when thomas and martha peter were married in 1795, george washington asked martha what she wanted as wedding present and she replied a likeness of him. washington had the artist walter roberts paint this portrait miniature of him, a piece that martha treasured for the rest of her life. in 1812 description said she was wearing a portrait miniature of general washington as large as a warming pan to a ball in washington. we have a together a type image tpe of her-- deguerro holding it. the other item we have is a letter, one of three surviving documents from george to martha washington. this letter and another were found in martha washington's writing desk when martha peter owned it. from june 1775r where george tells martha he has been given command of the continental army. he is riding from philadelphia and tells her she must proceed immediately to boston. it is such a significant document, because martha washington burned all of the correspondence between she and her husband after his death because she felt like that was one aspect of their public relationship that could remain privat

when thomas and martha peter were married in 1795, george washington asked martha what she wanted as a wedding present and she replied a likeness of him. washington complied and had the artist walter roberts paint this portrait miniature of him, a piece that martha treasured for the rest of her life. in 1812 description said she was wearing a portrait miniature of general washington as large as a warming pan to a ball in washington. we even have an 1850 image of holdings an older woman this as if to say i am the granddaughter of george and martha washington. the other item we have is a letter, one of three surviving documents from george to martha washington. this letter and another were found in martha washington's writing desk when martha peter owned it. what is so significant about this letter is it is the letter from june 1775 where george tells martha he has been given command of the continental army. he is riding from philadelphia -- he is writing to her at mount vernon from philadelphia and tells her she must proceed in merely to boston to take command of the army it is such a

so that people at mount vernon could look across the river and get the experience george and martha washington had , in the process of preserving that view, we have preserved one of the most important indigenous sites on the east coast. not to mention having such a beautiful place for people to escape from the chaos that is our everyday life, particularly here near the nations capital. this is a special place. more information about diskette away park -- this cat piscataway park, please visit their website. this is american history tv. thehe roland company was hardest employer in trenton at the turn of the 20th century. coming up, learn about the innovations about this company that made the brooklyn bridge and golden gate bridge of possibility. i canmickens blair: --ely assert that wire bolt wire rope deserves the preference over hemp rope in all situations much e

so that people at mount vernon could look across the river and get the experience george and martha washington had, in the process of preserving that view, we have preserved one of the most important indigenous sites on the east coast. not to mention having such a beautiful place for people to escape from the chaos that is our everyday life, particularly here near the nations capital. this is a special place. chest for more information about piscataway park, please visit foundation website. this is american history tv. on "q&a," in his book "a fine mess, author and journalist tr reid looks at tax systems around the world. >> i went to the world bank and the imf. i said, who has a good tax code? they know. they said, go to new zealand. here is why. followed the basic principle -- pblr. brought me base, lower the rates. they used to have a texas to mike ours. hundreds of exemptions and deductions, and therefore very high rates. they got rid of all of them. your employer pays health insurance, that's income to your. in new zealand, if you get free 20 bucksthat is worth a month. they taxi on that

annette: there was a concern about martha washington at the beginning, that she and george were a bit imperious. there was a sense that -- he would have levees and would have people come. she was called lady washington. there was a concern that it was too much like british people. too grand, in a way. for the first couple, the very first first couple, they had to think about how to present themselves in a republican way. but it was really just that she was an aristocrat -- what passed for an aristocrat -- from virginia during that time period. it was not so much about wanting to be english, as she was just a very high status person, and they didn't know what to do. carol: she was really a fairly folksy woman. she would go in the winter to the military camp and she would be knitting socks for the soldiers. she was really a homebody. she just wanted to talk about her children, never wanted to leave virginia, didn't want to go to new york. some of that must have been a tremendous burden on her as well, even though she certainly was part of the virginia aristocracy. i always picture her,

as someone who's a fan of dolly madison, martha washington, talk about -- i was pleased to you and your talk with the other women in madison's life. tell us a little bit about a is for abigail. who are some of the other women you chose to put in that and why? >> sojourner truth is in there. we wanted to make a book inclusive. the suffragettes are in their. the women who have achieved in technology are in their treat sally ride is in there. so we try to make the book be women that wasf inclusive as possible. you want little girls and boys who read this and understand that the girls growing up our full potential as the boys are. >> char. one other one you wrote is -- the state -- it is a family guide is traveling around united states. on that note, do you have a favorite national park or scenic natural area in wyoming? >> you stole my line. [laughter] >> the vice president was looking at me as i started the question. any favorites in the national parks for states to visit? >> how can i not say grand teton, yellowstone national park? such a part of our lives. i've never been to glacier. it

then you get to the washington habit of covering, that's a big problem. >> martha: 's get around thekly prayed what comes next? he met with mccabe today, has to get a new fbi director. >> he's got to get an awesome new fbi director. he can't just get a pretty good fbi director. he's got to get the real fritos. he's got to get the good stuff on this because if he doesn't, he's going to end up with a special prosecutor in that special prosecutor will end up doing him with a special prosecutor did to bill clinton and that is not what donald trump wants. he needs to shoot the moon and have a great pick for the fbi director. if not, if it doesn't get democratic votes, it will at least get democratic praise. >> martha: has that going to go? >> men, i can't think of who that person could be at this point. i'd love to hear a name because i can imagine who that could be. >> marlins available. >> it has to be somebody like that. short of that, i'm not sure ehud could be. great idea prayed i don't know, special prosecutor. maybe not today or tomorrow but in the next few months i think that's wh

martha washington is a lot richer. she could have used bribes.john adams' wife, abigail, much smarter than john. never would have passed the alien sedition act and on it goes pretty much. even ms. harding was much smarter person. ms. hoover spoke fluent chinese. and on it goes. >> you also wrote about marco rubio. you said marco rubio doesn't look old enough to drive and steered his campaign like a sixth grade who could either see over the dashboard or reach the pedals, not both at the same time. >> got one at home. >> he has also become somewhat outspoken against the trump administration. what do you think of that? >> i liked marc rubio. i saw marc rubio -- one thing about living in new england is you get to see the candidates at the town hall meetings and rubio was impressive at his. he had a straightforward, conservative but comprehensible questions. he had hostile questions he dealt with with tact. and he was very patient. someone had an angry veterans affa affairs question and he handled it well. then the next day, at the same place, saint a

take martha washington. she was a prime hostage target.very winter of the long war. and she did it despite her very strong desire to stay home and tend to her duties in mount vernon. but she did it, because the general, as she put it, begged her to come. my friend david mccullough has written about how important it was that george washington kept the army together, but he needed martha to do that. he understood that she and her cadre of officers' wives were absolutely essential to troop morale. they came and cooked for the soldiers and prayed with the soldiers and nursed with the soldiers and put on big entertainments for them to keep them going through the long winters. i must say it was a good thing that martha was around, george could be a little indiscreet. for instance, the time he danced with three hours straight with the pretty katie green. it was good that martha was on hand. [laughter] keeping up morale is particularly hard in the year 1780. the british were winning on the battlefield, taking american cities. the french have not y

was the home of thomas peter and his wife martha parke custis peter, granddaughter of martha washington six generations of the peter family lived in the house until 1984. we take a tour with the curator, who shows us a letter from george washington, a bomb shelter, and a signed photo of woodrow wilson.

martha raddatz, abc news, washington. >> martha, thank you.hile the united states is not giving up on getting china to pressure north korea to curb nuclear program. u.s. ambassador nikki haley said trump administration believes china is using back channels to get kim jung-un, to stop testing nuclear and ballistic missiles. she added, china knows north korea best and in countering the threat. >>> operations returning to normal at orlando air authority. this after a three hour standoff in the car rental area there. a distraught man kept begging police to shoot him. and pointed his gun at his own head at one point. now passengers were diverted from one of the airport terminals, some flights were delayed. finally the police got the 26-year-old former marine to put down his weapon and surrender. and then they discovered the gun was fake. but you see the damage there, a lot of backups in the orlando area. no shots however were fired. and, he is going to undergo some mental evaluation. >>> and a jetblue flight from new york to san francisco diverted

washington, so why not? special report, here comes martha. >> martha: good evening everybody this friday, may 12, i martha maccallum this is "the story" ." the president and lashing out at his fired fbi director today as comey's side put out their own version. "james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversation before he started looking for the press." comey said he's not worried about any tapes. the white house and thoughts to pivot a bit from a tough week and put some questions to rest from the letter from the president's tax attorneys about russia and also a short list of potential new fbi director pick picks. we begin tonight with chief national correspondent ed henry in washington tonight covering it all. >> for president trump's supporters who were hoping he would try to douse the flames on this story, with that one tweet, the commander-in-chief just poured more gasoline on the fire. democrats have already been charging the firing of james comey was nick soni and another president has injected the possibility there is some sort of taping system for his conversation. if the president lashing out at

this is what is wrong with the storm in washington, martha. a guy if trey gowdy's caliber could say cap i want to go through the confirmation process. it would be dreadful. that is saying something that he'd doesn't want to do it. the other thing is, the north carolina, not a single random person has come up to me and said, my gosh, let's get to the bottom of this, both they have said is, can we get down to business? can we get back to doing with the president said he was going to do? the storm is brewing in washington, a lot of us are interested, watch fox all day long. a lot of people are thinking that the president has lost this round because he is not about the business that he promised to be about. so, let's all move to idaho, what a great, sensible guy he i is. we are about it, we are doing it. tax cuts, health care reform, defeating isis, these things are all taking a backseat. i want to say something about my former student, charles schumer, at least i graded his senior paper. >> martha: did he get a good grade? >> not as good as he th

martha raddatz tonight. >> reporter: tonight, washington police are analyzing this video, to identify the men who started this violent melee. peaceful protesters, some americans, attacked, allegedly by pro-government supporters and turkish security personnel guarding the visiting turkish president. watch those men in dark suits and ties, and brown shirts who are armed, charging the protesters, kicking them to the ground -- men and women -- again and again. police trying to pull them off. the security guards racing to the next protester while others walked around dazed and bloodied. 11 people injured. police making two arrests. >> it appears to be unprovoked and it appears to be very brutal. >> reporter: the violence coming just hours after president trump welcomed erdogan at the white house, calling it an honor. the crowd there to protest a man who has tightened his grip on power by jailing thousands of political opponents at home. tonight the state department saying, "we support the rights of people everywhere to free expression and peaceful protest." >> let's get to martha live with us in d.c. tonight. mart

catherine. >> martha, based on on on them as stories, "the washington post" is reporting that based on meeting, they were talking by the current threat picture involving isis and the severity of that threat and the specificity of that threat and how it impacted aviation into the united states as well as globally and that threat involved laptop computers being used as bombs with explosives packed inside and out is what has been one of the recent reasons that we have had these changes to aviation security overseas, coming on flights in the united states. "the washington post" says that the president alleges -- the president discussed where this came from and one of the cities held by isis in syria. also, that it related to this computer or laptop. we have, just within the left hour, reached out to the leadership have to house intelligent intelligence committee to see if they have been notified of a breach, that would not be out of the norm, but they have confirmed that they have not been contacted by the intelligence community. the reason is of such a big deal according to "the washingto

. >> martha: those comments prompted this "washington post" headline, "the g.o.p.o good answer for jimmy kimmel." in romans, we'll hear from charlie hurt, who says that he is acting like an elitist creep. he will defend those comments in a moment. first, dr. ezekiel emanuel, known as the architect of obamacare. good to see you today. >> glad to be here. >> martha: went over you to take us through, is whether or not the second part of what jimmy kimmel said, we all sympathize, any parent who has been through the frightening and joyful experience of having a child, and wanting to make sure everything is okay, feels for what he and his family went through. there is no doubt. but in terms of whether or not it would have been different, just the facts, beforehand, when the baby is born, if his family is destitute, and the baby is in the hospital, and the baby starts, god forbid, turning purple, they don't walk away from that baby. they do surgery on that baby. regardless of the insurance situation, correct? >> first of all, so, let's be clear. yes, first of all, the mot

let's bring in abc news chief correspondent martha raddatz who is also in washington where she's going to be hosting "this week" later this morning. martha, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning. i want to talk about pierre thomas and his e-mail to us overnight. he's the abc news chief justice correspondent and i'm quoting from his e-mail, law enforcement and intelligence officials are perplexed that a top adviser to the president-elect was looking to secretly communicate with russia just months after the u.s. intelligence community said that russia was responsible for trying to meddle in the election. so, you've covered foreign affairs for years. can you think of a reason why an incoming official would want to set up this kind of back channel? >> reporter: well, i can imagine a i speaking to the russians who, as david wright just said, were accused by all our intelligence agencies of meddling in our election. so why you would want a back channel then, i do not know. i know sources from the white house are saying they wanted to talk about syria. the other thing here, da

our chief global affairs correspondent martha raddatz has more and joins us from washington. good morning, martha. >> reporter: good morning, robin. there has been a chill in relations, in fact, it has seemed downright frigid of late with both sides saying relations were at an all-time low, although president trump said he believed things would work out. this call was the first step towards that and both sides found reason for optimism. the white house saying the conversation was a very good one and the russians calling it business-like and constructive, and president trump has agreed to send a representative to syrian cease-fire talks, and also discuss meeting president putin in germany in july, robin. >> what about the safe zones to protect syrian civilians and i know that the president, he's talked about this going back to the campaign. is this close to being a reality? could it be a reality? >> reporter: even though president trump has talked about this in the past, the white house has been very short on details about how that would actually work and what the u.s. commitme

washington. the story with martha maccallum is up next. >> martha: breaking tonight, british prime minister teresa the threat level in the united kingdom. >> they've now concluded on the basis of today's investigation that the threat level should be increased for the time being from severe to critical. >> martha: 's are critical that another attack is highly likely and could be imminent. that's the description of the level that they are now at. british law enforcement race against time to find others who may be linked to last night's bomber. this home, the scene of a raid police now out in force. now in the middle of the night there. trying to root out killers as we speak.

which is looking for criminality. >> martha: do you agree with congressman desantis that they should open us up to russian entanglements wherever they may lie? in washington on the democrat side, republicans had? you are supportive? >> absolutely. john podesta's brother, all of that? >> they should definitely look into that because it has been debunked about a thousand times. >> martha: donald trump was a the same thing. >> he would be wrong. >> martha: and you would be right, of course. >> zac's answer, which was very good, is exactly the reason why rosenstein's move is so good for donald trump. basically, the democrats have nothing left to say. he basically -- >> martha: he wants an independent, outside person. [laughter] >> the reality is, the trumpon r fire. the fact is, bob mueller is a completely professional guy, character and integrity, no one will question how he is doing the job. he will go about it quietly and professionally, he won't have press conferences, which means there is no room in the news environment for questioning it or raising issues. he will just do his job. if trump is right, he has nothing to worry about. he can go back to his d

washington. the story with martha maccallum is up next. >> martha: breaking tonight, british prime minister teresa mae has just raised the threat level in the united kingdom. >> they've now concluded on the basis of today's investigation that the threat level should be increased for the time being from severe to critical. >> martha: 's are critical that another attack is highly likely and could be imminent. that's the description of the level that they are now at. british law enforcement race against time to find others who may be linked to last night's bomber. this home, the scene of a raid police now out in force. now in the middle of the night there. trying to root out killers as we speak. good evening everyone, i martha maccallum and this is the story on may the 23rd. president trump now fresh off his successful trip to the middle east is now in italy as the united kingdom is confronting brutal homegrown terrorism. islamic terrorists take to the internet to save "this is just the beginning." prompting the question, where is the end? beyond the claims of cowardice and evil losers, who was mobil

washington. "the story" with martha maccallum is next. ♪ ♪ >> if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep youru like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. period. >> we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it. [applause] >> martha: we are a number that moment but then came the campaign of 2016, and the g.o.p. tried to undo that. >> one of the true staples of my campaign, and i say to ou

washington. "the story" with martha maccallum is next. ♪ ♪ >> if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep yourtor. period. if you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. period. >> we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it. [applause] >> martha: we are a number that moment but then came the campaign of 2016, and the g.o.p. tried to undo that. >> one of the true staples of my campaign, and i say to our campaign, repeal and replace obamacare. [cheers and applause] >> martha: that was october of 2016. up at the first round as repealing and replacing commode was retched to a vote basically crashed before takeoff. >> i am disappointed because we could have had it. i am disappointed. a little surprised because we really had it. it was pretty much their within grasp. i will tell you what will come out of it is a better bill. >> martha: we will see. good evening, everyone. i am martha maccallum. it is may the fourth. this is "the story." the bill passed the house today, it's week by with a one-vote margin. the white house rail the democrats for

i can't wait to get to washington and lead montana and the u.s. >> martha: for those who say the presidentntry, rough-and-tumble, what do you say? >> we don't condone violence, he shouldn't of gotten aggressive with this reporter. but this reporter doesn't come to the conversation with clean hands either. he was asked to leave, sticking a microphone in mr. gianforte's face, we all know the country was watching this race, you have a lot a liberal media types and they're trying to take him down. trying to get a bad quote and smear his campaign. what i wished would happen here when we look at the violence, the media has told this story of what would happen in montana over and over again, what they do is refuse to tell the story when conservatives are getting beaten up or berkeley when conservatives want to listen to a conservative speaker or they don't tell that story, a republican congressman tells whole spirit where they're giving roughed up and shaken up, they don't want to tell when the left behaves poorly, they just want to tell the republican story when they have a bad act. i think the

. >> martha: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge with more from a nightlife from washington split acting director of the fbi testified that despite the impact that losing the guy at the top, the russia probe is on track. >> has the dismissal of mr. mr. comey impeded, interrupted, stopped, or negatively impacted any of the work, any investigation or any ongoing projects at the federal bureau of investigation? >> simply put sir, you cannot stop the men and women of the fbi from doing the right thing, protecting the american people. >> martha: the senior democrat on the committee focus on the former fbi director james comey who was scheduled to testify here until he lost his job on tuesday. >> for many people including myself, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that the president's decision to remove director comey was related to this investigation. and that is truly unacceptable. however, president trump's actions this week cost us an opportunity to get at the truth at least for today. >> martha: there were a lot of questions on the need for special prosecutor. >> it is my opin

washington, so why not? special report, here comes martha. >> martha: good evening everybody this friday, may 12, i martha maccallum fired fbi director today as comey's side put out their own version. "james comey better hope there are no tapes of our conversation before he started looking for the press." comey said he's not worried about any tapes. the white house and thoughts to pivot a bit from a tough week and put some questions to rest from the letter from the president's tax attorneys about russia and also a short list of potential new fbi director

washington. "the story" with guest host sandra smith, filling in for martha maccallum, starts right now. >> tuesday30th, donald trump standing up to the back channel backlash personally defending senior advisor jared kushner against the media's latest controversy. >> another piece that has russia in the headlines. >> live in washington this morning. >> this flying on the house floor, chaotic scene as protests a rubbed in texas over the state's controversial sanctuary city bill but lawmakers, not protesters getting physical. >> from the length to lockouts, that mug shot we have all seen, the american golfers saying alcohol was not a factor so what happened here? "fox and friends" first starts now. ♪ let's get down ♪ let's get loud ♪ >> good morning to you from the streets of new york city. you are watching "fox and friends" first tuesday morning. rob: thanks for starting your day with us, donald trump standing by his son-in-law jared kushner among the mainstream media frenzy over alleged back channel communications with russia. heather: the media has all wrong. good morning. >> reporter: donald trum

washington. "the story" with guest host sandra smith, filling in for martha maccallum, starts right now. >> sandraonight, international outrage, with president trump back in the united states after his first foreign trip, sent shock waves through europe and beyond. good evening. i am sandra smith and for martha maccallum. and this is a special edition of "the story" ." america first, home and abroad. over the weekend, during the g77 summit, the president appeared to make good on promises made in the campaign trail and once he was sworn into office. mr. trump putting allies and enemies alike on notice by bringing his america first doctrine to the world stage. but that did not sit well with some european leaders. especially german chancellor angela merkel, who now says the united states is not a reliable partner to germany and the rest

martha raddatz standing by with new reporting. >>> and the tour bus crash, more than two dozen students and adults on their way to washington, d.c., and the emergency response. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us here on a monday night. >>> and we begin with that bombshell headline breaking late today. "the washington post" reporting president trump disclosed highly classified information to the russians. "the post" reporting that the classified material was revealed during a meeting with the russian foreign minister and russian ambassador while they visited the white house last week. if true, senators on both sides of the aisle tonight saying this is alarming. the news traveling fast late today. let's get to cecilia vega, live at the white house, with the very latest for us. >> reporter: david, good evening to you. this is a bombshell allegation that has rocked the west wing. tonight, from the white house, a strong denial. >> i was in the room, it didn't happen. >> reporter: national security adviser h.r. mcmaster denouncing that washington post that saying during last week's oval office meeting with the russians t

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martha, thank you. >>> wall street is reacting to al t washington. stocks took a nose-dive plummeting nearly 373 points. the worst drop since president trump took office and our chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis is at the new york stock exchange. good morning to you, rebecca. >> reporter: good morning, michael. it looks like that sell-off is going to continue. here on wall street they have a gauge that can track fear in the market. it's called the volatility index and yesterday it spiked by the biggest amount so far this year. i've been talking to a number of veteran floor traders and they tell me they're rattled. concerned because all of the things on the trump agenda that helped send stocks up 12.5%, tax reform, deregulation, infrastructure spending, all this chaos in washington now calls into question president trump's ability to both deliver on those promises any time soon or even deliver on those promises at all. michael. >> thank you, rebecca. karl and, jon, the president put out that statement basically welcoming, accepting the speci

washington post" ." did they have anyone who is going to go on record and say yes? >> martha: based on the meetings that were had, they would like to discuss. >> first of all, i think he was assigned the job of meeting with people by the president-elect. so he met with people. my question is when you see these kinds of stories as you point out, the crop up every day either in "the washington post" or "the new york times," they play ping-pong unknown sources have told us today. i find that frankly sickening. you have the president going on a great historic tour, very successful with nato, very successful with the pope yesterday, unbelievably historic in riyadh with 58 liters will, but three unnamed sources this afternoon having a drink with a "washington post" reporter secretly leaked. how do you know any of its true and furthermore, if it's from muller's investigation he should be enraged and he got to lock somebody up. the people who leaked the british story were not in the white house. they were in the intelligence community and they ought to go to jail. >> martha: will get

. ♪ ♪ >> martha: breaking tonight, we've got a brand-new reaction to this very fast-moving story this evening. "the washington reported earlier that the president revealed the quote "highly classified information to russian foreign minister sergey lavrov," and the ambassadors the ambassador kislyak, all names you are familiar with, during this meeting that was photographed by russian photographers during the course of that oval office meeting. now, you have the white house beginning to push back forcefully on all of the desk. good evening, everybody. i am martha maccallum, and this is their top story on monday, may 15th. secretary of state rocks tillerson has issued a statement moments ago. this is what he said. "t

martha maccallum and this is the story. tonight, we have learned that now fired fbi director james comey could be back in washington testifyinghill next week. tonight, got an independent citizen who will be very interesting in that iteration to say the least. at "the wall street journal" reporting today that the white house is becoming frustrated. by comey's lack of support and that they wanted him to stay quotes three little words, there's no ties when it comes to russia. supporters of the president's decision also out in force today saying that comey had a history of overreach and that he needed to go.

martha, thank you. michael. >> and wall street is reacting to all the uncertainty in washington. stocks took a nose-dive plummeting nearly 373 points. the worst drop since president trump took office and our chief business correspondent rebecca jarvis is at the new york stock exchange. good morning to you, rebecca. >> reporter: good morning, michael. stocks are off to a volatile start and started lower across the board and now reached some positive territory and slightly higher. what traders tell me they're watching here on wall street is washington. the number one thing that has taken stock since election day up 12.5% is the promise of the trump agenda. lower taxes, deregulation and infrastructure spending and the biggest concern here on wall street is that all this chaos in washington potentially either derails that agenda or worse, delays it for a long, long time. robin. >> a check of the weather with ginger. >> deadly tornados today. this video is in barton county, kansas. that e-f 3 tornado. along the same dry line and similar areas, wichita kansas, high risk for strong torn

martha raddatz, the white house has been in damage control mode since that story broke in "the washingtonssador just a day after he fired james comey. very carefully crafted denials. >> very, very specific denials, george. he said that at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed. the story that came out tonight as reported is false, but the "washington post" story did not say that president trump revealed sources and methods. sources of course are who you got the information from. methods, how you got the information. but by revealing, the "post" says this highly sensitive classified information, it opened it up to someone figuring out who the sources and methods were. >> of course the president himself this morning in those tweets seemed to affirm at least the thrust of the story. he said as president i wanted to share with russia at an openly scheduled white house meeting which i have the absolute right to do facts pertaining to terrorism and airline flight safety, humanitarian reasons, plus i want russia to greatly step up their fight against isis and terrorism. the presi

martha got off a chain, 14 hours on the plane from seoul. just enough time to get the lipstick on, get here. this is what she's done the last four days. thursday she was in washington reporting on north korea. she got on a plane that day, landed in south korea. she persuaded the generals on the ground to give her exclusive access to the oson air base. she appeared in every single abc news platform. then she interviewed the national security advisory, h.r. mcmaster, made a bunch of news there as well. just par for the course for martha. she does this all the time. she was saying she actually hasn't had a day off since the election, for which i feel some responsibility. she had to invent a new word. there was a story about martha recently. her toughness, her enending jed indication, that phrase is called bad-assery. that's what they call martha. she's bhmoderated four deekts. on all four occasions martha radatz for president appeared in twitters. the reason she gets the access she does and has the trust she does in the military community is her passion for our troops and her commitment to what happens to them when they come home from war. she stays in touch with thos

. >> martha: i think a lot of us can relate to that and would love to see a country that is more like what you describe. when you look at what is going on in washington vote, the finger-pointing over just a spending bill that lasts until september, everybody is so anxious to jump on the other side and make them look bad at every turn. i don't know how you change that culture. it's incredible. >> martha, i think it starts with us. it is where we live and the way we get along and the things that we demand. if you just think about the united airline incident, what really happened was that the people who fly basically sent a message, all of us, to the top, which is we won't put up with this kind of nonsense. it changed the way the united looks at the world on the way they treat their passengers. there is a lot of common humanity, i saw a video on jimmy kimmel, his newborn son was struggling with an illness, he said that he is doing well, it didn't matter whether you were red or blue, everybody cheered because everybody loves babies to be healthy. we all need to engage in the fight against opiate drugs. we need to be making sure that our seniors, when the

washington now, this is such a stupid time to be alive. it's just astonishing. the degree of stupidity of the conversation and you have this is immoral, this is sin, this terrible. >> martha such a knee-jerk. they get on the same page. >> cearley, what is going to be left for outrage? we have exhausted our outrage glands to the point that we just are endocrine system is breaking down. we cannot sustain this level of outrage. everything's at 11. everything is a freak out for goodness sake. now i will say that for the republicans as they look at medicaid in particular and mulvaney is very gifted this. he's the right guy for this moment for this job, for this budget. his career has been leading up to this point but these republicans need to think long and hard as they address medicaid, which is basically a welfare program, health insurance for poor people, now for the working poor under obamacare is a thing about making changes to medicaid. there is huge political exposure there. that is a program that is very popular and its favorable viewed by most americans. that's a danger zone. >> martha: here's the big problem is i see it. social security and medicare are not up for an

martha got off a plane , hours on the plane from seoul. just enough time to get the lipstick on, get here. this is what she's done the last 4 days. thursday she was in washington reporting on north korea. she got on a plane that day, landed in south korea. she persuaded the generals on the ground to give her exclusive access to the oson air base. just miles from the most militarized border of the world. she appeared in every single abc news platform. then she interviewed the national security adviser or -- advisor h.r. , mcmaster, made a bunch of news there as well. just par for the course for martha. she does this all the time. she was saying she actually hasn't had a day off since the election, for which i feel some responsibility. she had to invent a new word. there was a profile of martha and they invented a new word for her approach of courage and her unflinching dedication, that phrase is called bad-assery. that is martha. she has moderated four debates. she did it with such directness , theon all four occasions phrase martha raddatz for president trended on twitter. the thing i like about martha and the reason she gets the access she does and has the tr