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 secret, 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 that.

and when president trump doesn't ask, americans inevitably ask the question, why is president trump so afraid to do anything, anything about putin? i yield the floor.

trump here? >> well, exposure seems to be a word bandied about a little bit when it comes to daniels as a porn star. to your question, chris, anybody remember john edwards? he got indicted for doing exactly the same thing, taking campaign contributions and money to basically silence his mistress so as to influence the outcome of the presidential election that he was running for. so is that we've got going on here? >> but that was a hung jury. that wasn't resolved in court. that jury couldn't decide. bunny said she just liked john edwards and did it as a favor and didn't see it as a campaign contribution. that's her point of view the. >> here's the thing. it begs request the question. ep michael cohen said he took out a home equity line of credit to put it in an llc account to be able to pay off stormy daniels. why? why is he randomly paying $130,000? now you have a problem. people like the fec is interested. the house judiciary committee sent a letter to michael cohen and two other gentlemen sayi

what's trump's option? he could cave or he more likely will say no, i'm not going to seed to the subpoena. we'll take it to court. he doesn't have to fire mueller. but what he is doing is laying the ground work to delegitimize mueller and resist a mueller subpoena. and that puts this into the realm of the courts to slug it out. does, you know, mueller have the adequate criminal predicate to prevail. ultimately it goes to the supreme court where trump figures he has the upper hand. so he doesn't have to fire mueller to adopt a strategy that basically says, forget it mueller, i'm not cooperating, let's let this playout, drags it out for a long time. >> barbara, on the delay mueller instead of fire mueller strategy michael just laid out, which sounds convincing, how long would the delay mueller strategy work. >> it's answer interesting theory and may explain what's going on. i don't think it would work for a long period of time. ordinarily when a case works up to the supreme court, it can take a year or more t

be trump. clearly that means between now and november's elections, he is definitely not going to change. harry truman famously had a sign on his desk and it said, the buck stops here. but it seems this president doesn't realize that. he constantly fails to take the blame for the chaos he himself is creating. the blame for the race in pennsylvania that should never have been lost by a republican, or the one in alabama, that should never have been won by a democrat. the cabinet reflects the president's choices and the post election spin doesn't deflect from an embarrassing defeat. voters are sending a message. and if the president isn't hearing it, a whole lot of other people are. let's get to cnn's political dal analyst ryan lizza, april ryan and former congressman david jolly. good evening to all of you glad to have you on. ryan, you first. we have all the chaos coming out of this trump white house, and then we have a red district turning blue last night and the president doesn't seem to think

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

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

if you're trump. is the way to do that by pointing to something positive, the tax cuts or the economy? or does it require remember who the democrats are. you don't want them getting near power. >> it totally requires that. the john paul jeempbs op-ed was a gift to the trump and republicans though probably too early. the key to understanding whattal happen in november is not just the democrats are charged up which they are but whether republicans are going to say i'm not going to bother going to the polls and democrats will ride away. if republicans can get heated up and if the argument is going to be they got to turn out to the polls because the democrats are moving on guns, they're moving on there, on that, they are on the chashlg and if you don't stop them, terrible things will happen, that is exactly what the rnc, the national republican campaign committee, that's what they want. >> what about, phillip, the first part of that when he was talking about the wall? is this -- does he have to deliver so

and solicit on the trade war, donald trump he wil donald trump, and he is focusing re. year on imagery but in the anybody ever wins during a trade war. over the trade war regarding the trade war and long some trade war. he does not understand the complexity of the market. he is correct that american cars have a higher tariff in europe. but it is grea lent -- but it is the craig that does have the commitment to tariffs in airs. lookijdthamnks to europe . it looks like the charlie's >> welcome to "focus on europe." i'm michelle henery. rarararararararararararararararn indecisive election last september. finally, however, the end could be in sight. in our spepecial broadcacast s week, we take a look at what d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d. after weeks of political wrangling, the fate of the potential coalition between angela merkel's conservatives d the socicial democratic papay members who have a postal ballot on the terms of the agreement.y

trump without mr. trump knowing about it. that's part of the overall structure is that michael had great latitude to take care of matters. >> in michael cohen, trump hired his long time mentor the lawyer his consigliere, a version of roy cohn, an aggressive defender of all things trump, no questions asked. after dantonio finished his book on trump, he got the cohen treatment in what turned out to be an empty threat. >> then he got mad and it was you just bought yourself an f'ing lawsuit, buddy. i'll see you in court. >> in 2011, michael cohen described his job this way. >> my job is i protect mr. trump. that's what it is. if there's an issue that relates to mr. trump that is of concern to him, it's of course a concern to me and i will use my legal skills within which to protect mr. trump to the best of my ability. >> cohen, a sometimes democrat, first came to trump's attention after buying apartments in trump developments. then went to the mat for trump against one of his condo boards and won. >> trump loved him for it. that

he wil donald trump, and he is focusing re. year on imagery but in the anybody ever wins during a trade war. over the trade war regarding the trade war and long some trade war. he does not understand the complexity of the market. he is correct that american cars have a higher tariff in europe. but it is great lent -- but it is the craig that does have the commitment to tariffs in airs. s. could get tariff lookij to europe . it looks like the charlie's to accept the first trade tariffs narrator: join "town hall los angeles" as we explore the timeliest issues facing our regionitith top expeperts. ask your questions to those who shape southern california. we're la''s largestst and most established publilic forum anand always remain nonpartisan. in our 80-year history, we've hosted over 5,000 speakers from politics to technology to entertainment. visit our websitite to see o our upcominig speakekers and joioin as a memer foror exclusive discountsts and evevents. yourur community, your isissues, yoour voice.. zavala: hello, i'm val

donald trump. yeah, they got it. >> somehow the arbitrator disagrees with you. >> no, the arbitrator didn't disagree with us because it was a unilateral act. the arbitrator had no contrary, it's like playing a football game and the other team doesn't even show up and then you claim victory. the arbitrator -- >> did the agreement, see, this narrative, this agreement is horrible, the arbitrator is horrible, when the judge rules against him he's going to be horrible. when it doesn't go in your narrative, everybody is horrible. >> was stormy daniels contacted about this arbitration? >> if it's not -- why do you even go through the trouble of bringing this up? >> are you licensed in california? are you licensed in california? >> absolutely not. >> okay. wait a minute. you're not licensed in california? >> why did you go through the trouble of filing this -- >> hold on. hold on. i want to make sure i understood this correctly. this contract is going to be governed by california law. >> i read california

they go to trump tower and meet with trump, they're welcomed by him there and trump indicates that -- he tells agholoroff about his plans to run for president. when you connect the dots and see the personal relationships there, you know, it's -- obviously it raises the sort of questions that you just raised. >> michael, for 30 years now president trump wanted to build in moscow. never got it done. when did he come the closest and why did the deal fall apart? >> well, there's that first trump tower project which i have just been talking about with the agholoroffs, february of 2014, ivanka goes to moscow to look for properties, what's happening at this time? putin is annexing crimea, he's intervening in the ukraine and that's followed quickly by sanctions imposed by the obama administration and the european union and this is what leads to the collapse of the project. a majority russian government owned financial institution was targeted in those sanctions. rob goldstone is quoted in the book as saying that that's what led to the collapse of the project. so it came close then. but then h

himself and the trump administration. trump, himself, has been .eticent to criticize putin but his administration has done a lot to bolster nato, has done a lot to financially punish russia for a variety of things, including the war in ukraine. voted, in atself rare glimmer of bipartisanship, to push sanctions on russia last year. host: one more call. carol in rochester, new york, independent line. caller: good morning. if the president for up the agreement with the round, how can he make an agreement with korea, and they sign an agreement in good faith with him? thank you. guest: i think that is an excellent question. it is one a lot of proponents of the iran deal are putting work right now, saying, look, we worked for years, both with iran and our allies, to corral everyone around this deal. and we committed to it. now, if we are going back on it, what is north korea going to say? that is a question that will become increasingly prescient, especially if trump does, in fact, meet with kim jong-un. host: how do you think

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

i didn't work on the trump campaign. i can't speak to the trump campaign. but what i do know is that this data was, you know, we spent, you know, almost a million dollars on just harvesting this data alone. and it was this data that became the foundation of the company because this is what we used to build the algorithms that then were -- that actually became the basis of the company itself. so the question that i would have is what happens to the foundation of your company if you didn't indeed use it on the trump campaign. what were you using then? >> because that was the basis of your company, right? that's how the company started. >> yeah. there was no data before that point. so we went from no data to harvesting all of this data off of facebook and then combining it with all this consumer data sets -- >> at the behest of steve ba bannon? >> yeah. the company got funded in the spring of 2014 and he wanted to be able to have functioning program in time for the mid terms. so we had sort of a steve bannon and a billionaire breathing down our necks saying wh

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

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the party, the trump party. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. next on "gps," president obama's former top military adviser, martin dempsey, the former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, on what he would advise the current president to do on military matters, starting with north korea. ♪ (vo) do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of the light. do not go gentle into that good night. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> my next guest is general martin dempsey. he was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, the highest ranking u.s. military officer from 2011 to 2015. in that role, he was the top military adviser to president barack obama. general dempsey, thanks for joining me. >> good to see you again, fareed. >> so the big news is north korea. when you think about the north korean position, putting yourself in their perspective, their shoes, doesn't this make sense from their point of view, which is tha

and taking a hard and critical look at trump's attempt to build a trump tower in moscow. his consigliere, michael cohen, his fixer is deep lly involved trying to make that happen and was suddenly withdrawn and didn't happen. that's a focus. mueller has had, as the fbi before hem aim and comey before, the tax returns. and they figure into this investigation, and they ought it to, because they provide a partial road map. >> jeff, what we don't know is how far back mueller would want documents relating to russia and the trump organization. >> that's true. the scope of the subpoena is very important. in his interview with the "new york times," he said that the red line was any questions or inquiries to his relationships, business relationships, except with russia. what's unclear is that whether this subpoena deals with countries other than russia. and, as you point out, the issue of duration is extremely important. i just did a piece for "the new yorker" about trump and russia. trump has been involved with russia, trying to build there, since it was the soviet union. he first

donald trump making protectionism great again. raising fear of a trade war, announcing tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum. making good on a promise at an event that just hours ago was unclear what even happened. washington post bureau chief phil rucker watching along with us. phil, this is the policy debate that spilled into public view with house speaker paul ryan. these are trade policies that divide the republican party. mike pence was standing over his shoulder. he supported free trade for his entire elective career, but he did have in the room there the kinds of voters whose fear of economic change and a changing economy was very much addressed by the bill of goods donald trump selling today. >> that's exactly right, nicolle. i think this is president trump trying to make a political play to the people he sees as his voters out in the country. he's been talking about this, trump has, for decades now, since well before that p presidential campaign about protectionism, about a really sort of nationalist, populist approach to

trump: probably not for long, however. in recent years americans have , watched as washington spent trillions of dollars building up foreign countries, while allowing our own infrastructure to fall into a state of disrepair. look at korea. we have a border at korea and a wall of soldiers. we do not get paid very much for this. you look at that. nobody comes through. our own border, we do not take care of it. we spend billions of dollars in other countries maintaining their borders and we cannot to maintain our borders in our own country. is there something a little bit wrong with that? think of it. we spend billions and billions of dollars. north and south korea, 32,000 soldiers. their finest equipment, barbed wire all over the place, we protect that whole thing. no one comes through. but our country, we do not do it. things are changing, folks. now is the time to rebuild our country, to take care of our people and to fight for our great american workers for a change. [applause] pres. trump: we spent, and i was against it

. >>> "outfront" next, trump's lawyers, trump lawyering up. president trump hiring a new attorney who's fueling conspiracy theories about the russia investigation. is trump's new lawyer his mini me? and trump's attorneys reportedly turning over documents about moments in the russia investigation, all in an effort to keep trump from having to say anything to the special counsel. will it work? and trump giving credit tonight to hillary clinton. you have to see him say it to believe it. let's go "outfront." >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, trump versus mueller. the president with a major new hire tonight. president trump adding former federal prosecutor, joseph digenova to his russia legal team. and if that name st. familiar to you, what comes out of his mouth should be. digenova is a mini me to president trump. in fact, perhaps his greatest asset to the president is his embrace of a trumpian conspiracy theory. >> there was a brazen plot to illegally exonerate hillary clinton and if she didn't win the election, to then

now trump used it, trump was the only one who could effectively do it. >> right. so you -- >> gloria, roger quit. >> you were fired. right. >> corey wanted to push us out. >> right. >> okay? that's the reality. >> mm-hmm, right. right. >> now, trump loves corey. i don't know why he does. i think -- by the way, trump always had separate -- trump always had -- he treated roger and me differently than he treated everybody else. now, roger is more loyal to trump than me. i don't care. >> you're not protecting donald trump? sam, you're not protecting donald trump? >> no, i'm not protecting him. but he didn't do anything. you know what he did? he won the election. >> so why do you think they want you in the grand jury? >> they want me to testify against roger. they want to -- >> they want you to testify against roger -- >> they want me to say that roger was going around telling people he was colluding with julian assange. that's what they want. i'm not going to do it. >> and that did not occur, according to you? >> no, it did not. >> so you didn't come across anything i

with trump. i saw him frequently. one day i decided to introduce myself because i did see him regularly. he shook my hand and he kind of gave me the normal double cheek kiss but then he held onto my hand and he kept kissing me and then he kissed me on the lips. i was shocked. >> we're going to be hearing a lot more about this throughout the day. we have breaking news. the u.s. said it is expelling 60 russian diplomats and russia is responding. >>> it's been 40 days since the school shooting in parkland, florida where 17 students and adults have been killed. there's been no federal legislation on gun control. hundreds of thousands of students demanded change. coming up, will that march make any difference on capitol hill? our cartoon of the day shows an nra spotupporter on the top of capitol dome yelling to the student protesters, hey, you kids. get off my lawn. ♪ gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea can start in the colon and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips' col

the trumps clearly see this as we do in the media and in on capitol hill do as a referendum on the trump presidency. trump felt he needed to come down and energize the base. there's been a huge amount of money, as you touched on, spent on this race. over $10 million by outside republican groups. even if rick saccone manages to win this, as he absolutely should given the margin by which donald trump won this in 2016, if he wins even by a little bit it will be seen as a bad result. that could be seen as a loss for rick saccone. brooke? >> he needs to win and win big. we shall see if republicans prove that monmouth poll wrong. alex outside the candy shop. retail politics there in pennsylvania. >>> more breaking news as we wait for the white house briefing to begin. the british prime minister theresa may pointing the finger today at russia after a former russian spy and his daughter were poisoned last week with a nerve agent. how britain plans to respond to this coming up. also, we have a close eye on the situation developing in austin, texas. multiple explosions there of packages being deli

and not the trump campaign or the trump organization. but avenatti provided another tease to viewers tonight saying, there is much more to come. >> the initial interview was two hours. the total time for her on the "60 minutes" piece was probably 16, 17, 18 minutes. there's a lot of details that have yet to come out. >> as he keeps up his media tour. president trump's last public on camera event was last friday. germane to this discussion we're about to have. jill colvin is with us, phillip rucker back with us also returning former u.s. attorney joyce vance who spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor. jill, i'd like to begin with you, there's a term of art at the white house. something called the in town travel pool. you have the glory and honor of riding many vehicles behind the president to go where they are going this evening. he went to a donor's home in virginia for a closed media event. you're among the few that saw him out of the vehicle and walking, correct? >> that's right. >> this is the only appearance we've seen at all. i mean

trump was aware during the campaign of the trump tower meeting with russians and trump officials, including don junior. >> the president said he knew nothing about the meeting. do you think that is true? >> no. >> you don't think that is true? >> no. jake, i watched your news reports. you know it's not true. he talked about it for a week before and i don't know why he did this. all he had to say was yeah, we met with the russians. russians offered us something and we thought they had something and that was it. i don't know why he went around trying to hide it. he shouldn't have. >> both president trump and don junior denied anything about the meeting. nunberg says he believes trump quote may very well have done something. the west wing called the interviews nuts. and sarah sanders dismissed his remarks. >> we have said there is no c e collusion. i cannot speak about him or the lack of >> nunberg told our erin burnett he hadn't been drinking. >> i have been advised against this. maybe i'll just give them my passwo password. my e-mail password. >> so you will comply? >> then i would comply. >

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

president trump did the opposite. if donald trump does not act, there will be big questions of why. first of all, his administration has called these poisonings attempted murder. they express strong support for the belief russia was behind this. they express support for what the uk has done in response. a number of members of congress repeatedly urged the administration to do more against russia's behavior and faster. christine and dave. >> michelle, thank you. >>> activists around the country march for action on gun control. one of america's oldest gun m e gunmakers is filing for bankruptcy. "cnn money" is next. "i have antivirus, but my computer's still slow..." "that's not right..." "maybe if i reboot..." "what's with all the popups?" "why does it keep on crashing?" "this is taking forever." "i think it's time for the fixmestick." fixmestick is a plug-in virus removal device. it's the smart, simple, safe way to clean your computer yourself. with fixmestick you don't have to replace your computer. it helps you keep your files, and your privacy. fixmestick reboots your computer fro

that's just not trump trump's model was the twenty sixth floor of trump tower which was people coming and going and nobody no chain of command well you can't run the country the way you run a manhattan real estate firm and priebus so priebus knew it was going to be tough but again i don't think he had any idea you know for every half baked ill conceived thing they tried like the executive order an immigration clip claims he stopped and other things that were worse. earlier this week good stuff they said. had a media meltdown firstly to defy a subpoena samoa then he seemed to indicate he might comply also is that he thought mullah had something on top what was your reaction to the nunberg riyadh affair or call it fair number was it was kind of sad i mean i think i don't think this was the finest hour for the media frankly and i think this is someone who has he seems to be going through kind of a rough time there were some reports that people were smelling alcohol in his breath yesterday and he wasn't the right mind he's not someone who has been in the loop from what i can tell and trum

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 problems. 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 but 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 continent on itself they have. to just put a different way important export of goods. into cent of the g.d.p. so that is. very very little compared to other coun

trump is going to start something. what if he decides hey, this might work or at the other end i think victor chan was absolutely right when he said you have a premature negotiation. if it falls through, there is no recourse. you already met with kim jong-un. now you're going to say okay we've used that engagement negotiation card and now we have no recourse except to take kinetic action on north korea. >> you said you knew this was going to happen in the sense that trump was going to want to meet with kim jong-un. why? >> because no one else has done it. kim jong-un has not met with a single other leader of the world since he's become, since he's taken power, and no american president has ever met with the north korean leader, only former secretary of state. so it's the first. it's incredible television, clearly trump wants to make this happen. but that doesn't mean it's going to happen, and there are a lot of things, simply the fact of saying there's going to be a summit has made trump's presidency more about north k

candidate trump and trump supporters don't seem to hold that against her. is it fair for people to say sto stormy daniels told them she had an affair and then denied it and signed two statements denying it. >> i think you go back and look at some of the threats that were made to her and how she feared for her life. >> do you think threats were made against her and she feared for her life? >> her descriptions were very specific. we saw with stormy daniels supposedly this mystery perso l goes away. i think you loog k at the poll numbers. cnn polls showing the 11 month high. om only a couple of points off. i think most have already made a decision if they will believe some of these or if they will brush them off. most made this going into the election. >> and even the people i talked to, they knew this was out there. they knew these stories were probably going to come out. it is probably a little more graphic than we would want to hear. we'll standby him and support them. even evangelicals are willing to give him another shot and forgive his past sins as long

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>> 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

trump. >>> punishing putin. the white house says dozens of russian diplomats are being kicked out of the united states for brazen and reckless attacks. why is the trump administration suddenly getting tougher with the kremlin and why isn't president trump talking about it? >>> and surprise visit. there's intense speculation tonight that kim jong-un may have psychly left north korea for china. we're digging on what would be an unprecedented trip if confirmed. is there any connection to plans for kim jong-un to meet with president trump? >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> breaking tonight, stormy daniels is suing the president's personal lawyer michael cohen for defamation, escalating the legal battle over her alleged affair with mr. trump and a hush money deal to keep her quiet. this as the white house is denying her

and he acts like trump and he even calls himself trump's ray donovan if you know the showtime show. and what do you make of the recent moves of stormy daniel, because he is proud of this position of trump's fixer? >> i have spent quite a couple of years now covering trump world and the administration, and i know this is a tall the order to make, but i am not sure that i have been able to find anybody more willingly to gleefully throw himself on to a grenade for donald trump. he is the ultimate, michael cohen is the ultimate trump loyalist and he used to be his personal lawyer and he has been his long-time lawyer for god knows how many years, and he sort of has created a brand name for himself in terms of trump efficiency and he put himself on the perch of the organization to work for trump, because he was so sure that he would get a job in the early administration or the high ranking white house, but according to the reporting that you talked about which is included in the daily beast, he was blocked by the white house including reince priebus, because they felt that he would be suc

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. >> they developed it. jim said it first it was about not liking hillary clinton and over time when they realized trump was a viable candidate they developed a preference for donald trump. earlier you said i would concur. >> i think there's evidence of that. i don't know that necessarily there was a full flej campaign to do everything they could to help elect donald trump. i think their goal was chaos. to say that we have seen a red evidence or say we got to get donald trump in there, i don't know that's true. i mean i think they did not like hillary. i also know they kept very good evidence against hillary in their back pocket and didn't release it. >> why would you end the investigation now? it sounds like there's agreement of where it is. why are you all ending it? >> two things from what i said last week is we have gone off the rails and now we're a political forum for people to leak information to drive the day's news. we have lost all credibility and we're going to issue probably two different reports

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

trump in some way. he denies all of their allegations in a new nbc.com article asks the question, which one of these women who poses the greatest danger to mr. trump and his presidency. joining me now to discuss, msnbc legal analyst daniely sevellos who wrote that piece and elise jordan is back. >> stormy daniels and mcdougal's cases both involve contracts and they both involve arbitration agreements. the trump team is going to push their hardest to get cases out of court and back into arbitration because arbitration favors trump, it favors cohen, it favors ec consultants. the one individual who does not have a contract dispute is summer zervos. it's a civil wrong, it has nothing to do with a contract and accordingly there is no arbitration provision that she's subject to, and with the court's opinion this week, allowing it to go forward, that means the next phase here in new york is going to be discovery, and that means disclosing documents and it means depositions, ebts as they're called here and trum

trump without mr. trump knowing about it. that's part of the overall structure, is that michael had great latitude to take care of matters. >> reporter: michael cohen, a version of his long time mentor roy kohn, aggressive defender of all things trump no questions asked. after dantonio finished his book on trump, he got the cohen treatment in what turned out to be an empty threat. >> then he got mad and it was, you just bought yourself an f'ing lawsuit, buddy, i'll see you in court. >> reporter: in 2011 michael cohen described his job this way. >> my job is i protect mr. trump. that's what it is. if there's an issue that relates to mr. trump that is of concern to him, it's, of course, of concern to me, and i will use my legal skills within which to protect mr. trump to the best of my ability. >> reporter: cohen, a sometimes democrat, first came to trump's attention after buying apartments in trump developments, then went to the mat for trump against one of his condo boards and won. >> trump loved him for it. that was the begi

trump's attorney, mr. cohen, surreptitiously initiated a bogus arbitration proceedings against miss clifford in los angeles. remarkably, it says, he did so without even providing miss clifford with knonotice of the proceeding and basic due process. so that is what they're alleging, that she was being pressured. i want to mention something, don. we saw a note from mr. cohen and that note showed that she signed something saying that she'd never had any kind of affair with mr. trump. so that is always going to be out there and in question, don. >> so let me explain this. how does this lawsuit explain stormy daniels' signature or miss clifford clifford's signate statement that she never had an affair with mr. trump. does it explain that? >> reporter: it does explain that. and i think they had to talk about that, because it is out there. it says that in january of 2018, we're talking about last month, that she was coerced into signing something that was false, a false statement. and she said she was forced to d

president trump sounded more like candidate trump. the chief washington correspondent for bloomberg news, also is jane newton small arc "time's" magazine contributor, politics editor at theroot.com and msnbc contributor. kevin, take us back down memory lane. how similar is what you heard last nit to the trail. >> it was like flashbacks. seriously, this is exactly what we saw, president trump really going all in for republican candidate saccone. quite frankly, the polls are inching closer together. colin lamb is making this interesting. president trump carried in southwestern pennsylvania by more than 20 percentage points and i got to be honest here, david, you know this, you are a policy buy the. the trade policy the white house announced last week is something that the union folks that i talked to tell me is going to play particularly well here but on the other side of that, democrats really pushing for a get out the vote effort. a lot of outside money, millions of dollars flooding in as well. >> jane newton small, let me ask you abo

trump. >> u.s. officials of direct knowledge told cnn that trump has been warned. that's the damaging information opting gathered through surveillance that vladimir putin is believed to collect unpowerful people. >> was it your concern that the president could have leverage over the president of the united states. >> former intelligence, jamesgan compromise anybody, tlas tehere term for it. >> it was our strong sense that the nation's senior most intelligence official would not waste the time of the president-elect trump if it was easy to dismiss information. >> cnn did not reveal the content of the dossier because it has not been verified. shortly cnn broke the story, buzzfeed posted the entire thing on the internet. >> portions of the dossier have been in the fbi's hands for months. >> throughout august or september of 2016, chris steele, the former officer compiles the dossier and puts it in the bloodstream of the fbi. >> chris fear steele was a veteran british spy worked for the intelligence service, he was a russia expert. >> steele had compiled of the dossier

he helped finance donald trump's soho project. he's a friend of the trump family. in october 2016, the first offer to connect donald trump and vladimir putin was made from felix sater to michael cohen. he said lets build a trump tower, let's get him in vladimir putin together. let's get him elected. we can engineer this and make him president. throughout the campaign, other previews of what getting donald trump and vladimir putin together looked like would mean for the trump campaign would materialize. but felix sater, it was just reported by buzz feed was somebody for decades delivered intelligence on osama bin laden and the north koreans. if he was able to deliver bin laden information and the north koreans, i think we have to assess him as someone who could have assisted the trump campaign and working with russia to interfere in the election. >> can you tell us tonight which sanctioned russian bank we're talking about here? >> i cannot. i can tell you we believe, and ranking member schiff has been leading the charge, we believe the transcripts of this investigat

toelp trump? >> no, mike conway regrets the language used in that first talking point. the talking point bsically said that they don't agree with the assessment that putin wanted trump to beat hillary. what he's saying isor a nuanced point and he regrets that it came out that way. his points is he doesn't trust the trade craft that lay under it. that it meets the standards of the i.f.c. it's the hou intel committee. >> just one parties on the cheap. >> just onearty on the committee and we're going to get a dissent by theemrats. we'll get some of it next thursday and it's goiry to be controversial on that point and also on the central point they're making which is there is no evidence that there's been any collusion. pete: abby, was it slow coming out, susan and what's the significance of the u.s. adding its voice to this and saying us too. >> of course it's slow. the bottom line is that the united states and united kingdom have haallong-standing spe relationship and this week, i think we did not s

chris is, trump getting more trump. >> there's no question. it's not a simple right/left republican democrat issue. >> there's a damn well fight between this president and this speaker of the house. the speaker believes in free trade, doesn't believe in changing immigration law. >> the other side of where the president is going right now. that's an issue in if the 201 elections. >> it's ironic it was gary cohn enforcing the republican orthodoxy on free trade. he was a democrat. now he's gone. >> democrats largely in the big state -- tend to be protectionist right now the. >> the people in the rust belt cheering these tariffs, as well. >> i don't know what bob casey and sherrod brown are saying about this, but they can't be attacking it. up next, these people tell me something i don't know. you're watching "hardball." thank you so much. thank you! so we're a go? yes! we got a yes! what does that mean for purchasing? purchase. let's do this. got it. book the flights! hai! si! si! ya! ya! ya! what does that mean for us? we can get stuff. what's i