quote, mr. trump called lawmakers with requests they push senator burr to finish the inquiry, that s according to a republican senator who requested an no, ma am anymorety to discuss his contact with the president. this senator says he was alarmed upon hearing word of the president s pleas and said mr. trump s request to the other senators was clear. they should urge mr. burr to bring the russia investigation to a close. later in the art kwl, the times says this, one republican close to mr. burr who spoke on condition of an nonanymorety say that mr. trump had been very forceful in his intervention with senator burr, telling burr to stop the investigation. those that reaction by those senators, saying that they found this to be alarming, they found this to be a very forceful intervention, they were concerned by this how did that factor into this as potential legal matter? this is really damaging evidence, right? this means that the president tried directly with senator burr, was
weeks ago everybody came together, and you know sort of held up the institution of congress and public service and said, this shall not happen again and must not happen again, need to work together. hopefully we ll get back to that. we have big problems. among them are tax reform. neil: what do you make on problems on tax reform? it s interesting that we re hearing word that speaker ryan says that he and other leaders, i assume yourself included, sir, are very close, working in concert with a consistent draft, white house officials, on tax policy. i guess the goal, but every time we ve gotten together, the deadline keeps getting pushed back. sounds like one of my diets. i wonder, whether this one will be any more successful. steer me to the process, how it s looking to you. i met with paul yesterday. and speaker ryan was chairman of the ways and means committee, has a passion for tax reform. he wants to get it done. lots of meetings.
they re impressed about her ability to hold herself and her friendliness and her poise and her the way she composes herself. she is somebody who they need, especially in the state of pennsylvania, especially in this area where she is right now. this mainline area outside of philadelphia, a suburb that will be so important to the campaign. the women here will either make or break his chances in this state. without philadelphia, they don t have a really path to winning the election, florida as well, ohio, you could say. we are hearing word they are pulling out of virginia right now, seeing that state as a lost cause, taking out operatives, taking out money. the virginia director saying that basically the rnc didn t shore up their efforts as much as they would have liked and they don t have a shot in virginia so there s no reason to keep going out there. so, pennsylvania is becoming
targeted a police station. a gun fight broke out between officers and the attackers. right now, police are vournding a building as they search for the suspects in this attack. cnn indonesian reporter is in jakarta. he s here with more on this. i believe you re there on the scene. just tell us what is happening right now. in particular with regards to the skyline building. are police going in there at this point. are they searching ining the b or is it more of a standoff right now? i think we may have lost her. we re hearing word from indones indonesia s president. he was not in the capital at the time. he s kit his trip short to return to the capital. he s now saying that these attacks are or these blasts are an attack of terror,
even more, and we are hearing word that some levees have overtopped north of st. louis. i do now want to bring in g governor, former governor of arkansas, mike huckabee, who is also a presidential candidate live with us from little rock, arkansas. governor, obviously, you have experience dealing with the emergencies like this. i want to talk politics, but first, i want to talk about what is going on there in your home state, because i know that in northern arkansas, there are a number of flood warnings, and we are expecting the arkansas river to reach flood stage tomorrow, and this is going to be worse in your state before it gets bet r better? yes, it is. and the floods are the most god-awful thing that you deal with as a natural disaster, because some of the damage, you won t see for weeks if not months after the floodwaters recede. there is nothing that you can do really to stop the flood. people don t take seriously enough the dangers, ooso of all