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Russia investigation, whereby the way there was no collusion except by the dems, but heres the thing, the president said the exact opposite in an interview that was nationally televised last year. Heres a reminder. Knowing there was no good time to do it. And in fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. Cnn White House Reporter Caitlin Collins is in West Palm Beach near the president s maralago estate. Comey is reacting to the president s tweet this morning. What did he say . Reporter he certainly is. Hes been on this publicity tour for his new book that challenges the president very publicly, and today when he was asked about the president s tweet that comey wasnt fired because of the russia investigation, he said that doesnt scare with what the president himself said. Ive seen the tweet. Both of those things cant be true. I think that illustrates part of the problem that im trying to bring up, that it matters that the president is not committed to the truth as a Central American value. So i dont know what to make of it. When he tweets i should be in jail, my honest reaction is a shrug like, theres another one of those. Then i stop myself and say, theres danger in my shrug, because that means im becoming numb to the fact that the president of the United States of america is saying that the private citizen should be in jail. Thats not okay. That is not normal. Reporter but its not just the president contradicting the president here after what he said in that lester holt interview. Its several other things that is surrounding james comeys firing nearly a year ago that showed why he fired james comey and it wasnt because of that memo written by the attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general like the white house maintained before the president admitted to lester holt. But we know at the time that planning the firing for james comey is something that white house aides had been doing for days, as well as what the president told the russian officials the next day, that firing comey had relieved pressure from the russia investigation on him, as well. But you might ask the question, why is the president tweet thing a year after he fired james comey . I think its important to remind viewers that the special Counsel Robert Mueller is interested in talking to the president about the firing of james comey and what it had to do with the russia investigation. Thank you so much for that. Joining me now, we have Gloria Borger and David Gregory with us, as well. You wrote a piece called the run away president. What are your sources right now telling you about where his mind is in all of this . Theyre saying that hes completely unmanageable. Hes told our colleague one source told pamela brown that hes apapletic over the Michael Cohen raid. Ive been told some of his friends have never seen him like this before. That he doesnt listen to him, that not only does he believe hes running every piece of policy, but hes also running his legal team. So hes now the lawyer in chief, as well as the commander in chief. And there are people who are honestly quite worried about it, because hes just not listening to anyone. And i dont think theres anybody inside the white house right now, maybe save his family, that he regards as anyone he needs to listen to. So a lot of people alarmed. But some folks that perhaps he should be listening to, or maybe hes sick of listening to, david, is his legal team. Right now theyre in negotiation with the special counsel. Theyre talking about the president , is he going to testify . What will the parameters oh of that be . How did they react when the president tweets things like this . Well, not well. Hes clearly unmanageable and has been in this investigation from the beginning. Theres these two impulses. You see it may out on the sean hannity piece of this story, which is donald trump has a gut sense of how to attack everyone coming at him. And to attack mueller, to attack the this investigation as being beyond the scope. So sure, he worries about the stuff with his own lawyer, because if theyre seeking to pierce Attorney Client privilege or find out where it doesnt apply, this gets into areas about potential payoffs to porn stashes and other elicit relationships that he was trying to keep quiet. This is obviously scandalous for him. He doesnt want this stuff known. And he considers it to be part of whats illegitimate about this whole investigation. So he finds it very difficult to stop jabbing at that. And just be channeled and be circumspect to how he avoids jeopardy here legally. I think his instincts tell him that ultimately hes got to do this himself. Thats where he gets in trouble. Originally he was saying yeah, ill testify. Ill sit down with bob mueller. I dont think he was kidding around. I think thats what he was telling his lawyers. Now hes changed. Hes like, why would i do that . I will not sit down with this guy. And his lawyers are pretty happy about that, because they didnt want him to sit down with him any way. But there has been a shift. He has also shown a change in a different way, which is less discipline when it comes to stormy daniels. He had been largely silent when it came to her. But then he tweeted about her and the sketch that she released of the man who she said threatened her basically when it came to the trump situation, about this alleged affair with him. He wrote then that prompted this response from daniels attorney. He said why is he weighing in now . Because going back to what we were talking about originally, he cant control himself on this. Hes very upset. Stormy daniels attorney is sort of outtrumping trump in certain ways. By the way, why did it take him so long to produce this sketch . They had a deal that she violated. So this whole thing, its fine for us to kind of play it out in the news media. But theres potentially legal problems on both sides of this. But i do think the president has got on the a point where he is whether someone has unleashed him or maybe he thought Michael Cohen had this under control, so he staid let me stay away from it. I think theres a realization for trump that the danger in all of this is not just whats on its face, but it could somehow become part of what mueller investigates. Weve seen this movie before with the clinton impeachment. It could be more dangerous. What hes doing is leaving bed crumbs every single day, dropping them. And the lawyers are saying to trump, dont respond. Dont talk about it. Because the power in the counterpunch is also knowing when not to use it. Thank you to both of you. A top secret visit to north korea now revealed. Former defense secretary leon panetta will joining me next to discuss the details on mike pompeos trip to the rogue nation as they lay the ground work for talks. A public feud between the white house and nikki haley, and new details ohhen that deadly southwest flight, as passengers relive the horror at 30,000 feet. The powerful backing of american express. Dont live life without it. The powerful backing of american express. A few problems actually. Were overproducing, overcrowding, and overheating. Weve got aging roadways, aging power grids,. Aging everything. Youre kinda bumming me out clive owen. No, wait. It gets worse. We also have the ageold problem of bias in the workplace. Really. 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Pompeo is President Trumps pick to be the next secretary of state. The president weighed in on this meeting this morning when he tweeted, mike pompeo met with kim jongun in north korea. Meeting went very smoothly and a Good Relationship was formed. Details of summit are being worked out now. Denuclearization will be a great thing for world, but also for north korea. The pompeo trip is a prelude to the planned facetoface meeting with President Trump and the north Korean Leader. We will probably be, depending on the various meetings and conversations, well be having meetings with kim jongun very soon. It will be that will be taking place probably in early june or before that. Assuming things go well. Its possible things wont go well and we wont have the meeting. I want to bring in john kirby, our cnn military and diplomatic analyst. So fill us in on what we have learned about mike pompeos trip and also the implications of this trip. Sure. What was the most senior u. S. Visit to pyongyang since Madeiline Albright when in 2000 when she was secretary of state for president clinton, we have a framework being laid for a kim jongun President Trump summit for may or june. President trump said the meeting went well, they formed a great relationship. Kim jongun said hes willing to talk about denuclearization. We dont know exactly what that means, but President Trump said he came away from this whole setting figuring out that theres about five locations where the summit might occur. So lets take a look at some of the possibilities. We dont know what cities, but we can take an educated guess based on what types of venues might be available. First, these are not going to be politically viable to meet on the home turf for the other. So we can dismiss that as the most, least likely. What about china, russia, japan, south korea, you could do it there. China and russia would love nothing more to be the mediating influence between the United States and north korea, to boost their influence in the region. That is why i think either of those options are probably not going to be attractive to President Trump. Its very unlikely that kim jongun will want to go to japan or south korea, as well. So none of these options are going to be very likely either. What about, though, on the Demilitarized Zone . Neutral territory, very safe and secure. Not very far from pyongyang. But the downside is thats where kim is going to meet with president moon of south korea in just a couple of weeks. Its not likely, i think, that President Trump is going to want to repeat that venue, being the showman that he is, but i would keep an eye on it. That leaves with us neutral or third party countries, easter in the region, in asia, or in europe. Lets take a look at some of the asian options. Youve got singapore or bangkok, thailand. Both countries have diplomatic relations with the u. S. And north korea. It could be a very good option there. But mongolia, the president of mongolia said he would be more than happy to host the summit between kim and trump. And its an accessible train ride from pyongyang. But more than likely, were probably talking about somewhere in europe. There arement men plenty of opt. Lots of great cities here that have long histories and track records of hosting diplomatic engagements. It would require longer travel for kim jongun. But theyre very well equipped to host this kind of meeting. I would be looking at stockholm, the protecting power for the United States and north korea. They handle our counsel affairs. They were responsible for helping us release Otto Warmbier in the summer. I would be looking at somewhere in the region or europe. Thank you for taking us through all of those, we appreciate it. Joining me now is leon panetta, the former defense secretary and cia director under president obama. Thank you for being with us today. Nice to be with you. What is your reaction to this revelation that the cia director, mike pompeo, met secretly with kim jongun . I think its a very important step to take. I was a little concerned when the president agreed to the summit without very much planning or preparation. And in a short time from time to time, its a little bit of concern as to whether or not you can lay the ground work for that kind of high level summit. The fact that you now have director pompeo meeting with kim indicates that they are discussing, hopefully, some of the key negotiating terms that would be part of a summit between kim and President Trump. What did you think about the fact that he went with just intelligence officials . It sounds like you feel like the ground work is being laid. Maybe not enough . I would be curious to see what you had to say about this, but how he executed this. Intel officials, no one from the state department. Well, the problem is, theres not much happening at the state department. We dont have a secretary of state. A lot of those positions are untilled. But more importantly, he has trust in mike pompeo. Mike pompeo, from an intelligence point of view, has probably the best perspective on kim and north korea. So he was prepared, im sure, to be able to sit down. I think the real question now is, where does it go from here . Because there has to be extremely careful preparations made for this kind of high level summit. Theres got to be a discussion about what are the terms that are going to be negotiated. What is it that we want kim from kim in terms of denuclearization, missile development, Nuclear Development . And what are we prepared to give in return. I think its very important to lay out those terms, because what you dont want to do is keep giving kim things that he wants without getting Something Back in return. He so clearly wants the u. S. Presence in the region to be gone, right . That seems to be a key point to him as a trade for perhaps denuclearization. But that seems so unrealistic. What do you think . I dont think theres any question that the United States is just not going to pick up and leave that region in terms of our relationship with south korea, with japan, and with our other allies in the pacific. So that obviously is going to be one of the areas that weve got to sit down and decide how far were prepared to go. In return for north korea taking some very clear steps at denuclearization, thats not going to be easy. This is a very, very tough object tich. Its going to require inspections, the kind of verification to make sure that theyre doing what they say theyre doing. And theyve never quite agreed to that in the past. So there are a lot of very heavy issues here that are going to have to be worked out. Im not sure all of this can be done before a summit. So im looking at a summit that may be laying some framework for discussions. But the hard negotiations are going to have to take place afterwards. I want to turn now and talk about air strikes on syria with you. On this program, senator rand paul said about the reported chemical attack that led to the strikes, he said this. I still look at the attack and say, assad either must be the dumbest dictator on the planet or maybe he didnt do it. I have jet yet to see evidence did do it. Does it make any sense . Hes been winning the war for the last couple of years. The only thing that would gal van ize the world to attack assad directly is a chemical attack. So hes raising the question whether the assad regime would be stupid enough to go and do this, because it is the red line for President Trump. Was there a need to better verify this information before the administration went on with air strikes . Well, from all of the indications, there clearly was some kind of evidence that, in fact, this kind of chemical attack did take place. Obviously, syria and russia are putting up barriers to trying to in fact verify that. You have to ask yourself the question, why are they doing that . In addition to that, assad has continued to use chemical weapons. This is nothing new. Weve seen him use these kinds of attacks in the past. And so from all of that, it would appear that, indeed, this military strike, i believe, was justified. I want to ask you about james comey. Hes been doing a series of interviews, which im sure that you have caught. This has to do with his new book. And he says that its possible that the russians have something, that they have something incriminating on President Trump. Theres also the former director of National Intelligence James Clapper who said this about the same subject to wolf. It certainly is a possibility, and this is in the russians genes, if they can coopt somebody, with ea but dont know, just as jim doesnt, whether thats the case. Do you share that opinion, just that it is possible that russia has something incriminating on President Trump . You know, i get very concerned about talking about possibilities. Thats all kinds of possibilities as to what could or could not be the case. Im more interested in what, in fact, is the truth. And to determine that, i think bob mueller and his investigation is going to hook look at that issue and determine whether or not that is the case. Im not sure it helps just to speculate as to what could or could not be the problem. Do you think comey is inappropriate in speculating . You know, he can give his opinion. This is a free country, and im sure other also give their opinions. Thats the nature of a free society. But i do think when it comes to the issue of whether or not this president is being held hostage in some way by the russians, thats something we are going to have to determine by the kind of investigation that bob mueller is running. Leon panetta, thank you so much, former cia director, former defense secretary. We really appreciate your time. Thank you. Coming up, blame nikki haley. That seemed to be the consensus after the administrations plans for russia sanctions got muddled. Plus, nearly taken out of an airplane window into the sky, and then pulled back into the plane. Passengers recalling the deadly southwest flight. Stay with us. Rst thing they askd was are you ok . they always thank you for your service, which is nice because as a spouse you serve too. Were the hayles and were usaa members for life. Ftheres flonase sensimist. Tchy and watery near pollen. It relieves all your worst symptoms including nasal congestion, which most pills dont. 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Then tuesday, the president s new chief economic adviser larry kudlow said this about haley. She got ahead of the curb. Shes done a great job. Shes a very effective ambassador. There might have been some momentary confusion about that. Ambassador haley fired back, with all due respect, i dont get confused. Kudlow later called nikki haley to tell her that the policy had changed without her knowledge and that he hadnt been kept in the loop. I want to bring back my panel, Gloria Borger and David Gregory. Gloria, it seems like the administration threw nikki haley under the bus here. Completely and totally threw her under the bus. I think larry kudlow, whether he meant to or not, was m mansplaining her and disrespectful to her. If she had been out of the loop, by the way, she should not have been out of the loop. To be on the sunday shows. To be on the sunday shows of all things. We all know this. People get briefed. These are your talking points for your sunday shows. This is what we want you to say. So she was clearly saying what she thought was administration policy, and was not confused and it seems to me the administration was confused because maybe the president was confused about what he wanted to do. What do you think . I think its a lot of bumbling, and then kudlow came off as a real jerk in saying that. To his credit, he apologized rather quickly, because he sounds ridiculous in that. And i think look, theres so many perm utations. The president may have been out of the loop, the timing may have been wrong. Theres lots of possibilities where they didnt have their act together on this. And the backdrop is always suspicious, because you wonder whether the president has his heart in anything thats critical of russia. Thats really at the heart of it, because if you step aside from the feud, this has to do with why the president might pull back or pull a punch when it comes to russia. That is really the issue. Theres a couple of things. Theres a more benign way. With regard to syria, we dont want to provoke russia where you could have escalation. What i fear is that he cannot allow himself to get to the place where he sees russia as the threat, or else that somehow that is giving up too much on the idea that they meddled to the extent they did in the election. My question is, the Washington Post has reported that the president watches on television and got upset, that what nikki haley had said. So the question is, was the president out of the loop . I dont know the answer to that question. I hope the answer to that question is no, of course the president wasnt out of the loop. But this is what happens, things unravel all the time in this white house because theres a lack of communication among the key policy advisers who are making these decisions. Kudlow is the new player here. This is one area where there is obviously tension between tillerson and haley. But she seems to be a highly regarded and Senior Member of this National Security team. And so this seemed like a discordant note. And her notion that she had to fight back. I mean, her taking kudlow on. She felt clearly like she lost some strength in this. Shes sort of reasserting her position. She had to defend herself by saying, i know what im talking about. You got this wrong. So the notion that she publicly did that, i think that its important to Pay Attention to. I think trump probably doesen mind. Gloria and david, thank you so much. Coming up, void of values and james comey explains why hes leaving the Republican Party. Plus, Mitch Mcconnell is slamming the door on a bill to protect the special counsel. Why the majority leader says the issue does not belong on the senate floor. vo why do Subaru Forester owners always seem so happy . Because theyve chosen the industry leader. Subaru forester holds its value better than any other vehicle in its class according to alg. 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Hes tweeted at me probably 50 times. Ive been gone for a year. Im like a breakup he cant get over. He wakes up in the morning [ applause ] wow. Im out there living by best life. He wakes up in the morning and tweets at me. Joining us now from capitol hill is republican congressman Chris Stewart of utah, a member of the house intelligence committee. So that was one of the more light hearted comments by james comey. But he has raised some serious questions, as you know, about the president , about his fitness to lead. Do you think overall, whether its these quips or its these serious issues and concerns that hes raising, do you think that jim comey is acting appropriately . I defended jim comey for many years, until about a year ago. I thought he was a successful fbi director. I dont necessarily change my opinion on that now, but i think hes trying to sell a bunch of books. I think it does deminish the role that he plays as a former fbi director. President trump is a Political Animal to his core, we get that. But the director of the fbi shouldnt be. I think we expect something a little different from them. I think its unfortunate that its devolved into this tit for tat like weve seen from the two of them now. So you i do think that hes crossed the line there. On abcs the view, comey, who has long been a registered republican, said this very thing about the current state of the party, your party. Heres what he said. I feel like the Republican Party left me, and people like me. I used to think that at the heart of being a conservative, lower case c was first the character matters and second that values matter most of all. And i dont know where that is today in the Republican Party. So im not comfortable being part of it. What is your reaction, congressman . Well, i understand that theres some people who feel that way, but where else are you going to go . You certainly cant go to the clinton it is you care about character. You have to think what is the right thing for our country . I believe, although i have concerns, i think that conservative values are the thing that help our country. Those are best embodied in the Republican Party. I understand he feels frustrated. But i think this is entirely personal. I think this has developed into something that is, again, tit for tat. I think hes on a book tour and trying to generate publicity. I think this helps that. I think its just unfortunate. Its so interesting to hear you say you understand that some people have concerns. But that in the end, its the principles, historically of your party, that you feel are so important. What are the concerns that you have heard, that you think republicans need to address, that maybe even jim comey shares, that you think the party really needs to deal with . Yeah. I mean, a lot of the issues that we feel like we need to deal with, we already have. I think tax reform is a very positive step for most persons. Regulatory reform. I think the fact that weve adequately funded our military. So those are good things for the American People and i think they appreciate that. What most people feel concerned about is our Public Discourse is justdy involved into something that many of us are k uncomfortable with. Sometimes the president tweets things that dont help me as a congressman. Sometimes his critics are over the top in the personal way they attack him. I dont think either one of those help. And i think the American People are getting exhausted by it. Every time i talk with people, whether its you or other people in the media or just a guy at the hardware store, we end up talking about these things and it just seems like people are so wary about it. I hope we can do better. I just do. As we go into the midterms, and eventually the 2020 elections, i hope we can lift ourselves up and look for a standard thats a little higher. I wanted to ask you about the russia investigation. Mitch mcconnell is refusing to bring legislation that would protect the special Counsel Robert Mueller. Hes refusing to bring that legislation to the floor. This is what he said on fox. Im the one who decides what we take to the floor. Thats my responsibilitresponsi. Would you be shocked if he did fire him if yes, i dont think he should and i dont think he will. So he it sounds like perhaps he thinks this special counsel doesnt need the protection, and that he somes certain the president will not fire him. Do you share Mitch Mcconnells certainty that he wont fire muleer . I absolutely do. I think this is a little bit of crying fire, when there is no fire there. The president has made it clear, as recently as three weeks ago, he has no intention of firing mr. Mueller, and he shouldnt. If you think theres evidence of collusion, it just hasnt materialized. I think the president sees that. Hes considered it in the past, sir. Do you discount that . I dont know that he has considered it in the past. At least not seriously. I dont know, im not in on those private conversations obviously. But he has said recently hes not going to fire him. We have no indications that hes thinking of doing that now. I think this is a way once again to generate a little bit of emotion. But its over an issue that i dont think is realistic. Congressman, we appreciate your time. Congressman Chris Stewart joining us from a rather busy day there. We appreciate it. Thank you, maam. Up next, we have new details about that deadly southwest flight, as passenger set the scene inside the cabin. Were now hearing the fbi is playing a role in this investigation. This just in. Were learn who is attending former first lady Barbara Bushs funeral on saturday. An unreasow fast food drive thru lane. But what a powerful life lesson. And dont worry i have everything handled. I already spoke to our allstate agent, and i know that we have accident forgiveness. 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Reporter today is probably one of the most high profile days of the case. Time warner took the stand to show the judge they need this merger in order to survive honestly. He said with Companies Like netflix and amazon and facebook getting into the content business, starting to create the shows that people watch in addition to the platform on which they watch those shows, he said they cant compete and they need to get with at t to get their hands on some of the data from the consumers and without it they wont be able to survive in the future. He called the governments argument ridiculous. The government is arguing at t will use turner content like cnn in sort of an unfair way in their negotiations with other cable distributors, as a way to get more prices out of it because they think at t will try to get more customers to join their cable and directv offers. Ultimately this is up to one person, the judge, richard leon, and what he thinks about this case. Thank you so much. Youve been doing continuing coverage of this trial. The National Transportation safety board in a short time is going to give us an update on that engine failure on Southwest Airlines flight 1380. 0 minut 20 minutes into the flight, something happened and a woman was subjected out of the window. I tried and tried and i just couldnt. And then andrew came over just trying to get her back in. It didnt feel like it was trying to pull me out. It felt like whenever i stuck anything out, it would just slam me back. Now 43yearold jennifer reirden did not ultimately survive and questions are being raised on whether this tragedy could have been prevented. Its definitely not something that somebody could detect just looking at the fan played from outside. This was an intern metal fatigue area. Even a careful maintenance inspection from outside of the fan blade would not have detected it more than likely. 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So we know now that the first lady, Melania Trump, is going to pay her respects at the funeral on saturday but theres no word on whether President Trump will attend. Kate Anderson Brower is looking at the divisive history between the two families. Kate . Reporter well, the bushes and the trumps have had a complicated history. When jeb bush was considering running in 2016 actually 2013, barbara bush came out saying we dont need any more bushes. She was against the notion of having a bush family dynasty. They are remarkably without ego. Barbara bush was very selfeffacing, had a great sense of humor and she did not think the world needed another bush president. Weve seen laura bush had lunch with Melania Trump. We know Melania Trump will be going to Barbara Bushs funeral on saturday. The bushes of course would extend that invitation because thats who they are. Theyre very classy and very polite. But there is of course bad blood there because during the primary donald trump came out and attacked lowenergy jeb bush. We see the bushes being very respectful and extending donald trump and melania an invitation. We have a statement from former president george h. W. Bush. He said i always knew barbara was the most beloved woman in the world. In fact, i used to tease her that i had a complex about that fact. The but the truth is the outpouring of love and friendship be directed at her enforcer is living us all up. We have faith she is in heaven and we know life would go on, as she would have it so cross the bushes off the worry list. That is it for me. In north newsroom with brooke b baldwin starts now. Good afternoon. Lets get to it. James comey is hitting back on the attempt to rewrite history on why comey was fired from the fbi. Just moments ago he reacted to this tweet from President Trump quoting the president , slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history was not fired because of the phony russia investigation, where,