Welcome to inside politics. Im john king, to our viewers in the United States and around the world, thanks for sharing your sunday. Remarkable week just behind us, including that election stunner and a gamble that backfired for the british. Theresa may, because thplus thi President Trump wont criticize russian aggression in europe but breaks his silence on the organizing principle of the nato alliance. Well, im committing the United States and have committed, but im committing the United States to article five. But we begin and well spend much of the next hour on big new terrorists in the russia meddling investigation. Attorney Jeff Sessions announced saturday he will appear in the coming week before the Senate Intelligence committee. That committee of course was the venue for this past weeks powerful testimony from the former fbi director james comey. Now locked in a high stakes he said he said with the president of the United States. So he lied about that . Well, i didnt say that. I
I now feel like the luckiest Police Officer in the history of this country, because its my honor to introduce our next speaker. Mr. President , its a great privilege to honor and to have you here to honor the families of our fallen heroes. It has been a difficult time for Law Enforcement in our country, as you know. More officers are being targeted for violence, simply because of their uniform. In pledging to serve and protect, they willingly placed themselves in harms way but now, all too often, harm is seeking them out and they find themselves in the crosshairs of individuals consumed with hatred for police and who are determined to kill them. Mr. President , on the campaign trail, you often spoke of your support for Law Enforcement officers and you made a commitment to help us make america and our officers on the beat safe again. In your first days of office, you began to deliver on that promise, demonstrating that youll be a partner and not a critic of our nations Law Enforcement o
Conduct. Hundreds of organizations were affected by these actions and they deserve an apology from the irs. We hope today settlement makes clear that this abuse of power will not be tolerated. Peter doocys life for us in washington, wrapping racking us on this. The irs apology goes out to 469 conservative groups. 41 plaintiffs in one class action suit in the 428 and the other other class action. Im sorry reads a little bit like this. Up what the irs admits that its treatment of plaintiffs during the taxexempt determination process, including screening their applications based on their names or policy positions, subjecting those applications to heightened, determined with unnecessary to the agencys determination of their taxexempt status. For such treatment the irs expresses its sincere apologies. But one of the lawyers for one of the conservative groups says this apology isnt really cutting edge. He says this. Any recent socalled apology by the irs has little value. The service continu
Recognizing israels capital. Lets begin with the apparent disarray with the president s legal team right now as the russia investigation clearly intensifies. President trumps personal lawyer sparking a fierce debate after suggesting that the president cant obstruct justice because he is the president. A white house lawyer contradicting that statement saying that wouldnt be his defense and insisting they would be relying on the facts to defend the president of the United States. Clearly there are dramatic developments unfolding in this investigation. That has been very, very apparent for sometime. It appears to be escalating. Joining us with excellent reporting on all of this, whats the latest . Ty cobb, the president s lawyer who is dealing directly with the special counsels office is saying what john dowd is partner in this. Saying thats not a legal strategy. We are not relying on the notion that the president is in a sense, above the law and cant be prosecuted for this. We will rely
She says that authorities told her she was only going to be separated from her son for 48 hours. Its now been nine days. She has no idea where he is. Change of heart. Attorney general Jeff Sessions contradicting himself in a new interview while trying to fends the Trump Administrations family separation policy. It hasnt been good. The American People dont like the idea that were separating families. We never really intended to do that. I have put in place a zero tolerance policy for illegal entry on our southwest border. If you are smuggling a child then we will prosecute you. That child may be separated from you as required by law. Flak jacket. What message was the first lady trying to send with those words across her back . I thought, okay. This is what first ladies often do. You go to a troubled area. They see the children. They show that we care. You cant mess that up. Guess what. I spoke too soon. President trump throwing in the towel on any long term immigration fix. Tweeting thi