from netflix, prime video,youtube and even movie tickets. just say get "dragon tickets". welcome to "inside politics." i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. day three for michael cohen on capitol hill. the long-time trump fixer behind closed doors today after a day-long hearing who called the president a long-time cheat whose crimes continue in the white house. plus, the summit the president promised would be tremendous is instead a giant fail. he did not get concessions from kim jong-un and he asked for a pass for the american who died in prison.

the impact of the trump tax cuts faded. >> ladies and gentlemen, i'm about to get on a plane and fly back to a wonderful place called washington, d.c., so thank you very much. >> we begin the hour with that long flight home and the reality check waiting for the president here in what he calls this wonderful place. the deal he wanted he doesn't have. the investigations he wants to go away are instead blossoming new leads. the president this hour heading back to the united states empty-handed. the summit he said would be tremendous, instead a major disappointment. >> we just left chairman kim. we had a really -- i think a very productive time. we thought, and i thought, and secretary pompeo felt that it wasn't a good thing to be signing anything. we had some options, and at this time we decided not to do any of the options and we'll see where

that goes, but it was a very interesting two days. and i think actually it was a very productive two days, but sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times. >> no deal with kim jong-un, and now shavnot happy that the prest walked away from the deal. and michael cohen's five-hour public testimony. >> i think having a fake hearing like that and having it in the middle of this very important summit is really a terrible thing. he lied a lot, but it was very interesting because he didn't lie about one thing. he said no collusion with the russian hoax. and i said, i wonder why he didn't just lie about that, too, like he did about everything else? >> what the president calls cohen's lies democrats call new

reasons to investigate the president, his business and his innermost circles. cnn's kaitlan collins is still in hanoi. kaitlan, the president thought this would be a very big week. it's turned out to be something very different. >> reporter: it certainly is different. he didn't expect to make that 8,000-mile trip home empty handed, but he is and there is no agreement on the horizon right now. he had made out the lunch menu for what they would be eating. that lunch didn't happen and the aides was wondering why they put a lunch on the schedule in the first place, because things are fluid when you're talking to the north korean dictator. the president had a demand from kim jong-un that they lift all sanctions immediately. in the talks leading up to the summit in hanoi, john, north

koreans had been pretty stubborn about wanting to get those sanctions lifted. the president was under the impression he could come here, convince kim jong-un otherwise, make some kind of concessions with him other than that. but when they got in the room, kim jong-un made sure he still wanted to get those sanctions lifted which is why the president walked away and said it's a better deal for him. some aides are actually relieved because they thought he would come home with concessions they didn't feel good about. so the white house is feeling good about what happened, but whether the president feels that way remains to be seen. >> michael sheer with the "new york times". the president wanted pageantry, he wanted a deal. he's coming home and it's an interesting moment in the sense

he doesn't have a big deliverable to say, i told you so. the power of a personality that wanted to get something done for a generation. didn't happen. if michael cohen is to be believed, the southern district of new york is digging deeper and deeper into the president's family and his companies. >> there are two things that is striking. one is the president has invested since the beginning of his presidency. when it comes foreign leaders he's invested everything into personal relationships other than the interest of countries that usually dictate the kind of policies that a president pursues. with allies he did things that broke with the usual kinds of interests that connect the united states to its allies because he didn't have good relationships with their leaders, and he invested everything in the relationships with these sort of dictators around the world. what you find is at the end of the day, the relationship isn't

everything, that there really are interests that are competing in north korea and the united states, and that undermines it. then when he comes back to the united states, you know, you realize that he can't just will -- there were certain things you just can't will reality to be what you want it to be. and in both of these cases, whether it's trying to sort of -- through the force of your personality and charisma decide the relationship between the united states and north korea is going to be different than it's been for decades, or whether it's coming back to washington and realizing the situations are actually going on and you just can't stop it. >> the relationship didn't get him a deal, but the president putting the value in the relationship, does it warp his thinking sometimes in little sense that this is the president talking about, is kim jong-un responsible for what happened to otto warmbier? young american imprisoned in north korea, released only when the north koreans realized his

health is failing precipitously, dies shortly thereafter. kim jong-un is a dictator. he runs the show, he runs everything in north korea. the president says this. >> i don't believe that he would have allowed that to happen. it just wasn't to his advantage to allow that to happen. he felt very badly. the he knew the case very well, but he knew it later. he tells me he didn't know about it and i will take him at his word. >> i will take him at his word. that's shocking, an american president not in north korea but overseas essentially saying, i accept the words of the dictator. how shocking is it? this is nikki haley, loyal u.n. ambassador for president donald j. trump who left the position a while ago tweeting, the president knows the cruelty that was placed on otto warmbier by the north korean regime. our hearts are with the warmbier family for their strength and courage. we will never forget otto.

>> she's echoing what was said last year, the warmbier family was there, basically said our thoughts and prayers are with you, and talked about the dictatorship sending otto warmbier to a prison. we know what north korean prisons are like. donald trump basically thinks kim jong-un is like him in the sense that kim jong-un will respond to flattery. so there he is, basically, saying all sorts of nice things about this north korea dictator and thinking he's going to change his mind, thinking he's going to relinquish something his country has worked decades to achieve these nuclear weapons which obviously keep the regime in place, keep him on the world stage. and if you're donald trump, you think somehow these love letters that they sent back and forth will change the calculus, but he's learning that's not the case. >> that's the power you've seen from the president several times, not just with the north korean dictator but also with putin himself, the russian

president, mohamed saham. he also called it a brutal regime, and i'm wondering why he would take kim jong-un at his word. this is something that republicans will have to address when we speak to them later today. >> it's a slap in the face to an american family who lost their son. that's what it is to the president of the united states. the president said he watched some, as much as he could, of the michael cohen case. i suspect on the flight home he'll get caught up not just on the testimony but the media coverage. if michael cohen is to be believed, the southern district of new york is not only investigating things we know about, like the trump organization, the trump inauguration, but something else michael cohen said he was not at

liberty to discuss. a couple key democrats here -- you listen here, you see number one, the president is in some legal peril. number two, the democrats will go from the cohen hearing to seeking additional witnesses and testimony. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today? >> yes, and again, those are part of the investigation that's currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> to your knowledge, did the president ever provide inflated assets to an insurance company? >> yes. >> and where would the committee find more information on this? do you think we need to review his financial statements and his tax returns in order to compare them? >> yes, and you'd find it at the trump org. >> where do we go from here? in part the republican praise of alexandra caocacio-cortez. where should we go from here?

>> the president called it a fake hearing. that is a very real hearing. that's as real as it gets on capitol hill. that was a big moment. i think you'll see from the democrats, and i think nancy pelosi this morning is already backing away from impeachment, they are going to investigate. they are going to pull these threads on all of this and it's going to go on for a long time. i still think the republicans haven't quite come to grips with the fact that they're in the minority in the house. they were not prepared for that hearing yesterday in any way. there was a lot that came out. and i think the president is over there and watching this. i think they seemed to be caught off guard by how aggressive michael cohen was. i actually kind of want to give the president props in some way for not making a deal over there, because i think we all anticipated that he was so eager to do something to take attention away from that that -- and i actually was kind of surprised that they backed away. >> we'll continue the conversation as we go through the hour. up next, did michael cohen's

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michael cohen on capitol hill today for day three of testimony. the house intelly committee getti getting their chance to grill michael cohen. the immediate political fallout here in washington includes impeachment rumblings. here's kathy mahoney of new york. >> we'll see where the facts take us. i think it could possibly lead to impeachment. >> speaker nancy pelosi says slow down, such talk is premature until congress can dig deeper and until the special counsel completes his work. >> would that be an impeachable offense? >> i'm not going into that. i'm not going into that. we have two investigations, a mueller report we're all

anxiously awaiting, and as was indicated, the one thing i did see widely reported was the witness said that other issues that he was aware of were under consideration by the southern district of new york. so let's see what that is. but, again, impeachment is a divisive issue in our country. >> not just the words but the body language there. the body language from the speaker saying, everybody calm down. the question is, can she convince? a modest number of democrats want to go look into this. can she keep them in line? >> that's the big question because you saw in the hearing the face of this new congress and they are very raucous, very in your face and a lot of those people, at least a few of them, have talked about impeachment. we'll see if she's able to tamp down on that. it does seem like sort of the

average democrats. if you sort of flash back a year ago, average democrats talked about impeachment as the dream of the president not ending his -- not to run out his first full term. it seems those democrats have sort of moved on and sort of realize a fantasy. we're see what nancy pelosi is able to do with this new energy. >> i think that she has been very clear, and so has jerry nadler been very clear, and he's the judiciary committee chairman. he says unless we can do something on a bipartisan basis, we're not going to do it. that hearing yesterday was not a bipartisan inquiry, and i think there is a lot of political benefit to doing these investigations and actually letting the people say we should impeach but without facing the political consequences of impeachment. i think you're going to see this play out in these investigations. i'm writing about this for the paper tomorrow to get a plug in. >> i will tell you i talked yesterday to a former chairman of the oversight committee, tom davis, who was a republican who

chaired that committee for a while, who made the point that sometimes these things get away from you. >> let me read that quote. i have it here in your article. we'll read you in the paper tomorrow. we read him in the paper today. tom davis, he's a republican, but he says, the more you do this, it just fires up the base who thinks every day he stays in office and endangers the public. it's that old thing about be careful what you ask for. michael cohen gave them a lot of material to at least pursue. he gave them a lot of leads. this will take weeks and months, it's their job, they say, but then the base starts saying, what are you going to do with all this? >> there is a pressure that builds up, and it's possible, as carl says, that they can just string that along and get it closer and closer and closer to the election. that's probably better for them than actually pulling the trigger in the end, but you don't always control things well in politics. >> you can count this as a motivator for the republican base as well who can look at the

democrats and say they're overreaching against the president with no actual evidence since impeachment is inherently a political process. throughout the democratic majority so far, especially as they've been clamoring to begin investigations against the president, that's what republicans have been banking on, that they will overreach and that will bite back at them politically. >> to that point you hear from the cpac today, and you hear from rush limbaugh, look, you better look into this because the democrats are trying to impeach them. >> it is pure desperation by the democratic party, and the fact that they are continuing on this objective of impeaching trump is proof positive to me they expect him to win in 2020 if they don't do something about it. >> the part there about this pure desperation. there was a lot, michael cohen said a lot. even the smart democrats say we're not sure we can believer

y -- believe you on this, we're following up. michael cohen, an habitual liar, a cheat. what they didn't say was the president wouldn't do any of this. it was tough scrutiny last night. >> what about the substance? the president writing a check to him while president for these payments, these 11 payments, that he says were to pay off stormy daniels and the other woman. >> but he was the personal lawyer for the president and the trump organization. i don't think that's unusual. my guess is there's all kinds of companies, all kinds of individuals who have a similar type of relationship. that's what was brought out today. again, where was the new news? there wasn't any new news here. >> there was new news here. there was new news here. if the president knew when he cut that check, as president to michael cohen, it was part of a scam to go around campaign

finance laws. sorry, jordan, that's news, but they don't want to answer to the specifics. what does that tell you? >> they didn't seem prepared. this is the president and his lawyer. >> there are a few people like jim jordan and mark meadows who will defend the president on all counts. the rest of them are afraid of them in their district and frankly they don't believe or trust him, either. >> but they knew it was coming. you have to mount some sort of defense to the actual act, and they didn't do that. >> but neither is the president, really. he's essentially saying that michael cohen is a lying liar who lies, right? and that's essentially what the republicans said -- >> except for about collusion. he did tell the truth there. >> believe him here, don't believe him anywhere else. the problem with the story is you have a liar testifying about being told to lie by a liar.

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hanoi summit is a total failure. >> we spent pretty much all day with kim jong-un, who is quite a guy and quite a character, and i think our relationship is very strong. i think we'll end up being very good friends with chairman kim and with north korea. we like each other, a good relationship. >> big questions going forward include whether the white house can keep strong international sanctions in place and whether kim will keep this promise. >> he has a certain vision, and it's not exactly our vision, but it's a lot closer than it was a year ago. he's not going to do testing of rockets and nuclear, not going to do testing. i trust him and i take him at his word. i hope that's true. >> admiral john kirby and eric sanger of the "new york times"

join the circle. they're at the hanoi summit in vietnam. what's your take here? the president leaves empty-handed. most say that was the right thing to do since kim wasn't willing to give morality te at table, but now what? >> two big takeaways. the president ran into the risk of doing very personal leader-to-leader kind of negotiations here. the usual way, john, would be you have your aides put everything together, the leaders step in at the end to either confirm it or bridge the last divides. but the president was convinced in this case that kim jong-un was the only one who could really make a decision in north korea, so he had to go negotiate the whole thing with him. and that's great if it works, but if it doesn't work, if you have a spectacular kind of collapse as they did today, there is no place to go. and i know they say they want to send their aides back to go do this again, but nobody is going to want to negotiate something that the president of the united

states and the chairman of the north korean communist party do not want to go ahead with. so that's the first takeaway. the second is that after saying that he would solve this problem, president trump has just discovered why three previous presidents have failed to solve this problem. that to president trump it's inconceivable that somebody would want to bomb more than they would want to build hotels along the beautiful beaches of north korea. if you're kim jong-un, you're thinking, if i give up the bomb, i'm just one step away from the americans or their allies overthrowing me. >> admiral kirby, what happens next in the sense that in the past, both kim jong-un and his father, when they want leverage in the negotiations, when they think things have gone stale, they do something provocative. in kim jong-un's case, you

launch missiles and rockets. do you launch your troops which is keeping them ready just in case? what now? >> i think it's important for our readiness that we continue to do these exercises. i do think we need to see if kim reacts in a military way and restarts missile launches, perhaps those nuclear tests. we don't know how he's going to react. one thing is for sure, though, just because he wasn't testing and he claimed he won't test in the future, doesn't mean he isn't trying. it doesn't mean he isn't still purchasing missile material and building more rockets. so he's going to continue to advance his program. i think there is some estimates that he built even several more missiles in just the period between singapore and hanoi. so his program is going to continue and the clock really, in my view, is on kim's side, not ours. >> that's one of the big problems, john, that i think president trump ran into here which is that he didn't get a

freeze on current production. president obama got that as he was heading in to negotiations with the iranians. if you don't have a freeze, then time is on the side of your adversary, because the longer they drag out the negotiations, the bigger the problem and the bigger the arsenal get. >> once again we saw from this president his willingness to take the side of the autocrat, if you will. kim in this case, the leader of saudi arabia and putin. >> he told me he wouldn't let that happen, and i'll take him at his word. >> i don't think anybody will be able to prove if the crown prince did it. whether he did or didn't, he denies it vehemently. >> i have great confidence in my people, but i will tell you that president putin was extremely strong and powerful in his

denial today. >> what is it about this president, whether it's otto warmbier, the murder of jamal khashoggi, russian election interference, he takes the side of the dictator? >> he just didn't need to go there, john. it was a question about human rights and a fair question, and he said he brought it up, but he didn't need to say that. it was really inexplicable. i think it was, quite frankly, the low point of the press conference. i just don't understand why he needs to just take at face value the word of some of these autocrats. it's strange that kim jong-un didn't have any awareness of what was going on with otto warmbier. >> thank you for covering the summit. we'll see you when you get back home. coming up, michael cohen's upcoming testimony and new exposure for the star witness. ♪ let me be by myself ♪ in the evenin' breeze, ♪ listen to the murmur of the tall concrete, ♪

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senator corker and for others. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu set to be charged with bribery and fraud following three separate corruption investigations according to a source that follows the decision. president trump spoke to him this morning, asked about the charges before today's announcement. >> i just think he's been a great prime minister. i don't know about his difficulty, but you tell me something that people have been hearing about, but i don't know about that. i can say this, that he's done a great job as prime minister. he's tough, he's smart, he's strong. breaking news this hour and the republican reaction to michael cohen's testimony. manu raju live on capitol hill. manu, what's happening? >> reporter: two of president trump's closest allies, jim jordan, mark meadows who are the republicans on the house oversight committee just sent a letter to the attorney general

bill barr asking him to investigate possible perjury from michael cohen's testimony yesterday before the committee. they're laying out several areas of inconsistency and contradictions to what had been filed in federal court and previous testimony. two of these regarding -- one regarding bank fraud. they write this: several times during his testimony mr. cohen denied committing very fraudulent acts that he has pleaded guilty to in federal court. specifically mr. cohen said, i never defrauded any bank. these denials are potentially false. they also write that mr. cohen repeatedly testified that he did not seek employment in the white house following president trump's election. these are intentionally false. they say it's in direct contrast with court filings made in the central district of new york. on the bank fraud situation, he didn't plead guilty to bank frought but making false statements to a bank. he did default on one loan in

2018. and also about whether he was pursuing a job in the white house, that's something a lot of people, particularly trump allies, had pushed back on. these two republicans cite text messages that were received showing he was seeking that position. but he has said he disputes how that was characterized by the federal prosecutors. nevertheless, of course, john, this is a decision for the doj. will bill barr investigate? that's ultimately his decision. john? >> bill barr will find this one is in a very new and different washington. manu raju, live on the hill, appreciate that. a self-imposed deadline to become a candidate. will beto o'rourke enter the 2020 candidate field? if you're stressed out financially at home, you're going to be too worried to be able to do a good job.

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schumer couldn't close the deal. >> why would you do that? >> why would you smile that when i am -- whimsical smile? >> he's got money, why not? i think it probably is a disappointment, and you might know better than i, to the senate democrats that he would have been formidable running. >> representative bernice johnson said this week, i would love for him to stay texas focused. she texted back, i love you and i appreciate your friendship. >> he's not going to be able to do much if the republicans still control the senate, and that's causing complications for senator schumer right now.

hickenlooper in colorado against cory gardner and this one as well, so schumer is going to have a little more work to do to recruit the top tier candidates for these really competitive senate races. >> if you're beto o'rourke, you lost to ted cruz, but you raised a boatload of money. it gives you a little puffy chest moment, if you will, if you're watching the polls at home. and i would caution everybody, do not believe early polls. trump-biden, 47-46, trump-sanders, 47-45, trump-o'rourke, 47-46. when you get closer to the election, things can change in your state. but there i am with biden and

bernie, that's pretty good company. >> it's biden, it's bernie, at some point it might be brown. it's obviously beto o'rourke, too, and this underlying idea that they would be more electable because they would win, maybe, in the midwest. these polls show he would be competitive in texas, maybe he would be competitive in wisconsin, too. who knows if any of this is true? it's just a theory right now. nobody knows what kind of candidate beto o'rourke on the national stage, what kind of candidate he would actually be. >> one of the things we also don't know is how long this weeding out process is going to take. we're living in an environment that everything is sped up. and the days that these candidates could go net ain andn for months and months and months and months. in the political environment, people jump in and it's very obvious they have to jump out. >> we'll get it soon, i guess. when we come back, the

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primaries. it is a repudiation of the past that jeb bush tried to set up for republicans. and donald trump has a census-based approach of the late george h.w. bush. it traces the bush's giant role in shaping our politics and our history. in a bit of a role reversal, pierson, the grandfather of one, the nephew of another, spent some time with us as we spent time covering the bushes. >> john, it's a pleasure having you here and turn the tables. >> it's a pleasure. >> you graduated college 1965. one of the first things you pushed was the dukakis campaign.

>> because i was based in boston at the time, most of my work was covering dukakis. i would write the record pieces about billy horton and others. that was a fascinating campaign because dukakis went to atlanta for a convention and they thought it was over. watching the bush campaign and h its effectiveness was eye opening to me. they pulled off this gentlemanly guy with bare knuckles tough campaign, and he was always surrounded by good people. if you're down 17 points, you think it's over. the quality and caliber of the candidate, and the staff as well, just rebuilt it. >> you and your correspondent covered that campaign. i know you personally got to know my uncle george and my aunt laura more than you got to

interact with my grandparents. what was it like covering them? >> george w. and laura bush, incredibly polite and gracious. they would have us at their ranch every year in crawford for a picnic. they didn't have to do that. they knew a lot of us were down there away from our families, and they wanted to say thank you for covering. i know george hated that he couldn't drive. the secret service doesn't let the president drive. he said, come on, everybody. he let us all in his pickup truck and i thought for three minutes he was trying to kill us, he was just pounding through. he didn't want to kill us, but he wanted to bruise us. he wanted to show us texas and how much he loved that land. i'm a red sox guy, he's a rangers fan, but he knew baseball. >> did he needle you about anything? >> he needled me about the red sox being lousy until they finally won. that was the kind of thing he would talk about. again, it was an interesting

time. and what strikes me most about that is, again, when you look at where we are today, i always think of the what-ifs. what if 9/11 hadn't happened? think about governor bush and then president george w. bush's agenda. humble in the hemisphere. immigration reform. education reform. this was a guy who came out of this texas experience -- >> and petfar. >> petfar. but knowing the challenges in the latino community, knowing the challenges in the world community. he had an agenda and number one, he believed it in his heart, but number two, went right at the democratic advantages in today's politics. let's not separate the two. good policy is good politics, and both george w. bush and president bush said, yeah, we believe in these things but it could help our party, too.

imagine if 9/11 hadn't happened and we had immigration reform. it would have happened if not for 9/11. you have a very different republican party today. instead what did you get? you had, number one, a wartime president who didn't have the time at first, and then because of iraq and katrina didn't have the political capital later in his term to do those things. so what do you get? the anti-immigration flow in the republican party starts to rise up at that moment, and the more i isolationist, why are we in these wars? the rand paul to the seeds of what can be found in the president changing events in that administration. >> it's time i yield back your show to you. i just wanted to thank you so much for answering these questions. we could talk for hours. >> thanks for being here. >> thank you for covering news for this country. >> thank you. >> if you love history and politics and don't want to miss

this, you can watch the premiere of "the bush years, family, duty, power." don't go anywhere. a lot of news today. brianna keilar starts right now. have a great afternoon. > . i'm brianna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. underway right now, a president legally exposed, his former fixer implicating president trump in several crimes while one lawmaker warns there is another shoe to drop. plus, turns out the republican at the center cof th emotional loss has -- and president trump walks away from kim jong-un without a