Cannot possibly commit obstruction of justice and that he has a Broad Authority to pardon himself. This morning, trump tweeted he has the right to pardon himself but wouldnt because hes done nothing wrong. This comes after the president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani said in interviews the president might have the authority to pardon himself. Do you and the president s attorneys believe the president has the power to pardon himself. Hes not but he probably does. He has no intention of pardoning himself but he probably does. Its an interesting constitution argument. Can the president pardon himself . Jesse the white house also addressing the issue. The president s had have an absolute right to pardon myself. Why does he think that. Does he agree with Rudy Giuliani that a pardon for himself would be unthinkable and lead to immediate impeachment . Thankfully the president hasnt done anything wrong and wouldnt need a pardon. Does the president believe he is above the law . Certainly not. The president hasnt done anything wrong. Jesse 500 days, greg. Fair assessment, whether you agree with the policies are not. He has accomplished quite a bit. Greg i like to think of it as the fifth anniversary of his first 100 days. A lot of stuff has happened. I am not talking about the white house. I am talking about your life. The key is, life went on for everybody for this 500 days. If a trump critic has to admit your life either stayed the same or it got marginally to dramatically better. Thats pretty much the options here. But it didnt implode. According to the predictions, by now would have had a civil war. We would have had a nuclear war. We would have had a depression, perhaps asteroids would have hate. We have had peaceful prosperity. A people step outside their emotional bubble, they will see its a pretty good age to be in right now. And youriggest problem you have is a president that drives you crazy because you dont like his personality. You have prosperity, low unemployment, a strong economy, no isis, perhaps north korea actually becoming part of the world. Imagine if it was bad news. Imagine how the media the media is in a constant meltdown with good news. Imagine if things were actually bad. They would be we would have to institutionalize all of them. Jesse juan, are you sick of all the winning . Juan you are killing me. He is so popular. Stunningly popular. Hes not popular with the general populace, but hes very popular with republicans. I think thats whats keeping him afloat. Greg says everything is just great, so much accomplished. But i think this is our president who worries people. I think thats why people are concerned about him, and if y look at th accomplishment, his number one accomplishment i saw in the white house release was the tax cuts. Of course republicans dont even think they can run on tax cuts in the fall because they havent proven to be that popular. The second one is putting a conservative, neil gorsuch come on the Supreme Court. You won that one. I would give the credit to Mitch Mcconnell who saved that seat from merrick garland. Even on their tax cut, the deficit continues to rise incredibly. No progress on infrastructure which was a key promise. I could go on. But i think if you want, it feels to me like you say 500 days. Feels to me like wow, 500 years. Dana and juan had a week off. Kimberly so exhausted from winning. Juan the the thing that get me is the immigration stuff. Jesse we will get to that. Kimberly, the pardon situation. Legally that mightve been some gamesmanship. Looks like he got set up, Rudy Giuliani, on the question i didnt really know what to say. How do you see the pardon thing playing out . Kimberly you look at the nuance there. It poses an interesting constitutional question. Can that president pardon himself . Then he followed up with a tweet saying he can. Maybe he spoke to someone at said youre safe to go ahead and tweet that. But you dont want to get to that point, right, you dont want to suggest that would be necessary. You would say okay, i have done nothing wrong so i dont even have to get to the question of whether or not i can pardon myself. Because there will be nothing on the merits to suggest any kind of criminality on my part. Thats the messaging i would stick with. That is what he believes that he knows the facts and what transpired better than anybody in terms of what has gone on and thats probably the way to stick with it. You saw the press corps was saying does the president think hes above the law . You want to switch the discussion, give them the points to talk about and drive the messaging, talk about the economy, trumps golden age of th economy in terms of job numbers and things athat. Jesse to bring up the p word on prompted. Dana you mean pardon. Jesse thats what i meant, obviously. A day when everyone was talking about bill clinton and the lewinsky thing. He drove that out of the news cycle and now everyone is talking about pardons. Dana the white house brings this on themselves little bit. The president s tweets are driving the new cycle. When hes tweeting about it, you can bet people are going to talk about it. If you only want people to talk about the good things, tweet only about the good things. That would be helpful. I think its interesting that you have this Republican Congress for two years. Five months from tomorrow is the midterm. Right after that immediately you start the 2020 election. I think what is so interesting is that democrats kimberly here we go again. Dana democrats are so befuddled at this point. What do you do . All these good news things, if all of these good news point that happened during the obama administration, they wouldve touted them. Could be democrats are going to hav this time to step back and said. Politics is timing. Regroup. Fill out the ranks it was depleted. Figure out a way to try to get through them in terms of if they could flip the house, we will see. I think its, i guess its 50 50 at this point. Republicans are looking stronger. Democrats have spent 500 days not figuring out how they lost in 2016 which means they are behind in figuring that out because 2020 is going to be here before you know it. And i dont see how the roaring economy changes. I dont see how the Foreign Policy position changes. Unless there is some catastrophic event which hopefully there is not but we are better positioned to deal with. In the meantime, parties change. They evolve. Obviously thats whats happening with the Republican Party but the Republican Party has done that. That is pretty much over, and so the democrats are the ones now that are in a position of figuring out, who are we and what are going to be . Jesse they might have to reinvent themselves. Greg lets hope so. Thrats have the advantage in that they are out of power. All the time in the world to get back into power. Thats what youre supposed to do. Thats why, you know, carter was a reaction to nixon. Everyone is a reaction toion to. Somebody else. They spent the last three years in a tantrum. They have blown all of this time. I dont even think they have found anyone. Jesse what would be the reaction to donald trump. Could you imagine the opposite of donald trump . Greg good point. I am saying it would be somebody incredibly leftwing. You always see the pendulum shift. They might try he is undoing everything obama did. The next one is going to try to undo everything trump did. Jesse the opposite of trump is probably a female, hispanic, very polite librarian. Juan no, no. The thing is. I think youre right. The pendulum swings. But if a democrat was doing what trump is doing, lets say this weekend, put this business about that in that letter it was acknowledged that he had dictated this letter about don trump, jr. s meeting at trump tower with this russian lawyer. We had heard from Trump Officials that wasnt true, repeatedly, from Sarah Huckabee sanders, jay sekulow, and others. Now it comes out we were lied to and i think if obama did Something Like that, jesse, i think you would be standing on this table, brother. He would be screaming about obama. Greg that light isnt even close to benghazi. Blame it on a movie. Jesse he lied about a letter, not dead ambassadors. Juan we have a situation where the Republican Party has consolidated around trump. He has made the Republican Party into the trump party. That is what has changed in 500 days. Greg the Democrat Party became the obama party. Juan i dont think thats the case. Jesse as you said, they were decimated on the state and local level. Kimberly in terms of the accomplishments of the first 500 days, the economy. People having a difficult time going against bill clinton when the economy and the numbers were good. Whats the antithesis of that . Undo the economic numbers, jobs . Hey, isis, they need a candidate to try to bring something forward. Juan i think it is the opposite. Its the polar political. Thats bernie sanders. Kimberly they already tried that. Greg old white guy. Juan the tax cut benefited the rich. Bernie sanders would say tax cuts that benefit workingclass people. Education for young people. Kimberly you are looking at someone like a kamala harris, strong candidate. Juan a woman. Kimberly absolutely. In terms of what shes stands for and somebody who isnt the same candidate run through the rinse cycle one more time. Jesse juan is still feelinhe burn after 500 days. Speculation about the first ladys whereabouts hits over drives. Greg has that next vo at pro plan, we believe nutrition is full of possibilities to improve your pets life. We are redefining what nutrition can do. Because the possibility of a longer life and a better life is the greatest possibility of all. Purina pro plan. Nutrition that performs. Greg yesterday as cnn became nosy, detestable neighbor from bewitched. Jamming up phony concern only to spread malicious gossip. Check out this tweet from our nations hall monitor. If any first lady disappeared, you would want to know where she is. To justify the odious premise, he first had to create the premise. If any first lady disappeared, and so begins a trojan horse for a ghoulish game all to push a phony cnn segment. Instead of saying is melania missing . Ed their segment as how the media is covering melanias absence. So they are cing how t e covering it. I guess we should cover how they are covering how they are covering it. The white house has been quiet about Melania Trump and her status. We saw her tweet the other day. The first time we caught a glimpse of her, the last time we caught a glimpse of her was on may 10. I wonder if somebody is guiding that kind of tweet from her. It doesnt seem like her, at least the image she has had in her engagement with the press. If the first lady or the person standing in for the first lady disappeared, you want to know where she is. Greg they even had a chart. How sophisticated. The speculation fueled and less guessing games. The pleasure many found and hoping someone was wrong something was wrong with the first lady and cloaking it in some kind of concern. N, newsweek , the ghouls barely have any humanity left. Just when you think you hit the bottom of the cesspool, more cesspool. Some even suggested trump beat melania. Trappen their own prison of pain since 2016, their misery only six company. Jeff zucker must be spinning in his grave, if he wasnt alive and well. Or is he . Has anyone seen him . See what i did there . Dana, this is what people do on sundays. There are people sitting around tweeting about if trump, has trump beat melania. Dana its really gross. Number one the media was upset about any questions about Hillary Clintons health during the campaign command that that was out of fans. But she did faint. She wanted to be the president of the united states. She is not an elected person, the first lady, she can do whatever she wan i hope she is wel it would be more bel if they really cared how she was. Greg i dont think they care. The thing that gets me is that camouflage, just worried about her. No, you are not. Yout even like her. Jesse last week they were making all sorts of disgusting commentary now they are so concerned about her health. Wondering where melania is an not wondering where isis is. Dont you think they would spill some ink over that . Trump made isis disappear. Melania hasnt gone anywhere. Peter strzok went missing. They havent shoved a camera in his face, seems like the media might want answers about his whereabouts. She had kidney surgery three weeks ago. An invasive and delicate procedure. Im sure she wants to come back on her own terms at her own time, and thats fine. Trumps marriages have always been subject to tabloid fodder. It is good ink. People profit off it. She is not the most, she doesnt speak a lot publicly. There is a vacuum there and she doesnt have a robust p. R. Machine. They fill the void with these speculations and narratives that have no connection to reality. I think it shows a disrespect of the first family. Last time it was ivanka, then melania. They dont respect them like they used to. Greg greg juan, is thisr example, because this is so much good news, you have to go after the first lady because she might be recuperating or maybe she just likes to do whatever the hell she wants. Juan i dont follow twitter the way you do but i dont know that theres any antipathy toward her. I havent seen that. Greg you havent seen anyone making fun of her accent . Juan people have said that. People question her health because they didnt know much about this. Subsequently, anyone who is sick, you have to have some sympathy for them. The big question here is, she is supposed to have an event today forold star fs. They closed it to the press. At some point, when you are in power and you start to keep the press out, the press is like, whats going on . I think thats what youre getting. You want to attack the press for this . I think at the white house was transparent and said you know what, she is 48. She had surgery. She wants to have a rest. Maximizing everybody in america would say god bless her. I hope she is recovering well. Greg you havent looked at the tweets. They talked about her getting beaten up. Juan why is anybody saying that . Greg because they are awful people and i wont mention their names. They will not be mentioned on the five, but you can look them up. Kimberly its really disrespectful. Its a serious medical condition. She had to get the kidney embolization, visited walter reed. Perhaps she needs time to recover and get back on her feet. She has a very stressful job because she is not treated well in the press to begin with. There is an emotional, psychological strain in our physical toll on her body. Shes a mother of a young son, and so shes going to spend time as well with him, quite worried about his mom. S the point, they acted like she was like a missing person. Greg this white house is the most desperate thing in the history of history. We know everything. Dana they make fun of it for being a reality show but they think this is part of the act. They are hiding melania from you so you cant see her. It has to become part of the story line or something. Kimberly and feign concern. When they arent actually concerned. If they cared, they would respect privacy and let her get better instead of making a mockery of ike she is a missing persons alert on a milk carton. Greg coming up, bill clinton. He could have been the first lady. Creating new controversies with his comments on monica, the media, and more. Next. Her salon was booked for weeks, until her laptop crashed this morning. Having it problems . Ask a business advisor how to get on demand tech support for as little as 15 a month. Get your coupon for 20 off supplies, technology and furniture at office depot office max. Whos already won three cars, two motorcycles, a boat, and an r. V. I would not want to pay that insurance bill. [ ding ] oh, i have progressive, so i just bundled everything with my home insurance. Saved me a ton of money. Love you, gary you dont have to buzz in. Its not a question, gary. On march 1, 1810 [ ding ] frederic chopin. Collapsing in 226 [ ding ] the colossus of rhodes. [ sighs ] Louise Dustmann [ ding ] brahms lullaby, or wiegenlied. When will it end . [ ding ] not today, ron. Dana 20 years after the scandal that led to his impeachment, bill clinton ignites a new controversy. While responding to questions about his affair with monica lewinsky, the former president makes a surprising revelation during the contentious interview on the today show. Did you ever apologize . Nobody believes i got of that debt free. I left the white house 16 million in debt. But you typically have ignored gaping facts. I bet you dont even know them. I asked if you apologize. I apologize to everybody in the world. Dana 20 years and not a day has gone by that you have not thought about the clintons. Not just you. All of us. Greg what did het on this book tour . The questions are going to be about his breezy beach read . His writers process . If Anthony Weiner came out with a cookbook, do you think the questions are going to be about the risotto . I would love to move on. Everybody would love to move on but you cant move on if the clintons dont move on. If the clintons are still in the public consciousness, then we have every reason to go remember thats 20 years ago. I agree with him on one point. He got away with a lot of things, a lot of things. I dont think he got away with monica. He will be known forever for that thing, its a scar on his life. And the lies he told after. There were other things he got away with that the media doesnt question. Dana do you think this book, the book is a collaboration with James Patterson. He had to do and after the show show taping after the briefing. James patterson has sold world. Llion books around the this would have been a best seller even if bill clinton didnt do any interviews but they decided to do it. You probably cant be surprised by the questions. Juan im not sure if he is surprised. I think the interviews. Its been in the news and theres so much sexual scandal. I dont see how you get away from the question. The question was quite direct. I felt James Patterson looked like he was a hostage there. Dana im just the author. Juan clinton goes on to add, he says if this was a democrat in the oval office right now, impeachment proceedings would already be underway. He fires back and says dont forget i did pay a price. Even greg says thats the case. If it was today, he thinks that somehow trump is not paying that price. Dana jesse, is part of that the decision the democrats made in the 1990s for how t