Things the president said, that Certain Senior officials in the russia investigation committed treason. You dont think that they committed treason . Not as a legal matter, right. But you have concerns about how they conducted the investigation . Yes, but you know, sometimes people can convince themselves that what theyre doing is in the higher interests, the better good. They dont realize that what theyre doing is really antithetical to the democratic system we have. The president , you know, has also characterized the Court Approved surveillance of Campaign Advisers as spying, language the attorney general has echoed. Heres what he said about that today. I guess its become a dirty word somehow. It has never been for me. I think there is nothing wrong with spying. The question is always whether its authorized by law and properly predicated. And if it is, then its an important tool the United States has to protect the country. The attorney general was also asked about Robert Muellers decision not to reach a decision on the president and obstruction of justice. I personally felt he could have reached a decision. In your view, he could have reached a conclusion . Right. He could have reached a conclusion. The opinion says you cannot indict a president while in office, but he could have reached a decision as to whether it was criminal activity. But he had his reasons for not doing it. Joining us now is cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, also former fbi jim baker, along with former Deputy Assistant attorney general elliott williams. Jeffrey, first of all barr is saying he doesnt think investigators committed treason as a legal matter. You know, hes got this phlegmatic style. Everything seems matter of fact. Its important to remember just how extraordinary whats going on is. I mean, he is ordering a new investigation, probably the third investigation of what you described correctly as courtordered surveillance, an authorized investigation of the highest officials of the fbi. So its not just that there was no treason. There couldnt possibly be any treason, because treason is helping a foreign adversary in a time of war. And his matter of fact attitude about that i think camouflages just what a serious matter this all is. Its sort of normalizing what is an abonormal situation. Exactly, exactly. Jim, its your former colleagues the president is accusing of treason. Are you surprised the attorney general didnt just put all that talk to rest today . Well, he made a legal conclusion. He stated a legal conclusion that is contrary to some of the language that the president of the United States has made with respect to treason. Im very pleased about that. Im very happy to hear that. I guess i would disagree with the other statements he made about what we thought we were doing at the time that we were conducting the investigation. We were doing things that we thought were lawful, and we concluded were lawful after careful analysis that we thought were intended that we believed firmly were intended to protect the country. And importantly, we did so under the supervision of the acting attorney general who could have told the fbi at any time this is Rod Rosenstein he could have told the fbi any time cease and desist. I do not want you to do this. This is not lawful. This is inconsistent with your obligations, whatever. He could have told us to stop. And importantly, we made sure that the congress of the United States was briefed on what we were doing. So this was not some inside thing that we were doing and had i guess i would simply disagree that we had somehow lost our way or confused ourselves about what our higher purpose was. Yeah, i mean, that is what he is sort of indicating, that you all thought, well, were doing a higher good and were going to cut corners and i guess no. Do something to break the law because its a higher good. No way. Just simply flatout no way. Im confident whatever review is conducted or analysis investigation, whatever you call it, will conclude that we did things carefully, that we looked at what our legal authorities were, that we looked at the facts and that we made appropriate decisions under extremely, extremely difficult and novel circumstances. But we did what we thought was right for the country and within the bounds of the law, and importantly, with appropriate oversight. Elliot, in terms of barr saying that mueller could have reached a conclusion on obstruction, its not that he outs that he wouldnt based on Justice Department guidelines. And mueller made that clear yesterday, and also barr wouldnt go into the second reason why he wouldnt even reach a conclusion, because he thought it was unfair to President Trump if he did reach a conclusion, given the fact that he would never have a day in court because of the department of justice guidelines. Right. And its interesting. In one line that wasnt played from the interview that i think viewers will see tomorrow is that barr continues that point where he says we dont just punt things he didnt use the word punt, but we dont send things to congress because the Justice Department is not an adjunct to congress. Right . And so, the Justice Department should not be informing congress decisions. And thats just not accurate. Because under that point of view, there is no mechanism by which the United States can hold a president of the United States accountable. Mueller was obligated to follow the Justice Department guidelines or not. He chose to. But i think the bigger question here is why barr himself felt the need then to make the determination as to to make the determination as to criminality. He didnt have to make a decision. He could have just sent it to congress. But then it triggers that we are not an adjunct to congress point. Thats a weird, odd and sort of its a point that beefs up the role of the executive, which is something that barr a view that barr has taken, i guess, for the past 30 years, that the executive branch is never to be subordinate to congress. But sending something to congress for their rightful determination as to the guilt and innocence of a president is right within congress purview. One more quick point, anderson, about treason, and im going to be a little more pointed than my friend jim baker here. You know, the attorney general of the United States could not say just a moment ago that the individuals, including jim baker who is on this panel, didnt levee war against the United States. That is the definition of treason. And its a yes or no question. Do you think that these patriots and american servants and Public Servants committed an act of war against the United States . And i think when you yes, its legally accurate and its true, in a legal sense they did not, but the answer to that question should have been an unequivocal no and its sort of foolish that the attorney general couldnt go there. I know you have a question. Jim, what do you think about the precedence thats being set here, that the president of the United States orders a criminal investigation of his political enemies in a you know, in the previous administration, with power to declassify anything over the objections of the intelligence agencies . What do you think about that as a principle for how a president conducts Law Enforcement . Well, look, i mean, as others have pointed out, the term treason is defined in the constitution, and its specifically defined in a way that is just obviously not what was happening here. The president has an obligation under the constitution to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. And so, to me, when he starts making allegations about people committing treason with no evidence to support that, i think that raises serious questions about whether hes fulfilling his responsibilities under the constitution to make sure that the laws are faithfully executed. I think what attorney general barr today said about treason should take that issue off the table. I dont think it gives the president any room to be making statements along those lines anymore. So that i guess im getting worked up as we go on here. But that is what i think, and i feel strongly about that. Im not just talking about treason, im talking about the whole investigation, the idea of the president ordering a criminal which is, this is possibly a criminal investigation of you and your colleagues, because he didnt like the way this investigation was handled. And giving barr and his subordinates power to declassify anything they want in the effort to prove that you and jim comey and andy mccabe committed crimes. Well, look, i mean, at the fbi, we always recognize that we had a lot of responsibility and a lot of authority, and we knew that we shouldnt be trusted, necessarily, just blindly by the American People, that we had to have appropriate oversight, review and that we needed to be held accountable, and we all welcomed that. We welcome oversight by the attorney general, by the inspector general, by congress. And so, to me, if in the long run, the Law Enforcement agencies of the United States, the Intelligence Community, need the trust and confidence of the American People. If what it takes is some type of review, and i dont know if its criminal or what exactly is going on, i think its not, actually, from what ive heard, but in any event, if some type of review is necessary so that a substantial portion of the American People regain confidence in the fbi, then fine. Go on, do it. But i do worry about how this is all being played, the political terms, in particular that the president of the United States is making. Its just its alarming. Its not the way we should be conducting business, and i think it calls into question the investigation and review when there should be appropriate and oversight of the fbi. Elliot, clearly mueller made it clear yesterday he does not want to appear before congress. If he is forced to, do you think he needs to . Do you think clearly barr is coming out to try to take away from what mueller said yesterday, they put out a joint Statement Last night doing the same thing. I dont hit the he needs to be forced to, because he will. He doesnt have that choice. And most of the time, under most circumstances, anderson, witnesses will come to an agreement with congress as to the scope of their testimony. And so, they will work out some plan for him to testify. He is a lawabiding individual. We know that. Weve seen that over the past two years. And hes not going to buck a subpoena, but hes not going to get one, because i think he ought to work out and every indication is that theyve been negotiating over the terms of his testimony already. And so they i hope, but im quite confident, theyll work out some terms under which judiciary and intelligence, maybe judiciary in public and intelligence in private, and he comes and tells the story for the American People in a man theyre puts this on the record. Yesterday was incredibly valuable for the American People. And so well see how the testimony is as well. Jim, jeff, elliot, thank you so much. Appreciate it. More breaking news. The president back from a trip to the air force academy, dropping a tariff bomb on mexico, 5 on all goods, he says, and it could go higher until Illegal Immigrants stop coming into this country. More on all this from jim acosta who joins us now. So, just explain what the president s plan actually proposes to do. Reporter well, anderson, what hes saying is essentially what you just mentioned a few moments ago, that if mexico does not put a stop to what is happening down at the border right now, with migrants coming across the border from Central America and mexico, that starting on june 10th, hes going to start slapping tariffs on mexican goods coming into the u. S. 5 tariff on all goods imported from mexico starting on june 10th. And then it goes up on a sliding scale upward each month after that, to 10 july 1st, 15 on august 1st and so on. And the president just tweeted about this a few moments ago. He announced this on twitter. And then the white house put out a statement from the president. We can show you that tweet. He is obviously expressing some frustration when he says on june 10th, the United States will impose a 5 tariff on all goods coming into our country from mexico until such time as Illegal Migrants coming through mexico into our country stop. He uses the word stop there. I will note, anderson, there is an inconsistency with that tweet and what is said in the statement here. And the statement from the president just issued a few moments ago by the white house, says, if the illegal migration crisis is alleviated by effective actions taken by mexico to be determined in our sole discretion and judgment, the tariff will be removed. A slight inconsistency there, from what the president tweeted, that it has to stop. But in the statement from the white house from the president , it says if they can alleviate this migration challenge down at the border, then they will stop these tariffs. And so, obviously, theyre feeling their way along now with this policy. The other thing we should note, anderson, this is not scheduled to take place until june 10th. And so, there is some time, presumably for the Mexican Government to try to deal with all of this. And one thing we should also note is these tariff announcements are coming down as the white house is hopeful that congress will ratify the president s new trade deal with mexico and canada. And one House Democrat, don beyer from virginia, just tweeted a little while ago, the last half hour, that if you want to kill this trade deal, slapping these tariffs on mexico is a good way to do it. Jim acosta, thank you very much. Appreciate it. Coming up next, the president s attack today on the Mueller Report and Robert Mueller in particular, as well as his temporary mow mmentary acknowledgement that russia interfered to help him win the election. 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They did to it hurt Hillary Clinton and help donald trump. You dont have to like one candidate or another to believe that. It just is. Russia attacked. Donald trump benefitted. How much, what impact it had, all questions that could be argued and yelled about for as long as we want, but it happened. The Intelligence Community came up with that conclusion first. The president was briefed during the campaign on it, and the work on Robert Muellers team confirmed it. These are all facts. So it shouldnt be a big deal that the president wouldnt would acknowledge them, except it would be, because he never has. But this morning he actually did, for the First Time Ever the president acknowledged them tweeting russia, russia, russia, thats all you heard at the beginning of this witch hunt hoax, and now russia has disappeared because i had nothing to do with russia helping me to get elected. I had nothing to do, he said, with russia helping me to get elected. Now right there after denying it for two years, he says russia helped him get elected. He had nothing to do with it, though. That was this morning at three minutes to 8 00 eastern time. 42 minutes and 3 seconds later, the simple acknowledgment of a simple fact was swirling down the memory hole. Do you believe russia helped you get elected . No, russia did not help men get elected. You know who got me elected . You know who got me elected . I got me elected. Russia didnt help me at all. So the president sounds a bit agitated there. He was just getting started. Heres his take on Robert Mueller. I think he is a total conflicted person. I think mueller is a true never trumper. He is somebody that dislikes donald trump. He is somebody that didnt get a job that he requested that he wanted very badly, and then he was appointed. And despite that, and despite 40 million, 18 trump haters, including people that worked for Hillary Clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. They got nothing, which you can file away under the heading of things john gotti used to say. You can also file it in the enormous file of things the president said that arent true. I wont go through all the falsehoods there, but they did indict a lot of russians and the president S National Security adviser and the campaign chairman. Anyway. That phrase some of the worst human becomes on earth, it also is similar how he described murderous gang members. You wouldnt believe how bad these people are. These arent people. These are animals. That was the president last year talking about members of ms13. A year later, similar language now reserved for longserving criminal justice professionals who served under a Republican Former fbi director. The president wasnt through, though, him or with spreading falsehoods about him. I think hes totally conflicted, because, as you know, he wanted to be the fbi director and i said no. As you know, i had a business dispute with him after he left the fbi. We had a business dispute. Not a nice one. He wasnt he wasnt happy with what i did. And i dont blame him, but i had to do it because that was the right thing to do. But i had a business dispute. And he loves comey. You look at the relationship of those two. So whether its love or deep like, but he was conflicted. Leaving aside the second hand homoeroticism, not a single thing he said there was true. The president likes to suggest that mueller is bitter because he turned him down for a third term running the fbi. Keeping him honest, take a look at what his own strategist steve bannon told investigators under oath. Quoting now, as for muellers interview for fbi director, bannon recalled that the white house had invited mueller to speak to the president to offer a perspective on the institution of the fbi. Bannon said that although the white house thought about beseeching mueller to become director again, he did not come in looking for the job. Again, that was sworn testimony. Thats in the Mueller Report. Sworn testimony versus the guy on a lawn yelling. As for this now legendary in the president s mind business dispute that the president makes so much about, mueller himself discloses it fully in footnote 529 of his report on page 80, volume 2, in case youre following at home. Safe to say its not what the president makes it out to be. Quote, in october 2011, mueller resigned his familys membership from Trump National golf club in sterling, virginia, in a letter that noted, quote, we live in the district and find that we are unable to make full use of the club and that inquired whether we would be entitled to a refund of a portion of our National Membership fee which was paid in 1994. About two weeks later, the controller of the club responded that the muellers resignation would be effective october 31st, 2011, and that they would be, quote, placed on a wait list to be refunded on a first resign, first refunded basis. Steve bannon told the mueller team i cant believe were talking about this, but we have to. The president said making it sound as if its this clash of titans. He told the president this was not a conflict of interest, and to claim so would be, and im quoting bannon now, ridiculous and petty. In other words, his own chief strategist at the time thought the president was reaching, and now he seems to have built it into some kind of boardroom clash of the titans. The real question tonight, though, is why so angry . Dont we remember a time when he and his people were pleased as punch with the special counsels work . I think everyone here and everyone frankly across america was happy. The Mueller Investigation is the gold standard. The Mueller Report was great. It could not have been better. It said no obstruction, no collusion. It could not have been better. Do you think Robert Mueller acted honorably . Yes. And i do see some people now trying to besmirch the integrity of director mueller or attorney general barr. That is really rich. Really rich indeed. By the way, of course, all those comments were talking about barrs version of the Mueller Report, not once actually the Mueller Report came out. Perspective now, david gergen and jeffrey toobin, who is back with us. It is pretty amazing, david, to hear the president actually tweet out, to see him tweet out that russia helped him get elected. It lasted for 42 minutes and 3 seconds. But it was surprising nonetheless. It took about ten minutes for white house aides to go racing across the lawn to get to the president and say, you got to take that back, because im not sure he knew what he was writing. But nonetheless, i think he did acknowledge something. It was important. But thats the only thing he has acknowledged in a string of lies today. And the big lie here, anderson, the list you went through, theyre all lies, but the big lie is he keeps arguing, basically, he has been cleared, especially on obstruction. And that simply is not true. Despite the gloss that attorney general barr has put on it. What we know from the Mueller Report is that they just simply did not reach a conclusion on whether he had committed a crime or not. And very, very importantly, they couldnt clear him. That the evidence was such that they couldnt clear him. And it wasnt that they couldnt reach a conclusion. Its just that they didnt because, again, of the department of justice guidelines. For prudential reasons, out of fairness to trump, you know, we were here covering this live, the 17 minutes on the lawn. And, you know, it was almost worth it to hear all 17 minutes together. I know. We thought to be honest, we thought of playing the whole thing, because it is startling. Its just the torrent the torrent of lies. I mean, you covered some of them, but i didnt cover all of them. And its just an interesting journalistic question about what our obligation is, because by not pointing this out, you know, we dont point it out. James comey was saying in the town hall that we did, which is, its one of the ways the president works is, he says lies to you and then if you youre like, well, should i wait a minute, should i just interseed and point out that thats a lie or do i just remain silent, and if you remain silent, all of a sudden, hes sort of coopted you. Also, if you tell 35 lies and they correct 18, you have a lot of lies still sort of floating out there in the world. And today was really even by his standards extreme. Well over 10,000 lies and misleading statements now and counting. Right. The world is watching, and i think were paying a price for it. Earlier today, anderson, chancellor merkel came to harvard to give the commencement address. A very hardhitting speech. And she pointedly argued how much damage is done in public life when lies are treated as truth and truth is treated as lies. I think thats what were seeing here, and i think the world knows it. We all know it. And what we dont know is how much damage, how long this damage is going to last. By the way, Angela Merkel grew up in the east german system. Yes. So, she knows lies. I mean, you know its pretty extraordinary. The also, the president seems to be having it both ways. He claims the Mueller Investigation exonerated him, but at the same time, you know, its this witch hunt, some of the worst human beings on earth. Right. And, you know, this is a continuing problem for him, that contradiction, because, you know, if Robert Mueller testifies before congress and if he merely reads or summarizes the evidence on obstruction of justice, its devastating. And its not one thick. Its 10 or 11 examples of obstruction of justice. And, you know, he can claim all the exoneration he wants, but when you look at the facts and people will look at the facts more if its on television as opposed to a written document, hes going to be very angry to see that. What i find hard to understand is why there is acceleration in the number of lies per day, you know. It was a small number in the beginning, but now, as you say, there was a torrent today. And thats pretty Standard Practice right now, but why . What kind of insecurity is affecting him or has him in its grip that he would that he is clearly getting worse. Yeah. Or emboldened. Emboldened. Thats a good point. David gergen, jeff toobin, thanks. Ahead, the story that when it first broke had us wondering if it was a headline from the onion. It is that ridiculous. The lengths the president and the white house will go to hold a grudge against the late john mccain, who is dead, we should just point that out, and yet, the president is still focused on him. Also, Meghan Mccains reaction. Last year, the department of Veterans Affairs partnered with tmobile for business. 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A short time ago, the president tweeted again about the story of white house aides suggested to the navy they obscure name of the uss john mccain while the president was in japan. The ship is named after john mccains father and grandfather, both admirals, both named john mccain. Look likes the story was an exaggeration or even fake news, but why not . Everything else is. Im not sure what the president means by a disclaimer. A spokesman for the fleet said nothing was moved and the name was not obscured. However, the white house and lower level u. S. Navy officials did Exchange Emails about keeping the ships name out of sight, lest it provoke the president s anger. Navy leadership nixed that idea. This morning at the white house, the president exhibited more of his trademark anger and resentment regarding the late senator and this story. I would not have done that. I was very angry with john mccain because he killed health care. I was not a big fan of john mccain in any way, shape or form. I think john mccain had a lot to getting president bush, a lot to do with it to go into the middle east, which was a catastrophe. To me, john mccain, i wasnt a fan. But i would never do a thing like that. Now, somebody did it because they thought i didnt like him, okay . And they were well meaning, i will say. I didnt know anything about it. I would never have done that. The buck stops with him, not. A reporter then asked the president do you owe the sailors of the mccain an apology, the president replied no, not at all. Hours later, senator mccains daughter, meghan, addressed the issue at the top of the show. She cohosts the view. Her point, the damage this does to our military. I will say, the president s actions have consequences. And when you are repeatedly attacking my father and war heroes, it creates a culture in the military where people are clearly fearful to show my fathers name in one way or another. And that, i think, is what has started this chain of events and actions. Joining me tonight, former secretary of defense and former white house chief of staff leon panetta. Secretary panetta, i wonder what you think about the culture the president has created in the white house that staffers then would have thought Something Like this would please the president , because it probably did . I think its more evidence of how dysfunctional this white house is. When i was chief of staff, one of our rules was dont make an issue out of a nonissue, and thats exactly what they did here. The main focus should have been the president on memorial day on the uss wasp. But instead, their effort to kind of play to their concern about what might bother the president made them send out this approach on the john mccain, and it really does make the white house look petty and look like it really is not focused on the principle issues that they should be. I mean, do you believe that the president would not have known about Something Like this . Because its such a ludicrous idea. It sounds like something that would come from him. Well, you know, look, in the end, whether he really knew about it or not, the buck stops with him. Because obviously hes conveyed this impression that hes so angry about john mccain, and so wrapped up in his concern about john mccain, hes passed that message on to everybody around him, so that theyre acting in this kind of irrational way to try to protect him from himself. I found it interesting that the president today couldnt even criticize the actions of the staffers, if, again, if it was just staffers doing this. He called them well meaning. I mean, a, you could look at that as, he doesnt want to throw them under the bus, because hes lying, hes actually the one who directed it and he doesnt want them leaking out that he directed it, but the idea that he couldnt even just even apologize and say, you know what, it was just inappropriate and you shouldnt cover up a war heros name on the side of his ship, i mean his reaction was telling, as well. I dont think there is any question. When he described what that aide did as well meaning, it said an awful lot about his own feelings and the fact that, you know, whether he directed this or not, that he appreciated the fact that his staff knew that he was angry at john mccain and that they were out to try to protect him from that. But that that just misses the whole issue here. This is about the president as commander in chief on memorial day speaking to the troops from the uss wasp. That is the main focus. It shouldnt be about the concern about the mccain. My goodness, ive been in the hash ee eer harbor there in tok. There are all kinds of ships in that harbor. Nobody would Pay Attention to this issue. They made it an issue by virtue of what they did, and their assumption that somehow this is not going get out into the public, the one thing you ought to operate by when youre in the white house is that everything you do ultimately makes it out to the public. Thats a good policy to follow when youre in the white house. I mean, you were secretary of defense. This would be is this something that the acting secretary of defense, because there is not a fulltime secretary of defense, would the acting secretary of defense know about . There are a lot of people who screwed up here in the white house, because the reason you have advisers is to make sure you dont do something stupid like that, and so the National Security adviser should have been aware of this. The secretary of defense, the acting secretary of defense should have been aware of this. The chief of staff in particular should have been aware that this was happening and stopped it from happening. Yeah. It wouldnt surprise me if more came out about this, exactly who knew and what exactly the president did know or not. Secretary panetta, i appreciate talking to you. Thank you. Good to talk to you. Just ahead, ill talk with a House Democrat from a swing director and why she backs speaker pelosis approach on impeachment. Feel the clarity of nondrowsy claritin and relief from symptoms caused by over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. Like those from buddy. Because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. Feel the clarity. And live claritin clear. Through the at t network, edgetoedge intelligence gives you the power to see every corner of your growing business. From finding out whats selling best. To managing your fleet. To collaborating remotely with your teams. 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My next guest represents one of those districts. Katie hill of california beat a twoterm republican in november. Thanks for being with us. I know you have not called for impeachment proceedings against the president. Did mueller say anything yesterday to change the calculus for you at all . Well, everything that mueller said was in the report. So there was no new information for those of us who read the report. But what he did say, and i think its really important that the American People heard this out loud was that he couldnt exonerate the president. He specifically said that if there was a way of clearing the president , they would have said so. So, you know, i think that that showed that and the movement that has happened because of that shows that people do need to hear this stuff out loud. And frankly, i think that mueller needs to come in and testify regardless of whether he is just going to say the same things he said in the report, because that does show the public a glimpse into what really happened that you wouldnt get otherwise. So even if he is not willing to go beyond what is in the report, just having him, you know, essentially reiterate or repeat exactly whats in the report, that would have a bigger impact than just the printed document which the majority of americans have not read. Yeah, i think so. And i also think that having members of congress question him and say, okay, its explained this way. What did you mean by that, right . Or getting into a little bit deeper of the thought process behind it. And i recognize that nobody wants to do this, right . But i think it needs to happen. Is there a Tipping Point for you that you can identify . Because there is certainly people who say its now or never, that all the information one needs is out there. The closer it gets to 2020, the less likely impeachment becomes. The Tipping Point for me is if and when the Trump Administration blatantly defies court orders. So the last week or so, we got Favorable Court rulings on getting the information that weve requested for the Oversight Committee through mazars and deutsche bank. The court is moving, and theyre moving quicker than we thought, and theyre also ruling in our favor, meaning i think we need to let this play out. And when hes when he says, when a court specifically says so and so needs to testify or you need to hand over these dock yuchlt documents and he refuses, that, to me, is the red line that we cant allow to go any further. That would actually be a constitutional crisis . Right. That is legitimately 100 a constitutional crisis. Speaker pelosi yesterday, she basically dismissed the opinions of 2020 candidates who are calling for impeachment. I mean, they might not be members of the house. They are driving the National Conversation to a certain degree. Is that was that a wise thing to do . Does it does it play either way . I mean, i think that the president ial candidates arent involved in the investigations that were doing right now. So i think that if people really when they get the opportunity to see how were doing these investigations, how that inquiry that we keep talking about, its happening. Its not there is no waiting on it. And so our job as members of congress is to get that information out to the public to make sure that it is completely understood, and were taking that continual drumbeat of getting to where we need to go, if thats ultimately what has to happen. Just lastly, i want to get your reaction to the president today calling impeachment, quote, a dirty, filthy, disgusting word. I dont know. Thats an interesting way of describing it. I actually feel like impeachment is just a constitutional word, personally. But thats just my own thoughts. 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She is the right person to ask obviously, close to the seat of power, represents the campaigns. Itll be there. Look, this is a tandem move, right . Its this and trying to change the asylum rules, which the president has had some difficulty with but also some success in the 9th circuit whereby if you leave Central America and go through mexico on land to get to the United States you cant forum shop for asylum. You have to be there. Now, the law might allow for that. This is a tandem move. Well go through both. We also have beto orourke on tonight with his take on what the problem is on the border. He blames the president for the problem. It will be interesting to see, i am curious to hear what he has to say and also just about where his campaign is at this stage and what he thinks about it. Ill give you a good one that i think is a signature answer from him. Maybe too honest once again. I said, what do these people on top of you have that you dont have . He said, i dont know. Unusual answer. Usually you always want an answer for a perceived weakness in politics. You also want to tell your own story to the extent that you can. He didnt take that route, but he has a pretty compelling sense of what he thinks it will take to win and why he is well suited to that. And hell be on tonight. Well be watching. Thanks very much. Coming up strangers in the night, lovers at first sight how President Trump just might end up in a jacuzzi with mueller and comey, strzok and page. With some help from saturday night live the ridiculous is next. But with less carbon footprint. Thats why, at bp, were working to make energy thats cleaner and better. Were producing cleanerburning natural gas. And solar and wind power. And wherever your day takes you. We have advanced fuels for a better commute. And were developing ultrafastcharging technology for evs. At bp, we see possibilities everywhere. So we can all keep advancing. 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We had somebody that is in love with james comey. They were very good friends. Supposedly best friends. Maybe not but supposedly best friends. Do you notice all the people standing behind him acting as if this is normal like theyre not hearing what he is actually saying, theyre just there and just sort of looking in the distance . You heard him. Supposedly best friends. Like laverne and shirley. If not in love like popeye and olive oil. As it happens, just a few hours later that day i noticed at a town hall with director comey and asked whether he was the klee patera to muellers marc antony. I respect him. I dont think we have that kind of relationship. You just want to be friends. Yeah. He certainly isnt obsessed with me in the way some others seem to be. What journalist hasnt had to ask the former fbi director if another former fbi director was in love with him . Tv news 101. Barbara walters asking castro if he was in love with brezhnev. That was awkward. Didnt happen. President trump might not be sure about comey and muley but he is definitely sure, might even say big fat sure about two people who were involved with each other the captain and tenille of the fbi peter strzok and lisa page. And in the president s mind they are lovers with a capital l. The lovers, right . Lisa and strzok. When i see lisa and her lover, lisa and peter, the two lovers. Lovers. Lisa page who was forced to leave the fbi and her lover peter strzok. Peter strzok and his lover lisa page. Lover. That word makes me so nervous. He loves that word. So much love. Like in the president s mind the fbi has operated out of a jacuzzi while unchained melody plays on under water speakers or maybe he keeps watching one of the best snl sketches ever. At this point, i usually crave this. Hummmm. Cut it there . I could watch that for hours. Oh, spiced meat. Who doesnt love spiced lamb . Who doesnt love spiced lamb shanks among lovers in a hot tub . Anyway, without lovers, the real ones, the ones birthed in his angry fiction, what would President Trump talk about . As the song goes love will keep us together just not maybe in washington. The president will always think of you babe on the ridiculist. A lot going on. News continues. Well head over to chris cuomo for prime time. Love lamb shanks, love you anderson. Thank you very much. Breaking news. The president is ramping up his border wall with mexico now threatening tariffs on all mexican goods if it does not step up enforcement of illegal immigration. Does this hurt mexico or us . We have a new Senior Adviser to the Reelection Campaign for the president here tonight. She joins us and were happy to have her. We also have a man who wants to unseat the president with us tonight. He blames this president for the