Indicted. The president believes when this report, once it is submitted and becomes public, once it clears him, the president will use that to make the case that hes been vindicated to the entire thing, its been a ridiculous pursuit that amounts to a de facto coupe. You heard him say Robert Mueller wasnt elected the same way he was. It doesnt work that way. Thats the position the president is trying to make as he tries to shape Public Opinion through his tweets and public statements. Notable also the president when asked directly if the white house would cooperate with the investigations, and the requests for documents by white House Democrats, the president turned to an attack on as he has before, the investigations being conducted by the house. Thats right. And hes using the same approach with the criminal, the civil, and the congressional investigations to him and his family and his personal and business affairs. Casting it with a wide brush to call it a witch hunt, even though theyre separate investigations. And geoff, what would you characterize the president s mood as . He was chatty the last time on the south lawn. He wanted to stop again onnen his way to south florida where hell meet with caribbean countries. Thats right. Youre right. He did some months ago refer to african nations and haiti as shole countries. I have to imagine whether or not thats going to come up when he sits down with the leaders. One of the things theyre going to talk about is the crisis in venezuela this. A lot of them depend on oil and gas from venezuela. You asked about his mood. Its really hard to compare his mood today to any other day. He seemed to be in decent spirits. He again repeated that chorus of no collusion hes been saying for the past 20 months or so. Geoff, thank you for sprinting to the camera to be available for us. I want to bring in everybody to join the conversation. Jill winebanks, carolyn palisi, Charlie Savidge, and Alexi Mchammond and eugene scott and pete williams. Pete, let me go to you here and your thoughts. Particularly when he talks about the guidance he believes the doj has as it relates to his potential liability, give us some of the fact check or reality check there. Well, if what hes saying is that theres been no indictments of anybody by Robert Mueller for basically the reason Robert Mueller was given his homework assignment, the facts speak for themselves. Nobody has been dwooit indicted for that, and everything points to Robert Muellers investigation being over. We dont know when the Mueller Report is going to come. Were on a day today thing here. It could come any day now. Every day we have reasons to think it might be today or it might not be, and were sort of at a 50 50 posture. It seems like that report will come within a matter of days. And that tells you that the Mueller Investigation is over and that this central finding is that there hasnt been any socalled collusion or at least none that led to criminal charges. I think those facts speak for themselves. The broader question, though, of what the Mueller Report is going to say, we dont know. We dont know what sort of narrative its going to have or what else its going to say about that question. And pete, as we took a live look, that was President Trump at joint base andrews getting on air force one ready to head down to south florida. Hes spending the weekend at maralago. I know you are our resident tea leaf reading expert. At this point its a matter of wait and watch with Robert Mueller . Right . Precisely. We thought it might come yesterday. It didnt. I suppose it could have come again today. Its just hard to say. I suspect that the Justice Department has some sense of when its going to come. But theyre just not saying one way or the other. Were left to kind of read the pizza boxology of are people staying late kind of thing. Thats what were reduced to. Its obvious that this stage is about over. Now, that doesnt mean that there arent other investigations going. You talked about the ones in the congress. There are other cases here in washington in District Court in new york. In federal District Court. So it doesnt it isnt the end of investigation small i. The capital i, Robert Mueller, its all over but the report. I want to see if Geoff Bennett is still with us. Were getting a gut check from the legal time from Rudy Giuliani, the president s outside attorney with new reporting this morning on what they expect to happen. And listen, i want to bring in charlie and alexi and jill and caroline. Sources close to the president s legal team that i spoke to are optimistic that this report is not going to be damaging to the president. Politico has a piece out this morning where they talk about how some democrats are starting to think hey, maybe this report is not going to be damaging and reconfiguring their expectation setting. Well, the president s lawyers, as you mentioned Rudy Giuliani, have a terrible track record of predicting whats going on. Its not worth paying attention to them until theres a document in their hands. To the point of what we havent seen indictments yet. I think a lot of the wisdom is were moving toward what pete said. If youre Robert Mueller and youre going to indict someone that might be close to the president , it might anger him like donald trump junior, youre not going to do that until the second you drop the report. So you go back, were out of here. So i dont think we can the facts have to speak for themselves. Did you hear anything different from President Trump today . This is about the expectation. I would have been surprise first down he said i heard about the mueller rot aeport. Mueller has remained silent as is appropriate. And no one knows when the report is going to come. No one knows whether there are pending indictments, whether there are sealed indictments already filed. We dont know. I agree if there was going to be an indictment of any of the president s children, that it would be the last thing you would do so as to not be there when the president erupts. And in order for us to have to read the tea leaves, we need tea leaves. And we dont have any. Theres no evidence right now for us to conclude whether or not the Mueller Report is imminent. Let me stop you there. I think we have some tea leaves. Right . Based on our reporting from our team. For example, the number of prosecutors, the number of personnel on muellers team has dwindled. Right . Youve seen people, for example, carrying out boxes. Indications that this is likely winding down. That is a possibility, and certainly i thought when weissman resigned and then the next day you had a delay of the sentencing of gates because he was cooperating in ongoing investigations. And so he couldnt be sentenced yet. Which sends the opposite information. The manafort case is over. That was what weissman was working on. His resignation may mean that manafort is done. It doesnt mean that Everything Else is done, and there are also the spinoffs to other jurisdictions that could still be going on. We just theres just no way of knowing until, for example, all the evidence seized during the search at roger stones home has been gone through, you cant wrap up the investigation. You have to review all of that. And his own trial, roger stones own trial has been delayed because of the volume of material was so much that it took them a long time to go through it. So i think we just have to be patient. It could be wrapping up. Everybody is on sort of hooks waiting. And i think that includes the president. Right . I mean, he is on air force one, the plane you see taxiing down the tarmac. The president will be landing in south florida in a couple hours where hes set to hold an event down there. Today it will be different. Carolyn, and then geoff. Lets drill down on what the president had to say about Robert Mueller this morning. Lets listen. Its just a continuation of the same nonsense. Everybody knows. They ought to go to work, get infrastructure done, and get a lot of other things done instead of wasting everybodys time. Swoowell see what happens. There was no collusion. There was no on suction. Everybody knows it. Its all a big hoax. I call it the witch hunt. I know the attorney general highly respected. Ultimately will make a decision. It wont be. If there is, it will only play to our advantage. Your reaction . How many times can you hear that perpetual refrain, witch hunt . Its all a hoax . I think whats actually astounding and we really should take a moment to pause, is the fact that this investigation has been given a chance to come to an end. It wasnt really a given that President Trump could allow this investigation to continue, because this is a unique situation. One that america has not been in before. Right . Robert mueller is part of the department of justice. He is subordinate to rod rosenstein. Its not an independent investigation where they turn to another body outside of the Justice Department. To a certain extent, President Trump could pick up the phone any second and call bill barr and say whats going on . When am i going to get the report . It sounds like he has more information than we do, but there could be a lot going on behind the scenes that were not aware of. Geoff, you and our team at the white house unit, Kristen Welker and others have new reporting now on the strategy inside the president s legal team. I was told a couple days ago they may not end up releasing that counterreport. That theyve been compiling it for months. And Rudy Giuliani is talking publicly about this. Fill us in. Thats right. And Charlie Savidge made a great point. Whenever you talk about something Rudy Giuliani said, you mention the fact that Rudy Giuliani himself says he has a dual role. Hes the president s attorney and the president s public spokesman when it comes to russia, and Rudy Giuliani has a track record of saying things that turns out not to be so, but hes the president s lawyer so we have to report on what he says. He says he met with the president yesterday for about 20 minutes. He describes the president as being prepared for the release of the report. He says once mueller transmits the report, the legal team, the outside legal team, will acknowledge that. Theyre making clear they reserve the right to make comment they reserve comment until they review the report. And then he adds if theres something factually inaccurately thats stated, well respond as appropriate. That speaks to the notion of a counterreport. They might do it. If they dont find cause, perhaps they wont. Alexi . The idea of a counterreport is the least surprising thing. I would imagine wed get tweets if they dont release the report. The other thing about Rudy Giuliani, i think its interesting. We reported last weekend that he sort of has this vanishing act. We havent seen him since january 20th. Thats when he made the ridiculous comment about the trump tower moscow deal talks lasting longer than the president said it lasted. We know that Rudy Giuliani when he talks about these things can implicate the president in things he doesnt want to be implicated in, but part of his role is to undermine public confident in the Mueller Report. Im not surprised hes making wild guesses. Mueller knows more than any of us know. The point of Public Confidence in the Mueller Report is interesting. Weve seen polling suggest lets pull up that poll. We have the recent polling showing peoples confidence in a pair and impartial investigation. Theres a huge divide. Between republicans, democrats, and everybody in general, as we get the numbers ready to go on the screen, 33 of democrats say theyre extremely or very confident. People overall, 50 of democrats say they are. 18 of republicans. Its consistent with i think where we see the country as a whole right now regarding this presidency and the investigation into the relationship between this campaign and russia in terms of meddling and just what people are going to believe based on what theyre consuming in terms of their media. What will be interesting is to see how it changes based on what the report reveals. As we say, we dont know what it will reveal. What we can rely onto your point earlier is even if the white house does not release a counterattack, they will consistently push back on anything that suggests that the president and his team did anything nefarious as they have been doing since day one. Theyre campaigning for 2020. Thats a central piece. And to that point, the trump team says theyre confident it will exonerate the president. Theyre ready to go with tweets, fundraising, blanketing air waves, campaign rallies. We know one thing for sure. Mueller is not going to indict trump. Because the constitution doesnt let him. Its easy to predict that team trump will jump on that. Claim vindication even if mueller found terrible things and was prohibited from indicting him. And i think building on that earlier point of will the president s children still face legal jeopardy or will they pull back from it . In one sense, even if theyre not indicted, this is the end of the beginning, not the end. Theres a big question about how much theyre going to make public of negative information they found, someone they chose not to indict, and you can imagine that with total confidence, i will predict that congressional accounts intend to spend the next two years trying to drag that information into the light accusing the president of covering up something and trying to get the underlying files. Pete williams is with us. Jump in. I wanted to say one thing. I have such respect for charlie and jill, and im constantly eating charlies dust when i read his stories in the New York Times. It doesnt seem likely to me, though, who knows. I say this with great humility, because i could be wrong. It doesnt seem right to think that Robert Mueller on his way out of town would drop his report and another indictment. This is a former marine. That would look like he was in retreat. It just doesnt seem plausible to me that there are other indictments yet to happen. But you know what . Pretty soon well know whether thats true or not. Yeah. And pete, to your point, i know there are those close to the president who obviously are invested in this and invested in trying to spin things a certain way but who believe there are not more indictments coming. And the grand jury hasnt met for a month and a half, i think. Heres the problem. Ill pull back the curtain. We dont know. This is kind of the i love this show. I love cable news. Were going to talk about this for the next ad nauseam until the sun goes down. We just dont know. There are some things that we do know. We know that contrary to what the president is talking about, this is not a hoax as we know. This investigation has led to the indictments and convictions of many people, russian nationals, for example, people in the trump orbit, et cetera. Mueller has been working for the last 675 days. While we dont know when exactly hes going to notify bill barr that that work is over, we know hes obviously been busy. Carolyn and jill, the last final thoughts here. Yeah. I think everybody sort of worst Case Scenario is the report drops and we maintain the status quo. For so long weve been wait a second. Thats not the worse case. Thats pretty likely. Exactly. Just to set peoples expectations. I think you seeing a lot of democrats trying to manage expectations. It looks like were heading more and more in that direction. But i think that a lot of people were hopeful that potentially the roger stone indictment was sort of dangling a potential conspiracy. That there could be a third round of indictments about this possible collusion, but i think we have to brace ourselves for the possibility that were just at the same place we were yesterday when this report comes out. Jill, ten seconds left. Theyre all yours. Two things. One is the difference between impeachment and indictment. And the role of Congress Versus the role of a prosecutor are something we need to focus on, and then also the difference between whether there was conspiracy with russia and whether there was obstruction of the investigation even if there was no conspiracy with russia. It is possible just as in water gate. Thank you all very much for rolling with all that over the last few minutes. We have much more coming up. New reaction to what the president said on his way down to south florida. Plus our road warriors have a day ahead of them. Were live with one candidate this hour and talking about biden with his aat the present times to line up donors before his campaign starts. First, fallout from a dramatic shift in u. S. Foreign policy. Andrea mitchel live in jerusalem, next. 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Based on the way theyre talking, it seems it was enemy action that led to the death. Its not clear if it was a t result of a conflict with isis k, an arm of the Islamic State in the east and northeast part of the country. This comes at a time when theres a glimmer of hope in the peace process. U. S. Special envoys met with tall b taliban where they came to a tentative consensus on some issues that could potentially end the 17yearlong conflict in afghanistan. The taliban wants a complete withdrawal of all u. S. Troops from the country and they want to be part of the Afghan Government. Its led to a rift and tensions between the u. S. And the Afghan Government who have not been at the table. Kourtney there for us covering the pentagon live in washington. Kourtney, thank you. On the heels of the president s comments that the Democratic Party he repeated was antiisrael and antijewish, theres news on what may be the nail in the coffin for the president s middle east plan. After a single tweet overturned longstanding u. S. Policy to recognize israels authority over this region. Check it out. Its highlighted in red. The United Nations has rejected israels occupation to the area since 1967. Israels Prime Minister is embracing there. Benjamin netanyahu is fighting for his political life facing a tough reelection next month. President trump said that didnt play into his decision. Its not about Benjamin Netanyahus reelection . No. I wouldnt even know about that. I have no idea. I hear hes doing okay. Every president has said do that. Im the one that gets it done. We are fortunate to have Andrea Mitchel live for us in jerusalem. Its great to see you. Thank you for being with us. Let me start we have a lot to talk about. The president s comments on the White House South Lawn about israel and about, again, hes saying democrats are antijewish. I want to play that for you and get a sense as to how thats playing where you are. Tech issue . We dont have it, but i summed it up for you. The president repeating they are antijewish and antiisrael. Youve been in the region for several days with pompeo. How is that rhetoric being received . This is the rhetoric of netanyahu. This is the rhetoric, certainly that the president and many republicans are seizing on. Of course, congresswoman omar, all of that. And mike pompeo has been talking about rising antisemitism in the u. S. And elsewhere. In europe its become an increasingly hard lined issue, and a movement in germany. Its a statement where they think they have leverage against the democrats this year. And netanyahu and pompeo working so closely together. Netanyahu has been absolutely over the top elated by what the president has done. Hes pressed hard for it. He was the chief lobbyist for this decision to be taken. Yeah. And when we talk about it, youve been covering this for the last day or so, when the president reversed longstanding u. S. Policy. Theres been International Reaction this morning from turkey saying the president s statement threatens a new crisis from syria calling it irresponsible. Iran calling it illegal and unacceptable. Of course, what the president has done doesnt practically necessarily change anything or not ground, but it is a symbolic move. Right . Absolutely. And its blatantly political by most accounts. Theres no reason to do it now except for the fact that the election is on april 9th, and so far the president as is obvious, has done everything we can for his strong ally, netanyahu. Netanyahu last night was saying thank you, youve made history again, mr. President , thank you President Trump, this is the best relationship israel has ever had, saying first you got the embassy moved from tel aviv to jerusalem, tacitly recognizing jerusalem as the capital of israel. Theyve closed the palestinian offices in washington and the palestinian offices in israel. And then the Iran Nuclear Deal withdrawing from the nuclear deal against the advice of some of his National Security advisers at the time, theyre long gone, and our closest european allies. And mike pompeo going to the western wall with netanyahu. Nobody has done that. President trump went to the wall and so did pence, but not with the Prime Minister. That was very aggressive in a sensitive place where the palestinians have been shut out of negotiations ever since the embassy move, they have, themselves refused to meet with u. S. Officials . Quickly, when you talk about mike pompeo, i want to get your take to an interview he gave while you were in jerusalem. I want to play it. Could it be that President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this to help save the jewish people from an iranian menace . As a christian, i believe thats possible. Im confident the lord is at work here. What do you make of that . Hes an e vangelical. Hes a man of deep faith. Hes moved by the religious sites and he speaks often about that. Thats consistent with mike pompeo, the man and who he is, and its also, i think something that he really believes. But the fact is that just for context, this was the holiday a jewish holiday. A lot of music and dancing and parades in the streets. Alcohol consumed. You can kind of compare it, its kind of their mardi gras and queen esther saved the people. The analogy with iran was to that saying can President Trump be the queen esther . Thats an Old Testament reference. Iranian hezbollah is part of the government and the parliament. Theyve just sanctioned other iranian entities claiming they could be reconstituting a weapons program. The pressure is on iran from this administration. And theyre doing everything they can for netanyahu. Andrea live for us in jerusalem. We didnt think wed still be talking about the president s attacks on mccain. The president cannot let it go. He does not seem to remember hes the one who reig natnited attacks over the weekend. He was horrible with what did with repeal and replace. What he did to the nation was not good. Im not a fan of john mccain. Hes dead. He cant punch back. I dont talk about it. People ask me the question. I didnt bring it up. You brought it up. But it was President Trump who brought it up. First on twitter, and then again in a manufacturing event in ohio recently. Now six days later, members of his party and another member of john mccains party is saying enough is enough. Mccains youngest daughter, bridget, who rarely seeks the spotlight is tweeting at the president , everyone doesnt have to agree with my dad or like him, but i ask you to be decent and respectful. I want to bring in Geoff Bennett and matt mcklarty, alexi and eugene are joining us as well. Geoff geoff, the president , it didnt sound like he got asked about john mccain, but he got asked about something else. Jared kushner potentially using whatsapp to communicate with foreign officials despite the attorney pushing back on this. The president said i dont know anything about it. Youre right. Thats exactly what he said. He moved on to the next question. Of course, House Democrats want to know more. They want this white house to comply with their requests for documents. Im told the white house probably wont comply. They said this is under review and they expect to put out a statement later in the week. To the larger point about the president s attacks on john mccain, i have to tell you when you talk to people close to the president about what accounts for this, theyre reluctant to wager a guess. They say theres no strategy behind it. They dont think it benefits the president politically, but it speaks to what animates hip. Hes animated by grievances and score set. That said, you are seeing a hand full of republicans, a small hand full of republicans break with the president on this issue. You have dan crenshaw who subjected the attacks are beneath the office of the presidency. You have someone saying she spoke with the president to communicate to him how she and arizona feel about the late senator. She said the president heard her. And you also have Joe Lieberman who wrote an op ed in the Washington Post saying mccain probably wouldnt have responded to the comments but the person who suffers the most, from the strange attacks from the president is the president himself. The president this morning spoke to fox business news. They asked him if he feels a responsibility to bring the country together. He said yes. Do you feel a responsibility as president to bring the nation together . I do, i do, and i think i am in a certain way bringing it together. I can tell you that a big portion of this nation is united like its never been united before. Of course, it would have been news if the president answered that question in the negative. As it stands the president is uniting people in part it seems in criticizing him for his attacks on senator mccain. Thats for sure. Geoff, thank you, my friend. Mac, a lot going on here. A lot happening in the west wing these days with President Trump. Do you think its the Mueller Investigation getting under his skin . Theres been a lot going on in the Trump Administration from day one. But this can we just mac, understatement of the year. Thank you. But the Mueller Investigation clearly is a water shed event. But this episode with john mccain is just absolutely wrong. Its unnecessary. Its beneath the presidency. Its inappropriate. It was time to let this go from day one. Never do it. So talk through with me the thing that geoff discussed which was the idea that Jared Kushner and his whatsapp use could be getting him in hot water. I heard from kushners attorney when the story broke in the letter sent to Elijah Cummings in the House Oversight committee saying we have a difference of interpretation. I never told you Jared Kushner used whatsapp Elijah Cummings was like i want more information. What about his whatsapp . There are two issues here. One is when you come from business in the private sector, which i did to the white house, you have to be exceedingly mindful and careful to separate all your prior dealings and any ongoing dealings from the private sector from your government responsibility. Obviously in the case of Jared Kushner or my case as chief of staff, you have to be extremely careful. Secondly, perhaps we were fortunate that there was no email in whatsapp when i was in the white house. But technology has brought forth another level of care and prudence. It doesnt appear that was exercised in this case. Alexi . Kushner is a subject of interest for House Democrats. Thats why hes allegedly using back channels to communicate and conduct classified potentially or at least official business in ways that im not a tech expert, but i know whatsapp has some inkripg level, but its not a high enough level for him to conduct official business on his cell phone. And the fact that she was screen shooting it and sending it to his email, i think further brings up security questions and what hes doing. It speaks to what we know about the white house. They play by their own rules. They dont care about rules previous administrations have followed. They they theyre above the law. Alexandria ocasiocortez has become a lightning rod on the right and sort of a hero on the left for some tweeted and said whats about the whatsapp . Hillary clinton responded and said tell me about it. That shouldnt be a surprise considering everything the clintons have been through. The Trump Administration would be somewhat consistent its the fact that trump responded saying i dont know anything about that. Thats different than i know for a fact that kushner did not do that. Do we have that sound . We do not. Thats different from saying i know we did not do that because we follow the highest ethics of law and we made a big deal about that, so we would not violate that ourselves. Thats not what he said. I think thats a great contrast. Thats the point. It does suggest that theres just a casualness here, really a recklessness in this day and age. Even when youre trying to protect your communication, we clearly have seen so many instances where that is very difficult to do. So when you really dont take that kind of care, youre just asking for trouble in a serious situation on the most sense ty of issues. Excellent perspective. Coming up the road to the white house. Why iowa and New Hampshire might not be on the way for everybody this time around. 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In california the delegates are mailed the same day as the iowa caucus. They need to Campaign Early on. Theyre expense i states to campaign in. They have multiple media markets. Theyre diverse. For all of them, it is helpful for them to campaign in very diverse states so they can try to appeal to hispanics, African Americans, often times in New Hampshire and iowa, theyre pretty much all white crowds. This allows them to broaden the constituency. As harris is out there in texas, a state that beto oroarke has staked his claim to, beto oroarke is in South Carolina. A place harris has been working hard to focus on. Thats where we found Garrett Haake for us on the road for us literally. Are now in the car . Hey. Whats up, face . Reporter weve driving between events. This is the beto oroarke Campaign Strategy in full effect. Were going to have six or seven stops today on his first visit to South Carolina. They know that reaching African American voters is something they have to do. 55 or so of the democratic voters in South Carolina will be back. Thats not been a huge part of beto oroarkes coalition. It doesnt have to be as much in texas. His campaign would point you toward probably the single viral moment of his campaign in texas which is when he stood up for the nfl players kneeling during the National Anthem as a point that got a lot of attention. Hes talked a lot about civil rights and criminal justice issues. He did that today in the context of his own previous arrests including for dui. I think we have that sound we can play. Its interesting. Take a listen. Both instances i spent a night in the county jail, and in both instances i was able to post bail because we have the resources in our family to do that. I understand now how exceptional my experience was, and the fact that these mistakes didnt define me or my future or my options over the course of my lifetime. And how there are so many people in this country who because their families cannot post bail are unable to get out of jail. There are so many people i mentioned, nonviolent drug offenses who will check a box on every application and cannot vote in too many of the counties of our states right now. So ending the cash bail system makes sense. Reporter so talking about criminal Justice Reform will be a big part of oroarkes platform. If it sounds familiar, its also something cory booker talks about a lot. You hear him trying to sort of prebutt questions about his privilege. This is something thats been talked about in a lot of different context since he launched his campaign as a guy, as a white male, the different ways in which his privilege is something he has to discuss on the campaign trail. I think were going to see more of that as we get through the day and the repeated stops as we come back to South Carolina. Thats an interesting point. Are you buckled up . And is your producer driving . I want to make sure . Reporter always. Safety first. Safety first. Producer driving. Were in the seat belts. Yeah. Miracle of technology. Reporter road warriors life has changed. Were living in the year 3000 here. Thank you. Garrett. He brings up the point of beto oroarke bringing up his privilege. And how he didnt understand it back then. We were listening to the sound bite, but he understands the privileges he has now. Absolutely. I think criminal Justice Reform is a rare issue weve seen interesting from both sides of the aisle. Theres an awareness different people are treated differently by the courts and law based on multiple things including some of their identities. One of the most recent conversations about that is related to Paul Manafort and the sentence he got compared to how a black woman who tried to vote in texas, got a longer sentence because she wasnt supposed to be voting based on her probation. Theres issues with the law that many voters have recognized and are bringing to the attention of these president ial candidates. What i think beto oroarke has understood is there are a lot of issues he was not deeply aware of before he ran for senate because of the kdemographics in his state. Once he got bigger, hes having to educate himself. Theres another issue thats come up recently. You heard the president touch on it this morning. This idea that with move on, this Group Calling on democrats not to go to a pac, Many Democrats in the race said they will. Warren is not going. Sanders, oroarke, harris, gillibrand, thats the list of people not attending. Who knows if schultz is going. How is this playing into a strategy for dems . I think some members of the house leadership for democrats are going. Its not a unified front. Right. I think democrats probably should go. Even if they totally disagree with netanyahu or how the president is treating israel right now. But i think its an important audience to communicate with. And it doesnt mean youre endorsing the policies. It doesnt mean youre endorsing netanyahus policies. But i do think there are voters, and i think democrats need to go everywhere. Thats something weve heard from all the democrats. They are going to go everywhere. Were seeing that with beto oroarke and other folks. Trying to campaign for independent voters, even some Republican Voters in the general election. I think you can disagree with netanyahu and apac, but you can still go to the conference and lay that out. I think, actually, that could be in some ways a moment for these folks to actually distinguish themselves from the rest of the crowd. We have developing to coming out our newsroom in new york about the prosecutor who oversaw the Michael Cohen case in new york. Let me bring in tom winter. Tell us whats going on and put it into context of how significant or not this may be. This has been in the works for several days now. We weve been hearing about this, hell be leaving on april 12th. Hes a veteran of the Justice Department, had a successful career in private practice. Why this is potentially significant for folks that have been watching these cases involving the president , particularly Michael Cohen, is that he had overseen that investigation because the u. S. Attorney was recused by the Justice Department. He was appointed by the president im speaking about Jeffrey Berman the u. S. Attorney. W when the investigation came up, they thought it would be best to recuse Jeffrey Berman from that role. We discussed it on your air earlier this week. His name is on those as the person overseeing that investigation. Hes going to be leave, but this had been in the works because this is a personal decision were told by mr. Kuzami because he has family in the washington, d. C. Area. Over the past 15 months hes been commuting every week, seeing his family on the weekends and spending time here in new york. Hes looking forward to getting back to spending time with them. And there is a replacement in the works. This is going to be a seamless transition, if you will. Got it. This is a i know theres been reporting, theres been reporting by the New York Times that the president considered potentially pressuring the then attorney general or acting attorney general, Matt Whittaker into, you know, either having Jeffrey Berman unrecused, which is something that, as my colleague and our colleague Chuck Rosenburg says is something that doesnt happen or pressuring the prosecuting office. Were being strongly told that in no way is this any sort of a pressure or a push out at all. This is not being ordered from the top, this is somebody who, frankly, its a Pressure Cooker job and its tough being away from the family. Yeah. I think a lot of us know something about Pressure Cooker jobs. Thank you, appreciate that. Were going to be right back with what our sources are saying now actually. Guys, first of all, thank you for rocking and rolling with these last 52 minutes of television. Both of you are working on pieces of this developing in your reporting. Alexi, what you got . We were talking about Jared Kushner earlier, the security clearances and how they were gran granted, the investigation is hardly over. They obtained these documents. My understanding is that the democrats on the committee have only had that and theyre getting ready to share it with the republicans on the committee. We hear a lot about Division Within the republican party, but the thing im hearing is that Mitch Mcconnell is trying to bring a vote next week for the new green deal resolution to suggest theres intraparty conflict within the Democratic Party. Six Democratic Candidates have supported for it but now all democratic lawmakers are on board. Its so confusing. I thought he didnt like to bring votes up just for show. Well see. Well see. Okay. All good. Thanks to both of you. Thank you for joining us. Youve got 60 more minutes with me next when were back live from washington. A lot of stuff happening, as you can tell. Washington. A lot of stuff happening, as you can tell carla is living with metastatic Breast Cancer, which is Breast Cancer that has spread to other parts of her body. Shes also taking prescription ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor, which is for postmenopausal women with hormone receptorpositive her2 metastatic Breast Cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. Ibrance plus letrozole was significantly more effective at delaying disease progression versus letrozole. Patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. 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Theres one big thing theyre not expecting from the special counsel, and thats coming from rudy guiliani. Welcome rudy. President obama will take a break from private life to talk to the new class of democrats in congress. Lets start with that big news about President Trump, his foreign and domestic policy, and his big decision on the golan heights. The u. S. Would become the first country ever to endorse israel, keeping land it captures in a war and then annexed. That could set a precedent for other countries as well. It appears to be a deeply political decision, both for netanyahu and President Trump. In a sense theyre kind of a mirror image of each other. Both controversial figures, both immeshed in deepening scandals. Both with reelection top of mind. For netanyahu, that happens in two weeks, for President Trump, 19 plus months. While that sounds like a long time away, politically its right around the corner. Israel, clearly a new favorite attack line to use on democrats. The democrats have very much proven to be antiisrael, theres no question about that. Its a disgrace. I dont know whats happened to them, but they are totally antiisrael, frankly i think theyre antijewish. In fact, in an interview broadcasted on fox business news, President Trump appeared to tie this decision to this reelection campaign. How . By linking it directly to another decision he called a campaign promise, moving the u. S. Embassy to jerusalem. I fully understand why every clinton and bush and obama, everybody campaigned on jerusalem and the embassy going to jerusalem but they never did it. When i got elected i was inundated from all over world say please dont do it. I did it and its been done and its fine. Golan heights is the same thing. Lets start with our nbc News Reporters jeff bennett at the white house. Andrea mitchell will join us momentarily. The president , making those remarks moments ago on the White House South Lawn as hes on his way to south florida. Talking, making these unfounded claims against democrats theyre antijewish. Also talking about Robert Mueller, bring us up to speed on what has been a busy morning if you. Reporter on this announcement related today the golan heights, President Trump is delivering
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