joining me jeff mason white house correspondent for reuters.s ruling was categorical just as the previous was this week. the president must be feeling pretty embattled. sgh rig >> right. the house counsel used the term the president regard s congress as a nuan clrce. we're seei inin ining vindicati congress is a co-equal branch of justice. courts are not likely to be receptive to the arguments the president is making. the judge's decision was pretty unequivocal. it was ruling on injunctive matter. not only do you not win today, i think you're not likely to win in this case down the road. that's very strong. that's not uncommon when you kind of have a census to what the outcome will be after you researched the law. it's clear the law would lead to this outcome. they probably have their order written in advance. waited to see if anything would come out that shifted their decision. clearly they didn't and wrote the ruling right there. >> jeff mason, i'm inferring this has been troubling to the white house because this was his red line. the same ti

. >>> joining us now, former federal and state prosecutor and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. jeff, first with you, this is part of a broader strategy because the white house is basically saying no to everything and making a political calculation. the question becomes how does the house response? is the judiciary going to take it all the way, declaring barr in contempt. do we see the sergeant at arms walking up to the doj? >> this is something democrats really, really want, all those things we've been talking about, the tax returns, getting mueller to testify. their options are to go the legal route. that seems to be the direction they're moving. >> the question, poppy, is there political backing for it? >> totally. that's the question. it certainly depends who you ask. on the legal front, ellie honing, to you, how ultimately gets to decide, not just if mueller can show up before the house judiciary, but how much can he say? how much say does the attorney general have and ultimately the president? >> the president and the attorney general don't have much to go on in t

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given the opportunity several times by my colleague in the white house press corps here jeff mason to try to spin it. try to come back away from it, walk it back a little bit, but the president instead leaned into it. essentially siding or agreeing with kim jong-un over joe biden blasting, you heard, biden and obama both as disaster going after them on the iran nuclear deal as we've heard the president do before. i imagine throughout the day those on the campaign trail will be asked about this and something they'll respond to as well, craig? >> admiral what do you read what he heard from the president. >> start with the joe biden comment. we 2e7tend to think of vice president joe biden as the vice president. before that the chairman of the senate relations committee a couple of decades and knows the world extremely well. i watched him come to nato and work the room with all heads of state and government in europe. he is very well liked internationally. i don't think those comments will go down very well with our allies, partners and friends, and that's a shame. in terms of shinzo abe,

at the press conference this morning, president trump was asked by a reuter's reporter, jeff mason, whetheror over a former u.s. vice president. listen to his answer here. >> kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low i.q. individual. he probably is based on his record. i think i agree with him on that. joe biden was a disaster. his administration with president obama, they were basically a disaster when it came to so many things. whether it was economy, military, defend. no matter what it was, they had a lot of problems. so i'm not a fan. >> clearly we'll hear more from joe biden as the 2020 election unwinds. the sun is coming up on the president's agenda. he and the first lady will drop by the imperial palace to say good-bye to the emperor. and the president will take a helicopter to the u.s.s. wasp is berthed. the president will meet the crew and he will conduct memorial day ceremony. it is tuesday in japan. it's not memorial day anymore. but it still will be in time to finish out memorial day in the united states. trace? >> trace: john roberts, same travels. thank you. johnson

mollie hemingway, senior analyst at the federalist, and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reutersl start with you, what's the sense at the white house about these talks? >> that's a good question, bret. that sense is that we did not get where we thought we are going to get at least over a week ago. not too long ago, the secretary of the treasury steve mnuchin and larry kudlow were saying that a deal was close, they were getting towards the final lap. there was a big setback a week ago when china pulled back on some of its commitments within the draft agreement, nearly 150 page draft agreement they've been working on. that, of course, was met with a lot of dissatisfaction by ustr, trade representative robert wright hauser, and the rest of the team. that because the president to increase tariffs and the talks ended today without a deal. likely to continue on talks, but at the same time, likely to have those tariffs continue, which means a longer trade war. >> here's number four and number five tweets today. over the course of the past few days, china has held constructive conversati

white house correspondent for reuters jeff mason. good to see both of you. i do want to ask you about biden, but while we're thinking freshly about bernie sanders and we heard from ryan nobles there bernie sanders is talking about trying to eliminate for profit charter schools. talk to me about his strategy and why go for, you know, for profit charter schools when education is really important to a lot of voters, but that's a really interesting specific. >> i think this is interesting and maybe even a little strange approach by senator sanders and his team. on the one hand it's good one of the candidates is out there making education a forward plank in their platform, and i think voters want to talk about that more. but when you're talking about an early primary state like south carolina, which the democratic primary electorate is largely african-american and making your case based on getting rid of charter schools, it can cut both ways against sanders. on the one hand there are african-american advocacy groups like the naacp that have push this idea that th

byron york is the chief political correspondent of the "washington examiner," jeff mason and matthew in chief of "the washington free beacon." you were in the room as the president pushed back on pelosi, what is your sense on whether this really is a stopping point between their interaction? >> i think it is, and up until now the president has tried to be very respectful of nancy pelosi, he has not given her or hadn't given her a nickname, hadn't been supercritical of her in public or on twitter and today she said she lost it and she wasn't capable of understanding a trade deal. i think that represents a shift for him and a shift for that relationship. >> bret: here is the on impeachment. >> we want to believe that there all this unease in our caucus, we have respect for thediversit. our diversity is our strength, our unity is our power, the house democratic caucus is not on a path to impeachment. >> i don't buy that, she's either delusional or misrepresenting her caucus. she's trying to hide what is obvious, the democratic party is hell bent on impeaching president trump no matter w

me now to connect all the dots in all of this is daniel alonzo, and returning with me awasan and jeff masons bill achieve what they're trying to get, to get the house ways and means committee to see the president's state tax returns. >> the bill says nothing about the president. so, one would assume what the bill is trying to achieve is a method for new york state to legally give information to congress. so, the bill doesn't mention president trump. >> doesn't mention the president's name per se, but it says if somebody happens to have a subpoena from congress and their name rhymes with rump, then here. will it achieve the goal that the democrats want? >> it should akmooef the goal, yes. new york state returns from much of the information that federal returns have. the bill that's pending would require congress if they got the information to follow the rules in the federal code which requires that they be -- that identifiable tax returns be provided in closed session. they would be provided to these taxation committees. >> are you surprised this is the measure? aren't there easier ways to g

president trump was pressed about this by my colleague in the white house, jeff mason, about how the president could feel comfortable or appropriate siding with the north korean dictator over an american citizen, a former american vice president. president trump said he believed kim jong-un's attack on biden were correct. this shows how the president has his eye on domestic politics even as he's dealing with thorny foreign affairs issues in japan. prime minister abe has spent the last four days trying to shower president trump with ceremonies, with praise, full of golf and sumo and a royal visit and a hibachi style dinner. president trump was supposed to feel comfortable here, that was the goal as prime minister abe tried to reinforce that friendship with an important ally. that said, president trump was clearly thinking about 2020. the attacks on joe biden have drawn criticism not just from democrats, including, by the way, some of biden's primary rifles like pete buttigieg, but also from republicans, congressman adam kinzinger, overnight from congressman pete king, who is not someb

jeff mason reuters white house correspondent. there has been so much talk about this.n campaign? are they doing anything differently in this third run to avoid controversial moments? >> it's interesting. joe biden just taking the stage as we speak for the first event here. this is a full circle moment for me. the first time i covered joe biden he was a senator from delaware and trailing in the polls here in new hampshire. back then as you would expect for a candidate not in the front runner position, he was very available to voters and reporters. he entered as the front runner showing him with a very clear lead over the field. what you are seeing is a front runner strategy. he is limiting his engagement with the public. he is taking only a handful of questions from local media. they are trying to protect that lead. that is going to begin to change here in new hampshire. just spoke with campaign advisers who said we will hear him take voter questions here. you also have the house party where he will do the same. that is unique to new hampshire with they expect that kind

even when pressed by white house colleague jeff mason elaborate on what that exactly means.'t explain what the disciplinary mechanism would be. >> what was the question that he responded with, we'll see what happens to? >> i asked him, are we going to war with iran or are you seeking regime change with iran? that's how the president answered that speaking less to the question himself but on the topic of iran. the president tends to hear the piece of a topic and sort of rift on that as you heard him do in the oval ofls there. >> i was going to say because it's a rather open-ended response about going to war with iran. >> the president is clear, though, and as you have secretary mike pompeo even today meeting with european leaders blowing thoof chld, where you know this is r -- what he's portrayed before or tried to with iran many. this yfd strength, we may believe. they're spelling out what those consequences would be, kase. >> let's go back to tariffs for a second. many the president said we've never taken in 10 cents in tariffs until i became president. doesn't that represe

also with us, anna palmer from politico, jeff mason white house correspondent for reuters. as we have been juggling a lot of action both from the white house and from thrilcapitol hil we're watching christoph wray talking about that word spying. i want to play what he had to say. >> when fbi acts conduct investigations against alleged mobsters, specificsuspected ter other criminals, do you believe they are engaging in spying when following investigative policies and procedures? >> well, that is not the term i would use. >> so there is chris wray distancing himself from a term that the attorney general most certainly did use. >> absolutely. the attorney general has shown over the last few weeks that he sees it as his job to essentially defend the president and construe the mueller investigation and the mueller report in the way that most helpful to the president rather than to accurately construe it. spying is not what you call it when federal investigators get appropriate permission from courts to perform surveillance and do it in a way that is in accordance with the rules.

the national political reporter from bloomberg news and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reutersboth with me to dig in. this guy is known to be a pri e principled independent but not known to be a thought leader and certainly not known on the national stage even a couple weeks ago. he's not just taking a position, he's now out there publicly defending it. are there real consequences? does he have a game plan, or is this going to be just a blip on the radar? >> i think, stephanie, he's speaking his mind as he often does. justin amash is a caucus in the sense he's the least partisan republican in the house and senate as well. he's the most willing to criticize president trump. he is reading the mueller report and seems to be following to his logical and substantive conclusion here. he pointed out it's not a immediate conclusion, especially for him in a red district, and the question are other republicans going to come along with him? the answer appears no but are there other moderate republicans in tough districts and looking at him saying if he can speak out on this issue, i can s

pete williams is with us along with nancy cook and reuters white house correspondent jeff mason. so, pete, some important timing context here. it sound as though the u.s. attorney from connecticut had been in charge of this for the last couple of weeks. we're just now finding out more? >> that's what i'm reporting this morning, hallie. this was actually done nearly a month ago and the fact that this is going to be done, that the review was going to happen is something the attorney general has been saying for several weeks. he wants to know whether the intelligence assets of the u.s. were properly predicated when they were applied against the trump campaign in the period leading up to the inauguration. so, this is strictly during the campaign period. he has said that he's been around before when intelligence assets were abused. looking into civil libertarians without the necessary predicate he wants to make sure it was done right this time. since he made these comments initially, you know, you've heard from several former leaders of the fbi, the former fbi director james comey, th

. >> courtney at the pentagon, kelsey snell, jeff mason back with me.acting defense secretary cannot escape this story, even if he's in singap e singapore. >> that's right. i don't know if it helps or hurts him that he is actually in the region where this happened with the "uss mccain" a few days ago during the president's visit. he has been asked about it several times by the traveling press corps and an issue that will continue to follow him until and even until we get more answers on what happened here. what we know the u.s. navy is denying several parts of the story that was first reported by "wall street journal" this week and that includes the name of the mccain was covered up during the president's visit. a tarp over at it at one point but it was removed and as part of some sort of ship maintenance. they also deny that several, that u.s. navy sailors who were assigned to mccain were told to stay away during the president's visit. in fact, they tell us they were on leave during that time for the long holiday weekend. but, as you said, acting secre

. >> joining me now, jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. being welcome to you both. as the president last said, he's not going to stand in the way of mueller testifying. does the white house still stand by that? >> well, i mean, as recent as just a few days ago, i think kellyanne conway said if mueller wants to testify, he should testify. at this point, the white house hasn't changed its tune on that. on the other hand, we've seen the white house sort of put up roadblocks or the president indicate he does not want further testimony from members of his own administration and that he feels that this investigation went on long enough. he feels that it exonerated him despite some of the details in the report that do not suggest that. and he's ready to cut it off. so whether or not that might impact mueller, we'll have to wait and see. at this point, they haven't changed their tune. i think the question will be whether or not the committee is able to arrange a date with the special counsel and make it happen. >> what kind of insight could mueller's testimony provide that w

jeff gore who is still in talks with cbs news. john dickerson will join 60 minutes as a exontsz. >> correspondents. and then i know mason and tony shall join on the check of on cbs this morning. >> we are marrying the best of cbs news's legacy with the talent of the team. >> reporter: cbs news struggled with ratings and fallout from high profile sexual misconduct allegations. this is the start of a new era and that they are in to win it. >> you can watch the cbs evening now at 5 and 6:30. you can check our new news at 7:00. >>> let's head over to mary. you took a walk earlier. was it chilly? >>it was. the temperatures are below average for this time of year. and you can see why. we have a gray clouds clouds out there t and the temperatures are running in the 50s in the 50s and the 60s. so here is the doppler. the showers are coming to an end and we'll see the high pressure build in as the we go through the next few days. and the forecast for the coast, mostly cloudy and we'll keep the clouds in the forecast. for the bay, catching some sunshine. so slowly we'll have some clearing. we'll go partly sunny and low 60s in the

jeff glor, about his future. he held the job less than 1 1/2 years. they have anthony masonola to go to the morning show. and there's this. the dude from the big lombowski could move to denver. residents are voting on decriminalizing shrooms. if the measure passes, it wouldn't make mushies or magic mushrooms legal but people that grow and possess them would be the lowest priority for law enforcement. prosecutions wouldn't happen. so the dude would be in the clear. users report having a transform ty experience on shrooms. a euphoric high with long-term enlightenment. supporters say shrooms can help people with mental illnesses as well. critics say it would have a negative impact on the city of denver's reputation which has already been affected by legalized pot. tourism has. the drug and enforcement administration has classified mushrooms in the same class as heroin and cocaine. it has a bigger potential for abuse. the studies are limited. we turn to trace gallagher who is live with more in the west coast news hub. trace? >> they wouldn't come after you for possessing magic m

mason has the answer. >> here it is. $80 million. gentleman has it here. at $80 million. you have it, sir. $80 million. >> reporter: art history made in new york city. jeffulpture "rabbit" breaking the record for the most expensive work sold at auction by a living artist. art dealer robert mnuchin made the winning bid at christie's. the final price, $91 million. >> when it was first shown in 1986, it was -- there was a big stir about it. the opinions would vary from like horrible to amazing. >> reporter: this is not the first time a piece by koons has held the record. balloon dog, orange, sold at auction in 2013 for $58.4 million and remained the record holder until last year. that's when british artist david hockny's painting, portrait of an artist, pool with two figures was sold for $90.2 million. i visited hockny at his studio in 2016. why do you think you've been so popular over the years? >> i'd like to think it might be the space in the pictures. >> mm-hmm. >> you don't know why things become memorable. if there was a formula for them, there would be a lot m them. >> reporter: but hockny held the honor for just six months until koons reclaimed the

masonic center. >> i owe an apology. >> to who? >> to the people of san francisco. >> what about to bryan carmody. >> why? >> because we made mistakes. >> who leaked the incident report of jeffto carmody who then sold video and information he gathered and that police report to several stations including abc 7. breed released a statement saying i'm glad that the chief has acknowledged the department's mistakes and apologized, but i remain deeply disappointed by the actions taken in this case up to today. this is unacceptable and we have to do better. bryan carmody declined to comment, but the department needs real reform to inform the sfpd respects the first amendment and independence of free speech. he tells me one has not been selected, and he wouldn't say whether carmody could once again become a suspect. for the i-team, dan noyes, abc 7 news. >> developing news, the hiker who disappeared in the maui forest more than two weeks ago has been found alive. this photo is when rescuers found amanda eller, she hadn't been seen since may 8th. he was spotted by a helicopter in the outskirts of the forest where she got lost, hurt and stuck. this video shows with eller's father at th