nbc news, a source close to cohn said the decision to resign was abrupt. entirely due to irreconcilable differences based on trump s tariff plan. the white house said today the president will sign the plan by the end of this week. both democrats and republicans have warned of the risk of a trade war. axios reports cohn considered the announcement a personal embarrassment. he had boasted to his wall street and hamptons buddies he had kept the president on the right track on trade. there s growing alarm now of a potential brain drain at the white house coordinating to the associated press. cohn s departure sparked fears of a larger exodus. the president tried to preempt the concerns yesterday. let s watch. the white house has tremendous energy, tremendous spirit. it is a great place to be working. many, many people want every single job. i read where, gee, maybe people times. the times is reporting president trump spoke to witnesses about matters they discussed with special counsel robert mueller. they reported the special counsel in the russian investigation has learned of two conversations in recent months in which president trump asked key witnesses about matters they discussed with investigators, according to three people familiar with the encounters. the first vold don mcgahn and the second reince priebus. as the times reports, legal experts says trump s contact with those men most likely did not rise to the level of witness tampering but potentially a problem and shared them with mr. mueller. we re joined by new york times reporter mike it will schmidt who broke the story. this is odd in the sense that i do you as a nonlawyer that this looks like the wrong thing to do. you shouldn t be talking to people who have just talked to the prosecutor because it suggests you re riding helicopter on these people. number one rule is investigations don t talk to witnesses, don t talk to prosecutes. and leave that alone. the president has largely disregarded that advice from his lawyers. it s particularly interesting because the president got into so much trouble for trying to talk to comey and that was disclosed this is head scratching for a lot of people watching it. what does this tell us about the intensity factors in the white house in terms of the president trying to check on what s coming at him? i think the president can t help himself. he s curious and he wants to know as much as he can and he wants to try and find out as much as he can about the mueller investigation. and you know, obviously anyone in his situation would be curious in that way, but the problem is that it creates this appearance that doesn t look good to mueller because it looks the two of them. thank you, mike schmidt from the new york times for breaking that story to us while we got it from you. let me go to ashley parker. this seems to be i want to get to the crazy empty house at the white house where everybody seems to be leaving. but this question where the president is now denying he told mcgahn to fire comey. well, it seems like in reading that article which again is not my story, but is that he pushed, the president denieded that to mcgahn and mcgahn gently reminded the president that actually, sir, you did ask me to do this. this gets to sort of a central problem the president has which is he often when he s saying something in the moment, he says what he wishes it to be. and then he seems toes genuinely believe it. some people would say he was lying to mcgahn, other people would say he was simply misremembering. but it makes him a very unreliable narrator and hard to deal with. it s one of the reasons his lawyers are res stoent have him go before them and certainly something verbal rather than written questions and a reason you re seeing the exodus in the white house. he s difficult to deal with and people are finally saying i ve had enough. i guess, peter, the question is how do you restrain somebody who can t remember that you weren t restraining him last time if he doesn t have a conscious memory what he s told people to do, how do they think they can influence what he doeses? very challenging client for any lawyer, of course. michael was right and ashley is right. this is one thing lawyers make clear to their clients, don t talk to witnesses even if you have nothing but benign intent, it can easily be misinterpreted. going back to the bill clinton era when the monica lewinsky case and he calls in his secretary and leads her through i m sorry, like don regan who goss an inflated idea who he was. he thought he was prime minister down there and the president reagan was some sort of old time sort of hanging around hindenburg type that didn t matter anymore. he learned he was not in fact in charge. does this president need these people that think of themselves that is important? does trump need gary cohn or people like him around him? he doesn t seem to want them. look, if you hire the former president of goldman sachs pretty important job as your chief economic adviser, then you know, i think he expects you to follow his advice on fundamental things. things fundamental to him. but trump trumpet to the world he was a protectionist. when cohn arrived he knew he was going to work voluntarily for a protectionism and then he says i can t believe protectionism is going on here and it was and is. cohn is making perhaps i think made the mistake, people treat this man as if he s a 2-year-old. he can be humored and you make excuses for this. but he can be led in that of this direction. he s not a 2-year-old. he s a grown man who has been like this all his life. and knows exactly what he s doing. going back to the first story, he knows he s not supposed to talk to witnesses but okaying. > figures people will say trump will be trump. trump will indeed be trump. he s our president right now david jolly, somebody may go to the white house thinking they can put the president of the united states in a play pen and pacify him and keep him there while they run the place themselves. the president puts his staff people in play pens. gary cohn didn t think the job was big enough for him, trump thought it was and was unsatisfied. is this a 10% of whatever, are we making a bigger story, everybody s making this into a huge story. all the major papers say there s a problem with trump in the traffic, people coming in and out of the white house is too swift, it s not healthy. is it nor not important? no, this is a big story. the country needs experts around had president whether you agree with their ideology or not, when it comes to the economy and national security, we need people smarter than the current president advising him. look, they re leaving for one reason. and it s donald trump. there s an old ax yox in industry that s true in politics, you never leave a good job but you do leave a bad boss. donald trump is incapable of knowing the seriousness of this office. we ve become conditioned to accept the condition of mediocrity. cohn left if you ve got a shot at protecting a shred of your reputation, you leave the white house now. with cohn out, an commercial nationalist like peter navarro seemed to be on the rice in the white house. in june of 2016 is, he appeared on hardball along with alf cole president richard trumka where he offered this bizarre defense of his candidate donald trump. let s watch. donald trump is has a platform that you guys are dreaming about. he is taking every step. he s a fraud. the afl-cio has recommended for a president to take. he s a fraud. that may be but we re going to find out. that may be. your workers don t believe he s a fraud. they believe that he is the guy. you just said it may be that trump s a fraud. what did you mean by that? here s what i mean. trump says he s a fraud. i say we ll find out. my view is your workers don t think he s a fraud. i don t think he s a fraud which is why i m supporting him. that was a strange ashley, that was a strange defense of your candidate saying he may be a fraud. i don t know. what s his name, nunberg said that roger stone may lie. i don t know he may lie once in awhile. these people s defense of each other is narrow simply in terms of loyalty but not qualifications or basically professional morality. sure. in this white house, the tone starts at the top. and the president demands absolute loyalty. you do see that. and there are sort of weak defenses of one another. that s not taking into account all the ways people are publicly knifing each other. there is a sense among a lot of people in the white house that they re not actually that loyal to trump personally. he is sort of this vehicle or vessel for them to try to move their opinions. as is in the case with kae gae, when they re unsuccessful they ll leave. that is the damning praise from people who don t always respect the boss. peter baker, that would suggest why we re getting great reporting out of the white house. they don t rest the guy. usually you had your manifest responsibility to have a moral commitment to the boss, you believed in the person. you worked for them for that reason. and that was the only reason you worked for them. they weren t replaceable parts, these bosses. i don t understand how people think about this president as somebody who happens to work with them but doesn t deserve their respect or loyalty but ratted out pre day to the press. i m not knocking your sources but they seem to be prolific. they re everywhere. yeah, you make a good point. there are definitely people in the white house who believe strongly in president trump and his agenda, believe strongly in his presidency. it is true a number of people in the west wing are more jaundiced about him. they roll their eyes at night with friends and colleagues like hit critics do. they tend to talk outside of school a little bit about what they re encount kerring because they re frustrated. they may be there because they believe in his agenda but not in him, they may believe they re helping the country get through a difficult time. you re right, not everybody there is a complete loyalist. david, you ve been a politics. have you ever had people working for you that you thought were really just there out of career ambition no, love or affection for you or even honor for you? did you have anybody like that around you? well, no. if you saw it, you smoked it out. and respectfully to peter s point, he s being very generous to a lot of white house staff. they re there largely a number of underqualified people there out of self-interest. only people who believe in his agenda are the steven millers of the world. those are the wrong people we want in the white house. that makes it a happy hunting ground for journalists. it does. you ve never had a leakyer administration. what does it tell you about the quality of the administration? there are a lot of mediocrities in the white house. this is a rough jury. i have to respect. i do respect this jury. it is tough and coming in in i would say in a geet attitude. they re guilty. thank you ashley parker, michael schmidt was on the phone. i thought he was on a ship to shore phone. peter baker, eugene robinson and david jolly. the legal battle between adult film star stormy daniels and donald trump. she says the nondisclosure agreement she signed isn t valid because the president didn t sign it. do trump and his attorney have a fighting chance to keep her quiet? that s ahead. plus, more new details about the russian investigation as robert mueller s investigators digging into secret meetings between trump allies in the say shell islands. the uae and the trumps threat of a trade war opened up a gaming rift between the president and many republicans. and it could smother over the economic message they hoped would cut their losses in this year s midterm elections. the happy talk about the tax cut ain t so happy right now. finally, something that happened 507 years ago next week. this is hardball where the action is. ng for a house. but one day we re sitting there and we decided that, something needed to be done about what was going on in our inner-city. instead of buying a house, we decided to form this youth league. these kids mean everything to me and i just want to make sure i give something positive to do. wow, that s amazing. that s a blessing right there. to know that someone out there cares and is passionate about what we re trying to do in our communities. you excited? yes. yeah, we re gonna to look good right? yup. awesome. alright come on, bring it in man. love these guys right here. alright come on, bring it in man. burned me up and down, shno way to cool it. every time you kiss me it s like sunshine and whiskey applebee s handcrafted burgers. any burger just $7.99. now that s eatin good in the neighborhood. do you want clean, stain free dentures? try polident. the four in one cleaning system kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria, cleans where brushing may miss. helps remove stains and prevent stain build up. use polident daily. attorney general jeff sessions traveled to california today to formally announce that the trump administration is suing the california over its immigration policies. in a speech top california law enforcement officials, sessions blasted the state s so-called sanctuary laws saying it made it impossible for federal agents to do their jobs. and crack down on illegal immigration. he said the laws are being pushed by radical extremist who s want open borders. governor jerry brown accused the attorney general, catch this, of trying to apiece his boss, president trump. this is completely unprecedented. for the chief law enforcement of the united states to come out here and engage in a political stunt, make wild accusations, many of which are based on outright lies, that s unusual. i do think this is pure red meat for the base, and i would assume but this is pure speculation, that jeff thinks that donald will be happier with him. i m sure donald will be tweeting his joy at this particular performance. jerry brown, still amazingly state-of-the-a state-of-the-art. we ll be right back. get an extra day by the pool get to spend more time together get more moments to remember there are some things you can only get when you book with us. get more from your spring break getaway with exclusive hilton offers. book yours, only at hilton.com when you have something you love, you want to protect it. at legalzoom, our network of attorneys can help you every step of the way. with an estate plan including wills or a living trust that grows along with you and your family. legalzoom. where life meets legal. he s taking this action on today. a lot of the amount of misinformation that s out there, some of which has been disseminated by mr. cohn and others she believes it s important the public learn the truth what happened. trump s long time personal lawyer michael cohen has previously said trump denies the allegations and sarah huckabee sanders reiterated that point earlier today. let s hear her. the president has addressed these directly and made very well clear none of these allegations are true. this case has already been won in arbitration and anything beyond that, i would refer you to the president s outside counsel. well, the civil suit a copy of which first obtained by nbc news says daniels had a relationship with president trump from 2006 to 2007. it then alleges years later during the 2016 presidential campaign, mr. trump and his personal lawyer michael cohen pressured her that would be stormy daniels, into signing a nondisclosure agreement or hush agreement for $130,000 and a guarantee that she would not share any texts, photos or information about the alleged relationship. mr. cohen previously said he used his own personal funds to an fail tate the payment to daniels and neither the trump organization or campaign of trump s was party to the transaction. a copy of the agreement appears as evidence in the lawsuit. while president trump is not named in the document, the suit alleges stormy and trump entered into the agreement under pseudonyms daniels as peggy peterson, trump as catch this name, david dennison. the signature line for denison you can see there is blank. he didn t sign it. michael cohen has not responded to a request for comment on the lawsuit. yawn dowd we know him has declined to comment. for more, katie from miami. you ve got a big question. what s this all about? who is going to win. so as a legal perspective, stormy daniels has a little bit of an uphill battle. california law stands for the proposition just because you didn t sign an agreement doesn t mean it s still not enforceable. what do i mean by that? why did she get $130,000 and why did she take that pone if it wasn t to keep her silent. the reality is, is she going to prevail in court? you know what, michael cohen seems to think not. he has run to a private arbitrator and gotten a preliminary temporary injunction keeping her from speaking out. stormy daniels has taken the high road by going to the court and seeking a declaration whether or not that agreement is enforceable and asking the judge to basically set the playing field for any potential litigation between her, donald trump and michael cohen. i didn t realize the power of this nondisclosure till i heard today one of the provisions was if she did talk about the alleged affair with the president, backing in what, 2006 or whatever, 2007 that, she would have to make a payment of $1 million. i sound like austin powers, a million dollars every type she says anything. that s right. is that a familiar feature of these nondisclosures that kind of panel? it is called a liquidated damages provision. it does say each breach, not just in total, chris, but for each breach of this disclosure agreement or nondisclosure agreement, donald trump could get $1 million from stormy daniels and get his $130,000 back. as you noted at the beginning of the segment, it s michael cohen s money which begs the next question why is he spending $130,000 of his own money if it wasn t to affect the outcome of the election we just had. have you seen any contract like this where they charged somebody who violated it because they said something to a talk show host enforced for like a million dollars? has that happened? i guess i would have heard about it. it s the collectibility factor. is stormy collectible a million dollars for each, the answer is no. the other thing is michael cohen himself is talking about this violating the confidentiality of this agreement. so it seems like everybody involved here as unclean hands in one way or another. last question, why is she doing this and filing to get out of the contract? i keep thinking she goes on 60 minutes or another talk show. how much money can you get? nobody around here seems to know what kind of money is involved. is she doing a mini series on it? how much can you exploit ow of this thinging? ing. > it depends how salacious is your interest in this. they could do a tell all that gets her maybe a million bucks. donald trump is somebody that everybody s interested in. maybe people want to know about his pro clive vits. maybe she s interested in sharing. > it doesn t seem to interest. people especially the cultural right. i still say he never would but if barack obama had been involved in something this seedy, they would be jumping up and down in joy on the right attacking him as a she s ball instead of giving this guy a bye. a mulligan that s his mully cuban. and katie phang, thank you. robert mueller has a new cooperating witness in the russian probe. he could have lots of info on secret meetings between the trump team and the russians offshore. interesting where they agreed to meet, russians and trump people way far from here where nobody would be have caught them doing it but they did catch them. hardball is coming back with more action. pass please. i m here to fix the elevator. nothing s wrong with the elevator. right. but you want to fix it. right. so who sent you? 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it appears to be another secret trump putin back channel, appears to be an effort by russian oligarchs to find individuals close to the trump team. erik prince in addition to being the founder of blackwater is also the brother of one of trump s cabinet members, betsy devos. who did the president get connected with first, erik prince or betsy devos? i m curious about the relationship. betsy devos has been a republican fund-raiser for many years. erik prince was holding himself out as someone having access to the trump inner circle. that probably peaked the confidante of putin. what would be the topic? it could have been about big policy issues like sanctions. prince was involved in a lot of counter-terrorism partners of the united states. it could have been about business. it s interesting bob mueller got a grand jury subpoena, a cooperating witness, he held someone at dulles airport. nader. this individual who was at the meet who brokered the meeting and bob mueller is very interested in what was discussed. one last question. do we know whether the lebanese american business guy who was in the seychelles if there was there present at the russians were dealing with the trump guy? was he overhearing the conversation? there are reports in the times, he attended the meeting. according to the times, he once worked as a consultant to blackwater. the transcript of prince s testimony to the house intelligence committee shows he did not disclose ha george nader was present at the meeting. in fact, adam schiff asked specifically did you meet anyone else in the seychelles from your company or any other shays there? and erik prince said no. that is suspicious. neil, what do you make of this case and who you thinking what mueller s up to and fishing way offshore to a meeting in the seychelles right before the inauguration? jeremy is right saying there s evidence here there s some sort of russian thing going on. it further illustrates the narrative rule number with trump is there s always a russian. this is another russian we haven t heard of before. it furthers the collusion conspiracy piece that one has been, that, mueller has been looking into. there s a separate piece of the story which is the uae and whether or not they might have influenced the election. it s a federal crime section 3121 says for a foreign national interfere with to give money to a u.s. campaign and there s angations in that new york times article that says that oh, the uae might have been doing that. that s something mueller will be looking at. it s important to read that story in light of what you just reported a few minutes ago the new york times story about michael schmidt about trump actually coaching witnesses or saying hey, what did mueller ask you about. talk about the law. what s the law say about debriefing people after they ve been interviewed by the people with mueller? what s the legal status? it is one of the most dangerous things do you. as a lawyer, as a defense lawyer, you would always tell your client, do not talk to witnesses because you ll get accused of witness tampering. whether or not you did or not, there s an intent standard. it looks so bad. basically you ve got donald trump acting like a two-bit criminal and saying to witnesses like priebus, what did you say? were you nice to me and so on. that is horrible. i m a defense lawyer. i love a challenge. i represented bin laden s driver. bin laden s driver acted with far more integrity in every stage of the investigation than donald trump has so far. this is just the published report what we know. if you re mueller you re looking at this and saying heavens me, what is this guy up to and what is he hiding? one last thing, mueller already knew this. i guarantee you 100%, he didn t have to wait for the new york times half an hour ago, that is priebus s lawyer bill burck is an excellent lawyer. i m sure priebus told his lawyer exactly what happened in the oval office and the very first thing burke did was pick up the phone and call mueller and say here is what happened. here s two questions from me. what was trump if trump was talking to these people like mcgahn who had talked to the investigators, would he try to find out which direction they were going in and why does it seem like he s tampering if he talks to them after their testimony? because it s not there s no like a one-time thing where you go in and that s it, no. there s often repeated interactions between a witness and law enforcement. so he could be seen as coping them for future testimony. exactly. it looks like they re getting their story straight. not only that, but he was coaching mcgahn. like the menendez procedures with the phones hooked up together. they taped together the phones. it looks like he was coaching mcgahn to say remember, i never told you fire bob mueller. he had to say did you tell me to fire mueller. . it shows the president was not even telling it the truth to his own guy and the president did want to fire bob mueller. why did he tell him that, to get a different testimony out of had im. to say publicly you ve got to cover me. he s scripting the guy. maybe it doesn t rise to the level of formal crime of witness tampering. we re talking about the president of the united states in the oval office doing these kinds of shenanigans. whether it s a crime or not, it is the most poor judgment imaginable. nobody s shocked. thank you sir. up next the white house threat of trade war sparked a real war between trump and the republican leadership in congress. they re worried his latest move could cripple them. they want to talk tax cut from now till november. now he s talking trade. you re watching hardball. you might take something for your heart. or joints. but do you take something for your brain. with an ingredient originally found in jellyfish, prevagen is the number one selling brain-health supplement in drug stores nationwide. prevagen. the name to remember. my job is to help educate our first responders on how to deal with natural gas and electric emergencies. everyday when we go to work we want everyone to work safely and come home safely. i live right here in auburn, i absolutely love this community. once i moved here i didn t want to live anywhere else. i love that people in this community are willing to come together to make a difference for other people s lives. together, we re building a better california. president trump has tried to dismiss the chaos engulfing his white house by saying he likes conflict. he s got plenty of that. his decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports led to the resignation of gary cohn. it s put trump at war with his own party. watch this. there s a high level of concern been interfering with what appears to be an economy taking off in every respect. the best way 0 characterize where i am and where our members are is we are urging caution that this develop into something much more dramatic that could send the economy in the wrong zpleekz every now and then we ll have a different approach how we should tackle problems. but it should acknowledged there is a problem here. we want to make sure it s done in a prudent way more surgical so we can limit unintended consequences. the working class voters elected republicans in 2016, that s who we need to be responsive to. my hope is either this doesn t get implemented or gets implemented in a fairly small way. unbelievable. the new york times reports the plan is revving up republican doubts about trump. and than it could have big implications for the midterm elections writing republicans are banking that a robust economy they can attribute to their tax cuts and roll backs to overcome the deep disapproval of mr. trump personally. they don t want to do anything that could threaten economic gains. meanwhile politico reports the proposal is allowing democrats to hug trump when republicans have been trying to position the opposing party as detrimental to trump s economy. people from the rust belt have rushed to praise trump. so will trump s conflict provide an unsuspected unintended boost to a blue wave? we ll tackle that next with the roundtable. are defined by the things we share. and the ones we love. who never stop wondering what we ll do or where we ll go next. we the people who are better together than we are alone. are unstoppable. welcome to the entirely new expedition. cohigher!ad! higher! parents aren t perfect, but then they make us kraft mac & cheese and everything s good again. thisreally passionate about- i really want to help. i was on my way out of this life. there are patients out there that don t have a lot of time. finally, it was like the sun rose again and i was going to start fighting back now. when those patients come to me and say, you saved my life.. my life was saved by a two week old targeted therapy drug. that s what really drives me to- to save lives. welcome back to hardball. battle between president trump and congressional republicans couldn t come at a worse time as two polls out today paint a grim picture for the party s prospects this november. a new monmouth university polls shows democrats hold a nine-point. 50% for democrats, 41 for republicans. the quinnipiac poll has democrats leading 48-38. that s of likely voters. these are important votes. the jeff mason from routers, karine jean-pierre from move on org and adolpho franco from rnc surrogate. talk about the two things that republicans from my limited inside view of the republican party, which is okay, you can start with this, running on tax cuts because it s a good positive for everybody. everybody gets a different piece of the pie, some big, some small. everybody gets something. they didn t want to talk about anything else. trump wants to burp out something that causes confusion to get off whatever he has to get off. he starts talking about trade. is that the plan? i don t think he s burping something off. why did he do it? wasn t this a centerpiece of his campaign. not now. what do you mean not now? go ahead, you re right. now is a perfect time to do what i think he has done very successfully in other settings. he caught his leadership off board. he caught them off guard on other issues in the past. today, already the white house is talking about carve outs. today there s mr. kushner in mexico this is part of the president s first of all plan. do you know who likes it? sherrod brown, bobby casey, joe manchin. democrats are jumping on this because they said this. they re allowed to do whatever it is they want that s going to help them. more power to them. you don t agree with them? no, here s what i ll say. in 2016, bernie sanders won west virginia on a progressive economic message by 51% in the primary. it resonated. what did he talk about? about health care for everyone, about raising the minimum wage. there is a way to talk about the economy that dras are not doing a good enough job about it in a holistic economic plan way which we re not doing that, just about a small sector of the population. why should republicans talk like democrats? i m talking about democrats. i agree with that. talk about it in a way that resonates. that s what i m talking about. we deeb this had a lot during the campaign. bernie sanders constantly talked about trade. constantly. that was a centerpiece. and wait, and hillary clinton backed away from tpp. bernie sanders, donald trump and pat buchanan on trade. there is very little difference but in this respect, president trump has run a populist nonconventional agenda. on this. i think this has been consistent. i think the bottom line is, this suggestion quickly that somehow he s isolated, the secretary of treasury is still there. gary cohn will have a job in the administration. the perception and the talk, the chat here and everywhere else, i ve been pushing back on this is this guy s home alone. all the big brains left him. he doesn t have smart people around him. is that a true story? i don t think he s home alone. certainly he s lost a lot of important people. he s still going to o got mad dog mattis. hope hicks was a huge, huge funs in his administration. i d like to go back to. getting rid of a guy that doesn t agree with him, gary cohn doesn t agree with him. he said he likes having conflict and people give different views. the proof of that will be when we see who does he appoint to take over for gary cohn? does he like to continue having that chaos or not. what happens when your party loses 30 seats in the house. not going to lose 30 seats. what happened to the blue wave. we ll talk in november. it s texas. up next these these will tell me what i don t know. you re watching hardball. 3, 2, 1. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that s cool! coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime. and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some rare side effects include temporary numbness, discomfort and swelling. ask your doctor if coolsculpting is right for you and visit coolsculpting.com today. for your chance to win a free treatment. talks between the u.s. and north koreaing. > so the olympic helped. the president thinks so. wow. without dennis rodman. go ahead. puerto rico estimates that there will be an additional 200,000 more puerto ricans from puerto rico residing in the mainland by the end of this year. because of the hell out there. yes, because of the hurricane and what s going on. i think the thing that i wanted to add to that was what happens after november is we re going to start talking about 2020. if you look where they re going. they all go and. north or south? new york or florida. moving to florida. let s not forget donald trump. of to everyone s surprise, the president tomorrow will announce the tariffs and carveouts and more surprisingly, he will announce miss gae cohn s replacement will be larry kudlow or i like larry. thank you, karine jean-pierre. we ll be right back. today, innovation in the finger lakes is helping build the new new york. once home to the world s image center, new york state is now a leader in optics, photonics and imaging. fueled by strong university partnerships, providing the world s best talent. and supported with workforce development to create even more opportunities. all across new york state, we re building the new new york. to grow your business with us in new york state, visit esd.ny.gov. announce. when heartburn hits fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast relief in every bite. crunchy outside. chewy inside. tum tum tum tum tums chewy bites. imagine if the things you bought every day. earned you miles to get to the places you really want to go. with the united mileageplus explorer card, you ll get a free checked bag. two united club passes. priority boarding. and earn fifty thousand bonus miles after you spend three thousand dollars on purchases in the first three months from account opening plus, zero-dollar intro annual fee for the first year, then ninety-five dollars. learn more at theexplorercard.com announcement with foreboth. we ve just seen terrible forces unleashed he said still watching at blank tv screen. something bad will come of this. god knows where this is going to lead. nich on who maintained an outsider s connection with the country s nervous system knew the way the kennedys stirred the country for them and against them. there were those in the country rear guard segregationists can organized crime figures, communists hard right as well as hard left who hated jack but hated bobby more. bobby refused to show fear. he challenged students using defermts to avoid vietnam while the poor kids got drafted. when dr. king was shot kennedy went into an african-american neighborhood and told the people the dred news. right to the end he depended gun own eners join him in keeping weapons from the hands of the criminals and mentally disturbed. he waded into the crowds of his supporters exposing himself risking his life in his
5:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast. it is the memo in a everyothat talking about. and does it discredit the russia investigation? congressional supporters of the u.s. president are being accused of trying to do just that. they allege that the fbi improperly targeted for surveillance a former trump campaign adviser. the contents of the controversial memo are highly disputed. critics say it only on shows part of the picture. and misrepresents the testimony of former fbi deputy director andrew mccabe. here is more now from jim sciutto in washington. i think it is terrible. reporter: the president and republicans leveling a new broad side at the fbi. with a four page memo alleging the bureau abused its surveillance authority in seeking a warrant to monitor carter page during the 2016 election. it s been a tough fight. reporter: the disputed memo authorized by the staff of devin nunes claims mccabe says the page warrant would not have been sought without a dossier on trump s possible connections to russia. but three members dispute that account telling that nunes mischaracterizes what mccabe says. the memo reveals that the warrant to monitor page was approved and renewed by the court three separate times. the former republican chair of the intel committee mike rogers says that would not happen without other u.s. intelligence to back up the application. if this is all they used, the judge ought to get in trouble too. i think there is a lot more information that supplanted the information they provided. in addition, they went through separate renewals and in each you have to actually reconfirm probable cause. meaning you had to get something off of that wire. reporter: the memo also alleges that the fbi and justice department did not inform the fisa court that former british intelligence agent christopher steele who compiled the dossier was funded by the democratic party. adam schiff said that it is, quote, not accurate that the secret court waunss unaware of steele s political motivations, he says that the court knew of a likely political motivation behind steele. what it ends up delivering is criticism of a single fisa application and its renewals that cherry picks information that doesn t tell the reader the whole of the application and as the doj and fbi have said deeply misleading. reporter: while the memo attempts to portray the fbi as relying on outside information to launch the russia investigation, it notes that a counter intelligence investigation was actually opened months before the page application based on a stream of intelligence separate from the dossi dossier. this includes information from the australian government can which learned that another trump campaign adviser, george papadopoulous, had been offered damaging information about hillary clinton from an individual with ties to the russian government. with these accusations swirling, christopher wray addressed fbi employees today via video, this reported by shall i mondimon prokupecz, and times are tough but went on to give a bucking up speech to the rank and file saying that the american people read the news papers and watch tv, but your work is all that matters. actions speak louder than words. jim sciutto, cnn, washington. so again, the main allegation in the memo, that the justice department misused the fisa court to target former trump adviser carter page. but to explain exactly what fisa is, what that court is and how carter page fits in, tom foreman breaks it down. reporter: in the long investigation into possible russia meddling, carter page has become a flash point. not because this one time adviser to donald trump has had a long relationship with russia or because he traveled there during the campaign, although that is true, but instead because some republicans believe the justice department improperly used a fisa court to wiretap carter page. now, fisa stands for the foreign intelligence surveillance act. and this is what is used when investigators want to spy on essentially somebody who is actually on u.s. soil. they go to the fisa court, they present information explaining why they believe this person is a suspected agent of a foreign government, and the fisa court would then give them permission if it is all approved properly to then go forward. the fisa court did that, not only that, but they approved an extension three different times and analysts say is that probably because there was something coming out of this or most likely something coming out of this that gave them reason to keep approving this. about you some republicans are saying the real problem is that there was secret political hand at work that the court was not told about. that the original information came from an investigation that was partially funded by democrats out there and those democrats were feeding it into the justice department. fisa court didn t know about it. if that is the case, why didn t the justice department say maybe we have other things that we can tell you about? the reason that would not happen according to many intelligence analysts is that there may indeed be other sources, there may be other avenues out there that they do not want to make public because that could somehow imperil the further investigation of all of this. whether or not that is true, we don t know. the very secretive nature of the fisa court is the reason that it may be hard for the justice department to come forward and say here is what is happening and why they think the memo is wrong. tom foreman, thanks for the explanation. and now more about the man behind the memo, the chair man the house intelligence committee republican devin nunes. he s been kricriticized and som say hurting the investigation. the first interview he gave with us to fox news and he slammed the democrats. these are not honest actors. they know they are not being honest. and i get tired of playing whac-a-mole every day with the democrats on this committee who never wanted to start this investigation in the first place. so there is clear evidence collusion, but it just happens to be with hillary clinton and their commissionittee that they to investigate. the top democrat says the memo is not meant to help the investigation but hurt it. adam schiff calls the memo deeply misleading. what it ends up delivering is criticism of a single fisa application involving carter page and its renewals that cherry picks information that doesn t tell the reader the whole of the application and as the doj and fbi have said is deeply misleading and fact ally in-accurate. you can cherry pick any fisa court application and do the same thing. a lot to digest mere. let s bring in a teacher of international relations in london. we have memogate to throw at you. so depending on who you listen to, it is either deeply misleading or revealing. where do you fall? i think it is another step in what has been an ongoing effort to undermine the legitimacy and credibility of this investigation which remember is supposed to be looking into russia s interference in the u.s. presidential election, something that is important to everybo everybody. and we ve seen a number of efforts to really get people thinking about something very different. in this case it is an allegation that this was politically motivated and inspired investigation that lacks all credibility. unfortunately, it is very destructive and i think if you listen to what senator mccain said after the memo was released, this is an attack on the legitimacy of the fbi, an unfair attack on the justice department and that it is taking us away from this most important gives those that want to discredit the investigation more time to try and do that and we ll wait and see where this memo leads it. thank you so much for your thoughts, leslie. stocks chanced on wall street friday and investors are probably glad turbulent week is over. we ll look at the huge drop and what is ahead. plus this as far as the 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jong-un. it is clear that they are trying to white wash their record. reporter: this woman on snuck across the borden when she was 17. she asked president trump to stop repatriating defectors and told a harrowing story of what happened to her. i escaped from an arranged marriage when i was 19. i escaped a brothel and then i was arrested by the chinese authorities policemen and i was narrowly avoided being repay y e patrioted to north korea. reporter: the president showed empathy but didn t say whether he would pressure the chinese or not. she says the lives of many north korean defect toors depend on u pressure. most are carrying poison with them in case they are caught in time. reporter: as compelling as the meeting was, it might have made south korean officials a bit nervous because it is just one week before the winter olympics are set to begin. the south koreans worked hard to get north korean athletes to participate in the games. and could be concerned that trump s meeting with the defectors might upset that arrangement. we got no response there south korean officials here in washington to the trump meeting, but south korean president moon jae-in did speak to president trump on the phone shortly before the meeting took place. brian todd, cnn, washington. well, disgraced former usa gymnastics physician larry nassar faces several life sentences for sexually abusing hundreds. and dozens more are coming forward to share their raw and painful stories. and for the father of three girls, the weight of their words in court on friday was too much to bear. kale l caylee har tongue describes what happened. and we warn you, this contains graphic testimony. reporter: this father s anger as part of this sentencing, to grant me five minutes in a locked room with thisaimed scar man. would you give me one minute? reporter: in this angle you can see the court bailiff quickly get larry nassar out of the room. more than 200 survivors in two different courtrooms over the past two weeks have provided victim impact statements in the case against nassar. engaging and disgusting the country. on friday, randall listened to two of his daughters publicly share details of their abuse. he said this meant because i had back pain, he would need to put the needles on my vagina. with no coverage, no gloves, underwear and pants down to my thighs, my entire have a guy that was completely exposed. when i was there just a kid, lays on a table at msu and you put your ungloved hands all over my rear and slipped your thumb into the most private area of my body. to my parents, thank you for all your love and support through all of this. you have done everything that a parent could ever do. i feel that my entire family has gone through hell and back because of what larry nassar did to both my sisters and i years ago. my parents are maeheartbroken a so filled with regret. the guilt they have will never go away. it prompted praise on twitter calling him a hero, parents saying they would have done the same thing. you have to understand the compassion and understanding too from the judge who over saul his contempt rating a couple hours later. i cannot tolerate or condom vigilanteism, but as for the direct contempt of court, there is no way that this court is going to issue any type of punishment given the circumstances of this case. and i do my heart does go out to you and your family because of what you ve gone through. i appreciate that. and i apologize to you and the courtroom. i m embarrassed. i m not here to upstage my daughters. i m here to help them deal. reporter: in a family press conference later in the day, an apologetic hargreaves tried to explain his reaction, saying it was the first time he heard many details of nassar s assaults on his details. what i had to hear in those statements and i have to look over at larry nassar shaking his head, that is when i lost control. reporter: nassar, who was sentenced up to 175 years in prison for similar charges in another michigan courtroom last week is expected to be sentenced in in this hearing early next week. in atlanta, caylkaylee hartung,. 16 new flu related deaths among u.s. children were reported this week and that brings the total number of pediatric flu related deaths to 53 since october. and according to a government report, hospitalizations for the flu also hit the highest levels seen since officials started recording this data in 2010. flu vaccines are reported in short supply, but they are still available. pediatric flu cases are closely, but deaths for other age groups are difficult to estimate. president trump has arrived in florida but leaves behind a washington in turmoil. we ll discuss the controversial memo. and plus the u.s. secretary of state mending fences in latin america and offering vision when it comes to russia meddling. we re live from atlanta. stay with us this valentine s day i wanted to turn everything i love about you into one thing you ll love forever. the 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darren osbourne plowed his car into a crowd on june 19th, killing one person and injuring 12 others. the search continues for dozens of migrants who may have drowned. the vessel was carrying more than 90 when it capsized on thursday. so far only three survivors have been found. now more on that controversial pmemo released friday. it is the talk of washington because of what it might mean for the trump presidency. at its core, the memo alleges the fbi abused its surveillance powers in targeting a former aide of the trump campaign. democrats and other critics say the document is not an accurate representation of the facts. james comey called it dishonest and misleading. jeff zeleny explains why some believe it is mepant on to undermine the mueller investigation. reporter: now there is a fight brewing between the u.s., the justice department and the fbi. president trump declined to say if he had confidence in the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein who oversees the russia investigation. now none of this changes special counsel robert mueller s investigation. this is still going along full speed. one of the next things to find out is if the president will set down for an interview with him. but the release of this memo at least in the eyes of the white house and the president, they believe it helps discredit the russia investigation. now, many republicans across washington said that was not the point of it, they said that is not the case. it is separate from that. the reality here that was the president goes into the weekend where he will be spending it in mar-a-lago, will he make a decision to have a change either at the justice department with rod rosenstein or will he fire bob mueller. those are still two possible things that could happen. most advisers here at the white house say the president knows that would be explosive. and that would continue and draw out the investigation. but the mindset of the president on this is unclear. again, he declined to say if he has confidence in the deputy attorney general here and his own fbi director said he had grave concerns about the memo. the memo was released anyway. as this moves forward here going into the coming weeks, the russia investigation still going full blast, the question is now if the white house can move beyond it and get to the point of legislating so much work here to be done. republicans believe this has overtaken their agenda, they simply want to get back to legislating. jeff zeleny, cnn, the white house. other news involving the trump administration, u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in argentina, the latest stop in what could be called a fence mending tour of latin america. he will also advivisit peru, colombia and jamaica. and among the topics discussed friday, trade, drugs and even russian interference in elections. on that, secretary tillerson had some sage advice. listen. you asked about russian interference in mexican elections. all i can say to you is we know that russia has fingerprints in a number of elections around the world. we hear this from our european counterparts as well. my advice would be to mexico would be pay attention. the pentagon under the old nuclear arms policy on friday puts simply the united states wants more nuclear weapons, not fewer. defense secretary james mattis says it is looking reality in the eye. it is also reversing course after years of trying to reduce the united states nuclear arsenal. and it comes as north korea gets closer to becoming a nuclear danger, but an old foe is still front and center as barbara starr reports for us. reporter: while president trump navigates the political minefield of the russia investigation there has been no collusion. there has been no crime. reporter: pentagon and state department unveiled the toughest line yet against vladimir putin s military in a report on nuclear threats and the trump administration s solutions. russia has increased its reliance on nuclear weapons and its capabilities and it is building a large and diverse nuclear arsenal. reporter: the pentagon detailing 2,000 nuclear capable weapons that could hit europe. and for the first time, confirming russia is developing an underwater drone that can potentially travel thousands of miles and strike the u.s. coastline. russia just one headache for defense secretary james mattis as he begins the second year on the job. the u.s. nuclear determent also aimed at north korea which the report says may now only be months away from the capability to strike the u.s. with nuclear-armed missiles. if north korea would hypothetically launch a ballistic missile tipped with a nuclear weapon at the united states that we intercepted, it is not the sort of thing that we would say, oh, well, that is the end of the story. reporter: because of current tensions, the pentagon may delay a routine test of a u.s. intercontinental ballistic missile until after the olympics cnn has learned. along with the joints chiefs job number one now for mattis is to convince president trump to not conduct a limited strike against north korea hoping sanctions work before a missile is fielded. job number two, mattis still has to have credible military options to back up the diplomatic effort. he has to present it in a way that that leads up, that manages his boss so that his boss who has never seen combat unlike general dunford and secretary matt i mattis, he has not experienced that kind of chaos. he has to understand the consequences of making a decision on the use of military force. reporter: critics say all of this lower the threshold for president trump to decide to use nuclear weapons. but advocates say in today s world, this strong deterrence is necessary against america s adversaries. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. cape town south africa is drought ridden and it is running out of water. we ll you tell you how residents are dealing with an approaching disaster. and also the latest on tv stations taken 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cars and homes being washed away, this as raging floodwaters push through in northwestern argentina. reports say 10,000 were forced to evacuate their homes when a river burst its banks. and as you can see, some had to be pulled from the rushing water. and the water crisis in cape town is already a crisis fair to say, but its 4 million residents are facings possibility of a full blown catastrophe temperature in a little more than two months, the city could run out of water. people there waiting in long lines, stockpiling water for the so-called day zero. some are even building their own rationing systems for their homes. the city has restricted residents to just over 13 gallonsliters of water a day from municipal sources and the crisis is spreading. the industrial area could also face shortages because of low levels in reservoirs. let s bring in derrick van damme to tell us more about this. you have friends and family that are there. this is a very big deal not only for cape town, but around the world to see what is happening here. what exactly is day zero, what does it looks like? it is an actual date that the city of cape town has designated as the day that they will turn off the taps. that day is april 16th. so people in cape town will walk to their faucet, walk to their taps just like we do every day, take it for granted and there will literally be no water coming out of those taps and faucets. this is a day like no other. and we re going to see unchartered territory, people walking into situations that we haven t experienced before because this is the first major metropolitan to have the potential to run out of water because of drought in modern times. i was going to say excuse me, i ve lost my voice. i ve anchored for many years and i don t remember covering a story like this with this amount of people involved. there are other cities that are water stressed. sao paulo, melbourne, places like mexico city. but none of them have been forced to shut off their taps in a last ditch effort to reserve the last bits of that finite resource being water that is so crucial to humanity. so really lots to talk about. this story is wide ranging. so many angles. how do you control a population of 4 million people when you have only 200 allocation points to distribute 25 liters of water to that 4 million people. so you do the math, that is 20,000 people per allocation point. that just provides logistic issues all on its own. 71 days, 11 hour, 16 minutes, 26 seconds is how long until day zero occurs april 16th in cape town south africa. these are the latest images from nasa, they did a study and they show that the major reservoirs just outside of the city of cape town, the six big reservoirs that feed cape town its water source, and i want you to see the gradual progression. 2014 to 2016 to just last week, look at the depletion in the water especially across the tier. that particular dam here serves about 40% of their drinking water and it has been deplete, standing at only 13%. this area is just outside of cape town, beautiful part of south africa, this is the wine estate. everybody knows about this. the water system here has beeae severely depleted. look at that bathtub ring indicating where the water levels used to be. how did we get to this point? annual average rainfall here is just over 515 millimeters of rain, roughly 20 inches of rainfall. last year, their driest year on record, only 157 millimeters, that is 6 inches of rain in the entire year. level 6-b restrictions from the city of cape town, that is 50 liters per day, average consumption by you and me being an american, 375 milliliters or 20 gallons of water per day. it is incredible to see how much water that we use and take for granted and how they will have to give up major luxuries that we enjoy every single day just from turning on a tap to brushing our teeth to taking showers. they are restricting that and will be nonexistent after april 16. it s hard to fathom those of us that are fortunate to turn on the tap and get water. puts it in perspective. this could be a new reality, certainly something people are dealing with in cape town, but something that people around the world need to be aware of. without a doubt. thanks. all right. now to kenya, that government appears to be defying a court order to let three tv channels back on the air. at least three channels were ordered shut off on tuesday. the move came over coverage of the symbolic swearing in of an opposition leader. the court ordered the government to restore all transmissions thursday, a hear going challenging that decision to shut them down is set for later this month. let s go live to nairobi. good to have you with us. what is next for these tv channels beyond the court order, do they have any recourse? reporter: well, not really. the recourse that they have is that the courts as you say, they have ordered these stations to be reopened as way back as two days ago, they did this. and the private petition that went to the courts to try to get the television stations back on was telling us that he went to the kenya communications authority, tried to hand over the court s orders and they simply told him to go away and never to set his foot there again about th again. but he has managed to serve the interior minister and the minister of information and attorney general and the hearing as you say will be somewhere around february 14th. but the criticism has been completely overwhelming of the government s moves. just now i m reading a letter from the committee to protect journalists calling the kenyan government s refusal to an bid by the court order as something akin to full-on censorship. and of course even within kenya itself, people are a little bit bitmuse ebi bitbe be mused by the government s reaction. and this is an unprecedented move to shut down four tv stapgstapgs stations like this and then be told to switch them back on and four days later they are still not back on. and i wanted to ask you a bit more about that, the general response. what are people saying about the fact this happened? reporter: they are usually easy going folk. and we talked to people on the streets and from very young women who say that their routine and to people being cross, why do they have in this day and age in an independent brightly developing and very prominent part of east africa, why do they have to turn to the internet and of course stations like cnn to get news of their own political life. these are questions that the government still has to answer and it will remain to see of course whether or not these stations will be back on air. farai, thank you so much. we ll keep up with the story. thank you. we ll pause and talk some olympics when we come back. because they are almost here. we ll have a live report from south korea. plus the u.s. pro football championship, it will be played sunday. the super it aptly named the su bowl? we ll explain. oh, 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political effects. at one point the united states being skeptical about how the games would come off. now donald trump saying yesterday that he thinks something good will come of it. having said that, natalie, you and i both know for these athletes that train so long and hard for these games, they just want the politics out of it. and as understand, they want to get to some sports and hopefully when the opening ceremonies begin we can put some of the polt tick politics behind them and concentrate on good performances. i m ready for it. i think the world needs a little bit of olympic spirit. i want to talk to you about russia s participation. is there still some back and forth on that? reporter: gosh, is there ever. i mean, we just had in the last hour the ioc had a press conference and again you heard earlier in the week just to update you that some russian athletes had appealed their lifetime ban. 28 of those, their appeal succeeded. they now are waiting to see whether now the ioc gives them permission to participate in the olympics. think about it, these are top athletes who now are in limbo with the olympics just six days away. i want you to listen to the ioc spokesperson mark adams to hear what he had to say about their participation. will it be a success? i think time will judge. but i think we can be at least be pleased that we have tried rather than going for blanket ban or letting everyone in, we ve tried to actually find out on an individual basis for individual young athletes, many of whom have never competed in big games before, to try to let them have their olympic dream which would be denied if a blanket ban was applied. reporter: and natalie, mark adams there is really addressing some criticism of the ioc saying you have been too easy on russia here. having said that, still a few athletes in limbo and they may know perhaps 24 hours before these olympics start whether or not they can compete. okay. paula newton, we appreciate it. thanks. before we get to the olympics, we have the biggest annual sporting spectacle in the united states one day away. a lot of people will be watching super bowl lii. the u.s. pro football championship set to be played sunday pitting the eagles against the patriots. everything about it is enormous. according to forbes, american consumers spent an average $14 billion on super bowl day in 2017. that is the same amount spent on halloween and st. patrick s day did you know combined. a lot of money. and a lot of people viewing it. thanks for watching cnn newsroom. i m sure we have as many viewers as the super bowl. i m george howell. and i m natalie allen. new day is next in the united states. for viewers around the world, amanpour is ahead. thanks for watching. ork. unconventional, unexpected nudes. liquid matte formula. up to 16 hour wear. go un-nude with attitude. maybelline s matte ink un-nude. only from maybelline new york. what s going on? oh hey!ink un-nude. that s it? yeah. everybody two seconds! 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eighty one after a long illness while the news was announced by her personal assistant when mandela was the ex-wife of the late president and anti apartheid icon nelson mandela her legacy in south africa was mixed for decades she was long admired as a determined fighter against white minority rule in south africa but women to his reputation began to suffer and later years due to a number of controversy still she does remain one of south africa s most of fining figures and tributes have been pouring in for her this is what one member of the current government had to say she was really it was. solved in african names. is the sea deep our evolutionary pain. of this great i call of regimes drug. serfontein is a south african journalist author and documentary filmmaker she has reported extensively on her country thank you so much mr serfontein for being here with us who was winnie mandela well she s obviously in the former wife of nelson mandela but she was so sort of a very strong figure in a own right she was a social worker one of the street to go and study in the united states in the nineteen fifties and married to mandela. and then off to he went to prison and she became the voice. of nelson mandela because he was in prison and with twenty seven years she kept his legacy alive and i strongly believe without him he would have not have been that i can he became my so it s about that because she s been so tainted in the past couple of years but this is a very interesting point you think that well everyone was in prison the a.n.c. was in exile his organization he was in prison his comrades when prison and she was still there and they slammed her with banning orders but she kept on breaking her book banning old is she kept on speaking up she was beautiful she was well spoken and she was not scared of anyone she was really feeling and that got into trouble in later because no one could control her not to watch apartheid government the nato not to see that she was when he was one of the most fearless people have ever met fearless woman fearless activist you know her personally what kind of impression that should make on you know well she was incredibly charming on a one to one and you know like if you would speak to her you had the full attention and she was just the sort of very charismatic person more so than when they re lively she just had. this charm and with charm people but then when she was angry she just always have vicious as one is seen in the townships and that when she confronted the security police right so where did it all go wrong i mean you refer to it already shared this fierceness which couldn t couldn t be bound i think when they benish ten nine hundred seventy seven to bring forward to an area which she didn t speak the language where people would politicised and she was very very isolated and she did start to have a drinking problem and i think that broke in addition to have early as sort of spells in detention which she was sort of kept without trial for eighteen months and raped in that time and that must have broken her just when the people were not treated for post-traumatic stress syndrome in those days so she was a very lonely person when she was invented and she spent about nine years. she was also been active being a social worker she started like feeding. feeding the people. organizing them getting sort of activities for the trold wron getting foreign governments to fund have projects so she was also very eco active but she was very lonely in that time and i think that broken in she went back to see a way to she was surrounded by the wrong people she was not a with the judge the best judge of people s character a very complex history of a complex woman what will her legacy be i think her legacy would be that at the time when everyone was in prison or when exiled she kept the legacy of the anti-apartheid struggle alive for many many years all to great extent be aren t only answer from time south african journalist talking to us about the legacy of the now late winnie mandela thank you. all right and other news reports are coming in from see. that rebel fighters are leaving their last stronghold in isa hotel syrian media showed us is said to be carrying militants and their families leaving the area persian forces say they ve cut a deal with the largest rebel group the army of islam but some members of the group deny that sources also tell the news that hundreds of wounded fighters from a different group have been bussed out of the area it s on now an anti government and activist and citizen journalist nor adam has sent news exclusive footage of video diaries showing the final days of rebel control in the besieged area. different species. you can. see it for us they force us to leave that s our goal. that s where we are. they destroy our. our goal how do you conceive that suction this terrible. thing to now there are families. that are of going to have this thing. going now we are actually. we don t know really getting back to that what we were what he was doing. our city is how we fight i would do if i didn t know what happened to the feeling like oh. i was being arrested for any of this and jane and oh exactly it s going to be done there i should and the us and them to see our we know we ve. got three countries feel the power of all the court going to the fight. and russia . as. my mrs. did you. instead of. yes if i write. my dad he. said simply. i ve been lost like more than twenty five or twenty six right. and right now. a lot of them is going. for nothing but it is my life i want to sponsor the taliban for the sick winds. and to say it s a. window that is going for nothing. personnel a video diary out of some hotel there all right now to some of the other stories making news around the world. israel says it has agreed to deal with the united nations on resettling thousands of african asylum seekers israel had faced criticism for previous plans to send the migrants back to africa and mass forty one percent then in the previous presidential election critics also argue as sisi had just one opponent a token candidate to give the election the appearance of a genuine contest opposition groups that called for a boycott of the vote. well with voters handing a second term to president have to have sisi what does this mean for the arab world s most populous nation going forward ruth michaelson is a correspondent based in cairo and she will be able to provide us with some contacts was this a vote by egyptians for a sisi or for stability in the country. well government and c.c. himself bill this vote as a vote as a vote for civility a vote for the country a kind of vote for egyptian patriotism as a whole but of course high turnout for turnout of any kind benefits he says will he wanted a strong mandate going into his second term in office to be able to push through further reforms perhaps even constitutional little ones we saw that there was forty why i m just on forty one percent turnout which is about a four percent dip from cc s last victory in twenty forty but he got roughly the same amount of votes ninety six point nine percent in twenty fourteen and this time around ninety seven point zero eight percent of the vote so roughly the same between twenty forty and now alone of course we have no way of knowing if these figures are correct all right now let s talk a little bit about what is ahead of him now egypt s economy is in dire straits inflation is pretty bad ordinary people are in area the gypsies are suffering many many hardships what has he promised to do to turn the economy around for his people . well we see that season at some. economic reforms following. egypt s acceptance of a twelve billion dollars loan from the international monetary fund twenty six and this led to the cutting of subsidies. to a subsidy there are. then widespread contemplation that he s going to cut subsidies including natural gas subsidies when we see a new budget. that there s no clear confirmation of that yet and c.d.c. is also frequently lent on the mega projects that egypt has enacted over the past couple of years and new capital city a second series cannot have a saying that these are going to bring prosperity to the country but that hasn t necessarily been the case just yet and there are a lot of people who are worst a whole society who say they re not seeing the benefits of any of these reforms just feeling the pinch. michael some reporting off from a cairo thank you. because presidential election has resulted in a resoundingly victory for the governing party the winner is also being seen as a victory for gay rights carlos over otto of the ruling citizen after party has vowed to legalize same sex marriage his opponent an evangelical pastor campaigned against gay marriage polls had predicted the runoff would be taped but in the end it wasn t even close. the crowd went wild when carlos alvarado was announced the winner. my responsibility is to unite all the people in our country move the country forward and enable it to become a leading nation in the twenty first century. carlos alvarado the candidate of the ruling citizen action party had come in second in the first round of voting behind fabricio alvarado of the national restoration party the two men are not related fabricio alvarado ran on a platform of opposition to same sex marriage that became the main issue in the avocados are destined for the chinese market but they might not sell so well anymore now that china has imposed tariffs on fruit and meat while steel pipes and scores of other imports from the usa the rates of fifteen percent on one hundred twenty items and twenty five percent on eight others. the chinese government says that people support its move some in china regret the ensuing rise in prices. can you it s definitely going to have an impact many fruits that kids love only grow in foreign countries we don t have them in china that is a direct impact. it s absolutely right to impose tariffs because i ve seen the news about the us crapping trade deals with us it s right to fight back. the new tariffs are china s initial response to the u.s. move to slap tariffs on steel and alimony i m imports the u.s. is also threatening to impose further tariffs on sixty billion dollars worth of other chinese imports a year over what it terms the theft of intellectual property china by contrast is raising tariffs on about three billion dollars worth of u.s. imports. beijing says it will never submit if the u.s. launches a trade war and says that tariff increases are in line with world trade organization rules to protect its interests still the scale of china s new tariffs is modest the move looks more like a warning shot than a major counterattack the u.s. is china s largest single market a full blown trade war is the last thing china would want. now when it comes to rolling up its sleeves and doing some serious hard work portugal is a country that know something about that the financial crisis hurt austerity even mall. but the country pulled through and started spending again well before everything looks rosy growth is now two point seven percent so we took a trip to a warmer and brighter looking part of europe. business is going pretty well for eva organized his co-operative has been making wine since nine hundred fifty seven but sales haven t been this good for years. in the beginning there were only this part and then you have to upgrade it to increase the capacity then we. will double the capacity we ve put. just side by side because we are in the maximum capacity of production and we have more demand than with what can you produce around thirty people work on the cover where a cooperative. working conditions have improved for most portuguese in the past two years thanks to a raft of reforms including a higher minimum wage instead of starting economic growth it s accelerated it at least that s how the portuguese finance minister sees it we have done some profiting from the new wave of tourism rising property values are changing neighborhoods low income locals are being forced out like fernando tex era he grew up in boulder on the banks of the river he can only afford to keep the studio as the new bars and restaurants drive up the prices. bought a new one to me there are no portuguese people that can afford to pay rent in this area not one i was born here and i was thrown out so a hotel could be built and i have to move way back. probably even things the government should make sure everyone benefits from the economic upswing but he remains optimistic that portugal can find prosperity without the need for staring. the gulf nation as battering has discovered its biggest oil fields since one thousand nine hundred thirty two it s located off the country s west coast and will dwarf back rains current reserves that s according to the country s government now the oil ministry will release details about exactly how big this site is and how easy it will be to extract the oil later this week is a major oil producer is only right fifty seventh annual oil production pumped out about forty five thousand barrels of oil a day. and out thank you hello today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of a traumatic shock turn germany s post-war history on april second one thousand nine hundred eighty eight bombs went off into frankfurt department stores one of the perpetrators was andreas bader who went on to found the left wing terror group known in germany as the red army facts on it s also known as the bottom line hall after carrying out deadly attacks spanning three decades the organization disbanded in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight the bottom i have going may have broken up but police believe that three suspected former members are still active. police are searching for this trio in hiding for two decades they were last seen by surveillance cameras june a robbery in northern germany in twenty sixteen they thought to be the remaining members of the so-called red army faction and stop both cut and daniella cleta. they belong to the factions third generation they re pretty says a spot to national crisis in the one nine hundred seventy s. with attacks government blackmail murders and kidnappings terrorist activities peaked in one thousand nine hundred ninety seven with the murders of germany s federal prosecutor general secret blueback bank manager yogen panto and the kidnapping of the president of the german employers association hands martin the terrorist shot him dead germans clearly remember that wave of terror. despise what they believe the main topic on t.v. and in the newspapers it was as distressing as the islamic state activities are now the fashion it was a shock you just didn t think they would become as radicalized as they did about the student protests of nine hundred sixty eight defined germany s political climate at the time extreme left wing violence also took shape that year two department stores in frankfurt was set ablaze symbolic acts to protest against capitalism and dress but and could written ensley in took part in the crime they would later found lead the red army faction hans christian scribbler was an active member of the student movement who yelled apollo back then a.p.o. the non-governmental opposition students movement wasn t just a movement for revolutionary change in germany i also wanted that it was an international movement was. wrong and the left at the time sought self in that context. but some people a minute percentage said that we should not simply accept things that we had to take up arms. of. the buddah mine health group officially disbanded twenty years ago it s believed the trio s recent robberies were more likely carried out for the money than for political reasons discussions about the factions still divide germany today former conservative parliamentarian votes gangbuster worries that they may still hold a fascination for some up to us and no one can seriously claim that the end of the red army faction would also be the end of all if we need stream of lift to six trimix who are prepared to be violent so you should never say that chapter is closed forever on its. shriven of pleads for a more differentiated discussion. it would help us work through this history and a discussion about it today if people debated these incidents more calmly without blinders and without prejudice or do it for a laugh and laugh and. the red army factions wave of terror a shocked germany during that era the country was an agent ideologically divided even now the group s actions of the subject of passionate debate throughout the country. are now to something altogether different a very insidious puzzle in the southeastern corner of germany is experiencing it for a city the world s first museum devoted to ducks and they re known as the sausage dog opens its doors to the public while the museum s a founder says about time that sausage dog fans had a shrine dedicated to their beloved breed. excitement has been growing ahead of the museum s opening. man s best friend has already been having a sniff around the premises which is filled with some two thousand objects inspired by the sausage dog. museum founder and director is. a proud but very and can hardly believe no one came up with the idea before him. but often the world needs a sausage dog museum once captured the essence of bavaria you know the dog in the world enjoys the same kind of recognition or popularity here as a sausage dog. some of the pieces on display might be considered kitsch by most people but probably not for ducks and lovers. one of the more serious exhibit pays tribute to famous sausage dog lovers among them nobel physicist albert einstein and actor leonard nimoy better known as spock from star trek. there s even a drawing of the sausage dog sketched by none other than pablo picasso. and of course no museum would be complete without a gift shop visitors searching for the perfect souvenir for themselves or others and purchase a gift box that s sure to bring a smile to any sausage dog lover. i must say ok you re watching you have unusual still have a lot more to tell you about including life as an immigrant in saudi arabia some foreign workers are facing new arches because of country s ambitious reform program and frankish our files a rebel court of the kingdom on the cusp of change. that coming up and a whole lot more in just a few will be right back. meaning that it s connected to being realistic martin luther king jr. just legendary speech for our area. this edition of a society free of racism. was written in one dramatically good night on the fiftieth anniversary of his death the dream of martin luther king jr to. close up in forty five minutes to tell the truth. we may come over a week or times of office that found out that if we are the civil service or. the want to shape the continent s future or to. be part of it and join african youngsters of testing share their stories their dreams and their challenges. to seventy seven percent of the platform africa is charging. one hundred million tonnes of. devastating interest in its. mission to the consequences. the storm. coming to america two frequencies. one spin stuart. no stopping them. just starting to pull something d.w. . great to see you again you re watching the news these are main headlines right now sells the africa and the apartheid campaign when he mandela has died at the age of eighty one the ex-wife of the late president nelson mandela was seen by many as the mother of the nation but only years her legacy was tarnished by a number of controversies she died peacefully in a hospital after a long period of illness syrian state media says the rebel fighters have agreed to a deal to give up their last stronghold in near damascus eastern who took has been in rebel hands since the start of the conflict. china has slapped import tariffs on ports and a whole range of other u.s. imports the move comes after president trump imposed punitive terrorism on china u.s. stocks are down intriguing amid fears of a possible change for. saudi arabia is known as one of the world s most conservative societies but falling oil prices have hit the kingdom hard and that is triggering change his wallet was home on has unveiled an ambitious program of economical for known as vision twenty thirty thirty eight and our reporter funny for sure travel to saudi arabia to find out what his vision really me. riyadh is an international city a third of the population comes from abroad many of them manual workers they helped to build the saudi capital but the wall khan they once enjoyed is starting to fade . saudis first know that the saudi government s plan to reduce unemployment among native saudis employers who hire none so ds will have to pay higher fees and jobs in shops like this one selling electronics for example will be restricted to saudis only. foreigners will be banned from at least jobs. stores selling instruments has already put up a sign for saudis only be looking for a salesperson male or. how does asian is a good idea there are more job opportunities here for saudis than for foreigners. but he and a lot of service return from the u.s. and germany with degrees only to find many jobs already filled by foreigners after their own country should benefit from them as saudi arabia should benefit from saudis. we are in a neighborhood in the south of the city it s a tough area most of the people here are foreign workers want to here is from bangladesh here i ve got a month ago to work in this shop learning how to assemble picture frames everything is getting more expensive in the salaries aren t enough for everyone it s hard to it s if that had to survive for the person s life for manual row course was never easy in saudi arabia just as in many parts of the world but falling oil prices have made it more difficult and as your prices doubled in a year pushing up prices and recently new taxes on basic goods added an extra burden it s even more to here has just finished his shift how many hours did you work today i swear words sixteen hours that s a lot. maybe it s a lot better and i need to do that for the salary he makes one thousand three hundred saudi ryall a month that s about three hundred fifty u.s. dollars on the way home he tells me he used to have a good life until his father got very sick. you know we lost our almost all of our money in his treatment so i just thought that i should come here to. keep them alive being the eldest in the family he border responsibility he dropped out of engineering studies and came to saudi arabia to earn money but it wasn t as easy as he had expected life is becoming more difficult for foreigners most of the people of other countries. and even here here s the cause. because there are now just and they can t live like that maybe my boss gave me a place to live. there was a not like that even some people don t have a job sometimes the slaves near the road don t have time money to buy food. i want to hear chooses not to show me the room he lives in with three others he doesn t want to get into trouble and be sent home he wants to stay as long as he can to make money for his family he s just one of millions of foreign workers in saudi arabia they are realizing though that the future here belongs to the saudis. some examples there of the work of iran the artist is surely in the shots who is the subject of our culture for our parts twenty one this week and there on your own mail is here from our culture desk i mean i have to disclaimer here she s one of my favorite artists i m so happy that we re talking about her today she lives in the u.s. how did she end up there tells us that well she went to study in nine hundred seventy five at the university of berkeley in california and in nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution happened and this was a real shock and it obviously changed the role of women in iran. immensely i mean overnight they became almost second class citizens the shots prevented her from going from britney and then in one thousand nine hundred she went back to iran eleven years later and that was actually what sparked it and you know how to create evictee as an artist and ever since it s her art that prevents her from returning because she often focus on the injustices especially of women in iran anyway let s find out more about this wonderful woman. in this truthful. it deals with contrasts between islam and the west men and women light and dark where reality segues into train. and sure enough shots work always uses the female voice. it s always this the ballots here in extremely fragile and vulnerable and yet extremely strong and defiant the female experience in iran was the subject of her first feature film women without men about four women seeking to escape their lives . that i. guess is that if i have. yes. in twenty seventeen nesha turned her focus to the world of opera when she directed aida for the salt spec festival. was an art are. sure initiates work is constantly evolving mirroring the trajectory of her life. werman tell us about her new film love that s coming out about a legendary egyptian the singer known as star of the orient yeah i d starve the audience just where you know she is better than me. i now i mean wonderful. was legendary in the twentieth century is even legendary to this day is the greatest singer ready of the middle east and apart from the film telling us about this extraordinary musician it shows the major sacrifices a woman had to make in islamic society if you want to be an artist of any car and. own cultural by the way is not outside the middle east by certain musicians bob dylan evidently is a big fan as is maria callas kind of even called her the woman with the in comparable voice let s hear it now this is an actress actually in the film but the voice is the of the original voice that she. was. some wonderful way of saying and i must say old it s only songs i m told a about unrequited love with a very sad or happy yes i ve seen some with trans i just love it it s really not sort of long and yeah. let s talk about the other movie that s coming up that she s also making about iranian women in us in the us in exile this is a quite a change that shuttles come out next year meanwhile if people are interested as you are you can see an entire program on a program outs twenty one about it s running up this week or it s available on our website at d.w. dot com slash culture yes awesome we re going to definitely to you know i definitely well thank you so much ellen greatly appreciate it all right and i m going to hand you over now to helena. shares in emerson fellow shopper monday off the us president donald trump renewed his attack on its relationship with the united states postal service dragging the dow down almost three percent natural claims that u.s.p.s. is losing money on delivering for amazon and taxpayers he says off financing the losses will analysts point out that the online retailing giants payments actually support the postal services other money losing businesses and it s not says pension obligations they say amazon is helping the u.s.p.s. stay afloat but estimates say amazon pays the u.s.p.s. roughly hope of what rival postle services would be charging. now twenty five years after the end of apartheid in south africa white farmers still own most commercial farmland to fast track land reform the governing a.n.c. party had adopted a policy of land exploring creation without compensation but a closer look reveals it has less to do with correcting historic injustice and more to do with winning back voters ahead of elections. the northern part of free state province is one of the most fertile areas of south africa it s here that yucca owns a large farm he s one of about thirty five thousand commercial farmers in the country for me about three an authentic this is my new my soybean sunflowers and from. produce about fifteen thousand tons of grains per year four hundred days of cattle. twenty five people permanently and all those helping south africa being the only food secure country in africa white farmers like me are the backbone of south africa laggard culture but the original black owners of many white owned farms were pushed off their land during the colonial and apartheid periods after the end of apartheid the government addressed this injustice and created a land reform program on a willing buyer willing seller basis but only around ten percent of white farm land has been transferred back into black ownership. many like julius malema and his left wing economic freedom fighters all find that this is not enough. to know what all this is why it is so hard to know. if you are why you re. so. well it s real really we are we. are only since such demands have proven popular with many voters the governing n.c. has recently adopted a policy of land expropriation without compensation and wants to amend the constitution accordingly. so south africa is headed for national and provincial elections in twenty nineteen and the debate about land an expropriation is entirely situated within that issue between the a.n.c. and the year if if if for making this their number one election issue but i don t think we are ever going to see land express expropriation without compensation in south africa the constitution provides ample scope for government to implement responsible land reform without having an impact on the investor confidence or indeed on challenges with regard to food security in south africa but given the heated debate about expropriation and uncertainty as to what the future may bring farmers like you are holding on to their money rather than investing it. because we run a big farming into process we need to constantly put capital into the business and that this moment we re not sure we will that we are going to do it because of all these procreation thing i m still very positive about the future and i think there s a great future of the eight of us if we can all work together in this country economic growth in south africa is slow and the country faces many financial challenges so the government needs to consider carefully if it can afford to lose farmers like minnaar and foreign investors who fear instability. well did you know this month kicks off frankincense season in oman in the middle east resins harvested this time of year to create your own bed that many may associate with christmas and the trade has survived the centuries but modern life is now taking its toll. frankincense is using essential oils in french perkins and that has partly helped drive global demand you know eskil declared part of the deal for region it s not a no man s land of frankincense a weld heritage site. but if you go. to what frankincense is still considered a precious well the trees are rare in order to protect them we collected trees from many places in the door for products we protect them at this reserve for natural frankincense trees. you need to look. you ve got but you. efforts here could help protect the bones will your trees that produce the resin for frankincense for trade in the future demand is so high that the trees here do not have enough time to regenerate. but there s more to the you know school site here this area was also an important stop on the ancient silk road which runs all the way to china in those days frankincense was traded in exchange for spices textiles and silk. from ancient frankincense to new technology of course tech usually comes with a few teething problems and drones in a different russia s postal service has been taking them for a spin to deliver apostles but things didn t go quite as planned during the day. a russian drone was supposed to deliver its first parcel from one remote village to a neighboring want. the postal service wanted to celebrate the occasion. you know it you but i m very happy that we re launching this project here today which would undoubtedly be successful. however the drone didn t get far. crashed after just a few seconds in the air. nobody was injured. but the dream won t be flying again any time soon. all over the firm date of us forces here to talk us through the soccer weekend action all the things are starting to crystallize some things are leyla certainly by and for example they inched a little closer to the title but a lot of things are up in the air to especially the race for the champions league places all right well sunday s big game saw frankfurt to travel to brainless take a look. craven s florian cofield has been working to emulate the kind of success nico kovach has had in frankfurt unlike the former croatia international though cofield builds his team around attack thomas delaney with a pinpoint cross not to lose of its. one nil to brain in the twenty eighth minute a high quality goal you know high tempo game. in the second half frankfurt struck back with some style as well. kevin prince boating with a snappy back heel assist for a look at your age. three minutes later the eagles nearly soared into the elite your bitch threw on the republican who pulled a crucial kicks in how crucial this crucial use of it is crossed deflected high into the air by dabdoub around. and into the net. lucas with its key tried and failed to control the ball perhaps down by the sun. frame and walked off to one winners the trend under cofield just keeps going up. right to all the fifty dollars first here still with me how big of a blow is this for frankfurt it s a pretty bad weekend from frank first point of view you know that was fourth at the start of the weekend in the champions league places they finished it six out of the champions league places as we say here but you know the good news for them is that it is very tight as i said at the top that by an obviously way out of and shall kill i think an album for a champions league place now but below that dortmund down to six by frankfurt you ve only got three points gap between them and it s only another three points further down to hoffenheim in sevens so there still could be a lot of movement there you know and i think the head to heads are going to be really important also saying that they re allegations i m braman i think after that when i now saif i think they can stop worrying so they say and i think the head to heads are going to be really important in the champions league rights and next week as early as next week with one of those levees and playing leipsic fourth against. those are the games that people really need to watch out for now i can t help looking at that sherry look at byron my god that gap couldn t even get wider just how did i say bye and you know just on another planet compared to every other team in germany right now for years we ve been talking up dortmund is that being the big rivals and you know every time the two meet we call it deck classic you know the classic and and we try and drum up this rivalry because we want it to be true that there are these two titans in german football facing each other on saturday that now this season that is just the fast it s not the case anymore that being said it wasn t the perfect weekend for buy and they were hoping to win the league at home for the first time since two thousand and one eleven leads final since then always away from home that was confirmed the title away from home so a bit of a disappointment and we ve heard from some of the let s hear what muscles the defender were here to say. yes i think most of the fans and most of us would like it to ruin the retired lads home. but of course you know we won t try to win it in our school kids to close this game to home so maybe that s ok. all right not too bad not too shabby ali but what about dortmund can their coach survive this i think it s the end of the season probably you because it s very late in the day to change coaches now but beyond that i don t think goldman have been anywhere near good enough and i think it s been mediocre at best he did steady the ship after the disastrous baseball but it certainly doesn t look good enough to really build on what they ve done this season and in fact dillman do have a couple of really big games coming up the next three games are against the shock of the big rivals and late because none of the champions league contend and like i was saying this head to head games they re going to be what s really important the rest of the season if they lose all of those then it could be gone even before the end of the season for whole of britain s mind out there thank you so much ali for talking to us about this thank you art and i m going to head to some surfing now because australia s surfing great mick fanning is in fine form in his final event before 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reporter: that reassured wall street, but just hours later, president trump turned up the heat yet again, announcing $100 billion in additional tariffs against china. enter today, the treasury secretary there is the potential of a trade war. and let me just be clear, it is not a trade war. the president wants reciprocal trade. reporter: so, what now? well, just last month, the president himself said the united states had been treated so badly for so long on trade that, quote, trade wars are good and easy to win. does the president think that trade wars are easy to win? is that still his view? i think the president feels like if he is in charge of those negotiations, absolutely. and jon karl joins us from the white house tonight, and jon, the president s top economic adviser calls the tariffs just a proposed idea, but you re not hearing that kind of language from the president himself. reporter: well, tom, it is true that tariffs have not gone into effect yet. the process could take a couple of months leaving time to negotiate, but the president sure seems dug in on this, and so do the chinese. as a chinese government spokesman said today, we are not afraid to fight a trade war. tom? jon karl starting us off tonight. jon, thank you. next to the white house, divided over the fate of epa chief, scott pruitt as a cloud of scandal is growing around him. the latest after he denied knowing anything about big staff raises and tonight, sources in the epa dispute that. but only one person can ask him to go, the president. and tonight, he is standing by pruitt. abc s mary bruce is at the epa tonight. reporter: mired in controversy, epa administrator scott pruitt sat down with president trump today in the oval office. but the white house refuses to say what comes next. no one other than the president has the authority to hire and fire members of his cabinet. it s a decision that he ll make. reporter: tonight, new questions about why two of pruitt s top aides got hefty raises, even after the white house refused to sign off. in a contentious interview with fox news, pruitt claimed he knew nothing about it. i found out about that yesterday and i changed it. so who did it? and there would be some accountability. a career person or political person? i don t know. i don t know. i don t know the answer. you don t know? you run the agency. you don t know who did this? i found out about this yesterday and i corrected the action. reporter: but now, epa officials tell abc news that s not true. they say pruitt knew about and supported the raises. one aide receiving a nearly $57,000 salary increase. no cabinet secretary in recent memory has been the subject of so many ethical concerns on so many fronts. from his penchant for luxury travel on the taxpayer dime to spending $43,000 on a secure phone booth for his office, to questions about his relationship with a d.c. lobbyist and that alleged sweetheart real estate deal that let him pay just $50 a night for this d.c. apartment. pruitt says the scrutiny is all part of an effort to sabotage the trump agenda. any time you do transformational things, there are critics and there are people that come against you in that abc s senior meteorologist rob marciano is in washington, d.c. where the cherry blossoms are under threat of snow. rob, good evening. reporter: hey, good evening, tom. the same system that could bring a little bit of snow here in d.c. tomorrow is bringing severe weather across the south, from dallas across northern louisiana. we have a tornado and severe thunderstorm watches that are posted and they are up until midnight tonight. watch as this thing makes its way across the cold front, and it will mix for colder air. another one to three inches of spring snow across the tennessee valley, and across parts of virginia and more storms across the south. behind this record-breaking cold, windchills will be below zero in parts of the country on saturday, and much of the east, including the deep south below the freezing mark, and the deep south being slammed with wind and rain, tom. rob marciano for us. rob, thank you. next, professional fighter conor mcgregor now has a court battle on his hands. he was charged in a brooklyn court today for a violent attack on a busload of other fighters. take a look. injuring two of them whose battles are canceled because of this. tonight, the sport is also weighing punishment. abc s adrienne bankert on what might have set mcgregor off. reporter: conor mcgregor, one of ufc s biggest names in court. facing a judge after a melee at the barclays center in new york. in this video obtained by tmz sports, police say mcgregor committed assault, tossing this handcart into a bus full of other fighters who are watching, stunned. the glass shatters. you can see mcgregor try to get in, stopped while attempting to throw a metal railing. what s wrong with conor? reporter: as another irish fighter throws a chair at the bus and allegedly assaults an employee who tries to stop him. the outburst reportedly stems from bad blood between mcgregor, his friend and a russian fighter trying to take the title mcgregor was stripped of prior to the incident. from what we understand, the person who he had the dispute with, or was argued with, was not injured. reporter: he has been charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal felony mischief. now released on $50,000 bond as he awaits consequences from the ufc. two of the fighters on board that bus suffered cuts due to the broken glass. in fact, three of the matches scheduled here on saturday are canceled because of what went down. tom? adrienne bankert for us. adrienne, thank you. and tonight, facebook announcing new transparency steps to let users know who is behind the political and issue ads they see on facebook and on instagram. those posts will be clearly labeled and will show who paid for them. posters of those ads will also have to prove their identity. at the same time facebook confirmed today they secretly deleted messages from the inboxes of people that ceo mark zuckerberg had sent to them citing corporate security. that s raising new questions about breach of trust. on tuesday, zuckerberg is slated to testify on capitol hill. the u.s. treasury department issuing a new round of sanctions on russian interests for meddling in the 2016 election. those sanctions on seven oligarchs, 12 companies they own or control and 17 senior russian government officials, all of them close to vladimir putin. the treasury citing, quote, worldwide malign activity such as the occupation of crimea and syria as well as the election meddling. next, an abc news exclusive from the russia investigation. new questions tonight about the testimony of erik prince, a major trump campaign supporter, about a meeting he had with a russian banker just before the inauguration at an exotic resort in the seychelles. prince told congress it was a coincidence, but a source suggests there is evidence to suggest it was planned. here s abc s chief justice correspondent, pierre thomas. reporter: this is erik prince, the founder of the security company blackwater. he is also the brother of education secretary, betsy devos. sources allege he was also a liaison between the trump transition and the russian government, something he emphatically denies. here, prince is leaving a closed session with congressional investigators clearly annoyed. i ve already wasted four hours of my life. reporter: but tonight, sources tell abc news the special counsel has obtained evidence that may conflict with prince s sworn testimony. at issue, a meeting prince attended at this exotic seychelles resort just two weeks before the inauguration. also there, a russian banker with ties to the kremlin. prince has said his meeting with the russian banker was unplanned, a chance encounter while on a business trip. i happened to be there, and i met a russian, some fund manager. i can t even remember his name. we didn t exchange cards. reporter: prince remembered the russian s name when speaking to those congressional investigators several months later. prince said he traveled to meet with some potential customers, and they, quote, mentioned a guy i should meet who is also in town to see them, a kirill dmitriev from russia, who ran some sort of hedge fund. so i met him in the bar. we talked for 30 minutes over a beer, and that was it. but there is another version of this story. and it involves george nader, a lebanese-american businessman who sources say is cooperating with the special counsel. interviewed four times by mueller s grand jury. those sources say nader set up the seychelles meeting between prince and the russian banker specifically to launch conversations between the trump transition and russian government officials. people talk about there was a back channel or all of that? you re saying no, off the table? complete hogwash. reporter: prince was familiar with the investigation tell abc news his team has obtained evidence from nader that suggests he met with prince at the pierre hotel in new york city a week before that seychelles meeting. sources say that evidence documents that reveal within hours of the new york city meeting, nader started sending messages to prince with the bio of the russian banker, showing he was a powerful putin ally. just a week later, prince was in the seychelles having a beer with that russian banker. a meeting he said was unplanned. prince has said he was not representing the trump transition and he has spokesman told us he stands by his testimony before congress. tom? pierre, thank you. the fbi and other federal agencies shutting down the classified ad website, backpage.com. authorities blocking access to the website posting this announcement instead. backpage has been under fire for years for allowing adult ads for sex workers and for allegedly enabling the sexual exploitation of minors. next, the menendez brothers reunited in prison. lyle and erik menendez convicted of killing their parents in a case that made national headlines. the two seeing each other for the first time in more than 20 years. here s abc s whit johnson. reporter: tonight, the brothers reunited behind bars. the member menendez brothers serving their sentence for murdering their parents inside their beverly hills mansion. their 1996 interview with barbara walters, one of their last times together. i m just a normal kid. oh, erik, you re a normal kid who killed your parents. reporter: back then, a detective arguing the partners in crime might conspire to escape. now prison officials allowing the infamous brothers to both live inside this san diego prison. lyle burst into tears, and erik burst into tears, and they hugged each other for several minutes. reporter: lyle and erik testifying they were molested by their father. he would fondle me. reporter: but prosecutors argued the brothers were merely desperate for their parents fortune. over the years, their only communication, letters. it s marvelous they are able to look at each other and love each other. reporter: lyle s move to be reunited with his brother in san diego comes after five failed attempts, tom. whit johnson for us tonight. whit, thank you. there is still much more ahead on world news tonight this friday. misery at sea. passengers posting pictures of their two weeks at sea complaining their cruise ship was under construction the entire time. tonight, the cruise line responding. plus, the driver crashing into a police station. why authorities say it was no accident, and what they allegedly found inside that car. and high school teenagers, the anxious moment that could change their lives. it s america strong. stay with us. the day after chemo might mean a trip back to the doctor s office, just for a shot. but why go back there, when you can stay home with neulasta onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. neulasta helps 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The latest news from around the world with host Fredricka Whitfield. lawyer. he s been lying all week. he s been lying for years. i mean z now, fred, president trump has not answered directly cnn s questions about michael cohen s claims, nor about that personal/private recording he apparently made of a conversation that he had with president trump. he has, however, tweeted about michael cohen. at one point suggesting that cohen could potentially be making up stories to get him out of legal troubles connected to his taxi business, fred. boris sanchez, thanks so much. all right, so how did we get here? let s go back to the week this all happened in june of 2016. here are the facts. we know the publicist rob goldstone, the man who helped orchestrate the meeting, e-mailed donald trump jr. to offer incriminating information on hillary clinton. then just a few days later, then candidate trump offered up this message just two days before from it. the big question, how much did donald trump know and when did he know it? team trump has denied time and time again that donald trump knew anything. when did the president learn that that meeting had taken place? i believe in the last couple of days is my understanding. one key point is this is not a situation where the president was involved in this meeting, was not aware of the meeting did not attend this meeting. he didn t know about this meeting until a few days ago? yes, that s correct. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing there was nothing to tell. i wouldn t have even remembered it until you start scouring through the stuff. it was literally a waste of 20 minutes, with is a shame. did you know at the time? no, i didn t know anything about it. but it must have been a very unimportant meeting because i never even heard about it. no one told you a word, nothing? nobody. no, nobody i didn t know that. it s a very unimportant sounded like a very unimportant all right, joining me right now, cnn reporter erica orden and cnn legal analyst and bob mueller s foreimer special assistant michael zelden. cohen said there are no reports of this moment. instead the reference is it s from his recollection. then perhaps how might it be proven that donald trump did know about this meeting in trump tower? right. so michael cohen s statement that trump knew and approved of the meeting, which are two different things. knowing and approving makes it much more get some greater involvement. but there are going to be witnesses potentially who can corroborate this. don jr. and manafort and jared kushner, they may not be compelling witnesses but there are others who haven t been identified yet. that may be relevant. then i have a list of things, fredricka, who i think may be indications of corroboration. one, hope hicks may know something about this. she would be, to me, a key witness to know what, if anything, the president knew beforehand. we know she was on air force one when they were writing the statement after the fact, but what did he know before the fact? we know there was calling to a blocked number. that, once unblocked, will perhaps be corroborate of this. and then as you said, the june 7th statement and just the general nature of the father/son relationship on this campaign i think would be indications of possible knowledge. i think most importantly if there are other people in the room, as cohen s testimony seems to be, we node to know who they are and what was told to them. and then erica, in addition to, you know, who else was there, what their stories are, it is an issue of credibility. you know, donald trump, is he more believable or is michael cohen more believable here? their track records on telling truth are to be compared. ideally if you re a prosecutor, you re to want to avoid a situation in which it comes down to one person s word against the other especially if other people have established credibility issues. prosecutors would be looking to evaluate or examine any of the other resources that michael was pointing out, any con tem pa rarious notes and any other records. if cohen is telling the truth that the president, then candidate, did know about it, and, in fact, even endorsed this meeting, what are the potential consequences if, indeed, donald trump was not telling the truth? that he did indeed know about this? there are obviously political consequences for the president for lying to the american public. ken starr thought that bill clinton s lying to the american public was an impeachable offense. but my role here is not political. as a legal matter, if the president and his son solicited a thing of value from a foreign national, a contribution in kind, if you will, then that techniqcally violates the campaign finance laws. it could be civil. it could be criminal. if the conduct of the meeting, organizers and participants was seen by mueller or anybody else to be some sort of conspiracy to defraud the federal election commission, that could be a criminal offense as well. i m not sure that prosecutors would bring a case like this, but as a technical black letter law statutory violation there are two, the statute that is implicated. erica, the trump team has changed its story a lot. it was about adoptions. to we didn t get anything from this meeting. don jr. saying, you know, it was a waste of 20 minutes. it was a shame. but then, still, the big mystery would be the intent, how do investigators go about that? sure. of course an investigator can t climb inside someone s head and figure out what they were thinking at the time so they would look to all these things that we re discussing, what someone knew, when they knew it, what they said to other people at the time and how they acted in response to that information would be ways that prosecutors or investigators can t determine someone s intent. then i wonder, you know, michael how does mueller s team look at this public campaign on behalf of the president to go at the credibility of michael cohen, to leave him out, you know, in isolation, to try to discredit him at all. doesn t that also help direct investigators about, you know, what is this all about? so i think, fred what you raise is this issue of whether the president can be properly investigating and, you know, theoretically charged with obstructing justice through a series of acts, one of those series of acts being the use of twitter and other public denunciations of his critics. i think that mueller and his team will be looking at these this type of mosaic theory of obstruction of justice. i m not sure it s a compelling, you know, theory. but i think this will fit into that examination and they ll have to see what pieces of the puzzle they have and then make a determination of whether that would rise to the level of obstructive behavior and, if so, what to do about it. part of that whole may samos people around donald trump or someone in his orbit is chief financial officer allen whistleburg is one of those people, so that he was subpoenaed to testify in this michael cohen probe tells you what? well, wiselburg is the longtime chief financial officer for the trump organizations. he s the one who is reputed to have paid stormy daniels and was consulted about the payment to karen mcdougal. if that s all the southern district of new york is interested in, it s really, you know, not much. but if the other district of new york is engaged in a broad ranging financial crimes investigation of the trump organization, then wiselburg s importance to them becomes paramount. because it also means he reportedly was also part of the tax preparations for donald trump too, so he knows everything potentially about how he handled his money and business, right? that would be correct, yes. all right, michael zelden, erica, good to see you both. as if this trump tower bombshell wasn t enough, russia s president vladimir putin has just invited president trump to moscow under certain conditions and what does that mean? plus, a frantic search for three people missing after deadly wildfires. 500 buildings have burned to the ground and more are at risk. we ll take you there live. this is not a bed. it s a high-tech revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? 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well, i think, you know, the kremlin was sort of put on the back foot a little bit when president trump made that very quick invitation for president putin to have a summit after helsinki and go to washington. russia typically doesn t, you know, respond quickly and evaluate about the next move it s going to make so it seems the kremlin was on the back foot and we heard john bolton there earlier in the week say this invitation is now that s going to happen next year and now the kremlin comes back and says actually we ve extended invitation and president putin saying he told president trump that at helsinki. the interesting part of this i think is what russia is saying we can do this, we ve thought about it, we can do it, but we want some conditions to be met. now the kremlin hasn t spelled out what the conditions are but you can bet it s a lot to do with the economy, the sanctions on russia now, the sanctions for meddling in the 2016 elections in the united states, attacking the united states democracy. the invasion of ukraine, the illegal annexation of crimea. european union has sanctions on russia as well as the united states and it is hurting the russian economy so undoubtedly putin is looking for a way to get relief. if he wants to continue to have these meetings with president trump, he needs to be able to show the russian people he s getting something out of it. some substance. not just the razzmatazz and the handshakes. in fact this was president putin yesterday about trump. translator: you can critique him for what he does and many people do that. but one thing is clear, he is willing to fulfill his campaign promises. so they are, you know, publicly revealing they kind of like each other, respect each other. yes, you could also say look, you con say that, for sure. i think you can also look at it this way. you know, putin is a calculator, he is a spy, he knows what he wants out of washington, he knows what he wants out of president trump, and he knows what happens to people who criticize trump. if he came at him attacking him saying lift the sanctions, how s that going to fly? we know trump doesn t respond well to criticism. putin s clearly figured that out and clearly figured out praise is the shortest way to get what he wants out of president trump and that s the most important thing to him. he needs to deliver for himself and for the russian people. so yes, it is he is showing support for trump. look, if president trump was to win a second term, president putin is on his last sort of turn in office of six years and is looking to protect his legacy, his money, good relationship with the united states, president trump, is all going to make that easier over the long term. it s that old adage, flattery may get you everywhere. all right, nic robertson, thank you. okay, well, right now this is some very serious business. it s a frantic race against time. firefighters battling to save thousands of homes as furious wildfires rage in california. together in a single lens. essilor ultimate lens package. purchase the essilor ultimate lens package and get a second pair of qualifying lenses free. essilor. better sight. better life. does it look like i m done? 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well, i was hitting on you, i wanted to kiss, she recalled him saying. he said, oh, come on, it s nothing. in a statement, moonves says, quote, i recognize that there were times decades ago when i may have made some women uncomfortable by making advances. those were mistakes and i regret them imimmensely. i always understood and respected and abided by the principle no means no. and have never used my position to harm or hinder anyone s career. in another story, pope francis has accepted the resignation of cardinal theo door mccarrick following a decades of allegation of sexual abuse. he was informed in june that the church was investigating a claim of abuse from a teenager almost 50 years ago. an attorney for the accuser says his client was molested twice by mccarrick. at the time, mccarrick issued a statement saying, quote, while i have absolutely no recollection of this reported abuse and believe in my innocence, i am sorry the pain the person who brought the charges has gone through, as well as for the scandal. such charges cause our people. next, papa john s. the founder of the pizza giant is accusing the company of stage ago coup and now he s suing. does he have a case? how can we k direct at choicehotels.com you always get the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed? let s say it in a really low voice. carl? lowest price, guaranteed. just stick with badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com former company. he claims the board mistreated him after he said the n word earlier this year during a media training conference call with a marketing firm. he claims that firm asked him point blank if he is racist and how he would separate himself from online hate groups. he responded by saying kfc s colonel sanders used the n word and never faced backlash. that led the board to remove shnatter as chairman, removed from other marketing materials and kicked out of his office. he s now seeking documents to try to prove the company fired him without a proper investigation. papa john s responded, saying, in part, we are saddened and disappointed that john schnatter has filed a needless and wasteful lawsuit in an attempt to district from his own words and actions. avery free man, civil rights attorney and law profession, from cleveland, and richard herman, law professor, joining us from las vegas. good to see you both. richard, schntatter s lawsuit says he s seeking documents explaining the heavy handed way in which the company has treated him since the publication of a story that falsely accused him of using a racial slur. end quote. this, although he admitted to using the n word and later apologized, so given his reasoning of why he says it was used, does he have a case? i think he does, fred. i think this is it smears of a coup. i m starting to believe that the more i read about this. this is the third largest pizza delivery company in the united states. he started this business in 84. he started it. he s worth about over $800 million himself personally. but he built this company from scratch, fred, and, okay, he had an issue condemning the nfl owners with the whole issue concerning the players kneeling and he blamed that on decreased revenues because again papa john s was the pizza for the nfl. as a result of that, he stepped down as ceo. now he has this diversity training session with a marketing training company where a lot of ideas are going back and forth, including the marketing company suggesting that papa john s hire kanye west as a spokesman for them and schnatter was no, you can t do that, because he uses the n word in his songs. we don t know the exact conversation, fred. we don t know how the word came out. we don t know what his intentions were when he said it. that s his point. there was no internal investigation. the board breached their fiduciary duty. you can t just fire someone. there was no vote of the shareholders. i wouldn t be surprised if he works his way back into this company. oh, boy. boy, oh, boy. avery, why are you saying oh boy? i m not looking at the same case. look, after november, he made some remarks about the nfl ownership and stock started to take a dive as well as viewership in the nfl. that s legitimate. then he says he did use the n word but he says it was diversity training. then he says he didn t. then he compares himself to colonel sanders. oh, my goodness. yes, you know, on one level, fredricka, he s going to get some of the documents. at the end of the day, corporate law requires the board to be responsive to the shareholders. i think he is out. the stocks have plummeted. i think the appropriate action was to get rid of him and frankly he s going to need a lot more pepperoni to be successful in any kind of litigation. so richard, how do you see, you know, these, you know, books or records or documents if he does indeed get them because he s arguing that they has unfettered rights, you know, in which to get them, how might that potentially help his case? it will, fred, because the position taken by the board is wobbly at best. listen, he has a right. he s a shareholder. he owns 29% of the stock of of this corporation, fred, and shareholders have the rights to view the books and records. what he s trying to prove is the board acted not even handed, they acted outside the scope of their authority, they acted not in how they ve done things in the past. in other word, this looks like a coup. so what people don t like this guy internally so they went after him now and they can t just do it. you need a vote of the shareholders. you need to vote in a certain corporate way. they did not do that, fred. he s got grounds here. this is not going away. he s worth over $800 million. so what? he s got major lawyers on his side. so what? do you know what was said on the phone with the marketing company? have you heard his words? he says he s not a racist. that s what he says. you heard the marketing company so is he really owed that? we heard the marking company say well, no, he claims the marketing company was trying to shake him down, the corporation down, for $6 million. he did. fine, give them he paid them $2 million. i m telling you, his face is associated with papa john s. stocks are taking a nose-dive. if they re going to protect sharehold shareholders, he s got to go. he s not going to be able to conglomerate other shareholders. take his $800 million and open up something else. but if papa john s is going to survive, and there s a real question, you got to have that guy gone. think the board is absolutely right. one has to wonder if he s still a shareholder, then he still would be privy to information. does he have to not information make a motion for any of this information, or does it simply have to be handed over, richard? no, they is there have to gi him. and they can color it any way they want but he has every right to do this. and when he does, he s going to unveil the fact that they acted really outside the scope of their authority and not in the fiduciary interest of a corporation. that s what s going to come out here, fred. he ll probably eventually end up taking over the company. n word. don t forget about the n word. he s out. he s gone. and then saying colonel sanders used it, what on earth does that have to do with anything in terms of his role? colonel sanders. this is pizza. he s finished. we don t know the context within which he said the n word. that s so critical here and we don t know it. okay, all right. that s why you need an investigation. 42% reduction in stock, good-bye. still more to come. all right, appreciate it, good two police officers from an atlanta suburb have been fired after their body cams caught them using a coin toss app to decide whether or not to arrest a woman accused of speeding. head or tail. okay. this is tail, right? 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reporter: iowans overwhelmingly voted for president trump but clark porter, whose family has farmed here for over a century wasn t one of them. you saw this coming from a mile away. yeah. reporter: this week, the white house announced a $12 billion assistance plan to help farmers like porter. how does it feel, though, to be essentially taking government assistance? it s absolutely it was absolutely unnecessary. it s i don t think that we should have even gotten into this position. reporter: he s not alone. the president of the iowa farmers union called trump s approach extremely reckless and kim reynolds, the republican governor up for reelection, warned that nobody wins in a trade war. this week, she politely pushed the president to make a deal and fast. we need to get things done sooner rather than later, so that was my message. reporter: things are getting done, but with europe. after a brief trade spat, trump touted his deal to make a deal on free trade with the bloc. we just opened up europe for you farmers. you re not going to be too angry with trump. reporter: a deal with europe is far from finished. neither is the trade war with china. but for all of the president s trade war skeptics in iowa, he still has plenty of believers, like david danker and his son, hunter, who farm corn and soybeans. i think this should have been done a long time ago. it will hurt for short-term, but in the long run, i think it will work out better for everybody. reporter: how do you think this ends? china gets hungry and calls the u.s. and wants to hopefully get some more soybeans. reporter: can you envision a scenario where america doesn t win? i think us not winning would be probably us going to back back to the way it was before the tariffs and the trade war. reporter: the good news is that many iowa farmers say they re expecting a pretty healthy size harvest this year but with higher production volume usually comes lower prices. that $12 billion federal aid package will help in the short-term, but farmers may need even more cash if this trade battle doesn t end soon. fredricka?