. >> harris: mike rogers from the state of alabama, that great w on the program. thank you. >> good to be with you. >> harris: a maryland man accused of stealing a rental truck and plotting to carry out an isis-inspired attack at maryland's national harbor near d.c. how close was that attack to happen? i will talk with a former fbi official about it. plus, israel's election today being watched closely in the united states. the race widely seen as a referendum on incumbent prime minister benjamin netanyahu who is facing a challenge from a former army chief. a live report ahead. ♪ i stood outside, assessing the situation. i knew it could rough in there, but how rough? there was no way to know for sure. hey guys.... daddy, it's pink! but hey. a new house it's a blank canvas. and we got a great one thanks to a really low mortgage rate from navy federal credit union. pink so she's a princess. you got a problem with that? oorah oorah

both mike rogers and i thought it was a bit of a gold-plated proposal, but we're already headed in the right direction. when mike and i originally proposed this, we thought there should be little if any additional cost. it's more of an organizational issue, when you have 60 people empowered to say no, but no one has the ability to say yes, that's an issue. but that's the way bureaucracy tends to work. we'll be getting into the numbers. the budget is late as you know, and i'm not going to fault anybody over that, but we will do our best in the ndaa to have the 58th and 59th consecutive year of house and senate passage of that bill. if there's any element of congress that still works, it's probably the house and senate armed services committees. remember, when you're talking about budgeting in this space, i would say the only part of the federal budget that we don't get to set. it's entirely threat-based. we have to be able to respond to meet and beat whatever is coming at us. so we will do what it takes. we must do what it takes. the numbers you were mentioning, a budget that's $750 bil

coming up, when a ranking member of the committee, mike rogers, dreams me moments for now. reports that president trump could replace more top dhs leaders and any concerns they are, any plans there. i will talk with him. and a man is now in court accused of plotting to run a stolen truck into a crowd at maryland's national harbor near the nation's capital. ahead, former fbi assistant director on how authorities crack this case and how to protect so-called "soft targets" like this. stay with us. ♪ only one in ten veterans use their valuable va home loan benefit. but i have got some good news that will change that. newday's operation home. it lets veterans buy a home with no down payment and without paying one dollar out of pocket for closing costs. no down payment and not one dollar out of pocket for closing costs. why rent when you can buy? newday's operation home is real. so spread the word! our mission is to provide complete, balanced nutrition for strength and energy! whoo-hoo! great-tasting ensure. with nine grams of protein and twenty-six vitamins and minerals. ensure,

able to brief president-elect trump on meddling, and another intel veteran, former congressman mike rogers. could not ask for better guests for this. gentlemen, thank you and thank you for coming together tonight. >> thanks for having us. >> all right. jim, should we be -- go ahead, mike. what do you got? >> i just want to say happy anniversary to jim clapper. it's his 54th wedding anniversary today. he and his wife, sue. >> what is the secret? >> chris, there is no place i'd rather be than right here, right now with you and chairman mike. >> wow. i know there is one woman who is not happy you gave that answer. what's the secret to 54 happy years? >> my wife is very patient. >> all right. that works. that works. well, then i got that going for me. i have a patient wife as well. all right. let's talk about somebody who is impatient, the president of the united states. he doesn't like what's going on right now. mike rogers, the idea of this story at "the new york times" that nielsen went and said, look, i want to start and get going on 2020, i have ideas. stand down. we don't -- the presiden

the first person we would call would be the good mike rogers who came in and reported all the violations. lou: the nsa, michael rogers, the animal stands out as a hero in all this, doesn't he? twice it's interesting. all the villains in this story are lawyers. the only good person, the only hero in the whole thing is admiral mike rogers. he went to the fisa court and advise the court that he had discovered four years of illegal spying by fbi contractors that was approved and authorized by james comey and yates and giancarlo, head of the national security division under loretta lynch and under president obama. and to listen to that loon, ben rhodes, today. to say and they knew nothing about this at the white house, when in fact, the text messages between peter strzok and lisa paige say the white house wants to know everything about it and is running this. >> potus it says wants to know everything. >> potus! lou: two separate exchanges between those two when referring to potus and the other saying the white house wants to know . it is stunning. very quickly, we are over time. is it your ju

mike rogers, value added. i got lucky having you tonight with what happened at mar-a-lago. it's good to have your take. >> chinese for good-bye. >> don't take a shot at me like that. take care mike, thank you. >> threats and lies. do you know what that could be? a title for the drama if someone ever writes the movie about this presidency but it does seem that our president seems to revel in misleading you. and we in the media, let's be honest, it's hard for us to escape it and no matter how frustrating we cannot let truth abuse go. what the president says about the border, about his own father, the facts matter. and he can't keep them straight. we have the one man that made it his job to do nothing but staying on top of what the president says and when it isn't true to the point of deception. we got him next. plus he told you, our president, i want to mueller report to come out. i want it to be public. i'm completely exonerated. now he is telling you something else. why? let's debate what mike and i were talking about. we'll have people come in here and make the case for wh

now no one knows how remarkable these exchanges were better than mike rogers.oy these as much as we do. we'll start going from 5 to 1. number 5 is representative al green asking a pointed question to major bank ceos. >> if you believe your likely successor will be a woman or a person of color will you kindly extend a hand into the air. i know it's difficult to go into the record sometimes but the record has to be made. all white men and none of you, not one appears to believe that your successor will be a female or a person of color. >> not the best editing but not one why wouldn't you raise your hand just so you didn't get called out like that? >> first of all, can you imagine the politics in those shops for all the people that are vying to be the next ceo of those companies? if you raised your hand and it eliminated half the room or half the candidates. that's a no-win question for those ceos and they probably did the right thing by just keeping their hands down. >> but why couldn't you have raised your hand and said well yeah, it could be. i'm not exactly su

and mike rogers as you guys should know was in congress for a long time. we look at this stuff for a long time, we take an oath, we won't reveal the secret. >> i hear you, but there are people in that report third party noninvolved. i think they have a right to be protected. i'm an old-fashioned guy. i don't care if you're republican or democrat, the law shouldn't club you because you got caught in the cross hairs. we should never let our government on either side do that. this has happened lot in this process from both sides. i think that's terrible. so we ought to protect the things we know are deserved of protection. there is going to be classified information. remember it was a counter intelligence investigation. some of that will be redacted for sources and methods protection. that's the appropriate thing. keeping people out of this fire storm -- i almost said something else storm -- is probable in their best street. if they had nothing to do that they were just interviewed. as a former fbi guy i go and talk to your neighbor and say tell me about chri

author of the truth about trump and most recently, and back with us is mike rogers, former nixon whiten dean and cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. how significant could this be? i mean, six years of tax returns. the whole notion of an audit, we don't know if that's actually true or not and we judon't knowf there is an audit. >> that's the statute of limitation for fraud committed on your taxes. so i think this is a very well-targeted request. the president faces peril in multiple areas here. he faces the prospect of being shown to not have made charitable contribution, to not be worth what he says he's worth, to not have the income he's claimed to have. he could be found to have been involved in money laundering and say he sold a property for three times its real worth and why did he accept so much money knowing it could be money laundering from ill-gotten gains abroad. there are so many areas where he could have committed fraud. he's claimed one value for properties for tax purposes and others for the purpose of seeking loans. so bank fraud is a much more serious crime than

jennifer gran home, mike rogers.nteresting, mike rogers, rudy's strategy is just because mueller says it doesn't mean it's true. is that going -- his job may not be over, okay, the raskins, sekulow, their job is largely over, they were there for actual law work, rudy's a hybrid, the idea of mueller doesn't have it right, does that work politically? >> no, i don't think it works politically. secondly i'm not sure it's over. there are some dozen other investigations that were referenced in the report that are still ongoing that i would suspect include either members of the campaign or even closer to the president. but i would say this whole thing had the good, the bad and the ugly. the good, this is great for america. there was no collusion. i think that's really important. we -- i don't care what party you are, that's important. >> not no collusion. there was no criminal conspiracy to help the russians interfere in the election. >> okay. but the bad part of this, the russians did try to sow social discontent in the un

former house intelligence committee chair mike rogers spoke about concerns regarding the chinese telecomompany huawei, and whether it's involved in spying and economic espionage. >> all right. we're going to go go ahead and get started here today. thank you all for coming out to heritage on this rainy thursday morning. we have some very big topics to cover in today's program. some weighty topics from 5g in china, to the future of digital infrastructure and the five bots alliance which joins australia, canada, new zealand, and the u.s., in an arrangement for sharing sensitive intelligence. we have an expert panel ahead to discuss these issues but first we have a special keynote speaker, congressman mike rogers, former congressman from michigan, who chaired the house permanent select committee on intelligence, from 2011 to 2015, where he oversaw a budget of $70 billion, which funded the nation's 17 intelligent agencies. notably, he led a bipartisan investigation into chinese telecom's firm's huawei, and a congressional report issued in 20, a declassified version of which you can see. befor

i'm proud of the house's role in this because two years ago, mike rogers and i proposed a space corps to try to refocus the air force on some of these important issues. that met with a mixed reception from the air force and from some of our friends on the senate side. but then, of course, when president trump weighed in with his space force proposal, which i thought was over the top, that did help break some ice within the air force and possibly even in the u.s. senate to create a more open minded approach on emphasizing our space needs. so i think we're in a magic moment right now for our country when we're refocusing on what's really important. i'm thankful that it's not a sputnik moment where we haven't already visibly proven we're terribly behind. but invisibly, we are probably behind. i try to stress the positive as well as the negative. the world should be so thankful that we've given it things like gps where anybody for free on the planet can find out exactly where they are. position navigation and timing are essential services for virtually everything, as bill alluded to in hi

. >>> up next, former house intelligence committee chair mike rogers talks about china's telecommunications technology and security concerns posed by chinese tech companies. then a panel looks at the future of 5 g mobile service. in event is hosted by the heritage foundation. >>> all right. we're going to go ahead and get started here today. thank you all for come out to heritage on this rainy thursday morning. we have some very big topics to cover in today's program, some weighty topics from 5 g in china to the future of digital infrastructure and the five optics alliance joining australia, canada, new zealand and u.s. in an arrangement for sharing sensitive intelligence. we have an expert panel ahead to discuss the issues. but first we have a special keynote speaker. congressman mike rogers, former congressman for michigan to who chair the house select committee on intelligence from 2011 to 2015. where he oversaw a budget of $70 billion which the funded the nation's 17 intelligence agencies. notably, he led a bipartisan investigation into chinese telecom's firm huawei and a congressional

it's all about interactions with cia director mike pompeo, admiral rogers and dni codes.illing. i'm guessing all my viewers have read the words before but for the seven who haven't, i'll explain a little bit. what trump does is call all these national security figures and asks them to act as mini sarah sanders or maybe sean spicer was there. in the report they were brought in as witnesses to robert mueller. i want your thoughts on that. they had better things to do. they were witnesses and i'm sure they are happy to be. they described or their aides described the president's conduct and president's request as some of the weirdest things they were asked to do. your thoughts. >> i think the section from mike rogers, of course i worked closely with cyber command with isis. that's rule number one, you're working for the president. if you don't understand that, you shouldn't be in the executive branch. at the same time you swear an oath to the constitution you're not going to violate the law. you also have your own personal integrity carrying out your file. that's really what

mike rogers. really terrific. they have been working hard. working all the time. this is one of the big things they work on. with that, i would like to [indiscernible] >> thank you, mr. president. on behalf of the men and women and myself we are extremely honored for you to come out here and learn about our challenges and our needs. you are absolutely correct, general, these men and women go above and beyond the call of duty here for the work that they handle on the border. part of several other sectors on the southern border that are overwhelmed. our resources are extremely strained. we are not prepared to deal with that aret of people coming across the border today. are being stretched in so many different directions. i am truly proud of every single one of them because they do so much to protect this country. they will continue with the processing and enduring the actions of the smugglers. here just this year, we have identified 193 families. teaming upare just kids with them because they know that they can get in and be able to get into the community. those ar

and mike rogers. really terrific. they have been working hard. working all the time. this is one of the big things that they work on. maybehat, i would like to ask you to say a view words. -- few words. >> thank you, mr. president. on behalf of the men and women of the central sector and myself, we are extremely honored that you took the time to come out here and learn about our challenges, our needs. you are correct. these men and women go above and beyond the call of duty for the work that they handle on that border. we are a part of several other sectors on the southern border that are overwhelmed. our resources are extremely strained. we are not prepared to deal with the amount of people, family units and children and organize caravans that are coming across this border today. our agents are being stretched in so many different directions. i am truly proud of every single one of them because they do so much to protect this country. they continue with the process of enduring the callous actions of these smugglers. year, we have fake families. people who are teaming

. >>> up next, former house intelligence committee chair mike rogers talks about china's telecommunications technology and security concerns posed by chinese tech companies. then a panel looks at the future of 5 g mobile service. in event is hosted by the heritage foundation. >>> all right. we're going to go ahead and get started here today. thank you all for come out to heritage on this rainyhu

and mike rogers. thanks. they have been working hard, working all the time, this is one of the big things they were gone, they feel so strongly about it. with that, i would like to maybe ask you to say a few words. --ppreciate what >> thank you, mr. president, very much. and womenof the men of the central sector, we are extremely honored that you took the time to come out here and learn about hellish challenges, our needs. , general, these men and women go above and beyond the call of duty for the work they handle on that border. we are part of several other sectors on the southern border that are overwhelmed. our resources are extremely strange. we are not prepared to deal with the amount of people, family units and children and organized caravans that are coming across this border today. stretched are being in so many different directions, i am truly proud of every single one of them because they do so much to protect this country and even continue with the theessing and injuring callous actions of the smug

legal analyst here for cnn and mike rogers, former chairman of the house intelligence committee, also one of our analysts. what did you think, chairman, when you heard that? so he is -- it's not as he would characterize it a full-blown investigation into the fbi, but he's looking back at the origins and he says that he thinks spying occurred. >> i was a little surprised at the term spying, and i'm giving the benefit of the doubt. the question was couched in the terms of spying and he said, yes, there was spying. that is not a term that you would use for an fbi investigation domestically in the united states. it is a surveillance to determine criminal activity. i do -- i'm going to take a different tact on this. i think that a review of the underlying predicates is in order. i don't think this is crazy. i don't think it's out of line. as long as it's a review, it's done thoughtfully. this was a pretty serious thing. you had an investigation into a presidential campaign. we should make sure that the fbi had done that correctly. and if not, make those corrections and those changes. so th

his name was admiral mike rogers. he was out of the national security agency.e discovered the illegal spying. he went personally to the fisa court and briefed the chief juk with her for months to uncover the people who did it. the fisa court has already been told and has already told the justice department who lied to that court and that has been given to bill barr already. >> mike: very powerful. let me ask something. if we ask this question, what does it matter to the person at home? at the highest levels of government can trample the constitutional rights and the constitution, through which we elected president, and step all over it, and elected president, imagine what it could do to you? think about that. if the if the president of the united states can be walked all over by the powers of our gover, then you are not safe. >> mike, joe and i have probably looked at 100 fisa applications at different times. the reality is, you take this very seriously, because they can't be contested on the other side. if you read the steele dossier, which i have done, and yo

we be mike rogers on. is it relevant that she's a chinese national?an, chinese spying efforts in the united states are huge. we don't know if she's in anyway -- >> but would the president's pal, she send a spy to his house? it's an intriguing question. and then we have a republican here who wants to make a case to the audience that closing the border is the right way to ge. >>> up next, the president's latest dubious claim at a fund-raiser tonight. verizon got us vip tickets three feet away from justin timberlake. my wife, me, jt. (laughing) what? insanity. (vo) get vip tickets to the best artists and more, on us. plus, save big when you switch. only on verizon. offered a string of nonentirely factual statements and also one entirely unfactual about his father being born in germany, which he wasn't. but he said republican should be, quote, more paranoid about vote counts. and i'm quoting again, i don't like the way the votes are being tallied. i don't like it, and you don't like it either. you just don't want to say it because you're afraid of the pre

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>> well, i am very, very pleased that dan coats and mike rogers would not cede to the requests of mr. trump or demands and pushed back like don mcgahn did as well. it shows donald trump will use whatever opportunity exists to get people to protect him, to lie for him, to misrepresent the facts and the truth. and we need to have those guardrails and that's why people like, you know, john kelly is no longer there. sigh what you will about some of the things john kelly did or said but he was somebody who i think really honored the law. the rule of law. the importance of that and not protecting anybody. nobody is botabove the law. so this gives additional, you know, basis for the concerns that donald trump is going to abuse the presidential authorities that he holds. >> director, do you see any indication in here that your testimony in early 2017 that donald trump wittingly or unwittingly was prescient, that it looks like robert mueller didn't have the evidence to recommend prosecuting a criminal chargeable conspiracy, but he certainly leaves the door open even in the redacted version we

you have representative mike rogers from alabama saying julian assange and wikileaks published u.s.ed information. i think we don't know exactly what the government has. what they put out so far is not -- don't seem like a strong case unless they have evidence that assange was directly helping manning with the hacking on getting that material. but we'll see as it develops whether they have more. >> bill: we'll see what the attorneys come out. bernie sanders, an event on monday. here is bernie from yesterday talking about healthcare and then i want to get the reaction with mitch mcconnell you had on special report last night. first senator sanders. >> healthcare is a human right, not a privilege. [cheering and applause] and together we are going to end the international embarrassment of the united states of america, our great country, being the only major nation on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all as a right. that is going to end. >> it ought to be called medicare for none. 180 million americans would lose the private health insurance many have negotiated for at work. medicar

i want to compliment mike rogers and jim cooper, two members who have been working on this issue for a number of years on the strategic forces subcommittee. we need to place a greater emphasis on space without question. put simply, our goal there is to place a greater emphasis on space without wasting money, without creating more unnecessary bureaucracy and to figure out what the best way is to rearrange that within the d.o.d. and the air force's responsibility. we'll be curious to hear your comments on how we can proceed on that front. then there are two broader issues that i just want to touch on. number one is something we've said over and over again in this committee, but the importance of getting an on-time appropriations process so that on october 1 you have your budget, you know how much money you're going to have to spend during the course of that year. cannot be overstated. for fy 2019 it was the first time in a long time where we had that. we cut the deal for 2018 but not until about six month into the fiscal year. that is not the same as having the money at the start. what

what about mike flynn and roger stone?e is still the question of whether or not there will be further inquiry into julian assange. what would you advice us to look for in the next shoe to drop in the ongoing investigation. >> tough to say. i think with respect to flynn, we know that there is already a pending indictment against assange. i don't know that we will see a lot more there. i think what we might look out for are again, either peripheral players that might matter that much. or things that were identified during other cases. there might be a false statement that was made in another place in the country and therefore that has to go to a different attorney's office. there might be a spreading of the crime there is. beyond that, it is hard to tell. i should say also it's not clear that all of these will come to fruition. they could be referrals or in any state of investigation. >> quickly before we go, does it surprise you given the fact that we know jared kushner had a lot of these contacts with russians and donald,

i want to compliment mike rogers and jim cooper, two members who have been working on this issue for a number of years on the strategic forces subcommittee. we need to place a greater emphasis on space without question. put simply, our goal there is to place a greater emphasis on space without wasting money, without creating more unnecessary bureaucracy and to figure out what the best way is to rearrange that within the d.o.d. and the air force's responsibility. we'll be curious to hear your comments on how we can proceed on that front. then there are two broader issues that i just want to touch on. number one is something we've said over and over again in this committee, but the importance of getting an on-time appropriations process so that on october 1 you have your budget, you know how much money you're going to have to spend during the course of that year. cannot be overstated. for fy 2019 it was the first time in a long time where we had that. we cut the deal for 2018 but not until about six month into the fiscal year. that is not the same as having the money at the start. what

mike. [applause] rob portman. thank you, rob. cindy hyde smith. ran a great race. ran a a great race. good job. congratulations. great job. and a friend of mine, roger wicker. senator. thank you. and a lot of congress men and

mike. [applause] pres. trump: senator rob portman. thank you, rob. [applause] pres. trump: cindy hyde-smith. ran a great race. [applause] pres. trump: ran a great race. congratulations. great job. and a friend of mine, roger wicker. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: and a lot of congressmen and women are here.

mike flynn? what will happen with the roger stone sentencing?as far as the next shoe to drop? >> stone has to get convicted. given the 100% track record of the mueller team that seems likely likely until he turns on the president. the next shoe will be on tuesday of this week. that's the deadline to turn over the tax returns and irs commissioner who is charged with the duty under the law either is going to comply with law or not. if he doesn't, well this will go to court. i suspect there are people who will also seek to do things like revoke his law license in california so that when he leaves office he can't go back to helping wealthy tax dodgers get away with their wrongful deeds which has been the core of his law practice for a long time. >> bobby, i want to get your reaction to the president when he said he's been cleared of virtually everything. what do you think when you hear that? >> our system is does not have many legal devices that exonerates someone. we don't have an innocent proclamation. usually you're found not guilty because the g

mike flynn? that sentencing hasn't happened. what about roger stone?ight be further inquiry into julian assange. what would you be looking for as sort of the next shoe to drop in what's an ongoing investigation? >> very tough to say. i think with respect to flynn, we know that there is already a pending indictment against assange. i don't know we're going to see a lot more there. i think what we might look out for are again either peripheral players, and they probably won't matter that much, or things that were identified during these other cases but venue might lie somewhere else. for example, there might be a false statement that was made in another place in the country, and therefore that has to go to a different u.s. attorney's office. so there might be some sort of spreading of the crimes there, but beyond that it is hard to tell. i should say, also, it's not clear that all of these will come to fruition. either referrals, they could be in any state of investigation. >> does it surprise you given the fact we know jared kushner had a lot of these c

mike. to wisconsinso house majority leader, jim steinke. thanks, jim. oh, wisconsin. ,enate president rogers senate majority leader scott fitzgerald, thank you. [cheers] these are great people. they have done so much for us. we have other leaders in the room, but we all know who they are. the republican party has been incredible. after just the first two years time, america is winning again, and america is respected again all over the world. no more games. all over the world. [cheers] since the election, we have created more than 6 million new jobs. nobody would have believed that. if i said that when i came here often -- i came here often. for member i came and they didn't like certain people that were with me. they booed the hell out of those people. but they liked me, that's all that matters. if i would have said, 6 million jobs we are going to create by this time -- two and a half years. can you believe how time flies? i said the other night, i remember the first night standing in my bedroom -- i should say our bedroom -- with our great first lady. i said, can you believe -- first night

mike. to wisconsinso house majority leader, jim steinke. thanks, jim. oh, wisconsin. ,enate president rogersenate majority leader scott fitzgerald, thank you. [cheers] these are great people. they have done so much for us. we have other leaders in the room, but we all know who they are. the republican party has been incredible. after just the first two years time, america is winning again, and america is respected again all over the world. no more games. all over the world. [cheers] since the election, we have created more than 6 million new jobs. nobody would have believed that. if i said that when i came here often -- i came here often. for member i came and they didn't like certain people that were with me. they booed the hell out of those people. but they liked me, that's all that matters. if i would have said, 6 million jobs we are going to create by this time -- two and a half years. can you believe how time flies? i said the other night, i remember the first night standing in my bedroom -- i should say our bedroom -- with our great first lady. i said, can you believe -- first night.

mike. and thanks also to wisconsin house majority leader jim steineke. jim, thank you. great. [applause] oh, wisconsin. senate president roger senate majority leader scott fitzgerald, thank you. [applause] these are great people. they've done so much for us, and we have other leaders in the room, but we all know who they are. they've been incredible. the republican party's been incredible. after just the first two years' time, america is winning again, and america is respected again all over the world. no more games, all over the world. [cheers and applause] since the election we've created more than six million new jobs. nobody would have believed that. if i said this when i came here often -- i came here often. remember, i came, and they didn't like certain people that were with me, they booed the hell out of those people, right? but they liked me, that's all that mattered. [laughter] if i would have said six million jobs we're going to create by this time -- two the and a half years. can you believe how time flies? two and a half years already. i said the other night i remember first night standing in my bedroom, i should

roger stonefaces trial, the new york state attorney general investigating. there's still 11 ongoing cases including mike flynn, rick gates. 14 cases transferred to other u.s. attorneys offices. i'm joined now by msnbc contributor barbara mcquade, former if i special agent frank mantoya, and former assistant director for congressional affairs at the fbi, i'm sure it was a form udable address you had there. tell me what you think about life or if you're one of his real lawyers, one who takes notes, a real lawyer out there, what would you be thinking would be where he's exposed post-inauguration say 21 or 25 but some time in that midst when he's exposed as just a regular person. what's he facing? >> again, you have to think of the things that would not have fallen in the statute of limitations, so maybe ongoing offenses, some of the financial offenses that might have extended for years. i think all the stuff in new york potentially poses the biggest threat to the president. that's both the state attorney general and the southern district of new york and not this sort of d.c. investigation stuff. there's a

mike. [applause] pres. trump: senator rob portman. thank you, rob. [applause] pres. trump: cindy hyde-smith. ran a great race. [applause] pres. trump: ran a great race. congratulations. great job. and a friend of mine, roger wicker. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: and a lot of congressmen and women are here. just to introduce a few of them, congressman doug collins. [applause] gottheimer. josh [applause] pres. trump: and tom reed. here andgovernors are some we are going to leave out. [laughter] pres. trump: because i don't like them, but that's ok. kentucky governor -- a man i do like -- matt bevin. [applause] pres. trump: an incredible guy. a friend of mine and all of us for a long time and he's going governorship the one day soon and we are not going to be happy about that at all. phil bryant. [applause] pres. trump: he is a fantastic governor. he built the african-american museum and it is one of the best jobs i have seen in a long time. a lot of money but under budget and ahead of schedule. you don't see that often in government. north dakota governor doug burgum. thank you, doug. [applause] pres. trump: texas attorney general ken paxton. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: washington, d.c. attorney

me, we have mike barnicle, columnist for "the washington post" david ignatius, washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay and historian, author of "the soul of america" and rogersty john meacham, an nbc news and msnbc contributor. we'll start with the latest on the catastrophic fire at notre dame. officials say the

me, we have mike barnicle, columnist for "the washington post" david ignatius, washington anchor for bbc world news america katty kay and historian, author of "the soul of america" and rogers professor of the presidency at vanderbilt university john meacham, an nbc news and msnbc contributor. we'll start with the latest on the catastrophic fire at notre dame. officials say the structure has been saved. while the fire spread to one of two famous bell tower, they have been spared. around 500 firefighters battled the blaze for hours and prevented it from spreading to the northern belfry. one firefighter suffered serious injuries and there are no fatalities. most of the roof of 12th and 13th century gothic cathedral has been destroyed and a spire collapsed after being ungulfed in flames. the exact cause is currently unknown, but french media is quoting the paris fire brigade as saying it is, quote, potentially linked to a major renovation project on the church's spire and its 250 tons of lead. what a disaster. i mean, just watching this yesterday was about as heart breaking as it gets. >> it really was. you know, when we watched the twin towers fall, the tragedy was felt not o

mike pompeo called out wikileaks as a hostile actor. >> hostile intelligence service. >> reporter: assange's charges aren't part of the wrapped investigation, but mueller team mentioned them in several other indictments. rogerng about seeking out the stolen emails from wikileaks founder julian assange. and last july, the special counsel mentioned wikileaks as organization one in an indictment alleging russian intelligence officers hacked dnc computers, starting in march, 2016. prosecutors said wikileaks wrote to gus fer 2.0, asking for anything hillary related. >> and it was a stunning court appearance in the uk with the judge there calling out julian assange as a narcissist who can't get beyond his own selfish interests, and erin, the judge found assange guilty for violating terms of bail. now julian assange is in custody in the uk while he awaits extradition hearing may 2nd when he will find out if he will be sent here to the u.s. to face the first of what could be many charges. >> stunning with a sitting president that wikileaks helped, but the president says he didn't know but they were linked to russia. this is an incredible story happening now. i want to go to the cia chief of operations on national s

rogers on chipolte. joining us to talk about the market is barry nab, director of research welcome back and welcome back mike >> now your first thought on the record and the fact we held near those highs today but couldn't quite make new ones. >> we've held today. a little fatigue or a little bit of a pause after not just hitting a new record but being up 25% in the s&p 500 in four months that's what we're doing. four months ago today that you hit the christmas eve low. by any stretch, you'd basically say it's due for something like this i do think there's a little bit of a sense, you know, we just look at that chart 20 minutes ago that said it's a logical place to say maybe this is an area it's going to take a little more than what we already know to get us a bit higher. >> and the fact we had that record close yesterday in the midst of earnings season, more coincidence than because of earnings season. a lot of the gains came long before that. >> since earnings season began the night before jpmorgan reported, it's still up. obviously, earnings season was not a sell the news event. better than feared numbers