tonight president trump gladly taking his no for an answer, tweeting highly respected senator richard burr, chairman of senate intelligence committee said after a two-year investigation he saw no evidence of russian collusion but we don t have anything that would suggest there was collusion by the trump campaign and russia. thank you, but the senate appears ready to wind down, the house is now kicking into high gear. they are promising a whole slew of probes into president trump s campaign, his business, his administration and their biggest bugbear their personal finances. i think as a woman, the public wants to see the president s tax returns. and so, they want to know the truth. they want to know the facts. we have important work to do. and we have important judgments to make. and we need information to make those judgments. gillian: now senate democrats are sticking by the home team and say it is the president who is out of line. to think that a president of
podiums set up for a president trump and german chancellor angela merkel. they will take the stage shortly, facing press from both the united states and germany as well. bring it back in james, fellow with the foreign policy initiative for a little more insight and analysis. this is just crossing the wires in the past couple minutes from thompson readers. white house official says trump pressed merkel hard about nato s dues in meeting. we don t know whether that happened before or after that video we talked about where they were, shall we say, a little frosty in their body language toward each other. this has been the big sticking point, and we heard from president trump who hasn t changed a little bit on this. he is to say i m not sure about nato, now he says he is sure about nato but he wants everyone to pay their fair share. germany has a robust economy, not exactly leading the way in terms of paying their full weight. it s been a bugbear for him over the past year and a half.