ron: father, i thank you for manos. ron: what it really did is it just changed me. realized i must have missed a turn somewhere early on. ron: yeah, if you get that, i'll put you in for a load right now. garvin: so, when ron came up with the idea of loads of love, his mobile- machine-washing ministry, it was a perfect fit. not just providing a needed service-- ron: lord, we know that you love roger. garvin: but one with some built-in downtime. ron: if you have something like their clothes, you've got 'em for an hour or 2 hours. and so, what happens is, is i'm here already. i'm not goin' anyplace. we might as well have a conversation. garvin: whether that conversation leads to any kind of conversion, ron isn't so concerned. either way, he knows by the end of the night, a load of good will have been done. garvin: now we'd like to dip into our archives for a best of "bay area proud." it's the story of an east bay father paying it forward in a touching way. it has to do with a mural at a south bay hospital and how darren greenwood found a way to give back to the people

ron: i don't. i think it is ultimately, as the speaker of the house said today, up to the voters in montana to decide, but if that is the person they want representing them, that is a reflection candidly on them. jane: ron christie, thank you very much. ron: always a pleasure. jane: ok, one more story before we go. take a look at this. it is video of a woman who has no intention of letting a carjacker get away with her wheels. she was filling up her car in milwaukee, wisconsin, one of the -- when a thief jumped in and tried to drive off. she was having none of it. the 28-year-old said she was acting on instinct, and it was not until later that she considered how dangerous it had all been. that's it. wheels up, i'm off. thank you for watching, and check out that story on our website. >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, and kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. >> planning a vac

ron dreamed of having his own record shop.t the time, vinyl had not yet hit its second sweet spot. opening a record store was not a path most would take. >> i'd rather regret something i did than wish i did something. the smartest thing to do would have been sell stuff on ebay and buy a warehouse and keep your overhead to nothing. >> that wasn't the journey ron signed up for. while plans were put in motion, an unexpected proposition came his way. >> he asked me, what would dwrou if you could do anything? i said i'm working on opening a record store. he said great, would you want to do a studio? i'm like, no, that's a hard business z. >> but the synergy between a recording studio and record store, all in one location was undeniable. and it didn't take long for ron to realize the huge potential. ron knew that he had to think differently to stay in the game long term. >> it's meant to engage local artists and audiences in the same place. >> big name bands are knocking on ron's door. recently, rock group, the killers dropped by th

ron has written some of the best speeches i've given over the past 20 years and when ron told me he was retiring, i did back and look at a few of his remarks between the tears. when my long-term state director retired, ron wrote there is an old saying we've all heard before, good help is hard to find. here's my experience. good help is not only hard to find, it's also impossible to replace. that's true about robin and it's equally true of ron. in a speech to the chief officers of state library agencies, ron called the library card, quote, our passport to adventure, unquote. for a speech to the young entrepreneurs academy, ron referred to books,, quote, especially biographies and autobiographies,, quote, a how-to manual for success. when i spoke to my son's graduation fifth grad class ron wrote me an example comparing the supreme court to grandparents. quote, if they say no, there is no one else to turn to. i hope a sampling of ron's work convey why he's been an important part of my team. he knows what i want to say and how i want to say it. and ron does more than help me with speeches.

ron has an epiphany. >> i go up to the bedroom.on the floor, next to the bed, is a puppet. it's iago, the evil sidekick to the villain, jafar, in "aladdin." >> jafar? jafar? get a grip! >> so i crawl across the rug as quietly as i can. i don't want him to look at me. and i throw the bedspread over my head, i grab the puppet. i push the puppet up through the bedspread. and i say to him in gilbert gottfried's voice, "owen, owen, how does it feel to be you?" and owen turns to the puppet like he's bumping into an old friend. and he goes, "not good. i'm lonely and i have no friends." and then we talk. it's iago and owen. it's our first conversation since he's 2 years old. it's like mozart. i throw over the bedspread. i'm like, "we're speaking in disney dialogue." i hug owen. i run down. i hug cornelia. >> reporter: that bedside discovery launches an experiment, what ron calls the basement sessions. every night, the family gathers to watch and reenact disney scenes like in "the jungle book." ♪ wherever a i wander, wherever i roam ♪ >> co

ron brownstein is back and jackie kucinich as well. if you had the president's ear right now, ron brownstein, and you said, all right, you have to say "x" when you shake their hands, what would it be? >> i think they really want to hear the reaffirmation of the american commitment to nato. i mean, i think it's probably a bridge too far to expect the president to be on the same page as the european leaders >> the . >> the pope gave him a copy of the cyclical on climate change, a not-so-subtle message of what the president wants, so a lot of people tugging at the whez in a lot of different directions. we're watching president trump and the secretary-general walk through these new headquarters here. the significance, if you will. set the stage for us of a new american president arriving at the headquarters of this organization. >> well, this is the organization that's been around for 68 years. it's been, as pres have said, the cornerstone of american foreign policy for 68 years. it's been really the basis on which we have engaged europe o

christie: i agree with ron. i think the area he has shown a capacity to grow in in his role has been in the national security and diplomatic front. i think it was very important for him to establish a good rapport with the president of china, given how the north koreans have destabilized the region and given their potential influence of not only proliferating weapons of mass destruction, but actually deploying them -- that i'm encouraged that the chinese have been more supportive and open to the united states as a partner. same thing with israel. on the domestic front, i think it is easy to criticize her predecessor about the use of executive power and orders, and then once you get in their yourself, you find, i'm going to issue 32 myself, how about that, in the first 100 days. needs tohe president find a way to cobble together some legislative victories to prove it is not just by legislative fiat, but he can work with congress to enact legislation. he has got a long way to go, but i want him to be successful. y

no one has been doing that more than senator ron wyden from the state of oregon. >> thank you! and my colleagues were so kind to let me do this because i have to get right back to proceed with a bill and i'm going to keep it real simple. we have one, once before for net neutrality before in washington, d.c. we have won before, and it is time to win again. [ cheers and applause ] >> and all i'd like to say by way of this kickoff -- because i know eddie and all our friends are going to really hammer this home. what we need you all to do is keep it loud and remember the pippa sofa spirit where we beat the odds, we took on the big interests and the internet won! thanks, everybody! [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, senator. i want to welcome forward senator ed markey from massachusetts. senator markey literally wrote the laws we are here to defend and he stood up every day when he was in the house, in the senate, for the free and open internet. he's fought big media. he has been the most outspoken champion for net neutrality, for set-top boxes, for so many, many other crucial is

gentlemen, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> jonathan turley, ron, stick around. we're going to talk later in the hour. >>> all right. coming up -- >> i'm not going to rush to impeachment. >> all right. not rushing to impeachment is senator cory booker. >>> and then this, in a rare interview, caroline kennedy talking about john f. kennedy, her memorial day tribute to her late father who would have turned 100 tomorrow. we'll be right back. i guess i was born with a crayon in my hand. i decided to see if there was a way for design to play a... ...positive role in what was going on in the world. there's a jacket that's reflective for visibility... ...a sleeping bag jacket, jackets that turn into tents. i usually do my fashion sketches on the computer. i love drawing on the screen. there's no lag time at all. it feels just like my markers. with fashion, you can dress people and help people. it's really cool to see your work come to life. even if you're trying your best.be a daily struggle, along with diet and exercise, once-daily toujeo® may help you control your bloo

in 1979, c-span was created as a public service byformer hillary advi adviser ron klain and ron christy, among others. this is about 90 minutes. >>> my name is morris levy, assistant professor of political science here. and thanks for everyone coming. differen dennis and bob for all their hard work. political science research has shown that judges' sentencing tends to be harshest right before lunch. i assume that similar patterns hold for political discussions. so my pledge to you is that we'll make up some time in the air and aim for a safe landing by 12:30 and hopefully you won't have to throw anyone offer the flight along the way. oh, no. let me begin by introducing our very distinguished panel, which in the spirit of this conference combines some luminaries from academia, with people who have really rich experience in the political world. so, to begin, going, again, from left to right, not necessarily in ideological order, matthew khan is a professor of economics, spatial studies and environmental science, ron christie, a former special assistant to george w. bush. jane dunn is poli

we have analyst ron brownstein and maggie haberman and april ryan.ith all of the last minute arm twisting, now the battle begins for the senate. now what happens? >> the senate indicated it is paying no mind to what the house passed yesterday. they are starting over. they have been holding a number of meetings the last couple weeks led by senator ted cruz to get a bill that is acceptable. they are very unhappy with what has come before. when you are essentially starting from scratch after the process over the last month and a half in the house, this is not reconciliation. this is not the normal process we are used to. this is two separate tracks on health care. it is a reminder why washington has expectations. watching the president take the victory lap. this is a president who loves winning and important for the white house. it is all it was. psychic victory. >> a win in quotes. that is what it is. the politics are less relevant, ron brownstein, in the senate. it is more policy driven. just because the absolute numbers. for every ted cruz, you have

and back with us ron klain. sam, lest people think we become the dirty talkers about this very important thing, the long-term strategy that the democrats see here is if the house republicans pass this bill tomorrow, that will help the democrats retake the house of representatives and protect this health care. so what can sound like some kind of dirty political calculation about this is really a calculation about how do we protect the affordable care act long-term. >> yeah. there is two schools of thought that i've encountered when i talked to democrats about the politics of this. let's just put it inside the politics. the politics of this. one is there is eerie echoes of sort of the mentality they had in the 2016 presidential election which please, god, let the republican party nominate donald trump because that would ensure that we will win the campaign. so obviously that turned out in the way that was unpredicted. and not advantageous for democrats. in that sense they don't want it to pass. they would like to

how would you answer that question, ron? >> he has to. president trump was very cautious in his language for most of the campaign, though he did at some point clearly put a thumb on the scale for la pen when he said that she was strongest on immigration, strongest on the things that have been happening in france and certainly steve bannon has spoken before. >> and then more recently he went more neutral by describing it as interest. >> he basically made clear, you know, that he was closer to la pen as in fact he was. and there's no alternative but to work with an ally as important as france. but it was striking that in macron's speech he talked about reaffirming the desire for example to deal collectively and globally with climate change. when the president may be on the drink of pulling the u.s. out of the paris agreement. this is a very different vision. macron within further than i think hillary clinton did in explicitly endorsing the vision of a globalized world working together against problems. she kind of hedged the scales a little

to ron's point about this all being about stymiing the investigation. all of this is the public pronunciations about the investigation and less about the russian investigation. he was unhappy that comey repeatedly referenced the russia investigation and unhappy that comey would not publicly speak to the wiretapping. he was unhappy with the public display of disloyalty. he wanted that public facing echoing of the white house narrative. this investigation wasn't serious. >> jason, one of the reasons it might be a blrilliant political move is bring me legislation for a special prosecutor. if he has nothing to fear about the substance of the investigation and he keeps saying that. we don't care how long you look, this is the best political move. put it in the hands of three judges. let it be independent. sign the legislation. show i did transparency in a way no president would. nobody would sign this law the way i did. he would remove himself. we see no indication of that and it raises the question. who will you believe about any of the matters? if the fooi

ron, i rememberingjfk. ron, iwanted rememberingjfk.s served in the white house, the building behind you, what doesjfk mean to you? white house, the building behind you, what does jfk mean to you? he means a lot to me. he means so much when you look at the civil rights act of 196a and a voting rights act of 1965. if it wasn't for president kennedy having appointed his brother bobby to the attorney general, no previous administration had phoned the enforcement ability to bring these important statutes to life —— found the ability. it gives someone like me who dreams of working in that building behind me, the opportunity to go to law school and couege opportunity to go to law school and college and achieve the american dream so he means so much to me for what he was able to do to really free so many people of colour in the united states at the very volatile time in our history. thank you very much. we would say happy birthday mr president. 100 years sincejfk's birth. you're watching 100 days+ from bbc news. thanks forjoining us. i'll see

he named ben jacobs in the apology. >> ron, to prove a.b.'s point. were despicable things to our kyung lah on the ground reporting about how they delighted in what was happening here. although there were witnesses and audio tape of the assault. here is one. my gop voter to me just now knowing i work for cnn. that audio made me cheer. she smiled as she walked in to vote for gianforte. the next one. montana gop voter, upon learning we're from cnn, you are lucky someone doesn't pop one of you. obviously violence is okay, i guess, when it is against journalists. >> i think it is deeper than that. my last book ten years ago was called "the second civil war." it was metaphorical. we are living through something like a slow-motion culture political civil war. each side in it feels the other is not only wrong headed, but a threat to the country. and the space between the two coalitions, they separated so much. look at montana. montana is roughly 85% white. 75% rural. 70% non college. you could not map the coordinates of where trump was strongest or where he

>> ron. okay, yes, in a certain sense, energy stocks have become trump stocks in so far as he's been auk tagging about expanding the opportunities for the companies to drip on shore, offshore, but let me make a point in addition to the trump trade, there is an emerging g trade. when you look at this silk road infrastructure plan that china is rolling out, a trillion dollars in infrastructure connecting africa and other partd par parts of the world and spending more, the trump trade might be being replaced in which the caterpillars and deeres are the ultimate beneficiaries of this, so while we may not be doing a trillion in infrastructure, china is is. so we can conflate these issues easily, now, this trump trade is beginning to roll over. i'll agree with stephanie, it has rolled over and for the period of time prior to china making its infrastructure announcement, those stocks that would have benefitted most in the last several weeks from the trump agenda have stalled out and have rolled over

ron dreamed of having his own record shop.the time, vinyl had not yet hit its second sweet spot. .opening a record store was not a path most would take. >> i'd rather regret something that i did than regret something i didn't do. the smartest thing to do would have been to sell the stuff on ebay or whatever and just buy a warehouse and keep your overhead to nothing. >> that wasn't the journey ron signed up for. while plans were put in motion, an unexpected proposition from a fellow entrepreneur came his way. >> he asked me, you know, what would you do if you could do anything? and i said, well b, i'm working on opening a record store. he goes, oh, wow, that's great. would you want to do a studio? i'm like, no, that's -- that's a hard business. >> but the synergy between a recording studio and a record store all in one location was undeniable. and it didn't take long for ron to realize the huge potential. ron knew that he had to think differently to stay in the game long-term. >> it's meant to engage local artists and audiences

ron claiborne. good morning, sir. >> not my medical degree. >> not bespectacled today.morning to you.sterday. dan, paula, eva. and robert, good morning. good morning, everyone. we begin with the man accused of driving into a crowd of pedestrians in times square last week now speaking out. in a jailhouse interview, richard rojas says he wants to apologize to his mother. the 26-year-old says he doesn't remember driving his car into people. killing one person. rojas, who had a history of he's been trying to get help to fix his life. police say he admitted being high on pcp-laced marijuana when he allegedly drove that car on to the crowded sidewalk. >>> at l.a.x., los angeles international airport, eight people were hurt when a plane struck a supply truck. on the taxiway. the aero mexico jet had just landed when it hit the truck, causing it to flip over. the eight people riding in the truck suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. >>> newly released letters show that former new england patriot player aaron hernandez had asked prison officials to be moved to a different part o

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bush ron christie and the washington examiners hugo gurdon. thank you veryuch. byron, first to you, he did -- i'm going contradict what i initially said, he did agree with president trump that when it came to hillary clinton's e-mail and that entire mess beginning on july 5th when comey laid out what seemed to be a case to prosecute and decideda the end not to, he did say that that, the fbi staff really objected to, correct? >> he did. and he said there was a difference of opinion. i mean the fbi has thousands of employees, and there was a difference of opinion, but basically i think there were three headlines for what he said today and two were favorable for the white house and one wasn't. he said the white house is not interfering, has not interfered with the investigation that's good for the white house. he knocked down reports that james comey asked for more money and resources for the investigation, that was good for the white house, and because there was this intimation that somehow trump had fired comey just as he was asking for more resources, and then t

to you ron. not ron? i meant don. i was talking to myself. don, you've got to get them to pay their bills. good idea, don. thank you, don." [ light laughter ] so with less than a week -- less than a week until the 100 day deadline, to trump himself champion, the president has failed to deliver on nearly every one of his major legislative promises. how could things get any worse? >> shutdown showdown. >> the white house is racing to avoid marking the president's first 100 days in office with a government shutdown. >> if congress doesn't send president trump a the government funding bill midnight on friday the government will run out of money and a shutdown would begin. >> a sticking point as you may know is money for the wall along our border with mexico. >> he could be the first president in history to face a government shutdown in his first 100 days. >> seth: okay, but are we sure the government wasn't shutdown already? because it was reported recently that president trump as appointed few than

. >> thank you, ron. so, it's my pleasure to join ron in welcoming all of you here to. i know we both want to thank the people who supported this conference today. so that would be the three poverty centers -- wisconsin, michigan and columbia. and also the a&e ekc center. ron has been a terrific host in organizing this conference. >>> so this comes at an opportune time. we first began talking about this event a few years ago when we realized that 2017 would be the 50th anniversary of the first conference on a universal child allowance. now some of you may not have been here for that first conference 50 years ago, but there was such a conference. it was held at hew, and it was organized by our former colleagues at columbia school of social work, evelyn burns who was very active in the founding of social security, and al khan. so we're following up on that earlier conference. already back then in 1967, many of our peer countries had a universal child allowance. and over the ensuing 50 years, universal child allowances have become a core element of a modern safety net and

ron and i disagree. ron and adrienne are not on your side.t sure. >> cory, i think you overdramatized it. i speak for myself. >> no, no. it was like an out of the body experience. i really was not expecting it. i actually thought, i was telling one of our producers i thought that i would get on and we would be lifted up and i would be talking all the way up and then would be able to talk while we were dropping. i didn't know it would be going that fast. once i felt it in my stomach collapsed i kind of lost my mind as you saw. >> cory -- >> it's so good. >> yeah, it's so good. we could watch it all day. you were a really good sport. thank you for coming on this morning. we really appreciate it. >> thrill-seeker cory james. >> you're welcome. >> thanks, cory. >> thank you very much. >>> coming up on "good morning america" -- we're going to go back to indy and talk about as we said, shifting gears, formula 1 racer who hopes to make a name for himself. at the indy 500. what are his chances? >> i was comfortable -- omfortable -- what are his chanc

ron plane is former chief of staff to joe biden and al gore and a former 2016 advisor. joe is a former assistant to george w. bush. my colleague is professor of political science and next we have the 40 lieutenant governor of california from 2008 until 2011. let's begin by asking a general question of our panelists, starting from left to right. a general question. the trump campaign was unlike any other in modern american history. i think we all agree on that. at like to begin by asking our panelists, this is a panel on trump at home. how have the first 100 days mirrored the unconventional campaign, or have they at all? in what ways have we seen trump break with his predecessor and in which ways are they part for the course. >> very briefly, i am an economist. we are used to being relatively powerful in washington, and it's fascinated me and many economists i know that academic economists do not seem to be playing a major role in policy deliberations. that is a surprise to me. it might be a statement about our value added and so something i teach my students here is we

so he we know it's true. >> ron klain, what are the restrictions now on what james comey can come out and publicly say and not say? for example, when the president does an interview with lester holt and starts describing these interaction was james comey, does that open it up, then, for james comey and allow him to come out publicly and say no, i did not request a dinner with the president? this is what happened at that dinner. this is what was said. he asked -- he basically demanded loyalty of me. how much of that can james comey now say? >> well, i think he can say all of that, lawrence. he obviously can't reveal any classified information. but i don't think classified information is the question. if he is going to put words within james comey's mouth, it's within his rights. the american people, an accounting of what actually happened. did he actually say throw times you're not under investigation? did he actually -- was he summoned to this dinner and asked for loyalty or ask for loyalty? i hope he will answer them. i hope congress will ask them. i hope congress will finally after

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. >>> we want to send things over to ron claiborne. ron. >> hey, paula. >> good morning to you. >> good morning to you, and dan, good morning. adrienne, good morning, everyone. we begin with new details about that deadly attack on a bus full of coptic christians in egypt that happened on friday. our abc station in chicago wls reporting that 8 of the 29 people killed were from a family, one family living in illinois. wls reporting that mosin marcos, a u.s. citizen, was one of those fatalities. his wife was injured and is recovering at an egyptian hospital. the family is said to have been in egypt to visit relatives when the bus was attacked on its way to a monastery. >>> in england police have released the first images of the manchester concert bomber from the night of that attack. the pictures show salman abedi shortly before he blew up a suicide bomb killing 22 people just after an ariana grande concert. in a newly released time line clocking the first call to police at 10:33, the first of 240 calls that came in the first hour after t

ron, to you first.st on what we were just describing and the family is bringing in the idea potentially of race. >> well, there are many aspects to this -- allegations of racism. it's not just the accusers. they feel it's been racially motivated the way that the media has portrayed cosby and some of the court decisions that have kept this case going are perhaps racially motivated. it's a wide allegation about it. here -- that's one of the reasons that this jury selection is happening here in pittsburgh. not in montgomery county where mr. cosby's home is. where the alleged crime happened. the jury pool is going to be selected here. there are some 3,000 people who have been petitioned to come. they'll come by the hundreds each day. this is expected to take several days. they hope that pittsburgh is a diverse enough community where there will be a diverse jury. they wanted people who were not right in the path of the media storm, in philadelphia, in montgomery county. and as you probably know, t cosby case

what would you own then, ron? >> puts. >>. >> i would take protective action. you don't sell disney because of this. that's a different rationale. i'm talking about a near to median term distraction and whatever economic agenda might have been contemplated and some disruption to the overall economic political and social environment. i think that is something that the market will have to reckon with over time. it's not the end of the world. >> one quick question ron though, so, you sound like you're really concerned about all the things going on in washington and i'm not glib about it. i think i'm probably more on the same page with you than maybe i sound in the segment. but if what you're, if that's your concern, it sounds like if the president is chastened or reprimanded or goes through a really unpleasant few months he wishes he hadn't and this is the thing that gets him on course to become a better version of himself, maybe this has a silver lining that the market is sniffing nout advance. >> you know, i coffered hvered business man for a long time. i just d

ron hosko. or left, republican or democrat, you have to be concerned what about going on here. meanwhile, uber caught in a new controversy that will cost them a bunch of money and drivers are revolting and passengers revolted. >> neil: you know, these days, a lot of folks say, they're not taking a cab, it's an uber. it's a lexicon like a xerox. and adam has created a crisis for uber in the middle of pay back for drivers. i guess they were stiffing, right? update me on this. >> uber was miscalculating the commissions that they paid to drivers in new york city. they reached an agreement on how to do it. rather than taking the after tax amount, they were taking the pretax amount which means uber was taking a bigger share. it's mind boggling in its stu d stupidi stupidity. >> neil: why would they do that? let's say it wasn't deliberate. why would that do that knowing the fact that they have a guy like you writing a best seller on them that everybody would be all over it? >> one can only assume that

i think ron is right.een a number of developments over the course of the first 120-plus days of the presidency that require the media to spend a lot of time. it's going to necessarily be negative. resignation of your national security advisor, the fact of an fbi investigation, now the naming of a special counsel. those are stories that will get a lot of coverage that will be negative. i think mollie is right when she says the media approach to the trump administration, the way the washington press corps in particular regarded president obama, there was an assumption that the things he was saying was true and the ends he was seeking were good. i think the opposite is the way most reporters covering donald trump sees his administration. i think that's a horrible way to approach the president. be skeptical. be as skeptical as you want but you can't make those blanket assumptions about the president. >> bret: thank you. good luck with the paperback, ron. final thoughts from riyadh, saudi arabia, when we come b

. >> thank you, ron. so it's my pleasure to join ron in welcoming all of you here today. we both want to thank the people who supported this conference today. that would be the three poverty pernts, wisconsin, michigan and columbia and the neck foundation. and i hope i haven't forgotten anybody in terms of funders. it looks like i haven't. i also want to thank ron and his staff here at brookings for being such good hosts. they're tremendous to work with in organizing this conference. so this comes at an opportune time. we first began talking about this event a few years ago when we realized that 2017 would be the 50th anniversary of the first conference on a universal child allowance. some of you may not have been here for that first conference 50 years ago, but there was such a conference, it was held at h.e.w. and organized by our colleagues at social work, evelyn burns and al kann. so we're following up on that earlier conference. already back then in 1967 many of our countries has a universal child allowance. and over the ensuing 50 years, universal child allowances h

host: appreciate it, ron. caller: i think director comey has been put into an incredibly difficult position by both the kratz and republicans over the -- the democrats and repentance over the past for yea few years. -- republicans over the past years. i've been listening to be republicans calling up on this show and they are saying the democrats are mad because hillary clinton did not get in. i'm a democrat. i did not vote for hillary clinton. i actually spoke with hillary clinton at one of her town hall yatesed hillary clinton didn't get in. democrat. i didn't vote for hillary clinton. her face-to-face at the town hall meeting that i was voting for bernie sanders. both my wife and i. host: what did she say to you when you said that? caller: strictly enough, she said you may not support me, but i support you, which i thought was a very incredible response to my being angry about what happened in 2008. i have to tell you that donald trump draining the swamp -- he is replacing the swamp with a cesspool. the same

that is simply reckless. >> ron brownstein. it does not seem there's a constructive legal case to make he here. it's not illegal if the president does it. poppy does it, secretary of state does it, it would be illegal. so you get into what kind of wrong is it. alan dershowitz, attorney and legal scholar says this is the worst charge ever leveled against a sitting president. do you agree and why? >> i don't know if it's the worst charge leveled against a sitting president, i think some of the things president nixon was accused of are of comparable gravity here. we're talking significant gravity. i'm not going to quibble with phil whose knowledge of how intelligence is handled is far superior to mine. i think there's an additional debate here beyond the question of the source, the level of granularity the president discussed it as david sanger said would allow you to reverse, engineer and figure out sources and methods even if he didn't disclose them. look, this is extremely serious. it goes to, i think, a core question that has

ron, thank you very much. lot of news this morning, including one of the few republicans speaking out this morning. senator suzanne collins is going to join us this morning, so let's get right to it. >> all right. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day." it is wednesday, may 17th, 8:00 in the east now. we have breaking news. the latest bombshell from the trump white house comes from a memo written by former fbi director james comey. comey says president trump asked them to drop their investigation into mike flynn. the white house denies this account. but did the president obstruct justice. >> now, russian president putin weighs into the other bombshell of the week, that president trump did not share classified intelligence with russian diplomats and putin says he can prove it. will they believe vladimir putin? give us the latest, joe. >> reporter: good morning, alison. the real concern is whether the president tried to influence an fbi investigation at the very top a

ron and i disagree. ron and adrienne are not on your side.t sure. >> cory, i think you overdramaticized it. >> no, no. it was like an out of the body experience. i really was not expecting it. i actually thought i was telling one of our producers i thought i would get on and we would be lifted up and i would talk once we were dropping. once i felt it in my stomach collapsed i kind of lost my mind as you saw. >> cory -- >> it's so good. we could watch it all day. >> you were a really good sport. thank you for coming on this morning. >> thrill-seeker cory james. >> thanks, kroy. >> thank you very much. >>> coming up on "good morning america" -- back to indy and talk about as we said, shifting gears, formula 1 racer who hopes to make a name for himself. what are his chances? insherwin-williams has completey one-coat coverage. and it's up to 65% more stain resistant than competing one-coat paints. infinity paint from hgtv home by sherwin-williams. available at lowe's. so i use excedrin.ments from my life. it starts to relieve migraine pain in jus

ron paul, host of the ron paul liberty report. welcome back, dr. paul. when you see that this is a newly passed law that is supposed to give the people of great britain some measure of comfort knowing their government is keeping an eye on the bad guys and that's supposed to keep everyone safer. what does it say to about the overeven controversiment of the surveillance state? >> it doesn't work. it failed and is exactly the opposite. they are coming back and saying we need a stronger law. they sort of blame the u.s. for revealing the things that had gone on. they are trying to pro tech themselves. this traditionally the way governments work. whether it's foreign policy store security problems it doesn't work. when it fails they say we need more of it. if there is a program that isn't working, we need to spends more, we need to bail out more. it's always more and more because they are obsessed with it. they don't understand what freedom and liberty means. governments should thereby not for his obsession with security. but if that's the only thing you care