i seem to recall that it was jared kushner who was in the fire comey camp. and if i'm wrong about that, i will come back and apologize for it. but if it was a bad idea to fire comey, it should dawn on them, as jill said, that it would be an incredibly bad idea to fire jeff sessions as attorney general. and if the president does do it, because at this point it seems like it's a matter of time, will that be the moment that folks on capitol hill find their spies? according to this politico report, that might not be it. but if you're not going to stand up for the rule and democracy in defending attorney general sessions, then will the spine grow in place if the president does indeed find a way to fire mueller or rod rosenstein? at this point, and i can't believe i'm saying this as an american, at this point i have no faith in the republican majority on capitol hill. these are the same people when i was growing up who were all about the rule of law, all about standing up for our institutions, and yet when both are threatened, they're nowhere to be found. >> jill,

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>> so abbe lowell, by the way, jared kushner's attorney he is considering according to your reporting bringing in. let me ask you this, josh. how much is the president starting to really talk about the possible impeachment as you note in your piece? he calls it the i-word. >> a good bit, don. it's not just that he's afraid of being impeached and in fact at times it's the opposite. a number of telephone president's advisers have told him we don't know or not. but democrats and the president will not -- so the people that are close to him a pretty resolute that it's a very likely outcome. increasingly the president is asking what they would investigate, how many subpoenas would they get, what all in our administration would they do -- you know, conversations.

is jared kushner's lawyer. the president has an outside group of rudy giuliani and jay sekulow and others that are not as well regarded in some circles. and if an impeachment proceeding came he would want high powered lawyers around him and he hasn't been able to get them. one thing we reported is a lot of the lawyers who the president and his team have wanted won't work for him because he has a reputation of not listening to him, tweeting things and the white house has been a difficult place to work for the first year and a half. you don't have lawyers beating down the door. >> there is the issue of timing. if the democrats took control of the house, they don't take control until january so that could give the white house some time to get things in order so there is a sense that you write about that people feel we'll put it off until we have to deal with it. >> that's correct, but the challenge has been attracting people in the white house. this is a white house where a lot of folks who have left have been tar

jared kushner wrote back on it, no indication at all that jared kushner knew anything about bank fraud, conspiracy, loans or anything else. back to you. >> joe, thanks so much. >>> joining me now, defense attorney and former federal prosecutor shan chen. getting word that the manafort trial is now going to be resuming. the sealed hearing is over. people are starting to file back into the courtroom. i'm seeing this on my e-mail. what happens in the sealed hearings? what could this be about? >> typically, the judge will clear the courtroom when they need to have more extensive arguments about an issue that really aren't practical to do standing at the bench. that's probably what this was about. it's going to be something that was substantive. otherwise, they could take care of it with a brief conference at the bench. we're speculating what it was. it's probably a substantive legal argument. >> the prosecution rested its case. what now? what do you think the defense does? >> i think it's pretty likely, if i was going to predict, that the defense is not going to put on any more testimony,

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he sends that e-mail to jared kushner. jared kushner responds on it. we have not heard anymore about that but it is a piece of evidence that will go to the jury, jim, when they pick up deliberations as early as tomorrow. >> clearly at least out of the expectation of some influence with the administration. just final question. i mean, there's been a lot of speculation of the case and some surprised that the defense did not mount a defense. is there a concern among prosecutors, for instance, manafort is playing for a pardon here? >> that's always a potential option. you know, nothing to that element has come up in court. no one discussed any potential of a pardon here but we do know that that is sort of the long game s. there a possibility that manafort would get a pardon? we don't know. he also has another trial coming up next month in washington, d.c. where he's facing other related charges about his foreign lobbying work so there's a lot of risk for manafort if he were to take the stand today and lock in testimony that could be used against him in tha

abbe lowell is jared kushner's, he is considering abbe lowell, jared kushner's attorney, son-in-law. >> you think about what the house of representatives and the senate have been like. they have existing to protect the president from investigations for the past two years. there have been no investigations of the white house. that would change on a dime. what happens if jerry nadler says we want to subpoena the president's tax returns. they could do that. who is going to represent the president there? we want to get michael cohen to testify before the house of representatives. we want to see his e-mails. all of that has to be dealt with by the white house counsel's office, at least in part, as well as the president's personal lawyer, and they have had absolutely no experience in dealing with this so far because the republicans have done the opposite of investigating the president. >> can we talk about mcgahn now? go on. >> if i may. >> go ahead. >> i'll go to mcgahn. as you well know, jeffrey, one of the complications here is that the president on the one hand is very angry at don mcg

and jared kushner. then you have this line at the end of today's tweet, i did not know about it. the president trying to distance himself here from what happened in trump tower back in 2016. and finally that third issue, that this ran afoul here of federal law. taking those three things into consideration, what's the thing the president should be most worried about? >> well, i think he should be worried about all three. let's start with the nature of the tweet in the first instance. in a courtroom, tweets equal evidence. there is a federal rule of evidence called statement of a party opponent. what does that tell us? it tells us that anything a defendant says whether it is in oral form, written form, tweeted form, if he said it, it can be introduced as evidence against him. now, i know there are some who say, well, you know, you can't indict a sitting president, so those tweets will never see the inside of a courtroom as evidence. as a career federal prosecutor, i actually think there is a pathway to indicting a sitting president. let's set that aside for the moment. even if he w

huge, huge credit to jared kushner and bob lighthizer. i mean, bob lighthizer is the team leader, jared was great --dash go >> laura: he wants results, he wants people who give us results. read? >> the president told me probably two months ago, he said i am sick of this multilateral stuff, he said, you go out there, and tell folks that i want to do bilateral. much simpler, much more direct, and i did, and we took some heat from it and it paid off. china not paying off, mexico paid off, we'll see about canada. we got the e.u. cooking also. that may be a big positive surprise. you look around, all of a sudden, screaming at president trump, his tactics and his aggressiveness and his plain speaking, looks like it's paying out to me. >> laura: yeah, the stock market, another near record high today, up 259 points. >> this was a growth deal! >> laura: there it is. are you using growth as an adjective? is that something that came with the hard to show you had? you have more hard for the economy. >> it's a kudlow word. i got it into the op-ed in t

it's bigger than that and that's what jared kushner represented. in the days ahead you will see a mix of traditional and deeply personal. when the senate opens, the senator's desk will have a black drape and white roses on it. senator ryan will give personal remarks about senator mccain. and as we have been reporting about the funeral arrangements, a who's who. joe biden, democrat, close friend to john mccain. will speak at his arizona service. paul ryan, mcconnell, others were speak obviously the service here in d.c. at the national cathedral, president obama, former president bush. two senators will give remark as well. and his final resting place at the national naval academy. and he will be buried next to his best friend, form her classmate and in the institution that he revered and hold so dearly in his hear, the u.s. naval academy. >> phil mattingly we will look for all of that when the senator opens in less than an hour now. the nation will spend a week paying tribute to senator john mccain, a survivor of torture. he couldn't raise his arms

great, robert lighthizer, jared kushner, i mean you can do it. if you want to do it, you can do it. don't know. i they are canada, we are the usa. we all make decisions protecting our countries and our workforces. it's not pressure. it's just saying hey, look at this. [inaudible] what you want, legalese? do you play the process out, do you make the deal on principle? that's holding. and then you send it up to the hill. what is the process, three months? deals with itess and there will be amendments from the other countries. you have to have some patience. but this is real, believe me. night we had a lovely talk about that. this is real, don't think this a somehowng that thi going to go away. it's not. heorter: the president said is unhappy this morning about google and what comes up in google searches. does the president believe the should be some form of regulation for google? mr. kudlow: we are taking a look at it. we will let you know. reporter: the idea that this originated in a story about the russian media? mr. kudlow: that's above my pay grade. reporter: gdp projections for t

lighthizer and jared kushner, and of course president trump has said this all along. bilateral negotiations yield better and faster results, and i think that's why he's going to stay on that path with respect to canada. but right now we're mexican tra very few people thought we could get and we got it about. >> it's easier if you do it blats rally, to get some kind of framework agreement in principal that may or may not become a trilateral agreement the way you propose it, we're operating on an artificial schedule i just wonder if we're going to play this out a few steps down the line, whether in fact this is the makings of some kind of a final deal or not. >> there's no leverage here, we've illustrated the bilateral approach to negotiating can happen you have different issues with canada than with mexico. the wages are not so germane to can dark i don't want to walk-through all the paragraphs, but we've had trouble with milk and dairy products and some of that dairy stuff is 290% tariffs i don't know about the leverage. all i'm saying is we have shown that good trade

you have to -- 52 separate inquiries would then be able to be looked at from jared kushner to security clearances to, of course, collusion and far beyond that, including even what happened in puerto rico. all these things could be taken up if they actually reclaim the house. the swirling legal storm is not simply about the president's personal relationships with robert mueller. it also includes at least 51 other things that he would have to prepare for. >> interesting. max, president trump tweeting out that the white house counsel mcgahn is out after the confirmation. he was reportedly blind side i by the tweet. >> what he said to the mueller. >> no, never. >> i knew he was going also. i had to approve it. we didn't claim executive. no, i don't have to be aware. we have -- we do everything straight. we do everything by the book. don is an excellent guy. >> we do everything straight. we do everything by the book. i mean, i don't know what book that is. the book that only trump has read, i think. >> do you think this has to do with mcgahn speaking with the special counsel for some 30 hou

and you were jared kushner. >> jimmy: yeah. >> god, i'd love that jared kushner. >> jimmy: no, no. so -- but look -- >> the definitive kushner -- >> jimmy: yeah, no. >> of this or any generation. >> jimmy: that's you. that's kate mckinnon. [ laughter ] >> yeah. >> jimmy: that's you. i mean did you realize that you could do rudy giuliani? >> well, so, you know, lorne is always poo-pooing impression ideas. 'cause he says, "we don't look enough like the person. >> jimmy: yeah. >> and this was his idea. and i was like -- >> jimmy: you think i look like rudy? >> -- "what are you saying to me, daddy?" [ laughter ] >> jimmy: yeah. >> but then, you know, it was like -- it was -- he -- it was an idea on a thursday. and we had to do it on a a saturday. and i -- >> jimmy: did you have a a rudy giuliani? >> i didn't have that rudy giuliani. >> jimmy: you did not. nothing at all. >> i didn't have that at the dress rehearsal. >> jimmy: you did good at the dress rehearsal. i was like, "wait, i didn't know if she's going to get this or what." >> and then, it was such a big sketch. there was so man

ej, i want to two to the jared kushner of it all. maybe he said he was a crook before 2016, removed from the campaign, so what's the big deal? and then you have the evidence that's come up here that i'll read to you where manafort was explicitly trying to push one of his bankers into secretary of the army, an important position, after receiving the beginning of a $16 million loan and pushed it on jared kushner who said okay i'm not it. the prosecutors are not alleging that jared kushner knew this was a payoff in manafort's mind, although that is the implication, which means even if you didn't catch it that's really bad as a way to staff the army. no? >> i think that part of the case is another episode of how the administration is kind of grifter city. here you have manafort trying to get a loan when he doesn't really have the financial situation that justifies it. so he goes to the chairman of the bank, creates this relationship, and then clearly tries to help him get a job in the administration. writes a memo saying he'll advance dt

email, jared kushner wrote on it, jim? >> interesting. the president's campaign chairman gets a big loan, promises the banker a job, forwards that to the administration, the president son-in-law says he's looking at it. thanks very much. i want to bring in jeffrey toobin. so, jeffrey, first on the strategy, the decision by the defense team to wrap it up without calling a defense witness. is that a sign of weakness of their case or confidence? >> well, it is very common for defendants to try their cases through the cross-examination of government witnesses and not call witnesses themselves. it is even more common for defendants to be convicted because they really don't have an answer and the issue here is not so much that they didn't call witnesses, the issue here, as far as i can tell, is manafort doesn't have a defense. the evidence here is that he cheated on his taxes. the evidence here is that he misled and lied to these banks. obviously, they are going to point out that -- they're going to say that rick gates is a terr

in addition to jared kushner, who is now in the white house. we're talking about jared kushner, paul manafort, donald trump jr. these are key individuals involved in the trump campaign. this was not some isolated gathering or interaction with someone who was a low-level person involved in trying to communicate with a foreign government, which is not legal. which, unlike what the president has tweeted. this is a very significant meeting. what all came out of it is still not yet clear. it's very possible that more was discussed than what has been admitted by the campaign, and we can trust that mueller is still looking into that. >> caitlyn, last question to you here. the president beginning this tweet by saying, i am not concerned about the meeting with my wonderful son. you look at that "washington post" piece, all about the concern that he has here. just ask you, in light of this tweet, how concerned should he be about his son in light of what was revealed in this tweet today? >> i think by virtue of him tweeting about it this sunday morning --

. >> you talk about jared kushner and the president. does this spat put that into trouble? >> no. we are not spending with anybody. i have been with them for 24 years and we have disagreed with every president since i have been with the company, from tonton to george w. bush obama to trump p we disagree on some issues and disagree and others. we go back with the fragments -- kurt ack douglass quote lot more to agree on particularly with this administration that would -- then that we do not agree on. opportunity. great it will be such a great game changer for the community if we could get criminal justice reform passed. it will really rev up the economy even more. 6 million jobs every year, skilled labor. what we have seen in states like michigan, where they have a vocational village, people come out of prison trained to take the jobs and don't go back to prison. .t is all about that want to see more jobs and more opportunity and more public safety, which is what will happen if we get the bill passed. that is what we are excited about. >> we have seen the republican national commit

kushner, the president tweets they had nothing to do with the counsel's departure. there's a lot to discuss thursday morning achlt thee that jones is at the white house. athena, the president hinting he knows who will replace mcgahn. >> erica, that's right. the president tweeting he's excited about the person but not naming them. he said i'm very excited about the person who will be taking the place of white house counsel don mcgahn. i liked don but he was not responsible for me not firing bob muellerover jeff sessions. that is a reference to the fact that the president wanted mcgun to convince jeff sessions not to recuse himself in the russia investigation last year. sessions did end up recusing himself and that did make the president happy. we reported the president wanted to fire special counsel robert mueller but mcgaun threatened e to resign. no official announcement has been made on who the replacement will be, erica. >> waiting for official record. meantime, this walk reporting that i was referencing talks about the president and essentially says he doesn't h

and also the accompaniment and support we accept through jared kushner. and i also extend this recognition to the mexican teams . they are listening to you, they are close to you right now. the foreign minister and the secretary of the economy. [speaking in spanish] translator: and this supports the negotiations, it's been difficult and a very hard negotiation altogether with difficult moments of course. that truly technology now we have been able to reach an agreement which we are about to make public and this is the result of good understanding and good work. i'm quite hopeful that now canada will start accepting with the united states this sensitive bilateral issue. congratulations. grateful and i'm attentive to your comments. president trump: mr. president, thank you very much. you have been my friend has been a long time since i travel to mexico where we got to know each other quite well and we actually had a good meeting, some people weren't sure if it was a good meeting, but i was worried i have a lot of good meetings that a lot of people weren't s

. >> did the protection extend to donald trump's children and jared kushner, people in donald trump's family? >> yes, lawrence. the entire trump-kushner clan have been protected, you know, for years by david pecker at american media. >> and in what ways? i mean, when did jared kushner or the kushners become of interest to the "national enquirer" so that there would be something to protect? >> well, i mean, donald trump has always been a high profile businessman and has, you know, been presidential timber for many years. so by virtue of that, he and his family, besides their individual accomplishments are also under the scrutiny of the american public. >> stthere is a report indicati that the safe was emptied after donald trump won the presidential election. what is your best guess about what happened to the contents of that safe? >> the only person that really knows that would probably be david pecker. but i find interest anything this day of technology that they're putting stuff on paper in a safe when there is no need to do that anymore. it is just asking for trouble. so i just foun

this is why the trump tower meeting with don junior and jared kushner is so important. this is why whether or not donald trump knew of and then said yes, go ahead and have that meeting. you yourself sam said in the spring that you believed that don junior would have had that conversation with donald trump based on the way they usually work together. >> yes. >> about whether or not that meeting would happen. all of that goes to a conspiracy to defraud the united states by working with the foreign power. >> and those 19 russian who is were indicted. mueller says they activelily conspired not just in some vague way to divert democracy, but to put donald trump in the white house. >> again, it become as legitimacy question. no matter how you look at it. >> which is why midterms are impeachment referendum. >> we're out of time. thank you all for bringing that back. >>> in our next hour, trump unhinged. omarosa will be here to talk about it. so are some of her fellow apprentice cast members. you do not want to miss it. ♪ ♪ [ screams ] ♪ [ laughs ] ♪ whoa, whoa, whoa. y

those might include more tapes with jared kushner and ivanka trump. we won't know unless they are released. this is to trump up her book. trace gallagher is live with the back story. hi, trace. >> the first part of omarosa manigault newman's book tour was riddled with credibility problems. done in by her own words. now says he heard donald trump on tape using a racial slur but in the book she said she heard somebody else told her. was she fired. the president seemed to be surprised omarosa was leaving the white house. >> omarosa, what is going on? i just saw on the news you are thinking about leaving. what happened? >> general kelly said you wanted me to leave >> nobody told me about it. >> omarosa claims it was president trump who delegated her firing. listen to the tape manigault newman released of the white house chief of staff john kelly letting her good following what she told good morning america after she left the white house last year. >> if we make this a friendly departure, you can look at your time here in the white house as a year of servi

jared kushner, his father wents to prison so he understands this. he's built up a coalition of voices to get something done. it's called the first step act. it's not as big as what the obamas were trying to get done but you have someone in the kwhous. >> it passed the house. it's being debated. the issue with first step act, it has those on the left, and others opposing it. they say it didn't go far enough. it didn't address mandatory minim minimum. >> announcer: -- minimum sentences. >> a are you hopeful? >> i am hopeful. they came together to try to get something done in the house. they say you have to get a camel through a key hole. you have to get everything possible until this bill or you'll never get it done. they were smart saying let's get something done. even if it's modest to break this log jam. to break this idea we can't work together on anything. even people whom are poor and addicted. we can't even help them because we're so mad at each other. once that log jam was broken. people in the senate are saying we should do this and do a bit

kushner. i think that trump is concerned about the source of -- and that concern is part of the reason that the president has had these agitated aggressive acts against robert mueller recently. part of that tweet that you mentioned dismissed these reports, but he essentially made clear that the nature of that meeting in trump tower was not what the administration initially signaled back when we heard from donald trump junior suggesting that it was about adoptions. look, we have heard president donald trump going from saying that to the best of his knowledge, no one on his campaign, no one he knew had anything to do with russia, to today hearing from him and his legal team, suggesting that that meeting was not illegal, not improper and that loose is not a crime. here's more from jay sekulow, one of the president's attorneys. >> he said totally legal done in politics all the time. but the information that robert mueller has said that this was a meeting to get information about hillary clinton's

and his son in law, jared kaougsn jar jared kushner. this all comes to a head as we're seeing much more expressive attacks from the president against the special counsel on twitter. swrus this week he demanded sessions end the russia investigation despite sessions recused himmism is from that. he's seen the coverage of the special counsel investigation, he's become more agitated sw that's led to these attacks. sources close to my michael cohen said the president not only knew of the meeting but approved it. the white house has not returned our request for comment on this story. they actually referred us to the white house legal team. they have declined to comment. >> keep us posted on those comments he's making tonight at the rally. in the mean it is time cnn political contributor sw former mayor of philadelphia paul, i'm reminded of the column you wrote last week about don jr. possibly being in trouble sw how he could prove to be president trump's achilles heel. >> whereby said he was the achilles heel in this case because if don jr. t

kushner. it seems like representing the president in addition would be something of a conflict of interest. the president will have to find and reach out and attract a high caliber of talent willing to serve in this white house. that's a challenge. >> take us inside the white house. all of this is happening, the president is saying this is the media going after me. the white house is being run like a smoothly run machine. all three of us know from our contacts inside the white house -- >> that's not true. >> oddly enough dent waon't wan return my call because they don't want to talk about this tweet. are your contacts responding to this with a straight face? the only smooth running machine is tesla right now. you like that, right? >> reporter: good one. people in the know say that top flight, white shoe attorneys are not beating down the door of this white house, flooding the west wing with resumes trying to represent the white house or the president for the reasons that joyce vance points out

the answer is a, jared kushner. when he started dating ivanka, he thought he seemed a little sweet. everybody knows that's a dumb thing insecure guys say when another guy's dating a girl he has a crush on. it's common. [ applause ] there's some fun stuff about the vice president, mike pence. omarosa claims that mike pence frequently defends the president's actions by saying god tells me to support the president. so he does. maybe god tells mike pence, maybe he doses. maybe he doesn't know how the intercome on his desk work. god tells me to bring him a diet coke. scaramucci stuck around the white house ten days until trump told him to go. and then when he did, he went into a small office and started to cry a girly cry. and then he used his tears to slick back his beautiful hair. what a terrific place to work, you know? [ applause ] and this might be the most salacious detail of all. omarosa implies that the president had an affair with his spiritual adviser, a tv pastor named paula white who recently told her followers to send her a month of their salary or face divine consequences.

and jared kushner had the russians come by. also tonight multiple sources tell us robert mueller has referred another group of investigations to federal prosecutors up here in new york, the southern district of new york. those sources say that former lobbyist tony podesta, former minnesota republican congressman vin weber, and former white house council greg craig are all under federal investigation. the sources also say the inquiry into tony podesta, whose brother john ran the clinton campaign of course stem from mueller's investigation into the case of paul manafort. as the special counsel and his team continue their inquiries, the president is now embracing a new line of defense. as we covered here last night, and as floated out yesterday by rudy giuliani. this morning, trump wrote on twitter, quote, collusion is not a crime, but that doesn't matter because there was no collusion except by crooked hillary and the democrats. let us bring in our lead-off panel for a tuesday night. josh gerstein was inside the courtroom today f

audience, it is the equivalent of having jared kushner pushing out jay powell and having the president running the federal reserve. that is where we are at in turkey. true.t is a lot of concerns we have, we had marc chandler say there is no interest rate at which the lyric could be stabilized. when i hear that, this is mismanagement. a couple of weeks ago, all we needed was for the central bank to act like a central bank should. this could move toward a general betterment of the situation. now we're talking, we need a fiscal package, imf involvement. jonathan: i spoke with jane said we need 500 to 1000 basis points of hikes just to stabilize the situation. does a rate hike get it done? rate hike of any size does not get it done. it comes down to the credibility and policy makers saying the right thing, backing down. turkey is too big in terms of its political connections to not back down. way,e looking at, either no matter what, a hard landing for the country. that means you got financial risk within the banks and tourism and trade go out the door. that is not sustainable. i do think t

audience, this is the equivalent of having jared kushner as a financial investor. that's where were at in turkey. >> i think that's pre-much true. --hink a lot of the concerns there is no interest where it can be stabilized. managementally because all we needed was for turkey central-bank to act like a central-bank wood. ine toward a general betterment of the situation. now we are talking we need a fiscal package. look at what is going on. kathy and i spoke to jay foley. -- just to stabilize the situation. just to address it. get it done. >> any size does not get it done. it comes down to the credibility and policymakers saying the right thing, essentially backing down. ofkey is too big in terms its political connections. to not back down. , nore looking at either way matter what, a hard landing for the country. that means you got financial risks within the banks. tourism and trade just goes out the door. that is not sustainable. i do think the white which is going to turn at some point. >> when a currency crisis becomes a financial one, when it becomes a systemic

rani fiasco, and rob porter regarding security clearance and jared kushner. in various ways this is not a professional white house. kellyanne conway said this is kip o typical of anyplace of work. this is not anyplace of work. to have people sign ndas is perverse because they're supposed to be answerable to agencies, they're protected by whistle-blower protections. there are various ways in which we try to make sure if they have something important to tell people who work in the public realm can tell it. so an nda runs totally counter to that and runs counter to the spirit of government. >> omarosa says she has more recordings. are they compelling and can she legally use them? we'll discuss that when we come back. alright guys let's go! let's do this directions to the greek theater (beep) ♪can i get a connection? ♪can i get can i get a connection?♪ ♪can i get a connection? introducing e*trade personalized investments professionally managed portfolios customized to help meet your financial goals. you'll know what you're invested in and how it's perform

and what's true about this is that when you look at an administration where omarosa or jared kushner or ivanka trump have security clearances and john brennan does not, then you know something is askew and amiss. he has an enemy's list and he is clearly targeting the enemy's list. have no doubt. if donald trump could send out secret police to handcuff and arrest john brennan, perhaps me, perhaps many others who speak out against this president, have no doubt he would likely do it. it is the abuse of power, but also the power that he has that he's unable to abuse but would if he could that we ought to be having a discussion about in this country. >> malcolm nance, what did the nation's intelligence service lose with this decision in terms of its ability to confer with a former cia director over matters that the cia director might have unique knowledge? >> well, it loses a body of knowledge. it loses corporate knowledge. i want to point something out about john brennan. i know john brennan. i have met him several times. john brennan is the man that killed osama bin laden at the order o

discussion of classified information at mar-a-lago, jared kushner's ethics law compliance. the travel ban family separation policy, hurricane response in puerto rico, election security and hacking attempts and white house security clearances. republicans may hope that the list will scare the trump base to the polls to protect donald trump from any of those investigations, but as democratic congressman tweeted today, house gop went so far to make a list of objectionable conduct by donald trump. so if they know, why won't they investigate this stuff? joining us now congressman eric swallwell. that was one of your angrier tweets about this, but it is kind of extraordinary to watch the republicans basically draw up the preliminary outlines of an overall indictment of the ethics of the trump administration, the trump family and then say the danger to the country is that this will be investigated if democrats are elected. >> good evening, lawrence. you almost went into brian william's hour there going through that list. but what was so concerning for me was that they know. it is

jared kushner couldn't get a top-secret clearance because of his foreign contacts. there was cause for that. so this is a principle that the intelligence community is going to fight for. because look, what if the president decided to pull robert mueller's clearances? that whole case, a lot of it is based on classified information, top secret. in principle, hebl could, but there would go the investigation. once you go down this road, bureaucrats, national security people are going to be afraid to talk. we've been talking about bruce ohr. he's done nothing wrong, and the president is threatening to pull his security clearances for no reason at all, other than guilt by association. >> that's when it becomes problematic or that's when the idea of overreach comes to the surface because if it's someone who's involved in the current investigation, or as the president put it, even brennan he accuses in part being responsible for this russia investigation. that's where it becomes problematic for the president to then take away someone's clearance for that reason. >> i think

as canada's foreign minister is headed to the white house to meet with jared kushner's book wins that we will continue to work towards a modernized nafta. will only sign a new nafta that is good for canada and good for the middle class. president trump insisted labor production has made is a good deal for american workers. but not everyone is convinced. and a statement ohio democratic congressman marcy kept her said, the details in the fine print matter more than a hasty self-proclaimed victory. to someone who was bought with all i had to prevent nafta's passage in the trauma it's brought to american workers, i know the devil is in the detail details. >> brett: president trump spoke with justin trudeau earlier today, the president is really putting the squeeze on china saying that if united states can't reach a deal with canada, it is prepared to slap significant tariffs on canadian made automobiles. john thank you. a big day on wall street, the dow surged almost 260 on word of this trade deal. the nasdaq finished ahead at 72, those two are record highs. joni is not to talk more about

kushner and russians. president trump tweeting fake news, reporting a complete fabrication that i'm concerned about the meeting my wonderful son donald junior had in trump tower. he initially said it was about russian adoptions and later telling fox news -- >> it was such a nothing, there was nothing to tell. >> reporter: but the president now changing coarse with the purpose of the meeting with the russians saying it was to get dirt on hillary clinton. writing this was a meeting to get information on an opponent. totally legal and done all the time in politics, and it went nowhere. i did not know about it. and sors tell abc news his personal attorney, michael cohen, says the president did know about the meeting before it happened. his current attorney saying there's nothing illegal about it. >> the real question here is would a meeting of that nature constitute a violation. >> reporter: and the president's attorneys say they are prepared to battle if robert mueller subpoenas president trump saying they wi

kushner and the white house proposal for a israeli-palestinian peace process. >> very controversial issue. how is this being viewed in the american media? >> new york times has a scathing editorial and call the saudi moves backward desperate and say it is unnecessarily aggressive and intended to intimidate critics into silence. say, hardly whimper of protest from the donald trump administration. >> a deadly couple of days in chicago. over 70 people shot. worthy of a war zone the newspaper say. >> the summer season is killing season is what the "chicago tribune" calling the latest fat where scores of -- where scores were shot this weekend and they say the warmer weather brings people outside, including gang members that the real culprit is the proliferation of guns and lack of investment in poor neighborhoods. they say until that is fixed, violence goes on and on from killing season to killing season. >> more serious news on climate change, scientists say we may be as a planet reach a tipping point where all human efforts to curb emissions will not work. >> scientists have been looki

the united states is equivalent of having jared kushner as the finance minister -- minister. it is the equivalent of pushing a jay powell and having the president running the federal reserve. that is where we are at in turkey. >> i think that is pretty much true. a lot of the concerns, we have had chandler say there is no way interest rate at which the lira could be stabilized. like that ithings think this is totally management because a couple of weeks ago, all we needed was for turkey's central bank to act like we thought the central bank would. this could start to move toward a general betterment of the situation. now, we are talking we need a fiscal package. we need ims involvement. look at what is going on with turkish bank bonding. >> i spoke to jane foley. we will be 500 to 1000 basis points of hikes just to stabilize the situation. just to address it. does it have any side to get it done? and interest rate hike of any size does not get it done. it really comes down to the credibility and policymakers saying the right thing, essentially backing down. in terms ofo big i

if you stake everyone in that meeting at trump tower -- >> it's jared kushner, paul manafort, donald trump, jr. and a bunch of russians with ties to the kremlin. >> that's right. >> what did they think they were doing? >> it's not just the e-mails that we see jared kushner responding to, but you have to take that into context of what happened before. in april, george papadopoulos had been told that the russians had obtained hillary clinton's e-mails. dan scavino, a close aide to president trump, had tweeted about the russians having obtained hillary clinton's e-mails. we haven't seen this confirmed yet, but i guarantee they went into that meeting thinking they were going to get hacked, stolen e-mails from the russians. >> and we talked to a person close to the trump legal defense effort u who said that every person who told a lie about that meeting, told lies to other people repeatedly, and the idea that every single one of them had the sensibility to walk in and tell the truth the first time to robert mueller is a fantasy, that every one of the people who probably known't the meetin