Be focused on building up our country, not wasting everyones time and energy on bull we get a better candidate this time, youll need it. Kaitlan collins is at the white house. This is the first weve heard from the president in person since he tweeted calling the impeachment inquiry a coup. Tell us more. Reporter President Trump is in a mood and its clearly a combative one as you saw when he was sitting next to the president of finland, who said very few words in that oval Office Setting while reporters were in the room asking the president about this call with ukraine. Of course, as you noted, the president tuned in as nancy pelosi and adam schiff gave that press conference earlier to reporters where they spoke about this and the president s conduct. Clearly he wanted to push back on that. We have been hearing from people they didnt think he was grasping the enormity of what he was facing in this impeachment fight. That seems to be changing, the president lashing out saying what adam schiff did was treason after adam schiff read that fictionalized version of the phone call. That has really been a Sticking Point in all of this. He has repeatedly hammered adam schiff over it and even compared him unfavorably to the secretary of state. Thats a focus that was right off the bat something the president was speaking about there in the oval office. The other thing we saw the president do was question the credibility of this whistleblower once again. He said that he didnt think republicans had criticized what hes been saying about the whistleblower, saying that he wants to find out this individuals identity. That actually is not true. Chairman Chuck Grassley who leads the whistleblower protection caucus actually was saying yesterday this whistleblower should be heard out and protected. The president saying he agreed whistleblowers should be protected but only if theyre legitimate. The president saying he didnt think this one was legitimate because he said they gave an inaccurate description even though in this complaint this was filed long before the white house released the transcript of that call, it showed to be a pretty good match of what actually transpired during the call. The president seems to be in this combative mood about this impeachment inquiry. The question is where does he go from here . Does he now start listening to aides who have been advising him to hire attorneys. That doesnt seem clear, but clearly he is agitated by all of this. Were going to have more on that in just a moment. The other big event we are watching is a highly uncrucial a unusual and cryptically word ed request from the state Department Inspector general who brief key congressional committees on a, quote, urgent matter relating to ukraine. The ig put in this request yesterday afternoon. This morning just hours before this briefing is set to take place, secretary of state mike pompeo publicly admitted he was on the call with President Trump and the president of ukraine making is subject of this briefing all the more curious. Lets go to cnn senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju on capitol hill for us. What do we know . Reporter the request for this urgent briefing came soon after mike pompeo sent a letter to capitol hill and said essentially that the state department would not be complying with what the democrats have been asking for, documents about the ukraine matter. There was a subpoena issued last week. Pompeo pushed back rather aggressively on that as well as the democrats efforts to schedule depositions with current and former state department officials, people who know about what happened in the ukraine matter, people named in the whistleblower complaint and who were involved in conversations with rudy giuliani, who of course we now know urged ukraine to investigate the president s political rival, former Vice President joe biden. What we dont know is exactly why the Inspector General wants to meet with them about an urgent matter. According to this email sent to capitol hill and according to several people who ive talked to who have received that email, essentially what the state Department Inspector general is saying is that he has received documents from the state departments Legal Advisor that he wants to share with congress. Now, what this does for the impeachment investigation Going Forward remains to be seen. Does it add any more fuel to this fire or does it tamp it down in any way . Its still a question that well have to see resolved. As we know, it was the separate Inspector General for the Intelligence Community who came out and said that the whistleblower complaint was credible and urgent and that was what is fuelling what is happening right now on the hill and has put the presidency in a very difficult spot. Well see what else they learn in a matter of moments, but several key staffers from these committees man to meet in a secure location at the capitol in this classified briefing. I want to bring in admiral john kirby, David Gregory and Gloria Borger to talk about this right now. Two things were following, this impending ig briefing from the state department, whats that going to be about. To be a fly on the wall there, right . Then the president responding in this lengthy oncamera availability and tweeting a lot. These tweets that were seeing, what we just saw in the oval office, are these a pretty good indicator of the president s state of mind . Hes in a tail spin, i think is the only way to describe it. I was communicating yesterday with somebody very close to the white house who said, look, its chaos inside the white house, there is nobody there who can say no to him and theres nobody sort of blocking the door to his office and hes just spinning and spinning and spinning and theres nothing you can do about it. So hes tweeting and actually what he tweets is the real donald trump. That is what he said in this press conference where i think he was just out of control even for donald trump calling the press corrupt. Were no longer enemieenemies. I guess were corrupt. Calling adam schiff by an offensive name, tweeting bs today in all caps. Not abbreviated like you did. Its out of control. Hes not handling this well. No. Hes extremely erratic. We know how crude he is, we know he iss hes unpresident ial. I do think the mindset is important and if you recall in Bob Woodwards book fear when he first learned about the Mueller Report and the special prosecutor being put in place, he felt the walls were closing in, how could this happen to me, a sense that his days as president were effectively numbers. He thought he triumphed over that and here he faces another inquiry again. I think he is completely thrown so completely off his center point because of what his political opposition is doing. And the only default point he knows is to fight and to fight hard and to fight like no one has fought in this office before. Going beyond you know, Richard Nixon at the end at least played within the lines and said, okay, you got me, im going to give up. I think trump is saying, no, you never give up, you always fight. And thats the play book and he has some success with that. Thats really where his state of mind is. The important question for us is to keep wondering what this brief on capitol hill, what else might they be hiding . The bureaucracy of this government is full of people who want to do the right thing and if they sense he is dangerous and doing the wrong thing, people are going to step forward. Those folks you just described is what the president would call the deep state. Absolutely. Thats not correct. It doesnt mean there arent political opponents. But the notion that the deep state what his view of the deep state goes to his state of mind. I want to ask you john kirby, what are you thinking as youre watching all of this go down . We are wondering what is going to come out of this briefing if we are going to fully have a picture of it. Youre a former state department spokesman. You cant overstate how significant it is that an Inspector General whos been there a long, long time to ask unsolicited to go to the hill and call it urgent. I cant remember a time when an Inspector General did that on his own without being prompted by somebody. Think about the timing. Comes the day after pompeo writes this letter to say were not going to cooperate and heres why not. And a day before kurt volker is going to go up and be deposed. And that he was prompted to do this on something he either got or heard from the Legal Advisor at the state department. Makes you wonder if there was some frantic activity in the state department in the wake of or maybe time ed coincidentally with pompeos letter that might have prompted these urgent concerns. In the Nixon White House in the committee to reelect the president , they destroyed documents, they used parts of the government to completely obliterate the trail. The role of the inspectors general is important as rebuttal to the partisanship of the government. Thats what the president doesnt understand or respect. When you hear him talk about the whistleblower or about adam schiff the way he does, you do have to wonder what is it that hes hiding because thats not how a normal person reacts. I want you to listen to something that the chairman adam schiff said this morning. Lets listen. We want to make it abundantly clear that any effort by the secretary, by the president or anyone else to interfere with the congresss ability to call before it relevant witnesses will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the lawful functions of congress. So hes making it clear obstruction is going to be part of these expected articles of impeachment. But i also wonder how big of a deal is it that they are not maybe going to hear from some people they want to hear from considering all of the other stuff that congress has here from the whistleblower complaint to the call memo to even the president s own public statements. We dont know yet what this threat will do, but its clear what hes saying is whatever they did with the Mueller Report, were not going to do that. Were going to do the opposite of what they did. We are playing hardball here and we want to get this information and were going to subpoena you and if you dont comply, you can take it to court all you want but its going to become an article of impeachment. Which makes it curious why did he release the summary of the call because its so counter to their strategy . Because donald trump in his head believes it was perfect. He did not honestly and he has a hee jolegion ofe who will defend him. My question, to johns point, is are there more whistleblowers . If this whistleblower is protected and i hope the whistleblower is protected but its a big if because look at whats going on in the country. But if this whistleblower is protected, will there be more whistleblowers . Could that be what were talking about here . Does this always start to unravel . I dont know the answer to that, but donald trump can call it the deep state. The Inspector General is somebody that he appointed in the Intelligence Community. Sometimes when you rail against people for a couple of years and call them deep state and say theyre not patriots and theyre not doing their job, sometimes it comes back and hits you. Were waiting for two events now. President trumps News Conference and also the state Department Watchdogs urgent briefing on the hill. Plus im going to speak live to a former whistleblower. The president denying floating the idea of putting snakes, alligators and flesh piercing spikes at the border. Wayfairs got your perfect mattress. Whether youre looking for a topbrand at a great price. Ready to upgrade. Moving in. Moving on up. Or making big moves. Deliveries ship free and come with a 100night free trial. No matter your budget. Or your sleep style. We have quality options for everyone. So search and shop. 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He also wanted the wall electrified with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh. You may recall the president has previously suggested that the military shoot migrants who threw rocks at them and that was illegal so he suggested they shoot migrants in the legs to slow them down. These were just some of the ideas that aides had to wave off. The ways in which the people around him are continually forced to confront ever more extreme ideas that he throws out there, often telling him theyre not practical or theyre illegal or theyre immoral. Now in an interview with the times, the president lamented the problem you have with the laws the way they are, we can have 100,000 of our soldiers standing up there, they cant do a thing. Gloria borger and David Gregory are back. This was part of an immigration meeting in march. The president was threatening to completely shut down the border with mexico. Let me start first with his idea of how to treat human beings. Its almost incomprehensible and almost cartoonish in a way if it werent so sad and depressing. Is it amoral . Putting snakes and alligators in a mote to eat people or shooting their legs, of course it is to answer your question. Imagine being a staffer sitting there. Its like dealing with your young child when theyre having a tantrum. The child leaves the room and they say how are we to comply with that childs wishes. What are they doing . It also shows the president doesnt view any limits or boundaries to his role as president. It begs the question what does he think the job of president is and his view of solving problems doesnt adhere to limits or boundaries or precedent. Again its illustrative. Former secretary mattis says why do we have troops in south korea. That is to prevent world war iii. Somehow that needed to be said out loud to the president of the United States. It wasnt abundantly clear. Its perfectly plausible to imagine the president in these meetings. He seemed frustrated. Hes so frustrated by them just telling him reality, right . Right. The president addressed this story today, railed against it. Lets listen. So these two reporters wrote this book and they said i want a mote with alligators, makes, electrified fences so people get electrocuted if they so much as touch the fence and spikes on top. Never said it, never thought of it. It