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senator carper and senator ernst and fisher. i'm eric garcetti, mayor of los angeles. i want to give a special thanks for my senator, senator harris, for my introduction. i'm honored to be appear before you not only as a mayor of a great american city but also the chair of the task force for the u.s. conference of mayors on infrastructure. when i heard folks talking about infrastructure a few months ago in the presidential election, as mayor of the city has the biggest port in america, the largest municipal utility in the america, the number one airport, most miles of road and as been stated, the worst traffic, i got very excited. contrary to what you see in lala land, we don't sit there in traffic. we sit there and stew. i'm here to get you excited. don't let this get out because 99% of the coverage tonight is not going to be about how we're all getting along. it's how we disagree. right in here we truly do have bipartisanship and agreement on what this country needs. that's the space that mayors occupy every single day. and you know, for all of us that are in the mun

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kristin fisher live from the white house. hi, kristin. >> hey, eric. in addition to president trump personally defending his son-in-law, jared kushner, other administration officials say that even if kushner did try to establish a secret back channel with the kremlin, it's not that big of a deal. yesterday john kelly called it normal and acceptable and now the white house is getting an assist from a republican senator that usually doesn't see eye to eye with this administration or at least sometimes he doesn't. senator lindsay graham says he doesn't trust the story as far as he can throw it. listen. >> it makes no sense that the russian ambassador will report back to moscow on a channel that we're most likely monitoring. the whole story line is suspicious. >> republican senator john mccain said in an interview on australian television, there's nothing standard about trying to set up a secret communications channel with a hostile foreign government. adam schiff is calling for kushner's security clearance to be reviewed. >> if these reports are accurate

laura: kristin fisher at the white house today. thank you so much. eric?c: meanwhile, president trump is urging today senate republicans to, quote, not let the american people down, he says, when it comes the overhauling the u.s. health care system. the president saying the current system, in his view, is failing as insurers pull out of markets forcing costs up. this as that health bill heads to the senate next after it cleared the house last thursday. and in the senate, there are major changes expects. bryan llenas has been following the president at his weekend retreat, his new jersey golf club, and he joins us now with the latest. hi, bryan. >> reporter: hi, eric. well, look, the president, the president trump administration say that they have confidence and they are expressing optimism that they believe this health care bill will survive and go through congress. the bottom line is the president's chief of staff, reince priebus, spoke to our chris wallace and even down played this notion that this house bill will harm republicans in the 2018 midterms. i

kristin fisher is live in the north lawn with the very latest tonight. hi, kristin. >> reporter: hey, eric. president trump is returning from first foreign trip to the same problems plaguing him when he left here nine days ago, nonstop barrage about associates' alleged ties to russia and possible cover-up. so today, president trump is turning his attention to the source of those reports. the leakers. he's tweeted about them four times today. here's one of them. he said -- now, the administration's growing effort to contain these leaks were echoed across the sunday shows. here's homeland security secretary-general john kelly. >> it's outrageous, i don't know why people do it, it jeopardizes not only investigations but puts people's lives in jeopardy. i don't know why people do, it but they do. and that's the world we live in. >> reporter: now, these kinds of attacks from the administration against the media, against the leakers, expect them only to continue as this russia investigation heats up. now, two big things to watch next week on capitol hill. you've got senate republicans struggling

france, europe and united states pre-christian fisher at the white house where the previous occupant endorse one of those candidates. hi, christine. triticale, eric the white house watching this election closely. president trump hasn't explicitly endorse the far right populist, and marine le pen. they are closely intertwined. a recent interview with the associated press, president trump said quote, she's the strongest on borders and what's been going on in friends. on the other side is former president barack obama and he has explicitly endorsed the more moderate candidate, and emanuel macron. in fact come a few days ago he released a public statement of support. he recorded a commercial in fact declaring his support for that candidate. watch. >> he stood up for liberal values. he put forward a vision for the important role for his place europe and around the world and he's committed to a better future to the french people. ppos to people's hopes and not their fears. reporter: now, it's a unusual for former u.s. president to make an endorsement of foreign election but that just goes to show you how high the stakes are here. except for wins, she w

what do you think, eric, do you think there's someone they could pick to replace comey that could quiet the calls for special council there. the five mentioned, mccabe, cornyn, fisher, garcia and lee. were those, any of those to replace james comey that a special counselor would not be needed? >> i think a number of those people, certainly, any of them picked to be the next director, president trump could fire him at anytime he wants. when you see the calls from democrats during the independent counsel, that is response to the fact that the fbi director, it wasn't just a zmridismissal at point. they want somebody that is outside of the chain of the watergate hearings which doesn't exist anymore, can dismiss and the president can dismiss that person. certainly any of the people that a republican president might want to appoint is going to quiet those concerns. i think we have democrats saying we're careening towards something novel. an fbi director, no matter how respected on both sides of the aisle probably not going to quiet those concerns. >> i want to get into the possible changes into the communications department at the white house. the president saying this t