obstruction of justice related to comey's firing, as well as potential financial ties between trump associates and russia. at the same time, the white house is confirming that president trump will meet with russian president vladimir putin at the g20 summit in germany next week. it will be their first face-to-face encounter since mr. trump took office. we're covering all of that. much more this hour with our gefrt including the former chair of the hillary clinton presidential campaign john podesta whose e-mails were hacked by russia. our correspondents and special efforts are all standing by. but let's begin with the controversy over president trump's laltsest twitter attack. these go to our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, even by the president's standards this is scomblosive. >> that's right, wolf, the white house has yet to issue an apology from president trump for his ugly twitter attack on mika brzezinski. it certainly does not look like one is coming. aides say it's nothing more than the president punching back with long history of comments from women and offensive tweet

direction of appropriate democrats take an seek an aggressive investigation into president trump and his associatesd republicans pushing for a probe into the unmasking. drinker republicans want to know if the unmasking was politically motivated. cheryl: president trump, all the heat he took for the obama administration spying on him. lauren: maybe he's onto something. trade to coming up, a lot more in the story. we will talk to attorney david purnell and interpeak. they will have their their perspective in all these latest developments. lauren: they say something sure smells funny. hillary clinton was on the attack pointing fingers and blaming russia for her loss to donald trump and accusing the white house to working with moscow to defeat her. she was speaking at a tech conference in california. clinton hopes investigators will uncover a plot to interfere in the u.s. elections. >> i take responsibility for every decision i make. that is not why he lost. i think it's important that we learned the real real lessons from the last campaign because the forces we arrived against are not just interested

it had previously been sort of vaguely described that possible financial crimes by trump associates are of fbi focus. how does this advance those stories? >> so i think it advances it incrementally but importantly. i can remember coming on your show several weeks ago when we had reported that jared kushner was a significant focus of the investigation and also that financial crimes were a significant part of the investigation. but at the time, i couldn't connect the two. i just knew they were looking at financial crimes and separately i knew they were looking at jared kushner. now we know they are looking at jared kushner's business dealings. he's a part of the trump family now, of course, being the president's son-in-law. he comes from wealth all his own. we know investigators are interested in that. why? exactly why, we don't know. they haven't alleged any specific wrongdoing on his part. as you mentioned just before i came on the feds are following the money. there could be money laundering issues here. there are prosecutors who specialize in financial crimes. andrew weissman had the

but three of them are related to unmasking of trump associates. sources say those subpoenas came from chairman devin nunes, who supposedly stepped aside from the investigation weeks ago in ethics charges, some of which went to whether or not he was dealing with the rest of his committee as he's supposed to. let's discuss. but first, congressman, thank you for being here. another headline is that jim comey, the former director of the fbi, will testify. what do you want to hear from him if he does get in front of the senate committee next week. >> it's pretty easy. i just want to hear what happened. i want to hear the truth. you know, it seems like everybody nowadays, every new piece of information coming through a political spectrum. if you are on one end of the spectrum, you yell it's fake news and if you're on the other end of the spectrum you yell it's the end of the world. there are folks now kind of worn out. eventually they say we just want the truth. just tell us what happened and then legally we could come to our own decision so i hope that

i think the third thought i had, charlie, was i am much more interested in what the trump associateso the russians before the election than i am after the election because i am much more interested in the question of did they help the russians interfere in our election. and i am primarily interested in what they said after the election as a way to inform what they were doing with the russians prior. that is much more important here to me. dids not unlikely flynn want to talk to them about syria and sanctions and other issues. i don't think that is that big of a deal. is that part for the course for an administration not yet in power? and is it par for the course because someone will always raise the question that we only have one president at a time. >> there is the logan act that is supposed to prevent a nongovernmental official from undermining u.s. policy. it has never been enforced once. it has not been enforced in a couple hundred years. during a presidential campaign, during a general election campaign, there are foreign officials coming through both campaigns having conversati

the report says investigators have been looking into possible financial crimes committed by trump associatesmeanwhile lawmakers on capitol hill have voted overwhelmingly to curtail president trump's power to ease up on sanctions on russia. senators voted to take the sanctions imposed by the obama administration and write them into law. congress would have a say should president trump try intended to be a punishment for russia's attempts to interfere with the 2016 u.s. elections. >> ♪ >>> 12 members of the turkey's president's security detail are facing charges here in the u.s. they are accused of attacking protesters outside of the ambassador's residence when he visit last month. police say arrest warrants have been issued. all suspects are pleased to be in turkey and are now wanted in the utz. >> happening today in montgomery county judge is set to here arguments in overturning lee boyd malvo's life sentences. malvo was convicted of capitol murder for his role in the 2002 sniper killings and sentenced to life in prison. he was 17 at the time. malvo claims his life sentence has been rendered

with regard to trump associates, and the russians. the first, which jim comey had earlier said that the fbi was indeed investigating, was that if any trump associates come part with the russians and the interference of our election. did any of them help the russians? for example by choosing the material to be released? did anybody do that. the second thing is, did organized crime wonder money over an extended. of time? one of the president suns, i forget which one, said that russian money is flowing in. and there have been -- there is enough there to at least ask that question. if anybody in the trump organization that it was russian organized crime money, that would be a crime. and even if they didn't know, the question becomes, did they do the due diligence required by u.s. law, to know where foreign money is coming from? that is an issue that needs to be investigated. the second issue, is whether there is anybody in the administration with access to classified information who has an inappropriate relationship with russian intellige

aimed at hiding possible financial payoffs that might've been part of a cooperation between trump associatesussian conyers around emoluments and suing the president of the united states. to you respond to all of this? >> it is important is investigations continue. robert mueller, we wanted a special prosecutor, but we also wanted independent commission. i'm a plaintiff in the emoluments lawsuit. it is important we know if this president has benefited monetarily or otherwise from foreign governments. that clearly is against the constitution. i believe we have 200 plaintiffs in this lawsuit. of these investigations are extremely important because the american people, first of all, need to know the facts and we need to see be presidents tax returns -- president's tax returns. why isn't allow the public to look at his tax return? something is going on that is very serious and these investigations are moving ford. we also need an independent commission to conduct an independent bipartisan investigation. amy: barbara lee, we thank you for being with us, democratic california chair of the congressi

those also unmask trump associates in the administration. trump tweeted today that unmasking is the big story. joining me is jerry bash, department of defense. he's also an msnbc national security analyst and "washington post" bureau chief phil rucker. guys, two of my favorites right now. i'm very happy to see both of you. jeremy, let's start with you. james comey testifying next week. your initial thoughts? >> yeah, a couple things. if you think of the investigation overall as having three main pillars, the first is were there any violations of feder federal criminal law. the second is what are the big counterconcerns about russia meddling in our election. think comey will stick to the third pillar as kacie was noting earlier. i think he'll try to do what he did in 2007. his retelling is one he took on with the bush administration of warning of vasurveillance. he was dispassionate and he was careful not to give up the fbi integrity. trump tweeted that comey was a nut job and that he lied under oath. and i think for james comey, who is a fed

we reported on how they were looking at other trump associates for their financial dealings.hey are looking at jared kushner's finances and business dealings with regards to this investigation about whether there was collusion, coordination between trump associates and russian officials. there is the building on sixth avenue and looking to raise money. so do we know if that is a part of it. >> looking at me now, looking at our finance dealings. yesterday we reported that they are looking at obstruction with president trump. we can see that mueller is expanding the investigation. >> robert mueller hired attorneys at least one who specializes. >> he has a big team of people. >> the department of justice who is supposed to be a fantastic lawyer. >> you also talk about a meeting, new information about a meeting that director comey had. when was this? >> this was really interesting. before the director comey met with president trump for the first time in january he was wondering if he should tell him he was not under investigation. the general investigator said i don't believe you

the first which jim comey had earlier said the fbi was indeed investigating was did any trump associates conspire with the russians in their interference of our election. did any of them help the russians choose the material, to be released, for example, for maximum impact, help them think about the timing of releasing the material for maximum impact. did anybody do that? second is did russian organized crime launder money through the trump organization over an extended period of time. remember one of the presidents son, i forget which one, said russian money is flowing. and there's been some, you know, there is enough there to at least ask that question. if anybody in the trump organization knew that it was russian organized crime money, that would be a crime. and even if they didn't know, then the question becomes did they do the due dill against that's required under u.s. law to know where foreign money is coming from. so that is an issue that needs to be vected. the third thing that needs to be investigated is, is there anybody in the trump administration, particularly with access to

his business dealings as it is with they are also looking at the financial dealings of other trump associates like michael flynn, former national security adviser paul manafort, former campaign chairman, et cetera. but when he has now learned that they are indeed investigating the finances and also of jared kushner. >> sari, what does this mean now about the scope of the investigation which was begun as an investigation of russian interference into the election? >> i think it's expanding. we saw that last night in our report where we reported a story saying that the special counsel was looking at obstruction of justice, possible obstruction of justice of the president of the united states. you can see it is growing. it started as a counterintelligence investigation, and then into an investigation about possible collusion, coordination between trump associates, and russian officials. interfering in the 2016 election. and now we can see it's going into the area of finance and obstruction. >> sari, good ahead. >> i just want to comment on what you read from rod rosenstein, the statement that wen

intelligence agencies discovered that some trump campaign associates were in contact with russian officials, including fired national security adviser michael flynn. by the time comey met with the president in february in the oval office, comey says flynn was in legal jeopardy. >> there was an open f.b.i. criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the russian contacts, and the contacts themselves. >> reporter: comey told his

. >> just more color from this trump associate. in hindsight, this republican close to the president calling this whole episode one of the worst things the president has done with fallout that led to the hiring of bop mueller, the special counsel. thank you so much. let's broaden this out and have a big old conversation. i have shannon with me, a white house reporter who broke the news that there are, in fact, no tapes. david is back with us, former cia officer and author of the preside president's book of secrets. jeff kramer and richard. so, welcome, welcome to all of you. and shannon, you know, you broke the news. what's the explanation behind all of this? >> well, what one colleague -- one white house official told my colleague, jennifer jacobs, is that the idea behind the initial tweet was the president trying to tell comey that, hey, if you're going to start leakin things, you better be honest, because there may be tapes. and this strategy of tapes is something that the president has used before to sort of, you know, as a thr

rice has been under fire for her alleged role in revealing the name to trump associates during the election. for her part, she's done nothing wrong. more on this in a few moments inside a "america's newsroom." another alert now on a friday morning, the breaking development over president trump's top priorities, number one the travel ban limiting trade to the u.s. from six muslim majorities is no effect. how will that affect us? meanwhile, health care reform facing an uncertain fate on capitol hill. senate republican trying to find a -- i am bill hemmer, split broadcast prefrontal trip this week, i am bill comer live in washington and shannon, how are you doing? >> shannon: i am doing great as we go into this holiday we can live from new york. president trump applying new pressure to senate republicans to get something done on health care. this morning, if republican senators are unable to pass what they are working on now, they should immediately repeal and then replace at a later date. health and human services secretary tom price weighed in on this just a short time ago. >> the status quo

investigators have been looking at evidence of possible financial crimes among trump associates. ump received private assurances stating he was not a person under investigation. officials say that changed after comey's firing. rogers, andike richard agreed to be invest -- be interviewed by investigators this week. it is unclear how many others have been questioned by the fbi. washington post breaking that story. the washington post says it is the topwhether or not officials will be directed by the white house to invoke executive privilege. it is also -- it is doubtful they could use executive privilege to block them from speaking to investigators. you also have this in the wall street journal. the special counsel plans to interview the departed deputy director of the nsa, rick alledge it. he wrote a memo documenting a phone call that mr. rogers had with mr. trump. during the call, the president questioned the veracity of the intelligence community's judgment that russia had interfered with the election and try to persuade mr. rogers to say there was no evidence of collusion betwee

blueapron.com/cook >>> new details tonight on the senate intelligence committee's probe into trump campaign associates contacts with russians. this as the top republican seemingly contradicting the president of the united states. >> manu raju is out front. trump and his team obviously public about there being no collusion between the trump campaign and russians. you just spoke to the chairman of the senate intelligence committee. do those statements reflect reality? >> reporter: not quite. saying that the committee has in fact interviewed more than 40 witnesses so far and said that the issue of collusion is something that they are still chasing, something that they are trying to determine at this point in their investigation. take a listen. >> well, i would only say that there had been public comments that suggest that there has been no overwhelming evidence to suggest there was collusion. but we have to chase down every potential -- every potential pathway that we see. when we conclude all those, we'll make a final report. >> reporter: now, erin, i followed up and said have you seen anything? and he

even in the public sphere, there has been an enormous amount of reporting about trump and his associatesn russia. none of that public reporting has shown any type of collusion either. that is the interesting thing here about what happened with trump. as we know from comey's statements, trump was not under investigation as part of the russian meddling in the election. the question now is whether mueller is looking at the obstruction, the cover-up, how he tried to influence comey. that is something we have to remember, how we got to this place in the story. charlie: you are listening to these people come forward. who is it you most want to hear from? who what it i -- most want to hear from? i think i would most want to hear from michael flynn who had these contacts with the russian ambassador during the transition. those conversations were picked up by the f.b.i. then he was interviewed at the white house by the f.b.i. there was yesterday an investigation into whether flynn made false statements. flynn is fired for misleading the vice president, at least that was the story the white house

mueller's team may be beginning to look at, whether it is that or money involving some of the trump associatesonce you start down the trail, you don't know where it is going to lead or end. the one thing we know from watergate and almost all of these investigations that begin with a specific subject, that they go in unexpected directions based on where the evidence leads and can end up in unexpected places. for the president and the trump white house, that has to be worrying. i believe the president's reaction to it and some of the things he said in his tweets today make it clear he is very unhappy about it. charlie: you wonder, as you did about president clinton when he was facing impeachment hearings and other legal difficulties, you wonder how you can focus on being president when your own skin is at risk. >> one thing we know about the president is he has a relatively short attention span. he has shown that through the course of the campaign and through the first months of his presidency. and second, when he is under attack, he fights back and he fights back very hard. he certainly seems t

basically said, yes, there is this criminal investigation into possible collusion between russia and trump associatesthe aggregate of this, it's this again kind of steady courtship, this obsession with turning comey, with making him loyal, in almost trump seeing the fbi as an arm of his white house, as an arm of sort of the political aims of his white house, and so yeah, i think sort of the way he lays it out, and we'll see what happens tomorrow and the questions, the more questions that come up. he says things aren't in this memo, right? there are nine instances and conversations that happen i believe in this there are only five, so what's been left out? >> he said he didn't add all of it. when you look at the totality, you wonder if he's trying to co-opt the fbi director. go ahead quickly, david. >> sure. the big difference, with watergate there was a smoking gun people on both sides of the aisle understood it's over. in this case there will be a lot of speed about he said/he said, and a lot of republicans will defend the president. it's not as clear-cut as it was in watergate. >>> stick around, ev

hope you can find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. >> the first concrete evidence that trump associates have engaged in collusion with russia. >> it could be russia but it could be china. it could be lots of other people. >> i don't know why the republicans, they can tolerate almost anything. >> the republicans try to distance themselves. >> i don't see it as an appropriate comment. >> as president trump once again shows -- >> where are you from? >> you got what you voted for. >> i moved on her like a [ bleep ]. >> plus, senator bernie sanders on the gop health care deal. and a year and a half after this. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and comp

trump. the associated press is reporting that donald trump has told associates that he has the legal authorityto fire mueller. now i've read the statute. i'm sure donald trump hasn't. but the law says very clear i will only the attorney general has that power. and if the attorney general is recused, whoever has he rest placed him in that role has that power. the president doesn't have the power. but he appears to be walking around the white house, believing that he does. >> or he believes he can reach down to some number of level of people to find a robert oreck who will throw away their future by doing his bidding. max is correct about the developments here there will be a court hearing monday in brooklyn in which henry kaufman, also representing the bbc and others are trying to unseal the efforts of felix seder's dealings. this is the man who travelled with trump for years, who has involved in major felonies and is very closely associated with donald, though donald claims he wouldn't recognize anymore he knew he. he travelled with him all over the place. we're trying get the records of his c

numerous trump associates had undisclosed contacts with russians before and after the election. including the president's attorney general, his former national security advisor, and his current senior advisor, mr. kushner. that doesn't even begin to count the host of additional campaign associates and advisors who have also been caught up in this massive web. we saw mr. trump's campaign manager, mr. manafort forced to step down over ties to russian backed entities. the national security advisor, general flynn had to resign over his lies about engagements with the russians. and we saw the candidate himself express an odd and unexplained affection for the russian dictator, while calling for the hacking of his opponent. there's a lot to investigate. enough, in fact, then director comey publicly acknowledged he was leading an investigation into those links between mr. trump's campaign and the russian government. as the director of the fbi, mr. comey was ultimately responsible for conducting that investigation. which might explain why you're sitting now as a private citizen. what we

hillary colluding network, had to eat crow this week yet again for a fake story published about a trump associateni monologue straight ahead >> sean: welcome back to "hannity." for months we have been telling you how that destroy trump media will do anything in their power to take down this president, this administration. time after time, the professional trump haters over clinton news network have been proving my point, including over the weekend, they once again published a demonstrably false russia collusion story that they now have been once again forced to retract. it's a major credibility crisis at cnn and it starts at the top with the fake news chief, jeff sucker. the estimates mini monologue. last thursday, cnn published a story alleging that longtime jeff ally anthony scaramucci was being investigated for colluding with the russians through dealings with a russian and. 24 hours later, the story was completely debunked. cnn was forced to issue this embarrassing retraction. "that story did not maintain editorial standards and has been retracted. links to the store have been disabled." cnn

we have evidence that there was meetings between trump's associates and russian officials which may haveeen about that interference. it takes time to establish that evidence. the fbi and congressional committees want to do as thorough of a job as possible. >>> still ahead, britain's prime minister speaks up about the response to the london fire disaster. >>> and in france, the new president is expecting another triumph in today's final round of parliamentary elections. >>> welcome back. the eye tall.an coast guard said it rescued about 800 migrants. those rubber boats werer trying to make it to europe. >> so many people on that boat. the international organization for my fwragz says more than 65,000 my fwrants have used the mediterranean route to get to italy and that's just this year alone. >>> a rising death toll, a growing anger and embattled leader. theresa may meeting with the victims was not good enough. >> saturday, she met with some of the survivors at number 10 downing street. >> protesters were back on the streets in london this weekend. fred pleitgen has been following this di

we know there's been a lot of contact between trump associates and moscow. to an extent there is financial dealings, that will, i think, help understand what knees contacts were about, how russia used the contacts, what americans did. money a lot of times will lead you to what you need to know about the reels ship. i think this is extremely important. >> yesterday in the situation room, your colleague told us he believes general michael flynn, the fired national security adviser may have flipped in not i think general flynn has an awful lot at stake during this investigation. he clearly violated laws. >> you might be surprised, if he was trying to give them a rift as to how these things are concerned. >> the u.s. now facing increased tensions with russia over the battlefield in syria. the u.s. now has shot down a syrian jet fighter and two dr e drones targeting american planes and actually coming within only five feet of an american plane, an unsafe buzzing incident over the baltic sea. how concerned are you over this escalation? >> if this is extremely dang

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trump. the associated press is reporting that donald trump has told associates he has the legal authority to fire mueller. i've read the statute. i'm sure donald trump hasn't. but the law says very clearly only the attorney general has that power. and if the attorney general is recused, whoever has he rest placed him in that role has that power. the president doesn't have the power. but he appears to be walking around the white house, believing that he does. >> or he believes he can reach down to some number of level of people to find a robert bork who will throw away their future by doing his bidding. but max is correct about the developments here. there will be a court hearing monday in brooklyn in which d.c. report and our lawyer henry kaufman, who's also representing the bbc and others, are trying to unseal the records of felix sater's dealings. this is the man who traveled with trump for years, who has involved in major felonies and is very closely associated with donald, even though donald claims he wouldn't recognize him if he knew him. he traveled with him all over the place. we're t

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was essentially turned into a political weapon against individuals for their political associations, whether to trump or associates of trump and tracked and perhaps ultimately an attempt to intimidate or harass. susan rice is not testifying. she refuses to testify before congress. she's been asked to do. jared kushner said he would make himself available to anyone who wants to talk to him. why won't susan rice talk? >> bret: hillary clinton is obviously convinced of the linkage, the collusion, even though there's not evidence that we've seen. she talked about it at length today about the linkage and she believes the trump campaign is there. here are former clinton cia director and former obama cia director. "there's a lot of things i've seen, i think have been disclosed too much. the real scandal here, makes it hard for the secrecy that's essential for the operation of the u.s. government. i think people who have broken these tacit informal agreements taking classified information attorney lids are basically traitors to the country." then you have michael morel and the obama administration, acting ci

rogers on the phone and ask them to come out and say there was no evidence of collusion between trump associateselection b officials. rogers former deputy, richard ledge jet wrote an internal nsa memo that documented that conversation. >> ok. so there is a nem there as well. do you have any understanding as to the motive for that mem? we know comey's motive was he feltd it inappropriate and he wanted to memorialize themselves extensively. do you have any reason why this other memo? >> ledggett, i take he wanted t document a phone call from the president of the united states to the head of the nsa asking him to say publicly that there was no evidence of collusion between trump and the russians. >> one more question. >> sure. >> we know the president of the united states had asked repeatedly to assure the american people he's not under investigation. you're reporting tonight, the president of the united states is under fernl investigation. do you know if he's aware of,000 or is he also finding out from your report tonight? >> well, we called the white house and the white house was not aware of it.

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information regarding any surveillance that may have occurred during the campaign season of trump associates. senator lindsey graham of south carolina earlier today that he was pushing for any sort of information if any trump associates were under surveillance. as well the senate intelligence committee going through new data turned over from the treasury department including whether or not there were financial transactions. word on the top democratic committee they are looking through two batches of documents and trying to determine whether or not there are leads to continue to chase. >>> you are learning about a new witness who has agreed to testify before the house intelligence committee. >> reporter: sources are telling me and our colleague that susan rice, the former obama national security adviser has agreed to testify behind closed doors of the house intelligence committee next month. this comes as republicans have accused susan rice of unmasking the names of officials, trump transition officials in countless reports. they believe she acted improperly and did not handle classified info