jeffrey has dismissed from david brooks and me saying we were never trumpers. ct we were right about him in the beginning doesn't prove us wrong. >> you weren't right, david. >> we warned the country, this man by character and intellect cannot do this job. and there'sover hanging a persistent suspicion of disloyalty to this country and attachment to a hostile power that must be taken seriously. >> gentlemen, thank you very much. appreciate it jeffrey and david. poppy. >> thank you very much. sort of lost in all of this chaos of the last 12 hours, the fate of the president's halted travel ban. will the president's own words come back to haunt him once k n again? that's next. i get back to business. ♪ ♪ on mattress firmness? fortunately there's a bed where you both get what you want every night. enter sleep number and the semi-annual sale going on now. sleepiq technology tells you how well you slept and what adjustments you can make. she likes the bed soft. he's more hardcore. so your sleep goes from good to great to wow! only at a sleep number store. oh, and righ

and, it's friday-- mark shields and david brooks analyze a whirlwind week of news. all that and more, on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> the ford foundation. working with visionaries on the frontlines of social change worldwide. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and foundations. and friends of the newshour. >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president trump faces new revelations tonight over the investigation of alleged collusion between campaign aides and russia. the "new york times" reports that the president told russian diplomats last week that f.b.i. director james comey was "a real nut job" and that firing him removed "great pressure" on the president over the russia probe. separately, the "washington post" reports a current senior white house adviser is now a person of interest in the

mark shields and david brooks analyze a full week of news. much more. >> sreenivasan: now, to judy's exclusive interview with aya hijazy, the egyptian-american aid worker released last month from prison in egypt, along with her husband, mohammed hassanien. the 30-year-old hijazy grew up in the washington area, and in egypt. in 2013, she and mohammed founded the "belady foundation." the goal: to help impoverished street children in cairo. but they soon found themselves in prison, falsely accused of horrendous crimes, and the subjects of international efforts-- including by presidents trump and obama-- to gain their release. judy spoke with aya and mohammed earlier this week. >> woodruff: the calm, mundane routine of daily life is something new and special again for aya hijazy and her husband mohammed hassanien. the apartment they moved in to outside washington is still sparsely furnished but it's a place to call their own, and it's a world away from the egyptian jail cells and crowded courtroom cages they were kept in for three years. they had

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i think david brooks' characterization there say little bit confused.ing the anti-obama. if obama was the president who saw everything in the middle east through the prism of tehran, iran, how can we make them happy, trump is exactly the opposite. that's why he's so beloved to the saudis. >> when we think about the middle east and the president ramping up the arms sales there, also repeating the word "peace" over and over again he did danielle dance around the phrase he used on the campaign trail and here at home "radical islamic terrorism." no mention also of moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. so what do you think the agenda for peace in that region really is, and to your point about saudi arabia being one of the greatest places that can enhance terrorism for not only that region, but the world? >> thomas, saudi arabia can be a huge ally to us if we are stern about what our limits are and what we will accept. i think the president had an idea. i think that's why he went to saudi, why he went to jerusalem, why he went to the vatican. he

this from a conservative columnist david brooks. wow! ouch! >> yeah, i think david is sort of echoing what i certainly feel, sort of trying to follow this and cover this. look, i think this is something where the president does have all of this information, and we remember right at the beginning of his administration that there were foreign intelligence agencies, particularly the israelis, who were being warned against providing this sort of information to the president. i certainly think that a lot of these allied intelligence agencies are going to be thinking twice about giving what they perceive as sensitive information -- and this is a problem for the bigger intelligence community, and i don't think it's going to be very good for repairing the very bad relationship that the president has with our intelligence community. this is only really going to make it worse. and he's got a long way to remedy it. >> regarding those allies, the president will speak with king abdullah of jordan today. you would think this would certainly come up. h.r. mc

david brooks this morning slammed the president calling him a child in this op-ed.te, "most adults have learned to sit still but mentally trump is still a 7-year-old boy who is bouncing around the classroom. he's thus the all-time record holder of the doning-kruger effect, the phenomenon of which the incompetent person is not able to see his own incompetence. he is perpetually surprised because reality does not comport with his fantasies." joining me is tom countryman, former state department official fired shortly after the inauguration and chris cillizza. tom, what's your take on the president's behavior here and his ability to do this in the future? ze h well, clearly he has the ability to declassify information but the way he did it raises concerns. if he asked his team in advance, i'd like to share this information and then there would have been a proper prof coordinating that. he did not do that. he could have chosen to say briefly to the russians, there is some information i'd like to share with you and it will be coming to you soon and then he could have fol

charlie: david brooks had a call today that said the world is led by a child. we have the story coming up, the trump askedaying him to end the investigation. you got the classified information that was released in conversation, that is a controversy. where is it all going? how do you comprehend this? katy: it is hard to say where it is all going. but take this. we were calling it seven days in may, but i think now we have updated it to call it eight days in may. charlie: which is famous. katy: one week ago yesterday sally yates was testifying in front of congress, on tuesday, donald trump fired fbi director comey. we are told he did so at the request of the deputy attorney general. on wednesday he met with russian officials in the oval office. charlie: that is where a line of photographers came in. katy: just the russian photographers were allowed in. there was a report saying they were duped. the russians were not telling them this was a media outlet. nbc news has the exclusive interview in which he tells lester holt that i was always going to fire comey and y

a stunning "new york times" op-ed by david brooks this morning is titled, "when the world is led by ald." for all we know trump didn't do it because he's a russian agent or any malevolent intent. he did it because he's sloppy, lacks impulse control and above all because he's a seven-year-old boy desperate for approval of those he admires. this raises an important question this morning, is donald trump competent to be president. let's discuss. cnn political commentator and former white house communications director under president obama, rick santorum cnn political commentator and republican senator. senator, let me begin with you. as chris and i have been saying all morning, the silence from leading republicans, house side and senate side is deafening. we've heard nothing from mitch mcconnell. paul ryan's office puts out a two sentence statement that does not back up this president. all we know from cnn's reporting, "washington post" reporting, how concerned are you about this? is the president competent to do the job? >> first off about the silence, several republicans have spoken up

david brooks is away. and welcome, gentlemen, both of you. mark, any question that the president was within his authority to fire james comey? >> no. it was within his authority, judy, but this was not amateur hour, this was an incomp hencably incompetent, inept amateur week, beginning and ending with the president. other people came out with all sorts of faces. everybody associated with them is diminished, soiled, stained in some way, but this was donald trump's total miscalculation. the man who made a national reputation by saying "you're fired" didn't have the decency to call the f.b.i. director in person and publicly humiliated him and embarrassed him by severing him, announcing it on cable television as he was speaking to f.b.i. colleagues in los angeles, and he has thus insured that this will be with -- this russian investigation is now a permanent part of our political landscape. it will affect and influence and be an outline of the 2018 election and perhaps beyond. >> woodruff: total miscalculation, ramesh? >> the administration combi

matt lewis, to the statement of reckless, david brooks wrote a blistering op ed, a scathing op ed thisorning. i want you to read one line here. he basically said the president is an infant. he said, there are three tasks that most mature adults have figured out by the age of 25. trump has mastered none of them. lack of self-control his leitmotif. >> there are a lot of people in the media and on the left are attributing the worst motives, that donald trump is in league with the motions. i don't buy that. i think what we have here is a guy with no impulse control, who is essentially a child, who has made it this far by doing things his own way, who has never been told no and it is hard to tell him at the age of 70 no. look, i think he basically does what he wants to do, doesn't fully appreciate or care about the consequences. i suspect in this case he was bragging to the russians and trying -- maybe thinking if i tell you guys something, a little secret, you'll like me or you'll tell me something, a little secret without being cognizant of the repercussions. the sad part is that the adul

david brooks is away.'s start with this little party that was on the rose garden yesterday, this was a celebratory atmosphere. president trump brought them there after the healthcare repeal pushed through the house. how did they manage to do this? >> well, first of all the event itself, the only thing as unseem low as the sell congratulate tree bus trip to the whitehouse. it's like a scott ball game and you break out the beer. with the democrats on the house floor taunting bye bye bye to republicans. this is trivializing a moral issue. this to me, that's what healthcare is. whether in fact it is a right of a as citizen in this country of healthcare. it's a serious country. do we share or benefits and share our burdens or whether in fact we're all in this alone. with the house passed yesterday, it was something that just had to be done. i mean otherwise you're staring in the abyss of total political failure. republicans had gone through four elections with one unanimous position all taken with a party becau

david brooks had a column today said the world led by child. comey memo says trump asked him to end flynn investigation. of course the trump people and press officials denied that. >> yeah. >> rose: you've got the classified information released, that's a controversy. where is it all going? how do you comprehend this? >> it's hard to say where it is all going, but just take this -- we were calling it seven days in may. i think now we've got to update it to say eight days in may. >> rose: which is a famous novel about an attempt to take over the government. >> exactly. one week ago yesterday sally yates was testifying in front of congress. on tuesday donald trump fires f.b.i. director comey, and we're told he did so at the request, the recommendation of the deputy ag and ag. wednesday, he meets with russian officials in the oval office. >> rose: photographers come in and -- >> just the russian media was allowed in. there was reporting later that said they were duped by the russians that the russians were not telling them this was a media outlet.

people who should read, mildly break new york times rules and talk about one of my fellow columns david brooks wrote a column about rod's book and said something to the effect it seems like there are lot of monks in this cack. one response i have is the one i wrote in my column and the message is not that everyone should become a monk but it is everyone where they are should take one more in a store monk direction. that is an important way to read the benedict option. don't assume you need to revolutionize and pull your kids out of whatever school they are in and build an organic form. suppose you take one step toward a benedictian life. we don't have a surplus of monks in the united states. it wouldn't be the worst thing if people read rod's book and says maybe there is something for me to think about. but my wife forbids me from becoming a monk so that is for someone else. thank you. [applause] >> it has been special to be a part of your book launch this. in 2010, in the midst of on going debate in the county about islamic extremism chancellor murk law told ther party quote we don't have too

david sharjey? >> married to brooke burke in real life. >> oh, yes. beautiful. >> these guys.actly. >> who are you going to call? >> we look pathetic. okay, let's do some slow, give me some music, what when does this open? may 25th? the 25th, may 25th? >> all right. >> can we do it? >> oh, oh, here we go. oh, ya. >> okay. now, i thought i would get some use out of this shirt again. >> there is a saying on it. >> look where they put the belly button. >> pretty low. >> doesn't doesn't it look like a tree? okay, here we go. >> all right, here we go. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> your a still running. come back again. (laughing). we built our 100% fiber optic network because we knew that in the future everybody would need fast, powerful internet and lots of it. and now we're introducing the fios gigabit connection with download speeds up to 940 megs that are 20x faster and more powerful than most people have. you want to run 100 devices? go ahead. and the really incredible part,e year, and you'll also get tv, hbo and multi-room dvr service. comcast only offers 200mg speeds with their $89.99 t

much more to talk on the david brooks morning must-read as well.e it worldwide across all of our platforms. washington with a conversation with the senate majority leader. that could be a two-hour conversation. think it will be a little shorter. mitch mcconnell in the 9:00 hour. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: this is "bloomberg surveillance: i'm taylor riggs. let's get the bloomberg business flash. elliott management has come out with a new list of demands at bhp billiton. they won a review of the oil unit. the firm calls for a full or partial spinoff of oil assets. they also plan for a review of the corporate structure. it would allow it to stay headquartered in australia. hackers claim to have stolen and unreleased disney movie and threatened to release it unless they are paid a ransom. ceo bob iger disclose the threat in a , staff members. -- a call with staff members. they say they will not pay. francine: china has increased its holdings of u.s. treasuries by the most in two years. it's ownership of government bonds stands at over $1 trillion. it

. >> mel brooks, david bowie, art carney, muhammad ali. >> but the weirdest thing about this story...d. nothing's going to fall off. >> ...is how the square from the burbs ends up with both. >> i can only imagine this driving around the streets of new york. >> will this two-for-one strange inheritance -- >> i've got $150, can get a $175? once, twice. first piece sold. >> ...ultimately add up? [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

. >> mel brooks, david bowie, art carney, muhammad ali. >> but the weirdest thing about this story...eally solid. nothing's going to fall off. >> ...is how the square from the burbs ends up with both. >> i can only imagine this driving around the streets of new york. >> will this two-for-one strange inheritance -- >> i've got $150, can get a $175? once, twice. first piece sold. >> ...ultimately add up? [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

. >> mel brooks, david bowie, art carney, muhammad ali. >> but the weirdest thing about this story...it's really solid. nothing's going to fall off. >> ...is how the square from the burbs ends up with both. >> i can only imagine this driving around the streets of new york. >> will this two-for-one strange inheritance -- >> i've got $150, can get a $175? once, twice. first piece sold. >> ...ultimately add up? [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today and i'm in the pocono mountains of pennsylvania on my way to meet an heir with a head-spinning story that will take us back to 1970s manhattan, the era of punk rock, disco and wild parties at studio 54. >> my name is hugh hooper. back in 2008, my brother hoop received a very strange inheritance. when he died three years later, he left one twice as strange to me. >> hugh, hi. i'm jamie. >> how are you doing, jamie? nice to meet you. >> so great to meet you. you know, i don't come out of manhattan for just anything, but i heard your inheritance is way cool. >> it is. it's crazy. but you ca

. >> david brooks writes in the "new york times" about the politics of clan, adventures of jared kushnerlife he's been serving his father or father-in-law. all his career he's been thrust into roles he's not ready for. kushner seems to have been fiercely, almost self-lessly loyal to family. but the clannish mentality has often ill served him during his stay in government. kushner has made bone headed blunders in the white house. he reportedly pushed for firing of fbi director james comey, even though anybody with a blip of experience could have told you this move would backfire horribly. he's allowed his feud with steve bannon to turn into a public soap opera. we don't know everything about his meetings with the russians but we know that they bea tray rookie naivete on several levels. this turmoil for both trump and kushner was inevitable. we can add to that list he pushed ruddy giuliani. he pushed michael flynn in such an aggressive way that nobody could really reason with him in terms of a choice of national security adviser. it seems that everything that has gone wrong for this admini

. >> mel brooks, david bowie, art carney, muhammad ali. >> but the weirdest thing about this story...lly solid. nothing's going to fall off. >> ...is how the square from the burbs ends up with both. >> i can only imagine this driving around the streets of new york. >> will this two-for-one strange inheritance -- >> i've got $150, can get a $175? once, twice. first piece sold. >> ...ultimately add up? [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today and i'm in the pocono mountains of pennsylvania on my way to meet an heir with a head-spinning story that will take us back to 1970s manhattan, the era of punk rock, disco and wild parties at studio 54. >> my name is hugh hooper. back in 2008, my brother hoop received a very strange inheritance. when he died three years later, he left one twice as strange to me. >> hugh, hi. i'm jamie. >> how are you doing, jamie? nice to meet you. >> so great to meet you. you know, i don't come out of manhattan for just anything, but i heard your inheritance is way cool. >> it is. it's crazy. but you can keep m

. >> mel brooks, david bowie, art carney, muhammad ali. >> but the weirdest thing about this story... >> and it's really solid. nothing's going to fall off. >> ...is how the square from the burbs ends up with both. >> i can only imagine this driving around the streets of new york. >> will this two-for-one strange inheritance -- >> i've got $150, can get a $175? once, twice. first piece sold. >> ...ultimately add up? [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today and i'm in the pocono mountains of pennsylvania on my way to meet an heir with a head-spinning story that will take us back to 1970s manhattan, the era of punk rock, disco and wild parties at studio 54. >> my name is hugh hooper. back in 2008, my brother hoop received a very strange inheritance. when he died three years later, he left one twice as strange to me. >> hugh, hi. i'm jamie. >> how are you doing, jamie? nice to meet you. >> so great to meet you. you know, i don't come out of manhattan for just anything, but i heard your inheritance is way cool. >> it is. it's crazy. bu

. >> and i was talking to the political drirector david chalin and he said, "brooke, grab the popcorn." he says that nation has not seen a hearing like this since au knee ta hill,-- since anita hild where are your expectations? >> well, david may be right, and what eric said, he won't talk about much on the day that he was fired as fbi drirector, and think about what president trump may have unleashed by firing him. if you are serving the president, the statement that you always can make, and that gets around every question is, i'm terribly sorry, i don't speak about the personal conversations that i have or the policy conversations that i have with the president, and the advise i give in, and the instructions that i received and the presidential conversations are considered off limits, but what has happened here is by firing comey he has, the president trump has essentially freed up mr. comey to gout and begin discussing at least those conversations. so, since it has already appeared in the "new york times" and elsewhere that he had taken the notes and felt pressured, the leaks almos

jen jen -- jeanette reyes in bridesburg, bob brooks down the shore and we have david murphy with the accuweather forecast. >> reporter: i had a tweet from a viewer a moment ago that said it's a good day on the beach for ducks. we have active rain falling we have additional showers popping through montgomery and south jersey, the shore itself even other places where you don't see active rain there could fine drizzle down the the shore in particular into the afternoon. occasionally it will be damp you might feel that on your face as you go outside in the region, as well. active showers falling a part a lot less than earlier. there you see what we were dealing with when we first woke up or after when you woke up, but when i was out there, this is what we're dealing with. we have showers pulling north and east. cloudy breaks in the afternoon possible and damp with the drizzle and spotty shower. i think most of you are going to be avoiding any main rain coming in for the rest of the day. that's gone. 61 degrees in philadelphia. 60 in allentown. similar numbers across the region. milder so

philip, david, thank you very much. >> thanks, brooke. >>> a fight erupts between lawmakers after oneepublican says he called immigration agents to round up protesters. we'll talk live to one of them who was accused of threatening that republican. i guess i was born with a crayon in my hand. i decided to see if there was a way for design to play a... ...positive role in what was going on in the world. there's a jacket that's reflective for visibility... ...a sleeping bag jacket, jackets that turn into tents. i usually do my fashion sketches on the computer. i love drawing on the screen. there's no lag time at all. it feels just like my markers. with fashion, you can dress people and help people. it's really cool to see your work come to life. at crowne plaza we know business travel isn't just business. there's this. 'a bit of this. why not? your hotel should make it easy to do all the things you do. which is what we do. crowne plaza. we're all business, mostly. >>> welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. to now a very public breakdown of civility in a place literally built for civilized deb

i'm brooke baldwin. first to david chalian, our cnn political director. i have one really simple question off the top here. that is, did she say that she doesn't understand why this is all so complicated? >> she did. she said, it's very straight forward. the president fired the fbi director. it's simple. no, it's not simple, because that's the man that's overseeing the investigation into his campaign's ties with russia. >> thank you! >> it's totally complicated. what we have here now, brooke, is a white house in a crisis of credibility. and it is unbelievable to watch sarah huckabee sanders, for now the third day in a row, needing to adjust her story because the president did not send his team out with all the information, so therefore, they were in the position of lying to the american people about why president trump fired director comey. the entire justification on tuesday night when this happened, from sarah, from sean spicer, from kellyanne conway, was about rod rosenstein's letter. that was it. today, in the interview with nbc news, we learned that

i want to go to brooke baldwin, you're there with david challian. >> reporter: we've been watching all this, let me bring our cnn political director right in here as live pictures there of the white house. we were talking earlier in my office watching all of this. jeff zel anany called it a vict lap. >> i've got to believe so. i don't think we can overstate what a big short term immediate win this is for the president. it is -- you have to remember, the entire administration has been clogged, if you will, in terms of getting a legislative agenda through because of healthcare because it failed six weeks ago. this completely does two things without the fear of the buzz saw. come 2018. >> that's right. kevin mccarthy said it, also the house majority leader, paul ryan was tweeting about it. every they're saying is we're following through on a promise. this was a huge organizing principle for the republican party for the last eight years. this was the driving force through four election cycles. to finally have this moment of going to their voters and saying, we told you we were going to do

>> brooke, i was having audio issues with david.if we take this at its word, if the memo is correct, which no one has seen, we don't know the context of the wording that was shared with the reporters of "the new york times," but if we take it at its word, there's no obstruction of justice there. politically, again, impeachment is not going to happen with the make-up of the house and senate. republicans are not there. and i think jim comey is not a trustworthy source. it's one man's word against another and jim comey, the last time he was fbi director and testified before congress, lied to congress and had to have his testimony corrected because of what he said about hillary and anthony weiner and huma be a ba dean. >> not a trustworthy source. david gergen, would you disagree with that? >> yes, i would disagree with it. i think it's a pretty partisan response, frankly. i agree on its face it's not clear yet. but if, in fact, it turns out to be true, if the president has tapes and verifies what james comey is saying and you combine t

avert that government shutdown, joining us now is brookings chief david wessel, director of fiscal policyvid, we're talking about milking cows. we'll see what we can milk from this interview. david, help us understand this. we have averted a government shutdown. that's get news. what's on tap? we have health care. i'm curious if that happens this week? >> i'm not sure whether it happens or not. clearly, the republicans would like to vote to repeal the affordable care act or modify it. but they seem to be scrambling for votes and wisely, they said, they're not going to bring it up unless they have the votes. i think we won't know until the last minute. my guess right now, they won't have the vote. if they do have it, it will squeak through by a hair. and what they pass through the house will be substantially notified if it gets to the senate at all. let me ask you this, how important do you think it really is to be able to accomplish tax reform without -- without the health care bill appealed? >> i think that they -- my guess is what happens is, they make one more try at health care. they

david: what did you come up with? tara: nike, interestingly enough. he does own brooks. tara: he does. cosco. their margins are not as high as buffett would like to see, but everything else about the business makes sense. david: at the same time, he expressed concern about retail with amazon. more likelyk it is he will look at some industrial names. 3mcomes up all the time -- comes up all the time. they have ankle monitoring for criminals and stuff. a brand like scotch. tara: or hershey. a long speculated target. it totally fits his portfolio and he can totally envision the hershey trust. what pointwhat -- at do they have to start giving the cash back to shareholders? tara: i would've thought he would wait until his successor takes over and then open that door so that investors are not surprised. it sounded like he is thinking about that now. if the cash gets too high and is just sitting there, does he need to think about returning it sooner? it is very possible. david: thank you so much. alix: you were there, you just flew in. david: i did. seeing about candy, charlie up there with bu

brooke baldwin. moments ago, the white house daily briefing finished, exhibiting what cnn's political director, david chalian, just told me was a crisis of credibility. once again, administration officials had to readjust their accounts of what exactly led president trump to fire the director of the fbi, james comey. the initial reason was that it was based upon recommendations by the deputy attorney general, which was totally tossed out based upon this nbc interview that the president sat down for a little while ago. minutes before the briefing, he revealed that he was planning to fire jim comey no matter what he was advised. here he was. >> look, he's a showboat, she's a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. i know that, you know that, everybody knows that. you take a look at the fbi a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil. less than a year ago, it hasn't recovered from that. >> monday, you met with the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. >> right. >> did you ask for a recommendation? >> what i did is, i was going to fire comey, my decision. it was not -- >> you had made the decision before

brooks is antioch's african-american police chief. >>> a warning is going out tonight for people living or working near the third rail that powers the tr energized. david lui is in san jose where an outreach program to let people know about the danger. >> reporter: usually tracks are behind fences, that making it hard for anyone to come in contact with the rail. but the agency with the b.a.r.t. extension, is taking no chances, and getting the word out that anyone making contact with that rail could end up in a deadly situation. vta, the agency in charge of the project has reached another milestone, it had energized the third rail that powers the train. community outreach teams have started visiting 30,000 house holds to warn people to be careful. >> people around here aren't necessarily used to having ground based electric track, if someone thinks that they can walk down a train track just because there's not a train coming, which they're not supposed to do anyway, in this case it's energized which can be very dangerous. >> reporter: contact is also being made directly with residents to explain how dangerous coming into contact with that third rail is.

david axelrod today. he's our cnn senior political commentator in chicago. nice to see you, sir. before we get into -- >> how are you doing, brookeng going on? >> oh, slow news day. nothing, really. before we get to your ax files special tomorrow night. on this conversation about tapes and the questions to sean spicer today, are there any tapes? you know, conversation recorded between docomey and the preside, we know that any kind of secret recordings in any white house has been off-limits since the nixon administration. so when you listen to sean spicer's response, the non-response wh non-response, what did you think? >> well, i think that he, as he often is, was in a really difficult spot. and was instructed not to say anything beyond what was in the tweet. the interesting thing was him trying to convince people it wasn't a threat. it was just helpful advice to a departing employee, you know? a little legal advice for mr. comey. obviously, it was a threat. and you know, the problem is not with the spokespeople, but they're in a constant game of twister, trying to contort themselves to explain the latest tweet or comment. he sen

brooks is antioch's african-american police chief. >>> a warning is going out tonight for people living or working near the third rail powers the train has been energiz energized. david lui is in san jose where an outreach program to let people know about the danger. >> reporter: usually tracks are behind fences, that making it hard for anyone to come in contact with the rail. but the agency with the b.a.r.t. extension, is taking no chances, and getting the word out that anyone making contact with that rail could end up in a deadly situation. vta, the agency in charge of the project has reached another milestone, it had energized the third rail that powers the train. community outreach teams have started visiting 30,000 house holds to warn people to be careful. >> people around here aren't necessarily used to having ground based electric track, if someone thinks that they can walk down a train track just because there's not a train coming, which they're not supposed to do anyway, in this case it's energized which can be very dangerous. >> reporter: contact is also being made directly with residents to explain how dangerous coming into contact with that third rail is.

david gura. bloomberg television is taking a look at tax reform with special guests throughout the week. it is a pleasure to speak with william gale, who heads of the brookingstitution tax policy institute. he was a senior advisor to president george h.w. bush. let me ask you about the 20% we have heard so much about. republican lawmakers say when they look at their plan concert with what the white house has proposed, there's 80% degraded. what's in that 20% they do not agree on? william: what they agree on is corporations and individuals and a variety of other conventional proposals. what they do not agree on is the house wants to what is called the destination-based cash flow tax in place of the corporate income tax. it is basically a consumption tax that has a border adjustment and is highly controversial that the white house does not endorse. david: we have heard a lot about the potential for income shifting if we were to see the white house plan to come to fruition. how do you prevent that from happening? the white house says it can do that, has not given indications of how. the income shifting issue arisebecause the tax rate on business income -- the t

david: development and testing of a long-range ground-based interceptor missile couldn't come at better time but will it really defang our enemies? we have peter brookesellow for national security affairs. >> great news, absolutely. we should be very pleased with that not only does it show that our technology is capable, but it also sends a very strong signal to north korea and others. david: does it show too much our technical abilities? >> no, not at this point. they know we have missile defenses. remember we put the thad system in south korea. we don't long-range as much as shorter range. so it was good news. david: it was fortuitous. this test was planned for a couple of years. the nice cncidence oit happening ju aer another north korean test is something. i'm wondering is this something we could apply now? say within the next few months north korea comes up with a way to mount a missile with a nuke, would we be able to deploy this weapon or counterweapon in time. >> it is deployed. as your correspondent noted. we have systems in alaska. we have systems in california. we have systems aboard aegis class ships in the pacific. we have the thaad syste

david, the real story here appears to be how this document may have influenced comey at the time. lay this out for me. >> well, you remember, brooketifying before congress recently and was asked about why he went around the department of justice procedures and gave the press conference clearinging hillary clinton but saying she acted extremely carelessly. remember the attorney general at the time, loretta lynch, bill clinton went to visit her at the time and that interaction raised questions about why he thought maybe to be completely independent of doj, not even give loretta lynch a real heads-up to what he was doing was necessary. he mentioned other items that influenced the decision making. it seems that this document is one of those items that he was talking about and yet we are learning that the document is not necessarily deemed to be credible so you can imagine the irony of all of this that jim comey, who inserted himself into the presidential election, as you know, multiple times, to great criticism, may have done so because of the weight he gave what is now deemed to be perhaps a fake document. >> this is a huge, if true,

brooke and chris. >> i'm sure that rosenstein will be very slow to take up any new assignments from sessions or the president to write memos advising anyone's ouster. let's discuss with our panel. david chalian and maggie haberman and jefferey toobin. what does special counsel mean as opposed to special prosecutor and what does mueller mean? >> the terms have he solvevolve the years. archibald cox was a special prosecutor. then the independent counsel. laurence walsh was an independent counsel. now the law has expired and there is a special counsel. independent counsel, special prosecutor, special counsel. it all basically means the same thing. someone outside of the supervision of the justice department who can investigate an area that is very much their own. >> i ask because some of the skepticism is if there is no crime, how do you have a special prosecutor and the ag trying to explain. this is to investigate. not just prosecute. >> exactly. it is very clear that mueller can conclude. there are no cases to be brought and close up shop. what is interesting and unclear at this point is how much public disclosure of his work there will be. in normal circumstances when the justice dep

david gura. we will do that in a bit. coming up, from alabama we saw on what we saw yesterday from cbo. the pass for his republican party, mr. brooks♪ francine: breaking news from the u.k. prime minister. theresa may speaking saying she will tell president trump that sharing information -- shared information must remain secure. this is after we already understood she would confront president trump over u.s. media leaks. let's change in focus on the fed. saying inflation is needed and others saying it is prudent to wait. discuss -- despite this, most members judged it would be appropriate to tighten again. but get back to gabriela santos. thank you so much for staying with us. what do you make of what we heard and found out from the fed yesterday? gabriela: i read the minutes yesterday as business as usual. they did note the slowdown in consumption and overall economic growth in the first quarter and also some surprisingly weak inflation figures. most numbers were overall willing to overlook both of to me itets and signaled they are willing to continue with their plan for this year as well as balance sheet reduction toward the end o