Transcripts For CNNW Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 201805

Transcripts For CNNW Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer 20180529

The president is heading to a rally as hes been busy peddalig a new Conspiracy Theory. Ill talk with democratic congressman and our correspondents are standing by. Lets go with more on the roseanne drama. Abc calls her tweets abhor rere repug nants and innsistent with o values. This exploded within matter of hours and in less than day one of their top show s in shambles and big stars on the ropes. Muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes had a baby. Vj. Thats the tweet that sunk a racist empire. Twitter erupted. She quickly took it down and say i apologize to valerie jerritt and all americans. Im truly sorry for making a bed joke about her politics and looks but the damage was done. Sarah gilbert said the comments were abhorrent and do not reflect the beliefs of our cast and crew. Wanda sykes, i will not be returning to roseanne. Abc called it twits sayitweets abhorhent. You cant just stand on the front porch staring at your muslim neighbors prp. Since its return earlier this year the show has engaged explosive topic, image, terrorism, religious and racial intoleraneranceranc intolerance. He loved it. Look at roseanne. I called her yesterday. Look at her ratings. Over 18 Million People and it was about us. Reporter roseanne support for the far right went beyond the studio. With attack on gun control advocates, thats si comments about susan rice and president clintons daughter calling her she chelsea soros clinton. When she corrected her while still complimenting soros, she apologized and repeated false climb that he was a nazi. Frequently controversial but this time really became a wildfire because of just how racist and bizarre the comments were. Reporter the network pulled the plug. Chief executive of disney tweeted there was only one thing to do here and that was the right thing. Dealing with fall out of all this may not be so simple. Not just because theres millions of viewers and at stake but also many conservatives consider this to be one of new shows that reflected some of their more basic views about the country, society and politics and with that gone they will turn to abc say and if shes been fired, what else do you have . Thanks. Were going to have much more on roseannes rant and her shows cancellation later this hour. I want to get to President Trump. Were standing by for his rally and the possibility he might Say Something about roseanne. Hes been stirring up another controversy of his own wp a new conspiracy rant claiming the special Counsel Robert Mueller will meddle in this years Midterm Elections. Lets go to our chief White House Correspondent jim accoost. What are you hear fing from the white house about the roseanne show being ax . Reporter Sarah Sanders said the president will not be commenting on the cancellation of roseannes tv show saying he has more important work to do like the possible summit with north korea. President trump has spent less time on the issues and more time on his personal grudges lately. Misleading the public over and over with tweets that seem to say more about the president than anything else. The president is not likely to let up at this rally where he may go back to ranting about the russia immigration as he did all weekend long. President trump was in no mood to take dquestions from report s reporters. Hes posted more than three dozen tweets, many venting his frustration about the russia investigation. One of the more baffling tweets alleges that Robert Muellers team will be meddling with the Midterm Election especially now that republicans are taking the leads in polls. Theres no proof of that. The president appears to be making it up. Hes pedalldled this before. Im afraid the election will be rigged. The system is rigged. Its a rigged election. Reporter president s top aids insist its his adversaries that have the unhealthy relationship. Talking about the 2016 election, every time people talk about this phony russia collusion. The word collusion doesnt have legal significance. Reporter democrats claim its the white house thats hampering the investigation and the only solution is for voters to take action in the upcoming midterms. You need to throw the bumps out. Theres only one remedy. Those who died for our great country will be happy and proud of his record on the economy and his handling of the military. Ending the message by saying nice. The president tried to get away with spreading misleading information on immigration saying documents are separating undocumented immigrant children from their parents once they cross the border into the u. S. Both parties have shaped policy for decades and his decision to divide up immigrant families. The president has said as much himself. The democrats gave up that law. Its a horrible thing we have to break up families. Reporter Jeff Sessions said separations will deter more migrant families are crossing the border. If youre smul smggling a ch we may prosecute you and the child may be separated from you. Sarah sanders the president was going after the times for misrepresenting that officials comments. If you go back to the original tweet, he was accusing the times of making up sources. This is a time of the white house asking the people to trust the president and not what they see with their own eyes. The question is whether the president will mention to controversy swirling around Roseanne Barr. Sarah sanders said he has more important things to do but this would not be the first time hesitate undercut one of his aides and decides to talk about roseanne later on tonight. Well see if he does. Thanks very much. Joining us now congressman on the arms economy. Thanks for joining us. My pleasure. The president said the special counsel is meddling in Midterm Election coming up in november. Democracy doesnt work if voters dont have confidence in the legitimacy of their votes. How damaging are these comments by the president . They could be damaging but it shows the president cares more about him and his career and the country and democracy in general. Its interesting he happens to avoid the fact there was russian meddling in the election of 2016 but is coming with conspiracy theories for the election of 2018. This is the president not acting like a president and coming up with straight up lies to confuse people and to basically rile up his base. Should Robert Mueller consider the timing of the mid text elections in november as he prepares to release his final report or should he release whatever he finds whn even ever finds it . In term of executing a proper report that he should do whatever it takes to make sure hes coming out with a report and if thats after the elections, thats fine. If its tomorrow, thats fine provided that he has done the job properly, made sure he represents the United States well and investigated thoroughlily what he could but for us as politicians to try to put pressure on Robert Mueller, any prosecutor for that matter, for them to releaseny type findings especially when it inlves politics is very dangerous and its a slippery slope we dont want to go down. Only 17 , 17 of republicans approve of muellers handling of the russia investigation. This is among republicans. Rudy giuliani, the president s personal lawyer admitted he wants to undermine the entire investigation because it will ultimately come down to whether or not you guys in the house of representatives decide to per sue pursue impeachment. Has the president already succeeded . I think its interesting that Rudy Giuliani is acting like a mob lawyer at this point just trying to sway the quote unquote jury. The assumption well go to impeachment is big. For all we know mueller could come out with a lot of indictments and not mention the president. Theres guilty by the president and the people around him to the fact theyre jumping to this. Hes pruurposely doing it. Hes throwing misleading and out right lies and hes being aided by people like Rudy Giuliani who are making up boldfaced assumptions about whats going on in this investigation and being repeated in the press. Lets turn to another important story were reporting on today. C has cancelled Roseanne Barr highly rated show. What are your thoughts on the decision . Number one, its the right decision. They should have fired her a long time ago. She did tweet out or sent pictures out that were anti semitic. She made fun of several africanamerican women politician before. Im glad this is done. This is a problem thats happening now because of the Trump Administration or donald trump, not the Trump Administration. Weve seen increasing amounts of racist rhetoric being thrown out. Other people claiming of using racist vile. After im done with this show, i will get called some horrible latino slurs because im talk about the president. This president has brought it to be openly racist. That has given signal to some clo closet. Racist. We need to punish these acts so people understand this is not acceptable. Thanks so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. Will the cancellation of roseanne have any Lasting Impact on the conversation about racism and the political rhetoric in this country . Our analysts will break down the bogus new claim about election meddling by Robert Mueller. Hes got legs of lumber and arms of steel he eats a bowl of hammers at every meal he holds your house in the palm of his hand hes your home and auto man big jim, hes got you covered great big jim, there aint no other so, this is covered, right . Yes, maam. Take care of it for you right now. Giddyup hi this is jamie. We need some help. The Digital Divide is splitting this country. We have parents who are trying to get their kids off of too much social media and computers, and then we have parents who would only hope their children have access. Middle school is a really key transition point, right. The stakes start changing. Students begin to really start thinking about their futures. What i like about verizons approach is that its not limited to just giving kids new tools, its really about empowering educators to teach in different ways, and exposing kids to more active forms of learning. Giving technology is not a total solution. Teaching technology, now that is. Build your next big thing to run in more places, without recoding. The ibm cloud. The cloud for smarter business. President trump getting ready to hold a rally tonight as he ramps up his effort to undermine Robert Mueller and his russia investigation. Lets get some more with our analysts. Let me start with the president s tweet. The 13 angry democrats plus people who work eight years for obama working on the rigged russia witch hunt will be meddling with the Midterm Elections especially now that the republicans are taking the leads in polls. There was no collusion except by the democrats. Hes trying to undermine this entire russia investigation and take the battle to his Republican Base. Also,. N i dont want to get o much into psycho babble but the concept of projection. Here you have a man elected president because the fbi, james comey, intervened in his election on the eve of the election and in many respects probably won the election for him. Here he is projecting that if he loses, if his party loses it will be because of the Law Enforcement intervention. Theres no evidence for it. I think its an interesting clue to how his mind works. Your aour legal analyst, how do you see it . Its about trying to prevent the truth from coming out. He makes these theories to undermine political accountability. Some of theories you have to ask what is secretary icarier. That the president of the United States believes this or he american public. Lying to the suggesting that mueller and his team are meddling in the election because if the republicans lose the house or the senate or both then hell sayexcuse. Right. This is a president who doesnt take responsibility for anything. Youre always looking for someone to blame. As you pointed out before, in advance, of potential losses in the Midterm Election hes setting the stage for losses. Say ing if we lose, dont blame me. Its up to Robert Mueller. The president s legal team has been negotiating with the special counsel and his team for months about whether the president will or will not testify. We reported last week that actually there was a date set at one point. January 27th potentially for President Trump to testify. Thats not occurred. This has been going back and forth. If this is getti inting dangero close to the election, maybe the president ought to look at his own negotiations and say, whats been going on with this. We could get this over with a lot faster if we figured out what we were going to do with my testimony. These tweets that the president has been launching going after Robert Mueller, so called criminal deep state thats out there to get him. Its presumely intende to motivate that Republican Base and gethem out to the polls. Were book to 2016 where the polls and many people thought secretary clinton would win the 2016 election and then President Trump was already priming everyone for the idea that the system is rigged. The election is rigged and we couldnt win. We couldnt go up against the entrenched establishment. Now hes doing a 2016 lite in 2018 to get his voters motivated. His movoters do still seem motivated. In is motivational too. You dont want Mueller Mueller is not popular with the Republican Base hes got a 17 approval rating. This partly, this tweet is lets get you guys out to vote. Dont let him take this election away from us. Even muellers of republican. The term collusion doesnt have any legal significance. Do you believe Robert Mueller sees it that way. One of the serious legal questions about the Mueller Investigation is what laws might have been violated. There are many laws that could have been violated if russia and the Trump Campaign were colluding. There are Illegal Campaign finance laws. There are hacking laws that could be violated. Theres a law called conspiracy to defraud the United States which mueller used in prosecuting the 13 russians in the social media case. Theres abundance of laws that could have been violated if there was collusion. Collusion, as a word, is not mentioned. Its within muellers legal right to bring a case or bring a criminal case if there was collusion between the russians and the Trump Campaign. He said muellers responsibility was to look into any links or coordination between the russian government and individuals associated withe campaign of president donald trump. The word collusion is not mentioned. Right. I think the president sort of seizing on the language and rhetoric where he feels most confidentable. We see that Rod Rosenstein and Robert Mueller are scarily within the mandate in is what they were supposed to be investigating. Theres clearly potential criminal activity embedded within this investigation. Thats why theres an investigation in the first place. The president clearly and his allies are saying maybe some low level people were doing something but it never reached the senior level and never reached him. This is what the president has been saying and every time we have seen for example someone like george papadopoulos, well, he was the coffee boy or someone like paul manafort. He was the Campaign Chairman but he only worked with us for three months. General flynn is another issue. The person that the president parentally to hold off on dealing with. He did. He was the National Security advisor. They are trying to draw a line, obviously, between the president and what he knew and what else may have been going on in the campaign. They may be right. We just dont know the answers to those questions yet. It doesnt mean that the Mueller Investigation is a witch hunt or a fraud. Ie stick around. 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