problem. when rudy giuliani goes on television, jody venn nova and some of these other allies, they never have information to point to say she was a problem. as to the question whether pompeo defended her or protected her, giuliani says that he talked to mike pompeo to tell him that the state department was protecting her, that the president had wanted her out for the better part of a year, and she wasn t out. how she was protected it s unclear, but i can tell you with certainty that at the end of the day, mike pompeo agreed with the president and agreed that she had to go. michael bender, fascinating reporting. thank you very much. thank you. appreciate it. joining us now is cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, former state department spokesperson and obama white house communications director jen sake, david gergen and maggie haberman. maggie, you and your colleagues
the better part of a year, and she wasn t out. how she was protected it s unclear, but i can tell you with certainty that at the end of the day, mike pompeo agreed with the president and agreed that she had to go. michael bender, fascinating reporting. thank you very much. thank you. appreciate it. joining us now is cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin, obama white house communications director general sake, david gergen, and maggie haberman. maggie, you and your colleagues at the new york times have reporting about the president in the ukraine. what is it? our understanding is there was a draft of a statement that was done by the ambassador of ukraine, gordon sunland in addition with kurt volker, the state department official who was on the hill today testifying behind closed doors about this whole issue. the statement was presented to staff, to the ukraine president zelensky as something he could say publicly that they would
he wasn t out of his mind. he s a hater, he s a white nationalist, and he should be treated as the terrorist he is under law and prosecution. that s an important message. the president made it sound like today this is mental health, this is nothing to do with mental health. it has to do with our law and policy. thank you very much for bringing us these amazing stories. we have to connect with the people who are here today. that s the focus of prime time. i m chris cuomo and we are good to have you here with us in el paso. 22 dead now here. dozens more hurt. we were at the hospital today. people are struggling. they ve done amazing work here in el paso. the first responders, the citizens in that moment of crisis and now the community coming out and saying this is who we our. don t define us as legal or illegal, come out and see our community and see what el paso strong is all about. tonight we re going to talk about what the problem is and
better than the man who came here to try to kill them. and that s been unusual for me. i ve never had more people from a community come up to say this will not beat us. but it s also a manifestation of this us versus them which we have to stop in this country. we re better than this. so many people also make a big effort to point out this man came from far away. drove here for hours in order to come here to many of the people it s very important to point out that he s not from this place and not of this place. he s not sick. he s not deranged. he wasn t out of his mind. he was thoughtful and deliberate and he s a hater. he s a white nationalist, and he should be treated like the terrorist he is under law and prosecution. that s an important message because the president made it sound today like, you know, this was mental health. this has nothing to do with mental health. it has to do with law and our policy. ac, thank you very much for bringing these amazing stories. we have to c
who has worn the uniform and has to do these kind of things. to jump in there, it helps biden, right? i mean, doesn t this help biden? you would think it would. i was just going to ask you that. right. he doesn t have to say much. and this weekend if you look at the political headlines, biden was getting a lot of criticism from fellow democrats because he took the weekend off. he wasn t out campaigning with people as every other democratic contender for 2020 was and there was this question about how long can biden sit back and sort of stay, you know, away from, you know, reporters or how long can he do this? but what trump did was he totally changed the narrative and when he attacked him people started siding with biden. i did a story with my colleague at the post about trump and pelosi s relationship and how they were clark and one person said to us specifically it s better that he s attacking pelosi and not joe biden. well, guess what, that totally changed this weekend, trump s