after just 24 days for lying to the vice president about his contacts with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. the vice president was also in charge of the trump transition and would have overseen the vetting of general flynn. white house press secretary sean spicer brushed off questions about the thoroughness of that process. >> but all of that pro see was made during the obama administration and apparently an acknowledgement of the trip he took. >> he had the country's most sensitive secrets which is one reason why congress is so concd disclose the forp payments could result up to five years in prison. jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >>> attorney general jeff sessions has recused himself from the investigation into russia's role of the election but he'll be in studio 57 this morning. >>> cbs chief correspondent and moderator of face nace john dickerson will interview president trump. "cbs this morning" will broadcast live from the white house on monday, may 1 cents. >>> the pentagon says two american servicemembers have been killed fighting isis in afghanistan. the troops died sunday nig

it turns out he did have discussions with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak, even after telling the u.s. senate in his confirmation hearing-- >> fakey breaky news. time for my most tremendous tweet-storm yet. okay, here we go. huge tweet. this is going to be a sweet tweet. here it comes! ah, i can't get my tweet up! tweet-us interrupt-us, what am i going to do? >> donald! donald! ( laughter ) >> president nixon! i'm so happy you're here, tricky, i'm starting to get real scared. >> there's no reason to be scared, donny! you just have to flip the script. for instance, i heard that president obama tapped your

after just 24 days for lying to the vice president about his contacts with russian ambassador sergey kislyake vice president was also in charge of the trump transition and would have overseen the vetting of general flynn. today white house press secretary sean spicer brushed off questions about the thoroughness of that process. >> but all of that clearance was made by the obama -- during the obama administration and apparently with knowledge of the trip that he took. >> reporter: as national security adviser flynn had access to the country's most sensitive secrets, which is one reason why congress is so concerned. the failure to disclose the foreign payments could result in up to five years in prison. >>> midnight tonight marks the start of president trump's 100th day in office. it's also the deadline for him to sign a stopgap spending bill to keep the federal government open. but that bill may never reach the president's desk. dpmz are threatening to skutd'll the measure if republicans press ahead with their plan for another vote to repeal the affordable care act. nancy cordes has the lates

adviser just 24 days into the job after president about his contacts with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. >> the white house has refused to abide this committee with a single piece of paper. >> coummins said -- >> to not produce documents is ridiculous. >> jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >>> today members of the house and senate will be briefed on north korea's development of weapons and long-range missiles. this morning south korea protested. china sees it as a security threat. the deployment came after a day of a live artillery drill. senator lindsey graham told nancy cordes the u.s. reaction to north korea is the most important decision president presidency. >> i think the symbolism of going to the white house where the commander in chief lives the hear from the commander in chief and his team about what we need to do or be prepared to do with north korea in a sense is how serious this is. >>> first daughter ivanka trump faced a tough crowd during a women's summit in berlin. listen to what happened yesterday when she praised her father. >> he's been a tremendous champion of support

it turns out he did have discussions with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak, even after telling thete in his confirmation hearing-- >> fakey breaky news. time for my most tremendous tweet-storm yet. okay, here we go. huge tweet. this is going to be a sweet tweet. here it comes! ah, i can't get my tweet up! tweet-us interrupt-us, what am i going to do? >> donald! donald! ( laughter ) >> president nixon! i'm so happy you're here, tricky, i'm starting to get real scared. >> there's no reason to be scared, donny! you just have to flip the script. for instance, i heard that president obama tapped your phones.

after just 24 days for lying to the vice president about his contacts with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. the vice president was also in charge of the trump transition and would have overseen the vetting of general flynn. today, white house press secretary sean spicer brushed off questions about the thoroughness of that process. >> but all of that clearance was-- was made by the-- during the obama administration, and, apparently, with knowledge of the trip that he took. >> reporter: as national security adviser, flynn had access to the country's most sensitive secrets, which is one reason why congress is so concerned. scott, the failure to disclose the foreign payments towld result in up to five years in prison. >> pelley: jeff pegues for us in the washington newsroom. today, under pressure from the neighbors, the president backed off his threat to scrap the north american free trade agreement, opting instead to renegotiate it. major garrett is at the white house. >> well, i was going to terminate nafta as of two or three days from now. >> reporter: but president trump will not pull the

into the job, after misleading the vice president about his contacts with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. >> the white house has refused to provide this committee with a single piece of paper. >> reporter: today, congressman cummings said the white house was stonewalling the investigation. white house press secretary sean spicer: >> and right now, to ask the white house to produce documents that were not in the possession of the white house is-- is-- is ridiculous. >> reporter: congressional democrats believe former acting attorney general sally yates could shed some light on the issue. she alerted the white house about flynn's contacts with the russians. scott, today, it was announced that she will testify on the hill early next month. >> pelley: jeff pegues in the washington newsroom. a cbs news poll out today finds that 60% of americans think the economy is in good shape. stock prices today came close to record highs, and jim axelrod has the story behind the numbers. jim. >> reporter: well, scott, in the 24 weeks since election day, the stock market has had quite a ride, straight up.

russian bank whose chairman met with kushner in 2016 and at the request of russian ambassador sergey kislyak. >> now a top former obama official is speaking out. cnn senior congressional reporter manu raju is reporting for us. >> former questions about susan rice and her role in unmasking the names of trump officials were having with communications with foreign officials. republicans say this needs to be part of the broadening look into the communications but tonight wolf, susan rice is pushing back. >> reporter: former president barack obama's national security adviser under fire and unmasking names. >> the allegation is that somehow obama administration officials utilized intelligence for political purposes, that's absolutely false. >> reporter: she insists that asking for the names of americans swept up in the reports was part of her job as national security adviser. >> there were occasions where i would receive a report in which a u.s. person were provided, name not provided, just u.s. person. in order to under the importance of the report and assess the significance it was necessary to

. >> shepard: in other words, who sergey kislyak was speaking with from inside trump's world. >> exactly. you're allowed to do that if you're an official. it looks as if it was done legally. we don't know the details yet. it is alleged as you point out. only a couple news organizations reporting this. it will be a factor in the discussion. i can't imagine that it's going to change the core narrative here, which is who in the trump campaign was communicating with the russians, what were those conversations about, did they in any way effect the u.s. electoral process. that's the focus of the senate and house committees as well as the general public. >> shepard: did you see the handshake today? >> i did not. >> shepard: there were two. angela merkel. she didn't get one. and -- >> the merkel things was confusion. did he not hear her. >> how about the handshake? >> we don't know. what we do know is this is a president that feels that he wants to chart his own road with traditional allies of the united states, including angela merkel, who is the most prominent leader in europe. >> shepard: joh

it turns out he did have discussions with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak, even after telling the u.s. senate in his confirmation hearing-- >> fakey breaky news. time for my most tremendous tweet-storm yet. okay, here we go. huge tweet. this is going to be a sweet tweet. here it comes! ah, i can't get my tweet up! tweet-us interrupt-us, what am i going to do? >> donald! donald! ( laughter ) >> president nixon! i'm so happy you're here, tricky, i'm starting to get real scared. >> there's no reason to be scared, donny! you just have to flip the script. for instance, i heard that president obama tapped your phones. ( laughter ) just tweet that and the hounds are off your trail! >> obama! i knew he was up to no good. how low has president obama gone to tap my phones during the big sacred election process? this is nixon/watergate. bad (or sick) guy. and... boom goes the tweet- amite! >> donald, stop! >> abraham lincoln? >> don't listen to nixon! he was the one who tapped the phones in watergate. >> shut up, abe! don't you have tickets to the theater tonight you stupid neckbeard? >> too

there and carter page, jeff sessions, jared kushner, there's a whole lot of people who met with sergey kislyak or russian officials. we don't need to rely on general flynn in order to get evidence about what took place. we can ask all these other people who have met with the russian officials and find out what they discussed. i don't think there's a reason why the house intelligence committee would offer immunity to -- except from general flynn. i think this is a question on donald trump's judgment. donald trump chose this person, general flynn, to be the national security adviser. he fired him only after it became public that general flynn had lied and misled the vice president, mike pence. and then, just yesterday, i believe, and maybe today, donald trump is out there tweeting again that general flynn is the victim of a witchhunt. if he's the victim of a witch hunt, then why would you have fired him? it just makes no sense. there is no logic in what donald trump is doing. and here we are almost 100 days into the president's administration, and we have no clue where he's going. he's failed on

. >> did you meet sergey kislyak? did you talk to him? >> i'm not going to deny i talked to him. >> you did talk to him. >> i will say, i never met him anywhere outside of cleveland, let's say that much. >> the only time you met him was in cleveland? >> i may have met him, poib what might have been in cleveland. >> i mean, what gives here? that conversation was obviously whether or not he met with russian ambassador during the rnc, but, what here is actually the smoking gun? we know it's bizarre. we know they give answers and change those answers and spin those answers. what, here, is the real, real issue? >> i think the real issue is that we are learning, day by day, extensive contacts between trump associates to people related to trump, trump on the campaign, trump folks on the campaign and russians and i think what makes people really suspicious is given what's happened, why don't they just tell us themselves? we are getting leaks. the fbi is investigating. it's odd that day by day, drip by drip, we are learning more. the trump white h

. >> did you meet sergey kislyak in cleveland? did you talk to him?ing to deny that i talked with him. >> so you did talk to him? >> i will say that i never met him anywhere outside of cleveland. >> the probe of carter page's ties with the kremlin was reported back in september 2016 by yahoo! news chief investigative correspondent michael isikoff. michael, carter page is one strange individual. his interviews are sort of a meandering kind of morass of words where he doesn't really say a whole lot. have you been able to determine whether or not he had definitive contact with the same russian entities that were hacking the u.s. election? >> well, look, he's given conflicting answers to multiple people now. he reverses himself sometimes in the same interview. he gave an interview to george stephanopoulos on "good morning america" this week in which pressed on whether he had discussions about sanctions during this trip to moscow in july, when he was still a campaign adviser to the trump campaign and was in moscow, he said, well, he couldn't say definitive

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. >> did you meet sergey kislyak in cleveland? did you talk to him?t going to deny that i talked with him. >> so you did talk to him? >> i will say that i never met him anywhere outside of cleveland. >> the probe of carter page's ties with the kremlin was reported back in september 2016 by yahoo! news chief investigative correspondent m e michael isikoff. michael, carter page is one strange individual. his interviews are sort of a meandering kind of morass of words where he doesn't really say a whole lot. have you been able to determine whether or not he had definitive contact with the same russian entities that were hacking the u.s. election? >> well, look, he's given conflicting answers to multiple people now. he reverses himself sometimes in the same interview. he gave an interview to george stephanopoulos on "good morning america" this week in which pressed on whether he had discussions about sanctions during this trip to moscow in july, when he was still a campaign adviser to the trump campaign and was in moscow, he sa, well, he couldn't say defi

administration for lying to the vice president about discussing sanctions with russia's ambassador, sergei kislyak. >> when i looked at the information, i said, i don't think he did anything wrong. if anything he did something right. the thing is he didn't tell our vice president properly, and then he said he didn't remember, so either way it wasn't very satisfactory to me. >> reporter: the connections to russia extend inside the trump family. president trump's son-in-law and close adviser jared kushner met with russia's ambassador and with sergei gorkov, president of the russian bank that's under sanctions. jared did a job in the transition in the campaign, where he was a conduit to leaders. and that's until we had a state department and a functioning place for people to go. he wants to make sure he's very clear about the role he played and who he talked to and that's it. >> reporter: and the ties extend as well to the very highest levels of the trump campaign. former trump campaign manager paul manafort worked for years in ukraine for pro-russian politician viktor yanukovych. manafort also partn

amid controversy in february after he lied about discussing sanctions with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. now the former acting attorney general sally yates who alerted the white house about flynn's conversation with kislyak will soon testify before the senate judiciary committee on russia's interference in the election. >> we will ask her all questions about russia, what she knew about trump ties. was there any administration effort to unmask people for political purposes? we'll get to all things russia in terms of what the administration did and what russia did. >> reporter: and the judiciary committee hearing adds to this crowded field of investigations into russia's meddling in the election and any times to the trump campaign association, including the fbi, the intelligence committees and the house oversight committee. meantime tonight the senate is poised to confirm the new dod head of the russia probe. a lot going on. >> an odd argument that the white house has no bearing with the transition team. headed by the president >> exactly. >> they are continuing to press sean spicer on th

the investigations into russiagate because he himself had meetings with the russian ambassador sergei kislyaklet's take a listen to sessions on the "today" show with matt lauer talking about his role in an investigation of michael flynn. >> you have already recused yourself from investigations involving any coordination between trump associates and russian officials. does that recusal extend to this area, to general flynn? >> well, my recusal deals with the campaign issues. but i would expect not to be involved in this one. >> you would recuse yourself from any decision dealing with general flynn? >> yeah, and i really don't know whether there is an investigation or should be. and we don't confirm investigations you know in the department of justice. >> john, give us historical perspective here of how unusual it is for a sitting attorney general of the united states to have to walk away from an investigation of this nature and magnitude. >> well, we haven't had any investigations of this nature or this magnitude. what happened during watergate the attorney general didn't announce his recusal,

intelligence committee wants to question jared kushner about his meetings with the russian ambassador, sergey kislyakbut a meeting with jared kushner has not been scheduled. joining us tim matt, a correspondent for the daily beast who has been investigating the trump-russia question. and julian edelstein. tim mak, the significance of the intelligence committee wanting to speak to jared kushner about this, how do you read that? >> well, it's obvious that the senate intelligence committee wants to talk to jared kushner about his contacts with the russian ambassador and of course this russian banker, sergei gorkov, who as you noted was a graduate of the russian spy school as part of the broader investigation into the russian role in the u.s. election and whether or not anyone in the trump orbit was involved in that russian interference or had ties with the russian government. you know, jared kushner is the person closest to donald trump who it has been publicly reported has had meetings like this. >> julian epstein, how common are omissions like this in disclosure forms? >> well, they're relatively comm

documented that general flynn likely perjuriey himself when he said he did not discuss anything with sergei kislyakpparently did. what he wants to do is have immunity to spill the beans on that. if there is an fbi investigation, which there likely is which includes flynn, he would get immunity from perjury. >> joe, are republicans in washington, are they just looking the other way when it comes to the controversy? we heard from president trump, but that is about it. >> they can't afford to. everybody is watching and everybody wants to know. as devin nunes found out, everybody is watching closely. you can't if you are a member of the house and senate or democrat or republican, you have to look at this with an impartial eye. the intelligence committee is doing a better job. republicans and democrats working together to get to the bottom of this. what is what americans want to see. how did it happen and unfold and can we get an unbiased representation. >> joe, you said impartial eyes. zerlina, why the resistance? >> i think it is a very good question. i think that democrats would want an independent 9

the person who can answer the question: what did donald trump know about the conversations with sergey kislyakhe sudden change in russian policy to avoid retaliation, the person who knows whether that was discussed with donald trump, what donald trump said, whether he approved it is michael flynn. so that's really important. that's not an issue that involves violations of law, but it goes right to the heart of the question of the trump administration and russia. >> dickerson: susan, the president came out and said great for michael flynn to ask for protection. obviously there was a lot of going back to the campaign in which the president said, if you're asking for immunity, it means you've done something wrong. what does this mean for the white house? >> this cannot be good news for the white house. the words you don't want to hear from a former senior aide is, "i have a story to tell and i would like immunity." the way you get immunity is if you have somebody more important that you can offer evidence on. if the story ends with michael flynn, he's not going to get immunity. this is a classic

white house that he misled the vice-president about his contacts with the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. we don't know what else there is, did she have any other concerns, so that's interesting. yates along with cia director john brennan and dia director james clapper, the question is what can they say in public in an open hearing, nonclassified setting about this stuff, greta. >> you know, ned, a lot of people are probably thinking why are we talking about mike flynn. he's gone. tell the viewers why this is important. >> well, mike flynn is gone, but if you remember for the last month we have been talking about aspects of this that have absolutely no relevance to the broader question of russian interference and intervention in the campaign. frankly russian potential russian collusion with the trump campaign. so, to return to the subject of mike flynn actually means we are getting back to the subject at hand. for the past several weeks we've been talking about unmasking ambassador rice. issues unrelated to this. but as ken just said, sally yates will real have i some insight to offer be

state-run, russian bank, and the meeting with jared kushner was set up by russian ambassador sergey kislyak so, this is a display of back-channel meetings and efforts by the russians to meet with trump associates and the trump team. one other for you. the "washington post" is also reporting that secretary of education betsy devos's brother, eric prince, met with a russian connected to president putin in the seychelles in january during the transition. both eric prince and the white house deny that this meeting was on behalf of the trump administration. but again, poppy and john, all of these separate meetings, they're raising questions about the trump team's ties to russia, especially as there's this ongoing investigation by the fbi as to whether or not president trump and his team may have colluded at all with the russian government. a lot to be uncovered and dots yet to be connected. poppy and john? >> jessica schneider, thank you. joining us, democratic strategist, maria cardona, cnn political commentator, republican strategist kevin matta, and cnn political analyst and chief for "the da

. >> did you meet sergey kislyak in cleveland? did you talk to him?t going to deny that i talked with him. >> so you did talk to him? >> i will say that i never met him anywhere outside of cleveland. >> the probe of carter page's ties with the kremlin was reported back in september 2016 by yahoo! news chief investigative correspondent michael isikoff. michael, carter page is one strange individual. his interviews are sort of a meandering kind of morass of words where he doesn't really say a whole lot. have you been able to determine whether or not he had definitive contact with the same russian entities that were hacking the u.s. election? >> well, look, he's given conflicting answers to multiple people now. he reverses himself sometimes in the same interview. he gave an interview to george stephanopoulos on "good morning america" this week in which pressed on whether he had discussions about sanctions during this trip to moscow in july, when he was still a campaign adviser to the trump campaign and was in moscow, he said, well, he couldn't say defini

. >> did you meet sergey kislyak in cleveland? did you talk to him? >> i'm not going to deny that i talked with him. >> so you did talk to him? >> i will say that i never met him anywhere outside of cleveland. let's just say that much. >> the only time that you met him was in cleveland? >> that i may have met him possibly might have been in cleveland. >> meanwhile, nbc news reports today that paul manafort may register with the justice department as a foreign agent for his work for the pro-putin former government of ukraine. this all comes after two members of the house intelligence committee, democratic congressman joaquin castro and denny heck predicted last week that the russian investigations will lead to felony convictions. >> -- of collusion yet? >> i guess i would say this. that my impression i wouldn't be surprised after all this is said and done that some people end up in jail. >> he said he would not be surprised if people ended up going to jail. i will be surprised if people don't end up going to jail. >> i'm joined now by msnbc political a

24 days into the job after misleading the vice president about his contacts withhe ambassador, sergei kislyakse has refused to provide this committee with a single piece of paper. >> reporter: today congressman cummings says the white house was stonewalling the investigation. white house press secretary sean spicer. >> right now to ask the white house to produce documents that were not in the possession of the white house is ridiculous. >> reporter: congressional democrats believe sally yates could shed some light on the issue. today it was announced that she will testify on the hill early next month. >> jeff pegues in the washington newsroom. >>> a cbs news poll today finds that 60% of americans feel the economy is in good shape. stock prices today came close to record highs. jim axelrod has the story behind the numbers. >> in the 24 weeks since election day, the stock market has had quite a straight up. the nasdaq is up nearly 15%, the dow jones up 13%. and the s&p nearly 10%. corporate earnings are better than expected. but a lot of this rally has been based on what's expected to happen. t

and caught up in collection of some transcripts of phone calls made to the russian ambassador sergey kislyak. >> shannon: the president tweeted at the beginning of march. >> it doesn't go the distance to prove there was wiretapping of the trump tower or his people were specifically targeted but adds to credence to the later claims by the white house that there was some surveillance going on during the transition. we heard this goes back to before the president name the nominee. it's a bill ball of wool and we'll continue to pull on it. >> shannon: thank you, john. >> bill: lindsey graham and armed services committee member. two big topics. let's start with susan rice. thank you for coming back. why would susan rice pursue this? >> i have no idea but i think we need to get to the bottom of it. susan rice misled the american people and appeared on sunday shows after the attack saying things that were completely false and untrue in terms of political manipulation of national security information. susan rice in my view has done it in the past. whether or not she did it this time i don't know but

sessions' decision to recuse himself after it came out that he had met with the russian ambassador, sergey k kislyakhat he viewed it as a concession that didn't need to be made and thought that weakened sessions. what it read to me is that jeff sessions is sort of following the donald trump mode that he has read the tea leaves that you don't -- what he didn't say, kate was i'm sorry. and when you gave him the opportunity, should you have used different words, he didn't really answer that question, because donald trump doesn't want him to say sorry or to apologize. he views this as political correctness run amok. you say what you think and you stand by it. don't ever back down. it's a sign of weakness. so, jeff sessions, at least, i think has internalized that, because he had every opportunity to say, you know what, the words i chose distracted from my broader point, i should have -- but didn't, and i think that's very noteworthy. >> one thing that definitely made my ears perk up. i mean it was great to have them and speak with them about many issues, but also on the issue of the first 100 days and t

general has a conversation with kislyak which he apparently lied about that then jared kushner the present son-in-law apparently meeting with one of the russian officials sergeiing is inappropriate, legal part of business or at least part of the standard reaching out of a political campaign or an incoming administration and something perhaps nefarious? >> i think that's really the 60,000-dollar question and this is where the role of congress become so important. what we have seen over over the last week the shenanigans over the sources of the information obtained by congressman nunes, this is i think potentially very damaging, damaging to the credibility of the congressional probe as a whole because the more heat areas about this the more controversy there is about this the more apt to the american public is to to now do not trust the findings of the congressional investigations. those are key. transparency, sunlight is the best disinfectant that we have to be able to trust what congress finds. eric: do think this extends to the senate intelligence committee which hasn't had these issues? >> the probe is going to get a lot more broader for the next couple of