That this morning laughable. But his big focus is on exactly what the president is so focused on, the start of the russia investigation and whether there was anything inappropriate about the launch of it. Heres what he had to say about that. People have to find out what the government was doing during that period, if were worried about foreign influence for the very same reason we should be worried about whether government officials abused their power and put their thumb on the scale. And so im not saying that happened. But im saying that we have to look at that. Lets get over to the Justice Department, Laura Jarrett is there. Laura, what else did the attorney general say this morning . Well, kate, barr is saying hes not prejudging this review that hes undertaking on the genesis of the russia investigation, but hes also saying it wasnt business as usual, and a small ad hoc group, hes calling it, of officials who are no longer at the fbi and cia, were undertaking actions hes trying to get to the bottom of, and hes saying hes asking questions and simply not getting adequate answers. Hes also revealing for the first time in a fox interview today that hes having the january 6, 2017, meeting where President Trump was actually briefed on the infamous dossier having to do with trump and russia and all those connections we have heard so much about, the one that was compiled by the exbritish intelligence officer, christopher steele, hes saying the leaks coming out of the meeting is something hes looking into as part of this probe. And then he goes on to talk about how the dossier was used, rehearsing some talking points that we have actually heard from the president and his allies. Take a listen to what he said on this point. Can you tell us what the steele dossier had to do with this, what role did that play . Thats one of the questions that were going to have to look at. Its a very unusual situation to have Opposition Research like that, especially one that on its face had a number of clear mistakes and a somewhat jijune analysis, and to use that to conduct counterintelligence against an american Political Campaign is a strange would be a strange development. Do you smell a rat in this at this point . I dont know if i would describe it as a rat. I would just say that, you know, the answers im getting are not sufficient. Now, how the dossier was used, of course, is something that has been the subject of wide debate for the past several years. Its also something the Inspector General is already looking into at the Justice Department, the main watchdog office, is looking into whether enough was used and disclosed in the surveillance warrants used by the fbi to ubtabe that surveillance warrant on the former campaign aide, carter page, but barr still raising more questions on that even though the Inspector General is looking into it, kate. Great to see you, laura. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it. Joining me now for much more on this, former u. S. Attorney, greg brouwer, also a former official, and kaitlan collins. So kaitlan, you have barr setting the stage where things stand on this, you have barr saying hes looking into it, but you also have donald trump this morning already going toward already going to treason and saying treason did happen. This in a tweet, also at the same time, the president says hes not telling barr to do anything. Barr is saying he has more questions than answers, and hes raising a lot of questions about how the probe was started. Hes casting a ton of doubt on the senior people who started this. Questioning, as laura was saying there, the group that started it. Then the president seems to have prejudged the outcome of what bill barr is looking into. He and his defenders have said for months, even years now, the people who started the probe were biased against the president. They didnt want him to win the election. Once he did win the election, they didnt want him to be in office. Its interesting to see how the president is framing how bill barr is saying and what bill barr is staying. Bill barr is making some pretty stunning comments there, not only talking about how the investigation started but the way the special counsel, a personal friend of bill barrs, conducted himself, too, in a pretty stunning interview. I thought so as well. Im left after watching bill barr speak out this morning and how laura said, he says hes not prejudging the outcome of any of these investigations, but what do you think . I know you thought of this, if barr after this review concludes that everything was on the up and up, and the i. G. Kind of reaches the same conclusion, no charges, no firings, none of it. What does the president do then . Because the president has reached his conclusion. And people close to the president dont think that if bill barr comes out on the other side of this and says actually, there was no bias, the was none of that, even though its not the way bill barr is leaning by the way hes looking into it, they dont think the president would readily accept there was no bias against him because hes convinced and set in that that those people were biased against him and thats how the investigation was conducted. Thats the question there of how this goes forward, but right now, bill barr seems to be more siding and agreeing with the president s view of all this than with other people. Thats where this is going to get interesting. How does he square this with the fbi director, chris wray, who said he would not have used the term spying. That is something that infuriated the president and he did not like seeing chris wray make that answer. Hes made that very clear. Lets see where that relationship goes. Let me bring greg in on this. You also have bill barr saying that it isnt sorry, you have bill barr saying if its important to look into russian interference, its just as porlt important to look into why the investigation was started in the first place. Do you see that . In the absence of any evidence that the investigation was started for any improper purpose, it would seem curious that the a. G. Would be focused on this. There is an i. G. , an Inspector General investigation, ongoing. It seems to me, and i think to most others in washington, that the a. G. Should let the i. G. Finish his work. But of course, in the abstract, its important for the attorney general as the head of the department of justice to know if there was any misconduct. But in the absence of any evidence of misconduct, it would seem to me to be improper for the a. G. To initiate a review based on what appears to be nothing more than president ial tweets. The a. G. Has said hes not satisfied with certain answers hes received about the beginning of the investigation. But by whom . Who is giving him those answers . We havent heard from any other doj officials that the investigation was begun for any improper purpose. Thats a really interesting point, because he was not giving on that at all in this interview with fox news. He also spoke with the wall street journal and said that his investigation into the origins of the russia probe, it could lead, and the way he put it, the wall street journal put it, is it could lead into changes in the rules of how investigations are conducted or allowed to be conducted into a Campaign Going forward. Sure. What could that mean to you . What are the rules . What could the changes be . There are attorney general guidelines that govern a broad range of different types of investigations, doj investigations, including investigations of political candidates and campaigns. But again, in the absence of actual evidence that anything improper happened here, it would seem curious to talk about an investigation in a way that tracks what the president has been saying. That has caused many people in washington and around the country, frankly, to think that the attorney general is simply playing politics with this. I would like to think that he is not playing politics with it, but to the extent that his comments track the president s, thats the appearance. And the response that white house people and the president s allies would have to that is bill barr is not someone who knew the president before he became attorney general. He has this long great reputation, people say, and he has earned that. And they say he would not throw himself in front of a train for President Trump. They say that is something they want people to keep in mind as hes conducting this investigation. Dually noted. Good to see you. Thank you so much. Great to see you, greg. Going to stick around. Not done with you yet. Theres also word this morning that some of the redacted portions of the Mueller Report are going to be released by the end of the month. By court order. And already were learning more about what Michael Flynn, the president s former National Security adviser, what he told bob mueller and the cooperation level there. Its raising new questions about obstruction of justice, and it could dm down to a voice mail. Senior justice correspondent evan perez is in washington with this side of it. Evan, what did Michael Flynn tell mueller . What are we learning here . Were learning a lot of new information about exactly what kind of cooperation the special counsel got from Michael Flynn, over 19 interviews that he sat down with them for. He told them obviously he was one of the closest people to the then candidate trump, and so he had a window into some of these conversations that were going on, including some conversations about wikileaks. Ill read you just a part of what the special counsel says in this document that was unredacted and released by the judge yesterday. The defendant relaid to the government statements made in 2016 by Senior Campaign officials about wikileaks in which only a select few were privy. For example, the defendant recalled conversations with Senior Campaign officials after the release of the Podesta Emails during which the prospect of reaching out to wikileaks was discussed. Kate, obviously, all of this information was baked in to the Mueller Report. The investigation is now over. But clearly, the fact that this information is now being released by the judge has gotten to the president. You know how he loves to tweet when something is on his mind, so this morning, hes already tweeting, claiming that Michael Flynn apparently was understand investigation for much longer than people realize and he knew nothing about it. But thats not really true. Look, right after the president was elected, president obama warned him against hiring Michael Flynn for his National Security adviser. There were multiple other warnings that came forward, including, by the way, Michael Flynn himself told the white house right at the beginning of 2017, before the president s inauguration, that he was under investigation for lobbying for turkey. So again, theres a lot of information thats being released and i think this is very much on the president s mind, and well see more of it come forward in the next few weeks. And thats a question i had. Why is this, real quick, why is this coming out now, and what more could be coming . There was a lawsuit on behalf of news organizations seeking to get access to some of this information. Now that the Mueller Investigation is over, why is this stuff still under redaction . This judge has seen it fit to not only, hes told the Justice Department to release the parts of the Mueller Report that were redacted that have to do with Michael Flynn. Hes saying release that by the end of the month. Release the transcripts of this voice mail from people outreaching to flynn, telling him essentially dont cooperate. And then there was also this conversation that Michael Flynn had with the Russian Ambassador at the time, the thing that got him in trouble. All of that, the judge says, needs to be released. That was the basis, that was what Michael Flynn lied about that got him in trouble in the first place. Great to see you. Thank you so much. So for more on this, greg brouwer back with me, and also shan wu is joining us, cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. Shan, mueller here is saying in what were seeing now in the Court Documents coming out that people around trump, and heres the quote, people around trump could have affected both flynns willingness to cooperate and the completion of the the completeness, rather, of that cooperation. Is that obstruction . And if so, why was no one charged . It certainly sounds like obstruction, kate. And rule number two in criminal defense, when you are speaking to the lawyer of a possible cooperator, you should avoid making intimidating statements. Thats what this sounds like. I dont see why it wouldnt have been investigated. Some of the things i have seen with regard to privilege making it difficult dont really seem to answer the question. There would have been no privilege in the conversation between the attorney for President Trump and the attorney for flynn. So its somewhat of a mystery to me. Interesting. Greg, what shan is getting to, let me read what we know of the voice mail that went from, between trumps personal attorney and flynns attorney, and this is what we have not seen before. This is what we have got. This is a voice mail. It wouldnt surprise me if you have gone on to make a deal with the government. If theres information that implicated the president , we have a National Security issue, so you know, we need some kind of heads up. Greg, is that a call that you have ever made . The fact that they had this, and additional fact that this voice mail seemed to happen just as they had severed the Cooperation Agreement between the timeout teams. Does that play into this . Well, let me agree with shan in saying that this is the type of conversation as a defense lawyer that you want to stay as far away from as you possibly can. Lest it be misconstrued later on. This one apparently was considered by the prosecutors as vague enough to avoid constituting obstruction, but it is in my view, in my experience as a prosecutor and as a defense lawyer, this is the kind of conversation you just dont want to have. This also points at an apparent disconnect in my mind, which is that for someone as experienced and as tough as a prosecutor as bob mueller to recommend no prison time for flynn, and yet for his cooperation to result in no additional charges is sort of mysterious to me. I was expecting, frankly, that given the apparent nature of flynns cooperation, that more charges were coming based upon his cooperation, and we just havent really seen that. Yeah. And shan, mueller makes it clear in this court filing that he didnt know if trump himself had prompted the call, what he knew about the call, if you will. So is any of this thats coming out in any way bad news then for the president . It could be bad news in the future, but to get to that bad news, as greg was alluding to, as a former prosecutor, you would want to first go after the lawyer who made that statement and find out what hes got. Theres the crime fraud exception that could pierce some privilege issues. You would want to target that person first to see if you could get back to whether the president had directed him to do that. One thing thats possible, i suppose, is they may have spun this off to some office we dont know about. But i dont really see why it makes sense because of the llc ruling, you cant indict a sitting president. It doesnt make sense they would pause or not reach a decision about a lawyer or someone who had conveyed this message. Right, interesting. The court filing, greg, says the communication, and heres how it was worded, came from persons connected to the administration or congress that could have reached out to flynn. That kind of raises your attention a little bit. If that is in some way suggesting that a member of congress was involved reaching out to flynn before or during the cooperation with mueller, what would that mean . Well, nothing good for that member of congress, i would submit. And that is going to have to be flushed out. This is another reason why bob mueller simply has to testify in front of congress in an open hearing some time soon. And he has to be able to answer all of these questions. The more that the more is unredacted, the more that this is reviewed, the more questions that have come up, and they need to be answered and can only be answered by bob puler. Its somewhat reassuring that you both have questions in your mind, because all of this raises to us lesser minds, not legal minds, a lot of questions we dont understand. Shan, the judge overseeing this case has decided, as evan was pointing out, that some of this redacted portions of the Mueller Report that are relating to Michael Flynn, theyre going to be released. Its going to be out there by the end of the month. Do you think this means that through the courts, the full report is eventually going to drip out . I think theres a good chance of that. I mean, judge sullivan is, in my opinion, doing a Great Service to the American People for transparency. And this effort to ask the courts to decide this issue, i think, is a good one. And i think judges generally dont like redactions. They dont like sealed proceedings. They very much think of the courts as being a public forum. They dont like that. Conservative, liberal, i think their tendency is going to be to want the American People to see the information they can see. All right. Go ahead. I was simply going to say i would agree with that and say that putting the classified information from the report aside, the other two types of information that were redacted, the ongoing investigations and the socalled grand jury information, the ongoing investigation, for instance, should not be released until the ongoing investigations are completed, but i see no reason at this point that the grand jury investigation information should not be made public. It would take a court order, but it seems to me that the house ought to go to court and get such an order. Doj ought not oppose that, and that information should be made public. Add that to the category of let us see altogether. Thanks, guys. 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But could those movements have actually been a reaction to the United States . The wall street journal is reporting this morning that irans leaders believed it was the United States that was preparing to attack them. And so they were preparing. That is a potentially catastrophic misunderstanding if that is the case. Where do things stand between washington and iran . Joining me, Barbara Starr from the pentagon, and Cnn Senior International correspondent Fred Pleitgen from tehran. Barbara, what more are you hearing . Right now, what concerns the u. S. Military most, i think, is this notion of any kind of miscalculation. The Iranian Regime is one set of entities, but all of the proxy forces, the militias that come under hem, theres continuing concern about how much influence the regime exerts over them, and carrying the missiles on their boats which are maneuvering may not be under control of the Central Government and could there still be a miscalculation . President trump yesterday when asked if there was a possibility of war with iran, said he hoped not. And thats what you would want any president of the United States to say. The pentagon is very adamant that they really do hope all of this deterrence, the Aircraft Carrier, the b52 bombers, really works. You know, it is worth noting, were now almost two weeks into this and there has been no confrontation, so that is really the good news. The pentagon wants to keep that streak going. Kate. I would say so. Thats a good point. Good to see you, barbara. Thank you so much. Fred, what are you hearing from there . Well, the iranians officially havent commented on the reports about potential missiles on boats. However, there was an interesting nugget we picked up from irans ambassador to the united nations. He came out and said look, iran isnt preparing for any sort of conflict, but iran wants to be prepared in case some sort of conflict erupts. Essentially what hes saying is any sort of moves the iranians are making, at least according to what theyre saying, are defensive in nature. That could lend credence to some of the wall street journal reporting we have been hearing that perhaps both sides may have been miscalculating each others intentions. At the same time, i want to give you color on the ground. Its quite a strange mood on the ground. We were expecting after a week like this with all these tensions, with an Aircraft Carrier being deployed, with b52 bombers being deployed, friday prayers would be antiamerican and fiery. Really hasnt happened. It seems the government here doesnt want to continue to fan the flames of all this and maybe wants to bring the temperature down a little bit, if you will. At the same time, the iraniansinate budging on one key point. Theyre saying absolutely no negotiations with the Trump Administration. 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After the election, i indicated that i thought this would end up in a long court case. I have not seen much in the last few weeks that would dissuade me of that position. Do you view contempt as a potential option . I dont see what good it would do at this particular time. I think that if both sides have made up their minds, better to move it over to the next branch of government, the judiciary. And clearly, this is a claireman who is very business minded, who wants to do other things on the committee. He does not want to spend his entire time of the Committee Chairman of ways and means just talking about getting the president s tax returns, but there are some liberals on the committee who have argued they think this chairman should move forward with the contempt citation. I talked with Lloyd Doggett just a few minutes ago. He said he thought that contempt was in order for both mnuchin and irs commissioner redding. Kate. I do find the issue of contempt a really fascinating one. Chairman neal taking a different take on contempt than others of the democratic chairman of committees in the house. This is an interesting moment, how neal is handling this. Good to see you, lauren. Thank you so much. Coming up for us, while trumps tax returns are clearly still a mystery, hes actually releasing some financial information. What does it tell you, and what is it leaving out . Well be right back. Th usaa has been excellent. They really appreciate the military family and it really shows. With all that usaa offers why go with anybody else . We know their rates are good, we know that theyre always going to take care of us. It was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. It was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey would say oh we cant beat usaa were the webber family. Were the tenneys were the hayles, and were usaa members for life. Get your usaa Auto Insurance quote today. Ive got an idea. Ooh, what is it . 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It comes from trumps annual Financial Disclosure form, the most detailed account available of the president s finances and one hes legally obligated to make. The president is reporting at least 434 million last year. He also has big liabilities, pretty big liabilities, including five loans of 50 million or more, and it also shows business is down at the president s maralago property. Slightly up at the Trump International hotel in washington, just blocks from the white house, where the president brought in 40 million. What does this all mean . What does it tell us and not . Joining me is cristina alesci, and forbes reporter chase peterson. Its good to see you. Thank you for being here. Chase, i laid out the very, very top line. What do you learn from this Financial Disclosure . What are you learning . This disclosure, which as you mentioned, he has to file and the Vice President has to file and other members of the executive branch have to file, gives us probably the best window we have into his finances, his investments, and how his business is doing. Its not a very clear window, but it does give us a murky window. Get some windex. He has to lay out here is what i own. Heres anything that is worth over 1,000 that i own, anything that is producing income for me. And he has to lay that out relatively clearly. And he does even spell out how much of each thing he owns, and he gives some limited financials about the size of what it may be worth and how much money he may be bringing in from it or generating. On that front, this is not a perfect accurate picture of what trump is actually making. Because there are ranges and theres a lot thats not in there. Exactly, but the more important thing is that this form is designed to figure out whether or not the president has any conflicts. He can have a conflict with one dollar and he could have a conflict with 5 million. So the government doesnt check or doesnt really focus on the values that are given both on the assets and the income. Now, theres a lot of speculation that the president is reporting top line numbers that do not factor in his actual business expenses. So a lot of people are looking at this number and saying, its kind of hocuspocus because we really dont know how hes defining income, and the government isnt forcing him into a standard on that front because its not that important for this purpose. What youre saying there is, this does not give us a clear picture of how much actual money is going into his pocket. Exactly, nope. It just gives us an indication, to your point, about how much perhaps his business and each individual hotel may be up or down directionally. We may be able to get an indication of okay, hes had a better year than 2017. But even that is questionable. So we have this reporting, the money that the president is making, right . Last year, but it is much more of a complicated financial picture. If you look at some of the good reporting coming from the New York Times and the Washington Post, the New York Times reporting getting their hands on tax returns from 1985 to 1994, showing that trump had taken a loss of a billion dollars over that period of time. The Washington Post doing some really in depth reporting about his cherished doral resort, and saying that the operating income, the Net Operating Income had been down is down almost 70 , i think it was 69 . When you take the little that we know but more than nothing that we know, what kind of financial picture does this paint . Yeah, so it seems like from these documents that the Trump Organization is, i would say, struggling to grow right now. And so, you know, eric trump and donald trump jr. Will go around saying we have the hottest brand in the world, whatever. Then you see new Business Ventures like the hotel lines they were going to start coming to an end. Then the d. C. Hotel, which is a hotbed for conservative celebrities. A place that is, you know, abuzz all the time with all kinds of people in and out of there. Seems like a great success, and revenues grew 1 last year. You know, so it just seems like, and thats the best case. At maralago, revenues are down 10 according to the disclosure at least. This is why we need the president s tax returns, because without that, we have these little pieces of whats happening at this property, whats happening at that property, but we dont know globally whats going on. Its possible hes taking a hit in new york and in chicago and in miami where hes not popular, but he could be making money on his Foreign Investments and licensing deals. This is the perfect opportunity to once again, when the president said, and i remember it was right after the midterms and he said, you get far more in a Financial Disclosure form than you would ever get in a tax return. That is just not the case. Explain once again why. That is so not true. The government here is looking for potential conflicts. And it doesnt really hold the filer accountable for the actual numbers in the documents. So the filer can choose to define income any which way, sort of any which way the filer wants to. In trumps case, there is speculation, again, that hes taking the most generous approach and using figures that do not factor in expenses, so the income really could be a topline number without the business expenses. We dont know how much profit he actually got to put in his pocket. Yet again, take what were reading here, while always more information is better than less, take what were reading here with a grain of salt plus some, or plus 1,000. Thank you. 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His two sons run the day to day but he has not separated himself from the company, as president s traditionally have in the past. Erin burnett takes a deep dive into the president s deals and the family deals that stretch around the world, including in india. Take a look. Reporter india is presidefi licensing deals. Four are actively selling condos. Including this project. Its promising unprecedented amenities in a poor city that was run by the communist party until a few years ago. And this project in mumbai where elevators roll up and down a building being sold as ultraluxurious. Right now, anybody can pay tens of thousands of dollars. Maybe these are people who want to buy really nice condos or people who want to influence the president. All we know a few dozen names of people who have come up who have taken mortgages in the apartments. Last year the president s son who has the same name as the president , donald trump, met with some of these buyers who are buying these condos. Fullpage ads advertising if you put down a down payment of 39,000 on an apartment, you could also meet donald trump jr. And have dinner with him. I mean, it raised a whole host of concerns about the ethics of this kind of marketing move and don jr. Kept saying this is what Real Estate Developers do. Yes, but this is a real estate business being run by the president of the United States family. Extraordinary. Great to see you. Fascinating there. I think many people dont realize that is the single Biggest Country for the Trump Organization. Surprised me when i heard that. Amazing. For 39,000, you put your money down and all of a sudden, there you get that oneonone, that meeting with donald trump jr. In a country that is notoriously corrupt, despite some recent improvements. As she said, a few dozen names of people who got mortgages, but most people are not getting mortgages. They are buying cash. Why are they doing that . We dont know any of their names but donald trump jr. Is appearing on behalf of his father. So, this is what people would traditionally think of as the trump brand, the real estate developments. But its not just real estate. A lot of the business is now licensing. Right. And we were talking licensing, even licensing towers. Hes licensing and you see that around the world, kate. And also as part of this we looked into a whole lot of things. You heard of trump water before. Im sure its the best water ever made. Did you know you could get a trump blanket. You could wrap yourself in trump. I would love to know where all the products are made. Remember, the trump ties are made in china or somewhere. Thats right. So, i mean, everything that he possibly could. It was post apprentice and leverage the name. Dont put money in, take money out and the way to do that was license. A vitamin kit all branded trump. Just to give the point of what is the point of the brand, it became extremely unclear. Ill have to think about that vitamin kit for a while. 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