know, scrutinizing this e-mail exchange, this meeting at trump tower, and this is all going to be part of that. sounds like they may want more records than don jr. released yesterday. that s right. thank you very much. joining me now, joaquin castro of texas, member of both the intelligence and foreign affairs committees. congressman, thanks for joining us. thanks for having me, jim. congressman, president trump defended his son today by saying his lawyer wasn t working for this or this lawyer wasn t working for the russian government and that most people would have take than same meeting. what is your reaction to that? that seems to be the comment that made the most news today. what is your take on that? well on the one hand r hand, it s not a surprise a father is going to defend his son. here it happens to be the president of the united states, but substantively, i completely disagree with his comment. yes, opposition research is common in politics, but meeting with off
didn t want to get into kind of an argument with president of france that he was standing next to because he wanted to be gracious to a degree? maybe he s hearing about this from his friend, jim. jim? his friend who likes to visit paris. who likes to visit paris. does anybody, mark preston, you ve been working your sources all day today, do we know who the mysterious jim is? i feel like where are the tapes? no. no, we don t. but again, like i don t think he s talking about me. this whole administration no, we don t know where he is. you know, let s go back to climate change though, i think caitlin s right about this. is that trump needed to do it because he told his base that, however, i do think he could come back and someone who s very close to him said that to me today, said you know what, now he s free to do what he wants because he held his promise. do we always talk about climate in terms of the politics of it? the climate is actually a science issue. and th
senate lead verse a lot of work to do to get the 50 votes they need. and if this bill does make it to a vote, and that is a big if, expect a flurry of amendments to the bill, including one that will be proposed by senators lindsey graham and bill cassidy, which they re touting as an alternative plan that would give more control over health care decisions to the states. jim. a lot of ifs, not a lot of whens. around ryan nobles, thank you very much. let s get our insights from specialists here. mark protest ton, it seems to me you may find mitch mcconnell folks saying we ve got enough votes here, and then the cbo score is going to come out. and it may not show 23 million or 24 million like it did over in the house, maybe it s going to show somewhere in the low 20s, high teens right. can they still swallow that? no. i don t think moderates can. let s start at a baseline. we re not talking about democratic votes. strictly republican votes. and they re trying to pass this on a raz
they talk about gun laws. it means you re sitting ducks. they go kill 130 people. i have a friend who is a very, very substantial guy. he loves the city of lights. he loves paris. i have not seen him in awhile. i said he is talking about jim, the mysterious jim who may not want to go to paris any more, but the president changed his tune on the city of lights. i think this is one of the greatest most beautiful cities in the world. you have a great leader, a tough president. he is not going to be easy on people that are breaking the laws and people that show this tremendous violence. so i really have a feeling that
the latest version of the health care bill, but two republicans have come out against it. one more no could be too many for the fwoil pass. and men behind the missile. kim jong-un celebrates his long range missile launch does it reveal clues of intelligence? wolf blitzer off, i m jim acosta, you re in the situation room. it took another trip overseas to get president trump to take questions of the news media and the public in paris with french president emanuel macron. he defended the sit-down with the russian lawyer saying it was a short meeting that went very, very quickly. while stunning e-mails shows his son embraced help in attacking hillary clinton, the president insisted that most people would have take than meeting. before leaving washington, the president dismissed what he called the russia story as a hoax made up by the democrats,