conservative paper, doesn't like trump, they don't like kasich so much. we'll see what happens. thank you for joining me on "inside politics." see you sunday. get up early for us. i'll be back the same time monday as well. don't go anywhere. wolf starts soon. enjoy the weekend. hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington, 5:00 p.m. in salisbury, england, 8:00 p.m. in glasgow. thanks so much for joining us. caesar finality. that's the way it's described for the west wing advisers. stormy daniels suing over their alleged affair said she was specifically told to be silent. six more women are coming

forward. the trump organization crossing what the president once called the red line. everyone loves a season if i natural -- finale. who might be the next to get fired? the president told his advisers that chief of staff john kelly is, i'm quoting now, 100% safe. the president is ready to get his of his national security adviser h.r. mcmaster, but the timing is up to the president. let's go to our senior white house correspondent jeff zeleny. jeff, what more can you tell us about the turmoil and the idea that the president seems to be enjoying all of this? >> there's no question that president trump has spent much of the week fueling this expectation himself. he has said publicly a couple different times change is good, and he is about to change some members of his cabinet to have

it just like he would like it to be. so that is built up here. certainly in conversations here at the white house and indeed across washington and different administrations wondering who could be the next to be a fired or dismissed. so much so that there was a hash tag firing friday that was going around on line on twitter. but now white house aides are urging and advising aides to focus on their work. they're trying to dial back this speculation that anybody is going to be fired immediately. we do know, as you said, the national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster, could be among the senior advisers next on the list, if you will. the president has been talking privately to people about he would like to have someone else in that position. of course, several cabinet secretaries themselves also on the hot seat for a variety of misspending money and other things. but wolf, as we stand here right now, 1:00 in the east, still no firgz a firings and no sense there will

be any before the close of business. still plenty of time for this to happen. the president is talk to go his frien -- talk to go his friening to allies and watching public television which he loves to do, wolf. >> stormy daniels' attorneys making efforts to keep her quiet. >> the fact is my client was physically threatened to stay silent about what she knew about donald trump. >> the attorney also says six more women have come forward alleging sexual relationships with donald trump. he says at least two of them claim that they have some sort of nondisclosure agreement with the president. what's the latest response to this stormy saga and how is it impacting the president and his agenda? >> no surprise, the white house is not responding to this.

they've tried not to respond to this entire saga and controversy for weeks. but the reality here is this story is not going away. there are still many unanswered questions about who knew about this? are there other people involved here? so i do expect that the white house press secretary will be asked about this again today, this afternoon at our daily press briefing here. so far the president has not been asked directly about this hush money or any of these variety of stories that have spun out of this, but no sign of it going away. as for how it's impacting his agenda, i think that's unclear. it certainly is not impacting his key supporters here. but it is a distraction, without a doubt. and as this goes forward here, will it be a legal matter? we don't know the answer to that, but again, it's something that at some point the plt will be asked in a public setting. we've not heard from him on this yet, wolf. >> thank you, jeff zeleny, from

the white house. c this, n political analyst april ryan is here along with our chief political analyst gloria borger. what do you make, first of all, of stormy daniels saying she was physically threatened to keep quiet? >> i think it's a charge that we need to get more detail. physically threatened by whom? we know she already told much of her story to "in touch" magazine a while ago, so i don't know if there was some of the story that was missing, and we need to -- when an attorney levels a threat saying, you know, my client was physically threatened, i think we need to know more of the details about that. he also said, of course, that he's had women lining up, six more women. i presume he's vetting them with similar charges about -- it seems similar charges about a relationship with the president. i think we need to know more about that, too.

stormy daniels, we know, got $130,000 in exchange for the nondisclosure agreement she signed. what's interesting is if those agreements are all the same, basically, if the words are the same in all three of them. >> not only if the words are the same but if they came from e-mails from the trump organization. and you have robert mueller going into trying to find out more in this trump organization. you know, i talked to chris jardon two days ago in the o.j. simpson trial, and he said it's all about money. if there is a trail of money, this is all within the scope of what mueller is doing. you've got intrigue, you've got high names, you've got sex. you would think it is a tv show. >> it is. >> it's sad, gloria. it's a lot. >> gloria, another story, you helped break this story, that the president is ready to

replace his national security adviser, general h.r. mcmaster. let me quote from an article you wrote on cnn.com. in conversations with people who know the president well, one point seems clear. the president thinks the turmoil is great. it shows he's in charge for you for real. he thinks he's got it, says an ally. i can tell you when he's concerned and when he's not. he's not. he's on cloud 9, a man in full. what's behind this newfound confidence that the president has? >> according to my sources, the president believes, okay, he's got tax reform under his belt. he feels that he's finally mastered the white house and that he was taking advice from a lot of people who gave him advice that now he believes was wrong. and he wants to find his own comfort level, particularly among the people who work for him directly every single day. he cares about all the stuff going on in the cabinet insofar as it embarrasses him, but what

he really wants to get right is sort of the inner circle. he and mcmaster have had a very difficult relationship for some time, and he has wanted to make a change there. the problem has been change to what? and also i think he wants to make sure that mcmaster, whom he respects, lands well. and i think that's been part of the problem. but what we see here is just a president saying, okay, i'm close to getting the cabinet i want, i'm close to getting the team i want, and the question is whether he just wants to rip the band-aid off and do it all at once. imagine working inside that white house right now where general kelly is meeting with the president and finally saying, okay, you're not fired. you get to stay on the island. and then -- >> for a week, maybe. >> -- for another week. and then people don't know the fate of the people they're working for or the stormy

daniels story out there. it must be a very difficult working environment. >> there's no doubt, april. the way that the president fired secretary of state tillerson with a tweet, not even a personal phone call, notie a face-to-face meeting, that has really demoralized a lot of the folks over there. >> that's part of the issue. people who will believe, and rightly so for some, that they are on the chopping block, they are concerned about how they will look once they're fired and depart this administration. it's also demoralizing to hear your name in the news. when you see the blocks for people who could be up for firing f. it is demoralizing but for the first time the president has a list of people who he feels are friends, loyal, and that he would be in sync with to replace those who are up for possible firing. but also at issue, and i talked

with someone who is in the intelligence field who said this. this is not normal, it is something that really sends a message not just to the american public but also to the world globally. then to our enemies. it makes it look like the president is distracted with all of this going on. >> he likes this. >> he likes this, but is it really safe? it could actually be a security issue when you're talking about getting rid of mcmaster too much before you're going into north korea. mcmaster, the national security adviser, brings in options on these issues for the president to consider. this is a bad time. >> all of this, though, the who's in, who's out. these stories are as solid as jell-o, because the only who

matters most is himself. he kind of spreads it, but then in an instant, he can tell general kelly, don't worry, you're safe. the uncertainty is so difficult -- >> i would quit. seriously. think about it. you're not sure of your job. what you're doing with the. it's uncertainty. is it about the american public . >> let's see what happens. everybody is bracing to see what happens later today. >> thanks very s, very much. there is breaking news out of the u.k. where a putin critic has now sparked a murder investigation. plus, he's described as a hawkish warmongerer in favor of

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u.k. police are treating the suspicious death of a russian citizen as a murder. the victim, putin critic nicolai glushkov, was found dead in his apartment last monday. the cause of death was called compression to the neck. do police believe glu srsglushk death could be related it theto poisonings?

>> reporter: at the time they're saying there is no link of nicolai glushkov's death has no link. clearly, the timing of his death, and several others, were found dead in the u.k. in suspicious circumstances has raised a number of questions. and certainly the interest that is being paid to his death. the police are now saying they believe it is a murder investigation that's been opened, an anti-terror investigation because of those associations as well to begin with. they now believe he was killed. no finger yet is being pointed, but clearly this death coming as it did only eight days after sergei and his daughter were found dead on a bench, slumped on a bench just behind me in the town center of salisbury has sparked a great deal of interest

even if the link hasn't been made. this continues to be investigated. it is being squarely placed at the feet not just of russia, wolf, but actually of vladimir putin himself. there is the latest words of the foreign minister. and even as that investigation continues here in salisbury, of course, all eyes very much now on this latest death being treated not just unexplained as it was just now of nicolai glushkov but also a murder investigation. >> thanks very much. the department of homeland security here in washington is now detailing planned cyber attacks, they say, from russia targeting u.s. energy, nuclear, even water facilities. the report is part of the newly imposed sanctions that have just been imposed against russia for meddling in the united states. columnist chris collins is a republican from new york.

mr. collins, thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> your area includes the niagara falls area. major niagara power plant. a lot of production for electricity coming from your district and the district next to yours. what have you been told about these alleged cyber attacks that the russians are planning, and how close are they to actually succeeding? >> well, we've been monitoring this, we've held hearings on it. when you look at it's not just russia, it's north korea, it's iran. we said all along that the cyber attacks into our infrastructure, which includes power plants but also any and all computer-related things, is something that we all take very seriously. we're trying to harden everything we can, even from an

electromagnetic pulse which we've always been talking about the last ten years, the vulnerability of electronics. we've always been concerned about this. we need to make sure our counterterrorism folks are on this. on the energy congress committee in congress are very aware of it, the industry is very aware of it. we take it very, very seriously. >> even with the announcement of these new sanctions that the treasury department just imposed this week against the russians, the white house pointedly still isn't saying, at least as of yesterday, whether they consider russia a friend or a foe. what do you consider russia to be, a friend or a foe? >> there's no question, they are a foe. they are flexing their muscle. vladimir putin is flexing his muscle around the world. it's somewhat disturbing to hear that his popularity is at an all-time high as he is flexing the russian muscle, meddling in

any and all sorts of activities, not only in the u.s. but in europe and around the world. so we need to be very diligent in this. the sanctions that trump imposed, but this is the type of activity that has to be monitored by many agencies around the clock, and i don't see it stopping any time soon. >> we know that the president's top national security advisers, whether the outgoing secretary of state and others, they've really been outspoken in criticizing the russian leader vladimir putin. but the president never criticizes putin. why is that? >> i can't speak for the president, but the sanctions he just leveled on russia, i think, speak for itself. we all know that putin is, in fact, a dictator. they may have elections, but those elections are not true elections. a

and. what we call democracy and freedom which does not exist in russia. i'm glad to see we put more sanctions in place. certainly i was someone that voted for those in congress. and certainly what i've seen of his administration and all the things i've read say, that is our number. we have a nuclear threat from north korea and the same with iran, but it's russia who is meddling in all sorts of our activities. >> they did place sanctions very heavily on russia. the president didn't want to sign that legislation into law. he did so because he knew he couldn't override a congressional veto. it's 90 days past the deadline. he goes ahead and authorizes the

department to go ahead. you voted on all your sanctions with your democratic and republican colleagues last august. >> the important thing is they are now in place. i'm not part of those discussions inside the west wing, and there is a lot of moving targets. we actually, frankly, are still hoping that russia could assist us in denuclearizing north korea, and there are places that we still need because russia is, you know, a very powerful nation. russia and china can do a lot to help us with north korea. so it's a fine line you walk where you're an adversary one day and a potential ally another day when it comes to the nuclear threat of north korea. that's where we stand with both russia and china. so it's a dell kaicate balance, wolf, and i'm not privy to those particular discussions. they are now in place, but we have to remember that russia could assist us greatly in the

nuclear threat from north korea. >> the president last summer said it would be a red line if the special counsel robert mueller looked into trump family finances. the special counsel has now gone and subpoenaed records from the trump organization. do you believe this does cross that so-called red line, and do you think if it does, the president is close to firing robert mueller? >> well, to many of us, beverage kwloesd. >> the house intelligence committee, excuse me for interrupting. there are other congressional delegations going on. there's only the house intelligence committee that's closed up its investigation. >> that's correct. many of us have seen mueller.

we could that a hitch hunt. if the current. i think it's a stretch at best. not having seen the subpoenas, i think we have to see whether yir delving into a russian money piece which i suppose you could say was fall under the aus pill. but if they're looking at some financial deal in hilton head, south carolina, that's a whole other matter. i don't know the answer to that and i'm sure we'll see more as this develops over the next few days, but i have not heard any indications that trump is close to firing mueller. and again, we have to see what the details of the subpoena are. >> he does have the authority under the terms of his assignment, robert mueller, to investigate not only alleged collusion or cooperation between

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his security adviser h.r. mcmaster as the staff cuts keep occurring. he could hire john bolton apparently under consideration right now. take a closer look at bolton and his records. samantha, walk us through his stance on some sensitive issues, iran, north korea, russia, for example. tell us where bolton stands. >> definitely, and i think h.r. mcmaster at this point may be a lame duck in the west wing, and if bolton does come in and if the president listens to bolton, we may have a very loud hawk. bolton has a strong opinion on regime and the russia organization. he wants a gateway to get rid of

north korea's program. he's talked about in light of his diplomatic breakthrough, he said a meeting between kim and trump would be an opportunity for trump to make a credible military threat, so i don't know at this time he's really thinking through the diplomatic track. >> what about other issues? >> iran is really no different. bolton said he doesn't trust it rain y -- the iranians. he wants to strap it completely. that could lead him to focus the security counsel on military action or a covert action program that would swap out the regime or help the situation and that would help out not supporting the regime change. >> the russians? >> john bolton has been tough on

russia. he's called the kremlin liars. he said the sanctions we take to date don't really count on weird deter rents. if he is national security adviser, we could see a tougher line on russia. >> one thing i'm sure the president doesn't like is that bolton was an early life supporter of iraq back in 2003 which i. we'll see if bolton does get the job once mcmaster moves on. thank you very much, sam, for that report. robert mueller issues a subpoena for the trump organization. we're going to discuss what he may be looking for in the legal. now the lawyer says six more

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right now attorney general jeff sessions is deciding whether to fire andrew mccabe just days before he is to retire and receive full benefits. there has been a recommendation he be fired, but the ultimate decision to fire him is up to sessions himself. we have the deputy general eric column us and former counsel to the assistant general for security, carrie cordero. he worked at the fbi for 22

years. he's scheduled to retire on sunday. between now and then, sessions would potentially fire him and he would lose his pension. >> there are two questions here. one is whether mccabe did something wrong, and two, whether he should be fired for it. the first one, we don't really know the answer. we're just reading press reports that suggest that he was not forthcoming and misled the fbi's office of professional responsibility and possibly also the inspector general's office regarding contacts he had with the press for a 2016 news story. now, assuming that he was at fault in that, the question is does that make it proper to terminate him before that and just days before he retires? is this something that's been brewing for months sore is it

just a sudden rush to judgment to try to fire him because donald trump clearly hates the guy? >> he's tweeted against him, white house officials have as well. let's talk a little about robert mueller's investigation, the decision, carri reerks, to go forward and subpoena the trump organization for business documents. many the decision to subpoena for those documents as opposed to simply asking for the documents is significant. >>, it is religious. that's why so significant because this is the trump organization and his family business. . given the scope of this investigation, it's not surprising a subpoena would be issued. the difference between a subpoena and a voluntary request meaning there is a requirement that the trump organization, when they receive this subpoena, they have to preserve everything. and so is that way the special

counsel's office doesn't have to negotiate what will be produced. they know what they want produced will be. >> i raised the question, eric, because a year ago there was a handing over of. now i guess they issue a grand jury. >> there is also a worry that the trump organization is doing this to protect themselves. if there are documents that they are legally obligated to keep potential unless a vast search warrant is issued. >> let me get your thoughts on this, whether or not robert mueller and his team already have donald trump's irs tax returns over the years, or whether the subpoena is designed to get those tax returns. >> i do think that they have his tax returns to the extent that they want them. i don't think his personal tax.

>> but they could ask for those irs returns and the irs would have co plim. they very well may be doing that. it has to be what would be the motivation for donald trump and his campaign to cooperate? any financial information for the organization and whether there are major debts and foreign debt would play into that and be relevant. >> it's a sensitive matter given the president's refusal over all this time to release publicly those tax returns, even though other presidential candidates and presidents have always done so. all right, guys, thank you very much for coming in. under attack. the u.s. government accuses russia of powering t-- firing te

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russia is expected to retaliate literally any moment against the united states by expanding their own blacklist of americans. it's not known if americans can be ordered out of russia, american diplomats, as a response to the expanded u.s. sanctions against russia. joining us congressman eric

swalwell. he's a democrat on the committee. eric, thanks for joining us. what would you expect to see on russia? >> i worry you'll see escalating interference in our upcoming elections and also other infrastructure. >> you immediate the midterm elections? >> yes. >> what can they do, realistically? >> they can continue to help their friend, donald trump, their preferred candidate from the last election, by helping his party in congress. there are about 100 competitive seats this november, and that could possibly put a check on donald trump that would limit his ability to try and help the russians. so i fear that our guard is down against the russians right now, that they're throwing punches, we're on the ropes, and if we don't do anything, the interference in this election and in 2020 could be much worse. >> your fear is that their involvement in social media, not in actual ballot tampering or anything like that?

>> i don't think we've reached a conclusion whether they tampered with votes because we haven't looked at whether they tampered with votes. we learn more and more deeply how they penetrated databases. i don't know that we can exclusively say that, but we should protect against the ballot box, we should protect against the hacking, we should protect against what they've been doing. >> there are still other investigations on the senate side, for example, going on. so even though the republican majority and the house intelligence committee have said no evidence of collusion, time to move on, it's enough, and you guys are in the minority, so there's not really much you can do about that. but there are other investigations and most significantly robert mueller and his team, they're still pursuing their independent investigation. >> we should do all we can to protect bob mueller's investigation. we could actually pass legislation. there is bipartisan legislation to cement his role, to prevent him from being fired for cause

for a third party that looks at it. i would also like to support elijah cummings. that's the only way to tell america what happened. that's not something bob mueller will do. we still need to tell the american people what happened, who is responsible. z >> that's not going to happen unless you >> we need to change 24 seats this november. >> how serious this threat, department of homeland security now warning that the russians potentially could get involved in hacking the power grid, the electric power grid here in the united states. how serious is that? >> very serious, wolf. this is our livelihood that's at stake, our heating, our cooling, our electricity, our economy is at stake. again, the russians, they're taking advantage of a very, very weak america that has not been willing to see its commander in chief stand up to the russians. we need a strategy against russia. not one-off sanctions.

we need sanctions, direct tricks, confronting putin, hardening our electricity and election systems, not just one off as this president has done with russia and other national security threats. >> the republican majority in your committee, at least most of the members of the republican side, they've said they've seen no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. the top democrat on your committee says he has seen evidence of collusion, public evidence as well as private, secret evidence. where do you stand on whether or not there is evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians? >> in our investigation, we saw strong evidence of collusion. the republicans now are choosing to bury it. i don't know what you call it when the russians make multiple approaches to the trump family, trump organization, trump campaign to offer and preview dirt on hillary clinton where the candidate stands in front of the public crowd and says, russia, you'll be rewarded if

you hack her deleted e-mails. once russia does it, the campaign doesn't report to law enforcement its prior contacts with russia. they actually amplify through social media, the candidate's own words, what russia hacked. i think that's clear collusion. there's also evidence that the public has not seen that we think if, we release our transcripts, they would also find. >> are you going to release that secret evidence, that private evidence? >> the republicans during the investigation said the transcripts would be released. they are now backing away from that. i think that's because they don't want to the public to see they can't defend their claim there's no collusion. it would also show what little interest they showed in this investigation and i think the best thing we could do is release the transcripts, let the american people decide for themselves. >> what do you think of all the turmoil going on in the west wing in the white house right now, people being fired and anticipating even more, maybe general mcmaster -- i don't know about today but fairly soon, he could be out? >> the american people, i think,

would prefer to worry about their own jobs, providing for their own family than having to watch on tv every day the president not being able to do his. that affects our economy, our national security. i think the president needs to get his team in order, do his job and end the chaos and the childish behavior that i think is causing anxiety among the american people and threatens our everyday lives. >> congressman swalwell, thank you for coming in. as more layoffs hangover the west wing, stormy daniels' lawyer says she was physically threatened to remain silent. the white house getting ready to hold their briefing any moment. we'll, of course, have live coverage.

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all right. we'll take it. hi, everyonement i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. thanks for being with me. spoiler alert, season two, john kelly survives. but as a source tells us everyone loves a season finale and the president is enjoying the show. several sources said that today is the day the president could fire more staffers after a tumultuous week that saw his secretary of state get fired via tweet. moments from now, the white house will face reporters to answer for all the drama. this, as the buzz continues to build around national security adviser h.r. mcmaster, who sources say should be gone before the president's promised meeting with the north korean dictator, which we're now hearing could be end of may. if mcmaster does go, the president will be on his third national security