let's bring in david gregory. you were along with the president on this trip and you were there on the way back from helsinki with the entire white house staff. did they take that opportunity while you were on board air force one with them to explain that he meant wouldn't when he said sfwhould. >> no, that's not what happened. it was a long flight, there was no briefings. it would have been an opportunity for the president to invite us up or to come back and speak, but he did not. there was no briefing from sarah sanders, fiona hill did not, the national security spokesperson did not come back to brief us. and there was a lot of questions. from oh my god, what just happen. what was the interesting idea they spoke about. are they taking seriously the requests about russia. a tweet he put out and a copy of that was brought back to the press cabin. but at no point during that long flight home was there an exchange to shake this out. >> when you were on the long flight home, was there any sense they were aware of the

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. >> let's bring in david gregory. susan, you have been busy writing an article that i think got a lot of people's attention summing up the last week. i want to put one section of it on the screen for people. we're witnessing nothing less than the break down of american foreign policy. this week's confusion over even the basic details of the helsinki summit shows that so clearly. the break down of american foreign policy web susan. >> when you hear the accounts coming from russia and not the white house about this extraordinary meeting between our president and president vladimir putin, you understand that this is a government whose foreign policy apparatus is no longer working the way it has worked for generations. you had no process at all leading up to the meeting and there seems to be no connection between president trump and the vast apparatus of the u.s. government. they don't know what policy is so they can't immateriplement i. they have not been informed on the important verbal agreements. what they agrees to p

thank you to david gregory. really appreciate it. thank you. >> we all know in the community what a great bookstore politics & prose is. irony of the a battle for my shopping earlier. the microphone wants to purchase train to, we have better registers. in these fold up your chair. thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> would've called each other horrible names forever. almost more the rule than the exception. we are reading them right in her face and that is more visceral. technology has given us multitudes, but it's also created a capacity to express an opinion quickly even if we don't have an opinion worth expressing quickly. it does require personal discipline. there were 46 u.s. combat deaths a day 50 years ago. the year opens and johnson gets out of the race on march 31st. dr. king is murdered on april april 4th. senator kennedy is murdered the first week of june. he ends with george wallace if you look at 1968 was the year so i did that all by watergate. carter reagan bush, clinton enough prosperity the role of women in making

then i got to be celebrity like david gregory along the way. [laughter] it went on there but i've always been a history buff and the opportunity to take length. to cover trials and my passion and love of history to work on this book was a real treat. >> in this time and place in los angeles you have the o.j. simpson trial the criminal trial within the civil trial after words which by that point we got to do together then colorado with the oklahoma city bombing and then the jon benet murder trial so then the public was installed in cases in a way that has sustained itself? >> i think that was it. in the '90s that my theory has been reality shows became the reason people stopped watching trials because it was a souped-up version of the trial then people realized reality shows our faith than they come back to the trial again. i have nothing to back that up other than speculation with the decline of interest of trial happening in conjunction with the spike of reality shows and trials are entertainment in many ways with the lincoln trial the gallery

david gregory is here with me. >> i was running in the park yesterday. somebody said come on in. >> we have a net out in the park to drag anchormen in here. we have a the president seems to be feeling the heat. >> things ra heating up, here is our starting line. president trump tries to continue to under mine special council robert mueller's investigation. he lashes out in a series of tweets slamming robert mueller, meanwhile rauler begins the prosecution of paul manafort tomorrow. and the president's lawyer, rudy giuliani, seems to be weighing war with trump's personal attorney and fixer. he says that michael cohen has lied all of his life. it comes after he has released his tape with donald trump about trying to silence that playboy model who says she had an affair with donald trump. cohen is willing to tell mueller that the president knew and approved of that meeting between his campaign and russians to get dirt on hillary clinton. that is months before the 2016 election. rudy giuliani will join us live on new day this morning. >> less than 100 days a

david gregory, father, ghost ship plea deal. we think it needed to be more.ors defended the deal. autrey james, alameda co. asst d.a. ( darya ) firefighters in the south bay say they are in maximum enforcement mode for the 4th of july holiday. kron four's rob fladeboe explains how firefighters are preparing for potential danger. as it mopped up after a small fire here off day road near gilroy this afternoon, this calfire crew lingered to study the terrain. the fire burned from the top of the hill down to the road rather than the other way around, suggesting something other than a backfire or tossed cigarette was the cause. investigators did not find any proof of illegal fireworks but the incident is suspicious nonetheless and remains under investigation. asst. chief mike marcucci/calfire "....we have started our two day enforcement today, our teams are out and about patrolling and letting folks know where and when they can have fireworks...."gilroy is the only place in santa clara county where legal, safe and sane fireworks are permitted. they're not supposed

abrams will be in conversation tonight with david gregory. please join in welcoming dan abrams and david gregory to politics and prose. [applause] >> hello. thanks for coming. hi, everybody. great to have you out here and it's great, dan, to have you intend that this is a chance for us to spend time this afternoon. where old friends. we covered a lot of news together, and it's terrific to build the in conversation with him tonight. you won't get to know what i've know for a long time, just how smart and interesting and funny he is. well, anyway, he's smart. [laughing] sedan, let's get into. talk a little bit more about what the book is about, but just i guess your own journey to writing this kind of book which is interesting, too. >> so my co-author david fisher approached me and said there's a transcript out there. it's the only transcript that exist of internal abraham lincoln has ever argued. and it was only discovered in 1989 in a box with a bow around it, and no one's really talked about it. can't be, the only transcript that exist of a

david gregory, great to see you here. this doesn't quite consider the house intelligence committee in glory, does it, david? they put out a report and put out the bare minimum. i mean it is striking and it undercuts the government in congress and shows two interpretations of what happened. anyone that followed can see that the intelligence knee has had a more bipartisan approach to getting down to what happened. president trump has not recognized this is a real and growing threat to the country. regardless of whether or not there was actual impact in the meddling, there is intent, there is a history of russia doing this in the ukraine, and of course a threat of russia doing it again in the united states. any president has to look bigger than his own interests and think about the presidency, about the integrity of our elections. how many times can he keep asking vladimir putin if he did it when he says he didn't, it's not a responsibility to just check a box, there has to be an aggressive effort. the other thing that is st

we want to bring in cnn political analyst david gregory, attorney michael avenatti. david, i want to go with you first. i want to talk about the legal implications here. what legal questions, if any, does this raise? >> well, michael cohen is under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors in new york for a number of things, but one of those things is the potential campaign finance violations. when you are receiving money for a campaign, you need to report it to the fcc. in fact, the president signed a form that actually it is a crime to lie on in which he said, you know, this is a list of the contribution to the campaign and expenditures and so on. so i don't think it was in the part we just played, but there was actually discussion about timing related to certain news about how we need to delay it past a certain point, suggesting that there is an importance of having some of this news delayed until after the election. that, i think, is a very important piece that prosecutors would look at. also, obviously a payment in cash. that will be hotly debated. one thing

david gregory, father, ghost ship plea deal. we think it needed to be more. but prosecutors defended the deal. autrey james, alameda co. asst d.a. (pam) continuing (pam) (pam) continuing our coverage... 36 people died when that fast- moving fire ripped through the oakland ghost ship warehouse. it happened during a dance party at the illegally converted warehouse. and as kron 4's catherine heehan explains, many of the young party- goers - simply had no way to escape.. a night of unstoppable flames and lives, neelessly lost. (former resident) it's just tragedywithout warning a night of celebration turned into a desperate struggle to survive. (jose avalos/warehouse fire survivor) "i just heard somebody yell out 'fire! get me a fire extinguisher, but there were no fire extinguishers. no fire alarms, no fire escapes.fire went up really really quickly(carmen brito, ghostship fire survivor)"it was a window of five minutes between the fire happening and you just didn't get out."on the night of friday december second 2016. investigators say around 50 people were in th

david gregory, father, ghost ship plea deal. we think it needed to be more. but prosecutors defended the deal. autrey james, alameda co. asst d.a. (ken) new at 8. in contra costa county, the brentwood police department is investigating a killing. a woman was found (ken) d.a. alameda co. asst d.a. (ken) new at 8. in contra costa county, the brentwood police department is investigating a killing. a woman was found dead inside her home this morning on torrington drive in brentwood and the suspect, her son, is in custody. kron 4's charles clifford was in brentwood and he has details well, as of tuesday evening the investigation into this case continues. one person is in custody could be charged with murdering his own mother. it's an attack that has stunned this quiet neighborhood.around 10:30 tuesday morning, the brentwood police department responded here to chaucer drive on reports of a possible residential burglary and of cars being burglarized. when officers arrived on scene they detained a male suspect. brentwood police captain doug silva explains wh

david gregory, victims father. it is not enough. for the family members who lost loved ones in the ghost ship fire, this was a very difficult day for several reasons. for one, during the hearing today, all 36 names of the victims were read out loud in court... some family members wept, and wiped away tears... another reason it was a rough day, some thought the plea bargain agreement was not tough enough. the gregory's lost their daughter michaela.david gregory, father, ghost ship plea deal. we think it needed to be more. but for the attorney's reprsenting max harris and derick almena - this plea agreement was representing derick almena, ghost ship plea deal. he is in pain, he will suffer for this. curtis briggs, attorney representing max harris, ghost ship plea deal. he is sorry this happened. as for prosecutors... they defended the deal;, adding, in the end, this was an agreement they felt would best serve all of those who died that fateful night. alameda co. asst da (catherine) 36 people died when a fast-moving fire ripped through

want to bring in jeffrey toobin and david gregory.etting fresh reporting covering the supreme court for us and let's put up the four finalists that we know the people are choosing from. we're hearing that sources pushing cav kavanaugh, sources behind him felt a setback and deflated when mitch mcconnell suggested that kavanaugh might have difficulties or challenging confirmation process. kavanaugh supporters not as happy as they were perhaps on friday. >> i think it was significant that mitch mckoj who obviously plays a big role here, talked about the difficulties of confirming kavanaugh. i think it is worth pointing out how this notion of being an experienced person with a long pedigree has become a detriment in supreme court confirmations is really a relatively new fen nom mondnone. the court that decided brown v. board of education in 1954, not one of the judges, justices had ever been a judge before before being confirmed. these are people who had big complicated lives, earl warren was governor of california and hugo black, senator

david gregory, father, ghost ship plea deal. we think it needed to be more.but prosecutors defended the deal. autrey james, alameda co. asst d.a. ( james )continuing our coverage... 36 people died when that fast- moving fire ripped through the oakland ghost ship warehouse. it happened during a dance party at the illegally converted warehouse. as kron 4's catherine heehan explains, many of the young party- goers - simply had no way to escape. a night of unstoppable flames and lives, neelessly lost. (former resident) it's just tragedywithout warning a night of celebration turned into a desperate struggle to survive. (jose avalos/warehouse fire survivor) "i just heard somebody yell out 'fire! get me a fire extinguisher, but there were no fire extinguishers. no fire alarms, no fire escapes.fire went up really really quickly(carmen brito, ghostship fire survivor)"it was a window of five minutes between the fire happening and you just didn't get out."on the night of friday december second 2016. investigators say around 50 people were in the oakland warehouse known

john berman is off, david gregory joins me. great to have you. >> good morning. i think rudy giuliani may still be talking to you, making news in ways we didn't realize. >> i got him a lot more coffee. that played throughout the evening. >> that's your strategy. >> we'll play you what happened after rudy giuliani sat down with. >>> robert mueller faces his first test. paul manafort's trial gets under way today. it's on tax evasion and bank fraud. to be clear, russian interference and donald trump are not on the docket. but that did not stop the president's attorney rudy giuliani from coming on "new day" yesterday and sewing a bunch of confusion over russia. giuliani insisted that collusion is not a crime. and he seemed also to reveal a planning meeting that happened two days before that infamous trump tower meeting with russians who was promising dirt on hillary clinton. so did that other meeting really happen? and why was rudy giuliani talking about it if not? >> and who is on first? >>> president trump is making news about another about face. mr. trump says he'

let's get the bottom line from cnn senior analyst john avalon and david gregory.have both of you. john, we've been talking about it all morning. how do we know what to expect and how will we know what really to count on when they both come out and recount it? in a highly unusual move there is no record keeper in there. there are no top aides in there to witness this. >> what could possibly go wrong for such an unsupervised chat? we'll have to take the president's word for it. that his agenda does not include the tough issues the really contentious things that an american president should be raising with vladimir putin. instead it's the veneer of gee toshio politics as usual. the president of the united states has been known as leader of the free world since the second world war, he's going in abdicating that role and responsibility and seems disinterested in pursuing a freedom agenda or challenging vladimir putin on the core issue. instead, he's weirdly differential and it's worth asking why as we wait for the outcome of the meeting. >> as we wait for the two lead

david gregory joins me. did anyone tell you this is a three-hour show? i know you're surprised? revelation to me. i'm just surprised i'm not john berman. james earl jones said that but it's not me. >> it's flying. this morning is flying because there's so much news to deal with. for instance, special counsel robert mueller faces his first test in a federal courtroom in virginia this morning. that's when president trump's former campaign manager paul manafort goes on trial for tax evasion and bank fraud charges. to be clear, russian interference and donald trump are not on the docket, but this will give the public its most detailed look at some of the evidence that mueller has spent a year accumulating. >>> a monday media blitz by president trump's attorney rudy giuliani that played out here on "new day." >> giuliani has not left the studio. >> the issue is with us, he sowed confusion about the russia investigation, giuliani insisting collusion is not a crime and perhaps revealing a planning meeting two days before that famous trump tower meeting between the trump campaign and ru

david gregory joins me. >> you'll talk to rudy giuliani coming up here soon. >> another busy soon. trying to undermine robert mueller's investigation, the president lashing out in a series of tweets slamming mueller as the special counsel begins the prosecution of his first case against the president's former campaign chairman paul manafort. that trial begins tomorrow. >> meanwhile the president's attorney is attacking michael cohen. giuliani praised cohen as an honest lawyer a few weeks ago now calling him a math logical manipulator who has lied his entire life. in just moments, we'll ask giuliani to explain when he joins us right here on new day. let's begin our coverage with cnn's abby phillip live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, david. after a weekend of furious tweets about special counsel robert mueller, president trump and allies are intensifying their attacks on the special counsel. but they are also intensifying their criticisms of michael cohen, the president's former personal lawyer who is already signaled he's willing to talk to investigators. >> >> with

joining me now jeffrey toobin and david gregory.frey, you were watching anthony scaramucci who says he supports abortion rights say that he doesn't think that the president's selection will overturn roe. >> well, this is a problem that the republicans have because the country doesn't want to see roe v. wade overturned, but the president in the most explicit way, the most explicit way said if i have two appointments to the supreme court, i will see that roe v. wade is overturned. the base of the republican party, which is most of the party at this point, wants roe v. wade overturned. if you look at those four names who are the finalists, all of them will overturn roe v. wade. but now it's in their interest to sort of muddy the waters and say, well, they respect precedent, blah blah blah. no, they don't respect that precedent. roe v. wade is going to be overturned by one of those four people along with four other justices on the court. and, you know that may be a good thing or that may be a bad thing, but we ought to be honest with pe

joining us to discuss it, we have chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin and david gregory. so, jeffrey toobin, not a surprise. brett kavanaugh's name was at the top of the list far long time. it sounds like the possible deal breaker for those senators who are still on the fence are -- is how he will deal with roe versus wade. so we saw in abby's piece he's already been asked about that. when he says that he believes it is binding precedent and that he would follow it fully and faithfully, should that give them comfort? >> not in the slightest. that is a very different setting than the one he will be in shortly. when he was a nominee to the court of appeals, he had no right, indeed he had the obligation to follow supreme court precedent. circuit court judges can't overturn supreme court precedence. so the fact that he said it's binding precedent on me, a lower court judge, of course that's true. there's nothing -- there's no other way to answer that question. the question of whether a supreme court justice can overturn a supreme court precedent is a completely different one.

. >> david gregory was emotional after the hearing, saying the sentence will not be enough to bring his daughter back. >> we wanted fair justice, and we don't feel that, in our opinion, that was fair justice. >> reporter: other family members did not wish to speak. the lengthy proceedings emotional for everybody, including the deputy da. >> we have worked with the families throughout this entire process. you can imagine it has not been easy for the families or the attorneys involved. >> reporter: and the case is not over. sentencing will take place next month, august 9th and 10th. a two-day sentencing where family members will be able to address both defendants. reporting live in oakland, carlos saucedo, abc 7 news. >>> the december 2nd, 2016 fire killed 36 people, making it the deadliest in oakland city history. in one of the worst fires in state history, two days later the alameda county district attorney's office launched a criminal investigation into the case. and involuntary manslaughter charges were filed against derick almena and max harris on june 5th of last year. they entered

. >> reporter: david gregory and other families were in the courtroom as a judge spent nearly half an hour reading the names of every victim. >> we'd like to hear all those 36 names. >> i don't want to start crying. >> reporter: now, the next chapter begins. >> we're going to proceed with a civil case and to hold others accountable as well in that case. >> reporter: the civil case names almena, property landlord, and others as dchts in the -- defendants in the case. a judge ruled that the city of oakland had a mandatory duty to ensure the warehouse was safe. harris' lawyers say the city should be liable. >> the city of oakland botched this entire situation. when the ghost ship fire happened there was 300 warehouses just like ghost ship. and it's only because of luck more tragedy did not happen. >> reporter: the warehouse has turned into a makeshift memorial filled with flowers when we stopped by today. in april, investigators removed the last pieces of evidence from the site. city officials say there are efforts from the art community to turn the space into a school or museum but none

. >> reporter: david gregory and other families were in the courtroom as a judge spent nearly half-hour reading the names of every victim. >> what was it like to hear your daughter's name, all those 36 people? >> i almost started crying. >> we are going to proceed with the civil case and to hold others accountable as well in that case. >> reporter: the civil case names almena, property landlord chor ng, pg&e and others as defendants in the case n may, a judge ruled that the city of oakland had a mandatory duty to ensure the warehouse was safe. >> the city of oakland botched this entire situation. the ghost ship fire happened, there was 300 warehouses just like ghost ship. it's only because of luck that more tragedy did not happen. >> reporter: the warehouse in east oakland has turned into a makeshift memorial filled with flowers when we stopped by. in april, investigators removed the last pieces of evidence from the site. city officials say there are efforts from the art community to turn the space into a school or museum. but none of that can move forward until the wrongful death lawsu

we are back with david gregory, so what do we have to pay for this $150? s putting value on thises investigation. david pecker is the carrier of all of this knowledge and if he gets hit by a truck, where does that knowledge go? we lose control of it, does it not indicate that pmi did something of value for the trump campaign that raises campaign finance -- >> i think it does suggest that, most certainly, he is saying look, this is our boy in ami, he is plify to information that is dama damaging. so share suggesting that we have to cake care of that, all of it, in case we were to lose that asset pb they think she a contribution to the role in some way ship or form, i know that pecker has said i'm not that person, it's not my role, but you hear it with their own ears, it suggests a connection, that number $150 means they're willing to pay for that asset as well. >> this is the moment when michael cohen says he will set up the llc. he talks to someone, that was a lawyer or accountant for trump, so let's listen to the shorter fergs -- version where michael cohe

. >> chris is joining us now along with david gregory. chris what abby said at the end was the most important thing to remember if is not just a look back, it is a positioning for how to go forward into 2018 election. now you have the senate intelligence committee confirming what they said, it is important to admit that and believe that so that you can address the problems going forward. >> that's right. look at this point you just have a handful of house republicans on the house intelligence kpee that will say anything other than what we know to be the case, which is yes, russia meddled, yes they did so to help trump and hurt hillary clinton. that is settled fact in my mind. it is 225 days until the next election. they say the russians will target the 2018 election in preparation for 2020 election. they considered 2016 a huge success and they will continue to stir up trouble in 2018 and 2020. the one person that really doesn't believe everything i said is also the most powerful person in the country and the guy in position to say we need

. >> john berman is off, david gregory is with me. i promised a busy morning and i wasn't kidding. president trump continues to try to undermine robert mueller's investigation, the president lashing out in a series of tweets. and that trial begins tomorrow. >> rudy giuliani going off the president's personal attorney. now he is calling him a pathological manipulator. giuliani says they want you to continue to hear the tapes because they will vindicate him. >> ab by phillip is live at the white house. >> president trump attacking robert mueller by name, but they're also intensifying attacks on michael cohen who now said he is willing to cooperate with the investigation. with special council rothenberg muell mueller's investigation, the president is ramping up attacks against the probe. in a series of tweets, the president accusing mueller of having conflicts of interest, the white house did not respond to the request for information, but ethics experts determined last year that mueller's assignment is appropriate. president trump's latest criticism coming days after sources told cnn

let's bring in david gregory, as we look at this, everyone is trying to handicap this.s a fair amount being made of a recall pusal push. people saying let's go the path of at least resistance. >> that's right, it comes down to credentials and confirmability. in the last few weeks, it has all been about who is the splashy candidate that trump will pick. but now he has to think about who can he get throughout without too much political capital. and i would say erica and john, it goes into two categories here when we get to those four. brett kavanaugh and amy comey barrett. kavanaugh has the largest record, but he has more to pick apart. he has been in washington since the early '90s. he has been on the federal court of appeals. amy comey barrett has not much of a record that makes her a little bit of a risk for the white house and also for senators. she was a ♪ e and some of her writings on religion left senators in her confirmation hearing expressing doubts whether or not she would uphold roe versus wade. others have been on their court for 11 or 12 years, but their reco

day -- a heart wrenching day, family members came to hear the plea agreement for themselves, but david gregory, the father of michaela gregory, one of the 36 people who died, did night -- did not like the deal, nine years for derick almena, six years were max harris, 36 lives. >> what more did you hope for quick >> we just wanted some fair justice. >> what would that mean? >> just not to be four years or two years, with time served, and you know, we just wanted some justice, some fair justice, and we don't feel in our opinion, that was fair justice. >> reporter: the prosecution, a trial would save the family members pain. but others saw it differently. his daughter had gone to the dance party ended up dying in the arms of her boyfriend, but all that happened in between isn't clear to gregory.>> some questions could have been answered, during the trial, so yes.>> reporter: inside the courtroom, the judge read the names one by one of each victim, the sadness seemed to build, some family members broke out in sobs when their child's name was spoken. >> each name was a life, each name was a family.

david gregory, look, nobody thought when the president said last week in what was called the hostage video. when it was about the would and wouldn't -- he was like, i insert name here, believe -- he stuck to the script. it was only a few days ago. she already back this morning in this tweet saying it is all a big hoax. but dafd, you know, it great information. >> we have to look at what he belief believes, what he says, age his ego and paranoia. his desperation to be loved and feel legitimate. on the specter of russia meddling in our election because that in his mind undermines his legitimacy. he can't say yes, they meddled, but it doesn't make a difference. you can also see that if may not have made the ultimate difference. but they can see the threat. he has never been able to pull back and say as president i have a larger job here to protect the institutions, to protect democracy, to protect, you know my own party. or wanting it to be different. i think it is abundantly clear what he thinks about this, and when you see him come out like last week with the tortured language he used

members of those who died in the ghost ship fire came to hear the plea agreement for themselves, but david gregory, the father of michaela gregory, one of the 36 people who died in the fire, did not like the deal, nine years for ghost ship master tenant derick almena and six years for contra costa county. >> 36 lives. >> what more would you hope for ? >> you just want some fair justice. >> what would that mean? >> you know, not to be four years or two years, with time served, you know, but we just wanted some justice, some fair justice, and we don't feel that in our opinion, that was fair justice.>> reporter: the prosecution would spare the families pain, if they didn't have a trial, but the family saw differently. >> some questions could have been answered during the trial, so yes.>> reporter: the judge read the names one by one of each victim to them, the sadness seemed to build, some family members broke out in sobs when their child's name is spoken, mary alexander is an attorney representing the families in an upcoming civil lawsuit. >> each name was a life, each name was a family, and now we

. >> reporter: that may be what david gregory wanted to hear. that doesn't mean he's satisfied with the deal. his daughter makayla died in the fire. he's glad the two men will face jail time, but he also doesn't think it's fair. >> we just wanted some justice, some fair justice, and we don't feel that in our opinion that was fair justice. >> reporter: he says even if al mena and harris both got life in prison it wouldn't be enough. >> my wife was very beautiful, and such a perfect, and i just love her, i'll always love her. never going to be the same after this. >> reporter: in oakland, nbc bay area news. >>> a painful final chapter for o oakland mother. she not for years to keep her daughter on life support after jahi mcmath was declared brain dead by area doctors and the coroner. >> everything i did i did for jahi. from morning to night. so right now i'm kind of lost. >> laleh winfield tried to hold back tears as she talked about the day her daughter died, june 22nd of this year. back in 2015, she was declared brain dead following complication

. >> david gregory was the only family member to speak before the cameras today. he said he felt the trial would've answered some of the lingering questions about the deadly fire. the families have filed civil lawsuits against the city of oakland, pg&e and the building's owners. >>> a man arrested for the death of his own mother. the call that sent officers to his home. >>> and trump interviews additional candidates for the supreme court and says he's on track to announced a nominee. -- to announced -- announce a nominee. >>> tomorrow is 4 july. we will tell you where the best local fireworks are expected. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> there is a growing course of calls to abolish i.c.e.. the immigration and customs enforcement agency. we have perspective tonight on the politics and the possibility of abolishing the agency. >> the call to abolish i.c.e. has created a new front in the battle with a bi

. >> and we have david gregory and john avlon with us. let's -- we are obviously keeping our ear peeled for the breaking news, but in the meantime, supreme court. which way do you think he's going to go from looking at the four he's met with. >> they're similar in certain respects but very different in others. they are all very conservative. i can't draw serious distinctions among them. amy barrett is a new judge. he's only 46 years old. she's been on the seventh circuit for a few months. brett kavanaugh is a very experienced judge, on the d.c. circuit for a decade. the judge from kentucky is new, rai ray ketheredge is new. ray kethledge. >> there are no curveballs, no surprises here on this list. amy coney barrett is interesting. she catapulted to the top of the list. she's very young. she's a woman. notre dame, catholic. she had a back-and-forth with dianne feinstein where people thought coney barrett got the better half during her confirmation for the appeals court. what kind of challenge would having amy coney barrett as the nominee p

david gregory, victims father. it is not enough.family members who lost loved ones in the ghost ship fire, this was a very difficult day for several reasons. for one, during the hearing today, all 36 names of the victims were read out loud in court... some family members wept, and wiped away tears... another reason it was a rough day, some thought the plea bargain agreement was not tough enough. the gregory's lost their daughter michaela.david gregory, father, ghost ship plea deal. we think it needed to be more. but for the attorney's reprsenting max harris and derick almena - this plea bargain agreement was more than enough. tony serra, attorney representing derick almena, ghost ship plea deal. he is in pain, he will suffer for this. curtis briggs, attorney representing max harris, ghost ship plea deal. he is sorry this happened. as for prosecutors... they defended the deal;, adding, in the end, this was an agreement they felt would best serve all of those who died that fateful night. alameda co. asst da ((vicki/ots))earlier today

i actually was in the studio with allison and david gregory when this -- so i was watching the interview live. and i didn't get the impression that rudy giuliani was, like, intentionally moving the goalpost. it seemed like a more of a stream of consciousness thing. >> less strategy, more stream of consciousness. >> yeah, and it's also a position that the president and his defenders have been saying for a number of months. it's not like some new idea that collusion is not a crime. what's interesting is the president picked it up. and now that there is substantial evidence that there were at least some contacts between the trump campaign and the russians, maybe the sort of next line of defense is, well, maybe there was collusion, but collusion itself is not a crime. >> okay. >> i'm trying, i'm working with you here, brooke. that's what i think is going on. >> i got you. but all the confusion, so if mueller says that he wouldn't indict a sitting president, i'm just playing this forward, and giuliani and trump, they learn his fate, they know it comes down to the pr battle, right? isn't that

joining us for perspective, political analyst julie hirschfeld-davis, also our cnn political analyst david gregory and our chief political analyst gloria borger. you know, the question that cecilia vega, the network white house pool reporter, she specifically asked the president, is russia still targeting the u.s., mr. president? the president responded, thank you very much and then he said no. and everybody -- he was looking right at her when he said no. this is, obviously, very different from what the u.s. intelligence community believes that russia is still targeting the u.s. >> right. and we reported yesterday as well that russia is about to step up some more targeting of the united states, and i can only think back to the president saying that putin's denials were powerful was the word that he used. so he has his own intelligence community, not only the dni but his entire intelligence community saying, get ready. things are going to get bad and i think the dni said the red lights are flashing. and yet the president of the united states dismissing it. it seems remarkable to me because only yes

not enough for david gregory, who lost his daughter micayla. >> we just wanted some justice, some fair justice. and we don't feel that in our opinion that was fair justice. >> and the case is not over. sentencing will take place august 9th and 10th. the judge decided that two days were needed to hear directly from the families. reporting live in oakland, carlos salcedo, abc 7 news. >> all right, carlos, thank you. as we said, the ghost ship fire claimed 36 lives that evening, and we have not forgotten them by any means. you can read stories about each victim on our website, abc7news.com. >>> all right. to some breaking news now of a small fire in emeryville. take a look at your screen. this is a live look from our emeryville tower camera, kind of waving in the breeze there. the fire was between two buildings at 67th and shallmound streets right by the ashby avenue exit. both alameda county and oakland firefighters, as you can see, are on the scene. >>> developing news, the wildfire burning in napa and yolo counties is still an issue. the county fire, as it's called, is threatening near

joining us now cnn political analyst david gregory and max. max, you where overnight we just watched the u.s. president acting on behalf of a hostile power, you say we are past the point when the president's comments can be chalked up to naivetÉ. >> for a while his defenders have been saying he doesn't want to tarnish his election victory, his pride, his ego. we are in dangerous and uncharted territory, john. that will not wash anymore. if you think of this in terms of the president's political advantage, he needs to make clear that he is not colluding with putin and the way to make that clear is to challenge putin on the world stage. so it's in his own, political self interest to be tougher on putin. but he refuses to do it. you have to ask why is he refuses to do it? and as i say, the kind of innocent explanations are starting to fall away. you have to wonder, is he hoping that putin will help him out again as he did in 2016? or does putin have something on him? i want to just stress, how amazing, how extraordinary we are at this moment when

. >>> joining us now in the meantime, david gregory, jeffrey toobin. brett kavanaugh is an insiders insider. he grew up inside the belt way, went to high school inside the belt way and then went to that anti-establishment venue of yale university and yale law school. insiders insider, jeffrey, but that doesn't mean that this will cement a fundamental shift in the court possibly for decades. >> i think it will mean a fundamental shift on the court inside for decades. the whole idea behind the search process here, which was led by the federalist society, was to find justices who would not be anthony kennedy, who would not have elements of moderation in their record, who would not support abortion rights, who would not support gay rights. that's -- who the federalist society was looking for. that's who the 25 judges that the president picked from all agreed on, as far as i can tell and that will change the court dramatically. anthony kennedy was no liberal, but there were very important aspects of his record that were moderate and that's what this preside

eastern on c-span -- on c-span.org. " with gregory watson. david lymington fills in for theresa may during question time in the house of commons. then, a joint news conference with president trump and prime minister may, followed by the president's visit with queen elizabeth. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] "q&a," the man responsible for getting the 27th amendment to the u.s. constitution ratified. impact has it had in your life that you are responsible for an amendment to the constitution? gregory: i have been able to make a dent in the world. and how many people can really make that claim?

gregory hutchings calls this a homecoming for him. the former t. williams high school student returning to the region as superintendent of alexandr city public schools. field reporter david culver explains how one teacher put him on the path to success. >> reporter: summe session for these students. >> i won't condone violence in our schools. >> reporter: the city's new school superintendent addressing stemming school violence to expanding vocational programs. >> success can also mean i'm going go into ty. milit success can also mean i'm going to go directly into the workforce. >> reporter: success for dr. agreeingy hutchings jr. coincides with a homecoming. the school board chairmalling ith good news a few months back. >> she told me i got the job. amwas really excited. >> reporter: a dre job that dr. hutchings says began in alexandria k indergarten with his teacher mrs. dorothy mckenzie. s> she, i believe, instilled in me that anything possible. >> reporter: growing up in a single parent household, he graduated from t.c. williams high school. he pursued education, first as teacher then as a principal. >> i want toju do more than , you know, touch the lives of 25 kids.

gregory hutchings calls it ag. homecom the former t.c. williams high school student is returning to the region as superintendent of alexandria's city schools. bureau reporter davidver explains how one localeacher helped put him on this path to success. >> reporter:ummer session turning no a life lesson for these alexandria high school students. >> not going to condone violence in our schools. >> reporter: the city's new school superintendent addressing everything from stemming school violence to expanding vocational prog cms. >> succe also moan i'm going to go into the military or go directly into the workforce. >> reporter: success for ddr dr.hutchings comes with a homecoming. >> i got the job and i was really excited. >> reporter: a dream job that he said ganl in alexandria in kindergarten with his teher, miss dorothy mckenzie. >> she i believe instilled in mow tpot anything wasssible. >> reporter: growing up in a single parent household hutchings graduated from t.c. williams high school. after college he pursued education, first as aeaer and then as a principal. >> i said i want to do more than just, you know, touch the lives of 25 kids. i want to touch the l