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A new round of controversy for the Trump White House. Reporter indeed, the comments from john kelly certainly drew attention today when he said in a rare interview with npr, the president was embarrassed by the russia investigation. He said it is something that is always on the topic of conversation when World Leaders come to the white house. So i caught up with john kelly in t the rose garden and asked him about that. He said, no, i didnt mean embarrassed, i meant distracted. President trump is either embarrassed or distracted by the russia investigation hanging over the white house. Tonight that is the sentiment from john kelly, going where few aides to the president have gone before. Saying the president is embarrassed by special counsel Robert Muellers probe. There may not be a cloud but certainly the president is somewhat embarrassed frankly when World Leaders come in, the first couple of minutes of every conversation might resolve around that kind of thing. Kelly backtracked hours after the interview and telling cnn in the white house rose garden he meant to say the investigation into russia collusion in the 2016 campaign was a distraction for the president. Not an embarrassment. Well, yeah, it is untrue. It its a witch hunt and distracted him. Not too much but it is unfair. And an unseemingly feud with john mccain escalated a day after a white house aide spoke behind closed doors about john mccain as he battles brain cancer saying hes dying any way. Mr. President , does the white house owe senator john mccain a apology. Reporter Sarah Sanders said the aide kelly sadler still works for the administration or did say more or why an apology wasnt warranted. If you wont comment on the specific comment, what does the white house believe about senator mccain and is there a tone set from the top here where it is allowed for an aide to say hes dying any way. Certainly there is not a a tone set here. We have a a respect for all americans, and that is what we try to put forward in everything we do both in word and in action. Why not just apologize to senator mccain again im not going to get no a back and forth because people want to create issues of leaked staff meeting. Reporter the senators daughter Meghan Mccain sounded stunned the staffer is still on the job. I dont understand what kind of environment youre working in when that is acceptable and come to work the next day and have a job. And that is all i have to say. Reporter the Arizona Republican senator and decorated war hero is among the president s biggest critics. This controversy story when he opposed the nomination of gina haspel to lead the cia because of her history of interrogation tactics he believes are torture. His daughter addressed sadler directly. Kelly, here is a little news flash. Were all dying. Im dying, youre dying, were all dying. And i want to say that, since my dad has been diagnosed in the past it is almost a year july 19th, i really feel like i understand the meaning of life and it is not how you die, it is how you live. Reporter cindy mccain had to to say, i remind you my husband has a family. Seven children and five grandchildren as it raises eyebrows. As john kelly once over saw threats on the border as the head of command. The vast majority of people that move into the United States they are not bad people. They are not criminals or ms13 but also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States. They are overwhelmingly rural people reporter it came as the president s frustration with immigration boiled over this week. Blasting Homeland SecurityKirstjen Nielsen for not acting swiftly enough and the exchange behind closed doors, she thre threatened to resign and she denied it and it is the latest example of another tumultuous week in the trump cabinet. And epa administrator scott pruitt under fire and multiple investigations for excessive Government Spending and more. In the roosevelt room with pruitt sitting nearby, the president was asked this. Do you feel confidence in administrator pruitt, mr. President . Yes, i do. Thank you. Reporter so the president expressing confidence in his epa administrator who was sitting just a couple of feet away when they were meeting with auto ceos here at the white house to talk about fuel Energy Standards but white house officials are waiting for the outcome of 12 or so separate investigations about scott pruitt. His spending, his ethics other habits at the epa. So it is unclear whether he will stay in the position. And this is as we are ending another week on who the next v. A. Secretary will be and that position was opened since the last one was fired. Wolf. Jeff zeleny. Conservative critics of the special counsel russia investigation may have found a new avenue of attack. Lets go to our correspondent manu raju up on capitol hill. Manu, more pressure tonight on Robert Mueller investigation from some key house republicans. Reporter conservatives in the house have been targeting the special counsel investigation for weeks finding new areas to try to get information and undercut some Senior Justice Department officials who were overseeing the probe and get more information about exactly what Robert Mueller is doing. Now im told in a closed door meeting last month, mark meadows, the head of the conservative House Freedom caucus, with jim jordan demanded to see a document from august that was drafted by Rod Rosenstein given to bob mueller detailing exactly what bob mueller could investigate. Now that documents had been redacted and turned over in Court Filings but the congressmen wanted to see the unredacted version. Rosenstein said no. They looked into other areas to get more information. The new effort to try to get the Government Accountability office which is the investigative arm of congress to look to look into the scope of the Mueller Probe and how much money is being spent as part of the investigation. Mark meadows said today on cspan that in fact he was going to request a gao investigation to look into the Mueller Investigation. There will be a request for us to audit the Financial Resources of this investigation. It used to be part of statute. It certainly is within the parameters since it is an appropriated funds from congress that we will be sending a request to the gao, the general Accountability Office to actually look at an audit and make sure those funds are put forth properly and so that letter will be going out next week reporter now, wolf, this as the House Intelligence Committee devin nunes has been going after the russia investigation and questions that he has about why the russia investigation began in the first place. He had a private briefing yesterday at the Justice Department with congressman trey gowdy to learn about information they were seeking about someone describes as an intelligence source providing information over the Mueller Probe. They got private briefing and they say at the moment that was a productive meeting but they want to have further discussions going forward. It is coming as democrats are concerned it is part of an effort to undercut the probe and give the president ammunition to fire Rod Rosenstein or Jeff Sessions. And the senate Intelligence Committee is still investigating possible connections between trump and russian meddling, tell us the latest you are learning. Reporter that is right. Sam nunberg, a former trump adviser has been asked to come to the senate Intelligence Committee and provide document this is month about communications that he had with roger stone, that longtime trump friend. This comes as the committee itself has just interviewed Michael Caputo, another roger stone friend, a sign that stone himself is still an important part of the investigation but potentially the Mueller Probe as well, wolf. Manu, thank you very much. Manu raju up on capitol hill. Joining us now, john gar a menda garamendi. Congressman, you just heard the report and congressman meadows saying the audit is basic over sight and well within his jurisdiction. How do you see it . Well, that is probably true. But what is the purpose of it . We know that every six months the special counsel is required to produce an entire display of all of his expenses and entire accounting of his expenses. Did he that and the next one is due in about 30 days. That will be available to certainly the committees in congress, both senate and house. If they want an audit beyond that, fine. But why is he asking . Mark meadows who i consider a friend is really i think out of line here. He is trying to shut down this investigation and hes using any method possible to do that. And that is a disservice to this nation because we really need to knowwe need to know what russia did so that we can prevent it from ever happening again. Do you believe the president s allies up on capitol hill, were talking about the republicans would use that kind of Sensitive Information that they want to obtain in order to coordinate with the white house . Absolutely. There is no doubt. It has already been done. Nunes did this more than a year ago. He took information that he thought was useful to the white house, ran over to the white house and gave it to the white house, and low and behold, later found out the information came from the white house to begin with. And an effort by the white house to distort and or derail the investigation. This was a year ago and more. But what i find interesting is that while the House Committee is doing best to stop the investigation and the senate is doing the best to find out what happened so our nation could be protected. It is a learn the lessons of what happened and make sure it doesnt happen again. Exactly. Lets turn to another important issue, Sarah Sanders refusing to comment on a cruel and crude joke that white house aide kelly sadler allegedly made by senator john mccain. Sadler said Sarah Sanders said she didnt want to talk about internal Staff Meetings and wouldnt say if sadler, the aide, should issue an apology. What do you make of that silence from the white house . Youre surprised . This is a white house whose boss, the president , started his campaign by bullying peel, by demeaning people and calling people names and using the crudest of language and it has gone on since the very first day of his campaign. Right on through his entire presidency. He spends his time calling out people, demeaning them, using bad using language to somehow harm their reputation, and youre surprised that somebody on the staff is doing the same and not willing to fess up and even issue an apology. Dont be surprised, wolf. This is Standard Operating Procedure from this president , right on down the line. So he a she did call john mccains daughter and issue an apology, but do you believe she should lose her job . I think there is a need for discipline from the president right on down the line within this entire white house. When the chief of staff issues and im sure youll go there next, when he goes out and says that immigrants cant assimilate, is he talking about his own grandparents . Who came from ireland and probably had no education and did assimilate and their son or grandson became a fourstar general. He had a he ought to come out and visit my district or visit the real america and get out of the bubble of the white house and see what is really happening out here. The way immigrants legal and illegal are assimilating into this economy and driving this economy. Come to california which is now the fifth biggest economy in the world, and see what the immigrants are doing. Legal and illegal. They are moving the economy of california. They are moving our society and they are participating and assimilating and they are a large part of the energy that we have, at least in the state of california. You did say ill quote it but he said to npr, john kelly said these undocumented immigrants, quote, are not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society. He said most of them dont have much of an education. Cant speak english but you make a fair point. I think most of our ancestors who came to this country couldnt speak english and didnt have much of an education either. I assume that is in your case and my case and most americans cases and that is why hes getting a lot of heat for those words. Absolutely. Do you want to make a final point on that. He deserves it. He deserves to be called out. He deserved to be called out because it is the most unamerican thing you can possibly imagine. From the second top official within the white house. It is disgusting that he would consider americans that consider these people that way. Theyre finding their way. They are building part of our economy. You take those people out of the economy throughout this nation and you will not have chicken on your plate. Because they are the folks working day in and day out in the poultry industry and the agriculture industry and the shops across america. They are cleaning our hotels, they are essential and we need a comprehensive Immigration Reform so they could become legitimate and legal in our country so our country could put away this terrible problem of the immigration and stop this out and out what amounts to in my mind racism. There is nothing nothing bad about people who have a socalled rural background. We need those people as well. Well see if he elaborates in the hours and days ahead on that. Congressman you should thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. More breaking news. The chief of staff john kelly trying to retract his remark that President Trump is embarrassed by the russia probe. But is it any better to say that the president is distracted by the russia probe. And cnn gets rare access to americas first line of defense. Well visit the underground command center where the u. S. Military is on round the clock watch for incoming missiles. She believes in research. 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The only assumption i have to make here, wolf, is that Sarah Sanders was speaking for to an audience of one and that is the president of the United States and it would seem if the president wanted an apology to come from the white house, on behalf of the white house, saying it was inappropriate, that would have been done. Instead, Sarah Sanders said, look, i dont comment on anything that comes from a leak. And where do you think that came from . I think that is a key point. Look, we know this woman made the comment. We know it is incredibly distasteful and she immediately tried to apologize for it. And then we have nothing but silence from the white house. I think in many ways, right now, if we are to talk about how washington has got a change in our political rhetoric change and then we have to have forgiveness. I would say, for her, let there be forgiveness and for the white house let them be pillared for the fact they reused to acknowledge this. It is simple to do. Why is it so hard for the white house, sabrina, to admit a mistake and to apologize. The tone is set from the top. And the president is someone who himself has mocked senator john mccain most infamously during the campaign when he made that comment that he prefers those who were not captured, of course invoking the fact that senator mccain was a prisoner of war and weve seen a pattern where the white house refuses to apologize for anything and in doing so they turn what could have been something that we talk about for maybe an hour or two into a multiday story. And i also just want to point out that there is this faction of people on the right and that includes Trump Supporters who strongly disapprove of senator john mccain and so there is element of feeding that antimccain sentiment that is part of the right flank within the republican party, let me get Jeffrey Toobin on this. Reporter donald trump hate as apologizing, he never apologizes. He didnt apologize for the remark where he said he likes people who werent captured. The only time he apologized was after the access Hollywood Tape in that hostage video where he looked like it was like painful for him. And he just doesnt want anyone in his administration apologizing for anything. So no one is apologizing except for the this flunky who said this horrible thing. You think she should lose her job, jeffrey . Oh, gosh, im such a softy. I never want anyone to lose their job. I dont know. Ask gloria, shes tougher than i am. Glory, go ahead. I agree with what mark said earlier, there was a terrible thing she did and called the family and apologized and fell on her sword and probably feels awfully about it and i dont know her and i dont say anybody ought to lose their job over this, but what i do think is unforgivable is the way the white house is reacting and i do believe that comes from the president of the United States who, if he wanted an apology from the podium, Sarah Sanders would have given it. And instead, she refused to talk about it. Saying that it was a leak. And it makes them look bad. It certainly does. And by the way, as usual, where were Mitch Mcconnell and the speaker of the house like silence from them. They never comment on any any bad thing that comes out of the white house. It is appalling as this was. To wrap this up in a big bow, at that same time where he criticized john mccain for being caught for been a p. O. 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Were back with our Legal Specialist and gloria, youve been doing reporting on a new interview request from members of the senate Intelligence Committee as part of the russia probe. What are you learning . They havent wound down the investigation. And a former Trump Campaign aide sam nunberg has been asked to appear before the senate Intelligence Committee. And what they are asking for is a closed interview and also asking for him to produce it would seem some of the same documents that were requested by the special counsel, emails et cetera, that he had with roger stone. So it seems theyre going over that same territory. I spoke with him today, he denies that neither he nor roger stone knew anything about the leaking of the Podesta Emails and that he had no advanced knowledge and he believes roger stone had no advanced knowledge of the wikileaks release during the 2016 campaign, but assure theyre going over that terrain with him again. And mueller interest in that, and you remember earlier this year, nunberg said he wouldnt cooperate with interview requests from the special counsel. He eventually did do an interview and came out singing a different tune following that interview. What do you make of that . It was 72 hours ever insanity with nunberg between Television Studios and just going off the rails. I interviewed him for my sirius xm show a couple of weeks after that and his explanation was he got caught up in it and didnt understand what he was doing and when he came to his senses, he realized he had nothing to do but to actually submit to the interview and as gloria said, even though hes had this correspondent back and forth with roger stone and roger stone said that hes going to meet with assange, sam said that he thought that roger stone was lying and that was just hyping it up. He defends roger stone even though roger stone has been critically of him and publicly he condemns him. Wow, roger stone versus sam nunberg. What a battle of titans. That is fantastic. Im sorry, wolf. Ill get to you in a second. I want to go to sabrina for a second. Another Trump Campaign adviser, Michael Caputo was also interviewed by Robert Mueller and he came out saying, and im quoting him now, that mueller and his team, quote, know more about the Trump Campaign than anyone who ever worked there. It underscores the gravity and the extent that the mueller team they know so much more than any of us even have a clue about. And i thif that is precisely why the president s legal team is reluctant to put him in front of Robert Mueller to testify because Robert Mueller knows a lot more about the campaign than the president might believe that he knows. And this is a president of course who has not always been able to stick to the facts so he certainly threatens himself by exposing himself to a risk of perjury. And that is the strategy to have answers in a written format or something in between a formal interview and written answers. To jeffrey now, mark meadows, the conservative congressman of the freedom caucus, wants to audit the Mueller Investigation right now presumably to get access to a key rosenstein memo. Is this an example of what they call trumps warriors trying to undermine this entire russia probe . Oh, it is only just starting. Mr. Flood from williams and connelly just joined the the white house staff to deal with mueller. Watch, theyre going to be suing Robert Mueller before too long. Asking for audits, asking to limit jurisdiction. It is a classic williams and connelly tactic. Not to sit back and wait for prosecutors to act, but to aggressively go after them even before they have the chance to issue indictments. And i think what mark meadows is doing in the house, what we may see out of the white house, the assault on Robert Mueller isnt just firing him, which i dont think will happen, but there are a lot of ways the president and his allies can harass mueller that are short of firing and it is just starting. And gloria, if you look at the polls, aleast among a big chunk of the president s base and others, it is working. It is working. The president for the last, what, three or four months, has been out there discrediting the investigation, saying that it has no credibility, in a mueller hired a bunch of democrats and discredited or tried to discredit the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein, the attorney general Jeff Sessions and the fbi, you name it. And i think that does that does stick after a while. And if he has his legal team now as they try to get together with the new attorneys from florida, and emmet flood, it is unclear what exactly role emmet flood will have because he may really be there to be the next white House Counsel when don mcgahn decides to leave. So it is unclear what he will what part of this team hell be. But it seems they are getting more aggressive and you see that from Rudy Giuliani obviously when hes out talking about about next steps. Except flood will actually learn the facts of the case before he goes on tv. And so will the raskins and so will the raskins. And sabrina, the controversial comments from john kelly, the white house chief of staff saying the undocumented gwinnetts w immigrants that want to come the United States, they t will be hard to assimilate. This is a issue examined by academics by hard and the Research Shows that immigrants to integrate well and continue to do so and these academics have looked at Language Proficiency and parps participation in the force and immigrants are big driver of the u. S. Economy and frankly because the government is failed to address the broken immigrant system, undocumented immigrants do have barriers that prevent them from integrating so this illustrates the thinking behind the administrations hardline agenda on immigration. Ill answer this personally. Im the son of immigrants. The youngest of five who came over here with zero skills and 100 and a sick child on a boat, two steamer trunks and they raised five very productive individuals in this country does that include you. Four productive individuals in this country. But that state was built by immigrants and including my parents and i take that personally. I suspect his grant parents couldnt speak either when they came to the United States. 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Tonight two companies that paid Michael Cohen hundreds of thousands of dollars to gain access and insight into the president are saying they made a mistake. At t ceo Randall Stevenson sent an email to employees worldwide taking responsibility for hiring cohen, saying, there was no other way to say it, at t hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake. Stevenson also announced that one of the executives involved in the deal would be retiring. Novartis ceo who is not at the helm when the company contracted with cohen, acknowledged in a note to employees, we made a mistake in enter into this engagement and as a consequence are being criticized by a world that expected more from us. The perception is what they are trying to do is buy access or buy information about the president. And it doesnt look good. Reporter a gop strategist tells cnn, cohen cappalized on his decade long relationship with the president , using this as his sales pitch to powerful entities looking for a in to the new administration. I dont know who has been representing you, but you should fire them all. Im the guy you should hire. Im the closest to the president , im his personal lawyer. At t said cohen came to them during the transition, offering his services. The company paid cohen 600,000 as part of a 50,000 a month oneyear contract that ended in december 2017. At t acknowledged it hired cohen to focus partly on its bid to buy cnn Parent Company time warner. It is a deal donald trump lashes out against on the campaign trail. At t is buying time warner and thus cnn, a deal we will not approve in my Administration Reporter the Justice Department sued in november to block the deal and the sixweek trial wrapped up this month. A judge is expected to issue a ruling in midjune. What america has seen here raises the specter of corruption in the white house. Reporter senator wyden is expecting a full scale investigation into the deal with pharmaceutical giant novartis. I want to know what novartis thought it was buying from the 1. 2 million. This was a pretty crucial time. They were looking at getting a cancer drug approved, they were negotiating with medicare. Reporter the white house didnt directly answer whether the president knew cohen was cashing in on his presidency, but pointed to the tact that government prosecutors sued to black the at t time warner deal as proof the president was not affected. I think it is pretty clear that the department of justice opposed the merger and so certainly the president has not been influenced by any or his administration influenced by any outside special interest. Reporter but some lawmakers are skeptical. It is hard to believe that he didnt know about Michael Cohens arrangements reporter and now experts are debating whether cohens deals were illegal. Some say no, since hiring consultants to get access to power is nothing new in washington. On its face, that is not yet legally problematic. He can legally provide strategy bases on his own insight. Reporter but did the consulting cross the line. He was selling access and the president knew about it and the president agreed to it, even then it may not be illegal, but you are getting closer to it. Reporter and there are also questions about cohens contract with Korean Aerospace industries. It paid cohen 150,000 and since it is a Foreign Company he may have needed to register under the foreign agents registration act but, wolf, tonight, no comment from Michael Cohen himself or the president directly. Good point. Thanks very much. Jessica schneider. Coming up, a look inside of the u. S. Military command center where members of the u. S. 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A cnn crew just got unique access to the facility that keeps a 24 hour a day watch for incoming threats, including kim jonguns missiles. Scott mclean is joining us, tell us what youve seen, scott. For the first time in a long time, they are encouraging signs coming from north korea but the political optics mean for little for the people at norad who are tracking the north Korean Nuclear threat. They say they are just as leery of north korea now as they were one year ago. Their work is done in two command center ins Colorado Springs and one is buried under that mountain. This is americas first line of defense from an incoming nuclear missile. Deep inside cheyenne mountain, south of denver, this sprawling underground bunker is the home of norad, the north American Aerospace defense command. The partnership formed to defend against long range soviet bombers during the cold war. Today it warns of incoming threats from the sky 24 hours a day, including a north Korean Missile, something that seemed like a real possibility just months ago. Translator they must never forget the Nuclear Button is placed on my desk at all times. They must realize that this is not a threat but a reality. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Reporter since then, tensions with north korea have calmed down. Kim jonguns missile tests have stopped and threats of fire and fury have been replaced with hand shakes and optimism ahead of a trump kim meeting. But here inside the norad command center, you would never know. It we have a job to do thats measured in minutes and seconds and for us to account for that political rhetoric, it doesnt fit in. We are worried about pieces of metal flying through space coming to north america. Reporter cnn was granted rare access to this complex buried under 2400 feet of solid granite at the end of a milelong tunnel. Its designed to survive a Nuclear Blast and maintain communications after being hit. Its secured by 23ton blast doors, five underground lakes store water and fuel and its 15 buildings sit on militia thore Giant Springs that let the building sway up to a foot without being damaged in an earthquake or missile strike. We like to say its the most secure facility in the world. Reporter colonel travis morhen, a canadian, has been standing watch during five north Korean Missile tests. Despite north koreas talk of denuclearization, he says norad still gets intelligence on kim jonguns Nuclear Program three or four times a day. What should we read into that . You shouldnt read anything into that. Its just thats the scan of the Intelligence Community looking at north korea. Weve been watching the same as we were previously, the same as we watch any other nation that poses a threat to the United States and canada. Reporter the persistent focus on north korea comes despite President Trumps announcement that the u. S. Is pulling out of the iran nuclear deal. Irans president has yet to commit to staying in it, meaning the world could soon have another aspiring Nuclear Power or even two more if saudi arabia makes good on its pledge to follow suit if iran restarts its Nuclear Program. If there is a deal to actually denuclearize the korean peninsula, is your work done here . No. No, its not. We need to be able to respond to any threat from any nation and in opinion our work will never be done. And norad is marking its 60th anniversary tomorrow. Its the only binational command of its kind in the world, but its not the only tenet inside cheyenne mountain. There are some 15 other u. S. Government agencies inside. But officials wont same which ones. Wolf . 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