margaret: you think they will hire up? mr. beckerman: we are only 100 and 2, 103 days, whatever we are in. there are still a lot of positions that have to be filled, that office is one of them. i know they're looking for good people and talking to our companies. i encourage people -- i know it is hard -- to leave the great jobs you have and go and serve in government, is really important. margaret: will the white house also announced the creation of something called the american technology council this week, focusing on modernizing government information and technology. what opportunities do you see for attack on that counsel? mr. beckerman: that is another great initiative the white house is doing that we are going to participate in. the government isn't operated like a tech or internet company. it is a lot slower and there are areas that need to be updated. you look at procurement issues on cloud, that is something our company is going to be involved in and the government should be updating its policies so i can go to a clou

i made that comment about a year ago in the margaret chase smith library -- and the margaret chase smith library sent me a copy of her remarks. i read the remarks and i missed a very powerful message on values and ethics. by the time she spoke on my graduation day, my mind was miles away. i had enjoyed my four years at st. michael's and develop many important relationships in my life, but i was ready to move on. mentally, i had made the break from my college days and i suspect there is one or two of you out there that share that sentiment. with that in mind, i challenge myself to say something this morning that is relevant to those of you graduating. something you may actually remember at least until tomorrow morning. i am going to a cop is my -- accomplish my mission by sharing just a few thoughts -- accomplish my mission by sharing just a few thoughts. maybe just be a bit more attentive than i was. i chose to talk about leadership because i believe we should expect leadership from graduates of an institution founded by the society of saint evan. a group committed to serving others. we

because as margaret was pointing out, the f.b.i. may have integrity and their goal may be to lead this investigation with integrity but at the end of the day, the justice department is over the f.b.i. and democrats have completely lost faith in the department of justice and the administration. robert: dan, washington has been upended by this whole episode. what's the response in the country? dan: i think at this point, you know, the general public is several steps away from where we are here in washington. i mean, this has been a white hot week in washington. people comparing toyota watergate and -- comparing it to watergate and speculating. this has been a damaging week for the white house. the credibility of the white house has been really shattered as a result of the changing stories, or certainly seemingly changing stories. i think out in the country, people are still evaluating, but that's the norm in cases like this. these things take on a life of their own inside washington, and depending on where the investigation goes, the

nann0 who is sitting next to margaret, it became her editor. it was simon & schuster with bodily harm and she has been with us -- we have been with one another for a very long time. very long time. so after bodily harm, woman has breast cancer and goes to caribbean and gets into a drug war. so, next came -- here a big surprise -- that was -- the hand maid's tale. margaret came out to visit me in santa monica while she was writing "the hand maid's tale. " i was not well at the time and hit was mainly a courtesy call, think to see me. but after we had finished our exchange, i asked her, what are you doing? what are you working on? and she said, -- she never tells you titles and never tells you what she is writing. so i said you don't have to answer anything but there is any way i can help you? and she said, no. i have to do this but it scares me. overnight, it was an international best seller. and almost overnight with president trump coming in, it's become a best seller again. on april 26th, hulu has produced a ten-part series and the books are

the literary culture is margaret attwood. [applause] tonight we honor her accomplishments for her work as a novelist and essayist and critic for the influence on writers and editors and publishers were the human beings into were in survive >> >> for writing about surviving on civil rights rights, human rights and environmental degradation and writing about surviving with dignity and decency. for all of this and more she needs no introduction. they will get one anyway. to introduce margaret atwood on to this stage a literaryhe agent since 1963 and her career began in the city at the reynolds agency which was the first literaryerary agency in the united states established in the '80s for bush she later jollied that agency and a 1971 g.o.p. the agency in greenwich alleged it in 1975 she took her shop and writers out west. [applause]>> >> again and again i became margarets literary agent 48 years ago and it is hard to believe that because i don't feel that and as we all know time goes very fast. and did not meet her and tell 1970

david: margaret and jennifer go into this print interview in the oval office.e are getting headlines as they come across. the first big one was about north korea. they asked the president if he would be willing to meet with the leader of north korea and the president said yes. what more color or context do we have about the circumstances that would have to be in place for the president to do that? be a: well, it would remarkable interview, remarkable meeting, should that come to fruition area i would note that last week president trump said on,ad respect for kim jong the north korean dictator. he has said that military options are on the table when dealing with the north korean dictator as they continue to proceed with their nuclear weapons program, but he has taken the opinion that he wants to pressure the chinese president through bilateral agreements to pressure north their nuclearntle weapons program. either way, again, signaling that he could meet these leaders is somewhat of a reversal, because he criticized former president barack obama on the campaign t

asha, thank you very much, and to you, margaret, and to you, chris, as well. we explored very interesting ideas, based on your expertise and passions. thank you for spending the time today. >> thank you so much. >> hope you had fun. >> lovely. enjoyed it. >> excellent. well, hopefully, these conversations will spur others and use it as a starting point and a trigger for discussions all year round beyond this asian-pacific american heritage month. we hope you enjoyed the program. now back to you, cheryl. >> thank you, kristen. for more information about today's program, just go to our website, abc7news.com/community. we're also on facebook at abc7communityaffairs. and follow me on twitter @cherylabc7. i'm cheryl jennings. thanks for joining us. have a great week. (vo) want to be happy with your next vehicle purchase? at entprise, we guarantee it. head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone... change your thinking about buying your next one. "last man standing" is recorded in front of a live studio audience

what's it like to target margaret atwood?> it's extraordinarily, honestly, to have an incredible book to draw on and to be able to constantly refer to it, it's not just an explanation, it's the most beautiful probe. it makes it so much more enjoyable. it's been incredible, it's different than anything i've done writingwise as well. a lot of the reason for that is, because i don't talk a lot. a lot of it, so much of it is internal. >> what's the challenge? >> the challenge is the thing that i love most about acting, i love it, in a way it's not easier, but it is more enjoyable. i love the idea that there's something going on on the outside and the inside, and that people are playing two different things and there's a lot more than one thing going on. for me to have the specific challenge of playing something on the outside for other people to see, having something go on on the inside, but the added element of letting the audience in -- not the people in the room, not the other actors or the other characters, but allowing the a

we returned to margaret talev. the only two elements for the republicans in this particular spending bill. talk to us about health care. president trump seems to think there will be a vote on that. margaret: that is what's bigger rhine was doing, trying to point out the best he could. -- speaker ryan was doing. his take on it was a little different. have aly could not government shutdown and it's not that big of a can -- concession. trumplth care, president says it doesn't matter what all the details are exactly in the house bill because it wouldn't land on his desk until it were -- was also reviewed by the senate. question for president trump in terms of his voting , a huge swath of americans who receive health care now under the affordable care act, what happens with pre-existing conditions coverage? not just are there still provisions that require insurers to make that coverage available? what about states opting out and controls on costs? president trump saying if it's not good, i will not sign it. i want to ta

margaret, let me start with you. how did this meeting come about?> reporter: white house officials say that last week during a phone call, vladimir putin personally asked president trump to meet with his top diplomat sergey lavrov. the meeting in the oval office lasted around 30 minutes, and at the end of it, i asked president trump whether the firing of f.b.i. director comey had any impact, he said none at all. but an invitation into the oval pfice is an honor, and the fact that president trump went shrough with this despite all of te controversies shows just how deeply he wants to improve these frayed relations with russia. ffw, lavrov was invited into the oval office by president obama back in 2009, but he has not been welcome in washington for at least the past four years due to these deep disagreements over ukraine and the conflict in z,ria. >> mason: liz, why did the russians want this meeting so badly? >> reporter: well, as margaret mentioned, they've been shunned and under sanctions for some , ars now in washington so this mos their very big

remembering our history a bit, everybody knew about margaret thatcher, do you think she is margaret thatchergaret thatcher mark two. i hate to be sceptical, but there was a bit of donald trump, the best defence is fence. how do you take the coronation of theresa may off the headlines? you say here is our enemy across the waters. how'd you get all of the ukip voters on board? you create the enemy out of the eu. is that too sceptical? no, well, what do you think? i'm more sceptical. she is fighting two battles. she is fighting the election. and also fighting the election. and also fighting brexit. two are obviously incredibly mashed, but she's going for the election first because that is what she's got to win in the short term. she's doing it by making a pitch for the ukip voters, who now are not sure where to go and she doesn't want to lose them. she doesn't want to lose them. she doesn't feel she has to

i want to bring in the panel, tom, margaret and carol. tom, start with you. talk about what you heard from pete and the tweet that the president sent out this morning. what is your takeaway? >> i think the president does have good reason to be concerned that this whole situation could degenerate into a vaer rose of off the record comments, either about what the president said, about what comey said and the nature of the investigation. i think the white house is concerned that you don't want this thing to spiral out of control. you don't want jim comey to be someone who is going to haunt the administration other over the next year saying here's what the president said or here's the truth. it is important to try to diffuse this koefcontinue verse and move forward. >> we're going to talk about what could come next as far as the fbi with margaret and carol in a speck. you bring up a good point. matt miller, a former justice official tweeted overnight one thing i learned at doj about comey, he leaves a protective paper trail whenever he deems something inappropria

thatcher, do you think she is margaret thatcher mark ton thatcher, do you think she is margaret thatcher mark two. i hate to be sceptical, but there was a bit of donald trump, the best defence is fence. how do you take the coronation of theresa may off the headlines? you say here is our enemy across the waters. how'd you get all of the ukip voters on board? you create the enemy out of the eu. is that too sceptical? no, well, what do you think? i'm more sceptical. she is fighting two battles. she is fighting the election. and also fighting the election. and also fighting brexit. two are obviously incredibly mashed, but she's going for the election first because that is what she's got to win in the short term. she's doing it by making a pitch for the ukip voters, who now are not sure where to go and she doesn't want to lose them. she doesn't want to lose them. she doesn't feel she has to worry about jeremy corbyn so she is attacking and browsing up that fierce british spirits, we won't take it, we will fight them on the beaches. there is a bit of that. and there is nothing like insulting p

but -- so, margaret eaton is now -- margaret o'neill timberlake is now a widow. and less than a year after her husband commits suicide, she marries john eaton, the man she was allegedly having an affair with. so all of this happens before jackson becomes president. well, jackson appoints eaton to be secretary of war and washington society is aghast that jackson has appointed this man, who was having an affair with this woman they consider a whore, and they used that word. so jackson appoints eaton, sees him as a very close, loyal friend, wants him to be in his cabinet, and he defends eaton and margaret over the next two years, to the point that he will call cabinet meetings to discuss whether or not john and margaret had an affair, and he will provide evidence that shows that they did not. and what historians and biographers of jackson, in particular, see is they see a man -- they see a president who lost his wife in december of 1828, a wife who had been accused of adultery, a wife who had been accused of having an affair, and many of jackson's biographers, inclu

margaret and julie, you're here. let's start with what we heard from paul ryan who wants to pump the brakes on this and who yet again is trying to talk about taxes, trying to take about anything else that's happening in this business behind it. >> i heard three really important things in here. one you hear that this is ultimately coming to the pressure building on jim comey to testify, whether it's in a public hearing, closed session or both. >> sources close to him tell us that he wants to do it openly. >> that's right. so you're hearing that. number two, you're hearing that speaker ryan is now making clear he's not dismissing this as pure politics. he's saying we need to have an open hearing of the facts. and number three, you hear his frustration in his inability to get back to the agenda that he want to do, whether it's moving health care or tax reform all of these other issues, that president trump's drama is bogging down congress and a real frustration to try to figure out if there's a way to move beyond this o

that's because they are -- margaret watson. them in some of the films playing with their pet collie named ruby. another one she is rolling around with a play stroller playing with pete with a bucket. it looks like he is dumping a bucket of water on his head. not a nice little sister. sibling rivalries start early i guess. >> these really do have the feel of a home movie. when you look at them, from our 2017, they, from feel very new. it's all most like looking at the white house current today. with the south lawn, etc.. >> you see hoover and the cabinet members playing what would eventually become over ball. they're tossing around a medicine ball. you can see the building in the background, before it with named after eisenhower. you can see mrs. hoover playing catch with their two dogs. then, the dogs run through a reflecting full having a good time. >> we know, in the hoover ball scene, the president is playing .n a sweater running around also in the scene where they fish, they are fishing in the suit. >> at the time, mr. hoov

margaret, thank you. prince philip will soon be spending more time around the house, of windsor. buckingham palace announced today that at the age of 95, the prince is retiring. from what, you ask? here's mark phillips. >> reporter: the role from which prince philip is retiring was to walk one step behind the queen, but even back there he was able to carve out his own reputation and place in history. >> so essentially the queen has always worn the crown. >> reporter: giles brandreth ran one of philip's charities. >> and prince philip was that's the way it worked. >> reporter: it worked as a partnership from the very beginning. the queen's cousin, margaret rhodes recalled the impression he made in an interview before she died last year. >> of course prince philip was the most utterly good looking viking god. he really was too good looking. >> reporter: and so outspoken. he was a famously gaffe-prone fountain of political incorrectness. he once asked aboriginals in australia whether they still throw spears at each other. closer to home he asked scottish driving instructors how they

margaret brennan has more on that. >> no american should be forced to choose between the dictate also of the federal government and the tenets of their faith. >> reporter: president trump's order falls short of the promises he made to social conservatives. >> get rid of and totally destroy the johnson amendment. >> reporter: as recently as february, mr. trump said he would lift the ban on religious organizations from endorsing political candidates, a 1950s era law named for lyndon johnson. but that would require an act of congress. today's executive order only signals to the irs that it should not aggressively enforce the law. even though mr. trump in his remarks went further. >> this executive order directs the irs not to unfairly target churches and religious organizations for political speech. >> reporter: religious nonprofits also wanted exemptions from obamacare provisions mandating insurance coverage for contraceptives, an issue a group of catholic nones took all the way to the supreme court. >> and we know all too well the attacks against the little sisters of the poor. >> repo

margaret, let me start with you. how did this meeting come about? >> white house officials say that last week during a phone call vladimir putin personally asked president trump to meet with his top diplomat sergey lavrov. the meeting in the oval office lasted around 30 minutes, and at trump whether the firing of fbi director comey had any impact, he said none at all. but an invitation into the oval office is an honor, and the fact that president trump went through with this despite all of the controversies shows just how deeply he wants to improve these frayed relations with russia. now, lavrov was invited into the oval office by president obama back in 2009. but he has not been welcome in washington for at least the past four years due to these deep disagreements over ukraine and the conflict in syria. >> liz, why did the russians want this meeting so badly? >> well, as margaret mentioned, they've been shunned and under sanction for some years now in washington. so this was their very big, very sweet public comeback moment. and they managed the im

margaret: there is a couple things to look for. what is the president himself and his remarks about to begin now at the coast guard with those graduates. his remarks at liberty over the weekend sent a signal to those graduates but also to send a signal to his own critics about his own defiance and willingness to stick with his own way of doing things. we will see what he makes similar points today or to make any sort of a rhetorical shift. sean spicer, we expect to hear from him on air force one on the way home from that connecticut stop today. later this afternoon, and just for the white house to field some questions, and there are many from reporters who cover the white house. don't forget the day after tomorrow, president trump will for an eight or nine to literally around the world to meet with some of our most important partners in the fight against terrorism and partners in economic and security issues. the white house understands this is really crunch time. sorttrip is now no longer of the focus in and of itself but an oppor

margaret: let's get started. welcome. 1968,we are talking about a year when a heck of a lot happened, including a presidential election. a year where there were a lot of social, economic, political parallels that are in some ways familiar to us now because, in part, some of the changes the y 21st century america alan thicke has experience were set to motion in this period -- america has experienced were set in motion in this period. i'd like to start with this news conference to the american people. march 31, 1968. president lyndon johnson gave a televised address to the nation. 's subject was the vietnam war.

margaret: some timeline points i would know.ecent testimony by comey where he said he felt not -- mildly nauseous if he had impacted the outcome of the election but saying he it would -- he would have to make the same choice again. perhaps the president has last onto in terms of the finality of the decision-making. trump's treatment of comey since his inauguration, i was in the blue room on genuine 22nd, two days after his inauguration as president trump tethered these law enforcement folks who had been part of the security procedures for the inauguration to thank them and he infamously cold -- called jim comey and gave him this sort of bro hug and seem to be praising him, showing a sense of confidence in him and up until a couple of days ago has consistently when asked or when his aides have been asked, said that he continues to have confidence in jim comey. in terms of public signaling he has only been in the committee a couple of days we have seen signs might be moving in this direction. charlie: the next step is where we wil

host: we're joined by margaret senior whitemberg, house correspondent talking about an interview that took lace with president trump earlier this week. good morning. what was the focus of the interview? focus of the interview was going to be the the 100 days, but interview ended up after the first 100 days, we wanted to things to come with the president and covered a lot of ground in 30 minutes. looked at wall street, wall street banking regulation, what did you learn it?m what might be the interest of this president? guest: we're bloomberg, our core readers are interested in information affecting markets, the banks, the economy. talked about the economy, talk about that later, we covered everything from tax, you potential gas tax to tax ut, tax reform plan, but we wanted to touch on the question the idea of glass-steagall of breaking up big banks, something the the dent talked about on campaign trail, that was then, this is now, it is the end of april. about still thinking breaking up the big banks and he about es, i am thinking it, i'm talking about it as we speak. all right., he is

margaret, thank you.sident trump's second nominee for army secretary withdrew from consideration today. mark green, a former army surgeon faced growing opposition. y, once likened being transgender to a disease. eeeen said tragically, my life mi public service and my christian beliefs have been mischaracterized by a few on the other side of the aisle for political gain. the president's first nominee, vin vent viola withdrew because his businesses posed a conflict of interest. today the pentagon said a u.s. navy seal was killed and two other americans wounded during a raid in somalia. it is the first u.s. combat death there since the blackhawk down battle in 1993. the seals were assaulting the headquarters of the leader of al-shabaab in the islamic group. special operations forces are in s in iraq and syria isis is losing ground to forces backed by the united states, and now hundreds of young women who went to marry isis fighters are desperate to go home to europe. holly williams offers us a rare look at t

. >> host: let's heart from margaret in kansas. you're on booktv with author chris hayes. >> caller: thank you very much for your tv show and your book. the think we have lost humanity in our country. since the vietnam war, i don't think we have ever held and we have been in one war after the other. and to have a war, to drop the mother of all becomes on other human beings and kind of be cheerful about it to do the horrible things we keep doing as the world becomes closer and sees this, it's an absolute despair. to look people up you have to label them first, and have a people that work in prisons, and i said to them, haven't you seen the people -- how many would you say are mentally ill or got mentally ill since they were placed in there? and then they laugh and say, oh, well, at least 50% of them. and i'm like, so that's the way we treat people instead of having care? and it's very easy to become labeled, and now we have a dangerous president that labels women are going to be put so back. anybody that is low, they laugh at educat

margaret, thank you. the f.b.i. is investigating a hate crime at american university. someone used nooses to hang bananas with racist messages on the washington, d.c., campus. epe anti-defamation league says that since september there have iten more than 150 incidents ovolving white supremacist messages on college campuses. we asked mark strassmann to look into this. >> this is where it was before i tore it down. >> reporter: right after spring break at texas a&m, freshman adrienne rubenstein says she utund hate hanging outside the school's main library. she tweeted images of two white power posters. >> they were advocating for a country that was completely white, that no other race, no other ethnicity would be welcome here. >> reporter: last year's presidential campaign exposed icerica's economic, social, and racial divisions. since last november's election, at least 140 instances of racist posters and flyers have been enported on college campuses in 33 states. >> it seems clear that the extremists feel emboldened in this current political climate. ep reporter: jonath

those are the questions i would like to have answered. >> margaret final question to you.re stories reporting about changes in the white house. what can you tell us about the staff changes, if there are any coming? >> there is a lot of talk but i feel there always is and when we come back from this trip and the president now back at the white house, we are expecting him not only to speak with his own lawyers but we are expecting him to make some of these decisions that they said are punted, not only for the climate change agreement but what happens with his own communications team? on this trip, we are, we heard very little from them, they weren't in front of cameras, they weren't explaining things and actually didn't put the president out there for a press conference, very unusual, he was the only one of the seven g-7 ministers or heads of states not, heads of state not 0 not to answer questions. they are trying to rein in communications. >> whether they changed the method of communication, which they have been recently, putting orders, advisors to the president out there

margaret, i begin with you. tell me what you know, where is this going and what's the context we look at this? >> the context in which we're looking at this comes just after director comey's most recent testimony before congress and several weeks after he did confirm publicly that there are active criminal investigations into possible collusion between trump associates from during the campaign time and the russians, and this was a very big deal, not only because he said more in that public venue than folks expected him, to but because it was widely believed that after he put that on the record, president trump would not be able to make director comey go away until the conclusion of that investigation if he were so inclined. it also comes about two weeks after the senate did confirm rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who ended up writing the lengthy letter ex pli kateing why he believed director comey should be forced to leave his position is that before i go to phil, let me read the two letters we know

i don't agree with her and when we get to the australian open we'll see who wants to play on the margaretho doesn't". australian tennis‘ governing body have released a statement saying that court's views do not align with their own. using sport to inspire and to heal. that's what prince harry hoped the invictus games would do when he first created them for servicemen and women who had suffered life—changing injuries. today, he was at the launch of the latest united kingdom team at the tower of london. emma jones went along to meet some of the athletes who will competing in toronto in september. smiles and jokes with prince harry as the united kingdom team for this yea r‘s invectives games as the united kingdom team for this year's invectives games is unveiled at the tower of london. it is a cause close to prince harry's heart, he created the game is saying he wa nted he created the game is saying he wanted to demonstrate the power of sport to inspire recovery and showed there is life beyond disability. this is part of what he had to say last year in orlando. you are now ambassadors for th

labour's deputy leader tom watson warns his party faces a "margaret thatcher style" landslide defeat, if it doesn't improve ahead of the election. also in the next hour: from horse heads to monkeys, it can only be eurovision. but will the uk be able to blame a brexit backlash this year? if it doesn't win. we'll look ahead to tonight's event. the latest masterchef champion, junior doctor saliha mahmood—ahmed, says she wants to improve hospital food. in sport, chelsea are triumphant and win the premier league title — in antonio conte‘s, first season in charge. and click investigates how a university lab is working on fillings that heal your teeth. could this mean you could be making fewer trips to the dentists in the future? that's in half an hour here on bbc news. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the government's emergency committee, cobra, will meet this afternoon to discuss the global cyber attack which has disabled nhs computers in england and scotland. about a hundred countries have reported problems, and the european police agency, europol, has described the scale of the at

labour's deputy leader tom watson warns his party faces a "margaret thatcher style" landslide defeat, if it doesn't improve its ahead of the election. pope francis will canonise two portuguese children today at a mass in fatima, on the spot where they reported seeing the virgin mary a hundred years ago. also in the next hour. from horse heads to monkeys, it can only be eurovision. but will the uk be able to blame a brexit backlash this year? we'll look ahead to tonight's event. in sport, chelsea are triumphant and win the premier league title — in antonio conte‘s, first season in charge. and a group of people living in mumbai tell bbc life stories about their hope and dreams. that's in india's millennials. in halfan in half an hour on bbc news. good morning and welcome to bbc news. routine appointments and operations at some hospitals remain cancelled this morning after nhs organisations across england and scotland were disrupted by a global cyber attack. some doctors have been unable to access patient records, while a number of hospitals are asking patients not to attend unless it's

margaret brennan is joining us now. margaret? >> reporter: well, scott, the white house has not responded yet to this breaking news. the communications team has been huddled for about 30 minutes now trying to craft some kind of response. a few officials did walk by that upper press area where we were gathered and simply said, we just don't want to comment yet. and all of this happened as the white house was interviewing candidates to replace james comey at the f.b.i. >> no politician i say this with great assurety, has been treated worse or more unfairly. you can't let them get you down. >> reporter: a defiant president trump rallied grand jury waiting coast guard cadets by recounting his own approach to diversity. >> you will find that things are not always fair. you will find that things happen to you that you do not deserve and that are not always warranted, but you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fights. >> reporter: sources say the president's own frustration is at a high point. he's doubting his top advisers, e

adam and margaret from eccles, near manchester, have been with the same energy supplier for 30 years. arrives every three months, they go to the bank to pay it in full. they could pay less if they shopped around. so why haven't they? it is just impossible to compare like with like because the tariffs are so confusing, deliberately so, so people can't make an informed choice. after two hours ploughing through i gave up and thought better the devil i know, get a bill, go and pay it at the bank, i know i've paid it. the conservative plan for a cap on energy bills, like the old labour plan before it, is aimed squarely at adam and margaret and millions like them. according to the regulator 0fgem, two thirds of all energy customers, that is 17 million households, are on standard variable tariffs, which tend to be the most expensive. the competition authorities say, collectively, customers are paying £1.11 billion more than they would be paying if they switch to cheaper deals. the conservatives say that means a saving of up to £100 per household. but this cap would not automatically move peo

schroeder more of a or a margaret thatcher?es not have a party in parliament to be frank so i do not see how he can be margaret thatcher. >> he does not strike me as very margaret thatcher. fillon was much more thatcher-esque. , particularlyn because he has to go coalition building and party building to get more of a local base and a party machine. he is pretty centrist. be consensuso building where he can and very european. it may be french politics is more like german politics for a while, generally. wants the campaign -- he the tax rate down to 25%. 120,000 jobs.t he wants to make it easier to hire workers. ,t is not exactly a raging radical agenda. he wants to spend 50 billion euros. is france fully priced? we were looking at the performance of the equity markets. the best performance on record between round one and two. funnel all of this into thursday's central-bank beating. do we get -- central-bank meeting. >> one more thing to factor in which is foreign money, more european money coming back. the ecb's policy, two year

margaret hoover is with me.argaret, house speaker ryan, he says we're going to follow the facts, same message we heard from him i think just yesterday. we're going to follow the facts. it's too early to prejudge anything. says that the special counsel helps the justice department do the job that they were already working on doing and investigating this. and says that it doesn't get in the way of congressional investigations that are under way. really? you think? >> you know what it does? >> what does do? >> it gets out of paul ryan's way. paul ryan got to have an entire press conference, the following 20 minutes of which he talked about only things he wants to talk about -- >> tax reform -- >> that he wishes the american people were focusing on. they're not. they're focusing on the drama emanating from the white house, as he talked about, but this is, as we discussed, it is really a big gift to the members of congress. they still hope that they can pass a republican and a movement conservative legislative agenda

margaret brennan is there with the president. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. some fractures between the u.s. and its allies are visible on the president's final stop. a sharp contrast to that warm reception he got in the middle east. all six major industrialized powers are trying to convince trump of the merits o free trade and the global threat of climate change. leaders will urge the president nhouti gases. the president has not yet decided.iden trump told japan's prime minister that his focus is on security cooperation. he will also see uk prime minister theresa may who yesterday spoke to him about leaks from u.s. officials regarding the manchester attack. >> intelligence that he shares between law enforce mnlts agencies must remain secure. >> president trump said leaks of sensitive information poses a threat to our national security. after that he drew attention with some aggressive posturing, brushing by the prime minister of montenegro and with two intense handshakes with france's president. >> 22 o 23 the nations' presidents are not paying what theyul i

margaret, tell me what you know, where is this going, and what is the context we look at this? margaret: the context in which we're looking at this comes most director comey's recent spate of testimony before congress and several weeks after he did confirm publicly that the re are active investigations for collusion between trump associates and the russians. this was a big deal not only has he said more in that public venue then folks expected him to, it was widely believed that after he put that on the record, president trump would not be able to make director comey go away until the conclusion of that investigation if he were so inclined. it comes maybe a little more than two weeks after the senate did confirm rod rosenstein, the deputy intern -- attorney general who ended up writing the letter explicating why he believed director comey should be forced to leave his position. charlie: let me read the letters that we do know about. this is from the attorney general and the deputy attorney general. bluffcommitted to a high discipline and rule of law. based on my evaluation and