. >> yeah, premiere of comedian jim jeffrey's show on come decentral.promised a special guest to talk about the president's withdrawal from the paris climate accord. pitt's been fairly outspoken on the issue pretty blunt in the forecast. >> so things are going to be getting warmer in this area here. and this area here. >> thank you, weatherman do you have any future forecast for us? >> there is no future. >> that's an accurate predict forcing weatherman. >> there you go. >> by the way who is his taylor. that suit is quite something. >> quite like it. >> found a new look for you. tomorrow's "world news now." >> forget the romper. going with that look. >> the facial expression. not global warming. wondering what in the world are you wearing. newsmen, the prestigious award. >> local news anchors across the country were judged to see who had the best coif, from which state. pick out standouts. from abc of course. you have ryan kiaverini from powerhouse chicago station. windy city live. looking good. >> representing texas, seth kovar, news 25 in wacco. >> in

jim sciutto, appreciate the update. back with the panel. ryan lizza, jeffrey lord, kirsten quinn, and david gergen. you heard jim sciutto's reporting. again it raises the questions about general flynn and whether or not -- could he be cooperating with the fbi. >> yeah. as the white house made some news tonight on our air, that he thinks he is. i don't know what that was based on. but there has always been this question of whether flynn was talking to the fbi -- >> what would that mean if he was? >> well, if you remember, his lawyer when he was trying to get flynn immunity, he dangled this -- >> he said he had a story to tell. >> a story to tell. we don't know what that story is. but the original thing that flynn was looking at was flynn's conversations with the russian ambassador when we know that the fbi was wondering whether it was a violation of the logan act, whether flynn was on his own making foreign policy in a way that violates this 18th century law. that was the first thing that caught the fbi's attention. the classic thing you do with someone like flynn is you flip them and try to get some

jim jeffries was born jeffrey james nugent in sydney, australia, where he began performing onnen a very a small career as an opera singer before i was a comedianet i was in two. i went up on stage and they said godfrey nugget. >> have you made peace with the opera singer side of yourself? >> people always asked me to sing just to prove if i could prove it and i really can't. i've got vocal nodules. i think one of first things i sauld when i could talk again, i'm going to be standup comedianial. >> there were pivotal moments that could have damaged his career but helped shape it. >> you claimed and made part of your special. in 2000 a man in manchester get on the stage and punches your face. >> eye aye. >> were you instantly fine with that? >> i guess i do have a sense of opportunity about me because the police asked me, do you want to press any charges. i said do we have it on tape. they said yes. i said i will do just fine out of this. let him go. i would be embarrassed for being punched in the face. for me it felt like it would make him more notorious. >> he took another hit when his

we have cnn's jim sciutto, evan perez and senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, let's go to the nuts and bolts of this. is there any crime in this? if everything that jim comey says is accurate, is that a crime? >> there may well be, obstruction of justice, absolutely, yes. >> you think there's an obstruction charge in here? >> the february 14th meeting where he says -- where the president says to everyone else in the room least. i want to talk alone to comey, which certainly suggests that he may know he owes doing something inappropriate and then he goes to the director of the fbi and says can you drop this investigation of my former top aide, that, combined with the fact that days later or a couple -- three months later when comey does not drop the investigation, he fires comey i think lays out a plausible case of obstruction of justice. >> what about the hurdle, i'm being told by people close to comey, intent is a big hurdle. >> the law says corruptly, and what that means is with bad purpose. you don't -- you are not as president of the united states

. >> reporter: jim jeffries was born jeffrey james nugent in sydney, australia where he began performingtage. >> i had a small career as an opera singer before i was a comedian. i was in two operas with the australian opera. i went on stage the first time and the guy introduced me as godfrey nugget. i thought this name's not going to play. >> have you made peace with the opera singer side of yourself? >> yeah. people always ask me to sing just to prove if i can do it, and i really can't. i've got vocal nodules. they scraped them off and i remember i couldn't talk and i watched stand-up special after stand-up special. i think maybe the first thing i said when i could talk again was, i'm going to be a stand-up comedian. >> reporter: since then there have been pivotal moments that could have damaged his career but first helped save it. >> your first viral video which you reclaimed and made part of your special was in 2007 in manchester england, a guy gets on stage and punches you in the face. were you instantly fine with that? >> i guess i do have a sense of opportunity about me because the

joining us now jeffrey tubin, gloria borger and jim sciutto. you all have chief or senior in front of your names. you are very important people to discuss very important things this morning. so washington post comes out with this story last night saying the president asked coats on march 22nd, two days after the comey testimony that if he could intervene in the flynn investigation. if coats testifies to that today, add on to that our previous reporting that the president asked comey himself if he could just walk away from the flynn investigation. is there a pattern here? a pattern that could show obstruction of justice? maybe not one thing, but add it altogether and you get? >> that's the question. that's what this hearing is about. that's what this whole investigation is about, at least the comey part of it, which is did the president take improper steps to stop an fbi investigation of his friend, michael flynn and of his associates all involved in the campaign? and certainly this is another piece in the puzzle. approached the director of nati

jeffrey. listen, the pattern that jim sciutto talked about very properly is a pattern that involves a number of undisclosed relationships, many in context, many of them with russians. it wasn't just a saudi trip. it was a saudi trip to talk about a u.s.-russian deal worth a hundred billion dollars. >> but the collusion is still about election day. >> a, you don't forget a $100 billion deal and leave it off your national security clearance form. you just don't do that. you can go to jail, we all know that, but the more you see a pattern, flynn is a guy who got himself in a variety of things. it raises the question front and center, is that why the president is trying so hard to protect him, to take him out from under the investigation? and that is where it leads to the question of obstruction. what does the president know about flynn? his lawyer knows a lot, says he has one hell of a story to tell. what does the president know and why is he trying to protect flynn? >> the other thing we don't know, not to just lead things away from the president, but what's not clear, and david gergen raises the

jim, stay with us. i want to bring in steve hall. also, a senior legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. jeff, just on the substance of this nsa report, that the hacking was the work of russian military intelligence. is that consistent with what you would expect from an operation to interfere with the u.s. election? and could that happen without the knowledge of vladimir putin? >> to answer the last question first, anderson, because it's the easiest, no. vladimir putin would have known about this and probably would have been, if not getting daily briefings on it or even hourly briefings, been directly involved. because he is a former intel guy and this is a big deal. so absolutely, he would have been, you know, at the very least knowledgeable of it and probably much more. is it consistent? it's very consistent with what the russian intelligence services would want to try to accomplish, as they tried to manipulate the elections, get if outcome they wanted, but also sew just a whole lot of discord and a whole lot of, you know, up in the air uncertainty about the american democratic system.

jim acosta, thanks. want to bring in our panel, matt lewis, kirsten powers, ryan lizza, jeffrey lord, and charles blow.y want to hear things i want to hear. thank you, jeffrey lord. charles? can you remember another time when the fate of the white house press secretary was so sort of publicly discussed? >> no, i can't. and it's somewhat odd because almost every senior adviser since january, since when they started, has gone through a phase where it was leaked that they were imminently on their way out. remember when steve bannon was going to be fired. remember when reince priebus was going to be fired. >> kellyanne conway sort of disappeared fire while and she came back. she was always there. >> and poor sean spicer, his associates in the west wing have been leaking that his job has been on the line for weeks and months. it does seem he's gotten a little bit of control over the story now because the story is that he is now being the one who's going to find his own replacement. so that suggests that he's not being pushed out but that he's going to retain this tieflttle communications director, which is

. >>> when we come back, wll talk to jim cramer we'll get his take on the big story, jeffrey immelt steppingce the lexus rx with advanced safety standard. experience amazing. >>> let's get down to the new york stock exchange, jim cramer joins us now looking at the future, jim, ge is getting a point today be up about a dollar at this point, do you buy it for the long term in your view, do you think? >> yes, i think so i think that there are these businesses we're at a trough in terms of first quarter cash flow i know that the june 1, when jeff spoke at june 1 he did walk away from the $2 number next year the $2 number is vital to get the stock to go higher but fresh blood, take a look at it flannery is supposed to be a very, very tough guy doesn't appear on the surface but i think he's going to be evaluating everything. breakup off the table, but the analysis about how to execute better, look, i think that what's going to happen is you look at the businesses you look at baker hughes which is about to close at the end of the month. make some new judgments about what the company looks like. i t

. >> what do you make of the fact that john dean and jeffrey toobin, their read of this, putting all these facts together, fact according to jimcomey, their read is that this is justice of -- obstruction of juflt. >> their lawyers have opinions. plenty will say absolutely not. we'll have that opportunity tomorrow, by the way. again, comey said three times that trump was not the focus of the investigation. now why would trump turn around and fire him if that was the reason he wanted to stop the investigation? the reason why he was fired is because of incompetence. think about feinstein's statements about him, schumer, johnson. think about all the democrats all fall were saying he has no credibility anymore. he needs to pack his bags. that's what hank johnson did. >> he should have done it on the day he came in the white house. >> there's no good time to fire this guy. all i could say the democrats all were on one page that he was incompetent and needed to go. >> quick, vinyl word. >> look, trump himself said that he was worried about the investigation. you can't come back and say, oh, we already -- >> only national security. >>

jim comey. they were taken by another official who happened to be in that meeting. so we're not looking at this in a vacuum. as to what michael and jeffrey was saying, these are all pieces. these are all different pieces that have to be put together. >> that's what i want to ask you, sir, all of the meetings, phone calls, dinners, put them in perspective for us and also historically speaking. >> well, i don't know that the norm eisen comparison, that these are the watergate tapes -- >> you think it take it is too far? >> yes. because this is still in the realm of he said/he said but with contemporaneous moemos. to me, it's not the same thing. but the larger pattern here and what we were discussing a bit ago, dana gets into the psychology of the way donald trump operated his businesses. he made no adjustment to operating now within the bounds of the constitution as the chief executive officer of the nation. there was no adjustment that it was a different game with a different set of rules. >> actually, forgive me. i'm going to cut you off. we're getting live reaction on capitol hill to this opening statement from james comey. manu raju is

what is jeffrey is saying, which is that the most serious thing here is about flynn and that stuff about whether or not trump is under investigation, misses the most serious point about why jim comey is testifying. >> go ahead. >> i want to make a second point. and there's a larger political point. the context in which jim comey is going to go and say these words tomorrow is we have new poll numbers for the american people and where they are on this. 56%. that's a sizeable majority, believe that the president interfered with the investigation. that is where a majority of the american people are as jim comey goes to say this. >> 34% in this new poll. >> that's the context at which it's not as if donald trump has some reservoir of support in terms of the majority of the country to push back against what jim comey is saying. his numbers are going in the wrong direction and a great majority of the country thinks he interfered. >> let me quickly interject. we are dissecting this statement. manu raju is getting reaction from senator john mccain who will be one of the questioners questioning the fired fbi director and his word describing this opening statement, in a word, disturbin