of the off—duty members of the off emergency services, who have come to volunteer their help throughout the night and into the morning and the response from the public who have wanted to back up the doctors nurses, ambulance crews, all those people working to deal with the injured. with me, health editor, hugh pym, tell us about the response of the emergency medical services, obviously they have a well rehearsed plan for major incidents but the reality

chris phillips is the former head of the national counter terrorism security office explains what theces will be looking at. this attack was planned. premeditated. and they're almost certainly will be other people involved in this attack. the most important thing is to catch them, to identify them, and to bring them into custody. and until we have done that, then this attack is not really over. such planning has gone into this that it would be surprising that there may be other similar devices out there, ready to be used. police will be working hard to stop that from happening. with me is the defence consultant, anthony leather forfurther analysis. thank you for being on the programme. clearly extremely sensitive and difficult times for those affected, those in manchester, who are having to grapple with this horrible than 2a hours ago. some are now describing the security operation as unprecedented. i would like to get your view on that, and also talk us through some of the logistics. yes, well with the recent announcement of the increase in the threat level, that seems to be the next

thank you very much, chris phillips. we are broadcasting from manchester this morning. it is calm today, complete contrast to the utter devastation and chaos and confusion of last night, when a pop concert was targeted by a male attacker, so greater manchester police, who say he exploded some kind of device in the foyer of the manchester arena, just as the concert was ending, just as crowds of children, teenagers, young people, mums and dads were streaming out. we know so far, sadly 22 people have died and that there are children amongst those dead. 59 people are being treated in eight hospitals around greater manchester. andy burnham, the mayor of manchester tweeted this in the last few minutes, please join us for a vigil in albert square at 6pm tonight. we are grieving today, but we are strong. we will talk to a man who was at the gig with his girlfriend and daughter. good morning to you. good morning. tell us morning to you. good morning. tell us what you saw and heard? like you said, ariana grande had just gone off s

cnn legal analyst jeffrey due bin is with us all morning, chris cillizza, phillip mud and douglas brinkley. a point we have been coming back to a lot is the second paragraph in this letter, maybe the best window into the motives and problems in separating the executives have an investigation thereof with respect to russia. kellyanne wanted to distract and say it doesn't say in there the president asked him any questions, just that the fbi communicated to the president three different times that he w wasn't under investigation. now, we're assuming this is true. you take issue with that because you don't think james comey would have these discussions. but, again, isn't this something that has to be reconciled? >> it is so -- the level of impropriety is so great at so many different levels. if the conversation took place as the president describes it in this letter, it is completely inappropriate because he should not be discussing a pending investigation with the person who is in charge of that investigation. that is a bedrock principal of the division of labor within the executive branch. o

cnn senior legal analyst, reporter and editor at large for cnn politics chris cillizza and phillip mud. file this under the category of you can't make it up. quick to the defense of president trump is russia, just like when lavrov mocked questions from the u.s. press core about comey's firing, just like when we had to learn about the meeting between lavrov and kislyak from russian media and now they say trump did nothing wrong with intelligence and we can prove it. what does this mean? >> two things. one, between the potential for a transcript out of this meeting and donald trump floating the idea that he's taping phone calls affirms my belief that everything is being recorded at all times everywhere in the world. >> i think even this show is being recorded. >> this is fine. you can say whatever you want here. but my point, too, is that this is russia being donald trump's worst enemy in some ways, right? if ever there was a time that you didn't necessarily want vladimir putin, who ever republican short of donald trump said this is not a good guy. this is an adversary to the united stat

reporter and editor at large for cnn politics, chris cillizza. abbie phillip and david drummer. i them thinking as i'm speaking here. i'm trying to make sense of this tweet. i've got to read it again. as a very active president with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy. help me on this? what does that even mean? >> that the fact that they have had 15 different stories about why james comey was fired is just the result of him being very active and busy. look, i know i say this all the time. i feel like i say the word remarkable 50 times in a show. but it is a remarkable thing when the president of the united states says, look, the official person who speaks for the white house on a daily basis, you can't expect them to be perfectly accurate in what they say, even though they are the voice for the united states because i do a lot of stuff. i'm a pretty busy guy. we are in different times, right? this is not something that normally ever happens. i mean, this is obviously the result of the fact he threw his staff und

we have cnn analyst abby phillip and maggie haberman and chris cilliz cillizza.re they starting from scratch? >> you heard them say we will not pay attention. you are not seeing the process that we are used to of reconciliation where you have dual tracks in the same direction. there is a lot going to be tossed out. we will see what it ends up like when they try to marry these bills. make no mistake. you have senators from purple states or red states where president trump did well who have a lot of working class or rural voters who do like obamacare. obamacare is not a slam dunk for a lot of voters. i heard voters complain in the 2016 campaign and premiums had gone up. enough of president trump's base of support and swing voters favor it. it is not the easiest thing to take it and get rid of it. the provisions that those voters like in many cases are not in the house version. >> if they didn't like obamacare, it is hard to argue they are better served under what just passed as trumpcare in the house. mr. cillizza, the idea of the president looking at the australia

chris. >> suzanne, thank you very much. let's discuss with abby phillip and a.b. stoddard and counterterrorism expert phil mudd. abby, there was a lot of information. there were headlines that came out of this. we will boil down suzanne's piece. he felt mildly nauseous. we never heard him about releasing that letter to congress. that as you heard him, the lynch clinton meeting compromised the doj. the russian influence on the election. what did you hear? >> he had a lot that he wanted to get off his chest. i was struck by what he didn't say. so much of his behavior was motivated by fear that the department would undermine itself. leaks would really reveal things that were part of the investigation that could be kept secret and should have been kept secr secret. especially the last one. he wasn't sure how long it would take to go through the e-mails. it ended up taking three days. in retrospect, people said you could have waited and found out what was in the e-mails before you came out publicly. the reason he didn't wait was because he was very, very sure the infor

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chris, alisyn. >> thank you. let's bring in our panel. we have abby phillip and david gregory along with general michael hayden. general, he could not be certain of collusion. he did see contact and communication with russian operatives. >> alisyn, it is what you classically expect your foreign intelligence chief to say. we have massive evidence of russian intervention in the election. we know the russians attempt to suborne people. we have the unexplained contacts with russians and the trump campaign that looks suspicious. we will turn it over to law enforcement. it reinforces the cause of the investigation. it doesn't conclude it. it gives legitimacy to the effort that is currently under way and against which the white house continues to push back as totally unwarranted. >> did you hear brennan say i didn't hear of any proof. i don't know of any proof or which was it? did you hear him say there is no proof or i don't know if there's proof or not. >> i think it is i don't know. chris, it is really important to understand that one element of the proof would be the contact with trump officials and people in the

chris and alvarenisyn, he said results in hundreds of hours of work. >> manu, thank you very much. let's bring in our panel. we have political analyst abby phillip and david gregory and david sanger. david gregory, what are the potential impact of the testimony from yates and clapper today? >> i think they will both be limited in what they can say. from yates, she will contradict from white house officials about the warning they gave about general flynn. i think the white house will make it clear they acted swiftly once they knew he was not truthful. the remaining questions are what extent did he advise the president. to candidate trump, the views he shaped of russia at the time. to say nothing of contacts that were not appropriate. i feel we're on the margins here even with clapper and what he can say in open session. what we know is what we have been talking about now for weeks and months. that is that there was consensus of a russian attempt to interfere with the election and at the very least the trump folks were cavalier about if not worse. >> it is interesting, abby. even trump transition officials wanted michael flynn shown these classifi

i'm joined by phillip rucker, white house bureau chief for "the washington post." the big question, why now? why now? why now? >> chris, good to be here. we don't have a clear answer on that yet. what i can tell you from talking to sources in and outside the white house is that the president kept this very closely held. only some of his most senior officials knew this was in the works and even knew about it until this afternoon. and one indication of why this was such a personal decision for president trump, he actually dispatched keith schiller, who is his longtime bodyguard and head of personal security at trump tower. keith schiller is now the director of oval office operations at the white house. he was dispatched to the fbi headquarters to deliver -- hand-deliver trump's letter. >> keith schiller, his personal bodyguard, was the person who delivered the letter firing the man investigating the president's campaign? >> that is correct. it was not delivered by the chief of staff, reince priebus, or by any other official in the white house. trump gave the letter to schiller to personally deliver. of course tomemy was

phillips' fiber good gummies! >> on thursday the house voted to repeal one of the worst job-killing laws of all. it's called obamacare, perhaps you've heard of it. chrisdent trump in his weekly address calling on the senate to follow the house and pass republican health care reform. and it's time now for our sunday group. fox news senior political analyst brit hume back from florida. welcome. >> thank you. chris: columnist for the hill, juan williams. former democratic congresswoman jane harman, director of the woodrow wilson center, and former house speaker newt gingrich. we asked you for questions, and it's clear democrats are already making headway on this argument that the house bill is going to hit older americans. susan lloyd farrell sent this on facebook: these are the years when the elderly need medical coverage, and many live on social security. what will happen to us under this new plan? now, speaker gingrich, folks, obviously over 65 are still protected by medicare, but if you're 55-64, aren't you going to pay more under this new house plan? >> you may, but the fact is the obamacare system's collapsing. they just announced in maryland a 50%