. >> i also want to bring in david chalian. david, we heard the president during that speech refer to i believe it was all democrats or i think he was referring to all the democrats as treasonous and unamerican. >> yeah, i wrote down both those words also. and he even noted, and i'm supposed to sit down and make a deal with nancy pelosi? yeah, it's tough to sit down and make a deal with people you're calling treasonous and unamerican. so if there's any talk of bipartisanship, remember, that was a big theme going into the state of the union that the white house was saying that the president was really developing a bipartisan approach and extending an olive branch, today he called democrats treasonous and unamerican, it's less than a week from his state of the union address, so i don't think we should believe that bipartisan outreach was all that authentic in the state of the union. the other thing to note is we're getting a preview of what president trump is going to be doing and selling on the campaign trail this midterm electi

david chalian, you've been reading this. i see you out of my peripheral vision. what's up? >> this is something they will rally around, there is no doubt. the trump supporters will point to -- maybe it was jim this mentioned this, perhaps it was manu, that steele, according to, again, this political document from the majority staff and the house intelligence committee, that steele was talking to michael izakopf of yahoo news before the fisa application and that he should have been already fired at the time of the first application for fisa. you see some republican commentary, but you are going to see a lot of trump supporters and perhaps republicans more broadly to start using this to rally around the notion that too much has been made of this. there are some chinks in the armor here. >> too much has been made of -- >> the whole russia investigation. this is going to be a data point as the president views. however, look how the white house is doing in mcgahn's statement we got that just came out in our report. the white house is also trying to separate the president from th

david chalian, thank you. >>> up next, marching orders. secretary of defense james mattis weighed in on president trump's request for this big military parade. this, as we have now heard from republican senator lindsey graham calling this idea, in a word, cheesy. we'll discuss that next. >>> also, breaking in the russia investigation subpoenas for former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski and steve bannon. you're watching cnn. i'm an o careful. i think you should come camping. why would i camp in the atacama desert? oh... 3x points on travel and restaurants on every continent. sapphire reserve, from chase. make more of what's yours. a little to the left. 1, 2, 3, push! easy! easy! easy! (horn honking) alright! alright! we've all got places to go! we've all got places to go! washington crossing the delaware turnpike? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money sean saved by switching to geico. big man with a horn. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. [ click, keyboard clacking ] [ keyboard clacking ] ♪ good

we have cnn political director david chalian and reporter and editor at large for cnn politics, chris cillizza. we'll talk about the tweet storm. we have our umbrellas ready. let's talk about what's happening on the hill and in the white house with attempts to fight gun violence. david, this is going to take leadership, obviously, from the president. congress approaches this obviously from very different sides, so the president is going to have to lead on this if something is going to be done. what do you think is going to happen this week? >> it's not just any president, but because donald trump is a republican president who arrived in office with a ton of support from the nra, he's uniquely positioned to actually try to bring some change here if he wanted to. that's a real sort of leadership opportunity for him. i sound like a broken record, but i don't see much movement on this on capitol hill. i think we sense that president trump is stepping away from some of the things he's floated, not a rush for action. >> the age minimum sounds like he met with the nra this past weekend and h

i want to bring in david chalian, dana bash and david axelrod, who was an adviser to president obama. dana, no statement from the president last night, the white house said they wanted to wait until they had more facts available. is the president, do you think, in this speech going to attempt to con -- the consolar in chief role we have seen too many presidents have to do after horrific acts of violence like this. >> likely that is what he is going to try to do. it is the unfortunate job of the president, any president, to do that at times like this. he hasn't given a formal statement, but he has been on twitter. and he talked about the gunman being mentally disturbed. that is his opinion. it is not something that this gunman as far as we know was formally destinati lly diagnosee that would potentially change the course of events according to our evan perez who sees that this suspect got this assault weapon legally. >> perfectly legally. >> and as much as he doesn't want to potentially, you know, start the ball rolling on questions about gun violence, and good gun rights, which come u

david chalian, cnn political director, despite elaine chao coming out, this was all about more and more fallout from this rob porter scandal. >> right. >> what was your initial takeaway? >> not the news of that briefing, that's for sure. >> yeah. >> here my takeway. i don't think i've ever seen white house press secretary distance themselves so publicly from their superiors like the chief of staff or white house counsel. repeated attempts to get some clarity here. sarah sanders was asked time and again if, indeed, she believed that chill had information about the allegations against porter and all she could say is that she had to rely on the information she had at the time and that's the best they could do. later on she said the communication shop press people may not be fully -- we can can only come out and say things when those other senior staffers brief us properly. i've never seen that kind of int intrafamily white house fight aired so publicly from the podium. they are clearly not all on the same page inside that west wing. >> stand by i want to get to our senator, patiently stand

it seems to me that might be the complexity here. >> david chalian. it may be complex, but you made it very relatable. >> thanks, guys. >> tonight we'll do a couple things. we'll take a deep dive into what these concerns are about, but also the concerns about fbi practices. we'll have joe manchin on. joe manchin reached out his hand and you celebrated him for it, and then he got a smackdown from the vp in his home district. we'll ask him how he feels now. >> always a straight shooter when he's on with us. very interested to hear how he's feeling about the vice president. first, we head to vermont. and go to our coffee shop. and meet dave. hey. why is dark magic so spell-bindingly good, he asks? let me show you. let's go. so we climb. hike. see a bear. woah. reach the top. dave says dark magic is a bold blend of coffee with rich flavors of uganda, sumatra, colombia and other parts of south america. like these mountains, each amazing on their own. but together? magical. all, for a smoother tasting cup of coffee. green mountain coffee roasters packed wit

david chalian is with us. today he has the meeting with the national sheriff's association, the president does, and other law enforcement. obviously they're on the front lines of getting domestic violence calls and responding to them. it would be the perfect venue and setup to talk about statistics for domestic violence and appear to sound as if he's on the side of the victims. is there any chance that the trump white house takes this advice from anita dunn? >> i love when you ask me to predict the unpredictable. i don't know. first of all, i would add one more piece of advice. he should only do that if he actually believes that. >> why? if he did it, don't you think it would silence some of the talk around why he's not speaking out against domestic violence? >> i think president's most successful communication strategy when they're speaking their true feelings about something. yes, i do think speaking out against this is the right thing to do, and this criticism that has been hounding the white house now for

let's get the bottom line with cnn political director david chali chalian. i keep looking down at my twitter for the president saying, hey, how come the media is not reporting the market is down 2,000 points in the last few days. >> i don't think you'll see that note any time soon, john. obviously we are seeing the very reason why donald trump's predecessors of both parties tended to stay away from talking about the fluctuations in the market. the moment you take credit for the gains, you know you're going to get some blame for the losses. here is the thing. donald trump also has a unique ability to completely ignore what he has said in the past. i don't anticipate him getting tripped up by touting gains in the past and now the market is down. it's not good optics for him to be out there speaking while the numbers on the screen are going down. i don't expect him to be that embarrassed that he touted the gains when the market was on fire. >> that split screen was interesting. you can see the decline happening. what the president i think would say is the marke

chalian also with us. take a listen. >> i think it's beyond his mandate. the mandate is what happened during the 2016 election in terms of collusion? that's the key idea. >> seth, do you agree with that? is it in fact beyond the mandate? >> with all due respective to disagree with mr. starr on this one. i agree they are looking at the conspiracy between the russians and trump campaign to influence that 2016 election. but as a former federal prosecutor having investigated many complex criminal conspiracies they do not start and drop out of the sky. there's a relationship between these parties that started years ago and as part of that investigation, the prosecutor will want to know what happened, how did they get to know each other? what kind of business transactions were taking place over the months and years leading up to the 2016 election. so to understand the nature of those relationships especially if there was untoward conduct in the years leading up. i think that entirely arises out of. we would call

david chalian, i want be to start with you. you heard paul ryan say this is about transparency in the public's interest. wouldn't that involve releasing more than one partisan document which the fbi director said omits key facts? >> at the very least, it would involve releasing the other partisan document. that would be true sort of tran perron si if y -- transparency. what you see the house speaker is clear. he has a rationale for himself so he can wake up so he's not doing the political bidding for president trump here. >> but he is? >> the way devin nunes is. this entire episode is clearly about president trump either to discredit the mueller investigation in any way he can, either to prove his year-long point that this is a witch hunt, that this is a hoax, and he feels that in this nunes memo he's going to have some ammunition for that. so, that means paul ryan is clearly aiding and abetting the president's political goal here. but you hear he's coming up with a different rationale. >> didn't paul ryan very goal here. >> an

chalian. of course, alisyn is in florida and i'm in new york. david, he did say he wanted to arm teachers. now, to be fair to the president, he's saying i didn't say all teachers. okay. he said all teachers would have the opportunity to be trained to see if they could qualify for concealed carry permits. maybe you'd have up to 20% and that would make a difference because gun-free zones are an invitation to murder. >> right. he was saying there's also a population of teachers who could be adept -- >> he did suggest training as well. >> without a doubt. >> this isn't unusual for someone who hasn't owned a position for very long. struggling his way through receiving the criticism. >> you have to see what he's doing. what you saw in the tweets is the president is latching on what he believes is a solution. he said this could instantly fix it. what i hear and what i'm reading in his tweets is, the president believes the instant fix, the instant solution that can solve this problem is, a, more guns.

with me now, cnn's political director, david chalian, and cnn chief political correspondent, dana bash. david, how much political capital did senator rubio spend or earn last night at the town hall? he obviously did a lot of pushing back and clarifying. it was a difficult crowd and i think he gets credit for showing up and taking some very tough questions unlike the governor of florida or the president. >> i totally agree with you. he definitely gets credit for showing up. he knew this would be a totally hostile environment for him and he went anyway. and forgive me for taking off my cynical hat for a moment, but these were his constituents that experienced this. and he felt a responsibility to be there and take these questions, apart from the politics of it. but to your point, anderson, i think he probably did spend some and probably earn some political capital there in his home state. i do think, though, marco rubio, an interesting figure to look at. and you can look at him individually. i don't think it's instructive, this one senator changing on these positions, to have politics of

. >>> i want to go to david chalian. we have a president who, until very recently, never changed his stance before and after the election, called the investigation into russian meddling a hoax. the indictment, the level of detail here blows that entirely out of the water. >> well, it does. the white house would say the president has only called the notion of his campaign or any of his officials colluding with russia the hoax part. >> you know as well as me, he still doesn't buy that yaush interfered in the election. >> totally. if you look at the totality of the president's aremarks last year -- this is why this moment is so huge. why what rosenstein was presenting is so important overall. because it completely bolsters the fact, the fact that russia was meddling in the u.s. election. the president has only begrudgingly, i think, on two or three occasions gave lip service to the notion, yeah, it's russia or, he had to do a clean-up press conference, you remember, in the fall in vietnam after remarks on the plane, he to g

joining us right now is david chalian, also a cnn global economics analyst and global business columnist and financial editor of the financial times. rona, the dow is down 753 points. what is going on? >> you know, it's really counterintuitive, anderson, one of the reason the dow is down is that wages are up. it should be a great thing that people are getting wage hikes finally after many, many years. well, the markets actually don't like wage hikes because that means that interest rates are probably going to go up at some stage, the fed is going to need to raise them to get ahead of inflation and the markets don't like that. so we're having a strange disconnect between wall street and main street where things are finally actually starting to look a bit better. >> so the president obviously has linked himself very closely to the rising dow and we should point out overall it's down just 3% from the high. >> yes. he -- you know, there's two things happening here, anderson. yes, the tax cuts, there's no doubt that they have raised animal spirits in the sea suites and in business and on wall

dana bash, david chalian, juana sumers. >>> delta airline finds itself in a feud with georgia republicans over the nra. i'll be talking to one of those georgia lawmakers coming up. >>> pure evil, a former neighbor who raised red flags to police describes to cnn what it was like living near the parkland gunman. >> he was pure evil, that i had to keep my kids away from him. oh, that's lovely... so graceful. the corkscrew spin, flawless... ...his signature move, the flying dutchman. poetry in motion. and there it is, the "baby bird". breathtaking. a sumo wrestler figure skating? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money heather saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >>> we have some breaking news into the investigation into the mass shooting in parkland, florida, where 17 students and faculty were killed. >> reporter: investigators are telling cnn this massacre could have been much worse. the shooter fired off about 150 rounds inside stoneman douglas. now, our evan perez is learning through a law enforcement official briefed on this inves

. >> another target, david chalian, beyond the fbi, was the president's own national security adviser, hr mcmaster. he followed the indictments on friday, he said it is clear that russian meddling in the election is incontrovertible. the president took aim at him. there is no discussion in these indictments of collusion between hillary clinton and the dems, but it is back to this impact on the election point, which we're not touched on by the indictments. to be clear, rosenstein said we're not alleging that there was influence here, but he didn't say we have looked at this and concluded there is no influence. >> it might lead us to believe that may be part of the ongoing investigation or not. we don't know. but there was no definitive case closed on that matter. this gets to the president's inability to separate the two things, that the legitimacy of his own election as president, astounding everyone watching his rise in 2016 from actually punishing the bad actors here, preventing anything like this from happening again, which his own intelligence community says is happening again rig

. >> david chalian, appreciate the insight. who knows better than you. alisyn. >>> chris, of the massacre in the school that you see behind me and this national conversation that we're now having, what will lawmakers do when they return to capitol hill? congressman today deutsche represents this city. he will answer that next. ...at t-mobile. was a success for lastchoicehotels.comign badda book. badda boom. this year, we're taking it up a notch. so in this commercial we see two travelers at a comfort inn with a glow around them, so people watching will be like, "wow, maybe i'll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com". who glows? just say, badda book. badda boom. nobody glows. he gets it. always the lowest price, guaranteed. book now at choicehotels.com >>> cnn's townhall brought together students, parents, teachers, lawen, forcement, lawmakers and nra to try to find solutions and hash all of this out. as you can imagine, there were some contentious moments. >> and i just ask, are you in favor of banning any gun that can do what the ar-15 can do? y

chalian. amanda, you heard what jenny wi willoughby said. i'm wondering what you took away from it. >> the takeaway from that sound bite is that someone acting as a representative of the white house asked a woman to change her truth about the abuse that she suffered. and this isn't just about a staff secretary, this is about the culture of abuse that continues to permeate within this white house that we all were well-aware of, even during the campaign. aides to donald trump have gone forth and told the press that they viewed it as a litmus test of whether people would be willing to defend donald trump in the aftermath of the "access hollywood" tapes. let's be clear, on those tapes he talked favorably about sexual assault. so that is a job requirement in this white house. so, no, i'm not surprised when people look the other way when they learn these facts about mr. porter. but the reason why it should concern everyone, it's not a staff issue, is that we should want the best of america working f

david chalian, no surprise, i guess, with that response. >> certainly no surprise. this panel predicted almost each sentence in that tweet. to the point about this -- the indictment going back to 2014, the president should make that a point. i think it underline s sara's point that she's been making earlier, it's been such for quite some period of time that it would be good to hear from the president about everything he's doing to prevent that from ever happening again and to take that so seriously. you see why we don't get that in the second half of the tweet. he wants to make sure it's not clouded with him doing anything wrong, or his campaign. i would say while rod rosenstein may have said today that the outcome wasn't impacted -- again we don't know how he can come to that conclusion -- what he cannot say is that the trump campaign or anyone affiliated with it did not do anything wrong. i did not hear him say that. we know from who mueller has been talking to, let's use the trump tower meeting with don junior as the first example from last june, there are direct

chalian. amanda, you heard what jenny willoughby said. i wonder what you took away from it. >> the takeaway from that sound bite is that someone acting as a representative of the white house asked a woman to change her truth about the abuse that she suffered. and this isn't just about a staff secretary. this is about the culture of abuse that continues to permeate within this white house that we all were well aware of, even during the campaign. aides to donald trump have gone forth and told the press that they viewed it as a litmus test of whether people would be willing to defend donald trump in the aftermath of the "access hollywood" tapes, which let's be clear, on those tapes, he talked favorably about sexual assault. so that is a job requirement in this white house. so no, i'm not surprised when people look the other way when they learn these facts about mr. porter. but the reason why it should concern everyone is not a staff issue, is that we should want the best of america working from t

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david chalian, the president, he tweeted yesterday, he said publicly this is a good deal, the compromise worked out by mitch mcconnell and chuck schumer, he wants it to be passed. it's being delayed at least right now by rand paul. >> it is. that is a headache for the white house, it's a headache for mitch mcconnell and it's a headache for paul ryan. here's why. the president is saying he favors something that cuts against the grain of some of his supporters and some of in his party. the last eight years of republicanism, the obama-era republicans, this has been a rallying cry, to cut spending. you could pull press conference after press conference of mitch mcconnell and paul ryan and their members saying over and over again spends too much, spends too much, spends too much. here they are as rand paul points out correctly, here they are proposing a lot of spending. yes, the president is in favor of something, and the republican leaders are pushing something that actually cuts against the grain. here's the hiccup they have now, is it's not so easy to get everybody to go against where they

cnn political director david chal chalian joining us with a k key alert. >> we're moving the state from a solid republican state to a likely republican state, so it just downgrades it one category, downgrades it if you're a republican. it is now in the light red category, which is just that, erica. it's likely it ends up in republicans' hands, it is still a republican state, but ben o'rourke is on a fundraising fire right now. has outraised ted cruz in the first 45 days of this year by 3-1 according to fcc reports. obviously ted cruz has a wide fundraising network, he can make up that money gap, but the overall picture we're seeing in 2018, democratic enthusiasm. the enthusiasm is advantage to democrats backed up by that fundraising number. take a look at this gallup map. it averaged ted cruz's approval rating across all 50 states. look at texas. it is below the donald trump average for 2017. it looks like minnesota, new york, california than it looks like some of the deep red ruby states that are part of trump aid. could it be losi loosening the football for democrats? could ted cruz h