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Cnns joe johns is at the white house following all of this. Joe, what are you hearing right now . This has been a very hard fought decision here at the white house, kay, and there have been people all over the place on this issue and we picked up information just this last weekend that the president apparently had made. This decision wasnt confirmed through sources in a reportable fashion until today and we also have to caution that according to sources the president could change his mind and hes been known to do that even after issues get floated in public sometimes by his communication and theres that caveat. The way it breaks down here at the white house has been very complicated and steve bannon, one of the president s key advisers very much wanted the president to pull out of the paris accord and fulfill the Campaign Promise he made because the president had always argued it was bad for business. Ivanka trump, the president s daughter had encouraged the president to look very carefully at every angle. Jared kushner, we are told, was neutral on the issue. The secretary of state Rex Tillerson was one of the people who did not want the president to pull the United States out of the paris accord. A big question, of course, in the long term is how he does that, whether he does it slow or fast and that could make a lot of difference to how other nations view it. Kate, back to you. How he announces it. What method they decide to take and exactly, what exactly the president is going to announce, but it is leaking out drip by drip at least where the president is leaning at at this hour at 11 02. Thank you, joe. We appreciate it very, very much. What if the president of the United States withdraws from the paris climate deal . Its a big deal and theres someone who knows a lot about it. Cnn columnist john sutter. You spent years writing and reporting about Climate Change. This is your moment so you need to educate us. For those folks who know it as the paris climate deal and havent jumped into it, what is in the agreement . So the Paris Agreement is really the guiding sort of north star for the world on the issue of Climate Change and it sets this one really specific goal which is that we dont want warming to increase more than 2 degrees celsius and that sounds sort of wonky and abstract, but it basically means an end to the fossil fuel era some time this century. So its more of a goal and a promise to the world and a promise to future generations than an exact road map of how that happens. Ive seen the Paris Agreement described as a potluck dinner and each country brings its own plan to the table for how its going to reduce the pollution and all of our parties is it is our shared goal and purpose to limit warming below 2 degrees celsius to avoid the catastrophic impacts of Climate Change and things like rising seas and drowned coastal cities and mass extinction in the animal world. Its serious stuff. How binding is it . Ive kind of heard from a lot of folks that its not so binding. Its voluntary. It is a binding agreement in its whole, but the actual, those plans that the countries brought forward, those are not legally binding and there are a lot of people saying the Trump Administration wouldnt have anything to lose by staying in this agreement and they could pursue whatever Energy Policies they wanted. On the one hand, not meet the pledges that president obama made as part of the paris process and that they wouldnt be slapped a fine, for example, because of that. Its sort of like a good path agreement. They do have particular measures for reupping amendments or reissuing them. Its trying to get the countries to Work Together toward ending the fossil fuel era and it was palatable to the agreement because it didnt have these fines and levees for people that backtracked on the agreement. A potluck dinner and quite a big one. Great to see you, john. We appreciate it. We will lean on you heavily as we continue to discuss this. Lets look at the politics which are heavy and everywhere. Chief Political Correspondent dana bash is here and cnn politics reporter and editoratlarge crist aliza is here. Joe johns said it very well. Theyre all over the place when you look at the white house. There has been a whole lot of leadup to this decision, warring factions within the white house on the agreement, even leaks of the packs are meeting to discuss where they stand on the agreement for weeks. What do you think this came down to . If i were to guess, and i think this is an educated guess, it is the fact that at the end of the day President Trump, my understanding from sources, asks one important question which is are we doing that would make the people who sent me here happy, the base, the Trump Supporters at their core and at the end of the day he tends to err on the side of i want to make sure that we dance with the people who brought me here, and it is so true that this has been the most intense debate inside the white house to date because and its obvious because its been delayed so many times and there have been very big differences. On the one hand, you do have those who never mind the issue of Climate Change, just opposed to the idea of the u. S. Being involved in such an international agreement, those who want to look inward and dont want to be tied up with other countries like that and that could affect this country economically and on the other side, you, of course, have people like his daughter ivanka trump who has been particularly before her father ran for president in the beginning of the administration and the transition very open about the fact that she wanted to help push her father towards the more Climate Change position, the position that would have kept him in the Paris Agreement. That didnt win out. Yeah. So, chris, when it comes down to it does that mean the ivanka trumps and the gary cohen and the Rex Tillerson and james mattis of the white house, they lost. Yes, candidly, but i think a lot of this, kate, has to do with the fact that donald trump listens to people, but then he just does what he wants to do at the end of the day. He takes some opinion, but i do think danas point is the most important one. He wants to make sure the people who got him elected are the people hes thinking about first. Remember the image that we have of Steve Bannons office in the white house. The white board with the Campaign Promises and there are a lot of them that donald trump made and steve bannon crossing off the ones that he had accomplished, believing the theory of the case being well, in four years if we can say we said we would do these things and we did them that enough people would say donald trump affected change. Im going to be for him. Well, assuming the reporting assuming donald trump doesnt change his mind, which is always possible. This is another thing that steve bannon can cross off the list and that appears to be the sort of defining final Decision Making thing that donald trump latches on to, and i think youve seen that in a number of things, tpp. Talk about building the wall. The Keystone Pipeline and a lot of these major decisions where hes had some back and forth. Hes chosen to side with what he knows the base wants and what he promised on the campaign trail. So, dan, more broadly, then. There are Big Questions and this is included side what is going on within the white house right now. Youve got continued rumors of a shakeup thats been happening for a while. Word that the president was going to be changing his twitter practices, but clearly, that did not happen, as we saw overnight. I was going to say covfefe, and we can fight that later and less oncamera briefings from the white house and more cabinet officials will come out to act as spokespeople. What does this all add up to mean. That the people around donald trump are trying. Donald trump understands that there are problems and there are problems in the fact that they have been in a defensive crouch for the past, you know, month or two really since the sort of blip of success which is the Obamacare Repeal passing the house and other international stories. For the most part theyve been in the defensive crouch because of the steady stream of stories coming out about russia and the involvement. Yeah. And frankly, the fact that they havent been forthcoming and its made it worse. So this is certainly, there is an attempt to try to turn the ship. Look, you have to feel for these people who work in the white house, who understand what it takes to do it, but theyre undermined when they have a president who has an impulse to tweet whether it is something thats unintelligible. It looked like he was trying to say coverage, but unintelligible at midnight and thats the ultimate illustration of how people it is for people in the white house, rar room or not. When you hear that line. Is it covfefe or covfefe . Whose team are you on . Im more of a covfefe. I cant decide if thats elitist or not. Oh, interesting hadnt thought of that. Im kidding you write about this kind of hysteria, and this tells you everything you need to know about donald trump. What exactly is that . Dana touched on it and ill make the point more broadly which is that the president of the United States shouldnt be tweeting at 12 06 a. M. And back up at 5 00 a. M. And 6 00 a. M. Tweeting again. This is someone who has grown increasingly isolated in the white house. He was isolated from the start. Donald trumps inner circle has always been his family. His sons are walled off of him because of conflict of interest concerns. Ivanka and Jared Kushner, his soninlaw, are members of the white house and they have three young children, Melania Trump and barron, his son, do not live in washington at the moment though they are moving and hes always been someone who is isolated. I always return to the New York Times piece by glen tlush a few months ago. The image of donald trump in hass bathrobe puttering around his house, the white house, watching television and tweeting. Thats not dissimilar to the chris eliza plan, but im not the president of the United States. The point is this is the president of the United States. Danas right. There are members of his staff who absolutely have told him you should not tweet as much. You should put the phone down. Dont tweet every time you see something on cable you like or dont like. He doesnt listen. Thats why all of this talk about a staff shakeup. The problem with the white house right now has a name, donald john trump. Its not sean spicer, Reince Priebus and steve bannon. He is the central player here and he doesnt want to change. While it is an unsatisfactory answer when it comes from the White House Briefing room, the tweet speaks for itself is as much as sean spicer can say most of the time when you think about all of this in context. Great to see you guys. Now i have an image of Chris Cillizzas bathrobe. Thanks, guys. President trump is giving leaders his personal cell phone number which could be a major securist breach or Security Risk at the very least. A former cia operative joining me to discuss. An awkward moment at the state department what stumped a state department spokesman. What actually happened here . We have insight and how he reacted about what the question was. Breaking news, a man has been arrested inside the Trump International hotel in washington with two guns, 90 rounds of ammunition and were getting word he may have been discussing and may have been plotting of an assassination. We have details coming in from police. Thats ahead. As you do. But do they need help making more of their own tears . If you have chronic dry eye caused by reduced tear production due to inflammation, restasis multidose™ can help. With continued use twice a day, every day, one drop at a time. Restasis multidose™ helps increase your eyes natural ability to produce tears, which may be reduced by inflammation due to chronic dry eye. 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This investigation is so expansive and so fast moving that it is hard to keep track of exactly who is who and to what extent theyre cooperating. At the moment, the Justice Department as well as the house and the senate are looking into whether there was potential inappropriate contact between russians and members of trumps inner orbit. Now lets just walk through some of the key people who have come under scrutiny and to what extent theyre cooperating with this investigation. First we have Jared Kushner, Donald Trumps soninlaw and trump adviser. We also have paul manafort, trumps former campaign manager. He has already turned over some documents to the committee. Roger stone, long time trump friend is also cooperating and Michael Flynn, trumps exNational Security adviser who is really at the center of these investigations has said he would invoke his fifth amendment rights and now he is expected to turn over some documents to senate intel. Others have also been a little more reluctant and less forthcoming in cooperating with this investigation and that includes Michael Cohen, as you mentioned, trumps personal lawyer. He has said he will not cooperate with the house and the Senate Although he did say to cnn earlier this week that if Congress Issues a subpoena he will cooperate and carter page, this is a man who advised donald trump on the issue of foreign policy. He said that he would testify before the house intel committee, but the committee itself has not said whether he would testify. So unclear right now if and when he actually will do that. Speaking of carter page, one big question right now is how much involvement did he actually have with the Trump Campaign . Of course, page himself has said that he did not have much of a role and white house officials have gone as far as to say that President Trump didnt even know the person, but take a look at this tweet from donald trump earlier today. Ill just read it out loud. He wrote, quote, so now it is reported that the democrats who have excoriated carter page about russia dont want him to testify. He blows away their case against him and now wants to clear his name by showing the false or misleading testimony by james comey, john brennan. Witch hunt. This sounds like a pretty sympathetic thing to say about someone he doesnt know and of course, this Ongoing Investigation could reveal the extent of trumps relationship with carter page. Kate . Definitely a part of of that investigation that could come out in the end. Thank you so much for laying it out. A lot of moving parts and a lot of people to be tracking at this point with the Russian Investigation. Meantime, the Russian Investigation is reaching closer to the oval office, specifically to the desk of the president s Senior Adviser and soninlaw, Jared Kushner. The white house so far is not confirming or denying whether kushner sought to establish a back channel to the kremlin during the transition as has been reported. Listen to this. Did the president discuss it, though . Im not going to get into what the president did or did not discuss. What your question assumes is a lot of facts that are not substantiated by anything, but Anonymous Sources that are so far being leaked out. Does he approve of that action . Youre asking if he approves of an action that is not a confirmed action. That being said, i think secretary kelly and general mcmaster have both discussed that in general terms back channels are an appropriate part of diplomacy. Does the white house dispute that that happened . Im not going to get into it, your question presupposes facts that have not been confirmed. With me now is Lindsay Graham, former cia operative and author of blowing my cover as a cia spy. Thanks for coming in. Thanks for having me. On the topic of back channels. They say back channels are an appropriate part of diplomacy and theyve happened throughout many presidencies. On the most basic level, how important are they . What can back channels do that regular channels simply cant, lindsay . Back channels are an appropriate part of diplomacy, but generally handled by intelligence agencies and intelligence operatives, so it is concerning to hear of Jared Kushner kind of unilaterally creating his own back channel line of communication. At its core back Channel Communication is an espionage term. What were trying to recruit a source we sometimes tell them that we are exactly the back channel line of communication that can get their secret information to washington policymakers. So thats why i think it is so concerning. Whats also concerning is that Jared Kushner has not disclosed contacts, unofficial contacts with russians which is actually a complete breach of security protocol. So on a different type of communication, i guess. Let me ask you about this, the president has apparently been handing out his cell phone number to World Leaders. We are told that he offered it to the french president last week during his travels and the Associated Press has reported that he did the same with the leaders of canada and mexico. It is not strange for you and me, of course, to exchange phone numbers. Why is this something still today in this day and age, why is this something that World Leaders do not do . Sure. At its most benign level, again, its a breach of diplomatic protocol, but at a more alarming level, it shows a complete disregard for security. Cell phones are incredibly vulnerable. Theres a reason why we dont discuss Sensitive Information or secret information over cell phones. Theres a reason why we dont take cell phones into skiffs or other secure areas. So by doling out his cell phone number to whoever, it makes the president vulnerable and it in turn makes our country vulnerable. How do we know what hes talking about on his cell phone . The cell phone can be used to locate the president. It can be used to figure out who hes talking to. It comes across as not only reckless, but just stupid. If and when President Trump makes a call from his cell phone, who could be listening . Anyone could be listening. Certainly his cell phone could be vulnerable to foreign adversaries and any Intelligence Agency if we have the cell phone of an enemy, even of an ally. We saw what happened with angela merkel. Right. Were going to want to exploit that and our enemies, likewise, will want to exploit a vulnerable cell phone. The president has made his cell phone vulnerable by handing it out to other World Leaders. We will see what happens with that cell phone number and see if a repeat of the election of he and Lindsay Graham happens with the leaders. I doubt it, but well see. Thanks for coming in. Thanks so much. It was a moment that went viral. See what question seemed to stump him and also what really happened here . What was the reaction . Plus as President Trump gets ready to decide on how many troops to keep in afghanistan, does he want to add additional troops to afghanistan . Thats a big question just as a major attack happens near one of the worlds embassies there. Dozens and dozens are dead and hundreds injured. Well take you there. With this level of intelligence. Its a supercomputer. With this grade of protection. Its a fortress. And with this standard of luxury. Its an oasis. The 2017 eclass. Its everything you need it to be. And more. Lease the e300 for 569 a month at your local mercedesbenz dealer. Mercedesbenz. The best or nothing. Mattress firmness . Enter sleep number. She likes the bed soft. Hes more hardcore. You can both adjust the bed for the best sleep of your life. 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Good morning, kate. We are learning from two u. S. Officials and they do believe at least seven u. S. Citizens injured in this attack, several of them may have been actually assigned to work at the u. S. Embassy, not clear if they were formally state Department Personnel or contractors, but when people work in kabul affiliated with the u. S. Government they are generally assigned under the u. S. Embassy. Regardless of where their paycheck came from, we have several americans working in kabul this morning injured in this attack along with nationals from other countries and of course, afghans bearing the brunt of this absolute disaster. A u. S. Official that was at the site a short time ago tells me the crater that this bomb left was at least 20 feet deep, more than 40 feet wide. This was apparently a water tanker truck that pulled up to an Afghan Police checkpoint in this area where the embassies are located. They were stop by the Afghan Police and thats when the bomber detonated the truck causing all of this. The Afghan Police in the view of u. S. Officials really the heroes today. If this truck had made it several more feet it could have been even worse. As bad as it is with so many afghan civilians hurt and so many afghans killed, the u. S. Trying to make a determination who was behind this and who was responsible and it really strikes at the heart of the Afghan Government and at the heart of the effort by so many nations to help this country get on its feet. Kate . Its just amazing when you see the video and the perspective youre offering. Seven americans, barbara reports, among those injured in that massive attack. This comes as the Trump Administration has been thinking about considering contemplating sending more troops to afghanistan. How could this brazen and horrific attack affect that decision . Let me bring in diplomatic analyst and retired rear admiral ron kirby who worked at the state department and the pentagon for many years. Good to see you. Thanks. Good to be here. Thank you. We know that the pentagon has asked for up to 5,000 additional troops to go to afghanistan. This is yet another decision that the white house has been really mulling over and divided on. Folks have described it as a mini surge. Do you think todays attack changes the calculation . I dont know that it will change the calculation of the Decision Making process here as you rightly point out there are different camps. The military wants more troops and people in the white house who oppose that. I do think, however, that this attack underscores the dangerous situation that sub cysts in afghanistan and kabul in particular. Weve seen attacks in the green zone before. I havent seen one of this magnitude in a very, very long time, and it does underscore how important it is to continue a mission of improving the capabilities and the skill sets of the afghan National Security forces. If you look at the press release they put out today the afghan National Security force performed well in responding to this attack and its important that we remain committed to continue to perform well. It will certainly factor into the backdrop. I dont know that it itself will manifest a certain decision. Yes. We still await that decision and heres another one i want to lean on your state department experience. The white house is facing a deadline tomorrow on whether or not to move the u. S. Embassy in israel from tel aviv to jerusalem, or if they defer it for another six months and that is how this has worked and this is something that we know that the president promised during the election. What do you think is holding him up . What do you think that hes learned since coming into office that is holding him up on this decisions oso far. Maybe his meeting with president abbas might have helped cover that. I certainly hope so. Its an easy thing to say that on the campaign trail and hes not an easy guy to do that, but when you get into discussions and you realize how difficult the situation is and how tense it is and how moving those embassies will have the tensions and its not quite so simple is picking up stakes and moving it there. Theres potentially, potentially and this is what we used to say at the state department and ramifications in terms of the safety and security of not justice railis and palestinians, but even americans and american tourists and americans working over there. I think we need to be very careful here. Very interesting and theyre being careful because this decision is taking longer than a lot of folks expected it would. I think thats wise. I think thats wise. Great to see you, john. 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Well while you were over there the secretary you did so standing next to saudi official. How do you characterize saudi arabias commitment to democracy and is it a barrier against extremism . Um uh i think what wed say is at this meeting we were able to make significant progress with saudi and gcc partners in both making a strong statement against extremism and also and also putting putting place certain measures through this gcc mechanism where we can combat extremism. Clearly, one source of extremism, one terrorism threat is coming from iran and thats coming from a part of the iranian apparatus that is not at all responsive to its electorate. Everybody, thank you. Okay. Let me bring in right now cnn Global Affairs cnn elise labott. That was a long pause. On tv, a second feels like an hour, for sure, and im sure stuart jones felt the very same way. Youve sat in on these briefings and stuart jones is a state Department Former ambassador to iraq and jordan. Hes faced many a tough question. What happened here . You know, i think he just had a moment and didnt really realize, you see towards the end he was trying to move the conversation back to iran and away from the saudis and try to focus on iran and he recognizes that he took too long and ideally you dont do these things on live television, but i dont think it was in any way, you know, a contradiction of u. S. Policy. I just think he was looking for the right words to say and just took too long. I mean, for all of us. For everyone involveded. Yeah. One thing we know about the state department and the Trump Administration, is it has been plagued by understaffing and a slow ramp up and he is not someone who is usually in front of the camera doing these types of press briefings. Is that a symptom of understaffing . I think what theyre trying to do is, look, the whole state Department Press corps and the american public, and certainly members of congress are frustrated that theres no state Department Briefing where you can talk about u. S. Policy and what the state department is trying to do is get the officials who are not doing state Department Briefings and they talked about venezuela and they talked about the president s trip. There was something on nato and these officials who arent usually out in prime time doing the briefings are making these calls. There is a spokesman, heather nower used to be at fox and shes getting up to speed on the issues and will be briefing soon where hopefully the press corps is looking forward to having that daily discussion about issues. I think in this particular case, everyone recognizes that it wasnt his finest hour, but i think its a larger symptom of the fact that we need that Daily Briefing and need to be talking about these issues every day and certainly with someone who is able to talk about them fully. You need to read them faster. Great to see you. Thank you so much. This just in. First lady Melania Trump is responding to the picture that Kathy Griffin put out showing a mock beheading of President Trump. What the first lady is now saying. Thats next. Pampers. Unlike ordinary diapers with two layers, pampers have three absorbent layers to stay up to three times drier, so babies can sleep soundly all night. Wishing you love, sleep and play. Pampers. This just in from the office of the first lady, Melania Trump a prop atly condemned the picture of Kathy Griffin holding what looks like the severed head of the president. As a mother, a wife and human being that photo is disturbing which you consider some of the atrocities happening in the world today. A photo opportunity like this is simply wrong and makes you wonder about the Mental Health of the person who did it. That, the first lady speaking out for the first time about that widely condemned photo. Kathy griffin has apologized for that photo opportunity. Lets turn back to the president and breaking news today. World leaders are reacting now with concern to the news that President Trump is expected to pull out of the paris climate accord. The other g7 nations, germany, france, japan, canada, uk and italy have urged President Trump to remain a part of the agreement, but two sources tell cnn that the president is expected to pull the United States out of that deal. The president tweeting this just this morning, that he plans to make his decision over the next announce his decision over the next few days ending with, make America Great again. The impact on the world stage and the president s world view. Lets bring in Fareed Zakaria host of Fareed Zakaria gps. Sources a hes expected to do and he can change his mind. This comes does this do damage to who cares about friendships but Just Relationships abroad. Well, it damages i think importantly americas leadership role in the world, the idea that when there are Common Collective problems, it is the United States that sets the agenda. This is powerfully helped america over the last 70 years because it means these solutions are crafted with americas interests first and foremost with americas ideas first and foremost. Two of trumps advisers said there is no such thing as a Global Community. There are only nations struggling for advantage. Thats not actually true because there there are a lot of global problems. Think about it. If china pollutes all our air and atmosphere gets spoiled, if china dumps oceans of plastic into the ocean, it affects the whole world. Thats why with those kinds of common global problems, Climate Change, disease, weve tried to craft global efforts because you dont want any one country to do it, but somebody has to lead. Thats where we are now were withdrawing from that leadership role. It gets to the world view, the America First kind of looking within rather than outward that the president campaigned on. But what does that mean in practice is a big question. You just mentioned two of his advisers that wrote the oped, his National Security adviser and top economic adviser. Kind of the point youre getting to. Ill read that. When he embarked on the first foreign trip, he had a cleareyed outlook that the world is not a Global Community but an arena where nations, nongovernment counsel actors and businesses engage and compete for advantage. He gets to we imbrace that, rather than deny this elemental nature of international affairs, we imbrace that. What are they trying to say here . There is always the sense that the United States is being taken advantage of or being ripped off. A lot of this speaks to the resentment that trumps base has with the idea that there are kind of professional globalist elites running the United States. But again, the core problem is, what they describe has been true for millennia. Whats different in the last 70 years is the United States brought the world together and said look, were still going to compete all the time. The has the largest army in the world larger than the next 20 countries put together. The United States believes in National Interests and advantage. But there are a lot of common problems. There are problems relating to global trade, relating to global Climate Change, global pandemics, diseases. What should we do about those together so no one country has to bear the burden. If you renounce that role, you racial are renouncing the entire legacy of modern america in the world. Its a big statement. I want to ask you about and get your perspective because a lot of folks have different perspectives where the relationship is right now with President Trump and german chancellor angela merkel. You have a lot of folks saw what merkel said, they cant rely on the United States anymore. But sean spicer from the podium yesterday said in his view is the relationship is fairly unbelievable. When he said that, he meant that in a good way. The german ambassador was on this morning and downplayed any rift saying we had a good and productive relationship. We did then and do now. Do you thats true or is there a fundamental shift in the relationship. I think there is a shift. Actually, sean spicer admitted it when he quoted what merkel said which is well have to take things in our own hands. He said thats great, thats what the president wants. Heres the problem with that. The United States has been the glue that has kept europe together that has kept it united and peaceful. Remember, europe has been the site of most of the worlds wars over the last 500 years causing enormous damage to world trade. If you want stability, you want a stable europe. Its still 25, 30 of the worlds gdp. If you have germany now saying we have to take care of our own interests, what will that mean once germany starts asserting itself . Are the french going to be comfortable with that, are the poles comfortable with that . These are the countries invaded by germany in the past. All those issues didnt have to be dealt with because the United States was the kind of glue that kept it all together. The United States provided the leadership, the framework. If the United States says youre all on your own, theyre all going to freelance now. That might work out fine but might turn out to be a bit of a roller coaster ride. We benefit or not. The bottom line is we are 5 of the worlds population. If we want to have 25 of the worlds economy, 25 of the worlds goods, we have to trade, we have to interact and cooperate with the rest of the world. Great to see you. Thanks for the perspective. Thank you. Coming up, disturbing moment in court to show you. The suspect in that deadly stabbing attack on that portland train ranting in the courtroom as one of the hero stivurvivorst nearby. See what happened. The guy says you picked the wrong Insurance Plan. No, i picked the wrong insurance company. With Liberty Mutual new car replacement™, you wont have to worry about replacing your car because youll get the full value back including depreciation. Switch and you could save 509 on auto insurance. Call for a free quote today. Liberty stands with you™. Liberty mutual insurance. The man accused of fatally stabbing two men on a train in oregon goes off on a tirade the moment he is brought into the courtroom. Watch. Praise be to god portland. You got no safe place. This is america. Get out if you dont like free speech. Death to the enemies of america. Leave this country if you mate our freedom. Death. You call it terrorism. I call it patriotism. 954039. Dean smith. Hes charged with aggravated murder and attempted murder. Police say he was taunting two girls on a train with antimuslim slurs and then police say he stabbed three men who step up to defend the girls. If convicted, he could face the death penalty. Thank you guys so much for joining us at this hour. Inside politics with john king starts right now. Thank you, kate. Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. Its a busy day. Fresh tweets from the president calling the russia investigation a witch hunt and attacking the former heads of the fbi and the cia. Plus, the alternative reality that is the White House Briefing room. But begin with breaking news in washington that has big global implications. President trump we are told will pull the United States from the paris Climate Change accords. This is a decision ta keeps a big Campaign Promise and one the president s America First team insists will create millions of new jobs at home. Also a decision that rejects advice from pope