does -- david gergen, do you think joe biden really knows how to run a campaign of the future? to run in this present? i mean, you know, running now is different than running four years ago and running four years ago was certainly, you know, or two years ago was a heck of a lot different than any other campaign. >> i totally agree. i think that is a big, big question, anderson. does he -- can he connect? can he be a man of the future? i think he can be the man who shapes the democratic future. there are a lot of these other candidates running against him right now who hope to beat him, but they also want to stay on his good side, because one of them might be his vice presidential nominee. and by the way, they're all looking and saying, well, maybe in four years, if he is president, he'll be a one term, maybe, and i want to be out there and be in good graces with joe biden in 2024 when a big showdown might occur in the democratic party. >> david gergen and david axelrod, good discussion, appreciate it. >>> just ahead, a fiery new op-ed from james comey. he doesn't just call pres

former senior obama adviser david axelrod and senior political analyst david gergen.d, i mean, 11 public events since launching the campaign a month ago, is that a winning strategy? elizabeth warren has had four public events on sunday alone >> well, it's a winning strategy for now. i mean, i have to say, joe biden has gotten out of the blocks very, very fast. and part of it is that people see him as a guy who can beat donald trump. he's a comfortable figure and the democratic electorate is very focused on beating donald trump. so that has benefited him, but he cannot continue to run what amounts to a rose garden strategy. you've got too many competitors out there. and i think with biden, the real question is, he would be eight years older than any president who's ever taken office if he gets elected. and there are real questions about that. and if you keep him in a candidate protection program this way, it just is going to exacerbate those questions. plus, voters in these early states, iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, they want to see you ask for their vote. they

david gergen said, this is something the campaign probably likes.and he is above all the politics back in washington. and so certainly, i do think that this is part of why the president made this long trek. remember, he'll be back in japan next month. and this is a president who does not like to travel. but i think that the president and his team made the calculation that it is an honor. this is something that abe really wanted the president to do. abe told him, if you're going to pick a trip to japan, this is more important than the g20 next month. at the same time, what we just saw play out is exactly what the president and his team wanted. you have to think that the president was delighting in all of this attention of him being on the world stage, showing others, including china, that he has other friends in this region here. and that they are really treating him with the utmost respect. >> okay, pam brown, everybody, stand by. thank you for your analysis. i want to take a quick break. our live coverage continues right after this. pay as much for

david gergen is back with me. you served as an adviser to four different presidents.eworks on the fourth of july. not fireworks over the fourth of july. do you expect this to be the latest controversy to hit washington. >> alex, i'm glad you're covering this story, it deserves attention. it's wildly inappropriate for the president to attend and speak at the event. this is not his fourth of jult, it's our fourth of july, that belongs to all americans. and to have the president take charge and plan this address is just -- it goes against the grain and this is what dictators dream of going. the president of the united states needs to show restraint and respect for the nation's traditions. especially on the 4th of july. >> this report in the washington post said he was more involved in the planning of this day than many other policy initiatives. one of the things that stuck out was that the president wants to move reportedly the fireworks from the mall to be closer to the potomac, so he can address the country from the lincoln memorial that image of president trump on tho

david gergen remains with us. been involved in a lot of administrations. tell us your thoughts again as we come up to this moment. >> well, i very much respect laura's reporting. i must say, jim, if you were at the justice department a senior to bob mueller, you would want to see the contents of the statement before he goes out. and the fact he's doing it at the justice department, you know, shows very much he's an employee of the justice department. and i would think that they would want us to not only see it, but if possible, have editing rights. i think that's a crucial questi question. is this coming directly from him or gone through channels and been approved and check marked and so forth. we would put different weight on it if it's gone through channels than if we were told this is his raw statement and nobody else looked at it. >> well, you've been in government long enough the to know that the difference between seeing it prior and having editorial power, veto power prior is significant. >> it sure is. >> and this, of course, is a special counsel w

joining me cnn senior political analyst david gergen and chief political analyst gloria borger.ousing and urban development secretary. shouldn't he know what reo stands for? >> one would think he would. after two years, one would think he would have mastered all the acronyms of your agency. foreclosures are one-third of the agency's asset sales. so i'm old enough to remember when cabinet secretaries went before congress and they actually had mastered what they were going to be asked about or what they were going to talk about, and that clearly wasn't the case today. >> david, the president always talks about hiring the best and the brightest. these administration officials when they testify, does it seem like they have prepared for their testimony? >> often it does not. while i agree with everything gloria just said, a piece of me is sympathetic to ben carson. i was on a university board with him about 20 years ago, and he was celebrated in much of the country because he came out of poverty in detroit. people told him when he was growing up, he would never amount to anything, he

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perspective now, david gergen and jeffrey toobin, who is back with us.g, david, to hear the president actually tweet out, to see him tweet out that russia helped him get elected. it lasted for 42 minutes and 3 seconds. but it was surprising nonetheless. >> it took about ten minutes for white house aides to go racing across the lawn to get to the president and say, you got to take that back, because i'm not sure he knew what he was writing. but nonetheless, i think he did acknowledge something. it was important. but that's the only thing he has acknowledged in a string of lies today. and the big lie here, anderson, the list you went through, they're all lies, but the big lie is he keeps arguing, basically, he has been cleared, especially on obstruction. and that simply is not true. despite the gloss that attorney general barr has put on it. what we know from the mueller report is that they just simply did not reach a conclusion on whether he had committed a crime or not. and very, very importantly, they couldn't clear him. that the evidence was such that

with us is david gergen and ilya shapiro. ilya worked with mcgahn at an international law firm more than a decade ago and has remained on friendly terms. thanks for joining us. we'll be right back to discuss a little more about what we saw. >> okay, we'll stick with the pictures there from the hearing. david, first to you. tell us a little bit about what you think happens next as a result of what we just saw. >> well, i think the chairman very much wanted to have a chance to delay the case out of obstruction by the president and lacking don mcgahn, he just gave us his own rendition of what the problems are and why he thinks the president, if he were not president right now, would be charged with criminality. i think what happens next is he gives it a couple days, let everything sink in, and then he's going to issue a contempt citation, and i would assume that very quickly he will take this to the courts. it clearly, on two fronts now, we're going to have courts getting engaged here and giving us judgments. the trump team lost

. >> let's bring in cnn's senior political analyst david gergen. he served as an adviser to four u.s. presidents including nixon and clinton. i mentioned nixon and clinton specifically because they both faced the threat of impeachment. david, this weekend we have republican congressman justin amash speaking out saying trump's actions are impeachable. so far, democrats, democrats, in fact, are still divided on this issue of impeachment and more republicans, we aren't seeing exactly rushing forward to side with congressman amash, so does amash weighing in change anything? >> not very much. it -- we do know now that he's not only one of the most conservative members of congress, but he's also one of the bravest because he's surely inviting a possibility of a challenge the next time out when he runs and he's been there now -- he's in his fifth term now. so he knows what he's getting into. he has not been afraid -- it's important to understand, he has been a lone voice often in the wilderness in the republican party when it comes to donald trump now for

. >>> joining me now david gergen, former presidential adviser to four u.s. presidents. david, always good to have you on. >> good to see you, jim. >> all right. so mitch mcconnell in a few moments is going to say that the mueller probe is over, you heard that from lindsey graham, the president is certainly pushing that thought now. tell me what mueller's testimony would mean, to hear directly from the special counsel but also crucially to hear him challenged about his decision on obstruction of justice, for instance, how important would that be? >> i think it's very important politically and not legally and that is, you know, there has been a sense that barr spun the report in such a way as to make it much more favorable to the president than the facts suggested and that's why we have over 600, you know, former justice department people saying at the end of the day were it not for the justice department ruling that a president can't be indicted that this president would be subject to multiple felony charges. we have differences of opinion about sort of where mueller cam

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juliette kayyem, and david gergen. david, if we begin with you the president is once again contradicting his own folks, his own team. he's contradicting an ally, one he's standing right next to. and as shocking as that may be there's also a part that makes you say, we've seen this movie before but i wonder how it ends. >> well, it normally ends when someone as many disagreements that john bolton does with the president, that john bolton is on a short list for leaving. he's been undercut now on his views about north korea, about iran, undercut on his views about venezuela and what the russians are doing there. when you have three strikes against your own president, that's not good news for him. but i must say i think the president is playing politics with this. i think he's less interested in the technology than he is in trying to convince people back home that he's making progress with north korea. and he wants to make that a big deal. he wants to be able to show that he's -- for all this time he's had working with the

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russia operations, april lyon, and david gergen. let me start with you. the president initiates this call, hour, hour and a half, no mention of russian interference. how is that possible? >> well, just another day at the office, isn't it really? you know, it is not surprising but still breathtaking that the president of the united states could contradict his own top intelligence people, contradicting head of the fbi, who just a week ago was saying this was a dress rehearsal for 2020, interference in our elections, has basically dismissed the idea of russian interference. called into question are we entering an election period where the russians have free play in the election system, tilting the board, at the same time evidence of suppression of voting in a variety of places around the country. is that going to give confidence? i think what they're doing is undermining our democracy. >> it seems, it was stupefying to refer to the entire thing as a mouse or refer to it as a joke, that putin is smiling. >> i mean, erin, i'm stupefied. sensible minded people

kayyem, the assistant secretary of the department of homeland security under president obama and david gergenents, including two who were in a situation similar to this, nixon and clinton. let me start with you, john dean. is it mueller's call to decide whether or not he testifies? he is saying i justant won't do it, not going to do it, guys. >> it is not his choice. it's congress's choice. if he is asked he will probably do it voluntarily. but if he don't want to do it voluntarily. they can subpoena him and force the issues. subpoena it is an awkward way to do it. but his testimony is also hearsay. you could also get a lot of what he could say from other witnesses where he could shine a bigger light in sort of an overview. >> i mean, david, here is the question. you heard congressman connolly, right he said he is coming i don't care whether he wants to be here or not he is coming. nancy pelosi said she wants him to come. however gerry nadler had originally threatened to subpoena backed away. here is pelosi and nadler. >> yes, i think it would be useful for him to testify before congress. >>

presidents david gergen. jack you're here with me. let me start with you. we laid out the testimony of the pause, the answer which obviously runs counter to the letter we know he had already received. is it laughable to say bar lied under oath. >> when you was assist u.s. attorney if i had gone into federal court with his special mixture of 907% misleading and 10% literal truth, regardless whether it's perjury or not those judges would have called my boss, u.s. attorney. would have wanted my head. i would have been disciplined or fired. i guarantee you eep and every trial lawyer in the u.s. department of justice feels the same way. felon of them go into federal court acting the waybill bar did when he went into congress. >> juliette? >> oh, i would totally agree with that assessment. there is no way you look at that testimony and think there is a guy who wants full disclosure. and i think there is two ironic aspects of this. first it's just how wounded the attorney general feels. it's like, oh, you know they are hurting my feelings. he is the attorney gener

outfront now adviser to four presidents david gergen. former federal prosecutor laura the coates and allen lack vera. argued u.s. versus nixon before the supreme court. we had you on the very issue. it's hat ert of everything, right, phil. you have democrats the house speaker saying i'm not sure we get more information by instituting a impeachment inquiry as her defense of why they should have the variouses subpoenas out there argued individually. she says they'll get there that way. don't need the formal proceeding you disagree explain why. >> i disagree. i think she can't get there as confident just doing the scatter shot hearings by the different oversight committees. i think there is a much -- a greater likelihood that when this battle ultimately gets to the supreme court -- and i'm sure that's where trump expects it to go -- he is going to have a stronger argument with the pro trump conservative justices, including two that he has appointed -- in battling congress's right to get general oversight subpoenas enforced as contrasted wit