joining me now is dana bash and david axelrod. t's rare to hear people talk about grief in society openly like that, but also to hear it from somebody as well known and in the political sphere, to talk about loss and grief, sort of so openly and honestly is, i don't know, it's sort of an extraordinary thing to hear. >> yeah, well, first of all, there are few people in the public sphere who have suffered so publicly and whose personal tragedies have been played out in public, you know, he lost his wife and child as a senator-elect and there was some question as to whether he would even go to the senate after that. and -- but, look, one of the great strengths of joe biden is that he is all raw nerve endings. he lets it hang out there. and you can see his emotions. and you can see his passion. and people identify with that. and he speaks in an idium that people understand. and you could see all of that in that interview. >> dana, there was a lot of talk that one of the reasons he didn't run, obviously, was because of the loss of his s

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joining us right now is cnn political commentator david axelrod. guess, what does the fight over this memo say about where we are as a country or where our parties are? >> look, i've said this consistently, which is in a democracy party wins the white house, they have a right to make policy subject to the approval of a congress. you may not like the policies they make, but that's our system. but the institutions have to endure. and if you begin to subjugate the institutions to politics to this degree, that's a real danger for the country. and the notion that a president would overrule his own fbi director, the guy he appointed, his own appointee at the justice department, both of whom have warned that this was reckless, dangerous, had potentially grave consequences -- in order to satisfy what is apparently a blatantly political objective, the fact that you have one committee in the house unwilling to share that memo even with their own counter parts from the same party in the senate, the fact that they won't release the democratic memo so that peop

let me bring in david axelrod. the president in that tweet seemed to be suggesting that the school neighbors and friends of the shooter could have or should have done more. but as far as i know right now, i don't know anything that the shooter did before the shooting that would have required any sort of adjudication as to his mental health status. >> that's true, jake. we don't know all the details of what it was that got him transferred out of that school, the school superintendent there was unable to -- bound not to reveal all of those details and the press conference today. we don't know the answer to that. let me make a few general points, one is i think that part of the job of the president is to console the country. and i think that the president did a pretty good job there of saying the things that one would want a president to say. it is what he didn't say that is going to raise questions again. we have experienced three of the greatest mass murders in modern history in the last five months. we had 18 schoo

joining me is former obama senior adviser david axelrod. d, do you share senator murphy's feelings about the chance of getting meaningful legislation passed and signed into law? >> he's been steeled by hard experience. and the country has as well. n newtown seemed like such a clear case. yet even a 90% bill, you know, universal background checks, never went anywhere. so there is hard experience to look at here. on the other hand, we've never seen anything quite like this. these kids are just overwhelming. these kids are so inspiring, so impressive. and they are just asking us to suspend our cynicism, to throw off the political shackles that campaign contributions and threats from the nra represent, and finally live up to our responsibilities. and my great hope for them and the country is that they -- is that we're able to do that. it would be a terrible thing if their earnest pleas are responded to with business as usual. and the president has the ability to make a difference here. i agree with senator murphy, his rhetoric at the end of that

joining us, our correspondents and specialists, and david axelrod, let me begin with you. want to play an exchange i just had in the last hour with the florida governor, are riric scott. listen to this. >> are you ready to commit your political team to work to tighten gun control, gun restrictions in the state of florida? >> i'll be stronger than that, wolf. everything's on the table. all right? i'm going to look at every way that we can make sure our kids are safe. >> even if the national rifle association goes after you? >> wolf, i'm going to do -- look, i love my kids, my grandkids. i know every family in the state is in the same position. we love our children. i'm going to do whatever i can do to keep these kids safe. i'm going to talk about every issue to keep these kids safe. >> including gun control? >> wolf, i'm going to do -- it's a lot of things. it's looking at, you know, who should have guns. should individuals with mental illness have guns. should -- what can we do to create more safety in our schools, what can we do do make it easier for our children and make

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. >> joining me now is cnn senior political commentator and former adviser to president obama, david axelrodr reaction to this memo being released in defiance of the fbi. >> well, the fbi, the justice department, the director of national intelligence. we should point out that all of the people involved there were trump appointees. so he defied his own appointees in releasing this memo, and he seemed determined to do it because he thinks it supports his contention we have heard for a year that this probe was politically motivated. >> why do you think republicans went along with it? >> because i think they feel pressure from him and from their base to do it. but if you look at the memo, it really seems like something that was generated on the outer fringes of the internet. you know, this sort of lunatic fringe on the internet, conspiracy theory kind of cobbled together with insinuation. weaving all of the people who the president feels has -- have dealt with him unfairly, comey and the whole andrew mccabe.in - >> although we should be careful because wray doesn't necessarily say that it's full

david axelrod, thanks very much. >>> just ahead tonight, we have actually more breaking news. has learned that up to 40 trump administration officials are still without full security clearances just like the now fired white house aide rob porter. we'll have the latest on that next. >>> continuing with our breaking news tonight, the now fired white house staff secretary rob porter had only an interim security clearance despite having been on the job for a year. it turns out he was not the only one, not by a long shot. joining me now is cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. what have you learned about how many people are operating without full security clearances? >> so, anderson, myself and my colleagues, we were told that some 30 to 40 white house officials and other administration political appointees still 13 months into this administration have an interim security clearance, something that's meant really to be very temporary. it's not meant to be a personmat situation. you've heard from the white house an explanation saying this is a product of the bureaucr

david axelrod, politically speaking, are these folks well served now by that pregame hyperbole? >> i don't think they care particularly because i think the goal is to politicize the entire discussion so that it looks like a political tug-of-war and not a legitimate investigation. i think that there is an attempt to try and make it look as if this is just politics as usual and not a probe into potential criminal activity or collusion or obstruction of justice. >> the means is the end in this case. >> i don't know. i think that they are wrapping the farce of this being an actual national security sort of institutional memo instead of a political document up into the politics that they're trying to push. i mean you're right that they don't really care about the ramifications because the people who they're trying to reach, i think, at their core are going to believe what they're saying. but i do think that this whole exposure by getting it out through the house intelligence committee is aimed at trying to give it credence and credibility. and at the end of the day, it isn't, and it

. >> david axelrod, the listening session was incredibly emotional.u to listen to one of the fathers who was there, andrew pollack, who lost his daughter, meadow, at the marjory stoneman douglas school last week. he was there with his three sons. listen to this. >> because my daughter has no voice. she was murdered last week and she was taken from us. shot nine times on the third floor. we as a country failed our children. this shouldn't happen. we go to the airport, i can't get on a plane with a bottle of water, but we leave it, some animal with walk into a school and shoot our children. it's just not right and we need to come together as a country and work on what's important. >> david, what did you make of that event at the white house? >> well, look, first of all, no one can listen to those kind of testimonials and not just be ripped up by them. it's hard to imagine being that dad. you know, the cynical political strategist side of me says, well, this was a brilliant bit of counterprogramming because you knew these students were going to be speaki

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. >> joining me now is paul begala, carrie cordero, and david axelrod. it's interesting to hear the vice president, former vice president say this. do you think it's possibly just a negotiating tactic on the part of robert mueller's attorneys and the president that -- excuse me, the president's attorneys and the president that they're sort of releasing this information of, oh, we're telling him not to, that it's just kind of a negotiation -- >> i think it's a trial balloon on the part of the trump team to see, well, what if we just stiff mr. mueller and his investigators and don't cooperate at all? will people freak out? ultimately, i think he's going to wind up taking the fifth because the facts are not his friend. he can't. i disagree slightly with vice president biden at my peril. it's not just that the president says outrageous things or his fidelity to the facts are kind of slippery, it's the facts are not his friend. he's not going to testify because he can't, he can't without incriminating himself. so he won't. >> i don't think his lawyers are goi

david axelrod, thanks very much. >>> just ahead tonight, we have actually more breaking news. cnn has learned that up to 40 trump administration officials are still without full security clearances, just like the now fired white house aide rob porter. we'll have the latest on that next. here comes a new year. make the most of every hour. of every single day. with the power of tempur-pedic sleep. choose the mattress brand ranked highest in customer satisfaction by j.d. power. tempur-pedic sleep is power. un-stop right there! i'm about to pop a cap of "mmm fresh" in that washer. with unstopables in-wash scent boosters by downy. ah, it's so fresh. and it's going to last from wash to... ...wear for up to 12 weeks. unstopables by downy. >>> continuing with our breaking news tonight, the now fired white house staff secretary rob porter had only an interim security clearance despite having been on the job for only a year. turns out he was not the only one. joining me now is chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. >> anderson, myself and my colleagues sara murray and gloria

he heed be the first to tell you, as would david axelrod, many mistake us two things can be true. one, hillary clinton made a lot of mistake. she takes responsibility for. two, but for that october 28th october 28th letter, on the morning of october 28th, she is winning by a landslide. 5.9%, larger -- if i can along slide the -- the electoral map that would hey of have occurred but for the comey letter according to real clear politics and every other analyst that looked at the map that would have been the case, had james comey not violated all the rules, except the ones james comey gets to establish, and that would have been the result in hillary clinton would have won but also made many mistakes. >> some of the polls are to the bay is so he become, "the unmaking of a president. again. >> caller: good morning. thank you, c-span. great guests. mr. davis. it's been proven that debby wasserman schultz had it in for bernie sanders, the dnc had it nober bernie sanders, the russians were in our elections. our elects were tainted, and the comey memo, yes, that probably didn't help hillar

i want to talk to the former adviser of president obama, david axelrod.ot fishy that there was something that won't when the fbi went to the fisa court to get a warrant on carter page? is it not possible they used political opposition research. they weren't up front with it and that would be troubling? >> look, i can't answer that question because we've only gotten a partial account of what actually happened. all i know is that you talked to the prosecutors and lawyers who are familiar with the operations of the fisa court. and they would be very, very dubious about that. that that is even possible. because of the standards that are required by that court. and because of the nature of the people who serve on that court. so i am very, very doubtful about that. i don't have firsthand knowledge, nor do any of us, nor do we have the evidence or information we need to make a judgment. that's the problem with this. you've got a document that reads a little bit like the things you see on the lunatic fringe of the internet that kind of weaves together all these f

david axelrod, thank you for sharing your thoughts with us. >>> time for cnn "newsroom" with john berman. see you tomorrow. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning everyone. i'm john berman. the breaking news this morning, a giant of american religious life, giant of american life, period, is gone. billy graham died just about an hour ago at his home in north carolina. he was 99 years old. cnn's kyra phillips on a remarkable century of influence. >> reporter: he was america's pastor. in times of tragedy, billy graham was there to comfort the nation. >> we come together today to refirm our conviction that god cares for us. >> now, jesus was a man -- >> reporter: but his calling was to convert. >> there is no other way. man cannot be saved by bread alone. >> reporter: in his nearly seven decades of ministry, 215 million people heard reverend graham preach in person, more than any other evangelist in history. according to his ministry, more than 3 million people who flocked to the crusades became born-again christians. billy graham, like most of the people whose lives he's touched, ca

he would be, as david axelrod pointed out, 82 years old at the end of his first term if he runs. that, and there's just the question of passing the baton to the next generation and whether it's time to do that, because there are a lot of people waiting in the sidelines who are the next generation. >> he's run for president twice unsuccessfully, spectacularly unsuccessful unsuccessfully. >> look, i think the people who know him and love him who we talk to in the democratic political world say that he is a much better vice president, much better -- in this case, interviewer and political analyst than he is a candidate. having had the experience of eight years as vp, maybe it would be different. >> chris cuomo said, prove you're better than joe biden as a candidate. that will be a bar until joe biden makes clear his intentions. we have a few seconds left. we may be on the verge of a big spending deal inside the senate, the likes of which we haven't seen in a long time. two years which is an eternity in washington. this is sticking it to the house. >> absolutely. at the end of the da

we saw david axelrod and robert gibbs and other friends.ertainly the obamas are nostalgic for their white house, probably not enough to spend a lot of time still in the spotlight, but they certainly acknowledge the friends that were in the audience today and those who supported them in their administration. >> national portrait gallery. if you want to see them, kate bennett, thank you so much. >>> just a quick check, wall street, another busy day, up. we like the green on the screen, up 488 points. about 18 minutes to go until the end of the trading day. we have that. also we're waiting for that white house briefing to begin. what will sarah sanders say about how they handled these accusations against former staff secretary rob porter. conflicting accounts. missing parts of the timeline, the timeline keeps shifting and now a complete dismissal by the president himself. so we are still standing by for that. i promise, to have and to hold, from this day forward through sickness and in health, till death do us part selectquote can help you kee

matthew dodd, megan murphy, david axelrod, alex castianos and our senior white house correspondent cecelia matt, you've worked in the white house. david worked in the white house as well. we just heard from congressman maloney. where was the break down their in this rob porter story? >> can i respond to kellyanne conway? whoo! her relationship with truth is moes chart bly described as it's complicated in this. first of all for me we ought to fire any abuser. secondly, in this day and age the fault position should be believe the women. this is where i fault kellyanne conway and fault general kelly and the general counsel and this is where i fault the president. this is allowed to exist in america in every walk of life because people enable it. they decide the ends justify the means. they decide somebody is doing their job well. i'll disagree with governor christie on something. this isn't about competence. this is about a moral problem. it's a moral situation that the president through his own actions and his actions over the years has allowed this to fester. this is what happens. >> we saw

. >> if that happened in the first year, david axelrod has been indicted. this would ma . >> we keep hearing about this investigation day after day and we also have a president who keeps trying to deflect it. obviously when you see it over and over again you do start to gle believe that manafort is a guy w who colluded. because it's such a complicated investigation, it's such a big web i'm not sure that people are following it and understanding all the twists and turns. >> i want to know how much they have gotten just from people talking. because when you read this brand-new indictment, you see paul manafort who is a strategi strategist, he's known for being savvy and all these things, and you see him continuing with robert gates--i want to know what you think as someone who used to put people away. i asked a very simple question, i can't believe that in this case an accused criminal returned to the scene of the crime. i'm not a very experienced lawyer, but i have heard don't do that. and this person said to me, you would be amazed how many crimes are caugh

i want to bring in our chief political correspondent dana bash and david axelrod. okay. gosh, where do we start? dana, let's talk shutdown since that's where we left off with phil. there are problems on both the right and left with this bill to keep the government open as phil just said. >> no question about it. and the fact that rand paul threw a temperatuorary wrench is is poetic since he is one of the people who came in, was swept in on the tea party wave back in 2010 and at that point was making his own party's leadership -- they're lives a little miserable. he would stand up and fight against spending or against, you know, fisa warrants and things he believed in. and the fact of the matter is even right now when you do have as phil has been reporting true bipartisan compromise on this bill that would keep the government running and do many other things, you have the rules of the senate that allow one senator to delay things. and in this case, probably not stop it but at least delay to make a point. and he's doing it because he can. and he's trying to stay true to th

his political adviser, david -- david axelrod who was a former intern of mine at the tribune in the 1970's, i point out to everybody who does not know the to see hishington, campaign rise, it was fascinating to watch the parallels -- the parallels with the harold washington campaign. it was intriguing to me because we are talking about an african american political pioneer at a certain time in history when things came together. there were no guarantees of anything. to watch it all build up from the bottom of chicago, illinois and the rest of the country was infinitely fascinating and i think he has left a mark on the office that we will not be able to fully measure for a while yet. durability of the aca, obamacare, that is fascinating to me because he was doesn't -- he was dedicated to that idea and so was the democratic party. he made it happen. someone was trying to get national healthcare since teddy roosevelt and he made it happen. it caught the republicans offguard in terms of when they were suddenly thrust into power over both congress and the white house, they do not have the to f

former special assistant to robert mueller at the justice department, as well as kirsten powers and david axelrodloria borger. michael zeldin, you see the tweet there from james comey on the eve of what we believe to be the release of this. does it feel to you like a spurious attack on the fbi? >> the nunes -- >> yes. >> -- memo is a spurious attack, politically motivated spurious attack on the fbi that is unnecessary for the redress that he says needs to be happening. >> what the republicans are saying is, look, this is about educating the american people, the american people need to know what's going on at the highest levels of the fbi. >> right. so there are two ways to do that. you can invite the inspector general to investigate those improprieties or hold oversight hearings and, in fact, fbi director wray asked to brief the full committee in closed-door session to answer any and all questions with respect to their concerns about the issuance of this fisa warrant that they're so worried about and they declined that opportunity. so there are opportunities here to gather the information. these

, professional fellowships, career and civic engagement programs and the x files, podcast with david axelrod. so, edwards is definite lay university of chicago intellect. but not a university of shuck alum. he got his bachelors degree in political science in amherst college. join me in welcoming steve edwards. thank you. [applause] >> dean woodward, thank you for that bro ducks -- an introduction, it's at honor to be back here at the university with all of you at such an important time for this conversation. not only because of the history that we're commemorating of the course of this year, thinking 75 years after the dawn of the nuclear age began steps from where we are, but also the present realities in our geopolitics today and many of us watch very closely the announcement just a few days ago last week when our sister publication here at the university, the bulletin of the atomic scientists, moved the hand 30 seconds closer two minutes to midnight, the closest they've been in more than 60 years. so i'm eager to hear the insights panel lests have on the fundamental question before us, sa

brian: david axelrod tweets out that basically the president's exploiting his death to move his immigrationt's what a whole lot of the mainstream media people do, too. they exploit the illegal immigrants calling them patriots. i mean, they are not patriots. they artake your job. >> they call them law abiding. they call them law abiding illegal immigrants. you can't put both of those in the same sentence. brian: gotcha. steve: wayne dupree joins us from baltimore where he has a radio show and podcast. thanks for joining us. >> hey, thanks. brian: jillian, what's going on? jillian: a lot of stuff going on. there is a lot of news we are following. let's get you caught up on some of the headlines starting with this. the death of a border patrol agent killed in the line of duty remains a mystery. newly released autopsy report shows martinez died from blunt injuries to the head. he was also hurt in the torso, shoulder and ribs. cause of those injuries is still unknown. martinez and his partner found clinging to life at the southern border. the fbi is offering a $50,000 reward for information. new

. >> it reminded me the episode of when david axelrod bent on "the great american baking show" and talking obviously that never happened. i'm wondering if you're watching this stuff where omarosa is going on reality tv and saying she's petrified of the tweets and can't honestly say she has faith this country is going to make it through this presidency, if you ever reflect back to your time in the white house and wonder did we overthink things too much? did we overreact it too much or are you watching it as baffled as everyone else is? >> i'm just watching it saddened. the white house, doesn't matter republican or democrat, it's the best and the brightest. you have people who want to do a great job. on the last day of the bush administration, his chief of staff said to me "all white houses are a reflection of the leadership at the top." and we were the no drama obama white house because we had a no drama guy. well they have a complete drama guy everyday and they hire incompetent people like omarosa who i thought that was a telling interview because for the first time she admitted that every

engagements and my favorite the "ax files" in partnership with former presidential adviser david axelr axelrod. and so he is not a university of chicago alum, but he got his political doctorate at amherst college, and so will you please welcome me in joining steve edwards. >> dean, thank you so much for that introduction. it is anb honor to be back here university with all of you at such an important time for this conversation and not only because of the history that we are commemorating over the course of this year, thinking about 75 yees after the dawn of the nuclear age began right here steps from where we are, but also the present realities in the geopolitics today, and many of us watched very closely the announcement just a few days ago last week when our sister p publication here at the university, the bolt of the atomic science moved the hands closest to the hands of midnight, and the closest they have been in 60 years. so i am eagerer to r hear what the panelists have to remark on the safer and more dangerous world main the today's nuclear community. we have a distinguished panel. and

axelrod, cbs news, new york. >>> only on "cbs this morning," the mysterious death of a border patrol agent. the fbi says it was an accident. david headed to texas to look into what happened. >>> and the author tara westover shares her stories of growing up in a survival iist environment iowa and her struggles. thanks for watching. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com you'd never find this at a fast food restaurant - it's a good inspired friething.ken sandwich. is that right, martha? why don't you try my asian fried chicken sandwich? it's made with crispy fried chicken strips, crunchy asian slaw and a gochujang mayo - all on a toasted baguette. security! get him! you afraid of a little competition? you want to go to war with me, jack? do you really? oh my gosh! what! i can't smell! i can't smell! ♪ introducing my food truck inspired sandwiches. only at jack in the box. i'm michelle griego. and i'm anne makovec, in for kenny choi. >>> good morning, it is wednesday, february 21st. you're taking a live look at the beautiful bay bridge morning. i'm michelle griego. >> i'm anne makovec in fo

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