Against russia. Chief White House Correspondent john roberts is traveling with the president and starts us off tonight from brussels. Hello, john. Mike, good morning from belgium where it is just past the midnight hour. President trump loves to shake it up. Thats what he did in his nato debut last year and today he was back at it again, taking aim at countries he says are delinquent in their support for nato, taking aim at one country for special attention. Opening the first morning of the nato summit President Trump held back nothing, ripping germany for its deal with Vladimir Putin to buy russian gas. We are supposed to protect you against russia but they are paying billions of dollars to russia and i think thats very inappropriate. Ultimately germany will have almost 70 of their country controlled by russia with natural gas. So you tell me, is that appropriate . The socalled north stream pipelines will carry russian natural gas directly to germany. President trump today argued germa
Distraction tactic. The president going off at iran again. The secretaries of defense set to speak today. Plus, new controversy over a comedy show. A georgia lawmaker dropping his pants on camera and using racial slurs. Why he did it and who does or does not still have a job. We have our tuesday Team Following this coast to coast this morning. If you think the story of security clearances seem to come out of nowhere, it is because it kind of did. With a push and a shove into the spotlight from rand paul, who met with the president monday. Heres what we know. We know the president has never been the biggest fan of Intelligence Community leaders. He made that clear, even as a candidate, as the president just moments ago steps on air force one, headed to kansas city. What the white house wants to do is strip six former government officials of their ability to access classified material. Part of the obama administration. Most also worked for Republican Leaders, too, and perhaps more import
The other news, a lava bomb. Explosion burning through the roof of a tour boat in hawaii. Nearly two dozen people injured. The pictures coming in. The deadly wildfire doubling in size near one of the nations most treasured parks. A firefighter killed, and park visitors now being warned. And in the east tonight, the storms were watching right now. The moment at cvs under the microscope. The black customer and a coupon the worker calling 911 and what we just learned. And not ready for prime time. Amazon prime day and the website crashing. And good evening tonight from helsinki where today, history was made. The reverberations were immediate. President trump and Vladimir Putin, and on the world stage, with putin right beside him, President Trump is asked, who do you believe more . Russia or your own u. S. Intelligence officials . And it was how the question answered that question sent shock waves around the world. The president clearly choosing putin. The question came after their face to
Avenattis filing on this. I believe its over. They just surrendered to Michael Avenatti so theres no case anymore, but it turns out there is. And a close reading of Michael Avenattis pleading explained that to me. But itll be even better to have him here as he will be to explain it to all of us. This case looks like it is going to continue. And it seems like he seems confident hes going it depose the president in relation to this case, which of course would be a huge freaking deal. I have to say having read all the documents in it, theres a very strong whiff of confidence omin the avenatti documents and not in the trump and cohen documents. Fascinating. Looking forward to it. Thank you. We have new devastating polls on President Trump released today that show the president getting what one poll says is his lowest grade for honesty since he was elected. With 60 of the country saying he is not honest. And an even larger group, 65 of the country saying he is not levelheaded. And that is t
Insisting he has nothing to hide in the russia probe. Didnt mcgahn met with special counsel Robert Mueller. He has clocked over 30 hours of interviews over the past nine months. And Rudy Giuliani today is offering more delay tactics in the president s sit down with rocket mueller. Heres what he told my colleague chuck todd, listen when you tell me that hes going to testify to the truth, and thats silly because its somebodys version of the truth, not the truth. Truth is truth. No, truth isnt truth. Former fbi director dpired back at giulianis truth statement. Writing on twitter truth exists and truth matters. Truth has always been the touch stone of our countrys Justice System and political life. People who lie are held accountable. If we are untethered to truth, the truth based on the rule of all degenerates. Petthanks all for being here. Jef jeff, first to you, we learn some very interesting things about mcgahn, first of all that mcgahn allegedly referred to the president as king kong