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Air system in prison. More on the former trump fixers life behind bars. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im washington blitzer. You are in the situation room. Breaking news this hour, cnn has learned that the house judiciary chairman jerry nadler does, indeed, want to open an impeachment inquiry putting him at odds with the House Speaker Nancy Pelosis go slow approach. We are told nadler moved forward this week. A source telling cnn he is being careful what he says publicly because he doesnt want to throw pelosi under the bus. Also breaking, the new release of the key everyday of Robert Muellers obstruction information. Its a Voicemail Message from then trump lawyer john dude to a key mueller witness, the fired National Security adviser to the president michael flynn. The call was investigated as a potential attempt to deter flynn from cooperating with muellers team. This hour, ill talk with democratic congressman jimmy gomez, a member of the House Oversight committee and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets go to manu raju, i understand you have exclusive new reporting on nadlers personal views on whether the house should launch impeachment proceedings. Reporter apparently jerry nadler has been cautious, not so far as going p going into a impeachment. Quietly, he has been lobbying for an impeachment probe and made that case directly to nancy pelosi in multiple private meetings, including one earlier this week with a key chairman. I am told in this meeting he said to pelosi and others who were there, that this would add weight to the legal argument in court and a fight with the Trump Administration over a range of issues over a subpoena, he believes it will help his case in court and made two additional arguments, including opening up an inquiry would centralize out investigations, before his committee, the House Judiciary Committee, which has the expertise to move forward, also he referenced rules on the house floor and the House Committee that presents the disparagement of individuals and the president , if you open an impeachment probe, it is easier to make the case the president may have committed crimes and not violate house rules. We did get pushback. Nancy pelosi is resisting opening impeachment probes. She says reportedly the president should go to prison than be impeached. I am told that adam schiff also resisted that effort if they were to centralize an impeachment inquiry, perhaps that could impact his committee. He did not want to move forward on that easy well. One member of the House Judiciary Committee made the case he has been very careful, jerry nadler in how she advocating for an impeachment inquiry. He has been careful but he doesnt want to throw pelosi under the bus. Thats the view of one member of the Democratic Committee so nadler is facing these dualings tensions, even though its the personal belief they should open up an impeachment probe as the speaker resisted, washington. Does manu have a strategy to avoid directly contradicting nancy pelosi . Hes not dissuadeing his members from going public. We seen more and more members call for an impeachment probe. I am told he is supportive of making their efforts known. He has not issued any objection. Also he tried to not go as far on an interview or Public Comment saying the president engaged in conduct that is warranting impeachment. He has tried to stop short of that. He is leaving it at that, instead to other members, to make that case, the tv commentator as well as num editorial boards, to make that argument. He, himself, has not. But if they were to open up an impeachment probe, that could change. But at the moment thats how she trying to and a half fwat that pressure that he is facing from the left and from the speaker. Manu, what exactly are you know nadler and his staffers, what are they saying about your reporting . Reporter well, at the moment, nadler declined to be interviewed for our article, wolf. But what the spokesman for jerry nadler, for the spokesperson on the Committee Told us was that no one is above the law. It would be Democratic Caucus is united about its view to investigate this president , look into all these allegations that are out there. They dont want to go out publicly and saying they are disagreeing with the speaker. They want to make the case they are investigating and will do everything they can and no option is off the table. The spokesperson for the Speakers Office also made the case they are united in how they investigate this president and his conduct. Theyre trying to down play any divisions that are actually existing in this caucus about the strategy and whether to launch this probe. Adam schiff, hes the spokesperson, he declined to comment about this clash with jerry nadler. Nevertheless, this the an issue that will continue to fester in the caucus about how to pursue this in the days and weeks ahead as members of the committee get more and more frustrated. Members of the caucus more concerned about the defiance of the suspense and debate their best way to pursue their approach. Excellent reporting, we have much more on automatic breaking news coming up. We will speak to a key congressman, jimmy gomez, lets get to another important story that we are following right now. More breaking news on that key voicemail everyday in the Mueller Investigation that has just been released. Our Political Correspondent sarah purchase ray is jo murr joining us. Tell us what it suggests. This is the first time weve heard about this audio recording. We talked about it. John dowd, formerly an attorney for President Trump made to one of Michael Flynns attorneys, saying essentially we have a feeling you are cooperating with the government. We need to know what you are saying. I will let him speak for himself. Hey, rob, this is john again. Uh, maybe i, i, im sympathetic. I understand your situation. But let me see if i can state it in stronger terms, if you have, it wouldnt surprise me if you have gone on the work with the government, i understand that you cant [ inaudible ] thats one thing. If, on the other hand, uh, there is information that implicates the president , then we got a National Security issue or maybe a National Security issue. I dont know. Some issue. We got to, we got to deal with. Not only for the president but for the country. So uh, you know, then, then you know we need some kind of heads up. Just for the sake of protecting all our interests, if we can, without you having to give up any confidencetial information. So, up, and if its the former, then, you know, remember what weve always said about the president and his feelings toward flynn and, that still remains, but, well, recent, up, let me know and i appreciate you listening and taking the time, thanks, pal. I think there were some rumbling, he is say figure there is anything implicating the president , we need you to tell us. At the end he is trying to remind Michael Flynns the feelings the president had at the time. He was expressing warm feelings, saying he was a great guy. It was unfortunate to leave the white house. It was john dowd to remind the attorney, hey, the president thinks highly of this guy. The subtext not to. Is this the kind of socalled underlying evidence sarah that democrats are fighting to obtain . Because, actually, hearing something, seeing something is different tan reading about it . I think it is, this is this voicemail. Its written in the Mueller Report. We seen the transcript. But it is a different thing to hear someone you know to have been an attorney for the president making this pitch. I think democrats in particular are banking on the fact that most of the American Public have not read the Mueller Report in detail. They might listen if these people testify and that might change peoples minds about impeachment or whether they want to vote for the president in 2020. Cnn has new information about how the president s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen is doing in prison. He is serving a threeyear prison sentence. Michael cohen is not excited to go to prison, no one is happy, it turns out according to my sources excellent reporting its not necessarily as bad as Michael Cohen thought. He is getting a warm reception there, other inmates want to spend down time with him. They want to have down time. They are asking for legal advice and offering him advice how to make it through his prison sentence. They are fascinated by the guy that worked for President Trump and orchestrate these payments to women. They want to know all about it. As for Michael Cohen. He is working on the hvac system. He is working in construction work to cut back his sentence, otisville where he is held is a nice prison. Its still prison. The hardest thing for Michael Cohen is being away from his family. Its a minimum security prison in new york. Thank you so much for that. President trump meanwhile has been showing a lot of frustration today. His feuds, grudges, bubbling to the service even as he marked the kem solemn dday anniversary in france. Pamela, any white house, first, any reaction first of all to these late breaking developments back here in washington . Reporter no reaction as of yet, wolf. You know, as President Trump faces this growing list of issues back home while hes abroad, he did stick to the script today. In normandy, he put divisive rhetoric to the site and gave a unifying speech to World Leaders and surviving veterans. Reporter after delivering a soaring speech about the importance of foreign alliances abroad at the 75th anniversary of dday this morning our bond is unbe right backable. Reporter ow unbreakable. Reporter during an interview with fox news set to air later tonight and with the backdrop of an American Cemetery behind him, the president reverted to the criticism of the russia investigation and special investigate robert muler. He made a fool out of himself, the letter he had to do to straight everyone out his testimony. His testimony was wrong. Reporter while also directing insults to the speaker of the house nancy pelosi. Nancy pelosi, i call her nervous nancy. Shes a disaster. Let her do what she wants. You know what . I think theyre in big trouble. I dont talk about the president when hes out of the country, thats my principles. Reporter before he arrived in france, pelosi made a stunning remark to my colleagues, i dont want to see him impeached. I want to see him in prison, that according to multiple democratic sources who spoke to politico. The statement coming amid questions on whether pelosi and house chairman jerry nadler are on the same page when it comes to launching an impeachment inquiry with trump. Are you on the same page Speaker Nancy Pelosi when it comes to impeachment . As i said, we are launching an inquiry now and whether we are launching an impeachment inquiry, it may come to that. Reporter also looming back home, intense negotiations with mexicos foreign minister. And whether President Trump will follow through on his threat to slap a 5 tariff on mexico imports, set to go into effect monday. Mexico was in yesterday. Theyre coming back this morning in washington. Theyll be meeting at the white house. I think a lot of progress was made yesterday. But we have to make lot of progress. They have to step up and they have to step up to the plate. Perhaps they will. We will see. They can solve the problem. The president has said what he means. He meant what he said. Before or after monday, mexico has to step up. Reporter tonight mr. Trump is back at his golf resort if ireland, after managing to stay on message during his dday speech, despite the pressing issues back home. To the men who sit behind me and to the boys who rest in the field before me, your examples will never, ever grow old. Reporter now, here in ireland, an official says President Trump has been, has been getting briefed on the meetings happening in washington over the mexico tariffs and he has been weighing in, but press secretary sarah sarnders says he hasnt changed his mind yet and those tariffs are still set to go into effect on monday in mexico. We have been told President Trump has had another night at his golf resort. That would make it 254 days at one of his properties since he became president. Wolf. 193 days at his golf clubs. This is day 868 of his presidency. Thank you for that report. Joining us, congressman jimmy gomez, a democrat who serves on the oversight ways an means committees. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you, wolf. Let me get the breaking news, you heard the jarm jerry nadler is privately lobbying the House Speaker nancy pelosi to open a formal impeachment inquiry. Are you with nadler or are you with pelosi . You know its not a question of who im with. I voted first twice i said this first twice to start debate on impeachment. I will do it again. At the same time, nancy pelosi is the quarterback of our team. Although different people play different positions and some people are more aggressive, we want to make sure that we do get it right. So im with nancy and im with nadler in different respects. First, nancy is our leader, nadler is making sure that we line the facts in the case so that when we do approach impeachment and if we do that we can make sure that its successful. When i spoke to the judiciary chairman jerry nadler yesterday here in the situation room, he wouldnt commit to waiting for Nancy Pelosis blessings before opening an impeachment inquiry. What message if nadler were to defy the speaker of the house . Im not sure he will defy the speaker of the house. This is still nancy pelosi. And everybody is behind her. He might not want to commit in public. I dont think he will break ranks. What do you make of his argument that a formal impeachment probe would centralize all the various investigations in the house of representative and actually wind up giving more power to investigators . Hes the chairman of the just dish area committee. So he know what is he is talking about. At the same time, you still have chairman adam schiff of the intelligence committee. You still have richard neil, elijah cummings, unless everybody is on board. It doesnt sound like everybody is on board, i dont think that will happen. The speaker responded to nadler in that closed door meeting, we are told, by saying she doesnt want the president impeached. She wants to see him if prison, the president of the United States in prison, thats an extraordinary statement from the speaker of the house. Do you agree with her . I want to see justice served. I want to see this president held accountable. Thats why you see so many investigations going on. Thats why have you investigation into his financial documents that the committee online oversight is conducting. Thats why have you the Intelligence Community following up on the leads and the facts regarding the foreign interests of this president. So i think we need to conduct these investigation and let those ends up where theyre going. If it determines that we lead to impeachment or he ends up in jamie so be it. Maybe you can explain there to me. She believes the president of the United States committed crimes that possibly could lead to imprisonment, how can she justify not opening impeachment proceedings. I dont know everything that shes thinking ability. But i know that a lot of times when people always ask, whats the next step . Whats the next step . Nancy pelosi is always thinking about that next step. You open up an impeachment proceeding, you end up having a vote. It passes the house. Then you end up in the senate. If you end up in the senate with mitch mcconnell, you bet ver a mountain of evidence because this guy is not going to risk his majority. He has 22 seats up. In 2020. If he actually say removes the president , which i highly doubt thats what he would do, it would cost him the majority of his house, because you suppress his own base. So if were going to go into the senate and take on mitch mcconnell, we better have guns loaded and ready to bear because this is going to be a fight. You also heard for the first time today the actual voicemail from john dowd, who was the president s top lawyer at the time to Michael Flynns lawyer, flynn was not only the National Foreign adviser, he witnessed the entire Mueller Investigation. How do you interpret that message, congressman . I its interesting that this recording came out. Last night i flew back to los angeles. I didnt have wifi so what i ended up doing is rereading the Mueller Report and i reread that sevenlths i highlighted it. Its actual that section. I highlighted that section on my iphone, it was very, very questionable what he was trying to suggest. At the same time it points out later on, on that same page, it points out trumps attorney when he was told by flynns attorney not, he couldnt give them any more information that he would tell the president , trumps attorney would tell the president that that was hostile actions towards the president. So in my eyes its what the folks associated with this administration have always done, withives to dodge, lie, to protect this president. At the same time, i want to tell people that we want to make sure that we follow all this evidence, forward all this evidence to the logical conclusion. If its obstruction, then were going to bring it out. And we want to make sure that this is read out loud in public and make sure that everybody understands whats going on. We have some brandnew information. I want to get your thoughts. We just learned, congressman, the Justice Department has now responded to your committee, the House Oversight committee, in its investigation into the 2020 census and the citizenship question, the department of justice was working to get the House Oversight committee for documents in response to the subpoena for information regarding the 2020 census, they called your committee to go ahead with contempt premature. Thats the new information. Whats your reaction . Ah, i think thats nonsense. We have been working on this issue for a number of months. We have been really questioning the fact on what motivated the census bureau, what motivated the department of commerce to add the citizenship question. Theyre not giving us the information. Since theyre not giving us the information, if we need it, we issued a subpoena. If they dont respond we will issue the contempt. Thats way weigh have to go. They are releasing statement, this letter, if you go ahead and issue the contempt citation, they will simply stop cooperating with you. That doesnt make a difference. They havent been cooperating with us, anyways, so we have to make sure we keep pushing our case forward and then if we have to go to court, well go to court, once again. So this is a significant development. It looks like theyre stonewalling on a whole bunch of issues. You are on the oversight committee, the ways an means committee. You want to see the president s tax returns for the past six years. You believe you have a strong case. How is that working out so far . Hey, were in were following it through and one of the things that ive always said. And i said on this show, i just said it, this president as well as everybody associated, they have one strategy, its called dodge, delay and lie. And i want the American People to know it. Because theyre going to keep doing it. But were going to follow every piece of evidence, if were going to issue subpoenas, if they dont follow up on the subpoena, were going to issue contempt. If they dont have, dont follow up on the contempt, were going to go to court. You know what, were winning in the court right now on the fact we have a a right to investigate and hold this administration accountable. Congressman jimmy gomez, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Just ahead, cnn has learned the House Judiciary Committee jerry nadler is backing an impeachment inquiry. Breaking with nancy pelosi, why is he worried about revealing that publicly . Orlando isnt just the theme park capital of the world, it also has the highest growth in manufacturing jobs in the us. Its a competition for the talent. Employees need more than just a paycheck. 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What is your reaction to this story . Its a little bit surprising to me because nadler and pelosi have not had any daylight between them so far. Last night after he spoke to nadler i thought he was being circumspect because he didnt want to step on nancy pelosi, i think he is getting pressure from his committee people. I think he has not gotten people to appear before his committee. He feels if there is an impeachment inquiry that will help him with that. I also think there is a little turf thing going on here, having covered congress for many years. There are folks who dont want the Judiciary Committee to become the only place where you would do impeachment, for example, schiff has the intelligence committee. There is oversight. There are other committees that want a piece of this action. So that would be a problem for people. But i think hes tried to represent nancy pelosi. Shes clearly intransigent on this issue right now. Maybe this is one way for them to sort of try and push her towards the impeachment side of the fence. Jeffrey toobin, remember, these are his private positions. He is reluctant to go public. I got a question for these democrats. Why dont they talk less about investigating and do more investigate . Where are the hearings . Just dish Year Committee is going to hold a committee on monday where john dean is going to testify, who was white House Counsel 40 years ago. Why is all this discussion about strategy . Why dont they call some witnesses, produce some documents, even if its just to show that the white house isnt cooperating . I mean, i dont think all this wheel spinning is doing them any wood when theyre not producing anything. I think thats the problem. Theyre not getting the witnesses they need. If they can get don mcgahn up there. Subpoenas are fought things you decide to do or shouldnt do, its optional. Theyre subpoenaing people. They need to get people up there. Jeffrey, nadler does say within weeks, if necessary, he will issue a subpoena to Robert Mueller to appear before his committee. Well, you know, time is passing. You know, its june. The Mueller Report came out in march. You know, i guess hes like trying to be real polite with mueller, saying, asking, pretty please testify, you know, weeks are passing. Its soon. Its going july. Then august. I know all the months, actually. I can recite them. But its like you know i just dont tow what theyre waiting for to actually get some witnesses and start presenting evidence rather than talking about what theyre going to do. What do you think, david . Let me see if i can tie a couple things together . I think jeff i have right, House Democrats need to do more actual investigating. They are frustrated theyre not getting the witnesses and their suspense answered. People like nadler apparently want to move forward so they can get more access to information. On the other hand, i think the pelosi position is, i want to make it clear to the public and to the courts and to other members of congress that we cant get anything through the courts. We cant get anything any other way except to impeach. She wants this clearly to be a last resort. I think the problem is the more time that passes is actually going to undercut their argument for impeachment. Mueller put out that report i think it was april 18th he made that report public. Yes, it was reasonable for them to take some time, digest the report. Not seem like they were rushing to conclusions, impeachment. The thing is theyve had time to look at the report and look at the absolutely shocking conduct that is described about what the president and his associates new about the russian plot against america, they encourage that plot and his efforts to obstruct justice and that investigation on an ongoing basis. So at this point, for the house of representatives to not ask them, and a mayor that is their constitutional obligation, right . Robert mueller talks about, well, there is this remedy. Its not the criminal justice system. Hes not talking about oversight hearings, center, hes talking about the remedy of impeachment. If you wait and have the facts and wait too long, eventually the question comes if you think this is impeachable conduct. I do agree with susan on the point. But there is a point where there will be a tipping point. Democrats do face that exact risk. They will have waited so long, people will say, why didnt you impeach sooner . On the other hand, you can always go to impeachment. I think again the speaker wants to get to this position where she said we have no other choice and shes not, there was that poll this week where 41 think impeach. She is thinking of the 51 other american was arent there. Shes thinking of the 50 democrats in trumps district she is worried about losing. If this were a normal congress. Susan and i were talking about this, you could have an elect committee in the iran contra you can do an investigation with the public. You had an investigation in watergate. Its late for that. This isnt a normal congress. So its hard to figure out. Jeffrey, the argument that they keep making, those reluctant to go forward with formal impeachment proceedings, so the house of representatives impeachs the president of the United States. Hes not going to be convicted. In the senate you need 20 republicans. If all the democrats vote in favor of impeachment, thats clearly not going to happen. He would use that to his political advantage in his reelection effort. You know, i dont think anyone really knows the answer to what the political impact of impeachment is. You know what president s dont like . Being impeached. You know, its really not a good thing and the idea that this would be some gift to donald trump by impeaching him, making him one of three mr. Presidepre be impeached. I dont think thats a good thing for his reelection. It is true it might motivate the base. The idea that wane e any of us can predict with precision what the political impact is of an impeachment. You know, im there, you know, i agree that the senate is not going to produce 67 votes. But the idea that this would somehow help donald trump get reelected. I dont think anyone knows that for sure. Thats absolutely right. Certainly House Democrats are over learning the lesson of the clinton impeachment. At the same time nancy pelosi is being extraordinarily conservative and cautious and not moving to impeachment. She is reckless saying things like he should be if jail. Basically the democrats version of lock him up. Things we shouldnt want to hear members of Congress Talking about in that manner about pursuing those types of things. You cant have it both ways. If you think he should be in jail. Isnt that serious enough to impeach him . Im not criticizing Nancy Pelosis strategy here, but she cannot say things like, lock him up. Which she effectively said and say, but wait a minute, we shouldnt impeach. I think shes trying to have it both ways. If the concern is the election coming up, the politics of this impeachment should be her focus not whether President Trump is in jail at some later point in time. Pelosis strategy only makes sense in a world in which donald trump is not elected president. All the strategy of not wanting to pursue impeachment, beating him at the polls is fine and good if he is actually defeated. Keep in mind this was the same mistake the fbi if 2016 planned for a world in which they assumed it was impossible somebody like donald trump could be elected president. We see nancy pelosi engaging in thinking, its impossible that someone like donald trump could be reelected. Let me make the case for Nancy Pelosis point of view for one moment which is, i believe, that in order to impeach the president you have to have Public Opinion on your side, have you as to make the case. And the point, as jeffrey was saying earlier, they havent made the case, because they havent had hearings. They havent got mueller up there. They havent got mcgaughan, hope hicks, whoever they want. They need to start doing that quickly or nothing will occur. Good point. Everybody stick around, there is more news, we are following, just ahead, Vladimir Putin launched his friendship with chinas president. That could mean some serious trouble for President Trump. Behr presents a job well done. Painting be done. And stay done. Behr, ranked 1 in Customer Satisfaction with interior paints, and keeps all your doing done. Great paint, new low price. Starting at 24. 98. 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Thats right, wolf, he is visiting moscow and st st. Petersburg, cementing ties with Vladimir Putin that have gotten closer every year. Today analysts are warning President Trump to put away his personal affinity for both putin and xi and deal with the real threat the two men working together pose to u. S. National security. It was a split screen tailor made by russian president Vladimir Putin. Just as President Trump was meeting with americas most important allies in europe, two of americas biggest adversaries were Holding Court in moscow. In a summit that analysts say was timed to send a message, putin hosted chinese president xi jinping. I think this is russias response to what they see as an american threat. Its a way of saying we dont need the west. Reporter the two strong men have been getting closer every year. This time xi calling putin his best and bossom friend. Our bilateral relations have not reached the maximum and can come even better ro. The comments a direct echo of trumps description of his relationship with the two men. The relationship i have with president xi is extraordinary. Its really good. I think i can have a very Good Relationship with president putin. Reporter during their summit, putin and xi showed off their friendship with a walk to the chinese zoo. They showed two russian pandas, they went to the theater, reviewed soldiers and looked at chinese cars, beyond the pageantry and the pandas, analysts say america should be very wary of this partnership. They are work together, coordinating more in the past to accelerate the decline of the u. S. Influence globally. Reporter putin experts say is being putin, manipulating himself on the world stage, trying to insert himself as an indispensable player. He would like russia to be consulted or be a port of call for any major leader. Reporter in april, putin met with kim jongun in the wake of the failed summit with trump. Putin offered to be an intermediary between kim and trump, experts say was a typical putin move to peel the u. S. Away from countries hes doing business with, even as he suggests he is trying to help. Experts say brush has to brush aside his niavete and present the threat the leaders present to america security. That i say russia and zyban coin can create Cyber Attacks and knock america off balance. Its not hard to see countries mover on their periphery. China on the South China Sea and russia into ukraine, for example. That kind of coordination would severely strain the United States ability to responds. Reporter how can President Trump and his team counter this threat from putin and xi . Analysts say they have to think of creative ways to drive wedges between them, militarily, economically and otherwise. They say trump will need help from his european allies to do that. The problem is trump has done more to alienate allies in europe than to work with them. 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