Give me a break. We will impeach the president. I dont do the we will have a lot of happy people when that happens. I think give the president credit when he deserves it. He pulled out of the Paris Agreement and i should get credit because he pulled out when he said he did and that is a refreshing quality in a man announcer this is new day weekend with Victor Blackwell and christi paul. Good sunday morning. Its sunday morning, after that sound bite, its sunday more than and welcome, people. Its the politics and the punch lines that so much people are lbe talking about and arguing about today. President trump dodging the jokes at the annual white house accordance dinner to rally his base in michigan. In the crowd in washington seemed skeptical of the president s speech. The crowd in washington township, michigan, they were all in for the president s message which included criticizing james comey, rift on russia and personal progress on north korea. One of the fake news grip, folks, this morning, no, they were saying, what do you think of President Trump had to do with it . I tell you what. How about everything . The president told the crowd he is not playing around when it comes to pyongyang and kim jongun and drawing this reaction from the fans. Thats very nice. Thank you. Thats very nice. Nobel. As in peace prize. We start with Sarah Westwood who is live in washington. Full steam ahead it seems for President Trump when it comes to his meeting with kim jong one. What do we know about that . President trump was eager to talk about his meeting with kim jongun at the rally last night and friendly crowd of answering chants of nobel. He certainly had no problem claiming credit for progress and talks between north korea and south korea and we saw those unfold this week. And teasing his upcoming meeting with kim jongun hinting it could come within three or four weeks reiterating his promise to walk out of that meeting if it doesnt go his way. We know that comes after the administration has been behind the scenes working for more than a month to set up these potential talks between north korea and the u. S. At the highest levels and there are sticking points where the talks will take place in a neutral location acceptable to both sides. We know President Trump has dispatched mike pompeii a ahead of that meeting. 3 to 4 weeks is a quick time line and interesting to see just how close the administration really is to striking a deal that is acceptable to both sides on those talks. Lets bring in Paula Hancocks now. This is information we have got from the president ial office here in south korea. Its secondhand but they say it came from the mouth of king jom unsaying he has said he will shut down his Nuclear Testing site in may. So a timetable there we havent had before. Also saying that he was going to invite experts and journalists from south korea, from the u. S. To show complete transparency. He also said an interesting thing that he is not the kind of person that would fire a Nuclear Weapon against south korea or against the United States. Obviously, a very different kim jongun we saw on friday than we have seen in recent months and years. As we have heard threats from north korea against washington, against seoul a number of other capitals but saying he is not the person that would do this. The Nuclear Test Site in the nuclear part of the country he would shut down. He said it collapsed and needed to be shut down. He said there were two more tunnels there that nobody knew about and they were in very Good Condition but he was still going to shut it down. One more thing as well. He also said that he was going to change time. A few years ago, kim jongun decided to change the clocks back half an hour in pyongyang so they were different from seoul and now move them into the seoul time again so kim jongun moving time twice in a fee years. Moving time twice in a few years. Talk about paower. Sarah westwood is officially a cnn reporter. Welcome to the family, sarah. Thank you. The president used his rally to attack democrats calling had his impeachment and developments into the russia investigation. We have to keep the house because if you listen to maxine wate waters. What . She goes around saying, we will impeach him i and people said he hasnt done anything wrong. That doesnt matter. We will impeach the president. So i dont think we are going to have a lot of happy people if that happens. I think its going to be a little bit tough. She goes around and others and says we will impeach him. Doesnt matter if you do anything right or wrong. They will do that. We have to win the house. You know what . We are going to win any way. But we are going to win the house. Have you heard about the lawyer . A year a woman lawyer saying i know nothing. Now, all of a sudden, she supposedly is involved with government. You know why . If she did that, because putin and the group said, you know, this trump is killing us. What are you saying that youre involved with government so that we can go and make their life in the United States even more chaotic . Look at what has happened. Look at how these politicians have fallen for this junk. Russian collusion, give me a break. Lets talk about it now. Kelly Jane Torrance, good morning. Good morning. Kelly, the president has used this line of argument before to keep republicans in control of congress or they are going to impeach me, republicans have been some groups have been fundraising off of this. How effective is it . I think it actually can be fairly effective with the republican base. I mean, lets face it. One of the reasons donald trump was elected is because you had a great number of people in the United States who felt that their voices werent being heard by traditional politicians. And when you have politicians saying, hey, we dont like this guy who was elected we want to impeach them that makes them feel the lesson was not learned. The people in washington are still not hearing their voices. So i think its a strategy that could backfire some some ways for democrats although i think they are strong going into the mid terms. Errol, you have to consider this is an impressive contortion here. The president over the last 16 months now has, by name, criticized paul ryan and Mitch Mcconnell and on down the list and ran against the washington establishment and now he is saying keep the status quo to protect me. Thats right. Look. You perceive, i think properly, the gap between the politics that work for donald trump and the politics that work for the other members of his party who are very worried going into the fall midterm elections. So for donald trump, when he pulls out impeachment, it rallies the base, it brings a lot of waivers in line saying we didnt want to throw the guy out. We didnt like how things are going but we dont necessarily want to see him impeached. The polling suggests it works not only to his favor but also to that of some of the republicans who are running with him. That is why, by the way, victor you see a lot of the democratic leadership has access to the best polling data and pelosi and the rest of the leadership, they keep saying not so fast on impeachment. This doesnt work for us. It really spurs turnout. If there is going to be a blue wave, its because there is an Enthusiasm Gap the democrats can win. When trump starts warning about impeachment and when republicans warn about impeachment, that sort of gets the excitement going in the republican base. Kelly, lets talk about the lawyer that he brought up at the rally last night that now claims she is an informant for the russian government. The president s explanation really corresponds with what the Intelligence Community and russia analysts say was initially the reason that russia first started meddling in the election was so chaos and then they chose their candidate. Some people believe on this one the president might be right that now is the time to start to bring up some other chaotic elements. I have to admit i was a little surprised to hear donald trump complaining about chaos in washington. He normally seems to like to cause it and revel in it. Maybe donald trump is finally thinking that the deep state might be right about a few things and lets face it, when you look at what came out of that meeting, the russians actually were not very successful and nobody really got what they wanted. The trump people did not get the dirt on hillary they were going to get and the russians, in fact, did not get any sanctions lifted after trump was elected and, in fact, we have only seen more sanctions on russia. Admittedly some of those may have come reluctantly from donald trump but he has a great team behind him that do understand what is going on in russia and that russia is trying to sew this chaos and it sounds like maybe they are getting through the president and he, himself, is starting to see, sometimes the russians seem to like to do things to help me and other times they dont and he finally realizes they do not support a single candidate but cause chaos and make western democracy look bad. Errol, if the president believes she is telling the truth, is and was an informant for the russian government, does not make the june 2016 more egregious . Is he serving his team by acknowledging it . No. By acknowledging it he simply is coming along with reality as reflected in a ton of information, shall we say, as well as some indictments and some ongoing investigation. Its no great sort of concession for him to simply acknowledge what everybody has already sort no. He does put himself and his team, those his former campaign team, including his son, in a little bit of a tricky position because, yeah, if you go back and look at that meeting and what was said about it, it was supposed to be a nothing burger and nothing about a meeting about adoptions. We know the candidate at the time was involved in trying to spin what that meeting was about. All of that now changes if the new line is going to be it was a direct intervention by the russian government, and it cries out for further explanation from the president. Now that you know this, what are you prepared to do about it shall what were all of those former statements about that meeting and what does donald jr. Have to say about it and Paul Manafort have to say about it and how does it my the legal problems that Paul Manafort has. Maybe more in the rally he shouldnt have gotten into. You expect that bob mueller knew she was an informant. Does this, from your perspective, from your understanding, change anything legally, substantively she is telling reporters she was an informant . Despise this being one of the leakest washingtons of all time bob mule ser a step ahead of the game and he knew all this. His office has been relatively go about not meeting but the people meeting with him have been doing it. He knows all about this and has been a part of his investigation. If there are questions, i agree, need to be answered you know his team is looking to try to answer those. Kelly Jane Torrance and errol louis, thank you for being with us. Stay with us. A lot more to discuss later this hour. Also later this morning on state of the union, governor john cassic and Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avennati will be with jake tapper at 9 00 a. M. Eastern. A lot of people saying did Michelle Wolf speak truth to power at the dinner last night or did she deliver too many cheap shots some listen to this. Yeah. Should have done more research before he got me to do this. And the safey for most parallel parallel parking job goes to. [ drum roll ]. Emily lapier from ames, iowa. This is emilys third nomination and first win. Um. So, just. Wow um, first of all, to my fellow nominees, it is an honor sharing the road with you. 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These are the last set of teeth that youre getting, you dont get another set, you have to protect them. You may have heard i was invited to another event tonight, the white house accordance dinner. But id much rather be in washington, michigan, than in washington, d. C. Right now. Of course trump isnt here, if you havent noticed. He is not here. I know. I know. I would drag him here myself but it turns out the president of the United States is the one [ bleep ] youre not allowed to grab President Trump went headtohead with the white house accordancorrespondents di. He held a washington in washington township, michigan, as he was slammed in washington, d. C. A lot of people were wond wondering was the dinner an effective counterpunch to the president or a political gift to him . Brian stelter and host of reliable sources is with us now. What is your take and what is the word on the street at the end of the day the effectiveness or the success of the dinner . You can judge it based on the comedy or judge it based on the controversies that ensued and certainly has been a split reaction to mitchell wolfs performance and maybe what she wanted. She wanted to stoke controversy and make some political points and many saying it was inappropriate or effective. You guys got to stop putting kellyann on your shous. All she does is lie. If you dont give her a platform she has nowhere to lie. Like the old saying if she is lying, put her stuck under a tree. There is ivanka who was supposed to be an advocate for women but it turns out she is about as helpful to women as an empty box of tampons and done nothing to satisfy women so i guess like father, like daughter. Oh, you dont think he is good in bed. Come on she does clean up nice, though. Ivanka cleans up nice. She is the diaper genie of the administration. On the outside she looks sleek but the inside is still full. [ bleep ]. Then we have Sarah Huckabee sanders. We are graced with her presence tonight. I have to say im a little starstruck. I love you as aunt lydia on the handmade tail. Mike pence, if you havent seen it, you would love it. Every time sarah steps up to the podium, i get excited because im not really sure what we are going to get. You know . A press briefing, a bunch of lies or a divided into softball teams. I actually really like sarah. I think she is very resourceful. Like, she burns fax and shen th uses that ash to create a smoky ash. Maybe she is born with it. Maybe its lice. Its probably lice. Its 2018 and im a woman so you cannot shut me up unless you have Michael Cohen wire me 130,000. Michael, you can find me on venmo under my porn star name reince priebus. Let the debate continue and some of Michelle Wolfs jokes and especially when she was really criticizing the Trump Administration officials who were in the room and controversy over her performance and doing it in an edgy standup act and what comedians sometimes do at the dinner but calling out the trump admission officials who snubbed the dinner last year and decided to attend this year made for awkward moments at the dinner and some people this morning saying the jokes about Sarah Sanders went too far and michelle responded to twitter saying she was talking about Sarah Sanders capacity for lying and being misleading. Quote, her despicable behavior. Meanwhile sean spicer responded overnight saying the dinner was a disgrace. Michelle wolf had a twoword response saying, thank you, so sean spicer. So does it appear as if Kelly Ann Conway and some of the other former Administration Officials and current Sarah Sanders went there to make those faces and not laugh . Or was this really morri more r risque . I think they wanted to do that as a profit and he is tired of elites mocking up so a criticism from that family. You saw other crump allies expressing disappointment in the perform answer saying Michelle Wolf went too far. Peter baker of the New York Times saying, quote, unfortunately, i dont think we advanced the cause of journalism tonight. Our colleague said he agreed with baker there was an embarrassment to the room that we should have the focus on journalism and not on comedy at the white house Correspondents Dinner. This is a tension that exists every year and exacerbated this year because i think our politics are poisonus because arguments on both sides that are so intense and Michelle Wolf was going right at that addressing the medias coverage of trump and the lies and deceit that comes out of the white house. I know some comedians did up for her after the performance and said you hired an edgy comedian so what were you expecting . I thought telling when wolf said to the crowd you should have done more research before you invited me to washington to do this. Its not as though carol costel costel costello. Its not as if Kelly Ann Conway and Sarah Sanders didnt expect to be on the list of discussio