all right. so, if you're watching from south america and west africa, tomorrow's a good day for you. the first solar eclipse of the year can be seen from parts of those areas. >> it's going to be an angular eclipse, according to nasa, that's where the sky will be dominated by a dramatic line of fire. the moon, and perfectly will cast a shadow on the earth. >> folks in north america, you have a chance to catch the spectacle, six months from now,

a total solar eclipse, first time in nearly 40 years. >> boy, is there a lot on the agenda today. >> yeah, the next hour of "new day" starts right now. the white house vehemently defending asking the fbi to deny reports of communication between trump campaign associates and russians known to u.s. intelligence. >> i'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. >> this is something that embarrasses the white house. that's not a leak. that's a news story. >> if you think they're going to give you your country back without a fight, you're sadly mistaken. >> the democrats have a real chance to change things. >> that's why he beat all of those other republicans because he stole a democratic message. we do have to lead with our values. >> we're all in this together. that's got to be a message. well, good morning to you on a saturday, i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good morning to you.

wub stabbed we're starting with pushing back the white house. denying any wrongdoing asking trump to speak out about reports between the trump campaign and the russians. >> the revelations is raising decades olds questions, can the white house have an open discussion with the fbi when there's an a discussion ongoing. >> and how should that conversation happen. and the president unleashing another round of attacks on the news media, cnn and other outlets are blocked from attending a press briefing. is the white house picking favorites here? of course, this morning, the democratic national committee is set to elect et cetera next chairman. who will lead the committee and can they heal the divisions still in the ranks there. >> the white house said they did, yes, ask the fbi to knock down media reports of russian contact during the 2016 race but they say they did nothing wrong.

>> president is demanding the fbi find the leakers within the government, because he says, they're endangering the country. cnn's chief national security correspondent scombrjim sciutto. >> christi and victor, in the midst of the coverage of this story, in fact the white house admits is that it did speak with the fbi about an ongoing investigation and communications between advisers to trump during the campaign and russian officials and others known to intelligence and that it in fact did ask for the fbi's help in tamping these stories down. >> reporter: the white house vehemently defending asking the fbi to deny reports of campaign associates and russians known to intelligence. the pushback following cnn's exclusive reporting of the white house request. senior officials insisting it only asked for a denial after a

top fbi official himself volunteered in "the new york times" story on those communications was inaccurate. white house officials who asked not to be named outlined their time line of events saying the conversation happened on february 15th, after a 7:30 a.m. meeting led by white house chief of stab rines are priebus. andrew mccabe asked priebus for five minutes alone after the meeting ends, this according to senior administration officials. and calls a report linking trump campaign advisers to russian intelligence total b.s. priebus, the white house says asked mccabe, quote, can we do anything about it? and whether there's something the fbi can do to, quote, set the record straight. later in separate conversations mccake and fbi director james comey tells priebus the fbi cannot comment on the reports. priebus then asks comey if he is cite mccake and comey as, quote, top intelligence officials in pushing back on the story itself

on cbs news last sunday which he did. >> i've talked to the top levels of the intelligence community and they've assured me that the "the new york times" story was grossly over stated. >> reporter: and because of decades old restrictions on such contacts concerning pending investigations. >> you don't want the appearance of political influence with respect to an investigation or prosecution. that's why the protocols are in place. >> reporter: president trump on friday ranted against the leaks that have plagued his administration, making a case reporters should only use named sources. even as white house officials spoke to reporters asking not to be named. >> i'm against the people that make up stories and make up sources. they shouldn't be allowed to use sources. unless they use somebody's name. let their name be put out there. let their name be put out.

a source says that donald trump is a horrible, horrible human being. let him say it to my face. >> reporter: mr. trump also criticized the fbi directly tweeting, quote, the fbi is totally unable to stop the national security leakers that have permeated our government for a long time. they can't even find the leakers within the fbi itself. classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on u.s. find now. now, on the larger issue of the existence of communications between advisers to trump during the campaign and russian officials and other russians known to u.s. intelligence, reince priebus said there's nothing to the reports but the fact that the fbi is still investigating the communications as are both the senate and house intelligence k349s. christi and victor. >> jim sciutto, we appreciate it. thank you. joining us, eric bradner cnn politics reporter and jack

kingsston, former commentator and former adviser to the donald trump campaign. gentlemen, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> jack, let me start with you, your level or discomfort, if you let me know, about the communications between the fbi and white house, should these specific players -- because there are times that the fbi can communicate with the white house. but in this 2009 memo, we know there are specific players who should be involved. what do you think about we're seeing here? >> you know, i'm comfortable with it, the way it's been described that andrew mccabe came up to reince priebus after another meeting and said, by the way, this is all b.s. and priebus says, what can we do on it? he says, i don't know, we can't comment on every story, we can't call the balls and the strikes, and he said comey called and said he can't do anything about it. but you can imagine the white

house' frustration, here the fbi telling them there's nothing to the story. then you see in many news outlets, hey, this is going on. meanwhile, we're got the president of the united states needing to negotiate or normalize relationship with russia and this is detracting from that diplomatic efforts because there's so many issues that we need to be talking to russia about, from i.c.e.is, to syria, to crimea, and it's very difficult to do in an atmosphere like this. >> let's be here about the reporting there, we heard from jack that reince priebus, chief of staff, spoke to mccabe and said, hey, what can we do about this? however, the reporting is from cnn that priebus later reached back to mccabe and asked the director and asked the fbi to talk to reporters, to come out and defend the white house and clear up what they saw as a discrepancy? >> that's right.

and priebus, after later being rebuked by the fbi being told they wouldn't play that role went on sunday shows and cited the fbi as sort of a named source, right? he sort of told the story on his own. saying that he'd been told by high-level officials that there's nothing to this. so he took ten on consult what he couldn't quite get the fbi to do for the white house. >> eric, also, we hurt from the president there in jim sciutto's piece saying he is against reporters using anonymous sources. saying he's against the people that make up -- as he said, that make up stories that use these s sources, they shouldn't be able to use sources unless they use a name. but the white house did a briefing on background and asked for their names not to be used. >> that's right. this is totally normal. white houses do this all the time. we just talked about it reince priebus did it himself on sunday

shows a few days ago. and president trump has a long hist tear of tweets attacking former president obama used unnamed sources of his own. >> let's put that up while we talk about it. continue, eric. >> saying obama's birth certificate was fake. this birtherism falsehood. trump himself was using unnamed sources. we saw with the priebus episode exactly how these unnamed sources sort of come about. priebus didn't deny cnn reporting. of course, it's sort of the play-by-play here. so, yeah, this is how white houses operate. they have background briefings. they some officials made available, as, quote, a senior official. >> and it's important to sale every leak is not classified that comes into the press. jack, reconcile those for me. the president saying they should

not, speaking of the media, use sources unless they use their names. but we just put up the president, then citizen trump, commenting on an extremely credible source about the president's birth certificate calling it a fraud. >> i think part of it in public office, he gets frustrated on unnamed sources. it's not unique to the president, it's really to everybody in washington. but i do think his point about classified information coming from an unknown source. that's very scary. and it should be to all americans that if we do have within the intelligence community because of some motivation, maybe they just don't like trump. maybe they feel like they know better than somebody who got elected to run the country. they need to leak things out that are sensitive. you know, they might not even be classifying, but getting that information out in public is not helpful. for example, i think we can all agree that when wikileaks

reported that president obama had the schedule of angela merkel, it was an embarrassment at minimum, but it could have been a lot worse than that. i think what the president is saying, we've got to run the country. and if we have people within our administration that are leaking information that hurts our strategy, it's not a good thing. >> the president loved those wikileaks, as he said, those are his words, not mine. last word, quickly, jack. >> we all like wikileaks if the leak favored us. but i do think the reality is, you've got to do something about the sensitive information that deals with strategy. >> all right, jack kingston, eric bradner, thank you. first president trump slams the media. then the white house slams the door on reporters blocking cnn and others from a news briefing. is the reporting on the trump team contacts with russian officials during the election the real reason this is happening? plus, indonesian officials

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>> they say that we can't criticize the dishonest coverage because of the first amendment. they always bring up the first amendment. >> we have a respect for the press. when it comes to the government. but that is something that you can't ban an entity from. you know, conservative, liberal or otherwise, i think that's what makes a democracy a democracy, versus a dictatorship. >> that was white house press secretary sean spicer back in december offering a different message when it comes to the media and press briefings. yesterday in an unprecedented move, the white house blocked cnn and other media outlets on a briefing. on the campaign when it came to russian intelligence leading up to the election. we have cnn media analyst bill carter and rob mahoney, dispute director of the committee to protect journalists. gentlemen, thank you for being with us.

we certainly appreciate it. bill, i wanted to start with you here, and i wanted to play some sound from the former press secretary. talking about it is not a violation of the first amendment. let's look. >> but stop making this as if some reporters have done, it's a terrible violation of the first amendment because we've acquiesced already. the president used it regularly that barack obama hand picked columnists to have meetings with. i don't remember him saying every columnist has to be in that meeting. so there's no principle here, high ground principle saying white houses can't pick who they meet with. of course, white houses can. i just think it's a personality issue more than anything. it's going to hinder the relationship between the press secretary and press corps. that's why they have an obligation to everybody. >> bill, what's your comment to that conversation? >> i think there's a separate

issue, the president taking his private conversations are different from the press secretary gaggle which traditionally include a wide range of outlets. obviously, it comes after the president labeled enemy of the people, it looks like retribution, rather than criticism. and clearly, they're trying to put pressure on certain organizations, you know, because they don't like what they're seeing. they're very right to criticize the press. there's no violation of the first amendment to criticize them. but you have to see this for what it is, it's a campaign that delegitimized certain press outlets they're saying it's fake because they don't like it. and trying to discredit the organizations that are particularly finding out things about them that they don't like. >> rob, mr. fleischer went on to say he's never seen a president meet so often with the press corps and that he seems to be tremendously acceptable to the

president as a president. what is your take on that? >> the problem here, the way this looks, it looking as if the administration is trying to delegitimize the press that is investigating. maybe it's getting ready for disappointments in the future, that people won't believe the press. because we've had a steady drum beat of rhetoric against the press. calling it enemies of the people. fake news. fake news is news that the government doesn't particularly like. and this sends a terrible example, not just throughout the united states, but around the world where automatauto cats ar that's disturbing. >> let's list ton jake tapper. he had a response as well. >> this white house does not seem to respect the idea of accountability. this white house does not seem

to value an independent press. there is a word for that line of thinking. the word is "un-american." >> bill, we also had bret baier tweeting some at cnn and "the new york times" stood with fox news when the obama administration attacked us and tried to exclude us, a white house gaggle should be open to all credentialed orgs. what does that say as saying how strong this is going to be against president trump? >> that is says, they're professionals, and professionals have to stand up to one another. the next time, i thought it was interesting you had several organizations pulling ought ii that gaggle yesterday. and by the way, i want to make a

point about the other point about ari made, remember when he was president-elect he didn't do a press conference when obama had done seven. he put off having a press conference for a long, long time. the idea that he was accessible was basically as a candidate. he did not big press. i think that's a bogus point. >> rob, we had donald trump saying yesterday to cpac the media doesn't represent the people, it never will. and we're going to do something about it. is this what we're seeing, is that him doing something about it? >> certainly looks that way, even if it wasn't intentional. that's the message that people are taking away. you know, you keep vilifying the press, and then this happens a few hours later. that legitimate accredited journalists are deliberately excluded. it's very easy to make that conclusion that this was punishment for those news organizations that were probing and investigating the

administration. >> all right. i want to make a real quick response here, thank you, bill carter and rob mahoney. but cnn does have response saying this is an unexpected development by the trump white house, apparently this is how they retaliate when you report fakes that they don't like. still to come, since kim jong-nam's death, officials are speaking to one of the suspects being held in connection with that murder. also, a cnn report, american troops one mile away from the intense battle in the city of mosul. we're live now for what's happening in the fight against isis. and of course, that's a helicopter overhead, firing heavy machine gunfire. and missiles inside the city. heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts.

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new details in the investigation behind the bizarre murder of kim jong-nam. indonesian officials met with one of the suspect being held by malaysian police, in this meeting they say she was asked to do what she called an activity by people who looked japanese or correspond rkorean, thought the substance was like baby oil. >> it comes after malaysian police say the estranged half brother of kim jong-un was billed by vx, an illegal and lethal nerve agent.

♪ isis fighters are setting stores on fire as iraqi forces close in on the terror group's last major stronghold in that country. >> federal police announced overnight that they've recaptured an agricultural area near mosul and are inching farther into the city. this comes just days after they regain control of the city's airport. >> joining those iraqi forces in the battle for mosul are american soldiers stationed just one mile from the front line. cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman spent time with those american soldiers. he's joining us live from erbil, iraq. ben, what can you tell us about their state of mind and this mission? >> well, christi, it does appear that iraqi forces are now entering the southern edge of western mosul itself. and the fighting is very difficult. however, in this fight which could go on for quite some time,

they're getting some help from their friends. >> smoke in the fortnight to take that down and mark that. >> reporter: american soldiers they decline to share their names are setting coordinates for isis positions. just a little over a mile away from the extremists. they never fired their sniper rifle, but used it to identify targets. nearby, they assemble a drone. the pentagon officials say u.s. service personnel are operating ever closer to the action. the bombardment of western mosul is intense and steady. iraqis flying russian-made mi-35 helicopters blasted isis targets inside the city.

rapid response force major kaseem said resistance has been stiff because isis fighters realize they're cornered. they're surrounded, he tells me. there's no escape, either they die fighting or they surrender. the airport, on the southern edge of the city is in ruins. the runway strewn with concrete blocks. the fighting is preceding that at an accelerated rate. iraqi forces may be eager to avoid the repeat of the grueling three-month offensive to liberate the eastern part of the city. taking mosul airport was really just the first step. now, these iraqi forces are heading into the city proper. that's when the real battle will begin. a battle in which americans may play an even greater role. and as the fighting continues,

we're hearing that more civilians are fleeing the city. overnight from the district in western mosul, about 1,500 people were able to escape from isis. but in other areas, more than 50 people were either killed or wounded when in trying to escape from mosul, they walked through an isis mine field. christi. >> ben wedeman, we appreciate the update. do stay safe in the crew. deep divisions still linger in the democratic party as they now prepare to vote in their next chairman. question, though, can the party heal from bruising primaries and election defeat? and one ohio town is hoping it's put into action. that's next. thout a scratch.

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♪ saturday has been waiting for you, so are we. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. the challenges that we face as a party and a country are real. so, now more than ever, we need to stay engaged, in the field and online. reaching out to new voters, young people and everyone who wants a better, stronger, fairer america. our best days are still ahead.

so, keep fighting. and keep the faith. and i'll be right there with you every step of the way. >> former presidential candidate hillary clinton there getting back into the political fray so to speak. urging her divided democratic party to bridge the divide, to come together to take on president trump, essentially. in a few hours the democratic national committee will select one of seven candidates, former labor secretary tom perez appears to lead the impact. and former michigan senator keith ellison. >> donald trump as deceptive as he was said he was for infrastructure, and trade, that's what we do. we do have to lead with our values. >> the face-off between the series, a little bit clinton versus bernie sand areas that we

saw during the primaries. but mayor buttigieg, third in the race is bracing himself for that dynamic. >> what we've got to do as a party to rex nice that that same struggle is true for an immigrant making sure you're not divided from the family or a blue collar worker trying to figure out where your job is, or a transgender kid at a high school who just needs to go to the bathroom like everybody else. >> let's continue with maria cordona. good to have you all with us. ryan, let me start with you, head to head, former secretary perez, congressman ellison. perez has the advantage here. votes are counted preliminarily, of course, there are a lot of passionate people and could be protests. >> yes. to a certain extent, democrats

are in a position where they're trying to bring their party together. az a unity afront by democrats. even though perez clearly has an advantage, he doesn't want to in any way dampen down the enthusiasm of an ellison wing of the party, which is a bernie sanders wing. you're going to see them reaching out to democrat because if they have any shot of taking out donald trump down the road, they need to come together. you see all the signs, that the party isn't necessarily together, it's going to be the job of the people who come together. >> the westin hotel where this is happening. how do they come together, maria? >> with conversations that we've been having. what i've been saying is excited about in this election, we have it tough with so much terrific candidates and to be up front, i'm supporting tom perez. but i think keith ellison has

been fantastic. the mayor of indiana has been great, very impressive. i think that what we have here are people who understand that we do need to bring the party together who are going to do what they need to do to bring the party together. and frankly, i think that this proxy war that people have been trying to put this race into is not what the candidates themselves have been focused on. they have been focused on party unity. on understanding that we have the most progressive platform we've ever had. understanding that we need to represent our values, especially against donald trump who has been so divisive to the country. >> there's much more to decide. and we talked off camera about this than deciding who it will be. i want to take everybody back to the last time the republicans were up against the trifecta. 2005, governor dean was just elected party chairman. this was part of his acceptance after republicans increased

their advantage in the house and senate and john kerry just lost. let's watch. >> we have to move forward. we cannot win if all we are is against the current president and his administration. republicans wandered around in the political wilderness for 40 years they took back congress. but the reason why we lost control is we forgot why we were entrusted with that control in the first place. >> democrats took the house, and tied up the senate. and in '08, president obama won the election. >> it's impressive that you brought up governor dean's statement. governor dean took the democratic parties back into the grassroots into the state legislative races into congressional races into parts of our country democrats had not been active or engaged. and quite frankly, while we see this process unfold today, let's

understand, yes, democrats are off the yoga mats but it doesn't mean they're engaged yet. the real challenge for the democratic leader, whoever is chosen is to make the party real again. we have to capitalize on the legislative agenda that senator schumer, for example, is putting forward. >> maria, there's obviously the passion. we saw it in the markets, in the inauguration. >> by going into the grassroots, and to be very clear, i don't think the democratic party or the dnc should co-op that movement, they should let it rise, they should support it every chance they get. and they should talk to the activists. the exciting part, so many of them, i've been to all of the

marches have never marched in their life. these are new people who understand what a threat the trump administration is. and want to be active. want to be a voice in their local communities. the democratic party has the infrastructure to help them do that. what's the next step here? we can't just protest. we can't just march. we have to talk about running for office. we have to talk about taking back state legislature. so we can do the redistricting and fight from the local level on up. >> ryan, is there evidence that we're seeing the signatures being collected and e-mail addresses being collected in these rallies? >> that's the big question, victor. because washington is only part of the problem for democrats as both maria and robert have said, there's deficiencies there there. we're going to see the first big test in virginia. that is a state that i covered pretty closely. and that's going to be the first legislative race here in

november. the first race for governor. that's where we'll see the democrats put the race into action. we don't know yet. until we actually see names on the ballot and an actual race trach place that we'll see if this is actually going to turn into something. >> thank you all. christi. coal country becoming obsolete. there's a small town in ohio who is looking for president trump to save their jobs, but they say he needs to do it fast. that's ahead. touring the country telling folks about our heart healthy idaho potatoes, america's favorite potatoes, and donating to local charities along the way. but now it's finally back home where it belongs. aw man. hey, wait up. where you goin'? here we go again.

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hour now. president trump had a rousing message to coal country in this cpac speech yesterday. your jobs are coming back. >> that promise is already being put to the test, though. large numbers of coal plants are being shut down across the country. in ohio, specifically, residents are now asking president trump to save not only their jobs but their entire town before it's too late. >> cnn's martin savage has their story. >> reporter: in ohio, it's hard to find an area more remote or more red than manchester where two of every three votes were for donald trump. >> donald trump. >> trump. >> trump. >> trump. >> reporter: the tiny town sits along the bucolic banks of ohio river. >> there's something in the water here. you get it in your blood. >> reporter: folks can tell you when the town started, 1791, and when they believe it will die. >> 2018.

>> june of 2018 is when i personally heard. >> reporter: that's when two large coal plants on either side of season are projected to close. >> it was definitely a shock to myself. co-workers, family. eem in the local community. i think some people are still in shock. >> reporter: as it stands now, the union says about 700 jobs will be lost in a town of about 2,000 people. the coal supplier said it will cut an additional 1700 jobs, tax revenues and jobs will plummet. what about the rallies. >> in ohio -- >> reporter: all of those promises of jobs re-energizing coal. >> job, job, job. >> reporter: so if he is the energy coal president, why are coal plants still shutting down? >> i don't think it's 100% up to trump. i think he's got a lot of say-so in it. to me, it's poor business decisions. >> reporter: the mayor agrees

it's not trump's fault. he blames plant owners and management. >> and overhauls. >> he's a man in the suit. >> but he has touched the working people. he stood up to the working people. >> reporter: did you vote for trump hoping he would save your job? >> that's not the only reason i voted for him. i did vote for trump. i like the way his views are on stuff. i like the way he don't try to be politically correct. >> reporter: you don't feel despite all of the talk about coal, bring the coals back, somehow your coal-related job? >> i personally don't feel that down. but i hope he steps in as well. >> the pressure on the what we worked on the coal industry on. >> reporter: these >> i don't know. i'll have to see what the future holds. i won't necessarily hold it against him but more of a disappointment. >> if they were just empty

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a shadow but -- >> for folks in north america you don't have to feel left out. you'll have a chance to catch another spectacle, six months from now a total solar eclipse will cross the u.s. for the first time in near hi 40 years. >> all right. so folks in the northeast, i'm sorry to tell you, just be on the lookout for some wicked weather yet again. >> i feel like we've been doing this weekend after weekend, this rough weather. this time we're talking about new york and pennsylvania, new jersey, maryland, virginia. the cooler weather will be surging through the east after record high temperatures yesterday, and they were great yesterday. >> yeah, but look at the video in minnesota. oh, my goodness, a semi turned over in a ditch next to the interstate there. the good news is that nobody was injured, but, look, i'm from ohio. i understand what it's like driving on those roads. my husband, i'm sure, would have something else to say about my driving anyway but let's not go in. >> are you a bad driver? >> i'm not a bad driver, but driving on those roads and driving with big trucks like

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the white house vehemently defending asking the fbi to deny reports of communications between trump campaign associates and russians known to u.s. intelligence. >> i'm against the people that make up stories and make up

sources. >> this is something that embarrasses the white house. that's not a leak. that's a news story. >> if you think they are going to give you your country back without a fight, you are sadly mistaken. >> the democrats have a real chance to change things. >> that's why he beat all those other republicans because he stole a democratic message. we do have to lead with our values. >> we're all in this together. that's got to be our message. >> saturday morning. we will r happy to be your alarm clock on the weekend. i'm christi paul. >> and i'm victor blackwell. this is a new year's day for you. welcome to the show is this a new day for the democrats? the democratic national committee is set to elect its next chairman this morning. two questions they have to answer. who will lead the opposition to president trump's agenda? also, can they heal the divisions still lingering within the party ranks? >> at this hour we'll discuss the front-runners, the dark horse candidates pulling in some surprising endorsements. >> also,