social media were flooded with condolences with fans and cher and ringo starr. i have led some kind of life, he wrote in his 2012 memoir. pablo sandoval, cnn, atlanta. next hour, we are talking to michael lehman, his long time manager and close friend there about what he was doing the night before he died and it's going to be pretty interesting, in doubt about it. kushner discussed a plan after election day to set up a secret communication channel for the white house to communicate with the kremlin. >> the president has answered little to no questions from reporters. >> mr. president, did jared try to set up a back channel to the russians? >> establishing a war room inside the west wing that is able to quickly respond. >> we are not going to comment on jared.

ware -- we are just not going to comment. >> we have communications with a number of countries. -- we are comment. >> we have communications with a number of countries. >> this is off the map no other experience like this. >> we have not heard from kushner at all. >> hateful words directed at muslim passengers on an afternoon commuter train. >> the loss of two brave, compassionate lives. ♪ happy sunday morning. a full day of news for you. good to have you with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. president trump is back in washington after nine days of diplomacy on the world stage and is calling his first overseas trip as president a home run. back at the white house, mounting questions about russia and the ongoing investigations, >> there is a reminder of what the president and first lady, when they returned to the white house. take a look.

>> reporter: mr. president, did jared try to set up a back channel to the russians? >> a reporter shouting out to him and not getting an answer. this morning, we are getting new details on how the president's family is plotting the political strategy ahead. cnn's ryan nobles has all of that for us. >> reporter: the president is back in washington after his lengthy trip abroad and even though his team feel confident the trip was successful, he returns to plenty of controversy, including a number of issues that involve his son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner who has yet to respond to reports he attempted to set up a secret back channel line of communications with the russian government during the transition. his connections to the kremlin through a variety of means, continue to be a specific line of inquiry by investigators looking to russia's attempt to intervene in the u.s. elections.

now despite these issues, a white house official says that kushner isn't going anywhere. he does plan to keep his head down and keep focused on his wide portfolio of responsibilities in the west wing. in the meantime, the white house is shaking things up, creating a war room designed to quickly rebut the attacks that pour as a result of this ongoing investigation. the president's children are getting involved as well. donald jr. and eric trump and his wife laura spent the last few days in washington meeting with groups including the teams at the rnc and pac the american priorities which supports the trump administration. the goal of these meetings was to get all of the teams on the same page ahead of the midterm 2018 elections and the president's own re-election bid in 2020. >> let's bring in scott olson and lynn. lynn, what is the president returning to and how will that will complicate what the president wants to do to get back to the business of

legislating and getting work done. >> he has an enormous week and days ahead in congress. he has the most important issue is raising the debt ceiling that is coming up because he will probably need democratic votes to do that. you have his budget which was rolled out while he was overseas. not clear where that is going. and whatever happened to the health care bill in the senate? that alone would be a full plate. then you add on it the multiple investigations in the senate, the house, the fbi. plus senior trusted adviser slash son-in-law jared kushner under the extreme governing. now it has these scandals to deal with. >> let's talk about the big story this weekend. the confirmation now that jared kushner, he discussed, we don't know who initiated it yet, discussed setting up these secret communications with russian officials. now, people have been referring

to this as a back channel. but i want you to explain for people how this is not -- or at least what was discussed, the typical back channel between lower level white house staffers to set up some communications for the boss. what are the important distinctions here? >> sure. well, staff work is an important part of government and the reason it's important is because it allows for not off-the-record but in formal consensus building between agencies and it's really an important part of the preparation for high level negotiations when senior official are getting locked into positions and are making statements on the record. what happened here, as i understand it, is fundamentally different in two ways. one, this is not a low-level engagement. this is high level, in person interaction. the problem there is that you can't distance yourself from setting positions. and it's a real problem

face-to-face. the fact that it's -- there is an attempt here to make it secret doesn't solve the problem. what is even more concerning is the stories that are related to how this communication was going to happen, the notion that we would, as a u.s. government official have these conversations over a foreign government's communication system really shows a staggering lack of understanding of the place of the u.s. in the world, and really a remarkable lack of common sense. >> i want you to listen to house democrat ted lu, a congressman from california, and his thoughts on what should happen next with jared kushner. >> jared kushner should resign and he should be prosecuted for lying on two security clearance forms. fthese reports are true. we know that on his first security clearance form, he failed to disclose a meeting with the russian ambassador and that was with a significant meeting where they discussed

secret back channel communications. you wouldn't forget about that meeting on your security clearance form. then when he was told to revise the form he lied again because reuters reported two additional contact with the russians that he failed to disclose. >> is there enough here for prosecution? >> it's difficult to say but what is not difficult to say is how important it is when you're filling out those forms and you're seeking a u.s. government security clearance, to be open and honest. i think the lesson here is if you're not open and honest, we are going to catch you. >> lynn, there is no chance, at least what we are hearing now, and banner across the bottom of the field, saying kushner is not going anywhere, but they are starting to create this war room, the reporting shows. let me put up some of the faces here of people who are potentially members of this war room. i want you to set me straight here. because you've been covering

washington and the white house for a long time. the point typically of the war room is to isolate the specific stories and those questions so that the team put in place can get to the business of legislating and doing what the people elected them to do. if you put the chief of staff in the war room and your chief strategist in the war room, don't you negate the purpose of isolating that story? >> unless you want to get a two for one and also a have an informal staff shuffle at the same time and realign even if you have titles the same, you might have different personnel in there. but of the four men that you pictured, the most important person in this case is david bossie and i think people should remember that name if, indeed, he comes into the white house. he was a deputy, the campaign manager in the trump campaign, but, most important, he comes from an investigative congressional background. he helped let the investigations against bill and hillary clinton

when bill clinton was president, from his perch in one of the hill investigative imphecommitt all through the hill hearings during the bill clinton years up to and including impeachment. he also ran citizens united. big research operation. he knows how the hill investigations work. . these are in the hands of republicans, although they are not necessarily friendly, i think he could help bring a better understanding, at least to the white house what is going on and then they could communicate it. one quick thing. it's not a war room issue. it's that they have a problem. that is the problem. the problem is they have a problem. >> is there a here here, although the president continues to say it's fake news, we know that there were people who were close there to the story understood what was reported by "the washington post" yesterday who confirmed that, yes, jared kushner discussed those secret communications in setting up that line through a russian facility with the kremlin. lynn sweet and scott olsen,

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portland commuter train and killing two of them. >> they are trying to determine if jeremy christian, that man, can be charged with federal hate crimes. he is already being held a number of charges including murder and attempted murder. there are now past videos surfacing from facebook right here showing him giving a nazi salute and shouting racial slurs. the city of portland, however, right now is honoring the people who stepped up to stop that attack on the train. cnn digital correspondent dan lieberman is joining us live from new york because they are absolutely calling these gentlemen heroes. >> reporter: absolutely. we are learning more about the two men who died in friday's attack. two people, 53-year-old army veteran and father of four, the other man, a 23-year-old recent graduate of reid college. the victims are being remembered as heroes for intervening, trying to stand up for

passengers and fight against hate. last night, a candlelight vigil was held in portland honoring them. a third victim who survived, a 21-year-old, is recovering in the hospital. his mom spoke out yesterday about his injuries. here is what she said. >> they missed the jugular by a millimeter. they cut one of the carotid arteries and he will have some paralization. outporing of support for the victims on simpocial media and governor speaking out in a press conference. here is what she had. >> let's not let hate and fear divide us. instead, let's take the example of the good samaritans who sacrificed their lives for the safety of others. >> reporter: the suspect is going to be in court on tuesday

and authorities say he could face additional charges once he is before a grand jury. >> dan lieberman, we appreciate the update. thank you. >> got it. severe storms rolling through the southeast right now. millions of people facing damaging winds and softball-sized hail. >> that sound bad. in missouri, hurricane force winds damaged buildings, took down tree limbs yesterday. last hour, i spoke with the branson fire chief ted martin. >> a flash flood emergency that caused some areas to flood that we typically do not flood in our community. some streets were closed and some of the creeks were over their banks that typically are controlled very well and that caused some issues yesterday evening. >> reporter: i understand that at one point, three people were missing in branson. is that still the status? >> that is. late last night, the search was

called off. we had our vehicle enter a waterway that had five people in it. two people were able to escape and accounted for and three posterior were unaccountable for. crews will return at daylight morning to what is called fall creek and along the lake where that creek is built into. >> for a look on where we are today, there are alerts out there. cnn's allison chinchar. victor made a good point last night with the lightning we are seeing here in atlanta. >> those folks trying to get some sleep they were probably rudely awakened up because of the amount of lightning that was out there. this is the same system we will have from yesterday. take a look at the lightning. it was just nonstop throughout atlanta. now, the good news is the threat for atlanta has died back down, at least a little bit. the same system from yesterday.

we had almost 200 hail reports from yesterday and several of which were baseball and softball-sized hail and that will not put a few minor dents in your car. that is going to total your car. the amount of rain that fell was impressive. we talked about the flooding in branson, missouri, area. 6 inches of rain in less than 12 hours and why we have the flood warning in effect for portions of southern missouri. the good news is the rain is starting to exit missouri and push further south. raining around memphis and coming into portions of jackson and shreveport. a lot of the lightning we saw from the camera towers in atlanta and exiting coughi inin covington. lots of lightning and heavy downpours. the tleted for today still includes nearly 40 million people for severe weather. main threat still continuing to be damaging wind, large hail, and the possibility at least for

an isolated tornado or two but not the main threat. as we go into on the afternoon, more storm begin to develop, especially look the south side. we are talking louisiana, mississippi, and down toward texas. but there is also the northern edge of this symptom as well so some of the mid-atlantic states. pennsylvania around washington, d.c. looking at west virginia, also going to be dealing with some very heavy rain and the potential for severe weather. so, victor, christi, a lot of things coming in and so many power outages the overnight hour and likely the case today and strong winds continue to push east. >> allison, thank you so much. this is one of the stories i say what is wrong with people? a mother is behind bars today, accused of locking her two children, ages 2 and 5, in the trunk of her car while she went shopping! her excuse, according to an eyewitness in riverdale, utah, that her babysitter didn't show up. bystanders stepped in to help

when they saw the car shaking and heard shouting coming from the trunk and eyewitness say she saw the woman put the children in the trunk. they were able to coax the older child to pull the emergency latch. >> the little girl i could hear screaming she was, mom, let me out! let me out! mom, help! she was screaming and crying. both kids just came out like jumped and spring-loaded and just jumped out at us. one lady took the 2-year-old. i took the 5-year-old. i was like, this can't be what we are finding. >> the mother has been charged with four counts of child abuse and one charge of theft. let's turn to the white house and donald trump. he is back from his first overseas trip as president. sources tell cnn his sons, donald jr. and eric, held meetings of their own with the rnc. we will tell you why next. all righty. you know what? it's racing day. coy wire at the indianapolis 500 this morning!

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♪ > . it's always good to know you're watching. thank you for being with us here on this sunday. i'm centennial olympic park. >> i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. we look for answers from the administration about possible contacts between his son-in-law >> i'm victor blackwell. we look for answers from the administration about possible contacts between his son-in-law. we look for answers from the administration about possible contacts between his son-in-law jared kushner and moscow. >> the white house we understand

is making a war room. listen to lieu's take on the issue. >> the issue is not having a back channel communication with another country. the issue is that jared kushner wanted this done with russian equipment at a russian embassy. the only reason you would want to do that is to hide those communication from u.s. intelligence and it makes you wonder whose side is he on and what is he hiding? >> in the meantime, president trump's sons donald jr., eric trump and eric's wife laura met with at republican national committee. he with want to bring back lynn sweet here. thank you for sticking around. i want to read you what donald trump jr. said this past march at a gop dinner in dallas.

so he says he doesn't want to be in politics but he is meeting with the rnc. help usnd the dynamic that is going on behind closed doors between political leader and donald trump's sons. >> well, in this case, i think this is i'm going to try to play the role of lynn sweet, political psychologist here. >> okay. >> after a statement like that, well, i like it, i don't like it, the intensity, the bureau, what is this? walk to the flame here? so part of this is -- it sound like he he is a little just not intoxicated but he got hooked on this. nothing wrong with that. there is a lot of family out there and who wants to defend president trump? and he need it. the question is are these the right people to be navigating the trump presidency in this time of kris? now what they did, the two

brothers, meeting with these outside groups is to set them up, to have them defend the trump white house is an aspiration that should have been fully borne weeks ago given where this trump administration has been heading, because not only do they have the russia crisis, the senate and house investigation, the fbi probe with mueller, they haven't been able to get their governing in order. they have administration positions they haven't filled and as we know heading into this week, they have a new budget to deal with. they will have a debt ceiling to raise and the health care bill to get going in the senate. so if they have an outside group that wants to advocate for the trump white house, let the brothers go kick-start it. where have they been? >> here is the question. is now the right time to have these meetings about 2018 and 2020 with everything that is swirling around the white house?

or is that precisely why it is the right time? >> politics often, it's a permanent campaign mode any way. the obama white house had an outside support group in its first term. it was tucked inside the dnc that later came out and evolved into organizing for auction and other groups there to support policies and programs for the white house. in a sense, all that is, unless you have a story to tell, you go into -- you can't go into 2018 and 2020 without something to show for the time you're in. so this lays the groundwork and it's a permanent campaign. you have to have something to show. >> considering the fact the eldest sons are absorbing the trump organization business, ethically, is there an issue with their meetings with the rnc and who is in charge? is it them or is it the rnc

head? >> the new rnc head mcdaniel from michigan is somebody who is installed with the trump and reince priebus, the chief of staff, they are in private business and i don't see any ethical issue coming up in them advising the rnc any more than a big outsider could be used to consult. that is not the issue. what the issue is -- are they giving their father and his administration good political advice to help them chart the days, weeks, months ahead? lynn sweet, always appreciate you being here. thank you. >> thank you. it's been less than a week since the deadly terror attack in manchester. but, today, the city comes together for a huge public event. cnn's muhammad lila is live in manchester. >> reporter: i'm muhammad lila in manchester where the city is celebrating and i'll tell you why coming up after the break and give you the latest on the investigation. and if you put yourself in

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we are six days from the deadly terror attack in manchester that happened in the uk there. officials are still warning this morning a serious threat for more attacks could be eminent. >> some of the terror network they say could still be out there. muhammad lila is live in manchester. i want to get to the warning in a moment. first, you're in front of the finish line for a half-marathyr happening right now. >> it just finished. >> reporter: you might see one or two more people straggling across the finish line. music here and people are cheering and clapping and

laughing. a stark contrast to the situation we saw during the week where there were a lot of tears and heartbreak. this is really a show of resilience from the city of manchester. there were concerns this event might be cancelled bous it coec could be a potential target for another attack but the city say it's important to hold this for the entire country and show the world that manchester is determined to get life back to normal after the devastating attack. >> so, muhammad, tell us what is happening with the investigation and this ongoing threat this morning. >> reporter: well, that's righ . ongoing i think is the right word. a couple of hours ago, the uk's home minister amber rudd was asked directly if she believed there were more suspects as part of this terror cell that were on the loose. she would not dismiss that possibility and said potentially there could be, but they won't know for sure until the investigation is finished. now if you recall late yesterday

night, british officials released still photos of the man they believe was behind this, abedi and said the video was taken from security cameras as he was on the way to commit the attack. they believe they have identified the apartment the spx was using and that is so important because they think that that apartment might be the place where he assembled the final explosives. so forensic teams will be combing that apartment for any evidence and any residue of explosives to get a better sense of how many people were involved in this network and hopefully they will be able to find any other people their involved. >> we know that the alert had been critical for sometime. it just got knocked down to severe. but tell us did that affect, at all, the memorial this morning? >> reporter: well, i should say because of the various events that are taking place in manchester, like i mentioned, the half-marathon, a 10k race coming up and organizers say the

10k race is the biggest in europe and a heavy security presence here on the ground. we have seen officers carrying semiautomatic rifles and we have seen large numbers of police patrolling these streets. remember, in the uk they don't have this culture of armed police officers walking down the streets. so to see officers in full bullet-proof armor and carrying semiautomatic rifles, it's a shock to a lot of people but that just shows you how seriously authorities here are taking the security threat. they might not believe another attack is eminent but the public need to exercise vigilance. >> we saw a video of the memorial earlier today, as people there brought flowers and notes. you see the balloons there. >> it is incredible when you look at it. >> thousands and thousands of expressions this. muhammad lila, live in manchester, thanks so much. i want to share some dramatic video with you here. and you can't help but put yourself in this person's place here.

a kayaker who survived a shark attack but you see the shark grab the kayak as this man floats a few feet away. take a look at this.

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gregg allman, founding members of the allman brothers band hars died. >> he struggled with liver complications and he was just 69. here is pablo sandoval with a look at his career and his life. ♪ ♪ i got to run to keep from hiding ♪ >> he was a warm, kind hearted southern gentleman to his

manager but to the world he was an icon. pioneer of the southern rock. ♪ i'm not going to let them catch the midnight ride owner ♪ >> reporter: in 1969, while man was landing on the moon, gregg allman was teaming up with his brother to form the allman brothers band. new mix of rock, blues, country and jazz and catapulted the group's success becoming an influential act in the '70s as group's chief song writer, gregg panned the lyrics to songs "midnight rider" and "sweet melissa" and the blues epic "whipping post." ♪ i feel like i'm dying >> reporter: the band was eventually committed into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame in 1995 but the road to success was anything smooth for gregg. his older brother died after the release of their first album and

gregg also struggled with drug abuse and rock romantic marriage that included a marriage to cher, one of his many marriages. most recently, he returned to georgia where he opened up to cnn about his battle with hepatitis c. >> i just started getting real tired, you know? energy just ain't there. >> reporter: it's also where he spent his final days working on a soon to be released album "southern blood." >> he fortunately got to hear some of the final mixes of his record and shared with me how happy he was. >> reporter: his general manager michael lehman told cnn gregg was at peace with his family by his side as he died on saturday. social media were flooded with condolences with fans and cher and ringo starr. i have led some kind of life, gregg wrote in his 2012 memoir. a life now immortalized in lirics. ♪

>> reporter: pablo sandoval, cnn, atlanta. his long time manager and friend michael lehman is with us now. michael, i'm so sorry. please know we are sending our condolences and our thoughts to his family. >> thank you so much. >> of course. we can tell by that piece on gregg that this was a man who was an overcomer. where did he find that spirit? >> i think he found that from his mother. his mother was a very strong woman. she passed away about two years ago and he always would refer to her as the one that gave him the inner strength when he was younger and his backbone. and i think that is really what propelled him on from an early childhood. gregg lost his dad when he was 2 2. and was raised by his mother and older brother duane. >> he was doing something, as i

understand it, the night before, that fans will appreciate. as i understand, up until he died he was working on the solo album, "southern blood." what can we expect from that? >> some origin an music as well as a number of covers, including a song for adam, which jackson brown wrote and harmonized on to this record. a lot of close friends. i think it's going to be a special record that the world is going to celebrate his life and as i said earlier, to you guy, he did get to list rnen to a lot of that music two nights ago, maybe 12 hours before he passed an was peaceful. he was commenting on the mixes and just so excited. i made a promise to him two

nights ago that i would carry on his legacy and deliver that record to the public. >> so that record will be coming out. i know his fans will appreciate it. quickly, michael, you have been by his side for so many things. what was his impact on you? >> you know, he was an incredibly warm person that was so smart. i don't think people really realized how smart he was. he taught me different lessons about life every single day. about compassion, friendship, love, understanding the arts and music and just really how to feel thing mrs more deeply and forever grateful for that lesson. >> i know his fans are as well and again, we wish you all of the best and sending strength and prayers to you and his

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for a store near you. so, i understand your problem sometimes when you're trying to get better sleep. i struggle with it myself. get to bed earlier, count sheep maybe. sleeping pills maybe work, but yeah, you're still strugging. >> latest medical advice says oh, no, exercise is the thing to do. here's dr. gupta talking about how and when to get moving to get you a better night's sleep. >> kick, kick, side. >> one thing we can do to live longer and be healthier is exercise. it improves stress, improve mood and lower your risk for a ton of

o diseases, it can improve sleep. more than millions more struggling with sleep apnea, a dangerous condition where you temporarily stop breathing during sleep. two nand a half hours of motd rt exercise every week along with two days of weight training put them back to sleep. it also improved sleep apnea symptoms. scientists used to think that exercising at night was bad for sleep, but now, they say listen to your body clock. if you're a night owl, evening workouts can be just as good. what's important is that you just get up and go to catch better zs. >> let's look at a picture and see if you can guess where coy is. based on the picture. there he is. >> we put it on the screen, too. indianapolis 500. coy wire.

how's the party? >> you guy, this is the greatest spectacle in racing is is incredible. i rode over here with a sweet 70-year-old lady named brenda. i asked how many have you been to? it's my first, it's my bucket list. she was so happy. we want to talk about who won last year. alexander rossi. a 66-1 long shot. the first american born rookie since 1928 to win the wigs race in the world. he used one fewer pit stop than the other drivers and he ran out of gas after taking the checkered flag and they had to tow his car to victory lane. 300,000 people will be b here today. the largest single day sporting event in the world. i asked the reigning champ about the greatest spectacle in racing. >> you're standing on this straight away and you're in your good formation and just around you are people and energy and atmosphere and it's pretty

special as a sports person, as someone who grew up driving go carts and wanting to achieve a level. just being here is a dream come true regardless of the end result. >> winners drink milk. that's the motto here. why? in 1936, the winner didn't drink champagne after the win. he drank a cold bottle of mbilk because that's what he liked. the tradition stuck. i got to catch up with the mi milkman who provides the winner's bottle. it's an honor. >> traditions are such an important part of the indianapolis 500. certainly, chief among them would be the drink of milk among them at the end of the race. regular people on the street, they recognize that tradition and frankly, p put a lot of pressure on the milk people to

make sure they do it right because it's that important to the indianapolis 500. >> which is whole, skim, 2% before the race. we'll find out soon who's going to be chugging a nice, cold jug of milk. >> have fun, coy. >> all right. thanks for watching today. >> inside politics with don king starts now. blunt as always. >> 23 of the 28 member nations are still not paying what they believe be paying. >> ruffled feathers at nato and a spirited climate debate at the g-7. plus, a loss back home. a court loss on the travel ban and a stalled agenda in congress. and as the russian meddling investigation expands, nixon comparison. >> we were furious. about the past presidential