let's bring back phil mudd and abby phillip and mark preston.d to political hyp hyperbole. we heard this. everybody is going to jail. where is castro coming from? i thought they didn't know anything. >> he is playing into the same hand the republicans were dealing earlier. you know, he's basically politicizing a committee that republicans have been criticized for politicizing a committee. he has no moral ground for what he did. >> unless he can back it up. >> even if can he back it up, this is ongoing investigation. he is supposed to be an investigator looking into the administration in its acts and tactics and whatever. to say probably. he hedges it by saying probably. irresponsible. >> abby, what is the reaction to what congress member castro said? >> it has been a bit of inn difference. this investigation has been off the rails for some time. both sides using hyperbole that it almost renders statements meaningless. so far, we have seen no evidence to warrant that. we don't know what the committee has seen. it is important to note he has acces

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maria cardona, commenter and democratic strategist, and abby phillips, white house reporter for the "washington post." jeffrey, just on manu's reporting, let me get to you first. the "washington post," as you know, a few weeks ago reported that this white house, the trump administration, didn't want sally yates to testify, did everything they could to silence her. sean spicer said that's not the case, we want her testimony. devin nunes abruptly canceled her hearing. now she will speak. is this something the white house should be concerned about? >> i don't think so. let her speak. i mean, i have said right along, i think that they should get everybody involved in this out there, even an independent commission, and let's get it all out on the table. i mean, quite clearly, the notion that the russians wanted donald trump to win the election has not panned out for them, if that's the case. >> well, it may not have panned out the way they wanted it, doesn't mean they didn't want it at the time and didn't work with, perhaps, people who knew the trump campaign -- not saying there's truth to

abby phillip of "the washington post." julie hirschfeld davis of the new york times. and jake sherman of politico. announcer: celebrating 50 years. this is "washington week." funding is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. announcer: additional funding is provided by -- newman's own foundation donating all profits from newman's own food products to charity and nourishing the common good. ku and patricia ewing through the ewing foundation committed to bridging cultural differences in our community. the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening today marked the final day in the mythical first 100 day milestone that all new administrations are measured by. president trump traveled to atlanta to thank some of his most strident supporter at the n.r.a. annual convention. his mes

. >> let's talk more about this with job cusack and abby phillips. abby, no one won, but as jason is laying out, everyone is taking a victory lap this morning. which is it? >> i think it is definitely a warning sign for republicans. this is say district that has a net advantage for a republican candidate and has been safely held by there party for quite some time now. there is no reason to get a democrat to win a 50 plus one runoff and the fact that jon ossoff got so close is not a good thing if you're a republican. it signals that there's a lot of off-cycle energy here on the democratic side in a place where there really shouldn't be and also there were a lot of candidates on the ballot. of the 11 republicans who were out there that ran explicitly as heirs to donald trump who ran on donald trump essentially and those people did not farewell at all. so we have someone in karen handel who will go into the runoff, who is an establishment-minded candidate who is maybe not going to bear hug donald trump, but isn't going to keep too much of a distance, and

we have political analysts abby phillip and david drucker. we are retired general james "spider" marks. i want to start with you, "spider." the mother of all bombs was dropped. moab. a pentagon official says this is a weapon of psychological operations because of the message. the biggest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed by the u.s. what do you see having happened here? >> the message to the guys that were under the bomb, you made a bad choice. it not only has an amazing psychological advantage, but it really is a connectic weapon system. it has an air burst in the conical shape and concussive shape. you can imagine anyone in the tunnel system, gets a shock wave and crushes them in a second. it is a weapon system that exists within the arsenal. based on the conditions on the ground, he has complete authority to use it. he made a decision based on the criticality of the target and intelligence he had. made a decision to conduct that. then clearly what he described in the news conference we just saw is that they are conducting -- afghan forces and

the trump campaign and we'll monitor that and bring you more as it develops and joining us is abby phillips the washington post, and katie mcmainy and former manager for the 2008 hillary clinton presidential campaign. nice to have you all here. >> abby, let me begin with you and ask you about the washington post this morning, and reporting that the intel community and the fbi got this fisa warrant to monitor carter page's communications for months and obviously, that is relevant because he billed himself as a foreign policy adviser with the trump campaign, even though he never met with the president, the campaign is distancing himself from him. it's a huge deal because a judge would have had to have been convinced that carter page was acting on behalf of an adversary to get this. >> that's right. and importantly, taking a little bit of a step back. the only reason carter page is relevant to begin with is because the president himself, now president trump and then candidate trump, named him as a foreign policy adviser at a time when he was being pressed to sort of name who he was consulting

let's try to nail it down with our experts, cnn military analyst, cnn political analyst abb abby phillip and ambassador burns. thank you for being here as we muddle through this. ambassador i'm going to start with you. when the secretary of state says what we all obviously wish in our heart that the united states will rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocent anywhere in the world, what does that mean in terms of our policy? >> well, it's confusing. the administration has had trouble sticking to one message, because they are struggling for a strategy. when you see these statements you're looking at an administration trying to find its way forward. it was appropriate last week. it was the right decision for president trump to launch the cruise missile attack because of the use of sarin gas. frankly, they ought to be sending the message, they may be, any repeated use by assad of chemical weapons will meet with another attack by the united states. the broad statements particularly by rex tillerson in italy and sean spicer, they are impossi

abby phillips, david gurgin. jd, you first. good evening to all of you. our latest poll shows the president having a dismal approval rating, 44%. he is at the bottom compared to other presidents around this time. is this why we're seeing the white house scramble for a win with less than 100 hours to go to 100 days? >> it's not good news for the president. >> not only scrambling -- >> it's jd. >> i'm sorry. >> like you said, it's not good news for the president so far. i don't know if i describe them as scrambling for a win. the problem with the president's approval ratings is that it does not give him any sort of solid base from which to govern. you talk about a tax cut plan, talk about reforming health care. to do that, you have to negotiate from a position of streng strength. it's hard to do that when you have had 44% approval. >> the next question is for you, david. this poll shows 56% of americans think the president has done a poor job of assembling a team of top advisors. 52% think he hasn't done a good job keeping campaign promises. if the presiden

. >> let's bring in our experts, analysts, abby phillip, you cover the white house. often have we heard in this administration a senior official come on television and issue such a formal public apology. >> really incredibly rarely. i think the only other time i can think of is when kellyanne conway went out into the public and she was pitching ivanka trump's products and that situation created and ethics complaint which is a legal problem for them. in this case, sean spicer essentially apologizing for something that was universally thought to be completely inappropriate and a real apology. it wasn't a, if anybody was offended apology, it was real one and i think that's significant for this wlouhite house. they very publicly said they don't believe in giving enemies thought or by as mitting mistakes. >> tell us who you are apologizing to. we were listening to what you said and couldn't believe a spokesman, press secretary for the president of the united states would make such a statement. so just specifically tell us who you want to apologize to. >> clearly anybody w

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with us to share the reporting and their insights, cnn may, abby phillip, matt vice or of the "boston globe" and jackie kucinich. the president's frustrated tweet about his border wall but first up, russia's meddling in the election drama. two committees are already investigating. and a third raised its hand. demanding answers from michael flynn. they are raising the possibility that general flynn broke the law by failing to disclose required information. chairman jason chaffetz, ranking democrat eliza cummings reviewed the file. they said flynn omitted financial arrangements from the documents he's required to file to get a security clearance. >> personally i see no information or no data to support the notion that general flynn complied with the law and that is he was supposed to seek permission and receive permission from both the secretary of state and the secretary of the army prior to traveling to russia to not only accept that payment, but to engage in that activity. i see no evidence that he actually did that. >> he was supposed to get permission. he was supposed to report and

insights, julie pace of the associated press, jonathan martin of the "new york times," jackie and y abby phillips. satellite images suggest a nuclear test could be imminent. as president trump sends a carrier region with the hope of discouraging such a provocation n. syria dictator bashar al assad denies any role in the deadly gas attack last week. >> so there was no order to make any attack. we don't have any chemical weapons. we gave up our arsenal three years ago. even if we have them, we wouldn't use them and we have never used our chemical arsenal in our history. >> assad speaking to afp tv there. i'm certain you have not forgotten these. assad calls it 100 % fabricatio by the united states and its allies. >> the west, mainly the united states, is handing it to the terrorists. they're fabricating the whole story in order to have critics for the attack. we don't know whether the children -- were they there at all? who -- what method? you have no information at all. nothing at all. >> were they dead at all? were they dead at all? you just heard bashar al assad say that. he is denying any invol

abby phillip of "the washington post." julie hirschfeld davis of the new york times. and jake sherman of politico. announcer: celebrating 50 years. this is "washington week." funding is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today and research the technologies of tomorrow. some call them veterans. we call them part of our team. announcer: additional funding is provided by -- newman's own foundation donating all profits from newman's own food products to charity and nourishing the common good. ku and patricia ewing through the ewing foundation committed to bridging cultural differences in our community. the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening today marked the final day in the mythical first 100 day milestone that all new administrations are measured by. president trump traveled to atlanta to thank some of his most strident supporter at the n.r.a. annual convention. his mes

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abby: thank you, griff. have a great east. >> we're joined by u.s. navy s.e.a.l. rob o'neill, who killed osama bin laden. you mentioned before you came on it was captain phillips.llips, i think april 12th. i left on my birthday, good friday, april 10th and we about 16 hours later were in the indian ocean. pete: a lot of people may not know you were part of that mission as well. >> i was not one of the shooters but in the mission, first guy out of the plane. over a hundred guys were there. there were four pirates against about a hundred s.e.a.l.s. pete: as you're enjoying your eggs and meal, there are guys jumping out of airplanes fighting somali pirates. abby: rob, the things that you have seen in your live, unreal. pete: which is a message for the wider world, for north korea, for instance, you know, you take out the pirates who were, you know, doing bad things with captain phillips, and all of a sudden piracy stops. or -- >> yeah, kind of a deterrent. we went over and used force. like i've said, you can treat some of these people with force, do what you need to do and they stop doing it. pete: what does kim jong-un need to hear? >> he's a crazy person so i do