in. appreciate you joining me today and all of this week. inside politics with john king starts right now. thank you, kate and welcome to inside politics. i'm john king and thank you for sharing your day with us. three days of meetings with lawyers trying to answer the special couple's questions. that's part of the foul presidential mood. what's taking so long? one of the complains about possible traps in the questions. the mid-term map gets more blue as congressional republicans watch numbers in california plummet and strength in new england dwindle to one embattled senator. kellyanne said all is fine in the west wing. husband, george, begs it differ. >> he is frustrated about

congress failing to act on immigration. if he is frustrated about anything, it's that this town doesn't keep pace with his rate of change. he wants to make more changes. >> it's like the administration is like [ bleep ] a dumpster fire. >> a much clearer understanding of the president's dark post election mood. spending three days huddled with his lawyers trying to answer the written questions from the special counsel, robert mueller. at least two dozen questions focus on collusion, if there was any, and events prior to the 2016 election. rudy giuliani saying there are some that create more issues for us legally than others. he also complains about possible traps in the questions. if you did nothing wrong and you are telling the truth, how could any question create legal issues or traps. add to the mix, an unintended

disclosure buried in a motion hinting prosecutors might be ready to bring charges to julian assange published the e-mails in the campaign stretch. live at the white house, we know the president has been in a bad mood and we understand a lot of time with his lawyers is a big piece of that. >> the president is fixated on the mueller probe after relative silence on this. not as many tweets. he hasn't said anything about it, but it's front and center after the three days of discussions with his legal team about what it is they are going to say in the written answers to the special counsel. largely they got what they wanted, but they are not doing a sit down brew. the questions are not about what's happened since president trump has been in office despite the fact that they wanted to initially talk to him about that, but rudy giuliani is not communicating that they are happy.

some of the questions are irrelevant and some they don't want to answer. each though we are a year into the discussions about a sit down with the president and the special counsel, they are going back and forth on what they are going to say in the written responses. we have seen president trump reignite his focus on this and reignite his fury on twitter, going after the special counsel. we should note criticism for who he is appointed to run the top justice department while they find a permanent replacement. matt whitaker made the critical comments about the russia investigation, raising questions about what he is going to do while in charge at the doj. john? >> turns out sometimes the take home tests are complicated. appreciate that reporting and to share the reporting and the insights, julie pace with the

associated press. my understanding is that rude i giuliani is not involved with the actual answer asks he is more of the public relations lawyer. why? you know the president is frustrating. what do you mean there are questions that are more legally complicated than others. i thought there was no collusion and nothing to worry about and this was the witch hunt. so answer the take home test and turn it in. >> he is now in the middle of this and aware of what's going on. we know the president likes rudy giuliani and wants him saying things. >> even though it gives the president trouble. >> the attorneys who were doing this work that are sitting and going through what the president should and shouldn't answer, it's frustrating on this. the president is going to do what he wants to do. the answers to the questions would go back to mueller. we don't know if that's

happened. rudy juligiuliani raised intereg issues. the president is very concerned about how this is going and concerned with the answers. >> you can see that. the questions are detailed and about specific things. the special counsel interviewed dozens of other people. some of whom have been indicted. i understand there is a legal compl complexit here, but if you did nothing wrong, why is it taking so long? >> this is a negotiation between the white house and the mueller team that has been going on for months. it's so drawn out and the questions that we believe trump is answering this week are not even the full scope of what mueller was hoping to get is hoping to get a more narrow slice of it. mueller wants trump to answer the questions, but mueller has answers to the questions based on all of the other people he is taking to. that's why this could be so precarious for the president.

he gives different versions of events and mueller knows from his interviews what happened here. the test is going to be how much trump's answers lineup with what mueller already has. >> giving different versions of different events. the president has talked so much about what happened in the campaign in interviews and in question and answer sessions as he going to plan things. to reconcile the truth is more complicated than it would be in a normal situation. look at the air force one flight in hamburg back to last year. how many different versions of that meeting were there? the president is deeply involved. multiply that times all these different meetings. as kaitlan said, this is just preelection. this has nothing to do with the firing of the fbi director. that's why it's taking so long. getting the president on the same page with himself is not easy. >> if you are the president and trying to reflesh yoresh your m

and some of it happened a long time ago, can anger get in the way of the recall. he said this to the daily caller. it's something that should have never been brought. it's an illegal investigation. it's interesting because when you talked about senate confirmed, that's the president's dog whistle. robert mueller was appointed by the hand picked deputy attorney general. there is no senate confirmation involved. it's an illegal investigation. no, it's not. >> his anger through his interview is not helping matters with congressional republicans who for the most part of still confident at least publicly that the president will not interfere with the mueller probe, with one exception. jeff flake of arizona. the tweets he has again this week criticizing the special couple's investigation. a new permanent nominee.

the republican senators is the push for now. >> is the president signed on for that. >> and republican senators from lamar alexander who speaks candidly and a trump ally and said the next ag can't see anyone getting confirmed who doesn't make a public commitment that he or she will not interfere. >> we know as part of the question, one of the central figures is roger stone. he was bragging and giving hints publishing e-mails. he said there is nothing nepharious here. some of the questions for the president is roger stone called your cell phone. roger stone came to trump tower. what was that about? that's about wikileaks. you have the mysterious filing

in eastern virginia which they said was inadvertent. they are trying to keep it under seal. we have to keep this private. this cannot go under the public record and they said they need to remain sealed until assange is arrested in connection with the charges in the criminal complain and can no longer evade or avoid. they said it's a clerical error. >> it's a big deal for the department of justice and the fbi. there is real concern that this happened. it's a huge mistake and should not have happened. the concern in terms of julian assange is whether or not they can get him now. there is concern that there is a warrant for his arrest. there is concern that ecuador may not comply. the brits know about this and they are aware of it. the real concern is on the part of ecuador. >> do we know with this particular reference with the

charge against assange, do we know, is this about 2016 and russia or chelsea manning or previous secrets or something else? >> it seems to be before the russia stuff. it's out of the eastern district of virginia. the mueller grand jury sits here. we believe it has to do with something else. we know the fbi has been trying to build a criminal case against julian assange for years. we may not be aware of. the fbi in new york is trying to build a case. he is a different figure than what he was with russia and before the 2016 election. that changes everything in terms of how the government viewed him. there was concern about 50 amendment protection. ever since the russia stuff, there seems to have been a shift in terms of what julian assange was doing and how he was hurting this country. >> you mentioned the eastern district and at least no

fingerprints to mueller at all. with his indictment, mueller filed an order to expand and transferred many of the documents they stole from the dnc to organization one. being wikileaks. that does connect at some point, but the question is, what is this mystery? >> it is a question. we know mueller has definitely been looking at wikileaks and could be facing the same problems that the previous administrations have faced in terms of whether or not you can bring charges against julian assange. a journalist. the new york times and we did other news agencies all benefitted from the information he was able to get. it's different now. this department of justice and this president knew him differently and it seems that they have at least in some way brought changes against him that they thought and think can stand. >> we will leave that for another day. the justice department thinks

differently. the secretary of state thinks differently. candidate donald trump was encouraging wikileaks to do this. saying please, bring more. >> screaming from the rafters. >> this could also be quickly bringing charms against him to try to get him to negotiate. the u.s. government perhaps maybe at some point does want him to cooperate. what was the russia outreach? is in did you have communications and did you know the russians were doing this? he claims he doesn't. there has been a question within the fbi. he claims he didn't know it was russians. >> we shall see. we keep tracking the mystery. frustration as the senate race moves to a hand recount and two minutes renders a week of work meaningless. >> the manual members will be added on to the second unofficial results. >> as if they never did the

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to florida, broward county moving quickly on the now manual recount under way in the senate race. the automatic machine recount increased rick scott's margin by 41 votes to 12,603. bill nelson was already narrow and now even more so after several defeats in the courtroom. tracking all this of live from tallahassee, nelson's chances seem to be getting slimmer. how slim? >> no doubt about it. with every passing moment, the chances that bill nelson can win the senate race seem to be slipping away. the hand recount is started across the state. the big county that we have been tracking is broward. that's because there was a significant number of under votes and overvotes. the nelson team has been arguing that the statistical anomaly

between the number of votes cast in the senate was smaller than the number in the governor's race. the early review of this process in broward county as they take a look at the overvote sk votvote undervotes. they did not select either. he is not making up any ground in broward county. if you can't do it in broward, there is no other county that seeps to be tracking similar to how they did on election night that he can make up that ground. the conversation is about when does bill nelson and andrew gillum concede? the gubernatorial candidate who didn't qualify for the hand recount is yet to conceit. when are they willing to move on and say the election is over? >> they will be home for christmas. we will see how that plays out as well. hang in there, my friend.

a federal judge ordered the white house today to reinstate chief white house correspondent jim acosta's press pass alleging his first and fifth amendment rights were violated after the white house suspended his pass after a combative exchange with the president. live outside the courthouse in washington. a temporary victory for cnn and the news media. what are we hearing from the white house? >> reporter: that's right, john. the judge issuing that initial and immediate victory, telling the white house they have to reinstate jim acosta's hard pass. what was important to note is the judge stressed his ruling was very limited. he said he was not issuing this ruling on broad grounds. it was very narrow in talking about the fifth amendment due process rights jim acosta had that were likely violated. he didn't receive proper notification that his pass was

being revoked and didn't have adequate opportunity to challenge the fact that it was being revoked. the judge stressed that, saying in his ruling i have not determined that the first amendment was violated or what legal standard would apply. the white house responded shortly there after. they mischaracterized what the judge had said in that ruling. the white house either ignoring it or completely mischaracterizing it. here was the statement from sarah sanders a little while ago. putting it this way. she said today the court made clear that there is no absolute first amendment right to access the white house. in response to the court, we will temporarily reinstate the hard pass and further develop rules and processes to ensure fair and orderly press conferences in the future. there must be detor ucorudecoru.

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an intriguing face-to-face between nancy pelosi and a democratic colleague thinking about challenging pelosi in the race to be the next speaker of the house. congresswoman martha said nancy pelosi requested the meeting. the cbc is gaining members and wants more power in the leadership ranks. many black caucus members are pelosi loyalists. this is a congresswoman from florida. she said it's about experience and not race or gender. i think you put your point where we are not the girls club or hispanic club. joining us live with the latest. nancy pelosi said you are thinking about challenging me. let's chat.

>> they met for about 45 minutes and set up by elijah cummings. the maryland democrat is set up with the face-to-face meeting. they said afterwards, it was respectful and candid conversations. they have not commented. she said she will not make a decision about whether to run until after thanksgiving. now all of this is a math issue at the end of the day. whether or not nancy pelosi will have enough votes ultimately on the house floor to be elected speaker. she is almost certain to have enough votes in the late november vote by the democratic caucus to nominate her to be speaker. pelosi would almost certainly defeat her in the nominating contest. what does she do afterwards? all sorts of questions are lingering. what the most powerful caucus within the larger caucus may come down on a fudge candidacy. i had a chance to speak to a

number of people including the chairman and it's clear that the members in that caucus are very divided. >> it's nothing that she would run for because she is qualified. i am not anti-pelosi. not at all. she is a very talented and remarkable speaker and consider her a friend. i am closer to marcia. if marcia ran, that's where i would be. >> i'm a firm nancy pelosi for speaker guy. she led us through the wilderness and out of the desert and into the majority. >> again, the question is how does this play out? at least 17 democrats have signed on saying they would not come up on the floor. she is prepared to go forward with a floor fight even if the numbers may not be there. one congressman, raja

krishnamoorthi said he is in a fight over her speakership on the floor. whether it's the nuclear option and the mutually ensured destruction that would lead to us losing the majority on the first vote of the new congress. john? >> a lot of trauma. live on capitol hill. let's bring it into the room. jackie joins the conversation. it's remarkable because nancy pelosi is a historic figure. some people forget that. the highest ranking woman in the american government. the first elected female speaker. now she wants the job back and there is a generational and ideological push. this is playing out publicly. you want to challenge me? let's have a chat. >> she is in the forefront saying she is going to fight for this. she is benefiting because the other side doesn't have a plan. they have letters and enough members that might make it difficult for her. they don't have a candidate.

there is no one that has support. she doesn't have a rival yet. it doesn't seem like she will. when you take into account her fund-raising prowess. her member services. if you talk to members, she is legendary for things like that. she knows this caucus. if someone does mount, it's hard for anyone to challenge her. if someone can play spoiler and no one has the support to overtake her. >> all her attributes, she said who do you want sitting across the table from president trump. her fund-raising and history and today she doesn't have the votes, clearly. you wouldn't be campaigning if you had the votes locked up. what's happening in private including in this conversation and congresswoman fudge, call in, if you want. to the point, is there a deal had? we see her publicly campaigning and is she privately trying to figure out, i want to stay for two years. i understand your concerns.

let's switch the rest of the team up. >> there is no question that she is one of the savviest people in the building. she has every reason to take this fight on. if i was a congresswoman as well, i would be nervous at this point. this is not a package deal that they will remain at the leadership. she wants to remain and we will see what happens. what came of that meeting if she offers marcia fudge something. that's because of two things overall. her money and member services. that's huge and even bigger now. until there is a split on that, she will survive. it's extraordinary and doesn't have exactly the vote. >> the numbers on the table, they have 46 current members and can go as high as 54. it's a significant piece and one potential republican. she has been a member of the

black caucus in the past. the democrats will be 50 plus. the question is, we want more seats at the table. do you broker a deal and do you have two members running against each other? clyburn is the number three position. what kind of deal can you broker? >> it's a question of having clyburn in leadership enough or do you want someone else in the mix? it's difficult if you look at the democrats who have won seats and helping them back into the majority. that will remain as it is. that caucus is now younger and more diverse. there are more women in the field. they have a strong argument for yourself. if you are hoyer in particular, what is your argument. and that you should be number two right now. that's where you see them shuffle the cards the most. >> we would love to hear about that meeting. ♪

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her campaign said they are preparing another legal challenge. the latest tally said they are trailing by about 55,000 votes. >> it's conway versus conway. we are talking about kellyanne conway and her husband, george. he was blunt in describing the administration and remember his wife is a presidential counsellor. >> i don't think she likes it, but i told her, i don't like the administration. it's even. it's one much these things. if i had a nickel for everyone in washington who disagreed with their spouse, i wouldn't be on this podcast. i would be on a beach somewhere. >> kellyanne conway changing her twitter bio. george conway admits he calls

himself mr. kellyanne conway. why are we talking about this? it's interesting to me, this is clearly she gets irritated and he gets irritated at her. forgive me, it strikes me at some point she will leave the white house and get a reality tv show. >> she has been in politics a long time. she made a big name for herself as a very respected pollster. some republicans who are friendly with her wonder if this is a public showing to show that after this administration she is still around to do business. just trying to hedge their bets and they are not all in with donald trump. i'm not sure if i believe that, but it seems like a shtick to me. >> it's happening too many times. >> for seems a bit purposeful that he built this following on

twitter and done op eds and he grows his profile and pushes this even further as opposed to scaling it back. they did a joint interview together with "the washington post." they are definitely buying into this narrative and as jackie points out, there could be an audience. >> with my colleague, they went on background to talk about their marriage. it will be an interesting show. >> these are two savvy people. you cannot remove that. >> whether you agree or disag e disagree, there was a calculation. >> democrats have more than 30 house seat pickups. another one today. we will show you where they are gaining ground. this is dell cinema technology

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california's 45th congressional district is going blue. that's 34 seats and there are still six races yet to be called. where it's more blue is stronger than the democratic math. these are called races. the democrats have at least 229 seats and the republicans 200. number one, look at new england. let's stretch it out. it's all blue when it comes to the house. the only republican will be susan collins of maine. she is embattled and up in 2020. not one republican house member maine race flipped from there. let's go west to california. watch as the numbers play out. let's look at the top suburban districts and match it up with seats that have flipped. look at what happened here. in called races, these are done. the democrats with the 34 they picked up, 21 from the suburbs. republican seats that flipped

from red to blue. the uncalled races, there are three more. the democrats could get close to 40 seats with 24 coming from republican suburban seats. it is a giant problem for the party. you saoey a number of them are out here in california. the california republican party is disappearing. part is about what the house republicans passed and a lot is about the president. >> orange county is a new blue. what we saw was a sweep of southern california districts in favor of democrats. turns out the industry gee of raising taxes on millions of californias and trying to sabotage health care was not a wing strategy. donald trump made everything about him these last two years. a large part of this election was a rebuke of the president. >> it is striking when you look at the map of the suburbs.

20 plus. maybe two dozen of the thi30 pl. this is not just l.a. it's orange county and oklahoma city and kansas city, kansas. they have been in republican pant pants since i colored my hair. >> what's going to be interesting to watch and the implications for the agenda when we finalize the number of seats. so many come from the traditionally republican strongholds whose constituents don't have the same views as a new york or a san francisco or california. you are already seeing these internal slashes. alexandria ocasio-cortez showing up on nancy pelosi's door participating in a protest. imagine when they position on immigration. there will be a lot of progressives in the caucus and push for loosening enforcement and abolishing ice.

those kinds of struggles will be a major story line. >> and the democrats have them and the republicans have them as well figuring out where do we go from her? the president of the united states took questions from reporters. as we bring you that, democrats have to work out the issues. we won, but how do you protect the seats to keep progressives happy. this is from the california state assembly. the california republican party isn't salvageable at this time. the grand old party is dead because they can't separate themselves from the toxic brand of politics. the republican party has been a mess for a long time, but he seems to accelerate the trends that are playing out. the democrats were making gains in the suburbs and the california republican party was in trouble, boom. >> a long time political reporter covered the evolution

in orange county. yes, that is a state where the republican party has not been strong, but they had pockets of support in other places around the country. those voters, they just do not want to be aligned with donald trump. the question that the party has to ask themselves going into the next election, trump at the top of the ticket, but more competitive senate races in territory that is not as friendly as this senate map was. how do they align themselves with the president when he is back on the ballot. >> he is. that's a challenge for the president as well. let's go to the white house. >> thank you, everybody. >> mr. president -- >> you can make comments on the cnn? >> no. just people have to behave and we are writing up rules and regulations. i think you were treated very unfairly. both of you were treated very unfairly because you have people interrupting you.

if they don't listen to the rules and regulations, we will end up back in court and we will win. more importantly, we will just leave. then you won't be very happy. we do get good ratings. decorum. you can't take three or four questions and stand up and not sit down. you were there and you understand. we want total freedom of the press. that's very important. more important to me than anybody would believe. you have to act with respect in the white house. when i see the way my people get treated, it's terrible. they are setting up a certain standard which is what the court is requesting. always freedom of the press and always first amendment, but that's the way it is. we always have the option of just leaving. we feel that things are not being treated properly and people are not being treated

properly, we have the right to leave. i think the other media, the other press in the room will not be happy if that happens, but i instructed my people when they are not treated properly, you have the right to just leave. any time you want. >> you gave a response to the trade and other requests. have you seen that response and are you pleased with it? >> did you say china? >> yes. >> me what the response was. china wants to make a deal. they sent a list of things that they are willing to do. a large list. it's not acceptable to me yet, but at some point, i think we are doing extremely well with respect to china. i have great respect for president xi and china. china is taking advantage of the united states for many, many

years. ron johnson knows that maybe better than anybody. ron is a big believer in what i'm doing. i think that they are going to come in and open up china and it's not fair right now. they do very little business with them and a lot of business. plus they have tremendous barriers and tariffs we didn't have on them. that's all changed now. we put on tariffs and $250 billion worth of goods and another $267 billion to go if we want to. we may not have to do that. china would like to make a deal. our country has done very well and china has not. they are down 30%. 32% and have been down substantially. we have helped create china as we know it today by allowing money to be sucked out of our country by the billions. $500 billion a year in many

cases over a long period of time. we can't allow that to happen. i think we will have a great relationship with china. hopefully we will make a deal. if we don't, we are doing very well just the way it is right now. we have tariffs on $250 billion worth of goods and these are -- we are talking about billions and billions of dollars a month will flow into our country and already started flowing in. it comes from china. china has never been put in this position. i don't want to put them in a bad position. i want to put them in a great position. it's called reciprocal. we have to have reciprocal tradement we can't have trade meant for stupid people. that's the way they took advantage of our country. we don't have that anymore. they understand that. i think a deal will be made and we will find out very soon. >> the list that they submitted, do you think it goes far enough? >> it's a pretty complete list.

a lot of the things we asked for. some things were left off. we will probably get them, too. as you know, i think it's 142 items. that's a lot of items. okay? thank you very much, everybody. >> you seem agitated about what you might have receiving with the mueller investigation. >> i'm not agitated. it's a hoax. there was no coalition. i'm happy with the white house. i'm extremely happy with our country. we are doing with the best economy we have ever had. maybe the best unemployment and employment numbers we have ever had. more people are working that have ever worked in the united states by far. by far. i'm extremely happy and very happy with almost all of my

cabinet. changes are made because they are always made, especially after mid-terms. it's all fake news. i'm thrilled with the way the country is going. on foreign we are doing well and making trade deals. we made a deal with mexico and canada and made a deal with south korea. they were horrible before. >> with the mueller investigation, particularly yesterday. >> it's just a continuation. there should have never been any mueller investigation because there was never anything done wrong. there was no collusion. you would have known about it a long time ago if there was. they wasted millions and millions of dollars. there should have never been a so-called investigation which in theory is not an investigation of me, but as far as i'm concerned, i like to take everything personally because you do better that way. the witch hunt, as i call it, should never have taken place. it continues to go on.

i imagine it's ending now. from what i hear, it's ending. i'm sure it will be just fine. you know why it's going to be just fine? there was no collusion. the fact is i was a better candidate than hillary clinton. i went to the right states and i easily won the election and the electoral college. 306 to 223. that's a big difference. about what? >>. >> [inaudible]. >> my lawyers are not working on that. i write answers. my lawyers don't write answers. i answered the questions very easily. very easily. i'm sure they are tricked up because they like to catch people. was the weather sunny or rainy. he said it may have been a good day. it was rainy and he told a lie

and pernlgerred himself. you have to be careful with people who have bad intentions. no, it's the questions were very routinely answered by me. by me. okay? >> you submitted the answers? >> i haven't submitted them yet. i have been a little bit busy. we have been in europe and working on various deals and just finished usmca. the deal that is one of the great trade deals. you can see how happy our farmers are. we have done a lot of work and it has been very hard to find time. it didn't take long to do. they were my answers. i don't need lawyers to do that. you need lawyers for submittal and to go over the answers, but they are not very difficult questions. thank you very much. >> the president of the united states speaking after a bill

signing ceremony and two big things out of that. he commented on the defeat in court to get jim acosta's press pass restored. they said they will write the rules of the white house and he wants decorum and he predicts had he will win in court. on the substance of the mueller investigation,y the approximate said he finished his written answers to robert mueller and his lawyers will look over them and will submit them soon. the lawyers will help me and matter of factually for the sources behind the scenes. >> he confirmed what we have known all week. so much of his time behind the scenes working on the questions. again, he is going after the mueller probe saying they have bad exceptions here. i'm not sure what the answers are. they haven't submitted them yet. he confirmed this is what he is focused on. >> the fact that they haven't

submitted him. this is a process that is not done. to the president's point about all my lawyers are there to help. no, your lawyers are there to make sure as you answer the questions, you don't perjury yourself. there is legal tracks here. we have the tweets to help us as a guide. >> such a guide post. as we end this week, they talk about the homeland security secretary. or maybe not. he makes those decisions. back to twitter. >> cnn's victory at least temporarily say the president is going to write rules that he values decorum at the white

house. his staff should leave. i value decorum and lead by example. thanks for joining us and hope to see you back here monday as well. don't go anywhere. brianna keilar starts right now. >> john, thanks so much. we will pick up where you left off. you have been listening to the president discussing everything from robert mueller to a judge to cnn against the white house over press access. i want to bring in correspondent kaitlan collins. he was putting on a happy face. he was happy with the white house. make no mistake. things are volatile over there. >> reporter: they certainly are. he wants to make a few changes to members of staff. you heard him say that's typical and one of the people whose fate has been hanging in