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plus, lessons learned from pennsylvania's stunning special election. is nancy pelosi okay if democrats in some races decide to make her more of a villain than the president? and it's everyone is irish week. a tradition on capitol hill and a reminder there's putting on the green and putting on the green. >> i will, i love it. i love it. i have property there. >> do you play golf? >> i do play golf. >> will you play golf? >> i don't but i'm always willing to learn. a new pressure campaign twhooz ta has two tacks -- the trump administration slapped new

sanctions on the internet operation and others who are at the center of the cyber attacks on american democracy. critics say the administration slow walked on this and that's a valid debate but the words are important, overdue or not. the trish resecretary calling it malign, nefarious and destabilizing and imposing sanctions on 19 individuals after clear messages of months of muddle. france and germany are condemning the russian government for a nerve agent attack on a critic of vladimir putin. the four nato powers accusing putin of attempted murder. we share the united kingdom's assessment that there is no plausible explanation, the statement reads, and note that russia's failure to address the legitimate request by the government of the united kingdom further underlines russia's responsibility." remarkably direct and blunt words from the treasury

secretary and from the joint statement from the u.s., uk, france and germany. vladimir putin is in the spotlight for reprehensible behavior and the president of the united states is saying very, very little. >> i spoke with the prime minister and we are in deep discussions. a very sad situation. it looks like the russians were behind it. something that you should never, ever happen and we're taking it very seriously as i think are many others. >> let's begin with the latest reporting, jeff zeleny live at the white house. toughest action by the administration. explain why and why the president doesn't talk about it. >> it was the toughest action taken by his administration. the treasury department, if you look at the list of sanctions released this morning, it is a near mirror image targeting

individuals listed on the mueller indictment from february 16, one month ago. it's striking this investigation that the president has repeatedly described as a wish hunt. his administration sees similarities but you're right, we didn't hear the president talk nearly as forcefully as his own administration has in that statement from the -- france and germany and the uk in condemning the attack but the president did for the first time say he believes it was russia so, john, one more example of the president often not speaking as strongly but no question today, these sanctions are strong. perhaps not as timely as some would have liked but they will feel them. john? >> progress, one would say. jeff zeleny at the white house. to fred pleitgen in moscow. i'm assuming the kremlin not happy? >> no, they're not happy and we literally just got a reaction from the russians as we went to air here. they're saying they're calm in

the face of the new treasury sanctions but they are working on measures to hit back at the united states. they've not said what those measures will be but this comes as the russians say they'll hit back at the brits for expelling 23 of their democrats for poisoning that russian spy on british soil for using a nerve agent. so the russians busy lashing out at the u.s. and its allies. we'll get you more once yes we know what the russians plan to do. >> appreciate the breaking news there, fred, thanks so much. with us in studio, julie pace of the associated press, olivier knox with yahoo and politico's rachel bade. i want to get to the president in a minute but it's important after months of muddled language, mixed messages about 2016 russia meddling, if you read the treasury department statement released about an hour -- a little more than an hour ago, it's clear, the language is blunt, the sanctions track the mueller indictments

and you have the administration and a lot of people will say where have you been but we have people saying this happened, it was malign, nefarious and that's a big deal, right? >> that's what trump allies on capitol hill have been waiting for, for this president and this administration to come forward and not just accept the conclusions of the intelligence agencies about what russia did if 2016 but to take action on this. there's been a huge gap between the administration and congressional republicans who are hawkish on russia. i think the fact that it took this long will still be an undercurrent but we shouldn't take away from the fact that this is a tough action and i do think it's notable that clearly what the administration has been doing behind the scenes tracks so closely with what mueller has been doing. >> and to that point as everybody else jumps in, chuck schumer smartly, politically, whatever your view on this, if you're him, this is smart politically, he issued a statement right away, the fact that the administration has issued sanctions against

individuals and entities indicted by mueller prove this is investigation is not a witch-hunt as the president and his allies have claimed. >> no, this is kind of the bare minimum that hill republicans and democrats would say the president is doing. they want him to do more. chuck schumer said this is not enough. he said the white house should do more to protect the midterm elections. what will they do to stop this in the fall? and they said the president's silence speaks volumes in and of itself. they are taking action here but we don't hear much from the president. compare that to theresa may who after the attacks in her own country was speaking publicly condemning putin. we are not seeing the same thing from the president. >> that's an important point. this is retroactive looking back at what they did at n 2016. but they want pro active measures to protect the

elections system going forward and we have yet to really see th that. intelligence chiefs said they don't those measures from the administration to protect the american system going forward. so i imagine congressional republicans and democrats will still be looking for more but as you say, this is kind of bare minimum. >> and the riddle remains the president himself in the sense he had a brief photo-op. that's a much lighter event with the president on capitol hill, but the president knows the media is coming into the room, he knows what his treasury department has done. he knows his white house has joined a strong statement, u.s., uk, germany and france, if they don't say it so clearly but if you read the statement they're saying vladimir putin's government trying to kill somebody in a sovereign nation using a dangerous chemical weapon that hasn't happened since world war ii and the president says nothing tough. he says i talked to the prime

minister and i agree but there's an opportunity to frame putin for what he is and the president won't do it. >> right. there are two responses, one is the trump response, the other is the administration response and you've seen that over the past six months to a year, you've seen the administration provide ukraine with lethal weapons. the obama administration held back on that. you saw that remarkable attacked spurred on by russia in syria against u.s. allies there and u.s. forces repelled forcefully. now today's briefing was interesting, they talked about the sanctions in three buckets, election meddling will get top billing but they talked about a russian cyber intrusion into the energy grid and the malware that spread over europe. this used to be an escalating confrontation with russia. it bears watching very closely but i don't know that we're going to hear the president do this forcefully. he's resisted for the last 24 months. >> to the escalation, is it evidence that the people who work for the president, maybe

they were timid about going after russia because they thought they might draw his ire? if they talked openly about meddling and active measures, is there at least more confidence in the ranks that they can do this despite the? is that the right way to put it? >> despite the president is the right way to put it. there is still a difference in terms of the way cabinet officials approach this versus rank-and-file implementing these policies. they're getting signals they should move forward but if you look at someone like mike pompeo who is going to be nominated to be the next secretary of state, he's someone that is very attuned with what the president at least wants to hear on russia. he will say things like yes i accept what the intelligence agencies have said happened during the 2016 election but russia has been doing that for years, that happened previously, trying to draw this distinction between the idea that russia was meddling in the election but not doing it to help donald trump. so he's someone who is very attune to what the president wants to hear and he's going to

be, if he can get through con r confirmati confirmation, our top diplomat dealing with the russias. >> to the bigger question of russian behavior, the president has an opportunity now. this spy poisoning in britain, russian aggression in eastern europe, the malware attacking the economy in europe. the president has a broader case he could make against putin and yet he doesn't. is it because critics say ah-ha putin has something on trump or is it because putin says nice things like this? >> translator: despite the fact that he's a first-time president, still he's a quick study after all and he understands very well that this level where we are engaging in mutual accusation and i believe subtles, this is a road to know where, he clearly has leadership

qualities. they're present because he takes response for making decisions. again, whether or not someone makes them nonetheless.not, he - that's undoubtedly a sign of having leadership qualities. >> we know this president likes to be flattered. is it that simple? . i don't see the political cown side for the president being tougher on putin but he won't. >> you made one good point about the letter that steve mnuchin signed. they directly blame the gru, one of the military intelligence agencies in russia for the meddling. tied them directly to that. that would lead us to the conclusion that putin himself signed off on this but the letter doesn't explicitly go there and i don't think the president will, either. the president wants to be guy who will fix the relationship with putin, it went south under go go and obama and he wants to be the guy who brokers some kind of u.s./russian detente. >> one of the things i think the president just can't get his

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an always fun annual tradition playing out on capitol hill this hour, the irish prime minister comes to washington, there's a big friends of ireland luncheon at the capital. the president of the united states speaking moments ago, making a joke. >> it's an honor to have you with us. wherever there's a problem, you call, we'll solve it -- except for trade. [ laughter ] they got those taxes so low. you're a tough one to compete with with the taxes but congratulations. great job. thank you very much. >> good natured joke from the president there on an issue that's always on his mind. i don't know if the prime minister took it as a joke. as the president is on capitol hill, so, too, are his most embattled cabinet members. rumors swirling about changes in the cabinet including veterans affairs chief david shulkin and interior secretary ryan zinke facing questions about how they're pending taxpayer money.

democrats quick, especially, to pounce on zinke. >> these reports have raised significant questions about your stewardship of taxpayer dollars and i believe the public deserves a detail accounting of these questionable expenses. >> in so many ways right now, this great agency is mired in chaos, cronyism, and at least the appearance of corruption. >> the secretary hasn't had a chance to respond to the criticism yet. we're monitoring the hearing. shulkin, meanwhile, said he's sorry his conduct has raised so many questions. >> it will me just say that i publicly acknowledge that the distraction that's happened that you've talked about is something that i deeply regret. i've come here for one reason and that's to improve the lives of veterans and that's what i'm focused solely on doing. >> both on capitol hill at a time you hear especially in shulkin's case that the president has been talking about

moving energy secretary rick perry moving over. although the administration says no, no, not imminent. what are we to believe about these constant rumors of more and more shakeup coming? >> we don't know. i mean, it's a tough one. this is a president who loves shakeups, who loves the kind of chaos and we know there was an idea that let's do it at once. make sure we get these changes in and out and the president said he's getting close to the cabinet he wanted which implied he wasn't there and we could expect shakeups in the future but when you look on capitol hill there's not an appetite to go through a nomination -- confirmation after confirmation so there's a mismatch between the president who wants a revolving door of cabinet members and the congress that wants to focus more so on issues outside of personnel. >> and republicans in congress who think beyond the specifics, just the constant churning is one of the things hurting them.

especially in the suburbs. this president talked about this this morning, lashing out at somebody's reporting. there have been 647,403 stories about white house chaos. here's the president's take on one of them. you decide. >> so there will always be change but just a little. it was an exaggerated and false story but there will always be change and you want to see change and i want to see different ideas. >> again, part of the fascinating ripples of these stories is the president starts on this on phone calls with friends. you talk to his outside friends and they say he's about to dump sessions, he's mad at the v.a. secretary, he's asking me who would be a good choice to be the next chief of staff. >> that's right. the president calls people up, he floats names, he asks for opinions, says i'm not liking this guy, did you see this guy on tv? then those people talk to

reporters who then report the president is considering making changes. sometimes we've seen those changes come to fruition quickly. sometimes like poor reince priebus, he was having conversations for a long period of time. >> and rex tillerson. >> and rex tillerson. so much is generated by the president's desire to bounce things off of other people. this is a good point that he's trying to get to a place where he feels like his cabinet will actually reflect what he wants them do. and he has felt over the last couple months that that hasn't been the cabinet he's had. as president you are entitled to have the cabinet be made up of people who back your policies. >> the president forcefully denounced reporting last fall that he was looking at a plan to repl replace tillerson with mike pompeo. well, it's not like the narrative of the administration

hasn't been toe ctal chaos. if you make a list of all if people who quit, were fired, mired in scandal, the list stretches long so -- and the president just last week said he likes conflict, he embraces this -- i guess you would call it a die knack i can white house so i don't know how to -- i don't know what to think of it. he denied the mike pompeo story and here we are. >> so a couple weeks away is what you're saying. up next, new documents reveal new links between the trump organization and the adult film actress stormy daniels. film actress stormy daniels. yes, they do.

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designed to keep daniels silent about an alleged affair with the president. cnn's mj lee joins with us the documents. what do they tell us? >> john, what we have now is one more link between the trump organization and the stormy daniel legal battle. these documents obtained by cnn yesterday are dated february 22 of this year, so they're very recent and they say jill martin represents ecllc, this is essential consultants, the company that michael cohen set up in 2016 to pay stormy daniels $130,000. now, jill martin's title is vice president and assistant general council at the trump organization. if you look there, the address listed on those documents is the address for the trump national golf course in los angeles. and she's not any lawyer of the trump organization, you might remember she spoke on behalf of candidate trump throughout the 2016 campaign and she's the second trump organization employee to have a direct

involvement in the stormy daniels legal battle. she sent this statement last night. she says "the trump organization is not representing anyone and with the exception of one of its california-based attorneys in her individual capacity facilitating the initial filing, the company has had no involvement in the matter." certainly raising new questions, john, about michael cohen's previous statement that he acted alone in all of this. >> mj, you laid it out clearly, though the documents say her name, her title, where she works but she's not involved. thanks for that. joining our panel, cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. so that point, i'm being snarky but i think i should be snarky in this case. sorry, help me through canon of ethics. she's a major attorney in a major corporation signing this with her address and title and we are to believe this is her doing this in her spare time with nothing to do with the trump administration?

>> she can say that but the fact is she did -- there are a lot of lawyers in los angeles. out of all the lawyers in los angeles they got to participate in this arbitration they pick someone from the trump organization? again, why this matters is that michael cohen's position from the beginning has been this was purely his involvement with stormy daniels an act of altruism on his part separate from the trump organization, separate from donald trump himself but now we have not only his frankly difficult to believe story that he just paid $130,000 out of his own pocket -- >> to an adult film actress he says didn't have an affair with the president but to be a nice guy he wanted to give her $130,000. >> on the very eve of the election. >> got it. >> zh that's his story. >> the question is does this matter? if you're a trump supporter you say it's tabloidy and it is.

she signed a non-disclosure agreement but she says it shouldn't be binding because the gentleman, the pseudonym, david dennison, and her pseudonym, peggy peterson, that's supposed to be donald trump, that's the basis of this in court. she has an attorney who figured this out politically. >> he has and what he has been successful at doing is getting this story to break through. we've seen versions of this similar story and so many other controversies surrounding donald trump that are a flash in the pan. a story for two days and move on. what stormy daniels' attorney has figured out is to way to release these details day by day piece by piece and he's building a case to jeffrey's point. it's incredulous to believe now that michael cohen and people around trump -- they were doing this completely separate. >> andvenatti's point is -- they want michael cohen

and the private llc to free her from the non-disclosure agreement, say it's not binding, he didn't sign it, free me from it. as he tries to make that case he's trying to force people around the president to respond. they either have to deny it or let her speak and as he does that, listen to michael avenatti raising the stakes, if july? new the line of work of defending women who have had sexual relationships with the president that he'd like to keep quiet, have more women come to you? >> yes. >> how many. >> i'm not going to answer that. >> dozens? >> not a dozen. >> more than five? >> i'm not going to answer that. >> that -- again, it's -- you could say that is a little reckless or a shot at the white house saying let's get along here, i have more. >> it's very tantalizing, we just want to know more details, right? but this trip drip trip is creating tension among democrats on the hill because there are

democrats on the house judiciary committee who want to go after this, they want to find out who knew what when, when these payments were made and they want democrats to take this and run with it and not make it a core campaign issue but do more about it and see it if hurts republicans in the midterm bus nancy pelosi, the leader of the democrats in the house is afraid of this issue. >> what's she afraid of? >>. >> that it won't register with voters and could have a backlash with the democratic base that wants to talk about how policies affect their bottom line. >> before i lose you on the legal front, she does have a non-disclosure agreement. her point is because dd didn't sign the document, it's non-binding. is it what we're seeing play out here? is she in violation of that agreement or she knows because it's the president what can he do? >> she has two arguments. one is that the agreement is void in the first place because

it wasn't signed by dd who is donald trump. that's a pretty good argument, i think given the whole structure of the agreement. her other argument is because michael cohen said bad things about me, the agreement is void. that is a bad argument. but anything that gets her the right to speak is fine with her. >> if this judge gives her standing in the l.a. court, the hearing is down the road a little bit, if the judge gives the lawsuit standing, depositions? >> absolutely. and remember, the "60 minutes" story -- anderson cooper, our colleague interviewed her for "60 minutes," that's almost certainly going to run before the case is resolved in court so it will almost be moot by the time they get to -- as a practical matter but it will still be a live lawsuit with the opportunity potentially at least for stormy daniels lawyer to do discovery. >> and we're waiting for the

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on our political radar, attorney general jeff sessions could decide to either fire the former fbi director andrew mccabe or let him formally

retire this weekend with a pension as planned. an internal fbi watchdog is recommending mccabe be fired. he's been under investigation for his handling of the probe into the clinton foundation before the 2016 election. president trump taking swings at a few key allies last night at a fund-raiser. in an audio recording obtained by the "washington post." the president called mexico "spoiled" and he appears to threaten south korea with the idea of leaving them without u.s. military support. this is what the president said "now we have a very big trade deficit from south korea and we protect them. so we lose money on trade and the military. we have 32,000 soldiers on the bhord border between north korea and south korea. let's see what happens." this just into cnn, the treasury department says it's investigating the death of a family dog aboard a united airlines flight this week. it's the latest in a string of deaths and mishaps involving pets on commercial flights. unu.s. senator says he's had

enough. john kennedy putting his name on a bill that will make airlines treat animals be treated with more -- in his words -- common decency. >> in a lot of respects dogs are how people ought to be. pets, particularly dogs, are family members now. i've got two dogs at home, one is a beagle, i don't know what the other one is but i love them both and i wouldn't ask becky to choose between me and our pups and what happened on united was disgraceful. i don't enjoy trying to legislate common decency but by god i'll do it until they take this seriously. >> senator kennedy is a very funny man but this is a serious issue. we'll see where this plays out. i want to come back to the president at the fund-raiser. the president should have no expectation, no politician should have any expectation of privacy, even if you think you're in a private fund-raiser. how will it play around the world for the mexican government already at odds with the president over the things we know about to hear "you're spoiled" or the south koreans to hear this linkage in the

president's mind, at least in a fund-raising speech, between trade policy the president doesn't like and u.s. military troops along the dmz. >> that's a good list. in some ways it's so typical of the president. he's said versions of some of these things, the canada trade balance issue, he said a version of that in public previously. you do get the sense from allies that they get worn down by this, they get worn down by being the punching bag, by these threats that you have to take seriously to some extent because he is the president of the united states. it's very hard to imagine he'll pull troops out of south korea. >> and they get asked by their people, stand up to this guy, he's trashing us. >> there's no ambassador to south korea. i wonder who the south koreans are calling to get reassured on that issue. >> not the secretary of state i guess either, right? when we come back, president trump trying to spin an embarrassing loss for republicans in pennsylvania. he claims the democrat won by being him. let's take a look at some numbers:

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capitol hill yesterday. i get what you say publicly. what are republicans supposed to say? but a lot are trying to pin this in a way that their public spin suggests they're not playing close enough attention to the results. this is a big deal. >> it's denial city up there. the republican leaders were after n a closed door skrcconfee and speaker paul ryan and the leader of the campaign arm tried to tell republicans this should be a wakeup call, there's a potential wave coming but even then they were trying to make excuses saying it was the candidate, the candidate was a bad candidate, he was frumpy, the democrats ran a conservative candidate. i heard republicans make the same remark president trump made saying he was a trump-like republican which is untrue. he supported obamacare, he said the tax cuts were a give away to corporations. they're trying to spin this but if they were smart, they will learn from this and they'll get

their stuff together by the midterms. >> they lost a seat the president carried by 20 points. there's no way to spin this. it was a blow to the republican party. if what's at play in pennsylvania that we saw at play in alabama and virginia and elsewhere fwrks th elsewhere, if that continues they lose the majority. you have to bend the arc, which is hard or not. the flip side is what's the lesson for democrats? listen to nancy pelosi, conor lamb, the democrat in this race said -- you're right, he was not trump but he also was not a pelosi democrat and he said i am for the second amendment and he said if i get elected to congress i won't vote for nancy pelosi so nancy pelosi asked today are you okay with this? what if other candidates start popping up saying i'm not for pelosi. >> one candidate in texas came out and said he would not be for me and he came in fourth. so let's not read too much into this. i feel pretty confident about the -- my ability to -- first

and foremost the master legislator for the good of the american people. i have a strong following in the country and i don't think that the koch brothers should decide who the leader of the democratic party is in the house. >> oh, that's not going to play so well among some democrats. >> in massachusetts we have congressman seth moulton who was -- is close with conor lamb, campaigned there over the weekend, raised money for him and they both were sending the message out in pennsylvania saying we -- not only send conor lamb to washington because he's against trump but also because he's against nancy pelosi. there is a wing foo that feels good coming out of this pennsylvania election that, kind of anti-establishment rhetoric coming from democrats has a little more ground than they thought before but she's also right that the fundamentals of this race could have been baked otherwise and we don't necessarily know what caused it.

>> so if there's a big wave, the democrats need 24 seats to take back the house. if they win the house and pick up 35, 40 seats and she -- it's a comfortable margin, nancy pelosi will be speaker. is there a possibility that the democrats win the house by four or five seats and conor lamb is among them. he'll have to run in a new district but there's four or five guys plus the existing group that says we don't want nancy pelosi. is it possible the democrats could win an election and she might have to step aside? >> yes. >> it's certainly possible. >> absolutely. a third of the caucus really doesn't want her to lead them, they see her as toxic, they think it hurts her trying to get independent voters. >> winning won't change their mind? >> you'll have a group of democrats who will be distancing themselves from her. lamb isn't the only one. she'll need to get used to this. she'll have a problem if she has a slim margin running for speaker. >> this is a fascinating year now from november. up next, new video released moments ago from outside the parkland, florida, school where

the shooting massacre took place last month.

important breaking news into us right now. new video from outside the parkland, florida, high school where the shooting took place last month and new evidence the armed school resource officer did nothing. this video just released on orders from a judge. you see in the top right there shows deputy scot peterson standing outside the school as kids were being shot, dying, getting hurt inside. cnn's rosa flores is in parkland, florida. walk us through what we see in the video and why it's important. >> and you mentioned it, john, this video is requested by cnn to show the movements of the armed deputy that was on scene at the time of the shooting. so you see a spot shot of the deputy scot peterson and some of his movements as he's moving

from the location where he was when the shots started being fired to the location where he says he took a tactical position. these are his movements. it's a little difficult to see but you'll be able to see -- and we tried to circumstance this will for you. you see someone between two different buildings. it almost appears like he's behind a pole but he's not, he's beyond that between the 700 and 800 buildings. now broward county sheriff's office released this video and sent out this statement with it saying the video speaks for itself. his actions were enough to warrant an internal affairs investigation as requested by sheriff scott israel on february 21. after being suspended without pay, peterson chose to resign and immediately retired rather than face possible termination. after that happened, peterson -- a statement through his attorney said that he had taken that

tactical position, he didn't know where the shots were being fired, if it was inside or outside the 1200 building. the breaking news at the hour is that this video just released, it was ordered by a judge to be released, just released to cnn and we're seeing for the very first time john the movements of the other officers that arrived on scene shortly after as well. >> and rosa, you mentioned ordered by a judge to be released because cnn and other news organizations went to court, correct? as you answer that, is this all we're expected to hear from broward county? the statement you just read, the sheriff said so himself, this doesn't cast the department in a good light. >> you're absolutely right. as we watch this, one of the things i know i'm asking, i just asked the broward county sheriff's office is if this is the particular video that the sheriff was watching when he made that statement, that the

video made him sick to his stomach because as you can see once you watch this video, it's difficult to see peterson's position so i'm asking them as a follow-up question just to make sure we're getting the video cnn sued for because as cnn along with other news organizations requested this video it was taking longer than we normally expect so after suing for the video, a judge ordered its release. we're still following up, john, to make sure this is the actual video that the sheriff mentioned on national television, that this is the video that made him sick to his stock ma'amach. it's a it will difficult to see so we're trying to figure out if this is the video he viewed to suspend peterson. >> rosa flores, continued great reporting on the scene. cnn and other organizations went

to court to get this released. there were 911 calls released yesterday. there's a debate about gun violence. also important to put the pooss together as to what happened that say to everybody can learn from it. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." wolf starts right now. hello, i'm wolf blitzer, it's 1:00 p.m. in washington, 5:00 p.m. in london, 8:00 p.m. in moscow. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. a white house on edge, president trump expected to fire more people from his staff and cabinet as concerns grow inside and outside the west wing it's too much too fast. facts be dammed, the president admitting he lied to a major u.s. ally and threatens to pull u.s. troops from south korea as his potential meeting with kim jong-un gets closer. and a new twist in the stormy saga. cnn is learning a second lawyer from the trump organization is involved