and will be interesting to see of the debts continues for the next three years because i think roger trump will figure out and ankle to break out of all this in a way that will be historic. >> using people have learned from the campaign? >> look at the whole russian fantasy. what happened election night was the democrats said hillary can't have lost. certainly donald trump can't have one, so somebody cheated. putin cheated. do you realize that this is all putin's fault? that means a must of inclusion. do you realize they must have included? for the lots six but anyway and walked around chanting watch for the russian connection, look for the pollution. turns out even diane feinstein the ranking democrat on the intelligence committee says there is zero evidence of collusion. the newest one is but there was obstruction of justice over the collusion. so the fantasies that didn't occur is now being replaced by,, technically president of united states cannot obstruct justice. president addressed this is a chief executive of the united states. if you wants to fire the fbi director all he has to d

on the news tonight former trump advisor roger stone blasts congress and special counsel robert muller after testifying in front of the house intelligence committee today and the senate republicans failed for a third time to pass a health care bill and get rid of obamacare obamacare is here to stay for now and the kurds in iraq declare victory in their independence referendum as baghdad and its neighbors react furiously. reporting tonight from washington d.c. this is the news on r.t. america. good evening friends we start tonight with former trump adviser roger stone who took to the hill today and stood in testified in front of the house intelligence committee stone refused to hold his tongue after words on the issue of investigating russian meddling and collusion. after testimony it was a no holds barred take from roger stone flat out questioning the process they make the charges against you the public forum for maximum coverage to benefit their u.s. senate campaign for their reelection but then they only allowed you to respond keychain closed doors and they won't even allow the relea

we're hearing now that there are several figures from the trump campaign that will be tefing before intelligence committees, one of them rogeron trump jr. testifying before behind closed doors not too long gong and roger stone even though he wants it to be open to the public, how do you think this plays into public perception, the fact more and more hearings are going on without cameras in the room? >> i think we're entering a new phase in both congressional investigations where after the summer break where a lot of these companies will be finally hearing from a lot of these key figures, you mentioned roger stone, donald trump jr. and donald cohn. these are the key witnesses and this is the key face where we can find out the truth behind some of this. there's a value to testifying in private because there are things involved in these discussions that can't be aired publicly and deal with classified matters and also a value because there should be transparency and public should know what the defenses are and explanations are from these key figures. i would encourage them to do both. i know a lot of panel members on both sides

. >> roger stone and advisor to president trump visited capitol rnll to give swo testimony and to the role russia played in the presidential election. according to politico, he brought the atricure kyle cheney writes, roger stone finally came face-to-face with the top democratic investigator. and, we hear from mr. cohen -- mr. stone and congressman schiff. >> here we go. >> good afternoon. my name is grant smith. i am an attorney for roger stone. and ouris my cocounsel client, roger stone. we started at about 9:40 this morning and went to about 12:30 this afternoon. we took one break. members of the committee took their turns asking all the questions they had, and we answered all their questions. roger testified truthfully, honestly, and without hesitation. we spent a lot of time preparing for this. i do not believe the committee asked us in a questions that we were not prepared for. they are things you have widely reported in the past. they are things that would have been expected in this investigation. the committee is doing their job i believe clearly. everybody wants to get to the

long-time trump associate roger stone and former trump staff member boris epshteyn will be interviewedhouse intelligent side. then officials from twitter will be answering questions, too. but this morning it's another social media giant facebook making all the headlines after "the washington post" reported former president obama tried to give mark zuckerberg, the ceo, a wake-up call over fake news on facebook before the inauguration. i'm joined now by one of the writers of the article, "washington post" national technology reporter craig timberg. and politico's anna palmer and darlene superville. take us inside the private meeting between president obama and mark zuckerberg. what happened? >> well, it's been clear for some time that facebook was caught off guard by what happened. and we learned that this reinforces that. nine days after mark zuckerberg famously referred to the idea of fake news as a crazy idea, president obama pulled him aside at a conference in lima, peru, they both happened to be at and said, you need to understand, this is serious. we need you to take it seriously.

those are the ones that donated a million dollars to donald trump. >> and roger goodell works for them and at their pleasure. the fact that he did this speaks volume of what a disaster pr move this was for donald trump. the goodness of the nfl's leadership going right at trump on those issues. the goodness of these people and including kaepernick who's reaching a million dollars that he made to charity. consider that, too. this man is giving a million dollars to charity. >> a lot of twitter backlash have been against what the president has said or his comments. but, i am seeing a lot of people on twitter and viewers who are saying we agree with the president's comments. >> polls indicated that people should not be kneeling during the national anthem. the president may have a majority report in that view. why did he take a baseball bat and swinging at this nest that's issues of racism and patriotism. what kaepernick was doing a year ago was trying to speak to systematic and in justice and racism in the country. the president in front of a white crowd in alabama bringing up the nfl and t

i'll tell you how we nie we were going to bin, roger ailes calls, trump is going to win by 10 points -- >> rose: roger says, are you going to lose? >> he says, can you come to palm beach or his house the weekend after the thing? i said what are you talking about? he says this trump tv thing, do we have alternatives, and i'm prepared walk away from my noncompete if we can put something together. roger ailes was my mentor and i said what are you talking about? he said we'll be putting a government together. >> rose: he wand to talk about the future after donald trump lost and build a new media empire? >> yes. >> rose: right? yes. >> rose: against fox. absolutely against fox. >> rose: that's what he wanted to do. >> absolutely. he had one more round in the barrel. no doubt. roger ailes was incredibly aggressive about thinking about the future even when he died. he was planning on -- >> rose: what did he contribute to the campaign? >> he had come and just given us someys on the debate prep. he came and gave us all the stuff -- i think he prepped bush xli. >> rose: his immediate advisor. >

this man used a blowtorch emblazoned with a trump sticker. aaron rogersinked arms, as most teams did last sund protesting social injustice. >> this is about unity and love and growing together as society. >> reporter: president trump poured fuel on a fire many say he started with new comments about team owners. >> they say we are in a situation where we have to do something. i think they're afraid of their players. >> reporter: backlash on social media was swift, some calling him racist. if he thinks the nfl is some antebellum plantation, he is sadly mistaken. football is about the players. one tennessee businessman says he is pulling advertising from nfl games in 30 markets. >>> and one more note, take a look. devontae adams here, caught a pass in the third and knocked unconscious by a hit to the head from the bears' danny trevathan. his mouthpiece flew out of his u that's good news. you can expect the league will have something to say about that hit sometime this week. >>> three former presidents managed to put differences aside at professional golf's p

been in in the last 60 years. >> i know you're well aware, former campaign adviser for donald trump, roger stone s testifying before the intel committee on tuesday. what are the top three questions you want to ask him. >> we don't confirm witnesses coming in, but roger stone is a person of monumental interest for us because he was an adviser to the president. he has remained in contact with the president and he is somebody who was quite active on social need yeah during that intense summer of 2016. he told the world that john podesta was about to spend time in the barrel, which was unusual because he had never been tweeting about john podesta. at that point in 2016, no one had any idea that just two months later john podesta's e-mails would be leaked. we learned roger stone was in contact with the russian hacker. >> despite you not confirming what we believe to be true with your committee on tuesday, we do know roger stone said he wanted to testify in open hearings. if this, indeed s happening on tuesday, it's a closed hearing. why the difference? why would one be more beneficial than the

morning we start on capitol hill where the house intelligence committee is grilling former trump adviser roger stone. he is appearing at a closed session of the committee. just the latest in the ongoing russia saga involving the trump campaign. >> what's the message you want to send in this meeting today? >> the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. >> roger stone, of course, is a long time trump associate. he worked for president nixon's 1968 campaign and was fired from trump's campaign in august 2015. he's admitted hacks with guccifer 2.0 and julian assange. he has taken aim at ranking member adam schiff and swalwell at times. straight up vulgar attacks on his old boss' favorite medium, twitter. >> meanwhile, new reporting in "the washington post" begins to uncover the depths of russian entanglement with the u.s. electora electorate. saying that operatives used ads on the social media hub to exploit america's racial and religious divisions. people familiar with the covert campaign say ads like black lives matter with some promoting the group and others suggesting they pose a rad

to discuss right now, former deputy labor secretary under president obama chris liu and steve rogers a trumppaign advisernd and now a member of president trump's election board. first to you, bill cassidy was on last week and told me that the white house is on board. you said he had gotten assurances from the vice president and the president was on board. but it is as phil just laid out really well, it's not a repeal or a replace. it's not a repeal and replace of obamacare. can you count it as a victory then if it's not? >> there's no question it's a victory. look, the president made a promise to the american people, you asked the question before what's changed. what's changed the senate and congressional representatives realize we have a president who is going to get the job done. he's a chief negotiator, good negotiator, he said he know house to make deals and he has come to a point in time -- >> he hasn't been able to on health care. it's been one big no deal for the president this whole time. >> watch and see what happens. they're willing to make a deal. they realize they have to do smpg

that was president trump's long-time confidant roger stone today denying trump campaign collusion with russia during the 2016 election. stone was called to testify before the house intelligence committee today. they're looking into any knowledge stone had of hacking clinton campaign or dnc e-mails. stone denied any russian connections calling the whole thing a political exercise. nbc news learned today special counsel robert mueller is ready to start interviewing current and former members of trump's inner circle. this will get the attention of a lot of people. the conversations could start this week. the daily beast reports the former white house press secretary sean spicer is the latest trump associate to hire an attorney. among the others who have lawyered up, mike pence, donald june, where are jared kushner and hope hicks. they're expected to be on mueller's list. just where the special counsel investigation might lead is the subject, as you may be aware of intense speculation. but senator richard blumenthal, the democrat, told the "politico" that indictments are all but inevitable

washington post" unless something changed since last i read it -- where it says donald trump resists being handled says roger stone, a former trump adviser and long-term confidante, no one tells him who to see what he can say. general kelly is trying to treat him like a mushroom, keeping him in the dark and feeding him expletive. >> we're seeing the generals around the president, general mattis at the pentagon, trying -- and of course general mcmaster, foreign policy adviser. that includes russia. they adopt more of the traditional foreign policy view in the republican party and even in the democratic party when it comes to the hawkish position towards russia. you see in this administration a balancing of that traditional hawkish view with the instincts of the president and perhaps the secretary of state tillerson when it comes to having a bit of a softer touch with russia. all of these forces are combined in how the united states is responding to these types of questions. >> and vivian, to that point, this business of russia and sanctions on russia, and taking a harder line on russia, is the one area that t

trump's original sin of targeting muslims cannot be cured by throwing other countries onto his enemies list. it's back to the new travel ban is set to go into effect october 18. check congressional >> roger stone a trump associate will talk behind closed doors to the hospital tomorrow and a former staffer will be questions later this week. the senate intelligence committee is expected to's beak to officials teijsse is -- expected to speak to officials on tuesday. >>> meantime the son-in-law of president trump jared kushner reportedly used a private email account to talk with administration officials about white house matters. jared kushner sent the messages back in december as a trump family was getting ready for it transition into the white house. jerad christians lawyers confirm the presence son-in- law's has been using a private email server to correspond with white house officials, advisors and others. president trump repeatedly blasted hillary clinton for email server use while she was secretary of state. >>> a grammy award-winning artist is not stopping in the bay area. we will tell you why ed sheeran doesn't want to perform at the levi stadium. >>> and it may seem like an unusual

find your awesome with the xfinity x1 voice remote. >> former donald trump campaign adviser roger stone's not one shred of evidence. and that's a quote. roger stone appeared in front of members of the house intelligence committee today. the panel is investigating moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign. let's bring in judge andrew napolitano. roger stone. >> roger stone's complaint is that the allegations against him were public, but his answers are not because he begged the committee to interrogate him in public rather than behind closed doors. the policy of the committee is to interrogate behind closed doors and decide if they want to do it in public. so we know of his certain and loud and articulate and forceful denials in his opening statement because he released that. we don't know what questions they asked him. >> shepard: breaking news out of tennessee, this is from politco. this is from nashville. bob corker will not run for re-election. he's just made the announcement saying when i ran for the senate in 2006, i couldn't imagine to serve more than two terms. he's not

. >> let's see exactly who roger stone is and why john knows him. >> so donald trump, he brought up aof things that have been revealed by the wikileaks email hacking. >> yes. >> you, roger phone have said, i believe on multiple occasions have said you have a back channel to assange. >> ywe just happen to have a mutual friend who supports assan assange. >> have you discussed wikileaks with him? >> i have not. >> not once. >> not in any of your private conversations, not once? >> the u.s. intelligence community, quote, is confident the russian government directed the recent compromises of emails from u.s. persons and institutions including from u.s. political organizations. >> show us the proof. >> you don't believe it? >> no, i don't believe it. >> let me say about roger stone, in a shoot in the russian tearoom, that he got dressed up in that outfit. >> he has a flare for wardrobe. >> he has a flare for wardrobe and he very happily said i will come to the russia tearoom in the early days of the russian scan dam and i will come and answer these questions, his view continues to be, he's

on the news tonight former trump adviser roger stone blasts congress and special counsel robert muller after testifying in front of the house intelligence committee today and the senate republicans failed for a third time to pass a health care bill and get rid of obamacare obamacare is here to stay for now and the kurds in iraq declare victory in their independence referendum as baghdad and its neighbors react furiously. reporting tonight from washington d.c. this is the news on r.t. america.

lewandowski, the former president trump campaign manager, speaks to a group called black americans for a better future. his remarks will air at 12:30 eastern. >> roger stone and advisor to president trump visited capitol rnll to give swo testimony and to the role russia played in the presidential election. according to politico, he brought the atricure kyle cheney writes, roger stone finally came face-to-face with the top democratic investigator. and, we hear from mr. cohen -- mr. stone and congressman schiff.

other news tonight former trump advisor roger stone blasts congress and special counsel robert muller after testifying in front of the house intelligence committee today and the senate republicans failed for a third time to pass a health care bill and get rid of obamacare obamacare is here to stay for now and the kurds in iraq declare victory in their independence referendum as baghdad and its neighbors react furiously. reporting tonight from washington d.c. this is the news on r.t. america.

reflected their frustration, and the dismantling of disappointment of the players from the red rock we trump. roger curtailed had some support from other players, tom brady who stood for the anthem yesterday with his hand over his heart, locking arms with another player. he said this this morning on boston radio station. >> i certainly disagree with what he said and thought it was just divisive. >> the nfl communications adviser who happen to be president clinton's press secretary back in the 1990 he said in a conference call "everyone should know including the president that this is what real locker room talk is." in the feud with the nfl, the president as you mention reconfigured the travel ban, eighth countries are now covered by it. some of them off the list, some on the list. including libya, syria, yemen, somalia, from the original list. but also adds chat, north korea, and some people from venezuela. but the difference with the new list is that there is no expiration date. all these countries have individually tailored restrictions. the president tweeting that the necessity for keeping the t

president trump tweeting last night roger goodell of nfl just put out a statement trying to justify the total disrespect certain players show to our country. tell them to stand. melanie, is this donald trump at the core of his character, or is this a political calculation or do you think it might be both? >> i think it could definitely be a little bit of both. you know, roger goodell's statement also was very veiled. he didn't call out the president specifically. but it was interesting to see, now that it's not just the players, as sean pointed out. we're having the heads of some of these sports teams having to weigh in, and really, you know, speak out against the president which is not something a lot of these business owners want to do. once again we're seeing the sort of clash between hollywood, and sports, intersecting with politics. it's the same thing sort of with the health care debate and jimmy kimmel weighing in. and the jimmy kimmel test. it's fascinating to see the intersection of those two and how it will play out on capitol hill. >> sean i want to pull up the abc/"washingto

this as long-time republican trickster and trump pal, roger stone, testified today on capitol hill. that's ahead. >>> plus as president trump attacks everyone from the nfl to john mccain, are republicans nearing the breaking point? will they ever stand up to the man at the top of their party or on top of their party? and as alabama republicans head to the polls tonight, trump is taking a big political risk, as his candidate looks to be heading for defeat in that senate runoff down there. we're going to go look at the high stakes for the president with the "hardball" roundtable tonight prior to the closing of the polls. >>> finally let me finish tonight with trump watch. it's going to be interesting for him. his ears will sear. this is "hardball," where the action is. like paperless, multi-car, and safe driver, that help them save on their car insurance. any questions? -yeah. -how do you go to the bathroom? great. any insurance-related questions? -mm-hmm. -do you have a girlfriend? uh, i'm actually focusing on my career right now, saving people nearly $600 when they switch, so... wher

and this for roger goodell's statement is fairly biting. >> trump disinvited the nba champion, golden state warriors from visit itting the white house after steph curry said he would vote to skip the visit. >> of i don't know, you know why he feels the need to target, certain individuals other than, you know, rather than others. i have an idea why. but -- it's kind of -- it's just kind of beneath i think the leader of of a country to, to go that route. it's not what leaders do. >> trump urged the crowd in alabama to leave games if players kneel during the national anthem. since sunday, if his words to lead to larger protests or a backlash against him. >>> so, with that in mind, #takeaknee is trending. everybody will be watching closely to see how nfl players respond before tomorrow's games. redskins play the oakland raiders sunday night football. star running back for the raiders, sits during the national anthem. to read the nfl players and owners' angry reactions to the president's words, you can open our nbc washington app and search trump nfl. >>> we are watching a developing story

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trump campaign. joining me now is former michigan u.s. attorney barbara mcwade. barbara, rogeranafort expects to be indicted. there could be a act to force cooperate from manafort. as far as my knowledge goes, it's a pretty tough piece of law. >> it is, and it's intended to prohibit and punish u.s. business persons who engage in bribery with foreign national companies to do business there. the purpose to eliminate political advantage over others who play by the rules. the offer for a private briefing about the trump campaign or any other access he might have offered could be a thing of value that could constitute problem. >> the law is being used for leverage. is that your assessment? >> well, it would seem one common strategy is that you prosecuter others who are lower levels of a criminal organization in hopes to secure their cooperation for leniency on the charges so you can go others. in this case, if you can get charges against paul manafort, perhaps you can persuade him to cooperate against higher members of the trump administration including president trump himself in ex

you were part of a hearing yesterday when trump confidant, roger stone, the famous political operator. you said after he came and testified in private i asked roger stone the one question he refused to answer, the question critical in explaining his connection with wikileaks. what do you mean? >> what he said afterward is he wouldn't answer who the intermediateairy was between him and wikileaks and putting this in context. roger stone is the one who said he had contact with julian assange. clearly there's a fundamental reason we want to know who he was talking to to get to julian assange if it was not director. >> he said it was a reporter. are you willing to issue a subpoena to get that information? >> we left it to roger stone to come up and answer that question or face a subpoena. remember, roger stone was the one that said he wanted yesterday's meeting to be a public hearing and wanted the transcript replaced, and tape-record it and let the public hear it and the fundamental question is perhaps the crux of the russian involvement was who was he talking to to talk to julian assange

>> first of all, roger goodell versus trump is the iran/iraq war of sports conflicts.an they both lose? second of all, if they had led him buy the bills, we wouldn't be talking about this. that's partly why he's mad. as usual, trump is crass in his language, and he's wrong about whether the president should be suggesting whether people get fired over expressing this. that's a private company that can make that decision. it's not exactly a first amendment issue, but when the president gets involved, that can chill free speech and that's bad. i'm somebody who actually agrees with colin kaepernick's about some of these issues, but this particular protest is a divisive, controversial type of protest. and people get their backs up rightfully about the flag and about the anthem. during the year-long news cycle we have had about this, polling on black lives matter, which is the cause he's backing, has gone from 20% disapprove to 57% disapprove. and nfl attendance has gone down. so what trump is doing here, and he does want more of it, he is putting the entire left of this cou

. >> longtime trump confidante roger stone testified before your committee. afterwards, he came out, spoke to reporters briefly. he said he thinks the special counsel is trying to get paul manafort to turn on trump, basically to turn in the bigger fish who would be the president of the united states. here's roger stone. >> i think what happening here is that the special counsel will try to manufacture a crime and then say look, manafort, we won't prosecute you for this if you simply admit you were colluding with the russians and that donald trump knew everything. >> do you think manafort will turn on trump, congressman? >> i mean, that's hard to know right now. and i think that robert mueller's investigation has been a thorough and professional one that has moved at a brisk pace. and it's being conducted, i'm sure, just like any other federal investigation. >> all right, congressman castro, i appreciate your time as always. thanks. >>> and next, trump says his criticism of nfl players has, quote, really caught on. i'm going to speak with an nfl star who says t

president trump and mike rogers, this is for you, having worked many an hour, many a year on capitol hill. president trump told house republican who's are having a bipartisan meeting on tax reform, if they fail on health care, he would work with democrats. the work that did he, according to the discussion. how is that supposed to sit with your fellow republican when's he is saying, you don't play my way. i'm working with democrats. >> it is one leverage point that trump actually has. probably not the best way to use it. if you know, he got great reviews when he crossed the aisle and worked with democrats to solve a problem. you would hope that would catch on. hey, maybe has the good idea. bring the groups together. i think what i saw last night. we're going to repeal this big ugly monster is probably gone. now they should back up and say what can we do to bring costs down? the middle class was suffering under the rate increases. so republicans would do well for themselves and i don't think you a is lost if they stop for a moment and take a deep breath and say let's get back to fixing

this was pretty fascinating because as we know, roger stone is someone that is looking at and knows president trump very well. >> that's right. it was interesting. roger stone is known for floating some fairly strange conspiracy theorys and you heard somehow the hacking at the dnc was an internal problem. it was some inside job. that was one of the remarks he made to reporters in the last several mondays. as flamboyant as ever and he said he had done nothing wrong and the campaign had done nothing wrong and there was no collusion with the russians. as you know, roger stone is one of many characters who will be sailing through the halls of congress over the coming weeks and months to testify. >> one of the things that would have been interesting in this case was that he had exchanged private messages on twitter with gucifer 2.0 who they believe to be fronting for russia. he said that those are communications that the contents of which are now known. there is a question about whether he complied with releasing roars that this committee was requesting. >> that's right. i think that you are going to fi

. >> former trump adviser roger stone testified tuesday behind closed doors about his knowledge of russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. his testimony comes as special counsel robert mueller zeros in on president trump campaign chairman paul manafort and probes whether trump obstructed justice when he fired former f.b.i. director james comey. >> the only possible way of bringing obstruction of justice charges is through the impeachment method which is what happened with richard nixon and what happened with bill clinton. >> now analysts are beginning to act whether a look of cooperation could constitute obstruction of justice and if so whether a president can pardon his allies or himself? >> the real question is could the president use the power to pardon him and use the power to control the justice department? >> law professor beliefs if a president tried to use the pardon power then the house of representatives would most likely proceed with impeachment. >> the way the president voiced it is not provide a clause to think about impeaching him. >> some scholars say the con

started appearing on the internet on guccifer's website, the russian hacker and also that roger stone, donald trump's political dirty tricksster was having contacts with both gus fer and julian assange and the day before the democratic convention opens, a whole bunch of these e-mails appears on wikileaks. >> now, you put this together because you're a guy who thinks this way and you're a lawyer. if you had robert mueller's power of subpoena and a grand jury, this is going to be real easy because you can actually get phone records and the rest of the e-mails that we haven't seen. >> you can get the phone records, you can subpoena computers, you can look at the ip addresses. you can see where these e-mails went. you'll know how long the phone calls were. i mean, if you look at those e-mails between june 4th and june 9th, there's some gaps in there. there were clearly a number of phone conversations. those are not recorded. >> right. there may have been some sense that if i give you this pile of e-mails, you'll leave me alone, but there are a whole bunch of e-mails in amongst them. nick aker man is a fo

. >> also on the health today former trump adviser roger stone spoke with reporters after closed doorne question he would not answer. what was that one question? >> he would not reveal the identity of an intermediate ary who he spoke with that spoke with the founder of wick i leeks that released all of the clinton emails during the height of the campaign season. he said he didn't have any prior knowledge of this hack that occurred. but he also would not say who this intermediary was who talked to him. this is how he described it after he was asked after the hearing exactly why he did not disclose this information. >> the reason i am not submitting that name is because the intermediary is adjourn alice, and our conversation was off the record. i'm an opinion journalist. he's a journalist. i'm not going to burn to somebody i spoke to. >> now the adam schiff came out one he needs to subpoena if he does not provide more information. and mike the republican leading the investigation, jake, tells meal he agrees with adam schiff that they may need to subpoena him. >> thank you. i appreciate

. >> jon: there is former donald trump advisor roger stone who played a role in the campaign that got the president elected coming out of a meeting in front of the house intelligence committee, they have been investigating whether there was russian compromising of the election and collusion of the election efforts and he has been testifying about that. as you heard him say, he is complaining that the charges against him and his fellow associate paul manafort made it very publicly but the testimony takes place in private, that seems to be what he wanted to get out there and answer every question thrown at him. >> heather: he's been out there a lot, follow him on twitter and you can see what he has to say. >> jon: this fox news alert, we await president donald trump at a joint news conference with the prime minister of spain, we also expect reaction from the president to a wide range of issues. including tax reform and the nfl protest. we will bring you those remarks as soon as they begin, hello and welcome to the second hour of "happening now," i'm jon scott. >> heather: i'm heather ch

[applause] >> trump campaign advisor roger stone was on capitol hill today to talk to the house republican committee behind closed doors. he was asked about russian interference in the 2016 election here is what he had to say after the meeting. >> i answered all of the questions. i made the case that the accusation that i knew about john protesters e-mail hack was false and that i knew about the content and the source of the wikileaks disclosures regarding hillary clinton was false and that my exchange was someone claiming to be lucifer 2.0 when viewed through the context and timing was benign and innocuous. i had an opportunity to correct a number of the things that members of the committee had said about me which they seemed to take in. i think this was productive. i expressed my view that i am aware of no evidence whatsoever of the collusion by the russian state or anyone in the trump campaign or anyone associated with donald trump and i reiterated my view that, in my opinion, donald trump has the potential to be both a truly great and transformative presence. i'd be happy to take your

russian state or anyone in the trump campaign or anyone associated with donald trump. >> former trump adviser roger stone finally had his time in the hot seat on capitol hill today. he answered questions from the house intel committee for nearly four hours on the russia investigation. stone told reporters afterwards he used the opportunity to clear his name. >> i made the case that the accusation that i knew about john podesta's e-mail hack in advance was false, that i knew about the content and source of the wikileaks disclosures regarding hillary clinton was false, and that my exchange with someone claiming to be louis per 2.0 when viewed through the context, content, and timing, was benign and innocuous. >> stone's testimony comes as the "washington post" provides new insight into more than 3,000 russian bought fable ads that will soon be given to congress. according to the new report, the ads show, quote a deep understanding of social divides in american society. joining me now is democratic congresswoman jackie spear of california. she is a member of the intel committee and heard stone's testi

trump. you can see that this team, it is no surprise that they are one of the organizations that have not yet written a letter in support of nfl commissioner roger goodell where the players deep ties and strong ties there with the new england patriots and president trump. >> coy wire, thank you very much thank you so much. >>> lebron james defended steph curry after the president revoked a white house visit. james went on twitter telling the president this. going to the white house was a great honor until you showed up. james later expanded on why or rather expound odd why he sent that message. >> basically at a point i'm kind of, you know, just a little frustrated, man. just because this guy that we have put in charge has tried to divide us once again, and, obviously, we all know what happened with charlottesville and the divide that caused. and now it's even hitting more home for me now even more because he is now using sports as the platform to try to divide us. and we all know how much sports brings us together, how much passion it has, how much we love and care, and, you know, the friendships and everything that it creates and for him to tr

lawmakers aimed at disrupting the system in the spirit of donald trump and breaks it on today here in berlin the new york times columnist roger cohen said that until america last major task as leader of germany will be to shore up the country and the european union against the corrosive effects of donald trump's populist movement the american academy and telefonica base camp berlin invited cohen to speak today on trump marital fake news and the digital dilemma facing voters the talk today was part of telefonica is diggy minds series. and i had the honor of leading that discussion today with roger cohen roger joins me now here at the big table raj it's good to have you on good to see a good a good to see you like it is now you in your piece yesterday want to show our viewers what you wrote in the new york times you wrote a dozen years in power is a lot. is weary germans two it's a time for a last act given trump has said that europe must take our destiny into our own hands that must be her last act. what do you think merkel's last act should look like in concrete terms well first of all i think if forced term is extraordinary

longtime trump associate roger interviewconcluded an with the house intelligence committee, after more than three hours. stone says he told law makers he is aware of no evidence whatsoever that there was coordination between the trump presidential campaign and russia. to the panel as part of an investigation into russian interference into last year's elections. says hissh president country's considering all options, ranging from military intervention to economic sanctions, against iraq's kurdish region. he said he hoped the kurdish leadership would abandon names of creating a separate state, and not forced turkey into enforcing sanctions. he added that the landlocked kurdishrdish region would not be able to survive without turkish support. hillary clinton spoke to charlie rose. >> i believe he either has something on donald trump, or trump thinks that putin helped him so much that he is not going to turn on putin. either one is horrifying. at can see the interview 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. new york time. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in

the nearly four-hour interview with trump confidant roger stone, he said he denied any collusion with russia and denied having any direct contact with wikileaks assange. stone tweeted last week, "trust me, it will be soon the podesta's time in the barrel." weeks later, wikileaks began releasing hacked e-mails from the account of john podesta, hillary clinton's campaign chairman. stone did reaffirm that he communicated with an online persona known as guccifer 2.0, a suspected russian agent who has taken credit for hacking the dnc. he denigrated the whole russia investigation and to attack the special counsel. >> do you think the president should fire bob mueller? >> yes. >> why is that? >> because he auditioned or i should say interviewed with the job of fbi director the day after mr. comey resigned or was fired, pardon me, was passed over for that job. that, to me, constitutes a conflict. >> congressman eric swalwell interviewed stone today. he's joining me now. did you learn anything new today? >> good evening, chris. yes, we did. one of the central questions for mr. stone was who wa

facebook, google and twitter have been asked to testify in public hearings and outspokesperson trump adviser rogere an appearance on capitol hill testifying before the house intelligence committee and told reporters was not involved in any collusion with russia and is aware of no collusion between russia and anyone involved with the trump campaign. joining me now is former federal prosecutor around ald omary otty, could you begin by connecting social media and the law. because presumably unless a conspiracy could be proven and by that i mean lots of russians working together on social media to influence the elections, the law is not of much use here. >> well, i think what we do know is that robert mueller obtained a search warrant to search facebook for evidence of a crime. so that means he presented evidence to a federal judge and the judge concluded there was good reason to believe a crime has been committed and evidence of crime existed on facebook. >> and what kind of crime would that be? >> sure. that would be a contribution by a foreigner in -- in connection with the united states election.