karl rove. carl, what do you think of my theory in line with the president's? these guys shouldn't take any breaks if they can't get anything done? >> well they ought to stay at. there may be a point if they actually make progress where a working group that is trying to cobble this together need as week or two of hard work on its own and they may be able to let other members who are not part of that working group go home. but you know, i want to go back for just a minute to something that adam talked about, and you alluded to, next book there will be a vote moving, procedural vote on moving to repeal, straight repeal of obamacare and there are some republicans who said they may not vote for that. trish: that's right. >> for a minute, let's think about this, there may be a lot of democrats say we'll vote to proceed to that, in order to demonstrate that the republicans can't pull together votes to repeal it like they did two years ago. so that, the vote to proceed may actually get a lot of democrats saying i'm not voting to repeal obamacare, but i want every repu

joining us right now is fox news contributor karl rove. former white house deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to president george w. bush. good to see you, karl. thank you very much for weighing in. >> you bet. thanks for having me. >> your reaction? >> well, look, clearly president trump had lost confidence in his press secretary. i thought sean spicer handled his departure in a really classy way. president trump said he wanted him to stay on but in a subordinate position but sean spicer said i think you have too many cooks in the kitchen. it would be better if i went. i thought that was very classy. i know anthony scaramucci as you know him. he has a lot of pizazz, a lot of personality, he's a scrapper. he's a fighter. he's a kid who came from a modest background. his dad was a sand miner out on long island digging sand out of pits to build a concrete monsters in manhattan. and he has never gotten anything easy. and he built a big successful business. and he's a scrapper. and he's good. he's good on television. he's good explaining

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

thank you, karl, appreciate it.: breaking news, we're awaiting a big jobs announcement from president trump. the president expected to appear with the foxconn ceo and sources say there could be an announcement on a new factory in wisconsin. we're going to take you there live just as soon as it happens. david: don't want to miss that. tax cuts for the middle class. president trump is proposing a major overhaul of the tax code, but could come at a little bit of a catch. we'll tell you about that. >>> plus keeping a promise to the american people. the ongoing battle to repeal obamacare in our nation's capitol. next congressman chuck fleischman weighs in on the senate's progress, if you can call it that. s its way into you. ...i hear you. when that pain makes simple errands simply unbearable... ...i hear you. i hear you because my dad struggled with this pain. make sure your doctor hears you too. so folks, don't wait. step on up. and talk to your doctor. because you have places to go... ...and people who can't wait for

his thoughts, the way he spoke in the class, and he used to read karl marx — he was a big fan of karld debate with more conservative students. he described himself as a muslim but also as a liberal. over time, debates turned to threats. he used to discuss with religious fanatics — he knew that, but he used to discuss these things. and what would they talk about? what were their discussions about? about islam, and religion. did he ever think that he should stop talking about his views, or...? yeah. several times he told me, but i think he couldn't. he was outspoken. blasphemy is probably the most emotive topic in pakistan. it's legally punishable by death. though no—one‘s ever been executed for it, dozens who'd been accused of it have been killed by mobs. in the lead up to mashal‘s killing, the authorities were talking about banning all social media to prevent what they call blasphemous material being spread online. and even after mashal‘s death, the pakistani telecom authorities sent out this text message to all pakistanis, saying "uploading and sharing of blasphemous content on the i

the way he spoke in the class and he used to read karl marx, he was a big fan of karl marx.more conservative students. he described himself as a muslim but also a liberal. over time, himself as a muslim but also a liberal. overtime, debate turned himself as a muslim but also a liberal. over time, debate turned to threats. he used to discuss with religious fanatics, india neither but he used to discuss these things. what were they talk about? what were their discussions about? about islam, and religion. did he ever think he should stop talking about is this? yeah. several times he told me but i think it couldn't. he was outspoken. —— he couldn't. blasphemy is probably the most emotive topic in turkistan. it is legally punishable by death but no one has ever been executed for it but doesn't accused of it have been killed by mobs. in the lead up to mashal‘s killing the authorities we re mashal‘s killing the authorities were talking about banning all social media to prevent what they call blasphemous material being spread online and even after mashal‘s death, pakistani telecoms

>> well, we've got president karl, sir claiborne. >> oh, right, right.d morning to you -- not sure what to call you. i'll just call you paula. >> just call me paula. >> good morning, paula. >> good morning. >> adrienne, dan and robert, good morning to you. good morning, everyone. >>> we're going to begin in austin, texas, friends and family held a private funeral service on saturday for that young man, the american tourist beaten outside of a bar in greece. streaming video showing 22-year-old bakari henderson being attacked by a group on the street. that was on july 7th. police still don't know what triggered that brawl. nine men have been charged in that fatal beating. >>> in neptune city, new jersey, about 1,000 people gathering for a candlelight vigil, an all-day celebration of the life of sarah lee stern. the 19-year-old who disappeared last december and her body has never been found. two former friends of hers have been charged with her murder. stern's father saying they had to pick a time to let her rest, and this was it. >> pretty awesome to see s

. >> with me now are jason johnson and karl lube dor f. and mr. lubes dor f i'm going with you first. give us your assessment of donald trump's first six months

an additional 2-3 inches possible near the winchester >> it's the karl effect. >> it is the karl effect. we were pushing to have jon karl live in fact the d.c. area with the ra. umbrella. i think it's the first time we have seen a chief of staff firing in the pouring rain. >> mr. trump was holding his own umbrella? >> he is a take charge kind of guy. >> i know a take charge kind of guy. >> this is a transition, jon, to me. >> thank you. bump, set, spike. >> good morning to you, paula and jon, adrian. robert, good morning to you. we are going to begin with breaking news in the west bank. mahmoud abbas has been hospitalized to under go a routine checkup. the 82-year-old has had heart problems in the past and an emergency heart procedure a year ago. a spokesman says he is expected to be released later today. >>> and president trump will sign new sanctions against russia along with north korea and iran. passing after russia's alleged meddling in the presidential election last year. the kremlin seizing two compounds in moscow and ordering the embassy to reduce the staff. >>> charlie gard, th

>> we have president karl. sir claiborne. >> oh, right, right.ood morning -- not sure what to call you now. i'll just call you paula. >> just call me paula. >> good morning. adrienne, dan, robert. we're going to begin in austin, texas, friends and family held a private funeral for the american tourist beaten outside of a bar in greece. streaming video showing 22-year-old bakari henderson being attacked. police still not sure what triggered that brawl. nine men have been charged. >>> in neptune city, new jersey, about 1,000 people gathering for a celebration to celebrate the life of sarah lee stern. two former friends of hers have been charged with her murder. stern's father saying they had to pick a time to let her rest. and this was it. >> pretty awesome to see so many people come out for sarah. they knew we were celebrating her life. that was a good thing. >> her family is keeping the teen's memory alive through the sarah lee stern memorial scholarship fund for the arts. >>> in orlando, a driver walking away with only minor injuries after a min

one of ourea truly one of our stars. >> jon karl with us here in new york. just dizzying on this front, who's gone and two's coming. first, reince priebus, we're just hearing from him tonight. tensions had been simmering for some time. this was in the works before this beak if. >> the president made it clear that this change was coming. in terms of that statement from reince priebus on the new chief of staff, john kelly, he said i can't think of a better person than john kelly to succeed him. you'll see a purge of rnc veterans in the white house. the people that priebus had brought in will be leaving. leaving very soon. many of them today. check this out, under consideration is jeff sessions, the attorney general, the embattled attorney general to go over to become secretary of home land security. that's at least under consideration. >> jon karl, thank you. >>> we're also following breaking development north korea, tonight, they have launched an icbm and tonight x experts now saying this missile went higher and further than before. could this missile reach c

>> kushner heading back into the west wing, and jon karl live at the white house. president trump growing increasingly frustrated by the russia investigation saying that republicans aren't doing enough to protect the president, and tweeting about his attorney gem, and we learned he was at the white house today? >> reporter: he was here, and this is a weekly lunch he has with the white house counsel, and he met with other officials, but he did not meet with the president here today, and while relationship between the two men is anything but routine, in fact, i recently reached out to the communications director, and he said the president is disappointed and that the two men need to speak and determine what the future of their relationship looks like, and as for that tweet this morning, the president tweeted, so why aren't the committees and investigators and of course, our beleaguered a.g. looking into crooked hillary's crimes and allegations? that is the 39th time the president has tweeted about hillary clinton since the election, an election by the way that he won

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

let's bring in chief white house correspondent jon karl to talk about all of this. good morning, jon. >> good morning, martha. >> another extraordinary week in washington. can general kelly calm things down? >> he comes in as a much more powerful chief of staff than reince priebus ever was. if you remember, martha, when priebus became chief of staff, he was announced along with steve bannon as the chieft. with jared kushner as a senior adviser. now the power of all three positions, theoretically, at least, will reside with general kelly. he'll have authority that reince priebus never had. as you know, the issue throughout these first six months is that the real chief of staff in that white house has been donald trump. the question is whether or not he'll truly cede that authority to general kelly and if he'll listen to him. >> you know, one of the things you reported this week, jon, is that attorney general jeff sessions might be moved to replace general kelly at dhs. does that mean the person replacing a.g. sessions would have to say he wouldn't recuse himself from

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

this is jon karl's favorite story of the day. it might be yours as well. love this story. a colorado police officer responds to a very important call. about possible intruders in a home. >> what kind of intruders? >> you're going to find out. police officer david bonde arrived at the scene to help a 4-year-old girl afraid that there were monsters in her house. the two looked everywhere. you saw them looking under the bed. they looked high and low. we're happy to report this morning that the home is monster-free. >> so the key is they used flash flights. police flashlights. they looked under the couch. under tables. under the beds. they did it during the day. i'm a little concerned. >> because monsters usually come out at night. my little guy is 3. he's going through this. they can't distinguish between reality and their imagination. we give him bad guy spray. so he just goes around spraying everybody. bad guy spray. >> don't point that at me. >>> we want to move to a massive power outage in the outer banks forcing 50,000 vacationers off the island at the peak of tourist se

numbers on the cool side. >> it's the karl effect. >> it is the karl effect. we were pushing to have jon karl live in the d.c. area with the rain. >> we saw the president with the umbrella. i think it's the first time we have seen a chief of staff fired in the pouring rain. >> all sorts of new firsts. >> mr. trump was holding his own umbrella? >> i looked that way. >> is that supposed to happen? >> he is a take charge kind of guy. >> i know a take charge kind of guy. >> this is a transition, jon, to me. >> thank you. teeing me up. bump, set, spike. >> good morning to you, paula and jon, adrienne, robert. good morning to you. we are going to begin with breaking news in the west bank. the middle east, a palestinian president mahmoud abbas has been hospitalized to under go a routine checkup. the 82-year-old has had heart problems in the past and an emergency heart procedure a year ago. a spokesman says he is expected to be released later today. >>> and back here in the u.s., the white house says that the president, president trump will sign new sanctions against

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.

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 cain 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: now in an exclusive interview with "the new yorker" he calls priebus a, quote, bleeping schizophrenic. he also leveled an attack on the white house chief strategist, steve bannon, and threatens the entire communications staff over leaks, saying, they will all be fired by me. i fired one guy the other d

i think i wanted to hear it out. >> let's get to jon karl live from the white house tonight. the president has tweeted multiple times since this news of his son's meeting first broke. but none of those tweets about his son, and just the one-line statement today? >> reporter: he normally takes something like this on head-on, but not a single tweet about the story, and david, we haven't even caught a glimpse of the president here at the white house for the past two days. not a single public event on his schedule. i am told that behind those closed doors, the president is furious. he is fuming at his aides, frustrated that the russia story just won't go away. >> jon karl leading us off tonight. jon, thank you. >>> you heard jon report there that donald trump jr. wasn't the only one in that meeting with the russian lawyer. we now know his brother-in-law, jared kushner, now a senior adviser, and campaign chairman, paul manafort were also there, and late today, the russian lawyer who was in that room appearing before the cameras. our team was there in moscow when she emerged from h

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 blame 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 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, years, no

>> jon karl leading us off tonight. jon, thank you. >>> the president also tweeting about something else. once again blasting his own pick for attorney general. one of his earliest supporters, jeff sessions. sessions was seen leaving the white house today, but we are told the president was not at the meeting. we ask, why the critical tweets? why not just meet with your attorney general? here's abc's senior justice correspondent, pierre thomas. >> reporter: tonight the attorney general under intense scrutiny. cameras capturing jeff sessions leaving the white house after a so-called routine meeting. president trump was not there. what sessions is facing is hardly routine. the president again today hammered sessions with a tweet. "why didn't a.g. sessions replace acting fbi director andrew mccabe?" this after calling him beleaguered and weak in recent days. >> i'm disappointed with the attorney general. >> reporter: at the white house press conference today, why doesn't the president just fire his attorney general if he is

we'll get the latest from jonathan karl and the latest from

. >> 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

uniteunitedhealth higher, karl rove is joining me now. great to have you on. >> i think that republicans were better off passing a bill, even if it was imperfect as long as it was moving in the right direction, incremental progress, come back and keep working at it. but that would be better than where they are, which not taking up something in the senate. i agree with the speaker, if the republicans are not able to demonstrate they can govern, they will pay a price at the polls next year. liz: price paid in the stock market if they don't get a move on with the tax cuts. hope of tax cuts baked in. ronald reagan signed a tax cut by august of his first year in office, obama got 830 stimulus too. tax cuts are about that wil that will spending -- capital spending,? >> bush had his tax cuts in pay of 2001, they have to get going on this, retro active to beginning of this calendar year. otherwise we'll not have economic growth by the midterms. causing the republicans to pay a price. donald trump was elected because people wanted change. what was

our chief white house correspondent jon karl is here with what we know. jon, this decision caught congress and many in the trump administration by surprise. >> reporter: that is exactly right. even the president's top advisers were caught by surprise by this reversal in policy and now neither the pentagon, nor the white house is providing any details about how the new policy will be implemented. since announcing his new policy on twitter, president trump hasn't said a word about his people from serving in the military. >> mr. president, how did you decide your policy on transgender people in the military? >> reporter: ignoring a question on why he did it. the pentagon referred all questions to the white house. so we asked the president's press secretary what happens now. >> the president was pretty clear that he will not accept or 00 lou a transgender individual to serve in any capacity, so does that mean that those that are now in theater, that are deployed to afghanistan, for example, will have to be immediately sent home? >> again, the implementation p

we want to go to jon karl, bring him back in. the president's new communications director anthony scaramucci making news overnight as well. he put out this tweet in the middle of the evening saying in light of the leak of my financial disclosure info which is a felony, i'll be contacting the fbi and the justice department and then he added that tag for the white house chief of staff reince priebus. this raised a lot of questions in part because this article he's talking about, it's not a crime to go after his financial disclosure forms. they're a matter of public record. >> reporter: that is true and raised the questions why he was tagging the chief of staff. was he accusing the chief of staff of being behind those leaks? when that was reported by another news organization, scaramucci tweeted, wrong, the tweet was public notice to leakers that all senior administration officials are helping to end illegal leaks. but that financial disclosure form is a public document. it is something that can be requested by anybody and, in fact,

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

karl was caught up in a funding row markel replaced him as leader of the christian democrats. former german deputy defense secretary believe emma who attended. and. it is very important there's a family that. is all the public wanted to see good bye to him would call. fires off of fossil or. missing you or worse it will fire and better the situation and are seeing what happened today. was a balance situation. need german legislation branding both fake news and online terrorist propaganda risk criminal activity has been hit with a school of criticism at least in the country's parliament the green party's warn that social media firms may overregulate while the and establishment alternative for germany party described it as a dark day for journalism the european digital rights group even issued an open letter before the legislation was passed claiming bill breaches e.u. laws now the new rules mean companies will have twenty four hours to remove the content facebook is already hiring more people to check flag posts with billions of users there are concerns that web giants in gener