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Now. I think the white house has said ten times maybe more that they are not going to fire Robert Mueller. They want to finish the investigation. Cnn newsroom starts now. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining me this sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. We start with a red line in washington. Cries from both sides of the aisle with a clear message for the president , do not fire special counsel Robert Mueller. Are you worried that the president is prepared to order the firing of mueller. Sure looks that way from his tweets. Well, as i said before, if he tried to do that, that would be the beginning of the end of his presidency, because were rule of law nation. This would undoubtedly result in a constitutional crisis and i think democrats and republicans need to speak out about this right now. Dont wait for the crisis, but i would hope that that would be the result that we would affirm our system of checks and balances and appoint an independent counsel. This as the president is escalating his attacks unleashing a slew of tweets denying collusion, calling out mueller by name, and slamming fbi, fired fbi Deputy Director Andrew Mccabes claim that he kept memos of his conversations with the president. Spent very little time with Andrew Mccabe but he never took notes when he was with me. I dont believe he made memos except to help his own agenda, probably at a later date. Same with lying james comey. Can we call them fake memos . Mccabes lawyer just responded tweeting this, we will not be responding to each childish, defamatory, disgusting and false tweet by the president. Also says, the tweets confirm this by mccabes attorney the tweets confirm that he has corrupted the entire process that led to mr. Mccabes termination and has rendered it ill legitimate. White house correspondent Boris Sanchez with us now. Lot there, boris. Reporter thats right, fred. President trump spending the morning on the offensive on twitter, going after members of his administration, current and former. He also launched a new line of attack against the special counsel. We really havent seen President Trump go directly after Robert Mueller and his team the way that we have this morning. I want to show you the tweet im talking about now. The president writing why does the mueller team have 13 hardened democrats, some big crooked hillary supporters and zero republicans . Another dem recently added, does anyone think this is fair . And yet there is no collusion. A couple of points there about the president s tweet. Hes trying to argue that the investigation is biased against him because there are no republicans on muellers team. Thats simply inaccurate. Robert mueller himself is a registered republican, someone who served under both republican and Democratic Administrations. Further, some of the attorneys on muellers team have prosecuted both republicans and democrats. Theres no real partisan streak there, and perhaps most importantly, Robert Mueller has a vote of confidence from ron ros rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney general who repeatedly said muler is acting appropriately, that hes carrying out this investigation in pursuit of facts and not allowing personal political views to interfere in the pursuit of those facts. So the president is sounding alarms not only with his own comments but with his attorneys comments. Yesterday john dowd saying he was praying for an end to the russia investigation the way that he worded a Statement Released yesterday led many to believe that the administration was inclined to perhaps fire Robert Mueller, and so today youre hearing a number of lawmakers comiing out saying tht that would be a constitutional crisis. Heres jeff flake, senator from arizona, on state of the Union Earlier today with jake tapper saying that would be a red line the president shouldnt cross. Listen. Do you think Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan will say no, mr. President , you cant do this . I hope so. In talking to my colleagues all along, it was, once he goes after mueller, then well take action. I think that people see that as a massive red line that cant be crossed, so i hope that thats the case, and i would just hope that enough people would prevail on the president now. Dont go there. Dont go there. We have confidence in mueller. I certainly do, and then i think my colleagues do as well. So i hope that the pushback is now to keep the president from going there. Though the cloud of the russia Investigation Continues to hang over the administration, fred, there is some good news for the president this weekend. His job approval numbers have ticked up since january, this according to an nbc news wall street journal poll, showing that his Approval Rating is now at 43 , disapproval at 53, down four points from the start of the year. Finally the president is set to travel to New Hampshire tomorrow. Hes going to give a speech outlining his plan to combat the opioid crisis. Interesting timing on all those fronts. Boris sanchez at the white house, thanks. The big question remains on everyones mind, is the president laying the groundwork for the firing of special counsel rob mueller . Joining me to discuss this is cnn Law Enforcement contributor and retired fbi supervisory special agent stephen moore, former white house ethics czar, norm eisen, analyst David Drucker and commentator ana navarro. David, with the growing attacks by the president , what responsibility do republicans have in defending the Intelligence Community . Well, look, i think what republicans are trying to do is stay out of the line of fire. Theyre approaching a Midterm Election where theyre already in bad shape and one thing that could make it worse, getting into a public spat with the president. The president fires back at them, and their base, in terms of electoral turnout just disappears because they get mad at republicans for fighting with the president and the Republican Base is still with the president , even though many more Republican Voters have issues with the president. So its a very delicate matter for republicans on the hill. In talking to them over many months, they have always expressed publicly and on the record concerns about the idea that the president would fire mueller. One, by having the special counsel on the job it absolves them of the responsibility to do much in terms of looking in to russian meddling and the possibility of collusion. Number two, if the president were to fire mueller, which is in his power to do legally, they would feel compelled to act, and they have told that to me and other reporters over many months, and this is the last thing they want to be involved in as a Midterm Election approaches. So trumps personal lawyer had two statements yesterday, john dowd, saying that he wants muellers probe to end, and then of course the tweets started coming in, the Mueller Probe should never have been started, that there was no collusion, and there was no crime. It was based on fraudulent activities and a fake dossier paid for by crooked hillary and the dnc and improperly used in fisa court for surveillance of my campaign, witch hunt. Republican congressman trey gowdy weighed in on this. To suggest that mueller should shut down and all he is looking at is collusion, if you have an innocent client, mr. Goud, angt like it. Russia attacked our country. Let special counsel mueller figure that out. If you believe theres no evidence of collusion you should want special counsel muler to take all the time and have all the independence he needs to do his job. Steve, are you in aagreement . I am. Hes not going to get a better deal from anybody besides mueller. Mueller will let the facts take him where they take him and if they prove no collusion, then mueller is now this administrations best friend and they should thank god for him. If there is collusion, if there are other things like gowdy said, then mueller will go there and america should thank god for mueller. Nobody should want mueller out right now, no rational person. Turner to former fbi director Andrew Mccabe fired hours before his retirement. Senator marco rubio reacted this morning with this. I dont like the way it happened. He should have been allowed to finish through the weekend. That said, theres an Inspector General report thats due and work thats being done and after he had retired, that report would have indicated wrongdoing or something that was actionable there are things that could have been done after the fact, but 48 hours to go before retirement, i would have certainly done it dempb differently, given the fact theres still that report that hasnt come in. Norm, we heard from mccabes attorney voo hevia were not go respond back and forth with the president. How else, in your view, could this have been handled . Fred, thanks for having me back, and the Mccabe Firing was handled the wrong way. You ought to have let the Inspector General report come out, let all the facts settle and then make a decision, and the stream of invective from trump that has been targeted at mccabe for months now, theres no way we can be confident, whatever the merits may be, that we can be confident this was a fair decision and the spectacle of having his job pulled in order to deny him his pension, less than 48 hours before he was to retire, is just more evidence thats not to say that the report will exonerate him, but it should have been done in a proper way. Right, because apparently the Inspector General report either indicates there were wrongdoings or things that were suspicious allegedly, you know, by mccabe, thereby potentially justifying his firing. Rand paul did not mince words on the way in which this firing took place, and this is what he had to say this morning. I really think general flynn was treated unfairly. I think Andrew Mccabe did worse than general flynn, frankly. Andrew mccabe lied about doing something illegal. He leaked classified documents. General flynn apparently did not state the truth about something he did that was legal. So you wonder, how are we going to make this fair . How are we going to make this just . Again, ana, we dont know if it was an issue of leaking, if it was justifiably talking to reporters and talking about mccabe. Again, we dont have the details of that Inspector General report, but is there kind of a common sentiment across the party in terms of mccabe was deserving of being fired, maybe its just the issue of when that is bringing a lot of consternation . Look, i think youve heard today from people like Lindsey Graham, marco rubio saying they dont like the way that this happened. So i dont think there is a Common Thread within the party. Where there is a Common Thread is in the complicity and the silence they have held as donald trump plucks person by person who stands in the way of him firing mueller. I think the Republican Party is in for a deep, deep reckoning come november, and in large part its because the voters of america have seen time and time and time again that they are not performing their duty of checks and balances of being a coequal branch of government and holding this executive, Holding Donald trump accountable. They keep looking the other way, because it is a guy from their party, and he throws bones at them here and there, and keeps them happy. The republicans have a real problem on their hand, because if they get into a fight with trump over this, they have a short term primary problem. If they dont get into a fight with trump with this over this and stand up for american principles and the constitution and the rule of law, theyve got a longterm problem, like we just saw in pennsylvania today. They learned nothing from a 20point turnaround in a state republicans should have been able to nominate a bag of mulch and that bag of mulch should have been able to win in that district. This new nbc news wall street journal poll looked at the most popular and unpopular political figures and institutions and just like a look, look where the fbi and Robert Mueller stand compared to figures like paul ryan, the president , both major parties, so david, trumps attacks on the fbi and the special counsel is this fueling greater support from him . We just heard our own reporter boris reporting his Approval Ratings got a bump recently. What potentially is behind that . Well, look, i think that the president s rants and attacks on the Intelligence Community definitely have impacted the opinion of the Republican Base, which weve seen now the opinion of intelligence agencies and Law Enforcement agencies sort of change with where the president is, and this sort of fight is what his base likes to see out of him. It keeps them very motivated. To them its about him fighting against the power in washington. Thats how they look at it, and so for the does it look like its starting to backfire if you look at the pennsylvania race, however . I think that it can and potentially will backfire against the president , when you look at battleground house districts in 2018 Midterm Elections where youre competing in upscale, suburban educated enclaves, where you have voters inclined to vote republican but dont like the president , personally dont like his rants and dont like his attacks on the institutions of government, even though theres a good chance theyre going to enjoy many of the president s policies that hes pushed through at least up until now, and this is the problem for republicans, and in particular its a problem with educated white women, and if this continues, then the republican majority in the house is in deep trouble, no matter how you parse out all of these polls, who is more popular than that person, at the end of the day, mitt terms are about the president , and at 43 , its a nice bump for the president compared to where he was, but its still 43 , and in that same poll, we saw a tenpoint disparity in the generic ballot three points outside of where republicans feel confident or comfortable that theyd have a chance to hold the house. Ana, i did see you agreement, your way of adding in. Stephen moore, norm and David Drucker and ana navarro, appreciate it. Breaking news in russia as polls are closing right now, Vladimir Putin most assuredly cementing power for another six years, with polls closing there. Lets get right to Fred Pleitgen outside moscows red square and putin had, what seven opponents, but everyone kind of expects what the outcome will be. Reporter yes, its not much of a surprise, fredricka. We just received the first equity poll from the russian election. Vladimir putin is at around a little less than 74 of the votes that have been counted so far. I think its about 21 of the votes in the country counted so far but as you maybe can hear behind me, theres been Election Party going on, of the Vladimir Putin supporters, about 35,000 are expected here outside the kremlin, as you said, seven people running against Vladimir Putin. Seems the closest runnerup is around 11 so from what we can see so far, seems assured Vladimir Putin will spend another six years in office as the russian president. If anyone in america is wondering who the u. S. President will be dealing with the next couple of years most certainly will be Vladimir Putin. Fred, one watch dog group received more than 2,000 reports of potential irregularities in todays vote. What can you tell us about that . Reporter thats certainly true. There are groups say there were voting irregularities in several places including ballot stuffing, other irregularities as well. Its interesting because russian state media is reporting about that. There is an ombudswoman for the russian government says she does not believe that would make the election void or influence the election. The reports are out there. The russians are looking into those reports but certainly that is something that International Organizations will be looking very clearly at, as well, fredricka. Fred pleitgen in moscow, thanks so much. Mounting pressure on a data firm tied to the Trump Campaign. Cambridge analytica accused of improperly obtaining voter information from facebook. New details of this growing scandal, next. And a teen abducted in pennsylvania and taken across the Mexican Border found safe. Police say her abductor was a member of her church. Details straight ahead. Money managers are pretty much the same. All but while some push High Commission investment products, Fisher Investments avoids them. Some advisers have hidden and layered fees. Fisher investments never does. And while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, Fisher Investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. Maybe thats why most of our clients come from other money managers. 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Dont worry, its free. Credit karma. Give yourself some credit. The calls are growing for facebook to explain who knew what and when about Cambridge Analytica. Senator Amy Klobuchar is tweeting this saying ive called for more transparency and accountability for online political ads. They say trust us. Mark zuckerberg needs to testify before Senate Judiciary and the Massachusetts Attorney general is announcing her office is opening an investigation tweeting this, massachusetts residents deserve answers immediately from facebook and Cambridge Analytica. We are launching an investigation. This comes on the heels of a New York Times report that said Cambridge Analytica collected personal data from 50 million facebook users without their approval. Members of congress are also echoing concerns today. Certainly who knew what when. This is a big deal, when you have that amount of data, and the privacy violations are significant. We ought to be very, very careful about the government collecting that data from private entities. The privacy of the american consumer, the american individual should be protected. We need to find out what we can about the misappropriation of the privacy, the private information of tens of millions of americans, that misappropriate information used by this digital arm of the Trump Campaign to manipulate american voters, and of course the links between Cambridge Analytica and julian assange. Facebook has suspended Cambridge Analytica for violating the social media sites policies, claiming the company obtained user data and then didnt destroy it when requested. The Company Denies any wrongdoing. Joining me right now professor david carroll, who is suing Cambridge Analytica in a British Court to find out what the data firm knows about him. So david, express your concerns, what information do you think Cambridge Analytica got about you and why are you suing . Thank you. Weve been working on this lawsuit for over a year now, back in january, i under british law requested data from the company, and then received it in march and after that, received guidance from experts in United Kingdom that the disclosure couldnt possibly be complete, and couldnt possibly be compliant to the british Data Protection act, and so weve been mounting our legal challenge, and then we filed a claim in British Court on friday, demanding full disclosure. Alexander nicks, the ceo repeatedly brags he has 4,000 to 5,000 data points on every u. S. Voter, but when asked if he would give us each our 4,000, 5,000 data points per british law, he doesnt seem to be interested in doing that. So we have the right to get that data, because our data was processed in the United Kingdom, and so its subject to their laws. So how do you suppose you got roped up . What were some of the questions that you asked in terms of you engaged yourself in the type of q a or polling or profiling via facebook, what kind of information did you provide and how do you believe that information was extracted to assist a political campaign, without your approval . Well, ive been looking at this industry for a while, looking at the Advertising Industry and how its able to collect data and target people, so the Technology Used to sell ski vacations is also used to sell political candidates now. When i received my data, it was too difficult to understand and make sense of how it was generated, so that speaks to the idea that they need to disclose more, so that we can understand how the profile was created, based on what kinds of activities, was it based on my credit card purchases, my website browsing activity, or was it derived from facebook in an elicit manner, now that weve heard from the whistleblower Christopher Wiley . Theres many questions, more questions keep appearing, and none are answered by their disclosure. Reportedly a lot of the information obtained by facebook users unbeknownst to them would then be passed on indirectly to candidates, and in this case, Donald Trumps campaign, which reportedly the campaign would be able to use to its advantage in terms of how to target certain viewers. Do you believe that that indeed happened . Well, certainly just from the data that they supplied me, they would certainly be able to find persuadable voters in the competitive districts and be able to figure out maybe the top three hot button issues that really animated that voter, and then could microtarget them for messages about those issue, directly on facebook and direct a on their set top box. The industry is able to microtarget people individually now, and so if you could figure out these issues then you could figure out how to communicate directly to specific voters. In most campaigns would say thats smart campaigning but youre saying unbeknownst to you your personal information may have been obtained and other users may have been obtained for this purpose without your knowing and so thereby thats wrong, in your view. Indeed, and theres so many concerns about this company, which is under investigation by the house, the senate, special counsel, now the attorney general of massachusetts. Its also under investigation in United Kingdom by its regulator, the information commissioner, and by parliament, and so the related issues for this Company Create a lot of distress for americans, who may not understand how our private data was used potentially against us, but luckily british law allows us to get answers. All right, david carroll, thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me. 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I will try to make a point to the American People and maybe the American People will rise up and say you know, we stand in solidarity with those who seek freedom from torture, not the freedom to torture. Its inconsistent with who we are as a people to have someone run our spy agency that has this enormous power who is intimately involved with torture and from everything were reading was supportive of the policy so no, i cant support that. I thinks and outlier, senator paul, within the Republican Party and i will be looking for her to understand that the law has changed, and she cannot engage in these interrogation techniques. I think it undercuts our National Security but in terms of our qualifications to me theyre second to none. Back with me analyst David Drucker and ana navarro. Ana, you first, can senator paul filibuster and stop these nominations or will he just slow down their inevitable confirmations . Are you asking me . Yes, ana. Look, theres a lot he can do. Theres a lot one senator can do to tie up a nomination process. We have seen it play out over and over again. I think its a little weird when it comes to pompeii knpompeo. He has been confirmed once already and its not often that you see people like john mccain and rand paul on the same page. They are about this nominee for cia, for director of the cia, but i think every single nominee deserves a chance to be questioned, needs to be questioned vigorously, deserves a chance to give answers to see how, if anything, has evolved in their thinking. I think he deserves that chance. He should ask very tough questions but this idea of having, you know, vacancies in our top government is something that i dont think is a good look for america, certainly not in the times we are living. When we are, you know, seeing so much going on, on the russia front, so much going on, in the north korea front, and i do think Lindsey Graham is right. There is no doubt rand paul is an outlier, a little bit of a libertarian. He goes out on his own, you know, battles against windmills all the time. That being said, john mccain has some of the very same concerns when it comes to the torture. Ill get to mccain but paul may not be alone, too, because there are so many or there are more republicans who are expressing they dont like the way in which people are being removed, because President Trump is sending signals that they have to be thinking the same. So it may not be an issue of vacancies but looking for the right candidates . Ana . Well, look, if they dont like the way people are being removed, and they shouldnt, i think it is very concerning, forget as republicans or democrats, its concerning as americans to think that the primary requirement in order to be apointed by this administration is to be a yes man or yes woman to this president , who knows so little about policy, who is so erratic and so rather unstable, so republicans should be bothered. Republicans should be doing their job of advice and consent, but you know, republican words are worth less and less every day, because they talk about being disappointed, about being disturbed, but then they look away, and they sit there in silence. We have seen, what weve seen this month, fred, should bother us so much. Do you think, do you think that if there were 30, 40 people without security clearances in the white house under a Democratic Administration and those people had been handling classified information like rob porter did, the republicans would not have called immediately and rightly so for a congressional investigation. Right. And yet time and time again, we see them sit in silence, whether it be mccain, whether it be rob porter, whether it be Stormy Daniels on issues that should be of concern to all americans. Well there has been a lot of unorthodox or nontraditional if you want to put it that way. David, back to john mccain, ana brought it up. John mccain former prisoner of war, vietnam, he, too, expressed his real concerns about haspel because of interrogation methods used during another, george w. Bush administration. How influential might he be . He is still undergoing his medical challenges, while in arizona, but he has already proven to be influential even from afar. What john mccain has to say about National Security matters in particular carries a lot of weight and the administration has to work to get haspel confirmed simply because the republicans have a very thin 5149 majority and they cannot count on all of their members to vote for haspels confirmation, and i think youre going to see a lot of Democrats Join with some republicans that are concerned about her role in enhanced interrogation techniques or torture, depending on how you want to look at it. I think on mike pompeo that rand paul will be someone on an island unto himself, because if you look at pompeos record, he is an internationalist. Hes a hawk on russia. He understands the threat coming from china. In other words, if you think that President Trump has isolationist tendencies, doesnt value american alliances and isnt taking seriously enough the problems were facing from russia and from beijing, mike pompeo is the kind of thinker you want advising the president every day. I think that a lot of republicans are encouraged, even if they didnt like the way Rex Tillerson was fired, theyre encouraged to have mike pompeo and somebody like him the way he looks at the world moving into the secretary of state position. We shall see. David drucker, ana navarro, thanks, appreciate it. Thanks, fred. A missing pennsylvania teen found safe in mexico. The 45yearold man found with her is now under arrest. The bizarre details as authorities try to piece together the personal connection, next. Whoooo. Looking for a hotel that fits. Your budget . Tripadvisor now searches over. 200 sites to find you the. Hotel you want at the lowest price. Grazi, gino find a price that fits. Tripadvisor. Glorious by speaking in french this is what our version of Financial Planning looks like. Tomorrow is important, but this officially completes his education. Spend your life living. Find an advisor at northwesternmutual. Com. But having his parents over was enlightening. 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Nearly two weeks after a 16yearold pennsylvania girl vanished with a 45yearold man, the pair was found in mexico, and the man was arrested. 16yearold amy yu was reported missing by her mother march 5th after she didnt come home from school. Investigators believe the teen willingly ran off with the 45yearold kevin easterly. Cnns jean casarez joins us with an update on the case. What can you tell us . Reporter the young girl, amy, is back home with her family. She is safe and sound. Kevin easterly is in miami at this point, in custody of the u. S. Marshal and Homeland Security and he will be facing extradition back to the commonwealth of pennsylvania. Now, the affidavit of probable cause of which he is charged at this point which is under the commonwealth pennsylvania interference with custody of a child, it says that it was a secretive relationship. Were learning more and more of the back story here, the facts. The families had known each other for at least five years and gone on vacations together, gone to amusement parks together, so thats how they got to know each other and it was all through their church. Well, we know that on february 9th, this young girl action was checked out of school by kevin easterly and it was reported that the mother said that her daughter had actually confessed to police saying that she knew that, that she had put him on as her stepfather to allow to be taken out of school, Lehigh Valley academy said it happened ten times in the last few months. Police went to kevin easterly and his wife and said stay away from this family but then on march 5th, thats when amy never made it to school. She had taken money, jewelry, and personal identification out of her home. 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