by some accounts tonight, this is the most comprehensive detailing of how the trump administration in government approached those obama sanctions on russia. the trump white house trying to eliminate the punishment for meddling in the u.s. election. this is according to senior diplomats inside the u.s. federal government. quote, unknown to the public at the time, top trump administration officials almost as soon as they took office tasked state department staffers with developing proposals for the lifting of economic sanctions, the return of diplomatic compounds and other steps to relieve tensions with moscow. i want to note of course that wording reflects what sounds like the trump administration's view because prior administration here, the obama folks, didn't think there were tensions with moscow over sanctions. they thought those were formal punishments over the meddling, a matter of foreign policy accountability, not personal tensions. let me show you one of these named sources. tom who resigned as -- human rights for obama. to lobby congress after learning from colleagues the adm

trump administration.ainly a partial win for the trump administration. it is also a partial win for the state attorney's general and the groups challenging the travel ban. they can say the people who have relationships with people in the united states, family -- >> the question further complicates things, to what extent, to what degrees? >> relationship protects your sexual one. how that works out in the real world. >> the president's own words, michael, we'll get to you in a moment. the president's words in the ninth and fourth circuit when the team was arguing this, says surrogates of his like rudy giuliani talking in that way. that has to be a concern for the administration as this case is heard in the high court. >> it is. i think this is something the president may be in good shape on. how much courts used campaign language in deciding the merits of this case. i have always thought that the trump administration has a better chance of winning in the supreme court than it did in the lower courts. the su

. >> hello, this is a "no" doubt major victory for the trump administration as the high court has now lifted the injunction on the travel ban. president trump had long maintained that he was confident that the high court would undo the travel ban that was imposed by the fourth circuit court of appeals and also the ninth circuit court of appeals out west. it has so have. reading from the opinion right now, it reads, this is a majority opinion. to begin, we grant both of the government's petitions and consolidate the cases for argument, the clerk has directed to set a briefing schedule that will be heard during the first session of october. they will hear this in the next session. the broader legal reasoning. that's behind the travel ban. in a second part of this opinion, they say, i am "we turn to the preliminary injunction spurring enforcement of the iic entry suspension. we grant their governments applications to stay the injunctions. to the extent of forcing you, and any bona fide relationship with the persons or entity in the united states." but that does to our understanding, if t

because if the trump administration after january 20th, you know, the president was in power, isn't theinistration? >> well, that's certainly right, and it's in the president's -- it's the president's prerogatives to lift sanctions. but now, and subsequently, the trump administration has said that it will keep sanctions in place until the russians are, well, out of eastern ukraine, more or less. but when i said we want to lift sanctions, the we in that case is, was the outgoing obama administration, but also our european allies, the canadians also, the japanese, the australians. in other words, a coalition of the world's leading democracies all impose sanctions together in response to russia's aggression against ukraine, and we all agreed that we would put on the sanctions together and we would take off the sanctions together at the right time. now, it's the right of the incoming administration to change this policy, but they -- i would hope they would do so after thinking it through and doing it in a rush and without good reason related to an american interest i can identify struck me

it to look like we own you. >> so i think that the russians would be more clever than the trump administration if that's what they're saying to them. i mean, it seems very simple. if trump believes that the russians actually helped him win this election, then this is their reward for doing. so but if trump is really the defender of the constitution and the defender of the american electoral system, then show be wanting to punish the russians for their interference, not just against hillary clinton, but against other republican candidates and stop them from doing it again. but that he gives it back now? it really looks like a reward to the russians for helping him across the finish line. >> yeah, and eugene, that's the question that adam schiff asked tonight in a tweet. why reward them. >> yes. >> and it's not clear that we're ever going to get answers to that. now that basically communications about this are being kind of shut down within the trump white house. things are getting referred to lawyers d all that sort of thing. as the subpoenas start to fly we talked about this last night on this

how does a trumped administration adjuster correct these perplexities? n the side is? >> it's not too late. when the intervention written started the obama administration went all in. it took them until the end of the administration to figure out this is not the right way to continue doing this. we want to be close to the saudi's but we cannot be writing them a blank check to fuel a war effort that is not in our interest or in the interest of the yemen people. they started to work on a different approach. the trump administration has come in and need to answer the same question. it's understandable they would default to a position of let's support our closest ally, they need to figure out quickly that u.s. interests are more nuanced and i'm hopeful they will. >> arthel: we just showed pictures of senators were very much behind these arms sales. if the intent of the arms sales is to better on the saudi military in the fight against al shabab, the what cyst strategy without them? >> you need to bear in mind the weapons the senate is considering the sale of,

petersburg. >> the pace of this dance with the russians and the trump administration, the incoming trump administration is increasingly dizzying. you have russian bankers, the russian ambassador, the trump son-in-law, you have a sitting presidency, the obama administration still in office while this incoming administration is trying to establish a secret back channel to prevent the existing american government from finding out what they're planning, plotting, talking about. this is incredible, absolutely mind-boggling. >> the backdrop of all this, mark halperin, next thursday james comey goes to capitol hill and he is going to testify. >> you think today is friday. it's day two of the pregame tease. no matter what happens, this is such a big moment because so much of what we're hearing about now in all of these matters, russia, comey, all the overlap, is press accounts and a little bit from these hearings. comey speaking out is not a climactic moment, but a major moment. he has so much credibility with so much of washington, and the story he tells about the president now is going to be t

the trump administration has asked the supreme court to revive his muslim travel ban, until a. in court ruling. we'll have more on the london attack, the british electitis on thursday and trump's proposed muslim travel ban, after headlines. in afghanistan, deadly violence continued in the capital kabul over the weekend. at least 20 people were killed in a series of explosions saturday at a funeral for one of the prprotesters who was killed during demonstrations on friday. at leastst five people were kild at friday's protests demanding the resignation of president ashraf ghani following wednesday's massive suicide bombing in a diplomatic area of kabul, which killed more than 90 people and wounded over 400 . in iraq, reuters reports dozens of civilians, including women and children, were killed over the weekend trying to escape an isis-held area of mosul, amid the ongoing u.s. offensive to retake control of the city. an aid worker says some of the civilians were shot by isis militants while they were trying to flee the zanjili neighborhood. airwars says 20 cicivilians were reporte

carol: why is it taking so long for the trump administration fill these vacancies?> there are a number of different reasons. everything from the long process of getting fbi background checks and ethics forms, to people not wanting to work for the trump administration because of either the russia's scandal or the facts of the boss often undermines is top secretaries and top people within the agencies with his twitter account or his statements and interviews. there are number of reasons that people are hesitant to work for the administration or is taking them longer to get confirmed. carol: i also found fascinating is that you talk about what's tricky in terms of people who might work for president trump and his team is that he's demanding loyalty. he really is demanding loyalty from his appointees. >> that's true. they're sort of a black list for people who spoke out against trump during the campaign and republicans are signed petitions against trump are not to be welcomed within any of the agencies. they're people who were hired and fired once the white house realiz

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that is the reports that president trump may have tried to urge him to pledge his loyalty in the early days of his administration. secondly, did president trump ask him to drop charges and drop an investigation against his national security adviser at the time, general michael flynn. and third, why was jim comey fired? these are the three things that lot of reports have been circulating over these issues and a lot of basically questions about where president trump is obstructing justice by having reportedly raised these issues with jim comey in his meetings. these are going to be major issues. it's going to be edge of your seat testimony next week when he's finally there, assuming that it goes through. and a lot is at stake for the white house, for this administration. and you know, beyond then as well, for the campaign as well. >> something tells me we will be here on the air for that high stakes morning of testimony, vivian. rick, when you go out on a fishing boat and you don't have a strong stomach they tell you just watch the horizon. keep your eye on the horizon. that's your role on russia. normalize the go

at issue here are the two appellate courts that ruled that the trump administration travel ban was unconstitutional because those courts said it was based on religion and not in their words on actual threat to the united states. u.s. supreme court though says the administration may have reason to believe that in fact the security of the united states is not risk if they do not allow this travel ban and that this would be under the powers of the presidency. and although opponents ever the trump administration say this is a ban based on -- and not security and they're vowed to fight this in the fall. >> this is a win for the trump administration because almost entirely and signal that the government is more likely to win than the challengers. >> well the ban itself is clears on arabs and muslims and based on religion of individual and not national security in the national security interest of the cut country. >> weapon the next few days the impact could be significant. they're ready to act within 72 hours of court lifting the ban. this case will be heard here in october. u.s. supreme court tom fitzge

>> the trump administration is behind previous administrations.have about 45 positions that have been filled compared to about 170 for the obama administration, 130 for the bush administration. part of this is a long process for senate confirmation and going through the process of getting your fbi background checks and ethics forms cleared. it is becoming much more slow than previous administrations and it's become something that even republicans have become frustrated by, the trump administration is so slow to get these jobs filled. carol: are democrats slowing down the process? >> democrats did slow it down at the start. republicans in the white house said it led to a ripple effect. we didn't have the cabinet secretary someplace, you can't start hiring their deputies and support staff. some democrats said they wanted to have a resistance to the trump administration. and they did put in some delays during the early part of the administration. now, it seems to be more the trump administration not getting names across and knocking people in front o

a victory for the trump administration. we'll have the arguments in october. what's your biggest takeaway tea leaves the court how it views the decisions, as julie noted, lower courts saying religious animus. the supreme court doesn't seem ready to go there. >> good news for the trump administration. not final, definitive news, but certainly this was an order that leaned in the direction of the trump administration. first of all, you have three votes that are pretty much in the bag for the trump administration. you have justice thomas, justice alito and justice gorsuch essentially saying, we don't see a problem with this order jufrijufr i justifying any sort of interruption of the order. you figure their votes are already locked in in favor of the administration and can they scare up two more votes from the chief justice or from anthony kennedy or even from stephen breyer or elena kagan? i've always thought that this -- executive order, especially the second version had a much better case in the. see supreme court than the lower courts and certainly not this u

>> it is just as the trump administration is proclaiming, a big victory for them.court not only reinstated the travel ban, allowing you to go forward with a few limited exceptions, it's probably a blueprint for what we are going to get down the road. will get decision a few months after october. the only question is whether there will be some exceptions for those who have a bona fide connection to a person or an entity in the united states. that's the only exception. >> heather: was there anything in there you were surprised was included in anything that was not included? i know some of the comments that president trump made during the campaign were not included. >> what struck me was not a single justice of the nine had a kind word to say for the lower court injunction, which only influences how strong the administration's hand is in this case. it also talked at some length about the authority the government has in the interest of national security when it comes to immigration. the president does have extraordinary authority here. also, congress has authority. mor

positive gesture if the trump white house decides to go through with it. >> any effort by the trump administrationng to your reporting to gain assurances or concessions regarding the underlying intel issue, the meddling, the whole reason there was this punishment? >> there is one thing they're looking at, the trump white house. that is basically allowing law enforcement officials, ie the fbi to gain access to these facilities in the future, in other words, not treating them as if they're off limits to the fbi like the embassy might be. >> they might not have the same strength of a diplomatic bubble? >> exactly. if the u.s. were to get intelligence suggesting these facilities were once again equipped with sensitive eavesdropping signals and intelligence collection equipment, to turn into a listening post, they could potentially move in. that's something frankly the russians might object to and frankly i'd be surprised if they didn't object to that. in which case the ball is back in the trump white house's court to decide how to proceed. >> do you have any sense why this information is coming out. w

acted aown issuing three subpoenas seeking information on possible unmasking of trump associates by obama administration officials. here is how intelligence committee member jackie spear of california reacted to that niece tonight. >> the problem, of course is that he has his hand in cookie jar. the cookie jar is trump's interest in wanting to deflect any interest in this hearing and in this investigation into whether or not the trump operation was engaged with the russians in interfering with our elections. i just feel that he has really, doing his level best to try and sabotage the investigation. it was really a blunder in my mind, and it once again shows that he is really a puppet of the president in trying to promote this alternative set of facts and this alternative narrative. >> all this russia news competing with the headline today that we have a firm date for james comey's testimony to the senate intelligence committee. next thursday, june 8th, at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. with that all in mind let's bring in our starting panel, michael crowley, white house reporter for the "associated press." vi

i think the period when the kremlin was prepared to give the new trump administration the benefit of ell and truly over. i don't think there's any point in holding out much hope that much will come out of the meeting between presidents trump and putin in hamburg in two weeks time if they do meet at all. dave? >> right. still now announcement from the white house on if that will happen. thank you. >>> going on any road trips this summer? >> yeah. doing a few road trips. >> all right. >> going to boston this weekend. that counts. >> driving, okay. gas is getting cheaper. the cheapest in more than a decade. and they're still falling. we'll tell you why on "money stream" next. the future isn't silver suites and houses on mars. it's right now. think about it. we can push buttons and make cars appear out of thin air. and find love anywhere. he's cute. how? because our phones have evolved. so isn't it time our networks did too? introducing a new kind of network. america's largest most reliable 4g lte and the most wi-fi hotspots. call or click to take advantage of a limited time offer. xfinit

to the trump administration sabotaging that, a column in the wall street -- the primeweek genesis of that charge involves cost-sharing reduction payments. law, the obama administration made those payments to insurers. but a federal district court judge last year ruled those payments were unconstitutional. because there is no appropriation in the law to allow the obama administration -- to disperse those funds to insurers. the trump administration is not sabotaging the law, they are trying to obey the constitution. i think that is more important than adhering to anyone law, regardless of how big or small it is. it's fidelity to the constitution. own: on chris's point, his insurance under obamacare, what would have to happen if obamacare the state in effect, what was the solution to the rising premium costs? west: i think there are ways can build on and improve your affordable care act, but we need to be focusing on bringing premiums down and deductibles down. we don't do that by making $1 trillion out of the system in order to give tax breaks to high income folks at insurance companies

beyond flynn we've got the question of other trump administration officials and how deep their contacts with the russians went. that includes administration officials paul manafort carter page but it may include the president's son-in-law jared kushner. beyond that weaver got the question of financial links or possible financial electrics but put in a nutshell is did the money l russians put money into trump's campaign in 2016. >> of course we fwhoe that special counsel robert muler is meeting this week with congressional intelligence leaders. what could this mean do you think and what would you expect to come out of the meetings. >> well there is two-levels here. again the one behind closed door is mueller is simply going to tell congress congressional represent he was how serious this investigation is or how serious it may become. so he will give them as it were the details which we kind of lose in all the white noise such as president trump's confirmation last week that he is under investigation. but then at the public level i suspect that some information about those meetings will c

if they had a preference in the election, it's because they had believed or hoped that the trump administrationake steps to achieve what they wanted, which is the lifting of sanctions. so early in the very first weeks of the administration, even before rex tillerson was confirmed as secretary of state, transition officials who moved into the seventh floor of the state department tasked the developing of options to ease tensions with russia that would include the easing of sanctions, return of those dochas that got closed by president obama at the end of the his administration. and what's so striking about it is that bureau is the place in the state department that had been pushing to impose these sanctions. victoria nuland, who was the assistant secretary in charge who had been one of the hawks in the obama administration, and so the officials who got this directive felt very uneasy, and they began looking around for allies. dan fried, who had been the u.s. coordinator for sanctions policy, was still there, and they reached out to him. tom mol now ski who had step the down as assistant secretar

petersburg yesterday. >> there are reports today in the american press that the trump administration took active steps to ease sanctions on russia, almost immediately after trump took office. was this possibility ever discussed between the trump team and your representatives prior to president trump being inaugurated? >> translator: no, i saw what was happening. to be frank, it was a great surprise. that's just absurd what they're saying. >> also new today, defense secretary james mattis in asia stepping up calls for china to help number north korea's nuclear program. here's what he said in singapore earlier. >> as a matter of u.s. national security, the united states regards the threat from north korea as a clear and present danger. the trump administration is encouraged by china's renewed commitment to work with the international community toward denuclearization. ultimately we think china will recognize north korea as a strategic liability, not an asset. >> meanwhile vice president mike pence is in iowa today as part of an effort to unite the republican base there. he'll join a num

the trump administration has asked u.s. supreme court to revise travel ban. appened late last night. it is quote, confident that president trump's executive order is well within his lawful authority to keep the nation safe and protect our communities from terrorism. lauren: move coming after the fourth court of appeals blocking the order last week. the president's order bans people entering from six muslim nations, iran, libya, somalia, syria and yemen while the u.s. implement stricter u.s. screenings. >> this is a president who is fighting for the american people, fighting for american jobs and i think the results whether it be in the job's numbers and whether it be in the confidence that you see in businesses and even in our stock market all speak for itself. america is back because they have a president in president donald trump who is fighting for them. cheryl: world leaders expressing disappointment. we have tracee carrasco. the reaction was fast and furious tracee. >> not good. world leaders vow to stick with the 2015 paris accord without the u.s. amid c

the question is, can the trump administration get two more votes? and the other big knews, anthony kennedy did not announce his retirement. that means he is likely to be on the court in october when this is argued. chief justice roberts, those five appointees looked like the most likely votes for the trump administration. i think, on balance, this news is good for the trump administration. but, it is by no means clear they are going to win and we will know in october. we'll hear the argument. >> exactly right, jeffrey. one of the concerns, obviously, is the whole issue of bona fide relationships. that's what folks are raising and what it means. as you read this today and how that, i keep tripping on it, but the stay lifted, the ban is partially going into effect. do you think it will be a real headache or easily worked out? >> i think it's going to be an extreme headache. think about people at the airport and people at the border will have to implement the supreme order. somebody is going to have to make a determination. it's a factual determination

charlie: we begin this evening with a look events surrounding the trump administration. rman chancellor angela merkel expressing doubts about the reliability of the united states as an ally. it came after president trump's refusal to recommit to the paris climate deal. trump criticized germany via twitter for its trade surplus. and its military spending levels. he also blamed fake news for critical news about his administration. the washington post reported, donald trump son-in-law jared kushner was being investigated by the fbi for a series of meetings he held with russian officials as part of their probe into alleged interference into the presidential election. the new york times reported he might've been part of an effort to set up communication with the kremlin without the knowledge of u.s. approved talents -- channels. mark mazzetti joins us from washington. lionel barber of the financial times joins me. mark, what do we know? what is it we want to know about jared kushner and these conversations he had with the russian ambassador and the russian banker, and how woul

in a morning tweet storm, president trump claimed that the obama administration failed to respond to ling months before the november election because they expected hillary clinton to win. trump also accused the former president of obstruction and/or collusion. back with me now is democratic congressman eric swalwell. congressman, you look at that and could you say president trump has a point there? we heard congressman adam schiff, ranking member on the intelligence house committee, criticize obama over the weekend as well. >> jim, i don't really follow the logdggic of -- the russian report which i don't accept is something i discard or try to throw out. it really doesn't make much sense. at least president obama tried to do something, and we have a president right now who is either being deceitful or in denial about what russia did. >> one key question, of course, as you know, trump mentioned it in his tweet and he mentions it all the time, the question about collusion. the white house certainly believes there is no evidence of collusion, but we also heard from senior democrats diane

. >> also not someone with a direct tie to the trump administration or campaign. >> correct. at least what the trump folks say. he claims, at least he claimed to the "wall street journal," smith did, that he was in contact with flynn and there were e-mails and other suggestions through various communications that he was in touch, in contact, with flynn. we did reach out to flynn. reached out to other folks to try and get comments and no one responded. >> no comment. thank you for the reporting. appreciate it. we'll stay on it. >>> moments from now, a major meeting between president trump and south korea's new president. this comes at a crucial time. growing concerns over north korea's nuclear program. what will happen between those two leaders with a very different view how to handle north korea. want an unlimited data plan that gives us more. we want more than just texting. more than just surfing and shopping. because sure, we want to use this to call the people we love- - like our directors. but mostly, to get the entertainment we love. maaaaark ! ! ! switch to at&t for the

a judge ruled the trump administration failed to conduct an adequate environment review. it comes as president trump said he signed it with his eyes closed. pres. trump: nobody thought a politician would have the guts to prove that final leg. and i just close my eyes and said -- amy: we will get response from standing rock sioux chair dave .-dave archambault then we speak with commerce and keith ellison, suing president trump.. >> president trump has received billllions of dollalars from fon governments leasingg space in ns properties, placingng diplomatsn his hotetels. he has received valuauable tradademarks f from foreigign governments. and ththis is just thehe tip ofe iceberg. the benefits that we know he has ceived from foreignn governmements in violation of te constitution. we neeeed to have a transparent process. amy: the lawsuit aims to make sure the president abide by the constitution. we will also talk to congressman ellison about how president trump is now under investigation of possible obstruction of justice. trump's plans to reverse the historic normalization

we know that since the election, the obama administration and others have brutally gone after president trump and his campaign, accusing collusion. with "the washington post" story on friday showed that number one, the obama administration knew about potential russian involvement for more than a year before the election. they didn't act aggressively, because they didn't materially believe that the russians would affect the vote. there was no meltdown of the election process on election day, and despite this the obama focus in a bin laden type of environment, they found no collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. >> that wasn't part of "the washington post" story. that part, that is part of the investigation. again we don't know whether there was any collusion. >> but it's been reported that senator feinstein, senator warner, senator graham, dni director clapper have all stated that they have not seen any evidence of collusion, i've got to remember, the cia and our intelligence community were aware of this for a year, they were watching if for a year, if they didn't find it in re

republican senator lindsey graham hastily introduced bipartisan legislation to prevent the trump administration from unilaterally removing those sanctions. but the administration's momentum on removing sanctions suddenly stalled a few days later when the president was forced to fire national security adviser michael flynn. michael isikoff's reporting adds a possible dimension to an earlier breaking news report tonight from "the washington post" which revealed that the white house and a russian state-owned bank have very different explanations for why the bank's chief executive and jared kushner held a secret meeting during the presidential transition in september. the bank maintained this week that the session was held as part of a new business strategy and was conducted with kushner in his role as the head of his family's real estate business. the white house says that the meeting was unrelated to business and was one of many diplomatic encounters the soon to be presidential adviser was holding ahead of donald trump's inauguration. sergey gorkov is the head of that russian bank. it's a governm

. >> a discussion on the federal role in education and what is expected from the trump administration in the area of school choice. an hour.ust over >> all right. i think we are going to get started. we are missing aft president randi winegarden. she will be joining us as soon as she gets here. i'm the education reporter at u.s. news. you're at the changing politics of k-12 panel discussion. thank you for being here. ewa wrangled a pretty awesome panelists panelists. there's nothing really going on in dc right now, right? i am going to leave the bio to you guys. you can look in the program and see it. i will quickly run down the line here. we are lindsay burke. for those of you who are sort of like outside the beltways here jeffreys is the president of democrats for education reform. he is also a civil rights lawyer. next to him is marty west. the republican from tennessee. a quick housekeeping note, that is one of the first panels at ewa. please tweet using so it's fair game. it's a little warning. we want you to make news. this is also being live streamed on periscope. because we ha

do you worry that trump administration is going to take that step? >> i do worry. i think that unfortunately, donald trump has given signals that he believes that cozy cooperation with putin is the pathway to a better world. but in crimea, in ukraine, in syria, in the compromise of the american presidential election in 2016, how many instances do we need to understand that putin does not care about the values of human rights and of the values which are central to what america stands for. so i am very concerned that if the signal was ever sent from the trump transition team that sanctions could be relieved without any actions by russia, to improve their own behavior, that that would only further embolden putin to continue to engage in these reckless activities which in fact are undermining national security for the united states. and for the rest of the world. >> very quickly, senator, what about that report in "the washington post" that trump administration is actually moving toward the possibility of returning two diplomatic compounds to russians. one on the easter

have this information that emerged this week that the trump administration incoming was actively seekingay to unilaterally potentially drop sanctions against russia, to give them back the facilities that were taken from them by the obama administration because of the hacking. i mean, it does sort of build toward a pattern that this was an agreement. >> but remember, general flynn was there in the early days, the very few days that he was there. and we know, and we knew even before this his relationship with russia today, the fact that he was receiving funds from the russians. look, it's clear that if not for all of these issues that have emerged, president trump would have wanted to reach an accommodation with russia or find some kind of a new concord with russia. >> why does vladimir putin want that s badly? >> i think vladimir putin wants a break between europe, which is very nervous about russia taking swaths of territory from ukraine, invading a neighboring country. you know, russia has built up a huge military presence on its western perimeter. it was putin that dropped the conventi

regarding the trump administration, the trump administration will deal with russia but they will deal with it in a private manner and they will not broadcast what they're doing. it's exactly what obama tried to do as he was walking out the door by putting these cyber bombs into the infrastructure for russia. don't broadcast it, don't tell them what they're doing, keep it secret. >> martha: from your side of the political aisle, is there concern that we have fueled this flame in terms of this investigation into russia. now it's turning around and focusing on us and what we did. in the obama in administration. >> i think there are issues that are related, with all due respect to the congressman, two of those three things he just said aren't true. the intelligence community had not definitively said there is no collusion, that's exactly what is being investigated by the intelligence committees and by the special counsel. they also have never said anything about the russian interference changing people's minds. they have said very clearly they didn't say both tabulations. look, we can deb

are goldman sachs and the trump administration closer now? before the election that goldman didn't do very much business with trump. bill: did any business with trump was the majority investor in a real estate up -- enterprise. look at lloyd blankfein, who just started tweeting as a result of trump getting out of the paris climate accord, those have been very negative tweet. leaderlankfein, as the and embodiment of the firm, is clearly against the trump administration. anna: but he's happy he's got his people there. bill: we talked about that. i'd say it was a blessing and a curse for him. on the one hand, he knows gary, he can call him up. on the other hand ever since the financial crisis, goldman has been enduring a lot of the ire of the nation as a sort a sort of symbol of all that wall street did wrong supposedly during the financial lead up, it's not like the old days when he could call of hank paulson as the crisis was unfolding. scrutinizing things so closely, calling up gary or dena is not something he wants to be seen doing. david: h

it has been linked to adds ma, heart, lung disease and premature death. >> trump administration wants to sell the washington ak question duct whh virginia and the proposal is in the president budget. some want army corps of engineers taken to stayed turnover the facility to d.c. water and public utility. post says d.c. water wants to pay the federal government far less for the ak we duct than the administration wants in the sglail and it's been hard to find consensus in replacing and repealing obamacare hoping to vote before the 4th of july recess. ideas include extending medicade expansion and taking steps top help fragile individual insurance markets and senate democrats are urging gop colleagues to work with them. >> if the republicans will set aside this partisan gun at your head kind after approach, we stand ready. >>> senate budget chairman mike enzy announced the house bill fits the rules for process known as reconciliation in the senate. health reform can be passed with simple math jury and no filibuster. >> and rogererliner is expected to launch for senate. he is third democr

and the accusation that the trump administration could have been -- could have done more to help him.joining me now are john kirby, a former state department states person and pentagon press secretary. he was in the obama administration when otto warmbier was captured. also with us, david gergen. admiral, the president at least laid implicit blame at president obama's feet. you were part of the obama administration. what do you say to that? >> i take great issue with that. i mean, look, there was nothing more important to president obama or frankly secretary kerry while i was at the state department than the safety and security of americans overseas. and though we weren't successful in getting otto back, and i do believe the trump administration should get credit for accomplishing that. it was not for a lack of trying or lack of effort. secretary kerry personally was involved in seeking otto's release. i can't tell you the number of times he brought it up directly with his chinese counterpart and others in the international community. we're all sorry it didn't happen and sorry to see

it was too coordinated. >> reporter: it comes as the trump administration considers a major concessionow. "the washington post" reporting the u.s. may return control of two luxury retreats near new york city and in maryland. diplomatic compounds the obama administration said were being used for intelligence-related purposes. shut down last december to punish russia for meddling in the election. >> if this is just some kind of a reward, i think it begs a lot of questions about why on earth the trump administration would even contemplate such a thing. >> reporter: those seizures infuriating the kremlin. warning if the property wasn't returned asap, we will have to take countermeasures. with reports trump ally nigel farage is under scrutiny. denying any connection. the fbi and congress are now examining this campaign event last spring in washington to see whether mr. trump, then-senator jeff sessions and jared kushner met privately with a russian ambassador. something they've repeatedly denied. also this morning new details about that he said/he said between president trump and former fbi

. >>> the trump administration pushes ahead with the agenda with the policy to crack down on parents who pay to smuggle their children into the u.s. this surge initiative is the latest get-tough approach. >> welcome to 4 on 2. >> officials with immigration and customs enforcement say this is an effort to break up smuggling operations. it is creating fear in some communities. >> reporter: good afternoon. we are and san francisco city hall. this is where the immigration debate has been up and from -- up and center. immigrant families working with advocates as they tried to come up with an emergency plan. they face anxiety and uncertainty. as the trump administration rosado nude travel ban, there is new concern for immigrant families where the white house planning to arrest parents and relatives who they suspect the smuggle the children into the u.s. ssm advocates nervous.>> you only needed 10. policies like this instead of improving the situation locally, they are hurting it. especially when it comes to policing. a lot of families don't want to call the police. >> reporter: she works w