and also with us, kaitlyn burns from real clear politics. kelly, we're going to go to you first following the president in berkeley heights, new jersey. that's where he is spending the weekend. kelly, high on the president's agenda is the supreme court pick. what's the latest on that front? good morning, alex. the president is tweeting about his plans to announce the pick on july 9th. he's here with his family in new jersey for the weekend. spending time at his home on the trump property that is also the golf resort in bedminster, new jersey. he packed with him apparently the short list, a working list of 25 names and the president says he may have as many as six or seven that are in contention, and he may use part of this weekend and next to try to do some of the interview process to begin the selection. >> the president returned to his new jersey estate friday. for the first time in nearly nine months. while aboard air force one he revealed his legacy-making decision, his second supreme court nominee will be announced july 9. narrowed down

kaitlyn, first foupt president h -- to you.dent said only one deal could be maid and that the denuclearication of north korea we we don't have what the clear definition is that the u.s. and north korea share on what denuclearization will mean. >> that's right. we don't. we have seen them change the goalpost here and by "them" i mean, the u.s. and what their expectations are for the meeting. in march when president trump first accepted this it was clear he wanted denuclearization and he talk he assumed it was happening with the first sit-down with kim jong-un. since the meeting has been called on and called off and we have seen the white house saying it's a meet and greet, get to know you. plus, the president saying this is a first of a series of meetings that could happen going forwd, including potentially inviting him to washington, d.c., something the president just brought up a few days ago during a press conference at the white house. but also we have seen them discuss what they are going to expect to get out of this meetin

i have kaitlyn and nancy with me here. indicate lynn, your reaction to the ruling we just heard from pete. >> i think what pete said at the very end about how legislatures are going to deal with this i think is critically important because we're in a midterm election year and we've seen democrats start to -- and president obama and eric holder start to focus on this redirecting effort. these legislatures that have -- democrats have hemorrhaged seats over the past several elections not being able to control the drawing of state lines. i'm wondering if this starts to become a midterm election issue because, as we know, the house is in play, a lot of seats at the local level are also in play. so whether democrats start t see this as something of a motivating tool to look at the way in which a lot of these directs are so entrench and what kind of effect that has in terms of what the midterms can provide. >> nancy. >> because of the change. >> i agree with that. i think it's going to be sort of another focal point for midterms

kaitlyn, first to you.resident say or the white house saying specifically what the false statements were that they are accusing the prime minister of making? >> no, they didn't e all about here on what the president was accusing the prime minister of. someone that just about ten or so hours earlier when the president was asked about the state of his relationship not just trudeau but the german leaders he gave them a 10 saying things had gone with the summit and the president agreed to sign on this carefully crafted statement, the communique was a joint statement that the leaders issue after that meeting. a few hours later while on air force one, the president must have watched justin trudeau's press conference that angered him and caused him to send that tweet. a u.s. official on board air force one saying the president kind off on the statement but the president contradicted saying i'm not signing off on this any longer. this meeting in singapore was supposed supposed to be the intense meeting of the last

appreciate it, kaitlyn. back now to my folks here who were speaking to me right after this news conference. kneel, i just want to get your assessment on this situation. and you think about it, this is june 14th of last year, we were dealing with the awful shooting at the republican baseball practice. remember? in washington, d.c. now we're dealing with this. and i hope just as much sympathy and prayers as we had for those folks in that last year that everyone has for these folks this year. as journalists. give me your assessment, neil. >> yeah, no doubt. now that we know what occurred and who's responsible, i've looked at this guy's twitter account. and he's had this ongoing gripe with the capital for quite some time now. about six years. for about the past two years and some-odd months, that twitter account has been silent. then one comment apparently right before the incident occurred about leaving him alone. and i won't use the word he used on air here. but what did happen there? you know, that is rather

(ken) joining us now is u-c berkeley grad student and p-h-d candidate kaitlyn gaynor.lead author of a new study on humanity's effect on animals. the study found that mammals specifically are becoming more nocturnal in response to human activity.(pam) kaitlyn... you included mountain lions from canada, brazil and argentina in your study... these are already mostly animals during nocturnal, or crepuscular animals which are active during twilight hours.. what effect have humans had on their activity? ====================== we understand that one of your colleagues... justine smith... has been doing research relating to pumas' fear of humans. tell us what we're about to (ken) joining us now is u-c berkeley grad h-d candidate kaitlyn gaynor. she's the lead author of a new study on humanity's effect on animals. the study found that mammals specifically are becoming more nocturnal in response to human activity. (pam) kaitlyn... you included mountain lions from canada, brazil and argentina in your study... these are already mostly animals during nocturnal, or crepuscular anima

what did you make of that, kaitlyn? >> it was startling, that recognition.he president went to the cameras and talk for a long time because he thought he had positive news to talk about. earlier in the morning the economic numbers came out. even though they were wrapped in controversy given the way the president tweeted about them earlier. but he seemed so eager to talk about the summit and to talk about the way in which it was back on and that the they would be meeting in singapore. that those details he completely looked over and misrepresented what he actually knew at the time. and so i think that's significant. i think, look, in the bigger picture here, you play the sound bite by mitch mcconnell earlier. talking about the way in which there is concern. that the president wants a deal so badly, that there would be potential for things to go wrong here. we have seen the president very much driven by doing things that his predecessors weren't able or couldn't or wouldn't do. that has been a major driver for this president. and so there is a lot of caution,

let's begin with cnn kaitlyn collins live this morning at the white house. >> reporter: john, that's a great question, and what we witnessed this weekend is what we have long suspected and that is when it comes down to it, the president and his legal team are prepared to make this argument that there is a broad extent of his use of executive power, so broad, in fact, that they are prepared to make the argument that the president himself can be above the law. president trump's legal team making a bold new claim about their expansive view of his executive power in an attempt to justify why he shouldn't face any legal liability in the russia investigation. rudy giuliani telling the "huffington post" it's impossible to subpoena or indict the sitting president, claiming, if he shot james comey, he would be impeached the next day. giuliani also raising questions about the extent of the president's pardoning power. >> do you believe the president has the power to pardon himself? >> he has no intention of pardoning himself but that doesn't say he can't. >> reporter: this hours after the "new

let's go to the white house and begin our coverage with kaitlyn collins who joins us there. this came moments ago. what else can you tell us? >> reporter: a stunning statement from the president openly declaring that he believes he is above the law. the president saying that he is quoting numerous legal scholars. he doesn't say which ones. then he says i have the absolute right to pardon myself, but then he adds the caveat, why would i do that when i have done nothing wrong. he goes on to say, this is a never ending witch hunt by 13 democrats -- robert mueller is a republican. the president declaring that he has the power to pardon himself if he does so choose. that argument being made by his lawyer, rudy giuliani, yesterday in several interviews, one where giuliani stated clearly their thinking saying essentially the president could shoot former fbi director james comey if he wanted to. rudy giuliani told the "huffington post," if he shot james comey he would be impeached the next day. impeach him, then you can do whatever you want to do to him. giuliani making the argument

. >> here we go, i have kaitlyn, jeff toobin sing by. i would love to know if anyone was counting how many times she said, the president hasn't done anything wrong? gloria, i want to start with you, and listen, we don't know what the result of this mueller investigation will be, but it's almost like, you know when someone says something over and over and over again it's like you're trying to convince yourself or someone that what you're saying is true. >> i think she said it more than a handful of times. i would have to guess, and it was her way of avoiding the question. the president saying he could pardon himself. and she's saying well, we wouldn't even need to go there, because there's no need, because the president is not guilty of anything. on the question of the special council being unconstitutional. she said, we know that isn't needed also, because the president hasn't done anything wrong. is he above the law? >> well, no one is above the law, but the president hasn't done anything wrong, that's the way the whole press conference

joining me now, kaitlyn collins and cnn national security analyst, david sanger. we know what kim jong-un has been doing over the last several hours, how about the president and his advisers. >> reporter: president trump spendiis time differently than kim jong-un. he decided to stay behind closed doors as he puts the final touches on the sitdown with kim jong-un happening in just seven hours. we have not heard from the president since earlier today when he did say he believed that this meeting with kim jong-un was going to go very nicely about two different approaches from those leaders, both of them are going to be in the same room, one on one in a few hours here, and we know the logistics of what this day is going to look like, a one on one followed by a bilateral expanded meeting, and a working lunch between the two leaders and their delegations. president trump is going to hold a press conference with reporters to answer questions about whatever they discuss during that meeting. what we don't know is what's going to come out of that meeting. mike pompeo briefe

it meant a lot to me. >> kaitlyn is now volunteering with the brain recovery project. that helps children reach their full potential after undergoing neurological surgery. i'm going to add one more thing about this yung woman. she swims. she's able to swim -- because she has some paralysis still -- with just one arm. >> such an inspiration. we love her. >>> a baseball fan got a loud cheer after she caught a foul ball with her cup of full beer. >> the roar got even louder because of what she did after that. here is the play from tuesday. the foul ball ended up in the upper deck behind home plate. obviously, wow, she's excited. who knew that was going to happen? after about 20 seconds of celebrating, uh-huh, she chugs the bore. now, keep in mind that ball still in the cup. for that a lot of people are calling her an instant legend. >> ball park beer is not cheap. that was probably $10. she had one option. >> i don't know. are you wearing on me because now it seems like a better idea. >> no, it's not. don't succumb to the peer pressure. that's disgusting. >> an hour ago i

kaitlyn. >> i hear you, i'm ready to turn a page on all of this waterloggedprin carrying into o orstdaysf summeroes lo better if you can hold onto next week that looks really great. i know no one's looking forward to mony but when it comes to the weather we should be a litt. this large scale storm system spinning about in theo valley, that's been spinning out this band of showers and thunderstorms along a warm f all afternoon and some of them heavier at times have been southern portions of virginia where theslash flood watch in effect. this whole system wil be lifting northward. we'll be in t warm sector tomorrow. it will be different feeling day but we will still he rain chances. downroot coolhiut there t afternoon. and right now we're at 68 in washington, only 64 in gaithersburg64 in westminster, 63 in martinsburg and a cool 61 in wincheer. so this was not a warm humid suer day, almost like aar e spring late fall one. tomoouow the changesth of the warm front and w wll bem and humid, chanceha of thunderstormt pop up late in the day. sunday. thing could be said for y and hot, should

let's go to kaitlyn. what is the latest? >> well, the fact of the matter is it seechls this suchl summit are oath weekend. one is being called off even a and seems tok doing nor ward on tuesday morning. the question is what are we going get out of this summit? is it going to be symbolic gestures or is he going bo gak about denuclearization. president trump saying it could take slow steps to go through. he says he will know reason the first meeting, also it is something he openenen. >> all right. thanks sohful of of he was doing a lot of communicating. >> sure. >> let's start with this unprecedented decision you had been negotiating. was this is plan or was it completely a reaction? >> completely a reaction. we went there we are not going to work with other people. we did in good faith. we went through it. we agreed. we compromised. we joined in good faith. >> what did he say that was so auchbszive? >> he said do you think the u.s. is insalted. he says we are the reason. you know, here is the thing. it really -- he really did

continuing education units, something we have been able to do recently and are very fortunate to have kaitlyn morgan helping us with that. so, that's my presentation. is there any questions? >> thank you very much, patty. one question on the compassionate care act. i think it was just a superior court judge in southern california that has ruled against it, but i don't think there's been any final court decision that completely overturns the act. >> that's something we are looking at. i've heard a couple different news reports about it, and so we are going to follow it as a board and as members and see where it goes and what we want to do, if it does actually get fully overturned. >> thank you, maybe you can let us know next month. >> president serina: comments or questions? anything from the public? thank you, hearing none, item 5, general public comment. opportunity for the public to comment on items not on the agenda. is there any public comment? seeing none, moving on to item 6, old business. any old business? none, moving on, new business. item a, requesting authorization to enter into a

these boxes are given to children like kaitlyn for free. it was started by brian where -- brian.e said he realized that restaurants that provided crayons to customers were just throwing those used crayons today -- away. he decided if he could make them into new ones, sick children in hospitals can benefit. it's harder to figure out how to get the paper off the crayons. >> big learning process. that's pretty much how we do it today. >> reporter: ware says he was determined to get this right. >> a great side benefit was it won't roll off the table in the hospital. >> reporter: the initiative has grown quickly. the crayon initiative donated 5000 acts of crayons but that number doubled in 2016 and last year, the nonprofit shipped 37,000 packs of crayons to hospitals. >> we are in 123 hospitals and 33 different states. we've given out about 87,000 packs of crayons so far. >> reporter: remarkable, especially when you consider that in addition to the 50 or 60 hours spent on this crayon initiative every week, brian frank -- ware still has to work. instead, it relies on an army above abou

i wish i could say kaitlyn, we're so fortunate she is not, however it's good to have you all with us and again thank you my friend for putting up with all of that. deirdre, spell out now whatever hope people have that the chinese are trying to de escalate this, the mexicans and other countries not so inclined, the mexico thing first. >> okay mexico thing first about $3 billion worth of tariff s against u.s. goods coming south, pork products of note. neil: pork legs. >> you're like be specific deirdre, all sorts of fruits, nuts, bourbon, cheese, so it's the 3 billion from mexico, coming in in july, 3 billion from the eu, roughly the same kind of products if you add in harley-davidsons as well so that's 6 billion and i feel like a lot of investors are saying okay 6 billion but if china buys 70 million worth of farm equipment i don't know maybe we can live with that and it seems like the financials are actually pretty strong right now. neil: yeah it's interesting the back and forth and how it plays, trade, frictional that is it your sense when you talk to a lot of your colleagues and fr

kaitlyn collins is live at the white house. look, his second opportunity. it is huge. you talk about a legacy. this is how president trump can create one that lasts for decades. and this is now the top thing on his mind. >> it is and it came about quite quickly. with justice kennedy coming over just half an hour before the news broke that he was going to retire so he could hand deliver a letter to president trump saying as much and during that conversation, president trump later told reporters they discussed possible replacements even though he didn't hint at who that could be. the president did say he'll choose from the list of 25 nominees that the white house updated last fall in november. a list they published and a list that includes several well-known figures including utah senator, mike lee. also brett cavanaugh, someone who clerked for kennedy. but also tom hardeman. someone who really came through for the administration in a big way in recent days, after the supreme court, the president's travel ban. so certainly big news for the white house. there's a sense of

alone with translators forum to two hours, making clear the president is up to this in their minds, kaitlyn. >> we got a vague idea of what tomorrow will look like but not a lot of details there, john. we didn't really get a readout who is going to be in the meeting after they meet one on o one. will it include john bolton, sarah sanders and other officials working on behalf of the president. we didn't get a lot of details of what that is going to look like. he did make clear they are still waiting to see what they are seriously about, what they are willing to commit to. a lot of buildup to the meeting happening in less than 24 hours. jim is right. he didn't really say they already have an agreement there. it seems as if this administration has heard the criticism that they haven't done enough preparation for this because we refuted the report that said they didn't have the technical expertise to deal with this. he said that is flat-out wrong. but also he was saying the president is going into this with confidence, eagerness, he is looking forward to that. but didn't really give a lot of co

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i just needed someone to come up to me and give me a hug and say, i care about you, kaitlyn, and everything'sshot up, i looked at myself in the mirror with a big grin. something was missing in me, whether it was a self-image situation, whether it was a character flaw. i came up with a stable family in the suburbs. i had a lot of advantages. there was some dark genie inside me that i very much hesitate to call a disease that led me to dope. i didn't have anyone else who could have talked me out of what i was doing. an intervention wouldn't have worked. i didn't have a child. i have a 7-year-old daughter now who i never would have thought. i looked in a mirror, and i saw somebody worth saving, or at least that i wanted to try real hard to save. anybody can find themselves very easily in this situation. and, you know, i look back on that, and i think about what i'll tell my daughter. you know, that was daddy. ain't no doubt about it. but i hope i can say that was daddy then. this is daddy now. that i'm alive and living in hope. thank you, guys. >> thank you. [ applause ] ♪ why accept it from you

. >> kaitlyn also back on jim's point as we wait to cesare rah sanders, who stood there said, the president did not dictate that statement as a concerned fa do you jim's right whole game of referring you to outside council as the line. >> we have seen that in the past, this is something that deals directly with what sarah sanders herself has said. what the administration itself has said, and, therefore, it is within the realm of the white house to answer that, and sarah sanders, of course, is the spokesperson for the white house. so i think the lawyers here by putting out this information have been trying to build a case to explain why they don't want their client to sit down with special council. and doing so, however,aises a lot of questions, of course, about what that actually means, agrend what he risks perhaps hiding, he's been tweeting today that he has nothing to hide. but it also raises or points even bigger arrows to the misstatements untruths and somewhat lies out from this white house regarding this whole thing. >> you go back to trey gowdy, a republican in his own words. it, if

. >> kaitlyn collins at the white house. thanks smouch. >>> joining us now john avlon and wes lawrie. you're part of how this all unfolded other the last 24 hours. whafs what was going on behind the scenes at the white house? >> as the philadelphia mayor notes in his statement, at least in part the fact or the idea that these players would stand up trump and that he would look bad on camera seems to play a factor here. the piece today with my colleague includes a lot of details behind the scenes of why the president has stoked this war and this fight, really does trace back to that rally in alabama last year when he calls the kneeling nfl players s.o.b.s and someone should tell them you're fired. the president was taken aback by how well received those comments were and that that was one of the moments where he decided this was a winning political issue he was going to continue to stoke. what we've seen time and time again is that at every juncture he sought to throw more fuel on this fire, going as far we report in the piec

. >> yes, i've had one of tip o'neill's grandchildren kaitlyn is a friend of mine and i love talkingr about her grand dad, and the weird but helpful relationship he had with president reagan and they were able to solve the issue of social security at least for a couple of decades, and i am absolutely convinced that we have people who can do it, but it's going to take courage. i mean, i get people angry with me all the time because i didn't vote, i maine mean i voted at the revolution of impeachment. neil: it's crazy and i wish we had more time but i don't have any more time congressman i don't know what's going on but seriously, i don't have any more time i don't know what's going on but i do want to have you back. you do provide a level of just camping everyone down which we'll continue in the next hour, after this. asked these couples: how much money do you think you'll need in retirement? then we found out how many years that money would last them. how long do you think we'll keep -- oooooohhh! you stopped! you're gonna leave me back here at year 9? how did this happen? it turned