mr. trump: mr. mcmaster? yes, he is our friend, i like him, and respect him. >> why did you decide to announce the transgender ban reversal and are you betraying a community? mr. trump: i have great respect for that community. i got a lot of votes. they are working on it now. it has been a difficult situation. i think i am doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just saying, as you know, it has been a complicated issue for the military. it has been a confusing issue for the military, and i think i am doing the military a great favor. >> do you have any response to the russian president expelling 755 workers from our embassy? mr. trump: no, i want to thank him. we are trying to cut down on payroll, and i very thankful he has let go of a large number of people. now we have a smaller payroll. there is no real reason for him to go back. i greatly appreciate the fact they have been able to cut our payroll for the united states. we will save a lot of money. >> was it appropriate for the fbi to raid the home

mr. trump: hello, everybody. great to be back in new york and someof our friends great friends outside the building, i must tell you. i want to thank all of our distinguished guests who are with us today, including members of our cabinet, the treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, omb director mick mulvaney, and our transportation secretary, who's doing a fabulous job, elaine chao. thank you all for doing a really incredible and creative job on what we are going to be discussing today, which is infrastructure. we have just had a great set of briefings upstairs on our infrastructure agenda. my administration is working every day to deliver the world-class infrastructure our people deserve and that frankly our country deserves. new is why i just signed a executive order to dramatically reform the nation's badly broken infrastructure permitting process. just walks away as the empire state building. it took 11 months to build the empire state building. today, it could take as long as a decade and much

mr. trump: i think there's blame on both sides. you look at both sides, i think there's lame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. and, if you reported it accurately, you would see. >> they showed up in charlottesville -- mr. trump: you had some very bad people in that group but you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. you had people in that group -- excuse me, excuse me, i shall the same pictures you did. you have people in that group there to protest the taking down of a very, very important statute and the renaming of a park from robert e lee to another name. george washington was a slave owner. was george washington a slave owner? will george washington looses status? excuse me. to take down statues to george washington? how about thomas jefferson. what do you think of thomas jefferson? you like him? are we going to take down the statue because he was a major slave owner. are we going to take down his statue? you are ch

despite belatedly condemning the white supremacist and neo—nazi groups that rallied, on tuesday, mr trumpefend the rally‘s organisers. samira hussain reports from new york. it was the tweets that said it all. 0n it was the tweets that said it all. on wednesday, donald trump disbanded to councils to bring jobs to america. but the move was more about saving face. i especially want to thank ken frazier. in a statement, ken frazier said he felt a responsibility to ta ke said he felt a responsibility to take a stand against intolerance and extremism. by monday evening, their ceos of intel and underarmour, the presidents of the alliance of american manufacturing and others all left the council. they are not taking theirjob seriously as it pertains to this country. after commenting on the corporate resignations at a press conference on tuesday, the president then blamed both sides for the deadly violence. you had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on one side that was also very violent and nobody wants to say it but i will say it right now. after those comments, the exodus from

absolutely but i wouldn't limit it to mr trump i think henry wallace had a very clear vision he was a visionary as we know basically looking back on him and he understood especially in a capitalism that has reduced the number of wealth and power holders to a relatively small number the richard the minority gets the more urgent it has to control politics less the majority recognizing that it's a majority do what majorities can do and in order to prevent that you have to buy and control the political apparatus that's what the two parties allowed themselves the republicans with enthusiasms the democrats with perhaps some hesitation but in the end they've become beholden to the big box and so they've behaved in a corresponding way and we are now at the end result of that behavior when the mass of people basically said no we're going to vote for the guy you make fun of mr trump it's like the british working class saying to their establishment we're voting to leave your up basically because you tell us not to and we don't trust you and we don't like you and we're on the way to a country tha

violence and blame -- mr. trump: i think there's blame on both sides. you look at both sides, i think there's lame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. and, if you reported it accurately, you would see. >> they showed up in charlottesville -- mr. trump: you had some very bad people in that group but you also had people that were very

mr. trump to do just that. >> call this white supremacism, this white nationalism, evil. and let the country hear it. let the world hear it. it's something that needs to come from the oval office. il by its name." should calld do my brother didn't give his life fighting hitler for nazi ideas to go unchallenged here at home." today, the white house issued this statement in response to the criticism: "the president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry, and hatred. of course that includes white supremacists, k.k.k., neo-nazi, and all extremist groups. he called for national unity and bringing all americans together." >> sreenivasan: virginia governor terry mcauliffe has two words for the white nationalists who came to charlottesville this weekend-- "go home." today, mcauliffe and the mayor of charlottesville continued to be vocal in their denunciation of those that came to protest the removal of a confederate statue and renaming of a park, b

at a raucous rally, mr. trump defends his charlottesville response, and aims a blistering broadside at the news media and even fellow republicans. then, a spotlight on war games-- the u.s. military's annual drills with south korea begin amid heightened tensions with the north. and, we listen in as british rock star, billy bragg, explores how a little known musical genre, called skiffle, brought us bands like the beatles. >> from january 1964 to december 1965 there's a british group at number one in the american charts for 52 weeks out of 104. every single one of them begins as a skiffle group. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention. in the u.s. and developing countries. on the

mr. trump takes aim at senate republican leader mitch mcconnell telling him to get back to work. >>> plus a car plunges seven stories from a sparking garage with the driver inside. good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. president trump is standing by his words days after his fire and fury warning to north korea, mr. trump says perhaps he wasn't stern enough. meanwhile concern is growing in guam. the target of north korea's latest threat. teri okita is in london with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. right now there has been no change in the security threat level in guam, but the governor there is asking residents to be prepared for a possible attack. u.s. military forces on guam are at the ready after a threat from north korea that it's finalizing plans to launch four missiles near the islands. residents woke up to this local headline have mixed feelings of how worried they should be that

today, cohen said he discussed the deal with mr. trump three times and that mr. ump signed a letter of intent in october 2015. by that time, candidate trump had surged to the top of the republican polls. >> and i will get along with putin. >> reporter: cohen also traded emails with felix sater, a business associate involved in the trump tower moscow project. sater claimed to have deep ties inside the kremlin. "our boy can become president of the u.s.a. and we can engineer it," mr. sater wrote. "i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this, i will manage this process." in a statement today, cohen described trump tower moscow as "a building proposal that did not succeed and nothing more." the project was scrapped shortly after cohen emailed peskov, the kremlin spokesman. >> the campaign is on its way to victory. >> reporter: cohen did not take a formal role in mr. trump's campaign but regularly appeared on television to praise the candidate. negotiations over trump tower moscow occurred between september 2015 and january 2016. a period during which mr. trump pra

mr. trump's on mr. sessions and voted against his measures, but very few have spoke up against him all the clay. if republicans are afraid of their own base, then the president may be able to obstruct courts of justice with impunity. worse, he may then conclude that he can get away with violating even more basic limits on his power. we also have a new piece in politico. it is an excerpt from a book coming out called "the conscience of a conservative." he writes, "republicans have sinned by not standing up to president trump and not standing up when president obama was in power to those who criticized him. under the constitution, there are simply not that many people who are in a position to do something about an executive branch in chaos. as the first branch of government, congress was designed expressly to assert itself at such moments. it is what we talk about when we talk about checks and balances. too often, we observe the unfolding drama along with the rest of the country passively. someone should

a period during which mr. trumpraisessed putin and russia. >> think of putin, pretty tough cookie, right? if putin likes me and he thinks i am a good smart person which i hope he believes that i am. actually he's right, i am brilliant, you know that. >> six months later, the president denied having business dealings in russia. >> i have nothing to do with russia. i have nothing to do with russia. and even for anything-- the thite house had no comment on today if he considered russia a security threat, president trump declined saying only many countries fall into that cot gore. he added he hopes some day to have good relations with moscow. anthony. >> major garrett at the white house, thanks. still ahead, more from houston and north korea flexes its muscle again. get immediate help if you develop unusual or severe stomach pain, especially with bloody or black stools. the most common side effect is diarrhea, sometimes severe. if it's severe stop taking linzess and call your doctor right away. other side effects includ

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mr. trump's supporters. of the things i would like to see is that sometimes senators and congressmen on the republican side come forward and they say interesting words and phrases in opposition to president trump. but sometimes they look a little fertive. it's a little side interview off a fund-raiser, do you know what i mean? it's badly lit and your head is down. it is time to come forward standing up straight with pride and disagree with what you disagree with. and when you agree with something that he is doing, say and i'm going to support this. but make a very clear distinction between what you see publicly from the president that you don't like and what is going on in washington right now is a bill that you can support. >> yeah, steve hayes, i look at senator ben sasse. on one hand probably the best columnist in the united states senate. but is that -- but there's plenty of people who are now going your words are great, but they're just words. >> well, i mean if you're talking about his voting record --

mr trump said mueller would cross a red line if you looked into his own financial affairs. ke it more likely that mr mueller might be sacked, or does it make it harderfor the president to get rid of mueller? the great concern in washington, particularly among republicans, is that mr trump would indeed try to fire robert mueller. it's a doomsday scenario for the president. it could deepen the crisis and prolong it, and could trigger calls through impeachment, but the president has been treating this issue of looking into his finances as a red line issue. the red line is clearly being crossed. there are already subpoena is that had been issued on transactional issues with relation to his close aides, general flynn, and he has assembled a team with an obvious there shortly in looking at foreign bribery and financial fraud. professor, for those of us not well versed in how the american justice system works, what is the point of impact rolling up grand jury? what does a grand jury do? a grand jury isa does a grand jury do? a grand jury is a very powerful tool for prosecutors. it'

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as some of your viewers may know, mr trumpjumped on some of your viewers may know, mr trump jumped onviewers may know, mr trumpjumped on the birther bandwagon, claiming perhaps president obama wasn't born in this country. that was a true racist kennard. not only did hejump on it but he lied about it repeatedly, saying things like he had sent investigators to hawaii and we were going to be amazed by what they saw and what they found. none of it was true. the whole birther controversy was an effort to delegitimise the first black president of our country. it seems to me while your organisation, the southern poverty law center, spends an awful lot of time on research and claims to be an objective observer of what is happening on the ground in the united states, the things you are saying to me sound so deeply political and, if i may say so, partisan, and also notjust your words to me right now, but things you've written. for example you wrote recently the combination of trump's raises campaign and the attacks on political correctness told many people that the gloves we re told many people

we have these lives pictures from phoenix in arizona which is where mr trump was holding back ad dressyou can seabed of the stand—off. they have gathered to express their own views on mr trump of the position largely over the question of the white supremacist rallied from a couple of weeks ago, and mrtrump‘s rallied from a couple of weeks ago, and mr trump's remarks. that is something he focused on in his own address to a sympathetic supportive audience in the phoenix convention centre. there was a bit of trouble afterwards. i think we have some pictures with came to you from earlier in the evening when things got a little bit more out of hand. excuse the cameras, but you will see there were some smoke grenades were fired by the police, having an obvious impact on the protesters are. we are going to get more on the situation in phoenix from our correspondence was there a little bit late in the bulletin. these are recorded pictures. the situation remains tense ian sleeman —— phoenix, arizona. as for within the venue itself, mr trump launched a blistering attack on the media for almost a

mr. trump's manufacturing council. she also served on councils for his three most recent predators. thea lee joins us now. what was it about charlottesville that made you quit this council? >> well, it was that final trump tower press conference on tuesday afternoon that was so unhinged, and i think it was the fact that after watching those horrific events in charlottesville and seeing a person lose their life and to have nazis marching on the streets with torches and chanting anti-semitic and racist slogan, it didn't seem like asking too much that the president of the united states should show the same revulsion, and the president's reaction was so inappropriate, so inadequate, so painful that it just felt that any kind of association with the president, with the no longer possible. >> mason: you've written that it became clear that this is not a normal administration and the usual rules do in the apply. what do you mean by that? >> i have served on a lot of advisory committees for previous presidents, and i never considered that serving on an advisory committee was the same thing a

mr. trump also had a response to those who say his rhetoric has gone too far. >> well, you know, my critics are only saying that because it's me. if somebody else uttered the exact same words they uttered, they had say, "what a great statement. what a wonderful statement." we have tens of millions of people in this country that are so happy with what i'm saying because they're saying, "finally, we have a president that's sticking up fur our nation." >> reporter: he again warned kim jong-un against carrying out an attack on guam. >> if he does anything with respect to guam or any place else that's an american territory or an american ally, he will truly regret it. and he will regret it fast. we're very much in agreement. >> reporter: late today, mr. trump met with his secretary of state, rex tillerson, and u.n. ambassador, nikki haley, who have tried to reassure allies, despite the president's tough talk. >> i think the president's made it clear. he prefers a diplomatic solution. >> reporter: ev

we're very much in agreement. >> reporter: late today, mr. trump met with his secretary of state, rex tillerson, and u.n. ambassador, nikki haley, who have tried to reassure allies, despite the president's tough talk. >> i think the president's made it clear. he prefers a diplomatic solution. >> reporter: even secretary of defense james mattis yesterday stressed the importance of diplomacy over a military strike. >> my responsibility is to have military options should needed. however, right now, secretary tillerson, ambassador haley, you can see the american effort is diplomatically led. it has diplomatic traction. s it gaining diplomatic results. and i want to stay right there right now. >> reporter: the president said he will speak with chinese president xi jinping later tonight as the confrontation with china's ally and neighbor intensifies. the president said, however, he has yet to speak to the governor of guam, despite direct military threats against that u.s. territory. anthony. >> mason: major garrett with the president in new jersey. thank

wall was one of his loudest applause lines in his speeches but when speaking to mexican president mr. trumpkeep quiet about who will pick up the bill. chip reid with more from washington. >> we will build the wall 100%. >> reporter: it was the biggest applause line of candidate trump's presidential campaign. >> who is going to pay for the wall? >> crowd: mexico! >> reporter: but just one week after taking office, president trump said in a phone call with nieto that the wall and who will pay for it is economically "the least important thing that we're talking about, but politically this might be the most important." the president repeatedly demanded that peÑa nieto stop saying mexico won't pay for the wall. "if you are going to say that mexico is not going to pay for the wall, then i do not want to meet with you guys anymore, because i cannot live with that." president trump also blamed mexico for the flow of illegal drugs to the u.s., claiming, "i won new hampshire because new hampshire is a drug-infested den." in fact, mr. trump lost new hampshire to hillary clinton. new hampshire democrat

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mr trump has said after the fact that he supports. points to trump made when asked how will race relations improve, he said, jobs, i will bring backjobs, jobs are the answer. that is this focus, isn't it. it is and this is what the event today was supposed to be about before he turned it over to media questions, he was talking about infrastructure investments, how he would streamline the ability to finance massive government projects and how much easier it will be under his administration to build a skyscraper or build a highway. he was talking about the jobs, taking credit for the millions of jobs was talking about the jobs, taking credit for the millions ofjobs that have been created in the country since he became president. i think the bottom line is, all of the conflict, all of the controversies that have swirled around his administration will all eventually ta ke administration will all eventually take a back—seat if the economy is doing well, if people are getting jobs and feeling better about with the economy is heading. anthony

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mr. trump's campaign. the president's irritation was clear during tuesday's explosive press conference. >> but mr. bannon came on very late. you know that. i went through 17 senators, governors, and i won all the primaries. mr. bannon came very much later than that. >> reporter: bannon was one of the first white house staff members hired, and he arrived with a nationalist agenda, playing a key role in the controversial travel ban. shortly after the president's inauguration, he described himself as part of a new political order. >> if you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mitaken. every day-- ( applause ) every day, it is going to be a fight. >> reporter: his prior work at breitbart news, which has lent editorial support to the white supremacist movement, made him a lightning rod for criminal. >> we're going to have a wall. it's going to be a great wall. >> reporter: on breitbart radio in 2015, mr. bannon interviewed mr. trump about immigration and described hi

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mr. trump: thank you. i'm in washington today to meet with my economic team about trade policy and major tax cuts and reform. we are renegotiating trade deals and making them good for the american worker and it's about time. our economy is now strong. the stock market continues to hit record highs. unemployment is at a 16 year low, and businesses are more optimistic than ever before. companies are moving back to the united states and bringing many thousands of jobs with them. over onelready created million jobs since i took office. we will be discussing economic issues in greater detail this afternoon. based on the events that took place in charlottesville, virginia, i would like to provide the nation with an up date on the ongoing federal response to the horrific attack and violence that was witnessed by everyone. with the fbi director, christopher wray, and attorney general jeff sessions. the department of justice has opened a civil rights the deadlyon into car attack that killed one innocent american an

mr. trump admitting that he doesn't expect one of his top campaign promises to come true. we want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> we are following breaking news on the special council's trump/russia investigation. cnn has confirmed that robert mueller has empanelled a grand jury and issued subpoenas in connection with the meeting with a russian lawyer and others last year. this as cnn has learned that mueller's team is exploring potential financial ties of the president and the associates to russia looking into possible crimes including some that may be unconnected to the presidential election. sources say investigators have reviewed financial records related to the president as well as the trump organization, trump family members and campaign associates. we are also learning more about the investigation of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort. u.s. officials tell cnn that inv

this week, the commission called on mr. trump to declare a national emergency, and act boldly to stop it. the president was in west virginia and ohio flaft week and did not mention the word "opioid." >> i'm meeting with people all through the administration at the highest level, and i can tell you-- >> the president is the highest level. >> i can tell you there is very strong commitment by the white house and by the president on this problem. >> reporter: the president was in west virginia again last night, and said there's "a big problem there." today, the drug enforcement agency proposed a 20% cut in some of the most commonly prescribed opioids along the lines of the program mr. trump made in that new hampshire speech. >> mason: the labor department reported today that the unemployment rate ticked down last month to 4.3%. that matches the rate in may, which was a 16-year low. hiring was strong last month. employers added 20 9,000 jobs. more and more jobs are being generated by green energy. here's barry petersen. >> reporter: t

mr. trump: it's so nice, governor and it is my honor to be in a special place in this special state. senator cruz and senator cornyn, thank you very much for being here. it was hard to get here for both of you. you are trapped in various locations but we appreciate you being here. i want to thank my staff and cabinet. mcmahonprice and linda focuses on small business -- you are add them up, doing a very fantastic job. we have had a tremendous group of folks. our acting director, thank you for the job you have done. you have become very famous on television. we appreciated this. your representatives have been working together. we want to do it better than ever before. this is the way to do it. this is of epic proportion. nobody has ever seen anything like this. teamovernor and his entire , thank you ve much. we won't say congratulations. everyoneongratulate when it's all finished. you have been terrific. >> thank you, mr. president. the whole community is coming together. wind came in just north