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in tonight for erin burnett. outfront tonight breaking news. president trump and russian meddling. ts white house today going to great lengths to say president takes russian meddling seriously. this despite trump tweets attacking everyone from own national security adviser to the fbi, to president obama, but never once addressing the gravity of a russian assault on the lexus tem or blaming russian president vladimir putin for directing it. white house press secretary sarah sanders tell can reporters today the president gets it but you guys the media don't. >> president has acknowledged that multiple times before. he acknowledged it during the transition. he acknowledged it during a president conference in poland. and he acknowledged it for a third time at a precis vent in poll land. he has stated several times, some of you guys seem to be get very confused and seems to happen regularly, the president hasn't said that russian didn't meddle. what he is saying it didn't have

an impact and certainly wasn't with help from the trump campaign. >> well, if acknowledging russia meddling also includes blaming a 400 man in his bed, they have a point. here is trump 2016. >> i don't think anybody knew it was russia that broke into the dnc, it could be russia, or china also could be somebody sitting at somebody weighs on their bed that waste 400 pounds. maybe there is no hacking. >> and if acknowledges russia interference means repeatedly praising vladimir putin and taking him at his word that he did not mess with the election h then sanders may also have a point. here's what he said about putin on air force one just last november. every time he sees me, he said i didn't do that. and i really believe that when he tells me that. he means it said the president. but the white house today insisting the president trump

has been tough all along on russia oon trying to shift the blame to president obama. >> the investigation is obviously about what russia did and raises the question now that you've said the president agrees the national security says the evidence is incontrovertible. what is the president going to do about it? what is he specifically doing about the fact that russian interfered with our election and has every intention we are told of doing it again? what is he doing about it? >> look, just last week, the department of homeland secured secretary kirstjen nielsen met with a number of relevant stakeholders. they are discussing this process and going through and looking at every single day at the best ways forward. everybody wants to blame this on the trump administration. let's not forget this happened under the obama administration. >> it happened over a year ago. what is he doing about it? >> we spent a lot of time working on cyber security protecting fairness on our elections. as i just said department of

homeland security met with state and local officials just over the last several weeks, along with election vendors to make sure our lexus tem is secure. just last week we called out russia by name. it was one of the first times that you've seen something like that take place. we are going to continue doing things like that. >> but the president hasn't called output inabout this. he criticized obama and fbi. he didn't even criticize vladimir putin. >> he has been tougher on russia in the first year than obama was in eight years combined of the he's imposed sanctions and taken away properties and rebuilt the military. he has done a number of things. >> but in trump was so tough on russia, why did intelligence chiefs have the same response just last week when asked a simple question, if president trump has ever directed this em to take specific actions to confront and stop russian interference, which we know is continuing, here's how they answered that question. >> we are taking a lot of

specific efforts to blunt russian. >> directed by the president? >> not specifically directed by the president. pompeo have you received a direction to take steps to disrupt these activities? >> i'm not sure how specific. >> i can't say i've been explicitly directed to, quote, blunt or actively stop. >> would have been pretty easy questions to answer. the president had directed them to do so. outfront tonight jeff zeleny at the white house. jeff, sanders also made cryptic reference to upcoming news about russia showing the president's toughness. what do we know about that? >> jim, good evening. sarah sanders made a cryptic message, after being asked again and again what has the white house done to push back against vladimir putin has the white house done anything? she finally said there was an incident last week that will

would be announcement coming soon that shows how the u.s. is going after vladimir putin incursion here. we believe it's ran some wear attack, a computer virus attack. but, jim, this is a bit, it seems at least a bit of tarans genit other issue. president valuable commodity is time chooses to focus attention. and he has focused attention as commander of chief on the idea of russian meddling, vladimir putin. he has said he believes his denials here. so at that contentious white house briefing today sarah sanders finally said, look, there will be something coming. but, jim, she could not answer the question of what he hasn't done already. as far as we can tell, it's not

been much. >> would have seem to be a pretty simple answer to give. outfront now. editor in chief daily bees former assistant secretary for the department of homeland security, and former director of the nixon presidential library, tim naftali. this is pretty hard line to take. he's taking action. doesn't stand up to the facts though, does it? >> not even ha little bit. the reason why the white house will try to address this statements, thousands of tweets, is the president consistently has tried to deflect and deny and seems particularly reluctant to criticize vladimir putin by name. he's been boxed into acknowledging what his intelligence community over will

overwhelmingly regards as this. but the president is unwilling to bring himself to admit it. so we are left with asking why that is. as you've heard from all the testimony, the agency, pentagon are doing their job because they know it's america interest but not because the president has directed them to do so. >> juliet, you were department of homeland security. this is foreign security. i imagine you keep in touch with colleagues there and watch developments. what steps are you aware that the president has taken to protect u.s. elections from russian meddling in 2018 and 2020 which has been warnds out by director cia and others that it's happening now. >> i'm going to have to keep this in my hair. two things. one, a lot of private activity, how to protect their systems and networks from the kind of in fill tags they should be looking

for. second issue though is whether the department has been directed, and i have to say there hasn't been much of that activity from the department of homeland security itself. it's just not been out there sort of urging states to protect their networks or educating citizens about what they should do in terms of voting. so this idea that the president has been all over it or ready for 2018 is absolutely ridiculous at this stage. just a few months from the investigation. nothing has been done that you can say is a converted effort by the homeland security to protect our voting booths. >> protect our votes. the president in the past, he's accepted openly in public putin's denials. he's never called him out publicly by name, particularly this weekend when he called everybody out except putin, really. what do you take that as? what is your interpretation of

trump's reluctance to go after the president of russia, a state that has proven itself adversary of u.s. on many different levels? >> i think he also at one point didn't he suggest coordinating some kind of cybersecurity? >> yes. >> program with the russians? which is not something you do if you really consider them an adversary. i think this administration has been speaking with two different voices on russia. the secretary of defense mattis gave a very tough speech last month about america's national security challenges. and he called out russia as an adversary. the problem here is we have a very disengaged kplacommander i chief. if you listen to the pentagon, they are saying very logical and important things about russia. if you listen to the president of the united states, he seems to be finding every excuse possible for explaining russian behavior t and as with regards to the toughness of president obama, if you look at the

timeline laid out by the russian investigation, the reason the russian started this campaign in our democracy was because of the obama executive orders that placed sanctions following the invasion of crimea. this is whole product of obama toughness. so i'm not sure what he's talking about he's been a lot tougher on russia than his predecessors. >> we want to get about that because a lot of questions about who was tougher. i want to go to tom foreman doing a fact check reality check on this. what did you find? what do the facts say about which administration was in fact tougher on russia? >> well, that's exactly what the president asked for, isn't it. he says i have been much tougher on russia than obama look at the facts. that was the tweet. here are ts faktsds especially talking about peddling in the election. we know it is fair to say obama administration was slow to

acknowledge this problem in public way. many critics have sited that. they say that's a genuine problem. but after known after the election, 35 diplomats were instilled. sanctions on russian agencies and closed two ruin compounds here in the united states. by comparison, the trump administration he was reluctant to admit the russians had done this. he has not imposed sanctions approved by congress, further sanctions on russia. and while the white house says that future elections have somehow been secured against future meddling, really no details how that might have been done. what about the bigger question of russian elections? we know barack obama warned vladimir putin to keep his fingers out of the democratic process. on the other hand as you noted prum has been much warmer to putin even at one point saying he believed putin when he denid

any russian involvement. he hosted diplomats from russia at putin's request. and yes the white house will say that they've increased budget for the u.s. military and that they have made more plans for more energy going into europe and they have taken other steps against russia diplomatic outposts here and have continued the sanctions from barack obama. but if you take that all together, can you say he's been tougher been president obama? but any evidence that trump has been tougher than him, no the statement is simply false, jim. >> thanks very much, tom foreman there, always good to check the facts. john, you look at that, seems pretty clear-cut. and anthropologyiccepting the o administration. why does the trump administration and trump himself still go down this path? i imagine this argument line of

argument appeals to many who support him? >> yeah, i mean, look the president seems drawn to kind of a variation on the saturday night live sketch. he wants to show he's the toughest guy in the room all the time even when the facts don't bear it out. but somewhere between flimsy and ridiculous when you look at the facts. president obama definitely made mistakes in dealing with this. he was convinced not to talk about russian influence in the election because he was actually concerned it would appear he was trying to meddle in the election, put his thumb on the scale, argument advanced by mitch mcconnell and other republicans at the time. that was disastrous and naive mistake. being tough with russia certainly after the election. and trump seems to wiggle out and administration does level best to be responsible in dealing with the threat. it's a dereliction of duty at the end of the day. >> juliet, does this make u.s. elections in 2018 and 2020, lack

of leadership, less safe? does it make those votes less safe? >> yes, for two reasons. one is just the motivation of russia. we look so weak. this weekend that twitter storm that trump did makes him look so paranoid and defensive, that they are going to walk into that vacuum knowing the man our president has no ma cheese mow, if that's the word we are using today to push back on russia, and putin and his aggressive stance. so to the extent they feel like they've been checked, that the russians have been exposed and checked, there is no way. the second is i don't -- i actually don't worry about vote changes right now. of course, it could occur. russians could come in. they could try to change votes in various voting booths. it's harder to do. what does worry me though is russia has not been forced to sort of change their focus on fake news. and that seems to me to be the

scare ier output of even the mueller in indictments at this stage. >> and we know it was happening through the shooting. a lot of trolls sending out stuff. that's all we have time for. outfront next the fbi tweet about too busy to prevent the parkla parkland shooting. tonight the white house says never mind. if the government do nothing to do anything, should banks come. then breaking news we are learning that vice president was set to meet with north koreas but that never happened. who canceled? erin burnett outfront brought to you by otezla. learn more at otezla.com. y. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable

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the russia investigation, does he? >> i think he was speaking not necessarily that that is the cause. i think we all have to be aware that the cause of this is that of a deranged individual that made a decision to take the lives of 17 other people. that is the responsibility of the shooter. certainly not the responsibility of anybody else. >> i think he's making the point that we would like our fbi agencies to not be focused on something that is clearly a hoax in terms of investigating the trump campaign and its involvement. >> outfront now national political reporter from politico and ethics lawyer richard painter. you heard the favorite word there regarding the russia investigation from the president and white house which is hoax. and yet we saw on friday 13 russian nationals, three russian groups found with great legal

detail to have interfered in the election, and yet the president continues to so doubt. >> well, it's very clear that the president doesn't want the russia investigation to go forward. he would prefer that robert mueller be on hallway duty at the high schools protecting people from crazies with assault weapons. that's what he would prefer. but that's not what robert mueller is going to be doing. and the school shooting is absolutely nothing to do with robert mueller doing his job. it has everything to do with the out of control gun lobry and the fact we don't have decent gun laws in this country. but meanwhile the russia investigation will have to go forward because there has been a serious threat to our national security when another country is able to in filtrate our election and take advantage of the session with identity politician in the united states. and use facebook the way they

did as set forth in the indictment of 13 russians just last friday. to hack the email over at the dnc and engage in other criminal activities. clearly collaboration in the trump tower. we don't know whether it's it was illegal collaboration. a lot of people have lied about it. but this is a very serious investigation. he can tweet about it all he wants but it's going to go forward. >> i want to ask you, because it is interesting to see sarah sanders there attempt to walk back trump's tweet. she didn't defend it say yes it's got nen the way of phish job here. she seemed to be making a concerted effort there to say, no, president really didn't mean to go there. do you think they got a sense this was going too far? >> yeah, i think we saw sarah sanders in a position we saw many white house spokesman and speaks women in about 75% of the time they are asked about something the president says, which is they are put in the position of defending the in

defensible t and sarah did something smart she answered a question she wasn't asked. she wasn't asked who was responsible for the shooting but she answered that the shooting is nonetheless the responsibility lf only the single deranged individual. and john carl of abc pressed her on that. and ultimately she tried to explain what the president said. but you'll notice there has been a slight change intact particular of the way that the white house communications officer respond to things the president says. they'll say he was saying this. they do not talk in we terms anymore. i think that's pretty significant development. >> we noticed that on relationships for instance storm i daniels. separate topic here we heard john kelly is overhauling how they are hearing the interim security clearances in the wake of rob porter case but reported by cnn how many people are still operating under these interim clearances including the president's son-in-law jared

kushner here. yet kelly said or rather sanders insisted today that these changes will not impact kushner's work. and kelly saying he still has full confidence in kushner. how do you reconcile those two things? if they have overhauling the system, how can they let someone with interim security clearance have so much responsibility? >> no system to overhaul. we had a system in place under president's bush and obama and under that system someone like mr. porter never would have gotten a clearance to work in the white house at all with that number of allegations of domestic abuse. i'm not saying those allegations are true, but there are enough of them he never would have gotten clearance. and jared kushner it's quite clear that it's a very serious situation. i think worse from security vantage point than rob porter. because he has numerous unexplained meetings with foreign nationals. has trouble telling the truth about it. has trouble telling the truth

about financial disclosure forms. a lot going on with jared kushner that could indeed be a threat to our national security. i have no idea why he's still in the white house under these circumstances except for the fact that he is is the president's son-in-law. and indeed that may very well be the reason congress enacted an anti-nepotism statute that unfortunately has been interpreted by the department of justice to allow the president to make this appointment but it's turned out to be a tragic mistake. >> in your reporting, particularly after you hear a statement of confidence like that from the chief of staff, have you heard or seen any signs that kushner's position is in jeopardy at all in the wake of this? >> you know, my reporting indicates that john kelly was prepared to take action anyone who held interim security clearances and ultimately didn't act. the question comes to mind is was he presented from taking action because jared kushner is one of the people who was working on these interim security clearances. and i have to say the statement that kelly put out tonight about

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gun. las vegas killed 58 people in october. and injured hundreds more. not clear when or if a new rule will be implemented but still this is as the national debate over what to do about mass shootings now shifting to corporate america. one idea, remarkable one really for banks and credit card companies to stop allowing services, payment services to be used for gun purchases. outfront now is robert right former labor secretary under president clinton and author of the common good hits shelves today. and "new york times" he floated this idea today of corporate america stepping up. in other words you could use your visa gun to buy an ar-15. from your perspective could it work? >> it might be able to work, jim. but i'll tell you something nobody wants more sensible gun controls than i do. but frankly the idea of big

banks deciding what we are going to buy that is already legal disturbs me. once you go down that road, there is no end to it. in my book i talk about the common good as matter of reforming our institutions and politics. the problem fundamentally is the nra and other special interests have too much power. there is too much money in the system. i want to get that money out. i want to make sure that people have a say. that's the way the system ought to work. not give big banks final authority to determine what people can buy. >> what do you think about that idea? >> i almost never agree with robert, jim, but on this one i probably do. i do agree with you. i think it's not right to require the banks and credit card companies to be the cops here. we as a society have to make a decision about assault weapons and whether they should be

banned or not. look, i also believe, though, maybe part company a little bit on robert, if a company doesn't want to do business with a company that sells guns, i could see a case for them certainly having the right to do that. but then jim some of my liberal friends have to think about, that could go both ways. what about people said you couldn't use credit card to fund an abortion or sugary drinks, so then it becomes a free for all. >> well, this is exactly, jim, this is exactly why i think that we have to reform the system. steve moore, you must, i hope, you will agree with me on the importance of getting big money out of politics, making sure special interests like the nra no longer dominates our politics on such critical issues, giving people a voice. i mean, those teenagers on their way to tallahassee now, that's

what america is all about. that is actually people taking the political system and trying to make it responsive. >> we'll talk about to one of those students next. go go ahead, steven. >> look, i grew he with citizens taking action, to petition their government is exactly the right thing to do. i may not agree -- i'm kind of agnostic frankly about gun control. i'm ha little skeptical how well it would work. but i don't want to see continued violence. but i just think that people -- i this i this is a matter for the legislature. and when it comes to the nra, bob, look, how many members? i don't know the exact number. i'm guessing 2 million people. nra is representing a lot of people. it's like saying unions should not have a voice in politics. why shouldn't they? >> nra is representing, as far as i can tell, gun manufacturers, they are the real power behind the nra. and, look, steve. >> i don't know about that. >> you know as well as i do, all

the polls show vast majority of americans do not want assault rivals. they do not want -- they want some sort of background check before people can buy guns. this was established. we were almost there with bipartisan legislation. we have almost been there several times and nra that blocks it. the fact of the matter is this is not a democracy that's working right now, whether talking about the nra or talking about the power of big banks. steve, i want to make sure you get a copy of my new book, the common good. >> good salesman, robert. >> i like the other one about saving capitalism. but, look, people have a voice in american politics. and that includes people who want guns who are skeptical of liberals. look, a lot of your liberal friends, bob, who do want to just not takeaway assault weapons but all guns. and people are afraid of that idea. meanwhile, you have a lot of

these young kids doing a great thing and becoming politically active and having voice heard. that's the way the political system should work. and to say that is unfair. >> i want to ask you about something the president has done here. because there is a new poll that says 52% of respondents disapprove of the president's handling of parkland security. there you see 33% approve, 52% disapprove, no answer 15%. i wonder if you see the president reading something there? re reading a change in the national mood on guns, particularly weapons like the ones we saw used in parkland? >> quite possibly. i haven't talked to the president about this so i can't really say what he's thinking. but he has said maybe we do need some more rational restraints on guns and making sure that people who are mentally ill aren't

getting gunz. that makes sense. i'm for that. i'm not dogmatic on this issue and i hope we can get a resolution and stop these kind of killings. but, bob, if you are right, this is just the nra and this issue is so great, why is it that so many democrats have lost elections on the gun issue. every time they come out for gun control they lose elections. >> it's money, steve. it's called big money. follow the money. always following the money. >> and big point because they both have often refused to take action. thanks to both of you. difficult debate. we'll continue this on town haul tomorrow night cnn. outfront next, breaking news, busloads of students from parkland about to descend on the florida capital to demand action to stop gun violence as law make tears vote down another measure to ban assault rifles. and breaking news, vice president mike pence was set to meet with north koreans during

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breaking news, a major vote to ban assault weapons, including the rifle used to kill 17 people in the florida high school shooting has failed tonight. in fact, the florida house wouldn't even consider a bill that would ban those ar-15 style

weapo weapons. they made their way to the state capital tonight to meet with lawmakers. some of the high school students were in the gallery in fact to witness the vote. today just six days since classmates and teachers were murdered. sinsz then some of the vocal calls for change has come from the students themselves. >> ortega outfront senior there on the day of the shooting. lost a good friend in the shooting of the and she joins me from that bus on the way to tallahassee. thanks so much for coming on. while you've been on thes bus, i wonder if you've heard the news the florida house voted that down a measure to even vote on a bill banning assault rifles. what's your reaction to that? >> hi, jim, thank you for having me, first of all. to be completely honest with u after hearing that news, it was a little discouraging, but you know, just as all the great people in history have, we have to keep fighting. change is not going to be easy. it's not going to come quick.

and we are going to keep raising our voice, voicing our opinions. and also we may want to take a different approach. maybe the assault ban was too pch after big step at once. we need to take things one step at a time. and there are plenty of other bills on the table that we can look at and compromise with our legislatures to see if they are able to maybe vote and pass those. >> you are clearly very politically astute early on. i know you'll have a meeting some of you with the florida governor, attorney general tomorrow. so what other kind of things might you ask of them? >> well, what we want to emphasize, really right now is we want republicans and democrats alike to understand this is not an issue of left or right. this is an issue having to do with common sense with well-being of our citizens of america. so we are willing to look at both bills having to do with gun laws, but also with bills having to do with mental illness alike.

>> now, i know and i'm sure you know, you ventured into some pretty nasty political territory there and we have seen evidence of that. there is some on the right. attacking students personally. they are saying that your tools of the anti-gun lobby. how do you respond to that kind of poisonous environment? >> well, what i'd like to really emphasize is that everything that we as students are saying, we are saying from our hearts. this is all the effects of the tragedy that we have gone through. we are not tools, as they say, which i find very offensive, honestly. because i think people are kind of surprised that students at this age are able to voice such things on their own. we are not puppets. we are very astute and capable of individuals who want to see change in our country because we know we are the leaders of the future. >> you are absolutely right. nothing more american than that. i don't think anyone would contest that. you mention speaking from the

heart. your fellow students have spoken out so powerfully. one of the biggest challenges is going to be keeping up this momentum. keeping up these voices. how do you and your friends, your classmates plan to do that? to keep the momentum. >> c.j.: to keep at tt to not give up? >> we as students will continue involving as many people around us to support us. we will keep our voices loud and strong to ensure this doesn't die away. with with this, i think with all the support that we have, coming from around the entire country, we are going to make sure we are not silenced until change is actually made. >> you know, i know that one of the reasons you are there on that bus, and you are sticking with this, is because you lost a friend, you lost a friend last week, carmen schentrup killed in the shooting. i can only imagine the pain you are feeling now. her funeral was held today. what are you trying to do in tallahassee to honor her memory?

>> well, first i'd like to start off by saying that carmen was one of my very first friends when i moved here to parkland. we were both new to the area. so we boppnded instantly. since then she has grown to be one of the most intelligent individuals i have known. she was so kind and intelligent beyond her years. her birthday is actually tomorrow which is tragic to think about. but we are going to tallahassee on her birthday this is how i'm honoring her. i'm trying to make changes no family has to go through what she had to go through or as we as students have to go through. >> well, they shouldn't t and the fact that you are going to be there on her birthday, that's pretty darn powerful. ary best of luck to you and your classmates. we'll continue to follow your story. >> thanks very much. >> tomorrow night a special event on cnn live town haul from

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forgiving and forgetting. here is jeanne moos. >> they came together. they came apart. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. >> now, once again, president trump has choked out an endorsement of mitt romney. he will make a great candidate. and now the disaster is saying thank you mr. president for the support never mind back when he said. >> dishonesty is donald trump's hallmark. >> trump has tweeted that romney is a joke, a dope. romney has attacked trump for hitting on married women. show voters your back taxes #whatishehiding.

>> mit is tough, and smart. >> during that first endorsement. even got the taste of the yank and shake. >> the bullying, the greed, the showing off. >> trump taunted romney about their past. >> he was begging for my endorsement. i could have said mit, drop to your knees. >> hoping to become secretary of state. >> do you still think he is a con artist? >> who could imagine these two would be. ♪ reunited and it feels so

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