situation this was. diplomats were mobilize and got to pyongyang yesterday. he demanned they release him. you can imagine his surprise when he saw the condition of the young man. >> thanks very much. that's it for me. thanks for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >> up front front next, breaking news. the attorney general under fire, defiant and angry, stone walling basic questions and trump fire robert mueller if he wanted to? plus one of the people keeping the praise. my guest tonight was there. he did it. good evening, i'm erin burnett. "out front," breaking news, an appalling and detestable lie, the words of the attorney general jeff sessions. he came out today in fiery

testimony to the 1234e9 intelligence committee, emphatically denying any charge in a he colluded with russian officials during the 2016 campaign. >> to suggest that i participated in any collusion that i was aware of any collusion with the russian government to hurt this country, which i have served with honor for 35 years or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process is an appalling and detestable lie. >> after is this that details opening statement defending himself and promising the american people transparent government, in his words, sessions infuriated democrats by leaving their questions unanswered. >> i don't recall. i don't recall. i don't recall it. i don't recall any such meeting. i don't recall it. i don't have a detailed memory of that.

>> i believe that the american people have had it with stonewalling. >> senator wyden, i am not stonewalling. i am following the historic policies of the department of justice. >> as for those meetings, much of it comes down to this. those meetings that sessions had curing the campaign with kislyak, he's today insisted that they were in keeping with his role at the time of the senate armed services committee. it's important to remember this: the washington post called every single member of that committee and found not one other member of the committee spoke or met with kislyak during the campaign. so let's be year. 26 members, only sessions met with the ambassador during the campaign. at the time of the meetings, what he had was he wasn't just a u.s. senator, he was a surrogate

for the president. >> a lot of questions still going unanswered. >> reporter: that's right, erin. that left democratic senators going so far as saying the attorney general was stonewalling. he refused to go into detail about the one-on-one meeting between comey and p the president. all of those wrestles made for several contentious exchanges. >> thank you very much. >> attorney general jeff sessions grew angry and frustrated with the continued questions about a possible meeting in april 2016 with russian ambassador sergey kislyak. >> i recused myself from any investigation into the campaign for president, but i did not

recuse myself from defending my honor, against scurrilous and false allegations. >> reporter: the attorney general repeatedly rebuffed the speculation that has swirled since the first fbi director said sessions may have met with kislyak for a third undisclosed meeting at the faye employer hotel. >> i did not have any meetings nor do i recall any conversations with any russian officials at the may flower hotel. >> when pressed by chairman richard burr, the answer seemed less clear. >> i would gladly have reported the meeting, the enounter that some say occurred in the may flower or if it actually occurred which i don't remember that it did. >> sessions remained stern and emotional as he fought back.

>> the suggestion that i participated in any collusion, that i was aware of any collusion with the russian government to hurt this country, which i have served with honor for 35 years, or to undermine the integrity of our democratic process is an appalling and detestable lie. >> reporter: but sessions repeatedly refused to comment on the details of his interactions and conversations with the president. >> i'm not able to comment on conversations with high officials within the white house. that would be a violation of the communications or rule that -- >> just so i'm understanding does that mean you're claiming executive privilege here today, sir? >> i'm not. that's the president's power. >> what is the legal basis for your refusal to answer these questions. >> i am protecting the right of the president to assert it. assert it if he chooses and there may be others that apply

during this circumstance. >> reporter: after weeks of consultations with officials and disclosed he did not receive any information about the probe even before his formal recusal. >> from february 10th until i announced my formal recusement i was not briefed on any details. did not access any information about the investigation. >> attacked at his home in

pomona. he was found barely alive a few days after he was last seen. he had heard arguments between the two but never thought anything like this could happen. >> i have been living here the last 22 years. he's always upbeat. he's up in the morning. he's up by 6:00 every day. i was noticing a few days, he's

not around. but i didn't really think nothing of it until finally we saw the police here.

let me back up for a moment. i thought overall the attorney general helped himself personally, helped his own reputation, because he made a case about why he recused himself. it didn't seem like much.

we have to wait and see if there's contrary testimony. on what his conversations with the white house staff, the conversations with the president, in over 40 years watching such activities. watching television like this, i have never ever heard somebody say well i can't answer that question because i want to preserve the president's right to invoke executive privilege. that, as far as i can tell, is an invented ground for refusing to testify. i've looked at department of justice department. there's an article v which i think is about information. i think he has to come forward and say on what grounds does he refuse? >> he said it adds up to him and an administration that's seeking to protect the administration. >> it was a stalling tactic to answer these questions. when executive privilege is going to be invoked by an

administration, there's a sit-down by the president, the attorney general and the president would say listen, sths a protected conversation. i don't want you to answer questions about it and then they will be back and forth between congress about how this is going to be handled and the rest of the questions, of course, there will be answers. in american history, that's the way it's been hanltd. i'm not going to answer the question, i can't answer the question. it's a kwfl area. well, state the grounds for the confidentiality. he was never able to do that. >> there were a couple of crucial things, the issue of meetings. it mate come down to what the meetings were about between sessions and the russian ambassador. he did not mention those meetings and today he denied that that was a lie, at least he said it was not purposeful. here's what he said. >> there is the assertion that i did not answer senator franken's question honestly at my

confirmation hearing. colleagues, that is false. this is what happened. senator franken asked me a rambling question after some six hours of testimony that included dramatic new allegations. >> now, you know, we can talk it was a personal slam but it is crucial because he's saying it was rambling and he didn't make clear what he was asking. let me play what senator franken asked. here he is. >> cnn has just published a story and i'm telling you this about a new story that's just been published, so i'm not expecting you to know whether or not it's true or not but cnn just published a story alleging that the intelligence community provided documents to the president-elect last week that included information that "russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about mr.

trump. these documents also allegedly fear "there was a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government. now, again, i am telling you this is just coming out. so -- you know. but if it's true, it's obviously extremely serious, and if there is any evidence that anyone affiliated with the trump campaign communicated with the russian government in the course of this campaign, what will you do? >> senator franken, i'm not aware of any of those activities. i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians.

and i'm able to comments on it. >> so ana, obviously, it was a long question. but what franken was asked seems to be clear or not? >> i think it seems to be very clear. he's saying were you as a sur gas for the 2ru6r7 campaign having conversations with the russians. he said no, i didn't. he had to backtrack. >> he said he had no meetings that he had meetings, then it leaked to the press that he had two meetings. he said oh, ok, they weren't in my role as trurch campaign. it was asked as a senator. he was continuously asked and a member of the armed services committee, that is crucial, because the washington post called all 26 members and during the time of the campaign, only one of them had meetings with the russian ambassador. it appears certainly from the russian side of things they wanted to treated with sessions for a reason.

he says it wasn't important meetings. it would appear they were. clearly, russia had a lot of interest in making headway into the trump campaign. what i think is most stunning is how he changed his testimony this time. he was not emphatic about anything in this hearing today. he said i don't recall. he was wishy washy on a lot of things. he wasn't going to get caught in the same trap in case something else potentially comes forward. >> if there really was nothing involved or if the russians cared or if it was yir relevant to you, why didn't you just mention it? it wouldn't matter. >> saying i don't recall so many times is designed to protect yourself. the problem is with the question -- when he answered senator franken's question is that he offered that he hat not had any meetings. >> and the question was actually what would you do if you found

out other people had meetings. >> we know of two occasions that was not the case. also in the context of october intelligence report before the election showing that russia was trying to may an active role. it's not like it's a brand-new concept. the idea that any contact with the russians wouldn't be in the fore ground is hard to believe. >> this is a red herring, the wandering nature of al franken's question. the one thing that is clear as day is sessions volunteering, i had no contact with the russians. i don't know about anybody else. i don't know what the rest of your wandering question is, but i have had none. i think it's a red herring for franken to blame.

>> what he was upset about, i can understand why. that wasn't the accusation. that wasn't the question. it's simply did you have contact and if you didn't tell truth, why. >> david, what we saw today it's what we've seen from coats and rogers. we've seen a lot of "i don't recall, i can't answer." >> right. >> there's been no evidence that there's an underlying crime. if there is nothing to hide, why so many "i don't recalls" "i can't answer this"? >> what i think the question now is has the administration entered a phase we saw last weekend this week of being evasive, of not trying to help these meets in congress. sessions was asked by warner. i'll come back if appropriate. any decision in the future, i will do it if it's appropriate. that gave him a lot of latitude

to refuse to answer. i think the mueller investigation now becomes all the more critical because it's obvious these congressional committees are not going to get everything they want from people around the president. >> right. >> that's why the whole idea of firing at this point is stunning. >> the other moment, comey in his prepared testimony said that after that meeting in the oval office which i just talked about with senator hinrich, he went to sessions and im34r0erd him to have him never be left alone with the president. so sessions was comey's boss. he was the one who would have predent vented that from happening today. here's what he said he did. >> i believe it was the next day that he said something, expressed concern about being left alone with the president,

but that in itself is not problematic. he did not tell me at that time any details about anything that was said that was improper. i affirmed his concern that we should be following the proper guide looips of the department of justice and basically backed him up in his concerns and that he should not carry on any conversation with the president or anyone else about an investigation in a way that was not proper. >> all right. so sort of -- he never said i went to the president and said, you know, don't do this or not. right. which begs the question -- we do know, by the way, after these conversations between comey and sessions one-on-one, there were other conversations. so did they not listen or did they not bother to -- >> he's a strong guy. he doesn't need to stand up for

him. he's the fbi director. and then you have this other side of him where he's saying he's weak. he needed to be fired. i think he's trying to have both sides of the coin there. with jeff sessions having it both ways. >> and slamming the fbi director, right? >> right. >> when mueller has his testimony, the white house can invoke executive frif in an activity, so sessions may have to answer these questions but do it fully. >> they could try to invoke the privilege but it would wind up then going to court and the privilege would be stripped in a criminal investigation because there's a constitutional right for a grand jury to get that information. >> we're going to talk more about mueller in a moment. there was a stunning revelation today. trump met with bob mueller, a day before mueller was named special counsel. what did they talk about?

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. breaking news. tonight we're learning president trump met with robert mueller the day before mueller was named special counsel the white house saying he actually interviewed mueller for the fbi director job which he held a few years before. now there's talk trump may be considering firing the special prosecutor. republicans are warning the president and doing so very openly to not do this. >> indeed. this would create a major uproar on capitol hill, probably more so than the uproar we heard after james comey was suddenly fired by the president. this of course because republican after republican has praised bob mueller's appointment as special counsel. people are saying to the president don't do this. >> the idea of firing mueller is a nonstarter. i don't know where this is come

from. so far i don't think that's a remote policy. >> let robert mueller do his job. the best thing for the president is to let the investigation go on independently and thoroughly. >> deputy attorney general rods rosenstein said it was his decision, not the president, whether or not to fire bob mueller, i saying he has no cause to do so. even attorney general jeff sessions today said he had confidence in bob mueller in this position. even as the white house is not exactly expressing its own confidence behind bob mueller, there's a lot of support, even from the president's own cabinet. >> thank you manu. now, michael, let me start with you. what do you advise the president of the united states to do right now? >> by quiet.

>> i was going to say other than get off twitter. >> yeah. sure. >> you talking about this subject, right? >> yes. >> he's got other things to do and worry about and i hope he's doing them and worrying about. but at this point i hope he would keep his peace. >> we're reporting trump interviewed mueller for the fbi job sbfr naming him special counsel. >> maybe talk to him about who to pick, huh? >> we're reporting that he interviewed him for the fbi job. is there a significance in that other than coincidental timing? he thought it would have happened. >> i'm not sure he would have -- i doubt robert mueller knowing that he was going to be the special counsel interviewed for the fbi job. that sounds very unlikely to me. if he was interviewed for the

fbi job and then made counsel, as long as he disclosed it to are rob rosenstein. as long as it's aired out, i don't see any conflict of interest. >> now they're weighing in about what the president should do about mueller. rosenstein in an appropriation hearing was actually this question. here they are. >> no, i have not. >> as long as i'm in this position he's not going to be fired without good -- >> sessions i'm sorry wasn't there. he was very clear. he didn't see any reason to fire muslimer, he wouldn't have anything to do with it. they're being very loud and clear. >> both. loud and clear. >> and you -- you agree under all circumstances? >> absolutely. >> let me go through some of those circumstances. some are starting to raise questions here. jeff, members of the legal team fired by mueller. with did an analysis nund they

donated almost exclusively to democrats. $56,000 donated, more than half of it came from one lawyer who's working on mueller now for this. can they be impartial? >> absolutely. remember the person making the decisions here is robert mueller who is obliged to nobody and is one of the best law enforcement figures in american history. he's the decision maker. i think it's fair to point out that mueller has hired some very distinguished people. mike dreebin is the most respected criminal law appellate specialist in the united states, a legendary figure in the solicitor general's office, andrew weisman, he went on to run the enron task force, these are highly qualified people and as private citizens they gave

money. >> newt gingrich said they're in a place where they'll think it's a criminal investigation. they're delusional. he supported the president. that's what he had so say. you have comey and mueller, their unusual friendship, they have praised each other in the past. here's a quick snip. >> he was very supportive to me personally. >> i have found him to be a man of honesty, dedication and integrity. his experience, his judgment and his strong sense of duty will benefit not only the bureau but the country as a whole. >> is that friendship relevant in light of people like newt gingrich coming out and saying what he's saying tonight? >> it's relative. is it dispoz active? no. >> anyone questioning this is on the --

>> he's not -- not anyone questioning is on the wrong track. anyone saying that's a basis of getting rid of bob mueller is on the wrong track. those are two different things. >> remember, comey is not mueller's target. comey is a witness. >> but the question is part of this could come down to who hide in these meetings about the loyalty pledge. do you trust comey or do you trust trump? >> that's one factor. mueller is going to be attacked because special prosecutors always are. i'm sure you remember -- >> i'm sure michael -- >> some of them deserve it. >> well, how the clinton people attacked clint star relentlessly. i'm sure they felt it was justified. >> senator chris van volumen in the testimony today brought up a

nixon like saturday night massacre scenario in which the president would fire the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein, find someone else who would be normal abdominal. >> he doesn't have to get somebody who's normal abdominal. this one is authorized to do it. >> here's how the exchange went down. >> i'm actually more worried about the scenario at this point where if you were to receive an order from the white house to fire the special counsel, i'm less worried about you doing it because you've just testified today that you would only do it based on good cause. i'm worried about in the circumstances the president trying to keep going until he found someone willing to take that action. >> any likelihood?

you pointed out the president could do it himself. >> i'm not sure. is that true? i thought the regulation says he has to go through the justice department to fire them. >> they have to go through the justice department ultimately. any -- there's no such thing of somebody who's independent of the executive in the executive -- >> the president would have to fire him to find somebody else? >> people can defeat the order. people quit in the -- >> he didn't want the justice department denuded of senior people. >> correct. for whatever reason he's the one who did it and someone would do it for trump if he wanted to. >> it's the authority of the president, is 3450i point. what is your question? >> my question is what are the chances? >> slim and none. >> i pretty much agree. >> i think we all can agree on that.

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. breaking news. chris ruddy, the close friend of the president of the united states who said trump is considering firing bob mueller is firing back against the white house. sort of a situation you couldn't have made up. alex mar quart is out front. >> reporter: he's a kvt, a counselor in the inner circle pulling strings from the outside. over years chris has developed a unique relationship with

president trump at times serving as his voice. >> he's been frustrated. said they want to investigate everything relating to his investigation. >> at other times keeping you at arm's length. >> well, i can't tell you -- >> he was the member of the news max has the president's ear. >> news max, you like news max? i like it, too. the great chris ruddy, i like it. >> monday night he made the explosive comments that trump is considering firing special counsel robert mueller. >> i think he's weighing that option. >> this morning defending the comments. >> i think it's a consideration the president has had because mueller is il legitimate as special counsel. >> a in february ruddy sparked a frenzy with this. >> i think there's a lot of weakness coming out of the chief of staff. up think reince priebus, nice

guy but doesn't have a good system. he doesn't know how the communications flow. >> reporter: the speculation that ruddy was speaking for trump since he'd just had drinks with the president at trump's mar-a-lago club. >> i'm a member of the club. >> reporter: where ruddy has been a member for decades. with all this power, why doesn't he join the white house? >> i run a fairly large media company, news max media, so it would be hard for me to leave it. i feel i can be more helpful to this president by speaking on shows like yours to give people the other side of the story. >> he said he wants to be helpful to the president. they're friends. he's a member at mar-a-lago. you say he has close ties to the clintons. >> even fueling conspiracy theories. they went on a trip together in

africa to support an aids project and he even donated a million dollars to the clinton foundation. he's a complex character. >> not as simple as it seems. up next, a young american man about to land in the united states after being held for a year in north korea. the family has found out their son was in a coma. his captors in north korea say he contracted botulism. is it true? and did president trump order him to flatter him? somebody in that room is going to come "out front." umbrellas!! you need one of these. you wouldn't put up with an umbrella that covers you part way,

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free. the 22-year-old college student is being medevaced back home to his parents in ohio. the u.s. has now learned he is in a coma and has been for nearly 15 months. north korea claiming he contracted botulism, a potentially fatal food poisoning also spread through contaminated water and fell into a coma after being given a sleeping pill. >> you're grateful that he is being released and on his way back to the united states. >> just based on the fact that he's been in a coma for a year, the state department must express something besides gratitude. >> we have been extremely concerned about his situation all along. >> reporter: warmbier's parents just found out a week ago about his condition, saying in a statement, we want the world to know how we and our son have been brutalized and terrorized by the regime in north korea. they spoke to cnn about staying hopeful just last month. >> cindy and i are encouraged by

this. our mission is to bring our son home. >> reporter: the university of virginia student was visiting north korea in january 2016 as part of a tour group on his way to study abroad in hong kong. his crime, north korea says he tore a poster off a wall in his hotel, a propaganda sign lauding the regime. they released video, accused him of crimes against the state, and sentenced him to 15 years hard labor. >> i beg that you see how i am only human. and how i have made the worst mistake of my life. >> reporter: since that time, the state department had been urging north korea to let sweden because the u.s. doesn't have diplomatic relations with the rogue nation meet with warmbier and three other americans detained there. the state department says last month the u.s. special representative for north korea policy, joseph yun, met with north korean officials in norway and north korea agreed sweden diplomats could visit the prisoners.

but, after granting permission, the north koreans also urgently asked for another in-person meeting in new york. that meeting was last week. that's when the u.s. discovered warmbier has been in a coma since march of 2016. the same month he was sentenced. u.s. special representative yun landed in north korea yesterday with a medical team and demanded otto warmbier be released on humanitarian grounds. the state department emphasizing that dennis rodman, former nba player and friend of north korean dictator kim jong-un, now on his fifth visit to north korea, had nothing to do with warmbier's coming home. obviously there is a lot that is not known about this, but we do know u.s. officials have not yet accepted north korea's explanation of what happened here and asked about it tonight, secretary of state tillerson said it is a delicate situation and the state department is working on it. also not clear, if anybody ever got access to those other three detained americans or what their

conditions are. erin? >> michelle, thank you very much. incredibly tragic, horrific story as we will keeping following exactly what happened there. there are new details tonight about what really happened, by the way, at president trump's bizarre cabinet meeting yesterday. it was the first meeting of the full cabinet and started with the members going around the table praising the president on camera. in a moment you'll hear from david shulkin. he was there. he praised the president. he's the secretary of veterans affairs. but first i want to play a portion of the meeting. >> it's an honor to be able to serve you. >> thank you for the honor to serve the country, a great privilege you've give given me. >> i want to thank you for getting this country moving again and working again. >> i can't thank you enough for the privilege that you've given me and the leadership that you've shown. >> on behalf of the entire senior staff around you, mr. president, we thank you for the opportunity and the blessing that you've given us to serve

your agenda and the american people. >> mr. president, thank you for your support and commitment to america's veterans. i know that this is personally very important to you. >> the man you saw there at the end, david shulkin, the secretary of veterans affairs. secretary shulkin, thank you for being with me tonight. what went through your head during this first full trump presidency cabinet meeting? >> well, erin, it was a very good meeting actually. we had a chance after the press left to talk about issues in depth. i actually spent about 12 to 15 minutes going through what we were doing in the va and how the cabinet could help us advance that agenda. i thought it was a very productive meeting. >> and obviously the reaction to what we all did publicly see was not all that positive. "the chicago tribune" systummard it this way, i love you more, mr. trump.

"the washington post "the washington post," had this to say, president trump held a bizarre cabinet meeting monday where he claimed to have accomplished more than any president since fdr before giving the administration the opportunity to shower him with praise. were you encouraged to praise the president or say something nice about him? >> absolutely not. the president doesn't script the cabinet and we're given the ability to say what's on our mind. you have to remember that this was really the first full cabinet meeting where that group had ever been in the room together, and so people were not given instructions but people weren't used to knowing each other, and so what the president does is he actually opens up these meetings to the press that i think is really unusual and so you saw something that frankly no one had a script for. >> the president made some major promises to vets, secretary she will kshulkin, when he ran for office. one of them was veterans who have fought in america's wars

can go to any hospital they choose. here he is. >> we are going to ensure every veteran in america has the choice to seek care at the veterans administration or to seek private medical care paid for by our government. >> now, veterans got the ability partially to go to non-vet hospitals under obama but there were rules under that. they had to be more than 40 miles from another hospital or they had to have waited something like 30 days in order to get an appointment in order to have a full choice. is the president of the united states now committed to giving veterans the full choice, no restrictions applied? >> well, right now the president has signed an extension of the current program so that veterans are allowed to continue to get the choice in the community, and we're seeing more veterans than ever before, about 18,000 more a day being able to get care in the community. we're going to be working with congress and with the

president's support to change the choice program hopefully this summer through legislation to open up choice so that veterans don't have those restrictive rules that they've had in the past. >> so that you hope will change because all this does come down to wait times. va inspector general report from march identified widespread inaccuracies that frankly vastly understated veteran wait times for appointments last year. they said appointments for new patients and specialists, 36% of veterans had to wait longer than a month for an appointment. that's stunning for people to hear, longer than a month. the va scheduling system though didn't report that. they said only 10% had waited longer than a month. what's the issue here? i mean, are you going to be able to fix this so that we know what the truth is and vets don't have to wait? >> first of all, right now we have published our wait times for anybody to see on our website so that everyone can see what those wait times are. there is no other health care

system in america that has done that. so in terms of being open and transparent about where our problems are, we're trying to be clear about areas that we do have wait times that are too long and what the real story is. let's remember we also have same-day services in primary care and mental health at every single one of our medical centers across the country. >> the president also promised a white house veterans hotline where veterans could call, and he talked about this multiple times during the campaign. here he is. >> i will create a private white house hotline. this could keep me very busy at night, folks. this will take the place of twitter. i will instruct my staff that if a valid complaint is not acted upon, then the issuer who brought it directly to me -- and i want to have it -- will bring it directly to me and i will pick up the phone personally and

get it completed and get it taken care of. that's a lot of work. >> secretary, it's not a light matter but obviously if this were to take the place for twitter, you would have a lot of grateful trump voters, a lot of grateful republicans. you probably among those who would appreciate it. is this going to happen? where are you in fulfilling this promise? >> well, july -- i'm sorry, june 1st, a couple weeks ago, we opened up the white house hotline, so it is live right now. i was down answering phone calls, and it's important to get a sense about why people are calling in so that we can help them deal with their problems. but we've helped over 3,000 veterans who have access to the white house hotline, and we'll continue to expand those services to be able to make sure that we can address the issues that are important to our veterans. >> has the president chosen to take any calls at this time? >> what we're doing is we're giving information on a daily basis over to the white house so that they're informed as to the information that's coming in. that's how we're keeping the president updated.

>> just to be clear, at this time you're not aware of him actually taking any calls? >> no. he's not taken any calls at this time since june 1st. >> secretary shulkin, thank you for being with me tonight. >> thank you. >> obviously not taking the place of twitter yet. don't forget, you can watch "outfront" any time anywhere on cnn go. anderson is next. >> thanks for joining us tonight. the last man in the room before the president spoke alone with fbi director james comey testified under oath, attorney general jeff sessions is seen and heard a lot as one of donald trump's closest complain advisers and is accused of being untruthful and went before the senate intelligence committee in part he said to set the record straight about a number of things, including in his words, secret innuendo being leaked about himself, the president and his whole affair. he had plenty to say about that. he had less to say to the