>> errol is on the mend. he used to make youtube videos but got out of it. >> i deleted most of those. >> casey presents him with some gifts. bag of gifts of brand new camera equipment, no more excuses anymore, errol. the world wants to hear your story. >> i have a piano surprise for you. ♪ >> do ten-negren plays his piano around the world. remember we've had his videos on the show before. >> yes. >> more than 20 different countries, 300 cities and look, errol can play. ♪ >> this kid is just cool. >> yeah, he is and what makes this special day even more special, he's offered to take him on a private jet, charter a helicopter and do crazy stuff and errol wanted to spend time with casey. >> he wanted to meet with me so he could talk to me about his nonprofit. >> every cent that's donated to cancer goes directly to the research we're funding to the studies we're funding and goes right to helping children. >> i thought it was neat that a kid's wish was to try to raise more interest and support for cancer research

let's bring back errol louis and julian zeleny. good morning, gentlemen.gers wrote an op-ed this morning and said this. errol, is 245 accurate, based on what we know? >> well, he certainly comes across that way. he is sort of full of himself. he has got a lot of the policy ideas inside his brain that are part of the trump administration's agenda. on the other hand, there is a real simple reason i think why he is maybe not the best choice which is that the guy has got a lot on his plate. if he is the principal speech writer, that, itself s more than a full-time job. if he is doing sort of policy work and developing and shaping a lot of the policies, we saw what happens when he and people around him act too quickly, which is what happened when he tried the immigration ban and caused chaos at the airports and put themselves in a terrible position vis-a-vis the courts. it's fine to have the input. he did a confident job, i think, at advancing the trump agenda at the press conference where he appeared. on the other hand, to do that day in and day out is probabl

just back in january after 17-year-old errol mcdowel had gotten through back cancer. >> we thought we were out of the woods. >> reporter: the family started a fundraiser. a routine mri picked up signs that errol's medulla blastoma had returned once again. >> it was frightening. >> reporter: the mcdowels had done their research on cancer research. they know there is a promising drug developed at stanford university that is in clinical trials. >> it could do the trick. five grams of that and he could be cured. >> reporter: hoping to save errol and other children like them. they are offering a bounty to anyone who can legally make the drug available to them now. a sizeable bounty. >> $10 million. we put $10 million in escrow with our attorney that will be given to whomever has this compou compound. >> reporter: the mcdowels say they are doing anything any parent would do. >> we are paving the way for their kids to get the drug and prepared to subsidize every other family to get their hands on this drug once we make it available. >> reporter: an unconventional message powered by unconditi

here's errol barnett. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news the strategy allows for deploig around 4,000 new troops and aggressively pushing pakistan for being a safe haven for terrorists.

reena. >> ninan: errol barnett, thank you, errol. a victory for the trump administration at the united nations. today, the security council unanimously adopted a u.s. resolution with punishing new sanctions on north korea. the vote follows north korea's launch of its first intercontinental balllistic missile july 4. and a second test on july 28. search-and-rescue at under way for three missing u.s. marines. they were aboard an mv-22 osprey that crashed into the sea of australia. 23 other personnel on board the aircraft were rescued. the osprey flies like a plane but has helicopter-like rotor bladeses so it can take off and land vertically. thunderstorms are expected to rumble over parts of the country tonight. yesterday's storms caught several people by surprise. here's carter evans in los angeles. >> reporter: flash flooding turns turnd low-lying areas in las vegas into lakes on friday. many had to be rescued from their cars. >> that water is rising. >> reporter: these men scrambled to safety on top of a taxi in hotel parking lot on

errol louis is here, cnn political commentator. so much to talk about. i think it's an interesting note that the vice mayor is just calling him 45. let's get to that in a moment. however the retweet the president last night instead of doubling down on his comments calling out these white supremacist groups by name he chose to retweet someone who is not just controversial, this guy pedals in conspiracy theories, he pedaled the pizza gate experience theory which became dangerous. he made something up that democrats and hillary clinton's team was somehow involved in a child sex ring in a d.c. pizzer pizzeria. it's not just a conspiracy theory. guy goes there a month later and shoots the place up. this is dangerous, and the president is retweeting something from him in the last 12 hours. >> it's really remarkable. this is, among other things, you have once again called dog whistle politics where this is a wink and a nod from the president to some of the worst elements of society, people who have spread conspiracy theories, hate, people who have taken us up t

but then, in march, a routine mri picked up signs that errol's medulla blastoma had returned again. > we had just began to let go of the fear of it coming back, and then it came back. it was frightening. >> reporter: having been down this road, though, the mcdowells had done their research on cancer research. they know there is a very promising drug developed at stanford university called anti-cd47 that is in clinical trials but not yet available beyond that. >> cd47 could do the trick. 5 grams of that and errol could be cured. >> reporter: so the mcdowells are taking an extraordinary step, hoping to save errol and other children like him. they are offering a bounty to anyone who can legally make the drug available to them now. a sizeable bounty. >> $10 million. we put $10 million in escrow with our attorney that will be given to whomever has this compound. >> reporter: the mcdowells say they're simply doing what any parents would do in their shoes and in the process are willing to help those who are. >> by acquiring this drug and showing its efficacy, we are paving the way for their

errol barnett has the the latest. >>> president trump says he is working during his stay at his golf club in bedminister but took time to greet wedding guests at his resort. twitter the president described new u.n. sanctions on north korea as the largest ever to punish the country. the sanctions are in response to its testing of two intercontinental ballistic missiles last month. analysts believe they were capable of reaching u.s. soil. and could be used to carry a nuclear weapon. >> the north korean threat has not left us. it is rapidly growing dangerous. >> u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley says the move cuts deep but more action is needed. >> while this resolution is a significant step forward it is not nearly enough. >> russia and china didn't use their veto power. and supported sanctions. a move the white house says it appreciates. it is a sign of diplomatic progress for the trump administration which has been trying to convince china to use more of its economic leverage over pyongyang. today, secretary of

thank you all folks, thank you. >> the truth is, errol, this is who he is.he's going to go somewhere, he's going to talk about the crowd size, the projection of his own popularity. that's who he was when he got elected. that's who he is now. you like it, don't like it, period. you'll have to measure the actions. will he get congress to give the money or will we see what happened with sandy. the political coverup that happened with sandy can't be allowed, if we don't call it out, some lawmakers will try to repeat it. now today he's going to try to sell his tax plan. is that the right move in this moment? >> it probably is, to tell you the truth. the reality is he's going to have to make a transition to going back to running the government. as gribing as this is, as terrible as this is, we've got a lot of different things going ong. there's missiles flying over japan, a political agenda that doesn't come to a halt. the nation and the life of the nation goes forward. yes, it is the right thing. however, this is a case where what he says and how he says it will

let's bring back our panel, chris cillizza, john avlon, errol louis.hris cillizza, i didn't say it but it looms large in this poll, don't talk about the job numbers say his base, talk about wages and the economic reality is wage growth is stagnating. trump hit that heavy and often in the campaign. it is haunting him right now. >> i mean, i always say that if the economy is not great or people don't feel like the economy is great, every other issue doesn't really matter. that's been the case well before it's the economy, stupid, in the 1992 campaign, but that i think crystalized it for folks, so yes. issues that hit people every day, day in, day out, we know politically speaking we have the biggest ramifications on how they vote. so the economy the other number i saw there, chris, that i'd be worried about if i was donald trump or republicans. 31-62 on health care, approve/disapprove. health care is an issue. barack obama learned that lesson in 2010 and frankly in 2014 as did a lot of democrats who lost. health care is an issue that touches people daily

>> quijano: errol barnett, thanks. coming up next, another nfl star takes a stand by taking a seat. >> quijano: two u.s. solliers were killed today in northern iraq. military officials say they were conducted combat operations but their deaths were not the result of enemy contact. five other soldiers were injured. seven members of syria's white helmets rescue team were killed this weekend. the volunteer medics were shot in the head during the raid on their base near the sid city ofidlib. no one claimed responsibility for the attack. among the head is the hero white helmet who famously repped as he rescued a baby girl from the bombed out building in september. the white helmets were nominated for the 2016 nobel peace prize. marshawn lynch sat out the national anthem last night before a preseason game between the oakland raiders and arizona cardinals. the former seattle runningback came out of retirement to sign with his hometown raiders remained seated while his teammates stood. lynch has voiced support for quarterback

with us, errol louis. errol, the president's react to the president, ken frazier quit the president's counsel. he has been on the president's side many times. he quit. what did the president do about it? he went after him. now that he resigned we have more time to lower, rip off drug prices. again, if you are keeping score at home, one mention of ken frazier in the last 48 hours, zero mention of white supremacist. >> that is trump style. you get in his face, he punches back. he throws everything at you. if we ever heard that about vladimir putin, that would be interesting. if we heard anything like that about any of the foul racists who committed murder and disruption over the weekend, that would be a great thing, too. that's not the president we have. this is why the merck ceo resigned and why religious leaders, big statement for an entire religious denomination over the weekend. people are going back to their core principles, speaks from a place of conscience, doing what many people thought the president

joining me now, errol louis, david gergen, cnn analyst. errol, i wanted to start with you. mitt romney's statement brings a lot of things together. what the president communicated and what we heard, what the mother of heather heyer heard was her daughter being equated with people who are marching alongside white supremacists saying jew will not replace us. what we heard and mitt romney said it will lead to the unraveling of our national fabric here. remarkable to hear from the different avenues today. >> it's more, phrased as a warning. i don't know if i'm as gloomy as romney. in addition to people mourning and weeping, there are people organizing, stepping forward, whether it's corporate leaders, military leaders, people in the streets. people are reacting to this and taking the conversation. what i hear mitt romney saying is he is urging the president to get back into a conversation that the rest of the country has sort of left him behind on. >> it's interesting because he heard the mother say, that's what i heard with my own ears. no matter what you claim you are trying

elaine. >>> errol barnett. thank you. >>> there are new developments in the investigation into last week's terror attacks in spain. 14 people were killed including an american. dozens remain in the hospital. deborah patta is in barcelona. in this predominantly catholic country, it was an offer of prayers. the police investigation continued. over 100 gas canisters were found in the house where the plot was allegedly hatched by a 12 member terrorist cell. they planned a bombing rampage but blew the house up by mistake. spurring into action the deadly twin ramming attacks that killed 14 people. most of the cell came from the small mountain town where it appears they were radicalized by a moimam who spent time in jailn drug charges one of the recruits suspected driver of the van that mowed down pedestrians was 22-year-old who police believe is still on the run. authorities here say that returning to normal is the best way to defeat terror. there was nothing normal about the events of the past week. sunday, does, ho

here's errol barnett. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news the strategy allows for deploying around 4,000 new troops and aggressively pushing pakistan for being a safe haven for terrorists. aggressively general joseph patel is visiting afghanistan and pakistan to brief them on the plans. the u.s. currently has fewer than 10,000 troops in afghanistan, many of them as trainers. afghanistan is the united states longest running war, weeks and u.s. involvement there dates back to the weeks and months kster the 9/11 attacks. on friday, the president met with his national security team including general james mattis on friday, the president met with his national security team after that, the presidential tweeted many decisions made including on afghanistan. >> the troop strength question is sort of the cart before the horse. >> reporter: on "face the nation" today, democratic senator tim kaine, a member of armed services committee member, said he wants to know what the long-term plan is. >> the real question is what is our strategy? and then when you lay out the strategy, then the troop strength

errol barnett now on sins of the father. >> it's been 40rs came back again.e been reluctantly recalling the night they were terrorized by the ku klux klan as newlyweds. this week they discovered the man responsible for burning a seven-foot cross in their front yard has been a practicing catholic priest an hour's drive away. >> we need to find out what-- why this was done. >> reporter: 62-year-old william aitcheson made the confession in this essay published monday writing, "my action were despicable. while 40 have passed i must say this, soim sorry. but church officials say his statement came after a reporter began asking questions, and that's when "he acknowledged his past and saw the opportunity to tell his story." after his arrest decades ago, his racist offenses became front-page news, partly because dr. martin luther king judiciary's life, coretta scott king, and because president reagan visited two of his victims, the but lers. >> there shouldn't be any place in our country for that sort of ring. >> reporter: today, a spokesman for the arlington diocese

errol, he's taking out the people he needs to get the agenda going.ham is wired any way you look at it. jeff flake is one of the main mechanics in there. you may disagree with your own party but you don't handle it this way n. the aftermath of what he said about charlottesville, the people who are backing him, at least in social mediation, and we did a good study of it, and certainly the president is responsive to it. they are almost saying one thing, well, kkk is bad but what about antifa, bln? that's what the president was pandering to. the notion they had, djt 100, those hopes seem to have been abandoned which means steve bannon can't be going anywhere any time soon. >> i don't think steve bannon is going anywhere. there's an extraordinary interview that bob cutner got. that will be in the news today. we keep talking about the president. the uncomfortable truth is what we saw at that kay yotic press conference in the lobby of trump tower, that is the president's agenda. for a lot of people, that's what he's delivering. they care about that more tha

>> quijano: errol barnett, thanks. we turn now to our chief washington correspondent and "face the nation" host john dickerson. john, in the first book of president trump's new chief of staff general john kelly made a big change firing the communications director. will he be able to organize a rather disorganized west wing? >> well, the reviews from the first week are good. both because general kelly has been able to tighten up the white house staff, having meetings in which basically he gets everybody moving in the same direction. he has gotten some of the fight of the ogos, apparently in line, it's only been one week of course. and then his other challenge which he seems to be making some inroads on is how to manage up which is to say working with the president, a president who loves improvisation but is in a job where it is very hard to improvise and not cause chaos. >> quijano: so how big of a challenge will that be managing up? >> well, it depends mostly, i think, the biggest challenge for general kelly is that th

. >>> lynn sweet, of the chicago sun times, errol louis, political anchor for spectrum news, both with us now. thank you fok here. lynn, what is the first thing the president tackles? >> when he gets back? >> uh-huh. >> well, on his to-do list is getting ready when congress comes back to deal with tax reform, trying to see if he could rehabilitate some relations with the republican senators who are alienated in this time to see if he can get 50 votes to pass this legislation. also on his to-do list what does he want to do to structure his white house in the wake of disbanning his counsels he was going to reach out and corporate and business america, and what is he going to do -- this is something i think we should keep his eye on -- you know, there is a saying close you keep your friends close and your enemies closer? i'm not saying that steve bannon is an enemy of the trump white house but with him on the outside i think we are going to see some new story lines emerge here and new things to look at. just think how extraordinary it is, a senior adviser hours within leaving the white ho

reena. >> ninan: errol, thank you for that. six police officers found themselves in the line of fire lvesay night. two officers were ambushed and killed in kissimmee, florida, four were shot in jacksonville, florida and western pennsylvania. roxana saberi has the latest. r: reporter: police in kissimmee, florida say when two of their officers responded to a poll friday night in an area ghown for drug activity, they known hot in what may have been ey ambush. kissimmee police chief jeff o'dell: >> it breaks my heart to have to ffeak to you tonight about another senseless tragedy. >> reporter: officer matthew baxter was killed. sergeant sam howard died saturday from his injuries. everett glenn miller was mirested and charged. enesident trump tweeted, "my thoughts and prayers are with ae kissimmee police and their kived ones. we are with you." later in jacksonville, florida, two police officers were shot and wounded. the suspect was killed. oso on friday night, two pennsylvania state police troopers were shot outside a grocery stor

. >> we're going to wrap this up by listening to errol warren's grandson, jeffrey errol warren, who sharesh us personal family history, his grandfather's view of what the miranda decision and other policing decisions did for society. let's watch. >> i would like the court throughout history to be remembered as the court of the people. no one can say how the opinions of any particular court or any particular era will stand the test of time. all one can do is to do his best to make his opinions conform to the constitution and laws of the united states and then hope that they will be so considered in the future. >> this is a binder of lawyers that i have from papa warren. he in 1969 had decided to resign and i had been at the university of california and i had written him a very passionate kid-like letter, you know, how we were going to burn everything down and i'd never bring children into this world because it was such a mess. so he writes back to me, i'll just read a couple little sections of it here. the world isn't perfect because human nature isn't perfect. and then he goes on to say, i

errol louis is joining us and sarah westwood of the washington examiner. this has to be the worst vacation that anyone has had this summer. let's start with you, errol, and, you know, when the president goes back to the white house, a lot is on the table that has been left undone. a lot to move forward to. i want to put this in the context of what steve bannon told "the washington post." he said that no administration in history has been so divided among itself about the direction about where it should go. the question how much of his agenda remains here and where does the president start? >> there are a lot of different questions that are wrapped up in that one. the real issue is, look. in the short term, there are some pretty important items. like the federal budget. like tax cuts that were promised on the campaign trail. that this white house is going to have to deal with. i interpret the bannon comment, though, as in part about style. will it continue to be chaotic? will the president continue to pit different aides against one another and will the pre

to give us a perspective, errol campbell from the arms control association joins us, their executive director. thank you for joining us. guest: good to be with you. host: could you give us perspective on what this news means and tell our viewers exactly what we are considering when we hear about the potential of a weapon being inside an icbm? guest: we have known for quite some time that north korea is trying to develop a smaller, lighter, more compact nuclear warhead that can be delivered on a ballistic missile, particularly a long-range or intercontinental ballistic missile. the defense intelligence agency, one of several u.s. intelligence agencies, has issued a report that assesses that north korea has achieved this technical capability. we also know that in july they tested successfully for the first time a ballistic missile capable of intercontinental range. the take away here is that north korea is making fast technical progress. they are within maybe one or two years of the technical capability to deliver such a weapon on a long-range missile that has the capability in the sho

week stories now is wiki leaks associates and center of investigative journalism board member joseph errol joseph thanks so much for coming back on i got to say that our earlier interview in part one of ray mcgovern the longtime veteran of the cia has elicited a response from the cia they don't usually comment on anything to going on the ground i just read that out the responsibility of the russian intelligence services for the election related hacking is an established fact but it is not surprising that an identified propaganda outlet like r.t.d. would attempt to model those facts no reputable news organization doubts russian culpability and then jurors if there's a comment about that interview with ray mcgovern about from the cia saying that dictators and terrorists have no better friend in the world than julian a songe as theirs is the only previously he protects that's heather fritz or the act the spokesperson for the cia in langley virginia first of all your response to the fact that your dissociate of this organization and you are. basically if. it's the most ironic laughable thing i

cnn political commentator from spectrum news errol lewis is with us.he president pardoned sheriff arpaio yesterday. very controversial man. i worked there for years. and john mccain, who is from arizona, has this to stay on twitter potus pardon of joe arpaio who illegally profiles latinos undermines his claim for the respect of the rule of law. first of all, what do you make of the pardon? and have you heard of -- and correct me if i'm wrong -- we usually hear about pardons towards the end of somebody's presidency. this seems misplaced to some degree. >> well, misplaced only if you're comparing this president so other presidents, and if you're putting it in the context of something that's done, say, around christmastime as the time when clemency and pardons are issued with the full explanation of why. for somebody who may have already served all of their time but needs to be rehabilitated in order to get a certain job, that is something quite different. and you know if you spent time down there, about the many foul abuses that were committed by joe arp

erroll, let me you weturn to yo first. ingesting this, the past few days feel like a sad moment in this nation. it feels like a page turn. it feels like, in a sense, not to sound like chicken little, but the sky is falling, politically, socially, on the president. how does he cover? how does the nation recover? >> how does the nation recover is the question. i think it's sort of the turning of the question has been, if anything, a bit of a ray of light here, meaning the president has abdicated his responsibility. it's his responsibility to bring the nation together, to speak clearly on something like nazi flags and terrorist murder are bad things. he abdicated that responsibility. so we've seen business leaders, military leaders, religious leaders all stepping forward, protesters in the streets even. her parents, other eloquent voices coming together and sort of saying, we're going to have to do what the president should have done, and he is in some ways making himself less and less relevant as sort of a central leading fi

political anchor for spectrum news errol lewis. nice to have you all here.let me begin with you. usually, you are far away from me. now you are here in person. >> this is the first time. i am so honored. sitting next to your all-star cast. >> we appreciate you being here. the president took on mcconnell, again. that's his style, he did it with sessions. we shouldn't be surprised. what is striking is the tone he used with mcconnell and the praise he gave vladimir putin saying it helps the budget. when they are going to be employed in the united states, still. it's not going to save money. help me understand it. >> he was sending a message to both of them. i think he played the putin thing perfectly. >> why? >> you don't want your adversary hurting you. >> wait. look what he's saying about north korea and kim jong-un. >> we are talking about putin right now. >> you are making a broad argument. >> tough say to putin, do what you want. that doesn't bother me. on north korea, everyone is saying he shouldn't say this or that. people don't have a clue. if we know h

>> well, i agree with you and i agree with margaret and with errol. this is a moment. this is a moment in history. it will stay in our minds and hearts forever. history is going to judge where people stood on this. they will judge members of congress. they will judge the white house staff. you have to look in the mirror and you have to ask yourself, what are you going to tell your children when they ask you what did you do when this happened, what did you do when the president of the united states stood behind the white house podium and sympathized with white supremacists? what did you do? what did you say? so i heard reports this morning that gary cohn was disgusted and very upset. what are you going to do about it, mr. cohn? are you going to stay there or walk away? >> you have been inside the white house. is that decision as easy as that? >> the president of the united states of america addressed the american people and sympathized with white supremists. yeah, it's easy. walk away. >> all right. i appreciate your time this morning. thanks for coming in. >>> he co-au

let's bring back the panel to discuss, maggie haberman, abby phillip and errol louis.non will weigh in commercial if you're going to be talking about afghanistan because this is such a fundamental part of his philosophy, we should be out of there, the president supposedly bought into it and that leads us to tonight. >> look, there were many issues on which the bannon clashed with almost everybody else within the white house and certainly afghanistan was a huge piece of that. he believed that the u.s. should not be further drawn in and then he, you know, was advocating this privatization plan that was pushed by somebody named eric prince who was a relative of a cabinet secretary. as it turns out that did not go through any of the normal chams, it was all this side process that bannon had going. i do think that bannon sees himself as the keeper of this campaign pledge that the president made which was, you know, not getting further drawn into these foreign wars. i suspect you will see breitbart, bannon's website, reacting pretty strongly to whatever comes out of the pres

errol barnett now on sins of the father. >> 40 years. came back again. >> fill tim and barbara butler have been reluctantly recalling the night they were terrorized by the ku klux klan as newlyweds. the man responsible for burning a 7 foot cross in their front yard has been a practicing catholic priest an hour's drive away. >>y ne we need to find out why was done. >> 62-year-old william aitcheson made the confession in the essay published monday. writing my actions were despicable. while 40 years passed i must say this. i'm sorry. adding that images from charlottesville brought back memories of a bleak my life that i would have preferred to forget. but church officials say his statement came after a reporter began asking questions. that's when, he acknowledged his past and saw the opportunity to tell his story. after his arrest, decades ago, aitcheson's racist offenses became front-page news because he threatened the life of dr. martin luther king jr.'s wife, core ita scott king and because president reagan visited two of his victims the

. >> errol, alice says they can't deny the numbers, the president is. >> that's right. kellyanne conway is a professional pollster, written a book on the subject and has done it for decades, really knows the business. she is not able to play the games the president will where he denies reality and uses buzz words we have come to learn, using unfair when somebody said something negative about him, using fake news when he knows there's a true, but damaging report published. probably the best thing the trump administration can rely on is he doesn't have to run against an approval rating, he has to run against an opponent. that's a trickier proposition. that would be nice for them and help on capitol hill if they could get their numbers up. they are not in real danger, yet. >> alice, nine statements from the president this morning on twitter, before 9:00 a.m. i haven't counted since, on this working vacation. but, this, in week two of chief of staff kelly's tenure in this new job, there was interesting reporting from bloomberg. here is what they write about kelly and the pr

joining us to talk about this, errol luis. where to begin? i suppose one way to look at this is during the course of the campaign when the president, then candidate donald trump said mexico was gang to pay for the wall, no they are not and everyone knows they are not going pay. the fact that it was discussed like this after the inauguration, what's the significance? >> it confirm what is is said throughout the campaign. you cannot compel the leader of another nation to do these kind of things. this is a reality check for donald trump. he began to realize and frankly, the first few months of the presidency are a lesson in the presidential power. the power of the presidency is the power to persuade. we found that out with congress and the courts and in this case, with the dually elected leader of another nation. you cannot compel people to do whatever you want. >> he threatened the mexican president with a 35% tariff on all goods insinuating he can do that. he needs congress to do that. alice, the president heads on the heels of this to west vi

errol, good morning. >> reporter: good morning.ouster was quickly followed by the announcement he would be returning to breitbart, a site he himself described as a platform for the alt-right. the white house says that the decision was a mutual one between bannon and the president's chief of staff, general john kelly. kelly has been tasked with bringing order to the chaotic administration, and cbs news has learned president trump was increasingly irritated by media coverage of bannon as the mastermind of the oval office. there were on the record comments he made this past week where he contradicted the president by saying there is no military solution to north korea. he also openly relished in undermining his administration colleagues with whom he disagrees. he is jacked up and says he will take on corporate elites, the media and those on capitol hill. anthony. >> thanks. for more we're pleased to welcome joshua groeen, the authr of "devil's bargain" about the inner workings of the trump campaign and also a national correspondent fo

>> errol barnett, thanks. >>> two u.s. soldiers were killed today in northern iraq.ilitary officials say they were conducting combat operations but their deaths were not the result of enemy contact. five other soldiers were injured. >>> seven members of syria's white helmets rescue team were killed this weekend. the volunteers were shot in the head during a raid on their base near the city of idlib. no one has claimed responsibility. the white helmets are famous for their daring rescues of civilians in rebel-held areas. they were nominated for the 2016 nobel peace prize. >>> marshawn lynch sat out the national anthem last night before a preseason game between the oakland raiders and arizona cardinals. the former seattle running back who came out of retirement to sign with his hometown raiders remained seated while his teammates stood. lynch has voiced support for quarterback colin kaepernick's decision to take a knee during the anthem last year to protest police violence against minorities. lynch did not play last night. kaepernick is not on a team. >>> one week befo

errol louis is with us. rebecca berg, cnn analyst. errol, let me start with you. is saying how distressed he was with the president's comments. it cannot be equated with white supremacists, neo-nazi's and the kkk. gary cohen saying he thinks he did. i have to believe the president is not going to be happy with this. >> he is not going to be. it is a public conversation. this is gary cohen, after the white house put this behind them all of a sudden because of the publications schedule. here it is on the national agenda. here it is, one of his top advisers breaking from the president and the white house line and screwing it up, once again into this weekend. it's going to have extra life to it, raise a lot of questions and gary cohen may not have the option of deciding whether or not he wants to resign. >> he chooses his words carefully. he says i am reluctant to leave my post as if he seriously considered it. he has a resignation letter drafted here, kaitlan? >> a couple things to consider, he is a key character in the fight coming up on tax reform and tax changes.

let's bring in cnn political analyst john avlon and karoun demirjian and cnn political commentator errollet's put up the graphic. here are the republicans who have called out the president by name, and by name matters, and calling this what it is matters. you see them there. john mccain started it going with marco rubio. senator graham came out yesterday about this. but the bigger number are those who are remaining silent. we contacted all 52 republican gop people, invited them on the show -- >> senators all of them. >> nothing. they didn't want to do it, even though the ceos have come out -- the irony that ceo have come out as the first line of moral rectitude. karoun demirjian, the president seems content to say i stand by my words and it's just the media that's coming after me. that's demonstrab strabbly falst we have seen a shyness to come out and exert leadership. >> those who have come out and call the president by name haven't been shy about it at all and they say there's a moral compulsion for everybody to do the same. you have not seen the rest of the party in droves do it. many

. >> reporter: errol barnett, cbs news, bridgewater, new jersey. >>> ousted director anthony scaramuccis speaking out. he also urged the president to distance himself from his chief strategist steve bannon and his former employer "breitbart news." >> you've also got this bannon/breitbart influence which is a snag on the president. if the president wants to execute that legislative agenda which is so prominent for the people, then he has to move away from that sort of bannon/breitbart nonsense. >> he also said the president needs to, quote, move more into the mainstream. >> ahead, jeff sessions and the white house response to the violence. >>> the mayor of lexington, kentucky, is planning to respond to the events in charlottesville with action. james gray wants to remove two confederate-era statues from the lawn of a former courthouse. he's targeted john hunt morgan and john breckenridge. >>> senior u.s. national security officials say a military confrontation with north korea is not imminent, but they're cautioning that the possibility is greater than it was a decade ago. china's presid

the question is going to be, though, what errol and alex were just talking about, when looking back at the optics of all of this, because the optics do matter for the president, somewhat the time lean of events he's pursuing. is it going to look like he was using the impending hurricane as cover to make this move late on a friday night at a time when everyone is worried about preparation for the disaster response. i think that will help instruct whether the criticism which he's facing which is comprehensive and significant is wider and gets into the parts of his base that would scare him a little bit, from doing things like this again, repeating these sort of things in the future. that's all going to depend what the long-term response of this is because, yes, the optics of the president matter right now. but as we were all saying, this is still an ongoing crisis. if it takes months -- it will take months to respond to it. if the resources don't continue to be there, if there are routine fights on capitol hill about, oh, we have to worry about the federal budget which is why we can't se