International diplomacy. Rush limbaugh joined us to talk about his memories of bush 41 and schizophrenic coverage of the former president and why president obama might be offended. We begin with breaking developments in Robert Muellers probe with katherine herridge. The special counsel is recommending no jail time for flynn based on his substantial cooperation including 90 interviews and documents and communications he provided. The special counsel since then cooperated on multiple investigations concerning any links of coordination between the russian government, the Trump Campaign and Trump Transition Team so they offer no specifics, also citing sensitive information, ongoing verification sections of the document are heavily blacked out redacted but heres one of the key quotes, the defendant provided information to the government not long after the government first sought cooperation. s early cooperation a reference to flynn was particularly valuable because he was one of the few people with longterm and firsthand insights regarding events and issues under investigation by the special counsel office. Reacting to the flynn sentencing memo the president s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani spoke to fox news and likened the document to the guilty plea of the, quote, spitting on the sidewalk with major repercussions for many. He said there was nothing in the sentencing memo to suggest collusion and denounced muellers team as overzealous media inspired prosecutors. So much of what we got is a mystery because of those huge redacted blackout sections and that leads both sides to claim victory, something he has nothing in this is just a scare tactic, others say this proves something terrible. The heavily redacted portions come in the second part of the filing which is this addendum which talks about the depth and breadth of mike flynns cooperation talks about sections in the context of Ongoing Investigations. Special counsel says the blacked out sections, i have some of them here that it is about an Ongoing Investigation and they dont want to tip their hand to those who may be the subject of this inquiry so i dont think it is wise to speculate on what it relates to but it was sensitive enough not to make public, those are in the president s corner on this point to the fact that the crimes flynn is being prosecuted for our process crimes again, lying, to federal investigators about his conversation with the Russian Ambassador and sarah violations, paperwork issues resolved with an individual or their company, so the public will have to decide for themselves. Doesnt take long to read these documents and i encourage them to do that this evening. I was expecting something more voluminous and after that big piece of information we have to wait on for now. Thank you for that. D into the filings by the mueller team on the power panel. Elizabeth price foley, Richard Fowler and erica, author of the Childrens Book donald drains the swamp, welcome to all of you. I went to start with you and a bit of what we have been able to tell from nonredacted parts of these filings, Michael Flynn had 19 interviews with the mueller team and or the attorneys and several Ongoing Investigations being assisted with investigations to coordination between Trump Campaign and russia and recommend sentencing without incarceration as appropriate unwarranted. What do you make of what we learned tonight . It seems to me from reading this recommendation and addendum that basically mueller is conceding he milked Michael Flynn for all hes worth in the sense that he has got no the information from flynn, flynn has been forthright in showing up for interviewers providing documents required, appearing before any grand jury if that happened and whatever Michael Flynn has given them is over at this point. They are not expecting Michael Flynn to be a witness in any future proceeding or anything like that and so what we cant tell from these reductions in the addendum is whether or not Michael Flynns cooperation on the criminal investigation has anything to do with trump russia collusion. There is a lot of speculation out there, lasix sasquatch rumors. Anytime the word collusion appears people get breathless speculation about it but i dont think we can see whether there is any evidence of that year. This is what we are talking about with sasquatch rumors, that, black lines youre looking at redactions we dont know what special counsel has on those. Charlie kerr, conservative commentator and activist tweeted that if mueller truly had something he wouldnt release these findings about flynn and recommended no jail time. He is desperate and wants to make an example out of flynn, he wants to show the main people investigated that if they comply they wont go to jail. I dont know that is true or not and you dont know until you see behind the reductions but here is the part that was most telling allamericans can agree with. Page 5 of the first document the line reads however, the government leaders should be held to the highest standard. Defendants providing false information to the government as well as governing work performance, something that works for government, democrats or republicans, or ambassadors in the process, they lied to the fbi, we should expect government officials serve at the highest level and above board and shouldnt lie to fbi agents. Shannon you are talking email servers being held in bathrooms your referring to Hillary Clinton. Im saying she was wrong. We should demand all our governments including Michael Flynn be held it should apply to everyone but she didnt get prosecuted. It does not apply to everyone. What we have in this investigation, determining what has less beef than a nothing burger . Nothing. There is nothing. You say show me the collusion, where is the collusion . We are like criminologists trying to read the tea leaves, vacancy the politburo and people figure out from nothing what is going on behind the scene so we looking at redacted pages that have gotten so far into the weeds that we have lost the bigger picture. Some people are so opposed to this president s election they will do anything, include pretend there is a single standard of justice when you have a former secretary of state who has done things, when the spotlight is shown on the Clinton Foundation and behind the scenes, including the warrant that was put together and all this stuff, that is infinitely bigger than anything Flynn Shannon as far as we know. Theres a lot we dont know. As far as what we publicly know this is where i am going to have to stop you. This is what we do know. Donald Trumps Campaign manager is in jail for committing crimes. Shannon not connected to russian collusion. Not to mention the fact you have a National Security adviser as acting attorney general, the obama administration, dont hire this guy. He is not a good boy scout and the acting attorney general said we have information that said this individual would compromise the white house, he did compromise the white house because he lied to the Vice President of the United States and 18 days for him to resign and number 2. He lied to the fbi. Heather i am going to bring elizabeth, gentleman. Elizabeth, i want to bring you back in because as one of our legal eagles, everybody is claiming credit for victory based on what we dont know behind these reductions. Top democrats moving in as the house is taken over by democrats, the recommendation of no jail time for flynn is obvious irony chanting locker up, the timeliness that most details, far more than we or the president may know. Is that how you read this . I dont think that is a fair interpretation. Michael flynn based on criminal history under sentencing guidelines would have gotten 6 months in jail. Given the fact that Andrew Mccabe and jim comey testified fbi agents who anticipated there wasnt any deception involve and keep in mind Michael Flynn, the interview was predicated on an alleged violation which itself is probably unconstitutional and never resulted in conviction of anyone suggest this interview was pretextual to begin with and any prosecutor who looked at Michael Flynns history of service to this country based on an interview that didnt indicate deception would not recommend jail time so frankly mueller is showing some good character here in not recommending jail time for Michael Flynn and it says absolutely nothing about the substance of what Michael Flynn provided to them. It shows he cooperated in good faith and gave them what he had and what he had we dont know. A valuable point that what he did, nothing was wrong with talking to the ambassador. The fact he made it up with problematic. I would like to say i would like to throw in one incendiary thing, that Hillary Clinton has done things so infinitely worse than anything we are discussing today that the odds of her genuinely being locked up our 50 50. We are going to leave it there. Great to have you with us on the power panel. You heard from Rudy Giuliani but no official reaction from the white house to the special counsel filing National Security adviser Michael Flynn. He is focusing on tariffs and china and tributes to former president george w. Bush. Today all of that was put aside when the two families met on the eve of former president George Hw Bushs funeral. Donald trump says he was looking forward to this moment, a chance to offer private condolences to george w. Bush and mrs. Bush. The meeting lasted 23 minutes and signified a fine of tension at least for now as donald trump declared tomorrow federal holiday a national day of mourning. He will be there inside the National Cathedral alongside every other former living president but donald trump will not be delivering a eulogy. Jeb bush explains why. What people want to talk about is why isnt the president giving the eulogy . It is because we have a unique circumstance. My brother was president. The president called george and myself friends. America posits to remember the 41st president Global Markets are reaction in realtime, confusion about Donald Trumps truce and trade war with china and fears of a recession after the us treasury yield curve inverted for the First Time Since 2007. The dow tumbled just short of 800 points, the s p lost 90, nasdaq averaged 283, the worst decline for the markets in eight weeks. Investors are spooked about how real the deal with china may be. Over the weekend after meeting with chinese president xi Jinping Donald trump called it an incredible deal but tonight he tweeted we are going to have a real deal with china or no deal at all. He also tweeted the china agreed to reduce tariffs on imports of us cars but china hasnt confirmed it and today his own chief economic adviser said thats not a done deal. They were at 15 and in retaliation raised it to 40. I think they will go to 0. In my view the presence expects them to go to 0. The tweet of the day was the president s declaration i am a tariff man. A reminder hes prepared to impose more tariffs if a deal cant be reached by the end of this 90 day truce. 90 days with progress on that and premature for people to lose faith in that process. Even if theres still no deal at the end of this 90 day deadline donald trump said he would be open to extending it if china and the us were on the path to making some real progress. Heather thank you very much. Clarity on what is happening in china trade, Donald Trumps policy influencing relations, the author of the 100 year marathon, the secret strategy to replace america as global superpower. Good to have you with us. You had a lengthy conversation with the president before he had into those talks with china. What do you make of his characterization coming out of those talks . 18 years in writing about china. He wrote a book called the america we deserve in the year 2000 laying out a plan changing the chinese Economic System to make it better for us to increase our own growth rate and increase jobs and they are the toughest negotiators in the world and the only way he could win would be to be unpredictable, put them off balance and he succeeded in doing that. He has been saying for two years president xi jinping and his wife, personal chemistry going on and at the same time he is like Good Cop Bad Cop so they come on and say things about china but in the relationship between president xi jinping and donald trump was on display in this meeting. I wasnt there so it is only secondhand what the chinese are saying which is quite different from the what the white house is saying. Shannon the headline was trumps of style tariff man issued china a warning. China has a reputation for making big promises and not fulfilling them. The mixer just china could be using this 90 day window to stall additional tariffs with their slowing economy. It is a possibility. This could be the greatest deal of the century donald trump is working on. The chinese are afraid of him and said several times hes the smartest president they ever dealt with all the way back to president nixon. It is possible donald trump has out negotiated Henry Kissingers talks with the chinese. On the other hand the downside is president xi jinping may face opposition when he gets back home. Member when chairman kim got home from singapore and people started getting killed because they are accused of opening with donald trump. That could be happening in china. Chinese press has been fascinated with these agreements. Theyve not mentioned anything. Todays the headline is about president xi jinping and panama. It is a little like saying this never happened. There was a nice dinner but we didnt make these concessions. They dont come out and say that. The key is donald trump promise out of respect to president bush and his funeral that he would wait for his own press conference to explain what happened after that so as soon as tomorrow afternoon and later this week, we will get Donald Trumps personal view of what happened. We may not get the chinese view for quite some time because they may have made concessions so great to donald trump that they dont want to tell their own people. Shannon we love that you are so dressed up. You look fantastic, thank you for coming in. Praise for George Hw Bush from Rush Limbaugh joining us to talk about his memories of the former president and why he thinks president obama may be offended this week. This isnt just any moving day. This is moving day with the best inhome wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. And this is moving day with Reliable Service appointments in a twohour window so youre up and running in no time. Show me decorating shows. This is staying connected with xfinity to make moving. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and twohour appointment windows. Click, call or visit a store today. Shannon the coverage of shannon coverage of president George Hw Bushs legacy has been mostly positive with some exceptions. Our next guest is the media never treated the president with this kind of civility when he was alive. Is whistling, Rush Limbaugh host of the Rush Limbaugh so show. Good to have you with this tonight. Pleasure to be with you, thanks for having me. Last time we talked about a couple headlines including one from the ap that had to be reworked and others with an immediate negative reaction, president bush 41, and in coming days we see a lot of finding and talking about bipartisanship, a different kind of republican. What is that all about . It is phony. They never treated him this way when he was president , they were vicious to him like they are vicious and partisan to every republican. It is just a vehicle to be able to contrast what they think trump is versus the way they are telling us bush was. They never treated george w. Bush this way or George Hw Bush this way. They had just as much animus for bush 41 and bush 43 as they do trump for Different Reasons but since the current objective is to get rid of donald trump however they can do it, driving down Public Opinion or muellers report and impeachment, anything they can do to contrast trump with what they say was the greatness and the way it out to be, every good republican in the medias idea loses. They celebrate bush because did he raise taxes . He was bipartisan. He went against the interests of his own party, that is what made him a good guy and it is phony, nothing but a vehicle for them to contrast this made up image they had of George Hw Bush. What they say now is true. All the class and dignity and sophistication but they never reported on him this way when he was president. Heather you interviewed him many times and spent time with him over the years, what do you make of this idea that he was a great compromiser, there was more bipartisanship than, do you think he works