Law and i thought i would make this easy. I wrote up a release and all that mayor bloomberg has to do is download it, ill text it, sign it and then the women or men will be free to speak and tell their own stories. It was a big moment, big moment for her last night. Shes carrying it over tonight. What do you think . Yeah, well exactly that, right . She obviously felt that the debate worked so well for her last night where she was taking on bloomberg especially on this issue that she decided to sort of do a stunt by bringing that crafted contract, a release form for Michael Bloomberg to sign. Obviously she doesnt believe Michael Bloomberg has any intention to sign it, but she wanted to extend that moment from 24 hours ago to now and keep it going because she thinks it was really successful for her. I would note, don, she went onto say that due to some of the things that bloomberg has said about women or things that in lawsuits as alleged to have said to women and the environment in the workplace, she said if he doesnt correct this course, it disqualifies him for the presidency. And yet when aaron pressed her, you said youre going to support the democratic nominee, what fz Michael Bloomberg, she still said she would support him over donald trump even though she made the point he would be disqualified for the presidency. I remember when Kamala Harris hit joe biden really hard in one of those earliest debates and she came back and tried it again and her poll numbers went down. Does she have to be careful to not look like some sort of grudge if shes leaning hard into this particular issue . Its a good question, but i think look at elizabeth warrens position in this race right now. I dont think careful can be any part of her calculation at this point. She had a disappointing finish in iowa and New Hampshire for her. She is trying to reignite energy in her campaign as Bernie Sanders has sort of consolidated the progressive wing of the party. She saw last night as a huge step forward in that reenergizing process, and so i think shes less concerned about potential backlash than she is about trying to take a leap here, and i think the cost benefit analysis to her, she believes to press forward with this that this is a way towards rebuilding some support shes lost. Well certainly see in the upcoming polls and the polls that will follow. Lets talk about the former Vice President joe biden. You pointed out he tried to take on senator Bernie Sanders on the issue of guns. Watch this. Its not so much what you say you believe now. Its what did you do and when did you do it . And the fact is bernie has had a very different record than me for a long time. He said it was a tough state to run it. He voted against it five times in the house of representatives. Guess what . Weve kept over 5 Million People from being able to get weapons that they should not have been able to get. So hes trying to slow down sanders momentum. Do you think it was effective . Well, well see. You know, the biden folks feel better about their chances here in nevada on saturday, in two days than they did necessarily about the way iowa and New Hampshire was going to play out. As you know theyve been promising a long time to say, hey, watch us when we get to a state with more diverse electorate, one representative of the Democratic Party overall. This is their first proving ground on that, and youre right. He sees the sanders momentum and sees the issue of guns. And sanders passed support from protecting gun manufacturers of being sued as a way in, a way to blunt some of that growth weve seen for sanders. I would note you heard the comparison he made. The former Vice President made the case to everyone saying think about pharmaceutical companies and if you would block them from being sued after what many of them have done with the opioid addiction in america, and he used that as a direct parallel to sort of get into a frame of mind for folks. Even though Bernie Sanders has changed his position hes trying to hang his old record around his head on that issue. No one does better analysis than david chalian. Thank you, david. Well see you soon. Doing a great job there in las vegas. Listen as democrats are vying for the chance to run against President Trump we are learning tonight that Vladimir Putin is stepping up his election interference. Warning congress the Intelligence Community already believes russia is already taking steps to interfere in the next election with the goal of helping the president win. Thats according to three sources. The intelligence also mentions to throw the integrity of the election itself into doubt. Putin doing it again. And how is the president of the United States reacting to all of of this . How is he responding to russia doubling down attacks on our agree and Fair Election snz he is angry about russias interference was even included in the briefing. Hes angry house intel chairman adam schiff who he thinks is as one of his impeachment foes was even in that briefing. Angry because he believed schiff would use that information to try to undermine him as he runs for reelection. Blaming the outgoing acting dni Joseph Maguire for doing his squab, doing his duty to his country. And replacing maguire with an entirely unqualified ambassador and trump loyalist, Richard Grenell, to head up the nations Intelligence Community. Reportedly on a temporary basis with a threat from russia looming. Not at some point in the distant future but right now. The president is attempting to suppress the truth of what Vladimir Putin is doing because all he cares about is his fair that it calls into question the legitimacy of his own election. A former intelligence official telling cnn this, what the icc is reporting the truth, simple statements and facts without judgment the president sees as undermining his legitimacy. What else would you expect from a president who stood side by side with putin in helsinki and took his word over that of his own Intelligence Community . My people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others and said they think its russia. I have president putin, he just said its not russia. I will say this. I dont see any reason why it would be. What else would you expect from the president who just a few months ago joked about putin interfering in 2020 . So as bad as it is that the russians are back at it trying to help trump get reelected, its far worse that the president of the United States is hes trying to cover it up. And lets not forget russia has been trying to hack burisma, the Ukrainian Gas Company that had joe bidens son on its board. Is that a coincidence or another attempt to hurt bidens campaign and help trump . So are we in more danger now if our Intelligence Community cant even speak the truth, if an angry president responds to a warning from intel officials doing their jobs by replacing the intel chief with an unqualified loyalist . Its all part of his battle against the rule of law, a battle that took a turn in a d. C. Courtroom today with a good day for justice and a bad day for the president. Im talking about roger stone, infamous dirty trickster, long time trump crony sentenced today to 40 months in prison for lying to congress and threatening a witness over a case that revealed the president s interest in wikileaks during the campaign. Dont miss the significance of all of this. A u. S. District court judge and the dojs own prosecutors opposing the president today after the four original prosecutors quit the case in protest of attorney general william barr undercut them. So while barr is apparently willing to give the president exactly what he wants, the judge and those prosecutors are standing up for whats right. Standing up for the rule of law. Judge Amy Berman Jackson sending a very clear message not just with stones sentence but with her statement in the court today insisting on truth and the rule of law. In the face of the president s repeated claims stone was being treated unfairly the judge saying this and i quote, this case did not arise because roger stone was being pursued by his political enemies, it arose because roger stone charactericly injected himself smack into the middle one of the most significant issues of the day. And then going on bluntly to say he was not prosecuted as some have complained for standing up for the president. He was prosecuted for covering up for the president. And then theres her response to stones threats against the witness and his dog. Stone wrote in 2018 and im quoting here, you are a rat, you back stab your friends, run your mouth. Going onto say prepare to die. His lawyer arguing it was just stone being stone. Well, judge Amy Berman Jackson saying this, the defendant lied about a matter of Great National and international significance. This is not campaign hijinx. This is not just roger stone being roger. He lied to congress. He lied to our elective representatives. And theres this, quote, sure the defense is free to say so what, who cares but ill say this, congress cared. The United States department of justice and the United StatesAttorneys Office for the district of columbia that prosecuted the case and is still prosecuting the case cared. The jurors who served with integrity under difficult circumstances cared. The American People cared and i care. And how is the president responding to all of this . Im not going to do anything in terms of the great powers bestowed upon a president of the United States. I want the process to play out. I think thats the best thing to do. Because id love to see roger exonerated, and id love to see it happen because i personally think he was treated very unfairly. Theres a lot more than that. The fact is roger stone has the right to appeal, but the president sure seems to be suggesting he intervene if things dont go the way he wants them to go. The forewoman of the jury, the woman who was in charge of the jury is totally tainted when you take a look. How can you have a person like this . She was a antitrump activist. Can you imagine this . So if roger stones attorneys had any question at all whether t the forewoman could be fair they could have rejected her during selection. They didnt and that says it all. The president of the United States sees fit to attack a juror who was doing her civic duty. The duty at the heart of the way our Justice System is supposed to work. I want you to compare that to bill barr intervening in it case to recommend a lighter sentence overruling four of his own prosecutors who then quit the case. So lets not forget that happened after the president tweeted about how unfair he thought stones treatment was. And lets not forget he congratulated barr for stepping in. 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Theres news tonight the Intel Community believes russia is taking steps to interfere in the 2020 election with the goal of getting President Trump reelected. Sources are telling cnn the top election official briefed and the president became irate at the outgoing acting dni once he learned about the briefing. So lets discuss now. Dana bash is here, evan perez and john harwood as well. So good to have all of you on. Dana, lets start with you. By all accounts, this briefing was contentious, the president was irate. What are your sources telling you . Just that. Exactly what i said . One of the sources i spoke to, im going to keep it clean even though were in the nighttime. It was a blank show. It was apparently really, really contentious. The contentious part of it came when the intelligence official came to brief broadly on the attempts to disrupt the election in 2020. But then when she got specific, talking about what she thought was an attempt to help the president get elected, thats when the republicans on the committee went nuts, and they were very, very upset about that. And then it kind of devolved from there. Why would they be nuts about a statement of fact . Well, thats a good question. Because well, the answer is this. The answer is some of my colleagues have reporting that the feeling among an intelligence official in the administration was the intelligence that they saw wasnt that cut and dry, that it wasnt that clear how the meddling was intended to go forward, whether it was just intended to disrupt and sow chaos or intended to help the president. But the other answer, as you know because weve been talking about this since the president was sworn in, don, was that any mention of russia meddling to help the president is seen through his eyes as people saying, my election is illegitimate and he doesnt want to hear it. Youre right about that. Here we are again, evan. Russia trying to interfere in our election, apparently to benefit President Trump. But and now hes the president , he consistently attacked the Intel Community, attacks them all the time. What is the danger here . Look, the danger is real because it means that if the intelligence professionals dont feel comfortable telling the president the bad news, then they may not, and then that could have some really bad consequence for the National Security of this country. To what dana just pointed out, you know, people went through this right after he was elected in 2016. There were people close to him, including Jared Kushner who tried to explain to the president that, look, just because the russians had a preference for you doesnt mean that your election was illegitimate. You know, the two things can be true. You are a legitimate president , but the president is so thin skinned that he just would just would reject any suggestion that that was the case. And so thats whats happening here again, don. I think its the same thing that happened in 2016. The president is refusing to hear what the intelligence professionals are telling him plain and straight. Hes trying to create and live in his own reality instead of facts. John, the New York Times reports that this president , President Trump berated the dni Joseph Mcguire over this briefing. Now he is hes out. Hes got his loyalist Richard Grenell in now. He has a job. Is this another example of the president punishing his enemies and rewarding his friends . Don, i think its, most of all, an example of the president acting to protect himself. He has shown us by his words and actions hes not guided by abstract concepts, is it right, is it wrong, is it true, is it false, is it legal, is it not legal. Hes got it by whether an individual event or action helps him right now. And so when you hear that the intelligence officials are saying russia is trying to help him, he doesnt like hearing that. By the way, its not just a matter, in my view, of his feelings. Its also the fact that being reelected as president is pretty important to him because he loses the immunity from prosecution that hes enjoyed as president if he doesnt win the election. So thats very important. Secondly, the idea that adam schiff has this information is also bad news for the president. He says, as the reporting has shown, that schiff would weapon ize the information against him. Again, not dealing with the question whether its appropriate or not appropriate fo