chris cillizza is still with us. and brian karem. brian, what do you make of this story? >> well, it's dangerous. it's a continuing policy from the obama administration and from others. the on 'bama administration they have jail whistleblowers. on this he is definitely in agreement with. it's scary. as you know, i spent time in jail. >> i remember. >> it's not pleasant, and it's very frightening and very chilling for the first amendment. so the president continued his march towards his kingliness and demanding information from reporters. in this case it's particularly onerous because they went behind someone's back and seized things without even a subpoena. alisyn, that's scary when it comes to what you're allowed to do and what you shouldn't be doing as a member of the government. and it is prior restraint and it is also very chilling for anyone who wants to be a reporter in this country. it's frightening. i can't think of enough words to describe how doggone bad it is. ali is a reporter for the "new york times" now. she was at buzzfeed before, chris, when these were pub

with me now, chris cillizza, david chalian is here, at the won barbara starr and at the justice department laura jarrett. david chalian, let me begin with you. i just outlined where the president puts blame on all of these things but let's start with the extraordinary claim on north korea, that he has solved the nuclear problem with north korea. >> i heard him say that he has solved the problem with north korea so peace on earth. it's the best economy that has ever existed in all of history, he said. and he's been completely exonerated in the mueller probe by the i.g. report. i'm not sure what he has to stick around for tomorrow. it seems like he's accomplished it all. i mean if he thinks that north korea is a solved issue, that like he went there, he had a meeting. i just think he's going to be in for a surprise because this is going to be a really long process. now, he did say that they have a strong verification process in the works. he didn't detail that. so presumably he understands that there is a lot more work to do. but that is counter to what you're saying, poppy, which is that he

help us navigate through the flip-flops and u-turns chris cillizza is with us. chris, what me through what you're seeing. >> look, brooke, it's a complex and maybe a more growing situation, as barbara just reported. but let's just go through how we got here and the truth of the matter is, it hasn't been that long but so many different stories. let's start broad. is this or is this not a family separation, the result of a trump policy. donald trump. that's their law. talking about democrats. steven miller, one of the architects have a zero tolerance policy. the policy is the law. let's be clear, the facts are clear on this. the policy change by the trump administration in april to say we are having zero tolerance policy meant that we are going to have a lot more families separated at the border and maybe even more as barbara just reported. let's go to the next one. it's just the first of the number. okay. was the separation policy meant as a deterrent to keep people from trying to enter the country illegally? jeff sessions, john kelly both say, yes, it was. kirstj

. >> chris cillizza, what did you make of her tears and her interview?make an important point that gets lost a little bit. this interview came the day after she was fired by abc. we're just getting the audio now. but this was a raw moment for her, she had just lost a job and a very well paying job. it seems like a heartfelt apology, the one note i will make on it, this was not the first time on twitter that roseanne barr had made racist or xenophobic comments. this is not a one off. it doesn't make it okay if it's a one off, but there's a pattern of this behavior. i'm not here to judge anyone for making twitter -- off color twitter commentary. i've never gone that far. i understand it's a tough medium. but history suggests this wasn't a one off. >> so under the regret category. and, of course, we all remember the bit on the tonight show. you know, 2016, jimmy fallon bring brings the whole thing about 23ru78d's hair. the backlash jimmy got hit him pretty hard. >> this is fascinating. everybody remembers that video, fallin came under a lot of criticism. ji

i hope he will. >> pretty clear there, last night, on fox, chris cillizza.e where we're at on this. >> well, look, we know that donald trump takes his news and sort of his views of the world from cable television and we know that he watches more fox news than any other channel. during the campaign, aides regularly would communicate or attempt to communicate messages to donald trump via cable news that they could not get across in private meetings. he paid more attention to the cable news than he did in a private meeting withthem. and george papadopoulos' fiancee is in the the only person to do this. i point you to patty blagojevich, former illinois governor's wife, she's done a number of fox news interview over the last five, six days in which she's quite clearly trying to butter donald trump up, saying it takes a strong and big man to do theht thing and pardon my husband. she also talks about how he -- he, rod blagojevich, is much like donald trump, a victim of the deep state, a victim of unfair prosecution. that's not by accident. look, to the extent these

. >> our cnn politics reporter editor at large chris cillizza isoining us right now.he former president's response? >> not great. he had 20 years to do it. i take his point as you played wolf, he did publicly apologize to virtually everyone including monica lewinsky in that same prayer breakfast he said i'm a sinner and said those things. i do think it is different, might just be me, i think it is different to offer a broad scale public apology that includes someone and to reach out even if monica lewinsky doesn't ever call you back, reach out to try to apologize personally. just because her life for the last 20 years and i think she's written eloquently about this, her life has been extremely diff d i do think it's a lack of recognition by bill clinton. he was the president of the united states. she was an intern. many people on twitter say they -- takes two to tango. consider that relationship in that dynamic? i don't think that's right. >> she tweeted in response this this. she was grateful to the myriad people who helped me evolve, gain perspective in the last 20

let's bring in cnn politics reporter and ed tore chris cillizza. walk us through how this is being spun. >> first i want to show rather than tell because i think that's the most important thing. let's go through a clip of how some prominent voices on fox are talking about it. >> this is one of those moments that tells you everything about a ruling class. they care far more about foreigners than about their own people. >> since more illegal immigrants are rushing the border, more kids are being separated from their parents and temporarily housed in what are essentially summer camps. >> summer camps. no. i think what's important here, wolf, you have to remember that for the conservative audience, for donald trump voters, it's fox news and that's it. so that's the story they are hearing. the reality is this. this was a policy change. we know that. jeff sessions, the attorney general, announced it. he said, we are going to a zero tolerance policy. they knew given the fact they then did not ramp up the amount of homeland security analysts tasked with th

i want to bring in now cnn's chris cillizza, a politics editor at large here. also cnn politics analyst kirsten powers and april ryan. good evening to all of you. thank you for joining us. so chris, are we see a presidential pardon edition of "celebrity apprentice" here? >> i do think -- you mentioned this in the opening, don. i do think this is sort of a clear bat signal sending that exists here. you have the pardons of joe arpaio last year, scooter libby earlier this year, and then this latest, and thing is a very clear connection between arpaio, libby, and dinesh d'souza, which is people who are heroes in a certain element within the conservative party, within a conservative element of the republican party, i would say sort of conspiracy-minded conservatives who view them as enemies of the deep state, people who were unfairly persecuted, unfairly prosecuted. and what message is donald trump sending? why dinesh d'souza who he admits he didn't meet, and scooter libby either, why now, why today, why in this period of time? because he wants to send a message that

chris cillizza, this is an important development. the congress, the republicans in congress, they have been trying to pass various immigration reform measures. the president basically just ended that once and for all. it wasn't going to pass, i doubt it was going to pass next week. but the president just really put an end to it once and for all. let's put that tweet back up. he said republicans should stop wasting their time on immigration until after we elect more senators and congressmen and goes on and on and on. but the effect of that is he says it's done, it's over. immigration reform is done this year. >> that's exactly right. it's remarkable. i saw it while driving in, john, and thought, well, there that goes. >> i hope you weren't tweeting and driving and reading and driving are bad things. >> only at red lights. but that's it. if you were a on the fence republican, particularly a conservative about this bill, this alleged compromise bill, you have now no incentive to vote for it. >> why did the president do that? >> because

cnn editor chris cillizza saying he has it for the week. >> i'm going to run through it fast and thenstart with melania trump. everybody knows about the jacket. clearly, she was sending a message is and then her office went on record saying it wasn't and then donald trump went and said it was a message. it is the media. >> obviously, the audio chris, the video and pictures we are getting out of the detention centers donald trump saying he can't make it work or sign an executive order but he did. because it is too much to deal with. and last one, donald trump and the new cnn poll, 42% of people believe he should be impeached. 43% say march, 1974 nixon should have been impeached. trump in a very not good place. those are the three take aways from the week. i'm ready, bring it on. >> first, you lose because you put them in no certain order ser and you are going to have a list, whien wouldn't they be in order? how do you defense that? >> terrible by me, i wanted you to categorize them. >> i wanted to talk about the jacket. it didn't make sense, so you had to talk about it and it seemed we

with me now, molly ball, chris cillizza and rick wilson.nough to understand our entire system was built so we didn't put in place a king here in the united states. >> i have no idea what he does or doesn't understand, but the implications -- we were talking about the parallel legal and political strategy. and so we sort of are trying to lay it out with reporting on this investigation. one thing that's interesting that people might not realize is it's relatively recent this escalation on the war on the special counsel. he wasn't always in full fron call attack mode against the special counsel. he never mentioned bob mueller's name on twitter until march, just a couple of months ago. this is a reals ka lags. it mirrors the escalation in his legal strategy. to your question, what distinguishes what he's doing now compared to ken starr, which was also a strategy to discredit the special counsel so when he came up with anything, impeachment would be impossible because of public opinion what is distinguishing about this war that trump is waging a

here to break it down, cnn politics reporter and editor a large chris cillizza. hard to overstate how shocking this win by cortez was last night. >> reporter: it really is, wolf. this will be one of -- go down as one of the five or six biggest upsets in 50 years in politics. i want to -- before we get to some of the differences between her and joe crowley and donald trump, i want to play you a little bit of about a two-minute campaign ad video message she ran that will give you a sense of the kind of candidate she positions herself as. let's roll that. >> women like me aren't supposed to run for office. i wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family. mother from puerto rico, dad from the south bronx. i was born in a place where your zip code determines your destiny. this race is about people versus money. we've got people, they've got money. it's time we acknowledge that not all democrats are the same. that a democrat who takes corporate money, drprofits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe ou

>> joining us is cnn political analyst john avlon and politics reporter and editor at large, chris cillizza. let me read you what the president is saying. he is weighing in for the first time. he said the ig report is a total disaster for comey. his minions and sadly, the fbi. comey will now officially go down as the worst leader, by far, in the history of the fbi. i did a gate service to the people in firing him. good instincts. christopher wray will bring proudly back. >> this report was hyped up by trump and his folks. the original bar is would there be prosecution for hillary clinton? would there be more legal repercussions? and was there bias seeding it all? the report falls short of those patterson goals. it is condemning of comey, i think appropriately, for not following proper procedures. it heights in defensive texts from strzok and to the woman he is having an affair with, fellow agent page. the idea that rudy is saying this compels the immediate shutddown and folks should be in jail by the end of the week. rudy knows in this heart of hearts, it isn't about that. that is pure publ

let's talk about this with chris cillizza, editor at large, and kate bennett, cnn white house reporterod evening. >> hi, don. >> hey, don. >> i'm perplexed and torn. i'll explain later. you travel with the first lady today, kate. she was trying to highlight the good work the shelter is doing for immigrant children. her choice of jacket got the attention. we showed the pictures as she boarded the plane. plainly visible on the back was "i really don't care. do u?" of all the jackets she owns, why this one? >> it's perplexing, don. i will agree with you. i'm not sure. i follow the first lady closely. i cover her, i have for over a year. i often talk about her fashion choices which many pay homage to the countries she's visiting or are very well thought out in terms of what she's wearing. she's a former fashion model. she understands fashion. i don't get it. the work we saw today, the shelter, the kids she interacted with, her determination behind the scenes to make this trip happen in less than 48 hours, all of those things to me are paramount to what she wore. however, i can't really exp

let's bring in our chris cillizza in for viewers. do you know what the republican legislation actually includes and whether any democrats will get board. >> let me answer the second question first. we don't know on the democratic front. >> yeah. >> this is an attempt to find a solution to the fact that you had, even before this family separation, you still had no answer to daca. that issue had been bubbling and no answer. this is an attempt to find a solution to that while also paring with what we know donald trump wants which is significant funding for the border wall. >> right. >> that is now being smashed into with this family separation issue, and they're trying to deal with it all in one time with a big, broad bill. i wasn't sure when speaker ryan initially said we're going to solve the family separation issue tomorrow whether he meant we'll address it. that, apparently, is not the case. >> it's part of the big bill which is so hard to get through. >> that's -- that's exactly it. >> and that's why the reporter asked the question

. >> joining me now, chris cillizza. sanford says it is game over. bob goodlatte says they're going to push forward today and he doesn't think that the president's words have an impact on their efforts. who do you believe, chris? >> bob goodlatte made a funny joke. i'll write that down in my diary, kate. there is no way that ait goes through. the goodlatte bill had already failed, the more conservative version failed yesterday. they postponed the compromise legislation until today. then they double postponed it until next week because the leadership thinks maybe possibly there is a window where they might able to get passage. when you are the president of the united states and come out and say, forget about it, this isn't going anywhere, it gives every member who didn't want to take that vote who has issues with the compromise bill and gives this them a giant out not to do it. i guarantee you with less than five months before the election, they'll take that out. >> so you got trump slamming sanford and sanford says that cost him in part his election.

we have reporter is and editor at large for cnn politics chris cillizza is and robin wright from the woodrow wilson center. she was just in the dmz last month. so, robin, you are the perfect person to talk to on both points. let's start with the g-7. as you know, he is going reluctantly and leaving early. he wants a level playing field with trade. and somehow the u.s., even with our closest allies, has gotten the short end of the stick. so how does this work today? >> the real danger is not just what happens over the weekend. it is the dismantling of the fabric, unraffling of the fabric that the united states spent 70 years building of the west. seven economies that account for almost 50% of the world's economic power. and this comes at a time of rising power from china. so this alliance is actually very important to our future, not just with our allies but in our joint place in the world. and the president likes to think of himself as a disruptor. the danger is that he is also derailing a system with seven of these countries, also members of nato. it has a spillover effect on our na

chris cillizza . >> manu laid it all perfectly with where paul ryan stands on this, is there any chance that the president will take paul ryan's word since the white house didn't take trey gowdy's word for it? >> let me make a 100%, guaranteed accurate prediction, kate, no. donald trump has convinced himself that there is more here, that the use of a human confidential source which t fbi has acknowledged in an attempt to learn more about what george papadopoulos and car page were doing with the russians and what the russians were trying to do with carter page have turned donald trump to an embedded spy in his campaign and planted there by barack obama and without oversight by the department of justice and the fbi. what i would say is every public fact we know suggests that is inaccurate, and people who have seen the classified information that includes paul ryan and that includes trey gowdy say that's not accurate. devin nunes, house committee chairman who hasn onboard with this idea has not said anything. you wof there was something that supported the idea that nunes and donald trump h

. >> joining me now, cnn's dana bash, cnn's chris cillizza and cnn political commentator mark lamontn just where the president left off, he wants professional football players he's been attacking and saying some should be thrown out of the country to suggest who he should pardon. what do you make of this? >> solid logic there. even if we were to ignore the fact that muhammad ali doesn't need a pardon, he was castigated for protesting, for resisting, for using his athletic position. it is ironic he wants to pardon muhammad ali, however erroneous the logic is, at the same time he wants to beat up on football players for doing the same thing. he's mischaracterizing the nfl players point. their point isn't that some people are being unfairly treated by the system, it is not about individual acts of mistreatment, it is about structural inequality, also about state violence, people being killed by law enforcement. so you can't pardon someone who is dead. you can't break out the ouija board and fix it. you need structural readjustment and have a change of laws. and that can't happen by -- >