And time and words, President Trump again denies he said something that he clearly said on camera. He called apple ceo, why would he come up with a tortured explanation . Youre in the situation room im wolf blitzer. New provocations as the white house refuses to address a weekend report that he said democrats hate jewish people. The president is already on record saying democrats are anti israel and anti jewish. It landed with a thud. It would slash spending across most government agencies. It is setting aside more money than ever before. Congressional democrats call it dead on arrival. Democrats may face a new battle among themselves as pelosi against an impeachment effort telling the Washington Post that President Trump is just not worth it. House speaker of the Oversight Committee will have full coverage of the days top stories. Lets go to jim. It seems like the president is out to deliberately pick some fights with the democrats. That was certainly the case over the weekend. One again today the white house finally held a press briefing. The briefing went off the rails when the white house was asked about the president s comments that democrats hate jewish people. It is accusing standing behind the comments. You have to ask the democrats. Reported that the president made the falts claim at a private speech repeating what he said on friday. The democrats have become an antiisrael party and antijewish party. Excellents made by democratic which he tried to sidestep the troubling rhetoric. After the violence in charlottesville. When youre saying something thats untrue. Stating their policy positions but democrats dont hate jewish people. I think they should call out suggesting there are fine people in the nazis. Thats not at all what he was stating. Refusing to rule out a pardon for manafort. The president made his position on that clear. Again, accusing the president s former personal attorney of lying to congress when he denied seeking a pardon. Cohens own attorney stated and contradicted his client when he said he was aware those conversations had taken place. I think its time to stop giving him a platform and let him go onto serve his time. Sanders declined to comment on the checks they said were to pay out of stormy daniels. He testified about this. The president has been clear there wasnt a campaign violation. I would refer you back to the president s comments. It was supposed to be about the newly proposed budget. Gone is the promise that mexico will pay for it. As the president has stated a number of times through the u. S. Mca trade deal it will be part of how it takes place. The white house tried to blame democrats for the mounts debt with trillion dollars deficits pro projected. Thats is despite the promise to eliminate the national debt. I know more about debt than practically anybody. I love debt. I also love reducing debt and i know how to do it better than anybody. The president is still playing clean up after he referred to tim cook as tim apple. You have really put a big investment in our country. We appreciate it very much tim apple. He said he quickly referred to him as an easy way to save time and words. Satd referring to her own comments. As we both know it is a statement of condemnation coming directly from the president. Very good. Thank you. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi dropped a bomb shell. Lets go to phil. Tell our viewers what pelosi is now saying. She made clear people should take caution before they go down the pathway and she is saying in an interview im not for impeachment. I ill give you news and i have been thinking about this, impeachment is so devicive to the country unless theres something so compelling and bipartisan i dont think we should go down that path. They would need no fewer than 20 republicans to join through to actually move that through. You put it with the idea that the speaker also references the impeachment effort targeting bill children don as being and you kind of understand at least at this point in time based on the facts it is not a road she wans to go down. This comes just as in the aftermath of a congresswoman saying she intended to file impeachment papers. Is this the peekers way of keeping her caucus in line . Democrats would hold the majority again that dont want to have to talk about this on a regular basis, that dont want to go through the fight whether they vote if an impeachment couldnt prove forward. Thats where you see the excellents coming to the forefront here. More about protecting her own members than trying to keep some for other members in line. Phil up on capitol hill. He went to jail for lying about contacts. His wife testified behind closed doors up on capitol hill. So what did the Senate Intelligence committee hope to learn today . Right. The focus here would be more on her relationship with a former professor who the u. S. Government, the fbi has said provided information to he had an encounter. He said he had dirt on the Hillary Clinton campaign and its this person that his wife it was a previous job they held overseas as well. It seems this is what they want to know. Of course the wife has been out there. She has tried to take advantage of the attention that the arrest and conviction and guilty plae h plea created. She came out and said he was going to withdraw his plea. Obviously he didnt do that. I try today reach her today. She said she couldnt talk because she made a promise that she would keep their meeting private. We are also waiting for longtime trump ally to submit a court filing today. Well explain why his book that addresses it doesnt violate a court gag order. Could the judge put stone there jail if she is not happy with what he has to say . She could fine him. She could further instituconsti some kind of release conditions. The point is she is not happy this time because of a book that has been released previously and has a new introduction. He advised the court he was going do this. She has all sorts of questions about when did he decide to do this . Theres a new part to this book. A new introduction with new information that attacks the mueller team, the probe. It is that that she will take issue with. She is asking for more information. When did he decide to do this . She is hoping to learn more information. If she is not satisfied with what he has to say in these Court Filings that are supposed to come any minute it is a very good chance she will drag him back to court and may put him in jail. The former Campaign Chairman was just sentenced to almost four years in prison. He could serve more time when he sentenced for separate crimes on wednesday. Today the White House Press secretary said a pardon is still on the table. How significant is that . It is very significant. Manafort could be up to another ten years if the judge decides to give him the maximum. What is significant is the fact they have still not backed down from the idea that perhaps there is a chance for manafort to get pardoned in all of this. If you think about it on friday when the president spoke he said again feeling bad he keeps giving us hints he wants to go ahead. It is while mueller is still engaged. Keep if mind there are prosecutors in new york. Local prosecutors that intend if he is pardoned. I think she is lowering expectations about the prospect of impeachment and reminding people of the gravity of that move. A lo of expectations, you guys the democrats will be disappointed when he releases his report to the attorney general decides what to release to the congress and the public. I think the Mueller Report will be an important document for us. We have our own investigations that are underway. So far we have had one public hearing. It is a judgment as to whether it could lead to impeachments. It is serving a useful purpose. You have to meet a very high bar. Is she wrong to be issuing impeachment proceedings giving a bad idea . I think she is is setting a bar for all of us we have to Pay Attention to. Baz you understand where she is coming from . Right. They are considering a resolution that would call for the Mueller Report to be released to the public in full. Is that purely symbolic . Is it going to go any where . Whats your thought . I think the special prosecutors report belongs in the public domain. I think sunshine is the best disinif he cdi disinfectant. What if they committed some sort of crime . Is Justice Department and rules are you dont release that kind of nfginformation if youre not going to charge someone. The release of the public schooler document whatever is there there will lead to a vig use debate. Whatever he founds or doesnt find will be supplemented by ongoing congressional investigations. The latest developments involving Michael Cohen, the president tweeted that cohen correctly asked him for a pardon today. The Washington Post said this president so far in his term in office is up to 9,000 lies and counting. So trusting him to be a source for what may or may not have taken place there a private conversation is at best. After the agreement expired i did not see the pardon for would i expect one. Publicly and privately that it is a hate jews . That was one of the most hateful utterances of anyone that occupied the oval office. I dont think it will work at all. You heard sanders say thats because you didnt specifically site congresswoman i dont think she has a lot of credibility it is after singling out ethnic groups, muslims, African Americans for hateful remarks and racist remarks. I dont think they have any comment. Thanks for coming in. Up next, breaking news. 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I think for democrats it is her trying to tell them i know what im doing here. Trust me on this. We want to go the route and not try to go forward with an impeachment process. She says that he is not worth it. Why bother going through an impeachment process in her words . Hes not worth it. What do you think . To pick up on what she said she talked about the it as being crippling for the nation and this is without a president that had access to social media. Every day was calling these investigations a witch hunt and president ial harassment. So i think that she sort of sees the writing on the wall when it comes to what the poll numbers suggest about how americans feel about impeachment. We dont have a Mueller Report at the time. She wanted to put this on the record. She said it in the interview. She said i will make news right now. I have been giving it a lot of thought. She was not only speaking to the American Public and probably to the president as well but also to her own constituents. Is she singling that she doesnt really believe the Mueller Report is going to rise to the level of impeachment . It is hard to say exactly but it does feel like she is saying given what we know now and what has been made public she doesnt see an avenue for impeachment. I agree that impeachment really is an extraordinary remedy. I think she was careful in saying this is based on what we fl know today. It is that the republicans and democrats support impeachment. Short of that she sent a strong message not wanting to go there. The impeachment process begins in the house of representatives. The democrats have the majority and simple majority to impeach a president but then it goes to the senate for a full trial. You need a twothirds majority to convict the president and remove that president from office. I suspect she believes that they wont ever go along with this. There wont be a twothirds majority. Why waste everyones time in the house . Thats precisely the thinking that even if you were to get enough support to pass something through the house then you wouldnt have that twothirds majority there a republican lead. Especially if you look at how they have talked about the russia investigation. They are a lot more inclined to be differential to the president to down play any evidence of wrong doing even in the face of all of these indictments and guilty pleas. Where it might clang is if it is a red line for not just democrats but republicans in congress. If you were to fire the counsel, if he were to pardon which he isnt taking off the table but to add this point right now if you look at the public it is something that is still very poll larizing. A majority do not think the president should be impeached. You have seen some of those numbers go up. So again, a lot of this depends on the president s own actions in the course of the coming months. 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This is Sarah Sanders repeatedly reacting to about a report that they told a republican fundraiser behind closed doors over the weekend that democrats hate jewish people. Listen to this. Does the president really believe democrats hate jews . He has been an unwaivering ally and jewish people and frankly the rorks that have been made bay number of dem kraocrat frankly. Does the president truly believe that democrats hate jews . I am not going to comment on a potentially leaked. I can tell you what do you think democrats hate jewish people . I think they have had a lot of opportunities over the last few weeks to condemn. Does he really believe democrats hate jews . Whats your reaction when you laer that . She was struggling to react to this report. Even though the other day the president said democrats are anti israel and anti jewish. We didnt hear her deny that the president had said that as had been reported yesterday. We hit another new low the president can just paint an entire party as being antisemitic when you see it around the world on the rise including here in the u. S. Just months after the pittsburgh shooting it does hit a new low. It doesnt take much to come out and say that thats not what the president meant or that maybe the democrats would have reacted stronger to one of their congressmen in some of her tweets as opposed to painting an entire party as antisemitic. It is taking an opportunity to showcase close ties to the israeli Prime Minister. He said if he were electable he would get a 98 approval raying. He was eligible to be on the ballot there. Obviously there have been concerns about some of the president s comments. I dont have to go through all of them. How do you see it . You dont believe that the dialogue has gotten to the point where the president would lump everyone together you know this kind of conversation. They are try to seize on this controversy over the freshman congresswoman that had invited a lot of controversy for comments she has made near washington inviting some criticism. That comments she made and this is a president that h