julianna goldman has been looking into that. >> we are going to drain the swamp. >> reporter: president trump promised to rid washington of powerful special interests. but for certain top white house aides, mr. trump has made exceptions. he's issued at least 14 waivers to ethics rules, some of which he himself put in place in january. one retroactive waiver allows communicate with editors at breitbart, the conservative news site he used to run. other waivers perpetuate the so-called revolving door between the public and private sector, allowing staffers who are recently paid by companies and organizations to now advance their same agendas in the white house, like counselor kellyanne conway, whose consulting business had dozens of clients, or michael catanzaro, a former lobbyist for oil and gas companies who now advises the president on energy matters. >> government officials and employees ought to be doing their job in a disinterested way. >> reporter: robert walker is an attorney who advises clients on government ethics rules. >> that includes not having matter comes before them where

here's julianna goldman. >> reporter: turkish airline, half owned by the turkish government, paid for annual tournament at the president's miami golf course in april. >> is far everything has been picture-perfect. >> reporter: a member of the ruling family of the united arab emirates and turkish airlines were among the sponsors last month of this turkish-american conference at trump international hotel, just a few blocks from the white house. and the government of kuwait financed their national day celebration just a month after the inauguration. the site: that same trump organization-owned hotel in washington. the president still owns his company, so he still benefits from business generated at his property, but some legal experts say that money from foreign governments like turkey and kuwait spent here might run afoul of the constitution. kathleen clark teaches government attics at washington university law school. >> because donald trump was unwilling to sell his businesses and he continues to own them, foreign governments continue to have a way of channels money to him in an effor

it's a question julianna goldman put to the president today. >> reporter: mr.resident, are you under investigation by the special counsel? president trump ignored shouted questions today about whether he is a target of a federal investigation enter russian interference in the 2016 election, and he declined to clear up the discrepancy between his tweet from last week, saying he was being investigated, and comments from one of his attorneys, jay sekulow, over the weekend. >> i want to be clear here: investigation. so the president is not under investigation, has not been. we have not been notified there is an investigation of the president of the united states. >> reporter: notifying targets is up to the discretion of special counsel robert mueller, and such notifications tend not to go out until later stages of federal investigations. >> it's great to have you at the white house. >> reporter: publicly the white house is operating as business as usual and appears to be bolstering mr. trump's son in but and senior adviser jared kushner, even as f.b.i. scrutiny of

julianna goldman is at the white house. >> reporter: president trump returned to where he started the controversy-- twitter, writing, "i have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversations with james comey, but i did not make, and do not have, any such recordings." his admission came nearly six weeks after he tweeted fired f.b.i. director james comey "better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" >> lordy, i hope there are tapes. >> reporter: the president's tweet set off a chain reaction. comey told congress it led him to leak memos he wrote about conversations with the president. >> because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel, so i asked a close friend of mine to do it. >> reporter: comey's gamble worked. now special counsel robert mueller is heading the russia investigation, which likely includes whether the president obstructed justice by interfering in the probe. >> you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. don't worry. >> reporter: president trump and his team

julianna goldman is there. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: for the first time in eight days, press secretary sean spicer allowed cameras to record the white house breathe. >> we've looked at a lot of data that suggests when you look at the number of availabilities and interviews the president what given it's pretty significant compared to past administrations. >> reporter: records kept by cbs news indicate mr. trump has actually done fewer interviews and press conferences at this point in his presidency than his predecessor. the president's last sit-down interview was over a month ago and he's held one solo press conference in february. despite being the president's chief spokesman, spicer couldn't answer key questions like whether the president agrees with the intelligence community's assessment that russia interfered in the 2016 elections. or whether the president has seen a draft of the senate's health care bill. >> i don't know if he's seen the legislation or not. >> reporter: opaqueness goes beyond the briefing room by keeping secret records of white house visitors, a link to a page tha

a question julianna goldman put to the president today. >> mr. president, are you under investigation by the special counsel? president trump ignored shouted question tuesday about whether he is a target of the federal investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. and he declined to clear up the discrepancy between his tweet from last week saying he was being investigated and comments from one of his attorneys jay sekulow over the weekend. >> i want to be clear here, the president is not under investigation. >> the president is not under investigation. has not been. >> we have not been notified. the discretion of robert mueller and such notifications tend not to go out until later stages. >> it's great to have you at the white house. >> reporter: publicly the white house is operating business as usual and appears to be bolstering mr. trump's son-in-law, even as scrutiny intensifies. >> beaverfore i came to washing many warned me that the bureaucracy would resist any change that we tried to implement. so far i have found exactly th

julianna goldman is at the white house. >> reporter: president trump returned to where he started thewitter, writing, "i have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversations with james comey, but i did not make, and do not have, any such recordings." his admission came nearly six weeks after he tweeted fired f.b.i. director james comey "better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" >> lordy, i hope there are tapes. >> reporter: the president's tweet set off a chain reaction. comey told congress it led him to leak memos he wrote about his conversations with the president. >> because i thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel, so i asked a close friend of mine to do it. >> reporter: comey's gamble worked. mueller is heading the russia investigation, which likely includes whether the president obstructed justice by interfering in the probe. >> well, you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer. don't worry. >> reporter: president trump and his team stonewalled reporters and members

julianna goldman reports. >> reporter: president trump returned to where he started the controversy, twitter, writing, i have no idea whether there are tapes or recordings of my conversations with james comey, but i did not make and do not have any such recordings. his admission came nooerm six weeks after he tweeted fired fbi director james comey better hope that there are no tapes of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press. >> lordy, i hope there are tapes. >> reporter: the president's tweet set off a chain reaction. comey told congress about cob ve he leaked conversations with the president. comey's gamble worked. now robert mueller is working the investigation. >> you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer, don't worry. >> reporter: president trump and his support team stucknmbled. >> i'll tell you about that in the very near future. >> back in the original tweet, did the president intend to threaten james comey? >> i don't think so. >> later she explained -- >> i think it was more about raising the question of doubt in general. >> reporter: tru

cbs news' julianna goldman has been following this. >> reporter: when u.s. officials entered the compounds, they found a trove of missing and damaged material materials d have been useful in the ongoing investigation. alsoso, me of the diplomats were kicked out because they were suspected of election interference operation. >> reporter: former deputy director of the c.i.a. michael morell says the punishment should have been worse. >> the three u.s. action, i think, were seen by vladimir putin as only a slap on the wrist. they didn't hurt him politically >> reporter: the obama administration did consider a cyber attack in retaliation, but, anthony, multiple sources say there was no precedent for that, and it could have made the situation much worse. >> mason: jeff pegues, thanks, jeff. after the president fired james comey as f.b.i. director, as the bureau was investigating the russian elections meddling, and whether anyone in the trump campaign was involved, the justice department then appointed robert mueller as special counsel, it's no secret the president

anthony, today, sean spicer said the president would confirm whether tapes do exist by >> mason: julianna goldman, thanks. oro of the president's tweets today targeted north korea, accusing it of brutality in the death of otto warmbier, the american college student who was imprisoned for more than a year. today, in a show of force, the u.s. flew two b-1 bombers over the korean peninsula. next week, south korea's new president will travel to the white house for talks on n-escalating the north's nuclear threat. norah o'donnell spoke with him today in seoul. >> good evening, from seoul, and ohere's a lot to discuss at the white house next week, including esesident moon's proposal for a -sep-by-step process that includes dialogue that ultimately leads to a dismantling of north korea's nuclear weapons program. why would kim jong-un ever agree to freeze his nuclear weapons program? what are you going to give him? >> ( translated ): kim jong-un currently has a blind faith that his nuclear and missile programs will protect him and his regime, lid so we must show and teach north korea that this belief is

here's julianna goldman. >> reporter: turkish airlines half owned by the turkish government paid for its annual tournament at the president's >> so far everything's been picture perfect. >> reporter: a member of the ruling family of the united area emirates and turkish airlines were among the sponsors at this conference at trump international hotel a few blocks from the white house. and the government of kuwait financed their national day sell brals a month after the inauguration. the same site is the hotel in washington. the president still owns his company, so he still benefits from business generated as his properties. but experts say money from foreign governments like turco and kuwait here might run afoul of the constitution. kathleen clark teaches government ethics at washington university law school. >> because donald trump was unwilling to sell his businesses and continues to own them, foreign governments continue to have a way of channeling money to him in an effort to influence him and u.s. policy. >> reporter: clause was designed to prevent presidential bribery. back in ja

julianna goldman is there. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: for the first time in eight days, press secretary sean spicer allowed cameras to record the white house briefing. >> we have looked at a lot of data that suggests that when you look at number of availabilities and interviews the president has given. pretty significant compared to past administrations. >> records kept by cbs news indicate mr. trump has done fewer interviews and press conferences at this point in his presidency than his predecessor. the president's last sitdown interview was over a month ago. and he has held one solo press conference in february. despite being the president's chief spokesman, spicer couldn't answer key questions like whether the president agrees with the intelligence community assessment that russia interfered in the 2016 election. >> i have not sat down and talked to him about that specific thing. >> reporter: or whether the president has seen a drauft the senate health care bill all. haw i don't know if he has seen the legislation or not. >> reporter: opaqueness beyond the briefing room. keeping secr

. >> julianna goldman at the white house. thank you. >> survivors of the collision of the "uss fitzgerald" and cargo ship off the coast of japan are telling stories of heroism. including sailors forming a bucket brigade to save the destr destroyer. seven crew members were killed. in the saturday morning disaster. the investigation is just beginning. david martin is at the pentagon. >> reporter: how a top of the line u.s. navy warship could be t-boned by a slower less maneuverable containership remains inexplicable. but the result is indisputable. seven american sailors dead. and "uss fitzgerald" limping into port. joseph aucoin commander of the seventh fleet said the crew had to struggle to keep the ship afloat. >> damage underneath the water line and a large gash. near the keel of the ship. >> the japanese coast guard said the "acx crystal" plowed into the fitzgerald at 1:30 a.m. low cult time. as philippine flag vessel headed from nagoya to offload cargo in tokyo bay. a website that tracks commercial vessels shows the cryst

julianna goldman reports on barack obama's first presidential campaign and first term as president.icolas on hoffman wrote a book about him. search our entire video library at c-span.org. tonight on "afterwards," utah republican senator mike lee talks about forgotten historical figures who fought against big government in his book "written out of history." is interviewed by former acting solicitor general -- he is interviewed by the former acting solicitor general. there are other people i knew who thought the sugar more credit than they get -- thought they should get more credit than they get. this iroquois chief understood the concept of federalism. i was intrigued by that from the offset because that is not a name that most americans know anything about, and yet he had a profound impact on our system of government. this is the guy who enable benjamin franklin to learn about federalism. and benjamin franklin was the conduit through which this information flow to the rest of the founders. it made its way first into the articles of confederation, and then anymore perfect way into th

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white house correspondent julianna goldman reports on barack obama's first presidential campaign anderm as president. nicolas on hoffman wrote a book nicolas on hoffman wrote a book >> "washington journal" is next. we take you to the national club to hear joseph dunford talk about military securityand global threats. republican senator bill cassidy challenges of replacing law.ealthcare >> coming up on "washington journal," frederick hess from american enterprise institute about his new book on reform.n and we we look at gender savage.ty with louiza joined by taxpayer for common sense vice president ellis. host: good morning it's monday 2017.9, we'll talk about education reform, the national flood insurance program and the gender it comes to running for elected office in the united states. morning after the interviewedkelly alex jones. it was interview some critics airede it shouldn't be given the conspiracy theories jones pushed. think. to know what you did the segment hand jones another high profile platform? give us a

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and seized compounds in maryland cbs news julianna goldman has been following this. >> reporter: when u.s. officials entered the compound, they found a trove of missing and damaging materials that could have been useful in the ongoing investigation. also some of the diplomats were kicked out because they were suspected of election operations. >> reporter: former cia deputy michael morell says it should have been worse. >> the actions by vladimir putin was only a slap on the wrist. they didn't hurt him politically in any way. >> reporter: the obama administration did consider a cyber attack in retaliation. multiple sources say there was no precedent for that and it could have made the situation much worse. for "cbs this morning: saturday," jeff pegues, washington. >>> for more now, we're joined by amber phillips, staff writer for the "washington post." amber, good morning. >> good morning. >> we heard the president say in effect why didn't president obama do mor election. do these latest reports kind of bolster his claim? >> absolutely. the president has been saying for a while now, yo

in the meantime, julianna goldman just talked to a witness on the scene. here's what he had to say. >> there's a man with a gun outside. i should stay inside. i looked out and saw a gentleman with a gun outside by the baseball field. he had an ak-47 type weapon. and was exchanging fire with someone behind a black suv. >> did you see him before shots were fired? >> i didn't, i came in the middle of the incident. >> can you talk about what his mannerism, his demeanor, what you saw of this man? >> all i saw was that he was crouched down, as one does when bullets are flying, and moving from one piece of cover to another. at that point, i tray tried to get people away from the window. >> did you see anybody get hit? >> i didn't. >> describe the scene. was there commotion, mayhem, were people running around? >> inside the gym, things were fairly calm. no one was yelling or screaming. people were not in a panicked way. bullets were flying. there weren't many people around because it was so early in it the morning. i didn't see any chaos besides the gunshots thems