much more on that in a moment. we begin with a new step in the investigation. grand jury subpoenas were issued. pamela brown has the latest on that. what have you learned about this grand jury and the subpoenas? >> anderson, we've learned that the special counsel has issued grand jury subpoenas related to that donald trump jr. meeting in trump tower in june of last year. this is according to a person i spoke with familiar with the matter and they seek both documents and testimony from people involved with the meeting. as we know, there were eight people in that meeting and it's unclear exactly who special counsel wants to testify. but given the wide range of the investigation, it's expected that special counsel subpoenas will be or have been issued pertaining to other parts of the investigation just beyond that meeting. anderson, this development does tell us that mueller takes the trump tower meeting seriously and he's doing things by the book making sure a grand jury signs off on any records request and any testimony. >> was the grand jury just recently impanelled? do we know the timeline?

>> we no know it was impanelled d.c. which was in last may so at least a couple of months but the subpoenas were issued in the last couple of weeks and it shows that the special counsel probe in may is entering a new phase of the investigation. other aspects of this investigation such as business associates of michael flynn, former national security adviser. at that time, investigators were using a grand jury in northern virginia but now everything is coming out of d.c. and that's where the special counsel's office is. >> that's closer to where -- as you say, to where mueller's office is. what's the reaction from the white house? >> so the president's lawyer ty cobb reacted to this. he said grand jury matters are typically secret. the white house favors anything that accelerates the conclusion of his work fairly. the white house is committed to

cooperating with mr. mueller. fbi director jim comey said three times the president is not under investigation and we have no reason to believe that has changed. they are highly content about this development, which this source says is not causing any anxiety within the president's legal team. anderson? >> pamela brown reporting, thank you. gloria, just from a legal standpoint, the formation of a grand jury, it allows them to do subpoenas but doesn't necessarily mean that they know that there is wrongdoing. >> they are trying to find out if there's been wrongdoing. i mean, there are millions of dollars of resources at hand. it's not as if they don't believe that there is anything going on here but they have to get to the actual evidence. that means they have a chance to call witnesses to subpoena documents and to make sure that people are testifying and when

they're testifying, they are not testifying with the lawyers in the room. they can go out in the hallway, talk to a lawyer and come back in but the lawyer is not in the room. it's not the testimony. it's whether or not they lie under oath. this is how people have gotten trapped before. it's perjury. it's obstruction of justice, intimidation of witnesses. all the things that the special counsel has authority to investigate. >> alice, as a supporter of the president, does it seem like a bad sign? >> i think this is what everyone expected would happen. this is the natural course of events. i was encouraged by the president's attorney saying we will fully cooperate, we will help in any way we can, which i think is a far cry and a welcome direction from calling this a witch-hunt. but i think it is important to fully cooperate, put all of the information out there because more than anything we need to put this behind us and i think the president has always had it in his mind any questions about russia, russia collusion, questions whether or not he won or not and that's certainly not

the case but it's important as they are doing now, fully cooperating and this is an important step. this isn't, as you indicated, not an evidence of wrongdoing but it's part of the investigative process in order to get to the bottom of it. >> what does this do in a white house when there's this kind of an investigation and a grand jury? >> it's not crippling but close to it. by the way, when this happened in the clinton administration, we were in our second term, we knew what we were doing. we had a really tight team. there had been factions. we got along and this team is brand new, which my heart goes out to them. it's a hard job to learn. and on top of that, some of them are going to be hauled into the grand jury. >> and nobody knows who is being hauled in or certainly what they are saying. >> certainly not what they are saying but they likely know who. they didn't have the exposure like the clintons. i didn't fool around with an intern but it still stressed me out and this could impact like -- whatever young, talented

aides helped craft the statement that later proved to be misleading about donald trump jr.'s meeting. >> which the white house now admits say the president dictated. >> the young people are going to get dragged in. they are going to have legal bills. they're not going to be able to talk to each other what they said in the grand jury, lest they be accused of witness tampering or -- >> and they have to pay for legal fees? >> they do. i'm with alice. i like to hear mr. cobb saying we're going to cooperate and it's an expected sign and maybe it will get wrapped up quickly. i don't like other trump surrogates saying it's not a big deal or i think they are laying the predicate to fire mr. mueller. he said that they are leaking illegally, which is not true, and they're violating the scope of their investigation by looking at financial things, which also is not true. i think they're laying -- either they are going to go with mr.

cobb who is saying they are going to cooperate or with others or laying the predicate to fire mueller. >> there were leaks today about president trump's private conversations and that's problematic and they'll try to conflate this. this week, the stock market hit a record. tonight, the governor of west virginia switching from a democrat to a republican. you've got a new chief of staff. so you've got a lot of good things happening if you're donald trump and if you're watching another network, probably that is. but on the other hand, you have all of these other major problems. it's not a like. it's a sive and somebody is going to go down, i think. >> there's no telling where this is going. clinton starts off with whi whitewater and ends up with

lewinsky. >> and the president is out there in west virginia once again calling this a witch-hunt, that it's fake news, they should have been focusing on hillary clinton's e-mails and this continues to fester for the president. this is his constant go-to excuse. he's gone after republicans in his own party, everyone else, the media, except for vladimir putin and look at where it's gotten him. he can't learn his lesson. all he had to do initially was say, yes, i agree with my intelligence agencies and make sure russia doesn't do this again and we may not be in this situation. we may be instead talking about the stock market and infrastructure and instead the president is shooting himself in the foot every day. >> i was in whicovering whitewa a journalist and tough remember, yes, that started off as a land deal investigation and led to monica lewinsky but also going back to that time, if you recall, the clintons and the democrats really attacked ken starr and the way he handled it

and called it a vast right-wing conspiracy and we're seeing some signs of that with regard to this administration, but i do think it's important to take more of the cobb approach to this and let's fully comply and let them do their job. >> there is a big difference. i need to defend myself and my colleagues. when whitewater first had a special counsel, the counsel was appointed just like mr. mueller by the attorney general and it was a guy named robert fisk, a registered republican but a career prosecutor. we never criticized mr. fisk. he was pursing this and then a three-judge panel led by a jesse helms protege fired jesse fisk. we didn't. and then put in ken starr, a man who had never prosecuted a case in his life. and we still were silent. carver wanted to attack him. we told him not to.

if mueller starts digging into trump's sex life, too creepy to think about, i'll be the first to attack robert mueller. >> going back to how a grand jury works, there is documentation before they actually interview, before they haul people in front of the grand jury because they don't want to -- it's not like in front of the senate where they are asking random questions. they want evidence that they can specifically tayl specifically tailor -- >> they can call people in as witnesses or targets. you don't know which one you're going to be. >> they don't tell you? >> they don't tell you but you have an idea. if they're calling in the brother-in-law, you know that's a target. but here's the issue at hand. if once they get into that room and they start to testify, there's going to be a thread and if you go back to vince foster and the suicide, there was a thread that they were investigating in the clinton

years, the suicide, which then leads a thread into whitewater and leads a thread into -- you know better than i do. but each time someone would testify, there was a thread leading to another bigger part of the investigation and when you look at what bob mueller is able to do and it says and matters, it all matters. that stem from this investigation. so despite what donald trump is saying, there is no red line that says that bob mueller has to stop at any particular place. >> because his attorney is saying they are exceeding their mandate. you're saying the mandate is actually pretty broad. >> it's pretty broad and it was broad in the nixon years and clinton years. it's very broad. once they start to see something -- especially a prosecutor. here we have an assistant attorney general as well as the former head of the fbi looking at this and the antenna goes up. they say, wait a minute, i just heard this person testify about this. i'm going to follow the money

wherever it leads me and you don't know where this money may lead. >> that gets us to our next segment. more breaking news. cnn has learned the mueller investigation is crossing the president's so-called red line following the trump's money trail with potential ties to russia. he says it had nothing to do with the election. the leaked transcripts of the phone call between mexico and australia. he claims one of the calls was not contentious and called "the washington post" fake news for reporting it. we're keeping them honest ahead. pop up everywhere. luckily there's powerful, 24-hour, non-drowsy claritin. it provides relief of symptoms that can be triggered by over 200 different allergens. live claritin clear. she needs to go to college. i don't know how we'll do it. ♪ never stop ( ♪ ) ♪ 'til we get there ♪ ( ♪ ) ♪ 'til we get there ♪

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more breaking news tonight in the russia investigation. cnn has learned how special counsel robert mueller and his team are on the money trail tied to the president and the trump organization and his family. sources familiar with the investigation, pamela brown is one of the reporter who is broke this story. she joins us again. so what have you learned? >> we've learned several things, anderson. that the probe, the special counsel probe has expanded to look at president trump's finances as well as the finances of his family members, his son, don junior, and even the trump organization. as you know, anderson, this all started off as a look into whether there was collusion with the russians and that probe has now expanded a year in to really focus on financial -- the financial avenue. as sources have told us, prosecute are to prosecutors and investigators look at that if there's going to be prosecution and two of the main targets here are paul

manafort, the former campaign chairman, of course, as well as michael flynn, the former national security adviser. anderson? >> trump said this was a red line in answer to a question of theirs about his past financial records. what's the white house response been to this? >> well, the white house response has been very stern. in fact, i spoke to jay sekulow, the attorney for the president who says that this is basically outside the scope of what they believe outside of what mueller should be doing. he said the president's outside counsel has not received any request for documentation or information about this in terms of asking for financial records. he went on to say that any inquiry that goes beyond the mandate specified in the appointment we would object to. so making it clear that, in their view, this does cross the red line. i should point out, too, that any lead that comes into the department of justice that has to do with any of trump

associates, including paul manafort, michael flynn, is directed to the special counsel probe. so even if it has nothing to do with russia or the 2016 election, it will go to robert mueller and there's a couple reasons for that. obviously they want to investigate every lead they can but it could be used as a tool to gain leverage in order to encourage cooperation among some of the subjects, anderson. >> pamela brown, thank you very much. stay with us. joining the conversation is timothy o'brien, trump biographer. you looked into trump's finances for years intimately, got sued for it by him. there's an irony here that this is sort of the one realm or this is a major realm that he has always refused to discuss, refused to go into and release his tax returns and this seems to be an avenue that the investigators are looking into. >> yeah. and i think the president can talk about red lines and witch hunts but mueller is within his rights. it goes to the heart of any quid pro quos that existed between

the trump organization and the kremlin, the trump campaign and the kremlin, the trump white house and the kremlin. these are issues that have to get explored. and i think the reason he's so focused on this on almost a daily basis for months now is because he's concerned about what he might expose. he's got past relationships in his business relationship with the trump organization and relationships that i think came to the fore during the election that are problematic for him. >> so the trump supporters say, look, this goes beyond the scope of -- why is mueller looking at, you know, financial transactions that may have occurred long before donald trump was even a candidate. >> well, i was going to say, look, if there's some sort of a quid pro quo with russia, that is relevant. it's probably just as likely you might stumble across some financial irregularities that have nothing to do with russia and then what do you do? i tell you, i think the american public, and not just trump supporters but a lot of people,

it would start to feel like the deep state. like the game is red. that this is somebody trying to overturn the election. so, you know, that's where i think it gets kind of messy. >> but what should they do? first off, it's within the scope. the scope is broad. and that was set by the trump justice department by a man trump picked to be the deputy attorney general, rod rosenstein. he set the sense of the investigation. >> right. but with bill clinton, the public stuck with bill clinton. >> and they are not sticking with president trump and that's an interesting and important problem because part of this is political, should it get to impeachment -- >> but prosecutors stumble across some financial irregularity that has nothing to do with russia or even the election, would they pursue it, i mean, from a legal standpoint? gloria, would they? >> it really depends on what it is. what happened with the nixon years is that as they were investigating nixon, they found

all of these other irregularities and of course, conspiracy to obstruct justice is what was the charge. but the executive privilege issue was the issue that stopped them cold. so this issue of whether or not they could go after a sitting president for any other criminal reason was never decided. it was stuck in advance because they had what they wanted, the tape. >> here's what is likely to happen. let's say he comes across information in the kennedy assassination. i'm trying to pick something crazy. the special counsel knows this is outside of his mandate. he goes to the deputy attorney general and says, you need to put the u.s. attorney justice department on the kennedy assassination problem. they can expand to include the jfk -- expand a mueller probe to inclue the jfk assassination or turn it over to a u.s. attorney or doj. you can't just ignore a crime if you're a federal law enforcement

officer. >> i just want to reiterate for anyone who joined mid-sentence, you were using that as a ridiculous -- >> as a ridiculous, absurd -- >> but can you indict a sitting president for whatever it may be? that is the issue that is still open because it wasn't decided in the nixon years. whether or not they find the smoking gun with anything, whatever it may be, can we indict a sitting president? so far, that's unanswered. the supreme court hasn't gone that far. >> i think it's important and we all agree that the mandate is broad and deals with all matters that arose or may arise and i think as the more the story changes, jay secokulow says it didn't help with drafting the statement. that gives another stone for mueller to overturn and the question is, will they get their hands on those income tax returns? that will be a big -- that will tell a lot. >> his base is standing firm.

the rally tonight, he brought up this topic. russia did not elect me. my voters and my team, his base is standing firm and they are standing behind him. >> yes, but that's not the public. that's a quarter of the public. we love them but they are not going to determine the president's ultimate success or failure. >> and the reason why russia is of interest is because there's a real gray area between the private and public sector. you have billionaires in russia constantly and forever tied to the russian government. thing a c the aguilaras are, too. as we know now, from the paper trail, connects to the russia government. >> interesting that he continues to go -- today he went after congress, not russia, for the low in what he characterizes the lowest russian relations i think he said in years. i can't remember the time frame. >> one of those tweets today is that the gop congress is why the

relations are bad when, in fact, we have bad relations with russia because they interfere with our election and possibly for -- >> which is what russia is trying to seize upon. they are trying to make the best of it. what they are trying to do right now is distant the president from congress and drive a wedge and chaos between not only the president and democrats but now we know the president and people within his own party. >> pamela, the president may not like that mueller is digging through his finances but there's not much he can do about it short of a reshuffling in the justice department? >> right. he could ask rod rosenstein to fire robert mueller which will not happen unless there is cause, unless rod rosenstein thinks there's good reason. he says he sees no reason to fire the man that he's appointed to take on this role as special counsel. and i've been told by people in the department of justice and elsewhere in the legal community here in washington that if the president asks rod rosenstein to do so, then he just simply wouldn't and would likely leave the department. and so of course there could be

moving parts. who knows. we know the president has been threatening the attorney general. so, you know, barring a seismic shift, as you said, it's likely that rod rosenstein will not be firing robert mueller anytime soon, anderson. >> we're going to take a quick break. when we come back, what president trump said about the russia investigation and how the western virginia crowd reacted. when we come back. right now, when you get the incredible iphone 7 from at&t you can get unlimited data

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importantly, demeaning to our country and demeaning to our constitution. >> back now with the panel, you know, you were saying, gloria, before that, that people don't necessarily know that they are the target of the grand jury. the president's attorney says we have no reason to believe that the president is being investigated and they pointed to the fact that comey had told the president three times that he wasn't targeting the investigation. it's possible that has changed in the subsequent weeks and months. is it possible that the president would actually be called to testify whether or not he was a target in a grand jury? >> well, the president could be called to testify. i mean, bill clinton was called to testify. and but what we also have to understand is, this is going to go on for years. it can. the possibility can go on for years. so he might not be the target now but we don't know who's going to testify about what. but also, conspiracy to obstruct justice, conspiracy in regards

to witness intimidation. so that could come further down the line when other people are called to testify and maybe donald trump tells them not to or threatens them in some way or somebody around him. i mean, it could go in many different directions. >> it's interesting, with just the cast of characters that the president has had around him who are no longer there and sort of the competing motives and the fact that many times the thing the white house has said or the president has said does not hold up to the light of day when it's actually leaked and then reported and then they have to amend their statement. >> and when you go to a grand jury that matters more at a grand jury. that's a sacred place and you cannot lie or mislead there and i think the president is so telling, we always know what is on his mind. he again tonight is pretending that russia didn't play a role in the election. it doesn't mean that he did but russia did and his own intelligence agencies say that and again tonight he's casting

doubt on that. it's a huge problem. >> it's as if he's watching russia tv before he goes out because that's what is being played out on russia tv, when he said are there any russians in west virginia, we know what he's talking about. >> you've actually, correct me if i'm wrong, in the lawsuit that you had with donald trump, he actually -- your side deposed him? >> right. we deposed him for two day sdpls c . >> can you say how he did? >> it's a public document. "the washington post" did a front page story about the deposition. i think the headline at that time was that donald trump jr. acknowledged lying 32 times undider oath. >> he had to. we had his bank records and asked him about everything from his net worth to the resale value of his apartments and on and on and on, speaking fees. he lied about everything. and it was really funny, at one

point we asked him how he calculated the value of his golf courses because he didn't have any sort of records in front of him. he said, mental projections. that's the term he used. and i think his life has been a series of mental projections. it's one of the reasons he's a survivor. he creates his own realities. he's very scared of the russia investigation. it preoccupies him and so he's using another public appearance to cast doubt on it and he's creating this other reality around it so he can move forward but the reality of it is, it's not just going to cause problems for him potentially, it could insnare other members of had family, jared kushner. >> he truly believes what he said out there tonight. he truly believes any question about russia is undermining his victory. he went on tonight at this event to say that the russia probe that is distracting the

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we've gone from the fact that the white house said he got two calls that he didn't get and two phone calls that leaked and neither paint a flattering picture of the president. "the washington post" published two calls that the president had early on in his presidency with president of mexico pena nieto. we'll start with the mexico

phone call talking about paying for the wall because it would make him look bad. he said to this the mexican president. the only thing i'll ask you, on the wall, you and i both have a political problem. my people stand up and say mexico will pay for the wall and your people probably say the same thing but in a different language. i have to have mexico pay for the wall. i have to. and why of course does he have to? because he promised over and over. it was a mantra of the campaign shout to crowds all across this country for months. >> we will build the wall 100%. i promise. we will build the wall. >> a and who's going to pay for the wall? who's going to pay for the wall? >> mexico! >> who? >> mexico! >> mexico is going to pay for the wall. mexico will pay for the wall. and mexico's going to pay for

the wall and they understand that. mexico is going to pay for the wall. believe me. 100%. >> well, in the call with the mexican president, he asked him to stop say that they are not going to pay for the wall. he said he should say they are working it out. president trump has wavered, not just in this phone call but in his promise to tax payers. the funding we'll work out in the formula somehow. it will come out in the wash. meaning, it seems, that he wants mexico to officially pay for the wall but they'll get the money back through other means. what's so interesting about this call is how concerned president trump was about how this makes him look. the mexican president says, quote, my position has been and will continue to be very firm saying that mexico cannot pay for that wall. the president responds, but you cannot say that to the press. the press is going to go with that and i cannot live with

that. the president also expressed his concern about how he appears in his leaked phone call with the australian prime minister talking about an oem administration deal to accept 200,000 refugees subject to vetting. the president said, this is going to kill me. i'm the world's greatest person that does not want to let people into the country. the president says it makes him look bad and he hates it. i spoke to putin, merkel and abe and france today and this was my most unpleasant call because, i'll be honest with you, i hate taking these people. i guarantee you they are bad. that's why they are in prison right now. they have gone to work for the local milk people. the local milk people, we assume, dairy farmers. i'm just assuming. on the call, the prime minister tries to explain that refugees are mostly economic refugees from iran, pakistan and afghanistan and have been under australian supervision for more than three years and there was a deal between the united states and australia. the president says the prime minister made a stupid deal. what's so interesting about the transcript is that there were reports published at the time

that this call was contentious. and, guess what, at the time, the president tweeted, quote, thank you prime minister of australia for telling the truth about our very civil conversation that fake news media lied about. very nice. once again, something that the president called fake news turned out to be very real. very nice. back now with the panel. how big of a problem -- i mean, alice, do you think it is for the president in just this week, you know, he made up two phone calls or made a mistake about two phone calls he never received from the boy scouts. >> and from the president of mexico. >> yes. and now he's made it up about, you know, fake news, lying, going after reporters in a way that's just not true? >> he has a distorted memory or recollection of events, which is unfortunate. the problem with these calls, when he first took office and

became president, they were to test his negotiating skills with his foreign counterparts and, first off, with regard to australia, this was an ally and he was having a confrontational phone call. with regard to the president of mexico, this should have been a call about policy. he was more concerned with his perception with breaking a campaign promise and that's unfortunate. both of these, he was more concerned about his deception than discussing serious policy with these foreign counterparts and i think that's unfortunate. >> i think the big story here -- and he's cynical, he cares more about appearances, he attacks the media for fake news when it's actually true. and i know trump people come on here all day long and all they want to do is say -- they want to misdirect and talk about the like leaks. it is a big story. it's incredibly dangerous that the president of the united states cannot have a private conversation with the leader of another country without somebody in the government, presumably

leaking that out. it sends a message to leaders of other countries. and that's incredibly damaging. >> but what leader of another country is going to feel confident having a private phone call or a frank phone call with the president and why would the president feel comfortable having a frank phone call with another leader if they all think it's damaging? >> it's enormously damaging. as a former white house official, it's terribly damaging to our country. not just to donald trump politically but to our country for this to leak. it's a terrible breach. these calls are on the record and the other head of state knows that. but in that, we have no takers. we have transcribers. the president knows that. everybody knows it. it's a very on the record event because then it's shared throughout the government. we talked about trade with the mexican president, the u.s. presumably, right, the u.s. trait representative needs to know about that so when he's negotiating with his mexican counterpart she says the president promised "x," they'll know. it goes to the state department,

defense department, homeland security in the case of the mexicans. cia. all around the government. and these happen all the time. and they never leak because those are people with great integrity. somebody really betrayed his or her country with this. >> i think there are occasions -- >> i do think you're right. >> i think there are occasions when civil disobedience would be called for. there could be something going on where i think somebody -- >> say the call with putin. >> right. >> sorry. >> sometimes you're a whistle blower or a leaker. this is not that occasion. this is embarrassing to trump. it shows that he's very cynical but i don't think -- this does great damage to america and not -- this isn't the most important component but one of the things it does, we're just showing what is happening in west virginia -- >> it plays into the message that he's saying to his base. >> the game is red and they're out to get me. >> they're out to get me. >> they are not just out to get me but to get you. >> i don't think that's the most

important story but it's part of the story. >> he's in charge of the government. needs to police and inspire and intimidate. he needs to stop this. and this does say something about trump. ultimately, it says more about the leaker. >> he has a poorly managed west wing. he's not skilled or capable -- >> is this a president -- i'm sorry. >> not to excuse it because you're absolutely right, but the president has sort of over the past few months leading us down a different path saying that, no, all of these conversations didn't happen the way it's being reported but they did happen the way it was reported. my advice would be to stop lying or stop tweeting about things that didn't happen. that doesn't negate the point you're trying to make as well. >> my concern would be, i think everyone here is right. obviously donald trump has been kind of uniquely bad in a lot of ways and it very well could be

that he is like lost the faith and trust of people who work for him and that they were good soldiers that were lifetime bureaucrats, did what they were told and now they feel like it's their responsibility to leak. but does this set a precedent? what about the next president? >> right. >> do they leak on the next president? >> and he had a conversation with vladimir putin. if there's one takeaway here. >> if there was ever a situation that was going to finally be the buck stops here with the leaks, this has to be it. and to matt's point, this is damaging to the president and from our national security standpoint we're not going to -- foreign leaders aren't going to have these conversations. they are going to have one-off like he did with vladimir putin. president trump said new hampshire is a, quote, drug infested den. we'll hear from the senator and governor in a moem. but to help others, they first had to protect themselves.

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there's another nugget in president trump's leaked phone call with the mexican president that caused in air? talki in talking about the need for a wall. he said he won new hampshire because it was a dug-infested

den. he won in the primary, but i assume that was what he was talki talking. the former new hampshire governor and senator, we spoke earlier. >> well, i was outraged and it's just disgusting. we are in the middle of public health and public safety challenge and crisis in our state. it's an epidemic and to hear the president of the united states characterize people with kchronc illness and our state this way was just an outrage, and i am urging the president to stop just talking about this issue, and actually help us deal with it by helping us get the resources we need to get people into treatment, to get the kind of work force we need. to help people get treated and then understand that this is a chronic illness that will require prevention treatment and recovery efforts for the long-term. and one of the other concerns i have is it isn't just the

president hasn't taken action to actually help us with this issue, and it's not just new hampshire obviously. it's across the country, but also his actions as becoming president and advocating the repeal for the affordable care act, that would repeal treatment in new hampshire. and he defunds planned parenthood, that helps with recovery, and they are undermining our efforts in new hampshire. i would like the president to stop throwing insults at people dealing with a chronic illness, and help us get the resources on the ground that we need. >> back now with the panel. calling new hampshire a drug-infested den is not the best use of words. but the supporters, a lot of people like the fact he is plain spoken and, you know, is this a big deal? >> the opioid crisis actually -- if you think about it on a map, trump country harder, perhaps than obama country or hillary

country and it's not just a disease. it's the way it is. >> he talked about it in new hampshire. he talked about it -- not in those term. >> i was watching the campaign. every one of the 30 people who ran learned a lot about the opioid crisis. one of the good things about having a long and difficult campaign. i think it will hurt him in new hampshire where the republican governor also said that was uncalled for. he also said something else to president pena. he described the wall as, quote, the least important thing we're talking about. that is not what his voters say. >> he said it was payment of the law. >> thank you for correcting me, but they cheered that. >> politically, it's maybe the most important, but it's the least important. >> you know what? i'll say that "the washington post," they put up little teasers, you know, of things, and the teaser they said, the wall is not the most important. but my interpretation, when you read the transcript, what he was saying, who pays for it is not that important.

i'm going to build the wall. >> that's not what his supporters think because of what he told his supporters. >> the wall was this metaphor for what he was going to do about immigration, and tackle immigration, and wall off mexico in the process, and in that call, he is backing off of it. whether he is financing it or building it, he is backing off of it. >> in his book about steve bann bannon, was that the whole wall was a -- it was just a device for the president to remember to talk about immigration. like they came up that it was roger stone, i think, and somebody else. came up with the idea of the wall. talk about that, and then it actually became an actual idea. >> in josh's book, that just a few months before he announced and he announced very controversial things about mexicans, a few months before, he was criticizing mitt romney for being against immigration. i forgot that. >> we can see the evolution of building the wall, and mexico will pay for it. whenever he would mention it,

the crowd would get bigger and more involved. if i can just say something on the new hampshire issue. during the campaign with cruz, we had a round table on this issue, and it's such a serious, heartbreaking issue. the opioid addiction, and epidemic in new hampshire and many of the key states, and i understand what the president was saying. he said it in the wrong way, but if nothing else, hopefully, we can focus on the serious issue with opioid addiction, and the funding of it. if nothing else comes of this. once again though, however, the president took something that was an important issue, and his point -- he had a good point, and went about saying it the wrong way. he said, one of the ways to help with this wall, is we have a opioid epidemic. >> he has ideas for what the federal government can do. >> jared kushner runs that commission inside the white house. >> unlike cruz, most people

expected donald trump to be an ideal -- he said one thing to the crowds, but you and i are going to talk about something else. that shouldn't come off as that wig of a surprise. both democrats and republicans thought this was a great way to work with both parties and he is admiring russia and digging himself deeper. i don't think this transcript revealed anything surprising. >> thank you for being on the panel tonight. we'll have more ahead. we'll be right become.

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and that's it for us. thanks for watching. time to hand things over to chris cuomo, who is filling in for don lemon tonight. "cnn tonight" is starting right now. all right, thank you, anderson. we have much more major developments in the russia investigation. this is "cnn tonight." i'm chris cuomo in for don lemon and he's what's happening right now. cnn has learned special counsel robert mueller is crossing the president's red line. remember when the president said it was going too far if the special counsel looked into his finances. well, that's where the russia investigation is headed. the fbi reviewing financial records related to president trump, his family and the trump organization. cnn also learning that mueller has issued grand jury subpoenas for documents and testimony from people involved in that trump junior meeting at