tim cook, the ceo of apple brought lisa jackson. lisa jackson is the head of the e.p.a. during the obama administration. the current e.p.a. chief, scott prui pruitt, wasn't in attendance. should we read anything into that? >> you can read a lot into that. lisa jackson, good, great for her. she was a democrat that was there then. but for the president not to bring his own person, that is saying he wants to keep him -- he wants the winning picture, going back to the winning picture. he doesn't want controversy at this dinner, this first state dinner that he needs to go well. the first state visit of his presidency he needs to go well. he wants the winning picture. for lisa to be there, that's great. she happened to be a plus one. state dinners are great things to be in. she really had -- that's really good for her, particularly being a democrat and not many were there. but for pruitt, he missed out. >> yeah. keeping him at arm's length. thank you, boris. thank you, april. thank you, david. >>> when we come back, the white house seems to be constantly cleaning up the latest

cook attended the state dinner with lisa jackson, apple's vice president of environment policy and social initiatives. no word on what he and mr. trump are talking about today. they may talk about escalating trade tensions. >>> this morning santa rosa police asking for help. the boy told authorities it happened on bush creek road when badger and fistor drive. who parmen approached him and offered him candy do get in. the vehicle described as a work style van with silver trim around the windows and grill. >>> the woman that died was a marine biologist. 66-year-old susan williams was hit head on tuesday morning by a pickup truck. they believe the 19-year-old driver may have been distracted before his vehicle crossed into the eastbound lanes. >>> coming up, the supreme court is taking on president trump's travel ban. >>> and a judge rules against president trump. new reaction from the south bay. >>> and for die hard fans who worship beyonce there's a special service you won't want to miss. >>> good morning. i'm abc 7 news mike nicco. centered on the shark tank. faster sunshine but keerl temp

cook heading to the white house to meet with president trump and talk trade cook and apple vp lisa jacksong those at last night's state dinner for french president macron interesting to note, apple picked up lisa jackson from the obama administration where she was head of the v pa more "squawk alley" coming up. starting a business is expensive. that's why many entrepreneurs rely on their own personal property, like their car or home computer, to help them do their work. but they might not know that those items may need special insurance to protect against costly damage, theft, or liability on the job. trusted choice independent insurance agents represent multiple insurance companies and customize coverage so business owners can focus on business. announcer: to find an agent, visit trustedchoice.com >>> european markets set to close in a couple minutes and seema moody is here with us at post nine with that. >> jon, european markets are playing catch-up to yesterday's sell-off in the u.s. stocks lower on concerns about higher yields on both sides of the atlantic take a look at the german 10-

. >> and also tim cook, the ceo of apple, and interestingly, tim cook took lisa jackson, apparently,here, and lisa jackson was president obama's epa administrator, a well-known liberal democrat. she now works for apple. pruitt, not there, but at least jackson was there. i think it's kind of sad that we're at such a place with the trump administration that even as a gesture just for the optics, no nancy pelosi, no members with, maybe democrats with a french background in congress, you know, just a completely -- even state dinners now are almost entirely partisan. >> there is also -- i don't know much about hats, but there was a lot of talk today about the hat. why was this such a big deal? >> i think it was a moment, and i think she thinks her outfits through very carefully. as i was saying to some people today, i don't really remember what the president was saying when he got to the podium because everybody was, hat, hat, hat. certainly she took the spotlight away from him, really. it was a custom-made hat by her personal stylist. people said it looked like beyonce, olivia pope in "s

the alias that administrator lisa jackson used to conduct business with behind the scenes.ndal. i didn't hear the outrage from the environmental community on that. here was a woman in public position using an alias name, richard windsor, lisa jackson under obama. she was forced to resign once the public found out and got outraged about it. how could the obama white house not know about lisa using that name? >> let's state present day. >> wanted to point that out. >> we hear you. appreciate it. brent, let me come back to you. secretary mattis signed a memo ordering up to 4,000 national guard troops to head to the border. that's going to go through the end of the fiscal year, september 30th. let's put up the tweet from the chief of the national guard bureau. always ready, always there. moving up to 500 national guard troops immediately to the southwest border. security mission, vehicles, equipment, and helicopters on the way tonight. as says you know, previous president vs. done the same thing. why is it a problem now for democrats that president trump is doing this? >> i agr

lisa jackson used a false identity to avoid our freedom of information act laws, which my colleague chris horner discovered, by the way. and so these are -- these are very serious compared to wasting a few thousand dollars. >> she didn't spend a couple thousand dollars going to disney land. >> you guys have only one play book, which is to come out and try to find anybody who ever did anything bad before and say what about that? and i don't understand why you can't just say, as a conservative, this is not the way the government should be functioning. i am sure you like the fact he's pro-pollution and that kind of stuff. maybe you can defend his policy record, but you can't defend his ethics, and to try to go nit-picking back through everybody who ever served in government doesn't serve your cause very much. here's the problem we have right now. the worst thing you can say about a public official is that they are abusing the trust of the american people and the american taxpayer. according to conservatives. that's what's happening here. >> van, i think that you are losing sight of the fact

lisa jackson had a fake e-mail account to get around foya.on a single trip to china. there's a gigantic double standard. the reason the double standard exists is because of the policies that scott pruitt is pursuinpursuing hepursuing and d for those efforts on those policies. >> chris: we asked for questions on the panel. we got this tweet from 6152 tom. is there any truth that he is a target because he's getting the most done, has made some bad expense decisions but value-added seems to be the best of any cabinet person. how do you answer tom? >> i think there's a real situation here in terms of president trump having promm placed t--promised to drain the. then you have scott pruitt -- let's separate it. i think conservative activists and conservative donors and people in businesses that are affected by environmental regulations, you're saying he's doing what we want so let's leave it alone. can you imagine if this was any other president and you had a cabinet secretary that was engaged in this kind of behavior, can't answer a question from

last night cook arrived with lisa jackson, the vice president of apple environment, policy and social initiatives. there's been no information on what the two may talk about. there is speculation that trade tensions with china could come up, especially since apple's production chain is centered in the country. the president and first lady mel len yeah trump welcomed more than 100 people to the state dinner. the guest list included the vice president and his wife, ivanka trump and hjared hijared hij s mack kron said the bond between france and the u.s. is unbreakable. >>> it's 4:30. if you're engining us, let's get a quick update on weather and traffic where you live. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. >> let's take a look at our east bay hills camera. you can see the layer of clouds that are out there this morning. they have climbed in high. they will climb over the east bay hills and make it into the east bay valley, signaling a big change in your temperature that the rest of us felt yesterday. yesterday cloudy everywhere, temperatures low 40s and

last night cook arrived with lisa jackson, the vice president of apple environment, policy and socialatives. there's been no information on what the two may talk about. there is speculation that trade tensions with china could come up, especially since apple's production chain is centered in the country. the president and first lady mel len yeah trump welcomed more than 100 people to the state dinner. the guest list included the vice president and his wife, ivanka trump and hjared hijared hij s mack kron said the bond between france and the u.s. is unbreakable. >>> it's 4:30. if you're engining us, let's get a quick update on weather and traffic where you live. you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. >> let's take a look at our east bay hills camera. you can see the layer of clouds

rupert murdoch and apple ceo tim cook, who brought, as his guest, the former obama epa director, lisa jackson. >> jon, one other headline from the white house tonight, the president's personal attorney, as you know, michael cohen, under increasing scrutiny, his home, office, raided by the fbi. "the new york times" speculated that cohen could flip. a source close to cohen telling abc news that would never happen. jon asked, would the president consider a pardon. here's what the president said today. >> reporter: what about michael cohen? are you considering a pardon for michael cohen? no? >> stupid question. >> stupid question, jon. the president clearly not happy with your question there. >> reporter: not happy, david. and not answering. but the question of a possible pardon for michael cohen is a central one here right now. and the white house has not ruled it out. >> just to be clear, he said it was stupid, not me. thank you, jon, as always. >> you got it. >>> we turn next to the economy and to the stock market tonight. stocks down for a fifth day in a row. investors on edge today over poss

lisa jackson is the head of the epa during the obama administration. >> good for her.she was a democrat that was there then. but for the president not to bring his own person that's saying he wants to keep him, he wants the winning picture going back to that winning picture. he doesn't want contra voversy. he needs it to go well. he wants the winning picture. you know, for her to be there, that's great. state dinners are great things to be in. she really had a -- that's really good for her. particularly being a dem corral not many there. >> thank you. appreciate it. >>> when we come back the white house seems to be constantly cleaning up. has president trump gone too far? we are awaiting results. it went for president trump by 21 points. booking a flight at the last minute doesn't have to be expensive. just go to priceline. it's the best place to book a flight a few days before my trip and still save up to 40%. just tap and go... for the best savings on flights, go to priceline. capital one has partneredthing with hotels.com to give venture cardholders 10 miles on ever

among the guests apple's ceo tim cooke and lisa jackson. at the dinner president trump shared a toast with the french president and asked that their friendship grow even deeper. earlier the two presidents talked about iran and whether they should keep or scrap the nuclear deal hashed out by the obama administration. abc 7 reporter jonathan carl has tha that part of the story. >> reporter: as far as the french president and his wife arrived at the white house this morning the french president and the trump's seemed eager to show their relationship. so happy this happened. >> we have to make him perfect. he is perfect. >> reporter: chumminess aside president macron came with an agenda, he wants the u.s. to stay in the iran nuclear deal. >> are you willing to consider to stay in the iran deal? >> we will be talking about it. we'll see. >> reporter: for all its flaws the iran deal has shutdown at least for now the iranian nuclear program. >> but the iranians say they'll restart their nuclear program if they -- >> they're not going to be restart

lisa jackson, the administrator had a fake email account. she spent $155,000 on a single trip to china. there's a gigantic double standard. the reason the double standard exists is because of the policies scott pruitt is pursuing and he should be lauded for his noble efforts on those policies. >>chris: we asked you for questions for the panel. on the issue of scott pruitt's behavior we got this tweet from 6152 tom, is there any truth to that he's a target for getting the most done? has made bad expense decisions but value added seems to be the best of any cabinet person. how do you answer tom? >> i think there's a realsituat of having president from president trump promising to drain the swamp. i think the Ãi think conservative activists and conservative donors and people in businesses affected by environmental regulation should say, he's doing what we want so let's leave it alone. can you imagine this was any other president? and you have a cabinet secretary engage in this kind of behavior. can't even answer a question from ed henry on fox

kim noted president obama ep achieve lisa jackson spent twice as much on an official trip to china than toit low by pruitt. ed meetia gave obama a pass. >> obama cabinet official rented an apartment in washington. >> you know what i think about it, they want to go in the issues back then. >> scott is doing a fantastic job. so vote of confidence from the president. new york times saying 5eepa officials after concerns on big spending he wanted a 20 person protective detail. he did tell me that because of his effective innocence over turning regulations liberals are angry he got death threats. >> thank you. we appreciate it. president trump traveled to west virginia had tough talks for china. >> for many years no president wanted to go against china economically and -- we are going to do it. we had a trade deficit of 500 billion dollars. last year. with china. and i have great respect for the president of china, but he is representing china and i'm representing the united states of america. and it was time we did something. >> late braking president trump says he is considering an addition

. >> last night cook arrived with lisa jackson, the vice president of apple environmental, social policy initiatives. there's been no information on what the two may talk about. there's speculation that trade tensions from china can come up since apple's production chain is centered in that country. >>> the president and first lady melania trump welcomed more than 100 people to the dinner for french president macron. single democrat louisiana governor john bell edwards. mr. trump lavished praise on his wife melania for organizing the dinner on such short notice. >> you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. most of us are a degree or two cooler than yesterday. up in the north bay, anywhere from three to seven degrees cooler. our biggest drop is there. temperatures there in the 50s, now all of us in the 40s in mill valley. the cool spot about 41 degrees. warmer weather ukiah, saab baft bol. right now napa at 45. petaluma at 48. brentwood at 50 along with san francisco. 56 in san jose. here is a look at the san mateo bridge. you can see it's getting cloudy, a l

. >> last night cook arrived with lisa jackson.k will meet with the president at 10:45 our time. there's been no information as to what the two may talk about. there's speculation that trade tensions with china could come up, especially since apple's production chain is centered in that country. >>> the president and first lady melania trump welcomed more than 100 people to the state dinner for french president macron. it included vice president mike pence and his wife karen, ivanka trump and jared kushner. and one democratic leader, louisiana governor john bell edwards. president trump told macron the bond between the u.s. and france is unbreakable. mr. trump lavished praise on his wife melania for organizing the dinner on >>> the joint address is scheduled for 8:00 a.m. pacific. >>> you're never more tha seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. let's take a look at temperatures down in the south bay. up in the hills it's cool. 46 in los gatos. down in the valley, morgan hill 48. 50 in los altos hills to about 56 in san jo

and lisa jackson spent twice as much money on a trip to china than was spent by pruitt. and he said he believes that the media gave obama a pass. watch. >> obama cabinet official rented the apartment from the wife of a lookbyist. >> he is a fantastic person. >> a vote of confidence with the president. they are reporting fivee.p.a. officials were re -- five e.p.a. officials were demoted or resigned. plus pruitt wanted a 20-person protective detail. but he did tell me because of the effectiveness in overturning the regulations liberals liberals so angry that he got a lot of death threats so we should put it in that context. >> katie: appreciate it. president trump traveled to west virginia today where he had tough talk for china. >> for many years, doesn't want to go against china economically. and we are going to do it. we have a trade deficit of $500 billion last year with china. i have respect for the president of china. but he is representing china and i'mrething -- i'mrething --m representing the united states of america. >> katie: tonight president trump says he cons

columnist for "the wall street journal" has noted that then president barack obama's epa chief, lisa jacksonspent nearly twice as much money on an official trip to china then was spent on a trip to italy by pruitt, who told fox he believes the media largely gave obama a pass. >> do you think if an obama cabinet official rented an apartment here from the wife of a washington lobbyist, you don't think donald trump -- >> you know what i think about it? they weren't carrying about those issues back then. >> "the new york times" reporting at least five epa officials were reassigned, plus the fact that pruitt wanted an expanded 20% protective detail, very large and expensive but he did tell me in that interview that because of his effectiveness in overturning regulations, the left is very angry at him and he's gotten a lot of death threats. bret? >> bret: security concern. thank you. we are getting a first look tonight at new documents republicans say show justice department and fbi bias against the trump presidential campaign. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is here with the b

lisa jackson, the administratior had a fake email account. $155,000 on a single trip to china. a gigantic double standard. the reason the double standard exists is because of a policy that scott pruitt is pursuing and he should be lauded for his noble efforts on those policies. >> chris: we ask you for questions for the panel met on the issue of scott pruitt's behavior we got this tweet from 6152 term. is there any truth that he is a target that he is getting the most on has made some bad expense decisions but his value-added seems to be the best of any cabinet person? juan, how do you answer tom? >> i think there's a real situation here in terms of president trump have been promised to drain the swamp and then you have scott pruitt. le ust put aside the policy arguments because i think for michael -- >> that's what matters. >> not at the moment. let separated for a second because i think conservative activists and conservative donors and people in businesses that are affected by environmental regulations just say he's doing what we want so let's leave it alone. but can you ima

. >> i hope lisa jackson is not listening to this. i hope she is some place doing something because her head just blew off her shoulders if you said she was spending millions of dollars to go to disneyland tlachlt is ju that is just not true. i understand that the level of defensiveness. we want to defend people on our own side. but we're hurting the country when we defend anybody doing anything. listen, i agree with you. scott pruitt is very effective at hurting america's environment. he has done everything he can to increase the amount of poise an and pollution in our country. and for that, you might want to applaud him. but that does not give him a free pass to take advantage of the country's purse strings. listen, i'm shocked that you don't have republicans -- the first thing you would have said is you don't do stuff like that and then you pivot. you don't even make the pivot. you go straight ahead and say this guy is only under attack because he's being effective. you know that's not true. >> and i want -- >> one of the problems

the editorial goes on to say pruitt's predecessor, gina mccarthy and lisa jackson who were demonizing repeatedly by west virginia politicians among others, flew coach with a much smaller security presence. close quote. the charleston, west virginia, editorial concluded by noting, there are many reasons why scott pruitt shouldn't be leading the e.p.a. primarily, that he doesn't seem to believe in science and is more interested in helping big business than, you know, protecting the environment. but his obvious belief that taxpayer money and resources are given to him for his personal benefit is a big reason as well. go down to texas. "the houston chronicle" weighed in with this. i don't know if you have a poster on this one but here we go. this is what they said in the "houston chronicle." this was also april 6, this month. the headline of the editorial, the time has come for e.p.a. administrator pruitt to resign. the editorial reads at least in part, on the next episode of the trump administration's reality show the latest character the president needs to vote off the island is environ

president, if lisa jackson had been accused of even a fraction, even a fraction of the things it seems as though mr. pruitt has done, we would be holding hearings in the dirksen building in the e.p.w. hearing room every week. every week. and we should be. andrew p wheeler worked as a senate staffer. he worked for our friend, george voinovich, one of my dearest friends in my whole life. he conducted a lot of oversight throughout his career. he later worked for senator jim inhofe. andrew has worked for members like senator inhofe and george voinovich who i know take seriously their oversight roles. we should be able to hear from andrew wheeler what his plans are to rein in the abuses at e.p.a. before he takes this important job. mr. president, i reserve the balance of my time. mr. cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i want to say a few words about the federal bureau of investigation, the f.b.i. this is our nation's premier law enforcement agency and i want to speak about the men and women who distinguish it. first, i want to refer t

cook brought along former obama administration epa chief and current apple environmental director lisa jacksonone other picture that you just saw was of two individuals holding their gold medals. that was john's juicer -- john schuster of the u.s. olympic and megan --, a hockey player. back to our conversation about whether the republican nominees have been treated fairly. go ahead. caller: yes. the republicans, democrats, all underts, they are a long lie in the eyes of the lord. what you need to do is look at this man for what he is, and live the life he is supposed to live. you know, the rich isn't going to have anything. they are not even going to make it to heaven. but some people are backing them . , his watching everybody family is perfect. trump, look at his family. he has been divorced three times . he is scared of them. host: back to louisville, kentucky for the first time in a third -- third time, republican. go ahead. caller: thank you very much for have the first call in my life. i'm not a politician, but i am so proud of president trump, that i would be standing and i would vote f

the veterans administration, the white house did no vetting of ronny jackson pursuant to that decision. "washington post" reporter lisas jackson never even interviewed for the job, but they nominated him anyway. "the new york times" today confirms that, saying, quote, the white house did little or no vetting of jackson's background before announcing his nomination on twitter, trump chose dr. jackson largely out of personal affinity. now, personal affinity the not nothing. personal affinity makes the world go round. when it comes to being a presidential appointee, the president personally liking you is undoubtedly an asset but it is not everything. when ronny jackson was first nominated to lead the va, there were immediate topline concerns about him not having the relevant experience to take on a job quite like that. i mean, the very night that his nomination was announced, i remember one long-time republican lobbyist telling axios.com that his response to the nomination could be summed up in two words, harriet meyers. harriet meyers was by all accounts a lovely person. she was george w. bush's supreme court nominee fo

jackson on where he is on these issues. where is he on privatization? what management experience does he have to lead the second largest agency in the federal government? >> let's talk here, lisakin's replacement dr. ronny jackson. you wrote in an article, jackson taken aback by the nomination said senior white house officials. after aides gauged his interest in recent days, he hesitated to take on such a big job. but the president continued to push and told his senior staff monday that the doctor was his top choice. you say, lisa, this is more about perm chemistry for the president. >> that's right. so it was really clear to us from administration officials that the president was really enamored of dr. jackson who by all accounts is a very nice and good doctor at the white house as a presidential physician for 12 years and wanted him to do the job because hi felt they had a good bond, in part because of how dr. jackson handled himself on the podium in front of the press after giving the president a physical in which he said in very, very glowing terms that the president, you know, would live for a very long time and despite his lack of exercise, high cholesterol levels and ov

lisa, let's start with you. we're talking about these allegations that have recently come up that senators are now lt ookingout ronny jackson. what do you know about them? >> well, we know about asuch as the senators themselves. i spoke to several senators on the committee lvo them have not seen the direct source of these allegations. ane committee chairman and member apparently has seen them. also senator sherrod brown of ohio who told me and othe reporters that this involves double-dig numbers of people who know mr. jackson in our military or are former military. we know what mr. jackson said to one senator we met with todaaty, senator moran of kansas. senator moran told us that one allegation is refuted or that he denies, that he never had a drink on the job. that's from mr. jackson today,st but the f it is very murky. i think on top of these unknown allegations that we haven't seen yet, there is probably even larger concerns about his level of experience. this is a man who has not run a large organization yet. >> nawaz: so where do these nominations stand right now? we saw he was meeting with senators on the hill. what