>> rose: democratic nart al frank owner is rediscovering his sense of humor.rp focus on presidential officials have given sharp glimpse of his comity roots. nonfiction best sell are list for ten weeks, it is called al frank everyone, giant of the senate. >> they're not acting like people have nothing to hide. and so when you ask me do i have any evidence, i think there's all kinds of circumstantial evidence, we will follow the special prosecutor, he'll determine if there is evidence of cooperation, or conclusion. but it's hard to believe that jared kushner goes -- has this meeting with kislyak and forgets he's there. >> rose: and he doesn't report it? >> and doesn't report it when he is filing security clearance. you don't forget that. and it's sort of hard to believe he's talking about setting up a communications within the russian' where it's, what did te president know and when did his son-in-law tell him? >> rose: what do you think they have to hide? >> well, we -- we know all our intelligence community said that the russians interfered with this election.

it's sponsored by tom cotton and david purdue, two southern narts and they want to reduce the number of family members who can be brought in with green cards and generally, cut immigration levels. this is something that's popular with the base, but not so popular with american business. >> does it have any chance of becoming law? >> well, it does not have a good chance of becoming law at this opposition. you' heard senators say representing both agriculture and hospitality stakes, say that by cutting legal immigration this this way, you're going to choke off the workforce we need as the economy is looking to grow in the future. one other aspect is one reason the american economy needs more labor is that we are waages. medicare and social re security without workers to pay the taxes to support those policemans. everythi programs. tha you. we'll leave it there. john harwood in washington. >> there reall been a summer slowdown, but even as would be home buyers crowd into open houses, some are actually giving up. diana oleic tells us why. >> demand for housing is still high. but the numb

making it a natural emergency would free up more funding through the nart disaster fund and medicaid.gency, it is a national emergency. we're going to spend a lieutenant of time, a lot of effort and a the lot of money on the opioid crisis. the president says his administration is quote, drawing up the paperwork to make the designation now official. >> now to a story you saw first here on fox5 much families from around the world who have children with a rare jean mutations came to d.c. this past weekend to participate in a study that could lead to a medical breakthrough. the mutation has only recently been discovered and it is now linked to autism, alzheimer's and even cancer. continues our coverage tonight. these families may be from all over the world, but there's a rare genetic link that brings them altogether. that has been so overwhelming to see these kids that are so similar to her fox5 first brought you the story of greg and shell bibutler last week. their 12 year old daughter ella with special needs was recently diagnosed with rare jean mutations. research suggests the mutation

no one is going to go to jail for leaking this information because you said something john that's nartot classified information. these were staff people who were listening and deliberately listening, asked to listen as allss have people who do that and they were making notes of the conversation. so you don't go to jail because you have these memos. so let's get that straight for the american people. so no one's going to jail and if that was the case, you might as well empty the white house. because you won't kbroe it came from. number two, you can talk about a 35% tariff, if you want to throw that at mexico. and what do you think the mexican president will do? you'll start a trade war because for every action there's an opposite and equal reaction. number three the reason that the australian president said -- the prime minister said he can't take these people in is because they have laws and they were trying to prevent smuglers. remember, it's an island and they were trying to prevent people using boats to smuggle in people. number three or four. these were not a bad hombres or bad peo

you've seen narts lick rand paul, cory booker, coming together to push solutions toward unfair bail forate sentencing for drug offenses to try to take on the prison industrial complex and bring back some justice to this country to a judicial system, to a criminal justice system that has really become the embodiment of the modern jim crowe. that is what we can do to actually move beyond symbols here. >> thank you both for joining us here. we don't want you to his as we talk about what's happened in sar lotsville, the exclusive interview with the mother of heather hire, today at 2:00 p.m. on msnbc. we're be back with the big picture. so that's the idea. what do you think? hate to play devil's advocate but... i kind of feel like it's a game changer. i wouldn't go that far. are you there? he's probably on mute. yeah... gary won't like it. why? because he's gary. (phone ringing) what? keep going! yeah... (laughs) (voice on phone) it's not millennial enough. there are a lot of ways to say no. thank you so much. thank you! so we're doing it. yes! start saying yes to your company's best ideas.

tillis's office for folks interested in cosponsorship and i had a good conversation on the foord with nartker and senator graham. this is the first time i can remember senator tillis in particular stepping forward and taking on a tough stance against the president and i think this is just one more sign that we're seeing an increasing number of republicans eager to find ways that we can strengthen the separation of powers and strengthen the senate's hand in this difficult situation where there's a special investigation that we need to protect. >> let's say that neither of these two bipartisan bills was to wind up becoming lawyer for one reason or another. if donald trump found a way, let's say he fired rod rosenstein and got down to somebody in the department of justice who would mire bob mueller for him, is there an opportunity to see the rern of the independent counsel? >> we might. we come back into session every three days while we're out on so-called recess for the month of august. and we might see bipartisan action to reintroduce and repass the independent counsel statute. i frankly t