this is going to be a severe storm, but one they are fully prepared for. >> let's hope. alex, thanks for the beautiful scene in new york. thank you for joining me "inside politics" with john king starts right now. thank you. welcome to "inside politics," i'm john king. the president, described as furious as chief of staff scrambling to find the source of a leak. attacks on the special counsel and a white house embarrassment of a different sort. all signs turn to a blue wave for midterms. the president says he will help his party defy the odds. >> this year, in this election, we are fighting to win and we are going to win.

there's no reason why we shouldn't win with what we have done over the last year, no reason whatsoever. they have gone so far left, we have to go a little bit further right. we are doing very, very well. i think you are going to have something very, very special take place in a short period of time. >> to politics in a moment. first, we are getting our first look at the man austin police say carried out a string of bombings before blowing himself up as authorities closzed in early this morning. this footage is said to show 23-year-old marc anthony conditt. the packages he's seen mailing are connected with the recent bombing spree. police caught up with him in nearby round rock. he fled in his car, pulled over and set off an explosive inside the vehicle. turns out, conditt is in the area. there's been a good deal of police activity outside his home where a short time ago,

authorities were ordered to come out. they are confident conditt was the bomber, but they can't be sure he acted alone or left other deadly packages around the area. greg abbott offering a short while ago. >> we don't know how many bombs there are. this individual may have either by mail or placement, whatever the case may be, put other bombs out there. we need to go throughout the day to make sure we rule out whether there was anybody else involved in this process. >> cnn correspondent nick is in the bombing suspect's neighborhood. a heavy police presence outside the home. do authorities think this is the end or are they still looking for somebody? >> reporter: well, john, as you mentioned, they are saying the investigation is ongoing. they say they are sure conditt was involved in all the bombings, but they are not sure he acted alone. there could have been other people involved. a half hour ago, an armored

s.w.a.t. vehicle pulled up alongside the home and blocked our view. someone was saying come out with your hands up. this is the neighborhood conditt grew up in. he grew up a few blocks over there. his parents live over there. we spoke with a neighbor who has lived next door to them 17 years and this is what he had to say. >> i know they are church going people and extremely good neighbors. i like them a lot. it's extremely confusing and i don't make anything out of it because it just is -- doesn't make sense. i suppose this type of thing never does. >> reporter: as far as a criminal record, all we can find is a traffic ticket from last summer for an expired registration. as i say, that investigation ongoing. there is a suspicious package that police say is now being made safe at a fedex locality

near the airport. john, this investigation is still under way even though that suspect is now dead. john? >> on the ground for us in texas. thanks for that attack. now on to politics, an angry morning. the president is venting, mad at republicans. he's more mad, furious about a leak, detailing how he refuses to stand-up to vladimir putin. remember, this hour yesterday, the president disclosed during an oval office meeting how he called the russian president to congratulate him. the criticism was fast and bipartisan. there is no one outside putin's inner circle that believes it was a fair election. the president made no mention of a long list of problems with russian behavior. >> i wouldn't have a conversation with him. >> it's like congratulating the harlem globe -- >> this is like congratulating

saddam hussein when he got 90% of the votes in the election. >> how do you do it? a scam election. >> it is not that criticism that has the president and his chief of staff furious today. their anger at a west wing leak to "the washington post," first, detailing how the national security staff specifically told the president on his notes to prepare for that call, not to use the word congratulations. the leak details how the president ignored notes suggesting he made plain to putin the united states is not happy with election handling here and the nerve agent in britain. why he doesn't stand-up to putin is fascinating. jeff, the white house suspect the leak came from within or where? >> john, the white house suspects the leak came from the inside, likely from the national security realm here. there was a limited number of

people up vinvolved in the brie of the president. he made the call from the residence of the white house, which he normally does. the reality is, as the white house is focusing on the leakers, there many republicans and democrats who are trying to focus this on the substance of the phone call. the white house, of course, more interested in focusing on the leak there. the reality is, there is someone inside this white house and inside the national security counsel who does not like how the president is dealing with vladimir putin, so they decided to leak that to "the washington post." it certainly is something that sparked a witch hunt around here. i'm told the white house chief of staff, john kelly is fearious as is the president. the president is in the residence right now. the white house is technically not holding public events today. most people are not here because of the snow day here in washington. there is still a hunt on for who did this. one official telling us, it is likely a fireable offense and could be against the law as

well. john? >> jeff zeleny for us at the white house. jeff, come back if you get more. cnn's maleeka henderson and kathryn lucy of the associated press. this is a fascinating story both on the substance and the leak. not defending the president or vladimir putin, but if you are the boss of any organization, you should be able to conduct your business without people who work for you. people on your staff, to have access to this information, to know that level of detail, this is somebody close to the president and shows you a continued unhappiness with the president and also, is it chaos in the white house? we know he's been unhappy with the national security adviser. >> he's been plagued by this particular problem, information leaking out about his calls to foreign leaders since the beginning of the administration and before that in the transition. you know, part of that, as you

say, is you know, on the people who are the leakers. but, you know, the other thing that he is consistently done in conversation with foreign leaders is not pay attention to briefers and what they want him to say or not say. we have had so many examples of calls which are normally very highly, you know, planned and prescribed. that's the normal way it would happen in a white house. they veer off the rails because he just kind of goes with his gut and says what he wants to say. i think there is a level of frustration, again, not to defend the idea you leak about your boss z, but there's a level frustration in the state department and inside the white huse with the fact that the president doesn't listen to them. >> i guess that makes it a two-track story. you are right, especially when it comes to putin. there is continues russian meddling. they said it minutes ago on capitol hill. there is russian activity in syria that is counter to u.s. interest. there's the poisoning, the nerve

gas agent used against a putin critic in the uk. there's more and more and more. we could go on about vladimir putin's behavior. there's that. they don't think he's tough enough. that bothers them. to have a leaker in your midst, there are a thousand leak investigations and often they are for show. you never find out who the leaker is. >> they seem to take this one serious today. there was tough language about this being a fireable offense, concern about whether it could be criminal. i think that's their message today. to mike's point, we have seen leak after leak on serious issues and small issues without a ton of follow through. >> we talk about it when it happens. the oval office tape, the president sitting next to the crown prince. you are sitting in the oval office with with somebody who does not have anywhere close to a good record on the issues of

democracy and human rights and say this about vladimir putin's election win. >> i had a call with president putin and congratulated him on the victory, the electoral victory. the call had to do, also, with the fact that we will probably get together in the not too distance future so we can discuss arms, we can discuss the arms race. >> this is the question that is mind boggling to democrats and republicans, even people who support the president deeply. why can't he say, look, we have a lot of problems from election meddling to what happened in the uk to the ukraine to syria. he's now going to be president for six more years and we need to try to figure this stuff out. why can't he say that? what's so hard about that. >> that's what feeds i don't want to say conspiracy theories but i will, about what is driving his relationship with

putin. everyone says there's been all these events, you have to call him on it and he didn't. that's why this leak is so bad. he went out and said he congratulated putin. he was told, they knew going into it, don't say congratulations. that doubled the impact of the leak. i think they are pretty serious about this. of course it's a fireable offense. if you did that and weren't fired, i don't know what you would be fired for. i think that they will probably bear down. it's different from a leak investigation of a journalist from an agency. this is the inner, inner circle. it's just another one from recent days as mike said. there have been a couple that, you know, somebody that's been around here for a while, that is an amaze ziing leak that it camt that fast. >> the first week, the first 72 hours. some republicans are screaming double standard. i want to read a line from a

printed white house from obama. president obama called prime minister putin to congratulate him on the recent victory in the russian election. there's a congratulations there. it goes on to say, we have to talk through some issues. >> it was before the invasion of ukraine. it was before what happened on british soil with the nerve gas. it was also before the meddling in the russian election. it was a different time. it's also, you know, obviously, you have republicans heavily criticize obama back then, leading from behind and being soft on the world stage. one of the things that i first thought of when i read the story in the "washington post" is north korea is coming up. this is a highly sensitive meeting that he could have, we don't know if it's going happen with the north korean leader and the fact he couldn't follow and wanted to ignore these simple directions in terms of

engagement and phone call with putin suggestions people are concerned and worried about what might happen in that face-to-face meeting, which is much more delicate, involved, likely a longer meeting than the phone call. the folks in the national security community are trying to send up red flairs in the same way they were doing initially with this president saying he wasn't quite ready. a year later, they are saying the same thing. >> it's fascinating question. the former cia director saying on cbs, i don't know, maybe he knows that the russians have something on the president. you mentioned conspiracy theory. that's the chatter you get when the president doesn't say we are mad about this, this and this. >> any normal politician, given the set of circumstances we have over the last 14 months would bend over backwards to take the opportunity to be critical to prove the critics wrong. so, the house -- he brought this

on himself. he announced this himself at the event. so, that's the inexplicable part of all this, why people are scratching their heads. it's to the obama thing. george w. bush also congratulated putin. it was a different time. >> i was there when he looked into it. donald trump not the first president to make a mistake about vladimir putin. the other ones changed their course. we'll see if he ever can. next, from an embarrassing leak to an embarrassing tweet. he attacks the special counsel and fails a third grade spelling test.

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with them as much as the investigation. there's no staff around when the president watches morning cable shows or spell check or grammar police. take a look here. the word weather is spelled wrong. council for counsel. it goes on and on. you can study it if you want. why the rush to rage? the president is mad at his lawyers because they have been unable to make mueller disappear and he doesn't like the questions the special counsel outlined in negotiations over a possible presidential interview. he's also mad, to put it mildly, at a wave of gop support for mueller, including this from the senate's top republican. >> bob mueller should be allowed to finish his job. i think it was an excellent appointment. i think he will lead, he will go wherever the facts lead him and i think he will have great credibility with the american

people when he reaches the conclusion of this investigation. >> excellent appointment. great credibility. will go where the facts go. number one, that's very significant. many saying why is the leader silent. he was silent, but when he did speak, excellent appointment, great credibility. the president of the united states has to take that as a shot across the back. >> that goes so contrary to everything donald trump tried to do since the beginning of the investigation with his tweets, which is to undermine the credibility. his full strategy, whether it dove tails with the strategy of his attorneys is unclear. his strategy from the beginning has been do everything you can do to disqualify the investigation, the legitimacy of the investigation. to have the top republican in the senate completely demolishing that argument saying, no, no, this will have

credibility when it ends. >> and a man who, the president wings it, we know that. mitch mcconnell does not. he chooses his words very carefully. >> those were, they probably didn't focus group them, but they knew exactly what they were saying. that's where the importance comes in there. paul ryan has said similar -- >> you have to talk about the audience. he was talking to the president of the united states. back off, don't do this. do not put us in the position. do not go after rob rose z enstein or bob mueller. do not put us in this position, you will not like the response. >> he doesn't want to be in that position. mcconnell and republicans don't want this to happen. it's a hassel for them and puts them in a bad spot. they are waving the caution flag. >> people like jeff flake talking about the "i" word, impeachment could be a possibility. lindsey graham sounding tough. not surprising they have sounded tough. certainly surprising that mitch

mcconnell used that phrase, credibility. the president is on a branding campaign when it comes to mueller and this investigation. >> he brands himself when he does this. i hate to do this, he's the president of the united states. whether you agree or disagree, he is supposed to be an example to our children, for our country. that's horrible. that is horrible. he has to -- i assume he knows better. he says he went to the best schools. i assume he can spell. that is rage. he's sit tting there in executi time watching cable television, nobody around. i was going to say the president of the united states needs supervision? >> he watches tv in the morning, gets frustrated. the spelling and grammar mistakes are not anything, we see those all the time. we know what he is saying privately. privately, the president is telling his aides and confidants

this investigation is going to choke the life out of his presidency. he is furious. it's unlikely he is going to stop these kind of tweets. >> to that point, the president thinks it is going to choke the life out of his presidency meaning there's something there or nothing there. you saw the republicans sending a clear message to the president. don't cross the line. be as mad as you want to be, but don't fire anybody. interesting perspective. a conservative saying this is about the investigation so far. all faced charges and none of those charges involved allegations that flynn, manafort, gates papadopoulos played a role in conspiracy or whatever it is called. to put it briefly, what collusion between russia and the trump campaign could have existed without flynn being part of it or manafort and gates? at least so far, it's an important part. a thoughtful conservative who is making the case, if mueller has something, it's veered off the

original mandate, which is an interesting conversation, however, conservatives weren't that unhappy when ken star veered off. >> i don't think we know that's the case, we don't see evidence of it publicly. the special counsel may have more on the substance, the underlying substance of collusion or, you know, some sort of conspiracy then we know. >> flynn, papadopoulos, now gates cooperating. the special counsel laid down markers and left mystery as to what he has. >> the president knows more. >> he has notes saying this is what he wants to ask you about and he doesn't like it. >> documents that lead to russia. he knows what the other things are, what they want to ask him, the topics. he know what is happened in the past to folks who have gone in

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leadership promised they want be adults. now they are saying none of the failure is our part. >> if i were the democrats, knowing what they want, i would have taken that deal. sometimes i wonder, some of them want to keep a problem out there, almost make it political instead of solving a problem. >> the main reason we are where we currently are is because it takes 60 votes in the senate. if we didn't have to have that, we would be in a different situation. >> that's the house majority leader blaming democrats for this. if you look at the details we have so far, they have to work this out. the president is going to be briefed on it today. there are parts he is not going to like including $1.9 billion for border security, $641 million for 33 miles of new border wall fencing. the president wants 25 billion, 25 billion with a "b." he's getting 25 million with an "m." seems to me, "a," why do they go

against a deadline and "b" who is the winner here? >> i would say the democrats. they are getting a lot of what they wanted in here. the house conservative republicans won't vote for spending bills. that requires republicans to enlist democrats. democrats have to get a few things they want. you know, the money for this new york project, is it all the money they want? no, but it puts nthem in a good position. the president doesn't get the wall money he was hoping to get. he's gone a whole year without getting a top priority. i'm told there's negotiations on gun provisions that may or may not happen. so, is this the way to do business? no. it's hard to believe they can't do a better job. >> this will be probably the last major bill to be passed this year because i know it's march, the year runs through december. i's an election year.

the republican incumbent that is feel endangered, they want to be home and campaigning. this is the last big thing you are going to do. you mentioned guns. this will have the fix nics in it. no big deal. itis not an expansion and doesn't cover new gun purchases. it's an improvement and school safety money in there. not any of the sweeping gun controls the democrats asked for or the kids who are going to lead a march in town this weekend. that's not happening. >> no, it's not happening. we saw movement in florida with rick scott signing that bill which the nra doesn't like. no surprise this wasn't coming together in an election year despite the president saying he could get stuff done and wanted all the things he eventually backed off on, raising the minim minimum age. no surprise, the president's part has been kicked to a blue ribbon commission at this point. it's a problem that continues.

we have seen school safety incidents, school shootings over the last days. yeah, i mean, the kind of gridlock and inability and really not wanting to get anything done. that impulse remains on the hill. >> also not happening is the entire immigration. after all of the back and forth between the president and the democrats and the republicans, there appears to be just continued gridlock. i think part of that is, you know, the democrats see they might have a lot more leverage if they can take back the house after november, if they can pull the senate where it is. they think they will have more leverage on issues like that than they do now in the minority in both chambers. there's little incentive for either side to give up on the big things they want. what you have is gridlock. >> it's a piece of a $1.3 trillion bill to keep the government running. the gateway project that's been a priority for chuck schumer, but the senior democrat from new

york and republicans in new york and new jersey want this money as well. the compromise seems to be the money goes to the transportation department and it's not automatically spent. it's up to the transportation secretary. will the president call that a win or lean on her to not spend it? >> i think we have to see exactly how he plays that out and how much he wants to dig in on that one. >> there is basic money that gives them leverage to get the second round of money. >> most of the country is saying what is this about? this is a test between the president and chuck schumer. >> the democrats i talked to this morning seem satisfied. this is a big transportation project for washington too, because we all take the train that goes through those tunnels to new york. everybody is watching this pretty close. >> the other thing we need to see with the president is how he reacts to the lack of the wall funding. it's such a big priority for him. if this is the last vehicle this year. >> how he reacts.

sometimes his first reaction is not the final. >> absolutely. >> he will see the conservative blogosphere and breitbart news. >> i was going to say the immigration and guns, these are huge issues and they have to be resolved through elections. these aren't the kind of issues that are going to be resolved in spending bills, you are seeing the results of that, tweaking on the edge for both of them. >> we'll see what happens in the house. coming up, if you get a facebook friend request from steve bannon, think twice before accepting.

welcome back on our political radar, the house oversight committee has the hefty pile of receipts the e.p.a. racked up on trips taken since august. he spent about $105,000 on first class air fare since assuming the post. he spent tens of thousands more on charters, military flights. e.p.a. says security costs necessitated the higher costs. senators from both parties are worried the trump administration is being lax about cyber threats in the u.s. election. republican susan collins telling the homeland security secretary, quote, i hear no sense of urgency to really get on top of this issue. they promised it's a top priority. steve bannon is tied to the facebook data program at cambridge analytica. they tell the post bannon oversaw the controversial

campaign. trump campaign hired them. they deny using the questionably obtained data. the top house democrats have their doubts. >> when you look at this campaign, this is a campaign that didn't observe the traditional norms of an election. the president's son, people want to give him information on hillary clinton. he says that's wonderful, let's do it. the timing is perfect. that's not the right reaction. there's example after example after example. if this is another example of the trump campaign stepping over the line that is are ethical, but not legal i wouldn't be surprised. >> this has been a huge issue. the mood on capitol hill is facebook and mark zuckerberg. the republicans don't want to rehaul or bring up steve bannon or anyone from the trump campaign to answer the questions. is that fair? >> i think the republicans see this as a chance to drag in some

of the big tech firms that seem to be too liberal and they can point to them. steve bannon manages to research. he was close to the family and this sort of makes sense to me. >> the special counsel is looking at this. in the uk, there's an investigation. republicans in congress want to focus on privacy, not trump campaign and whether they missed the rules. >> not surprising. we have seen this on the house side with republicans carrying for trump. we'll see what zuckerberg says. at some point he will release a statement. he's been fairly quiet on this. the idea of zuckerberg 2020 and him getting to know america is down the drain at this point. >> i wouldn't put money on that one. >> all right. this is the way to launch a campaign. up next, legal woes for president trump. could the president of the united states be legally deposed over his sex life?

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welcome back. here is an interesting and real question being asked in washington. could three women, a porn actress, a playboy play meat and reality star cause the down fall of the president of the united states? in at least two cases, the president could be depose zed about his personal life. stormy daniels going so far as to share the results and photograph of her taking a polygraph test, proof she says she is telling the truth about having a sexual relationship with the president a decade ago. they are saying the irony not lost on president trump. it must have occurred to president trump he is up against himself. daniels appears everywhere. she makes statements, rebuttals and allegations and is scheduled to appear sunday on "60

minutes." trump must be shaking his head in admiration. i assume it's something other than admiration. he had a point in a sense she signed a nondisclosure agreement but she's out there talking all the time as donald trump blew through every rule in his business life and every rule in politics in the campaign, every rule in xhun indications and what the security staff wants you to say in a call to vladimir putin. >> i think the most remarkable thing about this is, this is three quarters the way through your show and this is where this story comes up. can you imagine any other political timing, recent american political history where you could have read those words about a porn star and playmate and that not the lead story? that's not a criticism of the show and planning, that's where we are. >> there's just so much. again, three women, three legal threats. stormy daniels, a former

"apprentice" contestant and karen mcdougal. a judge allowed karen's case to stand. people roll their eyes and say it doesn't matter, why does anyone care about the president's personal life. the president can be forced to give a deposition. you write in a piece, quoting the former campaign adviser, i the we learned something we never thought was true. they were willing to overlook the personal behavior or the words on tape. that's in the campaign sense. >> yes. >> the president of the united states, forgive me, but a conversation in town, will one of these women get donald trump in a chair >> absolutely. the campaign and the presidency are different, but what we're trying to figure out right now is what that means in terms of his support. in addition to this is we are now processing all of this in

this rising "me too" moment. all the accusations that came out during the campaign, the recording that came out, we are in a very different moment now. we have had people lose their careers over accusations from women. we have seen an increased political a political act i havization of women. >> the suburbs, driven by principally white women. the other part is there's these women who have these allegations against the president. they may have standing in court to get him in the deposition chair. it's the reality tv aspect of the apprentice president playing out almost every night on cable television. here, an attorney for stormy daniels and an attorney for the president's personal fixer, michael cohen, going at it. >> she's going to be liable for

$20 million, and michael cohen is going to collect every single penny of that money. make no mistake. he's going to collect everybody. >> if michael cohen is such a stand-up guy, where is he? no, no, where is this guy? >> you're going to go down in flames on this case. there's no question about it. i love it when my opponents tell me that. >> it's like keeping up with the real attorneys of trump land. >> and that guy, he understands tv. he's got the big photo there of michael cohen. he's very telegenetic. very media savvy. stormy daniels has a lot of help from this guy who has a different, i think, appearance and kind of credibility in a way that other lawyers haven't necessarily had. >> and he keeps sort of teasing out more to come. you know, that she's done this '

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the party saying they'll rally around him, he's the nominee. he's lucky his opponent is a holocaust denier. we'll just leave that one there. you did see the tensions in the democratic party. you saw the tensions in the republican party in the governor's race. the restive bases coming out in the primaries, what's the november message? >> i think what you saw there is there's obvious dissatisfaction with political incumbents. you're going to see that reflected in november, and republicans, at least in this city, have more incumbents than democrats. that's a problem for them. the governor is in serious trouble. there was talk in illinois that if he came in below 60% in this primary that it was going to be miserable for him. well, he was well below that, and he is up against someone with a lot of money, and i think that is going to be a very expensive and ugly race. >> if you look at the turnout, the thing the democrats are

happy about is intensity. time after time, go back to 2017, special elections, even the house races, that i lost. democrats are coming out in higher numbers than before. illinois democrats -- illinois is usually a blue state. they do have a republican governor. they say, okay, maybe we have primaries, maybe we have fights in the family, but our guys are coming out to vote and that's a big deal. >> that's a much bigger gap between democrats and republicans than we saw in 2010, say. i think if you extrapolate that nationally, it speaks to democratic enthusiasm going into the fall. i think that's something they're really -- >> last night the president was speaking at a house fundraising event. he understands the climate, but he says don't worry. >> this year in this election we are fighting to win, and we are going to win. just no reason why we shouldn't win with what we've done over the last year. no reason whatsoever. >> he says no reason whatsoever.

midterm elections are about presidential approval ratings. here's the president's. among young voters, 31 approve, 61 disapprove. among independents, 45 approve, 51 disapprove. there's every reason whatsoever to think that there's a blue wave brewing because of the president. >> yeah, and we've seen it already. we saw it in alabama. we obviously saw it in a special election in pennsylvania. history shows that they're going to lose seats because that's what's happened in the past midterm elections. it's a referendum on this president who isn't very popular. >> there's losing seats then there's losing seats. you talk to smart republican strategists and they think wave, tsunami, they're not happy. >> i like also when the president in that speech said he was going to go everywhere. the democrats are really hoping that's true. >> one thing we haven't talked about in this show is the tax cuts. that's something that a lot of republicans would like to be talking about as they head into these tough elections. it hasn't really been a talking point. >> they can't.

so advice to them is go home and make it local. the president i think not looking in the mirror. thanks for joining us on "inside politics." see you here tomorrow. wolf starts right now. hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 12:00 noon in austin, texas, 1:00 p.m. here in washington, 5:00 p.m. in london. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. he was warned. don't congratulate vladimir putin, but president trump doing it anyway. now he's said to be furious the warning was leaked as he faces backlash from all sides. a porn star, a play mate, and a reality tv contestant upping the legal pressure on the president, involving accusations of sex, silence, and harassment. and the serial bomber in austin, texas, dead, but the danger may not be over. what the feds are fighting inside the killer's home. all that coming