impeachment inquiry, who makes you proud to be an american and who might make you ashamed? we'll be back with another hour of "state of the union" at noon. "reliable sources" is next. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. i'm brian stelter. this is "reliable sources" and this is a breaking news day here, so much happening here on a sunday. let's get right to it. this photo really summing up the events of the past 24 hours. we see in this photo president trump watching the raid that resulted in the death of isis leader abu bakr al bagdadi. now trump is describing the raid in graphic detail. his press conference went on for quite a while, taking questions from reporters. my panel is here with reaction to the breaking news. plus who is anonymous and what will they reveal? there's new book coming out with

a warning about president trump, making news. joe klein will join me. plus brand-new reporting about msnbc's biggest star challenging nbc management. all of that coming up on this jam-packed hour. first, the u.s. military's successful overnight raid in syria showcases the highs and lows of the shock cycle, the highs and lows of the trump presidency taken to a new extreme. obviously the president is celebrating the death of isis leader al bagdadi, describing the violence of the raid, then taking questions from reporters, assailing leaks, claiming this moment is bigger than the killing of osama bin laden. it is a significant moment, it is of course wall to wall on television, but at the same time, on the very same week, trump's impeachment in the house appears inevitable. many reporters, many commentators coming to the same conclusion right here after another week of damning depositions. there are two thoughts to hold

in our heads at the same time. the significant military victory, what the president says will make the country more safe, yet at the same time a growing number of people warning that his leadership is making the country less safe. and of course all the alleged abuses of power that we were talking about 24 hours ago are still just as relevant right now, even though this successful raid is briefly filling up screens wall to wall. two thoughts to hold in our head at the same time. i have experts here with me to talk about that that great detail. syndicated columnist for "the washington post" catherine rampell. former national security adviser to obama, sam vinograd. media reporter for "the washington post," sarah ellison, all with me here in new york. the president is obviously speaking at great lengths, sharing great detail about this raid in syria.

>> this is obviously a major accomplishment. the president's engagement with the media is surprising to me. this is a high risk period with increased risks of retaliatory attacks and increased risks to human intel on the ground. the level of detail that president trump went into in that press conference increases the risk to sources who may still be on the ground. it's unprecedented when you think about how much detail he went into. >> are you saying it's irresponsible? >> it is irresponsible, it puts sources at risk and it's unnecessary at this point, he could have much more succinct. typically you have these talking points scrubbed by the intelligence community to make sure they don't have the unintended impact of inspiring more attacks. he described bagdadi as a whimpering dog but it's clear while the intelligence community played a big role in implementing this raid, it does

not appear he's listening to them in terms of how to manage the aftermath. >> at the same time his speech and answers were inspiring to many, tens of millions of americans who want to hear their president talk in visceral terms about the life and death consequences. >> sure. but you can do that, and paint a picture of how damaging bagdadi was from a security perspective, without going into the level of operational detail that president trump did in terms of what actually happened on the ground, the level of detail we had about this site that our special forces were able to get into. that was unnecessary, brian. it's calibration, which is not president trump's strong point. >> look at his question and answer session, he went too far on a number of issues, exaggerated on number of topics, he commented on the raid on bin laden, saying this was more significant, i'll leave that to the military experts. he suggested he uniquely foresaw bin laden's threat to the united states in the year 2000 ahead of the 2001 terrorist attacks as if he wrote about it in his book, as if nobody else knew about bin

laden at the time. that is false and kind of crazy, yet he's out there saying it when secelebrating a successful united states military accomplishment. >> trump always wants to be the hero of any narrative, whether it's a narrative that's relevant to what we're talking about or one from several years ago when a different president was in office. there was a number of ways he bungled the messaging. this is a big win for the united states, a win for trump as well, but it wasn't just about the exaggerations. it was about going into the oil, the oil, it's all about the oil, when remember war for profit is kind of the reason why they don't trust the united states in that part of the world, talking about cutting awas any of this to be talking about when this was about national security? this is not about cutting a great financial deal either for trump himself, which sort of seemed to be the implication, or perhaps the united states. >> in this moment i want to think about the victims of isis.

it is an incredible moment, i think probably an emotional moment for some of these families including the family of james foley, one of the journalists beheaded by isis a number of years ago. diane foley, james' mom, put out a statement in the past few minutes, she says, i'm grateful to our president and brave troops for finding the isis leader. i hope this will hinder the resurgence of terrorist groups and i pray that captured isis fighters will be brought to trial and held accountable. sarah, i think it's worth reflecting on that journalists were among the targets of these isis terrorists. >> absolutely, that's one of the things that's so visceral for the people covering this story, is that the journalists covering it really do feel affected by it. >> what did you make of the president's q&a session? >> there's a big sort of sharp intake of breath when the president says he's going to

take questions because things typically go off the rails. and i think this was no exception. and i think that one of the things that we hadn't talked about yet is how this moment is really kind of where the deep state came through in terms of this particular raid. >> interesting. so if you accept the president's messaging of the deep state, you're saying career officials, government bureaucracy -- >> this is a bureaucratic win for the united states government. i think that that's -- these are people who have been doing their jobs, gathering intelligence, the cia helped out. this is something that is really a vindication for that part of the government that is operating outside of -- certainly this is a win and it's a legitimate, wonderful thing that has happened for the country. but president trump can't take the win. he has to take it another step further and i think that the q&a -- >> and he exaggerated during the q&a. highs and lows symbolized by this week. let's turn to the conversation about impeachment that all the

sunday shows would have been having. there was the stunt of house republicans storming one of the depositions. it got a lot of attention, and that was probably the point. it got too much attention, i think. the real point is what are senate republicans going to do? yes, in the house, some of the republicans are supporting the president. but it's pretty clear at this point there is going to be an impeachment vote in the house. my question is about mitch mcconnell and other senate republicans. catherine, do you think there's been enough attention in the press focusing on the senate part of this? is that starting to get enough attention? >> probably not at this point. you're right, that is what will make or break this decision. at this point, obviously, it does not look like the senate would under any circumstances actually convict this president of whatever articles of impeachment are filed against him. it would be very hard to imagine it. mitch mcconnell has sort of indicated that he may not even have a full trial. so yes, we should be talking

about that. i will say what was interesting this week is that senator lindsey graham filed this resolution condemning the impeachment inquiry and not all the republican senators signed on to it. so i think actually that was telling. it was intended to be a show of force for the president, but in fact not everybody showed up for that show of force. so it does suggest there are some weak links that could deserve more scrutiny going forward. >> certainly the daily caller, of all outlet, a conservative outlet oftentimes pro trump, called all the offices of gop senators asking what will you do about impeachment, will you refuse to vote to convict president trump in a trial. only seven of the gop senators said we will absolutely not convict no matter what. the explanation from politico and other outlets is that these senators, because they're going to be members of a jury, they're not prejudging what's going to happen. but it's striking, sarah, that we're already at the point where reporters are asking that

question. we are only one month down the impeachment road, only a month ago speaker nancy pelosi announced this inquiry. >> otherwise we're left with a vacuum, where are senate republicans, what are we supposed to think about what could happen. that's where the focus should be. but in a vacuum, all you can do is just pick up the phone and keep asking the question. >> that's how you show the silence, that's absolutely true. thank you very much, sam, and everybody else, stick around. quick break here, then we're talking more about how impeachment is being framed through right wing media. you need to know what president trump is hearing when he turns on the tv. we'll show you all that rhetoric, next. ah, ah, ah! [thunder crashing] ahh! my mower! (burke) the number "one." seen it, covered it. at farmers insurance, we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. (bert) mmm. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪

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and non-24 can throw my days and nights out of sync, keeping me from the things i love to do. talk to your doctor, and call 844-214-2424. with president trump's impeachment in the house seeming inevitable and attention turning to the senate, will his fox news force field stay strong? will it hold up? this is a key question. as dan balz wrote in "the washington post," it is now a question of how the president explains it and how lawmakers, especially republicans, choose to respond to it. many republicans are getting their talking points from fox and right wing radio. the message is extreme, accusing democrats of dirty tricks and so much more. take a quick look.

>> the democrats' top secret, soviet-style impeachment coup attempt. >> the president is clearly being denied his constitutional due process. >> it seems like it's the revenge of the globalists here. >> this is a dirty impeachment because it's all being done in secret. >> meanwhile we've got the former chief of staff john kelly basically saying trump is unfit for office. what does the press secretary do? she goes on fox and acts more like a propaganda minister than a press secretary, and slams kelly as, quote, totally unequipped to handle the genius of our great president. that's a quote from the white house press secretary. if you're so proud and confident of his genius, why don't you restore the press briefings? why don't you come out and talk about the president's accomplishments and take questions from reporters? that would be an actually show of strength. but we're seeing grisham and many others repeat the

president's aggressive language about impeachment, losiincludi " "lynching." it is not that kind of situation. the reason why this matters, the reason this rhetoric matters is because the president is hearing it every day and his supporters are hearing it every day. you have to understand what's being heard in right wing media to understand this impeachment debate. catherine rampell and sarah ellison are back with me. also joining me, the author of "antisocia "antisocial: online extremists." that's what's happening in the impeachment debate. >> absolutely. underlying facts are not at all the main things that matters in

terms of narrative shaping. narrative shaping happens on fox news, in congress, and on these fringe parts of the internet that a lot of people would prefer not to think about or look at. it's always been a vast ecosystem, and with social media chopping it up and tunnel it into personalized algorithms, how people are talking about things matters more than the thing itself, impeachment, al bagdadi, whatever it is, when mick mulvaney says get over it, the trump campaign is selling t-shirts with that phrase on it. we should focus on the underlying facts and call out lies where we see them but the fact is these things can get normalized whether people like it or not just by the force of online chatter about it. >> this is a legal impeachment matter, that's a fact. but on the right, this is an illegal coup. that message is repeated by the hour. >> this is how messaging works,

this is how propaganda works. if you repeat something both sides, there will be a "both sides" that occurs, a normalizing that occurs. this is a great skill of trump, he knows he riles up his opponents. that's emotional engagement, which is the lifeblood of social media. >> that's what's happening on facebook. sarah, will trump's fox force field hold? what's the current answer to that question? >> well, i think you've seen some high profile departures. certainly shep smith's daughter was a big moment. that now feels like ancient history largely because of the dynamics we were just discussing, everything is just a clip and a quick moment. but you do see voices on fox criticizing the president, criticizing some of the conclusions that various guests have made on air. >> right. >> and you see almost always an immediate pushback from the president. there's an attack on twitter on people like judge napolitano,

certainly shep smith was another person. but you do think what happens during the day at fox and what's important is if you watch individual shows, a host will not be opinionated, a host will ask questions and get answers from the guests. it's the topic selection, it's the guests who come on, and fox can book republican guests, they will not appear on other networks. >> a lot of these gop senators are afraid to go anywhere but fox right now. >> correct. so what you get is a very -- obviously a very different view of the universe if you're watching fox news. but the individual hosts or the anchors don't necessarily need to be asking a crazy question. they're just going to be covering very different topics. and i think that that's something -- and fox is very up front about that. they think cnn and msnbc focus too much on impeachment, they're too anti-trump. and fox provides a different voice, and they really sell that. and i think the viewership loves that. >> katherine, what's happened in

the past week, stephanie grisham, being the propaganda minister, kellyanne conway berating a reporter for pointing out that her husband thinks president trump needs to be psychologically evaluated. what's going on? >> they're just cowards. if this administration really had so much to celebrate, as you said, they would be having press conferences. they would be facing questions from the press that are not just softball questions that they would get on fox news. it's like -- it's like trump is just so incapable of sustaining or listening to any sort of dissent. he has tried to block out ext t dissent from the administration, from canceling newspapers at basically every agency throughout the federal government. it's just about cowardice. >> how long do you think this is going to last, this claim that they're going to cancel "the washington post" in print?

>> trump was already tweeting about "washington post" articles like within the next 24 hours to which everybody responded, i thought you canceled your subscription, i thought you put your fingers in your ears and said, la, la, la, i can't hear anything, yet he somehow managed to hear it. >> sarah, you're on the news side at "the post," what do you think? >> he's not trying to do anything than have a symbolic -- >> he just wants the headline. >> whether it's the kellyanne conway response or the stephanie grisham response, you can see the pressure on this administration and on this white house, and the ways that -- the way that kellyanne conway responded to that 29-year-old reporter and berated her for so long in such an abusive fashion, that is someone who is under a tremendous amount of pressure. stephanie grisham, i've talked to former communications directors from the white house, and they say this is someone who

needs that kind of adulation and in order for her to survive, she needs to provide that. i think that's just something that shows, you have to remember, these people go to work every day and spend time in a fairly cramped west wing and they need to live there. the other side that have is what we're hearing from them. >> i will say that i know kellyanne conway fans, but she is not unique in calling up reporters and berating them and bullying them. i've had that happen from lots of other government officials, both parties. >> definitely true. sarah, let me turn to one other story, rachel maddow, msnbc's biggest star, in an incredible moment on our own show, challenging nbc management for the mishandling of ronan farrow's reporting about harvey weinstein and matt lauer, all referring to farrow's book "catch and kill." i've been speaking to sources at nbc, some agreeing with maddow, that this has been a blow to morale, another person said they

just want to move on, and another person said, more scrutiny is a good thing to help restore integrity and confidence in the news division. what is your sense of the impact of farrow's reporting? >> oh, i mean, there's no question, it's the only thing people can talk about inside that building, and that's what they've been doing for weeks. and there is a -- it's such blanket kind of coverage inside that place. i think people are tired and they want to move on. at the same time there are people who feel that even this comment, even this statement that nbc came out with to release some women from their nondisclosure agreements, doesn't quite -- it's too cryptic, it makes them ask for permission from nbc to be released from their ndas. it's a big step forward, there's no question, releasing people from ndas is important, but there are people who feel it's not far enough. nbc has been dealing with ronan farrow for over two years and i don't think they are done with

him. i don't think he is done with them. i think this is an ongoing story. >> i liked maddow's suggestion, what she suggested without saying so was, an external journalistic review of these issues, that makes a lot of sense to me. to the panel, thank you very much. a question for you at home. is the anonymous author sitting in this room? is he a cabinet official? is she a white house aide? who is it? i have new reporting about this book plus perspective from "primary colors" author joe klein, next. ruck honks) (wheels screeching) (clapping) (sound of can hitting bag and bowl) (clapping) always there in crunch time.

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is it one of these cabinet officials? or a national security aide or someone lower level? actually i think that's the wrong question. what matters most is not who but what. what is the person allegin? a publishing world source tells me the accounts of trump's misconduct in this book are specific and shocking. taking you in the room with the president. the author, quote, felt that they had a duty to write the book. of course it's easier to evaluate a person's claims when you know the person's name. but the author does know that he or she may be unmasked during this book process. so how is the book rollout going to go? how important will a warning actually be? let's ask joe klein. he knows a thing or two about writing a book anonymously, or trying, anyway. he authored "primary colors," the bestselling political satire based on bill clinton's 1992 campaign, and his identity did eventually come out. joe, it was a positive thing

publicity-wise to be anonymous at first, right? >> random house kept dropping the printing week after week, i was told it was hard to sell a book without an author. but then it exploded like a bomb. >> is it getting more attention because the author is anonymous than it would if it was an undersecretary of something speaking out against trump? >> of course that's part of it. i think you also have the track record of the column a year ago, which i thought was a courageous act, and an act i assume on the part of one of those who is seen as the guardrails against trump going off the rails. >> one of the adults in the room. >> right. >> do you still think this person is courageous? >> no, i think that the guardrails are off. and now is the time for people of good faith to stand up, identify themselves and tell the story. you have a steady parade, as the father of a -- proud father of a foreign service officer, you've got a parade of foreign service

professionals going in, identifying themselves, risking their careers, and i think, you know, now that trump is clearly way off the rails, it's time for everybody to put their cards on the table. >> and be public, not be anonymous. >> and be public, yes. >> i hear people saying this author is a coward. i guess my counter argument is, wait, they may have a very good reason that we won't find out until we read the book. >> that may well be true, and we'll find it out. one thing that we do very well in the media is talk an awful lot about things that we haven't seen yet. and in this case, you know, there may be six smoking guns in there. one thing i would point out is, whoever this is has successfully remained anonymous for a year now. >> even while talking to a

publisher. >> which is something you couldn't do. >> do you think trump will try to find out who it is? >> i think he will try to. there's a incredible story today in "the washington post" about what the republicans in the hearing room are doing. and there was an implication in that piece that the identity of the whistle-blower is known. >> the republicans are fishing. >> trying to elicit. i will say the whistle-blower under the law has the right to privacy. >> that's different from an anonymous author who didn't file a whistle-blower complaint. >> unless the anonymous author is the whistle-blower, which would be hilarious. >> that's mind-blowing. lawyers for the whistle-blower in the ukraine scandal said their client's identity no longer matters because the account he or she provided has been largely confirmed. do you agree it no longer matters, the whistle-blower's identity?

>> i would agree, and i would hope this person would get some privacy, because as far as i can tell, the atmosphere out there is real dangerous. there are a lot of nuts who are supporting the president, and also opposing the president, but in this case, this person's life could be in danger. >> that "washington post" story is excellent, by the way, it's on washingtonpost.com. it has a dozen sources, all making the point, the republicans are very involved in the impeachment inquiry. >> but the amazing thing, as you were saying in the previous segment, is that most fox viewers, in fact many moderate republicans i know, don't know that the republicans are sitting there in the hearings. >> that is an incredible thing. that's something we need to keep putting the facts front and center. joe, thank you, great to see you. >> good to be here. up next, my sit-down with cnn president jeff zucker for a frank talk about cnn's relationship with the white house. plus what we should know about impeachment from the history books. vox's ezra klein he's a unique

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sometimes i get emails, complaints from our viewers saying, where are we airing his events live? you've said we're not airing the rallies live every time, because they're the same thing every time, but we show his pool sprays and cabinet meetings. i think there's an argument that we shouldn't show that at all because there's so much misinformation being spread. >> so look, this is a difficult issue. i get those emails as well. i get a lot of internal conversation about that within cnn. should we be taking the cabinet meetings, should we be taking the chopper talks that he does in the absence of any press briefings or anything like that. i think this is a very complicated issue. on one hand i understand those who think we shouldn't take it, because we should just turn it around and only play the newsworthy parts, that we should take the time to fact check it before he says it. you know, my view of this to this point has been, he is the

president of the united states, and when he speaks, that is newsworthy, and that is important. and frankly, you don't always know what he's going to say or where he's going to go. it's equally as important for people to see in real time, in fullness, what he's saying, how he's saying it. >> how he's saying it. >> what his verbiage is and the like. i understand the sentiment of people who don't think we should take it. i to this point have been of the opinion that when he speaks, he is the president of the united states, it's our job in real time, look, we've taken to fact checking him in real time, we put up on the screen the other day, you know, the constitution of the united states, when he was saying that the emoluments clause wasn't real, we put it up on the screen, because it's real. it's our job to fact check as close to real time as we can, after he speaks, and dissect in real time as we fact check it.

that's where i come out. i do understand the other sentiment. but he is the president of the united states and his words do matter. >> what about his aides or his fans, sean duffy is a new contributor and cnn and some of the same complaints are being made about his appearances. >> i get this as well. look, i think there is a lot of emotion around this president and this presidency. people ask why do you pay people to come on and support him. that's what you're referring to. the latest one is five-term congressman sean duffy out of wisconsin who we just added to our roster of trump voices on cnn. i get a lot of criticism from folks who want to know why do you pay people to come on and talk in support of the president. it's my belief that we should represent out there what those who support donald trump think. now, they say, well, just have them come on as a guest and don't pay them. look, it is hard, it is hard to

find people who will come on and support the president's point of view. and so my view has been, we have several very ardent pro trump supporters on because we're running cnn u.s., we're running cnn international, we're running hln. we need those voices. i think there's a place for them. i acknowledge there are people who disagree with me on that. i feel strongly that their point of view should be heard. >> there was this letter last week from one of the president's lawyers, charles harder, threatening a lawsuit, claiming bias. i think cnn's response was, this is a publicity stunt. do you actually think there could be a lawsuit like that? >> that letter was ridiculous. it was a publicity stunt. they were just trying to, you know, needle us and antagonize us. you know, the president historically has threatened lawsuits against thousands of people. he always says he's going to sue and it never happens.

i'm not concerned about this one. we don't set out to be pro trump. we don't set out to be anti-trump. we set out to be pro truth. i understand in this day and age why being pro truth could be seen as anti-trump. but that's not our problem, that's not our fault. we're just here to ferret out the truth. >> shep smith shocked me by quitting fox two weeks ago. the question i've heard is, do you want to hire him? >> shep is a great journalist. i understand he's not able to take any job for the foreseeable future. but when he's available, he's somebody who i think is kr incredibly talented and somebody i would be interested in talking to. >> maybe sunday at 11:00. >> that's what i was thinking too. >> i guess i have a few more months until he's available.

>> he's an immense talent and we're always looking for great talent. >> he says fox news is conspiracy tv. we got into it. we have it on youtube, check it out on our cnn youtube page. coming up, ezra klein. that is amazing.

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, you know, impeachment is usually portrayed by the press and politicians as a worst case scenario, a trauma, a stain on the country, a scar. ezra klein says it's only traumatic if we all decide it is. two years ago he argued for the normalization of impeachment, saying, hey, this is exactly what the founders intended all along. klein says most people can be fired from their jobs for poor performance and president trump was able to get to where he is today in part by being on "the apprentice" and saying "you're fired." his point is impeachment shouldn't be viewed as this emergency that's going to do terrible damage to the country. it's actually a helpful process, a helpful part our system of checks and balances. so we talked about that. i also asked klein, who is the c co-founder and editor at large for vox media, about trump's need to control media coverage.

how do you think president trump is trying to control media coverage right now? >> the fundamental insight donald trump has always had about the media is that our definition of newsworthiness relies incredibly heavily on the idea of outrageousness. it's like new plus outrageous equals newsworthy. it's not just new, not just important, but also outrageous, that equals newsworthy. he was able to get us to spend a day talking about whether or not it's right to use the word "lynching" and in doing that made us think about how to have a conversation about is the political system treating him unfairly by starting up an impeachment process around his actions, trying to extort ukraine to interfere on his behalf in the 2020 election. if he had just come out and said i don't think it's fair for congress to impeach me or for the media to report on it, nobody would have cared.

but because he was able to create a meta conversation around was it unfair for him to use the word "lynching," was it offensive, then lindsey graham comes in and does the same, it got a lot of coverage. similarly, when house republicans massed outside the hearing room, they got a media spectacle that they wouldn't have gotten if they had just sent out a press release. president trump is going to act out in ever more outrageous ways as he attempts to turn the conversation back to him. what he gets is, it doesn't matter if the coverage is bad, just if he controls it. donald trump would always rather control negative coverage towards him because the media being negative for him is not bad for his brand, than to lose control of the coverage, even if it's more positive. the facts of the story in the impeachment inquiry are so fast moving, they've been able to

dominate the news cycle. you have to and that we're going to see this strategy play out. and the different things donald trump might do to make the strategy play out may include moving the doj into a criminal one. the kind of things the white house does to wrench back the narrative could be quite dangerous to the system. i expect you're going to have more impeachable offences emerge in the reaction to this, and that makes me quite worried, donald trump is never more dangerous than what quite corrosive to our democracy. >> the cycle you described which is new and outrageous, media is right there with him. look at the quote on friday. what we're facing is not partisan warfare. we're facing an attempt to tear down the foundations of our republic. they represent a fatal threat to

our system of government. if the coupe succeeds the nation is facing topplintoppling. >> in 1965 there's this whole argument for impeachment. it's a process to amend political offense, offenses which is against the nature of our society. impeachment is the opposite of a coupe. it's a process that the founders built into this constitution so it wouldn't happen. if the president became lawless, we would have a way to hold them accountable. whatever happens in impeachment, whether trump is impeached or acquitted or convicted in the senate, it's the constitutional process working as intended.

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