use to file taxes on line is partly down. the irs says it's working to resofele their resolve the issues so taxpayers can continue to file. today it the last day to file those returns. you don't want to miss the deadline. we hope to see you this time tomorrowme tomorrow. wolf starts right now. hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. from wherever you're watching around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we start with breaking news in the disaster disguised over the northeast. the southwest airlines flight lost an engine. the engine appears to have simply blown apart. you're looking at live pictures coming in right now. some of that shrapnel from the engine may have cut right into the plane. the plane was on the way from la guardia airport in new york city to dallas, texas with 148 passengers and crew on board. it made an emergency landing. there you see it right there in

philadelphia just 100 miles or so from where it took off. right now we're hearing that one person was injured. these are early, early reports. cnn's polo sandoval is joining us live from philadelphia right now. what more can you tell us about what happened, polo? >> reporter: we arrived on scene here to try to get more information. let's bring you up to speed about what southwest airlines has already confirmed. this was a southwest airlines flight 1380 providing service from new york's la guardia airport to dallas. a flight that was wheels up late this morning. 140 customers and flight crew on board. one of those customers was taken to the hospital after the plane made an emergency landing here at philadelphia's airport. a couple things we're trying to find out, of course, that is the status of the condition of this passenger that was taken to the hospital, the accident te exten

scene we're seeing was quite something that played out. one passenger on board that aircraft has reported there was some sort of engine failure that the passengers aboard that flight started feeling before there was trouble with that engine and then some of that shrapnel hitting the fuselage and resulting in the injury of that passenger. here's what you need to know if travel plans take you to this particular region. the faa has issued a mandatory ground stop for all flights either headed here or through here, so it's important for you to check with the airlines if you will be flying, again, to or through philadelphia's international airport. the ground stop is currently affecting flights that have left other airports that are coming here right now. obviously that would potentially help the situation here in the ground to not have airplanes on the tarmac as they try to get to the bottom of what happened. again, wolf, we are here on

scene at philadelphia national airport where this boeing 737 made this emergency landing this morning with one confirmed injury. as soon as we get more information on the ground, we'll send that to you and the rest of our viewers. >> i want to point out to our viewers, polo, first of all, that engine looks like it was completely blown apart, completely destroyed. if you look at the windows on that plane -- we just got to a different location. you see there next to the t in southwest, it looks like there is a blown-out window there that may have been the result of shrapnel going from the engine. are they saying anything about that window being blown out? >> not quite yet, wolf. those are certainly reports that we are aware of here on the ground. when you see those pictures, that certainly wouldn't be surprising when you see how much damage -- how much damage that engine actually sustained. some of the reports we're trying to confirm are just that. some of that debris could have hit the fuselage and potentially damaged one of the passenger

windows resulting in the injury of that one passenger. as you can imagine, that certainly would have made for some extremely scary moments in midair had that plane depressurized as we're hearing possibly happened. so that certainly will be key in speaking to investigators, now the faa, the ntsb on what they see with their preliminary findings. it doesn't take much when you see these pictures, wolf, to see that things certainly could have been much, much worse. the latest information we're getting from authorities is that there was only one passenger who were injured and taken to an area hospital here in philadelphia. >> 143 passengers, five crew members on board southwest flight 1380 from new york's la guardia to dallas love field. polo, stand by. peter gold is with us, the ntsb safety managing director. he's a safety analyst. unfortunately, peter, you've

reported and worked on these kinds of injury disasters in the past. walk us through what we're seeing right now. >> i think you're right. i have been on scene on these kinds of disasters. they're very rare. the turbo fan engine is extraordinarily reliable. but in this case it looks like it came apart midair, what's called an uncontained failure. pieces of the internal engine exited the cowling of the engine, and it looks like it penetrated into the fuselage and that window blew out. that would explain why the oxygen masks dropped immediately. it had to be a harrowing experience inside the plane. >> the plane was apparently flying at altitude, about 35,000 feet. the passengers inside have already told us they heard this loud explosion. that's a terrifying moment if you're flying at 35,000 feet and you hear something like that, and then shrapnel blows out a window at that altitude. >> absolutely.

and it's unusual because the engine is not at great stress at that point. it's as cruise speed, the plane is at 30,000 feet. it's just simply not a stressful time. usually these things take place when they're ramping up or when they're landing. so it's unusual. the ntsb will go back through the history of this engine and they'll look particularly at fatigue. were any of the fan blades in the engine fatigued? did the last check on the engine miss those fatigue cracks? where was the engine maintained? who did the work? >> we'll know fairly soon when the last time these engines on this particular plane were examined. >> we'll know before the end of today. they'll pull all the records down. southwest will give those to the ntsb. as i say, they'll go back to the actual location where the engine was serviced and see who did the work, how is it done, were any steps missed. >> miles bryan is with us, our

analyst as well. it would be nice to get your thoughts over this disaster not too far from philadelphia. >> i think you're wise to point out to viewers apparently a broken window, a passenger window, stands to reason it had something to do with the shrapnel that have been kicked out by this uncontained engine failure. i should know from your viewers, wolf, back in august of 2016 southwest had a very similar incident. an uncontained engine failure. this aircraft was headed from louis armstrong airport in new orleans to orlando, diverted to pensacola. some shrapnel penetrated the skin of the aircraft. there were no injuries reported in that case, but they it divert. so you have to start asking some questions about the engines on the 737s that southwest is flying. they use an engine made by a joint operation called cfm, which is a partnership between general electric and the french

engine maker saffron. maybe there is some common point of interest or clue between those two incidents, whether it's maintenance or design. that's the kind of thing the ntsb will be diving into thoroughly here. these uncontained engine failures, wolf, are very rare. they're designed to fail in such a way that they don't spin out that shrapnel. of course, it's a great hazard. it killed two people on the ground in florida in the mid-'90s on a delta md-88. we don't know the particulars of this passenger. was that person sitting inside that window? it stands to reason, but we'll have to see what kind of injuries were caused. >> if a window is blown out at 35,000 feet, what happens to cabin pressure? >> it lessens pretty quickly,

and the oxygen masks will come down and the flight crew will immediately be aware of the depressurization. their intent and goal in that case is to get down to about 10,000 feet as quickly as possible. i was looking at the profile of this particular aircraft's flight, and there was a rapid descent after the incident, apparently. and then they actually climbed a little bit and maintained a slightly higher altitude than you might expect. it's unclear to me at this point whatever sort of depressurization situation they were dealing with. but clearly, the crew did the right thing to getting on the ground to an appropriately equipped airport as soon as possible. >> peter golds will be with us and polo sandoval is on the scene at philadelphia national airport. i'll also speak to some of the other passengers on board.

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stormy daniels speaking out today on the talk show "the view" talking about the president of the united states, her legal case and also releasing a sketch of the man

she says threatened her and her child back in 2011. stormy daniels claiming the man told her to keep quiet about her alleged affair with donald trump. she also explained why she didn't come forward at the time of the incident. >> stormy, why did you feel like you couldn't go to the police originally when you were threatened? >> two things. first of all, i was scared. it was expressly what he told me not to do. and i went home and, like, regrouped. i was going to, because i always feel like you should stand up for yourself and you should report it. but the problem with that in this particular instance, i would have gone to the police and would have gone, okay, a man approached me. this is what he said to me. he told me, leave mr. trump alone, and the very next question the detective would ask me, why would somebody tell you to leave mr. trump alone? and i would have had to answer that question which was not public at that time, and i would have to tell an entire police department -- and police reports are public record, i know that for a fact -- i had sex with donald trump. and then the whole world would have known and i was in the

process of trying to quiet that or figure out what to do, and honestly, i was just afraid and i didn't want everyone to know. i didn't want my family to find out that way. i didn't want my life turned upside down. >> when you were speaking to news organizations, though, and michael, maybe you can talk to this, too, you never brought up the threat. so why now? >> obviously one of the main reasons i didn't say anything is because i didn't tell my husband at the time. i didn't want him to be upset with me, and then i felt like honestly so much time had passed that if was embarrassed to say what -- >> so your husband did not know anything about your affair with donald trump? >> at that time he didn't know. so to go home and say, i had this guy attack me, and oh, by the way, i did this because of this. i didn't want him to think i would put our daughter in danger. i just didn't know. >> "the view" puts perspective

on stormy daniels' claims. he alleged the threatened her and her child, the man in the sketch. mark preston is with us, our legal analyst laura coates and political commentator katherine rampel. katherine, let me start with you. a lot of people say this is simply a tabloid slide show, but it has escalated over these weeks into a lot more than that. >> obviously part of the reason this has stayed in the public consciousness, the reason they're talking about it is it involves a sitting president allegedly having an affair way porn star. there are localitits of element this that are tittilating and easy to understand. this is beyond a tabloid story because there are political crimes that were committed.

>> she's absolutely right, katherine, because the potential damage on the president of the united states based on all the information that has surfaced since then have been made public. >> which is why the president didn't want special counsel named, because by naming a special counsel, it has allowed them to go do a bigger investigation. the biggest problem for the president is if michael cohen will flip on him now. if there is something michael cohen is willing to tell the prosecutors in order to save yourself because he is in trouble. if you're donald trump, you have to be worried about that. >> remember, he's the one who set up the llc to then pay stormy daniels in this case. if you've got a current judge saying, tell me what among your collection of materials is privileged having to do with your client, perhaps donald trump, and if it's not

privileged based on the legal communication, i'm going to have it be part of the investigative team and the fdny. that sets off alarm bells to say, wait a minute, has any communications i had with president trump not confidential? it might not be. but stormy daniels, if she is then allowed to depose the president of the united states, put those together and you have a really foreboding experience for the president of the united states and sean hannity. >> and remember, stormy daniels was in this federal courtroom yesterday. are there specific issues there also? >> the fact that hannity didn't tell anybody about that.

despite going on tv and saying there was a raid at cohen's office, he didn't disclose this. i stand by my colleague who is calling for fox news to do an investigation into hannity and what other undisclosed relationships he may have with members of the trump orbit. >> this is where it gets really messy between mainstream media, who is actually a journalist and who is somebody who is a provocateur. right now if you look at sean hannity, sometimes he says he's a journalist, sometimes he says he's not a journalist. what he is, though, he is a provocateur. he's not necessarily out there talking about news trying to inform people, he's trying to persuade people. that's what he does for an hour on his show, and clearly he didn't want anyone to know the connection with michael cohen because, again, it would show another link that he has to donald trump. >> i would call him a pr propagandist. he has been promoting propaganda for trump, for his company, for

his administration, and he's saying he's blemished for whatever he has in this and then he says, no, i am not bound by ethical constraints. >> michael cohen's lawyers said that cohen had three clients, legal clients, over the past 18 months, the president of the united states was one of them. another client was this gop fundraiser who had an extramarital affair, and then, of course, there was a third client. they didn't want to name that third client for sensitive reasons. the judge said, you must name that third client. instead of just handing a slip of paper with a name written on it to the federal judge, the michael cohen lawyers announced sean hannity's name in public. >> it's fascinating, because nobody wants to be in the

company of that. and he said, i didn't have any third-party action-based communication with michael cohen, meaning he did not attempt to try to silence somebody because of an alleged sexual encounter. you were talking about the semantics journalist, provocateur, propagandist. whether he is a client or a friend, you cannot be nuanced when it comes to the attorney-client privilege. either you are in a relationship or you are not. and if you're the client who controls what information goes out and what does not, if you yourself, as sean hannity is saying, i am not your client, well then guess what? michael cohen cannot say he is his attorney. unethical claims against michael cohen because he already said, i need to include trump's and stor -- trump in stormy began yells'

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the president is is tatalking a imprisonment for a private citizen as he does many people. that is making us numb and that is dangerous. >> is america too numb right now? >> absolutely. the whole idea that this is the new normal, it's not new and it's not normal, okay? this has been repeated throughout history in worse scenario cases, but we have seen this happen before. and i do think the fact we're embracing it and allowing it to roll off our shoulders is a mistake. it is a very big mistake right now. i'm not saying anything is wrong with mr. trump's presidency when it comes to policies, however, his actions in office right now are questionable at best. >> katherine comey, in this new book, and i'm sure it's selling really well, he said we got too personal with the president's

characteristics. listen to this. >> i'm trying to be an author and bring people into this room. i tried to create a vivid image for the reader. i'm not trying to make fun of president trump, i'm not trying to make fun of everybody. but if you read the whole book, you'll see i'm trying to give you that pick. >> he talks about the president's hair, his tan, the size of his hands, which a lot of people have suggested undermines the credibility of the book. >> i don't know that it undermines the credibility of the book per se. it doesn't seem to suggest there was anything in there that is an outright fabrication or a lie. however, i do think it undermines his general message about ethical leadership and how he has more character than the other people that he's talking about in the book, in particular, the president, so in that sense i think it undermines his case, but i don't think it suggests that they're making false claims. >> legally speaking, what's

going to be the impact of this book? >> it is impactful, but the fbi would have known it was in pre-publication. mueller has already met with him so he knows everything that's going to be out there. for many people, it's important to understand, the obstruction case really begins where the fbi director's tenure ended. the idea of what was the basis for firing this particular person? it was about flynn? was it about flynn beforehand? was it about the russians? what he knows up to that point really calls for him to find out, what was his mental state? everything he's telling you in this book is everything about what the president's thought process was. >> what about fallout for this book? >> it's not good. he's going to keep his 30, 35, 40% support. people who like president trump are going to stay with him.

but it is giving heartbreak to republicans. we are heading into a midterm election right now, and this is not helpful for him when constituents are asking particular senators to respond. >> on the other hand, trump is fundraising off this book. i got a fundraising request about jim comey is a lying slimeball, give me some money. >> how much did you give him? >> zero. sadly my profession, unlike hannity's, apparently, prohibits that. >> guys, thanks very, very much. coming up, did politics play a part in comey's decision to reveal the investigation of hillary clinton's e-mails just a few days before the 2016 election? plus, we're following breaking news out of philadelphia. what caused a pretty terrified emergency landing of a southwest plane. you see it on the ground right now, that engine blown apart.

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a contradiction from the former fbi director james comey who says he took the polls into account before announcing the continuation of the hillary clinton e-mail investigation only a few days before the election. listen. >> i was operating in a world where hillary clinton was going to beat donald trump. so i'm sure that it was a factor. like i said, i don't remember spelling it out, but it had to have been, that she's going to be elected president, and if i hide this from the american people, she'll be illegitimate the moment she's elected. >> in that same interview with abc news, comey said he wasn't acting with political fortunes in mind. >> a whole lot of me was thinking, oh, my god, did we

have some role in this? did we have some impact on the election? >> what does your gut tell you? >> i don't know the answer. in a way i care about the answer, and in a way it doesn't matter at all. i really wasn't making decisions based on political fortunes. >> here with us is john podesta, former chairman with the hillary clinton campaign, former chairman of chief of staff. >> you would have to read the other interviews he's done. i haven't read the book. the first is he does believe in the rule of law and i think he's committed to the truth. but that doesn't mean he can't make terrible errors of judgment. i think in this case, as he noted, he let politics interfere with long-time precedent going back decades from republican and democratic administrations. he never really explained why he

thought it was too close to the election to sign on to a letter that jeh johnson and jim clapper sent on october 8 that they believed the russians were interfering in the election, because he felt that was too close to the election. he never explained, but i think disingenuously -- >> he never explained why, when it was admitted 11 days before the election. he said they found thousands of e-mails on anthony weiner's laptop. if he wouldn't have released that information, and hillary clinton had been elected president, he assumed she would be elected president, then his explanation could be seen as illegitimate. >> he took the binding choice, do i seek or do i conceal? >> do you blame him for her loss? >> i think it contributed to her loss. i think when you win by 300 votes but lose by less than

3,080 votes in a state that decided the election, i think this was a very significant factor. i think at the end of the day, he made, as i said, a terrible error of judgment. it wasn't a binary choice. he had the information about weiner's laptop three weeks earlier. it only took them a week to look at those e-mails and conclude they were just duplicates of what they had already looked at and dismissed the matter. he could have done that quietly. he didn't need to do what he did which was send a letter to jason k api tz, the republican firebrand chairman at the time. he knew that would leak out immediately. i think he just made a terrible error of judgment, and i think republicans and democrats that had served in senior levels of the department, including the person who was just -- who preceded him as deputy attorney general in the bush administration, all concluded that this was the wrong move. >> let me get your reaction on

sensitive things he's been saying in these interviews. he was asked to comment on why loretta lynch, then-attorney general of the united states, told him to look at the clinton e-mail controversy as a matter rather than an investigation. listen to his reaction to that. >> did you think she was doing that to protect hillary clinton? >> i didn't know. it worried me, gave me an uncomfortable feeling, because the clinton campaign had to come up with other words to describe it. i thought, as much as i like her, i have to step away from her and show the american people the fbi's work separately. >> you were chairman of the clinton campaign. were you coordinating with loretta lynch? >> no. i don't think i saw loretta lynch, because we were working in the obama administration. the next time i saw her was after the election at janet reno's funeral, and i don't think anyone was coordinating with her. one of the problems with someone who thinks they're never wrong

and always right is, as david lenhart said the other day, there is a strength of a line between fake and humorous. i think loretta lynch was trying to do her job and didn't make any effort to try to impede the investigation, tried to keep it in the hands of mr. comey. as it turned out, at the end of the investigation, he said there is no reason a prosecutor would find this to be a criminal matter. we kept saying it was a security review. lo and behold, if you look back to his statement on july 5th when he finally announced his decision, he said, you know, this matter belongs in the security review box. i think he's throwing shade on everybody but accepting very little responsibility himself. >> he had this message for hillary clinton. listen to this.

>> i hope hillary clinton at least reads those parts of the book because i think she will walk away saying, you know what? i still think that guy is an idiot, but you know, he's kind of an honest idiot. and he's trying to do the right thing here. >> have you spoken to hillary clinton, gotten her reaction to this? >> not since his interviews and the book. >> you know her well. you worked with her for a long time. how do you think she'll respond when she says, i still think this guy is an idiot, but he's kind of an honest idiot. do you think she'll agree? >> i have done interviews since the election. i've never attacked mr. comey for trying to do something that was for a partisan reason. i think it was, to some extent, his arrogance that led him to make a very bad error of judgment. if she doesn't agree with him, i guess i can agree with him that he's an honest idiot, but i felt like he was an idiot in the context of this election and it was influential in the outcome, and now we have someone who, as

he said, is morally unfit to be president of the united states. >> are you going to read this book? >> i don't think so. >> do you think hillary clinton will read this book? >> i doubt it. >> thank you. >> i read the five-hour transcript. that was enough for me. >> tom positive did he say e pa thank you very much. >> why the president suddenly slammed on the brakes of sanctions on russia. we'll find out. are finding themselves morin a chevroletple for the first time. trying something new can be exciting. empowering. downright exhilarating. see for yourself why chevrolet is the most awarded and fastest growing brand, the last four years overall. switch into a new chevy now.

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days ago that nikki haley, u.n. ambassador, said there would be sanctions on russia after that chemical attack on syria. she expected that announcement yesterday. it did not happen. joining us now from capitol hill is kentucky senator rand paul. he's republican senator of the foreign relations committee, also the homeland security committee. senator, thanks so much for joining us. let's get to substantive issues you're dealing with right now. your committee chairman bob corker described the walk-back by the white house as confusion. larry kudlow, the president's new chief economic adviser, says there was no confusion. he simply says ambassador haley just got ahead of herself. what was your reaction? did the white house undercut ambassador haley? >> i think before you talk about sanctions we ought to talk about what evidence was there that russia was complicit in this attack. in fact, for that matter, i still look at the attack and say assad must be the dumbest dictator on the planet or maybe he didn't do it. i have yet to see evidence he

did do it. the agency claims they have that evidence, but think about it, he's been winning the war for the last couple years. the only thing that would galvanize the war to assad directly is a chemical attack. it killed relatively few people compared to what could be killed with traditional bombs, traditional machine guns, traditional tanks, so you wonder what made them use chemical weapons. so before we get to russia, we have to determine that syria was implicated and then we have to determine the connection between russia and syria. >> as you know, it's not just the u.s., but france and the u.k. participated in the bombing of these chemical sites in syria. are you saying, senator, the president had bad intelligence? >> i don't know. i haven't seen the intelligence. we have a briefing this afternoon where i may see some of this, but the difficulty is, these things are not a slam-dunk. this was back in 2013 president obama looked at that chemical

attack, and at that point in time, his general was saying, hey, it's not a slam-dunk, because you can detect there were syrian claims, you can detect syrians dropped bombs, but it's sometimes hard to know if they dropped an existing vehicle of weapons, and syria has been known to use chemical weapons, or if the syrians did it. if the syrians did it, it comes back to the question that assad must be the dumbest dictator on the planet the earth. he knows it's the only thing that gets the world galvanized to attack him. >> the new legislation, where do you stand on that? >> it is a good idea to debate whether we should be at war or not. unfortunately the use of authorization force, the resolution they're putting forward actually expands the president's ability to commit war.

so if it were a limitation on the president's power, i'd be for it. this actual resolution expands the president's authority. for the first time it will list six or seven groups that we're at war with. remember after 9/11 we were at war with those who attacked us and those who aided and abetted them. this is going to codify six to seven groups, make 10 to 15 countries we could be at war with. but really, it's limitless. if we have any other groups having activity in any country, the president can go to war there. he has to submit a notice saying, hey guys, we're at war in another country. it's a huge mistake. >> you said the president should trust his gut when it comes to syria. tell our viewers what you mean. i've heard him over the years many times, he wants the u.s. out of syria, out of iraq, out of afghanistan, thinks the u.s. has spent way too much money

there and lost lives. >> they've all been for less intervention. that's one of the reasons i was attracted to his candidacy. but he's surrounded himself now with advisers that give him the opposite advice. two weeks ago he was saying it's time to come out of syria. there are rumblings that he still believes that. we go from one belief to the opposite reaction. in afghanistan, he said it's a mistake to keep building their bridges and roads and people hate us and we're sending good money after bad. to me, it can be distilled down to this, even pompeo admitted there is no military solution in afghanistan. today we had an assistant secretary of state say there's no military solution in yemen or in syria. it's hard for me to understand, to comprehend, they're asking our young men and women to go to war in a war that has no military solution. so are we really reliving vietnam where we're telling our young men and women take one more village so we can have a

little bit more negotiated settlement? i don't think that's what a lot of our young men and women sign up for. i'm saying enough is enough. . we should declare victory and come home. >> is there any chance you're going to vote to confirm mike pompeo as the next secretary of state? >> if he came out publicly and said it's time to declare victory and come home but he said he didn't believe that. i challenged him with the president's own word and the president saying it's time to come home and he doesn't agree with that. he will be giving advice to the president that goes against the preds's go president's good instincts that the war has run its course. >> what about you think about the president's candidate for cia? >> i think what she did goes

against everything america represents. it's sort of like telling the rest of the world that if they capture our soldiers, it must be okay to torture them because we have appointed someone to be head of the cia who used to run a torture camcamp. i think she's a terrible representative and i will absolutely oppose her coming forward and her nomination. >> you held up the last spending bill before it ultimately passed, you have a new proposal, senator, and its implementation would cut around $7 billion in military spending alone. how are you going to get support from your fellow republican senators and democratic senators for that matter, some of the democratic senators to cut military spending? >> i think conservatives kacros the country want someone who will hold the line on spending.

if congress can't agree to cut 1% across the board, it would be 1% across the board and include military. but let's say congress said they wanted to do it all domestic, they could. the bottom line has to equal 1%. a 1% cut each year is about $13 billion, actually balances the budget in five years. what's interesting about mu budg -- my budget proposal is it's what they want but it's a privileged motion, which means the senate will vote on it, even if they don't present their own budget. so i'm doing a budget for them. i will include instructions to allow for the expansion of health savings accounts. i think we can totally transform and make insurance more competitive by expanding the marketplace where people could have health savings accounts. i will do two things, balance the budget, balances over 5 years with a 1% across the board cut but also expand health savings accounts larger than anyone has tried in the past. >> some estimates now projecting

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