Does, he returned again and again to his phrase, his favorite phrase, which is no collusion. There were no collusion. And thats been so found as you know by the House Intelligence Committee. Theres no collusion. There was no collusion with russia. So, of course, what the president didnt mention there is that it is it was the republicans on the House Intelligence Committee voting along party lines who said they found no evidence of collusion. Democrats did not sign on to their report. He also didnt mention that the House Intel Committee finding has no bearing on the Mueller Investigation. But theres more. The president had this to say about whether he is considering firing mueller or Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Theyve been saying im going to get rid of them for the last three months. Four months. Five months. And theyre still here. Well, thats not exactly ringing endorsement from a president who just to recap has already tried twice to fire Robert Mueller. Once in june of last year and again in december, thats according to the new york times. Remember, it was just days ago in the wake of the raid on Michael Cohen that the president said this. Why dont i just fire mueller . Yeah. Just fire the guy. Well, i think its a disgrace whats going on. Well see what happens, but i think its really a sad situation when you look at what happened. And many people have said, you should fire him. I dont know about you, but that sure sounds to me like the president has at least thought about firing mueller. And on the subject of russia, the president had this to say tonight. Sanctions, they very much deserve it. But its hard to square this statement with the president s claim that he is tough on russia. Theres been nobody tougher on russia than President Donald Trump. So i want to bring no now cnns chief Political Correspondent dana bash. Cnn political analysts ryan lizza and april ryan. Good evening, one and all. Hey, don. Dana, you are up first. I want to start with this this warning from the former trump attorney to President Trump that Michael Cohen could flip on him. What do we know about this . This is more amazing reporting from our colleague, Gloria Borger, who spoke to this attorney, his name is jay goldberg. This is somebody who goes back with donald trump for decades. He helped negotiate Donald Trumps divorces from both ivana trump and marla maples, and, in fact, the president called him on friday just to talk to him and to get advice. To get legal advice. And what goldberg told the president , this is according to goldberg, himself, he spoke to Gloria Borger, is that he thinks that its very possible that Michael Cohen could flip because he said, look, he could be facing up to 30 years in prison and he is not, in his legal experience, has not seen anybody who has that kind of potential sentence not at least thought about or even ultimately gone ahead and flipped on somebody in order to lessen the sentence at the very least, which is interesting given the fact that the whole sort of persona of Michael Cohen has been this and he enjoys being referred to as sort of a ray donovan type, somebody who will take whatever it is for his boss and somebody who loves donald trump like a Family Member and would go to the end of the earth. A very different kind of perspective from this man who the president interestingly turned to even though they worked together decades ago. Ryan, can you imagine this, though, not i dont think that the president would i dont want to say this be naive enough, lets put it that way, to actually speak to Michael Cohen privately about this information, but maybe he would. But can you picture a Michael Cohen wearing a wire . We do know that the president , it was reported he did talk to cohen, what was it, a friday ago. Wearing a wire . He smoke to him. Do you think there was any detail . I mean, that would be well not smart. What i think is the astonishing thing about this whole conversation is the assumption is according to this lawyer, goldberg, the assumption by everyone just seems to be that cohen has something to flip on. Right. Everyone just make everyone just casually assumes that trump and cohen must have been running some criminal enterprise together and theyre i mean, what is he going to flip on . I made that point the other night. Its fine for us in bandy that about. Saying this guy could flip on you then telling the press about it, that means someone very, very close to trump, who knows a lot of his secrets believes that Michael Cohen has some kind of extremely damaging information about presumably about crimes. I mean, thats the only way to read what goldberg is saying. Yeah, if you dana, i think what the issue is is that according to legal minds, and im not one, youre not an attorney that i know of we all play one on tv. We just play one on tv. Thank you, ryan. In order for the Southern District to get a warrant to raid the attorneys office, especially the president of the United States, there has to be some kind of compelling evidence. Of course. We dont need to be attorneys to know its a basic understanding of how the judicial system works, right . And this is something that that is sort of well known. Now, we dont know what the it was or we dont know what the things were that not only the prosecutor in the u. S. Attorneys office and the judge and, frankly, the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein knew about this. All of them thought that there was enough evidence or enough concern that this unbelievably unprecedented raid on a president of the United States attorney, fixer, whatever you call him, could go through. It certainly does tell you that there could be a to use ryans term crime that Michael Cohen could flip on. Now, we dont know if it has to do directly with the president , we dont know in it has to do with things that are a little bit tangential. I agree with ryan, the fact this conversation even took place and its being relayed on the record in a very public way is a signal and is telling. Yeah. Yes. And, again, and ryan, you bring up a very good point which i said the other night, working on that assumption, innocent until proven guilty. We dont know. We dont know. Its important to point out. Were not investigators. Were not part of the investigation. Lets talk about mueller. April, you can hear me, right . You had an earpiece issue. I can hear you now, yes. President trump was asked if hes concluded that firing mueller and rosenstein is not worth the political fallout. His response was, theyre still here. Thats not really closing the door on any future action, is it . No, its not at all. This president offers kneejerk reactions all the time, and as we remember, this president was thinking about changing the hierarchy of the Justice Department to make sure that mueller could be fired or that he would be restrained. This president is very upset with this investigation, and it just depends upon which way the wind blows, what happens at any moment in time. This president does not want this investigation to continue. And hes very upset and its all about right now following the trail of money, which he does not like. And we know that because he did not even want to offer his taxes for public consumption, even though its not law that he had to. Even that on the last day of tax filing tonight. So this is all about the president not liking this, and lets see what happens, what more charges come out, what charges come from this. It all depends upon all of that how the president will respond. This president is very reactionary. Well, you know, we all know, you were mentioning the taxes. The reason that he didnt one main reason that he didnt do it is because he didnt think he was going to win, so why put all your information out there when you dont believe that youre well, hes won. I know. Why not put the information out now its a different story. Yes. That is what happened. Ryan, the question was specific to mueller and to rosenstein but this is how the president began his answer. Watch this. There was no collusion and thats been so found as you know by the House Intelligence Committee. Theres no collusion. There was no collusion with russia. Other than by the democrats. Or as i call them, the obstructionists. Because they truly are obstructionists. We are giving tremendous amounts of paper. This was really a hoax created largely by the democrats as a way of softening a blow of a loss which is a loss that frankly they shouldnt have had from the standpoint that its very easy for them. They have a tremendous advantage in the electoral college. The president brought up podesta, talked about the dnc server. I dont think he brought up Hillary Clinton and barack obama which would be interesting. He does keep going back reaching for those greatest hit and its kind of like, hey, look over there. I mean, so much to unpack there. One, the House Intelligence Committee, well, i think they didnt finish their investigation, right . They did not many witnesses were outside of their reach. It is true that apparently the republicans on that committee are going to argue that they didnt find conclusion. Minority will argue and has been arguing that they never actually got to the bottom of that question. So thats the first thing to say about that part of the answer. The one the thing that really sticks out to me is embedded in that answer when hes talking about the server at the dnc and the fbi never looking at that, think about what hes saying there. Hes, again, raising the idea that maybe the dnc hack was something else. That the fbi missed it. Hes raising the idea that russia, that what his the conclusion of his own Intelligence Services is not true. That the hack of the dnc might have been some other entity, maybe some, you know, 300pound person sitting on his bed as trump once said. But, again he said 400, but go on. Was it 400 . So that, to me, is hes still you know, he resorts when on the topic of russia, he resorts to these farout statement. Could be a 98pound weakling, too, we dont want to fat shame someone, but go ahead, dana. Don its going to farout statements but also hes tried to divert from the question. Talking about the democrats. And the question of was there any collusion between the trump team, anybody in that orbit, and russians . And the real answer to that question is that the fbi, and we know even more about this since james comey is out and about talking about this in his book, started an investigation in the summer of 2016 based on things that they picked up from carter page and maybe even papadopoulos, conversations that they were having that were worrisome. And thats how the investigation started. It is not, you know, some political hoax done by the Democratic Administration that was in there. Now, listen, it could very well be that at the end of the day, Robert Mueller does not find collusion as the president is talking about, but we dont know the answer to that. Thats right. One other point i want to make really quickly, i kind of what struck me with him talking about collusion over and over again is almost a reminder that thats how thats what this is supposed to be about. And that the mueller team is looking at other things like obstruction of justice and who knows what else, maybe his finances. Well that was kind of a reminder yeah, let me so heres a directive. Any links and or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated with the campaign of President Donald Trump and any matters that arose and may arise directly from bingo. That investigation. Now, he keeps saying theres no collusion, nothing there. Papadopoulos a lot of links. Pleaded guilty. Michael flynn pleaded guilty. Paul manafort was indicted. Rick gates pleaded with the mueller team on one conspiracy charge. Russian nationals, three Russian Companies were to be fair, theyre not about its not about it has arisen from this investigation. If youre going to talk about it, then you need to give the whole scope of the investigation. Ill give you the last word quickly, please, april. Sorry. You know, i just think it reminds me of, once again, what happened with bill clinton in the 90s. You know, it started with whitewater then it wound up with monica lewinsky. Yeah. As we are seeing all of this, as were seeing all this my earpiece once again pops out as were seeing all this, we have to remember that whatever they find while theyre looking at collusion, its like chris darden said, former prosecutor of the o. J. Simpson trial, if they go in, if the police are going in looking for drugs and they see the wife being beaten, they have to bring that in, too. Thats what were going to be what were going to see. Were seeing a scope of different things. It starts with collusion but its unfolding into other things. I got to run. My favorite line of the night, though, did you guys have a favorite line of the night . The olympics line . Did you guys catch that . No. The olympics, made it great. Could not have gone off without him. 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One of the president s longtime lawyers, jay goldberg, hes been on the show before, warning the president days ago Michael Cohen would flip on him if hes faced with criminal charges. Cohen has been one of the most loyal donald trump supporters, a real trump loyalist. Is it surprising to you that at least one of the president s allies is very publicly advising him to be wary of cohen . Especially if youre under a federal investigation. You know, its actually a little interesting, don, because if you think if everyone at home thinks if you were offered a benefit in exchange for testifying about somebody you knew a friend of yours committing a serious federal crime, the first thing you need to ask yourself is would you be able to testify . I would tell you i dont know of anybody whos committed serious federal crimes. I havent witnessed any serious crimes being committed. I mean, whats interesting here is, the only reason you need to be worried about somebody flipping on you is if you, yourself, have criminal liability. It betrays the fact theres an assumption amongst trumps camp he has criminal and Michael Cohen knows something about it. Renato, you bring up a very good point from an attorney who has worked with him for a long time is saying this, because otherwise why would you have to give him that advice, right . Well, yeah, you know, when i was a federal prosecutor, a junior prosecutor, my supervisor was teaching me, he said all these people are cooperators, the reason they have this information is because they are associating with criminals. And they are, you know, often criminals, themselves. I mean, cooperators are rarely, you know, people who are a person whos a witness might be somebody on the street seeing a crime committed but a corroborator is usually in the thick of a crime with others. Goldberg said anybody whos facing 30 years never stands up. Im wondering if thats your experience. Also to renatos point, if you you someone, had a friend, youd say, look, you have nothing to hide so dont worry about it. You wouldnt say careful of that guy, bobby, over there, he might flip on you, right . Look, the thing thats baffled me for a long time in this whole thing is why the president doesnt act like the innocent man he professes to be. I mean, his behavior its like a guy, you know, with a pile of documents behind him and hes saying dont read these. You know . Look over there. And his behavior is just is really concerning is that your experience, anybody whos facing 30 years never stands up . I think its a pretty fair assumption, particularly, look, if you got a guy whos got a family. Hes going to be concerned about them. Nobody wants to prisons tough. Its really hard to go to jail. And, you know, if its an escape route, i would say at least nine out of ten people will take it. So juliette, it does sound like, i dont know, i guess im watching law order or something because goldberg is suggesting Michael Cohen wear a wire. Wouldnt that be picked up by the secret service . Do you mean that is actually something thats viable in this . I dont think its very viable now, but we dont know what conversations theyve been having since the raid of Michael Cohens home. We know of at least one of offices we know of at least one phone call. I think this gets to a bigger issue which is implicating obviously the Mueller Investigation which is and just something that has to be repeated because its so shocking, the president cant get lawyers to represent him. And that, i mean, hes you know, hes the president of the United States. It shouldnt be that hard to do. I was thinking earlier that, like, the mastermind of the 9 11 attack is able to get better lawyers. I mean, this is crazy at this stage. I think part of it is the fear of lawyers that you get implicated in a conspiracy that you dont even know about and you end up or you only know tangentially and end up like Michael Cohen sort of facing this choice that he has. I have no doubt that if given the option, Michael Cohen just from the looks on his face, never met the guy, only seen him on tv, just from the looks on his face the last couple days and the pictures taken of him, that guy is going to fold, i have no doubt about it. Really . Just by looking at him you can tell that . No, i mean, im just saying this is not a guy the president does not give loyalty and at some stage when youre facing 30 years, a wife and 2 kids and no salary, and the potential that you can get out of that problem, for, you know, you get the loyalty that you give. And let me ask you this, juliette. I know that ive raised this question in the last segment that i think people are saying that because they believe in order for the Southern District to do what they did, there must be compelling evidence and then ryan lizza brought up the point that, well, maybe theres nothing there, were working on the assumption there is something there. What do you say to that . I i think the aggressive sorry, was that i think the aggressive nature of that search speaks volumes. I think that the Southern District believes that not just crimes, serious crimes, have been committed, and they had to go through a long stairway in the department of justice in the Southern District and then in front of a federal judge to make out a case that the premises identified would bear fruit of those criminal activities. Okay. You agree with that, juliette, correct . Because i want to move on and yeah, okay. Are you good with that . You agree with that . Yeah. I always agree with jack. Renato, weve been watching all day, President Trump is back to counterpunching at a press continue tonight. Asked about firing mueller, said no collusion at least five times. Never mind mueller and comey and so many others at the center of the russia probe are republicans. What does this flailing answer tell you . Ill tell you, it suggests to me that hes trying to do something a lot of people do when theyre under criminal investigation which is attack the prosecution, demean the prosecution, demean the people who are investigating you. It usually doesnt matter. Usually we sort of, you know, you know, you laugh it off, ive been criticized, ive been attacked. I think any federal prosecutor has. The difference here is this guys their boss and what hes done is hes convinced a lot of people in this country, a lot of republicans that the heads of the doj and the fbi are criminals. 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No. I mean, why the president is engaging in this on so many levels, just the fact hes the president , he has Better Things to do or should have Better Things to do, but the fact that every he has no sense of selfpreservation at this stage. I think thats the most shocking thing. And somewhat scary because he is or president. Every person would tell you dont engage in this, dont make yourself vulnerable, dont admit to the affair, whatever happened and just leave it alone. He cant do that. And it does worry me just what that says to the world. Right . What does it say to our enemies who know we have a president who has no capacity to check himself . But also to our allies, i mean, hes with, you know, the Prime Minister of japan right now, its not like things are all rosy over in the Korean Peninsula or china is backing down from its world dominance. Its just a its that lack of control that his engagement in this outside of the legal liability that just is so disconcerting at this stage. He cant stop himself on all things. I know, but are you really surprised . I mean, when someone shows you who they are, i mean, he kind of you know, i have to say, the most people who cant you know, most people with personalities like that, there are people out there like that, do have a good sense of selfpreservation and, you know, to the extent ill defer to the lawyers that at least i read the same things they read, which is he does have a lot of vulnerability on this side on the Stormy Daniels side. You would just think selfpreservation would keep him quiet. I want to bring in the lawyers now. Stormy daniels lawyer, Michael Avenatti, jack, says what the president tweeted could be defamation. How do you see it . I think the defamation case, frankly, is a little bit hard. Im not saying he couldnt succeed there, but, you know, Stormy Daniels is now whats called a public figure and the threshold for demonstrating that shes been defamed is higher than for, you know, an unknown person. That said, i think Michael Avenatti has been enormously successful already. I think that the contract that Michael Cohen had once upon a time wanted to enforce against her through which he was threatening millions and millions of dollars of damages, i think that case is for all intents and purposes over. I think she has won that case. You know, its a laydown hand for them now i think. Yeah. By the way, i think the Karen Mcdougal settlement, too, signals to me that perhaps this group of people, ami and the trump forces are kind of rising the waving the white flag here because these cases have been nothing but disastrous so far. Yeah. Listen, i thought the same thing when i read the Karen Mcdougal thing. I wonder if someone just called and said can you see your way into letting this go . Right. You guys get that reference . You get that . Thats a comey reference. Speaking to the president. So, listen, renato, i want to ask you, any avenatti also responded to the president on twitter writing, in my experience, theres Nothing Better in litigation than having a completely unhinged, undisciplined, opponent whos prone to shooting himself in the foot. Always leads to bigleague problems like new claims, i. E. Defamation. Lol. Xmas, hanukkah, basta. Trump called this a con job, if it was a con job, it worked. Avenatti has a story thats kind of old, he filed a lawsuit, not much has happened. He keeps finding ways to continue to keep this in the press, continue to driveway attention to the case and trump managed to find a way to extend the news cycle on this. I mean, he hadnt tweeted about this case before. There was no need for him to tweet about a sketch of some event that happened years prior, but he couldnt help himself and now, you know, hes that tweets going to be used in the lawsuit. Its got more attention, were on National Television talking about it right now. Its getting more leverage for avenatti and daniels. Now, can you imagine if they wanted to settle with Stormy Daniels what the price would be at this point . They just really have gained a lot of leverage for themselves. When he did that, i was like, oh my gosh, he just gave this more oxygen, were going to be seeing a lot more of Michael Avenatti today. Thank you, i appreciate it. Great conversation. When we come back, the president dodging the question when asked if he was going to fire Robert Mueller or Rod Rosenstein tonight. Will republicans in Congress Step in to make sure he doesnt . One House Republican tells me he will. Thats next. daniel jacob for every hour that youre idling in your car, youre sending about half a gallon of gasoline up in the air. That amounts to about 10 pounds of Carbon Dioxide every week malo hutson growth is good, but when it starts impacting our quality of air and quality of life, thats a problem. 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Reports of a leaked internal police email in pittsburgh ordering major crimes detectives to bring riot gear with them to work beginning tomorrow in case of protests if the president fires mueller. But there are bills in both the house and senate tonight that would protect mueller. And my next guest is backing one of those bills. Joining me now, congressman leonard lance, one of a group of House Republicans backing one of those bills. Good evening. Thank you so much. Thank you very having me. The president was asked a short while ago about fire Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein. He said theyre still here. Does that give you any confidence he wont act to fire either man or shut down the russia investigation . I certainly hope he will not do that, and thats why im involved in the legislation, but let me say that it is in the president s best interest not to do that and hes being advised that way by Corey Lewandowski and others and i think he should take that fine advice and so far the Mueller Investigation continues and i am a supporter of the Mueller Investigation. Okay. Before we get to the bill, let me ask you this question, Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein oversees the Mueller Investigation, oversees mueller, would firing him effectively accomplish the same goal . I dont think so because the Mueller Investigation would continue and if someone were to be nominated to be Deputy Attorney general, that position requires senate confirmation, don. Yeah. Okay. So lets talk about a bill. There are actually bipartisan bills in both the house and the senate that would protect mueller prohibiting the president from firing him without good cause and giving him a right to appeal. Including one by republican charlie dent just this past friday. You endorsed that bill along with a handful of republican lawmakers. Why now . Because its important that the Mueller Investigation continue and congressman dent, as you know, is retiring next month and i hope to be the republican lead when my good friend, charlie dent, retires from the congress. So hes retiring next month. What will happen to the bill you signed on to support then . Congressman welch, a democrat, is the principal democrat who is sponsoring the bill. I hope to become the principal republican. Of course, this is identical with the bipartisan bill in the senate of the United States. Senator tillis, senator booker, senator alexander, i believe, perhaps senator graham, i think its senator graham, and senator coons and we have to move forward in a bipartisan capacity in this matter in my judgment. Okay. So the bill will continue to go on even without charlie dent . Absolutely. House and Senate Leaders opposed any such bill. Listen now to both Senate LeaderMitch Mcconnell and House Speaker paul ryan said just yesterday. Watch this. I dont think he should fire mueller and i dont think hes going to. This is a piece not necessary in my judgment. Obviously none of your colleagues fear it enough to say it should be in there. Im the one who decides what he take to the floor. Thats my responsibility as the majority leader and well not be having this on the floor of the senate. Would you be shocked if he did fire him . Yes, i dont think he should and dont think he will. We do not believe he should be fired, we do not believe he will be fired. So they think they feel differently than you. I would hope that as senator grassley brings this bill out of his committee that the majority leader might reconsider his point of view and thats why its bipartisan in nature, don, and that is why i support it. Okay. Listen, theres a lot of talk about a blue wave coming. New jersey is a solid blue state and you won your district by 11 points in 2016, yet your seat is judged to be a tossup by cnn and cooks political report. Are you worried youre going to lose your seat, congressman . I am not. I won last time. Secretary clinton carried the district by 3,800 votes. We had a race a few months ago. The governor who lost the state by the same percentage as donald trump a year before won our district by 15,000 votes. State Senate Republican candidates by 21,000 votes. Don, i have a very sophisticated district. Im going be judged base upon what i have supported including this piece of legislation. Are you hearing about the russia investigation from your constituents and if so, what are they telling you . I am. I hold town Hall Meetings regularly and my constituents want to get to the bottom of how the russians were involved in tampering with our elective process and that is unconscionable and we want to make sure it does not happen again. We need to make sure that the sanctity of the voting booth is preserved in this country. There should be no voting fraud in this country and certainly no tampering by a foreign power, especially the russians. Let me ask you, is the president a liability for you or other moderate republicans come the midterms . I support the administration when i can, but i have opposed both the Health Care Bill and the tax bill and i want the Russian Investigation to continue and i will be judged based upon my views. I have been a republican throughout my entire adult life. Im a proud republican. And those in my district will judge me based upon my views. It congressman lance, thank you. Thank you, don. And when we come back, President Trump remembering former First Lady Barbara Bush tonight. But after all his criticism of her family, will he pay his respects at her funeral . Im not a bigwig. Or a canythingo. But ive got an idea sir. Get domo. 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Her presence and character were engraved into americas identity. Her strength and toughness really embodied the spirit of our country and her warmth and devotion earned the admiration of an entire nation and, indeed, the entire world. Melania and i send our prayers to barbaras husband of 73 years. Ill never beat that record. Joining me now cnn president ial historian Douglas Brinkly and kate bennett. Going to travel this weekend for the funeral of the First Lady Barbara Bush, but will the president go with her . Weve not heard an announcement from the white house for the funeral. Melania trump again is often playing the role of the compassionate side of this administration. Very quickly this morning we learned she would be among those invited to the funeral, and she would be going. However, again, still no word from the white house tonight. Weve asked several times what the president s plans are for this funeral and have not heard back. Douglas, you know kate mentioned several former president s will be attending. What will it mean for the president not to be there . Hell be criticized if he comes, criticized if he doesnt come. Theres no love lost by the bush family for donald trump. Theres some americans that would like to think we can pull together in times like these, but hes kind of a one man circus. If he comes he just sucks the oxygen out of a funeral service. So i doubt that hes going to be showing up there. But barbara bush loved the obamas and loved the clintons, so therell be a lot of that president s club warmth going on. Not for nothing, isnt the time to come together is when shes alive, is when he had the opportunity to build bridges with her, not now showing up at her funeral. I think its disrespectful for him to go knowing how she felt about him. She did not hold back her views on President Trump. Heres what she had to say. He doesnt give many answers to how he would solve problems. He sort of makes faces and says insulting things. I think hes said terrible things about women, terrible things about military. I dont understand why people are for him for that reason. And she went onto talk about, she said you know what do you think of him, and she said i dont think much about him and i dont want to talk about him anymore. Theres no love lost there. Do you think the president knows about these comments and taking them into consideration . Sure. I know the last image we sort of think of on the campaign trail is barbara bush pushing through her walker with the jeb bush sticker on it. However, as doug said, i think its virtually a loselose for the president. If he goes there are those who will think its disrespectful, and if he doesnt go there will be those who go why isnt the president here . Either way, someone said to me today itll be like mean girlwise the former president where theyre sort of very tight and donald trump over here feeling awkward and out of place. All of those things are possible. Again, we dont know for sure that hes not going. But i think either way its a difficult and very uncomfortable swaz considering what we just heard from barbara bush when she was alive. Barbara bush was very protective of her husband as president and of her son as president. She said i take it personally when they both get criticized. And he wasnt kind to jeb bush nor the bush family during the primaries. Listen to this. I heard just jeb bush is a total lightweight. Bush says i do not believe hes a true conservative. These people are stupid. Jeb, oh. Jeb, hes asleep. Hes asleep at the wheel, folks. No, seriously, can you imagine jeb negotiating with china . The iraq war is a disaster for the bushes, thats why the last thing we need is another bush, believe me. And not just to that remember on george w. Bush and the iraq war donald trump just hammered away at the failures of george w. Bush and he led to a recession, and he brutalized george w. And jeb bush, and so thats why i personally doubt hes going because i dont think hes particularly welcome, but they dont want to say no if a president of the United States wants to attend because theres an oldfashioned sense of public service. Shes a matriarch of the family. He said this guy doesnt know what it means to be president , given how nasty trump is, i dont know how they feel. Maybe it is protocol, but certainly if it was my mom i would say thanks but no thanks. When we come back will Michael Cohen flip on President Trump . Well tell you about the ominous warning one of the president s long time lawyers is giving him. A golf clubthat only hits it straight. Is that some kind of magic wand . Not quite. Just the result of dell emc working with callaway to gather data and design bestinclass clubs, transforming the player into a bonafide golfer. Oh maybe it is a magic wand. Magic cant make Digital Transformation happen. But we can. 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