this is not just an anti-trump, pro-trump fight. this is a precedent for the united states congress. there will come a time when the republicans want to do an investigation, where if anyone can come in and say i'm not answering those questions because i don't feel like it or whatever, you have badly damaged the ability of the congress to do investigations. >> and what -- this goes to the question of corey lewandowski's testimony too. he refused to answer questions apparently today, and the remedies for that, i guess, are the same issue can you subpoena him? will the republicans agree to subpoena him? >> again, you heard from adam schiff, so i don't think i'm speaking out of school when i say that, yes, mr. lewandowski and his attorney basically decided they wouldn't answer any questions that they did not determine were relevant to our investigation. now they weren't under subpoena, so there's a whole conversation what you're required to do when you appear voluntarily. but again, there is no way that either mr. lewandowski or his att

you know donald trump like i know donald trump. believe me, i have experienced working for state service for four years. -- 40 years. this guy is not going to accomplish anything because he does not have a clue on how it's done. it used to be that people who worked with state services moved up and then they went to the higher tier of government. today it's anybody. it doesn't depend on what experience they have or don't have. you are right on the money. host: mr. whipple, what do you think? guest: let me just say that one of the things that is not just donald trump -- one of the things that i've learned in researching this book is that you know how in hollywood they say, nobody knows anything. in washington, nobody learns anything. donald trump is not the first president to come in to office thinking that he was the smartest guy in the room and had all the answers. it has taken him longer than most presidents to figure out, if you ever figures out, that you have to do certain things to be able to govern effectively. it has happened

the only person not fired by donald trump is donald trump. i don't think anything is going to happen in terms of personnel changes. i think there are interesting theories about what generated the leak. >> go ahead. >> the two main competing theories, if it's not donald trump, seem to be one the national security establishment is upset about the fact that trump cozies up to putin at every opportunity. and the other is people's vanity has been wounded by the notion they put this briefing paper in front of donald trump, they told him do not congratulate and then he disregarded his advise. again, like you said, the people who complain about leaks are usually leakers. and it's the argument on principle that he's too upset about putin, or the argument on vanity for ignoring my advice, it's usually vanity. >> or it can be both. upset the advice wasn't followed but also believe it was good advice and they want to get the message out that there are people in the white house that don't think like donald trump. >> as we know this white house is a snake

the second piece of this is trump. reason i say that is, kim jong-un designed this strategy during the obama administration. he believed the obama administration would accept them and acquiesce, i think his calculation was absolutely right. trish: the south koreans are about to make that statement. >> today i had the privilege of briefing president trump on my recent visit to north korea. i would like to thank president trump and his national security team including my close friend general mcmasters. i say to president trump that his leadership and policies together with international solidarity brought us to this expwrungture. i expressed the president's personal gratitude for president trump's leadership. i told president trump that now meeting north korean leader kim jong-un said he's committed to achieve denuclearization. kim pledged north korea will refrain from any further nuclear tests. he understands that the join exercises in korea and the united states must continue. and he expressed willingness to meet presi

a campaign to donald trump said again today that trump knew about the june meeting at trump tower with the russians to get dirt on hillary clinton. the little known witness in the special counsel's russia probe is speaking out today, and in the process revealing new details about the investigation into donald trump and his campaign. after being questioned by the special counsel last month, former trump campaign adviser sam nunberg today confirm head has received a subpoena to turn over documents as well as to testify before a grand jury this friday. however, in a series of interviews on multiple cable networks today, nunberg made clear that he intends to defy that subpoena, a move that will inevitably set up legal showdown he sun likely to win. but nunberg is now telling all about his experience in the hot seat with robert mueller's prosecutors. and he says he believes that the special counsel has already got the goods on trump. today nunberg said the president might have done something wrong during the election. here is how he expanded on that with ari melber just moments ago. >> i th

trump. >> when donald trump jr. is told the russian government is trying to elect your father president, he doesn't say, what do you mean? how can that be? he says, i want to hear this. >> the actual response? >> if it's what you say, i love it. >> the trump camp's explanations were confusing. >> strange and conflicting accounts from the very white house on the meeting donald trump jr. had with a russian lawyer. >> the first explanation has become a focus of the mueller investigation. because it was misleading. >> donald trump jr. told the new york times that the trump tower meeting was primarily about russian adoption. that statement may spell legal trouble for the president, because he helped write it, while flying home from the g-20 summit. >> he weighed in, offered suggestion like any father would do. >> the new york times reported the day after the statement was issued, there was a conference call involving the president. then hope hicks and legal team spokesman -- >> donald trump -- >> the trump tower e-mails

about trump because donald trump this is the truth off it. donald trump has -- shown us that no matter what you think about the guy, strength and vulnerables of the american political process his presidency is different than any before it. and the big question is, does it the gipping of something else or is it a no, anomaly and piepgd t today because we have the smartest trump watchers in the country with us. at this point when you're not checking your phones and stuff likeea that, you're focused so m going to ask them the core question upfront and start with katy. and by the way, not to insult guys on panel but everyone i talked to outside said is this the katy tur panel? [laughter] [applause] thank you. katy is written an incredible unbelievable. i have -- i read the book, and i've taught a little bit of journalism in my life and i'll tell you flat out it is interesting as it regards donald trump it is a textbook for young people coming into journal i. todays. it really tells you the reality because she katy opens up in and is very, very ho

they drafted donald trump jr.'s response to the "new york times" reporting that he had a meeting at trump tower with a group of russians. the special prosecutor has been investigating how that response to the "new york times" was drafted. exactly what the president's input was, exactly what hope hicks's input was. the "new york times" is reporting tonight her resignation came today a day after she testified for eight hours before the house intelligence committee telling the panel that in her job she had occasionally told white lies but never lied about anything in the investigation into russia's interference in the 2016 election. hope hicks said that she told white lies during her testimony to the committee, according to congressman king, democratic congressman eric swalwell asked her if she was ever told to lie. hope hicks asked to speak with her lawyers. hope hicks went to speak with her lawyers and came back in and said, roughly, i have told white lies and gave the example of saying that the president is out of

stormy daniels is suing president trump and president trump and his lawyer are doing everything they can to keep stormy daniels quiet. and strangely enough, donald trump has never denied anything that stormy daniels has had to say about him. we will see if stormy daniels' lawyer knows why. that's next. ear sarah climbs 58,007 steps. that's the height of mount everest. because each day she chooses to take the stairs. at work, at home... even on the escalator. that can be hard on her lower body, so now she does it with dr. scholl's orthotics. clinically proven to relieve and prevent foot, knee or lower back pain, by reducing the shock and stress that travel up her body with every step she takes. so keep on climbing, sarah. you're killing it. dr. scholl's. born to move. let's team up to get the lady of the house back on her feet. and help her feel more strength and energy in just two weeks yaaay! the complete balanced nutrition of (great tasting) ensure with 9 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. ensure. always be you. >>> the two people who the president of the united states

one you've heard about when trump, himself, welcomes agularo if, a agularof and his publicist to trump tower and first indicates his plans to run for president. so these relationship are are a deeper and are itricher and a b history than the public has noun. that's what we've tried to document in the book. >> again, you talk about miss universe pageant, you focus a lo the on the book. david, you talk about how the president tried to basically get a meeting or have a relationship with vladimir putin, when donald trump returned back to new york, i understand putin sent trump a present. do you have any idea what that was? >> this is one of the zbraest great mysteries we fiput forwar in the book. he was obsessive with meeting putin, putin coming to the miss universe pageant, himself, trump meeting him or having a phone call with him outside of that. he kept asking everyone around h him, when will i hear from putin, am i going to meet putin? eventually he hears from the president's aide that he can't meet him. perhaps they can get together at the upcoming olympics. then trump goes back to n

this is what trump does. he doesn't really understand or care to understand the difference between a real election and a fake election, which should be of concern. and this is not america first, this is russia first. >> russia first. jeremy, earlier in the show i played a little bit of mitch mcconnell trying to dodge questions on mueller. i will note that mitch mcconnell did take a harder line of disagreement with trump on this putin issue today. >> when i look at a russian election, what i see is the lack of credibility and tallying the results. i'm always reminded of the elections they used to have in almost every communist country where whoever the dictator was at the moment always got huge percentage of the vote. so calling him wouldn't have been high on my list. >> jeremy? >> well, it shows you that the mainstream republicans are anti-putin and that trump is really out of step with them. and i think jennifer kind of points to the ultimate question here, why? what is the leverage that putin has over trump

canadian prime minister wants trump it will hurt nafta negotiations. he called trump on monday. he made a case for canadian ex exempti exemption. that is how trade wars begin. the president told reporters he is not worried. >> i don't think so. i don't think you will have a trade war. >> remember a few days ago he said a trade war is good and you can win it. paul ryan and others disagree. his spokeswoman said he is worried about the consequences of a trade war and urging the white house to not advance that plan. gary cohn sets up meetings with carmakers. this could cost both companies $1 billion per year. each company. look at the percentage of pro t profit. it is one reason larry summers, no fan of the president and white house, a democrat. he calls this the most irrational economic policy any president introduced in the last half century. >> there are 50 times as many people in the united states who work in steel usiproducing industries. all of them are losing because the firms they work are now going to have 25% more expensive inputs. that cannot be rational policy. >> this w

>> rick saccone describes himself as trump before trump was trump. this is someone who has been very bombastic, attacked immigrants. he has a very right-wing agenda. he is a interesting history as well. inviously before he served the pennsylvania state legislature, he was a consultant for interrogations in iraq, actually serving in abu ghraib. he wrote an entire book defending torture. this is a very unusual candidate in certain respects, but this is a huge election in terms of being a bellwether for the midterm elections. saccone had a lot of money and super pac support, i think over $10 million spent on his behalf. really every advantage in this district. this was a prorepublican district. it looks like conor lamb pulled it out. thatnk this is a signal democrats will do very well in the elections poster amy: a marine corps captain, conor lamb. i want to switch gears a bit and play an excerpt of the latest episode of your podcast "intercepted" worry interview jan schakowsky about eric prince, the founder of blackwater, sister of betsy devos, -- >> b

liberty mutual insurance. >>> they probably have something on trump, trump did something pretty bad. i assume. >> what do they have. >> i don't know. i think they were interested in something with his business. >> with his business? >> yes. >> did they ask you how he ran his business? >> yes, and by the way, i have no idea what he did. >> the trump administration now at the center, his business, of two stories that could engulf this entire presidency, consider the russia probe and that stormy daniels saga are both rotating around this, the same business that has long been a punitive source of donald trump's personal pride. >> my father gave me a very small loan in 1975 and i built it into a company that's worth many, many billions of dollars with some of the greatest assets in it world. we're very proud of our company. we have built one of the really great real estate companies in the world. as a president i could run my company and the country, i would do a very good job. >> that's part of what's happening now. i'm joined by donna brazil, the author of "hacks, the inside of break in

you know, trump didn't particularly like him. he was reportedly disrespectful to trump. these are all sort of fireable offenses. he may have even given him an opportunity to resign. he certainly was sending him the message. he could have resigned. i think some of the other turnovers are, you know, a little more unusual. having hope hicks, who is his closest aide, that would be like huma abedin just walking out on hillary clinton. you know, i mean that's a very unusual thing. so i think there is just a sense of chaos, and he said that's the way he likes it. >> jim, do you think it's a good idea if the president feels more emboldened to do things his way and not be reined in and i think maggie haberman has been arguing earlier on he may have felt he did not know the job and now he does. is it a wise thing to jettison people and do it your way? >> just because mike pompeo philosophically agrees with the president doesn't mean he's not going to challenge him. mike pompeo is a very intelligent human being, harvard law grad, knows his space and is going to sail to confirmation

meeting, trump jr.'s meeting with the russians, so there's more here than meets the eye. i don't know if he's a good source of it, but i'm sure that the special counsel is following up on all these clues. >> i'm sure he is as well. what does all of this tell you, congresswoman, about where the mueller investigation is heading? >> you know, i think the investigation is heading to where the facts are leading him, and i think the facts are leading him to financial dealings that then trump had as head of the trump organization with russians. we don't know the full aspects of it because we've never seen for one thing his tax return, and i think that's part of the secret of unlocking the relationship that exists between the russians and donald trump who was then the president of the trump organization. there are too many of these deals he did with russian oligarchs and criminals with a past that no one would engage in business with unless you were accustomed to doing it and had kind of flown under the radar fo

fear of sharks tell us about donald trump? >> i ask you. >> well, i find it interesting that he watches a documentary about something that he's afraid of, right? wouldn't you not watch the -- >> he'd be so terrified and he's watching it like riveted. >> so he's taking pleasure in something that he's very afraid of. that's, if i was hayis therapis. >> which you're not. >> which i'm not, for the record, i'm thankful. that would be a big, big piece of work. >> what is it, something he can't control? >> lawyers? >> lawyers are sharks. you had the whole answer. great. liz plank, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for being you. >>> up ahead, white house lawyers reviewing some loans to jared kushner's own family companies. and later, they called him a low-level coffee boy. new reporting on a guilty trump aide who had contact all the way to steve bannon and new collusion questions. the wife of that cop fessnfessep aide. >>> and the senate committee demanding mark zuckerberg come and speak. that ahead. where are we taking him? i ha

had with these people, including the first trump tower meeting before -- 17 months before that trump tower meeting that's gotten all this attention, there was an earlier trump tower meeting in which agalarov, one of the key guys who set up the meeting, and rob goldstone who sent the e-mails that enticed everybody to attend the meeting in the trump tower meeting with donald trump himself at that meeting, as we report, donald trump gives the first hints to agalarov who no doubt passed it on to the kremlin that donald trump was planning to run for president in 2016. >> and there's another key piece of this, another chapter of the book. in 2015, it's been reported that donald trump, while he was running for president, he ha had a scootecret, he didn't tell anybody. the secret was he was trying once again to do a deal through an intermediary. this time he wasn't working with the agalarovs, he was working with a company who said he had experience doing this and said he owned the company. he didn't own the company. three offshore companies owned the company. you might want to the look at th

president trump: good afternoon. an important subject happening at a critical time and this is a very different, very different experience. we have to do something about it. we have to act. we can't wait and play games and nothing gets done. and i really believe that the people -- this is bipartisan. it's a bipartisan meeting. we're going to discuss safe schools and we can really get there. but we have to do it. we don't want to wait two weeks, three weeks, four weeks and people sort of forget and we go on and then have another problem. we want to stop the problems from happening. as we continue to mourn the loss of so many precious young lives in parkland, florida, we're determined to turn our grief into action. i really believe that. i think that the people at this table want it. i mean, i see some folks that don't say nice things about me, and that's okay. because if you turn that into this energy, i'll love you. i don't care. we are going to be able to do it. sadly, these horrible mass shootings are nothing new.

trump. with trump's genius in crippling economic sanctions that brought this dictator to his knees. while the mainstream media is worried, in truth, the only people who need to be worried are the north koreans. donald trump is more than the man kim thinks he is. he's already outsmarted him, and that can get us a peace deal that will certainly last a long, long time. [♪] ♪ i'm the rocketman ♪ rocketman judge jeanine: joining me now with reaction to president trump's speech. former trump campaign manager corey lewandowski. you heard the president's speech i assume. >> i did. judge jeanine: he was in typical formi would say rare form, but that's typical for him in front of a group of thousands. >> i love donald trump when he's in front of a group of thousands of people talking directly to the american people. he reminded the american people of all the accomplishments of this administration. he still gets no credit for judge neil gorsuch, for all the justices he put on the supreme court. t

trump team. apparently was not. and was contradicted you know often which for trump is something difficult to deal with and i guess he sees these niggas see a sions as something important maybe a something other than where he can even imprint on on world history if if north korea were to look today are not and so i guess that he thinks it's important he can do it better with somebody else and from his own perspective if it makes us on the other hand of course that creates a lot of fatality and it creates a lot of wildcards and difficult situations carved in mr trump said today that he will soon. have the team in place that he wants now what was he telling his dad does this mean that everything since day one of his administration has been trumped testing the political waters i mean casting calls by the president is that what we've been watching i believe this statement is an attempt to gloss over the fact that donald trump came into the white house completely unprepared for the job this has been a

amy: you write not only about donald trump, jr., but also ivanka trump. senior adviser to president trump, her father. she sort of pave the way for donald trump, jr. in india just a few weeks before. >> ivanka trump with india in november. when prime minister modi came to the white house in june of last year, he made a point of inviting the president's daughter to leave this global entrepreneurship summit in india in november. so ivanka went in november to she wereern city, and all of these beautiful indian-inspired dresses, which -- must of what the media coverage was about. and right before she came, the streets work cleanup. there were a lot of news reports about people who were homeless and living on the streets were removed. everything was made a looks against m&a's for the president's daughter. a fancy party for her. right after she left, one of my sources, who is a retired thating official told me right after she left, things started going pretty well for business as well. the towers, a new project launched in january, the final permissions on that

of trump. and nobody in the past two years has been able to keep the mute button on donald trump's mouth for five days like this guy. >> for sure. >> joe, look, as you call yourself a simple, country lawyer and a model of legal propriety. your judgments about this lawyer are perfectly legitimate. >> yeah. >> i think they're right if you stick to kind of tradition. and established moras. i think what michael has grasped here is something that none of donald trump's opponents grasped in 2016, nothing that hillary clinton and the team did not grasp at the end of 2016 and democrats to a large extent have not grasped in the first year-plus of the trump presidency which is this is a guy that's rewritten the rule book in terms of political street fighting. he understands tabloid tactics and strategy. he gets in the faces of people and disregards all the rules and con staptly on offense. and what he's done is said, i got to do the same thing. i'm going to play exactly the same game trump has played. i'

trump to deconstruct the state department he was the chief diplomat and diplomacy for trump was nuts not his strong suit or is not his strong suit there has been much more of a focus and emphasis on defense on the military so on the other hand we don't know exactly what what the consequence will be overall we can see there is a shift an even stronger emphasis towards militarization i mean if you want to do is there any way that you could win as a diplomat in the trump white house knowing that he really doesn't have high regard for the state department a bit to begin with we know now that the head of the cia mike from paya will be the new secretary of state here's more on the man that trump said today and i'm quoting he is on my wavelength take a look only in the presence of your state was just over a year ago when mike compay a was appointed head of the cia at the time and the kansas congressman was a member of the house intelligence committee so now the fifty four year old is set to take over at this state department replacing rex tillerson first meeting i think is between the unlik

and did manage to get trump elected. once these ideas got elected, the president whom he had elected and would in turn implement them if he had only been willing to do so in a few areas like the t steel tariffs, but by and large he hasn't really governed as the populists that he campaigned on, he governed more like a traditional republican focused on the tax cuts cuts >> did i steve bannon participae in the book? >> guest: i told a story i met him back in 2011 whe 2,011th whe had ever heard of them a conservative filmmaker said i read your article did i. but like you to see my film and i would like too meet you. it didn't have this representation and a politics back in 2011 but have since become force not just in the tea party but donald trump. >> are they still with donaldon trump? >> i think that they are still with donald trump. i have a chapter about the bargain and they weren the merchant bankers who funded the varioushe projects. the family is still very much on board. everything you've read about me, don't believe

they probably have something on trump, trump did something bad. roger was treated terribly by trump. trump is the most disloyal person you're going to ever meet. >> trump has delivered to some institutions of higher learning the biggest embarrassment in their history. donald trump is the biggest embarrassment to pennsylvania university wharton school. there is no other graduate who believes that trade wars are good and easy to win. surely the rest of the graduates of wharton wharton know that no country has won a trade war. but donald trump is disgracing wharton by threatening a trade war that will kill american jobs. but tonight a little school on long island has reached a level of embarrassment that it could not see coming. sam nunberg is a graduate of r toro law school, one of our youngest law schools. we don't know what grades he got at toro law school. but today he sounded like someone who wasn't taking a single note during those courses. >> roger stone is like a surrogate -- he's like my father. >> you feel loyal to him? >> and i'm not going

not only is president trump accepted the invitation to meet kim jong—un kim jong—un trump accepted the invitation to meet kimjong—un kimjong—un but he will meet in high may. the rebels are obvious. it could well be that this is a genuine opportunity to speak to north korea, to try to get rid of nuclear weapons on this pinion trial. —— peninsular. the us president will meet the leader of north korea and it is a first. it is a huge pr. he will believe his maximum policy is working. the people in seoul, the ministers who have been deftly and dramatically negotiating these two sides to the table also. it could also be that kim jong—un sees it as a propaganda win. he is incredibly savvy. those army of beauties, sent to the winter olympics, managing to almost upstaged the sporting arena, when it comes to dealing with this kind of diplomatic opportunity, he has had yea rs of diplomatic opportunity, he has had years of practice watching his grandfather and his father who both to the table and then walked away and continued to build nuclear weapons. when it comes to the risks for pres

trump has yet to grasp. an outsider president above all needs a consummate insider like jim baker, who was the chief of staff that reagan had, who knows capitol hill but also is comfortable telling the president hard truths. until donald trump figures that out, he will not be able to govern effectively in my view. host: "the washington post trumpline that turnover breaks records. jack in arizona, you are next. caller: first of all, thanks for taking my call. i would like to methodically make a few comments before i asked mr. whipple, your guest, a question. let's look at what he said about number 1 -- he has been there one year, meaning president trump. mr. whipple went all negative on saying what his coupl accomplishments are -- getting rid of regulations and executive orders. it is great for all the people, which is about 35 states red on the map that i saw voted for him. going to thelican supreme court and also the executive orders that you said obama signed, they were all bad. he changed all the regulati

trump want. we want an open setting, open court, owned by the people, period. >> may i ask, why did she agree to this arbitration procedure, which is so lopsided, so much in his favor, because if she were to speak, she has a huge liability. >> i think there's a number of terms within the agreement that are very, very onerous and we believe it's what's called legally unconscionable. the term generally means the courts will not enforce it because it is so one-sided. of course, our position is that he never signed the agreement so the agreement is not even worth the paper it's printed on but as it relates to this arbitration proceeding, there's been a lot of misinformation out there and quite honestly, some of it has been peddled by mr. rosen, mr. cohen's new attorney. the agreement never allowed mr. cohen, this is important, mr. cohen to proceed in arbitration. the agreement only allowed mr. trump to proceed in arbitration. and to the best of our knowledge, mr. trump never initiated an arbitration

donald trump jr. and russian spies. there was also the fact that roger stone knew ahead of time about the clinton e-mail dump, because he'd been talking to wikileaks and julian assange. that's the private stuff. but also, alex, it's important to remember that the president, then candidate trump got on the stump and actively invited russians to hack into hillary clinton's e-mails. if that request had been found buried in an e-mail somewhere, all of us would be saying that that was a smoking gun. but somehow, because the president did it out in the open, that's supposed to wash it of any kind of sense of collusion or conspiracy. i don't believe that it does. and i think there absolutely was collusion. >> so how do you account for republicans who have said, we're done. we have all the information we need and we're closing this? >> i think, unfortunately, a lot of folks have decided to bury their head in the sand and essentially protect the president at all costs. that's essentially what devin nunes has d

to president trump. the united states remains in close contact with our ally, south korea and japan. we see this development as further evidence that our campaign of maximum pressure is creating the appropriate atmosphere for dialogue with north korea. negotiations over nuclear weapons with north korea will be at least as difficult as the obama administration's negotiations on the development of nuclear weapons with iran. the obama administration's energy secretary ernest moniz writing an op-ed in "the boston globe" today said with north korea, our strategy should be don't trust and verify, verify, verify. joining us ernest moniz. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> a real pleasure. i want to get your first reaction to the developments with north korea today. >> well, frankly, i think that dialogue going on among the various parties, u.s., north korea, south korea, china is very encouraging. i would add japan in that mix obviously. but we've been saying for some time that we cannot resolve the nuclear

>> that's not where trump is. >> trump does not believe in. >> you can't tell where trump is. >> trump doesn't even know where he is. >> conor lamb said he wanted universal background collect. >> he said no new restrictions on guns an. >> trump is with the nra. >> i'm going to throw nancy pelosi under the bus. >> that has nothing to do with anything. it's not part, the reason he won was the messaging. he talked about health care. >> rejecting the resistance agenda. maga agenda. >> he talked about things that republicans don't want to do medicare, medicaid. your tax plan did not work. it did not working. > calling on my expertise as a perjure and who followed the campaign closely and somebody. >> he's big with the penguins. >> and talked with conor lamb a couple hours ago, i asked him, are you a trump guy? he said absolutely not. i'm a pennsylvania democrat. and also when donald trump said in missouri, he said nice things about me and he supported -- he campaigned on my tax cuts. that's not true. that is just not true. what conor lamb did is said i'm a western pennsylvania pragmatic guy

the whole trump family under president donald trump is that they have basically turned on its head this extraordinarily impressive legacy of american constitutionalism and governance by the people for the people and of the people and there are cases of course of corruption and abuse of power and unethical behavior in the united states and those are often caught not every one of them but the the central tenet of american governance is that it's a system based on the rule of law not on the rule of personal people men and women who enrich themselves as is the case in much of the rest of the third world and other parts of. the world so this is the real tragedy and danger of what is happening in the u.s. compounded just yesterday when trump apparently said that he likes what the president is doing in china having you know rule for perpetual rule for life and maybe he'll try it himself one day so this is where the real story is how far and how effectively can the institutions of american life the press the courts the political parties citizens peacefully demonstrating education system how can

trump has dericively referred to sessions as mr. mcgoo, a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling. trump has told us that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life, but is stuck with sessions who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal. the report depicts solidarity, quote, on the anniversary of sessions comments earlier this month, senior aides decided to buy sessions a bullet proof vest with his name emblazoned on it as a gift. >>> and white house communications director hope hicks has resigned. hicks is the fourth communications director to resign from the trump administration after showing spicer and others. she was a model before joining the trump organization three years ago and had no prior political experience. she's president trump the's longest serving aide and one of his closest. hicks says she is resigning so she can explore opportunities outside of the white house. and in a statement says, quote, there are no words to adequately express my gratitude to president trump. i wish the preside

trump hung up the phone. >> trevor: donald trump is a proper asshole. if being an asshole was an arcade game, he would have all the top scores. ( laughter ) think about it, he's mad at comby so he enresults mccabe's wife because she ran for a senate seat and lost? that's so messed up. especially since trump should know what it's like to have a wife who wants to run. come on. ( laughter ) and -- ( applause ) poor mccabe is so f.b.i. that he gets insulted and he's just like, okay, okay, sir. that's all he does? the commander-in-chief insults him, treats it like an order. why don't you ask your wife why you're so bad in bed. okay, sir. honey, the president has a question. ( laughter ) so, again, it's well known that president trump wasn't a fan of andrew mack cabe but still doesn't prove he conspired to have mccabe fired. it is suspicious, though, that back in december trump tweeted "mccabe is racing the clock to retire with full benefits. 90 days to go ." then at the deadline. >> former f.b.i. director andrew mccabe fired tonight by attorney general jeff

we have north korea calling trump a dotard. trump calling him little rocket man. threatening annihilation. i want to go to will represently in seou ripley in seoul. you have some information. why may? >> reporter: well, may because they are going to be meeting at some point in april. so ahead of that meeting and ahead of this presidential summit between trump and kim in may, there is obviously a lot of ground work laid out. but all sides appear to want to be seizing on this momentum here first gained when the inter korean talks revived during january. picked up during the olympics. even though they had no meaningful interaction in pyeongchang, obviously now kim jong-un has calculated this is the time to deal with the united states. and if you think about it, it makes sense. i've been chatting with sources who say that really kim jong-un is probably looking at the scenario, he thinks that trump is somebody who will have one shot man, skip all the bureaucracy and make a realistic decision on the fly without having to go through all the steps that u.s. presidents hav

trump. i'll talk with the top democrats on the house and senate intelligence committees, congressman adam schiff and senator mark warner. they're both key players in the russia probe in congress. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our senior white house correspondent, pamela brown. pamela, things clearly are heating up in the russia investigation. >> that's right, wolf. and we have learned that there has been recent back and forth between robert mueller's team and the president's lawyers about a possible interview. this as a source close to the president tells us that the president is growing increasingly agitated as he realizes what his own lawyers have been telling him about the russia probe ending soon isn't actually happening. >> the good old usa. >> reporter: tonight, an emboldened president trump is taking a more aggressive stance towards special counsel robert mueller and his investigators. as we learned, the president is adding a new attorney

trump. and he lists the address. >> so, van, i'm wondering how significant you think this is because stormy's attorney is making the point that why would the office need to be open if it's a personal matter between him and michael cohen. >> well, because if it's not a personal matter between him and michael cohen. let's just cut the crap. it's late. it's a long week. let's just -- this is sleazy, disgusting, garbage behavior on the part of donald trump and on the part of his organization, period. you know what's not fun? you know what's not fun? trying to explain to your 9-year-old son what a porn star is because he's watching the god damn news. that's not fun. you know, this is ridiculous. at a certain point, we just have to say this is -- oh, well, it's donald trump, so it's okay. it's not donald trump. it's the president of the united states engaging in disgusting, sleazy behavior with sleazy people around him, and now lying about it and acting like some -- look, find me a lawyer who is g

trump: you can? amy: talk about what exactly you're calling for right now. >> the federal assault ban expired in 2004. seven states have their own ban s. shooting in june 2016, the floor to coalition that we are a part of called for two things. a ban on assault weapons in florida and universal background checks along the lines that chris was talking about on the state level. after the parkland shooting, we renewed our call. that call is being led by the students. they want a state ban and federal ban. large timbers of people are in support of this. two provisions that we continue to push before the florida legislature. the legislature will be done soon. their proposals right now are much more -- watered down, quite frankly. they include arming teachers. what we need in florida are solutions that will reduce gun violence and not just small proposals raising the age to 21, good, but still includes the selling of assault rifles in florida. amy: in tallahassee, a bill was advanced to require sheriffs to

donald trump didn't divest of his holdings, he divested of day-to-day leadership running of the trump organization, which his sons have taken over. and they have done so frankly even as they have continued to do television appearances, defend him on twitter, and even overseas on trump business talked about politics. >> absolutely. but i think, erin, what is a bit of a surprise tonight is that there is working assumption has been the investigation was centering on activities in his political organization were they colluding in his campaign with the russians. so the issue has been how far into the white house has the investigation proceeded. was it coming close to the oval office. but tonight it's actually they are looking now at a different organization, not political organization, but business organization. and that's a much more labyrinth than affair that will take a long time to sort out. but to go to john's point maybe two weeks ahead of what's taking place. maybe he's putting together the political and family organization. and for donald trump that could be a formidable problem. >

denied by president trump. meanwhile, stormy daniels has reportedly recorded an interview with "60 minutes." >>> and new polling has president trump's job approval rating at its highest since he has been in office. the marist poll published yesterday shows 42% approve of the job the president is doing. that is up from 38% in february. the proportion of americans who strongly approve of the job trump is doing is 24% up three points with 37% saying they strongly disapprove, down 3 points from last month's findings. >>> let's switch gears and get a check on your forecast with meteorologist bill karins. what do you have for us? >> i kind of miss february. februarys was like 70 degrees, it was warm. >> we want to go forward, bill, not backwards. >> it's cold. tallahassee, florida, 31 degrees. heading into the middle of march, that's pretty rare. freeze warnings all through this area from myrtle beach, atlanta, birmingham. this is a result of all the nor'easters. as they've kicked up the coast, they've brought down s

complete loyalty to trump and trump alone or on you will pay the consequences. thank you for preptding that tweet because in contrast to the facebook, you see the differing ways people are interpreting this. my response is the indiaspector general performed an investigation and he was untruthful. so what do you expect then to happen? up ahead, a week full of russia news. they expel 23 uk diplomats. we implemented sanctions for the election meddle. we learned of a threat to our power plants and robert mueller has subpoenaed the trump organization's financials. could thing we have michael isikoff here to break it all down. it's me! your dry skin! i'm craving something we're missing. the ceramides in cerave. they help restore my natural barrier, so i can lock in moisture... and keep us protected. we've got to have each other's backs... and fronts. cerave. what your skin craves. and taking cared abof the boys.e zach! talk to me. it's for the house. i got a job. it's okay. dad took care of us. touch is how we communicate with those we love, but does psoriasis ever ge

to reach president trump -- or candidate trump himself. and you know, this -- the thing that's also mind boggling about this is during and after the campaign, after president trump was elected, they repeatedly said there had been zero contacts between the trump campaign and russia. remember, vice president pence saying, around the time of the inauguration, of course, there were no contacts, why would there be contacts? now we know there were more than 60. the more you look, the more they are. it's like these russian nesting dolls. you keep finding more. so -- and i have a feeling we're going to need micro scopes to keep on finding this. >> as a justice department veteran, i want to ask you about what must be an incredible institutional tensions. here you have a special prosecutor who wants to know exactly what the attorney general said to someone, in this case russian ambassador, what that person said to the attorney general, what other conversations the attorney general might have had during the course of the presidential company and poss

donald trump has no shortage of categories of legal jeopardy. i'll take russian dealings for 400, alex. is that why you? >> yes, exactly. >> maybe if he had divested, he may not be in this mess. >> well, weil never know. there have been some administrations in the past that have had issues. >> i want you to stick around. i'm going to ask you, do you think he's going to try to get rid of mueller? the present isn't normally good at staying quiet when people attack him. so far he's been quiet on stormy daniels. beard of a pre-pubescent squire! thy armor was forged by a feeble-fingered peasant woman... your mom! as long as hecklers love to heckle, you can count on geico saving folks money. boring! fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. bounty is more absorbent,mom" per roll so the roll can last 50% longer than the leading ordinary brand. so you get more "life" per roll. bounty, the quicker picker upper the blade quality you'd expect from gillette at a price you wouldn't. the new gillette3 and gillette5. available no

who have bought properties in trump -- in trump properties, most famously a building, i guess, an estate he sold in palm beach that he bought for, i can't remember how much he bought it for, sold it for multiple times that. >> right, right. think $140 million was the final number that he secured for that. yeah, look, there's a lot of mysterious ties that trump has to various players. now, a lot of this may not add up to, you know, issues that are right within robert mueller's scope. but the idea that he is going to subpoena the business records of the trump organization, it makes perfect sense from mueller's perspective because you can't resolve, you know, the issues that swirl around trump and his dealings with these people without knowing how -- when exactly did that trump tower moscow, the first trump tower moscow project end? it's -- you know, as we write in the book, it -- you know, ivanka trump flew over to moscow with emin agalarov in february 2016 to scout sites for that project. in january 2015, and this is new in the book, there's a first trump tower meeting before the notoriou

president trump has promised to revitalize the u.s. steel industry and create new jobs that's why he's ordered tariffs on foreign steel imports. today i'm defending america's national security. by placing tariffs on foreign imports of steel and aluminum twenty five percent on steel and ten percent on aluminum the u.s. is trying to put a stop to cheap imports of these products. but will these tariffs actually help the american steel industry to recover. let me go back to. pick up on your opening statement you say that the u.s. can afford a trade war and trump has tweeted more or less the same saying trade wars can be i think beautiful and easily won. can the u.s. really afford it aren't there far more jobs as lars said that depend on using cheap steel then there are steel production jobs yes that's true but if you just look at the numbers you can see that the united states a constant on itself they have you have. to just put it differently important export of goods just seven to eleven percent of the g.d.p. so that is. very very little

obama or trump? >> a combination of every presidency before this. >> including trump? >> and south korea. >> including trump? you're not going to give him anything on this are you? >> i'm not going to give him this one because even the following day his administration is stepping on this potentially bold move. instead you have a white house press secretary who's gotten stuck with talking points from the pentagon. >> agree with you. >> i was going to say governor richardson said things couldn't be worse. if you have a meeting that breaks down it seems to me we could end up in a worse situation. >> i don't think the little guy benefits from that either. thank you so much for coming on short notice. you were our first responder, sir. thank you. susan page and emira thank you both for your expertise. coming up the latest on the russia probe. the president will agree to an interview as well as mueller wraps up his investigation. fat chance. who thinks mueller going to agree with these terms? plus what does vladimir putin really think about president trump? megyn kelly just

more trump than trump. as you know, trump carried the 18th district by more than 20 points, but right now this race is just too close to call. >> that seat was held by tim murphy, a republican, for some 15 years. what do the polls show now? how close is it? >> reporter: well, there's one university poll that shows saccone up by just 3 points, saccone at 49%, conor lamb at 46%. but there are other polls that show that conor lamb mighti be edging out saccone, too. it's really going to come down to which party is more energized. is it the republicans or is it the democrats? waiting to see what happens on tuesday. wolf? >> jasons are tha, thanks very . jason carroll on the scene in western pennsylvania. >> 1.2 billion followers witnessed the evolution of a global icon who means so much to so many. a preview of the brand new cnn series, "pope, the most powerful man in history." that's next. our disciplined approach remains. global markets may be uncertain... but you can feel confident in our investment experienc