tim: michael crowley, thanks very much. michael: thank you. tim: you are watching "bbc world news america." he is the youngest french leader since napoleon bonaparte, and today emmanuel macron has been trying on the trappings of office a day after a decisive victory. 39 years old,o is has been receiving congratulatory phone calls from world leaders, including donald trump. he has begun forming his government, and he has been carrying out symbolic duties of the presidency. our europe editor reports on the day's events. ♪ reporter: it has been a day of reflection in france, paying tribute to world war ii fallen. taking stock of fresh challenges ahead. france's brand-new and youngest ever president-elect here at v-e day commemorations. a little hesitant, a little unsure, taking his cue from the outgoing head of state. it will be a steep learning curve. emmanuel macron is pretty new to politics. the crowd here were hopeful. >> it is very difficult to put some reform in france, and having a guy who is young will help to change it things. >> we hope

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nbc's kelly o'donnell joins us from jer use lusalem along with michael crowley in washington. kel kelly, i want to ask you on this narrow question of whether or not the president outed israel, something that the white house and the administration had never acknowledged and i didn't hear anyone in that room ever asking the question, how does the white house explain how this came to be one of the stories coming out of the stop today? >> reporter: well, the white house is not explaining yet and they have a tendency to say the president's words speak for themselves. really benjamin netanyahu sort of teed up this moment by taking reins, himself, as the handlers in the room were trying to usher the press out of the room. you saw people were sort of passing in front of the normal camera shot where he said the intelligence relationship with the u.s. is good. that sort of opened the door for donald trump who really had to stop everyone, it was one of those moments where it was really interesting to watch sort of the momentum of trying to usher people out and he stopped. he waited and t

and senior correspondent for politico, michael crowley returns as well. julie, we'll start with you. give us your best reporting as to tonight 11:05 eastern time. why was comey fired and why now? >> well, our reporting shows that president trump has grown increasingly over the russia investigation, what he saw as comey not being supportive enough in public settings, particularly in congressional testimony of his own role, of trump's own role or a lack of ties to russia as it relates to the fbi investigation. and that is something that has been simmering for a while you. saw this shift in the white house story where yesterday they were presenting this as almost something that came out of the blue, where the justice department came to the president with concerns, and the president was moving to address those concerns. the story has now shifted completely. and it's all happening against a backdrop that really points to an fbi director who was trying to move forward rather aggressively on this investigation, seeking additional resources from rod rosenstein, w

"wall street journal" white house correspondent, irdand politico senior affairs correspondent michael crowley. wow, where to begin. michael, you'll get the first question tonight. what just happened today? >> well, brian, it's another log on the fire. i assume we're talking here about the latest reports and particularly this "washington post" report as opposed to manchester. what it does is, you know, just build out as if we needed any more evidence that this president doesn't seem to respect or care about the traditional boundaries that should limit him, that should restrict him from an ongoing investigation at a minimum, i think the most charitable thing you can say when you read the story is donald trump is a very wealthy man who is used to picking up the phone and getting things done in new york city and his real estate deals and he thinks that works in the federal government even when it applies to a federal investigation that involves possible nefarious influence by a foreign power. but then you see, senator blumenthal put this well. you start to see intent in particular, brian, i think

onset with me white house correspondent for routers, and politico's michael crowley. michael, the republicans gather, they have this big event. we're used to seeing real legislation actually having been passed in both houses there or even a foreign leader coming. what do you make of them kind of acting like they've won the game when they've maybe only really scored a touchdown. >> right. or it's like having your birthday party six months through the year. a little premature. can't contain their excitement. i think part of it is just that they really are excited that they were able to finally able to get a vote passed. >> it wasn't easy. >> they've been trying to repeal obamacare in the house for a long time. and the failed vote was such a debac debacle. president trump is looking for wins but the house republicans were conscious of the win and happy to celebrate it. it was striking to hear president trump talk about how this happened very quickly and it took obama so long and everyone said it was going to take a long time. it was almost as if he didn't understand it's

. >> and michael crowley they were still pushing and pushing today the clinton story. >> right. it all comes back to that. and i think that that -- to continue that last poent, that was the expectation that democrats had been bashing comey and therefore trump was going to get some sort of bipartisan support. i thought the former obama advisor captured it when he described this as a colossal miscalculation. it suggest es the circle was not only tight but politically tone deaf. i want to go back to the russ n russians in the oval office. the one thing i wants to add is if you look that comments that came out of the meetings, very positive talking about warmer relations, cooperating not only on syria but other areas of the middle east. remember when rex tillerson went to moscow and met with vladimir putin, that was a tense visit. there was a lot of acramony over the missile strikes in syria and you didn't hear anything kbout about that. it was pretty bullish and trump bottom line seems determined to press ahead with better relations with russia and vladimir putin and boy is that in

let's bring in our starting panel tonight, senior foreign affairs correspondent for politico michael crowley is with us. senior politics reporter for u.s.a. today heidi press bella is with us. and white house reporter for the "wall street journal" eli stokels is with us. welcome to you all. michael i'm going to begin with you. full disclosure, i do believe there is a line in the godfather for any circumstance in life. >> of course. >> having said that, is there any doubt that what we are witnesses, absent the violence, and in slow motion, is james comey's revenge? >> no, there is no doubt at all. i mean you can also imagine it as, you know a horror movie where the hand reaches from the grave to claim more victims. of course, comey is still very much with us in this world and will be telling stories one way or another for many months to come. we may not have the benefit of hearing him speak publicly because now the appointment of a special prosecutor as senators were saying on capitol hill today probably means fewer if any public hearings in congress. people who want to see comey in front of

michael mcfall is a former ambassador to russia and an msnbc contributor, p.j. crowley former assistant secretary of state author of the book "red line." matt miller is an msnbc justice and security analyst and forme justice department spokesman, david brody with us in new york city senior national correspondent for christian broadcast network and bruce, director of the national diversity coalition for trump. a trump supporter. we'll get to all of you in just a moment. let me start with you if i can, mr. ambassador, we heard from general mcmaster last hour repeatedly say what the president did was, quote, wholly appropriate. he never said that the president did not share classified information. can both of those things be true? could it have been wholly appropriate and also could he have shared this classified information? >> well, he also said it was a national security interest of the united states to reveal that information without telling us what the national security interest was for us. secondly, the president of the united states has the authority to declassify i

[applause] michael crowley writes over the firing the president and secretary of state welcomed the foreign minister on tuesday president donald trump fired his fbi director and made a federal investigation into the ties with the kremlin. wednesday he welcomed the foreign minister and the controversial ambassador into the oval office for a friendly meeting to discuss improving relations between the two countries. the story goes on far from showing signs of tension and discomfort. he was seen in photographs smiling and laughing with foreign minister laffer and the contact with the former national security adviser this was the subject of a dramatic hearing on monday. again that is on politico.com. now you look at the secretary of state meeting with russian foreign minister lov lavrov