Than ever, but it is sad when you look at those documents and how theyve done that is really, really disgraceful and you have a lot of very angry people that are seeing it. Its a very sad thing to watch. I will tell you that. And im going today on behalf of the fbi, their new building, and, you know, but when i everybody, not me, when everybody, the level of anger at what theyve been witnessing with respect to the fbi is certainly very sad. Lets get over to the white house right now, cnns abby philip there for us. It was minutes apart and two very different messages coming from the president towards various Law Enforcement. Thats right. Two different venue, two different messages but one president whos venting about an investigation that he thinks is out of control and unfair to him. Some of the comments the president making before leaving for quantico earlier today referenced some Text Messages sent by an fbi agent involved in that investigation that seemed to be disparaging toward the president. He called those messages disgraceful, but the comments that he made at this academy, which we should note were for state and local Law Enforcement officials, it was physically at the fbi headquarters but he was addressing folks who are going back home to their states, heres a little bit of what he had to say to them today. I want you to deliver a message to your fellow officers the president of the United States has your back 100 . [ applause ] i will fight for you, and i will never ever let you down, ever. Reporter lots of applause in that recommend for those comments. The president noting that he campaigned on this kind of message of supporting Law Enforcement, but his message to the fbi from earlier this morning signifies he is not letting down on those criticisms and its about largely undermining this investigation into his campaign and his associates that he called a scam earlier this morning. Kate . A scam is how he laid it out. Exactly. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Lets discuss this, joining me right now, paul begala, political commentator former bill Clinton White house adviser, jason miller here, cnn political commentator, former Senior Communications adviser for the Trump Campaign and ana navarro, republican strategist. Jason, first to you, when it comes to these two trumps minutes apart how can he be heading in to speaking at the fbi and slamming the bureau as hes heading into it . One of the things to keep in mind how strong a supporter Law EnforcementPresident Trump with was on the campaign trail last year and this was one of the hidden issues that helped propel him to victory. Law enforcement had really i think under the direction of president obama and i think people looked at secretary clinton and didnt think she would do a good job with it and the fbi became highly politicized under director comeys leadership over this past year and as we saw the back and forth with secretary clinton and the emails. But hes still slamming it today. Saying it needs to be rebuilt. Its not under comey anymore. Well thats where i think the president was in quantico sending the very strong message that to Law Enforcement that he has their back, that he supports our Law Enforcement officers at all different levels, he wants to make sure theyre rebuilding it. We need the political nature completely out of Law Enforcement and let folks do their job and make sure they know they have the complete support of the president. Yeah, but you have a lot of angry people seeing it. A sad thing to watch. Ill tell you i mean these are not the messages are not the same. Well, where i think a lot of the anger is right now, as some of these emails and Text Messages are coming forward where we see political commentary in nature, some of the different agent, thats where i think it was absolutely correct that director mueller removed these people from the investigation. Quite frankly i think the bar is probably set even higher now to make sure that folks who do have political bents or interests are removed from any invest gore process because we have to know its completely above and beyond approach. Ana, hes slamming the fbi and critical, of course, of the investigation into the election, any election meddling, but his handpicked fbi director defends the bureau, who he was sitting next to on stage, his Deputy Attorney general defends mueller, the special counsel, just listen to this. The fbi that i see is tens of thousands of brave men and women who are working as hard as they can to keep people that they will never know safe from harm. We recognize we have employees with political opinions and its our responsibility to make sure those opinions do not influence their actions. Pardon me. So i believe the director mueller understands that and he is running that office appropriately. So, is this now i feel like im saying once again, the president versus everyone else on this . Well, look, we see the president versus everyone else even people in his cabinet constantly, right. Just this week we heard tillerson say one thing about north korea and the white house basically put him back into his place and into his corner and cubby hole the next day. It happens constantly. Weve seen that in this administration. They dont sing from the same hymnal. On this fbi issue, look, its important for President Trump to realize this is not about one speech. This is about daily occurrences. Its about a tone. Its about morale at the intelligence agencies in the United States, which he has been bashing constantly and attacking and questioning in order to defend himself for the last year since hes been president. He has got to stop that. These people are patriots and they put their lives at risk and i agree with jason, i am glad that mueller has taken swift action because this investigation needs to be above board. It needs to pass muster. If we cannot let it be politicized. Trump is not the one that should be attacking it. Theres people that can be attacking it and what we are seeing is kind of a coordinated effort within republicans and the administration, and President Trump, to attack this slengts by attacking the cred investigation by attacking the credibility of the fbi agents that has to stop. The president of the United States is the chief morale officer for intelligence agencies. I mean, and he really unbe leashed today on it once again, paul. You served in the white house that had been under scrutiny and one be that did its best to undermine ken starr then. What is the difference here in your view . First of all, big difference between ken starr and the fbi. Bill clintons fbi director was somebody clinton didnt like at all. Terrible relationship. Clinton never attacked the fbi in public. Never. He did not undermine their work. Its too important. Even if you dont like your director which was the case with clinton and lou freeh, they didnt take that public. The president is undermining an investigation of himself at the same day in the same hour he undermines the fbi and then goes and tells Law Enforcement i have your back. Are you kidding . This is what hes doing. He is an autocrat. Yesterday the Washington Post had a story the people he most admires on the world seen are xi jinping, president of china, erdogan, president of turkey, duterte, the president of the philippines, all dictators. Of course his commander in chief mr. Putin in russia. Anybody who challenges him is attacked. The fbi is now in tatters, the cia is like the ga stop po. The free press is fake news. This is part of a coordinated strategy that our president is leading to undermine any checks or balances on his authority and its frightening to me. Jason, what do you say . Well, i think pauls trying to essentially trying to hide the football here. Look, the fact that we had agents who are engaging in such blatant political commentary then involved in this investigation was very problematic. Does it change your view at all, jason, it came out overnight from yesterday that this same text Message Exchange also included criticism of chelsy clinton and criticism of obamas attorney general eric holder . Well, and they were criticizing bernie sanders. Yeah. The point being you shouldnt have folks that highly politicized involved in these types of operations. Does it change at all that this all came out because the fbi was conducting an investigation, the inspector general, and thats the only reason why they have those Text Messages and the guy was removed . This doesnt change your view at all . No. Folks have an absolute right to be outraged over this. Thats why i said but he was removed. Jason, i have to ask you were you outraged with jim comey attacked Hillary Clinton and tipped the election to your guy. You didnt whip this fair and square. James comey the head of the fbi came out and attacked Hillary Clinton unfairly which tipped the election to donald trump. Its how he was able to sneak through paul when President Trump is being attacked, youre not fine when secretary clinton i think you both are saying guys. Youre saying the same thing in a different way. Paul, youre kate, im the only one on the panel who didnt have a dog in the race and im bothered by all of it. When comey did that in october and im bothered by the email the text exchanges that have come out this week. To me it was how texting your girlfriend is not the same of interrupting a national election. I agree with you but no problem hang on. Any of you guys right now, hold on, jason stop. Look, i i realize they are going to try to punch as many holes into the Mueller Investigation because it is a Serious Investigation that is making them hot around the collar, okay. It is getting very close to them and beginning to nip at their toes. So theyre going to try to punch as many holes into it as they can. Thats why those exchanges worried me, because they feed those flames, they give fodder to that, and because hes laying the groundwork so that his base does not accept whatever conclusions they may be, if they are not positive conclusions for donald trump. I am glad to see bob mueller is doing the right thing and removing them as soon as, you know, he realizes theres a problem there. Let me play one other thing that happened, because i want to get your take on it. President trump was asked about the possibility of pardping mike flynn, his fired National Security adviser charged for lying to the fbi. Listen to this. I dont want to talk about pardons with mike flynn yet. Well see what happens. Lets see. Lets see. Round robin, paul, you hear that and you think what . I am watching obstruction of justice occur right before my eyes. General flynn is a cooperating witness in a case investigating donald trump. Donald trump is holding out the possibility of a pardon to him. That is witness tampering live on national television, obstruction of justice. Jason . I think the president said now is not the time to talk about that and cracks me up to watch the partisan in washington scrambling. Jason, lets not i mean everyone except for me in this box is a partisan. Lets at least be honest with each other. Okay. Let me tell you what i think he was doing. I think he had an audience of one, mike flynn. Hes basically sending mike flynn the message if you dont turn on me, dont spill the beans, dont sing like a canary, i will consider pardoning you. Now if you do, youre out of luck. Guys, always good to have you. Thank you so much. Coming up for us, secretary of state Rex Tillerson trying to, it appears, turn down turn up rather, pardon me, turn up the pressure on north korea address the u. N. 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Call 1800directv. Speaking at the u. N. , is secretary of state Rex Tillerson disagreeing with secretary of state Rex Tillerson and more importantly, with President Donald Trump on a huge and critical issue, north korea. Heres tillerson moments ago. We have been clear that all options remain on the table in the defense of our nation, but we do not seek nor do we want war with north korea. The United States will use all necessary measures to defend itself against north korean aggression, but our hope remains the diplomacy will produce a resolution. As i said earlier this week, a sustained s sustained cessation of north koreas behavior must occur before talks can begin. That sounds like preconditions are back on before north korea can talk with the United States, which would be Something Different from how the secretary laid it out earlier this week when tillerson said offered to sit down with north korean leaders without any preconditions. So where are we right now in cnns senior Diplomatic CorrespondentMichele Kosinski here with me with more on this. I love the way we keep trying to make sense of this, but it keeps getting more and more c confusing. It should be clear. What has never changed from really anything weve heard is that there were always preconditions. Okay. Lets face it, when we heard tillerson just days ago emphasize no preconditions, come on down, north korea, sit with us, any kind of table you want, we can talk about the weather if you want, that sure sounded like no preconditions but within that, he also said, but you have to come to the table first with a view of changing things. That sounds like a precondition. He also said there should be a period of silence, meaning no missile tests while talks would be going on, also sounds like a precondition, and containment of the Nuclear Program is not an option. The goal is always denuclearization. That sounds like if not a precondition to talks, then a big caveat, come talk to us, but we dont agree that you can ever have a Nuclear Program. So there were always preconditions. What we dont know is why tillerson so hugely emphasized no preconditions days ago, and then today at this speech, he was going to i dont want to say the phrase double down because i hate it, but he was going to say it again. We saw his prepared remarks and he took it out. Thats what i want to prepared remarks were released to the media. Right. And there is this there is this apart from that step there are no preconditions for talks, and that wasnt said. I know. So he had that in there, sticking to his original statement about no preconditions. Right. And then somewhere along the line somebody came along with a sharpie and took that part out. Today instead of emphasizing,