I had no intention of doing that when we went to the state of the union. That was well into past the first third of it. Now, im a speed reader so i was reading ahead, i knew what was there and i got past like about a third of it and i thought this is terrible. I made a niche in a couple pages thinking you ought to remember whats on this page, on this page, then i realize most every page had something in it that was objectionable. What about, though, the fact that the president seems liberated and this is about Democratic Politics so im not asking you to criticize here, but he was acquitted, his he was not there was by the senate. You cant have an acquittal unless you have a trial and you cant have a trial if you dont have witnesses or documents. He can say hes acquitted and the headlines can say acquitted but hes impeached forever, branded with that and not vindicated. Even the senators were saying, yes t wasnt right but didnt have the courage to act upon that. Except for. Except for mitt romney, god bless him. And then the president criticized him for using his faith to do something he knew was wrong. How could you well, i dont know if the person if the president is a person of faith. He criticized you about saying that you praise for him as well. I felt like if he is a person of faith he would recognize another person of faith. If he prayed he would recognize that other people do, even for him. Jeremy diamond joins us now from washington. Jeremy, pelosi continues to criticize the president who appears empowered by the outcome of the impeachment proceedings. He certainly s ana, lets look at the facts first because of what the speaker of the house nancy pelosi is saying here. President trump was acquitted by the senate. Now, the speaker of the house can quibble whether or not that was a fair acquittal or not, but he was indeed acquitted by the senate under the constitutional process of impeachment. But the president certainly has become more emboldened since that acquittal and he has been unapologetic about his behavior in this ukraine scandal that even those republicans who did vote to acquit the president have called problematic and not perfect as the president himself has claimed. The president in the wake of that acquittal he has been on a bit of a vindictive tour, he has exacted revenge against some Administration Officials who testified in those impeachment proceedings, most notably the Lieutenant Colonel alex vindman as well as the u. S. Ambassador to the European Union gordon sondland. And the president also has become increase lengthily suspicious of the people around him at the white house. Weve seen the president move to reinstate some loyalists including hope hicks, his long Time Communications director as well as johnny mcanti his long time body man. We are seeing the president retrenching himself here on himself and with his loyalists and certainly not having learned any lessons from that impeachment. And, jeremy, ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky also spoke with christiane and he strongly denied trumps claims that ukraine is corrupt. What else is he saying . Thats right. He did push back on President Trumps claims that ukraine remains a corrupt country, insisting that he and his administration have done a lot to fight that image that was previously a very strong one in ukraine. He also talked about this notion of fresh start with the Ukrainian Government between the United States and ukraine. Zelensky a former actor and producer he talked about the fact that he would like to be famous, would have liked to be famous in the u. S. , but this isnt exactly how he envisioned t listen in. I can truly say when i was producer, script writer and actor i wanted to get oscar. I wanted to be very popular in u. S. A. Now im very popular in u. S. A. But i didnt want to find such way, but, you know but if this way will help ukraine, im ready for next call with mr. Trump. And you hear zelensky there saying that hes really ready for his next call with President Trump. He also said he would be willing to come visit the president at the white house or have the president visit him in ukraine. Thank you, Jeremy Diamond for that reporting. You can see christianes full interview with nancy pelosi and the ukrainian president on her show amanpour monday afternoon on cnn international. There are new questions about the independence of the Justice Department and attorney general bill barr. Despite barrs public show of frustration that President Trumps tweets make his job harder. Now u. S. Officials confirmed to cnn that barr is ordering a reexamination of some high profile cases including the case of michael flynn. President trumps former National Security adviser. And that revelation comes just days after cnn learned that barr had been pushing for flynn to be spared prison time and after senior Justice Department officials undercut federal prosecutors and their sentencing recommendation for another trump associate, roger stone. That move caused four federal prosecutors to quit the case and even more said to be considering walking out over concerns about the Justice Departments independence. With us now is cnn president ial histori historian tim neftali and jeff bauer. So, greg, let me ask you this first, are these normal actions for an attorney general . Do you have any concerns about barrs behavior . Ana, they are not normal in the least. As a former u. S. Attorney i can tell you ive never heard of the type of thing that we saw this past week where the attorney general reversed a u. S. Attorneys recommendation with respect to a sentencing memorandum. And so in the absence of an adequate explanation, of course, most of most observers think theres something political about this and thats an awfully bad look for doj. No, its not normal. Its causing a lot of concern within doj and i think that the attorney general will have to do a better job of explaining the stone decision and the flynn decision is just as bizarre because, look, mr. Flynn pled guilty, he has admitted to his guilt in open court under oath to the judge. I cant imagine what the judge is going to do with respect to this motion to set aside his plea other than to deny it. Earlier this week after the stone revelation came out thats when we learned about the flynn revelation and this was also after barr had gone on tv and denied he was acting under pressure from the president. Lets remind our viewers what he said then. I will make those decisions based on what i think is the right thing to do and im not going to be bullied or influenced by anybody and i said at the time whether its congress, newspaper, editorial boards or the president. President , tim, he says. Do you see that as a rebuke of the president . Well, i think we should consider bill barr as somebody who has his own agenda. I think his agenda and the president s agenda are similar. The attorney general came back to government for some reason and he has a fanatical commitment to the expansion of president ial power. He would do that for any president. This president is particularly happy to see the expansion of power. Bill barr when he was working for the American People but he served under George Herbert walker bush, he counseled bush to pardon people who had been found guilty and indicted in the irancontra scandal. Now he is using the power of government to investigate the efforts by mueller. Why . Why is he using taxpayer money to investigate an investigation . I think it has something to do with his view of president ial power and the fact that he doesnt like the fact that the Mueller Investigation happened, just as he didnt really like the fact the irancontra investigation was conducted the way it was conducted. This is great for President Trump, its terrible for the American People and the attorney general owes us an explanation why hes doing this. What you said reminded me of something he said previously. This was in 2001 when he was describing his first stint at attorney general under president george bush and he talked about the departments protected status in this postwatergate era and he said, quote, you didnt mess around with it. You didnt intervene. You didnt interfere. Which is, again, seems contrary, greg, to what he is doing here. What message is barr sending to the men and women who work at the Justice Department and, you know, more broadly what does this mean for its credibility . Unfortunately the message im sure that most are receiving within the department and certainly outside the department is that no matter how hard the men and women of the Department Work to get to the right decision under very difficult circumstances oftentimes, that theres the potential that for political reasons their hard work and their well thought out conclusions are going to be reversed, for no reason other than political considerations. That strikes at the very heart of what the department is not supposed to be about and so, you know, the department relies on two things, both doing its best to get the right result in very difficult circumstances and secondly and just as importantly trying to do everything it can to make sure the American People think that its getting to the right result for all the right reasons and that politics dont come into play and im afraid that at the end of this week theres a lot of doubt about that in america. President trump reflected on his impeachment during an interview earlier this week and he said he thinks of nixon more than anyone else. Listen to this. I think of nixon more than anybody else and what that dark period was in our country and the whole thing with the tapes and the horror show. It was dark and it went on for a long time. Every time in the white house i pass this beautiful portrait of various president s, right . But the portrait of Richard Nixon i sort of i dont know, its its a little bit of a different feeling than i get from looking at the other portraits of president s. Whats your reaction to that . Im interested in where he has the portrait of Richard Nixon. Every first family can put the portraits where they want. I happened to visit the white house when george w. Bush was president , one of the advantages of being a library director, you get a tour, first lady gives you a tour. I looked around and said where was the nixon portrait and it was off past in a corner with herbert hoover, the first family did not want to see the portrait. It was out of the way. Here is what i dont understand, a lot of things i dont, but here is one in particular that matters, what does the president , the current president , think he learned from Richard Nixon, this dark period . Did he learn things not to do or did he learn how awful it can be for a corrupt president when the system works . Im not sure what he learned from it. I will tell you one thing, if he learned anything from studying nixon he would know intervening in a criminal case that involves somebody who has knowledge that could affect you personally, im talking about roger stone, thats a crime. Richard nixon was partly impeached or at least was going to be impeached for having dangled pardons in front of people that knew things about the coverup that he didnt want people to know. That is just the same as the president promising pardons to people like roger stone. So im wondering what did donald trump learn from Richard Nixon. Well, we have months before the next election. Well see where he takes this from here. Thank you very much, tim neftali and greg brow we are. New details on the murder of a College Freshman in new york. Police arrest add 14yearold boy in connection with the stabbing death of tessa majors. A live report next. driver vo when i started this commute, everyone said i was crazy. 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That has been nine weeks now of her family searching for answers and now perhaps at least some closure here now that they do have an arrest but again, these are at this point just an accusation here. We should mention they took into account a lot of evidence here, the grand jury considered blood analysis, Surveillance Video and when you read over the complaint it does paint a clearer and disturbing picture of what happened that day. This is what the District Attorney said a little while ago. The allegations are really laid out in heartbreaking detail. The complaint paints a picture of the video evidence, the blood evidence, the smartphone evidence, the i cloud evidence, the witness identification and the defendants own statements that were rigorously collected and examined prior to this arrest and indictment. And it paints a gruesome picture of what this young woman endured in her final moments. As alleged, some of the last words she was known to have said was, help me, im being robbed. Help me, im being robbed. Its whats laid out in the complaint here. Keep in mind this is now the second arrest here, there was a 13yearold who remains behind bars facing murder charges, however, he is not being prosecuted as an adult, this 14 injured, however, is. Its heartbreaking all around. Thank you very much, polo, for that update. Up next, bad blood in the race for the white house, President Trump increases also attacks on Michael Bloomberg as they battle it out for votes, but it wasnt always that way. We have details on the long strained history between those two. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Wherever we want to go, autosave your way there with chase. Chase. Make more of whats yours. Car vending machines and buying a car 100 online. Vented now weve created a brand new way for you to sell your car. Whether its a year old or a few years old, we want to buy your car. 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The president attacking bloombergs height, calling him mini mike and a loser. Bloomberg firing back calling the president a, quote, carnival barking clown. As cnns brian todd reports these are two men with a long history. Look, he is a lightweight. Reporter the way they talk about each other now, you would think theyve been enemies for life. I am not afraid of donald trump. Reporter but back in new york, back in the day, a different dynamic. I have to say you have been a great mayor. Come here. You really have. I mean, this guy is fantastic. Reporter that was in october 2013, then new york city mayor Michael Bloomberg and donald trump lavished praise on each other after trump helped bloomberg convert a trash dump in the bronx into a high end golf course. But if theres anybody that has changed this city it is donald trump. He really has dn an amazing thing and this is another part of it. Donald, thank you for your confidence in