according to the "washington post." the ic intelligence community assesses north korea has produced nuclear weapons for ballistic missile delivery to include delivery by icbm-class missiles. what's your reaction when you hear this report? >> well, this compresses the u.s. decision cycle down to almost nothing. everybody was hoping that these two technologies of the north koreans worked on, the missile technology, we could observe closely. we gather information on the capability. more difficult, assess the capability to develop this miniaturized nuclear warhead, which is the second piece of it. when you marry those two technologies, then you have a real capability. it appears that if this is true, the north koreans have achieved that capability. whereas, we thought in the past we had some time to let diplomacy work and the economic sanctions work. that decision cycle has almost collapsed, and now we're farrised with a north korea that could potentially launch a missile in a very short period of time. and as barbara was t

this news coming to us from "the washington post."ion successfully produced a miniature nuclear warhead that can fit inside of its missiles. fox news analyst, general jack keane joins us now. what does this mean? help me interpret "the washington post" headline for all of us. what does it mean to our country? >> well, first of all let's accept the fact it is true. we don't know that for a fact but it is likely true and likely obviously our administration is very much aware of this. they have had this knowledge for some time. it was on the table in their discussions with the chinese and russians about the economic sanctions they were able to successfully get through to the u.n. credit to them. what it means is, north korea has made another step towards nuclearizing icbms capable of reaching the united states. the chinese and north koreans i believe have always made the same calculation based on historical fact that if they nuclearize icbms, putting american people at risk, the united states would never conduct regime change in north ko

he wrote an op-ed in "the washington post" called an imposition mission.e best advice i could have given general i don't know f. kelly has beenover sustain by events, don't take the job. he just signed up for what may be truly an impossible mission, bringing discipline, order and strategic locus to the chaos that is the trump white house." he is supposedly everyone's boss, that includes jared kushner and ivanka trump. puts out a tweet, could have been a language issue but puts out a tweet saying "i look forward in working with the general." she doesn't work with him. she supposedly works for him. how does a general keep the president's kids from walking in and out of the oval office? >> that's a challenge for any chief of staff, chief javelin catcher, as the job has been called, and thanks, jane, to your kind words, but it's also gatekeeper, a recent book by chris whipple about that. you have to maintain some order and discipline and that includes who can go in the oval office and not. but chris, you cannot cut off communication from the president. so i th

breaking "washington post" reporting is general michael hayden, former direct of the cia. first of all, your reaction to this report that general kelly was upset about the way that director comey was fired. >> yeah, i know john kelley. that sounds exactly how i would think john kelley would respond to this. now, i don't know any of the fine print. i'm learning about this the same way are you, anderson but it's very consistent with the character of the man that i know. >> the reporting from "the washington post" that was just breaking that president trump actually dictated john junior's misleading statement on his meeting with russian lawyer, i'm wondering if true, this is "the washington post" reporting based on multiple sources, how daping is it for the president? it's certainly something special counsel bob mueller would be looking into. >> sure. a leave your legal experred to comment on that might mean to former director mueller's investigation. i was watching the breaking news and the thought occurred to knee when i was a military attache

that's "the washington post's" contribution. so let's listen to george stephanopoulos' discussion with jay sekulow about this point. >> so the president signed off on that statement. does he feel he was misled by his son and by jared kushner if, indeed, they didn't tell him about these e-mails that they both received? >> the president didn't sign off on anything. he was coming back from the g20. the statement that was released on saturday was released by donald trump jr., i'm sure in consultation with his lawyers. the president wasn't involved in that. >> "the new york times" says he was involved in it, that several people on the plane were involved. so you're disputing -- >> that's incorrect. >> so, chris, that's the quality of information we're getting from the lawyers. >> yeah. well, you know, they could take a page from the clinton white house. i mean during the monica lewinsky scandal whenner skin bowles was the white house chief, they had podesta in charge of the monica scandal. you know, they were able to isolate it there

as "the washington post" is reporting, who else was involved in that. we landed at andrews about 8:00 in the evening, so interesting now we're learning that the president may have dictated that, anderson, certainly just one more example that everything seems to go back to russia and the investigation. >> jeff, what's interesting about this is that the president's attorneys have subsequently come out and said the president didn't have anything to do with this, that initial statement which is misleading was crafted by donald trump jr. and his attorneys, donald trump -- or attorneys for donald trump jr. had told our pamela brown that they were ready and wanted to put out a more fullsome same, is their terminolo terminology, but that's not what ended up happen. this is donald trump attorney and sarah huckabee sanders at one of the audio briefings. let's play that. >> so he didn't have anything to do with the statement that don jr. put out that was being worked on with his team? >> no, the statement that don jr. put out, are you talking about yesterday's, ch

the "washington post" is reporting when the story first broke, the president's advisers wanted to tellhe truth in case full details came out. but according the post the president decided to go a different direction. he dictated the statement claiming the meeting was about russian adoption. earlier i spoke with one of the reporters breaking the story tom hamburger. >> so the phrase dictate is one that my colleagues phil rucker and ashley parker who, as you know, cover the white house full-time, picked up from their sources. what we understand is that this was really a decision led by the president and that the statement that was ultimately issued is one that he decided and is often his way. you know he is not an emailer. he suggested the language in the statement that was ultimately used and ultimately released to "the new york times." and to a certain extent had to be walked back or amplified upon in the coming days. >> it's interesting -- i mean, it's not clear to me -- you know the president's attorneys i believe had previously said that it was donald trump jr. and donald trump jr.'s

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well the article in the washington post like articles other than this subject every day in the post as in the other main mainstream the newspaper of record in the us the new york times they daily are publishing material that is derogatory of russia that is slandering russia that is presenting russia in the worst possible light so when i was asked to comment on this article in the washington post today i was wondering what's new and what am i going to say but i have to admit that reading the article for early and carefully i don't something that your commentator overlooked and that is that basically the journalist responsible for this article was giving his editors the finger because the implication of the of the headline is that russia is justly seen as a center of white supremacy by american neo nazis the in the middle of the article is a paragraph which undermines totally such a fabricated view of russia and of mr putin he the author went out of her way to stress that russia that moscow has the biggest mosque in europe that russia is the second most important country for old migrants

so that is what the white house official was telling "the washington post." and, of course, this is a pardon that has gotten a lot of attention. we don't want to get the reason for that to be lost in the controversy now over the process the president went through with the pardon. this was a case sheriff arpaio was convicted of contempt for ignoring a court order to stop racial profiling, stopping latinos on the mere thinking that they might be undocumented immigrants. that's what this is all stemming from. that is one of the reasons there is so much harsh blowback not including from the arizona republic newspaper which in an editorial said this is a slap in the face of latinos. let's go ahead and play what sheriff arpaio said after he learned of the pardon. >> he's a big supporter of law enforcement. i know it came from his heart. two years ago i supported him first rally. and i always said, regardless of pardon or no pardon, i'll be with him till the end. and i say that. so i'm really happy with all the support i received across the nation, arizona, for this

"the washington post reports dictator kim jong un and his regime have successfully developed a miniaturized war head that can fit inside its missiles. the post citing a confidential assessment from u.s. intelligence officials. they say it shows north korea has crossed, quote: a key threshold on the path to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power. it's not just u.s. officials saying. this japan's defense ministry also reports it's possible north korea has made mini nuclear weapons. japanese officials say it would mean north korea's nuclear program has entered, quote, a new stage. let's bring in peter finn, national security editor for "the washington post. peter, a lot of observers say that kim jong un has been acting more belligerent of late. maybe the fact that he has apparently succeeded in mating nuclear miniaturized nuclear weapons to a missile is part of the reason why? >> yeah. i think he is becoming more confident about his capabilities both his ability to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile and now as we are reporting that they have miniaturized missile that they can mount on

not for profit. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> following the story that just broke tonight from "the washington post"at the president himself dictated donald trump, jr.'s misleading statement about that meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower. this was the initial statement that came out from donald trump, jr. "the washington post" says the strategy from the president's advisers was to tell the truth, to be forthcoming. instead, according to "the washington post," the president reportedly intervened and dictated the statement himself, claiming the meeting was about russian adoption. back with the panel. joining us on the phone is jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, just from a legal stand point, is there anything that should concern the president about this story? >> absolutely. you know, it's been clear for some time that the mueller investigation is looking at the issue of obstruction of justice. and if, in fact, the president put out an intentionally false story about his relationship with russia, you know, broadly defined in terms of his son's activity, that would be a piece of evidence that could su

" story that "washington post" had people obviously on the plane with trump. most damaging leaking are coming from the intelligence community, you are seeing a lot is being tion that rather strategically released to the media. most likely to be prosecuted because you're national security type of information. as to the white house, that is the mandate of general kelly to get those leakers, that though, you know, this city, you know, floats on a leaks that has always been the case. it is also has reporters trained able to get leaks. so since the white house gets a on of calls all the time from reporters, you can't use a pen register to say, well, you got a "washington post" because a person says, yeah, so did my dog, i mean, everyone in calls from ets reporters. so it requires something that is ery difficult and interesting what sessions says because unless you start doing random polygraphs or start tapping everyone's phone, it's really tough and you have to wonder are the costs too high? host: abc confirming that sessions and ral other doj officials to make ann

>> reporter: i think this is a remarkable report by "the washington post." as you mentioned, we reached out to several white house officials to get their response to this, to find out more, but it's remarkable to see a president trying to interfere directly in a specific case. this is not something we're used to seeing presidents do. if in fact in the past administration, if you tried to ask president obama about a specific case, he would say he didn't want to comment in order to avoid the appearance of political sizing what should be an impartial justice system meth that's going to be carried out by the justice system. so that is one thing that's unusual. it's also interesting because this appears to be part of a pattern. you'll remember the former fbi director jim comey saying the president early on in his administration had a conversation request comey maybe he could see a way to let the investigation into his then-national security advisor go. this is going to add most likely to the backlash we're already seeing as you mentioned not just from democrats b

" story that "washington post" had people obviously on the plane with trump. most damaging leaking are coming from the intelligence community, you are seeing a lot is being tion that >> we leave this conversation to go live to the u.s. institute of peace. we are very pleased to welcome you here this afternoon. my name is bill taylor. i'm the executive vice president at the institute of peace. very pleased to be able to

the. >> hmm. >> "the washington post" says he was. the and if he was, and jay sekulow lied -- >> you can probably put it on a list of i like to use the word lies. other people say misstatements or fibs. we've seen in the first six months of this presidency, the problem right now, though, is that for the president's base, morally, they don't hear necessarily that we are seeing lies like this. the they think we as the main stream media are going after them. they think that the republican party, the establishment doesn't like donald trump so they're not going to support him. at some point, though, i do think there's going to be a deterioration when they realize that the president's not able to deliver on his promises because he can't deliver by himself. he needs the republican congress to help him and he does need the support of the american people. when the deterioration gets to the point where these people aren't seeing results, that's when he's in trouble. >> i also think the timing of the story is important. the you cannot ignore the

talk to one of the reporters that broke that bombshell report in the washington post. let's get right to it. >> i wasn't involved in the statement drafting at all. nor was the president. >> new report finds the president personally dictated the initial misleading statement about his son's meeting with the russian lawyer. >> it could be evidence of a pattern of obstruction of justice. >> donald trump's legal team is failing him, staff. >> special counsel going to get to the bottom. >> look, the president definitely felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate. >>> good morning. welcome to your new day. it is tuesday, august 1, 8:00 in the east and there is a big head line this morning. "the washington post" reporting president trump personally dictated his son's initial and misleading statement about the meeting with the russian lawyer. >> this report comes after repeated denials from the president's attorney and the white house and now is worried that the president has somehow exposed himself and others to addition additional scrutiny. joining us now is a reporter f

the washington post has published transcripts of president trump's conversations with the leaders of y obvious attempt to embarrass our president. and the post did this because we have the right to know, nob -- nonsense. they just hate him and want to end presidency now. part of the problem is the federal government still has a large number of high-level staffers held over from the obama years. the democrats won't confirm replacements so the trump administration is stuck with some disloyal bureaucrats. when you see endless leaks all design today undermine trump's ability to govern, you have to think it's organized, it sure looks like an attempt to reverse last year's election. you'll hear from the attorney general right here moments from now. the third hour of varney & company is about to begin. ♪ ♪ ♪ stuart: a lot going on this hour. let's get right to the start of it with your money. plenty of red on the left-hand side of your screen but the dow industrials are up 17 points. that level, by the way, 22,042. moments from now attorney general sessions lays out plan to combat white hous

but the basis of that washington post report, whatever the intel was that was the basis for the washington post tostory, it has not come to light. we had vague assurances from the director of intelligence and from the cia that there may be a vague agreement within the intelligence community on this issue, but there's been no publication of any findings. there's been no formal assessment that we know has been made of these matters. we certainly don't know of anyone that's been made public. we haven't heard of one being provided in a classified setting. no other intelligence agencies other than the one, the defense intelligence agency, the dia, has apparently done a report on this issue. and so point of order, right. these last three days of literally nuclear brinksmanship, as far as we can tell, the proximate cause of this, what set it off is one newspaper report of a single agency's reported conclusion, which has not been bolstered by other sources, that doesn't reflect any sort of formal stated view of the intelligence community. and you know that one agency that supposedly produced this

a brand new report out of the washington post. they appear to have received a lengthy transcript of the first call president trump had as president with the mexican president obviously talking about the border wall he promised so much during his campaign. the a few of the highlight the here. he begged the president of next conot to keep saying to the press, we will not pay for the wall. the president said according to this transcript, we will work it out in the formula somehow. it will come out in the wash. that's okay but you can't say that to the press. he also said this is the least important thing we're talking about but political icily the most important. >> the president of mexico in that conversation noted it is very important to us in mexico. it is scheduled to the dignity of the nation of mexico right now. so the facts inside this phone call, interesting in and of themselves and then, also interesting, the fact that this entire transcript is now in the hands of "the washington post." >> 52 pages. >> we want to talk about

"the washington post is reporting u.s.ntelligence officials admit it brings kim jong un one step closer to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power. this comes as rex tillerson is in asia pressing for more help in dealing with the rogue regime. meanwhile ambassador nikki haley praised russia and china at the u.n. for their help. >> i think that with china we basically said enough talk. we're done. and you have the ability to control 90% of their trade and you can't

"the washington post is reporting u.s.ntelligence officials admit it brings kim jong un one step closer to becoming a full-fledged nuclear power. this comes as rex tillerson is in asia pressing for more help in dealing with the rogue regime. meanwhile ambassador nikki haley praised russia and china at the u.n. for their help. >> i think that with china we basically said enough talk. we're done. and you have the ability to control 90% of their trade and you can't make excuses anymore. to their credit, they stepped up. we did some heavy negotiations. we got them there. russia, i think they wanted to delay it initially. i don't think that's what they wanted but we got them there and as long as they were there, that's what matters. >> harris: as the hard facts come in, let's go to senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot with more. greg? >> gregg: harris, it is an alarming report coming from "the washington post and at least one of my valued sources on the subject of north korea thinks that it is true. let's go through

in the "washington post" story that hasn't abated.i the washington post had people obviously on the planewith trump. the most damaging leaks are er coming from the intelligence community where you're seeing a lot of information that is being rather strategically released to the media. those are the ones most likely to be prosecuted because you'ree dealing with national security l type of information. as to the white house, that's clearly the mandate of general kelly, to get those leakers. that's tough, though. because, you know, this city, you know, floats on a rolling sea of leaks.. that's always been the case. cas it also has reporters who are trained to be able to get leaks. and so since the white house "ts a ton of calls all of the time fromwa reporters, you can' use a pen register to simply say well, you got a call from the washington post because the person says yeah, and so did my dog.nd inter i mean, everyone in washington gets calls from reporters. so it requires something that's difficult and it would be tappi interesting to see what sessions says. unless you're going tough do r

here is a little bit more of the reporting from "the washington post." trump say say is increeingly acting as his own lawyer, publicist and strategist, often ignoring the recommendations of the people he hired. he doesn't think he is in any legal jeopardy. he really views this as a political problem he is going to solve by himself. robert mueller, the special counsel white house preserve, all documents relating to that meeting, any disclosures about the june 2016 meeting. so again to you, dylan, either there is one thousand or so coincidences out there involving russia, or there are some serious legal questions, which are seem to be developing here. >> and of course there are serious legal questions developing here. but that is up to mueller to do his legwork and do the work it takes, take the time it takes to do it. and until that's done, you know, like john says, these stories will sort of come up. and then they will fizzle out. but i think the larger point there about the president sort of not trusting his advisers, not trusting anyone but himself, we

t "the washington post" has additional reporting on this.s in the early morning hours late last month. one day after you remember manafort struck that deal with congressional leaders to meet with them voluntarily behind closed doors on the hill to meet with staff for the senate intelligence committee. jessica snyder is following this. he was voluntarily turning over documents. so this would imply that the fbi felt perhaps that they were not getting everything from manafort and therefore needed to do this raid. is that right? >> it's really interesting the time line of this. we know that this raid happened two weeks ago. paul manafort's spokesman confirming that, yes, fbi agents raided paul manafort's home in virginia, saying that they executed a search warrant and that mr. manafort has constantly, consistently cooperated with law enforcement and other serious inquiries and did so on this occasion as well. what's interesting about the time of this is, of course, it happened on july 26, just one day before paul manafort went behind closed door

greg miller, "the washington post" reporter, who broke the story, joins me from washington.a former advisor to mitt romney and paul ryan, also an official in george w. bush's administration. i'm pleased to have both on the program. greg, first of all, what was the first reaction you had when you discovered these transcripts, when you realized you had access to them, what they said? >> so, you know, we'd written stories earlier in the year, about this sort of readouts from the calls. we'd gotten word that they were chaotic and tense and heated. we sort of knew that going in. to me the thing that jumped out right away was reading through the mexico call, and what a sort of distance there was between what trump has said publicly about mexico, i'm going to build a wall and mexico's going to pay for it, and what he was telling the mexico president in his very first call as president that went completely in the opposite direction. >> charlie: basically what did he say in the call to the president of mexico? >> i mean, the call amounts to an attempt to enlist the mexican president

this is all coming from the "washington post" today.ident trump personally dictated his son's misleading statement, the very first one he are released about what happened during this now infamous trump tower meeting with a russian lawyer. don junior's initial statement to "the new york times" went like this. "we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago and was since ended by the russian government. but it was not a campaign issue at the time and there was no follow-up." well, obviously, that was, at best, completely misleading and not truthful. why? because don junior's own e-mails showed that he went to the meeting for information that could damage hillary clinton and thus help his father's campaign, information sold to him as coming from the russian government. let's begin with one of the reporters who broke this story from "the washington post" today, she is carol lining. thank you so much for being with me. a lot of takeaways. first, it seems to

that seems unlikely given "the washington post" reporting. >> "the post" reporting builds on what we had at the time the fact there had been these discussions on air force one that we had had, that the president was involved and signed off on. "the post" pushes the reporting further that in fact the president was a central player in drafting it. there are two broad pieces to the russia problem form the president. the underlying substance of did the campaign collude and meet with russians and what's the response since then and have there been attempts to comp.up and mislead investigators as they probe that. this goes in a really bad way to the latter. you don't put out the information that this was a meeting that was about something else when it was, when the documents, the emails clearly describe that it was about a meeting with russians for the purpose of influencing the campaign, and i think one last point is that this goes to also the other story that you've been talking about this morning, which is yen ral kelgeneral kel. there's no discipline in the white house what the message

breaking news from the washington post minutes ago. from the infamous 2016 meeting at trump tower in which don junior was told co-get information on hient hillary clinton via the russian government. president trump deck tated his son's misleading statement on meeting with the russian lawyer. joining me now, phillip rucker, who just broke that story for the washington post. phillip, my understanding is the original plan when the first news of the meeting broke is for don junior to get out ahead of it and issue a statement that wouldn't be contradicted and the president intervened to do what? >> that's right, chris. advisers around the president and around donald trump junior thought he should offer a fairly full and complete statement acknowledging what happened in that meeting and what happened is the president overruled them. he took matters into his own hands. almost acting as his family's own lawyer strategist publicist and decided to offer a statement that was misleading at best. and did not include the complete information which a

the morning from "washington post." ray, asheville, north carolina, morning.nt line, good caller: good morning. something to ing the attention of america. i'm a homeless veteran in a asheville, north carolina, sharing a shelter with here.eterans the shelter is running under a v.a. program called the grant diem program, a very program.onate the policy of the local nonprofit that runs this offers policy that rs requires veterans to perform unpaid labor. now just propose that idea with prisoners in a prison facility, facility areprison often have to work at the laundry or maintenance and stuff. they actually will earn a minimum -- not minimum wage, but a wage of some sort, but the eterans here in the homeless areas like work in maintenance, laundry, housekeeping, the kitchen, the desk, do not earn a wage. as a me do get employed employee, formal employee where is taxes are taken out of their are barred from reporting actually the time hours.ervice i tried to talk to the u.s. epartment of labor and they seem to like to poin

let me just begin with the story of the day, this "washington post" piece, which, you know, if you believepost" and their sourcing, they believe that now infamous don junior meeting over at trump tower along with paul manafort, russian attorneys, jared kushner, for a minute there, that the original statement, which said no, no, no and i'm entirely abbreviating this for you, but no, this was about adoption, when in actuality, when the e-mails came out, we clearly saw it was about getting dirt on hillary clinton. this was the original statement because we just heard sarah huckabee sanders saying the president weighed in, didn't dictate but did weigh in offering suggestions. the original statement here, so we're all on the same page, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children that was active and popular with american families years ago and was since ended by the -- he goes on, russian government. but it was not a campaign issue at the time, and there was no follow-up. let me play some sound too. this is from one of president trump's lawyers saying that the preside

howie: a "washington post" report that don, jr. was behind the meeting. >> he's clearly focused on covering for his son. it certainly tells bob mueller this guy is into a cover-up. >> washington post reporting the president was personally involved in his son's reaction to the meeting. >> why should anyone believe him on the big stuff, the things that do matter. >> if i have a have a president who lies about the boy scouts or to destroy isis, i'll take the liar. howie: we hear part of anthony scaramucci's call to a reporter. jim acosta lectures a top white house official over a new policy on illegal immigration. >> it looks like you are trying to evening near the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country. >> that's one of the most of outrageous, insulting, foolish, and ignorant things you have ever said. howie: i'm howrt kurtz and this -- i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." it was four weeks ago the "new york times" disclosed donald jr. held a meeting to obtain negative research on hillary clinton. but the initial sta

we need to go on to plan the war so the washington post has a new policy that punishes journalists if they use their own social media to make critical statements about the paper's corporate advertisers who now to explain the implications is our feral media watchdog john f. o'donnell. i thought. that i got to say this is crazy crazy awesome i mean it frees up all of the intrepid journalists at the post for having the right boring story after story about corporate malfeasance been there done that and i right now they can focus on important stuff. i'm going to say their corporate takeover of our country is amongst important stuff it's played out dude i mean some of the pows advertise include corporate to him it's like glaxo smith kline pharmaceuticals bank of america and koch industries we all know those three entities are grinding america into another's hell scape of epic despair hit me with something perhaps. that's not for what look like what i don't know maybe post a new story about how humans having sex with birds isn't as weird as you think. or maybe one about how amazon has. six h

that was until this report from the washington post. trump dictated son's misleading statement on meeting with russian lawyer. sarah huckabee sanders just finished the briefing that katie was presiding over just a few minutes ago. here's what sarah huckabee sanders had to say about it. >> look, the statement that don jr. issued is true. there's no inaccuracy in the statement. the president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information that he had. this is all discussion of no consequence. there was no follow-up. it was disclosed to the proper parties which is how the washington post found out about it. the democrats want to use it as a pr stunt and are doing everything to keep the story alive and in the papers. the president, the american people, they voted america first, not russia first and that's the focus of our administration. >> let's start with one of the journalists who broke this story. tom hamburger. how do you respond to this? when the story came out we sought response from various people who said this is fa

this washington post story has unnamed sources.sident reads this, and is frustrated about unnamed sources. >> sarah huckabee sanders saying -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> he's frusz tratrated about t fact that there is not one named source from air force one -- >> my question is, if you're lying about stuff that is just stupid stuff to lie about, small stuff like i did weigh in, he could have said before, yeah, jay sekulow could have said the president was on the plane and consulted on the thing, but it was donald trump jr.'s statement. if you're lying about the small stuff, do you worry about that at all? >> i'm not sure this is a small thing. i do think we turned a corner, not in the media attention to this story and not necessarily in the global collusion theory, but this e-mail from donald trump, jr. was in black and white. this is what was going on here, and they were not telling the truth about it, which leads you to believe why are you not telling the truth about this? they have bad judgment. they have very bad judgment. if

responding to this reporting from "the washington post." attorney john dowd calls the report, "fake news, incorrect, and misinformed and of no consequence." joining us now is carol lining, and she's one of the reporters who broke this story for "the washington post" tonight. carol, thanks very much for joining us. so the president's lawyer is saying that your story is fake news. first of all, can you tell us how many people are corroborating that this account occurred, saying that donald trump was the one dictating the talking points? you can't tell us who, but tell us how many, maybe? >> i can tell you, it's multiple people from lots of different walks of life, joy, and these people have put themselves in the line, in a way, to tell the full story. i think it's a fairly simple story. it's that the president who believes that he's the best politician, he's the best advocate for himself. and now it's becoming clear he thinks that he has the best sort of legal strategy, took this dilemma, as he viewed it, by the horns, and decided he would de

from a washington post reporter to a doj official about the tarmac meeting. "i'm hoping i can put to rest by answering just a few more questions about how the meeting came about." that's so nice of them at the washington post. would they ever do that for donald trump? it's shameful and corrupt. all the other examples, this mountain of evidence that we have when it comes to loretta lynch, james comey, and of course the clintons. remember comey testified under oath that lynch pressured him to call the clinton email investigation a matter publicly. that was a clinton talking point which he ended up actually doing. does that sounded like obstruction of justice? this is why we are demanding a special council be appointed to look into all of this. the law in this country needs to be applied equally no matter who you are. and just because hillary clinton lost the election, she does not get a free pass. now our second breaking news story tonight. jeff sessions declares war on the deep state on the leaking today. let's take a look at catch up. >> no one is in entitled

any of us is to each other well we're in the dark now so let's keep digging what else you got washington post kremlin mouthpieces of infuse yes tickly promoted the views of america neo nazis and white nationalists what is that even based on what listen to the actual words spoken by the russian president on the issue of not only them if nationalism is understood as intolerance can show even ism to other people it is going to destroy our country which we developed as a multinational multi confessional country it not only leads to a dead end but down a path of self-destruction russia will do everything not to allow that sounds like a nazi leader to you and i save the best for last the article even ties in the recent tragic events in charlottesville none of this is to say that the coma insurance bill is directly attributable to mosco we have not yet lou and of evidence the mystic terrorist is spelled prove true kremlin views so why stop there if actual proof is unnecessary you also don't have evidence that he likes to watch disney cartoons but he probably does and most of the heroes are white but

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joining me now from washington is dan balz, the chief correspondent for "the washington post."er incredible week. >> absolutely. this was-- this was supposed to be the quiet week, the calming week. and there may be a little use under general kelly.white but these transcripts have exploded. i mean, we had so many readers on these transcripts this morning when they first broke, remarkable reporting by my colleague greg miller who has been a stalwart throughout the year as part of our national security team. the portrayal of the new president, as you said, being unhappy, concerned about his own image, talking at cross-purposes of leaders of two allies, of neighboring mexico and australia. they are remarkable documents of what the trump presidency started as and for so long, has continued as. >> rose: take me through what you found remarkable about these documents. >> well, on the call with the mexican president i think what was so fascinating was trump's recognition that his promise that not only would he build the wall but that mexico would pay for it was something that was never

goldstein on the "washington post" website, she has been a staff writer at the "washington post" for more than a quarter-century. quarter century. over the years, she's written about social issues including medicare and medicaid. social security, welfare, housing and the strains placed on the social safety net wide great depression. she also has been a white house correspondent for the events ranging from the monica lewinsky scandal to the columbine shootings to the past for supreme court nominations. she was part of a team of "washington post" reporters awarded the 2002 pulitzer prize for reporting from the newspaper coverage of 9/11 and the governments response to the attacks and also a pulitzer prize finalist for national reporting for an investigative series she cowrote with her colleague on the medical treatment of immigrants detained by the federal government. from the amazon summary of her book in american story is the intimate account of the following is the closing o of te general motors assembly plant in gainesville and a larger story of the american middle class. she has s