i'm jonathan karl of abc news. just ahead, the long history of russian money and donald trump's businesses. iraq celebrates a victory over i.s.i.s., and olivia wilde, tom sturridge and reed birney take to the stage in george orwell's' "1984". >> if it were a brand-new play someone wrote about atie a dystn universe we would accuse them of jumping on a weird bandwagon, but the fact it was george orwell's' words and he saw all this in 1949 is what is so terrifying. >> more on what did happen and what might happen. >> 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 >> rose: you began how? natural style of play. >> rose: luck or something else. >> i felt passionate from the beginning. >> what's the objection lesson. you can be as involved as you want to be. >> rose: tell me the significance of the moment. >> we begin with a look at the news of the week. here are the sigh

. >> and this morning, kushner will speak abc's jonathan karl has more. >> reporter: the president'sn-law was all smiles as he arrived on capitol hill. >> did anybody with the campaign collude with russia? >> reporter: the behind the scenes ho scenes power player is now front and center in the russia investigation. he is the first trump family member and highest white house staff member to be questioned. he released a 11-page statement that he said fully accounted for his russia contacts during the campaign and the transition. his conversations with the russian ambassador, the russian banker, and that trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer arranged by don jr., who in an e-mail chain was told she was a russian government attorney who had dirt on hillary clinton. part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. don jr. forwarded the e-mail subject line, russia, clinton, private and confidential. but kushner says he only read the part of the e-mail directed to him, listing just at the time of the meeting. kushner called the sit-down itself a waste of our time, saying in a

i just spoke with jonathan karl, the wheef white house correspondent for abc news. >> there's no question the president had made it clear-- actually, even before scaramucci came, in the president had made it clearly internally that he was getting ready to make a change, not necessarily on this exact date, the scaramucci fiasco, the back-and-forth between the two of them accelerated this, but the president made it clear he was getting ready to make a change. and, charlie, this comes as-- this is an incredibly chaotic six months when you think about it because not only do you have a chief of staff, one of the shortest serving chief of staffs in history, and i believe the shortest serving first chief of staff we have seen, but you have the national security adviser who last the barely a month. you have the white house press secretary who left last week, a communications director who only lasted a couple of weeks. six months of turmoil. now he is bringing a military man. he is bringin bringing in genere tow try to impose some order on that west wing. >> rose: it is said the president doesn't

here's abc's jonathan karl with more. >> reporter: president trump is coming to the defense of his son. he says he doesn't blame don junior for agreeing to meet with a woman described as a russian to have dirt on hillary clinton. in an interview with reuters, the president says, i think many people would have held that meeting. in an e-mail exchange with an acquaintance don junior was told the purpose of the meeting was to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary. the information described as high level and sensitive. and part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. don junior's response, if it's what you say, i love it. when asked in march by "the new york times" whether he'd ever had campaign-related meetings with russians, donald trump jr. said none that were set up and certainly none that i was representing the campaign in any way, shape or form. also entangled in this donald trump's son-in-law and top adviser jared kushner who attended the meeting with the russian lawyer after don junior forwarded him the

abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, asking the president about it, and here's what he said. >> reporter: the president's top domestic priority is now dead and it was fellow republicans who dealt the fatal blow. at the white house today, we asked him about it. >> mr. president, are you angry at the republicans who came out against this health care bill? >> disappointed. very disappointed. i don't think it's dead, no. but i'm certainly disappointed. for seven years, i have been hearing repeal and replace from congress, and i have been hearing it loud and strong, and when we finally get a chance to repeal and replace, they don't take advantage of it. >> reporter: republicans had voted more than 60 times to repeal all or part of obamacare but that was when barack obama was in the white house and able to stop it. as candidate, trump promised he would deliver. >> we're going to repeal and replace obamacare. we will do it, and we will do it very, very quickly. it's a catastrophe. you're going to have such great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it's going to

joining me from abc studios in new york is jonathan karl the white house correspondent for abc news. >> he was fired, the president had made it clear even before scaramucci came in, the president made it clear internally he was getting ready to make a change. >> rose: we continue with a conversation with john dickerson, moderator of "face the nation" and chief white house corporate for cbs news. >> it's every morning the president woke up and criticized his attorney general often using the manipulation of the truth you would expect if it was a political campaign, in other words blaming him for things he does not deserve blame for. hillary clinton is one, the president said he should be investigating hillary clinton. he can't. the rules that caused him to recuse himself from the russia investigation would also make him have to recuse himself from anything having to do with hillary clinton because of his involvement in the trump campaign. >> rose: we turn to jeremy grantham, chief strategist at g.m.o. we talk about controversial views on the future of capitalism. >> i think the biggest

jonathan karl has more. >> reporter: just six months into the job, president trump's embattled presso a bad start. >> this was the largest audience to witness an inauguration period both this person and around the globe. >> reporter: spicer's debut made nobody happy. the president didn't like his look, including the ill fitting suit. and others criticized his inaccuracies or as another aide called them -- >> sean spicer gave alternative facts. >> reporter: two days later, he took his first questions. i asked a basic one. >> is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium and will you pledge never to knowingly say something that is not factual? >> it is. it's an honor to do this and, yes, i believe that we have to be honest with the american people. >> reporter: history will judge whether he lived up to that, but his confrontational style -- >> sorry, please stop shaking your head again. somebody is asking a question. it's not your press briefing. you don't get to just yell out questions. we will raise our hands like big boys and girls. >> reporter: and the unforgettabl

here's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl. >> reporter: today donald trump jr. sarcastically dismissed concerns about his meeting last year with a russian lawyer tied to the kremlin. tweeting "obviously i'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent. went nowhere but had to listen." while it is commonplace for a campaign official to meet with somebody offering negative information about an opponent, it's highly unusual for that meeting to be with somebody lobbying on behalf of russian interests. the meeting which took place in trump tower last june was attended by the very top people in the campaign. not just don junior but also campaign chairman paul manafort and trump's son gnaw jared kushner. in the past don junior has denied having any contact with the russians about the campaign. >> it's without -- it reads and smells like a witch hunt. >> but saturday he acknowledged meeting with the russian lawyering saying we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children. that was a line echoed sunday morni

abc's jonathan karl has more. >> reporter: the death stair. the portrait of a white house staff at war with itself. reince prebus facing off against new communications director anthony scaramucci in the oval office. their relationship fraught from the start. priebus opposed scaramucci's appointment. on day one, scaramucci called him a dear and personal friend. >> we're a little like brothers where we rough each other up every once in a while. >> reporter: but that brotherly love took a dark turn. >> some and abel. other brothers can fight and get along. i don't know if this is reparable or not. that will be up to the president. >> reporter: now, scaramucci calls prebus a paranoid schizophrenic. and threatens to fire the entire communications staff over leaks. they will all be fired by me. i fired one the other day. scaramucci seemed to suggest that priebus was doing the leaking. in light of the leak of my financial disclosure info, which is a felony, i will be contacting the fbi and the justice department. and he tagged priebus' twitter handle

we'll get the latest from jonathan karl and the latest from bill cunningham. >>> and reaction n from john podesta. >>> and the gop health care fight breaks down. >> we worked really hard. >> let obamacare implode. >> but what does that mean for your tom line? we'll put that question and more to secretary tom price. >>> plus our powerhouse "roundtable." from the white house to your house, we take on the moments that mat ter this week. >>> good morning. two major headlines developing this week. here at home, the the health care bill defeated in the senate after that dramatic overnight showdown. a thumb's down from senator john mccain, ending it all. and across the globe, north korea firing another intercontinental ballistic missile. the threat from that reclusive if the president is intensely focused on these two critical issues, t hard to tell. sure, she sure, he's tweeted about north korea and health care. but he's derided his own attorney general. those attacks drawing criticism from fellow republicans. a surprise announcement, this one banning transgender americans from serving in

jonathan karl, abc news, the white house. >>> president trump's former campaign chairman will no longer be testifying in public today before the senate judiciary committee. paul manafort had been called by the committee to answer questions about a meeting with russians in trump tower last june. but instead, manafort and donald trump jr. have agreed to hand over documents and provide testimony in private at a later date. manafort met behind closed doors with staff from a different senate committee y jared kushner was interviewed about last year's election by house investigators. that was his second straight day of meetings on capitol hill. >>> and a bill has been overwhelmingly approved on sanctions against russia. it's unclear if the senate will act on the measure before the august recess. trump officials originally said the president would sign the bill. but they've since backed away from that. >>> the senate has voted down a plan to repeal and reprailace obamacare. just hours after john mccain made that triumphant return to capitol hill. they killed the comprehensive gop bill which wa

i'm jonathan karl of abc news, filling in for charlie rose. we begin with politics talking to mike allen, megan murphy and yoni applebaum. >> some of the things that are happening, the antics that are happening. this is the personal lawyer of the president of the united states. we talk all the time about the president's tweets and whether they're appropriate or not, whether we're dealing with mika or some of the other things. i do get worried that we are becoming so inured. this is something in the next 24 news cycle, the next event, the next thing we brush off. are we becoming inured as voters and society. but some of this is unacceptable. >> we continue with craig unger, a new republic discussing trump's russian laundromat. >> where you can go through all of the purchases for example at trump tower. whenever you get a name you google it. he sold many apartments there in florida, he had developments where about a third of the units were sold to russians. in panama city panama, he has a trump towers and dozen and dozen of the units were sold t

jonathan karl has more. >> reporter: president trump is coming to the defense of his son. he says he doesn't blame don jr. for agreeing to meet with a woman described as a russian government attorney who claimed to have dirt on hillary clinton. in an interview with reuters, the president said i think many people would have held that meeting. don jr. was told the purpose of the meeting was to provide the trump campaign with documents and information that would incriminate hillary, the information described as high level and sensitive. and part of russia and its government support for don jr.'s response, if it's what you say, i love it. don jr. went on fox news to explain. >> in retro spent, i probably would have done things a little differently. for me, it was opposition research, it had something, i wanted to hear it out. >> did you ever meet with any other person from russia that you know? >> i don't know. i've probably met with other people from russia but not in the context of a formalized meeting or anything like that. because why would i? >> reporter: when asked in ma

jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: today, just six months into the job, president trump's embattled press secretary called it quits. sean spicer's brief tenure got off to a bad start. >> this was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration period, both in person and around the globe. >> reporter: spicer's debut made nobody happy. the president didn't like his look, including the ill-fitting suit, and others criticized his inaccuracies, or, as another aide called them -- >> alternative facts. >> reporter: at his first briefing, i asked a basic question. is it your intention to always tell the truth from that podium? and will you pledge never to knowingly say something that is not factual? >> it is. it's an honor to do this. and, yes, i believe that we have to be honest with the american people. >> reporter: history will judge whether he lived up to that, but his confrontational style -- >> i'm sorry. please stop shaking your head again. somebody is asking a question. it is not your press briefing. okay, you don't get to just yell out questions. we're going to raise our hands

abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, president trump is coming to the defense of his son. he says he doesn't don junior for agreeing to meet with a woman described as "a russian government attorney" who claimed to have dirt on hillary clinton. in an interview with reuters, the president says "i think many people would have held that meeting." in an e-mail exchange with an acquaintan acquaintance, don junior was told the purpose of the meeting was "to provide the trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate hillary." the information described as high level and sensitive and "part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump." don junior's response? "if it's what you say, i love it." last night, don junior went on fox news to explain -- >> in retrospect, i probably would have done things a little differently. for me this was opposition research, they had something, you know maybe concrete evidence to all the stories i'd been hearing about that were probably unreported for, you know, year

>> let's get to jonathan karl at the white house tonight, and the president is now saying let obamacare fail. we heard it there from him, and he tweeted vote to repeal right away. essentially deal with the fix later. where does that stand? >> reporter: senate republicans are planning to do that vote on si simply repealing most of obamacare, that would happen over two years, to give them time to replace it, but that has virtually no chance of passing either. >> thank you, jonathan. >>> the senate republican leader will hold that, and worry about the fix sometime later. we learn the vote is coming, and after seven years of republicans promising to appeal obamacare, as you heard jon say, they would then get two more years to come up with a plan. but abc's mary bruce, already getting an earful on that idea. she is on the hill for us tonight. >> reporter: shortly after trump finished that dinner with those senate republicans, the final blow. tonight, republican majority leader mitch mcconnell is promising that vote. >> this has been a very, very challenging experience for all of us. >> repor

abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, leading us off. >> reporter: the death stare. a portrait of a white house staff at war with itself. chief of staff, reince priebus, facing off against new communications director anthony scaramucci in the oval office. their relationship fraught from the start. priebus opposed scaramucci's appointment. still, on day one, scaramucci called him a dear and personal friend. >> we are a little bit like brothers, where we rough each other up once in a while, which is totally normal for brothers. >> reporter: but today, that brotherly love took a dark turn. >> some brothers are like and abel. other brothers can fight with each other and get along. i don't know if this is reparable or not, that will be up to the president. >> reporter: overnight, scaramucci seemed to suggest priebus leaked his financial disclosure form to a reporter, that he is a bleeping schizophrenic. saying they will all be fired by me. i fired one guy the other day. i have three or four people i'll fire tomorrow. he hints he has information on white house aides, telli

he approached the mic outside the west wing, and white house correspondent, jonathan karl leads us off. >> reporter: the president's son-in-law was all smiles as he arrived on capitol hill -- >> any collusion with russia? >> reporter: the behind-the-scenes power player now front-and-center in the russia investigation. >> do you regret that meeting at trump tower? were your contacts with the russians a mistake? >> reporter: jared kushner is the first trump family member and highest ranking white house official to be questioned by by congressional investigators. the 2 1/2-hour session was behind closed doors, but kushner released an 11-page statement he said fully accounted for his russia contacts during the campaign and the transition. his conversations with the russian ambassador, the russian banker and that trump tower meeting with the russian lawyer arranged by don junior, who in an e-mail chain was told she was a russian government attorney who had dirt on hillary clinton. part of russia and its government's support for mr. trump. don junior forwarded the e-mail chain subject line,

abc's chief white house correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: tonight, standing in the pouring rain, president trump announced reince priebus, his chief of staff is out. replaced by homeland security secretary, general john kelly. >> reince is a good man. john kelly will do a fantastic job. general kelly has been a star. done an incredible job thus far. respected by everybody. a great, great american. reince priebus is a good man. >> reporter: priebus was on air force one with the president today, and so was his nemesis, the new communications director anthony scaramucci. scaramucci is the winner in their bitter feud, which exploded into public view this week. >> i don't know if this is reparable or not, that will be up to the president. >> reporter: it was scaramucci who threw down the gauntlet, phoning a reporter with "the new yorker" and ripping into priebus, calling the white house chief of staff, "a bleeping paranoid schizophrenic," accusing him of leaking and adding priebus will "be asked to resign very shortly." scaramucci's expletive-laced tirade also ripped

a abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, leading us off. >> reporter: today in the rose garden trump refused to say whether he would fire his attorney general. >> i'm very disappointed with the attorney general but we will see what happens. time will tell. time will tell. >> reporter: the president is publically seething over jeff sessions' decision to recuse himself from the russia investigation. today he was asked why he is letting the attorney general twist in the wind. >> well, i don't think i am doing that. she should not have recused himself almost immediately after he took office, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me prior to taking office, and i would have, quite simply, picked somebody else. >> reporter: it's an incredible turn of events. >> we need to make america great again. >> reporter: sessions was the first senator to endorse candidate donald trump. arguably the most important endorsement of his entire campaign. trump spoke glowingly of him even before the endorsement. >> we have a great politician here. we have a man here, who is

abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, lea leading us off. >> reporter: as a candidate, donald trump promised to protect gay, lesbian and transgender rights. the first nominee ever to make such a promise at a republican convention. >> as your president, i will do everything in my power to protect our lgbtq citizens from the violence and oppression of a hateful foreign ideology. believe me. [ applause ] >> reporter: but today, a sudden reversal. the president surprising even his own top advisers with a major change in military policy announced via twitter. "please be advised," he declared, "the united states government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the u.s. military. our military cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." the pentagon directed all questions to the white house, making it clear the change came from the president himself. "we will continue to work closely with the white house to address the new guidance provided by the commander-in-chief."

here's abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl. >> reporter: at the white house, it's made in america week, featuring products made in all 50 states, including this fire truck made in wisconsin. >> where's the fire? put it out fast! >> reporter: but even as the president's aides try to shift the focus to american manufacturing, the president himself turned the subject right back to russia, tweeting about his son's meeting with a kremlin-connected russian lawyer during the campaign. most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one don junior attended in order to get info on an opponent. the president tweeted this morning, that's politics. the new abc news/ "washington post" poll shows two-thirds of americans say they disapprove of the president's use of twitter. but his tweets drive the news, and today white house press secretary was peppered with questions about don jr's meeting. in that off-camera briefing, the white house story changed once more. >> there was nothing as far as we know that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything except for discussio

abc's chief white house correspondent, jonathan karl, leading us off. >> reporter: today, donald trump jr. sarcastically dismissed concerns about his meeting last year with a russian lawyer tied to the kremlin, tweeting -- "obviously i'm the first person on a campaign to ever take a meeting to hear info about an opponent. went nowhere, but had to listen." while it is commonplace for a campaign official to meet with somebody offering negative information about an opponent, it's highly unusual for that meeting to be with somebody lobbying on behalf of russian interest. the meeting, which took place in trump tower last june, was attended by the very top people in the campaign. not just don jr., but also campaign chairman paul manafort and trump's son-in-law, jared kushner. in the past, don jr. has denied having any contact with the russians about the campaign. >> it's wow a question, you know, reads and smells like a witch hunt. >> reporter: but saturday, he acknowledged the meeting with the russian lawyer saying, we m primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children.