>> i'm carl bernstein. mr. dardis won't be able to see you. his calendar is full. >> i made the appointment with him personally. >> it should have been made through me. if you'd like to wait. >> i guess it's difficult when he makes his own appointments. >> yes, well, we try to handle it. >> it's 4:00, we'll be back in 15 minutes. you want anything? >> coffee, black. >> coffee, black. >> i'm still here. >> i'm so glad. if you could just get me in to see him for five minutes. >> we're going to try. oh, hi. he's expecting you. >> you have a couple things to do. i'll be at the sheraton if you want to reach me. if he has any space tomorrow, i appreciate it. >> fine. >> thank you for your patience. >> thank you, mr. bernstein. tomorrow should be better. >> i guess so. >> mr. dardis' office. >> mr. bernstein has just left. he'll be available all day tomorrow. i think we can probably squeeze him in around 4:30. >> yes. >> and please tell mr. dardis that he doesn't want to be late for his 6:30 appointment. >> yes, i

carl bernstein, you've had a chance to think about this. your take?this is a genuine national security emergency. whether through incompetence or questioning his loyalty or whether he is ignorant. the president of the united states cannot be entrusted with the national security of the united states. that's what we saw where the two leaders appeared yesterday. we never had a moment like this where serious people of both parties are questioning the loyalty of the president of the united states. unprecedented and we have to figure out how to deal with a president of the united states who wittingly or unwittingly has been compromised. what we saw yesterday was collusion witting or unit withing in the president's words and attitudes towards putin as the two student there. >> what do you think happens next if it's a crisis to the level you're talking about? >> i think this is a moment for republicans to define who they are as they did in watergate when they decided we couldn't have a criminal president of the united states. republicans have to speak out and

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>> joining us now, cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, author and investigative reporter carl bernstein, and our chief political analyst gloria borger. if he currently does have confidence in intelligence agencies as he currently said, but he doesn't believe that russia is continuing to attempt to meddle, to have a cyberattack, get involved in our upcoming elections in the next presidential election, if he doesn't really believe that, then he doesn't have confidence in what the intelligence agencies and the heads of his intelligence -- of his heads of intelligence agencies are saying because they are saying this is ongoing. >> right. and he can't say that putin's a liar either. he wilts. here is this strong guy, supposedly, this tough guy on russia, supposedly, telling us how tough he's been on russia, and he completely wilts on this. he has no outrage. i mean, you would expect, anderson, the president of the united states knowing and believing his intelligence agencies, never mind looking at the intelligence himself, which it seems clear he really hasn't done, but you would expect the

. >> carl bernstein broke the story. >> carl, has broken so many stories.nificance of this one today. >> well, the significance is that the lawyer for the president of united states or the former lawyer for the president is alleging and has told a fair number of people that the president knew in advance of this meeting to take place at which russian operatives were to deliver dirt on hillary clinton for use in his campaign. it would be a stunning development if indeed the president of the united states then about to become the nominee of his party knew of that meeting in advance because the meeting itself that did take place suggests a kind of collusion in the sense that those present expected to receive information from the russian participants. if the president himself knew of it in advance, it is a very, very damaging piece of information. especially while he and his campaign are under investigation by the special prosecutor. >> it is interesting because this morning the president has flat out denied it. again, he has done it on twitter, so someone is ly

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this is from "the washington post," june 1973, the story by carl bernstein, it says "dean alleges nixon knew of coverup plan." are there similarities here, john? >> that's the sort of thing that leaked out. i never met with carl until after watergate was over. i learned 40 years after the fact that one of my lawyers was leaked to carl and bob. and as i say, they withheld that for 40 years until i learned about it. >> he didn't give up his sources. >> that may be what's going on. >> so as i have been reminded, jim, that michael cohen did say he handled the whole stormy daniels thing on his own without knowledge of the president, and that turned out not to be true, how much damage can be done here to the president, jim, by michael cohen? >> well, it's a fair question. and listen, the credibility issue is a reasonable one, right? because you have evidence of misleading statements on both sides, right? certainly from the president's team and also from michael cohen in the past, including when he was making statements on the president's behalf and defending him. but michael cohen was someone

carl bernstein, who shares the bylines from the scoop and has been there before. maggie haberman, and cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. i mean, maggie, it's, again, this odd situation where this is a story involving two people who are not known for their truth telling. >> right. i think it's interesting looking at that cascade of things, statements from rudy giuliani, who is the president's current lawyer. people who get around donald trump tend to take on his personality. this has been a habit that we have seen through the campaign. we have seen it through his career in business. i think when michael cohen was working for donald trump, he said things that were not true. i think you see rudy giuliani now saying things that are not true. giuliani told us of that tape of michael cohen and donald trump, that it was, quote/unquote, exculpatory. he described a series of events on this tape that did not quite play out once you heard the audio. and so i think that you are seeing giuliani try to pit trump's credibility against michael cohen's and suggest that trump

we have cnn political analyst carl bernstein and jim sciutto our chief national correspondent for cnn. what do we know? >> that michael cohen claims that then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june 2016 meeting in trump tower in which russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on h hillary clinton. crucially they say michael cohen is willing to make the assertion to special counsel robert mueller. he says he was present when trump was informed of the russian offer informed by donald trump junior about that offer by cohen's kt trump approved going ahead with the meeting with russians. i must note that michael cohen does not have audio to corroborate his claim. a source familiar said he did not testify that trump had advance knowledge. michael cohen claims were not mentioned as well in separate reports in reports democrats and on the house intelligence committee. >> going back through the transcript did they even ask him about it. so now there is a different state of play. let's bring in carl. timing why now? >> because michael cohen is going around saying he has i

joining me now, author carl bernstein and gloria borger. have you ever seen anything like this before? did you see this hearing as anything other than a partisan shouting match? >> no. it was a partisan shouting match. i was thinking about that, anderson. i think i'd have to go back to the benghazi hearing that was a partisan shouting match where hillary clinton testified for 11 hours in 2015. you could compare it to that. the bottom line here is that nobody, none of the republicans were able to prove in any way, shape or form, that peter stzok influenced the fbi in any way to go easy on hillary clinton and go hard on donald trump. they didn't even get there. he gave it to them when they tried to say to him, you know, this is a false investigation. and he took great umbrage at it. obviously, he has done the fbi a lot of damage in the public eye. that's why he was taken off the mueller investigation. but if the object of this was to prove that the russia investigation is false because it started in a wrong way and should never have begun, i

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let's talk about it with carl bernstein, pulitzer-prize-winning journalist. sam vinograd. and jonathan chait. carl, if trump's words were currency, we would say it's been devalued, worth almost nothing at this point. what should journalists do after he comes out of the putin meeting and declares victory? >> there has been great reporting that's been done out of this white house. and i think we just have to keep going on with that, not with my measu -- not with hyperbole, but we have to assume what we saw with rod rosenstein on friday is very much part of the dynamic of helsinki, and that indeed the president's object has been, throughout, to make this appear as a witch hunt. it is now demonstrable to all, for all to see, this is not a witch hunt. and if he tries to use helsinki with putin to once again claim that this is a witch hunt, as we heard in that setup, the idea somehow that the press or that the investigators are responsible for the horrors of undermining our elections in a way that has been shown definitively in what rod rosenstein laid out on friday, that's part

investigator, there is a fourth reason, a bit glaring as we look at the reporting from jim sciutto and carl bernstein, here we have cohen saying there were other people in this room. now, if he were to could nnjure up, concoct it out of thin air, it would be better for him to say he met one-on-one with the president. that would be the ultimate. but he says there are others who may be able to tell the story as well. these are potential witnesses. and bob mueller will look at that. >> we know about when don jr. was up on capitol hill some months ago, he testified the opposite of what we're hearing from cohen. not only that but doan as well and now he's reversing. >> that's why the timing is very, very curious. reporting on michael kobe the last few months, it is always interesting what his friends, associates end up telling reporters. none of those are actually quince dents. cohen has been trying to project to the world what he's thinking, what he is feeling, because he wants that message to get to trump. i'm not saying about where this could have come from, i'm saying in general it is usually not a co

w have cnn political analyst carl bernstein and jim sciutto, our chief national security correspondente know now? >> reporter: well, chris, tonight sources with knowledge tell myself and carl that michael cohen claims that then-candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june 26 meeting in trump tower in which russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on hillary clinton. crucially, these sources tell us that cohen is willing to make that assertion to the special counsel, robert mueller. cohen alleges as well that he was present, along with several

carl bernstein. gents, good evening.hat all this obsicuousness is toward putin. we're baffled. tell us. what is it? >> i have one theorys asand we verbal, normalize, a lot, when it comes to president trump. i think he's trying to normalize putin. i think this new invitation to come here, i think he feels if he keeps saying there's nothing to see her, if he keeps presenting putin as cuddly, then mueller for going after the two of them looked deranged. i think a lot of this comes back to the mueller investigation, and that's a really useful frame for analyzing a lost what trump does. >> people who knowgeopolitics, people who read, understand you cannot, there's noah way to normalize -- >> don -- you're not describing a great many voters when you say people who people who people who. most people choose their team, choose their side in this time of incredible partisan and stick with it and the more trump appears with putin, sends the message, there's nothing to see her, the more his base, the more his people think, well, he

we have cnn political analyst carl bernstein and jim sciutto our chief national correspondent for cnno we know? >> that michael cohen claims that then candidate donald trump knew in advance about the june 2016 meeting in trump tower in which russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on h hillary clinton. crucially they say michael cohen is willing to make the assertion to special counsel robert mueller. he says he was present when trump was informed of the russian offer informed by donald trump junior about that offer by

testify to to the special counsel robert mueller that he says, and this was my own reporting with carl bernsteinntinuing story well, he is claiming to know that president trump knew about the 2016 trump tower meeting between his son and russians. he claims to have been in a meeting with the president when this was discussed. how important is that to you? if this is true that the president knows this, knew in advance, what does that say to you? >> well, i was a prosecutor for 25 years. i consider myself a prosecutor impersonating a congressman at this point. i think it is one of those things that he'd better have corroboration. michael cohen has very little credibility on the stand. the next things what is the crime? what are the elements of the sxrim does this support any of the elements? there was no transmittal of information during the meeting occurred or after the meeting as a result of that meeting. so finding a crime that makes this particular statement relevant is going to be a challenge. >> let me ask you this. what struck me about the explanations for this meeting, you've heard this fro

last night on cnn, don was talking to carl bernstein and they tried to do a high five.how that went. v >> iy good about -- >> maybe by reporting the truth, we're going to prevail here. >> yes, thank you. give me a high five on that. >> that's what we really ought gto -- e me a high five on that, carl. [ laughter ] >> reporting the -- that's our job. >> jimmy: that is pretty impressive. they ruined the high five and a mea thumbs up at the same it was very, very rare. guys, this sunday is father's y. so, happy father's day, early. [ cheers a applause ] but with the big day coming up, a lot of people are shopping for the perfect father's day card, and while there are lots of good choices there are also ousome very unpopular card there. for example, this card says, "dad, you taught me everything i know." open up, it says, "that's why i'm so messed up." [ laughter and applause ] this next one says, "this father's day, i'm giving you something you'll love." open it up. "i promise not to touch the thermostat." [ laughter ] and finally this one says, "you're my best friend, my

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. >> earlier tonight carl bernstein compared the hearings -- does all of this back and forth and partisanickering and the substance of the hearing or lack of substance, does it cloud mueller's investigation in anyway? because certainly some people would look at this and say it's designed to certainly cloud it or raise in other people's opinions legitimate questions about the investigation? >> this is government for the base, for the republican base instead of government for the people and all the people of the country and a legitimate inquiry. we have one shot in this country at establishing that there is legitimate inquiry into what happened in the last campaign, the role of the russian, the role of the president of the united states and those around him. that is mueller's investigation. and we have only one entity that of the republicans on the hill and the base that are intent on undermining the investigation. that doesn't mean there might not be problems. we have plenty of time to find out if there were mistakes made in the mueller investigation, in the fbi investigation. and there ou

frank bruni is going to join us as well as carl bernstein of watergate fame. >> these are great guyse the phrase, enemy of the people. people who used it in the past, bad guys. you don't want to be identified with them. don lemon, i'll be watching. thank you, sir. >> see you. >> when i come back, the president's new un-american attack on the free press. why is it un-american? why does it matter? closing argument, next. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is associated with an increased risk of depression. tell your doctor if you have a history of depression or suicidal thoughts, or i