secret service in june 2016. thus, we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time. however, the secret service also says any person entering trump tower at the time of this meeting would have been checked for weapons. joining us now, ambassador thomas pickering. he has a lengthy resume which includes serving as ambassador to six countries including russia as well as the u.n. he has also served under six u.s. presidents both democratic and republican and also back with us, cnn analyst april ryan and she covers the white house every single day as correspondent for urban networks. why is the white house having such a difficult time coming up with a consistent defense to this meeting? >> it's what they don't know is what they don't know. this, from day one, from this administration, it has been high drama and now the drama had turned to something very serious. they're having a hard time figuring this out, and when it comes to the secret service, you have to remember, donald trump jr. was not a pro

secret service allow these people in? the president had secret service protection at that point. that raised the question with me. >> jay sekulow, why would the secret service let these russians in if there was any threat, any information they had from the russian government? surely they would have stopped about it. and the secret service said don't call me shirley, basically, here. we can put that statement up from the secret service. donald trump jr. was not a protectee thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at the time. it's pretty remarkable that the secret service felt the need to say don't put this on us, guy. >> dramatic, unusual gesture for the secret service to have to take. it's not the first time you've seen the president's lawyer go on tv and say things that make matters worse for the president rather than better. it's certainly not the first time you've seen folks around the president who are tasked with responding to this investigation essentially try to pass the buck somewhere else or re

nefarious, why did the secret service let these people in.t raised a question with me. >> the secret service responded with this statement. don't trump jr. was not a protectee in june 2016, thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at the time. the president responding to in a tweet today --. most politicians would have gone to a meeting like this. that's politics? take a listen to this from some career politicians. >> if you were told that a lawyer warranted to share information with you as part of the russian government's effort to help you get elected, how would you respond? >> i would respond in the negative. i think most candidates would. >> she shouldn't have taken a meeting, maybe a distant campaign worker, but not these high-profile individuals. >> would you have taken the meeting? >> absolutely not. >> he should have turned it over to law enforcement immediately. >> i would go, well, i might have someone else take that meeting. i might not take it myself. >> you have worked on campaigns. >> is this standard procedure

it is through the president had secret service protection, but the secret service said it had nothingresponsibility to check out participants in the meeting because don jr. was not under its protection at the time. >> yeah, you might want to double check that. sekulow's comment also drew fire from lawmakers including democratic congressman ted lu who tweeted this, dear dumb as a rock mentioning that mika brzezinski tweet that the president sent, secret service job is not toolations of federal campaign act, that is the job of the prosecutors. sekulow reiterated that the president was not a wafrt mewar meeting and that got a septemsk response from mark warner. >> i think if i had a meeting that involved russian government efforts on to try to help trump and hurt clinton that i would remember that and frankly it's a little unbelievable that neither the son or the son-in-law ever shared that information with their dad the candidate. >> all this came after new developments on who was in that room. we learned yet another person attended that meeting, russian measure lobbyist rinat akhmetshi

a secret service meter and be checked for weapons. jonathan served as a secret service agent for president obama. thanks for being with us. we know the president had secret service protection during this meeting but apparently his son, who organized the meeting, did not. who would the secret service have vetted and what would that have included? >> well, you got to look at that time period. if the meeting occurred at trump tower which all indications are this it did. the secret service campaign posture at the time for security was primarily focused around physical security measures. screening people for physical security threat so that means going through and screening for firearms through magnatometers. screening for explosives through the utilization of canines and other techniques. at the time it's solely based upon physical security. it has nothing to do with screening against intelligence community databases or anything like that. >> safe to say it's not part of the secret service's job to stop a candidate or president from doing

listen. >> i wondered why the secrete service, if this was nefarious, why the secret service allowed them in. the president had secret service at that point. that raised a question with me. >> the secret service responded with this statement, donald trump jr. was not a protectee, thus, we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time. there you have it. joining me now, former secret service agent. he is a law enforcement analyst now. let's get to the statement they put out. i want to get kind of, i don't know, a gut check. how would the lawyer, jay secula show the secret service? >> a misrepresentation. the secret service does not do political vetting. they do not invite or disinvite anyone for a protectee. core responsibility is physical protection, ensuring there are no weapons or explosions. they were in a campaign security mode. itis not to the level of the president, so there's not integration with the intelligence communities. solely looking at physical threats against the protectee. that was the posture of terms during that meeting. >> then, what do you do --

. >>> well, i wonder why the secret service if this was nefarious, why the secret service allowed thee. >> it did? frank bruni, the secret service is there to protect life and limb, not to vet the ethics. >> that's true. but the extraordinary thing as soon as he said it it came out they had nothing to with don jr. at the time, and monitoring people going in and out of meetings is absurd. that's a crucial sound bite. >> should we watch it again? >> one more time. >> one more time. please. there we go. >> well, i wondered why the secret service if this was nefarious, why did the secret service allow these people in? the president had secret service protection at that point. that raised a question with me. >> well, i wonder why it's raining sundays and sunny on other days. i mean, a lot of -- >> jay sekulow, the rest of his story was that the president wasn't there. he was in wisconsin. what does the secret service -- >> they have nothing -- >> these are things made up on the fly. they have nothing to with anything. it's like running out the clock and throwing the ball over there. >> but

secret service when pressed and asked for a comment said no, he was not under secret service protection. was this a misfire from the administration or what do you make of that response from sekulow? >> i think what we're seeing with the trump attorneys at this point is that unfortunately, they are getting information bit by bit and are having to be the face of the administration and are having their words put back in front of them and making it look as if they are perhaps being completely dishonest. that could be what is happening. but what also could be what is happening is that they just don't have all of the information just like we didn't have it monday or tuesday or wednesday. and the reality is inn that it'l not out which is why they would like to investigate to find out more. >> as to for as many interviews sekulow did, i want to hear him asked when did the president know about the e-mail from the russians because that is what opened the door to collusion, that's what changed the game here. but that was not asked. but let me ask you about the notion in a trump supporters say we d

>> reporter: the secret service pushing back that donald trump jr. was not a protectee of the usss in june 2016, thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at the time. not to be overlooked this morning, the senate delaying its highly anticipated vote to repeal and replace the obama health care plan because senator john mccain is recovering from surgery. also delayed, the release of the cbo score or the financial estimate, if you will, of the health care plan now on capitol hill. john and alisyn, back to you. >> we will have dr. sanjay gupta on our show later in the program to help us understand what senator mccain is going through and what the prognosis is. let's bring in our panel to discuss all this. we have cnn political analyst john avlon, realclearpolitics' amy stoddard and "the washington post's" car reason demirjian. >> give us perspective, john, on the abc poll that finds president trump at 36% approval. >> it is an unprecedented low in the history of polling. no president has been this low. people closest are people like ger

bus. >> three fast facts about the secret service. the secret service's role in protecting presidential candidates was inspired by the assassination of robert kennedy in 1968. congress passed public law 9331 which added candidates list of those deserving around the clock security. the law also stipulated that presidential widows should continue to receive secret service protection until death or remarriage. >>> another roadblock standing in the way of the gop health care bill. senate republicans who had been planning action this week on their health care bill had decided to push that time line back just a bit. that's primarily because arizona senator john mccain will be sidelined recovering from surgery. the delay comes as some republicans continue to express their discontentment with the new bill. >> there are about eight to ten republican senators who have serious concerns about this bill, and so at the end of the day i don't know whether it will pass. >> some republicans say the bill doesn't go far enough when it comes to repealing

secret service says not us.n response to a claim by the president's own lawyer, jay sekulow. listen. >> i've wondered why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why the secret service allowed these people in. the president had secret service at that point. that raise aid question with me. >> except don junior didn't. here is what the secret service said in a statement to cnn. don junior was not a protectee of the secret service. therefore we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with. jeffrey toobin, it's a bizarre defense to begin with, not to mention that the secret service had no purview over don junior. >> let's talk about one thing. jay sekulow said two very interesting things over the weekend. one was, remember, we spent months hearing that this -- there was no contact between the trump campaign and the russians. it was all fake news. the whole thing was ridiculous. that is now out the window. that's a considerable change of the goal posts now. >> it is. >> maybe there was a crime. maybe there

the secret service says "donald trump, jr., was not a protest t of the secret service in june 2016, whenhe meeting took place, thus, we would not have screened anybody that he was meeting at that time." meanwhile the president only meant president is defending his son to get dirt from hillary clinton according to the emails that russia and its government support of mr. trump. about an hour ago he said most politicians would have gone to a meeting like the one that donald trump, jr., attended to get the opponent, politics. but critics argue that getting info from an opponent like russia, one of the u.s. greatest adversaries really crosses a line. in one of the biggest questions from here is not necessarily of what's happened to donald trump donald trump, jr., who is not officially a part of the white house, but what happens to jared kushner who was at that meeting and does work at the white house and it does have a top-secret security clearance? >> jon: and this "made in america" week, what the white house wants to message this week despite the controversy. >> what we will see as a showca

secret service in june of 2016. thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time. we have team fox coverage for you, chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge in washington, first kristin fisher at the white house. what are they saying about the president's tweet on the russia investigation today? >> not a whole lot, ship. today -- shep. today sean spicer in this meeting that's ongoing, said he would defer all questions about don jr.'s meeting with the russian attorney to president trump's private toerp. we're not getting a lot of meat there. instead what sean spicer said, which is still going on why we can't play any sound bites from it, is that today is "made in america week." the white house trying to get back on message, a lot of flashy things taking place on the south lawn of the white house. march rein one, made in connecticut, is on display there. they're going to have a big tractor made by cater pillar on the -- caterpillar on the lup as well. a lot of questions about the pre

was not a protectee of the secret service in 2016. thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time. donald and ivanka did have secret service at that time and anyone entering would have gone through security to check for weapons. donald jr., jared kushner and campaign chair paul manafort represented the campaign. music publicist robert goldstone arranged the meeting and natalia veselnitska veselnitskaya, a prominent father and son team in russia. they featured the future president in his music video. the president says he only became aware of the june 2016 meeting recently. >> the president, and this has been averted, was not aware of the meeting. >> reporter: they paid $50,000 to the law firm now representing donald trump jr. just days before he amended his security clearance form, including that meeting with natalia veselnitskaya and one day after cnn asked about it. the meeting didn't become public knowledge for nearly two weeks, but it raises questions whether maybe trump's campaign team knew the disclosure

that was my secret service codename. i don't know what, i don't know if we had codenames when my grandpa was president. we only had secret service for a short period, and we should investigate that but twinkle was my name when my dad became president. barbara was turquoise. space off of our isaac they said i had a twinkle in my eye. that has to do with mischief and barbara has these beautiful turquoise eyes. yeah, as a first grader i had a wild imagination. >> she did. it made life on but complicated. >> guest: instead of getting in trouble i acted like him and by the way, my sword was perfectly flawless. it was exactly what you read or see in all the movies. >> host: what was your moms reaction? >> guest: my mom is unbelievably calm. i was busted. this is a good thing. she can shut us down with one look. she never even needs to raise her voice. she so-called, but -- she is so calm that she was not happy. i can open to think speed is strong and may be. after you to tell the secret service then you have not been kidnapped

was not under secret service protection at the time. the secret service says they only recently learned about that meeting. >>> still ahead, we hear from the heart broken fiancee of >>> two family members are found dead inside this million dollar home. a daughter kills her mother and then herself. >> we had information on two calls for help, one all the way from texas. >> a murder then and then a suicide happened across the street here on friday, and this is how police responded. the four officers surrounded the house, getting ready for what could be a fire fight with a daughter inside, and police get a tip from a thousand miles texas. >> a caller says his girlfriend called him and advised that her sister killed their mother. caller lives in dallas, texas, and the girlfriend lives at the above address. >> officers aren't sure who is alive or dead inside. minutes later, more family members try to figure out what's happening. >> the ex-husband spoke to a daughter named ashley an hour ago, who got a call from the original caller in texas s

>> personal attorney seem to focus the blame on the secret service, saying, why did the secret service not bet these russians to keep this meeting from happening? here it is, the clip. >> i wonder why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why did they let these people in. he had secret service protection at that point. that raises a question with me. >> in a rare move, the secret service is now weighing in by saying, president trump are then, candidate trumpet, he may have had secret service protection, but his son, donald trump, jr., did not. here's the statement that they put out just this morning. donald trump, jr., was not protected by the secret service in june, 2016, and thus, we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with. that is their defense, and melissa, i should point out the fact that the secret service is even putting out a statement shows you that they take this very seriously. they are not the most forthcoming agency when it comes to putting out comments like this. the fact that they felt the need to defend itself says a lot right there. >> melissa: they are

the president has secret service protection at that point. >> trevor: wait, you're blaming the secretce for not protecting donald trump, jr. from himself? that's not how it works. secret service are there to shield you from physical attacks, not your own bad decisions. if don, jr. is about to have unprotected sex with a stranger, the secret service just won't jump in front of him and say, no! don't! aaahhh! aaahhh! not how it works. not how it works. look. ( laughter ) s will no telling how badly don, jr. damaged his father's presidency with this meeting, but we're really seeing surprising consequences for ordinary americans, people asking hurt. in fact, we at "the daily show" have a new correspondent, named michael kosta, and he shared a personal heart-wrenching story with us. ♪ >> it's always been a burden my whole life, a shadow looming over me. my name is michael kosta and i kind of look like donald trump, jr. my wreath handsomeness, my quick hair. people won't talk to me. i can't catch cabs. makes me feel sad inside of my body. trump people try to violently chest bump me. i didn'

that was my secret service code name. >> since you were young? >> no, i don't know if we had code names when my grandpa was president. we only had secret service for a short period. we should investigate that. but twinkle was my name when my bad became president. it was based on our eyes. they said i had a twinkle in my eye and barbara has beautiful turquiose eyes. as a first grader, i had an active imagination. my story was flawless and what you see or read in the movies. bald man, he had a puppy -- >> no, he had candy. >> what was laura bush's reaction? >> my mom is calm. she can shut us down with one look. she never needs to raise her voice. she is so calm but not happy. let's be honest. she also found it sort of hilarious. i faked my own kidnapping >> there was a long term story about you, a tollbooth, yale and cars. >> it was unintentional. >> by the way, this is how the world was back then. i don't even know this story. i was with friends. oddly enough we were going to a pro-wrestling federation in new york later. i was driving and i was in

was not under secret service protection in june 2016.p himself had that protection, and his team claims trump didn't know about the meeting. so wait, did trump's own lawyer just accidentally admit that trump did know about the meeting, by implying the secret service would have vetted it? i'd say that's not possible, but it's important to remember the golden rule of the trump era, nothing is too stupid to be true. [ light laughter ] the trump team is going to start putting that on inspirational posters. [ light laughter ] so the trump team has tried blaming it on secret service and claiming it's just normal politics. and if those arguments sound unconvincing to you, that may be why fox news host, eric bolling went back to an old standby, it's all hillary's fault. on friday, he tried to argue that the don jr. meeting proves that it was actually hillary, who was colluding with the russians, by tying the russian lawyer in the meeting to a democratic research firm called fusion gps. >> fusion gps is the group you're talking about. >> right. >

dc police said we needed to contact secret service, again, very basic wounded here, secret service said one person wounded in the thigh. it is unclear exactly what happened, we're still trying to get to the bottom of it. live outside 1100l street northwest, paul wagner, fox5 local news. >>> now to what's apparently becoming a dangerous new trends. >> people committing unspeakable acts while broadcasting them live on social media. >> showing violent attack while two women stood around and watched, streaming live for nearly six minutes. >> then there is this video coming out of california, 18 year old woman driving under the influence, life streams the moments she gets into a deadly crash, where her 14 year old sister was killed. >> it is happening all across the country, fox5's matt here now with new details about 12 year old attack by four teens in southwest. >> jim, this is tough one, the mother of 12 year old boy who was beaten up saturday called us to tell us she was being attacked, she also feels like part of the motivation behind the attack may have had to do with getting attention

that was my secret service code name. >> host: since you were young? >> i -- that is a good question. i don't know if we had code names when my grandpa wasy president. we had only secret service for short period. we should investigate that. twinkle was my name when my dad became president. barbara was turquois. it was based off our eyes. i had a twinkle in my eye. that had to do with mischief. barbara has beautiful turquoise. eyes. as a first-grader i had a wildmi imagination. and my son but it is complicated.ad instead of getting in trouble i acted like, by the way my story was perfectly flawless. exactly what you read or see ine all the movies. >> host: gray van. bald, beard. >> candy. >> puppy would have been too far. >> host: what is laura bush's demeanor. >> my mom is unbelievably calm. she can sit us down with one look. never even needs to raise her voice.ra she is so calm and she was not happy, to be honest. i can't help but think found it sort of hilarious. maybe not. after you had to tell the secret serviceman you had not been kidnapped. >> i

here he goes. >> i wonder why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why did the secret service allow these people in. the president had secret service protection at that point. >> that's sleaze ball. the spokeman for the secret service said donald trump, jr. was not a protectee. let me get back to paul on that. paul, you know, these guys, i don't know anybody who doesn't like the secret service. they protect people at the top with their lives. they take the bullet. here's guy choosing to use him for his practice game here of getting some of the delusion nair trump people to buy into a nonsensical argument that someone in the secret service should have surrounded donald trump, jr. and kept away the russians. >> this is what they do when they don't have a case. they weave and bob and try to change the subject. this is president donald trump's lawyer, not trump, jr.'s lawyer. he's in big trouble and has to decide whether he wants his client, the president, to go down with his son, or whether he wants to align his interests with donald trump. i don't think that's in the best interest of

>> i wonder why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why did the secret service let the people in? the president had security at the time. >> the secret service pushed back saying the agency would not have screened the people at that meeting, that's because it was not protecting mr. trump's son at that time. >> president trump's attorney defends the russian lawyer meeting a majority of americans polled saying it was inappropriate. >> now top republican as well as top democratic lawmakers want answers. cnn has this report for us. >> reporter: we are hearing reaction from the american people for the first time since the story broke about a meeting between donald trump jr. and a pair of russian, one a lobbyist and another tern attorney. promising information about hillary clinton from the russian government. the abc poll shows 63% disapprove of the meeting saying it was inappropriate to have that meeting last june. this is not going to go away soon. you just mentioned the president's historically low approval rating. as we learn more details about this russia investigation it is l

for not stopping that meeting. >> i wonder why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why the secret service allowed these people in. the president had secret service protection at that point. that raised questions with me. >> reporter: the agency responding saying don junior was not under secret service protection so they wouldn't have screened anyone. most politicians would have gone to the meeting like don jr. attended according to president trump. >>> former fbi director james comey is writing a book about his public service, including his brief tenure in the trump administration. officials say the book is expected to go to auction this week and the major publishing houses have already expressed interest. according to "new york times" the book will not be a conventional tell-all memoir. instead it will look at the principles that guided him through the most challenging moments of his career. >>> a faster commute on b.a.r.t., that's something we can all support. the clipper cards being launched today and what it means for area b.a.r.t. stations. a live look at the city from the an

, if this was nefarious, why the secret service allowed these people in. the president had secret service protection at that point, and that raised a question with me." the secret service responded: "donald trump junior was not a protectee of the usss in june 2016. thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting at that time."members of both parties say there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the meeting...and the several versions told. sen. mark warner/d-virginia"we don't know because we don't know, really, what happened at the meeting. what we do know is donald trump jr. did not tell the truth a variety of times."sen. susan collins/r-maine"we need to get to the bottom of this, but the only way that we're going to do it is to talk not just to donald trump jr., who has offered to cooperate for which i give him credit, but to everyone who was at that meeting and who was involved in setting up that meeting." president donald trump defended his eldest son sunday, tweeting...."hillary clinton can illegally get the questions to the debate and

that was the secret service. this is really remarkable, the president's private attorney, one went out on the sunday shows and made a specious argument about the meeting that donald trump jr. took with the russian lawyer. listen to what jay sekulow said over the weekend. >> i wonder why, if this was self far yous, why did the secret service let these people in. >> guess what? the secret service has an explanation for this. they say donald trump jr. was not a protectee of the u.s. secret service in june 2016, thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at this time. that's essentially secret service calling bs on an argument from the president's personal law. >> jay sekulow has been tied in knots in these sunday show interviews. somebody has to take this job. he should probably get combat pay. by the way, his explanation about trying to nail james comey for not honoring attorney-client privilege a and somebody says he wasn't acting as the president's attorney. i'm talking about executive privilege,

. >>> i wonder why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why did the secret service allow these secret service protection at that point. number two, we can't act like this is in a vacuum. we know for a fact, as reported extensively in a piece by politico, that the ukrainians were in direct contact with doc officials and traded information back and forth. >> that's the president's lawyer. throwing on the blame game. back to the democrats. at least partly for donald trump jr.'s highly scrutinized meeting with several russians last year. howard dean, former dnc chair and msnbc contributocontributor. and republican strategist susan dell piriso. how do you respond? >> well, the lawyer is using half truths. in order to defend his client. and they don't hold up under scrutiny. first of all, for him to suggest that the secret service should have vetted this person is a suggestion which isn't very smart on his part. that trump was going to be in the meeting. because when you're a candidate, the candidate has secret service protection. the family doesn't. and the campaign manager doesn't.

twinkle was my secret service code name. i don't know if we had code names when my grandpa was president we only had secret service for a short period. we should investigate that. it was based on our eyes. they said i had a twinkle in my eye, i think that had to do with mistress and barbara has these beautiful turquoise eyes. it was what you see and read. >> my mom is unbelievably calm. she can shut us down with one lock. she is the so-called but wasn't happy to be honest. so you said that they were inaccurate because there was a story about you and cars. it's not that good of a story. by the way, this is how the world was back then. i don't even know the story. i was with friends from yale. i was in a car that had the toll pass, so we went through and secret service -- >> [inaudible] >> you have to include this. we lost them. but then someone wrote about it and it became this whole thing. i think it was in the national enquirer. >> maybe i should read "the new york times" a little bit more. i'm tired of being only --. my da

states secret service in june 2016. we would not have screen anyone he was meeting with at that time. >> none of this stopping the president from treating a defense of the implements -- infamous trump tower meeting. >> reporter: john mccain is recovering from blood clots surgery. dr. someone of flying but it is being reported he may drive back to dc to vote on the measure as soon as possible. fox news. >>> south korea offering talks with north korea today for the first time since 2015. they're trying to ease tensions him -- along the border and resume reunions of families separated during the korean war. it's unclear how the north will react to the proposition. >> president moon is determined to make this big push for diplomacy. my personal feel is that the north will not be interested in this dialogue. >> his policy of working with the u.s. on vetting them program. president moon push for engagement during his election campaign last year making the point again this month despite an intercontinental ballistic missile te

was not under secret service protection in june 2016. thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time. >> so let's get live to jon karl at the white house tonight, and jon, we saw the president's push at the top of your report for made in america today. he was often asked as a candidate why his products are made overseas. his daughter, ivanka, facing those same questions. it came up again at the white house today, didn't it? >> reporter: absolutely. sean spicer getting a lot of questions on of the president's initiative he said, is to promote more american manufacturing, but david, what he did not say is if there would be more commitment from the trump companies to buy more american-made goods. >> jon karl leading us off for washington coverage. the other washington coverage, the health scare for john mccain. what doctors have discovered and forcing senate republicans to hold off on the health care bill because they need his vote. abc's mary bruce on the hill tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the republican quest to

so there were all of these stereois too that we were secret service ditchers in college years. that my friend is not true. but as a -- first grader at the elementary -- i did fake any own kidnapping. [laughter] >> who was -- twinkle? >> i'm twinkle my secret service code name. >> since you were young are. >> since i don't know what our code that's a good question. i don't know if we had code names when my grandpa was president we only had had secret service for a short period. and -- we should investigate that. but twinkle was my name when my dad became president. barbara was turquoise it was based off of our eyes i had a twinkle that has to do with mischief and barbara has beautiful turquoise eyes, and yeah. as a first grader i had a wild imagination. >> she did. it made life fun. but implicated. my story is all you see in movies. bald man -- upbeat and candy -- the puppy would have one step too far. >> what was lara bush's reaction? >> my mom is unbelievably calm. >> i was busted here's the thing she can shut us down with one look -- never even needs to raise her voice. she i

well, i've wondered why the secret service, if this was nefarious, why did the secret service allow these people in? the president had secret service protection at that point. that raised a question with me. >> lem raise this question back. the united states secret service says donald trump jr. was not a protectee of the united states secret service in june 2016. thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time. jay sekulow knows that, or if he's a good attorney, as he claims to be, should know that before had e goes on television. part of their strategy. throw stuff up they know or should know is not true to try to get the people, if the secret service let them in, it's fine. >> they throw things up they know aren't true, more than that and are prove bluntrue. he should know the secret service will come back and refute him or asked and when asked, is going to refute him. it happens time after time. >> let's remember what's distracted from here. one thing, anyway. we spoke this morning with will herd a republican on the house intelligence committee, one of the commi

the president's private attorney playing defense sunday, seeming to blame the secret service for not stopping the meeting. was no farias, why did these people in -- if this was nefarious, why did the secret service allow these people then? >> the agency responding saying don junior was not under secret service protection at that time, so they would not have provided any interference at that time. adriana: meanwhile, on capitol hill, a double blow for gop senators as they try to pass a plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act. bill's analysis of the estimated cost and scale of insurance coverage was supposed to be released today. john mccain is in arizona, still recovering from surgery. until he gets back, officials say the vote is on hold indefinitely. >> at the end of the day, i don't know whether it will pass. we need to go through the normal committee process and get m input from people on both sides of the aisle. adriana: senator susan collins is one of two people who have already said they will vote no on the bill. with mccain's absence, they will fall short of the 50

we did get in said get in touch with the secret service. i tried to get in touch with the secret service . they are trying to put out a statement. one person shot in the thigh is what we were told, transported to a nearby hospital. when we get more we'll bring it to you. live outside 11th and l, paul wagner, fox5 local news. >> to a disturbing new trend, people committing unspeakable acts and broadcasting them live on social media. take a look. this is new video from st. mary's county of a violent fight between two women, amazingly you can also see plenty other people just standing around watching and recording. someone streemed this live on facebook for nearly six minutes. i don't think this is the video we wanted t you. here we go video out of california of an 18 year old under the influence. she live extremed the moment she got into a deadly crash. her 14 year old sister was quilled in the crash those are just a few of the examples, but situations like this is happening nationwide. matt ackland is here with new de fails about 14 year old

, if this was nefarious, why the secret service allowed these people in. the president had secret service protection at that point, and that raised a question with me." the secret service responded: "donald trump junior was not a protectee of the usss in june 2016. thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting at that time."members of both parties say there are still a lot of unanswered questions about the meeting...and the several versions told. sen. mark warner/d-virginia"we don't know because we don't know, really, what happened at the meeting. what we do know is donald trump jr. did not tell the truth a variety of times."sen. susan collins/r-maine"we need to get to the bottom of this, but the only way that we're going to do it is to talk not just to donald trump jr., who has offered to cooperate for which i give him credit, but to everyone who was at that meeting and who was involved in setting up that meeting." president donald trump defended his eldest son sunday, tweeting...."hillary clinton can illegally get the questions to the debate and

secret service in june of 2016. thus, we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time." what do you make of this exchange? >> this was a very curious thing for him to say. he implied that because donald trump jr. -- or because donald trump has secret service protection, then that means that they would have been screened before coming into trump tower, but we know that donald trump jr. was not under their protection at that time, which means that either jay was either throwing something at the wall and seeing what would stick or he thought that president donald trump himself, then candidate donald trump, was in the believe, and, therefore, his secret service protection would have been extended to trump jr., paul manafort, and jared kushner. >> he was on the arrows, on the offensive, trying to push back. let me play you another soundbyte from him, and i'll get your reaction from. >> is it possible the president knows of no other meetings with his campaign staff and russians? >> the president told me

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: the secret service shot back in a statement sunday. donald trump jr. was not under secret service protection in june 2016. thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at that time. >> so let's get live to jon karl at the white house tonight, and jon, we saw the president's push at the top of your report for made in america today. president trump was often asked as a candidate, why his products are made overseas. his daughter, ivanka, facing those same questions. it came up again at the white house today, didn't it? >> reporter: absolutely. sean spicer getting a lot of questions on this, and he conceded there are some products the trump organization simply cannot buy made in america, and point of the president's initiative, he said, is to promote more american manufacturing, but david, what he did not say is if there would be any new commitment from the trump companies to buy more american-made goods. >> jon karl leading us off for washington coverage. >>> the other major headline from washington meanwhile, that health sc

was not under a secret service protection in june 2016.turned our attention this morning to this recent poll from the associated press. it talks about influence, especially of those who have the most influence and least influence in washington, d.c. there is a pole you can find online and on our website. on who hasr thoughts influence here in the district of columbia. from westminster, maryland. republican line. what do you think of the idea of influence in washington, d.c.? >> and for taking my call. i hope that you don't cut me off because sometimes when somebody about the beautiful family of the president of the united states because always cut off people. thinking likest the media all the time like 90% if you turn the radio all the cnn formatter cbs, c-span. it's talking about russia. all the time. the beautiful family of the president of the united states. .ot right it's our president and he is and youwonderful job guys are trying to brainwash everybody talking about russia 90% or 98%. host: to the idea of the media's influence, what

of the united states secret service in june, 2016. this we would not have screen anyone he was meeting with at that time. none of this is stopping the president from tweeting in defense of the now infamous trump tower meeting. >>> over on capitol hill, a vote on the healthcare bill has been delayed because senator john mccain is recovering from an emergency blood clot surgery. although he is not allowed to fly now, he is reportedly considering driving from arizona back here to dc to get that vote on that healthcare bill happening a bit sooner. frank? >> thank you. >>> tomorrow republican senators have announced their opposition to the healthcare plan dealing another blow. mike lee of utah and jerry moran of kansas just came out against that. they join senator seward -- susan collins and 48 democrats. mitch mcconnell had postpone the vote on consideration of the bill until john mccain returns from a medical leave. the deflection of two more puts up for it in jeopardy. >>> coming up, was it arson, an accident, or something else? >>> we

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the secret service does not clear people for a meeting from donald trump jr., but the secret serviceld clear people from meeting with a candidate. >> not to cut you off, it is important to note that nbc news has confirmed that the secret service was not protecting don junior at the time of the meeting. just to put that out there. >> of course, not. so why is the lawyer for the president saying that the secret service is to blame? that only makes sense and the secret service only would have known about this meeting if there was a proposal for donald trump senior, the candidate, who is protected by the secret service to attend the meeting. so maybe there's more smoke there, i don't know, but we have lawyers going on tv and telling falsehoods on behalf of their clients. the administration has been lying about contacts with the russians for six months and every time there's a new revelation they say what about hillary? what about hillary? we're getting sick and tired of hearing about hillary. donald trump is president of the united states. they've got to stop lying and let the american p

take a listen. >> i've wondered why the secret service if this was nefarious, why did the secret service allow these people in? the president had secret service protection at that point. that raised a question with me. >> well, but then that argument gets blown up when the secret service releases a statement later in the day saying donald trump jr. was not a protectee of the usss in june 2016, thus we would not have screened anyone he was meeting with at the time. mike, does this hurt them? if they go out there, the idea is to defend the president, defend obviously in this case donald trump jr. then you make a blatantly false statement? >> sure, any time that you say something that is proven to be false, especially by a respected government agency like the secret service most people obviously view is nonpartisan and true professionals, that's going to hurt other arguments. you may be making credible arguments that are good and sound true, but one that gets proven demonstrably false. >> what i don't understand is this is something very easy to find out. you can google when they added secr

here reporting on stories that involve the secret service same, the secret service does not have a comment. that is their m.o. the fact that they're putting out a statement today says a lot, sandra. >> sandra: very interesting. spewing last to talk about. fox news contributor byron, good day. you write this piece. here we go. what campaign would not seek mother load of clinton email. was that all about, byron? >> one thing underlying the whole russian investigation is the curiosity on the part of republicans and some of the trim campaign of what happened to those hill records and emails go back to march, it 2016, and she announced that she had a secret server system. 60,000 plus emails. about half of those word work-related, and she would turn over to the state department, but the other half, she said, entirely personal, and she would delete them, and she alone decided what to keep and what to destroy. we later learned, the lengths she used two delete all these emails, and actually used hammers to destroy devices that had those emails on them. there were people in the trim campaign and the

. >> i have wondered why the secret service allowed these people in, the president had secret service protection at that point, that raised a question with me. >> that in turn prompted the secret service to respond just today, it set on our background statement. all to be continued, heather, back to you. >> heather: cheerwine, i am from north carolina, shout out to them. >> jon: the controversy surrounding president trump's son raised new questions about how the involvement of family members may be impacting his administration. in an opinion piece today, a george washington university professor cites the issue surrounding donald trump, jr., as well as jared kushner as examples of why nepotism can often end so badly. joining is now with his take, former press secretary for president george w. bush and a fox news contributor. is there something here we are not seeing? the president obviously trusts his son and his son-in-law. >> the president has the right to pick whoever they want, there is a lot of benefit to having somebody the president is comfortable with. to the problem is that wh

the president had secret service protection at that point. >> after that comment, the secret serviceas elaborated and said, no, we would not have checked out the participants of the meeting because don junior was not being protected by the secret service. by the way, it's the fbi who is responsible for who they are allowing into the country and not. why would sekulow give this excuse? >> distraction. this is a political spin, political sort of deception, both parties do it, sort of, hey, look over here at this thing because they don't want you to look over here. the reality is, we should not lose sight of this. donald trump jr. released an e-mail exchange between himself and the agalarov's music publicist, rob goldstone, in which he says flat out, we want to have this meeting. we have what we believe to be incriminating evidence against hillary clinton. it comes as a result of russia's effort to help aid mr. trump in the election and don junior says, quote, love it, hope that it's true. if so, we can use it later in the summer. i don't know that it's more complicated than that. you c