spartans failing to survive the first weekend for the third straight year. that was president obama's national title pick. syracuse plays on "new day" starts right now. we'll see you tomorrow. this is cnn breaking news. >> all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is your "new day". sit monday, march 19th. 6:00 here in new york. alisyn is off. erica hill join me, and you bring news with you. good to have you this morning. we begin with this breaking news report. another explosion rocking the texas capital of austin. people are operating under the belief that this bomb is connected to the string of deadly bombings that occurred this month. authorities say the latest explosive was left on the side of a road. it may have been triggered about a trip wire.

>> police urging residents in the area to stay inside their homes. this latest explosion comes hours after police made a rare public appeal to the bomber or bombers responsible to learn more about the message behind the attacks. is this the work of a serial bomber? ed lavandara is live with the breaking details. ed? >> reporter: good morning, erica. we were in one of the sprapentr to this neighborhood where it was set off. this particular explosion seems to be a little bit different from the three we have seen here in the last several weeks. if you look at the map, you can see where they took place on the eastern part of the season. this in the southwest quadrant. that is why the police chief is

urging people to be vigilant about what they see in their neighborhoods. >> it is is possible this device was a device activated by someone either handling, kicking or coming in contact with a trip wire that activated the device. so that changes things. we now need to have the community to pay attention to any suspicious device, whether a package, bag, backup, anything that looks out of place, and do not approach it. >> reporter: now, two men in their 20s were believed to be riding their bicycles or pushing their bicycles along this residential street. that is why they believe it is possible that a trip wire is what is the off this particular explosion, different from the three other previous explosions. authorities here also reaching out to whoever might be behind all of this saying they believe there is a message involved in these explosions and they want

to reach the culprit or culprits to reach out to the police so they can talk to them about it. >> let's discuss with cnn law enforcement analyst and retired supervisory special agent james gagliano. good to have you. how is it not related? they keep having these bombs. this may have been detonated a different way by trip wire. but isn't it more likely than not they are related? >> sure. they have to be hyper focused. one is bomb maker's signature. four components, power supply, initiator, the types of explosiv explosives, and lastly the switch used. every bomb maker has a different signature is. the tprepb suck piece will be looking to see are they left on porches. the second is link analysis. to your point, chris, we have to

be careful. it looks that way. two people injured, two people killed. all african-american on or hispanic. but you recall back during the late '80s when judge vance was murdered and civil rights attorney robinson was killed in savannah. initially the fbi believed this was all racially motivated. after more investigation and as time went on determined, no, it had to do with something upset with the federal system and decided to attack courthouses and people associated with the law. >> so there are questions not only is it a serial bomber but if it was racially charged. they are hesitant to say that is the case here. in terms of this fingerprint that the bomber would leave, we're told these are household items. they have been going around stores and trying to find out anyone in here who seemed suspicious. that seems a daunting task to go to all of these different places and saw, hey, people buying

these household items, did they seem suspicious. >> we obviously track large sales of diesel fuel, rental of ryder trucks. in this instance, one thing we need to be real, real cognizant of, the way these things were put together, it's sad but it is open source information. "anarchist cookbook" is still on shelves. we want civil liberties and we don't want to ban books. but that information and the way i hear the way it was put together it was not that technical. >> so they had just made an appeal to hear from the person or people who were involved in this. then this goes off. they don't know if it was already planned or in reaction to that. what is that trying to tell someone you want to listen to them? >> that is standard law enforcement play. it happened as far back as i can

recall. remember the unabomber. they were sent to a number of different residences. we tried to do a link analysis on it. one thing they try to do is appeal to the person or people committing the crimes. many times they are egomaniacs. >> they need to know why somebody is doing something before they will officially call something terrorism. usually they want you to know who they are and why they did it. here it's still a mystery. stick armed. we have more stuff to talk to you about. president trump's new twitter attacks on the russia investigation is saying it is partisan, going after special counsel robert mueller for the first time. cnn's kaitlan collins live at the white house with more.

>> reporter: good morning, erica. the president so far has avoided directly criticizing robert mueller since the special counsel was appointed last may. that's at the advice of his lawyers worried he would antagonize investigators. the president abandoned that strategy over the weekend when he called out robert mueller by name. white house lawyer ty cobb insisting president trump isn't considering or discussion the firing of special counsel robert mueller. after the president went after mueller by name for the first time, repeatedly attacking him throughout the weekend. the president making several misleading claims in his tweets including that mueller's probe, quote, should have never been started, and accusing investigators of being biased against him. >> i think the president is expressing his frustration which is well warranted. >> reporter: they celebrated attorney general jeff session's firing of andrew mccabe, two

days before mccabe was set to retired. dowd calling for rod rosenstein to follow his lead ask and bring an end to the russia collusion investigation manufactured by mccabe's boss james comey. >> it does him a disservice when he does that and when he frames it that way. when you have an innocent client, mr. dowd, act like it. >> reporter: they caution trump against firing mueller. >> once he goes after mueller, then we will take action. i think people see that as a massive red line that can't be crossed. >> if he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency. >> reporter: president trump renewing attacks on james comey while going after mccabe, questioning reports that he documented his interactions with him, calling muck contain's memos, quote, fake. a source tells cnn memos are now in the hands of mueller's team

and are seen is as a way to account his firing last may. pheub contain's attorney issuing a statement saying, quote, we will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting and false tweet by the president. the whole truth will come out in due course. the president called it a great day for the fbi. former cia director john brennan blasting the response saying when it becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced dem gag in the dust bin of history. you may scapegoat andy mccape, but you will not destroy america. senators introduced two bipartisan bills and protecting special counsel from being fired but they have largely stalled

and go nowhere. the president is going to new hampshire, what he called a drug den. there is a chance we could hear from the president on the special counsel himself as he leaves the white house to depart there. if he doesn't tweet about it first. there are more lights on than usual here this morning. >> that's a clue. that's a good clue. a lot of firefighters who have been waiting for the help the president promised on their opioid war during the campaign. thank you very much for the reporting. appreciate it. president trump talking tough about bob mueller. that's the easy part. what are republican lawmakers going to do to protect special counsel from being fired? we're going to discuss that, next.

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to suggest mueller should shut down and that all he is looking at is collusion, if you have an innocent client, mr. dowd, act like it. russia attacked our country. let special counsel mueller figure that out. if you believe, as we have found there is no evidence of collusion, you should want special counsel mueller to have all the time and all the independence he needs to do his job leading republicans raising concerns on the attack by the president on special counsel robert mueller.

with us is david gregg and james gagliano. >> he can call rosenstein and say fire him. if he says no, he can fire him. and you have the saturday night massacre. >> david, let's put this to you. as we're looking at all of this, there is a back and forth on whether it should have been done, is it done, is it being politicized. it is being politicized across the board. i think we're clear on that. will we see or hear more from republicans? >> let's define the terms of what this is, an inherently political process. even though this is a legal investigation, this has been politicized. it is politicized because the president is weighing in, members of his own party and the opposition, democrats are weighing in. and, you know, the way that jim comey around the fbi related to the e-mail investigation got very close to the political process. so that's just this cortex in which we are operating.

i think what the president is doing is what he has been doing for months, trying to define the terms of this debate, of this investigation. he is trying to delegitimize it in a way that is not unprecedented, just like the bill clinton folks, going after the special prosecutor, his purview, his areas of inquiry and trying to undermine the whole thing. i think trump has tan it a step further by is suggesting it is a deep state conspiracy and it never should have happened. listen to trey gowdy. he said very simply, if the president is innocent he should start acting like it. why isn't the president acting innocent? why is he acting this way? bob mueller is going to keep his head down and do his job. the president may be making gains among his most ard epbent

supporters. they make a good case why this shouldn't have been brought forward. >> i'm no fan of every time something goes wrong with the trump administration saying, what about obama, what about clinton. but there are some parallels. bill clinton lied in front of a grand jury. he got saved in the senate, of course. that is the fear, jimmy, looming over trump's lawyers's heads. all of this enthusiasm the president he said he had to sit down with bob mueller. all of this stormy daniels stuff aside, if he sits down in the chair and gets asked about something simply about an affair, now you are right back in the place where bill clinton was. what trey gowdy said, isn't that the truth of the matter?

the president has the most personal interest in seeing this completed. only if bob mueller in his report to rosenstein, certainly we will find out if it says this, there is no proof of crime connecting the president on the united states or people immediately in his staff or circuit to russia. that's it. that's the only way the questions go away. anything short of that, if you get away from mueller, the questions will nephew go away. >> the president is trying to snatch defeat out of the jaws of victory. he wanted andy mcgabe gopheubmc. we have seen that. i have my differences with some of andy's decisions when he was deputy director. but to characterize him as a traitor or a criminal is wrong. the ig is not a bipartisan, it is a nonpartisan entity. horowitz was appoint indeed 2012. the investigation into this

matter will take its time. the ig is never concerned about three things, chris. timeline timeliness, optics, or empathy. tey have to be a fierce, fierce, fierce investigator in facts and investigate without fear or favor. i'm confident that's what's happening. to trey gowdy's point, the president is punching down, weighing in. it is not going to be a good look. >> and we are waiting to see, kaitlan pointing out, there are more lights in the white house than normal. going back to what we hear from republicans, we can look at republicans who have weighed in. and, yes, we're hearing from some. david, what would change the tide? whose voice do we need to hear? >> you had paul ryan saying the inspect prosecutor should be

able to do his job. and lindsey graham who says threateningly, men asly, this would be the beginning of the end of the trump presidency if he makes a move on mueller. but they are keeping pressure at this point. i have no idea what the president will do. he is capable of doing anything. i think he wants to use him as a punching bag. if he's that confident he will be completely cleared, this l an issue he brings up over and over again how he was victimized by this entire investigation. but there's lots of elements to this. there is an original crime here. that is the russians did attack our country and interfere in our election. we know that. what is the president doing about it. the first glimmer of response was last week this. has to be a robust response in a bipartisan way by the country.

we have people that he brought into his orbit who seem to have ties to russia. how he gets connected, we're not exactly clear. we have the prospect of the president obstructing justice. how about the bush administration and valerie plame. a state department official whose name was revealed publicly. yet the criminal charge was obstruction of justice on the part of vice president dick cheney's chief of staff scooter libby. that's something president bush didn't pardon because it was a serious matter. that could be a focus how the president has responded. people think jim comey didn't do the right thing. the president fired him because he didn't like how he was doing the russia investigation. >> no question. but there is a key legal distinction. scoot or libby could be

indicted. there is a big argument that a sitting president of the united states cannot. he would be the tool of obstruction is here. thank you very much. appreciate it. see you back in a second. president trump's attacks on special counsel drawing harsh rebukes. we will speak to james clapper about that, next.

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president is not considering firing mueller. mixed messages? yes. joining us now is cnn national security analyst and former director of national intelligence james clapper. good to see you, sir, as always. >> thanks, chris. >> i think maybe the best way to get some context on how out of sorts we are on this is not to start with what the president is saying but what john bennett tweeted recently on that. let's put it up on the screen for people to see. what the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. you may scapegoat'd mccabe, but you will not destroy america. america will triumph over you. he was a member of leadership under president obama. but this is not the way he

usually deals with matters of public discourse. what do you think has him so fired up? >> you can never fault him for being too subtle here. john is a good friend. i think the world of him. and he i think was profoundly offended by the treatment that andy mccabe got. john does occasionally wear his emotions and feelings on his sleeve, and i think he did here. i think he's very disturbed about it. for my part, i wrote a letter of recommendation to director wray about andy mccabe and my dealings with him, which were entirely positive. i thought andy served great distinction tin the two capacities, the fbi operation here in washington and again when he served as deputy director. and i thought he served in great distinction. and i think john feels the same way >> what do you think about the

specifics of the allegations against mccabe? i read his response that's out there right now, which is very detailed. he says he was just conducting media relationships as had been done by the deputy director in the past. that's what they wound up coming after him for, planting a i story in the media about his own role with the clinton investigations and lack of candor, including under oath. do you believe there is substance to the charges? >> well, i don't know. again, knowing andy as i do, i find it hard to believe. but, again, i don't know the facts here. of course both the ig report as well as the report rendered by the office of professional responsibility, which is an fbi organ, i don't know what that is about. as i understand it, the deputy director of the fbi can authorize engagement with the media. >> right. >> so, you know, misleading

things, that's some -- there is subjective judgment there. but i really can't say. >> the reason i started the discussion this way is to get the context outside-in of what's creating this pressure. andy mccabe says this is about discrediting the probe and discrediting the fbi. john brennan obviously one of the former chiefs of the intelligence community, says that's what's going on here, and he blames trump. sure enough, trump enters the frame in a whole new way, naming mueller, saying this probe should have never started. and you have this real echo and rebound from his own lawyers. one says it's time for this probe to end. the other says let's be very clear we're going to cooperate and nobody wants to end anything. what do you think is going on here? is there any danger, or is this just politics? >> well, i don't know. you want to know what the president is thinking about, the best barometer of that are his tweets. he gets on a tear about things,

and i think he reflects what he's actually thinking about. and i think in his case, he's probably his own worst enemy by these intemperate tweets. this would be an egregious act in the military. he is preordaining his outcome. so the process, regrettablregre think he has compromised it by these tweets. it is typical mixed messages from mr. dowd, who initially said he was reflect the president's views, which i think he is. then he kind of backtracked on that. this hopefully is so much noise. i think it would be a really, really bad thing if he did fire

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president trump doing what he likes to do most, attacking political opponents. this time an unusual choice. special counsel bob mueller, attacking him by name, the president was, in a series of tweets filled with misleading claims and inaccuracies. let's get into what is true and what is not. david gregory and cnn legal analyst carrie cordero, former counsel to the u.s. assistant attorney general for national security. good to have you both. thank you for being here. let's put up the first tweet. why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats? some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans? another dem recently added, does anyone think this is fair? and yet, there is no collusion. let's start there. what do we know about who is on this team and that they're

about, carrie cordero. >> first of all, special counsel himself is historically a republican nominee. i served in the justice department for many years for parties, presidents of both parties. there was a time when the beginning of the george w. bush administration where bob mueller was acting attorney general in the bush administration. then he was the nominee for fbi director. he served as the head of the criminal division in the first bush administration in the justice department. so he has historically been a republican nominee for positions. as to the rest of the special counsel team, some have served in various capacities in the fbi, in the justice department. these are people who are experienced prosecutors. they have nonpartisan prosecutorial or justice department experience. and then there are other

individuals who are probably detailed to the special counsel's team who are nonpartisan career justice department officials. so are there a few who at some point when they went into the private sector perhaps supported democratic candidates? i think that there are. and the press has reported on that. but to cast the entire team as democratic hats is just false. >> go ahead, dave. >> i just think it is also worth pointing out, this is what happens when you attack our democratic institutions and lead people to believe if somebody gave a contribution in their life that somehow they are not fair and that they don't have respect for and allegiance to the demands of their profession and of the institution. so the fact that bob mueller is a republican, should we suspect he might go soft on a republican president, or do we think his commitment as a prosecutor in the federal government and as head of the fbi is something

that will lead him both as a matter of discipline and respect for the institution? gates serving as secretary of defense for obama. we do ourselves a disservice when we allow these things to run amok. or andy mccabe, number two of the fbi, if his wife wants to pursue a political career, he's tainted because his wife has a career? is that not the height of sex itch. is that a rule applied elsewhere in the reverse? it is dangerous. and we ought to be better than that. >> and, remember, the president met with bob mueller about the fbi job. obviously he thought he was fine right before this. >> tweet number two we want to get to. the mueller probe should never have been started as there was

no collusion or crime. incident was based on fraudulent activities and a fake dossier paid for by crooked hillary and the dnc and improperly used in fisa court for survey answer of my campaign. witch-hunt. >> oh, pick me. >> david, i'm going to pick you. we don't know yet because we don't have all the findings. >> it is a fundamentally deceptive statement of how things work. you started because there were real questions. his own guy picked special counsel rod rosen staoeufpblt it was his decision. obviously you don't say there's collusion so let's have an investigation. it works in the reverse. >> and the fake dossier, and it was actually started because of that red flag that was raised by the australian government saying, hey, there was a drunken conversation with george papadopoulos. and here we are, david. >> and this dossier was compiled

was originally the work of republicans. then democrats also funded it as well. and the fisa process was not undermined. they transparently provided information about the sourcing of information that was part of the dossier and the surveillance court moved forward. the idea that there was no crime, one question we have to raise here. the president is reacting very strongly to the fact, and this is reported over the weekend, that the special counsel team is now providing questions that they want to ask the president as part of this negotiation. the substance has to do with the president's behavior after he got into office, raising questions of obstruction of justice separate of claims from collusion in the actual campaign. that might be setting him off.

and this appears to be an all-out assault on special counsel to undermine him based on questions they want to ask him, based on something that may come out of that questioning. that is something we have to keep in mind here. >> what is true, what's not true? >> well, the biggest problem with that tweet is it absolutely ignores the fact that the special counsel has charged 13 individuals and russian entities with conspiracy to defraud the united states based on their efforts to effect the u.s. election. so according to the special counsel and the grand jury, which has given that indictment, there is a crime that has been committed and they have put that forward. so for the president, this is just another example of his unwillingness to acknowledge what has transpired with respect to russian influence on a campaign and their efforts.

and there are more indictments to come. there also was the hack of the dnc, which according to reports, is going to be another area where i think we're going to see an indictment. to say there is no crime defies what the investigation is demonstrating. >> you mean the dnc hack wasn't an inside job? the man with the most access to truth in our society is the president of the united states. he has access to all the intelligence if he wants it. yet he relies on these tweets on the musings and conspiracy theories of right wing media. and he could have all the truth at his fingertips. carrie, david, thank you very much. how about me? suing a data firm with ties to the trump campaign that had act is assess to the personal information of 50 million facebook users. what does he hope to accomplish? what is he trying to unearth? we will take you through it with

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facebook under mounting pressure to answer questions about how a data firm with ties to president trump's 2016 campaign collected private information from 50 million facebook users without their permission. it followed reports that came brynn analytica. they are suing in a british court to find out what the data firm knows about him and how they got that information. professor david carroll joins me now. it is fascinating. first of all, what have you found? what did you get? >> we got an incomplete data set that gave us at least the proof that americans voter data was processed in the united kingdom. it didn't stay in the cup. this gives us rights, then, to take it up with the regulators and the courts there.

what i did get was my voter registration file, historical votes in my district, and then a profile of my beliefs and my propensity to participate, the likelihood that i would participate. >> how accurate was that profile? >> it is hard to assess. that's part of the problem too. some of the issues feel right. but then there are other weird ones like gun rights is ranked very high for me. sit difficult to explain. >> it ranks high in terms of a priority that would give you out to vote? >> yeah. >> why do you think that doesn't work out in terms of who you really are? >> it doesn't seem to be accurate to me, for one. it doesn't seem to be accurate to my demographic profile, a professor from new york. gun rights is number three? that doesn't compute very well. we are trying to figure out why that was ranked.

experts suggest that is evidence that it is not a complete data set. they would need perhaps my personality data. >> so do you believe they have that information? >> i do believe it. because the ceo, alexander nicks, drbragged he has 4,000 t 5,000 data sets on every american. i have a dozen. >> facebook said for its part, and i'm reading here, look, this is -- the back of the data breach is false, they said. access was gained from users who can chose to sign up to use an app. everyone gave their consent. our hands are clean. >> it's a real breach of confidence. it's a breach of trust. facebook's business model is to protect our privacy in order to use it to sell is us things through advertising. and if they don't adhere to the trust between us, then their

business model is not going to work anymore. so is it's a real blow to the trust that users need to have in facebook. with regards to cambridge analyti analytica, nobody consented to a company gathering all of our data and reattaching it to our voter profile. one of my main causes is can we even opt out of this? >> and so far what are you finding? >> it is going to take a lawsuit to opt out of cambridge analytica. it shouldn't be that way. >> is there going to be a lawsuit that that will happen? >> we think we have a lot of rights in the uk. because the british laws are so much stronger than they are in the united states. european laws are so much stronger than they are here. so because our data was processed there, we get rights you there. and there is a whole regulator, the commissioner that has been conducting a huge investigation into the company and other

companies. and they have determined that americans fall under their jurisdiction in this case. so we're going to get the benefit of both the regulator and the courts looking at our cause here. >> this is -- for anybody who is reading all of this as it was coming to light, it is dense and a lot to get through, sort of wrap our head around it. i think you are doing a great job putting it in perspective why it should matter to the american people. and trey gowdy said over the weekend this is one of the reasons we are where we are in terms of the russia investigation. >> i have been troubled even by the basics of this we are losing our privacy in the voting booth. but when you hear they are under investigation by the house, the senate, special counsel, investigators in the united kingdom. and then you hear things when trey gowdy of all people says an

e-mail from cambridge analytica is one of the three reasons there is a russia probe without a dossier and he held up an e-mail to steve bannon asking if this was treasonous. it creates a distressing feeling about this company which is part of the grounds for the lawsuit. this was before this weekend's bombshell about the whistle-blower. >> we will have to leave it there. we will continue to follow your developments. >> thanks for having me on. >> thank you for our international viewers for watching. for you cnn talk is next. for u.s. viewers, breaking news from austin, texas. let's get to it. heard a loud explosion inside our house. >> it is very possible this device was activated by someone coming in contact with a trip wire. >> i'm in awe state of shock and disbelief right now. >> if they didn't do anything

wrong, why are they going to such extreme lengths to undermine this investigation. >> the president seems to be very, very frustrated they have not connected anything on to him, and he wants to move on. >> it would undoubtedly result in a constitutional crisis. >> we owe mr. mccabe a chance to defend himself. >> 48 hours to go before retirement, i would have certainly done it differently. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day". alisyn is off. erica hill joins me. we begin with breaking news. another explosion rocking austin, texas. two people hurt. authorities say the latest explosive was left on the side of the road and may have been triggered by a trip wire. >> police urging people in the area to stay inside their homes this morning. the latest explosion coming hours after police made a rare public appeal to the bomber