been very critical of the iranian government and called for its removal but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. actually has state pump air seemed to contradict the president he says he's on board meeting iran's president says several requirements before it could go ahead. president wants to meet with folks to solve problems if the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce their malign behavior can agree that it's worth while to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevent proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them let's get more reaction now from tehran was saying that same what are you hearing that. well the latest iranian official to add to a chorus of response to president trump. casual invitation has been the interior minister who no surprises here said that trump cannot be trusted and so we're not going to talk to him and this is really been the running theme ever since dona

kavanaugh nomination and supreme court decisions made with kennedy's vote one negotiations with the trump white house were underway a white house spokesperson did not deny the n.b.c. report when asked directly about it earlier today and judge kavanagh will need to be approved by the u.s. senate and late today a group of senate democrats standing in front of the supreme court gathered to denounce the selection saying that if successful the new justice could lead to an alteration of the infamous roe versus wade decision on reproductive rights and issues related to health care among others and here to discuss the nomination and more and what it might mean for business and finances why no of why no media who is also for those of you who don't know an attorney lionel thank you so much for being with us i heard the judge said that he thought it was important for justices to be independent interpret law and not make the law and they should do so on form informed by history and tradition they all seem to say that but what else do we know about judge brett kavanaugh. well a couple of things he was on the d.c.

to act like you want to solution let's this is this is a policy that was set by the white house this was set by the trump white house the only entity right now who could stop this tomorrow with the snap of the fingers is the trump white house that's just reality and you know that. gentle move so that you know that in the legislative fixes and i go in the president's version of attorney and long term fix that man told a.b.c.'s george stephanopoulos over the weekend that my wife my daughter and my son have my first loyalty and oh as will i put my family and country first is that a signal to either of you that he may be about to flip. peter well i think that if there's one person in the world who knows where the bodies are buried in the trump organization it's michael cohen he's been doing trump's dirty work for years we know that the government has files whatever sort of business cohen has been doing and executing on behalf of trump for years the government has that so i think if i were in the trump white house i'll be very concerned about what michael cohen knows and what he can speak to because he's been

big sur prize inside the trump white house dan coats seems to be in big trouble. >> the least surprisingof the day, lawrence. in fact, it really bolsters the speculation that we've had around already today the possibility that trump watching coats talking to our colleague andrea mitchell was so enraged he decided to send out the tweet announcing putin was coming to washington in order to try to troll or diss dan coats in the middle of the interview he was doing. this reporting seems to provide some basis for that kind of speculation and of course coats is in trouble because he did not tow the line in the way trump would want him to. as i watched the interview today, i said to myself, dan coats days are numbered. >> let's therefore listen to more of what dan coats had to say. here he is with andrea muitchel saying what was it like to have the president alone for two hours with vladimir putin. let's listen to that. >> the president was alone with vladimir putin for two hours. more than two hours. with only translators. basically, how do you know what happened? you are on the dark side of t

trump family. this isn't the only unusual situation surrounding this white house. re he became president, donald trump handed over control of his businesses to his sons, donald junior and eric, but he still collects profits from those enterprises. cnbc's editor at large john harwood takes a look at how the trump white house is a money-making machine. >> these aren't people. these are animals. >> you are fake news. >> what comes out of donald trump's mouth is for a president of the united states unprecedented. >> wait a minute, i'm not finished. i'm not finished, fake news. >> so is what goes into his wallet. more than $500 million of income last year for trump and his family from their hotels, golf courses, clubs, merchandise sales. from old businesses and newly formed ones. no modern president has profited this way during his time in office. predecessors like ronald reagan, bill clinton and george w. bush put their assets in blind trusts to avoid conflicts between their financial interests and the public interest. trump did not. he announced last january he'd step

inside the trump white house, trump raged about the release of his and cohen's 2016 conversation aboutng the deelt with mcduelingal, former play boy model to sell 9 rights of the alleged 10-month affair with trump which they never published to her account. did he rage because people found out about it or did he rage because he's in legal trouble because of it? >> talking to white house officials and friends of a sen outraged at michael cohen. they thought he was the ultimate loyalist soul they could convince to stay and not work or cooperate with federal prosecutors at some point in the future, to not be releasing these tapes. they also are alarmed he's working with lanny davis, former advisor to the clintons. he said michael cohen was pushed to this point, that he wanted to stay loyal, but he thinks that rudy giuliani, the president's lawyer, has said things that are untrue and it's time for cohen to get out there and tell his stories, and he's going to keep telling the story even if the white house doesn't like it. >> robert costa, you tweeted something that was so interesting to me

. >>> a busy trump white house as the president narrows his choic for supreme court justice while also reversing an obama era licy on colleges use racial factors in admissions. >>> fanatic search for a missing man fou alive thanks to the use of gh-tech thermal imaging. >>> catching up with one of america's most generous public servants. bob dole at the world war ii memorial. >>> plus the skies over philly already lig up ahead of tonight's fireworks. "early today" on this 4th of july starts right now. >>> good morning. i'm millisa rehberger in for phillip. >> great being with us. hope you're having a great start to your 4th of july. frances rivera. as amethcans prepare their of july celebrations the heat is not letting up. excessive heat warnings and heat advisories remain in effect in parts of the northeast and midwest. the nation's heat wave is being linked to at least three deaths. in new jersey congressman bill pascrell had to be helped from a press conference suffering from heat exhaustion. whileern philadelphia a w main break left 2,000 people without water. that means no water, n

putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house because the president he works for is donald trump white house press secretary sarah sandoz confirmed the invitation on twitter. in helsinki president of the united states agreed to go in working level dialogue between the two security council staffs president trump asked john bolton to invite president putin to washington in the fall and those discussions already on the way we have the announcement from sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary this comes in the aftermath of quite a bit of media hysteria in response to donald trump's a meeting in helsinki with the russian president if you look at time magazine or the new yorker there's been quite a bit of hysteria in u.s. media now in recent comments the russian president has actually warned the world about the hysteria in the us media and about you know forces that would push false narratives about the meeting in helsinki to advance their own political gain. there are forces in the us ready to easily force russia u.s. relations for their political ambitions. these sorts

in washington that justice kennedy in fact consulted with people in the trump circle in the trump white house and got some assurance that the president would appoint someone that kennedy would approve of specifically his former law clerk judge kavanaugh those are only reports but they are. intriguing reports. and justice kennedy is eighty one about to turn eighty two so it was it was time for him to think about retiring to california and leaving washington behind so ok we can forgive him at eighty one for wanting to do that i mean kennedy may may approve kavanaugh the republicans may approve but what about the democrats what challenges can it is this appointment of them well two issues already mentioned that matthew mentioned abortion and gay rights written ducted rights and gay rights justice kennedy cast important decisive votes three years ago in favor of recognizing same sex marriage and striking down a restrictive law from texas regulating abortion clinics in a way that would have shut many of them down but we may hear more in over the next three months about these issues one presidentia

kavanagh nomination and supreme court decisions made with kennedy's vote one negotiations with the trump white house were underway a white house spokesperson did not deny the n.b.c. report when asked directly about it earlier today and judge kavanagh will need to be approved by the u.s. senate and late today a group of senate democrats standing in front of the supreme court gathered to denounce the selection saying that if successful the new justice could lead to an alteration of the infamous roe versus wade decision on reproductive rights and issues related to health care among others and here to discuss the nomination and more and what it might mean for business and finances why no of why no media who is also for those of you who don't know an attorney lionel thank you so much for being with us i heard the judge said that he thought it was important for justices to be independent interpret law and not make the law and they should do so on form informed by history and tradition they all seem to say that but what else do we know about judge brett kavanaugh. well a couple of things he was in the d.c.

putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house because the president he works for is donald trump white house press secretary serious and is confirmed the invitation on twitter. in helsinki president of the united states agreed to go in working level dialogue between the two security council staffs president trump asked john bolton to invite president putin to washington in the fall and those discussions already on the way we have the announcement from sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary this comes in the aftermath of quite a bit of media hysteria in response to donald trump's a meeting in helsinki with the russian president if you look at time magazine or the new yorker there's been quite a bit of hysteria in u.s. media now in recent comments the russian president has actually warned the world about the hysteria in the us media and about you know forces that would push false narratives about the meeting in helsinki to advance their own political gain. there are forces in the us ready to easily sacrifice russia u.s. relations for their political ambitions a sati

the trump white house. use correspondents for cnn, tell the people what happened. >> she is what's called the pool, when there's an event and they don't want the whole press corps in, they have one magazine, one news, one radio person, called the pool, and they report back to everyone else in the group. >> stephen: she's responsible for asking the questions everybody would want. >> yes. that morning, president trump had been tweeting nasty things as is his want, specifically about michael cohen. >> stephen: because the tape had come out. >> yes, the night before. and caitlin asked the question everybody would want to ask which is to provoke him to say something about michael cohen, did michael cohen betray you? she didn't answer. then there was another question about michael cohen. she asked about the summit with putin, part 2, and has he not accepted the invitation or whatever. >> stephen: yeah. apparently offended, the trump administration offended by the impertinence of her questions, they told her later

> tonight there are new indications of just how rapidly this white house is churning through its staff. the associated press reports the trump administration is setting turnover records. an analysis of white house filings shows, quote, president donald trump has seen staff turnover in excess of 37% over the calendar year ending june 30th. according to the most recent filing, 141 staffers who worked with the president at the white house at this point last year are gone with 138 new arrivals. some 61% of trump's senior most aides have left the white house. the ap also found that former president clinton is the only commander in chief in the last five administrations to have had a somewhat similar senior staff turnover rate at 42%. as far as the trump white house is concerned, the name we most often hear when it comes whose next to do is chief of staff john kelly. it's been report head wants to be out of the west wing by the end of this month, and that the president is already looking for a replacement. here's what trump said about kelly just a few days ago when talking to reporters on air force one. >> are you looking for a ne

white house just dropped the question that he was answering there. the white house transcript has no reference to reuters asking president putin, did you want president trump to win the election? that's not in the white house transcript. now, the reporter at the atlanta magazine was first to report on this anomaly right after it happened. and sometimes transcripts are wrong. they're very rarely wrong at such a high profile, simple thing. that moment probably got more media attention than anything else that happened in that remarkable q & a with reporters. but in the grand scheme of things, it is not unheard of for a white house transcript to be inaccurate. when that happen, reporters point out something that's wrong or missing or miscaringized and then the white house later makes a fix. it happens, not all the time but fairly frequently. it is not that big a deal. so after this incorrect transcript came out from the trump and putin summit with the question, did you want president trump to win the election, with that gone from the transcript, the atlantic published this criticism noting that the transcript was wrong. and after the atlantic first published t

been very critical of the iranian government and called for its removal but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen then it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera. at the white house. all right so let's go and bring in our panel joining us in washington d.c. hillary mann leverett former white house and state department official with responsibility for iran in tehran. a professor of world studies at the university of tehran and in geneva john mark rickly the head of global risk at the geneva center for security policy welcome to you all hillary i want to start with you so here is yet another shift in tone from donald trump earlier this month he threatens iran now he's saying that he's willing to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani with no conditions is there some kind of strategy here or is this a spontaneous statement. well it's hard to say for sure with president trump and in particular the wild swings in rhetoric to make it more difficult but i think a sober analysis of it trumps moves and what he's done on the world stage and who he actually speaks to and f

putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house because the president he works for is donald trump white house press secretary sarah sanders confirmed the invitation on twitter. in helsinki president of the united states agreed to go in working level dialogue between the two security council staffs president trump asked john bolton to invite president putin to washington in the fall and those discussions already on the way we have the announcement from sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary this comes in the aftermath of quite a bit of media hysteria in response to donald trump's a meeting in helsinki with the russian president if you look at time magazine or the new yorker there's been quite a bit of hysteria in u.s. media now in recent comments the russian president has actually warned the world about the hysteria in the us media and about you know forces that would push false narratives about the meeting in helsinki to advance their own political gain. there are forces in the us ready to easily sacrifice russia u.s. relations for their political ambitions. these

into the news now just as the dust itself to settle on the trump putin service in the finnish capitol hill sinking the white house announced its inviting the russian president to washington in the autumn and then interview donald trump or since confirmed his intention to meet again with putin second meeting potentially with was what i mean. is that in the works is it planned has it been you know i would say it's in the works look we had a tremendous discussion on many things but fact is we got along very well i think i have a good relationship with you so far the russian side has neither accepted not declined the invitation the decision to invite putin to the united states is once again a spot outrage among the western media man that even president trump now says interfered in u.s. democracy invited to the white house and now the president has apparently doubled down by having him to washington so let's collude again like we did last summer top spy in the united states he doesn't know how it's not possible that the president of the united states is inviting putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the f

white house. and now president trump says he's ready for round two. this time, he's hoping putin will come to the white house this fall. our cnn white house reporter sarah westwood joins us live from nearby trump's gulf resort in bedminister, new jersey, where he is this weekend. what more do we know about what the white house wants to say about what happened? >> well, fred, despite the intense backlash to president trump's performance alongside vladimir putin this week, trump is essentially doubling down on his russia policy by making plans to host a second summit here in the u.s. the white house stunned even some of trump's own cabinet members on thursday when it announced plans to invite putin to the white house later this fall. trump asked national security adviser john bolton to relay that message to moscow even as the fire storm on capitol hill was still raging over how trump had treated putin and even some republicans who typically withhold their criticism of trump when he breaks with them on issues of gop orthodoxy like trade and immigration ha

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now, according to "the "baltimore sun"" the white house has not commented on its decision. >> president trumpdutch prime minister at the white house yesterday where they discussed security and trade. he said bluntly no. >> we are close to making very good -- i want to say fair, fair trade deals for our taxpayers and for our workers and our farmers and a lot of good things are happening. i think the eu, we're going to be meeting with them fairly soon. they want to see if they can work something out. that will be good. if we do work it out, that will be positive. if we don't, it will be positive also because -- >> no. >> we will just think about the cars pouring in here and do something. >> we have to work something out. >> but it will be positive. >> that comes as a new poll shows that just 39% of americans think that trump's trade policies are good for the economy, and even fewer think it is good for their bank accounts. more than half of americans also think trump's trade strategy will lead to a trade war, while just 17% think that a trade war will be good for the u.s. economy. >>> still, co

i guess it's in their interests to be on good terms with the trump white house and the trump world.y'll be punished if they turn against him? i don't know. i'm amazed that no one speaks the truth. you talk to these people privately, people who have been there and left, my question to all of them is, if i knew what you knew, would i be a little bit reassured or even more worried? >> they all say even more wo worried. >> even more worried. and then they write books saying he's great, he's doing a good job, you don't understand him. i don't understand their loyalty after they've left. >> some of them, even the ones still there, are afraid of what will happen when they leave. i think the ones they leave sort of romanticize the rock star status that they had at the rallies, mistaking the rallies for the country. but the rallies are donald trump's 30% of the country who have the time and take the time off work to go to the rallies. i'm with you, i don't know how they go out and function in the world. jonathan karl writes, bmr. spicr refers to the author of the infamous dossier as michael

democrat new york governor cuomo, he now claims that trump white house is waging jihad on illegal immigrants. >> money, politics be we deliver the debate. i am elizabeth mac mcdonald, the "evening edit" starts right now. let's get to your money, dow up 200. ending day at 25241. alphabet leading the wave of strong tech earnings, president trump addressing 4 thousand veterans in missouri, talking about a new iran deal, as new satellite images appear to show north korea is beginning to dismantle a key nuclear test site. >> new images just today show that north korea has begun the process of dismantling a key mist site, we -- a key missile site, we appreciate that. we had a fantastic meeting with chairman kim. it seems to be going well. liz: we welcome retired four-star general, fox business contributor general jack keane. >> dismantling this particular site, and they have taken down a nuclear test site, this is a liquid fuel site. not the most advanced rocket capability, which is now solid fuel. they do test hearing and research. this was 3r07 promised to secrey pompeo a number of weeks ago on

weekend on booktv on "after words," sean spicer recounts his time as press secretary in the trump white house. he's interviewed by former republican national committee chairman michael seal. also this weekend university of chicago professor martha nussbaum examples the role in -- [inaudible] in "driving our politics." alan dershowitz outlines the constitution's criteria for the impeachment of a president. journalistal grade doe corps chad doe talks about paths that he and three friends took after they immigrated to the u.s. in the late 1980s. and psychotherapist jeannie safer discusses how political differences are hurting personal relationships and offers remedies to the problem. that's just a few of the programs on booktv on c-span2 this weekend. for a complete schedule, visit booktv.org. >> janet napolitano is our guest on booktv. she has a new book coming out called "how safe are we," it deals with her time as secretary of homeland security. she's also the former governor and attorney general of arizona and currently the president of the university of california. president napolitano, whe

trump. and ukraine, something the white house pushed back on, suggestion that donald trump may consider backing a referendum in the east of the country partly occupied by russian troops and their proxies. they're starting to eek stuff out, above all trying to control the narrative. this is very much seen here, and i'm afraid in europe, too, among america's allies as a russian initiative wholeheartedly. >> the white house appears to be reacting, only reacting to what we get from moscow. sam connelly, thanks so much. >>> cnn national security analyst, former adviser to president obama's national security adviser with us and douglas brinkley, historian and professor at rice university. thank you both for being here. sam, to you first, why do you think president trump is allowing president putin to dictate the messaging? >> i think that unfortunately president trump handed over the reigns to the helsinki summit to president putin the minute he agreed to a one on one because he knew that president putin would be able to control the message coming out of that meeting based upon president putin's mani

the donald trump white house. they appealed to them. n stopping it but they have not gotten clearance from the white house to stop it. as we move into the midterms 100 days from now we see no plan to have anything different than what happened in the 2016 election when this company was attacked by russian intelligence officers, we see no different plan for that to not happen this year. that continues to be the most damaging thing for this white house. >> all right. kevin, last word to you regarding "the new york times," the meeting with the president -- that he had with publisher of the "new york times." the president putting out a tweet this morning. really a response by a.g. sulzberger, the publisher who says the main purpose to accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president's deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric. i implored him to reconsider his attacks on journalism. he didn't ask him to go soft on "the new york times." if he doesn't like what he is hearing, emphasize that. your takeaway? >> i grew outside of philly w

putin for a second summit in a couple of months in the fall over at the white house because the president he works for is donald trump white house press secretary sarah sanders confirmed the invitation on twitter. in helsinki president of the united states agreed to go in working level dialogue between the two security council staffs president trump asked john bolton to invite president putin to washington in the fall and those discussions already on the way we have the announcement from sarah huckabee sanders the white house press secretary this comes in the aftermath of quite a bit of media hysteria in response to donald trump's a meeting in helsinki with the russian president if you look at time magazine or the new yorker there's been quite a bit of hysteria in u.s. media now in recent comments the russian president has actually warned the world about the hysteria in the u.s. media and about you know forces that would push false narratives about the meaning of helsinki to advance their own political gain. there are forces in the us ready to easily sacrifice russia u.s. relations for their political ambitions a sat

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mar-a-lago, which trump calls the winter white house, doubled its member fee to $200,000. p international hotel in washington, whose managers promote it as a destination for diplomats, raised room rates by almost 60%. many who could benefit from trump's decisions are happy to pay, including representatives of saudi arabia, turkey, kuwait, and georgia. it includes lobbyists and executives from industries such as oil, high tech, real estate, and mining. in amounts large and small, trump takes in money from political allies and from the government he leads. the republican national committee rents space in trump tower in new york. so does the pentagon. so does china's largest bank. the government of qatar this spring paid $6.5 million for an apartment in trump world tower, joining the governments of saudi arabia, india, and afghanistan there. trump businesses overseas has gotten foreign government help too. china is reportedly lending $500 million to a trump-linked development project in indonesia. china has also approved dozens of trademarks for trump family businesses since h

. >> president trump is staying at his golf resort in bedminister, new jersey. cnn white houseeport er, sarah westwood is standing nearby. is the president saying anything about what rudy giuliani is talking about? >> reporter: well, president trump is staying quiet on this weekend here in bedminister, new jersey, as his lawyer is out defending him against these bombshell new allegations about the trump campaign's contacts with russia. rudy giuliani had already accused michael cohen, trump's former attorney, of being a liar after cohen signaled his willingness to tell investigators that that trump had advanced knowledge of that trump tower meeting involving his son donald trump jr. and a russian offering dirt on hillary clinton. but last night, giuliani accused cohen of tampering with a recording of a 2016 conversation with then candidate trump. now we should note there is no evidence that the tape was actually altered but this is what giuliani had to say about it. >> we have to hope it exists. this could be a recording of a recording. we are not sure yet. that, they can probab

white house. when donald trump is clearly his own director. an empowered white house chief of staff of staff to whom the director of communications reports and that chief of staff is has to keep everybody on the same page. >> just want to clarify with sean spicer of whom you were just speaking about. it's okay. thank you for weighing in. >>> coming up. results of a poll that asks whether president trump is a racist. (♪) okay you gotta be kidding me. hold on, don't worry, there's another way. directions to the greek theater. (beep) ♪can i get a connection? ♪can i get can i get a connection?♪ ♪ohhh can i get a connection? ♪trying find the old me >>> joy reed. >>> let's say i'm debating pocahontas. right? i promise you i'll do this. i'll take those little kits they sell at televisions for two dollars. learn your heritage. we will take that little kit and say we have to do it gently. because we're in the me too generation. we have to be very gentle. we will say i will give you a million dollars to your favorite charity. paid for by trump. if you ta

channels there are voices senior people in this white house who've been very critical of the iranian government and called for its removal but this is donald trump's white house if you want something to happen that it could and soon alan fischer al-jazeera at the white house. trumps our own senior staff appear to contradict him u.s. secretary of state mike pompei or says he's on board with meeting iran's president but listed several preconditions before it could go ahead the president wants to meet with folks to solve problems of the iranians demonstrate a commitment to make fundamental changes in how they treat their own people reduce their malign behavior can agree that it's ha'p'orth while to enter a nuclear agreement that actually prevents proliferation and the president said he's prepared to sit down and have a conversation with them on live to terra now. i should say is there for us so what are we hearing from iranian officials on this. well sammy whenever donald trump and this white house throw iran a curve ball what iran has been doing is turning to the other signatories of the joint comprehensive plan of action the twenty fifteen nuclear

white house. right at the start of the trump administration. thing you can tell us now, or even just remind us now, about the urgency with which you warned the white house about him? for me, i'm asking because of this persistent mystery about why the white house waited so long, waited 18 days before they took any action in response to your warning. is there anything you can tell us that might shed light on why that happened? >> no, i certainly can't figure it out myself as to why they took all of that time. i came knocking on the door telling them they had a serious problem with their national security adviser. that their national security adviser could be compromised with the russians. and i came back the next day to give them even more information about that and made it really clear to them that we were telling them this so they could act. this was not a casual heads up. not an fyi. we're giving you this information so that you can act. and then nothing happened. >> when you say compromised by the russians, i have read enough spy novels and wa

then you go to the competence of the trump white house for carrying out this policy. what you think about the policy, you do have to say that the way this was carried out is poor to bad to unbusinesslike to unseemly, going to this core matter that you separated children from families and you separated them and didn't even have a record of what child was going where in the beginning, making a bad situation worse. all these are they thinks that are political ads that become political messages. no matter how many tweets the president sends out, it will not diminish this as a campaign issue in many places. >> so the president via tweet and even at a recent rally, he's focusing on the border walsh. house speaker paul ryan said the president was willing to be patience for that kind of funding. listen. >> we walked the president through our strategy for appropriations before the fiscal year. he agreed with our strategy. so we think we have a unified strategy to make sure that we can get as many appropriation bills done as possible. as far as the wall is concerned, we've gott

but it is a really interesting time, when you're looking at the trump white house. president trump has decided to be his own chief of staff, be his own communications director. so it's not completely out of the consideration that he may pick someone not on that list at all. and i'm not saying i know who it is. but i don't think it would be a jeanine pirro. >> did you just say jeanine pirro? >> i'm not suggesting that jeanine pirro will become a supreme court justice. but it could be someone as left field with the proper credentials as that. >> can i dissent from that? >> no, go ahead, quickly. >> very quickly, trump in every other area, it's true. here is the one he's played by the book, it's been very successful for him, maybe the most. i see no chance he'll go off the list. >> the only reason i say that is just because i think he is now looking at a mueller investigation and he wants someone who he is comfortable with who he knows will have a loyalty to him. and he doesn't know the folks on this list at all. >> all right. so susan collins, one of the people who is

white house. thank you. and now we bring in our panel. thank you to all of you for joining us. and let me start with you, steve, because hans alluded to it, the trump white house would say it is a continuation in some ways of the message of the last white house, the obama white house e deliver and in 2011 that gates, the then secretary of defense gave a speech over there and talking to to a allies saying if they did not make the necessary changes to make capable changes, it would be hard to call them the allies. >> and now if the further decline of european declines are not halted and reversed, the u.s. political leaders and for those for whom the cold war was not the formative experience for whom it is for me, may not consider the america's return of the investment in nato worth the cost. >> and what would you say, steve, hey, they were warned by the last administration, and this administration is taking it to the next step. >> it is ridiculous, and true that bob gates and barack obama and others have talked about the increase of nato spending, and it is true. germany is adding $5 billion a year increasing, and sarah huckabee sanders is wrong that

guest 1: we have not heard much from the white house about this, but syria, one of the issues that the white house was talking trip during trump's friend and how to deal with that issue, it is still a question going forward. basically what can be done and what is the u.s. role in syria because president trump said he wants the u.s. to be pulled back from syria as soon as possible as long as isis and all of these things have been dealt with. i think it is a question of how much the u.s. will want to be involved in this. host: less than 25 minutes in our roundtable. dan newhauser is with the national journal and 4 -- and ayesha rascoe is with npr. democrats, (202)-748-8000. republicans, (202)-748-8001. independents, (202)-748-8002. caller: it seems to me that every time i get on this station and watch people, every person that is on here are liberals. to the ever have any people on their that support donald trump? i don't think so. as far as talking about how he stood up to a man -- stood up to itn, are we supposed to take and not say nothing so they can threaten us? i have not heard any ships buzzing on the ocean or planes since

consistent to what he wants to do, good luck. >> i want to contemplate for a second that president trump's white houseissue with a reporter being rude. president trump's white house. >> that is irony in its fullest. i think that -- i know that donald trump has lowered the discourse in this country. he has lowered the bar for what it means to be president of this country. i think if we go to the mu tannics. -- mechanics. how does he become the communications director for the most powerful person in the world? it shows you that the white house is dysfunction. it shows you they really don't care about procedures and protocols and don't care about the people that they put in power. bill shine is the voice that people hear that is reflective of america and he is supposed to be the voice that is reflective of me. i can't believe that bill shine is actually in the white house. that is upsetting. >> stick around. the big question now, of course, will they ever see their moms and dads again? what will happen to the hundreds of children that the federal government says cannot be reunited with their parents? sta

look, the use of the worz witch hunt -- words witch hunt, that's just the way it is from the trump white house. even though his top intelligence officials say it is a completely false thing to say. but it is interesting that team trump is yet again pugt a hard deadline on mueller. it sure seems to be wishful thinking, because it was last august when trump's former attorney, ty cobb said, quote, i would be embarrassed if this is still haunting the white house by thanksgiving. and worse, if it's still haunting him by year-end. now he is truly haunted. because when the investigation was still hanging over the white house after thanksgiving and after christmas and in january came this prediction. >> when do you believe this investigation will reach its conclusion? >> there's no reason for it not to conclude soon. >> what is soon? >> well, soon to me would be within the next, you know, four to six weeks. >> eh, wouldn't have even been spring by the time that happened. okay. well, safe to say their predictions have been pretty bad. and today the secretary of state, mike pompeo, faced hostile questio

the trump white house is most likely weighing that heavily as they choose who this top nominee will bennouncement in about an hour and a half from now. the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell has said on the floor today that he hopes all senators despite party will give this nominee a fair chance. will give this person a fair time to go through committee. democrats and minority leader chuck schumer have been opposed to a number of the pics because the president gave out a list of 25 potential nominees. chuck schumer said not one of those would be someone he would vote in favor of. a lot of senators today as we have been hearing from our capitol hill teams have been saying, they will listen to ever the nominee is, talk with the person and make a decision. >> lauren, let me ask you about the scene behind you. we have noticed it seems that there are demonstrators who have shown up outside the supreme court. in anticipation of the announcement. can you give us a sense of the scene where you are? >> we are outside the supreme court and they are expecting a protest at 9 pm local. that is