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action that the president labels a witch hunt. >> no evidence of that in the president's athletic. >> what did white house aides share with a leading house republican? >> we are not going to be distracted. >> with one month to the 100-day mark, the president lashes out at conservatives. >> we were excited when donald trump said he was going to come and help us drain the swamp, but he is listening to people in the swamp. >> it's supreme court showdown time. >> this is no neutral down the middle judge. >> "inside politics," the biggest stories sourced by the best reports now. welcome. i'm john king. to our views in the united states and around the world, thanks for sharing your time this sunday. if you follow president trump's twitter feed, you already know what he thinks of the investigations into russian meddles. did his associates coordinate

with the kremlin in the campaign and is one trying to influence the investigations now. the tweet storm called it on fake, phony a total scam the president said on saturday. on friday witch hunt was his label of choice and after that michael flynn is seeking immunity deal in exchange for his testimony to the house and the senate intelligence committees. lashing out is a trump trademark. we all know that and so is misdirection. his tweets blame the democrats and media. remember, this past week included this from the republican who lead the senate intelligence committee on that question of possible collusion. >> we know that our challenges to answer that question for the american people. this investigation scope will go wherever the intelligence lead it. >> reporter: also this pat past week this from the fbi director who also remembered this made his name as a republican appointed prosecutor. >> now we are not fools. i know when i make a hard decision a storm is going to

follow but, honestly, i don't care. >> with us to share the reporting and their insight is maggie haberman of "the new york times" and jackie of daily beast and abbey of "the washington post." i want to start with this question. we are, believe it or not, one month to 100 days which some consider an artificial deadline but washington tries to keep score. how much is this constant focus russia investigations, pushback, new developments, anger at the white house that we are even covering this story? how much is it affecting this president's ability to get stuff done? >> quite a bit. look. the issue and to your point, he's good at misdirection and we hear about that a lot. there has been a big thorough in washingt -- theory in washington every time the president tweets is a distraction from something else and saying you're burning your hand to distract from the burning ear. this is not good when he calls attention to this. when he characterize it sounds like he is talking about the entire story.

we know there was a hacking and that 17 different divisions of the intelligence community say that this was done with a high degree of relative high in one case degree of confidence by russia and that this was done to help elevate his campaign. he sound like he is dismissing that you have when he does this. the white house has been unable to get out of its own way on this. part of that, as you know, is that this president, when he feels like he is under attack, he attacks back. but now he is punching at ghosts and hitting himself in the face. >> i try to -- okay. listen to what they say. nothing nefarious happens and just meetings. however we ask for months how many meetings did your have in meetings and the president says no and then find out some and jared kushner met with the ambassador and only made public in your newspaper, i believe. jared met with a close adviser to putin and only told about it

after somebody else knew about it. speaking fees and other money michael flynn took from russian interests. he knew was this a big story when he took the job. that doesn't mean anything nefarious happen but it makes you wonder. >> that is the thing. in terms of not able to get out of their own way. if it was just the tweets maybe they could move past it. it's not. quick sand. the more they thrash the deeper they go go into this and the more we find out more information like the michael flynn not claiming money he made from speech on his disclosure forms as you had it raises more questions than it answers. that is a trend throughout this investigation and throughout this issue with russia. something else comes up and it doesn't answer any questions. >> trump is also creating a lot of problems for himself. remember this whole wiretapping thing was created just because he wanted to respond. he opened up a whole new avenue of problems for his administration which this week we learned has stretched into three white house aides giving

information essentially and house intelligence committee chairman putting his credibility into question. really opening a pandora's box of problems just because the president wanted to maybe it was misdirection or maybe it was just to fire back at his critics. when you create new problems for yourself that is hurting yourself. >> to that point he is now seizing one much his tweets yesterday and look at fox news and breitbart he is seizing on a fox news report that anonymously quotes a high ranking official who says someone very senior in the obama administration a known person in the intelligence commute unmasked spread these reports trump transition official picked up on some surveillance and perfectly legal and masking them disclosing their names and that would be very unusual. they say this happened. well, no one else is able to confirm that report, number one. number two, i would make this point. if that is the case, if there was a serious irresponsible reckless effort in the obama administration to spread this

stuff around the president has the power to declassify these documents and make this go away like that. instead we get this back and forth. he could end this in a minute and if he wanted to protect himself he could bring in an establishment of people from priority administration and say help us make the case we are not nuts. i'm skeptical. >> when yoremind me of the wors chapters in the intelligence wars back before the iraq war when stuff was leaked to the papers and then bush officials would go on tv and say, ah-ha! it's in the paper. you have sketchily source report on fox news nobody else has confirmed and the president tweeting about it as if he is not the president of the united states. and it's not actually his government. >> but his echo chamber they say we are ignoring this giant scandal. >> correct. >> to the best of our knowledge doesn't exist. >> look. we are getting close to the bottom of this, right? now adam schiff, the head of the

house intelligence committee, has seen these documents, right? nunez has seen these documents. the evidence that the white house claims they have, these documents that have now been shared with the top two house intelligence committee members, they will have an -- nunez has characterized and i think soon i think schiff will characterize them and get closer to whether the claims that sean spicer made last week are accurate or not. >> schiff doesn't say it directly but the idea i was getting at the powthe president to this go away. the republican chairman goes over and goes into the secret place in the executive office and reviews documents and comes back the next day to brief the president of the united states who works from that building on the documents shared with him by people who work for the president. i'm sorry to confuse you at home because i'm talking so fast but this is how this story goes. fountain white house had any concern those these materials they should have shared with the full committee in the first place. the white house has yet to explain why senior white house

staff shared these materials with one member of the committee only for their comments and briefed back to the white house. again, a spiral. >> it is a merry go round or feels like it. to your point the complaint from the trump white house is unmasking of people picked up in incidental wiretaps or listening in on foreign officials conversations and that is what is illegal is the unmasking and why aren't we angrier about that? i think part of the problem is to your point we don't know what we are exactly talking about! number two, all of of this has taken place around the question whether the trump campaign had any connection to the russian government while there was this hacking going on. so that is the context for this, quote/unquote, unmasking. and when it comes to, yes, a lot of these meetings were perfectly legal and appears nothing wrong with them but nobody has told the direct full truth about them on the first telling and that doesn't help. there is a broader proproblem which i know we have talked

about here before but this corrosive not being candid and in some case telling falsehoods the white house needs people to believe thome a crisis not of their own making at some point and this is difficult. >> if the unmasking is real and a problem then investigate it and disclose it in a responsible way and hold the people accountable and don't have this -- >> a concern but they could tol solf solve it. solve i >> that is very different the wane sean spicer characterized this last week which with was essentially as this mass back door surveillance of the trump campaign which would be -- >> back to where we started in the sense general flynn anybody with a good lawyer asks for immunity and we shouldn't draw from that. a good lawyer does that.

but the problem politically, a lot of politics about this is back in the campaign general flynn and the president said this. >> if you're not guilty of a crime, why do you need immunity for, right? >> when you are given immunity it means you probably committed a crime. >> mamma used to say be careful what you say because it will come back to bite you and we won't finish the sentence. politically, it's bad. they had these things about clinton in a campaign when they were in a campaign environment. what is general flynn's story, do we know? >> no. we don't know. it could be an exaggeration to dangle something out there so that investigators are more likely to take him seriously. but there is only a few possibilities, right? you don't give someone immunity if it's the justice department doing it unless they just hear their story because it's fun to hear their story. the justice department is in the business of prosecuting crimes. you're only going to give him

immunity if you're the justice department if one, he is a bigger fish, right? that he has or a network of fish. and often the first person in who gets immune sit a race. a lot of people are under investigation which does seem like the case here. the first one in may be looking to incriminate other people and one possibility. the other possibility he doesn't have much to tell but he wants the committees to get him immunity and that would actually -- it gets complicated but complicate the justice department's case. you saw him respond in twitter ask for immunity a breath taking moments. that was shocking because that is a essentially the president saying, yes, he may have committed a crime. that is if you distill what that message is it may have just been that the president was saying i've got your back, we hear you but it was unusual. >> inferring in the investigation. his justice department that has

to decide. >> that's right. >> whether to give him immune the and for the president to be saying it's great he is asking for immunity that is unusual. >> yes. >> president should -- protocol say silent be on these things but protocol i think it left the beltway. leave it there. china's president comes calling this week as president trump promises to crack down on unfair trade. politicians say the darnedest things including when signing executive order. >> smallest desk i've ever seen! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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president is coming in the white house in the days ahead and china's xi jinping visits for 2:00 days of talks for president's resort in mar-a-lago in florida. he promised to label it a currency manipulator on day one a move that would have sparked a trade war. >> we can't continue to allow china to rape our country and that is what they are doing. it's the greatest theft in the history of world. the greatest abuser in the history of this country. they can't imagine, they can't even believe that they can get away with what is happening. china is responsible for nearly half of our entire trade deficit. they break the rules in every way imaginable. >> that tough talk, that promise seems almost forgotten, though. the president tadid take actionn friday.

>> make sure we fully connect all duties imposed on foreign importers who cheat. from now on they will face the rules of severe consequences. >> it's a huge relationship. a complicated relationship. it seems, if you just even listen to the president there, the much more subdued talk, reading from the script, versus the candidate who was off the charts in sing will out china. have they moved back to a more establishment position and sound like they have. >> you know who has helped a lot to get to where they are now? jared kushner. after the whole one china debacle curb nkushner put the c together to make sure the china and u.s. were speaking again. he'll play a big role when the chinese president does come to florida this week. >> the problem is a lot of

reported on this and that is absolutely true but jared kushner is not on the same level as his chinese counterpart in these discussions so you'll see something interesting in term of how far family loyalty trump can take him in terms of governing. i think too early to your question to know where they are headed with this right now other than it goes into the bigger basket of trump discovering the governing is very different than -- >> it's worth noting to jackie's point that this relationship was off to a rocky start, in part, because the white house was basically not prepared to deal with the level of diplomacy that china was dealing with. they wouldn't take trump's call for weeks going into this administration. that's a pretty big deal. >> personally, i think because -- taijuan. >> because he took the call from taiwan. the fact that trump did not follow through on this promise to label china currency manipulator on day one is a cave

on a really, really, really big campaign promise. it cannot be overlooked the fact that this white house has talked about china as if it's going to be this easy thing we just do this, that, and the other. reality has been much more difficult because it's not that easy to just sort of make demands on china and have them cave to them and that they are learning that very publicly right now. >> in the campaign you're right. a big cave that he didn't do it on day one. he used the term rape. if you look at the trade deficit the president is right. it's implicated. we have 500 billion dollar trade deficit last year and you look at the numbers here. that is one issue and an issue that is important to trump voters. the president, as bernie sanders did in the primaries, taught us that pay attention to this issue in middle america it matters to people. flashing light on the international stage for the president right now with china and number two trying to figure out -- we talked about the nato stuff we forget about australia,

japan, and south korea. this is the biggest test i think of the world stage so far on a face-to-face. >> so far the chinese, the fears that they have from the trump administration have not materialized, right? so the hawks in the republican party wanted a more of an emphasis on taiwanese. when you read the statement the white house put out, it was almost in the announcement to the term of the one china policy and promising that. two, the chinese worried about the rhetoric we just played and declaring them a currency manipulator on day one. that didn't happen. the move on trade this week was basically a press release that we will look into this. watch what happens in the personal meeting. there was a similar dynamic between trump and germany where a lot of the fears of the germans didn't come true but in that meeting with angela merkel,

trump did raise the issue of nato and payments and he sort of promised that this meeting with china is going to be tough but, so far, the rhetoric has been harsher than the actual policies with china. >> another thing we thought from the campaign that trump made clear he wanted a reset for russia and a more practical working relationship. we talked last block about the investigations and the impact. i don't want to connect the dots, please, if you want to, please. we did see this past week a gift to russia when it come to the policy in syria. nikki haley and rex tillerson saying the same thing and haley saying this. that publicly saying something that became a known fact in the assad administration. there is a gift to russia and iran there will you listen to the secretary of state and secretary of defense at their first nato meeting. >> we want to, obviously, have a

discussion about nato's posture in most particularly eastern europe in response to russia's aggression in ukraine and elsewhere. >> russia's violations of international law are now a matter of record from what happened with crimea to other aspects of their behavior in mucking around inside other people's elections and that sort of thing. >> does the secretary of state and the secretary of defense speaking tough word, we have have not once heard from the president of the united states. >> it's important to know this is a change in strategy. they wanted to broker a different kind of relationship and wanted to come with more conciliatory tone. they cannot do that any more. this russia issue has permeated. this entire presidency and made it hard politically to do that. and just one point on the broader question of, like, what is going on with our relationship to the world on russia, on china, on germany? we have essentially diplomacy that is being partly run out of

the white house as maggie pointed out by someone who doesn't have any diplomatic experience. but at the state department it's being run by somebody who doesn't have any diplomatic experience so we will see fits and starts here. this is not a well-oiled machine and people are learning on the job. >> this is the problem too. this was throughout the campaign, you try to discern where trump was on any given issue because he would often say two competing things within the same sentence or be so vague you would have to present him with a menu of option about what he my be talking about. you are still seeing that. no clear through line through this administration. nikki haley says one thing that is at odd with the white house. you would hear secretary of state and secretary of defense do something similar. there is nothing wrong on its own with wanting a reset with russia for a better relationship but the problem is always the context and we are dealing with it in this post hacking world where there are these investigations going on. i think we still don't know where the president actually comes down on any number of these issues but i do think to

the earlier issue about china and handled taiwan and walking back where they were in almost grovel to your point the press release was quite something at the time. the big complaint about the trump administration for a while we heard from democrats was describing your word is well-oiled olympian. almost the sinister quality that his critics have infused this with as if this was -- a book they compared it to was 1984 by george orwell. this is like looking like an animal farm and he run against the system and described it as corrupt and he risks having essentially becoming everything he ran against. a real problem for him approaching 100 days. >> like "lord of the flies" to me. >> we can pick and choose. >> it's library day here. president trump is nothing if not different. he threatened conservatives he will defeat them in next year's elections. ♪ ♪

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welcome back. politics make strange bedfellows. you know the old saying. it seems makes strange enemy ie. the president tweeting out this past week the following. the president mad in this three cases at members of the conservative house freedom caucus. jim jordan's district here in ohio. president trump carried that area. that is why he is mad. he thinks jim jordan should have voted p.m. and raul labrador's strict in idaho and that district carried trump too and he thinks meadows should be loyal to him and here is western north carolina gary johnson's area. donald trump carried it and ran either with mark meadows and

thinks meadows should give him his vote. no, mr. president, you walked away from republican party principles. mr. president we are not your enemieses. listen to this. >> well, if you've read the art of the deal you looked at president donald trump's history. this is a part of his method of operation. i hope the president will bear in mind that the freedom caucus is going to provide the bull work of the support the president needs. >> well, that was on friday. the white house clearly not listening because they don't want to to. dan is the president of social media director and used his account to attack another one from michigan and responded in kind on twitter saying it has merged into trump establishment. saying the following. we are one month from a hundred days. their first big legislative effort blew up. a government shutdown coming up and passing the trump budget

coming up and immigration decisions coming up. can the president succeed not having differences with conservatives? >> no, he can't. justin amash's district is different than the other three members. in the other members district you could run a cardboard republican that said republican on it and they would win those districts because they are solidly republican districts. >> can you get to a primary? >> that is the other thing. good luck trying to find something to the right of jim jordan. >> i believe most of the freedom caucus members ran ahead of trump, right? >> right. >> you never know what happens in a coordinated intensive campaign that donald trump is leading. who knows, right? i think it is interesting he has identified the freedom caucus as the problem be. confusion after the health care bill failed over whether he was going to blame paul ryan or blame the freedom caucus.

now they seem to be -- white house seems to be very coordinated and saying it's these guys that are a threat to our agenda and they need to be sghined. >> disciplined. >> you had mark short the president's legislative affairs guy and steve bannon and a few other people in the administration making clear they wanted to know who the no votes word so they could have the option of holding people accountable and there is still a view by some in that white house that you need to make an example of people so though them you cannot cross the president and that is logical. this would hardly be the first white house that would do that. but the trump white house is so not operating from a position of strength right now. if you're at 35% you're not scaring anybody and what trump had a 35% approval rating for people before is scare people and intimidate them. when that goes and saw with the ach fight the president blinked

and these guys know it and you're seeing it on twitter. >> 17% approval rating saying everyone hates this. >> for years they ran on specifics these house members and this -- no surprise. they also moved the goalpost many times in debate for former speaker boehner. to the point you make about a 35% approval rating. a month away from the hundred-day mark and a big debate in this tounwn how is he doing? a new poll this week graded the president. a, 15%. b, 22%. c, 15%. if you consider c a passing grade, majority gives him a passing grade. interesting way to look at it. i want to have -- here is the conversation. in washington, people say off to a horrible start. my colleague had a great conversation with some trump voters this week and i was -- some are disappointed in this or mad about that. they see it different.

here is the good start case for the president. good strong job reports and rally in the stock market the first quarter of the year. tougher immigration enforcement and regulatory rollback and gorsuch nomination. here is the bad start case. russia investigations which we talked about. obamacare repeal debacle. travel ban blocked. gop infighting and staff turmoil vacancies. which is it? or is this the paradox of trump? a little bit or a lot of both? i think we should keep in mind that trump's core supporters are measuring him on different metrics and many of those people are going to stay in his camp and hard-core and enthusiastic. trump didn't win by winning those people. had he to get people in the middle. i think he is genuinely in trouble with those people. you don't get to 35% if the

middle of the country is behind you. and so this is a real problem. how long it lasts is anybody's guess. how do voters on really feel about trump when they go into a ballot box and a lot can happen in that time. as we learned in the campaign it's not just about how low he gets but is he able to come back up again. we are going to have a lot of the cycles up and down and up up and down. >> i like the glass half empty. maybe three-quarters empty. you have unique opportunity when the president and the congress is controlled by the same party. we all know that the first couple of years of a presidency is usually when have you a chance to get big things done. the most important thing is the fact that they not pass their main initial priority through the house and that very ominous sign. the other ominous sign is in the polls.

he has rock solid support from the republicans until the health care debacle and first time you're seeing softening among that core. that has to be worrying for them. >> we knew a lot of people the president brought in were wealthy. fascinating numbers as they found -- had to file financial disclosures form. ivanka trump and jared kushner income of $195 million. and 75 million for gary cohen. steve bannon the poor guy. i shouldn't have said that. that's not nice. assets of 12 to 53 million. we knew this and learning more details. ivanka had a stake in the trump hotel when the documents were filed and now she has agreed to

come out. >> with both jared and ivanka they are conflict of interest rules and the president does not. actually this is for ethics watch dogs who want them to be held accountable or have the potential for it that is not a bad thing. a good thing because it means there isn't a metric by which to judge. in terms of the wealth, you know, there have been a lot of wealthy west wings before. this is not novel and we have a businessman president. so that is not really a surprise. the difference is that this is a businessman president who adopted the populace language of the working class and queens-bred president in new york city. so i think the more you can sort of see the split screen of what people are worth versus what they are talking about, that is potentially problematic, depending on what he does in terms of policy.

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senate judiciary committee this week and floor vote on neil glo gorsuch. what happens on the floor? t ten are up on the ballot next year and all democrats and president trump carried their states last year. you see six have said they will vote no on neil gorsuch and to close down debate and heidi heitkamp and joe manchin said they will vote yet. will there be eight democrats who go to the republican side so they have 60 votes and no filibuster? or will the republicans change

the senate rules to pass him with 50 or 51? and 52 if all of the republicans do and then the democrats hold firm? what is going to happen? >> increasingly inevitable that the filibuster is going to be on its way out. i also i think one of the interesting things we are seeing with the democrats who are in trump states they realizing they have to rely on their base going into this midterm. they cannot bottom out. and then go in hoping that trump's people are going to bail them out somehow. that's is not a way to run. they are going to run to their base and see what happens that narrow sliver of the middle who many fewer of them happen to show up in midterm. >> a lot of democrats think not the fight to wall fafall on you from. >> this has everything to do with the base. and there are a lot of people saying that this isn't the fight. because the next -- if another space opens up, that is going to

be senator bennett said this. that is the seat that decides the court. this is a conservative seat. it will likely be filled by a conservative justice. the next one is going to be the fight. >> this is interesting. this should not be the fight where the filibuster dies, right? most democrats, if you ask them privately, is this person okay to be on supreme court? he is qualified? >> they actually like him. >> of course, he is. they haven't discovered anything in his past that would disqualify him on conserving on supreme court. of course, it's just filling scalia's seat. you're going back to the status quo before scalia died. the issue is they think it's a stolen seat. democrats say what is the difference between voting against -- democrats voting against gorsuch and republicans not allowing obama's pick to have a vote at all? really, it's hard to answer that question. not much of a difference. >> it has nothing to do with neil gorsuch but has to do with

what happened last year. we saw past week hillary clinton was back on the public stage and joe biden on the public stage and bernie sander and elizabeth warren together in boston the other day. listen to senator sander. talking about what the democratic party does looking forward. listen to senator sanders here. a lot of debate looking in the rearview mirror. >> some people think that the people who voted for trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. i don't agree. it wasn't that donald trump won the election. it was that the democratic party lost the election. >> we are still refighting essentially hillary clinton forgot about blue collar people is the translation of that. >> they don't have any agreement for the democratic party what went wrong. until there is-- it's right she

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let's close and ask our great reporters to share something from their notebooks. maggie? >> the vice president has been quietly holding dinners with prospect republican donors who could give to what is the blessed super pac for the trump team. it has been struggle ago lot and there is a rival group out there making a bit of an edge and airing ads partly to catch

trump's attention. pence is working quietly at a series of dinners he is essentially talking about the need to support the president through this one group. house super pacs play out given the way the trump presidency and as a candidate he felt about soft money and outside group and donations is an interesting question. >> he learned a lesson he could use the help. >> i've been talking to democrat on the house intelligence committee and despite the fact the last two weeks it seems that committee has blown up and its work is ground to a halt. democrats are now bullish on prospect for getting some information and useful information in their view out of that committee and that is for two reasons. one, they believe nunez has been weakened by the shenanigans gone on the last two weeks. two, the issue of the opening hearing for brennan and clapper and yates three witnesses supposed to testify last weekend and cancelled by nunez and seems like it's likely to happen. so instead of them pulling out of the committee, boycotting or anything like that, they are actually now bullish on moving

forward and getting nunez to restart things. >> see if that is founded in the days ahead. jackie? >> we talked about trump's rhetoric wanting to work with democrats. he might have his chance. at the end of this month, april 28th, the government is going to run out of money. he is going to need democrats to help get that over the line. what does that mean? that means there can't be any money for the wall in that bill. there can't be any a defund planned parenthood effort because if democrats leave him they do not have the republican votes to get this thing or at least historically they have not had the republican votes alone to get this over the finish line. pelosi is willing to work with them and see if that hold going forward. >> new president same debate about keeping the government open. abby? >> zeke manuel one of the architects of the affordable care act is coming into the white house consistently talking to aides the last couple of months since the transition. most recently one of those meetings happened in the last

week. and im'm told he is brought in y jared kushner and the president in the those meetings seems to be interested in what he has to say and interested in very specific ideas. as we move forward it's clear the white house is not taking this prospect of finding some kind of common ground with democrats off the table. he keeps coming into the white house and the president keeps listening. we will see how far things detroit yat with the freedom caucus but a thing to keep an eye on moving forward. >> i want to know what brother rahm thinks about those meetings but another day. run wa we all know how that worked out. now republicans have gone from nervous to worried to very, very worried about the prospect of a democrat winning price's old seat. that is georgia's sixth congressional district and normally relily red turf in the atlanta suburbs. the first enthusiasm and turnout

test of the trump presidency and early voting something significantly in favor of the democrats. 18 candidate field. if he gets 50% on april 18th he wins the seat and priority one is flooding money into the staff district now is keep him below 50 and regup forroup for a two-candidate runoff in june. thanks for watching. up next a packed program with "state of the union" and jake tapper. you have access to in-depth analysis, level 2 data, and a team of experienced traders ready to help you if you need it. ♪ ♪ it's like having the power of a trading floor, wherever you are. it's your trade. ♪ ♪ e*trade. ♪ ♪ start trading today at etrade.com

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