lockhart road.here david's family lived. >> could not have been a better place for us to be when all of this terrible stuff happened. >> reporter: the awful news raced through two families that night. david's sister julie was getting ready to go to bed when the phone rang. >> i said, "what?" "what are you, what are you talking about?" "what are you saying?" >> reporter: julie went straight to her parents' house. >> mom had all of the pictures of brad and jill i guess that she could gather up and was holdin' them. and just sitting on the floor and just rocking and sayin', "my babies." "my babies." "they've killed my babies." "somebody's killed my babies." >> reporter: david sent his uncles to tell kim's parents, janice and frank renn. >> janice, late at night, the doorbell rings, what can this be, huh? >> well, it can't be good. so i go out and i open the door and i see 'em standing out there and i think my mind just went blank. >> and janice yelled for me to get out there. so i got out there and sam

john lockhart knew this lawsuit was coming and told us so in song. let's listen to what the president said. >> they will sue us in the ninth circuit, even though it shouldn't be there, and we will possibly get a bad ruling and then we'll get another bad ruling and then we'll end up in the supreme court and hopefully we will get a fair shake. >> that is a catchy diddy. >> which brings us back to doe, a deer, a female deer. >> the fact he knew a lawsuit was coming, does this mean this is a political play all along, just to show he was doing something even though it will be tied up in the courts for months if not years. >> i think so. thank you, john, i've finally gotten that song out of my head and you've ruined my day. >> i think this is a political ploy on a couple of levels. the country doesn't want the wall. when the president sets up a fight between the presidency and congress, that's much stronger footing for the president, i think you see that in the polls. the country is split who should be running the country because people have a leo pin of c

joe lockhart, what's your take -- sorry, michaelal. quickly, go ahead, mike zblal that's abhorrent.t them to do? pick up the phone and call the police. they don't it if they're engage nid a illegal activity. if they're in human trafficking for what they know is a legal activity and they won't be prosecuted, i they'll make the call. >> i think this is less about sports and report kraft an sex trafficking in the country. iran ronnically the biggest sex trafficking day of the year is the super bowl and the nfl works with the fbi and authorities to crack down on it. but i don't think we can just give everybody a pass that's involved. i think at some level people know that there's something going on here. and i think if there is a silver lining in this, and if mr. kraft has to pay the price for that, it's to bring attention to this, to bring some light to this. because this is going on all over the country and it rarely gets attention. >> so you don't think that robert kraft or it's a high bar to emergency that robert kraft went into this place twice thinking that these women were there

eamma lockhart has the details. angelo frazier, pastor/family friend:"great personality, she loved jesus, very bubbly. when she walked in the room you knew she was there."that's how those who knew her describe 38- year-old kristina stratton. someone who would do anything for her five children, ranging in ages from 7 to 18.and family friend and pastor angelo frazier says that is exactly what she did as her home went up in flames late last night.angelo frazier, pastor/family friend:"she went into the home late last night to try to save her kids." frazier says four of the kids were inside the home at the time of the fire, and stratton was unable to get them out.he says the children were upstairs and as they heard her scream from downstairs, they jumped from the second story window and escaped.when kern county firefighters arrived on scene.they were unable to rescue stratton.a neighbor caught video of the home engulfed in flames.nicholas grant, neighbor:"it was a really bad blaze, i heard crackling from my from my backd

joining us now to discuss, joe lockhart, under president clinton, and david gregory and back with us,ormer federal prosecutor. joe, i want to read to you the part about russia. the lawyers for paul manafort go out of their way to say he's not being charged with russian collusion. they say the president has not been charged with anything with the special counsel coordination or any links associated with the campaign of president donald trump otherwise referred to as russian collusion by the national media. why would a judge care about what crimes he is convicted of? it seems to me that's a statement for the public and one person in the public in particular, president trump. >> the judge, i don't think cares. this was written, cobbled together, all the president's tweets. it was written for the president and president alone to say, you're being persecuted here, donald trump. i'm being persecuted for the same thing. help me out here, pardon me. that's what it's all about. >> i would argue, i think it is relevant. they're making a pitch that obviously has a wider audience. it is specifica

we just heard what joe lockhart was doing 20 years ago today.doing 20 years ago today. your work was mostly done at this point. >> i was watching with interest. good morning, joe. nice to meet you across the way. we were actually focusing on another -- just winding up the investigation, working to make sure that we had done all that needed to be done. there were loose ends, et cetera, other matters. so it was essentially moving towards the end. >> was acquittal a disappointment to you at that time, ken? >> not at all. my job -- i think we need to take a step back and look at the historical context, that is, the statute itself, which has gone away, an it's a very good thing. there were a lot of democrats who had reservations about the statute. the statute under which i was created had this tort impeachment and used the impeachment word. we're under a better structurally. impeachment is a terrible process for the country, bottom line. >> joe, when the president was acquitted, it was a big deal. you weren't particularly surprised when it happened.

house correspondent, rick santorum, former republican senator who once ran for president, and joe lockhart, white house press secretary for president clinton. great to have you. rick santorum, i want to start can you. as you know, the president is sometimes swayed by his right wing base or certainly his friends like sean hannity. do you think he's going to get on board with the deal hatched last night? >> i don't know whether he'll get on board with the deal. it's a de minimis deal. there is a chance the president may not get on with the deal. i'm disappointed in the democrats not willing to put up a more respectable figure for barriers and for republicans not driving toward a better number. i don't know. if i were advising the president i would probably say sign this thing and then declare an emergency and get more money to plus up the money for the wall. >> the two ds with the president watching cable no doubt this morning might sink in. de minimis and disappointing. abby, the senator brought up a point that the president could sign this and still declare an emergency. is there thinking

i want to bring back jeffrey toobin, dana bash and joe lockhart to discuss.d, you have been inside a white house facing scandal before. michael cohen what he says out lo you had today, to the american people the white house has no control over that. how do they deal with that? >> you know we went through this a couple times on the clinton administration. the video deposition was released who ill the president was addressing the united nations. the day the president was impeached was also the day we finish prosecuting that airstrike against iraq. what they should do is just keep their head down, stay after this, and say, we are doing the people's business. what we are doing here is more important than what happens in the swamp of washington. and just go on. >> isn't is that what they are doing? isn't is that what they are doing with these meetings with kim jong-un? >> not really. the president has tweeted. if you look at his tweets over the last 24 hours, he can't resist injecting himself under this i'm the president, they're being politician. so their big ach

joining us now, john avlon, joe lockhart, brian stelter.prising this is getting a lot of attention this morning and all of the papers. i give you the new york post and i just will leave it at that. >> perfect. >> genius. >> what's remarkable in this post, right, is everything that jeff bezos says he's exposing here. he calls it extortion and blackmail and he's not the only one. so he posts this blog and then all of a sudden we hear from roan anyone farell, the ap, the daily beast. it's refield a lot, brian. >> this story has everything. we're talking about the world's richest person, alleged blackmail plot, his sex scandal, love affair, alleged connections to president trump. but just on the specific idea of blackmail, there are more and more allegations as the hours go on that the "national enquirer" has engaged in this for years and that bezos is not the only one to experience it. ronan farell has been experiencing this. and we've seen more of this coming out and given the legal consequences here the stakes are enormous. >> i think we nee

we are back with jeff zeleny, jennifer rogers, jeff lockhart. what did that mean? >> we don't know.alizing part. there are a few things that he said that could cause the president and those around him grave concern. he said that he is in constant contact with the sdny, he wants a post-sentencing cooperation letter to eventually get out of prison. so all of this should be keeping the president up at night. and we're talking about not only the hush money payments, we are looking into the inaugural committee. they have investigations we think into the trump organization, so there we're talking about all sorts of corporate malfeasance. tax fraud, bank fraud, accounting fraud potentially and personal liability of the president. he provided the deutsche bank financial statements where he allegedly altered his income in order to get a loan. that is bank fraud. and you are also talking about potential tax fraud with him personally. and you have to remember some of the bank fraud for example has a longer statute of limitations meaning that he could be exposed even after he gets out of a seco

i want to bring in tiffany cross, cofounder and managing editor of the beat d.c., and joe lockhart, he was white house press secretary for president clinton. i'm going to make a bold statement. >> go. >> this thing is over. i think the president told us last night on twitter which he said he had a nice conversation with richard sell by and was going to find other money. >> he also said the wall is all ready being built, which is good news. >> is he declaring -- >> since he -- >> it's not true. >> didn't need the money apparently. but he believes it or he's touting it and that's a win for him. >> let's put what the facts are in terms of what has been built. there's 1,900 miles between the u.s./mexico, the board they're. there's 654 miles of barrier that already existed when the you look down to new barriers that have been built during this administration, zero. zero. there have been replacement barriers built or worked on, about 40 miles worth. there are about 14 new miles about to be built and then 55. but if he wants to say they're being built to keep the government from shut be down?

and joe lockhart, former clinton press secretary, also a cnn commentator and a legend in his own timet to play you some of this interview we're hearing from ralph northam, the governor of virginia new this morning, let's play that sound. >> right now virginia needs someone that can heal. there's no better person to do that than a doctor. virginia also needs someone who is strong who has empathy, who has courage, and who has a moral compass. and that's why i'm not going anywhere. >> it's now ten days, two weeks, since we saw the yearbook page where people appear in blackface and a klan costume from his medical school yearbook. mayor, did you ever think that ralph northam was going to be governor today? >> no, i didn't, obviously. the interesting thing about this process that we see the governor going through right now is i'm not actually sure what he is atoning for. he started by saying it was him, then it said it wasn't, then it was i didn't select these pages to go in my yearbook. and we're actually not sure where the truth is there. i just think i do believe people ought to be griff

. >> joe lockhart, given what you have lived through in the clinton era what would be your advice to the administration, to the president on truly unifying? >> i think think he should go with his id. this is the beginning of the re-election campaign. it's one way to look at it. his strategy is to make sure his base turns out and that the democrats nominate someone that independents are uncomfortable and that howard schultz gets in. all of those things. he's not going to get more than 46, 47% of the vote. it is difficult to see him giving a truly bipartisan speech and delivering on it. i think if he does the bipartisan speech, by tomorrow morning we'll see tweets. politically, i would tell him to stay with what he's got, make it about the wall. it's very -- i don't see another strategy right now. >> he's promised to have an announcement of some sort about the wall. what do you think it will be? >> i think he'll tease the national emergency. i don't think -- they're saying he won't announce it. but you throw a lot of things out there to create misdirection and mystery. i think that in

>> joining us is nia-malika henderson and joe lockhart, former clinton white house press secretary and mark mckinnon, former adviser to the george w. bush and john mccain campaigns and creator and executive producer of "the circus." it's deja vu all over again. here we are with our countdown clock talking about how many days they have, just four, to figure out the government shutdown. i'm just wondering, has anything changed this time around given the democrats have new demands about beds and how many people i.c.e. can detain that they would be shouldering the blame. has the calculus shifted this week? >> i don't know that they'll be shouldering the blame. i don't think the public has been following the conference committee discussions. they'll tune back in when the countdown clock gets to about wednesday. they did tune in to the shutdown and it was a problem for trump. this is a typical conference committee negotiation. it looks like the democrats have given a little bit on border security and providing some, without giving them to the whole concept. >> more money? >> more money. and

let's bring in anne milgram, and joe lockhart, the white house press secretary for president clinton. guys, if you believe michael cohen's attorney, lanny davis, this is going to be a blockbuster, okay. so listen who to what lanny davis says michael cohen is going to reveal. >> you're going to hear impersonal, frontline experiences of memories and incidents and conduct and comments that donald trump said over that ten-year time period behind closed door that, to me, when i first heard michael tell me all this even as much as i knew about trump that was negative was chilling. >> and is michael cohen publicly going to be able to say chilling details about his former boss? >> i think yes. one of the things we've seen is that he's had these broad concluess sorry statements saying president trump directed me do it and these meetings with ami and michael cohen together but we've had no details. imagine a conversation if the questioning is good where they literally could take us piece by piece when did you talk to donald trump? what did he say? how many conversation disease you have? who els

joining us now, joe lockhart, cnn political commentator and former press secretary in the clinton white morning. >> good morning. >> good to see you. the e-mail that went out over the weekend from bernie sanders to his supporters saying, play nice, was really telling because we'll remember hillary clinton in the fierce race against him in the primary last time around said she believes the attacks on her from the sanders camp had lasting damage. and made it harder for the party overall in the general election. is she right, and what do you make of sanders' message? >> i thought it was the most interesting thing i've seen in a while. sanders was beginning to lose support among democrats because of, we'll call them, bernie bros, for the sake of argument. they have been systematically attacking democrats, as they've gotten into the race as not part of the revolution. not left enough. and it was beginning to hurt sanders. it was really interesting. i think if you look at the rest of the field, they've all played nicely particular. particularly the women who are out front now and i think ther

joining us now to talk about it we have joe lockhart who was the president secretary in the clinton white house. we have anne milgram, and doug high. he was previously communications direct fortor for the republican national committee. doug, i want to start with you. >> uh-oh. >> remember, doug, just a few years ago as joe was pointing out when republicans went ballistic with what she thought was president obama's presidential overreach? and if you don't remember it, we have something handy called videotape that can remind everyone of how they felt very recently. watch this. >> the action he has proposed would ignore the law, would reject the voice of the voters and woem pose new unfairness on law-abiding immigrants, all without solving the problem. >> we, the senate, are waiting in our duty to stop this lawless administration and it's unconstitutional amnesty. >> immigration reform is an emotional and divisive issue. there's no doubt about that. but the president's unilateral actions to bypass congress, undermine the constitution and threaten our democracy. >> lawless administration, unc

. >>> squoining us now, david gregory, name political analyst, jeffrey toobin, and joe lockhart former clinton white house press secretary. jeffrey toobin, i want to start with you on this one because when the judge yesterday was very clear in terms half they believed paul manafort lied about, how it all happened. just your gut reaction, what does this tell us about where paul manafort is and where the special counsel is? >> what i couldn't get out my head was the picture i saw in court the other day of paul manafort who is physically transformed from the business, the brisk looking businessman who walked into prison. he is hobbled over, he's walking with a cane. he apparently has gout. he looks disoriented the he is looking at a likely life sentence in prison. putting aside the politics and the larger implications just the what he has dup one to his own e by committing these crimes by lying is extraordinary. the real possibility is that paul manafort will never be free again. >> and why did he do it, then? given that situation, why did he lie? and just let's tell people what he did li

want to bring in abby phillips, name white house correspondent joe lockhart, white house press secretary for clinton, jim sciutto. the national security correspondent who's traveling with the president in hanoi. guys, i want to break this down piece by piece and let's have conversations about we can about the discrete moments we're talking about, the biggest revelation in this which we did not know before is that michael cohen will testify before congress today that he heard a conversation where president trump and roger stone were talking about the massive wikileaks e-mail dump before it happened. let me just read you some of those statements right there. a lot of people have asked me about whether mr. trump knew about the release of the hacked democratic national committee e-mails ahead of time. the answer is yes. in july of 2016, days before the democratic convention i was in mr. trump's office when his secretary announced that roger stone was on phone. mr. trump -- mr. stone on the speaker phone, mr. stone told mr. trump that he had just gotten off the phone with julian assange and t

let's bring in john avlon, joe lockhart, and carrie ka darrow.e's been a lot of back and forth on this. we got a lovely photo of the meeting. the photo itself not unusual, handing it out afterwards say bit and we'll get to that. but the president saying that his own intel chiefs saying they were misquoted, that they called it fake news when there is testimony is something that's remarkable but not surprising. and i just want to play this really quickly to remind everybody what the president has said in the past in the is from july of 2018. >> don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. and just remember what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. >> not happening, john avlon. >> what you're seeing and reading is not happening, the best example in the world is this particular fight. head of his intel community gives public testimony in realtime, all of it available, plus written testimony. president gets upset because he watches it on tv and don't like the chyrons, attacks his intel community and then s

joining us now, jeffrey toobin, brian stelter, and the anchor of reliable sources and joe lockhart formerte house press secretary. what i want to do first, it really is so important that we lay out the timeline here. so brian, i hand it over to you for that because that sets up a fascinating look at how we got to today. >> i'll take it way back. jeff and makenzie had been married for years. they enter into a trial separation. the "national enquirer" was hot on their tail. they found out that bezos had a relationship with sanchez were he had been dating her, seeing her quietly, secretly. "enquirer" was about to publish a story exposing the relationship last month. that's when bezos came out and said i'm getting a divorced. they had been link and photographed together. this was a tabloid story on the front of the "enquirer." but then hind the scenes he said how did they find out? who leaked? how did they get a hold of these photos and text messages? >> so bezos's security chief concludes it was politically motivated that the started to come out in the daily beast last week and "the washingt

democrats are going to push very hard for as much release of information as possible and as joe lockhart pointed out last hour, there's going to be information that potentially clears the president or those around him of any questions about collusion and that would be something that would be in the interest of the attorney general to put out as well. >> david gregory points out that democrats may want the full report go public. the fact of the matter is, americans by large vast majority want the report go public. 87% say they want the findings of the mueller report to made public. david brings up another point here, what is the conundrum, the catch 22, maybe the glitch in the system here, which is that justice department guidelines say that a sitting president cannot be indicted. k william barr says we don't release information on people who aren't charged with crimes. if he can't be charged way crime, how is anyone to know if there is anything perhaps that is untoward that the president? that's a real problem here, nia, and one that congress may need to get involved in. >> and they're a

also joining us is the senior white house correspondent from bloomberg news, and joe lockhart who also worked for the nfl. just putting that out there. as poppy was saying there's a lot in this poll if you dig in deep. the president's aprufl rating now is 40% and in january was 37% and before the shutdown 39%, you can say it ticked up a tiny bi bit, it's all within the mar given error. this makes it rock solid that he's got a floor that's around that 37%, 39% and there's not anything that's going to push him boelow that. his numbers are stable. >> i think that highlights the box he's in. you're right, i mean there is all within the mar given error so it says that his base is solid. and we all say that there's not anything that he could do that would -- you know, he said i would walk down fifth avenue and murder people and they won't care. he may have to test that if he decides to keep the government open, not declare a national emergency and abandon his wall, because that's a central principle of why his base supports him. so you understand his problem, which is most of the country isn

want to bring in jeff zeleny, nia malik henderson, laura coates, and joe lockhart former clinton whitedon't think there's any question, joe, that this was a moment. my question is, what happened in terms of who comes out looking better? who comes out feeling good this morning? >> well, i think where it goes, and i think that's where congresswoman casio cortez did a great job of laying out the committee. now we'll have to bring in people from the trump organization, bring in people with the foundation. what i think the democrats are trying to do is stop short of saying we're going to impeach this president, but we're sure going to drag out every piece of information we can before we make that decision. they don't have control of the mueller report, that will come when it comes. and that will have a big impact. but i think they want to spend time on lots of issues that are important to them, but this is -- this is a big one. so, you know, on who wins, who loses, you know, i think michael cohen did a good job of getting some things off his chest, raising issues about trump. i think he did

we have senior white house correspondent for bloomberg news and joe lockhart, former clinton press secretaryust touched on this on the break and david i want to start with you, is this reporting we saw this morning that the white house, right, calling on fox news host lou dobbs and sean hannity because the president needs some help, and he needs this to be spun as, hey, it may only have $1.37 billion for some sort of border barrier, but, the president got way more than would have if he hadn't done the shutdown. except that's not really true. >> right, it's not really true. but there's no question that the president maintained this issue as the dominate issue in washington and in this round got more than the democrats said they were willing to give. it's more sort of what he wanted, it's far, far short of what he could have gotten as an overall immigration deal last year. but to your point he's so transparent in the way to say, look, i've got a base problem here. i've got people who sold out on this thing. what he wants to do is create all the sound and fury and say i've got more for the wall

is gilderoy lockhart still imprisoned somewhere in hog warts?faced humour. they take the mickey out of you ten minutes before you know why but i loved it. lovely to see you, thank you so much. really, thank you so much. i'm going to ask that question. what is the super than question. what is the super than question to you? he is so watchable. the film is in cinemas this weekend. plenty more between now and 19. good morning from bbc london news, im charlott franks. an investigation has been launched after a teenager was stabbed to death in in battersea last night. he was treated by paramedics but died at the scene. two men have been arrested. almost 155,000 of london's hospital admissions may have been linked to alcohol last year, according to new figures. a report by public health england reveals that ealing and brent were the london boroughs that saw the highest number of alcohol related admissions, with numbers there rising year on year. the report also shows there were 2,a80 alcohol related deaths in 2017. a public consultation is currently u