Unnerving is that reinking, in 2017, crossed into a restricted area at the white house, and was arrested. He told secret Service Agents he had a meeting or wanted to meet with President Trump, he also said hes a sovereign citizen, he had a raight to inspect the grounds. In 2016, he told police he believed that taylor swift was stalking him. He also in other instances said he was hearing voices and he believed that his computer was being hacked. What happened after 2017 is the fbi recommended that his weapons be taken away from him, in his home state of illinois. They were given back to him, however, when he moved to the nashville area in 2017, by his father, the man who was supposed to keep those guns away from him. Now, we know that this could have been a lot worse if not for the heroic actions of one individual who was there at shooting, james shaw jr. Who got into a scuffle with the gunman and was able to disarm him before the gunman fled. Yesterday, james shaw jr. Spoke to the media saying hes not a hero. I actually went behind, like, a push door, swivel door, and he shot through that door, im pretty sure. And im pretty sure he grazed my arm. And it was at that time i kind of made up my mind, because there is no way to lock that door, that if it was going to come down to it, he was going to have to work to work to kill me. Reporter there are four victims in all, four of them that died, all in their 20s. Taurean sundayer ly sanderlin, akilah dasilva, deebony groves also died. We should mention there are two victims still in the hospital, theyre listed in stable condition. Nick valencia for us in antioch, tennessee. Well have much more on this manhunt throughout the morning. Thank so much, nick. A big week in diplomacy for President Trump. Major meetings with Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel coming up. It isnt clear from the president s writing that these meetings are on his mind. Lets go to the white house. Kaitlan collins is there. The president seems to be focused on far Different Things. Reporter it does. He does seem to be focused on far Different Things here, john. It is going to be a consequential week for the president. The First Official state visit where hes hosting the french president and his wife who are expected to arrive here today. But, of course, on twitter, the president is all over the place over the weekend, a remarkable weekend for him, actually, on twitter. Hes usually tweeting more on the weekends when hes not here at the white house. This weekend he may have broken a record with 24 tweets from friday evening to sunday evening. All over the place. A lot about the Michael Cohen story in the New York Times, the president s legal team and advisers resigned to the fact he could cooperate with the federal officials who are investigating him. The president disagreeing with that, writing on twitter he doesnt believe Michael Cohen will flip. Of course, several other things as well, referring to one former aide as a drunk, drugged up loser, tweeting about north korea and what not. Back to Michael Cohen, the president was also tweeting about pardons this weekend, pardoning that former boxing champion jack johnson and there were a couple of questions as to why the president was tweeting about that this weekend, whether or not hes thinking of pardoning Michael Cohen, should it come to that. Here is what the press secretary Sarah Sanders said this morning on that. Is the president open to a pardon for Michael Cohen . I dont think that were going to talk about hypotheticals that dont exist now. Talking about jack johnson, Scooter Libby something on the table for quite some time. That call took place to my im trying to remember, probably close to a month ago, so this is something that has been ongoing. Why tweet about it this weekend then . Were getting close to the second conversation on that front. So it certainly could be that they are getting close to that pardon. But it could be the president reminding people about his pardoning power here. Sarah sanders asked the president had received assurances from Michael Cohen hes not going to but she said she isnt aware of any conversations they have had since the fbi raided Michael Cohens home, office and hotel, john. All right, Kaitlan Collins at the white house. Thank you very much. Joining me now, Tara Setmayor and contributor michael nutter, former mayor of philadelphia. Mayor, i want to start with you. The White House Press secretary just refused to rule out the possibility of a pardon for Michael Cohen, the president s lawyer, who had his offices, home, hotel room raided and investigated by the fbi. The president also wrote at length over the weekend about Michael Cohen. Pretty interesting to hear all of this talk what has been ruled in and ruled out, no . Yeah. Sarah sanders was she was struggling. She was searching for some words. Her lips were moving, but it was very difficult to figure out what in the world she was talking about. I have no idea why donald trump at the moment cares about great boxer jack johnson. But i think the Previous Report alludes to the president is literally just floating out the words pardon, and hoping that Michael Cohen receives the message. This is like a little bit of a Jedi Mind Trick here. And trying to influence quite frankly what Michael Cohen does. The president should not count, i think, on Michael Cohen. I dont know Michael Cohen from a can of paint, but my impression is hes not built for prison and with a young family, hes going to do ultimately whats in his best interests or he should. So, tara, the mayor here suggesting Jedi Mind Tricks by the president. Possible. These are not the droids youre looking for. Inside the president s writing over this weekend, hes criticizing some of the sources written about inside the New York Times article. And part of it here i want to read to you and get your reaction. He talks in the New York Times and says they use nonexistent sources in a drunk, drugged up loser who hates michael. I dont know for sure who the president is talking about right now, but sam nunberg is quoted inside maggie has been bermans article. Should a president , should anyone be talking about addiction issues in that way . Of course not. The president shouldnt be talking about a special counsel investigation, an ongoing federal criminal investigation into his personal lawyer. Shouldnt be talking about any of these things like this on twitter. None of this is okay. None of it is normal. It is ill advised, even legally. I dont know any lawyer worth their salt that would approve of a client discussing a case that theyre potentially involved in this way, never mind the president of the United States and then, yes, the insensitivity of drug addiction or especially from someone that is claiming that the Opioid Crisis is a priority, in his administration, to be so cavalier about that, i saw the sam nunberg series of interviews and it was clearly someone who needs help. And to minimize that, it just seems just goes to show you, excuse me, either he doesnt care or that hes just so selfabsorbed that it doesnt matter who he attacks in his in his ire when he decides to go on twitter and throw a temper tantrum. I want to add, the president has written extensively, talks about the wall, wanting to build the wall again, talking about mexico paying for it, could be part of the nafta deal, talks about sanctuaries, he says he rolled his eyes. Im curious why you rolled your eyes and why you think the president is bringing that up this morning . This is what he does when hes under attack. There are other things coming up that are that hurt his presidency considerably, he goes back to his bread and butter, immigration, Border Security, those are the issues, the wall, those are the issues that help propel him to the top of the republican ticket during the campaign. He knows that gets his base riled up. So im not rolling my eyes at the idea of Border Security. I worked on immigration for many years on capitol hill. Im a hawk on Border Security. But i just the way he does it, it is so flippant that now it is back to Border Security again this week. He does this when hes in trouble. To deflect from what hes in trouble for, to get his base focused on what is over here instead of whats in front of him. Im going to get in trouble for bringing this up now. Ill talk about it later in the show. Mike pompeo is in trouble in committee. The Committee Vote to confirm him to be secretary of state. He could lose the Committee Vote. It will go to a full senate vote. In all likelihood it will pass the full senate because democratic nor Heidi Heitkamp and other red state democrats might vote yes. You could make a case he will become secretary of state with votes because of votes from democrats. And, you know, there are people who will criticize that in private, but should democrats, if they dont want to see mike pompeo and secretary of state be criticizing it in public. Are these Democratic Senators letting you down, mayor . Well, mike pompeo has a whole bunch of issues in his record that from my perspective would disqualify him from being secretary of state because of his previous service. Im assuming that some of the democrats that youre mentioning may be, you know, anticipating some electoral concerns but i think the vote for secretary of state is one of conscience and should be least as political as possible. So, you know this will not be the first elected officials to, you know, let personal interests, political interests intervene, but i think this is a serious position, mike pompeo should not be secretary of state based on his previous service. Tara, the president also criticizing democrats for holding up this vote and other votes as well. Do you feel as if democrats are mucking up the system in a different way than we have seen in the past, partisan politics have played a role . I dont think it is any different. This is a tactic that both sides use in the senate, particularly, when it comes to nominations. Unfortunately this time around the president has put up some questionable nominees that probably dont shouldnt be confirmed. And we have seen this in the past with some others going through the confirmation process, even they have withdrawn or, you know there has been some type of an issue. But it is a tactic that both democrats and republicans use when theyre in the minority. He did put out a tweet where we said we need more republicans so this obstructionist these tactics cant happen, well, you know, all it takes is one senator to hold up a nomination and so having more of one or the other doesnt really matter. All it takes is one. He knows most people dont know how to byzantine rules of the senate work. So it is just a political tactic to keep thats what you do in a midterm. I cant believe politics are at play here. Mayor nutter, thanks so much for being with us. I do appreciate it. Ahead, more on what it is looking what is looking to be an historic snub. The president s pick for secretary of state, it is likely to fail inside the senate committee. What does that mean . And remarkable few days for the first lady. Today, Melania Trump planning a major state visit at the white house, and what shes been up to the last day, last few days in the very public pictures that went viral. Why . 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He was, of course, currently serves as the cia director. He was nominated relatively easily to that post. And before that he served as a member of congress from kansas. It was during that time as a conservative republican that he made some comments about muslims that have some of these members of the United States senate a little bit concerned. But it is his other credentials that republicans say make him a good candidate for secretary of state. Graduated the top of his class at west point. Was also a harvard law grad. And thats some of the arguments that republicans are going to be making today and when this vote moves to the full senate confirmation, and it is expected as you mentioned, john, that he will be the first secretary of state to not receive a favorable confirmation at the Senate Judiciary level. And that means it is the full senate vote that were going to have to keep an eye on. It is likely going to be a couple of democrats that come over and vote yes to push pompeo over the finish line. We know that senator Heidi Heitkamp of north dakota is going to be a yes vote. There are a couple of other democrats to watch. Senator joe manchin of west virginia. Also doug jones from alabama. And there is also one republican were still keeping an eye on, jeff flake of arizona. Hes not said whether or not hes going to vote yes. It is because of rand pauls decision, the senator from kentucky, that mike pompeo is not going to receive that favorable vote later today and it is also one of the reasons that democrats are going to have to come over and vote for him if hes expected to be a confirmed as a secretary of state. Certainly a rocky entry for mike pompeo into this position, this very important position as secretary of state, but, john, it is expected even though it is going to be difficult for him to get to that point that he will ultimately become the next secretary of state. Ryan nobles up on capitol hill, thank you very much. Joining me now is mike rogers, mr. Chairman, you are so intellectually and politically nimble, im going to ask you to argue both sides in an argument now. Mike pompeo is likely to be rejected by the Senate Foreign relations committee. It will likely be a no vote. First, make the case that this is at least symbolically important and then make the case that it doesnt matter at all. Well, for the symbolism of it i think the democrats will try to push back and have been pushing back on lots of nominees for the president. So in their mind this energizes their base, just like the President Trump goes out and tweets that on the wall and other things to try to get his base fired up, i think thats what youre seeing from the democrats, even on the committee, trying to push back and finding issues they think can be politically viable for them moving forward. On the other side, it is not going to matter. Hes going to be secretary of state. I think hes already shown hes able to put some things together. You look at north korea, i think people are kind of, you know, p poohpoohing it, but this is big movement and real opportunity, also opportunity for it to get off the tracks, but there is real opportunity for movement where we havent seen that in north korea in 20 years. Lets talk about north korea, since you shifted there again, showing off your intellectual agility right there. The president wrote among other things this weekend, wow, we havent given up anything and they have agreed to denuclearization, so great for the world, site closure and no more testing. It isnt true that the north koreans have agreed to denuclearization, not even close. What kim jongun has agreed to is no more testing and closing a testing site. Those two things are very different. Very, very different. But it is movement. So i think the president , you know, takes a fact and sprinkles some dust on it and moves out smartly. But what heres the thing. The president is certainly going to get out and try to spin that. What needed to happen, the National Security folks for a long time have been pushing, hey, if you ramp up military pressure, meaning show up in the pacific in a real way, the United States, with military resources that could actually take out kim jongun, that happened. And so that pressure was building over time, and, remember, the whole thing that kim jongun was if i get Nuclear Weapons, thats it, this was a big step to get the meeting. It doesnt mean any of that stuff cant be turned back on, bought there had to be concessions in the for those of us who believe you couldnt allow kim jongun just to show up with no penalty. Well, he put something on the table. He said im going to close the site and stop testing. That doesnt mean were even close. That means he was willing to do that to get the meeting. Thats a great outcome. Still lots of ways for this thing to go wrong, but a good outcome. We shouldnt be too braggadocio. We ought to be focused on trying to rally our allies including china in this and the south koreans in line with u. S. Position on where kim jongun ought to be after the meeting. The cynics, the critics of putting too much weight on this say that kim jongun hasnt given up anything that hes not perfectly willing to give up already. No more testing doesnt matter if you already have Nuclear Weapons, which he appears to. Saying that the United States can keep its troops in south korea doesnt matter if there is no way the United States was ever going to withdraw its troops from south korea. Well, the only difference i would have there is that the again, all of those if skeptics are right to be skeptical about this, my wife says im an eternal optimist, it is a genertic defect, ill optimistic for a couple of reasons, he said under any conditions that u. S. Troops have to leave the peninsula. He changed to get the meeting. He said would do whatever he wanted on nuclear testing. So the suspension of it was a big deal in the sense that he made some offering of which we could see. We could verify. To me, thats a big difference here. And that subtlety of that, in a longterm diplomatic effort to get kim jongun off of his Nuclear Weapons program is huge. Now, again, lots of ways this could go wrong, including, by the way, if the president is too far ahead of his headlights on this. We need a really smart long engaged diplomatic effort, take what he has offered, have the meeting, see if we can get to step two. Thats what i would recommend to them. I would only note if you were an eternal optimist, you would say it is a genetic gift, not a defect there. We just had joaquin castro, the House Intelligence Committee on this show, a short time ago, who said if the democrats take over the house, he believes they should reopen the house intelligence investigation into the whole russian meddling matter. Is that, a, surprising, b, politically important . Listen, at some point, you know where i stood on all this, i believe mueller should have the freedom to do the investigation. The ig report on both what the fbi did and what the russians were up to, all of that is really important. At some point you have to stop, this has been going on for a long time. So my argument to mueller is if you have some evidence here, lets go, bring it out, lets deal with it. If not, at some point we have to stop the eternal investigations that happen surrounding this, and the clubs that come out. So the investigations that have happened on the Intel Committee already have been candidly quite partisan. And partisan in nature, both from the democrats and the republicans. If it switches, youll get more of the same. I dont know how that is helpful to the country moving on and trying to heal itself and then actually producing something that would stop the russians from interfering in our elections. Mr. Chairman, mike rogers, great to have you with us. Thank you very much. Thank you. The ar15 used in the deadly shooting in a tennessee waffle house, it had been taken away from the suspect less than a year ago after an arrest at the white house. How did this man get the weapon back . 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Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. Happening now, some schools around nashville are on lockout this morning, which means noall. Why . Police and federal agents are looking for the man who opened fire at a waffle house early sunday morning. Four people were killed, others wounded before a customer jumped the attacker and took away his ar15. The shooter got away, youre looking at a picture of the suspect right now. He is still believed to be armed and dangerous. And police say there were no credible sightings overnight. Joining me now, cnn Law Enforcement contributor, retired fbi supervisory special agent steve moore. Thank you for being with us. How far away do you believe this suspect is at this point . Among other things he carried this attack out naked, wearing nothing but a jacket and ran off. What do you believe the status of the manhunt to be . I think right now youre going to be looking in the general wooded area around antioch, where he could have gotten so far. If you keep in mind that hes still got his main currency, which is going to be a firearm, he can get pretty much whatever he wants, whenever he wants it, if he sees people. And thats what youre looking for this morning. Overnight, we dont know necessarily what hes done. It is very possible that hes carjacked somebody, stolen a car, taken somebody, we wont know until there is reports of missing or items or missing people in the morning. Otherwise, hes hunkered down in the woods. What authorities have done to this point publicly is release this picture, youre looking at right now. Also learned his past. Im interested im curious about why no more information. They have played things pretty close to the vest. Is that because they dont want to tip him off . Yeah. I mean, there is certain things youre going to do to follow somebody like this. And if you tell the public what theyre going to do to follow him, hes not going to do those things. Hes going to not do certain things that the authorities really need him to do in order to find him. We also learned that this man was arrested at the white house last year after jumping a barrier. Didnt get within the white house grounds per se, but arrested. The fbi investigated and then state and local officials in illinois took his weapons away for a period of time. They deemed him too dangerous to have weapons. Then local officials there, county officials, gave the weapons back to the father. Which i understand is within the law in illinois right now. But does this suggest some kind of systemic problem to you . Yes, this is going to have to be the next thing we deal with. I have seen too many situations where a where weapons were taken away from a person who which was deemed to be too dangerous to have firearms, and then authorities later gave firearms or allowed firearms in the possession of a household member. In one case, the person had a safe, a firearm safe, and they kept the guns away from the person who shouldnt have them by keeping his combination safe. Well, eventually he decided he trusted him again, and gave him the combination. He used those guns to kill people. We have to get realistic about the fact that when you take away guns from one person, you need to take away guns from the people who would be likely to give them back to him. Back to the manhunt, you know, hopefully this apprehension will happen soon. What do you believe ultimately and generally speaking how do perpetrators like this get caught . Well, if you go back to eric robert rudolph, he survived for months and months and months in the wilderness. He knew what he was doing. He prepared for it. He was clothed, for instance. There is no indication that reinking has any idea how to survive in this kind of weather in this kind of situation and he left for all intents and purposes wearing only pants. I would say that he is going to be caught sooner rather than later. I do, however, believe that it is probably going not going to be the standard, okay, i give up, you got me. There is no reason to believe that a delusional man who already killed four strangers and still probably has a gun is going to sit there and go pleasantly into that good night. Let us hope there is no more violence. Steve moore, thank you for your expertise, i appreciate it. President trump said he may pardon boxer jack johnson, jailed under jim crow laws. The president says it was a suggestion from Sylvester Stallone, but is there more about the timing here . Theres little rest for a single dad. And back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. Then i found aleve pm. 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President trump says hes considering a posthumous pardon for the first africanamerican heavyweight boxing Champ Jack Johnson who was jailed under heinous circumstances under jim crow laws. The president is throwing out that possibility during a series of statements he made over the weekend that had to do with Michael Cohen, his own personal lawyer. The president claims Sylvester Stallone who played rocky called him to talk about the jack johnson pardon. Join ming me to discuss, paul callan. I want to talk about jack johnson briefly, but in so fsof it relates to today. Number one, i think we can all agree that this was a horrific heinous conviction, wrong conviction utterly terrible. Based on racism because he was the first africanamerican heavyweight champion, and he richly deserves a pardon. However, lets talk about that, however, two things here, why hasnt he been pardoned, what is the complication with pardoning people posthumously, and number two, do you think that the president s sudden interest in this is only because of boxing . No, i think his interest in this has a lot to do with Michael Cohen and possibly other people that he might be considering pardoning in the future. I truly believe that his focus on pardons has something to do with that. The reason, by the way, that this case hasnt resulted in a pardon, by the way, even obama did not pardon him when he was, you know, senator mccain and others begged him to issue the pardon and he didnt. But obama and other president s have said no to historic pardons because it takes up the resources of the justice department. You have thousands of people who are really in jail today who deserve pardons and clemency, Just Department spends ten months investigating these things and if all those resources go to giving historic pardons, what happens to the guys in jail now . Lets talk about Michael Cohen, which may or may not be connected to the jack johnson interest for the president of the United States. I was struck by the fact that the president was writing so extensively about Michael Cohen over the weekend. You put the tweet up on the screen, what a fine guy he is, business man of his own account, hell never flip on me, hes not the type of guy to flip on me. The president indicates. Is that odd or potentially dangerous for the president to be writing about . Sounds like the godfather, so and so, youll never go, hell never flip. What is truly bizarre about it is to say hes not going to flip, well, when you say that, youre saying, i did something illegal that he knows about, that he would have to flip over. If youre a truly innocent person, you dont say hell never flip on me. You say he has nothing on me. Let him say whatever he wants. Thats not what the president is saying. Hes talking like an organized criminal, saying our guys never flip. So i find it to be bizarre that the president would send out a tweet like that. He says sometimes someone under pressure will make things up to mitigate the circumstances, but doesnt say Michael Cohen has nothing on me. Talk quickly about james comey, the special counsel, spelled incorrectly, was established based on an illegal act. Does everybody know what that means . What the president is suggesting is this is a case of fruit from the poison tree here, right . That because james comey may have done something wrong leaking the documents, that everything that happened after that is somehow flawed. The president needs a lesson in constitutional law. The fruit of the poisonous tree only applies as the violation of the u. S. Constitution the police sees evidence and from that evidence they learn of other things and they make out a case against you. Even if comey illegally leaked classified information, that doesnt violate the u. S. Constitution. So that doctrine would not apply. Paul callan, thank you very much for being with us, appreciate it. Melania trump steps into the spotlight this week, she has been in the spotlight the last few days. It will be her first state dinner. What is being planned and also well talk about some of the photos that have made so much news over the last few days. Ancestrydna has 5x more detail than other tests. And its now on sale for just 59. It can lead you on an unexpec ted journey. To discover your heritage. 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A big few days for Melania Trump. Shes spent months planning First Official state dinner of the Trump Administration without help from an event planner. And yet just days before the event, she was in texas attending the funeral of former first lady barbara bush. Our White House Reporter kate bennett, the first to report on the first ladys involvement for planning for this dinner. What have you learned . It is true. She didnt hire an event planner, which is actually fairly common in recent history for first ladies to do. Michelle obama had that and barack obama that big final italian state dinner on the lawn that was tented, chandeliers, gwen stefani performed, a huge to do. This will be a little different. The trump state dinner will be about 100 to 150 people inside the state dining room at the white house. As we said, first lady planned everything from the menu to the chair cushions, thats what the social secretary told me. Shes really been actively involved and i think a lot of it will have touches of the french american relationship, often the state dinners do, and the menu and color scheme and flowers, a sneak peek of that later this evening when the white house lets some press in to take a look. This is definitely a pressure moment for Melania Trump who, you know, is certainly has spent a lot of time focusing on this and well see how it goes. Pressure moment, Melania Trump very visible over the weekend, attending the funeral of former first lady barbara bush. There were some photos that have caused people have been talking about them. Thats right. I mean, listen, the first lady said almost two days before the president that she was going to go pay her respects in person to the bush family on the loss of barbara bush and that was something she wanted to do. She is sitting right next to somebody that quite frankly during the campaign she, you know, implied was part of the birther movement, the president wasnt born in america. Michelle obama joked about the handing her that present on the ellen show, the Hillary Clinton quote unquote crooked hillary her husband likes to call on twitter, shes walking into a real lions den of adversaries and she was embraced by them and vice versa. I think the pictures indicate this funeral superseded any sort of politics and that it became a very gracious moment between former president s and former first ladies and the current first lady. About no one other than barbara bush and should not have been about anyone other than barbara bush and first lady Melania Trump looked comfortable and happy and smiling when conversing with the other former leaders. The duchess of cambridge has given birth to a baby boy. Kate middle son and Prince William welcomed their third child. Both kate and the baby are doing well. Our royal correspondent max foster outside of the hospital in london with the latest. Max . Reporter very exciting here. Were expecting Prince William to leave the hospital in the next ten minutes or so and go and pick up george and charlotte, who havent met their little baby brother just yet. Theyre going to go hes going to go back to the palace, pick them up, probably arrive half an hour later and then go to the hospital behind us. At some point today, we expect to see them. They havent actually been decided whether or not theyre going to leave today. Theyre going to make that decision in a couple of hours time. Were in the going to see all five of them together, im told, just the parents and the baby on the steps. It could be tomorrow morning, so they might want to stay an extra night, make these decisions usually they will leave on the day of the birth, but havent made that Decision Just yet. So some recovery to be done, i think. No doubt. In terms of the decisions to be made, we still do not know the name of the new baby boy. And, max, i should tell you, we caused quite a stir, an international incident, with our last discussion about the babys name. I suggested that maybe severis albus windsor would be a good name, homage to harry potter. J. K. Rowling, the writer, said they discussed names and the anchor said hes rooting for severis albus to tie everything together and i had an out of body how did this happen moment. What are the leading candidates for the names . Reporter we dont know. They kept it to themselves. Were saying philip. Ill pick a name out there. Something that goes with the title of prince. So Prince Philip is one that rings true. I know that prince harry and Prince William are very close to Prince Philip. If there is any sort of name to go for really, but i prefer yours, actually. You have more leeway with number three, dont you . Not going to be king. He can be who he wants to be. And j. K. 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There have been significant questions raised about his qualifications, is this someone with the experience necessary, especially the experience necessary to and management style to lead such a large agency. And also there is a lot of unknowns about him, the fact that Ronny Jackson does not have a long track record in terms of policy. So likely will be a lot of questions about where he stands on significant policy questions that senators want to see answered. Remember, a lot of times that we see most recent time we have seen Ronny Jackson, the most high profile time is when he appeared in the White House Briefing room as a white house physician, defending President Trumps health. Here he was back in january. How a guy who eats mcdonalds and all those diet cokes and never exercises is as in good of shape as you say he is. It is called genetics. Some people have great genes. I told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 years, he might live to be 200 years old. He has incredible genes i just assume. That was Ronny Jackson in january, of course. Hell be up here on capitol hill in a much different role, and certainly huge issue for democrats, will he be for or against privatizing the va . Many senators said they were left with the impression coming out of those meetings he had appeared on capitol hill last week that hes against privatizing the va. So certainly a lot going into this hearing on wednesday. John . Sunlen serfaty on capitol hill. Thank you very much. Nearby where sunlen is, the line is forming outside the Supreme Court, ahead of the hearing on the president s travel ban. On wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear if President Trump can restrict travel to the United States from several countries. The latest version of the travel ban restricts entry to foreign nationals from iran, libya, somalia, syria, north korea and venezuela. Thank you for joining me today. Im john berman. At this hour with kate bolduan starts right now. Hello, everyone. Im kate bolduan. President trump blows up twitter and white house staffers face the blowback. Two dozen tweets between friday and sunday and it is not just the sheer volume that deserves attention, it is who he targets and the questions it all raises this morning that matter as well. Many of them angrily focused on the president s public battles and the investigation of his personal attorney Michael Cohen. If cohen is charged, will he cooperate with investigators . And flip on the president. Is he setting the stage to fire