. >> your brother fred, when i interviewed you, year and half ago, two years ago, what would fred think of all this? >> you'd be very proud. he had a very profound impact on my life. i learned a lot from fred. he was a great guy. he would tell me keep doing what you doing because we are having a great impact. i think i would love to say one of the truly great impacts on the president on the lives and betterment of lives of the people of this nation. fred would be looking down and said keep going. i would tell you if it were done different. i think you be very proud of the things that we have accomplished having to do with everything, from jobs to the military, to the borders. you see what's happening on the borders. >> justice jeanine: 70% reduction. >> we're going to have to solve some big problems like the north

ic about snap's fred: no.depressing that a company like facebook can't come up with any new innovations on their own and have to copy companies. emily: what about uber? they have had their share of issues. what went wrong there? fred: i think the issue is they believe they can run the table on the ridesharing market and capitalize the company and build a strategy around doing that. what has turned out to be the case is that unlike search or social media or e-commerce, ridesharing doesn't look like it's going to be a winner take all market. they are really struggling with the realization that they are in a highly competitive market that is going to be competitive for the long-term. a lot of the things happening to them are kind of happening because of that. they have become a lot more desperate. i think it's tough times there. when those things happen, you see companies come unglued a little bit or it that's what it looks like is happening there. emily: how much of it comes down to the leadership? what responsi

and, fred, carter page is a key player in this investigation. exactly what he knew when he knew it and how close he was with russian officials is something that the senate intelligence committee is very interested in. and at one point page seemed to indicate he was going to cooperate, that he was an open book and had nothing to hide. but he has certainly changed his tune quite a bit. he wrote a very strongly worded letter to the intel committee basically saying that he wasn't going to cooperate or offer them any information. here's part of that letter to the senate intel committee. he wrote, quote, i suspect the physical reaction of the clinton/obama regime perpetrators will be more along the lines of severe vomiting when all the facts are eventually exposed regarding the steps taken by the u.s. government to influence the 2016 election. and page went onto say in this letter that if the intel committee is interested in his communications with russia that they should ask president obama because he is sure that he was under surveillance. now, the

fred ryan. fred has served -- i have a better applause line than that. fred has served as the reagan foundation's chairman for 22 years. prior to his chairmanship fred served in the reagan white house from 1982 to 1989 and after that he served as president reagan's first post-white house chief of staff. i know of no other person who has spent more time and effort working on behalf of ronald and nancy reagan over the years than fred ryan. fred would never brag about that fact but it is a fact so i will brag for him. ladies and gentlemen, if you would, please join me in welcoming to the stage, mr. fred ryan. [applause] >> thank you, john. for a very kind introduction and welcome, everyone. well our special guest tonight has been to the reagan presidential library several times. the first as owner of a major league baseball team. then as governor of texas. he was back as a candidate for president of the united states. was back as president of the united states to dedicate air force one here at the reagan library. has been here as a former president of the u

fred? >> all right, athena jones, thank you so much. >>> tomorrow morning on "state of the union", jake tapper will talk about the future of health care in america with health and human services secretary tom price and ohio governor john kasich. >>> the day before a critical election in france and one presidential candidate's campaign says it has been hacked. thousands of documents have been released online. campaign officials are warning that some of what has been released is fake. russian officials also quickly weighing in. a spokesman for the kremlin telling cnn, quote, these like other similar accusations are based on nothing and are pure slander. end quote. i want to bring in isa suarez who is covering the campaign from northern france. how concerned are voters about this kind of information floating about? >> reporter: i think on the whole people will be very worried in particular about the undecided voters because although the electoral commission has come out and basically asked the

good to see you. >> thank you, hi, fred. >> hi, betsy. lou: this house bill is a victory for president, and to paul ryan's credit, he applauded president's leadership, first thing he said as he stepped on to the microphone and cameras, impressive. >> yes, this is the president's triumph, he had to intervene in last minute, let's hope this is a good sign that president will lead the way on tax reform. this -- lou: let's not get ahead of ourselves. >> right, this he'll bill is a big -- health bill is a big win, revealing job killingisme employer mandate. most important deliver to people of individual market, people stuck there, double digit prumium premiums. lou: frid, your thoughts on about what is ahead in senate. what betsy outlined is reality, but there are forces as you know in the senate who want to starts anew. lou: one thing first, i think that difference is that trump. he did what he -- he didn't do the first time when they did not send the bill for a vote. then he just told house members what he thought they should do, this time w

long: i appreciate that, fred. my name is billy long, i'm from missouri, missouri's seventh congressional district, the show-me state. i heard joe scarborough say the other day, billy long is one of the newer members in kuok. i think the reason he said that is because i don't do much media at all. i've been on cable i think three times, once for the tornadoes in joplin. i made the mistake of telling a reporter the other day that i was going to be a no. ever since i started running for congress, i'm not a member of the freedom caucus or the tuesday group or the study group, i'm a member of the show-me caucus, just one guy. i've got a very conservative voting record. when this came out and i saw pre-existing conditions would be handled like they were i had a problem with that. i mentioned that to one reporter. i usually do all this behind the scenes, i don't get involved with the media a lot. so anyway, the president called the day before yesterday, we had a 15-minute, 20-minute conversation, he wanted a yes. i was o

good to see you. >> thank you, hi, fred. >> hi, betsy. lou: this house bill is a victory for president, and to paul ryan's credit, he applauded president's leadership, first thing he said as he stepped on to the microphone and cameras, impressive. >> yes, this is the president's triumph, he had to intervene in last minute, let's hope this is a good sign that president will lead the way on tax reform. this -- lou: let's not get ahead of ourselves. >> right, this he'll bill is a big -- health bill is a big win, revealing job killingisme employer mandate. most important deliver to people of individual market, people stuck there, double digit prumium premiums. lou: frid, your thoughts on about what is ahead in senate. what betsy outlined is reality, but there are forces as you know in the senate who want to starts anew. lou: one thing first, i think that difference is that trump. he did what he -- he didn't do the first time when they did not send the bill for a vote. then he just told house members what he thought they should do, this time w

frantz quality and a will for fred fred —— fraternity.aternity. frantz has belted itself and its culture, its social model, it has doubts in what it has made. —— france has belted itself. there will be to demand in my mandate. the first will be to give to be french people is confident of itself which, for too long, has been weakened. and ican for too long, has been weakened. and i can reassure for too long, has been weakened. and 1 can reassure you, for too long, has been weakened. and i can reassure you, i have not for a moment thought things would stay as they worked in the 7th of may in the evening, it would be slow work and demanding but indispensable. it will be my role to convince the french people that our country wishing to be in difficulty with the sometimes contrary currents of the world, that they will use all its resources to be among the first of nations. i will convince our citizens that the power of france is not declining, that we are on the edge of the great renaissance because in our hands we have all the assets which ma

now you're looking at so many different fronts, fred, and the notion of changing whoever is speakingabilize things in the notion that jared kushner's role could be adjusted this way, or reince priebus that way, it goes against the seriousness, and the nature of the fact that there are these investigations under way by robert mueller and by congress, you know that just quick fixes are not going to solve. but just to reinforce, keep in mind, fred, again, this is a real tactic of donald trump and has been for years, the notion that somehow a shake-up will solve everything. >> and so alice, if there is a shake-up and of course i guess it depends on the positions being shaken up, does this mean a white house that is in chaos? or would that exhibit more control over trying to quiet the chaos? >> well, change-up in any white house is not unusual. and look, while it was clear that while president trump was running for office his constant media exposure, his tweets and him driving the media was very effective, it worked for him. governing is very different than campaigning. i think what they'

. >> hi, fred. that's right. it's remarkable to hear the president talk about the backlash to his decision to fire director comey. he sounds both surprised and defiant in talking about it with jeannine pirro on fox late last week. watch. >> i thought that this would be a very popular thing that i did when i terminated comey because all of the democrats couldn't stand him. but because i terminated him, they said, we get some political points, we'll go against trump. so i assumed it would be fairly popular and they jut together and they said -- again, we're talking obstruction -- this is total obstruction. >> there you hear the president saying that he was surprised, but he also sounds defiant. this goes along with one of the tweets, the many tweets the president sent this past week amid the uproar over his firing director comey. he tweeted out a long clip of a bunch of democrats cut together criticizing director comey. so he clearly thought that this would be received differently. but one more note on that, fred.

thanks so much, fred pleitgen. great analysis. >> thank you, fred. >>> hundreds of u.s. companies say their business will suffer if the president quits the paris climate deal. 195 countries signed that landmark accord, including the u.s. the plan reduces greenhouse gas emissions starting in 2020, but if america withdraws, companies like microsoft, nike, l'oreal, say the u.s. will lose its competitive edge. that's because they can't cash in on the new markets for clean tech, but oil firms like chevron and exxonmobil, they back the paris deal. the exxon ceo urged the president in a letter to keep a seat at the negotiating table, but energy company support is a strange move. the accord favors the cleaner natural gas they produce over coal. they say natural gas is the primary reason for coal's decline, even though the president called the climate treaty a bad deal. in an op ed, ted cruz encouraged him to fulfill his promise to rip up the treaty, writing that it drives up energy prices, devastates our industrial base and bolstering our rivals. everyone reaffirmed the agreemen

fred: it's a huge factor.t they are hearing from people in the united states here legally or illegally. when they hear what's going on, then they are far less likely to try to come. also, i would add, i think john kelly is the best single appointment that president trump has made. he's done a terrific job? waver says becomes policies. he said we are not having mass roundups, but they are arresting a lot of illegal immigrants with criminal records. trish: that's an important distinction. the left would like to paint this this that they are going door to door and breaking up families and arresting moms and sending them home. but what you are talking about, fred, is something very different. they are going after people that are criminals. and have done really bad things. and don't deserve to be in this country. >> 90% of the people that were round up had prior criminal histories. so you are not only look at great safety for the american people. you are looking at a greater use of resources not sucking up the pena

fred? >> okay. carter page, who was also at the center of the russian investigation said he was cooperating. that was at first. but now, we're learning by way of this rather turs letter he sent to the senate intel committee he's taking a different approach. >> you can call this an about-face for sure, fredricka. carter page was somebody who said he was an open book, he had nothing to hide, but now he does no longer want to play ball with the senate intel committee. he wrote a harsh letter saying he is not going to cooperate. just listen to one excerpt from that letter. page writes, quote, i suspect the physical reaction to the clinton/obama regime perpetrators will be more along the lines of severe vomiting when all the facts are exposed regarding the steps taken by the u.s. government to influence the u.s. election. page accuses the obama administration of keeping watch over him and putting him under surveillance and suggests to the intel committee leadfers they want to find out what he was talking

david: fred?rry, michael. >> you know, i have known general flynn for 20 years as well. i agree, let's say that memo is correct. i, agree that general flynn with a good guy, all i would say, let's see what happens, so far we have two friends of comey saying they have seen a memo that says this, and "new york times" said they have not, it would be nice to see what happens, i don't defend everything that the administration does, i was on the show to defend the mcmasters comments but flynn, was a good guy, he is a good guy, always an against russia guy when i knew him, these reports of collusion, i believe with all reports if there was collusion between trump administration and russians, the washington post and "new york times" would have it already. david: judy is it note -- isn't it time to release this information, i understand a lot is sensitive. both democrats and republicans, seems there a growing consensus to cut through the selective leaking and bring the information out so that american peop

fred, thank you. >> great to have fred there. he made many trips.was right there for us. >>> a special counsel will investigate the trump campaign ties to russia despite the objections from the white house. >> frankly no need for a special prosecutor. we discussed this before. >> what will robert mueller find and how long is his reach in this probe? you won't see these folks they have businesses to run. they have passions to pursue. how do they avoid trips to the post office? stamps.com mail letters, ship packages, all the services of the post office right on your computer. get a 4 week trial, plus $100 in extras including postage and a digital scale. go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. >>> a former fbi chief now in charge of the russia investigation after his successor was fired while overseeing it. what robert mueller's appointment means for the probe and for the white house. a new probe, really with the special counsel. welcome back to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> the senate, the house, the fbi and special counse

fred: i don't really follow this stuff.n trump got elected, i stopped following anything to do with trump. i mute the term on twitter. i'm not really interested in the president, and i am not really following any of this. i am paying attention to things that matter to me. emily: as long as trump remains in office, how does it impact investing, how does it impact startups? is the political climate changing anything you are doing? fred: no. not at all. emily: all right. so, you clearly care about social issues. you have done campaigns for planned parenthood and the aclu. you are blogging about immigration. diversity is a huge topic right now, diversity in d.c., especially. when you plan to hire your first female partner? >> as soon as we possibly can. emily: how important do you think that is? >> very. emily: [laughs] you have also blogged about generational shifts in d.c.. how long do you plan to stay in the game? fred: as long as the game will have me. we will see how long that is. it is a great business to bn in. i love wo

>> well, fred, if they are investigating, they're doing criminal investigations against trump and hisle around him and they're also doing civil investigations, but just know that mueller was hired, fred, to investigate the relationship between the russian hacking of the election and trump's campaign and/or trump, but, you know, with respect to president clinton the special prosecutor was hired to look at whitewater, a company in western arkansas and ended up monica lewinsky. there's broad range of an investigation here. it's going to go, you know, between a and z, mueller is very competent individual but i will tell you this, fred, i'm predicting right now live, trump will fire mueller eventually. he will get rid of him because he fears him. >> oh. okay. well, mueller does have, you know, vast range right now, obstruction of justice is also something potentially he could be looking into, and avery, if richard's predictions are not correct and bob mueller continues to, you know, to be this special counsel here, if, indeed, it were the case that any attorneys for donald trump were start

fred pleitgen, thanks so much.inue to parse this. >> the president said there's a massive trade deficit with germany. $67 billion trade deficit. so that means u.s. does import more from germany than it exports. apparently driving that literally are german cars, americans like german cars and buy them. but it's not as simple as a one to one here because also germany has plants in the united states that build german cars, german companies have plants in the united states and that supports 100,000 workers at least. american workers are paid to build german cars here and export them. >> bmw our largest export he of cars as well but this foreign policy you can tell is transactional in nature. that's how the president views things. that's why gary cohen involved when it comes to our foreign policy. >> president trump trying hard to change the narrative but seemed to run into a glitch. look at this tweet from just after midnight. the president writing despite the constant negative press covfefe -- that appears to be an un

>> fred, it seems like a commitment to keep going what's been started here.counterterrorism center, as president trump did with the saudi king today. it looks great. but clearly there's a need or the feeling of a need to follow up and make sure that these things that are discusses here are actually followed through. the gcc, the gulf cooperation council -- that's kuwait, ba ran, united arab emirates, qatar, oman, as well as saudi arabia. saudi arabia the biggest player here. but it will be a way that everyone can keep up to speed and keep on track and continue the commitment in the promises that they've made. but a year, as we know, is a long time between such meetings. certainly the gcc, amongst itself, will meet many, many times in that space before they sit again with president trump. but it does seem to be a real commitment from president trump that this wasn't just a one-off. this trip just wasn't a one-day or two-day visit, that is he committed to the region, that he is coming back and he is there and he has got their backs and is there to support him.

>> hi fred, this is not a good week. you have a lot of white house staffers especially in the communication shop who were caught off guard by this announcement to fire the fbi director. we know that many on the communication team did not learn about it until maybe about an hour before so that's the time they had to put together an argument to explain the president's decision and as we saw, we saw it shifting stores and we had white house aids, telling a story that was later contradicted entirely by the president. one of those white house officials caught up in this is the vice president. vice president mike pence who went to capitol hill and said ser seven times in talking to recorders over and over that the president was relying on the advise of recommendations of the department of justice and we learned that the president, he says fire comey all along. that's why you have staffers feeling dejected and feeling like they are struggling to know how to communicate what the president is thinking. as you mention, fred, these

tom: handicap for me fred.t are the chances of an obamacare repeal, replace, repair whatever you want to call it. what are the chances of hitting that legislation done this year? >> they are disclosed as they were last week but i think they are still good. republicans are going to have to realize that they might not get exactly what they want. conservatives in the house are going to have to accept the fact that moderates in the senate are going to insist on it and the choice if it's successful is going to come down to a choice between a replacement for obamacare or keeping obamacare itself so i think that should be an easy vote for. tom: let me get lee to handicap this. what are the chances? >> i totally agree there totally agree there'll be compromises along the way. they have demonstrated they can make compromises. i think definitely is a possible four to go through? i think we have a tough road ahead because we are talking about all the wrong things but we need to be selling the plan that is in front of us n

two moderates, fred upton and billy long say they're ready to vote yes. that's as long as an amendment that congressman upton wrote is in the bill. they made that announcement after meeting with president trump and vice president providence. congressman upton's amendment adds more money to protect people with pre-existing conditions. it's not clear if it's enough to convince other republican hold-outs to join in line. it clearly did not do anything for senate minority leader chuck schumer. he said the proposed upton amendment is like administering cough medicine to someone with stage vote cancer. congressman upton said he expects an up or down vote tomorrow, sometime in the early afternoon. in march, republicans couldn't get enough support to bring a bill to the floor. our senior capitol hill producer points out republican leaders could be playing with fire if they make too many changes now. he says we may put this on the floor and roll the dice. john roberts is live at the white house. just in the briefing. what else is the white house saying about healt

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tom: handicap for me fred.amacare repeal, replace, repair whatever you want to call it. what are the chances of hitting that legislation done this year? >> they are disclosed as they were last week but i think they are still good. republicans are going to have to realize that they might not get exactly what they want. conservatives in the house are going to have to accept the fact that moderates in the senate are going to insist on it and the choice if it's successful is going to come down to a choice between a replacement for obamacare or keeping obamacare itself so i think that should be an easy vote for. tom: let me get lee to handicap this. what are the chances? >> i totally agree there totally agree there'll be compromises along the way. they have demonstrated they can make compromises. i think definitely is a possible four to go through? i think we have a tough road ahead because we are talking about all the wrong things but we need to be selling the plan that is in front of us not having conversations th

. >> fred pleitgen live for us in london. >>> president trump with a twitter glitch overnight. take a look at this tweet from

so i didn't know fred before making the movie.ch was a screen grab of like a photo of his icloud notes. >> jimmy: yeah, sure. >> you know, like the notes in your iphone? from 2008 that just said, "zoe lister-jones." that's like some "twilight zone" ish, you guys. [ laughter ] i mean, that's weird. why -- why? and he has no recollection of writing it. >> jimmy: and you'd never met him before? >> i had never met him. so we spent like hours trying to figure out why he would write my name into his phone. and what we finally came up with was that in september of 2008, i sent in an audition tape to "saturday night live," and he said that lorne michaels would sometimes ask him to look at tapes, and give feedback. so i was like so honored. i was like, oh, he like watched my tape and like wrote down my name. so i went back and looked at the tape for the first time since sending it in. not great. [ laughter ] not great. there's no way he wrote down my name as someone that he wanted to work with. there was a character that was just called ba

>> this is just such a weird situation, fred.ow, first basil, the context is important, and you got that exactly right. this is yet another question mark, another, you know, small pillar of smoke, that surrounds not only the trump campaign but the trump administration with regard to its contacts with russia and i'm glad there are investigations going on to get to the bottom of that. i can only think of two reasons why kushner would have done this. the first would be, you know, he approaches kislyak and says we're in a sort of transitional period but we would like to start talking to you all, that has certainly been done in the past. the weird part, i want this special line of communication back to moscow. is it possible, you know, that the 36-year-old kislyak just doesn't understand how things work? i suppose it's possible. the darker interpretation, you have to remember, context actually, this time, after the president-elect said -- was making disparaging remarks about the intelligence community comparing them to nazis and thing

billy long, a conservative from missouri and fred upton, the former energy and commerce chair, one of the key voices who was pushing obamacare repeal over the last several years both said they could not support this bill because of what they said it would gut protections for, people with preexisting conditions. and so those were a one-two punch for gop leadership this week. it looks as though the vote is heading in the wrong direction from what gop leaders would like. >> we are looking as we speak this afternoon the headline at thehill.com. 22 no votes. on fred upton and billy long, this seems to be an issue that is concerning a number of members. >> it is specifically members who are from more moderate districts although billy long is more conservative. that is surprising and unexpected up here on capitol hill. but essentially, this stems from an amendment or a deal that was struck between tuesday group chairman tom mcar thur of new jersey, a moderate and mark meadows, the freedom caucus chairman, in order to bring on reluctant conservatives from the house freedom caucus, but what it

with me now are the parents, fred and cindy.k you both so much for taking the time to talk with us. i know you're going through such an incredibly difficult time with your son being in north korea and the uncertainty surrounding all of this. i want to first get your reaction, fred, to president trump saying that he would be honored to meet with the controversial north korean leader. >> thank you for having us. cindy and i are encouraged by this. our mission is to bring our son home. and president trump's willingness to focus on the big picture, the relationship between the united states and north korea, anything he can do towards improving that and also including ott too in the solution and making him a part of the solution i think is good and hobestly i think it's going to be good for our country. we're very happy about this. >> and during the obama administration, u.s. officials advise you to keep silent. am i right? to avoid antagonizing north korea. tell me why you have decided to speak out. >> it's time. with tensions as hi

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>> hi, fred.state police captain dave bur ston said part of a good plan is not sharing specific details that could educate the element that seeks to do harm. here's what we've learned from track officials at indianapolis motor speedway. more than 1,000 law enforcement and security personnel on-site this weekend. they have added quick response tactical teams to their security apparatus. they've found a unique way to remind fans if they see something say something. the drivers have recorded psas. they have a plan in place to keep safe more than 300,000 people expected for the largest single day sporting event in the world. >> oh, my goodness. and there are 33 drivers that are, you know, in the spotlight, but really in the spotlight is the one woman, right, i love her name is pippa man. >> yes. >> what's up with miss man. >> what an inspiration. the newest, fastest woman at indianapolis motor speedway. this will be her sixth attempt at winning the indy 500. at practice she became the only female driv