robert: yeah. i mean, it really is a matter of helping to rescue animals as well as adopting the pets, and it becomes one and the same, right? cristie: it--yeah, we--our regional rescue program, we focus primarily on rescuing animals from our immediate area. so, our we care coalition, which is in santa clara county. and if we do have extra capacity, we will go beyond. so, we'll go to the central valley shelters and transfer back animals that are risk there, and bring them back to us for adoption. for treatment and adoption, yeah. robert: in our family, you know, my sister susie, angie, my mom harumi, they've all adopted dogs through the humane society of silicon valley. almost all of them have been dogs that needed some care, some extra thing. it's sort of funny in a way because a lot of people, i think they do go there. they want to adopt a pet. they have certain things in mind, but the stories that are attached to some of these pets usually kind of take hold of them a little bit. cristie: yes, th

once again, fromto washi moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. president trump increasingly wary of the russia investigation punched back as he watched members of the national security establishment criticize him. he revoked john brennan's security clearance ands considering taking only access for others. it is all rt of an effort to diminish special counsel robert mueller's probe which has brought paul manafort to trial. while mr. trump has called it a witch hunt, mr. muell has been defended by many intelligence veterans. mr. brennan testified last year that he saw a troubling pattern of contact betweentrussia and thp campaign. joining me tonight, julie pace, bureau chief for the associated press, michael scherer, reporter for the "washington post," toluselorunnipa, for bloomberg news, and josh gerstein, politic for brennan versus president trump. y d the president choose now to pick this fight? >> he always need something to be fighting.sc there was a ating moment on the south said, i'm making his voice bigger. this is rt of the effort to discr

once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. what a week. two courtroom dramas featuring the president's former campaign chairman paul manafort andis longtime attorney michael cohen and immunity deals with tos allies. all of it could change the course of donald trump's presidency. on tuesday, a jury convicted manafort on eight of 18 cous of tax evasion and bank fraud. the "washington post" reported e that the pre has privately considered a pardon for manafort but his lawyers have so far advisedgainst it. that samay, former trump attorney michael cohen brought the legal clouds even closer to the president. cohen pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws: under oath he stunned the pnhattan courtroom when he said theayments to women alleging n fairs were, quote, coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office. that statement contradict what is the president once told reporters. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no.>> id you -- did you give him the money to make that payment? robert

robert: yeah. and jeremiah, you must have been looking forward to knowing that the whole background and the terrain and the atmosphere was going to be great to shoot, huh? jeremiah ysip: yeah, i mean, it's a good juxtaposition to put, you know, filipinos in the rocky mountains, where you don't see us normally. and yeah, it was-- robert: intriguing story. i mean, when i heard the idea, i just thought, "oh, i could see why you guys jumped on it." jeremiah: yeah, yeah, yeah. robert: we've got a little clip here we're going to show, and then we'll talk a little bit more about it afterwards, okay? female: they experienced loss of parents and home and family and change in country, so a lot of times kids want to kind of recreate family. and they do a lot of healing when they themselves become parents. ampalaya, you like ampalaya. ooh, your tita does not like ampalaya. you like ampalaya? our children were a gift to us in many ways, and we never would have grown as people without having them in our lives? r

robert: all right. we'll start with a look at what's ahead for the festival and parade coming up august 11 and 12 in san francisco, and why it's billed as the world's largest filipino-american celebration. we'll see the entertainment plan, which will include music, dance, food, martial arts, and comedy. then even more vationhis year, seven highly interactive pavilions, a project that organizers say separates them even more from other festivals. and we close with a live cooking demonstration as we spotlight the variety of food availabl.ri all of this on our show today. well, this is the 25th annual pistahan festival and parade. i had the honor of emceeing the event during one of those years, and it is truly a fun, colorful blend of the old and the new. with me are two familiar faces who've been a big part of that tradition. first the pistahan president, al perez, not only a leader in this event but in many other areas of the community. something we can also say about the pistahan parade director, john es

robert: just a little. aly: so, beverly parenti and her husband, chris redlitz, lived close to the prison. they're both business professionals, and had drove by the prison for years and years. chris was invited in to talk to one of the groups inside the prison, came in and just saw the amount of talent in the prison, and decided to start an entrepreneurship class. he started the entrepreneurship class with his wife. i better include her. i'll be in trouble. and i signed up for the class, and a lot of other men, and the idea behind the entrepreneurship class was you come up with a business idea, you write a comprehensive business plan behind that idea, and it had to have a tech component and a social component. and then you learned to pitch that idea and the final phase of the project, where they brought in real entrepreneurs and business leaders and also some investors, and the inmates got robert: we wanna hear about your personal experiences, but isn't it great that somebody would come in and look at the p

robert costa. the midterm elections just three months away. challenges and the russia nvestigation loom over the president. tonight,we on "washingto." president trump: thank you. thank you, ohio. i love ohio. robert: a special election in a ruby-red part of ohio ends in a dead heat. president trump: we must electns more repub.ma : robert: democrats say the midterm elections is a bell weather. >> it's about guard rails because we have a republicanus and republican senate that are not putting any guardon rai his president. there's no accountability. robert: but democratsre facing opportunity and internal debates and insurgent progressives came up short in some races in kansas, president trump's politica capital his own party was tested. >> at the end of the day he with his gut and president trump's gut is almost always exactly spot on so i'm happy he did. robert: mr.rump remains optimistic and prohibits a red wave is coming. plus, are president trump and the special counsel helded for p na showdown?

once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. what a week. two courtroom dramas featuring the president'sr campaign chairman paul manafort and his longtime attorney micha cohen and immunity deals with two close allies.f all could change the course of donald trump's presidency. on tuesday, a jury convict manafort on eight of 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud. the "washington post" reported that the president has privately coaridered an for manafort but his lawyers have so far advised against it. th same day, former trump attorney michael cohen brought the legal clouds even closer to the president. cohen pleaded guilty toin viol campaign finance laws: under oath he stunned the manhtan courtroom when he said the payments to women alleging affairs were, quote, in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office. that statement contr is the president once told reporters. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stoy daniels? >> no. >> did you -- did you give him the money to make that payment? ro the president ap

once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: gd evening. president trump increasingly wary of e russia investigation ionched back as he watched members of the natnal security establishment criticize him. he revoked john brennan's security clearance and is considering taking onlyrsccess for ot it is all part of an effort to diminish special counsel robert mueller's probe whi has brought paul manafort to trial. while mr. trump has called it a witch hunt, mr. mueller has been defended by many intelligence veterans. mr. brennan testified last year that he saw a troubling pattern of contact between russia and the trump campaign. joining me tonight, julie pace, bureau chief for the associated press, michaelcherer, reporter for the "washington post," tolusea olorunn, for bloomberg news, and josh gerstein, reporter for politico. brennan versus president trump. why did the president choose now to pick this fight? >> he always need something to be fighting. there was a fascinating moment on the sout' said, i'making his voice bigger. this is part of t

robert e. lee admitted that he relied on texas soldiers in all tight places and he argued we would must have more than. in april 1864, when lieutenant journal james long street's first core returns to virginia after spending the winter in tennessee, lee declared hood texans "the best fighting brigade in the core." lee cheered the texas brigade's arrival at the battle of the wilderness, a week later, saying texas always move them, expressing his confidence in their ability to turn the tide of battle which they did. other confederates spoke highly of the texans as well. major general smith commented , very early ine the war, in the spring of 1862, saying "the texans won a mortal honor for themselves, their state and for their commander general hood." "i could talk a week and not say half they deserve. if the regiments now organized in texas could be transported here and armed tomorrow, and properly led they would end the war in three months." north carolinian, a colonel at the time said, hood's t

the person in the driver seat is robert mueller. it is not donald trump and it isn't rudy giuliani who keeps changing his story to try to spin his way out of this. >> clearly the president is deeply concerned about what is going on. he would like to know what mueller has, as well. >>> let's turn to another sensitive issue, devon nunes told republican donors that the republicans have to keep the majority in the house of representatives in order to protect the president from mueller. listen to this. we have to keep all of these seats. we have to keep the majority. if we do not keep the majority all of this goes away. >> did he just say out loud something that members of congress are not supposed to say? >> yeah. absolutely. look, he went into that fundraiser for a political reason which is okay, completely legal. and he is making a political argument. also okay in the broad sense. but the fact of the matter is devon nunes, the argument he is making is members of congress don't work for the constituents that sent them. they work to pro

once onagain, from washin moderator, robert costa. robert: gd evening. the week has been revealing, showing the tensions inside the trump administration over russia. in the scenes that played out at the a white hou on the campaign trail they were shown. thursday was a microcosm. that morning, top intelligence officials, including f.b.i. director christopher ray and director of national intedigence dan cote appea at the white house. they said the upcoming mid-term elections remain a target for russia. >> we acknowledge the threat. it is real. it is continuing. we're doing everything we canto ave a legitimate election that the american people can have trust in. in addition to that, it goes beyondns the elect and goes to russia's intent to undermine our democratic a values, drive wedge between our allies, and do other nefarious things. >> this threat is not going away. i ave said consistently, russia attempted to interfere th he last election and continues to engage in mignd influence operations to this day. robert: the president did notng appear ade them,

i'm robert costa. the midterm elections just three months away. challenges and the russia investigation loom over thet. presid tonight, on "whington week." president trump: thank you. thank you, ohio. i love ohio. obert: a special election in a ruby-red part of ohio ends in a dead heat. president trump: we must elect more republicans. bomani: robert: democrats say the midterm elections is a bell weather. >> it's about guard rails because we have a republican house and republican senate that are not putting any guard rails on this president. there's no accountability. robert: but democrats are facing opportunity and internal debat and insurgent progressives came up short in some races in kansas, president trump's political capital in his own party was tes >> at the end of the day he went with his gut and president trump's gut is almost always exactly st so i'm happy he did. robert: mr. trump remains optimistic and prohid ts a re wave is coming. plus, are president trump and the special couel helded for

once from washington, moderator, robert costa. robert: good evening. the week has been revealing,in sh the tensions inside the trump administrati. over russ in the scenes that played out at the white house and on the campaign trail they were shown. thuray was a microcosm. that morning, top intelligence officials, including f.b.i. director christopher ray and director of national intelligence dan cote appeared at the white house. they said the upcoming mid-term elections remain a target for russia. >> we acknowledge the threat. it is real. it is continuin we're doing everything w can to have a legitimate election that the american people can have trust in. t in additio that, it goes beyond the elections and goes to russia's intent to undermine our mocratic values, drive a wedge between our allies, and do other nefarious t>>ngs. his threat is not going away. as i have said consistently, ia ruttempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage in malignd influence operations to this day. robert: the president did not appear alongside them

robert mueller might do. quote, "law enforcement officials who have worked with mr. mueller a long time federal prosecutor and the head of the fbi believe that he will try to use every tool he has to get the president to answer questions and that he will probably subpoena him to testify if he does not agree to be questioned voluntarily." okay. that's one possibility. and trump lawyers offered "the new york times" another very credible possibility this time, saying some of mr. trump's lawyers believe that mr. mueller will not subpoena their client out of fear of losing a court fight that could undermine the investigation's legitimacy to the public. and so robert mueller is approaching a very difficult decision point, probably the most difficult decision point that he will face in his investigation of the president of the united states. and now to answer the question of what robert mueller will do, what robert mueller should do, we are now joined by jill wine-banks and glen kersner. thank you for being here 44

he is now cooping with robert mueller. how significant is this. >> it's significant one of the things did he he allowed a russian political operative and ukrainian oligarchs -- he helped them purchase inauguration tickets. foreign money, you are not allowed to do that. the fact -- so that in and of itself sort of shows the -- the lengths they go to to get close to the president. in addition he is cooperating with prosecutors as a part of his plea agreement. so we don't know what he is saying. but he could -- he- mueller will be able to ask him about the -- about what he might know, what some of the inner workings are, were there contacts with people in the trump orbit and russian -- and russians and the ukrainian og arcs. it is significant. >> and what's significant, also laura jarrett is we know the trump inauguration committee they raised a record $106 million twice with what the predecessors raised. that's significant. but what does samuel patton who pleaded guilty today to felony counts? what is his involvement in all

robert e. lee admitted that he relied on texas soldiers in all types of places and he argued we must have more of them, following the battle of -- in april 1864, when lieutenant journal james long street's -- lieutenant general james longstreet's first corps returns to virginia after spending the winter in tennessee, lee declared hood texans "the best fighting brigade in the corps." lee cheered the texas brigade's arrival at the battle of the wilderness a week later saying texas always move them, expressing his confidence in their ability to turn the tide of battle which they did. other confederates spoke highly of the texans as well. major general smith commented after the battle of -- landing, very early in the war, in the spring of 1862, "the texans won a mortal honor for themselves, their state and for their commander general hood." i could talk a week and not say half they deserve. if the regiments now organized in texas could be transported here and armed tomorrow, and properly led they w

donald trump seems to goad robert mueller. we used to talk why is he not mentioning robert mueller? mueller continues detail, detail. mcgahn, 30 hours. plea deals. drives donald trump batty. >> stick around. more news to follow. sources telling cnn the president is rattled by new reports that the white house counsel don mcgahn provided more than 30 hours of testimony to the special counsel's investigators. >>> plus, a verdict in the trial of president trump's campaign chairman paul manafort could come any minute. stand by. you're in "the situation room." [telephone ring] ahoy-hoy. alexander graham bell here... no, no, my number is one, you must want two! two, i say!! like my father before... [telephone ring] like my father before... ahoy-hoy! as long as people talk too loudly on the phone, you can count on geico saving folks money. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. what's critical thinking like? a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of c

robert e lee. the white folks have been celebrating robert e lee. you think you are celebrating martin luther king's birthday? they are actually sending out applications for the flex client in high school and churches -- klan in high school and churches. the question is: how do you respond to it? larger it in this context of history, there is no ministry. it is when you do not know your history, it becomes a mystery. we have seen this before. what is our solution? what is our approach? not have enough involvement of young people. of youngwere made people. look at the permitting him birmingham- movement, the call it thank you called it thee youth movement. we have to do is get the young people involved. one of the things you do is legislator pages 12-17. get those young people together to him to elect officials replicate the very state elections that we have. partyat you call a youth and every month, you have a party and bring footer registration forms. forms.r registration monthing a meeting once a and having a party, have you bringgood to eat, a re

what is at stake for robert mueller? >> it is signicant that the case is moving forward, and it is important that they win the case. if they don't, i'm afraid it takes some of the o steam o the investigation and would give trump a chance to talk more about a witch hunt and that this was made up. from bob mueller's side, he is doing the classic federal prosecutor move, doing it in a methodical way. itis is by and large a paper case. an be proven with documents, bank statements and tax forms. he will lay the case out and show in fact that manafort is guilty of these offenses. o on theer hand, manafort's doing the classic defense move, or his lawyers are, blaming the testifying witnesses like gates. it is importt. it is not directly implicating the president, but it is something that will prove the breadth and depth of investigative prowess of bob mueller and his team. jane: but it has nothing to do with russia interference. doesn't this lend weight when president trump does call it a witch hunt? michael: i've talked for a

robert costa, let me start with you. just what do we know, we say it's the president reigniting this controversy with a tweet over the weekend. what do we know about the context of the tweet? why did he decide to send it, what was his state of mind? what was the stimulus for that? what do you know about it? >> the president didn't make this tweet in a vacuum. he's facing numerous political and legal challenges on the horizon. this week, will his legal team agree to a sit-down with robert mueller and his investigators or not? will mueller issue a subpoena? he knows the manafort trial is ongoing. he's been increasingly frustrated about the news coverage of that whole experience. based on our reporting over the weekend. and so you have a president also seeing the legal spotlight because of what michael cohen's legal team is talking about privately. his son is being brought back into the headlines. it's getting personal for president trump. >> what do you know, robert? do you know anything in terms of what folks around the p

robert and more than 100 luminaries. that day a week after easter when the becon on the hill showed brightly in washington, you had a nuclear nonproliferation protestor, you had a scientist super star falling from grace on the roads of redemption. we do not serve brains, the main course is beef welling tennessee. it is my pleasure to welcome to the stage joseph esposito, author. [applause] >> thank you, thank you very much and thank you all for being here. it's a rather soggy day. first of all, i want to ask, how many people are aware of this dinner that took place in 1962, the nobel dinner, any familiarity with it? okay, well, i'm going to tell you a little more about it and hopefully you will find it as fascinating as i found it when i was doing the research and writing of the book. first of all, it took place on a a day, april 29th, it was allusion of easter egg heads, it was a week after easter, it was first day of daylight savings time and the midpoint of the kennedy administration and it was, i think, it was a high

robert frost was there. of course frost had become famous for his reciting of the palm of the maturation in 1961 and president kennedy coming in now, a couple months was sent into russia onm a special missin to the soviet union. catherine porter was fair. one novel she had mostly wrote short stories, but are one on that very day reached number one in "the new york times" best seller list. mary hemingway as you mentioned in the introduction she sat at president kennedy's table, but she also plotted argument with him over the policy. hemingway had lived in cuba for 20 years and she had a particular perspective on the bay of pigs which isis not shard by president kennedy and also fidel castro. people enjoyed themselves thatle evening. even those who would ordinarily feel comfortable for one reason or another. minus pauling, he enjoyed himself and then play. he was a great dancer and he like the tango and when there was a wall in the evening when they were moving from one room to another, he and his wife started

celebrate robert lee's birthday. -- birthday is the same time. robert e. lee. the white folks are celebrating robert e. lee. while you think you are celebrating martin luther king. that is what i'm talking about. are actually sending out applications that you want to join the ku klux klan in high school. they send them out. in churches they pass them out. in alabama. that is where i live. i know what i'm talking about. things that you have not even seen before. the question is how do you respond to it, is the question. and you see it in as large a context of history, it is no mystery. it is when you don't know your history that it becomes a mystery. seen this before. let's get quickly past that and say what is a solution. what is our approach. our approach is that we don't have enough active involvement of our young people. remember that, talk about the movement of the 60's. young folk. i was a teenager when i was enjoying this. look at the birmingham movement. we called it the children's movement. the children. the young folk. helped make it happen. we had the

you've also worked with robert mueller. what do you make of the testimony of this star witness that's been there for the last couple days, rick gates, manafort's former deputy? >> i was the federal prosecutor as you mentioned and i have put big high stakes cooperators on the stand and that's what we're seeing now from mueller's team and these prosecutors are people who have done this before, they've put cooperating witnesses on the stand. i think what you're seeing them do is, one, use rick gates's testimony to corroborate other evidence that's already been put in and, two, very importantly, to bring the jury inside the scheme that he, by his own admission, rick gates, has done with paul manafort and describe the crimes they committed together. a lot has been talked about about the defense now trying to sully rick gates's testimony and his credibility. as a prosecutor, i didn't care if a jury liked my cooperating witness, i only cared that they believed him and he has every incentive to tell the truth here because he gets n

only robert mueller's team knows what was said in those 30 hours. but donald trump is not at ease with this story. >> you touched on this, the suggestion coming from the "new york times" report that mcgahn was somehow worried about being set up by the president as the fall guy. >> oh, i think that's quite clear what's happened here. i mean, sources who, and quite clearly thisser to story is ba sources close to mcgahn, sources have told "the new york times" that you have the 1973 precedent during watergate where richard nixon's team through the white house counsel john dean through him under the bus. he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. they hoped that would end watergate, of course it didn't. but mcgahn's people are looking at that saying is it possible for donald trump who is not known for loyalty to his subordinates could turn on mcgahn and say i got bad advice, i didn't know i was obstruction s justice, it was my lawyer's fault. this is a way to block off the possibility that he's the fall guy. >> i want to pose this question to you. do y

he charges brought by special counsel robert mueller. michael cohen pleaded guilty to breaking federal direction law -- electton loss at the direction of the president including paying hush money. >> he paid money to silence women he he believed would be detrimental to the 2016 campaign and the candidate. it is clear that the wommn are pornr bbrn star -- are star stormy daniels and former playboy model karen mcdougal. cohen's plea deal raises the possibility he will provide other information to mueller. cooperation from another foomer truck they'd like -- trump aid michael flynn. he pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about rrssian official ccntact for >> good to see you, doug. breake had such a story before, is this likely to have an impact on donald trump? >> donald trump has been tefloo until now. pe fights back, deeies, dodges, he will never take the blame himself. to deflect blame, if not onto democrats onto opponentt who criticize them, most usually via he has yet to tweet on this turn oo events. this was a bad day for donald trump.

where we weigh in with robert mueller is still to be seen. what i would say, and i understand, i think, where trump's tweet was coming from is the question of what kinds of investigation joe mccarthy preside over versus the type of investigation that robert mueller is. i think we have to be careful here on another historical point to separate out joe mccarthy from mccarthyism. the term has come to refer to as you were saying, to make a wild accusation without evidence. that is a very different thing from what joe mccarthy did in his role as chairman of the permanent subcommittee on investigations, which was the real seat of his investigation into communist conspiracy, to subvert the u.s. government, and the role of communists in a variety of organizations, but particularly, their role with regard to government employees. the robert mueller investigation is much broader. its authority is much less clearly defined. joe mccarthy was in the end, we have to remember, answerable to congress, answerable to the american public, to the voters in wisco

in 2013, robert mueller sets up robert mueller and associates, a consulting firm, then also takes on clients through another firm who, by the way, several attorneys from there join robert mueller on his special counsel clinton-connected attorneys, no less. right, he does the same thing. it's the revolving door, it's cashing in on public service. it's outrageous. gregg: so there is bottom line, a revolving door between government service and big business, and when you go circling around that revolving door, you are getting wealthy off it. and that's taxpayer money, right? >> that's right. one thing i want to make clear is the revolving door, most people have come to accept it. it happens in the defense department, happens in the department of energy. honestly, we like experts from the government working as the contractors, contracting with the government, but this is the department of justice and the fbi. this is the top law enforcement agency in the country. these people throw men and women in jail, martha stewart, for example, someone that comey and mueller tag-teamed to throw in ja

than maybe jacob zuma was with robert mugabe. what about the new president—elect, who was already the president effectively as a result of the coup last november, which they all said was not a coup, but everyone else did. clearly, robert mugabe says it was a coup. they have applied to return to the commonwealth. is that some potential leverage that could be used? i think that sort of soft power thing can always be used as leverage but i really question whether we should enter into such discussions with someone who was not just a parliamentary colleague or cabinet colleague of robert mugabe, he was his right—hand man. he was mugabe's hard man for a good chunk of time in the office, especially against minorities in zimbabwe. i also think the mdc has asked genuine objective questions that even if they get ruled against in court, should still be heard. people on the electoral roll aged more than 140, i know in a country where mugabe can try and become president again in his 90s, maybe longevity is good but it still seems unlikely

some american media reports say robert mueller has evidence to the contrary. and one source in the intelligence community told me there was an electronic trail that put cohen in prague. there is no corroboration of that claim, but if true this is the collusion president trump's enemies have long imagined. cohen also knows about an interesting meeting in trump tower during their campaign. donald trump jr sat down trump tower during their campaign. donald trumer sat down with a lawyer from the kremlin and donald trumer sat down with a lawyerfrom the kremlin and promised dirt on hillary clinton. one former trump campaign aide told me, we couldn't even co—ordinate with the rnc in pennsylvania let alone with russian intelligence, but if there was not exactly a highly organised conspiracy it does leave open the possibility of collusion — that's what cohen's lawyer hints at and he says trump might have known ahead of time of russian hacking. donald trump has never been in such a serious trouble. his presidency might now hang on what cohen has to say. michael cohe

those words do not appear in the authorization of the robert mueller investigation. but that second component of the authority, which is anything that arises in the investigation, includes anything, including obstruction of justice. the part of the mueller investigation that rudy giuliani publicly fears the most is obviously the obstruction of justice part. we have new reporting on that today from mari woss in the new york review of books. he says he has been allowed to read a confidential white house memo which is in the special prosecutor's possession which "explicitly states that when trump pressured comey he had just been told by two of his top aides his then chief of staff reince priebus and his white house counsel don mcgahn, that michael flynn was under criminal investigation." last year the trump defense team delivered a letter to robert mueller outlining their defenses of the president on obstruction of justice. the key element of their defense was that president trump did not know that his national security adviser michael flynn was being investigated by th

>> special counsel robert mueller's team did speak to kristen davis. they also want her to appear before the grand jury. and they seem to be interested in her relationship with roger stone, which spans about a decade. they have been friends, at times they have worked together and she has an interesting back story all her own. she is known as the manhattan madam. she ran a manhattan prosecution ring and future a time she went to jail in the scandal surrounding new york governor eliot spitzer. now roger stone put out a statement today basically saying he doesn't have any idea what mueller wants with kristen either. says kristen davis is a long-time friend and associate of mine. i'm the godfather to her 2-year-old son. she knows nothing about russian collusion, wikileaks collaboration or any impropriety related to the 2016 election, which i thought was the subject of this probe. i understand she appeared voluntarily. i'm highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do. >> so it appears that mueller investigation into roger stone is not o

robert, let me begin with you, the president calling the mueller probe illegal, what are you hearing about that, is this an escalation from the president? >> it is an escalation of his rhetoric. you see in his comments in the bloomberg interview that attorney general jeff sessions looks like he's safe at least for now with his position until the midterm elections. and while the president continues to rail against the mueller probe he hasn't signalled that he's ready to take action against him. this seems to be just yet another step in his credibility battle with robert mueller. >> leah, let me get your reaction to as well both the comments that jeff sessions' job is safe until the midterms, some interpreting that as somewhat of a veiled, so to speak, if i can use that expression, but also not calling the mueller probe illegal. >> right. so i don't even see it va vailed threat. i see it as a direct threat. we know that donald trump has been making very explicit threats to jeff sessions, in expressing his unhappiness with sessions' refusal to put himself back into the russia investigat

robert mueller's name wasn't mentioned today. this trial does not have to do with any connection to the 2016 campaign. nor does rick gates' involvement have something i north county do with the 2016 campaign or his work on the inaugural committee. it's a highly separate trial involving past clients of paul manafort's. i think if we're reading between the lines, it's the prelude to something that is supposed to be bigger. obviously the prosecutors have a case that they're bringing here, but it does seem like they're looking down the road to try to get or compel paul manafort to participate in the larger mission, which is the investigation to collusion in the trump campaign. and we're all sort of waiting to see what manafort does under this type of pressure. i do agree that the case -- the defense he is bringing seems highly uncompelling. basically, he is saying my underling did all this without my knowledge. paul manafort is begging the jury to believe his story. the prosecutors are telling them here interest the resents. so he's

james is going to argue with robert e. lee. robert e. lee stopped talking to james longstreet and turned to another confederate general who serves under james longstreet. lee says can you get your troops from point a and oint b and asks him to deploy his men perpendicular to the road. he is going to cross an attack north toward gettysburg. a big attack. that is what robert e. lee is do to do, longstreet will attack the flank. they will keep going upwards unfortunately for robert e. lee. things change. battlefields are constantly changing things. johnston and clark claimed they made it to the round tops. this is a picture taken from the tower area. the wheatfield, you cannot see what is over there. this is going to create a problem for the confederates. not to mention the union that they can't see what the battle line is. they are trying to do this in secret. there are some soldiers taking this picture. the confederates have been spotted. they will make this counter march, something else you can do a book on. the confederates are going to

robert wickens spins into the fence several times. not much left from that indycar when it was over. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. truth isn't truth. we will have that next. but we start with this today. the white house is trying to downplay signs of trouble after "the new york times" reported that don mcgahn has cooperated with the russia investigation. cnn has learned mcgahn's attorney did not give president trump's lawyers a full debrief after 30 hours of interviews with robert mueller's team. cnn's source saying the president's attorneys did not ask. >> the president says this proves the white house is being transparent. "the times" said mcgahn cooperated so extensively because he planned the president would set him up for any illegal obstruction of justice. now the statements could fill in key blanks in mueller's report. for the latest, let's welcome in ryan nobles. >> reporter: dave and christine, the legal team of the president's spent a lot of time to convince the american people that the report is not damaging to

clearly, robert mugabe now says it was a coup. they have applied for membership of the commonwealth, to return to the commonwealth. is that some potential leverage that could be used? i think that sort of soft power thing can always be used as leverage, but i really question whether we should enter into such discussions with someone who was not just a parliamentary colleague or cabinet colleague of robert mugabe, he was his right—hand man. he was mugabe's hard man for a good chunk of time in the office, especially against minorities in zimbabwe. so i really question that. i also think the mdc has asked genuine objective questions that even if they get ruled against in court, should still be heard. people on the electoral roll aged more than 140, i know in a country where mugabe can try and become president again in his 90s, maybe longevity is good but it still seems unlikely. over 100 people at a single residential address. there are certain things that have been raised. the fact that the electoral commission said that mnangagwa

president, are you going to sit down with robert mueller? >> reporter: but the president isn't signaling which way he's leaning, whether to tell what he knows about the russia probe to special counsel robert mueller. instead, he's letting the suspense build, tweeting this is an illegal witch hunt brought by people who are totally corrupt and/or conflicted. stay tuned. >> i think the tweets are ad nauseam at this point. we know what he thinks. i don't understand what he means by staytuned. >> reporter: rudy giuliani says an answer to the mueller question is coming soon, but he's dropping hints that mr. trump's legal team is worried a trap is being set. >> he knows the answers to every question he's going to ask. tell comey to go easy on flint?- the president is going to say, no, i didn't. why do you want to get him under oath? you want to trap him into perjury. we're not going to let you do that. >> reporter: giuliani said mueller shouldn't ask the question about whether the president obstructed justice in the case. >> the reality is he doesn

." >> at least you prepared a slow monday for me, so don mcgahn speaking to robert mueller's investigators. he did not give the laws a full act of what they told mueller's team trump's long time personal attorney could learn son, cnn could learn soon their in the final stages of their prosecution. they could be preparing criminal charges by the end of this month. >> rudy juligiuliani had a new reality bending argument for in the president should not be temperatures. -- testifying. >> you say that he will tell the tru truth, but it is someone's version of truth. giuliani tries to create a universe of factual unreality. he says there are no such things, let's go to joe with more. >> the president allowing the white house council to sit down with the special council for hours and hours. there are conflicting ideas in play right now while sources say that don mcgahn did not give any incriminating information to the special council, it is pretty clear he did not also tell the white house or the president's legal team all of what he said. >> new questionest about his conversation with robert hoo

they have yet to hear back from robert mueller. in the meantime, the president continues his strident language against the special counsel investigation and mueller himself. the president said yesterday that he views it as an illegal investigation. do you read the great scholars? there should have never been a special counsel. it shouldn't have been set up between all of the conflicts and all of the reasoning that turned out to be wrong, all of the corruption, the statements where comey said in congress that he did things and he leaked and he did to get a special counsel and various other things. for weeks now, the president's attorneys have been exploring the idea of writing their own report based on the evidence and all of the interviews with white house officials that they have handed over to robert mueller. they said that they're still toying with the idea. they haven't completely made that decision. they're also going to wait a little while longer, trace, for robert mueller to get back to them with his response to their condit

she jumped her and robert litan -- joked her and robert lighthizer krzyweski's. -- could switch seats. michael: i found it notable that when asked if robert lighthizer was negotiating in good faith, she dodged the question. she did not look happy. i have covered her and the negotiations for some time and you have to read sm is an entity body language -- you have to read pessimism into the body language. they kept saying she has to stand up for the canadian interest. they will not give any more ground. whether they can reach a deal darker. it looks nadaie: the u.s. irked ca when it said it would investigate under national security offices -- offices. is that in the background? she talked about the canadian national interest and the largest nonmilitary border in the world. michael: the tariffs irked the canadians because they were posed on national security group and justin trudeau said he thought that was ridiculous, then president trump took him on an relations deteriorated. as the president came into this, his campaign announced it was taking on mexicans and one of the wall. he has c

robert mueller's star witness on the stand in the trial of paul manafort. rick gates is asked, "were you involved in any criminal activity with paul manafort?" his answer, "yes." and what rick gates also said in that courtroom just a short time ago. >>> the deadly nose dive, the plane crashing into a parking lot. tonight, the identities of those onboard now revealed. the pilot declaring an emergency in the moments before that plane went straight down. >>> the dangerous heat tonight on both coasts. 16 major fires now burning. and the new fire tonight in orange county. authorities concerned about hikers in the area. the second-largest in history. and in the east tonight, bracing for blistering heat in the next 24 hours. >>> the public outcry tonight. authorities before the cameras and their new plea to break the code of silence, after 14 people were shot and killed, dozens wounded over the weekend in chicago. >>> the deadly highway blast. the tanker truck exploding into a massive fire ball. >>> and robert redford, and what he has now revealed. >>> good evenin

robert mueller's star witness on the stand in the trial of paul manafort. rick gates is asked, "were you involved in any criminal activity with paul manafort?" his answer, "yes." and what rick gates also said in that courtroom just a short time ago. >>> the deadly nose dive, the plane crashing into a parking lot. tonight, the identities of those onboard now revealed. the pilot declaring an emergency in the moments before that plane went straight down. >>> the dangerous heat tonight on both coasts. 16 major fires now burning. and the new fire tonight in orange county. authorities concerned about hikers in the area. the mendocino fire, now the second-largest in history. and in the east tonight, bracing for blistering heat in the next 24 hours. >>> the public outcry tonight. authorities before the cameras and their new plea to break the code of silence, after 14 people were shot and killed, dozens wounded over the weekend in chicago. >>> the deadly highway blast. the tanker truck exploding into a massive fireball. >>> and robert redford, and what he has now re

robert nixon for his resignation, i a lwa ys robert nixon for his resignation, i always remembered this as someone who has been a huge beneficiary as i believe we all are, of american goodwill and power throughout my lifetime, he said america is a great enough country to be able to survive a period of bad government. in the 1960s, after president de gaulle of france blocked britain's attempt to join europe's political institutions, one cabinet minister so disdained the continent that whenever he travelled to paris he took his own sandwiches. this week, there's been a british cabinet minister in the france practically every day — the foreign secretary, the business secretary and the brexit secretary. i'd lay a pound to a euro that they ve gone out of their way to praise the cuisine. theresa may, the prime minister, topped them all by securing an invitation for dinner with president emmanuel macron at his summer retreat, on a small island on the cote d'azur. the present president is a lot warmer than general de gaulle, but is he as likely to say non ? in some ways people find it surpris