a great story for a special needs dog that was left at the shelter. the last one there. >> the last one there. back in december, a 70-pound labrador named eastwood was found abandoned on the side of the road in michigan taken to a no-kill shelter. there were 2500 dogs in that shelter and they were all adopted. eastwood was a deformity in his leg and was not able to find a hope, they think, because of that until the shelter posted his story on facebook. within an hour more than 80 people said they would give him a home and he's moving in on monday. congratulations. emmanuel macron, the front-runner in the french election now confirming what his team is calling a massive coordinated hacking operation. senior members warned michael flynn about the risk of his contacts with russia's ambassador. >> unlike a lot of other

ambassador, you had a very receptive team when it came to the russians. >> anonymous sources leaking to try and smear the president. >> nobody dies because they don't have access to health care. >> 13 men are deciding the future of american health care. there is not one woman at the table to represent more than half the population of this country. >> this health bill would be devastating for women. women would be denied coverage because of situations that are unique to them. >> it's an effort to kill off planned parenthood. >> if the bill passed today, thousands of americans would die. >> the senate is looking forward to getting it and i think we're going to have some really great health care. i hope there's some sunshine wherever you're waking up this morning. good morning. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell and we begin with the major news out of france. the leading french presidential candidate says he's been hacked on the eve of their election, but we should say that russia is

denying any involvement. the kremlin spokesmen tells cnn, these like other similar accusations are based on nothing and are pure slander. but emmanuel macron's campaign says the hack is meant to, quote, undermine democracy like it happened in the u.s. this hour the french electoral commission is asking the media not to publish details out of concerns it could sway sunday's outcome. also this morning, former presidential adviser carter page has sharp words for the senate intel committee telling them to ask the obama administration for his russian communications. this after promising to cooperate with officials. and a new report from the "washington post" says senior members of the trump transition team warned michael flynn about his contact with russia's ambassador, sergei kes lee yak. >> we're covering all these stories including the french election from every angle and with our reporters and panelists across the globe. let's start with cnn's issa

suarez outside of paris in france. what is the reaction to these all ga allegations from the electoral commission? >> reporter: this, victor, as you know was supposed to be a day of reflection just 24 hours before the french go to the polls. instead it's become really a day of confusion for many people because yesterday around 11:00 local, just an hour before campaigning wrapped up and before really the restrictions came in, reporting restrictions came in, emmanuel macron, the centrist party leader, came out saying that his -- really himself and his campaign had been a victim of a massive, it said, coordinated hacking operation. we're talking about 14.5 gigabytes of e-mails, personal e-mails, e-mails within their campaign that were put online, along with 70,000 files. some of them the campaign was saying are real, some are fake. they're both being mixed in in order to add to more confusion

and really sow more doubt on people's minds. they had one hour, the campaign, to come out and talk about this. and this is what they said. i'll read the statement to you. this operation, it reads, is clearly meant to undermine democracy, just like happened in the u.s. during the last presidential campaign. in terms of who is behind this, we do not know. you were talking about russia there, saying this is not them, this is just slander, but we have heard, we saw a tweet from the french ambassador to washington yesterday which was then deleted. he said this, it was expected, a last-ditch offensive to benefit a foreign government. to put it into context for you, victor, a few months ago we had heard various experts basically saying that perhaps russia was behind this, trying to end macron. also we know that putin and indeed le pen have met together

and in many wa and. victor. >> i ssa, thanks so much. matthew chance in moscow now. matthew, what is the reaction from russian officials this morning? >> reporter: of course there have been these instant comparisons made with this massive data from the team of emmanuel macron that the french presidential candidate has reported. within the hacking the u.s. intelligence officials say was the responsibility undertaken by russian hackers on the democratic party there in the united states with the release of e-mails related to hillary clinton's campaign with the express intention to damage her electability and to promote the candidacy of donald trump. so those comparisons have already been made. the russians of course still deny any connection with that

hack attack. likewise, they've denied any connection with these latest data dumps in france as well. we'll read the statement again from the kremlin spokesman. he said these like other similar allegations on based on nothing and on pure slander. the kremlin said it does not care which of the presidential candidates in france, either emmanuel macron or marine le pen, the far right nationalist, win the french election. they say they'll work with either candidate. but i think it's fair to say that the russians are somewhat closer to le pen than they are to macron in the sense that just last month marine le pen visited moscow and she had a face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin, the russian president, and also russian banks have given her campaign and her party millions of dollars in loans over the past several months. so there are clearly strong connections between russia and the campaign of marine le pen.

>> matthew chance, thank you so much. we appreciate it. cnn national security analyst and former assistant secretary of homeland security joining us now. first of all, your reaction to what we're hearing out of france this morning. >> two things, one is the swiftness by which not only the macron campaign as well as the french authorities are really trying to get the french media to not engage in this is possibly a lesson learned after what happened to hillary clinton. so in some ways they were anticipating something like this. the other is the sort of -- the inability of media to take seriously russia's denials. russia clearly wants le pen to win. wikileaks as we have noted here in the united states is essentially an agent of russia. they have put out this material with the hopes of helping le pen. they did not put similar e-mails

out for le pen. so the russian denials both understandable and predictable. they are not believable at this stage. >> what is your assessment of the timing of this release? the major difference or one of the major differences between what we're seeing in france to what we saw in the u.s., the podesta e-mails were hacked weeks, months before the election so that whatever narrative they were trying to sow had time to resonate. this comes at the end of the campaign in which the election commission can control over just a two-day period what is reported. what do you make of that difference? >> and the campaign is not as close as it was here, at least by the polling which we all obviously look at concept iicon. one, their capacity to get the e-mails from the campaign to wikileaks and then released, but the fact that the campaigns are not authorized to respond to this does hinder any effective

response by the campaign, but i would say there's a third reason and we certainly saw this with the hillary clinton campaign here in the u.s., which is it may very well be that the russians believe their candidate will lose, but the winning candidate will be hurt by these e-mails being exposed. so they may just have put them out so that when a new -- when le pen loses, they will at least have undermined macron. so that's how i think about it right now in terms of the timing. >> we'll look more into this throughout the morning. juliet, thanks so much for being with us. an explosive report surrounding former national security adviser michael flynn to talk about now. according to the "washington post," senior members of president trump's transition team warned flynn on multiple occasions about his contacts with russian ambassador sergei kislyak. they were so concerned they went

to the embassy administration to help, asking for a classified profile on kislyak, but it's not clear whether general flynn ever read that document. here's what the reporter who broke the story told us. >> unlike a lot of other ambassadors in washington who were struggling to make those connections with the incoming trump team, you actually had a very receptive trump team when it came to the russians. so if you talk to other european ambassadors around town, around that time, they felt like they were getting neglected. whereas normally during a transition they're the ones who get most of the facetime. in this case you had the russian ambassador who was getting repeated phone calls and meetings with members of the trump team. >> the latest in the series of events since the election that have raised red flags to the intelligence community. the scathing detail now prompting new questions about flynn's contacts and what the white house may have known. as you see here in this

timeline, former trump transition spokesman, jason miller dismissed the report though as just another smear attempt. >> you can tell when president trump is having a good week when another one of these anonymous stories comes out bringing up the russia issue. again, this is a story that's pushed by former obama white house people going to the "washington post" to try to get this story out. again, there is nothing untoward or illegal or wrong that's been presented today. it's just the fact that there was a briefing that was given. >> although we don't know the sourcing. we don't know it was obama. it could be trump transition people. >> we do know that seven obama white house folks were interviewed as part of the story. that's what they say in "the washington post" story. clearly it's not trump folks who are putting it forward. >> and also this morning, former trump adviser, carter page, has sharp words for the senate intel committee, telling them to ask the obama administration for his russia communications. this comes after promising to

cooperate with officials over his ties to russia. joining me now, ryan nobles, a cnn washington correspondent. this seems to be a shift. earlier this month and last month it seemed as if carter page was going to play ball with the senate intelligence committee, and now maybe not. >> no doubt, victor. carter page of course a key figure in the investigation into russian's alleged attempt to intervene in the u.s. election and whether or not the trump campaign played any role in that effort, but page who has been combative and forceful in the defense of his actions has now made it clear that he's not going to make it easy. in a harshly written letter to the senate intelligence committee, page refused to provide any details about his communication with russian officials and went on to accuse the obama administration of tracking his conversations. he told the senators that if they want to know who he talked to, they should ask former president obama. here's an excerpt from that letter. quote, i suspect the physical reaction of the clinton/obama

regime perpetrators will be more along the lines of severe vomiting when all the facts are eventually exposed regarding the steps taken by the u.s. government to influence the 2016 election. now, the senate intel committee has asked for records from not only page but from former trump campaign chairman paul manafort and one-time adviser roger stone. sources tell cnn that if they need to, the senate committee will subpoena the records. in a joint statement, senate intel leaders richard burr who's a republican and mark warner who's a democrat said they will continue to pursue their inquiry into russia's involvement into the american election. federal investigators believe that page was the target of russian spies as a potential asset. that's a charge page has vehemently denied. at one point during the campaign, page was listed as a foreign policy adviser to the trump campaign, but as reports surfaced about his possible connections to russia, the white house has distanced itself from page. it's still not clear just how

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18 minutes past the hour on this saturday morning. former dallas police officer roy oliver facing murder charges now. >> he was arrested for shooting and killing an unarmed teenager. this happened last weekend. his bond was set at $300,000. he's now out after posting bail. >> investigators say he shot 15-year-old jordan edwards as edwards rode in the passenger seat of a car. the city's police chief initially said the car was driving toward officers when one of their officers opened fire. later said he, quote, misspoke after body cam footage showed the car actually driving away from the officer. the news of this arrest comes as the family of jordan edwards is holding his funeral today. >> it doesn't take away the sting of obviously losing their son, but it does soften the blow a bit. they won't really be satisfied until there's a murder conviction. >> so we have to hear from joey jackson of course, cnn legal analyst and criminal defense

attorney on this one. joey, thank you so much for being with us. first and foremost, he's charged with murder, he's out on bond. would you expect that to happen in a case like this? >> good morning, christie. what happens is generally when you face a life sentence it would be discretionary to the court to keep you in. that is to remand you. however, several states throughout the country -- texas is one of them -- there's a presumption for bail to the extent believes you will spoond otherwise appear for your proceeding. but make no mistake about it. these are significant charges in the event he's convicted. he could face a life sentence. >> the first story from police was that the car was driving towards him. the second story on video shows the exact opposite. if you were defending him, joey, how do you start that? >> well, let's back up here. that's critically important what you're talking about because you have a discrepancy with regard to a statement that's being made. now, the prosecution is going to exploit that and say that that

statement is consciousness of guilt. that is you knew you were doing something wrong which is why you made the story with the car coming to you. let's talk quickly before i speak about how i would defend him, what he has to overcome. the prosecution is going to look at three things. number one, where was the immediatesy of the danger. that's first off. number two, the proportionality of the force. while a consider can be a deadly weapon, if it's moving away it presents no threat. and number three, what was the reasonableness as to your conduct. i think what we'll see from a defense perspective, they will play up the notion that there were the sound of shots when they got on the scene. that's relative to a state of mind, the fact that he believed himself to be in danger. however, again, there's a lot to overcome because when you look at that tape it belies what he was initially saying which is that he was in an immediatesy of danger, the car was coming towards you. now that you shift away from that it takes away the immediatesy. and while the car can be used as

a deadly weapon, you fire a rifle into that? so i think the defense certainly has a major strategy to play if there's any hope of coming out of this. also remember, we're talking about state charges now for murder. i would really be interested to see down the line what the federal government does because the big hangup with the federal government has always been we can't show intent. we can't establish the mind-set of the officer. the state and prosecutor for murder is clearly saying there's intent here. if there's excessive force, you get two bites of the apple. you get a state prosecution which we're seeing here and then potentially depending upon what happens there you could have a federal prosecution for violating civil rights. the commonalty, life in jail. >> joey, as we heard, they're going to have that funeral today, and you have to think that perhaps the family will be filing a civil suit as well. joey jackson, always appreciate your input. thank you, sir. >> thank you. president trump announced his plans for his first trip

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glad to see you on this saturday morning. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good morning to you. the president has now announced his plans for his first trip overseas. >> not keeping it low key, let's say. his first foreign outing includes a visit to capitols and three major world religions. his aides say this is a symbolic gesture to u.s. allies, both his fight against extremism and desire for peace in the middle

east. >> nick watson is live in london. what do we know about the itinerary? >> reporter: we certainly know that this is something that the iranians, for example, are going to be watching very closely. trump when he was in saudi arabia and israel will be expected to discuss the cooperation of both nations on the issues of isis and both those nations will want to talk to president trump about iran as well. look, the saudis in particular here and to a degree the israelis as well have grown particularly wary if you will from president obama. going back to the arab spring, he didn't support it and the saudis took that badly so over time they became wary of president obama's position and they really upped their own defense and security spending to be one of the biggest spenders in the world at the moment on armament. so when president trump comes to visit them, it's a very strong

message for them. he sees them and we heard this from defense secretary james mattis when he visited saudi last month, that the united states sees saudi arabia as a major strategic regional partner in terms of security, in terms of intelligence, in terms of military influence. so there will be like lly a meeting of minds on iran and talk about how both countries can support each other on that. when the president goes to israel, again, iran will likely be part of the conversation there, as well as mid east peace and the president has said that wants to support peace between the israelis and palestinians. when he gets to the vatican i think that's probably going to be somewhat away from the sort of cauldron of the conflicts that are going on in the middle east but certainly the pope has expressed his desire to see peace and his desire and concerns about what's happening to christians throughout the middle east. so you know there's going to be

a lot of middle east content in all those meetings. >> nick robertson, thank you so much. we appreciate the input. >> let's bring in cnn political analyst and columnist for the "washington post," josh roggin and washington bureau chief for "the chicago-sun times," lynn sweet. president trump is making the first international trip of any president in 50 years. what do you make of that? >> domestic politics-wise i make that he did not want to make the first trips to either canada or mexico so that's worth noting what he decided not to do. i think he had plenty of time to -- he needed the time to figure out what to do as president because this was, as we all know, such an unprecedented win and he needed time to stock his administration

and even get his secretary of state confirmed. let's remember how long it took to get the operation up and running so that his first trip is coming in may, doesn't really come as a surprise because also trump had to establish what he wanted to do in these trips. also worth noting and i know josh probably will have a lot more to say on this, by going to israel on this first trip, domestically it is also -- in domestic politics it's a marked contrast because when president obama first went to the region he made a very significant speech in egypt and he did not go to israel and that created problems for him within some precincts in the american jewish community that he had worked pretty hard to display his support for israel because he didn't go there in the first term. >> let's talk now about that trip to cairo back in june of

2009, josh. it was billed as the president's address to the muslim world. as this president now goes to his first trip to a majority muslim country there, i want to remind people of what president obama said in 2009. let's watch. >> i've come here to cairo to seek a new beginning between the united states and muslims around the world. one based on mutual interest and mutual respect and one based islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. >> america and islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. president trump in the campaign proposed banning all non-american muslims from coming into the u.s. when this president now goes to saudi arabia, what will be likely his message? >> i think the main difference you're going to see here is that where president obama was doing outreach to the muslim people of

the world, president trump is doing outreach to the muslim governments of the world and therein lies a huge difference. president obama wanted to align america with the aspirations of the citizens of all of these countries, and when that came to the arab spring, he had very mixed results because u.s. policy in the arab spring an. president trump wants to align himself with the governments that are in charge of these countries. he's given them largely a free hand to do what they want inside their countries. he said explicitly that the united states will no longer impress these governments to impose american values inside their borders. and he wants them to deliver things that can benefit america, america first, and those things are pretty clear. he wants them to step up in the fight against isis. he wants them to help them solve syria. he wants them to join him in

pressuring iran, and he wants them to buy into his idea for middle east peace. now, none of those things are going to get solved on this one-day trip to saudi arabia but it would be symbolic. he's trying to align the united states with these regimes, not with the people of the muslim world. that's where we are. >> josh, let me say with you. what lynn pointed out is that president trump is pairing his trip to israel and his visit to saudi arabia on the same trip, which president obama did not. we remember clearly that apack speech during the campaign that president trump promised to move the u.s. 'embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. do we know what the status of that move is and potentially he'll have to sign a waiver in the next couple of weeks to determine if he will waive since every president has since 1995 the mandate of u.s. law that moves the embassy to jerusalem. the status of that? >> campaigning is different than governing. a lot of the things that president trump campaigned on

with regard to foreign policy have fallen by the wayside. this is one of them. what happened is that the white house decided to pursue this middle east peace initiative. it's not exactly clear what the strategy is but that is now the main priority when it comes to dealing with israel so everything else that can complicate that is getting pushed aside, including the drive to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. they'll say that this is under consideration, et cetera, et cetera. what's really happening is that they've sort of taken this off the agenda because it complicates their drive and because the israelis don't necessarily support it and the palestinians definitely don't support it and the arab states don't support it. this is where their sort of campaign rhetoric flies in the face of their administration goals and the administration goals are waiting it out. it also shows the coming u.s. ambassador to israel is not winning the day internally. the people who are running israel policy in this administration, son-in-law jared

kushner, jason greenblatt and some other white house folks who want to see if a peace deal is possible. >> lynn, let me come back to you, the third leg of this trip headed to the van catican. there is an often overlooked speech that was given, some remarks given, i should say, by the pope on the weekend before the election during which many received his comments as being focused at then candidate donald trump in which he said this. in a time of paralysis, disorientation and destructive proposals, people seeking the common good can overcome with god's help the false prophets who exploit the fear and hopelessness that sell magic formulas of hatred, cruelty or selfish welfare. this could be an awkward first meeting for the president and the pope. >> it could be and it is in president trump's own self-interest to not make it an

awkward meeting and certainly he has critical of the pope and certainly those words that you just quoted, victor, are more than a little slap aimed at trump. but i think trump understands the politics of this, that you don't want to get the american catholic community upset because he insulted the pope to his face in the vatican. it's another thing to do it in the campaign and not in the pope's house. i would listen also, just as important, what the pope says to trump and how public the pope makes the conversation they have. that's what i would watch for, because trump has done things that i think the pope would want to comment on. >> lynn sweet, josh roggin, thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you. still to come, america's opioid crises threatened by the gop's health care bill, this as a new dangerous drug is hitting

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imagine having a face-to-face conversation with someone who isn't really there. this is exactly what cnn tech reporter sarah o'brian did. she sat down with a digital version of pink ka scooter to talk about his experience as a holocaust survivor. >> the subject is going to share his own story but in an unusual way. >> i am a holocaust survivor. >> do you remember when you first learned that there was a war? >> we went on a train and the war had already started and we were -- memory is a bit hazy.

>> he's not an avatar. he's video. and we preserved that video like we were preserve any other memory source on video. we're not changing his comments or manipulating them. what you get in the answer is what he gave. the idea is that then it becomes an archive in its own right. >> how many concentration camps did you go to? >> i went to five concentration camps. the first camp i went to, my parents, and my twin sister, they were murdered on the same day that we arrived there. >> we asked him about 1500 questions about his life. what's happening is when you're asking questions, it's using automatic speech recognition and natural language processing to go and find the most appropriate answer for the question that you asked. >> tell me about this idea of technology being used to bridge the empathy gap. >> we made a decision that we were not going to make this a technology driven project but

that the technology should be subsumed behind the authenticity of the real individual. there's a lot of tech involved here but you don't see it. you shouldn't see it. what you should really do is experience that emotional connection with the interviewee. >> were you always comfortable talking about your experience after the war? >> because of the reasons that i believe are so strong that i should talk and because i do share it with people, so every time i talk and every time you listen to me, you get a piece of me which now, is now embedded in you. >> wow. >> so fascinating. think about kids learning about his experience in a very different way and maybe in a way -- they absorb it better. >> his inflection, his voice, remarkable. >> it really is. there's a health care fight now heading to the senate. they're planning to set the house bill aside and write their

own plan. >> voters are already voicing their opposition to the house bill at gop town halls across the country. look what happened in idaho. >> mandating people on medicaid accept dying. you are making a mandate -- >> no one wants anybody to die. you know, that line is so indefensible. nobody dies because they don't have access to health care. >> there's some backlash for senate republicans as well before they even get started. the gop announced a group of 13 members that will write its own health care proposal, and all of those members are men. not a single woman in that group. >> let's take a turn now. it is derby day. you know what that means. coy wire living the good life track side in louisville, kentucky. >> hi guys. here for the 143rd running of the kentucky derby. there's a new favorite.

we're going to tell you about that and of course we're going t talk about the fashion that's one of the greatest parts of the best two minutes in sports, that's coming up.

. welcome back to "new day." it is raining here in louisville but there will still be well over 100,000 here at churchill downs to witness the 143rd running of the kentucky derby. one big question, who's going to win it. there's a new favorite, always dreaming, the current favorite at 9-2. has won his last race by five lengths. his jockey, john velazquez who won the derby in 2011 and a hall of fame jockey has earned more money than any jockey in the history of the sport. with over $3 million in winnings. the trainer won the derby in 2010 but has never saddled the

favorite. we'll see as post time approaches. the kentucky derby rich with tradition, dating all the way back to 1875, the roses, mint juleps and one of the greatest traditions, the fashion and the hats. the bigger, the flashier, the better. there will be well over 100,000 people here today, most sporting a hat. on the flight to louisville each year, i love when you see people not with suitcases but with huge, protected boxes for their hats, being very careful with their prized possessons. now, i have a question for you. if you were a derby horse, what would your name be. we found a great site, a kentucky derby name generator. here they come. you've been waiting for it. christi paul, your name would be fantastic gunner. >> all right. i'll take it. >> that's a good one. >> that sounds like a winner to me. victor, you may take the cake. here it comes. drum roll, please. super fire fire.

>> yes. >> not once but twice. ire love i i love it. go to the link we tweeted. what's your horse name. >> so hot they said it twice. super fire fire. thanks so much for watching this morning. we'll see you back at 10:00. >> thanks, coy. "smerconish" is with you now. ♪ i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. campus tragedy, 18 penn state students indicted in a case of alleged fraternity hazing. eight of them have been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a pledge after a night of excessive drinking. much of the evening captured on video and via social media. i'll talk exclusively to the lawyer for the young man's family. and another