i want to bring in david chalian, gloria borger, david axelrod, evan perez and global affairs analyst david rhode. via skype, we want to talk to a person a little bit later, david ehrlich -- darryl ehrlich and he is with the billings -- in billings, montana. we'll discuss him in just a moment. david chalian, how much of an impact do you think this assault charge had on today's election? >> well, it looks like maybe not as much as the news coverage would suggest. we woecht knn't know about that necessarily. going in before the body slam incident, this was going to be a close race. it looks like this is close, but i do want to underscore something kyung said about that key county, yellowstone county, that's where billings is, don. this is probably the greatest vote-rich county, more people who vote there than in any other county, most likely, and so it tells you a lot about what's going on. let me give you an example. remember, greg gianforte was the republican candidate for governor last year. he lost to the democrat, steve bullock. so he just went through a statewide election there in

david axelrod.cnn has learned investigators are now focusing on the president's son-in-law and senior adviser for his interactions with russian officials. this goes straight to the heart of the white house and the president's own family. how do you think he is reacting tonight? >> well, not well. i don't think he's reacted well to any of this. so this certainly won't sit well with him. but it's not marley surprising. it was reported last week that a senior adviser to the president was a person of interest to the investigators. there was a lot of speculation that it was jared kushner because he was not only at the heart of this white house, but he was at the heart of the campaign. we know that he met with russians during and after the campaign. he was late to including that in his security clearance application, but he added that later. and he met with ambassador kislyak who is at the center of the flynn probe. and he also met with this banker who gloria spoke of earlier who runs a state-owned bank t

i think david axelrod is right. i don't think there's any question jim comey coming out with that letter. everyone thought this must mean they uncovered something else and turns out they hadn't and jim comey was, as david noted, tried to cover for the fbi looking political, but there were lots of other things that they did not do. they really -- the message was essentially i'm running against this guy, and they thought that that would be enough because they believed donald trump had disqualified himself with nil number of controversial misogynistic, a number of things he had said about women and about other groups. the american public wanted change so badly, look at the exit polls, wanted change so badly they were willing to overlook all those things. the fundamental strategic mistake that the clinton campaign made and why they ultimately wound up losing. >> and without having set up her e-mail and server while she did as secretary of state there would have been no jim comey problem. >> just to add to brianna's poin

. >>> let's bring in cnn senior political commentator david axelrod. david, your reaction to the house of representatives passing a bill that to a degree begins the process of repealing and replacing obamacare. >> you know normally jake when you cast a vote like this you want to feel like the vote wasn't in vain and the law will go on to the senate and be signed by the president. in this case if i cast a vote for this i might be hoping that the senate changes it dramatically or it never comes back to the house and it doesn't become law because despite what leader mccarthy just said the cbo says 24 million less people will have health care as a result of this law if this bill if it were to become law. a lot of those people will be impacted will be older americans, lower middle income americans. in other words the trump base, the base that's now become the base of the republican party. so in one sense this is a victory because they are checking a box and fulfilling a promise that they made for seven years. but if it were actually to become law it would be

. >> david axelrod, let me get your reaction and let me read another sentence or two from the "new yorkimes" article. mr. comey shared the existence of the memo with senior fbi officials and slows associates. the "new york times" has not viewed a copy of the memo which is unclassified, but one of mr. comey's associates read parts of the memo to a "times." reporter. quote, i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting flynn go, mr. trump told mr. comey, according to the memo, quote, he is a good guy. i hope you can let this go. david axelrod, your reaction. >> well, look, i echo what jeffrey said in that this is -- you know, i've been i've not been one to sort of ration to the whole impeachment discussion. i think that has been overblown to this point, but this becomes a very serious issue. if the president called the fbi director in and essentially asked him to drop this investigation, then you're getting into a territory where i think the congress has to take this seriously, and -- and it also gives more coloration to the president's decision to fire comey because co

the investigation, the head of the investigation someone is the country can trust. >> go ahead, david axelrod. >> that's an important admonition, david. he was used by the turks for the sum of $5,000 and didn't register himself as representing their interests. so that -- that is not, to me, straight shooting. >> nia-malika henderson, you're there in washington right now. i know they say the feel at the white house is one of dismay and maybe -- i don't know if despondency is too tough of a word but that's what we're hearing. how are republicans and democrats -- what's the feel in washington tonight? >> well, you really saw a shift. republicans were nervous and frustrated throughout the day, that they were getting questions about donald trump. they wanted to focus on the agenda. dana is exactly right. the idea that there's a special counsel that will deal with this, they can essentially say when constituents at town halls ask him about donald trump and russia, they can say this is going to be handled separately and that's what they will try to say at least. democrats began the day really wantin

do you want more david axelrod? you get it! tomorrow night, 9:00 eastern n - right here on cnn, of course. here's a little preview. >> i do think that comey's public statements about the e-mails and hillary was a very bad and unprofessional -- and he never even acknowledged it. so, i think comey has real serious problems. >> what about the timing of it? >> no, but that's the other point, that he asked for resources to investigate the russia/trump connection. so, yeah, that smells, no question about it. >> and where do you think this all goes now? is this going to hang over trump? >> well, it's hanging over washington, that's all they can think about. i would like to see the senate restore some of its earlier l t luster. think of the great giants in the senate in the past. and with truly bipartisan, democrat and republican, let them investigate. i think that maybe you bring the house in, too. but watergate was a lot -- the investigation there was driven by the house of representatives and by the committees. so, i think they're c

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david axelrod is with us now.ars inside the white house as a senior adviser president obama, what was your first reaction when you heard president trump fired fbi director james comey? >> well, i guess shock would have to be the answer. i really thought it was such a brazen thing. if you're of a certain generation your mind does flash back to the water gate time. i think there are a lot of differences but the fundamental l act of a president firing a law enforcement official who was conducting an investigation that might touch on some of the president's associates and the president's campaign is reminisce santa. i thought it was a pretty brazen act. >> comey said this in his fair well letter, he said i have long believed that a president can fire an fbi director for any reason or if no reason at all. david do you agree? >> well, that the fbi -- it's certainly true the president is fire an fbi director, it's also true that fbi directors have ten-year terms for a reason. we've seen fbi directors fired for cause unde

. >> sean: david axelrod calling out hillary fbi director jim comey was responsible for her loss in theo tonight: >> i'm committed to working to reach an agreement, but any agreement cannot be opposed by the united states or any other nation. >> sean: president's meeting with palestinian president mahmoud abbas, former governor mike huckabee has exclusive reactions, straight ahead. p doen the way of a touching moment? if you have moderate to severe psoriasis, you can embrace the chance of completely clear skin with taltz. taltz is proven to give you a chance at completely clear skin. with taltz, up to 90% of patients had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. in fact, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. do not use if you are allergic to taltz. before starting you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase your risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you are being treated for an infection or have symptoms. or if you have received a vaccine or plan to. inflammatory bowel disease can happen with taltz. including w

he wins, you've got to deal with -- david axelrod knows. dealing with these situations sometimes when you get what you think you wanted, it complicates things much more for a party than it might if he just disappeared after today. >> let me switch topics for you. the story coming out of the u.k. about the leaks. they believe that u.s. officials or media somehow got information they didn't want out, put it out into the free space. they don't like it. they're not going to share any more information on manchester. but leaks, when are leaks bad? when are leaks good? what do you think the perspective is to have on this story? >> well, you know, look, this was a discussion all throughout the obama administration because the obama administration was tough on national security leakers. look, leaks are bad when they jeopardize the sources and methods of gathering intelligence because oftentimes that endangers people who are in the field. and i'm sure that's what -- or impedes an investigation. and that's what the british are concerned about. and thi

i spoke with david axelrod.r advisor to president obama, and i asked him about where things go from here and if president obama should have done more. >> in terms of the integrity of american institutions moving forward, in you're opinion, how might comey's removal now affect the russia investigation and the ability for all of us to get answers to the questions surrounding the election? >> well, look. i'm sure that the men and women of the fbi are going to continue to do that work. but the problem is, when you have a president who's fired the director who is leading that investigation, now is going to personally hire his replacement, there is going to be a cloud hanging over the agency. i think that's inevitable. you also have the added complication of the fact that general sessions was supposed to have recused himself from this matter but was obviously involved in these discussions about comey's status, which the president now acknowledges had very much to do with the russian case. so all of this has created a

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now finally have the head of the investigation is someone the country can trust. >> go ahead, david axelrod. >> there is an important admonition, david, but one thing we know he was used by the turks for several thousand dollars and was not used as representing their interest. so that to me is not straight shooting. >> malika henderson, you're in washington right now. i know they say the feel at the white house is one of dismay, and i don't know if despondency is too tough of a word. as you hear by folks, what is the feel in washington tonight? >> well, you really feel a shift throughout the day where republicans are really frustrated and nervous throughout the day. frustrated that they were getting questions and meetings about donald trump, why they wanted to focus on the agenda. and dan is exactly right. the idea there is a special prosecutor or counsel who is going to deal with this they can essentially say when constituents at town halls ask them about donald trump and russia, they can now say that this will be handled separately and they can focus on the agenda. that is essentially wha

. >> david axelrod, can you envision any scenario in which much or his surrogates criticize this? >> having embraced rosenstein on the decision to fire the fbi director, i don't think he's going to -- he's boxed, he's boxed. one interesting thing about this, if the president truly believes what he said in his statement that his campaign and his associate also be cleared by such an investigation, then he should welcome this. because if it had been the justice department that issued that statement, i think there would be broad skepticism about it. bob mueller, if he were to conclude that there were no laws broken, that there was no such involvement, carries much greater credibility. but on this point of the commission, there are going to be many, many democrats who are going to continue to push for this independent commission. because as he said, this process is going to be conducted in secret. and if this is a way of blocking the independent commission, that the country will never get the full picture of what happened. >> there's another important reason too, it's very likely no cr

he was number one, the way david axelrod was to owe bam bah bauma. nd he financed watergate and other activities and before your time at the "the post" with a little campaign where you can get candy bars and a couple of coffee -- >> you have told me what the price of coffee was? >> 10 cents and it wasn't even worth 10 cents, but carl puts a dime in and carl is probably somebody's best instimpings of any journalists that i have ever known and he jumps and turns around and says to me, you know nixon is going to be impeached. and i thought, here's the guy closest to him, a money trail. we now know it was much more than we had at the time, but we had the beginning of the story and i said to carl, you're right, he is going to be impeached, but never use that word in this newsroom because they will think we are on a crucial aid. for one year, no one talked about impeachment of nixon and voluminous of evidence and nixon fired the special prosecutor that the house of representatives really began an impeachment investigation. we are now in this world with tru

it was not just jen psaki, david axelrod and others.: final point, in july, after james comey in july let her off the hook, september and august, she's saying why am i down 50 points? next time she was exonerated. i want to switch gears, sorry about that. remember what president obama said about wall street during his presidency. >> i did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on wall street? bankers and executives on wall street need to realize that enriching themselves on the taxpayer's dime is inexcusable. we can't go back to a cult our wall street that says it's okay to bend or break the rules. >> those on wall street cannot resume taking risks without regard for consequences. liz: now to "new york times" editorial criticizing former president obama for accepting $400,000 for a speech from the wall street firm saying -- deneen, so obama, the point is obama criticized hillary clinton for making goldman sachs speech money. >> sure. liz: are you offended he's making money? >> i want everyone to make as much mon

he was number one, maybe sort of the way david axelrod was to obama and we said mitchell controlled the secret fund, and financed watergate and other activities and before your time as the post on this floor, we had a little canteen where you could get candy bars and a cup of coffee and colin and i ... >> you told me what the price of a cup of coffee was?>> $.10 and it wasn't even worth $.10. but carl goes over and put the dime in, gets a cup of coffee and carl is probably somebody's instincts of any journalist i've ever known any kind of jumps and he turns around and says to me you know, nixon's way to be impeached and i thought you know, you're the guy coast closest to him, a money trail that we now know it was much more than we had at the time but at the beginning, the story and i said to carl, i said yes, you're right, he's going to be impeached but we can never use that word in this newsroom because they will think were on a crusade. carl said yes. for one year, no one talked about impeachment of nixon and it was the voluminous evidence and it was only after the seven or eight or n

i mean, he was never one, may be -- he was number one, maybe sort of the way david axelrod was to obama. and we said mitchell controlled the secret fund that had financed watergate and other activities. before your time at the post on , the fifth floor, there was a little canteen where you can get candy bars and a couple coffee and carl and -- mike: you told me what the price of a couple coffee was. bob: yes, 10 cents. [laughter] bob: it wasn't even worth 10 cents, but carl goes over and puts a dime in and gets a cup of coffee and carl is probably somebody with the best instincts of any journalists i've ever known, and he kind of jumps and turns around and said to me, you know nixon's going to be impeached. and i thought you know, here's the guy closest to him, money trail, i mean, we now know it was much more than we had at the time, but we had the beginning of the story and i said to carl, yeah, you are right, he will be impeached, but we can never use that word in this newsroom because they will think we are on a crusade and carl said, yes. for one year, no one talked about impeachme

joining us is david axelrod. e, great to see you, david. >> nice to see you. >> how do you interpret the president weighing in in that way, great win in montana? >> i mean, it's not terribly surprising. you know, he loves winning and i don't think he cares very much about the manhandling of a reporter. and he understood that if the gop had lost this seat, which they have held for 20 years and in a direct he had won by more than 20 points, there would have been an earthquake in washington and in the cloak room of the republican caucuses in the house and senate. so they dodged a bullet in this race. they won. they won by a much narrowier margin than a republican probably should in that district, but a win is a win and democrats have to contemplate that as well because, you know, close only is good in horseshoes. it doesn't really work in politics. and, so, democrats keep narrowing the margins in some of these districts. but in june when there is a special in georgia, they're really hoping to win a race, which is goi

let's get the bottom line with david axelrod.is the president going at it with unusual fervor this morning. what do you read in his efforts? >> well, we have seen him in this kind of mode in the past when things aren't going well. we saw after the republican convention he went on a terror. after the democratic convention he went on a terror. and obviously this has been a disastrous 48 hours for him. you know, i think he woke up this morning to different accounts of his meeting with comey than the one that he offered on tv and just enormous amount of discussion about what he has done to the surrogates who went out there to represent him, both his people who were behind the podium in the press room and the vice president carrying a story that he himself ended up impeaching. and, you know, he is undermining his own -- not just chris credibility, but the credibility of everyone around him. but i think he is reacting to all of this negative media. donald trump likes nothing better than to be called a winner and he's losings right now

with the bottom line is david axelrod. how do you see it, my friend? >> well, look.d suzanne collins on your air this morning. the republicans are beginning to stake out much more independent positions on this because obviously it took a quantum leap in terms of the white house with this comey memo. and one of the things that whoever leeked that probably understood is that it would necessitate congress subpoenaing all of his memos and calling him to testify, which is going to be the most explosive appearance that we have seen in maybe since the water-gate era. so i think the pressure is going to build here, chris, which is the behavior of the president. if this memo is true, you know, and you put that together with the other story that was breaking even as this memo emerged, and that is the meeting with the russians and what he divulged there and you get the picture of a president who has no control, who is reckless, who has no sense of where the boundaries are and it is consistent with a guy who spent his life flouting rules, flouting norms, pushing the law to the l

let's get the bottom line from david axelrod. it is very interesting.said very different ways. some heard her saying, it's on me. it's on me. but let's not ignore what comey did and all that stuff. other heard her push it away from herself and more on others. what did you hear? >> first of all, let me say that the 2016 race was a miserable slog and nobody in america is eager to re-litigate it except the combatants who keep going back to it. but beyond that, look, she has a legitimate beef because comey's better was instrumental, think, in her defeat. so in a narrow sense she is right about it. but jim comey didn't tell her not to campaign in wisconsin after the convention. jim comey didn't say not to put any resources in michigan until the final week of the campaign. and one of the things that hindered her in the campaign was a sense that she never fully was willing to take responsibility for her mistakes, particularly that server. and, you know, so if i were her, if i were advising her, i would say don't do this, don't go back and appear as if you are

we're going to ask david axelrod next. e i am.y going to be the day, that we find a cure? oh is is 's you. everything in one place, so you can travel the world better. . >>> all right. president trump is expected to withdraw from the paris climate accord signed by 192 nations. sources tell cnn a formal announcement will happen this week. what will it mean? joining us now is cnn senior political commentator david axelrod. the rational has not been laid out for this move. the president has not addressed it with the american people, but apparently the argument would be it's too expensive for the united states. it is not a good deal. we'll take care of our business at home and not spend money abroad. your take? >> i think it is a fundamentally political decision on the part of an embattled president who couldn't brook a revolt against his base. and this was a key issue for his base. we know there was a big debate raging in the white house between his economic advisors and his national security advisors who were on one side, which is t

. >> david axelrod, is it a guarantee that comey will testify in open session?s it a guarantee that those memos will be released to members of congress? >> listen, i think that whoever -- first of haul, let me compliment jeff toobin on his quantity believe that facts still matter. i think that's a -- that's a great and important thing. >> thank you. >> i think whoever released that information, whoever leaked those -- the portions of those memos, wolf, did so with the full knowledge that that was sending a big flare up over washington and it's almost inconceivable that the memos won't be in the hands of congress either voluntarily or by subpoena very shortly and that the director or the former director will follow. i expect that both the memos and he will be there. let me say, you said earlier, you heard that jason chaffetz van got in front of him. any were yous were dimming him and i bet the intrepid investigators can find them though they haven't found them yet. >> they would like him appear next wednesday morning before the oversight committee. >> how vulnera

joining us now david axelrod, current host of "the ax files." i want to ask about the recordings. first, this notion that donald trump tweeted out that because he's so fast-moving and so busy that his surrogates -- sean spicer, his spokes people -- can't accurately speak from the podium because he's so improvisational that they can't keep up. does that make sense? doesn't everybody sit down in a room and say, here was my thinking on this, go forth and explain it to reporters. >> generally there is an agreement on what it is you are trying to communicate. that agreement is in concert with what the president believes and what the president is going to say subsequently. that's not the case in the trump white house. he is an improvisational figure. he makes stuff up. he's sent people out there this week including the vice president of the united states with a cover story for his decision on why he got rid of the fbi director. then he cut them all off at the knees. that's not a problem with his spokespeople or him being an active president. it's a problem with telling the truth, sticki

david axelrod, you worked for president obama.demand loyalty from all of the people who worked for him? did he say i want you to be loyalty, you have to pledge your loyalty to me? >> you know, i think that this would be so far from his mind to demand loyalty, particularly if there was an investigation going on touching his people. the president had very strict ethical guidelines in the white house which is why you had no major scandal attaching itself to the white house during his years there. >> jeffrey, i will play a clip for you. james clapper, former director of national intelligence. the white house and president keep citing stuff that he said to say there is no confirmation of any collusion between the trump campaign and russia. he was on msnbc today with andrea mitchell. listen to this. >> it's not surprising or out of abnormal that i would not have known about the investigation. or more importantly the content of that investigation. i don't know if it was collusion or not. i don't know if there is evidence of collusion or

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joining me carl bernstein and david axelrod and michael haden.you wrote an op-ed for the hill. you say, it's beginning to feel a little like nicaragua around here. how do you -- what do you mean? >> in 110 days, the president has fired a national security adviser, an acting attorney general and the director of the fbi. i was trying to capture what that must feel like for people on the outside looking in at america and by the way, my international network has checked in with, you are going to be okay, right? i was trying to describe that this kind of behavior is not normally associated with a mature western democracy. it's associated with autocratic populist states. >> do you feel that could be the -- that's where we're heading? >> look, i have lived enough in the world. america sent me to places that weren't happy at the moment. i have seen how thin the veneer of civilization is. you walk through -- >> we think it's solid. but you walk through say-- what smieks you h strikes you how different -- >> there are snipers. >> you just have that concern

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joining us now david axelrod, current host of "the ax files." at p.m. eastern, 6:00 p.m. pacific. i want to ask about the recordings. first, this notion that donald trump tweeted out that because he's so fast-moving and so busy that his surrogates -- sean spicer, his spokes people -- can't accurately speak from the podium because he's so improvisational that they can't keep up. does that make any sense to you? doesn't everybody sit down in a room and say, here was my thinking on this, go forth and explain it to reporters. >> generally there is an agreement on what it is you are trying to communicate. that agreement is in concert with what the president believes and what the president is going to say subsequently. that's not the case in the trump white house. he is an improvisational figure. he always has been. and that means he makes stuff up. he's sent people out there this week including the vice president of the united states with a cover story for his decision on why he got rid of the fbi director. then he cut them all off at the knees. that's not a problem with his spokespeop

he has influence much different than david axelrod or karl rove or something like that with the other presidents. this is a special relationship. it has come up against a family relationship which is jared and ivanka. >> host: gotcha. mr. kirk i wish we could continue to. we have to end it here. michael kirk, documentaryho filmmaker, "bannon's war." see on pbs's front line. mr. kirk, thank you for the time. pest guest you're more than welcome. >> "washington journal live every day with issues that impact you. wednesday morning "the hill"'s katie williams discusses house and senate investigation into russian interference in the 2016 campaign. tea party patriots cofounder jenny beth martin discusses president trump's 2018 budget. california congressman ted liu weighs in on the president's 2018 budget. watch c-span's "washington journal, live 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> sunday on "q&a" -- >> i had a friend who was vaporized along with a six-man security team that i had built together and sent to the airport. it took three weeks to separate them all. it is, war

and even former obama advisory david axelrod ad acknowledged that clinton lost to the better candidateng, jim comey did not tell her to campaign in wisconsin after. >> democratic leaders deny failure much their policies and consequences of obamacare, but it is encouraging that president trump has successfully reached out. to the rank-and-file to rang and they are responsive with their support. instead of with a blind be on see of their party leaders. quote. price of greatness, is responsibility. it's good to see some in washington beginning to accept responsibility, we're coming right back with much more stay with us. >> president trump taking the lead and the newest health care amendment generating more republicans support. >> i support the bill with this amendment, that will be included as part of rules package. we will consider likely tomorrow. lou: it now appears real have a critical healthcare vote tomorrow, we take up what appears to be a break through. here next. >> this aircraft is about to make a dramatic and terrifying landing up like any you have seen before. we'll show you

liz: even the media is upset with hillary clinton, bill marr, david axelrod, they are saying, what do you doing? >> i don't know why she needs to becoming back. she had her turn it done work out. i compare her to bill buckner, the ball roll dleu rolled threw her legs. >> inch that i talked to, everyone that i have talked to democrats, independents, republicans, saying that was pathetic. >> jim comey cannot tell her not to campaign in wisconsin, and did not say don't put resources into michigan until final week of the campaign. >> a lot of people don't like hillary clinton. she has advocated for children. people just don't like her. what do you see hillary clinton's role as going forward? what would be best thing for hill thil t hillary clinton to do, i know some people would say just leave, we don't want to hear from you any more. >> well, i think that would be an important thing a great role for hillary clinton would be an advocate for women in a lot of the muslim makes where we see the attitudes that are out there. speak out against some countries like saudi arabia, and the practice

i thought one of the most interesting comments came from david axelrod who was an adviser to presidentnd he said that it takes a lot of work to lose to donald trump and, you know, if you look at the campaign, not going to wisconsin, not going to michigan, not reaching out to those voters, that's why she lost and had nothing to do with comey. paul: he never made it to milwaukee. she lost narrowly in wisconsin. dan, wikileaks, the russian hacking stuff really didn't add that much to the campaign basically all we found out that democratic operatives didn't like bernie sanders, we knew that and some to have clinton operatives didn't like traditional catholics, there wasn't much else that really influenced the campaign? >> yeah, once again one may dispute her assertion that her problems began on october 28th. i think it's generally seen and this is across political spectrum, her problems began with the revelation of the private e-mail server and the second problem she then held a press conference and gave no adequate answer or defense for why she had that server, kept the story alive throug

david axelrod telling cnn that while clinton does have a legitimate beef with the fbi director, the buck with her. >> jim comey didn't tell her not to campaign in wisconsin after the convention. he didn't say don't put any resources into michigan until the final week of the campaign and one of the things that hindered her in the campaign was a sense that she never was fully willing to take responsibility. >> sandra: john saki eck echoing most comments saying democrats need to recognize there were other reasons she came up short. >> democrats, people close to hillary clinton are going to stand politics, if they don't understand there were other failings, including where we didn't campaign, the fact that there wasn't pulling and swing middle of the country states, the fact that democrats failed to have an economic message that connected with people, then we are really missing an opportunity and we are really putting our heads in the sand to her own detriment. >> sandra: just can't resist going back to hillary clinton's comments going out of the gate there. we've heard them several times. t

. >> bret: david axelrod, former senior advisor to president obama tweeted "we must abandon human rights to fight terrorism? the lack of one helps fuel the other and ignoring violations weakens the u.s. in the eyes of the world." your reaction to that ended the president bring up human rights in his private meetings? >> everything was about human rights. the entire trip is about human rights, about all civilized people coming together to fight the hatred. those who foment hatred, those who try to justify violence against innocent people. what can be more human rights than that? you will see this carry through the entire trip. you will see us, the president talk about human rights in israel and the need for the israelis and palestinians to come to an accommodation that removes the basis for violence bread he's going to go to rome and talk about the need for people of all religions to come together against this threat to our societies. the entire trip you could say is about human rights. >> bret: specifically talking about the saudis and questions about their human rights. was it brought u

i thought that david axelrod, the former obama adviser captured it nicely in a tweet last night when he described it as a colossal miscalculation. it does kind of stupify you. and it suggests the circle that held this is tight but tone deaf. i want to go back to the russians in the oval office. because it's so important. and julie did a really good job of describing what happened there. substantively, if you look at the comments that came out of the meetings today, very positive, talking about warmer relations, restoring relations, cooperating not only on syria, but in other areas of the middle east. what does that mean? remember, when rex tillerson went to moscow just two, three weeks ago, met with lavrov and vladimir putin, that was a really tense visit there was a lot of acrimony over the missile strikes in syria. u.s. officials were saying that russia had basically been complicit in the use of chemical weapons. you didn't hear anything than today. you didn't hear anything about election interference. it was pretty bullish. trump, bottom line seems determined to press ahead with h

this is -- e.j., this is former obama adviser david axelrod.he said this morning about secretary clinton. take a listen. >> jim comey didn't tell her not to campaign in wisconsin after the convention. jim comey didn't say don't put any resources into michigan until the final week of the campaign. and one of the things that hindered her in the campaign was a sense that she never fully was willing to take responsibility for her mistakes, marly that server. >> e.j., do you get the sense that the democrats want secretary clinton to move on? >> i think all the evidence, i suspect on hew hewitt's show, the dominant discussion on his show in the last moments of the campaign was about comey's announcement. it was the whole trump campaign in the last ten days. you can say that and also say if clinton had campaigned more in wisconsin and michigan, if she had advertised more on the economy, then maybe the race wouldn't have been that close and she would have made it through. she's going to have to answer the question about what happened. i have a hunch in

. >> david axelrod, brennan was apparently raising these concerns to leaders in congress and the white house as early as last summer. here's the question. was the obama administration caught flat-footed? >> i don't think flat-footed, wolf. we know that the president confronted putin at the g-20 in china on this issue and warned him about trying to directly hack into the american voting process. we know that the intelligence community, presumably with the cooperation or the ascent of the white house made a public statement in october before the election that the russians were the guilty party in terms of hacking into the dnc. so i -- i don't think flat-footed. the question is how far the president could responsibly have leaned in based on what john brennan said today. brennan said today he was worried about contacts between trump campaign officials or people associated with trump and the russians, but he couldn't yet say whether -- based on what he saw, he couldn't say whether it was collusion. that's what the fbi that's ongoing is all about. so what would have happened if the president

barack obama, going back to the former president, we did talk with david axelrod who said they did fromversations with journalists just to have like a backup, to make sure that the articles were completely accurate, but no systematic recording. u.n. ambassador nikki haley was asked this morning about a possible white house taping system right now under president trump and here is what she had to say. >> did you ever assume you were being taped in the white house? >> i did not. but i assume i'm being taped everywhere so i never worry about that. >> douglass, she said she just assumes she is being taped everywhere. does she have a point? is that how people should operate? >> she has a good point. that's a 21st century modernist point. you never know who is filming you, taping you, hacking into your e-mails. this is kind of a strange era where private identity and private moments seem to be going by the wayside. but that does mean that she operates with a kind of caution, no matter where she is. she is thinking somebody might have a listening device. it is so easy today to have a cellphone

. >> and i agree with joe biden and what david axelrod said on this. lose because of comey's press conference. comey put the attention back on her. he may have made it more of a referendum on her. reminded people she was running for president. by all rights it should have been that referendum all along. she ran out a certainout operation, not a campaign. she did not run an assertive campaign. argumentative campaign. she hoped her opponent would implode and spare her having to do that. that was a huge gamble that's why she lost. >> well, you were there. we were on every minute of that campaign. she points to nate silver and others that the polling was going all the way up. and then 11 days out comey and it starts to plateau and go down. >> when you think of the momentum i think everyone agrees there were a whole host of reasons she lost, her message and not campaigning enough in michigan. and wisconsin. i was on the plane with her that day. her campaign had just announced she'd expand into arizona a traditionally red state. she was going to actually vis

sort of familiar with him, they've become familiar with him through campaigns and you think about david axelrod and very much present on television and in interviews and with jared kushner at this point, people are familiar with him of pictures of him in the white house often looking shell shocked and boyish and wide-eyed in many of those pictures. so at some point you imagine that he's obviously going to talk to folks on the senate who are looking into his role in these meetings that he apparently had about establishing back channels with the russian government. we don't know what that will look like. will it be public and will at one point he want to sit down with someone else? a journalist, and talk about this? it's certainly something we haven't seen and a lot of people are obviously interested in it. >> all right, guys. thank you very much. nia-mallika henderson, david chalian and ryan liza. we have a lot this morning. the gop push. do americans want it there is a study that brings that into question. >>> a bomb rips through kabul during the rush killing at least 80 people and hundreds mor