anywhere, you know that. you know who's next. one mr. smerconish. stay close. ♪ i am michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. the president pulls out of the paris climate accord, but was it because of the science, the economics, or just because he had to throw his base a bone. and many already calling it the most anticipated political event since election day. former fbi director james comey testifying this week about president trump and the russian probe. but can the president block it from happening? plus, why is it that every time hillary clinton takes some responsibility for her election loss she can't help also blaming new people.

and golfer tiger woods making headlines with his dui arrest, even though he had zero alcohol in his bloodstream. was his biggest mistake cooperating with the police. first, here's the worst part about the president's withdrawal from the paris climate accord. it was a decision of global importance not made based on science and diplomacy, but one which appears to have been determined by a political calculus. sure, many people are angry. a growing list of cities, states and businesses saying they'll nevertheless honor terms of the accord, but there's no noticeable rebuike from those that supported the trump campaign. this is a pledge made to 46% of voters that carried him to victory, in states like pennsylvania, michigan, ohio, wisconsin. thus far they've had very little to show for their support. okay. he withdraw from the

trans-pacific partnership. despite republicans controlling the white house and both houses of congress, the president has been unsuccessful in implementing the travel ban. there's no repeal and replacement of obamacare, no tax reform. he hasn't ended nafta. china has not been labeled a currency manipulator. no shovels put in the ground for the border wall, not even the moving of the embassy in israel. the president needed to deliver on something that he promised. so he cloaked his opposition in the promise of jobs, casting our lot with fossil fuels and not with renewable energy. all to throw his base a bone. unfortunately fulfilling this commitment rebukes an environmental agreement signed by 195 nations and therein our standing in the world community. joining the ranks of nicaragua and syria, we abdicated our leadership role and provided china with a perfect rebranding opportunity. there's now open question what will be america's role in the world. do americans care what their

role will be. and are we back to isolationist days of the '30s and '40s when fdr ran on the platform of keeping us out of war. joining me, ron klain, senior adviser to hillary clinton's 2016 campaign. he was also chief of staff to two vice presidents, al gore and joe biden. contributing columnist at "the washington post." ron, from a political calculus standpoint was the president wise to do what he did? >> i don't think he was wise to do what he did, michael, but i agree with your commentary. his basis 25% of the american public, majority of republicans but minority of the country. you know as you said, he cited the rust belt and pennsylvania, pittsburgh, going to be for pittsburgh, not paris. in pennsylvania the birthplace of commercial oil production in the united states today more people work in renewables than in coal, natural gas and other

fossil fuels. he is practicing a kind of politics to rally his core supporters, but he is making the wrong decision for the country. even i think in the long run, the wrong decision politically. >> he's earned worldwide rebuke on this. i bring this up first because michael bloomberg noted this week in a conversation with frank bruni, he puts the odds at 55% of donald trump being reelected in 2020 if he wishes to. you wrote you don't want to underestimate donald trump. quote, it is dangerous to underestimate his survival skills. explain. >> sure, michael. he is completely ineffective president as you explain at the outset but a ruthless and effective politician. he beat a very tough field of republicans, 17 of them, to become the republican nominee. he was a host of a successful television program for a decade, knows how to communicate with people. he has strong support in the base of the republican party. his supporters believe him more

than they believe the news media and more than they believe science and more than they believe other kinds of sources. sometimes he is less effective when his back is against the wall and he has to dig it out. saw that after the access hollywood tape. it came out 20 days later, he was elected president of the united states. as a political figure, he is not to be underestimated. something else you wrote for the post i circled, you say die hard supporters are more devoted to trump than they are to rule of law. might that be a notion that is tested this week when the former fbi director james comey testifies in front of the senate intel committee? >> i think in some ways, people that are on the chopping block this week, even more than donald trump, are republicans on the committee. the republicans on the committee voted to confirm james comey, many of them know him personally. the white house will send them talking points, they're supposed

to call comey a liar, a nut job, and i think the question will be do republicans on that committee do the white house's bidding or stand up for james comey's integrity and for the fact that even if he made wrong decisions, i think he was wrong how he handled the e-mails, i don't know anyone other than donald trump that said that james comey is a liar. that's really going to be the question when he testifies. his conversations with donald trump in the oval office, are people going to believe him or the president. what are the republicans on the committee going to say about who they believe? >> i'm going to deal later in the program with the legal aspects of executive privilege. i want to ask ron klain a political question. is it in the president's political best interest to fire that shot across comey's bow? >> no, it's not. i think people already are wondering whether or not he obstructed justice by firing james comey, by asking him not to go after michael flynn, by asking for a loyalty test. if president trump tries to

invoke executive privilege for conversations he talked about on television, so privilege wouldn't really apply to a conversation he talked to lester holt about, if he tried that, that would be an act of desperation and seen as act of desperation. i don't think anyone is going to be impressed by that. >> you were a close adviser to secretary clinton during the course of the campaign. she was back out in public this week. want to run a clip and ask ron klain about it. roll the tape. >> the overriding issue that effected the election that i had any control over, because i had no control over the russians, too bad about that, but we'll talk about it, i hope, was the way that the use of my e-mail account was turned into the biggest scandal since lord knows when. and you know, in the book i'm just using everything that anybody else said about it

besides me to basically say this was the biggest nothing burger ever. >> ron, i want to ask you about that quote, nothing burger. no private e-mail server, no investigation. no investigation, no james comey standing up and delivering rebuke to her in the summer before the general election, nor the october 28 notification to congress. isn't she the architect of her own demise, shouldn't she be saying that politically speaking? >> michael, she has certainly admitted it was a mistake, has taken responsibility for that. she apologize for it during the campaign. i think her point is that that mistake, that error in judgment using a private e-mail server was blown vastly out of proportion by her opponents and news media to make it seem like gigantic wrongdoing. i think she apologized, has taken responsibility for it, certainly had political consequences indeed. that's what she was talking about, had great political consequences.

i think as we look back on this, donald trump taking us out of paris, craziness and wrongdoing in the early days of the trump administration, have to weigh the mistakes she made having a private e-mail account against all of the things donald trump did before he became president and since he has become president and ask ourselves as a country if we made the right choice in 2016. obviously i don't think we did. >> final question for ron klain. you were chief of staff to vice president joe biden. he this week began a new pac. is there any prospect he runs in 2020? >> first of all, i think that it is great that he started this political committee, he is the most in demand democrat in 2018, want to see him on the stump campaigning. as for 2020, he said he is not closing any doors. he doesn't think he is going to run, he is not planning on running, not ruling anything out. that's where he should be. he is a great leader in our party. he is one of the democrats can

speak to some of the trump voters, maybe bring them back home to the democratic party. we need him out there, need his voice. i am excited he is going to make that possible. >> you're not closing the door. that's the take away. >> no, the door is definitely not closed. i think it is unlikely, but the door isn't closed and shouldn't be closed. he should be on the table as a candidate for 2020. >> ron klain, thanks so much for being here. >> thanks for having me, michael. >> what are your thaults. tweet me or hit my facebook page. i will read responses. this is from facebook. overhype about climate change. we need to take care of american taxpayers. okay. welcome lancaster. what about the grandchildren and great grandchildren of those american taxpayers? what do we owe them? up ahead, vladimir putin has just suggested that the alleged russian meddling in the u.s. election may have been an inside job. richard clark, counterterrorism chief who warned the bush

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russian president vladimir putin continues to dominate our news cycle. this week he changed his tune on meddling in the u.s. presidential election. previously he denied it occurred. now he's just denying the state had anything to do with it, saying it was patriotic minded russian hackers. according to yahoo, the administration sought to normalize relations with russia and ease sanctions imposed by president obama. meanwhile, questions persist about son-in-law jared kushner meetings with a russian banker, and that alleged request for unmonitored line to the kremlin. where is all of this headed.

joining me, the perfect man to ask. richard clark, former coordinator for security and counterterrorism under presidents bush and president bill clinton. famously warned the bush administration about an al qaeda attack before 9/11. author of a number of incredible books, recently this one, warnings, finding cassandras to stop catastrophe. vladimir putin has just given an interview where he raises the idea of this all perhaps being, put it up on the screen, a false flag where he said hackers can be anywhere, they can be in russia, asia, latin america. there could be hackers in the united states and so on and so forth. i think he is insinuating perhaps the meddling notion was a cia scheme. your thoughts? >> he said this week whatever happened could have happened by russians, if they were russians involved, this he were just patriotic citizens doing their own hacking. that's what he said in 2008 when

his army invaded georgia, the country, not the state, and as his army was invading, tanks were rolling across the border, there were hacks on all of the georgian control sites. he said that was patriotic russians. year before that, patriotic russians took down all of the government facilities in estonia. in both cases it was the fsb and gru, russian intelligence units. if he is saying the same people, same patriotic russians who did those things in '07 and '08 did these hacks, then he is admitting russian intelligence did it. >> in december allegedly reportedly jared kushner and michael flynn are in a room at trump tower, there with the russian ambassador to the united states, sergei kislyak, and the conversation revolves around setting up a back channel communication to the kremlin. first of all, how extraordinary would that be, and secondly,

react to the idea maybe jared kushner was a neofight governmentally speaking. michael flynn had been around the block. >> every administration has a back channel. you have to be careful about the phrase back channel but this was according to "the washington post" report, not just a back channel, it was espionage channel, according to "the washington post" report that hasn't been verified yet, what he was asking for was spy gear. this report says kushner was asking for russian espionage gear, secret communications gear so that no one in the united states, including our own national security agency, could know what he was saying. well, that's a quite different thing than diplomatic faction that reeks of espionage and may be illegal. if michael flynn were there, again, we have that report, he certainly knew what he was doing. he spent his career in the intelligence community.

he ran an intelligence agency. there's no excuse for him to not know where espionage starts and diplomacy ends. >> if the report is true, it also evidences a monumental distrust between an incoming administration at the highest level and the intelligence community where you labored for three decades. >> it suggests they were trying to do something illegal. the only reason to distrust, want to hide something from the intelligence community is your fear the intelligence community will see something which is illegal and in that case they're required, they're required if they see an american breaking the law to report that to the fbi. so may be an explanation for this, but i tried and can't come with up with it. >> does it strike you as being beyond the realm of reasonable that flynn and kushner would have been free-lancing?

>> the donald trump administration that we have seen so far is one in which he directs the activities. he's not some remote ronald reagan 50,000 feet above his lieutenants who are actually running things. he's the one who's making the decisions. i can't imagine that the son-in-law would feel free to free-lance without trump knowing what he was doing. >> the lead editorial quotes michael hayden referring to all of this as what manner of ignorance, chaos, hubris, suspicion, contempt would you have to have to think that doing this was good or appropriate. i know he said that because he said it to me right here last saturday. do you agree general hayden's characterization? >> general hayden has been commenting on all of this from the beginning. the real question, if this isn't ignorance, doesn't look like

just ignorance, why are they doing it. why is there a russian under every rock, a russian involved in everything this administration has done and everything involved in the campaign? by the way, wasn't just hacking that the russians did. the russians set up tens of thousands of false facebook accounts and twitter accounts to amplify and manipulate, micro target the news that voters got and do psychological warfare campaign over a year. that's not just hacking, that's new day, new era intelligence operation. why were they doing that, why was trump doing things pro-russian, still doing things that are pro-russian? it begs the question. what's the quid pro quo. who is getting what out of this? >> final question on a different subject. your brand new book, warnings, finding cassandras to stop catastrophe, i would be derelict if i didn't note there's a

chapter about climate change and james hanson. you tell his story. give me the cliff note version on that chapter. >> epa administrator yesterday said one of the reasons he thought we could get rid of the paris agreement, james hanson said he didn't like it. that's right. james hanson, the great expert didn't like it because it wasn't tough enough. hanson is an outlier on the view about sea level rise. that's what we look at in the book, outliers, people that see things before others do. experts who warn us and are ignored. hanson says we will have 6 to 9 meter sea level rise in the life of our children and grandchildren. >> richard clark, thank you as always. appreciate you being here, i enjoyed the book. >> thank you, much. >> tweet me at smerconish or go to my facebook and post comments. katherine, what have you got. smerconish, have you ever said anything positive about this president? easy to expect negativity from fake news cnn.

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anticipated political moment since election day. on thursday, former fbi director james comey testifies before the senate intel committee about the stunning accusations that president trump pressured him to end his investigation into his former national security adviser michael flynn's ties to russia. but can president trump invoke executive privilege to prevent comey testifying? kellyanne conway kept us guessing in this interview with george stephanopoulos. >> will the president invoke executive privilege or does he want him to testify. >> we will be watching when director comey testifies. the president will make that decision. >> joining me, ted ruger, dean of university of pennsylvania law school and constitutional expert cht take me back to penn law. what is executive privilege and why do we have that?

>> executive privilege is a legal relative of patient, doctor, and lawyer, client. relationships are so important and communication people have in those relationships so important and we want it to flow as freely as possible, so we're going to give it a special cone of confidentiality and privacy. so when the president asserts executive privilege, there's a special constitutional dimension to it. the president as chief executive is tasked with executing laws and the claim would go president trump is the next in a long line of presidents to make this kind of plan, that the job of the president so difficult, so complex that discussions in the white house need to be so open and free flowing without the worry of interference and the fact of something coming out later in response to congressional testimony or judicial process. the question is -- >> i was going to say, there's question as to whether it has been waived in this case. let me roll a snippet of an

interview the president gave, then i'll ask you the legal significance. play it. >> we had a very nice dinner and at that time he told me you are not under investigation, which i knew anyway. during the phone call he said it, during another phone call he said it. he said it once at dinner and then he said it twice during phone calls. >> did you ask him am i under investigation? >> i actually asked him, yes. i said if it's possible, would you let me know am i under investigation. he said you are not under investigation. >> dean ruger, of what significance is that interview? >> i think that's highly significant along with of course the letter that president trump sent firing comey where he alluded, stated he wasn't under investigation as along with tweets that have come out about that conversation. remember, the key point about executive privilege is it is to keep secret things secret, and so there is a doctrine that it can be waived if enough information is already out there. indeed, that was just applied by

a federal district court last year against president obama's claim of executive privilege in the failed atf fast and furious investigation because information was out there, the judge said president obama couldn't assert it. >> you referenced other presidents having asserted it, i think in the minds of the public, at least those familiar with executive privilege, we tend to associate it with richard nixon. explain when in the past has it been invoked? >> well, we associate it with nixon because his administration was the first to robustly assert it by name, and the supreme court in that era was the first to actually recognize this was a real, legal thing that existed. but every president since nixon has made claims of executive privilege. it happened often in the clinton administration, under both bushes and president obama as i alluded to made similar claims as well. so this is an institutional claim that every president since nixon made, it is not a partisan thing. >> of course there's also the court of public opinion and the

optics of a president asserting this in this particular case, might not bode well for the trump white house. >> oh, i think that's absolutely clear, that's always a risk. it's kind of like taking the fifth amendment in a criminal trial, that's absolutely somebody's right but that can sometimes lead to inferences, i think in the case of a politician particularly like president trump who has made his brandon straight talking and cleaning up the swamp, to invoke this, keeping stuff secret i think would be a big political hit. >> final question. so if president trump invokes executive privilege, what happens? does former fbi director comey necessarily have to follow that command? >> well, i think what clearly happens is it slows things down and i would be stunned if he testified next thursday. comey as a former official, there's no doctrine or law that says he's going to be sanctioned or criminalized if he goes ahead

and testifies as against president trump's claim, but i think we know enough from comey's behavior and his need to seem he is complying with laws and procedures in other episodes in the past year, i think if the privilege is asserted, comey won't go testify, he'll wait for congress to push the issue and then perhaps ultimately for a federal court to rule on it. i do think the white house would lose this one at the end of the day if push comes to shove in federal court, but might delay things by weeks and months. >> ted ruger, thanks so much for your explanation. >> thank you. let's check in with facebook and twitter accounts as they say. katherine, what have you got. smerconish, why does russia have such control over cnn. that's all you guys talk about. time to move on. brian, it's the story of our time potentially. i rendered no opinion, no judgment in my mind as to

whether there was collusion, neither whether there was obstruction of justice, but i would be remiss if i didn't give this story the level of attention i think it deserves. i think it is of preeminence over everything else going on around us. that's my opinion. that's why i talk about it. one more if we have time. go ahead. it comes down to do we trust u.s. intelligence or putin. i'm with u.s. intelligence 120%. that's the point i was trying to make to richard clark, you know, that i think the serious issue here is the level of distrust that exists between the house and the intelligence community and it makes me worry as to where we might be vulnerable. in other words, if the intel community is ringing an alarm, is this white house going to necessarily pay attention to it? that's something that should worry all of us. still to come. why is it never, why is it never the case when hillary clinton seemingly is taking responsibility for her loss, she

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on memorial day, police in jupiter, florida found famed golfer tiger woods asleep at the wheel of his parked car, arrested him on suspicion of driving under the influence. a few days later, this police dash cam video showed woods stumbling through sobriety tests and confused about officers' commands before being led away in handcuffs. he told officers he didn't drink, takes several prescription medications, and the breathalyzer he took showed

no alcohol in his blood. considering this and the fact he wasn't even driving, was he wrong to cooperate with the authorities. joining me, two defense attorneys you know, cnn legal analysts who differ on the question. mark o'mara and danny cevallos. i have oh march's's number in case i am jammed in florida, and cevallos in pennsylvania and new york. danny, did he cooperate too much? >> in a way. any dui defendant has to consider what outcome they want to see. in tiger woods' case, he probably doesn't care about a license suspension or conviction, has to worry about his brand. even if he refuses to conduct field sobriety tests, refuses a br breath test and you auri in, e . balance that with unreliable

test for drugs, consider what that would do to his brand, tiger perhaps would have been better to refuse all testing. mark will not disagree, he doesn't need to submit to field sobriety testing which is fraught with peril, as is u, ri testing. >> mark, if he had been able to call you before the police arrived, what would have been your counsel? >> i would have told him as danny would have to not take the field sobriety test. simple reason, there's no penalty for failure to take that test. finger, nose, hands to toes, the reason is they're designed to fail and show impairment. don't take the field sobriety test to anyone out there. however, in this particular case, danny is right, you have to look at the brand he is trying to protect, no question he was being arrested for dui. he was obviously impaired, he was driving the car. you don't have to be driving, you have to be in physical control. keys in hand, keys in ignition, car on, good enough for a dui.

the real question, should he have taken the breath test, that's easy. yes. he knew he had no alcohol. breath test only determines alcohol. easy solution. take the test. real question is do you take the urinalysis. a little more complicated, i disagree with danny, here is why. he knew he was on the prescription drugs. telling them through you're nal cyst those are the only drugs he was on is good, and he also doesn't suffer suspension of his license while you're right, probably could have a driver, didn't have one that night. the reality is it is still a sanction in florida. should he have a second dui arrest, a second refusal is a criminal offense. don't set yourself up for it. in the court of public opinion, get to tell everybody i'm sorry, only on prescribed medications, had no idea what they were doing to me, and i cooperated fully.

that full cooperation is what's going to save his brand. >> danny, i want you to respond to mark and explain to the audience. i bet many associate dui only with booze and probably are surprised you can have no alcohol in your system and still run afoul of a dui standard. >> i cannot tell you how many times this week people said hey, tiger didn't really have a dui, he was on prescription drugs and a doctor essentially gave him permission. let me disabuse you of that misconception. you can absolutely get a dui for prescription medication. i would wager the majority of driving under the influence cases are prescription opiate cases in the modern day where almost everybody is on opiates in one form or another. that's what i think this case will show here. when you think about the decision tiger had to make consenting to the urine test,

those tests only show the presence of the drug in the system. metabolites. if you have drug use for therapeutic reason, even if he took vicodin the day before or that morning. the reality, you look at the video, it is likely that he would be convicted of impairment. that's how the law works. if you refuse testing, an officer can testify to impairment as drug expert. so the law works. even if he had refused. but consider this. in the coming weeks, we will get a test back and that will show the urine test the presence of metro area tab lights, and he will be arguing whether he took those hours before or the week before. had he refused, he could create a narrative of too much mountain

dew, robitussin, mea culpa. he may have safeguarded his brand a little more. >> mark, reply to danny, this is your state, tell me where is this going in the big picture. >> first of all, i am listening to what danny said. robitussin argument, we all have known how artificial and fake that would have been. now he can argue with the reality of what he was on. there's that. what's going to happen with this case. first offense dui, had he refused, he probably would not have available to him what we had and what palm beach county has, which is a dui diversion program. if you're guilty of a dui, the diversion program is a wonderful alternative to going through the court system. it diverts you out of the criminal justice system. you do most of what you would have to do for regular dui, the school, 50 hours of community service, pay a fine, stay alcohol free for awhile. but then charges get dropped. so that's available to him

primarily because he didn't refuse, and also because the circumstances are not aggravating. so there's that. i tell you, there may be a better solution. because he was so cooperative and only on prescription medications, he may very well have an opportunity to work out an even better program with the prosecutor, we call deferred prosecution program. do some work up front. psas, for example. tiger woods still has a name out there. do some psas for horrible abuse of opioids, how easy it is to abuse them. he didn't do it on purpose, yet he was dui. make it a positive result for himself, more importantly for the rest of us that have to learn how not to be dui on prescription drugs and have a much more positive ending for him criminally, he's already got a great resolution for his driver's license because he is not going to automatically lose it because of refusal, and again walk out with a brand much more

intact than if he tries an argument, you can't prove it, so go ahead and try. >> danny, quickly, nick nolte question, to smile or not to smile for the mugshot. >> i have come around for this issue. i believe you should smile, if you can do it, turn yourself in, put on a tie and jacket, put on a big smile, that way that picture will be forever associated with a yearbook picture or something else, no one can tell you're that miserable about being arrested. that's my take. >> mark, danny, thank you for being here. bye for now. >> bye for now. let's check in with twitter and facebook. what have we got, katherine. how can it be a mistake for tiger woods to cooperate with police. he couldn't even think at the time. you know what, hiker gal, hind sight is 2020, those are two brilliant legal minds. to breakdown the components, i find fascinating, while i recognize in the heat of the moment, tiger wasn't able to ro

ses what he should be doing. and i am for tiger, always a fan for tiger. hope he comes back. one more, hit me with it. smerconish, i am not a fan of tiger woods, leave him alone. he has suffered enough. you're not a fan, he has suffered enough. i am rooting for the guy, went to u.s. ochocinpen to shout his and i am waiting for the come back. still to come. why is it every time hillary clinton seems to be taking some responsibility for her loss in the election she ends up blaming somebody new? >> you don't understand. you don't understand. the russians cloaked wisconsin so she couldn't find it. . . . ♪ the sun'll come out tomorrow... ♪

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smerconish, tiger is still a black man in florida. if he didn't cooperate, he could have been shot. keeping it real.trivaling. he was calm in the video. nothing screams i'm guilty as sin than invoking executive privilege. as dean ruger pointed out, we think of nixon and executive privilege. invoking executive privilege puts trump in the same category as clinton and obama. a lot of invoking of it. not as knnotorious. this is a campaign promise he ran on and kept his word.

that is the point he made. he pleased the 46% that voted for him. he hasn't given too much of the long list of promises he made. thanks for watching. see you soon. good morning. grateful to have your company. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. "cnn newsroom" begins now. >> it may be saturday, but a lot of people have eyes on thursday morning. that's when james comey goes to capitol hill for his tell-all testimony. could possibly be a turning point in the russia investigation? and that is if the president doesn't stop him from testifying. if he happens to assert executive privilege. that would prevent him from divulging white house records to congress. >> in a