that's a senior white house official telling ryan lizza of the new yorker to tell us more after this hearing about this inadvertent collection of information from trump, here is chairman nunes in his opening remarks. listen. >> where the communications -- the intelligence community has extremely strict proceed yours for handling information for any u.s. citizens who are subject to even incidental surveillance and this committee wants to make sure that all relevant activi activities have followed all relevant laws, rules and regulations. i have been saying this for several weeks, we know there was not a physical wiretap of trump tower. but we know that it was still possible that there were other wiretapping being used between trump and russian associates. >> it sure seems like the white house official who spoke to ryan lizza either knew or made some type of guess about what nunes was going to be focusing on in his initial comments. and you add that to the fact that before this hearing, the president himself, president trump, has said something and he made it seem it was like coming fr

but the idea that -- a senior official told ryan lizza, watch for this, and nunes does that.e another series of events and the president himself telegraphs that something is going to come out. >> did nancy pelosi know what adam schiff was going to say? if you come down that road, you have to play fair play with each side. >> nancy pelosi is not the one being investigated. the white house is. >> she's the investigator. if she's not impartial, then there's a problem. >> she's not on the committee. >> if you have the ranking member of her committee taking signals from her and putting out statements in sync with her, she is effectively on the committee. >> was devin nunes talking to paul ryan? >> i'm sure he is. >> yeah. okay. yeah. there you go. >> i have plenty of -- >> the house and the white house, this is normal stuff, folks. >> paul, democrats have plenty of p.r. leverage against chairman nunes, given the time line on the white house grounds and what lizza is reporting what coordination there might have been of the white house hearing last week. democr democrats, that being

ryan lizza, salena litto, bill carter. ryan, you first. your reaction to senator graham. are these town halls and these listening posts, are these effective particularly as the republicans try to get back on track with an agenda? >> i have to say i was listening to graham's town hall before we came back on now, he really is one of the most interesting politicians in washington. he's a south carolina senator, south carolina is one of the most conservative states in the country. he's way to the left in south carolina. and he gets up in front of the crowds and depends the epa which is not popular in terms of conservatives. he made the point he wants to try and do a bipartisan health care bill to save what both sides really agree are some problems with obamacare, although i'm not sure he's where most democrats are on that issue. and then on trump's tweet, i have to say, fred, i really think it's irresponsible for the president of the united states who swears an oath to faithfully execute the laws to talk about a massive federal law collapsing and allowing it to collapse. that

i want to bring in mark preston and ryan lizza and the rest of the panel. he doesn't want to talk about it anymore. it's simple. i was wondering, why have an investigation, spend the taxpayer dollars, have everybody focused on it. >> right. >> wasting time. when all he has to do is he can show the proof himself. >> yeah. >> very simple. >> i tried i don't want to talk about it anymore line the other night before travel. >> how was the couch? >> didn't go very well. no. didn't go very well. you know, the bottom line is that donald trump, president donald trump has put his staff into a very bad position to have to go out and explain the unexplainable, he's put senate and house republican leaders in a very bad position. because they can't explain it. he's put the intelligence community in a very bad position because they can't explain it. at some point, you have to wonder is when is the american public or the 45% or 46% that are supporting him, don, when are they gonna come out and say, we want you to explain it? >> but why -- i mean, there's been -- but why?

toobin, and matthew rosenberg who has quite a story of his own run right now and gloria borgia and ryan lizza as well. from a legal standpoint, kind of explain how immunity works and what you make of this. >> it means he is refusing to testify without immunity on the grounds that it might incriminate him. and frankly, the idea that the national security adviser to the president of the united states is taking the fifth is pretty big news in and of itself. what it means, though, he will not cooperate either with the fbi or the congressional investigations without getting immunity. here is where things potentially get complicated. they make those decisions simply. -- separately. oliver north got immunity from congress. didn't get immunity from the independent council where i was one of the prosecutors. so there is going to be a difficult investigation about whether they want to give imhim immunity. but it is usually a smart move. and certainly, flynn's lawyers are acting prudently by saying we want to get immunity. we have a great story to tell. we're going to tell it if we can. but you better g

with that is national security analyst steve hollings, new yorker washington correspondent ryan lizza is joining us, david gergen and gloria borger, paul bell b be begala. >> i would argue this was the worst day of his 60-day presidency and that the role road ahead is pretty perilous for him because they now have this big cloud hanging over the white house. today was the day that donald trump's own fbi director said that the president was wrong, that president obama did not wi wiretap his phone and made it clear that there was an ongoing investigation of trump officials communicating with the russians, his own fbi director swatted him counsel and the white house with sean spicer saying nothing has changed or that the hearings are still ongoing but i think a lot kanged today. >> david, watching the hearings, it was almost like there were two different hearings going on, republicans asking questions basically about leaks more or less and democrats focusing on allegations of russian hack organize allegations of cooperation. >> they obviously had game plans on both sides. but the republic

what we're forgetting about the ryan lizza's reporting. ryan, explain your reporting, because you have a senior white house official saying -- i mean -- well, explain. >> a senior white house official who would have had, if he wanted it, access to this information. but, i mean, the bottom line is, he knew what nunes was going to say on monday, before he said it. so, that -- >> right, he told you, watch what nunes is going to say. he's going to lay the predicate and he referred you to a hill article, which talked about incidental collection. >> ryan, the question is, why would somebody hate his job or his employer so much that he would be that disloyal? i mean, i understand how it's useful to you, if i had that kind of mold, but that sounds like a real sleazy person, frankly. and i'm not going to make that the subject. but i want to get back to adam schiff. >> well, we were talking about the hearing and i was asking what we should expect -- >> but he's undermining his team. if he goes around saying things -- >> are you surprised that a white

jason miller, ryan lizza and alan dershowitz. thanks so much for coming on. the news just changes every second. sitting in office and all of a sudden breaking news about the travel ban. alan seeing you discuss this. president trump angry about the court ruling. referenced you specifically as i was watching and millions of other people. saying he will win in court, supreme court. were you surprised that second ban was blocked and will he ultimately prevail? >> not surprised. what the judge said nothing trump passes will survive constitutional attack because of what he said during the campaign and what rudy giuliani said during the kpachblt this raises a fundamental jurisprudence question, do you look at language of the order or campaign rhetoric that led to the order being enacted. if you take conclusion to its logic, he's saying the same order if enacted by president obama would be constitutional but very same words enacted by trump administration would be unconstitutional. i don't think that will survive analysis by the united states supreme court. i think t

begin this tower with senior political analyst david gergen, alex stewart, political commentator ryan lizza, and political commentator, assistant editor at the "washington post." good evening. so glad to have you all on. you get the honors to be first, ryan. so thank you again for joining us. jim acosta reporting that at the president's meeting with tea party groups, that he told republicans skeptical of his plan, if it phase, he will let obamacare fail and then put the blame on the democrats. what kind of strategy is that just after this plan rolled out? >> it is pretty ominous sign for the legislation if he is already thinking through the strategy he's going to pursue if it is defeated, right? also, by the time it is defeated and in the event that there is some kind of collapse in obamacare, a very risky strategy. barack obama is not around anymore. trump is president. he runs the federal government. obamacare is the federal government the responsibility so. on two fronts, it seems like not the wisest strategy in the world. you would think in a meeting like that, he is focused on one thin

bring in kirsten powers, david chalian, jack kingston, ryan lizza and philip mudd. my goodness. so much to unpack. david start with you. this is development tonight. question out on all of this is what if anything did the president know and when did he know it. >> those are certainly two key questions that will sort of be going at for long duration of this investigation. no doubt about that don. but it is a significant story because this entire story since it started has been about has there been coordination between trump campaign officials or trump associates and russia, geared at russia's interference with the american election to defeat hillary clinton and get donald trump elected? this is the first step in seeing some that of potential coordination is indeed under investigation. learned from comey on monday this is what they were looking at but this goes a step further to say they have some suggestion this does potentially exist. this is very early in the process. long road to go but each drip, drip, drip of information begs the question what did candidate trump know, if an

here's what ryan lizza is reporting. the white house signal reporting, the white house signal that would happen. does nunes have any credibility left? >> well, here's -- no. to that question, he has no credibility. >> i'm going to ask it and get back to you. >> nunes is clueless, he's corrupt or he's both. >> yeah. >> those are the only three possibilities. >> carl, does he have any credibility left? >> no. >> dirs extekirsten powers? >> republicans should stop supporting him. that's the thing. >> i don't know how anybody can look at the way that he's behaved and conducting an investigation. >> andre bauer? >> clearly the arrows have been shot at him to discredit him. >> but does he have any credibility left? >> say what? >> he's got credibility left. i know y'all are going to hammer on him and -- >> with whom? with whom? >> not everybody in america is asphyxiated as y'all are on all this russian stuff and the meddling and the chaos and everything they've caused although we still don't know everything they've done in the

are the least knowledgeable people in government about health care policy and one of them told ryan lizza at the new yorker, astonished, how in over his head trump is. he doesn't get the politics or the policy of this. that was the word from inside a private meeting with the president on the health care bill. republicans in the house have seen donald trump up close trying to make the deal. it was very clear to every one of them he did not understand a single word of the deal. he had no idea what he was talking about. some members of the trump staff whispered it was easier to negotiate with congress without trump. of course it was because trump was telling everyone who came through the door, what they wanted to hear. in congress, that means you can never, ever get a deal because you are going to have to be able to say no to someone on what he or she wants and still, still get that person to vote for your bill. that is the only way bills like this get passed. members of congress vote for a bill that they don't like very much because their president needs them to do it. that's how bill clint

ryan lizza, cnn reporter, tom. you say the president is turning an investigation of russia meddling into the election into of trump's own honesty. explain. >> the house intelligence committee, right, on which will start its open hearings on monday, this was basically an investigation of the extent of the russian influence campaign in the united states election last year and the secondary issue was whether there were any u.s. persons who were involved with that. the whole issue of collusion, potentially, with the trump campaign, right, and then another section they were going to investigate concerning leaks of classified information. and those were the primary issues they were looking at. tomorrow, excuse me, monday, when director comey testifies, what everyone is going to be focused on is whether donald trump lied about obama tapping his phones in trump tower. so by making those, by tweeting those allegations, he has completely changed the focus of what the house intelligence committee, at least, at the start here

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let's discuss with our political commentator, washington correspondent for the new yorker magazine, ryan lizzanness, the president of the committee for responsible federal government. $1.1 trillion budget. that's what to correct the number. $1.1 trillion. this is a proposal made by the executive branch of the u.s. government to congress. they have to appropriate the money. >> that to right. they have to appropriate it. and this will be greeted with a lot of controversy up in congress. you have one wing of the republican party like paul ryan and the people around him who will say, well, what about entitlements, medicare and social security? maya will say something about that, too. this doesn't touch that. and that's an absolute promise trump made during the campaign he'd not touch entitlements. puts him at odds with the more libertarian leaning republicans in congress. then on the other side you have big cuts at the state department and for international diplomacy and you have a lot of foreign policy hawks who like the defense increase but say, wait a second. if america is going to be strong in

joining us uchis, gloria borger david chalian and the correspondent for the new yorker magazine, ryan lizza. is it enough, the little apology he gave, his fellow intelligence committee members today, devin nunes? >> well, we're going to have to see. honestly, i think that there were members of that committee on the republican side who believe that he acted in a very rash way. and there are democrats who believe he's now disqualified himself from being any kind of a person who ought to lead an impartial investigation. and there were republicans, i'm told, who were trying to stop him from going down to the white house with whatever information he had but that he felt he had to do it. he didn't listen to them. he didn't like the fact that adam schiff spoke for 15 minutes during the day of the comey hearing, and he felt he owed it to the white house to do this. now the democrats, and you heard nancy pelosi today call him a stooge and say what he was doing was just providing political cover for the white house. now republicans are going to try and raise money off of this feeling the president wa

new york and washington correspondent ryan lizza, david gergen, gloria borger, and senior contributor jeffrey lord. jen psaki, paul beghala and matt lewis. gloria, no matter how the white house tries to spin it, it was a tough day for the president. >> i think you could argue, and i would, that it was the worst day of his 60-day presidency, and that the road ahead is pretty perilous for him. because they now have this big cloud hanging over the white house. and today was the day that donald trump's own fbi director said the president was wrong, that barack obama did not wiretap his phone, and the fbi director also made it very clear that the fbi had this ongoing investigation into trump officia officials potentially communicating with russians about the hack. so that was not fake news started by democrats as donald trump says. so on both counts, his own fbi director kinda swatted him down. and the white house and sean spicer may be saying nothing has changed, or that the hearings are still ongoing, but i think a lot changed today. >> david, watching the hearings, it was almost like th

ryan lizza says it's clear that the white house and nunes coordinated a strategy of focusing on surveillance collection. the white house clearly indicated to me, meaning ryan, that it knew nunes would highlight this issue. it's back door surveillance. it's not just incidental, it's systematic, the white house official said. watch nunes today. sure enough at last monday's hearing nunes asked in his opening statement were the communications of officials or associates of any campaign subject to any kind of improper surveillance. the next day he's on the white house grounds to see intelligence reports. that doesn't say to you there's an issue there? >> i don't think there's any conflict with being a republican. the american people put republicans in charge of congress. the republicans are going to run all the committees, chris. many of them, almost every single one of them supported donald trump. if you follow your reasoning logically, they would have to recuse themselves from anything. that's absurd. the question is this. recovering about all the theatri theatrics, let's get to the issues. i ag

. >> joining me more to talk more about this, cnn political commentator ryan lizza, a correspondent for the new yorker and cnn contributor wesley lowry, a political contributor for "the washington post." do you think tomorrow's report from the budget office will present a formidable obstacle for republican leadership? >> it's not going to present much more of an obstacle than they've already seen. people like senator tom cotton seemingly throwing the republican leadership under the bus and saying that he would encourage his colleagues not to vote for this piece of legislation. the political blowback is already reaching a bit of a fever pitch. i'm not sure that the cbo report as it speaks to the cost of this legislation is going to be even greater than the opposition they've seen currently. it's not gooding to help paul ryan's argument tore argument for congressional republicans for this legislation, but i also don't know that this will somehow be the nail in the coffin of this piece of legislation. >> ryan, is it a potential setback? you've got rand paul that took to the airwaves today

. >> joining me right now, ryan lizza, cnn contributor and washington correspondent for "the new yorker." great to see you, ryan. >> good to see you, kate. >> you have had important reporting this week that points to some evidence of coordination between the house intelligence chairman, devin nunes and the white house. can you tell me what you learned? >> the piece i wrote at newyorker.com, i think the news a lot of people seized on, is that on the morning of last monday's hearing, that was the hearing where comey made the bombshell announcement that the trump campaign and its associates were under investigation by the fbi. he confirmed that. we sort of knew it and had been since last july that i was talking to a white house official that morning and that white house official was giving me guidance about what to watch for at that hearing. and he essentially previewed nunes's strategy of i would put it changing the subject from what comey was going to talk about to the subject that the white house and republicans sort of blew up over the course of last week, which was this idea of incide

>> five days later, march 20th, the day of the house intel committee hearing, the new yorker's ryan lizzare the hearing starts that the white house gives him a tip about incidental collection. the white house clearly indicated to me that at noon nunes would highlight this issue. it's a back door surveillance where it is not just incidental, it is systemic. the white house official said watch nunes today at 10:00 a.m., the hearing begins, here is nunes in his opening statement. >> the intelligence community has extremely strict procedures for handling information pertaining to any u.s. citizens who are subject even to incidental surveillance. it's still possible that other surveillance activities were used against presidents trump and his associates. >> the following day, tuesday march 21st, according to "the daily beast," chairman nunes gets a message on his phone and heads to the white house grounds. specifically the eisenhower executive office building. the next day, wednesday march 22nd, nunes tells reporters he viewed dozens of reports. >> on numerous occasions the intelligence commun

to is a lizza's point, when it came to losing the cruz or what happened with losing the popular vote, he can now point right at paul ryan and saying you did this, you wanted it done at this pace. president trump is not putting his arms around this the way we've seen him put his arms around things in the past that he wants to get done. >> it's not just paul ryan, but it's all republicans. every single one of us, whether we ran for school board orr county coroner promised to repeal and replace obamacare. if this implodes, it really is the republican legislative branch that has let down the people. it's dicy. if you vote for it, there's going to be a downside. if you vote against it, there's going to be a downside. people know this is politically perilous land. that's why it's so tough to do. it's one-sixth of the economy. any time you push to change one thing, there's a big ramification on the other side. so many political players in there. i can promise you no matter what you do, you can talk about it square, talk about it round, but there will be a downside. >> you spell it out so well for us, and congressman israel, ho