>> jonathan karl joins us from sicily. and jon, you told us when president trump leftt tha meeting with the pope, he said i won't forget what you said. a lot of pressure to rethink climate change. and you've learned he might be evolving on the issue? >> reporter: well, the president's top economic adviser gary cohn said exactly that, that the president's views on climate change are evolving. so where he once promised to rip up the paris accord, it now appears the president at the very least is now considering changing his mind. david? >> jon, our thanks to you. >>> meantime back at home, hillary clinton returning to her alma mater to speak at graduation. but today, what she said about impeachment that made news immediately. here's mary bruce. >> reporter: it was a familiar stage for hillary clinton, back at her alma mater, wellesley college, 48 years later to again deliver a graduation address. first, sharing how she's bounced back from her bruising loss in the presidential election. >> long walks in the woods. organizing

we talk to the chief correspondent for abc news, jonathan karl in jerusalem with the president. >> he didn't utter the words "radical islamic terrorism." this was a message core operation it's more cooperation it was words we heard before. >> charlie: and jordan peele. >> the black experience has a lot of horror to it. there's a little more readiness and suspiciousness with the main character than in other horror movies. >> charlie: jonathan karl and jordan peele when we continue. funding by "charlie rose" is funded by the following: >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> charlie: we begin this evening with a look at president trump's first trip abroad. it comes after the report that president trump leaked information to russians and he responded to the allegation. >> i never mentioned the word or the name israel. never mentioned it. end of conversation. never ment

they get along very well. >> so let's get to jonathan karl live at the white house tonight. some of your sources telling you that some people, close to president are now saying it's time for jared kushner to take a leave of absence. >> i'm hearing from some people, quite close to president, at the very least, jared kush ne should scale back his duties here at the white house, if not completely take a leave of absence. david, there's no indication right now that the president himself believes that, in fact, the president issued a statement over the weekend, saying, jared is doing a great job per the country. i have total confidence in him. he's respected by virtually everyone. david. >> jon karl with us tonight. jon, thank you. >>> breaking developments at this hour involving the u.s. military. for the first time the u.s. military has intercepted a mock intercontinental ballistic missile. this test coming as north korea appears to be closer its goal of building a missile that could reach u.s. territory. here's abc's martha raddatz. >> reporter: it was the first live-fire inte

i have never seen that with any other administration. >> chief white house correspondent jonathan karl for us in saudi arabia. jonathan, thank you. >>> george will have much more from that exclusive interview with general mcmaster tomorrow on "this week." >>> to the harrowing moments on a flight from honolulu. these f-22 fighter jets escorting that plane after a man with a laptop began acting erratically. tonight, we have new details about that passenger that are leading to new questions about why he was allowed on that flight in the first place. here's abc's matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, new details emerging about this turkish national, seen here in handcuffs after allegedly trying to force his way to the front of a flight. airline officials now saying he was acting erratically hours earlier and had to go through tsa screening twice, but wasn't deemed a threat. the fbi boarding the flight in honolulu after anil uskanil was subdued. >> we're going to send a couple of agents back there right now. don't be alarmed by that. >> reporter: eyewitnesses say halfway through friday's fligh

joining me from the white house is jonathan karl from abc news.hat is it like to be at the white house on a day like this? >> charlie, you have the sense that you have no idea what is going to happen next. the place is packed. i don't think i've eversseen the briefing roomñr quite as packeds it was for just the daily press briefing today. you have a sense at any given moment another major story can break and as you talk to senior officials here, get a feeling they don't know where all of this is going next. started out amazingly, charlie, with questions about whether or not the president has installed listening devices in the oval office, in the white house. whether or not the president is recording his conversations. echos of fred thompson questioning butterfield about the nixon administration's recording devices in the oval office. it's just extraordinary. >> rose: h he went a tweet out saying james comey better hope there are no conversations -- tape of the conversations before he starts leaking to the press. that sounds like a threat. >> i don

how is the white house responding to that, here's our chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl. >> reporter: in the oval office today, president trump was asked about his search for a new fbi director to replace the fired jim comey. >> mr. president, how's the process of going -- >> thank you. thank you. >> are you shaking up your staff, mr. president? >> thank you. very good. >> thank you. >> moving rapidly. >> reporter: that search may be moving rapidly, but the white house is defying congressional demands for answers on whether the president has been secretly recording his conversations. late last week, he implied he was, taunting the fired fbi director with a tweet, saying, "james comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" >> if there are tapes as the president has suggested, he should turn them over immediately. >> reporter: even republicans are saying if there are tapes, they need to be preserved and turned over. >> you can't be cute about tapes, if there are any tapes of this conversation, they need to be turne

piety to evil will bring you no dignity. >> jonathan karl join us now. the administration is touting the speech as a step in the right direction, and hoping to build on that momentum for the next leg of the trip? >> reporter: they're not predicting an outbreak of peace, as the president goes to israel and meets with the israelis and palestinians, but they do believe this will give momentum to restarting peace talks. the arab nations that were here see two main enemies. iran and isis. neither of which are israel, and in fact those are the same enemies israel sees. so, the administration hopes they will see more support in the middle east peace process than they have in the past. >> jonathan, thank you. >>> the events in the mideast unfolding against the drum beat of controversy at home. especially the upcoming testimony in front of congress from fbi director james comey who president trump fired. this, as some republicans are breaking with the trump administration and looking into a possible connection between the russians and the trump campaign. here's g

jonathan karl live with us as well. you were in that briefing room. the white house today didn't seem concerned about the potential of classified information given out. they made it clear that the bigger concern here, in their opinion, is who leaked what happened. jon, the initial call -- the initial call of concern to the cia and the nsa you have reported has come from within the white house. >> reporter: here's what we know, shortly after that meeting with the russians, a top official on the national security council here at the white house placed calls to the nsa and the cia to inform them about what the president had said, so, clearly there was enough concern here at the white house about what the president revealed that they felt they needed to tell the cia and the nsa. >> all right, jon, thanks to you. >>> and on capitol hill tonight, reaction pouring in on both fronts. on the reported pressure on james comey, to go easy on michael flynn, and on the classified information allegedly given to the russians. both democrats and republicans want the t

we talk to jonathan karl, gillian tett and ed rollins. >> it's is prerogative to fire comey. could have fired him on january 20th and no one would have batted an eyelash. you can't beat him up. you say thank you for your 30 years of service. he had impeccable credentials. he had a difficult time and you may question his judgment on some of the things he did in the case but you can't batter him around. >> rose: we continue with a conversation with the c.e.o. o susan wojcicki. >> cheers people who have a global brand, a lot of times they have millions of subscribers, they're making a good living on youtube. they are extremely well known. they are extremely famous among their demographic and users, and, so, now, we have youtube is a collection of a huge amount of video content, many professional youtubeers and, of course, tv also uses youtube as way of putting their content on it, promoting it and having it be a part of a site where there are a billion people coming every month to watch video. >> rose: we conclude with tin carr, the director of the roy peck trust, an organizatio

white house correspondent jonathan karl has been traveling with the president.e joins me from jerusalem at a very late hour. think you for joining us. i begin with this question. this seems like a remarkable trip so far because it is so different from the donald trump of the campaign. jonathan: it is an incredibly ambitious trip. the mere fact that he started it in saudi arabia, and not just starting and saudi arabia the birthplace of islam, but at a conference where he was surrounded by the leaders of more than 50 muslim nations, and entirely different image for donald trump. i don't think any of us would have predicted that during the campaign when he was declaring that islam hates us. he was proposing a total and complete ban on all muslims coming to the united states, including, by the way, all of the people who were at that event. different image of donald trump. the town -- tom was different. words,'t utter those radical islamic terrorism. he didn't say that. this was a message of cooperation. this was a message that the terrorists are not truly islamic. a

charlie: jonathan karl, i know it is late over there in jerusalem. thank you very much. ways good to have you here. safe travels. jonathan: thank you, charlie. charlie: we will be right back. stay with us. ♪ charlie: jordan peele is here. his work on the comedy central sketch series and him a peabody and emmy award. earlier this year he made his directorial debut with the horror film "get out." it involves an african-american man who visits his right -- e girlfriend's parents, and uncovers a conspiracy. it is called one of the most satisfying thrillers in years. it has grossed over 38 times its budget, for a domestic box office total of $175 million. the film will be released on blu-ray and dvd on may 23. here's a look at the trailer. >> did you pack your toothbrush? do you have deodorant? >> yes. >> do you have your cozy clothes customer. >> do they know i'm black? >> mom and dad, my black boyfriend will be coming over. just don't want you to be shot that he is a black man. [laughter] >> i've never seen you like this. you come back and you have your pants up to your stom

abc's jonathan karl was there. >> reporter: donald trump and the muslim world.e that not long ago would have been impossible to imagine. here in the birthplace of islam. the man who had portrayed muslims as the problem offering a message of unity in the fight against terrorism. >> this is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations. this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to oobliterate human life and decent people, all in the name of religion. this is a battle between good and evil. >> reporter: in the audience the leaders of more than 50 muslim countries, virtually the entire islamic world. a remarkable moment for the man who just a year ago said -- >> i think islam hates us. there's something -- there's something there that there's a tremendous hatred there. >> reporter: and for the candidate who had proposed a total and complete shutdown of all muslims entering the u.s., a prohibition that would have applied to everyone in this audience. >> i stand before you as a representative of the american people to de

. >> announcer: the very latest on this breaking story from jonathan karl and pierre thomas and our exclusivee top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff. plus, after a devastating attack -- >> terrorism is a threat, bad

jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: he's already fired him. and today, president trump aimed an apparent threat to fired james comey. tweeting, he had better hope there are no tapes. wait a minute, tapes? today after the tweet, a nondenial. >> what about the idea that you said there might be tape recordings? >> that, i can't talk about. all i want is for comey to be honest, and i'm sure he will be, i hope. >> reporter: a recording of whether comey said what the president claims he said about the russia investigation. >> he said, you are not under investigation. >> reporter: today, the white house was pressed on whether the president was threatening comey. >> did president trump record his conversations with comey? >> the president has nothing further to add to that. >> are there recording devices in the residence? >> i have nothing further to add. that's not a threat. he simply stated a fact. the tweet speaks for itself. i'm moving on. >> reporter: sean spicer refused to confirm or deny whether or not the white house is bugged. did you ask the

. >> announcer: the very latest on this breaking story from jonathan karl and pierre thomas and our exclusive with the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, adam schiff. plus, after a devastating attack -- >> terrorism is a threat, bad threat. >> announcer: what are the security threats here at home? tough questions ahead for homeland security secretary john kelly. and what makes trump tick? >> are you surprised that he's not different in office? >> announcer: insight and analysis from our panel of experts. from abc news, it's "this week." here now co-anchor martha raddatz. >>> good morning on this memorial day weekend. americans welcoming the summer and paying respect to those who have fallen defending our freedom. we'll have the story of a missing marine and his son's long quest to bury him with honor later in the program. >>> but we begin with the deepening political crisis over the russia connection. through all the investigations, all the dramatic headlines, all the shifting stories about russia's election interference and the trump campaign's possible role in it, the preside

jonath jonathan karl on how the white house is responding tonight. >> reporter: as president trump boarded air force one for his first overseas trip, another shoe in the russia story was about to drop. the "new york times" is reporting the president boasted about his decision to the russian officials in the oval office. i just fired the head of the fbi, the president told them, according to the "times." he was crazy. a real nut job. and photos were captured by a photographer by the russian government, allowed in the room. trump has acknowledged russia was on his mind when he fired the fbi director. >> i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> reporter: the day after, the president told the officials, i faced great pressure because of russia. that's taken off. adding, i'm not under investigation. in the same meeting, trump also shared sensitive intelligence with the russians. all of this sets the stage for an upcoming showdown with comey. the president claims comey assured him he was not under investigation, but comey has told associa

. >> i think there is -- >> our thanks to jonathan karl there at the white house.ou see the house minority leader nancy pelosi who said the song was a spontaneous moment. republicans had their own soundtrack blasting "eye of the tiger" and "taking care of business" before casting their votes. >>> president trump leaves for his first official overseas trip later this month starting with a visit to saudi arabia. white house aides say the president chose saudi arabia as his first stop to show that he's committed to improving u.s. relations with the muslim world. the president's itinerary includes visits to israel and the vatican where he meet with pope francis. >> a busy end of the month for the president. now for a look at the weather. well, this morning the national weather service will be in savannah, georgia, to look into whether it was a tornado that damaged more than a dozen buildings. at least five people there suffered minor injuries and this scene also in georgia at the world's busiest airport, atlanta hartsfield jackson. in the distance you can see look in t

abc's chief white house jonathan karl on the gift from the pope that sent a signal. >> reporter: the pope and the president -- the ultimate odd couple. >> welcome. >> thank you very much. this is such a great honor. >> reporter: their meeting may have seemed a little awkward at first -- a beaming president standing next to a stoic pope francis. at the end, the president called the meeting an honor. >> he is something -- he is really great. we had a fantastic meeting and >> reporter: the president arrived at the vatican greeted by the iconic swiss guard and a long red carpet, a welcome filled with pageantry. it wasn't long ago that these two men had a very public feud, the pope last year saying then-candidate donald trump's call to build a wall was "not christian." candidate trump reacted angrily. >> for a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful. >> reporter: but today, here at the vatican, the two beginning with a friendly handshake. the pope -- at meetings today the vatican emerg ed the vatican urged the president not to drop out of the paris accord on climate c

jonathan karl, traveling with the president and starting us off tonight. >> reporter: the muslim world. here in the birthplace of islam, the man who had portrayed muslims as the problem, offering a message of unity against terrorism. >> terrorists do not worship god. they worship death. this is not a battle between different faiths, different sects or civilizations. this is a battle between b barbaric criminals and decent people. this is a battle between good and evil. >> reporter: in the audience, the leaders of more than 50 muslim countries. a remarkable moment for the man who just a year ago said -- >> i think islam hates us. there's something, something there, there's a tremendous hatred there. >> r candidate who had proposed a total and complete shutdown of muslims from entering the u.s. but today -- >> i stand before you as a representative of the american people to deliver a message of friendship and hope and love. >> reporter: but he did issue a challenge. >> a better future is only possible if your nations drive out the terrorists and extremists. drive them out. drive them out

abc's jonathan karl traveling with the president. >> reporter: donald trump couldn't have asked for a warmer welcome in the holy land. coming off air force one to an elaborate red carpet ceremony, and a greeting from the prime minister and his wife, who remarked that the netanyahus and the trumps have something in common. >> the majority of the people in israel, unlike the media, they love us so we tell them how you are great and they love you. >> reporter: trump then became the first sitting american president to visit one of jerusalem's most sacred sites, placing his hand on the western wall and following jewish tradition, leaving a written prayer. with him, his wife melania and daughter ivanka. white house hopes this trip will turn the page from the russia investigation back home, but today it was the president himself who spoke about the controversy. as an event with netanyahu was wrapping up, trump told reporters to stay. he had something to say about that infamous oval office meeting with russian officials, about those reports that he passed on highly classified intelligence giv

jonathan karl, traveling with the president and starting us off tonight. >> reporter: donald trump and the muslim world. an image that not long ago would have been impossible to imagine. here in the birthplace of islam, the man who had portrayed muslims as the problem, offering a message of unity against terrorism. >> this is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations. this is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to obliterate decent people and human life. this is a battle between good and evil. >> reporter: in the audience, the leaders of more than 50 muslim countries. vier virtually the entire islamic world. a remarkable moment for the man who just a year ago said -- >> i think islam hates us. there's something, something there, there's a tremendous hatred there. >> reporter: and for the candidate who had proposed a total and complete shutdown of all muslims entering the u.s. a prohibition that would have applied to everyone in this audience. but today -- >> i stand before you as a representative of the american people to deliver a mess

let's get right to white house correspondent jonathan karl. you saw the moment. let's play it foreveryone here. ♪ good-bye >> protesting any repeal of obamacare, popularity of obamacare going up in recent weeks. >> you saw some of that anger in town halls across the country before this vote. people concerned about what the changes would mean for their own health care. this was a big legislative victory for the president today. but democrats hope they can turn this into a liability for in the elections next year. their top targets will be 23 house republicans who are in districts that hillary clinton won. david, more than half of them voted for this bill, that will be something they'll have to answer for. overall, obamacare is more popular than it's been. in fact in our poll, 37% said they wanted it repealed and replaced. >> jon karl, thanks to you as well. >>> president trump arriving home tonight in new york city. his first trip back to new york since the inauguration. along with his victory on health care the white house announcing his first overseas trip, firs

abc's jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: less than 24 hours after the firing james comey, the man leading the investigation into russian meddling, president trump welcomed russia's ambassador and foreign minister to the white house. the russians releasing these pictures of the men laughing together in the oval office. later, the president asked why fire comey? >> mr. president, why did you fire director comey? >> why did you fire director comey? >> because he wasn't doing a good job. very simply, he was not doing a good job. >> reporter: the big question tonight -- why now? the white house initially said the president lost confidence in comey just yesterday, after receiving this memo from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. rosenstein blasted comey's handling of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation, singling out the july news conference where the director declared he would not prosecute clinton, but then went on to criticize her at length. rosenstein implied clinton had been treated unfairly, saying, "we do not hold press conferences to release derogatory information a

here's abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: as president trump met with the president of turkey today, he was hounded with questions -- >> did you share classified intelligence information with the russians? >> mr. president, did you share classified intelligence information with the russians? >> thank you very much. >> reporter: but a little later, he touted his meeting with the russians as a success. >> we had a very, very successful meeting with the foreign minister of russia. our fight is against isis. >> reporter: the story is about what the president said when he met with the russian foreign minister and ambassador in the oval office last week. the "washington post" first reported that the president shared highly sensitive classified information about an isis plot to target civilian airplanes with laptop bombs -- secret information, abc news has learned, given to the united states by israeli intelligence. less than two hours after the story broke, the national security adviser emerged from the west wing to shoot it down. >> the story that came out t

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: contradicting white house officials from the vice president on down, president trump today said he decided on his own to fire james comey. >> look, he's a showboat, he's a grandstander. the fbi has been in turmoil. you know that. i know that. ever you take a look at the fbi a year ago, it was in virtual turmoil. less than a year ago. it hasn't recovered from that. >> reporter: the president said he decided to fire comey well before the deputy attorney general weighed in. >> he made a recommendation, but regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey. >> reporter: in his letter firing comey, the president claimed the fbi director had told him he was not under investigation three separate times, including during a dinner at the white house, a dinner he said he believes comey requested. >> he wanted to stay on as the fbi head, and i said, i'll, you know, consider it, we'll see what happens. but we had a very nice dinner. >> reporter: the president said comey also assured him he was not under invest

. >> now, abc's jonathan karl pressed the white house, asking if that's an inappropriate question for a president to ask an fbi director. >> one of these conversations, the president said happened at a dinner where the fbi director, according to the president, was asking to stay on as fbi director. don't you see how that's a conflict of interest? the fbi director is saying he wants to keep his job and the president is asking whether or not he's under investigation. >> i don't see that as a conflict of interest. and neither do the many legal scholars and others that have been commenting on it in the last hour. so no, i don't see that as an issue. >> during his senate intelligence hearing, acting fbi director mccabe would not confirm whether comey told president trump he was not under investigation. >>> and the white house is also under fire for allowing a possible security breach during a meeting with top russian officials. these photos of the meeting were taken by a russian photographer. now, intelligence officials have raised concerns over that photographer and his equipment being al

. >>> i want to get to jonathan karl tonight, you were telling me that the white house was blindsided. what have you learned tonight. >> reporter: they were completely taken offguard by this. as a matter of fact, i'm told the senior staff of the white house didn't get word of this until 30 minutes before the news was shared with the news media. it shouldn't have taken all that much by surprise. given the developments of the last few days. i'm starting to hear even from some republicans on capitol hill, welcoming this news, including jason chaffetz, he said mueller is a great selection, impeccable credentials. should be widely accepted. >> all right, 30 minutes' warning as you point out, jon >>> as you could imagine, this news traveling quickly to capitol hill. where some republicans began joining some democrats calling for this move. both sides want james comey on the hill testifying before the american people about what he wrote about his meetings with the president. abc's mary bruce tonight on the hill. >> reporter: with his white house consumed by crises, president trump today vent