vladimir putin. >> your question presupposed facts that have not been proven. >> he is frustrated to see stories come out that are false and narratives that are wrong to see quote, unquote, fake news. >> powerful car bomb exploded near the german embassy in afghanistan. >> the streets were flooded so we can certainly expect casualties to arise. >> this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, may 31st, 8:00 in the east and we do have breaking news for you. this out of afghanistan. there was this massive suicide bomb and it has rocked the diplomatic border, killing at least 80 people, injured hundreds more. the blast happened about 400 yards from the german embassy. this bomb was hidden in a water

delivery truck during morning rush hour. so far no claim of responsibility. >> president trump's fired national security advisor michael flynn reversing course. he says he is now willing to turp over documents to senate investigators for their russian probe and twitter on fire over the president's clumsy midnight tweet with a typo in it that has everybody talking about why the president insists on tweeting. we got it all covered. let's begin with joe johns live at the white house. joe. >> good morning, chris. in this russia investigation, you have seen what's happened and it's happened in many other investigations as well. first they request information, and when they don't get it, then they issue subpoenas. and the people caught in the middle face potential legal exposure if they don't comply. that's the position the president's former national security advisor finds himself in this morning.

>> president trump's fired national security advisor michael flynn now says he is willing to cooperate with senate investigators to provide them with documents sought by two subpoenas. flynn expected to hand over the first batch to the senate intelligence committee by june 6th. congressional investigators are expanding their siting to other trump aids. michael cohen, a personal attorney to the president flatly refusing a request from the house and senate intelligence committees to offer up information and testify. cohen lashing out, claiming a lack of evidence to corroborate the russia narrative, labeling the investigation a total fishing expedition and accusing lawmakers of a rush to judgment. but later admitting he would comply if subpoenaed. white house press secretary sean spicer facing tough questions about all the russia revelations when he held his first briefing in more than two weeks. >> the white house dispute that -- >> i'm not going to get into it. but your question presupposes facts that have not been

confirmed. >> the white house refusing to deny whether jared kushner sought a secret back channel to russian president vladimir putin. >> secretary kelly and general mcmaster have both discussed in general terms back channels are an appropriate part of diplomacy. >> looking into the intent of kushner's contact with russia during the transition, including why he met with a russian banker, a man with deep ties to the kremlin. the white house claimed he was talking to the russians in his role as an official primary point of contact with foreign governments. but the russian bank offered a different account, calling it a business meeting. >> mr. kushner's attorney has said he has volunteered to share with congress what he knows about these meetings and he will do the same if he is connected with any other inquiry. >> did the president discuss it, though? >> i'm not going to get into it. >> the white house in spin mode, trying to down play reports about turmoil in the west wing. >> i think he's very pleased

with the work of his staff. i think he is frustrated like i am and like so many others to see stories come out that are false, to see narratives that are wrong, to see fake news. when you see stories get perpetrated that are absolutely false, that are not based in fact, that is troubling. >> clashing with the media over the president's favorite subject. >> can you give an example of fake news, shawn? >> yeah, sure. friday the president was having a great discussion at the g-7 and someone from the bbc and ultimately an incoming reporter for the no"the new york times" d the president was being rude by disrespecting the italian prime minister. when in fact you watched the president with that one ear piece that's been used by other presidents. yet the president did a great job at nato. >> and then abruptly storming out. and then a little bit more on that presidential misfire that

set social media on fire. last night the president apparently starting to write something on twitter about the media, despite the constant negative press, perhaps he was going to write coverage. he wrote the word covfete replaced with who can figure out the true meaning of covfete? eastbound jo enjoy. >> i'm enjoying your coverage of this, joe. let's talk about it with our panel. we have cnn politics reporter and ed door at large chris cillizza and david gregory and april ryan. david, you wrote a book. how is your covfete. look, is there anything here that is relevant of the president tweeting at midnight this nonsense? >> no. i don't think there is anything

releva relevant. but i think that it's indicative of his frame of mind coming back from his trip. he seems singularly focussed on taking all comers on the russia investigation, on press coverage. he has resumed a place that is really self-destructive in being the one who is uniquely in charge of dealing with criticism or distraction and not realizing how to self-destruct if it is. he's talked to outside counsel about helping him isolate the russia investigation where there is a special counsel as well as congressional committees as there is one who can be in the chief of staff role who can say, mr. president, we need to focus on this and not that. but can't be the one who take on the press. are you going to deny him any of those devices literally to communicate? and i think what he's got to realize at some point is that what has served him in a campaign or served him up until

now is not serving him well as president because he's not getting done what he would like to get done and staying up light and tweeting all the rest is making a difference. >> it is making a difference, and it is making a negative difference because more often than not he winds up creating a new cycle. >> yep. >> current example, the tweets that he put out this morning about carter page, a man he says he doesn't know. yet, he tweets this morning that there were reports -- i thought they were all fake news, but now he sites reports about carter page, they don't want him to testify, which is false. we're not going to negotiate a date with a guy like carter page. i don't know what he means, but that's what he said. we'll tell him when he wants him to testify and the president goes further saying because carter page, a man who he keeps saying he doesn't know, he now says he blows away the case against him. once again puts it as a witch hunt and makes carter page equal

with jim comey and brennan. >> this is a cycle, yes. it is a pattern. and it's a destructive pattern for him whether he wants to admit it or not. look, his defense of michael flynn, even after he fired him, whether that's publically saying, you know, in interviews that he's a good guy, but he had to let him go or privately saying, look, comey is a good guy, can we let this go. what i try to figure out is why donald trump would defend mike flynn or carter page. i think some of it in flynn's case is loyalty. flynn was with him from the very beginning. i think in carter page's case it is the enemy of my enemy is my mind. he thinks carter page is being maligned by the media, i guess, and the media is his enemy and therefore defending carter page is sort of the right thing to

do. being a staffer for donald trump is an impossible job. it doesn't mean these people should have sympathy. they knew what they were getting into. but it's an impossible job. he doesn't know carter page. the president of the united states knocks it down. it could happen over and other on matters big and small. he is his own worst enemy time and time again. >> spicer makes his own luck as well. fake news, fake news, fake news, all these fake narratives, give us an example and he comes up with a weak example about a tweet about whether the president was respecting an italian official. >> it's ridiculous, frankly. david made this point last hour and i think it's exactly right, which is typically a white house press secretary walks a fine line between maintaining credibility with the reporters who he's working with day in and day out and making sure that the boss is understanding of what

he's doing. sean spicer has scrapped that and is just in save my job mode. yesterday's press conference was illustrative of that a hundred times over. >> april, you were in the room for that press conference. >> when it happened. >> yes, yes. >> all right. april, are these kpeer siess? sean spicer refused to confirm or deny or comment on one of the big stories of the day, and that is whether jared kushner tried to establish a back channel. so as a reporter, are these things helpful? >> yes, it is still helpful. we are waiting for information. yesterday was -- it was bad. i'm just going to say it was bad. from the moment that he came out

and went for about 11 minutes on the concluded trip nine days or ten or eleven days prior, he went back over this trying to show that the president was presidential and what he had done overseas. and then he started taking questions. he went to those they consider friendly. more so than the media that's been there, that's been there at the white house press core that's been there for a while and once jim acosta starts questioning, he gets hot and leaves. it was not a good day but there was some kind of strategy going on. they will give certain people information and then also but it's not enough information. we're still pressing and digging. but we still have to be there because, again, it is not about us. it is about information that feeds the american public. you find out what's going on from the highest office in the land. there is so much at stake. you know, this russia investigation, these leaks that are coming out from their white

house. they're acknowledging the leaks but yet saying we're fake. it does not compute. it does not merge together. so there are definite leaks. they're fearful of what they call fake and that's why they call us fake because they know we're getting real information out of that embattled white house. >> #presson, april ryan. david, and yet could you make the different that he's in better shape on the russia probe in terms of what's known and what may come out eventually than he is on his own domestic agenda. health care still has a lot of people in knots from all the reporting we have. the cbo score is a haunting reality for people who sign on with it that has a domino effect on this tax reform that they still can't get any traction on. and those are the big moments, the big promises that americans are going to look to come to midterms, right? >> i think there is no question about it. i think there is an environment in washington, so it is chaotic. there is so much turmoil within his administration that he's

responsible for. so that keeps churning and washington doesn't work well. the fact that washington doesn't work well on his agenda means he's running out of time to get big ticket items done. so if no momentum on health care in the senate and there appears not to be, then that becomes a big promise that's unfulfilled and gets in the way of if you can't get that particular deal can you get a budget deal. and without that can you do meaningful tax reform. it all becomes a real problem and you have more conservatives on capitol hill who are willing to hedge more because the president is less popular. so it all kind of circles back to what distracts him. if he wants to win the argument say on the russia investigation, then why did he fire the guy who was investigating him, number one. number two, but he could do that with more discipline. if he wants to answer all the questions he could have a big press frens. or he could say here's my

position on this. i'm going to be focused on my agenda. he's not doing that, nor does he have anybody working for him who's helping him do that or doing it on their own. so you have a complete vacuum and you have a president that keeps adding oxygen to the story. >> okay. chris, david, april, thank you very much for all of the insights. >> all right. and, look, another reason that we continue to report on this ongoing investigation is there keep on being new developments, new angles, more people pulled into it. so we're going to get the take from a democratic senator. he's reading a true page turner, his true book. if we could pull senator franken away from those tasty pages, he'll be on "new day" next. s a's reflective for visibility... ...a sleeping bag jacket, jackets that turn into tents.

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for themselves whether i am, in fact, a giant in the senate. >> understood. before we get to the book or the serious news of the day, what is a covfete? >> it is a yiddish term for, i got to go to bed now. i think. >> it sounds like that's totally plausible. >> yeah. i mean, he got that from jared. i guess. >> do you think that there is anything relevant about the fact that the president sent out a gibberish tweet at midnight last night? >> no. i think -- i've done. i haven't done gibberish tweets and late at night you can make errors and i think this is the least disturbing thing in the history of the trump administration. >> all right. let's talk about the russia -- the investigations into russia. jared kushner, as you know, it has been reported that he may

have attempted to set up a back channel with the russians before president trump was actually in the white house. >> right, right. yeah. it's all very disturbing, mainly in no small part because these meetings weren't disclosed. there is a whole bunch of these from trump administration officials or former trump administration officials. they aren't acting like people who have nothing to hide. they have not -- you know, you're supposed to when you are applying for your security clearance fill out the form and say -- >> disclose this and this. >> disclosure meetings and this was a meeting you'd remember. it was at the -- it was between flynn and kislyak and kushner. and then this -- this is no normal back channel thing. this is trying to do it using russian communications so that

it's closed to -- >> right. away from the prying eyes of the u.s. intel. >> intel, which they were kind of at war at because at that time our intelligence community had determined that russia had interfered with our election and trump was trying to deny it. and, so -- and it is hard to believe that his son-in-law was doing this without telling him. i mean -- >> and yet, and yet senator, what we hear from the trump white house and what we hear from his supporters who basically say, but no collusion. lawmakers can't prove any collusion. fbi can't prove any collusion. so, sure, there may be some smoke, but there is no evidence of collusion. >> where there's smoke, though, there is sometimes fire. we have the special prosecutor, bob mueller who everyone i think feels good about being in that position.

we have two intelligence committees house and the senate looking into this. yeah, obviously we actually have to get to the bottom of this and go where the facts go, and that's what we're going to do. >> let's talk about your book. >> yes. >> i want to read a little portion of it. this is about the dehumorizer. every member of my staff is empowered to be the dehuman riser at any given moment. they are encouraged to say, okay, that's for inside the car or the off used, fine, get it out of our system. >> yes. >> so do you feel, number one, pressure to be funny because you are -- >> no. >> you don't? you don't. >> that's not the pressure. >> the pressure is to not be funny in serious situations. >> yeah. or i don't know why this one pops to my head, but when the supreme court decided the equal

marriage decision, which i thought was a great decision, i wanted to put out a press release saying that senator fra franken believes this is a great decision but believes that justice scalia's decent was very gay. >> and your staff said no to that one. >> yeah, they said no. and this is actually after i was re-elected. and i said, oh, come on, said franken. >> okay. you have another one here where you're talking about ted cruz. the problem with ted is simply he's an absolutely toxic coworker. he's the guy in your office that snitches to corporate about your march madness pool and micro waves fish in the office kitchen. >> yeah. >> he has just responded. he says al is trying to sell books and apparently he's decided that being obnoxious and

insulting me is good for causing liberals to buy his book. >> well, he may be right about that. but, no, the whole point of this chapter, i make an exception with ted and i say the thing you should know about ted cruz is i probably like ted cruz more than most of my colleagues like ted cruz, and i hate ted cruz. and i make an exception with him because he is a toxic coworker and to get anything done in the senate you've got to be collnic. ted doesn't get anything done. his big accomplishment was shutting down the government. so i talk a lot about the republicans that i am friends with. i wrote a country song with oran hatch and we worked to retrain principals for high needs

schools. pat roberts, who is a very c conservative senator from kansas, he and i are co-chairs of the health caucus and we bonded over jack benny. >> that's nice. so there is still bipartisan ship happening. >> there has to be. and that was sort of the purpose. >> i want to ask you about kathy griffin. she found the third rail of comedy or at least a political stunt i guess as it wasn't funny. and she was roundly denounced for doing that. >> and properly so. >> so everybody thinks she went too far. >> i did, too. i really think saying -- you know, i think -- kathy is a friend and terrific comedian, but this had no business being in our public discourse. i talked to her. she had apologized, a full fulsome apology.

she's actually begged for forgiveness and i believe in forgiveness. >> you are supposed to be appearing with her in july. can she recover from this? >> well, i think she did the right thing. i think asking for forgiveness and acknowledging that this was -- this was a horrible mistake. and, so, i think she can. >> and you're still going to appear with her? >> yes. >> senator, thanks for sharing the book with us and for being here to talk with us. >> you bet. >> a very serious situation going on in afghanistan, a deadly blast. this as president trump weighs sending more troops to afghanistan, known as the graveyard of empires. could this attack impact whether or not the u.s. puts more boots on the ground? next. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back

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we are following breaking news. a massive explosion rips through a diplomatic quarter in afghanistan. at least 80 people killed. hundreds injured. this is a window into a continuing reality of insecurity in that country. what should it mean for u.s.

military strategy and planning? joining us now cnn military and analyst, retired admiral john kirby and am bass sor dnicholas burns. gentlemen, thank you. perfect guests for this. you can call them advisors, you know, support, whatever. we're thinking about putting more boots on the ground. we all know in this discussion that means they're going to be in harm's way. they're going to be part of the fight. do you think this is a moment for the u.s. to reconsider the decision to get more involved and put more people at risk in afghanistan? >> yeah. i think this actually does underscore the importance of what's going on in afghanistan and the need to continue to support the resolute support mission, which by the way is also a nato mission as well. so i don't know that this attack itself is going to or should actually lead to specific decisions in terms of troop numbers, but it certainly

underscores the importance of the continuing mission to continue to advice, train and assist afghan national security forces. you might have seen chris in the press conference this morning. they praised the afghan national security forces and their reaction to this deadly bombing that they were there, they were responsive, they were on scene and they were capable. that speaks to the importance of this mission going forward. >> and we had a reporter on the ground add saying that those forces are regularly getting killed and in large numbers on nick burns. another reminder that whether it's 500, 5,000 or 15,000 u.s. troops that you put on the ground, will that change afghanistan in a meaningful way? >> well, it may not. we're 16 years into this fight and the trump administration is now actively debating whether they put more troops in beyond the 8,000 or so american troops. there are 5,000 nato troops. nato is going to have to be with

us in this. until now the u.s. troops have been training the afghan national army and have been engaged in counter terror operations. the big question is do we have to go back into the treats of the cities to help the afghan government control them from both the taliban, but also from the islamic state entity there. and either one of them could have been responsible for this devastating terrorist attack this morning. so this is a big decision for president trump, maybe one of the biggest and most important early in his presidency. do we ramp up in afghanistan much in the way president obama did. you remember in the autumn of 2009 there were risks to the united states but there is so much riding on the stability of this government, i can't see an option where the united states decides to leave. we have to stay with this. >> and the question is why. obama went back into afghanistan and trump made that point even more strenuously, that we need

to stay out of these situations if we can't stabilize them and somehow benefit. we'll see what he does here. other international issues, trump's feud with merkel, the white house's reckoning that he had an amazing trip abroad, but the foreign press giving a different reckoning of the impact of the president. how do you see it? >> i did not recognize the trip from sean spicer's description yesterday at the podium. he cast the fight against terrorism in military terms and weighed right in on the suni divide, which i don't think is healthy long-term. but when he went to brusles, the trip fell apart at that point. you have our strongers and most powerful ally saying they don't know they could rely on the united states going forward. this is a watershed moment, something we haven't seen in literally 70 years. we have our closest ally, the u.k. refusing to share

intelligence with us and we have our oldest ally, the president of the france makes clear he's not going to be bullied by the president of the united states. how do we warm up the dictators and democrats with a small d, such as our allies and partners in nato. we give them the cold shoulder. it made no sense to me. >> and nick burns, we have breaking news from two official sources coming from the white house. the word is that president trump will withdraw from the france agreements with respect to global warming and those other environmental considerations. if that's not true, please reach out, at least on twitter and let us know that it is not true. but if it is, nick burns, how big a deal is it if the u.s. withdraws from the paris deal? >> if true, this would be a colossal mistake. it would also, chris, devastate

our international credibility. we are one of the two largest carbon emitters with china. we are the ones who put this deal together. it is the first step to try to do something about climate change. for president trump to take us out, it is anti-em per cal. it is antiscience. it will deepen the crisis in europe. if you travel in europe, it is the number one public issue. if we walk away, it will further deepen the credibility problem that we have with the germans and other peoples in europe. >> and john, it would also create a control vacuum. even the business interests in the u.s. have said don't leave. if you do, we don't have leverage. >> yeah. that's exactly right, chris. 300 u.s. companies have urged the president to stay in the paris agreement. in the last 15 years the solar energy industry in the united states has doubled seven times. the wind energy industry has doubled four times.

and just in the last 15 years there is 2.5 million jobs in the united states dedicated to the clear air energy and that number is continuing to climb. that's the future and that's where china wants to go. so we are going to be losing jobs here in the united states and hurting our economy and we'll be seeding that territory to china going forward. >> 192 signatories during this trip. you saw the entire european community come out and reinforce its commitment to the paris accords and now cnn has learned from two different sources that the president of the united states says the united states is out of the paris agreement. gentlemen, thank you for commenting on these important issues today. >> the man accused of carrying out that deadly stabbing free in portland lashed out in court. the city's police chief joins us with what's next.

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the man accused of carrying out a deadly stabbing spree on a portland train fwoes goes on a in court. >> free speech or die. this is america. get out if you don't like free

speech. death to the enemies of america. leave this country if you hate our freedom. you call it terrorism. i call it patriotism. you hear me? die. >> he is charged in the deaths of two men, heroes, who defended two young women on a train last week. the girls apparently targeted because of her hue jab. so joining us now is portland's police chief. chief, thank you for being here. >> thank you very much for having me on. >> why was that suspect allowed to go on that diatribe in court? is that just sort of the downside of free speech? >> well, yes. i mean, free speech rights, first amendment rights, we obviously have to protect those rights of every individual and on our train system in portland, it's an open system. it's not a closed system. so people are able to move about pretty freely on that. so we try to monitor this

behavior, but unfortunately sometimes these tragedies do occur. >> look, and of course the bitter irony is that that man who was railing for free speech is accused of snuffing out the free speech of the two heroes who tried to stand up for these young girls. and that leads us to the next issue. the mayor of portland wants to cancel this extremist right wing rally that's scheduled for this weekend. what do you think? should the rally go on or be canceled? >> that's correct. well, you know, honestly, we try to stay neutral, so regardless whatever your message is, we will protect all sides and there is multiple sides in this story now. so we will stay neutral in that. if any group comes down and has their first amendment rights we

will protect them from other groups. that's the hard part for the police bureau. there is multiple groups coming. again, we don't want to stifle anybody's constitutional rights. but what we will try to do is keep everybody safe and have no violence. that's our goal for this sunday. >> right. that's what your duty is, is that regardless of whoever things they're spewing, you are promising to try to protect them. you know, what's going on in portland, though? because as i understand it, there has been a lot of protests that have turned overly heated or violent. there has been anarchist groups setting fires, right wing extremists perpetrating violence. what do you think is going on there? >> well, i've been in portland now for 26 years. portland does have a pretty rich history of protests and people exercising their first amendment rights. again, as a city, we're okay

with that. portland's a unique city to provide policing services and a lot of people want to get out and voice those seasopinions. so this to me is actually nothing new. but since we have different election cycles and different people in administrations, different communities pop up to voice those concerns. and again honestly, we're in favor of that, people coming out and voicing that. again, my goal is to have people available to do that in a safe manner. >> chief, what have you learned about this, portland's stabbing suspect's background. >> we did have encounters with him in the early 2000s. we actually were in a shooting with him. i believe he robbed like a little mom and pop grocery store. we actually shot him. he ended up doing about 90 months in prison for that crime. obviously, he's since been out. a couple weeks ago there was

another protest in town where he showed up, yelled a lot of hate speech and actually both sides, if you want to call it sides, that were voicing concerns about each other, both sides kicked him out of their protest. so he wasn't welcome there by anybody. so he was on our radar due to that activity. >> yeah. >> and then obviously unfortunately on friday we all know what he did on the train. >> yeah. well, chief, we appreciate the work you do. and we appreciate you taking time for being on with us. stay safe this weekend and beyond. thank you. >> yeah. thank you very much. >> chris. >> all right. we're following breaking news. sources tell cnn president trump is expected to withdraw from the paris accords, the climate deal. what will the fall-out be. we're going to ask david axelrod next. e i am. i think is today going to be the day, that we find a cure? oh is is

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. all right. president trump is expected to withdraw from the paris climate accord signed by 192 nations. sources tell cnn a formal announcement will happen this week. what will it mean? joining us now is cnn senior political commentator david axelrod. the rational has not been laid out for this move. the president has not addressed it with the american people, but apparently the argument would be it's too expensive for the united states. it is not a good deal. we'll take care of our business at home and not spend money abroad. your take? >> i think it is a fundamentally political decision on the part of an embattled president who

couldn't brook a revolt against his base. and this was a key issue for his base. we know there was a big debate raging in the white house between his economic advisors and his national security advisors who were on one side, which is to stay in the agreement and steve bannon, who represents his political side and really speaks for that fundamental populus base that elected him and he opted to go with the base on this. i think there are terrible ramifications of it in terms of our relationships, not just with europe, but also in asia and other countries around the world and clearly the business community was united in its hope that he would not withdraw from the parties agreement. but he made a decision to hang on to his core supporters here, who were absolutely resolute that he should pull out of the agreement. >> it is interesting to see who has the president's ear at any

given time. as you point out, it sounds as if one of his top advisors, rex tillerson, ivanka trump that they were were staying in the paris accord and steve bannon and scott pru wit of the epa were against it. it is hard to know exactly where president trump is in terms of climate change because he's been a little bit all over the map. in 2005, he said -- he tweeted this. among the lowest temperatures ever in much of the united states, icecaps at record size. they changed the name from global warming to climate change. this is when he thought it was more of a hoax. and then yesterday sean spicer, press secretary, was asked about where are the president's views? what are they now on this? and here's what he said. >> this morning the president met with environmental protection agency administrator, one of the topics they discussed of course was the president's upcoming decision on the paris climate accords.

>> can you say whether or not the president believes human activity is contributing to the warmings of the climate. >> honestly, i haven't asked him. >> do you feel like that is a decision he's still trying to make. >> i don't know. i haven't asked him that specific question. >> david, your thoughts? >> the one thing we know about his position in climate change is that it's changeable and the political climate has changed such that he feels it is in his benefit to be against us, to pull out of paris. you mentioned it is hard to know who has his ear at any given time. it is interesting because you remember not that many weeks back there are all these stories about how bannon was on his way out, that bannon was in disrepute with the president. clearly, he is ascendant again in the white house and this decision reflects that. >> you know, hopefully for tomorrow we'll work up exactly what these accords were about, what they did and why because

this is another issue that's going to be burdened with a lot of disinformation in explaining this move. so we'll try and give people some information so they understood what is happening. what is your take? we read your twitter feed. but about midnight last night, the president letting his fingers do the walking. >> and talking. >> and comes up with. despite the constant negative press, covfete. yeah, that's it. it sounds better. >> in any case, is this exhibit no. 5,280 of why he should not be on twitter? >> well, he asked what it meant. he joked that people can speculate on what it meant. i said that it is the sound of a sputtering machine running out of power. but what it says to me is there is something really amiss in the white house. yes, the issue of whether he

should taper off on twitter has long since decided by everybody but him. but now -- you know, i make typos on twitter. you probably do as well. you generally delete it after ten seconds. how can the president of the united states tweet something nonsensical like that and have it sit there for six hours and no one in the white house -- i know it was midnight but people work around the clock at the white house. how does no one say, hey, you know, sir, we better delete this or delete it for him and that -- you know, that's a process issue. i thought that was insane that they allowed that thing to hang around as long as it did. so there are all kinds of problems that that tweet portrays. i don't want to get into the psycho basketbabble about it ch >> it is a reflection. look at what followed it. he then goes with carter page and tweets a man he didn't even

know, he starts defending him, owns his story and implies in a tweet that brennan and comey were lying in their testimony. >> well, it also speaks to, chris, how difficult the job is going to be for his lawyers who must grimace every time they look at his twitter account. so he better -- he better zip it up. that's the advice he's going to get from them. >> it is a teachable moment for our children to check your work before hitting send. >> exactly. >> thank you very much for the bottom line. >> all right, guys have a great guy. >> cnn news room with poppy harlow and jim berman is going to pick up after this quick break. we'll see you tomorrow. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter.

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when heartburn hits fight back fast with new tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum new tums chewy bites. this is cnn breaking news. >> all right. the breaking news, a major decision from the white house. president trump is expected to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. this is according to two senior u.s. officials. >> it is unclear at this point how long this process is going to take or when the official announcement will come, but this is a major shot at the obama legacy and one that could trigger a wave of consequences with major u.s. allies overseas, among those who had been pushing for withdrawal. trump's chief strategist steve bannon and the head of the epa scott pruit. let's begin with our global affairs