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line our president enforces the red line. >> plus west wing jitters. the president on edge after the justice department explains a stunning raid by disclosing michael cohen is under criminal investigation. >> it's a disgraceful situation and only keep looking at us. they find no collusion and say let's keep going and they raid the office of a personal attorney early in the morning. i think it is a disgrace. >> more turmoil at the top. house speaker paul ryan is stepping aside creating a challenge for a republican party already in a mid term mess. >> i'm not a guy who thinks about it like that. this really was two things. i have accomplished much of what i came here to do and my kids aren't getting any younger. if i stay they will only know me as a weekend dad and that is

something i consciously can't do. >> another dizzying week behind us. this question to start our sunday conversation. what next in syria? cetaliation came late friday washington time. dozens of missiles delivered by the united states, uk and france. >> powerful show of allied unity. we deployed 105 weapons against three targets that will significantly impact the syrian regi regime's ability. they have lost a lot of equipment. they lost a lot of material and it will have a significant effect on him. i think the words cripple and degrade are good, accurate words. >> president trump uses these words, mission accomplished. those are loaded words in american politics and dangerous to use when no one believes it

will bring order to one of the world's most cruel and deadly places. red line enforced and it is directly warning russia it best listen this time. >> we can all see that a russian disinformation campaign is in full force this morning. russia's desperate attempts at deflection cannot change the facts. >> the question is where are we today and what next? the syrian presidency tweeting out a picture of bashar al assad walking to work and trying to say nothing changed. the conversation among a lot of people is that assad has factored this in if once a year i have to take a rein of cruise missiles and i get to stay in power. >> this is a slightly larger version of what trump did about a year ago in syria after a chemical weapons attack. all we have seen that happened is that the assad regime

continued to use gas against its own civilians. russia/iran more emboldened and u.s. position became more confusing because trump said he wants out. he does not believe like president obama did not believe that syria is a good use of u.s. resources. he does not believe there should be a long term commitment to the u.s. the fact that he has said that and said he will use occasional military action i don't think will shake assad and change his calculus dramatically. >> at this point nobody knows really what the president's strategy is. is he going to continue to pull out even though he dropped the missiles in this area or is he going to actually change course and say we will stick around? it is late to change course because you know the united states has kind of let -- or the syrian government with russia's

backing is in a stronger position now. but that's why you hear everybody looking at these strikes on friday night whether they agreed or disagreed saying where is the longer term strategy? you can't go bomb a country and leave and come back every time there is chemical weapon used. >> so there is this impulse where we cover administrations and american policy to try to construe some kind of larger strategy and school of thought. you can't do that with this administration. the fact is there are images that he doesn't like he wants to fight back for the rest of the time he generally doesn't want to commit american troops in foreign conflicts. he is watching tv a great deal and when he sees images that are disturbing he wants to attack. i think this attempt to try to like create a trump doctrine

doesn't exist. >> in the president's defense if nothing else he said chemical weapons used at a certain scale. >> it's a great question which is where do you go from here? you sent a message to assad. does russia get it? is there something beyond military or some other way whether through diplomacy or power to get russia and iran to back up. lindsey graham says this, i fear when the dust settles this strike will be seen as weak. the administration does have a strategy to withdraw from syria as quickly as possible simply saying not our problem was a losing strategy when president obama adopted it and a losing strategy still today. >> with the president saying mission accomplished unclear if he knew the actual history of the phrase.

he was against the iraq war. we remember that phrase from may of 2003 when president bush stood on the aircraft carrier and the huge banner saying mission accomplished. that was one of the biggest not good moments. >> very polite of you. >> trying to think of a moment there. >> i think president trump is probably not aware of the history. what is the mission? by saying a couple of weeks ago he wants to pull out all week long when so many things were happening inside the white house you can see how reluctant president trump was to do something. in 24 to 48 hours he waited and waited. he was not exactly accepting what some advisers were offering here. i think this was a one off unclear what the mission is. he did them friday night. >> let's have the president's voice into the conversation. late friday night he announced

strikes were underway and seems to be saying chemical weapons use, we will retaliate. just about everything else i want out of there. >> we are prepared to oo sustain this response until the syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents. america does not seek an indefinite presence in syria under no circumstances as other nations step up their contributions we look forward to the day when we can bring our warriors home. >> the problem with that and again it is understandable and pretty much bipartisan agreement that the use of the weapons is a heinous war crime and retaliating is important to send a statement. the president, the contradiction is right there. as other nations step up their contributions. who? the only people stepping up their contributions are against

the united states. >> russia, iran, turkey. it's not the united states's allies that are stepping up. so basically saying we are relinquishing control consciously. you can't take chemical weapons as completely disassociated from what is going on in syria and they are acting as if we can. you can make that choice i guess on a moral plain. i know you are saying they don't have a strategy but ends up being a strategy. you have syria which we are saying we will bequeath that to the group at the same time we are a month away almost exactly less from the iran deal deadline that if they don't come up with a fix we will pull out of. it is the same day as iraqi parliamentary elections. and then you are talking about not just syria but the whole middle east. that's the default strategy.

>> i think the great test will be if there is a subsequent use of chemical weapons against syrians that is not seen in either photographs or television images will this president then respond to that? that will be a very revealing moment. >> this is one of the problems for trump is there have been plenty of other chemical weapons attacks that have occurred. sometimes it is whether different categorizations for those. >> one other thing to keep in mind as we are looking at what may happen, it's not like russia and iran and other countries have a lot of extra money to bring civility to the country. you are not talking about anymore control. what we are supposed to be most concerned about is failed states and regions where you can have terrorism crop up. i don't see that as being --

>> new player here is john bolton on his first week as national security adviser i'm told he was essentially guiding but not taking a lead on that. that is a new player in all of this. will that influence the president's mission going forward? it will. a very interesting week. you did not get the sense that this was the top priority of the president this week. >> we will talk more about that. a trump doctrine is hard to nail down sometimes. even if -- this is one of the most attractable problems. if you don't have a cohesive strategy so little communication about what the goals are. coming up, anger and worry in the west wing. the new book has the president's attention and also the stunning michael cohen plot twist. d wor. ♪ ♪ don't skip that office meeting for a board meeting without it. don't keep it real...

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standout, nervous and worried. the president was rattled by news that the fbi served a sweeping search warrant on michael cohen. then in court on friday the trump justice department disclosed cohen is under criminal investigation. questions about bank fraud, possible violations swirl around. >> he is getting worried. if you follow his tweets and his language that he used in the last few weeks as the investigation continues to move forward he seems fregnattic. if i had to guess he is panicking and wants to find out what is taking place with his attorney. >> this one the cohen -- the president is tweeting about james comey and calls james comey a slime ball and the president doesn't like the james comey book. i want to focus -- a lot of people don't like the james

comey book. we will get into the debate. the cohen investigation and the impact on the president because for those of you who have been paying attention michael cohen knows everything. he is his fixer. he is a guy the president calls sometimes two, three, four times a day. this has them rattled. >> without question. there is no one closer to the president, really anyone that i can think of. maybe ivanka is the only other person. we are told the president -- we saw how insensitive he was earlier in the week. that grew throughout the week. the fact that he is under a criminal investigation is something that is more worrisome the president's aides will say than about the mueller investigation because he doesn't know where this is going and michael cohen reportedly recorded a lot of things. the president doesn't e-mail. these conversations that are

recorded in other matters, michael cohen is probably not the best lawyer in the city as we are finding out. this is going to be a huge problem mentally for the president but also substantively with the department of justice. >> it will create the kind of things which get the president's attention. stormy daniels said she may show up at the court hearing tomorrow because they are worried about some documents concern the settlement made with her so she is looking for public relations boost out of this. you can roll your eyes at that but her lawyer is smart. the justice department, the trump justice department has been taken away and handed over to the justice department in new york. they said they did this because michael cohen is not being a lawyer anymore in their view. the evidence we are told does include audio recordings of cohen's dealings with other people including apparently the other lawyers involved in the

negotiations to which lindsey graham says what? >> michael cohen is an idiot. if he did tape conversationwise his client stupid. i don't know what kind of legal advice michael cohen gave donald trump. i'm not really impressed with him as a lawyer. >> this -- if you talk to people close to the president he is a lot more worried about this right now. >> lindsey graham kind of cutting to the chase. michael cohen probably isn't the legal representation most people would choose. he is willing to do things that other lawyers may not be willing to do. if you are off running a private enterprise maybe that works for you when you are thinking about the things michael cohen did. i think the other piece of it as we all know is if one thing donald trump is particularly sensitive about it is his business and his money. michael cohen in addition to

these payments going on and personal matters had great insight into the finances of the trump organization and that has the president particularly on edge. >> his business, his wealth and frankly his extra curricular activities this is something that cohen is all inside on. i think it is important to take a step back here. folks think that trump was the big mogul and businessman. he had a small basically family operation. his company was run by his kids and a few other folks outside, one of them being michael cohen. i have an e-mail going back to 2011 when i was covering a big conservative conference here in washington where trump came and gave a speech. this is 2012 cycle. i got this really nasty e-mail from cohen to me complaining about politico and the donald trump appearance. it was not the work of a lawyer but the work of an adviser to

the would-be candidate then just a business guy basically saying this is shotty work basically he had multiple standing ovations. he was speak fing for president trump. >> among documents asked for is conversations with two people who had key roles in the trump campaign. they are trying to trace the money and the payments and trying to see if there was campaign involvement or knowledge which could make it a campaign finance -- >> just out of sheer love and devotion to the president which doesn't always pass the smell test with everybody but the argument in coordination with the president or his kids or whatever. >> this again robert mueller brings the threshold evidence who says to the special counsel this is not your mandate and then hands it over saying there

is credible evidence here. the president is mad again. call it what you will. and also interesting the attorney general after all of this publically praised rod rosen stein. so this question to sarah sanders. >> the deputy attorney general was here yesterday. is the president going to fire rod rosenstein? >> the president has voiced some frustrations. >> our reporting shows that the president is hearing a lot from outside advisers that he should fire rod rosenstein. the president was focussed on rod rosenstein. that doesn't solve the problem at all but would be a way for him to lash out here. we also found out the white house is preparing talking

points for why he should leave if he leaves. you saw sarah sanders right there. no personal announcements at this time which is a sign it is coming or she is afraid to say no. >> unforced errors. >> she could be caught in a lie. firing rosenstein has always been a move. he can force rosenstein to do it or kick him out. this is his own justice department making the moves. the idea that the next person in line would do his bidding and get rid of mueller not a guarantee anymore. >> and patience that the republican leadership has been way too silent but their patience is very limited. up next we continue on this topic. public tweets attacking james comey. a risky phone call to michael cohen.

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a little bit of a flashback to friday. the comey book was driving the news cycle early friday.

this 7:56 a.m. outside the west wing. >> the president will have his say either through those of us who do speak on his behalf or on his own. he is a busy guy. he has a different recollection of what happened. >> or on his own part came five minutes letter at 8:01 tweeting comey is a leaker, a liar. the president's friday included tweets attacking comey, military options in syria the president viewed as too weak. risky phone call to michael cohen and then a decision to issue controversial pardon to former dick cheney aid. >> this is a way to send a clear signal that you can go ahead. if you get wrapped up in this

you are caught lying to the fbi, committing a crime in national security it's okay i will take care of you because we know trump values loyalty above all else, above party, above country. >> each one of these things, venting at your defense secretary, calling michael cohen on the phone, mardenning -- the president concedes he has never met to stir that debate about sending a message i think all of that happened before lunch on friday. nothing like this. >> he was supposed to be in south america. he was supposed to be out of town on friday and cancelled that trip. it came out of left field. it had very little to do with scooter libby. i think it was sending a message without question. he was asked when he was running for president if he would do this and he had no answer.

so this is certainly something that a lot of conservatives and friends have been asking for. >> it's about a special counsel gone amuck. she had a glint in her eye. >> and timing was happening as michael cohen was getting in deeper and deeper here. >> scooter libby, valerie, mission accomplished. this is like throwback. >> we all know trump is running a different kind of white house. there are moments and i think friday is one of them when you are struck by the fact that there is no cohesion to the presidency. there is no attempt to do strategic planning and no attempt to drive coherent message. no attempt to try to sell any type of agenda. trump believes that he can be successful doing it a different way. that is a really amazing shift

in the presidency that we are seeing and friday was very empreliminary e emblem attic. >> it is common place when the president starts attacking. when you have issues on the facts let's have a debate on these things. attack them on the issues, not the turnal attacks on those two guys. president tweeting big questions aren't answered like how come he gave up classified information and goes on and on and more and more tweets. this is the president this morning attacking the comey book. the portrait of the president painted by comey is devastating. he cares only about himself. you don't see democrats rushing out to defend james comey in part because of this answer where he says when i reopened

the clinton e-mail investigation because of what they found on anthony weiner's laptop i probably was thinking i have to do this because she is probably going to win. >> i don't remember consciously thinking about that but it must have been. i was operating in a world where hillary clinton was going to beat donald trump. i'm sure it was a factor. i don't remember spelling it out but it had to have been that she is going to be elected president and if i hide this from the american people she will be -- >> would you still send it? >> i would. >> he is basically saying he was looking at the polls to help guide his decision. that is offering a gift to president trump. i have to say that we're talking about this extraordinary presidency. julie couldn't be more on the mark talking about there is no strategy.

he is at 40% in a new poll today. those are dismal numbers that spell real trouble for the gop. that is substantially better than what president bush was towards the end of his term. what does this tell us? the base of the gop is very much with this president. that is why he is at 40 and not 25. that matters because for all of the talk about michael cohen and rosenstein and the investigation, republican congress is not going to take a hard line against this president as long as the voters are still overwhelmingly for him. >> the comey stuff i don't think appeals to those voters. also this is comey's chance to kind of have his say. he is not necessarily saying anything like addressing more serious investigative issues but is reclaiming his character.

given all the carnage not really but most people there is a lot that suffered and being pushed out the door. he -- >> to your point about the slices of the debate, if you are president you look at the base. if you are republican leadership you are lucky to do so. the question is how does it play with independents? how does it play in suburbs? so time updated some might call it cost effective way to do your cover. back in february 2017 nothing to see here. they reupdated it and add a little -- essentially that this is a new details, new questions, new call them what you want, scandals, controversies. >> it definitely is. and the comey thing is confirming everything that the clintons thought at the time.

i'm not sure he will do himself favors. everybody who has their mind made up about james comey is not going to be persuaded. it will be interesting to hear his full interview and read the book. i'm not sure he does himself many favors when he goes after the president like making fun of hand size and other things. >> see rubio, marco. >> it does not work. >> james comey made the decision to go to war with this president through this book, significant. >> no doubt about that. you have to assume he thought that through. it was donald trump's republican party but paul ryan's big decision makes it even more so.

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ranks 20 of these races as competitive. 15 of those are held by republicans and 5 by democrats. more republican seats are competitive in the year where democrats think they have the wind at their back. ryan says too much of being made of differences with president trump. >> i'm grateful to the president for giving us this opportunity to do big things and get the country on the right fact. the fact that he gave us the ability makes me proud of the accomplishments that i have been a contributor to and makes me satisfied that i have made a big difference. i'm grateful to him for that. that is really how i see it. >> the obvious headline is this is donald trump's republican party and anybody who thought otherwise here is your proof. this is donald trump's part. the other question is will this be a signal? i was told he has a list of eight more house republicans who might head for exits.

the second person told me three definitely. they see ryan going and say why stay? >> there are only 18 states left where the deadline has not passed to file for reelection. this is sort of an alarm bell going off showing this will be a tough career and the fact that the speaker is not running for reelection. the reason for the shock was that everybody expected him to leave after the election. it's kind of -- but the problem with what ryan is saying about working with trump is i think deep down if you talk to some of his friends privately he gets the lasting legacy here and he knows the lasting legacy is not just the tax reform bill that in 30 years or 50 years this era in washington will be remembered

for president donald trump and not for the fact that the marginal right moved a few points. >> the reality is ryan was trying to put a sunny spin on this. they did get tax reform done. that is significant but not as though you had this long list of accomplishments that have happened under the first year and a half of the trump presidency. >> ryan built his name on structural entitlement reform. he got nothing. >> he wanted entitlement reform. for a guy who started out and leads speaker under donald trump is a fascinating arc of the republican party. he mastered his relationship with president trump pretty well. if he thought the republicans could hold the house he would have stayed. >> the president tweeted out the photo. everybody giving the thumbs up. you had ryan and mccarthy and the vice president was there.

six white men. the republican party, donald trump in the center. paul ryan sat down with gayle king who had a question. >> when i look at that picture i have to say i don't see anybody that looks like me in terms of color or gender. i have to say i don't feel very celebrato celebratory. >> i don't like the fact that you feel that way. we need more minorities, more women in our party. >> forgive me, but that arc for the republican party is not getting better in the trump presidency. >> you hear everybody saying we need more whether minorities are not taming the president and making it more difficult and not setting policies that many people would argue would be advantageous in incentivising the shift rather than saying why don't you join us? >> less bad news for

republicans. you mentioned earlier the president's approval rating back up around 40. that is not great news for republicans but not as bad as the news has been. you have this debate as we head through april. >> it is not a given that republicans lose control of congress. democrats have an amazing ability to muck up the situation in mid terms. certainly the trend line seem to be heading in one direction. >> up next the embattled missouri governor take ag page from the president's play book. mom? dad? hi! i had a very minor fender bender tonight

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>> republicans are hoping that money can outweigh the surge of democratic enthusiasm. republican national committee says they will pledge $250 million into ground game strategy with the goal of having 900 paid staffers across the battle ground states to register people to vote and get them to show up. this under scores the rnc remains a fundraising juggernaut but it does under score the worries. republicans are nervous about the enthusiasm that we are seeing. they think it could translate into success for democrats and they are really concerned about the impact that this could have on the trump presidency if democrats take control of congress. >> i hope president trump is not the only one lashing out against a witch hunt. governor brighten is in missouri who this week is accused in an unseemly report of abusing a

woman. has been echoing the language of the president. that is according to a source who talked to him about his strategy. the attempt here basically is to test whether or not other politicians can do what president trump does which is basically deny everything, attack your accusers and hope that the base of your party will basically side with you and ignore the accusations. it is a really fascinating question as to whether the rules don't apply to the white house do still apply at other levels of american politics. the challenge for the governor has been indicted and facing a trial which is something that president trump is not himself facing. >> as we have been talking about speaker ryan is on his way out and he has thrown his support to his number two. the wildcard in this potential

speaker's race is president trump. as of now his aides tell me he will stay on the sideline of this potential speaker's fight. he is not going to get engaged but we know he is close to kevin mccarthy. and kevin mccarthy is eager to get the president's support. watch what he will do to get the president's loyalty and support here. of course, he likes him but he is very much an establishment pick. the president's base does not necessarily like kevin mccarthy. watch what he does to get the loyalty. >> might take more than a few starbursts. is that what you are trying to tell me there? >> i am watching one aspect on the hill that is connected to the never ending intrigue about russia probes and mueller and what is going to happen with the justice department. after nine months you have had a moment of a break through on the hill which is they are ready to start looking at the bill.

but the question is can these two sides actually trust each other enough to get this done without screwing it up. the political fight is very alive and you can hold hands to get there some of these amendments that will come up in order to do something and have something out there before this comes up again is a crisis question of whether the president will do something. it has taken nine months of fighting really for them to be able to get to this point and the question is can they take it across the finish line and will leaders pay attention? >> keep an eye on that. if they can move forward. speaker ryan is as adamant in private as in public about keeping hold of the gavel through january. the initial push all but dead now. thinking behind the plan was two fold. mccarthy allies believed a quick

election would deny others time to organize and believed it would guarantee the california republican at least six months as speaker but ryan wants to run through the tape. mccarthy ignored that he pushed the speaker to reconsider. if republicans lose the house in november that contest will be for minority leader and not speaker. some worry a big election loss would effect the mood and the math for that vote. that's it for "inside politics." "state of the union with jake tapper" is next. termites.

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