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john mccain. makes perfect sense he would come out and make a big deal about this because he is so opposed to donald trump on foreign policy. >> kat: i don't think he's making a big deal out of it. the allegations in the memo and no one has seen the memo. you can't impeach based on a mammal. the allegations are serious. >> eric: there was a trial, people pleaded guilty to criminal actions. that was watergate. this is far from watergate. >> kat: we don't know yet. i don't like is fair to say that john mccain is saying this personally because he doesn't like trump. these allegations are serious. >> eric: john mccain as one of the original never-trumpers. >> kat: but perhaps he cares about russian influence and collusion. serious things and concerns. >> eboni: when mccain makes a watergate comparison, that kind of takes the wind out of what i think is otherwise a legitimate argument. the facts of watergate were so different. >> eric: john mccain is a smart man. why would he compare watergate to this?

"newshour" and senator john mccain. mccain was asked about democrats saying joe lieberman may not have enough law enforcement experience to head the fbi. with a reminder of how many years john mccain spent happily in the u.s. navy. here is the quote from john mccain. "joe lieberman has more experience than all of my democratic colleagues combined. so screw them. and you can quote me." so senator mccain is on the board at this hour as we pass into the 4:00 p.m. hour eastern time. andrea mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent, "a," save us, "b," has been standing by listening to this. andrea, let's talk about the general flynn aspect and if you have time as we watch the front of this room load up, just set the stakes, give us the briefest biological sketch of the colombian president that the president of the united states is hosting today. >> reporter: sure thing. first of all, on that score, the colombian president is meeting with president trump in the aftermath of a secret meeting with his predecessors who oppos

john mccain/-r- arizona: "well if it's true, obviously it's disturbing but i think we've gotta find out more before i can comment." but if it turns out president trump did reveal sensitive information with russia - dean trasvina says that could mean compromising ties with u.s. allies who are said to have been left out from that intelligence. "the information can either make or break other intelligence operations , it jeopardizes the safety of our military personnel, and those of our allies."in sf ella sogomonian kron 4 news. (pam) the trump adminstration also defending its revised travel ban today in court. a three judge panel from the ninth circuit court of appeals.... heard arguments on the executive order in seattle today. the ban targets six- mostly muslim countries. the trump adminstration wants the court to block the injunction on the ban.... issued by a federal judge in hawaii. no word when a ruling might come down -- but many legal experts believe the issue will ultimately end up in the u.s. supreme court. (steve) the wife of an alameda county sheriff's deputy.. who was arrested

john mccain is in australia.hey look at north korea and the china standoff, they're looking for the north star from the president of the united states. john mccain says don't wait for it. >> i realize some of president trump's actions and statements have unsettled america's friends. they've unsettled many americans, as well. there is real debate under way now in my country about what kind of role america should play in the world and frankly, i don't know the how this debate will play out. >> interesting because john mccain speaks his mind but he's reading from a prepared speech there in talking about i know you're unsettled and don't now how this play out this big debate that is now trump's america. >> a republican criticizing a republican president on foreign soil. he's done this before. and i guess the question everybody has, is it just going to be john mccain and lindsey graham and sass every once in awhile or will there be other people. it's a question for people running in 2018, how do they kind of navigate

so i think john mccain is right.nd i think many americans are finally looking and seeing that to be true. >> do you think this is a sustainable position for nikki haley to be in, that she's thec russia and donald trump is cool with that? >> i don't know whether it's sustainable or not. i'm not sure how much hfr of will i think she's been doing a great job and she has managed to in some ways it's an easy job because the things she's say rg what the bipartisan consensus is. and so they will get applause for that as long as she mansions to walk the tight rope where she doesn't seem to be repudiating her boss. how long she can walk that tight rope, i don't know. but the other question is whether donald trump cares very much about the u.n. and whether he himself cares, was he paying attention. as long as -- >> we know he watches tv and she has a lot of interviews. >> i understand that. but as you know there is a certain kind of like the u.n. with the big eye roll. and i think -- >> can she go on and continue to say negati

and that's john mccain tonight saying that it's approaching watergate -- has reached, quote, watergatesize and scale. your reaction? >> well, coming from senator mccain, those are very strong words. i think that we have a very serious dire situation. not just in terms of the status of the president and this country. it's also about what's going on around the world and how we're being perceived. the vulnerability that our enemies see right now is profound, and i fear that unless the president gets his house in order, we're going to see some dire consequence as well. >> do you think -- go ahead. >> if it is, in fact, obstruction of justice, we're going to find out quite soon. and right now we're on a fact-finding mission to get all the information. memos from director comey, tapes from the white house if they exist, and we really need to pursue every avenue. >> and i always ask you about the investigation. are you confident that the investigations investigations that you know of underway can bring this case to justice? >> well, i want to believe that we can. we're not staffed at a level

senator john mccain is the latest to voice concerns about it. kelly wright is monitoring all of that from washington. >> reporter: today, it is back to business at the white house for president trump following his first official overseas trip and his first memorial day as commander-in-chief. >> we pay tribute to those brave souls who raced into gunfire, word into battle, and ran into hell. >> reporter: the trump administration is now dealing with a deadly new attacked by isis targeting civilians with a massive car bomb in iraq earlier tuesday. the target, an ice cream shop popular with families in central baghdad. the attack coming just as u.s. backed iraqi troops are making a new push to oust isis from the iraqi city of mosul. >> i think he is the premier and most important threat, more so than isis. >> reporter: republican senator john mccain is now calling russian president vladimir putin a bigger threat to global security than isis. >> it's the russians who tried to destroy the very fundamental of democracy and that is to change the outcome

>> we will discuss the controversy and what it means for the trump agenda with arizona senator john mccain, only on fox news sunday. we will ask our sunday panel if mr. trump can use the appointment of a special counsel to turn attention back to repeal and replace and tax reform. ♪ ♪ ♪ chris: our power player of the week, iconic singer judy collins on the inspiration for the songs that defined a generation. >> it was creative, it was music. chris: all right now on fox news sunday and hello again from fox news in washington. donald trump is on day two of his first foreign trip as president meeting with more than 50 muslim leaders and trying to build a coalition to defeat isis and to isolate iran. all this while the controversy escalates of possible links to russia threatening the president's foreign and domestic agenda. we will drill down on both stories this hour speaking in a few minutes with secretary of state rex tillerson and later with senator john mccain but first let's bring in the anchor of special report bret baier who is in riyadh, saudi arabia with the latest on the president's

let's start with mark warner -- then you have john mccain, he also says -- have senator you bob casey of pennsylvania, who simply says he links to the twitter of all ryan. let's go to that. he says -- sam: of course, talking of clinton at the time. and then you have the president himself, at the time candidate trump saying that crooked hillary clinton and her team were careless in the handling of sensitive, highly classified ." ormation, not fit

you sound more like john mccain than donald trump. >> well, when russia does something wrong, of course i will call them out. but you have to understand i work for a man who has not stopped me calling them out. he has no problem with the fact that i hit russia. he has encouraged me to continue do my job the way with i'm doing it. so if i say it, i'm still a member of the team and that is the team saying it. >> so one of the things in the international news, they are paying very close attention into an investigation that i know you told my colleague krig melvin you supported and that is the special council investigation into russia. why do you support it, why do you think it's a good idea? >> because i think there a lot of here say. let's just are throw the facts out on the table and move on.sa. let's just are throw the facts out on the table and move on. as long as the rumor mills are going back and forth, it's not productive for anybody. the sooner we can move on, the better for the american about citizens. >> and yk is central jared kush. he is a plug-in with state, with h.r. mcmaster

john mccain was in trouble. i like john mccain. he was in trouble running in arizona.e got wishy-washy and tried to have it both ways about his endorsement of donald trump. i hope you're right, if it comes to that, they will find the courage and conviction and character to do what's right. but to date, i haven't seen those examples. >> i haven't, either. but there's a long way to go in this administration. it took three years impeach andrew johnson. bill clinton was impeached well into his second term. the house judiciary committee voted articles against richard nixon in his second term. and he resigned to avoid certain impeachment. >> you're not tell megawe can get trump in his second term, are you? >> no. you can't expect these things to move quickly. this is not an adderall government. it's events in washington. >> we talked about howard baker, once served in the senate. >> yes. >> mike pence, the former governor of my home state of indiana, once served in the house. he is now vice president. i was reading your book. i was nfascinated to learn that vice presidents c

plus, senator john mccain says there is a threat even bigger than isis. who he calls, quote, the far greatest tal that i we have. >> plus how a catfish ended up on the ice during the stanley cup finals in pittsburgh. donald tmeet phil murphy,by former goldman sachs bankers. another wall street banker running for governor, whose firm helped trigger the financial meltdown that put millions out of work and out of their homes. murphy's trying to buy the election, paying off new jersey bosses. my name's john wisniewski, and i'm running for governor of new jersey. john wisniewski, the son of a millwright, who uncovered the bridgegate scandal and exposed chris christie's corruption. the choice -- insider wall street politics or main street, new jersey, values. >> former pan maniac dictator manuel ortega died. >> i went to remove a brain tumor but suffered brain hemoraging, and doctors had to put him in a medically induced comb a he ruled panama from 1983 until the us removed him from power. he spent years in prison for drug trafficking and money laundering, he w

channel and was only discussed for a single call about syria, not as another channel but senator john mccainsn't like it. >> i don't like it. i know some administration officials it is standard procedure. i don't think it is standard procedure prior to the inauguration by someone who is not in an appointed position. >> reporter: katrina pearson saying all this will be cleared up by kushner. >> jared kushner was the first person to say i will go in and talk to any of the committees investigating this ridiculous allegation. he has never kept anything secret, he said he will meet with anyone anytime but however long it takes to clear up this mess. >> democrats are piling on in the house, adam schiff calling for security clearance, and he needs to go back to doing real estate in new york. finally, before we hear from jared kushner sean spicer returns, that should be interesting. a lot of questions about this. >> there was a question about sean spicer himself. >> back channel communications calling out the media for trying to find a scandal, we are talking about that coming krauthammer calling ou

they seem to be rather accepting of it. >> not john mccain. >> well, john mccain is an island unto himselfohn mccain had dinner this week. he and lindsey graham had dinner with the president -- or last week. >> this is what i was saying before with trump's charm offensive. he tries to meet with the people, engage with them. i don't know. i don't think he has many accomplishments to show for it, at least on capitol hill. >> what's your view of what happened on capitol hill? the president was tweeting today against the deal at the same time praising the deal in the rose garden and he's clearly lost control of his own house caucus. >> he was annoyed that the democrats declared victory on this spending deal. he didn't like that. >> schumer knows how to get under his skin. >> yes. and we weren't doing any touting. don't forget he had his budget director doing are briefings, another this morning and he's been talking about how they got money for border security and things like that. it's not like they haven't been doing any touting. he was clearly annoyed. we talked to him in the oval office and

joining us now to discuss both, republican senator john mccain. for having me back. >> chris: what to think of the president's trip so far and do you think that realistically he can get muslim leaders to drop their support for extremism? >> senator mccain: i think this trip so far has been excellent. i think that the sunni arab world and particularly our traditional friends there are encouraged because of the very strained, if not estranged, relationship between the previous administration. i think it successful, i think it's important. there's no doubt that if we are going to impede the iranian's continued efforts to exert certainly significant strength in important step forward. >> chris: you wrote an article in "the new york times" recently in which you said that the u.s. must always stand up for human rights and not abandon oppressed people around the world. given that, what do you think of the decision, and you hurt secretary tillerson defended a few moments ago, not to discuss human rights publicly on this trip? >> senator mccain: my endurin

folks like john mccain andrevea.same classified information folks in the white house see through their roles in the senate and so you're not just talking about differences in messaging or differences in tactic. you're talking about profound disagreements in terms of national security strategy. >> jay, do you see this as different this time around? it is different from the campaign as alex points out. it is different from the campaign. there are times during his presidency that john mccain and lindsey graham had been outspoken against this president, but is it different this time, especially given what we heard over the weekend from marco rubio? >> poppy, i do think it's different in the sense that these are people who are in the same party as the president who up until this point have generally lined up with him on policies, sort of supporting him, taking, really just taking the back seat, watching what's happening, seeing if they support him or not. and the fact that they feel so comfortable coming out against the p

senator john mccain didn't denounce the president. he was careful to suggest the president didn't do anything wrong potentially. marty: i'm not sure how carefully john mccain read the story. interesting -- he's never been shy about criticizing this president. it's not clear to me what john mccain's agenda is on this particular thing. true,st story, if it is does have the potential of putting lives at risk and jeopardizing a critically important intelligence source. vonnie: the president tweeted this morning that perhaps he had done it for humanitarian reasons. about turkey you -- president erdogan will be visiting the white house. what will be the conversation? marty: it is a grave concern about donald trump's decision to arm the kurds rightly. -- directly. president are to one has had a campaign for years to bring them under control. this president erdogan. they are supposed to issue a joint communique. it will be fascinating to see what's in it. this has the potential to really be a disaster in terms of our allies with the turkish g

bush, president obama and to the first american of visitors to vietnam and to senators john mccain, john kerry, hillary clinton, jim webb and those near and far. [speaking in native tongue] i can see here many failure faces, good friends of vietnam for many years. [speaking in native tongue] looking back at the history of upheavals in our relationships, the past 20 years of corporation i would like to say to you and to also president trump that we have thrived beyond ourselves having not only risen above the past but look toward the future but embarked upon a journey together to shape a brighter future and write a new chapter for our relations. we contribute to peace and prosperity in asia-pacific and beyond. [speaking in native tongue] almost a year ago, the unprecedented and a very successful visit by party general secretary set a milestone and a critical turning point in our bilateral ties. this is now visit by my first visit to us as prime minister. [speaking in native tongue] just before coming here i held talks with president trump and prior to that had a series of meetings with am

senator john mccain, let's go ahead and move back and we'll ask it again.while we're talking about turkey, we might as well throw on the fire, of course, the national security adviser michael flynn getting paid over half a million dollars, and changing u.s. policy -- changing a war strategy -- to help the client state that paid him half a million dollars. >> what i was saying when i was describing that is that this is the classic scandal in the nature that there's another shoe that drops every day or two, as you noticed again this morning, there was more contacts between the white house -- the trump campaign and, and the russians, than previously disclosed. this is the drip system, and that's why it's good to have mueller doing what he's doing, and it's important for the congress of the united states to do what they're supposed to do, which are two different missions, as you know one is, mueller's case determine whether criminal behavi has taken place, and then congress' place what did the russians do to interfere in our election? and what do we do in order

. >> trong words are coming out of senate john mccain overseas. he's concerned about this latest development that you're hearing. let me get your reaction in terms of ou this plays out with what the white house has been dealing with over the past 48 hours since president trump returned to the u.s. >> reporter: first in all in terms of strategy, the white house is establishing a war room to deal with this, effectively to beat back the headlines. the president is bringing on his own attorney and we know that he is thinking about hitting the road more, trying to keep the attention focused on his domestic agenda, talking about things like tax reform and health care. but obviously these weren't the head lines that the president was hoping to return to. he had a big foreign trip last week. hoping that was helping him turn the page on some of the mounting questions and mounting controversy about russia and the russia probe. but obviously sit a crisis that's only deepening for the white house. the white house is bracing for a big battle in the coming days

john mccain was not in that meeting. you, keith, were not in that meeting.the meeting said it was a responsible use of information. h.r. mcmaster who democrats have been praising, said this is a response -- >> why are they contradicting -- >> they are not contradicting -- >> why is the president saying something different than the white house? >> they're not. they're saying we dealt with threats to aviation -- >> h.r. mcmaster will clear that out -- >> where are the tapes? >> do you think he should say if there are tapes, we should hand them over? >> yes. >> putting them out publicly can't be done because it's highly classified information, but i'm a little bit surprised that maybe -- however this played out, that the top intel leaders, top congressional leaders, they haven't even been briefed yet. >> and they should be briefed. and that's where transparency would help in this. i agree that h.r. mcmaster should have taken questions last night. they're coming out with this briefing today to respond -- >> and here we are. >> here the briefing begins. sean spic

you know, so you are going to watch the john mccains. to watch the ben sasses, watch the lindsey grahams, what they are going to do. again on this whole issue of what's going to change and deal with the crisis, almost every single crisis that this white house has experienced has been self inconflicted. they are doing it to themselves, and bringing in other outside people is not going to change this when at the core of this white house is donald trump and donald trump is not going to change. but, again, it is going to be interest to see when republicans will draw the line. we are a long way from seeing that happen, i think. >> charlie sykes, who has happened me establish that like me, he was a young man once. then along came this campaign. charlie, our thanks, as always. ileana, who remains youthful and energetic enough to have a featured byline piece on the in politico thank you both for coming on our broadcast tonight. one more break for us. coming up, just who is in contl of the leading investigation now into the tmp russia ties? and d

. >> we saw senator john mccain head into breefting room.y attorney general is the one that decided to pick possible be mueller, and also who bob mueller will be answerable to at least in some respects. clintd, wh clint, there are multiple investigations going on. what if the congress on alvess disagree with the ruts found by the bob mueller investigation? >> i think it will be the mueller investigation there are take precedent for several reasons. he has more resources and more experience investigative-wise. as compared to the two being be run in congress right now. he also understands the financial angles, the cyber ang angles. and more importantly, he will be staffed. he will be working sort of hand-in-hand with his old fbi team. these were the old deputies of his deputies that are running the fbi today. he's had good working relationships with them. they will run this down in a much more comprehend then suffer way than either of the congressional commit titees wil. >> will it slow the investigation down? >> i don't think it will slow it

as you know, it was republicans as well, none stronger than senator john mccain. almost speechless, because i don't know how you -- why someone would say something like that. but i know this, mr. lavrov is the stooge of a thug and a murderer who used russian precision weapons to strike hospitals in aleppo, who's committed human rights violations all over the place, has invaded ukraine, has taken crimea, has acted in the most thuggish and outrageous fashion, and he had no business in the oval office. >> reporter: now, poppy, one of the interesting elements, at least of this week, is with the president. republicans i've been speaking to have been actually looking forward to this moment, an opportunity to refocus, perhaps in the senate on their health care negotiations. obviously, the budget is coming out this week as well, but there's no question about it, they simply aren't able to escape the russia story. and it's also worth noting that there's a pretty good reason why, not just because of the stories we've seen, but also because their committees, despite the anno

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vonnie: i think we had another reaction from john mccain today.-- gave a rushed one yesterday. he said the president may have been in his rights. today, he came out with a stronger statement. >> i think we've lost him. mark: what is interesting is he did not break the law. that is worth stating that again. history,look accurate richard nixon, jimmy carter, ronald reagan intentionally or inadvertently released classified information about surveillance capabilities and information that was captured. this has happened before. vonnie: in that original article, it said it is not illegal because the president can declassify something, even if it's on the spot. it becomes declassified. just tellis you don't somebody what happens to be a state secret and then postmortem say i was declassified it at the time. i believe he is back now from outside the white house. mark was asking about congressional reaction from the senate. >> we have seen republicans in the senate as well as democrats in the senate talk about their concerns. we heard john mccain say he is

here is the quote from john mccain.e lieberman has more experience than all of my democratic colleagues combined. so screw them. and you can quote me." so senator mccain is on the board at this hour as we pass into the 4:00 p.m. hour eastern time. andrea mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent, "a," save us, "b," has been standing by listening to this. andrea, let's talk about the general flynn aspect and if you have time as we watch the front of this room load up, just set the stakes, give us the briefest biological sketch of the colombian president that the president of the united states is hosting today. >> reporter: sure thing. first of all, on that score, the colombian president is meeting with president trump in the aftermath of a secret meeting with

john mccain said tonight, that the trump scandals have reached a watergate size and scale. watergate got president nixon impeached on the verge of impeachment he resigned. he resigned as he faced impeachment in the house of representatives for exactly, exactly what james comey's memo says donald trump did, obstruction of justice. the nixon tapes of the oval office captured the moment when the president agreed to the idea of using the cia to tell patrick gray, the director of the fbi, to stop an investigation of the watergate scandal. here is some of that tape. you'll hear the voice of white house chief of staff presenting the problem to the president. >> the fbi investigation is going in directions they don't want it to go. he told the president, that white house counsel, john dean has figured out a way to stop that investigation. the way to stop it is to get vernon walters, the deputy director of the cia to tell the fbi director to stay out of it. >> they did not know that mark felt was also deep throat, the code name for the secret source, reporting of the washington post

they may not go out in public and say what john mccain has. he's giving a lesson in strategy.sis is an important challenge but not existential to the affairs of the united states. what russia is doing around the world and within our own borders represents a kind of existential threat. you don't want to overhype these things. mccain is giving them a strategic studies lesson which i think is very, very important, but there are people around president trump that understand that framework and have it. what is strange they seem to have only occasional influence on the president of the united states right now who seems to be very willing to ignore and just go his own direction despite where his advisers think is the best course for the nation. >> john, you were quoted in "the washington post" saying kushner's reported back channel effort illustrates the trump team had less trust in the american government than in a foreign adversary that undermined our election. tell me about is that influential in what we heard from angela merkel, the idea russia threatens in the eyes of some europ

john mccain is canceling his events. we have to do it. of course we do. i was the one who's going to tell the man who hates the cold. and so i did and i e-mailed reggie love to assist personally and robert gates you might remember became white house press secretary marvin nichols and then i said hey, guys. we are going keep pennsylvania. they wrote back and said boss wants to know who thought this is a good idea. that wasn't the first time this happened at the last time but i that i said now it's fine, it'll be great. a deputy, danielle who is like my work soulmate. she and i got to the office early and we were sitting there watching it on tv. it wasn't just knowing. it was fleeting sideways and hitting him in the face. danielle said it looks terrible. it's like the worst scenario. we watch him indicates his face. i actually didn't npr interview and they played me back that actual event. i was so right. this is not some event. but at the end of the event, he is drenched and fall asleep and he goes to walk on stage and he put his hand out and reggie love p

john mccain comparing it to watergate. saying, get this, we've seen this movie before, i think it appears at a point where it's of watergate size and scale. a spokeswoman was saying he wasn't talking about guilt of the president, but more allegations come out day by day which is one of the reasons he called for a select committee to take a look at the russian ties to the trump campaign, if any. >> tracie, what's the latest on the report yesterday that the 43 revealed clarified information. >> we know that "the new york times" reported it that it came from israeli sources. the concern among our allies around the world is that if the president can't keep a secret, risk. and while publicly, not many of them are condemning -- a few minutes ago, we got a statement from the australian prime minister, saying the relationship between u.s. and australia still as strong as ever. but in britain where theresa may deflected questions, there is, some officials say, some nervousness about all of this. and quite frankly, germany, they're

. >> i have been proud that john mccain and i see there is a role we can play. >> can this bipartisan pair bring your prescription drug costs down? plus. should drug criticisms mean more jail time? >> we are not safer because of incarceration. >> is there another way to get justice? and a congress machine targets a constituent's politics in a letter to her employer. >> i'm sure there are ear people that have activities on the side but they were not questioned. >> what would soledad: i'm soledad o'brien. welcome to matter merit president trump in europe on his first international trip. meet being with foreign leaders on the way to the nato summit and g-7 meeting. at home democrats and republicans agree on something. leaders from both praising the appointment of former f.b.i. director robert mueller as special counsel investigating possible contacts between trump campaign staff and russia during the 2016 election. it is a rare moment of bipartisan ship on capitol hill another bipartisan team wisconsin senator tammy baldwin and republican senator john mccain have paired up to combat skyr

what was your reaction when you heard john mccain use word water dwait and impeachment. >> john mccained the straight shooter. this not the first time i got a straight answer from him. i interviewed his father in 1956 before i even knew him. john mccain is deeply worried about this. i think he believes donald trump is in serious trouble right now and it is up to donald trump to get himself out of it. he meant that and repeated it. he has to get all the facts out on the table. he has to find some way to reassure people of what this is all about and as i talked to many republicans last night. until they get this settled, nothing else much is going to happen. >> what might be the straw that breaks the camel's back and there has to be somebody within the republican party, within the congress to go to the president to say, these are the circumstances, unless something happens here, you're going to be in even deeper trouble than you ever imagined. >> i don't think, charlie, we're to that point yet. but i think the next thing that has to happen, i think comey will come before one of the commi

john mccain is also getting a lot of attention this morning. at an even last night, he said, quote, we've seen this movie before. i think it appears at a point where it's of watergate size and scale. end quote. the white house denying comey's account of what happened. >>> despite security measures at would-be fence jumper. the secret service said the person who jumped over actually a bike rack on pennsylvania avenue and was raefarrested bef getting to the white house grounds. two other people recently charged with fence jumping or security scares were in court yesterday. >>> a grieving family. >> 4-year-old cole james clark was killed in rural orange county virginia. the toddler had somehow picked up a loaded gun and shot himself. the babysitter or the day care provider's fiance is a stafford county sheriff's deputy still in training at the academy. the orange county sheriff said the gun used was not a service weapon. now the parents are facing the heartbreaking task of planning a >> there's no reason a child should be in reach of any kind of w

and republican senator, john mccain, says he is disappointed with trump's decision to fire comey. mccain called for a special congressional panel. >> now there are big questions about the senate's investigation and comey's own russia investigation. tonight, trump's friends insist this is not about that. >> he has lost confidence in @ fbi director. >> for the fir time in weeks, kelly ann conaway took to tv for this. >> it's not a coverup. >> tonight on capitol hill, lawmakers on both sides have their doubts. in march, comey confirmed the fbi started investigationing trump's ties to russia last july. >> following the pack got harder at today's actions by the president. >> virginia's mark warner is the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. it is also investigating how russia medalled with our presidential election. >> there's a lot of connect. and i really worry going forward, that's why we need a special prosecutor. >> republican senator, john mccain, has joined that call. so has north carolina senator, richard burr. he is the top republican on the senate investigation.

republican senator john mccain of arizona says the latest white house controversy is handcuffing the>> the team is in place and that's what's kind of sad about all this is you have such a strong national security team in this most dangerous times, and yet they're not able to function because everything seems to be siphoned into this whole issue of russia. >> mccain added that the string of scandals is not good for america. >>> the top secret information about isis president trump shared with the russians came from israel. the administration says mr. trump acted appropriately with some lawmakers. senators like lindsey graham say the president may have damaged national security. >> the only thing i would tell the president is if you feel like you should share something with the russians, make sure it goes through the system because i don't trust the russians. >> mr. trump tweeted he has the absolute right to share information with russia. that sharing of information came up during a meeting yesterday between adam schiff, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee, and cia

then presidential candidate, john mccain. he spoke at the gop convention much to the frustration of very democrats. >> thank you so much. >> iran's president sealed the deal on his reelection. the election largely seen as a referendum. his push for greater freedom at home and further outreach to the rest of the world. we have more now from jerusalem. john? >> the president won his reelection with 57 percent of the vote. district 7/10 voters taken senate consent of the 56 million voters. the big day, a big election, a big turnout with big challenges ahead for the iranian president. >> rouhani called his victory for freedom and independence. he is seen as a reformed and liberal minded leader peers of his victory is for those that want more freedom within the country and better relations with the rest of the world. he absolutely has many challenges ahead such as reducing the country's high unemployment rate and dealing with iran's hardline elements. >> today the world knows with fiorini nation -- our nation wants to live in this

john mccain, i played it a little while ago, senator john mccain, he says this is now reaching the scope and scale of watergate. you were there, you would know, do you think it has? >> i totally agree with that statement. in in fact in some ways it's more serious, because watergate involved nixon campaign and his committee's involvement in the election of 1972 when george mcgovern ran, they broke into the democratic headquarters to obtain information, they also involved themselves in the new hampshire primary, the republican site and the democratic side. what really needs to be taken to the next level, what they appear to have done here, is conspired with a foreign power and tipped the election in favor of the trump campaign. that takes it to a whole other level, where you're really talking about treason, as opposed to outright criminality, with respect to interfering with a domestic election. >> where we are today is now another element of it is, this reporting that the president asked the fbi director to let it go, in terms of this investigation, into one of his top campaign advisors.

john mccain is a frequent critic of this president. but is it a problem for this white house is more and more republicans in congress are questioning these relationships? >> absolutely. it is not simply because they are republicans. it is because they are influential members that have subpoena power and credible with americans. this ensures things are not going to go away. there is a two-track conversation. i think as jim sciutto was suggesting, the white house keeps trying to push back. they send out some tweets and say this is angry democrats and so forth. no, this isn't angry democrats. these are institutional forms of government doing their sworn duty to get to the bottom of this. we're not going to see fbi director mueller swayed by tweets or opinion polls. he's not in this to excuse what the democrats did wrong last fall. this is a much more serious kind of effort and john mccain in the statements he represents states that. >> i can put up the tweet from the president earlier this morning. russian officials must be laughing at th