tonight, and he is coming off a summit with some of the people who were his strongest detractors during the campaign. senior national correspondent john roberts is outside trump tower again tonight. good evening, john. bret, good evening to you. it was the highest profile summit yet at trump tower, which is directly behind this bus behind me, and also the highest dollars. donald trump played host to high-tech billionaires, most of whom actively campaigned against him in the election. well, i just want to thank everybody. reporter: it was a crowd that just weeks ago had been openly hostile to donald trump. amazon founder jeff bezos who during the campaign claimed trump was eroding the democratic process. apple ceo tim cook who raised millions for hillary clinton. facebook coo sheryl sandberg also backed hillary clinton, as did tesla and spacex founder, elon musk. today trump urged them all to put political differences aside and focus on growing the economy, point out tech stocks
difference of opinion on immigration legislation that we ve put forward. you ve had different ideas. i have no doubt that as attorney general, you ll faithfully execute the office. i appreciate the answers that you have given today. unanimous consent to submit a column written by our own attorney general in arizona, mark burnovich for the hill . without objection it will be included. supporting your nomination. let me talk to you about an aspect of immigration that s important in arizona. as you know, we have a large border with mexico. we have a program called operation streamline that has over the years been tremendously effective in cutting down recidivism in terms of border crossers. it s intended to reduce border crossing by expeditiously prosecuting those who enter the country illegally over a no
tolerance or zero tolerance policy. it s credited with being instrumental in achieving better border security specifically in the yuma sector along the western side of arizona s
welcome to watters world. i m jesse watters. how fake news is getting trumped. you hear that? that silence is the sounds of the trump-russia collusion scandal dying. a few weeks ago if you turned on your television, all heard was this. collusion between trump associates and russians during the election. members of conservative s presidential campaign had repeated contact with russian intelligence officials. jesse: but this is all a diversion. if anybody was getting played bid russians, it was the obama administration. it started with this pathetic stunts. we want to reset our relationship. we ll do it together. okay? jesse: hillary tried to reset relations with a button and she misspelled the word reset.
her state department gave russia access to 20% of american uranium production capacity related to a shady clinton foundation if donor. and imaginew if trump was caught saying that. when mitt romney labeled russia as america s biggest geopolitical foe, barack obama mocked him
apparently he got the nickname of the commodore in his days as a kid running those ferry services in new york harbor. the other guys who worked the harbor alongside him called him commodore as a way of teasing him. and it stuck. and then that kid who they mocked as the commodore grew up to amass one of the largest fortunes in american history. the kind of fortune that leaves a mark. in 1917 right next to the then-brand new grand central station opposite vand built avenue, a huge new hotel went up with thousands of rooms. it was called the commodore hotel. it was named after correspond kneel i couldn t say, the commodore vand built. had a statute of him right out front. and that hotel was one of new york s big successful shmancy centrally located famous
it was a big deal because the commodore hotel was a big landmark piece of new york real estate right next to grand central station. it also had this poetic storied connection to the great vanderbilt family. but it was a high-profile d
reporter: yeah, wolf. as you said. this is going to be a campaign-style rally here in phoenix. one of several the president has held since the inauguration. it s actually going to be the furthest west that donald trump has gone since becoming president, and we should expect some familiar faces on hand with him. the vice president, mike pence. his chief of staff, john kelly. it s also notable who is going to be absent from this rally. arizona s two republican senators. both john mccain and jeff flake, very critical of the president. both of them had very harsh words for him after his response to the violence in charlottesville at that press conference in trump tower one week ago. and the president didn t hesitates when responding to that criticism, specifically from jeff flake. he took to twitter last week saying that the arizona senator is weak and a non-factor in the senate. and praising his potential gop primary opponent dr. kelly ward. it s unclear whether or not dr.
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be with him on the hill tomorrow for his first real day back at work and we will see you back here tomorrow night at 7:00. we thank you for being with us tonight. tucker carlson is up right after this. that s the story for tonight, we will see you tomorrow, everybody. at a good night. tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. a horrific attack in las vegas has become the single deadliest mass shooting in this country s history. more than 500 are injured after a gunman, a retired accountant perched in the mandalay bay window and opened fire on the country music concert. [indistinct] tucker: our own trace gallagher is a las vegas semite on top of the developments as they come in. trace. we now know there are four crime scenes, the mandalay bay directly behind me, the concert venue as well as the home of the suspect, stephen paddock in mesquite nevada with to mike about 75 miles north of here. reno, nevada, in the process of being rated. the sheriff s departme
[cheers and applause] it is an easy touchdown for syracuse. abby: the weekend authority here for this groove. we ve been here for hours now. that last clip, my wife is not a football fan in the least, which is here accused. she e-mailed me. weepy crime scene. huge deal. congratulations to all the folks they are. abby: a big night. and if your wife is texting it s a big deal. we have david webb on the couch this morning.
david: i know. nice little color coronation. abby: we didn t even plan it. i love learning about her learning about our guest toes, what they drink in the morning. what is your choice? you re a black coffee. david: i like black coffee with a little bit of brown sugar but i m going to make tea year. todd: we look like we are ready to get the baby announcement because they ve got their pink, the blue. david: covering all sides of this. abby: per usual friday salé usual friday salé is often the busiest day for the administration and yesterday was the same. a lot
tries to clean up trump s tweet, saying he knew general flynn lied to the fbi when he urged then-fbi director jim comey to drop the investigation into flynn. the president s tweet raising serious questions about whether the president obstructed justice. here s sarah sanders late today. look, the president knew that he lied to the vice president. that was the reason for his firing. the problem is, that is not at all what the president tweeted four days ago when he fired off this tweet. quote, i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. the white house has made it very clear, president trump s tweets are, quote, official statements by the president of the united states. no matter who might draft, tweak, or actually type them. in this case, lawyer john dowd, the first person ever to take the blame for a presidential tweet. trump s tweet and sarah sanders explanation simply are not the same. they contradict each other. they also don t match cnn s r
wind has been picking up those embers and those embers have been skipping from house to house. and the other problem we re hearing about, water pressure, firefighters telling me that they had to let some homes burn because they didn t have enough water pressure in some of those hydrants perhaps because of the power outage. just moments ago, we got the view from above the fire from our affiliate kabc. real concern because of zero containment on these fires so far. from our station in los angeles he s joining us as he s flying over the creek fire, an incredibly busy day, thank you for being with us tonight. you re over a very active scene right now, the creek fire. how large is this and what are you re seeing? well, this fire s 11,000 acres right now, david. we ll take you outside and show you picture of the creek fire. 11,000 acres. and we re using our technology to show you where the fire is burning. and as you can see, there s a lot of smoke obscuring the fire and this is becaus
that the president has been acid wously denying for more than a year now, that there was a in fact a major russian operation to interfere in the 2016 u.s. election. and, you know, the intelligence community has been saying for a year now that they have high confidence that that is the case. and here you have the u.s. department of justice and a grant ju grand jury saying they can prove that beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law, using admissible evidence. and that, you know, is a rod rosenstein today was extremely careful not to offend the president and make sure that no americans were witting participants in this plot. but that is a remarkable factual repudiation of the entire
he was very careful to stay within what is alleged in the indictment. but he did make a point on several occasions of saying that no americans are accused of participation in this. and i do think that was probably aimed at the president in a fashion that allows the president at least until such a time a