stories this hour cambridge the company at the center of a scandal for using private data for a political lens is currently being discussed in the european parliament but even as that happens yet another issue has surfaced investigative journalist blumenthal has published documents he ses were leaked from cambridge analytic his parent company they allegedly revealed valid had been collecting data for private military contractors in yemen with more years artie's double quarter. remember the cambridge analytical scandal millions of people's personal information being mined for financial gain and influence cambridge and a little it's actually a data analytics company dedicated to one thing figuring out how to manipulate you at all costs this shadowy consulting firm right surreptitiously gained access to personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users weaponized personal data you have to look at cambridge analytics in terms of the loss of trust cambridge analytic scandal this was a huge breach of trust well according to newly leaked documents from cambridge analytical parent co

there's aprotected -- political lens to this as well. canadas that trade with and mexico is most important for states that in administration cares a lot about from an electoral perspective. so the state that would be hurt the most from losing nafta is michigan. dependent on ex ports and trade with canada and mexico. through other industrial midwestern states. heartland states like iowa and missouri. staters that are, you know, really on the political radar in this election year as well, as the border states like texas and arizona. it is not just an economic concern. it is a political concern. >> what sense do you get that -- impact do you think the actions the administration took this week will have on those forward?ng guest: it is hard to see how all of these things come together. certainly the administration has trayed to tie the steel and aluminum tariffs to the nafta negotiations. worked veryk it has well though. after listening to the prime minister yesterday, i think what a rejection of that canada is now moving forward return fora

such a political lens. evangelicals don't like this and independent voters in states like pennsylvania michigan and wisconsin, states that the president carried don't like this. there are 70,000 voters that voted for president obama. >> evangelicals. >> they absolutely don't like this because it gets to the crux of caring for those in need. and look, i'm not -- i think as john just correctly pointed out, i mean, there is a small faction of the republican wing that don't -- that would approve of this but there's a much larger contingency of folks who would be quite frankly surprised, people socially much more conservative than the rest of the country looking at these images of children on father's day being ripped from their families and saying, wait a minute. that is not the type of immigration policy i voted for. and so that's where i think to jonathan's point, this really does significantly put republicans in mid-term elections - in a tough spot. this isn't about building a wall. this is about tearing fam

there is a political lens to this. arguably trade with canada and mexico is most important for states that the administration cares a lot about from an perspective, the state that would be hurt the most is michigan, it is the most dependent on exports and trade with canada and mexico. then you run through other midwestern states, heartland states like iowa and missouri, states that are really on the political radar this election year. as well as border states like texas and arizona. it is not just an economic concern, it is a political concern. >> what impact do you think the actions the trump administration took this week will have on those talks? >> it is hard to see how these things come together. certainly the administration has tried to tie the tariffs to the nafta negotiations. -- the steel and aluminum tariffs to the nafta negotiations. i don't think that it has really worked. listening to the canadian prime minister yesterday, i think what we heard was a rejection of that. candidate is now moving forward with r

cambridge analytic at the company at the center of a scandal for using private data for a political lens is currently being discussed in the european parliament but even as that happens yet another issue has surfaced investigative journalist mark blumenthal has published documents he ses were leaked from cambridge analytic as parent company b. allegedly revealed valeted had been collecting data for private military contractors in yemen you're sorry donal quarter. remember the cambridge analytical scandal millions of people's personal information being mined for financial gain and influence cambridge and a little it's actually a data analytics company dedicated to one thing figuring out how to manipulate you at all costs this shadowy consulting firm right surreptitiously gained access to personal data online from nearly eighty seven million facebook users weaponized personal data you have to look at cambridge analytics and some of the loss of trust cambridge analytic scandal this was a huge breach of trust well according to newly leaked documents from cambridge analytical parent company s

congressman, i think about myself as journalist, everything right now is filtered through some kind of political lensnt to see the actual stuff. the actual documents led to fisa warrant in the first place. i want to know what is what, because i don't want the political bias infiltrating everything. your thoughts? >> yeah, look, i think you're like most americans. this report will not deal with fisa. that is a separate inquiry that the inspector general is engaged in. but it is going to look at the investigation that the fbi and department of justice and how they handled hillary clinton email situations. everything from director comey d in his meeting with bill clinton, president, clinton, on the tarmac through a lot of the firing of i believe up until the firing of james comey. they're looking at more than a million documents. i do believe it is overdue. unlike the president i want to see it, but i also want to make sure it is ready. the attorney general, deputy attorney general, and fbi director get an advance copy. you also have people who have cooperating witnesses get to review their sections. th

. >> i think if you look at it from a sheer political lens, polling last month showed melania trump is popular, 57% approval ratings politically into the mid terms, i'd like to see more of her. many spouses of candidates are political advantage and she certainly is in this case. i would like to see more of her. how about you, bill? >> very quickly, it's -- it's just unusual. i hope she's well and think she's well. i've been told by a very good source she's at the white house and she's fine but it is unusual for a first lady not to be seen in 23 days now. there's a sports event for kids at the white house, that's her deal. she wasn't there. camp david, all of the rest of the family is there without her, i hope she's well. i'd like to seize more of her too. it's strange. >> it is something we can all very much agree on. we hope her health is okay and she comes back in the spotlight sometime soon. good to see you both, happy sunday to you both. >> the death toll from puerto rico from hurricane maria coming up in the next hour. booking a flight at the last minute doesn't have to be expensi

verbally, byron, once you recognize that, the pretense that you are not looking at it through a political lens>> it was politicized all the way through. i think one of the fbi agents who actually interviewed hillary clinton said this is july 2nd of 2016. just interviewed the president. so, it was politicized from the beginning all the way through the end. >> martha: so i mean the question i keep hearing a lot is, does any of this these findings reopen the case for hillary clinton, byron? >> probably not. that is something closed and take new evidence. >> martha: still to come tonight, hollywood loves to hate the president and one successful filmmaker pretty much had enough. he packed up from a very good career and moved his family to texas to escape the politics and still be able to make movies that he feels america will love. plus, president trump doubled down today on his great relationship with kim jong un. what do his military leaders have to say about that? new head of the u.s. coast guard admiral charles schultz joins me exclusively next. and give you the comfort to move more. dr. scholl

it's impossible to see anything in this region except through a political lens, so how significant is odd. relations between britain and israel are pretty good and have been for decades. the israelis have been wondering why don't we get a royal visit? the answers are different according to who you talk to. but it's because there have been too many wars, too much violence, too many wars, too much violence, too many political difficulties in this region for the royal family to come here. now they feel the time is about right. ask the palestinians and it is good news for them to get some kind of acknowledgement of the difficulty they are in. given there is now almost no relationship between the us administration and the palestinian authority, any kind of relationship, any kind of spotlight attention they can get as a result of this visit is probably good news for them. having said that, buckingham palace and the various different palaces involved in this insist this is a nonpolitical visit. the prince will tread very carefully. he does not have exposure to high profile public engagements

there are plenty of political folks up here in washington, are going to look at this through a political lens and say -- i heard some peeks say we ought to delay it intentionally after the midterm because it could impact the midterm. my response to that is rubbish. you know? i'm ready to get somebody confirmed. as soon as the president nominates and i don't have control over this, i'm in labor. i'm not in management around here. but i'm ready to meet on judiciary, ready to meet days, nights, weekend. i'll meet fourth of july. let's get somebody ready to go on october 1 when the court starts. >> given how narrowly divided the senate is and given the emotional issues decided by the court, should the president reach out to democrats, reach across the aisle and have this conversation about selecting someone that might be more of a consensus pick? or should he take a pick from his list and say take it or leave it. >> if i were king for a day -- i'm not. i don't aspire to be. what i would do, and i wouldn't be surprised if the president does this, say look to the members of the u.s. senate, and hou

is he look alt these through a political lens? white house pushing back on thatsertion, although not giving us the nature of those dozens of pardons that have been prepared for president trump. of course a lot of questions have been raised in the wake of the president pardoning, for example, we saw this last week, his controversial pardon of course last week that raised questions about whether he was trying to send a message to some of those who are involved in the russia probe. and then the big debate surrounding whether or not the president can actually pardon himself. he says he has the absolute right to pardon himself but he has absolutely no plans to do so. so we are focused here today to see if we get anymore pardons that come down the pike, hallie. >> kristen welker i'll know you'll be reporting that. what do you make of this? >> certainly we've been hearing a lot of talk about pardons and the president has been enamored by that authority. it's one of the parts of the job he likes do. >> it's one of his things can he did wi

>> it is a little crafted to talk about the issue in the terms of the political lens. o now it was political pr disaster for the administration. only had terrible images of audios of kids crying and separated. there are alternate images here of a compassionate melania trump, sitting at border, looking, asking questions you just mentioned. and that benefits the administration from a political perspective obviously. neil: do you get a sense, melania trump, as i was saying at outset, i don't want to put words in her mouth or certainly yours, that she changed the president's position, she was instrumental enough to say what was going on here has to stop, and whatever justification used for it has got to stop? >> sure. i'm sure trump was hearing that from other people, but he hears that kind of stuff all the time. typically he does not bow down to political pressure. he doesn't like it. he feels it is like a sign of weakness. melania coming in, saying this is bad. we need to do something. it is cruel. have ivanka coming in sayingou that, these are two of the central women in

whether it's the castros or are the llahsn iran or kim jong un or the kim family through a political partisan lens of the united ates, if obama does it it's bad or trump does it, it's good, or vice versa, it's stunning to me. human rights issues are human rights issues. what the castros, the kims, what the mullahs do, it has nothing to do with if you like the president at that time. we were covering a lot of the dissidents in cuba and their protests, the lack of freedoms in cuba and there was the exact opposite thing going on where one channel, not cnn and not fox, was praising this as an amazing moment of diplomacy. well, we have since seen that there hasn't exactly been this blossoming of freedom in cuba. and now we see the same thing. that's why it's so unhealthy. that's why organizations like amnesty or human rights watch, hu rightsst are u have to focus on because they don't look at it through who is president, i want to support the u.s. president. they look at it through what is going on in this country. >> human rights. so the president is coming back from this historic summit in singapore.

but it's tough, dara, to talk about this through the lens of politics when there are children separated from their parents. and it's very unclear just whether or not the new policy is going to correct it. so this is something that quite frankly when i talked to sources up on capitol hill in the republican party, they are begging the administration to address in some policy problem. >> and still so many unanswered questions there. i want to go back to what president trump said yesterday about this being a winning issue for the republicans. "the new york times" came out with a story today. the reporter writes, their resilience suggests a level of unity among republicans that could help mitt at a time mr. trump's low overall approval rating. liz, will the level of steadfast support be enough? >> yeah, i think it's president that the people are buying it. that's why we saw him back off the policy, something we never see the president do, right? and this week we saw him take a step back, write the hasty executive order to stay, is it a step back from the humanitarian crisis that he himself c

so he rights through the lens of iraq and a political advocate and a doctoral student and it's a really beautiful book and a lot of people are very excited about it. so i hope that works for him. >> there's a quick look at some of the books that simon & schuster have coming up in the summer and fall and you'll see a lot of them on book tv on c-span2. >> thank you. >> you're watching book tv on c-span2, television for serious readers. ... >> we wrap up our prime time programming at 11:10 p.m. with cnn's chief washington correspondent jake tapper who discusses his political novel about congress and washington set in the 1950s. that all happens tonight on c-span 2's book tv. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, television for serious readers. and first up tonight, here's historian william hitchcock on the presidency of dwight eisenhower.

everybody is in their tribe or political camp and they see it through the lens of their politics andcuse what samantha bee said or they attack roseanne or excuse roseanne and attack samantha bee. >> tribablism is natural. this is unnatural that we are having this conversation in the context of presidency. a tweet would conflate and so many things together. this is not normal and i think -- we have to resist thinking that this is normal to talk about a president of the united states of america and his tweets about to comedians. that's not normal. >> he talked about ratings for both of them. you have to consider who each person is representing when they say what they say. roseanne barr and his core, i am sure he sees them and he says this is about us. of course he'll weigh in on roseanne, he's talking for his people. samantha and everyon though it tasteless, in her mind, she's speaking to immigrant children. who these people are speak to o and how they're using their language and how they're using their power. coming out from the president of the united states of america, the fact that

everybody is in their tribe or political camp and they see it through the lens of the politics and theywhat samantha bee said. >> and that is natural. tribalism is natural and this is unnatural that we are having this conversation in the context of the presidency and that the tweet would conflate so many things together like adding in commentary about a show. this is not normal and i think that we have to resist -- or i have to resist thinking that this is normal to talk about a president of the united states of america and his tweets about two comedians. that is not normal. >> it is interesting that he talked about ratings for both of them. >> and again, you have to consider who each person is representing when they say what they say. so roseanne barr and his core, he said this is about us. so of course he would weigh in on roseanne because he is talking for his people. samantha, even though it was tasteless, in her mind speaking for immigrant children. so we have to look at the difference between who these people are speaking to and how they are using their language and their power. a

the judge, santa clara county voters go to the polls in a test of the me too movement's political clout. >> kpix5's len become the first california judge in more than 80 years to be yanked off the bench. len? >> reporter: that's right. 86 years, in fact, to be precise. usually campaigns hold some sort of election night carry the to watch the returns come in and to thank the volunteers, but -- party to watch the returns come in and to thank the volunteers, but not here. we're told they'll comment later. so we'll have on to see if they give us a return comment later. judge persky voted yesterday in person at the county registrar of voters in san jose. he faces recall over his sentencing of stanford swimmer brock turner to six months in jail after his conviction for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman in 2016. critics say the sentence showed bias and was too lenient. persky contends the sentence was within judicial guidelines existing at the time. laws have since changed that would mandate a prison term for someone convicted of the same crime today. persky supporters are looking closely at voter turn

scout but it is also important to read the evolution of this character through the lens of changes of southern politics from the late 50s it is important to understand the politics deeply in the state like alabama thinking about massive resistance after the brown decision but it was really ramping up by 1957, 58, denying, this was when politicians are winning public office for the first time on a platform of right-wing demagogues in separate politics this is the context harper b is writing her fiction and i have important things to say in the book how that plays the character of atticus. i go on to say more how the character of atticus changes which is its own creative process which was done so beautifully in the screenplay in the adaptation of the novel that has implications and and certainly gregory peck plays a role in he embodies character of atticus that transformation takes place from those origin to when we get gregory pack as the handsome and dignified face from 20th century liberalism. so to tell it as blow-by-blow with a brief passage to set it up briefly comes from the last chapter of the bo

that is the world cup politics will be throwing full throttle and in fact i would say that we're going to see over the coming four weeks that the world cup can be an exceptional lensfor helping us better understand the politics in the cultural forces that are around us and furthermore those that say that politics and sports don't mix are often hypocritical they tend to be the ones that are benefiting from the status quo and want to avoid controversy at all costs and you even have people political leaders like president donald trump here in the united states who are leveraging the mixture of politics and sports for their own political advantage to leverage their base and get more traction with them so there's no question that sports are in fact politics by other means indeed and if you look at recent disagreements let's take a look at russia and the united kingdom huge fallout over accusations that russia was behind the poisoning of a former russian spy spy on the british soil diplomats expelled and now the u.k. foreign office warning football fans of england fans to be vigilant and keep a low profile very hard when you're an excited supporter of a national team in

we're on dangerous ground when we begin to experience what is symptomatic of a politically co-oped gospel and christian lensough. he couldn't be quoting from scripture. we can make the scripture say anything we want and try to legitimize public policy. we should never do that. i think he crossed the line. i understand what she's saying when saying take a legal perfective. when we use the bible to justify policies that are targeting children to separate them from their parents, that's an atrocity. >> juliette, you heard the argument. sessions and sanders say they're following the law. do they have to separate children from their parents? isn't the trump administration that changed the policy? >> yes. and i'm not going -- alice was just saying they're following the law. it is not the law, and everyone needs to stop saying that. the law is at most a misdemeanor if you cross the border illegally. there are all sorts of different rules. some of these people are coming as asylum seekers. the law protects them. the administration decided to interpret the law to compel this separation of children with their parents

read our political team there argues for a president who campaigned under the banner of the rule of law, donald trump seems to see the application of the law and legal fairness through the same lens as he sees his political battle. is the target someone who's with him or not? is the president applying due process selectively in your view? >> think we see a president that is very frustrated with the fact that he lost last week. this president has never backtracked on immigration, so because he had to sign this kmek executive order essentially saying ways wrong i'm going to have to fix this, we now see him trying to lash out in other parts of the criminal justice system to say, okay, even though i can't separate these families, can we just kick them out before they come to the border? i'm hesitant to say that he's applying it. as a reporter i'm hesitant to say that he's applying it selectively, but what he's doing is saying i think he could be making the argument american courts have a real process and a real goal and it should be for american citizens and the not for people coming in illegally. he reminds me that some families are separated permanently by crime and some parents ar

political sense. so let's widen the lens, so to speak, and see what we know of this document that's been side. yes, the two sides affirmed the commitment that was established in april to complete denuclearization, but still nobody isining at that means and we know that it means very different things to each side. the other issue, of course, is this announcement by president trump that they will stop military exercises with south korea. this is going to raise some concern among the south korean leadership and, of course, among south korean people who have relied on the security umbrella for generations now and gives the sense that perhaps president trump is giving up too much. also watching nervously will be japan. japan was counting on president trump to be their voice at the table, to raise the issue of abductees, and also the threat of short-range missiles. so we have no assurances on that yet. so the perception among regional allies to this point has been one of anxiety. they also watch the rupture of the g7 recently, seeing how it is that president trump can sometimes treat long-time allie

lens. the political agenda, back home of the united states, but also on the international stage has critic critic saying, it will never get a deal like this done. a month ago, he probably would've been left off the stage but here he is, on the brink of the deal. what say you about the fact that the president every step of the way has been mocked and derided, and yet seems to have brought this process a heck of a lot further along than any democratic or republican president before? >> that's right. this issue unfortunately has been a bipartisan failure. this is not about politics. when it comes to the president, a month ago he got out of the iran nuclear deal and everyone predicted. they would choose iran over the united states, then guess what happened? these companies are choosing the united states. and some of these other things that the president is accused of doing quickly or differently. but bottom line, that depends on whether they go after china where they are using their military and the other way. it certainly brought north korea he table. e estion is, as it produced a substantive

in terms of a political conscienceness to understand racism through the lens of women or two sisters or two young girls in that focus in that way. but beyond that -- >> i'm thinking of twin studies and sadly we can predict that there are different fates for those two people have so much in common that -- >> different experiences. >> separation -- given our climate. >> different. down front. wait for the magic microphone. >> we're going to run these volunteers ragged by the time we're done. so i think -- thing quen is for ashley. reading about the nation of islam and, you know, sort of role that women play in that organization, obviously, women not just on the front lines but also running programs things like that and then there thenonhat seems to me between supporting men and also -- kskt advocating for themselves as full human beings and wondering what you thub that attention -- how it is -- >> so my -- my answer to this is whenever somebody asked me why i study black power. the common assumption is that black power was incredibly sexist right. so always odd to me because i don't kn

the book is "the great revolt: inside the coalition that is re shaping american politics" the authors are zsa zsa -- a len in veto and brad todd. get a copy, read it, mark it up and keep its handy. it's going to. he. [applause] >> thank you all for coming. [inaudible conversations] >> book tv has covered several authors and books about the 2016 presidential election, including those by hillary clinton, roger stone, pj o'rourke and more. if this is a topic that interests you, go to our web site at booktv.org, and in the search bar, type "election 2016 book," and you'll find a large archive of authors and materials. all these programs are available to watch online. >>> how do we fit into this? >> okay. look, what makes us human? what makes us human is the emotional apparatus that drives all of our behavior, seeking as we do rational means of achieving our innate goals. every minute of our lives, and where did that come from? it came from the evolution of emotional centers and the massive cerebral memory capacity we acquired in enabling those actions that were emotionally guided. where did those come from? t

i examine the first lady's changing role through the lens of what was going on in women's politics and history during the time they served. i think its innovation is i try to weave those two stories. on the one hand, first ladies, on the other hand, the story of american women, into one narrative. i start with lou hoover and end with michelle obama. betty ford once said becoming first lady is like being thrown into a river without knowing how to swim. i think there is definitely some truth to that statement. but i will also share with you six conclusions or six things i have learned about the first lady's role. how much freedom does she have to define the role for herself? what are the rules she must follow? what must she do, what must she not do? you are welcome to disagree with those conclusions. you can tell me about it in the open mic time afterwards, of course. we are here to celebrate betty ford on what would have been her 100th birthday. at us that i'll back for second, 21918, the year she was born. what was going on in 1918? 1918, the year she was born. what was going on in 191

look, perspective is the thing we have least of in our politics, so let's view the president's approval numbers through those lensident is averaging 41% in this most recent number. other presidents at this point in their presidency, obama, 45, bush 43, 73%, that's a 9/11 bump. clinton 44. bush 41. that's largely about winning the cold war. reagan 45. he is the lowest approval rating of any president at this point in his presidency in the last 40 years. but let's go a little bit deeper because you want to understand the president's popularity among republicans and how he's doing with the electorate look at the breakdown. he's at 87% among republicans. that is very good. that is how, however, down from a week ago. let's go deeper though. he's 87% approval rating is still sky high among fellow republicans. donald trump is more popular with republicans than ronald reagan was, saint ronald reagan. this speaks to why trump is teflon with his base. that is a really powerful source of strength for the president. but it's not the whole picture. because if you want to understand national numbers you got to look at the "i"s

close by way of saying if you look at the totality of the experience that the sans lens when a time post when lots of politics is polarized and divisive, gordy can be a very good fit. i will close with one kind of comment about our state. what i have come to feel is, we sort of have an oregon way about us, and it is not like written down somewhere. high and, you know, in your downtown portland. but it is all about, take a good idea wherever you can get it. caring about people, having a good heart. our late colleague in the senate, mark hatfield, really practiced the oregon whale. -- the oregon way. our late mayor in portland practiced the oregon way. i think when gordon sondland assumes this post -- i will say i hope he really is confirmed. he is going to speak with real impact, with an oregon way type impact of problem-solving, of values we hold dear, particularly on issues like anti-semitism, respect for human rights, and it is a pleasure to be able to be, i guess, part of the oregon caucus on behalf of the nominee, gordon d sondland. >> without objection, your written statement will be entered in the recor

that will be important for all of us as we move forward but there is the political scrutiny which could be under a difference lensause if voters interpret a deal, even if a deal isn't concrete or seen by both parties as something verifiable, if it's politically seen as a deal that is a success for president trump, you could see republicans despite what happened at the g7, despite the russia investigation rally behind the president and that's why you see a lot of reluctance among gop lawmakers in the past few days to take a strong stand against the president because they think the president could sell whatever happens in singapore as a success around they know he has a full grip on their own party. >> doing a deal with the north koreans, dangerous bidding. ask bill clinton, ask jimmy carter who went over there and did his best. ask -- >> you know what will happen. we've seen this movie before. the north koreans will drag everything out. they will extract the maximum up front and at some point probably just say, you know, later for you guys. but that's down the road and i'm certain unless this completely blows up d

people think has no role and no place in traditional american politics melissa: so i mean that's interesting when you look at it through that lensyou know, how does it impact the attitude going forward? it kind of reminds me of when everyone thought president trump has no possibility to win, everyone believes that he's horrible and this sort of thing is they kind of get lost in their own chamber and think that everyone feels the same way as these protesters, but in reality there's a large swath of american people who think wait a second that's not okay. do you think it could be similar here, now? >> yeah, i think so. i mean, my page the wall street editorial page editorialized about this this morning and we said look, there probably are many people out there who are upset about what happened to the children down on the texas border with mexico, but the reaction of the left to what happened to sarah sanders, kirstjen nielsen this sort of behavior, people get dug in and they say i don't care what the details of the substance and policy is. if you're going to attack a president like this, and the people who work for him, i'm simply

than a week while the political wrangling went ahead until it could be decided where the ship should be brought in of course now as we know being brought into the port of the lens we saw the aquarius a former fisheries protection vessel making its way into port being guided by the pilot boat surrounded by spanish civil guard boats and all the time the police helicopter flying overhead the spanish authorities are being very careful to make sure that this operation is picture perfect and is rightly say. the migrants a few days ago were divided between three vessels we already saw early this morning that did tylo and italian coast guard cutter putting in two hundred seventy four people aboard but on board the aquarius like the sound of six. women on for a. full list well that is because the charity that operates that photo so as many time there and doctors without borders wanted to keep their eyes on the most vulnerable point population and when red cross workers and health workers start to board that ship they will be where very aware of that too and so if they spot any urgent medical cases those would be taken immediately by ambulance for treatment if all goes t

if you zoom back the lens and take a deep breath, what is mueller asked to investigate? he's asked to investigate russian politicalerference in the fairs of the united states of erica an advsaries efforts to undermine our democracy. that's what they were doing. >> do you think, juliet, the trial timeline here would put a trial starting in september. does that seem realistic to you? >> you know, the indictment against manafort, the superseding zimt that is, contains many allegations, many counts. it seems the special counsel and his team have their ducks in a row. if they need to get ready for trial in september, i think they can. >> jeremy i've got t play t bit, manafort talking backing in 2016 about whether had he contacts or entanglements with russian oligarchs. it strikes me as an important moment in that campaign given nge knoww. ta listen. >> so to be clear, mr. tru noinci relionships with any russian oligarchs? >> that's what he said -- that's what i said -- that's obviously what our position is. >> not super persuasive. i imagine we might finally learn the truth at some point. >> maybe hanging on the presen

if he'd be running for president, he did share his thoughts on politics and some of the big issues facing our country. listen ugh the lenstizen. i don't know what that means at this poi my concern for the country, and my concern for our standing in the world, the lack of dignity, the lack of respect, the vitriolic behavior coming from this administration, i think we can do better and i think the political class as a whole, not only this administration, has h regard to $21 trillion in debt and not being as fiscally conservative as we need to be, and we are going to pay for this in terms of the next generation and it's unfair. >> i want to read you, this is professor douglas brinkley, a presidential historian at rice university, says the history of business leaders in the white house has nobeen good. you basically have herbert hoover and donald trump. what do you make of that just the idea, also, of having political experience >> well, i think the rules of engagement for running the united states of america in a global society is very different than comparing it to hoover or the current president. and what i specifically m

political impact of theindings of the mueller probe. they know that that has the potential to be explosive. and in the most immediate lens what they're specifically worried about is psili of the psident sitting down for an interview with rober.ieft ia is coming out so strongly against the mueller team, increasingly strongly the past few months, this i think is the most pointed criticism he's had of mueller to date. i think a big part of the reason for that is they're trying to lay the groundwork publicly for explaining why they end up not wanting to do an interview with mueller. flood is responsible for overseeing the way the white house responds to the investigation, i was told by a source the first day that he started in the white house that he was going to likely be a strong voice against having the president sit down for an interview with mueller. >> and the president'frnds on tell vilgs say that publicly rudy giuliani i think in response to your story over the weekend said to george stephanopoulous who caught some lie that was revealed through your reporting, that's why the president can never sit for an interview.

then held down by his foot to steady his lens for and for instance he spent a very long time examining the oppressive you know human dynamics of south african politics them for about the first thirty to forty years of his career he only worked in black and white because he thought that color seemed too sweet a medium to express the anger at the disgust and fear that apartheid inspired and so you really got into color photography in the ninety's when he did he certainly fully embraced the digital era after about it some incredible images that really evocative really beautiful and always with an often an element of the absurdity of certainty but that was of course our own south africa so he is documenting with a very critical eye but he says i was never an activist i was not part of the struggle for some people that's right and yet and yet he managed to change the you know he was never the guy that you were going to find in the middle of the action he always said he was more interested in looking at the causes of events rather than the events themselves and he actually went as far as to say that he was something of a coward himself and yet he was stil

lens. >> director ray has a mess to clean up. >> after an 18 month investigation that included a review of 1.2 million documents and interviews with 100 witnesses the inspector general found no evidence of politicale other aspect involves former fbi director james comey who did not recommend charges against clinton, the inspector general recommending he could face legal peril over possible leaks of classified information. >> we received a referral, handling that referral and we will issue a report when matter is complete. >> this is the second time since he was fired that mr. comey refused to testify voluntarily. he has time for bookstores and television interviews but no time to assist this committee which has primary jurisdiction over the justice department. >> reporter: the inspection general found comey was insubordinate, this allegation of leaking classified information could be more serious. rob: right now kim jong un is in china to meet with pres. xi jinping, his motorcade driving through the streets of beijing on his summit with donald trump in singapore. south korea pushing back at critics saying the peninsula peace deal is coming soon. the joint statement signed by trump and kim is the

was a bad political move, vivian, and sema, that it seems as if the president is turning further deaf ear by not being there and being present? >> i think people view it through their own lensi think people on the left are like of course he's not there. people on the right are like he already knows what's going on. i don't think that changes anybody's perception. people are so polarized. people views are baked about the president and the administration. this goes along with what people expect. >> vivian, what if the president were to have been in the white house and we knew he was looking out the window and watching? might that have helped him with some who opposed their policy? >> i don't think it makes a difference. the president has tended to turn a deaf ear to a lot of these protests throughout his presidency. we know from the travel ban last year he didn't really comment to extensively on the protests that were happening. and when he did, he sort of cast doubt on the actual images he was seeing and questioned the logic behind the protests and things like that. he hasn't really ever made an effort to come out and say yes, your voices are being heard. we're working on it

political power, emotional power. >> harris: is in a special category with as any of talk about that on the show. >> kennedy: that's why he's so defensive. she brought it up with a way with an unkind lensoking bac back. >> sandra: downright combative at moments as well. >> katie: left said need to look at this and deal with this in a certain way. the left is feminist defended him at the time. including hillary clinton who was about to be this woman who is about all women and until the me too movement actually started, they justified every single thing that bill clinton did beyond monica lewinsky including ans of sexual assault to push his progressive polic in the name of what they say are feminist causes. so where are the feminist now defending her? they destroyed her life, destroyed her credibility for years. it's been very difficult forever for her to be able to do her own thing because everyone always says it's the monica lewinsky scandal. with the bill clinton scandal. he took advantage of her in the oval office and her most vulnerable stay because he was the president of the united states of america and yet feminists did not consider that sexual harassment. the definition. if >> h

partisan lens and make the american people view this as a partisan witch hunt, to use the phrase the president likes to use over and over again. it's a pattern he's been doing in his political life, but also in his life as a marketer, as a businessman, as a real estate mogul. he in some cases will exaggerate, some cases say things that are not true to play to people's fantasies, to make them believe sort of his own reality that he creates and win in the court of public opinion. that's what he's trying to do here with this mueller probe. and change the way the american people view the russia investigation. >> michael, let's talk about exactly that. there's no one out there to correct the record. so i have a two-part question for you. what of this notion of 13 registered democrats working for mueller? and secondly, how do they balance the noise deficit, the pr deficit? rudy giuliani is out there every day. mueller's team has this steely discipline, part of their sense of duty, to remain quiet. >> mueller is different than ken starr. he's not out there doing media. he's not on the courthouse steps. he has only put out i think of know of two statements. everything else has been

lens that everybody who disagreeing with you is not considered not right. also, we have to consider that the president has done all of these things with impunity. he hasn't been punished politicallyhe hasn't suffered political consequences from this. during the election, he did all this and was elected. republicans in congress are in primary season right now. you have candidates running for office on the republican ticket who don't want to cross trump because that's just the reality of the republican base right now. that may change later on. we'll see. but at this point i don't see the incentive for them just from an analytical perspective to stop the president from saying these things. >> no incentive for them. but the republican party has always been a party that's been very serious about their principles, very serious about what they believe in and what they do not believe in. morals were certainly a big part of it. but also the rule of law was a big part of republican orthodoxy. they would tout it a lot. what did they go on this? >> i think to speaker boehner's point it's not in a the republican party is taking a .i a. it is in a deep high better nation. ticking their head in