voter panel, they're going to talk about some of the backlash that they all face. some of them voted for obama. some of them consider themselves independents. the backlash that they face among friends and colleagues for voting for donald trump and they're going to talk about how their lives have changed in the past six months. >> can't wait. >> we're following a lot of news this morning, so let's get right to it. it is time to put our great country before paris, france. >> make our planet great again. >> this is a chance for donald trump to escape the kind of political heat he's been facing in washington. >> at the best it's naivete. at worst it's along the lines of element of conspiracy. >> it's always dangerous to jump to conclusions without knowing the entire story. >> you don't take foreign campaign contributions, either monetary or other sorts. >> he wants what's good for russia. and i want what's good for the united states. >> i don't think you have to worry about whether russia's --

just assume they're a pole. this is "new day" with chris cuomo and allisysyn camerota. first, president trump is in paris ready to meet with president macron. mr. trump has been out of the public spotlight all week, but he will not be able to escape questions about, we assume, the e-mail his son's e-mail scandal that has been gripping washington because the president's going to be facing questions from journalists today. the president still defending don junior insisting that many people would have taken that meeting with a russian lawyer to get dirt on an election rival. >> now, all of this is going on as the battle for health care heats up, a crucial moment today on capitol hill. senate republicans will unveil the latest version of their bill to repeal and replace obamacare,

have enough changes been made to get enough votes to pass? cnn's sarah murray kicks off our coverage. she's traveling with the president in paris. sara. >> reporter: president trump is slated to take questions today alongside french president emmanuel macron, this as a political firestorm is still brewing back in washington, this one centered on the president's own son, donald trump jr. and his meeting with a russian lawyer. this will be president trump's first opportunity out in public to take questions about the latest russia revelation that's rocking the white house. president trump touching down in paris, hoping to forge stronger ties with france's new president. but the trip overshadowed by the president's son's admission in e-mails that he met last year with a russian lawyer believed to have dirt on hillary clinton from the kremlin. ahead of the trip, the president defending donald trump jr. in a reuters interview saying, most of the phony politician who is are democrats that act hollyier than thou, if the same thing

happened to them they would have taken that meeting in a heartbeat. president trump insisting there was zero coordination between his campaign and russia, referring to collusion accusations as a hoax made up by democrats, and the greatest con job in history. a characterization rejected by trump's fbi director nominee at his confirmation hearing on wednesday. >> as the future fbi director, do you consider this endeavor a witch hunt? >> i do not consider director mueller to be on a witch hunt. >> reporter: the president again saying he only learned about his son's meeting with the russian lawyer in the past few days. although exclusive video obtained by cnn from the 2013 miss usa pageant shows the president smoozing with the russian family at the center of the controversy. >> the richest men in russia. >> reporter: president trump also asked if he believes vladimir putin's denial on election interference. the president dodging instead of siding with his own intelligence chiefs responding, something happened and we have to find out

what it is. >> what i keep hearing he would have rather had trump, i think probably not. >> reporter: in a separate interview, the president again questions the u.s. intelligence community and their conclusion that russia meddled in the election to harm hillary clinton. >> if hillary had won, our military would be decimated, our energy would be much more expensive, that's what putin doesn't like about me. congratulations, great job. >> reporter: with the white house under fire, the president is hoping to change the narrative with his visit to france. >> we want to reassure everybody as we did at the g20, as secretary mattis and the vice president have done in recent visits that we stand by our allies, we stand by article 5. >> reporter: president trump and emmanuel macron looking to put differences aside after trump abruptly pulled the u.s. out of the paris climate accord. now, the relationship of president trump and president macron started with a an awkward

start. they will have plenty of time to spend together today, a bilateral meeting, statements and this evening joined by spouses for dinner at the eiffel tower. >> our thanks to sara murray with an awesome assignment in paris. joining us now senior correspondent for politico.com, ana palmer, parry bacon and a.b. stoddard. a.b., let's talk about what we're audiocassetll looking for journalists, the press conference, we don't know the format if it will be freewheeling, how long it will take, how many journalists will be allowed to ask questions, what do we anticipate will come up? >> well, i think obviously president trump is going to be answering questions about donald junior's e-mails and meeting and he will probably, i think, be as defiant as he's been about how the meeting would have been one most people would have taken

including democrats and that it's no big deal. basically it's a media witch hunt and it's being overblown and this whole collusion idea is a hoax. that's what he's said the last couple days and i think he'll repeat that. but i do think when he's asked about other things, maybe by the french press, that, you know, i expect president trump to be really charming about his meeting, the invitation that president macron extended to him and his visit there. i think he's going to talk about how they've got a lot in common, they're going to be fighting against isis as a unified coalition and they're going to go forward with, you know, common interests. i think he's going to be really positive as he usually is in these settings about one-on-one meetings. and except for that one in washington with angela merkel, he tries to usually pretend things are pretty great. and i think he was tickled to be invited. and i think he's delighted to be out of the u.s. and he's finding these trips abroad far more pleasurable than he expected.

and his team usually sees them as a success. so he likes to be on the world stage. he likes these parades and all the festivities. so i think it will be a good day for trump. and i think that he'll probably get through those questions quickly with the same defiance that we usually see. >> and he's given us a preview in a way of how he will answer questions about his son don junior's e-mail exchange over this meeting with a russian lawyer. he on one hand said many people would have taken this meeting. also in an interview with reuters said zero coordination, dumbest thing i've ever heard, this is a hoax, made up by the democrats, this is the greatest con job in history where a party sits down the day after they got their ass kicked and they say, huh, what's our excuse. ana, is that where the white house has settled right now? and is that argument why there are reports this morning that the white house thinks things are going better for them now in defense of the don junior e-mail? >> listen, i think we've seen a lot of different statements over the past couple of days as they've tried to get a handle on

this latest scandal from, you know, many say donald trump jr. is to where the white house is, i think donald trump, the president loves to kind of control the narrative. he did his television interview, the first one in a long time that wasn't on fox news. he did an interview with reuters. this is a preview in terms of where he thinks the biggest kind of win for them is to say this is nothing. i was at the capitol yesterday, i'll be there today. and let me tell you, senators and house members think this is a big deal, republicans and democrats. and they are very excited and interested in terms of pressing, you know, don junior and some of these other people about what exactly happened in this meeting. >> let's talk about that, parry, because don junior is not in the administration, he's not michael flynn, and some of these other threads do seem to kind of evaporate after awhile. why are the don junior e-mails in a different category? >> i mean, mainly because this is the first kind of explicit thing where we've had someone -- donald junior is not carter

page. he's someone who's donald trump's son. he's still in donald trump's circle, i assume, and he's in these e-mails more explicit. he loves, as the word love is in the e-mail, actually loves the idea that they can get information from the russians that may help win the election. so now we have sort of two facts. we have the trump campaign was open to receiving information from the russians, and we know that the russians sort of hacked into john podesta and the dnc e-mails. what we don't know is kind of the middle ground there which is did don junior wanted that help, did the russians give that help with some kind of coordination with the trump campaign? we don't know the answer to that question. and that's still the core question. so we're still searching, but the story still has much more to go. >> you know, a.b., i'm interested by ana's reporting as she was on the hill hearing from many people that they are keenly interested and think this is a very big deal. especially with the senate judiciary committee asking to speak to paul manafar, again he

was part of that meeting, and then jared kushner, the one person who was in that meeting who actually works inside the white house right now who may be in a very different kind of jeopardy over all this than even don junior may be. >> right. the thing is, john, that in the white house there are obviously suspicions that jared kushner's legal team or jared kushner, you know, with his sort of implicit approval, they were the ones who located this e-mail and they were the ones who sort of quote/unquote threw john junior under the bus because don junior does not have a role in the white house, he's not part of the government and actually doesn't face any real legal exposure for this. collusion's not a crime. these campaign finance provisions are a little bit of a stretch at best and then he's not obviously going to be charged with treason, which it just doesn't relate to what he did and was involved in. and so jared kushner at this point by any definition should not have his security clearance. it should be revoked. he had to adjust his sf-86 forms

three times because he failed to disclose meetings with russians, bankers and this meeting, et cetera. so the investigations are expanding, both the congressional ones in senate intel, house intel, senate judiciary as well as robert mueller's investigation. they are not shrinking or coming to a conclusion, they are growing and the heat is on. what happened over the weekend is a turning point. it's the first time we saw some reference to the russian government's interest in helping trump, interest on the part of don junior to meet with those people who were connected to the government and wanted to help his father. no surprise that the letter indicating that the government was trying to help his father. this is very disturbing revelation for republicans on the hill just as anna heard. they are not publicly coming out saying we think this administration's in peril, but what they're going to do is put the heat on on policy both on that sanctions bill up in the house where they are not going to include the weakening wavers

that the white house is asking for and are going to force the strong senate legislation forward trying to press this administration to retaliate against russia for meddling in the election. >> so, anna, what does this mean about what's happening inside the white house in terms of their agenda and in terms of the different factions that we also hear about? is it possible that there is now this chasm between don junior, the president's son, and jared kushner, the president's son-in-law. >> there's a lot of palace intrigue, every day, every week, who's up, who's down, you know, there was some reporting earlier this week about reince priebus and somehow the chief of staff was kind of coming down on him when i think we put in playbook there's actually no way that this has anything to do with him. so i think as far as, you know, is somebody going to get fired out of this, we're not hearing that. but it definitely increases tension, particularly as the senate is trying to move forward on this health care bill, one of the biggest promises that trump had on the campaign trail.

this is another distraction, this is another thing where when trump and his aides go to capitol hill, it puts him in a weaker position in terms of leverage, in terms of asking senators to do this for them. >> everything is connected. all right, guys, stick around, the pressure on the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell as republicans get ready to unveil the latest version of their health care bill, what happens today, what changes are being made, do they have the votes. cnn's suzanne malveaux live on capitol hill for us. suzanne. >> reporter: good morning, john. well, they can only afford to lose -- if it's three votes, it is dead. and it's about three hours or so before we get this latest version, already two republicans have said they don't like it. conservative senator rand paul says it does not do enough to repeal obamacare because of taxes, subsidies and regulations that stay intact. also moderate senator susan collins says it goes too far because of those medicaid cuts. we are going to see vice president pence back here at the

white house -- rather on capitol hill making a cameo appearance to try to convince those senators and others to get it over the top. in the meantime you've got president trump who is six time zones away, some lawmakers prefer that, that he has been hands off on the latest round of negotiations, but he is now speaking out and issuing this warning. >> i am sitting in the oval office with a pen in hand waiting for our senators to give it to me. >> what if they don't? >> well, i don't even want to talk about it because i think it will be very bad. i will be very angry about it. and a lot of people will be very upset. >> just a few things that we know in the revised version $45 billion for opioid addiction treatment, also taxes on wealthy americans remaining, not repealed as you had in the previous bill. more money for stabilization funds, and finally no major changes when it comes to medicaid, and that's a big problem for moderates because it still means severe cuts, john,

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senate republicans will unveil latest version of their health care bill. president trump sending his message to this party as they're struggling to find common ground.

>> i am sitting in the oval office with pen in hand waiting for our senators to give it to me. >> what will happen if they don't? >> well, i don't even want to talk about it. it will be very bad. i will be very angry about it and a lot of people will be very upset. >> joining us now, senator bill cassidy of louisiana. senator, thank you very much for joining us. we've had some very interesting discussions on health care, a few hours away from mitch mcconnell unveiling what he's going to do here. can you give us a preview of where you think this is headed today? >> well, we will hear about the bill. we'll discuss it around 11:00, 11:30, speak to it even longer at lunch. i'm providing lunch today, good seafood from louisiana, so i'm looking forward to the lunch, and we'll hear the cbo score early next week. there will be amendments being prepared that i think the amendments may make this bill hopefully more acceptable to those who are still concerned about it. and we'll see. >> we know you're going to approve of lunch, the question is will you end up approving of

the health care bill, senator. ted cruz, senator cruz of texas is offering an amendment which would allow states to opt out of basically some of the essential health benefit guarantees as long as they also offer a version of sort of the obamacare guarantees, is that an amendment you could support? >> so i've been working with senator cruz looking at that particular amendment, speaking to folks in the insurance market. the question is will it be two risk pools in which you're on your own if you have a car wreck, or is it going to be a common risk pool where everybody does kind of what insurance does using the law of big numbers so if a young person gets in a car wreck there's actually an insurance pool to help them. and so the insurance companies right now seem to tell us that may not work the way senator cruz has initially constructed it. i'll be discussing with him possible alternatives. we'll see. >> right. >> each process of amendments is actually process of getting us closer to yes and i look forward

to that process of amendments. >> what are the issues that some people say when they look at that? some critics say it removes the price protections for people with preexisting conditions. yes, they might still be offered insurance under that one plan that's sort of the exception in there, but the price is on, the rates on it could be hiked substantially. to me when i was looking at it would seem to violate your rule which you made famous in the discussion we had with the jimmy kimmel test which is everyone should be able to afford the health care they need. that would seem to be a problem in terms of being able to afford something if you had preexisting conditions, correct? >> it could be a problem. now, one thing that the bill does have that we know of is a large amount of money for states to put in what is called a stabilization fund. and so it could be that we can -- states could do what maine did prior to obamacare and have a reinsurance pool so that those folks with a preexisting condition would be reinsured and so that would keep the premiums lower for that person but also for the entire group. so it may be possible to combine

a so-called cruz amendment with something where the extra dollars, the billions being given to states, would mitigate that effect. >> still work to be done though in your mind on that. >> oh, totally. >> then there's the issue of medicaid, which is hugely important to a lot of people including your colleague susan collins with whom you've submitted your own plan separate from this but also concerned about the fact so says the cbo 15 million fewer people would be on medicaid after this bill is passed. my understanding is even with all the changes being proposed today, some of those medicaid cuts, for lack of a better word, i don't want to argue whether lack of cuts, that's still going to be in it. >> yeah, principle cuts will be in 2025 and beyond. keep in mind, under obamacare there are similar cuts beginning in 2020. and so this is actually the same type of language that was in obamacare but is postponed until 2025. i'm not saying it's not an

issue, but i'm saying that everybody was quite comfortable with it under obamacare, but the same folks are kind of uncomfortable with it under this proposal. if the inflation rate turns out to be higher, there's plenty of time to address. for those folks nervous about it, think about where your comfort level was with obamacare. >> just to be clear what i'm hearing from you, are you more optimistic about passage today than you were yesterday? >> i am neither optimistic nor pessimistic. it's just a rule in life if you work hard at something and work in good faith that good things tend to happen. i will continue to work hard in good faith over this weekend up to the vote trying to make good things happen. >> are you closer to yes now than you were? >> i haven't seen the bill yet. >> that's a good point. >> i have to read the bill. and then i will know. until then i withhold judgment. >> all right. i want to talk to you about some of the things the president has said about the revelations really over the last few days about what his son did last year holding a meeting with the russian lawyer under the promise that this lawyer would provide negative information from the

russian government about his opponent hillary clinton. the president of the united states says that many people, many people would have taken this meeting. you, senator, have run in elections yourself, there's the quote there, would you have held that meeting, senator cassidy? >> i would not have held that meeting. what we don't know about donald trump jr., was he clueless or clued in, number one. number two, was it illegal or legal? that will be an important distinction for the attorneys and that's going to be ultimately if it was legal and he was clued in that will be a question for the voter to handle. and i'm sure that will be litigated at the next election. >> clueless or clued in, explain. >> if he's clueless, oh, my gosh, i don't know what's happening, sure, i'll show up. maybe you can give a little bit of a pass. if it was a clued in, oh, yes, i'm very much wired into both sides of this argument, i think the voter will be a lot harsher in their judgment. >> clueless, the e-mail which i'm sure you've read at this point because we all have, the

e-mail flat out said this information is coming from the russian government, which wants to help your father's campaign and hurts hillary clinton. so by definition what's on paper he wasn't clueless to that, was he? >> no, he wasn't clueless to that, but he could have been clueless as to the implications. i don't know donald trump jr. i'm old enough to know you've got to understand the entirety of what's happening before you make a judgment. >> i get that. and i get he may not have been involved with politics before, but as an american citizen, you know, whether or not you've ever been involved in politics does that pass the smell test? >> so, john, i'm totally agreeing with where you're going. we have to investigate and we have to know it's motivations, if you will. but i hope you'll go where i'm going which is to withhold judgment until we actually have kind of the total investigations by fbi, by the senate bipartisan committee, by the house bipartisan committee and then make judgment. what we don't want to do is jump to a conclusion, even as transparent as that conclusion may seem, because frankly that's not what we do in america. >> well, based on what we know

there's not enough information to say whether or not he should have gone to that meeting based on that e-mail alone? >> i will tell you that my judgment i would not have gone. but on the other hand because this is being spun as you've begun to spun right there into a larger kind of effort of collusion, that's where i'm going to withhold judgment. >> i'm not trying to spin it into anything. all i'm trying to say is it's right there on paper. and to an extent what we're beginning to hear from the wlous is an effort at normalization. many people would have done this. you now have said you would not have done it. >> i would not have done it, but on the other hand frankly if you say many people, that's a sort of lasting statement that you can make. but i will say once more that i can accept that. i can say i would not have done that. but i'll withhold judgment on the whole body of the issue until the appropriate agencies have finished their investigation. >> senator bill cassidy of louisiana, enjoy lunch, send some our way. always appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you, john. >> alisyn. >> that does sound delicious. >> doesn't it? >> yes, i love louisiana food.

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in about an hour president trump will meet with french president emmanuel macron in paris and hold a joint news conference. but his trip is being somewhat overshadowed by the controversy over don junior's e-mails revealing a previously undisclosed meeting between top trump campaign members and a russian lawyer. in a new interview the president tel tells reuters that, quote, many people, unquote, would have taken that meeting if the opportunity presented itself. let's discuss this and more with democratic senator richard blumenthal, he serves on the judiciary committee which is investigating russian election interference. good morning, senator. >> good morning. >> now that we've all seen don junior's e-mails in black and white on the front page of the papers where he expresses interest and even enthusiasm

about getting dirt on hillary clinton from what he thought was a high level russian source, what do you do about that? what is congress going to do about that? >> we are investigating not only russian interference in the election campaign, which was extraordinary, unprecedented in its scope and sophistication, but also the potential trump campaign collusion with that russian interference. and these e-mails are bombshell evidence of criminal intent. >> why? hold on, what do you mean they are bombshells of criminal intent? >> what they show is as you said so well just a few minutes ago, interest and enthusiasm for working with the russians on interfering in the election. >> well, hold on a second, i just want to press back on this because it's not criminal. it's not a crime to develop

opposition research on your opponent. >> correct, not if it comes from legitimate sources and it's obtained by legitimate means. if it's obtained by hacking into the dnc, which is a violation of law, it involves a conspiracy to violate the law and the intent on the part of manafort, kushner, trump junior to be part of that illegal -- >> but you're connecting these two things, which we don't see a nexus of. you're connecting the russian hack of the dnc with whatever this meeting was that don junior was trying to arrange. >> the meeting was to obtain information. the hacking was the means to obtain that information. and there is more evidence that has to be illicited. no question that we're very far from criminal charges here and from proof beyond a reasonable doubt, but if you're asking what's the significance of these e-mails, it is criminal intent,

which is often the most difficult part of any case to prove. you know, these words "i love it" will haunt donald trump jr. i can see a prosecutor's closing argument repeating those words again and again and again because they show what the purpose and motive was of this meeting. >> they show intent, but what's the name of that crime? what's the name of the crime that loves opposition research? >> if you want the specific statutes that may have been violated, 18 united states code 1030 which is cyber fraud and abuse. the other conspiracy statutes that forbid defrauding the united states government by interfering with elections committed by the russians, no question that the russians interfered with our election. the only question is whether trump junior, manafort, kushner on behalf of the trump campaign were part of a conspiracy to do so. >> are you saying that in your mind this rises to the level

that tim kaine suggested, senator tim kaine suggested, of treason? >> it could rise to the level of espionage and treason if it involved participation in a conspiracy in effect to undermine the lawful functions of the united states government by a foreign power. remember, russia is a dangerous adversary who attacked the united states. i'd argue to you that it was an act of war by an enemy operating to try to interfere with our elections, the core of our democracy, an attack on this country and to participate in a conspiracy to accomplish that end in my view could well amount to treason. now, again, we are far from charges or indictments here. not to mention conviction. >> but senator, i mean, what if this is what the white house says the naivete of a political neophyte who met with somebody who misrepresented herself, she didn't have anything, she didn't offer anything.

she didn't offer up any sort of opo research or anything and it all kind of disintegrated when they got in there. >> well, a conspiracy need not accomplish all of its ends, in effect the ends here to interfere with the election was accomplished. maybe not in this meeting, but again, the meeting itself was part of a larger train of events. part of a mosaic. and a prosecutor will have to put together that tapestry. i know from my own experience as a federal prosecutor not always easy to do so, but e-mails show a critical element here that the trump campaign was saying we're open for business, we'll deal with you. and that is absolutely bombshell evidence. >> i know that you talked to the fbi director, the nominee for fbi director, christopher wray, yesterday, correct me if i'm wrong, you support -- you will support him as becoming the fbi director, but you said in that conversation that you foresee a

firestorm brewing that will threaten the fbi. what does that mean? >> that means very simply we may see a repeat of jim comey being fired. the threat to the political independence of the fbi, the threat to its integrity and its dedication to the rule of law may again be threatened especially as its investigation through the independent counsel comes closer and closer to donald trump himself through his son, through his son-in-law, through his foreimer campaign manager. so my question to christopher wray was will you resign if the president demands a pledge of loyalty or ask you to go light on someone like james comey and he was unequivocal and convincing not only in that hearing yesterday but also when he spoke to me privately that he would resign. and he also said very tellingly that the investigation ongoing by special counsel mueller is not a witch hunt.

the president's called it a witch hunt, but christopher ray, the next director of the fbi, i hope, has said it's no witch hunt, it should be pursued vigorously. >> senator richard blumenthal, thank you very much. nice to have you on "new day". >> thank you. >> john. >> thanks, alisyn. scientists have their work cut out for them as a huge iceberg breaks off the antarctic peninsula. is this climate change at work? and where is this iceberg headed, next.

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fails. >> house republican whip steve scalise is out of intensive care, but he does remain in serious condition as he battles an infection. he was critically injured last month after being shot at a congressional baseball practice. >> one of four men missing since last week in pennsylvania was found dead inside nearly a 15-foot grave. his body was found near other human remains, but those have not yet been identified. >> and a group of teenage girls from afghanistan will be allowed to travel to the u.s. to take part in a robotics competition after their visa applications were denied twice. the story was first reported by politico, which says president trump personally intervened to green light their visas. >> that's a fantastic news. >> that is a great news story. for more on the five things to know you can go to cnn.com/newday for all of the latest. meanwhile, scientists are watching closely as one of the largest icebergs ever recorded is breaking away, has broken away from antarctica. cnn's kyung lah has more for us. >> reporter: a crack more than 120 miles long on the east side

of the antarctic peninsula finally breaking off creating a spectacular iceberg weighing more than a trillion metric tons, roughly the size of delaware. >> it's one of the largest icebergs in human history. >> reporter: ucla professor has spent her career studying antarctic ice, traveling to the very peninsula where the ice shelf called larson's sea broke off. she's seen two other big sections of the peninsula break off and dissolve. the first in 1995 and then another in 2002. she watched as this crack grew for years, caught off guard that this break happened so soon. what this latest break means is something scientists aren't yet agreed on. antarctica, the coldest place on earth, is a continent covered in ice, and icebergs have been breaking away from ice shelves for millions of years. but at the end of the 20th century the peninsula was one of

the fastest warming places on the planet. that warming has slowed or reversed slightly in this century. you learn all of this just from samples of ice. >> you learn from samples of ice and samples of rock. >> reporter: this geochemist says the overall trends in the arctic point to global warming. >> the fact we've had 7 out of the 12 ice shelves on antarctica collapse in the last few decades and this one appears to be ready to go with the breaking off of this major iceberg, that it's hard to attribute to anything else. >> kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. up for us, the president's team pulling out all the stops and props in their defense of collusion confusion. >> you didn't say collusion allusion? >> confusion. >> plus, trying to eat less, certain foods can curb your appetite naturally. nutritionist lisa draer has more in today's food as fuel. >> many of us eat too much, but it turns out some foods can

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all right. white house officials pushing back hard against any allegations of collusion with russia even using some interesting methods that have twitter reacting a lot. watch this. >> i just want to review in case you run out of time this is how you see it so far, this is to help all the people at home. what's the conclusion? collusion, no, we don't have that yet. i see illusion and delusion, so just so we're clear everyone, four words, collusion, no.

illusion, delusion, yes. i just thought we'd have some fun with words. sesame's grover word of the day perhaps, sean. >> let's get the bottom line, shall we? cnn political analyst david druker, conjunction junction, what's your function? >> you stole my joke. i don't know if you've been colluding with somebody and sneaking into my head, that's what i've been thinking of for the last couple of hours. >> what was she doing? because that predictably, extremely predictably, is all over social media right now with people putting all different kinds of things on pieces of paper there trying to make light of these questions. >> well, look, she was having a little fun. i don't think we should beat her up for that. i do think it was interesting that she did violate one rule which is never restate the air when you're trying to make a correction. so she threw the collusion word out there, she said not yet, which i'm sure a lot of people are saying, you're right, not yet, but we're getting there. so, you know, i think this will make the rounds for awhile.

and it's just a part of what we're dealing with these days. >> it's making the rounds. and people are putting their own memes there and having different arrows pointed. and we've been enjoying words that rhyme with confusion and collusion, protrusion. >> that's our favorite. >> protrusion. contusion. i could go on. so, david, are we going to talk about the -- >> so what's interesting, david, people were talking about what effect the don junior e-mail might have or the discussion or the parameters of how we're talking about the whole russia investigation. there was a really interesting interview yesterday with vice president pence's spokesperson where he would not flat out say that the vice president didn't have meetings with russians. watch this very carefully. >> did the vice president ever meet with representatives from russia? >> the vice president is not focused on the areas where, you know, on this campaign,

especially things that happened before even he was on the ticket. as he has said when he joined the campaign his entire focus was talking to the american people, taking the case that president trump was going to make to the american people and doing everything he could to make sure he and president trump were elected, sent to washington. now this focus is getting that agenda accomplished. >> fully aware of the statement there. just come back to this question, if it wasn't a private citizen from russia, did he ever meet with representatives from the russian government during the campaign? >> you know, that's stuff the special prosecutors and counsels are all looking at. i can tell you in all my time with the vice president i knew that he was focused entirely on talking to the american people. >> why is that tap dance happening? >> that's some broad shoulder debating as the vice president might say. look, i think that i'll cut mark some slack in that the vice president himself has been hung out to dry more than once by vouching for members of the

administration regarding these meetings and things like this and turns out they weren't telling him the whole story. he didn't have the full picture. so it could have been as simple as the interviewee not knowing all the facts and not wanting to state anything that was going to come back later to haunt him and make it look like they were trying to cover something up. you know, on the other hand this is interesting because mike pence has always been for republicans from the day that he was picked the day who has vouched for president trump and vouched for the fact that whatever, you know, his paat th of the day he's rock solid and you can depend on him to put the country first -- >> i don't think this means mike pence had meetings with russians. we don't know, but it's so different than what the vice president when he was vice president-elect said in january that no one had any meetings with russians. now his own guy won't even say that vice president pence didn't have meetings with the russians. >> because we've seen where that rabbit hole leads them and i

think that's why they're being so cautious because they never know what's going to be dug up and what they don't know. and unless he's been fully briefed and they fully vetted everything going back months, they wouldn't know for sure. >> david drucker, thank you for your contribution to -- >> conjunction junction what's your function? >> thank you for that. >> thanks, guys. >> he helped, i think, dispel confusion. >> yes, that was good. strangers coming together to rescue a family caught in the rip tide. the good stuff next. as moms, we send our kids out into the world, full of hope. and we don't want something like meningitis b getting in their way. meningococcal group b disease, or meningitis b, is real. bexsero is a vaccine to help prevent meningitis b in 10 to 25 year olds. even if meningitis b is uncommon, that's not a chance we're willing to take. meningitis b is different from the meningitis most teens were probably vaccinated against when younger. we're getting the word out against meningitis b. our teens are getting bexsero. bexsero should not be given

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okay. time for the good stuff. this is a really important one. strangers banding together to help save a family's life. this all unfolded at panama city beach in florida. roberta couldn't see her boys in the water, and she soon realized they were trapped in a rip current. >> they were screaming and crying that they were stuck, they couldn't go nowhere. >> so she ran into the water, but she started getting pulled in by the current and that's when a group of at least 80 people jumped into action. they held hands to make a human chain and saved the family. >> since they helped me, when i

grow up and if they can't swim, i'm going to help them. >> that is beautiful. by the way, this has happened to my kids and me where we've been in a rip tide. it is the scariest thing in the world. it's really hard to get back to shore when you're in there. and that is so beautiful. >> took a lot of people to bring them in, which is why you have to be really, really careful. wonderful they were all there. time now for "cnn newsroom" with poppy harlow. good morning to you. >> good morning, you two. we miss you, berman. hope you had fun, ali. you guys have a great day. we've got a lot to get to. >> you too. good morning everyone. 9:00 a.m. eastern. i'm poppy harlow. in just moments president trump meets face-to-face with french president emmanuel macron. he may be in paris, but can't shake those questions about moscow. just hours from now he will face reporters and you can bet he will get a flurry of questions from t