welcome to inside politics. thank you for sharing your day with us. first it was changing recollections. now a mistake. the trump white house caught in a russian meddling lie and rudy gi to explain it away. plus the special counsel sends a blunt law and order message. accusing paul nafort of witness tampering and asks the judge to toss him in jail. and no white house celebration for the super bowl champs. president trump gets mad when told most players weren't coming. pulls the invitation and stokes his war with nfl players over national anthem protests. >> the president obviously does not agree with the tactics of some players that have been taking a knee. i think it is ironic that none of the philadelphia eagles during the season last year had taken a . you had guys raise a fist, but none of the guys had taken a

knee. >> that is where we start the hour. it seems a sports team fight, but a statement now on a fresh culture war over the planned visit by the super bowl champions. the white house canceled that visit monday officials told the administration only a handful of players planned to show up. now the white house is blaming the team. saying it changed the plan at last minute. tried to schedule the celebration without the president. the eagles offered to send a handful while the great majority would not attend the event despite planning to be in d.c. the white house says the vast majority of the eagles team decided to abandon their fans. that's the white house take on twitter. the president tied cancelling the visit to eagles players kneeling in prote of em. one problem. that did not happen. it is not true. no eagles players took a knee during the anthem in any regular

season or post season games. one player did raise his fist, but stopped after and money r c. no one refused to go as the president came e come because t insisted people stand for the anthem. with me today to share the reporting and insights is "the times" molly ball and m.j. lee. we start with inside sports today in the sense. in some ways this is a silly dispute. it will not affeeffect the pric gas or jobs. what does the president relish this fight? >> because it works for him. essenced the grow -- he sensed the growing divide of people who did not like to see the handful

of players kneeling or not respecting the national anthem. the president turned a minor controversy into a major moment. he likes big crowd sizes. we know that is something we talkver and the white house believes they were misled and disrespected. the white house says there were 81 people who cleared by the secret service for the event today. yesterday, they found only out a handful -- the white house version of events -- were coming. the president did not want to be left with a mascot and handful of players. he made that unusual statement. what is this for him is another mid-term election year base firing up culture war event. >> yet, it is the white house back off somewhat? the president's statements made it about the anthem. the president went straight to the culture war. these guys don't like me because i'm in their face about saluting

the flag and standing up to the military. the statement saying nothing about the anthem. the team said 81 were coming and now a handful. they accused the team of bad faith. this seems to be a retreat in the story line. >> don't thinkeam is gointo r about the bad feelings. this continues to be a crisis for the nfl. that is the most significant thing about the tweets last night. beyond this particular controversy, he also said staying in the locker room doesn't fix the problem. that was the gesture that the nfl made a couple weeks ago thinking they came up with a compromise or something to make thent stand down ons issue that has so inflamed the nfl fan base. instead, the president and there were some in the president's orbit declang victory and liked the nfl seemed to have backed down. now you have the president saying no.

i see it as the same thing. this staying in the locker room gestu gesture. it is just as bad. he is reigniting and continuing the war on the nfl in the way i think will be very alarming for the league. >> listen to the mayor of philadelphia who had been aggressive in his response. no, mr. president, america doesn't work that way. you don't get to say my way or the highway. >> i'll take my ball and go home is what he is saying. it is his unless you kneel to me or pay homage to me as president of the united states, i'll disinvite you from the people's house. that is not what the presidency is about. the presidency is about every common person whether look who that office. he doesn't want to treat people equally. only people who supports him are the people he considers real americans. >> is that fair? >> i will not pretend to

understand football. i disagree it is trivial issue. because this is a president w kn happens to put people in two camps. the first is the people who validate his world view and the second is people who disagree with him. i think he has taken an issue that is so complex and so personal and so wrenching for some of the players and essentially asked them to answer the question of are you on my side or not. when you look at the way he has handled this issue, it would be difficult for a man like donald trump. he is a white man living in the united states who was born to a family of such privil even if he tried every day to understand where the black ag t athletes are coming from, it would be difficult for him. instead of thinking for a second maybe i used this as an opportunity to get to know this community better and have these conversations, he instead

decided to say you rejected me and you did not want to come to my party and i am cancelling. >> or if he said i don't understand your issues and i disagree, but i agree you have a first amendment right. you could say that. instead he chooses politics. >> are we surprised by that? i would be surprised if that is what the president desired cide he did choose panhandolitics. his supporters wants a culture war. i argue this is the biggest success of the trump presidency. not tax cuts. that was pushed through by republicans in congress. it wasn't obamacare repeal. you may be able to say iran deal torn up, but we skitill don't kw how that ends. he took an issue that was dead at the beginning of the football season. colin kaepernick wasn't playing for anybody. >> two or three teams had the protest until the president had the fight and more teams

protested. >> it seems to me the hard core trump voters want. this is what they care about more than the policy stuff. a culture war and feeng the president is fighting on their behalf whether we sh a movement that puts stock in the culture war certiseriously. >> he can do this on his own.he senate. it continues the grudge with the nfl. that is part of it. he was shut out years ago and wanted to be a wrespect to the . it didn't happen. it is a two-fer for him. it is a lot. >> we will get to see. country if you will.nt in trump pennsylvania has a senate race. bob casey is one of the ten state democrats trying to hold a senate seat. here is the philadelphia daily news. most close races are won in the suburbs. this may play out in the "t."

you see "bird brain" with the president in the dallas c jeey. most of the "t" are steelers fans. >> we will keep up with the latelat latest and see what happens. and what is next with the white holie? rudy giui wants you to think just a mistake. get an unl familn with netflix on us. and right now, buy one samsung galaxy s9 and get one free. with tripadvisor, finding your perfect hotel at the lowest price... is as easy as dates, deals, done!

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because now's the perfect time to learn more. go long. welcome back. let's turn to a presidential vocabulary lesson. whenill clin told us the definition of the word "is." this new lawyer is trying to rewrite the dictionary when the president and his team is caught in a li it is just recollections are evolving. or it wasn't a lie, it was a mistake. the mistake at hand? jay sekulow and press secretary sarah sanders say the president

did not dictate the son's meeting with the russian lawyer at trump tower. we learned the president did dictate that statement. his legal team confirmed that in a letter to the special counsel robert mueller. caught in a lie or series of lies. again. rudy giuliani wants you to be kinder. gentler. >> why do you think they chose to lie about his role in drafting the statement about trump junior's meeting with the russians? >> chris, you think maybe somebody could have made a mistake? >> that's a lot of mistakes. >> a lot of mistakes. >> whys it always somebody -- you think jay sekulow lied? maybe he got it wrong like i got a few things wrong in the beginning of the investigation. it was a mistake. i swear to god. the guy made a mistake. >> now it is the president at the center of the lies or mistakes if you so choose. he blames jeff sessions. tweeting this morning, the

russian witch hunt continues because jeff sessions did not tell me he was going to recuse himse himself. i would have pickeomebody many lives ruined. so much time wasted. if there was no special counsel, he would not have tell so many lies, i guess. i want to come back to this. sarah sanders gets paid by the taxpayers. jay sekulow gets paid by the president. somebody paid by tyers knowingly. she gets sent out to say things. we should give her some grace because of who she works. if they made a mistake, they had plenty of time to clean it up. this is out there for months. on air force one, donald trump, the president of the united states, dictating atatement with the help of hope hicks, she was in the white house for wee after thetory came out he did not dictate it. she was right there. she could have corrected it. also on the plane, we don't know

if they were involved in the meeting, jared kushner, at the trump tower meeting. ivanka, josh raffel and sean spicer and sarah sanders and deputy secretary. i'm rry, if it was a mistake, they could have stopped and cleaned it up. >> it was a flight back from germany back to joint base andr andrews. i was on the plane that day. the back of the plane where the reporters fly. we had no idea this was going on at the moment. in subsetweeks, the w house knew "the times" was working on the story. the trump tower meeting in june of 2016. the president, i would say the biggest meeting at the g20 was meeting with vladimir putin. that was in the news. this is the context in which he walks on the plane that saturday afternoon and flies back to washington. he wanted to help his son and we know that now he dictated this.

the white houseied i at the time. it was obvious the storyed 180 degrees. i'm surprised tha sarah sanders did not have more to say yesterday. she obviously is ham strung as well from the legal point of view. >> let's get to that. it is not a crime to lie to reporters. it is not a crime to lie torepo. yesterday, when confronte with the stories. the president's lawyers told the special counsel this. sanders could have said i got it wrong. instead. >> he didn't dictate, but, you know, like i said, he weighed in and offered l any father would do. >> this is a reference with a letter back to the outside counsel. this is pertaining to a letter from the president's outside counsel. >> what is your basis for saying it? >> i would not get into a back and forth. i would encourage you to reach out to the outside counsel. >> i think we need to be clear.

rudyi may be out there and say these people made mistakes. sarah sanders did not say that. she did not address why she made the initial comment shed. have . as you pointed out, there were many things she could have said yesterday to reporters. she could have said here is the reason why i made the initial comment. i was mistaken. here is my corrected statement. she did not do that. i have to think until she -- and she is about to take the podium in an hour -- until she explains clearly why she made those contradictory statements or made something that clearly is not true months ago, i don't think white house reporters can take her word at face value yo. journalists, if i were to write a report on air and was inaccurate and did not take the steps to correct myself, i don't think anyone would have any reason to say i trust working with this reporter. >> to her credibility at play

and you raised legal issues. it sms more likely than not that trump did write the statement. the question remains why does the president feel the need to review a statement from his son, a private citizen, about a meeting the president was unaware? that is the president's story. he knew nothing about the meeting at the time. one reason why sanders wants to correct the story is because every time they say something, something else changes.>> go ba july of 2017. as the story comes out, remember the broad team trump inside the white house or out, the story changed significantly. it is important to go back to that very specific thing that is at issue here. donald trump jr. claimed the meeting was a meeting where he would learn about adoption policy. the new statement we know that the president himself dictated said actually the meeting was

supposed to beirt on ary clinto. in fact, donald trump jr. was angr y. the story shifted from team trump. we may seem myopic over who dick stated -- dictated the story, but team trump is not honest over the explosive story. >> when they get caught, the stories change. when they get caught, the story changes. they get caught again and the storyange we have to stop here for breaking news. kate spade has been found dead in new york. officials say her death appears to be a suicide. she was the cor of the handbags and clothing. although she no longer owned that company. let's about in jean casarez. jean. >> reporter: we are receiving rd according to the new york

police department that it was 10:30 this morning they got a call say that kate spade was found in a new york apartment. she, according to the police department, hangedherself. ther a suicide note. that is all the ion. this is breaking news right now. kate spade a very famous internationally known handbag designer, dishware. so many things. so accomplished. this morning, according to the new york police. she was found hanged in the apartment.hanged herself with a note. this is relatively young woman who has a family and here in the new york city apartment. 10:30 this morning is when the nypd got a call. john. ean casarez, i appreciate that. sad breaking news. we will continue to report this story. we will take a quick break. we'll be right back. it's just a burst pipe, i could fix it.

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welcome back. new legal trouble for the former donald trump campaign manager ssibility of spending rest of his life in prison. prosecutors for robert mueller now accuse paul manafort of witness tampering. manafort contacted two witnesses and tried to get them to stick to his lawyer script. that being manafort never lobbied on behalf of ukraine in the united states. this fresh charge complicates manafort's messy legal situation. and in the evidence, a clear message for mueller to everybody caught up in the meddling collusion probe. the special counsel obtained encrypted texts. documents show the special counsel pulled the messages from icloud back-up. they served a warrant at his

home. number one, a message to paul manafort, we're still watching you. number two, we talked earlier about the phone call from air force one. anybody involved in that and conversations after that about do we keep our stories straight and how do we do there? if i have anything to do with the investigation, seeing this, makee worry. yes? >> the message is to manafort and everybody else, i'm watching you and every time mueller makes a move in the case, we learn more and more just how much evidence he is amassing and continues to an mmass. it has to scare everybody in the probe. it tells you about manafort's mind set. there is speculation of what manafort is thinking and whether he is considering taking a plea bargain or considering flipping potentially giving evidence against the president. this tells you that manafort at

least at the time he was sending the messages was very much in a mode of trying to fight this issu thig he could somehow get out of it. it tells us manafort perhaps like his former boss, is someone who thinks the rules don't apply to him and thinks he can get away with it although he surely would have been warned by lawyers. >> the special counsel does not respond to every pdential tweet. there have been dozens of those. respond to the criticism by capitol hill. this is how he responds. filing documents and evidence that i'm good here. i'm fine. criticize me all you want. >> it sends a message all loud and clear. and whatsapp works, interestingly with the relationship, president trump has continued to diminish paul manafort. he said he barely spent time with me. the reality is he helped him

incredibly get through what was a brokered convention. it isnclear if donald trump was nom if paul manafort wasn't there. he helped him at that point. interestingly, i think it offers a window into what he is doing. he is trying to fight this on his own and protect himself.e b ever going to flip? if he did, if he got immunity or helped his case, that is what the presidentld be worried about. >> when you look at others who s have pled guilty, you have to wonder the breaking point for manafort. if it is, what is it? i agree with molly. this shows us insight into what manafort is thinking. he does seem to beigging in or was when he decided to do this very reckless thing of reaching out to other witnesses. remember i think it is worth

pointing that that someone like rick gates insisted he knew nothing about the russia investigation or anything about collusion until the moment he decided to flip. pled guilty and decided to cooperate. who knows what he is saying to mueller. manafort, yes, president trump is distancing himself from manafort, but he knew a lot about the ins and outs of the campaign. >> one person who knows more than we do is the president of the united states. he finds out from the legal team and here are the areas of interest. if we could ever get an interview with the president. which is why we talked about the president's tweet and asserting he has the right, power to pardon himself. senator chuck grassley said he should get a new lawyer. listen to more reaction from capitol hill. >> i take it that the president feels that he maybe in need of a pardon -- may be in need of a pardon. he likely has done something wrong.

>> i would suggest to him tweeting less would not cause brain damage. president trump, you went 0 for 2 on the constution this morning. >> two democrats and rone republican there. susan collins said this would be catastrophic. congress, when you ask these questions, they look down. republicans don't want to talk about it. is there a bit of push back? >> it is tactical. what is the story of the day? i want to go back to paul manafort and legal strategy. i through is another clue in that as to whether or not he would be willing to flip. it doesn't seem to me as a legal strategy, but pr strategy. effort to discredit bob mueller and saying he is going too far. i think he has been relatively successful for a one-man band in pushing that argument. he won the judge down in virginia, but if you look at what has happened here and this

response from bob mueller, it is not good for manafort's argument that mueller is going too far when you are tring with witnesses. it under cuts manafort's pr argument that mueller's the guy going too far. >> interesting to see how it plays out in court. they will end up in court. special counsel will say put him in jail. we will see what happens. that is where we learn about the special counsel when he has to disclose documents. coming up, primary day. california is the focal point. seven districts on the democrats' minds. that's next. you wouldn't accept an incomplete job

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you were running in this district. why did you drop out? >> i dropped out because we had too many candidates running at the time. >> i withdrew from the race and decided to get behind the strongest candidate who i believe can win. >> two democrats there who not long ago dreamed of being in congress, but decided to drop out in hopes of helping the party. the democrats to avoid a california nightmare. primary day. the president tweeting support for the california republicans. vote for devin nunes. the president calls him a true american patriot. the likes which we rarely see in our modern day. kevin mccarthy as well. eight states in all voting.

california, alabama, iowa, mississippi, montana, new mexico and new jersey. california getting the most attention because the top two make the november ballot. nothing to do with party. some districts so many parties running, some believe the republicans will end up on top. let's walk through california. here we go. come back to california. you see the giant state. congressional distcts. there are ten races right now that cnn lists as worth watching. ten the most competitive. you see the districts here. three likely republican. you see the toss-ups. then come down to the seven. why do we look at these seven? these are republican held seats, but hillary clinton carried the district in the presidential election. democrats think we need 23 to take back the house. these seven are good targets.

hillary clinton carried them. here is the problem. we are looking at today. the three districts down here. right now, if there is a democrat on the ballot in november, we lean two of them democratic and one is a toss-up. good chance for a democrat to pick up a republican seat. however, there are so many candn the districts, we tell you tomorrow morning there is no democrat on the ballot there. republicans could have the top two finishes. miguel marquez is live in huntington beach, california. miguel, you will have a long night of counting. what do you see so far? >> reporter: it may be a long several weeks ofnting in california. what we are seeing are a steady stream of voters. not a massive turnout today, but california votes by mail. early and absentee and early voting in california. most people walking up to the precincts and dropping off their envelopes. when polls close here at 8:00

p.m. pacific, the first votes to be counted will be those electronic votes that people are casting today. there are a lot of mail ballots that came in that they can count. all of the mail-in ballots that people are dropping off today will have to be counted. it could take days if not weeks to get through those. the tea leaves we have here is there are more people voting this year ins off year primaryn therevious off year in 2014. so far in the three districts in orange county, more republicans have sent in ballots than democrats. we have to see. john. >> interesting. miguel, i appreciate you being on the ground reporting. days. says we may be at a the california system, again, top two finishers. the democrats thought they could pick up six or seven seats in california this year. if they get locked out of two or

three of the races, how big afternoonof a blow is that to the party? >> it makes the math harder. this is a good reality check. we do not know the nov outcome. for what history tells us, this is a new moment and president. let's see how it plays out. if democrats are shut out because of the resist movement and too many of them, this helps republicans. the primary is also in some other states will show the strength of bernie sanders and that movement. iowa particularly. i have my eye on the democratic governor primary. bernie sanders played strong in congressional races. let's see how much juice he still have. >> and california is expensive. a big tv state. expensive to advertise. you don't see this spending in house primaries. in california 49, $6 million.

48, $4 million. almost $1 million in california 10 and 25. in a primary for a house district, even in california, that's nuts. let's give you a sampling of the candidates spending money on tv. >> there's the old boys in washington and those running to get there. then there's sarah jacobs. there aren't a lot of people in congress that look like her. they won't change washington. sara jacobs will. >> washington is moving us backwards. president obama fought to move us forward. democrats and harli will do the same. >> she is a champion for fiscal responsibility. she is mimi walters. the double the child tax credit and put more money in our paychecks. >> interesting. the chamber of congress trying to help the republican. the first ad, sara jacobs would be the youngest. this is the test of the women

theory. >> it is interesting to see the messages from both sides. jeff was saying that would evolve as we get further into mid term territory. there is tremendous down side for the democrats in the primaries. of course, nothing will be decided. it has happened before that they have been locked out by not actually getting one of the candidates through the jungle primary and not having a chance to compete in november. as jeff was saying, we have two political parties in the united states right now going through an identity crisis. both severe identity crises. this is interesting for the way they give us an indication of the direction that the party bases the activists in the party and the ones who vote in primaries. they are concerned with directing the way the party will go. this tells us something about and where have seen in special elections so far and in primaries so far which is so much energy around women candidates. you know, i would think that if

you are a democratic voter going to the pollingbooth, you don't know the candidates. you are excited because you don't like the president. if it is basically a coin flip, you will look for the woman's name. that is what the candidates are betting on. >> here is a california race we have not mentioned to molly's point. maybe we can look at it for the direction of the democratic party. the senate race. we will not know who the next senator will be after this primary because it is likely going to be dianne feinstein and another democrat facing off in november in the run-off based on the primary. if you look at that race and look at where the energy is going in the party. you can tell a lot about california and the democratic party there and in 2020. >> the republicans may not have a candidate for senate and governor. that tells you about the long-term statef the california republican party. they are optimistic at the

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e is seriously contemplating in the nafta negotia his preference now is to actually negotiate with mexico and canada separately. the president is not going to leave nafta. he is not going to withdraw from nafta. he is just going to try for a different approach. >> we will watch that. melania trump scheduled to make a public appearance tomorrow to highlight the preparations for the hurricane season. yesterday we got a glimpse of her since her hospitalization for a kidney procedure. you see she was attending the event for the gold star families. david koch stepping down because of health issues. in a letter to employees, his brother writes his health has continued to deteriorate. as a result, he is unable to be involved in business or other

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the giant singapore summit with kim jong-un has anffial venue. press secretary sarah sanders revealing that the president will meet with kim at the kapela hotel. secretary of state mike pompeo at the white house with the president. that lunchng with the back drop of the tension with pompeo and the national security adviser john bolton. sources tell cnn and jeff zeleny at the table, that pompeo warned the president it would be counter productive to allow bolton in the meeting. that because of north korea's criticism. they have grown to believe he is advancing his own agenda. that cannot be helpful one week way from the -- week away from the summit. >> it is not helpful for john

bolton. striking he was missing from the meeting on friday. the vice president wasn't either. that is perhaps more striking. there is a divide. no question. john bolton has been the subject of much ridicule and scorn from the regime for a lontime. in 2003, they called him human blood sucnd scum, i think. he has a long history with kim jong-un's father. the rty h is the secretary of state mike pompeo is leading this charge. he is leading the charge for the president. he met with kim jong-un a couple of times. more than any american ever has. this is his summit. the question is as this goes on and as this is now to be extended for a lme, is the president going to have the patience to do the pompeo approach or will he side with john bolton once this is over and say it is time for a harder line. >> the north recent criticism is

because bolton has the libya model. if you remember the libya model. moammar gadhafi gave up the nuclear weapons and h was deposed and he died. this is not just bjohn bolton. pompeo did not like the words. watch. >> did he agree to give away the weapons before you g any concession? >> i that i is right. we are looking at the libya model of 200 and 2004. >> if you look at the model wit. think i kim jong-un -- i think kim jong-un will be very happy. >> there was talk of the libya model. the president made clear this will only end like the libya model ended if kim jong-un doesn't make a deal.

so not just bolton over there. it does seem like since he got too his new job, secretary of state mike pompeo is open to diplomacy? >> yes. i think this is a perfect sidelining someone because that person's views this moment in time doesn't hold up what with -- what he is trying to achieve at this moment. the question is does president trump actually have a bigger vision when it comes to what he wants to accomplish in the korean peninsula and what is troubling for a lot of people is that they see how he behaves and they are worried that the only thing he is consumed by and driven by is wanting that photo op and handshake. there is not much beyond that. by the way, his views and mood are so volatile that he could be more allied with pompeo today, but that could change tomorrow which i think is what you are suggesting. >> i would say that i talked to somebody at the white house.

that talk about libya model. everybody was on the same page. the principles at the white house were going to talk about this. to your point, mj, it is when things changed when north korea got angry that the president himself and administration shifted. >> one week from today. we will keep an eye on the story. thank you for joining us. "wolf" starts right now. i'm wolf blitzer. anks very much for joining us. trump versus the eagles. the president taking on the super bowl champs abruptly cancelling the visit after discovering a small number of players sws up. tampering with witnesses. the special counsel says former trump campaign manager paul manafort did just that. now robert mueller is asking for manafort to be put in