david gregory, a.b. stoddard and analyst phil mudd. let's show the clip from the nbc interview. >> sally yates testified that the white house notified he was compromised and at risk of blackmailed. 18 days later he was finally fired. during the 18 day, he had access to the nation's top secrets. one day you meet on the issue of comey and you fire him. in a humiliating way. he is sitting in the room with colleagueses. >> my white house counsel not sound like an emergency of anything. didn't make it sound like anything. she did not make it sound that way either in the hearings. this man has served for many years. he's a general. in my opinion, he's a very good person. i believe that it would be very unfair to hear from somebody who we don't even know and immediately run out and fire a general. >> your acting attorney general at the time. >> phil mudd, the difference in disposition to the president was one guy he liked. so he took it slow. one guy he didn't like so he did it right away. >> i think it is more basic than that, chris. if you

abby phillip and david gregory and david brinkley. author of the new book "jfk:a vision of america." great to have all of you. douglas, i'll start with you. how unusual is it for a former president to publicly weigh in on the policy of a new administration. >> they usually don't like to do that. obama did not mention donald trump by name. ss his name was not evoked at all with president obama leading the charge. joe biden was working the crowds as if he was getting ready to run for 2020. grabbing cameras and who wants a selfie with me. it had a spirit to the event. a nice mixing of two brands. jfk brand of we will put a man on the moon and peace corps and profiles in courage book and barack obama, the nobel peace prize winner. the two represent the spiritual life of the democratic party now that bill and hillary clinton are held in low regard at least for a while. >> david, the words he chose and the forum it didn't seem as though president obama was looking to provoke anything here. you juxtapose from what he saw in the crowd and he

joining me david gregory, david rose, online news director for "the new yorker" and even ham hoffer from the council on american islamic relations. david gregory the president said recently "i think it might not be as difficult as people have thought in terms of reaching a peace agreement wean the palestinians and israelis" following comments from last month from ma mad abbhmoud abba mr. president with you we have hope." >> there's a lot of bluser that comes out of the administration what the ultimate deal as the president calls it that can be achieved. it's going to require a lot of time, a lot of effort, and there can be a lot of failure associated with it. but the president is doing something that a lot of administrations don't do. he's jumping into this very early, and pursuing a peace deal, and putting his son-in-law, jared kushner, as a mediator, someone who has great authority within the white house to try, and so any president should be commended for trying to bring the two sides together. i think it's also, there's a lot of significance to what the president is about to do as we

joining us is david gregory and david drucker and editor a.b. stodda stoddard. david gregory, what was the biggest surprise of the weekend for you to start off the week? >> as we look forward, we have a president who still doesn't get it. playing this kind of petty politic game around. i thought everybody did not like comey. i thought it would be celebrated. not realizing the act of how he fired comey with the pre-text reason with contradictory answers. is this abuse of power that clapper is talking about? i think that is significant. whatever your feelings about the future of the investigation and about an fbi director is the right thing for the country, the fact you had a president fire the guy investigating him and we know through reporting, demanding a loyalty oath and recording, this is an attack on the democratic system. it has nothing to do with collusion. it is about a president who is so insecure and so feeling his legitimacy is questioned. he is not looking after the presidency or checks and balances of our country. >> david drucker. when clapper says

we have analyst david gregory and aaron david miller and a.b. stoddard. david gregory, what do you see as you watch the historic visit? >> i think as the israeli prime minister noted with pride, this is a president who is putting israel at the e center of the foreign policy. the first foreign trip where he is kochcoming to the middle eas. he is putting reconciliation between faiths and reconciliation as a candidate and how he wants to conduct himself as a president on the world stage. coming to israel says two things. the relationship with the united states and israel as an unbreakable bond he pointed out and a policy vision. the president lining up with sunni countries like saudi arabia yesterday and singling out iran as an enemy which is precisely the world view that the israeli prime minister has as well. the israeli prime minister who railed against the president obama administration emphasis nuclear deal with iran. while that is continued under president trump, here rhetorically yesterday the emphasis of isolating iran and responsible for spreading t

we have cnn analyst david gregory. cnn commentator errol louis and we have former cia analyst phil mudd. here we are hearing from hillary clinton in the wholesome way with christiane amanpour. let's play with more sound bite here with what she says went wrong with her campaign. >> if the election had been on october 27th, i would be your president, it wasn't. did we make mistakes? of course. did i make mistakes? oh, my gosh. yes. read my confession and my request for be absolution. i think the reason we lost were the intervening events in last ten days. >> errol? >> i don't know how relevant it is for the rest of the country. she can say whatever she wants. i look forward to reading the book. there is a sense of denial. october day was n27th was not e day. they had issue on the ground in wisconsin and pennsylvania and michigan. that is what should keep her up at night. these other questions are important. the trump russia connection. >> the letter that james comey sent to the congress was not as important as wisconsin

tony blinken, david gregory brought up the issue of iran. the president's remarks with reuven rivlin, the israeli president were very brief. within the very brief remarks the focus on iran was proportionate. iran must never be allowed to possess a nuclear weapon, must cease its funding and training of terrorists and militias. if there's one message, one thread of the president's advisity so far, whether it be to saudi arabia, his speech to the sunni leaders in this stop in israel, it is making iran the common enemy. >> john, you know, you're exactly right and this is the common denominator the president is trying to find with the arab states and with israel. it's ironic, because he really dug into that line about iran never getting a nuclear weapon. the nuclear agreement reached by president obama is exactly that, and it's an agreement that president trump has maligned but it does more than anything we've been able to do to put far into the future of prospect of iran getting enough materiel for a nuclear weapon. everyone is united around tha

david gregory, it is a no-brainer. the campaign can say whatever it wants. it is fabricating the story to cover the guy losing it over what this reporting was asking about. that is one component. doesn't seem to be much of a case in the defense of the assault charge. he lost his cool and did something stupid. he should go through the system. in terms of politically, 7 out of 10 votes. trump won this by 20 points. it is a heavily republican place. the seat is traditionally republican. do we expect any difference in the outcome of the election because of this as egregious as it is? >> it is hard to say. you have people just hearing about it who will vote and perhaps effected by it. the kind of thing that could affect your vote if the guy is suited to be in the house of representatives. again, it was pointed out. you have so much early voting there that it may already be decided. i think this one becomes very difficult to predict. the other piece of this, of course, let's react like human beings. this is clearly wrong. it speaks for itself. i'm hopeful that the

we have david gregory, david drucker and jason kusinich. let's put up for our viewers, if you are just waking up this is what happened last night. the budget open. here are some details $15 billion for defense spending, $1.5 billion for before der security, funding for opioid abuse. $57 million for presidential security needs, what florida and new york were asking for added secret service because the president lives in a couple of different places. here is what is out, no funding cuts for planned parenthood, so all of the things that the republicans had railed against for planned parenthood no the funding stays in. in no money for deportation force, no federal cuts to snkt wear cities, big deal for mayors of san francisco and new york and no funding for the border wall construction. how do you see it? >> the democrats in the senate used the filibuster correctly. this president is held hostage by a republican congress because he cannot get a lot of republicans to go along in the house and the senate with key parts of his agenda and i think t

we have errol louis and jackie kucinich and david gregory. david, brennan's testimony.not see evidence of collusion, but he does see troubling evidence of contact and communication and that's what started all of it. >> we know the intelligence community believes something is there because we're operating off a starting point which is fact of russian interference into the election. it was interference. it did not sway the election persuade or determine the outcome, but interference which is disturbing enough. the white house is right to point out that is true and key members of the intelligence community have said so, there's no evidence of collusion. it is the subject of an investigation. at the same time, you have the president of the united states trying to shutdown the investigation. why? calling it a coax. why? i love defenders of the president saying the media is hysterical about all this. if we can't find collusion, we are shifting to obstruction of justice. again, the hypocrisy hits you in the face. it is real apoplectic here. we have information about the concer

david gregory and david sanger as well as host of "smerconish" michael smerconish. >> david, what could we learn from sally yates today? >> i think there is a big question about whether michael flynn was a contained problem or whether he is a gateway to learn more about potential contacts with the trump campaign and russia. what is revealing and what yates can really speak to in detail is what she learned of the intelligence she gathered with phone calls with the russian ambassador and the same time the obama administration was leveling sanctions for the 2016 campaign interference. that is important as well as if the white house was really honest about everything that she was telling them based on the intelligence that was being gathered at the time. we also learned more broadly about from james clapper about what back-up they had for intelligence assessment about the russian interference. >> david, you have the one bucket. collusion bucket with all of the threads. you have the other bucket. you could argue other than senate judiciary. it goes to the head of oversight. what can clapper

let's bring back maggie haberman and david gregory and salena zito. he is key for reining in north korea? >> i don't know what he is referring to in the meetings with the chinese to make the philippines so. the philippines could be bold work against china's expense in the south china sea. that may be on the president's mind. there again is an impulseivity to this. we will see what the internal push back to this. duterte is an authoritarian bad guy on the world stage. as transaction al and pragmatic the president is, he has to remember the overall. the more he courts strongmen around the world is not good for freedom loving countries around the world. we cannot cast aside allies and rely on strongmen. i'm in the sure the president really understands this. if he is looking from one deal to the next. >> maggie, what is it with his seeming affinity of vladimir putin or said compliment s or nice things of kim jong un. the president wants credit for what others could not get? >> i think it is yes to all of the above . what you said is a key part of it. they

joining us again is david gregory and jefferey toobin and chris cillizza.n the past 48 hours, something has shifted. by the way, 40 minutes from now, the house freedom caucus is having an emergency meeting at the behest of justin demosh. things are percolating. >> i'm not rushing into the legal and political issues of the obstruction of justice. that will play itself out. this situation is grave enough to focus on what is ahead of us. from the political point of view, republican leaders and rank and file have to consider why they are in congress. to pass legislation and pass law and to act as appropriate check and balance in the system. you have a president who clearly shows, as i said before, reckless disregard and contempt for the checks and balance system. the issue where he can sweet talk a deal. they have to get around the agenda which is completely thrown overboard and if they had any opportunity to work with democrats, that is really gone. as well as providing oversight. jason chaffetz. get in the game. he is now mr. independent. play it out. >> he i

david gregory most important topic for the day is? >> how both the political class and other leadership, be it judicial or not, are going to respond to what trump has done, not just the firing of comey but then the add-on comments and threats he's made demanding loyalty and all the rest. as we've been saying all morning, this is a crisis the president has created by abusing his power, by creating an atmosphere in which we don't know who we can trust in the white house, at a time when there's an investigation going on, there's facts to be gathered, and there's a system to protect, and there's real questions this week about when and whether republican leaders are going to stand up to the president, who has got an agenda to try to get passed, and say look your behavior has got to stop, and we have to get things back on track here. >> just to be clear, the reason that there are no republican leaders on this show this morning is because they didn't want to come on. "new day" asked rank and filele it on a regular basis. >> dozens. >> litera

we have cnn hosts joining us michael smerconish and david gregory along with a.b. stoddard. great to have you here. david gregory, when you hear james clapper saying our institutions are under assault externally and internally, how significant is that statement? >> it is incredibly significant. this is someone at the entire intelligence community of the government which is meant to be independent. making a very serious indictment of the president for abusing his power by firing comey with a false pre-text and now demanding loyalty and recording him and threatening him over twitter. this is not how the system is supposed to work. this is not normal behavior. this is crisis that the public and government has to deal with. it exposes the heart of the usual yo issue. you have the president who feels the community is conspireing against him to deny him legitimate as i as president. it is ridiculous. it is leading to destructive behavior that has to be dealt with. whether anythings comes from the russia investigation, we know the election was hacked. you have the president thinkin

gloria borger, our chief political analyst, pamela brown, david gregory.fuentes, cnn former law enforcement analyst, and noah bookbinder, executive director of the citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. pamela, let's talk first of all about the latest developments that only in recent days we're now reporting and you're among our best reporters involved in covering the fbi and the justice department that comey sought additional resources, more money, to accelerate this investigation. what are you hearing? >> that is something that the department of justice is coming out and flatly denying, saying that he did not ask for additional resources, but our sara murray has heard from her sources that that did, in fact happen in a meeting with rod rosenstein, in fact, a deputy attorney general, and the person who recommended to president trump for james comey to be fired. but what we do know, wolf, is that this investigation is full-fledged. it's moving full steam ahead. and just in the last couple of weeks, the eastern district of virginia u.s. attor

david gregory and david sanger. us sarah westwood, white house correspondent for washington examiner. good to see all of you. david sanger, you heard angela merkel there, said the time we could rely on the west, completely rely on others is over. germany's foreign minister put an even finer point on it. let me read what he said. short sighted policies of american government stand against the interests of european union. the west has become smaller. at least it has become weaker. what's the significance of all this? >> alisyn, these are remarkable comments from our closest allies. think about this trip the president took, where he arrives in saudi arabia. he's treated like a visiting king. the relationship is in incredibly warm. he gets to europe with more traditional allies and it's a series of alienating comments on both sides, and some alienating actions. why is that important? a few things. first, the united states since the end of world war ii has always been a leader of the atlantic alliance. that means not onl

david gregory made a point that we need to discuss. if rod rosenstein decides to appoint a special prosecutor, this is once again an opportunity of where words matter, that is a statutory thing. he can appoint a special coun l counsel, but they don't have the same kinds of powers that we had during that legislation. and one of the questions from all our leaders who are being quiet right now especially on the republican are side is whether or not there will be a congressional motivation to have legislation to make something truly independent in its review of the executive. do you think there is a chance that we get a special prosecutor? >> not a chance in the world. the republicans who run the house and senate don't want to see donald trump investigated. you saw a very brief statement from mitch mcconnell saying we'll have hearings on the new fbi director. no criticism at all. chuck grassley very strongly supportive of this firing. i mean, the people who are in charge of the senate, paul ryan as far as i'm aware is in the witness protec

let's bring back our panel, david gregory, a.b. stoddard. the president has given a flurry of interviews in the last few days. they are more than eyebrow raising, eye popping some of the things he said. jennifer, you were just in the oval office talking to him. when he said andrew jackson could have stopped civil war, invites duterte to the white house, kim jong-un, honored to sit down with him. hijacking the news cycle. what do you think, having just spoken to the president, is behind some of these things. >> almost every interview he does reveals a parade of head scratchers. a fascinating look into his mind. his critics say he's a function al illiterate when it comes to history. his fans say this is a guy who loves media exposure. it dpifs usa chance to hear what he's thinking. it makes us feel like we can relate to him like he's a man of the people. it does confound. one interview in bloomberg news in 30 minutes, talks about how he felt like he could honored to meet with a member of the hostile regime. maybe he would be willing to conside

david gregory, the tweet from the president, this is about obama. once again, this was fla side when others suggested it. the president saying obama is the one that gave him the highest clearance. does that hold water with you? >> no. it doesn't hold water. i don't see how that's relevant to the issue at hand. primarily this issue of how they vetted him when he was going to be national security adviser. he is an agent of turkey and any subsequent conversations with the russian ambassador on the very day that sanctions were being put into place against russia for interference. i don't know why the president would want to take time on his favorite platform to defend general flynn when it would seem to me the safest play here is to say look, we dismissed this guy for cause and try to contain the problem around him. this is someone who did a lot to form then candidate trump's views. >> so it might be time far refresher court, the one you like to beat us over the head with about the responsibility for disclosure and that it was michael flynn's responsibi

and david gregory elaborated on that.s on every page and that this report was not meant for public viewing." why, then, do the bbc take the opportunity to make a moral stand here and not report on what was in the manifesto? this is, in effect, a stolen document, and therefore should have not been used in the way that it was. we didn't discover much about the conservative pa rty‘s policy plans on tuesday night's 0ne show, but we did get a few insights into the personalities and marriage of mr and mrs may. i get to decide when i take the bins out. not if i take the bins out. there's boyjobs and girljobs, you see. eurovision. now, we're not leaving that as well, are we? no. i'm tempted to say in current circumstances i'm not sure how many votes we'll get.

and david gregory elaborated on that.ort explained how the word draft was on every page and that this report was not meant for public viewing. why, then, do the bbc take the opportunity to make a moral stand here and not report on what was in the manifesto? this is, in effect, a stolen document, and therefore should have not been used in the way that it was. we didn't discover much about the conservative party's policy plans on tuesday night's one show, but we did get a few insights into the personalities and marriage of mr and mrs may. i get to decide when i take the bins out. not if i take the bins out. there's boyjobs and girljobs, you see. eurovision. now, we're not leaving that as well, are we? no. i'm tempted to say in current circumstances i'm not sure how many votes we'll get. alison norcross found that a stomach churning interview, it made uncomfortable viewing on many fronts, not the least of which is the absolute obsequiousness of the presenters. and one twitter user wondered, how can this propaganda be allowed

david gregory. senior correspondent david drucker and cnn analyst and washington white house reporter abby phillip. great to have all of you. david gregory, now we know it wasn't just president trump pressing comey to make some public declaration at the moment he had seen no collusion betweened administration and russia, now other heads. how big a deal? >> i think it's a big deal. we have a pattern with the president reflective of investigation of russian collusion. the claim without substantiation. now evidence based on this, wanted to slow down the fbi investigation. so it's a really big deal. we've been saying throughout the morning, i don't know if this is obstruction of justice. the president outside private counsel for all of this. we have this huge spectacle down the pike here. that is fbi director comey preparing to testify publicly on capitol hill about his disputes with the president, intimidation, conversations they had, all the threats back and forth. but with mueller there as special cou

we have david gregory, chris cillizza and julie pace. david gregory, if it's true that rosenstein, you know, look, he's got a complicated picture here because he didn't have to do what they asked him to do. it seems there was an indication they wanted reasons to get rid of comey. he's only been in there two weeks. this is his initial task he was given to do, but that he doesn't want to be seen as the fall guy for this situation. how big a deal is it? >> i think it is a big deal because it gives you insight into a process that lacks credibility. rod rosenstein has a great reputation sara was noting and he's only been on the job a couple of weeks and there is a number of questions here. why was he asked to draw up a memo outlining his grievances against jim comey when the inspector general of the department of justice is already in the middle of just such an investigation and preparing his own report? why repeat that? why have that done at a different level? did rod rosenstein question that? did he question if he was being used here, wheth

david gregory and phil mudd and editor for real clear politics, a.b. stoddard. >> we learned this doesn't just cover the campaign and the campaign advisers. now it reaches into the white house. what is the significance? >> the last point. it reaches to the white house. jared kushner emerged as the president's most important adviser and also family. those authority goes in multiple directions and who has business interests that raise real questions on behalf of the trump family that could have made the campaign vulnerable to being compromised by the russians. again, we don't know what all the facts are so we wait for investigation. we know through kushner's attorney he is happy to talk to all investigators. i think we can make a broader point right now about the attitude vulnerability. cavalier attitude by the trump campaign. russia is not going to do anything to us. there is something of concern here and kushner appears to be the person who had enough contact and meetings or knows enough to be able to really help investigators or though he is not a tar

david gregory and host of cnn smerconish. michael smerconish. and salena zito. she interviewed president trump for the examiner. let's put up the list of what is in and out of the spending here. this is spun, david gregory, as a good day for democrats. the border wall is not in there. the money that goes to planned parenthood is in there. the big increase for the nih. politically, what does this mean about what is being forged in d.c.? >> i think what is important is that congress run by republicans did not have a government shutdown. that's number one. the white house could not handle that. the republican leadership could not handle that. before we throw a big party for them, let's remember they still have not passed a budget. democrats could not do it. republicans could not do it. in this case, you have the white house holding its fire on issues like the border wall and giving in democratic demands on spending. it is steady as she goes. big fights over health care and tax reform. you don't want to get mixed up in going to the mattresses over a stop-gap spendin

david gregory and our legal analyst, former federal prosecutor laura coats is with us as well. david, if you're a democrat, your head is probably exploding right now getting a lot of this new information on what prompted the then fbi director to go ahead with an extraordinary news conference last july. >> as dana said, a sort of cascading series of events that would cause those democrats to be banging their head on the table. it seems to me what's going on here is that when "the washington post" story broke the other day, there was this notion that jim comey was duped. i think what as dana is reporting, telling folks on the hill and others, is to sort of clean up that notion, no, he knew. can i ask you a question. ma'a i not know the answer. timeline wise, did he know -- because the justice department got the memo or the intelligence in march, right? did comey know at the time it was fake when he gave the press conference? >> we have been told that he knew pretty much -- that the fbi knew pretty much right away that it wasn't true. these briefings i talk about classified briefin

analyst david gregory.al analyst jeffrey toobin and reporter and editor at large chris cillizza. when you look at this situation, a lot of law in the air. you have politics in the air. what do you think the level of crisis is for the white house? >> i think it is grave because i think everything that the white house would like to focus on, they have completely got knocked off optopic because of the president's behavior which undermines democratic institutions for which he is showing contempt or reckless disregard of. the real thing to focus on, we will get the comey memo at some point. comey will be on capitol hill testifying. that is the showdown we will see. comey versus the president. it is a day of reckoning for the republicans to get back on track. how they rein the president in and what it means for the russia investigation so they can get on to whatever may be left of an agenda they want to govern on. that's the name of the game. they are taking incremental steps. there is circling the wagones a. eve

chris is off and david gregory joins me. >> fun to be called up. >> angela merkel says countries mustinto their own hands saying they cannot rely on the u.s. trump facing questions about jared kushner. the fbi investigating contacts with russia. >> and president trump condemning leaks to the media in the group of tweets. can he defend the russian contacts with jared kushner. we have it all covered this morning. we begin with cnn's athena jones who is live in washington. good morning. >> good morning, david. the president is kicking off the week facing more negative headlines. angela merkel questioning the strength of europe's alliance with the u.s. tension from the first g7 summit following him home. trump's tepid support for nato, harsh words on trade and lack of commitment to the paris climate agreement put him at odds with

. >> let's bring in david gregory and editor chris cillizza and jason johnson. david gregory, an open letter to the deputy attorney general by the new york times editorial board. rod rosenstein is at the center of the move. he is used by the white house as a rationale for why they removed comey. despite the flood of the hillary clinton investigation. they called on him to appoint a special counsel to restore the americans faith in the justice system. how important is rosenstein right now? >> critically important. he has a great reputation. former u.s. attorney in baltimore is seen widely among career prosecutors and law enforcement folks as highly credib credible. the reporting here is critical. the white house is saying he acted on his own. that rosenstein acted on his own to bring up concerns of comey's performan performance. that led to the firing. i don't believe that. i want to hear from rosenstein himself. did he act on his own accord? does he stand behind comey? let's pull back and look at the reporting at cnn and other outlets is telling us. the presiden

we have david gregory and abbie phillip and phillip mud. phil, i want to start with you. you obviously spent some time in the fbi. the fbi and federal investigators cast a wide net. it is no surprise they would look at jared kushner, given his relationship with the president, given his own contacts with the russians. what do you see here? >> i see a complex investigation that's going to take a long time to develop. think of all the informs federal investigators are looking at. let's say they're looking at 20, 30 people around the campaign, gathering things like financial information, all those cell phone calls, text calls. then they're starting to conduct interviews. that is not only a single interview, alison, that's interviewed over months or longer because when you interview someone for the first time and you find two months later another person contradicts him, you have to go back, reschedule and determine who is lying. what i see is investigators pulling together that massive amount of interviews and waiting further into the process to walk into someone like jared ku

david gregory—kumar, bbc midlands today, newport in shropshire. it is coming up to 13:50.ip, will stand down from royal duties in the autumn, buckingham palace says. he "will no longer play an active role" and will only attend previously scheduled engagements between now and august. voters are heading to the polls today for local and mayoral elections. a total of 4,851 council seats are up for grabs in 88 councils, with the first results expected in the early hours of tomorrow morning. the two candidates in france‘s presidential election, emmanuel macron and marine le pen, clash in a debate ahead of sunday‘s vote. hello there. i‘m egon cossou. the country‘s services sector is going gangbgusters. last month, new work grew at its fastest pace this year. that s according to the purchasing managers‘ index. it‘s a sign that the economy could be picking up speed. it‘s been a pretty good start to the year for morrisons. its sales increased by more than expected in the first three months of the year. that was boosted by price cuts. like—for—like sales, which exclude, new store ope

david gregory when he ran "meet the press" had glen green walt on his show would and was extremely critical for him being a conduit for the information from edward snowden. when diane feinstein wrote a report about torture and abuse she was on wolf blitzer's situation room and accused of having blood on her in other words revealing the information about the cia torture and abuse. so the think i would like to leave you with at this point dish do want to leave some time for questions and comments -- is our democracy right now is in trouble. we're in a very beleaguered state. there was an article in the "new york times" about two weeks ago about-i love this word -- guardrail, the guardrail of democracy and how the system is working. well, two observations. one, the system will only work if people make the system work. the system can't work on its own. and, two, i would argue the system isn't working the with a i would like it to work. look at the intelligence committees created in 1970s because of the crimes during the vietnam era, 30 years after the cia was credited. the senate intelligence c

we have cnn politics reporter and ed door at large chris cillizza and david gregory and april ryan. david, you wrote a book. how is your covfete. look, is there anything here that is relevant of the president tweeting at midnight this nonsense? >> no. i don't think there is anything releva relevant. but i think that it's indicative of his frame of mind coming back from his trip. he seems singularly focussed on taking all comers on the russia investigation, on press coverage. he has resumed a place that is really self-destructive in being the one who is uniquely in charge of dealing with criticism or distraction and not realizing how to self-destruct if it is. he's talked to outside counsel about helping him isolate the russia investigation where there is a special counsel as well as congressional committees as there is one who can be in the chief of staff role who can say, mr. president, we need to focus on this and not that. but can't be the one who take on the press. are you going to deny him any of those devices literally to communicate? and i think what he's got to realize at som

analyst david gregory and analyst tony blanken. what do you see, david? >> you see a highly choreographed visit to israel by an american president who is making it a priority and saying to the israelis that this is a centerpiece of the foreign policy. israelis are happy to have it. particularly because they are trying to turn the page as we watch the it would go through the official signing of the guest book at the beautiful residence for the president in jerusalem. resetting that page to say that this is a new day and new administration. a different relationship between the united states and israel. after the fraught relationship as tony can speak to between israel and the obama administration. we should hasten to point out there may have been frayed relations. that bond from the security point of view was strong from the obama administration and administration of benjamin netanyahu in israel. nevertheless, you have two leaders are more aligned on the question of iran. who are even more aligned on the question of fighting terrorism more generally. that w

we have cnn political analyst and author of how's your faith, david gregory and washington politicalr and cnn political analyst and washington post white reporter, abbey phillips. nice to have you here on this special early edition of "new day." this was more than just the president pressing jim comey to make this public admission that as the president sees it there is no collusion. so he pressed these two other intel chiefs. that's are not obstruction of justice but it's out of bounds according to them. >> and it sure looks like the president has something to hide. why was he working so hard to get this fbi investigation shut down. i think part of this fwoe goes back the psychology of this president. he's obsessed that it makes him look illegitimate as president and he can't get past it that somehow his election was tainted in some way, rather than being focussed on the fact that the russians tried to interfere in way that as president he has to take responaunonsibility for to protect in the future and as president he's done nothing to keep the russians at bay. in fact we have state

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

david gregory is here with me. our nation honoring our fallen heroes. all of the brave men and women who served and gave the ultimate sacrifice n. sacrifice. in an hour, the president will lay a wreath at arlington national cemetery. >> this is the kickoff of sum r summer. we remember today. we thank all of those who served and gave their lives. >>> angela merkel says europe can no longer rely on the u.s. her comments come hours after president trump returned to washington. >> now he is back in the white house, the president is dealing with the cloud of the russia investigation gripping his administration. the fbi's investigation now looking into the president's son-in-law jared kushner and his contacts with russia. the president is reviving attacks on the news media. you won't be surprised lashing out at all of the leakers. we begin with cnn's athena jones at the white house this morning. good morning, athena. >> reporter: good morning, david. the president is kicking off the week, a week with a lot on the agenda and facing more negative headlines. ang

david gregory thought it may be ohio. thank you for that reporting. >> not yet. >> thank you for everything. >>> republicans are scrambling for votes needed to pass the health care reform plan this week. at the moment, it looks like an uphill battle. the latest whip count shows 22 house republicans plan to vote no. the white house hoping for a last minute push by the president will change the minds of many law imakerlawmakers. suzanne malveaux is live on capitol hill. how is the count going, suzanne? >> reporter: that count is certainly influx. it could go either way. facing a potential defeat again on health care, president trump very much personally involved in the negotiations. he is hosting and hoping to convince lawmakers to take this political risk and some of them it is a big one to push this through the house and pass on to the senate. >> how is health care coming? i think it is time now. >> reporter: president trump personally calling congress member billy long currently against the bill twice in the past two day

analyst david gregory. cnn political reporter chris cillizza and columnist at real clear politics a.b. stoddard. all right, brother gregory. what do you have on covfefe? >> i got nothing. i got we will trace the beginning of the western civilization to the president's use of twitter and fascination with it. to be more serious, clearly he is in the middle of the new round of ranting of press coverage and trying to distract from the investigation over russia. the extent is something that matters. an actual agenda. we cannot lose sight of the fact that the coin of the realm for president trump is accomplishment. he has failed to accomplish key elements of his agenda that had a lot of excitement for conservatives who may not necessarily agree with him and those who supported him who might not have otherwise supported him if it were not for the uniqueness of the 2016 election year. whether it is stalled on health care and questions of the future of tax reform as we get deeper into the summer and facing the fall

. >>> just to show you what it takes to anchor, co-host with david gregory i am really not 6'5". >> ist creating artificial height. i'm glad we're exposing it for what it is. >> that is that journalistic investigative report. >>> this important story new mexico becoming the first state in the u.s. to ban stools from singling out students who don't have enough money to eat. this troubling trend is called lunch shaming, and it is on the rise apparently across the country and leaves children feeling humiliated and ashamed. martin savidge has more. >> reporter: 13-year-old addison doesn't talk about that day at school but her dad does. >> what a kick in the face for a kid. >> reporter: what a cafeteria worker realized addison owed money on the meal account. >> she took her tray of food from her and set it aside and offered her a cold cheese sandwich and a white milk. >> reporter: don re says his daughter was humiliated by her school in front of everyone. >> it's borderline bullying. >> reporter: it's called lunch shaming and it happens in more schools than parents realize. according to th

. >> let's discuss with our panel, shannon is the white house, david gregory is our cnn political analyst. shannon, he says this candidate has to apologize. >> yeah. i bet paul ryan was hoping it was going to be a quiet week in washington with the president abroad, but no quiet days. he asked the candidate to apologize. the candidate hasn't. you judge whether or not this will have an impact on the election, but if he is elected, in washington a lot of us reporters have recorders. we're going to ask you about cbo scores and health care. whether he apologizes or not, if he wins, he better get ready for a lot of reporters asking questions with reporters. >> that was a legitimate question. the cbo came out with their report on the health care bill that was passed by the house of representatives. it was not an unfair question. >> i was talking about this this morning and i felt a little bit more compassion. he obviously lost his temper. the right thing do is apologize and try to make up for it when it could have a real effect on his election. the fact that he hasn't done until now makes me thi

also with us cnn political analyst david gregory and cnn politics reporter and editor-at-large chrishow do i say your last name the right way? i was close. adam, let's talk about the reporting you have, types of sourcing and confidence, what it means? >> we're quoting here two current, two former officials with knowledge of what occurred here. keep in mind that admiral rogers, head of the national security agency, one of the officials at his agency drafted an internal memo documenting rogers conversation with the president. this is among the additional information we have to document that communication. obviously what it means is you get a president trump's state of mind. obviously concerned about testimony, the scope of the investigation looking at potential coordination between the russians and his campaign and he wanted to push back. >> adam, just give us a little bit more of the circumstances around this so we know president trump wanted somebody to, what was the reaction. >> individuals we spoke to rogers and dni, director of national intelligence were both surprised and thought

david gregory, this tweet where he says our country needs a good shutdown to fix the mess, i see you smiling. >> the guy is great copy. president trump just keeps saying things that are so far out there that shakes up the whole system. i do believe that's the point. i think he's doing some of that on north korea. i think he's doing it here with congress. he's saying exactly what's on his mind which is let's go to the brink to shake up how things get agreed to. what's interesting is that he is practical enough as you see in the short term spending bill to give up on some of the things that you would think would be important to him like the border wall. so it shows that democrats when they hang together have enough leverage and that republicans are not hanging together as we see in health care sufficient to give him fits. i'm a little surprised at how he has lacked better skill with republicans in congress thus far. >> it's interesting because if there is let's say at the end of the september a government shutdown with the republicans in control of the white house, the presidency, the

it was not james clapper rickie fowler 10 are going on tv calling for my imprisonment, it was david gregoryere -- or other journaliststs who work at "the w york times. that is a huge problem because so many mainstream journalists in the united states identify not with journalism, but with serving the interests of u.s. government and the national security state, they become the leading spokespeople come the leading advocates for the right to criminalize journalism. the u.s. government does not have to defend trying to put julian assange in prison for publishing documents. journalists are happy to take the lead in arguing that will happen, even though it will jointly threaten them. amy: has that changed at all under trump? now that trump has called the ed of the enemy of the american people, the media has found its backbone in some cases. >> definitely. amy: do you think that will extend to what you are describing? >> no, i don't. there are certain lines the "resistance" including the media, won't cross. when trump bombed syria with no plan, thenal media church. when they drop the largest bom

tim grant was among several newswatch viewers who thought not, asking: and david gregory elaborated onhow, but we did get a few insights into the personalities and marriage of mr and mrs may. i get to decide when i take the bins out. not if i take the bins out. there's boyjobs and girljobs, you see. eurovision. now, we're not leaving that as well, are we? no. i'm tempted to say in current circumstances i'm not sure how many votes we'll get. alison norcross found that a stomach churning interview, and said: and one twitter user wondered: ah, yes, the television debates. the format in which senior politicians appear in set piece election programmes only started in 2010, but has since become a battle ground with broadcasters. in 2015, david cameron refused to follow the example of his predecessor as prime minister, gordon brown, and take part in a head—to—head discussion on the bbc with other party leaders. five of whom appeared without him in a so—called challengers debate. theresa may has followed his example and jeremy corbyn has said he won't take part in such a programme either, if s