welcome to "inside politics," i'm dana bash, john king has the day off. the president's former fixer michael cohen has an ominous message for mr. trump, the truth is not your friend. all while the president sets the stage for a drama his way, his second supreme court pick in a primetime announcement. and an update on members to save members of a youth soccer team who got stranded deep inside a cave in thailand. >> translator: the four boys

rescued today are now hospitalized or are in good health condition. i do pray for the rain gods to have some mercy for us. actually, i did ask for three days without rain. i don't want to ask for more than that. that would be considered greedy. >> we begin with what sources say is a message to the president from his former fixer. michael cohen is no longer a flunky and no longer willing to take a bullet for the president. that is a response to what trump's current lawyer rudy giuliani told me yesterday, that if cohen wants to cooperate with the feds, that's fine with him. >> i don't know what he has to flip over. what i do know is, there is no evidence of wrongdoing with president trump, so we're very comfortable. if he believes it's in his best

interest to cooperate, god bless him, he should cooperate. i think the man has been horribly treated by the people he's going to cooperate with, but, you know, sometimes you have no other choice. i do not expect michael cohen is going to lie. i think he's going to tell the truth as best he can, given his recollection. >> sources familiar with cohen's thinking tell our gloria borger that by daring cohen to tell the truth, giuliani is wading into dangerous territory. the message to giuliani is this, the truth is not you or your client's friend. sources add cohen is done playing presidential punching bag and his words to abc's george stephanopoulos were carefully chosen and intended to send a direct message between the eyes of the president of the united states. now, you can see signs of cohen's reset this morning. lanny davis, a new cohen lawyer, tweeted the following, "seriously, trump/giuliani next

to the word truth equals oxymoron, then stay tuned." giuliani told me after that the truth will set you free, everything has been a dead end because there is nothing there. here to share their reporting and insights, margaret tolov with bloomberg, gloria borger, and manu raju. gloria, now that they have fully communicated in, you know, back and forth, they meaning michael cohen and the president through the media, through us, basically, salvos, break this down. what do you think this really means? what is michael cohen from your perspective and based on your sources trying to do here? >> what my sources are saying is what they are trying to do is respond to a message that they think they are getting from rudy giuliani and the president of the united states, which is that if he differs with them on his

stories, on his recollections, i heard rudy giuliani there say, you know, his recollections, whatever he can remember, right, his recollections, that they will continue their attacks on his character. and they will continue to say he is lying. what we don't know, of course, is what he knows. >> right. >> because when you try and get details about exactly what he knows, he referred to his attorney and his attorney is, of course -- >> is there anything to flip on? >> well, it's clear from my sources that they seem to believe there's a lot more there than we know. that there were issues that he has responded to publicly, for example, about the trump tower meeting, et cetera, and don't forget he's testified 15 hours before congressional committees, and i think that, you know, this is just another shot across the bow saying, you know, i am no longer going to take a bullet for the man i was loyal to for so many years. this is it, and one source said

to me, this is his july 4th moment. >> his independence day? >> yeah. >> and sort of the context of this is that the feds, the new york southern district, went in, raided michael cohen's office and home and everything else, got all kinds of documents, and it is in that context that the trump people, rudy giuliani on television, are saying we're not worried. so, do they know more than we think that they know, or is there just a big game of chicken going on here? >> we don't know what we don't know, but it seems to me that the public relations campaign has consistently been we have nothing to hide, there's nothing going on here, there's no collusion, so, of course, that's going to be the public message. regardless of what is in the papers from michael cohen's office, regardless what they show or don't show about the president, the public posture has got to be exactly what it is, which is we didn't do anything wrong. >> you don't have to read very

far between the lines to see this sort of volleyball of messages, right, back and forth between these two camps. these two camps who were one camp not that long ago. >> it's extraordinary. there's a moment on air force one, what, four months ago, where the president was asked about stormy daniels and he said talk to my lawyer, michael cohen. not talk to one of my lawyers or an attorney i've hired, talk to my lawyer. and now cohen has hired a clinton hand, lanny davis, and is sort of going to war with donald trump. it just suggests there's lots more out there to come here. >> and in that same air force one moment, i mean, that was when the president was dishonest with the american public, where he said he was not aware of a payment that occurred with stormy daniels, and we'll see what came out of this raid and whether or not there was anything that showed the president was aware. since then, rudy giuliani has

essentially acknowledged the president was aware of these payments. so i think that's going to play out. and also for cohen, too, he's going to have to realize if he were to cooperate, maybe he won't get that pardon that he could potentially get down the line. as we know, president trump has been doing that for his allies and his loyalists. that's going to be something to think about, about being loyal or not. >> there's so many questions, we just don't know the answers to about what michael cohen really knows and what he doesn't know about stormy daniels, for example. the president's story has changed. rudy giuliani changed the story for the president, said that he wrote a personal check. so, these things -- this onion has to be peeled here an awful lot. we just don't know whether the prosecutors are interested in michael cohen at this point. what they want to get from him, if anything. >> what we do know, we can read the tea leaves by just the public statements over the past couple weeks, but also who he's hired. you mention lanny davis. for people out there who might

not know, lanny davis is a democrat, proud democrat, somebody who was out there during the lewinsky situation in the clinton world, and, you know, he doesn't play bean bag. he knows how to do this. he's not somebody who just kind of sits quietly on his hands. he got out there this morning in a very aggressive way on twitter. you're told from your sources that this is an aggressive strategy. what does that say to you, gloria? >> well, it says that he's not going to take it anymore. he feels like he's been a punching bag not only from the president's legal team, rudy giuliani, but what about michael avanatti? we have forgotten that. i think he feels the need to say to people that, you know, my strategy is going to shift now and you don't know what i know. >> it tells me he's come to the conclusion he has a better chance to lessen his exposure by cutting a deal with the feds and turning on trump than by rolling

the dice and thinking he can get a pardon from trump down the road. that's basically his bat here. >> the big question is, what does he have on trump? trump and giuliani are saying, as far as we know, nothing. >> right. >> so you have to give something to get a deal. the question is whether even the prosecutors want to give michael cohen a deal. >> we don't know that. but what we do know is on the sundays show interviews, including yours and others, he has been very careful to distinguish himself from the president, saying, you know, i respect the fbi. who doesn't respect the fbi? the president of the united states doesn't respect the fbi. maybe he knows more stuff about the trump tower meeting that we don't know about. he raised the point specifically that he believes the intelligence communities on russian meddling. who doesn't believe the intelligence communities on russian meddling? his former boss. so there's a distance that is becoming -- >> scrubbed trump's name from social media. >> again, don't know entirely

what it means. you can read the clues, it may mean he's trying to entice prosecutors. >> donald trump doesn't exist right now. >> the picture, too, look at that. old glory. >> right. so he's not taking the bullet anymore. >> also just represents that this investigation is probably not ending any time soon. it's going to continue to linger over this president. it's going to continue to frustrate this president. there's a southern district of new york investigation going on, mueller's investigation going on, neither of which seem to be ending, despite the hope by the president's attorneys it would wrap up soon. it was rudy giuliani six, seven weeks ago saying it would end in two weeks. clearly that's not happened and probably won't any time soon. that's something the president will contend with in the months ahead. >> it's true. look, i planned to have this conversation about whether or not the interview would or wouldn't happen, but it's really remarkable that michael cohen, who had said he would take a bullet for donald trump, who

would do anything, allegedly paid off a porn star without trump knowing, to protect him is now going as far as he is going to taunt the president, and it's a really big change and a big moment in this whole drama. >> he would argue, of course, that he's responding to the taunts from rudy giuliani on behalf of the president. i mean, he would say why are they doing -- why are they doing this to me, the man who would have taken a bullet for the president of the united states? what have i ever done. >> exactly, but the taunting is happening. >> he knows what the feds see when they raided his office. he's in with both feet because he's well aware. >> i think he also knows there's attorney-client privilege that may cover parts of his relationship with his client, but then there's what he knows about everybody else also under

the microscope, and if he's asked to turn on them, he risks the president never pardoning him. >> that's a nice place to dangle a tease. we're going to take a quick break. up next, it is decision day for the president. we're just hours away from his primetime announcement on who he will nominate for the supreme court. has he made his choice? stay with us. your paycheck.

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selection of a supreme court justice. we'll be announcing tonight at 9:00 p.m. one person close to the process tells cnn that if the president has made up his mind, that would be news to them. president trump has had a chaotic weekend making calls and inquiries to friends, to associates, about -- >> caddies. >> caddies, about the final four contenders, amy coney barrett, thomas hardiman, brett kavanaugh, and raymond kethledge. all those possibilities are not acceptable for senate democrats, based on concerns the nominee would undermine both roe v. wade and the affordable care act. the republican party, which holds a razor thin majority in the senate isn't taking their math for granted, telling cnn, quote, we are prepared for an all-out war. cnn's jeff zeleny joins me live at the white house, where supreme court war room is no doubt humming with activity. jeff, what are you hearing? >> dana, no question it is, and

the war room i am told is preparing for at least three options. the president perhaps has not made up his mind, perhaps. but i'm also told by people close to this process he's very much open to the possibility of taking every last phone call, having every last meeting with someone, but the reality here is there would have to be a persuasive argument for this not to be one of the final contenders there. you see them on the screen and they are listed in alphabetical order. i do not, based on talking to a variety people here, believe that is the order in which he is thinking of them. there is still a lot of reason to believe that brett kavanaugh for all of the sort of concern in recent days about his long paper trail, his association with the bush administration, he is still very much, we're told, in the running here. i'm also told the president still likes the idea of picking a woman. he likes the idea of what that would do for the narrative of the midterm election campaign, one of the reasons amy coney barrett is still in the mix, and thomas hardiman also still in

the mix, the runner-up last year when he was not picked, but that's what the president is following, the model of neil gorsuch. and he does want this, i'm told, to be a surprise until the lights come up in the east room and he's able to announce that person on stage. it's one of the reasons he's been saying that he's close to making a decision, he's not sure. dana, one thing is clear, this town is already starting with the apparatus of a campaign. television ads, millions on both sides already being spent. this is going to be a central part of the midterm election campaign. i'm also told, dana, the president does not mind a tough fight for the supreme court. that is one thing to keep in mind. mitch mcconnell, of course, wants to confirm someone very quickly. the president i'm told is fine with the long fight, because that will energize conservatives, at least in his view. dana? >> yeah, sure he's not wrong about that. thank you very much for that reporting, jeff, and mary katherine ham from the federalist is now here with the panel. i want to explain, jeff laid out the contenders. i want to talk about what you

live every day, manu, which is the math. and what we're talking about in terms of how close this vote could be. check this out. the balance of power in the u.s. senate, so 51-49, we have a photo of john mccain up there, because the expectation is that he will not be returning. he's suffering from cancer back in arizona, so that means that the stakes are even higher, the margin even slimmer. now, let's go to the narrow number of potential swing votes that we're talking about here. i think we have another graphic to show. do we? okay. okay. hold on. we'll talk about it. there it is. okay. all right. thank you, guys. so, there are some republicans in the red who we're not sure if they'll vote yes or no. susan collins, lisa murkowski and a few others, and on the democratic side there were three democrats who voted for neil gorsuch and a few others facing

very tough re-election battles, so the point here is that when you're talking about this all-out war, that's a very, very small universe of senators. half a dozen to try to convince to go either way and every single vote really does matter. >> yeah, yeah, no question about it. key people we're going to have to watch are susan collins and lisa murkowski. talking today with democratic sources on the hill, the view in large part is that if those two were to defect, it will be hard to see those red state democrats joining the president. it's more they would essentially give those red state democrats cover to vote no. so, in large part the big sales job is going to be on both sides to convince lisa murkowski and susan collins to stick with the president. and if they stick with the president on this, then maybe that will convince some of the

red state guys to jump ship, but the red state guys are in tough races, it's not an easy vote for them, because they could demoralize their base and supporters by voting for the president's nominee and also outrage conservatives in their states. even someone like joe manchin in a state where trump won big, he does have to worry about the democratic base in the november midterms, so this is going to be a months-long process to see how these ultimately will play out, but lisa murkowski and susan collins will be the two to watch. >> you're right, they'll give the democrats cover, but when you're talking about these red state democrats, it's not like if you're a liberal in west virginia you're going to vote for the republican. you just won't go vote. >> true. >> that is the worst thing that would happen to somebody like joe manchin. what are you hearing from your sources and from kind of the conservative base about which way the president should go?

you get somebody with a long record so the conservatives are happy? >> there was a sense on gorsuch that that was a done deal sooner, but there's not a sense he's settled on someone. by the way, it's a preference of mine if we're going to have the trump presidency, i say we go all out with the boardroom presentation. >> the rose. i want the rose. >> you're mixing up your reality shows. >> the bachelorette hybrid. you're fired. >> what's the show called? >> "the apprentice." >> there are certainly concerns about kavanaugh and hardiman, for sure, barrett, i think, would be a crowd pleaser with the base, despite the fact she hasn't been on the bench as long as others. she has the advantage with lisa murkowski and collins making it

tougher even though she is an avowed pro life catholic, making it tougher for them to vote against a woman, so it's an interesting thing there and the dynamic with trump always, what makes him tick at any given moment, who's he talking to and what does it feel he's being dared not to do? >> talking about red state democrats, there is a red state democrat who was not there in the senate when gorsuch was confirmed and that, of course, is doug jones. i talked to him yesterday. here's what he said. >> i don't think my role is a rubber stamp for the president, but it's also not an automatic knee-jerk no either. my job is to exercise that independent voice. i don't think anyone should expect me to simply vote yes for this nominee just simply because my state may be more conservative than others. >> i think doug jones is somebody who voted against haskel to be the first female at the cia, and i think it's

unlikely he would support whoever the president puts up. >> even though he comes from a state where trump won by 68%? >> recognizes his challenge in 2020, very acutely, and i think he's making the most of his time here in the nation's capital. >> there's so much posturing here by the president, as well as all of these various potential swing voters on either side of the aisle and for all we talk about the importance of lisa murkowski and susan collins, when we see this in the past, health care or whatever, both of these women always in the end, almost always in the end, go along with the vote they need to go along with. they extract some sort of concession that says we got the president to agree to do whatever in maine or whatever for women and then the vote happens. >> but mcconnell has told trump, though, that if he does go with barrett, it could create challenges with collins and murkowski. >> republican leader wants to go the safest route possible, of course he does. >> hardiman or kethledge. >> i want everybody to think

about this as we go to break, justice breyer was asked about him, what he thinks should be nominated. he said to ask me about the process of nomination and confirmation is like asking the recipe of chicken a la king from the point of view of the chicken. >> pretty good line. >> marinate on that for a while. a dangerous rescue is far from over. up next we'll have the latest on the operation and talk to an expert diver about the mind-bending challenges ahead.

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night in darkness deep inside the mountain. rescue teams are now racing against mother nature as the threat of heavy rain looms over the whole operation. cnn's matt rivers is at a nearby hospital where the boys are being treated. matt, what can you tell us about the condition of all of the boys who have now made it out alive? >> yeah, we don't have too much specifics from officials yet, dana, in terms of exactly what their conditions look like, but an official at a press conference did say a couple of hours ago that the condition of the four boys that were pulled out today from that cave as compared to the four from yesterday were actually better, although all four boys that came here yesterday do appear to be in okay condition, so all things considered, dana, at least what we know on the record here, they are doing okay. they are inside an isolation unit on the eighth floor of the hospital behind me there. they are being kept away in that isolation unit because of a fear, an abundance of caution,

if you will, just in case their immune systems have gotten weaker, they don't want to be more susceptible to infections, so doctors are doing everything they can to make their recovery as fast as possible. as for the remaining people inside that cave, four boys and their coach, the rescue operation is scheduled to go off tomorrow, the third attempt to get everybody out. we were told that divers need about 20 hours at minimum in between these attempts to really rest up and make sure their oxygen supplies are refuelled before going in, but the hope here, given how successful both first attempts were, the first and the second attempt rather, the third attempt will hopefully be as successful and here in this hospital it will be much fuller by this time tomorrow. dana? >> matt, you and i were talking yesterday when the first boys were arriving at the hospital, and it is nice once again to talk to you about good news. and let's hope we deep getting more. thank you so much for that report. my next guest is familiar with challenges the dive teams are

facing. forest wilson is the diving officer at the national cave rescue commission and he joins me now live. thank you so much for joining me. can you explain to people who have never done this, never been diving at all, never mind diving in a cave, what it is like to go in there with all the scuba gear and everything that they need to get these boys out? and as you do, i want to tell our viewers, tell you that our viewers are going to see a photo of the anatomy of the cave, as much as we know. >> well, it's a long dive. that's the big problem. it's a 12-hour round trip just to get back to where the boys are, and then you spend some time in there with them, so it's a long day by the time they get done. >> it's a long day, but also the process and the what you need to do as a diver in order to get

there, and also even to get the boys ready for the return, hours and hours of basically scuba diving for these young boys who have never even thought about doing this, much less put a mask on their face. >> yeah, they are not going to use normal regulators, because it took them too long to learn. they've got a full face mask on there. the only scary thing there is if the mask leaks or if they knock it off, they could be in trouble. >> okay, that's actually interesting. i hadn't heard that before. that makes more sense. i know that you know some of these rescue divers that you haven't spoken to them during the mission, but based on what you know, obviously, the good news is that we have all of these boys out. the bad news is there are still four others. are the divers gaining confidence every time they do this mission, or is it so difficult that there's really no

way to be comfortable? >> well, they've got somebody's life in their hands, but they are excellent divers, and i don't doubt for a minute that they are going to do a great job. i don't think they are going to get nervous. >> and one last question, what do you think is the biggest challenge of all of these very difficult challenges? if you were down there, what would concern you as the biggest challenge in these rescues? >> well, the one narrow space is the scariest part, because they can't escort the boys side by side. they have to go in single file, so the boy is sort of on his own. fortunately, it's only a little over a hundred feet. >> yeah, if there's anything we can say fortunately about, maybe that is it. thank you so much for your insight and your expertise. appreciate you joining me. >> no problem. and up next, the question no congressman or person for that matter wants to answer. eligible for medicare?

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welcome back. seven former ohio state wrestlers have said congressman jim jordan knew about or witnessed sexual abuse and then did nothing while he coached at the university. other students, though, say they don't know if jordan knew, but if he did, there is no doubt the congressman would have intervened. jordan told fox news and other outlets he had no idea what was happening to his athletes and today his office is putting out a letter from former coaches that includes testimonials speaking to jordan's character and blanket denials they or jordan ever saw anything untoward. cnn's sun lan serfaty is on capitol hill with the story.

what are you hearing? >> it's interesting, because this story has only grown worse for congressman jordan in the past week, so clearly this is an attempt by his office today to really try to attempt as reframing the narrative around him and push back much more aggressively on this story, not just have those voices who are claiming that jim jordan knew about the abuse be the only voices heard on this, so his office putting out a series of four statements from former osu wrestling coaches talking about his character. one saying that he's someone who's honest, fair, who has good judgment and wisdom, and two others saying point blank that they did not know about abuse and they have an understanding that jim jordan himself did not know about the abuse. one saying that jim jordan never mentioned to me that he had been approached by a team member alleging sexual abuse. this comes at a time jim jordan will likely face a lot more scrutiny. congress is back this week tomorrow, congress will reconvene after a week-long recess, so clear jim jordan will

face a lot more scrutiny here on capitol hill. d. dana? >> no question. thank you so much for bringing that reporting. manu, you spent a lot of time walking those halls and for people who might not know, jim jordan doesn't technically have a leadership position, but he is a very powerful member because he founded the freedom caucus, which is conservative and likes to many times successfully stopped pieces of legislation the republican leadership wanted to get out there, so he's a well known guy and also somebody that's being pushed by those conservatives to be the next speaker. and now this. >> and now this. those same conservatives are rallying to his defense. the house freedom caucus in large part is supporting him, believing that his contention that he didn't know anything about this. it's interesting to hear the house speaker take a different line last week when this initially came out, said that this needs to be investigated first, these are very serious allegations, we'll see what comes up of it. you know, this is a very serious

threat to jordan's career. becoming speaker was probably never really in the cards, never had enough support to become speaker, but can he stay in his office? we'll see. this is going to be investigated. we'll see if he did know anything about this and if anything comes to light that he did, that could be ultimately -- >> like sunlen said, they are trying to fight back as best they can when it is impossible to prove a negative, at least have testimonial character witnesses tells you they are understandably concerned about this. he's in a tough spot. >> politically it's a pretty safe seat, though. the seats in ohio are really gerrymandered, so he's not in any obvious danger with the facts known right now for re-election. >> but his reputation is. >> reputation is the issue. and you can see a primary, you know, not two years down the road. >> or if he's pushed to resign if it's so bad. we'll see. >> we're going to keep an eye on this. everybody stand by. up next, immigration

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a trump official tells cnn the administration is working tirelessly to reunite families separated under its zero tolerance immigration policy, but the deadlines are approaching fast. remember a court ordered that government agencies must reunite all children under 5 years old with their parents by tomorrow. all other children must be reunited by july 26th. the aclu says the government isn't even close to meeting the deadline. the group says it was given a list of 102 names of children under the age of 5, and it says it looks like fewer than half of those will be given back to their parents by tomorrow. cnn's miguel marquez joins me

now live from brownsville, texas. miguel, the question everybody wants to know, why can't they meet a deadline to get these small children back with their parents? all of those. >> the simple answer is, because there was no plan to do it. when they separated these individuals, the parents from their kids at the beginning of this process, the administration said all along we know who the parents are, we know who the kids are, we have -- we are tracking both of them. but it is very clear in talking with the parents that we are now meeting, many parents now bonding out, some parents getting deported, some kids getting deported. lawyers talking to their clients still locked up in different detention facilities around the country. it is very clear that there was no plan at all to reunite parents. if there were, they would have established parentage at the very beginning of this process,

so in the eventuality they had to reunite those parents, they could have done that far more easily. what what we are hearing now as parent after parent gets out on their asylum claims, they're coming to places like this, this detention facility for kids in brownsville. they want their kids back, but they're not being given the opportunity to get them back. even parents who have documentation, birth certificate for both themselves and their kid, and fingerprints, they're allowed to visit their children, but they're not being able to get them back because they're being treated as though they were unaccompanied minors, which is a process that could take a month, possibly more, to get those kids back. so that means all those kids, the under 5s and over 5s, about 3,000 altogether, there's no sign of how quickly they're going to be able to get these kids and their parents reunited. dana? >> it's really astonishing. miguel, thank you for staying on top of that. and look, if what miguel is saying is true, and it certainly

seems this way, that they just weren't ready, to say it's the height of irresponsibility is an understatement. this is -- if you have a new policy, and we've been talking about this for more than a month, but it just hits home that we are this far into it and there are still under 3,000 children still separated, but a hundred of those are under the age of 5. we all at this table know what that means to be a parent of somebody under the age of 5. it's just devastating. >> if you lose your kid for five minutes at the walmart. >> yes, and it's the united states government who made this policy without thinking of the basic question, how are you going to get them back together, when and if that's necessary? >> because this was conceived as a deterrent and as a law enforcement action. it wasn't conceived under kind of the rubric of social services and the next three steps down the line. it was, you know, put in place

pretty quickly. the mass bipartisan, nonpartisan outpouring of concern that's come up in congress and governors' races and state governments, across agencies, even inside this divided administration, it seems like when you hear that, well, of course there's a plan. but that's not why it was conceived in the first place. so it's hard to put the plan in place after the fact. >> you said there's a bipartisan, nonpartisan outcry. no question. but there's also a partisan response. and we're seeing republican leader after leader from the administration to capitol hill be the subject of some pretty loud protests as they're living and going about their daily lives. the latest was this weekend with the senate major leader mitch mcconnell. let's take a listen. >> vote you out! vote you out! >> where are the children? >> vote you out! vote you out! >> go home! >> vote you out!

>> where are the babies, mitch? >> so these are protesters saying, vote you out. what they're protesting is i.c.e. and what i.c.e. is doing at the border. >> so i'm not confident the federal government's ability to do anything quickly. perhaps less confident in the trump administration because they do not make plans and overwhelmed an already clogged system. taking all the moral questions off the table is an irresponsible way of going about business. i think there are jgenuinely kind, wonderful public servants trying to make this work, but it's very hard work. i'm also skeptical how long the outcry lasts. this is just a news cycle observation. we have a scotus fight coming up. there's the midterm election. how long does this play into that? and further with the abolish i.c.e. cries, of which there are many on the left, how does that play in the midterm elections? there are many people inside of

many districts outside of new york 14 that turns people off. >> and the president himself has not been focusing on this after the initial blow-up and controversy, him signing that executive action. >> well, it's not in his interest to focus on it. >> exactly. so he's been sidestepping this something new. >> next week? what time is it? before we go to break, i should also say mitch mcconnell's spokesman tried to blow it off. maybe that's too pejorative. tried to sidestep what happened. up next, president trump says he still has confidence in kim jong-un, so why is his top diplomat on the defense? if you have medicare

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topping our political radar today, a big shake-up in britain that could have prime minister theresa may fighting for her job as she gets set to host president trump later this week.

foreign secretary boris johnson and two other top officials just quit. all three have concerns about may's plan for leaving the eu and their departures could lead to a no-confidence vote against her. mike pompeo made an unannounced stop in afghanistan today, his first there as secretary of state. it follows a high-level discussion that he had with north korea with pompeo described as productive, but north koreans left accusing the u.s. of gangster-like mind sets. that controversy followed pompeo to afghanistan. >> well, i'd really prefer to talk about afghanistan given where we are. do you have a question about afghanistan? i saw some of the statements that came out. they were mixed. you haven't reported on the mixed statements. but maybe you will now. the statements that were put out, chairman kim's statement following our discussions, continued to express his desire to complete the denuclearization to which he is so committed.

>> the president gave pompeo some back-up on twitter this morning saying, i have confidence that kim jong-un will honor the contract we signed, and more importantly our handsha handshake. thanks so much for joining us here on "inside politics." wolf starts right now hello, i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. ehere in washington. thanks for joining us. one of the most consequential weeks of the trump presidency begins just hours from now when he announces his united states supreme court pick. it comes amid serious tensions with nato allies ahead of this week's summit. also, a sudden war of words breaking out between rudy giuliani and michael cohen's new lawyer. why cohen is said to be sending a clear message to the white house. and four boys and their coach still waiting to be rescued from that cave in thailand after crews pull eight boys out