tamara keith is with us, white house correspondent for national public radio. and jeremy bash, former chief of staff at cia, at the pentagon, and notably, former counsel to the house intelligence committee. jeremy, i'll begin with you as the house counsel on this panel, at least. how unusual is this, we should note, the reuters news agency is confirming this cnn story, though, with a single source. how unusual is it that these charges or this charge, this indictment, under seal by order of a federal judge, the word of it has broken, though we don't know who, we don't know what possible charge or charges. >> well, if word came from the grand jury or from the government, that would violate the law. there are grand jury secrecy requirements. if it came, on the other hand, from a defendant or the defendant's counsel, that would not be unusual. so we don't know exactly the source of these stories. it's important to note, brian, tonight, we don't know who is charged. and we don't know what they are charged for. the fact that the indictments are sealed does not give u

ken dilanian, matthew miller, tamara keith, jeremy bash remain with us. ken, another one for you. there is a scenario by which the appearance of former cia director woolsey in this case and in this investigation argues poorly for the fortunes of former general flynn. can you walk people how those two are connected. >> it's a twisted tale, brian. >> that's why i called on you to tell it. >> james woolsey told nbc news today in a statement that he has been in contact with the fbi and with special counsel robert mueller's office about this story that he first told "the wall street journal," which is that he walked into a meeting between mike flynn and some turkish government officials, former national security adviser mike flynn, back last fall, last september 2016, that seemed to be about the removal of this turkish clerk that the government does not like and believes is responsible for the coup in turkey, the extra judicial. he didn't use the term kidnapping but he described it in a way that he thought was discussed illegal and through an intermediary he reported this to the vice p

tamara keith, you cover this white house, you cover this president.should we watch for when he actually lands in puerto rico. >> he says he will be meating with military observations, first responders, fema. the white house says that the mayor of san juan has been invited to some of the events around the president's visit. certainly will be watching to see if she is there and how their interaction goes. the president said that more importantly than all of those people that he is supposed to meet with, he is also supposed to meet people in puerto rico on the ground who have been affected by this storm, the real people. and president trump in the past has been very affected by the conversations that he has with real people. >> and he got high marks for his performance in the aftermath of the hurricanes in florida and texas. over 60% of voters said they a of proked of the job he was doing, the governments with doing in response there. we haven't seen any polling in the wake of the most recent response in peurlt rico. but i will be very curious to see aft

tamara keith, white house correspondent for npr. jonathan lemere, white house reporter for the "ap" and msnbc political analyst. we welcome you all back to the broadcast. all right, matthew, you get to start because you were in the rose garden, in effect, in the room where it happened today. what prompted this and did anything about the president's motive in wanting to do this have an appearance, take really unlimited questions, did that come through in his words as to what his motive was? >> well, like you said, this was a very impromptu press conference. i think it came about because during his cabinet meeting, he said that he would be taking some questions on the steps. and we were all kind of left wondering, what is he talking about? and then very soon after that, we found out that the briefing was going to be canceled. the scheduled briefing with press secretary sarah sanders. we were ushered out for this sort of surreal rose garden press conference. there weren't any chairs set up. this was all very spur of the moment so we ga

amy walter, tamara keith, politics mondayk thank you both. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: stay with coming up on the newshour: the latest book in the hit series that brought us "the girl with the dragon tattoo." and a west virginia poet explores a difficult subject-- the opioid crisis. but first, we return to a story we first told you about in 2015, about a young couple trying to overcome the scars of war. william brangham brings us up to date. >> brangham: two years ago, we went to colorado to tell the story of a badly-wounded young marine veteran and his wife. they wanted to start a family. but as you'll see, the challenges facing them-- physical and financial-- were daunting. all newlyweds face challenges, but jason and rachel hallett have more than most. jason is a triple amputee. back in 2010, as a 19-year-old marine, he lost two legs and one arm when he stepped on an i.e.d in afghanistan. >> when 9/11 and everything happened i had a little bit of interest in joining the military but as soon as that happened, everything was circling around me joining the military. >> brangham:

and the white house push for stricter immigration policies, it's time for politics monday, with tamara keith, and stu rothenberg, senior editor for "inside elections." "politics monday." welcome to you both. tam, i'm going to start with you. have we ever seen -- and i know you're young -- (laughter) -- but in your uh young, few years covering american politics, have you ever seen this kind of dispute between the president and a leading member of his party in congress? >> well, i mean, if you count the disputes of john mccain that the president was in just a few weeks ago. (laughter) this is a different kind of president and, no, this is not normal. it is not normal to pick a fight with someone whose vote will be absolutely critical for that tax bill president trump wants to push through. it's not normal to have a leading senator, the head of the foreign relations committee tweeting about adult daycare. this is highly unusual. >> let's remember hat this feed -- that this feed goes back to the middle of august after charlottesville when senator corker commented about the president's leadership

for more on that, we turn to amy walter, of the "cook political report," and tamara keith of npr.litics monday." thank you both for being here. let's start. we heard a little of this earlier but let's bore in on the president's earlier criticism of mention mention, senate majority leader. the president had mcconnell over to the white house as we saw earlier. over the weekend the president's former chief strategist steve bannon spoke at the conservative value voters summit, combative about mainstream republican senators whom he is vowing to unseat. let's listen. >> all you folks that are so concerned that you're going to get primaried and defeated, you know, there's time for mayor pulpa. you can come to a stick and condemn senator corker and you can come to a stick, a microphone and say i'm not going to vote for mitch mcconnell for majority leader. >> my goal as the leader of the republican party and the senate is to keep us in the majority. the way you do that is not complicate it. you have to nominate people who can actually win because winners make policy and losers go home. >>

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more on the political fallout of today's developments, we are joined by our politics monday team: tamara keith amy walter of the "cook political report." "politics monday." good to see both of you. i want to ask you about william brangham's reporting, but tam let's start with the news today, that is the two indictments and the plea agreement. is there a sense from the white house, from the hill, from capitol hill that this is a big moment politically or just another day in the life of this ongoing investigation? >> the white house is treating this sort of like they've treated other big rev regulations saying, oh, this pop dop russ guy, he was just a volunteer for the campaign and, hey, look, the charges they announced, he just pled out to misleading the f.b.i., that doesn't have anything to do with the campaign. as the legal experts you had open made clear, that's means he's cooperating and they're in these -- in these documents, there were all kinds of connections, e-mails, various documentation of him clueing in top leadership at the trump campaign. as for the hill, republicans have been rel