"the washington post." and "the new york times" report attorneys and aides are scouring the backgrounds of mueller and his staff searching for conflicts of interest they can use to undercut the russia probe. sources cite several people familiar where the effort. >> the president has asked about his power to pardon aides, family members, even himself. one adviser told "the post" the president was simply curious agent the reach of his powers. this following earlier attacks on mueller and other officials connected to the investigation. >> with thaul in mind, the president is reshuffling the legal team. the president's long time personal attorney mark castle wits will see his role diminish. washington attorney, john dowd, and another trump lawyer, jay sekulow will take the lead. >> sources say by working outside the white house, dowd and sekulow's relationship will be protected by the same attorney-client relationship of all u.s. citizens. cobb will replace strategist mark kuralo who resigned on thursday. >>> g

trump last we can to summit in washington. clearly north korea didn't think much of that because it's now carried out this potential icbm. christine? >> paula hancocks, watching full of this from seoul. thank you. >>> the latest provocation from north korea coming just ahead of president trump's second overseas trip. he departs for europe tomorrow for the g-20 summit where the president's meeting with vladimir putin might no longer be the main attraction. nic robertson live from abu dhabi. good morning. meetings between the president and several asian leaders now very much under the microscope. how has the dynamic changed for the g-20? >> reporter: i think president trump's tweet last night says it all. perhaps china will put a heavy move on north korea to end this nonsense once and for all. his expectation is now that china is going to have to play a lead role. the g-20 will be a place where he can hope to achieve that. let's not forget that he has existing tensions that have just ratcheted up in the past few days with china

ripe all eyes in washington -- >> reporter: all eyes on washington from here at the white house to capitol hill are focusing on the critical vote in the senate on health care. the senate is scheduled to vote this afternoon on proceeding to debate on the actual bill. it's a two-step process. yesterday here at the white house, we saw president trump engaged in this issue, engaged in this matter, more so than ever before using the power of the presidency, that unique megaphone to make the case for why republicans, he says, should vote for this bill. >> for the last seven years, republicans have been united in standing up for obamacare's victims. remember repeal and replace? repeal and replace. they kept saying it over and over again. every republican running for office promised immediate relief from this disastrous law. we as a party must fulfill the solemn promise to the voters. >> reporter: president trump engaged and vice president engaged, as well. we received late word monday that senator john mccain will be flying back to washington, will be on hand today in the united states senate to

"the washington post." and "the new york times" report that attorneys and aides are scouring the backgrounds of robert mueller looking for ways to undercut the probe. >> "the washington post" reporting the president has asked about his pow or the pardon aides, family members, even himself. one adviser told the post the president wassimply curious agent the reach of his powers. jeff zeleny has more from the white house. >> reporter: christine and miguel, president trump and the white house increasingly focused on the special counsel's investigation. the independent investigation into the russian meddling of the 2016 election. there are indications the election is spreading. president trump made that indication in his interview with "the new york times "earlier this week when he talked about robert mueller. and that he could being look into the trump family's finances. the president said he thought that would be outside of the purdview of that. this is increasingly dominated much of the conversation here at t

president trump expected to leave here from washington today for his second foreign trip. this is a crucial one. he'll first head to poland before heading to germany for the g-20 summit and there will be a number of big issues on the table. north korea of course a big one after the country firing another test missile this week, but also the meeting with vladimir putin and this meeting taking on a much greater focus because both sides have announced that this will be a formal bilateral meeting. that will provide much more public focus to this meeting and it also could be an indication that both sides are open to better diplomatic ties. there will be a number of topics on the table even though the agenda hasn't officially been set. u.s. officials are expected to bring up the conflicts in syria and ukraine, but the president is not expected to talk to putin about russia's alleged attempt to meddle in the u.s. election. one thing that both leaders will likely talk about though is north korea and president putin at a press con for instance with president xi of china on tuesday

has retained a new york lawyer to represent him in these matters in washington. it is also jared kushner, as well as paul manafort. what this does is sort of adds more fuel to the fire, adds more questions here on what exactly were the relationships, was there any collusion at all between the trump campaign officials and the russian lawyer, operatives here. this is all going to come to a head later. the senate intelligence committee will be interviewing trump campaign officials. christine and dave? >> jeff zeleny, thank you. >>> more questions about the players involved in setting up the meeting between donald trump jr. and the russian lawyer. the latest additions to a growing cast of characters, music publicist rob goldstone and his client, emin agalarov, a pop star. matthew chance is trying to help us sort this out. a pop star who i have not heard of but who is popular in the former soviet republics. walk us through the web. >> reporter: i can't believe you haven't heard of him. he's massive in the former soviet union. his name's emin. he sold more than a milli

and second, the final estimate from the "washington post" poll was 43% for trump, 47% for clinton who posted 48.5% on election night. that is well within the poll's margin of error. >>> secret service rejecting a claim by president trump's lawyer that the agency would have pre-presevented anything happening at that last meeting between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. here is jay sekulow claiming nothing happened at the meeting that included several russians and top members of the trump campaign. >> i wonder why the secret service if this was nefarious, why did the secret service let these people in? donald trump jr. himself said things should have been done differently. have rg said that, that is not violation of the law, it is more process. >> problem being this, well, through the president had secret service protection, the president did, but after that interview, the secret service said it had no responsibility to check out participants in the meeting because don jr. was not under its protection at the time. >> the president's personal attorney's lawyer -- or comment, rather

pamela brown is in washington with more on how he fits into the puzzle. >> reporter: well, good morning to you. we have learned the mystery eighth person in the trump tower meeting was born in the soviet union, studied in moscow and goes all the way back to 1989 with the russian oligarch and business associates an employee of his company. he appeared in a video obtained by cnn standing in the background right next to donald trump in las vegas back in 2013 and then of course three years later, he would come back in to the spotlight as an attendee at the meeting at trump tower withton jr., paul manafort, jared kushner and will be goldstone, a music publicist who had promised incriminating information on hillary clinton before the meeting in that e-mail exchange. his attorney says that his client attended as a representative of the aguilar are a family but knew nothing about it before lahanbeforehand about it beforehand. the attorney says special counsel investigators have already reached out seeking information and his client is cooperating. back to you. >> the white house also making it

oblivious to the turmoil in washington. the nasdaq hitting a record high. the dow and s&p 500, they're down slightly. you know, they're still close to record highs. i'll tell you why in a few minutes. first, to housing. a fascinating number in the housing market. existing home sales fell in june as prices hit record highs. sales of previously owned homes basically have been flat since march. the problem here -- simple supply and demand. demand is surging due to a strong economy, improving job market, new millennial home buyers. but there isn't supply. inventory hasn't caught up. sending the median sales price up 6.5%, 263,800, a record high. many homeowners are staying put as prices rise. first-time home buyers are not finding affordably priced homes. more people are renting. a study finds the more u.s. households are renting now than at any point since 1965. hello, american dream of home homeownership. a majority cite financial reasons. isn't that really interesting? >> yeah. you hear about markets, denver where i'm from, people have to pay cash. >> yeah.

we've t covered in hamburg, washington, moscow, and -- we have it covered in hamburg, washington, moscow, and seoul. >> the two have met. the bilateral meeting is on. they have now met. >> shaken hands. >> this is underway. >>> welcome back to "early start," i'm christine romans. >> i'm miguel marquez. 30 minutes past the hour, 11:30 in the morning in hamburg, germany. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is one of the most eagerly anticipated meetings of leaders in decades. this morning, president trump sits down with russian president vladimir putin as the g20 summit gets underway in germany. we're told the pair have already greeted each other in the g20 according to russian media. the bilateral meeting comes later today after president trump said russia should stop destabilizing activities, but minutes later refused to conclude that russia meddled in the u.s. election. >> new cnn reporting says russia has stepped up spying efforts in the u.s. more in a moment. for the latest, white house correspondent sara murray is live in hamburg. president trump meets face to

. >>> our cnn politics reporter in washington and analyst and historian at professor at princeton. good morning to both of you. after basically being behind closed doors for four days, his second now european trip in a week, and the president will face reporters. the president will face reporters in just a few hours. he did speak with reuters late yesterday where he did not condemn that meeting with his son, don jr., and someone purporting to be -- who he thought was an agent of the russian government, an attorney for the russians. this is what he says -- "i think many people would have held that meeting. you have to understand when that took place, this was before russia fever. there was no russia fever back then. that was at the beginning of the campaign more or less. there was no russia fever." the president casting it in terms of the timing of when this was. he goes on that uc about sort of the coordination here -- goes on to talk about the sort of coordination here. dumbest thing i've ever heard. there was no coordination. this was a hoax. this was made up by the democrats. th

we have it covered from hamburg, washington, moscow, and seoul. good morning, and welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm miguel marquez. it is friday, july 7th, 4:00 a.m. here on the east coast. it's one of the most eagerly anticipated meetings of world leaders in decades. this morning president trump sits down with russian president vladimir putin as the g20 summit gets underway in germany. their bilateral meeting comes just a day after president trump said russia should stop its destabilizing activities. minutes later refused to conclude that russia meddled in the u.s. election. >> new cnn reporting this morning says russia has even stepped up its spying efforts in the u.s. more in a moment. >>> for the latest, let's turn to the white house correspondent covering this for us, sara murray, live in hamburg. president trump meets putin face to face in just a few hours. it will be fascinating to see the optics of this meeting. >> reporter: yes, it is a very highly anticipated and will be closely scrutinized. this is expected to be a

called washington. so it will be virtually impossible to get rid of every leak. but i think we can take dramatic steps to get rid of leaks. one of the big problems here that i'm discovering in the comstein is that senior people are doing the leaking, and they're asking junior people to do the leaking. i'm proud to be reporting to the president to seal off the coms team from this sort of nonsense. >> that drew this response from the department of justice. "we have seen an astonishing number of leaks in the classified national security information in the recent months. we agree with anthony that the staggering number of leaks are undermining the ability of our government to function and to protect this country." >> after all this went down, scaramucci deleted the initial tweet and sent this one -- "wrong! tweet was public notice to leakers that all senior administration officials are helping to end the legal leaks." again, he tagged priebus. we reached out and found that scaramucci does want reince priebu

that is the consensus in washington. and the president taking a different tax than his son who -- tack than his son who said in hindsight he wouldn't have done it. >> reporter: the fact that donald trump jr. is the one irc -- one who's implicated in the mess, has made the russia investigation difficult for the white house. they're not able to distance themselves from the president's son the way they have with paul manafort, mike flynn, with the satellite associates like carter page, with others who have been found to have engaged with questionable behavior and sketchy contacts with russian officials. donald trump jr. is too close to the circle. he's the president's own flesh and blood. they can't just throw him under the bus. they can't fire him. they have to stick by him. i think the president did the only thing he could do in that situation which is defend his son, defend his motives for accepting the meeting, and explain it as a product of his son's naivete when it comes to the campaign. that's the most innocent expla

and senior congressional correspondent for "the washington examiner." let's talk health policy first. this was a shell meant to keep the process moving. as you heard phil mattingly say, at some point, tough decisions have to be made about how to have better health care in this country. and there is not agreement. there still is not agreement. >> reporter: that's right. and in the end, that really led to part of the downfall. what does a replacement plan look like? ultimately every alternative they came up with appeared to increase premiums, increase the number of people who would be uninsured. and when people see those numbers, they may not like obamacare, but they don't like what they're seeing to replace it even more. political at the's difficult to get past that -- politically, it's difficult to get past that. >> the president tweeting early this morning, let obamacare implode. the question is, will it? >> if they were to do nothing, the exchanges where people buy private insurance that people who don't get insurance through the government or through

kimberly leonard from the "washington examiner." thank you very much, we'll check in with you at 5:00. christine, that's the question as we get throughout the day -- what are the politics of this? what does it mean for the house in 2018? what does it mean for the trump agenda moving forward? >> gosh. >> so many questions. >> if you have obamacare insurance now, what does it mean for you in october when open enrollment begins? i think if i were on -- an obamacare customer, i'd be concerned. >> one word, uncertainty, facing our health care system in the united states. >>> ahead, the attorney general speaking out. what does he have to say about the president's week of cyber taunts directly at his a.g.? it's a good thing we brought the tablets huh? yeah, and i can watch the game with directv now. oh, sorry, most broadcast and sports channels aren't included. and you can only stream on two devices at once. this is fun, we're having fun. yeah, we are. no, you're not jimmy. don't let directv now limit your entertainment. xfinity gives you

we get more from jessica in washington. >> reporter: the president is repeatedly unleashing on his attorney general but he refuses to say if he plans to fire him. he was quote, disappointed in jeff sessions and reiterated that if he knew sessions was going to recuse himself from the russian investigation he would have never hired him. last week, he vented his frustrations about sessions to the new york times and he's repeatedly taken to twitter calling sessions beleaguered and asked why he isn't investigating hillary clinton. sessions did indicate last week he has no plans to resign and over the past 24 hours numerous lawmakers have stated their support for the former senator, but the question does remain, will the president remove sessions from his post even though he was the first senator to endorse donald trump? we'll see. stay tuned. >>> the president's relentless attacks on jeff sessions are being viewed as a form of cyber bullying and it's renewing critics view that they're unpresidential. some of them firing back last night. >> political correctness for me is easy. sometimes, they sa

the second is the final estimate from the "washington post" poll was 43% for a trump, 47% for hillary who posted 48.5% on election night, well within the poll's margin of error. >>> also this morning, the secret service rejected a claim by president's lawyer that the agency would have prevented anything questionable from happening that the meeting last june between donald trump jr. and a russian lawyer. secret service says it had no responsibility to check out participants in the meeting because doon junin jr. was not the president was not aware of the meeting and not engaged in it. that got a skeptical response from mark warner. all this came after we learned that yet another person attended that meeting. russia american lobbyist rinat akhmetshin. we've now learned eight people were at the meeting, a significant jump from the four we were told were originally there when don jr. said that is everything. >>> plenty to get to this morning. joining us eugene scott. good morning. let's talk about this sekulow/secret service issue because that was clearly the point of the administration. t

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. >> the issue bubbled up when the "washington post" said the president was weighing whether he could pardon himself, his family, and close aides. >>> the house and senate reaching a deal to hit with new sanctions and gives the congress veto power from easing sanctions. signs point to the white house supporting the deal, but it seems to depend on again which white house spokesperson you ask. >> is president trump going to sign the russian sanctions bill? >> we've got to ask president trump that. it's my second or third day on the job. my guess is is that he's going to make that decision shortly. >> the administration is supportive of being tough on russia, particularly inputting sanctions in -- in putting sanctions in place. we support where the legislation is now and will continue working with the house and senate to put those tough sanctions in place on russia. >> a senior white house official tells cnn congress made changes to the measure the administration supports. that includes new north korea sanctions and provisions addressing business sector concerns. the measure could reach

wall street has been ignoring day-to-day turmoil in washington. now corporate profits are keeping them running. stock market reflects how much money companies are making and companies are rolling in the dough. expectations for this quarter are high. last season, profits grew at the fastest pace in years and analysts predict another solid quarter with s&p 500 corporate profit rising at least 6%. investors are also keeping an eye on fed chair janet yellen. she heads to the hill for her testimony. not only could she offer clues of the future rate hike plans for the feds but her own future. this is her last address before her term ends in february and the president has not said if he will nominate her for a second term. it would be rare not to nominate her for a second term. >>> and some interesting reporting about a successor? >> so politico has some unnamed sources theying that gary kohn, it's his job if he wants it. that's an interesting intrigue. >> would he be welcome? >> usually it is an economist. the markets usually you like the continuity of

we have reporters this morning in washington, virginia and nevada on all of these top stories. our thoughts and prayers are with senator john mccain this morning. you will be hard pressed to find anyone who sacrificed more for their country. >> toughest goi out there. >> welcome to "early start." >> this is thursday, july 20th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. let's begin with the president. president trump lashing out at a trio of top current and former officials with connections to the russia investigations. in an interview with "the new york times" the president says he would have pick ed someone else to be attorney general if he knew jeff sessions would accuse himself on russia-related matters. the president attacking james comey saying he tried to leverage a a das ya of compromising material in order to keep his job. >> robert mueller saying it would be what he called a violation for mueller to start looking into trump family finances. the president said, quote, look, this is about russia. jeff zeleny begins our coverage this morning from the white house. >> there's no question that

the "washington post" says this logic is upside down and backwards. what do you make of the president's position? >> look, this is just not true. meaning the russians have many reasons to be concerned about hitl hillary clinton who is hawkish in positions toward russia. there were a lot of tensions with the obama administration, that's where the sanctions were. they were clamping down on russia as the term came to an end. this wasn't a hoax. this is not coming from partisan leaders, not just coming from the media. it's coming from intelligence officials. he doesn't help his case when he says that. i think what people are waiting to hear is to say the intervention was not something that we can tolerate. nor will we tolerate it again. >> why has he not said that -- >> he feels defensive. he hears this as being an attack on his -- the legitimacy of his presidency. in some ways he hears this as his birther issue. this is how he responds. >> look, i read, you know, russian state media during the french campaign, watching the macron victory, the french camp

that kind of is a metaphor for all of washington. people are thinking about policy. the president tweets, and we're taken aback and are focusing on something completely different. whether that's a sign that trump wants that to happen or if that's just him playing around on his phone and him and dan scoffi evescovino, the director wanting to throw out questions to the white house reporters is the question. no one wants to talk about that. >> the graphic speaks to the hash tag #presidentialpriorities, more than talking about jobs and the military combined. has it hurt the president and his agenda, or no? >> this president was already going to face a huge opposition from all democrats and most independents when he came into office. he is one of the few presidents to take office while losing a majority of the popular vote. he was already up against it. it seems like he's playing into that. in wrestling there's a term for bad guys called heels. they're supposed to be the people who play up the crowd, to make them angry and be the bad guy. it seems like he's almost playing

we have reporters this morning in washington, moscow, virginia and nevada on all our top stories. good morning and welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. that's fair to say we all here at cnn are wishing john mccain and his family the very best. toughest guy out it there. >> several nailed it when they said cancer has never met a more worthy opponent. he's sacrificed everything for his country. ooii'm dave brigs. we start with the president. lashing out at top and former officials all with connections to the russia investigation. in a staggering interview with the "new york times," the president says he would have picked someone else to be attorney general if he knew jeff sessions would recuse himself on russia related matters. the president also attacking former director james comey telling the times he thinks comey tried to leverage a dossier of compromising material to keep his job. >> president trump also took aim at robert mueller saying it would be what he called a violation for mueller to start look iing into trump family finances. the president said this is about

appreciate it. >>> the tech industry spending big in president trump's washington. google, apple, amazon, uber, they're spending record amounts on lobbying this year according to new disclosures. google paid nearly $6 million from april to june. wow. just one quarter, right? amazon, apple spent $3.2 million and $2.2 million respectively. uber spent $430,000 -- relative newcomer there. silicon valley clashes with the trump administration on a lot of things. climate change, net neutrality, immigration, h1b visas. last month, top tech ceos met with the president to discuss the issues. you know, lobbying federal agencies in congress is another way to influence decisions. another issue comes spent big on -- companies spent big on, corporate tax reform. the administration will benefit hugely from trump's plan especially the one-time tax holiday. the industry has hundreds of billions in cash stashed overseas. it's sitting there -- a lot of money -- in bank accounts. the companies don't want to pay to the advertised tax rate to bring it back to the united states. question i

very clear that even as other big priorities are playing out here in washington even as president trump is struggling to move forward with his domestic agenda, the russia cloud looms large over the white house. back to you. >> sara murray there. thank you. the white house offering its perspective on the chat. official acknowledge it lasted almost an hour even though the white house statement calls it, quote, brief. melania trump was seated next to putin at the dinner. the white house says near the dinner's end, trump got up from his seat elsewhere, went over to his wife and began speaking to putin in full view of other world leaders. >> the statement concludes the insinuation that the white house has tried to hide a second meeting is false, malicious and absurd. it is not merely perfectly normal, it is part a president's duties to interact with world leader. president trump has demonstrated american leadership by representing our interests and values on the world stage. >> joining us to discuss this morning, zachary wolf, cnn politics digital director. good morning to you, sir. so there

official reaction from washington and beyond has been mostly one sided against the president. in part because it's been radio silence from most republicans. just before trump posted this tweet, nebraska senator ben sass said on sunday that he's been troubled by the president's recent attacks on the news media. >> there's an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue and complain about that, and trying to weaponize distrust. the first amendment is the beating heart of the american amendment, and you can't separate that in there. >> kate collins is stratravelin with the president. >> reporter: democratic members of congress have wasted no time attacking the president after he tweeted a video of himself tackling a man with a cnn logo imposed on his head. house minority leader snowplows, "violence and violent imagery to bully the press must be rejected. this july 4th, celebrate freedom of the press, guardians to our democracy." congressman frank pallone eco-- echoed her sent want saying, "donald trump with a threa

insurers say they want to work with the administration to fix obamacare, but washington's actions so far have fueled instability. besides threatening cost-sharing subsidies, the white house hasn't committed to enforcing the individual mandate, and that one is getting younger, healthier people to enroll. offsetting the costs for more expensive customers. >> not clear what the path forward is. susan collins said let's go back to committee and try to fix health care exchanges. >> it's unlikely -- >> it's unclear if anyone has the appetite for that either. >>> new trouble for a trio of global adversaries, russia retaliates for sanctions. another missile launch from north korea. and venezuela in chaos after an election being called an affront to democracy. we're live on all three stories coming up. i love you, droolius caesar, but sometimes you stink. febreze car vent clip cleans away odors for up to 30 days. because the things you love can stink. voluminous original mascara from l'oreal. in black and now in blue l'oreal's creamy formula builds 5 times the volume the soft-bristle brush se

after months of clashing, washington's top ethics watch dog is resigning. spending his last few days on the job telling krccnn he stills concerns starting with the president's frequent trips to his own properties. >> you see the president essentially giving his own properties free advertisements by traveling there at our expense. you see almost holding financial interests that leaves us unable to know whether decisions are motivated by policy aims or by personal financial interests. and we've seen sort of the level of carelessness about ethics on the part of senior appointees. i don't know that i'd go so far as to say in most cases they are intentionally pushing the envelope, but that a message has been sent from the top and the tone from the top is everything in ethics. >> he says he's done all he can, but he plans to keep up the his resignation goes in to effect tomorrow. >>> a man left searching for answers after police shoot and kill his fiance in minnesota. >> our hearts are broken and we are utterly devastated by the loss of justine. >> authorities so

washington at 95. you've got to work your way out well to the north here to get some cooler temperatures in place. about 67 out of that region, but notice the severe weather concern around parts of the great lakes. major issues yesterday with over 6,000 flights delayed or cancelled. the vast majority of those delays scattered across the midwest as well. strong storms push in in northern michigan as well as to western ohio as well. notice that cooling trend. we get down to 77 in places like chicago, the middle 80s in st. louis. 70s for new york city. that could be among the coldest temperatures we've seen for this time of year for an afternoon high so a big change in store going into this weekend. >>> let's take a look at your money this morning. global stock markets mostly higher today after donald trump's jr.'s e-mails triggered a drop on wall street. the dow fell about 150 points after the release of these e-mails and recovered all the losses by the closing bell. basically wall street ignores turmoil

washington, up to near 100. it stays there for a couple of days toward the heart of the week. we'll see a cooling trend coming into the weekend with additional thunderstorm potential returning on saturday. out west, still extremely dry, extremely hot. in fact, you look at the situation across parts of the western u.s., fresno, tucson, cedar city, utah, to name a few, have not seen rainfall on 50 to 60 days in a row. this is building as far as the records and several attempts in the southwestern u.s. with the elevated fire risks to the north, we're watching for scattered storms. unfortunately, these are dry thunderstorms. certainly a story we'll be following for a few days across here. guys? >> thanks. >>> let's check cnn "money." global markets higher after the u.s. ended the week with stock market gains. the nasdaq jumping 1%. all three indices rose after a strong jobs report in the u.s. the american economy added 222,000 jobs. the unemployment rate moved higher because the labor force increased. more people are out there looking for work. >>> investors keeping an eye on quar

. >>> joining us from "the weekly standard," chris dayton live in washington. he celebrates the entire catalog of emin agalarov. good morning to you. >> yes. >> and concert t-shirt sales -- >> yes. i was running to it this morning, in fact, 45 minutes ago. you caught me red-handed. >> we listen to it -- >> even if it's not great for running. great to have you. people get tired of the drip, drip, drip, and no significant details. how major is this one? this feels different, that the russian government, at least according to the e-mail, the e-mail suggested that the russian government was the one who had dirt on hillary clinton, and that's what drew don jr. to this meeting. how does this change the game, chris? >> sure. contrary to don jr.'s lawyer, this is much ado about something for sure. this is a big, big issue just because it is so tangible with this idea of the possible collusion narrative. in this "times" story, we have to be careful because there's delimiting information, gaps about what we do not know or things that are speculative. the important thing

he was readmitted to the icu at a washington hospital because of concern about an infection. his condition is listed as serious. the house majority whip is recovering after being shot last month during a gop practice for the annual charity congressional baseball game. he was released from intensive care less than two weeks ago. another update expected later today. >> wish him well. >>> the so-called isis caliphate is on the verge of crumbling. iraqi forces are about to liberate mosul. a few hundred isis soldiers clinging to less than a square mile of land. raqqa also close to being captured with u.s. trained and equipped fighters entering from all sides. that's raqqa. we have the latest developments from abu dhabi. now that the two isis strongholds are about to be retaken, what's the plan for u.s. and coalition forces to keep the terror group out and prevent it from capturing new territories to use as a base? >> reporter: that is a great question. let's start first with iraq and where things are now. isis has basically been cornered into an area about the size of a few footba

washington's actions so far have fueled instability. besides threatening cost-sharing subsidies, the white house hasn't committed to enforcing the individual mandate. that one is key to getting those younger, healthier people to enroll. offsetting the costs for more expensive customers. then again ethe problem is is that even with obamacare the way it is, the younger folks are not joining in the pool. that's the problem. >> right. no real clear path forward for mitch mcconnell. time will tell. all right. >>> the law enforcement community offering some pretty aggressive pushback to president trump's statement encouraging police officers to be "rough" with the people they arrest. police officials saying it sends the wrong message at a time of heightened tensions with the public. the president's remarks coming in a law and order speech last week in a new york suburb directed at cracking down on violent street gangs. >> when you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, thrown in, rough, i said please don't be too nice. l

washington, getting to near 100, as well. it stays there for a couple of days toward the heart of the week. and then we'll see a little bit of a cooling trends coming into the weekend with additional thunderstorm potential on saturday. here's what's going on out west. still extremely dry and hot. the situation across parts of the western u.s., fresno, tucson, cedar city, utah, not seen rainfall in 50 to 60 days in a row. this is beginning to build as far as the fire weather being elevated. and we know record heat has been experienced in recent days. 72 record temperatures in the past several days across parts of the western u.s. and with the elevated fire risks to the north, we are watching for scattered storms. unfortunately, these are dry thunderstorms. certainly a story we'll be following for a few days across here. guys? >> thank you for that. >>> let's get to money this monday morning. money for breakfast. global markets higher this morning after the u.s. ended the week with gains. the nasdaq jumping 1%. all three indice

washington examiner. here's what senator schumer said. rather than repeating the same failed partisan process yet again, republican shoes start from scratch and work with democrats on a bill that lowers premiums, provides long term stability to the markets and