they favored trump, they trind to undermine trump's opponent and that this operation continues. and this is a really important point, nicole, that i think is lost on everyone. it's not that the russians engaged in an operation that ended on election day when trump won. this operation by the russians to favor trump torque bolster him and to undermine any opposition, including opposition criticism from democrats, from the news media, this operation is underway at this hour. it continues. this is view of the intelligence community and this is not something that this white house is willing to accept. >> eli, do you think there is any capacity on donald trump's part to hold these two thoughts in his head, that yes what jeremy barb just said is true, that russia interfered in our elections and he would have won those states anyway. can he hold those two tauts thoughts in his head and be aggressive as the intelligence community want him to be, as aggressive as americans wanted him to be on these issues? >> i think he can. when he tweets he tweets about the popular vote and the electora

trump owns the mar a lago club in palm beach. the person says havi art trump. h-a-v-i art trump. okay that sounds like nonsense. almost all the time you get a tip like that it's useless. but this was the perfect situation. i googled that and immediately found a portrait of trump. - this is the famous six foot portrait? - this is another portrait. - a second portrait. - this is the second portrait. the six foot portrait we knew about already. that's the one he paid $20,000 for out of his charity. - out of foundation money. - right. i still never found that one. as a brief aside on that. i think you'll enjoy this. i get a picture of the six foot tall portrait. this was painted by a speed painter in five minutes. trump paid $20,000 for it. it's a picture of trump's face. it's sort of his normal skin tone but done in kind of a neony sort of way. we get a picture of it but we couldn't get the rights to use it. so i'm thinking okay i'll put this into google image search and it'll show me another place. maybe it's hanging on the wall in the background of somebody's prom picture or somet

trump. however, after 100 days, i really feel sorry about having cast my vote because i really felt that after the election was over, that he would pull the country together and have a very well-balanced set agenda that would move us forward and propel us into the 21st century. mighth as mr. schlesinger say that when hundred days is arbitrary, those of us in the sciences have enough data points to plot and calculate the certainty of seeing things happening deep into the next three years. i'm sorry to say that it looks very gloomy. that really touches on a much bigger agenda. my feeling is that a sound, robust country has to really go to a constitutional convention every 50 or 100 years and really have the whole populace discussing the nuances associated with the constitution. if they felt like things have to be fine tuned to reflect the realities of the day rather than the realities of 100 or 200 years ago, that has to be the way this country can be moved forward. i actually have to disagree

great lakes swing states like ohio and michigan helped trump get to the white house, trump supporters such as michigan's mccomb candidate -- >> on this one, he's hit a wrong note and i hope that he will reconsider. >> reporter: she says she believes ultimately the cuts will not happen, david spanglr s isn't so sure. david hopes that these wet lands and all those who rely on their well-being depends on it. we reached out to the epa, the e epa says scott pruitt is looking to run the department in a much more cost effective way. and there's also bipartisan support to keep funding great lakes. >>> president trump called an astronaut in space and it got personal. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: she holds the record for female astronauts space walks, he was about to have his first talk, they counted down the president. 10, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, zero and lift off. >> station, this is your president, do you hear me? >> reporter: this was really long distance. >> do you hear me? >> yes, sir, we hear you loud and clear. >> well, that's what we like, american equ

that's up to donald trump. i have heard nothing but rumors and innuendos and press reports that would make any of us believe that the real shakeup going on in washington is the way donald trump is coming in as the disruptor. >> there was that. and now, the "new york times" has this headline, trump fires warning shot in battle between bannon and kushner. joining us tonight, one of the authors of that piece, jeremy peters who is also an msnbc contributor. stefani rule is here with us, veteran of the world of business and finance and now politics. and bob costa, msnbc political analyst. jeremy, my job here is to ask a very simple question, share with our audience, please, what it is you know. >> so donald trump has become increasingly exasperated, brian, by the constant back and forth in the media reporting on his top advisors sniping and knife fighting. it's become a distraction, imagine you are sitting there at mar-a-lago you are expecting to have a weighty experience of hosting the president of china and you ha

trump promised them help. a lot of them voted for trump for help this has not come yet. >> the cause with the opioids and heroin is the trafficking. they want that dealt with. you're exactly right. they want to see the bill. the 21st century bill repassed and president obama signed into law in december. they want that implemented because there is a pathway in there for dealing with mental health and with the drug crisis. you're exactly right on that. they want hhs to move forward with some of the framework around that. i agree, we're all anxious to see that done. we want our mental health professionals, our law enforcement professionals to have what they need, the health care professionals, to be able to address the opioid crisis. what we also want is to make certain we are working with border patrol inappropriate surveillance ways in order to stem that flow and to stop that entry of those items, that illegal entry into our country. >> absolutely. so you wind up with the same point, though. you want these thin

blacks for trump. i love that guy. blacks for trump. we removed the shackles on energy exploration imposed by the last administration, lifting the restrictions on the production of oil, shale, and natural gas. and very importantly for pennsylvania, we have ended the war on beautiful, clean coal, and we are putting our great coal miners back to work. judge jeanine: president trump doing what he does best on his 100th day, taking his message directly to the people. joining me now a person who knows a thing or two about a donald trump rally. his former campaign manager corey lewandowski. i see the smile on your face and i have to smile. he took it to everyone, including the media. what did you think of that speech? >> this is the donald trump that won him the election. this is when he bypasses the mainstream media. i love the snake. he brought it out as a reminder of the bad hombres who are trying to get into our country. it allowed him to go directly to the american people and what he accomplished in the first 100 days. judge jeanine: giv

lou: president trump and president xi jinping are having dinner at president trump's mar-a-lago resort, their first face-to-face meeting, president trump is expecting a difficult discussion, even more difficult negotiations on the issues of north korea and trade. >> it is going to be very interesting, nobody real knows, we have not been treated fairly on trade for many years, no president has taken care of that, the way they should have. we have a big problem with north korea, we'll see what happens. lou: president xi and the world are now aware that first american agenda is in effect. >> house intelligence committee chairmen devin nunes stepping down from his role in the investigation of alleged russian interference in 2016 president at election. blaming left wing activists and partisans who accuse him of revealing classified in. nunes said that the charge are false, and politically motivated in its entirety. >> tonight, republicans have been evoked a "nuclear option," majority leader mcconnell said he had no choice after democrats, used a filibuster to block a supreme court nominee.

there's this trump theatrics at the top. what i'm wonder is what we might policy that's rather eign conventional, the kind of foreign policy that would you expect from mattis or mcmaster sort of nexus where you have this, you know, these antics from the president and people are scratching their heads over what did he mean by that. but increasingly say because i talked to jared and that's the level only which the real policy is made and where the communications happen with foreign countries. that's what it looks like right now. robert: this muddled scene in the white house has consequences beyond white house. tillerson meeting with his counter part revealed the divide over syria's six-year civil war and that divide's only wydened. >> the current state of u.s.-russia relations is at a low point. there is a low-level of trust between our two countries. the world's two foremost nuclear powers cannot have this kind of relationship. robert: the biggest issue now for the u.s. and russia is solving their differences over syria. moll

what is the trump effect? guest: in some ways, trump's election was the best thing that happened to democrats after the election. it looked for a time they had no chance of taking back the house before the next census but i will put it this way, the pressure was on kansas to prove they could hold on to what they had as really deep trump country. the pressure is on democrats in this week's special election in georgia because of they cannot win back districts that voted for trump by less than 4%, then they don't really have a chance to take back the house. >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up, charter schools usa joins us to discuss the history of charter schools and efforts by betsy devos to reform education and advanced school choice. next, the national consumers league talks about consumer scam and organizations push for the 115th congress to do more to protect consumers. the atlantic council joins us to examine how much the u.s. contributes to n

in a short address from the trump mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, florida, president donald trump said the assault was retribution for a syrian chemical weapons attack earlier this week that killed scores of -- 86 civilians, including 30 children. pres. trump: tonight i ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in syria from where the chemical attack was launched. vital, national security interest of the united states to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons. amy: the attacks came without a declaration of war or any other form of authorization from congress. california democratic congress member barbara lee tweeted -- "this is an act of war. congress needs to come back into session & hold a debate. anything less is an abdication of our responsibility." and republican senator rand paul of kentucky tweeted -- "the president needs congressional authorization for military action n required d by the constitution." on thursday evening, trump did not respond to a reporter's questions about whether he'd seek congressional approroval fr the attack. >> do you s

your response to donald trump? >> well, his tweets are just horrible, i was looking at some of them where he talked about democrats were going to close down the parks and families were not going to be able to take their vacation. that is outrageous. a pathological liar. that is absolutely unbelievable that he can be the leader of the greatest nation in the world. and we cannot allow him to stay in that position. >> i felt i ask you this every time i talk to you do you detect on the other side of the aisle among your colleagues, any sense of the same outrage that you're expressing that democratic colleagues are expressing? is there any political will on the other side of the aisle among republicans do anything to rein in this president? >> i think it is very slow. they are hesitant to talk about it. they don't want to admit it. they wish it would go away. they wish some of this diversionary tactics would cause us not to focus on him and what he's doing. i want toell you, joy, when the truth comes out, they're not go

his companies and his properties every chance he gets from trump hotels to trump states to trump government courses. most leently, trump took the opportunity to tout the dessert options offered at his $200,000 membership mar-a-lago club in palm beach, florida. as he described what he was doing at the very moment he received confirmation of the missile launch on syria last week. >> i was sitting at the table. we had finished dinner. we're now having dessert, and we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you've ever seen. and president xi was enjoying it. >> look at that chocolate cake. it does look delicious. it even has his name on it. but it could be pretty risky ordering a slice if you should ever have the chance and the cash to visit mar-a-lago yourself. why? well, that's thing 2 in 60 seconds. >>> mar-a-lago has the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you've ever seen according to the owner of mar-a-lago, donald trump, president of the united ste just look at it. it even comes with ice cream, two sauces, and a trump logo right on the top. but we've learned some informati

it's an existential question for trump. the peop voted for -- if you can take those two personalities and attribute supporters behind them, people who voted for trump thought they were voted for bannon, not a kushner world view. this isn't something -- i don't think this is a problem that steve bannon and jared kushner can solve. the president has to decide which world view is he going to take, is he going to take the america first, steve bannon nationalist world view, or is he going to take the world view that kushner appears to have, which is a view that you need tone gauge in the world. i think campaigns can cover up a lot of incoherence. sometimes you can get through a whole campaign based on an effective slogan and make america great again was effective, but there's no coherence behind it. it's crazy they even have in one white house personalities that have such two distinct views of the world that kushner and bannon do. >> this is affecting two issues right now. the first is health care. we heard behind the scenes tha

listen here. >> it's in that process and within the context of the trump campaign, the trump transition, did you seek the names of people involved in -- did you unmask the names of people involved in the trump transition, the trump campaign, people surrounding the president-elect in order to spy on them? >> absolutely -- absolutely not for any political purposes, to spy, expose, anything. >> so the white house suggesting that most of the media is not giving this the sense of importance that the white house thinks it should have. we know that she is the one, susan rice, that asked for some names to be unmasked. what we don't know is who leaked the name of lieutenant general michael flynn, an act that may constitute a serious crime. >> in russia, a report of a back channel. communications between vladimir putin and a donald trump donor. what is the truth on that? >> it's hard to discern. the white house and the person involved denied any kind of meeting to create a channel between the trump transition and vladimir putin. the person at the center of this is eric prince, the founder of blac

the public trump and the private trump are differentiated only by a slightly more elevated use of language in the public. yet on't mentioned pussy the presidential podium. this is unprecedented. was betterr a arthur prepared for the job than donald trump. he seems almost proud of his ignorance. we have a man of very bad character here who is prone to ignorance, who seems to know nothing about how the government works. the -- and test of so it is a test of the institutions we have because they are going to be subjected and are already subjected to tremendous strain by this. >> we were talking about this just before we got on stage. rick, you are talking about the institutions -- the separation of powers, the ability to enforce such things as the emoluments clause, the question of at what level the president is or is not subject to law as we understand it in some context. then we have the institutions, the separation of powers, how they'll interact. , what wase campaign revealed in the campaign over a year and a half and in trump's ability to get 63.5 million was that win 30 states many inst

a clear sign that the american administration, the trump administration, is tough and sta nce trump administration, is tough and stance toward the assad regime. we have been listening to president tramp and it was interesting he didn't make any mention of russia. his focus was on syria. the last major attack in 2013, when gas was used,it major attack in 2013, when gas was used, it did bring washington, albeit not for very long, it brought them closer together. could that happen this time? no, not at the moment, the opposite in fact. niki daly did condemn russia. she give it to them with both barrels. it was similarto to them with both barrels. it was similar to listening to some of the power. indeed, arguably, she gave a more powerful and theatrical performances at the united nations, because not only did she use those condemning words against the russians that you play earlier, before that she actually stood up from her seat, which is very rare at the united nations security council. she got up from the horseshoe table and she brandished focus of the children killed in the attack yesterday. we ha

donald trump know that. donald trump said today that he changed his position to suddenly be in favor of launching a harmless missile strike that was guaranteed to do no damage in syria in response to a chemical attack because he saw the victims of the chemical attack on tv. now that must mean he never saw the victims of any of the previous chemical attacks in syria on tv. when he was urging president obama to not fire any missiles at syria for anything that assad regime did, including chemical weapons. here is the president of the united states outlining the trump doctrine of if you see it on tv, you got to do something. >> everybody in this room saw it all too many times over the last three or four days, young children dying, babies dying, fathers holding children in their arms that were dead, dead children. there can't be a worse sight. and it shouldn't be allowed. that's a butcher. that's a butcher. so i felt we had to do something about it. i have absolutely no doubt we did the right thing. and it was ve

dollar, we mentioned on the trump comments, settling down after initial weakness when president trump complained about the strength of the dollar. dollar/yen now is unchanged, 108.98. the overnight action has been dominated bay weaker dollar and stronger yen. the euro is flat. 1 1.0640. down about a quarter of a percent. >> the question with the euro, if we didn't have a week of dollar softness, would it have moved against the yen? the euro is down about 5%. >> gold prices have been on the rise. they a strong week. strongest since november. trading just below $1300 an ounce. >>> today's agenda. there's plenty of economic data ahead of the long holiday weekend. look for reports on weekly jobless claims producer prices and consumer sentiment. markets are closed tomorrow for good friday. but it's not a federal holiday. so the government will release data on retail sales, consumer prices and business inventories. i know where i'll go to get that information, that's your twitter feed, i'm sure you will be on it. >> wake me up early for economic data. sure. i'll do that. the banks, very qui

a warrant to secretly monitor a trump associate. we've learned that the fbi got a fisa warrant to surveil carter page who was named campaign advisor on the trump campaign. tonight we know how they got that warrant. it goes back to the explosive dossier. evan perez is breaking the story. evan, what are you learning? roip erin, u.s. officials tell cnn that last year the fbi used the -- as part of the justification to get approval to monitor trump associate carter page. james comey has sited the dossier in some of the briefings to members of congress in recent weeks as one of the sources of information that the bureau used to bolster its investigation. now, this includes aproouchl from the secret court that overassist fisa to monitor communications. now, to obtain that court permission to target page, the fbi and justice department would have had to present probable cause that he was acting as an agent of a foreign power, including possibly engaging in clandestine intelligence gathering for a foreign government. comey would have had to

that's clearly not the case with president trump. his thumbs are on his phone, you know, banging out these tweets. there are two twitter accounts from president trump. one is the @realdonaldtrump twitter account he's had all along. the other is the official @potus account, which is the same that president obama used. white house officials are often in a difficult position trying to explain the context of the president's tweet, some of which, you know, seemed to allude to facts that are unsubstantiated or unverifiable , and, you know, the white house has to come out every day and defend those tweets. i'm thinking of a couple of tweets a weekend or so ago about how much money germany owes the united states as far as the nato bill, which is just, you know, completely untrue. germany doesn't owe the united states any money. they owe money to their own defense. but these are the things, especial on the weekends, you see these tweets when there are fewer officials around, when we get some of these more questionable tweets by the president.

no to mexico paying for the trump wall. the president of mexico refused to even discuss it and canceled a trip to washington to meet with the president of the united states. the president of mexico humiliated the president of the united states over a wall. then last week, the trump administration insisted that at least a billion dollars in funding for the wall be included in the spending bill that congress must pass this week. the president's budget director mick mulvaney threatened his former friends in the house of representatives telling them they absolutely had to do it, but republicans cannot pass that spending bill without democratic support in the senate and the democrats said no to the wall. >> i'll caution, if the administration insists on poison pill riders or extraneous funding requests, then our talks could get sidetracked. particularly if the administration demands funding for a border wall. >> that's all it took. so what did donald trump do? did he hang tough and take the fight to chuck schumer? or did he foll

donald trump is setting the agenda. clearly the world is hopeful for a stronger unison between the two nations. and we are getting more footage right now. they are meeting inside that resort in mar—a—lago. body language is looking fairly positive at the moment. but as you say, trade is the big issue. i think in the long—term, after the niceties of the summit, that is when the tough work is going to really continue. i don't hear the south china sea being mentioned so far in some of the early talk of what this summit will focus on. but in a way, economically, it cannot be separated. i want to talk about the south china sea right now. but the reality is when we talk about the economic relationship, we talk about free navigation of the sea. and in asia, so much trade goes through the south china sea from the world. right now they just want a smooth summit. we can only hope for the best as we move forward. the former us ambassador to the asia bank. among things on the agenda will be north korea. the us wants china to u

even some trump supporters can't wrap their head around why people support trump. donald trump's new ideological screening test will weed out extremists with-- - extreme views about religion such as the suppression of women, gays, and nonbelievers. - that's right, trump wants prospective americans to embrace religious freedom, gender equality, and gay rights. at a recent rally in wisconsin, his fans were on board. - i am for extreme vetting. i am. - i think it is a good idea. - extreme vetting. think that's a good idea? - of course. he forgot one thing. just make 'em eat some bacon. - these guys were pumped about america's values of tolerance. so i knew they'd pass trump's test with flying colors. fill in the blank for me. two men getting married is blank. - disgusting. - actually, the answer is: legal in the united states. - oh, it's legal, but i don't like it. - it's important to believe in, you know-- to have respect for everyone's religion. - so you respect christianity. - i do. - judaism? - yes. - islam? - no. - can a woman be president? - the presidency is a

that's got to be devastating for trump supporters. and now where is warrior for women ivanka trump? where is she? she said she wants to use her platform for good. well, good, your dad just spat in the face of the very women who gave you and your family that platform. i am sure that your fellow conservative women would like to hear from you now and so would the rest of us. so would the rest of us. so i want to thank my studio audience and all you watching at home. had an honest conversation. had the governator. keep the conversation going at home and your dinner tables and your neighborhoods. we are messy. we tell it like we see it. "cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now. i love you, don. >>> thank you very much, van jones. president trump for the first time since taking office facing a number of major crisys around the yurld, so what he's prepared to do about all this? this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. what is the president's foreign policy? he said a chemical attack against civilians in syria crossed many lines for him but he's refusing to reveal how he'll respond. >> i'

official was. >> there was no one moment in the trump presidential campaign where donald trump gave the slightest hint that he's capable of faithfully executing any of the duties of the presidency and there was no moment when donald trump said anything to indicate he understood the challenges an american president faces. >> aleppo was a disaster. it's a humanitarian nightmare, but it has fallen from any standpoint. what do you need, a signed document, take a look at aleppo. it is so sad when you see what happened. >> today it took the trump white house about 15 hours to issue a written statement about the worst chemical attack in syria in the six years of the civil war, at least 83 people, including 25 children died, at least 350 others were injured in the incident, senior state department official said the attack looks like a war crime. it comes less than one week after the trump administration said that president trump accepts the reality of president assad's continued control of the government in syria. here is what the trump white house said when it finally released a statement. >>

donald trump will be one not by one point. we knew, but the momentum of the energy you are seeing in georgiy close election in kansas last week, there is something going on out there. democrats have to translate some of this momentum into a win. but there is some sort of grassroots energy out there right now that democrats are right to try to harness and all of these special elections. >> martha: thank you very much, you guys. good to see you tonight. still ahead, the shocking murder of an elderly man that was uploaded. the murder was uploaded to facebook. tonight, the man behind that killing is out there somewhere and he may have crossed state lines at this point. we'll bring you up to speed on mac. plus, president trump is going to hit the road again. he is heading to wisconsin based on the fears we discussed in the last segment, congressman sean duffy will be joining him out there. ♪ >> martha: some can say that president trump is going back to a happy place. he is hitting the road, going to wisconsin. he enjoyed his time

the fact that trump is doing. i worried what happened in 2013 is politics intervened on the hill as a result the strike was not taken. >> he didn't really need from his perspective congressional authorization, it would have been nice to get it. it could've launched those missiles on his own. >> he came to the conclusion he needed congressional authorization he expected there was probably going to be have to be repeat attacks and to the extent the u.s. was going to be in an ongoing conflict in syria -- >> i was always the impression, he asked for congressional authorization. he really didn't push all that hard for that congressional authorization. he didn't make the case to congress and the american public, pass this legislation now so we can go bomb the syrian regime of assad. >> as someone who sat in briefings with dozens of members of congress who went with the vice president up to the hill to twist the arms of members who listened to the president make calls and call in the leadership of both the house and sena

the trump signs have got to come down from the trump hotel. totally divest, themselves from those business where they have connection no whatever. host: all right, that's jay in virginia. more of your calls on this topic just a minute. but as we noted earlier, a key place in the senate udiciary committee on judge neil gorsuch nomination. sun bin kim joins us from to talk about that vote. and the outcome of this vote doubt, is t really in it? >> no, not at all. there are 11 republicans who sit committee and y there are nine democrats. so as long as all republicans in favor of the -- favorable report judge gorsuch out of the committee, he should make his there's the floor and no sign that any republican will defect. the question is what happens when the nomination goes to the floor. about 37 senate democrats who have declared they will vote to filibuster the nomination for the supreme court. obviously, you would need 41 to block, and that's very close to getting there. to be seen remains what happens the rest of the eek, but i think we're all ex

here's president trump. [video clip] president trump: tonight i'm having a major meeting with the people we put on the board. he is an amazing man, marvel, disney, one of the great businessman of our times and we're having a meeting tonight at what we call affectionately the southern white house, seems to be the most convenient location. everyone always wants to go to the southern white house. are you going to be at that meeting? you heard about it, right? it's going to be great. all about the v.a. host: the president's reference to mar-a-lago, in case you're interested, the mar-a-lago website. this is what it looks like and you can get more information on what it would cost to join to be a member of mar-a-lago for a wedding or other event. cynthia from the independent line. ood morning. -- er: why don't you have [inaudible] everybody would find out the real situation what is happening. this is just a circus. donald trump is not in charge by himself. congress has run away. i mean, he's got open purse, the wh

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president trump through all this was on vacation. more on that shortly, suzanne malveaux, matthew chance and jim acosta. suzanne, for president trump, sort of a working, golfing weekend for the president? >> reporter: well, you could call it that, certainly, they say they are ready for anything, they are prepared, chief of staff reince priebus was there but did not accompany him here in florida. so he does not have his top level stop here in florida. that's very intentional, this is supposed to be a light foot print, allowing the president to have time with his wife and children. it is a break in protocol, having covered presidents obama and george w. bush, there's usually the national security advisor, even on vacation with the president, but trump is doing things differently, but he does have some members of his national security staff, junior members, they're keeping an eye on what's happening in north korea, whether there's any kind of provocation. we did see the president playing golf, jim got those exclusive pictures, that woul

and for now, that's where trump is going. but i think we always knew that his convictions -- and i'll be charitable here -- were rather shallow on a lot of these questions. >> i have to ask you about your papers reporting. this is a quote, by the way. the president's comments about bannon were described by white house officials as addressing down and a warning shoflt. the one bannon friend likened bannon to a terminally ill family member who had been moved into hospice care. in a sentence or two, is he on his way out? >> i think he is either on his way out or on his way down in influence. that line reay struck me exactly the same way it struck you. i think the question is will he accept less influence? because i think there would be a real cost in dumping bannon because there is a lot of sentiment, particularly on right wing talk shows, on the alt-right that we talk about in breitbart, but a lot of other web sites, there is a part of the far-right of the conservative movement that would be furious with trump if they got rid o

trump release his taxes. he dismissed them with a tweet: "someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies. the election is over." mr. trump is the first president in more than 40 years not to make his tax returns public. the president says only reporters care about the issue. but in a recent bloomberg/ morning consult poll, 53% of those surveyed said the president should release them. then, there's the question of who visits the white house, which mr. trump calls "the people's house." the administration says it's ending the obama policy of making visitor logs available, with exceptions for national security and privacy reasons. press secretary spicer: >> frankly, the faux attempt that the obama administration put out, where they would scrub who they didn't want put out, didn't serve anyone well. >> reporter: the administration is also under scrutiny for hiring former lobbyists to craft policies for the industries they came from. the "new york times" and "propublica" found some had been given

president trump said the u.s. dollars getting too strong and he will not label china as a currency manipulator. everything is reacting. he also made comments about janet yellen. president trump meets with secretary general of nato and we will take the news conference live from the white house. says summer could bring turbulence and with it, disappointment. andman behind guggenheim the portfolio is coming up shortly. at where the major averages stand as we head toward the close. taylor riggs is standing by. >> we have seen a small recovery after them up -- russian meeting and we are lower. the as a be 500 is there the session. i want to look at the dollar index. from president trump saying the dollar is strong as of him. he respects yellen but he is undecided on the renomination. he will not label china as a currency manipulator, but the dollar is too strong. all of these headlines coming out and pushing the dollar lower. let's flip to the next screen and look at what we are looking at next. havens, theafe dollar i

, the the the then-candidate trump. jonathan is live with us. >> truth maybe stranger than fiction. the name may not be familiar but one taking on more importance to the trump-russia ties and in the case of mr. mccabe now the background first. mccabe is the fbi's deb out -- deputy director and the charges are laid out to director james comey. it points out mccabe is already under investigation from the fbi inspector general in his role in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and his wife was running for the virginia state senate in 2015 received $750,000 in donations by a friend of hillary clinton and rights while he recused himself from public corruption cases in virginia he failed to recuse himself from the clinton e-mail investigation despite the appearance of a conflict created by his wife's campaign accepting $700,000 from a close clinton associate during the investigation. grassley's letter then turns to the trump-russia investigation and in particular a discussion within the fbi about whether the pay former b

be trump. let him deliver his message to the american people unfiltered. jesse: social media controversial under trump. >> i don't look at it as controversial. he's delivering his message to the american people web's delivering his message to 100 million people on all his platforms. he's in the white house today because of social media. it's what won him the white house. and he will just keep tweeting and delivering his message to the american people. i have known the president since i was 16 years old in high school. caddie for him. worked in the bag room. i get the rap for being the caddie who runs the social media campaign. but people tend to forget certain individuals who for 15 years prior i had a professional career. jesse: when did you first realize how powerful the president's twitter account was? >> pretty much immediately. it was always powerful. he always delivered a message with millions of followers. i would say within the first week. jesse: when you are with the president, how doe

\[cheers and applause] president trump: remember those saying, we have breaking news, donald trump has won the state of michigan. michigan, how did that happen? donald trump has won the state of wisconsin, whoa! but earlier in the evening, remember florida, north carolina, south carolina, pennsylvania, all the way up, we ran up the east coast. and you know, the republicans have a tremendous disadvantage in the electoral college, you know that. tremendous disadvantage and to run the whole east coast and then you go with iowa, ohio and all of the different states, it was a great evening, one that a lot of people will never forget. a lot of people. \[applause] president trump: not going to forget that evening. and remember they said, there is no path to 270. for months i was hearing that. you know, they are trying to suppress the vote and people are saying i like trump and he loves the second amendment and loves the n.r.a., but let's go to the movies because we can't win because they are trying to suppress the vote. i heard 100 times, there is no route, there is no route to 270. and we en

howie: a media furor over a congressman meeting with the trump team on what trump is calling a witch hunt. >> i think nunes will be lucky to keep his chairmanship. he should voluntarily step down from this investigation. >> he's in the middle of the most publicly inept cover-up we have ever seen and he's not in it alone. >> i think's an honorable guy but he kind of stepped tonight how he handled this.

president trump: great job, jay. my administration is working every day to make it easier for manufacturers to build, hire, and grow in america. we're removing job-killing regulations and lifting the burdens on american industry like i would say have never been lifted before. we've done a lot of work over the last 60, 70 days, and i think you're seeing some real production. i think we can say this, mike -- like never before. earlier this week, i signed an executive order to end the war on coal. we had coal miners up at the office. it was an amazing scene. you had very tough, very strong, very powerful men that were crying, actually, and they were crying with happiness. and produce more american energy and more american jobs, which is how i got elected in the first place. we've created the task force in every agency to eliminate wasteful regulations. and today at 3:30 p.m., with the department of commerce, wilbur ross, who will be up, and we're signing two very powerful executive orders. that will be something very im

trump regularly bashes china on twitter. there is a risk that these could go awry, that xi could be embarrassed drastically. they see economic gains is one of the big things on his agenda. something promised and they invest more in the states, promise more jobs, focus on creating jobs and trying to get trump to back off on his threats of a trade war and labeling them a currency manipulator and things of that nature. anna: thank you for your time. -- capital.ow from we see from the north koreans, one of our correspondent said this is a typical label. for this this do conversation that we are seeing what doesump and xi, that mean for investors? 7498 if you are on the bloomberg. it shows limited pricing and of concerns around tech stocks in taiwan. this is the stock you might expect to see some weakness in. people are worried about what was going to happen between the u.s. and chinese trade relationships. guest: i think it is -- it helps the discussion in a way what north korea has done. has got thing is trump some popularity a

and donald trump and fox news go back. trump started to crafts his personal persona. fox was a key platform. he would call in and trualk frequently. o'reilly was a key stop when he tried to sell his message. on top of that, you get into the theory of conservative and how fox news and o'reilly pioneered that style certainly the trump effect owes quite a bit to that ground work. its was a little bit odd when that statement came out with trump defending o'reilly with the accusations and the history of the campaign trail and the tape that came out about donald trump. it dredged up a lot of that. trump felt loyal to bill o'reilly and showed that sense. >> those two have been friends for decades. a good question. would we have president trump if we didn't have bill o'reilly? thank you, tal. >> thank you. >>> more details on the move rocking the world of cable news as we have been telling you. bill o'reilly, the top rated host of "o'reilly factor" is out. the network cancelling the show after pressure from the public and the advertising dropping out. >> in a note to the comp

, trump business, trump purses, trump shoes and the trump presidency. that is a steady drip, drip, drip that has been hounding this family since they campaigned, during the transition and now during the first 100 days that feel like dog years but it's only 100 days. it's not going to go away. we saw it today with the state department -- >> the state department website got a lot of attention for plugging the president's mar-a-lago resort. it was also on the website of the u.s. embassy in the u.k. >> it's outrageous. it's completely outrageous. part of the thing that is shocking to me with a few exceptions, you don't hear conservatives shouting about this. one of the things you want to be able to rely on the conservatives for is limited government, clean glochovernmen small government, this is -- you literally have somebody who says, my house, my business is the winter white house. this is an ad. you would pay a billion dollars for this ad. it's on the state department -- listen, is that making america great again? i don't think so. >> if the shoe were on

i'm sure trump himself was. and maybe things like that and again coming into office hearing the intelligence although maybe mike pence is going to those meetings more than trump. perhaps has changed his mind on a lot of these issues. >> if you flip that coin, some supporters may have a problem with numbers of arenas that the u.s. has increased either troops deployments or had some military activity, the president did promise that the world will respect us again. that he will take bold action. maybe this satisfies some of those supporters. >> absolutely. donald trump although he stressed in his campaign that he wouldn't bring u.s. troops into some of these arenas, he did stress he would bomb people. he would bomb the hell out of isis during the campaign and projected there would be a strength to his military stranl. that's what we're seeing now and a lot of his supporters will respond positively to that actually. >> hell isn't the word he used but i appreciate your editing because of the hour and that we're on te

trump, not her first time. this is jen from sugarloaf, about an hour and a half away. >> i think he's doing a good job, and he's very quiet about the things that he's done anyhow but from all of the readings i've done, he's passed a lot of legislation, he's put -- >> executive orders? >> executive orders and some things through congress and i think that -- i think that everybody has got to give him a chance and give him his due diligence, let him do his due diligence and four years will prove that he's going to do a great job for america. >> reporter: is there anything disappointing to you, the health care that failed or the fact that no money for the wall? >> i'm sorry that the focus has been on the negatives and enough on the positives. would i have liked to have seen heal health care, absolutely. i'm a victim of very high premiums and a very high deductible. i'd like to see something happen for that and if he needs to do tax reform first and get back on that, that's fine with me. >> reporter: what is the bar

past trump say what now trump do! >> trevor: oh, trump said do not attack syria, if you do, many very bad things will happen! >> mmm, african boy. what trump do now with syria? boom drop a bomb! boom drop a bomb! boom boom boom boom! >> trevor: roy, roy, i get it, man. i get it, roy. >> stop calling me roy! ( laughter ) i'm sir ahnrop! >> trevor: sir ahnrop? is that like saran wrap? >> it was in the kitchen when i was thinking about this. it was either that or mr. coffee. i couldn't come up with nothing. it's about brandon. you can't be a fortune-teller and be named roy. sir ahnrop tells the future! roy's a mechanic with a scratch-off lottery ticket problem. >> trevor: okay, fine. sir ahnrop! >> thank you. >> trevor: if trump always does the opposite of what he tweets, then what can we expect from him in the future? >> well, the take a look african -- he no like the sharks... >> trevor: i don't get it, past trump doesn't like sharks. what does that mean for his presidency? >> oh, african man -- when they revealed ever

in america, donald trump does. north korea is building up its arsenal and it is certainly capable of hitting american allies, particularly seoul and japan. soi so i think it is cause for concern. this maverick quality of donald trump, his unpredictable nature, is reaping good results, because it keeps the world on its toes. i'm not saying i subscribe to that, but there is this line of thought. the problem is you have two mavericks now, kim jong—un and donald trump. when you have two in this explosive environment, i'm afraid of what can go wrong. you don't know who will blink. and you've got putin, and remember, pakistan now has a nuclear weapon. india does too. we will be dead. israel has nuclear weapons, please say it! one of the things that really frightens me is because of this posturing and this maverick dropping bombs, because of russia in syria, and iran's role as well, we will get into a third world war without even knowing it. —— naming it. and it will be the end! nuclear weapons prevent a war. you st

and donald trump ran on it. i think you have to go back to when two-thirds of the people thought the economy was on the wrong track. we've had growth for the last eight to ten years. the problem is it particularly hurts middle income working americans. and donald trump's belief, by cutting taxes you can increase economic growth and that's what the economy needs. i don't think there's anything surprising or unusual about this. >> i read tonight somewhere that paul ryan said they didn't have the votes for this yet. do you see a collision course with republicans in congress? >> i think i would take issue with what ari said in one respect. i think this is a surprising and unusual proposal because it is so, it is so wild. cutting rates this much blows something like a $5 trillion hole in the deficit. increases the debt by much over a decade. and it is also dogma in the republican party that we need to worry long fwerm the mounting federal debt. this just sends it to the moon. that will be tough for a lot of fiscal co

could they change donald trump's mind on cutting foreign aid? and two of the most important nations met this week. when president xi went to mar-a-lago. what happened and are china and the u.s. destined for war? i have a guest who says yes. but first, here is my take. there is much to applaud in president trump's decision to attack the assad regime this week. it punished a regime that engaged in war crimes against its own people and upheld a international norm against chemical weapons, it ended trump's strange flirtation with vladimir putin on the middle east and most significantly it seemed to reflect a belated recognition from donald trump that he cannot simply put america first. that the president of the united states must act on behalf of broader interests and ideals. trump as candidate and as president so far avoided the language of global norms and international order but explaining actions thursday night, he invoked both and ended remarks with a prayer that barack obama would never have dared to make. god bless america and the entire worl

trump says he's not a flip-flopper. he says he's trying to get the best deal for the american people. >> reporter: i'm laila santiago in mexico city where since the election, president trump has yet to meet face-to-face with mexican's president enrique pena nieto. he promised to fully fund a wall along the border within 100 days of his presidency. that hasn't happened yet. trump has asked congress to fund a small portion of the wall and maintains mexico will pay for it eventually. mexico hasn't paid for it. maintains it never will. now the next topic, nafta, the free trade deal between the u.s., canada and mexico. president trump says it's a one-sided deal, bat for the u.s. mexico says it's willing to renegotiate, but if it's not a good deal for mexico, they'll walk away and take their business to another country. >> reporter: i'm matthew chance in moscow where the view of president trump has undergone a dramatic transformation. he entered the white house promising to improve relations with russia, even speaking of coop