>> michelle, you stand with gloria borger this unique relationship between these two. he's going back to israel early because of this rocket attack north of tel aviv, but you can see that relationship very, very evident during that photo op. >> and i think they feel it's mutually beneficial. it wasn't that long ago that trump said democrats hate the jewish people because of the trouble democrats had agreeing on a resolution on anti-semitism in the house of representatives. so the president took that opportunity to appeal to jewish voters. this is another opportunity, obviously, to do that. and as everyone was pointing out before, this could also help netanyahu back at home. so it's mutual. they believe it helps both of them, and i think that they were happy to be there on the podium together, and now netanyahu will go back and claim that, you know, donald trump loves us and that we have never had a better friend, and he is my best friend, so therefore, you should vote for me. >> president trump said the democrats are anti-jewish, which certainly is not true. kaitl kait

let's talk to gloria borger. week ago everyone was wondering if it was today, today, today and 275 days that mueller had been authorized to do the job, it comes out that mueller had concluded, fastford and now we're learning, we got a date it sounds like they want this all out there minus the redactions, 400 something pages by mid-april, what do you think? >> i think they're working hard at it. it's interesting that the attorney general says he is working with the special counsel, so clearly bob mueller and barr are work to go see what can be released as laura was saying before. there are difficulties with grand jury testimony, with classified information, with information that may effect ongoing investigations that they don't want to release at this particular point, but the interesting part, the most interesting part to me is that barr said, well, since the white house said that they're going to leave the question of privilege up to me, the attorney general, i don't intend to send any of this over to the white

thank you very much. >> thanks, anderson. >> gloria borger is back. i want to bring in cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff, you heard gloria's reporting earlier. do you buy the possibility that cohen hoodwinked all of these lawyers or do you think they were plausibly in the dark and this is cohen, alone, doing what he claims the president wanted him to do? >> i buy the idea that the lawyers were hoodwinked. i mean, lawyers only know what they're told. lawyers have no firsthand knowledge of -- of the matters where they're doing the representation. and people lie to their lawyers all the time. the real responsibility here are the people who talk to the lawyers. that is, michael cohen himself, who was acknowledged lying about the timing of the trump tower initiative in moscow. and trump himself. i mean, they're the ones who had a lot to gain from lying about this. and we know that the president lied to the public about his -- his relationship with the trump tower moscow project and how long it went on and how serious it was. so if he lied to the

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history borger. so what do we know so far. russian meddling russian meddled in our twenty sixteen election our intelligence community has it right it was the russians we know that they know that it was directed from the highest levels. to let. u.s. intelligence agencies say russia did interfere in the election more than two dozen russian citizens and three russian companies have been indicted so if you fall seven derek used to using online campaigns to sway voters talking into democratic party e-mails. so what about trump and his team one by one members of his in the circle have been swept up in the investigation. former national security adviser michael flynn and former campaign adviser. george papadopoulos who have both pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about their contacts to russian officials. former campaign chairman paul manifolds convicted of tax on bank fraud he was also found to have lied to investigators he now faces a lengthy jail sentence for roger stone former presidential campaign adviser and long time trial.

we have gloria borger as well. trump's opposition to the deal has kind of been seen as punishing cnn for a station he doesn't like. he's a very animated anti-fan, i guess you could say. certainly this would be an abuse of power, but i wonder if, even so, there are political consequences for the president. >> i don't know. potentially congress is going to look into this. it's clearly an abuse of power. the president doesn't like cnn. he didn't want this deal to go through, and he was willing to say to his chief of staff and say, get this done, because he believed the justice department actually worklied for him. he considered them amazon personal attorneys and he could order them to do whatever echtd, and they say he wasn't. >> it had proven such an attempt for first amendment rights would potentially be grounds for impeachment. are you sure of that? >> i think it points in that direction as a constitutional issue. i agree it was the abuse of power built. that case fired to block the merger was frivolous. they got d

we have julie hirschfeld with us and we have chief political analyst gloria borger. i am struggling to speak today. >> happy monday. >> here we are. i mean, what a twitter storm, gloria. when you look at all of the things that the president was talking about, because it almost felt like he was sending flak out to all these different targets, what did it tell you? >> it told me, number one, that he's probably watching a lot of tv and maybe we would be better off if the weather were warm and he could go play golf somewhere. and i think that he was so full of grievance on everything that it was -- you know, it was stunning. our colleague manu raju tweet aid list of things that the president had tweeted about just by 3:00 on sunday, you know. fox news weekend anchors, he attacked mccain twice, gm, google, "saturday night live," christopher steele and on and on. and whatever was on a screen in front of him he had to talk about, and that's how he spent his day. one would think he might have tweeted against white supremacy, for example, after new zealand, but that wasn't on

gloria borger is cnn political analyst, carrie cordaro. carrie, now that trump is weighing in on cohen's statements about this pardon idea, did he just give democrats and mueller an easier pass to force trump's testimony? >> i don't know that they will be calling the president to testify, but it certainly indicates that the president once again is willing to use his public forum to say things that most likely is not true. michael cohen said under oath when he appeared before congress correcting prior information that he had provided, so this most recent testimony by michael cohen was his opportunity to tell the truth. he understood the consequences of it and he said he didn't ask for a pardon and he used pretty precise language as far as him asking for a pardon. the president is saying the opposite and the public will have to determine which one they believe. i don't think that we'll see the president called before congress to testify nor will at this point does it seem likely that the president will be speaking to the special counsel's in

i rest my case. >> well played gloria borger times two, michael smerconish, what do you think? >> they're not the only couple in america that disagree relative to the president of the united states. let's get that out of the way. >> it's true. >> what separates them is her working in such close proximity. two reactions, one, where do i buy the conway book? because among all the books that are going to come out about the trump presidency, the one i'm going to buy is theirs. and two, gloria mentions sexism and i keep wondering, what if the genders were reversed, what if you had a wife being so openly critical of the boss of a husband working for a president, i think there would be a cry against her which would be sexist and i'm kind of surprised that it's been a tepid reaction to george stepping out with regard to loyalty to his wife. >> tepid reaction from whom? that's not tepid from the president? >> well, not from the president, no -- >> everyone else? >> i could only imagine the phone calls i would be taking if, in fact, the gender were reversed and it was the wife being crit

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cnn's chief political analyst, gloria borger, has that exclusive reporting.k us through these e-mails. >> well, they contain communications from april 2018 and that was, remember, after michael cohen's office was raided by the feds, between michael cohen and an attorney named bob costello, who is somebody who has close ties to rudy giuliani. and let me just read you a little bit from these communications. one is, i spoke with rudy. very, very positive, you are loved. and let me slip down to the last line. sleep well tonight. you have friends in high places. >> hmm. >> bob. >> then there's another e-mail sent apparently on the same day, but -- i just spoke to rudy giuliani and told him i was on your team. he asked me to tell you that he knows how tough this is on you and your family and he will make sure to tell the president. he said, thank you for opening this back a general of communication and asked me to keep in touch. so, you have these two e-mails, but the interpretation of what they actually mean depends on who you ask. >> and you have been asking arou

so i think he wants to set the institutions up to make the best decisions they can. >> gloria borgeron on who will get access to the mueller report, that decision is far from settled. >> no, it isn't settled. while mueller cares about institutions, i think what we're going to see is these institutions on a collision course with each other. it could be the congress, the justice all fighting over just how much of bob mueller's work they'll get to see. >> it will be very, very intense. gloria, good work. thank you very much. we have more breaking news just ahead on the mueller report. including reaction from the kremlin about the end of the investigation that has been so focused on russia. the follow up cat scan showed that it had gone to her liver. we needed a second opinion. that's when our journey began with cancer treatment centers of america. one of our questions was, how are we going to address my liver? so my doctor said i think we can do both surgeries together. i loved that. now my health is good. these people are saints. ha, they're saints. cancer treatment centers of america.

our chief political analyst gloria borger has a closer look at mueller and the key roles he played over >> after two years leading the russian investigation, special counsel robert mueller remains a mystery man. perhaps the most private public figure in washington. but he has still become a political pinata. >> there shouldn't have been a mueller investigation. there was no collusion, never has been. >> it is hard to remember that at the start. >> i think he's the right guy at the right time. >> mueller was a bipartisan favorite. >> he would have been on anybody's list of let's say the top five people in the country to have taken on this kind of a responsibility. >> the resume is long. at 74, he has been involved for decades in some of the justice department's most celebrated cases. mobster john gotti, man well noriega. and the pan am 103 bombing in lockerbie, scotland, in 1988. a case that still remains personal. >> i'll never forget the visit to lockerbie where i saw the smallwood enwarehouse in which we stored various effects of your loved ones. a white sneaker. a syracuse sweatshirt

we have cnn chief political analyst gloria borger who is here with her latest reporting.s what these e-mails are all about. >> well, we have obtained two e-mails which contain communications from april 2018 and that was, remember, after michael cohen's office was raided and they're between michael cohen and a lawyer named bob costelo and they're largely about cohen's relationship with the white house which costello describes in glowing ways in this e-mail and one of them is, i spoke with rudy. very, very positive. you are loved and ends with sleep well tonight. you have friends in high places. now these are part of documents that have been seen by congressional committees, but the interpretation of what's being said here and what was meant really depends on who you ask. >> all right. so you talked. >> yep. >> with costello who wrote the e-mail. what did he tell you about it? >> well, okay. let me start with michael cohen sympathizers. michael cohen sympathizers say this is proof that a pardon was dangled in front of him. they say this is an attorney with close ties to rud

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>> reporter: that's right, this is new information from gloria borger and manu raju, the headline being that jared kushner, the son-in-law and top senior adviser said he will hand over and provide documents that the house judiciary committee have requested of him. keep in mind, you remember when the original request was made, that was from jerry nadler, he requested information from over 80 people in trump's orbit. certainly significant that now jared kushner has agreed to comply, related to time on the campaign, time in the white house during the transition. potentially a huge amount of information from jared kushner. again, it all underscores while we talk about the mueller report and what it could say or could not say, capitol hill has their own investigations going on and they'll continue doing that. >> that's a significant development. the senior adviser, jared kushner, getting ready to cooperate with congress on this front. thanks very much. joining us, congressman chris stewart, a republican. he serves on the intelligence committee. congressman, thanks for coming in on this satur

with that cast of character, it is a story full of people that aren't known for truth so gloria borgerns us to see what it means. >> so what did the e-mails say? >> they are from april of 2018. after michael cohen's home and his office were raided. and they're between michael cohen and an attorney bob costello and they mostly focus on the relationship between the white house, the president, and michael cohen. let me just read to you from one of them. one of them from the attorney. i spoke with rudy. very, very positive. you are loved. sleep well tonight, you have friends in high places. now anderson, we don't have michael cohen's response. and we're hoping to get that. but we do not have that. so we also know that these are documents that the congressional committees have. >> and this was -- there is an e-mail from michael cohen to the attorney talking about setting up some kind of a -- or referencing making a contact, is that right? >> it was from the attorney. it was from the attorney to michael cohen. we only have the e-mails from the attorney to michael cohen. and in that, he talks

gloria borger, thanks so much. >> sure. >>> so earlier i spoke with congressman jim himes, democrat fromicut, member of the house intelligence committee. congressman himes, this e-mail to michael cohen that he can, quote, sleep well tonight because he has quote friends in high places, i wonder how you interpret that. >> it points to something i can't get into specificity and the press has reported was the subject of conversation with michael cohen when he was before the intelligence committee. and there are real questions, and this comes out from a lot that is public as well -- there are real questions on the topic of pardon-dangling. and again, i can't be terribly specific about it but i think it is far from the end of that conversation. i think that when the intelligence committee transcripts are released, there will be some very uncomfortable days for a number of people and there will be questions to follow up on. >> so, again, as you said, you can't go into specifics, but you're saying based on what you learned in your committee's investigation -- can you say if you have a clearer pi

cnn's gloria borger has the exclusive reporting here. are caroline polisi and jennifer rogers. gloria, tell us more about these e-mails. >> we have obtained two e-mails that have been given to congressional committees and they contain communications that were done in april of 2018. and remember, that is after michael cohen's office was raided by the feds. and they're between michael cohen and an attorney named bob costello, who has a long-standing close relationship with rudy giuliani. they focus mainly on cohen's relationship with the white house at that particular time, which costello described in these e-mails, in glowing terms. he said, it was very, very positive. you are loved. and it ends, this e-mail ends, sleep well tonight, you have friends in high places. so, the interpretation, however, of what's being said in this e-mail and the other e-mail depends on who you ask. >> and how is costello explaining? what is he saying these were all about? >> well, well, costello says that what this was is an effort to kind of keep the relatio

our gloria borger reports the attorney had been in e-mail contact with rudy giuliani back in april ofattorney was told cohen could, quote, sleep well at night because he had, quote, friends in high places. that attorney, robert costello, disputes cohen's interpretation of the messages. again, prosecutors from the southern district want to see the exchanges. we will keep you posted as we learn more. that's it for us. the news continues though. i want to hand it over to chris for ""cuomo primetime"." >> i want to thank you. welcome to prime time. we are going to get after what matters here. this emergency declaration that just went down in the senate. some republicans passed the loyalty test but others finally showed that principle still has a place in their party, and that this emergency declaration is the wrong way to build barriers. this was the biggest of three votes in the last two days where republicans broke ranks with the president. is this party actually taking power back from the president? we have the president's counsellor and best defender here to make his case, and breakin

very very dire options there that might become actually reality in the near future betar borger senior journalist for the times of a mall to involve let us sir thank you. what are you up to speed now as some of the other stories making news around the world. the number of fatalities from a suspected terror attack in the dutch city of interest has risen to four seventy four year old man has died of the injuries he sustained during the shooting in a tram ten days ago a turkish border man has been charged on suspicion of murder with terrorist intent . in the somali capital mogadishu at least fifteen people have been killed in a car bomb attack near a hotel and restaurants was no immediate claim of responsibility but the explosion took place in an area targeted by islamist militants in the past over a dozen people were injured. the death toll from a massive fire in a high rise office building in the bangladeshi capital dhaka has risen to nineteen officials said several people died after jumping from the nineteen story building as he tried to escape the blaze dozens of reported injured fire

very very dire options there that might become actually reality in the near future baton borger senior journalist for the times of a mall to involve let us or thank you. next the struggle for consensus continues in britain prolonging uncertainty there the british government is hoping to hold another vote on prime minister teresa mayes controversial brigs a deal tomorrow but reports say may will be asking parliament to vote only on the divorce aspect of the deal and not the part governing the u.k.'s future relationship with the e.u. all the governments of representatives in the problem and andrea lets him said parliament first needs to get the go ahead for the vote from the speaker by splitting the vote they hope to secure the support of more opposition m.p.'s the government especially would draw agreement to earn another deadline extension from brussels. while a today's developments at. the westminster a rather a follow an attempt by lawmakers on wednesday to test support for alternatives to the government's e.u. would draw a plan out a single proposal could muster a majority in the co

a very very dire options there that might become actually reality in the near future betar borger senior journalist for the times of a malta involve let us or thank you. oh you're very welcome thank you well next to the struggle for consensus which continues in britain prolonging uncertainty there the british government is hoping to hold another vote on their prime minister teresa mayes controversial brigs a deal tomorrow but reports say may well be asking parliament parliament to vote only on the divorce aspect of the deal and not the part governing the u.k.'s future relationship with the european union while the government's representative in parliament under let's assume said parliament first needs to get the go ahead for the vote from the speaker by splitting the vote they hope to secure the support of war opposition m.p.'s while the government must pass the withdrawal agreement to earn another deadline extension from brussels and so again a lot hanging in the balance there let's take you now to charlotte potts she is standing by in london outside westminster where do things stand ri

now cnn's chief political an list gloria borger has a key look at mueller and the role he's played. >ly produced the report america has been waiting for. but this is far from his first time in the republican spotlight. after two years leading the russia investigation, special counsel robert mueller remain as mystery man. perhaps the most private public figure in washington. but he still is a political pinata there was no collusion. never handle. >> it's hard to remember that at the start -- >> i think he's the right guy at the right time. >> mueller was a bipartisan favorite. >> he would have been on anybody's list of let's say the top five people in the country to have taken on this kind of a responsibility. >> the resume is long. at 74 he's been involved for decades in some of the justice department's most celebrated cases. mock sister john gotti. and the pan am will 103 bombing in lockerbie, scotland, in 1988. a case the still remains personal. >> i'll never forget the visit i made to lockerbie. i saw the smallwooden warehouse in which were stored the various effects of your loved

gloria borger, michael smerconish and renaldo is back with us.me kick tings off to you with this is laura jarrett at the justice department, that barr knew three weeks ago that mueller wouldn't reach a conclusion on obstruction. wasn't like he just found out over the weekend. this is three weeks. what does that signal to you? >> it's really interesting because what it does mean is that he had more than just a couple of day to reach that conclusion that he did. one of the media take aways i had is that he spent two years martialing evidence and pondering it and didn't reach a conclusion on obstruction and barr reached a decision in two days. he had three weeks. he mentioned in the letter that he spoke to other officials and he said that he reviewed the report. one thing that i would be interested in knowing over those three weeks is did he review the evidence or talk to some of the ac agents and di he dig into the understood lying information. not exactly the ideal person to be make iing the determination, how he went about the process is very imp

. >> with me now, gloria borger and gloria, good to see you. what is the tactic here? if the president said it, why not acknowledge it? >> yeah, she didn't. i think the tactic is divide and conquer. it's always been a tactic of donald trump's and this notion first of all she wouldn't say what the president actually said in his fund-raiser. but then she said i think you ought to ask the democrats about that. well, the democrats didn't say what the president said. if there's a disagreement over whether the democrats should have approved a different kind of resolution, that's swrus fin just fine. absolutely fine. people can disagree about whether it should have been more specific towards her. et cetera, et cetera. but the republicans have had their own problems, for example, with steve king and they were tough on him although he remines in congress and had a long history of saying all kinds of objection abl thipgs. so i think what we're seeing here and i think jim is right. is the campaign starting and the president making a play for jewish voters, saying look at what the

gloria borger is with us now. let's start with what we're hearing most recently. at the white house, perhaps not surprising that we're seeing the pushback and one would imagine the democrats were preparing for it, but this is really the first indication of how ugly things could get and how quickly that could happen? >> it's a very strong pushback from pat sip loani who's the white house counsel to chairman cummins' demands on security clearance issues, and the white house counsel says that the committee has not established any legitimate legislative purpose for wanting all of these documents and siploni calls it unprecedented, extraordinarily intrusive and says the committee what it really wants to do is examine the entire investigative files of numerous individuals whom the president has chosen as his senior advisers. in other words, he's saying, you're going on a fishing expedition here and we're not going to let you do it because you haven't established a legislative reason that you actually need all of this information. >> what we're hearing, of course, from c

stoddard, associate editor for "real politics" and legal analyst gloria borger.do you make of this and the fact that it's creating a bit of a division here? >> it is because there are progressive democrats who say, wait a minute, she shouldn't be ruling that out. i think nancy pelosi did it before the mueller report came out, which is very important in the timing because it made it clear she wasn't reacting to anything that was in the mueller report. she's saying let's just slow down here. she looks at the polls. a majority of americans, even though a lot of them believe the president has done something wrong, they don't favor impeachment. they're sick of it. they're exhausted by it. she doesn't want this to get in the middle of an agenda the democrats might have, so she's saying, hold off, it's just not worth it. >> what do you think? >> i agree with gloria. you're looking at a woman who wants to hold the house in 2020 and wants her party to win the presidency. it's true, the founders intended for a remedy that would look like this. and if it's never used, it's

gloria borger is with me also and gloria, yesterday it was golan heights in israel and dropping that piece of news over twitter and now it is this with north korea. this one especially sparking all kinds of confusion. >> and we don't know with the golan heights tweet whether it is actually policy and we don't know with this tweet what it means. my colleagues and i have been rushing around and trying to figure out who knew what when about this and it seems that this takes everything to kind of a new level of dysfunction that if the president can tweet something about his own policy on sanctions and nobody quite understands what it means, how do you run foreign policy. as side from sarah sanders saying president trump likes chairman kim and he doesn't think the sanctions will be necessary. well, they are already instituted as kylie said. and we need to kind of -- we're trying to confirm whether they are part of existing or whether they are actually new. and treasury was surprised by it. national security staff were surprised by it. makes you scratch your head and say what is going on o

so i have with me cnn chief political analyst gloria borger.e to see you. >> to you too. >> the white house -- the white house requested cameras to be in the oval office, clearly trump wants the photo op, what is his motivation? >> well, his motivation is first of all, to tell his base that i'm doing what i promised you i would do which is i'm getting money to build this wall. he's also clearly given his tweets this morning going to send a message to those senate republicans who voted against him that maybe was not so smart because i'll come after you at some point if you're up for re-election and i think largely this is him saying, you know, i did what i said i would do. >> i'm draining the swamp. >> yes, absolutely. >> let me read this tweet for everyone. this is what the president tweeted this afternoon. i'd like to thank all of the great republican senators who this will help human trafficking and drugs entering our country. watch when you get back to your state they will love you more than ever before. is that a not so real threat for thos

legal fees last summer and joining us now to talk about more of this, cnn chief legal analysis gloria borger and ariana berg. so, gloria, as we look through this lawsuit, cohen is essentially saying between june of 2018 and now he is owed money for his congressional testimonies, the stormy daniels lawsuit involving the defamation claim, the search of his home and office. he says he's owed damages that were incurred with that. his cooperation with the special counsel and the criminal cases against him. he says these fees incurred exceed $1.9 million and they continue to accrue. what's your reaction? >> michael cohen believes that he had a deal with the trump organization that they would pay for his legal fees, period, end of paragraph. this shows that he says that he spoke with eric and don junior about this when the fees weren't being paid and that he is due those fees. from the trump side, i think there's a feeling that they believe that they agree to pay michael cohen's fees when there was a joint defense agreement and there was an extensive document review as a result of that, but once mi

gloria borger, tell us more about what you are learning right now about cohen's false testimony to congressgot him into trouble, one of the reasons he is going to jail for three years, and the role the president's other lawyers had in all of this. >> we have sourcing that says that michael cohen wrote the testimony himself. it was edited by his lawyer. then it was circulated around to the other lawyers who were part of the joint defense agreement. as preet alluded to a moment ago, they made tweaks here and there. the important point that discussions about trump tower moscow ended in january of 2018 remained in the testimony and our sourcing says the lawyers had no indication that any of the information in the testimony was inaccurate. now we know, of course, that michael cohen wrote this and did it because he thought it was what the president wanted him to do. >> to end the negotiations in january as opposed to july or august or november. because they continued for much of that year. >> these were lawyers making tweaks but not a big change like change the date of when the trump tower moscow

gloria borger, oversight committee chairman, elijah cummings says he has new information that seniorte house officials, including the president's daughter and son-in-law were using private e-mail accounts or private messaging services to deal with official government business. that's a big deal. >> well, it is a big deal, particularly since the president has spent the last couple of years railing about hillary clinton and her private e-mail server. now the white house will say there wasn't a private server, but you shouldn't be using private e-mails for government business. the problem with jared kushner, in particular, is because they're charging he was using what's app and maybe some encrypted devices that were not so encrypted, to communicate with foreign leaders. and that shouldn't be done. now his attorney, abby lowell, is saying whenever he spoke with somebody out of the country, he took a screen shot of it and then transferred it to his regular e-mail. but there is some disagreement about whether he was talking to foreign leaders or just people he knows overseas. and that's wh

we have aby stoddard and gloria borger with us. so climate change. about that approach? >> as you mentioned, the field is crowded and getting more crowded by the minute. it's an issue more popular with democrats. it's not the top issue, though. 67% of democrats say it should be a priority but they have five other issues they consider to be more important. he'll put other democrats on the ropes saying, are you for the green new deal, are you for the green new deal? it starts a debate in the party and it's one other way for him to say, hey, here i am. i'm a little different. >> stay play for a certain democratic party out of the gate? obviously all these candidates will have to deal with multiple issues, right? seal add to his repertoire. what does it tell you? >> he is going for the young people. he can pull a lot of strings because he's been head of the governor association so he actually has a lot of contacts in the party. it is a democratic legislator not shying from the issue. i'm with gloria, i don't know how long he stays with it because he's no

cnn's gloria borger broke that there was an intermediary between rudy giuliani and michael cohen who was hired by trump. costello was sending images. there is an e-mail where he says to cohen, i spoke with rudy, very, very, positive. you are loved. sleep well tonight. you have friends in high places. that's a lawyer who said he spoke to rudy giuliani. when you are told you have friends in high places, how do you take it? >> i take it as the president or people on his behalf may have been dangling the possibility of a pardon in front of mr. cohen to say to him, don't tell the truth. don't implicate the president. play the game right and you have friends in high places and you'll be okay, we'll give you a pardon. that, too, would be -- if true -- a terrible obstruction of justice and abuse of power. this is why the committee is investigating questions of abuse of power and obstruction of justice. whitaker -- what's the word? he made it more -- he made it more possible to contemplate that the president was, in fact, involving himself in the cohen case and now we have reporting at the ot

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we have senior white house correspondent pamela brown along with gloria borger.onder, did mueller fail to deliver on this mission, gloria, of keeping this whole thing out of politics or was it an impossible mission when they politicized the process? >> it may have been an impossible mission. >> i think all of us covering mueller because he was a black and white prosecutor and we all thought that he was going to make a decision on this and instead he didn't, and when he punted it, the question that i have, and i don't think we know the answer to, is did he intend to punt it to the attorney general to make a discussion whom he knew full well didn't believe in the theory of obstruction because he'd written a memo about it or did he really want it to go to congress and be decided by congress? i would say he wanted it to be decided by congress. what do you think, pamela? >> that's an interesting question. a couple of things here. i was talking to one person close to the process today, it was clear that mueller wanted to send the signal that, look, trump is exonerated

again, we are minutes from this vote and while we wait, let's talk to gloria borger and charlie dent. so, gloria, to you first on -- trump sees this as a loyalty test. >> uh-hum. >> how big of an embarrassment might this be to the president? >> pretty big. this is the second time he's going to lose something in the senate. the first time came when republicans voted to pull back american aid to forces in yemen and then this, again, as you point out, this is something the president campaigned on, it was his number one issue. he's trying to make it a loyalty test and say this is about border security. republicans are -- should be united with me on border security and they're saying, no, no there's something important here and that's the constitution. even though the president sort of hinted, maybe, okay you vote for this and maybe later i'll support you on -- i'll never do it again or no president can ever do it again and that's a little hockeyy. that is a big embarrassment. >> you would expect the susan collins and lisa murkowskis and ben sasse's of the world, rand paul, rob portman jus

folks we know, legendary and investigative reporter carl bernstein, john dean, jeffrey toobin, gloria borger, and cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz. any clear sense that we did last night, the week before that, or several months before that about when this report may actually be done? >> all we know is we're certainly closer to getting this report than we were. >> probably yesterday. >> okay. >> look. >> way to go out on a limb, shimon. >> we really did think it was going to be today. this is the first time we've had this many cameras outside of mueller's office, right? i've been there. we have a team that's there every day. no one has really been going there. today there was more press than there has ever been outside that office in really the last two years. so that was an indication that everyone thought that this was going to be today there have been other signals, certainly for the last few weeks that there has been nothing going on. we haven't seen any activity at the grand jury. we haven't seen really any of the lawyers bringing in any new witnesses. >> for people at hom

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joining me now is philip mudd, gloria borger. phil? what do you make of this? >> i do.till have a top secret clearance. let me make this really simple. the president threatened my clearance in august. >> he threatened yours? >> because of something i said. i had a security clearance. i still do. i've now had it for 35 years. if you have a question about a security clearance, it's about what you did. did you declare where you got money? did you declare if you talked to a foreign official? john brennan had his clearance withdrawn because of what he said. i had my threatened about what i said. the question i have about jared kushner is not whether the president has the right to give him a clearance. he does. what was the problem? it wasn't what he said. did he have money he didn't declare? did he have people he contacted he didn't talk about? that's what can get a clearance withdrawn. that's what i think jared kushner didn't talk about. what was the problem? >> and jared kushner has had a web, obviously, of business interactions. >> sure. >> his father's company had a buil

gloria borger, let's get your analysis right now he's very firm, mueller in saying there was no collusion, not very 23ir78 on the issue of obstruction of justice. >> and i think to add onto what jeffrey is saying, i think what congress wants to get the answer to is why did the special counsel pass on the question of obstruction of justice? why did the special counsel -- we know that the -- from the barr letter that the special counsel views the difficult issues of law. in fact -- >> gloria, hold on for one moment. we lost your mike for a second. we're going to fix that. i want to go to david watching this unfold as well. and david, you have a unique perspective. you've seen a lot of these activities over the many years you've worked for four u.s. presidents. you've now gone through probably several times reading this letter for the attorney general to congress. what do you think? >> reporter: well, i think overall it is very clear and very significant decision in favor of the president, and i think it's probably one of the most important things that's going to happen this term. it doesn't