errol louis and cnn political comment tator and sarah westwood. boris said, they could be unrelated the russian probe and donald trump jr.'s meeting and this payment. the lack of chronology and who knew what when, could this be preparation for the oncoming controversy? >> there's a range of reporting suggesting white official and legal talent that knew weeks ago that was coming. yeah, this is more in that direction. i think, though, the other question, victor, that comes with this is if they are paying for donald trump jr. through the campaign going forward, for the real act, and then look back at this meeting in june of 2016 when he is there with the campaign chairman, the question is, you know, is he, was he a campaign operative? was this something that, you know, instead of simply acting as if this was the meddling of a novice who is trying to help his dad out maybe this was official to the campaign and something the campaign has to answer for. if you're going to pay the legal bills of donald trump jr. and have him sit in at the highest levels w

. >> with me now, errol louis and sarah westwood. good morning. errol, i want to start with the president's tweet. this repeal, then replace offer, is that going anywhere? >> oh, no. for the reasons that were just described. it is both politically and sort of mathematically unwise but impossible to do this. you cannot undo the large tangle of subsidies and various interactions that make the affordable care act and all of the sudden just kind of say, well, none of that exists. we are going to roll back the medicaid expansion, 700,000 in this state, 700,000 in that state simply won't be covered and we'll get around to something better a year from now. the polls already suggested, the public, who are the key players in all of this, are not going to let the senate or the house get away with that. >> take a look at the latest cnn poll out from a march win. 17% support repealing regardless of a replacement. 59% support repeal only if a replacement is ready. sarah, to you, this wouldn't solve any of the problems the president says he wants to solve, bette

let's discuss with political commentators errol louis, hilary rosen. errol, is this much ado about nothing or some ado about something? >> it's some ado about something. there was no american there. there was no national security aide or secretary of state not even a translator so we don't have u.s. notes about what transpired in the conversation. we also have a history of donald trump in the oval office and other occasions talking too freely about national security matters in ways that damage or salt of alter the posture of the united states with regard to other countries, including our adversaries so people have reason to be worried and when the president reacts with sort of scorn and a half-truthful statement about how, you know, well, everybody knew i was there, that's not even the issue, of course, it makes you wonder and people have very good reason to worry, i think. >> margaret, what is the president trying to do here? errol is right. his statement, his response blaming the media, et cetera, was off point. that's not the point being made about t

joining us cnn political commentator errol louis. errol, the president and first lady touched down. we can see it again. this is them arriving in paris. it will be very interesting to watch their body language. in the press conference, which is the first time we assumed questions about don junior will come up. what, errol, are you expecting? >> i'm expecting in addition to all the things we'll end up talking about, there will be interesting stuff around trade and tourism and all the normal things that go on when two nations of this kind are together. when the questions begin, though, i'm very interested to hear what the french press is going to ask. we've got this narrative and it's going to probably continue here for a long time where the president says all of american media is against him except for the conservative press. it's all fake news. we're making things up, getting paid more to say things damaging to him and so forth. the french press who are a pretty sharp bunch, they have nothing to do with any of that. they'll answer very straightforwa straightforward questions whabt w

. >> errol louis and stephen collinson, stick around with us. brian robinson, thanks for being around. we have so much to talk about this morning. >> including this. >>> a new report from "the washington post" could cause some serious problems for the white house. allegations that attorney general jeff sessions talked about the trump campaign with the russian ambassador. breaking down the new details for you. >>> plus, the minneapolis police chief resigns, days after a deadly police shooting, but protesters say that is not nearly enough. >> why don't you ask the mayor of minneapolis to resign! >> and in a few months, hawaii will begin using an attack warning siren. something that hasn't been heard since the cold war. why the state is going on alert against north carolina. you hear these stories all the time. am i going to pass away like my mom did? and so you know this is something that's important. losing my mom to heart disease and then being diagnosed myself. it's like a war we're trying to fight against these diseases. resilience is in my dn

let's discuss this with errol louis and princeton professor jim sciut julian zeleny.riday night a senior administration told cnn that the president did not accept putin's denial and three times on air force one, three administration officials declined to say that the president, indeed, accepted putin's denial. what is the assessment here? well, my sense of it is that some of this is the growing pains of a new administration. we will keep in mind that neither of the two cabinet secretaries nor the president, himself, has ever worked in the field of international diplomacy, so they are kind of doing this for the first time. i think they are going to learn some of the small things that they should pick up on, thing like it's important to have a press briefing right after the fact in order to make sure that you don't have this kind of confusion. the fact that you should do it on camera as the russians did, not this strange sort of audio and not letting any pictures be taken of them as they answer questions. then, finally, getting their stories straight. look. my sense of

diane gallagher, cnn, washington. >>> errol louis and julian zeleny back with us here. errol, go to you first. it's a theory but it's a strong enough theory that senator graham is talking about it. how plausible is it that something like this could happen? >> that is very plausible from the point of view clearly what the president want is to get sessions out of the justice department. i think we have all sorted of seen every sign from the president personally that what he wants is for somebody to step in and fire robert mueller and halt the investigation. if this is the easiest way to do it, it seems a little bit crazy in a way to sort of play with the lives of americans to have americans's security subject to these political winds blowing through the white house but that is where we are. >> you say it's an easy way to do it. julian, it wouldn't necessarily be that easy. i mean, would it? in fact, let's get to what senator graham said about this effort. i think we have some sound here. >> this effort to basically marginalize and humiliate the attorney general is not goin

we have cnn political analyst, and errol louis and philip mud. david gregory, nice to see you back after a little break. what jumps out from this "new york times" reporting about this e-mail to don junior and the meeting he had? >> what jumps out is about all the follow-up questions it creates and what the nature of the information was, where it was coming from. eve morn striking than that is the shocking incompetence and arrogance to say such things about an opponent. that's not the new part. the fact that it would be someone connected to the russian government ought to give you pause. it just shows in the course of the campaign they were letting themselves be vulnerable to potential blackmail, filtration, all kind of things by a russian government looking to interfere in our election. this is the same time, if you recall, that candidate trump was inviting russia in a press conference to hack hillary clinton's e-mails and find the missing e-mails and reveal them. a complete disregard for what russia could have actually been up to and was up to i

with us is political anchor for spectrum news errol louis and kelly jane is also with us of the weekly standard. >> good morning. >> this bill on sanctions goes specifically to the president's ability to ease them or to paws them. no executive likes limitations on their powers but is the president considering the vote in congress expected to veto this one? >> this is a tough one for president trump, isn't it? and, you know, he is not a typical republican. we have known that from the start but i've actually thought since the beginning that russia is likely to be the issue in which he is going to have the most trouble with his own party because republicans have been very cautious ian some of them very hawkish on russia for years now it's amazing to me that republicans in the house and the senate have gotten backbone and pushed back against the president. it took an issue as important as this one that they have all cared about for years. i think he is considering vetoing it but think about how bad that would look. it might not even mat if he vetoes it because it looks to me like the house

errol louis what do you make of it? >> one important thing they're asking for is party registration, which aparental a contradicts privacy flalaws fro the 1970s. i think it is not a voter fraud commission so much as a voter suppression effort. >> that's what critics point out. >> i mean, critic or supporter, i'm not sure what the difference is, frankly. >> explain that. how could asking for your party affiliation and social security number -- >> last four. >> last four and address, how is that voter suppression? >> it is voter suppression in the following sense. first of all, ballot security, true ballot security rests on the fact that it is radically decentralized, 3100 counties, 3100 i was ways of doing electi different machines, different voting rules. that provides a layer of security. you don't have one system that can be hacked. there's that. chris has a clear history when it comes to this stuff. he pursued a theory of voter fraud that has no basis of fact, and assumes people are going from state to state casting

david gregory, chris cillizza and errol louis. have they been keeping sean spicer in a soundproof room where he did not know there's an ongoing conversation where don jr. admitted in his emails that he was lured by the protect of dirt on hillary clinton from the russians. >> i love it, did not go to adoption policy and sanctions as i remember from my reading of the emails. >> i listened it to yesterday and immediately felt like a sean spicer press briefing from eight days ago, that was when that quote would have had some relevance before the don jr. emails which by the way don jr. released before the president of the united states tweeted out that anyone would have taken this meeting to get dirt on or opposition research on a political opponent. there's really no explanation other than well there's two, one, the president says and does what he wants. the white house communications staff says something totally different, that's one. two, i do think that sean spicer is refusing to give an inch when the truth is obvious. i don't know

joining us erroll louis and claude, and reporter for "the star ledger" in new jersey.ude, not only did you have that exchange with the governor yesterday but really the one that set it all off was this one. let's listen. >> no, it didn't claude, but go ahead. i didn't get any sun today. no. there's no one at island beach state park. there are no lifeguards, no one to pick up the garbage, there's no one provides any beach service at island beach stage park. next. excuse me, next. next. i'm done. we're talking about the closure of government and you're talking about your tmz stuff. >> this is more, claude, than just an update on the vitamin d that the governor of new jersey has been getting. it's really representative of something greater he's facing in that state. >> yes, this was an interesting exchange. it's interesting that he referenced tmz, because i used to work there years and years ago. i helped launch the website back about a decade ago, but he's famously captured brandishing an ice cream cone on the boardwalk after he had gotten into a verbal altercation with

joining us cnn political commentator errol louis, congressional reporter for "the washington post," karoun demir jan and a.b. stoddard. great to see all of you. errol, do we know how this press conference will work? can anybody ask questions? will it be tightly controlled? will american journalists be allowed to ask? >> we've seen lots of different variations. the tradition has been, and i assume they'll sort of adhere to form is both leaders will take questions from foreign and their domestic press. what we don't know is who is going to be in the room and how much they want to sort of press french issues in the way that any of us would do. so, for example, president trump has been critical of immigration policy in france. there's been talk about terrori terrorism and whether or not it is linked to immigration policies. >> he's talked terrorists dangerous. that it's a dangerous place to go. >> if you were a parisian journalist, you would probably ask about that. why are you insulting paris? have you consulted with armed forces? what we'll get i think is going to be a pretty aggressive set

that is the numbers we got in this new cnn poll this morning, errol louis. americans asked about their concerns with the russians in the trump campaign. 49 decline it was 55 in march. 27% of americans say they are, quote, very concerned about contacts between russians and the trump campaign. what do the numbers tell us and what do they boelter the white house strategy? >> i think the white house reports it is good news, although it's not. bob mueller is not looking at the polls, he doesn't care. the senate intelligence is not going to be swayed by a moving number of today's poll compared to the numbers on the question. i would go back in time and remind people that most americans, i'm talking 60 plus percent did not think watergate was serious until the hearings. they knew there was a break-in and a saturday night massacre and the president didn't want it to go forward. you can look hour after hour at the demeanor of the people and the questioning they are placed under. that is the american system, to put the people under a jury or in this case, a jury of th

. >> errol louis, rebecca berg, thank you very much. >> i want to show you live pictures we're getting, look at this out of hong kong right now. fireworks over victoria harbor there. hong kong marking the 20th year anniversary. and angry over chinese control over that city. china's president xi jinping saying hong kong is, quote, non-negotiable. but what a celebration that is, my goodness. >>> all right. coming up there was a small plane that crashes on one of the busiest highways in california. >> yeah, yeah, mov move back fre plane. >> just breathe, just breathe, okay. >> the frightening moment as that plane crash landed in the middle of traffic. >>> plus, doctors describing that deadly shooting at a new york city hospital, called a war zone. live updates from new york. >>> and finally, an arrest in the case of a missing chinese grad student. the news from investigators is not good, however. what they're telling family members this morning. stay close. there's nothing more important to me than my vacation. so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find

let's bring in our political panel, cnn political commentator errol louis, cnn political analysts john avlon and david drucker all in the house. a fun morning for us. let's start with you, errol. general john kelly, what is likely to change with him as chief of staff? >> probably not as much as people would think. the reality is if you already have general kelly. >> john: mcmaster, general mattis at high levels of the administration, they haven't exercised any restraint people can see. people shouldn't think that having a high ranking general walking into the white house, anything is going to change. he's going to get an education, he general kelly is going to get an education. he's spent the last couple decades stand up and salute him when he walks in the room. that ain't going to happen anymore. he's going to be a little surprised how people are inclined to, from white house parlance leak, from our point of view, conduct a public dialogue, have discussions with the public and the press. i don't think we're going to see as much change as people would like to see. >> i'll push back on

errol louis is with us, cnn political commentator and political anchor for spectrum news and also is tom. tom, first to you. what do you make of what is happening there with the thad missile system and how could that rattle china? where do we go from here? >> it's clear that we know that the u.s. government knows and understands they need to do something. there is a flyover yesterday after the missile test by north korea that they coordinated with japan. so there has been a response. when you put that against the backdrop of what trump is saying in public here with these tweets, it's interesting. right? the bigger problem and the bigger concern i think domestically is whether or not trump understands the depths of this problem. on the one hand, the actions and the reactions flyover and missile testing point to kind of the automated response of, you know, strong government. but when he put out tweets like that, you know, saying he is going to rely on china for this, it's surprising and you really can't rely on china, to be frank. >> earlier this year, the president had said he would b

with me now, mary katherine ham, errol louis, kirsten powers, scott jennings, and paul begala.cott, can the white house really claim this was transparency with a straight face? i mean -- >> in a crisis public relations situation, typically you want your first response to be, you know, what's the old saying, measure twice, cut once. you don't want to be coming back to the well. they did, however it took, arrive at a transparent moment of e-mail release. that was a choice they had to make. they need to follow through on that now. and he does need to testify. he's offered to do it. that's absolutely the correct public posture. one worry i have about this whole issue is that in some of the reporting, there are west wing staffers on air force one, helping craft the response for donald trump jr.. >> reported that in "the new york times." >> yes, this is troubling, because you may have people who weren't in the meeting, who maybe didn't even know anything about it until that moment that are possibly now in the investigatory loop when they otherwise might not have been. and so, as some

. >> let's bring back our ponl, errol louis, ron brownstein.as approval ratings he says down to paid staffers and close family. this is below that. 15% here. and it's a staggering, stunning fall for chris christie who may have been one of the front-runners for the republican nomination. he gave the keynote in the 2012 republican convention and now he's at 15% with photos of him on a beach. >> i remember the sound check at the tampa convention, out on the floor and people flocked to him, there was this flow before he gave the me-note, and mitt romney who he was there to nominate. things went badly for chris christie and some of the problems were evident before 2012. christie came in and had a serious structural pension problem and they are now in the worst state of any state of the country. he had other kinds of budget tearle challenges, the bill eventually came due. his absences, he spent something like 190 days on the road when he thought he could become president in 2015, that never sat well with the residents of his state. he has a bipartisa