. >> according to "the washington post," even high ranking members of his own administration are kept in the dark. "the post" reports it has happened five times in two years. >> in at least one case, he even went so far, they say, as to take notes away from his interpreter, telling him not to talk about what happened, which means no detailed record, classified or the, of what was said in these meetings. here is what the president said when he was asked if he was a secret agent. >> i think it's the most insulting thing i've ever been asked. i think it's the most insulting article i've ever had written. and if you read the article, you'd see that they found absolutely nothing. >> the question here why not just say no? the president did not say that. according to the report, administration officials are trying to find out what happened in the meetings they go to to track the kremlin's response. greg, thanks for being with us. first here, i want you to consider the president's response to your reporting, in part, in which he says anybody could have listened to the meeting, that meeting is

the washington post. >>> good morning. i'm the chief information officer at the post. thank you for joining us today for a series of discussions about artificial intelligence, technology that is changing the way we work and live at an exponential rate. our speakers who come from government, the private sector will look at current and future ai that have the potential to revolutionize the society. from the face recognition software on your digital devices to the integration of fully autonomous robots in everyday life, and to talk about how we ensure ai is used responsibly across industries and in the community here at the "washington post" we are big believers in ecology and we have embraced ai. let me read an article about one of our products and this is an article and just going to quote. when republican steve king beat democratic challenger in the race for iowa's fourth congressional district in november, the "washington post" snapped into action covering the trend republicans regained control of the house and lost only a handful of seats from the commanding majority

"the washington post" write, quote, u.s. officials said there is no detailed record even in classified files of trump's face-to-face interactions with the russian leader at five locations over the past two years. in one instance, president trump reportedly took possession of the notes and told his interpreter not to discuss what happened. kim, is this normal? >> not according to the presidential records keeping acted, and not according to a number of officials that i've spoken to prior to this, just about how president trump holds me meetings with foreign leaders in general. i've had another diplomat complain to me that in his one-on-one meeting between trump and his particular leader, because no noteds were taken, there was no follow-up afterwards. then i've had administration officials tell me, well, that's exactly the point. if there's no note taken, really the meeting that counts is the one afterwards with the foreign ministers present. but that doesn't address the fact that if greg miller's reporting in "the washington

it is not acceptable. >> "the washington post" says the sources include former u.s.ials, people who could be in position to help your inquiry include former white house chief of staff john kelly, rex stiller son, former national security adviser h.r. mcmaster. are those the kind of witnesses you would like to hear from? >> well, again, we haven't gotten that far yet, but yeah. i think witnesses who would be in the know, who would understand what happened or didn't happen, who would understand why this is different than what we're used to with american presidents. so we would seek, i would imagine, down the line to speak to anyone who may have knowledge with what is really going on with putin and trump. >> i want to ask you about a late-breaking piece of news that the republicans, your republican colleagues in the house, the action they've taken tonight. they have removed steve king from his committee assignments in the house of representatives, in effect rebuked him that way, removed him from the agriculture committee and judiciary committee. i want to get your react

now there is more breaking news, also from "the washington post." this is just posted.enators promise ag nominee william barr will not touch mueller's probe. will not touch mueller's probe. that's awkward phrasing, but you know what they mean. quote, top senate republicans emerged wednesday from meetings with attorney general nominee william p. barr, insisting if he were confirmed, he would not hinder mueller's investigation of the trump campaign's russia ties, despite previous statements blasting the probe for looking into whether president trump attempted to obstruct justice. also in this new piece, "the post" is reporting that two different democrats on the senate judiciary committee is saying that barr is refusing to meet with them due to the ongoing government shutdown. so republican senators are making promises based on their meetings with william barr, saying that he won't mess with the mueller investigation, but if democrats want to check that themselves, the democrats are not being allowed to meet with barr themselves because of the shutdown. this news has just

on the "washington post" story, she says, the "washington post" story is so outrageously inaccurate itoesn't even warrant a response. the liberal media has wasted two years trying to manufacture a fake collusion scandal instead of reporting the fact that unlike president obama, who let russia and other foreign adversaries push america around, president trump has actually been tough on russia. using almost the same language on both occasions, saying trump has been especially tougher despite the fact there are multiple occasions of trump being quite friendly to russian officials, including vladimir putin. you recall that press conference in helsinke where trump failed to address russian election meddling in 2016, and we don't know what they are like in public in the vein of that report. >> and democrats are reacting that they fear the president could be working on behalf of russia. what has been said? >> reporter: responses have fallen mostly along party lines. the president was defended on both counts saying some of the deep state in the fbi had merit, and in terms of the "washington po

host: joining us, robert costa, a national political reporter for the washington post and a moderator for pbs's washington week. thank you for joining us. your story sets the stage. tell us where we are at and what is new right now. the weekend, there were talks at the white house led by vice president mike pence, but he was the main principle involved. includedple involved administration officials, secretary kirstjen nielsen, and congressional aides, both republicans and aides to house speaker nancy pelosi. they did not make much progress over the weekend. where we stand on monday morning, i spoke to vice president pence on sunday night. the menstruation continues to maintain that they want $5.7 billion for a border wall across the u.s.-mexico border and they are talking about a steel barrier versus concrete. is that a concession? it depends on who you ask. that is their position at the moment. they have detailed immigration funding requests across the government for humanitarian needs, beds at the department of homeland security to deal with migrants. they have detailed all of these

but i read and admired his columns in the washington post. what happened with jamal is horrific and barbaric . we continue to learn more about just over derek his murder was. just as we learn of his final moments on this earth, we cannot forget what he stood for and what he devoted his life to. this is what this is all about. his final article for the washington post, published after his death, is a passionate plea for freedom of the press and independent media in the arab world. in it, he calls for arab voices, in his word, isolated from the government, to provide an alternative. he contended that only through truly independent media can ordinary people have the information to improve their lives in demand change. this is applicable anywhere where freedom of thought is under attack and where independent journalists. for their lives. the unfortunate reality is that those conditions exist around the globe. and 26, i founded the international freedom of press caucus with a congressman from indiana, named mike pence. i am proud of the work that

he belong to us and the washington post. stood for benevolence in the freedom of this nation, as we welcome him with the resident could be protect it and whose voice could be heard. so, i join you in the commitment and the horrific tragedy that has befallen his family and his loss in silence voice. but the jubilee in celebration is that we will never be silenced will join you in support to ensure that his voice through us, will not only be heard but will be resounding and clamoring and it will be a drumbeat that is unending. to all those throughout the world who lost their life, may they rest in peace that may we not live in peace until there is peace thanks to the insecurity for the voices of freedom and journalists around the world. [ applause ] . >> we have three remaining speakers from different press organizations and i'd first like to invite jennifer egan, nancy pelosi's favorite writer. [ applause ] >> i knew her when she was just a mom of five . >> my name is jennifer egan and i'm president of pan-american. as an org

as opposed to "the new york times" or "the washington post," it felt like state tv. chavez or chairman mile going on state tv and saying whatever they want regardless of any relationship with veracity and that's really bad for the state of that network, but it's also really bad that the president has no calms whatsoever with getting on tv and w saying things that are flat out false. you can't divorce some successes with the administration from the fact that he lies to the american people everyday. old. etting democrats, adrian. do they have any tools in their arsenal to demand transparency on things like, well, these reported lack of records on any sort of r interactions, conversations with russia or does it all depend on having to getn cooperation from the administration? >> yeah, alex. it's really hard to reiterate how deeply troubling that washington post piece was today. ish mean, this is the presidentf the united states who is actively tryingte to conceal hi conversations with one of the united states' largest adversaries which is vladimir putin. and i thought m

while the washington post reported claims mr. trump conceale details about his fa-to-face meetings with russian leader vladimir putin. the president took to twitter in wake o these stories tweeting over two dozen times throughout the weekend. it sta med saturdayning with a volley of six tweets about the russia investigation, ge specifically tng the fbi and its former director james comey. the tweet storm ended with the president talking about everything from border security and the wall to his push to withdraw troops from he also poked fun at one of his 2020 competors, senator izabeth warren, and took jabs at amazon c.e.o. and "washington post" own jef bezos who he dubbed jeff bozo. nbc's susan mcennis joining us from washington, d.c. susan, good morning. now we have this russia cloud hanging over the longest government shutdown in history. >> reporter: that's right, philli 24 days for the government shutdown and the president spending much of his weekend lashing out and defending himself against those two reports in "the new yor

the "washington post" is right, he is dressing the part.liver, his attire to talk about a crisis flies in the face of what we actually see at the border. >> right. we have reporting that shows it was pretty tank which will at the border. there are people crossing but it's not the national emergency that i think trump has painted. it's not the chaos, violence, crime that trump is tweeting about. >> he's also getting that from hannity and others on fox and the right wing media. >> right. i think that's where a lot of his supporters are getting it. that's why you see outrage to these outlets. he understands that his media personalities like rush limbaugh, sean hannity, they control his base. he wants to solidify his support with this base by appealing to them. >> they will say that's offensive, how dare you say that rush limbaugh controls the base. >> i think that there is an argument to be made that sean hannity, rush limbaugh, an colter, matt drudge control more of the media than trump does. when they started criticizing him initially he cha

on the washington post reporting, pertaining to his meetings with putin are of interest to mueller? >> absolutely. the bigger thing is elie is saying here, the pattern. you even look at the interview that the president did last night, you know. if i was being accused of being a russian agent i would be much more annoyed about being accused of being a russian agent than i would be the investigation itself. that's not what we're seeing from the president, you know. it would be easy for him to come out and deny this. what we have to, you know, almost assume at this point is that the president and his campaign were compromised by russia in some meaningful way that is not yet clear. that's the evidence that we're seeing, sort of pattern after pattern, both from the staff and the president's own actions. this is a president who, in many ways, has gone out of his way to continue to be soft on russia and vladimir putin, to continue to be complimentary to vladimir putin, up to and including that astounding helsinki summit, the subject of part of that washington post report where the presiden

"the washington post" is reporting that president trump has concealed information from private meetingsth russian president vladimir putin. press secretary sarah sanders is calling the report outrageously inaccurate. "the post" reports this has happened at least five times in two years. easements they say president trump went so far to take away notes from his interpreter telling the translator not to discuss the meeting with other officials. as a result "the washington post" says u.s. officials have no detailed records even in classified files of the president's interactions with president putin. >>> the partial government shutdown is in its fourth week. a new poll shows the american public blames republicans. >> according to a new poll, 53% of americans blame president trump and the gop. 29% say it's the democrats' fault. the white house is digging in here and preparing for the shutdown to last through february. the administration is stopping the spread of public pain by continuing to pay out food stamps and delivering tax returns and the tsa is promising one day's pay and those who w

the white house responding to the "washington post" reporting saying this, "the "washington post" starttrageously inainaccurate, doet wau warrant comment and, you know, like president obama, president trump actually has been tough on russia." sarah huckabee sanders in response to that reporting coming from the "washington post." craig, how common is what people are asking, would a president of the united states have such high-level meetings and want to keep them secret from his high-level staff and therefore the question goes back to this again. is he an agent of another country? the accusation. >> it's absolutely extraordinary and may be a violation of the presidential -- potential to destroy any relations. compromised in a 1984, for the first time a member of the russian mafia meets with donald trump, and buys five condos, and as i've said before and it's in my book, that was the first time we have a sense that the russian mafia is using trump real estate to launder money. this continues over the years, and it's really important to understand that as trump tower becomes sort of a dorm

he belonged to us in the washington post. he stood for the benevolence and the freedom of this nation. we welcomed him as a resident who could be protected and his voice could be heard. commitment andhe the horrific tragedy that has befallen his family. the jubilee and the celebration is that we will never be silenced. towill join you in support ensure that his voice, through us will not only be heard but it will be resounding. it will be clamoring. it will be a drumbeat, unending. to all of those, throughout the world who lost their lives, may they rest in peace. may we not live in peace until there is peace. peace, sanctity and security for the journalists around the world. [applause] larry: we have three remaining speakers from different press organizations. i would like to invite jennifer egan from penn. pelosi's favorite writer. jennifer: i knew her when she was a mom of five. i the president of pan america. as an organization of writers and journalists dedicated and celebrating written expression, we grieve for our murd

this morning on the killing of the washington post journalist for everyone to go all i think really not a reformer. a joke about the soldier he brings it falls flat for netflix. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us president double trump is digging in his heels announcing the u.s. government should be could last a long time trumbo told his cabinet in just a few minutes that he will keep the government shutdown for as long as it takes the president preparing to meet with talk to mcgraw. can republican lawmakers shortly but he's sticking to his insistence that the budget needs to be include funding for a border with mexico something that democrats have refused to support. let's take this story now to washington he. joins me from our bureau in the u.s. capital given to a huge deficit and have the new year this will be the first time that trump i guess meets the democratic lawmakers nancy pelosi and chuck schumer the first time in what about two weeks since that last circus of the meeting they had in the oval office will this meeting be any different. yes there won't be any cameras t

i showed from "the washington post." "the new york times" also in its reporting tonight, we can put this up on the screen. they have one person, one source they say familiar with mr. cohen's testimony to the special counsel's prosecutors said that mr. cohen did not state that the president had pressured him to lie to congress. jeremy, you're talking about this. i know there were some of those court filings in conjunction with his sentencing suggested that cohen's lies were an effort to align his testimony to congress with trump's public statements. i think lanny davis said in december on a podcast that the president had not directed cohen to lie. but, again, there's the question with michael cohen. just exactly what -- for instance, he's going to be testifying in front of a congressional committee february 7th. that's coming up all awfully soon. all eyes will be on that testimony, clearly. >> big picture, steve, the president told a false story about the trump moscow tower deal. he said, i have no business dealings with

this is the "washington post." to refuse even to talk until the government reopened does no favors to the federal workers and contract airs. a measure of statesmanship is now the ability to accept some disappointment. except some disappointment and shrug off the inevitable attack from purists if it means rescuing the lives that thousands of deserving people living among us. the "washington post." even if the post believes my friends but

steve: did you have a chance to read his editorial in "the washington post." caller: yes i did. steve: what was your take away? >> i don't know. he's just -- it is his way or no way. steve: thank you very much for the call. minnesota, independent. caller: i wanted to call and raise my opinion. i don't normally get into these at all, but this whole border wall thing has gone too far. trump stands up there and says the american people wanted -- the immortal or two -- majority of those at home say it is waste of money. there are better ways for us to take care of those borders. inneed to get our people washington working together. this is ridiculous. steve: earlier today on the senate floor, the republican leader mitch mcconnell, who will have two additional republican fortors, 53 gop senators majority in that chamber. the democrats, regaining control of the house, first time since 2010. here is what he said. mcconnell: i'd like to wish my colleagues a happy new year. it is time for new beginnings. tomorrow will kickoff the 116th congress. of course, there is urgent business at the

the "washington post" reports in one instance, the president even took possession of notes, telling the leader not to discuss it with officials. the fbi started investigating whether president trump was secretly working on behalf of russia back in may of 2017. and now the "washington post" reveals there are no detailed reports of trump's five face-to-face meetings with putin. reportedly, senior administration officials at the time were frustrated and uncomfortable being in the dark about these meetings. in the "washington post," one said, god only knows what they were going to talk about or agree to, end quote. the white house and the president are pushing back on both reports. here's president trump, his response to the latest report on his favorite television network. >> i had a conversation like every president does. you sit with the president of various countries. i do it with all countries. we had a great conversation. we were talking about israel and securing israel and lots of other things, and it was a great conversation. i'm not keeping anything under wraps. i couldn't care les

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this is a big deal in the past. >> host: the "washington post" the "washington post" thanks you for giving credit to individual reporters. so here's the story. one of the first things he set out to do is reaffirm the american commitment to nato. nato has made a lot of noises that are very nervous about how much he dislikes nato and of course he so much under russian influence or worse it's a big problem. mcmaster arranges and therefore he would give -- there he will give a speech and a monument to article v and they are in front of that monument, he will read a no compromise commitment to the usual defense treaty and be sure that trump says the right thing, mcmaster write the passage himself or at least overseas and it's in the speech. on the way to europe, mcmaster breese reports this is what the president is going to say. try and get to that portion of the speech and it gets past it. why? some pressure from the russian or maybe he just doesn't like me and told what to do. we don't know. that's where we see the consequence. mcmaster now is in a situation where everyone expected the endors

and second, the national inquirer is not a exet totter "washington post." post" broke watergate, "the national enquirer" broke the cher sex cult scandal. oh yeah, oh, no, it's true. she once convinced a whole group of sailors that she could turn back time. the enquirer turned the sleez dial all the way up to 11 to publish bezos' sexual sex messages or sex ages including this one, i love you alive girl, i will show with you my bod he, my lips and my eyes very soon. and i will vomit with my mouth and my lips immediately. now once this divorce is final it is being reported that his wife mackenzie bezos could walk away with as much as $69 billion dollars. (cheers and applause) yeah is now everybody knows i'm happily married. but anyone in a long-term relationship knows you get a hall pass. and my wife has always said my hall pass is 69 billion dollars. so with that in mind, hey a, mckenzie. hold on, alexia make it it sexy kenzie, if you are ever looking to hang with somebody with an-- i'm sorry, i can't talk, i'm just too damn turned on right now. if you are ev

this one from "the washington post." revealing how, quote, president trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with russian president vladimir putin. both the times and the post exposes are highly damaging, obviously, to the president, as he tries to escape the historic reckoning that may soon come from special counsel robert mueller. when asked point blank this weekend about "the new york times" story, trump didn't deny being an agent of russia. >> are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? >> i think it's the most insulting thing i have ever been asked. i think it's the most insulting article i have ever had written. and if you read the article, you would see that they found absolutely nothing. >> trump's failure to give a direct answer to that fundamental question even raised alarm among his allies. according to the associated press, quote, white house aides expressed regret that the president did not more clearly and forcefully deny being a russian agent. it w

also the review at the "washington post."ely. it is time now for final thoughts. we'll give that to kacie hunt. what are you looking at? >> well, like we were talking about before on the shutdown, i'm just waiting for the president to say something different. on "vice" i really enjoyed it too. it's almost like two movies in one. i kind of just wanted to watch the story of dick cheney and his family. i felt like i learned -- so nuanced and interesting. i heard some of the family members didn't necessarily love it. i'd love to have a word with liz cheney about it. >> liz cheney at the end obviously may not have liked it. i will say though it shows dick cheney as a loving and dedicated husband and father. it shows lynne cheney also as somebody that really did an extraordinary job taking a ne'er-do-well, as they said, and pushing him along. i thought it was a far more sympathetic look than k conservative figures are given. >> stephanie rule picks up the coverage right now. >> thanks, mika, thanks, joe. hi there. i'm stephanie ruh

well thank god we have the washington post to dig deep into this important story investigation well then pulitzers all around. this gives us a whole new meaning into the german mouth and maybe the russians speak for its. border security our nation broken system the crisis the shutdown billion dollars a year leader of the house democrats who just want a big victory let's let me let me just let me just say that there's one thing i did for the president is reference. well thanks for joining us on r.t. international best and do get in touch if you have something you'd like to say by following us on social media you can join us again at the top of the hour for the latest to think about. you know you're not going to know what the. american people. are. so i know you're not. you know. what. i mean. if it up as well i might be. getting worse but those were the oh. my god we've. already had them. in the. trunk when he was running in two thousand and sixteen articulated a vision of foreign policy that was clearly had with what you would consider the sort of post-war liberal international consensus

thank you so much from the white house. >>> joining me now, ann guerin, correspondent for "the washington post," charlie savage, washington corespondent from "the new york times" and msnbc contributor and abigail tracy, news writer from "vanity fair's hive." as you have covered the white house before and been on these foreign trips, any extent of this behavior, what extent has previous presidents tried to keep private conversations between world leaders in fact private but even from their own trusted staff and advisers? >> well, as far as we know it's never hand this way ever before. the usual practice, as you were talking about with kelly, even in quite sensitive qualifications between a president and foreign leader, is that there will be several people present with the president when these things happen. occasionally it's just the president and other leader and each of them have an interpreter with them. trump has done it differently in several respects. in at least one important meeting he only had vladimir putin's translator with him. there was no other u.s. set of ears on the meeting. and

this is quite a report in the washington post heidi what else does it say this article. that's right it was so we are aware of five private meetings between trump and putin during trump's presidency in this article in the washington post focuses on that twenty seventeen meeting in hamburg germany and we know at this point that president of this meeting was of course trump and putin as well as then u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson and trump's interpreter now following that meeting tillerson told reporters that a wide variety of topics had been discussed and that trump had pressed putin a whether russia had interfered with the presidential elections and that putin had denied it but tillerson did not answer reporters' questions of how the president responded whether or not he accepted that denial as truth while the interpreter told phelim and other members of the ministration of the time that trump did respond saying quote i believe you to putin but since then that interpreters lips have been sealed and this reporting in the washington post sheds light on why that may

well thank god we have the washington post to dig deep into this important story. investigation well them pulitzers all around. this gives us a whole new meaning to the german nothing but good maybe the russians treat their rights. to. border security our nation broken system the crisis and shutdown billion dollars a year leader of the house democrats who just want a big victory let's let me let me just let me just say that's what i did so well for the president. you know now will be hey with the latest at the top of the hour. that entire collection of countries and regions that have been the main economic. players for decades now over time they're going to become this much more players the world is going to evolve china india middle east africa. under certain scenarios they're going to represent about eighty percent of world g.d.p. at the end of the century and that scenario is where they do catch up in terms of quarterly growth. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spanning dramatic

well thank god we have the washington post to dig deep into this important story investigation well then pulitzers all around. this gives us a whole new meaning into the juror mouth and maybe the russians speak for its. border security our nation broken system the crisis and shutdown billion dollars a year leader of the house democrats who just wanted to get her let's let me let me just let me just say and that's what i think for the president is referenced. as all the top stories but now we're back with the latest in thirty minutes. in a world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time. to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the troops the time is now we're watching closely watching the hawks. officer. told to get up off the ground here yasser begin to paint him down the. democrats on the sounds of an mit grown man mislead us into the officer who. through his return. will push t

you to be here for, and then reaction to the president who on fox last night was denying the "washington post" report that he took particular steps to try to conceal his private meetings with putin. do the allegations in the article that was written by greg miller in "the post," does all this sound plausible to you? >> well, first of all, i have found in my experience greg miller to be a very meticulous reporter at the "post." and so, i take very seriously anything he has unearthed with his reporting. and again, i'm going to do a little bit of on the one hand, on the other hand here. it is not unusual for heads of state to want to keep private or very, very closely held their conversations with other leaders. and so, not wanting to share that information widely, certainly not unusual. but denying that information to his most senior staff, if the reporting by greg is accurate, holding that back from even your most senior staff at the white house or in the cabinet room, that would be pretty remarkable. and again -- >> how about remarkable saying to the interpreter in hamburg, i don't want you t

one of the reports in washington post shows the extremes president trump has allegedly gone to to highetails of his conversations with president vladimir putin, swearing interpreters to secrecy and making sure there is no written record of at least one private meeting with putin according to u.s. officials. another report from the new york times that claims the fbi was so concerned after president trump fired fbi director james comey that they launched a counterintelligence investigation into the president himself. they were working to find out if trump was actually knowingly unbelievably working to benefit the russian government. this extraordinary moment last night on trump friendly fox news, a show host asking the president point-blank, this yes or no question, and listen to his answer. >> are you now or have you ever worked for russia, mr. president? >> i think it's the most unsulting thing i've ever been asked. i think it's the most insulting article i've ever had written. and if you read the article, you'd say they found absolutely nothing. >> we could play the entire answer. but

this weekend, from "washington post" reporter greg miller. his bombshell several days ago was the revelation that president trump confiscated his translator's notes and otherwise blocked any u.s. officials from finding out anything or obtaining any record or readout or notes from his multiple meetings with vladimir putin since he has been president. well, that reporting, again, first broken by "the washington post" this weekend, today peter baker at "the new york times" builds on that. he reports on an unusual phone call that president trump placed in july 2017 when he was on his way home from what we believe to have been trump's first in-person meeting with vladimir putin in germany. that germany meeting was the one where the president reportedly confiscated his translator's notes and told the translate they're the translator couldn't tell any other u.s. officials about the content of his discussion with putin. after that mysterious meeting between trump and putin in germany, which the president went to such great lengths to keep secret, whi

these people making up -- "washington post" that's basically the lobbyist for amazon. you know he uses -- bezos has bigger problems than anyone right now. nobody says anything about it. with putin oh, what did they talk about? we talked about very positive things because, look, we are beating everybody. but with putin they make a big deal. anybody could have listened to that meeting. that meeting is open for grabs. >> let's see it. >> we're beating everyone. joining us now reporter for axios in washington, d.c. let's talk about these developments and what they signal about the ongoing russia investigation. pretty significant developments over the past 72 hours. >> extremely significant. i think that from all of the sources on both the hill and white house that i've spoken with i don't think these reports are sitting well with anyone. republicans and democrats alike find these very damaging and i think a lot of people are still, you know, a little bit hesitant to outright, forthright call out the president on this. they want to see more what's going on. a lot of people,

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the "washington post" is going to be here. "the wall street journal" is going to be there. but there are large swaths, especially local newspaper, things like this, an example, somebody gave me here, somebody i know, gave me, former editor of small city paper. he came in 2004, the staff was 62. when he left in 2010, the staff was 32. he just checked back with the editor, who by the way was being laid off, the latest editor, and the staff is 11. and that is the very unpleasant world for a lot of people out there. and as i said, the big publications are going to do it. you can see it in other things. you can see it in tv networks. where you will see the network news, you will see few foreign correspondents. you will have two guys, or two guys and a couple of women or something, always narrating the news and there is some producer out there. but you don't have the staffing you used to have. and that is a huge issue. and the answer is, you know, this is still developing. and people are trying to come up with business models. there is certainly not going to be as profitable as i

"the washington post" reports president trump went to extraordinary lengths to conseal details of his meeting with russian president vladimir putin. >>> plus no end in sight for the u.s. government shutdown. we'll speak with a union official about the impact on-air traffic control. >>> also u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo expected to meet with the saudi crown prince. one subject topping the discussion the death of journalist jamal khashoggi. >> we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen and cnn newsroom starts right now. >>> we begin with a new report that raises new questions about the u.s. president and his russian counterpart vladimir putin zeroing in on the private conversations the two men have had and just how little we know about what was said. >> according to "the washington post" mr. trump went to extraordinary lengths to conseal the details of his meetings with the russian president. the paper says he went so far as to confiscate the notes from his interpreter also not allowing the interprete

tim, this from the "washington post." no detailed records, even of trump's face-to-face interactions with the russian leader at five locations over the past two years. just how unprecedented is that? >> well, certainly, since the end of world war ii, it's unprecedented. >> fdr met with stalin, joseph stalin at yetta, and it created a lot of confusion in the early cold war years, because nobody knows what was said. since that point of time, we have always had other people in the room. and fdr had people in the room to say what they thought occurred. now we're in this place -- you know, it's actually stunning that donald trump made a fool of himself in helsinki, that we know that he's under investigation for collusion with russia. now he has five meetings with putin, and he's trying to silence the translator, destroy notes of what may or may not have been said. so this is a president that is creating a global image of himself, if not an agent of russia, of some kind of patsy or somebody that's being blackmailed by the kreml

of "the washington post" being distributed around downtown washington, d.c. d we are aware of a website trying to mimic "the post's". they are not post-products and we are looking into this. then the real "washington post" got down to business, did some great reporting on what was behind the fake papers. a group that describes itself as a trickster activist collective called the yes men said it produced the bogus newspapers and website which went offline wednesday afternoon. uses the pseudonym andy bichlbaum said he was one of the founders of the yes men and the paper was intended to provide grassroots tips for how to -- went on to say the group printed 25,000 copies. he estimated about 10,000 of the papers were distributed. all at a cost believed to be in the neighborhood of 40 grand, give or take. >>> coming up for us, americans coming to the aid of federal workers. our federal workers with zero income while washington fights and our government remains shut down. >>> let us go back to work. let us do our jobs. >>> last thing before we go tonight is a quick u

but that gets a mention in his "washington post" obituary from when he died in the summer of 2010. quote, in washington, mr. saxbeand his wife enjoyed hosting dinner parties that were known for ending in late-night singing accompanied by a wash board fiddle. a pair of symbols and a tam. he was notably quippy. the first six months i kept wondering how i got here. after that i started wondering how all of them did. talking about his fellow senators. in the end, senator bill saxbe, apparently decided that washington was boring. that being a senator was just way too boring for him, and he didn't want to do it any longer than he had to. he announced before his first term was over that he would only be a one-term senator, he was not going it run for reelection. so bill saxbe was on his way out the door already. he was already serving as a lame duck senator with really nothing to lose, when nixon decided that he, bill saxbe would be his choice for attorney general. the successor to elliot richardson would be this republican ohio senator, bill saxbe, and whether or not nixon and the nixon w

craig miller of "the washington post." terrific reporting. thanks for being with us. >>> let's bring in our cnn political analysts to talk about this. josh green, national correspondent for bloomberg business week and jonathan martin for "the new york times." okay. guys, first let's start with that cnn -- what cnn has broken this morning. and that is that we now can read and see these transcripts between fbi officials who appeared in front of congressional investigators behind closed doors. and they were asked why they opened an investigation into then candidate donald trump. and the fbi had to justify why they would do it. so their lawyer explained what was happening. they were starting to have conversations about all of the strange things they were seeing. and he talks about how the worst case scenario is that somehow, maybe, a candidate for the president of the united states had been turned into an asset of russia. so here is a portion of this transcript. that was one extreme. the other extreme was the president is completely innocent and

now the washington post in the new york times two top newspapers in the usa have both published op eds calling for the military to overthrow the elected government in venezuela now u.s. leaders say this is simply out of humanitarian concerns they only want to intervene to rescue those poor oppressed venezuelans socialism has bankrupted the oil rich nation. and driven its people. into abject. poverty as we've seen the completion of venezuela's collapse into dictatorship we have many options for venezuela including a possible military option there is no greater chose today than the full scale dismantling of democracy and the heartbreaking humanitarian disaster in venezuela but how exactly can u.s. leaders claim that they know what havre to venezuelans want venezuela is facing a deepening economic political and social crisis but we can't possibly understand this crisis or see a way out of the crisis without understanding u.s. intervention the end the us has been trying to topple this government since the year two thousand two thousand and one and so i mean the us is not promoting democrac