vladimir putin sure is doing an awful lot of talking all of a sudden. this is cnn tonight. i am don lemon. putin calls u.s. intelligence on russian hacking useless chitchat.

that's one day after he suggested patriotic russian hackers might act, quote, behalf of their country. he won't judge president trump for quitting the paris climate accord even though he supports is. is he messing with trump now? plus you know who's going to be to go some talking soon? james comey. the white house is trying to muzzle him. let's talk about all of this. get to national political reporter maeve, cnn contributor john dean. good evening to all of you. timothy, fbi, former fbi director james comey testifies on capitol hill where he'll certainly be asked whether president trump pressured him to drop the russia investigation. how consequential do you think this could be for the trump administration? >> this could be huge.

after all james comey could lay the basis for a charge of obstruction of justice plchlt de. -- mr. dean with part of our group tonight and when he testified in 1973 he made a case the president was involved in a coverup. if mr. comey lays out the case he was pressured by the president to stop the russia investigation, that's the beginning of real trouble for the president. >> how likely is it, john dean, that comey is going to lay the case as timothy says for obstruction of justice, for possible obstruction of justice? >> i think he's a very sophisticated witness. he's a former prosecutor. he's a former fbi director. he knows his way around hearing rooms, courtrooms. he knows what to say. he's talked to the special counsel about the parameters so that he doesn't mess up any prosecutions. i think he'll layout his

firsthand knowledge and it will be part of the mosaic that he now sees better from a distance since he's been fired. he probably reinterprets some of the conversation he had with trump through the fact he's no longer fbi director. >> given that the president has publicly spoken out about his private conversations with comey, he's tweeted about it, how likely do you think it is he's going to try to invoke some sort of privilege? >> i don't think it's likely at all. i think this is a lot of smoke his aides have put out that he in the end will not do anything like he gave his consent. he wasn't worried about this testimony. i can't find any precedent for any president telling an ex-fbi or high level official that you can't testify as a private citizen about your dealings with the president. i just don't know what the executive privilege basis would be. >> speaking of executive

privilege, the white house press secretary sean spicer and president trump's counselor kellyanne conway refused to rule out executive privilege. listen to this. >> is the white house going to invoke executive privilege to prevent james comey from testifying before the senate intelligence panel next week? >> that committee hearing was just noticed and i think obviously it's got to be reviewed. >> that's not a no. >> i'm just saying i don't -- literally my understanding is the date for that hearing was just set. i've not spoken to counsel yet. >> so the president's not going to invoke executive privilege? >> the president will make that decision. >> have they lost the ability to speak for him with any confidence? >> well, i think it's tough certainly and they've been a little bit more cagey lately saying i haven't checked with the president on that or i haven't asked him about, you know, the question they're asking. but i just think -- >> but if they haven't checked with him, if they haven't asked this question and hopefully you can answer, then why are they out there speaking for him? isn't that their job?

>> that's a good question. yes, it is. but clearly they are being much more careful after a series of misstatements that have, you know, misled people about what the president's thinking or what the president's going to do. and his tweets have direct ly conflicted with what his advisers have said. his american people have lost confidence in what some of his advisers have said. i think to john's point, beyond the fact that the white house has an incredibly weak case to try to claim executive privilege to prevent comey from testifying, the optics of this would just be so terrible for the white house. i mean, the whole problem that trump has right now and the rest of his administration is that he's created a pattern of conduct that has raised all these questions about whether he is involved in obstructing -- obstruction of justice or preventing this investigation

from going forward in the way that it should. and clearly this is not a white house that gets the optics right a lot of the time but i think his advisers understand how bad it would look if he's essentially muzzling comey next week even though there clearly will be a lot of fall out from this hearing. >> a source of knowledge with comey's thinking says while he was disturbed, because a lot of people ask why didn't he speak out about this sooner, that he was disturbed by the president's action but he thought that he had it under control and maybe this president just didn't know how to conduct himself in what was right and what was wrong with the director of the fbi. do you think that he maybe just didn't understand the inappropriateness of his own actions? >> mr. trump didn't, president trump? >> yeah. >> fascinating -- look, what's fascinating about this is that generally speaking people engaged in a conspiracy at the top, they don't do it correctly.

they have people, intermediaries talk to comey. the fact that the president himself spoke with comey in the residence is very dangerous. and i suspect it has something to do with the way in which he conducted business in new york in the '80s and '90s and that he doesn't understand government. he doesn't understand the new -- that the regulatory environment he's living in. >> does he -- john, as you're saying, he doesn't understand the program. when i asked that question and when i read the comment from the source, can you claim not knowing what's appropriate like you can't claim ignorance of the law? it's like you're the president of the united states. how can you not know? you're supposed to know these things. >> well, a lot of watergate was people who did not understand the law, who were unaware of it. one of the first reaks i had after learning what happened was to raise with my predecessor that we needed a good criminal lawyer. i said john, to my knowledge,

you have no background in the criminal law, i have no background in the criminal law. nobody on my staff and we've got to be careful. well, we weren't. i couldn't convince him that i should bring somebody on. every counsel since my time in the white house has always had somebody on their staff or in themself had experience in the criminal law. >> the deputy attorney general rott rod rosenstein who appointed mueller as the special counsel, he said he would recuse himself from any oversight of mueller's probe if he became the subject of an investigation. do you think that's where things are going, john? >> it could well happen. i was really quite surprised today to hear the new scope of mueller's investigation and that's the right thing for the deputy attorney general to do is to indeed recuse himself if he's part of it. that will take it down probably to the head of the criminal division who i'm not sure who that person is at this point. but that's where it will fall in

the chain. so that will, you know, add more confusion to the investigation in a sense but we have a special counsel that's leading the whole drive, so they're really not involved in it. >> i have to ask you because i understand you have some reporting regarding ivanka trump and what's going on with her. what do you have? >> well, we, in our magazine at cnn.com/state we're writing this time about origins. we have a story looking deeply into donald trump's faith and his guiding principles or lack thereof and also a story looking at ivanka trump's role, particularly as a high profile jewish woman in america given the amount of, you know, of anti-semitic attacks we're seeing around the country and that very troubling pattern that we're seeing. it's interesting how little she has spoken out about that given,

you know, her very public visit to the western wall and accompanying her father to jerusalem. so it's really fascinating thing to watch and i think a lot of people are looking to her to step up that role and really speak out on those issues since her faith is obviously such a central part of who she is. >> thank you, panel. have a great weekend. when we come back, vladimir putin speaking out about reports russia meddled in last year's election and he's not exactly denying it. fees? what did you have in mind? i don't know. $4.95 per trade? uhhh. and i was wondering if your brokerage offers some sort of guarantee? guarantee? where we can get our fees and commissions back if we're not happy. so can you offer me what schwab is offering? what's with all the questions? ask your broker if they're offering $4.95 online equity trades and a satisfaction guarantee.

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it's like anti-semitism. the jews are to blame. >> he isn't denying russian involve like he has in the past. what do you think he's saying here? >> first of all, the russians are perplexed by the degree to which this thing has blown up and now affects virtually everything the trump administration can and can't do in its relations with russia. they don't know quite how to behave in this context. putin certainly knows what the russians had done during the election and subsequently, but at this stage i don't think they understand how serious it could get, although they're beginning to get an inkling of that. is what they did during the election worth the price they're paying but also in the european context. so when they said the other

day -- when he said the other day that russians may have been involved but they were simply patriots who were offended by the way russia was being treated in the u.s. press and by politicians but it wasn't the russian government, that suggested that they may be moving in the direction where they feel they're going to have to deal more directly with the issue and they can't continue to simply stone wall which is what their position has been. >> so what price are they paying? >> well, right now it is absolute constraint and distraction on a trump administration if they want to make progress in the relationship with the russians. and after the inflated expectations following the election which did dissipate on the russian side, more recently as a result of the tillerson/la roth's conversation, i think they believe the administration would like to move forward on some issues. yet they see this question of russia and the election now disrupting everything. >> got it.

matthew, putin has been incredibly outspoken on the hacking in the u.s. election in the past week. what do you make of this strategy? i. >> i think he's been on a diplomatic offensive in st. petersburg this week and is exploiting a win/win situation for him. he can deny any involvement in the hacking. he can deny there was a deal that was hatched before the inauguration. but on the other hand he can with a wink and a nod remind everybody that in fact he did endorse and sort of license this behavior and that it was successful. the russia covert operations cyber warfare was very sophisticated, well timed, well sequenced and it worked. so he's getting sort of the best out of both situations. he's saying he's not involved, but he's also sending a message to both his people and to the

global audience that he's sitting in front of that he is somewhat omnipotent on this front. at the same time he's exploiting a growing rift in the u.s. policy. he's exploiting president trump's efforts to obfuscate the nature much russia's interference in the election. to the pro fes tor's point, it's a very important one and that is to say putin also recognizes he's painted himself and trump into a corner. he recognizes that he can't at this point negotiate a deal and sanctions and that he otherwise can't do -- take steps on a global and regional conflicts that require u.s. cooperation. >> so those -- that's the consequences. that's the price he's paying right now, at least russia's paying right now. but could he also be, david rohde, could he also be

signaling to the president that he knows more? >> he could be. i guess the broader point that's remarkable to me is the position russia is in today. the level of discord between the united states and europe is sort of unprecedented for many, many years, you could argue many decades. this has gone a goal and weakened and divided european union and nato that putin sought for years and he's done it. every day there's headlines of the russian meddling causing this division and paralysis in washington that makes moscow look that much more powerful on the global stage. whether or not the hacking was intentional or changed the election, it's amazing if you think of putin again five, ten years ago, they were sort of this backward country. they intervened syria, ukraine and now this u.s. election. it's amazing his position on the world stage. >> to david's point, vladimir putin -- he's got to be loving all this attention because after

all, that's a big accusation. that he's powerful enough to fix elections. >> i don't think so. i think something else is at work here. i was in moscow several weeks ago and across the board including russians who do not support the putin policy are quite critical. they all agreed this was a dozen people or more that putin now, and even before the presidential election, is very interested in improving and repairing relations with the united states. when i gsaid that was my impression one of the russians corrected me and said he desperately wants to improve relations. as a consequence, the role that they played in these elections are certainly preventing any significant progress in that direction. there are small things that are happening that we're overlooking and i think the russians are focusing on some of the things that have come out of the original tillerson visit in

moscow. but in the present circumstances, there's a very high price paid if what he wants to do is begin repairing the u.s./russia relationship which he needs to do. because the consequences of the ukrainian crisis have not worked out the way he would want in terms of russian foreign policy broadly seen. >> i enjoy the conversation. when we come back, what will james comey say during his public testimony next week and what will it mean for the russia investigation. i'm going to ask a former cia operative. radio: scorching heat today, stay cool out there!

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affair is that it was a bad idea to fire him, at least how and when he did. and so i hope that the administration realizes that it would be another mistake to try to block his testimony. his testimony is in the public's interest. if trump were to try to block it,ibi it, i believe based on legal expert's opinions, it would fail. it would be a failed attempt to block the testimony that the public needs to hear. so i expect to hear from comey on thursday. >> what dow think you' you thin going to hear from him? >> i don't think what he's going to do is talk about the investigation. we're learning that robert mueller is expanding the scope of the focus of his investigation and so as he expands that investigation, that gives -- that allows less room for comey to talk about the investigation. in prior testimonies he's not wanted to go into much detail anyway. but what i do think we'll hear from comey and i think we're going to hear some significant

candor is about his engagement with the president himself. so i think we're going to hear about, you know, whether the president tried to get him to stop the investigation into michael flynn or the broader investigation. i think we'll hear about the pledge of loyalty that apparently donald trump tried to get comey to make. i think we'll hear about other related factors. but the reason that i think we're going to hear so much candor from comey is that he's a law man. i've said that before, but i think it's just bears repeating that men in the -- and women in the line of work of comey and our intelligence professionals, they depend on their integrity and their honor. they literally cannot do their jobs without it. and so it's a part of the culture that you just don't allow your honor and integrity to be questioned. so when politicians do that and the fbi and the cia are easy

targets, but when they do that, they better be correct. if they're not correct and they're just trying to score points on one of these public servants, then you expect them to try to clear their names. i think that's what comey is going to do. >> so then before i ask you about vladimir putin, then, what questions should the people ask the questions, should congress be asking? >> i think there are a series of questions. they need to know, for example, whether donald trump ever made comey's continuance in that role as director of fbi contingent upon his stopping the investigation or limiting the investigation or whether it was contingent upon a pledge of loyalty. they need to of course ask whether donald trump ever asked if he was under an investigation and whether comey responded or not. he need to account for that. he needs to, you know, he needs to describe any other relevant exchanges that they might have had, but there's plenty there.

and i think we're -- you know, there's still an investigation ongoing and expanding about russia's influence in our elections and what else they may be doing, but really i think as much as comey's firing was an inflection point in the way the nation looks at that issue, i think that -- i will predict that comey's testimony on thursday will be an inflection point or may be an inflection point in which we now start to look just as much or more at potential obstruction of justice on the part of the president. i think it's going to be a big deal. >> let's talk about vladimir putin now, evan. he said americans must stop the hysteria about an alleged russian deal with u.s. p president donald trump. he also conceded it might have been some patriotic hackers. as a former cia officer, what do you say to that? >> well, i would say that if

he's saying that it's a patriot ache duty for russians to influence the outcome in our democracy, then he's very clearly articulated what our problem is. that we have a real threat by a foreign power to our ability to choose our own leaders and hold them accountable. that's what this is. that's what we're talking about here. and so there's no mystery anymore. now, i think the level of partisan ship in our country has gotten to the point where even now that putin is sort of acknowledging that yes, we might have played a role and we did play a role, he's certainly not denying it anymore, there are still people who want to downplay the significance of this and i think those who are in public office do a tremendous disservice to the interests of the american people when they do. but vladimir putin is essentially condoning that activity when he calls it an act of patriotism. and like i said, i think it makes our challenge very clear. >> you say trump and putin both have everything to gain by downplaying their relationship. explain that.

>> well, absolutely they do. they've -- their relationship is longstanding. i don't care what donald trump has said during the campaign. before the campaign, before it mattered, he bragged about his relationship with vladimir putin. there are all kinds of touch points there that have continued through the campaign and even after. but obviously at this point vladimir putin engaged in an effort to undermine our democracy and to sway our election towards donald trump. donald trump seems to have some strange allegiance to vladimir putin. if there's one thing he's consistent about, that's it. we're still learning what the nature of that relationship is. i think by the end of this we'll get to the bottom of it. but they're both advantaged in downplaying the nature of that. look, there's a special counsel investigating a broad range of trump's staffers. they're in hot water on both

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just might tell you everything you need to know about what's going on behind the scenes at the white house. joining me is professor at columbia university and the author of, say it together, "words on the move." welcome. welcome. so all week we've heard team trump speaking about the president and his actions. i want to start with the vice president and the ep achieve in the rose garden. listen. >> thanks to president trump's leadership, american businesses are growing again. thanks to president donald trump, america is back. >> thank you, mr. president. your decision today to exit the paris accord reflects your unflinching commitment to put america first and by exiting, you're fulfilling yet one more campaign promise to the american

people. please know that i am thankful for your fortitude, your krecoue as you serve and lead our country. >> what do you think? >> that looked like some 19th century or better 9th century ritual. it's absolutely absurd, but think about it this way. imagine if a 12-year-old were fashioning policies and then there's this battery of people who are assigned to interpret his policies for the public. now, there have always been this battery of people for other presidents who were real presidents and so we have this ritual that policy is set and either because it's complicated or because everybody wants to figure out how politics is being played, you have these people whose job it is to ask questions to try to bring these things out. you keep things going. sitcoms used to have theme songs, they don't as much now. there was no reason for a sitcom

really to have a theme song, so we figured out it doesn't need it. in the same way we might not really need this business of these press briefings at this point because the policies that are coming from this president are almost invariably underconsidered, not to mention mean spirited poppycock. therefore, why do you need people to ask questions about it as if there's any there there. i think that there shouldn't be any briefing at all. >> i have to say i take issue with some of these. you say real presidents. you're saying he's not a real president? >> yes. i'm putting forth the unusual insight, unprecedented that this person -- of course he was elected president. but in terms of what he assumes, he doesn't act presidential. he isn't giving thought to the presidency the way we would expect. therefore, the policies don't make sense. they aren't well thought out. they don't deserve -- no. they can't be subjected to analysis the way previous

presidency policies could. we need to let it go. these things should be put in writing and people should discuss them. so have somebody like sean spicer assigned to explain what the policies are that justify something that almost always has no moral justification it's cruel to him and it makes no logical sense. >> and the people around him, like scott pruitt and like the vice president, same thing. you don't need -- you don't think there needs to be an announcement? >> it looks so ritual for the simple reason that there's nothing good to say. imagine being in that position. >> let's talk about the statement from -- this is from director of strategic communications. president trump has magnetic personal and exuds energy which is in -- whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. he has built great relationships throughout his life and treats everyone with respect. he is brilliant with a great sense of humor and an amazing

ability to make people feel special and aspire to be more than even they thought possible. >> this is fantasy. >> is he writing his own statements? >> he wouldn't be capable of writing anything that articulate. the point is that he is about as care charismatic as a kitchen cabinet. there's no basis in reality to work from and i think that's very sad for her. she's not even think being him when she writes that. >> who do you think she's thinking about? what will make him happy? >> yeah. >> does it even matter anymore? >> she's working for her boss and i guess she's doing something which is the form of her doing her job. >> equally as striking is what his team was able to say or maybe not able to say about whether the president believes in climate change. watch this. >> what does the president actually believe about climate change? does he still believe it's a hoax. can you clarify that?

nobody else can. >> i have not had an opportunity to have that discussion. >> did the president believe climate change is a hoax? >> this is not about whether climate change is occurring or not. >> he believes in clean air, clean water. >> does he believe global warming is a hoax? >> you ask him that. >> then we have that barrage of tweets y. do you think no one wants to answer this question? for the simple reason that climate change is relatively complex and you have to read both sides. these days i think it's at the point where one side whose justifications you need to read. you need to concentrate. that's not something he does. his position on climate change is roughly that climate change policies were something that the previous administration liked and so therefore he doesn't because life is always about what went on when he was in sand boxes when he was a child. and so that leaves his handlers to not even be able to tell us

how the president feels about one of the most pressing issues facing human kind. that's what i mean about not a real president. this man isn't acting like what the leader of a nation is supposed to act like. >> the leader of the french nation, macron, has been in office for just a few weeks and he's quickly becoming the one person who is willing to stand up to president trump and he had some really harsh words about him pulling out of the paris accord. watch this. >> to all scientists and engineers, responsible citizens were disappointed by the ze decision of the president of the united states. i want to say that they will find in france the second command. i call on them come and work here with us. to work together on concrete solutions for our climate. >> he also tweeted this.

a sharp response. also in english using his own slogan against him. what's your take on it? it says make the planet great again. >> he's a statesman. he is a person who's thinking. and he has focus. and it's really unfortunate to contrast that with -- you know what really gets me? this is a little bit off script. there are people who are working for this man. there are people who are writing about this man in his favor. there are republicans who are going to be writing for the next three and a half years having to pretend that any of this is justifiable and makes sense. it's so sad to see somebody from across the pond who can write about this straight and then to think about any intelligent person here who has to spend time pretending that this man is capable of rubbing a noun and a verb together. i think it's really sad. >> if you listen to macron, whose english is not his first language, what do you think his grasp of the language is? is it better than our president? >> it would be a cheap shot to

say i'll bet trump doesn't speak french. but english is the closest thing that the world has to an international language. so it's more likely that macron would speak english and of course his english is let's say thriftier and tidier than the spoken english of trump. then again, people who are taught english as a second language often are not taught the bar stool version. certainly i have never lfbisten to macron in french. i'm sure he speaks in a formal kind of french. that's different from a certain other president. >> former fbi director james comey is going to testify. talk about the definition of words matter. what will you be listening for? >> in that testimony? i will be listening for comey to explain how there's been in disagreement between him and the president and to make it clear

in terms of words mattering that what the president said corresponded to facts that are extremely damming to his account. i mean the president's account of what's been going on. i think the president tends to think you can spew. you're sitting here tweeting and you fall asleep while you're writing the word and you actually send it and then tease everybody the next day. he thinks that words don't matter. because they don't when you're sitting on a bar stool or when you're bouncing your grand chch on your knee. but words do matter. you can never say an unmonitored word. you're using language in a completely different way when you're president except roughly when you're in the bathroom. trump doesn't understand that and i would hope that as we iron out what's going on between him and comey that that becomes clearer. because -- and frankly i'm a little biased. i think when we do understand what wpt ent on between him and comey, even republicans might

reconsider whether this man should be in the oval office at all. >> is it surprising to you that really smart people, he says and people around him will say really smart people don't understand the words he's using? i know some really -- you're a linguist. is that the definition of covfef ferks? >> that doesn't work. if you take a written transcription of his babbling, you read it in writing and it looks like a martian said it. but the truth is context means a lot and he is coherent in his very casual speech. but that does not not mean there are hidden sophisticated r resonances. these people are flailing because the president is 12. i mean, you imagine a 12-year-old doing these things and you imagine how silly it would be for there to be handlers translating what he's

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