Clock, the senate giving back two weeks of august vacation to work on pushing the again today forward, including repealing and replacing obamacare. Republican leadership blaming the delay of the recess on democrats obstruction. We have third highest ranking republican senator, john thune of south dakota. Chris van hollen, democrat of maryland both joining us this hour. There is donald trump, jr. , releasing his entire email exchange about a meeting with a russian lawyer. He did it to be quote, unquote, totally transparent. If he was aiming to make the story about russia go away. He failed there. It is blown up. We have white house reaction. Legal analysis later in the hour. Melissa back to the markets. The dow logging a 160 point swing on heels of big news out of washington. Straight to Nicole Petallides on floor of new york stock exchange. We have you concerns about selling about 11 30, down 130 points on the dow. Of the later in the day as Mitch Mcconnell said they would delay taking
News briefing any minute from now where we expect he is going to field questions on health care, tax reform and of course you can bet russia. All of this as the white house getting ready to make its made in America Campaign start to sing. So will this help the president s progrowth agenda . Will it get back on track . Were talking to the ceo of cke or former ceo of kke restaurants andy puzder. I want to go to our own adam shapiro for the latest on health care. We know senator mccain getting surgery in arizona, his absence is delaying this vote but is there any eta, adam, at this point when they might take it given it is looking dicey whether they got the amount they need . Reporter dicey but not out of the ballpark, trish. There is no eta on a potential vote. We do expect we could see the cbo score as early as tomorrow. The question do they have enough votes even if senator mccain is able to return in a week or two weeks is still up in the air. We know there is an intense lobbying effo
Government aid, investigators are taking another look at potential evidence collected as far back as 2015 according to the wall street journal. Minutes ago the president boarded Air Force One En Route to france where hell meet tomorrow with french president emmanuel macron. The last time the president was on Air Force One was a few days ago. It was at the g20 where he held his first face to face meeting with president putin. During that trip the president was involved in producing the false Statement Given to the New York Times about the previously held meeting last summer. A small cadre of president s advisers huddled in a cabin helping to craft a statement for the president s eldest son explaining why he met last summer with a lawyer connected to the russian government. Ultimately, the times reports, the president himself signed off
i wouldnt have even remembered it until you start scouring through this. It was a wasted 20 minutes which was a shame. The president responded to his son
Trump today defending his sons actions in a joint press conference with president macron. I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. Its called Opposition Research or Even Research into your opponent. I have had many people i have only been in politics for two years but i have had many people call up, oh, gee, we have information on this factor or this person or frankly hillary. Thats very standard in politics. Politics is not the nicest business in the world but its very standard where they have information and you take the information. Somebody said that her visa or her passport to come into the country was approved by attorney general lynch. Now, maybe thats wrong. I just heard that a little while ago, but i was surprised to hear so she was here because of lynch. Many people that sounds like an awful lot like the Anonymous Sources that the president doesnt like a lot. Theres a lot to unpack there. Our team of reporters and analysts is here. Halli
Good evening. I am arly mel ber in for chris hayes. The white house trying to turn the page they are now branding this made in america week an an irony not lost on those familiar with the products President Trumps companies have sold. Theyre still trying to figure out the stories on whether the strategies were made in russia. Today sean spicer returned to the Briefing Room as you may know this is the first time hes done that in three weeks. Theres no video of the event because the white house barred media from broadcasting any of this on air. Reporters were able to put forward their questions, they pushed spicer on this meeting with donald trump jr. , and that writing in email about Hillary Clinton clinton stating it would be courtesy of the russian government. Trump jr. Stated he just wanted to find out what the meeting would be about and added this. Theres nothing, as far as we know, that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything about adoption except for the magnitsky act