be that difficult to get to a deal by the end of the week. the president is canceling part of his upcoming overseas trip. returning to the u.s. sunday after the g-7 economic meeting in japan. white house correspondent jacqui heinrich has our top story live tonight from the north lawn. kevin mccarthy says there is a gap between the two sides in moving forward but, as the president leaves for japan tomorrow, the white house is appointing senior adviser stevery chety, louise taylor and shah landra young to run point for the white house and talk to will deputies. pressure is on after the treasury secretary put the deadline at june 1st or the days following. we re having a wonderful time everything is going well ha ha ha. message of reassurance convening congressional leaders as the country creeps forward to possibly defaulting on debt with no agreement to cut spending and raise the debt limit. biden canceled plans to visit australia and pap go p&a new guinea he would be out
the white house has been asked about this. jake sullivan now the national security adviser started president bushing this narrative on behalf of the hillary clinton campaign. what the durham report also said is yes, these reforms have been im34re79ed unless the fbi protecting the american people away from politics and back to the constitution, then it will be, quote. fruitless for the efforts to change the trust that the american people no longer have in the institution. bret: yeah did. was interesting to hear barr talk about mccabe now weighing in andy afternoon andrew mccabe and peter strzok weighing in characters a part of this comment comments on it. none of these people should be taken seriously. this report documents repeatedly the norms, the rules they broke in order to make this case happen on a partisan basis. it is such an irony of the trump era of politics that all the people who used him as a threat to the norms and rules and expectations for our government are the same
you mentioned at the top, i talked with rudy guliani earlier today. he says he has not been informed that robert mueller has completed his report. however, the president s legal team continues to insist that there s no evidence anywhere of possible collusion between the president and agents of russia or people in the russian government to try to influence the 2016 election. shep? shepard: john, the president talked about came after the former fbi director andrew mccabe. mccabe continues his book tour. he s doing interviews. he said he began the investigation into president trump as a possible agent of russia. based on information that is all out there in the public now, that there s likely nothing that the public doesn t know that was in relation to the genesis of this investigation. the president in the oval office today asked about mccabe, really tore a strip off of him. listen here. i think andrew mccabe made a
president, about mccabe s interview on 60 minutes, at least in part, he said this. this was the illegal and treasonous insurance policy in full action. were those discussions that mccabe and rosenstein, according to mccabe, had, illegal and treasonous? they weren t illegal and treasonous. they weren t particularly good ideas which is why they didn t actually happen. i think we need to take ourselves back to what the situation the justice department and fbi officials were faciing n that moment. they were investigating russian election interference. they d seen an absolutely disturbing, bizarre, number of contacts with the campaign of the individual who would become president. they re interviewing michael flynn for his contacts with russians and lies about those contacts. the president of the united states asked the fbi director to see his way to letting flynn go, which the fbi believes is potentially obstruction of justice. then the president actually fires the fbi director which
mueller will tell us about what trump did or didn t do. i m going to tell the country about mccabe and the people at the department of justice and how they behaved. did they take the law in their own hands? did they abuse the fisa warrant process, because they had a political agenda? did their hatred of trump go so far they abandoned their role of law enforcement agents and become advocates for a political cause? my panel is back. talk radio host, mark thompson on the left. erick erickson on the right. erick, isn t that a bit too far to suggest that because they are concerned that there may be an inappropriate relationship with russia, given the president firing comey, given there s been indications of meetings with russians, that they have now in some ways shirked their responsibility as investigators and that they have a deep-seated