they want cheaper health care and they don't message on that. >> alex, robert wolfe. how are you? >> i agree with you on the idea that there's a good chance to thread the needle here. it seems to be there or three buckets of naysayers. you have something like nevada was just a struggle for him but this upcoming election and 18. then you have the other bucket of conservatives who want government out of the way. and then you have the other bucket but the moderate they care about planned parenthood, opioid abuse and medicaid going on whether it's important to murkowski and so on. it seems to me as you change one, let's just say it's easy to align with conservatives because that's what the house is. it makes it very difficult in my opinion how they hold the moderate together. how do you see that kind of, you know, negotiating not? >> so, the real gift to mitch mcconnell has is the cbo score gave him about $200 billion that saving about the house bill. that is really money he can play with under the reconciliation rules. what is going to happen over the next week and i'm sure they were

david: for more on today's selloff and partial comeback, 32 advisors, fox news contributor, robert wolf and heather from sunamerica funds. heather, 257 was low. ended 17. that is not good news, it came back when mr. mnuchin, our treasury secretary, came at presser at white house started talking about tax cuts again. did he soothe the market. was he responsible for a partialcom back? >> it appears that way based on the chart. you see there was buying action after he spoke. markets definitely want to see that. initially this morning we were worried health care is not going to get passed, not only before the july 4th recess but also the august recess and then when mnuchin comes out says tax reform will be done before the end of the year, that reassures the markets something is going to happen. we like that. david: robert, we're focusing on the dow but it was really the nasdaq had a huge move, down over 1 1/2% at the worst point. were tech stocks responsible for bringing the dow down? was it central banks, was it the health care bill, what is your best guess? >> david, nicole and heather we

dagen: we have robert wolf on the phone, he's a fox news con tribe outer. guest in mornings with maria, ran ubs back in the day. robert, what do you make of this? >> well, listen, as you know, i've worked with jeff for over a decade and spent four or five years with him on president obama's advisory council. listen, just a thought leader, he had to go through incredible thought decade of transforming ge away from ge capitol and back as your prior guests have cited. i just tuned in but as prior guests mentioned into really the three-core business, industrial, health care and i think that during that transformation he took the company from, you know, where they were losing billions of dollars to now an incredible well-capitalized company and i think like all ceo's sometimes it's time to pass the torch. you take the company to these transformations and based on what i read about flannery it seems like he's absolutely the right guy and so i think it seems like it's going to be a very smooth transition. with respect to nelson and ed gardner and them, listen, they

david: for more on federal reserve decision, today's market panel, robert wolf, 32 advisors ceo, former president obama economic advisor, fox news contributor. danielle dimartino booth, former advisor to the dallas fed and john layfield, layfield report ceo. i want to bring up what happened earlier inside the beltway, just outside of the beltway, the shooting. again the markets seemed to rise above any kind of political emergency or disaster whatever it happens to be. is it ever going to affect the market? >> well, you know, unfortunately smart gun reform isn't happening fast enough in this country but away from that it zooms like -- david: two points specifically, how come the market is not reacting to any of these political the quakes? >> because i think at end of the day political earthquakes come and go, as long as not something geopolitical, would be more clarifying moment, like something with north korea or something with a war. when it comes domestically the truth is the markets are big are than what is happening in these locations domestically. david: danielle, you've been on th

he basically works with companies and usually, bob will, bob will i guess -- neil: robert wolf by the2 advisors, ceo, former ubs bigwig. >> what he usually does he makes sort of concerted, intelligent arguments about corporate ceos and how they're acting and how they're not working with shareholders. immelt gave him a lot of rope. more than just long-term problems with ge stock but recent stuff. immelt failed to make cost cut projections. you know -- and these were easy to do. i mean that is what really got peltz annoyed. jeff immelt is great guy. i know him. i used to work for him when he anomaly ran ge was owned by cnbc. neil: you didn't work. you worked for him. >> the people who ran cnbc. neil: they were your boss. >> i being shook his hand a few times. he was a decent, guy. but bottom line if you can't do easy stuff in this environment and your stock has never been, it has been a a laggard as it has been some investor will take you out in a new york minute. neil: what would you say. >> charlie hit it right. you hit it right 15 to 20 years ago. look at that, sitting with you guys.

>> we've been growing since june of 2014 when i founded the company with robert wolf.employees now, office ins d.c., los angeles. it's a growing business and i think as the president said yesterday, it's about hiring more pilots for us, and actually making sure the pilots are vets. stuart: but you want regulations, don't you? i mean, it's kind of a loose area at the moment. if you're going to really expand, you want to know the rules going in, is that your position? >> yes. i think that as a company, we always have a safe legal and insured standard training our pilots to be the best they can be and be professional when they're out there. we often time exceed f.a.a. regulations. we're looking to do things beyond visual line of sight operations which we can't currently do. stuart: after the meeting in the white house, do you think are' going to get that flexibility from this president? >> i was very impressed, the president was there, the vice-president was there, the secretary of commerce and deputy secretary of transportation was also there and spent hours talking to p

probe and could that clear the way for the president to make a move against special counsel robert muler? >> well, wolf, rod rosenstein sunday pressure from all side as the special counsel weighs to look into the obstruction of justice. questions are being raised about whether the deputy attorney general should recuse himself from the investigation and renewing concerns that trump might get rid of rosenstein, the only man who can currently get rid of mueller. the deputy attorney general could be the next department of justice official to recuse himself from overseeing the special counsel's russia investigation which rod rosenstein himself set in motion by hiring robert mueller to lead the probe. >> director muleler have a full degree of independence that he needs to condition duct that investigation appropriate lip. >> reporter: rosenstein's role is under scrutiny now that it appears mueller's probe may have broadened to investigate obstruction of justice which could include the president's firing of fbi director james comey. rosenstein played a role in that decision. his memo is critical of comey was

>> wolf, special counsel robert mueller is considering launching a full-scale investigation into whether president trump obstructed justice. and cnn has learned that investigators will soon talk to key intelligence officials. it's the clearest sign yet that mueller's probe into russian interference in the u.s. election is expanding. tonight, the president of the united states under investigation for possible obstruction of justice. according to the "washington post," special counsel robert mueller is looking into whether trump asked the fbi director, james comey, to drop the investigation into fired national security adviser, michael flynn, before firing comey. trump admitted to nbc news that the fbi investigation into his campaign's ties to russia was a factor in the termination. >> in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made-up story. >> reporter: but ken starr, former special counsel, whose investigation of president clinton ultimately led to his impeachment says it's a tough case to make. >> obstruction

wolf. >> all right. so, cnn has learned the special counsel robert mueller -- of your house intelligence committee, i believe right now. what can you tell us about that? >> yeah, wolf, i can't go into any specifics on when meetings are occurring. i can tell you that we want to make sure that the fbi through the special counsel cooperation is able to make progress again on this investigation. we want to -- if there are resources that they need to conduct this investigation that they can do so. we want to have an understanding of what the time line is. we don't want to interfere in any way. we want to make sure they are able to report back to the american people whether any u.s. persons worked with russia or whether that did not occur. >> he's involved in -- mueller -- in a criminal investigation. you guys are looking at oversight in the house and senate. the ranking member of your intelligence committee, democrat adam schiff, he wants your committee to look into possible obstruction of justice. has your committee come to a final agreement with special counsel robert mueller on this? are you going to pursue th

still, are you concerned at all that robert mueller could be fired? >> i am very concerned, wolf.'t know whether the president is indeed considering that. but i know what he can do. he can put this rumor to bed right away. instead just like with the issue of the tapes or the issue of president obama allegedly wire tapping trump tower, he just lets this fester and what it does is create chaos and that events us here in washington from doing the real work we're supposed to do. he control this chaos and he allow its to persist. >> do you know if in fact those conversation comey had with the president were recorded? >> wolf, we don't. we're seeking them on the intelligence committee, but i also want to spput into expect,t was put out there that the president may have taped james comey conversations. in spite of that james comey still came forward knowing that if he lied under oath he could risk himself going to jail. i think that shows us that his testimony should be viewed with high believe ability knowing that he took that risk, that he mayor may not have been taped in the past. >>

robert mueller. >> investigating president trump for possible obstruction of justice. more on that coming up. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." our breaking news coverage begins right now with "out front" with erin burnett. >> "out front" next. breaking news. new details on the gunman who opened fire with a semi automatic. what we're learning about him tonight. more breaking news at this hour. the washington post with a stunning report. saying president trump is now under investigation, why special counsel robert mueller for possible obstruction of justice. this is a major turning point in the russia investigation. we have all those breaking headlines. let's go "out front." good evening, i'm erin burnett. "out front" this evening, the breaking news, steve scalise is in critical condition tonight after fire was opened on softball practice. the first shots ringing out at about 7:00 this morning. the heavily armed shooter crouching behind the third base dugout. several officers on the scene fired back. the gunman later died from his injuries. cell phone video recorded the chaotic scene. [ gunfire

message if he's talking about the special counsellor robert mueller or some of the investigators that have been criticized by some republicans there. wolf, clearly showing his frustration with this widening investigation here and many people inside the building here and many republicans on capitol hill simply wish the president would stop weighing in on all of this and wish they would wall this off and talk about issues but he's simply not following this instruction. we are learning that the vice president has retained his own lawyer as well. his personal lawyer here to deal with this special counsel investigation and the congressional committee's. he's hired richard cohen, a former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia in the george h.w. bush era. we got a statement from the vice president's communication director. the vice president is focused entirely on his duties in promoting the president's agenda and looks forward to a swift conclusion of this matter. unlikely that this will be swift at all, because the vice president of course also has many links to this russian investigation particularly if you'll remember because

robert mueller. >> investigating president trump for possible obstruction of justice. more on that coming up. i'm wolfr in "the situation room." our breaking news coverage begins right now with "out front" with erin burnett. >> "out front" next. breaking news. new details on the gunman who opened fire with a semi automatic. what we're learning about him tonight. more breaking news at this hour. the washington post with a stunning report. saying president trump is now under investigation, why special counsel robert mueller for possible obstruction of justice. this is a major turning point in the russia investigation. we have all those breaking headlines. let's go "out front." good evening, i'm erin burnett.

wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> happening now, breaking news. no intention. the president again criticizes special counsel robert mueller saying, we're going to have to see, when asked about mueller's future. but the white house press secretary said the president has no intention of firing mueller. are they on the same page? >>> on putin's orders, an explosive new report says the cia provided president obama with direct evidence that russia's vladimir putin personally ordered the campaign to influence the u.s. election in favor of donald trump. >>> to tell the truth. president trump now admits his 41-day scharade about secret white house tapes was to influence jim comey to tell the truth in testimony. but did the president's deception backfire? >>> and dennis' diplomacy. hall of famer dennis rodman says the president should follow his example and go meet with kim jong-un. rodney did not see the dictator on this trip but in the past they rode horses and sang ca karioke. >>> breaking news, the white house says the president has no intention of firing special counsel robert mueller even though the president is once

wolf? the president interjected, interfered end tried to disrupt and nfor the special counsel robert mueller to conduct his without interference from the white house. too early to say anyone is vindicated. >> well the president feels vindicated on three different occasions and said it in his testimony that president is not under investigation in the russia probe. let me get that reaction to the other disturbing element that former fbi director said the president asked him to let go of the michael flynn investigation. >> wolf, i miss being a prosecutor in the courtroom so i will leave it to them to decide. it is obstructive and looks like an abuse of power for the president to ask the fbi director to let his friend campaign adviser and national campaign adviser to be let off the hook. that's criminal probe. that hopefully is under way. our job on the intelligence commit is to understand what the russians did. who if anyone in the united states they worked with and to make sure that this never ever happened again. this mess has preventedness washington to do the work we were sent here to do. w

roberts: you can finish that sentence. mr. goldberg: i'll just say this -- this case, this wolf comes as a wolf. this is core-protected speech. there is nothing about it that implicates the government's purpose. and the fact that he was convicted for a felony is why this law is unconstitutional. thank you, your honor. chief justice roberts: thank you, counsel. the case is submitted. c-span,r: recently on the new orleans mayor on the removal of a robert e lee statue. >> why we were taking them down in but we could do to recover from the age-old battles that have divided us for so long. orleans rolef new in that dark. of our history we were one of the countries largest slave markets. i and other people in this city had a special responsibility to help our nation continue to move through racial discord. an actress at a conference on ending sexual violence. likeu hear words dehumanizing, lives derailed. people sitting on a shelf, these are people lives sitting on a shelf getting derailed. children getting derailed of what this life is supposed to be. they can't even make sense of what has happened.

roberts: you can finish that sentence. mr. goldberg: i'll just say this -- this case, this wolf comes as a wolf. this is core-protected speech. there is nothing about it that implicates the government's purpose. and the fact that he was convicted for a felony is why this law is unconstitutional. thank you, your honor. chief justice roberts: thank you, counsel. the case is submitted. the court heard 64 cases this term. they covered issues from immigration and citizenship to congressional duties for -- redistricting and the racial bias of juries. c-span covered all arguments in many of these court cases, and you can find them, interviews with justices, and our landmark cases series on our website, www.c-span.org. click on the supreme court link at the top of the page. tonight on afterwards, financial expert rachel snyder and johnson more to detail how low to moderate income families manage money in their book "the financial diaries." >> the risk of small decisions going badly is so much higher for people at the bottom. poorhier people make decisions all the time. i have made some in the last year,

wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> happening now, breaking news. no intention. the president again criticizes special counsel roberte going to have to see, when asked about mueller's future. but the white house press secretary said the president has no intention of firing mueller. are they on the same page? >>> on putin's orders, an explosive new report says the cia provided president obama with direct evidence that russia's vladimir putin personally ordered the campaign to influence the u.s. election in favor of donald trump. >>> to tell the truth. president trump now admits his

wolf. >> do you believe the president will in fact make a statement under oath to special counsel robert mueller? >> i would hope so. he has offered it. but this president seems to have a problem with the truth. he doesn't seem to follow up with anything he said he will do. the first thing we should go to is whether there are tapes. if there are tapes it is his duty to turn them over since he basically brought them into the conversation and called out the former fbi director who under oath said that he felt pressured by the president to drop the flynn investigation. >> the president also said today as you know, congressman, some of what the former fbi director said wasn't true. but other stuff he said vindicates him. how can he play out those accounts if they are under oath. in other words, he accepts some of what comey says but says comey is lying on other matters. >> look, i think president trump right now is acting quite delusional. he wants to have it both ways when it comes to the conversation he had with fbi director comey. but at the end of the day the best way to really clear thi

staff to special counsel roberts mueller who is investigating possible collusion between trump associates and russia is in talks to possibly join president trump's legal team. wolf>> interesting. pamela brown, thanks very much. we're back with john podesta that was the chair for hillary for america presidential campaign. up testified before the house intelligence committee earlier this week. what did they want to know from you particularly? because we all know all of your personal e-mails were hacked by the russians and then released through wikileaks? >> the house intelligence committee sort of got itself back on track after the incident with devin nunes who is kind of conspiring with the white house and had to recuse himself. so there's a bipartisan investigation. they're looking at the incidents of hacking. how did the fbi respond to that. what occurred, how much damage it did. most importantly i think, what can we do about it? how are we going to deter future incidents? they asked me not to get into the specific answers and questions that they asked, i told them that i would respect that. but broadly, there were members from both sides of the aisle. they ask

wolf, opposes this bill. >> also new jersey elementary school teacher is facing charges accused of assaulting a student inapropriately. forty-five year old robert allegedly inapropriately touched a nine year old girl. the incident reported back in may, arrested friday, charged with two count of sexual assault, one endangering the welfare after child, he has been working in the trenton public schools since 1997. >> cell phone video catches officers in millville punching a man. now the police chief tells fox 29 this video shows only what h. the man on the ground in the yellow shirt is 34 year old barry koffman. police they saw him squalking near north fifth and muscle bury stress, they say he was uncooperative, combative, physically pushing them. after struggle officers managed facing numerous charges, including aggravated assault, on police, and resisting arrest. the cumberland county prosecutor's offers is reviewing that tape. and we'll learn more in the coming days. >> police want to find a gunman who murdered a man last night, happened just before 7:30, at sixth and montgomery in north the victim who is 31 years old, in the head, in the back,

wolf, thanks very much. there has been a liberal amount of watergate comparisons out there. richard, this idea that senator lindsey graham floated that robertthink there is a case for obstruction of justice against the president if he's letting jim comey go out and talk about these publically, do you agree with that? >> i think mr. comey's piece of this is a part of investigation. but it is by far only an early piece that sets the tone. i think it is very important that mr. comey says that he got the impression on february 14 in this private meeting with the president that the president was asking him to drop the investigation of michael flynn involving lying to the fbi during flynn's interview with the fbi. that would be a crime under title 18, section 1,001, lying to the fbi. further, i find it interesting, if my calculation is correct, that the first private dinner that occurred on the 27th, i believe, of january, where comey was surprised that he was the only guest invited to have dinner occurs only one day after sally yates, the since fired deputy attorney general went over to meet with counsel john mcbegan, who explained that she was

robert mueller is an honorable man, and hopefully he'll come up with an honorable solution. >> all right. i want your reaction. specifically says the whole thing is ridiculous? >> it's not ridiculous, wolf. it's a serious inquiry. one that he has continuously tried to disrupt, whether it's the congressional investigations or james comey's investigation. we need him to get out of the way. he needs to be president, and lead this country. we should all root for his success in doing that, and play our role to use the subpoena power in congress, thoughtfully and aggressively to get to the bottom of what happened and report back to the american people. >> had the comey memos of his conversations with the president been turned over to the house intelligence committee, today's the deadline for that? also, the deadline for an official white house letter. not a presidential tweet. an official white house letter about the tapes or the recordings that may or may not have been made. you have received both of those so far, and i assume you want them by the end of the, the close of business today? >> yes. there's still time today and i can report back to you, wolf, when that closes, but i will say thi

wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world, thafrpnks ver much for joining us. sources tell cnn that the special counsel roberts looking at possibly x expanding his investigation and "the washington post" reports that mueller is already looking into the issue of obstruction of justice by president trump. cnn has not independently confirmed that part of the story, but we do know that investigators are interviewing top intelligence officials as we speak. either way, the president is reacting to the news with a tweet saying, quote, they made

wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world, thafrpnks ver much for joining us. sources tell cnn that the special counsel robert mueller's office is looking at possibly x expanding his investigation and "the washington post" reports that mueller is already looking into the issue of obstruction of justice by president trump. cnn has not independently confirmed that part of the story, but we do know that investigators are interviewing top intelligence officials as we speak. either way, the president is reacting to the news with a tweet saying, quote, they made up a phoney collusion with the russian story. found zero proof. so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phoney story. nice. it's possible we'll hear more from the white house during an off camera briefing from the deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders later this hour. we will of course monitor that. our other top story right now, a change of tone up on capitol hill. in the wake of the shooting at a congressional baseball practice. the majority whip steve scalise is in critical condition and undergoing a third surgical procedure.

robert mule every, the special counsel. they have made clear that jim comby is going to stay away from those issues specifically, but when it comes to the meetings with president trump, those will be addressed. wolf. >> not just comey's testimony on thursday, there could also be some serious fireworks tomorrow, right? >> reporter: exactly right. same committee, same issues, different witnesses. tomorrow the senate intelligence committee will be having a hearing on fisa, the foreign surveillance act, keep in mind who is testifying, rod rosenstein whose memo was cited by several white house officials for the rationale for firing jim comey, his first testimony in a public forum. it's likely he'll do what he's done behind the scenes on capitol hill, pretty much defer any questions to bob mueller, but also testifying will be dan coates, the director of national intelligence, also the director of the nsa michael rogers. keep in mind, wolf, these are two individuals who were approached by president trump and asked to publicly deny any allegations of collusion. they haven't commented publicly about that, but in talking to senate democratic aides and democratic senators throughout the course of the day, t

wolf, i know we're going to talk about it a little bit more, rot rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, he said, you know, he was asked specifically whether or not he promised independence to robertueller, and he didn't really want to answer that question. that's an important part of this equation here because when mueller finishes his investigation, it goes to rosenstein and he has to decide whether it will be referred to congress. >> i want to go to our cnn reporter ryan nobles. today's confrontation before that senate intelligence committee. it was very, very contentious. ryan, update our viewers. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. both republican and democratic senators were pushing these intelligence officials to get them to give an answer to one very specific question, but they never got what they were looking for. the nation's top intelligence officials today refusing to provide details of their conversations with the president. >> i do not feel it's appropriate for me to in a public session in which confidential conversations between the president and the myself, i don't believe it's appropriate for me to address that in a public session. >> not answering a barrage of quest

wolf? >> rod rosenstein testified at another hearing before the senate saying he sees no good reason to fire the special counsel in the russia investigation robert mueller, a move the president has said to be considering. today, president trump is traveling to milwaukee. jeff zeleny is traveling with the president. how closely is the president watching this hearing? >> reporter: wolf, the white house is watching this incredibly closely. the president is flying here to wisconsin. he left the white house just a few moments ago. you can bet those televisions on air force one will be watching this hearing. and so interesting on so many levels. there's no republican who is a bigger supporting than jeff sessions. he drew the ire of the president when he recused himself from the russia investigation. he will be watching with great interest because this has been a discord between the president and sessions. the president is coming here to wisconsin to talk about jobs and he's traveling with ivanka trump as well talking about apprenticeships. wisconsin is one of the states that the president won, the first republican to win since 1985. all of that, wolf,

wolf. the f.b.i. knew he was. local law enforcement knew who he was. ich brings me to the point i wanted to discuss tonight. robert mueller is the special prosecutor who now needs to resign. he was the f.b.i. director that had the f.b.i. training materials purged so f.b.i. agents could not know what they were looking for in a radical islamist. he changed the training, he purged it to please the council of american islamic relations. and as one intelligence officer said, we blinded ourselves to the ability to see our enemy. and that's what f.b.i. director bob mueller did. and when challenged in a hearing where i was questioning him over the pitiful investigation of the tsarnaev older brother after russia had notified us twice in the united states of his radicalization, after the second time finally ho-hum mueller's f.b.i., not being adequately trained to recognize what a radical islamist believes, how they act, what they do, what they're studying, what they're memorizing, what they wear, what their personal appearance is, they're not trained to recognize -- they didn't know what they were looking for. they'd go out

melissa: i'm joined by robert wolf, 32 advisors ceo, former economic advisor to president obama and a fox news contributor. we also have liz peak, columnist with the "fiscal times." thanks to you both joining us. robert, let me start with you. i was shocked put so plainly, i guess it hadn't occurred we're using a radar system opposed to track aircraft as opposed to satellite gps. president trump said we can't buy supplies to fix the system because it is so out of date. that is pretty shocking. >> no question it is time for upgrade. time for a decade. there has been debates all sides when we get next generation gdp? as you said, the idea, melissa, moving from radar and voice to satellite and digital. the time has come. i think there will be real debate whether privatizing is the best way to go forward or not. but certainly if it is the only way to move forward, as long as we keep safety standards we got to move forward. melissa: liz, we talk about the privatizing piece. on one hand seems government in charge of it using their dollars gotten us place where we are, we haven't upgraded. w