mr. trump: mr. mcmaster? yes, he is our friend, i like him, and respect him. >> why did you decide to announce the transgender ban reversal and are you betraying a community? mr. trump: i have great respect for that community. i got a lot of votes. they are working on it now. it has been a difficult situation. i think i am doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just saying, as you know, it has been a complicated issue for the military. it has been a confusing issue for the military, and i think i am doing the military a great favor. >> do you have any response to the russian president expelling 755 workers from our embassy? mr. trump: no, i want to thank him. we are trying to cut down on payroll, and i very thankful he has let go of a large number of people. now we have a smaller payroll. there is no real reason for him to go back. i greatly appreciate the fact they have been able to cut our payroll for the united states. we will save a lot of money. >> was it appropriate for the fbi to raid the home

mr. trump: mr. mcmaster? yes, he is our friend, i like him, and respect him. >> why did you decide to announce the transgender man and are you betraying a community? mr. trump: i have great respect for that community. i got a lot of votes. they are working on it now. it has been a difficult situation. i think i am doing a lot of people a favor by coming out and just saying, as you know, it has been a complicated issue for the military. it has been a confusing issue for the military, and i think i am doing the military a great favor. any response to the russian president expelling 755 workers from our embassy? mr. trump: no, i want to thank him. we are trying to cut down on payroll, and i very thankful he has let go of a large number of people. now we have a smaller payroll. there is no real reason for him to go back. i greatly appreciate the fact they have been able to cut our payroll for the united states. we will save a lot of money. >> was it appropriate for the fbi to raid the home of paul manafort? mr. t

also noted was a spike in anti—muslim hate crimes following mr trump's election win. in the uk, thousands of students will today learn their exam results to enter university. 0n the guardian front page, there's high praise from one headteacher to 56 children who were affected by the grenfell tower tragedy. many of them fled the inferno, and hours later had to sit a maths exam, some of them wearing borrowed clothes.

absolutely but i wouldn't limit it to mr trump i think henry wallace had a very clear vision he was a visionary as we know basically looking back on him and he understood especially in a capitalism that has reduced the number of wealth and power holders to a relatively small number the richard the minority gets the more urgent it has to control politics less the majority recognizing that it's a majority do what majorities can do and in order to prevent that you have to buy and control the political apparatus that's what the two parties allowed themselves the republicans with enthusiasms the democrats with perhaps some hesitation but in the end they've become beholden to the big box and so they've behaved in a corresponding way and we are now at the end result of that behavior when the mass of people basically said no we're going to vote for the guy you make fun of mr trump it's like the british working class saying to their establishment we're voting to leave your up basically because you tell us not to and we don't trust you and we don't like you and we're on the way to a country tha

mr. trump: hello, everybody. great to be back in new york and someof our friends great friends outside the building, i must tell you. i want to thank all of our distinguished guests who are with us today, including members of our cabinet, the treasury secretary, steven mnuchin, omb director mick mulvaney, and our transportation secretary, who's doing a fabulous job, elaine chao. thank you all for doing a really incredible and creative job on what we are going to be discussing today, which is infrastructure. we have just had a great set of briefings upstairs on our infrastructure agenda. my administration is working every day to deliver the world-class infrastructure our people deserve and that frankly our country deserves. new is why i just signed a executive order to dramatically reform the nation's badly broken infrastructure permitting process. just walks away as the empire state building. it took 11 months to build the empire state building. today, it could take as long as a decade and much more than that. ta

today, cohen said he discussed the deal with mr. trump three times and that mr. trump signed a letter of intent in october 2015. by that time, candidate trump had surged to the top of the republican polls. >> and i will get along with putin. >> reporter: cohen also traded emails with felix sater, a business associate involved in the trump tower moscow project. sater claimed to have deep ties inside the kremlin. "our boy can become president of the u.s.a. and we can engineer it," mr. sater wrote. "i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this, i will manage this process." in a statement today, cohen described trump tower moscow as "a building proposal that did not succeed and nothing more." the project was scrapped shortly after cohen emailed peskov, the kremlin spokesman. >> the campaign is on its way to victory. >> reporter: cohen did not take a formal role in mr. trump's campaign but regularly appeared on television to praise the candidate. negotiations over trump tower moscow occurred between september 2015 and january 2016. a period during which mr. trump

absolutely but i wouldn't limit it to mr trump i think henry wallace had a very clear vision he was a visionary as we know basically looking back on him and he understood especially in a capitalism that has reduced the number of wealth and power holders to a relatively small number the richer the fs minority gets the more urgent it has to control politics less the majority recognizing that it's a majority do what majorities can do and in order to prevent that you have to buy and control the political apparatus that's what the two parties allowed themselves the republicans with enthusiasms the democrats with perhaps some hesitation but in the end they've become beholden to the big box and so they've behaved in a corresponding way and we are now at the end result of that behavior when the mass of people basically said no we're going to vote for the guy you make fun of mr trump it's like the british working class saying to their establishment we're voting to leave your up basically because you tell us not to and we don't trust you and we don't like you and we're on the way to a country t

president trump is standing by his words days after his fire and fury warning to north korea, mr. trump says perhaps he wasn't stern enough. meanwhile concern is growing in guam. the target of north korea's latest threat. teri okita is in london with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. right now there has been no change in the security threat level in guam, but the governor there is asking residents to be prepared for a possible attack. u.s. military forces on guam are at the ready after a threat from north korea that it's finalizing plans to launch four missiles near the islands. residents woke up to this local headline have mixed feelings of how worried they should be that the latest war of words might result in an actual war. >> pretty scary. >> they threaten us? bring it. the u.s. is strong. i'm pretty sure we got 'em. >> reporter: that is a sentiment president trump echoed thursday at his golf club in new jersey. >> he does something in guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody has seen before what will happen in north korea. >> reporter: as for cri

president trump is standing by his words days after his fire and fury warning to north korea, mr. trump says perhaps he wasn't stern enough. meanwhile concern is growing in guam. the target of north korea's latest threat. teri okita is in london with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. right now there has been no change in the security threat level in guam, but the governor there is asking residents to be prepared for a possible attack. u.s. military forces on guam are at the ready after a threat from north korea that it's finalizing plans to launch four missiles near the island. residents who woke up to this local headline have mixed feelings of how worried they should be that the latest war of words might result in an actual war. >> pretty scary. >> they threaten us? bring it. the u.s. is strong. i'm pretty sure we got 'em. >> reporter: that is a sentiment president trump echoed thursday at his golf club in new jersey. >> he does something in guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody has seen before what will happen in north korea. >> reporter: as for

nonetheless, mr. trump has plenty of supporters. some 80% of republicans approve of his performance. a number of republican senators and congressmen have reportedly attacks to mr. trump's on mr. sessions and voted against his measures, but very few have spoke up against him all the clay. if republicans are afraid of their own base, then the president may be able to obstruct courts of justice with impunity. worse, he may then conclude that he can get away with violating even more basic limits on his power. we also have a new piece in politico. it is an excerpt from a book coming out called "the conscience of a conservative." he writes, "republicans have sinned by not standing up to president trump and not standing up when president obama was in power to those who criticized him. under the constitution, there are simply not that many people who are in a position to do something about an executive branch in chaos. as the first branch of government, congress was designed expressly to assert itself at such moments. it is what we talk abo

mr. trump has harnessed it. what we have seen in recent years has been a backlash to the changing demographics in our country. it's been going on for quite some time. mr. trump, unfortunately, during his campaign harnessed his candidacy to that and really stoaked the flames in a very significant way. >> put this in perspective for us. are we seeing more of these incidents because we're more connected society and everything goes viral on the internet or are there actually more people that are joining these groups and marching with them. >> well look, we've seen an increase of about 100 percent in the number of hate groups since the late 90st. we've also seen a tremendous surge of hate activity online as one might expect. it's difficult to put exact number on the number of hate crimes in our country because reporting is so poor. the fbi accounts 7 to 10,000 hate crimes every year. the bureau of justice statistics says that the true number might be closer to a quarter million. i think our own work tells us that we'

trump multiple times and mr. trump signed ape letter of intent in october 2015. by that time, candidate trump surged to the top of the republican polls. >> i will gait long with putin. >> cohen traded e-mails with a business associate involved in the trump tower moscow project. seder claimed to have deep tie thousands inside the kremlin. our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it. i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this. i will manage this process. in a statement today, cohen described trump tower moscow as "a building proposal that did not succeed and nothing more." the project was scrapped shortly after cohen e-mailed peskov, the kremlin spokesman. >> the campaign is on its way to victory. >> cohen did not take a for mall role in mr. trump's campaign but regularly appeared on television to praise the canned dade. negotiations over trump tower moscow occurred between september 2015 and january 2016. a period during which mr. trump pra praised putin and russia. >> thing of putin. if putin likes me. thinks i am ape good, smart person.

mr trump said mueller would cross a red line if you looked into his own financial affairs. does it make it more likely that mr mueller might be sacked, or does it make it harderfor the president to get rid of mueller? the great concern in washington, particularly among republicans, is that mr trump would indeed try to fire robert mueller. it's a doomsday scenario for the president. it could deepen the crisis and prolong it, and could trigger calls through impeachment, but the president has been treating this issue of looking into his finances as a red line issue. the red line is clearly being crossed. there are already subpoena is that had been issued on transactional issues with relation to his close aides, general flynn, and he has assembled a team with an obvious there shortly in looking at foreign bribery and financial fraud. professor, for those of us not well versed in how the american justice system works, what is the point of impact rolling up grand jury? what does a grand jury do? a grand jury isa does a grand jury do? a grand jury is a very powerful tool for prose

. >> woodruff: ...president trump sounds off. at a raucous rally, mr. trump defends his charlottesville response, and aims a blistering broadside at the news media and even fellow republicans. then, a spotlight on war games-- the u.s. military's annual drills with south korea begin amid heightened tensions with the north. and, we listen in as british rock star, billy bragg, explores how a little known musical genre, called skiffle, brought us bands like the beatles. >> from january 1964 to december 1965 there's a british group at number one in the american charts for 52 weeks out of 104. every single one of them begins as a skiffle group. >> woodruff: all that and more on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the world's most pressing problems-- skollfoundation.org. >> the lemelson foundation. committed to improving lives through invention. in the u.s. and developing countrie

all voted in the high 40s for mr. trump. a huge majority in all three states say donald trump's conduct as president makes them feel embarrassed rather than proud. look at those numbers. 63, 64, 64. that's a lot of trump voters in there. julius, i want to give you the first shot out of here and ask you specifically about the bannon exit. does that add to your concern that this presidency is over, as bannon told "the weekly standard"? >> i've always been fairly critical of steve bannon. even though he was directionally correct on some of the policy its, he had no idea how to do it and only made it worse. so i think he should have been gone long ago. the problem is now it's too late. >> where does this white house go? i just don't know where this white house heads next. >> well, i don't know that anybody does. i'm not sure that anybody inside the white house knows where it goes. you know, with bannon out, general kelly can organize things and direct the flow of people into and out of the oval office, but he can't control donal

president trump is standing by his words days after his fire and fury warning to north korea, mr. trump says perhaps he wasn't stern enough. meanwhile concern is growing in guam. the target of north korea's latest threat. teri okita is in london with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. right now there has been no change in the security threat level in guam, but the governor there is asking residents to be prepared for a possible attack. u.s. military forces on guam are at the ready after a threat from north korea that it's finalizing plans to launch four missiles near the islands. residents woke up to this local headline have mixed feelings of how worried they should be that the latest war of words might result in anua >> pretty scary. >> they threaten us? bring it. the u.s. is strong. i'm pretty sure we got 'em. >> reporter: that is a sentiment president trump echoed thursday at his golf club in new jersey. >> he does something in guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody has seen before what will happen in north korea. >> reporter: as for criticism tha

trump multiple times and mr. trump signed ape letter of intent in october 2015. by that time, candidate trump surged to the top of the republican polls. >> i will gait long with putin. >> cohen traded e-mails with a business associate involved in the trump tower moscow project. seder claimed to have deep tie thousands inside the kremlin. our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it. i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this. i will manage this process. in a statement today, cohen described trump tower moscow as "a building proposal that did not succeed and nothing more." the project was scrapped shortly after cohen e-mailed peskov, the kremlin spokesman. >> the campaign is on its way to victory. >> cohen did not take a for mall role in mr. trump's campaign but regularly appeare to praise the canned dade. negotiations over trump tower moscow occurred between september 2015 and january 2016. a period during which mr. trump pra praised putin and russia. >> thing of putin. if putin likes me. thinks i am ape good, smart person. i hope he belie

what is peculiar to the united states is mr trump. during the campaign he was really playing with fire, varane a really very xenophobic and racist campaign in my view and that xenophobia and racism has really energised the radical right in an ugly way in our country and we saw that in full display in charlottesville a week ago. to be clear about this, you are the boss of one of the highest profile civil rights organisations in the united states today, are you saying that president donald trump is an out and out racist?” saying that president donald trump is an out and out racist? i don't know mrtrump... i is an out and out racist? i don't know mr trump... i don't know what's in his heart. all i do know is his actions have been racist. they've been racist for quite some time. as some of your viewers may know, mr trumpjumped on some of your viewers may know, mr trump jumped on the some of your viewers may know, mr trumpjumped on the birther bandwagon, claiming perhaps president obama wasn't born in this country. that was a true racist

trump multiple times and that mr. trump signed a letter of intent in october 2015. by that time, candidate trump had surged to the top of the republican polls. >> i will get along with putin. >> cohen also traded emails with felix satter, a business associate involved in the trump tower moscow project. satter claimed to have deep ties inside the kremlin. our boy can become president of the u.s.a. and we can engineer it, mr. satter wrote. i will get all of puttin-- putin's team to buy in on this, i will manage this described trump tower moscow as quote a building proposal that did not succeed and nothing more. the project was scrapped shortly after cohen emailed peskov, the kremlin spokesman. >> the campaign is on its way to victory. >> cohen did not take a formal role in mr. trump's campaign but regularly appeared on television to praise the candidate. >> negotiations over trump tower moscow occurred between september 2015 and january 12016. a period during which mr. trump praisessed putin and russia. >> think of putin, pretty tough cookie, right? if putin likes me

just the night before mr. trump stuck to the script as he addressed the nation about afghanistan. james clapper, former director of national intelligence, was struck by the difference between that speech and his performance in phoenix. here was clapper last night with cnn's don lemmon. >> it's interesting to contrastland last night's teleprompter trump performance versus tonight, which is, of course, the real trump, just as it was in the unglued, impromptu press conference at trump toer. i just find this extremely disturning. >> are you questioning his fitness? >> yes, i do. i really question his ability to... his fitness to be in this office, and i also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. maybe he is looking for a way out. >>>> mason: what is the president's motivation? chief white house correspondent major garrett has more about that. >> they are trying to take away our history and our heritage. you see that. >> reporter: president trump taunted the news media with accusations of divisiveness that since charlottesville republicans, democrats, and business leaders

mr. trump had been using one from the reagan years. is he planning to have a new one installed? well, stay tuned. ub next, steve hartman answers the question nobody asked-- what can you learn from a clinkenbeard? . >> mason: we end the week in the hoosier state. why say question for steve hartman "on the road." >> reporter: we came to indiana looking for one of life's most elusive secrets. we'd heard that deep within knox county, indiana, back amongst these cornfields, there was a cluster of people who had all unlocked the mystery of a long and happy marriage. >> married 61 years. >> 61 years. >> it will be 59 in december. >> 55 in november. >> soon be 53. >> 4. >> 54, okay. >> reporter: but here's what's even more remarkable-- they're all related. together, the eight clinkenbeard siblings have amassed nearly half a millennia of marriage, 449 years total. so i figured if anyone had the secret to wedded bliss, it would have to be these couples. >> everybody just kind of gather in. >> reporter: so i gathered them for a series of interviews, and here's what i learned. >> big smile!

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violence and blame -- mr. trump: i think there's blame on both sides. you look at both sides, i think there's lame on both sides and i have no doubt about it and you don't have any doubt about it either. and, if you reported it accurately, you would see. >> they showed up in charlottesville -- mr. trump: you had some very bad people in that group but you also had people that were very

we have these lives pictures from phoenix in arizona which is where mr trump was holding back ad dress. you can seabed of the stand—off. they have gathered to express their own views on mr trump of the position largely over the question of the white supremacist rallied from a couple of weeks ago, and mrtrump‘s rallied from a couple of weeks ago, and mr trump's remarks. that is something he focused on in his own address to a sympathetic supportive audience in the phoenix convention centre. there was a bit of trouble afterwards. i think we have some pictures with came to you from earlier in the evening when things got a little bit more out of hand. excuse the cameras, but you will see there were some smoke grenades were fired by the police, having an obvious impact on the protesters are. we are going to get more on the situation in phoenix from our correspondence was there a little bit late in the bulletin. these are recorded pictures. the situation remains tense ian sleeman —— phoenix, arizona. as for within the venue itself, mr trump launched a blistering attack on the media fo

just the night before, mr. trump stuck to the script as he addressed the nation about afghanistan. james clapper, former director of national intelligence, was struck by the difference between that speech and his performance in phoenix. here was clapper last night with cnn's don lemon. >> it's interesting to contrast last night's teleprompter trump performance versus tonight, which is, of course, the real trump, just as it was in the unglued, impromptu press conference at trump tower. so i just find this extremely disturbing. >> are you questioning his fitness? >> yes, i do. i-- i really question his ability to... his fitness to be in this office, and i also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. maybe he is looking for a way out. >> mason: so what is the president's motivation? chief white house correspondent major garrett has more about that. >> they are trying to take away our history and our heritage. you see that. >> reporter: president trump taunted the news media with accusations of divisiveness that, since charlottesville, republicans, democrats, and business l

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in fact, mr. trump lost new hampshire to hillary clinton. new hampshire democratic senator maggie hassan. >> the words were disgusting and outrageous. >> reporter: the "post" also obtained the january 28 transcript of an even more explosive phone call of malcolm turnbull of australia, one of america's most closest allies. referring to a deal with the obama administration to take in refugees, mr. trump said, "i hate taking these people. i guarantee they are bad. they're not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people." turnbull then told the president that "a deal is a deal," and "you are going to stick with it." soon after that, the president abruptly ended the call. we should note that in the months since those phone calls, the president has met with the leaders of australia and mexico, and the white house has described those meetings as >> announcer: this is the cbc overnight news. >>> a massachusettswoman faced as much as 20 years in prison for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself. but when she was senten

all voted in the high 40s for mr. trump. a huge majority in all three states say donald trump's conduct as president makes them feel embarrassed rather than proud. look at those numbers.64. that's a lot of trump voters in there. julius, i want to give you the first shot out of here and ask you specifically about the bannon exit. does that add to your concern that this is over, as bannon told "the weekly standard"? >> i've always been fairly critical of steve bannon. even though he was directionally correct on some of the policy its, he had no idea how to wors. so i think he should have been gone long ago. the problem is now it's too late. >> where does this white house go? i just don't know where this white house heads next. >> well, i don't know that anybody does. i'm not sure that anybody inside the white house knows where it goes. you know, with bannon out, general kelly can organize things and direct the flow of people into and out of the oval office, but he can't control donald trump's cell phone. you know, whom he call

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mr. trump also had a response to those who say his rhetoric has gone too far. >> well, you know, my critics are only saying that because it's me. if somebody else uttered the t they had say, "what a great statement. what a wonderful statement." we have tens of millions of people in this country that are so happy with what i'm saying because they're saying, "finally, we have a president that's sticking up fur our nation." >> reporter: he again warned kim jong-un against carrying out an attack on guam. >> if he does anything with respect to guam or any place else that's an american territory or an american ally, he will truly regret it. and he will regret it fast. we're very much in agreement. >> reporter: late today, mr. trump met with his secretary of state, rex tillerson, and u.n. ambassador, nikki haley, who have tried to reassure allies, despite the president's tough talk. >> i think the president's made it clear. he prefers a diplomatic solution. >> reporter: even secretary of defense james mattis yesterday stressed th

mr. president, thank you. mr. trump: it's so nice, governor and it is my honor to be in a special place in this special state. senator cruz and senator cornyn, thank you very much for being here. it was hard to get here for both of you. you are trapped in various locations but we appreciate you being here. i want to thank my staff and cabinet. mcmahonprice and linda focuses on small business -- you are add them up, doing a very fantastic job. we have had a tremendous group of folks. our acting director, thank you for the job you have done. you have become very famous on television. we appreciated this. your representatives have been working together. we want to do it better than ever before. this is the way to do it. this is of epic proportion. nobody has ever seen anything like this. teamovernor and his entire , thank you ve much. we won't say congratulations. everyoneongratulate when it's all finished. you have been terrific. >> thank you, mr. president. the whole community is coming together. wind came in just

mr. bannon. >> mason: today, we saw. the president presses control-alt-rideght-lete and gives his chief strategist the boot. also tonight, barcelona marches in defiance of terrorists as more arrestsre a made in a widening plot. >> this is all for the lovely eclipse! >> mason: eclipse fever. >> there's no way of actually coting how many people will come. we know there will be a lot. >> mason: and steve hartman. how do you honor your number one friend? >> it was right there. i said, "this guy was the greatest plumber ever. this is what we're going too d." >> mason: may he rest in peac ( toilet flushing ) captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> mason: good evening, i'm john mccain. there was another shake-up at the white house today. chief strategist steve bannon is out. he joins chief of staff reince priebus, national security adviser michael flynn, and press secretar