white house relowered to half-staff. memorial services for mccain begin tomorrow. and according to the "associated press," twoccain's family had asked that mr. trump not attend the funeral services. >>> the trump administration has negotiated a preliminary trade deal with mexico to replace the north american free trade agreement, but the u.s. still has to negotiate with canada, the third nafta member. president trump threatened to impose new taxes on canadian auto imports if they don't reach a deal. >>> new u.s. sanctions against russia are in effect this morning in retaliation for the nerve agent attack on a former russian spy and his daughter in arlie d'agata reports. >> reporter: there's a good reason what's unfolding in the sleepy city of salisbury, england, has now become america's problem. the use of the russian nerve agent novichok and the assassination attempt of double agent sergei skripal was a violation of international law banning the use of chemical weapons. chemical weapons specialist hamish de bretton-gordon calls it a turning point. >> the 100-year taboo on the use of chemical weapons is compl

. >> reporter: it is not good news for the white house, two major development, first in the trial of the president's former campaign chairman paul manafort guilty him eight counterattacks and bank fraud, almost certainly significant prison time. the jury deadlocking on ten

. >> my premise, i worked in two white house, i had top clearance, the day i walked out, i did not expect anything, only keep someone to help you, you need to bring them back. these guys have not only not helped them they have been opposition. lou: to that point, why would any president, but this president in particular, who talked about smart government, bridge back same people for counsel who screwed it up for 8 years for crying out loud. >> brennan has been biggest leaker in white house and cia for years, i would have fired him, and i would have basically shut him down a long time ago, and he has done a great injustice to the cia, overall are wonderful human being who serve country. >> everyin suggesttion that national security team of president obama, very next the insiincipient point to subvert campaign and presidency of donald trump, why in the world would he tolerate that? >> look, i think that is the key issue, that brennan should be investigated not so much for now but about what he did in offers -- in office. rudy guliani said he believes that brennan of the quarterback to under

i mean, my premise, i worked in two white houses. i had the top clearance in the white house, and the top rank. the day i walked out, i didn't expect anything. only reason to keep someone if they help you and you bring them back for national security briefing, what have you. these guys have not only not helped them, they have worked against you. >> lou: why would any president, but this president in particular who talked about smart government bring back the same people for counsel who screwed things up for eight years for crying out loud? >> and brennan has been the biggest leaker in the white house and the c.i.a. for years. he has been notorious for it. so my sense is i would have fired him, i would have basically shut him down long time ago. i think to a certain extent he has done a great injustice to the c.i.a. who overall are wonderful human beings for the country. >> lou: there is every suggestion that the national security team of president obama were at the nexus, the incipient point of this conspiracy to subvert the campaign

. >> outside the courthouse today, two white house nationalists started screaming that the nationalistmunity defended itself against violence. >> two self proclaimed white nationalists screamed that police, the media and counter protesters were to blame for saturday's violence. >> it part of a culture of victimhood to justify their anger and actions. the 2017 unite the right rally was just the latest example. >> white people have a right to stand up for themselves. southern people have a right to stand up for themselves. when you try and take down our statues, we are not going just be little -- anymore. >> the architect behind the chaos is himself a charlottesville native and a new comer to white supremacist circles. >> my name is jason kesler, i was the organizer of the unite the right rally. the hate that you hear around you that is the anti-white hate. that fueled what happened yesterday. >> the unite the right rally catapulted kessler's status among white nationalists. >> her name was heather, sir! her name was heather, jason! her blood is on your hands. her blood is on your hood.

she also launched the white house's historical association and two months before this dinner, she gave the very celebrated tour of the white house which was on cbs. she was actually the first woman to get -- well, she got an emmy for the presentation but was the first woman to be featured in a documentary on television. so, great, great accomplishment for mrs. kennedy in terms of work with the white house and on this dinner as well. the most controversial people at the dinner pauling, he received a nobel prize for chemistry in 1954 but had become peace activist and he was concerned that there wasn't sufficient progress being made on an agreement with the soviet union on nuclear testing. so he had written a number of letters to president kennedy and, in fact, they were quite stride and he compared kennedy to hit we -- hitler, so he was t there picketing the day before and he and his wife went to hotel, changed clothes, went into dinner and in the reception line, president kennedy said to pauling, well, dr. pauling, i see that you have been around the white house a few times. [laughter]

. >> the tale of two white houses, where you know where the election is real and one where the opposite true. for some it's going to take more than one surprise briefing to convince them that what we heard today about cracking down on russia has the full backing of the president. >> that's just a pr stunt. >> well, keep this in mind, laura. anything the trump administration is doing to combat russia and its interference in our election is ten times more than the obama administration did during their tenu tenure. remember, we didn't find out about this until after the fact. and there has been very critical reporting about how little this was taken seriously, at least not until the very end, and how little was done to proactively warn candidates out there. in fact, they were kept in the dark so they couldn't try to stop this from within their own campaigns. when you have this many intelligence officials out there making the claim, you clearly have people within the cia that having seen what happened in 2016 are very much on the case, the media can choose to ignore that if they want, but t

played a role in the probe of alleged russian interference in the 2016 election according to two white house officials. and they announced the action wednesday amid an onslaught of news coverage from omarosa manigault-newman's new book. he came backswinging at the trump administration today as he did on television yesterday. writing in this morning's "the new york times," quote, mr. trump clearly has become more desperate to protect himself and those close to him, which is why he made the politically motivated decision to revoke my security clearance in an attempt to scare into silence others who might dare to challenge him. former colleagues of brennen are jumping to his defense. you heard john heilemann reference this letter. first of all, there's navy retired admiral william mccraven, who oversaw the bin laden raid and was in special operations. he wrote this "the washington post" calling brennen one of the finest public servants i've ever known. he goes onto say, i would consider it an honor -- this is talking to the president -- if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so i ca

there were two white house officials and three people from bloomberg. commitment. that was one of the terms they would agree to before going into the oval office and having an interview with the president of the united states. but the end result, the fact he's being tough on canada in a trade dispute. going back to the g7 he was tough on justin trudeau. david: he used it today to push his own agenda with regard to canada and push his agenda against the media, sucking with good evidence that they are dishonorable. another face plant for chuck todd because he suggested that today is the day when we were going to have some major revelation by mueller. it's 7:50 eastern time. i haven't seen the bombshell from mueller, have you? >> no, i haven't. the idea here is mueller is supposed to -- it's a self-imposed deadline by rudy giuliani and president trump's legal team. the guidelines are 0 days out from an election. that's why it's such a big day going into this weekend. but chuck todd promising big stuff. it undermines your credibility. david: a week ago he c

us, anderson is next. >>> good evening, we begin tonight "keeping them honest" with a tale of two white houses russia poses is real and one where the opposite is true. given all we've seen over the last year and a half, which white house does president trump inhabit. today's press briefing was a show of force from the president's own counter intelligence and national security team and they did not mince words. >> the intelligence community continues to be con

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plus a tale of two white houses on russia. >> now we're being hindered by the russian hoax.t's a hoax, okay? >> our democracy itself is in the cross hairs. free and fair elections are the target of our adversaries. >> and democrats look to 2020. >> the politics of division, might be the one thing that donald trump is really good at. >> inside politics, the biggest stories sourced by the best reporters now. ♪ >> welcome to "inside politics." john king is off today. thanks to viewers nationwide and around the world for joining us. president trump is now in full campaign mode. >> you're the elite. you are the elite. you're smarter than they are and make bigger incomes. you've got everything going. then you hear the elite has just said -- the elite. more elite than me? i have better everything than they have, including this. and i became president and they didn't, meaning you can take -- and it's driving them crazy. >> trump ended the week with a third rally, this time for ohio congressional candidate troy balderson, says the ohio republican will help his agenda and keep the gop

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. >>> good evening, we begin tonight "keeping them honest" with a tale of two white houses, one wherehere the opposite is true. given all we've seen over the last year and a half, which white house does president trump inhabit. today's press briefing was a show of force from the president's own counter intelligence and national security team and they did not mince words. >> the intelligence community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming u.s. elections.

>>> good evening, we begin tonight "keeping them honest" with a tale of two white houses, one where a threat russia poses is real and one where the opposite is true. given all we've seen over the last year and a half, which white house does president trump inhabit. today's press briefing was a show of force from the president's own counter intelligence and national security team and they did not mince words. >> the intelligence community continues to be concerned about the threats of upcoming u.s. elections. both the mid-terms and presidential elections in 2020. in regards to the russian involvement in the midterm elections, we continue to see a pervasive messaging campaign by russia to try to weaken and divide the united states. >> that was director of national intelligence, dan coats. the director of homeland security, kirstjen nielsen, was equally blunt. >> our democracy itself is in the crosshairs. free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy and it has become clear that they are the target of our adversaries, who seek, as the dni just said, to sew discord and unde

>>> we have another sign that it's the tale of two white houses. president attack the nba star lebron james on twitter but his wife, first lady melania trump, is praising james for his charity work. her communications director released a statement that reads in part, quote, it looks like lebron james is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation. just as she always has, the first lady encourages everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today. mrs. trump would even consider visiting james' new school in ohio. it's not the first time the first lady has contributed her husband, forged her own path. with more, here is cnn's randi kaye. >> i'm standing very strong on the ground, on my two feet, and i'm an own person. >> reporter: that was melania trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. as first lady, her independent streak continues to draw attention. take, for example, what happened during a recent trip overseas. melania trump was watching cnn onboard air force one when "the new york times" first reported her

i think there have been numerous instances in which the two white house press secretaries acknowledged they knew that they said things that weren't true. less so -- i think we have to cover it. there's a clamor for us to not even go to the press briefings. i sort of understand that. again, this is the person, the press secretary, who speaks for the most powerful human being in the world. i don't think it's our job to make a political statement by not showing up. i think our job is to find stuff out, our job is to listen, test, fact check, do the best we can to make sure they are telling the truth. >> it's interesting last week, the kwquestion came up as to whether the president used the n word. the press secretary couldn't guarantee -- >> that was a remarkable moment in the life of press secretaries. to leave open the possibility that the president said one of the most vile things and it might be on tape was a remarkable moment. i'm glad we were there. >> this leads me to the question, how concerned you are about the safety of your reporters right now. your publisher met with the presi

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a true maverick for six decades he proudly served his country from the house to the senate, and two bids for the white told in his own words. >> commander john mccain. >> in i fell love with my country. it wasn't until i lost america for a time that i realized how much i loved her. i loved what i missed most from my life at home, my family and friends. >> i've had the good fortune to spend 60 years in service to this wonder rous land. it's not been perfect service to be sure. but i've tried to deserve the privilege as best i can. i will not take the low road to the highest office in this land. i'm so grateful. so grateful to the people of arizona for the privilege, for the honor of serving here and the opportunities it gives me to play a small role in the history of the country that i love. we are an important check on the powers of the executive. our consent is necessary for the president to appoint powerful government officials, and in many respects, to conduct foreign policy. whether or not we are of the same party, we are not the president's subordinates. we are his equal. it is an honor to serve

so it's happened again another top adviser to the trumpet ministration is leaving the white house two hours ago donald trump announced on twitter that white house counsel don mcgann will step down from his post later this year it was revealed recently them again and spent months talking with investigators from team this is of course looking into wrongdoing from the twenty sixteen presidential election let's get some more on this and the implications of it with kimberly how could a white house correspondent hi kimberly how important is this one it's important because this as you point out follows a string of associates that seem to be turning on trouble in terms of their departures as you pointed out the white house counsel don mcgann has really made headlines in recent weeks because of his interviews given to the special prosecutor robert muller who's looking into possible russian interference in the twenty six thousand u.s. election and whether there was collusion with donald trump's presidential campaign but it wasn't just one interview that he gave it was three and it totals about

but i had done it for eight years and covered the obama white house from two years of campaign all the way through the white house and then to the last day when i waved goodbye at andrews air force base. i felt like i had done it and i had done it well. it is a little bit exhausting, and even for a newspaper. it's even worse for network reporters. but yes, it was a really great ride. that was also a great story. it's easy to look back now and think that things were so much years,during the obama that the white house was so much easier to cover and they had such a different attitude toward the press, and that is true. but it was by no means easy to figure out what was really going on in the obama white house. remember how he got elected by going around the traditional all , the institutions that people used to have to deal with, and one of them was us, the press corps, so he was masterful with social media he could command an , audience with whomever he wished to talk to, and he very often did that. he was so powerful on the stump that people would just write what he said on the stump,

stock markets because rates went up a sharp rise tipped over two hundred and seven dollars. the white house says it's ramping up efforts to stop foreign interference in the two thousand and eighteen mid-term elections and the parents in the white house press briefing room senior intelligence and law and order officials insisted they are better prepared to deal with anyone trying to influence voters or attack election software on official reports for the search to the big piece of intelligence. adding in law enforcement in the u.s. in an sheffield appearance they arrived in the white house press briefing room to insist they were better prepared to combat foreign interference in the upcoming u.s. midterm elections the president has specifically directed us to make the matter of the election meddling and securing our election process a top priority just days ago facebook revealed it had removed fake profiles and pages from its platform and instagram which it also orange the head of the f.b.i. says this shows greater partnership we're sharing with them actionable intelligence in a way that wasn

she also launched the white house historical association in two months before the dinner she gave a very celebrated tour of the white house which was on cbs. she was actually the first woman to get -- she got an emmy for the presentation, but the first woman to be featured in a documentary on television. a great accomplishment for mrs. kennedy in terms of the work with the white house and this dinner as well. most controversial people in the dinner, linus pauling and robert oppenheimer outside the white house. he had received a nobel prize for chemistry in 1954, but it increasingly become a peace activist and he was concerned there was this sufficient progress being made. so he had written a number of letters to president kennedy and in fact they were quite straightened and in one and didn'tnd see compared kennedy to hitler. see who is out there picketing the day before and that afternoon he and his wife went over to the hotel, changed clothes, went in to dinner and in the reception line, president kennedy said well, dr. pauling, i see you've been around the white house a few times. and

it's down but listen no make no mistake about it though that this meeting between the two ambassadors at the white house comes at a very critical time in the relationship between these two countries while turkey is going through this economic difficulties right now everyone is on to thank you very much. well take he says it's stepping up military and diplomatic efforts to avoid what it calls a catastrophe in syria's province it's working with russia to prevent humanitarian fallout from a possible syrian government offensive to retake the rebel held province reports. the syrian government says it is going to take the lead army helicopters dropped leaflets telling rebels and civilians that the opposition controlled northwestern province that it is better to join reconciliation agreements as others in syria have done that rebels have agreed to such deals when on the verge of military defeat so far those in it looks like they are not ready to surrender instead they arrested dozens of people they accuse of promoting a return to state rule know a lot of our security track down people who are promoting reconci

. >> in the two-year mark. the white house is a machiavellian tough place to work. you look at the senior people at the white house, it's almost 100% turnover, which is unprecedented in modern white houses. it's not surprising that mcgahn is leaving. but i think for the rest -- for us citizens, what matters is how that will affect the government rather than who is in and who is out. >> in terms of how that will affect the government, there's the office of white house counsel, which is obviously there for the presidency, not for the president, as we know. there's been a lot of talk about that over the last couple of weeks. in this "washington post" report, they are talking about the turnover in the office of the white house counsel. there are two dozen attorneys there now. there had been 35. more are leaving. >> four to five deputies are leaving. >> there will be one left after friday. how concerning should that be for the american people? what does that mean is not happening? >> well, the thing that's really striking is that remember for the first two years of the t

. >> reporter: there seems to be a tale of two different white houses. offering two different messages. the president in one speech that went over an hour long to his supporters and his top intelligence chiefs offering that blunt warning. president trump last night was saying that putin did not want him to win the election. that doesn't square with what vladimir putin himself said just three weeks ago while standing right next to the president. >> i will tell you what, russia is very unhappy that trump won. that i can tell you. >> president putin, did you want president trump to win the election? >> translator: yes, i did. >> reporter: we are continuing to see these very two different messages from the president and his own officials, continuing to play out. something we saw play out in the aftermath of the summit in helsinki. we should also note that the director of national intelligence, dan coats, said yesterday that even now he still doesn't fully understand and can't speak about what happened when the president was one on one with vladimir putin. >>

reporter: south carolina's lindsey graham traveled the world with john mccain and backed his two bids for the white house. >> he failed a lot, but he never quit. and the reason we're talking about him today, and the reason i'm crying, is because he was successful in spite of his failures. >> reporter: but the mccain strain of politics is largely absent from the g.o.p. primary to replace retiring senator jeff flake. >> i'm not a racist. >> reporter: the top contenders include former sheriff joe arpaio, convicted of wrongly detaining mexican migrants, later pardoned by president trump. >> was sheriff joe convicted for doing his job? that's right. >> reporter: there's also dr. kelli ward, a far-right candidate who suggested this week that mccain halted his treatment to hurt her in some way. >> my comments were in no way directed at senator mccain. >> reporter: congresswoman martha mcsally is considered the establishment candidate, but the former fighter pilot has swung right, too. >> like our president, i'm tired of p.c. politicians and their b.s. excuses. >> reporter: mccain, by contrast, enlisted a local

. >> according to "the wall street journal" the white house prodded the president for two days to release a statement. we get more from cnn's abby phillip at the white house. >> reporter: dave and laura, a day of controversy with president trump making an an abo -- an about face. issuing a statement about senator john mccain at the white house. listen. >> also our hearts and prayers are going to the family of senator john mccain. there will be a lot of activity over the next number of days. we very much appreciate everything that senator mccain has done for the country. >> reporter: the comments were the first the president made on monday after ignoring questions from reporters on five straight occasions when they asked him to comment on mccain's death. >> mr. president, any thoughts on john mccain? >> do you believe john mccain is a hero? >> nothing at all about john mccain? >> press, let's go. make your way out. let's go. we're finished. >> mr. president, any comment on john mccain, sir? >> reporter: the president had faced push back from democrats and republicans on capitol hill and ve

say anything about much of cohen what do you think that was the case these are two qualitatively different cases the white house the president or feeling the white hot heat from the cohen plead guilty plea and he doesn't want to implicate himself he's already gone on record saying that he didn't know about the payments that is now proven to be false that's what cohen said under oath with paul metaphor he has a lot more play room he can say because a lot of these associations with the ukrainian government happened before the campaign he's not really going to be directly implicated so to the extent that he's trying to make his case in the court of public opinion it's a lot easier to do so dealing with money metaphor and looking at both these cases collectively how damaging the donald trump specially with the midterm elections coming up in november as you mentioned we're seeing the drip drip drip move between the investigation between the metaphor case between the the cohen case the noose is tightening around a culture of corruption that was involved in the campaign that's been have political implications obviousl

th follows a standoff between the two countries that saw riffs levied on billions of todays worth of goods and the white housee us a glimpse into the strategy for those stocks. kayla tausche picks up the story from washington. >> more than two months since their last face to face, economic officials from beijing head to washington next week with more tariffs on tap as soon as thursday unless talks reach anotherruce. china's vice ministers of commerce and finance accepting a nvu.s.ation to meet with the undersecretary of the treasury, signaling lower-level talks than the two nations held before. white house economic adviser larry s kudlowgested the u.s. would havehe upper hand. >> business investment is collapsing in china according to the numbers.du industrial p has fallen and now it's plateauing at a low level. people are selling the currency. there may somebody and mostly, i think investors are moving out of china because they don't like the economy and they're coming to the usa because they like our economy. i'm not a china expert, although i'm bonin up as fast as i can. i would just say right now their ec

you sent a letter to the white house two weeks ago. you called on them to establish more no-fly zones. have you gotten a response? if not, is the white house doing enough right now on the ground in syria and when it comes to initiatives like this? >> i haven't gotten a response that i know of. frankly, we need to do more in syria. i would say no. they have been very aggressive against isis. i have no complaints with the counter-isis plan. the president stepped that up massively. we have seen isis disbursed. my concern starting with the last administration is assad is killing so many people and creating an environment that that's what is allowing these folks to radicalize because they are so angry and looking to the united states to help. in some cases, again, this started with president obama, both sides share some blame on this, we have ceded the area. it's difficult to do without a stronger commitment. i'm not talking massive military forces. a no-fly zone is easy. >> you brought up russia and iran in the letter. this was just after t

against racism vastly out number a small group of white nationalists demonstrating across from the white house. two dozen white nationalists made the way from the metro takes to the stage for unite the right 2 rally. they were shadowed by a couple of thousand counter protesters and large contingent of police. the nationalists speeches were drowned out by the anti-racist group. white nationalists ended the program early and made an exit to the metro station. dozens more were injured last year in charlotte. >>> in charlottesville, demonstrators gathered at the site where heather heyer was killed last year. they scribbled on the walls of nearby buildings. many speaking out against the police. and heather heyer's mother spoke out. >> i burst into tears when i first got there. there were people there traumatized because they were there last year. it was very challenging for them. one young man hugged me and could not stop the tears rolling down his cheeks. another one came up and said he had been there last year. one finished her final surgery about a month ago and she walked up to hug me. >> police arr