margaret brennan reports. >> reporter: cameras only briefly got a glimpse of world leaders and theirat the g-20 summit in germany earlier this month, but it was long enough to see president trump enter speaking with president trump vladimir putin. melania trump was seated next to president trump. the two had finished a more than hour-long meeting, which attorney jennial jeff sessions said showed the chemty screen them. the top democrat also met. they revealed nearly two weeks later that the conversation occurred during dinner without any cameras, advisers, or u.s. presence. h relied on a u.s. interpreter for the more than hour-long meeting. other foreign leaders in the room wondered what the two presidents of adversarial countries were huddling around. >> i will get along, i think, with putin. >> during the campaign trump said he could get along. >> but jeffrey edmonds who served in the trump and obama administrations said the tension between the two countries is exactly what made the dinner conversation high risk. >> i'm not sure his staff his been allowed to serve him well. when th

margaret brennan is our white house and senior foreign affairs etrrespondent. margaret, this isn't going away, is it? t reporter: it's certainly not. the president says this is politics as usual, but a new poll out today shows that two- thirds of americans disagree, and they believe that the meeting was inappropriate. now senate democrats are urging the white house to review and possibly to revoke the security clearance of jared kushner, atesident trump's son-in-law. he also attended that meeting but did not initially disclose it on his security clearance paperwork. 'sw, all of this is complicating ime administration's efforts to improve relations with russia, a high-level meeting was held today with russian diplomats to discuss the possible return of two compounds here in the u.s. that were seized by the obama administration in response to that russian election hacking. >> mason: margaret brennan at the white house. thank you, margaret. d e president tried today to change the subject from russia to america or at least to products made here. eplianna goldman has

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ree white house and foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan is traveling with him. margaret, the president had hoped to get china to help with north korea. that didn't happen. so where does he go from here? >> well, the president is trying na find new ways to cut off north korea's financial lifeline without beijing's help. despite mr. trump's very public attempts to befriend president xi jinping, including at his mar-a-lago resort, beijing remains strongly opposed to action that would destabilize kim jong-un's regime. so today the president said, "so much for china working with us," signaling his frustration. he'll look for new ways to put pressure on xi jinping when they meet later this week. >> brown: margaret, president trump will be meeting with vladimir putin for the first time. will the north korea issue raise the stakes in that one? >> it adds pressure to an already high-stakes meeting on friday. mr. trump has no diplomatic experience. and he's going to be squaring off with russia's vladimir putin, a highly experienced operator. so this is new territory. the w

anthony. >> mason: margaret brennan, thanks.hile most americans were sleeping, the seven-rear republican battle to repeal and replace obamacare died on the floor of the united states senate. here's chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes. >> it's not a death nell. >> reporter: house republicans begged their senate colleagues today not to give up. >> you know, it's a fail. they have to-- they've got to get back at it. >> time to move on. >> reporter: but in the wee hours of the morning, senate leader gregg mitchell said he had exhausted all options. >> this is a disappointment. >> reporter: it came after flee republicans defected on a last-ditch, slimmed-down repeal bill that many admitted was not great policy. >> miss murkowski. >> no. >> reporter: alaska's lisa murkowski and maine's susan collins were the first to buck their party, as they have all week. >> thank you, collins! >> reporter: that left arizona's john mccain, a wild card ever since he said this on tuesday: >> it's a shell of a bill right now. we all know tha

white house and senior foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan is there. >> reporter: as president trump arrived in hamburg, thousands of from -- protesters clashed with police, who deployed water cannons and pepper spray to disperse the crowd. demonstrations are anti-establishment, anti-catholic protesters, and german authorities sent out 15,000 police to try to keep them under control. it was a sharp contrast to the friendly crowd that greeted president trump in warsaw earlier today. >> the fundamental question of our time is whether the west has the will to survive. >> reporter: at a memorial to a polish uprising against the nazis, the president committed to defending countries in the nato alliance. >> we stand firmly behind article 5. >> reporter: something he had been unwilling the say when he visited nato headquarters in may. the president also delivered his sharpest criticism of russia to date. >> we urge russia to cease its destabilizing activities in ukraine and elsewhere and its support for hostile regimes including syria and iran. >> reporter: but earlier in the day, mr.

here's margaret brennan.l reporter: cameras only briefly got a glimpse of world eiaders and their spouses dining .t the g-20 summit in germany earlier this month. but it was long enough to see president trump enter and gesture toward vladimir putin. the russian president was seated next to first lady melania trump. >> we look forward to a lot of very positive things happening. ju reporter: the two leaders had just finished a more than two- hour long meeting, which secretary of state rex tillerson said showed tive chemistry between them. russia's top diplomat also attended along with official translators from both countries. but the white house revealed late tuesday, nearly two weeks later, that the conversation continued during dinner, without any cameras, advisers, or u.s. translator present. mr. trump relied instead on a kremlin interpreter for what has esen described as a less than reur long meeting. other foreign leaders wondered what the two presidents of adversarial countries were huddling about. >> i w

official was with president trump for his chat. >> mason: margaret brennan at the white house. thank you, margaret. while congress and the special counsel are investigating russian election hacking, president trump has set up a panel to investigate election fraud with little evidence there is any. here's chip reid. >> this issue is very important to me. >> reporter: trump kicked off the first meeting of his election integrity commission today, but its origin goes back to november when he won the the popular vote to hillary clinton by almost three million votes. mr. trump has refused to believe it, insisting that millions of people illegally voted for clinton, but he has cited no evidence. critics say the president created this commission in a desperate effort to prove that he did win the popular vote. today vice president mike pence, who is heading the commission, tried to quash that idea. >> let me be clear: this commission has no preconceived notions or preordained results. we're fact finders. >> reporter: numerous studies have found that voter fraud in u.s. elections is extr

. >> margaret brennan at the white house. thank you, margaret.g news" will be right back.

margaret brennan is at the white house. good morning. >> thanks, nancy. >>> the chairman of the joint chief of staffs says transgender people can continue serving now in the u.s. military. trump promised to reverse the policy. general joseph dunford said "there will be no modification to the current policy until the order goes through the proper channels." he made the statement yesterday in a letter. jan crawford is at the pentagon. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, charlie. they say in the military there is a regulation on how to issue regulations, and the president's twitter account is just not part of it. so yesterday transgender service members went to work just like any other day with ashurpss from leadership that for now nothing will change. >> i have yet to receive implementation guidance. >> reporter: army chief of staff mark milley said until he receives more formal instructions, the president's ban on transgendered service members won't be implemented. >> we'll act when we receive a direct tich through the

mark get brennan was on the -- margaret brennan was on the street in the middle of it all. >> reporter establishment, protestors. [ background noise and yelling ] >> president trump is already in hamburg. tonight, he met with the leaders of south korea and japan to talk about the nuclear threat posed by north korea. earlier at a press conference in pole land, mr. trump was asked about the russian meddling in the u.s. election. >> i think it was russia, but i think it was probably other people and/or countries, and i see nothing wrong with that statement. nobody really knows. nobody really knows for sure. >> the president got a bit of a snub from the wife of the pole lick president during -- polish president from a photo op. she walked right past him and shook milania's hand. the formal summit starts in a few hours. >>> back in the bay area, police say a man tried to drown tis girlfriend in a pool. morgan hill police responded to a home on pine way on july 1. the victim escaped. police arrested this man. police say he has a $100,000 warrant for another case. police have not stated a pos

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. >> mason: margaret brennan at the white house. thank you, margaret. the president tried today to change the subject from russia to america or at least to products made here. julianna goldman has that. >> reporter: from texas cowboy ts highlighted american products made in all 50 states. >> remember the old day, they used to have "made in the u.s.a."? we're going to put that brand on our product because it means it's the best. >> reporter: but notably absent today, any trump branded item, which in the past he hasn't hesitated to promote, like at a campaign press conference at a trump golf club last year. >> i built a great, great company. you have the water. you have the steaks. you have the airline that i sold. >> reporter: in business mr. trump, as well as his daughter and senior adviser ivanka, have outsourced manufacturing of their products to countries around the world where labor is chieper and there are fewer regulations. items from the trump home collection, for example, are made in turkey. these ivanka clothes are made in china, vietnam, and i

white house and foreign affairs correspondent, margaret brennan is traveling with him. hoped to get china to help with north korea. that didn't happen. where does he go from here? >> the president is trying to find off new ways to cut off north korea's financial life line without beijing's help. despite mr. trump's public attempts to befriend president xi including at this mar a lago resort, beijing remains oppose to action that would destabilize, kim jung un's regime. today the president said, so much for china working with us. that's signaling his frustration. and, he'll look for new ways to put pressure on xi when they meet later this week. >> of margaret, president trump meeting for the first time with russian president vladamir putin, does north korea issue raise the stakes in that one? >> well it adds pressure to a high stakes meet frying day. now mr. trump has no diplomatic experience and going to be squaring off with russia's vladamir putin, a highly experienced operator. so this is new territory. the white house says there is no agenda. but it comes amid multipl

white house and senior foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan is there. >> i think it's going well. we had some very, very good talks. >> reporter: presidents trump and putin had such positive chemistry, according to secretary of state rex tillerson, that they kept talking for more than two hours. midway through, first lady melania trump interrupted to urge them to wrap it up, but to no avail. tillerson was the only other administration official present. the encounter began on an awkward note, russian interference on the 2016 u.s. election. the two leaders' differences on the issue may be intractable, tillerson said, in a briefing where cameras were not allowed. ov reporter: but russian foreign minister sergey lavrov described things differently in an on camera briefing. [speaking russian] lavrov said mr. trump accepted putin's denials, and told him some americans are fueling vrories of russian meddling. ale u.s. intelligence communities concluded with high confidence that russian hackers were responsible. putin asked mr. trump for proof. the two leaders also agreed to coopera

here's white house and senior foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan. >> it violatee we will look at it and see whether it violates the letter of the deal and act accordingly. >> reporter: iran's top dip mad, javad zarif, said new sanctions announced today by the trump administration are poisoning already strained relations between the two countries. at stake is the 2015 deal to freeze iran's nuclear program that president trump has repeatedly criticized as rewarding a u.s. enemy. >> it's one of the worst deals i've ever witnessed. >> reporter: president trump wants the scrap the deal or renegotiate. president trump said it's a bad deal for americans and that there are flaws in it. >> it isn't. it isn't. well, no deal is completely acceptable to everybody. >> reporter: you're saying iran is not willing to negotiate? >> this is a multilateral deal approved by the security council. it's in the a bilateral deal to be withdrawn from or to be renegotiated. >> reporter: the white house accuses iran of supporting terrorists in syria and iraq, but zarif disputed that and placed blame

margaret brennan has more on this. good morning. >> good morning. he believes he has a communication problem and not a political one. he wants the new staff to change the focus from the stalled health care, dismal approval ratings, and the ongoing russia probe. >> we're going to work very hard to change the culture. >> president trump's new communications director says he has one goal. >> we' refine the messaging from the white house. >> but scaramucci muddled the message when he confirmed the president is exploring, quote, the complete power to pardon anyone swept up in the russia investigation. >> i'm in the oval office last week, we talked about that, he said he talked about that but said he doesn't have to be pardoned. nobody has to be pardoned. >> those comments dlektly go against the president's lawyer. >> pardons are not discussed and not on the table. >> the president chose anthony car moochie, a former tv anchor and wall streeter. >> if you guys want to keep leaking, if you want to keep leaking make a decision to stop leaking, but if you ke

margaret brennan is here.normally at the white house and chief cbs correspondent and from cbsn. >>> general john kelly will be sworn in this morning in the oval office. president trump named kelly to replace reince priebus on friday. >> kelly was the secretary of homeland security but his new job is to bring discipline to the white house and help the president get his stalled agenda on track. major garrett is at the white house. major? >> good morning. his secretary elaine duke will hold that post until a new nominee is named and a senate confirmation process is completed. >> truly one of our stars. john kelly is one of our great stars. >> president trump spoke favorably of his new chief of staff just hours after he announced he would replace reince priebus who helped draft him into the administration. general kelly is credit for bringing discipline to the west weng. that means organizing decision-making, a contrast to the president's own volatile approach. he's fired some and the secretary and communications

>> margaret brennan in hamburg. thank you so much. >>> video just in shows president trump and president putin shaking hands as they arrive at the for more let's bring in dan senor. he served under george w. bush and is co-author. good morning. >> good morning. >> the two have taken hands. >> progress. >> but will he confront president putin and ask him to stop meddling. >> he says he won't and they say he won't. basically the most urgent geopolitical challenge right now, they're in a real time crisis, what to do about north korea and secondarily, what to do about, vis-a-vis, russia and syria and iran. it's not that he shouldn't discuss it other than the world is waping and they ear wondering if the president has something to hide. issue he doesn't want to elevate it. the reality is if he said something, a minute, he could check the box and sort of take the air out of the tension that the -- >> dan, we're looking at live pictures as they prepare to take the group photo. they say, listen, if you don't take the issue,

margaret brennan is at the white house with more on this story. rgaret, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. well, the president is publicly attacking attorney general jeff sessions as weak and accusing the deputy fbi director of corruption. extraordinary charges that he's levelled in a stream of tweets. >> mr. president, should jeff sessions resign? >> reporter: asked about sessions yesterday, the president did not answer. but the attorney general has been the focus of the president's ire ever since sessions recused himself from the russia investigation back in march. mr. trump told the new york times that move was quote, very unfair to the president. yesterday on twitter he referred to sessions as the beleagued avmtd g. for failing to investigate hillary clinton. the russia investigation is also consuming mr. trump's son-in-law. >> my name is jared kushner. >> reporter: during closed testimony to senate investigators, jared kushner detailed four encounters with russian contacts and said they had nothing to do with russia's attempt to influenc

here's white house and senior foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan. >> it violates the spirit of the deal. we will look at it and see whether it violates the letter of the deal and we will act accordingly. >> reporter: iran's top diplomat, javad zarif, said new sanctions announced today by the trump administration are poisoning already strained relations between the two countries. at stake is the 2015 deal to freeze iran's nuclear program that president trump has repeatedly criticized as rewarding a u.s. enemy. >> it's one of the worst deals i've ever witnessed. >> reporter: president trump wants to scrap the deal or renegotiate. president trump said it's a bad deal for americans and that there are flaws in it. >> it isn't. it isn't. well, no deal is completely acceptable to everybody. >> reporter: you're saying iran is not willing to negotiate? >> this is a multilateral deal approved by the security council. it's not a bilateral deal to be withdrawn from or to be renegotiated. >> reporter: the white house accuses iran of supporting terrorists in syria and iraq, but zarif disp

margaret brennan has the latest on the investigation. >> reporter: the president says this is politics new poll out today shows that two-thirds of americans disagree, and they believe that the meeting was inappropriate. now senate democrats are urging the white house to review and possibly to revoke the security clearance of jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law. he also attended that meeting but did not initially disclose it on his security clearance paperwork. now, all of this is complicating the administration's efforts to improve relations with russia. a high-level meeting was held today with russian diplomats to discuss the possible return of two compounds here in the u.s. that were seized by the obama administration in response to that russian election hacking. >>> academy award winning actor martin landau has passed away. he was 89 years old. landau was best remembered for his role on the 60s tv series mission impossible but he appeared in more than 200 movies and television shows. charlie rose looks back on his more than 60-year-long career. >> let's not be stupid. we tai

official was with president trump for his chat. >> mason: margaret brennan at the white house.. while congress and the special counsel are investigating russian election hacking, president trump has set up a panel to investigate election fraud with little evidence there is any. here's chip reid. >> this issue is very important to me. >> reporter: president trump kicked off the first meeting of his election integrity commission today, but its origin goes back to november when he won the electoral college while losing the popular vote to hillary clinton by almost three million votes. mr. trump has refused to believe it, insisting that millions of people illegally voted for clinton, but he has cited no evidence. critics say the president created this commission in a desperate effort to prove that he did win the popular vote. numerous studies said voter fraud is rare, and, today, some of the five democrats on the 12 member panel agreed. judge allen king of alabama. >> if my 16 and a half years in the probate judge position that i have not seen evidence of voter fraud in jefferson c

white house and senior foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan is there. >> reporter: as presidentn hamburg, thousands of protesters clashed with police, who deployed water cannons and pepper spray to disperse the crowd. these demonstrations are anti- establishment, anti-capitalist protests, and german authorities sent out 15,000 police to try to keep them under control. president trump in warsaw earlier today. >> the fundamental question of our time is whether the west has the will to survive. >> reporter: at a memorial to a polish uprising against the nazis, the president committed to defending countries in the nato alliance. >> we stand firmly behind article 5. >> reporter: something he had been unwilling to say when he visited nato headquarters in may. the president also delivered his sharpest criticism of russia to date: >> we urge russia to cease its destabilizing activities in ukraine and elsewhere, and its support for hostile regimes, including syria and iran. >> reporter: but earlier in the day, mr. trump suggested he is unlikely to confront russian president vladimir puti

he spoke yesterday with margaret brennan about the relations with the u.s.n held for more than a year. his son, the 46-year-old was arrested in october 2015 on charges of collaborating with a foreign government. margaret brennan is at the state department with more: good morning. >> good morning, there are at least at least americans currently detained in iran and that top diplomat told me it's not helping already intense relations. why not release him as a humanitarian gesture. >> he's not behind. he's not free to leave the country. the executive branch of the government does not have control over judicial decisions. >> the u.s. citizen and his father have been detained inside the notorious prison for nearly two years. his attorney in the white house refuted his account as quote false. a trump administration official told cbs news that both men have received especially severe treatment probably due to their american citizenship and accused him of being either ignorant or attempting to deceive. he says u.s. authorities unfairly treat iranian nationals. >> th

every time, you know, every time anyone knows that you are going to be here and i saw this with margaret brennan, my colleague at cbs, they bring up one case after another. and the answer always is look, that's up to the judiciary not to the iranian government. that's the human right question. >> no. i'll deal with that. but let us just make a comparison. iraq under saddam hussein was not being criticized by its human rights violation until it invaded kuwait. other governments in the region never heard of ballot box, never heard of a vote. have no representatives. we don't have hardly any rights and nobody complains about their human rights. >> rose: no, i mean, if you -- >> the u.s. allies. they don't have any human rights, are there any human rights sanctions against any of your other allies? why are they imposed on iran. >> rose: i'm just saying with respect to saudi arabia they do raise the question. >> yes, very nicely. but not a single sowdyian is designated by the united states and i don't like them to be designate because i don't believe it's a wrong policy, i don't believe it's a right

margaret brennan is cbs news white house and senior foreign affairs correspondent.id ignatiusçó is a columnistt the "washington post," candy crowley -- michael crowley is a political senior affairs correspondent, and david nakamura is with the "washington post." margaret, welcome back from your trip. what was the administration's view of this meeting with russian president putin? >> well, the administration believes now that they've checked the box. they've handled the issue of russian hacking by speaking directly to vladimir putin. the only account of that meeting was described to us by secretary of state rex tillerson. he's the only other administration official in that very small meeting, and as described by russian officials, in their on-camera press conferences, both from their foreign minister and vladimir putin, they said president trump accepted their denials. and agreed to move forward. secretary tillerson says, we agreed to move forward. the majority of the meeting went on, he says to, focus in on this first test of u.s.-russian cooperation in syria. and t

margaret brennan is at the white house with the next move for trump jr. margaret, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. well, donald trump jr. has hired a lawyer to help with all matters related to russia and this ongoing fbi investigation. though he has not been formally asked, trump jr. said he is willing to cooperate with congress. >> rest assured, donald trump jr. will be somebody that we want to talk to. >> reporter: senate intelligence committee vice chairman mike warner called for donald trump jr. to share details with his meeting last june with natalia veselnitskaya, a russian national who indicated she could offer damaging information on hillary clinton. according to "the new york times," donald trump jr. had been explicitly told via e-mail that the meeting was part of a russian government effort to aid his father's campaign. in response to that allegation a lawyer for trump jr. told cbs news quote, this is much ado about nothing. don jr. had no knowledge as to what specific information, if any, would be discussed. his father knew nothin

margaret brennan is at the white house. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. own e-mail, president trump said vladimir putin wanted hillary clinton, not him, to win the 2016 election. >> if hillary had won, our military would be decimated, our energy would be much more expensive. that's what putin doesn't like about me. >> in an interview with televangelist pat robertson, president trump gave an interview. in another interview the president said he asked putin about russian hacking to influence the 2016 election, quote, i said did y do it. and he said, no, i did not. i then asked him a second time in a totally different way. he say absolutely not. u.s. ielligence services concluded with high confidence that russia interfered. release donald trump jr. referenced russian attempts to help trump win. in a 2016 meeting with a kremlin lawyer. president trump insisted he only learned of it a few days ago but did not fault his son. i kthin many people would have held that meeting, the president said. the meeting was arranged by publicist rob goldstone. on behalf of a

he spoke yesterday with our margaret brennan about the relations with the u.s.ericans. the 80-year-old has been held for more than a year. his son was arrested in 2015 on charges of collaborating. >> good morning. there are three americans currently detained in iran. they say it's not helping already tense relations. >> but he's in his 80s and in failing health. >> he's not behind bars, but he's not free to leave the country. >> is he under house arrest? >> this is what i'dtomy. the expectation tev branch do not have control over it. >> they have been detained behind the prison for two years. cbs news was told they were treat relationship. they said they unfairly treat iranian nationals. >> the u.s. is basic ally arresting or asking for the arrest of iranians all over the world. >> he also asked why we see saudi arabia as a key ally. >> a single iranian in every act of terrorism on american oil since 2001. if the answer is no, then they'll see that this policy that has been adopted by the president is an affront not only to iranians but sensible human beings. >>

margaret brennan is at the white house with the latest. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. well, it is president trump's own senior staff who are to blame for making damaging information public here at the white house. that's according to president trump's new communications chief. >> i know i'm in a cesspool called washington or a swamp called washington, so it will be virtually impossible to get rid of every leak, but i think we can take dramatic steps to get rid of leaks. >> sick six days after, anthony scaramucci is getting closer to getting rid of leakers. >> senior guys are doing the leaking and they ask the junior people to leak for them. >> hours after that interview, scaramucci was sitting down with his interviewer and the president at the white house for a private dinner. late last night he himself claimed he was t leak. on twitter he posted he would, quote, contact the fbi and justice department since his financial forms were released. he called it a felony, which it's not, and seemed to link it to white house chief of staff reince priebus. a politico article yes

margaret brennan is at the white house. margaret, good morning. >> good morning. white house is at war with itself as it faces political problems and now a communications one. in that, anthony scaramucci laid bare the deep divisions making it more difficult to cover the president's agenda. in a phone call to new yorker reporter ryan lizza late wednesday, white house communications director anthony scaramucci unloaded on chief of staff reince priebus called him an expletive paranoia schizophrenic, a paranoiac. he said i want to expletive kill all the leakers he said. he said, i'm not trying to build my own brand off the skplekive strength of the president. he references the president performing a sex act on himself. he said he sometimes used color language. he shifted blame on a reporter. he said it won't happen again. >> the president likes that competition and encourages it. >> white house press secretary sara holmes says -- >> we all serve the president and if it gets to place it doesn't, he'll let you know. >> attorney general jeff sessions who the president re

margaret brennan is at the white house. margaret, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. in contradiction to his son's own e-mails, president trump said vladimir putin wanted hillary clinton, not him, to win the 2016 election. >> if hillary had won, our military would be decimated, our energy would be much more expensive. that's what putin doesn't like about me. >> reporter: in an interview with televangelist pat robertson, president trump gave a positive review of his first encounter last week with russian president vladimir putin. >> i think we got along very well and i think that's a good thing. that's not a bad thing. >> reporter: in another interview, the president said he asked putin about russian macking to influence the 2016 election. quote, i said did you do it. and he said, no, i did not. i then asked him a second time in a totally different way. he said absolutely not. u.s. intelligence services concluded with high confidence that russia interfered. e-mails released tuesday by donald trump jr. referenced russian government attempts to help mr. trump win. in a j