mr. eugene e. white. on february 8, 2019, mr. white transcended with his wife by his side. he was a devoted husband of 48 years, daughter tracey, grandfather, friend, artist, and neighbor. eugene e. white was born in 1933 in rural arkansas -- or arkansas. the son of a share cropper, he studied agriculture and often worked in the cotton fields with his father. though he received no formal training, eugene showed an incredible aptude for painting at an early age. he chased his creative pursuits all the way to detroit where he completed design sketches for cadillac. in 1958, he continued west, settling in san francisco and starting his own business. he loved the independence of freedom of being his own boss, so he opened the first black owned art gallery in the city. white's first public art show was in golden gate park, haul of flowers, in 1964. mr. white's artwork and writings would carrie him across the united states and the world. he displayed his work in historic festivals in chicago, nigeria, and france. in 1983, he became the first black artist to display his work at the

mr. white leaves behind a beautiful legacy. he will be remembered as a champion of black soul, art, beauty, and truth for generations to come. today, i'm introducing a resolution urging the u.s. department of health and human ss services to rescind newly erected barriers for women, teens and men seeking time sensitive and essential health care. their new revised regulations will take away funding for family planning clinics where abortion is one of the methods of family planning offered to patients, create a gag rule bars federally funded family planning clinics from referring women for abortions. this is a gag rule which compromises medical ethics and potentially endangers the lives of patients. the gag rule is unethical, according to the american medical association. nearly 20,000 low-income san franciscans receive family planning and related health services at title 10 funded clinics. over half are uninsured, and more than 77% earn below 150% of the federal poverty level. now regulations are likely to force clinics to have t

mr. white house. mr. warner. mr. merkley. mr. kaine. mr. van hollen. ms. harris. mr. chairman. senator enzi: no. the clerk: mr. chairman, 11 nays and eight yeas. senator enzi: the amendment is defeated. next one is kennedy number one. any opposition? sensing you are ready to vote. those in favor say aye. opposed. t carries. two recorded noes. three recorded noes. any other? moving on to wyden number 2. any further explanation? asking for opposition on this one? equest for a roll call vote. we'll have a recorded vote. clerk will call the role. >> mr. grassley. mr. crapo. mr. graham. mr. toomey. mr. johnson. mr. perdue, mr. brawn. in scott. mr. kennedy. mr. cramer. mr. sanders? ms. murray. mr. wyden. ms. stabenow. r. whitehouse. mr. warner. mr. merkley. mr. kaine. mr. van hollen. ms. harris. mr. chairman. senator enzi: no. ms. sanders: senator whitehouse, ou might want to vote on this. enator enzi: wyden number 2. >> i would vote aye. mr. wyden. the clerk: mr. whitehouse. nays airman, there are 11 and 9 yeas. senator enzi: amendment is defeated. and brawn number 1 and i think the

gordo -- mr. white oh -- mr. guaido. >> this regime has no right to declare anyone persona non grata. this is simply a threat and that is how it should be seen by the free world. the german ambassador and this country have helped bring in humanitarian aid. it seems the maduro regime will not tolerate anyone who wants to help venezuela. >> germany's foreign minister has condemned the explosion. >> this will in no way mean we would week -- we would reconsider our support of juan guaido o as president with the task of ordering free, fair elections. >> ecuador is one of about 50 countries to back juan guaido who was actually in the country last week meeting the president. the country's vice president is now here in berlin. political correspondent asked what ecuador could offer juan guaido. >> support for him. he was proclaimed by the national assembly of venezuela as president and we think since he is offering a way back to democracy, we are backing him up . that is all that he has asked for and we are supporting the

in terms of mr white oh. he's played a useful role but i think that the mistake he's made thus far he's not announcing that he would not stand for president so to say to the venezuelan people in the national community i've done my role which i believe is a constitutional one is the interim president but don't look for me to. think if he were to do that in this situation venezuela be perceived as less one of the united states. welcome back to worlds apart will be i discussed see ukraine's upcoming elections with a prominent ukrainian politician victor me. supports your candidate it's understandable that to support him we're going to u.t. boy but as far as i understand he's don't see top counted eighteen this race is great to go for for third depending on the poll by day why do you think this position is not really paul pillow with the ukrainians has this is the go team in the if you take the situation with you because should you be a dawn bass of things that the majority of people unfortunately. but let me con

monday across the country that's local time now it's unclear where that broadcast was made from but mr white dog did say that he would be attending these demonstrations he was most recently in ecuador wrapping up a tour of several south american countries including brazil meeting with leaders in paris why as well as argentina now on that social media broadcast bill said that the dilemma that venezuela currently faces is between democracy and dictatorship he also condemned the violence the government's use of paramilitary forces that were responsible for violence that took place here in the in the city of kuta on the border with venezuela on february twenty third violence that lasted for three days mr garrido also called on the venezuelan military to allow international aid tons of international aid that continues to sit in containers here on the border to be allowed to enter the country lastly he said on monday that the that he said that on monday the next steps would be announced this would happen at some point where these nationwide demonstrations would be taking place and we will be keepi

what he's obviously is that the two sides the oversimplify the reality this evening for instance mr white and those supporters i was after your defenders of democracy and the reality is that they don't know anything about you know who the people behind waybill are or who the true political believes of the last people are but in a way those are the allies of the usa or the allies of the western countries sold western media tend again to justify everything they do weight gains the mill. government on the other hand those same western media. in a very proactive way try to depict this again as you say there's a monster as a regime that must be wiped out of the country and in a sense at the end of the day they justify any type of radical approach to venezuela including the possibility of a military intervention so this is this is extremely serious and extremely dangerous for the country and the terrorists any any rational approach of the country any and any moderate vision that will in a way advocate for a peaceful resolution of the conflict the western media tend to make the crisis more drama

have not heard any official statement made from president nicolas mahut or related to the news that mr white though has returned to get out to us but we did check twitter our team was following president motos twitter his most recent statements are related to tourism inviting venezuelan families to take part in the two thousand and nineteen carnival that is taking place in venezuela now we should note that it is a national holiday in venezuela which is one of the reasons that there is an expectation that there could be an even larger turnout of anti-government demonstrators anti mother demonstrators taking part in the scheduled demonstrations on the streets of caracas today. all right for the moment. on the colombian side of the border with venezuela they're now the united states house judiciary committee has issued new risk request for president trump sons and former white house counsel in the probe against the president the requests a total of eighty one included records from former attorney general jeff sessions the justice department the f.b.i. the judiciary chairman says the probe is fo

mr. eugene e. white. on february 8, 2019, mr. white transcended with his wife by his side. he was a devoted husband of 48 years, daughter tracey, grandfather, friend, artist, and neighbor. eugene e. white was born in 1933 in rural arkansas -- or arkansas. the son of a share cropper, he studied agriculture and often worked in the cotton fields with his father. though he received no formal training, eugene showed an incredible aptude for painting at an early age. he chased his creative pursuits all the way to detroit where he completed design sketches for cadillac. in 1958, he continued west, settling in san francisco and starting his own business. he loved the independence of freedom of being his own boss,

leader one quite of robert murat was taken during a raid on he's a home in caracas according to mr white house of the united states and other countries recognize one quite as interim president and have warned venezuela's government not to arrest him or any of his aides. the main suspect in monday's tranche in the city of traffic is to be charged with terrorism three people died and at least five were injured in the attack prosecutors believe the thirty seven year old suspect acted alone but they say the investigation is continuing. at least five people have died and more than twenty have been injured in a series of blasts in the afghan capital kabul the explosions happened near a shiite shrine as people gathered to mark the persian you hear the police say the bombs were detonated remotely. the rescue workers in mozambique of widen the search for survivors of a powerful cycling that ripped through southern africa a week ago causing devastating floods turning mozambique's worst hit area bera into an inland sea more than two hundred people have been confirmed dead and seven thousand more mo

recognizing him as the legitimate interim president to going to the airport last monday to meet mr white when he landed with the clear intent of trying to do what they could to ensure his safety and freedom from a rest so yes that makes it peculiar that this one particular ambassador has been singled out perhaps it has something to do with the fact that mr crean or spoke to international press at the airport on monday and was very clear about the reason why he was there and about europe's support for a cleaner but i think going beyond that most people here do see this as an attempt to make germany an example to put pressure on europe the germany and yet as i said the german foreign minister made it clear that in his view that's not going to work. linda germany now says it is consulting with its allies how united is europe ball on this issue of recognizing one. so far quite united we've even seen countries that aren't always on the same page as their other e.u. fellow members like hungary getting behind one gado very quickly and even taking in refugees people who are leaving venezuela to

monday across the country that's local time now it's unclear where that broadcast was made from but mr white dog did say that he would be attending these demonstrations he was most recently in ecuador wrapping up a tour of several south american countries including brazil meeting with leaders in paris why as well as argentina now on that social media broadcast bill said that the dilemma that venezuela currently faces is between democracy and dictatorship he also condemned the violence the government's use of paramilitary forces that were responsible for violence that took place here in the in the city of kuta on the border with venezuela on february twenty third violence that lasted for three days mr garrido also called on the venezuelan military to allow international aid tons of international aid that continues to sit in containers here on the border to be allowed to enter the country lastly he said on monday that the that he said that on monday the next steps would be announced this would happen at some point where these nationwide demonstrations would be taking place and we will be keepi

in terms of mr white of home he's played a useful role but i think that the mistake he's made thus far he's not announcing that he would not stand for president so to say to the venezuelan people in the international community i've done my role which i believe is a constitutional one as an interim president but don't look for me to run think if he were to do that the situation in venezuela would be perceived as less one of the united states. desperate for a single purpose. they have a superman. they start training very young. eight months of intensive schooling. rats. and they save lives. and ronald reagan writing of a loss raptor open to inspire so this is to procreate as a fix for climate change for those of us living outside the halls of congress there are real issues related to climate change that need real attention especially for those living in the path of the intensified natural disasters it creates like the good citizens of puerto rico who this week saw united states president donald trump as administrator and put a rogue walk in front of a massive disaster after getting hit b

monday across the country that's local time now it's unclear where that broadcast was made from but mr white dog did say that he would be attending these demonstrations he was most recently in ecuador wrapping up a tour of several south american countries including brazil meeting with leaders in paris why as well as argentina now on that social media broadcast bill said that the dilemma that venezuela currently faces is between democracy and dictatorship he also condemned the violence the government's use of paramilitary forces that were responsible for violence that took place here in the in the city of on the border with venezuela on february twenty third violence that lasted for three days mr garrido also called on the venezuelan military to allow international aid tons of international aid that continues to sit in containers here on the border to be allowed to enter the country lastly he said on monday that the that he said that on monday the next steps would be announced this would happen at some point where these nationwide demonstrations would be taking place and we will be keeping a

that tour of several south american countries we know of course that that was not the case although mr white bill had announced that there would be a plan a sort of outline of a strategy by the opposition we haven't heard what those concrete steps are going to be he hasn't announced that just yet one by bill however has called for more protests to take place on tuesday as well as calling for that momentum against the government of need. to continue into the weekend calling for protests to take place on saturday as well now to that point we have yet to hear any word from the country's president nicolas maduro he's remained silent up until now on the news that that is back in the country both leaders remain in battled in this locked in this in this in this power struggle over control of the country now here on the venezuela colombia border things remain calm we say things are calm but there is a heavy military presence on both sides of the border that border the official crossing remains closed preventing international aid from making it across from colombia into venice that is one of the poin

washington, what the special counsel has found is very good news for this president and this white house. but mrueller has left one question unanswered, and that is whether the president tried to obstructjustice. mr mueller wrote... president trump is wrong. this report does not amount to a so—called "total exoneration." special counsel mueller was clear that his report, quote, "does not exonerate",

. >> yeah, hi, mr. white in the announcement it said arm's-length transaction is there some overlap? it was very specific language. why do you have that phrase in there? >> yeah, that's a great question actually that phrase was added after a regulatory review and a regulator required that we add that language to the actual press release. so apologize for the wonkiness there aren't any related parties between verrano and harvest, but that was something specifically we were asked to add. >> thank you. >> steve, it's tim congrats on this deal. what's most impressive about harvest to me is how efficiently you've used capital to this point. you've been able to acquire assets, acquire liecenses at a fraction of your competitors talk about this being a different story than other players who don't have that profile. >> tim, that's a great question. one of the things that we have been really good at is acquiring licenses when they're allocated by the government, which means that we don't have to go out and buy them la

hold on one second, mr. white, please. commander white. the question is when you went forward with this policy did anyone discuss this? was this a hesitation, given that these -- that you had this history, did anyone worry about what was going to happen to these kids? was the secretary aware of the numbers in these charts? >> you're speaking of the numbers of our pria reports and those 154 are allegations. this is a longer conversation. >> it is a longer conversation, commander white. >> in every conversation that we had about separation we opposed separation. >> i appreciate that. >> that was based on actual facts. >> and was the secretary aware of these numbers? was the secretary aware that in moving forward and doing the work that you do and for everyone on the panel, do people consider that when you went forward on the zero tolerance policy that removing -- a policy that would put these kids at risk of sexual assaults? that's a question. and if the answer is you don't know, i would ask -- i would ask staff to deliver to you these two c

white: -- mr. whitehouse: i don't know how many times you've heard republicans warn that what the democrats want to do is cut medicare and medicaid to pay for tax cuts for rich people and big corporations. that's been a common theme for many years. well, if you look at this budget, it's time to say, we told you so. last april c.b.o. priced out the cost of the republican tax cut bill, which primarily went to the benefit of very rich people and very big corporations. and it priced it out at $2.314 trillion. this budget cuts medicare and medicaid by $2.345 trillion. it's like a 99% perfect match between the tax cuts for rich people and big corporations, and the proposed cuts to the people who are served by medicaid and medicare. so, we told you they were going to do it. they're doing it. and i don't think americans are going to think that's a very good idea in the 2020 election. let me conclude by saying that the vote on the national emergency gives republicans a very, very clear choice. do you put th

monday across the country that's local time now it's unclear where that broadcast was made from but mr white dog did say that he would be attending these demonstrations he was most recently in ecuador wrapping up a tour of several south american countries including brazil meeting with leaders in paraguayan as well as argentina now on that social media broadcast bill said that the dilemma that venezuela currently faces is between democracy and dictatorship he also condemned the violence the government's use of paramilitary forces that were responsible for violence that took place here in the in the city of kuta on the border with venezuela on february twenty third violence that lasted for three days mr garrido also called on the venezuelan military to allow international aid tons of international aid that continues to sit in containers here on the border to be allowed to enter the country lastly he said on monday that the that he said that on monday the next steps would be announced this would happen at some point where these nationwide demonstrations would be taking place and we will be keep

white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney insisted mr. trump is not a racist.mick mulvaney: "the president is not a white supremacist. i'm not sure how many times we have to say that."as the president attended church... he was exposed to a message of tolerance at the service... as the reverend called on americans to reject hatred. rev. w. bruce mcpherson. st. john's episcopal church: "we're called whenever we overhear or oversee hateful slurs against other people, perhaps we need the holy courage to call them out, because that's just not us."

still exist once there is a transitional government in place another one of the main points that mr white though what wants to wants to do with these public sector employees wants to do with union sector leaders is the census to get an idea of exactly how many public sector employees there are in venezuela and among other things he also wants to call for a a measured strike a national strike involving public sector employees to continue this momentum it's part of this larger call for nationwide protests nationwide demonstrations to continue a momentum to continue a pressure against the government of nicolas mother and why what is why though and the opposition's plan beyond calling for more protests because. that hasn't worked because the military the all powerful military continue to support the government. that's that's a question that's on many people's minds we still don't know exactly what's next on the agenda for mr why do i imagine that one of the main points that he's going to be following through on next will be continuing to speak to high level military officials as well as membe

and some of his cultural references seem to be very in line with a very white super mrs language and seemed takes that you do see online. —— white supremacist. there isa online. —— white supremacist. there is a short—term immediate question of, how can social media sites get better at taking down horrible footage of an amazingly horrible terror attack that has happened? but also the question of how can they be better constantly at policing the stuff that is on their platform? better constantly at policing the stuff that is on their platform ?m is worth going back to that image on the daily telegraph that while they talk about the first social media terror attack, the actual photo on the front page is a slightly more heartening image of those in london who had been responding to it? yes, it isa who had been responding to it? yes, it is a bit ofa who had been responding to it? yes, it is a bit of a different frontpage. it shows young children here with posters saying "love will win, he will lose". and they are very young, the children here. seeing a climate change rally in london full o

mr. gomez: anybody outside of the white house? mr. mnuchin: i'm not at liberty to make comments on people outside of the white house i discuss things with one way or another. mr. gomez: so you might is have discussed this with his attorneys? mr. mnuchin: i've in no discussions with his attorneys. but i'm not continuing to go down this -- again, of you asking me 20 questions on this. mr. gomez: that's what we do here. we ask questions. i at least ask questions. mr. mnuchin: actually, all due respect. i take that back. you can ask the questions and i will try to answer them, but -- mr. gomez: thank you, i appreciate that. mr. mnuchin: keep going. mr. gomez: thank you. i appreciate your responses. mr. chairman, i yield back. mr. neal: i thank the gentleman. with that let me recognize the gentleman from california, mr. nunes, to inquire. nunesnunes thank you, mr. chairman. secretary, -- mr. nunes: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, thank you for being here. i don't think anyone's talked about the pending agreement with united states,

mr. the white house social media director, was assisting president trump in the tweets so you're saying he wasn't involved in blocking at all? >> that's correct. the stipulation clearly states and donald trump and not -- no other member of staff blocked. many of the questions about state action are assuming the forum question which is that the government has intentionally invited people to express disagreement, criticism, compliments, whatever the example was given of the davis and fourth circuit case in which the facebook page issue was created and the government officials specifically said the page was created in order to hear from the constituents. there was a clear and open invitation for this. by contrast, the @realdonaldtrump has always been used as a platform for his own speech. what plaintiffs would like to do here is reply directly to him. they would like to sort of use that account in order to amplify their own voice but as we know from minnesota board of community colleges, that's not a right protect by the first amendment. >> you concede that some proportion, perhaps a signific

how long did you work in the white house? mr. cohen: i never worked in the white house. mr. jordan: that's the point isn't it? mr. cohen: no it is not. mr. jordan: you did not get brought to the dance. proudhen: i was extremely to be personal attorney to the president of the united dates of america. i did not want to go to the white house. i was offered jobs. i could tell you a story of mr. priebusaming out reince because i have not taken a job or mr. trump wanted me to which is working with don mcgann at the white house general counsel. what i said at the time and i brought a lawyer in who produced a memo as to why i should not go in because there would be no attorney-client privilege and in order to handle some of the matters that i talked about in my opening that it would be best suited for me not to go in and that every president -- mr. jordan: here's what i see. a guy who worked for 10 years trashing guy he worked for for 10 years did not get a job in the white house and now you're behaving just like everyone else who's got fired or did not get the job they wanted. mcca

mr. trump's white house, businesses and presidential campaign. tified before the oversight committee last month, where he called mr. trump a conman, cheat and a racist. iran says there is no chance that the country will negotiate or compromise with the u.s. in a televised speech, the president there accused washington of trying to topple the government in toronto. -- tehran. the trump administration says stopwant iran to supporting militant groups. and bomb disposal experts destroyed the suspicious package at the university of glasgow today, a day after three london transport hubs received a letter bombs. police are investigating and it say it is too soon to say whether there is a link between the incidents. the scottish university said that several buildings on campus, including the mail room, were evacuated as a precaution. global news 24 hours a day, on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i'm mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. david? mark. thank you so much, health care conti

us president donald trump has welcomed his brazilian counterpart giant paulson are to the white house mr trump told the far right to be there has been dubbed the trump of the tropics and he was looking at nato membership for brazil they also said they would discuss improving trade relations and cooperation on the crisis in venezuela the russia brazil both support the venezuelan opposition's efforts to oust president maduro as the country's economic and humanitarian crisis drags on millions are making the difficult decision to leave you caught up with a group of venezuelans seeking refuge in neighboring colombia. these people have picked an unusual route to venezuela. with the border to colombia closed their using water known as tall as. illegal trials that lead right through the river it's dangerous as a tossup controlled by criminal gangs and they demand a high price but such is that desperation that they're willing to take the risk around one million venezuelans have sought refuge in colombia many say they have lost. the angle you know so i guess i live i come from an agricultural zone

so-called crime of hate speech against black people as opposed to being black people against white people and mr whatever has of course been convicted of hate speech in the past he was expelled from reno i mean how do you think the commission came to this decision do you see this as some form of reverse racism or some analysts and pundits are saying. so first of all i want to dismiss the term reverse racism because i don't think there is such thing as racism being a one way thing like with all forms of discrimination it's always a thing that can be applied in all acts of discrimination against with one group against another. and really i am baffled as to why they came to this conclusion either it is because they politically sympathize with mr malema or they are afraid of him because they know that his. political party continues to grow in popularity and they worry that they will be on the wrong side of mr malema should he ever gain more power ok great stuff josh with all of its political analyst thanks for your take that on that story on the international thanks for your type. oh us or thirties

as the white house, the chief, at the white house as the chief strategist and senior counsel to president trump? >> i'm sorry, would you repeat the question. >> mr. bannon work at the white house at the chief strategist and senior counselor, the time you spoke with him. >> i believe what is correct. >> what did you discuss with mr. bannon about the citizenship question. >> the extent of the discussion wa that he requested i consider taking a phone call from an individual called chris cloeback. >> what did he say that, what did mr. bannon say he wanted to you speak about. >> he said that kobach had a question that he thought should be asked on the census. >> did mr. bannon support the addition of a citizenship question? >> that's the extent of the conversation as i remember it, is what i already testified to. >> so he just hung up after that? >> the phone call was very brief, and its purpose, as far as i could tell, was simply to ask me if i would take a call from chris cloeback, and i agreed to do so. >> did you have any other conversations with mr. bannon or anyone else at the white house about the citizenship question at any time? >> my conver

mr. chairman. commander white, you are a career professional. you didn't make the decision on whether children should be separated. but you had to do with it once that decision was made. you recently testified before the committee on energy and commerce that you raised concerns about the family separations multiple times, both before and during the zero policy. you specifically identified then orr director lloyd as one of the individuals you raised concerns to. when did you specifically raise these concerns to mr. lloyd? what were those concerns? >> i first recognized concerns about an ongoing policy proposal discussion. this actually preceded mr. lloyd's arrival. i raised it in february -- beginning on the 17th of february, 2017. following the first meeting i attended at which a policy which would have the effect of resulting in family separation was discussed. i raised concerns about that both as regards the effects on children and also the effect on the capacity of the program to serve children and particularly

. >> is white nationalism a rising threat around the world? mr. trump: i don't really. i think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems.

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mr. trump for the white house. >>> still ahead on nbc bay area news at 5:00. out to sea. the brand-new boat ready to set sail off the san francisco coast. >> right now our storm ranger mobile doppler radar still picking up showers. and we're tracking when more significant rain will be making a come back in your seven-day forecast. the u.s. coast guard hd a new ship to its fleet. the coast guard cutter robert ward >>> the u.s. coast guard has added a new ship to its fleet. >> the coast guard cutter "robert ward" was commissioned today in san francisco. the cutter is designed to intercept drugs and migrants and conduct search and rescue. it will patrol all of california coastal regions and international wraters off mexic. >> it looks like a beautiful day in san francisco today. >> sunshine and showers, a mix of everything. you'll need sunglasses and an umbrella to wrap up the weekend. temperatures in the 60s. at times feeling a little muggy out there. can't see most of the golden gate bridge, disappearing into the low clouds and drizzle. highs today generally in the 50s. on

so mr. white, can you detail for the committee any discussions that hhs or orr has had with dod regarding the use of the land that might contain toxic chemicals? >> thank, i actually got your letter yesterday and you allude to two military installations. let me be clear, one is a military installation we did use in 2016 to shelter 8,800 children. ft. bliss is one and a half times the landmass of the state of rhode island. we do not -- i want to be as clear as i can be about this. we do not set up temporary influx shelters on cite scythes that pose a temporary health risk to children. in fact, we have ruled out sites in the past specificallily on that basis that were otherwise suitable. we vet hundreds of potential sites that sister agencies identify. the sites that you identify in your letters are ones that had already been precluded by hhs. we had already ruled them out before we got to the environmental health assessment, because there were other things that made them unsuitable. >> i appreciate

mr. kushner anyway. white house press sarah huckabee sanders responded to the new report to nbc news saying we don't comment on security clearances. joining me now is washington correspondent charlie savage, author of power are wars. this is remark only. t the president had the right to direct his officials to give jared kushner the top secret security clearance. he continued to deny that he had any involvement. and now your reporting indicates that there was direct involvement by the president. why lie about something that he had the authority do anyway? >> well, it is obviously he knows it looks bad and he is embarrassed by it and he doesn't want people to think that for reasons of nepotism he is overed riding legitimate security concerns and giving extremely sensitive information to someone that the intelligence community thought could not be trusted with it because of either his financial or other issues that have not come to light. remember jared kushner had problems with not disclosing meetings with russ

mr. president, it was so kind of you to invite he me to come can here and was so important for me to come here to the white house and to thank you. mr. president, over the years israel has been blessed to have many friends who sat in the oval office. but israel has never had a better friend than you. you show this time and again. you show this when you withdrew from the disastrous nuclear deal with iran. i remember in one of our first meetings, you said this is a horrible deal. i will leave it. you said it. you did it. you showed it when you restored sanctions against a genocidal regime that seeks to destroy the one and only jewish state. you said i will restore those sanctions. you said it, and i did it. you showed that when you recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and moved the american embassy there and gave us a tremendous ambassador. you said it, you did it. and you showed it once again today, mr. president, with your official proclamation recognizing israel's sovereignty over the golan heights. mr. president, ladies and gentlemen, this is truly a historic day. for two decades from 1948 to 1967 syr

mr. trump's family and white house. >>> secretary of state mike pompeo says the u.s.s withdrawing the last of its staff at the embassy in venezuela. following days of blackouts in the country, electricity went out thursday. engineers have restored power in some communities, however, food is spoiling. there is looting and protests have broken out. schools and public offices remain closed today. pompeo says the remaining diplomats in venezuela will be removed by the end of the week. >>> and this morning, we're hearing from a woman who was clawed by a jaguar after getting too close to the animal. it happened at a zoo in arizona and she shared her story with errol barnett. >> reporter: leanne who does not want us to use her last name knows she's lucky to tell this tale. >> the jaguar was up against the fence. and we happened to be walking by and we said, hey, let's get some good pictures. >> reporter: and in a heartbeat -- this cell phone video captured the moment after the jaguar at the wildlife world zoo near phoenix reached through the fence, seriously wounding leann l

white house acting chief of staff mick mulvaney insisted mr. trump is not a racist. >> the president is not a white supremacist. i'm not sure how many times we have to say that. >> reporter: as the president attended church on sunday, he was exposed to a message of tolerance at the service. as the reverend called on americans to reject hatred. >> we're called whenever we overhear or oversee hateful slurs against other people, perhaps we need the holy courage to call them out. and say it's just not -- that's just not us. >> reporter: the president will soon find himself in the company of a like-minded foreign leader when brazilian president visits the white house tomorrow. bolsonaro has been described as the, quote, trump of the tropics, once saying that immigrants coming to brazil are, quote, the scum of the earth, wolf, i suspect this joint press conference tomorrow between president and bolsonaro featuring both of those leaders that the president will be asked about these tweets that we've been seeing over the last 24 to 48 hours that have rea