made numerous amendments based on updated indictments that was with the case of wrong right on -- ron white. and it was one of those moments only in a crisis did we get that conversation past. the only place in the state to have campaign finance women subsequently litigated and we were successful. >> as you look back now what does michael nutter think of that successful effort to cast that with jared wong -- john ashcroft to predict the outcome of the mayoral race? >> that story was a complete fabrication but in the moment it worked. but many of us knew that there is no way that is really what was going on. but democratic city people do not like george bush or john ashcroft so there was a narrative already made two or three days after that big explosive story everybody was radio silent we couldn't figure out what was going on then laying out that scenario people bought it. >> you point out in the book the margin in that cycle it was bigger than four years prior. >> yes. the 99 race somewhere 9400 which is the closest in modern history and then winning by 85000 so there was a number based on

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amendments, updated indictments that the federal government was coming forward that was in the case of ron white and corey kemp. and i think it was one of those moments where only in that kind of crisis could we have ever gotten that kind of legislation passed. people were not excited about this. we were the only place in the state that would have campaign finance limits, which subsequently were litigated all the way up to the pennsylvania supreme court and we were successful. >> host: as you look back now at the bug, what does michael nutter think about the successful effort to cast that as john ashcroft and the republicans from washington trying to dictate the outcome of a philadelphia mayoral race? >> well, i mean, i think we now know that-- i mean, that story was a complete fabrication and totals bu bull-- . in the moment it worked. many of us knew there was no way in the world that was really what was going on, but, it's a heavily democratic city and folks did not like george bush, certainly didn't like john ashcroft so there was a narrative that was ready made after they kind of, two or th

ron: i don't believe that. from my time in the white house , having accesfoto classified rmation, this is a very significant mter. every member of the intelligence committee read that document. there were 200 members of congress who read the document. yet only a handful of democrat ok the time to actually go and read it. for those who are saying they believe this could be a vion or -- a significant or serious or reckless rek ase, i would em in the first place whether or not they read the document to begin with. rajini: both sides are saying party politics is coming intoth , though. ron: they are, and this is an area i would say from my experience working on capitol asll for nine years as wel being in the white house, using classified material for political matters is no laughing matter. i do believe the house republicans, the folks on theom intelligencettee, they are not all "let's go get the democrats, let's trash the fbi." these are serious men and women who are on this committee, and i believe them when they say they look at the clas

. >> new details in the abrupt departure of white house staff ron porter. chief of staff john kelly's right hand man. now if the white house hopes this story would disappear quickly with his departure, it has not. questions are being raised about who in the white house knew about the allegations and when did they know. also questions about how porter got accessed to classified material. we begin coverage with jeff zeleny in the white house. what do we know about how much the chief of staff knew? >> rob porter's job was to control what the president sees and what he doesn't see in the oval office. we are told chief of staff john kelly had known about this for months. rob porter said he was part of a coordinated smear campaign. he said that as the white house was trying to explain and contain the fallout. >> reporter: few people stood closer to president trump. even a hand shake with chinese preside president. some top officials new about the allegations for months. >> rob has been effective in his role. >> reporter: porter responsible for every document that

. >> new details in the abrupt departure of white house staff ron porter. nd man. now if the white house hopes this story would disappear quickly with his departure, it has not. questions are being raised about who in the white house knew about the allegations and when did they know. also questions about how porter got accessed to classified material. we begin coverage

this has to do with this week's installment coming out of the committee, or ron johnson or the whitede confidence in the fbi and bob mueller's investigation. >> the way it was built up in the media and hyped in the media and then treated, do you believe that whole exercise was about trying to lay some political ground work, some pr ground work for the president to potentially fire rod rosenstein or take other action to shield himself directly from the mueller investigation? >> i believe that was part of it. there was a reason why senior officials, including rod rosenstein were named in the memo. it is guilt by association. one of the reasons i look forward to the democratic memo coming out because it will show how sloppy and how inaccurate the republican memo was. people have to look at the nunes memo and realize there was not much there. they hadn't made their case in any way, shape or form. and speaker of the house paul ryan and trey gowdy himself said this has nothing to do with the russia investigation or bob mueller. nonetheless, it does serve the purpose of creating doubt and u

when she made that statement, i had a thought that ron ziegler, who was nixon's white house brace secretaryshared with me. he said, you know, i can't lose credibility with the press. that's why at one point he literally says "all my prior statements are inoperative." he had to confess that. when everything -- many of his statements were shown to be wrong. and he did maintain a credibility with the press throughout. it was quite remarkable. even when nixon was in his final days and sinking, ziegler was actually really close to being his chief of staff and head policy guy, yet briefing the press occasionally. he did keep his credibility because he was honest with them to the degree he could be. he was a good dodger too, though. >> i thought you had a great observation about gates' guilty plea on twitter. here's what you wrote. you said, mueller's throwing everything he can against manafort, chug gates who can nail him, appears manafort is the link to russian collusion, if gates can testify manafort was acting with trump's blessings it's the end of his presidency, that's substantial. that woul

this week's installment coming either out of the chairman of the committee or ron johnson, a secret society fame or the white house to erode confidence in the fbi and bob mueller's investigation. >> the house intel chair devin nunes released this statement, i had warned that the democratic memo contains many sources and methods, and it's no surprise that these agencies recommended against publishing the memo without redactions. let's go now to new insight. this to the internal strive within the white house, this following the resignation of rob porter. porter resigned wednesday amid allegations he physically abused his ex-wives. he said these outrageous allegations are false. and the president spoke about them on friday. >> he says he's innocent. and i think you have to remember that. we absolutely wish him well. >> also on friday, the white house confirming speech writer david sorenson has resigned. his ex-wife says he was violent during their marriage. sorenson denies the allegations. a white house spokesperson said his position did not require a security clearance, but there was an ongoing background chec

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directly to political appoint ees at the justice department in the first instance ron rosenstein who is obviously a white house appointee, maybe in some peril, it becomes a much trickier question whether to issue that subpoena. there's no question that if mueller wanted to subpoena the president -- the grand jury, he would have to get rod rosenstein's approval for that and have to show that it was essential to the investigation and persuade rosenstein and others this wasn't simply an effort to see if trump could be caught in the record telling a lie. so i think we might not even know what those conversations are if they don't ultimately lead to the issuance of a subpoena. >> you honestly think one possibility is this ends without being told what happened, without the president meeting with the lawyers, that's very interesting to me. let me get one more point on rick gates because this hearing is going on shortly, former campaign aide to the president about to walk in for a change of counsel. how do you read this? this is the third set of attorneys. that seems like a lot of attorneys to cycle through. it

let's get started with our news respond dens over at the white house and florida. ron let's talk about what's coming up 45 minutes from now. >> the president has been meeting with governors in different subcommittee groups all morning on a invitery of kopgss. the question is how president trump is going to address the confrontation with himself and the party. listen to what the president had to say last night about rick scott. >> we'll be confident about parkland and the horrible event that took place last week. i want to thank governor rick scott of florida. please stand up. you're doing a great job. and that will be one of the subjects, and i think we'll make that first on our list, because we have to end our country of what's happening with respect to that subject. >> halle, here's the issue within the president's own party, on arming teachers, he and rick scott are on different sides of the equation. rick scott's opposed to it. president wants it. we also saw ivanka trump weighing if saying she want it to be discussed. how trump is engaging within his own parties i

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>> robert mohler has charged alex mende ron with lying during a special investigation. the white house is signaling cautious support for a measure sponsored by senators to reinforce the federal database for background checks. democrats and some republicans want to change laws regarding assault solve the weapons. the president so far is not showing a willingness to go down that road. he will be focused on school shootings with a pair of listening sessions this week. one will be wednesday and another coming up thursday with state and local officials. >> there could be blackmail from north korea. >> the regime has pursued nuclear weapons with a deluded hope that it could blackmail its way to the ultimate objective. >> once they have a nuclear warhead and a missile that can reach us airspace, they may use it to get billions of dollars in concessions. expert sake north korea feels entitled to these concessions for losses during the korean war . experts also say they believe cooperation from china, japan and south korea will open options to deal with blackmail. >>> the pentagon is expe

, was to find a way of showing that ron rosenstein had been negligent or careless in his job, he had little to do with the fisa warrants, except one of them. the white house insists they have no intention of firing ron roadenstein. i think it would be a tremendous constitutional crisis, comparable to the saturday night massacre under watergate when nixon fired cox. should ron rosenstein be fired because that firing would be the initial step to firing robert mueller? i think that would be a step too far for quite a few republicans as well. the republicans have warned the white house not to do it, but when you can feel a crisis emerging out of the deeply emerging political fight going on around the trump investigation into russia. >>> rosenstein vaguely implicated in this memo, but we hear from the white house there are no plans to change any personnel at the justice department at least at the moment. that's what we are hearing at the moment. we'll have to wait to see how it plays out. the other question that you brought up, the point about fisa is a very secretive process, to see it in full display here or parts of the process on display, it is unpre

democrat ron wyden asking about what the white house knew regarding porter's security clearance. director wray spelled out when they knew it. here's exactly what he said. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july. that soon there after we received requests for follow up inquiry. and we did the follow-up. and provided that information in november. and we administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month, we received some additional information and we passed that on as well. >> so kristen there is a lot to digest in there. most notably, the white house, according to director wray, knew about this months before they had publicly acknowledged. walk us through why this is so important. >> it is significant, peter, it's a direct contradiction. the white house has been saying that they first learned of a potential problem in july and then in november. and they have been insistent, peter, last week and then this week, that the investigation into why rob porter didn't h

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. >> under questioning from oregon senator ron wyden, wray directly contradicted what the white house has been telling americans about what they knew about rob porter and when they knew it. >> his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on an interim security clearance. his clearance was never denied. and he resigned. >> i can't get into the specifics. i can tell you that we were -- the process for the background was ongoing. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check. >> catch that? both sarah huckabee sanders and raj shah said porter's fbi background investigation was ongoing. sanders said, specifically, that the white house didn't receive any, quote, specific papers. wray just testified in front of congress that the fbi passed along information multiple times, completed the background check in late july, and then responded to the white house's subsequent questions on porter last november. then, when the white house -- when the fbi received new information earlier this month, they passed on that, as well.

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ron: huge. in washington, d.c., you have 17 students who will lie down in front of the white house for three minutes, the amount of time it took for the shooter to gohrough the school. 17 students being 17 who were killed. next month in march, many of the students from this school are coming to washington to demand action. the 18-24 demographic is the largest voting block in thete united s bigger than the seniors. these students, if they are tibilized and want to vote, they could have a draimpact on the midterm election. jane: do you think anyone is listening to them at the moment? ron: i certainly am, ahink there are a lot of politicians -- marco rubio in florida -- a loof these politicians hav been reluctant to go forth with gun safety legislation. i think they are definitely have their sobering. jane: ron christie, thanks for joining me. ron: great to see you. jane: the florida shooting was nothe only thing on the president's mind this weekend. he tweeted not month twice, -- not once, not, twicebut 12 times about the russia investigation and the indictments handed down by robert mueller on iday.

phil rutger is white house bureau chief for "the washington post." ron insana is a cnbc contributor. and the reverend, who hosts a program at sirius xm progressive talk radio. he must have had roller skates on to get here this quickly so i thank you for that. phil, i want to talk about the president's meeting today with the governors. walk us through the politics. are they as decided down party lines as we see members of congress are? we know a lot of members of congress spent a lot of time in washington so they don't have to face the music back at home. the governors are in a different situation. back at home, students, teachers, corporations, parents, they're pushing here and it's not politics, it's safety. >> yes, that's exactly right, stef. the gun issue is not a clean-cut partisan issue in the states. there have actually been a number of states that have been far ahead of washington on enacting tougher background checks and other restrictions. so i think the president's going to hear an earful from these governors about what's working in their state

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ron thank you all for joining us tonight. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> up next, sarah sanders can't take it anymore. she doesn't want to do any more white house briefings about what john kelly knew and when he knew it about rob porter. politico says she is demanding that john kelly himself step up to the microphone. >>> and the president and the governor of florida today guaranteed that american mass murderers and florida mass murderers in particular will always be the best equipped mass murderers in the world. nancial, we can't predict what tomorrow will bring. but our comprehensive approach to financial planning can help make sure you're prepared for what's expected and even what's not. and that kind of financial confidence can help you sleep better at night. with the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. yeah! (butch growls at man). he's looking at me right now, isn't he? yup. (butch barks at man) butch is like an old soul that just hates my guts. (laughs) (vo) you can never have too many faithful companions. that's why i got a subaru crosstrek. love is out there. find it in a subaru crosstrek. >>> the white house press sec

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white supremacist group. for more on the investigation now under way i am joined by ron hosko, former assistant director of the when the fbi gets a tip of the nature that it received about somebody with the same name as the shooter in september? the fbi gets dozens shooter in september? the fbi gets d oze ns of shooter in september? the fbi gets dozens of tips every day. they are looking for those tips not only for the ability to track it back to a source, but also from the perspective of, is there any sort of federal crime being committed by the conduct, by the words of the text or tweet, or their communication.“ there hasn't been, they can't do much. they can't do much other than talk to local law enforcement authorities that might have a piece of jurisdiction authorities that might have a piece ofjurisdiction but, if the fbi would try and identify and run out on every one of these tips, the fbi would have nothing else on its plate, and it does have much on its plate, and it does have much on its plate, cyber terrorism, counterintelligence, criminal activities. we are seeing pictures of the shooter, who has

the democratic senator ron widen of oregon asked the director of the fbi when the white house knew about porter. director wray said the white house submitted the first report on porter's security clearance investigation last spring. almost a year ago. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july. soon thereafter we received requests for follow up inquiry and we did the follow up and provided that information in november. we administratively closed the file in january and then earlier this month, we received additional information and we passed that along. >> shepard: completed their investigation in july, passed it all along and then did follow up work. we know the two former wives had told the fbi that porter abused them. describing in detail multiple incidents and years of abuse, emotional and physical. so the fbi knew all of that and had the photos with the black eye before its report to the white house last july. so now this new story from the white house on day 6 of this scandal. the white

actually, ron, this gets to my question about what we're also hearing from the white house overnight, there's apparently concern from some advisers to the president that when this memo goes public, it will be a did, that it will not excite people as much as we hear -- republicans saying it's bigger than watergate, the sky will fall. it may not prove any of those things. >> first of all, we had not seen the memo from nunes, so we don't know. certainly the arguments, the tea leaves have been that essentially that's what it alleges, that the dossier was a centerpiece of the initial surveillance on carter page and obviously the push back from the fbi and others is that is emitting a lot of other evidence used in that process. yes, first of all, even if the surveillance on page is based on the memo, it's hard to see how -- on the dossier, it's hard to see how that undermines the entire investigation. even if you grant the premise, why does that obviate concerns about potential obstruction of justice. even if you close the circle, it's not clear that the light goes on. i find the whole thin

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phillip rucker an msnbc political analyst and the white house bureau chief for "the washington post." my friend ron insana, cnbc contributor. and evan siegfried, a republican strategist. phil, i want to start with the new "washington post"/abc poll, that says more than 6 in 10 americans are blaming congress and the president himself for not doing enough to prevent mass shootings. a spokesman for president trump said he is open to improving background checks. but what sense are you actually getting from the white house? is he going to follow through? i know he was with don jr. this weekend and don jr., he's an nra enthusiast. >> i think there are competing pressures for president trump. he views the nra as critical, as a core part of his base that helped get him elected and i think he's going to be very wary of crossing the nra. he also feels the political pressure to act, to do something. we know from our reporting down in the weekend in florida that the president was watching a lot of television. he watched those teenagers on tv pleading with the adults in washington to get something done. he also

one white house staffer said, quote, they're not telling us the truth. chief of staff john kelly and ronn had more than they were willing to acknowledge. trey gowdy launched an investigation into white house decision on porter's employment and security clearance saying he wants answers from kelly and mcgahn. >> i cannot fathom how someone if they had access to this information and the photographs could extend an offer of emt employment to someone with this in their background. >> some report the number of those who were awaiting security clearance was more than 100 including ivanka trump and jared kushner. interim security clearance for lower level officials is not uncommon even after all this time in office. but it would be highly unusual, gayle, for top white house officials not to have all security clearance and background check questions resolved. >> thank you very much. >>> american skier mikaela shiffrin is celebrating her first gold medal of the 2018 olympics. she powered down the mountain to claim her vick trick in the giant slalom and guess what? this isn't even her best event.

i suspect we'll have three or four white house chief of staff, even first term of the donald trump presidency. >> we'll be watching it all. ron, scott, simone, appreciate it. stay with me here. president trump signing a major bipartisan budget deal, already celebrating what he calls a big victory. dozens of republicans, though, voted against that bill. democrats are angry too about what wasn't in it. meantime, u.s. stocks now are rebounding after yesterday's 1,000 point plunge. but, of course, the big question, will this trend last. forget the day, will it last through the hour. investors are bracing at this point. and reality star omarosa has a lot to say about her former boss, president trump. why she says she was scared while working in the white house. my healthy routine helps me feel my best. so i add activia yogurt to my day. with its billions of live and active probiotics, activia may help support my digestive health, so i can take on my day. activia. now in probiotic dailies. on a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. your insurance company raises your rates. maybe you should've done more research on them. for drive

ron christie. i guess this didn't happen very much during mr bush's white house. six days.are talking about a staffing issue up bout somebody who is accused of beating his wife. why has the white house let this go on for so the white house let this go on for so long? it is a shame. in the bush administration and i believe also in the 0bama administration, this would have been a one—day story. you have a supper who is accused, rightly or not, of committing a very horrible crime, domestic violence, they would be gone. there is no place for that in the white house. we have been talking about this for six days and it isa talking about this for six days and it is a testament to the fact that the president likes some of the guys who are around him and doesn't want to get rid of them. 0k, who are around him and doesn't want to get rid of them. ok, so there is a political invitation to this, beyond whether general kelly stays or goes, as we were discussing, and thatis or goes, as we were discussing, and that is what women voters think of this and there is some evidence that female

. >> we haven't seen much from the white house either so -- >> ron, norm, want to thank you both for today appreciate your time. >> thanks, becky. >>> pepsico posting better than normal earnings. dom chu got off the phone with the company's cfo. you are -- i mean, like dom calls and the guy drops everything, right? >> i don't know if pepsico hugh johnston dropped everything, but i was able to, yes, sir, grab a couple of minutes of hugh's time it's obviously a very busy morning for those folks over at pepsico. they're about ready to start their earnings conference call i wanted to get a few thoughts with regard to some of their earnings report numbers. we know what the numbers were. you highlighted them earlier this morning one of the things i wanted to highlight that might not be making its way through the press is pepsi could he wikpepsico or people that will award bonuses they will provide approximately $100 million in bonuses up to $1,000 each in 2018 to u.s.-based front line associates again, this is for front line employees, not management. they will also take some of that savin

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white house. the department of justice and the fbi, people who arelike ron rosenstein . they've never seen, ron rosenstein seems like a conscientious, not very imaginative person willing to do the right thing while also mollifying the president. not understanding what a spirit of destruction, what he's negotiating with, how m placeable so a lot of people are baffled by this in the executive branch. or people in the fbi trying to follow their traditional rules in the place of a president like him and we widen it some more and these republicans in congress not doing their job, not insisting. basic things like if the president of the united states is on the payroll of foreign businesspeople, the united states needs to know that and it's the donor police who believe they could use them didn't understand that he would use them and in fact didn't understand, it made them normally what's happened in the first year of the presidency is the president has an agenda and wants to accomplish it. he's surrounded by people of human weakness so if you've seen the lbj movies, the preside

ron brownstein. nice to have you all here. it is, as john said, the fbi versus the white house and the fbi pleading with the white house, do notmo, it is not accurate. do not do it. we will learn what the house is going to do today. that's new reporting from abby phillip. so the president has made every indication this memo is coming out. if he does that, despite this fbi warning, ron brownstein, to you how does this end? does christopher wray stay? where does this go? >> you wonder about that. the hand picked fbi director of the president was so strongly worded, you do wonder if he'll stay. i would say the real meaning of this is broader than the initial framing that you just put. it's the fbi against the white house and the house republican majority which is the key here. republicans would like the 2018 election to be about the good news on many fronts in the economy. but the actions of mitch mcconnell and especially paul ryan in encouraging this kind of second front assault on the doj and the fbi i think moved to the center of the 2018 election, the overriding question of whether a republican majority in congress can be tru

ron christie. president trump has called singer republicans, some who have proposals, to come to the white house to. will republicans agree to that? possibly, the president seems very inclined to wa nt to the president seems very inclined to want to do this, i think he can get enough moderate republicans, over a third of republicans are retiring from office and if you can get them ina from office and if you can get them in a coalition with democrats, that could pass. christian nra has made it clear they don't like that. republicans don't really know where the president is, he has put forward a lot of proposals but they are facing in the primaries, the second amendment supporters, energy on the left, do they want a fight over the second amendment? they don't and this is perilous for republicans, as you have identified, on one hand they are strong proponents of the second amendment, the right to bear arms, but there is a new atmosphere here, that these school shootings, something has to be done and politically we are looking at this from the prism of politics and republicans don't want to be seen as

white house. later that evening, 3,000 miles away, in brentwood, california, nicole brown simpson and ron goldmansavagely murdered. it would be the start of a california media circus that would rival the one to come in washington, d.c. two weeks later, on june 30, 1994, robert fiske issued his two reports. the first concluded that no evidence was found to show obstruction of justice related to the madison guaranty inquiry. the second determined that vincent foster had, indeed, committed suicide in fort marcy park on july 20, 1993. the report detailed how simple forensics could explain away the conspiracy theories, like why little blood had been visible at the scene, and proved that foster's body could not have been moved. >> he was lying on his back on the incline. when they found him, his shirt was spotless. when they put him on the gurney and his body was horizontal, that blood flowed back, and by the time they got him to the morgue, his shirt was blotched with blood. if he had been shot somewhere else and brought to fort marcy park, that's the way his shirt would have looked. >> republicans in

. >> and the inconsistency, ron, between what we heard from raj shah out of the communications department yesterday on cnn saying the white house hopes rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, will continue in his job, continue doing his work there, versus what we heard from the president during the afternoon after he declassified the memo saying you can figure that out in reference to a question about his confidence in rod rosenstein and if he's going to fire him. we saw this with the comey firing several months ago when the white house said that this firing was based specifically on the memo from rod rosenstein, and the president came on and said fewer than 24 hours later, no, i was thinking about russia. that difference between the white house and the president here specifically could be very important moving forward. >> and also, you could cue up the compilation that you had only a couple weeks ago all of the white house officials and the president saying they never contemplated firing robert mueller until we had the reporting that they not only contemplated it, but he ordered it. certainly, we're in a similar pos