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your government and the united states government seems to be miles apart on the syria issue, ukraine and other issues. did you feel that you ve cleared up any of those issues you mentioned earlier today since you ve had those discussions with secretary tillerson? we did discuss at length the future role for assad, whether it be in a future political process or not. clearly our view is that the reign of the assad family is coming to an end. and they have, again, brought this on themselves with their conduct and war these past few years. we discussed our view that russia, as their closest ally in the conflict, perhaps has the best means of helping assad recognize this reality. we do think it s important that assad s departure is done in an orderly way, an orderly way, so achieved. this is a very high legal hurdle in order to bring such charges against an individual, so i would not suggest to you that all of that evidence is in place. but i think the longer time goes by, it s p ....
developing stories including more on russia. a poll showing over half of americans say they do want an independent inquiry of the links between trump and russia. more than 60% say this is concerning for what it actually means for our democracy. couple that with the former national security adviser, mike flynn, offering testimony in exchange for immunity. now, today. vladimir putin spokesman claiming there is actually nothing to uncover. are you concerned about anything he might say about his contacts with russia? no. we are not. any blamings that russia could have been interfering in domestic affairs of the united states is slander. peskov saying that an allegation regarding the russian government s involvement in the recent killing of an opposition lawmaker is absurd. how will these events affect the already rocky path ahead for the trump administration? joining me now is ron klain, a former senior aide to president clinton, matt miller who worked at the department of ....
own new program which will air 6:00 p.m. weekdays. we ll announce the start date eventually. but you can mark your calendar in a rough way if you want. a big breaking news night. so i m happy to hear what rachel maddow has in store for us. you re giving us a calendar alert that could exist in the age of digital calendars. you re telling us to pencil this in in general but i can t give you a start date. write a macro so at some point that stakicks in and it starts. that s all i was allowed to say. a very laurie approawyerly a tonight i had an a block all set and ready to go. we worked on it this weekend. all this breaking news stuff this evening and then this happened this evening and we had all of this crazy stuff happening with the legal teams that are trying to defend or senator rand paul from kentucky said he wouldn t vote for it because repealing obamacare was still too much like obamacare. whatever. for whatever reasons the two of them said they wouldn t vote it. ....
just moments prior. live in bridgewater new jersey near the president s golf club where he is expected sometime now. brian? reporter: hi, sandra. look. a rashable development just an hour ago with the president deciding to disban entirely two of his key economic councils. the manufacturing council, which was built entirely to help him keep american jobs here with 12 big time ceo s on that council. as well as disbanning the strategic and policy council really meant to help him forge a new economic policy. well, the president under pressure really sending out that tweet saying that he s essentially relieving pressure for all of these ceo s who are now forced to make a decision as to whether to stand by the president or not, given his comments on charlottesville. remember, nine ceo s out of the 12 in that manufacturing forum had resigned as of this afternoon. in fact, 20 minutes after the president sent that tweet in resigned. yesterday in a press conference, the president stru ....
clearance was a meeting that he took at trump tower during the transition where he hosted the head of another russian bank. jared kushner met with the head of a russian bank called veb bank. it s a bank but really just an entity of the russian government. the leadership of veb bank is hand picked by lad peer putin and veb bank s connections with russian intelligence are not subtle. sergei gorkov is a graduate of the fsb academy which means he went to kgb grad school. veb bank was coordination of a spy ring, that was the russian spying investigation where carter page was found by the fbi to have been essentially a willing target for those russian spies. at least he was a source of information for those russian spies who were looking for americans to give them investigation to help them with their spying efforts against america from their home base in new york where they were ostensibly working for veb bank but really they were spies. so there was the alfa bank servers communica ....