history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like senator richard blumenthal. now he's judging collusion? blumenthal fired back, mr. president, your bullying hasn't worked before and it won't work now. not above the law. cnn, abc, cnbc, the "washington post," the trump base is getting stronger. they wonder whether john kelly can truly bring discipline to the white house. once again, kelly once joked that the president could use an arm on the podium. >> i bet you haven't heard about all the accomplishments the president had this week because there is so much fake news out there. >> daughter laura trump calling the russia story a fabrication. he has focused on energizing the trump base, tweeting, the donald trump base is stronger than ever before. a quinnipiac poll says 50% disapprove of what he's doing. >> it needs to go up. they're telling him, just enact your program. >> reporter: another potential warning sign, a "new york times" report that allies and 20/20. such talk is fake news. >> we are all operating under the assumption every day that the president is s

. >> one of the highlights of yesterday, donald trump trading jabs on twitter with richard blumenthal the democrat for his phony vietnam bravery story. carly shimkus is here with this whole thing got started. >> donald trump pummels richard blumenthal in a series of tweets calling him a vietnam, artists. the president was likely angry about his recent comments regarding the importance of the russia investigation. >> impaneling the grand jury, shows that bob mueller is pursuing potential wrongdoing by the russians, the attack on our democracy, seriously and diligently and there is no minimum for underestimating that attack. heather: the president tweeted interesting to watch richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about the russia collusion when he was a phony vietnam con artist. the present referring to an embarrassing moment from 2010 when richard blumenthal mischaracterized his military service, richard blumenthal said your bullying hasn't worked before and it won't work now. no one is above the law, saying this isn't about me. it is about the special counsel on the independence a

"interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax russian collusion when he was a phony vietnam con artist.

history has anyone lied or voters like richard blumenthal he told stories about vietnam congest and how it was all a lie. begged for forgiveness like a child. now he judges collusion. i think senator blumenthal should take a nice long va can vietnam where he lied about his service so he can at least say he was there. here was senator blume that this afternoon. >> i have no idea about what is in his mind, what i do know is that i will not be distracted by this bullying. and these bullying tweets reinforce for me the need for a piece of legislation to prevent firing of the special counsel robert mueller. >> bret: so obviously it got under the president's skin. what about the blume that back story. >> blume that did not serve in theater in vietnam. and he -- at some point in his career he said in the vietnam era and then at some point he said vietnam. it was not true. did he not make big combat stories about being in battle the way the president describes in his tweets. the senator said this afternoon i don't know what's on his mind. i know what's on his mind richard blumenthal at least fo

champion. >>> president trump using twitter to lash out against senator richard blumenthal, tweeting e afternoon. he said i think senator blumenthal should take a nice long vacation in vietnam where he lied about his service so he can at least say he was there. it's part of a tweet storm that began nine hours earlier after the senator was on cnn's "new day." the president presumably watching tv from his tv, then tweeted this. interesting to watch richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax and russian collusion when he was a phony con artist. never in u.s. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like senator richard blumenthal. he told stories about his vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was and it was all a lie. he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. now he alleges collusion. senator blumenthal joins me now. senator, i mean, four tweets that are incredibly personal. very strong language. i'm sure you had a reaction to it. it's awful. >> don, there is an ongoing special counsel investigation underway right now. it is real. it's based on rea

unable to ignore the russia investigation - the president also took aim at democratic senator richard blumenthalalling for bipartisan legislation to protect special counsel robert mueller from political interference. blumenthal "this grand jury investigation also involves the rule of law and fundamentally americans care about the rule of law. so protecting bob mueller through legislation that a group of us on a bipartisan basis offered last week, requiring a three- judge panel if the president threatens to fire bob mueller, i think is very important to protect and safeguard the independence and integrity." after watching that interview on cnn, trump responding, "interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax russian collusion when he was a phony vietnam con artist! never in u.s.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like senator richard blumenthal. he told stories about his vietnam battles and ...conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. now he judges collusion?" trump's jabs - a refere

senator, targeting democrat richard blumenthal in a new tweet this evening at the close of his 200thmmander in chief. let's bring in our correspondents, analysts and specialists. phil mudd, this tweet storm against senator blumenthal, i'll read a little of it. interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal connecticut talking about hoax russian collusion when he was a vietnam con artist. he told story about his vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was. it was all a lie. he cried like a baby, he begged for forgiveness, he cried like a child. now he judges collusion. why is he doing this? >> they must not have indoor golf in the northeast. i presume he has a lot of time on his hands. if you look at this, there is one aspect of this if you're trying to be an optimist which i would not be, typically to say in the past he would have gone after the department of justice as he would have done, as his attorney general. after the special counsel. at least he's chosen the member of the owe mowsing party so chief of staff and other people in the party say if you have to vent, and this g

history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like senator richard blumenthal. told stories about his vietnam battles and conquest, how brave he was and it was all a lie. he try cried like a baby and begs for forgiveness like a child. now he judges collusion? so as you know there, wolf, the president is referring to a 2010 controversy when blumenthal made repeated remarks he served in vietnam, though it was later cleared he had service here in the united states. a familiar attack that the president used often to criticize blumenthal but gives us a insight into how the president spent his morning here in rainy new jersey on twitter and watching tv. >> interesting, kaitlan. blumenthal responded with tweets of his own. mr. president, your bullying hasn't worked before and won't work now. no one is above the law and tweeted, this issue isn't about me it's about the special counsel's independence and integrity. thank you very much, kaitlan collins reporting for us. discuss this and more. joinings us, david chalian and white house reporter for bloomberg news, shannon

history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like senator richard blumenthal. he told stories and it was all a lie. he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child and now he judges collusion. he said on cnn the investigation into russian interference in the presidential election is necessary. >> they involved propaganda and hacking into our voting machines or at least an attempt to do it and potential collusion by the trump campaign. >> reporter: senator blumenthal apologized in 2010 for saying he served in the vietnam war. he held a news conference monday to discuss a bill that would protect special council robert mueller from being fired by president trump. >> our national security and the rule of law are at stake and i am not going to be distracted or bullied by these stories. >> reporter: the president tweeted that his base is growing despite what he calls fake news from the new york times, washington post and all the major television news outlets except fox. he also wrote that he would be in new york next week for meetings during his 17 days

interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax, russian inclusion when he was a phony vietnam con artist trump tweeted. the president incensed after blumenthal criticized the justice department's war on would-be leakers. >> i'm very concerned that the department of justice is weaponizing these laws for its personal and political ends. >> reporter: in that interview blumenthal also embracing robert mueller's investigation into possible collusion with the russians and the senator not backing down. >> i won't be distracted by these bullying tweets. if anything, they strengthen my resolve. >> reporter: and some interesting polling numbers or rather numbers on the president's twitter i should say. the cnn poll found the majority of people don't believe that twitter is the most effective way for the president to be communicating his views. 72% saying it sends the wrong message to leaders around the world and one other quick twitter number, only 10% of those polled have actually either responded to or shared one of the president's tweets. kendis, diane. >>

interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax russian collision whenvietnam a con artist. blumenthal was on cnn this morning talking about the russian investigation and was concerned about the justice department's leak investigation. in response to the president, the connecticut democrat said this. mr. president, your bowling hasn't worked before and it won't work now. no one is above the law. >> coming up on c-span2, a panel of journalists last month discussed the global influence of the press and issues affecting people who work in media. and later lawmakers held a discussion on prescription drug access and costs here at 6 p.m. former trade officials from the clinton and obama administration's talked about the future of the u.s. trade policy. and on c-span2 monday night booktv is in prime time with a look inside the oval office. >> a group of journalists last month discussed the global influence of the press. they talked about how to cover stories around the world and issues affecting them. this discussion is one hour.

he took aim at this man, senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. today blumenthal said the investigation into russian interference in the presidential election is necessary andism introduced a bill to protect special counsel robert mueller during the probably. the president tweeted, "never in u.s. history has anyone lied or defraud voters like senator richard blumenthal. he ld stors about his vietnam battles and conquests, how brave he was and it was all a lie. he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. now he judges collusion?." >> i have no idea about what is in his mind. what i do know is i will not be distracted by this bullying. >> senator blumenthal is a former marine corps reservist. he apologized in 2010 for saying he served in the vietnam war. new threats tonight from north korea, veronica de la cruz tells us -- >>> new threats tonight from north korea. veronica de la cruz tells us the north got stung by some new u.n. sanctions and promises to take revenge on the united states. >> pyongyang blames the u.s. for those sanc

we had senator richard blumenthal on the show talking about the russia investigation. e president didn't like it, and we know that because he started tweeting during "new day" about senator blumenthal, not what he was discussing but the senator personally talking about what a liar he was, about his vietnam record and how brave he said he was, and now he gets to judge collusion, and the twit ear tacks just went into the entire afternoon, and all of them were basically off topic. remember, it was -- he wasn't. senator blumenthal has replied to this. this isn't the first time it happened, the first time the senator was on the show the president attacked him the same way. the senator said he was bullied. we should point out blumenthal was in the marine reserves during the war. trump was draft eligible as well but he sought multiple deferments, never served. that's a little bit about the intrigue there. how do you feel about trump's obsession? we've got some instincts in the new cnn poll. seven out of ten of you say he does it too much. on top of it, trump's tweets about wha

president trump launched another twitter war this time taking aim at democratic senator richard blumenthallegislation that would protect robert mueller from being unilaterally fired by president trump. on cnn senator blumenthal criticized the president who then quickly followed up with a series of attacks on twitter writing interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal. he was a vietnam con artist and never in utz history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like senator richard blumenthal. back in 2010 blumenthal apologized for saying he served in vietnam but he served during a conflict but was stationed in the united states. blumenthal says the president is trying to deflect attention from the real issue. >> our national security and rule of law are at stake and i am not going to be distracted or bullied by these slursism the president also railed against the new york times on twitter following a report that some republicans werely quietly lining up the pieces to potentially run for the top job in 2020. among them vice president mike pence who the paper said could run if the president d

richard blumenthal, (d) connecticut: "stunning abdication of moral leadership by the president of the united states"the alt-right groups that were in charlottesville are planning similar rallies across the nation this weekend. i'm stacey cohan reporting. its here at crissy field where on august 26 the group patriot prayer plans to hold a socalled freedom rally. the city of sf says this is an alt right group that promotes hate and violence and they want to stop it before it even happens. at a news conference tuesday the mayor said he has demanded the us. park service reevaluate its decision to issue the group a permit . the mayor says the members of this group are not welcome in san francisco and hes going to put a stop to it even before the event happens. at crissy field, dan kerman kron 4 news. here at the alameda county sheriff's office in dublin, deputy ray kelly explains why he retweeted a white supremacist press conference from the sheriff's official twitter account

we saw this case in point yesterday when richard blumenthal, senator from connecticut, democrat was on our show critical of president trump and president trump was tweeting in real time about richard blumenthal, not about other news that voters would have wanted to hear. >> yes on his 200th day. it's flattering that the president's watching "new day," but i mean, he clearly is so attached to his social media habit, that poll numbers overwhelming numbers of which saying you know, dial back the tweeting mr. president, focus on doing your job, even though that's the new message from the white house chief of staff he's addicted to it and believes that's the secret to his success are he is to social media what fdr is to radio. we want the president tweeting because we have real time insight into what he's thinking and any sort of edifice of administration tries to project with scripted speeches and all that falls away when we get the ability to hold the president accountable as citizens and journalists as to what he's thinking about. unfortunately it's on the ephemeral, on the attacks again

. >>> this hour, i'll get reaction to all of this from senator richard blumenthal. a democrat on the judiciary and armed services committees. and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. >>> first let's go to our senior white house correspondent jim accosta. jim, you were there. what an amazing news conference over at trump tower. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. and the president once again is finding himself increasingly isolated tonight after he again appeared to blame both sides for the violence in charlottesville and in a surreal strange, stunning improve two press conference he appeared to sympathize even echo the complaints of white nationalists who were protesting down in charlottesville over the weekend who were complaining that they do not agree with the removal of a statue dedicated to robert e. lee, and that city in virginia, the president making it very clear that not only does he blame the neo-nazis and the white nationalists for the incidents that led to the death of heather heyer over the weekend, he was blaming the counter protesters

it started this morning when he wrote interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal then never in u.s. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like blumenthal. he told about his conquests, how brave he was and it was all a lie. he cries like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. now he judges collusion. more than eight and a half hours later he finished with this. i think senator blumenthal shauld should take a long vacation in vietnam so he could at least say he was tlchlt he served his country in the marine reserving during the war but was not deployed to vietnam. >> there are growing ominous threats, tweets and warnings that we have seen, the world has seen that -- 200 of the trump presidency and what was going on back then. jim comey was still the fbi director. >> what do you make of the north korean leader? >> at a young age he was able to resume power. obviously he is a pretty smart cookie. >> we'll discuss what has been a difficult situation between israel and the palestinians. it is something i think is frankly not as difficult as people have thought of the years

interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talk about post-russian collusion whene was a phony vietnam con artist. blumenthal held a press conference today after all this and after the twitter, said, his obligation to speak truth to power it will not back down on his end. >> they are slurs and i am not going to be distracted or bullied by them. these tweets are part of the kind of intimidation and threats that he has made against the federal council, against anyone who seeks to uncover the truth. >> in another tree, mr. president, your bullying have not worked before and want to now. nobody is above the law. jon? >> jon: and anyone as much as someone wants to stay inside on a deal like this. president trump had said he's headed to new york next week? >> it's a big deal. we have been monitoring his activity, and this will be a first for president trump, and that is one of the first tweets of the day. that's when the first ones we got this one. notes plans to travel to new york what he said would be more meetings. another reminder to the public that he considers this

here is what else he wrote, reigniting a feud with richard blumenthal. he told stories of his battles an conquests and it was all a lie. he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness. how he judges collusion. blumenthal did misrespepresent service. he was in the marine reserves, but the suggestion that he cried is simply untrue. >> let's look over at mike pence, and could the vice president be trying to shorten his title, maybe drop the vice from his name and go for president pence in 2020. >> he insists that is not the case. the vice president in an extraordinary statement that he released, basically said that this whole suggestion was laughable and absurd. he said it is disgraceful and offensive to me. he said he was looking to build a potential shadow campaign of sorts, eyeing a 2020 house bid. this follows reporting that even his own spokesperson does not dispute he made a trip to a big republican event in iowa this year. he is meeting privately at the president's residence with donors and business leaders and more broadly that he set up a leadershi

he also took special aim at senator richard blumenthal. fox news correspondent kevin corke, live now in washington with our report. >> reporter: the twitter takedown came after senator richard blumenthal of connecticut while talking about alleged russian collusion accused of trump administration of politically weaponizing the justice department. he told stories about his victim battles and conquests, how brave he was and it was all a lie. now he judges collusion? blumenthal, who has apologized for lying about service record fired back at president's comments. >> they are slurs, and i'm not going to be distracted or bullied by them, and they simply reinforce, in fact, the need, in my view for special counsel legislation. >> reporter: on "fox news sunday," republican north korea senator thom tillis defended his bill that would let special counsel challenge his firing in court. >> is some of this directed at president trump? >> there's no question that it is because of clearly the date that we've made the bill retroactive to. this is about th

him spending with richard blumenthal. who cares? >> harris: we had radio silence on twitter. she did not get to step on messages on the good things that are happening. i want to talk about no more open-door policy. it really get into the nitty-gritty and pick your brain a little bit on how general kelly and expectations within the white house now. >> there is great relief in the west wing of the white house. order has come. we should not blame kelly's predecessor so much, because it was trump who set him up to fail, because he did not put him in the trust and give him the authority and confidence that he needed to execute the job well. he was set up to fail from jump street. why kelly has to keep the president to his word and what kelly has to keep its order in place is only his reputation, which is considerable. kelly can tell the president, i will serve here as long as i believe the work that we are doing is good for the american people and the people are conducting themselves honorably and correct purposes for the republic. if i find that is not true, then i will go away.

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he insisted he's not losing his base of supporters and went after democratic senator richard blumenthal, someone pushing for legislation that would protect the special counsel in the russia investigation from any kind of political interference. now some had hoped the president's new chief of staff, john kelly, would be able to calm down these twitter can trums. we are told by sources that kelly's top priority is not policing president trump's social media. back to you. >> sara murray. thank you. >>> one other tweet from president trump is causing confusion. take a look. on monday afternoon, the president wrote, "the fake news media will not talk about the importance of the united nations security council's 15-0 vote in favor of sanctions on north korea." the president tweeted that out yesterday at 4:15 in the afternoon. take a look at cnn's reporting exactly two minutes before he hit "send." >> breaking news in our world lead now. north korea is vowing revenge against the united states after the u.n. security council led by u.s. ambassador nikki haley unanimously adopted the toughest sa

democratic senator, richard blumenthal of connecticut is on the judiciary committee and barbara is a former u.s. attorney. a lot to sort through here. let me ask you this, this happened recently. we're finding out about it now document we know if the president knew about this before today? >> that's a great question. we don't know. what we do is that the day of this raid, the president was tweeting his attacks on attorney general jeff sessions, and specifically pointed out that he thought sessions should have gotten rid of the acting fbi director because of his family's connection to the clinton campaign. >> so in terms of manafort now and what we've learned about the raid, it looks like the reporting is pointing to his business activities. a lot of his business activities before he became part of the trump campaign. is there any indication on whether it touches, how it might touch with the role? >> well, it may have touched on the role with the campaign. it is important to remember he was not just an adviser during the period of the summer, during the general election. he was the ca

the white house trying to change the tone but donald trump taking it out on richard blumenthal. what does that do to the legal strategy when the client is going off while they're trying to be more conciliatory in the legal house? >> i think any defense attorney would tell you they would like for their client to just keep his mouth shut. that is the strategy most would suggest to their clients. but donald trump is appealing not just to the legal issues here but is also trying to win in the court of public opinion with his base. and so by undermining efforts to investigate him or anyone who might be his critic, he is trying to shore up his base so that if at some point down the line he could say i told you all along that these people are not to be believed. >> you know, so far there's the conciliatory tone from the attorneys, but what if this request is then denied and the white house fails do it where would we then go from there? >> it is not uncommon as we heard to start a request with you know, an informal request to seat if you can get the documents without fighting it out. if

go beyond brushing with act®. >>> >> rebecca: with senator richard blumenthal. awaiting the president's primetime address to the nation, tonight the president outlining his new plan for the war in afghanistan embracing the role of commandser in chief as his position careens from crisis to crisis. a majority of americans disapprove of the president's response to charlottesville. 56%, you see that. 62% of republicans, 62% of republicans approve of the president's response to charlottesville. you see 62% republicans, much lower number for independents and tiny number for democrats. what does that tell you? >> what it tells me is that republicans may have a different level of sympathy for the president. i am at a loss to explain how anyone could approve of drawing a moral equivalence between neo-nazis, white supremacists, kkk members and the peaceful protesters who were in charlottesville and the lack of moral leadership. but i think very, very importantly there ought to be overwhelming support for stronger law enforcement. and i've advocated -- as a matter of fact,

unable to ignore the russia investigation - the president also took aim at democratic senator richard blumenthalo is calling for bipartisan legislation to protect special counsel robert mueller from political interference. blumenthal "this grand jury investigation also involves the rule of law and fundamentally americans care about the rule of law. so protecting bob mueller through legislation that a group of us on a bipartisan basis offered last week, requiring a three- judge panel if the president threatens to fire bob mueller, i think is very important to protect and safeguard the independence and integrity." after watching that interview on cnn, trump responding, "interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax russian collusion when he was a phony vietnam con artist! never in u.s.history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like senator richard blumenthal. he told stories about his vietnam battles and ...conquests, how brave he was, and it was all a lie. he cried like a baby and begged for forgiveness like a child. now he judges collusion?" trump's jabs - a

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connecticut senator richard blumenthal.good morning. >> reporter: good morning. in one way president trump's vacation is no different than days at the white house campaigning because he does not get enough credit for economic growth, more jobs and a boost in consumer and business confidence. speaking of twitter it was there yesterday the president renewed a long-running feud with a democratic senator after watching him defend special counsel robert mueller. president trump began the day taking out his cable news frustration on twitter. >> this grand jury investigation -- >> reporter: after this tv appearance from democratic senator richard blumenthal. >> if the president threatens to fire robert mueller it's important to protect and safeguard the independence and integrity of the investigation. >> reporter: irritated by the senator's support for legislation that would protect special counsel robert mueller mr. trump tweeted interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax russian collusion w

richard blumenthal has been in his cross hairs from basically the beginning.'s no stopping trump once he decides that you need to be cut down to size from him doing that on his own. those are the kinds of tweets that when you talk to trump aides, they're like, we could probably live without those. but those are the ones that trump thinks are the closest to his personality. >> it is pretty emwhether mable the president that goes after somebody who was in the military. >> what doesn't help is blatant hypocrisy. so he's on vacation for 17 days. twice as long as president obama vacationed in his first year in office. he spent 24% of his first 200 days at a trump golf property or resort. he claims that all this golfing is to cut deals. but we've seen no deals effectively implemented in congress. so you have that hypocrisy, and senator blumenthal should never have misled people, but he took responsibility for that, which the president does not when he misleads people. so you have a draft dodger attacking someone who did serve in the military during vietnam, although

he tweeted quote, interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talk about hoax russian collusion when he was a phony vietnam con artist. the president was referring to 2010 campaign issue regarding blumenthal's military service. blumenthal suggested he served in vietnam. he had not served in vietnam. senator blumenthal responded to the president's tweeting saying this, mr. president, your bullying hasn't worked before and it won't work now. no one is above the law. president trump was not having it. he tweeted out late this afternoon, i think senator blumenthal should take a nice long vacation in vietnam where he lied about his service so he can at least say he was there. nick, you talked a minute ago about the president and republican senators and getting some indication of republican senators wanting to make sure mueller is able to complete his job and the investigation is not stopped in any way. a guy like blumenthal, though, does this have any -- i mean, look, he stood up in response this afternoon but blumenthal was embarrassed by the thing. he was caught saying he

he had not so nice things, and the president goes after richard blumenthal again today. a phoney vietnam con artist. one veteran's organization felt like they had to put out a statement as we have seen a number of people put out statements recently regarding the president defending richard blumenthal saying your bulliyin has not worked before. what's it look like with his relationship with congress, donald trump, the guy who ran on being the ultimate dealmaker. >> trump is trying to sprat himself from congress, even from republican leadership in congress, in the wake of the obama care repeal fiasco. he is trying to present himself as the triangulated president. blumenthal is a democrat and it is different. not encouraging or bullying his own party to get in line, but it's trying to have an enemy or adversary. one thing we have seen donald trump be have good at is positioning himself with a foil. when he didn't have one, he tries to correreate one. that's why hillary clinton keeps coming up in tweets. blumenthal serves that purpose today and tomorrow something else. >> th

interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax russian collusion when he was a phoneny vietnam con artist. senator blumenthal was on cnn this morning talking about the russia investigation and was concerned about the justice department's investigation. in response to the president, the connecticut democrat said this. mr. president, you're bullying hasn't worked before and it won't work now. no one is above the law. >>> american history is in primetime all week with the original landmark cases. tonight the supreme court decision that limited the president's power to seize private property. youngstown sheet and tube company versus sawyer. the result of president trueman taking over steel meals to avoid a strike during the korean war. american history tv primetime begins tonight at 8:00 eastern. >>> tonight on "the communicators," we are at the black hat conference with jeff multon at louisiana state university. >> the hospitals are being hacked almost daily. the federal government and industry space is being hacked. we are not going to eliminate this thre

here is part of the senate debate on his nomination beginning with democrats richard blumenthal. this is a half-hour. >> mr. president i know that later about noon we are likely to proceed to the nomination of christopher wray and i'm proud to support him as i was during the judiciary committee as did every other member of the judiciary committee. i think quite simply he is a professional as non-politically associated as anyone can be going into the position and like the fbi itself known for his independence and integrity. there are two qualities needed in the fbi and its director and that his independence and integrity. the fbi is one of the world's most important law enforcementa, agencies and certainly one of the most important in this country. the fbi director doesn't serve at the pleasure of the president alone. he has a 10 year term and the fbi director does not serve the he served the constitution and the people of the united states. he must be independent ofre political interference and his integrity or hers must beve unquestioned. the fbi deserves a leader with the integ

. >> almost exactly ten minutes later the president tweeted interesting to watch senator richard blumenthal of connecticut talking about hoax russian collusion when he was a phony vietnam con artist. never in u.s. history has anyone lied or defrauded voters like senator blumenthal. he told stories about vietnam battles and conquests and it was all a lie. he cried like a baby and and begged forforgiveness. and now he judges collusion? he did serve in the marine reserves during the vietnam era after taking several military deferments but never saw combat. we should note the president received multiple deferments but did not serve in the military despite coming of age during vietnam years. the president took one more shot at blumenthal. i think senator blumenthal should take a nice long vacation in vietnam so least he can say he was there. your response to the president's tweets? >> there is an ongoing special council investigation. it is real. it is based on real facts.scil i that's the issue that matters and that's where our focus and national security and rule of law are at risk. and those

joining us, democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut.ator, will these transcripts be made public? >> i believe they will be. i certainly will vote for them to be made public. glen simpson should testify in the committee in the open, under oath, and so should the others as well, donald trump jr. and the person -- anyone involved in that meeting in early june that involved apparently jared kushner and others. >> remind us why glen simpson is significant to the investigation here. >> because he compiled a dossier that implicated donald trump in the russian meddling and other potential wrong doing but also he is apparently a close associate of those who attended, includi includi including paul manafort. we want to make sure whether it's the release of the transcript or anything else we in no way conflict with the special counsel's role. he should be protected by legislation that i've offered and others, that's bipartisan. >> was he a compelling witness? did he become more interesting to you after ten hours of testimony? >> every witness is g

monday his messages carrying a much angrier tone repeatedly lashing out at democratic senator richard blumenthalo once insinuated he served in the vietnam war. >> i am not going to going to be distracted or bullied. >> reporter: president trump blasted what he called fake news and phony poll numbers saying his base is stronger than ever. the most recent cnn poll, however, putting donald trump's approval rating at just 59 percent among republicans. emily rau,abc news, washington. >> the phillies start a two game series with the braves in atlanta tonight and they'll carry heavy hearts as this is the first game since the announcement of all-star catcher darren daulton. millville new jersey's own mike trout celebrated his 25th birthday with his 1,000th career hit. happened during yesterday's angels-orioles game. trout's teammates showered him with interesting birthday gifts after the game. you'll see eggs, baby powder, coffee creamer, cereal and whatever else was in the trash can. happy birthday mike trout. >>> okay. well, a south jersey baseball team took flight this morning bound for arkansas. it'

tweets today he blasted the fake news media and the failing "new york times" and invited senator richard blumenthalcation in vietnam where he lied about his military service so he can at least say he was there." while mr. trump was true to form, russia's president was bearing his, vacationing in siberia vladimir putin gave photographers quite a show, swimming in a chilly lake, shirtless fishing, looks like he caught himself a big one for dinner. in russia, being on putin's good side has its rewards, and bad things tend to happen to his opponents, including alexander navalny, one of putin's sharpest opponents. >> what do you think the probability is you will end up in prison? >> mr. putin personally decides such things, and no one understands what's in his head. >> reporter: what do you think the chances are you'll end up dead? >> 50%. i will be killed or i will not be killed. >> reporter: the full report will air on cbsn on assignment tonight at 10:00, 9:00 central here on cbs. up next, wanted: guardian of the universe, no superhero experience necessary. iverse, no superhero experience necessary. y

richard blumenthal: "that investigation must be pursued."record in a series of tweets throughout the day. sen. richard blumenthal:"i have no idea about what is in his mind. i will not be distracted by this bullying." the president also going after the new york times -- after they published a story about vice president pence positioning himself for a possible run in 2020 - if trump bows out.trump also áfalselyá accusing the media of not covering u-n sanctions on north korea.after cnn covered the story áextensivelyá all weekend... the president's tweet came at the ásame timeá jake tapper was reporting on the story. (mark) that was joe johns reporting. the president is commenting on the north korean sanctions again this morning. he took to twitter to say "after many years of failure, countries are coming together to finally address the dangers posed by north korea.we must be tough and decisive." (darya) police in britain are searching for a jogger who pushed a woman into the path of an oncoming bus. and the incident was all caught on camera. it