that resignation by ken frasier of merck did not go well with the president who put out a tweet shortlyreafter, really within the hour saying that now that ken frasier of merck resigned from the manufacturing ago council, he'll have more time to lower ripoff drug prices so the president going on the offense here against ken frasier and african-american ceo who has been at his side at numerous events at the white house here during the course of the president's nearly eight months in office now. the question is what will we hear from the president today if anything else about this the president arrived, asyou see, moments ago here at the white house. he was shouted questions by reporters, whether or not he supports the white supremacist or nazis he was asked those questions did he not respond in any way. he is going to be meeting now with the attorney general jeff sessions in about a half hour's time and also the fbi director christopher rahe of the fbi. they're meeting at 11:30 here at the white house. we don't expect to see that on camera, carl it certainly possible that the white house

one person he did name is the ceo of merck, ken frazier. one of the african-american ceos in the united states who quit the president's manufacturing counsel over the president's response or nonresponse, in his mind, to the events over the weekend. with us, errol louis. errol, the president's react to the president, ken frazier quit the president's counsel. he has been on the president's side many times. he quit. what did the president do about it? he went after him. now that he resigned we have more time to lower, rip off drug prices. again, if you are keeping score at home, one mention of ken frazier in the last 48 hours, zero mention of white supremacist. >> that is trump style. you get in his face, he punches back. he throws everything at you. if we ever heard that about vladimir putin, that would be interesting. if we heard anything like that about any of the foul racists who committed murder and disruption over the weekend, that would be a great thing, too. that's not the president we have. this is why the merck ceo resigned and why r

merck shares are higher by about six-tenths of a percent after president trump went pretty hard on ken frazier. >> best day for those shares at least for the month. let's get over to wapner and the half ♪ >>> guys, thanks so much welcome to the halftime report i'm scott wapner top trade this hour back to the rally after the second worst week for the year for stocks, the major average sharply higher this hour. raises the question of whether that bump in volatility is all about over with us for the hour today, stephanie link, john and pete najarian and jim cramer is here. he's the host of "mad money. the stocks bouncing back jim, as we set this up, that was it. >> that was the volatility, massive ramp in the vicks, everybody worried. >> back to thursday in the afternoon there was a guy i was watching, he was on between like 12:00 and 1:00, and he read a letter from 2010, oh, no, it's a recent letter. >> i heard you this morning -- >> howard is great bonds there was a moment where someone asked about a semiconductor stock and he said that's not what i do. i went back and googled howard ma

good luck. >> just incredible, ken. ible, ken. >> reporter: yeah. it gets you, you know. you keep seeing these stories over and over again. >> i know one of the powerful images, ken, that i have seen and i think you have seen, especially you know at the shelters, as a father i was thinking last night i'm going to bed with a roof. >> sure. >> my children have food. and you have parents carrying their young ones on their shoulders through this water. remember, this hurricane hit friday night. >> right. >> it is wednesday and this scene that you're giving us, these live pictures from katy, you can see the danger that exists and the passion that people love for their neighborhoods and homes because they didn't want to give up. they didn't want to leave that house. >> right. and they didn't want to say it is time. but it is time. and it is an emotional time out there for all of those involved. >> and you heard him say we will get through this. >> reporter: you know. >> yes, ken. >> reporter: i was going to say, maybe i'm getting old and weak, but, you know, i've been to katrin

>> i have great admiration for ken frazier. his courage. the pharmaceutical industry. and by the way he's been the person in the industry that's trying to constrain drug prices. very constructive on this. he's taking a stand as always or should take a stand and i'm extremely disappointed the president didn't agree with him because he never mentioned president trump in his statement and i think talking about honoring our values and standing up against hatred we should all stand for that and i think it was a missed opportunity by the president. but i do think ken has a lot of courage and this is, he spart of a group of business people that have more and more stepping up his business statement bob iger did the same thing when he re-signed elon musk re-signed. if leaders don't take a stand then they are come poliplicit i what's going on. >> if you were one of the remaining ceos on this council you'd step down. >> i certainly would you feel an obligation to be a part of these groups at first back in january when he agreed to do it but yes i woul

ken to remind america of its better angels.as meg whitman coming out with a response, as well as tim cook. it off thiskicked morning. lloyd blankfein also tweeting. business leaders coming up with reaction. we did get the president saying that racism is evil and those that cause violence in its name including the kkk, neo-nazis, white supremacists. will we hear from leaders of those groups, those from the so-called alt-right today? they had applauded the president for not condemning them until now. over the weekend, i had conversations with republican aides and officials kevin: over the weekend, i had conversations with republicans. the alt-right feels -- they have tried to distance themselves from these alt-right groups. that is one of the many reasons this was so problematic for the president to wait so long to denounce these hate groups. of course, his supporters will try to make the case that this is something he said in his original comments. quite frankly, republicans within his own party, upper echelon republicans and co

that was the ceo, and it follows ken frazier‘s resignation from the council of president trump., which triggered the largest mass movement of people ever, hindus moving to india and muslim is moving to the newlyformed state of pakistan. among the millions affected were people with flourishing businesses they had run for decades. 0ne suites franchise eventually thrived in a new homeland, but it was a painful and challenging journey. partition was destructive for everyone. we had to start once again from zero. we had the restaurant in karachi, and due to partition we had to move to bombay. business takes years to build and it can take minutes to destroy. 0ur base in karachi was totally destroyed. developing and bombay, it is hard work in bombay. it is not imported from karachi. well, this is the house where we had come and stayed here. it was almost like a dormitory. and all of those who came from karachi stayed with us for a number of years before we could establish alternative arrangements. the memory cannot be wiped out entirely, and therefore the pain is still there. the mocke

prosecutors,ial ken starr he was like the boogie man. i spent more time in the white requestsponding to than doing anything else. document trying to find that thing that ken starr wanted that week. , i get to do my job. >> now a debate about the situation in the middle east in the policies of the bush, obama and the trump administration's.

you know, ken frazier, other leaders should be following ken frazier's example at this point becausehere simply isn't any way to support a president who cannot bring it upon himself to denounce white supremacy unequivocally. supremacists who are marching, literally marching in his name, uttering his name on saturday. >> i want to come back to the politics in a moment. you made a bunch of strong statements that i want to probe. first i want to lean on your legal expertise. the attorney general has launch aid civil rights investigation into this. this morning, he says as far as he is concerned this meets the level of domestic terror. what is the significance of that, from the attorney general? >> so it's significant. and i'm heartened to hear the attorney general say that. i thought it took far too long for the justice department to announce his investigation on saturday. he should have announced it as an investigation into domestic terrorism activity. it matters when the attorney general says that. internally, it means that resources will be aligned. parts of the justice department an

it's important to draw a distinction, a line if you will, between special counsel bob mueller and ken star. folks talk about them one in the same. why is it wrong? >> i noticed a lot of pushback from folks in response to my piece on cnn.com from yesterday where they say ken star, you know, in your analysis exceeded his authority and the independent -- >> started with a land deal gone bad and ended up with monica lewinsky. >> yeah. ken star went back and sought, expanded jurisdiction as michael's describing, so he could go after other things unrelated to the initial investigation, which was the white water land deal. so, i think there are key distinctions there. listen, i -- you know, i'm not certain, i have to take the cnn reporting they are looking at unrelated financial crimes as true. that gives me concern. as a former prosecutor and somebody that sent cases, i understand following the money. at the same time, we cannot go on fishing expeditions casting a broad net looking for crimes unrelated to the purpose of the investigation, which is russian coordination with the trump campaig

news intelligence and national security reporter ken delaney. ken, what more can you tell us? >> a u.s. official briefed on the intelligence has confirmed to nbc news that "washington post" report that u.s. intelligence now assesses that north korea has successfully miniature rised a nuclear with that. in other words, built a warhead small enough to fit atop a missile. which is a significant milestone and really increases the threat profile of north korea to the united states especially on the heels of that missile test last month of a missile that many experts assess could reach the u.s. mainland. >> does this mean that the north has fielded a nuclear tipped weapon? >> no, it doesn't mean that yet. it's a significant development along that path. but there are other technological hurdles our sources say to doing that. you have to be able to build a missile and warhead that

i'm ken wayne. >> i'm alyana gomez. frank and julie are off tonight. top executives are also distancing themselves from the president. ktvu's jana katsuyama

ken basteeda is in organization -- ken bastida is in oregon to explain what history will be made when the skies go dark. >> we can see in full view and the forecast for tomorrow, has a little bit more in the offering. that and the eclipse day forecast coming up after a break. memorial in barcelona today to remember the victims of thursday's deadly . >>> thousands gathered at a memorial in barcelona today to remember the victims of thursday's deadly van attack. dozens of balloons were released into the sky over lasramblas, where a van mowed down 15 people and injuring more than 100. victims of the royal family visited victims in the hospital and later laid flowers in the growing memorial. among those killed, an east bay man celebrating his first anniversary with his wife. jared tucker's father is devastated. >> i don't understand how somebody, anybody could do that type of thing to innocent people. it would be beyond my comprehension. >> tucker's wife was also injured. members of the family are heading to barcelona to retrieve jared's body. >> a wildfire prompting mandatory evacuations

ken paxton, the texas attorney general.re looking for someplace to send the evacuees, like large centers or churches or at a guy's store. meet the guy that owns the store after this. >> neil: you ever wonder where all of these people being evacuated are going? 17,000 people in red cross shoulders. we have the houston convention center holding 9,000. other churches pitch in when they can. with thousands more coming, what do they do? this one mattress store opened its doors to tens of thousands. joining us now, the owner of the store joining us on skype. very good to have you. >> how are you? >> neil: what a remarkable guy you are to do that. what made you do it? were you hearing that options were few for a lot of people fleeing their homes or what? >> during hurricane katrina, a lot of people from new orleans evacuated to houston. we slept 200 people here during hurricane katrina. sunday, i couldn't get out of here because of the two feet of water in the street. when i went down, we started getting calls and e-mails and text

simone, ken? simone? ken and simone, hold on a second. you need a reset. ken, you don't want to use language like that when you're talking to simone. you can disagree but don't talk like this on this show. >> i keep getting interrupted. >> we don't tell people to shut up on this show. you can stand up for yourself and still be civil. >> how do i keep talking when people keep interrupting me? >> simone, i apologize for that. we don't talk to people like that on this show. and ken, i know you don't meend mooen to insult somebody like that on this show. >> of course not but i can't be walked over for over and over and over. let's be really clear here. step one, you had a local blogger protesting the removal of the confederate statue. that guy was also connected, it looks like, to these outside groups. that permit was an excuse to bring these people in. and they came in from all over the country as the arrests show, you know, they were arrested mostly outside -- there was only one virginian i know of that was arrested. all the others were outside from virginia

over to professor kens. >> thank you victoria. and i want to thank justice pryor for his kind intersection and the historical society for inviting me to participate. i appreciate the opportunity to take part in this conversation about lochner versus new york. a case to put it mildly has not enjoyed a good reputation. chicago law professor, david a. strous best captured the lucky ner legacy with a simple question, who would ever cite in case in a supreme court brief, except to identify it with your opponent's position. it's safe to say that a majority of lawyers, constructional scholars and judges from all sides of the political and economic spectrum, rank lochner along with dread scot is one of the worse decisions in constructional history. of course there are only prominent exceptions, i suspect randy will attempt to quince you the lochner case does not deserve this reputation. i am here because i think it does. however, there are many things upon which randy and i do agree. one, is that we both agree and recognize the importance

prosecutors,ial ken starr he was like the boogie man. i spent more time in the white requestsponding to than doing anything else. document trying to find that thing that ken starr wanted that week. , i get to do my job. >> now a debate about the situation in the middle east in the policies of the bush, obama and the trump administration's. we will hear from former obama administration officials and former navy intelligence nats. this is from pasadena california. hello everybody, i'm terry mccarthy. of the 72 events we do every year a substantial portion is about the malaise -- middle east. tonight islook at how we got here and where we can go forward. this is as we are seeing is a

today we'll talk with ken meares, along with dr.haron mcquillan, a board-certified physician specializing in preventative medicine and clinical research. we're going to discuss why omega xl is so important to your health and your quality of life. all this and more coming up next on a larry king special report update. >> announcer: pain can ruin your day. the biggest problem to your body is inflammatory-related conditions. almost one in three americans will suffer from chronic pain in their lifetime. we are living longer than ever before, which can cause wear and tear to our bodies. nearly 70% of americans are taking prescription medication. every day, people suffer from aches and pains from everyday activities, including back, ints. if you want to fight inflammation and pain, stay with us. ♪ >> welcome to the larry king special report update. i want to introduce mr. ken meares. he's the founder and c.e.o. of great healthworks, the makers of omega xl. when we first met, i was not interested much in omega xl. you said to me, "just try

as ken was referring to. but it could be a reference to illegal activity. >> ken, can you describe a little bit what the notes would look like if the committee was reading through them? you point out they were on a smartphone. i take notes on my smartphone all the time and they can look like a collection of gibberish sometimes. i mean, how sure are investigators about the connection between the two things? >> they're not very sure at all, kasie, that's a great point. these have been described to me as cryptic one or two word notations. you know, perhaps by a man who's not very facile with taking notes on a smartphone. probably not as good as you. so they're trying to puzzle through what this -- what this actually means. and the other risk here of course is that according to both the russians and the trump campaign there was a discussion of donations at this meeting but it was about donations to the clinton campaign. because don't forget this meeting was take within a promise of incriminating information about

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and in going to ken frazier, ken frazier is a man who, from what i'm understanding from my sources, he's a man who has worked with democratic and republican administrations. he is there to help and for this president to attack an african-american man at a time that there is an issue about this confederate statue in virginia, there's a big problem here it looks like it could be hypocrisy. my big question is, what was the conversation over the last two days with this president and david duke for the president to be able to feel comfortable without david duke saying, look, your constituency, the people who voted for you are waiting for you, don't do. this i want to know what that conversation was, really. >> chris, what he said on saturday and what he said today were very different and i just want to play them side by side so everybody can hear the difference for themselves. here it is. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this greej jous display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. on many sides. it's been going on for a long time in our country. not donald trump, not ba

ken delaneian, great reporting as always. joining me now is been wit advertise, a senior fellow at the brookings institution and editor in chief at law fair. ben, that's so much for joining us. we're talking to ken about this argument from the trump lawyers that the president has the authority to fire and hire at will and that this case of obstruction against him just won't hold water. what do you think about that? >> well, so i think that memo is quite interesting, actually, both of the memos that the journal reported that was submitted to mueller's people on the president's behalf. so, first of all, the first of those memos, which alleges that the president has the inherent authority to staff the executive branch however he wants, and therefore couldn't have object druktd justice, strikes me as remarkable overbroad. i mean, the president, after all, has the authority to fooir -- certainly has the authority to fire jim comey but he doesn't have the authority to take a bribe in order to fire jim comey. the claim that he simpl

so tomorrow tune in for ken bastida's reports. >> if i were ken, i would just use the colander because those glasses, i don't know. >> let's check the roads with jaclyn. >> they look grade. >>> tracking a couple of incidents going to slow some drivers down. state route 4 right out near discovery bay a head-on crash involving a car and a big rig. all directions of 4 shut near victoria island near the second bridge. if you are planning on heading out the door and heading this way, you will want to stick to byron highway or if you are on the other side use south tracy boulevard and take it towards 205, 580. expect delays on state route 4. the ride out of antioch, that's in the green. southbound 680 near marshview road closed all lanes southbound due to a car fire. so we will continue to monitor this now. traffic backed up beyond gold hill road. all traffic diverted off at marshfield. do expect delays along the stretch as you try to make your way into benicia this morning. no delays at the bay bridge toll plaza. that's exciting news. hat's a check of your t raffic; over to you. >>> we have

it was stunning to see ken star in that interview. the he's 0 got more personal expertise than most in this. prosecutors and investigators shouldn't engage in fishing expeditions. i think a lot of folks at home think that's -- and all the differences along the way from ken star being a partisan republican, appointed to special prosecutor situation to people the fbi director under clinton and ag allowing if not encouraging that investigate to go forward. there's just an enormous in number of differences. the if that's the standard they're going to have a hard time holding their happeneds up saying stop. >> how does that change this investigation as we know it? what stage is in now? >> well, the grand jury is necessary to be able to wield one of the most effective powers that a prosecutor has or special counsel has. that's subpoena power, access to records, documents, access to witness testimony. right now they're trying to obtain documentation about they believed they have. bank records, perhaps land deals perhaps real estate transacti

aftermath of the president's election, where his tweets had negative share price effect but clearly kenrazier's resignation marked the shares up that day so it's a bold claim from the treasury secretary there, but we understand his point in the background. >> but still, ken frazier was the target of two presidential tweets and they were fiery saying that he has more time now to lower rip-off drug prices that might make another ceo a little bit, i don't know, hesitant to actually speak out and leave this council we're going to discuss it. sarah hagan is here and former aid to president bush. and the former press secretary, ben, what about this idea that some ceos could be too scared for retaliation from the white house, should they be? is that appropriate for a chief executive to be? >> well, i think at this point there might be greater reputational risk staying on one of these advisory councils with president trump. i don't blame them they thought he was going to be irrational actor they wanted to have a say over policy and advise certainly when it came to regulation, but the problem is

ken walk us through what you know and what is known about team mueller. >> well, brian there are a lot of clues in the types of people who mueller has brought onboard to steer this investigation. a lot of folks with backgrounds in financial crimes. that's important. because while the focus publicly and from a lot of democrats who are trying to use the russia issue to weaken trump is on ties between donald trump's campaign and russia and potential collusion over the hacked emails or other potentially damaging information to hillary clinton where the smart money is is on serious inquiry into trump's finances and how those are connected to russia, including an investigation into the 2013 miss universe passageant in moscow. including russians buying condos in trump properties, including investigations into paul manafort, the former campaign chairman for donald trump and his connections to russian and ukrainian oligarchings. the fact that mueller brought on so many people specialized in this area shows where he is headed. >> rick, recall with us that mueller has pretty much all the time he

i think everything ken said was music to my ears except this. it was not elitist.boerk w bob corker was a businessman in chattanooga, you've been there, it's a great town. it's not exactly elitist. let me draw a contrast. it would be elitist if he was bragging about his valentino shoes and his tom ford purse or whatever the hell the cabinet secretary's wife was doing the other day. that's elitism and that's the trump administration. you're right, though, fundamentally. you're right fundamentally that this is likely to hurt corker politically so why is he doing it? the rarest thing in washington, political courage. he's doing it because he means it. because he really is worried the president's unstable, and since he made that comment, the president has proved corker right. the president -- you saw it this week. he was unhinged. he is unstable. and he's obviously incompetent. we're past the august recess, he hasn't got an major piece of legislation through. that's demonstrably true. whether he's unstable is a subjective judgment but when one of the most serious, sobe

we had a special prosecutor, i if you remember a guy named ken star, the boogie man then. like, a request for this, a -- i more time in that white foya responding to requests than doing anything else. goingmber those requests, through every document trying to find that thing that ken star wanted that week. and so, you know, coming in now, to do my job. >> watch our interview with manigault, tonight 8 .m. eastern on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. ost: this is bruce brown, executive director of reporters committee for freedom of speech the issue of freedom of the press and the trump administration, good morning to you. viewers what ind your committee is about, what you do. a nonprofit organization been around since bono legal es pro support to news organizations. host: particularly when it comes issues and access issues and those things? guest: exactly. organization in the 1970s was involved in reporter when reporter s consist maintain source relationships in the face of government subpoenas. us, the last couple of years of the obama

coming up in our newscast, it is really the ultimate road trip to catch the ultimate spectacle, our ken bastida follows a family heading to oregon for the total solar eclipse. brian? >> i hope they don't find clouds. back in the bay area, we've got plenty of those along the shoreline, and our own, what will be partial solar eclipse forecast coming up, and sunday weather as well. we'll have it all after a break. <> >>> welcome back, and let us head back out live to juliette goodrich where we are counting down to kickoff. >> fans will be coming in just a little bit. we've got the broncos, they were behind me practicing. i hate to say this but the last time they were on the field, tonight, 7:00, they take on our 9ers and we'll have good luck for sure. if you're not here at the stadium taking part in this over the weekend, there's another road trip that's taking place and it's a big one. a lot of people in the bay area heading north to oregon to see the total solar eclipse and that's happening monday at 10:20:00 a.m. where it will look like night fall. we sent

ken, heather? >> all right, lauren blanchard for us tonight in dickinson, thank you. >>> air travel has been suspended to both major airports in houston. the airports are closed due to severe flooding brought on by tropical storm harvey. roads in and out of the airport are also closed. travelers are being told to check with their airlines if they have any plans to travel through either of those airports. there is no estimation on when flights will resume. >> yeah, the big problem rosemary, more rain, even more is in the forecast. >> you're right in the days ahead. harvey isn't going away any time soon. i'll explain here. let's take a look at where it is at this moment. we've been talking about it all weekend long. it came ashore as a strong category 4. although it's only a tropical storm at this point, the movement has been so incredibly slow that these areas have been hammered for about 48 hours straight. you can see the movement on that chart. only east southeast at about three miles per hour. so

important question ken just raised. why did they not register under the foreign agents registration act when they were doing this work and who was paying for it? we know the number. we know that because of great investigative reporting and work by parliamentary officials in ukraine. that happened six months ago. 17 million, that's a good job for a couple of years of public relations work. did they register? appears they did not and who paid for that work to be done? >> ken. >> ari, on paper, the lobbying was paid for by a european ngo and so the firms in the united states said as far as we're concerned we didn't have to register but it's starting to look like that ngo had connections to this ukraine political party. you have to register and and a very particular set of disclosures. that didn't happen in this case. mueller is asking what they did and how they got paid. >> it's not that hard to register. these companies, those international projects they have their own legal and compliance departments. it's a matter of pa

ktvu anchor ken wayne has been in houston where rescues are still happening, ken. >> reporter: we are in west houston near the west houston municipal airport. want to show you what's going on here. we have more boats coming in, jet skis coming in. these are civilian volunteers who are hauling people out who are still trapped and getting evacuated from this flooded neighborhood of houston. this has been going on all morning long and i have been told from people here that the water has actually gone up this morning, even though it hasn't rained since yesterday. so there's people here helping get these folks out of here. the biggest things are pets, people getting their pets, we have seen -- this is texas so a lot of people coming out with arm loads of rifles and guns. they don't want to leave them behind. they are worried about potential looters, although we haven't heard about that happening, especially in this area. and then prescription medications. so some people who forgot any of those things, when they initially fled now want to come back and catch a ride on one of these boats to

i think if kevin klein made the decision after ken phraseer, ken plank had to endure at under armour, boycott under armour, when he didn't support president trump but said he's got a pro business agenda for a ceo like me, that resulted in a massive boycott boycott. now that these companies have left, what could happen on the other stid? quit the council is done. what's the next one? buy their stuff? >> we praised the folks, especially the ones that left early and, you know, we of been doing this at color of change since about january where we started with behind the scenes conversations before we hit corporations public i and tried to push them and give them a chance. as more and more things continued to happen and donald trump gave them no sort of gifts in terms of his day in and day out news cycle of what he was saying, we kept going back to these corporations and saying -- >> and they are sick of getting your calls and mine. >> sick of getting calls and saying, hey, what are you going do? so when we -- as we launched this campaign, we gave more and more people the ability to engage

kpix5 anchor ken bastida is live in salem, oregon, for us tonight. ken? >> reporter: yeah. hi, elizabeth. it was billed as a once in a lifetime opportunity to see something that you just don't see more than once in a lifetime, the great american eclipse as it was called. it's gone now and so are the crowds that were here in downtown salem just a few locals hanging out tonight, but most of the people who flooded the area and there were thousands of them have returned or are in the process of getting back home. that eclipse, though, it left an impression with a lot of people. take a look. no adjustment of your television is necessary. this really is what it looked like at 10:15 in the morning. >> the neatest part was when it was almost at full totality and you got that diamond ring effect of the moon and the sun. that was really awesome looking and then to have it almost go total darkness and looking out at a baseball field that was really bright light when it started and just going total dark, a pretty amazing experience. >> reporter: thousands of people came to kaiser, oreg

ken, you've shown much better leadership than you're seeing from donald trump. have to be honest. if we want this president to do a good job, if he can, we've got to tell him when he's doing right and when he's doing wrong. these young men need to hear from the president i've got a better plan for you. anybody's got a better plan for you than nazis. when he doesn't say that, that's bad. >> listen to what the young men are saying about trump's statement. if you look at the daily stormer, i looked at it before we came in, i almost cringed to look. it's terrible. they're pleased with lis statement. look online. i'm mot making this up. i won't repeat it back to anyone. spend time after this segment. they think that he was winking and nodding to them by not condemning them, they thought he was talking about progressives. i'm not making this up. folks, we know what's going on here. this is not a game. and he is so quick to condemn anyone else, he spent more time talking about rosie o'donnell or mitch mcconnell in the last 24 hours than he spent talking about nazis and

you see ken starr. he's a definition of that. odd from him. look, i think this comes down to what you believe the definition of directly is. in rod rosenstein's order setting up the deputy attorney general, setting up bob mueller as special counsel says, give him free rein to pursue anything directly related to russia's meddling in the election. republicans define that narrowly. that just means the 2016 election? but as pam is reporting and pointing out, you know, there could potentially be a long tail here going back a decade. potenti potentially. maybe more. in terms of relationships built between that trump world and russia. so -- it's a hard thing. again, i think ken starr, frankly, is a flawed messenger to deliver the fishing expedition line, but one thing i would note, dana bash, our colleague, interviewed susan collins and lisa murkowski this week and asked about bob mueller and what was a red line and what wasn't. susan collins said, look. bob mueller should have the prerogative to follow the leads as he sees them. there's no an appeti

he is attacking ken frazier? why did you have him on the counsel if what he was doing is what he was doing. now your immaturity manifests its and why the ceos if they are responsible to the bottom line to the broader, if you will, moral twesweep of this nation m disavow themselves from the bigotry we see manifest. >> is the president's anger misplaced? he's attacking the media for covering bipartisan outrage for not condemning this ideology. is this misplaced saying this? >> the first response the president said on the day of the tragic events was he denounced all forms of hate and bigotry. he said that. he was criticized because the media criticized because he didn't name the groups. he denounced all forms. >> it wasn't the media, it was elected republicans who said he did not go far enough. those are the people who did not go far enough. what do you say to lindsey graham? i'm not going to go through the list. they said the president did not go far enough in denouncing hate groups. what do you say to them? >> i

>> i know bob mueller and i was on the judiciary committee when ken starr was testifying, and i don't think starr is bob mueller, number one. number two, i think we have a real question here about how rosenstein -- he's in a very peculiar position. he wrote the memo that just field the firi -- just field t justified the firing of comey, but i think he thought the president would say, no, i fired him because he was investigating the russian matter. i think he is in a peculiar position and conflict as well. if they came to him and said, fire comey he would probably end up being resign or fired himself. that would -- that probably could only happen if we changed the attorney general. i think it would be an american catastrophe, a failure of the system seen not just nationally, around the world, and people like senator lindsay graham have put down their marker, that ain't going to happen. there will be hell to pay if that happens. >> the most loaded words in the business, we will see. john flannery, mathew whitaker,

. >> reporter: the president's comments today came after ken frazier, ceo of merck, resigned from the white house council here's what ken frazier said in a statement from merck our country stems from diversity, and political beliefs. as ceo of merck and as a matter of personal conscience, i feel a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. that comment from ken frazier did not go over well with the president of the united states who responded saying the following, now that ken frazier of merck will have more time to rip off lower drug prices. the president's decision was to criticize merck and its ceo for drug prices when the he was criticizing the president for his remarks of the incident in virginia we got a statement in from ge. here's what they are telling cnbc at this hour. cnbc has no tolerance for hate or bigotry and strongly condemn what happened in charlottesville over the weekend ge is a proudly inclusive company and represents all religions, nationalities, sexual orientations and races with more than 100,000 employees in the united states, it's import

i want to bring back in van jones, josh dubois and ken cuccinelli. we're going to go to the attorney general every time we get new pieces of legal information here. there is a federal rights investigation open now. the significance of this to you, sir? >> the additional piece from the mother, not only did he happen to be in charlottesville, but a week ago he planned to come. he intended to be where he was. he came for purposes of the rally. the civil rights question is there any evidence, other than the act itself, that he came to do this type of harm. and and i would note, the investigation under a civil rights banner is no different in all the powers of the government of investigation are the same as it would be for domestic terrorism. the difference is simply what they end up charges the defendant with in this case, the accused with. the civil rights investigation will get them whatever information they need to make a charging decision. you could see a domestic terror charge come out of that. or whatever happened in the sniper case, because of the

. >> what does all this have to do with whitewater and what is ken starr doing in this business?sue clinton until they caught him doing something and the something was monica lewinsky. >> a couple weeks ago a woman named linda tripp walked into ken starr's office and says, i have these tapes. i have about ten phone calls of a young woman named monica lewinsky and in it she talks about having had a sexual relationship with the president. >> monica lewinsky bares her soul about her love for bill clinton to her friend, linda tripp. linda tripp gives those tapes to paula jones' lawyers and kenneth starr's office. ken starr knows that the president has to give a deposition in the jones case. >> part of the danger for the president lies in what he said under oath to lawyers for paula jones. mr. clinton denied in his deposition having a sexual relationship with monica lewinsky. >> did the president agree with lewinsky to denye -- deny their affair under oath? >> if the president, in fact, encouraged this woman to lie under oath or ask someone else to encourage her, that's a crime. >> it

being attached to the president, there is no incentive for them to stay and so i was pleased to see ken frazier, who is a philadelphia native, by the way, take the lead on this and be the first to say, no, i'm not going to stand with this president when he won't stand up against white supremacists. >> what can the president do to, i guess i should say, not only just keep these ceos on these councils, but, you know, just to keep americans having faith in the president? i mean, can the president fully separate himself from the white supremacists who have supported him? >> oh, he has to. >> i don't think he can, because he's still got steve bannon sitting there in the white house. steve bannon is somebody that these people look to as their voice in the white house. so as long as he keeps steve bannon there, number one, i don't think that he can separate himself from it, because he has it sitting right there with him in the white house. >> go ahead, matthew. >> well, i mean, you know, he needs to not just have the one sound byte from earlier this week, from yesterday, where he spoke out aga

along a busy interstate 5, i'm ken bastida, kpix5. >> all right we'll have more reports from ken tomorrow and monday. you'll have the perfect vantage point along the path of totality. also cbs news will deliver a full day of coast to coast coverage on monday. it all kicks off with a special report on monday. >>> overnight lows pretty much in the 50s tonight. that's how we will start off sunday morning. afternoon highs mid-80s in inland. but low clouds will be moving in. numbers inland will still be in the mid-80s. by monday the numbers are going to be coming inland into the mid-80s. so a minor cooling trend as that offshore pressure becomes to move in. what will be a partial solar eclipse in the area. this is monday. 75% of the sun will be eclipsed. and it'll be a little dicey to see it near the shoreline with low clouds burning off and never never never look at the sun directly. make sure you have eye protection if you're going to give that eclipse on monday a shot. a lot happening for tomorrow. the soul festival in oakland. sunshine 75. stern grove festival still on the cool side at 63