real quick. don t miss this. the top u.s. commander congratulations on taking back mosul. now shep. shepard: it s noon on the west coast, 3:00 in d.c. where the meeting with the russians to get dirt on hillary clinton is owning the washington news cycle. team trump running damage control over a get-together last year. the president s oldest son, his son-in-law, campaign manager meeting with a russian lawyer with kremlin connections who was said to have information on clinton to help the campaign. donald trump jr. admits it happened and offered an explanation. does it show collusion or is it, as the white house puts it, a nothing burger? and president trump is backing away from the idea of working with russian on cyber security after some of his fellow republicans said the idea was preposterous. the fate of healthcare with
take place. that s a quote. and president trump said he and vladimir putin talked about it. he backtracked after lawmakers on both sides blasted as ridiculous this idea is. the president tweeted yesterday morning, putin and i discussed forming a cyber security unit so that election hacking and many other negative things will be guarded. then came the sunday shows. his treasury secretary, steve mnuchin went out to defend that concept of the leaker i should say of the leader of the hackers working with the leader of the hacked and then others weighed in. if that s our best election defense, we might as well mail our ballot boxes to moscow. it s not the dumbest idea i ve ever heard but it s close. when it comes to russia, he has a blind spot. to forgive and to forget when it comes to putin regarding cyber attacks is to empower putin. that s what he s doing. both of those lawmakers are on committees investigating
sure he gets the best deal for the american people. he certainly wants to do things to protect the environment as we have a history of doing in the united states. he s going to continue that practice and continue to encourage it. also, make sure that he s making the deal that is best for the american people. thanks so much, guys. that s the end of the press briefing today. there s some scripted parts at the beginning, another person that came up and made some remarks. that was a q&a. playing only the audio. the white house for today at least does not allow us to have live coverage, does not allow us to show picture defending the white house positions. so instead, we re playing audio tape play-back of sarah huckabee sanders. congress is back in session. senate republicans are no closer to passing a healthcare bill. now. trump is adding new pressure to get something done. we re live on capitol hill with what appears to be progress. first 40,000 tons of steal
traffic was on the national news. no one was more riveted by it than new jersey voters with whom popularity is about like donald trump s is with the country. maybe even worse. thank you, lawrence. thanks, rachel. cecil richard series going to join us tonight because planned parenthood is once again under a new threat directly from paul ryan after his health care bill failed last week. first, we ll be joined by a member of the house intelligence committee, which has fallen into chaos. while the senate intelligence committee today showed washington and the country how a bipartisan committee is supposed to work. and that was not good news for anyone named trump. we re here to assure you that we will get to the bottom of this. the russians interfere in our election. it wasn t some 400 pound guyton bed. we re trying to do this in a serious bipartisan way so that
cecil richard series going to join us tonight because planned parenthood is once again under a new threat directly from paul ryan after his health care bill failed last week. first, we ll be joined by a member of the house intelligence committee, which has fallen into chaos. while the senate intelligence committee today showed washington and the country how a bipartisan committee is supposed to work. and that was not good news for anyone named trump. we re here to assure you that we will get to the bottom of this. the russians interfere in our election. it wasn t some 400 pound guyton bed. we re trying to do this in a serious bipartisan way so that it has credibility. are you implying that s not what is happening in the house rights now? oh, i would never imply such a thing. thinking is a mess. i don t like what nunes did. it s going over to the white house, looking at the stuff and then telling donald trump about it.