so does the writer michael white. he just sort of loves just the cureiasity of human beings.nd these are complicated times. this is a complicated villain. his name is doug strut. he is a billionaire developer. he has a sort swagger to him. he is very comfortable with his own decisions in life. he has no conscience or remorse about anything. who does this remind you of? >> the thing is this movie has all the elements of a comedy. it's a sort culture clash story. itit is a dinner party among the billionaires and their wives which by a couple of turns of plots there is a seventh guest and this is a poor mexican immigrant who works as a physical therapist for the lady of the house. so you have bit by bit a dialogue and debate. it is rare that you see someone of the extremely rich end of the social and economic spectrum actually debating with someone at the very bottom. it makes for comedy at first and then gets more and more uncomfortable as such a dinner party would. >>. >> you described that brilliantly. >> a hard one to describe. the social calmitary in this thing is searing b

confrontation will be whether the white house complies with mueller's request for white house documents regarding michael flynn. this marks the very first time that the special counsel has asked the white house to voluntarily comply with the document request. what will be the response? joining me is michael schmidt who co-wrote the story about mueller seek white house documents on michael flynn. thanks for being here. good to have you. in your reporting were you able to determine why the request was voluntary rather than a subpoena? >> this is very early on in the investigation. it's kind of like the second inning. and early on, the government will go to one side that is trying to learn the information from and ask for the documents voluntarily. a lot of times lawyers are able to work that out and hand over the documents and when they're not, then you see something like subpoenas and then in the most extreme cases search warrants. so this is the initial thing saying we're interested in looking at these issues and in this stuff. can you produce that to us voluntarily? >> and were you able to determine the

michael flynn has been gone from the white house quite some time. rememb remember, he was the sent of scrutiny from the beginning. he was somebody who james comey was looking into, given his phone calls and connections with the russian ambassador. >> yeah, that's very true. i think what this has proven is that this gentleman, who has been in this administration, who was there for 24 days, has ended up causing more harm after leaving for a longer amount of time than he even was able to influence the president's agenda. the reality is, this investigation is looking to see what more could have happened in terms of finances, in terms of these conversations with the ambassador, that could lead to more information. not just regarding flynn but other people in the campaign. i think this is what they're hoping will become more clear through more conversations. >> gloria, we've learned a whole lot more about the investigation on mueller's side, special counsel. let's talk about what we learned this week. they're reviewing records related to the trump organiz

counsel robert mull ser now requesting documents connected to former national security advisor michael flynn. the white house isn't discussing any communications with mueller but the president's attorney says president trump is fully cooperating. meanwhile, a former russian ambassador accused in the investigation is now denying accusations that moscow meddled in the november election. the conversations were described as, quote, just simple things with no secrets. >>> up next, a frightening situation for one lyft driver when she stopped for gas. she is now speaking out tonight after this caught-on-camera beating. >>> plus, drifting, doughnuts, and other crazy car opportunity, and it's all legal. the northern california town now allowing side shows. >>> construction goes high tech. how drones are being used to rebuild a busy bay area highway. >>> we're done with saturday. how about sunday and the week ahead? we've got the forecast ahead. but first, we are going to pause for these commercial announcements. the orpheu cisco. >>> just moments ago the curtain closed for the final time on "hamilton" at the or

the intentional courting, both on the one hand of all these white supremacists, white nationalists, groups like that..."michael signer, (d) mayor of charlottesville, va: "there's two words that need to be said over and over again: domestic terrorism and white supremacy. that's exactly what we saw this weekend."members of both parties have criticized the president's response to saturday's violence -- for not specifically calling out white supremacists.president donald trump: "we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides. on many sides." (jr stone) for the second day in a row, protesters took to the streets in oakland to stand up against white supremacy.. and to show solidarity with counterprotes ters in charlotesville. kron4's hermela argawi was at the scene...and has the latest. a rally for unity and hope. hundreds of people spend most of the day in oakland's city hall.expressing their solidarity with counterprotes ters in charlotesville. (jenna plant/protester): "i am here today to stand against injustice and racism and hatred and bigotry. it

it includes the question of payments, and it includes another development for michael flynn that this white house as kelly o'donnell was tell thing us, they want to move on from. >> that is right, richard. we know that michael flynn was acting as unregistered foreign agent in the transition, and the short tenure as national security adviser in the white house, but the question that the prosecutors are looking at and now cognizant after the fact that money translates into motivation, and so the question is what did these in some cases, fairly vast sums of money translate into if anything when it came to michael flynn's actions as a key campaign official, and key transition official when he was subsequently named the national security adviser designate, and when he was national security adviser under three week, and did he do something because of the money, and some of which he failed to declare on belaugh of the client, which included turk turkey, and the affiliations with the russian affiliates as well. >> and ned, turkey does not equal russia, and russia not equaling turkey, but the lobbyi

michael schear. john kelly quickly moves to impose military discipline on white house. michael schear joins us now. ine in the white house are two things you don't normally hear in the same sentence. just explain what kind of changes general kelly is bringing to the white house because the details are fascinating. >> they really are. so generally, for, you know, months in this administration there's been chaos in and out of the oval office and people putting information in front of the president willy-nilly. he's basically in the space of a few days put stock to that and he said staff members, senior staff members can't linger outside and just kind of slip in whenever they want. they have to essentially make appointments and they have to schedule their have saivisits w and information has to flow through him with meetings and there's no more rambling on forever. he's been known to cut aides off and say that's enough, you know -- you know, let's get to the point. and, you know, the striking thing is all of this applies not only to junior staff member, but to the president's most senior people includi

michael, the white house is considering tax, energy immigration reform, which are , all important toalley. white house is clearly not on the side of silicon valley. how much of a concern is that? >> what you have is a divergence of values. you have silicon valley where there are a number of things that are very important. net neutrality, some of the things we mentioned, skilled immigration. and you have the gender issues. but more broadly, we have things that are important to tech companies. one of them is consumers. these are companies with hundreds of millions of users. and they are very afraid of some sort of consumer activism. and so, they want to focus on their values. they are willing to bend their values when it is things that are important to their companies. two examples are upgrading the government's infrastructure with contracts for each of these companies. and other things like tax reform because many of them want to repatriate foreign earnings. emily: so, ben, there was the recent trump tweet about amazon doing great damage to companies throughout the u.s. and many jobs

( cheers and applause ) first, over the weekend we finally got to see michael phelps race a great whitehark -- no we didn't. >> the much hyped shark event had fans hoping to see fence go head to head with an actual great white shark but were met with a computer generated version. >> the must-see build event of the summer turned out to be a letdown. >> the great white shark takes the gold beating out michael phelps by two seconds. >> trevor: nope, nope, nope, nope. ( laughter ) you can miss me with that. i'm sorry. the whole thing was a lie? a c.g.i. shark, really? first of all, you are taking away much-needed jobs from plenty of hard-working actual sharks. ( laughter ) let's start with that. they needed this gig. did you know that the average shark has less than $2,000 in savings? yeah. that's a fact. you can check it out. that's a fact. they're not doing well, people. also, this is not a race. i'm sorry. this is just michael phelps swimming. you can't add the opponent in later and say it's not a race. instead o of mayweather anding mr. gregor fighting, where's the misogyny? come on, pe

you had whites in power who were fronted i blacks, and you had blacks who were supported by whites. michael: back in 1964, lyndon famously launched the great society. why did that not do more to improve conditions? >> i would say, first, it did do some amazing things in newark. it did not solve all of the problems, but i can get back to that. the reason why it did not do all that people had hopes, all that maybe it could have is that it was resisted from the get go. often times we hear the story that the war on poverty was called off because money for the vietnam war was being drained away from domestic social programs, but even before we sent the first ground troops to vietnam in 1965, the newark city council had decided not to provide their portion of the funding for the local war on poverty. they recognized it for what it ended up being, sort of a fostering ground for political dissent for political alternative. and for a think a lot of black workers who had, since 1959, were aware that their city would be the first majority black city in the northeast. this saw the war on poverty and so

white house. and mueller has put michael flynn in sharp focus. what exactly are they trying to get at here? >> yeah, the new york times is reporting that robert mueller's special counsel is looking into the connections between the former national adviser and the turkish government. he allegedly received payments in exchange for his lobbying against a political opponent of erdogan. the new york times is reporting that the mueller has asked for specific documents from the white house, about michael flynn, even questioning them about his ties to turkey. this coincides with what cnn reported in in the past. that the special counsel is focusing on pages made to him by foreign governments. we have reached out to flynn's attorneys, they have declined to comment on the story. we have reached out to the white house's outside counsel, and we got a reply from ty cobb saying they would not detail communications between the president's lawyers and robert mueller and his investigative team except to say they're fully complying with the investigation. very important to point out though, ana, back in the s

it was about neo-nazis defending a white supremacist statue. i'm joined by michaelson, georgetown university sociology professor and author of many books, including "tears we cannot stop: a sermon to white america." michael, you offer what you call a sermon to white america. what is your sermon today? >> my sermon today is, let's study history. what i said in that book, "tears that we cannot stop" is that white brothers and sisters must come to grips with white privilege, with the intimidating factors of white terror and white supremacy, and we have been face-to-face with that today. your point just now is extremely important. when we think about a comparative analysis of slave societies, over space and time, let's acknowledge plato and the like, but here's the difference in that society and the one in which we inherited such heinous conceptions of enslavement. first of all, they were able to buy their way to freedom. secondly, they were able to tutor the children of those who enslaved them, in order to purchase their own ultimate emancipation. thirdly, when christi

to "new york times" the investigators have now asked the white house to turn over documents related to former national security adviser michael we already knew, was investigating flynn's actions during the campaign, even before special counsel was apopped, but this is first time that we know of that the white house has been asked to turn over documents relating to his time there. let's bring in paul allen and lynn sweet. paul, what does this mean for the trump white house? >> it's an important development, of course, because flynn was the national security adviser to the president for a brief period of time but certainly had close contact with the president and was initially mentioned as the russian link. he's been under investigation by the fbi really going back into last summer and his failure to register. so i'm not surprised that trail would eventually lead to a subpoena or request for white house documents. >> lynn, president has called this investigation over and over and over again a witch hunt. he e said it's an excuse by democrats for losing the election, but there's a real effort, a bipartisan effort now under way t

times" reports the office of special council robert mueller is seeking white house records on the former national security adviser michaellynn. though it's not a formal subpoena, the "times" said it's not the first notification that mueller's team has gone after the white house documents. the "times" also reporting whether flynn was seriously paid by the turkish government by the trump campaign. neither general flynn or his attorneys have responded to the report but there is a statement coming from special counsel ty cobb. the white house will not be discussing any specific communication with the special ounce out of respect for the special count and its process. beyond that, i have stressed repeatedly we will continue to cooperate with the special counsel. and this cnn exclusive, on how russian interference is being tracked on election day. we've learned that the fbi was actively tracking a disinformation campaign that very day, via fake news. as cnn's pamela brown reports. >> reporter: we have learned that some fbi counterintelligence agents spent election hovering in the war room looking for fake news. and what they c

shoulder, and we are not getting that by any measure from this white house. >> michael, a last word.every day forgetting what we often don't like to remember, and that is how an emergency and exigency can change a presidency, the conversation, and our country in an instant? shoulder, and we are not getting that by any measure from this white house. >> michael, a last word. are we every day forgetting what we often don't like to remember, and that is how an emergency and exigency can change a presidency, the conversation, and our country in an instant? >> that's exactly right, for better and for worse. and the scary part of this is that i hate to bring this back to stephen miller. that's the same guy who went on all those sunday shows in february and said the powers of the president are very considerable in national security and will not be questioned. that's not exactly something that fills us with hope. >> gentlemen, i can't thank you enough. let's do this again. michael beschloss, john meacham, terrific conversation tonight. thank you both very much for coming on. >>> another break

colleagues have just written a story about how he's troo i had to -- military discipline on the white house. michaelheer joins us now. military discipline in this white house are two things that you don't normally hear in the same sentence. just explain what kind of changes general kelly is bringing to the white house, because the details in your piece are fascinating. >> yeah. no. they really are. i mean, so generally there -- for months in this administration there's been kind of chaos in and out of the oval office, people putting information in front of the president, kind of willy nilly. he's basically in the space of a few days put a stop to that. he's closed the door to the oval office. he said staff members, even senior staff members can't linger outside and just kind of slip in whenever they want. they have to essentially make appointments. they have to schedule their visits with him. they've said -- he said that they have to -- information has to flow through him in meetings. there's no more sort of rambling on forever. he cuts -- he's been known to cut aides off and say that's enough, you

so let's bring in richard painter, a former white house ethics lawyer -- michael dantonio, the author of "the truth about trump," and legal commentator matthew whitaker. gentlemen, good evening to all of you. michael, i'm going to start with you. i want to start with this new report by "the washington post" david fahrenheit holt who the found mar-a-lago club has been paying for tiny ads to run in the paper for job vaektcy and it is what he writes this is what he writes, late last month the club placed an ad on page c8 of the palm beach post crammed full of tiny print laying out the job experience requirements and classified ad shorthand. three months recent and verifiable experience in fine dining country club, the ad said no tips. companies like mar-a-lago are required to make steps to find americans before going go the foreign route including contacting u.s. employees let go. the president is, the president is abiding by the letter of the law here but how much does his business rely on foreign workers? >> well, quite a bit of it does. he actually first started this whole thick of re

michael brown lost his life. in 2014, of its 55 officers, 48 were white, just four black.t 38 officers in uniform, 26 of them white, ten black. >> change doesn't come quickly. it's a gradual step-by-step process if you want to do it right. >> part of the right approach, he says, is making sure his officers are known in the community. >> you change people's perception and concept of the police department by actually getting out there and meeting them when it's not a crisis, when there are good times. >> his predecessor retired under a cloud. in a new book recently published, he contests many of the doj's findings and perceptions about his leadership. >> did you run a racist police department? >> no, it's a ridiculous assertion. >> while he admits the optics of brown's body sitting under a hot sun for hours on end contributed to tensions on the scene, something he regrets, gunfire added to the delay. >> at the time we were just following protocol. unruly crowd gathering around and suddenly gun shots come out from behind us. now it's an insecure scene. we have to resecure it.

it completely matters if there are neo nazis and kkk and white supremacists, michael.on this morning becomes to you, michael, there are many republicans taking to twitter calling this out, but very few with the exception of john mccain calling out the president by name and laying it in his lap. very hard to get republicans to come on the show. >> they need to take a page from beyonce, say my name. the reality is they're not willing to name the reality we're confronting here, the bigotry we're confronting here. with all due respect to mr. miller, even though he's ability to come on this morning, can't even say this is unequivocally wrong, not the hate, but that the president is wrong. this is no something you would tell your children. even if they're in that mosh pit and you see people engaging in conflagration, that is nowhere equivalent to the neo nazi, white supremacist, white nationalism we see ar dick lated in this country. we have to gird up our loins and say this is wrong. we do have a bigot-in-chief. howard hur mond says a bigot is a person who makes an idol of

michael flynn's attorneys. they have declined comment. we have also reached out to the white house for comment on this. an attorney for the white house, ty cobb, essentially said they will not be disclosing their communications with the special counsel, though they are fully complying with the investigation. we should be clear, earlier this spring, the house oversight committee revealed that michael flynn may have broken the law by not disclosing payments from turkey on his security clearance form and even payments from russia as well and rttv, the russian news agency. when it comes to what you mentioned before, the fbi monitoring fake news on election night, apparently there was a room of analysts and agents watching social media, looking at a series of fake news stories coming in, some of them suspected to have been sourced from russia. specifically about hillary clinton and her health and other issues that they felt may sway voters. at the end of the night, though, there was apparently, according to sources, what they're telling cnn, a celebratory feeling across the agency because there were no majo

white people had larry bird, then michael jordan came back, and shaq, and lebron -- basically, whitee had larry bird. ( laughter ) the jury is out on who the best race is. i'm not convinced that it's these guys. >> this man's image has come to symbolize friday night's rally. your racist identified him as peter cvjetanovic a student at the university of nevada reno. >> i do not identify as white supremacist or racist. of course that definition is really fluid. people have one version, i have out. i'm alt-right because i'm pro-right. >> trevor: what? people have another version? that's weird. a millennial nazi saying he's not sure what he believes so we shouldn't label him racist? if that's what he does when he's not sure, what the (bleep) is he foingd going the do when he's made up his mind? ( laughter ) and by the way, dude, i hate to break it to you but your last name is cvjetanovic. it may be fun hanging out with nazis now but you're up in round two now. as far as the klan is concerned your name might as well be tyrone lopez ginsburg. what are you thinking? for analysis we turn to

. >>> a suspect accused of attacking a man at the white nationalist rally in charlottesville, surrenders today. in atlanta, michael ramos denied being a neo-nazi, or white supremacist. he's charged with malicious beating during the violent clashes. ramos says he is a conservative, and he was only in charlottesville to support non-racist friends who were attending a free speech rally. the controversial former sheriff, who was pardoned by president trump, says he might run for office again. joe arpaio made the comment in an interview with the washington examer. the 85-year-old sheriff says challenge arizona senator jeff flake. flake is one of president trump's most vocal critics. arpaio says i'm saying the door is open, and we'll see what happens. i have got support. >>> sergeant courtney joined the air force in 2005. pilots last names are not disclosed for security reasons. she's had a number of roles in intelligence, surveillance, and recognizance. and now sergeant courtney will be piloting a massive aircraft, without ever stepping inside it. >> i'm in full control of the aircraft, and constantly know exactly what

and robert mueller is requesting documents connected to michael flynn. the white house is not accepting medications with robert mueller trimming a former russian ambassador accused in the investigation is now denying accusations that moscow meddled in the november elections. the investor described conversations with michael flynn as just simple things with no secrets. robert mueller is looking at potential obstruction of justice charges and can use grand juries to compel witnesses to testify. >> melissa and i asked willie brown himself who is no stranger to the grand jury process. is this good news or bad news for the trump administration? >> it is always bad news. if you have the subject matter of the grand jury's deliberations. but it could very well be the manner by which he ultimately rehabs himself completely. because if that grand jury does nothing, he's got braggin' rights for days days. >> remember that the grand jury's can and died but they also investigate. it looks like right now they are just issuing subpoenas and asking for documents. it doesn't actua

mikeel a, you had a story over the weekend about how bob mueller is asking the white house for documenting pertaining to michael flynn. so how far out are we from formal subpoenas? >> well, this is sort of the first stage of the mueller investigations interactions with the white house. this is sort of saying, look, i'd be interested in these documents, you know, let's talk about howic get them. both sides would probably want to avoid a subpoena, especially the white house. the white house wouldn't like the idea of being subpoenaed by mueller. my guess at some point they probably will have to be. but it's something that lawyers on both sides try and work out. mueller says, look, i'm interested in this thing and the white house says, oh, we can accommodate that or we can't accommodate that. and it's the beginning process here. you know, we're in like the second inning of mueller's investigation, so this is a thing. the next phase would be interviews and stuff like that where they really start to talk to people and gather as many facts as they can about these different avenues that they are looking at. >> are peop

special counsel robert mueller wants all white house documents on fired national security adviser michael flynn. >>> and the former ambassador to russia revealing new details about his conversations with flynn. sergey kislyak said he never discussed sanctions or divulged classified intel. cnn "newsroom" starts right now. >>> hello, again. thank you for being with me. i'm fredricka witfield. new developments in the russia investigation. "the new york times" reports that special counsellor bob mueller asking the white house to turn over documents. the times reports mueller is looking into fired national security adviser michael flynn and the secret payments he received from the government of turkey during the trump campaign. i want to bring in now cnn's boris sanchez in washington. boris, what more can you tell us? >> hey there, fred. that "new york times" reporting is that the special counsel led by rob mueller is looking into potential secret payments from turkey to michael flynn for his lobbying efforts in which he was lobbying against an opponent of the turkish president recep erdogan.

they have requested documents from the white house related to michael flynn and questioned whether the government paid flynn for lobbying work. he is also under investigation for dealings with russians on behalf of the trump campaign. one that he met with defended flynn on a russian t.v. panel saying the talks with flynn were transparent focused on u.s. russian relationships and never discussioned sanctions. >> construction workers started a $3.5 million renovation at the oval office. the walls now bare, the desk removed so the floor can be refinished. the building's nearly 30-year-old heating and air conditioning system also replaced. it made sense for the president to decamp in a working vacation. over the years trump deny graded his predecessor for taking too much time off. this is trump's first vacation but he's made 12 trips to his golf course. >>> apparently this is a good week for world leaders because others have been spotted enjoying leisure time. this video of vladimir putin speer fishing. he made the trip a few days ago. the footage was broadcast by russian state television

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white house. they're demanding documents about michael flynn's ties to foreign powers. that i can tell you is a first. meanwhile, trump under siege from the grand jury, the internal leaks, and punching back today through a cabinet official that trump of course recently disdained, attorney general jeff sessions. calling for a crackdown on the leakers and on the press. i am ari melber, and this is a special hour of "the last word." >> donald trump is officially on vacation. >> as new signs robert mueller's russia investigation is growing in intensity and scope. >> he can lie all he wants in front of his adoring fans. >> the russia story is a total fabrication. >> he cannot lie to the fbi, to the grand jury. this is about matters of law. >> this culture of leaking must stop. >> sessions scolded everyone today about this. >> i have this warning for would-be leakers. don't do it. >> classified leaks have played an important role in bringing to light, you know, really crucial public information. >> are there any russians here tonight? any russians? >> he's the one who keeps b

nc michael tyler, here is what they had to say. there is one less white supremacist in the white house. but that doesn't change the man sitting behind the resolute desk. jackie, what are they trying to say there? are there more white supremacists in the white house and this idea is this really a reset? >> leaving that aside, i think they're absolutely right that moving bannon out, i wrote that he was -- some people were treating him like he was a ventriloquist and trump was his puppet. if there was a week that showed this wasn't true, it was this week with charlottes vilville w we saw his true feelings. one of the things about bannon's departure that is overlooked and the talk of white supremacist when we were talking about north korea, steve bannon was a real voice within the administration for -- against the hawks, as he perceived t he was really upset when the president just off the cuff said what he did about a potential military operation in venezuela and was very upset with the president's rhetoric toward north korea, the militaristic rhetoric. >> a

( cheers and applause ) first, over the weekend we finally got to see michael phelps race a great whitek event had fans hoping to

. >>> other high profile aides to leave the white house include michael flynn fired in february.ast month, press secretary sean spicer resigned followed by chief of staff reince priebus, communications director sca scaramucci. >>> follow-up tonight on the multi-million dollar health insurance fraud case in south jersey. today three more people admitted to defrauding the programs and others. one of the admitted fraudsters is a former firefighter. case involved city workers from atlantic city. yesterday, pharmaceutical sales rep pleaded guilty. he admitted to being a ringleader in the $28 million scheme and faces up to 10 years in prison. >>> police in camden county help you track down a burglar with a bike helmet. here he is in video only on nbc 10. the crook used a crowbar to break into a heating and air conditioning company and made off with $2,000 of stolen merchandise. police say before that he stole this cadillac from a car dealer. >>> well, powerball fever spreading across the country and the region tonight. tomorrow night's jackpot up to whopping $535 million. and as you mi

reporting, that the special counsel here, bob mueller, is requesting from the white house documents pertaining to former nsa michael flynn. specifically going to find out if he received secret payments from the turkish government. what's the significance here? >> well, the significance here is if you go back -- and we have to keep in mind, it is less than 90 days since the order of creating this special counsel went into effect -- if you read it though, he's authorized, the special counsel, to look into any violation of any federal crime. it so happens that certain forms of financial dealings overseas, even though it may not directly affect the u.s. government, are federal crimes. the brodmaad mandate that the special prosecutor has to look into this, figure out what other crimes may have been committed along the way, what it means is that they're going to keep pulling on this string. they'll find out more and more about possible kickback, possible money laundering and other federal offenses that really will push this investigation forward. >> kelly, you've heard the criticisms from some republicans, saying that bo

new york times report the special counsel's investigators requested documents from the white house related to michael flynn and questioned whether the turkish government secretly played flynn for lobbying work. he's under investigation with dealings with russians on behalf of the trump campaign. one of the russian officials flynn met with, the former ambassador, defended flynn on a russian tv panel saturday saying his talks with flynn were transparent, focused on u.s.-russia relations and the two never discussed definitive u.s. sanctions. while the president is away, construction workers started a $3.5 million renovation in the west wing, the oval office among the rooms refurbished. walls are now bear, and the historic derveg removed so the floor can be refinished. the floor's heating and air-conditioning system is being replaced. white house officials say is made sense for the president to decamp for what's being called the working vacation. over the years, trump denigrated his predecessor, president obama, for taking too much time off. >> plays more golf than people on the pga tour. >> reporter: th

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office of the the only person besides president trump who still works at the white house tonight is vice president mike pence. michael3th. white house press secretary sean spicer resigned july 21st and chief of staff reince preibus resigned july 28th. world news will have more on the ouster of steve bannon. you can watch that at after the news at 6:00. >> trooper paul thought he was responding to a different accident. but when he saw a red car on the side of the road. when he stopped he found a real medical emergency. a 70-year-old woman was struggling to breathe. at first trooper paul tried to get the woman identified as jill murphy to sit in the passenger seat but when her breathily stopped completely she placed him in on the secret and started yes. pr. within seconds murphy was awake. >> can you talk to me a little bit? talk to me, okay? you stopped breathing for me a little bit. >> "action news" caught up with trooper paul this afternoon. he told us his training really kicked in at the right moment. >> it feels good. it wasn't until this morning that it kicked in of what i actually d it was just like a normal day

michael flynn. mueller asking the white house to hand over records. i'm julie banderas. kelly: i'm kelly write. -- kelly wright. this despite the president warning mueller to focus on election melding and not finance finances of his associates. in bedminster, new jersey, the president is on a working vacation. reporter: the white house said the president was meeting with his new chief of staff general john kelly during this roughly two week long working vacation, working being the key word here in bed minister, new jersey. he arrived right around the same time the special counsel's investigation seemed to be heating up. special counsel robert mueller convened a grand jury and is issuing subpoenas. and witnesses were questioned about whether michael flynn was secretly paid by the turkish government during the final months of the campaign. and it's a big deal. because it's the first known instance of the special counsel requesting documents from the white house. you have several bipartisan members of congress taking steps to make sure that the president does not fire muell

white house, but he's gone. mike dubke, gone. james comey, fired. angela reed, gone. katie walsh, she's out as well. michael flynn, of course, gone. and then there is sally yates, not hired by this white house as well. but also gone. and michael short. we couldn't find a picture of him. and so on and so on. you get my point. yet nothing has changed. why? because the buck stops with this guy. the president of the united states. donald j. trump. think of the upheaval his words and his actions have caused in just the last week. and what a week it has been. seven nights ago, white supremacists and neo-nazis marched in charlottesville, virginia, claiming to be angry about the planned removal of a statue of a confederate general, robert e. lee. but this is what they chanted. >> jews will not replace us! jews will not replace us! >> saturday, mayhem in s! charlottesville. violent clashes between the white nationalists and counterprotesters. a driver rams his car into a crowd, killing 32-year-old counterprotester heather heyer. that afternoon, president trump says this. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms

up to, i think it spells increasing trouble for him. >> do you see the white house as trying to distance itself further from a michael flynn, even though according to reporting, you know, rob mueller is asking for documents, paperwork as well as testimonies? >> i haven't really seen the white house distance itself from general flynn. quite the opposite. i've seen the president tweet out about him telling him to remain firm, i think, or, you know, hold strong or at least try and send words of encouragement to him. i don't know if that's out of affection or out of a worry that he may turn state's evidence, so to speak, but that's just an i saysment. we've only got less than half the picture. >>> right. and speaking of worry, you know, you have been reporting in "the washington post" that some lawmakers have proposed legislation to try to protect robert mueller, protect him against the white house, protect him perhaps potentially by the a.g. who would have the power to remove him or fire if it came to that. but at the same time, there are efforts by the white house to try to discredit mueller. how is that balancing out?

michael flynn just 23 days. presjv÷y+hárump dismissing the? disorder, tweeting, a great day at the white house.op republicans less monday arizona senator jeff flake argues the gop is in denial about donald trump writing, we created him and now we're rationalizing him. when will it stop? the broader more important question how much political capital has this president skaund erred and how much does he still hold to accomplish this agenda. many lawmakers no longer fear president trump's threats and in the wake of last week's failure to repeal and replace obamacare several republicans have indicated they're ready to move on. >>> we're joined now exclusively by senator lindsey graham. always good to see you. >> good morning. >> thanks for coming by. we have so much to talk about. i want to ask you about this "washington post" story that says that president trump may have been the one who drafted that memo released by his son donald trump jr. about that meeting with the russian lawyer

white house, thank you. let's discuss this. michael zelden, our legal analyst, cnn political commentators brian and jack. julie, a white house correspondent. counselor, let me begin with you. there are legal experts saying there is a lot of significance to the fact the mueller grand jury is issuing a subpoena, tied to the don jr. meeting, it broadens the scope and accelerates the feed. what do you say? >> it is a serious undertaking when someone has a grand jury and no one wants to be the subject or target of a grand jury investigation. whether it means anyone is more likely to be indicted than not remains to be seen. the purpose of a grand jury is to make the determination of indicting or not indicting. you bring witnesses in and they testify by oath. this is the ordinary course of a prosecutor investigating things. what is significant, of course, is he determined this is the way to do this through a grand jury as opposed to witnesses. >> julie, even some of the president's biggest fans and vocal supporters are saying, essentially, this is a big deal. you have newt gingrich going on hannity and saying th

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white house history. reagan had a man who was in for less than two weeks. he resigned after it became public he was part of hitler youth in germany as a child. general michael flynn the shortest national security director in white house history. both served under president trump. jessica. >> all right, david spunt, thanks so much. >>> the president is urging senate republicans not to give up on repealing and replacing the affordable care act. the president sent out a tweet earlier today urging action from the senate. it's a different tune from this weekend when the president suggested the affordable care act should fail. the president threatened to end payouts to insure companies aimed at lowering premiums. >>> a 34-year-old mother is in police custody after her baby was found alone in a motel room. the woman is facing numerous charges tonight including endarrenering the welfare of a child. her son was found by a maid. police say the baby was wedged underneath the bed and allegedly left alone there by about 24 hours. >> why someone would leave a 7-month-old in that condition is beyond me. but 31 years of doing this job, i stopped trying to figure people out

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