smerconish is next. ♪ >>> i am michael smerconish coming to you from philadelphia where we welcome ouriewers in the united states and around the world. president trump and the white house still promoting an unsubstantiating wiretapping accusation even at an angel la merkelle press conference. what would happen if the known fact facts were litigated in court. in other words, does president obama have a case for libel? and where is president trump's ongoing battle with the intelligence community heading? former nsa and cia head general michael hayden is here. and plus, we live amidst the political uncertainty, but the stock market is at an all-time high, and whats explains the disconnect? investment john c.bogel founder of vanguard is here. and chris is a lizza says that white house spokesman sean spice er hit a new all-time low this week. and we will look at that. >> and march madness in full swing, but how much of the collegiate players will actually graduate? ily talk to someone who built a fantasy bracket based on academic academics. look at who wins. but first, it has been two weeks

see you then. >>> i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. you couldn't make this stuff up. after seven years of hobble votes, president trump forced to poll the gop health care bill from the house before it's likely defeat. i'll tell you the real reason i think it failed. plus, this was a big week with regard to the presumed russian meddling in our election complete with the attempted criminalization of u.s. intelligence. so will partisan politics now prevent us from learning the truth and governor arnold schwarzenegger told me there's a book i needed to read, it's called rat blanked and it tells of how to reshape the map of america. >>> and you know his voice was the simpson, you know his face from, this is spinal tap, but harry sheer is also a legendary political satterist and he's here to turn it up to 11. >>> but first, yesterday on my radio program i said that should the gop health care program go down in flames, it would be due to a failure to answer a basic fundamental

thank you for being here. >> thanks, man. >> continue to tweet me at smerconish.what we've got. less us see. eric, what would the world look like if academics were more popular than professional sports? far more interesting but less entertaining. and to larry's point, we can have both. i mean, that's why i was so eager to have him on the program. keep tweeting me at smerconish. we'll get to some more in just a second. the volumized brow! new brow precise fiber volumizer from maybelline new york. our first brow mascara with fiber-infused gel... fills gaps. adds volume. precisely. maybelline's brow precise fiber volumizer. make it happen ♪maybelline new york you may be muddling through allergies.oned with... try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin®. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. try zyrtec®. muddle no more®. announcer: get on your feet for the nastiest bull in the state of texas. ♪ ♪ setting hearts a blaze...ways... doing next to nothing for days weekenders. even when a weekend's not enough, th

>> don't go anywhere "smerconish" is waiting for you right now. >>> i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. you couldn't make this stuff up. after seven years of hollow votes, president trump forced to pull the gop health care bill from the house before its likely defeat. i'll tell you the real reason i think it failed. >>> plus, this was a big week with regard to the presumed russian meddling in our election complete with the attempted criminalization of the collection of incidental u.s. intelligence. so, will partisan politics now prevent us from learning the truth? >>> and governor arnold schwarzenegger told me there was a book i needed to read. it's called, well, "rat blanked." and it reshapes the map of american politics. the governorator was right and the author of the book is here. >>> you know his voice from "the simpsons" and his face from this is spinal tap but harry shearer a political satirist and he is here to turn it up to 11. >>> but, first, yesterday on my siruisxm radio program should the gop go down in flam

. >> i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. a softened president trump gave a well received speech to congress but the afterglow was short lived. after a rough week of russian accusations, this morning president trump went on a twitter rant accusing his predecessor of wiretapping trump tower and comparing presidents obama and nixon. now attorney general jeff sessions who met with the russian ambassador despite denying it at his hearing, has recused himself from investigating russian election meddling. monday he'll supplement his senate testimony. the man he met who also called michael flynn his job, "the new york times" calling the most prominent yet radioactive ambassador in washington. who is sergey kislyak. the nation's explainer-in-chief, "new york times'" thomas l. friedman is here with a new book to put it in context. >>> farewell to legendary coach, mike pettine, senior. >> nobody looks down on us. we'll respect them all the way till we kick their ass. >> allow me to give you some lessons learned from the bench. but firs

"smerconish" coming right now. >>> i'm michael smerconish coming to you from pennsylvania. we welcome people around the world. wikileaks has revealed cia spying capabilities. is the ground founded by julian assange promoting government transparency or seeking to hurt the security interests of the united states? i'll ask the man who won the pulitzer prize for his reporting about the nsa. glen greenwald is here. >>> the week ends without president trump having provided evidence of his claim that he was wiretapped by president obama. so were his accusatory tweets just another example of presidential distraction? >>> and pope francis makes news by saying he's open to the idea of married men serving as priests and advocates giving pan panhandlers money even if they use it to drink alcohol. >>> finally, the governator, arnold schwarzenegger, had me to his california home this week to talk about jergerrymandering. he also made a trump joke. which one do you think got more attention? >>> first, more wikileaks surfaced this week. this time exposing cia spying techniques. cia materia

michael smerconish is with me. just another slow news day. i mean, where to begin? what did you make of the president's comments in the joint news conference with chancellor merkel and fox news saying we can't confirm what the president is saying is truth? >> the president is pretty good on his feet but i don't think that one liner where he looked at angela merkel and said i guess we have something in common, i don't think that was extemporaneous. i think he was sitting on that for the appropriate moment because then of course it forces the reporting of the report that she was tapped under the watch of president obama and it will give fuel and substance to these allegations even though not even fox will stand behind judge napolitano based on what you just said. to me, brooke, the big takeaway is that now we know, regardless of what fbi director comey says on monday, it's not going to impact what the president is going to say. he is going to continue with his m.o. which is to never be moving backward, to never give an inch, to always be the aggressor regardless of wh

michael m michael smerconish is joining me. hello, sir.y friday. >> hello to you. >> shane harris and carol lee broke this story in the newspaper. what does shane tell you? what's his intel? >> he provided the back ground facts. they did break this story and i gri g agreed it could be huge or nothing lieutenant general flynn may know where the bodies are buried and could implicate people or it could just be good lawyering. we live in politically tumultuous times and maybe his lawyer is taking the prudent pat path and say you want to talk to my guy, grant him immunity. what is most troubling for flynn is not meddling in the election. he was a national adviser to president trump. he was not an operative or at that level. perhaps he's concerned about failure to disclose in some of his financial forms that he had been paid by russian-affiliated entities and he'd like some peace of mind on that before he talks before the congressional committee. >> were you surprised that the president tweeted about this? >> i wasn't. i think it fits the presid

smerconish is next. ♪ >>> i am michael smerconish coming to you from philadelphia where we welcome ourstates and around the world. president trump and the white house still promoting an unsubstantiating wiretapping accusation even at an angel la merkelle press conference. what would happen if the known fact facts were litigated in court. in other words, does president obama have a case for libel? and where is president trump's ongoing battle with the intelligence community

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." >> don't go anywhere "smerconish" is waiting for you right now. >>> i'm michael smerconish in philadelphiaers in the united states and around the world. you couldn't make this stuff up. after seven years of hollow votes, president trump forced to pull the gop health care bill from the house before its likely defeat. i'll tell you the real reason i think it failed. >>> plus, this was a big week with regard to the presumed russian meddling in our election complete with the attempted criminalization of the collection of incidental u.s. intelligence. so, will partisan politics now prevent us from learning the truth? >>> and governor arnold schwarzenegger told me there was a book i needed to read. it's called,

"smerconish" coming right now. >>> i'm michael smerconish coming to you from pennsylvania.e people around the world. wikileaks has revealed cia spying capabilities. is the ground founded by julian assange promoting government transparency or seeking to hurt the security interests of the united states? i'll ask the

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. >> schwarzenegger spoke with michael smerconish and here is what he said. away. >> final question, unrelated subject but i would be derelict if i didn't ask. why do you think the president is fix sated on you? why does he keep talking about you through his twitter feed? >> i think he's in love with me. >> is that what it is? >> i think so. >> you had a long relationship. >> oh, yes. >> that's all you're saying on that. >> absolutely. >> thank you, governor. [ laughter ]. >> he also talks a lot about don. >> not that there's anything wrong with that but go on. >> arnold schwarzenegger is the only guy who has a better chest than vladimir putin. >> he talks a lot about you, don. maybe he is in love with you as well. >> i always thought that. i think he really likes me. that's why he talks about me so much. >> i think the president is in love with success and he said the show wasn't going to be successful and he turned out to be correct and so he likes to talk about things that he's in love with. >> he's in love with schwarzenegger who by anyone's imagine -- st

we have michael smerconish with us and writer of new york magazine robert draper. have an exhaustive article. you spent a lot of time with trump. what is your take? can he work with congress and what must he do to work with congress? >> chris, we have seen his difficulty in working with house republicans. we have not seen him work with the senator work with democrats. he will clearly have to forge coalitions that he wasn't able to do with what was supposed to be or thought would be an easy lift. repeal and replace of obamacare. tax reform. there will be contentious issues. infrastructure will require bringing democrats on board. he has begun certain overtures with those regarded in the 2018 mid-term elections. at this particular moment when he is demonizing democrats and they are to blame for not rep l repealing a democratic bill, he has to change his tune. >> robert, why did they think this would be an easy lift? health care hit various administrations for decades. why did they think it would easy? >> clearly the president thought it was being led down a primrose

>>> he tweeted me at smerconish, what do we have? i think someone has to explain the issue that donald trump won and the democrats lost. i think as americans we need to know exactly how he won. that's all i'm advocating. one more. it says as a resident, thank you for revealing to the world about our legendary coach. steve, it was the most pleasant pleasurable commentary i've ever delivered at cnn. thank you for watching. see you next week. >>> always good to have you on board with us. i'm cristi paul. >> i'm mark savage. i'm in for victor blackwell. >> good to have you wus. new accusations from trump. he alleges former president barack obama tapped his phones during the election. president trump didn't offer any proof of that but cnn white house correspondent a thena jons is live in palm beach. what are you hearing? >> as you mentioned there have been no evidence offered to back up these very serious allegations that the former president was essentially spying on him. but let's go through this series of tweets that the president put

. >> 9:00 a.m., michael smerconish, thank you so much my friend. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for being with me. "the lead with jake tapper" starts now. >> in honor of st. patrick's day the white house fountains are green and the president is serving up enough blarney for everyone. the lead starts right now. president trump's wire claim dispute and now the white house press secretary turning the briefing room and the president passes the buck. >>> president trump expressing frustration with china. what could the president do when and if the next missile flies? >>> plus, epidemic of fake drugs, bad drugs, counterfeit drugs killing americans instead of saving lives and you may not know you took them until it's too late. >>> welcome to the lead, everyone. i'm jake tapper. president trump making it clear once again the buck stops there. this time the president refusing to acknowledge that his white house caused an international dustup with her nation's closest and most important ally, the united kingdom. this happened because his spokesman in a desperate attempt