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>> we begin the hour with a dose of irony. the president responding to his attorney general's plea to stop tweeting with a tweet. the president today picking and choosing the parts of william barr's interview that he likes. barr says a person never asked him to get involved in the roger stone case. the president said it's his choice to make. the tweet acknowledges but doesn't respond to a very direct and very public message yesterday delivered on abc news. >> to have public statements and tweets made about the department, about our people in the department, our men and women here, cases pending in the department and about judges before whom we have cases, make it impossible for me to do my job. i think it's time to stop the tweeting about the department of

justice's criminal case. >> john harwood is at the white house for us. i don't know, we've been told the president wasn't exactly surprised by these comments from his attorney general. >> reporter: exactly. you know, we've been learning that there was a conversation or had been conversations in recent weeks between the attorney general and the president with bill barr expressing the view hoan ton-that kind of public outreach or statement by the president is not helpful. it's not surprising at all. bill barr and president trump see the issues the same way. they are playing on the same team. what bill barr was saying in that interview yesterday is that the president has been making it harder for the team to win. the more backlash you generate against the idea that the

administration is inserting itself into these prosecution decisions, the more difficult it is to insert yourself. they filed that memorandum that undercut the career prosecutors and bill barr had a revolt on his hands. this was an attempt by the attorney general, who has the same views as the president, to quell that revolt. >> thanks, john, for that reporting from the white house. here with me to share the reporting and other insight, jeff zeleny and happy valentine's day everybody. thanks for being here. you cover the justice department. this was something that's unexpected from this particular cabinet member. loyal cabinet member. we haven't seen cabinet members do this. why did he do this? >> most importantly every indication we get he knows he has a problem inside the department.

the department of justice morale is pretty low. people are fed up what's going on. he needs to rally the troops and get people to feel what they are doing is important. that department needs to hold its integrity. it's taking a hit. he's feeling it. that was really, to me, the whole purpose of yesterday. i know a lot of us are making this big deal about this rebuke. is it really real or is there some kind of yeah, i'm going against the president here and standing up to him. that really real and is that sincere? i mean i guess that's something that will take time to figure out. but most important thing in all this is for him to get a message across to his troops and may be a little too late. >> some republicans clearly hoping that the president also gets the message from his attorney general. here's what mitch mcconnell had to say. >> i think the president should listen to his advice. the attorney general says it's getting in the way of doing his

job maybe the president should listen to the attorney general. i think the president ought to listen to attorney general. he told the president this is not helpful, making it difficult for him to do his job. the president ought to listen to him. >> do we have any reason to believe that the president will listen to his attorney general? >> not much. but i do think that and john made the point earlier that part of the reason for bill barr to have done this was to essentially telegraph to the president we're on the same team here, we want the same things. i'm helping you. i'm doing what you want notice do. don't be public telling everybody that you're intervening to make meadow things because that will undercut the credibility of my actions. when you heard senator mitch mcconnell and lindsey graham last night have those strong shows of support for the attorney general they were in part talking to the president and saying, and he went on fox news to do it which is the best way to talk to the president, let him do his job. he's doing what we want him to

do. i think they are hoping that the president does heed the advice, obviously with these tweets this morning there's not much evidence he's doing that. >> jeff, it was clear that the president knew that barr was concerned about this, there was some indication he told the president this might happen. we also know that the president also reacts to things based on how it's covered in the press. how do we think he'll feel about this going forward after he sees this all over tv. >> a great question. there's generally a short term reaction, it's fine. then a longer term reaction after the news coverage sets in. we know the president watches news, sometimes hours after the fact. he'll consume all this. this was not a surprise to the white house. of this not the attorney general surprising the president. he's very familiar with this line of thought. our reporting is that he's said that to him privately as well. this is how it plays out.

if the president somehow seems that he looks weak by this and sees the news coverage that bill barr is kind of trying to school the president he won't like that. the reality is i would assume the president to realize this attorney general is on his side. there are myriad examples when he had his back and front. so i think we'll see how this plays out over the weekend and what people are whispering in the president's ear. can you imagine if you added the attorney general on the list of people who are on the outs with this president. that would be a real issue. we don't have any indication that's true. what's inside the building trying to school people down. >> this is what he had to says william barr about the decision made on the stone case. >> i had made a decision that i thought was fair and reasonable in this particular case. and once the tweet occurred the question is well now what do i do? do you go forward with what you

think is the right decision or do you pull back because of the tweet? that just sort of illustrates how disruptive these tweets can be. >> do we get the sense this was choreographed? you know, obviously barr is going out there on television. what's that sense of that? >> parts of this were choreographed in many, many ways and certainly based on our reporting, the cnn reporting he gave the white house some indications that what he was going to do. so i don't think -- if he was going to go out there and blindly just go against the president like this and real caught the president by surprise we would be seeing a different surprise even on fox news. last night they were supporting him. i think that gave us some indications even more indications this was not a surprise. i think the president and the white house certainly realize that the attorney general needed to do something. when you have four prosecutors

walking away from a case, and threats of potentially other prosecutors walking from a case, it's very clear that there's a problem inside this department and they needed to do something. there's still a problem inside this department. what the attorney general did last night does not make anything better. people still have issues with and continue to have issues with it. >> and we, of course, are looking for this investigation that the president has talked about and this from the "new york times," justice department is investigating cia resistance to sharing russia secrets. prosecutor john durham appears to be pursuing a theory the cia under its former director john brennan had a preconceived notion about russia or was trying to get a particular result and nefariously trying toe keep other agencies see the full picture lest they interfere with that. >> we know he has no love lost

for john brennan. he's been deeply suspicious of him, et cetera. we'll see. this is a part of the latest example of this is the sound track for the rest of the election year. the president likes that in many respects because it keeps things sort of mixed up and churned up. we'll see where this goes. >> the thing with the durham investigation, there's some mitigation that the president wants to use that to his advantage. that's what this is, in end, if the president keeps talking about this and keeps raising the issue it will hurt the credibility of that investigation. >> why barr might want to come out now and say listen i'm independent of this president. that's the context i saw it in or barr speaking about it. thanks. appreciate it. up next we turn to the 2020 presidential race. as we go to break remember the president's first attorney general and how he was repeatedly berated and belittled by the president. jeff sessions wants you to know there's no hard feelings and that he's running for his old

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who are competing in the democratic nomination, people like cory booker of new jersey, a senator. julian castro worked hard. nobody changed the rules to get them in the debate. but i guess if you're worth $60 billion you can change the rules. >> and ginger gibson with reuters is joining our conversation now. ginger, i'm going start with you on this. it's getting real out there between these candidates, no more nice play between these folks because the field is narrow and you got these upcoming contests in nevada and south carolina and on to super tuesday. >> they are in make it or break it mode. win now or go home and stakes are very clear in front of them. we saw elizabeth warren in arlington, virginia last night take her move aggressive attacks against michael bloomberg. we will see more aggressive targeting of bernie sanders, of

pete buttigieg and of amy klobuchar especially after her finish in new hampshire. >> pete buttigieg, he finished strong in new hampshire. we'll see what he's able to do in they much more diverse states of nevada and south carolina and as you mentioned amy klobuchar. >> i heard some people say that, you know, my experience is not relevant because you need washington experience in order to become president. but some of those same voices are among those who voted to confirm kevin as the head who preside over for example the horrifying conditions that children were kept in. and we have to look at what kind of judgment that experience has brought. >> to read those opposition researchers doing their job, there digging in to amy klobuchar's record because we know that this has been a fight on the debate stage, right? amy klobuchar saying listen our

washington persons matters just as much as your small town experience does. >> right. it's clear it's opera time for these candidates especially in the moderate lane because it's getting crowded between buttigieg, bernie sanders, and amy klobuchar coming up. what buttigieg has been trying to say when he gets attacked on his lack of experience is the fact that experience doesn't matter as much as judgment. we've seen him use that line againsted by and that's what he's trying to do with amy klobuchar at this point. i will say early on in iowa there were a lot of voters who were deciding between warren and buttigieg but now out on the campaign trail in new hampshire and other states i've been hearing amy klobuchar's name come up. people deciding between buttigieg and amy klobuchar. this is his early shot at getting some of those people maybe, especially in a state like nevada that cares about immigration. >> sanders strong finish. not as strong, obviously, as last go around but a bit of a hiccup in nevada in what's going

on there with the labor union there. here's what he said about personal attacks being launched in his name. >> let me be very clear. anybody making perm attacks against anybody else in my name is not part of our movement. we don't want them. i'm not so sure to be honest with you that they are necessarily part of our movement. you understand the nature of the internet. it's a strange world out there. >> listen, jeff, this is something of a new tack, new framing from bernie sanders saying that he doesn't really know if the bernie bros are -- >> at his own rallies in new hampshire that evening of his victory party when pete buttigieg came on television, you know, crowds were screaming wall street pete which isn't the worst attack. of course they are sanders supporters and the same pattern bernie sanders has done. he's never said anything against them at his own rally. in interviews he's asked about

it. he says of course i disavow that. we'll see how this goes. >> it hurt him very much in nevada because of the culinary union there, a lot of attacks against them because they don't like medicare for all. >> we're about to see this relitigated against. his medicare proposal has been supported by a lot of democrats. exit polls in new hampshire show more than a majority supported that. but other places we're not seeing that at all. so senator sanders clearly, you know, is probably going to take a hit in nevada because of his support for medicare for all. certainly will cost him any type of endorsement. i'm not sure how much of that endorsement matters. they decided to stay out. this going forward is about the unity of the party. i was on the road with michael bloomberg yesterday as well in north carolina and he suddenly is taking delight at being the center of all of this. but the question here is, you know, joe biden was going after him, elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, others. the question is when he steps

out of his television commercial what type of a candidate is he. >> if he ever does. >> i was struck by being at his events how much it seemed like we were stepping into his television commercial because it was just not, you know, as much of a -- didn't take questions from voters, et cetera. keep your eye on him. >> we got some news just in from the justice department about the fbi official who authorized the investigation into president trump. so, charges or no chorgs for andrew mccabe? >> reporter: no charges for andrew mccabe. we're getting word from andrew mccabe's attorney that the department of justice has decided to drop the investigation into the former deputy fbi director. of course, important to know that andrew mccabe is a cnn contributor. we're now getting word from his attorneys that the department of justice which has been pursuing

charges, looking into whether or not the former deputy director had lied to the inspector general during their investigation into leaks, whether or not he lied to them about his contact with a newspaper, with a reporter and that information was subject of an investigation by the inspector general who then referred the case for criminal charges to the washington field office. u.s. attorney here in washington, d.c. it's kind of been in limbo. we haven't had any word on where the case was going. there was a lot of expectation. there was word that perhaps the department was close to charging andrew mccabe. that there was some word he was about to be indicted. then all of a sudden everything just disappeared. the department would not respond any questions certainly to andrew mccabe's attorneys for months. they were trying to figure out what was happening with the case and now today the u.s. attorney's office, the

washington field u.s. attorney's office which is the same u.s. attorney's office that is handling the roger stone case and now the michael flynn case as well and is handling the andrew mccabe case, they sent a letter to andrew mccabe's attorney where they say after careful consideration the government has decided not pursue criminal charges against andrew mccabe, arising from that referal that i talked about from the inspector general. so now, obviously, this is now over. the key question here in all of this, of course, is how is the president going to respond? because for months he has railed against the former deputy fbi director saying that he was part of this witch-hunt. of course he and former fbi director comey all caught the attention of the president, the attacks against them, constant attacks by the president. it was believed that the president was putting pressure on the attorney general to try and build a case against andrew

mccabe. now that's all over. obviously the big question is going to be how will the president respond to all of this? important also to note, about the u.s. attorney now, the acting u.s. attorney here in washington that's overseeing this case is timothy sha. same person, he's on the letter. his name is right at the top of the letter. he's the same person who is overseeing the roger stone case, the sentencing. same person who was supposed to brief the attorney general about the latest on the sentencing regarding roger stone which started the whole roger stone saga of the attorney general being unhappy with the sentencing. now, again, we have timothy shay in the middle of this saying in this letter they will not file charges against andrew mccabe. >> thanks so much for that breaking news. we'll bring you inside the room here. the president's response. i guess at some point we'll be

checking our twitter feeds to see what his reaction is to this. again he thought this is somebody who should be investigated and possibly be put in jail, possibly indicted and none of that will happen. >> right. the president spent months attacking mccabe. he talked about how mccabe got money from hillary clinton. he not at all shy about impugning his motives and making it clear he thought he should be prosecuted and action should be taken against him. i cannot imagine he'll be very happy with this outcome. at the same time the time is very interesting. and the connection with the stone case is interesting. this could be one of those moves that the attorney general and justice department are making at this moment to show that there is independence because the president's contact commenting on andrew mccabe's case had created problems for the case and for the appearance of impropriety. these things were all tied

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michael bloomberg trying to make amends with communities of color. he's once again apologizing for the controversial policing tactic known as stop-and-frisk. this after an audio clip surfaced this week from 2015 from a speech in which bloomberg defended the practice. here's what he said last night in houston during a launch bid mike for black america. >> there's a speech i deeply regret the abuse of police practice called stop and frisk. i defended it. looking back on it for too long because i didn't understand then the unintended pain it was causing young black and brown kids and their families. i should have acted faster to stop it. for that i apologize. >> this marks the first time that the billionaire has publicly apologized for the policy since launches his campaign for president. how much do we think this matters for bloomberg at this

point? he's clearly targeting african-american voters. you saw him with that launch. ebeen in south carolina. nationally up on air even though he's not on the primary ballot in south carolina, north carolina and texas have a large african-american community, what's your sense? >> so, bloomberg knows that he needs black voters in order to do well on super tuesday. he's put all his money on super tuesday states. these are states that have big minority pop layings. he's been trying to target those communities even since before he launched his campaign he publicly apologized after defending stop-and-frisk for years, he apologized at a black church for this practice and since then they've been making the case, you know, airing an ad with president obama. when i talk to voters both in tennessee and in north carolina, black voters who attended his events they kind of said that they accept his apology. that they are trying to move on. they oftentimes compared him to president trump. these are people who live in

states that president trump won, they know people who are trump supporters. what they said is we hear from people around us is so much worse than what we heard mike bloomberg say we think this guy could actually beat trump so we're willing to look past it is what i heard from at least about a dozen voters. >> jeff, you talked to some voters as well down in north carolina and here's what they had to say. >> i think he's the best candidate for the democrats. i think he's got, obviously, the most money. definitely the most organized campaign. >> i'm very impressed with his commercials. very positive. they show -- they talk about things that people care about, health care, gun control, and that's what makes me feel good about him as a candidate. >> the commercial is inescapable. always on tv. i spoke an older african-american who had liked biden and is now liking bloomberg and describe bloomberg oddly enough as a man of the people. based on all of the commercials

she's been seeing. >> he's basically living with people in their living rooms. he's on television so much. he does seem like part of the family in some respects. look i had the same experience talking to voters yesterday in north carolina as well. but, people also said they wanted to hear him acknowledge it and apologize. he didn't address it at all yesterday while in north carolina. he did last evening in houston. look, no one is going to, i think, very few people will hold it against him the until the very end, if he apologizes, but also the language that he used on those audiotapes. there are certainly more audiotapes out there. he's given so many speeches and things. he'll have to navigate this on a debate stage if he qualifies next week when his other opponents are going after him. the challenge for mayor bloomberg this has been -- he's controlled the narrative. there's television ads, through data and everything. how can he stand up in an environment he can't control. that's what we'll see. we don't know tans. people are willing to give him

the benefit of the doubt because they want to win. >> the $60 billion that he has. joe biden talking about the vetting idea and that would be an environment that he can't control and this is what joe biden had to say. the advantage i have is i've been vetted, revetted and vetted again. if you read the paper they are just starting on mike. what's your sense? >> thus far mike bloomberg has been a guy running ads against donald trump and if he makes that debate stage and he keeps going he'll be a cane in the primary. that's going to come with all the trappings of a candidate. not only is he going to have the vetting, he's going to have to answer real-time, i would expect elizabeth warren to go right at him on a debate stage and press him. not just what the voters want which is acknowledging the language. as jeff pointed out. but explaining what it means for him going forward and what he would do in the white house. you can give a speech off a teleprompter where you say you regret defending him as long as you did. it's different when you have to

answer in real-time. that will be the big test for him if he can make that debate stage. >> he clearly has the president's attention. he said we're scaring the living hell out of donald trump in that they are just getting started now. the president tweeted about him. nickname mini mike. >> clearly the things he's presented to people is why he should be an appealing candidate he can take to it trump. i'm not sure this wins him any voters he's trying to get under the president's skin. he tweeted they know the same people in new york and behind his back he says people laugh at president trump and call him a clown. again, i'm not sure that really resonates with voters except insofar as they are looking for someone who will take on this president in an aggressive way and as they look the at the field and look at some of the less appealing information that's coming forward as to other candidate start to focus on mike bloomberg's record he wants to be able to say we need to pivot and think about who is best equipped financially and otherwise to take on this

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concerns and address their concerns. particularly in the wake of impeachment kind of a divisive time in this chamber between two parties fact that he was able to listen and then actually address concerns really struck a lot of republicans that i spoke to as odd and they were enjoying it to some degree. the broader issue here is what is happening behind-the-scenes here as they are building a coalition. not be able to be signed into law this time around, but in the future there will come a time when a debate about military action comes up and that coalition is there and is bigger and broader and has enough numbers to actually do something, something that hasn't been done in two decades. that's more important than anything else. >> phil, thanks so much for that reporting from the hill. we'll go around the table here. what do we think this means? eight republicans, people like susan collins, lisa murkowski, mike lee. is this a blip for the president in terms of republicans breaking

from him or is this importaport of what's to come. >> it shows a shift among certain republicans. we've seen that while they are very unwilling to criticize this president on most any other issue republican senators in particular have been willing to break with him on foreign policy and military matters when they think it's important. one of the unappreciated aspects of this particular resolution after the strike on qassem soleimani last month, there were a lot of republicans who were very angry and upset with the way that the administration didn't consult with them and then when they asked questions about strategy and what their wroebl in future operations of this kind were basically brushed off. there's somewhat of a ground swell about concern about that. president trump by really not involving congress at all and acting as if he doesn't need to and his administration acting that way, his advisors acting

that way has supercharged this undergift ca undergirding. >> senator mike lee is at the top of that list. he was furious at the briefing or lack of briefing after the qassem soleimani strike. this is probably a one off in terms of foreign policy but not just measure can you ski and senator susan collins. todd young is a conservative in every respect but on foreign policy he believes on separation of powers. congress has shirked their responsibility for two decades almost here. congress has been -- parties have been willing to allow themselves not to be involved in this. i think it's an interesting sign. senator tim kaine deserves so much credit for leading the way on this. it's a sign that there can be bipartisan trust. >> getting those eight republican senators to come along with him on this very important issue. up next the father of one of the parkland shooting victims has a message on the second

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topping our political radar a deal between the u.s. and taliban to pause violence in afghanistan. defense secretary mark esper announced the seven day deal this morning and said it would take effect very soon. the temporary stop sets the

table for a broader peace deal and it's not known if the seven day stop will hold. the white house outlined why it killed an iranian terrorist doesn't cite an imminent threat. trump administration officials said again and again they had to act now because soldier had imminent plans to attack u.s. targets. that word imminent appears nowhere in the trump administration unclassified notification to congress explaining why the strike was legal. instead it sites future iranian attack plans. democratic chairman of the house foreign affairs committee eliot engel calls that explanation absurd. and happening two hours from now, a moment of silence in parkland, florida. exactly two years after a gunman killed 17 students and teachers at stoneman douglas high school, since that day many students who survive the attack have become

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president trump is weighing in on 2020 democratic field tweeting today that people are trying to take the nomination "today" way from senator bernie sanders, calling it quota rigged system. president trump said he's not afraid of running against bernie sanders but prefer a run against another emerging white house hopeful. >> i like him. i like any of them. i think would be good with anybody. frankly my first choice would be mini mike. i think it would be easy. biden was shot from the beginning. i used to call him 1% joe. remember 1%. he'll be back as 1% joe.

amazing it faded fast. one of the big tell tale signs of trouble is when obama wouldn't endorse him early on. >> ginger, you've been out on the campaign trail and the main thing that these voters care about is who can beat trump. >> absolutely. if you talk to voters their number one priority ahead of ideology, ahead of background, ahead of any perceived flaws in these candidates is whether or not they can beat donald trump. i think that's part of the reason why donald trump delights so much in weighing in on the field. he knows that that's what's driving the electorate and he likes to play the game, who am i afraid of and who am i not afraid of. who gets me going. he says mini mike is his favorite as an opponent but i think really michael bloomberg has gotten in i had head. we've seen the way he tweets about him. bloomberg likes to joke he's living rent free.

but it's clear that he gets at him a little bit. we saw in that interview him talking about pete buttigieg. we saw his close ally rush limbaugh making some inflammatory criticisms. >> saying the country wasn't ready for him kissing his husband on the stage. >> that's how trump allies will go after for a guy's own marriage was a topic of conversation. it's signs he's pushing at those guys in the lectorate as well. >> quickly, michael bloomberg knows he's in the president's head. >> definitely. their ads are aimed at that some ways at getting under the president's skin. the president has he we elevated bloomberg. he has not been on the debate stage yet. running a lot of ads, yes. the way he's been able to get voters attention is because donald trump keeps tweeting about him. >> we'll see if he's on that debate stage on wednesday. thanks for joining us on "inside

politics". hope to see you here on sunday at 8:00 a.m. breanna keilar starts right now. i'm breanna keilar live from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now hours after the attorney general seemed to publicly criticize president trump's tweets about the justice department, new details emerging that the president had an idea of what barr would say. and the president still tweeting, by the way. president trump closing ranks in the aftermath of his impeachment trial, surrounding himself with loyalists. an all out sprint in the democratic presidential primary as candidates fan out ahead of spate of crucial contests. they are firing on michael bloomberg as he fends off more