ambassador is with us and don roberts, of course, right there in tokyo. congressman, did you ever accompany the president, whether president bush or another president on these trips? >> no, i haven't. i've gone with the congressional delegation but i was elected at the same time president obama so i didn't get an invitation to join invitation on that one. judge jeanine: i purposely left him out but i thought knows. ambassador bolton, you've been in the meetings -- >> it's impressive to watch the president travel. it's quite in operation and a lot of work goes into it and the logistics and the technical aspects are overwhelming. it's impressive and designed to convey that our president is the leader of the greatest nation judge jeanine: the respect for the military in this administration. >> absolutely it comes on the heels of a ruling on both bergdahl and a lot of families and military families were devastated. it'll be interesting to see but i want to remind people there are literally. when you three carrier groups in the area we had a difficult time ope

ambassador is with us and don roberts, of course, right there in tokyo. congressman, did you ever accompany the president, whether president bush or another president on these trips? >> no, i haven't. i've gone with the congressional delegation but i was elected at the same time president obama so i didn't get an invitation to join invitation on that one. judge jeanine: i purposely left him out but i thought knows. ambassador bolton, you've been in the meetings -- >> it's impressive to watch the president travel. it's quite in operation and a lot of work goes into it and the logistics and the technical aspects are overwhelming. it's impressive and designed to convey that our president is the leader of the greatest nation judge jeanine: the respect for the military in this administration. >> absolutely it comes on the heels of a ruling on both bergdahl and a lot of families and military families were devastated. it'll be interesting to see but i want to remind people there are literally. when you three carrier groups in the area we had a difficult time ope

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with the premise that are and the president taking on a round of golf as reported by kevin and don robertst the place because that's a personal conversation that needs to take place in your estimation. does it happen there and will the president address it? >> i think the president will address the issue of abduction of japanese citizens. previous american presidents have slept that off to the slide so this will be good. during that round of golf [inaudible] will strengthen his links and bonds, personal bonds to the president. he has a very good job of winning over trump and i think he will probably be successful on this trip, as well. that is important because, as i say, japan is our cornerstone ally in asia and we absolutely have to have the japanese on our side if were going to get to a peaceful solution on north korea. arthel: and then there is the spirit you have japan, australia and the us telling china, we get to north korea because here is the bread, telling china you do not own the site china sea. meanwhile, beijing is claiming to have reached an agreement with vietnam regarding t

i want to talk to you about this new reporting. >> thanks, don. >> absolutely. robert mueller may be putting pressure on former national security adviser michael flynn. flynn and his son are both under scrutiny by mueller. is mueller trying to get flynn to flip and testify about russian interference or possible collusion to protect his son? >> well, first, obviously i do not know for sure. but having covered prosecutors over the years, it's pretty obvious that and juskel so that the mueller operation is trying to get various people to flip. and putting the pressure on flynn, frankly, don, for the last couple of weeks i've been saying to myself we haven't heard much about flynn. now it's out. you can bet that special counsel mueller and his people have been talking to flynn a lot more than is apparent in what we know from the public prints. and now we have this information that in addition to putting the pressure on flynn himself, putting the prush on his son. but a key question that needs to be continually asked as the mueller operation goes on is one thing to put the

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don done. >> neil: john roberts, thank you very much. peter doocy on capitol hill with the protest while the budget committee meeting was going on. normally, you do not hear the side but these things, anything but today. >> that is right, neil even though republican senators have said they wanted big changes to this bill in the budget committee, before they went back to the sinful senate, everybody voted for it it is on the senate floor you just heard john allude to it. president trump and other republicans were leaning on ron johnson, who has been threatening to hold up the bill and this committee. if you have a problem, fix it with an amendment once he gets to the floor, it seems like that is what he will do. democrats are steaming mad right now about how much republicans did and hearing that lasted a few minutes. >> and less time than it takes to wash a car, the republicans put the green light to $10 trillion worth of tax policy changes. i have been a public service for a while. i have never seen anything like this. >> here is the pro

. -- don junior bert on hillary clinton. >> he was really the -- robert mueller has been in touch with his attorney, bob gauge to set up a time to come to the united states, right now he's in thailand. where he can come to the united states and be interviewed by mueller's team. and rob goldstone is a figure when it comes to that trump tour meeting who gold stone had had incrimination information on hillarily. he also said the russian government was trying to help the trump campaign. those are people around him, he was goosing up the language to get the meeting. mueller's team want to get to the bottom of it to see if there's some broader conspiracy and get his account to see what happened in that meeting. john. >> so ed, one other part here is you have jared kushner at the center over the investigation. there were alt a lot of -- also a lot of questions for donald trump jr. there is a question about whether or not their interest coincide here. >> right. i think that's been one over the questions that certainly came up back in june when we started asking about the trump tower meeting, j

don mcgahn. hicks is being represented by robert trout, a former assistant u.s.who represented president richard nixon's attorney general john mitchell during watergate and monica lewinsky. >> he's going to tell her tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and protect yourself and nothing else. >> and mueller's team has already interviewed sean spicer and former white house chief of staff reince priebus. >> jessica schneider, thanks for that. coming up, snl alum offer their take on al franken. >> if i saw him in supermarket, i would be like, hey, leave that fruit alone. well watch this. i pop that in there. press brew. that's it. so rich. i love it. that's why you should be a keurig man! full-bodied. are you sure you're describing the coffee and not me? (avo) if you'rand you've triedlly pain any number of laxatives, full-bodied. probiotics, and fiber, it could be wearing on you. tell your doctor what you've tried and how long you've been at it. linzess works differently from laxatives. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic c

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robert mueller's team. bringing back margaret, john and don, thanks for sticking around.n gold stostone contribuo this conversation? >> ron goldstone has been one of the most interesting figure s i in investigation. he is a music publy sicist. he reached out to don trump jr. in terms of setting up this june meet ng 2016 th meeting in 2016 one of the pivotal dates. was it adoption, hillary, all of the above? what happened, who was there, why were they contacted? he can in theory fill in a lot of the gaps and create a parallel narrative to the version of the story that several of the people who are key to the campaign or still in the administration have submitted their own versions of the narrative about. he potentially could be an important figure, if and when he does come to capitol hill. goldstone's lawyer tells cnn, there is nothing on the books, nothing scheduled. they are asking him to come voluntarily. do you think that will happen? do you believe that mueller will subpoena him? >> mueller could conceivably send him a subpoena but that's not to say that he is going t

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don mcgahn be? >> good morning, stephanie. these two senior white house officials appear to figure prominently in robert mueller's investigation into whether the president obstructed justice by pressuring james comey to go easy on mike flynn essentially and then firing comey when he didn't. mcgahn is crucial there because acting attorney general sally yates went to him, mcgahn, to warn that mike flynn had been lying about his conversations with the russian ambassador and was subject to blackmail. mueller will want to know exactly what mcgahn told the president about that because flynn remained in office for 18 days after that warning until it leaked and then he was fired. hope hicks, the communications director, was part reportedly of crafting that misleading statement on air force one about the june 2016 tower meeting between don jr. and the russian lawyer. >> hold on, was that the one that they said was about the orphans? >> about adoption, you got it. that's right. hicks is also popping up in other russia story lines. just this week the atlantic reported that she was informed about don jr.'s twitter conversations with wikil

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but don, he did acknowledge also speaking recently to the special counsel robert mueller. >> all right appreciate that. this is live. there we go. president trump arriving just moments ago in south korea where it is already tuesday morning, as you can see. i want to bring in now as we look at these pictures white house correspondent jim acosta, who is in seoul. he is the only american network correspondent in north korea's capital. hello to both of you gentlemen. i'm going to get to you first. president trump arrives now in south korea as the threat of war looms over the peninsula. what can we expect? >> that is the question, don, what can we expect. we heard yesterday from president trump when he met with the japanese prime minister shinzo abe was almost more of the same. he talked about how the era of strategy patients was over. he was almost encouraging japan to become more militarized, saying that shinzo abe should buy more u.s. military weapons so he can shoot north korean missiles out of the sky. but at the same time he was lowering his rhetoric somewhat maybe from a london broil

. >>> this is cnn tonight, i'm don lemon, breaking news on the russia investigation jared kushner has met with robert mueller's investigators to answer questions about michael flynn. we're going to have more on that in a moment. plus, new details on the stunning firing of matt lauer today 36 hours of out of control behavior from president trump, retweeting hateful anti-muslim videos, attacking the free press. reviving his racist birther conspiracy theory against president barack obama. is president trump fit to serve? we'll discuss all of that, i want to get straight to our breaking news tonight. a cnn exclusive, we're learning tonight, that senior white house adviser jared kushner has met with the special council's office as part of its investigation into russia's meddling inned 2016 election. good evening to both of you. what did robert mueller's team want to know from jared kushner? >> well, it's clear to us. from our sources that the special counsel is kind of tightening the noose on former national security adviser michael flynn. and we know that they asked to meet with jared kushner, they met w

relating to the firing of fbi director james comey to special counsel robert muellerment what do we know about these documents? >> well, don, just a brief correction here. the sources tell us that kushner has voluntarily turned over documents that he had from the campaign and the transition and that these related to any contacts with russia. now, the documents are similar to ones that kushner gave to congressional investigators. and this comes as investigators have begun asking witnesses about kushner's role in the firing of fbi director james comey. now, we've heard different accounts from sources. some say kushner was the driver of the president's decision. others say this he simply didn't oppose it and it was something that the president had already made his mind up about. now, sources close to the white house say that based on what they know, don, kushner is not a target of this investigation. >> all right. so man u, i want to bring you in now. in addition to jeff sessions' role in all of this has come back up because it seems like they may have been entirely truthful again -- may not have been entirely truthful again

don jr.'s lawyer down played the significance. while the house pursues its investigation. the senate is also probing russia's involvement. special council robert muller is also leading an investigation. the senate judiciary committee notified a lawyer for president trump's son-in-law and jared kushner that he withheld information about wikileaks. ike, a soviet born businessman spent several hours in special council muller's office thursday. he attended a 2016 meeting with kushner and don jr. where they expected to discuss dirt on hillary clinton. cbs news, capitol hill. >>> the lawyer for don jr. says they have no concerns about the documents. >>> the man hunt for a cop killer. now in its third day. police haven't ruled out that the detective may have been shot with his own gun. investigators say the detective's gun was found at the scene and that it had been fired more than once. the detective was born and raised here in dc. he was investigating a homicide in west baltimore on wednesday. when he approached a man that he recognized. he was shot during that confrontation. police officers, fbi, and atf agent haves been going door to door in the

robert muler and capitol hill as well. they were trying to interview everybody and don jr. himself.shows that this still remains the key question about what donald trump jr. actually said. we know what he said publicly. there was nothing there. what do people remember from that when and what does he say when he talks about mueller as well. >> if the account is correct, it shows the quit pro quo. they were able to offer something. not only are they against russia, they they want to roll all of that back and it's tied to russian schemes that have to do with everything from violations to money and where it goes. it am cans back to putin and the idea that maybe the trump organization was able to look at that. more details about them meeting with the russians and they suggest it be with putin. carter page meets with the russians after denying he met with russians and the campaign said he was a nobody. donald trump jr. and paul manafort and donald trump jr. are not noebs. maybe nobody in the meetings did anything wrong, but it's fascinating to listen to america's top spy and the nsa. list

he also met with robert mueller recently, the special counsel, as part of his investigation. don. >> thank you very much. the white house may want to pay attention to cnn's new poll about the russia investigation. chief national correspondent john king has the numbers for us. john. >> well, don, we all know the president says russia is a ruse, a hoax. the american people flatly disagree with the president. 64% of the american people in our new cnn polling say the russia investigations are a serious matter. we polled him, don, we know he'd be in this camp. 64% of americans say this is a serious matter. now, there's a partisan break down on this. 91% of democrats say these investigations are quite a serious matter. only 28% of republicans say that. 6% of democrats say it's an effort to discredit the president, a much higher number. nearly seven to ten republicans look at these investigation and say it's an effort to discredit the republican process. now, of course, the american people processed two former campaign officials indicted, a third cut a plea deal. well, four in ten ameri

. >> per, we're learning the publicist that set up the don that publicist is set to talk to robert mueller rob goldstone said he's keen to talk and put his recollection on the record so that june 2016 meeting at trump tower remains in focus and jared kushner who attended that meeting has recently been accused by senate leaders of withholding information about additional contacts with the russians. but kushner's attorney said he's cooperating fully and kushner rejected additional offers of meeting with the russians. >> it continues. thank you. >>> let's bring new hampshire cecilia vega, also our chief political analyst matthew dowd with me. cecilia, let me begin with you and saw that reporting from pierre. mueller now reaching into the justice department also reaching pretty deep now into the white house. it is clear the president is also being investigated. >> reporter: yeah, he just a few days ago, said he himself is not under investigation. but i mean as you say, certainly his top aide, his close advisers are definitely part of this probe, in fact, in just the coming days we know one of

advised to be quite disciplined when it comes to special counsel robert mueller and he's doing that by the way. what we're seeing in don jr. very much reminds me of his father. >> it would seem as if junior has let his dad have twitter as preferred social media platform and he's taken to instagram. in terms of timing, can we glean anything from this most recent revelation in terms of what it might tell us about how close the special counsel is to wrapping this whole thing up? >> no, craig. i don't think we're even close to wrapping it up. think we're much closer to the beginning. the office of special counsel still has to engage in the sentencing of george and take paul and rick to trial and other individuals in their sights including mike flynn. this will go on for another year or more. >> jeremy bash, a big thanks to you. dana, always good to see you, my friend. michael steel who happened to be in town and kristin welker working a double. wow. >> always. good to see you, craig. >> thank you so much. enjoy your weekend. at least 235 people -- at least 235 so far killed in that deadly mosque attack in egypt. we'll have

robert mueller and his investigators. among them, josh fell, a communication aide to jared kushner and don mcgahn, the white house counsel several were present at a particularly important meeting on air force one in which president trump reportedly drafted a explanation for don jr.'s meeting with russians who had claimed to have dirt on hillary clinton. so all of this happening as investigations are going on in the peril of fashion on capitol hill. just this week the senate judiciary committee commanding more documentation and answers from jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and a senior white aide. >> abby phillips, thank you for the update. >> we don't hear from hope hicks very often and don't see her on the sunday shows and here is what we know. she is 29 and the communications director but one of the president trump's closest and longest serving aides. >> and present at key events and meetings which may be making her particularly useful to robert mueller's probe, if he does talk to her. >> let's bring in kelly jane torrance from "the weekly standard." good morning to you. i want to remind people of the current

and also in the coming weeks, special counsel robert mueller's team plans to meet with key white house staffers for interviews, white house counsel don mcgahn and 29-year-old communications director hope hicks who has been a crucial part of the trump organization and campaign and administration. >> jessica schneider, thank you so much. let's discuss the possible implications of the latest developments in the russia investigation. right now, michael zeldin, legal analyst and special assistant to robert mueller at the department of justice. good to see you. kushner's attorney, likely, instructed him to only answer the question as it was asked. so if kushner was not asked specifically about wikileaks, is that kushner's protection against perjury? >> absolutely. it is incumbent upon the questioner to put forth a question and the answer to that question is then what the answer is. if the questioner doesn't ask a specific question, there is no perjury for not answering that question. in this case i think what we really have here is in the mind of congress they believed they asked for a broader answer than kushner gave in the mind of counse

don lemon. breaking news on the russia investigation. cnn learning exclusively that jared kushner has met with robert mueller's investigators to answer questionshe stunning firing of matt lauer today in the wake of multiple accusations of sexual harassment. also, 36 hours of out of control behavior from president trump, retweeting hateful anti-muslim videos, attacking the free press, using a slur against native americans in the oval office, and behind closed doors, reviving his racist birther

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robert mueller will question or has already questioned communications director hope hicks, son-in-law jared kushner, special counsel don mugan. for more we're joined now by julia ansley and jeremy bash, as you may have noticed, has agreed to stick around with us for this part of the conversation. julia, about the toej hez the attorney general at the end of it day, and this is tough road for him to walk. because he knows from the law, probably knows better in this case, and yet the pressure i mentioned from the right. >> exactly. and has spoken to have a lot of people who has said jeff sessions is doing something really politically smart right now, by asking career prosecutors to do this. these are people going to look at the facts of the case and probably find there's nothing there, just the way shepherd smith broke that out. and maybe it could fizzle out by the holidays and no one remembers this. and he's done his due diligence to those conservatives, he's pleased the boss, pleased the people on the far right begging him to do this. and he hopes it goes away. and he gets to say he pleased. >> that does give the attorn

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don junior the story got much worse today. i think that this may be a preview of coming attractions from robert mueller in the near future. >> ipotential crimes being committed here and how likely is this going to be significant in the mueller investigation? >> well, the crimes you have are the ones that are already in existence. the idea of collusion, collaborating with a foreign entity to try to interfere or influence an american election. and what you have here is the continuity of that same premise. but you also have about ten to 25 miles past the land of plausible deny ability. remember, all of this is about a digital footprint. it happened with george papadopoulos, who of course has already pled guilty based on what the investigator and special counsel already knew about his digital foot precipitation on facebook and his meetings, et cetera. and now you have once again the emerge eps of another footprint. i'm sure special counsel and his team already know about. you're getting closer and closer to the inner spirk elof donald trump and certainly the campaign. and you can no longer have the idea of selective amnesia riding

also ask you -- i'll start with you, robert, about this back and forth between the president and lavar ball. latest tweets call him, quote, a poor man's version of doning and adds an ungrateful fool. are you interpreting any racial overtones there? >> let me step back and say it's a strange coincidence that the president has had these twitter rants with people of color. i also find it very much of a coincidence that the president has the temperament, if you will, to push back and use the race card, if you lrk look back, whether it's the kneel kneeling the national anthem. i'll just leave it there. >> let's listen to this take. >> he has been very consistent since the primary. he is a counter puncher. it's been clear from day one. this authenticity is very healthy for the american people to have a dialogue back and forth, to have a conversation. >> he says it's not about race that, trump jabbed in a similar fashion to all the primary opponents, jeb bush, marco rubio. is it just that he's a counter puncher and it's not about race? >> he is absolutely a counter puncher but what he has also been consistent about and what has been a clear pattern of cond

plans to interview white house counsel don mcgahn and josh felt who was on air force one when the trump jr. statement was drafted. hicks is represented by robertrout a former u.s. assistant attorney who represented president richard nixon john mitchell during watergate and monica lewinsky. >> he will tell her tell the truman and nothing b truth and nothing but the truth and protect yourself. >> reporter: sean spicer has been interviewed and reince priebus. that was earlier this month. right now, there is no clear indication how far along in the process the special counsel's investigation actually is. >> jessica snyder, thank you so much. julian zeleny is a historian and professor at princeton university is with us now as well as errol louis who is a political anchor for spectrum news. julian, start with you. what is it that hope hicks brings to the table here? specifically what are they going to ask of her? >> the most important part of her resume is that she has been with the president at most of the key moments in the story that we have been following. so she is a witness to everything that has happened from the response to the revelation ab

to special counsel robert mueller and the russia investigation, they're getting closer and closer to interviewing white house officials. they including hope hicks, white house cowens don mcgahn, and josh raffel, adviser to jared kushner. let's go to shimon perez. >> that's exactly right. some of the closest aides are expected to be interviewed by the special counsel team. particular attention is to the air force one meeting niche hope hicks and jared kushner were present, this was involves the crafting of a misleading statement ultimately about the president's son, don junior's meeting with a russian la you are who claimed to have dirt on hillary clinton. that meeting at trump tower during the campaign and a statement that was crafted on air force one that hope hicks was present for, jared kushner and other aides, is not part of the special counsel's investigations, and hope hicks, as you say is close to the president, and a witness to a lot of the actions that the special counsel is now investigating the kushner has that issue on air force one, but also his failure to disclose russian contacts, the comey firing, and other communications with russians that are part of

robert todd lincoln. but, you know-- too soon? you know who doesn't care about rules in politics? the trump family-- specifically, trump's eldest son and clone of don draper with the gaps filled in by frog d.n.a., donald trump jr. last night, don jr. tweeted a picture of his young daughter holding her candy bucket and said, "i'm going to take half of her candy tonight and give it to some kid who sat at home. it's never to early to teach her about socialism." yes, it's never too early to teach kids the dangers of sharing. ( laughter ) also, it's never too early to learn the proper spelling of "too." ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: but the other "o" on there." >> stephen: i bet that other "o" went to a poor person. but while we're at it, don jr, on halloween, kids go to door to door to get free candy from the neighbors, because the kids don't have it, and the neighbors do. that's socialism. also, "give it to some kid who sat at home"? you know halloween is fun, right? no child in the history of childing has voluntarily missed halloween. i'm worried about that kid who didn't go out. why? is he okay? is that child caring for a sick parent? you know wha

don mcgahn. meanwhile the british publicist who arranged the july 2016 meeting is breaking his silence. he tells the sunday times of london that he accepted the invitation for robert mueller's interview. saying it's time for me to explain what happened and dismissing any suggestion he was part of a russian plot to influence an election. i thought it was the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. that doesn't mean there wasn't any interference or donald trump campaign collusion in other ways, i'm not sure. i wasn't part of it. no date has been set for an interview with gold stone and the team. but he didn't mean to say the russians supported donald trump when he wrote that e-mail. instead he says he was speaking generally about the add ration he had seen for donald trump when he was in moscow and he say it is misinterpretation was likely the result of a rushed e-mail. >> the trump administration labels north korea a state sponsor of terrorism, backing president trump's rhetoric against the north korean regime. >> coming up south korea and japan sport the decision to put north korea back on the list of state sponsored terrorism. we are monitoring reaction out of pyo

is entering a deal with robert mueller that means he has some bigger fish to turn over, something more important than michael flynn. jared kushner, maybe donald trump, maybe don jr. the question is, does he have a deal in place or is he so leveraged because of the threats against his son, is he just opening conversations because he has to. that being said, donald trump should be somewhat nervous by this because michael flynn was campaigning with him, on the plane with him. they grew very, very close. he opened for him at a number of rallies. you are right, the two people donald trump doesn't go after and doesn't insult, michael flynn and can vladimir putin. >> you can argue he has the mueller probe because he was so obsessed with trying to save michael flynn from a comey investigation. this has to be a blow to the president. >> there is a second inturpuation which is mine. the foreign agents act. i believe he is cooperating. i do not believe -- >> i think everyone who has violated over the past 20 years better lawyer up. >> bob mueller, that may be draining the lobbiest s. we were stuffed with food and thanksgiving and with a show today. that is all we have f