hotly contested for decades, tweeting after 52 years, it s time for the united states to fully recognize israel s sovereignty over the golan heights. president trump has just made history. i called him. i thanked him on behalf of the people of israel. reporter: the move is a gift to benjamin netanyahu, a supporter who is facing re-election next month. the president denied did he it for political reasons. no. i wouldn t even know about that. i wouldn t even know about that. i have no idea. i hear he is doing okay. reporter: the president is facing pushback on his comments he approved the funeral for john mccain. i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president i had to approve. i don t care about this. i didn t get thank you. that s okay. reporter: the national cathedral released a statement saying, only a state funeral for a former president involving consultation with government officials.
facing pushback that he approved the funeral for the late senator john mccain. i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president i had to approve. i don t care about this. i didn t get thank you. that s okay. reporter: the national cathedral released a statement, contradicting the president s comments saying, quote, only a state funeral for a former president involves consultation with government officials. no funeral at the cathedral requires the approval of the president or any other government official. attorney for ivanka trump and jared kushner pushed back on claims saying they were not completely accurate but the prospect of the president s own family members were conducting government business over private communications raises questions whether the trump family learned any lessons from the 2016 campaign when they hammered hillary clinton over her e-mail use. wolf, getting back to this mueller report that everybody in washington is waiting for, i talked to an
hitting d.c. monuments. a 58-year-old woman now charged with defacing the national cathedral with splashes of green paint. she was carrying a can of paint when she was arrested. splotches of paint have also been found at the lincoln memorial and on a statue at the smithsonian castle. is private first class bradley manning a whistle blower or traitor to his country? we could know today when a judge reveals the verdict in manning s court marshal. he s accused of the largest leak in u.s. history, handing over 750,000 pages of documents and videos to wikileaks, including this video, a u.s. helicopter gun ship attack in 2007. two reuters photo journalists were killed in the attack. an investigation determined the crew of the gunship believed they were firing on insurgents, mistaking the cameras for