e m eamon javers has more. >> reporter: the integrity of james comey was questioned by president trump. >> i was honestly concerned he might lie about the nature of his meeting. i thought it important to document. that combination of things i had never experienced before. it led me to believe i had to write it down. >> reporter: comey said he gave the okay for portions of his notes to be leaked to the press after president trump tweeted that comey should hope there were no tapes of their conversation. >> i woke up in the middle of the night on monday night, because it didn't dawn on me originally, that there might be corroboration for our conversation, there might be a tape. my judgment was i needed to get that out into the public square. so i asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter. i didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons. i asked him to because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel. >> reporter: before a hushed audience on capitol hill and tens of millions watching on tv, james comey's first public appearance since bei

eamon javers was at the white house. >> reporter: as technology week rolls on here at the trump whitese, the president hosted another large group of ceos today, this time a group of ceos from the drone industry, from the internet industry and venture capitalists who finance new business. the president very much in his element surrounded by those ceos. >> jeff, congratulations on a great career, a great career. i was sad to hear it in one way, and in another way i said, boy, what a good job. >> steve, it is great to have you here by the way. really good. you have done a great job. i always say you have a hell of a lot of money for that sale. i don't think you have been given enough. i don't think you were ever given enough credit for the deal you did for your shareholders. >> i have to say about randall, the job you have done at at&t, because it is like two companies you started and then it was made very different by government, and now here you are again. really a top job, and i want to congratulate you. that's not easy to do. >> reporter: each of the ceos had an opportunity to presen

eamon javers with us from the white house. e know, eamon, what's inside this executive order what the president is set to say? >> reporter: yeah, we do, sarah. we don't know what the president is going to say here but this will be the first time to see him on camera today since he issued those tweets this morning about the reporting from "the washington post" that says he is under investigation for potential obstruction of justice by the special counsel robert mueller. so we'll wait to see whether or not he addresses that. he was sarcastic and angry in his tone in the tweets this morning. we'll see if we get some of that from the president today in terms of pushback or whether he sort of sticks to the knitting of this particular event in the white house. we expect that he's going to be signing this executive order let me give you a couple bullet points on what the order actually does. it allows companies, trade associations and unions to develop industry recognized apprenticeship guidelines. this idea of apprenticeship is one t

eamon javers in washington.learly, wray is a guy who knows securities fraud, he knows rico, bank security. >> look, a heavyweight. i remember him on the enron case, followed that closely. he was part of the team that indicted skilling and indicted leigh. you see who else he was with, it was deputy attorney general james comey, who was involved. and mueller as fbi director. this is a seasoned guy. look, i think that -- we had a woman amy -- an attorney speaking about her this morning. speaking about noncontroversial. i think this is a guy, well, he's been at it for a long time, both sides, but he was a hard law enforcement and it seems like a guy who is as -- probably the least controversial appointment that i have seen trump make to date. i think he's kind of of the firmament. and 9/11 -- everything. he understands terrorism. he understands corporate fraud. good pick. >> how do you expect the market to behave? late yesterday we got a headline suggesting comey would not go so far as to accuse the president of obs

. >> let's get to eamon javers who is covering this today he joins us on the telephone this morning eamon, after yesterday's brief change in the protocol of covering members of congress on the hill, here we are again. worried about the degree to which regular people, media or citizens can access members of congress. >> yeah. that's right, carl it is sort of an eternal debate up on capitol hill there have been proposals over the years to ramp up the security and the members of congress to their credit have always resisted that they have wanted to have the public have access to them, have access to the congressional buildings, the proposal you're talking about yesterday was the change -- to change the way the media can conduct interviews in the hallways that's a little bit different in the sense that all those people in the hallways will have gone through security already at the entrance to the congressional office building. so it's less a situation that you're trying to protect against an active shooter and just crowd control in the hallways that they're concerned with up there. this situa

our eamon javers is outside the white house. corporate fire power at the white house this week from technology, certainly tim cook, jeff bezos there the other day and then these folks around the table in the east room today. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, scott. what you didn't hear on that tape as we were playing it out, at the very top of the meeting he opened to some comments to jeff immelt. the president opened it with congratulations. congratulations, jeff, on a fantastic career immelt responded in kind this is the president in his element. he likes being with the big name ceos he likes hearing about american innovation, development, economic growth. he likes hearing the startup companies talking about what they're going to do taking this to the next level. the president having some give and take with the ceos steve casing, you did a hell of a job and you got a hell of a bang for your shareholders steve case saying, let's not go there, to the president. this is the president in a warm, open mode with the ceos looking for

phil lebeau and eamon javers. for a long time since the inauguration infrastructure has been considered a truly bipartisan issue if we have any at all. and i wonder if that's still true. >> reporter: i don't know if there are any bipartisan issues left in washington, carl. this town is so divided it reflects the country that's bitterly divided. if you're a democratic on capitol hill you have incentive to drag your feet and not let this administration get any wind. on infrastructure they say they will have it done by the end of the year but not clear whether that is doable in term of the legislative calendar because there's so few legislative days left in the year. you just saw a picture of jared kushner shaking hands with bill shutter, congressman from pennsylvania, chairman of the house transportation committee and the white house cites him as one of their key influences in terms of breaking out this air traffic control piece. they say that because chairman shutter did such a good job of putting together this pro

eamon javers joins us from washington.ood morning. >> the president said his decision was about protecting american sovereignty and putting american workers first ahead of foreign leaders. he said ultimately this was about the people who elected him. here's what he said yesterday. >> i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. i promised i would exit or renegotiate any deal which fails to serve america's interests. the process has begun from day one. but now we're down to business. >> the president also said that simply other nations had gotten the better of the united states in the original negotiations surrounding the paris accord, that they weren't subject to the same onerous treatment that the united states was, and ultimately he said this was about getting a measure of respect. >> at what point do they start laughing at us as a country? we want fair treatment for its citizens, we want fair treatment for our taxpayers. we don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us anymore. and the

eamon javers on the case live on all of this stuff and joins us now from washington. eamon? >> hi, brian. i think we've got a live picture now. the president is in cincinnati, ohio. he's just wrapped up a few remarks here in front of air force one, with families who the white house are calling victims of obamacare. people who have had their premiums increase, had health care difficulties, et cetera. he just shook their hands and now he's moving on to his next venue, where hays going to be giving some remarks on infrastructure in ohio, as well. the president very much trying to stay focused on his legislative agenda today, a day before that comey testimony. but this morning, he also took time out to tweet an announcement of who he's picked for the fbi director slot that's open because he fired james comey. the president's tweet saying, "i will be nominating christopher a. wray, a man of impeccable credentials to be the new director of the fbi. details to follow." some of those credentials for mr. wray include he was the assistant attorney general in charm of the department of

eamon javers joins us from washington with the latest good morning to you. >> good morning. >> what canou tell us? >> the "washington post" story last night got all attention in washington, d.c., all of official washington focusing on the issue of whether or not the president is under investigation personally and directly for obstruction of justice that's what the "washington post" reported last night. let me run you through some highlights of their report with the caveat that i can't independently confirm this reporting. but it is not being denied by the president's personal lawyer or the white house what we know from the "washington post" is that they're saying the obstruction of justice investigation into trump began days after he fired former fbi director james comey. we know the director of national intelligence, dan coates, mike rogers and his former deputy richard ledgett have agreed to be interviewed by mueller's investigators. investigators are look into evidence of possible financial crimes mueller, we know, is now investigating whether trump himself attempted to obstruct just

eamon javers has some of the details. >> reporter: it was a significant legislative setback for the president and his team on capitol hill as republicans and the senate were forced to admit they don't have the votes to pass the healthcare bill. they set themselves a deadline for the end of this week to get it done. that was always ambitious, but in the end they couldn't get a number of key senators to come over the line. they only had two votes to spare. the president later in the day yesterday called all 52 republican senators to the white house for a meeting to figure out where to go next at that meeting the president struck sort of a downbeat tone >> we have to have healthcare. it can't be obamacare which is melting down the other side is saying all sorts of things before they knew what the bill was. this will be great if we get it done if we don't get it done, it will be something that we're not going to like and that's okay. i understand that very well. but i think we have a chance to do something very, very important for the public >> the president there seeming to acknowledge the possi

eamon javers has the latest on that. wonderful bur ross is in london with the very first poll results. >> reporter: wow, this is getting the numbers in, 314 for conservatives. that is a very poor result for the conservatives. they missed the majority t. pound has fallen to 128. it was at 1295 before this. this is a hung parliament. this is an extraordinary result. teresa may's poor company has played a huge role. jeremy coleman captured the number for labor there, significantly better than what they were on before. they were on 229. they're up to 226. the pound falling further. why is the pound falling off the back of it? no goody has a majority. therefore, there will need to be coles discussions. we will in uncertain phase, this is the exit poll. the result is right. we do not have a clear government. coalition discussions will have to gin to work out who will be prime minister and who will return to downing street? teresa may calls this on the 13th of april. the polls have her lead. the possibility of a triple digit --

eamon javers and ylan mui on capitol hill and john harwood is in washington. we'll begin with you. it is seth it up for -- it is. set it up for us. >> the big question is whether comey will say what he saw in terms of his president amounted to obstruction of justice or not. but in the q&a section we should get into the smaller issues. senators will have a lot of opportunity to question comey here. i'm wondering about a couple of things. the president told james comey, we shared that thing, you know, when he was saying that he was being loyal to comey. that comey doesn't explain what the president meant by that thing. i would imagine that some senators will be curious and want to know what that thing meant. comey says that the president asked him if an open investigation. he says he didn't have an open investigation into the president personally. he said that was for a number of reasons. one of the reasons was because it would create a duty to go back and correct the record if in fact they did open the investigation. but i think senators will also want to know

call it another year and a half to two years >> all right get out the party hats eamon javers has some breaking news from the white house now. eamon? >> scott, that's right we've got a fairly effusive statement here from president trump, reacting to the supreme court's announcement that it will take up the travel ban case later this year. but in the meantime, the bulk of it will be allowed to stay in place. here's what the president said in a statement put out by the white house just a few moments ago. he said, today's unanimous supreme court decision is a clear victory for our national security it allows the travel suspension for the six terror-prone countries and the refugee suspension to become largely effective. as president, i cannot allow people into our country who want to do us harm. i want people who can love the united states and all of its citizens and who will be hard-working and productive. he goes on to say, my number one responsibility as commander in chief is to keep the american people safe. today's ruling allows me to use an important tool for protecting our nation's

eamon javers taking it all in. >> there were any number of astonishing moments in the testimony today. a couple that you point out. the idea that a sitting -- or former fbi director would talk about a president of the united states and use the word "lie" repeatedly is something that i found astonishing. several other moments include the fact that comey said that he took it as a direction to drop the flynn investigation when the president said that he hoped that he could see his way toward letting this go. the idea here that this wasn't just a wish expressed by the president, but it was in fact a direction to the fbi director, that he said he had no intention of following. another astonishing moment was he said that he was aware of certain facts that he still can't disclose that were classified that indicated to him that attorney general sessions could not continue on as a part of the russia investigation. we don't know what comey meant by that. we'll have to see if we can get some answers to that. and then finally, the moment that was most astonishing to me, i've never heard a public

eamon javers at the white house. kayla, the latest on what we know >> reporter: brian, at this hour we are learning more about james hodgkinson, the 66-year-old illinois man now deceased who opened fire on a congressional baseball practice here in alexandria early this morning in the 7:00 hour. police here in alexandria have said it's too early to determine a motivation for the action and the shooting hodgkinson took early this morning but we are learning that he not only had a criminal record, he was approached as recent ly as marc by police for shooting a firearm in a residential neighborhood, but he was also a very politically charged scitizen where he lived in the 2012 election year he sent frequent letters to the editor of his local newspaper, the belleville news democrat his letters concerned the need to tax the rich, and he frequently cited the work of robert reich he said in one letter that is quoted on the newspaper's website today, i have never said that life sucks, only the policies of the republicans. tha

cnbc's eamon javers is live at the white house with the story >> reporter: here's the tweet from the president this morning that you just mentioned. he said the amazon "washington post," sometimes referred to as the guardian of amazon not paying internet taxes, which they should, is fake news. the president this morning apparently upset by a piece in "the washington post" which revealed that his golf clubs have been displaying a "time" magazine cover on the wall that was faked and never actually ran in "time" magazine the picture of trump, a story, apparently, about his "apprentice" television show, nub none of that real, but nonetheless hanging on the walls of his golf club the president didn't like that story in "the washington post. that would have prompted the tweet. a few moments ago, i was in the roosevelt room with the president and a number of reporters for an energy week event. at that event, i asked the president if he's prepared to take any specific steps against amazon after his tweet this morning. here's how that moment played out. >> mr. president, are you prepared to t

leaders are headed to the white house after the senate delayed a vote on the health care bill eamon javersore eamon? >> we're expecting pictures of the republican senators here after the collapse of the effort this week to get that health care bill passed up in the senate we're told that reporters will be going into the meeting momentarily and pictures for you as soon as we can get them and meanwhile the white house today in the norm of sarah huckabee sanders offering a fairly muted response to the decision by the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, to press pause on this bill and simply abandon the effort to get it done before the july 4th recess. here's what she said a little while ago in the briefing room >> we're continuing to be optimistic the president is committed, he said, in all the members of the administration have said repeatedly to repealing and replacing obamacare, working with the senate, working with the house and making sure we get the best bill for us it's never been about the time line but about getting the best piece of legislation that helps the most americans. >>

for more on the latest of today's big stories, eamon javers is in washington.itz begin with wilfred frost. >> reporter: good morning, becky. theresa may sits with an 8-point lead according to the "financial times" poll of poll this morning. that's why people are confident she will get a majority. but that is from a range of polls showing a 12-point lead down to just a one-point lead. could there be a surprise. here is the ceo of the polling company that puts her lead at only one point. >> we did have an 18-point lead for the conservatives mid may and they had a disastrous campaign and that's reflected in our figures. it was indicate 41 to conservatives, 40 to labor, which would indicate a hung parliament territory and possibly the prime minister resigning. it's quite a big deal. >> if you had to point to one reason why you think you're right and the companies are wrong, what would you say? >> the world is showing the trends but it's this turnout question and i think they're being too aggressive. >> if he is right and we do have a hung parliament, we would likel

eamon javers, thank you. >>> qatar airways looking to buy a big stake in american airlines ngat thateans in the lo-standing battle between american carriers and maybe the industry overall stick around when this bell rings... ...it starts a chain reaction... ...that's heard throughout the connected business world. at&t network security helps protect business, from the largest financial markets to the smallest transactions, by sensing cyber-attacks in near real time and automatically deploying countermeasures. keeping the world of business connected and protected. that's the power of and. >>> welcome back qatar airways is looking to buy 10% stake in american airways. the ceo is out with a letter to employees. phil lebeau is in chicago. he doesn't mince words >> never he just sent this letter out to employees. this sentence covers exactly how he feels and how a lot of the management at american feels "while anyone can purchase our shares in the open market, we aren't particularly excited about qatar's outreach and we find it puzzling giving our extremely public stance on the illegal sub

eamon javers, in front of the white house. >>> ceos have not been this confident in it years.ayla tausche? >> reporter: they're maintaining their confidence now. they take the temperature of about 148 ceos about their plans for the next six months and their optimism about the u.s. economy. the survey out today showed that reading is the highest since 2014 but that it's flattened since a big jump that it saw in march. on sales the group remained bullish. on at that pointcal spending they expect small increases but plans for u.s. hiring in the next six months dropped as did the outlook for the gdp growth. now they expect a flat 2% gdp growth, a decrease of 0.2%. the ceo, josh bolten from the bush white house, said the optimism is underpinned specifically by tax reform and that if that hits the skids ceos will be quick to reduce their current plans. he told reporters this morning, quote, what policymakers should take away from that is u.s. businesses remain very optimistic but there's also a potential down side from failure. that should add to the urgency with which they pursue t

let's get to eamon javers for the very later. >> there's real sus sense on this going into the announcement were led to believe that the president was dead set on pulling out of the paris accords. now though maybe some different air here at the white house. we'll wait and see what the president has to say. there has been a big push by business executives to persuade the president to stay in the paris accords, including from megawittman who talked earlier today about all of this. we also saw there you see an ibm tweet about why ibm supports staying in the paris accords. we saw la renopau jobs speaking today. the widow of steve jobs in favor of remaining in the accords. here is what she had to say. >> i think like everyone i agree it would be a colossal mistake for the united states to pull out of the paris accords for every reason that's already been outlined. obviously economic, obviously that's the waive of the future. obviously that -- that's where the momentum is. >> i talked to a white house official here inside the west wing and i asked the white house about this push by ceos to pressu

working on right now, they should immediately repeal and then replace at a later date let's get to eamon javersew idea here from the president who had previously suggested that what he wanted to do was repeal and replace obamacare at the same time so there would be no gap, really, between the two sets of laws that would cover health care in this country today, though, he's floating this idea of repealing first, and then replacing obamacare that's an idea that might have some traction among some republicans on capitol hill who are eager to deliver on a campaign promise on repealing and replacing obamacare. at least the repeal piece could be done this year. i just spoke with kellyanne conway, the adviser to the president, here on the white house driveway a few moments ago. i asked her, though, if the repeal obamacare and don't get around to replacing it, does that leave a gap in which the president's not living up to his promise to keep some of the obamacare provisions that are popular, including the ability to keep children on their parents' health care until they're 26, and also the ban on pre-

our eamon javers is covering that from the nation's capital. >> reporter: the president hearing fromcore of ceos today and the president is expected to make the announ announcement in the rose garden. he's expected to announce the u.s. will withdraw from the accords or will he change his mind at the last minute. take a look at some of the executives who have spoken on the question. >> we identified them and communicated with voters. >> that obviously was hillary clinton, not meg whitman. what meg whitman said was please do not withdraw from the paris climate accord. this is not in the best interest of americans. we need to own the next generation of jobs and whether that's clean energy or 3d printing or immuno therapy, this is an arena america should lead. >> and mark benios responded and they realize the president will make enemies on which ever side he goes. let see if we can hear meg whitman. >> please do not withdraw from the paris climate accord. this is not in the best interest of americans. we need to own the next generation of jobs and whether that's clean energy or 3d printi

. >>> president trump meeting with tech ceos at the white house eamon javers joins us. >> reporter: betweenlot of the biggest names in the business and the president of the united states, i'm told one interesting exchange between the president and apple ceo tim cook over immigration. i'm told that the president was briefing the ceos on health care and told them that the health care bill that's making its way through congress now needs more heart, quote, unquote. and i'm told that tim cook responded to that by saying, in fact, the immigration approach of this administration also needs more heart tim cook reported to have said that tech employees and their co-workers are concerned about their situation, given the immigration reforms contemplated by this administration and i'm told the president responded to that by simply saying that the united states needs a broad immigration bill, urging the tech ceos to push their local representatives and senators to push for a broader comprehensive immigration reform approach that was in the behind-the-scenes portion of the meeting yesterday here at the

let's get straight to eamon javers outside the white house with what we know so far.bbying campaign is the story of the morning as we look ahead to the 3:00 p.m. announcement by president trump about whether the united states will stay in or pull out of the paris climate accords. here's what the president tweeted last night, setting up the drama here. i will be announcing my decision on the paris climate accord in the rose garden. that set off a tweet from elon musk who said that he -- he said he doesn't know which way paris is going to go, but he's advised detective direct -- directly to the president of the united states and the white house ceo councils that he -- he was asked what would happen if the president pulls out of the accord and he says we'll have no choice but to depart councils in that case. so elon musk there making a bit of a threat. we saw mark ben ahoff urging that the united states stay in the paris accords. meg whitman of hp just told david that she believes the united states should stay in it and made her appeal to president trump to stay in as we

eamon javers is live in washington with more on that >> good morning.riefing last night from white house officials giving us the details of what the president is expected to announce later today. hemiami this morning where he will roll back a lot of president obama's openness campaign towards cuba. this white house calling that policy appeasement they say they'll make significant changes including prohibiting financial transactions, including transactions incidental to travel with the holding company that is operated by the cuban military the goal here, they say, is to roll back the military's control of the economy and get dollars into the hands of average cubans to that end they'll strengthen america's statutory ban on tourism to cuba, which has not gone away up the obama rules the individual people to people travel will be prohibited. that's the travel where you can simply go on your own to cuba without an organized tour group that is licensed that will be ending. there's no change now to the embassy status so that will be continued from the obama re

eamon javers at the white house. >>> markets meantime are cautious after the fed raises interest rates this year yesterday central bank signaling the next hike could come in december. joining us is phil campanelli, and ethan harris, b of a, head of the global economics research guys, good to have you both with us. >> good morning. >> ethan, a lot has been written about yellen and relative to her initial reputation of like this dove from san francisco sort of flying in the face of that is that how you see it >> yeah, i mean, that story was always overdone. i mean, yellen is a situational dove she's dovish when the economy really needs it and she will hike rates when necessary. i was a bit surprised however at how hawkish she sounded yesterday. the economy has slowed down. she gave a glass half full version of the world i think it's out of sync with what we're seeing in the data. >> was she boxed in by expectations this meeting and do you expect that to reverse later in the year? >> yeah, i think going forward is -- the fed will have a big challenge here the big market is saying that the

out of the paris climate accord and eamon javers has more on the corporate response. >> good morning. president yesterday in the rose garden very much painted this decision as being about the economy and protecting the jobs of american workers. here's how he described it yesterday. >> i was elected to represent the citizens of pittsburgh, not paris. i promised i would exit or renegotiate any deal which fails to serve america's interests. the process has begun from day one. but now we're down to business. >> but a lot of american ceos don't see it the same way that the'does including -- the same way that he does. take a look at the tweet from elon musk moments after the president spoke yesterday. he said, i'm departing the presidential council. leaving paris is not good for america or the world and bob iger, disney's chairman and ceo with the statement saying, protecting our planet and driving the economic growth are critical to our future. and they aren't mutually exclusive. i deeply disagree with the decision to withdraw from the paris agreement and as a matter of principle i have re

eama eamon javers is in washington with a closer look at the events and the timeline leading up to allwe're asked most often, what are the dates, when has this story really moved markets? let's go through the timeline here and i'll show you exactly what's been happening during the course of this saga. pay attention. there are two days where this story has rae moved markets. but for the rest, maybe not so much. so start with december 29th, 2016, the obama administration announces measures to punish russia for the 2016 election interference. that was very early on. michael flynn calls ambassador kislyak of russia to discuss sanctions relief on that date. that was an important early moment in all of this. on january 27th, trump and comey had dinner at the white house. that's the dinner we're learning more about in this testimony, including that famous stare down. on michael 14th, michael flynn resigned. trump met with comey and asked him to drop the flynn investigation altogether. on march 20th, comey testifies before the house intelligence committee and confirms the fbi investigation of

eamon javers has the details. >> reporter: we're getting the sad news from otto warmbier's family he's at about 2:20 in the afternoon. they say it was the result of the treatment that he received as the detainee in north korea where he was held for more than 17 months. the young american recently attended the university of virginia and we have a statement here from his family who say, unfortunately, the awful torturous mistreatment our son received at the hands of the north koreans ensured that no other outcome was possible beyond the sad one that we experienced today. that's the news from here. we're awaiting a statement on all of this from the white house. we'll bring that tyou eno wh we have it. more "closing bell" when we come back we want unlimited entertainment. so we can stream unlimited action. watch unlimited robots. watch unlimited romance. if you are into that. but we also want more like... unlimited hbo. can i stop dying now mark? no can't do mi amigo. it's unlimited. besides you are really good at it james. don't settle for any unlimited data plan. only the at&t unlimited

let's go to eamon javers, who i think is still there. >> reporter: that's right.hite house reporters briefing the reporters, we can't name them. a couple key points of nuance here, one is that the united states is not officially on the books going to be able get out of paris accord until 2020. they need three years worth tore enforced in order to officially file a notice that they're going to withdraw and that process takes a full year to happen. so they say november 2020 is the earliest officially the united states can withdraw from the accord, that said, they argue that they are simply not going to enforce any of the provision of the accord, even though it will be officially on the books until then. they also say that they anticipate that despite the fact that we saw a joint statement from a number of european countries they're not going to renegotiate, they say here at the white house, they are confident that our allies and partners overseas will sit down across the table to renegotiate this teal with the united states. they would not say what the terms of the

eamon javers joins us now with more. good morning. >> good morning, joe.t was a rare public appearance from hillary clinton. an opportunity at the code conference from re/code in california to reflect on her election loss. offer thoughts on why she lost and thoughts on the current president. she said she felt the e-mail scandal this was one of the central facets of her presidential campaign was a nothing burger. here's what she said. >> in the book i'm using everything that anybody said about it besides me to say this is the biggest nothing burger ever. it was a mistake. i said it was a mistake. if i could have turned the clock back, i wouldn't have done it, in the first place. the way it was used was very damaging. >> she also implied there must have been some collusion with some americans in terms of the russian involvement in the 2016 election. here's that moment. >> the russians in my opinion, based on intel and counter intel people i talked to could not have known how best to weaponize that information unless they had been guided. >> guided by america

eamon javers has the latest. >> reporter: we have the written testimony james comey will deliver before that much anticipated hearing. all the broadcast networks will carry this live. it will be the focus point of the political attention. tomorrow some of his testimony is being compared to a tom clancy level in the terms of detail and narrative about his version of his interactions with the president of the united states, saying he had nine specific interactions with the president either in person or on the phone, one moment standing out, though, is the face-to-face meeting between trump and comey that comey describes this way. he said the president said i need loyalty, i expect loyalty. i didn't move, speak or change my facial expression in anyway during the awkward silence that followed. a stare down there between the director of the fbi and the president of the united states inside the white house. the president is asking for loyalty from the fbi director. the fbi director simply refusing to give it. ultimately, the president said honest loyalty is what i want. comey said you can exp

paying omage to the capitol hill police their sacrifice in his words makes democracy possible eamon javerstching all of that and delivered some news we did not know, that the assailant is dead. >> reporter: that information as part of the overall picture the president is getting of what the situation is in terms of this assault, you can imagine that the president has the very best, up-to-the-minute information at all times on this sort of thing. the president looking for a message of unity saying we are at our best when we are unified. pointing out that everybody on that congressional baseball field was a public servant from the fire department and police officers that responded to the capitol police security detail to the members of congress and the staff themselves also, singling out steve scalise as a friend and a very good friend saying that he will recover from his injuries. so the president has clearly been briefed on the nature and extent of the wounds that congressman scalise suffered earlier today and saying he is a fighter and going to get better. clearly, a personal, heartfelt n

it's a meeting at the white house today along with briothers eamon javers is live at the white house. this will happen late this afternoon? >> we're waiting for some of the ceos to arrive right now you were just talking about jeff bezos and showed that graphic of all the ceos that will be here jeff bezos, here in his capacity as the ceo of amazon and they've been making some big moves lately, but he also owns "the washington post" which has been report ving very aggressively on president trump and the trump administration so there's some subtext there. also some of the biggest names in technology that will be here, including tim cook of apple, eric schmidt of google/alphabet. and the challenge here for these two worlds that are colliding in this meeting today, they're going to be talking about government i.t., how to bring in ideas from the private sector, but you've got an administration that has been focusing on old economy jobs for lack of a better phrase. they're focusing on coal, oil, they're talking about manufacturing plants and keeping those plants here in the united states an

eamon javers has the very latest >> reporter: it is as you say a glittering collection of ceos at the white house today. we're waiting for the president in the east room we expect he's going to come in and participate in a roundtable discussion the ceos have been here all day. take a list at took at the listf prominent names. i was brought into the indian treaty room in the eisenhower executive building the other day to listen to remarks from jared kushner and watching the ceos mingle with each other, interacting here in washington, including you saw eric schmidt of alba bet aphabet and google. talking at the whouite house. cross pollen nation of ideas that's what the white house is looking at ideas from private sector executives on how to improve government from every way from its i.t. to its services to its performance for the citizens jared kushner opened things up earlier today with remarks including rare remarks in washington, d.c. from, in braise of government bureaucrats. here's what he said. >> before i came to washington, many warned me the bureaucracy would resist any change

. >>> let's get to eamon javers in the rose garden where president trump is set to make a statement withn's prime minister modi. >> reporter: we saw the vice president and first lady come in and take their seats we're inside the two-minute warning. we're expecting this event to begin shortly. the president and prime minister have been interacting throughout the day here and throughout the afternoon at the white house one of the points the white house wanted to underscore about this event, this would be the vi first foreign dignitary the trump administration hosted for a dinner at the white house. they're emphasizing that is a sign of respect and csignificane of the level of this visit of the indian prime minister here today. we're going to wait and see what the two officials have to say here, but remember, this is a joint statement, not a news conference typically, when the president meets with a foreign head of state, we'll see what's called a two and two, two questions from the foreign media, two questions from the u.s. media. this case, we're just getting a joint statement and don't e

eamon javers joins us now with. eamon what do you know? >> yeah, good morning, again, joe.sident's tweet we can bring up for you. the president surprising most of washington here with this announcement today. he says i will be nominating christopher a. wray, a man of impeccable credentials, to be the new director of the fbi. details to follow. well i think in that tweet you see the essence of the president's strategy, a man of impeccable credentials. the president is looking for somebody in christopher wray who can get through a senate confirmation, who will be absolutely untainted by politics or partisanship. he's hoping that this will be a fairly seamless move here to install wray as the head of the fbi. we'll see what the senate says in terms of confirmations. christopher wray was the assistant attorney general from 2003 until 2005 under president george w. bush. and while he was there he was actually confirmed by unanimous consent by the senate which gives you some indication that he was not a controversial figure in those days. this is an entirely different political e

. >>> the trump administration's travel restrictions taking effect today eamon javers has more on this and some of the other top political stories. >> good morning. the associated press got ahold of a state department cable laying out the new travel restrictions earlier this week, we had a supreme court decision that allowed part of the president's travel ban to go forward until the supreme court hears a case relating that later this year. in the meantime the state department and various branch executive agencies have to come up with new rules for travelers. so as of right now the state department putting out these new rules for travelers from the six muslim majority nations. the supreme court allowed the ban for travelers who lacked bonafied relationship with any person or entity in the united states the applicants must prove a relationship one issue here is whether what counts as bonafied in terms of a family relationship. we're told what doesn't count as bonafied are grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, brothers in law and sisters in law. so your bro

eamon javers is in washington, and joins us right now with more eamon, what can you tell us. >> yeah,scene so can't tell you much more than what you've been reporting your heart breaks when you hear something like this. it is so shocking, yet it is unexpected in today's washington and we unfortunately we see incidents similar to this time and time again my mind goes back to the navy yard shooting of a couple of years ago. we've had incidents on the capitol complex over recent years where we've had mentally disturbed people engage in confrontations with the capitol police the capitol police have actually fired shots at people who are coming in to the capitol complex. this, though, is different in a sense that you get the feel that this is somebody who knew where this practice was being held and that this was specifically targeted and left sort of random situation. but, far too early to begin to speculate on who did this and why. but there's generally a couple of possibilities somebody who is mentally disturbed. somebody who has a domestic political agenda and somebody who has an intern

meeting over the draft of their health care bill, which is expected to be released in an hour >>> eamon javersyla tausche is on capitol hill first to eamon for an update on this tech meeting. >> reporter: good morn, it is drone day, that's one of the issues they'll be talking about during a series of technology meetings here today. i am told unfortunately be will not see the president of the united states flying a drone they'll do a demo in the east room with some of the equipment. we have seen some of the ceos arriving, crying is the ceo of revolution, steve case, jeff immelt, randall stevenson, the ceo of honey will, exel energy link, verizon, all walking in on 17th street earlier today. they're in for an all-day series of discussions starting with the drones, they'll be talking about regulation, technology and safety with the growing drone industry in this country also on digital wireless talking about the future of connected devices and the enter net of things and on the financing of staffordups, how to extend, important to the trump administration to broaden out beyond just silicon valley

eamon javers is live it at the white house with the very latest. >> reporter: we saw the president sit behind a desk today and sign a letter to congress in which he said he wants them to embark on reform of the nation's air traffic control system. take a look at a summary here of what it is exactly he's proposing saying that he wants the air traffic control system to become a nonprofit entity, no longer a government service. it would be overseen by the faa but those employees themselves would no longer be government employees. the white house says that's going to increase safety, cyber security and national security. the president in remarks at the white house contrasting this with the approach of his predecessor. here is what he said. >> after billions and billions of tax dollars spent and the many years of delays, we're still stuck with an ancient, broken, antiquated, horrible system that doesn't work. other than that it's quite good. the previous administration spent over $7 billion trying to upgrade the system and totally failed. >> reporter: so, melissa, this is the first day of w

quote, similar to preparations the s r syrian government made before the april 4th attack our eamon javers is in washington with the latest. >> a rare and direct warning from the trump white house to the syrian government, bashir al assad regime, saying they spotted these potential preparations for another chemical attack like we saw earlier in the year that prompted a u.s. missile response in this case, the white house saying this. they say, as we have previously stated the united states is in syria to eliminate the islamic state of iraq and syria. if, however, mr. assad conducts another mass murder attack using chemical weapons, he and his military will pay a heavy price. that message amplified by the u.s. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley last night, who issued this statement on twitter saying any further attacks done to the people of syria will be blamed on assad but also on russia and iran, who support him killing his own people now, that is the tricky situation here, because, remember, russia is also in syria, backing the assad regime. they've declared effectively a no fl

let's get some reaction from our eamon javers at the white house today. eamon?resident there a little more soft-spoken than we've heard in recent days but making the point that the golden era of american energy is under way. and also laying out some of the campaign themes that he had in terms of bringing back coal jobs and energy dominance for the united states of america the president taking a moment to take a swipe at the media there, and also taking a moment to joke about the wall, saying that new energy exports to mexico will go right under the wall, he said. the president injecting a little bit of humor, and campaign rhetoric about some of the energy priorities, kelly. >> yeah. now, i'm just saying, there's plenty else going on today. >> yes, there is. >> he talked about fake news again. i don't know how he expects us to really focus on energy when all that's happening. >> i tell you what, we just had the white house briefing from deputy press secretary sarah huckabee sanders who sort of laid out the defense of the president's tweets this morning. the presi

eamon javers live at the white house with what we know so far hi, eamon. >> reporter: tyler, that's right. one of the things we know so far is that the list of companies that's affected has grown dramatically over the past several hours. take a look at the companies that we know are notifying the public that they've been victimized by this hack. companies across the world, particularly in ukraine, russia, and the uk wpp and dla piper are victims of the attack in the united states, we've got at least a couple companies here, in france and in denmark, companies reporting attacks in all of those different countries. here's a couple tweets now from merck confirming what they know. "we can confirm our company's computer network was compromised today as part of a global hack other organizations have also been affected. we are investigating the matter and will provide additional information as we learn more." that from merck. we also just seconds ago got a new statement in from the department of homeland security, and apologies here as i look down because i'm going to read this straight from my

billion will be spent on the deployment on 5 g and that could create as many as 3 million jobs eamon javers us in miami. you just completed your own interview here >> yeah. >> good to see you in person krchlst i sat down with jeb bush who had a lot of thing to say. he also said he feels we lost the common set of facts in america. the debate that we've had have been so fractured that he wants us to get back to that he praised some of the republicans on the committee he said they're doing the right thing in setting the right tone for the country by handling that the way that they (d) here's what he had to say earlier today. >> if you are defending a person who was from the other party doing it would you have to same attitude and vice versa. would you defend if it was a democrat doing it and oppose it if it was a republican in a minimum if you have that fist step is have the same view for a person ir respective if they had a d and r in front of their name i think we can restore of the the democracy that have to work. >> he also talked about the phrase, america first, which donald trump has use

eamon javers has more. >> good morning. lot on the president's plate this week, but let's start with vladimir putin of russia who gave an interview yesterday to nbc's megyn kelly talking about the interference, the alleged interference in the elections. he said that it's actually the united states who has been meddling in elections for all these years. here's what he said. >> the united states everywhere all over the world actively interferes with the electoral campaigns of other countries. put your finger anywhere on the map of the world and everywhere you hear complaints that american officials are interfering in internal electoral processes. >> meanwhile, the white house says it wants to focus on infrastructure this week. they have got an event later on today. they'll talk about privatizing air traffic control. look at what he's tweeting. he said, people, the lawyers in the courts can call it whatever they want, but i am calling it what we need and what it is -- a travel ban. that tweet from the president remarkable on s

eamon javers has the latest on that.irst poll results. >> reporter: wow, this is getting the numbers in, 314 for conservatives. that is a very poor result for the conservatives. they missed the majority t. pound has fallen to 128.

. >>> eamon javers in washington with the latest on comey's testimony. >> we are awaiting a statementrsonal attorney, that will happen over at the national press club across town from where i'm standing on capitol hill. i want to bring you two key pieces of that testimony here. there's a couple issues that will be chewed apart for days and days. one is an issue of what the president meant when he said to at the time fbi director he hopes he can see his way clear to letting the michael flynn investigation go. there was an exchange about what the idea of i hope means. here's how that went down. >> i took it as a direction. it's the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope this. i took it as this is what he wants me to do. i didn't obey that but that's the way i took it. >> you may have taken his direction but that's not what he said. >> correct. >> he said i hope. >> those are the exact words correct. >> you done know anybody who is ever been charged for hopping something is that a fair statement? >> i don't as i sit here. >> that'll be a question debated for several d