legitimacy to something the traditional bangers say is not at all. thanks for joining us. >> "new day" starts right now. the wonderful weekend, see you we say zero tolerance for sexual harassment in the halls of congress. >> republican trent franks making a surprise announcement that he is resigning. every one of the claims have to be taken seriously. >> i am leaving, while a man who has bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the oval office. >> there was nothing there to follow up on. >> newly revealed e-mails show there was, in fact, follow-up, e-mails by participants in that meeting. >> so far we haven't seen any follow-up that touched trump jr. >> it is what people do when they are hiding something. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota.

>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is "new day". it is friday, december 8th, 6:00 here in new york. chris is off this morning. john berman joins me. happy friday. >> historic week. it's not over yet. >> that's right. three lawmakers in three days resigning amid sexual misconduct allegations. john conyers, now trent franks abruptly announcing that he is stepping down. and senator al franken, relenting to pressure from his party saying he too plans to leave. franken took a shot at president trump and roy moore over the allegations they face from multiple women. president trump heads to pensacola, florida to headline his first campaign style rally in weeks. more big news in the russia investigation. cnn learning that previously undisclosed e-mails show there was, in fact, follow-up

communications after trump campaign officials met with russians in the summer of 2016 at trump tower. his son has publicly denied any follow-up to the meeting where he was promised dirt on hillary clinton. all this as president trump's approval rating is at a new low, way low. only 32% of americans approve of the job he is doing. that is very low. the majority of americans believe the trump campaign had improper contact with the russians in the 2016 election. let's begin with ryan nobles live on capitol hill with the top story. ryan. >> reporter: capitol hill reeling after a wave of allegations and resignations in the wake of the sexual harassment saga. democrats taking a gamble, forcing out one of their own in an attempt to gain the moral high grouped while a republican resigned last night after a cloud of suspicion, shocking even his fellow colleagues. republican congressman trent

franks becoming the third lawmaker to announce his resignation this week due to allegations of sexual harassment. social conservatives say he will step down at the end of january after a probe was opened about discussions he had about surrogate with two female staffers. he denied ever having or attempting to have any sexual contact with any member of his staff. house speaker paul ryan responding saying he was told about the claims last week and found the allegations to be serious and requiring action. >> whether it is in business industry or congress, they have to be taken very seriously. >> reporter: house ethics committee announcing they launched an investigation into another republican congressman blake farenthold. >> i was told if i pursued this that my clear on capitol hill would be over. i just felt it was extremely

important that i stand up for myself. >> reporter: green sued farenthold in 2014. it was revealed that farenthold used $84,000 in taxpayer money to settle the lawsuits. >> we're using tax payer dollars to settle these cases? >> reporter: farenthold said he didn't do anything wrong and he plans to pay back the money. senator al franken announcing his resignation in a defiant and unapologetic speech on the senate floor. >> some of the allegations against me are simply not true. others i remember very differently. >> reporter: denying allegations that he made inappropriate sexual advances to at least six women for criticizing what he sees as a double standard. >> i of all people am aware there is some irony in the fact that i am leaving while a man who has bragged on tape about

his history of sexual assault sits in the many oval office and the man who has repeatedly preyed on young girls campaigns for senate with the full support of his party. >> reporter: franken, be referencing alabama senate nominee roy moore who has been endorsed by president trump and receiving money from the rn c despite allegations of child molestation. tonight the president will campaign, hold a campaignpensac. he will not campaign with moore himself but moore supporters are expected to show up don't. the white house continues to deflect all questions about the sexual harassment allegations against the president himself. john and alisyn. >> ryan, thank you for all of that background.

joining us is cnn political analysts gregory and john avlon. i barely know where to begin. it is suddenly a deluge of crazy stories. let's start with congressman trent franks. david, he reportedly asked staffers -- he and his wife were struggling with fertility issues. he reportedly asked a couple of staffers if they would consider surragacy for he and his wife. that is different. we need to have boundaries in the workplace. women, as you can imagine, felt uncomfortable and didn't know how it would affect their jobs. >> it's a conversation we have been having for tkbg aids. it is just a question of whether

people are paying attention. when you have a congressman in his office broaching that kind of subject, i don't know what you would be thinking. a young woman in your office, you think is going to be comfortable with that conversation, in that environment. paul ryan said it was essentially an open on and shut case and the congressman was willing to bow out and didn't want to go through any more public disclosure of all of this. i think when it comes to he members of congress now it will be part of the path. that they would bow out more quietly and gracefully rather than have more details exposed. i think that is all part of the on reckoning here. >> the reckoning is right. this is not in the normal rounds of sexual harassment in the workplace in congress. this is truly bizarre. trent franks is one of the most

conservative members of congress. he called president trump the enemy of humanity. that's a quote. in some office circumstance you ask a subordinate if she would be a surrogate for yourself, there is no way that is on a normal office menu of options. >> you can't ask people who work for you to have your babies. >> that's reasonable. >> can we write that down? >> it is an unspoken rule in the workplace. look, i think that sometimes we lose sight of what just happened this week. three days, three members of congress resigned for various levels of sexual misconduct or impropriety. on every end of the spectrum here. you have trent franks, who appears in john avlon's book "wing nuts." a christian conservative. con years, dean of the house, longest serving african-american ever in history. and al franken, this liberal icon, all gone.

that is quite a moment this week. and i have to say -- and i'm not saying this lightly, the week is not over. it's friday. we don't know what is going to happen today. >> one of the things you have going on, first of all, you have pressure within the democratic party led by female colleagues and supporters of franken saying, look, the reckoning has got to extend here. you've got to do the right thing. the next layer is, you know, the head of the party and the senate in chuck schumer saying we have a political opportunity here to distinguish on ourselves from republicans. there's political opportunism as well. i'm not confident that the reckoning of this dialogue will be led by politicians in this country because of the political overlay and the jockeying going on. but that is absolutely what's happening. and the fear of it becoming public and that fall from grace is going to accelerate these things. >> let's talk about al franken.

he resigned. over the course of just a couple of weeks of these things bubbling up, he went from first apologizing to the woman or women that felt wronged to yesterday reversing course and saying he was actually not admitting guilt. listen to what he said yesterday from the floor. >> i also think it gave some people the false impression that i was admitting to doing things that in fact, i haven't done. some of the allegations against me are simply not true. others i remember very differently. >> john? >> look, it was a defiant speech. but ultimately, you know, he feels on some level he's been railroaded. there is a moment that led to a pile on of accusations, that he has not had his moment in due process. but politically, it was

untenable. all of his female colleagues coming out saying he was inappropriate. it was a defined speech, pointing out roy moore, donald trump. >> the irony. he's leaving when there are worse accusations i think you can say along the continuum with the president. >> and moore. with the president, 13 women came out. sarah sanders was asked about this, as she has been almost every time she briefs. and i suspect she will be for the foreseeable future. why is this that this is affecting members of congress but not the president. listen to what she said. >> look, the president addressed the comments back during the campaign. we feel strongly that the people of this country also addressed that when they elected donald trump to be president. and i've addressed it several times from here and don't have anything to add. >> the differences in the way the two parties are handling these accusations of sexual

misconduct? >> i think that some of that would be left to some party leaders. i'm not sure if there is a specific question in there on the differences. >> there is before trent franks resigned. she said, yeah, president trump won. and he said all the women were lying. so the book is closed on this. >> i go back to franken. if you didn't have the political calculation, might there have been a path -- i think this is torture on the part of franken saying, well, it makes it sound like the things that i didn't admit to or i didn't actually do. there's also that picture that's out there that initially came to light that is very difficult for him. i think there is no question that the pressure he is getting, i'm sure he wanted to try to ride through this as best he could by sticking to the job. but it's his colleagues and the leadership that said no for the good of the party, you have to stand down.

the good of the party, we want that contrast with the president. we want that contrast with roy moore. we're going to ride this into 2018 as an issue. and he ultimately bowed down to that. republicans can't stand up to the president on anything. so what are they going to say? you really look bad with all of these allegations and you need to step down from the presidency. >> sarah sanders is advocating a cynical view of zero sum politics. he won. he won. no matter how well documented, no matter how caught on tape, that is more politically safe than admitting wrongdoing. roy moore's playbook is essentially just adopting it from donald trump. >> and the democrats's playbook is if you set the standard in al franken. he is now the democratic

standard. you have to go if you do anything equal to or worse than al franken. we're show you politically this is our standard. what have you got. >> if there is a democratic governor of the state -- i don't mean to be cynical, but i'm not sure i would have taken that step. >> and this is what i mean, and i think john would agree with me, this is not going to be the most constructive part of this national dialogue. this is a dialogue that will be, yes, in high-profile ways for men who are doing bad things and are engaged in misconduct and are losing their jobs, resigning, being fired, et cetera. it will be happening in places all across the country. in companies and other organizations where there is no press attention but where these conversations are happening. where there is going to be people bringing charges that are disputed. there will be some question of what is an appropriate way to some kind of due process to deal with various stories. that will be all part of this.

this general reckoning and the fact that women thankfully are feeling encouraged to step forward because they are being believed. >> just the last night on trent franks. it's not like you didn't know what that person stood for before you signed up for him. so if you feel like you have to come forward, the transgression must be pretty bad f. that transcends and goes to other industries as well, as gregory is saying, this is a significant moment. >> and you said it's early on friday. >> yes. >> congressman blake farenthold may resign. thank you for that conversation. we'll be having the conversation throughout the day and the program. we have more news. a cnn exclusive in the russia investigation. sources tell cnn that previously undisclosed e-mails reveal follow-ups to the 2016 trump campaign official and the russian lawyer.

you see jim shuuto up on the screen. he joins me now with more. >> reporter: you're familiar with this. since the beginning, since this trump tower meeting was revealed, the trump line has been two things. the meeting was a one-off. there was no follow-up. and it was clearly about russian adoptions. these e-mails more evidence that that is just not true. you see follow-up between russians who were in that meeting. rob goldstein who set up the meeting between trump senior leadership and the russians. they are talking about things far beyond russian adoptions. the british publicist mails one of the russians and another russian forwarding a cnn story as news that has broken that russia had breached dnc e-mails. he forwards that story. at the top he said isn't this eerily weird in light of what we discussed a few days ago. could be innocent, perhaps.

but it shows that the discussion there went beyond -- went far beyond the issue of adoptions. donald trump jr. was in that room. listen to what he said soon after the meeting was revealed. >> there wasn't any follow-up because there was nothing to follow up. in the end there was probably bait and switch about what it was supposed to be about. there is nothing there. >> reporter: well, and another thing they followed up about. this is the first time it has been reported. putting donald trump on vk, russia's facebook. covino pushing for this idea. it is contradicting the long trump story on this meeting that it was a one-off.

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promised on hillary clinton. let's bring back gregory and jim shuuto. part of this issue is the story keeps changing. they say there was no follow-up. now we know there was some follow-up. the story keeps on changing and what they say first doesn't turn out to be true. >> that's the problem. that's what the special prosecutor will look at particularly after testimony about an assertion of attorney/client privilege really shouldn't exist between the president and his son. and this kind of drip, drip, drip about details that emerge that simply raise more questions. because these kinds of meetings get to the ultimate question about whether there was some collusion between the campaign

and russians to try to impact the election and may get to some reason or explanation of why there was this cozying up between the campaign, trump himself and russia generally. >> jim, do you have any sense what investigators will do with this new information after there was more follow-up than previously disclosed? >> we know they would be pressing rob goldstein. he will appear before the senate and house intelligence committees next week. we know they will be pressing him. with each of the interviews, they will take that account and then press the next interviewee, kushner, donald trump jr., to see if the accounts match up. as the stories have changed about the trump tower meeting, the initial explanations were flat-out misleading. the president himself was involved in putting what was essentially a misleading story out there.

he was on air force one helping craft that statement that said this meeting was all about russian adoptions which was debunked when donald trump jr.'s mails were revealed shock he went into that meeting he thought he was getting damaging information on hillary clinton. he was celebrating that fact when he went in. when don jr. said, oh, incident w it was a bait and switch, that's because they didn't come to the meeting with that information on hillary clinton. that was the disappointing. >> the other part about that, jim, connected to that exactly is this e-mail exchange with one of the people there said it was eerie. that is a word that jumps out at you. >> five days later. june 9 to june 14th.

we reached out to people involved. it was actually eerily weird because it wasn't discussed in the meeting. some of the explanations raised questions. >> a strange sense of irony. >> there is no question of the prospect that they get a good russian source to flip and provide information that would be incriminating on all of that. that has to be a big piece of this. because if you are -- whether you're doing counter espionage, that's what you would look for. in the old days of russia when russia was not as strong and the intelligence services were not feeling as cocky as they are

now, you would have high-level russians to flip and be paid for flipping. >> it could be a russian. it could be an american. they might face the greater legality. prison sentences are a powerful incentive. >> don't i know that. >> when we come back. >> let's table it. i want to move to the pew research poll. these are the lowest approval ratings thus far for president trump. these are the new ones. 32% only approve of president trump's job performance. as you can see, it has ticked down from april.

39, 34, 34, 32. 63% disapprove, david. >> the center of the elect rat we measure in the polls appears to be gone. he is a ways away from standing for reelection. but his party is much closer to facing voters. there's no mystery how president trump is trying to lead here, a hard based strategy, promises made, promises kept, trying to continue to shore that up and achieve some broader accomplishment that he can make to the broader ends of the republican party and to the middle of the electorate again. what we have seen is remarkable. >> i will say this it is not just the middle that is at issue. the president has dropped from

78% in february to 61% now in white, noncollege educated republicans. this is the president's base. he was 56% in february. 46% now, david. those in a vacuum don't look like bad news. if he is losing solid support, that could be a problem. >> let's not overlook the jerusalem decision being a key outreach to he voters for theological reasons. look, conservatives who are jeff flake supporters, ben sass, et cetera, they have to go someplace. in 2016 they ultimately came home and stayed home for trump. they've got to go someplace if they leave him for real. >> all right. jim shuuto, gregory, thank you for sharing all the reporting and analysis with us. >> we'll talk about your legal jeopardy. >> maybe we will. half a dozen out of control

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coming weeks i will be resigning as a member of the united states senate. >> senator al franken announcing he's stepping down amid sexual misconduct allegations. he was unapologetic and took aim at the commander in chief and roy moore. is franken done with politics, or did it suggest suggest different? let's discuss with michael smerconish and news host carrie miller. michael, i've read your notes. are you going full conspiracy theory here on what al franken has up his sleeve? >> no, not at all. and if he should resign, i will not be wrong in what i'm saying. >> you say if he should resign. you don't believe that was a resignation announcement? >> i encourage people to take the time to do what i have done which is not only watch it but to parse the statement. alisyn, if he had been

announcing yesterday that he was staying in and fighting probably one sentence would have needed to be changed and, and he that's it. he absolutely absolutely nothing. there was no contrition in the way he went about it. and i can't help but read it, wonder was it a trial balloon of sorts, leaving the door open just a bit to see what transpires tuesday in alabama giving him an opportunity to revisit the subject. >> let's play this out one more time with you. so if roy moore wins, you think it is possible that al franken left the door open to saying, just kidding, i'm staying. >> well, it's not a joke. that's not what i'm implying. i don't know if you could use the words moral high ground in this climate anymore. to the extent he can, he has given the democrats the moral high ground bar. people in alabama are paying attention to al franken. doesn't it give pause that al

franken, and he wasn't accused to anything relative to a 14-year-old, but franken is gone. what are we about to do with regard to moore. i think the subject is not quite done yet. here's something else. who announces that they are resigning in the coming weeks. resignation implies that you have done something so unusual, so beyond approach, that you're out of here. why isn't he out of here already? >> carrie, how did people on the ground on the ground and his constituents hear this? >> i want to say to michael, with all due respect, is kind of crazy. i also have watched the whole speech and i have read the entire transcript. the way i interpret i'm resign anything a couple of weeks, potentially through end of december, end of the year he will be leaving office. i also think when you have more than 30 of your colleagues say

it's time for you to go, you don't get on the floor of the senate, announce a resignation and say, you know what, i want a do over on that. i cannot see the way this reverses. i hear michael's theory, but i don't buy it. >> in minnesota, did they feel this was warranted or overkill? what are you hearing on the ground and on the radio? >> yeah. will alisyn, i do a daily call-in show. i'm doing a national show today, a national call-in. there is a lot of ambivalence about it. this many, many minnesotans voted for him and don't think they should go. there are notably for me a lot of younger women calling into my show saying i see him being scapegoated here. i think in some ways he's a

sacrifice on the way to the moral authority that michael was talking about. >> go ahead, michael. >> i think that plays into exactly what i'm saying. i think voters wake up wednesday if moore has been elected saying he is going to the united states senate despite the fact of what leigh corfman said that when she was 14 he touched her genitals. perhaps franken is hoping that people will say this just isn't right. these two don't balance. >> michael, pardon me for interrupting here. i don't think you answered what i was saying here about more than 30 of your colleagues come out and say you have to resign. you get on the floor of the senate and you resign. then you turn around and so, no,

just kidding and all your colleagues go along with that? >> i'm not using the kidding word. i don't find any of this to be a laughing matter. and i'm not making light or a joke of it. those colleagues all glommed onto this situation so as to provide voters in alabama with a second consideration before they pass judgment on roy moore. in fact, let me say it more clearly. but for the election tuesday in alabama, i do not believe that kirsten gillibrand and colleagues would have led the charge against al franken the way they did. >> i'm hearing you. and i think this is true. there is a political calculation to this. there is. >> yes. >> but that also goes to my argument. if there's a political calculation here, you don't turn around on wednesday morning and say there was an election in alabama so that is going to change the moral authority that

we channeled to demand senator al franken leave. i don't buy the theory, michael. >> why isn't al franken already packed in his car and headed for minnesota? governor mark dayton is a democrat. it will be a -- let me finish. it will be a democrat who replaces al franken. so any argument that his vote is not just doesn't wash. who resigns in a couple of weeks? all i'm saying is he did it in this matter -- >> i -- >> hang on. i want to finish. he did it in this manner so as to leave the door absolutely ajar. that's my thought. >> go ahead, kerri. >> so what i'm saying is i believe that if it wasn't early december, the resignation might be happening more immediately. this is how i'm interpreting it. senator franken has not said anything more specific about this. so michael might be right. we're at the end of the year.

i think senator franken is indicating to us that he will pack up his things and be out of washington by the end of 2017 and that governor dayton has some time to make this decision. although it sounds like from the governors office he will make a decision about who will step in the next few days. i think we will have news on that fairly quickly. >> michael, that's how i heard it. i'm listen to go both your points. this is sudden. up until yesterday -- up until there was the chore us coming forward, democratic voices, husband colleagues saying he has to go, he was going to muscle through this. >> this was not a guy who stood up in the senate is yesterday and said, wow, did i screw up. wow, am i apologetic. read the statement.

this is about not accepting any responsibility. so he is clearly not comfortable with the ideas that he leave the senate. >> i hear you. i agree with that. go ahead, kerri. >> alisyn, i don't think there is any mystery to that. he is not comfortable. he feels in some ways that he is the sacrifice to the political calculation here. but that doesn't mean to me that for all of his discomfort with having to make this decision and having more than 30 colleagues say you have to come out and do it that he is holding back and leaving the door open, as michael is saying, to be able to step back through wednesday morning. i think senator franken believes, as many of his colleagues do, that roy moore is going to win in alabama. yet he announced this decision when he did. >> kerry, one more question. people on the ground, do they think al franken is done politically, or key somehow live to fight another day? and there were at one time talks

of him running for president. what do they think is the future for al franken? >> yeah. alisyn, we haven't quite gotten there yet. i'm not sure what average minnesotans will think about senator franken coming back to run again. i don't think he wants to be governor of minnesota. that will be the next statewide office that's up along with his own seat in 2018 and 2020. so i'm not sure what the path is to another political office. if i had to guess, maybe he goes back to work on another book. >> kerri miller, michael smerconish, great to talk to both of you. thank you for being here. a hearing on capitol hill after the president insulted the fbi earlier this week saying its reputation was in tatters, the

worst in history. listen to this. >> when he tells you you need to, quote, clean house, that your agents are phony and dishonest and that your reputation or the reputation of the bureau is in tatters and quote the worst in history, your job then is to stand up to the president of the united states. >> joining me now is jerry nadler of new york. we have a little bit of breaking news, which is interesting. george stephanopoulos has interviewed the girlfriend of george papadopoulos. he lied about the meetings he had with russians. she said some things which dispute claims that have been made publicly by the white house. she said george papadopoulos was not a coffee boy. he was a figure inside the campaign. he set up high-level meetings around the world with trump

campaign officials and said he had direct contact with steve bannon and michael flynn. i wonder if i could just get your reaction to this? >> well, that's very interesting. and it fits a pattern. and the pattern is as this investigation is proceeding, all people around trump from the president on down to donald jr. to everybody else, michael flynn, have consistently lied. the president said the famous june meeting, he dictated that the meeting was only about adoptions. we know that wasn't true. they said they didn't deal with the russians. nobody talked to the russians. that hasn't been true. they feel more desperate as the

world is closing around the president. and that's why the president is trying to on discredit the fbi and the special prosecutor, the justice department, cnn and anybody who is helping bring the truth to light. >> yesterday there were questions from you and others. afterwards, the white house said their view of the fbi. remember the president said the fbi was in tatters. they don't see any discrepancies between their view and what christopher wray told you. >> the president tweeted that the reputation of the fbi is in tatters, dishonest. and director wray testified to the contrary, that their fine public servants, they are doing their job as they see it and fulfilling their duties, which they are. this is part of the -- the

questions and the campaign being launched by many of my republican colleagues and fox news and the people around the president is to tkus credit the special prosecutor, the fbi and anyone else so if he brings in a report critical of the president's role or on saying that the president and his campaign included the russians they will have discredited the sources. it's part of an attempt to discredit every institution other than the president. >> one of the focuses yesterday, special agent appeared anti-trump text messages during the campaign. he was a key figure in the hillary clinton e-mail investigation and then initially in the russian meddling investigation. he's been reassigned to human resources here. while he defended the fbi, he didn't go out of his way. he made clear there is an

inspector general eupl pedestrianing the outcome of that investigation. he may shaos choose to take act. >> well, the evidence is what it is obviously. this is again a diversion. there was one agent in the fbi. by the way, an agent, like anybody else, is entitled to his own political opinions. if those opinions didn't affect his work, there is nothing wrong with that. >> it's the if that is the issue. >> of course that's the issue. but no one has shown any evidence with the special prosecutor being very cautious here took him off the job and they're having an investigation.

if anything you have to say they are being overproper here. he may not have done anything wrong. but he was taken off the job anyway, so why are we even talking about it? >> you've been in congress a long time and you have never seen a week like this. three members of congress resigning in three days. >> no, i have not. >> because of various accusations against them of different kinds of sexual misconduct. i wonder if i could get your reaction to this. whether you think it is the end. where are you on this? >> well, i think we are seeing a revolution in that women who are victims of sexual harassment are coming forward and speaking up. we're seeing a society become much more cognizant of this problem.

but we are seeing a different attitude between the two parties. conyers and franken resigned very quickly and were forced to do so essentially but the democratic party. whereas the republican party is supporting someone of whom there is a lot of evidence that he was not only a sexual molester, child sexual molester and i don't hear too many people talking about the fact that there are more credible accusations and even admissions by donald trump as the president of the united states and the republicans are not dealing with that in any way. >> we have been talking about it this morning. i do get your point. it appears to be different standards for the party. >> and i think that congress and the political system and many areas of on work as we have seen with weinstein and others tolerated this kind of behavior

for a long time. >> right. >> and it's ending. women are speaking up and we have to make sure people get due process also. but in general we're going in very much the right direction. but we also have to enforce it on both political parties. >> jerry nadler, thank you for being with us, sir. >> thank you. coming up, more allegations rocking congress, including a live interview with the latest al franken accuser. what did she think of his announcement? itis. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened.

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members of congress should hold themselves to a higher standard. >> nothing i have done has brought dishonor on the institution. >> it is time for us to address this issue not as republicans or democrats but as americans. >> don jr. is not telling us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. >> he wanted to create a page on the russian networking site vk. >> i think i would be more worried if there were responses. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to your "new day". chris is off. john berman joins me. yes, it is a busy