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we go to our analyst, david gregory. does it seem as those president trump's idea on the trade war worked? >> i think it's true as we sit here without question, and i think there's going to be a bipartisan applause as far as that goes, whether it's from sha senator brown and others, too. the financial markets have been reeling over the affects of a trade war. i think it's important, and i think a more sober look will say did he create a fight that was not unnecessary but created a deal of drama that is still unresolved. i don't think there's anybody that doesn't look at this and can see it's a short term success at the very least they are talking and achieved this and have tamped down where they were. >> nothing is done. the critics say all you have done is add another 90 days, which is what the chinese do in negotiations, which is delay, delay, delay, and how are they going to fix it in 90s days? >> i think some people would say this is an unnecessary fight, at least this way of fighting this particular battle would not

. >> and we have political analyst, david gregory, and michael summer c michael smerconish and david gregory. to put a finer point on it, the trump organization, and the inaugural committee and the transition and the trump administration and the trump charity and foundation, all of those are under investigation. >> but not where he went to high school. his high school record is beyond reproach as far as i can tell. it's an extraordinary tale. these are all legitimate investigations. the key thing is, come january a lot of the investigations will unfold in public. the mueller investigations have come out in limited ways, and come the democratic takeover of the house of representatives, there's going to be public hearings. michael cohen is going to testify in public. all of these stories are not only going to metastasize, but they are going to metastasize in public. i think that's a very different scenario than what we have seen. >> we have seen what the president has done, at the prospect of all of this unfolding in public, he said it after democrats took over the taos, he said if the

we are bringing in our panel, david gregory, and karen moss. all the redacted stuff in here, and that fact that there's so much redacted may be the most significant thing. >> so much information was redacted in the documents, which means we don't know today exactly what michael flynn told the prosecutors. we know he met with them 19 times, which is a lot of interviews, and we know that he cooperated in the special counsel's investigation, and we also know that he cooperated in another criminal investigation -- >> two others. >> -- about which there's no other information provided. >> and we also know they are still ongoing investigations, and they didn't want to tell us because they didn't want to endanger those investigations? >> yeah, the fact that it's redacted, it shows if there is other witnesses or pieces they are tracking down they don't want to provide that publicly so they will provide that under seal. >> the person who chanted the lock them up, lock her up, is actually not going to be locked up, which is not as odd as it may seem. the

who are you keeping an eye on, david gregory, in 2019? >> whoever can rule the midwest. i think democrats have a fix fixation on winning the last war and seeing where they have the most potential to take on trump. i think a lot of them look through the midwest. amy klobuchar, it's also the key to the working class white voter that slipped away from hillary clinton. so i think that's a big focus. overall there are so many different lanes. who can outtrump trump, who can deliberately not get into the trump muck, who can put together a coalition demographically that can deliver, show up and overwhelm trump. so you have a president who is losing popularity, who faces the headwind of a potentially declining economy, but a big democratic field with lots of different lanes including generational lanes to try to figure out, the older and the younger and the into you tour. >> david gregory takes the why don't you meet me in the middle look for the midwest going forward. ♪ why don't you meet me in the middle ♪ >> that leaves out the roughly 36 candidates thinking about running

dominic catholic church in panama city, florida, as well as david gregory. he's the author of "how is your faith," i almost forgot to mention that because as we were saying when tragedy happens we talk about faith and we talk about how to get through tragedy, but we don't talk about it every day and faith leaders 'voices are not part of or dialogue. are we not comfortable with it? >> there is secularism in the media and while there are deep people of faith within the media there are many more that lack the vocabulary of belief. these gentlemen and their colleagues, they have it, and their parishioners want it, they see community and they build around it so we have a job to do to demystify it, to understand that there are institutions of religion that are under stress and for whom -- who have lost the trust of a lot of people, but that doesn't mean that people don't have a yearning, and part of the yearning is not only a relationship with god that's going on inside of them, but it's also a return to the best of themselves which these gentlemen can remind us o

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joining us now cnn political analyst david gregory, nina mcbride the director of white house personnel under ronald reagan and george h.w. bush, david shall yan and laura coats. we talked about this detente between the bush family and the trumps, it was really the bush family that initiated this deliberately over the summer. they knew that this time would come and they got a message to the white house that president trump will be invited to the funeral when it happens. why do you think they decided to do that? >> of course, i don't think there was ever a question that that would be the case. i think that we have been talking about george h.w. bush now for the last week and really understand this is a person who respected the institution of the presidency, no matter who the president was going to be that person would be invited to his funeral. i think after barbara bush died and there was, you know, chatter sort of going on about whether donald trump would be invited to george bush's funeral because he wasn't at barbara bush's funeral, i think the family wanted to put that to rest right

. >> we have david gregory here. david, we are leading with you, our cnn political analyst. also former president full prosecutor lisa coats, and cnn legal analyst, jennifer rogers. good to have you on set with us, jennifer. take us up to 30,000 feet. what do you see this morning? >> i see a president that is in trouble now. for the first time we actually have a prosecutor's office saying he committed a federal felony. the question is what are they going to do about it? what is mueller going to do about his piece of it? i think they are ultimately going to have to wait. the olc's opinions say you can't indict a sitting president, and they can indictment him after he leaves office, but they are unlikely to proceed with the criminal case as of now. >> are you referring to the one where michael cohen at the direction of individual one, who we know to be donald trump, instructed him to pay the hush money. >> they just don't have cohen's statement, because cohen is not a cooperator and they can't rely on his testimony. they have other evidence that is consistent with that and tha

we have david gregory, david chalian, and bill coats. it's great to have all of you. it is great to be with you in washington, d.c. this is what people are talking about in terms of this tweet that president trump set down about what is happening with the mueller probe. let me just read it. he says i will never testify against trump. this statement was recently made by roger stone, essentially stating he will not be forced to make up lies and stories about president trump. nice to know that some people still have guts. any legal jeopardy for the president? >> roger stone has been somebody who, all of his associates have been questioned. there may be a reason why he himself is not testifying because you don't have the target of an investigation actually make statements beforehand. number two, the president's statement is part of a larger pattern he has, where he weighs in where he should not. he is seen as influencing witnesses or at least trying to have the perception out there that there is a stake in it that he has and that he wants to kind of scratch my back, scrat

as david gregory has said so often, they were open for business. >> that's right. and for the sake of those 14 and others, i hope that they haven't lied to investigators about those contacts. but clearly between the recent manafort filing, cohen filing and the flynn filing, there is apparently a lot of cooperation going on about the campaign's contacts with russia and with russians. i think phil is right, we just know a fraction of it at this point. i have to believe that much more detail is about to come. >> it's interesting. jerry nadler, who will be the house chair of the judiciary committee is talking about this in terms that we haven't heard before. i want to play it again. we heard it already this morning. it's so important. it moves the football in a significant way. let's listen. >> well, they would be impeachable offenses, whether they are important enough to justify impeachment is a different question. certainly they would be impeachable offenses. even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of

. >> joining us now is david gregory and susan hennesy and chief legal analyst, jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, we have been talking about the questions that are looming in this investigation, and questions that could be answered soon. you note with michael cohen there's something perplexing, even to you, our chief legal analyst, which is why michael cohen is being sentenced next week, which is why was he charged by the special counsel. >> prosecutors put sentencing off until all the cooperation is completed because sentence something a tremendous lever that a prosecutor has to ensure somebody's cooperation. you say to the defendant, look, we want to make sure you continue to tell the truth so we will not tell the judge about your cooperation until you are completely done. here cohen just pleaded guilty in the special counsel case, and it looks like he's going to be sentenced next week. i still would not be surprised to see it put off, but cohen seems very anxious to have the whole thing put behind him and so far, as far as i can tell, the prosecutors are allowing him to do that. >> wh

joining us david gregory, abby phillip and our legal analyst laura coates. laura, this sentencing memo, this will be the case against michael flynn like we haven't seen it before. >> it's true, remember, he pled guilty last december and all that time there's been delays of his sentencing. mueller's team has kept saying we need him still, he is still on the hook, the question is why? why has he been on the hook for over a year? when you see people like michael cohen and paul manafort have a matter of months before they are pleading guilty and asking for sentencing. >> what does that tell me? >> how what michael flynn knows has been of such importance during the transition period and on the campaign trial, he was fired three weeks into the actual administration so we don't have much about that, but whatever he knows has been so important and i think strategically the timing is important here. alisyn, john, think about this, when the president of the united states finally handed in his answers all of a sudden mueller was galvanized, manafort is called a liar, y

you will hear more from david gregory who will tell you what needs to happen for closure to happen for him and his wife. >> are breaking hearing the father talk about what happened to his daughter. i understand that some members of the oakland fire department stopped by the memorial today. >> reporter: just about an hour ago, the oakland fire department pulled up in front of the memorial. several firefighters got out and stood in front of the memorial for a few moments. they got back in the engine and took off. it is a somber scene to see that happen. the firefighters helped to battle the flames two years ago. >> are there people still out there now? >> reporter: there are a few people still coming. the crowds were heavier a few hours ago around four and 5 pm. right now there are a few people that gathered behind me. they have been here for a few minutes. not as many as we saw earlier but people do continue to come here and check out the memorial and drop off flowers and mementos. >> it is so sobering to drive by the building and see the memorial out front. thank you. >>> january 1 mar

david: i'm david gregory. i am so happy to be able to join you tonight. what a great opportunity for me to be part of this conversation with these two wonderful historians. what i have the opportunity, i love the have the chance to talk to them about presidential leadership lessons from history. ,that is what we are here today tonight. we will have some discussion among the three of us and all of this will join in the discussion to celebrate and lift up dora's timely book about presidential leadership and to reflect on presidential leadership in the broader lessons in history. i do want to point out that this is an on the record meeting for those of you who care about that. as i said, and about half an hour we will open up to q&a from all the members. there are two folks that need very little introduction. "leadershipook is in turbulent times," which i have a copy of. i think you can get a copy in the lobby as well. jay, april in 1865, the month saved america, and "1934." the former historian and president here at the council on foreign relations. thank y

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. >> david gregory is back with us, and also joining the conversation, scott jennings, and cnn political analyst, john avlon. i want to start with you, scott, because of your personal connection there. as we listened yesterday to the eulogy from president george w. bush for his father, and so much more, we were told this would not be political and politics were going to stay out of this, and as much as people want to do that in anything in this day and age, that is tough and how much do you think it was a truly conscious highlighting of the differences verses this is what we are talking about today and the man we are focused on? >> the eulogy that president bush gave was written for one person and one person only and that's george h.w. bush. i think they handled it right, and president trump and his white house handled it right. he did everything you would expect him to do. and somebody from congress said, it feels like we are returning to normalcy. everybody is rising to meet this occasion and to honor somebody who deserves our praise. i think the eulogy was spot on, and i was honored t

joining us, david gregory and jeffrey toobin. jeffrey toobin, when you spoke to pecker last year, he told you it was all about friendship and not political, right? >> i did a profile of david pecker for "the new yorker," and he was open up his partisanship for trump in the 2016 election, and cover after cover he attacked his raoeivals, and he open about that, and obviously it was helpful. i don't think he or i realized the magnitude of the legal problems he was getting himself into by talking to me about that. he also, i don't think, told me the full story of his relationship with donald trump, but there certainly was no mystery about the underlying friendship. >> but now he and ami say something much more than that, jeffrey. in the legal document, they say as part of the plea deal this money was paid for political reasons to influence the 2016 election. that's a big difference. >> it is a big difference. berman, you know, sometimes people don't tell reporters the whole truth. it's heartbreaking. i think that's what went on there

let's bring in cnn political analyst david gregory, craig bauer and lewis. there were no cameras in the courtroom. this is not the way anybody expected it to go yesterday. and it was remarkable the updates we were getting and then the final update at the end of the day in terms of where we stand and what the judge felt about michael flynn, what was said by him and his attorneys and where we are. >> flynn's team expected that he would get this very beneficial description of his cooperation by the justice department and he was going to get his six months, as low of a sentence as he could get. and then he was going to come out and say it was minor, i was entrapped, and the judge just wasn't having any of it. he wanted him to allocute fully. this judge reacted the way a lot of americans will when they understand fully what happened, that this person was lying to fbi agents in the west wing of the white house, somebody who could not possibly claim that he didn't know it was important to tell the truth when the fbi comes knocking. it is, i think, going to be somet

we have cnn political analyst, david gregory, and michael smerconish and abby phillip, and washington bureau chief and director of george h.w. bush university. michael smerconish, we found a photo of boy wonder, michael smerconish. you can tell us the history of this photo when you met president trump a president bush and what was happening here. >> on the last day of the internship i was afforded a three-minute meeting for a photograph. now fast-forward a decade, i was running all public housing in five states in washington, d.c., and in a way it says something about the bush administration and the president and the way he regards dues paying. when i think about him, i think about the first time i met him in 1980 running for president when the shroeglogan was, a pret we won't have to train. in view of the fact he had been u.n. ambassador, envoy to china, and head of the cia, and business success. in sharp contrast i have to say to today, the way in which people can become media sensations and think they can run for office, this is a guy that believed you had to log the hours. >> and

joining us, david gregory, and laura coates, and garrett graph. i want to start with you. people who were not here last hour did not see you lay it out, but you call this the worst case scenario for america, or approaching that. explain why. >> what we now know from friday is not just that russian intelligence targeted the trump campaign, which has been coming clear for sometime now, it's that that contact was both started earlier, extended longer and was more extensive than we realized. as you said, at least 14 different trump associates were involved in contacts with russians over the course of the 2016 campaign and transition. the only question we are now in, this is where i believe we are already in the worst case scenario, and the question is how bad is it? the only question left is how extensive was that contact? how much coordination was there? just how many trump people were actually involved? >> david, when you look at the little threads we have all been following for the past two years, you know, take in individually, each of them are head scratchers, and then wh

>> joining us now, josh campbell, abby philip, david gregory. let me give you a sense of the number of entities being investigated right now. sdny is investigating the trump organization, trump inaugural committee. robert mueller is investigating the trump campaign, the trump transition, trump administration. new york state is investigating the trump foundation. we've got the new york attorney general's office, maryland attorney general's office, new jersey, sdny. all investigating. this leaves out, by the way, congress. a democratic congress, democratic house, which will take over in a few weeks, david. they will be investigating as well. that's a lot of investigations. >> it's a huge amount of investigations. it's so destabilizing. and for an administration that is already rocking back and forth because of a president who responds to every piece of this and seems to be destabilized by it, it doesn't look to be a great 2019 for the west wing and for the president. and those congressional investigations will be so public. the president has alrea

let's join our panel back, laura coates and abby phillips and phil mudd and david gregory. >> phil, let's go to you first since frankly you scare me on a good day and now i have offended you. when you see the redactions in the memo. what do you see? >> i am putting pieces together that are not evidence but look clear to me. you have to combine what the document says with the information about the extensive interviews like don mcgahn and people from the white house, and look at the number of times general flynn met with the special counsel. look at another thing. there's specific reference about not investigating lies or money trails, which is what got paul manafort. if you put the quantity of information together and the fact that there's specific reference to russia and three ongoing investigations mentioned documents, and there's a size 16 shoe going to drop here, and it's not going to be related to lying, and i think they are centering in on the core of the investigation and the cooperation with russia. i think it will happen. >> do you see a size 16 shoe about to drop, laura? >> is th

let's discuss with cnn political analyst david gregory, jeffrey toobin and garrett graff. the fact that there is more to come, that this is not just, hey, we're not going to do this anymore, it is we are cooperating from here on out. and jeff d, one of the question is this meeting in 2015 and there was another campaign member who was in that meeting. finding out who that person is could tell us a lot. >> well, you know, every time mueller's investigation reveals something, it doesn't just reveal the discreet fact itself. it opens new doors to facts that we were unaware of. think about what we heard from robert -- from michael cohen over the past couple of weeks. i mean, the whole expansion of the negotiations over trump tower, the involvement of trump campaign official in the negotiations with the "national enquirer." all of this suggests more links to possible illegal activity by the president himself and by people around him. >> and you have actually written a fascinating new piece. i love it not only because you quote me as now being in the 12 days of mueller, this ever

joining us now, cnn political analyst david gregory, chief of staff for laura bush and chief of staff for dan quayle in the bush administration and linda chavez. you did work for four years in the administration of george h.w. bush. your thoughts this morning? >> obviously, it's a moment, especially with the death of senator mccain earlier this year, sort of the giants of one era -- two eras, world war ii generation, george h.w. bush, the greatest generation, then john mccain, the vietnam generation, both passing. different kind of republican at the white house, different kind of politician i would say and i remember leaving the white house january 20th, 1993, very nice good-bye photo with president bush on january 19th. i told him i thought history would judge him kindly but one forgets, we were clobbered in the election of '92. bush had gotten 44%, went down to 38% in '9. the voters and populous are not always correct. not to take anything away from bill clinton but i think history will look much more kindly on his presidency than voters did in 1992. >> the way he personified losing

. >> i'm david gregory. what a great opportunity for me to be part of this conversation with these two wonderful historians. about presidential leadership, lessons from history. will have some discussion among the three of us. all of us will join in on the discussion. and to reflect on presidential leadership in the broader lessons in history. i do want to point out that this is an on the record meeting for those of you who care about that. up. an hour world open there are two folks that need any introduction. leadership in turbulent times, which i have a copy of. april in 1865, the month that saved america in 1934. the former historian and residence and counsel in foreign relations. we thank you for teaching us and enlightening us and making history so much fun to keep learning. we can all drink to that. i wanted to frame this by asking , is presidential leadership a distinct thing? is it something we should think of as different from leadership. >> there are things about political leadership. you have to d

. >>> i'm david gregory, i'm so happy to be able to join you tonight, what a great opportunity for me to be part of this conversation with these two wonderful historians. when i had the opportunity i leapt at the chance to talk to doris and jay about presidential leadership lessons from history and that is what we are here to do tonight. we will have some discussion among the three of this and then all of us will be able to join in the discussions to celebrate and lift up doris's timely book about presidential leadership and to reflect on presidential leadership and the broader lessons of history. i do want to point out that this is an on the record meeting for those of you who care about that, and as i said in about a half an hour we will open up to q&a from all of the members. there are two folks who leap need little introduction, this doris kearns goodwin and her latest book is "leadership in turbulent times" i've got a copy of it and i think you get a copy of it in the lobby. also jay winik, historian and author, april 1865 the month of the saved america and 1940 for, fdr and the

. >> i am david gregory. what a great opportunity for me to be part of this conversation with these wonderful historians. when i had the opportunity i at the opportunity to talk with doris and jay. we will have some discussion among the three of us and all of us will join in the discussion up herbrate and lift timely book on presidential leadership in the broader lessons of history. i want to point out that this is an on the record meeting and in about half an hour we will open up the q&a. these are two who need very little introduction. doris kearns goodwin is with us and her latest book is leadership and turbulent times. winnick, historian author. april in 1865, the month saved america, and "1934." the former historian and president here at the council on foreign relations. thank you both for teaching us and enlightening us and making history so much fun to keep learning. we can all drink to that. i wanted to frame this by asking you both, is presidential leadership a distinct thing? is it something we shou

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