. >> his name is ty cobb. who is he you may ask?ion too is how will he shape the administration's response to the investigation? cnn's boris sanchez has been looking into that. what are you learning, boris? >> reporter: the name of the new attorney added to the white house's legal team is ty cobb. he is a powerful washington, d.c. defense attorney who has handled some pretty high profile clients in the past, including defending two officials with connections to the clinton white house. he has also defended major corporations and ex-cia officer and someone with a lot of experience defending white collar crime. he is actually a former federal prosecutor. up until taking this job at the white house he was a lawyer at a powerful d.c. law firm. he is now expected to oversee the white house response to the russia investigation and not only legally but in the press. he is trying to manage a white house response to a story that has created quite a cloud, an impediment almost to the trump guinea. friends of ty cobb including a cnn analyst sa

by "he" i mean saltwater taffy mascot, ty cobb. 's won huge legal cases including when he successfully defended a beef processor against charges of lying to investigators. that was very generous of cobb to help out a rival cattle baron. but just because he's ruthless in the court room doesn't mean that there isn't a soft side to trump lawyer and lollipop guild strike breaker, ty cobb. for example, he was described by cnn legal analyst michael zeldin as "a genuinely nice man." of course, it's not surprising that you'd get a nice vibe from trump lawyer and rejected westworld saloon keeper, ty cobb. today, his new client, donald trump, unveiled "made in america" week. possibly to distract from the fact that his campaign was made in russia. one of the products made in america that he highlighted was a big shiny fire truck! and the president, of course, could not resist getting in. ( laughter ) where's the fire? we haven't found the fire, yet, mr. president, but there's more smoke every day. we've got a great show for you tonight. ( chee

veteran washington attorney ty cobb is joining the white house as special counsel. see the legal and media responses to the russia investigations overshadowing the trump administration. cobb is a former federal prosecutor. the former fbi director, james comey, is writing a new book that will detail his experiences in public service. he was heading up the investigation into alleged ties between the trump campaign and russia, that is until he was abruptly fired by the president in may. >>> in senegal, at least eat people are dead after a -- at least eight people are dead after a football match that ended in violence. at least 40 dead. fights broke out between fans following a league cup final. as people tried to leave, a wall collapsed, leading to a stampede. >>> france is marking the 75th anniversary of the nazi-directed mass roundup of thousands of jews by the french police during world war ii. a short time ago, the french president macron attended a minute of silence for the victims at a memorial. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is anticipated to arrive in

he's bringing in ty cobb and scaramucci, changing up his legal team on the outside and i think what is happening is you're seeing donald trump the leader and the person that has been successful in business that is taking charge and trying to optimize his organization. now, i will -- i think everybody admits it hasn't been working for the first six months at an optimal level and maybe some of these changes will improve things. >> so, matthew, here's my question because, you know, one of the big issues, this cloud hanging over the white house for months is this whole russia investigations but the thing is that the president keeps talking about it. we've all read the transcript from the far-reaching "new york times" interview from earlier this week. he keeps talking about russia. he keeps talking about the special counsel, robert mueller. isn't that part of the problem and do you think scaramucci is someone who maybe is close to the president and can say, mr. president, with all due respect, stop. >> well, let's first remember it's made in america week but i agree. >> is it? >> it still i

ty cobb is a giant of lawyers in washington, d.c. was this part of his advice to move forward? >> you can't craft a scenario where this would be part of what ty cobb would want the president of the united states to do. the reason to bring in ty cobb a seasoned washington attorney is to bring in someone who is seasoned and says, look, mr. president, stop doing interviews and stop talking about the investigation and lashing out at robert mueller or people on your own team like jeff sessions the attorney general. let this play out. there is nothing you can do to stop the special counsel right now. we have the president attacking his own attorney general. saying if he knew jeff sessions was going to recuse himself from all matters involving russia, he would not have picked jeff sessions in the first place. that's coming out of nowhere. in this "new york times" interview, the president leaves the door open to fire robert mueller if this investigation expandas into the trump family and their finances. he was asked that question. he said that would cross a line. this will add more fue

bringing in ty cobb as white house counsel shows how high the stakes have risen. we get more from boris sanchez. >> reporter: the name of a new attorney added 0 if administration is ty cobb, he's handled defending two officials with connections to the clinton white house. he's also defended major corporations and e-cia officer. someone with a lot of experience defending white collar crime. he's a former federal prosecutor. and before taking this job he was a partner at a powerful d.c. law firm. he's expected to oversee the white house response to the russia investigation, not only legally but also in the press. he's trying to manage the white house response to a story that has created quite a cloud, an impediment almost to the trump agenda. now friends of ty cobb, including michael zeldin, say he is a shrewd smart attorney. >> they're bringing in ty to replicate what clinton did during his problems which is to create a legal warp room in the white house office to deal with this on a day-to-day basis. and you see abbey lowell coming in to represent jared kushner. s

ty cobb is a serious lawyer. and, you know, they need somebody who can explain to them that, yes, there are potential federal violations here. and you need to just stop with the nonsense. >> and still today the president's calling it a hoax on twitter. mark geragos and michael zeldin, thanks so much for bringing your take. >> thank you. >> so it's still unclear what exactly happened in that infamous meeting with the russian attorney, and did donald trump sr. know about it. tom foreman takes a look back at how the events unfolded last june and july around that meeting at trump tower. >> reporter: late spring 2016, hillary clinton is on a roll. polls have her far ahead of donald trump, a white house endorsement is just days away. then june 3rd, an intriguing e-mail arrives for donald trump jr. from a music promoter for a russian pop star offering information that would incriminate hillary and her dealings with russia and would be very useful to your father, claiming to be part of a russian government effort to help

that he is named ty cobb in a moment. he's a very experienced former prosecutor. he's also part of the investigation's practice in washington, d.c. a graduate of harvard and georgetown law. yes, he is related to the late baseball great. this addition is an outgrowth of the on going probe into the trump campaign's contacts with russian nationals during the 2016 election. >> now we know a counterintelligence person in the meeting as well. it is important that we see all electronic communications, whether it's direct messaging, twitter, e-mail, text, whatever it happens to be among the members of the trump family and within the trump administration. >> echoing that strong approach is ka california -- california congressman adam schiff. let me share a statement he has issued it reads in part the report that a former russian counterintelligence officer was also present during the meeting with donald trump jr., jared kushner and paul manafort, if accurate, adds another deeply disturbing fact about this secret meeting. a portrai

ty cobb. he's been hired to oversee the white house legal and media response to all these investigations. "top administration officials want someone to enforce discipline in the white house regarding russia matters and that includes the president who frequent frequently vents his frustrations on twitter. two people familiar with the plan said. so carrie, in real life, the old ty cobb was known for drawing blood. is this kind of discipline the discipline people have been howling for, the role of a personal lawyer? >> well, certainly when there's outside investigations, we're up to four if you count the three congressional investigations and special counsel, former fbi director bob mueller's investigation. so clearly there is jeopardy for the president and for many individuals in the white house and there has been a complete lack of discipline with respect to lawyers all over town wondering how come the president's lawyers can't control his various tweeting and public statements that are confusi

. >>> ty cobb is powerful washington, d.c. defense attorney.e is now expected to oversee the white house response to the russia investigation. >> we are going to repeal and replace obamacare. >> republican senator john mccain recovering from eye surgery will not perform any official duties all next week. >>> donald trump was in paris this week. he met the french president's macron's wife and said you are in such great shape. if ed that to you, would you be flattered or offended? >> i be taken aback. i wonder if she could say the same of him? >>> this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >>> i hope sunday is good to you today. thank you for spending some time with us this morning here. we are talking about a lot of things when it comes to washington. the russian scandal, the intense battle over health care. stalling the president's agenda. and taking a hefty toll, it seem, on the president's approval rating. >> according to a new poll from "the washington post" and abc news 36% of likelily voters say president trump is do

and in that meeting, ty cobb believed that he got an agreement for a new kind of discipline from the president who was in the meeting and everyone else involved, a new kind of discipline about public comments about this. and then within 24 hours of that, the president is doing this wild interview with "the new york times," which others in the white house didn't know about. the legal tell didn't know about it. and right after that, we see mark curalo, the spokesman for the legal team, quits. it's hard to think that interview with "the new york times" and being blindsided like that is unrelated to mark curalo quitting. >> yeah, i mean it seems like there's a certain amount of restructuring that's going on in the legal time. you've got that timeline right, and it may well be there's some connection between those events. so we've got curalo resigning tonight. there's also reporting this evening that marc kasowitz's role is going to be -- he, of course, is the president's private attorney, who's been seen sort of as the chief responder on russia, that his role is going to be reduced thoug

have to do a lot more to stand up in defense of our democracy. >> matt miller, you've referenced the ty cobbort, we're joined now by kristen welker from paris with the confirmation from the white house that ty cobb is joining the trump defense team. what role does your reporting indicate he'll be taking? he's, obviously, a senior member and a senior member with decades of washington experience. >> reporter: that's right. he's a veteran d.c. lawyer, andrea. i am told, according to a senior administration official he will be overseaing the responeing th terms of legally and sort of the public relations reaction. if you think back to some of these recent briefings we have had with sarah huckabee sanders, with sean spicer, they have really started to refer all questions related to russia to the president's outside counsel. and i think there is a sense that there needs to be more discipline when it comes to the messaging coming out of the white house, because what you're seeing are a lot of leaks in the wake of sort of the official public line. so they want to try to shut that part of it down. th

will he listen to his own legal advisor here or what are the challenges for ty cobb? >> ty cobb faces the challenge every lawyer to the president has faced so far, which is donald trump is basically the world's worst client. he doesn't listen to the advice of his legal team. his legal team will tell him no matter what you do don't talk about x and they will have literally just left his office and he'll tweet about that very subject. the president also doesn't believe he's done anything wrong. his inclination is to fight. he sort of had trouble compartmentalizing the russia issue. you need to keep it separate from everything else and this president will bring it up in meetings totally not related to that. and the president when he gets frustrated and is having legal problem, his inclination is not to blame himself but to blame his lawyer and take out his frustration on his legal team who's trying to help him. >> ashley, ten seconds here on another subject. how does it look for passage of the senate's latest crack at repealing and replacing obamacare? >> it's not dead c

what can you tell us about ty cobb? >> reporter: yeah, his name is ty cobb, he's a high powered attorney in washington, d.c. a former federal prosecutor and a partner at hogan and lovell's. he is supposed to come into the white house now and handle and oversee the response to the russia investigation. not only legally, but also in the press. we will still have to find out more specifically about what he's going to be handling on and we'll bring you that information as soon as we hear from officials in the white house. >> boris sanchez, thank you. >>> let's talk about this thickening plot. joining us former undercover kgb spy is jack borski. and also with us editor at large for "time" magazine, david von drily. he's the man behind this cover. but jack i'll start with you. take a look at who is in this meeting. a lobbyist who is admitted to being an exsoviet military -- and still an unidentified person. does this seem like a russian intelligence operation to you? >> it's an interesting collection of people. in preparation

ty cobb is a veteran d.c. attorn attorney. he'll be working out of the west wing or the executive office building helping try to quarterback the legal response as it were from the inside. as you've noted in the course of recent days and week, one of the challenges has been these sort of competing views right now. nobody's sort of it appears at least been in charge. one of the challenges that does still exist going forward is whether ty cobb would be able to successfully speak to the attorneys for the other clients in this case as it were, don junior, jared kushner, paul manafort, and trying to keep them all on one page so as to avoid this drip, drip, drip from turning into a bigger gusher. >> thanks to peter. kasie hunt, health care. let me just say a word here, a personal word about john mccain. i've known him for decades. there is no one tougher and more resilient. but we all have him in our hearts and minds and prayers today as he recovers from this surgery which was a craniotomy, so it was minimally invasive we're told but

and maybe when ty cobb gets there, he'll be able to set him straight. but right now he is just sort of like wandering in the desert. >> yeah. these were michael's words. michael said he thinks that we're in the middle of a moneylaundering investigation, michael. that's what you said, right? >> yeah. that's what i think, yeah. >> there is also "the new york times" reporting that former trump campaign manager paul manafort was in debt by as much as $17 million to pro-russia interests before he joined president trump's campaign, money that appears to have been owned by oreoed owed by busines activities in ukraine in the tax haven of cypress. what do you make of this? >> this makes mr. manafort extremely vulnerable, doesn't it, to the types of pressure that we see russia was prepared to put on the trump campaign. and the june 9, 2016 meeting now helps us connect dots on the question of follow the money in a way that was not plausible before because of who was in the room. and now particularly that we know who the eighth party was, the lawyer who represents

so presumably this is ty cobb's brief, right. he has the portfolio inside the white house dealing with this investigation, dealing with russia matters, and yet, according to sean spicer, he said he did not believe he reviewed that very tweet by the president, which could potentially complicate this investigation. >> right. and that was -- these are always the reasonings we hear that there's somebody else and a new lawyer and someone is going to be adding to this. all right. hans nichols, good to see you. thanks very much for joining us. we will stay with this story and we'll catch up with you a little later in the hour. okay. we're still following the latest on this ever evolving situation. just going to listen in to see what it is. i should be doing next. we're following this. all right. kristen welker is in the briefing room where that briefing, the not on camera audio only briefing has just wrapped up. kristen, tell us what else happened in there. >> well, as hans just sort of laid out, a number of the headlines had to do with

ty cobb is joining as well. ty cobb is going to be a sign to really try to get the messaging in a more tight, more disciplined way. and so it will be interesting to see how he deals with anthony scaramucci and if the two can get on the same page in terms of the messaging we're seeing out of the white house. ty cobb doesn't come on until the end of the month. it will be interesting to see if we see a major see change once he gets on board. >> i think the fact that "the new york times" did an interview with the president, an extensive, very controversial interview with the president without anyone there except hope hicks from the communications team, without any lawyers present, without reince priebus rent. it shows that president is his own communications team. and communications director. and i don't know how any outside attorney is going to change any of that. by the way, glenn thrush who broke the story from "the new york times" as tweeted press sec has resigned. per senior administration official. thank you,

we have heard the president has hired a new criminal attorney, ty cobb. >> they have been looking foromeone to come in for some time now to be the enforcer on this probe, figure out how they will react in terms of rapid response, as well as making sure people adhere to a similar storyline going forward. you are right in the sense that it cuts the issues surrounding his presidency as he goes away again. it is getting worse. we are almost at flood, flood at this point. you wake up to new revelations donut who was meeting with o jr. today we see more people. we still do not know the full list of people. the second that story broke, you knew it could be a defining moment or the sheer gravity of the allegations involved. it is not going to go away until people feel like they have been fully transparent. we still don't know what is out there in other emails. we still don't know what was discussed other than the version of the story. right now, it is on a trajectory of getting worse day by day. jonathan: the other major development is the june 9 meeting with the russian lawyer, the now famou

do you handle it off to ty cobb? you will have to have a communications strategy, so far it's been put a wall ween the white house and outside counsel, refer all questions to outside counsel. i have a feeling we will continue to see that at least somewhat in these coming days. >> looking at scaramucci in that briefing room, how he is reporting the president was pleased with the performance today, the question that hovers over this appointment like all others, for how long? this is a president who seems to lose patience or interest or confidence in folks he surroundles himself with, fairly quickly. i'm thinking right now with jeff sessions, jeff sessions went way out on a limb on the campaign last year to endorse him early. not many members of the republican establishment in washington were willing to do that. now you got the president openly saying, hey, i wish i hadn't appointed the guy. scaramucci looks like he's off to a good start. realistically, how long is this going to last? >> who is to say? siems people stay

the purpose of hiring ty cobb is to keep an organized face on all these inquiries.n't answer whether, a, he will have access to donald trump to get answers when questions come up and, b, whether trump will continue tweeting on his own, stuff that is relevant to the investigation and whether cobb will have any influence on the president's statements or his tweeting. >> no one has before. >> no one has before. the record is not good. >> maybe you would, jeffrey toobin. >> i am out of that business. i am a journalist now. >> because you're here. >> exactly. >> jeffrey toobin, thank you very much. >>> ahead for us, deadly weather. one second a family is spending their saturday swim nth arizona river. next, a flash flood carries trees and rocks right at them, killing at least nine. that's next. for your heart... your joints... or your digestion... so why wouldn't you take something for the most important part of you... your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is now the number one selling brain health supplement in drug stores nationwide. pr

we certainly talked about it here on fox news, ty cobb is now a white house special counsel, a partnerthe investigation's practice in washington. a former federal prosecutor, graduate of harvard university and georgetown law. and in case you're wondering, yes, he is related to the great baseball great of the same name. now, the addition of mr. cobb is an outgrowth of the ongoing investigation into the trump campaign's contacts with russian nationals during the 2016 election. most notably, the now-infamous meeting with a russian lawyer attended by don jr., jared kushner, paul manafort and we now now a russian counterintelligence operative. the president isn't letting the investigation keep him from twitter to try to drive the narrative tweeting just this this afternoon: just got to the u.s. women's open, people are really happy with record high stock market up over 17% since the election. but that's not keeping adam shiv off the trail. -- adam schiff off the trail, writing this in a statement: the report that a former russian counterintelligence officer was also present during the meeti

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his name is ty cobb and he's just been confirmed to have been hired by the white house to provide guidance and to oversee the white house response into the russia investigation. not just legally, but also in the press. the most interesting thing about this is the timing of his hiring, this comes during a week where there were reports of frustration and tension between white house officials and the president's private attorney, marc kasowitz, who had a very rough week after the release of some o -- of some private e-mails of him and a critic, explicit laden and he apologized for that. though kasowitz will stay on as the private attorney, they need to do more when it comes to russia. again, not just legally, but also in the press. ana? >> alise, back to that meeting at trump tower. it was pitched as an opportunity to learn something that would hurt the clinton campaign. so what about this man who was there, the washington lobbyist, former soviet officer, rinat akhmetshin. what do we know about him and what interest would he have in a meeting like this? >> well, we know he was well known, ana

ty cobb a modern day distant relative of the baseball star.bb hired to oversee the white house and media response to the investigations. tom energies officials want someone to enforce discipline? the white house regarding russia matters. that includes the president who frequently events frustrations about the investigations upon twitter. two people familiar with the plan said. so carrie, in real life, the old ty cob was known for sliding into base and drawing blood. don't make my search for a metaphor here. but is this kind of discipline, the discipline people have been how willing for is the roll of a personal lawyer. >> certainly when there is outside investigations at this point we're up to four investigations if you count the three congressional investigations and the special counsel former fbi director bob mueller investigations. clearly there is jeopardy for the president and for many individuals in the white house. and there has been a complete lack of discipline with respect to lawyers all over town wondering you know how come the pres

as i say i think ty cobb or somebody is going to bet him. those will be under control in the future. >> the theory is sitting in the oval office and there's this investigation that robert mueller is undertaking and not sure whether president trump is under investigation or to what extent it is and yet he's still talking about based on lack of faith in jeff sessions and how he knew that jeff sessions wasn't going to take the right step under the constitution to recuse himself from an investigation. and it really sort of raised questions about judgment here. i know you want to point to people who are yes men whether or not the constitution weighs in on it. >> do we have the part where we talks about don jr.'s email? audio sn about the meeting? let's listen to that. >> i didn't look at it very closely to be honest with you. i just heard there was an email requesting a mail that they had information on hillary clinton and i said i mean that's standard political stuff. >> did you know at the time they had the email? >> no. it must have been a ver

they have hired a lawyer, ty cobb, to kind of be the central person to all things legal and all things communications. that's what they should be doing. this is what they should have done. for lots of reasons. one is to get their messaging right. to get their legal story right. but also to protect everybody else in the white house from having to deal with these answers to these questions, because in many cases they genuinely don't know the answers to the question, which is problematic. and they're asked about them. and in other cases it's just -- keeps them from doing their job. this is made in america week. you can ask the questions and there are lots of them about the -- hip wypocrisy because of own businesses not made in america. but being at rally after rally. that is what his voters and supporters want him to do. focus on getting jobs back in america. you know, that kind of message that is what they should be focusing on and maybe if they can keep the president's twitter in check, doing things like made in america, having somebody at the white house to focus on the legal issues, t

if you said the ty cobb which ti cobb had a lifetime batting average of 366.as a great pitcher and a home run hitter as many reporters noted today? trick question, neither. the player was a stra fielder who averaged about five home runs a year. big stolen base guy and hitter, guys. finally, which one has been compared on twitter to wol ford brimly. that's a gimme. turns out though the two are related, but there is no evidence at all that tie cobb the lawyer is the violent racist that ti cobb the player of course was and unlike the player, our guess is the lawyer probably at least in this case isn't a lefty. we'll be right back. award winning interface. award winning design. award winning engine. the volvo xc90. the most awarded luxury suv of the century. this july visit your local volvo dealer to receive sommar savings of up to $4,500. this july visit your local volvo dealer adapted to my weight and shape, has so i sleep deeply, and wake up ready to perform. right now, save up to $500 on select tempur-pedic mattress sets at our july 4th event. find your exclus

reports about this today it is official with an official white house announcement they are adding ty cobb related to the baseball player of the same name. he is a veteran attorney in the area. he has had experience like this. he is coming inside the white house, not a part of the private legal team we have been talking about but an official white house employee who will be referred to as the special counsel inside the white house. he will take some questions from congress and handle some of the document requests the interview requests, all of the inquiries that will come from the investigations on capitol hill and so forth dealing with this issue. stephanie. >> with any luck you will get to play or watch some golf this weekend. thank you. >>> just as the president's legal team is growing this weekend with the new white house special counsel ty cobb, the list of people in that donald trump meeting is growing as well. nbc confirms six people were in the room. take a look at the small photo in the middle of your screen, that's russian lobbyist rinat akhmetshin. abc news first reported his in

his name is ty cobb. [ laughter ] it's his real name. dude, quest, i swear, man. >> steve: come on!mmy: his real name -- his name is ty cobb to oversee the white house response to the russia investigation. show a picture. this is real. that is the lawyer. [ laughter ] because nothing says, "my client's innocent," like a a lawyer who looks like he's wearing a disguise. [ laughter ] who what is going -- [ cheers and applause ] i don't know if he is giving trump legal advice or talking to him about diabetes. [ laughter and applause ] "come over to this side of the porch." trump just had a first trip to france, and at the end of his visit -- did you see this? he shook hands with french president emmanuel macron for a a really long time. [ light laughter ] did you see? it's pretty strange. we didn't do anything to this. watch this video. >> jimmy: here you go. how are you doing? nice to see you. pleasure to meet you. yeah. how are you doing? that's good. yeah. tap, tap, tap. there you go. pull, a little yank, a little yank. [ light laughter ] yeah, that's good. and he's still holding. it

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what do you know about ty cobb and what do you think is instructive about this move? >> so ty is a well-known white collar lawyer in washington. he was a longtime assistant of the united states attorney in the u.s. attorney's office in baltimore primarily. he's well liked. he's well regarded. and he's experienced. and so bringing him in to the white house so that the white house counsel can focus on the regular brick and mortar blocking and tackling stuff the white house council is empowered to do, and ty can run the war room, first as a very smart separation of powers between the two, and, two, you're bringing in a seasoned lawyer who has prior experience in doing exactly this. whether he's successful is going to depend on the willingness of his clients to listen to him and we'll see how that plays out. but i think the selection in and of itself on paper is a very smart and i think ty will do a very nice job for them if they listen to him. >> all right. michael feldon, thanks. good to see you. >>> next, in his twisting path to 50 votes, mitch mcconnell hits pause on

kristen, whatever happened to ty cobb and the new legal team running interference. he was accompanied in the oval office with hope him. >> ty doesn't start until the end of the month. this was an interview that the president did as you point out, he was only accompanied by hope hix. when ty cobb comes in, his real goal is to discipline the messaging and the president's messaging to some extent and what we saw in this interview was really a wide ranging interview that was off message on a number of different topics, as it relates to jeff sessions. president effectively saying that he wouldn't have barad hro him on if he knew he was going to recuse himself. when he was in the process of considering whether to appoint jeff sessions for attorney general, this was way before there were questions about him recusing himself over the russia probe, still bottom line here, you're seeing a backlash in the halls of congress, republicans, chuck grassley saying that robert mueller, someone who is going to continue to do his job, you have jeff sessions himself coming out and saying

this, the white house simply can't take any chances, and that's why you want to have a person like ty cobb join your team. now, the president is tweeting about other things, clearly trying to keep the focus on other things, other than the russia probe. this morning, stock market hit another all-time high yesterday despite the russian hoax story -- hoax story. also job numbers are starting to look very good. indeed last week's jobs report for the month of june much stronger than anticipated. 2 22,000 new positions created -- 222,000 new positions created. that's compared to 179,000 expected. unemployment still relatively low at 4.4%. mean while, the president is as you know here in new jersey at his golf club. trump national, for the u.s. women's open, a welcome respite from the bruising battles in d.c., past and future. we will be here monitoring his tweets in the meantime. back to you. >> that is a beautiful and tough golf course. thanks very much. >> yes, it is. >> kevin cork. >>> meanwhile, republican senators are trying to move forward with their revised healthcare bill. president trum

but ty cobb the attorney will be the face of how the white house will respond to these questions and will also be a point person to handle inquiries from the committees that will be making requests and things like that. lawyering up is part of what we're seeing in this phase. that's a natural part of this. because as greater inquiries come in, official as well as media, there's a lot of work to be done. and one of the things that in talking with lawyers on the various teams over the last few days that they want to try to do is institute what they say is greater discipline to -- here we have a situation that you have family members, some of them working together as in the president and jared kushner who worked together in the white house, the president's son donald trump jr. of course a family member. and it would be natural for them to have conversations and interaction all the time. typically, in a case where you have figures who are a part of an investigation they aren't always necessarily that close together. so trying to institute some discipline so they're not talking about thes

. >> reporter: and response to the probe, the white house has added ty cobb, special counsel, former prosecutor and part of the investigative practice area of a major law firm in washington, d.c., harvard grad, also georgetown law. but lawmakers like virginia senator mark warner aren't so sure this controversy won't go all the way to the top of the white house. >> i think it's really important that that we get documents from these individuals first so we can ask them the right questions. clearly, if we don't have all the information, what we'll see and what i'm afraid of is these individuals don't seem to disclose everything or don't tell whole truth until they have evidence put in front of them. >> reporter: now, keep this in mind, this is a very serious circumstance because you're going to hear words like obstruction, even words like perjury thrown around, and that's why the white house is circling the wagons here and getting someone with a great deal of experience in ty cobb. as for the rest of the day, the president relaxing, of course, watching the final round of the u.s. women'

and we've heard the president has hired a new criminal attorney, ty cobb. >> yes. they've been looking for someone to comment to be the enforcer on this probe, to get more discipline on it, figure out how they're going to react to it in terms of rapid response and making sure people adhere to a singular story line going forward. but you're right in the sense it cuts the entire issue surrounding his presidency as he goes away again. and yet it intensifies. people call it drip drip dread. almost flood flood flood at this point. you wake up to new revelations about who is in this meeting with don, jr. about promising intelligence about hillary clinton. the number increases even today we see more people. we still don't know the full list of people. the second that story broke, you knew it could be a defining moment just for the sheer gravity of the allegations involved there. and it's not going to go a way until people feel like they've been fully transparent. we still don't know what's out there. we don't know what's out in other e-mails. we still don't even know what

also ty cobb. he's going to start at the end of the month. and jay sec lzeklow has been blanketing the air waves in recent weeks. watch for ty cobb, when he comes in. >> no stranger to tough battles in washington. his main goal is to make sure that the messaging is more disciplined coming out of the white house. can he do it? big question mark. >> the irony, looking for discipline coming out of the white house. i remind you, it was mark cass witz last week responding to multiple e-mails to an anonymous person, things like i'm going to get you, i know where you live, i believe he had in there, i'm going to move on you. might be a good idea for him to take a step back. i want to bring my panel in. nick ackerman, former assistant special watergate prosecutor, josh barro, senior editor for business insider and i like him so much because he knows economics. also with us, a man who worked overtime this week, "new york times" peter baker, who interviewed president trump on wednesday, that extraordinary "new york times" piece that i just can't get en

also confirmed president trump has hired yet another attorney to deal with russia relayed matters, ty cobb, a descendent of the famous baseball legend. unlike other attorneys hired by the president, cobb whether work in the white house to oversee the legal and communications strategy in this matter. anthony? >> mason: major garrett at the white house. thank you, major. the house intelligence committee is investigating russian meddling in the u.s. election and whether anyone in the trump exainl was involved. today former trump campaign advisor michael caputo testified before the panel in closed segments here's julianna goldman. >> i had no contact with russians and never heard anybody in this trump campaign talk with russians. >> reporter: michael caputo met with house investigators three hours today and testified he had zero contacts with russia during his time on the campaign. caputo, on thing trump campaign from november 15 to june 2016, had lived in russia in the 1990s, working for the u.s. government. he returned to the u.s. in 2000 and worked as a public relations advisor to a subsidi

and then as we reported last week, ty cobb is going to come in and be the chief guy inside the whitee -- the answer is because, you know, he needs it. he needs the help. and the white house staff needs the help to try to protect them and to respond to the mueller request more accurately. and, you know, it's so hard for the white house, and, again, we saw another great example of this this week, to get out from under that. the day that the president had a pretty good day on wednesday, when he had the senators down, he got them, cajoled them to get back to the senate. they worked until probably about midnight on health care. which is what he should be doing. and it is leadership he should be showing. which is important. we'll see if that has an actual ending that is good politically for the president. but it's impossible for them to escape this russia issue. >> we had molly on from "the atlantic," she said that there's a feeling among some, probably president trump's critics, that the walls are closing in, the wheels are coming off the bus. is that a sense in the white house? or is tha