beginning. >> now you tell me. >> well, it's over now. >> we're done, right, tom? >> oh, no, no. >> range is hot. >> i think you killed the mountain. >> oh, my god. it's so hot. >> yeah, it's hot. it's a flame thrower. >> he is such a sport. go richard. we'll be back here at 10:00 eastern. "smerconish" starts right now. >> i'm michael smirk in philadelphia. a softened president trump gave a well received speech to congress but the afterfollow was

short lived. after a rough week of russian accusations, this morning president trump went on a twitter rant accusing his predecessor of wiretapping trump tower and comparing presidents obama and nixon. now attorney general jeff sessions who met with the russian ambassador despite denying it at his hearing, has recused himself from investigating russian meddling. on monday he'll supplement his testimony. the man he met who also called michael flynn his job, "the new york times" calling the most prominent yet radioactive ambassador in washington. who is sergey kislyak. the nation's explainer-in-chief, "new york times'" thomas l. friedman is here with a new book to put it in context. farewell to legendary coach, mike pettine, senior. >> nobody looks down on us.

we'll respect them all the way till we kick their ass. >> allow me to give you some lessons learned from the bench. but first, you know my track record when it comes to the president. i was wrong about him ever running, wrong about him filling out even the most basic financial disclosures, wrong about the impact of the comments concerning john mccain as a p.o.w., wrong about the result of the "access hollywood" tape and wrong about the outcome of the election. the best i can say is i've been consistent. but then came this week. trump hampered by poll numbers that show him to be the least popular new president told fox news he gave himself only a c or c plus for messaging. i said he would try a new approach and said so on sirius xm radio. i predicted he'd soften his tone and five things he would not say on tuesday night, fake news, dishonest media, electoral college, inaugural crowd, rigged.

later i added hillary clinton to the list. well, i was six for six. he said none of those things. it was a different donald trump and it worked. for one day, wednesday, the president basked in positive coverage. in fact, the release of a new immigration order was postponed to extend the glow. but then on thursday came two blockbuster stories. "the washington post" reported that jeff sessions had met with the russian ambassador twice last year after having claimed he hadn't, and "the new york times" reported that the obama administration officials had acted to preserve evidence of the russian effort to undermine our election, worried that the trump staff would try to erase it. the first of the stories had jeff sessions recusing himself. there are calls for investigation into contact between trump associates and russians. now the question becomes whether

we'll again see the softer president trump who spoke to congress and the nation tuesday night or if he'll resort to attack mode against the media that again exposed this burgeoning story. recently he's been aiming his fodder at democratic critics instead of the press. first senator schumer and congresswoman pelosi. then this morning, a twitter rant where he went after president obama. terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found is mccarthyism. is it legal for a sitting president to be wiretapping a race for president prior to an election, turned down by a court earlier, a new low. the president's allegations are apparently based on previous reports by radio provocateur mark levin. >> how many phone calls by donald trump, if any, have been entintercepted by the obama administration and recorded by

the obama administration and all the other transition officials involved in foreign policy and national security and defense policy? this, ladies and gentlemen, is the real scandal. >> by following that lead, i suspect president trump's return to bomb baft and contradiction of his demeanor tuesday night will overshadow whatever gain came from his conciliatory side. in that "new york times" story regarding the actions of obama officials to preserve evidence of russian activity, it was reported that senator ben cardin, was provided a classified carb of state department documents regarding russian efforts to intervene in elections worldwide. in this exclusive tv interview senator cardin joins me now. first, react to the twitter rant of the president this morning including blaming president for bugging trump tower. >> michael, first, good to be with you. a couple points here, we need to

first find out why attorney general sessions was meeting with the russian ambassador, what took place during that meeting that was right during the time that russia was very active of interfering with our campaign. senator sessions at that point was a surrogate for the trump campaign. it's important that we understand exactly what russia was up to in meeting with senator sessions and what took place at that meeting. it's also important to have an independent investigation. obviously the president is going to interpret things one way. i might interpret things a second way. it's important for the american people to have an independent investigation of what russia did in attacking us in our free elections, the contacts they had with many americans, how that came about. what was the relationship, if any, with the trump campaign. all that really needs to be done by an independent commission. i've filed legislation to create it. i think there's more and more momentum to get that done sooner rather than later so the american people can get an independent evaluation here.

>> let me show you one of those tweets from this morning, senator. terrible, just found out obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. do you know if a court has played any role whatsoever in the information that has been gleaned thus far? as a civilian, it occurs to me i've been reading and hearing about transcripts of the conversation between kislyak and michael flynn by way of illustrati illustration. in order for there to be a transcript, somebody was listening. if there were an american on that line, wouldn't fisa had to be involved? >> there are certainly legal protections in all these areas. rather than getting the president's interpretation of what he thinks happened, why not an independent investigation? i'm for including all this. let the independent commission look at the entire aspect of what russia is doing here in the united states including how we responded. but you're absolutely correct. if there is anything like what he's tweeting about, it would be

under supervision of the courts. >> well, which would mean someone had met a probable cause standard before the fisa court to be able to get permission to listen to a discussion like that, isn't that true? >> absolutely. that's why we have the fisa courts. the executive branch cannot act on its own. it must get the consent of a court before they can do those types of activities. >> so i learned in the thursday times that you made a request to the state department, you wanted to have information about this russian issue, for lack of a better description, and information was provided to you close in time to january 20. what, if anything, senator, did you read into the timing of when you received that information? did you think that the obama administration was trying to make sure you had all the bread crumbs? >> i'm the ranking democrat of the senate foreign relations committee. i have responsibility of oversight as to what is happening. we were very concerned about

russia's engagement in the united states. we knew about that during that period of time. i made a normal request to the state department to supply information to the senate foreign relations committee in regards to russia's contact to the united states. they supplied documents to me that was made available to both the democratic and republican staff members of the senate foreign relations committee. they marked that information classified, so i cannot tell you what was in that information. i can tell you in my response it was not changed by the information that was made available. we already had a lot of public information out there. >> okay. respecting the fact that it's classified information, can you nevertheless tell me whether you're concerned that there was a worldwide effort, not just in the united states, but by virtue of the information you provided, are you worried there was a worldwide effort by russia to intervene, not only in our election, but in the elections of several nations? >> i think that's beyond question. they clearly were interfering in the u.s. election. that's been verified by numerous

sources. they tried to use fake news and influence our election. they tried to undermine the integrity of our elections, they explored ways to understand how we record and count votes. there's no indication that they tried to change any votes mechanically, but they did invade the cyber activities of how we conduct elections. yes, they were active in month neg grow. we know that for sure, causing violence during their parliamentary election. they're very active right now in western europe. russia is trying to use our democratic system of government to undermine our democratic system of government. they're anxious to discredit free and fair elections. >> does it strain credulity that ambassador kislyak came to the office of senator sessions in the midst of the fall election and that they didn't talk about the campaign for president?

>> my own view is that the visit by the russian ambassador, he was going to use that as an opportunity to get as much information as he could to the russian government about our elections. i can't tell you what senator sessions emote investigation was. it can't tell you what the purpose of that meeting was. we need to know that. i can tell you how the russians operate. they use every opportunity to get intelligence information for their purposes. at that time they were trying to attack the integrity of the u.s. elections. >> senator cardin, thanks so much for being here. >> my pleasure. thank you. what are your thoughts? tweet me. here is an early one. hit me with it. smerconish, you are spot on this morning, he's gone back to being himself. his speech writing isn't proofing his tweets. i thought he was very effective tuesday night. it seems in the span of 72 hours we've got the prior donald trump. up next, when we found out he met with michael flynn, flynn

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so who is russian ambassador sergey kislyak, the man at the center of the flynn and sessions scandals? as i tweeted, the only public servant who seems to be effective in his job these days is comrade kislyak. how do we get him on our team? the man is ubiquitous. we can only hope our own diplomats are networking as effectively as this guy. vladimir putin's man in washington, 66-year-old kislyak, is usually sequestered in a hill above washington, d.c. but he's been thrust into the spotlight because of his role in several meetings that renewed concerns about president trump's ties with russia. he was in attendance at the president's speech this week as he was at trump's first foreign policy campaign speech last april. it was kislyak's conversations with national security adviser michael flynn that led to flynn being forced to quit, and his two meetings with then senator jeff sessions caused the attorney general to recuse himself from investigations into whether russia meddled in u.s.

elections. this week it also came out he met in december at trump tower with flynn and trump's son-in-law, jared kushner. some say he's actually a spy. who is sergei kislyak? joining me, nicholas burns, former undersecretary of state for political affairs. he worked for both presidents bush and clinton and now is a professor at harvard's kennedy school. give us some insight, because you've actually negotiated with the man. >> well, sergey kislyak is a long-time russian diplomat, a physicist, nuclear arms expert. i worked with him when he was -- i was ambassador to nato and he was the russian ambassador to the nato alliance. they actually had a mission there. i worked with him when i was undersecretary of state and he was deputy foreign minister. he's highly intelligent and experienced, always very well prepared for meetings. he is no friend of the united

states. he's cynical about the united states, aggressive towards the united states, he does not wish us well. i always considered him to be an adversary of our country. i think, michael, as you look at this wider story, the real story here is that president trump has been excusing the behavior of vladimir putin. president trump has not criticized putin's annexation of crimea. he has mused that we should just lift the sanctions imposed on putin for his grand larceny in crimea. this soft position of president trump contradicts the policy of every american president since truman. that's the core of the substantive problem, the weak patrol sees of president trump towards russia. >> is it fair to say that this would be the most important posting for a russian foreign diplomat, and that for him to be in this position absolutely means he speaks and he acts for vladimir putin? >> i think there's no question about that.

for the russians and for most countries around the world to be appointed ambassador to washington is the senior job in that country's diplomatic service. kislyak has had a very long career, approaching i think 40 years. obviously he's a senior diplomat. he speaks for sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister and speaks for vladimir putin. >> is he a diplomat or is he a spy? >> well, it's always hard to know with some countries, especially the russians because president put is a former spy. once a spy, always a spy. kislyak has been a diplomat for a long time. we have to have our eyes open when we deal with the russians. they are adversaries of ours. the russians are trying to defeat the united states and limit the united states and they have been for well over a decade since president putin turned against president george w. bush back in '06 and '07 and throughout the obama presidency. you have to understand they don't wish us well. we have to defend our own

country. michael, i take you back to all these contacts that the trump campaign apparently had with the russian government. the major point is we have a president who is very weak toward russia. we have to have a strong policy. president obama deployed nato troops into eastern europe. those are the critical things to look at, will president trump try to weaken our policy. >> president trump would say, look, i'm looking for a strong partner to eradicate isis from the face of the globe. take just 15 seconds and respond to that. >> the russian government is not fighting isis. the russian government has been bombing innocent civilians in aleppo. they won't be our friend on isis or a good partner. we don't need them to do that. >> mr. ambassador, thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. still to come, "the new york times" thomas friedman, the man

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so how might the 2007 arrival of the iphone, the android, the kindle have set the stage for the rise of populist politicians around the globe and the 2016 election of donald trump? the nation's explainer-in-chief, thomas friedman, "new york times" foreign affairs columnist who gave us hch the world is flat." he has a new bestseller "thank you for being late, an optimist's guide to excelling in the age of -- what's the

significance to you listening to brandy carlisle and talking about hurricanes? >> my book is about the world being reshaped by three giant accelerations in what i call the market, mother nature and law. the market is digital globalization. if you put it on a graph, mother nature is climate change and population. moors law is technology. they're all accelerating at a fast pace we've never experienced at the same time. brandy carlisle wrote a song which i think is really the song of our time called the eye, e-y-e. its mainframe is i wrapped your love around me like a chain but i never was afraid it would die. you can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye. my three accelerations are like a hurricane. i think president trump is selling a wall against the hurricane as are leaders elsewhere. i'm actually selling an eye, the eye is the healthy community where people can move with the storm, draw energy from it, but

create a platform of dynamic stability within it, the healthy community where people can feel connected, protected and respected. the great struggle in politics going forward is going to be between the wall people and the eye people. my book is really a manifesto for the eye people. >> i don't think you set out, as i read the book, i was thinking to myself, tom friedman didn't set out to explain the rise of populism necessarily, but what i took away from it is this, we all love the technological advances that make our lives easier, but also brings about a great feeling of uncertainty. it's a hell of a fast ride for all of us, and some are unsettled, a and politically speaking, donald trump and others have been able to tap into the uncertainty that some are feeling about the world in which we live. how did i do with the thesis? >> you did really well. that's a perfect condensation of what i'm saying.

one of my favorite quotes in the book, michael, is from a congressman from minnesota who talked about growing up in minnesota where i grew up in the '50s, '60s, '70s. he said if you were a white male growing up in minnesota, you needed a plan to fail. there was so much updraft of blue collar and white collar work. my uncle worked as a loan officer in a bank back then and he only had a high school degree. what happened as a result of these accelerations is that the demands for every middle class job got pulled up. the thing that sustained the american middle class in the 60s 70s 80s, you could get high wages for middle skills, that got completely wiped out. there's a lot of people today who are feeling the effects of that. now you need a plan to succeed. as i explained in the book, you have to update it every four years. >> is it possible to harness, to channel that angst that comes from the pace of change for a

positive purpose? if so, what do we do with it? >> really good question. i think it's a challenge for the democratic party, to acknowledge that angst and to affirm why people are feeling that way, but try to take it in a positive direction. and i have a chapter in the book called how we turn ai into ia. how we turn artificial intelligence into intelligence assistance. the core is built around at&t's human resources department, how everyone has to become a lifelong learner. so the days when you could go to college for four years or two years and then dine out on that for 30 years, that body of knowledge, that's all over now. if you want to be a lifelong employee at cnn, "the new york times" or general motors, you now have to be a lifelong learner. >> i'd be derelict in my duty if i didn't get tom friedman to react to the news of the day which is a twitter rant initiated by president trump. put up on the screen, katherine, some of what the president has

been up to this morning. terrible, just found out obama had my wires tapped in trump tower just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthyism. just out, the same russian ambassador that met jeff sessions visited the obama white house 22 times, four times last year alone. next, is it legal for a sitting president to be wiretapping a race for president prior to election? turned down by court earlier. a new low. finally, i'll bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that president obama was tapping my phones in october just prior to election. the audience that you're talking about in the book who are unsettled by the pace of change, does this somehow play into the concerns and the anxiety feelings that they have? >> absolutely. what's so disturbing about it, michael -- i can't speak to whether the obama administration tapped president trump during the campaign. i don't know what the facts are. one reason i don't know the facts is because he hasn't presented them. he's made an allegation. he could as easily woken up in mar-a-lago and said i just saw a

ufo go over. what disturbs me about ha is two things. one, it's not only not presidential to make such a dramatic allegation, that your predecessor tapped your phones during the campaign, that's not even adult behavior. if you're going to make that allegation, you come out with the head of the fbi, cia, nsa, you say here's the facts. as some people suspect, he took it from a breitbart story which is harrowing. the larger point for you as a citizen and me as a citizen, in this age of acceleration, smaller records in navigation can have huge consequences. it's like we're flying in a 747. as the pilot, you enter one digit of data wrong in your navigation, you can end up wildly off course really quickly. the pain of getting back on course can be enormously challenging. that's what worries me right now. >> if my head is filled with cynicism because i've lost my job and i'm blaming nafta and i think mexico now is

manufacturing the goods that i should be, and along comes this simplistic explanation that says, obama was tapping the trump tower, it makes it more palatable. it gives me something where i can say, yeah, damn it, that's the sort of thing going on today, right? >> there's no question. what people hunger for most, michael, and the reason i think they took a chance on trump is something -- my friend don pointed this out to me, a communications director for the clinton administration. he said people didn't really want change, they want help. this is what i find in going out and talking to communities about my book. people are desperate for navigation. yes, you can give them a sugar high by directing them here or there or feeding their anger, but the end of the day, the solutions to this challenge of the american worker today, we've got to get a million things right, and most of those things that we have to get right, and this is really the core of the book, actually are based in

communities. if you ask me who is doing what -- you want to be an optimist? stand own your head. our country looks so much better from the bottom up than the top down. we have a lot of communities getting it right. it takes a really adaptive coalition, business, philanthropies, public schools, public leaders to build these adaptive organisms. this kind of quick fix, i'm going to build a wall, i'm going to go to carrier and pressure them to keep the jobs, that's not going to do it, not when you're up against the forces of acceleration that are corrupting us. >> if they ever bottle water from st. louis park, minnesota, i'm buying it. i'm not going to tell people why. they'll have to buy the book to read it. thank you so much for being here. >> thank you. really a treat to be with you. >> the book is titled "thank you for being late. th wrrk wrsh thomas l. friedman is the author. what are you thinking from at which timer? >> smerconish, pardon me, the

real story is the obama conspiracy to destroy president trump. star fish rising, let me say this as a lawyer, if there are transcripts of a conversation between senator sessions and ambassador kislyak, somebody was listening, somebody on our side was listening. jeff sessions is an american. and for an american to be wiretapped and listened to and not have that end -- the communication immediately ended tells me perhaps somebody obtained a warrant by making a showing of probable cause meaning there could be smoke. how about if i put it in that language. still to co-why exactly did russia seek to involve itself in our election? we'll run through the possibilities from the benign to the most malignant. and although i spent most of my time on the bench, he was my football coach, one of the most successful in the nation, and although i didn't realize it at the time, a life coach as well. i want to tell you about mike pettine, senior.

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for the latest, joining me now two is who have written on that, perry bacon, junior, senior political writer of the 538.com, and juliette kayyem, host of the skiff podcast and national security analyst for cnn. perry, i thought you did a real nice job of laying out the three possible scenarios. briefly, what are they? >> what i was trying to describe is a question about why were the russians talking to the trump campaign during the campaign. the three ideas i laid out were, one, the most serious one, somehow the trump campaign and the russians were colluding, the hacking was authorized by the trump campaign. that's the most serious one. the other idea what jeff sessions said, basically these contacts were incidental, there was no real meaning to them, sessions said i meet with ambassadors all the time. the third answer would be, this was about policy, namely that

donald trump wanted to change our policy and real lean with the russians in some way. the meetings were about that policy shift. >> juliette, you say, don't expect a smoking gun in figuring out which of perry's three alternatives with the real one. >> right. what perry describes is excellent. remember, what we learned this week is only one piece of a much larger puzzle. we tend to think of investigations as, oh, they'll be a smoking gun. they really are more like a spectrum. evidence keeps falling across the spectrum from the benign. it's not really benign, but that russia acted alone in terms of our campaign and the election. two, there was collusion between trump or trump people and the russians to get him to be president. and the evidence this week is i would say somewhat damning. put it in the context of all the other stuff. flynn, carter page, roger stone

sort of signaling there's going to be wikileaks, the lying about these meetings, which is leading a lot of us who worked there three months ago, toward -- collusion is a little strong. but it's hard to explain all this activity in a way that makes the trump administration or his odd assortment of after fill at as innocent. >> juliette, will you react to president trump's twitter rant this morning, where he's talking about president obama -- by the way, president obama doesn't have the lethal authority to do what president trump says he did. the whole notion that trum tower was bugged. >> first of all, thank you for pointing that out. one of the reasons why obama could not put a wiretap on trump is because of watergate and the fisa court would be the determining in that case tore in whether the wiretap was allowed, and there would have to have been probable cause. i can't answer to you whether

there was some surveillance going on in trump tower related to a real investigation. i will say, as relates to the tweets, if there is any evidence you want that we need an independent investigation at this stage, it is that the president of the united states may be leaking information he knows from his intelligence briefing. leaking is the wrong word. he may be tweeting them out. i woke up this morning thinking, i can't even imagine anyone has a straight face argument to not have an independent investigation. trump is leaking or he's whining of conspiracy theories. in either case, it's time. >> perry, i gave the president credit for a well executed speech on tuesday night. it was a more conciliatory, a softer version of president trump. doesn't seem like that's going to last given the twitter feed this morning. >> right. i think it couldn't last because this news on thursday was so

damning. these stories were so strong and so well sourced and so potentially could change the presidency. the other thing i would say about the tweets today is donald trump is not answering the central question. the central question is why were your associates talking to the russians during the election cycle particularly while the russians were hacking our election. if donald trump could give an answer to that broad question, it would reduce some of these stories. right now he's saying -- his staff and his aides keep saying these contacts didn't happen at all and it turns out they're lying. trump has to figure out how does he address the broader narrative or the stories will keep dogging his presidency. >> right. where's the evidence we were having similar with the french or the brits. perry bacon, 538 blog, great job. juliette kay yam, the skiff podcast. thank you both.

here is what some of you are thinking at my twitter page. your bias against trump is blatant. instead of dealing with wiretap allegations, you attack trump. local man, i am not biased. i am fair. i just said to my guests, let's be fair to the president and look at it from his perspective. i think it's diversionary. his focus has been all on the way in which we learn information instead of focusing on the sum and substance of that information. for example, mike flynn would still be the national security adviser if that information about his meeting with sergey kislyak was bogus. the president focuses and follows on how we learned the information instead of dealing with the reality, although he did give him his walking paper. up next, i was a third string quarterback in high school, but my coach was a four-time state champion who taught me and thousands of others about a lot more than football.

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and you are looking in on one of the legendary coaches. >> you talked about mike's career. he's in his 32nd year at head coach. >> you're talking about a guy that's won 310 ball games in his career and lost only 42. and is looking for his third championship here in the '90s.

>> those scenes are from a fabulous documentary called "the last game" about legendary pennsylvania mike pattine seen yo yor. 326 wins, just 42 losses and four ties. four state champions across 33 seasons. producing many collegiate and even pro players before he retired in 1999. at one point in the 1980s his teams had won 55 games in a row. his ability to mentor was underscored when his son was hired at age 47 to be head coach of the cleveland browns. his true legacy is the effect that he had on the many young men that he coached including yours truly. let me give you the view from the bench. my name never rose higher than third string in the two years that i played for the coach.

if i had any doubt as to my standing, i was always able to consult the depth chart that hung in the locker room. long before the age where everybody got a trophy, there was no ambiknew tee about where you stood on the squad. i don't if a coach starting today could succeed in his mold. he was not for the faint of heart. he was a drill sergeant. intense. vocal. >> this is it, baby. that's it. coach, it's my turn. i want to see your heads up. why is anybody look at the floor? we're not going to be a good football team. nobody looks down on us. we'll respect them all the way until we kick their ass. >> but the examples that he set for his players turnout to have affected me for the rest of my life. he valued the sort of things that you see on those posters

they sell in airline magazines. hard commitment. organization. preparation. discipline. see, there was never any secret sauce in the football dynasty. he won by executing the basics. he was the warren buffett of high school football. to the extent that i've had any success in my life, it has been by following the playbook. but don't take the word of this bench warmer. consider the perspective of a superstar. there was no shame in my standing as the number three given who the number one was. kevin ward. nationally in the high school graduating class of 1979, there were three quarterbacks coveted by major colleges. dan marine no, john elway, and kevin ward. after being recruited by notre dame and penn state, ward shows the university of arizona because he was able to play both football and baseball. he ended up concentrating on

baseball. he led the back 10 in hitting his junior year, then spent eight and a half years in the minor leagues. had to overcome two injuries before finally full filing his dream of playing major league baseball. when he made it as a san diego padre. you know who was there to watch him. the coach. who stood outside a player as locker room just to tell kevin ward how proud he was. ward told me the coach knew i'd never give up. and that was the part of him that was out there with me on that major league field. and ward having played sports from the sand lot to professional level regards him as his greatest coach. today more than three decades later i can picture him standing on the practice field in his trademark baseball cap with wide frameless lenses, whistle around his neck, clipboard in his hand yelling things like get him out of here or who can't go, who

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he tweeted me at smerconish, what do we have? i think someone has to explain the issue that donald trump won and the democrats lost. i think as americans we need to know exactly how he won. that's all i'm advocating. one more. it says as a resident, thank you for revealing to the world about our legendary coach. steve, it was the most pleasant pleasurable commentary i've ever delivered at cnn. thank you for watching. see you next week. always good to have you on board with us. i'm cristi paul. >> i'm mark savage. i'm in for victor blackwell. >> good to have you