needed john mccain. we need his moral compass, which directs him to stand up for what is right, especially when it is unpopular. when john mccain looks in the mirror each day, i know that he can say with confidence that he fulfilled his oath, he maintained his values, he stayed the course, and aids others at every opportunity. while the senator is not here tonight, we are truly humbled to honor him with lbj's foundations most prestigious award, the liberty and justice award. as the mission as larry said, to write wrong to do justice, and to serve man, that is john mccain's example. if we come together, and have the courage to stand up for what is right, we can help others even in the most difficult of times. people who love this country can change it. together, we can take the steps to fulfill the memory and the meaning of our creed that we are one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. thank you. >>> will you please direct your attention to the screen, we are going to have a br

the traits that john mccain embodies. like john jay, and alexander hamilton, and benjamin franklin, senator mccain will never serve as our commander-in-chief. but he has always been on the battlefield of justice. fighting to preserve our democracy. there is no doubt in my mind that the name john mccain will be permanently inked into the history books of this nation as a modern-day founding father. we live in a time when politicians make arguments on major networks, not face with their colleagues on the house and senate. today, money and special interest soften individual voices and cause many americans. to walk away, distrustful of the government. to gain one's respect, and to be identified as someone with integrity, that is something that you cannot buy with a dollar. the diseases of the mind that poisoned the mode of democracy are cured with the values that senator john mccain embodies every single day. we know who john mccain is. we know him as a voice of reason. we know him as a shining beacon. eliminating the possibil

[laughter] see: is there somebody you is a future john mccain -- who is a future john mccain? ghter] meghan: oh, god. no. [applause] [laughter] me,an: you are killing smalls. you just want to run another campaign. you want to work with another mccain. give me a break. every of the campaign is boring to you want to work with another one. no, i am -- i like a lot. senator of nebraska. they are out there. i think at this moment, trump is so popular among the republican party, i don't think people feel as comfortable or courageous to reach out and speak their truths. i don't know. i am still hopeful. i'm hopeful for the future. i don't know. i don't want to put a pessimistic tone. there is not one person i think. rick: i think sometimes we get mesmerized by national politics and the presidency specifically. one of the greatest things for your party is to win the presidency and have that power. one of the worst things for your party is to win the presidency and your entire party is defined by one person. it is a fact. that is how it works. party to webust have all these great govern

john mccain. nice to see you how are you? they expect that and that's how we did it. ? good to see you. looking forward to seeing you tonight. - so mccain talking absst some processues that normally don't resonate in a presidential primary much, but talking about campaign finance reform and kind of replacing political bs with straight talk, he hit a chord. he really hit a chord. and then we got that rocket fuel. he hit a chord. he really hit a chord. - goor bush called me. i was in my hotel room that afternoon, and said, "you need to comdown here," and i said, "well--" he said, "have you talked to karl?" and i said, "no." and he said, "well the polls have come bat and they're od." and i said, "how not good?" and he said, "rely not good." [cheers and applause] - a lot of us kinda thought, "well, mccain's kind of tilting "at windmills here, but, you know, he's a good guy, let him go." well, then he started winning primaries, particularly crushed bush in new hampshire, and it became a real race. [upbeat music] ♪ ♪ - how did you feel coming out of new hampshire down by 19?

because i think john mccain was trying to place this in our history.id not only did president trump fail to speak the truth about an adversary, but our president failed to defend all that makes us who we are, a republic of free people dedicated to the cause of liberty at home and abroad. >> well, that's the great american -- insofar as we are an exceptional country, that is where our exceptionalism has been. general powell said we projected force and all we asked for is the ground on which to bury our dead. there is a lot to that. i'm not saying we're a blameless country. far from it. but we have, in fact, defined ourselves as what lincoln's called us the last best hope and president reagan, god knows what he's thinking at this point, saying the last best home of man on earth. i think that we have reached a point where there is a significant -- it's not irreparable, but it is a hugely significant breach in our ongoing faith with the global community. what worries me most is the known and unknown of what happens next. let's say putin -- just look at thi

john mccain. this bill directs the navy to assess the checks and balances in its chain of command so operational demands are appropriately balanced with ship training, certification, and maintenance. it limits to 10 years the period in which ships may be forward deployed and requires ship readiness inspections be conducted on a no notice basis for the results made available for the public to see. these changes are critical. we owe it to our sailors and we can't afford to have our naval assets out of commission with so much at stake at competitors seek to countor time-honored new orleans. -- norms. mr. speaker, the important provisions of this bill showcase what we in congress can accomplish when we choose to work with our colleagues acrots aisle and trust the committee process to produce a fair and balanced result. even more impressive is the fact that passage of this ndaa is the earlest it's come in 20 years. this fact defies the constant narrative of dysfunctional congress. i would like to comme

we do now have a statement just in from senator john mccain. ead it to you in its entirety. senator mccain says today's press conference in helsinki was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. the damage inflicted by president trump's me evety, ego tichl, false equivalence and sympathy for autocrats is difficult to calculate but it is clear that the summit in helsinki was a tragic mistake. senator mccain went on to say president trump proved not only unable but unwilling to stand up to putin. he and putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press and to use a connecticut tested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world. he went on to describe it as a pathetic route as an example of the perils of a non-prepared novice politician. these were the deliberate choices of a president who seems determined to realize his --. vie -- his complicity in the slaughter of the syrian people, and his violation of in

your thoughts on that, on john mccain. >> well, chris, you and i love john mccain. we don't care what party he's in. it's sad that his voice has been somewhat muted. that means others have to speak up. and you know, sometimes you've got to start alone. i was at the press club last week talking about my concerns. i've been doing it now for almost two years. as you know, i didn't go to the convention. i didn't endorse. because i was worried about these kinds of things happening. i don't want to be in a position to say i saw this because i was hoping that none of this was going to happen. all i'm asking for are my colleagues to begin to stand up and be heard on trade, on nato, more than just passing some non-binding resolutions. start taking some action because it's our country. and the sacrifices that so many people have made to preserve the liberty and the spirit of america. >> let's talk about that. the republicans, i'm impressed by awful them, from charlie dent to john mccain to jeff flake, all across the country, but the only voices are those who are not going to

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its liberties and justice for all award to senator john mccain. his daughter megan mccain accepted his award on his behalf. we also hear from senator mccain's presidential campaign manager, rick davis. >> i am larry temple, it is my privilege to welcome all of you to the presentation of the obj liberty and justice for all award. lyndon johnson's basic creed was epitomized in the following simple but insightful statement from his 1965 voting rights speech, in which he said, our mission is at once the oldest and the most basic of this country. to right wrongs, to do justice, and to serve man. lyndon johnson at his core belief that every citizen of this country should have the

john mccain earlier coming out with the statement saying the president should call it off if he is not putin. i am going to say thank you. that is "hardball" for now. chris matthews will be back. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >> tonight on all in. >> russia, if you are listening, i hope you are able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> charges for the russian operatives who answered trump's call. >> 12 russia military officers by name for conspiring to interfere with the 2016 election. >> as the president prepares to meet with putin behind closed doors. >> i will bring it up. >> new worries about collusion between trump and russia. >> i don't think you will

john mccain john mccain has not been right about every foreign policy issue and. he went after trump today or earlier this week for something trump said about montenegro and trump said you know the difficulty with nato is we're bound to defend every member of nato and so if montenegro is at war small little montenegro we've got to go to war and mccain threw a tantrum about that but it really is a very serious question about nato maybe not with regard to montenegro but with regard to turkey turkey's moving in its longest direction and we are bound by our nato treaty obligations to come to the common defense of turkey that's a real problem we haven't really resolved this contradiction during the cold war it was clear what nato is purpose was and now with some countries like turkey moving in a very different direction with different conflicts in different challenges in the world we may have to look at how nato works that doesn't mean need to still doesn't have other very important purposes but i think trump agrees with those purposes and yet there are other issues wi

there's been some calls from democrats and i think john mccain to not go forward with the meet. white house saying he will. congressman castro with the white house saying this meeting is going forward with this indictment now detailing what robert mueller and his team believe is this is what russia was doing in the united states in this presidential election in 2016. what message do you want president trump to bring to vladimir putin? what message do you expect him to bring to vladimir putin? >> well, given the news today in the indictments, president trump should not go bow at the foot of vladimir putin. and for him to do so is a disgrace to the american people. most especially because on the very day when he publicly called for russia to hack into hillary clinton's e-mails, they actually listened to him, and they did that. so for him to go there knowing what all of us know now would be a disgrace. >> carolyn, from a lawyer's perspective here, ken is saying he thinks that line, we're talking about the day that trump says go get those hillary e-mails russia if you're listening.

. >> woodruff: in a statent, senate armed services chair john mccain called it disgraceful: "no prior president has ever abased himself mor aabjectly befoyrant." house speaker paulyan was less critical, but said that mr. trump, "must appre iate that russnot our ally." other republicans instead cked up mr. trump's concerns about bias in the intelligence community. >> i think for the president to cast doubt is approp >> to cast doubt on the u.s. intelligence community's assessment? >> cast doubt on the validity of any nuer of these things you know that's fair. >> woodruff: dan coats, the director of national intelligence, also responded, insisting, "we will continue to provide unvarnished and objective intelligence in support of our national secuty." the concerns from the other end of pennsylvania avenue will be waiting for the president when he returns to washington late tonight. we now turn to our two reporters who were there in helsinki: white house correspondent yamiche alcindor. and special correspondent ryan chilcote. hello to both of you. s miche, you were in the room during tnew

absolutely abominable but it's it's exactly what i expected not only was he a centrist he was a john mccain groupie and so i looked at some of the things mccain tapper was saying back in two thousand when mccain was running for president he compared himself a verbally to mccain's hostage he said i'm patty hearst and you know there's no way that you won't come under mccain's spell in fact he likes to call me tanya this was when he was a white house correspondent who was covering mccain and he's continued to be mccain's groupie to the president if we remember last week john mccain went on jake tapper and said you know north korea needs to be extinguished it needs to be we need to see the extinction of that regime and jake tapper just not it along and then he said you know how's your family doing house cindy house. you know. you know if. it's thrown out there there's that kind of you know allusions to bethen destruction just kind of thrown out there on the show and other shows on c.n.n. and other moves and it's kind of like oh cool how are you doing you know is everything ok you're right and t

capacity john mccain adam schiff who is kind of the adam kinzinger of the democratic party and loves bomb countries and jake tapper has personally clamored for a military strike on syria which would have been you know turned a country in the heart of the middle east into libya and afghanistan. and that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told that we are loved so i told you all i love you i am tyrone butter and on top of the lawless people watching those hawks and of a great day and night everybody. that's a very rough terrain you saw it's rough but it moves and you have to fight to be able to them. it was gunshots on top of them and so many friends they would have been anything and i mean even not i. don't think anything will come . you know i don't when you see it but a body in the true and it's ready to punch you straight in the good. old to me a good mood and. you don't think about these these sold on no you got three to play and you know another patients. everywhere in the world my guess is that probably just about everywhere women expect men to

dijo que la participacion del president en la conferencia de john mccain dijo que la participaciÓn de vergonzosas de un presidente de la que se tenga memoria. carolina: ahora el congresista demÓcrata schummer calificó de peligroso y dÉbil el encuentro entre trump y potente. --putin. dijo que el presidente se habÍa puesto asimismo por encima del paÍs dijo editorial del periÓdico boston journal diciendo que esta reuniÓn fue una vergüenza nacional. borja: l propios memes relaciones de encuentro. este es el famoso meme del novio distraÍdo. esta vez, el supuesto novio distraÍdo es trump que voltea a ver a putin mientras ignora a sus agentes de inteligencia. carolina: esta caricatura es del artista kevin necessary que ilustra al presidente putin sosteniendo la cuerda del globo gigante trump baby utilizado en londres ante la llegada de trump. la caricatura bromea con el encuentro oficial de ambos mandatarios. parece que siempre tiene que ver con esto. borja: ha dado de quÉ hablar este gran globo que presentamos y que estuvo volando en londres. en otros temas, ice destaca lÍ santuario de san

john mccain. john mccain. so the archives in vietnam have this photo collection. i am going through stuff and there is a picture of -- mccain got shot down in 1967, his plane crashed in a lake in hanoi. if you go to annoy -- finally, there was actually a plaque where mccain was captured. it is a big deal for them that they captured john mccain and tortured him. but that is not on the plaque. this is mccain moments after he was shot down. i guess it is one of the first photos that was taken of mccain. i sent that to his office and i got a response back. i said, by the way, in case you care, here is a picture of the senator after he was captured. this is what the war was like for american marines and soldiers. you're basically just walking right? hrough jungle, again, vietnamese communist forces know how vulnerable they can be if they are exposed. so they go in the deepest areas of the country. mountainous jungle regions, and they would just wait for americans to come to them. now, something like 3 million americans served in vietnam. you often see these guys, vietna

absolutely abominable but it's it's exactly what i expected not only was he a centrist he was a john mccain groupie and so i looked at some of the things mccain tapper was saying back in two thousand when mccain was running for president he compared himself a verbally to mccain's hostage he said i'm patty hearst and you know there's no way that you won't come under mccain's spell in fact he likes to call me tanya this was when he was a white house correspondent who was covering mccain and he's continued to be mccain's groupie to the president if we remember last week john mccain went on jake tapper and said you know north korea needs to be extinguished it needs to be we need to see the extinction of that regime and jake tapper just not it along and then he said you know how's your family doing how cindy house. you know. how many amazing how it gets thrown out there there's what kind of you know allusions to death and destruction just kind of thrown out there on the show and other shows on c.n.n. and other moves and it's kind of like oh cool how are you doing you know is everything ok all ri

john mccain, saying it was a disgrace.fter trump had harsher criticism for the russian probe. he called it a disaster. he indicated he equally trusted his national security advisers as he did president putin. that is what a lot of members of congress had problems with. i am sure on july merkel, theresa may, emmanuel macron -- the foreign minister of germany said if they can trust washington fully -=- t-- they 't they can trust washington fully anymore. we have heard this rhetoric before. he treated putin not quite the same as merkel going into that nato conference, bashing her, saying she is captive to the russian state. this made more of an impact of shook with president putin, he probably showed him more respect than the united states' longstanding allies. guy: i am wondering how president trump's base is going to be feeling. trump in any way come across as a strong man, yesterday? there is this idea that strongman politics is what he is trying to protect -- project. true, i amhat is sure he wanted to protect that. two t

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>> and in fact you mentioned bush 41, john mccain again. and bush 41, ridiculing bush 41, two men in struggling health, one has just lost his wife. take a look at this. >> you know, all the rhetoric you see, the thousand points of light. what the hell was that, by the way, what did that mean? does anyone know? i know one thing, make america great again we understand. putting america first we understand. thousand points of light, i never quite got that one. what the hell is that? has anyone ever figured that one out? and it was put out by a republican. >> yes, a republican. president bush 41. it was all about volunteerism. jon meacham, the bush 41 biographer, wrote on twitter, well, mr. president, since you asked, it was an image of a nation illuminated by our better angels, offered by a man who gave his life to the service of that nation. >> and to encourage, as you said, the best of america, volunteerism. america first is not just america first. it's putting our best face first and putting our better angels first. and to make fun of that w

that's john mccain. you might call him an elder statesman in the more hawkish republican foreign policy establishment. here's senator marco rubio, a younger voice, one of the 2016 rivals say what? >> what the president said today is not accurate. the intelligence community has assembled probably an unparalleled amount of evidence in regards to the russian not just efforts to interfere in 2016 but ongoing efforts to interfere in american society. >> how do -- the president is the leader of the republican party. how do they answer? do they just walk away? >> it's an unusually fierce level of criticism. this is uncharted waters for republicans. this is not an decade-old tape that was uncovered or a red/blue culture clash or a campaign promise like tariffs. this is a matter of patriotism. are you going to side with american intelligence agencies and stand up against a sworn enemy, at least a serious adversary of the united states. now, there is talk among republicans in the house and the senate according to

democrats are working the numbers. >> simple math tells you if john mccain is absent it's a 50- 49 senate. one republican senator can decide the fate the white hous about two republicans specifically, both of whom may have concerns about the potential impact on abortion rights. there are also a handful of moderate democrats facing re- election this year in states that trump won who may find themselves under pressure to support the nominee. >> that's right, as far as tonight's announcement is concerned, that's really the easy part and then the difficult work begins of getting this individual confirmed. that's not a speedy process, the last justice to go through this took 66 days. . >> we'll continue to watch this story. >>> time is 4:34. new this morning in san francisco, the police early this morning removed people involved in a protest outside of ice headquarters. the protestors were ordered to leave and that street was closed to everyone else. 0. >> the protestors were demanding the shut down of the immigrations and custom enforcement agency that it be replaced with something else. yest

that is former republican presidential candidate senator john mccain of arizona. today after a strong international backlash, trump in a bizarre statement claimed he misspoke and of course blamed the media for reporting what he said. even now, he could not help but suggest that the electoral interference, quote, could be other people also, end quote, and not just russia. today we face an unprecedented situation of a president who, for whatever reason, refuses to acknowledge an attack on american democracy. either he really doesn't understand what has happened or he is under russian influence because of compromising information they may have on him or because he is ultimately more sympathetic to russia's authoritarian oligarchic form of society than he is to american democracy. whatever the reason, congress must act and must act now to demand that the president of the united states represent the interest of the american people and not russia. let us be clear -- russia has been meddling not only in u.s. elections but in the elections of other democracies, united kin

i'm proud john mccain put out such a clear statement along those lines as well.'s been actions on russia of late and what we saw previously, when mueller indicted all those with the research agency, sanctions were laid on those individuals whether it's the al guards involved in funding it or the intelligence bureaus within the russian government. i hope and expect they do that again and expand it out after the mueller indictment. the president has been clear with germany and his frustration of their cooperation with russia that undermines nato and europe to get russian gas and be dependent on russia. the president pushed back on russia and germany and i hope he presses in other ways. >> should the president have said what senator mccain said? >> i would hope the president continues to say those things. he is a firm law enforcement over and over again. he says this is an attack on him. there's evidence the russians were trying to engage. they are not finding anyone on the president's campaign were working with the russians. the allegations the president was collud

you had the typical critics like jeff flake and john mccain with the forceful statements.eople like newt gingrich and others saying it was a mistake. the question is how long does this last? this reaction was very reminiscent, to me at least, about charlottesville, remember? >> of course, yes. >> and other controversies that the president weighed into. and you saw the swift backlash from republicans only to move on to another issue. i raise that because we're in the middle of a primary season right now, republican primary season. we haven't seen many candidates really separating themselves from donald trump if they're running in a republican primary or running in states where he did well. >> what do you think was more damaging, the fact that the president wouldn't admit russia's fault in all of this? pointing the finger at russia directly, having vladimir putin standing right next to him and saying, you did this, you cannot do this, and there will be repercussions for this? or the dressing down of his own intelligence agencies up to the very end of the press conference whe

well, john mccain's been wrong on just about everything for the last 40 years. i'll give you example. he's such a loose canon and so emotional about issues that, when i opposed the expansion of n.vet.o., which many opposed, george kenan among them, th dmost famouslomat of the last century exposed to the expansion of n.a.t.o., when i was opposed to the expansion of n.a.t.o., mccain said i was working for president putin. so that kind of comment doesn't deserve to be countance and polite company shouldn't countence mccain who calls somebody who has anopposition to expanding n.a.t.o. a traitor. so i don't think much of john mccain's opinions on foreign policy. >> woodruff: an impression that came across was the president was simply too friendly and too trusting of p vladimin. >> i think the president is different than many leaders who basically ill litigate thing to death and not meet with people. i think trump is different in that h s willing to meetwith foreign leaders and, actually, i think you may get a breakthrougf becaushe meetings. i think if this were anybo

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obviously, there in a couple of those portions of that mash-up we played there went off on john mccain vote in the -- the repeal or replace rote in congress or obamacare and just as george h.w. bush declining health, barbara bush passed away earlier this year, goes after thousand points of light and part of his rhetoric about getting marshalling volunteerism. >> in an organization still does a lot of really good -- >> the points of light foundation still working. >> correct, correct, correct. call it for what it is. basically, donald trump goes out and has turned the political rallies into two things. political roasts. and two, political roasts against his enemies. and he feels that he's unshackled to say anything that he wants. when would you think you would see a president of the united states acting that way? would lincoln act that way? george washington? would george h.w. bush act that way? going after john mccain, he went after them, this iey're the mor compass. >> can we also -- >> go ahead. >> how about this maxine waters stuff over and over again? how racist is that? come on. j

>> john mccain has been wrong on every decision for the last 40 years. he's out to lunch on this.ansion of nato because it's provocative and -- i agree with george cannon, one of the greatest diplomats. he said if we expand nato in the eastern europe, he predicted the rise of putin. when i add montenegro, he said i was working for putin. everybody is a traitor. they have something on the president. instead of saying, you know what? maybe the president wants less conflict in the world and less likelihood of war and i believe that to be true. >> switch gears a little bit, senator with brett kavanaugh. you had your doubts about him about being a replacement for justice kennedy. how do you feel about him now? >> i haven't decided how i'm going to vote yet. i have a serious misgiving on his privacy records. he said that national security trumps privacy and trumps the second amendment. if that were true, basically we would live in 1984. everything can be justified. gosh, if we just had more of your information, we can protect you, if we had every bit of your information. that basically

the "uss john mccain" was commissioned in 1994. last year ten soldiers were kill when the ship collided with an oil tanker near singapore. the navy says it hopes to put the ship back out to sea by next spring. >>> adult film star stormy daniels who claimed she had a sexual encounter with donald trump was arrested last night. daniels was arrested in a strip club in columbus, ohio. her lawyer michael avenatti said she was arrested for allowing a customer to touch her in a, quote, nonsexual manner while on stage. avenatti said it was a setup and politically motivated. >>> a volunteer firefighter killed in a natural gas explosion in wisconsin is being lovingly remember as a hero and loving husband and father. hundreds lined the streets to honor 34-year-old captain cory barr. he was checking on a gas leak at a restaurant he and his wife owned tuesday when it exploded. he and others helped evacuate more than 100 people to safety. >> it's maddening. he cared for the fire department so much, and, you know, i always admired him and looked u

john mccain, they gave it to him.said a big fan of president trump. >> laura: we need to talk more about the mccain angle. god bless him is suffering. no one wants to talk about that. we have two. spigot we know from a testimony, he sets that delivery. he mage that john mccain's people got that. now you have david corn who wrote a story in october then decided to give the document to fbi. that doesn't make sense. nothing wrong and october, you've already written about it. why did you give to the fbi? >> glenn simpson, he might have used mr. ohr. that whole chain of custody has been disrupted. people are feeding and creating circular intelligence. >> laura: one investigator told her the following. the dossier and its related dirt was on a circular flight path on a craft called miss clinton. the fbi kept signing the packages. >> rudy: isn't that called collusion? >> hannity: or a conspiracy to gin up a totally illegal wire? doesn't it, with no investigation doesn't it taints the entire russian probe? how much of that in

john mccain called president trump's performance one of the most disgraceful in memory. even newt gingrich said it was the most serious mistake of trump's presidency. who is defending the president? for one, the vice-president. >> disagreements between our countries were discussed at length. what the world saw, what the american people saw is that president donald trump will always put the prosperity and security of america first. >> all right. let's get back to the hill. paul ryan this morning, he did not mince words. is there movement to do something? >> reporter: it's certainly a lot of words up here on capitol hill. we have heard from many republicans about president trump's press conference about his words yesterday. but their response in large part has been just coming out in support of the intelligence community, in support of their findings. but certainly not taking that next step and outlining very clearly what they can do if anything up here on capitol hill. we did hear from speaker of the house paul ryan a few moments ago. he did acknowledge that they have don

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he mocked senator john mccain despite calls for republicans to stop attacking mccain. all of the retic you see and the thousand points of light. what is that by the way. thousand points of light, what does that mean. make america great again we understand. putting america first we understand. thousand points of light, i never quite got that one. has anyone ever figured that one out. >> all right, former george w. bush secretary saying "this is so uncalled for. going after a 94-year-old former president's promotion of valu n volunteerism." >>> scott pruitt resigned on thursday. in his resignation later he does not directly mention the scandals or the investigations into his conduct. he say it's is extremely difficult for me to cease serving glow this role, but the unrelenting attacks on me, personally, my family, are unprecedented and have taken a sizable toll on us all. a. rue wheeler is taking over as active administrator. >> today parks the first of several key deadlines as they work to reyunite thousands of families that were separated at the border. officials will

one of the strongest reactions came from republican senator john mccain of arizona, who called trump's statements one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president in memory. today in washington, meeting with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, the president will likely be in defense mode. president trump questioned his own intelligence community after meeting privately with russian president vladimir putin in helsinki on monday. >> they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> reporter: the president said putin was powerful in his denial that russia interfered in the 2016 election, but all 17 u.s. intelligence agencies concluded that the russian government directed cyber attacks on members of the democratic party. republican lawmakers criticize the president's remarks. >> the president's comments made us look as a nation more like a pushover. >> i never thought i'd see an american president throw the intelligence community under the bus like that. >> reporter: democr

this comes after calls from many democrats in congress and a suggestion from john mccain that the summit should be canceled aft after the indictments. neil, let me start with you. you were in the justice department at one point. the timing of this is curious. rod rosenstein said this is a matter of the grand jury indicted. somebody scheduled them to meet today. >> exactly. we don't know what is going on. it's a black box. one thing that is likely happening is mueller and his team knew. the summit is happening monday, we have to get out in front of it and have the indictments happen now, not later. >> what do you make of that? is that inappropriate? >> i think they think it is patriotic and important to let the president know and putin know, let all of us know this russian interference is a fact. or at least they know to charge an actual crime with back-up evidence rather than allowing it to be something that has been talked about and intelligence community agreed it happened. the president remains doubtful. maybe the timing is sort of an accident. it's the right thing to do, i think. thi

you have a situation where senior republican senators like john mccain, the former nominee of the partyys this was one of the most disgraceful performances by an american president ever. now that kind of thing can't be put back in the bottle. >> and this was not a slip of the tongue. the president has had two years to think about this. this wasn't a communications issue and a tweet can't undo what was done yesterday. carl bernstein, you've had a chance to think about this. your take? >> this is a genuine national security emergency. whether through incompetence or questioning his loyalty or whether he is ignorant. the president of the united states cannot be entrusted with the national security of the united states. that's what we saw where the two leaders appeared yesterday. we never had a moment like this where serious people of both parties are questioning the loyalty of the president of the united states. unprecedented and we have to figure out how to deal with a president of the united states who wittingly or unwittingly has been compromised. what we saw yesterday was collusion wit