into foot traffic, automation could bring further job loss. i am old school. i like salespeople one-on-one. >> me too. but i'm trying to order my iphone x. pre ordered start . it's going to take months to put this million piece puzzle together. >> there's a level of detail about covert action we didn't have before. >> if all the files are not released the president will have a promise he did not keep with the american people. >> the uranium sale to russia is watergate modern age. >> and lifting a gag order on russia that gave attempts to the u.s. the white house never should have injected itself into this

position. >> they deny knowledge of paying the firm behind tdossier. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day". it's friday, october 27th, 6:00 here in new york. chris is off this morning. john berman joins me. oh, my gosh. >> with injury. >> there's so much intrigue in you as a student of history is going to dive into this. we are following two big stories for you. the u.s. government releasing most but not all the classified documents on the assassination of john f. kennedy. it breathed new life into is conspiracy theories and add to the mystery on of what happened on that fateful day in 1963. one of the documents ends on on a cliff hanger. was lee harvey oswald an agent of the cia? >> chris cuomo not here today

mysteriously the day after this release. >> president trump pressed the department to lust a gag order on an fbi informant. republican lawmakers want to know the circumstances surrounding the sale of a uranium mining company to a russian agency. but it is highly unusual and some people will say highly inappropriate for the president to get this involved in an investigation. we have it all covered for you. let's begin with the jfk intrigue. live in washington with new information in the files. >> reporter: interesting information for sure, john. but also disappointingly incomplete. 2,800 of the final jfk documents are likely to only feed the conspiracy affliction. thousands were still kept secret after 11th hour appeals from the fbi and the cia.

for decades, conspiracy theories have questioned whether lee harvey oswald acted alone in killing john f. kennedy in dallas 54 years ago. in a newly released memo, j. edgar hoover suppressed concern they wouldn't believe he was the lone gunman. the thing i'm concerned about is that mr. catsen back and having something issued so we can convince the public that oswald is the real assassin. one document reveals the cia intercepted a call on oswald made to a kgb officer at the russian embassy in moscow less than two months before oswald shot kennedy. oswald spoken in broken russia. and documenting a separate conversation about oswald and two cubans. one said oswald must have been a good shot. a cuban intelligence officer

said, oh, he was quite good. when asked why he said that, "i knew him". >> to suggest that this man, lee harvey oswald, was a danger. >> another cliff hanger, whether oswald worked for the cia. richard helms, deputy cia director under kennedy was asked if lee harvey on oswald was a cia agent where the document suddenly ends without an answer. even linden b. johnson is said to have explained another theory. according to helms, johnson claimed he was killed as payback for the assassination of vietnam's president and this was just justice. even though helms said there was no evidence of this claim in agency records. but a memo from fbi direct j. edgar hoover to the white house three years after kennedy was killed details reaction inside the soviet union, including

conspiracy theories of their own. namely, that johnson himself was behind kennedy's death. the source saying ussr believed there was well-organized conspiracy on the part of the ultra right in the united states to affect a cou approximate. they received a direct warning before oswald's own murder before a jail transfer. a day before oswald was killed, hoover says the fbi office in dallas received a phone call from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee organized to kill oswald and shared that information with the dallas police chief who assured us adequate protection would be given. however, this was not done. oswald's killer, jack ruby, maintained he acted alone and denied making the call. and more may be coming. a white house official telling cnn the president was unhappy with the level of redactions

requested by intelligence agencies saying they were not meeting the spirit of the law. trump writing in a memo, i have no choice today but to accept those redactions rather than allow potentially irreversible harm to our nation's security. intelligence agencies have had 25 years to comply with this 1992 law that governs the release of these documents, yet they missed this deadline. they were sending requests for redactions even as late yesterday. president trump has given them 180 more days to review their reasons for requesting information be withheld. so more documents may yet see the light, john and alisyn. >> it is all so scintillating. thank you very much is. let's bring in cnn political analyst julia selzer and douglas brinkley. this is your livelihood. what do you find most intriguing, julian?

>> one thing is this memo about how the fbi had information that there was an effort to kill oswald and who was worried about having this information after it happens. another is familiar to historians and people people who lived through the 70s all the different activities the cia was involved in, trying to kill castro, operations overseas, monitoring martin luther king as late as 1967. finally, the cliffhanger memo suggesting connections between the cia and oswald will be front and center. although it is an incomplete document, it doesn't prove anything. it will certainly lead to questions. >> it is a heck of a cliff hanger. this is richard helms, director of the cia in the '70s being questioned. the question is, is there any information that in any way shows lee harvey oswald was a

cia agent or an agent.... no answer. the answer not released. not yet. talk about intrigue right there. >> there is no question about it. that is only going to fuel more conspiracy theories. really that's what's going to happen out of all of this. people will pick a puzzle piece here and another one there and inflate them with a new theory on what happened. overall, though, we didn't learn a whole lot. to me it's a bit of a document dump. we are acting like, god, they had decades to do this. maybe they did have decades to sanitize this group of documents, just like you are seeing there with richard helms. where did it go to? did somebody pull the mike on him? or is somebody out there at cia, erase that, hide that from the public. >> yeah. why would they do that if it weren't true? what's your theory on why it just stops about whether he was acting as a cia agent?

>> well, the theory would be it was getting to -- maybe it was too convoluted an answer. he once did a little bit of farm work for us. he may have gone on a little bit about some of oswald having done big things for the cia over the years. maybe they decided that would look undiscriminating. or maybe a plain out yes. the fact that it's not there allows all of us to fill in the blank and why so many people keep returning to the kennedy assassination. >> the fact that major officials in the intelligence committee knew how complicated this was going to be and how the answers would be so unsatisfying from the very beginning. j. edgar hoover on november 24th, 1963, two days, two days after kennedy was killed, this is what he said. the thing that i am concerned about is that -- and so is deputy attorney general catsen

back, is having something issued so we can convince the public that oswald is the real assassin. two days later, professor julian, he thinks it will be difficult to convince america that oswald is a lone assassin, which by the way, has to be before he knew he was the lone assassin. >> this is the height of the cold war. instantly lbj is scrambling to figure out what was happening. there are all kinds of theories out there. did the soviets do it. did cuba do it. we see this in the documents that right wing in america that was in dallas that time was also responsible. so part of the effort was to find out what happened. but part of it was to contain what the response would be. we learned in one document that the soviets are very worried that some general is going to unleash on the soviets after this happened. so that's part of the scramble that you're seeing. the president is is assassinated at the height of the cold war.

they don't only want to find out what happened, they want to contain the damage. >> here's another intriguing part that julian had first referred to. that is somehow the fbi knew oswald would be killed. here is the excerpt from j. edgar hoover. there is nothing further on the oswald case except that he is dead. we received a call in our dallas office from a man talking in a calm voice and saying he was a member of a committee on organized to kill oswald. what's your thinking behind that one? >> that to me is the most important document to come to light so far. one thing that becomes abundantly clear, we remind ourselves that the fbi and cia didn't collaborate together very well, for starters. you know, neither did navy and army in the 1950s, by the way. but it comes shining through these documents. in this case, hoover comes out to be kind of the interesting good guy, oddly.

you have never said that about j. edgar hoover before. he is perplexed about what happened in dallas. they had warning. they told dallas police that he seems to not know particularly with the killing of ruby how that could possibly happen. and so, again, it creates i think more suspicions, these new documents, about cia than it does the fbi. >> guys, there's a lot that wasn't released, though there was a lot that was released. some of the things we have not yet received, a huge file. 338-page file in dallas. why does that matter? he was in charge of dallas. just what you were talking about right there. so much went on around that assassination. there is a dossier on on awe dallas man who met ruby before ruby killed oswald. files on anti-castro cuban exiles. secret is service destroyed 1963

records. army and navy intel. this is big information. >> it is big information. we need to remember part of what happened is the cia didn't give all of its information as soon as the commission started because they didn't want to reveal all the different operations they were involved in in that period. not necessarily as an effort to protect oswald. so there is more information. my guess is a lot of that is going to be more of efforts to kill castro, for example. information, which before the mid-70s, america had no idea this is what our government did. my guess is there will be more of that, which won't be a total surprise. more information out there fuels the conspiracy theories and lets everyone say we're missing that one document that proves there is a smoking gun that he was involved in something bigger. >> more to come in april. this discussion will continue throughout the morning, guys. thanks so much. >> thank you. sources tell cnn president trump directed his senior staff to have the justice department lift a gag order on an fbi

informant to the informant could speak to congress about russia's obama-era uranium deal. jessica? >> reporter: john, democrats are crying foul on this. in fact, congressman adam schiff said he plans to pursue a probe calling it beyond disturbing. two sources tell cnn that president trump directed his senior staff to facilitate the justice department's full cooperation with office to lift that gag order. that's when white house counsel mcghan relayed message to the department. that gag order was lifted, allowing the informant to speak with congress. the justice especially department has strict rules allowing anyone in matters especially when it involves the president's political opponents. it was earlier this week when

the president called allegations of corruption approved when hillary clinton was secretary of state watergate of the modern age. republicans have been raising questions about reports that russians channeled millions of dollars into the clinton foundation at the same time the deal was being approved to sell uranium mining company to the russians. and with recent reports that the fbi was actually simultaneously investigating a is subsidiary of the russian company. republicans have now opened an investigation. as part of that investigation, they wanted to talk to an informant who says he has more details on on corruption. the president pay aylan on lifting the gag order of the informant. the white house has referred all questions to the justice department. right now, john and alisyn, the justice department declining to comment. a lot of criticism coming about what the president played a hand in. >> we will have kellyanne conway

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new details about president trump's role into the obama era uranium deal with russia. president trump was involved in the justice department lifting a gag order allowing an fbi informant to testify. we want to bring in our panel

right now. jeffrey toobin and john avalon. jeffrey, i want to start with you here. >> yes, sir. >> you will say it is is inappropriate for a president to weigh in and get involved with an investigation. >> i will say that. >> however, it is not illegal. there is nowhere in the constitution it says a president shall not be involved in an investigation. >> no. however, after richard nixon ordered investigations of people by the irs, the government established policies so that in individual enforcement investigations there are specific procedures to be followed between the executive branch, the white house, and the investigative agencies. it is unclear whether these policies were followed closely or not. the white house counsel to be involved in this process. but the idea that the president of the united states is deciding

who is subject to a gag order in an old investigation is just something that's totally inappropriate. >> listen to the president here. i want to play sound of the president talking about this. he said it's like watergate. listen. >> well i think the uranium sale to russia and the way it was done is so underhanded with tremendous amounts of money being passed, i think that is watergate modern age. >> the comparison might be that the executive branch or the president's office is getting involved in an investigation. >> yes. and another part of this is the is symbiosis between president trump and fox news. this story has been pushed, pushed, pushed in recent weeks by fox news. even though it was settled -- it's an old story. everyone knows what happened. because fox is using it to distract attention from stories they don't want to cover, that

is why the president is suddenly -- >> look, the president goes off on talking points. i don't know that most know about what happened here. i think are visiting it, in other words, even hillary clinton was asked about it again. >> she was asked about it because of fox news. >> of course. but let's listen to how she explains it. >> i would say it is the same baloney they have been peddling for years. there's been no credible evidence by everyone. in fact, it has been debunked repeatedly and will continue to be debunked. >> this is an attempt to deflect and distract from folks who don't want to deal, for partisan purposes, with the russia investigation. it has been pushed by fox. it has been embraced by the white house. the president trots out this literate met for for being the equivalent of watergate.

really i think what might happen, as jeff pointed out, this is more than frowned upon. this is enforced by policy. there are procedures this white house didn't take into effect. but the close relationship in terms of messaging between fox and the white house and really in an attempt to change the conversation, to create the illusion of a counter narrative or something equivalently serious is flimsy, pathetic. let's call it what it is. >> there is a new element in the hill reporting. some elements in the hill report which that the fbi doing the investigation -- we don't know if they passed on the information to the state department and various agencies. >> that's an important point. nine agencies approved this. this wasn't hillary clinton doing a favor for the clinton foundation. >> it is confusing. of it is confusing in terms that russia is good, the president thinks. it would be good to have a good relationship with russia.

we have gone overboard with saying russia is bad. but now russia is bad with this deal. that's what the president is saying basically. and this needs to be looked into. the messaging is confusing. >> this is a great example of the power of the hope that the president said. when the president says anything is as bad as watergate, all of us are obliged to cover it because he's the president and what he says is important. even though this matter of uranium was investigated when it came out in 2015. nobody found anything untoward in terms of the behavior by hillary clinton. hillary clinton, you may remember, is now a private citizen in new york. why anything is particularly relevant about her today. it is much more politics than anything. >> and hating hillary clinton is the only thing that keeps the republican coalition together at

this point. >> and in looking at my watch and calendar, we are nearly a year after this election. the election continues to be litigated every single day. and there is no information about the clinton team also, which is not uninteresting. it isn't new. it has to do with the funding of the dossier, the steele investigative report. incident was a lawyer for the democratic party and hillary clinton's campaign that paid for this research. and cnn reporting overnight that campaign chair podesta and deb bey wass debbie wasserman schule asked. and they said no. >> i think this has been poorly handled by what's left of the clinton campaign. there's nothing wrong with funding opposition research. this is what campaigns do. this gps investigation was

funded first by republican opponents of trump. then picked up by the clinton campaign. they is simply should have said yes, or above it was who approved it, should have said, yes, we paid for it. >> it has been denied by the clinton camp and that creates hypocrisy. this appears to have been paid for by two. first an anti-trump republican. maybe a campaign during the primary. maybe donors associated with the campaign. then picked up by the democrats. the idea that this is a revelation is false. and that is is solely on the democrats is also false. >> the timeline there -- i just want to make clear. we don't know. it is not impossible that podesta didn't know who was paying for it. if they did know and they said

they did not there is an issue. >> false statements to a committee are a crime. but there is no evidence that they did know. someone clearly did know within the clinton campaign. >> you're saying someone would be going rogue and pay for without the dnc head knowing? >> these sorts of decisions are made often at a lower level than that. he was the campaign chairman, not the campaign manager. debbie wasserman schultz was completely on the outs with everybody. >> when does opposition research, the candidate rarely knows. >> thank you, gentlemen. coming up on "new day", we will discuss all of this with president trump's counselor kellyanne conway. >> exclusive cnn reporting on niger. arwa damon talks to one of the first soldiers on the scene after an attack that killed four u.s. soldiers.

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determined to fight to the very end. tragically, he saw is the bodies of two u.s. soldiers in the back of an american vehicle, another third u.s. soldier's body found very close by as well as the bodies of three nigeriens. some parts of the landscape still smoldering. it was the attackers that set portions of the brush on on fire to create a smoke screen so they could escape. it seems that initial lu it was carried out by eight vehicles that managed to shoot out the convoy and cause it to split apart. two vehicles separated from the rest. then, according to other wounded nigerien soldiers, they arrived on motorcycle fully encircling the americans and the nigeriens. what the soldier was telling us is he was quite surprised because dz the american green

berets and their counterparts arrived at the base october 3rd, a day before the attack. he did not know where they were going. when he later got the orders to move out very quickly because they had to respond to the ambush he said that he didn't understand why the u.s. and the nigeriens would have gone out in such a light convoy. by that he means not is sufficiently manned, without sufficient manpower given from at least his and his unit's perspective, the threat that existed within this zone. his own unit only goes out if they are able to a mass a force from 80 to 100 soldiers, john. >> important new information. thanks so much for being on the ground there. back in the united states, heavy rain, wicked heavy rain is expected to drench the east coast this weekend. cnn's chad myers with our

forecast. >> a good saturday but a wet and windy sunday for all the northeast from connecticut, rhode island, up to maine. this brought to you by humana. start with healthy. a snowstorm over the northern great lakes was trying to combine with a tropical storm that didn't get a name yet but it probably won't because of the cold front down to the south. those two things come together. we were looking at a perfect storm, the kind that sank the an tkra andrea gail years ago. this is still going to turn into a nor'easter. four to six inches of rainfall upstate. maybe more across eastern pennsylvania. this would be -- we fast forward to january. this is a two or three-foot snowstorm. we'll take the rain because you don't have to shovel it. alisyn. >> i understand that logic. thank you very much, chad. president trump, as you know,

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the trump administration released most but not all of the classified files in the 1963 assassination of president john f. kennedy. president trump expressed his frustration with last minute requests from several national security aces saying in a white house memo i have no choice but to allow the redactions rather than let irreversible harm to our nation's security. of course the president himself tweeted this a little bit like a game show. he said big document release coming in days finally going to learn these details. then last minute he pulls them back. >>. >> regretting all the while he has to be president. not just roll out the

information but actually take care of the valid concerns that may be on out there by national security agencies saying, you know, there are certain things we just don't want to release right now. >> i'm not buying it after 50 years. they have had 25 years for this. the deadline didn't sneak up on them. it is is like a college student cramming for an exam. >> why is that? >> i think they have been in denial this would ever come because they they could convince the president. good on for trump for making this a priority. he has had his hand forced at the last minute. there is a governmental force toward secrecy. >> the deep state boys will

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we have files -- fbi files, cia files that are sort of scraps of information, rumors, completely unconfirmed. one document was released saying that some notion that lbj was part of the ku klux klan. if you know his politics, he was anything but that. >> can we make the most awkward segue and talk about something else that happened at the white house, a public health emergency. not a national emergency which means there is no new federal funding for it. but it will refocus and shine a spotlight on it. >> that's right. it's not nothing. the people who are complaining that, well, there should be billions of dollars. we should be able to raid fema and take away from the rebuilding of houston or puerto rico to apply it to this might be a little bit misguided. federal funds will go to fight

the oeud crisis? >> there will be retargeted money. it will free up some resources. money is not the real problem here. the fact that 100 people are dying every single day from these overdoses, you know, we have already heard loose talk yesterday that i think suggests we need this national conversation. when the president said one more reason we need the wall. the wall is not how things are getting in west virginia or new hampshire. we need to have a rational conversation and figure out what the level of attack will be. >> this has been a crisis. it has been snowballing for years, right? and then 90-day time period isn't sufficient. it has nothing to do with border crossings per se. drug dealers wearing lab coats and have taken advantage of pill mills tuck particularly in the

midwest. this needs a concerted focus and is frankly overdue. >> look, so many people and so many families are struggling with this crisis. and the president talked about how addiction affected his life and his family. let's listen to that moment. >> i had a brother fred, great guy, best looking guy, best personality, much better than mine. but he had a problem. he had a problem with alcohol. and he would tell me, don't drink. don't drink. he was substantially older, and i listened to him and i respected. but he would constantly tell me don't drink. he would also add don't smoke. but he would say it over and over and over again. >> that is such an affecting moment because it's authentic and personal. and trump's family has been

touched by addiction, the story of his brother fred. it was a flash of self-deposit indicating humor. >> it is just say no. it was terrific he was able to abstain his whole life from alcohol. >> we'll see what this changes in terms of fighting this epidemic. so many people did vote for president trump. we have interviewed them, because they thought he would immediately try to do something. >> most people who kick chemical addiction don't go through kind of program. it is is a difficult problem to try and tackle. >> thank you, gentlemen is, for the conversation. so it has been dubbed the weinstein effect. women speaking up about sexual abuse and sexual harassment and the powerful men responsible being called to account. what's next in this movement? co, it's time to wake up to keurig. wakey! wakey! rise and shine! oh my gosh! how are you?

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against men in powerful positions. is this a watershed moment? let's talk to margaret hoover and cnn legal analyst reva martin. how is this not watershed, margaret? every single day there is a new revelati revelation about a powerful man. yesterday was mark halperin. and james toe vac. people who were silent a year ago or just two months ago are now speaking out privately. >> it is is a refreshing moment, cathartic for many and a welcomed, frankly surprising series of events that i think will only guess to a place where there is a more universal

acceptance of what good behavior for men is. on behalf of men and women, as well as sort of an instructive framework. >> this is a teachable moment. call it watershed. it feels different than it would have two years ago. >> i can't help but hat tip gretchen carlson. david can take on goliath and this can happen. really the actions of one very courageous woman. >> you hear open secrets. people will say, you know, everyone knew this was going on. does this mean these open secrets, there will be no more open secrets. they will be secret no longer? >> well, i think that's a good question, john. the real issue is where do we go from here? this all started, if we think

about it, with gretchen carlson. we can go to anita hill and the hearings we watched unfold on television when she accused clarence thomas of sexual harassment. after that i watched as a civil rights attorney laws being enacted like sexual harassment training. here we are 25 years after anita hill talking about things like, in california potentially, a i new law that may prevent nondisclosure agreements being used in sexual harassment cases. so much has happened but in some ways so little has changed. we are learning women, for the last two plus decades have been suffering in some cases in silence. this is a really significant moment, i think. >> so that brings us to george h.b. bush, 93 years old, wheelchair bound. two women have come forward saying he was inappropriate with them. where are we on the spectrum?

does he get a pass because he is 93 and wheelchair bound, or is this part of the large net we are now casting with a lot of people? >> as we said in our previous segment, this has really been a watershed moment for men who have, in a position of authority, exploited the money and the power to prey on young women who were not in positions of power for decades and decades. and the name harvey weinstein and the name bill o'reilly and ra roger ailes belongs nowhere close to the name george h.w. bush, a man who nobly served this country for so many years, has historically had account after account tpwrafbgly characteri graphically characterize. >> if he is making inappropriate jokes and grabbing women's rear ends, he that's okay in. >> it seems to me as somebody

who is inclined to respect the bold patriotism of literally -- do i think grabbing women's years and making jokes about touching them is funny? of course not. i think it is inappropriate and unfortunate. it is not even in the same cat to begin to put them altogether because it does does a disservice to the water shed progress we are hoping to make to lump this old man into the same category. >> i have a different take on this. clearly some men need education and some men need prison. george bush falls into a man who needs education. and i bet if mark hal halperin been touched on the shoulder when he did anything remotely considered sexual harassment he wouldn't be in the position he is now, having lost a book deal,

hbo deal and facing termination from his job. i don't think we sweep it under the rugs.

>> i think that's fair. everybody who knows george h.w. bush, says this is out of character for him. things change when you're 93 between -- you're a different person when you're 93. it's unfortunate that when he reaches out, it's at that level. i think you lose ability too self sensor. he has never had a history of this in his past. that needs to be put in context. >> reva, you're laughing. >> i want to help george bush. i don't want him going down the

same road. someone needs to pull him aside and say this is inappropriate. >> his wife did that. >> it's not okay. >> setting the boundaries, all of it is is good. thank you. for decades, americans have been consumed by conspiracy theories about the kennedy assassination. one of the newly released classified documents ends with a new cliffhanger about lee harvey oswald. was he working for the cia?

there are all of these nuggets coming up. some of which are just confusing. >> more plots than you can shake a stick at. >> he lifted a veil and the veil is still in place courtney of the federal government. >> there are rules that specifically are designed to prohibit any interference from the white house. >> if the fbi looks political, it is is terrible for the country, terrible for law enforcement. >> now we have to find out who in the campaign knew or should have known. >> there is no shame in this. campaign work 101. >>