louis errol and julian zeleny are with us.tez masto who tweeted the following. s we have senator ed markey in massachusetts saying the first thing trump should do on tuesday since he visits puerto rico since hurricane maria destroyed the island. how plausible is it, julian, that president trump will apologize? that is moment he meets with cruz that a lot of people are going to be watching very closely. >> well, it's not likely. this is not an apologizing president and we haven't seen many moments where he takes back what he says. i think this was yet another divisive weekend. we are here in this humanitarian crisis. he has decided to go after a mayor and make accusations about her partisanship and why things are going and words that are seen by many characterizing puerto ricans in a particular way. he should walk it back, but i don't think he will. this is just not what we have seen so there is no reason to think that we will see it again. certainly the comments were damaging. >> errol, we know what we learned yesterday that m

joining us now to talk is cnn errol louis and julian zeleny. start with the reference to julius cesar that came to mitch mcconnell. >> up on capitol hill, because i've been getting calls. it's like before the ides of march, right? the only question and this is just an analogy or metaphor or whatever you want to call it. they are just looking to find out who is going to be brutus to your julius cesar. yeah, mitch, the donors are not happy. they have all left you. we have cut your oxygen off, mitch, okay? >> the julius cesar reference is interesting, considering all of the complaints coming from the white house and republicans about the public theater production that had cast the president as julius cesar, but let's put that to the side. errol, first to you. is mitch mcconnell in real danger here? >> no, i don't think so. the reality is that the republican establishment, the swamp, whatever you want to call it, this group that bannon is trying to make war on is really doing quite well. one aspect of the swamp you have speaker paul ryan who has vi

let's discuss now with cnn political analyst historian and professor at princeton university, julian zeleny and sarah westwood. john donnelly of that report spoke to cnn about this. take a listen to what he said. >> what it shows is that even -- even as the president was making the statement, his staff was aware that it was not -- that it was probably not accurate and they needed -- and there was a suggestion in the emails the reason they needed to gather this information so the president could start making some calls, premisumably to mak what was an untrue statement on tuesday morning true statement as soon as possible. that seems to be the implication from it. >> sounds like quite the scramble there. julian, the president did use virtually everybody sort of his now infamous vague language to give him some wiggle room but what do you milwaukee ake of th the white house scrambling afterwards? >> this isn't the first time we have heard this story. often the president says something and the white house staff are scrambling to contain the damage or correct the mistakes that have been made. so

kelly jane torrence and cnn political analyst and historian and professor at princeton university, julian zeleny. kelly, i want to start with you. monday is a big day. tomorrow. we are looking at this indictment and possibly learning more information. what are you going to be looking for in that indictment and what new could we learn from it? >> it's really all up in the air now, isn't it? nobody knows who is going to be charged and with what. as you said earlier that under usually they start pretty low and try to flip people. but we don't know about lower level investigated so far. more people think this could be paul manafort who already had his home raided by the fbi and that, itself, was pretty shonginshong i shocking. usually they give people a warning and come later in the day. they came at dawn to raid his place. the question with the charge is it sort of related directly to russian collusion in the election or indirectly? people like paul manafort, michael flynn had dealings with foreign governments that could have gotten them in trouble because they didn't report them properly until aft

. >> julian zeleny is a historian and professor at princeton university is with us now and errol louisof spectrum news. good morning to you, gentlemen. we heard there from the president what he was saying about rex tillerson. it's interesting, julian. i know you wrote a piece for cnn and in it you say sometimes unhappy cabinet officials can have a beneficial effect by staying on the job but not with trump. why not? >> well, sometimes the point of tension becomes so severe over policy where secretary fundamentally disagrees with the direction of administration, that stain in the administration is not necessarily the best thing to do. if secretary tillerson ultimately departed, it would have big political ramifications and it could certainly help to undercut some of the support that president trump has retained among republicans. >> i want to say what is he saying about north korea and had a couple of tweets yesterday. president and their administration have been talking to north korea 25 years and agreements made and massive amounts of money paid has not worked. agreements violated befo