this is not just a trump administration problem. this is a republican party foreign policy establishment problem, because his line of thinking, the way the trump administration sees the world is really not that different on were doing.h guys this is a republican party thing. old-school, realist republican. significanteep and minority in the republican foreign policy establishment. the policy we see now probably would not be that different of donald trump were never born and there was a different republican president. yes, there is a personal disdain for anything that resembles barack obama and his achievements. there is an affinity for the israeli societies and ameron be that borders on uncomfortable, frankly. i don't think it is good to become a mercenary for our client states. but for all intents and purposes, you can do with the obama administration did, go down that path of dialogue and diplomacy on points of contention and if that does not bear fruit you can use other tools from the toolkit of the most powerful country in the w

the trump administration says it may need more time to reunite separated migrant children with the parents and asks a judge to extend the deadline. will the government get more time? going to war. president trump levies tariffs on chinese goods and beijing fires back with similar penalties. will the escalating trade war tank the u.s. economy? >>> thin air. water could be rising soon complicated efforts to get a youth soccer team out of the flooded wave where they have been trapped for two weeks. we have a live update. >>> and his song? secretary of state mike pompeo under pressure to make president trump's bold promises a reality. did the president tell pompeo to bring an elton john cd to kim jong-un who he referred to as little rocketman? wolf blitzer is off. i'm jim acosta. you're in "the situation room." >>> the trump administration telling a judge it may need more time to reunite migrant children and parents separated at the border. the handling of the crisis is facing growing criticism as top officials fail to answer basic questions of the plan of hundreds or thousands of children sca

the endangered species act, the landmark legislation is under an unprecedented attack by the trump administration and industry lobbyists. we will speak to head of the center for biological diversity , which has sued the trump over itsation 68 times environmental and conservation policies. then, as temperatures records are being broken across the world, a new medical study on climate change warnsns up to 26,000 more people could die by suicide in the united states by 2050 if humans don't reduce emissions of greenhouse gas pollution. plus, we look at how central american activists are organizing against president trump's border policies. all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in pakistan, millions of people are heading to the polls today for pakikistan's parliamentary election. at least 31 people were killed in an isis bombing at a polling station in the western city of quetta, while other attacks on polling stations have left at least two people dead. the run-up to today's election has been marred by violence, including

sometime, arguing the flores settlement, just like the trump administration, does not it clued a company children, those who was at themselves at the border with their parents. and the judge now twice has resoundingly rejected both the arguments of the obama administration and o once again the trump administration, and has rejected the notion that children and their parents can be prolonged, and definitely detained as trump is now claiming he needs. to do or what he wants to do amy: who was flores? gin was a salvadoran that was detainedny flores in the late 1980's. and because of the trump administration says, i mean, they continue to defy deadlines. they said they -- it was a humanitarian act, separating children from murderers and rapists. and now they say they will hold them together, want to hold him indefinitely, perhaps on military bases and other places. so what happens next? can the flores settlement withstand the challenenge? >> i think it can. the flores settlement is a law, and agreement that the government entered into and has abided by for many years. although, as i said, th

to start the conversation off, i think for many iran watchers, we are looking at what the trump administration is doing, looking at the regional situation, and it seems like the cloud of confrontation may be gathering. shortly before the trump ministrations decision to withdraw from the run deal he appointed john bolton, someone who has openly and outspokenly advocated for military strikes on iran. he also nominated mike pompeo to be secretary of state. the ministration has withdrawn from the deal unannounced that the u.s. is going to impose sanctions not just on iran but also secondary sanctions on u.s. allies and other parties to the jcp away if they continue to uphold the terms of the agreement. those sanctions will come online in august. there's already some announcements from europe about how they plan to stand up against those sanctions, but how that plays out remains to be seen and i'm sure our experts will have some commentary on that. we also see the administration coordinating closely with u.s. regional partners who happen to be the chief rival in the region, the israelis and the sau

i could go on and on and on. >> if the trump administration said tomorrow they would get back in compliance with the iran deal, who would believe them? given the statements trump has made against the deal, given his animosity toward the country, toward the government, and given his long history of broken promises in the foreign policy space, i just don't think you would have -- you would have business entities that would be willing to trust the trump administration was actually going to stay the course. because again, this agreement comes back to the fact that it was a transactional deal. it exchanged -- increased monitoring, strong prolific standards, limits on material production in exchange for sanctions relief. if iran is not feeling the sanctions relief because the countries don't trust that the u.s. would actually keep the sanctions relief in place, you're not going to be able to sustain that. even before trump's announcement that he was going to violate the deal and reimpose sanctions, you already had countries hesitant to go in, you had countries cutting back their oil supplies. and

is there a resolution at the end , and what are the goals of the trump administration? how quickly can they wrap this up and get the pain over with for ordinary manufacturers and farmers? host: one group may be not giving president leeway on this, some republican senators. a symbolic vote yesterday on the president's trade practices. one of the people who spoke was pat toomey of pennsylvania, republican. here is some of the argument leading up to that vote from pat toomey. sen. toomey: first and president -- first and foremost commandment mr. president -- first and foremost, mr. president, this is a misuse of american trade law. this is supposed to be used when there is a threat to national security. the united states produces domestically 95% of all the .teel we consume how can one possibly make the case that we don't have plentiful abundance of them ethically produced steel to satisfy our defense needs? it is not only that. 25%, we're the biggest sources for steel, but we don't produce ourselves? that would be mexico and canada. those of the countries that provide mos

last year, the trump administration suspended the program. and then late last night, this was the headline at the associated press. u.s. army quietly discharging immigrant recruits. quote, some immigrant u.s. army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged. the associated press had learned. we do not know how many people enlisted through this program had been booted from the army. but immigration attorneys say they know of more than 40 who have been discharged and whose status -- or whose status has become questionable, jeopardizing their future. one of those 40 people is lucas. a brazilian immigrant who filed a lawsuit against the army last week. he says it was his dream to serve in the u.s. army, to give back to his adopted country. a dream that had come true until they kicked him out. so what does this mean and where does it go from here? joining us now is margaret stock, an alaska-based immigration attorney and retired u.s. army reserve lieutenant colonel who help

(applause) >> and you know it is shameful how the trump administration has tried to side step the backlash. >> however this kirstjen nielsen secretary of homeland security and ikea book shelf. according to her the administration had nothing to do with this at all. >> parents who entered illegally are by definition criminals. by entering our kri illegally offer then dangerous stirks, illegal immigrants have put their children at risk. congress and the courteds created this problem, and congress alone can fix it. this administration-- administration did not created a policy of separating families at the border. we are a krif compassion. we are a country of heart. >> trevor: i'm sorry, that is some bullshit, right? that is just some bullshit. (applause) we're a country of compassion, a country of heart. you can't do a fatality on someone and then call it friendship that is not how it works. because this administration did create this policy. all right, it's pretty balancesy to claim congress for it when thee people from your administration already said it was a trump team idea. it's bs. it's

what does it tell us that the trump administration either can't or won't give them to us? >> i think that's the point, that they either can't or won't. it's been a fine line throughout this story of what is it that they just messed up and what is it that they're sort of intentionally doing. you noerk know, as julie was sa it's a policy problem on both ends. there are three different government agencies here that were not coordinating well and in many cases just -- well, overall did not have a procedure in place. the idea was just that the policy was separation and then after that, who knows. then going forward, it is also very unclear the executive order that the president signed was very vague, and they're still trying to figure out what exactly it called for, what exactly it means. are they going to erect these giant tent cities on military bases, what advocates are calling family internment camps. how are they going to handle this problem going forward? congress unsurprisingly not having passed a solution to the problem, how does the administration tend to handle this?

the trump administration is saying the obama administration they are now rescinding what are -called seven policy guidances what were enacted prviously. what does that mean? >> well, what it means is that the federal government's pronouncements on the supreme court's pronouncements haveow changed. so you have to go back to the supreme court here, over a series of rulings over manye s, the supreme court has grappled with race in admissions and race in schools, and then, after they issue a ruling from time to time, the federalgo rnment will sift through that and try to advise school systems and colleges on what it means for them. so the obama administration did that over a period of years fro1 to 2016, issued somean statements today, the trump administration said, basically, we're getting rid of those statements, ty're not operable anymore. >> woodruff: and nick schifrin, what does that mean for these schools?ha >> well,s interesting. if you're a college and you see an incoming change of administration from obama to trum you probably already knew that there was a change afoot in the wa

by the trump administration is kind of a take it or leave it. that desn't really leave the chinese with much room to maneuver. david honig, now that we are where we are in the tit for tat with tariffs, talk about the rile effect. the u.s. imposes tariffs, at least the chinese tariffs, soybns forks example, china canceled the soybean orders, they are nearly a thirdov the entire soybean crop purchasing power there. that's a big hit to the u.s. economy. where does the ripple effect go from there? showsis a big hit and it the danger of treating something that's distributive that truly weisn't. so whaee is not only damage to american farmers because they're not able to sell their soybeans, but what happened next is china bought their soybeans from russ, they tripled their purchases from russia. the ripple effect beyond that is not only is rusia now buying -- selling soybeans and american farmers are losing them, but russia is now getting hard currency. so if you go outside trade and look at america's aty to project its power, now sanctions will be le

by the trump administration. they did not have to do this. as we sit here today, there is still over 2,000 babies and kids who were ripped away from their parent who have not been reunited. >> and what do you make of the government saying today that they need more time? it doesn't sound as though they had a process in place to eventually reunite these families. what do you make of what the administration was saying in court in california? >> it's not surprising cnn is reporting that the government had no real plan in the beginning when they were ripping away babies and kids from their parents. not only do we have an evil policy, we also had gross incompetence, and now we're seeing not only kids and babies that have not been reunited, but the ones that have been are in bad shape. prior reporting talked about a 14-month-old infant recently reunited that was covered in ly lice and the infant had not been bathed. that is cruel. >> and vice president pence said cries to abolish ice are unacceptable. there are a few of

it's the entire philosophy of the trump administration and will remain that way as long as trump is inr hopkins, is that your worry as a democratic strategist? you aren't a fan of the things he was dismantling with the president's blessing. none of that seems to be likely to change under mr. wheeler or whoever is the permanent replacement. what do you think? >> i mean the policies of the report going to be put in place whether it's pruitt or mr. wheeler. i will say scott pruitt, is indicative of the behavior that trump was supposed to clean up. but has now become the poster child for that very swampish trump enterprise. what i think we're seeing is the reason the democratic wave is getting ready to happen. 18 point enthusiasm gap among democrats and republicans. democrats winning in red states, purple states, blue states. >> neil: you're almost acting like the last week never happened. you have been stumbling more than me out of the veggie bar. what do you think? >> i feel pretty good where democrats are at. >> neil: harland, he mentioned the swamp reference, chuck schumer said took yo

the trump administration impose w fees on chinese goods at midnight. china retaliated iediately. amna nawaz looks at the strategies of both sides, and the potential consequences. >> nawaz: president trump set into motion 25% tariffs on more than 800 chinese imported goods, including aircraft engines, industrial machinery and parts for electronics, to name just a few. now, china hit back with tariffs of its own on more than 500 u.s.-made goods, some of which target areas of the country that voted heavily for mrp. that includes exports like soybeans, pork and corn. let's break down how both sides are positioning themselves, andh wherimpact of the tariffs will be felt first. david honig is an attorney who teaches negotiations at indiana university.an and yasheng is a professor who studies the chinese economy and global business at the m.i.t. sloan school of management. david honig, i want to start with you. talk to me about the negotiating style that we have seen so far with president trump. you break them down into a couple of categories. one is called distributive bargaining, that'

ms-13, this gang that the trump administration says is a real threat here in the u.s. and then i'd like to play a little bit of sound of president trump also talking about immigration. take a listen. >> like in a war, you're liberating a town or an area. and i.c.e. goes in there and they go in there and sometimes they have to go in swinging. they don't mind. they're tough. then i hear democrats saying, we want to abandon i.c.e. we want to abandon. we're not abandoning i.c.e. >> this long preamble is president trump seems to be using the politics of fear. he talks about infestation of illegal immigrants in american cities. liberating cities with the help of i.c.e. and now some democrats are talking about trying to dismantle this agency. do you think they play into president trump's hands when they talk about trying to remove a law enforcement agency? >> well, to some extent, but actually on the other hand, if you look at the degree of public approval, of legal immigration, levels of public sympathy who are rising about undocumented immigrants and the kind of general view

early on there were members of the trump administration that were not in line with this inking. it has taken them a year and a half to get to this point. but trump always wanted to move in this direction. when it came to the audience yesterday, i spoke to several people in the audience and it was a mixture. people who want to see the --ted states take a more they have numbers in los angeles and many of them were in the audience, they didn't necessarily believe that their support forld be what pompeo was saying. the majority of the people in the audience were not iranian-american. even though was presented for and this goes to a larger point here. if the trump administration was actually interested in a genuine dialogue then the dialogue should have been initiated before trump pulled out of the nuclear agreement. to come now, to say he is now interested in hearing what the iranian-american community wants to say, it is a genuine because he is already made his major policy movement. it is difficult to see that any feed act from the community could influence him to even marginally c

the trump administration.hey're fighting so many battles it's sometimes hard to keep track of enemies. crooked hillary, fake news media, deep state witch hunt, canada. and the biggest enemy of all, the environment. the trump administration has had a grudge against mother nature ever since wind. ( laughter ) and yesterday, we learned how far they're willing to go to kick captain planet in his big new marbles. >> thousands of pages of e-mails show interior secretary ryan zinke and aides dismissing tourism benefits and archeological discoveries in favor of shrinking national monuments for logging, ranching and energy developments. "the washington post" sites documents the interior department released this month and retracted later. >> trevor: i don't what's worse, scheming to help owl and timber businesses or thinking you could take back the e-mails you mistakenly sent out. how does that work? can't send an email say to your boss saying work is my favorite place to get high and jerk off in the boiler room, and th

anthony scaramucci. >> the trump administration has broken every record for the shear number of people fired in the past year and half. one person still sticking around. i speak of course of epa administrator scott pruitt who has become the poster boy facing a legendary record setting federal investigations. trying to profit from his office cozying up to the agency he is regulating. a citizen asked him to step down. >> this is my son, he loves animals, he wants clean air, and clean water, and meanwhile, you are slashing standards for cars and trucks for the benefit to big. according to that woman. >> who happened to be married to a lobbyist. he maintained a secret calendar to hide his contacts. that whistle blower said aides met regularly to scrub his calendar of anything that might look bad. according to a new report directly asking the president to fire jeff sessions. joining me now is epa whistle blower. i want to get clear, and you want to get clear, you are support of the president of the united states. you have no ideological or political ax to grind. is that correct? >> not at a

we've seen this throughout the trump administration. we also know that trump places a great premium on having a rapport, a personal chemistry with someone. now that said, onthere's not a t of interaction between the president and supreme court justice. there shouldn't be given some of the issues this supreme court could be weighing in on. the latest that we have according to peter alexander, his reporting on that, three finalists might be too strong but seem to be the serious contenders. the names brett kavanaugh, amy coney barrett and raymond kethledge. two of them kennedy clerks, one a clerk for justice scalia. when we think about the theatrics on how this will be rolled out, bill shine is on the plane with president trump as they're flying to montana. lots of time for the two of them to game out their strategy on how they're going to presenting this pick. ali. >> let's talk about the other matter right now, the trump and putin meeting. the president is confirming -- or the white house is confirming they're going to have a one-on-one m

i think all of the administrations, not just the trump administration, are getting low grades. . i do think it was good to try diplomacy, to have the summit. i wasn't basking in the administration for making that attempt. but we shouldn't mistake diplomacy for denuclearization. they're not doing any better or worse than previous negotiations. we have seen the ebb and flow of the north koreans over time. agree to things, disagree to things, cheat on things they agree to. i think it's too early to give it a grade. if pompeo leaves with a real deadline timetable and if the north koreans really make serious declarations about the nuclear materials they hold, if they're honest and in alignment with what our intelligence community assesses they have, the grade will go up from the cb minus range to the b plus range. >> you're at a solid c, i think. good of you to join us. >> thank you. >> trace: before secretary of state mike pompeo arrives in pyongyang athletes from north and south korea playing friendly basketball games there. the dictator kim jong-un a fan of basketball. so far he h

administration pro ably would tabroad a view as it could of the supreme court's rulin whereas the trump administration, being a conservative administration, is going to take a narrower view of what it thinks e supreme court said. but the supreme court has been clear, these decisions have been byarrow majorities. the last ruling was in 2016, is 4-3 decision. we all know there are nine justices, but it came when justice scalia's seat was still vacant. justice kagan had to recuse because she had been involved in that catese froxas when she was in government, so it was 4-3, an it was justice kennedy who wrote the opinion, and it was really the first time he had >>held an affirmative action program. oodruff: of course we're at a moment where justice kennedy is leaving >> very fragile majority. >> woodruff: another importantmo nt. so, nick schifrin, just to come back to this question of how are schools to interpret this, youi said aute ago they're likely not to jump and do somethiy immediatt to take their time and, what see, what more the trump administration says? >> yeah, it's worth poiing out that the tr

even within the trump administration, many senior officials argue that the u.s. should stay in the deal. president trump could have kicked this can down the road. he didn't. he could have gone along to get along. he didn't. instead, president trump did what he promised to do. last october he refused to certify the nuclear deal and last may, president trump terminated america's involvement in the deal and restored u.s. sanctions against iran. thank god! and thank you, president trump! [cheers and applause] >> thank you for ending the shameful policy of appeasing the world's foremost response of terrorism. thank you for rejecting a policy of containing a nuclear-armed iran and embracing a policy of preventing a nuclear-armed iran. thank you for making clear you intend to roll back iran's aggression, not accommodate it, and thank you, president trump, for standing up to an iranian regime that vows and works to destroy the one and only jewish state. [applaus [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, president trump's decision was nothing less than a hinge of history. a year

the trump administration says they'll meet that deadline but only for

during her speech, she had a message for the trump administration. >> we are going to the president that here in san francisco, we don't put childrin cages. we put them in the classroom. joining me to discuss the week's legal and political developments ar s nyuhool of law professor melissa murray. kqed politics and government senior editor,cott schaeffer and political consultant, shawn walsh. let's start withig news, the justice department issued 12 indictments against russian intelligence officers for offenses relate to the hacking of the democratic national commngtee, the targets du the 2016 election. shawn, what are the legal consequences of thca? se it's not like russia is going to extdite these guys. >> new york city there's not much they can do. i was looking at the president's statement he put out. it was all defenses, we didn't do anything wrong. it doesn't look like any americans knew what was going on and i think he lost a real opportunity to hammer putin and hammer the russians before he goes to meet with them saying it's outrageous, you're try og to interfere in our electoral

ice is a tool being misused by the trump administration. e are things you ought to reform about it. the main -- we can really change it. the main thing is the policy of the administration, what they're doing. >> that as we know -- >> we will keep our eye on ball. >> you called for more on that. i want to be clear. do not abolish ice but there's room for improvement? >> i'm saying i think frankly whether you abolish ice is not the main question. you have to change it so it can't be misused the way it's being misused. the main thing is to change the policies. >> alexandra cortez in new york, she could join you in washington. >> she will join us. >> very ro aggressigre progress. she said the democratic party is a big tent party. we have grown for lots of people. yet there's this push toward more progressive policies. is there room for everyone in there? where do moderates go? >> there's room for everyone. i'm a progressive person. i always have been. i'm happy for more progressive policies. we have more moderate people on the caucus. they have

day 533 here of the trump administration. and the pressure is on. the president is facing a complicated week ahead with high stakes at home and abroad. it's all still taking place beneath the cloud of the russia investigation. there is brand-new reporting tonight about negotiations for a face-to-face interview between president trump and robert mueller. "the new york times" says the chances that the president would be voluntarily questioned were growing ceincreasingly unlikely. the article goes on to say that the special counsel needs to pro prove, before mr. trump would agree to an interview, that his testimony is essential to completing the investigation. tonight it appears the president and his legal team are taking an even more aggressive stance regarding the russia investigation. meantime president trump now just three days away from announcing a decision that could well define his legacy. he is about to reveal his pick to fill that vacancy on the supreme court. >> if you tune in monday at 9:00, i think you're going to be extremely happy. right

this is a move by the trump administration to ratchet up pressure on china. at the same time, treasury secretary steve mnuchin has at least been discussing having new negotiations with the chinese government over the trade issues between the countries. so they are looking to force china to make additional concessions. but the talks still haven't taken place, and they haven't been scheduled yet, so we are a long ways from either backing down or fully diving into a trade war. ramy: looking at the clock, 10 hours ago is when the news hit that the u.s. and china were talking about talking. i was watching daybreak americas, and that was the other side of the coin. it seems like in less than 12 hours, mnuchin on one side, his folks are saying free trade, we will talk. side,eiser on the other taking over now. >> it illustrates the split within the trump administration. mnuchin has been taking a softer line by comparison to others in the white house, particularly the ustr trade representative. there are mixed messages coming out, but i would say it is pretty clear th

this is trump administration policy she's protesting.iss okoumou says it was another white house occupant who inspir inspired her to take action. >> michelle obama, our beloved first lady that i care so much about. say, when they go low we go high, and i went as high as i could. >> after more than 3 hours stand off with police, miss okoumou finally came down. she's down been charged with three sfleernds including trespassing, she's pleaded not. joining us now is patricia okoumou in her first tv since her big climb. and j.w. walker. so miss okoumou i want to start with you. what made you scale the statue? >> well, rise and resist had been declining this action as far as -- the way we did. some people were wearing t-shirt that says abolish i.c.e. and i figured, okay i've never been to the statue of liberty. i would love to climb up there with the sign or banner. it wasn't something i was willing to discuss with the group because i didn't want to be discouraged. >> you didn't want them to stop you? >> yes. >> what did you think j.w. when pa

the trump administration pledges to protect farmers, but did not provide details. sonny perdue wrote there are tools to protect farmers. that is a tactic the wall street journal editorial board slams. trump wants farmers to bail out hit by his trade war. >>> the former wrestling coach at ohio state coming to the defense of congress member jim jordan. accused of ignoring the allegations of the sexual abuse against the team doctor. russ hellikson says he finds the situation disheartening. adding the coach i respect to the highest possible level are being torn apart by semantics. jordan gave his heart and soul to the athletes. >> house speaker paul ryan is the high profile republican to support jordan. >> i have always known jim jordan to be a man of honesty and integrity. i want to make sure that ohio state conducts the review of the doctor and what he did. that's important so that campuses are safe. i'm glad jim is supporting that review. >> congress member jordan denies knowing about the abuse while working at the school. >>> video of george clooney's crash in italy

why would the trump administration deny china mobile's to enter the u.s. telecom market here?tration is telling the federal communications commission it should deny the application based on national security grounds. this is part of the trump administration efforts to rein in what they see as intellectual property threats by china. this is the latest meant to do so. obviously, the tariffs in the whole trade dispute with china have been partly based on this argument by the trump administration that china has economicling its espionage stealing intellectual property in the u.s.. this is the latest meant to do so. this application was filed way back in 2011 but now, the trump administration is moving on them with the federal communication commission, the fcc. congress is trying to sidestep what the president is trying to do which is probably fine. seems i got effort has stifled a little bit there and easy. several thehas had makers of the senate have been trying to get this trump administration to go back to their earlier position on cte which is to try to stop them from doing an

day 533 here of the trump administration. the pressure is on. the president is facing a complicated week ahead with high pressures at home and abroad. there is brand new reporting tonight from the "new york times" about the negotiations for a face-to-face interview between trump and special counsel robert mueller. the "time's" report quote, president's lawyer set new conditions on fried on an interview with a special counsel. the chances the president will be voluntarily questioning will be increasingly unlikely. the article goes on to say, the special counsel, robert mueller needs to prove before trump would agree to an interview, that he has evidence mr. trump committed a crime. his testimony is essential to completing the investigation, says rudy gill juuliani, the he president in the case. it appears the president and his legal team is taking more of an aggressive stance regarding russia. in the meantime, trump three bays away from announcing a decision that could well-define his legacy. he's about to pick to fill that vacancy on the supreme

day 536 of the trump administration and president trump nominated federal judge brett kavanaugh to become

over the past year and a half donald trump and his administration have launched a concerted attack on federal workers and the unions that fight on their behalf. there appear to be no lengths to which donald trump and the antiunion monied interests who support him will go to attack and try to eviscerate protections for working people. here's some examples. in one of his first acts in office, donald trump instituted an across-the-board federal hiring freeze that impacted the work of critical agencies such as the veterans administration, state department, and department of defense. then the president appointed neil gorsuch to join the antiwork majority on the supreme court. this decision paid off when justice gorsuch provided the decisive vote intended to gut public sector unions in janus versus afscme. as a side note, mark janus, the public employee who served as the front man for the koch brothers in this landmark janus case, has left his job with the illinois department of health care and family services and now works for the koch brothers. a coincidence? i think not. the administrati

i think that turns much more on his personal relationships, with the trump administration, with the presidentim. >> there is so far nothing indicating a personal issue with president trump would affect kavanaugh's opinions on the high court. but can robert mueller force the president to testify? president nixon fought a subpoena for his walter gate tapes all the way to the supreme court and lost. president clinton tried to fight a subpoena in the lewinsky investigation, he eventually agreed on his own to appear before a grand jury. giuliani are gutz president trump should be immune from testimony because the it would be too much of a distraction from the president's job. legal scholars are split. >> there is not a lot of case law in the area. what exists favors mueller, not trump in this fight. the president's have been compelled to appear, have been compelled to produce documents unless the court reverses the precedent, the president would have to appear. >> now, another big legal battle potentially brewing is whether president trump could be indicted while in office if it came to that. the

this information covers the trump administration. the ig hasn't exonerated peter strzok on the trump submission. >> let's roll back the tape. you just said inadvertently. you're factually wrong about that. james comey said he was reopening -- >> to try to hurt hillary? he didn't want to look discredited on election night. >> there's no question that didn't hurt hillary. >> that wasn't the intent. >> the fbi did not talk about the donald trump investigation before the election. if there was any bias, it was hillary bias before the election. >> because they didn't think he was going to win. >> whatever you may think. your thesis -- >> thesis? it's fact. >> your thesis is the that the fbi was trying to help donald trump and hurt hillary clinton. >> let's find a pretext and -- >> try to stick to the facts here. >> hurry the f up to put pressure on him. if that isn't in plain english isn't bias, i don't know what it is. you should be applauding the hill for pressing the institutions for getting information the public would otherwise not kn

demonstrators marched to protest the trump administration's zero tolerance policy on immigration. in san francisco, thousands of people rallied calling for families separated at the u.s./mexico border to be reunited and asylum granted for those seeking it. nbc bay area's christie smith live at civic center where that rally just wrapped up. >> reporter: that's right. they really want these families opresident's executive order halting separations, but they say this needs real solutions with compassion. demonstrators march for blocks down market street and kept coming carrying signs like "no human is illegal" and "the kids deserve better". >> every time i look at my kids i think of the little ones that have been separated from their parents. >> this is an important cause to show our support for the non-separation of families. >> reporter: they spoke against the trump administration's zero tolerance policy surrounding immigration. they want families separated at the border reunited. >> even though he seems to be making the motions to not separate the families, he's going to be detain

"the wall street journal" is reporting that the trump administration's finance gatekeeper for presidentmp has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of mr. trump's former personal lawyer michael cohen, according to people familiar with the investigation. now, you know that name because you heard michael cohen reference him in the conversation he secretly recorded with then-candidate donald trump before the 2016 election. cohen and trump remember were talking about buying playboy play movie theat playmate karen mcdougal's story from the "national enquirer." karen mcdougal alleged she had an afire with donald trump. the pair can be heard talking about keeping mcdougal's story quiet before the election. here is the relevant portion once again. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that

the trump administration notified the court that it had identified 102 separated children under the age of 5, and that only four, four of those 102 children would be reunited before the deadline. the administration only has concrete plans to reunite about half of these 100 children. they have made no efforts to contact 12 parents who the government deported, and they can't even identify the parent of one toddler. we still don't know the fate of thousands of other children who were supposed to be -- who are supposed to be reunited in just a few days. this is an outrage. this is a toxic mix of cruelty and incompetence. the trump administration continues to try to shift the blame for this humanitarian crisis on to congress and the court, but judge sabraw said, and i quote, this is a chaotic circumstance of the government's own making. he went on to say in this morning's "new york times" defendants seek to light a matc. i'm reading from the wrong quote. these are firm deadlines, from judge sabraw. they are not aspirational goals, admonishing the government. in another federal courtroom, the

on the one hand the trump administration has agreed to reunite the immigrant children with their parentsyou saw that as they await appearances. at the same time the trump administrati administration lawyers have asked them to end the 20 day limit which the administration had violated. that's why we don't know what's going on here. 800 cities demanded action on gun control. between then and the end of the school year six more school shootings occurred. congress has done nothing to end that in limbo. we should expect it to drag its feet on changing its approach. why? because his actions plead the base. >> okay. let's talk long term. we have a midterm election coming up in four months. what's going to happen? the you think voters will show up the way they think they will? concerns on a woman's right to choose and more. first, will the trump opponent mobilize to vote in numbers beyond the expectations or to your point? second, will trump supporters feel so energized by the president's policies to come out in record numbers to represent democratic gains? it is shaping up to be intensity. whic

the trump administration is with qatar. ey were duped into believing that qatar is doing what they were accused of doing and the administration is absolutely behind us administration is absolutely behind us and have realised that qatar is an airline, a peaceloving nation, and part of the anti— terror grouping that has been found and are led by the united states and qatar is the only signatory to anti— money laundering, anti terrorist funding agreement with the united states. have you asked the trump administration if they can then turn to the saudis and the united emirates to apply pressure?” to the saudis and the united emirates to apply pressure? i am not a politician, iam emirates to apply pressure? i am not a politician, i am the ceo of an airline but yes, my government has banned pompeo has already mentioned __ my banned pompeo has already mentioned —— my government has. pompeo has already mentioned. the eu is due to sign a new free—trade deal with japan later today. the pact will remove almost all tariffs with the eu s

the trump administration has taken the exceptional position of arguing against people with preexisting conditions saying that congress cannot, by law, protect people with preexisting conditions. president trump, as a candidate, made it very clear that his priority was to put justices on the court who would correct for the fatal flaw of john roberts. he identified that fatal flaw as john roberts defense of the affordable care act. he made a promise that he wouldn't make that decision again. he would not put somebody on the court who would vote to uphold parts of the affordable care act. you've got to take the president at his word. most of the things he said he would do as president of the united states when he was a candidate he has done. a lot of folks here didn't take him seriously. didn't think he would really try to unwind nato, didn't think he would really try to ban muslims from the united states, didn't think he would pursue this idea of the wall. he did all those things. let's take his word when he says he will not support a supreme court that will uphold the affordable care ac

police locked in a three hour standoff with her as she protested the trump administration law enforcementg law enforcement lives at risk is such selfish myopic view of what this country is. >> president trump heading to great falls montana