objective was not to be be nice. mission accomplished! >> i haven't seen anybody jump from the stands into the ring. i mean, the guys are special boxers so you better be good and physical! >> he kind of just went -- but to his credit, didn't fight the fans back. he kind of just -- >> fought them off. >> andy, thank you so much. >> have a good one, guys. attorney general jeff sessions will testify before the senate intelligence committee on tuesday. >> there remain a number of questions about his own interactions with the russians. >> with a third meeting and even without it, what we have is a partner pattern of contacts with the russians. >> the white house cannot say whether president trump has confidence in attorney general jeff sessions. >> a claim of responsibility for the deaths of three american soldiers in afghanistan. >> the afghan taliban is claiming responsibility. this is what we call a green on blue attack.

when a member of the afghan security forces turn on u.s. or nato soldiers. >> when heroes fall, americans grieve. ♪ 7:00 a.m. here in the east. i'm christi paul. good morning to you on this sunday >> i'm martin savidge in for victory blackwell. victor blackwell. thank you for being with us. new this morning capitol hill may be getting ready for jeff sessions who could be in the hot seat this time. >> he plans to appear before the senate intelligence committee on tuesday. although we don't know yet whether this is going to be public or if it is a closed door hearing but this is coming after former fbi director james comey suggested that sessions may have a third contact with russians and did not disclose it. reports, too, he and president trump had heated exchanges after

he recused himself from the russian probe. ryan nobles is following this story. how certain is it the meeting is happening on tuesday? >> reporter: it's very much up in the air. if the hearing happens the first chance that senators get to ask attorney general sessions under oath about the cnn report that investigators are looking into a third possible undisclosed meeting that sessions may have had with the russian ambassador sergie kislyak. the justice department is saying that meeting never happened but session has yet to answer a direct question on that topic. at this point, we don't have confirmation from the senate intelligence committee that this hearing that sessions wants to take place will even happen. sessions was supposed to appear before a senate appropriations subcommittee to discuss the department's budget on tuesday, but democrats were threatening to bring up the investigation into russia and the role sessions has played. so sessions has decided to pull a switch. he is sending his deputy a.g., rod rosenstein, to the

appropriations hearing and session has offered his testimony up to the intel committee. here is part of what ed in a letter to committee leaders. quote. some members have publicly stated their intention to focus their questions on issues related to the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election from which i have recused. and for which the deputy attorney general appointed a special counsel. the senate intelligence committee is the most appropriate forum for on such matters as it has been conducting an investigation and has access to rel veevant, classified information. note the use of the word classified information in his letter. that could mean that sessions is expecting his testimony to happen in closed session although the larry doesn't specifically state that. keep in mind the senate intel committee doesn't have plans to meet on tuesday so it could be difficult for the committee to prepare quickly for a hearing of

this magnitude. at this point, committee leader from both sides of the aisle have yet to acknowledge they have received this letter so, at this point, we have to wait and see if and when jeff sessions ever appears before senator. >> ryan nobles, thank you for the update. this gives us a lot of good talking points here. let's bring in he will roerrol kate page. maria cardona. and julian zellner from princeton university. this seems to be, if it happens, a lot of if's here, but if this testimony takes place, it seems pretty politically risky. so why would the attorney general want to do this? >> well, i think a couple of things. for the first time, of all you're right. we don't know if this is going to happen and it's very possible it doesn't.

number two, it sound like a little bit knee-jerk reaction on behalf of sessions because of comey's testimony last week on thursday, where he i want mated there was yet another meeting that had happened between sessions and the russian ambassador/spy, kislyak has had not been reported. so i would assume that this is sessions chance or at least in his head it's his chance to clear his name. that has a couple of problems connected to it. the first one is that he is going to expose himself to a lot of questions from the senators as to why he lied during his confirmation hearings in the first place. because that was what put him in hot water to begin with when he was not forthcoming and honest about the initial meetings that he had had with the russian ambassador. and, number two, because he had recused himself, then why was he involved in the firing of james

comey? those are two big questions that i think he opens himself up to that could then lead to other avenues of questioning that could put sessions, as well as trump and his administration, in each hotter water than they are today. >> julian, we cannot ignore the reported essentials behind the scenes here. we started this week with this information, this report that sessions was having heated exchanges with the president, that he was willing to step down if the president wanted him to do. do we have any indication how loyal sessions is to the president and do you see this as possible a way for sessions trying to save himself? >> well, he was loyal during the campaign. we don't know how loyal he is at this point in the presidency and i guess the question is whether if he does testify, if this takes place, is he going to save president trump or to save himself? meaning is this an attempt to clean up some of what we heard

from james comey and to correct the record so to remove some of this argument about objestructi or is he going to save his own reputation and future in a rather chaotic white house and presidency to say i did not do some of the things comey has accused me off or i wasn't on board of some of what is going on in the administration. this is breaking news and we don't know exactly which direction he plans to take this. >> paige, as an attorney and if you could give advice to the attorney general, this talk of perjury, perhaps, how does sessions carefully walk through this? does he have an attorney? would he have an attorney present? and can he take the fifth? >> martin, i certainly expecting he is talking with attorneys even if it's just within the justice department leadership. i don't think he'll bring his own personal lawyer to a hearing like this. somebody like attorney general session is going to think, look.

i can handle this myself. i know what i'm doing. i'm a lawyer. i have experience in these matters. i'm a former federal prosecutor. but he has to be extraordinarily careful. we know he has already made two false statements under oath. it doesn't mean he lied or committed perjury because we don't know if he intended to mislead congress when he previously testified. i think many peer were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. hey, you may have forgotten one meeting? perhaps two meetings? when we get to three meetings, then it starts to be questionable. i think he has to be very careful and clean up that record before people start looking into this a little deeper. >> errol, i want to listen here together to one of the things that comey said when he was asked about his impression when president trump asked everybody to leave that meeting on february 14th. he mentioned session in his testimony. let's listen. >> my impression was something big is about to happen. i need to remember every single word that is spoken.

and, again, i could be wrong. i'm 56 years old. i've been seeing a few things. my sense was the attorney general knew he shouldn't be leaving, which is why he was lingering. and i don't know mr. kushner well so i think he picked up on the same thing so i knew something was about to happen that i needed to pay very close attention to. >> my sense was the agent knew he shouldn't be leaving which is why he was lingering. errol, do you get the sense that a.g. sessions wants to explain that? >> exactly. this is why i come down on the side of the attorney general probably wanting to rehabilitate his own image and his own reputation in the eyes of the public and to a lesser degree in the white house. this is devastating kind of testimony from james comey who was incredible i thought throughout his entire time on the stand, and who sort of really paints a picture of a dynamic that the attorney

general can't afford to leave lingering in the mind of his former colleagues in the senate and certainly not with the general public. if he is an independent -- if he is to be an independent and respected leader of the justice department, he has to come forward and say, look. there was nothing of the sort. i trusted the president to talk directly to the fbi director, it was a different kind of protocol because it's a different kind of white house. but it doesn't say anything about my independence or my integrity. i suspect he wants to, to a certain extent, need to say that publicly. >> but that could open up a whole new can of worms. stick around, everybody, because we have a lot more to discuss in a moment. donald trump jr. is talking and we are talking about what ed overnight. robert mueller, the man leading the russian investigation, putting together what is dubbed a legal dream team but mueller isn't the only one staffing up. what is trump's personal attorney doing right now? [vo] what made secretariat the greatest racehorse

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nation's foremost expert on criminal case but mueller isn't the only one staffing up. marc kasowitz the president's personal job has brought on two more laws. michael buoy and jay has written an op-ed for fox news saying after comey's testimony this week the president collapsed like a house of card. back to you. >> thank you, lawyer are. let's return to our panel on this. page pate, compare mueller's legal team and the people he has hired and what it says about their focus and the president's team. >> it's really not a fair comparison. mueller is putting together a top-notch team, a legal dream team of prosecutors, constitutional scholars and bringing in michael dreeben means that mueller is prepared to the issue whether it's he can be charged and indicted.

mueller has evidence that the president, himself, has done something wrong, either initially in connection with russia or, more importantly now, in connection with these obstruction allegations arising out of his discussions with jim comey. on the other side it appears the president is using the same kind of tactic he used in his business which is go with civil litigators, a lot of bluster, a lot of threats. i don't know that that works really well in a criminal investigation. certainly in my experience, you want to be more focused on details because the stakes are a lot higher in criminal cases than civil cases. >> errol, as we just heard from laura jarrett, this team that mueller has assembled has done everything from watergate to enron. that is a broad, broad spectrum here. i'm wondering what do you think the republicans are thinking? >> well, they have got to be a little bit concerned because they want this all to be over. they want to pass tax reform. they want to deal with their repeal of obamacare. they want to get some kind of an infrastructure bill on the books and they want, most of all,

prepare for the 2018 elections and can't do any of those things while all of this hangs over their head. to the stentextent you've got t legal dream team that mueller is assembling, including somebody who can take this to the supreme court if that is where these questions are going to lead, those who are old enough to remember watergate, this could be consuming the remainder of this term and that this congress that had such high hopes of having unified republican control and moving some items that they had been hoping to get action on almost a generation now are watching that sort of get buried under a cascade of press conferences, hearings, investigation and confusion out of the white house. >> there is a connection here that some people may notice. the new york observer which is owned by the president's son-in-law jared kushner wrote this in 2015 about andrew weissman who is part of mueller's team.

they h they said the following. will that inclusion of weissman on this team be -- is it good ammunition, i guess, for the president? >> well, i think in some ways, i'm sure mueller is not just putting together a very good team but he is also open to provoking both president trump and to son-in-law jared kushner, who, of course was at the head the observer into those kinds of attacks. i think we are basically seeing repeat, in some ways, ironically of the campaign. on the one side you have the best and the brightest and the most experienced people. and on the other hand, you have more of a smash-mouth, in your face loyal approach to the law. the team representing president trump. the bet is that style will help him not just to get through the legal part of the scandal investigation, but also to the

little part of this. this is being tried in front of congress not just in the courts. i don't know if that will work but i think that is the circulation that president trump is probably making. >> maria, how do democrats keep the russian probe on the minds of voters and still show or attempt to show that they care about policy, they care about law making? because, of course, those who voted for the president said they were fed up with congress who doesn't get anything done. nothing is getting anything done and the democrat have some responsibility in that. >> well, except for, let's remember who is in control of the house and who is in control of the senate. sure, democrats will continue to talk about infrastructure, to talk about jobs, to talk about equal pay for equal work, to talk about health care which is incredibly important. >> but i haven't heard any of that because we have been consumed with the focus on the investigation of russia. >> you might not have heard any of it because it's not headline

news. but absolutely when you look at what is coming out of leader pelosi's office and democratic senator' offices, they are focussing on these kinds of things and speaking out about the fact that the republican healer bill will kick 23 million people off of their health insurance and it is one of the least popular bills out there. that helps the democrats but, at the same time, you're right, they do need to keep the russia investigation into the minds of voters. i think not just keeping a dark cloud over the trump administration but what i believe is fastly becoming a funnel cloud is the fact that drur donald trump is at a 34% approval rating, a record low for a president in this young of his presidency and this short term. quinnipiac poll just came out and he was at 34% but importantly more 60% of

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jeff sessions plans to testify on capitol hill on tuesday now. >> it's not clear if he will testify in public or private before the senate intelligence committee. the appearance means that sessions is going to be grilled over his alleged contacts with moscow. he could face questions over the fire of fbi director james comey who was investigating possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia. >> whether session testified in public or behind closed doors democrats on the senate intel committee will turn up the heat and republicans will watch how

session and a half gainavigates mine field. thank you for being with us. >> good morning. >> reporter: another week. this other potential blockbuster hearing we are hearing about. your reaction, first of all, to the fact that sessions has offered up himself to the senate intel committee on tuesday. >> i served with jeff sessions and i think a man of integrity and have confidence he will be forthright in answering whatever questions they may have. this probe, obviously, you have robert mueller having his own special counsel crew. i actually think that this probe is focused originally and, as you call it, a fishing expedition. a comey hearing showed and he indicated not the first time the russians have tried to influence elections here. we know they have done it in france and elsewhere around the

country. this fishing expedition for this snakehead fish which is around here in the potomac, now they realize, i think, from the comey testimony that the big blue marl marlin, the whale, the president is not involved in any obstruction of justice or collusion with the russians so now off on a fishinging expedition expedition to catch a catfish but they should stay focused on the snakehead fish. >> leaa lot of people are wondeg why the president is not more concerned. do you get the same feeling as well? >> christi, i very much want americans to have integrity in our elections. we, the people, in our states, are the ones who ought to determine who our public servants are. i don't like foreign intervention. it's against the law. i think the president is concerned about it but i think the president's main focus is on

keeping the promises he made to the american people and that is jobs and getting our country more competitive. just last week, he was talking about permitting reform. he has done a great job of on a lot of regulatory reform issues and focused on infrastructure and would like to get our tax code which is the worst in the world, the highest tax to be better than 15%. i think you see a lot of optimism amongst manufacturers that this president is going to deliver. now, the members of congress need to act too. i heard you talking with maria earlier. look. the republicans have a man advantage. we are in the last parts of the stanley cup playoffs. a man advantage. the house, senate, the president. stop passing the puck behind the net and let's see some shots on goal and see some action to get the country moving in the right direction and should be the congress's focus and i know the administration's focus as well. >> republicans have remained united, it seems, behind

president trump but there are some cracks we are seeing. let's listen. >> i think the reality is that any president should know that you don't try to lean on the top law enforcement officer of the united states and when he doesn't give you what you want, you don't fire him. i mean, just imagine if the shoe were on the other foot. if hillary clinton had won, comey reopened the investigation as to her e-mail server and she didn't like the way comey was going so she fired him. i'm quite certain at that point my party would be howling and saying we got to get to the bottom of this. >> governor, do you agree if the tables were turned, where would you stand on that issue? >> i think that is a good question. i think that before these hearings, actually democrat and republicans. are criticizing director comey.

indeed, i think the logic of the attorney general and the president is best expressed by the deputy attorney general rosenstein which was a brief on why he should be removed. and has had nothing to do with the russian investigation and a lot of other issues in there. the russia investigation, as far as president is concerned, and, indeed, former director comey's indication was is that he was obstruction and there was collusion and president trump was not a part of the investigation. >> if the tables were turned, do you believe you would think the same thing? >> if republicans, prior to an election were criticizing comey and then the president, a democrat irpresideic president,s hillary clinton, fired comey no one would be surprised. i think the tables may be turned and a former attorney general l loretta lynch might have to have

questioning to why she was asking director comey a matter. if you want to talk about collusion or playing politics with the fbi, i think the obama may have some questions to be answered as well. >> let's listen here to senator claire mccaskill together here. she was accusing the gop of being too partisan on the american health care act. >> when you say that you're inviting us -- and i heard you, mr. secretary, just say we would love your support, for what? we don't even know. we have no idea what is being proposed. there is a group of guys in the back room somewhere that are making these decisions. this is hard to take. because i know we made mistakes on the affordable health care act, mr. secretary. and one of the criticisms we got over and over again that the vote was partisan. well, you couldn't have a more partisan exercise than what

you're engaged right now. >> are the dems being shut out of the acha decision making? >> what was the beginning of the question? >> are the democrats being shut out? is the republican health care plan they are crafting, is it too partisan? >> i would hope not. it would be great to get some democratic support on it. i do see possibilities for democratic support on infrastructure, work force training, and also tax reform. on this issue, what the republicans stand, i suppose if you're trying to figure it out, is what they passed in the house of representatives. and i do think it's important to the extent they can get any democrat to support ideas that give more competition, more choice for people in health care, i think association ought to be able to provide insurance. people band together in a larger group so you have, you know, economies to scale and more negotiating with insurance

companies. i think the republicans ought to look what senator mccaskill said is this is all right and what can you go along with these idea? maybe she will, maybe she won't. but i guarantee you, leader mcconnell would like to get as many votes as he can. it only takes a majority but the point you can make a bipartisan, more likely it will last. >> former senator george allen, thank you for welcome back with us. >> thank you. in eastern afghanistan, three u.s. soldiers have been killed in what appears to be a so-called insider attack. a u.s. official tells cnn a member of the afghan military is believed to have carried out the shooting rampage during a joint military operation. the fourth u.s. soldier is wounded. the taliban is claiming responsibility saying that a militant infiltrated the government troops with the sole purpose of killing americans. well, the defense takes over this week in the bill cosby

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just a few minutes ago, we got the republican perspective on the various crises that are hanging over the trump white house. so let's go back to our panel now. errol louis. >> all good. all good. >> he is our cnn political comer commentator and political spectrum and maria cardona is also with us. were you able to hear the previous interview? >> yes. >> yes. >> maria, start with you. we get very different opinions, depending on, of course, the politics involved here. >> sure. >> so in the last interview, it was the belief that the attorney general speaking or coming before this committee as he is going to do, is a good thing, is a right thing, and he is a just

man and he will say the right things. but a lot of other people are looking at this and saying, boy, this is really walking a political tight rope here. >> yeah. i actually do believe it is walking a political tight rope here because, as we discussed earlier, jeff session is going to open himself up to some very aggressive questioning, at least from the democrats but i hope also from the republicans, because of his past behavior. during his confirmation hearing, he perjured himself because of meetings he had with ambassador/spy kislyak, the russian ambassador. now according to jim comey's testimony last week, even a third meeting he may have had that he never disclosed. so those certainly will be issues that will be up on the docket in term of questioning and with all due respect to governor allen, he clearly received the republican talking points which want to say that comey's testimony vindicated trump when, in fact, is completely the opposite because it points to a perhaps

investigation on obstruction of justice that robert mueller will now embark on. >> this gets to this kind of divide. i spent a lot of time talking to republicans. not those who are politicians, but those in america. they do see that the president was vindicated by comey's testimony. they do have a completely different viewpoint here. and they believe that a lot of this is just democrats unhappy with the outcome of the election that are continuing to pursue against the president here and the nation is suffering. so, errol, the only thing that really matters, guess eventually is what mueller find and determine and rest of this is just back and forth. >> yes and no. martin, to the extent that the committees still have to meet and they have to probe through all of this information, they have to assign staff to it and

so forth, congress is being slof slowed down. to blame it on democrat. democrats are not the one who gave inconsistent and filling out their forms incorrectly. it wasn't the president who order that strange meeting in the white house, residents with james comey or anything else. so to the extent that they have to lay the blame somewhere, they might well go to the white house and lay the blame there. on the other hand, you have a question of what actually happened. i mean, we don't want to lose the truth in all of this partisanship. senator allen is a great partisan. he certainly did recite the talking points, but the reality is we do need to know what happened, whether or not kislyak colluded or corrupted member of the inner circle is interesting but what the russians have been up to all along is the real question and that has to get dealt with before we can get back to the nation's business. >> right. that has been pointed out even

by comey himself in his testimony saying, hey, don't lose focus here. the problem is the russians and what they are trying to do is changing our democracy. >> and that actually seems unfortunately president trump has no interest in finding out. his academies to comey were about him, him, him, whether he was under investigation. he doesn't care about the russia probe which is dangerous to the country. >> or trying to deal with the fire that is immediately in his front yard. the defense is taking over this week in the bills cosby trial after the prosecution rests, of course. wait until you hear what attorney page pate thinks bill cosby has to do. plus, puerto rico decide today whether they want to be an independent state. what the vote might mean for its si citizens. that is just ahead. staying well.

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starting tomorrow, the defense takes over to present its case in the bill cosby trial. the prosecution rested friday after a week of testimony from a dozen witnesses and one of them was the prosecution star witness cosby's accuser. the courtroom stood still it was described as they heard andrea constand testify being dragged and assaulted by the world famous comedian. how will the prosecution respond? the big question everybody wants to know will bill cosby take the stand? they have said he won't. >> right. >> you think -- i've always don't put the defendant on the stand. >> most of the time that is the best decision. you don't want to put him up on on the stand if he is going to be subject to cross-examination and he certainly will. he could make a mistake.

he could be crossed on a particularly touchy issue something he said before and in this case, we have a prior deposition. but this is a different case. in a sexual assault type the jury wants to hear from the defendant. they want to hear his version of what happened. you cannot have a he said/she said if he never says anything. >> so if he gets on the stand, do you not risk him being emotional? i mean, every interview that he's done, which has been few and far between on this, he has been quite defiant >> yes. >> is there an arrogance there? is there something risky for him getting on the stand if. >> as long as he's being honest, as long as it comes across to the jury that this is what he really believes, that this is something he's passionate about, the jury is not going to blame him for being upset, being emotional. obviously the testimony that the prosecution put in is very riveting, very emotional. obviously you have somebody who claims they're a victim of sexual assault so for somebody to be accused of that, you expect a little pushback.

you expect a little bit of, i didn't do that and let me tell you what really happened. so i don't think overall it will hurt him to testify. i think he needs to. >> do you think he can be absolved of this, without testifying? >> it's going to be very difficult. when you have a celebrity, juries tend to want to give them a little more credibility than a regular defendant. they're used to hearing bill cosby talk. they've seen him on tv. >> has a persona. >> he absolutely does. >> he has a celebrity persona that is fun and honest. >> you like him. >> you like him, he's very likeable. >> don't leave that in the chair. that is your best asset as a defense attorney. put your client up, let the jury hear from him. this in a case like this if you can convince one person on that jury bill cosby did not do what he say he did you can have a hung jury, back up, try it again and eventually with a man this age the prosecution will give up. >> you can put him on the stand now that you said you wouldn't? >> yes, you would. >> how can you explain that?

>> the defendant has a right to testify. i have no idea why his lawyers said they'll not put him up. no strategy behind that. the judge will always say the person has a right to testify. if you want to bring that out during his testimony he can say i listened to my lawyers, they said one thing but i think it's important ladies and gentlemen of the jury you hear my side. >> thank you, sir. martin? in puerto rico they are headed to the polls to vote whether or not the u.s. territory wants to become the 51st state. staidhood won in the last referendum held in 2012. it went nowhere and another vote in favor of statehood this time would likely face a very tough battle in congress, because the island is facing serious economic problems, it's billions of dollars in debt and also battling high poverty rates and struggling with entitlement programs. whether or not puerto rico should become a state is what is part of the next episode of

"united shades of america" as the program visits a very misunderstood part of our country to try and shed a little light on the struggles of the small island, that will be tonight at 10:00 eastern. so puerto ricans are american citizens. >> not by choice. in 198 the united states invades puerto rico and claims it as a prize from the spanish-american war. >> you believe that puerto rico would be better off if it was officially a state? >> yes. >> in independence hasn't worked, not because we haven't tried, but because we've been so oppressed. >> puerto ricans can't vote for the president. >> that is true. >> doesn't make sense. >> if barack obama were to move to puerto rico he'd lose his right to cast an absentee ballot. >> on the business front, we are limited in our growth, even the poorer states still have an income per capita that's more than twice. >> people of color have always been invisible. >> we are american citizens yet

we don't have the same rights.

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