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a very turbulent year in office, u.s. president donald trump is a day away from giving his first state of the union speech. and one of the big talking points everyone is waiting to hear, his plans for immigration. >> here is the thing, though. lawmakers from both party, they will be under pressure to reach a deal to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation, and they're stressing the need for compromise. cnn's boris sanchez has more now from the white house. >> reporter: white house officials telling cnn that the president is set to strike an optimistic tone during his state of the union address on tuesday night. the theme of this speech, building a safer, stronger, and prouder america. a source telling cnn that the president is expected to try to reach across the aisle and appeal to people that are not in his base, in part doing that by touting his economic record and the major success that we've seen recently in the u.s. economy, specifically, with the

stock market and low unemployment numbers. the president is then going to shift and talk about infrastructure and ask congress for a trillion dollars to fund his infrastructure plan. the main focus of this speech, though, where all eyes will be is in the portion where he talks about immigration. the speech coming at a critical time in the debate for immigration reform. and the president is set to sell his vision to the american people in exchange for offering a pathway to citizenship for some 2 million undocumented immigrants, the congress is going to ask congress for $25 billion to fund his long promised border wall. and he is also going to ask for major changes to legal immigration. and as right now, that's where the sticking point is right now between republicans and democrats on things like what this white house calls chain migration that is the sponsoring of relatives by naturalized immigrants. mark short, the legislative director of public affairs for the white house took to morning talk shows to say that the president has offered concession on offering that pathway to

citizenship, and now it's time for democrats to offer concession. listen to more of what mark short said. >> i think that the president made enormous appeal and showed enormous leadership in putting forward a plan to resolve the daca issue, an issue that has plagued our country for decades. and yet the outcry from democrats when he went further than many people thought he would in providing not just permanent residence, but pathway to citizenship for 1.8 million people living in the country. so far democrats continue to try cia they don't want to solve the problem. we're anxious to solve the problem. >> democratic lawmakers have said that proposal from the white house is dead on arrival, in part saying that those changes to legal migration being proposed by the administration are inhumane. all this as far as the preview for the state of the union is what's on paper. a white house official telling cnn that the president is expected to speak from the heart. and as we've seen before, often that can mean him going into tangents and talking about things that are not on paper,

that are not on the script, potentially leading to distractions. we'll see exactly what happens on tuesday night at the state of the union address. boris sanchez, cnn at the white house. >> boris, thank you. u.s. president donald trump is sparring over the black unemployment rate with the hip-hop mogul jay-z. >> mr. trump hit back at comments the rapper made during an interview on van jones' new show on cnn. >> he is somebody who is now saying, look, i'm dropping black unemployment. black people are doing well under my administration. does he have a point that maybe the democrats have been giving us good lip service but no jobs. maybe he is going to say terrible things but put money in our pocket. does that make him a good leader? no. because it's not about money at the end of the day. money doesn't equate to happiness. it doesn't. that's missing the whole point you. treat people like human beings. it goes back to the whole thing.

you treat me really bad and pay me well. >> yeah. >> it's not going lead to happiness. it's going lead to, again, the same thing. everyone is going to be sick. >> all right. the president later tweeted, quote, somebody please inform jay-z that because of my policies black unemployment has just reported to be at the lowest level ever reported, end quote. >> it is true the african american unemployment rate hit a record low 6.8% last month, but that's still well above the rate of 3.7% for whites. >> also important to point out those trends started well before he took office. >> that's right. when he is not arguing with musicians, the u.s. president is also weighing in on global aface, while at the world economic forum in davos, mr. trump sat down with his long-time ally and personal friend piers morgan for an interview. >> their discussion aired sunday on british broadcaster itv. the two talked about deal making.

they talked about the british prime minister theresa may, and they talked about brexit. listen. >> do you believe that we're in a good position in britain? a lot of people are still very nervous, very anxious. but here in the united states plenty of good trade coming from me. that's a big deal to people in britain. >> well, would it be the way i negotiate? no, i wouldn't negotiate the way it was negotiated. but i have a lot of respect for your prime minister. and i think they're doing a job. i think i would have negotiated it differently. i would have had a different attitude. >> what would you have done? >> i think i would have said that the european union is not cracked up to what it's supposed to be. and i would have taken a tougher stand in getting out. >> and later, president trump emphasized that he's a tremendous supporter of the uk. well, for more on this, let's go to scott lucas. he is a professor of international politics at the university of birmingham. scott, great to have you with us. well will get to that interview in just a minute. but first, let's talk about the

upcoming state of the union speech from the president tuesday night. this could possibly be the biggest, most important speech of his presidency so far. and it comes as a critical time for him as he faces controversial issues of his own making in some instances. what you expecting him to say in his first state of the union address, and could he perhaps offer a compromise immigration plan? >> first of all, what everybody will be watching for is style rather than substance. what the white house is hoping the president just stays calm. this is a key moment. we face another possible government shutdown on february 8th. there is still no trump budget in view of being presented to congress. and we have the immigration issue. but in terms of them projecting calm, what about the supposed deal on immigration? well, look, this is not a compromise. let's be very clear here. what the white house has done is

okay, we'll protect the 800,000 dreamers, but only if -- and they've attached a whole series of conditions. so $25 billion for the wall. the end to immigrants being able to bring relatives over to the united states. the end to the diversity of visa lottery. and sharp, very sharp reductions in immigration and admission of refugees as well as much stricter enforcement not only in border security, but in cracking down on undocumented immigrants and deporting them. that's a huge laundry list. what the white house has done is swept aside the bipartisan bill that has been on the table for week, the graham/durbin deal and said, no no, no, no, we don't want this compromise. you either take this or you believe this. that's where the tension is going to be. can trump remain calm and present leadership while in fact giving what is an ultimatum tomorrow night. >> we'll see tuesday night. let's go back to at this point british tv host piers morgan scored the first international

tv interview with president trump, and nearly got an apology out of mr. trump from we rest tweeting anti-muslim videos from a british extremist group in november after saying he was unaware. that acceptable for the leader of a free world retweet a tweet from a group he didn't know anything about? and should piers morgan have followed up because it didn't actually come in the end, did it? >> i'll leave to it others to decide what is acceptable here. but let's be clear. donald trump did not apologize retweeting those distort and fake islamophobic videos. in fact, he defended retweeting those videos. even though he didn't know whether they are actually real or not by talking about radical islamic terrorism. at the same time, as you know, he retweeted those videos while having no idea that this was a far right group in britain. so this is a stunning combination of a lack of knowledge along with a defense of spreading inflammatory

material. you know, whether morgan should have pressed him, look, this wasn't a hard interview. this was a chat between friends. but again, let's be clear. morgan's attempted headline this was apology, absolutely not. it was exactly the opposite from the president. >> morgan said he had got an apology out of the president that certainly was not the case. donald trump versus jay-z. the two sparred sunday over black jobs numbers. president trump taking credit for low black unemployment figures. they are lower, aren't they? but is he right that it's due to his policies? >> well, black unemployment has been declining since 2010. so it reduced coming out of the recession for seven years of the obama administration. now after one year trump is saying that all the gains are due to him. you know, economically, that actually doesn't work that way. because you a lag between any new trump policies and the effects they have. but of course he's playing to an audience here who might not know

the details. i think jay-z's water point is important. what he is saying is look, this isn't simply about a job. this isn't about a paycheck. this is about respect as well. and what he is arguing is even if you give me a job, with the language that trump has presented against people of color, with what he said about white supremacists or rather his failure to deal with white supremacists last august, with his criticism not only of african americans but hispanic americans and other minority groups, it's that question of that we are part of the american community, and we are part because you treat us respectfully, not simply because we might be able to work 20, 30, 40 hours a week. >> scott lucas, we thank you for your analysis. appreciate it. and you can watch donald trump's address to congress and the american people. his first state of the union address here on cnn. coverage begins at 8:00 p.m. tuesday in new york. that's 9:00 a.m. wednesday in hong kong.

we are tracking developments out of afghanistan. a developing story. at least five afghan army personnel were killed. this when militants attacked the military base near kabul. an official says the assault is now over. and at least four attackers are dead. >> isis claims it's responsible for the assault on the afghan military, but says it targeted the military academy and not the base. the assault comes after a saturday bombing killed more than 100 people in kabul. the taliban claimed responsibility for that earlier attack. >> let's bring in journalist live in dhaubl hour. good to have you with us to talk more about what you know at this point. we're talking a security breach at a military installation. how significant is that with this attack that's being claimed by isis? >> i think it's very significant. it's clearly aimed at discouraging more afghans from

joining the afghan national security forces. the militants also want to really create another front, a deadly front by targeting major cities. remember, the soldiers were not killed on the front line in helmund or anderson kandahar or where there are bloody battles every day. they were killed right here in kabul. the people of kabul, the people of afghanistan are demanding resignation of security ministers. they're demanding better security. and yesterday we heard from the minister of interior defense and head of the afghan intelligence service, all very adamant saying they were good at their job and that afghanistan was at least 20 terrorist groups operating in afghanistan. so depending who you talk to, there is different definition of security. but for afghanistan, it is

bleeding. afghanistan has been attacked over the last two weeks or so. you've had attacks s is i s is. how there is concern how they can bring heavy machine guns and suicide jackets. one kabul has been placed on a state of high security alert. today is a public holiday in kabul. so the streets are empty. people have stayed at home. and we have seen some visible signs of an increase in security this morning when i was driving to work, i saw armored humvees. and a few places on the streets in kabul. for the time being, every intelligence and security breach continues to cost the people of afghanistan with their lives. the military forces. and in the long run, these attacks will also actually have a very negative impact on afghan

trade. afghan investors will not be really willing to invest in kabul at a time when unemployment is a very serious issue. at the center of this, you also have the issue of corruption and incompetence. so you hear these days more and more people in kabul telling you that when they leave their home in the morning, they say goodbye to their family members, they're really not certain that they may come back home alive. and this is 18 years after billions of dollars. this is 18 years after bloody treasure had been invested in afghanistan. so the expectation obviously is that at least these mistakes should not be repeated and that kabul should be secure. >> well, just the other day we were talking about a similar breach of security. this ambulance that was packed with explosives getting past a checkpoint. that attack claimed by the taliban. and before that, another attack at the intercontinental hotel

about a week before. that claimed by the taliban. is there a sense and is there a concern that this could be a horse race between these two groups, between isis and the taliban to make a statement? >> what we have seen both groups fight against each other in some cases. in other cases at a very local level we have seen a marriage of convenience when both sides have really joined hands against the afghan government. most recently in the eastern province of kunar in the islamic state as well as the timber mafia work together to attack a key highway linking cities. the most part of the conflicts these days for counterterrorism officials is to really distinguish who is behind which attack. sometimes you actually hear both groups releasing statements. both are saying we have carried out this attack. and i think all of this can only

mean that afghanistan and its international allies have a very bloody battle on several fronts. >> so on saturday there is the day of mourning. and again, we're dealing with seeing another attack. bilal sarwary, thank you very much for your time. we'll stay in touch with you for more details. don't vote that is the russia's main opposition leader is sending to his supporters. coming up, what happened when they took to the streets to spread the words. plus, in paris the river flooding some parts of the city. life is going on for many people there. we look at the forecast as cnn newsroom pushes on. well... we had a vacation early in our marriage that kinda put us in a hole. go someplace exotic? yeah, bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. a hospital in bermuda. what? what happened? i got a little over-confident on a moped. even with insurance,

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of jail and matthew chance takes an exclusive look at the man at the center of this fight. >> reporter: russian base quickly swooped in on the opposition leader, fighting through his supporters to drag alexei navalny away from the protests he organized. he now faces another span in a russian jail, an occupational hazard he told me ahead of the protests when standing up to the kremlin. as the leading opposition figure in russia, you have been harassed. you get regular visits from the authorities, the police, the other inspectors. you've been insulted widely. and of course you've been attacked. how concern ready you in a country like this where opposition figures have been killed in the past? how concern ready you about your own safety and security? >> translator: i'm a reasonable

man. i ran my election campaign for 12 months. and out of these months, i spent two in prison. so i have a clear understanding of what this regime can do. but i'm not afraid, and i'm nato going to give up on what i can do. i won't give up on my country. >> reporter: and it seems there are many russians on his side. in towns and cities across this vast country, navalny's anti-corruption movement says thousands turned out to support his call for a boycott in the march presidential elections in which president putin already 18 years in power is expected to be returned. >> translator: the putin regime is built on corruption. and putin himself is the most corrupt. his family is directly involved in corruption. according to a official dossier, over 50% of the population live below the poverty line. why are we so poor?

because they steal so much. >> reporter: regardless of the popularity of that issue you have been prevented from standing in these forthcoming presidential elections. do you think that vladimir putin is genuinely concerned or fearful of you as a political opponent? >> translator: he is scared of all real competition. we see in these elections that he only allowed those to run who did not even resist, do not even do any campaigning. >> reporter: and alexei navalny is certainly not one of those chosen kremlin-friendly candidates. official opinion polls suggest his support is at barely 2%. but in the tightly controlled world of russian politics, dominated by vladimir putin, no other opposition figure can rally so many on the streets. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. now to the city of light. paris dealing with a lot of water on flood alert after heavy rain caused the river seine to

burst its banks. >> the water levels were expected to peak around 6 meters on sunday. the flooding has disrupted train services, shut down tourist riverboats, and forced parts of the louvre museum to close. >> let's bring in our meteorologist pedram javaheri to tell us more about it. sad sight to see in such a beautiful city, pedram. what's the word? >> it's very similar to what we saw as well in 2016 as far as the water levels are concerned. and now we know the damage is going to be widespread because of the wide reaching impacts of what is going on here. here is the river seine. the perspective across this region is the water has gradually risen over the past several months. december through now pushing through the end of january, we have picked up more rainfall than the top three years on record going back to the early portion of the year 1900. in fact, 100 millimeters, about 4 inches, 180 millimeters, when it comes down, that's about 7 inches. of course, you see one storm after another push through the region each of the last several

weeks and that's how we're in the situation we are. the blue line is 2018. the water level is forecast to get up to around 6 meters high. 6.1 is where we were prior to this in 2016 which had significant damages and well above 8 meters with the record from the early portion of the 1900s. we know back in 2016, this sort of event led to four lives lost in france. upwards of 11 lives lost in germany. a billion dollar in losses associated with all of this as well. look at the forecast in degrees celsius. middle 50s or 12 degrees cels s celsius. that drops into it the 40s. that's really not the concern. it's the icons that show six of the next seven days should show a chance of showers. the rain does come down, it looks really minimal at the most here. certainly not going to have widespread impacts as far as the water coming down is concerned. speak of widespread impacts, look what happened across tehran in the past days across this region. 48 centimeters, or upwards of 1.5 feet of snow fell across the

capital city. 1.3 meters fell across the mountains of iran. this had wide reaching impacts with hundreds of cars stranded between tehran and qom. planes struck on the runway and cars stuck on the highway as a result of this. a lot of snow that we have not seen this winter across iran and it's happening now. >> all right, pedram, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. still ahead here on "newsroom" cnn is getting access inside the civil war that is taking place in yemen. next, we take you to the front lines of the battlefield. you'll meet some of the victims of this conflict. plus an iranian american jailed in iran is let out for four days. why his family says if he goes back to prison, it will be a death sentence. we're back with that in just a moment.

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coast-to-coast across the united states and live around the world this hour, you're watching "cnn newsroom." it is good to have i don't with us. i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. donald trump is a day away from a pivotal moment, his first state of the union address tuesday night. a big focus will be the administration's immigration plan. at least five afghan army personnel are dead. this after an attack on a base near kabul. an official says four of the attackers are dead and the assault is over. isis claims it is responsible

for an attack on the afghan military. all of this comes after a bombing that killed more than 100 people in kabul on saturday. russian opposition leader alexei navalny is free after police detained him sunday. a long-time critic of president putin called for a protest to boycott march's presidential election which he says is rigged. politics took center stage at the 60th annual grammy awards that took place in new york on sunday. one of the biggest moments of the night was kesha's emotional performance of her song called "praying." she paid troyibute to the me to and time's up movement. we turn to yemen now. the prime minister there is accusing southern separatists of protecting a coup. government forces and the separatist group clashed on sunday in aden.

at least 18 people were killed. >> some context here. both groups used to be on the same side. they fought together against the houthi rebels. but now the separatists accuse the saudi-backed government of corruption and want to remove it from power. let's bring in cnn's international editor nick roberts and following this story live in abu dhabi. what more can you tell us about these two groups that were once allies against the houthis? >> they may yet become allies again. this is a tension that has been simmering. there is a sense in the port city that the southern separatists have been the ones that led the fight against al qaeda, drove them out of town and restored some stability only to see the government come in, establish itself there as a de facto capital as the houthi rebels have the capital sanaa. and there was a sense of

feeling -- we were there two weeks ago -- there was a sense of feeling in aden that the new government wasn't paying t ings of the people there is a sense the government has come in after the southern separatists have done all the hard work. these are very long and ancient animosities between the north and the south, the separatists in this government, the separatists in other governments that are playing out at the moment. and partly because the economy in the country is so stretched, people feel that the government is trying to reestablish itself is not being fair and balanced. that's sort of some of the background. but we were given the first access to international journalists by the saudi-led coalition to get a view of what's happening across the whole country. >> reporter: this is tactical flying. just feet above the desert, banking around hills close to

the saudi-yemeni border. >> we're in saudi blackhawk helicopters. it's about a hundred miles east of the capital. the saudis lead a coalition back in ing the yemeni government against the rebels. both sides have criticized the civilian casualties. apache gunships ride shotgun for protection. we are the first western journalists the saudi government is taking into yemen. they promised transparency. we travel high in the mountains, visit the yemeni government. >> stay down. >> reporter: we're keeping low here because we've been told the houthis down in the valley below might be able to see us.

and the victims of this three-year-long war -- >> check this out. he is showing me. he used to drive this gun truck. this is you, the driver? >> yes. >> reporter: visit with child soldiers in rehab suffering ptsd. >> very nice to meet you. >> reporter: question yemen's leaders. >> show the situation here in aden? >> reporter: what they have told me they are doing is they are printing their own money with the help of iran. >> we have new government. we've got only named government. >> reporter: and question the people about those same leaders. i met the prime minister yesterday in his office on the other side of the city. >> take me to them. he is liar. >> reporter: what are we looking at here? . that is used to print. >> reporter: and meet yemenis who despite everything still have hope. >> we want education.

we want to have jobs. >> reporter: understanding the war here that everyone is going through is a little like peeling an onion. layer after layer. we want to peel back those layers for you. expose the war and the struggle to survive it. he says the houthis used this picture of him taking his son to be buried to say their son was killed in a coalition air strike. he says that wasn't true. so many voices, so many stories. and so few have been heard before. now some of those people you see us meeting with there had told us they had been fighting with southern separatists, and they were dissatisfied with the government. the prime minister who you saw us interviewing there, i have to say his location is a very, very secure location. that's what we understand from the shooting and the fighting that happened over the weekend. that he is secure. that his building is secure. but what he said is if the

southern separatists were to overthrow his government, and that would certainly throw the coalition to reestablish peace and security and stability in yemen, would throw that into a big question. >> images of pain, conflict, anger, hope, resilience, all coming together there, nic. thank you for the story and the insight, your time there in yemen. iranian officials have given an 81-year-old prisoner a four-day release. >> that's right. an iranian american is serving ten years in prison for espionage. his family says if he is sent back to prison, it will be a death sentence for him. elise labott has more. >> reporter: he has been imprisoned in iran since february 2016 has been discharged from an iranian hospital and granted a four-day leave by the iranian government. he is the father of american

businessman who has been detained in iran since october 2015. and father and son were sentenced a year later to ten years imprisonment for collaborating with a foreign government. now the 81-year-old was rushed to the hospital on january 15th after a severe drop in his blood pressure and irregular heart beat. this is the fourth time he has been transferred to the hospital in the last year while being imprisoned in iran. he underwent emergency heart surgery in september to have an emergency pacemaker installed. he is held in the note or the yaw avean prison. the trump administration is working at the highest levels to make this release permanent. top united nations officials including secretary general antonio guterres are also appealing directly to the iranian government to send 'nam mazy home to the be at home with his family.

heather nauert would welcome his release given his health, but given it's temporary, quote we call for the immediate and full release of the namazi family, including his son as well as other americans unjustly held by the iranian government. now the trump administration has redoubled efforts to secure the namazis' release after the death of otto warmbier in june. in september at the u.n. general assembly president trump called on iran to free all americans in detention. state department officials tells cnn that undersecretaries tom shannon had raised the health of namazi discussing implementation of the iranian nuclear agreement. now on sunday, namazi's son said a return to prison would be life threatening for his father and begged the iranian government to show compassion and grant his

father a permanent release before everyone faces an irreversible tragedy. elise labott, cnn, washington. . >> and we will take a very short break. but coming up, the grammy awards featured politics, surprises and music sunday night. so who went home with the most trophies? we will tell you when we come back. l needs remain instinctual. that's why there's purina one true instinct. nutrient-dense, protein-rich, real meat number one. this is a different breed of natural nutrition. purina one, true instinct. ♪ jen, i've got questions. boots or flip-flops? boot! great. smokey or natural eye? ugh, natural. good choice. how about calling or texting? definitely calling. puppies or kitties? sorry, cats. dry eyes or artificial tears? wait, that's a trick question. because they can both get in your way. that's why it is super-important to chat with your eye doctor if you're using artificial tears a lot and your eyes still feel dry.

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welcome back, everyone. the enormous statue of ramses ii, known as ramses the great has been moved to a new location in egypt. >> it took almost as much ingenuity to move the 3,000-year-old monument as it did to build the thing. zain asher has details. >> reporter: an 83-ton statue of ramses ii considered one of ancient egypt's greatest rulers, has been moved to a new home. ♪ escorted by a marching band, a

mounted military guard, and much fanfare, the 3200-year-old granite statue was transported 400 meters in a specially built cage to a grand egyptian museum. ramses ii, also known as ramses the great ruled from 1279 to 1313 bc. he is known for conn kerring large areas of nubia in what is now known as sudan and syria and for building on a colossal scale. this is the fourth and final move the statue has made in its long history. it was moved once in the 13th century bc, and not again until 1954 when egypt's president ordered that it be brought to cairo. it stood outside cairo's main train station until 2006 when the government moved to it a temporary location in giza, fearing that auto emissions were damaging the granite. its new home is egypt's massive grand museum, a

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so if you watch the 60th annual grammy awards, fair to say music and politics went hand in hand. stars arrived in the red carpet holding or wearing a white rose. that white rose a show of solidarity for the me too and the time's up movement. these campaigns against sexual misconduct and against gender inequality. singer and actress janelle monae was the first to address the movement in an impassioned speech. listen. >> we offer you two words, time's up. we say time's up for pay inequality. time's up or the discrimination. time's up for harassment of any

kind. and time's up for the abuse of power. because, you see, it's not just going on in hollywood. it's not just going on in washington. it's right here in our industry as well. >> then came an emotional performance by singer kesha. ♪ i hope you're somewhere praying ♪ ♪ i hope you're somewhere changing ♪ >> kesha shown on the me too movement with her song "prayin." she was joined by camilla cabello to took the chance to give a speech about immigration while introducing u2. >> tonight in this room full of music's dreamers, we remember that this country was built by dreamers, for dreamers, chasing the american dream.

just like dreams, these kids can't be forgotten and are worth fighting for. >> by the end of the night, the biggest winner was bruno mars, who took only seven trophies, including song of the year, album of the year and record of the year. >> and the show wouldn't be complete, of course, without host james corden taking a jab at u.s. president donald trump. in a skit you see here, he held mock auditions for spoken word album for michael wolff's new book "fire and fury." but it was one surprise appearance that really got the crowd going. >> he had a long-time fear of being poisoned. one reason he liked to eat at mcdonald's. nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade. >> that's it. >> music journalist and musician david sinclair joins us now from london via skype. thank you so much for being with us. so bruno mars won seven trophy, including all the big ones, song of the year, album of the year

and record of the year. but the night appeared to belong to kendrick lamar who opened the grammys with a commentary on racial issues in the u.s. and earned a standing ovation for his performance. was he the man of the moment or did that belong to bruno mars? >> well, it's a good question, rosemary. the idea that you're judging not just the song of the year these days is probably slightly out of date now. it's also the narrative of the year. in that sense, kendrick lamar absolutely swept the ball. he was the man of the moment in terms of what he was saying and how he was saying it. and the opening sequence he did, it was a medley of tracks from his album, it was really, really powerful. in terms of, you know, anyone who thought they were tuning in to sort of see a music show and a light entertainment show was quickly disabused.

>> and what some of the other powerful music moments that stood out to you? and what will people be talking about in as a hit? >> well, i think as you mentioned in your introduction, the kesha performance of "prayer" was a pretty intense, emotional moment in the show. she of course -- she went through a terrible period of -- she was in a big dispute with her former producer who she accused of sexual assault and all sorts of things. and it sidelined her whole career for about two or three years. to coming back from that obviously much stronger than ever, it was a very big moment. and i think that was captured. that was captured very well. i saw u2 outside on a barge outside the statue of liberty. they looked a bit cold and uncomfortable to me. bono was wandering around with a mega phone, which seems to be his way. i'm not sure that was quite such a success. i rather enjoyed the james corden with sting and shaggy on

the new york underground. >> yes. you're getting ahead of me. because i did want to talk about james corden. and one thing he particularly did. because u.s. ambassador to the u.n. nikki haley took issue with the skit that had various stars reading from michael wolff's controversial tell-all book "fire and fury," including a surprise appearance from hillary clinton. haley said this was trash and ruined the show. what did the audience think, though? >> well, i think the audience at the grammys obviously was delighted. i think they found it all -- i think they knew what they were getting into when they went to it. but of course you have to be a little bit careful because this is a big crowd out there that like music but don't necessarily agree with all of that. we used to have the same thing in britain when margaret thatcher was in power there was a big feeling that the music industry absolutely united in opposition to her and her policies. i think you've got much the same thing going on with trump now in

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