what we've seen at these rallies, they tend to attract people from the alt-right and some people have began to associate the suspect with the alt-right. now throw in some left-wing an nar kift and you have a potential for a toxic. good evening, we begin tonight keeping them honest with a flood of new reporting in the trump/russia investigation and the president's ongoing effort to brand fake news. this is happening with his son-in-law and happening with his former national security adviser and now his corporate lawyer facing questions or requests for demands for information pertaining to the russia probe. it's happening with new reporting from real former intelligence officials and a real congressional source about russian officials possibly having derogatory information on the man who would become president, possibly financial in nature. it's happening with a real inside source who speaks to the president, speaking to us about his frame of mind since returning from overseas. none of these is fake.

yet the president would have the public believe otherwise. he tweeted over the weekend, quote, it's my opinion that many of the leaks coming out of the white house are fabricated lies by the fake news media. he goes on, whenever you see the words "sources say" and they don't mention names, it's very possible those sources don't exist but are made up by fake news writers. fake news is the enemy. keeping them honest, john miller or john barron may have something to say about that. those are the side da nichls that the president used, fake names, fake stories, real fake ne news. the fake news he now objects by cnn and many others. the president has not shied away from unnamed sued da nichls when it fitted him.

"an extremely credible source has called my office and told me that boarack obama's birth certificate is a fraud. what is a source for the goose is not a source for the gander. pu the president cited a more flattering story on fox news which happened to be based, quote, on a source familiar with the matter. here's what sean spicer said when asked about that contradiction. >> the president retweeted that article based on an anonymous source that said there was an effort to set up a back channel, the russians suggested it and it was to talk about syria. was the president not confirming that there was an effort in the facts that i just said. >> what i said speak force it said. >> you said the article was based on anonymous sources. >> which it is. >> but the fox article that the

president retweeted was also based on anonymous sources. why is the source that they used more credible than the one in "the washington post" article? >> again, i think there are two issues at hand. one is the statement that jared's attorney has provided. second is whether or not the s dossier was largely discredited in the first place. most publications here refused to publish it in the first place. there's an ongoing investigation. >> he ignored the whole question about anonymous sources. it centers on the dossier that sean spicer mentioned. we're not reporting on the details of it because some of it has yet to be confirmed or disapprove in. to say it's been completely discredited in part or in hole is simply not true. in fact, cnn reported in february, some parts of that dossier have been corroborated. they found that some of the meetings and communications

contained in the dos area described and jim acosta joins us now with all of the developments in a very, very busy day. what can you tell us about michael flynn. >> reporter: that's right. he was saying not too long ago that he was not going to be commenting and not testifying or pro i had vooi providing information to the senate intelligence committee of holding flynn in contempt of congress and lo and behold, a source close to the national security adviser is telling cnn that, yes, michael flynn will be providing some documents of the senate intelligence committee by june the 6th, about a week or so from now. we should point out, that's not the only activity today. former special assistant to the president confirmed to cnn through a source that he also has been requested by intelligence committee investigators to provide information to congress as well

as michael cohen. we confirmed through michael cohen directly today, he confirmed to cnn that, yes, he's been asked to provide testimony and information to congressional investigators. we should point out, michael cohen, a personal attorney to president trump, told us over the phone he's politely declining to cooperate. he says that there's been no evidence to corroborate anything with respect to the russia investigation and he called it a fishing expedition. >> just in terms of the white house, what is the mood like right now inside coming back from the trip facing the ongoing russia investigation? >> reporter: well, i think they certainly feel embattled if you look at the performance by sean spicer earlier today. you were playing some of the president's tweets or showing some of the president's tweets talking about fake news. sean spicer not too surprisingly slammed reporters for fake news. i tried to press spicer on that and he could only refer to some erroneous tweets when in fact i suppose he was.

that was sean spicer's only example of fake news, not whether jared kushner is somehow an interest to federal investigators and that he set up a back channel or tried to set up a back channel with the russians. he would not comment on whether there's a shakeups in the works. they are putting together this war room, this rapid response operation, both inside the white house and among associates and supporters of the president outside the white house to respond to this daily deluge of stories with the russia investigation and spicer did not comment on that and did not say whether or not he deemed that to be fake news. that's an indication of where they are right now, anderson, if it's a story they like, it's just fine. if it's a story that just about has anything to do with the russia investigation or a story they don't like, it's not fake mu news. anderson? >> jim acosta, thank you very much. more on the story that jim mentioned and cnn was first reported on what russians may have believed they had on the president and people close to him. it's a potentially explosive

story. it comes with reasons to be very careful about what we're reporting and not reporting. cnn's dana bash has the very latest on that. dana, what are you learning? >> anderson, you know we've been reporting for months that the russians wanted to influence the 2016 election. what we're learning now is that some russians talked about whether they had leverage over trump's inner circle. two former intelligence circles and a congressional source tell cnn that during the 2016 campaign, russian government officials discussed having potentially, quote, derogatory information about then presidential candidate donald trump and some of his top aides. one source described the information as financial in nature and said the discussion centered around whether the russians had leverage with tr p trump's inner circle and suggested to u.s. intelligence that russians believed, quote, they had the ability to influence the administration through derogatory information. now, you'll remember, cnn first

reported about u.s. intercepted discussions of russian officials bragging about cultivating relationships with trump aides, including trump's first national security adviser michael flynn in order to influence trump. >> but back then, sources were cautioning that the claims by the russians could have been exaggerated or even made up. is that still the case? >> it is. and it's a really important point. and we don't know if that is the case. one of the things that we have been learning through the course of our reporting on russia, trying to influence the election is how crafty they are in trying to spread this information. our sources acknowledge it is possible in this case but we do know that financial entanglements of some people associated with trump are part of the fbi investigation into russian meddling. >> what's the white house saying? >> they are not happy with this reporting and they say this is yet another round of false and unverified claims by anonymous sources to smear the president.

the office of director of national intelligence and the fbi are not commenting and the president himself has insisted on multiple occasions that he has no financial dealings with russia. >> dana bash, thanks very much. i want to bring in the panel. matt lewis, jeffrey lord, jennifer granholm and steve hall. the question on whether the russians had something on president trump, it's important to point out that it could be russians talking to each other and bragging to each other and lying to each other. >> that's an important distinction to make. we still do have innocent until proven guilt. there are a lot of questions about the president's financial holdings that would happen regardless of whether those conversations were taking place and -- >> those questions could be answered if the tax returns more or less -- >> probably. >> some of them could be answered more fully. there's a lot we don't know. there's a lot that the president has refused to disclose that i think is adding to the questions

surrounding this whole thing and it's hard to understand on some basic level why at this point he wouldn't just be more transparent. >> steve hall, there's certainly a notion we don't hear on intercepting russian conversations because they know americans are likely listening. how much credibility do you give, given your experience? >> given the fact that donald trump, before he was president of the united states, traveled to russia, the fsb, russia intelligence service, has every capability and are very good at collecting all sorts of information that they can on anybody that they deem to be an appropriate target inside of russia. at the time, before donald trump became a politician, the russians would have seen him as an american ol ligarch. the real question is whether they obtained anything on trump which could be used, in effect,

to blackmail him. we don't know. there's definitely information that they have on him and the only part that has a ring of truth to me is the financial angle of it. some of the salacious stuff, i'm not sure if that's true or compelling. the financial stuff would be a soft underbelly of trump and if they have it, they have it. it's sort of strange that you have russians talking about it over open telephone lines and that calls into question a whole bunch. i think one thing you can't call into question is whether or not they have information on it. they do. the question is wlool hether or it can be used to blackmail him or not. >> jared kushner wanted a back channel or possibly proposed using equipment inside the russian embassy. does that -- >> yeah, this whole thing is baffling and this story broke on friday night and we were all very careful in reporting it, saying maybe we need to hear the white house's side of the story. here we are on tuesday night and we still don't have a detailed account of what happened in that

meeting. i think it's important to step back and remember what's already been previously reported and that is that before michael flynn and jared kushner went to that meeting, which was on december 1st or 2nd, they were briefed by obama's intelligence officials. be careful of the russian ambassador. and if you remember, "the washington post" reported that the obama administration actually gave them a psychological profile of kislyak from the cia to say, watch this guy. you don't know who you're dealing with here. well, they went into that meeting and not only did they seem to ignore the advice of the intelligence professionals, but they talked about this back channel on russian soil. the embassy on wisconsin avenue in washington is russian soil. so they'd be going to a foreign embassy to talk presumably to putin. so that story, i think, is still baffling. we don't know why they didn't heed the warnings and we don't know why, a few weeks later, kislyak, the russian ambassador, asked apparently kushner to meet

with this head of the russian bank and he went ahead and did that. so that's a very strange sear r reece of events and then you have a coverup. up kushner not disclosing these meetings on the form that he was required to disclose them on until after the fact. that's a very curious serious of events. >> matt, especially the russian banker and then also the bank's records, all of that information is easy to find on google. it doesn't require a high-level briefing. >> right. look, i think that there's a lot of things about this that are -- that raise questions. if this were another country, i don't think it would be that big of a deal. part of the -- obviously, this is russia. russia tried to interfere with our elections and that i think is the big reason why we're so focused on this. you know, back channels obviously happen and even happen during transition sometimes.

i don't know if this is a big deal, no deal or just a deal right now. i think that when we put it into the context of all of the things we've looked at the last several months, this could be entirely innocent. it could just be somebody who did a lot of questionable things. jared kushner didn't know what he was doing. i do think that the fact that it's russia, you know, mitt romney was right. they are a political thug. >> none of this is happening in a vacuum. obviously it was russia and at that point the u.s. intelligence committee had been very opened about their belief that russia had attempted to influence the election. so all of these meetings are taking place with that as a backdrop. it doesn't seem like that was being brought up a lot or even now that that is brought up a lot between the u.s. and russia. >> i just think this is overblown. by my account, president kennedy had his brother talking to a

mid-level associate back channel for the kennedy administration. jimmy carter as president-elect send a letter and that conversation was written up and it's in the wilson center. december 1st, 1976, when gerald ford was still president, ronald reagan used michael ladine as a back channel to iran. and defending this process in the huffington post reveals that william miller, a senate select intelligence committee staffer served senator obama as nominee as a back channel to iran. >> governor grand hoholm. >> these are unbelievable facts of -- serial facts of covering up. i mean, this is why we need an independent commission and in fact you even called for an independent commission to look at the full scope of things. but this is not about jared

kushner being some naive bambi. he did have flynn next to him. flynn certainly knows what is going on. if you continue to say fake news, it causes many of us to say, ah, what's underneath this. and we really want to know what is underneath all of this covering up. why is there such a fear of what the russians may have? and that story today that cnn -- or last week that cnn uncovered i think is an example of why we have to have. revealing new information about why the long-time trump watchers think it squares with the man they have made their careers getting to know. also tonight, tiger woods mug shot. he's claimed he's not drinking. the real story emerging behind that. stay tuned. nrsz anderson cooper "360" brought to you by ace. the helpful place.

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breaking news, michael flynn agreeing to return documents to congressional investigators and continued questions about the meeting with sergey lavrov and kislyak. >> we were talking about how this was a back channel. this was not a back channel. this was a secret channel that was supposed to be established. the reason for using russian coms was so that americans could not intercept it during the transition and possibly beyond that. that is unusual. because really what you were trying to establish as a back channel, why not do after trump was in the white house and you could do anything you want. >> the leaks that have come from the deep state or bureaucracy, let's be careful because they may leak information to the press or wherever, that happens. that's happened a lot. >> sure, but, a, this is not the first time it's happened in

history and, b, the context for this, again, matters to your point about russia. this all happened amid allegations by 17 different intel agencies of russians hacking democratic committees and staffers. so that's one point. the other point is, when "the times" broke the story about jared kushner meeting with this russian banker sergey gorkov back in march, the russian -- >> the white house said they didn't know why? >> they didn't know why. since then they have said -- and they initially said shortly after our story, not to us, or suggested it on background to people, and then since have indicated similarly that this was about establishing a back channel, that gorkov was believed to be close to putin and kushner was trying to find someone to communicate directly. i don't understand why not put it out there directly if that

was the case. >> this reminds me of the clinton white house in the 1990s when anything related to hillary clinton, the senior white house aides would walk on egg shells and it was very different for them to go to the president's wife and say, hey, there's troubling reporting in the press. with he need all the facts. there was this very tense relationship because it's a family member of the president's. kushner, for some run, anything that comes up related to kushner, the senior white house staff is scared, doesn't want to talk to him, doesn't want to pressure him. >> a sense of paralysis. >> jeffrey? >> i would say that jared kushner is the robert kennedy of the trump administration and i would disagree with maggie about back channels and secret channels because they can be the same things. in the kennedy era, the knowledge was limited to the two brothers. one was the attorney jeb and they kept it out of the state department. >> i get the comparison but at that point there hadn't been all

of the u.s. intelligence agencies saying that russia had, you know, tried to involve themselves and had deeply involved themselves in the u.s. election. >> i just -- i think that this is vastly overblown. >> what about the point about the changing story out of the white house, that we don't know why they had this meeting or actually we do, it was because -- >> i think there's some concern about secrecy. so they are not filling out forms saying some of this. i think that's -- >> you say that's a legitimate thing to be concerned about? >> secrecy in diplomatic -- >> when they are not telling the truth because they were meeting with someone they are concerned about secrecy in if they are confirming in march that they had this meeting, why say we have no idea why it is that kislyak would meet with sergey gorkov and it's becaused he was believed to be close to putin. why on earth would you drag that out? >> they are new players in the

field of diplomacy. >> that's a different point. a fair point is you are dealing largely with people who have not been in politics or government. >> right. >> and they are not used to seeking outside counsel of any kind. that's a real thing. >> and i think there's a lot of that feeling. >> i think there is -- >> on both sides of this divide. on the one hand, you've got people in the white house who are looking at the washington community and saying, you know, we don't trust you. >> that's not what i'm talk ing about. >> spicer was out there and not have an answer for this. if it is not true, deny it. if it is true, explain it now so people can understand. the fact that they are still dancing around it is really -- it only causes maggie and others like her and ryan to do more -- >> you know what the white house said in the past on this, the president is so -- i can't remember the adjective they used, fast moving that his spok

spokespeople cannot keep up. i'm just telling you what the white house said. you don't buy that. >> i'm sure. >> his moves are too slick. he can't even put his press guy out there to respond to what has been the hot story of the whole week. that is just -- that, of course, is ridiculous. but it does beg the question of what all the secrecy is about, under lying it. it's not about a back channel. something is underneath all of -- >> it could be that he's incompetent. >> i do think -- i -- incompetence -- >> now you're -- >> it's newness to government. >> it looks weird. it smells fishy and all of that, but one thing, clearly we've known for a long time that donald trump viewed russia very differently than most of us did. i saw them as an adversary. i think he did see them as an opportunity, someone he can work with. the paradigm was the western

civilization versus islamism or radic radical islamism. he wanted to work with america and the idea that our bureaucracy would leak information is not a paranoid notion. >> this is our fundamental problem here, is why is it that the trump campaign aides after this election, after all of the american intelligence is telling us what they did during the election, why are they more skeptical and distrustful of american intelligence services than -- >> steve hall, i think -- >> but russian intelligence versus american intelligence and -- >> as a career cia officer. >> the only thing i can talk about that i know that i'm talking about is secrecy. the idea that somebody like kushner or anybody is going to try to protect in a secret fashion from the deep state, which is a crock, by the way, but let's say that it's not. let's say you want to protect

against these leaks. you're going to go to the russians? you're going to go to the adversarial nation of the world and say, let me enter your communications room because i want to use your communications to keep it from my own government. i'm not sure because i'm not a lawyer whether that's against the law but it ought to be. it's ridiculous to say that you're going to go to the russian government so you can keep a secret from your own government, from the press. that's ludicrous. >> there's a word for it. collusion. >> i don't -- what i do think is that you have this need by the trump white house to constantly invoke this culture of victimhood of we're being leaked on. this is being done to us and i think that you have seen less energy and concern about what happened in the election in the first place. along with the other -- >> do we know the example with president trump actually talking to the russians about what happened during the -- i mean, is the president saying we're deeply concerned about your

attempt to -- >> we have a thread of reporting that we don't -- i don't know how solid this is -- but we know that when we reported about the president being in the oval office with russian officials a couple of weeks ago where he spilled information, intelligence information and then he also trashed james comey and said i just fired him yesterday, he supposedly did confront the russian officials in some way and said, you know, this basically -- the meddling caused me a problem or put me in a bad position or something to that effect. you know, if that is so, that's the only time i know of that happening and i don't know how extensive or thorough that was. >> a lot more to discuss. coming up, a lonely, angry president withdrawing, not happy with anyone. that's the word about president trump's state from a source who speaks with him. i'll have more on that, next. i miss you babe. i wish you were here. i miss home. ♪

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tonight's breaking news, michael flynn will hand over documents that the senate intelligence committee asked for. the first batch will come by june 6th, a week from today. the growing russia investigation see seems to be taking a toll on president trump, according to shour sources who speak with him. he complained that his first trip overseas was going to be too long, he wasn't looking forward to it and returned to the white house angry. he's gained weight, according to the sources, he doesn't trust people around him, he's withdrawing. not a good picture. it's the one being painted by those sources. this is gloria borger who joins me now along with michael dantonio and timothy o'brien,

author of "trump nation." gloria, this is based on sources that you've been talking to. what have you learned? >> multiple sources who talk to donald trump and whom either he calls or they call him, they've all known him for years. and what they see is a president, as one said to me, he now lives within himself, which is a dangerous place for him to be. they say that he doesn't trust anybody. that's nothing knew for donald trump. he trusts his family but it's different people on different days and don't forget, they are feeding into this, anderson, because they're complaining about his staff to him and about some decisions that he has made. one person said you shouldn't have fired comey when you did, if you did it on day one, it might have been a better story for you. and they're all kind of wondering whether now that he's back and he's in the middle of this, whether somebody is going to be able to help him get control of this and say to him,

here's how you've got to try and fix this and i spoke with one source who said, you know, the only time that he really listens, even to his friends, is when he is really down. and they believe that he's really down now and perhaps there's a chance that he's going to start listening to his advisers or some of his lawyers. >> michael, based on what you know about donald trump, does any of this surprise you? what do you make of gloria's reporting? >> well, i read it this morning and i thought it had to be spot-on because everything she described is classic donald trump. the one thing when i know for sure that he actually listened to some other folks was when he was at his lowest in the moments of his initial bankruptcy back in the early 1990s. and he did listen to some other people because he was desperate and the idea of him kind of alone and caught between these

factions that he doesn't really trust, that rings true to me. >> tim, what about you? you know, for any president going from campaigning or for the regular life to being president, it's a huge adjustment for somebody who has never held political office, it's amplified. >> and doesn't like structured days and suddenly he's in a large maelstrom. the reality of it is, he's not a strategic thinker and he's in a moment now that is perilous. he's got investigations swirling around him. his son-in-law is implicated. people in his campaign are implicated and he really needs to have good outside counsel. he's brought in marc kasowitz. he has no experience with this kind of thing. mcgahn has no experience with it. so it's going to really hinge on whether or not he's going to listen to smart attorneys and smart political advisers and it's pretty early in the game

for something like this to be all right spinning off the track. >> gloria, so many people have been former chief of staffs or president, whether they are democratic or republican presidents, all said, you know, just the makeup of his white house staff is not conducive to running an effective white house. you know, there's obviously been talk about changes. the question is, will there actually be changes to get more organization? >> well, there might be. we don't know. we don't know whether it's going to make any difference. i mean, there's all kinds of talk. donald trump should bring in a jim baker. donald trump doesn't want a jim baker. he's his own jim baker and his own strategist and i had one person who speaks with trump with some regularity who said the problem with the white house is that they don't play chess. they play checkers and that they can't see around corners and that they don't know what's coming at them because they don't have a lot of experience in government and, of course, neither does donald trump, neither does jared kushner.

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senator al franken had a unique path to congress. he started as a writer and comedian and now sits on the judiciary committee asking tough questions in the russia investigation which has twists and turns, including tonight that michael flynn will hand over documents to the senate intelligence committee. he has a new book out called "al franken giant of the senate." i want to ask you about your book because you clearly wrote it. it's funny. >> thanks.

>> so many political books that i have to read are not. >> this is a different kind of memoir from a senator because i came from -- i wrote a lot of these books, you know, and i'm funny. what's happened to me is kind of funny. >> you're the first in your family with a pasta maker? >> yes. humble background. >> right. we'll get to the book in a second. i want to ask you some of the stuff in the headlines today. you know, you're very good with language, obviously. the use of the term "back channel" to describe what jared kushner reportedly was doing for the russians, is that accurate to you? is that what it was, a back channel? >> that's trying to put some gloss on it that doesn't sound like what it was. we don't know. we'll find out. but normally a back channel isn't something where you go to the other country's communication system so your own

intelligence can't hear it. that's what it sounds like kushner thought he was doing. it's also very suspicious that he did not report this meeting. this is the kind of meeting you'd remember, being in the trump tower with him and flynn and -- >> a meeting which wasn't on the books at trump tower. >> yeah. >> initially. >> so this group isn't acting like people who don't have anything to hide. >> does it seem strange to you that the number of people who seem to have neglected to report the meetings that they had with russians and whether jeff sessions, jared kushner obviously we know about michael flynn? >> yes. that's what i'm saying. this is -- this is very suspicious. and we know at that time that kushner and flynn met with kislyak. trump was denying that the russians had interfered in the

campaign and was kind of at war with our information services, our intelligence services. >> do you think they have something to hide? >> my gut tells me they do because they're not acting like people who don't have anything to hide. we will see. we feel like we're in unchartered territory with this president. he is -- this is something i talk about in the book. i used to write books about, you know, liars and books like that and it almost seems adorable that i could sell books about politicians and people like rush limbaugh lying. now it seems like something that is just constant and then there is the, you know, allegation that you are fake news, right? you're fake news. and so this is very getting in a very different place than we've

ever been kind of where it's -- i don't want to compare it to 1984, but there were, you know, wars, peace, that sort of thing. it's getting -- and that's why mueller has to get to the bottom of this. >> you mentioned 1984. does it feel overwhelming to you? >> a little bit. i don't want to go too far. but we do have -- i mean, that screen right behind you is looking at me. that frightens me. >> okay. i've got to ask you about the book. you say from page 203, other than they are all liars, they look closely at their press coverage and it's important for us to know exactly how our constituents see us.

you have a quote from the back cover and i hate to do that because it seems like i didn't read the book. >> sure. >> you wrote, here's the thing you have to understand about ted cruz. i like ted cruz than most of my other colleagues like ted cruz and i hate ted cruz. >> he's sort of the exception that proves the rule, he's kind of a toxic dying in office, the guy who microwaves fish, you know, and he just -- >> smells up the office? >> yeah. and to get things done in the senate you've got to be living in a town of 100 people and cruz more than most of our colleagues values comedy. it's kind of a comedy fan. >> really? >> yeah. and i remember -- i describe in

the book, i'm talking to jeff sessions after -- and jeff sessions' wife knit a baby blanket for my first grandson and so it's hard to hate a guy for something -- he's not my favorite guy and i challenge him during the hearings. but i'm talking to jeff about -- we've just been away for a woke and ted comes to me and says my friends and i saw stewart smally with michael jordan, which is a piece i did on ""saturday night live" and i had to explain to jeff sessions what recovery is, what public access tv is, what a parody of public access tv is and what daily affirmations are and i'm going -- and, of course, jeff left. and then i was -- but, you know, i devote a chapter to ted.

he's the exception that proves the rule. and the rule is that in order to get things done, you've got to be a good colleague. >> obviously you've been asked to ask this question and said you're not interested in running for president for 2020. >> right. >> obviously that's come up a lot. >> it's flattering. it's flattering. ask me if i'm going to run. >> well, how about -- i know what you'll say. but if there was a rule that only people who had worked at nbc could run, would you consider it? >> boy, that's -- whew. i don't know. i mean, there's never going to be a rule like that. i'm not running. >> you're not running? >> for re-election in 2020. >> no doubt about it. >> no. >> senator franken, the book is "giant of the senate". >> thank you. appreciate it. before the break, i want to show you live pictures from

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tiger woods spent the early hours of memorial day in a jail cell. he said in a statement that alcohol was not involved and says what happened was a result of an unexpected reaction to prescribed medications. he took a breathalyzer at the scene. we know the results. rosa flores has more. >> reporter: the world's most famous golfer making headlines. it has nothing to do with the sport he is known for. tiger woods arrested on dui charges ten miles south of his jupiter, florida, home on 3:00

a.m. on monday. documents reveal he was in the right lane of traffic alone and sleeping behind the wheel. the engine running. the brake lights on and his right blinker flashing. the mugshot, a far cry from the well manicured image known to millions. police say his speech was slow and slurred. he was confused. he didn't know where he was and even told officers he was coming back from a golf outing in l.a. woods hasn't swung a club professionally since february while he recovered from a fourth back surgery. he told police he was taking several prescriptions and in a statement he said he had an unexpected reaction to the medication. the impact of the drugs on the golfer so heavy he even fell asleep during the encounter with police, records show. tiger woods cooperated with officers, giving a breathalyzer

test, which he passed, and provided a urine sample. while dui is a criminal traffic offense in florida, cnn legal analyst mark omeara says tiger has a good chance of getting off the hook or pleading down. >> if he had any alcohol in his system, then that would have gone out the window. drinking with prescription drugs would have put the burden on his shoulders. since he was alcohol free, pulled over to the side of the road or at least fell asleep, was on medications for a surgery we all know he had. >> reporter: the police report shows woods' 2015 mercedes was damaged on the driver's side, including two flat tires. the extent of the damage to his reputation, which he has been trying to repair for the better part of a decade, is yet to be determined. he will be arranged here in south florida on july 5th. >> you mentioned a statement from tiger woods.

what else are we hearing from him? >> reporter: in that statement, anderson, he mentions that he apologizes to his family, friends and fans and that he takes full responsibility for his actions and that he, too, expects more of himself. he hasn't been golfing. he has been recovering from his fourth back surgery. what he has been doing is blogging. in his latest post he mentioned he has been feeling better than he has in the past few years. also saying that his prognosis is positive but that he had to take it day by day and that he can't wait to golf professionally again. >> rosa, thanks. more ahead in the russia appropria probe. michael flynn will turn over documents to investigators and what president trump's personal attorney says he will do. but they're different. it's nice to remove artificial ingredients. kind never had to. we choose real ingredients like almonds, peanuts and a drizzle of dark chocolate.

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