vowed to put maggie haberman in prison if he won. what are you learning tonight about following up on that? >> he had a conversation earlier this year in the spring when he made clear that he wanted to prosecute hillary clinton along with james comey. he was told in definitive terms by the white house office that he could face a range of outcomes, among them, impeachment if he went ahead with this. as far as we know it was dropped. but it is pretty remarkable the degree to which he's repeatedly rushed to the levers of power in the executive branch to solve personal problems and vendettas? >> this was the bring of 2018. he'd been in office a long time and learned about what it meant to be president. do you know what he wanted to prosecute them for? >> i think a range of things. in the case of comey, i believe it would have been about handling of information when he was the fbi director in the case with hillary clinton, it was a range of things. there was the e-mail server issue and the constant being around the approval by u.s. offici

late today "the times" maggie haberman dropped a bomb. she reported this past spring president trump told don mcgahn that he wanted to order the justice department to prosecute hillary clinton and fired fbi director james comey. mcgahn told the president he didn't have the authority to do that. i spoke with maggie haberman, a cnn political analyst a short time ago. >> so maggie, then candidate donald trump turned to hillary clinton on the debate stage in 2016 and vowed to put her in prison if he won. what are you learning tonight about following up on that? >> he had a conversation earlier this year in the spring when he made clear that he wanted to prosecute hillary clinton along with james comey. he was told in definitive terms by the white house office that he could face a range of outcomes, among them, impeachment if he went ahead with this. as far as we know it was dropped. but it is pretty remarkable the degree to which he's repeatedly returned to the levers of power of the executive branch as way to solve personal problems and pers

back now, jen psaki, ken cuccinelli, abby phillip, and maggie haberman. ident actually believes this or just thinks this is effective? >>> actually i was thinking exactly about that when you were talking about this. it's hard to tell whether he actually believes it. he certainly says things privately to people that makes clear he knows how cynical this is. other times he delivers this very convincingly and seems to believe it. i don't think it matters one way or the other. he's the president of the united states and he's out there saying who are you going to believe, me or your lying officials who are telling you that what i'm saying is not true? it is a huge problem. there is already for avisitor of reasons people are losing faith in constitutions in this country and constitutions of democracy and if people don't believe elections are fair and being conducted well, that's a very, very dangerous slope to go down and he is just pouring grease on it. >> jen psaki, when you were in the obama white house, how seriously did the administration take what the pres

joining us now is new york times white house correspondent maggy haberman. this video is so grotesque. of course, the facts are so -- he has found an illegal immigrant that murdered people and there are examples of that. what all the research suggests is that actually on any given day, any year, americans are more likely to commit violent crimes than immigrants or even undocumented immigrants. but as we know, the president is not incumbered by facts and statistics. what is he doing? >> he is doing the same thing he has been doing for the last four years. you are seeing echoes of the richard nixon campaign, focussed on people of color, violence, urban violence in particular. it is liking to inspire fear. it is worth knowing as far as we know, that video is not airing on television. the ad that the trump campaign, the re-election campaign is airing on television is a very soft ad aimed at suburban women that doesn't feature president trump. that tells you a lot about where the difference is what he says and where things actually are. this isn't keeping with wh

you mentioned maggi haberman. she's joining us on the phone, one of our cnn political contributors, the coauthor of this explosive new article in the "new york times." so step back and give us the big picture, maggi, on your celebrity reporting. what have we learned? >> thanks for having me and reading the reporting. what we have learned is that the president engaged privately in frankly what he has talked about publicly on and off for quite some time, that he tried to use the levers of power to do so, which was prosecute his political enemies. he made clear to the white house counsel's office he wanted the justice department to go after james comey, the fbi director, who he fired and hillary clinton, his rival in the 2016 campaign, who he claimed just a week after the election, you know, he didn't want to do any more damage to. but he has changed his tune and he himself has found himself under investigation. he made clear at the white house counsel's office he wanted this done. and don mcgahn and the white house

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late today "the times" maggie haberman dropped a bomb.reported this past spring president trump told don mcgahn that he wanted to order the justice department to prosecute hillary clinton and fired fbi director james comey. mcgahn told the president he didn't have the authority to do that. i spoke with maggie haberman, a cnn political analyst a short time ago. >> so maggie, then candidate donald trump turned to hillary clinton on the debate stage in 2016 and vowed to put her in prison if he won.

maggie haberman -- >> she'see discredited, salina zito. >> no, she has not.ually -- and this is the problem. she's an old school journalist who tape records every single interview she does. when you question her because she's not doing your narrative anyou question molly ball, because she's reporting something out michael avenatti you don't like, that's also festering a problem with the media. >> okay, but there's a bit of a difference here. there's a bit of a difference. you can have, i think, differences of opinion. we've had it with book writers and say, well, i don't think that's really accurate but when the guy who's supposed to be running the country looks at the media and doesn't say, listen, there are some great folks out there -- >> there are. >> and there are great journalists out there. when he doesn't say there are grt journalists out here, here are the people that i'm upset with, when it becomes a blanket statement that all pressall media, everybody's wrong, i think that's -- now i feel like there's lipstick on my teeth. >> whoopi, it's noaless b

answer them easily but he answered them himself and it was interesting as soon as he said that maggie haberman of the new york times was very close contacts with the white house tweeted that's false so that in fact that don't trouble his lawyers have been very carefully working on these offices all week what we do know is there have been several sessions between with the on from his lawyers trying to trying to think about the answers to these questions at the very least for the special counsel's questions they do relate to collusion with russia allegations of collusion with russia at all trump and his lawyers have declined to answer any questions about obstruction of justice there about two dozen questions we understand they relate to a time period before it all trump was sworn into office they would you've been submitted to robert miller's office this week but they were but that was disposed and now we understand that they will be submitted before the end of next week certainly and then wrote riddle giuliani to all tribes lawyers one of the tribes lawyers says they'll be a discussion perhaps

i did this interview with my "new york times" and cnn colleague maggie haberman, and maggie and i wereetailed foreign policy interview, and i was pressing him on his views on russia, because they were completely different from those of the traditional republican orthodoxy, and different from those of the other republican candidates, and, remember, this is march, so the president is doing well at that moment in the primaries, but it wasn't assured he was going to get the nomination. he made, john, in the course of that interview, the most detailed case for why punishing russia with sanctions for its annexation of crimea, previously a part of ukraine, was a mistake. that we had -- it wasn't our problem. that we were more upset about it than the european nations that were near it by. that it's always falling on the united states to, to do these sanctions and we're always the one who's ending up suffering from it economically. so what do we now know? that at that time, march of 2016, he, or at least his aides through michael cohen were still busily in negotiation for this tower they wanted

my times and cnn league maggie haberman and i are conducting the first detailed foreign policy interview with the president. i ask him about russia because his positions on russia were distinctly different than those of all the other republican candidates. they took a pretty traditional hard line. he was saying why are we doing all these sanctions? who cares about these? and of course, at this time, poppy, what did vladimir putin want most? he wanted relief from the american-led and european sanctions that were imposed on russia after they took crimea. and the president, or the then candidate trump was the only one arguing for giving them that relief. >> woo know it was a member of the trump team that worked on changing the republican platform and really watering down the defense of ukraine in the face of that russian aggression. more on that in a moment with you, david, but jumping to you paul and the breaking news we just got in. paul manafort will be sentenced on march 5th. that's a major headline. ahead of that, december 7th, is the deadline for mueller's team to file a brief on the

joining us now, white house correspondent for "the new york times" and cnn political analyst, maggie haberman. are we in the midst of a massive turnover? what is happening? >> i don't know how massive it could be when you have a fairly empty white house campus at this point because so many people have left already, but it's true that the president is looking to make more changes. as you both know very well the president tends to marinate on these ideas for a while before he goes ahead and does them, so it could be quite sometime. we know he soured a long time ago on kirsten nielsen, the homeland security secretary, and some think it's really getting rid of john kelly, and the president is having a hard time firing a four-star general, and he's looking to find a situation where kelly will leave on his own. the president is heading into a mid-term cycle and has a chief of staff who is not very steeped in politics. >> maggie, that is a fascinating dynamic you just laid out. we know the president doesn't like face-to-face confrontation, so john kelly has been the h henchman, and who is going to d

calls up maggie haberman of "the new york times" for an e-mail address. she doesn't have it.lly sends it to the public address and never gets a response. that was the public story. in fact, we now learn none of that was true. the day after cohen sent that e-mail, peskov's office responds. there's somebody identified as a special assistant who wants to know more, takes notes, asks how the kremlin, putin's office, can be helpful in this project, and then it goes on for six more months, all during the primaries while donald trump is running for president and saying kind things about vladimir putin. we now learn that he -- his business was in contact with putin trying to secure this business deal -- >> so -- >> there's talks about trump flying to moscow to meet with putin as late as june -- >> but there is also this, michael -- >> 2016. >> there is this, because he's saying that the deal, he didn't know about it, right? >> that trump didn't know about it? >> yeah. he signed a letter of intent. he knew the kind of deal could hurt him politically. why would he lie? >> well, i think

. >>> let's turn to cnn political analyst and correspondent for "the new york times," maggie haberman. is it your understanding the white house has been caught by surprised by the outcry that whitaker may not be qualified for this? >> two things surprised the white house. some in the white house knew the president wanted to do this, and the plan had been to do this on friday and the president could not be held back from doing this is what has been described to me. a lot of people did not realize the extent of the comments whitaker made. these are routine things. whitaker had become a frequent presence in the white house as the chief of staff to jeff sessions who was seen as the eyes and ears for the west wing. this is how it was described by john kelly to a number of people because jeff sessions' relationship with the president was so poor and the president was openly critical of jeff sessions, whitaker had a foot in each camp and he was the bridge between the department of justice and the west wing and so many people were so focused on when is the jeff sessions situation going to end

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but maggie haberman is reporting at "the new york times." she says that's false. it's his lawyers.also says this. watch this. >> my lawyers don't write answers. i write answers. i was asked a series of questions. i've answered them very easily, very easily. i'm sure they're tricked up because, you know, they like to catch people. gee, was the weather sunny, or was it rainy? he said it may have been a good day. it was rainy. therefore, he told a lie. he perjured himself. okay? so you have to always be careful when you answer questions with people that probably have bad intentions. but, no, it's -- the questions were very routinely answered by me, by me. okay? >> so if they're so easy, why not just submit them already? >> well, i think he has been working with his lawyers, it's fair to say. he hasn't been doing this in a room off by himself. on the other hand, his lawyers didn't write these answers for him. he adopted these answers. whoever put the words on the paper yesterday, whenever he gave that statement, he adopted them. i was a little bit surprised because i would have thought

>> i think when people like jake happener and maggie haberman are hearing what they are hearing that there's usually whack to the arson equation there's usually fire where there's smoke. that there indeed is talk about pence initiated by the president, i think that's very clear, and nothing is a sure thing in this white house. what is less sure than anything are what the president's words mean. they mean very little in terms of truthfulness, they mean very little in terms of everything except perhaps looking at him in a kind of barometer fashion. >> taking his temperature. >> his words, et cetera, et cetera, despite what i said. but we don't know, and i don't think trump knows, you know, is pence going to be on the ticket? i think it probably depends on the situation going into the election. we are a long way from 2020 and that election. mr. trump is a long way from knowing what his standing is going to be among the people of the united states of america because right now as we saw in these elections his standing with the people of the country has suffered in the past few weeks. he i

schmidt is standing by to join us tonight, shares a by line on this piece with his colleagues maggie haberman and ilene sullivan. it says the president spent three straight days this week sequestered with his legal team. quote, trump met with his personal lawyers in private meetings and worked to draft answers to questions posed by the special counsel. washington post also has new reporting tonight on these questions from mueller. quote, there are at least two dozen questions, all of which relate to activities and episodes from before trump's election, according to giuliani and others briefed on the questions. there are some that create more issues for us legally than others, giuliani said. he said, some were unnecessary, some were possible traps, and, quote, we might consider some as irrelevant. giuliani said the special counsel has not imposed a firm deadline, but he added that trump's answers could be tomorrow. >>> we want to show you the headline on the post story again because it also speaks to something of a victory for mueller. today a federal judge refused to throw out his team's indi

but maggie haberman who is very well plugged in with the white house and the legal team put the lie to it within minutes after he said it. >> his attorney rudy giuliani told "the washington post" yesterday that some of mueller's questions "create more issues for us legally than others." he also called some possible traps. given what trump is saying today, does this mean that trump's lawyers heard something or heard trump's answers and thought, well, we've got a real problem here, john? >> well, you know, i think that they know their client very well. and he has great difficulty telling the truth. so there's something in there that is troubling them. and they've got -- they've got a break on it. they're the ones that would obviously transmit it back to the special counsel. so they're probably working with their client trying to work it out. he also is pretty stubborn. he's convinced of his own lies often. and seems to want to ride with them. >> that's an interesting way of putting it. yet accurate. so hi, garrett. so let's talk about the mueller side of the equation. you're reporting th

. >> times reporter maggie haberman said potus would need to talk to them about why they didn't providey collected 17 signatures from members who say they will not vote to reelect nancy pelosi. pelosi can lose no more than 19 democrats if every member votes and all republicans vote against her. right now the number of no votes among current incoming members is at 20. however, president trump says he could help deliver some republican votes. >> i want help nancy pelosi if she needs some votes. i will perform a wonderful service for her. i like her. can you believe it? i like nancy pelosi. she's tough and she's smart, but she deserves to be speaker. and now they're playing games with her just like they'll be playing with me. it's called presidential harassment. >> pel low said, she would, quote, never accept help from republicans. marsha fudge met with the democratic leader on friday and says she will announce her decision after thanksgiving. >>> still ahead, the senate majority leader gives his outlook on president trump's push to tackle criminal justice reform. >>> plus, bill karins is

maggie haberman shares the byline. the mislead striking.l manafort's attorneys repeatedly briefed president trump's lawyers on discussions with federal investigators after he agreed to cooperate with robert mueller. the "times" tributes it to one of the president's lawyers and two others familiar with the conversations. now according to the "times" report, some legal experts speculated this was a bid by manafort for a presidential pardon. a reminder, don't miss full circle on facebook. it's new. you get all the details, watch it week nights 6:25 p.m. eastern orphan facebook.com/anderson cooper full circle. news continues with andrew cuomo. "cuomo primetime" starts. >>> welcome to primetime on another big election night. no more speculating. the polls have closed in mississippi. the vote is coming in right now. this is the final senate race of the 2018 midterms, and it will be decided likely on our watch. the big question, can republicans keep a crucial seat in what is certainly a ruby red state? or is there going to be another historic upda

grabbed him outside of the oval office where the secret service had to intervene, and reported by maggie habermanhers? >> well, the secret service did not have to intervene. and my conversations with john are forthright and very similar to those that he has had with the president, and they are heated and private angsdly keep them private, but no question that john knows that i am a steadfast supporter of the president. externally, wlit is on television or op-eds, and if i have a disagreement and i don't believe that the president is being told what he needs to know, then i am willing to let people know that, and sometimes that bothers people. >> should kelly be fired an replace and if so by whom? >> you know, i don't know. that is clearly the decision that the president is going to make as he starts to look forward to the own re-election effort in 2020, i want him to have the best political team around him, and historically speaking when you see the chiefs of staffs like ron baker and rahm rahm emanuel, they chief competency was understanding the political climate, and john kelly is a chief of st

tweeted out as we're showing with attached video which brought us this from maggie haberman of the "new york times." "i've unfortunately covered a lot of shootings over the years. i don't really remember an elected official, aware that they were so controversial, putting out a video of themselves at a crime scene to celebrate their own performance. rick, after pipe bombs, after pittsburgh you talk about this a lot on social media, you talk about this in your book. where are we as a country? >> brian, i make a lot of flippant remarks about this president because i believe a lot of the time he deserves mockery. in this case the level of moral horror and outrage about him making the slaughter of 11 american jewish citizens by an alt-right madman, by a murderer, making it all about him, making it -- oh, we were treated respectfully. oh, the fake news. he can't resist being the worst version of trump. this is a man who -- i say this a lot. he may have the title of president, but he has never earned the mantle of the presidency. he has never taken on the sacred duties of president. and one of

one of the things that's fascinating and maggie haberman of the "new york times" pointed this out, the amount of time donald trump has spent railing against this investigation and how it's been going on but this is one of the things that has been holding it up. this long standing almost a year negotiation between trump's team and mueller's team about how and when he would offer testimony. this is what we landed on. part of the reason this stretched as long as it has is because donald trump and his team were pushing backed on how he would offer them answers. >> the federal judge who was appointed by president trump ordering the white house to reinstate the press credentials of jim acosta saying dhihis due process rights were violated. cnn sued, others joined in after his credentials were revoked. here's how the president responded to the ruling. >> supreme to behave and we're writing up rules and regulations to make our position. i think you were treated very unfairly, both of you. i think you were treated unfairly because you have somebody interrupting you and if they don't listen to t

whitaker has been on the record supporting the prosecution of hillary clinton, the possibility as maggie haberman said, something else is going on that we don't know about. >> chris, i don't see this wrapping up anytime soon and you have a number of pending indictments, you have a number of potentially unsealed -- excuse me, sealed indictments. that is what i wanted to follow up on what elliott just said, we don't know if, in fact, trump has already been subpoenaed because there's been litigation in d.c. with the chief judge under seal, there are sealed proceedings going on, there are sealed indictments, and we don't know whether this subpoena issue has already been litigated in d.c. whether it's been argued before the d.c. circuit, and whether it's ripe for the supreme court. mueller may have already subpoenaed trump but we are not aware of it because it has not been unsealed. >> we know mueller has kept his ship from leaking for a very long time now from the very start. >> absolutely. >> thanks to everybody. you're going to be back with us, ron, talking about the markets and happy thanksgiving

the president when he was then citizen trump, then businessman trump, told our colleague maggie habermanat "the new york times" back in 2011 after the bin laden raid was successful and took out osama bin laden he gave a statement to maggie had she was over at politico saying "listen, i want to congratulate president obama and u.s. forces on a job well done. that is a pretty big depart from what he's been saying the last 24 hours, john." >> a job well done overseen by admirable william mng raven. jim acosta at the white house. thank you so much. joining us now someone who served with the admiral lieutenant general mark hertling. also cnn global affairs analyst max boot, author of "why i left the right." general hertling i want to start with you. president trump maintains that he has quote done more for the military than any president in many, many years and that nobody has been more with the military than he has as president. so how does that square with what he is now saying about admiral mccraven? >> i'm not sure it does square. certainly there has been a key budget increase over the la

maggie haberman is a white house correspondent for the new york times "trump is not in control the way in the house of representatives and affecting his mentality. back to jane 0'brien, is this normal in a trump press conference? this is a difficult one. the ratings are up and acknowledge it because of donald trump, he says he doesn't like the. somewhere between theatre and politics, is inequitable to white house briefings are theatre. they are shot in a hurry. people tune into them for precisely this reason. this was vintage donald trump. no president has ever spoken to members of the press like that and no president has called them the enemy of the people as often as president trump at. but it is better. it is a spectacle when you get the president in the middle of the press conference or riding individual members of the media by name and then firing back. they get into it with him. it is extraordinary and sometimes he just don't know what to say except for sit back and and watch what's was we have been doing all day. backlit has been running all day. —— that video clip. the presiden

. >> what we should focus on, maggi maggie haberman is perhaps closest to the white house and when he said he's answering the questions himself. she said you talked to your attorneys last week. you are not telling the truth but second of all, something giuliani and the president both said, they are already framing this idea that they're trying to do gotcha moments for the president. whatever is going to come out of that he's already sending to his base -- they're questionable and framing it in a way that it's easy to understand and digestible. >> is it possible they're doing this under subpoena and not admitting it yet? >> i don't think they're doing this under subpoena. there's -- i'm sure there's the threat or the looming issue of a subpoena, but i think really what this may be is just a first step and i think that, you know, if you want -- they're trying to negotiate and figure out a way for trump to answer and mueller to be satisfied. this could be a first step. there could be follow-up questions or there could be follow-up subpoenas where he has to go and deal with the litigation

maggie haberman tweeting, accosta, who the white house is alleging, quote, placed his hands on the youngern said, quote, pardon me, ma'am, as he tried to ask his question. i also want to read a statement that cnn has just released. the statement reads, the white house announced tonight that it has revoked the press pass of cnn white house chief correspondent jim accosta, in retaliation for his challenging questions at today's press conference. secretary sanders lied. she provided fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened. this unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves better. jim accosta has our full support. anything else you want to add? >> i was trying to ask a question of the president at this press conference and it was obviously a question they didn't like. it was about the ad they were running before the midterms. you can see in the video, the intern came up to me, they are describing her as an intern. i don't really know who she is, and attempted to take the microphone away from me. all i can say at that point is that i wa

i think seeing that maggie haberman is a parent with kids, i got to believe that people look at that and say, boy, it's hard to hate that person. boy, maybe, i should read what that person has to say. i this i that helpthink that he. >> dean, i hope in a decade you come home to new orleans. >> we'll talk about that later. >> until his job as editor of the "new york times" is to publish the stories about the facts that his legion of reporters bring back. that is more important than we might think because story telling might be what separates us as the apes. the global intellectual superstar sold books about human creation and its future. latest work requesting 21 lessons for the 21st century" which shifts his focus to the present day. we thought on this midterm election night as economic disruption is still such a raw political issue, we turn to uval hirari's examination of the big threats facing workers in the future, which he says is not exploitation, but irrelevance. welcome, uval noah hirari. you have made a career now out of charting our exist ence of or species. are we homosapie

the report, it wasn't clear whether the president had actually read the memo as we heard from maggie habermann the last hour. she believes that the president actually did understand the risks here, did understand that impeachment was a possibility, and so he did not follow through on it, wolf. >> susan hennessy is with us as well. one of our legal analysts. how inappropriate would it be for the president to issue such an order to the justice department? >> i mean i think inappropriate sort of dramatically understates it. it would be a violation of some of the core principles of the department of justice. this type of -- preventing doj from becoming politicized is why only particular offices in the white house are allowed to communicate with the department of justice. more to the point, there are attorney general guidelines that say when federal investigators are allowed to investigate, what is called a properly predicated investigation. if there's not a proper predicate, and actual reason prosecutors should continue to investigate a case, it is a real really grotesque civil liberties violatio

late today "the times" maggie haberman dropped a bomb.ast spring president trump told don mcgahn that he wanted to order the justice department to prosecute hillary clinton and fired fbi director james

. >> we should point out in the "new york times" maggie haberman and others reporting this is essentially the gop strategy. it's something, scott, we have seen from president trump before. we have to look at pre 2016, the president setting the stage and trying to sow seeds of distrust. does this end up backfiring when you continually attack the institutions? >> i see this similarly but almost on the other side of the mirror. in 2016 we were all in a lather about the possibility that donald trump wouldn't accept the outcome of the election. in this particular case it's the democrats who don't at least from my perspective appear to want to accept the outcome of the elections. what i think we have in both parties is a breakdown of a willingness to accept democratic outcomes. it's clear the republicans have gone in georgia and it's clear to me if florida law is followed the republicans will have won there, too, but it's democrats who have to face this schois are they going to do what they accuse trump of and that is dragging a state or in 2016's case a tree through this week's long morass bec

maggie haberman tweeting, accosta, who the white house is alleging, quote, placed his hands on the younged to ask his question. i also want to read a statement that cnn has just released. the statement reads, the white house announced tonight that it has revoked the press pass of cnn white house chief correspondent jim accosta, in retaliation for his challenging questions at today's press conference. secretary sanders lied. she provided fraudulent accusations and cited an incident that never happened. this unprecedented decision is a threat to our democracy and the country deserves better. jim accosta has our full support. anything else you want to add? >> i was trying to ask a question of the president at this press conference and it was obviously a question they didn't like. it was about the ad they were running before the midterms. we were going back and forth. you can see in the video, the intern came up to me, they are describing her as an intern. i don't really know who she is, and attempted to take the microphone away from me. all i can say at that point is that i was trying to ha