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the senate. and there is some controversy. gop lawmakers, trying to use a must-pass highway bill to repeal obamacare. again. and turkey, bombarding positions in iraq. we're taking you there live for the latest on the anti-terrorism operation. glad to have you with us as always. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to start a sunday with you. we're beginning with the president's visit to kenya. just moments ago, he was at a civil society event, before he's heading off to the capital of ethiopia. that happens next hour. earlier this morning, hundreds gathered to hear him speak at a nairobi arena. he talked about u.s./kenya ties, terrorism, corruption. he covered a lot in about 45 minutes. listen. >> here in kenya, it's time to

change habits. and decisively break that cycle. corruption holds back every aspect of economic and civil life. it's an anchor that weighs you down. and prevents you from achieving what you could. if you need to pay a bribe and hire somebody's brother, who is not very good and doesn't come to work, in order to start a business, well, that's going to create less jobs for everybody. >> cnn's white house correspondent, michelle kosinski, is traveling with the president, in nairobi. the president covered so much in 45 minutes. he didn't mince words. he really went to the issues with the kenya people. >> reporter: what he wanted to do is highlight and applaud all of the progress that kenya has showed. but he also wanted to highlight the problems. and he went into great detail. on the subject of corruption, you mentioned there, he said that it cost kenya 250,000 jobs

a year. he really hammered that point home. but also on inclusiveness, and democracy that represents everybody, really fired up when he talked about oppression of women. listen. >> around the world, there is a tradition of oppressing women and treating them differently and not giving them the same opportunities. and husbands beating their wives. and children not being sent to school. those are traditions. treating women and girls as second-class citizens, those are bad traditions. they need to change. >> reporter: he said things like forcing children into marriage. female genital mutilation, domestic violence, sexual

assault. he said these things have no place in civilized society. no place in the 21st century. and he used a lot of analogies, too. sports analogies. here we are in a sports arena. if you had a team but only half of that team was allowed to play, referring to women being half of society, not allowed to participate. he said that's stupid. and it makes no sense. he compared traditions having to change, to the way the u.s. is changing its use of the confederate flag. getting a lot in there. and terrorism was a big point he wanted to hit on. that's one of the major themes of this trip, not just to kenya but following on to ethiopia. saying the u.s. stands shoulder-to-shoulder with kenya fighting terror, as long as it takes. victor? >> michelle kosinski for us in nairobi. thank you. back in the u.s., on capitol hill, a rare sunday vote is expected in the senate. lawmakers have a week to extend

funding for the roads and bridges. because it's seen as must-pass legislation, it is viewed by many, as a way to carry unrelated amendments forward. >> reporter: good morning, christi. a tangle over the unrelated amendments that has created an abnormal dynamic in the senate. this started on friday when ted cruz, lashed out at mitch mcconnell, accusing him of lying. he said mcconnell would not allow a vote to authorize the export/import that's wrapped up in the highway bill. mcconnell appears to have cleared the path for it. here's a moment of anger that cruz had directed at mitch mcconnell on the senate floor. >> it was a direct question. i asked the majority leader in

front of all of the republican senators, the majority leader was visibly angry with me. that i would ask such a question. and the majority leader said there is no deal. there is no deal. there is no deal. like st. peter, he repeated it three times. i cannot believe he would tell a flatout lie. >> it's very rare to see this sort of personal attack in the senate. and may have violated some senate decorum rules. mcconnell, we have not hear from him yet. he's been silent on this issue. we could hear from him today for the first time. ted cruz is running for president. and he's raising money off of this. a fund-raising e-mail, saying, quote, we have been betrayed by the majority leader. >> he got a big donation to the

p.a.c., $15 million. we'll talk about that later. like pretty much all of the republican candidates, ted cruz has languished in the shadow of donald trump. but cruz's fierily attack puts him back into the spotlight. here's the question, is cruz the candidate now trying to play a trump card in a way to outtrump trump. let's talk to our guest about this, lisa booth, the republican strategist. marco von hill. also, professor at moorehouse college. lisa, let's go to cruz. then, we'll get to chris christie. cruz, this goes farther than he's gone before at opposing his party there in the chamber. does this work for him in 2016 politics? >> there's genuine frustration there. this speaks to the dysfunction

in congress and what americans find so frustrating about congress. something unrelated about the export/import, can make it into this legislation. i think from conservatives, first and foremost, there's two sources of frustration. one is over the export/import, which conservatives see as a corporate giveaway. and the second is over the highway trust fund. spending continues to increase the income money, the revenue. >> this comes, though, from ted cruz, who has tried to shove oba obamacare into many, many things. talking about what's germane to the topic or germane to the bill, he seems like the wrong spokesperson. >> i think his frustration is over the export/import bank. and concerns that many across the country share, also with the highway trust fund bill. what we've seen with the highway trust fund bill, is spending continues to outpace revenue.

and there's no structural changes in this bail bill. once again, congress is asking for a bailout with the highway structural bill. until you address those changes, we're going to continue to see this problem. there's a larger source of frustration with the export/import bank and the highway trust fund as a hole. >> let's talk about 2016. it appears that even for ted cruz, who has opposed his party there in the chamber many times, aggressi aggressively, this is the effect of trump on the rest of the race and coming down to the wire on trying to make that first debate. >> that's absolutely true. one thing ted cruz has masterfully done, is hanging in the bushes while donald trump goes on a tour of absurd statements. he has not censured trump. he assumes that trump is going to wing out. and that voting base will be his if trump isn't there.

that's his natural base and his connection. he's tried to stay out of the way. what he has seen is trump is lasting longer than many expected. he has to say something or do something to make the top ten. he's going after folks. but he's not doing it trum trump-style, per se. trump goes at particular specters at american people, a voting base. while saying mitch mcconnell didn't tell the truth is similar, he's getting, as lisa said, a bigger frustration of the party. he's trying to be the conscious of the senate. he's trying to get into this base. i think it can work for him. still in the third tier of candidates, for sure. >> let's talk about chris christie, governor of new jersey, showing some fire on the campaign trail, as he has this exchange with a voter over his gun rights record. let's listen to a bit of it.

>> gun right groups from here in iowa to minnesota, even to georgia, have sent out e-mails recently saying that you're very anti-gun, when it comes to second amendment. my question is, how are you going to new jersey gun owners into thinking that you'll be anything other than a president michael bloomberg if you become successful? >> because it's not true. so, let's start with that. does new jersey have a lot of difficult gun laws? yeah. they were all signed before i became governor. and i'm still waiting for one fact. one fact from you about me being anti-gun. give me one. one fact. got one? by the way, i vetoed the state i.d. system. you're wrong about that, too. >> lisa, this is the tell it like it is candidate, right? that's his slogan. is this the right tone in the wake of charleston?

in the wake of chattanooga? in the wake of lafayette? is this the right tone for this topic? >> i think there's frustration. for someone who's worked on campaigns for seven years. there's a lot of misinformation out there about your candidate. this is the job of the candidate. this is the job of someone like chris christie, who is making a presidential run, to set the record straight. that's what he is doing. the individuals in the audience who brought up the questions, questioned governor christie's record, seemed to not have the facts straight. it's governor chris christie's job to set is t record straight and say the laws that you're talking about is signed into law, prior to me being governor. that's his job, to set the record straight. >> tone matters here. mark, finish it up. >> every candidate has inaccurate claims made about their record and they correct them. chris christie manages to look like a bully when he does it.

he had every right to correct people on his gun record. i don't think he's being completely honest about his stance. but he has done it in a way that doesn't reinforce the narrative about him. post bridge-gate, we need a warmer and fuzzier chris christie. not to make it into the top ten but into a competitive race here. >> chris christie said he will say things that will make his supporters cringe. and again, he's a tell-it-like-it-is candidate. marc lamont hill and lisa boothe, thank you both. we'll have new insight into the race for 2016. polling out for the republican and democratic presidential races. it starts with "inside politics" at 8:30 right here on cnn. meanwhile, ka candlelight vs

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a tough day for her family. ryan nobles is live in lafayette with the latest. ryan, good morning to you. what have you learned this morning? >> reporter: christi, good morning to you. the focus today in lafayette is on the recovery. had a couple of days to absorb the tragedy that happened at the theater behind me. and the focus is on the victims and mourning the lives lost. three people still in the hospital. one of the victims still in serious condition. there's two other victims in good condition. and the feeling is that all three of these patients are improving, which is bringing some relief to the folks here in lafayette. and as i mentioned, that recovery process is under way. when you drive around town, now, you see the #lafayettestrong, outside many of the businesses in this community, as they come together to remember the lives lost. downtown, jillian johnson, who ran a boutique, that's become a

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mcconnell, in his words, flatout lying. cruz's tirade believed that mcdonnell blocked a amendments that republicans wanted attached to a highway funding bill. new violence in southern turkey. this morning, a car bomb exploded. the attack happened in a southern province right near the border with syria. and four people were wounded, we understand. cnn's international correspondent, arwa damon, from istanbul. this is coming as turkey stepped up its air strikes against kurdish militants in iraq, isis in syria. do authorities believe this car bombing is connected to that? >> reporter: well, it's connected to one of those bombing campaigns, carried out by the turkish air force. in northern iraq, against the kurdistan workers party. the pkk they characterize as a

terrorist organization. they have been launching something of a low-level war. the pkk, very much believed to be an insurgent organization. however, in 2013, there was a shaky cease-fire put into place. yesterday, the pkk declaring that cease-fire effectively dead. and less than 24 hours later, to have that ambush that took place against turkish troops. it seems at this stage, those two things are linked. when it comes to turkey's bombing campaign against isis targets in syria, this is a new step for the turks at this stage. and fairly reluctant to get directly involved in the fighting in syria. following the suicide bombing attack that took place this past monday, they killed at least 32 people, they are taking a much more active role when it comes to going directly after isis targets in syria.

doing all of this, they say under the umbrella of protecting the turkish nation. also, launching over the last few days, wide scale operations, within turkey's own borders, detaining around 600 individuals believed to be linked to both the pkk and isis. but a lot of people at this stage, very worried about more retaliatory strikes taking place, whether it's strikes carried out by the pkk against the security forces or, perhaps, even other targets. and other strikes potentially carried out by isis or isis sympathizers. >> thank you so much. let's bring in philip mudd. he was a counterterrorism official with the cia. they are worried, folks there, concerned about more retaliation. certainly, when you establish and go into a bombing -- on air strike situation, as turkey has

done, you expect some sort of retaliation, do you not? >> i think that's right. i think you'll see more in the coming weeks. the turks have decided they want to porarticipate after negotiations with americans in syria. what we're going after the umbrella, going after turkish targets. there's been uneasy truce since about 2013. when they started hitting the targets with air strikes in the past couple days, it's inevitable that the pkk, the kurdish workers party, is going to do, what we thought over the last days, with car bombings and retaliatory strikes. >> we had a director saying that isis is bigger threat. in turkey, the pkk or isis? is either one the bigger threat than the other? >> the turks would view the pkk is the bigger threat. the instability in syria and iraq, both have significant turkish populations, give the

turkish populations a chance to build up their own identity. to build up their own geographic space in the midst of this instability. and the turks are worried their own population sees this as an opportunity to rise up. i think there's been a big isis problem. there was an al qaeda problem in turkey. and in terms of the turkish identity, i think the turkish government would view that as a bigger problem. >> getting back to the u.s. here. we talk about the threat of isis. how concerned are government security organizations about cyber attacks from isis? are they prepared for them here in the u.s.? >> compared to what we see from the russians, the chinese, the iranians, et cetera, the concerns about i.s. would be relatively modest. there is an i.s., islamic state, effort to build up a cyber capability. my concern would be not that isis comes after u.s. systems.

but that someone self-recruits. i've seen this in the past. someone with the technical capability raises their hand and says i have access to this kind of cyber target. do you want me to do something for you? i don't think isis has the capability. highly sophisticated capability. but i worry about self-recruitment. >> philip mudd, always good to have you here. >> thank you. a new identity and a new show. caitlyn jenner on reality tv. how is she adjusting to her new life. that conversation is next. also, the new poll says that the pope's popularity, we have a new one, has dropped in the u.s. but are the views on capitalism and the climate contributing to this drop in numbers? is it causing a divide among some catholics? do you like the passaaadd? it's a good looking car. this is the model rear end event.

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calling francis fatigue. it's displacing the francis effect. he started off so high. what's your response to that? >> well, my first response is, victor, it's not a popularity contest for him. i mean, it's not exactly an election he sought, that he wanted. he's not looking to be re-elected. and so, i don't think that these polls matter to him or to the vatican. having said that, you're going to start off high with a lot of popularity. and then, when you start to make decisions or some would say not make decisions, those polls are going to be impacted. conservatives are kind of angry at him because of his views on capitalism, the environment, immigration. liberals are saying, why isn't he saying more about same-sex marriage? women priests? married priests? you're damned if you do, damned if you don't, if you can talk about being damned with the pope at all.

>> let me talk to you about something from an analyst, and active catholic, edward morrissey. he said, i'm not sure it's good for the pope to be involving himself in microeconomics. i think some of this is going outside the normal paradigm. but john paul was involved in geopolitics and conservatives loved that. why do you believe, if you have an opinion here, conservatives are having such a hard time and such a black lash now? >> i think because this pope has been so very outspoken about the economy and how the environmental issues are impacting the poor and the economic structure of the world. he's taken it further than john paul ii took it. when he talks about equal distribution of wealth, conservatives get nervous because it sounds to them like

marxism on communism. from pope francis' perspective, he's preaching the gospel. the contribution as s jesus talked about it. he seems to take the ball a little further. >> you expect he will confront leaders here when he comes in the fall on some of these issues? i mean, they will be part of his public comments. but will there be direct confrontation is the best way to put it? >> well, confrontation in the sense that they will be sitting there, listening to what he is saying. and if you remember, all of the pictures we have seen about democrats, republicans, conse e conservati conservatives, liberals, sitting there, listening to speeches. they applaud or they don't. they smile or they don't. i don't know how they're going to sit there and not applaud the pope. not smile. they're not going to be in agreement with everything he says.

it's not a popularity contest for him. in some ways, yes, if they are, he's going to ruffle some feathers by what he says. they're not going to like it. but even john boehner, you heard his comments recently. he's catholic. he loves this pope. but a lot of what the pope says is not in line of what john boehner says or think. how will john boehner react with the pope right there? is he going to smile through it? is he going to frown? it will be interesting to see the reactions. >> we saw interesting reactions from the 2016, comments made by the pope. as you said, he's not gearing up for a re-election campaign. this is the position. and he believes what he believes. father edward beck, thank you so much. >> thank you, victor. >> at home, we would love to hear what you think about this. hit us up on facebook or twitter. has the pop's popularity decline, from your view, your

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reveal of caitlyn jenner, just had everybody talking obviously. tonight, in what is sure to be a social media and ratings juggernaut, e! airs the much-anticipated show about her journey, i am cait. >> it's like 4:32 in the morning. and i can't sleep. in the monitor, i look like crap. anyway, i feel bad that, especially young people, are going through such a difficult time in their life. people are dying over there. people murdered over this stuff. what are responsibility i have toward in community. am i going to do everything right? am i going to say the right things? do i project the right image? am i just spinning with thoughts? i just hope i get it right.

>> cnn's correspondent brian joining us now. brian, there's been critics about this, that lead up to it. and we see it there, putting a lot of pressure on him and on the network to get these ratings. you have the abc interview, the "vanity fair" cover, the espy awards, television show. what are the thoughts that he -- she has into the first show? >> you described it as a series of public events. and it was carefully, you know, calculated. carefully choreographed. there's no shying away from that fact. before caitlyn jenner, back at the time, bruce jenner, even spoke to diane sawyer, there were discussions about this reality show, which will premiere tonight. you think about that interview, that worldwide interview, 17 million viewers in april, that was the beginning for caitlyn jenner. this is the end of her public announcement, so to speak. this reality show, in some ways,

is the climax of months of conversation and months of debate. and you're right. it has been controversial because when you see something that's carefully orchestrated like this, people sometimes roll their eyes at it and think she'. but i have to say, if you put yourself into her shoes, you'd probably do something similar. you'd probably want to roll it out as carefully, knowing that you're going to become the most famous transgender person in the world. you'd want to roll it out carefully. you'd want to do it on your own terms. you'd want to control your own story. >> and she is doing that. because she is executive producer of the show, as well. >> yeah. >> so she has a lot of creative control over that. and it seems like, does it not, and help me understand this, that she genuinely is concerned about young people who are going through this same process and do not have the resources she had. >> yeah, that's certainly what we heard from her espy speech where she talked about transgender youth who have a very hard time sometimes through bullying and other things. e! is a channel known for keeping up with the kardashians, bruce jenner years ago and even

recently within keeping up with the kardashians. so e! has tried to say this is not going to be your typical reality show. caitlyn jenner identifying for the first time, talking about her experience, is not going to be specific taggle. here's what the head of programming at e! said. he's openly gay and said he feels a real responsibility to tell caitlyn's story. this is so far beyond television on a very personal level if i get one thing right in my professional career it will be this. i think what we hear in that quote is e! the executives of the channel knowing that they've got to do this right, not make it seem like some tabloid reality show but be respectful, and try to help the transgender community through this show. >> interesting. so on reliable sources i understand you've got quite a big guest talking donald trump. >> shawn spicer is the chief strategist for the republican national committee. he hasn't done any interviews ever since donald trump announced for president. trump has changed this entire

race. we'll be talking to shawn spicer about that. the message is he wants the candidates to stop attacking each other. that's all we're hearing in the gop, the candidates going after trump, trump insuddening other candidates. >> looking forward to it. brian stelter, good to see you this morning. >> thank you. >> don't forget to catch "reliable sources" with brian at 11:00. >> nfl star adrian peterson back with his team nine months after being suspended. but now that he's back with the team, use the hashtag #newdaycnn on facebook and twitter and your answer to this question, should sports fans forgive and forget when sports stars mess up? we want to hear your answers. also at the top of the hour, we're covering this rare sunday session for the senate. it's a vote on a transportation bill but it's really the fight over an amendment that's causing so much controversy.

all right coming up on the top of the hour now, take a look at stories making headlines now. let's go to illinois first where hundreds of people attended the funeral of sandra bland. community members remember her as a courageous fighter for social justice. >> bland was arrested july 10th in texas after a traffic stop and found dead in her jail cell three days later. in massachusetts, a candle light vigil was held for the 4-year-old girl whose body was found wrapped in a trash bag a month ago. no one seems to know her name. investigators are still trying to identify her. she's being called baby doe, and

asking anyone with information to come forward. worcester funeral director is offering to pay for her burial. nfl player adrian peterson is back with the team and look at the reception he got from fans. cheering him on. this was yesterday at training camp. there was some question about how he'd be received, though, because he missed 15 games last year after being indicted on child injury charges. after that there was a contract dispute, which was resolved just a few days ago. >> so last hour we asked, should fans forgive and of course forget, hard to forget, that's the hard part, star athletes when they mess up? >> oh, it's easy to forgive them, though, if they're playing well. >> yes, yes. coy, do you think? >> some people resonated that sentiment. we have a lot of great insight from our viewers. a lot of people don't seem comfortable with living in a world where celebrity and status seem to trump morals, ethics, and sometimes just good old commonsense. so here we had adrian peterson who hit his son with a switch.

that made many people highly upset. peterson was originally charged with felony child abuse but later charges were reduced to misdemeanor reckless assault and plea deal. he missed some time. but now he's being welcomed back. making millions. where many people would be fired from their jobs. never able to return. you know, we see this all the time in sports with star athletes, who made bad decisions but because they can really play they can stay. that's what many people are unhappy about. there seems to be a double standard for stars when it comes to wrongdoing and you let us know exactly how you feel about this on twitter and facebook. melanie said i am completely disgusted with how players can commit crimes and provide horrible examples to children. i no longer watch. i think he will be fine talking of peterson, people do tend to forgive it all depends on his future behavior with his family. dave said why? no one forgives my bad decisions. mother, too said we have no business judging people's personal lives as a nation we need to learn how to mind our business, and carl finally said

players get away with it as long as there isn't video proof. greg hardy would be in jail if there was video of his crime. so really debatable topic here. a lot of people chiming in with some great insight. thank you so much as always. we see this all the time with entertainers. chris brown in music world, hulk hogan making horrible decisions. but will someone give him a tv deal, welcome him back? >> let me ask you from a players' perspective, does the rest of the team forgive a player who is a star on the team? >> you know, i think publicly they do, victor, it's a great question. but i think 95% of the guys in that locker room are good, kind, caring men, and they don't like it. they don't like it at all. so i think it's something that's not often seen or heard because not many people are in the locker room. but publicly they do the right thing. it's all about the team. it's the protocol, standard message that you have to give for the betterment of the team. >> but behind the scenes are there ever words? >> absolutely. >> between players? >> absolutely. there are people, again, those

good, kind caring men who know what's right, do what's right, they stand up. i know as a former team captain i would say hey, listen, let's have a talk. you try to be there. that happens a lot. i think that gets overlooked too often in sports when we hear about all the negatives. there is a lot of positive that's at least trying to be done, tried to be done in locker rooms. >> insight. thank you, coy. >> thanks for having me. >> and thank you so much for starting your morning with us. >> your "new day" continues, now. good morning, i'm christi paul. so glad to have you with us. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're starting this hour with president obama's visit to kenya. let's start there. moments ago he spoke at civil society event there in kenya. he's heading off to ethiopia today. but look at this. earlier this morning, a huge crowd gathered to hear him speak. this is at an arena in nairobi. he talked about terrorism, and