With President Trump and offering big reward to anyone who could quote, i. D. The thug. And sanction reversal. After nikki haley announced the sanctions on russia, the white house reversed them and now they say the sanctions are coming shortly. What is behind the confusion. And sooner or never . President trump said the u. S. Has already held talks with north korea at extremely high levels. He said a meeting with north Koreas Kim Jongun could happen very soon or not at all. As the president said, quote, well see what happens. Im wolf blitzer and youre in the situation room. Announcer cnn breaking news. Breaking news, a terrifying or deal as an engine explosion blows out a window fatally injuring a passenger and forcing the plane to make an Emergency Landing and in the middle of President Trumps battle with james comey, the president takes heat for undercutting the United Nations ambassador and walking back new sanctions on russia. Ill speak with congressman Eric Swalwell and our correspondents are all standing by with full coverage. But right to the breaking news, that deadly engine failure aboard a Southwest Airlines jet. Ryan todd is joining us. What is the latest and what are you learning . Reporter just a short time ago we spoke to a passenger who said shrapnel from an explosion blew out a window just a few seconds later. A window that was just two row as head of him. We have if you accounts from the passenger who was able to capture images from inside of the cabin as the jet was plummeting more than 20,000 feet in about five minutes. This is passenger marty martinez, Facebook Live streaming what he thinks will be his death. Martinez tells cnn he was on Southwest Airlines 1380 when one of the engines fails possibly from an explosion about 30 minutes into the flight from la guardia to dallas. All avenue sudden we hear this loud explosion and within a span of five seconds all of the awful of the oxygen masks deployed and then just a few seconds later another explosion happened and it was a window that just completely exploded. And as you could imagine, everybody was going crazy and yelling and screaming. Reporter he said the flight attendants appeared to be panicking. The pilot projected calm. Southwest 1380 has an engine fire. Reporter and tonight the ntsb said one passenger was killed and it may have been the woman sit near this window blown open by shrapnel from the explosion. Her arms and her body was sucked in that sucked in that direction. From my advantage point so you see people from the back of the seat holding on to her, trying to keep her or keep her contained. Reporter martinez told cnn a man who tended to the passenger had blood all over his hands. He said the plane experienced violent turbulence and that he saw his colleague sitting next to him typing out a good bye message to his family. The plane quickly deappreciatized and made an Emergency Landing in philadelphia. The flight crew did an incredible job getting the aircraft here on the ground. Reporter Officials Say a few other passengers suffered minor injuries. Peterer gold said initially the investigators may focus on possible failure of the fan blades inside of the most typically, a fan blade fails because of some sort of maintenance oversight, some sort of foundry failure that there is the tiniest little anomaly that could grow with the enormous pressure that the speed of the rotating engine puts on it. You could have a fatigue crack that could have been hard to determine where it was reporter tonight a terrified emotional passenger tells cnn the landing was so violent i thought they were crashing. I feel just so just lucky to be alive. Ive had a lot of people contact me and loved ones calling and all i could think about is i was going down on that plane was how my life was being taken away from me. Reporter this incident could have been so much worse and aviation experts are telling us that one thing that could have happened is a catastrophic failure of the planes left wing and they say the 737 have fuel tanks throughout the wings inside. And if shrapnel had ignited a fuel wing and they could have lost control of the flaps and possibly that plane could have crashed. Wolf. Wow there was, im told, a safety directive regarding the type of engine this plane had. Is that right. Reporter that is right. Last year the faa issued an air worthiness director on the same turboprop engine after an in flight failure in august of 2016, a 737 flying from new orleans to orlando was forpsed to make an Emergency Landing in pensaco pensacola after an engine failed that could have been similar to here. Ryan todd reporting. President trump is at his florida resort and huddling with japanese Prime Minister about a planned meeting with kim jongun. But the Trump Administration has been busy sending out mixed messages on russia and the prospect of yet more u. S. Sanctions against russia. Live to our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta down in florida reporting on what is going on. What is the latest . Reporter s with a case of Foreign Policy whiplash. The white house is blaming the Administration Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley for jumping the gun on new sanctions on russia and the state Department Said the sanctions could happen. The confusion over the sanctions which would be tied to the russia support for syria comes as the president is holding talks here in florida with the japanese Prime Minister on another pressing National Security issue, north korea and the president said a short while ago that high level talks with the North Koreans have already begun. As the president and the japanese Prime Minister meet at mr. Trumps ritzy resort in florida to try to get on the same page with north korea. We have talked to north korea directly and at high levels schemely high levels with north korea. Reporter the white house is attempting to make sense of the policy on russia. One day after Ambassador Nikki Haley warned new sanctions on russia would be announced by the administration absolutely. So you will see that russian sanctions will be coming down, sect men uchen will be announcing those on monday if he hasnt already. Reporter the white house is walking back insisting a decision had not been made in putting the blame scarily on haley saying russia would be punished for the Bashar Al Assad and the suspects gas attacks on its own people and in an off camera briefing the new chief economist larry kudlow told reporters, haley simply got ahead and there might have been momentary confusion reporter it was a curious purported stumble who has been a tough voice on russia for the administration and stark contrast to the president who has only recently stupped up his rhetoric on moscow. And even fellow republicans are noting something seems off. It sounds like confusion from the white house. Reporter while in florida the president and his aides are busy responding to the new book from former fbi director james comey. The president has suggested comey could face jail time tweeting the Big Questions in his badly reviewed book arent answered like how come he gave up classified information, jail and why did he lie to congress, jail. And comey accused mr. Trump of crossing a line. That is not normal and that is not okay. First of all he is making stuff up but the president of the United States is calling for the imprisonment of a private citizen as hes done for people who criticize him. That is not acceptable in this country. Reporter still comey has critics on both sides of the aisle. Democrats are still furious with him for very publicly reopening the clinton email investigation days before the 2016 election. I think it was his to some extent his arrogance that led him to make a bad error of judgment but i thought he was anninod in the context of the election and influential in the outcome. And new uncertainty on north korea while the president told reporters his meeting with kim jongun could happen, quote, quote soon, the mr. Trump also said it is possible his face to face encounter may not even occur. It is possible. Things wont go well or we wont have the meeting and just continue to go along this very strong path that weve taken. But we will see what happens. Reporter now the president told reporters that five locations are under consideration for his upcoming meeting with kim jongun. One other nagging concern to has resurfaced, the questions regarding his tax reports and the white house announced he is filing for an extension to file the 2017 tax returns and this president has refused to release his returns to the public and the first in decades to do so and the white house is not giving any indication whether the president will keep his 2017 returns a secret, wolf. It seems like were never going to see those tax returns. Well we shall see. Maybe one of the days we will. Who knows. Jim acosta for that. And joining us now, Eric Swalwell of california and a member of intelligence and Judiciary Committee and i want to bring with the president s sudden reversal on russian sanctions. The white house is blaming nikki haley for supposedly, quote, getting ahead of the curve on the issue and which he she said on sunday would be announced by the treasury department. Why cant this Administration Speak with one voice when it comes with policy toward russia. Ambassador haley has it right. The president need to needs t tell the strategy with russia. I propose it should be we counter the aggression in the United States and abroad and to achieve that he has to finally have the spine to directly confront vladimir putin, to ratchet up the sanctions and get our allies on board to impose hurtful sanctions, particularly against the oligarchs who are benefitting from what putin is doing. And also to unify the country so that in the investigations we do here about what russia did, we show russia and other countries that were never going to tolerate this. He could still do that. But right now were in this does putin love and does putin love me not saga and one day hes tough on putin and the next day admiring him as a leader and that doesnt help at all. And is there anything that the u. S. Congress should do about this . Well what congress should do Elijah Cummings and i have Bipartisan Legislation on what russia did but also we can with the power of the purse insist that he impose sanctions against russia for what theyre doing in syria for what they just recently did in the United Kingdom and they continue to do in ukraine. I hope members realize that were not helpless and that the American People trust congress to be a check when the president is not willing to act or when the president is out of control. Let me get your re action to the comments from james comey. He said the fbis credibility is lower today than it was a few years ago but that the Bureau Reputation would be even worse if not for the controversial choices he made during the 2016 president ial campaign. What do you think . Im not going to second guess director comeys choices. I didnt second guess them at the time. I was a prosecutor. I know there are times when you are in a catch 22 and sometimes no one will be happy with what you decide. I think most importantly going forward, we need to make sure in congress we have an independent department of justice and no president is able to use a department to punish the enemies or reward their friends and also just as democrats frankly wolf, i dont want us to miss the people who we did not connect with in 2016 and just scapegoat what happened in 2016 with what director comey did. Whether it affected the election or not, there are people who we did not connect with and people always on our side who just stayed home and if were going to win in 2018 and 2020, we need those folks to be back and we need to go back to them. And comey expressed confidence in the russia probe telling npr in an interview and im quoting, if the president s a goal is to shut down an investigation, he would literally have to fire everyone in the department of justice and the fbi to accomplish this. Do you share his faith in the fbi and the department of justice . I do. And i think they could be clearer about that. And i know that is not something theyre normally comfortable with. They usually keep their head down and dont give a rip about politics. I have two brothers that are Police Officers ab they hate talking about politics or the suggestion they could be influenced and with this president i would appreciate it if senior officials pledged they would not be a part of any firing of mueller without and again congress is not helpless. We have Bipartisan Legislation in the house and senate where we could protect mueller and make sure he and rosenstein are not fired unless there was cause. Congressman Eric Swalwell, thank you for joining us. My pleasure. And up next, storm shows a sketch of the man she said threatened her to keep quiet about an alleged affair with donald trump and a lawyer said that man probably worked for the Trump Organization or Donald Trumps personal fixer. Well be right back. With a class leading 31mpgs nx combined estimate. Lease the 2018 nx 300 and nx 300 all wheel drive for these terms. Experience amazing at your lexus dealer. 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The lawyer for Stormy Daniels just told cnn he believes the man who allegedly threatened her to stay silent about the affair she claimed to have with donald trump probably worked indirectly for the Trump Organization or Michael Cohen. Sara sidner is joining us with the latest. Daniels and her lawyer put out a sketch of this man, they describe him as a thug. Yeah, shes giving more details now about that alleged threat from a man she said trying to keep her from talking about her alleged affair with donald trump. Shes giving the more details for the second time to the view. Stormy daniels revealing this sketch of the man she said threatened her back in 2011 to keep her from talking about her alleged affair with donald trump. The thing that i remember so clearly about him is that nothing was alarming by the way he looked at first. Reporter she appeared on abc the view revealing more details about an incident in a las vegas parking lot while she was heading to a mommy and me workout class with her infant daughter. He had his hands in his pocket and looked at my daughter and said shes a beautiful little girl and it would be a shame if something happened to her mom. Fo