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for who? >> the voters you just talked about. forgotten men and women across the country who had been adversely impacted on deals on trade and terrible tax rates. >> look at how president trump seems to be backing away from all of his promises on trade. he can't get a health care deal. he can't get a budget deal. >> karen, you can't have it both ways. >> he is not accomplishing anything. where are the jobs he promised? >> the jobs are coming. >> where are the jobs coming from? >> the democrats can criticize the president for doing too much when it comes to trade issues and taking it right to adversaries. >> i'm criticizing him for not doing anything. >> he is going a fantastic job. you look ats his strong comments on nafta saying we need to re e renegotia renegotiate. >> comments. >> when you take $100 billion
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trade deficit he is trying to close. karen, it is a pivot to get away from the fact that secretary clinton had no message and ran a terrible campaign. president trump sttapped into something special. >> miller, that's that. that was a good conversation. that's why i left it alone. karen, ja jason, thank you. thanks to the international viewers for watching. "cnn newsroom" is next for you. for u.s. viewers, we will look at the cases with experts and try to explain the outcome. "new day" gets after it right now. >> i was on the way to winning until jim comey's letter. >> president trump firing back even slamming his fbi director.
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>> i'm back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance. >> if they knew michael flynn was maleable, why didn't they give us a head's up? >> i think it's time now. >> i don't think it is as good as it needs to be. >> we are making good progress. >> the democrats are trying to claim victory. it is unusual for one group to walk out. >> we are not ready to draw any red lines in the sand. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to "new day." hours after hillary clinton blamed some of her loss on sexism, russia and fbi, these comments come as fbi director james comey is expected to face tough questions from senate democrats about his role in the final day of the race.
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>> and the tweets by president trump calling out comey for doing clinton a favor. we contradict the trump white house surrounding michael flynn. sally yates will testify next week. all of this is happening as the president is personally pushing house members to vote on a new health care plan this week. we have it all covered for you. let's start with joe johns at the white house. >> reporter: good morning, chris. back at it. hillary clinton and donald trump six months after the election now going after each other again as another key player once again takes center stage on capitol hill. president trump firing back at hillary clinton after her scathing indictment of the 2016 race. insisting that fbi director james comey influenced voters. >> i was on the way to winning until the combination of jim
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comey's letter on october 28th and russia wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were inclined to vote for me, but got scared off. if the election were on october 27th, i'd be your president. >> reporter: the president responding in a series of late night tweets. slamming his own fbi director. fbi director comey was the best thing that ever happened to hillary clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds. the phony trump russia story was an excuse used by the democrats as justification for losing the election. perhaps donald trump just ran a name campaign. this response coming hours after clinton took a jab at the president's sore spots. >> i did win more than 3 million votes than my opponent. >> i feel a tweet coming. >> fine. bertha than interfering in foreign affairs. if he wants to tweet about me,
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i'm happy to be the difficuvers. >> reporter: comey expected to testify at the hearing over the influences on the campaign. hillary clinton blaming comey's letter to congress about the e-mail server and the hacking of e-mails of her campaign. >> he certainly interfered in our election. it was clear he interfered to hurt me and help my opponent. >> reporter: acknowledging some ownership for defeat. >> i take responsibility. i was the candidate. i was the person who was on the ballot. >> reporter: and now vowing to speak out against her former rival. >> i'm now back to being an activist citizen and part of the resistance. >> reporter: all this as sources tell cnn that former acting attorney general sally yates will testify next week that she
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forcefully warned the trump white house in january that then national security adviser michael flynn lied about the sanctions over the russian ambassador. contradicting the white house version of events. >> they wanted to give quote a head's up to us on comments that may have seemed in conflict with what he sent the vice president. >> reporter: yates' testimony likely to raise further questions about why it took the administration nearly three weeks to fire flynn. a decision that was ultimately made on the same day the story was reported in the washington post. the other big headline this morning is that telephone call mostly about syria and north korea between vladimir putin and president trump. both sides now looking ahead of course to the g20 summit in germany. the first face-to-face meeting. today, the president will host
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abbas. >> thank you, joe johns. we bring in our panel. jackie kucinich and we have jeff zeleny. jeff, what was your reaction to the candor and designation of responsibility by clinton? >> she accepted responsibility probably more than she ever has in a public setting for the last six months. it still does not necessarily sound like she actually believes it. still does not necessarily believes that is why she actually was not successful. she did not talk about the e-mail server. she didn't talk about paid speeches. she didn't talk about missing the mood of the country. beyond that, she said look,
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since i was at the center of this, i accept responsibility. she promises to write more about that. the whole point is why now? i talked to a top confidant of hers. she is not running for anything. she is just not hiding anymore. with that frame in mind, she wants to be back in the conversation. the question is for democrats and others is are they ready for her or interested in her coming back? that's a very mixed answer. >> jackie, she is literally out of the woods now. she even said that. the frustrating thing about this conversation and the conversation with christiane yesterday is the comey factor is unknown. certainly that letter did something. it was a bombshell when he sent that letter to congress. it is hard to know in your private voting booth which one swayed you most. >> exactly.
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when you get down do-to-to it, reason comey was sending letters was due to the private server. it goes back to her decision at the end of the day. this should have been built in anyway. she should have had more distance between herself and trump. what was her message on the economy? what was she telling people she was going to do on a regular basis? that wasn't as jeff said -- the mood of the country. there were other factors here. she did not address. >> you have relevance and percentage of things. of course, the comey letter mattered. everything she delineates mattered. you can't find a democrat to say it should not have been that close. you have that and you have the equal and opposite reaction from the president. was it right for him to take this bait and what did you make of the response to the bait? >> as of last night. >> yes. >> his decision to tweet. >> yes. >> in the white house.
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reliving an election he already won. he has no filter on him. he continues to show he continues to play in the sand box when he runs the elementary school. he won the election. i don't understand why president trump continues to engage in this. he won the election and in other things. it is troubling, frankly, that he decides and continues to decide after the first 100 days, we talk about the lessons. one lesson he hasn't learned is words really do matter and actions matter. when he does something like he did last night when he said comey was the best thing to ever happen to her. it is ridiculous. a waste of time. >> he disrespected a sitting fbi head. >> i didn't go that far. he talked to vladimir putin yesterday. he has a big meeting today. he is worried about the election. >> let's read that again for everybody in case you missed. it fbi director comey gave her a
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free pass for many bad deeds. the phony russia story was an excuse for justification for losing the election. perhaps trump just ran a great campaign. part of why this is relevant is james comey is going to congress and he will be asked more questions about the russia meddling and alleged ties to the trump team. what do we think will happen with james comey on the hill? >> the president can say it is a fake investigation and all he wants. the reality is there are multiple investigations still going on about the election. you know, he is free to talk about that. what's going to happen on capitol hill today, james comey once again will be front and center talking about how this administration and people from this orbit were potentially in
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conversation or can hoohoots wie campaign. there is not much evidence of that at all. this is an ongoing thing. members of the senate intelligence committee are saying this is likely to go all year long here. this is going to be a dual soundtrack to the first year of the donald trump presidency here. his own fbi director will be on the capitol hill talking about how real this is. >> you can't blame these candidates for not being able to let go. we are still litigating parts of it in every day on the hill talking about russia. we're not passing out the overlays of the electoral map like trump is to reporters. >> it is only 1,281 days until
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the next one. >> apparently we don't run enough. >> it is forgivable that neither is still done litigating this. >> clinton can talk about it all she wants. that is the end for her. he is the president of the united states and he takes the bait and does it in a way where he compromises investigations and bashes his fbi head. that matters more than what hillary clinton thinks. >> i don't disagree. when you look at the russia investigation as a whole time of question of his legitimacy of his election. he cannot let that go. it seems like that. it is about him. it is not about -- it does, but it doesn't seem to have to do with the system. the system by which we elect presidential leaders. the fact they got into that. he doesn't talk about that as
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much as he talks about the russia thing is fake and democrats are trying to attack him. >> to the broader scope of what's going on here and the criticism we take in the media for being critical of president trump. we want him to succeed. if he succeeds, the country succeeds. everybody succeeds. when you see him act this way, he has to be called out on it. he is the president of the united states. he has bigger things on his plate. hillary clinton can walk in the woods and opine about why she should have won or didn't win. the fact of the matter is, president trump needs to focus on what's in front of him and not what is behind him. that is the most frustrating. >> at least, jeff, given some cover to the stunt with mulvaney. he came out with pictures and pointing at the wall and saying what's this? we're actually building the wall. what is that about? how is that productive? >> the white house was furious yesterday by the fact that
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democrats seemed to actually have won at least the messaging argument in washington over spending. the temporary spending bill that is going to avoid a shutdown this week does not have a lot of president's priorities in it. the white house was not necessarily thrilled by that. the president was getting an earful because of reports, accurate ones, that says his border wall is not funded. there is money for border security, but not actually build that new wall. >> not what mulvaney said. >> they are bolstering. this is why it is confusing. that is the old wall. >> he said what is this? it is going on right now. >> we heard april ryan they are hammering things on there. >> the pictures come from new mexico in january. they are old photographs. the white house later conceded that. he was showing an example of yes there are enhancements made to
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current border security. it is not accurate to say the new wall is being built. the money is not there for it. >> the idea that the omb head pointed at pictures and made this bogus point is a reflection of the state of play. >> it is good to know it is new mexico. david gregory thought it may be ohio. thank you for that reporting. >> not yet. >> thank you for everything. republicans are scrambling for votes needed to pass the health care reform plan this week. at the moment, it looks like an uphill battle. the latest whip count shows 22 house republicans plan to vote no. the white house hoping for a last minute push by the president will change the minds of many law imakerlawmakers. suzanne malveaux is live on capitol hill. how is the count going, suzanne? >> reporter: that count is certainly influx. it could go either way. facing a potential defeat again on health care, president trump very much personally involved in
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the negotiations. he is hosting and hoping to convince lawmakers to take this political risk and some of them it is a big one to push this through the house and pass on to the senate. >> how is health care coming? i think it is time now. >> reporter: president trump personally calling congress member billy long currently against the bill twice in the past two days to try to gain his support. the two men will meet at the white house today along with congress member fred upton. another high profile republicans also against the bill over the issue of pre-existing conditions. >> i've supported the practice of not allowing pre-existing illnesses to be discriminated against from the get-go. this amendment torpedos that and i told leadership i cannot support this bill with this provision in it. >> reporter: republican leaders have yet to schedule a vote on the bill. cnn's current whip count has 22
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republicans voting no. if this number holds, republicans cannot afford to lose another vote. another defeat on health care could damage president trump's legislative power and paul ryan's standing as speaker of the house. >> we are making good progress with members and the president is instrumental. >> reporter: it battle playing out as a bipartisan spending bill had more wins for democrats than the president's priorities. >> i think the democrats cleaned our clock. this is not winning from the republican point of view. >> reporter: president trump lashing out and threatening to shut the government down in september when lawmakers necessity dpoegotiate the 2018 . a criticism over the democrats issuing their own shutdown threat. >> i will not lecture my hope. he will be a constructive force. >> reporter: mick mulvaney insisting that republicans came out on top in the budget
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negotiating. >> this is what winning looks like. >> when you heard in the last 48 hours about the deal, did you think we could build this? >> reporter: mulvaney attempting to portray fixing and replacing existing fencing as a win for the administration. despite the fact there is specific language in the spending bill that prohibits any money from going toward construction of the president's controversial border wall. for the third day in a row, we will see vice president mike pence on the hill trying to shore up support for the health care legislation. the goal in the next 48 hours to get support before the house leaves for recess. in the meantime, house speaker paul ryan is not going to put this on the schedule for a vote until they actually have those votes. chris. >> suzanne, we will have one of the men caught up in the mix of what will lhappen on health car. he was a yes originally on the
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the billboard music awards. sunday, may 21st eight seven central only on abc. how's health care coming, folks? we're moving along? i think it's time now, right? >> a lot of doubt going on with the health care fight. it has come down to the last few moments. will there be a vote this week? president trump is meeting this morning with two republican congress members who plan to vote against the bill. he is trying to sway them or try to cut a deal. the latest cnn whip count shows 22 republicans and 10 to vote no. all of this is very soft. things can change quickly. there are a lot of undecideds still. joining us now is congress member steve king of iowa. you were a yes, but i hear right now you are still undecided.
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is that true, congress member? >> yes, i moved by whip announcement last week to undecided. the result of that is result of the negotiations with the essential health benefits that throws this back into the lap of the 50 states for them to fight over what they want to do. they have the full authority to pass any legislation to put any mandate into health insurance they like. there is no reason for the federal government to stay in the health insurance business. the president and i agree. we want the federal government out of the health insurance business. we had agreement that my language will be offered in the senate supported by the vice president and the president to strikeout 1302b of obamacare. the essential health benefits. once they negotiated these with the freedom caucus and tuesday group, it is hard for me to imagine they will bring that language in the senate or effective because they diluted
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it. >> do you think there will be a vote this week? >> i would say that's a toss of the coin. i think they are holding four to six votes short of going to the floor. i don't know how soft some of the votes sitting on the balance are, but that's my prediction. a toss of the coin if they will or won't. >> that's the politics. let's get to the policy. you are different from the group of moderates who are worried about the lack of protections and guarantees of coverage for people in districts and that there will be vulnerability. at the top of the list is pre-existing conditions. you don't want the federal government to guarantee anything. you want it all to be on the states. to understand why your brothers and sisters are worried about that and if you didn't guarantee pre-existing conditions, you will not have the same guarantee of coverage of them across the country. >> i come from a state that took care of pre-existing conditions.
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i chaired the iowa senate state government committee where we oversaw that operation. there are a good number of states that have done so. i think we should have started from this. we should have brought full 100% repeal of obamacare in january. sent it to the senate. then the necessity dpoesh yagot place of people voting no on any partial repeal of obamacare in any reform if they don't keep the parts of obamacare, that would have been over. we could jam through reconciliation rather than what you can keep for regional interests. >> there is a reason you have two of three americans in recent polling saying don't mess with the guarantees of coverage. we know what the insurance companies were doing before the aca. they played to their pocket. they are not in the goodwill business. if you give them an opportunity to cut people out who aren't god blessed with great health, they
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will. even with the macarthur amendment, you will not have a guarantee that everyone with pre-existing conditions gets coverage. do you acknowledge that? >> i reconciled myself on the pre-existing conditions of in this way. if we need to subsidize pre-existing conditions in the federal government that's part of the price of getting rid of obamacare. i recognize that's likely to be the case from the beginning seven and a half years ago. i have been in the business of helping people with pre-existing conditions. that is a better way to do it. i'm a federalist. i believe the best decisions were made as close to the people as possible. we demonstrated that over and over again in the united states congress. why we won't serve it back to the states and wash our hands and do the smart thing like sell across state lines. do tort reform. that is $54 billion in savings. we can give people choices. >> you can do tort reform.
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that is a different set of statutes. across state lines, you have that in place now. hard to tell somebody that is magic elixir. they price policies where you are, not where the company is. you do have to remember, congress member, the reason the pre-existing conditions were guaranteed because of what was happening before. they were not guaranteed. people got closed out all the time. if you reduce the guarantee coverage you have now, you will once again make people susceptible. do you own that reality? >> i would say instead we had that functioning well in many states across the country. it was the obama administration that people voted for obamacare that wanted to change it. their focus wasn't so much on pre-existing conditions as it was create the foundation for medicine program. >> people born with kids that were sick when they did not have the coverage for it. people trying to get policies
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and go through records and say no. you had asthma in the past. that is what they were trying to do. >> chris, i recognize that is an element. i have been through the battles for 20 years and i have been watching the people on the other side. i read through hillary-care in the early '90s. that is scarier than obamacare. i need to look at this objectively and people refuse to do anything to fix obamacare. that is all they want to do. complete socialized medical program. we want to give people choices. i want people to be able to buy catastrophic insurance and sell across state lines and expand health savings account. i want to limit the abuse in lawsuits so we see the premiums go down. that lowers premiums. that is a republican objective. everything i said here is an republican objective. >> congress member steve king. i look forward to see how you come out with the vote.
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give us a head's up. >> thank you, chris. alisyn. >> james comey heading to capitol hill where senate democrats want to grill him. one of the grillers joins us next. 0-li eng a 10-speedt-shift transmission. a meticulously crafted interior. all of these are feats of engineering. combining them with near-perfect weight distribution... ...is a feat of amazing. experience the first-ever 471-horsepower lexus lc 500 or the multistage hybrid lc 500h. experience amazing. whoa,i just had to push one button to join.
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i was on the way to winning until the come bbination of jam comey's letter on october 28th and russian wikileaks were released. >> thats was hillary clinton giving her postmortem. naming james comey's letter as key factor. this morning, comey will face the senate ju dish area judicia. we have senator with us this morning. what did you think of the assessment there that if it were in the for the letter on october 28th outlining what he thought was new material on anthony
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wiener's laptop? >> it is interesting that both candidate trump and candidate clinton and the fbi director chose to comment on one, but not the other. i am interested in hearing from the fbi director what lessons he learned from the consequences of the decision. i'm less interested in relitigating the 2016 than i am figuring out how to secure the next elections from foreign interference and what lessons the fbi director and fbi as an organization has learned about the deviations from the historic practice of not making comments on investigations. particularly those that are explosive and so close to an election. >> will you ask him this morning directly if he thinks that his letter was to blame for the hillary clinton loss? >> i'm confident that question will be asked, alisyn. one of the more junior members of the committee. by the time it gets to me, i suspect that question will have been asked four or five times.
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i will ask why he chose to comment on one and not the other. in particular, how he sees the future of the fbi and what they will learn from the impact it had. look, alisyn, in an election that was as close as 2016, there's lots of tafactors that determine the outcome. i don't think it is possible to point to one thing and say this determined the outcome of the election. there were just 160,000 votes across three states that determined the outcome. hillary clinton did win the popular vote by 3 million votes. it is important for us to understand why the current fbi director chose to insert himself in the last dayss of t s director chose to insert himself in the last dayss of ts of the n the way he did. >> you don't have much time. what is the burning question? >> alisyn, what i want to ask will have been asked several times. what i would ask if i were the first questioner. why did you choose not to
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comment on candidate trump and potential collusion with russia, but chose to comment on in the waning days of the election? this treatment is strikinstriki. what lessons have you and the fbi learned about the impact on the election? >> let me ask you about something else going on on kp . capitol hill. the budget deal. the white house thinks you democrats are spiking the ball. they are not happy about what your response has been. let me play for you omb director mick mulvaney talking about this. >> they really didn't get is this. this is what they wanted. they wanted a shutdown. we know that. they were desperate to make this administration look like we could not function like we could not govern. i don't anticipate a shutdown in september. if negotiations -- if the
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democrats are not going to behave any better, it may be n inevitab inevitable. >> what is your response to that, senator? >> that is pretty hard to square with reality. president trump tweeted this week that the government needs a good shutdown in september. i don't think there is any democrat who wanted a shutdown. what we wanted is what we got. a good balance bipartisan negotiation where the senate republicans and democrats work together to keep the government functioning. there is no funding for a big new wall that the president wanted and insisted on. both republicans and democrats did not see the wisdom in funding. there is no cut off in funding to planned parenthood. i'm personally thrilled there's $860 million in new money in fighting opioid addiction. that is affecting every state in the country. i'm encouraged we're continuing to invest in medical research.
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i think the president ought to be taking a victory lap and saying he played a role in getting a great deal instead of omb director wag his finger and say we were lusting after a shutdown. i think it is silly. >> on the topic of that border wall. they also say you got it wrong. in fact, you democrats did approve money for border security and they are using that to beef up the wall. >> we did approve money for border security. it is expressly not for the construction of a 2000-mile new wall. i think we are dithering here. we did pass a big bipartisan immigration reform bill two years ago that i voted for that would have invested in upgrading border security. it did not fund nor did this deal fund a 2,02,000-mile wall.
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this doesn't include his version of a border wall. we will see if he vetoes it. >> senator chris coons, thank you. >> thank you, alisyn. >> confusion and outrage in the case of alton sterling. we will tell you why his family is demanding answers in a live report from baton rouge next. [vo] the grille is distinctive. but it's usually seen from the rear. the all-new audi q5 is here. so ammara, you're a verizon engineer, tell me, what's one really good reason why the samsung galaxy s8 is better on verizon? well we have the largest 4g lte network in america. yeah that's a pretty good reason. and the most reliable. uh-huh. and, with unlimited, you get full hd video. oh wow, yeah, that's, uh, two, maybe even three reasons right there. it's exactly three. okay. sure, whatever you say. (vo) if you really, really want the best,
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so heavy rain is expected to soak several states already reeling from severe floods. cnn meteorologist chad myers has the forecast. >> alisyn, it will be a rain in days in the country. this weather is brought to you by xyzal. we will see significant rainfall in places that already have rivers to the record or major levels around record flooding from arkansas to missouri all the way back down into
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louisiana. by 1:00, raining from little rock to missouri and up to st. louis. the mississippi and missouri are right at the record level or close to that major flood level. new flash flood warnings this morning already because of the new rain coming down and the potential for tornadoes, potential for flooding and also for wind damage across louisiana today. chris. appreciate it. thank you, chad. the family of alton sterling reacting to media reports that the baton rouge police officers who shot and killed him will not face federal charges. state charges still pending. the family is angry the justice department did not notify them before it happened. cnn's nick valencia joins us from baton rouge, louisiana. good morning, nick. what do we know? >> reporter: good morning, chris. we spoke to sandra sterling, the mother of alton sterling. she was inconsolable.
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we spoke to her moments after hearing the news. she could barely put together a sentence. the problem is there's been no official announcement from the department of justice. no one told here from the doj. the sterling family was suppo d suppossupposed to be the first to know. they not find out. they found out through media reports. they were supposed to have a six-our head's up. that did not happen. the community has gone through so much. a lot of tension. the video that emerged from the shooting is haunting and dist b disturbing to say the least. we answer the police officers have been put on administrative lea leave. if there is any indication of what is to happen in baton rouge, barricades have been put up around the federal courthouse.
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there is another big story. former officer michael slager pleading guilty in the 2015 shooting death of walter scott. he shot scott in the back as the unarmed man was running away from him. and then in texas a police officer is fired after allegedly shooting into a car and killing this 15-year-old boy. police say the car drove away from the officer when he opened fire. so are these cases getting enough attention? let's discuss. gentlemen, great to have you here. we'll talk about the coverage in a second but let's talk about the outcome of these cases because some of these are cases that gripped the nation and just back in 2015. let's talk about the slager thing. he pleaded guilty. but he pleaded guilty to this
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federal civil rights charge, which was deprivation of rights under the law. why not murder? >> well, in a case such as this, certainly he's going to have an attorney that's going to look out for his best interest. so whatever deal got negotiated works for both the prosecution and slager as well. it finds some resolve. what's going to be interesting is what kind of sentence officer slager is going to receive and what the outcome of that may be. but this will come to an end. that was a long, drawn-autocaou. if you remember it was a hung jury a few months back. this has come to resolve because this case has been of great interest to all of us across the country. also the alton sterling one, no charges there. wesley, as you know, alton
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sterling was a little bit complicated. he had a gun on him. >> yes. so this was one of several cases last year that went viral, got a lot of media attention in which the person killed got a gun. later on charlotte, milwaukee. now the question here was whether alton sterling was reaching for that gun at the time of the shooting. the video seems to suggest that perhaps he was not and also raises questions about the police interaction, whether they escalated it or could have deescalated it. but this is a case people have been anxiously awaiting. this caused massive protests and later on an assassination of police officers that may or may not have been related to the unrest. people have been waiting for this and the city of baton rouge
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have been waiting. this is one of the first times that jeff sessions is weighing in on one of these shootings. >> we should also mention there were two police officers who were shot. this was just this week on tuesday in chicago's south side. two vehicles drove up and began firing at the officers. so the point of all of this is that these -- less anyone think that suddenly these sorts of shootings have gone away, they haven't. this is still happening, but they're not in the news cycle. and you tweeted about this. you said three big police shooting stories today. so what's your theory? >> of course. so i think it is a combination of things, right? those were sent before the man-hunt in chicago. in this was a year or two ago, we would be looking at live
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coverage in the man hunt in chicago and waiting for these decisions elsewhere. in these cases, the only new case here is the jordan edwards case, the 15-year-old killed in texas. in this new case, the jordan edwards case, there is no video released yet. video is a big driving factor in our attention span. we remember the walter scott fan because we watched it on loop or days and weeks. so that's part of it. but the other reality, too, is we exist in a news cycle where it is all donald trump all the time. because they are creating so much content, i mean, the world is ending. forget the north koreans and russiansvladimir putin. it is difficult for us to focus on anything else. but the reality is these
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shootings have not stopped. the washington post has been tracking fatale police shooting in realtime. and we found that three people are shot and killed every day. that is not decreased. it has not changed. it is not happening any less than it was happening in 2014 or '15. we are paying less attention to it. >> this is the issue, that we have to make decisions day on what we are going to devote our attention to. we have three hours, but it goes fast particularly when you are dealing with government shut down, health care, north korea, russia, all that stuff. so arguably all the stuff i have just delineated affects more americans than these police shootings, but we don't want to give the impression that these aren't important stories as welt. where do you think the balance is? >> well, these still are very important stories, and i think for all of us we can't forget the local issues that are still
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very important to people in local communities. certain the national issues get a lot of attention. we get it. national, international issues. but these issues between police and community continue to be out there, continue to be of grave concern and even if you take the case with chicago, which is absolutely horrible, two police officers who were shot, who were severely injured on last night in chicago, that's certainly for many people across this country should be major news. and those subjects that were involved need to be brought to justice quickly because attack on police officers is an attack upon all of us, whether you're in chicago or any other city in america. and it is just totally unacceptable. so i think there has to be a balance between national and internationally. but we can't forget here the importance of also giving attention to these very important local issues. >> gentlemen, we approach you
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bringing them to our attention and talking about all of that this morning with us. we are following a lot of news this morning, including hillary clinton's interrevealing interview. so let's get to it. >> president trump lashing out at his former opponent ahead of fbi director comey's testimony. >> i take absolute responsibility. i was the candidate. >> sally yates is prepared to testify, but she gave a forceful warning to the white house regarding michael flynn. >> how is health care coming, folks? i think it is time now, right? >> i am supporting not allows pre-existing illnesses not to be discriminated against. >> we have been making important progress on this bill. >> the president cut a tremendous deal for the american people. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota.
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>> it is wednesday, may 3rd, 8:00 in the east. sparring over the outcome of the 2016 election. but the president responding on twitter last night after hillary clinton talked about who she believes is to blame for her defeat, and that includes fbi director james comey. >> in two hours, mr. comey himself will be grilled about senators in his actions in the final days of the campaign and russia's meddling in the election vmt all this as the president pushes for a vote on repealing obamacare, whether it happened, whether they have the votes still very much in doubt. we have got it all covered for you. let's begin with joe johns live after the white house. joe. >> reporter: chris, here we go again after six months and that election battle, hillary clinton and president trump are back at it as the fbi director once again on the hot seat on capitol hill. president trump firing back at hillary clinton after her scathing indictment of the
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