white house correspondent kristen welker, national security analyst, frank, and msnbc contributor jill, wat watergate special prosecutor. kristen, let s talk about the president. denial, denial on twitter today. no collusion, we ve heard that before but it does seem from these filings on friday that both on the manafort side and the michael cohen side, these connections are all circling the president. reporter: it does and the documents say that president trump directed two felonies. now, president trump in trying to dispute that says, look, these are nothing more than private contributions, but this is certainly significant and you see that, the extent to which it s really getting under the president s skin and concerning to him. the president lashing out on twitter, re-upping some of the similar arguments we ve heard in
it is a push for federal agencies and states to enforce them. to be even more clear, this bill would not have stopped 19-year-old nikolas cruz from obtaining the ar-15 he used in the parkland school shooting. you will hear a lot about the fact people thought he had mental health issues but they weren t reported or the fbi had no system by which they were able to figure out that was the case. even though the president says he supports the bill, his latest proposed federal budget would cut funding by about 15% for two federal programs that provide money to the states to improve their reporting of data for gun background checks. garrett haake joins me with more on this. garrett, this is the re-upping of a bill that was already there. tell me, does it have support from both parties in congress? are they going to move on this? reporter: it would appear to have support. it already passed the house. in the house, it was tied to a much more popular among conservatives bill that expanded
the answer is why are you not answering the questions. that s the questions asked. reports that the president of the united states has intervened in an fbi investigation and we ve got no answer from any of you. eric: i want to get to the 702 re-upping. admiral mike rogers in that hearing saying three years i ve been around here and not one instance of it. eboni: i saw a look of disdain on its face. these are men that operate with a high level of integrity. that s why they take these jobs and they are proud to do them. the suggestions from some of the senators that the they were somehow manipulated. i think he found that offensive. when some of the senators didn t get the answer they were looking for, and that s the problem. when you ask a question within intended to answer and you don t
gowdy said it s no more than 30 people weik have to look at in e f.b.i. and nsa that could be responsible for this and we have to look at whatever powers we have legally to confront them and get this information from them.ro i want to quickly before we run out of time discuss the fact was a time when we kind of put an end to a lot of this. after 9/11 we understood there isn t any privacy anymore. sow that tension between privacy and national securityiv isn t as used to be. and we recognize we don t have privacy. but now with the re-upping of the section 72 of the fisa act, is that more in jeopardy because of what wikileaks has done? are americans going to say i don t want to re-up this now? we are in too much danger. we do have an expectation of
were very angry. she apologized, more or less, and now is gone. i wonder if that is actually sort of an important sign that there is still a morae in washington about the president s family. this president and lots of presidents have had terrible attacks and this president has had worse attacks than presidents before him for a number of reasons, including race. and i wonder if we see a re-upping of that line that says leave the children out of this. we ve seen it violated in the past, but there are consequences when that happens. well, i hope we have. and, look, with chelsea clinton was subject to ugly criticism when she was in the white house. totally uncalled for. the bush daughters. the same thing as they went through their late teen years in the white house and were sublted