let's bring in laura coats. vernacular. i'm up on the intelligence now. laura coates.hustings, am i not? >> i'm a woman who loves to eat, chris. first of all, you're the only person in the world who could actually put the sentence of kicking puppies and eating pizza the wrong way in the same sentence, number one. number two, you've got to get it right. you've got to have the forrest gump experience. you've got low country oyster. you got to talk about grouper and flounder. you've got to have all the vernacular down, and cheesy grits won't cut it. so won't polenta by the way. >> i'm just saying that's my experience. since i started being in this job, i became a connoisseur of barbecue. i traveled around this country so much, you learn what food means to people where you are. for instance, with italians up here in the northeast, there's a huge divide between people who call red sauce sauce or gravy. a lot of folks look down on that and see it as a low term. >> is cafone what the president was trying to say when he says covfefe? >> it would have worked. >> you're right. p

laura coates. i'm right about food being persuasive on the huftings, am i not? eat, chris. first of all, you're the only person in the world who could actually put the sentence of kicking puppies and eating pizza the wrong way in the same sentence, number one. number two, you've got to get it right. you've got to have the forrest gump experience. you've got low country oyster. you got to talk about grouper and flounder. you've got to have all the vernacular down, and cheesy grits won't cut it. so won't polenta by the way. >> i'm just saying that's my experience. since i started being in this job, i became a connoisseur of barbecue. i traveled around this country so much, you learn what food means to people where you are. for instance, with italians up here in the northeast, there's a huge dividing between people who call red sauce sauce or grave. a l -- gravy. a lot of folks look down on that and see it as a low term. >> is cafony what the p was trying to say when he says covfefe? >> it would have worked. >> you're right. people worry about their food. they want

laura coates and david gergen. bernie sanders is running for the presidential nomination as a democratic socialist and today george washington university just blocks from the white house and he made a case that all three labels draw, in fact, on a single progressive tradition, one that fits this moment in time and this particular president. listen. >> it is my very strong belief that the united states must reject that path of hatred and divisiveness, and instead find the moral conviction to choose a different path, a higher path, and a path of compassion, justice and love. [ applause ] and that is the path that i call democratic socialism. today in the second decade of the 21st century, we must take up the unfinished business of the new deal and carry it to completion. [ applause ] this is the unfinished business of the democratic party and the vision we, together, must accomplish. >> tonight we'll explore the implications of that, the cost of taking up the unfinished business as well as the price to be paid for no

here to discuss phil mudd and laura coats, also matthew rosenberg.ten, matthew, the white house is directing the former white house official -- white house officials, i should say, hope hicks and donaldson to with hold documents. it's yet another no from the trump white house. what's going on? >> i think it's pretty clear that that president trump and many around him have decided that with the mueller report was the end of investigations, they are not going to play ball any more. they want the investigations over and they are not going to cooperate. the question now is what is congress going to do about it. they have issued a lot of subpoenas, talking about contempt votes. what will they do to enforce it. at some point, they have to do something. they're going to look fairly weak in this. and i don't want to make it into a game, but, you know, at some point you issue these subpoenas, they're saying no. what do you need to do to get them to say yes. because it's pretty clear that they're not going to say yes. >> that's clear, to matthew's point, what

let's bring in "cnn tonight" host tonight laura coates, in for d. lemon right now. it's good to have you counselor. i'm not saying they didn't apply the law the right way, but, boy is this a window into how screwed up we are. i'm a gun owner. i get the individual right to the second amendment. that's not what this is about. it's not all or none. that's what i mean by only in america. >> mm-hmm. >> they can't enforce those orders. you can't own a gun. okay. how do they enforce it? somebody has to tell them where the guns are, and they have to go and get them with the sheriff. that's what she should have done. but the idea that you get more time in jail for giving the guns that you're afraid will be used against you about your allegedly abusive spouse than the abusive spouse. >> how is that justice, chris? when i was doing a prosecution for domestic violence cases, the reason you actually have that plan that says you can't own a gun, chris, is because violence comes after these sorts of crimes. i mean people are fearing for their lives. so her mind was to take the gun

let's bring in "cnn tonight" host tonight laura coates, in for d. lemon right now. it's good to have you counselor. i'm not saying they didn't apply the law the right way, but, boy is this a window into how screwed up we are. i'm a gun owner. i get the individual right to the second amendment. that's not what this is about. it's not all or none. that's what i mean by only in america. >> mm-hmm. >> they can't enforce those orders. you can't own a gun. okay. how do they enforce it? somebody has to tell them where the guns are, and they have to go and get them with the sheriff. that's what she should have done. but the idea that you get more time in jail for giving the guns that you're afraid will be used against you about your allegedly abusive spouse than the abusive spouse. >> how is that justice, chris? when i was doing a prosecution for domestic violence cases, the reason you actually have that plan that says you can't own a gun, chris, is because violence comes after these sorts of crimes. i mean people are fearing for their lives. so her mind was to take the gun

joining us legal analyst laura coates and senior political columnist pete sav columnist david gergen, were you surprised that the president would say this given all that has happened thus far? >> shocked, but not surprised. this has become standard fare unfortunately for our president. listen, anderson. what one needs to do is distinguish and laura can elaborate on this, but law fare which is an online publication that's highly respected had an analysis of the law regarding this and it makes a distinction, if you're on a campaign and you receive information from the russians and you're not a member of the government it is unclear if you're obligated, but if you're in the government with clearance and someone approaches you with this especially an adversarial, and you have an affirmative obligation and it would be breaking the law not to call them and that suggests how serious this is. listen, i've never heard of any president before this when even talked to the russians. i've never even heard of any staffer talking to the russians and it was owe out of bounds it's imaginable and the f

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former counsel to attorney general kerry cordero and laura coates.g to court to try to enforce a subpoena against don mcgahn and how long could this take and could they prevail. >> it will take a while -- and frankly if you are not a democrat in congress, kick the can down the road and have this facade of powered and it could be resolved knowing this is important to figure out the rest of the investigation and the courts are aware of the time line of democracy and a looming election and how important it is. >> and yet it is going to slow. is there an appeals process also, kerry, that could drag this out. >> it is the process of enforcement. the vote in the house was a procedural issue instead of every time now a committee wants to go to court to enforce a subpoena instead of having the entire house vote on it, a small committee of leadership will be able to authorize it. >> if a judge rules is there another say for the trump administration or don mcgahn or is that it. >> no, sure, they certainly -- the court process still applies. so if a committee t

we're back now with laura coats, josh cambuand michael deantonio as well.you hear the president tonight, president trump's undercutting his own fbi director, christopher ray, who he appointed. this was last month. watch this. >> my view is if any public official or campaign is contacted by any nation state or anybody acting on behalf off a nation state about influencing or interfering with with our election, then that's something that the fbi would want to know about. >> what is it with him going after his own intelligence? >> it's a puzzling thing he continues to do. the fact he came out on abc news really to the world, this is his fbi director undercan cutting him, telling him he's wrong. the fbi has said we have a lot of concern the russians are going toing continue to try to interfere, others may try. and the fact he would undercut his fbi director, to me, is one of the most sniff can can't parts of what went on today with this interview. the fact he went out on national television in the public and said that his fbi director is wrong. that is very, ver

. >>> we're following breaking news, back with our experts and our analyst, laura coats, you're a legalwith iran without brand-new specific congressional approval? does the 2001 authorization for the use of military force still apply here? >> it's a novel question. remember, that actual law came into effect about three weeks after 9/11 that gave the president the authority to begin military action for anybody or any country he felt was involved in or facilitated or harbored thought involved in the 9/11 attacks. over the years, that has been stretched quite a bet. it's been used in somalia, in yemen, syria, a whole host of other instances. right now we left without specific criteria that congress did not writing into that particular law, to show what it would need to prove. there's also the legal attitude of, well, the president has a great of executive authority. while congress does have the ability to actually dollar war, it does have you know who had a key? well, the attorney general now and then, william barr, who told bush he could star the war without a talk with congress. >> john

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i want to bring in dana bash and laura coates. appreciate having all of you on. i'm going to start with you. before we get into the hearing tonight we got some news about the lone republican who has been calling for impeachment. what can you tell us about that? >> yeah, that's right, justin amash, we've heard a lot about him because, as you said, he has been speaking up pretty aggressively, mostly on twitter but also in a town hall back in his district saying explicitly that the president should be impeached and explaining the reasons why. he actually gained prominence when he came to congress as part of the tea party movement in 2010 and had been a very sort of active part of the house freedom caucus. and remember the house freedom caucus had been extremely powerful, still is, but extremely powerful when republicans were in charge, made john boehner's life pretty miserable, effectively pushed him out as speaker. but since donald trump has been president, don, the freedom caucus has been very much behind donald trump and justin amash is not. and so he's left the

in the meantime, laura coats spoke to genevieve smith.s the director who worked on the piece and she said she wanted to take this story seriously. >> did you ever any hesitation about publishing this account by e. jean carroll? >> i don't know if i would call it hesitation, but it was obviously something we thought about a lot, we looked at every angle, we did everything we could to corroborate parts that were possible to corroborate. it certainly wasn't something we took lightly. >> in what way did you corroborate the story or try to vet? >> so we did talk to the two women that she said she told at the time they were able to corroborate that they do remember being told that at the time. they also provided details of the conversation that she hadn't written about that they remembered, and then we also reached out to bergdorf to see if there was any possibility they had preserved tapes from that time. they hadn't, which isn't a huge shock. it's in light of many other similar accusations, and we did consider it in the timeline of those othe

matthew rosenberg is here, laura coates and max boot. look at my dream team. you guys look amazing. thank you so much. so i'm ready to hear it. laura, i'm going to start with you. the white house is claiming absolute immunity on hicks' testimony for anything related to her time working in the west wing. what is absolute immunity? >> well, we're all trying to figure that out. it's such a novel term here, don, because we've all been told that it's a qualified immunity. the president doesn't get to have a blanket, a cone of silence around everyone who has ever worked for him. remember, she's the former, the former employee of the president of the united states in the executive branch of the government. not somebody who is currently there. so, yes, is there a tradition of having this very forthright candid conversation with the president of the united states and protecting those communications? absolutely, don. but can it be used to try to defy congressional oversight entirely? no. that's not what immunity is for. and by the way, hope hicks has already in some ways perhaps had it waived.

. >> because they were checking, laura coates, to see if there was potentially some perjury there. >>of course. and mind you, you have a battle of credibility, in a way. yes, there has been some misstatements by donald trump jr. michael cohen is actually serving time right now for discrepancies, to be generous, we'll call them as well. so you have that battle going on. but the idea of trying to make this report actually substantiated in ways that it hasn't been before, to try to correct the record, to try to get opportunities to say, clarify if you need to, there's a little bit of hubris going on right now with don junior talking about it. and they're not correcting it at all given his track record. >> senator kamala harris, who's a member of the intelligence committee and was there, she says they're still in her words a lot of unanswered questions. what are you hearing? >> the committee chairman aren't saying that and kamala harris is running for president and i'm not going to disqualify anything that she's said as a result of that. but until we hear from the chairman, we really don'

let's bring in our analyst to discuss how significant, laura coates, is this disagreement between justice committee? >> well, very in the fact that it shows that there's some progress and there are concessions that are willing to be made. however, this is a subset of the full documents they're actually seeking. so interesting to see going forward how adamant they will be about not giving those over. but for now, it's a subset of progress. >> what do you think, gloria? you think clearly the democrats are going to continue pushing for more? >> clearly. what they're not getting is grand jury testimony. will they go to court to get that? i think they probably will. and of course they're going to push. they'll continue to push for former white house counsel, don mcgahn, hope hicks. what they want to do is get this ball rolling so they can make the case to the american public for impeachment if that's where they're going. >> did the justice department, chris, cave? >> i don't know if cave is the right word. they cooperated, which they had not been doing in any way, shape, or form. i guess you c

from a legal standpoint, laura coates, would it make much of a difference in obtaining documents fromtration, in getting witnesses to appear before the committee, if there was a formal, formal proceeding underway as opposed to this informal inquiry that's going on? >> well, yes, the subpoena process, they thumb their nose at it continuously, because they have to rely on the courts to enforce and it hope that the courts will say, there's no good legislative reason to have this and kind of dismiss it. but in reality, the impeachment inquiry gives a great deal more power. they don't have to have legislative purpose as their basis. that is the constitutional purpose that's there. it also opens the floodgates. the rule 6c. they don't have to think about the notions of whether or not they have to have, is it an oversight function alone and is it tied enough they need all of these details for legislation. they can simply say, the constitution guarantees the right to have oversight and accountability in the executive branch of goth. we're doing just that. but remember, again, as we're saying,

. >> laura: the rain came and we were all -- we had umbrellas. we were walking with our coats on. but they were dispersing, a little rain. >> we have a population of 65 million. put that in context. >> laura: when you see the spat that started all of this with khan and president trump, the media really grabbed on to that. they thought that would define this visit. i agree with freddie, this has been an incredibly successful visit, i think. the queen was of course, as always, the stalwart. seen it all. i bet she doesn't care with what the protesters were doing or saying. but i think it went off spectacular lay. ly. she's hosted hundreds of state visits. she knows what she's doing. what they wanted was the pictures with the queen at buckingham palace. he didn't care about pseudocommunists. >> he showed up in trafalgar square and addressed the protest. >> he ranted. didn't address. >> laura: he's the labour leader. wants to be the prime minister, let's watch. >> that's not the way to do it. >> i say to our visitors who have arrived this week, think on, please, about a world that is on