lewis was all talk and no action, news came out that he plans to spend martin luther king day tomorrow visiting the new smithsonian museum focused on african-american history and culture. john lewis is the one who introduced the bill to get that museum built in 1988. >> eugene, you touch on this. i want to push forward on it as well. facts do matter. trump called lewis' district crime i hridden which does incl major part of the city of atlanta. no one is defining there is crime in the city. to try to define an entire city in 140 characters of less is a massive overgeneralization. what will happen when he is in office saying these type of things? >> well, if he continues this,
he can expect to be criticized increasingly but more than that, people really would like to see what his solutions to the problems he arises are. he had a meeting with talk show host, steve harvey, and his hud secretary nominee friday saying they would focus on some of the challenges in inner cities such as housing. if you recall during the campaign, he put out a new deal for black america that he said would focus on high-paying jobs, improving schools and safer communities. all eyes will be on the president-elect to see if he is all talk and no action at this point. >> eugene, also, i want to talk about this. this started after lewis said he didn't believe that trump was a legitimate president. still, the topic of legitimacy. it came up during barack obama's presidency. my colleague, poppy harlow, touched on that speaking with conservative commentator. let's listen to this. >> i also think it is
unprecedented that a congressman with a stature was able to come out and say i don't believe donald trump is a legitimate president. i cannot imagine the fallout and backfire you would have if a republican would have implied that about barack obama, bill clinton, or jfk for that matter? >> that is what many presidents did, including the president-elect, questioning the legitimacy of the first black president. >> ben ferguson making the point and poppy harlow back-checking making the counter point there. legitimacy has come up before. >> it has and very fraucoften f donald trump, our current president. we saw barack obama prove his birth certificate proving he was born in the united states, a very legitimate candidate for a
looking for a leader that will be more bipartisan in his approach to dealing with the issues that affect the united states. to many critics, it doesn't appear that donald trump is that president but the fact is, as you mentioned, there is a lot of time left and there are people hoping to see significant change from him. >> many people that plan to attend saying they plan to keep an open mind to give this new president-elect a chance once he takes the oath of office. eugene scott, live in washington, d.c. eugene, thank you for your time. also, on the international stage, china is responding sharply to donald trump's suggestions that he might change the one china policy once in the white house. that is a long standing policy that means the united states recognizes relations with china and not with taiwan, which beijing considers to be a breakaway province. a spokesperson for china's foreign ministry said, quote, there is only one china in the world. taiwan is an inseparable part of
chinese territory and the people's republic of china is the sole legitimate government regarding china. these are facts recognized by the international community and no one can change this. >> with regards to the president-elect's feelings thinking about russia, he says he is open to that nation seeing how it can have sanctions lifted, u.s. sanctions. he has indicated he is open about getting rid of those sanctions and he would be fine with meeting with the russian president, vladmir putin, after taking office. matthew chance is following the story live in moscow. the simple fact that president-elect trump is willing to meet with the russian president, how is that being perceived there in russia? >> they haven't made an official comment on that prospect except to say any meeting between president putin of russia and
donald trump when he becomes president of the united states will be carefully arranged. in terms of the specifics, that's not been made public here in russia as, indeed, it hasn't been made public in the united states either, the subject of press speculation at the moment. clearly, the russians very much want to see this one-on-one meeting between the russian president and the president of the united states would be flattering to the kremlin, because it would portray them as being on an equal footing with the united states. that's been one of have the big objectives for the kremlin to be seen and treated as a player on the international stage and to have a seat at the top table. it is something that is speculated motivates vladmir putin very much. i think they would be very receptive to the idea of a sort of summit between the cold war style summit between these two leaders sgchlt will there a leaders. >> there are mixed messages.
you hear the president-elect indicating that he would be open to lifting sanctions and open to meeting with vladmir putin at the same time. legislators have a different position. they say the united states should continue a tough stance with russia. in fact, it could potentially get tougher. how is that being viewed with everyday russians to try to square the circle with these mixed messages? >> if you are talking in terms of everyday russians, i think they believe it would be the president of the united states who would make the final decision? everybody is aware the significant opposition in the u.s. congress to closer relations with russia, i think that is characterized in the russian public as being the vestiging of cold war thinking in the united states p russians believe it is the guy at the top that makes the final decision. when it comes to the issue of sanctions, they are probably right. the vast bulk of the sanctions against russia were implemented
by president obama as a presidential decree. it can be lifted just as easily with the simple stroke of a pen when donald trump becomes president of the united states. those sanctions that were imposed predominantly over the annex sayings of crimea m. >> matthew chance reporting for us in moscow. thank you for the reporting sgchlreporting. >> despite uncertainty about trump's policies towards nato, the alliance is push ago head with its show of resolve against russia. it is all prt art of nato's buip to convince moscow they will defend against the election. ru rush has brings ld againagainst
>> reporter: the star spangled banner play ns poland welcome the u.s. troops for nato's operation' atlantic resolve." this is the official welcoming ceremony for those u.s. troops. poland's prime minister is here. she made a point to say this is an integral part of poland's national security. that everyone had a right to feel safe and secure. this is what the arrival of u.s. troops here has done. poland's prime minister spoke to cnn after the ceremony. she said this is very important for poland and the region. we live in europe where there are many external threats. russia's policy is confrontational. this constitutes a real threat. we are conscious that poland must strengthen its alliances. it is an impressive rollout. four battalions of 1,000 soldiers each, more than 2000 pieces of military hardware
including u.s. tanks and armored vehicles coming from the third armored brigade team out of ft. carson, colorado, here for nine months, deployed in poland, romania, hungary and bulgaria. a show of force to deter russia. >> there is no more powerful combat corporal ma combat formation in the united states army. this is another sign of the united states commitment to deterrence and our commitment to not only our polish allies but those allies in nato. >> u.s. tanks in poland, the kremlin says, are, quote, a real threat to russian security. still, in less than a week, moscow will have a new administration to face in washington and make its case for policy changes. russia may not be happy with this deployment but polish public opinion, that's another
matter. this is just some of the armored vehicles and tanks that have been brought over for this operation. they have been put on display for the day here in poland to show the public some of the hardware that is coming across. it's all part of this effort to show that the nato alliance remains strong. that poland will be collectively defended. atika shubert, cnn, poland. still ahead, the first major foreign policy test for donald trump once he is in office. coming up, his ad hin administration invited to the next round table of the syrian peace talks. plus, france is hosting a peace conference on the israeli palestinian conflict. why that meeting is so controversial. live around the world, you are watching "cnn newsroom."
kazakhstan held three days after the donald trump is set to become the next president of the united states. let's bring in mohammed lia live in abu dhabi. what does it mean for the u.s. to be invited to the table for these talks? >> well, george, if the united states accept that is invitation, what it means they will have a seat at the table for the first time in months, if not years. this is going to be donald trump's first and major policy question mark. this is an issue with syria that many people would say was president obama's biggest failure that he oversaw the rise of iraq and syria and allowed al qaeda to take route in iraq and syria. the united states might have a role in trying to curtail some of that as well as help determine the future of bashar al assad. it is certainly a very big challenge and a big question
mark of the obama administration trump is going to have to deal with three days after being inaugurated. of course, the other thing to mention, george, is that when the u.s. is invited to these peace talks, you have to remember these peace talks have been led by turkey and russia for several weeks, if not months now. so there was a point in time where american foreign policy in the region dictated that america would be able to lead these negotiations. in this case, it seems as though russia and turkey have advanced quite far in what they are hoping to achieve in syria. if trump does take that offer and decides to have the united states at that negotiating table, will it be in the position of simply an observer or will they have a meaningful role? that's something we won't know until those talks take place. >> an observer or meaningful role. this is being led by turkey, russia. the u.s. just invited to the talks. it was not invited when it came to brokering the actual peace
deal. the question goes further. would the u.s. be at any sort of a disadvantage in even taking part in these talks? >> well, there is no question. you have to remember the major players are turkey, iran, and russia. they all have their own interests in syria. they all want to see some sort of settlements that gives each of those country what is they want. the big test for the united states moving forward in these peace talks is we'll have to see if the united states under the new trump administration is willing to play a bigger role in syria or whether they are planning to be more hands-off and essentially let turkey and russia dictate the terms of the see fire? the reason that is important, it will indicate something of president-elect donald trump's foreign policy. he is planning to fulfill his promise in terms of being more hands off and targeting only esis and leaving the other problems in the middle east of the country toss deal with themselves or will he be more interventionist and take a more
active role than president obama did. so far, the indications are that given the closeness of donald trump and the warming up certainly of donald trump and russia, the question is, will the united states try to intervene and limit russia's gains in syria, so to speak, as a result of these syrian peace talks. if donald trump's words and statements are any indication, it may be the case where he may step back and let russia play the main role in this which would effectively give russia even more control in syria in a cease-fire and peace deal would be assigned. >> whether they attend or the u.s. decides not to attend, it will be a very important statement for the trump's administration or the u.s. stance in the world thank you so much for your reporting. to another peace effort that is underway. this one happening right now in paris. some 70 countries are meeting to pressure israeli and palestinian
leaders to commit to a two-state solution. the racilies and palestinians they will not be attending that conference. the u.s. is represented but not by the incoming administration of donald trump. cnn's warren lieberman joins us live in jerusalem. the trump administration will not be there. israelis and palestinians will not be there. what, if anything, can truly come from this meeting. >> many other countries get together and talk about different ways to solve different solutions and deal with the most complex issues in the conflict. jerusalem borders refugees. this isn't the u.n. or the eu. many of those member countries are ripped. this is a conference on how to advance the peace process in some way. whatever comes out of this, it doesn't seem like it will have any practical, immediate effect. what worries the israelis is
what comes out could be brought to the u.n. security council for a follow-up resolution. that is the concern the israelis are looking at right now, not the conference itself but how it plugs into the bigger issue of what's happened the last few weeks, the u.n. security resolution, the kerry speech and now this. >> warren, the meeting will be underway. some 70 countries will be there. will it put pressure on the israelis and palestinians to reach a solution? >> that certainly is the intent to get the sides back to the negotiating table as much as the statements have been made back and forth and the finger pointing. the truth is there hasn't been a negotiation since april of 2014. the pressure has no consequence. if one or both sides ignore what comes out of the conference, there is no cons fence equence ignoring it.
my suspicion it will be very little. we will see statements from both sides. the israelis and palestinians aren't invited. this is supposed to be the rest of the world figuring out how to deal with the conflict and both sides wrere invited to a follow-on hand shake or symbolic sfoert of pea support of peace statement. we'll see what recommendations come out of this. it could be economic incentives to get back to negotiations. we'll see. the conference is supposed to last today. we will have statements afterwards to see what they came up with and see if there is a new idea of how to move forward. >> ice will be watching. palestinians and israelis will not be there. neither will the incoming trump administration. warren lieberman live in jerusalem. still ahead, not just donald trump's opponents who disagree with his policies.
how the u.s. president-elect might face opposition in his own cabinet. broadcasting in the united states and around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom."
happy about donald trump's suggestion that the united states could change its position on the one china policy once he is in the white house. a ministry spokesperson called the policy non-negotiable. also, donald trump firing back at john lewis after he said trump was not a legitimate president. trump responded by saying that the civil rights icon is all talk and no action. lewis is one of several that says he will boycott trump's inauguration come january 20th. john lewis is not the only one in washington not seeing eye to eye with donald trump. still some of trump's own cabinet picks seem to disagree with him on key issues. >> donald trump is facing a new round of opposition on capitol
hill. not in democrats but his own cabinet nominees. at one confirmation hearing after another, trump's team is contradicting the president-elect on some of his key campaign trail promises. on russia, trump taking a far softer tone on vladmir putin than his pick for defense secretary, retired general james mattis did. >> if putin elects donald trump, i consider that an asset, not a liability. >> i have modest expectations about areas of cooperation with mr. putin. >> on the intelligence probe into russian hack, can trump sounded less concerned than mike pompeo. >> it is pretty clear about what took place here, about russian involvement in efforts to hack information and to have an impact on american democracy. i am very clear-eyed about what that intelligence report says. >> at trump tower friday, the
president-elect down played the differences between his views and those of his perspective cabinet. >> i told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. don't worry about me. i'm going to do the right thing, whatever it is. i may be right. they may be right but i said, be yourselves. >> his rhetoric before the election and since is now colliding with governing. sending mixed signals to americans and allies about where the new trump administration stands. on the campaign trail, trump railed against nato while his defense secretary took a different view sxwrchlt th. >> nato is obsolete. it is over 60 years old. >> having served once as a nato sue pre supreme allied commander is the most successful military alliance in modern history. >> they spent time asking if they agreed on hot button issues
like torture? >> congress is taking an action now. it makes it absolutely improper and illegal to use waterboarding or any other form of torture. >> on one of his biggest pledges of all, building a wall on the border with mexico. >> we are going to build a great border wall. his pick to lead the department of homeland security, retired general john kelly disagreed. >> it has to be a layered defense. secretary of state no, ma'minee tillerson conflicted the view on climate change saying he believes it exists and require a global response. donald trump says he wants members of the cabinet to have their own views but whose views, the cabinet or the president, become the policy of the new
administration. jeff zeleny cnn, washington donald trump says mexico will ultimately pay for a border wall with the united states. mexico says, that's not going to happen whachlt peop happen. what people are saying in mexico city. learn as much as i can about my culture. i put the gele on my head and i looked into the mirror and i was trying not to cry. because it's a hat, but it's like the most important hat i've ever owned. discover the story only your dna can tell. order your kit now at ancestrydna.com.
prompt fear in security among the mexican people in this very vibrant city. the mexican pay so has plunged against the u.s. dollar and add to that the mexican government's decision to raise gas prices has sent thousands of protesters to the streets. others to the church. in mexico's holiest shrine where thousands go to pray, the hope is that a higher power is listening. concerns, worries, fears, can be left behind. ramon hernandez worries about the future, his family, the economy, when ford backed out of plans to build this new factory, his hometown lost potential jobs. the same administration that calls this a victory says mexico will eventually pay for a wall on the u.s. border. he tells me the idea sounds
crazy. he is not alone. president-elect is better off paying for a wall to be built around his own home. making mexicans pay for a wall on the border is just a threat. counsel general carlos garcia acknowledges his job as a top diplomat for the u.s. has changed. >> reporter: will plex co-pay for that wall? >> no way. the president of mexico, president pena nieto and the entire government of mexico again and again have said mexico won't pay for the wall. >> reporter: garcia calls the relationship between the two countries one of the most complex in the world. >> i respect the government of mexico. i respect the people of mexico. i love the people of mexico. >>. >> reporter: does that improve anything? >> it doesn't fix but it helps.
we need to change language. it is time now to start speaking with respect. p pedro adds, the respect must go both ways. even he and a lot of his fellow mexicans recognize this may take an intervention perhaps from the divine p. >> reporter: we talked to about 20 mexicans across this city, many echoing similar sentiments repeating the words humiliation, racism. saying, let's wait and see what happens. i couldn't nifind one person wh believed that mexico will ever pay for this wall. leila santiago, cnn, mexican city. >> thank you so much. now, to talk about cold weather that continues to plague many parts of european, let's bring in cnn's allison chinchar to talk more about that. >> with the cold, you often get
snow. up fortunately, some may think. specially ski resorts. they love to have snow. you can have too much of a good thing. take a look at this. this is from the down hill skiing world cup, canceled on saturday due to too much snow. they picked up about 40 centimeters of snow overnight friday night. crews just couldn't get to the cleanup process fast enough. winds around 70 kilometers hindering. as they would clean it up, the wind would blow it right back over into the same spots. they were forced to cabs that will event. we are expecting more snow on the way as we head into the next week. a surge of cold air that will be return tog unfortunately a lot of the same spots that got a look at the cold. up near the alps, we could be looking at an additional 40-60 centimeters on top of what they have already had. tuesday, incredibly high amounts in the pyrenees, as much as 100
centimeters of snow. the dreaded cold blast coming in. notice where the pink and purple colors are. that's where we are going to see the focus. prague, for example, the average high, 1 degree celsius. we won't get to that for the next seven days. we will be about 8-10 degrees below that average. on the other side of the atlantic, we are keeping a close eye on the ice storm. here is a look at some of the amounts of ice that have already accumulated. we are talking about almost 1.25 of a centimeters. around kansas, about a half centimeter. 1 in joplin, missouri. as high as those numbers are, we are actually expecting more ice accumulation on top of it. the purple areas right here could pick up an additional .5
to 1.5 p of ice. we are talking widespread power outages that could be affected with a lot of these regions. if you have travel plans, please check with your air travel carrier before you do so. >> stay in touch with you and our meteorologists as we continue to follow. thank you so much, allison. still ahead, the legacy of michelle obama. we look back at her years as america's first lady. stay with us. sometimes you justw when you hit a home run. that's how i feel about blue-emu pain relief spray. odorless and fast-acting. it soothes all my muscle aches and pains. and it's convenient for those hard to reach places. and if you're like me, you'll love blue-emu super strength cream. it's made with real emu oil, it's non greasy, it's a deep penetrating formula that works itself down into your joints. take it from me. it works fast and you won't stink.
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remember the family back then. >> barack is home at least once a week and we are really doing family stuff. >> reporter: on the campaign trail, young malia and sasha talk about the weirdness of seeing their parents in magazines. >> pretty cool. because you see people like angelina jolie. real important people, no offense. >> mommy is important. >> the beginning was not so easy. moving into the white house where the bullet proof windows can't be open, the secret service always there. she recently described that first day. >> i will never forget that winter morning as i watched our girls just 7 and 10 years old pile into those black suvs with all those big men with guns. i saw their little faces pressed up against the window and the only thing i could think was, what have we done? >> reporter: she did face criticism, even before the
election. >> for the first time in my adult lifetime, i am really proud of my country. >> soon after that, portrayed on this new yorker cover, today, how far she has come. on the cover of "vogue" three times. she has long since found her footing, her causes. by her husband's second term, she eernlg med much more comfortable in public, polished but loosening up in more ways than one? >> roses are red, violets are blue, you are the president, and i am your boo. the first lady seemed to not only accept the public eye and the constraints of the white house. >> there are prison elements to it. but it is a really nice prison. >> to embrace the opportunity to let her voice be heard including her fashion voice, taking some risks, competing with the best of them and making headlines. remember the bangs. >> we borrowed one of michelle's
tricks. p america has seen michelle obama, harvard educated lawyer and mother, use her humor, hr star power, even her viral mean power occasionally shedding light on what it is like to raise now teenagers in these circumstances. >> we have one who generally stays here and then we have one we call our grumpy cat. our salty business kit. >> as her time in office drew down, the once reluctant, now determined first lady drew upon her sweeping popularity to enter the campaign trail as one of the most powerful voices for her party, earning her nickname, the closer. >> i wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. and i watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women, playing with their dogs on the white house lawn.
she took on donald trump's "access hollywood" tapes. >> it has shaken me to my core in a way i couldn't have predicted. it is cruel. it is frightening. the truth is, it hurts. >> reporter: speaking her mind even after the election. >> we are feeling what not having hope feels like. in her final speech as first lady, her emotion raw. she urged americans not to give up you, to celebrate diversity and talent. thank you for everything you do for our kids and our country. being your first lady has been the greatest honor of my life. i hope i have made you proud. >> does this mean the first lady has embraced the public eye and loves hanging out with the press. she doesn't do interviews very often. her staff is extremely
protective of her and selective about what she does and when. post white house, we expect first there will be a vacation. the first couple has mentioned many times is badly needed. they will settle into their rented house in d.c. where they will stay for a couple of years until sasha finishes high school. we expect the first lady to keep working on issues she believes in although she has insisted many times now that she will not run for public office. michelle kosinski, cnn, the white house. thanks so much for reporting. >> now, to a follow-up story we have been reporting an p the young woman kidnapped as an instant and only recently found 18 years later. she ways taken from a florida hospital by someone posing as a nurse. she was taken when she was only a few hours old. she met with her birth parents for the first time on saturday. that is her father, this person you see here. he says that the meeting went
well and that he told his daughter he loved her. >> first meeting was beautiful, wonderful. it couldn't have went no better. >> what is the first thing she said to you? are you planning to bring her to here? >> we are taking it one step at a time. >> that reunion came after an emotional meeting the previous day when mobley visited gloria williams, williams is in jail. williams is awaiting a hearing on kidnapping charges. >> say it ain't so. the american circus known as the greatest show on earth is shutting down fr good. the parent company of ringling brothers barn number aum and ba says it is closing the 100-year extravaganza. the last show will happen in may. they dropped elephants as featured performers last year
and business suffered. the ceo explained the decisions and says the tickets have been declining but following the transitions of the elephants. we saw a more dramatic drop. this coupled with high operating costs made the circus an unsustainable business for the company. a successful launch and return for a spacex falcon 9 rocket on saturday. >> four, three, two, one. liftoff. falcon 9. >> always so cool to see that. it blasted off from a us air force base in california carrying ten communications satellites. this was the first launch for the private space company since a similar rocket exploded in september. it was followed by a smooth return landing for the rocket's first stage booster and then collided on to an ocean platform known as the drone ship. spacex and its rivals have been trying to perfect the landing,
because reusing the rocket is the key to making space travel more affordable. >> from outer space now to your inner peace, this newly discovered buddha statue has been sitting undisturbed in a southeastern china reservoir for hundreds of years. archaeologists say it dates back to china's ming dynasty. the top of the buddha's head appeared when the water level dropped. remnants of a temple have also been found below the water. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell at the cnn news center in atlanta. i'll be back after the break with more news from around the world. thank you for watching cnn, the world's news leader. if you have medicare
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Brian Williams examines the day's top political stories and current political-campaign news.
Brian Williams examines the day's top political stories and current political-campaign news.
elections is something that actually the fcc should be looking into. they're preparing for impeachment and they're trying to win hearts and minds. >> ken, they did so, i imagine not being a lawyer but a layperson, at some professional peril. listen to what mimi rocah said. "i suppose it could attract some attention, american bar association type stuff." does the base need that much bolstering that these guys have to dog and pony it across xm radio? >> brian, it's very much a part of the pr strategy that the president himself has led and set the tone for, and it just shows frankly how far rudy giuliani has come from when he first started on the legal team and famously was sort of chastised by donald trump for not having his facts straight on the stormy daniels payment, the $130,000 hush payment to stormy daniels. now you see him very much channeling the president, talking about a witch hunt, suggesting that there needs to be an investigation of mueller's
team, and we do see that strategy having some effect. if you look at the polls. it's not just the base, it is numbers rising of folks who are skeptical of robert mueller and therefore might be less inclined to accept the results of his investigation. that i think rather -- although it may be partly what frank was saying, a preparation for impeachment, but it's certainly also a preparation to try to undermine any adverse findings that robert mueller might come with in his report. >> annie, have we ever seen anything like this? you've got the fox news involvement with sean hannity handing off to two lawyers for the president of the united states. >> i mean, it goes -- it speaks more to the odd role that hannity is playing too, that hannity is a white house adviser, and the interchangeability between -- i mean, it's one thing to have these guys on his show as guests and another thing to actually hand over the reins as hosts, ac taking calls from listeners.
the lines are blurred between all the roles here with lawyers playing the role of spokespeople, tv hosts playing the roles of advisers. they're all on the same team at the bottom line, and that's what we saw here today. >> let's not forget sean hannity, michael cohen client. hey, frank, let's talk about the signs that things are tightening around roger stone and tell us where you expect this to be going. >> roger stone is going to turn out to be a bigger fish than many people realize. we've all been focused on manafort and the trump tower meeting and gates, but while we're focused on that mueller's been ratcheting up the effort on stone. and why is he doing that? because i believe that stone can put the crime in the collusion concept. by that i mean the mysterious connections between stone, wikileaks, julian assange, and the hacking into the dnc and the release of those e-mails. mueller is focused on that like
ken, given what you know and talk about what stone has called his 40-year friendship with donald trump and the kind of damage a guy like that can do. >> yes, i also think that roger stone, frank used the phrase, "trip into," roger stone has made a long career of sort of exaggerating this role and his significance in some of these episodes of dark arts and dirty tricks. all the way back from watergate, where he was just the tiniest bit player in the nixon operation but has managed to make a whole career out of this sort of personification of himself as a dirty trickster. and i think this ends up being a little bit of careful what you wish for. it's true that he was sort of a bit player by the end on the trump campaign but that he also continued to try to insert himself in ways that were sort of at the margeins and that he did interact with an internet
persona, this guccifer 2, that mueller one of his recent indictments has revealed was in fact operated by russian intelligence. so he sort of by almost by accident became the very sort of character that he portray himself as and ultimately be his undoing. >> annie, i have been reading and following you all day. i need you to perform a service on a friday night in august, we send them off into the good night knowing everything there is to know on all of the stories out there. that's where you come in and you get to tell our audience everything they need to know about this new book by omarosa including but not limited to a scene where the president is eating paper and the fact that she gave an npr interview apparently that conflicted with a tale in the book about the president's alleged use of the n word. have at it. >> it's a lot. so omarosa was fired from the white house last december, and
she -- she gets the prize for being the first tell-all memoir out of this white house. and it's a weird one because there's questions about omarosa's credibility, what is true. her allegations are serious. she claims first out of the gate that she calls the president a bigot, a misogynist, all the bad words she says that he used the n word and she has tapes to prove it. this is where she couldn't rah dictated herself. in the book she writes that she has not heard the tape of him calling the n word but she has confirmed its existence. in the npr interview she claims that she heard him say it herself. i think that's what it is. she claims that he ate a piece of paper when michael cohen i think was walking into the office to hide it from his lawyer, he ate it. she claims that ivanka trump, the first daughter, was responsible for ordering up the list of leakers in the white house who would be fired. this like apparently, ivanka tries to stay -- or project a
persona who was above the fray and cares about women's empowerment only. omarosa portrays her as cutthroat as her father. as her father in a wig. so the allegations are tremendous. where this falls on the credibility matrix with michael wolff's book suffered from some questions of credabilities and what's real and what's not. how do you judge omarosa's book is a big question. but she certainly has a nice runway on a nice august weekend to have the news cycle to herself. >> all the kids watching, don't eat paper if you're seeing this at home. this from the generation that thought it was a good idea to eat paste in school. can't thank you guys enough 37 frank figliuzzi, ken vogel, annie karni, our omarosa correspondent for just tonight. thank you all so very much. have a great weekend. coming up for us, what we think might have been happening behind the scenes during that lengthy and unusual delay in the manafort trial today.
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what the judge said while prosecutors were discussing a loan that they say manafort fraudulently applied for but did not receive. in the motion they argued, "the court's statement that the government might want to spend time on a loan that was granted misrepresents the law regarding bank fraud conspiracy, improperly conveys the court's opinion of the facts, and is likely to confuse and mislead the jury." well, when witnesses finally did take the stand, jurors were told that manafort may have used his position to dangle possible trump administration jobs including some big ones in exchange for massive bank loans. with us to talk about all of it we welcome back danny cevallos, a veteran criminal defense attorney, and we welcome chad day, an investigative reporter for the associated press. he was inside court today for all of these proceedings, or lack thereof. danny, i heard chuck rosenberg on this network earlier tonight. he was u.s. attorney for this district at one time. he was theorizing that this
could be one juror who came in today and said your honor, i looked at a device, i saw television coverage, someone talked to me, i talked to another juror, which would still take a lot of time to churn through, correct? >> absolutely. could have been a juro juror ri on the subway or seeing a newspaper or glancing at if or a juror overhearing another juror. but either way, this is a process that takes a long time. they have to take the juror aside in the presence of counsel, remove the other jurors, ask that juror, hey, what did you find out? and a lot of the time gets burned up as the attorneys huddle in their corners and decide not really so much whether the jury did or didn't do something but how can we spin this to our side's favor? do we like this juror? because there may not even be a consensus on the team whether they like that juror. one attorney for the defense may say that's a good juror for us and the other might say no, we've got to get him out of there. and that's why this can take so long, because it is a lot of back and forth just because a
juror might have flipped on the tv at the wrong time. >> so chad, you were there. what was it like -- again, we don't know what it is you witnessed. but what was it like witnessing it? >> right, so we expected the prosecution to come in and rest their case today. instead we were greeted by a 20-minute huddle between the attorneys and judge ellis and like you say there wasn't any kind of explanation for why there was a delay. he recessed until the afternoon. we did get a couple of things to kind of back up what danny is saying is that the judge at one point actually left the courtroom toward the jury room and then later on when the proceedings actually started he admonished the jury several times to not discuss the case amongst themselves, not discuss the case with anyone else. and even kind of cracked a joke about don't even comment on the attire of the witnesses. so i think all signs are kind of pointing toward thbing some kind of jury issue. but like you say, the transcript is under seal and we won't know for some time. >> danny, we get into your line of work. the defense goes to work.
they're under no obligation to call any witnesses. what work do they have to do, and what do you think they'll do? >> many times you're right, many times the defense calls no witnesses at all, they rely on just attacking the government's case. in a case like this there are not many defenses in such a paper-intensive case. but here's what the manafort team needs to do. they need to focus on gates, that the orders came from gates. they need to focus on that which the bank employees, when they testify, they don't have a dog in the fight, they're not biased witnesses, they're not cooperating witnesses. some of them, they just have to -- defense has to point out that this isn't necessarily fraud. he may have put it this way and air bnb has another policy that allows this and that's not really inaccurate and at least if it is inaccurate it's not intentionally so. so the defense has a lot of work to do because this has been a paper-intensive quas with a cooperating witness who got up there on the stand and for all his sins pointed out the
defendant and said that's my former cohort, he done did it. >> hey, chad, i love covering trials. if only to test all the theories that people have. like among journalists and lawyers you often hear people say if you watch the jury, a jury that has just cleared the defendant is going to come in and make strong eye contact. they're proud of what they did. a jury that has just nicked him or her, found them guilty-s going it avert their eyes. stuff like that that we journalists watch the jury box for. having said that, what's the dynamic with the jury which i know you've been watching sitting there? >> right. so i know i've been in the trial the last two weeks. the jury seems to really have been paying attention. there have been some times where the subject matter's gotten quite dry. we have seen the jury kind of maybe not nod off but not be paying thatch attention. rick gates' testimony definitely got their attention and i think they've really been keying in on a discussion of the lavish lifestyle and also really following the tax case.
the prosecution put on an expert witness who was testifying about how much money, $16 million that he says should have been reported on his taxes, and i could tell that they were taking notes and they were keeping up with that testimony and so it's a complex case but these are really kind of simple charges. did you report offshore bank accounts on your taxes? did you pay your taxes, pay enough taxes that you were supposed to, and did you lie to get loans? so i think that so far they've really been keeping one what the prosecution's been putting in front of them. >> $16 million on a tax return, sooner or later you're talking about large amounts that might attract? attention. can't thank you gentlemen enough after a long week, after a long final day of that week, and this trial which is stretching into what, week three. danny cevallos, chad day, really appreciate it, gentlemen, thanks. coming up, security tied around the university of virginia and the streets of that town as well. one year after the violent protests with white supremacists. we are live in charlottesville. we'll have that when we
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ahead of this anniversary. many streets are closed. no protest permits were granted by the city. and this weekend w5shd washashi d.c. is bracing for a march organized by that same alt-right group. that march plus several counterprotests expected in d.c. on sunday. some of it in lafayette park right across from the white house. with us from charlottesville virginia is our own cal perry. there is really no other question except to ask you what it feels like tonight. that is, we're all imagining it feels quite haunting. >> yeah, very much so. you can see the outer edge of the security cordon behind me. it is not subtle at all. it is not designed to be subtle. it is designed to send a message that people should stay out of charlottesville. the eight to nine blocks in front of me are going to be completely shut down. no vehicle traffic. pedestrians only. but by way of geography, listen, charlottesville is a blue dot in
a sea of red. this is a liberal town in a conservative part of the country, in a conservative part of the state of virginia. and so for that reason you have a statue of robert e. lee just 500 meters in front of me that was supposed to be gone by now because in the heated aftermath of what 457d a year ago of course it was decided that statue was going to be removed. but not so easy when you start hearing from other voices, especially around the state of virginia. there's a long list, brian, of prohibited items that you're not going to be able to bring into this area. hairspray, bottles. but you can bring guns. people are open carrying tonight in downtown charlottesville. they're making that point, that it is their second amendment right to carry weapons. but a lot of people are questioning the police and why it is that that's allowed to happen at the state assembly line. all of that is to paint a picture that charlottesville is a microcosm of america and all of issues that this town is going through, that it has not healed from, is what america is talking about. as we stood outside, brian, today in this area, a number of people asked us to leave. they said the media is not helping, we don't like the
media. they're not allowing this town to heal. and it's a town that just has not healed. so to answer the question that you started with, i think the police have done a great job in sending that message that they understand they did not handle the situation well a year ago. the mayor is gone. the police chief is gone. so they are letting people know if you you want to protest you are going to do it in washington, d.c., homefully not here in charlottesville, brian. >> thank you for that report on that summation from charlottesville, virginia. cal perry on the scene for us tonight. with us to talk about all of it and where we've been and where we're headed clarence page, veteran journalist and columnist for the "chicago tribune," and jon meacham is with us, pulitzer prize-winning author and historian. importantly his latest book is called "the soul of america: the battle for our better angels." paging our better angels. hey, john, what is the year later damage assessment from charlottesville? >> well, there's obviously the
memory of heather heyer who stood as civil rights activists did throughout the long and tragic jim crow era, stood for what we should be. not necessarily what we are all the time. and so i think that's perhaps one of the most important things to take a moment and realize that someone gave her life trying to protest against the neo-nazis and the klansmen who gathered there a year ago. i think that when the history of this era is written the president's reaction to charlottesville, the events of august 11th and august 12th, will loom pretty large because that was the first moment -- maybe not the first bay significant moment where the president seemed to have a very hard time figuring out whether he stood with people like heather heyer, who argued that we had to be part of our -- and side with our better angels, or did he stand with david duke and others. and david duke said that weekend
in charlottesville a year ago that this is why we elected donald trump, was to protect statues like the robert e. lee statue, to protest in the way they protested, and when the president of the united states abdicates his moral leadership so decisively and so decidedly, then that set a tone for the ensuing year, and we're still living with those aftershocks. >> clarence, you get to write history in real time on a daily basis. is it possible that when we look back at 2018 part of the subplot is going to be we had both racism and activism both as concurrent growth stocks? >> that's a good way to look at it because it was quite a clash, quite a wake-up call i would say that many of us had a year ago that race relations had gotten this bad only a few years after the optimism that sprung up from barack obama's successful pain. remember that phrase post-racial society, brian? i never used it but a lot of
people were questioning whether that would happen. and i realized how much my spirits had been lifted and my optimism had gotten inflated until the tragedy hit in charlottesville a year ago. i have to say as one who remembers the summer of kent state 1970, four college students killed in kent state, ohio on campus while protesting the war, killed by national guard troops, another situation that didn't need to happen, people weren't ready for things to escalate like that. the same kind of thing happened in charlottesville, where the police really underestimated what would happen when the protesters -- i should say the unite the right, far right-wing factions, clashed with antifa and led to violence there in the streets. they weren't prepared for that. now charlottesville has got hundreds of state troopers who are at the ready. they're in a state of emergency already. here in washington that's a little more accustomed tond this kind of disruption, things are
pretty quiet like august in washington usually is. but i expect they're going to be a lot noisier between now and sunday. >> charlottesville is known for anything but being home to one of the great universities in our country. just part of the conversation. both gentlemen, clarence page and jon meacham, have agreed to stay with us over this break. we'll take this break. and when we come back, coinci coinciding with the start of the nfl preseason, the president renews his dispute with protesting pro football players and further adds most don't even understand why they're outraged. we'll talk about that on the other side.
the national anthem. or you shouldn't be playing. you shouldn't be there. maybe you shouldn't be in the country. you have to stand proudly for the national anthem. >> well, pro football is back. preseason at least under way. and someone must have alerted the president bright and early this morning president trump shared these thoughts. "the nfl players are at it again, taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the national anthem. numerous players from different teams wanted to show their outrage at something that most of them are unable to define." he adds, "be happy. be cool." and this warning. "stand proudly for your national anthem or be suspended without pay. league policy is still unclear on how to address those players who protest." but as eli stokels of the l.a. times reports, "the new nfl season brings trump an opportunity to heighten attention to his ongoing feud with the african-american players, a wedge issue that animates a number of his white voters heading into the november midterm election."
still with us, clarence page and jon meacham. jon, i've got to say i missed football. i was excited for last night. my beloved giants didn't skip a beat. they lost just so we wouldn't feel any shock overt end of last season and the beginning of this season because they care about their fans. and then this happens. >> we need certitude in these times. >> what is going on with the president and the national football league? other than the league's kaleidoscopic inability to deal with this challenge from the president. >> i think the piece you just read from is exactly right. it's an elective feud that the president has undertaken, an elective battle, and he's -- this is absolutely for the base. it's kind of 101 old southern strategy. i say that as a southerner. but everybody knows what he's talking about when he talks about these people shouldn't be
in the country. and it works with the base. i think. that 30%, 35% or so of the country that seems to be inclined to follow trump anywhere, including into a sphere of our civic life that a lot of us think should be above and beyond politics. but if it becomes about politics it becomes about players who are exercising their first amendment rights. an amendment written by a man who lived not far from charlottesville, james madison. so i think it's pure old-fashioned unattractive and divisive politics and it's the kind of thing where the president's playing to fear, not to hope, and he's going to pay a high price for this if not in the short term certainly in the long term of history. >> clarence, fox news again today proved it's always an interesting place. i heard dana perino, and i'll paraphrase her, say that -- questioned a rich white guy asking about freedom of speech
of rich black guys. and then we're just coming off the following from laura ingraham, well known to many in the media world, former supreme court clerk, long-time lawyer. she said this, and we've attached her attempt at a cleanup the next night. >> in some parts of the country it does seem like the america we know and love doesn't exist anymore. massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the american people. and they're changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don't like. now, much of this is related to both illegal and in some cases legal immigration that of course progressives love. >> the purpose of last night's angle was to point out that the rule of law, meaning secure borders, is something that used to bind our country together. and despite what some may be contending, i made explicitly clear that my commentary had nothing to do with race or
ethnicity. >> all right, clarence page. what do you think's going ton here? >> let me say i've known laura ingraham for a couple of decades since she was fresh off the campus and i advised her quite some time ago that one ann coulter is enough and she doesn't really make a good look for her to come off as a far right anti-immigrant xenophobe, if you will. i think it's kind of a ratings grab just like i think donald trump's little fiasco with the nfl started out as an attention getter, even if it meant stepping on his own message. he has some more important issues going on at the time. but he becomes obsessed when people defy him in anything. and i think this whole nfl protest which began with kaepernick would have faded away on its own had trump not kept pumping it up like he's still pumping it up. and it's not helping him.
it's not helping the nfl. i don't think it's helping his numbers really because what's his base? largely white males who love the nfl. i don't think he's going to change their minds in any kind of a way that's going help him at all. but this is the kind of fiasco that we have stumbled into. >> well, gentlemen, this is why we have smart guys like you on the broadcast at times like this. our friends clarence page and jon meacham. jon, please keep those better angels on speed dial, will you? a lonely nation is asking. >> it's in our contacts. >> all right. thank you both. really appreciate it. have a good weekend. and coming up for us, does the u.s. military need a sixth branch? can the nation afford it right now? what else is out there that may compete more urgently for our time and attention right now tonight and around the world? ahh... summer is coming. and it's time to get outside.
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i had a great meeting with putin. we discussed everything. i had a great meeting. we got along really well. by the way, that's a good thing, not a bad thing. >> just one week ago president trump was telling supporters just how good his relationship with putin of russia is. now facing more sanctions from the u.s. russian leaders are striking a decidedly different tone. according to reuters, the prime minister dimitri medvedev offered this warning. if the new sanctions impact russian banks, "it would be possible to clearly call it a declaration of economic war and it would be necessary to react to this war economically, politically or if needed by other means." at least that sounds closer to normal over the years. with us tonight retired
four-star army general barry mccaffrey, former battlefield commander in the persian gulf, former drug czar for this country, and these days an msnbc military analyst. general, take them on one at a time, please. and that is, what are russia and north korea and their leaders trying to game from this country? >> well, i think they've got a clearer understanding of their own objectives, which i think we lack in the united states. by the way, i'm still very much convinced and confident in secretary jim mattis at d.o.d. and mike pompeo is an extremely capable person over at state, and gina haspel's very professional, knowledgeable person. and secretary of the treasury is first-rate. having said that, the president's reaction to many of these situations, i hate to say this unkindly, borders on fantasy. when it comes to north korea,
they're still producing fissile material. they're still producing their icbms, which are not yet fully tested. there is zero chance they're going to denuclearize. they're trying to escape sanctions. they're trying to get us out of south korea. and to some extent the president's public rhetoric is helping them. that's a problem. when it comes to the russians this statement by medvedev was very unsettling. one thing we shouldn't do is overstate the threat from russia. they've got a lot of nukes, a lot of oil. a minor strategic force in terms of naval power, air power. an army that is not a significant threat to western europe. it is to the baltic states, poland. you know, the ukraine. is they're batting way above their weight average. i remind people that the economy of russia is less than that of italy, less than that of
california. this is not a major player. it's run by -- by the way, the roar of that crowd behind the president is what unsettles me. >> that is something new for our times. >> this guy's a thug. he murders journalists, he murders the opposition, he murders people overseas. he has eliminated most of the democratic beginnings in the russian federation. he's a bad guy. >> general, i've. wanting to ask you about this space force idea. of course we already have the u.s. air force space command which is a large part of the u.s. air force with a task and a mission. what do you make of the space force notion and its chance at success? >> well, look, the threat is real, particularly from the chinese and the russians. but the threshold to threaten our communications satellites is pretty low. i mean, a modest country can build an attack capability. we're spending a lot of money
right now and a lot of science on trying to harden it and protect it. space operations is baked into every service. the army can't ornament -- smart weapons don't work without space communications. so the space force concept is a separate service is one of those intellectually attractive ideas widely debated that's a thoroughly stupid idea. i don't think it's going to get fundsed by congress. would be a 10 to 15-year struggle to disentangle every one of those elements and stick it under a new service with new uniforms. civilian secretary, a new chief and -- i don't think it's going to happen. but it's not a very good idea. it's an organizational fix to a functional challenge that i think mattis is addressing right now minus new legislation. >> give us your one-minute summation of this president's
behavior he. and i've heard you put it this way. what if he were a combatant commander in the military? >> i said actually a battalion commander. over at fort bening all day today with these unbelievable experienced war fighters now that are running the army, air force, navy, marines, coasties. the president is -- personally, brian, i've been involved with three white houses fairly closely. i've got a lot of years now doing with business, 15 years. i've been in civil government. i've never seen this level of illogical behavior, anger, impulsiveness, rudeness to the international leadership, never mind his domestic opposition. this is not the correct behavior for a senior executive at any lefshl level, never mind president of the united states. >> strong words from an experienced man. general, always a pleasure to have you on. barry mccaffrey with us on a
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within his own government, sheehan became frustrated at the lack of action. in looking back on his life as a soldier, statesman, and scholar "the new york times" this week quoted sheehan as asking his colleagues at the time, what is it going to take to get them to hit al qaeda? does al qaeda have to attack the pentagon? of course that was just one of the targets on 9/11 and sheehan helped secure the other, new york city. he ran the then brand new nypd counterterrorism bureau, and he turned it into a world class organization in its field, rivaling federal agencies. mike was born and raised in new jersey. i always thought the reason we got along so well was we shared an exit and neighboring towns. we both grew up just off exit 117 of the garden state parkway. 114 if you want to go the back way. mike left the jersey shore for west point, then ranger school, then special forces as a green beret, where one hostage rescue
mission got the attention of the new york papers. he later earned two masters degrees. he was chief of counterterrorism at the state department. he oversaw special operations at the pentagon and peacekeeping at the u.n., which he was proud of. mike sheehan, our friend and former colleague, was 63 years old. he fought multiple myeloma as hard as he fought terrorism during his lifetime. we of course send along our condolences to his family. that is our broadcast for this friday night and for this week. thank you so very much for being here with us. have a good weekend, and good night for all of us here at nbc news headquarters in new york. i'm dara brown in new york. we're following breaking news out of seattle where a small commuter plane carrying no passengers crashed after a so-called unauthorized takeoff from seattle's airport.
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New reporting about intelligence related to Russia wanting to put a nuclear weapon into space, possibly to use against satellites, raises key questions about the country's intentions and the potential ramifications of an orbital detonation. One question appears to be what Russia might be considering deploying that falls short of that ban. At the same time, Russia has broken from other nuclear agreements: Russian President Vladimir Putin said early last year that the country was suspending its participation in the New START treaty, first signed in 2010 and extended in 2021, which implements caps on the number of nuclear weapons deployed by Russia and the U.S. and inspections of nuclear sites.
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