Public testimonials that he was calm when he walked out of an infrastructure meeting. Kellyanne, what was my temperament yesterday . Very calm, no temper tantrum. What was my temperament . Kellyanne is right. You were very calm and very direct. And his hands were very big, that seems to be the subtext. Joining us now is Maggie Haberman, a cnn political analyst. That makes me break up in hives. I also once worked for an extremely stable genius who reminds me of that moment. Roger ailes has some things that are similar to donald trump. And that having to kiss the ring, publicly, is an interesting practice. Im sure when larry kudlow was tapped to come and be the top economic adviser, this was not the scenario he imagined, telling donald trump how calm he seemed the day before in public. We know that donald trump has a big need for affirmation publicly. This is like these scenes with these cabinet meetings where he has them go around and how great he is. Its sort of reality tv like, so its not a huge surprise. But it is a reminder that for all the idea that nancy pelosi is not getting under his skin, she is getting under his skin. I dont know why somebody would Say Something about that. Because other aides acknowledge that her comment about him being involved in a coverup is what caused him to go out and cancel this meeting in the first place. He is, as you know, is very attuned to the Media Coverage about his behavior. And there are certain story lines and pieces of coverage that bother him is about his temper and about his moods. And he asked hogan gidley to testify there on his behalf. He wasnt in the room, right . I saw hogan tweet last night that he wasnt in the room. I wasnt in the room, so i cant speak to it. His aides were saying that day, i guess it was two days ago, the president didnt yell, theyre saying he yelled. I dont hes not always the most selfaware of how his words sound, so i have no idea what was really happening. But i dont see you come in and cancel a planned meeting and it seems completely calm and breezy. But if he was depicted as he had been, as having a temper tantrum and he didnt, i can see why hes frustrated. Can i do. I think thats right. He does not think that he did. But the public testimonials go way beyond its roathese two different psychologies. I think your point of whats bothering him, whats getting under his skin in a way that nancy pelosi does is a way that other people have not. And we saw that come to a head where for the first time, he started calling her names and trying to depict her as something shes not. And i think he was escalating, which doesnt surprise me, it reminded me a lot of those few final months of him versus Hillary Clinton. Where it went to, shes crazy, shes unstable, her health is bad. Its a litany of words that he calls people in general, but about women in particular. And i dont think it was a surprise to see him go to that. I think the question is going to be, does pelosi avoid doing what other people have done, which is start trying to call him names back. And nobody really wins when they try to do that against him. Didnt she try to do that. Didnt she try to depict him as unstable . She was doing it in this kind of calm way of, i pray for him, i worry for him. There was a tweet from her account yesterday, after someone tweeted out her as a mess, and she said, if the quote unquote extremely stable genius wants o to, okay. But its hard. What we seemed to see last night was the troops fall into line which seems to be a clear president ial if not white house strategy to battle back against nancy pelosi on this. You heard the president talking about nancy pelosi, questioning whether or not she is sane. And they have this video and i dont want to play it again. Play the real one and then i play the fake one. I think it does their work for them. And then he had a press conference in the rose garden, with all of this sort of visuals that obviously were planned long before. So im not going to play where they slow down her speech to make her sound drunk. This has been posted by some conservative group that makes fake videos. Rudy giuliani, the president s lawyer tweeted it out last night. He pulled it down, but he put it out there. This is what he did in 2016. Its the exact same thing, the same playbook. And its Higher Movement here to discredit nancy pelosi with what was, i could use the word lie, you think in some way lie is overused at this point, but its a fake video. Its a doctored video and its manipulated and it is, i think, really important to highlight to everybody, because this is this election will require a lot of critical thinking. So when you see something that doesnt exactly smell right, it will require everybody to do double checking. Its out there, its already happening, were seeing it with this video and Rudy Giuliani tweeted it out. Rudy giuliani tweet eed it o, and then the president tweeted out a spliced video of nancy pelosi, which was done in such a way to make her seem goofy, off, and not quite all there. And at a certain point, when you have all of these videos out there, if one is more real than the whats the difference . Theyre all trying to do the same thing. Its interesting that as the president talks about fake news as much as he does, he is then tweeting out content like that. The president s biggest asset is that hes not going to be shamed over things like this. So as much as people are criticizing him for it, he doesnt care. If you have one party that does worry about that stuff and another that doesnt, i can tell you which ones going to succeed. And its the one that doesnt mind playing by a different set of rules. So you noted when you stepped back last night and watched this on the one hand and also what happened with william barr, where the president granted william barr Unprecedented Authority to declassify intelligence and Unprecedented Authority to get the cooperation of the other intelligence agencies, its clear that the president , to me, is trying to retake the initiative here. No question. And i dont think that we should understate how big a deal this was that this happened. And to be clear, there are legitimate reasons to look into how this investigation began. I do think that that is important to talk about. I think that the question and people who have worked in the intelligence space have expressed this concern and certainly critics of the president have, is, is bill barr going to selectively declassify information so that it then gets into the publics sphere, painting a certain light . And whether its that or whether its videos that sort of are momentary, you know, edits that are made to paint somebody a certain way, there is a narrative that gets portrayed. And the concern is, is this really going to be showing everybody, the general public what happened in 2016 . Or is this going to be done to harm the president s political opponents. Do we know the answer to this . Based on experience im not guessing. Im saying, based on experience with how bill barr has misrepresented the Mueller Report, dont we have some experience that he will not depict this in a completely objective way . Im really reluctant to predict what hes going to do. And i will say, in his favor, he did release almost the entire Mueller Report. And that was not a guarantee, at all, that that was going to happen several months ago. We have to see what happens, but i think that it raises a host of questions, including what this means for human sources whose identities are protected. And they be revealed and possibly endangered because of it. I understand why people want to look at how this began. I think that that is not unimportant. There are already two or three other reviews of how this investigation began. Its not clear why you need this other one, but its an enormous amount of power for bill barr. Particular for somebody who hates the russia investigation, claims that he wanted it over with. Why are we still doing this and using taxpayer dollars. The idea that hes doing another redundant russia investigation, because isnt the ig covering some of it . The i dprg is covering some t and a u. S. Attorney in connecticut that is covering some of it. Those are the three investigations. And the intelligence agencies are going to be very worried about what this means. A career officer here, i wonder what she thinks about this. Your story, you do note, there are some signs that barr isnt finding or may be limited in scope. I dont know if its limited in scope or theyre not really finding that much. I dont know what the answer is. There are reasons to believe that they have not found criminali criminality. Remember, the two poles of this is where the president says people committed treason and then you have the data. And it could be that we are dealing with a gamut of Human Behavior that is improper, but is not illegal conduct and i guess well find out. Durhams investigation isnt a criminal investigation right now. Durham is the connecticut guy. And if they had already found criminal activity, it would be a criminal investigation, one might suspect . That is correct. That is the assumption. By the way, the Mueller Investigation also looked into the origins of it. What mueller did in looking into the origins of how it all started concluded it was what we had already heard and reported, George Papadopoulos being drunk and talking to an australian diplomat who was then so concerned by what we heard, he called his u. S. Counterpart and the fbi. Maybe theres more digging to be done there might be more. Certainly, mueller looked at this and mueller concluded there was a legitimate reason to conduct this investigation. In closing, the president gets ready to go on a plane and go to japan, does that give you the sense that the president thinks he didnt win this week . I think they know this was not that good week for them and i would not understate the degree to which the two court losses over his financial documents are on his mind and hes certainly well aware of them. He has a way of taking things and spinning them into a positive for himself. I think thats what hes trying to do. Lets see what the next couple of days bring. He has a lot of foreign travel this weekend. Maggie, have a great weekend. You too. We have major breaking news from the united kingdom. The british Prime Minister theresa may announced that she is resigning. Cnns max foster is live at 10 downing street in london with all the breaking details. Max . Reporter john, an uncharacteristically emotional theresa may came out today making this announcement, and a huge amount of sympathy for her, as well. But ultimately, her fate was tide to this deal she had negotiated with the European Union about leaving the European Union. It and became pretty clear this week that that deal was dead along with her Prime Ministerial career. Lets hear from her. It is and must always remain a matter of deep regret to me that i have not been able to deliver brexit. It will be for my successor to seek a way forward that honors the result of the referendum. To succeed, he or she will have to find consensus in parliament where i have not. Reporter the only way of describing british politics right now is a broken mess right now. If you would consider nearly three years ago, brits voted to leave the European Union, shortly after that theresa may came into power, and were meant to be leaving by the end of october. But were pretty much back to square one. And a new leader wont be elected until probably midjuly. So the frontrunners, probably Boris Johnson, everyone agrees it has to be a leader this time around. Boris johnson is the clear frontrunner, but things could change very quickly. Theresa may actually leaving or announcing her resignation on the week or the at the end of the week that donald trump is here. Hes very close to Boris Johnson. So were all wondering whether donald trump will support and endorse Boris Johnson when he comes over. That is definitely another wrinkle in this very interesting puzzle. Thank you, max foster. 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Giving barr the unilateral power to declassify, selectively, if he wants to. Whats the meaning of that . I think it undermines National Security at the expense of creating political theater. The main thing this allows bill barr to do is declassify National Security information, including information about the means and methods, the way we do our National Security information. Sources that may be providing information about National Security information. Understand, bill barr as attorney would have had access to that information anyway. But now if he can declassify it, it throws it into the public realm. The public knowing about that gets potentially very dangerous and i think whats going on here is its political theater and intended to divert attention away from the many problems that still do face the president and those around him. As journalists and just curious people, we do want to know all of the information and i, you know, a part of me is intrigued to see what bill barr unearthed. So the problem is, since weve all learned since the Mueller Report, attorney general barr doesnt accurately represnt what his findings are. We saw the difference in what the Mueller Report said and how he selectively lifted some phrases. How he made an announcement that was not accurate. So if were counting on attorney general barr, im not sure that were going to see the real information. I started off with a degree of confidence in william barr based on his resume, but by now, i think he has completely destroyed his credibility and his independence by the way he has mishandled the Mueller Report. And we heard that from mueller himself. And by the way he has tried to spin things. And i think its a real problem. I think i dont think its a mistake that the president has made bill barr the filter once again. All right, we gave you homework assignment, ellie. We looked at you to rank the top five as to how threatening they are to the president. Lets start with the most threatening. Lets start with the Southern District of new york, my former office, and the investigation of the Trump Organization and the Campaign Finance payments. Lets not forget about this. Theres already been significant results here. Michael cohen was convicted of this. This was the hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and karen mcdougal. He is behind bars as we speak because of that. Individual one, we know to be donald trump. And the Southern District of new york said on record that Michael Cohen acted in coordination with and at direction of individual one. Donald trump is not going to be indicted by doj while hes in office. Thats the doj policy. But mueller went out of his way in the report to stress that the president can be indicted when hes out of office. Theres more to come here, and we know that because information about this investigation has been redacted. We saw the Michael Cohen search warrants unsealed this week, but the information remains redacted. Theres other people that could be in trouble, including the people identified as executive one and executive two who made and authorized those payments. That would be interesting to unveil who executive one and executive two are. Number two investigation is the inauguration, bec