thenhi the white house briefly banned cnn correspondent jim acosta, jim acosta is not a great person.otis awful. ask anyone who knows him. still, fox news stuck to principle. even awful people ought to be allowed to cover the white house. fox immediately filed amicus brief returning him to the press pool. acosta got his credentials back. you may dislike fox news there is no question about this channel's commitment to free speech. we defend speech, even when it's unpopular, even when the person speaking has attacked us personally. free expression is bigger than any one person or any organization. it is the very heart of this country. it's the foundation of all other freedoms. we really believe that cnn and msnbc do not believe that yesterday the dnc announced that fox news has been banned from hosting any of the democratic party's 2020 primary debates. dnc chairman tom perez went on television to explain that fox news simply isn't a real news organization. >> at the highest levels of fox news they are not playing it straight. i do not have the confidence that we need to take such an impo

first, jim acosta. a major rebuke of the president by a dozen members of his own party. >> reporter: it sure was. the president appears poised to use his veto pen after a big chunk of republican senators voted to support a resolution to block mr. trump's plan to divert taxpayer funds. the president will veto that measure. we're getting new information as to when that might take place. for a president who has successfully kept his party in line, this was a surprising defection. it was the latest sign of cracks in the president's wall. >> the joint resolution has passed. >> reporter: after a dozen gop senators joined forces with democrats to block mr. trump's national emergency declaration to redirect appropriated money for his border barrier. the president is gearing up for his first veto tweeting as only he can in all caps, veto. mr. trump sounds as if he were warming up the veto pen earlier in the day. >> i will probably have to veto. it's not going to be overturned. we're going to have -- it's very im

jim acosta is at the white house for us tonight.e the white house said anything of the president's reference of this so-called manifesto. >> reporter: the white house's counsel kellyanne conway was asked about it earlier and she urged reporters to read the entire manifesto. she was looking past the language in this manifesto that was describing the president assort of a hero as people identifying with the white heritage. the killer was using terms like invaders and almost the same kind of language the president was using when he was vetoing the bill on capitol hill. so the white house, the white nationalism, every time, anderson. >> that's right, and that obviously stood out as being contrary to the facts. as we know from recent studies and fbi statistics the last couple of years, that shows that white nationalism and right wing extremism is on the rise. if you look at what's happening in the world and violence ofs p charlottesville and synagogue shooting in charleston. and the pipe bombs at other democratic targets, that's right wi

just not jim acosta. ahead on the polite between nancy pelosi and the moderate.uch of the press blaming the president for failing to reach a deal with kim jong-un. that wasf attack. we are afraid he's going to give the store. and he stands up and said good-bye. there is a lose-lose by some in the press. on thers were more fair. i feel like it's incumbent on journalists to look at the last few decades of history. everything we tried through the normal channels with north korea has failed. so president trump said i am going to try something different. i am going to try personal diplomacy. howie: the president said sometimes you have to walk, we had handshakes. >> they were pretty realistic about it. we went, we tried, we failed, we got out. you can't rely too much on your personal diplomacy. but at the end of the day he decided to take a walk. anyone who will label this as a huge massive failure, the diplomacy with north korea has not been successful to date. we haven't given up all the sanctions. howie: trump relies highly on personal diplomacy talking about this

i've got jim acosta standing by who got a couple of questions in. ion about the rhetoric ahead of 2020. but of all of the above, what stood out most to you, jim? >> we, you know, this is part of the reason why we've seen the briefings get scaled down over the last several months. there are just so many difficult questions for this white house to answer. but you saw sarah sanders there and to her credit, she did take multiple questions from several reporters. my colleagues at nbc and abc and so on. were able to ask several follow up questions on some pretty pointed issues. i think this issue of the president referring to democrats as antijewish or hating jewish people, that just naturally is going to dredge up some of his own questions from his past. you know, the days after charlottesville when he said that there were very fine people on both sides in charlottesville. that's a comment that's goijust going to live on forever no matter what they say here at the white house and i think it's important to say and not even put it in the form of a question,

for more, i want to go to cnn's chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, what are you learning about what was behind all of these tweets from the president this weekend? >> reporter: well, anderson, i talked to a number of sources over the last day or so and essentially, what i'm hearing from my sources over here at the white house and people who talk to the president on occasion is that this is -- this is really more of the same, of the president trying to throw out distractions, try to change the narrative, dominate their narrative. so there is not as much attention being paid to the mueller report. we do know that over the weekend, speaking of what pam was just talking about, he did tweet that he would like to see republicans up on capitol hill err on the side of transparency, when it comes to this mueller report. so it's interesting, if they decide to scale back what the public can see, that would be running counter to what the president said over the weekend, when he said that he would like to see full transparency when it comes to the mueller rep

just not jim acosta. ahead on the polite between nancy pelosi and the moderate.f the press blaming the president for failing to reach a deal with kim jong-un. howie: president trump's second nuclear summit with kim jong-un ended with no deal. he put the best face on the decision to sleeve vietnam. president trump: this was very friendly. we shook hands. howie: "the washington post" says trump was humbled by the setback. "politico" called it the latest demoralizing episode in a months' long losing streak. we are back with the panel. guy benson, there have been stories about anonymous aide were afraid he would give away the store. mike pompeo didn't want him spending too' time alone with him. guy: that was the line of attack. we are afraid he's going to give the store. and he stands up and said good-bye. there is a lose-lose by some in the press. on thers were more fair. i feel like it's incumbent on journalists to look at the last few decades of history. everything we tried through the normal channels with north korea has failed. so president trump said i am going

forms whether it's in america or anywhere else and to say otherwise is simply untrue. >> cnn's jim acosta joins us now from the white house. jim, the white house certainly is not backing down from the statements by the president even though sarah sanders wouldn't kind of go there. >> reporter: yeah, she wouldn't confirm it and she wouldn't share the president's sentiments, i suppose, word for word but, listen, they view these anti-semitic comments from ilhan omar as a gift and a gift that keeps on giving, whether or not it's justified to keep running with it, they're going to keep running with it and they're going to run with it as long as they can. obviously what you saw during the briefing today was a tacit sort of, you know, offer of support for what the president was saying. there were three of us who tried to challenge sarah sanders on this issue and she wasn't really backing down. as i tried to point out to her, obviously democrats don't hate jewish people, that's simply untrue. she wouldn't concede the point. and so, we've been through this exercise so many times before, her respon

let's start with cnn's jim acosta at the white house. so, jim, based on who you're talking to, how is the white house feeling tonight about maybe eminent, maybe not so eminent delivery of the mueller findings? >> anderson, i think there is some cautious optimism. i do think there are officials who are expressing concern as you were mentioning a few moments ago. there is that reporting out there. i have talked to a number of sources over the past few days who have said they are hopeful at this point mueller will not find that the president has committed any crimes, and that that will be basically the headline coming out of the mueller report. one of the sources did add the caveat that there have been times during this investigation when we didn't know what mueller was up to and didn't know what he had, and that certainly could be the case hurricane keith and we're all going to find out together. but, anderson, one thing we should point out is there is one sign of optimism coming from the trump campaign in that they just put out this fundr

jim acosta is at the white house for us tonight.s the white house said anything about the reference to the president in this so-called manifesto? >> reporter: the president was asked about it and he said he hadn't read it. kellyanne conway was urging reporters to read the entire manifesto and there were parts that said that this killer was an ecoterrorist and so on. she was looking past the language in this manifesto that was describing the president as sort of a hero to people who identify with their white heritage. what was also striking, anderson, in that manifesto was that the killer was using term like invaders and invasion when talking about immigration and the immigration issue. almost the same kind of language that the president was using today when he was vetoing that legislation, rebuking his use of a national emergency declaration to build his wall on the border. so the white house can't whitewash the white nationalism every time, anderson. >> the president claimed today that white nationalism is not a rising threat in hi

white house press secretary sarah sanders sparring with cnn's jim acosta over anti-semitic allegations-and-forth stemming from donald from recently saying democrats are anti-israel and anti-jewish. >> the president is clear on what his position is and what his supporters for the people and community of israel. >> you are saying something that is patently untrue. >> their policy positions. >> democrats don't hate jewish people. >> they should call other members by name. i don't have anything more. heather: sanders the democrats failed to address anti-semitic remarks from congresswoman omar. donald trump taking a democrat after they refused to condemn congresswoman omar by name for perceived anti-semitic remarks. >> i thought that vote was a disgrace and so does everybody else if you get an honest answer. democrats have become an anti-israel party, anti-jewish party. heather: chuck schumer is pushing back saying the president is trying to divide the country. here to weigh in is the author of trump and the jews and former mayor of shiloh, israel, david rubin. thank you for joining us, app

let's start it off with jim acosta who is at the white house. i'm not sure i've ever seen a one-word tweet from the president before today. just that word veto. >> that's right. part of this game we've been playing here in washington, follow the bouncing wall for president trump. he did put out another tweet later on in the evening, anderson, saying that he values the strong republicans who stood with him. you know, anderson, despite the fact you mentioned this a few moments ago that they don't have the number of votes needed to override his veto, which is expected to come as soon as tomorrow. they were doing a lot of arm twisting here at the white house, trying to rein in these wayward republicans, and they were able to get thom tillis, the senator from north carolina to do a major backflip on all of this. but anderson, what i thought was striking, and you touched on this, was despite their efforts to do some arm twisting, you had 12 republicans, nearly all of them basically saying that what the president was trying to do was circumvent the con

and a number of other outlets got questions but not poor jim acosta.need to get a care package or something to him. bring the good seaweed, the dried seaweed you can get. elixirs maybe. he is having a hard time. >> sean: laura, we are talk show hosts. we do news. we do straight reporting,

. >> chief white house correspondent jim acosta is joining us now. jim, what does it say that the top aides are defending the president's mental fitness and denying that he's a white supremacist? these are pretty extraordinary defenses to be out there with. >> reporter: bluttlabsolutely, brianna. i don't know what the president has been tweeting about over the weekend or going to the lengths that cnn officials have to go to to defend those tweets and defend what the chief of staff has been saying. we saw chief of staff mick mulvaney on the morning talk shows defending the president, like you said, saying the president is not a white supremacist. in any other administration, you just wouldn't hear that kind of thing being said by a chief of staff. earlier this morning, things got even more surreal. you saw the white house counselor kellyanne conway talking to reporters after she appeared on one of the other networks, and she was essentially fielding questions about the president's tweets from over the weekend. dozens of tweets draeaddressing sorts of g

(vicki) but as reporter jim acosta explains...white house is already signaling its attorneys won't be complying with the requests coming from house democrats. (nats)surrounded by college football players at the white house, the president sounded ready for the blitz... as house democrats launched an expansive new investigation into allegations of corruption... in nearly every corner of trump world.(nats) "are you going to cooperate with mr. nadler?"i cooperate all the time with everyone. no collusion. it's a political hoax. folks, go eat up!"the house judiciary committee issued demands for documents from more than 80 relatives, aides, and associates of the president...from his own family members... to top white house officials... to other close advisers... past and present.also targeted in the probe... organizations tied to the president... as well as companies and other groups that may have aided mr. trump's campaign.(nats)the house judiciary committee chairman said it's too early to talk impeachment.rep. nadler, d-house judiciary

jim acosta has this story. president, again, facing off criticism for his comments. >> reporter: surrounded by supporters, the president turned a veto into the day's event, rejecting a bipartisan effort that rebuked him for using a declaration to go around lawmakers to build the border wall. >> congress has the freedom to pass the resolution and i have the duty to veto it. >> reporter: he sounded off on the attack in new zealand. >> it's a horrible, horrible thing. i told the prime minister the united states is with them all the way. >> reporter: my warmest sympathy and best wishes go out to the people of new zealand. the president's critics question whether it should have been more forceful in condemning the attack carried out by a right wing extremist. >> i don't really. i think it's a small group of people with very, very serious problems. if you look at what happened in new zealand, perhaps that's the case, i don't know enough about it, yet. they are just learning about the person and the people involved. i

let's go straight to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta, and jim, whenever this whole thing is completed and it becomes public and we go with that, what is the white house planning to do in response to the release of the report? >> reporter: we've been talking about march madness all this week, there's mueller madness here in washington as everyone is anticipating this report to drop and waiting on the edge of their seat and that includes people over here at the white house. we've been talking to a number of officials over here at the white house including sources outside the white house, advisers to the trump campaign and i will tell you, brooke, from what i am hearing from sources close to the president and white house, in addition to people who are familiar with a lot of these legal conversations, there's a growing optimism that this mueller report is going to be somewhat good news for the president. now, whether or not that is ultimately the case, we're all going to find out together, aren't we? but i talked to a source close to the white house who advises the trump camp

reporter jim acosta has the details...)faced with one of the most far-reaching congressional investigations in years, president trump doesn't sound like he's in the mood to cooperate.president trump, no font needed: "there was no collusion. it was a hoax. there was no anything." mister trump blasted away at this week's house judiciary committee request for documents from 81 individuals and organizations connected to the president, as part of a larger probe into allegations of trump world corruption. president trump, no font needed: "basically they've started the campaign. and the people understand it. when they look at it, they just say presidential harassment. it's too bad, because i'd rather see them do legislation."aides to the president have told cnn they may assert executive privilege to block any document demands from democrats.hinting that the white house will be digging in its heels, the president accused his administration of obstructing republican probes. president trump, no font needed: "they didn't give one let

and a number of other outlets got questions but not poor jim acosta. we need to get a care package or something to him. bring some of that good seaweed, the dried seaweed you can get in vietnam. elixirs maybe. he is having a hard time. >> sean: laura, we are talk show hosts. we do news. we do straight reporting, investigative reporting. even sports and cultural issues and opinion.. there are folks -- >> laura: horoscopes. i do horoscopes. >> sean: maybe on your radio show. good for you. i heard you gave a great speech at cpac. is that true? >> laura: yeah, it was a lot of fun. we had a good time. you have to tell jokes and get out. that is my view. tell a few jokes, get a few digs in, talk about how much you love america and get off the stage.if i can do that, thas great speech. you did a great job with the president.om we watched. >> sean: thank you. >> laura: get home safely. >> sean: thank you. we will. we are not leaving for another 20 hours and then another 26 hours, but we'll be there eventually. >> laura: i can't wait to see your scooter ride ho

first, let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, there's still a lot about the mueller report that we don't know and that the trump team doesn't know, either. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. white house officials are sounding confident despite the fact, according to one white house official, that they have not seen the full mueller report over here at the white house, but the president is taking a victory lap after special counsel robert mueller concluded there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the russian government in 2016, but the white house is on the warpath tonight with president accusing people of doing, quote, very evil things and other top white house officials accusing democrats and the media of lying to the public. savoring what may be his biggest political victory since his election, president trump welcomed special counsel robert mueller's findings of no collusion with the kremlin, but he took some swipes at his critics. >> i wish it could have gone a lot sooner, a lot quicker. there are a lot of peop

first, let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. jim, what are we hearing from the president about this very broad new investigation of him and his inner circle? >> reporter: not much so far, wolf, it's been awfully quiet over here at the white house in terms of any comments to news of the day questions, but the president seems to be suggesting so far he'll cooperate with this massive congressional investigation that is really going to be delving into just about everything in the world that's related to donald trump. the white house is already signaling that attorneys over here won't be complying with the request coming from house democrats in this huge investigation. surrounded by college football players at the white house, the president sounded ready for the blitz. as house democrat s launched an expansive new investigation into allegations of corruption in nearly every corner of trump world. >> are you going to cooperate with -- >> i cooperate all the time with everybody. you know the beautiful thing, no collusion, it's all a hoa

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. >> let's take a look at jim acosta's face. cnn smirking when the governor of puerto rico said he wanted to punch trump in the face. what do you think of that smug look? not that we thought acosta was objective. >> whether it is joe biden saying he wishes he could have taken the president out behind the school house and beaten him up in high school or this guy saying he wants to punch the president in his mouth. i ask myself, who is hearing that thinking, that's my team. that's the team i want to root for. now, i know at least one person, jim acosta. he probably has bobbleheads of these guys in his office. >> laura: they do seem to be grasping for a new russian collusion, something. okay. it has to be the inauguration or it's puerto rico. it's like throwing spaghetti against the wall. it always slides down. >> if anyone had said that about hillary clinton or obama, we would have a national discussion about violence. you are right. that's why they are clamoring to see the report. they can't wait to latch on to so redacted part o

>> jim acosta at the white house. thanks. >>> our congressional correspondent, sunlen serfaty is on capitol hill. he said he will clearly veto the resolution. now there's a push to override a presidential veto. what's the latest? >> reporter: democrats are making it very clear tonight that they are essentially not done with this yet. house democratic leadership is already moving to schedule a vote to override the president's very likely and anticipated presidential veto. house democratic leadership aide telling me tonight they will schedule a vote likely on tuesday, march 26th. that's the week after next. notably here it takes two-thirds of a majority to override a veto in the house and senate. importantly, those are numbers that democrats do not have at this point. but democrats certainly saw some encouragement in the fact that you had 12 republican senators defying president trump today, voting against him over here in the senate. and they are certainly looking to capitalize that. notably, among those republican sen

cnn's jim acosta has that. >> reporter: after shying away from the subject for days, president trump took aim at his former personal attorney, michael cohen. accusing his one-time fixer of lying to congress. >> it's a stone cold lie. he's lied about a lot of things. when he lied about the pardon. that was really a lie. he knew all about pardons. his lawyers said they went to my lawyers and asked for pardons. >> president is referring to this comment he made last week under oath when he testified he had not sought a pardon from mr. trump even though his attorneys have just done that. >> i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. >> reporter: the president went one step further alleging cohen had sought a pardon personally, tweeting, bad fraudster michael cohen never asked for a pardon. his attorneys contradicted him. additionally, he directly asked me. i said no cohen tweeting back. let me remind you, today is international women's day, you may want to use the day to apologize for your own lies to children mcdougal and steffi clifford. attacks on cohen co

let's go to jim acosta.rning the president was distracted by what was a war of words with the north korean leader. what are you finding out? >> reporter: sources tell cnn president trump was using startling language when talking about north korea when he visited puerto rico in 2017. that's when he toured the island to see the devastation left by hurricane maria. that was the day when we remember the president was tossing paper towels out to storm victims. according to our sources, this comment the president made came up in a conversation between mr. trump and puerto rico's governor. this was on the same day as those paper towels. the sources say during this conversation, the president pointed to an aide carrying the nuclear football, that's the briefcase used to authorize a nuclear strike, and said that was something that he had for the north korean dictator kim jong-un. the president said according to our sources, quote, this is what i have for kim. that remark shocked the governor who couldn't believe what

now, i know at least one person jim acosta.ly has bobbleheads of these guys in his office. >> laura: they do seem to be grasping for a new russian collusion, something. okay. it has to be the inauguration or it's puerto rico. it's like throwing spaghettir against the wall. it always slides down. >> if anyone had said that about hillary clinton or obama, we would have a national discussion dabout violence. you are right. that's why they are clamoring to see the report. they can't wait to latch on to so redacted part or some sentence to pretend they were right the whole time. you can't spend two years doing this and say we were wrong and move on. they are all in and there is no way out. >> laura: finally, the msnbc spin on the smollett shocker this week. >> here, you have a police department that is known for lying and covering up and yet they were outraged at the fact that jussie smollett may have lied and may have covered something up. the irony was there. >> laura: brian, it is the police department that did all this investiga

here is cnn's jim acosta. >> reporter: after shying away from the subject for days, president trump took aim 59 his former personal attorney michael cohen, accusing his one-time fixer of lying to congress. >> it's a stone cold lie. he's lied about a lot of things, but when he lied about the pardon, that was really a lie, and he knew all about pardons. his lawyers said that they went to my lawyers and asked for pardons. >> reporter: the president is referring to this comment cohen made last week under oath when he testified that he had not sought a pardon from mr. trump, even though his own attorneys had done just that. >> and i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. >> reporter: the president went one step further, alleging cohen had sought a pardon personally, tweeting bad lawyer and frauds ter michael cohen said he had never asked for a pardon. his lawyers totally contradicted him. he lied. additionally, he personally asked me for a pardon. i said no. cohen tweeting back, just another set of lies by the president. let me remind you today is international

first, jim acosta. the administration is doing battle with house democrats as anticipation for the mueller report hangs over washington. >> reporter: that's right. white house officials like the rest of washington are on the edge of their seats waiting for this report to drop. while those expectations are building, democrats are complaining the white house is stonewalling their investigations into the president's personal conversations with russia's vladimir putin as well as another probe into trump family members jared kushner and ivanka trump. the democrats on capitol hill want to know whatsapp? as the white house is awaiting mueller's report, the president is clearly gearing up for battle for the 2020 election, firing up the conservative base. >> you have a president who is also fighting for you. i'm with you all the way. >> reporter: tonight, the president is facing new accusations of stonewalling. house democrats complain the white house is blocking their efforts to seek information about mr. trump

jim acosta has been doing reporting on this what are you hearing?porter: the headlines write themselves over here, bill shine or no bill shine. why he left, we're hearing the president felt like he wasn't getting good press coverage out of his communications director and he had been questioning bill shine over the last few months, how they handled the communications on the government shutdown or the midterms. and a lot of that, as you were mentioning a few moments ago, that responsibility lies with the president. so it's a head scratcher how he can place blame on bill shine for this, but they have to place it on somebody. i will say, though, anderson, i talked to a source close to the white house, talked to the president from time to time earlier today, the source said the fox news concern is real. the new yorker article that came out this week really detailing and delving into the relationship between the white house and fox news, that is starting to make people nervous inside the white house, whether or not it makings the president nervous remains

let's begin with jim acosta. donald trump always said he would surround himself with the best people. one by one, they are ending up in a lot of trouble. >> reporter: it hasn't been the best week for those people. president trump is in florida for the weekend. he toured storm damage in alabama today. before he left the white house, he started a new war of words with michael cohen, which has the potential to drag the president into a possible perjury case against his former personal attorney. today we heard the president start to merge some of his talking points when he referred to the russia investigation as a witch hoax. after shying away from the subject for days, president trump took aim at his former personal attorney michael cohen, accusing his one-time fixer of lying to congress. >> stone cold lie. le he lied about a lot of things. he knew all about pardons. his lawyer said that they went to my lawyers and asked for pardons. >> reporter: the president is referring to this comment cohen made under oath when

let's go to our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. you were at the president's news conference as he embraced another conspiracy theory. >> reporter: that's right. no letup in the bizarre rhetoric over here, calling it a dangerous situation. president trump sounded off on a growing conspiracy theory we are seeing in conservative circles that republicans -- it goes like this. republicans are being discriminated against by social media companies, an accusation offered up without any hard evidence. the president went after the mainstream press as well as john mccain, continuing his battle with the nemesis. latching onto a new conspiracy theory, president trump accused the world's biggest social media companies of collusion. >> there's collusion with respect to that. something has to be going on. something is happening with those groups of folks that are running facebook and google and twitter. i do think we have to get to the bottom of it. >> reporter: the president said he supported an effort to sue twitter. accusing the tech giant of h

and he have cnn chief white house correspondent jim acosta with us right now. this interview. what else did the governor have to say? >> reporter: just to give us context what the governor was saying in the sound bite you played a few moments ago, basically they've been trying to get a meeting with the president for weeks now. they were told the president would do this after he got back from vietnam after his summit with kim jong-un, and they just haven't been able to get in for a meeting with the president. they were at the white house yesterday with aides, and they tried to make their case. they claimed during that meeting pete navarro told them your government, quote, is f-ing things up. according to a white house official moments ago, they're pushing back on that and saying these officials were not told to stop requesting a meeting with the president, but needless to say, they are fed up inside the governor's office. they feel like when the president made those comments behind closed doors to those republican senators that he just wasn't dealing with the fa

let's bring in our chief white house correspondent jim acosta. the white house press secretary sarah sanders was pressed on the president's latest line of attack on democrats. update our viewers on that. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. for the first time in more than 40 days the white house finally held a press briefing. it was supposed to be about the president's budget for the upcoming year but the briefing went off the rails at times when the white house was asked about the president's comments that democrats hate jewish people. it was another example of the administration seeming incapable of defending the president's questionable rhetoric and a preview of the ugly campaign to come. asked about one of president trump's latest line of attacks accusing democrats of hating jewish people, the white house doubled down. standing behind the incendiary comments. >> i think that's a question you ought to ask the democrats. >> reporter: over the weekend, axios reported the president made that false claim in a private speech in florida, essentially rep

. >>> jim acosta has breaking news for us. what are are you learning? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. getting back to this discussion you were just having about michael cohen's testimony and whether or not he had been dangled a pardon by the president's legal team i talked to an administration official this afternoon who said that the department of justice may have to take a hard look at whether cohen perjured himself when he said in that testimony he had not been in discussions with the president's legal team about some kind of pardon. this official said it was a, quote, weird thing to lie about under oath in front of lawmakers, given that it was widely understood inside the president's legal team that giuliani had been fielding requests from various attorneys seeking pardons in the russia investigation. this official went on to say that people inside the white house could not believe their ears when they heard michael cohen make this comment on tv, as this official said, with his hand in the air. they take a dim view of michael cohen. you heard the p

jim acosta is at the white house for us tonight. has the white house seen the full report yet? >> according to a white house official i spoke with earlier this evening, anderson, no, they have not seen the full report. as to this notion that robert mueller, the special counsel, informed the attorney general, william barr, three weeks ago that he would not be bringing an obstruction case, i asked the white house just a short while ago and got an answer to this. they say the president, the white house did not know about that, that mueller informed barr he would not be seeking any obstruction charges. over here they seem to be as much in the dark as to what's contained in the full mueller report as everybody else. it's in the dark as to whether or not they'll push for a full release of that report. we still don't have a straight answer on that. the president said in the oval office earlier today he's okay with that idea of releasing the report, but he's leaving it to the attorney general to decide what ultimately to do about that. >> in terms of the president declaring full exoner

jim acosta. perspective for a man who's had plenty to say about the president, leadership, retired army colonel ralph peters. >> colonel peters, it would have been very easy for the president to just say no comment today. but he can't help himself from once again attacking john mccain, who's both a war hero and deceased. >> well, i think it's very straightforward, anderson. john mccain was and in our heart remains the man trump could never be. and trump knows it. it's a classic case of male fears of inadequacy. it goes along perfectly with his lifelong obsession with having women on his arm that look like teenage boys' fantasies. he wants to show us all how tough he is. but he's not tough. he's a draft dodger. and he appears to be a physical coward with a big mouth. >> it seems to me the people who are actually tough, who have actually been in tough situations and shown themselves and have risen to those situations to meet them, they don't talk tough necessarily. they often are the quietest perso

bill crystal, and jim acosta, from hanoi. >>> plus, why sean hannity is under pressure from democratic lawmakers. and later an exclusive interview with adam mosk. hear his forecast for the future of magazines. >>> but first, what year is it? president trump is cursing and complaining about crowd size and calling journalists sick and whipping up his base. meanwhile, the bigger crowd this weekend was over at the bernie sanders kickoff event, where he hit the same themes as 2016, and even used the exact same logo. the same outrages, the same argument. so what is actually new? where is the news for us to report? well, this is news. house judiciary chairman jerrold nadler saying he believes trump has obstructed justice and on monday is issuing document requests to over 60 different people and entities. that news in the past couple hours. the mounting evidence of unethical and illegal conduct is what's new. and this week, this part is important, this week it was he will advised in a new way with michael cohen's day-long hearing the first of many. it seems to me the trump beat and law enforce

jim acosta is at the white house. he he is getting more information. >> reporter: it sounds like the strategy for the evening for the white house is to not have the president make more comments. they called a lid over here and down at mar-a-lago where the president is. while they were creating some space in his schedule in case he felt like going out in front of the cameras, that appears to be out the window. he may tweet. we may find out later this evening when he is thinking. i did hear from one trump campaign adviser in the last few minutes who described this mueller report being turned in and this news that there's no new indictments in the mueller report as a, quote, great day for america. that is the words coming from one trump campaign adviser. we're so early on in the process, as all of you were saying, that we still haven't worked out the mechanics as to how the white house, the president's legal team, his outside legal team, when they will be reviewing this and how much they will be able to review and how th

which might be what happens, anderson. >> jim acosta, thank you. perspective from jerome corsi, long-time conspiracy theorist, birther and associate of roger stone. i spoke to him and his attorney, larry clayman, earlier this evening. mr. corsi, this letter that you received from the judiciary committee, what exactly are they requested that you provide them now? >> well, there's three specific requests. one has to do with anything i did with foreign countries. another with the russian federation and a third with wikileaks. and it's pretty ridiculous. i've given all of this information to the special counselor in far greater detail. it's going to be very expensive. it's really harassment. i don't have paper copies. i've got external hard drives, which i turned over to the fbi. they extracted the information. going to cost me thousands of dollars. and in the end, i didn't have any contacts with wikileaks. i didn't have any contacts with russians. >> so all of the information, did they return that information to you or do they still have it? >> oh, th

content in the strongest possible terms the killing of journalist jim acosta. confirm took place in its consulate in istanbul the circumstances of mr carson to stand firm the need to protect journalists and to our own to right to freedom of expression around the world investigations into the killings must be independent of part of those responsible must be hunted to account we call upon saudi arabia to put this point on the formation of a level i took fully cooperate with my own limitations and to the killing including the human rights inquiry by the special rapporteur on the spot to execution. on a day barbour is live for us in brussels so first of all the team on the human rights issue how significant is this document. well it is very significant because this is the first time really that you've seen the u.n. human rights council officially. a rebuke to saudi arabia since the body was set up in geneva thirteen years ago it's hard to believe really because there have been a series of reports by the un about the human rights situation in saudi arabia as they ha

policy and national security i listen to foreign policy advisers and the military i don't listen to jim acosta who printed there wasn't even symbolism over there so what is happening? we have a dictator who said i would not be here if i didn't if i was not interested. so everyone to say the president just wanted another episode of the episode of "the apprentice" shouldn't they be applauding it is a long process taking every step at a time should be applauded because we benefit in the long run? . >> yes i agree with what you just said. [laughter] [applause] what are we paying attention to most. >> korea cnn would say oncologist driven out of work. [laughter] they will not give him credit for anything. [applause] . >> he was calling this guy little rocket man yet he sat down with him and if he could end the north korean war which is a 70 -year-old conflict one of the greatest triumphs for peace. >> one of the greatest of all time if he pulls that off to get the nobel prize he would have earned it. i don't know who wants us to fail i don't know why they're trying to pitch that reboot i don't know