one is, you talked a little about john roberts and the ongoing project. if you could talk maybe about jeff sessions and the role of the doj, since alabama is such a favorite state on voting. than the other is racial gerrymandering, that is also a new battle. how do you see that playing out in the forthcoming elections? ari: well, i think someone like john roberts has kind of tried to effectively make a new kind of argument for discrimination. i think jeff sessions made a very old argument for discrimination, which is that, i unreconstructed southerner who grew up in this era and still believes in those things. it was just something that -- one of the situations were donald trump is different than any other republican. i think he would've had a republican president -- not saying that they would have nominated a good attorney general, but they would not have nominated jeff sessions. he was not a remarkable senator, he had some of the most extreme politics, and despite trump bad mouthing him every day, he is one of the most influential figures in the adminis

first to john roberts. he's live for us at the white house. john? >> trace, good afternoon to you. e president's attorney sent a letter back to robert mueller back on august 6 saying here's what we need for you to be able to sit down with the president and do an interview. they have yet to hear back from robert mueller. in the meantime, the president continues his strident language against the special counsel investigation and mueller himself. the president said yesterday that he views it as an illegal investigation. do you read the great scholars? there should have never been a special counsel. it shouldn't have been set up between all of the conflicts and all of the reasoning that turned out to be wrong, all of the corruption, the statements where comey said in congress that he did things and he leaked and he did to get a special counsel and various other things. for weeks now, the president's attorneys have been exploring the idea of writing their own report based on the evidence and all of the interviews with white house officials that they have handed over to robert mueller. th

john roberts go no no john roberts. see it is fake news that has taken her and i take my things from c.n.n. c.n.n. is they could use i don't take questions from john roberts of fox that's got a real let's go to a real network but we're real networks you sir thank you mr president. that was fox news john if you just sort of the end of that video that and that was john roberts now he was criticized by media colleagues you know having defended cnn's acosta but he released this statement saying he used to work for c.n.n. and for trying to call it fake news is on fire during all right sara thank you for that let's just show you what's happening in harare the scene right now president emerson he is still speaking in the capitol speaking to the people of his country after the election results were announced so we're keeping an eye out on anything that he has to say we'll bring it to you right here on the newsgroup for now it's over to jonah hope you can see jonah he's joining us from london with more of the international news

john roberts is live there. you tell me. what is this? >> well, it's one of those things that happens almost every day where the president gets up, he doesn't like the coverage and he says something about it. he addressed it briefly in the oval office pool spray with the president of fifa. i have a quick little note on it. google, et cetera, treading on troubled territory. we'll get more when we get the play-out of that. the president thinking that google is involved in a conspiracy to put bad news about him high on google's search engine and suppress the voices of conservatives that might be more favorable to him. the president somehow going to twitter twice with the same lengthy complaints this morning saying, google search results for trump news shows the reporting of fake news media. in other words, it's rigged for me and others so that stories is bag. fake cnn is prominent. fair media is shutout. 96 results of trump news are from left wing media. very dangerous. google and others are hiding information and news that is good. they're

chief white house correspondent john roberts live on the north lawn. hey, john. >> good afternoon. taking far more direct aim at robert mueller than he has in the past, mostly criticism of the mueller investigation, but now the president holding nothing back about mueller himself. the president tweeting this morning, "disgraced and discredited bob mueller and his group of angry democrat thugs spent 30 hours with the white house counsel, with my approval, misspelling there, anyone needs that much time is just someone looking for trouble. they are enjoying ruining people's lives and refuse to look at corruption on the democrat's side. the lies, firing, deleted e-mails and much more. dems are looking to impact the election, they are a "national disgrace," and flurry of tweets today and over the weekend in response to stories about mcgahn speaking to mueller accident fox news confirmed mcgahn did sit down for interviews with mueller on three occasions, totaled up the number there, shep. the president's attorney, dowd and cobb, worried mueller might want to subpoena everyone in the white

chief white house correspondent john roberts joins us with the numbers. od evening, john. >> of the president's chief economic advisor, larry kudlow, said today they traded talks with china are going nowhere, in fact, he says the white house says that even heard from china about it for weeks. there were some promising signs of a continued strong economy today, though, even if those numbers were somewhat tempered. the jobs numbers for july came in lower than expected. 157,000, versus a projected 195,000. but the white house one reason to celebrate. pointing out may and june's numbers were revised upwards, and the outlook for economic growth is good for you to speak strong. professional services, an appointment with don, very nice report. but to the gdp model, preliminaries, predicted 5%. i mean, i would be happy with three. they are predicting five. we are off to a good start. >> one reason the numbers were lower than expected, 32,000 jobs were lost in the toys and games sector, and effective toys 'r' us closing its retail stores. unemployment also dipped b

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john roberts at the white house writing the first draft. the president's former fixer michael cohen has more secrets to spill about his ex-boss according to cohen's attorney, the aforementioned lanny davis. will cohen cooperate with the special counsel, bob mueller? >> the answer is he will cooperate with everyone because he's committed to telling the truth. but i know that when he retained me, as recently as yesterday, he's committed to telling the truth. >> shepard: dramatic evolution from last summer when michael cohen said he was so loyal to the president he'd take a bullet for him. no more. rick lefb that will has the latest. >> michael cohen could have spent the rest of his life in federal prison. with this plea deal he's looking at three to five years. nothing in the deal excel him to cooperate with the mueller -- compels him to cooperate with the mueller investigation but doesn't preclude it. lanny davis said cohen appears ready to cooperate. he's free on $500,000 bond, admitted under oath to hiding $4 million in income from the irs

it was interesting h he referred to chief justice john reports because chief juice john roberts talked about thean impo of precedence and of roe v wade being settled, and one of the senators who questioned him in 2005 said i don't want to talk about individual cases that miht come up and, just for the record, we have two rulings on abortion from chief justice john roberts, one 2007 and then more recently where he did undercut the right. >> woodruff: let's talk a little bit because you have been looking closely at this, yo and other journalists poring over judge cav nog's, first of all, rulings. what has he written in opinions that tell us anything aboviut hs on reproductive rights? >> sure. well, judy, he sits on the u.s court of appeals for the d.c. circuit which usually doesn't handle these kinds of invidual right, but he did rule last october, a young pregnant migrant who crossed the border s being held in detention and the trump administration did not want the allow her to get th abortion she wanted immediately. he desefrom the -- disented from the majority on theourt that said, no

rob: a key campaign promise of renegotiating us trade deals, john roberts break this down. >> anotherirst, donald trump with the president of mexico on speakerphone to announce a new bilateral trade deal with our neighbor to the south. >> we used to call it nafta, now we call it the united states mexico trade agreement and we will get rid of the name nafta which has bad connotation because the united states was hurt badly by nafta. >> reporter: the outgoing mexican president was as enthusiastic about the deal as donald trump was, even saying he would like to give donald trump a big hug. he acknowledged getting to it was tough. >> and negotiation that has been difficult and a hard negotiation. >> the biggest change in a trade relationship, rules of origin for cars, 75% of components used to build cars must be made in mexico or the us, 40 to 45% of auto content must be made by workers at $16 an hour. the deal increases trade in agricultural goods keeping tariffs at 0. it puts much more pressure on candidates to make a deal. canada was involved in talks with mexico and the us before dona

. >> a month after the supreme court decision when john roberts said raised his permission voting was largely a thing of the past north carolina was one of the most progressive states in the south after sweeping rewrite of its election laws. required strict voter i.d., eliminated same-day voter registration, it eliminated citizens awareness month which the state ran to encourage people to register to vote. all of this in one bill a month after the surfer in court gutted the voting rights act. >> host: jonathan adelstein is the former fc t. -- ftc commissioner. mr. adelstein what is this wireless infrastructure? >> guest: we represent a company that builds owns and maintains the nation's wireless networks. we are the people that have all of the equipment behind your smartphones and when you see how well it works you can imagine how much work is behind it. everybody seen the cell towers but there's a lot more that goes into it. a fiber that connects those towers and the small cells that supplement the towers and all of the equipment that makes it possible so we represent the that whole

chief white house correspondent john roberts is here with more and breaking news on when we will findthe details of this. >> it looks like we are going to find out some details, a greater degree of granularity as we were talking about earlier at 4:00 this afternoon. there is a hearing with judge william h polly the third presiding over it, and that's when we expect it will be announced that michael cohen has reached some sort of agreement with the prosecutors in the southern district of new york who have been looking into his personal dealings more specifically with taxi medallions and loans that were is taken out. i've been told that this is a fast-moving situation and there's a lot of back-and-forth going on. i heard rumors yesterday that he was looking into some sort of plea agreement and things have been going back and forth today. we don't know what kind of plea agreement this may be whether it's a straight out guilty plea on everything that the prosecutors have been looking for, or may be some sort of modified deal, but we should have more detail on that within a couple hours of

and joining me now is chief white house correspondent john roberts live with more. i'm just going to turn it over to you, john there was a lot there. i have a couple of questions that i want to talk about aside from the election meddling. let's start there. when did you find out that this press conference was going to be held? do you have any ideas of what prompted them to do it today? >> we found out when they walked out. and i think it is probably an attempt by this white house to try to give the press more access to the people who were involved in this. and with the mueller investigation ongoing, with a lot of charges about russian meddling in the election, with the fallout from the helsinki summit still out there, i think the white house wanted to get out the principles and it was a real high powered group of people here. director of national intelligence. director of the fbi. homeland security and director of the national security agency. i think it was an attempt to explain to the american people what the white house is doing to ensure the integrity of the 2018

. >> neil: let's go to john roberts at the white house where the president legal team is no doubt watchingll of this very closely. what we know? >> they are watching it very, very closely. at the moment, the thinking is that there is nothing incriminating about the president and all of this. however, if he does plead guilty to a count of campaign finance violation, which we assume would be the payment of $130,000 to stormy daniels, the net we create a link between cohen and the tropic campaign. although it is possible to make a finance without the knowledge of the campaign being involved. but we do know, because of the release that the president did have a conversation with michael cohen about a possible payment to ex-"playboy" playmate carrie mcdougall. the question is, did the president know anything about the payment to stormy daniels either before it was made or after it was made. the president reimbursed michael cohen for it. that was in april of this year when that news came out. that is what we have to wait and see here, neil, whether or not there is a campaign violation. we are tol

john roberts. let's do more. congressman louie gohmert of the house judiciary committee. great to have you today. >> good to be with you. >> harris: i want to start with your thoughts on now the answer back from the president's team legal team to robert mueller. >> i hope dershowitz is right that they lay conditions that mueller won't accept because it will be a disaster eric holder lied to us a couple of times lying before congress. he should have been held in contempt and gone to jail. i totally believe him when he says look, i have known robert mueller for 20, 30 years, and he is not going to stop until he gets some kind of indictment against the president. and i think he is right. that's what mueller wants to get. and when i hear that giuliani is saying oh, if it goes past september 1st, mueller will be blamed for playing politics and affecting the election. mueller could care less. he would love to affect the election. this is a guy who sat down, looked trump in the face and says basically begging him to appoint him again as director of the fbi and when he doesn't ge

we have john roberts who is available to us. he is available at the white house and has new development. >> i spoke with rudy giuliani with news of the plea deal for michael cohen coming on. he did not seem worried about it at all. he said none of this was connected to the president because cohen set on multiplications that president trump knew nothing of the implications. in two payments to silence women, according to the deputy u.s. attorney, they were done at the behest of a candidate, and in coordination with the candidate to silence two women paired one was a hundred $50,000 which was called an illegal corporate contribution. you will remember that karen mcdougall, the ex-"playboy" playmate was played $150,000 by the "national enquirer" for her story. and then, of course where the payment of $130,000 on october 27th to stormy daniels. but giuliani told me that none of this was connected the president. cohen said in court documents that he signed that he did this at the direction of and in coordination with a candidate for f

one thing john roberts got right is iment people is on the ballot in the 2018 cycle. if american people want impeachment and dysfunction in washington to melt down they will vote for democrats. if they want to keep enjoying the benefits of the trump economy vote for republicans and we will keep on delivering. >> harris: impeachment hasn't always been a winning talking point. focus on the things that matter, healthcare and the economy. >> yeah. i think this midterm election will be about one question. who is fighting for the people of this country and who is fighting for the powerful special interest. democrats are going to make the case that we have a plan to drive down the cost of healthcare, to drive down the cost of prescription drugs. republicans are trying to repeal the affordable care act. doing nothing about the cost of prescription drugs and they are in court right now trying to take away coverage for preexisting conditions. we have a plan to create 60 million jobs rebuilding the infrastructure in our country infantry n. a significant way and continue to promo

john roberts, hi, john. >> i can't count the number of times the president talked about the rigged witch hunt or the mueller probe or jeff sessions in general. i doubt you'll hear jeff sessions talk about it. when the president talks about this, jeff sessions fly as above the frey. the president was very direct when he decided to command the news cycle with this tweet. he said attorney general jeff sessions should stop this witch hunt right now. that brought protests from democrats on capitol hill who say this is obstruction of justice. the president's defenders rush to say no, this is not the president telling the attorney general what to do. it's just the president expressing his frustration on twitter. listen to sarah sanders here. >> it's not an order. it's the president's opinion. it's ridiculous that the corruption that has done on with the launching of the witch hunt, the president watched this process play out but he also wants to see it come to an end and we look forward to this happening. >> there's been this back and forth when the president tweets something, the press secreta

now john roberts has details that he has learned of that plea deal. john what have you learned? >> what we know, shep, this is not a cooperation deal with prosecutors from the southern district of new york and/or the mueller investigation. sources tell fox news that a few minutes ago, this is a straight-up guilty plea. we don't know which charges that he's pleading guilty to. he has been accused of campaign finance violations or investigations for campaign finance violations and loans on taxi medallions. we're told whatever he's pleading to, it's a guilty plea and includes jail time. michael cohen has agreed for three to five years in jail. he will be going away. we don't know if he will be taken this afternoon or if the judge will give him some time to get his affairs together. looks like michael cohen will spent three to five years in jail on a guilty plea on charges that were brought by prosecutors from the certain district of new york. the fact that he's pleading guilty would seem to indicate according to sources that i've talked to there's no possibility that michael cohen

john roberts starts us off tonight on the north lawn of the

at the white house, john roberts, fox news. >> the president putting the squeeze on canada trying toet negotiations with the northern border going. rob: canada should want to come to the table to reach an agreement. >> the tune has changed, it has been a vindicating day for the trump administration which put forth a strategy a lot of people thought was risky and they are worried about it, with tariffs trying to negotiate trade agreements, donald trump prefers bilateral trade agreements on multinational things that were popular for a few decades but this is a good agreement. 45% of goods need to be made, at $16 an hour. people need to be paid in mexico when making it part, we like to call nafta a free-trade agreement but it is a complex situation and renegotiating is more capable. >> donald trump threatened canada with auto tariffs if the us and canada cannot forge a deal. rob: tensions flaring between the united states and iran, mike pompeo vowing vigorous defense of us sanctions after iran urged the united nations highest court to halt penalties after donald trump pooled out of the

. >> dana: john roberts is on the north lawn, john? >> good afternoon to you. the president and his attorneys knew full well that don mcgann was going to cooperate with special prosecutor robert mueller in his investigation. in fact the whole idea for cooperation was hatched by the president's attorney at the time. initially, mcgann had been very reluctant to cooperate with mueller. his job as he thought was to protect the presidency and cooperating with mueller may set president for a future white houses. but doubt in cobb's thought that access to white house personnel including mcgann would avoid subpoenas from mueller and bring us books which are conclusion to the special counsel investigation. listen to what rudy giuliani said about that yesterday. >> they allowed 32 witnesses to testify and turned over 1.4 million documents. and in fact, i would think john dowd would tell you with an agreement with bob mueller that it would be concluded quickly. if i had known the outcome, that mueller had not concluded quickly and it was amended attempt in good faith to tr

and john roberts joins us right now, good evening, john. >> good evening to you. president trump has repeatedly claimed that he has been tough on russians. the u.s. just got a little tougher. >> it was back on march 5th that he and his daughter were poisoned by a russian nerve agent. they were found near death on a park bench in salisbury, england. later that month congress asked the white house to make a determination whether the attack violated international conventions on biological weapons. today the state department announced the government of the russian federation has used biological and chemical weapons in violation of law or has used lethal and biological weapons against its own nationals. they have already kicked six russian diplomats out of the u.s. in response to the attack but the determination that russia violated the law triggers new sanctions set to take effect on august 22nd. the first round of sanctions limits exports in finances and the second sense of national security products to russia. congress accuses the white house of dragging its feet in

we start with john roberts with the news headlines from his latest interview from the north lawn. good evening. >> good evening, from time to time at the white house a leg breaking headline from the president and that's interview with mike bloomberg. about the trump organization, allen weiss and burke was granted immunity to testify for the southern district of new york. he told bloomberg that he believes that he did not betray him when he was speaking to prosecutors say that the time. that he was talking about regarding the cohen investigation was only for limited amount of time. the president adding, he is a wonderful guy. he mentioned that the president said was attorney general, his job is safe after the elections. what happened after the elections, the present did not comments. he also said that you would consider paul in the united states out of the world of trade organization if it didn't shape up. he said a deal with canada on nafta is close. he reiterated that a deal from the european union on cars is not enough to satisfy him. fox reported that earlier in the day. also e

.>> the supreme court's decision when john roberts said racial discrimination voting was largely a thing of the past, north carolina was one of the most progressive states passed a sweeping rewrite of its election laws. strict voter ideas, voting and eliminating same-day voter registration, eliminated citizens awareness months which the state ran to encourage people to register, all of this in one bill a month after the supreme court noted the voting rights act . >> listen on the free c-span radio c-span2 area. >>. >> the administrator for the us agency for international development is mark green. he talks about his recent trip to latin america and what usaid is doing to promote democracy within the region. >> the council of the americas hosted this event. >> ladies and gentlemen, good morning. . good morning. there we go. my pastor does that all the time, you can do better than that. welcome to the council of the americas for our conversation with mark green, administrator of the us agency for international development. we appreciate that you have chosen to join us or this session today

the supreme court nomination of john roberts, harriet miers, and samuel alito. cases that came to the supreme court on critical issues relating to the paintings of others. warrantless wiretapping of american citizens which is specifically called was an issue he had discussed specifically with the president. national security letters of the patriot act, second amendment gun laws, affirmative action. the list goes on. the point i am making here is d of artie live-month perio time where he was staff secretary of president bush was rife with issues of great constitutional moment. it is the reason why the american people have a right to know what he said, how he advised the president, what he wrote. those are things the republicans are hiding from the american people and keeping secret. this man, billut berger, who is he? well, a former staff secretary, attorney in washington. and even with don mccann in the room, i said, is he an official employee? bill berg is the final filter of documents from the archives to congress and the american people and he is deciding, th

john roberts is live on the north lawn. hi, john. >> good afternoon to you. larry kudlow was out here talking about the job numbers. the questions were how come you missed expectations? kudlow putting his best spin on the record that he could saying look, the numbers for may and june were revised upwards. so if you take the three-month running average, that puts job creation at 224,000 per month, which is good in anyone's books. kudlow says the economy is looking good, the job numbers are strong and the forecast for economic growth in the future is looking good as well. listen to what he said. >> we're at a high plateau. manufacturing was strong. professional services, unemployment went down. very nice report. the atlanta fed, gdp model, preliminary, predicting 5% for q3. i would be happy with 3. they're predicting 5. we're off to a good start. >> the unemployment numbers dropped before 4% to 3.9%. that puts it .2 off of a 50 year low. back in 1969, the unemployment rate was 3.7%. we're close to that. republicans are complaining the white house isn't doing en

imminence of any interview with robert mueller, i would say, shep, is probably fairly low. >> shepard: john roberts, live at the white house. we've heard a lot about robert mueller's legal team. the president has called them a bunch of angry democrats. supporters note their wide range of experience unravelling complex cases. who are these lawyers? and is there really any evidence that they have an agenda besides getting to the truth? trace gallagher has been looking into that, and the facts of these men and women behind the special counsel. hey, trace. >> trace: we looked at 18 lawyers working the mueller probe, some playing a bigger role than others. all of them are very seasoned attorneys, with very high octane specialties. as for the big picture we should note that nine of them are former department of justice lawyers and eight were either u.s. attorneys or worked in the u.s. attorney's office. seven of them are registered democrats, four have no party declared. and we couldn't find the voter registration records of the others including robert mueller, though his wife is a registered republican.

>> shepard: john roberts, thank you.ht now breaking we're waiting for the star witness to take the stand in paul manafort's trial. prosecutor's say they are planning to call rick gates. he's up next. he's the former trump campaign chairman's right-hand man. his one-time business partner who also worked on the trump campaign. fox news spotted rick gates at the courthouse a short time ago. if anybody knows manafort's secrets, the analysts say, it's rick gates. gates admitted lying to the fbi and then cut a deal to cooperate in special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. manafort has pleaded not guilty to all charges against him. our peter doocy is live at the courthouse alexandria, virginia just outside the district. peter? >> shep, a clean-shaven rick gates is here. he is the witness that just last week the judge, t.s. ellis, said the mueller team needs if they are going to prove a conspiracy charge against paul manafort. now, rick gates is also seen as critical because they do believe that he has the most inti

chief white house correspondent john roberts is reporting on this. so this is news that the man in the documents with michael cohen might have been part of the conversation where, you catch and kill a play playboy models story effectively, alleging that she had an affair with the president? do you take that story, give her some money, make her quiet and move on without the story just before the election in 2016? that's how he fits into the picture. >> we know that packer had been summoned to speak with federal prosecutors about this and there were reports out this morning that packer had indeed told prosecutors that president trump was aware of what the "national enquirer" was doing in terms of this so called a catch and kill related to the x "playboy" model, karen mcdougall. this new report in "the wall street journal" said that he was granted immunity to speak to prosecutors is a new wrinkle in it and, we are trying to chase this down. it wouldn't be surprising because if you are a part federal prosecutor and going after a bigger fish, and the one

the chief white house con inspector didn't john roberts live on the north line. hi, john. >> at the very least, there's an inherent contradiction. you have the president saying the attorney general, jeff sessions should shut down the mueller investigation, but at the same time, the president and the white house have on many occasions said that the mueller investigation should continue to its logical conclusion. the president tried to have it both ways today sending out the tweet but at the briefing, sarah huckabee sanders this afternoon saying no, we think the investigation should continue, though the president does think that it's been going on too long and as you pointed out at the top what he said today in the tweet was not official policy. it was an opinion. listen here. >> the president is not obstructing. he's fighting back. the president is stating his opinion. he is stating it clearly. he's expressing the frustration that he has with the level of corruption with the people like james comey, andrew mccabe. there's a reason the president is angry and most o

fox news channel's john roberts is reporting a source familiar with the president's former attorney,ichael cohen's plea deal, is stating that it is a straight-out guilty plea and that the deal includes jail time, you ready, of three to five years. at the top of the hour, there's going to be a hearing. our cameras are there. we will break in with any more news as we receive it. >>> now, it has been exactly two weeks since elon musk of tesla in his going private tweet storm lit up shareholders and lit up the stock. now investors are hitting the gas on the shares once again as fox business confirms some major moves that could help the electric vehicle giant drive toward its ceo's controversial goal of privatization. charlie is here. you are naming names exclusively. >> i love the fact that some days i'm loved by the shorts and heated by the longs. today is just the opposite. the shorts saying i'm reading talking points. it's crazy. in any event, i can't tell you that he's going to go private. i can tell you that he's talking to bankers about a potential privatization, or wherever he wan

john roberts has that story tonight. >> reporter: even on vacation president trump continues to drive the news cycle with single tweets that quickly become the most talked about the topic of the day. for a president who says he wants the molar investigation to go away, he seems to do a lot to keep it alive. in a tweet complaining about media coverage, president trump scoffed at the idea that he is concerned about the meeting my wonderful son donald had an trump tower with the russian attorney and other russians. but it was what he added that raised eyebrows and a grin thrust the molar investigation into the spotlight. the president tweeted, this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and it done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. democrats left on the tweets evidence that it had been incomplete at best and at worst, untrue. the ranking member of the house intelligence committee adam schiff tweeted, the russians offer damaging info on your opponent, your campaign accepted and the russians delivered. the purpose of the trump tower meeting would have be

. >> a month after the supreme court's decision when john roberts - - north carolina, one of the most progressive states in the south asked a sweeping the light of its election laws. it required strict voter id, eliminated same-day voter registration, eliminated citizens awareness month which the state ran to encourage people to vote. all of this in one bill a month after the streamsupreme court. >> watch on c-span and the c-span app. >> sunday night on q and a.>> what must that sound like? [crying] >> when we hear the cries of children, immigrant children, who had just been separated from their parents and the porter control detention facility. the audio i obtained a month -and-a-half ago or so. with the help of a lawyer. civil rights attorney on the border named jennifer hard way. she had obtained this tape. and thought it was important and shared it with me. and asked what i thought about it and i told her i thought we should try to publish it. it wasn't an easy decision for the source of that tape who felt that the tape could put them at risk. for being identified and fired. but t

john roberts at the white house. thank you. there was one major political upset in the big contest yesterday as i mentioned and this huge upset, unexpected by everyone came in the biggest battleground in all the land. the tallahassee liberal mayor beat out more moderate candidates in the democratic primary for governor. andrew gillum made history becoming florida's first african-american major party candidate for governor. we'll speak to the mayor in just a moment. in november he goal up against the candidate president trump has endorsed and did so just moments ago. the congressman ron desantis who easily won the republican primary last night. today he spoke to fox news about his next opponent. >> i think that he had grassroots energy. i think some of the other candidates were overrated. and he was able to capitalize off that. you know, there is a difference between, you know, getting some of the bernie sanders people onto vote for you in a primary and then going to the broader florida electorate and trying to sell that message

but we start off with john roberts with the cohen guilty plea. >> we heard from the president briefly as he touched down in west virginia for that campaign rally tonight, he didn't really mention too much about cohen talking mostly about paul manafort. let's play for you what the president said a few minutes ago. >> president trump: i feel badly, it had nothing to do with russian collusion. we continue the witch hunt, thank you very much. >> the president saying he feels badly for both, both michael cohen and paul manafort. let's start with cohen, he pled guilty this afternoon it was a surprise. we had gotten wind yesterday that he might be trying to cut a plea deal. he pled guilty on eight counts, 52 tax evasion and he also pled guilty to one count of filing fraudulent information to get a bank loan but the ones that could be most problematic for president trump are counts seven and eight in which he said he coordinated with a candidate for federal office whose name was not revealed and worked at the direction of that candidate to provide payments of $150,000 to one woman which would

when you listen to john roberts report, you hear how much ground he has to cover when it comes to the president and with the president has to say. most recently same, although he is frustration all along with the mueller probe, now he's calling it illegal. so we pay particular attention to this? >> james: it is a little stronger language, imprecise language. to clear it up, robert mueller was duly appointed and legally authorized to conduct this probe by rod rosenstein. but it's possible the president will end up being corrected and a sense that, if eventually this goes down the track and courts begin mitigating or refereeing a fight between the special counsel in the president, the president does have a case. this entire investigation is the fruit of the poison tree. this is a theory that advanced our pages a few months ago after that ig report came out. the justice department found huge bias. a lot of the same people ended up working on the collision investigation, and inspector general said in that report, a lot of the comments about bias were more about the russia investigation th

>> shepard: john roberts live on the north lawn. for context. congressman chris collins' investigation, which came forward with indictments today took longer than the russia investigation has. in fact, it took a year and a half. we're not nearly there yet on this presidential investigation. attorneys for president trump's former campaign chairman is going after the government's star witness again today. attacking his credibility and explaining his crimes. paul manafort's lawyers accusing his former business associate rick gates of leading a secret life. including four extramarital affairs. that was new today. gates has admitted that he had one affair, hiding millions of dollars from the feds and stealing from manafort. but, of the question of four extramarital affairs produced an objection and then a side bar and the defense attorneys didn't actually ask it again. gates cut a deal with special counsel robert mueller and pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi while getting immunity from any other crimes in exchange for the testimony against his forme

john roberts has done a lot of that at the white house fox news, straight guilty plea, three to five years. james, you're right we don't know until we see the plea or plea agreement what exactly is agreed to. more throughout the hour. thanks, james. melissa. melissa: we're keeping a close eye on any developments from the two federal courthouses any second in michael cohen's plea deal. this could happen any moment in the we'll get a verdict to the paul manafort trial. the jury submitted a new note to the judge. we'll take you live to alexandria, virginia for update. >>> former prosecutor andrew mccarthy what this all means for the mueller investigation and the trump administration, if that isn't enough meantime, senate holding two separate hearings on russia today, amid a new bombshell report from microsoft which uncovered russia hack attacks aimed at conservative groups. more sanctions on the way. we'll talk about that. senator mike rounds, banking committee, senate subcommittee on cybersecurity. he joins us next. how do you win at business? stay at laquinta. where we're changing wit

. >> harris: the chief white house correspondent john roberts are more. you are there. we are getting ready for this. >> john: we are not sure when sarah huckabee sanders will show up. probably in the next half hour or so. we haven't got word of a delay. but here is where we are in terms of the mueller probe and whether or not the president might sit down and do an interview with robert mueller. sources tell fox news that the president's legal team may respond monday to the letter earlier this week from robert mueller outlining what he believes are the parameters for an interview with the president. the president's legal team want to limit questioning to russia, election and whether or not there was collusion between the trump campaign and the russian officials to throw the election in 2016. they did not want mueller asking any questions about potential obstruction of justice. in his response, mueller indicated yes, in fact he did want to ask some of the questions. mueller did compromise a little bit, though. you will remember in march, the president legal team was give

. >> a month after the supreme court decision, john roberts said racial discrimination was a thing of the past, north carolina was one of the most progressive states, they passed a sweeping rewrite of election laws. and required voter id, cut early voting, eliminated same-day registration, eliminated citizens awareness month, which the state ran to encourage people to register. all of this a month after the supreme court and the voting rights act. announcer: listen on the free c-span radio app. >> this morning on "washington journal," we were joined by sean duncan, whorne served in the obama administration. we show you the interviews together in their entirety. there about two hours. our next guest served as this administration's first press secretary. sean spicer.

. >> a month after the supreme court's decision, when john roberts said racial discrimination voting was a thing of the past. it required strict voter i.d. it cut early voting and eliminated same day voter registration and eliminated awareness month. all of this in one bill a month after the supreme court voted on the voting rights act. >> on c-span and c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio audio tape. saturday morning at 10:30 eastern. book tv is live at the book festival at the state capital in jackson with discussions on race and identity, southern history, u.s. politics and presidential leadership. authors include the author of "loving." and the author of "the making an american sea rts and the great revolt, inside the populist coalition reshaping american politics and author frank williams with lincoln as hero. join us for the mississippi c-span 2.val on >> this morning we were joined by sean spicer and arneduncan who served in the obama ni

the success of recommended that senators arthur vandenberg and robert wagner should appear there alongside henry clay, daniel webster, john calhoun robert taft who were selected by the special committee back in 1957. that committee interestingly enough was appointed by lyndon johnson and chaired by john f. kennedy. i also heard in recent days that perhaps senator mccain's portrait should join that distinguished group. so it's a further tribute to our colleagues that there's no shortage of good ideas. in order to make sure we realize these intentions i'd i like to put together an official group that can collaborate and bring together ideas from current members, former colleagues, and friends. it will be bipartisan as only benefits john's legacy and come to think of it we probably call it not a committee but a gang. so i'm glad were to form this gain to ensure that a suitable lasting tribute becomes a reality. i've have more details regarding this group to share in coming days after our friend is laid to rest. >> this isthis is a sad time for the senate and our nation. with the passing of john mccain our country lost a lege

>> shepard: john, president trump might yet sit down with robert mueller's team for an interview, that is if they can agree on terms. as john just reported, the president's lawyers asked the feds to drop questions about obstruction of justice. john, you're hearing the questions are still very much on the table. >> they are. we got that whole list of 49 questions in march. the idea of conspiracy was a big part of those four to nine questions. the president's outside counsel, jay sekulow and rudy guliani were trying to get mueller to agree to an interview that he would talk about the russia angle, which is what they believe the special counsel's mandate was originally and whether or not there was any collusion between the trump campaign and russia to try to influence the election. in his response letter, mueller said, no, i want to talk about the issues that go to obstruction as well. i'm not sure where that leaves things right now. i know that the president's attorneys are formulating a response. they'll likely have that next week. they don't want to let the president sit down with muel

. >> reporter: at the white house, john roberts, fox news. >>> the u.s.d along county lines directed to pour millions of dollars into strengthen election security. only one republican corker voted in favor of the amendment. >>> in the east bay a hunger strike for immigration rights has ended outside of the ruling for separated immigrant families. the roll in hunger strike will now move to sacramento and then on to santa cruz giving people in those cities a chance to join in the protest. the hunger strikes here california and across the country will continue until all immigrant families are back together. >>> family, friends and fellow teammates gathered today in san francisco to pay tribute to 49ers great dwight clark who died of als back in june. >> rob roth now with the emotional memorial including what joe montana said about how dwight clark used to tease him about the catch. >> reporter: former teammate, coaches, friends and family gathered to remember dwight clark. >> he had good charisma, good lucks, and that southern drawl, people loved him. >> rep