keeping the boys back to girls and allowing them to speak up. >> to find out more, go to cnnheroes.com and nominate someone you think should be a cnn hero. thanks for joining me today. john king starts now. thank you, kate, and welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your friday with us. one set of memos, two very different takes. trump allies say james comey didn't vindicate the president. others are nervous about what to do to make it all go away. rudy giuliani joins the president's legal team with trademark swagger, suggesting he can get the special counsel to close the books in a matter of weeks. and students across the

country staging more walkouts, this time on the 19th anniversary of the columbine massacre. >> and why is it so important that you guys continue to have these events? >> so no one forgets about it. so no one forgets to change the law, that something needs to be done. >> live to new york in a bit for more of those dramatic school walkouts across the country today. first, though, some big developments in the russia meddling debate. now the democrats filing suit against russia and wikileaks, saying that they used the campaign to disrupt hillary clinton's campaign. there is a presence of sorts from back in the watergate days. shimon prokupecz is working this. shimon, explain the suit.

>> reporter: this 66-page lawsuit was filed in a manhattan federal court just a short time ago, and it really lays out sort of what we already know, some of what's been out in the public domain, and how they allege and they assert that trump curried favor in russia through their family business and how russia worked with trump advisers before the trump election to disseminate some of the hacks, the e-mails they were able to obtain from the dnc. the democratic party says this is all part of a conspiracy and that the hacking and the other activities hurt their relationship with voters, chilled donations, disrupted their political convention and subjected staffers to harassment, and then the lawsuit goes on to outline a lot of what we already know, some of the known communications between trump advisers and russians and really the lawsuit names everyone whose name has been out there who has come up in this investigation, from roger stone,

also they're suing folks like paul manafort, george papadopoulos and others all alleging a grand racketeering, hacking and fraud conspiracy here, john. >> okay. shimon, stand by as we continue to track this lawsuit. is there a federal case here? >> reporter: i think there is a very unusual federal case here. the question is will it be thrown out by the federal court? there are 11 different causes of action in the case. i think the most interesting theory is what we call a rico theory. that's the rico racketeering section that was designed by congress originally to go after organized criminals. they're using that as a theory to go against various members of the trump family, people like roger stone, and the committee to elect donald trump. it's a very, very unusual suit. there is some precedent because back in the watergate era, as you will remember, nixon's committee was creep, the committee to reelect the

president, and they were sued in a lawsuit, but it was a very different lawsuit because all of the sections of law that are invoked here are different ones. they're computer fraud ones, they're hacking, they're rico ones, they're all things that didn't really exist back in nixon's time. i think in the end, though, it's a publicity stunt to get information, to get depositions and discovery that you can generate some headlines with, and i suspect it will be tossed out of court eventually. >> we'll keep an eye on that, paul. appreciate the legal insights. shimon, stay with us. we'll be back with you in just a second. now other debate over the same issue. the comey leak within seconds after the interview last night. they were nervous, they said, from the very beginning go the russia investigation, and the president feeling out what the fbi director knew or whether he would be willing to just make it all go away. james comey shows how there was clearly no collusion and no

obstruction. that was the president tweeting this morning. also, he leaked classified information. wow. will the witch hunt continue? so general michael flynn's life can be totally destroyed while shady james comey can leak and lie and make lots of money from a third rate book that should never have been written. is that really the way life in america is is supposed to work? i don't think so. >> all the conversations that the president had with the former fbi director, though not new, there was some new information. one of the things that came to my attention was how the president raised this issue of flynn's judgment, questioning flynn's judgment. of course, this all is related to his conversations with the former russian ambassador. the other thing that i found particularly interesting was the president's continuing preoccupation and fascination

with the solacious details of the dossier. we know that really bothered him, that conversation. he repeatedly in conversations with comey denied that any hookers were involved, any of the situations, denying that there was anything to do with a golden shower. at one point, john, he told -- the president told comey that the hookers thing is nonsense but that putin had told him we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. i found that to be particularly eye identi eye-opening. though comey does not say in these memos whether or not the president actually spoke to putin about this. but certainly an interesting line of questioning and answers between him -- between trump and the former fbi director. >> very nice, kind mild word, interesting. eliana johnson of politico,

michael warren of the washington times and michael post. what do we make of this? let me read that line. the president brought up the golden showers thing and it really bothered him if his wife had any doubt about it. he then explained as he did at our dinner he hadn't stayed overnight in russia during the miss universe trip. twice during this part of the conversation reince tried to interject a comment about the redacted and why it was even in there, but the president ignored him. the president said the hookers thing is nonsense but that putin had told him, we have some of the most beautiful hookers in the world. he did not say when putin had told him this and i don't recall. redacted. is this just james comey walking out of the room with the president saying, why is he talking about this? >> i think those are some solacious details or interesting, to use the word, details from his recollection of it happening, you know, a few moments after it happens.

but the memos themselves largely just sort of confirm what james comey has already testified under oath that the president said to him, and it's really just a reminder of his side of the story, which is that the president asked him in many words, can you please make this thing go away for mike flynn? i don't know what else in here is really new, and i'm not quite sure what house republicans on the intelligence committee were really going for by pushing for these memos to get out, although i think for the public record, it's good to have them out. >> to the point about general flynn, which is the more significant part of the investigation. the president's national security adviser served less than half a month on the job. he admitted lying to investigators about some business deals. this is jim comey talking to the president about then-national security adviser michael flynn. he then went on to explain that he has serious reservations about mike flynn's judgment and

illustrated a story from that day in which the president apparently discovered during his toast to theresa may that redacted had called four days ago. he then went on to explain that he h a, why did he hire him, and b, why did he let him stay on the job for a couple weeks after it was clear he was subject to a counter-intelligence investigation? >> i don't understand all the media attention to comey's allegation that trump was obsessed with all these solacious details in this dossier. i think if any of us were briefed on a dossier that the fbi deemed important enough to brief the president on or brief any of us on that explained these explosive details on us, whether true or not, i would be

obsessed with that, even if it were not true. i would be obsessed with that. so i don't really understand it, and i do think the most noteworthy thing about the comey memo is they don't say trump has done anything blatantly illegal. on the flynn thing, i think it goes to flynn's argument that the president isn't crazy or losing his mind, he's not senile, he's somebody of above-average intelligence, he's able to have someone above him. but it's clear he's not hiring the best people. he makes decisions and turns on them quickly. he's very aware of his weaknesses and i think he likes to put people around him whose weaknesses he can poke on. i think he's sometimes threatened by other people. >> he did have bad judgment on several levels, so give trump

some credit there. this reminds me a little of the release of memos of how the house intelligence committee handled the report on the fisa warrant. they thought this would come out and somehow exonerate the president. of course, it doesn't. he immediately tweets, no collusion, but there's no proof either way in there, and i think that's just the president's technique. keep hammering this message, hammer this message. and he's reading, right, in how the white house operates inside here. i don't think it changes the dynamic of anything in any way. >> but in an odd way, comey, like the president, i like to say is in the eye of the beholder. if you support the president, the tweets, you wish he wouldn't do it, but they're cutting regulation, don't worry about

the tweets. is he trying to feel out james comey there? is he trying to bait them? i think mike flynn has bad judgment, too. further on that front, comey also writes about the chief of staff reince priebus who comes to him a little later after flynn fired, or he left. they told him he would have to go and he resigned. reince priebus said, do you guys have a fisa warrant on michael flynn? meaning, are you listingening t his conversations? >> is there current vans under the national surveillance act of the current adviser? >> correct. and you did give him an answer? >> correct. and i said the way that should work is you go to the justice department, they'll figure out if they can answer the question, and white house counsel should get back to you. >> so comey gave him the answer but said, i'm not supposed to. you're supposed to go through a different process.

he defended it by saying, these guys were new. i figured i would give them the answer since they would get the answer, anyway, going through proper channels. it's a perfectly appropriate question for the fbi director, or you can help the president find out, what does comey know about general flynn and who else has been recorded if they're tapping these conversations? which is it? >> if you look further in the memos, there is another scene where reince priebus and comey are in reince's office and talking and sort of talking through how is this supposed to work. so you do get a sense that this is, at the very beginning of the administration, these people never served in a white house and are feeling all these things out. i think it does reveal the chaos that was there at the very beginning. >> once you're in the white house, you should actually know how these things work, and when somebody tells you how these things work, i think you should go through the proper channels.

i don't really think the corner cutting on comey's part or priebus' part is acceptable. >> congressman's dowdy and nunez defended the statement saying there is no "there" there on the comey memos. if you're going to watch the conservative media say, there is nothing there, comey exonerates the president. up next for us, start the countdown clock. rudy giuliani adds star power to the president's legal team and says this could all be over in weeks.

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welcome back. it is rudy to the rescue for president trump's legal team, but is the former new york mayor already setting himself up to

disappoint the boss? this big announcement yesterday, rudy giuliani taking a leave of absence from his new york law firm to help the president. rudy giuliani says his job most of all will be to serve as the go-between between the white house and the special counsel's office. rudy giuliani knows robert mueller and they both served as special counsel at one time. is the bar too high? giuliani says he's going to get a list from mueller on what is needed to comply with the rest of the investigation. as soon as he can, and depending on what is on that list, that compliance might go quickly, even as soon as a couple of weeks. raise your hand if you think that rudy giuliani can make bob mueller close the books, say thank you very much, and go away in a couple weeks? >> i don't think this will be over in a couple weeks. nonetheless, i don't think this is the most terrible hire on trump's part. i actually think it's pretty savvy. trump has been wanting a lawyer who can -- you know, a tv

lawyer. and rudy has a sort of 1980s legal mindset. trump's head is in the 1980s. rudy is that, and he knows the southern district of new york. he comes out of there. he will defend trump capably on tv. trump trusts him, which i think is important in terms of having trust with your lawyer. i think it's a good hire on trump's part. >> i agree completely, at least from the communications standpoint. you have a known face who is a good combative on tv. >> i think this is a win for trump. >> now you have someone in the room, mueller in massachusetts, rudy in new york, rudy was obviously mayor on 9/11, mueller was the fbi director. they worked together in that crisis. they know each other, one would assume they have a professional relationship. the question is to what end? will it speed up at least the resolution of will or will not the president answer questions? >> i don't know.

there is a risk here of overpromising, right? and for all the good relationship that the president has with rudy giuliani, you know, i think he sours very quickly if he feels like he's being had or he's being misled by people who is supposed to be helping him out, so that could be a problem. >> i think how clearly giuliani faces the issue of the sit-down with mueller we'll have to watch, because we've seen trump's mind shift after the raid on michael cohen. does he change his mind? does giuliani handle that? we'll have to watch. >> maggie haberman tweeting this. there was a belief rudy giuliani was like the kool-aid man, bursting through a wall to join the trump team. four people close to the white house say he resisted joining, but trump wanting a big name who

he's comfortable with pushed for it. >> i don't think he'll be swayed by any relationship with bob mueller he may or may not have had. we're going to give you everything you need to just go away. they give it and then they don't go away. we don't know where mueller is going, but the idea that rudy giuliani can step in here and bring a conclusion to this is way out there. >> way out there, you think. somebody the president calls quite frequently in the "washington post." he says, what we've been seeing with the president is he's picking a-level people who are experienced but also know him well. one of the problems in the first year was that people didn't work out because they didn't know him and they didn't have experience for the position. so there is a comfort -- the president in a lot of his choices recently wants a comfort level. the question is, comfort is one thing, good legal representation and a resolution has been the giant thing the president can't

get. >> exactly, and i'm not sure bob mueller cares too much about how comfortable trump is with his own lawyer, so certainly it helps when the president is strategizing with his legal team about what to do, but in the context of the mueller investigation, bob mueller is going to do what bob mueller is going to do. he's going to go on his own time frame and i'm not sure how the representation changes anything, if at all. >> there has been talk with the president outside the white house on the west wing in the last couple of weeks, some feeling that the president was getting very angry, getting very upset at a level that will they had not seen in a long time, or maybe ever. maybe having somebody who is very close to him and who the president trusts in many ways helps calm the president down. all this talk about is he going to fire rod rosenstein, is he going to try to fire bob mueller. this might be the kind of thing to tamp down those questions.

>> this is the president we're talking about, but is he boxed in, in a sense, at least on the mueller question. rudy giuliani saying he's a man of integrity, i trust him, i've worked with him. rudy says, you don't want to have a special counsel, but if you're going to have one, this is the guy for it. does that box someone in? >> i think the president needs somebody to play the role of the cabinet but also bring the president along with him. so mattis goes in and talks to the president and tells him, look, i know torture, i've seen torture, torture doesn't work. trump actually shifted his opinion on it and said mattis was very persuasive. nobody knows how mattis has this pull on the president. it's unclear whether mueller will play this role. he can see the details of the mueller investigation, and i think he's made these missteps, and i think that would sort of allow him to loosen and free

himself from his past public comments. but somebody on the legal team -- that's the role they've been missing, someone who can dislodge the president from his previous views and move him toward a more reasonable position. >> oftentimes, though, guys have the history of being a ceo and they have a hard time going back to the staff. up next we go west to utah where the map looks reliably red, yet the gop civil war primed for a big weekend skirmish.

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no-brainer for republicans. just check off utah as a gop hold. but they have a rather wild faction. help us understand romney's big challenge this weekend. >> so we're expecting a potentially wild gop convention this weekend, because the party basically has been at war with itself for quite some time. romney is going to be on the primary ballot here in utah no matter what, because he collected the recquisite number of signatures. but there's been a big fight between the party, party activists and the more established types over whether or not the party should continue to have this caucus process that will unfold on saturday. so romney is basically going for the party's nomination this weekend in the caucus voting, but he could potentially lose that fight because you have to clear 60% of the vote in order to go on to the ballot unchallenged. and there are 11 other people

running against him and a lot of party activists who really don't want to see an establishment candidate put up as sort of the clear frontrunner for the utah republican party. >> democracy in action. >> that's the fight, john. >> we'll watch that one play out over the weekend for governor romney, want to be senator romney. in addition, those internal tensions, utah also factors into the democrats' math as they look to take back the house. mia love, a national republican star nationally. is she really in trouble back home? >> she is. i'm going to spend a lot of time in that district later today and have been talking to voters there. what's happened, she's always had really close races but she is really one of knethese candidates that is laboring under the shadow of donald trump. he is want as popular here as he is in other red states partly because of the huge mormon population here who don't like his tone, particularly on

immigration, and she has drawn a very charismatic opponent in ben mcadams, who is the mayor of salt lake county, and he's going to give her a real run for her money. he has the ability to draw a lot of republican support and he is kind of this wonky, nerdy democrat who has a very bright future here in utah and it's going to be a very tight race. >> i'm jealous. enjoy the fun out in utah this weekend. we'll talk afterwards and see what you find out there. here's another way to understand why republicans are worried about losing the house. democrats are more than holding their own when it comes to fundraising. first the basic balance of power. democrats currently have 193 to 237 to republicans, but look how we rank the races so far. republicans have a lot more of their races in the lean or toss-up category than the democrats do. so the democrats start in stronger shape. look at this. fundraising. a handful have not yet reported, but among the 88 competitive

races where we financihave fina reports, the democrats outracing their opponents well in excess of half of those races. look at a small subset here. these are lean, likely or toss-ups. the democrats are holding their own in this challenge. that's bad news for the republicans. in eight of these races, how many of the incumbents were trailing in fundraising? only two democratic incumbents in both of those races have been outraised by their opponents. 40 republican incumbents have been out raraised by their democratic incumbents. it's one of the reasons ryan says, no, you need me. >> you all know that i came into

this job as a policy guy, not a political guy, not a fundraiser. i have shattered every fundraising record any speaker has ever set. i came into this job with a speaker -- with a goal of a speaker to raise $20 million. i doubled it to $40 million. not only did i hit that goal, i hit it eight months early. so there is nobody who has come close to being able to raise the kinds of funds i have and still can raise for this majority. >> no matter how you look at it, a guy like romney who thinks, check the box, please, no controversy, let's move on. let's start with romney for a minute. this is where mitch mcconnell lost his best friend in the senate, robert bennett. he turned against him. so welcome to the tea party, welcome to the grassroots activism out there. this is from our conservative talk show horadio host out ther.

it's a mixed bag, listeners raise the same questions. romney and romneycare, his attack on president trump during the campaign, the carpetbagger issue. >> it just shows you how deep the dissatisfaction on the right is with people who seem to be perceived to be establishment republicans, and they just have to fight through this, and it's going to be happening around the country. >> and you saw that with jeff flake in arizona felt like he couldn't run for reelection while still being a trump critic. you saw bob corker out for similar reasons. in nevada, in dean heller, he has decided to take the calculus that he's just going to give the president a giant, big hug and go at it that way, even though that's one of the top states to keep -- >> you remember bob corker. he did a breakfast in town the other day for retiring public

defender of d.c. so bob corker said really nice things about him, good mayor, good governor, good businessperson. mcconnell told corker his comments were unhelpful both in the tennessee race and in the larger battle for the senate majority. mcconnell also reminded corker that the republicans were in the current situation only because corker had decided to retire. >> this is so much like grade school. very apt for the current situation. i find today's politics so interesting, because the tea party had a clear, idealogical mooring in a certain way, because you knew you were going to get primaried and your situation was on debt, they were animated by successful spending. i think the objective of candidates today is less clear. loyalty to the president is a part of it, but that doesn't have as clear, idealogical

strictures to it. these guys that are running, it's not clear, but -- >> what they say they have is relatively new house republicans and their campaign teams who have only lived through the great republican years. they've only lived through 2010 and 2014, and when the gray beards tell them, you don't understand what the other side looks like, they laugh at them and don't take them seriously. if you have momentum and money on the democratic side, boom. >> but you also have to understand or try to figure out where that money is going. there was a close poll for better o'rourke. they think that's a race ted cruz might have trouble in but will probably win.

it does change how you analyze those big fundraising numbers, but i think they more reflect where the enthusiasm is, and that tells you maybe more about where the electorate is in november than sort of does it predict that democrat will to better because they have a lot more incumbent, we look at that. they don't take the warning until it's too late and they go, what happened? >> having lived through a few tsunamis that go both ways. trump imbalance of good bacteria. n only phillips' colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it helps replenish good bacteria. get four-in-one symptom defense.

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. back on our political radar, donald trump way before he was president flat outlying to forbes magazine report to get on the forbes 400 list of prestigious people. who said he lied? the reporter jonathan greenberg. he said trump called him and said he was his own spokesman, john barron. >> i would like to talk to you off the record if i can just to make it easier. >> okay, sure. >> but i think you can really use donald trump now and you can just consolidate it, i think, last year someone showed me the article and he had 200 and 200

and the other's been pretty well consolidated now. john hickenlooper says he won't recriminalize pot right now but he is not ruling it out. crime is up. a somber reminder, the 19th anniversary of the columbine school shooting massacre is today. schools across the country are participating in a walkout, a protest against gun violence. we have jason carroll in new york. what are the students telling you, jason? it's a large crowd. >> huge crowd, and they want to see gun control policy put forth. they said they won't stop until that's done. thousands of students in washington square park, organ. e

organizers expected some 5,000 students to show up from many different schools. they said if you go to this protest, you would be marked as absent, you will be penalized if you come out here. the mayor says we appreciate the students coming out to voice their opinions, to express their point of view, but we want to see them have a full day of school. the students have remained undeterred by that. they said this is not about missing a day of school, this is about stricter gun policy. the big question here is, john, when i speak to these students i say, you've got this momentum now. what are you going to do to carry this forward? will you be able to keep it there through the midterms? they say they're confident they will. john? >> i appreciate that reporting. let's bring it back to the room here. whatever your views on gun control, whether you think we should have more laws, whether you think the law is fine, whether you think we should have fewer laws. i'm a fan of democracy.

if i was in high school, getting out of class for a while wouldn't be bad, either. the parkland students came to washington. schools around the country supported them. there was a divider over them of what congress should do. congress didn't do anything in the gun control arena and these students are still back at it. florida has passed a new gun safety law that includes money for school safety but also new gun control laws. the governor is going to test that in a senate race this year. nationally there is no disagreement, right? we're done with this issue in washington for the year. but what? what is the next test for these students and what they want? >> the next test is to see if they can make it an electoral issue, because you're right, that issue as basically disappeared from congress' radar. the spending bill that passed in march had a few moderate gun

control issues in it. we talked about the one that basically streamlines and improves the background system, but that's really as far as this congress goes. it's really whether the gun control of activists can mobilize in these districts and make it anie l electoral issue, they span out saying this is going to be a voting issue. >> we've seen this in the past decade where every time there is an effort or the sense there might be an effort in washington to restrict gun rights and the ability to get a gun, you see gun owners come out to the polls. we saw this in efforts by cities and local governments to do this that were roundly and soundly defeated. i think it does cut the other way. you can perhaps point to the generic ballot actually shrinking a little bit to republicans' favor. this is a situation that motivates the other half of the country as well. if it becomes a political issue for liberals on gun control, it

could very well become a political issue for conservatives and perhaps be more potent. >> if it brings more people out to vote, i'm for it, then. if more people would actually vote, i think that's a decent thing. >> what's interesting is for a long time the pro-gun side of this debate has been more passionate, more politically active, more mobilized. >> more effective. >> more effective. i think we're starting to see a little bit of a change in that with questions about how effective gun control activists will be, but i think the effects will be long term. so 10 or 20 years from now, our gun control activists, are they able to match the effectiveness of gun enthusiasts? >> michael cohen's lawyer went to court today to try to stop, get a delay, in the stormy daniels suit. she's suing in california about the nondisclosure agreement. there is a big debate about that. but in asking for the delay today, michael cohen's attorney

said that delay was necessary because his client could be indicted within the next 90 days. michael cohen's own lawyer walking into a courtroom and telling a judge, we can't process this case right now because there is a federal criminal case against me in new york and my client could be indicted within 90 days. so he's asking for the dust to settle for the next 90 days. or is that them saying the feds wouldn't have gone to the length they've gone to if they didn't have a strong case? >> there is an imminent indictment just based on the length of the investigation, the amount of surveillance that was involved. i do think -- he's trying to get out of all these lawsuits right now so they can focus on the criminal one up there, and i think it's just a really -- a great illustration of how serious this is for michael cohen and probably for his

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hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. we start with some breaking news and new revelations in a federal court today as michael cohen's attorney says his client could be indicted in the next 90 days. that came out during a hearing that's going on in los angeles right now. and stormy daniel's lawsuit against michael cohen and against donald trump. we're joined live in los angeles. what are you hearing from inside the courtroom, miguel? >> reporter: yeah, i think drama