I pray for the president of the United States. I would wish his family or administration or staff would have an intervention for the good of the country. Im an extremely stable genius. Wednesday and thursday. So what in the world then could friday bring . We will soon find out. President trump is leaving the white house at this hour to head off for a very big trip to japan, but make no mistake. Giving way and giving each other space is not likely to smooth things over with the speaker of the house. Much more on that in a second. But also this this morning. An unprecedent move, yes, another one by the president. Granting attorney jegeneral bil barr with Sweeping Authority to investigate. What are these new powers . Lay it out . Well, kate, the attorney general now has Carte Blanche to be able to ask the cia and all the other intelligence agencies to provide information for this review hes doing of the origins of this investigation. Keep in mind weve heard plenty from the attorney general that he has some skepticism about whether or not this was done properly, whether there was legitimacy to this investigation. He says the president was falsely accused. And so thats where all of the i think a lot of the concern is now coming from. The attorney general and the president seems to believe there needs to be a thorough investigation of the investigation, which i dont think anybody objects to necessarily to see whether or not government powers were abused, but its the skepticism with which theyre approaching this with. Let me read a piece of the president ial order that was issued last night by the white house. Quote, the attorney general may classify the downgrade or direct the classification or downgrading of information or intelligence that relates to the attorney generals review. At this point the attorney general has not done any of these things, but keep in mind, a little step back, kate, some of this has been pushed by the president and his allies. Theyve been asking for a lot of this information to be declassified and released. Rod rosenstein, Deputy Attorney general when he was in charge refused to do this. Now bill barr singing a tune thats much more aligned with what the president wants. Thats why hes getting all of these extraordinary powers. You can see the reaction from adam schiff, the chairman of the intelligence committee. He says, quote, while President Trump is stonewalling, trump and barr look to declassify information against theyre political enemies. Kate . Thank you so much. Joining me now is jack quinn and anna palmer, senior washington correspondent for politico. Jack, what do these new powers really mean that trump is giving to the attorney general . Is it more about the fear, or is there a real problem, do you think . Well, look. This is really krng, and its also very tricky territory for the democrats as a political matter. But its important, i think, to start with the understanding that we have an established way of conducting investigations of peoples conduct within the department of justice. Ordinarily these things are delegated to the Inspector General of the department. Thats a relatively independent office within the department of justice, one that has a reputation for integrity and thoroughness and competentness, and here that has essentially been taken away from the i. G. If you will and given to the attorney general. Traditionally we have a longstanding director of power of National Intelligence to declassify information that had previously been deemed sensitive that might reveal source and methods and the like. Again, the question is why take that person out of the line here. Now, i hate to sound terribly political here, but i think the answer is because with attorney general barr, the president can count on getting the answer he wants. From the moment he applied for this job as attorney general by writing this 19page memo that was waving his arms saying look over here, look over here, ill do whatever you need to do to help you get out of these legal problems to when he issued this fourpage highly misleading some might say borderline untruthful memorandum supposedly undermining the Mueller Report, barr has proven himself in my opinion as the traineded seal willing to come to any conclusion the president needs. Its also its really disturbing im sorry . This also means any disclosure that comes out after this, barr would declassify. Its going to need additional scrutiny with the power given over by the president. I want to ask about this. While its happening, the chair of the committee is giving some indication how things might be going when its gets to the man at the center of it all, Robert Mueller. Let me play what radler is saying. He needs to answer questions about the court. Are folks going to go along with that . Is that going to be enough . What do you think of that, anna . Its a first step. This is the first nod were going to see where Robert Mueller is going to come to capitol hill. I doubt it will be enough but its a first step to assuage democrats and others, the fbi and do skr dont want him to testify. Can i also ask you, anna, it was laying out on top how things are going between the president and nancy pelosi. Its safe to say things havent blown over between the president and speaker yet, or will they. The speaker has maintained hes not going to work with anything with congress because it would be with the Democratic House until they stop investigating him. What are democrats saying about this . What are republicans saying about this . I think there are two poirmt points. One, it oengt strengstrengthens. Theyre backing her after this kind of hollywood dramatic blowup between the two of them over infrastructure. I think thats one important point. The second point is the republicans will lean into this. Congress needs to be able to do two things. One, oversight. Two, there are things that have to get done that the president is going to have to come part meantalize which hes been bad at doing so far. Hes going to have to raise the debt ceiling and have funding bill. If you want active positions on trade and infrastructure, democrats arent going to stop investigating him so they can get other things done. And just the fact of the matter is, its going to be out of necessity, if you want to get things done. Democrats plus republicans are going to be forced to call the president s bluff on this if this is what he maintains. Lets wait to see. Lets not get ahead of ourselves. We have breaking news to get to out of the pentagon. President trump is now deploying more troops and firepower to the middle east. Cnns Barbara Starr has more on this. What are you hearing here . We do expect some kind of briefing from the pentagon in the. Going hours about all of this, President Trump giving a thumbsup to a military proposal to beef up the deterrence capability in the persian gulf in the wake of it. Military officials are adamant that the iranian officials are positioning themselves in a very assertive aggressive manner. Whats on the table now, its now likely the pentagon will send additional Patriot Missile batteries to the region. These will be missiles capable of shooting down incoming iranian missiles and aircraft if it were to come to that, if they were to attack against the United States and also intelligence and Reconnaissance Aircraft that can fly continuously and keep a close eye on the movement of iranian forces. Right now we dont know how many troops that will add up to, and were told its a phase. Its a first phase. They hope to add to the deterrent capability, convince iran not to do anything that would cause the u. S. Military response, the pentagon adamant its not looking to that. But if it comes to that, theyre looking at additional forces. Well keep our eye own that. Thank you for reporting. We have breaking news from capitol hill. I have to get back over there. Theyre voting on how to move to the Disaster Relief bill. This is an important thing. It means theyve left town. Its clear its not going to be passed. Its been caught up in some controversy. They thought they had gotten past it and it was going to pass through the senate last night. Now today its hit nothing snag. Let me get over to phil mattingly. Phil, i came to set thinking this was going to pass. What happened . You framed it properly by saying its been an inner disaster as they try to fix out a way to thread the needle with lawmakers to question how much was going to be spent, the president concerned about the amount of aid going to puerto rico. Over the last couple of weeks they requested more money for the humanitarian crisis on the southern border. That got rapped for it. They came up with a deal, 19 prcht 1. No money for the border and passed it by a wide margin. 858, the house voted against it. The only way for the house to pass the bill and clear it for the president s silg nature hnld he said on twitter and in a news conference, he said he would semifinalbiep. They didnt show up to object or agree with the bill itself. One conservative republican from texas did show up and he did on jechlkt his rationale according to reports on the floor, he didnt like that the report wasnt paid for and it didnt address the immigration issue. Thats something republicans have been very concerned about. Its something theyre going to have to address in the weeks ahead. Theyre running out of money when it comes to dealing with the massive increase in undocumented migrants that showed up at the border, particularly family units. Particularly the south, the flooding in the midwest. California. California as well with the wildfires. Again, jeff to underscore the point here, this has been a monthslong process. You know the bills are not liked by fiscal conservatives but generally bipartisan, they move through in a quick manner because they need quick aid. To be completely clear, they will pass the bill and it will be signed into law by the preside president , but it will be at least another week over the cost. Its fascinating that theres an on jukz by the president when he signed on borchlt we know fiscal restraint is not something he dugs. You know this is something more of a dysfunction on capitol hill. The president got on board because the state senator of georgia would be hit hard and another were on the phone convincing him this was the way they needed to do it. Members were in the room. Thanks, phil. Coming up, videos are going viral. The president s twitter account is partly to blame. Its called trash. The statement this makes about the state of american politics right now is an important mark we must mark and not let pass. Well stalk about that. Plus british Prime Minister theresa may steps down amid a heated divide over how to lead the european union. What happens now. What happens to brexit now, what this means as President Trump is about to be heading over to the uk. Well be right back. At panera, our salads are uniquely crafted. With peak season berries, creamy avocado. And a dressing fit for a goddess. Come taste what a salad should be. And with panera catering, theres more to go around. Panera. Food as it should be. Super emma just about sleeps in her cape. 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So go directly to petmeds. Com now. Even in the era of everything gossypol ticks, this is jarring. A doctored video that makes attempt to make it look like nancy pelosi is slurring her speech and it goes viral. Its not just that. It with us shared bun one of the president s closest advisers, attorney Rudy Giuliani. Let me show you the real video and then the fake so you can see it for yourself. Then he had a press conference in the rose garden with all of this sore of visuals that obviously were planned long before. And then you had a press conference in the rose garden with all this sort of visuals that obviously were planned long before. Youtube removed the video, but its still out there and has been viewed millions of teams. A spokesman for pelosi said the speaker is not going to comment on, quote, sex icht trash. But there is more. President trump has jumped into all of this, and tweeing out a video, heres a picture of his twitter feed, she was basically falling all over her words in her press conference yesterday. It aired yesterday, that montage on fox business and he said in his tweet pelosi stammers through news conference. First, the actual manipulated video and then that video on fox business that the president s been pushing auround, david. I dont know what other word to say. This is so stupid that someone would try to push it around but its also super darjs that this isnt on some far reaches of the dark internet, this is the president of the United States says this about any american especially the speaker of the house. I mean can you just declare that politics american politics are broken and go home at this point. I do think that what we see across social media platforms is indeed breaking american politics as we know i. Its something that every american candidate is going to have to grapple with. Its going to be more prev lenl ads we go into politics. Obviously, we have a job to do to call out this crap when we see it and hopefully inform the public. But thats not going to stop. As you said, 1. 4 million views already. So this is a really dangerous practice and having it amplified by a Rudy Giuliani or President Trump, that just puts it, you know, on turbo charge. So i do think that this is going to be a major component of this upcoming election season. I fear for whats coming up in 2020. Rudy giuliani, he pushed around the manipulated video. He eventually deleted it. This morning he set out a response. The first one was completely unintelligible with a strange gift that i dome know what it was. Then she should withdraw her charge when she says the president needs an intervention. So hes saying its fine to send out because she criticized the president. If thats what it looks like, were not even close to the general election, e im scared when we get there. This isnt even a childhood playground where one says, oh, he started it. Hes jeffying a completely doctored video to create a false impression that nancy pelosi said about a roomful at a press conference where she was taking questions. The things are not comparable and this is part of you can see whats happening here, right . You saw yesterday the president started calling her crazy nancy, saying shes lost a step. Theyre trying to build a narrati narrative, negative frame around nancy pelosi because he sees her now as the most fierce political opponent hes facing. You mentioned i. Media needs to do a good job, better job by calling things out when they need to call things out, but also this is a very stark reminder that voters need to be smart. They need to take it upon themselves to look at what theyre watching, what theyre reading, question where its coming fr. Its not easy when the news coming at you at light speed. Thats whats going to be required especially when it comes to this divisive campaign. And theyre going to have to jaucht to this reality. And do it fast. It will be interesting to see whos nimble to do that and how they do. Good to see you. Thanks, david. Thanks, kate. Coming up, new this morning, President Trump tray say has acknowledge shes stepping down. The Prime Minister in making her announcement became emotional when she talked bd her decision. Take a listen. I will shortly leave the job thats been the honor of my life to hole. The second female Prime Minister but certainly not the last. I do so with no ill will but with enormous and enduring gratitude to have had the opportunity to serve the country i love. Another wrinkle here. President trump is set to be making a state visit to the uk early next month. Cnns phil black is outside 10 downing street watching all of this. I feel like everyone has asked this question so many times throughout the brexit saga, but its especially necessary now, like what is next . Reporter yeah. Its a key question now, kate. Whats next is a bit of an uncertainty as they open a contest to determine who will become its next leader and who ultimately becomes the next Prime Minister. Crucially that process will not begin until after President Trump visits in early june. Prime minister may will still be the Prime Minister in function when the queen hosts the president and his family in a couple of weeks. It will be interesting to see if President Trump expresses a view on any of the political turmoil thats taken place in the past. He hasnt been shy and has referenced admiration for boris johnson, the former british secretary saying he thinks hed be a good Prime Minister. Johnson favored to take theresa mays place after this election process by the conservative party members. But the fact is whoever becomes the next Prime Minister, they will inherit the same one. Theyll be the same with no obvious solution to solving this enormous political problem. Thanks so much. We truly appreciate it. Coming up, did ben carson lie as wing congresswoman calls for him to resign. What was it all about . She joins