protection for journalists. thanks very much for watching "360." time to hand it over to don lemon "cnn tonight" starts right now. >> breaking news because of course it's a defiant president doubling down on the eve of his crucial first foreign trip. this is "cnn tonight." i am don lemon. after an uncharacteristic silence from the commander in chief, he can hold out no longer and speaks out, first in the series of tweets calling the investigation a witch hunt, bad for the country, his word. his own alternative reality in the midst of a crisis of his on creation, all the while insisting he did not ask james comey to back off michael flynn but new details tonight in the "new york times," the president contacting comey, made him, quote, unsettled. members of the president's own

inner circle now urging him to lawyer up. let get right to mark preston, jeff zeleny and michael isikoff. president trump held his first news conference since the avalanche of breaking stories this week and he was asked about the comey memo. let's take a look. >> at any time urge former fbi director james comey to back down or close the investigation into michael flynn? and also as you -- >> no, no. next question. >> you get the sense the president did not want to talk about that. it was an opportunity for him to give his side of the story, his rebuttal to all of the information that we've been learning in the memorandums that the fbi director was holding and really keeping in realtime here. but the president made clear

that he's angry by this ideaf anndendent investigation into this, of course it's a distraction, he called it a witch hunt. he i didn't mince word as he talked about what he really thinks about this investigation. let's watch. >> well, i respect the move but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. and there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but i can always speak for myself and the russians, zero. i think it divides the country. i think we have a very divided country because of that and many other things. >> well, he's right about the fact it's a divided country, no question at all about that. but in terms of a witch hunt, don, you couldn't find many republicans agreeing with that today in washington. across the board to the house, to the senate, across this town, many republicans thought this was a good thing that, there is a special counsel looking into this, someone of the stature of a mueller, the former fbi

director for 12 years, from 9/11 forward, looking into this. but the president calling it a witch hunt suggests there's nothing there, suggests there's a motive here. the reality here is he said again and again and again there's no collusion. we don't know the answer to that question. that's what this investigation is supposed to find out. if there was collusion between the trump campaign and any russian operatives. we don't know that there has been,y can we can't get ahead o ourselves here. this is a serious matter. the fbi says it's a serious matter. his firing of the fbi -- >> there's also some new reporting tonight in the "new york times," a phone call call between president trump and james comey. president trump called james comey weeks after he took office and asked him when the federal authorities were going to put

out word that the president not under investigation. he told mr. trump if he wanted to know details about the bureau's investigation, he should not contact him directly but instead follow the proper procedure. this is yet another example of inappropriate pressure and contact by the president. >> the only two questions are did he do it knowingly to lean on comey or did he blunder into it because he didn't realize what you can or can't do? i guess my default position is the latter, that trump does and says many things that who shouldn't be doing, like with the colombian president today essentially saying, hey, i appreciate your answer on the wall but let me tell you the real answer. >> let me tell you your answer for you. >> he is used to being the face and cheerleader of a business. he's not used to being the president of the united states. i think when he got briefings to

the extent that he got them, when he got briefings on what you say and what you don't say, i'm not sure he listened all that well. as a result, these things happen. comey was probably taken aback by the very question, but my guess is trump didn't even know necessarily he was doing anything wrong. he just wand ted to know the answer. >> he doesn't reaze as i've been saying that he's a public servant. we've all seen that video where comey's at the white house and the president calls him over, sort of awkward and then james comey walks over and it looked like the president i thought was trying to give him a kiss on the cheek, when he leans in, i thought maybe it's a whisper but it's weird. here's a video of comey at the white house. comey didn't want to go. mr. comey, who is 6'8", was wearing a dark blue suit that day told mr. wittes he tried to blend in with the blue curtains

in the back of the room in hopes that mr. trump would not spot him and call him out. but mr. trump spotted him and called him out and as he called him across the room, he was determined there wasn't going to be a hug and it was bad enough there was going to be a handshake, and comb each reaey t for a hand shake and the president grabbed his hand and it one person with a hand shake and another hugging. >> he's become more famous than me. >> come on, mark. that was really awkward, don't you think? >> two reactions. one, it a good thing comey was the head of the fbi and not the cia.

clearly he was not good enough to be a spy and to hide into those curtains as he was trying to do. t also the awkwardness, it like going over an aunt's house and her trying to give you a kiss and try to pull you in and you just don't want to do it. for comey, though, being very serious here, that's a very awkward moment for him. i do agree with chris that trump doesn't understand these things but i would think at this point in his career, in his life, he should understand those things. i think we all agree on that but no one's ever told donald trump no. >> the reason he was there is because those guys had helped him out, protected him -- >> they were law enforcement officials who had -- >> he wanted to thank them and comey didn't want to go but he said he needed someone to represent the fbi. michael isikoff, what do you make of that? it was an awkward moment. >> it was an awkward moment but there's been so many trump has had with director comey and law

enforcement and the justice department in general. it is clear he doesn't accept the boundaries that have been basically laying out the guidelines for interactions between the white house and the justice department and the fbi for years, and that's why, you know, when -- just look at his reaction to the appointment of bob mueller as special counsel. the first thing he says is he expects this to be wrapped up quickly. and then he does this tweet saying it a witch hunt. so he's essentially saying that the special counsel investigation is groundless. it's not needed, he wants it wrapped up. i really think is something we got to watch here, is he laying the groundwork for down the road, a dismissing, a firing of bob mueller, which he has the power to do. unlike under the old independent counsel statute where the

independent counsel is a keet r i -- creature of the court, bob mueller can be fire by president trump and it something that everybody should be thinking about down the road if this investigation goes done and goes on in directions the president doesn't like. >> jeff zeleny, as if there isn't enough chaos in this administration, imagine him firing mueller. come on. i guess it a real possibility but just imagine the optics of that. >> mike chael raise as very goo point. we draw so many parallels to watergate. this is a moment in every respect obviously but particularly on the law there. it is certainly a possibility but, look, i thi that the optics of that would be horrible. i mean, i can't imagine what congress would do, but the term witch hunt, there's one person in this town that i've heard using that term today, that's the president. there aren't republicans on capitol hill saying that. speaker ryan was asked directly

about it say let the facts go where they go here but republicans are by and large, at least the ones speaking out are supportive of this here. so the president is a bit on an island here in terms of calling it a witch hunt. he is trying to delegitimize this whole episode, the whole investigation right from the very beginning, as he's trying to do with the media and other things. we'll see if it works or not. i think there are another reasons to believe this investigation should go forward. and again, it only one of them. the house and senate are still investigating even though they've been watered down somewhat because of this. >> and, chris, there's also another person who used the term witch hunt. this is from the 1970s. i believe this is 1973. nixon sees witch hunt insiders say and by our very own carl bernstein and also bob woodward. >> i've never heard of those two guys. look, there's no chance that donald trump knew that but this is the problem.

>> but isn't that the problem, if you don't know the history? >> yes, you're doomed to repeat it. he doesn't have any sense of what circumstances dictate what reaction. so everything coming out of white house last night was, don, it's a measured reaction, he was angry about the special prosecutor but we put out that statement, he's good with it. what do you wake up to at 7:30 this morning? donald trump witch hunt, persecuted. the reality of the situation is any time he speaks publicly, you see the real donald trump, the coast guard commencement speech where he says i'm the most persecuted person ever, you have to learn to be like me and fight, fight, fight. in that bilateral press conference with the colombian president, he reveals what he really thinks which is, oh, yeah, it's fine, the special

prosecutor's fine. that's said, it's terrible and this is a witch hunt. you can't say those two things in back-to-back sentences unless you're donald trump. but watch what he says, not what's coming out of the white house. he's very transparent about what he believes and he doesn't fake it or doesn't really try to fake it and do the political thing. >> listen, michael, we all wondered, everyone wondered how long it would take for him to respond to this. i think he was off of twitter maybe 17 hours, which is i think the longest time he's been off twitter but he does and many of his supporters like to call people snowflakes and he is probably, if you look at his behavior, he may be the biggest snowflake of them all. >> right. look, so much of this entire problem that the white house has with this investigation has been fueled by his own behavior.

and even today, if i could mention the repting that we did today about how he's still in touch with michael flynn, who is the subject of this investigation. even sending him, as we reported today, a message to, quote, stay strong. now, that is something that any lawyer would say -- would tell the president you can't do, you can't be communicating with the subject of a criminal investigation. the optics of that coming after what we know he said to jim comey, asking him to back off the investigation of flynn, its is certainly all the ingredients of, you know, that could be made for a case of witness tampering and obstruction. now, the response from the white house and from flynn as defenders are, no, these are two guys who are loyal, who were in the foxhole together in the campaign and he's just reaching out to a good, loyal friend and trying to buck him up when he's

down on his luck. and maybes that the case. but to do it under these circumstances is only guaranteeing more problems for himself. you can bet that bob mueller will want to see any -- all communications that president trump has had with michael flynn. >> that may work when you run the company but not when you run the country. thank you all. i appreciate it. when we come back, why my next guess says james comey and robert mueller could be the two men to bring down the president. can. with this grade of protection... and with this standard of luxury... it's an oasis. the 2017 e-class. it's everything you need it to be... and more. lease the e300 for $569 a month at your local mercedes-benz dealer. mercedes-benz. the best or nothing.

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. president trump saying the appointment of a special counsel hurts the country and calls it the biggest witch hunt in history. it's not. and i want to thank my guest for coming on. you wrote an article "what donald trump needs to know about bob mueller and james comey." what's the answer? what does he need to know? >> these are two men who actually have had very parallel lives over the last 20 years. they have risen into the elite reeng ranks of the highest levels of the justice department and worked actually very closely together in the years after 9/11 when james comey was deputy attorney general and bob mueller was fbi director. they have a partnership that's longstanding, deeply trust one

another and were really the two central figures in what is now the famous 2004 hospital room incident involving john ashcroft and the bush white house and a showdown over the nsa's terrorist surveillance program. >> tell us more about that. they show up at his hospital room in the middle of the night but go on, tell us about that. >> this was something that unfolded over the first couple of month of 2004, culminating in march when this program known as code name stellar wind was due to expire. and james comey believed under the justice department's rules it was unconstitutional and illegal and he went toe to toe with the white house and vice president cheney to get it shut down. vice president cheney disagreed, thought it was an important part of the government's tool kit and told james comey that the program would kill americans if

it was allowed to expire and that blood would be on jim comey's hands. it culminated in this dramatic hospital room visit to john ashcroft's bedside where jim comey, andy card, the white house chief of staff and the white house counsel all met to try to force ashcroft against comey's wishes to sign off on the program. comey and bob mueller teamed up and brought that to a halt. >> it shows you how dogged he is in his pursuit, when he's given something, he sees it to the end. you said that comey told you he enlisted mueller's help because, quote, i knew that no one cared about losing a deputy attorney general but no president could weather losing an fbi director. you say that phrase has been rattling in your mind for the past week. explain that to me. >> one of the things that's

worth thinking about with that phrase is that the idea that even in 2004, bob mueller was someone so wide lirywidery -- w respect and so apolitical, that if bob mueller made this argument to the white house, it would be a clear there was no hidden agenda, it was just bob mueller doing the thi that he thought was the best for justice in america. and that was really important back then and i think it's a really important lesson to think about now with bob mueller as the special counsel. >> you also write "it is as if after having an unrelated disagreement over movie trippia -- trivia in a bar, trump has challeng challenged usain bolt to a 100

yard dash or john cena to a cage match to the death. >> the good news, though, for president trump is if there is really no there there, i think bob mule seller is perhaps the person in america who could declare donald trump and his campaign is actually innocent and that would be respected and trusted by both political parties. >> how do you see donald trump with the truth impacting this investigation? >> when you look at the history of special investigations like this, whether it's pat starr or the leaks in the 2000s, often the controversies that end of growing out of these cases are not the core, they're the

perjury or the obstruction of the investigations as they unfold. for an administration that has a challenged relationship with the truth, the first instinct is not going to be to tell bob mueller and the investigators the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. >> and that's where you get yourself in trouble. garrett, thank you, i appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> joining me is former attorney general alberto gonzalez, dean of the university of law. where do you see this investigation going? as many experts have pointed out, for bill clinton the investation started with whitewater, ended up with monica lewinsky. >> it really hard to predict, isn't it? obviously bob mueller has been given wide latitude to do this investigation and sometimes this is very hard to predict where investigations are going to go

because today we don't know of certain facts and certain incidents and certain actions and certain statements have been made. it really not made public. so it really hard to predict. also, it ha's hard to predict t is going to take. you also have investigations going on in congress, the fbi, bob mueller investigation may conflict with the congressional investigation. bob may decide to wait and let the investigation proceed to a certain measure. we don't know if this investigation is it going to get close to the oval office, might be there be an assertion of executive privilege? that might have to be litigated. >> which one would trump the other, no pun intended, the fbi investigation, wouldn't that trump all of them? >> not necessarily.

if there is a very important witness, and a grant of immunity may jeopardize the abili of the prosecution to prosecute that witness. so again, there needs to be some level of coordination between these ongoing investigations, otherwise we may see a situation where justice is not done simply by virtue of the fact that congress may want to get more information public about what really happened here but in doing so it may in fact hurt the investigation. so these are all things that have to be coordinated and will be coordinated so that the american people can be assured that at the end of the day, we know what really happened here. >> in full transparency as it regards robert mueller, you have your own history with him involving the bush era surveillance program. i talked to my last guest about that. you came down on different sides. is he the right guy for this job, though? >> there is but there's so much about what your last guest said

that's just incorrect. for example, it want in the middle of the night, it was 7:00. bob mueller wasn't in the hospital room, he had left by the time we got there, there was no great confrontation. and the position ultimately championed by jim comey, the chief judge of the fiza court determined that the bush administration position was a lawful position. there's a lot of myth about what actually happened here, which had three key components. jim comey approved two of them. it was just one component of the program that he had an issue with. but to answer your question, yes, mueller has a congratulate deal of experience with the fbi. >> do you think the president opened up a can of worms when he

fired james comey? >> if that means finding out what's going to happen here, with or without the fbi, i think james comey will find out what happened here. and having the experience of someone like bob mueller, it makes that task easier. we would find it out if not through them, perhaps through congress or the media. it's really difficult to hide anything these days. >> it's good to hear you have trust in the american media. president trump is hours away from his first trip. president trump, will all of his problems at home follow him abroad? ♪ the first-ever lexus lc.

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in a momeemo that president tru asked him to end the investigation into flynn. trump calls it a witch hunt. what's your reaction to this? >> it's a tsunami. when he called it a witch hunt, these are self-inflicted wounds. these are not other people saying he was born abroad or something. president trump had something historically of a symbiotic relationship with the press and frankly when he was in campaign mode, i think that frankly cable television in particular delivered -- he delivered good ratings for them and i think that they kept the camera on him. and i think that now that he's in the white house, it's a very different kind of relationship and there is much more rigorous fact checking and what he does matters and policy matters. so he's shooting himself in the foot right and left. >> he can't pick up the phone and pretend to be his own p.r.

agent and pick up the phone and schmooze people. >> and the camera is always on you. you can't b.s. people anymore. it not about a great sound bite you deliver, it about what actually happens. >> it's about actually delivering. >> maggie haberman and michael sheer are reporting in the "new york times" that the president has told friends he's not looking forward to this trip. how essential is it to be prepared for a trip like this? >> it's an extraordinary trip. it very ambitious. he's going to the birthplace of the three great religion, he's going to see the leaders of nato. this is a varietially important tr -- vitally important trip for establishing himself abroad. he's had a hard time acting presidential during his first 100-plus days and he has to deliver in a very short period

of time the image of a commander in chief in control and this is a president with very limited foreign policy experience and he's trying to build an ae aero version of nato, push the arab peace process into yet another new round. you know, he wants to build a coalition that will counter isis, al qaeda, and extremism generally and a counter to iran. it's a very ambitious agenda. it's very hard to see how he's going to establish what he wants to do in a srt period of time with all this drama at home hanging over him. >> "mr. trump's advisers acknowledge they are concerned about his off-script eruptions and his tendency to be swayed by

flattery and they may have tried to caution him about various scenarios." do you think the president -- do you think he's going to be his own worst enemy abroad? >> you know, i think we'll see, we'll see nervously. he's going to give a number of important speeches on the trip and he can deliver a speech from a teleprompter effectively as he did in his state of the union and inaugural addresses. the problem is when he goes off script, there's going to be plenty o plenty occasions that he may want to do that, and he may want to pal around with somebody and it would be -- there are just a

million palac million places where he could make commitments and say things that would be embarrassing or worse for the u.s. >> i want to know, robin, the president is also going to head to israel and this comes a couple of days after it was revealed that he gave russian diplomats intelligence was in that may have ce from israel and they believe came from israel. do you think the president will be able to smooth things over with our key ally? >> at the end of the day, israel needs the united states more than the united states needs israel. i think it will have far less impact that it will have with some of our other allies. i think bebe netanyahu is probably far more nervous of what president trump plans to do on the peace process. this is a president who has said publicly doesn't think the peace process is at difficult as

people have envisioned. as we know from the many presidents who preceded him, the peace process is the toughest nut to crack anywhere in the world diplomatically. i think the great challenge will be not the speeches he gefs but it those one-on-one exchanges where leaders will be asking things of him and he doesn't have the in-depth knowledge of the world or understanding of the real nuances and could get tripped up in terms of the kind of commitments he may end up making. let's just hope that some of the foreign policy advisers, national security adviser h.r. mcmaster and secretary of defense james mattis are with him to kind of advise him and make sure that he doesn't wade into dangerous waters. >> nick, i'm looking at your piece here called "dangerous times for trump and the nation." you write, another risk for an

embattled and paranoideader at home who feels that he may be going down the tubes anyways. in foreign policy a president has a largely free hand and the ability to launch nuclear strikes that would pretty much destroy the world." is this a real concern of yours? >> this is something that has been talked about among the international security community for a while, and the fact that we now have a serious and krg - criminal -- serious investigation of trump and russia makes everyone a little more nervous. the obvious parallel is with president nixon in his late days. >> you said 1974 when nixon's presidency was collapsing his defense secretary secretly instructed the military not to carry out any white house order to use nuclear weapons unless confirmed by him or henry kissinger. would that happen now?

>> i don't think jim mattis is going to send that message tomorrow but i'm sure jim mattis knows about it. it certainly that was completely unconstitutional but utterly the right thing to do, utterly wise. at that time nixon was drinking hefls, he was emotionally unstable. i would hope down the road if something similar seems to be happening to donald trumpnd we have some good adult supervision around trump, that they will give a similar order to the military that if launch orders come, then they should be ignored. >> let's hope we don't get to that point. >> robin, time magazine shows the white house getting a makeover. does this cover how the rest of the world views the white house right now? >> i think the rest of the world has a lot of concerns about the relationship, what might have been happening in the run-up to the campaign, how

unsophisticated it might have been, the part the russians had in trying to manipulate our elections, so i think there is a deep concern about the relationship here about the lack of sophistication in the trump campaign, that it actually could have been manipulated in some ways or that the russians may have tried to manipulate the trump campaign. so i think that it is a concern. i think they're more concerned about how this plays out and the instability in the united states. everyone wants a strong america. the united states is at the end of the day for all its flaws and all its mistakes, it is still the most moral nation, it is the one that when there are conflicts, if the united states doesn't get involved, it hard to mobilize others elsewhere in the world. the vast majority of country, even those that doesn't like us very much, want to see a kind of

stable -- a stable set of rules of engagement so they know -- >> they turn to the united states for guidance and for stability. thank you robin, thank you, nick. >> the president coalling the investigation a witch hunt but will it threaten his own agenda? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you must become invisible. [hero] i'll take my ances.

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unfa unfairly treated president in history. are the republicans proud of the president's victim posture? >> that depends on who you ask. right now with the current situation, the silence among many republicans is deafening. when we do hear from some, we have some coming out saying this is like watergate, some are saying the white house is in a downward spiral but more than anything, many republicans are now saying let's wait, now that a special counsel has been appointed, let them do their job, follow the facts where they lead and let them do their job. meanwhile focusing on tax reform, working on their version of health care.

in it's way it's a bless we go have this counsel. >> kevin, is any of that getting through? because the president is off, you know, saying things and doing things and tweeting things when he could use the occasion of having a special counsel appointed and say, listen, i cannot talk about that, we're going to move on with our agenda? >> well, alice is right in that the republican party's salvation does lie in promoting their agenda, fulfilling the promises that they deo themerican public in 2016. but, yes, it is certainly a huge distraction. i mean, if you're up on capitol hill right now, you're not getting as many questions about tax reform or health care as you are where you stand on the bombshell of the day. this week in washington has felt like five months when it comes to revelations that come out every day about the white house. for members of congress having to relitigate that every single

day and then possibly go home and relitigate it as well, it does provide a huge distraction for them. >> anna knnovarro, maybe you asd the question yourself, at what point do republicans really start distancing themselves from the president? what do you think? >> i think today was an important point when lindsey graham came out of the briefing with deputy general rosenstein that this had possibly gone from a counterintelligent investigation to a criminal investigation, that has to have had an effect on a lot of republicans. the word criminal means a lot. i can tell you it made my jaw drop and made me look at things in a very different light. and i think republicans are going t he to do what paul ryan h been saying all along, which is walk and chew gum at the same time. we sit there day after day

listening to the speaker's press conference, hearing him try to speak and talk to us about tax reform and health care, and i think most of us are sitting there going okay, paul, that's really nice but can you please get on to the really meaty stuff? look, a lot of america is going around right now with paper bags they're breadithing into on the side of their cars. these are damely rily revelatio these are hour lily revelations. when the country is living in a state of anxiety, republicans and democrats are having to go home and face constituents who are screaming at them about this issue at town halls and at consistent meetings. so this is not something that they can sweep away. at the same time, you've got a white house with 36%, 37% approval who are in crisis

management mode hourly, and you're hearing hourly that different people might be about to get fired. it is a lot of drama going on. >> i have to -- i've got to ask you, matt lewis, what do you think of that? i'm speaking to people and they say, my gosh, every singling alert i get, i have palpitations, like the snl skit, can i just get one alert a day from cnn that doesn't give me a heart attack. >> yeah, you teake a nap at 5:0 in the afternoon and you could miss a huge news story. this takes a toll on journalists who have to cover this constantly. there's not a lot of sympathy for journalists -- >> this want a journalist i was speaking to. this is just an average person who pays attention to the news. >> it's overwhelming, it never i think that donald trump likes ama. some of this is donald trump being trump. you know, he's created a really big reality show and he likes to

feed drama. but i think there is getting to be some trump fatigue and i think that if you're going to start to see republicans walking away from this guy, some of it is just the accretion of every day there's another scandal, another shoe to every day there's another scandal. >> there's five scandals a day. not one. >> 2017 is news alert and freak out. >> yeah, listen, don. i had the misfortune of trying to start a cleanse this week. let me tell you, there is no way people can give up c a rbs, refined sugar and alcohol, you can't give up anything, you need as many coping mechanisms as you can have. >> all right we'll move on. we'll get to the rest of the conversation on the other side of the break. escape from monotony.permt together, we are perfectly balanced,

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may pay for president trump and his policies. >> i think it's less to do with the president's policies and much more to do with this enthusiasm among the democratic base where they have defined their party's profile with resistance to trump and it's not necessarily the specifics of legislation but just the fast they believe donald trump is taking the country in the wrong direction. so is that energy that is on the democratic side has to be taken vermo very seriously by a lot of republicans. couple that with the fact donald trump had a hard time with indepeent during the early part of his administration that sets up some of the conditions for a very difficult year in 2018. >> let's look at president trump approval rating at 38%.

should terrify republicans since 1946 when presidents are above 50% approve their party -- >> i think it will be important for the g.o.p. to keep focus on their legislative agenda. when hillary lost this campaign democratic have woke up in the fetal position it's palpable in the air here in d.c. and there's a spring in their step with all that's unravelled with regard to russia and it's important for the administration and conservatives to stop the talk on russia and get pack to focusing on the agenda and talk about what they're doing to fulfill the promises they made to their constituents. >> let me just ask you this,

shouldn't you and other conservatives and constituents and people around him shouldn't they be saying that to the president of the united states. he has the mega phone. he sets the agenda, the message, it's not really those people going home they're just going to hear from their constituent the. >> i hopehe's peopl in the white house telling h to stop tweeting abo russia, tweet about your agenda, tweet about what you plan to accomplish on this foreign trip, for us to reaffirm our unity with our allall allies abroad. >> he's 70 years old is he going to change? >> sweet heart i got a little bit of experience with men let me tell you you don't change them, you really don't change men after 15 no matter what you do. they have formative years and they're very short so you can

forget changing an adult man at this time. we were all surprised that he hadn't tweeted for about a day and half or two days apparently some adult, some supervising adult hid his phone but he found it this morning. >> i agree on the man thing. >> even if special prosecutor many taps down trump stop tweeting about russia. >> all right everyone nice job. >> you know we need a super hero. >> thank you all appreciate it. when we come back why the president reportedly made fbi director james comey uneasy. with taxes and fees included. that'll save you hundreds. get two lines for a hundred dollars. that's right. two lines of unlimited data. a hundred bucks. all in. and right now, we're giving you even more.

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breaking news, president trump calling the russian investigation a witch hunt. this is cnn tonight i'm ben mclemore. don lemon. that's not all, president trump going on to say he was speaking for himself. wonder what staff thinks about that. meanwhile we're learning fired fbi zrektor james comey was so unnerve he