maria cardona, it's interesting.t sure whether or not dianne feinstein and the senate judiciary committee is responding to that specifically, but we learned a very short time ago that she wants to launch a senate judiciary investigation into just the issue of alleged obstruction of justice. and that is after last night saying we're not there yet. this is dianne feinstein who by the way in the past has said she has seen no hard evidence of collusion yet. so this is an interesting step from her. >> thing is two things there. first of all, she has been somebody who has been incredibly concerned, i think as most persons are, at the crux of the issue, which doesn't seem to concern the president of the united states. which is that russia committed an act of war in cyberattacking the united states and interfering and meddling in our elections. and it doesn't seem like the president of the united states has any interest in getting to the bottom of that. number one. number two, i also think it comes from comey's testimony. yo

maria cardona.nd julian zellner from princeton university. >>> this seems to be, if it happens, a lot of if's here, but if this testimony takes place, it seems pretty politically risky. so why would the attorney general want to do this? >> well, i think a couple of things. for the first time, of all you're right. we don't know if this is going to happen and it's very possible it doesn't. number two, it sound like a little bit knee-jerk reaction on behalf of sessions because of comey's testimony last week on thursday, where he i want mated there was yet another meeting that had happened between sessions and the russian ambassador/spy, kislyak has had not been reported. so i would assume that this is sessions chance or at least in his head it's his chance to clear his name. that has a couple of problems connected to it. the first one is that he is going to expose himself to a lot of questions from the senators as to why he lied during his confirmation hearings in the first place. because that was what

i have to say i know that maria cardona before we started this she wanted to say, i told you so last when we were talking about -- >> i told you, i told alice, i told matt lewis, you guys were trying to normalize this, and look what happens. >> as always, she was right. >> my apologies. >> thank you. >> we will be right back. >>> closed captioning brought to you by -- act® strengthens enamel, protects teeth from harmful acids, and helps prevent cavities. go beyond brushing with act®. >>> oh, man, i'm getting happy every minute. >>> you are so bad for my waistline. i'm sure people tell you, anthony bourdain from "parts unknown" joins us now. cnn "parents unknown." do people tell you that you're bad for their waistline cincinnati. >> yes, especially after watching cheese porn like that. that is from portugal. >> tell me about that, why is it so special to you? >> one of the first places i went outside of the united states and one of the first places i ever made television was in this area of porto with my good friend and former boss from the last restaurant i worked in, jose. he took m

let's learn more with maria cardona and jeffrey lord, political commentators.resident is not asked about the roses in rose garden, effrey, toyou --his tweet this morning -- let's pull it up on the screen just to remind people. "despite so many false statements and lies, total and complete vindication. and wow! comey is a leaker!" if he's talking about comey's total false statements and lies, he's accusing him of felony perjury. does he have to clear up to the american people exactly what he means? >> well, i'm not a lawyer, so frankly, i don't know what the right thing to say is on that. i simply -- >> jeffrey lord, i'm simply asking you, if he is saying the former fbi director has committed a felony, should he tell the american people why he's saying that? >> sure, certainly. and the president's going to be forthcoming, as he always is. the president's birthday is june 14th, and i think he probably is considering this an early birthday present here. he's tweeted out that he felt vindicated. i mean, james comey revealed himself yesterday to be a walking one-ma

. >> so here to discuss cnn political commentators as well maria cardona. maria, i know you feel very strongly about the exchange. what's your reaction? >> i just think that it is something unfortunately for trump reminds the american people what an ogling, letsche rouse man he is. . it is something he survived throughout the campaign and able to become president despite everything we saw from the "access hollywood" tapes on down. all of the women who accused him of sexually inappropriate behavior towards them, sexual assault even. and this is just the kind of behavior that when you see somebody who is in the oval office as the leader of the free world and our commander in chief just, you know, trump makes us think every single day what is he doing in the oval office when he acts like this? it's just kind of blows it up even more. puts the angle on it in a way that is not helpful for trump as he is battling a 35% approval rating and supposedly trying to fix america's problems but i really don't think that really concerns him. >> alice, you said president tru

>> hmm, so i want to discuss now with matt lewis, margaret hoover, kevin mattis as well as mar maria cardona. here we go. it's 2016 all over. first i want to get your reaction to hillary clinton speaking out on the russia meddling, why she says she lost the election, and also speaking out about president trump. what do you think? >> look, she asked something at the very beginning of that clip she said something i think that's very important that almost nobody has picked up on. it's what might the collusion have been. i've always thought, like why would russia, you know, look, russia obviously tried to meddle in our elections. but why would they need trump to help? doesn't make sense. russia is smart. they have got spies. they are very sophisticated. why would they need to collude? hillary is arguing there that what potentially happened is that the mercers have this company that does micro targeting and data, that they may have colluded with russia to provide them with information that would help them target voters in places like michigan and wisconsin, to push them to vote for trump or not t

maria cardona, do you agree that james comey made crystal clear that while he was fbi director, donalds not under investigation? >> yes, and i even said that this morning, i believe. >> yes. >> but this is the problem, he also went on to make crystal clear that the behavior of donald trump, whether you call it inappropriate, whether it's going to come up as obstruction of justice, that he has engaged in up until now has now led to the appointment of a special counsel, and when comey was asked whether he believes that there was obstruction of justice, smartly so, he said that's not up to me, that is something that i am sure the special counsel will be looking into. he said i am sure the special counsel will be looking into. that means that donald trump will be under investigation for obstruction of justice. >> we'll see. that was a yes, but, answer to my question, maria concedes that james comey said that donald trump was not under investigation. do you concede that the fbi director basically said that the president of the united states lied or was dishonest in varying degrees five time

joining me now joseph bore rely, new york city councilman and trump supporter maria cardona, democratict, david southward lick, editor of "the washington post" and in los angeles steve hall cnn national security analyst and retired cia chief of russia operations. good to see all of you. david, let me begin with you. the president, you know, has added another outside and prominent attorney john dowd to his team to deal with this investigation. what does this say to you? >> what it says is that -- and both sides have added legal heavyhitters to their team. by sides i mean both the white house and the special prosecutor's team have really top lawyers on both sides suggest we may be getting closer to an obstruction of justice charge. we don't know that yet. but that is one of the indications. and that both sides are taking this very seriously. but if you look at that tweet that you put up a second ago, fred, i think it just shows the position that all of the folks are in, particularly right now, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, he comes out with this memo on may 9th, setting out the

commentator and republican strategist, shermichael singleton, and analyst, and cnn political strategist maria cardona. so start with president trump slamming obama for not doing more and president trump has had the same intelligence, what has he done? >> i think it's legitimate to wonder why the obama administration didn't do more and even one of president obama's senior advisors stated to the white house that they choked. i would like to know why. why weren't they more aggressive as it pertains to russia and their alleged -- it's not alleged, we now know for a fact they did attempt to interfere in the election process why didn't they do anything. but now president trump is in office and the fact he has come out -- he hasn't even admitted yet that the russians did attempt to interfere in the election although every single one of our foreign intelligence agencies have all stated that they have, even some of our allies from great britain stated also that they have evidence that the russians did yet the president has yet to state that. so i think it's a bit hypocritical for the president to say, obama,

david is here, laura, and simone sanders, kevin madden and maria cardona. so good to have all of you. shields pulling double duty. david we'll get to the ball game in a moment. and this bipartisanship at least washington is talking about doing. i want to talk about the business of jared kushner, his business dealings now, his finances investigated by the special counsel. and that the president is under investigation for obstruction of justice. this investigation is expanding quickly. >> to use a phrase that sean spicer, it speaks for itself, don. as a part of this ongoing cloud of smoke, this gathering cloud of smoke that involves jared kushner meeting with sergey, his role in the white house, his role in the transition, his role in the campaign, we don't know if he is guilty of anything yet. he hasn't been charged with anything yet. but it would be standard procedure, and a special counsel investigation, to look into any financial -- >> here's what jared kushner's lawyer is saying in a statement tonight. we do not know what this report refers to. it could

back with me now, cnn political commentators alice stewart and maria cardona.re different language going on here so nikki haley would say the president believings the climate is changing and pollutants are part of that equation, that's coming really close, i believe, in climate change. >> i wonder if she got the sign off on being able to say that statement. the question remains, manmade climate change is that a hoax? there is a lot of nuances. in the end is this a distinction without a difference. the president appears as though his thoughts may be changing on this, but the bottom line is, his view on this and he has said unequivocally as well as spicer and others is that this decision to withdraw from the climate agreement was more about the economics of it as opposed to the environmental aspects. >> darrell issa said he wishes that we, u.s., would have stayed at the table. i mean very -- >> right. the president believes -- sends a stronger message to pull out and start from scratch. he believes this is a bad deal for america. granted president obama created t

cnn political commentators maria cardona and alice stewart, michael zeldin and crime and justice producer simone porcupez. he said it only appears the president acknowledged he was under investigation for obstruction of justice because of the character limit on twitter. seems like a timpl investigation but not that simple. >> it doesn't make sense. the president was trying to write "i feel like i'm under siege" and sekulow was saying he is not under investigation in a legal sense, that is he's not been notified by the prosecutor that he is a target or a subject of an inquiry. you've got things that are, seem related but a little disconnected. the president stated his state of mind and the lawyer for the president saying he's not technically a target of an investigation. they can be read consistently with one another and we'll see what happens. if muller is bringing people as has been reported to talk about whether or not the president asked them to interview as comey testified to. then defact toe he is under investigation for the possibility of construction of justice. that's the only rea

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joining us is amanda carpenter, ana 1/2 re, maria cardona and alice stewart. ana navarro, is any of this defensible? >> of course none of it is defensible. listen, i'm sitting here as an mesh, as a woman, as a republican. i'm mad as hell on all three counts. as a woman, i can tell you i'm fed up with this guy's attacks on women's looks and objectifying women and his weird fixation with women and blood. whether it's rosie o'donnell or megyn kelly or former miss universe alicia machado or heidi cruz. we can go all night with the list of women he has attacked and objectified through the years. as an american, i am very mad at the way that he is diminishing the office of the president of the united states. i am very mad at what he is teaching our children. i'm very mad that there are children learning to bully because of what the president says and does and as a republican, i am livid that more republicans are not standing up and that those people in the white house surrounding him are enabling this. they are going to spend the next four years having to react to t