michael gordon of the wall stre journal joins me now. michael gored up, what happened? >> well, i think the differences between secretary mtis and president trump are just too profound, really, to be bridged. i think mattis was a good marine for a while and played along and certainly in public defded the administration's position, but i think syria really was the last straw because the way in which president trump ordered out the 2,000-odd american troops in syria is not the way the u.s.ry miliould do it and, from the military's perspective, it puts all their harearned gains in jeopardy. >> woodruff: but it wasn't, as tu're suggesting, just over the decision on syrat came as a surprise, was it? it was over other things as well. >> there have been tensions which have been obvious to ople at the pentagon who have watched the two individuals for a while. in the esignation letter, secretary mattis made it clear that he's a strong supporter of alliances. it's really an essential component of his strategy to counter russia and chieb. well, president trump had a pension to cri

to craigny thanks gordon here in washington at the michael mckee up in new york. we welcome now kevin cirilli, bloomberg's chief washington correspondent. kevin, give us a sense of the atmosphere up there at the cathedral now. moments ago, president trump and first lady melania and their motorcade making their way directly on the road behind as they departed national cathedral. there are five presidents in total here at this or a money, president trump in the front room -- at this ceremony, president trump in the front and with president obama president carter and their respective wives. it was a moment of political pause, politics on pause for much of that. body language and the interaction between all of these leaders will be dissected. from here, president trump returns to the white house. he has meetings today with king abdullah of jordan. there are other global leaders in attendance, including german chancellor angela merkel. that there were also mike lovejoy, the longtime resident -- i'm sorry, longtime staffer at kennebunkport, maine. this is a rare moment

flynn and sessions who we already knew about but seder, papadopoulos, manafort, page, gordon, roger stone, michael kaputo, rick gates but also a new name we've heard and that's ivanka trump, shane. >> and we've seen that materializing as well. it sounds like homicide a scatter shot kind of approach when you lay out these 14 people going on on here. but it matches up with what the intelligence community understands about aspects of the russian interference campaign which was there was a central mission which gets handed out by putin and various arms of the security apparatus start carrying that out. it's one of the reasons the intelligence officials i've talked to think there were two separate hackers inside the dnc network. one looking for information for espionage purposes. what looks like a scatter shot kind of approach it's actually not coordinated but does reflect this idea there's multiple lines trying to make inroads, and they've clearly touched on a lot of people. >> glen, it seems clear to me mueller's investigation is very much about the question of collusion, not just about obstruction.

gordon geko. >> a clear nod to otisville. if michaelay his biggest problem is he will be bored. why will he be bored? >> absolutely. he'll be in a very controlled environment. he'll have no peace and quiet so to speak, he'll be in a bunk bed, in a torm dri-type setting. one of the biggest problems people have, especially movers and shakers and people who are active is just time, unless you have a good plan. boredom, his biggest challenge will be boredom. >> not a bad thing if that's your biggest challenge if you're in prison. i could think of worse things. maybe i watch too much criminal tv shows. what about his close ties for so many years with now president trump. how will he be treated by other inmates behind bars? might he be targeted at all? >> high-profile people definitely have a unique set of challenges. the boston police has what's -- b.o.p. has what's called -- anything involving him is going to get extra scrutiny, will go under higher review authority. when it comes to high-profile visitors, you know, hypothetically president

greg gordon is admitting that his new story about michael cohen being in prague in 2016 meeting withhe russians relies actually not on first-hand knowledge or second-hand but third-hand knowledge. watch this. >> did your sources see the interception themselves or are they passing along information from other people? >> the sources have -- some of the sources have government sources and some of the sources are people who have told us that they have trusted intelligence type sources that they get information from. we don't know the specifics. we have used these sources on many subjects and they have been very accurate. >> you know that sound a lot like the steele dossier. i reread it. if your sources didn't see the intercepts themselves, did they let you see them? did they pass -- have you seen the intercept? >> no. >> no. a bit of a problem there. even msnbc says this looks a lot like the infamous steele dossier. cohen has flatly denied the report. in yet another bizarre turn, a new court filing claims that robert mueller collected a, quote, nude selfie, as part of his investigation.

greg gordon as admitting that his news story on michael cohen allegedly being in prague in 2016, young with the russians, relies actually not n firsthand knowledge or secondhand, but thirdhand. watch this. >> did your sources if the interception themselves or are they passing along information from other a people? >> the sources -- some of the sources have government sources. some of the sources are people who have told us that they have trusted intelligence-type sources that can get information. we don't know the specifics but wed have used a few sources on many subjects and they have been very accurate. >> that sounds a lot like a -- i reread that. if you are sources did not see the interceptsid themselves, thy didn't let you see them. did they pass -- have you seen the intercepts? >> no. >> gregg: no. but have a problem there. even msnbc says this looks a lot like the infamous steele dossier. remember, michael cohen has denied the report. in yet another bizarre turn, a new court filing claims that robert mueller collected a "nude selfieio as part of his investigation. no, not of h

michael burlingame. he talks about the president's treatment of african americans visiting the white house and those he met during his travel. this is about 50 minutes. >> my name is gordon lightner. i'm on the board of the abraham lincoln institute. and i am very much an admirer of the scholarly works of our speaker. michael burlingame holds a distinguished chair at the university of illinois springfield, where he joined the faculty in 2009 after teaching for 33 years at connecticut college. london. he was born and raised in washington, d.c. he would not give me the exact date, but he did say that it was slightly after the famously unfortunate event in theater. [laughter] >> he is a graduate of princeton and johns hopkins university's, both of which he studied under donald.rbert his books include "abraham lincoln: a life," also known as "the green monster," "the inner world of lincoln," also known as "shrinking lincoln." "lincoln and the civil war" and of lincolnumes related primary source materials, among them, the diary of john hay, the letters of john the memoirs ofd william stoddard, all of whom house secretaries. later this spring, southern illinois press will publ

michael oren ex u.s. senator rick santorum and lawyer alan dershowitz but in the air time they are given israel wants peace and even the anti-defamation league has said gordon's opinions verge on conspiracy theories yet he's still a paid c.n.n. contributor and is often interviewed by wolf blitzer blitzer's bio on c.n.n.'s new site is as revealing about the network as it is about him it's an extensive and detailed summary of a career going back forty years but no where the c.n.n. mentioned no i could rest mr blitzer that in the one nine hundred eighty s. blitzer worked at the time he was a paid lobbyist for israel were all of us should be delighted that we have him to be around the time in this world when there is this israel we wrote to c.n.n. with a series of questions on this story but did not hear back and wolf blitzer is not just another face on the network he is c.n.n.'s lead political and. it's institutional it's imbedded in the fabric of c.n.n. named pollster it with gas like michael oren is will take whatever measures are necessary to defend its citizens and rick santorum for example denying that palestinians even exist and all the people that live in

gordon, thank you very much for joining us tonight. >> it's a pleasure to be here, joy. >> you saw michael cohen today who hasn't talked a lot since his sentencing again denied ever having been not just in prague, but this the czech republic as well. what is your response to that, having reported on this? >> well, bob mueller is in a pinch because he has an acting attorney general who now oversees his investigation and has harshly criticized it. he has the nominee to be the permanent attorney general in bill barr who has harshly criticized the investigation. so one would think that bob mueller wouldn't want too much about his investigation getting out in the public. former prosecutors have said that this is actually a standard practice for a prosecutor to -- >> but cohen doesn't have to say anything. cohen could say nothing hi, could say nothing. >> but he is saying he was definitively not in prague, he was not in prague ever. >> and all i can say to that is we'll see how this sorts out because michael cohen, as we all know, has been convicted of lying about his dealings with the trump hotel in russia. he's been convicted of being dec

michael oren ex u.s. senator rick santorum and lawyer alan dershowitz but in the air time they are given israel wants peace and even the anti-defamation league has said gordon's opinions verge on conspiracy theories yet he's still a paid c.n.n. contributor and is often interviewed by wolf blitzer blitzer's bio on c.n.n.'s new site is as revealing about the network as it is about him it's an extensive and detailed summary of a career going back forty years but nowhere to c.n.n. mentioned no i could press mr blitzer that in the one nine hundred eighty s. blitzer worked at the time he was a paid lobbyist for israel were all of us should be delighted that we happen to be around the time in this world when there is this israel we wrote to c.n.n. with a series of questions on this story but did not hear back and wolf blitzer is not just another face on the network he is cnn's lead political and. it's institutional it's imbedded in the fabric of c.n.n. named pollster it with gas like michael oren is will take whatever measures are necessary to defend its citizens and rick santorum for example denying that palestinians even exist and all the people that live in the w

the prison where fictional character gordon g gecko did his time in the 2010 film "wall street: money never sleeps." >> 1993, he was sent off. >> reporter: if michaelp's former personal attorney, gets his way, it's where he would like to serve out his three-year sentence for, among other things, campaign finance violations. if approved, cohen will leave his posh park avenue apartment in manhattan and head about 70 miles northwest to otisville, new york. what will cohen find at the medium security institution? according to its website, otisville houses 840 inmates. that's considered pretty small by prison standards. it includes a detention center and a minimum security satellite camp which is where legal experts say white-collar first time offenders such as cohen usually end up. >> it's dorm style living like you're going to college. the activities that are available are almost too numerous to count. there's two libraries. there's a leisure library and a law library. you also have many, many sports activities. >> reporter: cohen would be free to spend his day playing tennis or bocci ball. waxal once said his time there felt like a bad sleepaway camp

michael oren ex u.s. senator rick santorum and lawyer alan dershowitz but in the air time they are given israel wants peace and even the anti-defamation league has said gordon's opinions verge on conspiracy theories yet he's still a paid c.n.n. contributor and is often interviewed by wolf blitzer blitzer's bio on c.n.n.'s new site is as revealing about the network as it is about him it's an extensive and detailed summary of a career going back forty years but no where the c.n.n. mentioned no i could rest mr blitzer in the one nine hundred eighty s. blitzer worked at the time he was a paid lobbyist for israel before all of us should be delighted that we happen to be around the time in this world when there is this israel we wrote to c.n.n. with a series of questions on this story but did not hear back and wolf blitzer is not just another face on the network he is cnn's lead political and. it's institutional it's imbedded in the fabric of c.n.n. named pollster it with gas like michael oren is will take whatever measures are necessary to defend its citizens and rick santorum for example denying that palestinians even exist and all the people that live in the wes

michael oren x u.s. senator rick santorum and lawyer alan dershowitz but in the air time they are given israel wants peace and even the anti-defamation league has said gordon's opinions verge on conspiracy theories yet he's still a paid c.n.n. contributor and is often interviewed by wolf blitzer blitzer's bio on c.n.n.'s new site is as revealing about the network as it is about him it's an extensive and detailed summary of a career going back forty years but no where the c.n.n. mentioned no i could rest mr blitzer in the one nine hundred eighty s. blitzer worked at the time he was a paid lobbyist for israel before all of us should be delighted that we happen to be around the time in this world when there is this israel we wrote to c.n.n. with a series of questions on this story but did not hear back and wolf blitzer is not just another face on the network he is cnn's lead political and. it's institutional it's imbedded in the fabric of c.n.n. named pollster it with gas like michael oren is will take whatever measures are necessary to defend its citizens and rick santorum for example denying that palestinians even exist and all the people that live in the wes

michael oren x u.s. senator rick santorum and lawyer alan dershowitz but in the air time they are given israel wants peace and even the anti-defamation league has said gordon's opinions verge on conspiracy theories yet he's still a paid c.n.n. contributor and is often interviewed by wolf blitzer blitzer's bio on c.n.n.'s new site is as revealing about the network as it is about him it's an extensive and detailed summary of a career going back forty years but no where the c.n.n. mentioned no i could rest mr blitzer in the one nine hundred eighty s. blitzer worked at the time he was a paid lobbyist for israel you were all of us should be delighted that we happen to be around the time in this world when there is this israel we wrote to c.n.n. with a series of questions on this story but did not hear back and wolf blitzer is not just another face on the network he is cnn's lead political and. it's institutional it's imbedded in the fabric of c.n.n. named pollster it with gas like michael oren usual take whatever measures are necessary to defend its citizens and rick santorum for example denying that palestinians even exist and all the people that live in the wes

show runner glen gordon declined our request for comment but told "the new york times" the decision to end dushku's run had nothing to do with her experiences on set. michaeld "the new york times" when dushku confronted him, he was mortified, apologized and denied pushing for her removal. cbs declined to comment but last week said in a statement, we remain committed to a culture by a safe inclusive and respectful workplace, our work is far from done. that's a true statement. a lot of work to be done here at this network. >> thank you. >>> a yemeni mother is now by her dying son's side in california after a yearlong battle to sidestep the trump administration's travel ban. seamus was greeted by dozens of supporters in san francisco. the travel ban prevented her from flying to the u.s. but tuesday, she was granted a visa to come see her son abdullah who suffers from a degenerative brain disorder. the father, usa citizen who lives in california, brought him to the u.s. in october for his treatment. >> this is a difficult time for our family, but we are blessed to be together. i ask you to respect our privacy as we go through with our son again. >> the mother'

bring in asia watcher gordon chang you brought to us -- and i think reuters is wear of a negative trade headline the detention of a formaller or canadian diplomat in china. >> yes. michaelmat has been working for the international crisis group a big think tank he's been detained a few hours ago. the chinese foreign ministry isn't saying why he was taken. but everyone in beijing right now is speculating that this is payback for huawei detention of the cfo. >> that would be a negative tit for tat. >> get worse than that so people were thinking couple of days ago that the chinese would take a canadian of some sort in china. and this very well may be it. >> interesting. okay let's talk about google their appearance today on capitol hill. you are a profound opponent of google doing what they're doing in china. spell it out. >> couple of things first of all there's a sensor search engine but it is also linked to phone numbers so it is not just censored search. it is also enabling surveillance of chinese citizens. also, you know, people have been talking about google not participating in project of the pentagon that's the ai for drones, also not bidding for the cloud computing