ready to talk. ready to tell all. breaking his silence. accepting the invitation to testify in an open session before the senate intelligence committee at some point scheduled for after memorial day. joining me now, john harwood and political writer for new york times. as well as molly, congressional reporter for the hill. great to see you both this morn. john, let me start with you. president trump wheels up on air force one on his big foreign trip. the first one. that s when two big wheels off headlines trump around him which suggests that a senior white house official could be the target of a russian investigation. how does that public information change the tone in washington for trump when he returns? well, donald trump was already in deep trouble before he took off on that trip. and this just indicates that the probe that we re talking about is incredibly serious for him. you know, when you hear the white house account of what s going on, they will say, well,
is we have serious problems in this country. i got that note i shared with you and other people in the news that we got a message that social security would be cut by 25% within 12 years. we ve got a growing debt, interest on our debt is going to collapse this country. we need to focus on these things. and let these committees yeah. why is the president waking up in the morning and this morning starting to tweet about tapes of these conversations and issuing these thinly-veiled threats to the now former fbi director? you make a good point, there are a lot of important issues out there, but the president is focussing in on these issues. again, you re asking me why he does that early in the morning, i cannot answer that. i don t know if it is his caffeine in the morning or what. i have coffee in the morn, that does it for me. coffee has caffeine. we are discussing it because the president is issuing these kinds
and fighting iran. iran and isis, those are the two big enemies in the middle east. we have to deal with them and focus on that. eric: you know, as we watch mr. macron walk the long walk, there s been the western civilization and the bulwark of international affairs since world war ii. your nation certainly a part of that after the independence of 48. what are your thoughts as you see, as you watch this transition tonight to a centrist, someone who s more of a globalist and not as isolationist as marine le pen was? i think we re seeing global movement and contrasting vectors here. on one hand, people want to keep their unique identity, on the other hand to, they do want good lives. and we re seeing all across the world that tension. i think this is good news for europe. eric: france has had attacks by the radical islamic terrorists. what is your advice? you served as a commando.
you spoke with the family. what can you tell us this morn something. we spoke to the mother of alton sterling and we caught her a few moments after she read that report. she was inconsolable. as you mentioned, she s frustrated and angry how this process worked out. they were supposed to hear from the department of justice directly, not read about it in the papers. you mentioned we don t have confirmation exactly what the details will be but we were told that there will be an announcement at the department of justice. if there is any indication of what kind of response is expected outside of the federal courthouse, there have been barricades put up around this federal courthouse earlier this morning. we also spotted some bomb sniffing dogs surrounding the area. there has been a lot of anxiety and tension over this shooting. it is hauntingly graphic and disturbing for so many people who have watched it. the office aers involved have
women for every man. for every man you have to hire you have to hire two women. she said five, i say two. you want something done, hire women. and just today we ought to thank all the men who have helped us women get to these positions where we purpose a lot more work to be done but a lot of men helped us. amen. let s also talk science. without men, none of us would actually be here. all right. thank you. thank you all so very, very much. senator warren, i appreciate your time. ladies, this has been such a fantastic morning. donna brazile, greta van susteren, nicolle wallace. what a day, what a morn. march is women s history month and on international women s day, i want you to get out there and #onegreatwomanan today our one great woman is former press secretary madeleine albright. the first woman to become a u.s.