our john yang at the white house. and matt appuzzo, who's reporting on all this for the "new york times." john yang, i'm going to come to you first. the president's personal attorney was out today with the president's response. tell us about that and about what the white house is saying. >> that's right, judy. of course, we didn't hear from the president himself or from any white house official. they've delegated that task of responding to all these inquiries to the president's personal attorney, mark cass wits. he flatly denied the president asked comey for his loyalty or the drop the flynn investigation. and then he said something i'm told we're going to be hearing a lot more of the in the coming days from supporters of the president, he used comey's admission that he got his version of events into the press, he used that to try to undermine comey, to try to portray comey as part of what mr. trump supporters see as a conspiracy among washington, entrenched washington insiders, what they call the deep state, a conspi

the british have asked a got in an embassy and john yang. testify juney will 8 next thursday before the intelligence committee and it will be an open testimony. >> i expect there to be some fireworks. nothing has been dull. we learned this week that a letter had been sent to a lot of the key members of the trump campaign asking them for information. jared kushner has volunteered to testify. it's unclear if you received one of these letters. he was very instrumental in the campaign. youhere is an investigation can assume that jared kushner will be involved or question to some extent. we are less than a week of way -- week away from the election. ministerw the prime will likely fall short of a parliamentary majority. >> investors are starting to deteriorate. taking the risk. torres --ld have the the tories just short of a majority. toy may convince lawmakers lend them support they need to govern. together ancobble arrangement where they borrowed votes from the s&p, and the dems and greens, which is more likely than a formal coalition scenario.

. >> woodruff: and lisa joins me now, along with our own john yang. so john, i'm going the start with you. you just heard what lisa's reporting about what they're doing on the hill. what is the white house doing? >> the white house is pushing infrastructure. yesterday airway, tomorrowwater way, thursday streets, friday permitting processes. you might think that means they have an infrastructure bill ready to go. no. this is concept, proposal, broad policy bills. they don't have a timeline for when they'll have an infrastructure bill ready to introduce in congress. they don't even know whether it will be one bill or a series of legislative packages. they're still on the drawing board. >> woodruff: sounds like it's still early. lisa, talk specifically about the time crunch. what is congress dealing with here? >> i think congress is looking at essentially a 60-yard field goal to try to get everything done that it has to. it has to be perfect. look at the calendar, what congress and republicans hoped to do this year. this is what they wanted to happen, hav

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang. >> woodruff: separately there's word tonight the f.b.i. arrested a federal contract employee on charges of leaking a secret document on russian election hacking. ncb news reports a georgia woman allegedly gave the national security agency document to the intercept, an online magazine. it says it shows russian military intelligence engineered a cyberattack on at least one u.s. supplier of voting software last year. hackers also tried to dupe elections officials into handing over log-in credentials. it's the first evidence moscow tried to go beyond swaying public opinion and interfere in election machinery. for more on all this and more we turn to politics monday and amy walter of the cook political record and tamera keith of npr. so, amy and tam, this is a story that has just been breaking literally within the last hour. we learned about this online magazine, amy, a few hours ago, but now we're learning about the arrest. if it is the case that the russians were able to in some way interfere or get close to interfering with the machinery of

john yang digs in to the details. >> reporter: late today, the congressional budget office issued its analysis of the senate health care bill. it found that by 2026, 22 million more americans would be uninsured than under current law. it would also reduce the federal deficit by $321 billion over that period. now that estimate of uninsured americans is slightly lower than the c.b.o. projection for the house version-- passed in may. but a rising tide of opposition is adding to the difficult dynamics of trying to pass the senate bill this week. joining me now to break all this down: julie rovner, she's chief washington correspondent for kaiser health news, and our own lisa desjardins. julie, let me start with you. drill down a little bit for us in that number of uninsured and also what did it say about the effect on premiums. >> well basically what they said is even though the senate bill is different in many ways from the house bill, they end up in roughly the same place in term of number of people who would be uninsured. basically both of the bills would double the percentage of people

john yang has more. >> president donald trump. >> yang: as mika brzezinski and joe scarborough wrappedr msnbc show this morning, president trump had a few choice words for them. mr. trump said the hosts, whom he called "low i.q. crazy mika" and "psycho joe," were "speaking badly of him." even though they "insisted" on joining him at mar-a-lago. adding that brzezinski was "bleeding badly from a face- lift" at the time. within minutes, brzezinski responded, resurrecting the "little hands" insult that had been directed at him during the 2016 presidential primaries. the president's words ignited a firestorm, that even included mr. trump's republican allies: >> i thought it was inappropriate, beneath the office, and not helpful. >> i wish, i wish he hadn't made the tweet. >> i don't see that as an appropriate comment. what we're trying to do is improve tone, civility. this obviously doesn't do that. >> did you see the president's tweets about mika brzezinski this morning? do you have any reaction to that? >> distasteful. this is not acceptable, mr. president. >> principal white house secret

for the pbs newshour, i'm john yang in washington. >> woodruff: as we reported earlier, governments andustries the world over are trying to deal with effects of the latest in a series of cyber attacks. the so-called ransomware assault is the second such strike in the last six weeks. hari sreenivasan in new york has more. >> sreenivasan: this ransomware attack originated yesterday in ukraine, and rapidly spread through europe, and beyond. the virus is called petya, and it takes over infected computers, effectively locking out users. a payment is required to return control of the machine and data. in early may, a similar virus called wanna cry spread to over 150 countries. this new attack shows signs of greater technical sophistication, but both apparently used, in part, a tool developed by the u.s. national security agency, a tool that was leaked into the open last year. with me now for more on this is rodney joffe. he is the senior vice president and national security executive for neustar, a cyber-security firm. rodney, it seems that we have not learned that much from what happened two

john yang begins our coverage. >> yang: america's top military commander, marine general joseph dunfordde no apology today for sunday's downing of a syrian warplane. >> we made every effort to warn those individuals not to come any closer and the commander made a judgement there was a threat to the forces we're supporting and took action. the only actions we've taken against pro-regime forces in syria, and there have been two specific incidents, have been in self defense. >> yang: earlier this month, the u.s. struck pro-assad forces approaching an important american-british special forces base in at tanf, in southeastern syria. in response to sunday's shoot- down, russia, which backs syrian president bashar al-assad, said it now considers all u.s. aircraft in the region a threat. in a statement, the defense ministry said: "all flying objects, including planes and drones of the international coalition, detected west of the euphrates, will be followed by russian air defense systems as targets." russia also said it suspended a military hotline with the u.s. designed to coordinate air missi

john yang reports now on what's out, and what stays in effect. >> yang: president trump made the announcementmiami's little havana, before an enthusiastic crowd in a packed auditorium: >> effective immediately, i am canceling the last administration's completely one-sided deal with cuba. >> yang: while the president's action falls short of "canceling," he said it fulfills a campaign promise to undo president obama's re-engagement with cuba. >> today, the united states of america is changing its relationship with the people of cuba. >> yang: in december 2014, mr. obama restored diplomatic ties with the island nation, after more than 50 years of hostility. in march 2016, he became the first u.s. president to visit cuba in nearly a century. president trump says his focus is halting the flow of u.s. dollars to the communist government. >> our policy will seek a much better deal for the cuban people and for the united states of america. we do not want u.s. dollars to prop up a military monopoly that exploits and abuses the citizens of cuba. the revised policy bans transactions with enterprises, in

i think given the levels of mistrust between john yang and washington, i think it would be a good first step to try to have a dialogue without preconditions to find out what is possible. we can call them talks about talks to help clarify what those conditions that would be acceptable, what are they, how can we identify them, how to meet or overcome them, what are the nonnegotiable and then go ahead with the negotiation with our allies and others. i think this work before the negotiations begin at american diplomats and iranian diplomats engaged in really helped pave the way to not only successful interim agreement but into the jcpoa which by the way is an agreement that is working. the second element of diplomacy with iran i think that should be considered is to focus on a limited set of realistic objectives, not a grand bargain. the u.s. iran discussions were limited to what both sides deemed to be very specific, manageable set of items in the nuclear field. and, of course, the u.s. priority was placed on preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. the iranian priority was an exch

john yang has our look.rning: this story includes images of violence that viewers may find disturbing. >> hello sir. >> yang: this week, the public got to see the dash-cam video of last july's fatal police shooting of philando castile outside st. paul, minnesota. jurors had watched it several times before acquitting officer jeronimo yanez. a conversation about a broken tailight quickly turned tense. >> i have to tell you i have a firearm on me. >> okay, don't reach for it then. don't pull it out. >> i'm not pulling it out. >> don't. (gunshots) >> yang: prosecutors said castile, who had a permit for the gun, was reaching for his driver's license. yanez said he thought he was reaching for his gun. the day he was acquitted, yanez was fired. since 2005, 82 u.s. law enforcement officers have been charged with murder or manslaughter for on-duty shootings, according to bowling green state university criminologist philip stinson. so far, 29 have been convicted, five of them for murder. yesterday, a jury found former

. >> with us to share their reporting, abbey phillip, olivia knox, john yang, and yak key kucinich. here's one of the many questions for jeff sessions. is the president really debating whether to fire the new special counsel lead -- russian meddling investigation. excuse me. of course not most white house aides say. political suicide is the reaction from most republicans outside the white house. the deputy attorney general, the man who would have to carry out such an order says he believes special counsel bob mueller is doing a fine job. why is this an issue? why is it a question? one of the certain questions the attorney general will be asked later today. because the president who surprised us all by firing the fbi director james comey has been complaining fiercely to friends of late about bob mueller in much the same way he complained about comey. >> i think he's considering perhaps terminating the special counsel. i think he's weighing that option. i think it's pretty clear by what one of his lawyers said on television recently. i personally think it would be a very significant m

john yang has that. >> yang: speaking in the oval office, president trump condemned the death of otto warmbier, who had been detained in north korea for nearly a year and a half. >> it's a total disgrace, what happened to otto. it should never, ever be allowed to happen. >> yang: he also indirectly blamed the obama administration for not getting him home sooner. >> he should have brought home that same day. the results would have been a lot different. >> yang: the president's spokesman said warmbier's death casts a shadow on mr. trump's stated willingness to talk to his north korean counterpart "under the right conditions." >> clearly we're moving further away, not closer, to those conditions being enacted. >> yang: later, in a tweet, the president seemed to abandon his goal of enlisting china to pressure north korea: "while i greatly appreciate the efforts of president xi and china to help with north korea, it has not worked out. at least i know china tried!" north korea's release of the 22-year-old warmbier has increased-- not eased-- tensions with pyongyang: he arrived in ohio last

john yang has more. >> yang: late last year, in response to the russian campaign meddling, the obamaadministration expelled 35 suspected russian intelligence operatives from the united states, and seized two long- held, russian diplomatic compounds-- one on the eastern shore of maryland; the other, on the north shore of long island. the "washington post" reports that the trump white house is now considering returning those properties, widely considered intelligence gathering hubs. what's more, politico reports that alleged russian spies have been turning up in odd places around the united states, often near parts of the nation's critical telecommunications networks. it's one part of what u.s. intelligence officials see as intensifying russian espionage, and counter-espionage, measures, both here and in russia. with me now for more on these stories are: karen deyoung of the "washington post" and ali watkins, of politico. thank you both. these two stories are different enough, i want to handle them one at a time. so i want the turn first to karen deyoung. karen, walk us through how thi

john yang has more on that. >> yang: joining me now to look at what happened in these two southern racesd the big takeaways for both democrats and republicans, are karine jean- pierre. she's a senior adviser for moveon.org, and worked in the obama white house. and, david avella, chairman of gopac, a republican political action committee focused on developing candidates to run for higher office. ica rin, david, thanks for joining us. republicans held on, one was being highly watched, one not so much. the one being highly watched was not as close as people thought it might be. the one that nobody seemed to be watching was much closer. so what did we learn last night? karinewhat, did we learn? >> there are a few big takeaways. i want to be clear, yes, the one we watched, georgia sir, we didn't come as dloas as we thought, but he was dealing with a 24-point deficit. if you think about tom price, who won that district in november, he got as close as five points which i think says a lot. that district is a gerrymandered district that is a stronghold for republicans. it is a republican. plus-ei

john yang has the latest. >> yang: more than a dozen women have filed lawsuits against baylor, the country's largest baptist university, saying the school ignored or mishandled their claims going back several years. the school's board of regents has acknowledged that 19 football players were accused of criminal, sexual or physical assault. one of them, tevin elliot, was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison. the head football coach, art briles, was fired, and the president, ken starr, quit after he was demoted. paula lavigne is a reporter with espn, investigating these allegations. she's the co-author of a forthcoming book on the baylor sexual assault scandal, called "violated: exposing rape at baylor university amid college football's sexual assault crisis." paula, thanks for joining us. remind us of these allegations. they've been around for a while, but remind us of the scope, how far back they go, the nature of the allegations at baylor. >> right. the allegations go back for more than a decade. in court cases alone, you have 15 different women filing title ix federal lawsuits aga

john yang said it was -- pyon gyang that it was not far from the technology. the american military has been practicing shooting down muscles in midair. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am courtney collins and this is bloomberg. yvonne: courtney, thank you. we finally got betty back online at the global conference. betty, you will be thought about geopolitics with the dean of wharton, geoffrey garrett, in just a couple of minutes. everyone is looking forward to carrie lam as well. betty: that's right. willn, geoffrey garrett start kicking off this whole session, this two-day session at the hotel for the wharton's 50th global forum. a lot of attention will be paid this morning to the keynote by carrie lam, the chief executive elect. of peoplee gathering close to the school. many of them are global investors, ceo's, and on top of their mind, when they are listening to carrie lam, is going to be, "what is the role of hong kong?" we made it through 20 years after the handover, but what is

john stamos could be a drummer in a band. >> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. >>> it is 5:00 a.m. now. good morning, everybody, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang.t is wednesday. and we are working for you this morning to get you out the door on time. >> melissa mollet of course keeping an eye on how long it will take to get to work. chuck and sheena have moved outside to the deck. morning, guys. >> cloudy skies. i could see the full moon pretty easily on my way in. that is not the case right now. >> and it was misting a little bit outside currently. anyways, we do have cooler temperatures in the morning. 63 in the district. warrington, 52. frederick, 52. winchester, 48 degrees. 60 in quantico. right now, radar is showing a few sprinkles trying to develop near bethesda,

john stamos could be a drummer in a band. >> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. >>> it is 5:00 a.m. now. good morning, everybody, i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm eun yang. it is wednesday. and we are working for you this morning to get you out the door on time. >> melissa mollet of course keeping an eye on how long it will take to get to work. chuck and sheena have moved outside to the deck. morning, guys. >> cloudy skies. i could see the full moon pretty easily on my way in. that is not the case right now. >> and it was misting a little bit outside currently. anyways, we do have cooler temperatures in the morning. 63 in the district. warrington, 52. frederick, 52. winchester, 48 degrees. 60 in quantico. right now, radar is showing a few sprinkles trying to develop near bethesda, district around gaithersburg, and we'll see the chances of showers increasing slightly. not a rainy day but showers around. look at those high temperatures only getting near 70 degrees this afternoon. we'll talk more about that and the big heat changes coming up. let's check the roads with melissa mollet. good morning. >> good morning. the beltway looking quite good. don't have