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playbook borrows he hec heavilys 2016 playbook. and roseanne barr tells fans to stop defending the indefensible. the president weighs in, casting himself as a victim. others see it differently. >> for me, i have been so disheartened by what's acceptable in the world right now, what's acceptable in the white house. and it's refreshing to see someone take a stand and say no, not at abc, not at this company. this is not acceptable rhetoric. and it's interesting that abc has higher standards than the white house does. >> we begin the hour with first words from the president about roseanne barr being fired by abc news. barr fired for a racist tweet about valerie jarrett. the president's reaction, somewhat head scratching. here it is --

>> it's not exactly clear what abc reports or comments the president is referring to there, but it's quite clear he somehow sees himself as the victim here. the entire country talking about roseanne's tweet storm and the cancellation of her storm. it seems the president, however, doesn't want to talk about the racism or roseanne. he wants to talk about himself. with me today to share the reporting is dana bash, jonathan martin, michael bender, and lawna summers. we've been waiting for 24 plus hours for will the president say anything. the president has said something -- >> i couldn't sleep last night, i was waiting. is this is is not where i would prefer to start the conversation either, especially when there's a lot of big news that matters, but racism matters, from public

figures matters. the tweet was vile and we could go on. abc did the right thing, they fire her. the president of the united states waits and waits and waits. he had praised her, he called her when the sitcom was rebooted. then in his first public reaction, he doesn't say, roseanne got fired because she did something racist. nor does he defend her, but what he says is, what about me? help me. >> look, can you imagine if the president sent out a tweet that said this is not the way anybody in this country should talk, should think, should tweet, should do any of that. now, right now in today's day and age, that sounds almost utopian, because we can't imagine this president doing such a thing. but it wasn't that long ago that that was presidential leadership. and should be presidential leadership. it is about as basic and as rudimentary as it gets to call

out, when there's a big cultural moment or a big issue nationally, to call out what is on its face. indisputably a horrible, horrible thing that roseanne barr did. but he can't, and it is all connected. it is all connected. they are all -- >> there's some double standard -- >> it's all part of the same fomenting hate and division in this country, that we have unfortunately gotten used to from this president. and we need to remember that this is not normal. >> john, he has reshaped the office more than the office has reshaped him. and i think this is another example of that. but two other examples come to mind. vladamir putin and john mccain. if you hold up those two people, that tells you who trump is and how he operates, just as the statement of roseanne barr does. vladamir putin is an authoritarian leader, obviously, who commits all kinds of crimes. president trump does not like criticizing him.

why? because putin says nice things about him. john mccain is a u.s. senator with a record of heroism. mccain won't rebuke his own staffer for making fun of the president in private. it's not complicated. if you're for trump, he's for you. and if you're against trump, he's against you. it doesn't matter if it's roseanne barr, john mccain or vladamir putin. >> but we did see that -- there were a lot of people waiting for trump to attack or defend roseanne barr last night. what we see here is trump -- well, for one thing, what i'm told is he didn't defend roseanne barr because he's not really that close with her. he defends his allies and as we see this morning, he defends himself. there was a brief conversation on air force one between him and sarah sanders whether or not he should go after abc or defend roseanne barr. sarah suggested against it. and he let it go. but what we see this morning is that he's now made this personal

for himself, and with the chenlt -- comments, folks in the white house are talking about the fight we saw months ago on the espn anchor who tweeted about trump big a bigot and racist and sarah sanders called on espn to fire her, which they did not. so that is what trump is going back to here in his tweet this morning. >> when you talk about the president and his allies, we need to look at the context which this tweet came. roseanne barr was responding to a tweet that valerie jarrett had aided president obama in this conspiracy theory that there's been an informant planted in his campaign. so she was coming to his defense, and saying these repugnant and racist things about a former senior white house adviser. what i think is going to be really interesting is what sarah sanders says when -- she said yesterday the president is focusing on north korea and policy. the president tweeted that

himself. it doesn't seem like that lasted all that long. >> and the president still about spygate, he wasn't too busy for that today. but back to the point about race in america and leadership in america, if he's going to speak on this, he's the president of the united states, and there should be a higher bar for him than anybody. even roseanne barr says what she says is indefensible. she says she's sorry. we can have a debate whether she means it, but even she says it's indefensible. the president says nothing about it. he says it's about him. which part of the conversation today which i was ready to push back on some, there are all these people saying in part, the president is the gateway to this, because he has been the leader of this tweet what you think mentality, without hesitation, without an editor, without checking should i do this? so as this has blown up, a lot of people have blamed the president, roseanne barr, she is personally responsible for what

she does. she's an adult. however, we may hear from the president any minute now. i just -- i'm stupid for asking the question, but why? when the president does things like this, where racism is repensible, i abhor it. abc did the right thing here. i wish they had did what i think is the right thing there, then we are having a different conversation. >> that is not this man. it will not be this man, which is why when i said before that, you know, the idea of making a statement like he just did, is utopian in these days -- in this day and age, because it's just not who he is. and you talk about the gateway in terms of using social media and twitter, that's true. but it's not just the median of twitter, but it's the message he's been the gateway for. that is what is so disturbing. >> a lot of people support this president, again, he's not

responsible for them. he cannot control the behavior of them. one of them posting a picture of an ape and valerie jarrett. just climb back in your hole. among those two retweet roseanne barr is donald trump, jr., including anti-semitic tweets. again, that's the president of the united states' son. >> this is the larger impact of this president is main streaming and elevating racial grievance politics in this country in a way no leader of his stature has done at this point, or just recently in our history. just think about two big issues in the obama years, the way that he sort of got to relevance in the republican party on the right was by talking about this smear that obama was not born in america. he was the birther in chief, basically. then when he launches his

campaign june 25th, three years ago, he does so talking about mention ans being rapists and on this vow to build a wall along the southern border of this country. that's how he sort of got to this point where he was a credible candidate for president. and if you look at a lot of the ads that the candidates of his own party are running this year, it's not as nearly as fash r as goes, but immigration was central. it's become the defining issue. the cohesive issue. it's become what soviets were for a long time on the right. it is the glue that holds together the coalition, that's in large part because of him elevating the issue. >> in that way, roseanne was a lot like trumpism. you start out thinking i know he has a shady past, but illegal

immigration is a problem. >> there's a -- there's always a little bit of that. this is the little danger of trump, there's always a little bit of truth in what he says. >> illegal immigration is a problem. >> correct. and all sides can agree on that point. but when you step back and talk about the racism issue, he's given the chance repeatedly to address it. and he knows this is the conversation that's happening around him, and just refuses -- and refuses to weigh in on it, and around the riot in virginia, what he said back then, that of course racism is terrible. why should i even have to say it? when you talk about donald trump, jr. tweets, when you talk about the tweets of his supporters, this is why you have to say it. >> david duke. >> right.

and a certain example that trickles out to the people who support you. >> and when you choose to use your platform to weigh in on a lot of things, people will ask why don't you weigh in on others. we'll continue the conversation. we may hear from the president on signing. he has a bill signing ceremony late they are hour. when we come back, big news in the russia meddling investigation. the president wishes aloud he wishes he had never appointed jeff sessions attorney general. why is that front and center on his mind today? we'll explain. you're a life of unpredictable symptoms. crohn's, you've tried to own us. but now it's our turn to take control with stelara® stelara® works differently for adults with moderately to severely active crohn's disease. studies showed relief and remission, with dosing every 8 weeks. stelara® may lower the ability of your immune system to fight infections and may increase your risk of infections and cancer. some serious infections require hospitalization. before treatment, get tested for tuberculosis. before or during treatment, always tell your doctor

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timing. "the new york times" today with new details about how central the attorney general is to the special counsel investigation, especially to this question -- did the president deliberately try to obstruct that investigation? the new reporting includes details of a direct presidential appeal for sessions to rip of his recusal letter and reassert control over the investigation. sessions refused the president's request. the new attack by quoting trey gowdy who said he understands the president's frustration, and that if sessions had said up front he should recuse himself from the investigation, the president gowdy says, could have picked somebody else. the president then added on twitter, and i wish i did. the president's anger at sessions is well documented. in addition to the new details in the "times" story, the president knows a lot more than we do about the questions being pushed to his lawyers by the special counsel. questions we are told include at least eight specifically about the attorney general.

shimon, help us understand why this attack on the attorney general is so important. >> certainly, when you look at "the new york times" reporting, when you look at the color and the way in which it was done, it was this direct ask from the president to jeff sessions at a dinner at mar-a-lago. they say that this happened back in march 2017, after sessions recused himself from the russia investigation, he was at a dinner with the president, with trump at mar-a-lago, where the president began to berate jeff sessions, telling him he shouldn't recuse himself from the russian investigation, he should get back in. "the times" said this is a potentially inappropriate request, and jeff sessions refused, and as we know, the special counsel has been looking into obstruction. this, we're told, is part of that investigation. but the president's lawyers have been working, have been negotiating with mueller and his

team to limit some of the questions that mueller wants to ask, including those about comey's firing. and really the overall picture, the overall investigation into obstruction. >> michael cohen, the president's long-time attorney, back in court today. what did we learn from that? >> reporter: this is the continuation of the document production, the review of the documents that michael cohen's attorneys have objected the government from seeing. so they have an outside person called a special master reviewing these documents. so essential hi today there was an update. we learned that there's a million documents or so that have been reviewed. but i think what's most interesting that occurred in court today is the sideshow that has taken up here. and that is the michael avenatti wanting to intervene in the case, wanting a seat at the table. avenatti, stormy daniels' attorney, she is part of this investigation. and so he's been asking the judge to admit him into court to allow him to have a seat at the

table. she's basically taking issue with how he's handled the publicity, saying he would have to stop some of his publicity tour if he wanted a seat at the table. >> food lugood luck with that. it's a sideshow to the legal questions that matter most. anyone think michael avenatti is ready to give up his tv time? okay, good. >> looking around, no. >> let's move on to the stuff that matters. the president and his team know so much more than we do about what the special counsel knows and what the special counsel wants to ask. so when you see this "new york times" story today, the idea that the president wishes he didn't appoint jeff sessions is not new. the details about the president saying rip up the letter, take back control of this investigation, make the special counsel go away, that is new. and the question is, what's the mindset behind it? and then he says this morning, i wish i did. i wish i picked a different

attorney general. >> the mindset behind it is pretty obvious. the mindset is, without jeff sessions there, a new attorney general could be put in place. a new attorney general who would potentially take the hit or the heat for getting rid of the special counsel and the investigation. now, that's the mindset. that doesn't mean that that would happen in reality, because a lot of things would have to go the president's way to take place, like finding somebody who is an attorney general that is confirmable by the senate who would be willing to do that. those are big ifs. i would even say, good luck with that finding that person. but as you said, it is not new, and there have been discussions about as one source put it to me, unrecusing himself. and obviously jeff sessions has gone so far down the road of recusal, not to mention the fact that he hasn't been pulled back with a lot of love and affection from his boss, the president. it's hard to see that happening.

>> he did the right thing. he was involved in the campaign very early. the president may not process it that way, because he has a different view of the law and loyalty of the attorney general. the president's tweet was based on holding out the words of congressman gowdy. listen to this fine gentleman make the case that jeff sessions should have been more honest with me up front. the president has suggested there's an illegal, and nefarious fbi spying operation. here's trey gowdy, the chairman of the house government oversight committee, here he is on cbs this morning. >> so when the president says spygate, that's not -- there was no spy inserted into the campaign. have you seen any evidence of that? >> i have not. >> he has not. now, remember, gowdy was among the lawmakers who were briefed by the top justice department officials and the fbi officials on this whole question. the president questioned the justice department into giving

this rare briefing on the inside information about the investigation. were there spies put inside the trump campaign to do anything illegal or improper? the fbi said nose, . we were worried about the russians. here's trey gowdy on fox news. >> i'm more convinced that the fbi did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and it has nothing to do with donald trump. i think when the president finds out what happened, he's going to be not just fine, he's going to be glad that we have an fbi that took seriously what they heard. he was never the target. russia is the target. >> what is sean hannity going to say having that on fox? >> you also now have people -- remember, trey gowdy was the chairman of the benghazi investigation.

and now, there are some on twitter saying he's obviously joined the deep state. >> a little too much ambien for gowdy last night. >> he's retiring. [ overlapping speakers ] >> this is a former federal prosecutor who understands the law. i would argue in detail and in practice and in application in a way that is far superior to the current president of the united states. >> and has been liberated from politics, because he's not running again. >> we'll see how long the president holds him out as a voice of reason, and a voice to back up his thoughts on sessions. i'm told inside the white house, external advisers, they're trying to discredit gowdy. and even the president has been -- has been, you know, they were talking about, why is he retiring? he must be compromised. why didn't that benghazi investigation go a little further? you know, why did he -- what was the quote about john dowd, the

president's former attorney? if you have an innocent client, you should act like it. that comment riled up the president. from talking to folks this morning, they're saying rosenstein is more likely to be fired than sessions, even though that's not happening. you know, the attacks on gowdy could be coming soon. >> if the attacks on gowdy come, the senate majority leader was also in the room. he said there's nothing surprising and continued to support robert mueller. if he was presented with evidence of spying, he would say that was surprising. the house speaker was careful in what he said, and devin nunes, not a peep. >> the fact is, it sounds as though the president is cherry picking trey gowdy's comments to serve his political purposes. because gowdy is held by many republicans in such high esteem based on the background that you just said, a former prosecutor,

someone who has been in those classified briefings, it's going to be difficult to continue to beat that drum. i think it makes it a harder road to convince people that the story is true. >> trey gowdy has raised questions about justice department manage men and fbi conduct. but on this specific one, he got the briefing and says the fbi did exactly what we should want them to do. >> he knows what he's doing. he's going on there exactly to your point, to take the air out of the balloon of this conspiracy theory, which i interviewed rudy giuliani on sunday, which he admits -- i don't think he had to admit it, it's pretty obvious, they admit they're doing it to poison the court of public opinion in case of impeachment, period. and now you have a well-respected guy who was leading the charge to get this information intentionally, going in public, during congressional

recess, on fox news first, you know, going straight to the base, and saying nothing to see here, guys, chill. >> one fast thing before we move on, and that is the president's tweet about jeff sessions, which is i wish i had picked somebody else, which is not new. he's been trolling his own a.g. for the last year. it's extraordinary that jeff sessions and other folks in the administration who get this kind of treatment, but they don't leave. we'll all kind of a nerd to just how different this administration is. but what fascinates me time and time again is the treatment they receive, and they don't quit. >> sessions and rosenstein have made a pact that we think we are right. we believe the evidence after this is all exposed and reported and mueller is done is going to support our position and if we wants to go, he has to fire us. >> and in a lot of cases, i agree with you totally. i agree with you. but he in this case is doing it to protect what he believes frankly i think are the

institutions. it's a very different kind of thing from other members -- >> white house staff, >> and white house staff -- >> who like the job. >> but it is remarkable, trey gowdy a couple of days ago, if you look at twitter today, the president's supporters, here goes trey gowdy cashing those deep state checks again. bla, bla, bla. don't be fooled, folks, trey gowdy is a water boy for the deep state. once you say something that doesn't agree with the president's view, they turn on you. facts notwithstanding. >> absolutely. and that's -- there was -- what sessions' poll approval in alabama these days? other than like his core supporters around the administration, there are still a handful of people in alabama, sessions loyalists, in the white house while the president is attacking -- >> look at the national rally

and look at the reactions. corker is booed, because corker was at open war with the president. jeff flake can't run again, because he would have lost the primary because of his critique of president trump. trey gowdy is not facing a primary next month, he's not running again. those who speak out against the president tend of one thing in common, they're not on the ballot. >> they don't have to face the ire of the trump base. the next question, do republicans want this, this is a rally trump last night, to be their midterm message. >> if you want your country to be safe, then you must go out and get the democrats the hell out of office, because there's no common sense. with less of the sugar you don't. i'll take that. [cheers] 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. new ensure max protein.

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the president is signing the right to try act. it allows termally ill patients to try out experimental drugs. now to the president last night, rallygoers in nashville getting a glimpse at the 2018 midterm plan. in this case, the democrat senate candidate, a former two-term tennessee governor. >> marsha's very liberal democratic opponent, who is he? i never heard of this guy. he's an absolute total tool of chuck schumer. and of course, the ms-13 lover nancy pelosi. >> never heard of him, but he's a tool of chuck schumer.

also part of the playbook, play to the base. even though some strategists worry the president's tone might not sell in the suburbs. >> they're more interested in taking care of criminals than they are in taking care of you. the democrats want to use it as a campaign issue. and i keep saying, i hope they do. if you want your country to be safe, then you must go out and get the democrats the hell out of office! because there's no common sense. >> it's a fascinating test. the president trusts his instincts, and he thinks do it the same way, use the 2016 playbook and use it again in 2018. tennessee will be one of the many fascinating tests whether it works. >> california republicans, call your office. because he is right, that in a national race where he's trying to get the base out when he's running against a democratic

candidate who does not have a lot of raw support among many in her base, it's a winner. with suburban districts, as you mentioned, or districts where you were, john, out in california, where the -- not the democrats, the republicans there are so concerned about the immigration issue going so far to the right, that they are bucking their own leadership to try to get a vote on something that the base that the president is talking about considering amnesty. so it is quite simple in some ways, but it is about as complicated in a midterm year where you're playing to the base, but you're also really very much playing to a lot of these suburban -- >> but there's no question listening to him, he's not getting into the nuance of the national map in this district or that district. he thinks we have an intensity

problem. i'm going to gin up my base by talking about immigration. >> what other options are there? the president isn't doing an incredible job raising money. i'm not sure of any house races they're trying to get into the district where he refused. so then other than, you know, he's actually pretty good at this, at riling up the base and motivating them, whether it's going to work or not is another question. outside that, how do you use the president in the midterm year? >> i totally agree, this is the best way to use him, stick him in red states where the senate is at risk. it's jarring to hear language like that from the president, but as 2016 proved, jarring can be pretty dam effective. and that's where the senate is being fought this year, in red america. you have two maps, two campaigns. the house map and the senate map. the house map is much more

driven by purple suburbs. the senate map, though, is in states where trump not only won, and a lot of them he won overwhelmingly, tennessee, north dakota, indiana, montana, west virginia, missouri. that's trump country. it was in 2016. it still is now. and the issue there is that the gop needs to really drive down the democratic incumbents or candidates and consolidate the base around their candidates. that's trump last night trying to do that in some raw language. >> and marsha blackburn, she's the candidate in tennessee. she has been a trump supporter from the beginning. she's making a calculation, and probably the right one for a republican, because we saw democrats in 2010, 2014, run from obama. you still lose. he's your president, he's a larger than life figure. you're not going to get away from him. so listen to marsha blackburn saying look, it's not perfect, but i think the president is still very popular in my state. >> i say the president is coming

where people really appreciate him. he's very popular in tennessee. what a great place to do it. some place that you have tremendous support, he carried the state. and people are saying we want to be certain that we hold the house and the senate so the president can continue to push forward this agenda. >> it's what she's got. and she's a good candidate. i don't mean it in a bad way. the question is, can she sell that? the elections last year and this year, the president has a problem with suburban women who don't like his tone. >> i think we're seeing the president in states like tennessee being deployed where he can knock punches at democrats or help boost fund-raising or to put more media attention on these states. as jonathan was talking about how it's jarring, it's both jarring and also the president in rallies like last night, he's

saying some things that are exaggerated or not true, again to gin up that base. >> if you're trump or a trump adviser, you made the calculation, if you're not in crisis mode in the house, you're on the verge of crisis mode. if you lose the house, you can't afford to lose the senate. so have him go this far and use this kind of language in those red states and protect what he can. >> excellent point. the house is more complicated. i think the president will have less of a role in that. one of the trump states, indiana, a lot of republicans will grown than that he got the invitation. up next, the president cuts back on his carbs. new details on the president's quest to shed some pounds and promote fitness, that's next.

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welcome back. a top north korean official on his way to new york right now. the trump white house is hoping he arrives with major commitments about eliminating pyongyang's nuclear program. he's here to meet with the secretary of state mike pompeo and their talks will determine whether the white house is willing to go ahead with that singapore summit between

president trump and kim jong-un. the source saying the administration is looking for a big gesture from north korea, praf that the regime is serious about negotiating a path to denuclearization. what kind of commitment is big enough? it's a process that would take years. it's a process that everybody, everybody including the president and his team, are skeptical that north korea is committed to. so what is the right hand man of kim jong-un have to come to new york to get them to think this is worth it? >> the president has been clear, they want total denuclearization. he's shown a little bit of willingness to hedge on the time period and how quickly that has to happen. but he's been adamant about that. anything short of that will raise questions about what they're going to singapore for, and what they're taking this meeting for. even inside the white house, inside this administration, there are vastly different viewpoints on what is going to happen within the next few days. there is a real goal for this to happen sooner than later. but there are a million doubts

and variables within mr. trump's -- president trump's own team whether it will. >> this is a reminder as he comes to new york about the people you have to deal with. if you're going to deal with north korea, this is who you have to deal with. he's the former spy chief, allegedly behind that 2014 hack on sony. the top official that was behind the sinking of a south korea navy ship. so a bad actor. named in the united states sanctions against north korea. again, if you're going to deal with a rogue regime, you have to deal with rogue people. the question is, can mike pompeo get enough to convince the president to go forward, or maybe the bigger question is, if mike pompeo doesn't get enough, can he convince the president not to go forward? >> he clearly wants the meeting. isn't the issue -- the real issue here that the folks around trump eventually are going to have to say that you can't do this if this is going to be really bad for us in the

long-term? because the president clearly is dying for that photo-op. he wants to be able to have the back and forth, he wants the historic moment. you can just feel it how he's trying to do this, right? >> true. but then the question is whether or not they can use -- if they want to go forward, he can't be convinced otherwise whether they can use the remaining weeks to change and lower the expectations, that this is an opening dialogue, because he's getting praise from even his biggest detractors for being willing to sit down with kim jong-un. so that is option c maybe to just try to change the expectations and change the parameters and say maybe this -- >> to that point, or flip the equation to the sense that just weeks ago, everyone said locked and loaded, fire and fury, that's so irresponsible mr. president. couldn't he say, yeah, i sat down with north korea because i wanted to give them every last chance. so now maximum pressure, so when i get tougher now, don't

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topping our political radar today, if you keep up with the kardashians, one of them urging president trump to pardon a low level drug offender. today, kim kardashian will be at the white house to talk about prison reform. the reality tv icon scheduled to meet with jared kushner and she may also get an oval office

sitdown with the president of the united states. greg abbott unveiled his plan for improving campus safety after the shooting that killed ten in texas. the governor is recommending the school has more armed resource officers and more people for reporting people unfit for carrying weapons. thanks for joining us. "wolf" starts right now. ♪ hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington, 6:00 p.m. in london, 8:00 p.m. in moscow. from wherever you're watching around the world, thank you very much for joining us. he's called him everything from beleaguered to mr. ma go. now president trump says he wishes he didn't pick jeff sessions to become the attorney general, as we learn of an explosive request by the president. plus, a republican