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that's the united states right over there. but they can't because every single day the trump administration is only processing about 100 asylum applications. and with that, it will take months for many of the people over here just to go to the united states legally. so many are trying illegal ways to get into the united states. >> what are the conditions in the camp like? i was talking to our reporter leyla santiago yesterday. it looked like there was a lot of water on the ground. people were complaining about access to food, even the toilet facilities. >> reporter: the conditions are terrible. what i see, i see a lot of trash around me. i've been talking to families all day long. many of the kids are sick. you can see people coughing. it is getting really cold at night. there's no possibility for them to go anywhere else. >> are more people continuing to arrive to stay at that camp? >> reporter: yeah, they're coming every single day. they have hundreds more, sometimes thousands more. the number that i have in this camp last n

that means a majority of these kids actually came to the united states alone. two dynamics at play here. one of the them the rates being released by the department of services, that has plummeted and we'd seen an increase in the number of days these children are held by the federal government. two months now. likely one reason for this is the trump administration's recent policy that called for further scrutiny of these adults that have been coming forward to some responsibility of these children, that includes exhaustive background searches and fingerprinting of all adults in the home. oftentimes these people are undocumented themselves. the government said they have sheen ensuring the safety of those migrant children, and finally we should note that this number that has just reached a record level is certainly always changing here. the department of health and human services is releasing more children to temporary homes. at the same time they're also taking on more cases. pablo sandoval, cnn, new york. >>> this hour, all eyes are on brussels and a critical da

and we want to welcome our viewers joining us here in the united states. and of course all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. newsroom starts right now. >> and the migrant crisis at the u.s./mexico border has reached a boiling point. on sunday, hundreds of central american migrants rushed mexico's northern border, hoping to reach the united states. at least 39 migrants were arrested and are expected to be deported from mexico. >> on the american side of the fence, u.s. law enforcement fired teargas at the crowds, saying some people were throwing objects at border security. the united states temporarily shutdown its port of entry, but that port of entry was later reopened. >> cnn's nick watt was at the scene following the events. he has the latest now from the u.s./mexico border. >> reporter: this border san ysidro is one of the busiest land borders on earth. it was shut sunday afternoon to pedestrians and a little bit longer to all vehicular traffic. and the reason? well, there were prote

a cease-fire led by the united states. now we have the first visit of a senior european foreign minister to saudi arabia since the murder of jamal khashoggi. but this is an opportunity to both raise that issue, of course, which jomana already discuss discussed with you, george, but the united kingdom and united states are the supplier of arms to the yemen, and they have called for a cease-fire which is due to happen they if they stick to scheduled sometime next month. and they do have levers to pull. so far the united states has pulled a pretty meaningless lever in suspending air refueling to the saudis who said they didn't need it anyway. but there are real pressure points that can be brought to bear. i think that is likely that we are going to hear jeremy hunt suggest later on today that perhaps he might use some of those pressure points, or at least implore the saudis to dial down the violence. but as ever, george, when there is a prospect of peace talks or a cease-fire, belligerence on all sides can be expected to grab

but the president of the united states is mia. donald trump chose to skip the summits and send vice president mike pence in his place, yet china's president xi jengpening, russia's vladimir putin and india nan ddra modi all visited. a persistent complaint has been while the united states worries about the rise of the peninsula, it is abandoning the field to beijing. it does not take the time to attend meetings, shape the agenda, shore up its alliances, deepen its ties in the region. trump's continued lack of influence will only feed this sphere. ware seeing the trump effect on the retreat on trade initiatives as well. moving toward completion in the region had been the transpacific partnership and the regional comprehensive partnership. trump pulled america out of the tpp undermining the fact goal of giving asian countries a system, and after 24 rounds of negotiations of the recp which includes cheena. india is trying to protect its market from chinese import. other countries are trying to keep india service industries out, and ev

a governor in the united states. one big concern, though, here in georgia, and especially among many african-american voters, the issue of voter suppression. i want you to listen to a bit of a conversation that i had way group of voters here, trying to get the word out about challenges around voting. >> we say we want people to vote. but then we put the barriers out. >> as communities of color, there is the photo i.d., there is the cross check, matching -- there is the exact social security match that is precinct consolidation. >> an extra layer that 20 years ago voters weren't having to go through those hoops. >> personally myself, from a plantation, we determined we're not going back. >> that statement there from joe beasley, a civil rights leader here in atlanta, saying we will not go back. but with georgia's secretary of state being sued for policies that restrict the vote, how big of an impact could voter suppression have here and in other states? >> well, voter registration laws in the u.s. are -- have always b

they expected to be in the united states before then. they don't want to stay in mexico which, by the way, they're safe from any violence or aggression in their home countrie countries. >> let me ask you this. the president has deployed active u.s. military on the border as well. is that deployment of force -- one, is it necessary, in your view? and does it help the process, right, or is it possible in your view that these migrants can be handled in what is the existing asylum process at the border? come, apply, tell your story. have that adjudicated, et cetera. >> there are asylum processes throughout the world. they can apply for asylum even in their home countries but the reality is that they have used a third country to traverse through, mexico, which by the way several thousand mile as way from their home. i thiching the security -- let me just add that i believe that the administration is going to be unbending, and it should. this not the appropriate way to come into the country, seeking asylum with 4,000, 5,000 people along the so

they thought maybe there could be a miracle in the united states senate. they are doing incredibly well in the house of representatives right now. >> absolutely. they're on track. all they need to do is flip 11 more seats, and the democrats will take control of the house. and we're projecting that they're going to flip many more than 11 seats. they're probably going to have something of a 15-seat majority in the house of representatives if our projections now -- we're about to make some calls about the house seats. but, yeah, now we're definitely anticipating they're going to have a victory in the house. >> things are moving in the right direction for the democrats in the house. great disappointment for the democrats in the senate but not a great surprise. we've got a pro-zwrejection in house of representatives right now. we've got a bunch of projections. in pennsylvania, cnn projects susan wild is the democratic winner in the 7th district in pennsylvania. that's a big win for the democrats in pennsylvania, lehigh valley in pennsylvania. she's an attorney.

the united states military, great people. my administration is finalizing a plan to end the rampant abuse of our asylum system. it's abused to halt the dangerous influx and to establish control over america's sovereign borders, got borders, and once that control is set and standardized and made very strong, including the building of the wall which we've already started. $1.6 billion spent last year, 1.6 billion this year. we have another 1.6 that will be come but we want to build it one time. all it does is turn people in different directions if you don't. want to build it at one time. under this plan the illegal aliens will no longer get a free pass into our country by lodging meritless claims in seeking asylum. instead, migrants seeking asylum will have to present themselves law fly at a port of entry, so they are going to have to lawfully present themselves at a port of entry. those who choose to break our laws and enter illegally will no longer be able to use meritless claims in order to gain automatic admission into our

welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria coming to you live from paris. today on the show, a global exclusive, an interview with the president of france, emanuel macron from his office in the palace. macron has spent the week traversing parts of his nation to komen e mcommemorate the 100 verse of world war i. this weekend he's gathered scores of world leaders including president trump to pay tribute with him. i talked to macron about his relationship with trump, about the great war and whether today there have also a danger of discord, miscalculation and, thus, tragic dip. about the rise of populism and how can he fighting it at home and abroad, and about his bold plan to make france great again. but first, here's my take. request c-- with confront willig bad news these days, many tend to think it's a bump on the road and things will work out. president obama said the ark of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. yet could we be wrong in assuming that in spite some of backsliding here and

that's exactly the wrong kind of leadership that we need in the united states. i would call on president trump and i'm sure i'm speaking for many other people here who would say cease work on that. go back and be the president of the united states and let the american people have a chance to vote for what your program is and what you stand for. don't divide this country. uphold the constitution and help pull us together. >> it's not just nigeria, the military are saying the rocks are rifles as the president suggested. it's other militaries and governments all over the world. they are watching very, very closely what the president of the united states is saying and that's giving them encouragement to take very, very dastardly steps. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> the former nato supreme ally commander. the fiance of the mored journalist jamal khashoggi is demanding justice and calls out the trump administration for not doing enough and with only four days to go until the mid-term elections, the trump fear machine is working overtime. w

not the kind of argument you want to hear from the president of the united states. and this is far from the first time that he has played the race card in this campaign because he called stacey abrams the african-american democratic candidate for governor in georgia, he called her not qualified. she's a graduate of yale law school by the way, was a minority leader of the georgia statehouse. that seems pretty qualified to me. he called andrew gillum, the african-american mayor of tallahassee who is running for governor of florida, not equipped for the job, even outrageously branding him a thief without any explanation as to why he said that. so make no mistake, this election is a referendum on trump. he said it himself today. >> the key is you have to go out to vote because in a sense, i am on the ticket. >> and voters are listening. about seven in ten likely voters in our new poll say that when they cast their ballots in a matter of hours here in the united states, they're going to be sending a message to the president. 42% say they'll vote in opposition to the pres

what we started seeing is central americans coming to the united states. mexico from being a source country is a transit point. what these images show us is that the mexican government is not prepareded to handle the influx of central americans trying to get to the united states. mexico has offered them jobs, shelter, food, and they don't want to stay in mexico. they want to go on to the united states. they came across another piece of information. about 11,000 people that at one point or another were part of the caravans have decided voluntarily to ask for the mexican government's help to return to central america. countries of origin. guatemala, honduras, el salvador and nicaragua. the majority have decided to go back, but you have a group of 5,000 to 10,000 people overwhelming the local government. >> we don't know if this took place simultaneousious, meaning people who got through mexican law enforcement gathered here or whether we know it's a sequence of events that people got through and as a consequence, customs and borders shut the san ysidro port

you know, an adversary to the united states. you know, there's all sorts of reasons why the president's comments there don't really hold up. now, does this lead to criminal charges? you know, lots of questions whether the president can even be criminally charged, but probably not, but on the core question whether the president was candid with the american people, told the truth to the american people about his dealings with russia, i think the cohen plea really puts a big hole in that. >> remind viewers that you were the first reporter to sort of spell out the ties between russia and the trump campaign and introduced the world to carter page, who was -- another character i want to bring up here. felix seder. not a household name yet he also was instrumental in the trump organization and helping to develop real estate deals for something like ten years, though president trump now says he would not recognize him if he saw him in the same room. here is another interesting bit. this is an e-mail from felix seder, bab this deal, in m

i think that's the case for the united states and mexico. mexico itself has suffered tremendous problems from central american economic migrants. and that's what most of them are, economic migrants going through their country causing a lot of problems in mexico trying to get to the united states. >> patty, is this something democrats will support? >> i have to disagree with steve here. primarily, these people are women and children seeking asylum because they're fleeing their own country because of violence or a threat to their children. and the idea that they would have to stay in mexico, which, you know, it give than my parents are from mexico, i am mexican, mexico right now is a very dangerous t need to stay on the mexican border waiting to, you know, hear whether or not their asylum has been granted is dangerous for them. they've been fleeing danger. so first of all, i think we need to hear more. i think this is something that congress is definitely going to want to take look at, and it is unclear whether or not the president can actuall

a president of the united states. you can send people to war with words. words mean something. you can shift -- i mean, just shift nations' thoughts and processes just by words out of 1600 pennsylvania avenue, and telling the truth is something that a president needs to do, and if you can't trust him, the question is, will you trust anything he says or does? he's cried wolf too many times now and people just don't know if he's telling the truth. >> scott? >> well, i think republicans trust him and democrats don't and this is a sort of a larger issue of the tribalism we face in america. >> independents are starting to move away from him, though. >> yeah and that's the thing. going into a re-election, you know, whatever happens in the midterms is going to happen but going into a re-election campaign, he does have to have credibility with more than just the republican party. he needs to capture some percentage of democrats but a larger percentage of independents, and so hopefully the president will pivot back towards that as he has to his own re-election campaign. >> back to the t

does the united states of america have a copy of the tape or not? >> yes, well, it appears that i'm taking these folks at their word, that what we have is a transcript of the tape rather than a tape itself. >> so the president misspoke? >> i couldn't quite catch the president's words. >> the president said, quote, we have the tape. i don't to hear the tape. >> oh. well, my understanding is we have a transcript. >> okay. >> but not the tape itself. >> so, gina haspel, then, is the only person, as we are aware at this time, in the united states who has heard the tape. it is among other evidence she has but she has heard it and she, of course, is the chief who's making the assessment that the conclusion that the crown prince directly ordered this assassination. >> yes. we wanted to hear her analysis of all the connections that are involved here, because there are many, and they've been reported in the open press, so we have heard about the brothers connection. we've heard about the body guard's connection. we've heard about many associations. we wanted

welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >> we're following breaking news on the firing of the attorney general jeff sessions and the impact on robert mueller's russia investigation. president trump forcing

i was, of the united states? so i race over. and he just says, hey, i saw your name on the top of the speech draft and i just wanted to meet you. my first time in the oval and, you know, your mouth just goes immediately dry. you're trying to look around and look at him at the same time. and i just remember barely nothing. part of the thing about the office is it becomes a storage unit. photos from all eight years, ten years including the campaign. i've just saved all my credentials. world series, g20s, trips to cuba. tons of stuff. trip books. tickets to state dinners. some of the air force one cards. i don't know how i'm going to clear out this office over the next couple of months. >> this is an every morning trip. it is a kind of moment of zen before the day begins. usually with a little bit of npr or a podcast, i'm a big podcast fan. and it's funny to think that i won't be doing it anymore because it is just a part of my morning routine. i think people are much better than they were the day after the election. but there is s

israel, saudi arabia, and the united states. they are right now unwilling to let this incident, horrific as it was, interrupt those conversations. i think the president's statement today should not have focused on the money. it should have focused on the larger geopolitical -- >> that's where his head is. van jones -- >> that to me is a better argument. >> now let's talk about that side of it. because, again, if we could have a grown-up conversation, let's talk about that side. there is this obsession with iran. and there -- this administration made a bet that they could tear up the deal with iran, which had contained them by the obama administration, in terms of their nuclear ambitions, tear that deal up then work hard with the saudis and with the israelis to basically roll back iranian influence. i think that they have placed too much confidence in this strategy. i think they placed too much confidence in mbs, in particular, and i think that we may pay a bigger cost because when you decide that you're going to go against the e

this is simply not the way the united states is going forward. it's balanced at various moments, national interests and human rights. we saw president bush do that and the united states has not always had clean hands here, but there has always been a balance and if you are honest with yourself you get out and explain the balance. >> i think this one last thing frames it interesting, all you need to know about donald trump is he's tougher on admiral bill mccraven than on the crowned prince or vladimir putin or kim jong-un. >>> let's move on to e-mails. i am talking about ivanka trump's. what are we to do with this knowledge now that ivanka used hush personal e-mail to conduct government business throughout 2017 after all of the human cry, much of which scuttled hillary clinton, and now to find out that his daughter also used personal e-mail? >> so i listened to the way in which the president tried to distinguish the hillary episode from the ivanka episode, and there's truth in terms to what he said to the private server, but how could she come int

maybe he is looking for a pardon from the president of the united states. >> like protect him? >> he might be doing that. >> you were asking the right question. why would you risk spending the rest of your life in jail? for what reason? we just don't know the answer to that. parton seems likely. from mueller's point of view, once he determined that he thought he was not credible, he is going to throw it all out there. he can't use him anymore. maybe it's a way to go around matt whitaker and let the public in on some of the information that he knows about manafort without having to get it preapproved over justice. you know more about this than i do. >> if you were in robert mueller's position and you realized that you have a cooperating individual like paul manafort and he has been lying so he is not credible, he under cut his own testimony on other issues, right? >> he has. the plea to begin with was i thought the more surprising aspect. i am less surprised to learn he has been lying than i was a couple of months ago when he actually agreed to the plea agreement. last spring wh

the president of the united states, well, he's thankful, too. he sent a heart felt thank you today to saudi arabia. we'll get to that, but we begin by keeping them honest on another front. the president taking a branch of government and trying to snap it in half. he's lashing out at the american judicial community, particularly anyone who rules against him. what's astounding is this has earned a rare response from the chief justice of the united states. honestly, this doesn't happen. john roberts is drawing a line here. this started after a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the trump administration from barring migrants who entered the united states illegally from seeking asylum. that prompted this response from the president. >> well, you go to the ninth circuit and it's a disgrace and i'm going to put in a major complaint because you cannot win if you're us, a case in the ninth circuit. i think it's a disgrace when people file -- every case gets filed in the ninth circuit. the ninth circuit, we're going to have to loo

the question was, could kennedy, this young fellow, be president of the united states? >> the candidates need no introduction. the republican candidate, vice president richard m. nixon, and the democratic candidate, senator john f. kennedy. >> kennedy, an awfully attractive rich kid, seen pictures of him on the cover of life magazine, but does he have anything? >> the stakes could not be higher. but jack has a critical advantage. >> joe kennedy knew his way around hollywood. so all the tricks to turn a jock into a leading man, he knew all those tricks. and he used them with jack kennedy. >> it's fascinating in the early footage you could see the kennedy nannies, the kids' nannies carrying movie cameras. they played with them and made home movies, but they also learned what looked best, how to appear. and that would stand jack very well when it came time to run for president. >> this is a great country. but i think it could be a greater country. and this is a powerful country, but i think it could be a more powerful country. >> his answers were so crisp and clear and con

he went around to someone who was not confirmed by the united states senate. so he can serve in an acting capacity, i believe it's for 210 days. i'll remind you that will then take us obviously into the next congress at which point the majority by which he might then be able to confirm a new attorney general is likely to go up in the senate. i'll also just mention, anderson, you know, partly i think what we're seeing here today is the president's mastery of changing the subject. we had a significant political win last night. a switch of at least 28 seats, maybe as many as 35 in the house. democrats now will have firm control of the house in january and that means the president's ability to legislate with both houses of congress supporting him is at an end. this significantly weakens him and as you saw in today's long and meandering press conference, he's declaring the election a victory when, in fact, he really decisively lost one house of congress and democrats will now be able to compel much more transparency. hopefully we'll find a way to work together on i

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might be a better friend to the united states. as we said today, it really could be effectively a blueprint for autocratic regimes on how to get their way in a trump white house. you can do what you want at home, but if you push certain buttons, you promise to buy things, you promise to create american jobs in any way, you'll be protected and no one is going to ask too many questions. and that's really departure from the way american presidents usually handle foreign policy. with this basic understanding that there is something like american values and they have to carry those values overseas. and you did not see that yesterday. >> and let me show some of the members of the president's own party who were quick to push back on his decision. can we expect more republicans to join this? there you have bob corker, lindsey graham, rand paul and mitt romney, who hasn't even arrived at the senate yet, but he put out a pretty strong statement, essentially condemning this. >> that's right. very strong road to republicans, and notably two r

up to the united states. so very much in line with that message of iran is going to stay strong, no matter how tough these sanctions are going to get. now, there are, of course, a lot of people in iran who feel differently about all of this, especially the more moderate people, and the business people as well. they already have been suffering a great deal under new u.s. sanctions since the u.s. pulled out of the nuclear agreement and they believe that they're going to suffer even more when that oil and gas sector gets hit, a lot of iran's state finances depend on money from oil and gas exports. at this point in time, a lot of people feel a lot of uncertainty a lot of people have taken a financial hit and people feel things could get worse. >> fred pleitgen for us in tehran, thank you. >>> let's now discuss u.s. sanctions against iran further with our monitors. thank you very much for joining us in london today. first of all, could you elucidate the u.s. strategy here, one of maximum pressure it seems? >> it i

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i want the president of the united states to succeed. i want the position to be respected. i want people to have faith and confidence in good leadership. i just don't know why he's doing this. i don't know why he thinks it works. >> but chris, okay, all right. you have to listen to your own words. didn't you just quote maya angelou? >> i did. >> do you ever think this person, time and time again, we have been -- this is just honesty, okay? i'm just being honest. if you keep -- people keep saying he's going to pivot, he's going to change. he's going to lead. and he hasn't done it now, how many chances -- that means he's not capable of it. we should stop demanding and asking that question of him and maybe we should look to the obamas for leadership or moral leadership. maybe we should look to some other person. maybe it should be george w. bush or someone else, one of the other presidents or a number of the other presidents, maybe they should step in at moments of crisis or when we need leadership, and we should listen to them and not listen to this president and just let him

also the 42nd president of the united states, bill clinton. former secretary of state hillary clinton. former fbi director james comey. special counsel robert mueller, who was fbi director under president george w. bush and president obama. even this president's own deputy attorney general rod rosenstein is there. the president doubling down on that image tonight, telling the "post" that he thinks his own deputy ag belongs behind bars because, quote, he should have never picked a special counsel. it is impossible to overstate just how shocking it is for the president of the united states to re-tweet something like this, or it should be. and anybody who says it's just a tweet, i want you to remember this. the white house has told us that this president's tweets are official statements. and since this is the world that we're living in now, i need to point out that it is absolutely false that russian collusion has been proven a lie. it has not. he also tweeted a completely baseless accusation that mueller you ok there, kurt? we're about to move.

that's an ally of the united states. and he continuously undermines our allies but embraces the most authoritarian figures in the world. >> the president's daughter, ivanka trump, is there, together with her husband, jared kushner, both senior advisers to the president in the white house. you can see the trump family now meeting with the leader of argentina. the man the president has known for many years going back to their private business deals over the years. but they're going to be going forward and having this entertainment. michelle kosinski, senator, stand by for a moment. michelle, you're watching this together with our viewers. and they're pretty happy right now. >> yeah. this is a relaxed moment. and i think everybody -- given what's going on back home, sometimes in these large events, it's the body language, the greetings, the interactions that make the biggest headlines, because everybody wants to know, how is it really behind closed doors? you get these readouts of meetings that say very little, and seem lik

and he understands that the united states can only do so much in fairness to the united states. we're rebuilding our military. we just approved saesk $16 billion. the year before that 700 billion. so we're almost completely rebuilding our mill twaer the latest and the greatest and we just want to absolutely be there. we want to help, be a part of it. but different countries have to also help. that's only fair and we've already discussed this and the president and i very much agree on that. >> i do agree. we will work closely together. what happens has an effect this year. we worked together to make a super operation against chemical weapons. and we work closely together in middle east and africa some. but it's unfair to have europe insecure to date. being secured just by the united states and we need a better military. that's why i believe we need more european capacities, more european defense. what president trump has to protect is one of the state of the united states, he doesn't ask france or germany or another government of of europe to finance it. that's why i believe we n

that would help the readiness of the united states. it is unclear that these troops will be providing that kind of support to the military. again, this seems to be more of a political statement than a national security statement. and it is a political statement that the president is making just several days before the election. >> just lastly, in your letter to the president yesterday, you requested a full accounting of the financial costs of the deployment. has the white house or the pentagon given any estimates on how much all of this is going to cost? because moving as many as 15,000 troops, that's not cheap. >> it is not cheap at all. it is millions of dollars, certainly, in terms of moving the troops. and there is also the opportunity cost. they could be training. they could be getting ready for deployment. it is something we have to have an accounting for. and, frankly, again, this seems to be less about national security, less about wise use of resources. and, again, it's putting potentially american military forces in a positio

. >>> hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm bianca nobilo live in london. this is cnn newsroom. ahead this hour, is saudi arabia getting away with murder? donald trump suggests the kingdom won't be punished for the kill canning of journalist jamal khashoggi. >>> plus here today, gone tomorrow. all of the gains made on wall street this year have been completely wiped out. >>> and crews are finally getting the upper hand on the wildfires in california, but a new threat could be just hours away. >>> we begin with new details about donald trump's efforts to go after his presidential opponent hillary clinton. "the new york times" reports mr. trump wanted the justice department to prosecute clinton. and former fbi director james comey. but the white house counsel warned against it, telling the president it could lead to his impeachment. a source tells cnn mr. trump has repeatedly asked for updates on investigations into clinton. >>> u.s. president is under fire, even from members of his own party about his latest statement on the

as a mid-shipman at the united states naval academy, he set 28 football records. upon graduation he volunteered to deploy to vietnam for one year and served in the navy for a total of four years. at the age of 27, which is a little late, he began his nfl career and what a career it was. over the next 11 seasons, roger led the dallas cowboys to four super bowls and earned pro bowl honors six times. his exceptional talent earned roger a place in both the college football hall of fame and the pro football hall of fame. i have to tell you, i had a golf match where roger was my partner. we were in deep trouble. roger was also in deep trouble. he was so deep in the weeds that you wouldn't believe it. we desperately needed a power on the 18th hole to win. he hit a shot and i don't know how it happened, but he was this far from the hole and we won. i said that's roger stall back. i hope you remember that? yes? that was quite exciting. roger and his wife of 53 years have generously supported thousands of americans in need, including students, military families, and our tru

>> the chain reaction that took place after the president of the united states handed in his answers. you had paul manafort established as a liar. >> he is stuck to these. these are under oath. >> they may as well have been written in wet pavement. they will solidify and form the foundation for what he said going forward. they will compare what he said in writing under oath to what goes down now. they waited of course and now they know that paul manafort was a liar and they can say michael cohen was misleading the congress and he is ready to plea. they set this up perfectly on this issue. what stands out to me is the timing of it. the timing of all these things. why would russia feel there was a campaign receptive to try to influence or intimidate or change the outcome of the election? why did they have a safe haven in the president's campaign? you are seeing financial ties. when you follow the money trail, you can answer the question of perhaps somebody is beholden to russian influence and michael cohen said it didn't just take place when he was the candidate, but when he was preside

i'm saying that the 21% that they pay in the united states t. i'm saying that the 21% that they pay in the united states but the president cut their taxes in half if they might have overseas. so the president needs to fix that. and this sort of phony populism is dividing people in order to distracts from the work he is not doing to keep these plants in the united states. the american jobs act would flip the incentives so americans who buy cars made in the u.s. would get the tax break. you don't give the 50% off coupon to companies that move overseas. that is what the president did. >> so quickly before we go, his comment today is that you're to blame. he says i love ohio and i told them you're playing with the wrong person. sorry, this is an sberp view wi interview with the "wall street journal." he says ohio wasn't represented by their democrat senator sherrod brown. >> i asked the president to intervene in gm. he didn't know about the playoffs that had already happened. i asked him to talk to mary barra. he did none of that. instead he gave a

has the united states made certain demands of the russians? frankly, it doesn't make any sense to cancel the meeting to me. you'd want to have the meeting precisely because there is a crisis in ukraine, you want to get the russians to understand what they can do, maybe act as an honest broker between the two sides. donald trump is so unpredictable that sometimes you think that there is a plan, there is a predictable unpredictability. he knows, as you say, keeps us all watching and interested and at the edge of our seats. >> the kremlin learned about this through the president's tweets. a spokesperson at the kremlin said "we are flying actually. so far we've only seen trump's tweets in media reports. so far we don't have the information yet. if this is the case, we'll have extra couple of hours for other meetings!" . how is this playing at the kremlin do you think? >> i think everyone has found that dealing with donald trump is much more difficult than they have thought. i have better contacts with the chinese government and they started out th

have you ever seen anything like that from a first lady of the united states? >> no, not publicly like this. i mean there should be a new tv show called "1600" or something. i mean it just seems like a soap opera over there. this isn't the first time a first lady would get involved in personnel moves. that's been happening for decades and decades. i mean nancy reagan comes to mind, of course. but usually these things are worked through the white house chief of staff, the president of the united states. it is announced by the white house. it is done professionally. this was done with all of the aplomb of, you know, bravo and "housewives." i just can't describe it. i think it is absurd it was announced by the first lady's office. this is a woman who works on the national security staff. she may not like her, she may not get along with her. the reporting that we have is that there was trouble on the africa trip. fine, but she works for john bolton. she doesn't work for melania trump. >> you know, it is also a public shaming of this deputy national security adviser

>>> if i'm elected president of the united states, i'm going to work for those who are deprived, those who are poor, whether they be white or black. >> robert kennedy is hoping to fulfill the family dream of a second son in the white house. but tragedy strikes once more. all eyes are on the only surviving son, ted, as he inherits the burden of expectation. >> you will not reconsider your decision about seeking the presidency? >> absolutely not. >> overcoming scandal and defeat, ted fights back. >> the hope still lives and the dream shall never die. >> to lead the new generation and continue the legacy of this great american dynasty. >> this family's name is kennedy. ♪ ♪ >> i thank all of you who made this possible this evening, all of the effort that you made. >> bobby kennedy wins the crucial california primary in his battle to secure the democratic presidential nomination. >> we're all congratulating ourselves and each other on how terrific this is. everybody's looking forward to having a drink and dancing and thinking about all the great things that are in store. >> we are a gre

quote, the kingdom agreed to spend and invest $450 billion in the united states. this is a record amount of money. but the state department says the u.s. has only received $14.5 billion as part of the deal. the statement coming after weeks of measured rhetoric about the role the crown prince may have played in the murder. going against evidence from the american intelligence community. >> he told me that he had nothing to do with it. he told me that. i would say maybe five times. >> reporter: it's not the first time the president has gone against intelligence agencies. despite an august report by united nations nuclear watch group, trump denied that the north koreans were continuing to develop their nuclear capabilities. >> even though there is talk about they're putting in new sites. >> maybe they are, maybe they're not. i don't believe that. >> reporter: and perhaps most notably spoke out against allegations that russia has meddled in the 2016 election. >> all i can do is ask the question. my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others. they said the

we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room. >>> we're following breaking news on the russia investigation with new charges possibly in the works right now. tonight, an associate of long-time trump confidant roger stone says he expects to be indicted by the special counsel, robert mueller, within the next few days. this as cnn has seen at least eight of mueller's prosecutors working today on this federal holiday. another potentially important sighting, the former trump fixer and lawyer, the now convicted felon, michael cohen, he's been here in washington for most of the day as well. i'll get reaction from democratic congressman john garamendi and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our senior justice correspondent, evan perez, and our justice reporter, laura jarrett. evan, what is the very latest? >> well, wolf, jerome is one of the nine or so associates of roger stone who has come in for testimony to robert mueller's investigators. he spent hou

united states. let's bring in our legal analyst and cnn analyst and our chief correspondent, dana bash. tell us more about this video. it's not a campaign ad. they are not paying it, but it's getting a lot of exposure. >> not a campaign ad and not a video done by the campaign in particular. no money behind it, which tells you everything you need to know about the understanding that the president has of the power of his twitter feed. it is a message that is unmistakable and a message that is not even racist under tones. there are racist overtones. that's the way it is. it's the pinnacle of the strategy that has been transparent and that the president and several of the republicans on the ballot have been going after, which is to try to gin up the base by scaring people, some cases, unnecessarily so. we will see if the republicans denounce this. unless i missed it, i haven't heard any of them do that. which is very noteworthy. i called a couple and the comment was no comment. >> on this awful video. w

welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >> we're following breaking news on the firing of the attorney general jeff sessions and the impact on robert mueller's russia investigation. president trump forcing sessions out just hours after the midterm election, acting on a seething anger for recusing himself in the probe. he's now expected to over see the special counsel, bumping rod rosenstein, another target of mr. trump's wrath. the urgent questions now, will mueller also be fired and how will this play out with the new democratic-controlled house of representative and the strengthened republican majority in the senate? i'll get reaction from analysts who are standing by. first, jim acosta, the president skirted a question about sessions during his hour and a half news conference today. >> right. >> soon there after he announced that sessions resigned. >> that's right, wolf. it wasn't long after that naews conference that the president announced that jeff sessions is out, tha

and for a president of the united states, that's demeaning. the larger question, of course, is why are we subcontracting u.s. foreign policy in the middle east to saudi arabia? leave the khashoggi matter aside. why have we supported a saudi war in yemen that has now created the worst humanitarian crisis in the world? a million and a half people are on the verge of famine. you go to yemen, and there's a brilliant "new york times" report out of yemen. you go to yemen, and they believe that this is an american war against them because they look at the bombs. they're made in the america. they look at the planes made in emergency. they look at the tensions, comes from america. we're being implicated in this war that most americans don't even know we're participating in. why? what american interest does it help that the saudis kidnapped the prime minister of lebanon and tried to shake him down? that they blockaded qatar? these are all saudi goals. why is the u.s. implicated in them? >> that's a good question because is anyone that ignorant of what's

before the president of the united states became the president of the united states through a campaign election. that's the point in time we see the most exposure for legal jeopardy where you have discussions between donald trump jr. and wikileaks and questions concerning whether roger stone was trying to provide information and what role he played on the campaign and the president's own words saying there was something to come, something expecting for the american people to see as the demise of hillary clinton and there seemed to be a correlation between these things and if you are mueller, you're asking yourself what was the connection? what did you know when? who relayed information to you? that's things donald trump can tell you. >> jim schultz, response and biggest concern? >> i think that's exactly right. they're going to want to know what the president knew when he knew it for those issues that occurred prior to him becoming president clinton. no question about that. make no mistake. there has been a characterization of those answers from other witnesses and the prosecutors have