A book that youre ready to share with the world . Get published now, call for your free publisher kit today this is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. President trump sitting down with reuters a short time ago talking about hush money payment to what he predicts will be a probable revolt if he is impeached. He also was asked about the numerous russian contacts on the many people who work for him on his campaign and transition dismissing it as peanut stuff. Well get to all of that in a bit and then the president sitting down with the Senate Majority leader and incoming house of the speaker of the house i should say. Whew. Its a rough night. Chuck and nancys likes to call them. If you didnt see that today, you missed it. The meeting was to discuss funding for trumps border wall to avoid a potential Government Shutdown next week, the wall mexico was supposed to pay for. Trump is now trying to get funding from congress for it and making this extraordinary admission. We disagree. I am proud to shut down the government for border security, chuck, because the people of this country dont want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country. So i will take the mantle. I be the one to shut it down. The last time you shut it down it, didnt work. I will take the mantle of absoluting down. Im going to shut it down for border security. Wow. Shutting down the government is a potential political stunt bo have incredible consequences but the president seems completely fine with it. He doubled down and said it more than once, like three times today if not more. The breaking news on President Trumps first partial security adviser, im talking about Michael Flynn. Here to discuss is charlie dent, frank bruni and ryan lizza. Good evening to all of you. So frank, lets start with you because tonight Michael Flynn is asking a federal judge to keep him out of prison. Mueller did say that he providd substantial assistance. How do you see this all playing out . I dont know. He could get his request because mueller has said he was an enormous help. Theres no promise there. We dont know whats going to happen with a lot these people when it comes to cooperation versus reward. He seems to be in the best position. The president , congress man says its peanut stuff, thats how he responded when asked about the people who work ford him and they had by our count, 16 people had contacts with russia. Why did not one of them report them to the fbi . Sounds like you want to say thats a good question. Well, there appears to are attempts at collusion. And what can you say . I mean it, so many of these people in this Administration Just have had a problem with the truth. They come into contact with the pruth, there will be a mighty collusion. What we come to expect. Its a dumpster fire. Do you think all of this is a copicy dense . 16 coincidences . I ran for office many times. I cant fathom why any campaign would be talking to a hostile foreign power at all. It doesnt make any sense, not to mention there were maybe 16 contacts. Clearly the russians were trying to infiltrate the campaign. Whether they did that successfully or not i dont know. But its a mess. Go ahead. Whether they did it successfully or not in a sense doesnt matter. If the willingness was there if people in trumps orbit and campaign were happy to cooperate, include with them, then whether it really kind of yielded great consequences is beside the point in terms of cullable ability. The president told rioters tonight he is not concerned about impeachment. Its hard to impeach somebody who has created the greatest economy in the history of our country. I think that the people would revolt if that happened. I says hes not worried. Should he be worried . Revolt. Well, look, were only at the beginning of understanding what mueller knows, right . And we do know that mueller believes the president was told someone essentially to commit a Campaign Finance crime, right . So on the one hand, i think trump and his defender will have a case that perhaps he didnt intend to do that because intent is a very important part of this law and maybe its not the most serious crime in the world. On the other hand, crimes that help a politician get elected, in other words, crimes that thwart the democratic process, you know, that will a lot of people will argue that that is the most serious kind of crime, right . What is exactly what impeachment was designed to deal with. Say we start with these Campaign Finance violations that mueller believes are quite serious and to that something related to russia. Something in the realm of collusion. Then you have two baskets of very serious issues that essentially thwarted the democratic process. Im not saying were necessarily there yet, but that is one place that this all could be headed and then you start to see quite a powerful argument for impeachment going forward. But we might be getting ahead ourselves a little bit because we dont note everything mueller is going to put in front of the public. That is an unusual number of contacts, right . Im wondering this interview, frank, came just hours after the interview today where he said he would be proud to shut down the federal government over a border wall. Do you think this was an attempt at distraction. I think we sometimes say the president is trying to distract people when were seeing his monkey man. This is a man who has a hard time focusing, being disciplined about everything. We sometimes attribute these great powerses of distraction and his mind is jumping all over the place because hes undisciplined. Hes impulsive. How much were you and your party cringing, charlie, as this all played out . The president took full responsibility for shutting the government down, were you like ugh or did you think it was a good thing . That was very bad. Theres a very simple way out of this. There are seven Appropriations Bills that need to be passed. Six of them are ready. Theyre negotiated with the democrats. They can be pass tomorrow. They should pass them and i would do a continuing resolution on the Homeland Security bill where the wall funding is and pump. Thats the way you deal with this. Nancy was right about something. Go on. She said you dont have the votes, mr. President. Shes right. I can tell you there are not 218 republican votes to pass what would be a mini bus or omnibus appropriations bill. There never were. House republicans always need some House Democrats to pass a bill like that and the senate you need 60 votes there. Clearly republicans dont have 60 votes in the senate. Democratic votes will be needed to pass these spending bills. The president said i have the votes. Well, he doesnt. He doesnt. Okay. He has bluster. He doesnt have the votes. Thats my whole thing. This is the whole thing, ryan, hold on one second. The president is concerned, i think about governing that he wont get anything passed. Hes concerned about all investigations. We know. Those are good concerns. What he loves most is owning the microphone, the narrative and the podium. Hes got to share it now with democrats and especially nancy pelosi. If she calls, were going to come. He doesnt like being corrected. He doesnt like being corrected by a woman in particular. She had the facts on her side. She said you dont have the votes. Shes right. Shes not the greatest communicator in the world. She doesnt have charm to burn but she knows what hes doing much more so than donald trump hes not going to win those battles with her. Brian, you cant forgetting that Vice President mike pence was in the room while all of this was going on and said absolutely nothing. Cnn as A John Avalon said he was like the elf on the shelf. Is that a Fair Assessment . Im uncomfortable just watching it right now. And i mean, all of us i think wonder what mike pence really thinks, right . Hes just. Watching a tennis match. Play that again, its like a tennis match. Its like hes looking liking. The Worlds Largest and he just seemed wholly unprepared to be on camera and to be in a public place. And did not have the president s back in any way, right . Did not step in to defend him in any way, back him up. Probably good for him because i dont know what he could have said. And really the whole the whole scene was won by nancy pelosi who politely was trying to save donald trump from himself, trying not to expose him as have one who doesn have the facts on his side, trying to get the cameras out of the room and then of course, trump blames her for not wanting to be transparent and he says actually, mr. President , the only reason i wanted the cameras out of the room is because wa youre saying is completely untrue. And again, pence does not step in and defend the president. But i think that was smart, charlie. I do. I think i would have just. On pence part . What was smart . To sit there. Why be drawn into that . The answer i think, pence is was smart to keep his mouth shut. Schumer and pelosi should have you said mr. President , youre in charge of the government till the end of the year. You got the votes. Pass the bill. She said that. If you run into trouble, you know how to find us. And not say anything else. Listen, i got to do this, frank. Frank wrote a new piece, about President Trump titled the most powerful reject in the world. You say while other president s sought to hone the art of persuasion, he rebels in his talent for repulse. How many people he attacks. He styles this as boldness. How many people he offends, he pretties this up as authenticity. How many people he sends into exile his administration doesnt have alumni so much as refugees. Wow, you went in. He sought the presidency as so many others insurely did because it is the ultimate validation but it has given him his bitterest taste yet of rejection. Wow. He has offended so many people. This is the thing when he says the media is out to get him. He has offended so many people, yet, he expects people to like him and expectes the people to say positive things about him. It makes no sense. He is harvesting all of that nastiness. Thats why he cant get people to work in his administration and his chosen person for chief of staff, the most ambitious man in washington just said no thanks because he knows a sinking ship when he sees one. Can you imagine knowing what you know about donald trump how much he loves the media, he wants to be liked by the media and celebrity. Knowing what you know of him, can you imagine how much he is seething is now that hes on the outside of that . He cant stand it. Its driving him crazy. Tillerson and sessions people learn their conditions. Seems like a hostile work environment. I could have told them that. I dont even work in washington. Ryan, thank you, sir. Next time come play with us here in new york. Ill be back. Thank you. See you soon. Just ahead, more opt breaking news, former National Security adviser Michael Flynn asking a judge to spare him prison time due to his extensive cooperation with muellers russia investigation. And saying, really . So capital one is building something completely new. Capital one cafes. Inviting places with people here to help you, not sell you. And savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums. Because thats how it should be. Ann in 5 minutes. Seriously, 5 minutes. This is banking reimagined. Whats in your wallet . Ooh5252 woo, hey now thats a winwin. Thank you switch to geico®. Its a winwin. In them therr hills on your guarantevacation. Find gold but we can guarantee the best price on this rental cabin. Or any accomodation from hotels to yurts. Booking. Com, booking. Yeah and a sentencing memo released by his attorneys, mike flynn asking for no prison time citing his extension stib cooperation with the mueller investigation. We have a lot to discuss. Michael dantonio is author of the truth about trump. Seth is the author of trump and russia, a definitive history. Good evening. Seth, i want to get your reaction to this sentencing memo released by flynns attorneys tonight. He says he spent 62 hours with muellers team. That seems pretty substantial, doesnt it . Very substantial. And you know, i caught a little bit of the sentencing memo coverage and it seals now hes saying he was entrap the by the fbi which is kind of interesting. He seems to be playing to the trump base i guess looking for sympathy, but you know, whats interesting to me is that everybody caught up in the trump russia investigation is lying. Michael flynn is lying about his contacts with the russian ambassador, George Papadopoulos is lying, Michael Cohen is lying. Theyre all lying about russia. If you follow these lies they all point to russia. I think thats where mueller is headed. He said peter strzok and another fbi agent visited flynn in his office on january 24th, 2017 when he first made the false statements. He did not have the an attorney with him at the time and was not warned he could be prosecute ford making false statements his memo said on tuesday night. Is that what youre referring to, seth . Exactly. You know, the fact is he pleaded guilty to lying. So if he didnt do it, you know, he shouldnt have pleaded guilty. Hes obviously admitted he committed a crime and now hes back. I think hes playing to a different crowd. There are a lot of audiences for these kind of documents. He seems to be throwing some, trying to get sympathy by throwing stuff out there. Heres the interesting thing to me, michael. When he said i didnt know. Theres a simple way to avoid that . That is what. Tell the truth. Just tell the truth. Its like the perjury trappy never heard of a perjury trap till this perjury trap and now everybodys talking about as if theres not a way out of that. The way out is to tell the truth. Nobody seems capable of it though. He met some 62 hours which i thought was interesting but Michael Cohen met longer. Like 70 some hours. Close to 100 i think. Right. Or 80. Theyre talking a lot. This is why i think we saw reporting today that the president is incredibly upset, worse than hes ever been. His behavior in the oval office today was just about distraction although most of what he does is about distraction. If ooh hes going to do that, he should brig his a game. He got fact checked left and right and checked all over place. You could see schumer. Hes had a few arguments on a new york city street. Trump is not the only one who can play that game. Schumer is like i cant believe i got you to say that in the oval office. Seth, you said the problem for mr. Trump is hes unable or unwilling to spot the difference between a favor and i an crooked scheme. That goes a long way toward explaining why he has surrounded himself with people in trouble with the law and why his presidency is in the grip of intensifying federal investigations. Elaborate on that me for me, if you will. Well, russia has been doing favors for donald trump for a long time. Donald trump is a guy who trades and collects favors like he keeps a bank of favors. Hell take anyone in if they do him a favor. Russia has been doing him favors for a long time, buying his apartments, spending lots of money in his casinos, theyve been financing his buildings. Vladimir putin has doesnt biggest favor of all. He turned his Intelligence Service into a defacto arm of the Trump Campaign and helped trump win and maybe helped trump win in a close election. And on the other side is trump doing favors back. He is very nice to mr. Putin. Hes attacking the nato alliance. Hes letting russia kind of run rampant around the world. What i see as an exchange of favors and what else is collusion but really two people doing favors for each other. Thats a very good point. Do you think the president doesnt spot a crooked scheme or is it. No, he understands crooked schemes better than most of us. He prefers crooked schemes. What seth. Say how you really feel. He really does. Its more important to him to get over on people than to win. He doesnt want to win by the regular rules. He wants to win by deceiving you. I think seths piece was spot on today talking about how trump does trade in favors but the word we should keep in mind when we talk about favors is money. Its people who provide money for him, key financing, apartment deals, those are the favors. Imagine this, michael. Because his former attorney Michael Cohen is going to be sentenced tomorrow. And the prospect of such a close trump ally going to jail that has to be deeply concerning and uncomfortable for the president an those around him. It has to be. What Michael Cohen suddenly decide hes willing to talk about that he hasnt talked about yet because the prosecutors have said were not satisfied thats why were happy to see him get sentenced. What codecide is now worth his father to discuss . Hes going to be, im telling you, hes got more to be afraid of or concerned about with Michael Cohen even after this because when Michael Cohen comes out and talks about this and does interviews, i think its going to be very danieling to the president and can release and talk about some of those uncomfortable things, maybe things that werent necessarily illegal but some of the shady stuff that they very, some of the shady stuff that he did. What about when he toefs before congress . I think maybe the federal authorities would let him go to washington and raise his hand and testify. Given the way the Trump Organization, would, okay, seth, from what you know, do you think the trump family had to know about the payments to cohen and what they were for . Because they worked for him. They all worked in the same organization. We are told that will nothing gets past him as a businessman. He knows everything thats going on in his business. Yeah, i mean, did the trump, how deep did it go in the Trump Organization . Or with his family. Do you think he knew about all of it . You mean like jared and ivanka . Yeah, i think id like to know that, too. I think jared and ivanka are behind the scene players at almost every stage of this process. You know, we saw them you know, getting the chief of staff remove. Ivanka was involved with russia. She helped the moscow project. Jared you know, these are behind the scenes players. I won be surprised i forgot to mention. Michael cohen said he briefed Family Members. So yeah, i think they did know what was going on. They knew, right . They absolutely knew. This is the thing. This is a family business. People are mistaken if they imagine this is a big enterprise with thousands of employees. When the president talks about that, hes talking about everyone from the porters in front of the hotel sweeping up cigarette butts to the chief executives offices at these properties. In trump tower, precious few people, maybe a few dozen, the children knew everything because he was preparing them to take over. Thank you both. I appreciate it. So, do you want to talk about some Election Fraud. North carolina. New reports that early voter data was improperly leaked. Coming on top of possible electoral fraud thats already being investigated. All the details next. An ooh the last remaining unfilled seat in the house of representatives could be headed for a new election. North Carolina Republican party calling for this extraordinary step in the race of the for the 9th Congressional District after it was reported the early voting totals in Bladen County were leaked. Officials refused to certify results of the election after allegations of fraud triggered an investigation. The investigation is focused on Bladen County and the actions of Leslie Mccrea dowless, a convicted felon and veteran political operative hired by a Consulting Firm connected to the republican candidates campaign. Of the 684 absentee ballots counted in Bladen County, dowless personally turned in 592 of them. Mark harris currently leads the republican candidate dan mccready by only 905 votes. This is an election where truly every vote matters. Lets dive into awful this now. Harry is here with the forecast. Not quite. Although make the forecast easier knowing the results. This is a mess. An absolute mess. We could be looking at a doover republicans say that its because early vote totals were leaked. How big a deal is this . First off, its against state law when one county is doing it and everybody else an is abiding the rules. If you talk to dowless wood house who runs is the Republican Party in the state of carolina, you get a pretty good idea what turnout is looking like and most of the stuff weve been talking about so far has to do with internetee voting. This is about early voting. It adds another element to it. Another layer on top of it. The election has already been attained by accusations of ballot fraud centerd around Leslie Mccrea dowless. Cnn obtained a signed affidavit working with a local campaign and said he saw dowless in posession of a large number of ballots. It says i question his reason for having that many ballots. He stated had he over 800 in his possession. I asked him why he had not turned them in. He said you dont do that till the last day because the opposition would know how many votes they had to make up. My concern was these ballots were not going to be turned in. Ballot harvesting is illegal in north carolina. Whats a legit reason for him to have it. In is none. Ballot har resting is illegal which means that the only people who can be turn in the ballots are those who are the people who cast the votes or relatives or a guardian of them. Someone like dowless shouldnt have this many unless he has a lot of Family Members in north carolina. To my under, no one has that many Family Member noes matter how big their family is. There is no evidence of significant Election Fraud in this country but the one, the possibility that this is Election Fraud and its happening from republicans who are always complaining about Election Fraud from democrats. I should point out theres a clear difference between the voter fraud that republicans usually allege happen when you come in and say youre someone you not. Here theres no evidence of that at all. It doesnt seem like the voter ez have done anything wrong. People came to their homes, collected their ballots, may have not turned them in. This is not on the voters at all. This is something entirely different. Usually its republicans saying voter fraud exists. Here it seems to be helping a republican candidate. There were ballot irregularities in the primary. Would republicans run a flu primary too . According to state law you would not have a new primary as it is. There has been some movement in the legislature to try to get it so a primary may be rerun but that has not occurred. Harry enten, thank you, sir. Its weird youre not doing a. At least we have matching thank you. Appreciate it. Antisemitism ag jehovahs hous of worship destroyed. We have a look at the hate spreading across the country next. Expedia introduces add on advantage, a new way to save on travel. Now when you book a flight you unlock discounts on select hotels that you can use up until your trip starts. So whether you want to go out, stay in, or be in the middle of it all. Add the Perfect Hotel when youre ready, and save. Add on advantage. Only with expedia. Theres no place likargh e im trying. Yippiekiyay. Mom. Today a jury recommended a life sentence for the white house nationalist convicted of killing 32yearold heather heyer. Nearly 30 others were seriously injured after james fields junior plowed his car into a crowd of people. Fields actions and the images of White Nationalists marching shocked and stunned the nation. Now racial rhetoric and hate crimes are becoming all too common. Sara sidner has the update on the state of hate in this country. Reporter it is as if pandoras pox has been opened and hate is spilling out. In florida had, police say siddiqi was snashing a sbotal of wine at the kosher kingdom store. This wasnt his only offense. A lot of people and people get scared. Were so happy they get him. Reporter police say he is charged with a hate crime because hes shown a pattern of targeting jewish people and making hateful comments when confronted. He made comments of 6 million dead wasnt enough. Reporter what used to be held silently in the minds of some americans is now being verbalized publicly. And sticks show being carried out with violent acts more frequently in the last couple of years. No, your honor. Reporter in the past couple weeks, the incidents are piling up. Perhaps the most violent in the snow mish county, washington, seven men and one woman arrested. Police say they viciously attacked a black dick jockey while yelling racial slurs as he was trying to entertain folks at a bar. The sheriff said an asian employee was attacked when he tried to help the deejay. The suspects are members of a violent knee xwroel nazi groups. Police say two have criminal records. The Southern Poverty Law Center says one of the suspects took part in the 2017 White Nationalist unite the right rally in charlottesville, virginia. That many rally turned violent. Ending in murder and mayhem after james alex fields rammed his car into a group of people protesting hate. A jury convicted fields just last week and today, decided his sentence. On ten criminal charges against him including the murder of 32yearold paralegal heather heyer. Her mother sat through the entire trial. Justice has him where he needs to be and my daughter is still not here and the other survivors still have their twounds deal with. Reporter but the darkness of hate continues to sweep across the country. The plots in two separate cases in ohio arechying federal investigators say. One month after the deadliest antisemitic attack in america carried out in pittsburgh, they say damon joseph planned a similar attack on a synagogue in toledo. Mr. Joseph pur side a detailed and calculated plan to strike synagogues in the area. Reporter investigators say a woman was behind a plot to blow up a pipeline. Elizabeth lecron used social media to heap praise on the columbine murderers and racist murderer dylann roof. Even on campuses, racist tirades are gaining more attacks. This happened at columbia university. We build modern civilizati civilizations. White people are the best thick that happened to the world. Reporter a student who in a statement says hes not a racist and doesnt hate anyone but goes off on a group of students because of his distaste for the overuse of the term White Privilege and similar rhetoric as a means of dismissing views of others and yet were white men. We did everything. Sara sidner joins me now. Hello to you. Theres been a major spike in hate crimes over the past two years, even on college campus. Were are we seeing it more with young people . Its a good question. One of the things thats happened on College Campuses when you talk to groups that have been studying this for daks is that theres serious recruitment going on on College Campuses and through social media. Flyers have been put up and just today, at the State University of new york purchase campus, a student has been charged with a hate crime for putting up nazi posters that have swastikas on them and putting up at a time when jews are celebrating man na ca. That happened today. There have been plenty of other fly aring incidents across the country and certainly on social media, some of these groups are trying to entice those who they think may start feeling threatened about i students of color. Its interesting to note theres a lot of recruitment going on. We should mention another hate crime that happened. The fifth attack on agee hoe j h jehovahs witness kingdom hall. It happened several times. There have been five different attacks on kingdom halls and police are saying yes, these are hate crimes. They have not so far found a suspect but in one of those attacks a suspect shot up one of those halls 30 times. It the violence is increasing if you look at the numbers from the fbi and anyone who looks at those numbers sk easily say look, these numbers are not the actual numbers of whats happening out there. There happen to be many more, sometimes people dont report them and sometimes Police Departments dont report hate crimes to the fbi which is how the fbi gets its numbers, don. Its sad. Sara, we appreciate your reporting. It is. Appreciate it. The search is fon for a new chief of staff but john kelly is leaving a few things unresolved. Frederica wilson joins me next on the lie he told about her, the threats shes got be since and yes never apologized. volunteer hey. old man come on in. volunteer you taught me the rules. vo you do more than feed seniors when you share the love. You feed souls. Get a new subaru, like the all new forester, and charities like meals on wheels can receive two hundred and fifty dollars from subaru. avo get zero percent during the subaru share the love event. And if you get lost, just hit me on the old horn. Man toms my best friend, but ever since he bought a new house. Tom its a 10 cover . Oh, okay. Didnt see that on the website. Hes been acting more and more like his dad. Come on, guys jump in the waters fine tom pritchard. How we doin . Hi, there. Tom pritchard. Can we get a round of jalapeno poppers for me and the boys, please . Ive been saving a lot of money with progressive lately, so. Progressive cant protect you from becoming your parents. But we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. John kelly is on his way out of the white house analyst tenure as chief of staff is roiled with controversy. His feud with democratic congresswoman Frederica Wilson and his lie about her still unresolved. Last year Sergeant La David Johnson was among four uss soldiers tragically killed by enemy fire in an ambush in niger. When his body was returned home, President Trump phoned johnsons widow. When he called, congresswoman wilson, a family friend of the widow, was in the car. And then she told us what happened. I heard what he said because the phone was on speaker. What did he say . Well, basically he said well, i guess he knew what he signed up for. But i guess it still hurts. Hmm. Thats what he said. The president said to her will, he knew what he sign up for. Knew what he was signing up for. Trump denied wilsons account and said she had it all wrong. Didnt say what that congresswoman said. Didnt say it at all. She knows it and she now is not saying it. I did not say what she said. He lied. Kuwanda jones johnson, the widowed backed an up. Wilsons account and say the president didnt know the dead soldiers name. On the call he referred to johnson as your guy. This is where john kelly comes in the story. He took to the white house podium to say he was stunned by wilsons decision to take to the press to criticize trump for his call with a gold star widow and then he attacked her. And the congresswoman stood up and in the long tradition stood up there in all of that, and talked about how she was instrumental in getting the funding for that building. Now, she took care of her constituents because she got the money. And she called up president obama, she got money to build a building. And she sat down. And we were stunned. Stunned that she had done it. Even for someone that is that empty a barrel, we were stunned. So, besides being a baseless attack, what he said about her is just not true. Video from that dedication ceremony of that fbi building, dug up by the sun sentinel. Shows that wilson took credit to name the building for two fbi agents that were killed, not to fund it. Immediately, i went into attack mode. I went to the speaker, mr mr. Boehner, i said, i need your help. The fbi needs your help and our country needs your help. We have no time to waste. The president signed the bill into law this past tuesday, april 7th, 2015, with a bang, bang, bang. Here are the facts that we like to do here on this program. Theres no evidence that wilson took credit for the buildings funding. Wilson tells the miami herald she never got an apology. She says that ever since his lie, she has gotten Death Threats and nooses in the mail. This is what weve come to. Frederica wilson of florida joins me now. Thank you for joining us. Why do you think he never apologized . Well, i think thats a part of his nature. I think he made up the whole story to side with the president. To make it look like i was some sort of a clown or someone who was who just lies all the time. And i think thats why he never apologized. And because he does not respect women and he definitely does not respect black women. And i dont think he respects black people. Do you think he will ever apologize . He said absolutely not. He will never apologize. He said that several times on fox news. Congresswoman, you received threats after kelly attacked you from the white house podium. At one point, it kept you from working. Do you blame him . What do you say to that . That shows what this white house has done to this country. And on the other hand, he kept me from voting. But he also has endeared the whole military community to my side. And everywhere i go and travel, soldiers and gold star families come up to me and say, thank you, congresswoman wilson for standing up for la david johnson, your constituent. He was a hero. He thought he would hurt me. But he called attention to the fact that the president does not understand the trauma that gold star families have to undergo. How did he keep you from voting . Well, i guess there was so much going on with the phones and so many people calling. There was a gentleman in orlando who said he was going to kill me. He was going to hang me. He arrested him. He bonded himself out of jail. So, the Capital Police suggested that i just stay put for a while. So, this is real. This was real. It was very real. It was terrible. I was petrified. I couldnt even go anywhere without Armed Security from my local Miami Gardens police department. When they talk to you about civility and those sorts of things and they talk about what the left is doing because youre a democrat, what do you say to them . Well, they have to take a look in the mirror because we are civil. I am civil. I was standing up for my hero, my Sergeant La David Johnson and his family. They came after me for no reason. And john kelly has lost all four of his stars. Every day, he has lost a star because he had no reason to slander my name. And they said they brought him into the white house because he was going to be the adult in the room. And he has turned out to be so terrible. And now, the president is getting rid of him. You said that, in your opinion, because of the job he did, it cost him his stars, in your opinion. And a lot of people said he was the grownup, as you said, who helped manage trump. Things could have been worse had he not been there, maybe . Do you agree with that . I dont see how it could have been worse. Its awful now. And donald trump is just on a tirade. I dont think that mr. Kelly did a good job. I want to say good riddance to him. Goodbye. How is la David Johnsons family doing . She is doing great. She graduated from nursing school. She has a new baby. They have a new home. It is so wonderful to see how they are moving along and prosperous without the father. And she speaks of him in the present. And the children speak of him in the present. He was a great man. A great, great man. True patriots, him and that family, and so are you. Congresswoman, Merry Christmas to you. Same to you. Thanks for watching. Our coverage continues. For a limited time, 50 for them 10 for you. 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