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president and members of his family. announcer: this is "new day" weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning to you. this morning, a president on the attack. his white house claiming defense and critics raising new questions. >> it stems from this tweet. >> had to fire general flynn because he lied to the fbi. he pled guilty. it is a shame because it was lawful, nothing to hide. did the president know flynn lied to the fbi when he asked him to stop investigating flynn? now, some, including democrats are crying obstruction of justice. the white house is playing it down. also this morning, questions about whether or not the president wrote this tweet himself. >> we want to get to dan live in

washington. there are multiple reports claiming president trump didn't write this tweet. what do you know this morning? >> yeah, "the new york times" "washington post" reporting trump's lawyer offered the tweet. that raises questions about how much did dowd know when he wrote the tweet and is that why it's not accurate? obviously, mike flynn, an important member of trump's campaign, transition team. he was fired less than a month into the administration because he lied, at the time, we were told, because he lied to mike flynn about contacts with russia. this is an ongoing, shifting explanation why they have been wrapped up in the russia probe and raises questions, if the reports are accurate, why he would author such a tweet. john dowd said the tweet mimics

what tye cobb, a white house lawyer told reporters on friday when the flynn news broke. that's not entirely accurate. cobb's statement did not mention the fact that trump knew flynn lied to the fbi when he was let go from the white house. the significance here, really, is flynn is, by far, the most significant member of trump's inner circle wrapped up in this russia probe. as we have seen, the white house's story has been changing. mike flynn was not only a close trump aide on the campaign, but we are told trump genuinely liked him and enjoyed spending time and talk to during that time and briefed the president on a number of serious matters. you remember, when paul manafort and rickgates, two campaign officials were wrapped up into the probe, the white house said this has nothing to do with the white house. the two officials never worked

in the white house. the same for george papadopoulos. that's not the case for mike flynn. mike flynn is a significant member of the trump team and that's why you are seeing the president distance himself from what he knew about mike flynn at the time and tried to add context to that. >> dan for us in washington. dan, thank you. on heels of the trump tweets, james comey is offering what some describe as a cryptic message. here is what he wrote. to paraphrase the buddha, three things cannot be long hidden, the sun, the moon and the truth. >> this is not the first time comey reacts to news in the russia investigation. after flynn pleaded guilty, comey tweeted a bible verse about justice. >> here to discuss, gloria brown

at john jacob college and air roll lewis. thank you both. gloria, i want to start with you. let's revisit trump's tweet. i had to fire general flynn because he lied to the vice president and the fbi. he has pled guilty to those lies. it's a shame because his actions were lawful. there was nothing to hide. this prompted a flurry of response on twitter, also from someone who tweeted this, just couldn't resist commenting on flynn. are you admitting you knew flynn lied to the fbi when you asked comey to back off flynn? i have to ask you, is this an

admission of obstruction of justice? gloria? >> it can be. but, once again, it's not under oath. once again, they could hide behind, i didn'ti write it. it's a summery. i don't think we have done this with any modern president, assume he doesn't know what he's talking about, he's shooting from the hip, no credibility. it's really a sad thing to say that he is hiding behind the ability to say whatever comes off the top of his head and turn around and deny later. yes, on one hand, it's an admission. on the other hand, we don't know if he is telling the truth. we give him so much leeway when it comes to anything he tweets out. >> here is the thing i think people can get away from. if dowd wrote this, his attorney, john dowd, why would somebody as abbey put, write

something that would incriminate their client? >> that's a really good question. it really does take away the presumption this was spontaneous. the social media traffic, yesterday, focused on the idea that the president was in the middle of a motorcade and spontaneously incriminating himself. that seems unlikely now. on the other hand, lawyers are not in the habit and gloria knows this very well, of incriminating their clients. they are supposed to take well considered action before they speak on behalf of a client. to do otherwise could constitute malpractice. i'm not sure what the defense is going to be, but this is a tantalizing clue, i think, about a strategy, looking down the road, a defense of the president's actions that really suggest that there's a lot more

to come about what he knew and when he knew it. >> from a legal standpoint, if president trump or, say, sally yatey, then acting attorney general knew or was aware flynn lied to the fbi, is there somewhere a legal obligation to report that? if sally yates is the acting attorney general who recollects do you report to? >> that's the problem. sally yates is fired. i think we need to follow that road. when she went to the white house, personally, and said we have this information on flynn and the russians and the fact that there had to be mike pence in the room and others who are aware that, at that point and time, flynn was not only a liability, but lying to government officials. i think there is a true path to some soft of obstruction of

justice if no one comes forward. is there an obligation to report information or obstructing information that is sought after by the fbi. >> if i'm hearing you correctly, it's unclear whether there is a legal obligation to report if they know a government official lied to the fbi? >> that's the question we have right now. we only can go by the clinton administration investigation as well as the nixon investigations when we talk about what they knew and when they knew it. then, what was the obligation for them to turn that knowledge over to the fbi. >> okay. okay. i want to listen here to representative denny hack. here is what he said. listen to this. errol? >> we very well may look back on this plea bargain deal by michael flynn as the beginning of the end of the trump administration. i say that because of the facts here. here are the facts.

we have four people from the trump administration or the campaign who have been indicted or pled guilty to felonies. two are at the highest levels of the trump campaign or administration. >> errol, could this be the unraveling of donald trump's presidency? >> it certainly suggests there's explosive information that we are going to find out about. the mueller investigation is operating according to a standard playbook. in that playbook, you give a guilty plea of some credence or use it as a tool to get more information. right? so, we know that the crimes to which michael flynn pleaded guilty could have sent him to prison for over 30 years, yet he's facing only one count, a much smaller possibility of a sentence, a lighter sentence and he's going to cooperate with the mueller investigation. that suggests that, again,

following the playbook, they are trying to get more information about a wider, more important possible set of unlawful activities. there's nobody higher than the national security adviser than the president, the vice president, perhaps one or two other people. so, yeah, i think we have a real serious problem here. whether it brings down the presidency is really for congress and the voters to decide. >> your last thought on what flynn might have, with your legal mind and knowing these kinds of procedures, what flynn might have that could be incendiary enough to make this kind of plea deal. >> i think he has a connection to mike pence. >> you think it's pence? you think pence is the one that is in trouble here? >> i think so. we rarely hear about him and time and time again, donald trump said, oh, he lied to mike pence, in a protective shield of

his vice president. we haven't really talked about the fact that mike pence should have been in the room when all these high level discussions were taking place. so, i think there might be a connection to michael pence. >> all right. gloria brown marshall and errol lewis, you are going to stick with us. i appreciate that. thank you for sharing this morning. >> thanks. >> thank you. an fbi agent assigned to the russian investigation was removed because of an anti-trump message. he sent messages during the 2016 campaign that appeared to make fun of then candidate, donald trump. the message raised concern that is they could be seen as pro-clinton. the justice department agreed to allow the house intelligence committee to interview him. the white house says general flynn was acting alone when it comes to russia. new e-mails obtained by "the new

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fled the scene. we don't have a time frame on this, yet. that is all we know. we will continue to look at it and let you know what we hear as soon as we get more information. new questions this morning, casting doubt on the white house's betrayal of michael flynn and how he supposedly acted alone, a rogue actor when he made contact with kislyak. flynn was in close touch with members of the transition team before and after he spoke with the russian ambassador. >> sent this e-mail after the obama administration placed sanctions on them chlgts quote, if there is a tit for tat escalation, trump will have difficulty improving relations with russia, which has just thrown usa election to him. "the new york times" admits, it's not clear whether mcfarland

believes russia threw the election to trump or the democrats would spin the election in that way. >> this may be a new name for a lot of people, you as well. who is kt mcfarland? she was a official on the president's transition team and one of president trump's national security advisers, the deputy nsa and asked to step down after general flynn was fired. >> she was nominated as the ambassador to singapore. yet to be confirmed and spoke to special counsel mueller. >> let's bring in julian. >> good morning. >> these e-mails from kt mcfarland debunk that flynn was acting on his own about sanctions. on the day, actually, that these were announced, december 29 of

2016. >> right. putting aside this one part of the e-mail, which we all want to know what she meant, it debunks this argument that flynn was a lone wolf, acting on his own, taking steps without knowledge of people in the administration and brings us back to the question of sanctions against russia, a big story in december of 2016. clearly was of concern to members of the trump transition. so, that's why this e-mail is so revealing and potentially so damaging to the administration. >> let's put up a full screen of what was characterized as my take from kt mcfarland. all three bullet points from her, which she says one is russia has thrown the u.s. election to trump. that's the one everyone is asking about. is she admitting in this e-mail,

there has been some collusion, some conspiracy? what is your take? is this sarcasm, her summation of the way democrats were playing? what have they learned about russian meddling in the election? >> it's very hard to tell. if you look at the news stories, this was already an issue. president-elect trump was defending himself from this charge, there were accusations that russians had thrown the election. so, we have to be careful not to read into an e-mail. this informal kind of communication we often have, what she meant or this offers proof there was collusion. again, to have this statement and this conversation at this moment, is still damaging and raises the question. the fact we are uncertain in itself suggests there's enough information now to be suspicious. >> we just got this in from the president, an official statement

via twitter, six minutes ago. the president tweeting, i never asked comey to stop investigating flynn, just more fake news covering another comey lie. of course, the testimony from james comey back earlier this year, when he talked about the conversation with the president on february 14th where he says the president asked him, when they were alone, i hope you can find your way away from this or can let go of this. that is what the president is responding to. your reaction, as a presidential historian, to the president's almost real-time commentary about this ongoing investigation, which clearly includes an obstruction of justice. >> it's absolutely unbelievable. the trail of tweets that we have had about this right through today is becoming part of the investigation. usually presidents are very careful at this stage in an

investigation in terms of what they say and who they say it to. here, instead, we have a president in realtime, seemingly unfilters and in public expressing his thoughts. that could put him in legal jeopardy. that happened, in part, with firing of comey. it's what the president says that becomes the basis of the investigation. that's what we are seeing play out this weekend. this is not your standard practice in presidential history. this is something new. it will make this investigation different than others we have seen with president clinton or with president nixon. >> well, it is only 6:23 here on the east coast. the president is up and responding to what he's seeing on television. julian, thank you so much. >> thank you. general mcmaster is saying the potential war with north korea, quote, is increasing every day as the u.s. and south

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>> fbi director. >> -- thank you. james comey on his mind. i never asked him to stop investigating flynn. just more fake news covering another comey lie. >> someone from the president's account tweeted, we'll get into that later, he had to fire flynn because flynn lied to the vice president and the fbi. that begs the question, if, then in february of this year, february 14, valentine's day, as james comey said, the president asked him to let go of this, let go of flynn, is that a link to obstruction of justice. >> we are going to get into that in a minute. right now, we want to talk about hr mcmaster. he says the potential for war with north korea is increasing every day. >> he said the u.s. is in a race to solve the problem in nonmilitary ways, including calling on china to impose more

sanctions. >> the words come as jetts are arriving in south korea. north korea said conducting the drills are pushing the touch and go to a flair up. >> new information, north korea's latest missile likely broke up upon re-entry into the earth's atmosphere. barbara starr has details. >> a u.s. official tells cnn the missile that was launched that flew higher and langer than any missile in the past, blew up upon re-entry. it could not with stand the re-entry of the atmosphere. that means north korea has a long way to go before it can feel the missile that could attack the united states. it doesn't mean a threat is any less. in fact, the national security

adviser, h.r. mcmaster told an audience the threat from north korea grows every day and because of that, the trump administration is determined to pursue its policy of total denuclearization of the entire korean peninsula. that means diplomacy may be leading the way. the u.s. wants that diplomacy to lead to kim jong-un giving up his weapons. right now, there's no sign of that happening. christie? victor? >> thank you so much. i want to bring in samantha, cnn analyst. thank you so much. let's talk about mcmaster saying the potential for war with north korea is increasing every day. north korea reacted this morning saying the u.s. would be fully responsible if there's a nuclear war. your reaction to this back and forth. >> my reaction is the digital back and forth is not

surprising. we have seen an ongoing pattern of name calling and assigning blame between north korea and the united states. one positive is, it could mean the north koreans are starting to take seriously the threat of a military strike. what worries me more, in the past few weeks, we have seen the russians flip the blame on to the united states for a potential military strike. we had the foreign minister of russia say, a week ago, the united states was trying to provoke war with north korea, without mentioning the north's illegal activities. that's troublesome to me. >> and dangerous, to some degree, certainly. do you think that we are, as mcmaster said, escalating toward a nuclear war with the u.s. and north korea? >> i think what the launch earlier this week made clear, unfortunately, is two things. one is the sophistication of north korea's program is increasing. two, this is not a partisan

statement, a facttual one. the administration of the policy just isn't working. if the north was able to launch another missile that is bigger and more powerful, we are not achieving our objective of denuclearization. i don't think it's true to say all options are on the table and we can walk through diplomacy, sanctions and a military strike. i don't think the administration has all tools in their tool kit. >> but, other than asking china to mediate this somehow, what are the options? >> well, i think you touched on china and president trump tweeted on thursday -- >> i think we have that tweet here, the chinese envoy seems to have had no impact on little rocket man. when you read that, first of all, what was your take on it? you don't understand why he's playing with an ally that can mediate for the u.s. on their behalf. >> it's counter productive for

the following reason. it broadcasts trump with the chinese, korea and the 45 million twitter followers. and we know the chinese don't react well to being publicly chastised for a lack of action. we know president trump would like the chinese and russians to do several things, including cutting off diplomatic contact, which neither have done. russia had a diplomatic group in pyongyang last week. president trump wants both china and russia to cut off energy exports. i think some sort of energy embargo would have an impact. again, last week, the russians indicated they perceived negatively additional steps to pressure pyongyang. i don't think it's likely they are going to cut off oil exports. >> with everything that is going on with the u.s. and russia and the russia investigation and since michael flynn pled guilty they are pushing it off as fake

news themselves, e sensually, it doesn't matter. how does the u.s. move forward not just with north korea, but russia support thag regime? >> the only way the united states is going to have any kind of productive relationship with vladimir putin is to take the immediate first step of holding russia accountable for their direct attack on the united states. at this point, vladimir putin thinks he has all the leverage and has no reason to think he has to do anything that the united states asks him to do because he directly attacked our country at no cost. there are a set of sanctions that overwhelmingly passed congress several months ago, due to come into effect the end of january. i sincerely hope the administration will implement them on time to go down the path of holding russia accountable to work on these issues. >> all right. sam, so good to have you with us. we appreciate your time.

>> thank you. >> thank you. victor? >> the united states military satellites could be targets of russian and chinese space weapons. the head of strategic command says they are building and testing weapons capable of disabling u.s. satellites. >> they are building those capabilities to challenge the united states of america, to challenge our allies and change the balance of power in the world. >> targets are satellites, which warn the military of enemy missile launches. still to come, the palestinian authority warns middle east peace negotiations may be dead, if the president moves the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. we are live in jerusalem. the american actress set to become part of the royal family. a look at meggen amerimarkle's before prince harry. you'll ever♪

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president didn't write that tweet, we'll tell you who wrote it later this morning. >> we want to talk about the state department. there could be violent protests at embassies if the administration announces it is moving the embassy to jerusalem. >> we are in jerusalem. good morning to you. the reaction you are hearing from israel there, about this potential move. >> reporter: good morning. right here, people are watching closely the president's mood. you have the israeli government who has been enthusiastic about the move in embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem. they say this could be a real blow to the peace process because they say it calls into question america's role as being a partner in the negotiating process. it also gets to a core issue of

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megan markle attended their first official event. >> hundreds of people lined notlingham. markle is no stranger to fill ant pi. that's what brought them together. it's an unconventional one that led her to become the next member of the royal family. >> here is stephanie elam with a closer look. >> the spotlight on meghan markle was already hot. now it's intense after her engagement to prince harry. >> i could barely finish letting you propose. >> reporter: markle, a hollywood native is no stranger to attention. a regular on the usa network, "suits," she grew up around television. he father worked on the hit tv show, "married with children."

markle often visited telling esquire, it was a funny place for a little girl in a catholic uniform to grow up. the girl behind that is e mack lat heart nestled in a hollywood hillside. how many of you plan on getting up in the middle of the night to watch the wedding? what do you think? >> yes. >> the students are thrilled one of their own is making her mark internationally. >> it's super cool that she came from here, l.a., and spread out all over the place. who doesn't like a good love story. >> my first reaction was, he is so fortunate to have found her. >> reporter: markle's former teacher said she was a stand out on stage and in the classroom. >> a person like that, who isn't just beautiful, smart and actress, but has this depth. that's what prince harry saw in her. >> at an early age, she yearned to help others. she volunteered on skid row.

scared, but determined, she turned to a teacher on how to do it. she said, i remember win of my mentors, mrs. maria, told me life is about putting others needs above your own fears. that has always stayed with me. >> it has helped her to do the great things she has been doing and will continue to do. it's immensely humbling, but also demonstrates the kind of heart she has. >> reporter: after high school, markle left l.a. for northweste northwestern university outside of chicago. >> smart, intellgent, hard working. >> reporter: he recalls her as embracing biracial roots, speaking openly on black theater in 2003. >> that stands out. the fact she is a person who is willing to reflect upon her experiences and share that perspective of the life that she lived. >> reporter: after graduating,

markle remained focused on human rights and women's rights. >> this has to change. >> reporter: a topic she addressed before the united nations. >> women need a seat at the table. they need an invitation to be seated there. and, in some cases, where this isn't available, you know what? they need to create their own table. >> reporter: philanthropy is one thing that drew them together. now, they share the scrutiny of a worldwide press. harry chastising tabloids for racially charged headlines about where she grew up. this is markle's family home in a desired black neighborhood in l.a. what do you want to see the most? >> her dress. >> her prersalty. >> reporter: hometown excitement of a local girl turned star geting the royal treatment. stephanie elam, cnn, hollywood. "saturday night live" poking fun at president trump.

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under investigation, have their attorneys do the talking. >> i don't think we have submitted to obstruction of justice, but his actions, regarding general flynn have changed dramatically. >> he has a problem with the truth and he can't seem to keep his fingers off his blackberry or whatever he uses. >> we may look back on the deal as the beginning of the end of the trump administration. >> this is the question of legal jeopardy for the president and members of his family. announcer: this is "new day" weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning. we are grateful to have you with us here. this morning, it seems to be the president of the united states against a former director of the fbi. >> here we go. minutes ago, president trump tweeted this, i never asked comey to