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>> tucker: after 14 months, republican members of the house intelligence committee said there was no collusion between donald trump and vladimir putin during the 2016 campaign. phillip mudd spends a lot of time passing judgment on the report or in general. it was not the first time. watch this. >> if this report were written on toilet paper, i wouldnt stoop to wipe my [bleep] with it. congress will have to transition to how do we understand what the president of the united states says to underst...

Asked you that, would you feel obligated to answer? >> i wouldnt -- sorry, this is for asha. >> oh, it would be an incredibly uncomfortable question to answer because your vote is private. as phillip has said. and what strikes me about this conversation is that it is evocative of the loyalty test that the president allegedly gave comey in his private dinner conversation. he believes the person working there have to be politically on his side in order to do their job. and i think it actually supp...

Tweet. >> right. we did a story back in december that mccabe was planning to retire in march. and immediately the president was tweeting sang grilly about mccabe. calls him a democrat and says he doesnt trust him. >> and mac kaccabe commented fo story? >> no. as much as this stuff is swirling around him and at him, he has tried to keep a fairly low profile. >> appreciate the reporting. thanks very much. from "the washington post." with me now is john dean, and phillip mudd. talks about his wifes...

The presidents racist comments today about immigrants. joining me now is cnn counterterrorism analyst phillip mudd, a former cia counterterrorism official. and louise radnovsky who has a big interview with president trump in the "wall street journal." im so glad to have both of you on. thank you so much. so are you shocked or surprised by this? >> my family was called whops and mackerel ears. im proud of that. we came when people from italy were seen as dirty people. they were called slopers and...

Has been reopened this morning. u.n. ambassador nikki haley dismissed this as having much impact on the u.s. >> north korea can talk with anyone they want. but the u.s. is not going to recognize it or acknowledge it until they agree to ban the nuclear weapons they have. >> at the same time, president trump tweeted an eyebrow-raising tweet. he said i too have a nuclear button, but it is much bigger and more powerful one than his, meaning kim jong-un, and my button works. joining us now is the pre...

Important ally. china, where is their economy going to turn? their internets, where will they be sinked up with? it is a world we profit from. trumps policies frequently have impact tactically but long term, when hes gone, when hes no longer president -- i know in the united states we dont do long terms, our corporations nor our election cycle, this is one our kids arent going to profit from. >> phil mudd, how do you see all the shifting sands? >> ian bremmer nailed it. there is a carrot and sti...

Much less so the tweets. i get why the media does it. it is entertaining. it drives people to pay attention to what were saying. on north korea in particular, as i have said, we are increasingly out of the conversation. if were saying, no, not like tillerson. we aerpbt going to talk to these people, as nikki haley said, were taking ourselves out of the conversation. and that long term means china will be pulling much more of the triggers. >> phil, how do you see the presidents big button? >> i t...

With the fbi. the fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe, and the fbi counsel, james baker, were both called out by the president on twitter over the holiday weekend. and they could potentially be witnesses in special counsel robert muellers russia investigation now. so, does the president risk complicating his own case by doing this? joining us now is phillip mudd, cnn counterterrorism analyst and former cnn counterterrorism official in fbi and joe jacques jacqueslong. so phil, you know the guys at...

Conduct an act of violence on the west side highway thats going to kill eight people. thats really difficult to figure out in a country of 330 million people. >> in terms of the investigation, does it make much difference whether he was directed by isis or whether he just watched, you know, propaganda videos online or was talking to other radicals in the u.s. and went about doing this? >> you know, im not really sure that it does at this point. theres enough propaganda, enough information for hi...

Wreak more havoc. chris, poppy. >> alex, thank you for the reporting. lets bring in our panel john avlon and gregory and phillip mudd. this is a multipronged approach to attack the judicial system, due process. by the way, lets read what he wrote overnight about the death penalty. nyc terrorist was happy as he asked to hang an isis flag in his hospital room. he killed 8 people, badly injured 12. should get the death penalty. this makes it harder for prosecutors. >> and it is outside the american...