." >> gloria borger, we should mention the way she responded. we won't go into detail, but she sort of took it there, kindergarten behavior all around. >> reporter: yes, she did. >> but we're hearing trump is trying to change the subject. he wants to get people away from what has happened with this murdered or killed journali iis jamal khashoggi but we will be talking about this. >> reporter: we kind of rush charge the shiny object. and donald trump is very good at running it out there for you when he doesn't want to pay attention to somethipay attenti and pay attention to something else. i mean, calling a woman a horseface, fick horseface, particularly when his wife is running an anti-bullying campaign, come on. i mean, come on. >> despite that, he's raised more than $100 million for his reelection battle that is more than two years away. from what i know, no incumbent president has ever done anything like that at this point. >> nothing close to this. normally in an off-year election, you don't want to take the money from the candidates who are

gloria borger is back with me. feeling and it's the faith of this community. and now it's a little bit of the politics in the sense of the president, live pictures of air force one waiting to see trump as he is now in pittsburgh today. and i know a number of local leaders, even members of congress, you know -- either didn't want him to go or aren't going with him. and what's your reaction to his desire to be there? >> first of all, i have to talk about that letter. you know, i'm jewish. and, you know, everyone has a bubby in their family. and, you know, it's hard. thinking of the president, look, he wanted to come. he wanted to pay his respects. the jewish community is divided. and some felt that today is a day of burial. as you know, jews bury their dead quickly and that he shouldn't have inserted himself into this. but he is the president of the united states, and some said, you know, he should be welcome in this community, as david shribman was talking about earlier. what we're watching for is a president who ha

we have ian brener, joe lockhart and gloria borger. why is the president resorting to making up false claims? why can't he run on his accomplishments? i thought the economy was doing so well. >> the economy is doing well, and he has run on that accomplishment. but that was true when he ran for president, going after mexicans coming to rape and criminalize in the u.s. that was a line he talked about a lot. it worked with his base. he's going back to it again. why is he bringing up transgender again as an issue? if the mainstream press talks about it, it is probably going to help him with his base. i understand the politics behind it. it is a nasty business, but i suspect this is a good way for him to run into the midterm. >> i speak to republicans who have never felt better about their chances in these midterms. it is simply working. >> yeah. i'm old enough to remember 2016, and this is 2016 all over again. and republicans are feeling good because if you start with brett kavanaugh and then you, you know, something switched after brett k

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joining us for that is cnn political analyst david gergen, gloria borger, as well as carl bernstein. david, in light of the fact that some local officials thought it was an ill-timed visit with funerals taking place and maybe taking resources away, do you think the president was right to come here today? >> i think he was right to go to pittsburgh, not today. it became an extremely awkward day for the president. he did the right thing in wanting to go and comfort families. but the awkwardness started right after the fact that he arrived basically with his wife alone. he was not met at the airport. he was met with lots and lots of protesters in the streets. he did not apparently -- he met with the families of those who had been wounded. as far as i can tell. and this may be wrong, but i'm not sure he met with the families of those who lost their lives. and he left in silence. our presidents when they've gone to the days like this, you think of barack obama or george w. bush or bill clinton, they all spoke out and gave meaning to what happened and tried to be healers. they came to be k

with me now cnn political analyst gloria borger and victoria mcgrain, national correspondent from the "boston globe." gloria, to you first. in the past 24 hours the president has been exposed as a liar, a tax cheat and he's mocked ford, thus attacking women in general. where are we? >> well, that's a good question, brooke. i think unfortunately we're in a place where none of this seems surprising to us anymore, where, you know, the president mocking dr. ford seems somehow something that doesn't shock us coming from his mouth and -- >> how about the people standing behind him who laughed as well. >> that was what was stunning to me was people behind him, including women, laughing. and i don't know whether it's because they're just trump supporters and, you know, whatever he says and he thought it was funny, they should, you know, they would -- i don't know. i mean, it was very -- it was hard to watch because don't forget, this is a president who said that he found her testimony very compelling at one point. >> and credible. flash forward, he couldn't hold back. >> and now he's mocking

us to discuss, a former political commentators with us as well and our chief political analyst gloria borgers. what have you and your team learned? . >> well, multiple sources have told us during this final sort of good-bye meeting between don mcgahn and

ariana de vogue white house reporter for "the new york times" and our own chief political analyst gloria borger. that's unpack what the president just said. look, we can focus and should focus on the supreme court now. we are like 10 minutes away from this vote. but he has a pep in his step. with good reason. >> yes. >> he had a good week. >> he did have a good week. he had what may be one of best weeks of his presidency, if not the best week. i mean he had this, number one, good economic numbers, trade deal that a lot of people thought he couldn't do. he did have that story in "new york times" about his history with the tax code with his father, which was, shall we say, a revealing and not positive piece, which they are running again tomorrow. but if you take all things into account here, he is able, he was able to energize his base, in a big way, perhaps saving control of the senate, which a lot of people didn't think was in danger, but maybe adding to the seats on the senate. on the flip side, the democrats will be energized, too. we will have to see how that works out. but all in all, we we

cnn political analyst, april ryan and gloria borger. you are there. what did you think? >> reporter: you and i have covered this place. when i started, you were here. this is something that is very different. the cameras were there. i don't remember hearing this kind of monologue, if you will, of someone meeting with the president. this is someone that the president wants to hear from. kanye west did acknowledge in this conversation that he had or this monologue, that he has some issues, mental health issues, but he also said he looks to the period as a father. he talked about chicago and crime rate there and talked about the 13th amendment and slaves not being able to read and he was all over the place. what i do get from this is that the president brought him along with jim brown and kid rock in to learn. wolf, i'm going to give you a little something. we will talk to someone who is familiar with the kardashians text messaging with ray jay. he was close with kim kardashian. he said i think it's a great opportunity for young black entrepreneurs and artists to talk one o

let me bring in gloria borger, cnn's chief political analyst. gloria, very different view, maybe very unsurprisingly from dianne feinstein and chuck schumer than from chuck grassley this morning. >> two very angry senators, if you watched. they believe that this was quite frankly a whitewash that was ordered by the fbi, by the white house. sorry. and that the fbi investigation is completely incomplete. and what you saw chuck schumer say was, you have to release this to the public because the public ought to be able to look at it for itself. and he said, look, you know, he disagrees with chuck grassley that there was no hint of misconduct through all of those -- >> gloria, i'm interrupting. that's lindsey graham, but i think we're also going to go to mitch mcconnell. whichever one we're going to take, let's take it. >> an acclaimed judge who appears and colleagues praise in the very strongest terms. a jurist whom the american bar association awarded its very highest rating unanimously, well qualified. here's what the aba says it takes to earn that

. >> gloria borger, i want to get your reaction. we know the latest polling shows this move may not be good for her politically. >> right. heidi heitkamp is behind a dozen points in the polls. she's been sinking during the whole nomination process, and, you know, red state democrats, this has really hurt them. you were speaking earlier last hour about how this has motivated the republican base. and i think that's what you're seeing right now, and i think that's why the president actually changed his tone on dr. ford earlier this week when he started mocking her, if you will. i mean, look, this is political -- the democrats have to show that they have fought as hard as they could to please their base and also because they don't want him confirmed, but we're heading into a mid-term election here and so this ain't bean ball here. and republicans are sticking with kavanaugh. the president stuck with kavanaugh, particularly i think when he realized that it was good for him. now, it's going to hurt him in the house of representatives. i m

we have chief analyst gloria borger. part of the cnn team that broke this story. she is with us.questions mueller's team has given to the white house? >> there are questions about collusion and about events that considered preinauguration. they have been talking about doing this for months and months and months. finally bob mueller handed them a bunch of questions because you can't claim executive privilege preinauguration. the lawyers are busy writing these responses like a tame home test they are doing for the president using documents submitted to bob mueller. the big question is, what are they going to do about obstruction and the question that comes after he became president? >> does this mean there is no way the president is going to sit for a face-to-face interview? >> not at all. in this arrangement, the special counsel reserved the right to go back and ask more questions and they are doing it in two parts. so it's hard for me to think on the obstruction issue when it goes to intent and what is in your mind at a certain point, the special counsel won't say we need to sit

here with me to share their reporting and insights, karen is "the washington post" reporter and gloria borger and mary catherine with the federalist. hello. let's start where phil left off. we have three republican yeses this morning. the question is -- two republican yeses and one democratic yes. the question about whether or not any of them will switch. >> well, i think we don't know definitively the answer to that. i would put money on flake not switching because we know he voted for the nomination in committee and he was trying to find a way to get to yes all along. he was one of the people who called for this so you could have an fbi report. it would surprise me if manchin switched. i don't think as a democrat, democrats would not want him to be the decisive vote, but it was a clear sign as a democrat that he voted yes today and i think collins, we really don't know. >> talk to me from the perspective of conservatives and what the real implication is politically speaking, in particular, collins. jeff flake is retiring and susan collins right now, she is really getting it from all sides.

political commentator mark short, the former director of legislative affairs for president trump, gloria borger and mark chalian and arian d'vau d'vaugh. what are you hearing from your friends on the hill and the white house since you bridge both? >> well, i think right now there's a lot of optimism this will get completed. it's a departure from the way supreme court nominations used to go. it wasn't until 2005 we had our first cloture vote with alito. when clarence thomas was elected, there was never a minimum vote needed. >> if she announces she's going to vote against confirmation, it puts an enormous amount of pressure on the one democrat who voted in favor of moving this process forward, joe manchin of west virginia, who is in a tough reelection bid in his home state. >> if i was joe manchin at that point, i'd be running for the hills of west virginia. the democrats will put so much pressure on him. you cannot be the deciding vote here. if you want our help in your race and he's now ahead comfortably but these things can change, if you want any help in your race, forget it, we're not going

gloria borger, you're getting new information as well. >> i want to add to what dana was saying. these senators, including senator flake, still pretty much seem to be trying to decide what they want to do. we know that senator flake voted yes in committee, so he's not as much of a mystery perhaps as senator collins or murkowski. but there is this possibility that people vote yes on cloture, meaning move the nomination, and then decide to vote against the nomination in the end. i mean, you'll recall, and we have all covered this, that this occurred during health care, when john mccain, for example, voted yes on cloture, but that was because he thought he could perfect the bill on the second round. there's nothing here to perfect. it's just a nomination on a single person. >> i gotta go to senator mitch mcconnell, the majority leader. >> the stakes are always high for a supreme court nomination. but colleagues, the extraordinary events of recent weeks have raised them even higher this time. when we vote later this morning, we will not only be deciding whether to elevate a stunningl

us to discuss, a former political commentators with us as well and our chief political analyst gloria borger, you have got to reporting for us. what have you and your team learned? . >> well, multiple sources have told us during this final sort of good-bye meeting between don mcgahn and donald trump that donald trump was asking a lot about the mueller investigation and he was in a sense kind of putting some blame on mcgahn for it, since mueller was put in place while white house counsel, trump said he believed this cast a cloud over the presidency, this ongoing investigation. he has been fixated on it, our sources tell us. in what was an otherwise positive outgoing meeting with mcgahn, who successfully got kavanaugh through to the supreme court. so it was during this face-to-face meeting in the oval office that they had this final good-bye. but it seemed like a real sticking point with the president and a lingering conversation. >> it was a sensitive topic for the president. he liked what white house counsel don mcgahn did. he was clearly bitter about the fact the mueller investigation the r

joining us is gloria borger, michael allen and maureen o'connell, a former fbi special agent. gloria, a week ago vulnerable republicans were in a tough spot. does that change after today's report? >> reporter: well, i think it gives them a talking point. the talking point is that jeff flake requested this investigation, there was an investigation. there was no corroborating evidence here and, therefore, they're going to vote for judge kavanaugh. so i think it does give them a little bit of leeway here if they are inclined to vote for kavanaugh because they come from red states. it does give them that extra bit of push to say, you know what, you can do it, and there won't be hell to pay because from democrats as much because had at least this extra week. >> flake came out initially before this investigation, this additional probe, to say he was a yes on kavanaugh. we know where he was trying to get to. senator susan collins and lisa murkowski, however, the two republican women who we have seen at time break with this president, are they in the same boat in terms of the factors t

political and policy implications, leon panetta, and copacabana beach's chief political analyst gloria borger the notion that president trump knows more about nato than secretary mattis, i'm wondering what you know about that? is that something that should concern people, that the president thinks that? >> well, as we've found out about this president, he knows more about everything more than anybody else so it doesn't surprise me that he would say he knows more about nato than jim mattis. it's just -- it's just one of those exaggerated statements that i think the public has adjusted to from this president. >> gloria, why do you think the president calls secretary mattis sort of a democrat or said he was sort of a democrat in the "60 minutes" interview? >> he went from mad dog to reports now that he calls him democratic dog and it's really not surprising, anderson. they disagree on so much. when you think about the south korea war games, they disagreed on the president stopping those, the demand, the space for it, nato, the paris climate deal. i think there have been a lot of disagreements. m

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i want to bring in cnn chief political analyst gloria borger and cnn supreme court analyst joan biskupic. do you think collins and manchin are still weighing their final decisions? >> reporter: it's hard to know. we don't know whether it was arm twisting or saying thank you. we just don't know. and i think that -- i think that given the nature and the importance of this vote, i can't imagine that whatever each of them decides they didn't have second thoughts about it. it's just been that kind of a process here. and we know that flake wanted to get to yes, we know that he voted for cavanaugh in the committee, for example, so that was a clear sign. we know that both he and collins came out of that secret room after reading some documents saying that they saw no corroboration and that it was a complete report, they believed. so that may give you a hint about susan collins. so i think we're just going to honestly have to wait another little less than an hour to find out. but it would seem to me that they would be less likely to change their votes on final. >> exactly. susan collins expected

and so what you see as our colleague, gloria borger wrote in her column, tossing things against the wall to see what sticks at the end here. you note the immigration thing. or now picking a fight inside his own party with paul ryan? these seem like somebody who is a bit off his game. now, we know donald trump has political game, and he can get that back, even in these closing days. but it seems he's searching, to me, to get on firmer footing. and look at where he's going to go and sell these closing messages. if you look -- look at these states he's rallying in. these eight states. this is deep, red trump country. in most of them -- montana, missouri, west virginia, indiana, tennessee, those are states donald trump won by double digits two years ago. he's not going to persuade independents. he's not going to campaign for house candidates. that is not a welcome development -- he's not welcome in those races by republicans. he's going to deep red trump country to try and save the senate here. that is what he's doing with these rallies. >> and you have some new polling numbers that drills d

gloria borger, the president said these are despicable events. >> he did not use those words before today he had a rally inside the white house and when people started chanting, you know, "cnn sucks," whatever, "fake news," their words, not mine, and "lock her up," he didn't say, no, no, we have to stop that, we can't. he let it go on. >> he seemed to be smiling actually. >> and on his twitter this morning about 10:00 before we knew any of this news, he put "bomb" in quotation marks and seemed to be offensed thwffende stories of the terrorism were overtaking the messages he wanted to talk about for the election. >> twitter has not been striking the same tone as his, but he hasn't been doing that because it seems like he's being himself again, which is he does things correctly when his advisers have gotten into his ear enough that he's able to read those sorts of comments but he still has a lot of -- his natural state of being is to pick the political fight and do not worry about the greater consequences of thanksgiving. th -- things. this is a particularly egregious time to do that but th

gloria borger is with us, and also kara, combing through a very long 40,000-word "new york times" report. what do you find out? >> wolf, the "new york times" just posted this story saying they talked to many who worked with the trump organization, donald trump's father fred trump and through an extensive investigation found that trump participated in dubious tax feeds in the 1990s including allegations of outright fraud. that's the "new york times" alleging that. they found the actions had, that in effect by trump greatly increased his fortune and trump helped his parents set up sham companies to disguise millions in gifts he received. the "new york times" also is reporting that, you know, at one point one of these allegations is that the trumps' parents transferred to donald trump and his siblings $1 billion, but, in fact, the trump family had only paid $52 million in taxes which the tax bill could have been $500 million. >> a statement from a lawyer representing the president. what does that state. >> right. the president's attorney said that the "new york times" allegations of fraud a

i want to bring in our analysts including gloria borger who has new reporting on robert mueller's efforts to get answers from president trump. what are you learning, gloria? >> one of my colleagues dana bash and evan perez were reporting that finally, after almost a year, president trump's legal team has received questions that they can answer in writing from robert mueller about collusion. so that would cover, wolf, the pre-inauguration part of this controversy. so they're working studiously on getting those answers back to him. it doesn't mean, however, that in the end, bob mueller will, a, be satisfied with their answers, or, b, won't say to them, you know, we need to talk about obstruction, and i need to talk to the president about that. but i think there was an agreement reached that after going back and forth and back and forth for so long, they had to finally get this started. and it may be an indication, of course, that bob mueller is gearing up to get to the end of his investigation at some point in the not too distant future, obviously, after the midterms. >> the president and h

. >> gloria borger, thank you so much.o to this news conference just about to begin. >> all set? good afternoon, everyone. before you start, i just want at that acknowledge bill sweeney, assistant director in charge of the new york fbi office, sean benedict, special office in charge of atf's new york field division and phillip bartley, inspector in charge of the u.s. postal inspection services, new york division. in a moment you'll hear from mayor diblasio, and then from bill and john miller. john will provide you with an update on the suspicious pack and investigations we're conducting here in new york city. first and foremost, my message today is that new yorkers are safe. there are no current, credible threats to any individuals, organizations or locations here in new york city. new yorkers are safe, but everyone, all 8.6 million residents and the millions of visitors who come here every year should always remain vigilant and aware of their surroundings. as always, i urge people to alert us to anything that might seem s

let's get more from gloria borger.his new version of what the saudis will be announcing is totally different from the earlier version. >> yes, totally 180. he left the consulate, he was alive. oops, now, you know, he died but it was some rogue open rise. -- operation. i think the reason the president sent pompeo is to try to get straight answers. jerry connelly completely disbelieves this and said it is not true, and we don't know the intelligence he is looking at. but if there is video, i'm assuming the intelligence has it. so you need to get to the bottom of this because this is kind of ridiculous, and there was a flat denial. nobody -- we didn't know about it, nobody involved. i also am skeptical about that. >> but isn't the real story here nepotism? isn't the real story that president trump has turned over this incredibly important relationship to his incompetent and unqualified son-in-law, jared kushner, who has invested the american relationship with nbs, the prince there, who turns out to be just as bad and auth

. >> well, this is a report that i've done with gloria borger and evan perez, and it really is a significantnt in that for almost a year, maybe even a little bit more, the question has been whether the president would participate with the special counsel in any way, shape or form, and the answer has been tbd. well, now, we're told, according to sources we're talking to, familiar with this, that the president's legal team is preparing answers to written questions provided by the special counsel and his team. now, those -- those questions and the answers, of course, are solely in and around the question of collusion. it has nothing to do with anything that -- that -- that began when the president took office, so nothing about obstruction of justice, for example. and there's also a chance that this is just round one of a back and forth on written questions, so -- so, you know, we don't know how far this is going to go, but the fact that they have come to this place where they actually can at least have an acceptance on the part of robert mueller that he can get some answers from the president i

now as i bring in gloria borger to talk about this, we understand one was sent to democratic congresswoman maxine waters. this is significant when you see a pattern of targets here who are coincidentally not so coincidentally rhetorical targets of president trump's. >> absolutely. and maxine waters is one of his favorites. he actually -- and this is not my phrasing, it's his, talks about her as the very low i.q. maxine waters and disparages her publicly, as well as in tweets. i just want to say one thing about this because i was actually in missoula, montana last week when the president praised gian forte for body slamming a journalist. >> something the apologized for. >> apologized for and had to do anger management more. and the president praised him, he's my kind of guy. when you have this kind of rhetoric, calling the media the enemy of the people, cnn fake news constantly, people listen to that. i remember the president's speech after steve scalise got shot. and it was great. it was about sort of bipartisanship and i know he's doing a bipartisan thing today on opioids and there will b

. >> let me get over to cnn's chief political analyst, gloria borger. on the why, why leave, why leave now, haley didn't -- to me, it didn't seem like she shed much light. she said it's not for personal reasons. i'm a believer in term limits, essentially. what are you thinking? >> i'm thinking we don't know the reason she's leaving. dana bash is reporting there could be financial reasons here, that she wants to make money, that she has two college aged kids. you know, we don't know exactly what her relationship with donald trump is these days, although he did go out of his way to praise her. we know the timing of this is sort of strange, given the fact that you're heading into a midterm election, and as abby was just saying, you know, there is a huge gender gap in this country, and you have a very visible woman in this administration deciding to leave at this particular time, even though it's not in effect until january. so we don't really know why other than her reason, which is i think people ought to limit themselves in jobs. but that doesn't sort of

gloria borger, what do we know about the timing of this sudden announcement today? >> we don't know much, beyond the fact that people were surprised, including bolton and pompeo and lots of people inside the white house. and what this leads me to believe is that this is something that nikki haley decided to do, and we have done some reporting on this, because not only for personal reasons, but i think she felt she was losing a bit of clout as a u.n. ambassador. when tillerson had been secretary of state, the president depended on her an awful lot. when tillerson left and pompeo came in, the president is very close to pompeo. i think she felt her clout kind of decreasing. she felt this was a good time. and maybe she wanted to get out in front of all the people who are going to leave or get fired after the midterm elections, and sort of separate herself that way. so that's -- that explains the timing to me a little bit. >> what does it say to you that the united nations says the u.n. secretary general was not, quote, forewarned of this decision? >> it was a surprise t

let's get right to cnn's evan perez and gloria borger who have this breaking story. evan, what can you tell us about the questions that the trump team is preparing to answer? >> well, jake, this is a big moment, as you said. these questions that they have now received from the special counsel have to do with matters before the trump inauguration, and this is a moment obviously that's been in the making for about ten months, almost ten months of negotiations between the special counsel's office and -- and the trump legal team, and so, as you said, these are questions that are focused on the collusion, big collusion question, whether or not there was anybody inside or associated with the trump campaign who was working or talking to or sharing information with the russians in their attempt to influence the 2016 election. what is not on the table in these questions, we're told, is obstruction, which is something that we know is a big part of the mueller investigation. that is still something that the -- the two teams are still discussing. they are still in negotiations o

. >> gloria borger, i want to go to you in washington, d.c.n you hear sarah sanders and she says, trump has found moments that he has brought this moment together, and those reporters brought up exactly the right counter to that. look at his tweets, you know, look at his tweets, blaming -- not looking within or looking at his own rhetoric, but blaming the media for the anger in the country, the media as the enemy. >> and she said 90% of the media. there's something very simple, honestly, the president could do about, for example the bomber, the shooter and say, if you think you're on my side and you think you're a supporter of mine, you are not. because what you are doing is something i do not stand for and i abhor and i condemn. and i think you need to be punished. and if any supporters of mine feel that way, then you ought to understand how i feel. remember, i go back to david duke during the campaign when he said, he really didn't know who he was. >> i was thinking about the same thing. >> he didn't criticize -- >> yep. >> so the president