we re back with republican senator james lang ford and the breaking news. president trump defending his son s decision to meet with the russian lawyer last year after being promised dirt on hillary clinton in the new interview. he says that many people would have done the same thing. as this new controversy unfolds, the president s choice to be fbi director is promising to keep his distance from the white house, list tone christopher ray being questioned at his confirmation hearing earlier today. he s rejecting the claim that the russia investigation is a witch hunt. archipelago i i m asking you as the future fbi director whether you consider this endeavor a witch hunt. i do not consider mr. mueller to be on a witch hunt. what do you make of his testimony today and do you believe him that he will keep distance from the president, keep a proper distance from the president, something we did not see between the president and james comey? i think he will. i don t think there is any
mr. trump says he s stronger on the military. this hour i ll talk about those stories and more with republican senator james lang ford. he is on the intelligence and homeland security committees. correspondents and specialists are also standing by. first we re get to the new interview with mr. trump in a moment. diane gallagher was more on the nominee. they raised questions about the fbi investigation today and the new e-mail evidence, didn t he? that s right. at times it appeared to be the only topic, russia there, jim. it appears the committee must have liked what christopher ray had to say? response to those sharp questions, which came at from both sides of the aisle. with senators praising him during the hearing, some already offering support for his confirmation. the truth, the whole truth reporter: christopher ray, president trump s pick to leave the fbi after the firing of james comey facing senators today. if i am given the honor of leading this agency, i will never a
in paris with the french president emmanuel macron. it is very likely that at that point the issue of donald trump, jr. s meeting with the russian lawyer could come up and the president, jim, may finally have to address it in a public forum. jim? we ll see what kinds of questions are asked. jessica snyder, thank you very much. let s get more on all of this with senate republican james lang ford, a member of the intelligence and homeland security committee. senator, thanks for joining us. appreciate it. good to be with you. you heard jessica snyder s report there, the president essentially said, anybody would have held the meeting. would you have held a meeting with someone i would have had a lot of questions about a foreign government contacting me saying they were connected to a foreign government to have a meeting. i understand that for don junior who is a political novice, as he mentioned before, first time to be around a campaign, but for him to be able to contact paul ma
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it. it s not an example of collusion between russia and the trump campaign. we have been seeing more and more republicans calling for the returns to be released. you re running for president, you re president, you should release your tax returns. do you think the president should release his tax returns so that we know whether he s acting in the best interest of the american people? i think he should. i think he should. [cheering and applauding] as far as i m aware, the president says he s still under audit and said [ booing ] and now republican senator, not democrat, but republican senator james lang ford also saying, quote, he promised he would release his taxes. he should keep his promise. the tax return issue even following vice-president mike pence on his trip to asia. well, during the course of