>> reporter: julianna goldman, thanks. >> mason: senator mark warner of virginia is the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee. he joins us tonight from the capleitol. good evening, senator. >> good evening, anthony. >> mason: senator, how do these new e-mails affect your investigation? >> well, the last 24 hours is first time that the public has seen evidence that trump officials actually were willing to accept information that was part of a russian government effort to hurt hillary clinton and promote donald trump. and what's disturbing to me is not only that fact, but that once again we have seen a pattern that it started right after the election, through the transition, and throughout this administration where now it's more than a dozen trump campaign or transition or current administration officials have constantly said they had no conversations with russians, they didn't know anything about any of these kind of... any kind of intervention on behalf of the russian government to intervene in our elections candidly. those kind of comments have now been disproven. >> mas

julianna goldman looks at the investigation. >> reporter: one of the key questions for robert muellerng russian interference in the 2016 election is whether and how the trump campaign was involved. collusion isn't illegal but conspiracy is, so does the fact that donald trump jr. and the fact that others met with someone they were told was a russian government layer who wanted to help the campaign constitute a smoking gun. that the changes rationales obviously fuels the allegations of collusion, of conspiracy. >> reporter: jonathan turley is a law professor at george washington university. he said the e-mails alone don't raise questions of conspiracy but they put into question donald trump. why did they initially lie about the purpose of the meeting. >> conflicting stories for prosecutors are like blood in the water for the shark. it attracts prosecutors and investigators. they want to know why there's conflicts. >> reporter: then there's this. do the e-mails contradict any information campaign provided to the fbi. that could lead to criminal charges. furthermore, why didn't jared kush

>> mason: julianna goldman, thanks. we turn now to john dickerson, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation." john, these are pretty unusual remarks for a president to make about his attorney general, aren't they? what do you make of them? >> what, what makes these comments so unusual is the president is not criticizing a policy decision an attorney general made. he's making claims about the attorney general's character. he says it was "unfair" that the attorney general didn't tell him that he would recuse himself from the russia investigation. now, the attorney general deals with right and wrong, so questioning his fairness is different than if you were questioning another cabinet official. and the president also didn't seem to believe attorney general sessions' testimony about why he was not immediately forthcoming about his meetings with the russian ambassador. the president said sessions was asked, "simple questions" and that his answers "should have been simple answers but they weren't." >>

>> mason: julianna goldman, thanks. members of congress have a member for the president: don't antagonize the special counsel. you can regret it. here's nancy cordes. >> it would prompt a fighter storm. >> reporter: members of both parties are warning the president not to mess with mueller. >> firing bob mueller without cause is an attack on the rule of law. >> reporter: it sort of looks paranoid to me. >> reporter: republican michael mccaul chairs the house homeland security committee. >> if he fired bob mueller, i think you would see a tremendous backlash response from both democrats, but also house republicans. >> reporter: respect for mueller runs deep on capitol hill, especially among republicans. he was george w. bush's pick for f.b.i. director and served throughout the bush presidency. >> i think the best advice would be to let robert mueller do his job. >> reporter: republicans were also stunned by the president's slam on their former senate colleague, who is now attorney general. >> jeff sessions takes the job,

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then he talked to our julianna goldman. >> the specter of a conflict of interest is always looming out there. >> reporter: walter shaub has been a unique voice. as the government's ethics chief, he's taken on his boss, president trump publicly, but today he gave up. >> i really feel like i've achieved all i can achieve under the current circumstances. >> reporter: he says that unless president trump eliminates all financial ties to his businesses, the american people can never be certain his policy decisions are based on what's best for the country. do you think the president and his family are using the office to enrich themselves? >> i can't know what their intention is. i know that the effect is that there's an appearance that the businesses are profiting from his occupying the presidency. >> reporter: but at this point, it sounds like you're saying you can't be sure. >> you can't be sure. so it almost doesn't matter whether they are profiting or not. america should have the right the right the right to know what the motivations of its leaders are. >> reporter: in previous administr

julianna goldman, thank you. the department of homeland security announced today it's raising the number of this year from 66,000 to 81,000. these are temporary vies as for foreigners to come to the u.s. to do seasonal, non-farm work. but this one-time visa expansion may be too little too late. here's mark strassmann. >> reporter: on the texas gulf coast, shrimp season began with a traditional blessing of the fleet. this year's answered prayer would be hundreds of needed deck hands. >> we're following the law. we're not breaking the law. okay. and it's very frustrating. >> reporter: carlton reyes owns seven shrimp boats in brownsville, texas. since 1987 he's relied on mexican deck hands who come here on h2v visas. he applied for 14 of them this year. none has been approved. >> it's going to be a tremendous impact on the shrimp season and on the economy. we can't bring in the shrimp that is out there to harvest, help. >> reporter: as a group, texas shrimp bolt companies applied for roughly 500h2v visas, not one wa

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>> mason: julianna goldman, thanks.we turn now to john dickerson, our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation." john, these are pretty unusual remarks for a president to make about his attorney general, aren't they? what do you make of them? >> well, what makes these comments so unusual is the president is not criticizing a policy dec attorney general's character. he says it was "unfair" that the attorney general didn't tell him that he would recuse himself from the russia investigation. now, the attorney general deals with right and wrong, so questioning his fairness is different than if you were questioning another cabinet official. and the president also didn't seem to believe attorney general sessions' testimony about why he was not immediately forthcoming about his meetings with the russian ambassador. the president said sessions was asked "simple questions" and that his answers "should have been simple answers, but they weren't." >> mason: this interview comes as we mark six months now of the

here is julianna goldman. >> reporter: one of the key questions for special counsel, robert mueller, investigating russian interference in the 2016 election whether and how the trump campaign was involved. collusion isn't illegal. but conspiracy is. does the fact that donald trump jr. and others met with some one they were told was a russian government lawyer, who wanted to help the campaign, constitute a smoking gun? >> the changing rationales obviously, fuels the allegations of collusion. of conspiracy. >> jonathan turley, law professor at george washington er necessarily prove conspiracy. but they raise questions that could put mr. trump and his inner circle in legal jeopardy. first, why did trump jr. initially lie about the purpose of the meeting. >> conflicting stories, for prosecutors like blood in the water for a shark. it attracts prosecutors and investigators. they want to know why there is conflicts. >> then there is this. do the e-mails contradict any information campaign associates have provided to the fbi that could lead to criminal charges. and furthermore. why didn't j

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former trump campaign advisor michael caputo testified before the panel in closed segments here's julianna goldman. >> i had no contact with russians and never heard anybody in this trump campaign talk with russians. >> reporter: michael caputo met with house investigators three hours today and testified he had zero contacts with russia during his time on the campaign. caputo, on thing trump campaign from november 15 to june 2016, had lived in russia in the 1990s, working for the u.s. government. he returned to the u.s. in 2000 and worked as a public relations advisor to a subsidiary of the state-ronde russian conglomerate gazprom. he told the buffalo news, last year, i'm not proud to have the work today, but at the time, putin wasn't such a bad guy. >> i intentionally stayed out of the hair of the white house and the administration, especially since m my name was brought up n the context of the russia investigation. nobody in the administration or the white house needs my telephone number on their call list, needs me on their visitor logs or needs e-mails from me. >> reporter: he's a protege of r

. >> brown: julianna goldman in washington, thank you. julianna will have more on this story tomorrow on "cbs this morning." with congress in recess, many members are back home, including the republican speaker of the house, paul ryan. here's dean reynolds. >> reporter: speaker ryan has been criticized for not being accessible to his constituents in wisconsin's first district. >> hey, everybody, how you doing? >> reporter: some voters have even held mock town halls without him inch february they posed their questions to an empty chair. but today ryan's schedule included what were billed as employee town halls. and at wpc technologies in oak creek, that meant most questions were selected in advance by a company official. this was the first one. >> if you had to make a decision between attending an october regular season packers game or a brewers world series game, which would you attend? >> reporter: for the record, he said probably the brewers. there were no questions about the president or russia or the tweets, which ryan has criticized,

now about that russian lawyer, here's what julianna goldman has found out about her. >> reporter: natalianitskaya says she didn't have any dirt on hillary clinton. the russian government says they don't even know who she is. but like most things kremlin, there's more to that story. veselnitskaya, who speaks no english, represents a wealthy kremlin-connected family in moscow, the katsyvs. they have lobbied hard to overturn u.s. sanctions against russian officials accused of money laundering. the 2012 law enraged russian president vladimir putin so much that he banned americans from adopting russian children. >> she's like the consigliere of a very prominent russian family. she has a wide range of tasks. she's not just lawyer, as she's been described. she's a operator. >> reporter: a hedge fundabler bill browder called her a formidable adversary. she said she wouldn't have been in the u.s. lobbying without the kremlin's blessing. >> they don't give out business cards, you're a kremlin lawyer, go to washington and do this. >> reporter: after the meeting last june, veselnitskaya went to washi

julianna goldman spoke to him after the resignation. >> nominated by president obama and five year tenureanuary. as he publicly took on the new president who was also his new baurks he w boss he wasn't sure hive would be fired. >> being able to say we are not criminals isn't enough for government officials. >> cutting short his tenure as top ethics watch dog because he can't compel the current white house to go beyond the bare minimum of ethical standard. >> my current experience with the administration taught me the ethics program need to be stronger than it is. >> he told us unless president trump eliminates all financial ties to his businesses the american people can never be certain his policy decisions are based on what is best for the country. >> do you think the president and family are using the office to enrich themselves? >> i can't know what their intention is. the effect is there is an appearance that the businesses are profitting from his occupying the presidency. >> he cited the president's frequent visit to his own properties like trump international hotel blocks from the w

julianna goldman spoke to him after the resignation.rican people hacan nevere certain his policy decisions are based on what is best for the country. >> do you think the president and his family are using the office to enrich themselves? >> i can't know what the intention is. the effect is there is an appearance that the businesses are profitting from his occupying the presidency. >> schaab cited freak went visits to his own properties like trump international hotel blocks from the white house. why is it problematic for the president to visit his properties? >> the definition of corruption that is accepted internationally by most people studying the issue is abuse of entrusted authority. and so you don't want to be appearing to abuse your authority by, by having, by creating opportunities to advertise your own financial interests. >> he told us he attempted to raise the issue with mr. trump's lee dwal team in late november before the inauguration. >> the counsel to the president shouted us down when we tried to communicate the message.

julianna goldman is at the pentagon. good morning. >> good morning. as the u.s.s its next steps, officials say it's too late. an unpredictable regime has unveiled its missile director and the u.s. has options. along with its south cree yand and japanese allies first with a live missile test on friday and with a joint test on saturday two super bombers conducted a flyover of the korean peninsula. the military also carried out what the military carried out as a successful missile defensive. they showed what it would look like. video purportedly shows north korea launching a missile friday with the country's leader kim jong-un overseeing the test. analysts say friday's launch proves that north korea could have the capability to hit u.s. mainland including los angeles and possibly chicago, new york, and near washington, d.c. over the weekend president trump tweeted he was disappointed in china's response. they do nothing for us with north korea, just talk, adding china could easily solve this problem. >> all options are on the table. >> traveling in eastern europe vi

julianna goldman is at the white house where the president now says that partnership may not be a good idea. what's behind the change? julianna, good morning. >> good morning. president trump says he wanted to focus on areas where the u.s. and russia can work together like cyber security but now he's under fire from both democrats and republicans. >> president trump raised a directive to president putin. >>> secretary of state rex tillerson pushed bang on critics trying ease concerns that president putin didn't push putin on the russian meddling during the 2016 elections. >> the point is it has the american people really concerned. >> with the russian government saying mr. trump accepted white house surrogates tried to play cleanup. >> president trump knows that they meddled, president putin knows he meddled, but they're not going to admit it. >> he denied that he was involved and he added it's time to move forward with russia. >> yes, it's time to move forward, but there has to be a price to pay. >> the olive branch to the kremlin angered some republicans. >> this is like any other st

. >> brown: julianna goldman in washington, thank you. l have more about this story tomorrow on "cbs this morning." with congress in recess, many members are back home, including the republican speaker of the house, paul ryan. here's dean reynolds. >> reporter: speaker ryan has been criticized for not being accessible to his constituents in wisconsin's first district. >> hey, everybody, how you doing? >> reporter: some voters have even held mock town halls without him. in february, they posed their questions to an empty chair. but today, ryan's schedule included what were billed as employee town halls. and at w.p.c. technologies in oak creek, that meant most questions were selected in advance by a company official. this was the first one: >> if you had to make a decision between attending an october regular season packers game or a brewers world series game, which would you attend? >> reporter: for the record, he said probably the brewers. but there were no questions about russia, no questions about the president or his tweets, which ryan

julianna goldman spoke to schaub just after his resignation. good morning. >> good morning. he was nominated by president obama and his tenure was set to end in january and as he took on the new president who was also his new boss, he wasn't sure if ultimately he would be fired. >> being able to say we're we'r criminal calls is not enough for government officials. >> he's cutting short his term as watchdog because he can't get the government to go beyond the bare minimum with ethical experiences. >> my experience has taught me that the be stronger than it is. >> he told me unless president trump ends all financial ties to his businesses the american people can never be stern his decisions are based on what's best for the country. >> i can't know what their intention is. i know that the effect is that there's an appearance that the businesses are profiting from his occupying the presidency. >> schaub cited the president's frequent visits to his own property like the trump international hotel just blocks from the white house. >> why is it problematic for the president to visit

julianna goldman is at the white house where the president now says that partnership may not be a good idea. what's behind the change? julianna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. president trump says he wants to focus on areas where the u.s. and russia can work together like cyber security but now he's under fire from both democrats and republicans. appearing to take sides with russia over his own intelligence agencies. >> president trump raised a directive to president putin. >> reporter: secretary of state rex tillerson on sunday pushed back against critics trying to ease concerns that president trump didn't challenge the russian president on their meddling in the 2016 elections. >> the point was made that this is an issue that has the american people quite concerned. >> reporter: with the russian government saying mr. trump accepted putin's denial over the weekend, white house surrogates tried to play cleanup. >> president trump knows that they meddled, president putin knows he meddled, but they're not going to admit it. >> reporter: the president defended himself on twitter

julianna goldman has that. >> reporter: from texas cowboy hats to louisiana baseball bats, presidentamerican products made in all 50 states. >> remember in the old days they used to have made in the usa. we're going to put that brand on our product because it means it's the best. >> reporter: but notably absent today, any trump-branded items which in the past he hasn't hesitated to promote. like at a campaign press conference at a trump golf club last year. >> i built a great, great company. you have the water. you have the steaks. you have the airline that i sold. r mr. trump as well as his daughter and senior adviser ivanka have outsourced manufacturing of their products to countries around the world where labor is cheaper and there are fewer regulations. items from the trump home collection, for example, are made in turkey. these ivanka trump clothes are made in china, vietnam, and indonesia. over the weekend, the president was touting his golf club in bedminister, new jersey, where he was vip at the women's u.s. open tournament. he sent out eight tweets in three days promoting th

now about that russian lawyer, here is what julianna goldman has found out about her. >> reporter: natalia have any dirt on hillary clinton. the russian government says they don't even know who she is. but look most things kremlin, there is more to that story. natalia veselnitskaya who speaks no english representatives a wealthy, kremlin connected family in moscow, the katsyvs, they lobbied to overturn sanctions, against officials, in what is known as the act, the 20912 law, enraged vladamir putin so much he banned americans from adopting russian children. >> she is not just a lawyer as she is described. he is an operator. >> hj fund manager, bill browder pushed for sanctions and calls her andv she wouldn't have been in the u.s. lobbying to overturn the act without the kremlin any blessing. >> they don't give out business cards from the kremlin, saying you are a kremlin lawyer, go to washington. >> after the meeting with dop ald trump jr. last june she want to washington,ing or nighed screening of a film at the museum and in the first row at congressional hearing on u.s. policy towards rus

julianna goldman is at the pentagon with the newest potential threat. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. as the u.s. assesses its next steps officials are faced with the fact in many ways it's too late. an unstable and unpredictable regime has developed its nuclear missile technology faster than anticipated and the president has limited options. with tensions rising, the u.s. flexed its military muscle along with its south korean and japanese allies, first with a live fire missile test on friday, and in a joint exercise saturday two u.s. superresponsibilityic bombers conducted a flyover of the korean peninsula. the military also carried out what the military carried out as a successful preplanned missile defense test in the pacific. it showed what it would look like if the thaad system intercemented a north korean rocket. video purportedly shows north korea launching a missile friday with the country's leader kim jong-un overseeing the test. analysts say friday's launch proves that north korea could have the capability to hit u.s. mainland includi