david axelrod, david gergen. david axelrod, most recently adviser to president obama. >> david gergen, it's very easy to every day, with every kind of outrage and headline to kind of get numb to it all and think okay, this is normal. and then every now and then, the president says something which even republicans start to criticize a little bit. and this otto warmbier comment is -- it's stunning that yet again the president of the united states, you know, after talking about having a love affair with kim jong-un, who has concentration camps in the country with tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of people in it, and obviously, was aware of otto warmbier and you know, everything flows to and from kim in north korea. it can't -- it's not like he's uninformed. this is not normal for a president to be saying stuff like this. >> it's not normal, and i don't think we'll see it again for a long time, at least i certainly hope not. it's actually very chilling. i'm glad you raised it in these terms because the

the president you mentioned local 1112 president david green, the president attacked david green over the weekend. >> the president attacks everybody. when the second shift was laid off, the president attacked everybody, republican president or congress or republican governor. that's what he does. it's not his fault. he finally woke up. i've been talking to him about this plant over a year. he i assume gets briefings about a major auto layoff in a major state. he should know that. he had this tax bill to encourage more companies to go oversea es. we will see more of it with that tax provision with 50% off. he said, that's a good idea senator and the next day, these workers are the most productive workers in gm in north america. we continue to talk to mary barra, and we know the president lied about what mary said when the president said she blamed it on the workers. the workers are efficient. necessary it's a management this issue and tax issue by the president of the united states who betrayed workers throughout the industrial midwest. >> do you trust the workers on this issue? >> no

>> and, david, what has boeing said about all of this? david, can you hear us? i think we've lost contact. >> all right. we lost david mckenzie there but it's remarkable to see the efforts behind him this morning that. recovery effort not only forclosure and the families, but also key with this investigation. and boeing, as david would note, boeing has had issues with this aircraft before put out a statement that says boeing is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of the passengers and crew on ethiopian aligns flight 30 o o 2, a 737 max 8 aircraft. they say they stand ready to support the ethiopian airlines team. >> joining us now is the former inspector general and transportation director mary. you've called this crash highly suspicious. what do you think happened from what you have heard. >> well, given the flight where the plane was, the air speed that's been indicated on various flight radar reporting sites, but it looks like the air speed indicators were unreliable at the time and the speed at which the plane experienced a difficulty, where it was, if th

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david axelrod, thank you. david gergen, as always thank you very much. you can see more of david axelrod, his guest senator elizabeth warren tomorrow night 597:00 p.m. right here. still ahead, jared kushner's security clearance and whether the president gave the order to get it. kushner's attorney at one point said one thing and just moments ago he said another. it is pretty startling. we will talk to senate judiciary member richard blumenthal next. gives you the strongest hold ever to lock your dentures. so now you can eat tough food without worry. fixodent and forget it. a book that you're ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! >>> well, there's breaking news right now on a story we first brought last night, a report in "the new york times" president trump ordered then-chief of staff john kelly to get his son-in-law, jared kushner, top security clearance. moments ago kushner's attorney abby lowell put out a statement. here is what she said when the issue first came up. as you see, he was pretty straigh

david start with you. the bloomberg said the big miss is a shock and the dawn of a long forecast slowdown. >> well, i think one month doesn't mean anything. they get revised all the time it's a lot of noise but i lack at the trend. trump has had 26 monthly record carts. average gain 199,000 jobs. the last 26 months of obama. average gain, 215,000 jobs. there's been no acceleration. there is no trump boom. the only thing that's happening is the business cycle is getting older and and we're near the end. in other words, we're month 116. the record is 119 in the 19990s when it was a better economic environment. we are heading for a recession. and we have had policies that are upside down in terms of where we should be going. trump inherited a $70 oh billion deficit for this year. that's bad ten years into a recovery. >> yes. >> he added $500 billion for the tax cut, $80 billion for defense. 60 billion in domestic. all the disaster aid that wasn't financed. so we're going to borrow 1.2 trillion this year. >> a

david irving, i appreciate it. joe lockhart, appreciate it as well. >>> coming up, new fallout for one of the actresses implicated in the college cheating scandal. and a programing note. a brief look at the episode looking at president nixon. it's facinating. the first episode airs this sunday night. here it is. >> richard m. nixon has lied repeatedly. >> no reporter from "the washington post" should ever be in the white house again, do you understand? >> the tougher it gets, the cooler i get. have i what it takes. >> impeach nixon now! impeach nixon now! >> i'm going say this to the television, because people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> there is crap about watergate. >> let others wallow in watergate. we're going to do our job. >> i'm going to kick their ass. >> nobody is going to package me. nobody is going to make me put on an act for television. i'm not going to engage in any gimmicks or any stunts, wear any silly hats. if people looking at me say that's

thank you, david. sarah, enjoy new orleans, say hi to all my friends and family down there. >> thank you, happy to be in your home state. i'm glad david's safe too. >> thank you both. see you next time. >> all right, take care. >> thanks for watching, everyone. before we leave you tonight, here's a look at a new four-part cnn original series exploring richard nixon's rise, fall, comeback, and political destruction, featuring never before seen footage. the series premieres sunday night at 9:00. >> i don't give a goddamn what the story is. >> richard m. nixon has lied repeatedly. >> no reporter in "the washington post" is to ever be in the white house again, you understand? the tougher it gets, the cooler i get. i have what it takes. >> impeach nixon now! >> i want to say this to the television audience, because people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> this crap about watergate -- >> let others wallow in watergate, we're going to do our job. >> i'm going

i want to turn straightaway to ali honeg, shimon prokupecz and david k. johnson, author of "it's even worse than you think: who the trump administration is going to america." let me start with you, shimon. we're at a place that the president hoped we would never be. the entire trump world seems to be under investigation, right? and you have the fact as part of that. the president's finances. now you've got insurance as another level of that. we understand that the house democrats could be about ready to get formal -- formally request those tax returns from the treasury secretary, and now you've got this whole, the president giving ivanka security clearance, overriding security concerns, jared kushner, too, and he lied about it. all of his red lines seem to be obliterated now, shimon. >> yeah, absolutely. yoin lo when you look at it, it's every aspect now of the president's life pretty much is under investigation in some way. a lot of it now centered in congress, and obviously, new york, where you now have multiple investigative bodies, for lablg ck of a b

just like he didn't say anything condemning david duke. when pressed on it by jake tapper, he falsely denied even knowing the man. >> just so you understand, i don't think anything about david duke, okay. i don't know what you're talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. so i don't know. i don't know, did he endorse me or what's going on because i know nothing about david duke. i know nothing about white supremacists. >>, in fact, he knew who duke was and had condemned him in the past. in addition to that, certain aspects of his twitter feed and official campaign material appeared to adopt, in some people's opinions, anti-semitic tropica trops. there was the six pointed star, and a pile of cash most corrupt candidate ever, an image that was posed to an anti-semitic message board. the star of david looking shape was called, quote, the sheriff's badge which he said fit with the theme of corrupt hillary. which must be why the anti-semitic website posted it as well. right. the explanation does provide the veneer of deniable. as

the tropes are those david duke uses. during the campaign everybody that, president trump must disavow david duke. i'll take on it faith that representative omar is not in favor of david duke but this goes both ways. >> one of the things that i think president trump, one of his great skills is honing in on something that's in front of everybody but it doesn't necessarily have a name. low energy jeb or whatever. you can say this is outrageous. the way he is saying the democratic party is anti-semitic. but would the president have more credibility if he had condemned congressman steve king's rhetoric? or kevin mccarthy who stood up to king and the president didn't. >> i understand that. i have the same feeling about that as do i being screamed at. you must disavow and she must disavow david duke. we know she doesn't like david duke and continuing president doesn't like white nationalism. i know the president isn't fond of what king said. here's the same thing i want to say. i'll just recognize the reality here. the republic

about david duke. how does that align when the president speaks about the attacks and they're not white supremacists, and they're brown people? >> yeah, they repeatedly condemns illegal immigrants when they commit crimes in the u.s. and he seems to know all of the facts about those types of incidents. an it kind of reminds me of some of his former top staffers get indicted or charged with crimes, in the mueller investigation. he says, i barely knew them. you know, he tries to distance himself. he says, you know, when he gets criticized from steve bannon, he says, you know, he didn't -- bannon came on late in the campaign. so, it's kind of this pattern of disclaiming knowledge, and doesn't seem to be that curious that he is going to get asked about this question so he's going to dig into this. because in a week or so, the media will move on, and there will be a new controversy that we're covering. so we're not going to follow up, mr. president, have you read that manifesto? what's been your response? yo

. >> david, what does one do about this? you have some segment of the white population that is enraged by immigration, by what they see as a changing culture. how should politicians deal with this? >> the first thing, the numbers you cited at the beginning are shocking. but the most terrible thing about this week is that in some ways we shouldn't be shocked. we had the attack on the mosque, we had the attack on the tree of life synagogue in pittsburgh. this is a global movement, founded on hate, on the idea that western societies are being, quote unquote, invaded by other people. that says you've got to think both about defense, you've got to think about how do you make sure that you track these people, find them, ensure that gun laws are of the appropriate find. but you've also got to play offense because their hateful ideology, what hope not hate, an organization in the uk dedicated to what these essentially fascist organizations are up to, what they're talking about is an ecosystem of far right state. that takes offense,

i want to go now to david gergen and former fbi special agent, asha rangappa. asha, let me start with you. how damaging is it to see such well-informed, smart people doing this, contorting, covering in such a way for the president? >> well, erin, i think it's damaging in two big ways. so, you know, internally, let's remember that in a normally functioning administration, these kinds of public statements about things that are happening on the world stage are typically very carefully choreographed within the executive branch. crafted together by the national security council buecause of th signals that it sends. and i think right now what you're seeing is a manifestation of what is likely a lot of dysfunction happening behind the scenes because they cannot get a coherent message together. and it's incredibly damaging externally, because what they are telling the rest of the world is, don't listen to the words of the president of the united states. and i think that this is the first time in recent history where, you know, republican or democrat, what the president

david mckenzie joins us from the site of that crash there. david, crews on the scene. they recovered those crucial flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorders this morning. what are you learning about the investigation? the real key question here, are similar crashes in a short period of time in those early minutes of flight. what do we know at this point? >> well, what we know is that the troubling crash, just tragic incident behind me. you can see those big diggers. they are separating parts of the engine of this, what was a brand-new boeing, from parts of the fuselage. there's also been the very tragic moments of bringing out the remains of those lost on this flight. and there have been officials from the u.s., other countries and, of course, ethiopian airlines on the scene on this hillside. just moments ago, i spoke to a witness who said he was tending his sheep. he's a shep herd. this is a rural area when he heard the noise of -- it seemed unusual, of a plane coming over. he said when he came out to look, there were flames as he put it towards the tail side o

david, i'm going to start with you. this investigation appears to have come out of michael cohen's testimony last month. this is a few weeks ago. this is what he said about the president when the president was attempting to buy the buffalo bills. watch this. >> i am giving to the committee today three years of mr. trump's personal financial statements from 2011, 2012, and 2013, which he gave to deutsche bank to inquire about a loan to buy the buffalo bills and to forbes. >> did the president ever provide inflated assets to a bank in order to help him obtain a loan? >> these documents and others were provided to deutsche bank in one occasion where i was with them in our attempt to obtain money so that we can put a bid on the buffalo bills. >> so the attorney general is now acting on this. what kind of crimes are we talking about there potentially? >> well, if he actually got a loan, he has signed documents under penalty of perjury. he didn't get the loan for the bills, partly because to buy the bills, he would have had t

i will agree with david. the only person dug in is bernie sanders. the other democrats, kamala harris, even elizabeth warren have ko sponsored many different options. what we're looking at in terms of how the american people see it, not different bills, who will do more to make access more affordable and more accessible. right now, democrats are winning on that because they've done more on that. that is a very high hill for donald trump and the republicans to climb. >> david. >> the real quick issue is who will take away my healthcare coverage. 20 million people will lose their coverage. 20 million people in this country have pre-existing conditions. >> that's where you define it and the coasts are, you can't take it away. >> the president is saying it's a big issue, broken, now, he's got to do it. >>> democrats raising stakes to get mueller's report. now asking the courts to be involved. will it work? will we see it? rising contender pete buttigieg taking on the episcopal right. >> i think we're too susceptible to this path the right has claimed rel

david mckenzie joins us from the site of that crash there. david, crews on the scene. they recovered those crucial flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorders this morning. what are you learning about the investigation? the real key question here, are similar crashes in a short period of time in those early minutes of flight. what do we know at this point? >> well, what we know is that the troubling crash, just tragic incident behind me. you can see those big diggers. they

but i do think david's right. i guess maybe for all of those reasons. it is almost sort of a page out of the pence playbook too. graham's approach, in terms of i embracing the late senator mccain, reinforcing the positive qualities without dealing with the attacks on him or the attacker on him. >> his best friend. >> yeah. >> his best friend. all right david, margaret, jeffrey, thank you very much. >>> we are following breaking news out of holland at this hour. several people we're learning are hurt after a gunman opened fire in a tram. this happened in the dutch town. the shooting happened at the 24th of october square that. area has been cordoned off at this point. police and rescue officials are on the scene. at this hour a man shunt under way for the gunman. that person remains at large. authorities saying they cannot rule out terrorism as a possible moe motive. we will stay on top of that. >>> we've been discussion the president's statements from over the weekend. what will the impact be? will republicans stand up to the president on policy matters

i mean, margaret, david's right here, israel's got a big election coming up in a month too. and u.s. policy towards israel is a very important subject in the way you discuss it is also important. >> well, that's certainly right. and i think that's what's helped president trump to move beyond these debates politically, at least, you know, inside his own party about charlottesville or what have you is that his position on israel has been so rocked. whether you look at what we think the middle east plan of the administration is or whether you look at the -- moving the -- you know, declaring jerusalem the capital, muflgt embassoving. so put that up against the broader changes to policy in the middle east, the efforts to engage differently with muslim nations and the changing demographics in the u.s., the way this deinterstate being shaped decades out from world war i, decades out from 9/11 and you see exactly why all of this is so complicated. >> john. >> this is a sign of things to come. the way this debate got politicized and will be politicized in all sorts of ways going down

, i don't know anything about david duke, okay? i don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists. i don't know. i don't know, did he endorse me or what's going on? because, you know, i know nothing about david duke. i know nothing about white supremacists and so you're asking me a question that i'm supposed to be talking about people that i know nothing about. i have to look at the group. i mean, i don't know what group you're talking about. you wouldn't want me to talk about a group i know nothing about. i would have to list. if you will send me a list of the groups i would do research on them. certainly i would disavow. honestly, i don't know david duke. i'm pretty sure i never met him. i just don't know anything about him. >> don't forget this tweet. after mail bombs were sent to people he views as his political enemies including cnn, quote, republicans are doing so well in early voting and now this bomb stuff happens and then the momentum greatly slows? news not talking polit

he was at cpac yesterday, david, after a doozy of a week. he couldn't close the deal with kim jong-un. >> doozy of a speech. >> his former confidante called him a liar and a cheat. doozy is a technical term. but here he is yesterday, hugging a flag just before he delivered the longest speech of his presidency, two-plus hours that included comments like this. >> unfortunately, you put the wrong people in a couple of positions, and they leave people for a long time that shouldn't be there. and all of a sudden they're trying to take you out with [ bleep ], okay? with [ bleep ] [ cheers and applause ] robert mueller never received a vote and neither did the person that appointed him. and as you know, the attorney general says i'm going to recuse myself. and i said, why the hell didn't he tell me that before i put him in? if you tell a joke, if you are sarcastic, if you're having fun with the audience, if you're on live television with millions of people and 25,000 people in arena, and if you say something like, russia, please, if you can get us

there was really not, david, he wasn't standing up for his friend. >> no. look, i think a lot of people look at lindsey graham and say what has happened to him? why -- first why isn't he defending his friend but why isn't he taking on president trump more directly? i think he's made a calculation that the way to deal with trump, the way to be relevant, the way to have influence is not to go after him in response to something like this and attack him on twitter. it's to do what he does, you know, on the golf course and private meetings with him to try to have the most influence. and think that's where he's

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david, what might this mean. and i wonder if there's wiggle room for some republicans that may have been on the fence but for now backed the president. but if they're pliable. >> good morning, and early happy st. patrick's day, your jacket reminded me. nice work. i agree that there will be a veto override attempt but it is maybe not that likely to succeed because if you have the same vote count on the vetoov overri, it won't be enough for the two-thirds. this is about the senators saying we're not taking this lying down. of 12 senators that voted against this, the name that jumps out is lisa murkowski from alaska. she voted against the president on yemen earlier in the week. she voted against him on the wall this week. she voted against him on cavanaugh in the fall. to me that says there's a model for being a republican and being unbossed by the president. i think in murkowski's face, it comes from the fast she lost her primary to the tea party guy, beat him in the general as independent. still as her own person.

we go now to addis ababa, and bring in david mckenzie, david. >> reporter: good morning, jessica, yes, both black boxes, according to the ethiopia airlines officials will be heading out of the country to be analyzed. that's critically important to try and get any kind of answers on what happened in this crash. now, the family members, you describe are at the scene of the crash at this hour. paying their respects to their loved ones. terrible moments for them. we spoke to faisal hussein who came all the way over to pay his respects to his late father. >> we see this and that will not seize until the pattern is done. what we feel as a family is this, now, our kin, our blood, i really, really fear this. i'm not -- i'm not -- i'm not, how do you say, i don't do well with this. i really don't have the words. >> reporter: so difficult for those families from across the world. you may hear the mass being called here at the church behind me in addas. this is a time of mourning, and a time for closure, but they won't have closure until they get answers. jessi jessica, dave. >> it's heartbreaki

also with us, senior political analyst and white house adviser david gergen. david, if the department of justice does not provide congress with the entire mueller report, should they retrace mueller's steps here just for transparency's sake if nothing else? at least call him to testify? >> well, i think they will call him to testify if they can't get the report itself. and if the report itself is not issued publicly, then i think they have every reason to try to construct a narrative coming out of the congress. after all, that's what the public has been waiting for for two years, for this investigation. i don't think the public is going to be very happy if what we have is basically a very short redacted piece of paper that tells us virtually nothing about what they really found. and so i think adam schiff is on -- i think he will have a lot of strong public support if he gets to the point where he feels he has to either subpoena or write up a narrative. >> carl, where's the line, though? if the department of justice provides congress with a summary but withhol

so david, what do democrats do now? >> well, i think they're going to press for the release of the report. and the reason is not just to determine what the president's culpability or lack of culpability was. it's because of the fact that this is a major issue, this intrusion of the russians and how it happened and all of the coloration around it. and they do have to make judgments about what the president -- they have a responsibility to do that. but they have a larger responsibility to protect the country. mueller did a lot of serious work on this subject of the that ought to be a matter of public record. so i think they're going to continue to pursue this report. and remember, there are 12 other investigations, active investigations, that we know of that sprung from this special counsel investigation. many of them involving the president. we don't know what the outcome of those will be. so this was an important day for the president in terms of the conclusions of the attorney general in his summation of the report. it

. >> the star of david is the civil of the jewish religion. you're saying he tweed out, because hillary clinton was taking money. >> i'd have to go back and look at the tweet. if you want to show it to me, we can talk about it. during the campaign, the president emphasized on a number of instances where money was coming from going to hillary clinton's campaign. so my understanding is when these things happen, the president was trying to draw attention to something specifically relating to his message at the time. >> here is the tweet. >> okay. >> okay. and? it's like -- the comment it's the most corrupt candidate ever. >> now, the explanation from the campaign was that in -- i'll tweet this out. that this was a sheriff's badge. you're telling me or at least what you said was -- >> no, i didn't understand. i thought you told me it had something to do with the jewish reference. >> this is the star of david. >> that is your opinion. >> no, that is exactly what the shape is. >> victor, can i make a quick point? i'll be quick. when anyone says, inc

and i think david is absolutely right. it's not just that liberals looked the other way, but many gave bill clinton cover. they excused what he had done and because of me too and so many other factors, i think we would look at that very differently. >> we're in a totally different era. >> if he had been accused of doing what trump had done, it would not take 1100, it would take one or two and we would be having a different conversation then as well. >> and what southern district has on paper already. the agreed upon facts here, it says that donald trump districted michael cohen to pay off a porn star to cover up affairs because the release of that information would impact the election. >> there is already conclusion to the cohen stuff. >> right, and that is just one thing out of so many facts in this investigation that is are widely nope. i think our politics have grown more triable. donald, the most honest thing that donald trump said in the campaign is that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and his supporters wouldn

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he wouldn't condemn david duke. there's just so many points of evidence that indicate that for some reason, he is reluctant to condemn white supremacy or recognize it. and i think that's dangerous. not just to communities of color, jews, gays, people like that. it's dangerous to the government because i think that, for one

david gregory, i want to get to you. elie picked up on the obstruction angle. the other headline and it is a giant one, which is that according to bill barr, robert mueller decided that there is not the evidence to prosecute the president or anyone connected to the president with any coordination or conspiracy with russia. that is a huge deal. >> there is no question about it. i mean the russians attempted to interfere in the election in 2016. the biggest most incendiary question out here was whether the president or anyone else in his campaign were colluding with the russians in that enterprise and the answer now no. they looked hard and didn't find anything. the president said it all along there was no collusion and he was right. that is a huge exoneration for the president. no way around that. and even as these political yeses, the questions congress will face around obstruction will move forward about whether the president obstructed justice, we know without bob mueller the president said he fired jim comey because he doesn't like how the russia investigati

joining us now mary katherine ham a cnn political commentator, david gregory and jeffrey toobin a former federal prosecutor and cnn's chief legal analyst who brought his glasses today. twitter had a lot to say. >> i know, i was flattered that anyone noticed. glasses are back. >> glasses are back. here is some breaking news or breaking news sound and that's ty cobb who was the white house lawyer in charge of handling the mueller investigation has done an interview with abc news and he had remarkable praise for robert mueller. i want you to listen to this. >> i think bob mueller isnown ha prosecutor and a friend and i think -- i think the world of bob mueller. he is -- he is a very deliberate guy. but he's also a class act and a very justice-oriented person. >> he also said, jeffrey, no et blee and declareh is very different than from the president says. >> you know, there has been a major sea change since ty cobb left and emmet flood came in. emmet flood brought with him the williams and connelly mentality which is total war, title fighting all the time. rudy giuliani came in around the t

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david, i want to ask you about the political implications of this. because a lot of those districts have swung from red to blue in the midterms, were moderate democrats, right? here you have a democratic party now controlling the house, taking a very aggressive investigative posture towards the president. politically risky in your view? >> i think there is a risk. i'm glad you asked the question. a lot depends, jim, on what perspective you're looking at this from. there are some observers, like david lee in "the new york times" today wrote in his opinion that nancy pelosi had this investigation under good control, that she had the right balance of zeal with caution. that she was holding back and the committees were holding back from talking about impeachment. they were going to do all of these preliminary investigations first. that's one perspective. and i think a lot of democrats will rally to that perspective. the other perspective is, thisa looks like a free for all coming just after the mueller report does not, you know, by all accounts, may not

there was a big gulf there. >> david? >> i was going to say a healthy ma joirt majority of people said they first wanted the candidate that could beat trump more than the candidate that reflects their point of view and there's evidence in this poll biden does well among moderates and conservatives. on that scale of winning a general election. that said what generally tends to happen in these situations is candidates, voters choose the candidate they like and then they rationalize that choice and say that's the candidate that i believe that can beat donald trump. i think it's not going to be a case where people say i really like that person but i'm going to vote for this person because i think they can beat donald trump. that's generally not the way it works. >> if you're both at 3% right now, should you be concerned? should you try to change something? or is it just too early? >> it's just too early. if we think back to the primary donald trump was in himself. he would have been at 1% right now and over the course of the

back with me, sara murray, michael zeldin and david swerdlick. good to see you all back. the attorney general has said in the past that he, quote, wants this to be as transparent as possible, but do you see that he will editorialize in any way the release of any details similar to that which we saw with jim comey on the release of a report with hillary clinton? >> i think not. i think that mueller will not make the same mistake or follow the same path that comey did which is to say comey said, i found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing but let me give you an editorial comment on what i think was sloppy, reckless sort of behavior. i don't think you'll get from mueller the editorial. i think you'll just get the facts, i looked at this and this is what i found, which makes it easier for barr to take that in whole cloth and say the findings of the attorney general -- rather, the findings of mueller, i as attorney general, finding of mueller is this, nobody found excessive sloppiness or anything like that. i think we're going to get a clean recommendation from mueller passed t

but david, democrats are -- some of them, sticking their neck out. denny heck on the intelligence committee, despite what we've got from barr, ease nhe's not b off that the walls are closing in on president trump. here's congressmen heck. >> i think it's hard to look at the accumulation of the number of people in and around him that are closest to him that are going to jail, and conclude anything other than the amount of corruption that associates with this president is beyond any modern historic precedent. >> i mean, david, here's the question. how risky politically is the stand that democrats -- some democrats, like congressman heck or even further to the left, congresswoman tlaib are taking? they've got their base but have to worry about people in the middle and they have to worry about turnout in 2020. do comments like this turn people off or turn people on? >> they -- that they cumulate, they turn people off. i think we should go back to what happened in midterm elections for a political counsel. and, you know, in case after case, democrats won

i want to bring in david gergen, former adviser to four presidents, nixon, ford, reagan and clinton, patrick healy is also with us from the new york times. politics editor, and garrett braff. david, you and i were talking just last week about what it was like to be in the white house when watergate happened, and the report dropped and you were there, alongside nixon, you talked about a bunker, a military bunker mentality, and feel. what do you think is going on behind the scenes within the white house and with the president's circle right now? >> it's vastly different in one sense, and that is in 1974, the big day was the day we found the smoking gun. the president was guilty, you knew he had to go, it was a momentum time -- momentous time. >> there's no smoking gun so far nobody's been indicted. nobody's been indicted for inspire i inspiring with russia. the washington is very different, very quiet. i'm sure they want to go public. if you -- if we could stand with back from this one, we woke up one day and were told there's been an investigation you haven't heard anything about, thr

david, mueller investigation is over and done and complete. i want to dive into more unanswered questions if you will. first, speak to the significance of what today means for the trump white house going forward. >> look, something big happened today, don. we don't know what. we can infer certain things. the probe is over and it ended without anybody named trump or kushner being indicted. that suggests certain things with a broader conspiracy or charges related to that and the white house will call that vindication and hoist mueller whose integrity is now the gold standard of investigations. there are 12 other investigations that have spun off. 34 people have been charged as a result of this and the congress will dig deeply into certain areas mueller felt were not appropriate to him given the charge and mandate that he had as the special counsel so there are many more pages to be turned here but this clearly was the end of a big chapter. >> okay. so we're trying to find out how much we'll learn from the attorney general and i want to go back.

cnn political director david chalian is with me, and david, my goodness keeping track of everyone. on the governor, climate change, typically a bit of a nonstarter especially for the core of the campaign, but we keep seeing evidence that, you know, millennials, young voters really, really care about it, so in the governor's case, might it work? >> well, you are right to note that millennials care about it. a segment of the activist based in the determine party care about it too. it is not an issue that ranks at the top of the list but you said might it work? here's the thing, brooke, we have a very crowded universe of democrats running and so everyone is trying to find some niche to be able to put their candidacy in to for governor inslee, he says i'll be the climate change guy and at least see if i can get enough of a share of the people dedicated to that issue above all others to be able to come to my cause here and maybe give me enough of the support to actually drive through a candidacy here. it is an interesting proposition. the idea of a single issue candidate is not one that

justin green, fred teesy and david susie. all of your insights are much appreciated. >>> we're following two other breaking stories this afternoon. paul manafort hit with new charges in new york today, just minutes after he was sentenced in a d.c. federal courtroom. plus, president trump's former personal attorney michael cohen and the back channel conversations he set up with the president lee president's legal team. you'll see the e-mails obtained exclusively by cnn. don't go anywhere. she can stay with you to finish her senior year. things will be tight but, we can make this work. ♪ now... grandpa, what about your dream car? this is my dream now. principal we can help you plan for that . but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. ♪ she's doing it again. no cover up spray here... it's the irresistibly fresh scent of febreze air effects. cheaper aerosols can cover

to david's point, the president didn't sign or agree to a bad deal. is that a win? >> the clear result that you're supposed to do this at the lower levels and have the summit, not the other way around. okay. he's doing it his way. it is a little bit in reverse. they had a summit that failed. now the teams will have to get together and continue serious talks about what kind of sanctions, dialing back of the nuclear program we'll see. all of that's to the good. there is a difference between having a good week and an acceptable week. he had more of an acceptable week in the sense that he's still making progress. it wasn't a complete catastrophe. >> right. >> on capitol hill, his republican allies stuck up for the president. >> yes. >> as ludicrous as it seemed at times they didn't ask a single probing question about what the president's former attorney was saying. instead they attacked him and did the president's bidding. >> i wonder if they did it in the closed door sessions with michael cohen. david, weigh in on that. >> as errol points out, secretary pompeo, steve b

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