the way to from a political standpoint so bad and now is the latest in a long list of losses in team trump experts we spoke to think the white house establishment is simply trying to push those who try to challenge them. trump is still determined to fight unregulated globalism to preserve the constitution of this country to reform the vast excesses in spending in our government spend six trillion dollars a year all governments inside the united states just on government six trillion dollars is an awful lot of money to be spending on government and he embedded others were trying to change that but they came up against i think some globalists here which way the rapid rate of resignations and dismissals in the white says a proving to be a boon for therapists as more and more anxious americans head for the therapy couch to cope these days with life in the trouble here. apparently there is this culling industry i don't know about it's coddling is cool now because you got a rapper in a safe space from president almost a year out of the election if you think about it. the university of kansas rem

ford by the way this from a political standpoint bannon is the latest in a long list of losses in team trump experts we spoke to also think that the white house establishment is just pushing out those who try to challenge them. while trump is still determined to fight unregulated globalism to preserve the constitution of this country to reform the vast excesses in spending our government spent six trillion dollars a year all governments inside the united states just our government six trillion dollars is an awful lot of money to be spending on government and he and bad others were trying to change that but they came up against i think some globalists. meanwhile protesters in the u.s. capitol have poured red paint over a statue of a confederate military officer and demanding that it be taken down the monument represents officer albert pike and is located in just a few square in washington scuffles broke out next the statue when several men claims. the protest is the issue of racially divisive mourning and this playing out across the country after the unrest in the city of charlottesville we c

that is com plete team trump? the row concern. that is complete fiction.ction. that is complete and i know that his advisers, who had comments attributed to them, have comment delete but —— have pushed back. mike pence is an incredibly loyal, incredibly effective vice president. he was quick to dismiss the allegations. he went on to say, my entirety will focus all our efforts to advance the president's agenda and see him re—elected in 2020. adding, any suggestion otherwise is both laughable and absurd. political manoeuvres played out in the white house with members of the top team being hired and fired. but top team being hired and fired. but to won has stood back from the fray and remained relatively quiet. representing the us on various foreign trips and that the president's site for various announcements. a spokeswoman stood by the article, saying that we are confident in the accuracy of our reporting and will let the story speakfor reporting and will let the story speak for itself. the president left washington pro working vacation at the end of last w

does team trump have the right instincts? ror, trump announced plans for a rally next week in arizona. this just yesterday, when a reporter at that event mentioned senator john mccain. >> reporter: john mccain has called on you to defend your security advisor h.r. mcmaster. >> i did it last time. senator mccain? >> reporter: yes. >> senator mccain who voted against obama care? you mean senator mccain who voted against us getting good health care? >> reporter: senator mccain condemned the attacks in charlottesville. >> i'm sure senator mccain must know what he's talking about. >> it's not so much about senator mccain or just going to arizona, but this -- he's-he loves sparring and he's good at it, and is that all he wants to do? >> his loves his rallies, they make him feel good, and again, he's going to be surrounded by supporters who are going to be re-enforcing him, i can see this crowd being explosively positive toward him if he calls out senator mccain or senator flake from that stage. so this is a way. >> as we sit here to

only trump himself had that protection, and his team claims trump didn't know about the meeting.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. >> it's somehow connected through one of these -- one of these people who are at the meeting. not sure

is that going to be a problem with team trump as well, what you just said elaborated by secretary mattis, by you. i appreciate you doing this because that's part of the solution. is that going to be part of the problem, the inability of the public to understand what we're going to and for? >> i think the american public understands what's at stake there. it's etched in our memory, the mass murder attacks from september 11, 2001. the taliban gave safe haven to al qaeda. there's a recognition that our efforts to enable afghan forces -- americans don't realize the afghan army suffered 6,700 soldiers killed in action? who is doing the bulk of the fight? the afghans are. the question the president has asked us is what more can we do to enable them. he doesn't want to take the war over. the afghans are fighting a war for their country. what more can we and others do -- what burdens, responsibilities can the united states and allies and partners share such that the afghan government, the security forces can succeed against this enemy of all civilization. >> when we return i ask general mcmaster

the kind of face of the team at the moment is jay, the christian right lawyer who was the one that the trump out on television to respond to news articles. and kind of the third individual that came on last week, that is tied called -- cobb. he is running the white house response to the investigation. cobb also comes from a longtime washington firm and is well experienced in congressional investigations, criminal investigations. did a lot of corporate work in private -- and private practice. he had to leave his firm. oliver: up next, limited liability companies every refugee crisis in the amazon. this is -- and the refugee crisis in the amazon. this is "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ oliver: welcome back. still ahead in the special city issue, the amazon city that has become a haven for refugees from venezuela. and we will talk to mayors about how they are tackling issues from poverty to pollution. also, moscow and the 2020 olympics. although that ahead on -- all of that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ oliver: we are back with editor-in-chief megan murphy. one of the stories that is very in

scaramucci has been fired less than two weeks into the job it's the latest in a series of reshuffles in team trump sparking speculation of payoffs in the cabinet . and the french government is too open to new to micro dissenters near the port of proud day this comes less than a year after the infamous jungle camp was clear. this is r.t. international broadcasting live from moscow thank you for joining us. but first reports are coming in of a shooting in a moscow court witnesses say around twenty shots were fired and some members of staff have been injured five gunmen were reportedly neutralized the court's press office says the building has been evacuated but has provided no further details and this is a developing story and we'll bring you more information once we have it. now washington has impose new sanctions against venezuela's president nicolas maduro that soft he claimed victory in a controversial referendum for a new constituent assembly. as a result of today's sanctions all assets of the door subject to u.s. jurisdiction are frozen and u.s. persons are prohibited from dealing with him. bu

team trump declares war on government lekas in the media to name sources after the latest release of the president's transcript. clashes lasting over twelve hours in a market in afghanistan kill five security. fighters according to local authorities . media and sciences to restore the reputation of a highly controversial.

states election and looking into the possibility that there was collusion on the part of members of team trumpdent trump's lawyers has just responded to this report. john roberts has that live on the north lawn. john? >> it's a relatively new member of the president's white house counsel team, ty cobb, noted lawyer around these washington parts. he said they have not been notified whether or not robert mueller has in fact empanelled a grand jury. cobb told me "we favor anything that brings this investigation to a swift conclusion." other folks that i've talked to said, you know, this isn't a big deal. it's a routine investigatory tool. but we have seen in the past this these grand jury investigations can go different directions. the white house is accepting this of what they thought the process would be. i don't know that anybody thought that robert mueller would engage in this investigation and not at some point empanel a grand jury to hear some sort of evidence and perhaps testimony on top of that. but folks that i've been talking to have been playing this idea down, suggest that it's really

ask you, was anyone on the trump team aware that you were at this meeting? > no one was aware from the trump team that i was even there. it was private business. nothing to do with the u.s. government or the trump team or the transition team or anything else. >> what was the meeting about, then? >> future business. it was someone that the emiratis had done business with and said it would be useful for you to know. >> and that was it? >> that was it. >> and when people talk about whether there was a possible back channel or anybody -- all of that, you're saying, no, off the table? >> complete hogwash. >> i appreciate that and appreciate you answering my questions about it. >> i'm amazed about the continued obsession with this when you have people dying in afghanistan, americans dying, let's figure out a way to cauterize the losses. >> all right. appreciate it. thank you. >> you bet. >>> and next, outrage tonight after a google employee claims in a ten-page memo that women workers are neurotic and have a lower tolerant for stress. well, should he be working the

team trump took a credibility hit today in the face of jay sekulow, and it came from the white house dium. sarah huckabee sanders went out today and basically conceded that the trump team and his lawyer didn't have the truth in the initial telling of this. remember when sarah huckabee sanders first spoke about this, she didn't know. she didn't know if the president weighed in, she would find out and get back to us. today, she says he weighed in, "the washington post" reports he dictated. the large question here is, someone should explain, and i truly don't understand this, why is the white house pursuing a strategy here of drip, drip, drip, instead of marshaling all the facts and coming out with a complete story to your point about "jaws." like, tell the entire point of this movie now so we don't learn something new every night and go back and say -- i think it's a significant problem. the other question i have is how did jared kushner allow president trump to dictate that statement? obviously, jared kushner's concerned about his own legal ramifications here. but how, since this entir

but he's been trying to say the right things since he joined the team, the trump team.n't know that there's a lot that we can take at face value from his comments other than he's trying to provide some normalcy to a very abnormal administration. >> julia, do you believe that the reverberations that russian officials understand the way that what happened in the election is reverberating? you see people say people are interested in avoiding a new cold war, which is a good idea. you kind of have to put that behind us. rex tillerson saying we didn't talk about that. but it seems to me that's a nonstarter. everything has to run through that at a certain level because there has to be some accountability. >> i think russia is in deep denial. they have not acknowledged on an official level that they've done this and they kind of tend to drink their own kool-aid. therefore they're going to be in denial and insulted by counter measures. the other thing i want to say is it's not necessarily weird for a white house to be against sanctions imposed by congress. the obama administrati

meanwhile president trump spend several hours at a meeting with his military and foreign policy team discussing the long awaited strategy updates for the war in afghanistan he took to twitter to announce that the solutions have been made but did not specify the white house statement didn't give any details either instead saying information would be really stopped on appropriate our washington correspondent jackie reports america's war in afghanistan has been ongoing for sixteen years and seen three different presidents come and go on my orders the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the taliban regime in afghanistan i know that many of you have grown weary of this conflict. as you are well aware i do not support the idea of endless war given what's at stake in afghanistan i am firmly convinced that we should make this extra effort seventeen years or longer smores it's a very big decision for me took over a mess and we're going to. make it a lot less messy the results while even u.s. generals have a rather bl

point doesn't seem justifiable so far little has been achieved a new strategy settled on so what is team trump doing about it we know what the strategy was for the last eight years don't lose it hasn't worked when can we expect it congress united states to get a strategy for afghanistan that is a departure from the last eight years which is don't lose well on friday the president has national security team were moving over the options and according to some reports trump has option a and b. one boots on the ground preferred by military officials hoping a strategy to break this stalemate and is it going to require additional u.s. troops and do believe it will involve additional forces to ensure that we can. make the advise and assist mission more more effective or move out of afghanistan altogether and let private contractors help local afghan forces either way the u.s. defense secretary has indicated a decision is imminent he will move us toward a decision as i said i think it was yesterday publicly we are going very close to a decision and to spend it in the very near future so for now we all

the trump team says the president's fiery and highly undiplomatic warning was delivered in language the north korean dictator would understand. could trump's tough talk backfire? and campaign chair raided. the fbi raids the home of paul manafort as special counsel of the russia investigation. what were federal agents looking for? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> the breaking news this hour, the escalating war on words and threats between president trump and the kim regime. cnn says president trump's warning of fire and fury was improvised. it was also in a tweet touting

there are so many people in the white house who appear not to be on team trump. which is why we see the type of aggression taken with the leaks. so i think pence was perhaps saying, president, i am on your side for now. >> one guy who's been on the president's side has been very loyal to him, but not inside the white house, is new jersey governor chris christie. the president happens to be in new jersey this weekend as we speak. but chris christie was on our show with jake tapper this morning in the "state of the union." here's what he had to say about the meeting in trump tower last summer between don jr., paul manafort and jared kushner. >> this meeting was ill advised. this is not something that should have happened. and i believe they had reached out to the campaign attorney, the white house counsel now, he would have told them that. i think everybody in retrospect knows this was a bad idea. >> so, david, he is a loyal trump supporter. but he's saying something that's opposite of what we're hearing from the white house. >> well, first of all, what governor ch

i think you have people who are on treatment trump who aren't -- on team trump who aren't necessarilyan. we see that rift in the white house among people who voted for trump as a whole. i think that's what interesting, what the president ricked in put something of his -- risked in putting some of his better voices on his network is that he takes these people off of mainstream media who could be useful and helpful in getting people who aren't already voting for trump to look at him more favorably. >> true. >> i think what you need do is have your message in a place that can reach new people. >> speaking of message -- >> speaking of message, which message, the kelly effect -- >> he's got a new chief of staff. >> do it. >> i think this could probably be the most important, the most important thing we've seen here in some months here. this is what we're expecting. you can only get into the oval office by appointment. no more dropping by and sliding a, you know, a copy of a -- something that you printed on the internet in front of the president. wrangling his twitter account, patching up w

collusion scandal with donald trump's team explains it's believed to be why the story is being exploited by the mainstream media. whole scandal over my meeting with donald trump jr has been carefully orchestrated and. this story has proven to be gold for so many. in the afternoon here in moscow you with the international start with that nice from france where french counterterrorism prosecutors are now investigating an attack on soldiers near their barracks in the north paris suburbs this morning six

here's the bad news for team trump.cation defense is he much harder than a denial defense. kit look for an emergency like using force and self-defense. it doesn't usually apply to crimes without an emergency or necessity. so you can punch someone the second before they punch you. but you can't commit tax fraud for six months and say it was justified because you needed the money to do some good deed. and legally that bogus tax defense is trying to justify election interference, because there's no emergency to rescue the underlying crime. if there was one. now, president trump might be learning, as he goes along. the most important thing about his dictation of don junior's defense is that it did not justify anymore. they went back to denial. whenever you think of trump, he's known line between controversy and danger and he told his son, the best defense was to deny the purpose of the meeting and go back to adoptions. now, think about that and it explains yes brought it up in a "new york times" interview. >> it was very in

speech he gets a job for wiki leaks the russian noir embroiled in the collusion scandal with donald trump's team explains its lucidly to see why her story is being exploited by the mainstream media whole scandal over my meeting with donald trump jr has been carefully orchestrated and blown out this story has proven to be gold for so many. fellow beckons you live from moscow you watching our internationals could have a company this sound our top story french counterterrorism prosecutors are now investigating an attack on soldiers near their barracks in a north paris suburb this morning six troops were injured three of them seriously charlotte dubinsky reports while

if you've got a crime that trump or his team has committed, bring it on. at the end of the day, i want to protect the process, but i see nothing yet that the trump people have done wrong. >> sandra: he's protecting mueller but giving the president credit. >> nothing the trump team has done wrong so why is he requiring the trump team to go through the senate to fire muleer? >> sandra: he just said he wants to protect the president. >> the process is the president can fire mueller. that's the stated process. that's the constitutional process. lindsey graham wants to change that. lindsey graham's no friend of the president. don't be fooled. >> sandra: what we just heard from jeff session. don't do it, as far as addressing those leakers. i'll leave it there. is that all right. >> it's a working 17 day what do you call it, vacation. i want him to be rested. house is out six weeks. i vote for a 50 week vacation for both of those. always good to see you. >> >> sandra: congress woman debbie wasserman schultz defending her decision to keep an i.t. employee on the ro

all of his closest advisors are now opposed to the agenda that got trampled elected yes the new team trump isn't exactly made up of peace mongers and it's pretty far from the vision that americans voted for caleb oppen r.t. new york you know we asked former u.s. congressman ron paul about trump's policy reversals. he changes the words and makes it sound like the world will come apart if we don't continue to be the world's policeman he says he's not into nation building but there was a pretense anyway how many nations that we can really build or improve we've torn nations apart so he is seen as a flip flopper which i think politically is a bad position to be. going to be perpetual war nobody knows exactly who the enemy is and nobody will know when it is ended but i think trump has been maybe a little bit more upfront that his goal isn't to get done in six months or a year it looks like he's planning to be there for the long term there is significant progress in a key syrian bottle drawn the details after this. seems wrong. just don't call. me. yet to see. this day. and it. equals betrayal.

all of his closest advisors are now opposed to the agenda that got trampled elected yes the new team trump isn't exactly made up of peace mongers and it's pretty far from the vision that americans voted for caleb oppen r.t. new york we're live in berkeley later in the program but stay with art. back in ninety seconds. thank you for new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporations corporations run washington washington controls the media the media control over the voters elected businessman to run this country business equals power you must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been done before. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want. to go right to the pros this is what the three of them will be good. interested in the. first. sixty minutes into the program welcome back the syrian army backed by russian forces destroyed one of the most active islam mixtape groups in syria eight hundred militants were killed in the operation in the euphrates valley

becoming one of the last west wing originals to leave the picture one year and one day after joining team trump. the self-styled protector of the president's nationalist pledges mutually agreeing with chief of staff john kelly that he should leave, according to the white house. the news applauded today literally when it was announced at the stock exchange. >> i'm telling you that -- that bannon is said to have submitted his resignation. >> reporter: cheered by civil rights groups, democrats, even some republicans. >> the president did absolutely the right thing in firing steve bannon. steve bannon was undermining the administration. >> reporter: the chief strategist had been telling people close to him he thought he'd survive, but nbc news has learned bannon talked with kelly about resigning two weeks ago, according to multiple sources familiar with the decision. a white house official tells nbc news kelly recommended bannon's removal after a staff review this month at bedminster getting a sign-off from the president. bannon often seen, rarely heard, but influential with far right conservatives

mucci has been fired less than two weeks into the job it's the latest in a series of reshuffling team trump sparking speculation of payoffs in the cabinets . and the front.

does this new revelation create any legal problems for the trump team? >>> waiting day. vice president pence says president trump will sign the russian sanctions legislation into law soon. vladimir putin is already retaliating. dispelled diplomats are packing up to leave russia right now. how much longer will the president delay in signing? >>> president trump has told kim jong-un there will be war if he continues to develop missiles to hit the united states. so why is the secretary telling them, quote, we are not your enemy. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news and a huge reversal from the trump team after weeks of denying the president was involved in the misleading initial statement about his son's meeting with a russian attorney during the presidential campaign. today white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders told reporters the president, quote, weighed in as any father would, closed quote. that undercuts repeated denials from the president's personal attorney and raises s

all of his closest advisors are now opposed to the agenda that got trampled elected yes the new team trump isn't exactly made up of peace mongers and it's pretty far from the vision that americans voted for caleb oppen r.t. new york we also former u.s. congressman ron paul about trump's comes to newton's. changes the words that makes it sound like the world will come apart if we don't continue to be the world's policeman he says he's not into nation building but there was a pretense anyway how many nations that we can really build or improve we've torn nations apart so he is seen as a flip flopper which i think politically is a bad position to be. going to be perpetual war nobody knows exactly who the enemy is and nobody will know when it is ended i think trump has been maybe a little bit more upfront that his goal isn't to get done in six months or a year it looks like he's planning to be there for the long term mobile news to update you on this sunday there's hope for syrian civilians india is all with hundreds of eisold militants now out of the picture following a major operation nearby