President trump. What should we expect . Reporter President Trump is announcing via twitter. Something we expected for a long time mcgahn will be leaving the white house in the weeks ahead, obviously the relationship between President Trump and don mcgahn has been at times complicated even contentious and there was another speed bump in the road in terms of their relationship just weeks ago when we learned earlier this month just how extensive mcgahn had cooperated with investigators on special counsel Robert Muellers probe. Its not sure President Trump knew at the time the extent of that cooperation. Mcdawns departure is generating strong reaction from conservatives, including Senate Judiciary chairman Chuck Grassley who tweeted moments ago, i hope its not true mcgahn is leaving the white House Counsel, you cant let that happen. In part, he was able to spearhead the nomination of dozens of conservative judicial appointments, including the two very popular conservative Supreme Court nominees, gorsuch, who was confirmed to the Supreme Court last year and obviously Brett Kavanaugh who mcgahn has been extensively involved in working with. We dont know who hess successor will be. Cnn is learning that emmett flood is a leading contender. Mcgahn will leave a big void in the white house in the eyes of conservatives. In part, may be why there is pushback. Sarah westwood, thank you for delivering that breaking news. Joining me now to discuss this, julie pace, an analyst and Michael Zeldon, cnn legal analyst and special assistant to Robert Mueller at the Justice Department, michael, first to you, in the mix of the russia investigation, we know don mcgahn has cooperated to a certain extent with special counsel Robert Mueller. What does his departure mean for the president s defense . Well, mcgahn has been recuse from the russia investigation. So hes got nothing to do with the daytoday oversight of the investigation. Thats emmet flood and jd maury raskins spibt. His role has been getting the judges confirmed. Grassley is upset because theyve had a Good Relationship aound. That in terms of russia, i dont think its any moment in terms of the judges, they have to find a new person to work with grassly and keep plowing through these judge appointments. Julie, that leads me to my question for you to michaels point, politically, what itself the impact of someone leak don mcgahn leaving the white house . Any time you have a senior official in a white house who leaves, there creates a little instable as the west wing sorts out who will replace them, if they will take that job in the wrong direction. To the point that sarah made earlier the impact is broader than that. He has been somebody in the west wing who conservatives on capitol hill have looked tworsd as someone who is essentially representing main stream conservetism in the west wing. We know trump is not particularly ideological, mcgahn is there, also the broader reshaping of the judiciary across the country that weve seen, its something that mitch mcconnell, Chuck Grassley has given the counsel credit for. He is tweeting directly to the president. He says, i hope its not true mcgahn is leaving white House Counsel, you, cant let this happen. It seems interesting, justly, that the Senate Judiciary chairman, who probably has the ability to calm the white house and talk to the president about this is using twitter as his means of communication, or maybe its not in in administration. This effect. You tweet to get your message through. I think it speaks to what has been for republicans the most express part, its not the tax law, its the remaking of the judiciary, Chuck Grassley has spent so many years on his career on. That he feels over the past 17, 18 months that has been a success for trump and don mcgahn at the center of that effort. So, michael, getting back to this point how cooperative dawn don mcgahn has been, help sat with them, his attorneys have been clear he has told the truth at every point, his goal wasnt necessarily to incriminate the president he was honest. Do you think that has any role with his decision to leave the white house right now . No i think the decision for him to leave the white house was foregone. He and the president repute to have a very strained relationship. Almost as strained as the president s relationship with sessions. I think the time has come for mcgahn to leave. I dont think its related to his cooperation with the white house, with the investigation of russia by the special counsel. I just think its the point in time where they will make a change. We will probably see the same thing with sessions. We may see the swaim others. This is sort of the twoyear mark. This is when things turn over. These guys work really long, hard hours at these government jobs and they, this is where they burn out, pretty much. Julia. This is not the only topic the president is tweeting about this morning. He is calling on theious tis department to investigate whether the chinese hacked into Hillary Clintons email server. Is this another clear indication that the president is trying to put this bias into the clinton email with this drum beat of criminal against attorney general sessions . Sure. I mean, hes trying to make the point that Jeff Sessions, he feels, is only investigating things or only leading the Justice Department that is investigating things that relate to his administration and he would like to see them switch gears here. What he misses, though, in these tweets, is that Jeff Sessions isnt recuse from simply investigations related to the trump campaign. Hes recuse from the 2016 broadly. So its not within Jeff Sessions perpurchaurview and t should have been no surprise that that would have had to have happened given his roam in the campaign. Its trump who seems to be the only one surprised that sessions had to have a recusal as election matters. Stay where you are. We have more breaking news, i want to get your take on. Sources tell cnn a second employee of the Trump Administration discussed a immunity deal with federal prosecutors. They charged Michael Cohen with eight counts last week. Erica has work on this, what can you tell us . Reporter so we learned last week that trump org, cfo Allen Weisselberg has been granted immunity in a Michael Cohen case. We know there was another employee who talked to prosecutors the employee was not granted immunity and wasnt called to testify before the grand jury. The court filings, though, show that prosecutors prosecutors say that there were multiple trump org executives or employees involved in what they called a reimbursement scheme to pay back Michael Cohen for the money he paid to women who had claims against rump. A Significant Development there. Erica, thank you very much. We are going to talk now to Michael Zeldon about this development. Michael, what could lead to an immunity deal like this falling apart, according to ericas reporting here . That they dont need the information that the individual needs to give. That if the person wants to talk voluntarily, they will take that but they wont immunize him. It also could be there is no underlying criminal behavior that needs an immunity deal either. We dont know. Either they received the information they wanted from others or theyre determined that this person didnt have information that was relevant to them or it means the person is still in jeopardy and theyre not going to immunize them. They will pursue them potentially as a criminal suggest subject of the investigation. We dont know the reporting is too early. This, of course, another person who works for the president s company that is at least negotiating with investigators son some of these key points. Does the president and the white house have to worry another person could flip . Sure. If the investigation here is the beginnings of our transparency into a broader Southern District of new York FinancialCrimes Investigation against the trump organization, it is beyond the fec, cohen, Stormy Daniels payment issue we saw the other week. Then thats a bad sign for the trump organization. Because nobody wants their private books and records to be inquired of by the Internal Revenue service or the department of justice to determine whether or not there is a financial crime. We just dont know again if this is limited to the Stormy DanielsKaren Mcdougal payments, its not as scary if you will for the white house than if it is to the ginlings of a broader financial Crimes Investigation, in which case the white house should have more to worry about. According to ericas reporting this person not granted immunity did not testify in front of a grand jury. Does that mean that they didnt necessarily cooperate with prosecutors . Or is there still a chance they may have contributed to the investigation in some capacity . It could mean one of two things, either one as you just said, they could have cooperate without an immunity agreement. Witnesses do speak to prosecutors all the time. Immunity is sort of a rare occasion in the criminal justice system. Or it could be that they determined that this person is a target. Were not going to immunize them. They want to pursue them as a criminal defendant type of a relationship. And so we just dont know. We just dont know. Thank you for your perspective. We appreciate it, responding to this breaking news. Still to come the primary upset if florida that set up a showdown between a Bernie Sanders backed progressive and a trump loving republican, what it means for the midterms and beyond. Plus, soon, the First Services to begin to honor the life of senator john mccain as we learn new details about why mccain picked president obama not President Trump to be a part of his ceremonies. Stay with us. How can we say when you book direct at choicehotels. Com you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed . Lets say it in a really low voice. Carl . Lowest price, guaranteed. Just stick with badda book. Badda boom. 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All of the issue wes care so deeply about, whats beneath my name is the belief that we ought to pay teachers for doing what they are worth for the most difficult job on this earth. What is beneath my name is our belief that our Public Education system and our public tax dollars ought to be used for the Public Education system to educate in these off years. And mayor gillum will take on congressman ron desantis in november, desantis getting a big boost of President Trumps enforcement. Joining me, harry, first of all, from your view, could this be the first time that on a stage this big weve seen someone in the mold of donald trump facing off against someone in the mold of Bernie Sanders . Will you have this race in florida and just north in georgia you will have something similar with brian kevin going up against stacy abrams. We have a big test in the south. This is what the Bernie Sanders people said, if you run to the left. If you provide a true contrast with donald trump and have a personal back story. You can beat donald trump. Florida and georgia will test that theory. He is trying to type cast gillum, describing him as the biggest dream for the Desantis Campaign hes calling it. He calls him a failed socialist mayor. The last time the democrats won state wide in florida, there was a liberal africanamerican at the top of the tick by the name of barack obama. Is gillum more like Bernie Sanders or barack obama in. I think hes both. If you need in that state. You need heavy africanamerican turnout. Bernie sanders suffered from that. Hillary clinton was drawing huge africanAmerican Voters. Yes, gillum goes after the Democratic Base the progressive base. He is someone that appeals to arkin American Voters and young voters. Someone that can do all three can with inin florida. Florida may be different from georgia is a microcomes of the country. A decidedly purple state, goes back and forth. Conventional wisdom has been after a primary you get back to the center to appeal to those independent voters. Do you feel the case can be made he here, they will run up the base and their voters in their respective camps to win . Look, they have an won in the state of florida. Whatever they were doing nominating white moderate candidates wasnt working. Why not do something new . Its a good test case forbe 2020. Because if gillum is able do that in a Midterm Election and bring them out when they are more likely to vote in 20 when the 2020, if you are progressive and provide a true contrast. Can you win. That can potentially help them. That brings us to arizona, mcsally running against two trump like candidates, she is walking a fine line. Do you think she moves closer to the middle . Arizona is a red state. President trump won there. Look, Martha Mcsally is different than ron desantis. She has a much more moderate voting record. On the democratic side of the aisle, she has a mod cat record. So arizona is the complete opposite of florida. In arizona you have what we normally think is politics to when you go towards the center. In florida, we have a different test case. Thats if you ared a viegz Martha Mcsally, do you tell donald trump to come in or. I would probably keep advice, donald trump, can you stay, tweet some things out, ron desantis is a different story. His numbers are different. Expands on that, the president s numbers are firm in florida and close to his disapproval number, right . Exactly. You dont see that in the governors race, you see it in the race, rick cot is running strongly against bill nelson that fits this mold of the old white male more moderate. It will be interesting, if gillum wins, the progressive gays i base will have a bigger base. It can bolster Bernie Sanders. Coming up, the life of john mccain set to start moments from now. It comes as we learn new details, mccain asked his former rival, president obama to live his eulogy at his funeral. Thats next. This isnt just any moving day. This is moving day with the best inhome wifi experience and millions of wifi hotspots to help you stay connected. And this is moving day with Reliable Service appointments in a twohour window so youre up and running in no time. Show me decorating shows. This is staying connected with xfinity to make moving. Simple. Easy. Awesome. Stay connected while you move with the best wifi experience and twohour appointment windows. Click, call or visit a store today. I learned that serving a cause greater than yourself hurts. Anybody in the military can tell you the risk you take. He couldnt put his jacket on. He couldnt comb his hair. Because he got hurt serving a cause greater than his self. So to those who are striving as a young person, remember john mccain. He famed a lot but he never quit. And the reason we are talking about him today and the reason im crying is because he was successful if spite of his failure failures. An emotional senator Lindsey Graham there, honoring the life of his great friends and colleague senator john mccain. Heros sendoff on what would have been his 82nd birthday. His body is due to arrive at the cal building, where he will lie in state today, long lines of mourners are expected following a private ceremony in the rotunda, the state beginning a five day farewell to the decorated war hero and six term senator. Joining me now to discuss the life of senator mccain, democratic senator jack reed of rhode island. Hes the Ranking Member