New this morning the president broke his social media silence on the matter surrounding stormy daniel, the adult film actress who claims that she had a relationship with the president and she was threatened to keep quiet. The president calls that a total con job. The important thing here, this is the first time hes chosen to weigh in on this on social media. Our Kaitlan Collins in florida with the president near maralago. What are you seeing. Reporter this is the first time were hearing from President Trump on Stormy Daniels. He made remarks on air force one denying that he knew about that payment that Michael Cohen made to her and hes weighing in and this sets this up for the viewers after Stormy Daniels was on the view yesterday and they released this sketch of a man she says threatened her when she was with her daughter threatening her to leave President Trump alone, and they released this sketch and the president himself is weighing in on it, a sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job playing the Fake News Media for fools, but they know it. A stunning statement there, john, from the president weighing in on this certainly something we reported his advisers and his lawyers have told him not to weigh in on it publicly and not to bring it up, and of course, hes doing it there saying this person that threatened Stormy Daniels simply just doesnt exist, john. Yeah. It is interesting, and the president also, kaitlan is talking about the fbi director james comby and at war with his own words. Reporter exactly. President trump is contradicting himself, something we often see him do with his spokespeople and not often with himself and this morning hes tweeting about the reason james comey was fired and to take you back a year ago after james comey was first fired by the president , that the white house maintains by 48 hours that it was a memo of Rod Rosenstein respectively and a few days later he told lester holt of nbc news that he was thinking of the russia investigation when he fired the fbi director and pair that with the president s tweet this morning when he said slippery james comey the worst fbi director in history was not fired by the phony russia investigation where, by the way, was there no collusion, except by the democrats. Regardless of recommendation i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it, and in fact, when i decided to just do it i said to myself. I said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a madeup story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. Reporter so john, there are often questions raised about the white houses credibility when they say one thing and the president says another, but you can see what the president told lester holt and what he tweeted this morning, sometimes it comes from the top. The problem for President Trump is President Trump. Kaitlan collins in florida, thank you very much. Lets discuss this and we are joined by chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and dana bash. Up is down, black is white and night is day as we deal with this statement from the president. It is odd. Does he think were going to not remember . Is he trying to blur the lines here . Any sense . All of the above. I just think if you kind of look at this with the big picture lens, you wonder why his attorneys dont want him to talk to robert mueller. I mean, exhibit a right here on the silver platter, mr. President. You know, if youre tweeting out something that directly contradicts a statement that you made on camera to a Network Television anchor, youre going to be in trouble. So, you know, this is classic donald trump in that he really doesnt have regard for things that he said before because in his world it doesnt matter and the truth is in the world that he is trying to reach on twitter it doesnt matter for many of those people, for many people in his base. It doesnt matter. It is only up to us and those who are outside that world to remind everybody that what he said is not what he said after he fired james comey which is it was about russia. And jeffrey, its not like this is a small matter for the mueller investigation, right . The reasons behind firing james comey could get to the heart of the obstruction issue. No question. I mean, the whole Stormy Daniels saga is fundamentally a sideshow here and its amusing and the sketch, who knows . The sketch to me looks more like tom brady or jon bon jovi than anyone else. I just would like our viewers to consider that that looks like jon bon jovi or tom brady. I go for jon bon jovi. Dana is a smart woman. As for the obstruction part of the case, the reasons for firing james comey are critical. Right. Because if hes fired because of that memo that Rod Rosenstein wrote that it was because of the investigation and his mishandling of it, that is not an obstruction of justice, but if he fired james comey to stop or interfere with the russia investigation as trump himself suggested in that interview with lester holt, thats a very different story and potentially highly incriminating. The tweets not going to make it not so. The evidence will be the evidence and the president s statement in the past will be the danas right. Much as most americans should be watching this television program, more of them are just reading Donald Trumps tweets especially his supporters and they dont hear the other side. To the Stormy Daniels matter, though, we also know that his advisers, his lawyers and everyone who knows the president has been telling him stay away from Stormy Daniels. He couldnt stay away. He couldnt. I was just communicating with somebody who is close to him and works for him and the response on the Stormy Daniels tweet was just one almost word, ugh and that kind of sums it up and jeffrey may be right when it comes to the legal implications of Stormy Daniels. Well see, but in terms of the politics of Stormy Daniels this is something that the president s team is worried about. Very much so because despite the fact that the president won the election postaccess hollywood, here we are more than a year, a year and a half later and the combination of all of these allegations, its really weighing him down and more importantly weighing down republicans who are on the ballot in november. . You know who is rejoicing at the president s tweet this morning was Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels. Boy, did he take the bait. He says fbi search warrants are uncovering existing documents and recording showing con job after con job pulled on real people in very real american citizen wos didnt know it. Welcome to the playing field. Whereyoubeen. Thank you, mr. President for tweeting this. Also, its worth remembering that the whole Stormy Daniels saga is in the courts because trumps lawyers initiated a proceeding against them. They started this fight. Avenatti is the happiest person in america from anyone who works in television at the moment, but hes only on television because the trump people started this fight. If they had simply ignored her, if they had simply ignored her interview with Anderson Cooper and just gone on with the business of being president of the United States, you know, Michael Avenatti might not be as famous as he is now. Jeffrey toobin and dana bash, thank you very much for being with us. In my mind youre both bigger than jon bon jovi. Less than 24 hours after the white house declared the white house does not comment on the cia directors travel, the president confirming that mike pompeo paid a secret visit to kim jongun in pyongyang. This is a major revelation, and Kaitlan Collins back with me from florida. What have you learned . John, certainly a major development. It shows just how serious those talks with the potential meet between the president and kim jongun. Sarah sanders said we will not comment on the story, but the president himself confirmed the Washington Post reporting when he said that the cia director mike pompeo who i should note is in the confirmation process to become the secretary of state did travel to north korea on easter week to meet with kim jongun. The president commenting on twitter that the meeting went very smoothly and a Good Relationship was formed. He said that the details of the summit are being worked out now and the denuclearization will be a great thing for the world, but also for north korea. This is an Extraordinary Development here, john, the highest level of contact between the United States and north korea since thensecretary of state Madeleine Albright traveled there. Something very stunning here. The president repeated that he hopes that his meeting with kim jongun would happen by early june and he did add the caveat that if things dont go well the meeting might not happen at all upon. Kaitlan collins in florida. Thank you very much. Well have much more on that secret meeting and a whole other major Foreign Policy headlines including lawmakers saying they are unnerved over the trump administrations syria policy after a classified briefing. We will speak with a key member of congress on that. Plus terror at 30,000 feet. What went wrong with the flight that had a sudden engine failure midair and we are remembering former first lady barbara bush, a closer look at her life and legacy ahead. Every baby can have the freedom to move their way in pampers cruisers with threeway fit. They adapt at the waist, legs and bottom for our driest best fitting diaper. Pampers am i willing to pay the price for loving you . Youll make my morning, but ruin my day. Complicated relationship with milk . Pour on the lactaid. Its delicious 100 real milk, just without that annoying lactose. Mmm, thats good. Lactaid. The real milk that doesnt mess with you. 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She was that definite in them, and then the sanctions never happened and then you have nobody wanting to explain why this happened. It was silence for a while coming from the white house, the treasury department, the state department, from nikki haley herself and then you have the president s economic adviser larry kudlow come out on the record. He was the only one, and say this she got ahead of the curve. Shes done a great job. Shes a very effective ambassador and there might have been some momentary confusion about that. He may be the only person to explain where this happened on the record. There is an enormous difference between a member of the administration getting getting something a little bit wrong or interpreting something wrong although this subject is so significant its hard to see how that would happen, the difference between that and President Trump for some reason wanting to go against members of his own team and not sanction russia. So the explanation was confusion, but nikki haley was not going to let this stand. She put out this very simple statement saying, with all due respect, i dont get confused. Powerful in its simplicity, but how angry do you have to be about what the administration is saying to put out a Statement Like that. So shes clearly saying that the line from the white house is not true, and if thats the case, why is the white house telling the American People and the world something that is not true . And if that is the case, maybe everybody deserves an apology here and not just nikki haley. John . Yeah. I think you have to be very angry to put out a response like that, maybe justifiably so if people are saying things that just arent true about you. Michelle kosinski, a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee and thank you for being with us, congressman. When you see this public disagreement between the u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations, nikki haley and the white house over who knew what, when over the sanctions that havent happened yet. Whats important here . Whats important here is that its an administration that seems not to be able to shoot straight because of the president. The president says one thing one second and one day and he comes back another day or his administration, he doesnt listen to him, but it shouldnt surprise us because all along he doesnt need anybody. We heard that in the campaign and so apparently, and thats the problem with him and some of our allies, you know, someone can Say Something that theyve gotten from his administration and maybe even from him himself and a few hours or next day or something he comes back and goes just the opposite way. Thats the problem with the president of the United States. One of the major issues on Foreign Policy right now is north korea and this looming meeting between President Trump and north Korean Leader kim jongun. We learned that cia director mike pompeo who has been nominated to be secretary of state went to this secret meeting with kim jongun. Do you see this as a positive development moving toward the ultimate highestlevel meeting. Well, look, i like the fact i think it is important that if youll have a meeting that there should be some preparation and that pompeo was going to meet with kim jongun, but here again, we have the same problem because he can meet with him, but hes not the president , and so what he takes back and what the president then does we dont know. He doesnt listen to his own advisors and so the problem is the president. I may have more confidence in pompeo and his negotiations and then he takes it back to the president and who knows . Thats the problem. This wasnt done instead of the president , though. This was done in advance the president s trip to meet with kim jongun apparently or Henry Kissinger went to china before president nixon went to china. Do you see this as a sign of disorganization leading up to this meeting . Do you see this as a sign that theyre approaching this in perhaps a more organized way . Again, i think that by pompeo going and talking clearly does not the president of the United States to be meeting with the leader of north korea without any prep work. That is good. The problem is after that prep work is done and you bring it back to this president , and based upon all of the information that that person gathered, you give it to him and you make recommendations and this president then can just throw it all away. So i have no confidence in the president and well have to wait and see, relying upon the information that he gets back from his thencia, maybe secretary of state. It happened with tillerson. It happened again with ambassador haley. Clearly, was there dialogue and conversation. She didnt go out and do this on her own. They came back and made recommendations to the president and then he comes back the next day and its a whole different thing and thats the problem, the president of the United States. As a Senior Member of the House Foreign Affairs committee you were given a classified briefing on syria and the u. S. Military action on syria by defense secretary james mattis and i know the chairman of the joint chiefs,