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coach who so brave that ran into gunfire to protect the kids, if he had his gun, he would be live today. >> is there no reason for giving me a bonus for giving me a gun. put that money in teacher's paychecks and in our pockets. ♪ >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good sunday morning to you. president trump calls the democratic rebuttal to the nunez memo a nothing and says it's right and congressman adam schiff is a bad guy. >> it's the democrats turn to respond to claims of a bias russian investigation. they say the president is already trying to deflect attention from that and he called into fox news after that memo was released. take a listen. >> he calls up reporters and then, all of a sudden, they have news and you're not supposed to do that.

it's probably illegal to do it. you know? i'll have a committee meeting and he'll -- he'll leak all sorts of information. you know? he is a bad guy. but it certainly is the memo was a nothing. it confirmed basically, if you look at it, it confirmed -- i watched miss herge who is fantastic our show just before, and i will tell you, that was really just a confirmation of, if you call it the republican memo or the nunez memo, it's referred to as a lot of things, but that was nothing -- >> the republican memo accused the fbi of surveillance abuses and political bias in the russia investigation. the democratic memo takes on the claims in attempts to knock them down point by point. >> reporter: the ten-page memo disputes a central claim from republicans that the controversial dossier written by christopher steele was at the heart of the surveillance warranty used on carter page.

>> this investigation did not start because of the steele dossier. it started because of george pal domest d papadopoulos. >> they say it flaplayed a narr role and multiple sources about page's activities with russians. >> carter page, i don't know of anyone who takes him seriously as a russian agent. he worked with the fbi against the russians in 2013 and never played a real role in the campaign. >> reporter: writing that the court was informed the dossier's funders were politically

motivated and wanted to discredit trump's campaign. >> we wanted out. we wanted out because we think it is clear evidence that the democrats are not only trying to cover this up, but they are also colluding with parts of the government to help cover this up. but what you're not going to see is anything that actually rejects what was in our memo. >> reporter: the schiff memo also suggests that in addition to the investigation into carter page, the fbi opened several subinquires into multiple trump associates by september of 2016. >> let's talk about what we have discovered in this democratic rebuttal. joining us now is cnn reporter kara and national attorney mark and cnn political analyst julian zeleny. good morning to everyone. kara, let me start with you. the president says a confirmation of the republican memo. you heard there from chairman nunez no actual rejections of

his mm owe. is he right? >> well, i think that -- you know, depending on which side you want to believe, you can read it either way. the democratic memo does knock down some of the notions that the republican memo put forward which, you know, you just had you heard christi report, the notion that it was politically motivated and that wasn't disclosed. it was disclosed in the application to the court, according to the democrats, that this was intent -- the source of this information was looking to discredit the trump campaign. the other notion that the memo was -- that the fisa warrant was based entirely on the dossier was also knocked down because we know the fbi interviewed carter page in march of 2016. that is several months before they sought this application in october of 2016 and it was the same month that carter page joined the trump campaign. >> mark, let's go through that point specifically of disclosure of political elements here. the gop memo claimed, let's put it up on the screen, that that

neither the initial application in october of 2016 nor any of the renull arizona or disclos e disclosures reference the dnc, clinton campaign or any party or campaigning in steele's efforts this from the democratic rebuttal. the fbi speculates the u.s. identified person was likely looking for information that could be used to discredit -- they say that was actually in the application for the parent. this goes to the central narrative of what the republicans claimed. >> absolutely. and, in fact, the one thing that is so new in this memo we have language from the fisa application actually quoted. quite frankly, there is not much in this ten-page document that is new between leaks and legitimate appearances by house members of the house select committee on intelligence after the nunez memo came out. all of this really had been said and we have been talking about it for almost the last month.

but that point was really important. okay. it doesn't say dnc, okay? it doesn't say that clinton campaign. but it says that this memo had some motivations to discredit the trump campaign and doesn't make any difference from a bias standpoint whether that was gop objections to the trump campaign of which there was numerous and let's not forget, the original folks that were hiring steele to do his work and the organization that hired him were actually from anti-trump gop members. >> julian, let's also put this into the context the president tweeted out last night that the memo shows that there was no -- let's put this up. the memo did not name hillary clinton, the memo did not name the dnc but this comes after a year of republicans outrage about unmasking in this process. >> right. so there is a hypocritical claim by the republicans about why the

specific names weren't mentioned but it's pretty clear from the language that the fact that this came from a political operation was -- it was stated. and it didn't matter because there was so much other evidence that the courts and the investigators i looking at. this was one piece of the puzzle. so if you look at this memo and you agree with the memo, it means that republicans on this committee skewed the information and misled the public and their memo, they were really trying to slant all of the evidence to make a case that would discredit this. >> the house intelligence committee is still investigating russia and potential involvement in -- with the trump campaign, meddling in the election. what does this process now that it's evolved into the dueling memos and rebuttals, what does it mean for the confidence in that -- can they reach a

consensus? >> both parties in this committee have been really disjoined for much of this investigation, so you've got the democrats wanting to pursue various threads, including seeking financial records and going down into the weeds on that. the republicans will not grant them subpoena power to do that. they are a fractured group. i think as it continues it's not going to get any better. we are going to still see both sides try to move forward with their investigation. the republicans are in control so they will determine what interviews go forward in the future. but i do think we are going to see two different reports at the end of the day. one from the majority and one from the minority. >> julian, the president said that the nunez memo vindicated him as it relates to bob mueller's russia investigation, special counsel. several congressional republicans came out and said this has nothing to do with that. the nunez memo really has nothing to do with that. does this rebuttal have any

impact or any connection at all to that either? >> i don't think it will, only in that we now live in two worlds and two parties are seeing the same investigation through a very different lens. it is important and relevant that the democratic memo shows that the reasons for the investigation were legitimate, they were not political. that said, it doesn't really matter, given how partisan this was become. i think in the end the president could have tweeted that tweet before he saw the memo and many of his supporters would believe it and that is a problem for a real investigation to happen. >> mark, give us the big picture here. the precedent, we are now reading portions of warrant application through the fisa court and we now have this precedent of the republicans will release their partisan view of something and the democrats will release their view.

what does this mean for the future of this process? >> it's a great question. you know? i love reading information about the fisa court. this is a secretive court that we don't get to see. and every time one of these memos comes out and information gets declassified, we use it in numerous lawsuits, particularly under the freedom of information act, to try and get access to greater information. that said, this process has destroyed what was usually a bipartisan effort by the house select committee on oversight of intelligence to look into executive branch issues for the last 40 years. it has destroyed what was this past use. and, right now, what julian was saying, the partisanship is at such a high level, the politicization of intelligence is so rampant that i have a great fear for the institutional aspects of this system that is being destroyed, the very fabric

being destroyed as we see both sides duel with national security information, that, franklin, we are never supposed to see. >> chairman nunez was on stage at the time when this was released yesterday and he said that democrats were trying to cover this up. there was collusion in trying to prevent certain things from being released. is there any clarity in what he was talking about specifically? and can you speak to what he also claimed was the intelligence two-week delay on the part of democrats on releasing the redacted version? >> well, there was no -- i have a hard time understanding what he means by obstruction. the white house was given the democratic memo as it was given the republican memo. the white house sent it back saying there were concerns about not releasing it. of course, they did not have

those concerns on the republican memo. so over the past two weeks, they have been dealing with the fbi with release of either memo working to redact certain portions of this schiff memo in order to not reveal too many details about sources and methods. that is really why there was this delay and it was the white house that then went back to the white house and the white house that said now it was ready and fine to be released and they released it on a saturday. >> thank you all. >> thank you. don't miss today's "state of the union" with jake tapper. he will have representative adam schiff with him to discuss the memo at 9:00 a.m. eastern this morning on cnn. ahead, the wall between them. the mexico president will not be heading to washington after all after a confrontational phone call with president trump and it all stemmed from who is going to pay for that border wall. the national rifle association says its members are being punished as more companies

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and this is where life meets legal. get what happened on the highway. a guy comes in and runs over and kills eight people and he came in through the system. well, i don't want that. i want people to come in ultimately. we want people to come in through merit. >> that was president trump on fox news last night talking about the way forward on immigration and his plans for a border wall, which he still says mexico will pay for. but according to mexico's president, they are not budging on this. >> yeah. in fact, mexico's president. enrique pena nieto called off a visit to washington for meet with president trump after a tense phone call last week over that wall. >> let's bring in cnn congressional reporter lauren fox. what happened on this phone call, lauren, that changed the

plan for the president? >> reporter: well, it was another war of words between president donald trump and mexico's president enrique pena nieto. nieto was scheduled to visit washington tentatively at the beginning of march but the trip will no longer continue, in part, because of that tense phone call on. the president, according to a white house official, continued to push for mexico to finance that border wall. that is something that he has been doing since the early days of the 2016 presidential campaign and something that pena nieto has been saying that mexico will not pay for. now, a white house official said that this phone call was less tense than one in january 2017 where pena nieto cancelled another trip to washington, but the phone call led to no resolution about the funding of that wall. we should know president trump is trying to get money for the wall any way he can and even pushing congress.

a plan was presented to give him 25 million in border security in exchange for citizenship for 1.2 million dreamers and the president rejected that plan saying he wanted more changes to the legal system. he wants the border wall and doesn't know how to get it and nieto is up for rel-election in 2016 and he can't be seen giving anything to the contribution of that wall. >> joining us is siraj. not the first time this was happened. january of last year, the president called off a planned trip to meet with the president over a circulsimilar scuttle. is the president cannot convince mexico to build this wall is there a ramification? >> the main ramification if he allows amnesty for the estimated 1.2 undocumented immigrants and could be the huge concession

that hurts within his base. building the border wall has become sort of a nonfactor and this game of chicken between pena nieto and trump, for a lot of people, is not that big of a deal. whether the border wall is built, it -- amnesty is a different issue that i think would hurt the immigration stance of president trump. >> sure. so jared kushner is in charge of managing the u.s./mexico relationship among other things. official say a few hours after both the presidents spoke on tuesday, kushner actually called pena nieto and tried to help smooth things over. he still cancelled the trip. what does that tell you about -- we have been talking a lot about this with the security clearances -- about kushner's ability to effectively do his job? >> well, jared kushner, president trump's son-in-law, as

well as ivanka trump have taken a lot of criticism for handling sensitive white house issues. the fact they don't have false security clearances are certainly concerning. with respect to the u.s./mexico relationship. now there are certain -- there are definitely some mexico officials who would say that the relationship between the trump administration and the pena nieto administrations are closer than they were in previous administrations. however, what we are seeing from reports is that, you know, even though the top two leaders are not agreeing on anything, maybe that actual relationship between the administrations are formidably stronger. but, again, that only really matters when you get results and, right now, both sides are at a political stalemate and they are not going to get anything done, at least until pena knee nieto is re-elected o change in leadership. >> a meeting in pursue is in

april. what is the expectation there? >> probably more of the same. you'll have a chest trumping whoever can back down first is really going to be the winner in all of this because, you know, with president trump's border wall, that is, you know, anywhere from $12 to $15 billion by conservative estimates to $67 by democratic estimates. the american taxpayers will be paying for all of that and getting whatever money from mexico is that going back to the american taxpayers? we are not so sure right now and president trump needs to make a convincing argument, at least up to the midterm elections that this is still a good idea. >> siraj, we appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. students in parkland are preparing to head back to school this week, as the president offers what he believes would be a bipartisan solution to gun reform. but will the nra support it? also, the closing ceremony

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background checks for gun purchases. >> last night on fox news, the president renewed his push possess stricter background checks that would include some kind of screening for mental illness. >> we would have a section on a very powerful section on mental illness and somebody who is mentally ill, should not have a weapon, should not have a gun. and that would be covered in the background checks. and i think the nra is going to be for it. i think that a lot of people -- i mean, this certainly should be bipartisan. >> let's talk about it now with cnn political commentator and democratic strategist maria cardova and former representative from georgia, jack kingston. good morning to both of you. maria, the potential for this being bipartisan, can democrats work with the president on this element, background checks involving mental illness or is it too little and to midterm year in the season just makes this unrealistic? >> no. i'm sure democrats would

absolutely be open to making some real changes in gun safety measures. that would make a real impact. the problem is that we can't really believe anything that comes out of this president's mouth, both because it can change at any moment, it can change two seconds from now after he tweet something different, and also because it's completely hypocritical. this president says he wants strong measures against the mentally ill being able to get firearms. but in february of last year, he actually blocked a regulation that would keep severely mentally ill patients from obtaining firearms. so he has got to be able to put his money where his mouth is if he can prove that what he is saying is actually true, that he is not going to buckle under the oncoming pressure and what we know is going to be a huge push, both behind closed doors and then publicly, if needed, by the nra and the nra against any of this, then we will see. >> let's talk about the pressure

from the nra. jack, that was one of the elements the president talked about bipartisanship but the nra. we are hearing at least an inconsistent, if not conflicting message from the nra about mental health. i first want you to listen to -- this is dana lash at the cnn town hall talking about mental illness and people not being able to get a gun and then the executive vice president of the nra wayne la pierre. watch. >> none of us support people who are crazy or a danger to themselves or to others getting their hands on a firearm. >> we all have to be careful that this doesn't become a run-away train. what if all of your medical records, perhaps your conversations with your doctor, your prescription information, do we really want all of that on a government list and in the government database? >> so he is saying that access to medical records a slippery slope but dana loesch you want

to keep people from mental illness from getting a weapon. how do you know people have a mental illness without accessing their medical records, jack? >> victor, that is why this hasn't been done successfully before. it is very difficult in terms of privacy. marie mentioned the social security check. that was opposed by the american civil liberties union they were on the same page as trump because of the due process law. i think you want to make sure that anybody gets due process because that is what we do in america, we don't falsely accuse somebody -- >> is the president wrong here? is the president just assuming he can bring his party along on mental health checks? >> you know what i think would be really great is if we could hear from party leaders on both sides of the aisle right now and say, you know what? this is substantive. let's get to work on it. chronicman tim murphy who is no longer in the house, actually

initiated this about three years ago and i want to say this. the other thing is the legislation has already passed the house that would be the vehicle for this. it was passed in december by the republican congress and i don't know -- i think democrats were on board, so it has been bipartisan and what it outlines is review everything about bump stocks and the president accelerate that probably without legislation but it had in there the background check. how do you improve background checks? the idea of getting both parties on board is there and we can make that happen. >> one question to jack is will the president buckle when the nra exerts overwhelming pressure on him because they gave him $30 million during his presidential campaign? >> well, why are we swinging at the nra, remember, it's about the second amendment and not a political group. >> it's absolutely about a political group.

>> let him answer. >> let me say this. i would put in there what is the effect of violence on video games and violence in hollywood? >> jack, that wasn't the question! >> see what i mean? >> jack, the president said in the health care conversation that i will take the heat. whatever this group puts together, i will take the heat on that. when the heat came. >> yes. exactly. >> a day or two later he was backing out and doing exactly what he said he wouldn't do by asking -- >> that's what i'm saying. >> right now the president says the nra is for it and the nra has said they are not for it. >> year. >> along before he started his campaign. what is the evidence he'll take -- >> i know the nra is hated by the left. but this -- >> it nothing to do with the left or right. it has to do with the president's commitment to doing what he says he wants to do and the entnra insistence it will n happen. >> the party leaders should grab this as he said i want to give amnesty for 1.4 million -- >> who is the republican party

leader? if you're saying the party leader should grab t isn't that the president? >> no. i'm talking about the legislative branch. >> no? >> he is the executive branch. he has already made his position. let's have chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell say we will take it and run with it because the house has already done something. i think nancy pelosi and paul ryan have already done it. i don't know why it's a hard concept. >> because the nra won't let them. that's why. >> you bristle when i talked about hollywood. >> hold on! i want to hear from the president. this is 2016. the beginning of the campaign. >> i will get rid of gun-free zones on schools my first day it gets signed, okay? my first day. there is no more gun-free zones. >> agree with what the president wants to do or not, jack, it's been more than 400 days since his first day and he hasn't done that. why should people believe he is

going to do now he is going to do what he says he is going to do? >> take a step back because a lot of misinformation about guns on campuses. 172 districts -- school districts in texas allow it now. the state of georgia does. nine states have concealed carry which allow gonzalez on campus and nine other states say you can have them in your car. >> you're not answering my question! you're not even referring to the sound bite. >> the sound bite you said why hasn't he done it? i'm saying a lot of it has been done already where it should be done on the state level. and we got to keep in mind that school boards make these laws, not the federal government. >> bottom line here. >> quickly. >> while jack twists and turns trying to -- >> i'm not twisting and turning! that is ridiculous. >> he is trying to figure out -- trying to figure out! whether the president will be able to stand up to the nra, we will see if that is the possibility -- jack i'm talking! >> please, jack!

>> jack. >> while he twists and turns to see whether the president is able to stand up to the nra, we know he will not. he talks about leadership in the congress. the republican leaders in the congress are more bought by the nra than anybody else in the world! >> i know you hate the nra but it's not about the nra. >> we got to wrap it there. >> leadership on the republican party and so far they have proven there is not! >> thank you both. >> on the table. >> of course, we can't complete this interview because you keep interrupting! >> i have to cut you off! thank you both! >> thank you. >> love you, maria! >> sometimes you have to chuckle about it. >> coming up on "state of the union," broward county sheriff will answer his questions about they say four deputies did not go inside to face the shooter. that is at 9:00 a.m. eastern on cnn. a general is accused of

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just coming in to cnn. north korean delegation is willing take to you to the united states. what are you hearing, will, there in south korea? this is a change. >> reporter: we just received a statement minutes ago from the south korean blue house and they met in front of the olympic stadium and wrapped up 35,000 people there it seems. the meetings that happens beforehand a significant development. the north korean delegation expressing a dialogue with the

united states and acknowledging also that in order for relations between south korea and north korea to improve they need to improve their relationship with the united states and this is a dramatic shift for north korea's tone and within the state media. they put out an article fletening tfle threatening the united states. calling those sanctions tantamount to an act of war. apparently the north koreans who are on the ground here are now acknowledging that talks with the united states will be crucial if they are going to actually move forward with their goal of easing tensions on the korean peninsula. the biggest one of all is north korea's nuclear program saying they will not give up their nuclear weapons by pressure. they are saying for the time being now, they are willing to have discussions. we also saw the first images

coming out of the opening ceremonies. ivanka trump was in the vip box as expected with the north korean delegation led by north korea's former spy master who was one row and a few seats behind her to her left. there was no visible interaction between the two. we don't know if there was any behind the scenes interaction between the u.s. delegation and the north korean delegation although we know the north koreans did send one official in charge of their department and north american affairs indicating at least a willingness, if there was some sort of a meeting, that perhaps they could have a brief chat and see where things go from there. obviously, things can change very quickly but that is the latest on the ground here in pyeongchang as the olympics are now officially over and the paralympics set to kick off very soon. >> will rippley, so glad you're there to walk us through it all. thank you. before we begin the paralympics or they begin it, the final events of the winter

olympics are wrapping up and the olympic athletes of russia got a lot of attention as they battled germany in the gold medal match in ice hockey. >> amanda has more for us from south korea. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the men's hockey final was always going to have to go to compete with that incredible victory of the usa's women but it was pretty good, even for a neutral. it was a really hard-fought win for the olympic athletes of russia against the competition surprise package, germany. after the o.a.r. pulled level at 3-3, which is 56 seconds left on the clock, to overtime it went. then it was 20-year-old karol who scored the sudden death winner to give the o.a.r. as their second gold of the games. i found myself watching and going through the emotions with the german presidents of the international olympic committee himself thomas bach just hours after he and his board took the

decision not to lyft russia's ban for doping ask which means the team had marched at the closing ceremonies without their russian flag once again. after two failed drug tests within the team, it would have been impossible to allow it but he refused to admit the issue has taken away from the sport here at the games. we suspect far few people would beg to differ with that. back to you. >> amanda davis, thanks so much. you know john kirby on our air? you know somebody that we go to to get really great perspective and information on many things, but he is really opening up next with us here with his daughter, sharing the story of survival of her anorexia. a pretty brave conversation coming up. stay close.

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this is a real personal story with retired navy admiral john kirby. his daughter megan is joining us now. thank you both so much. really means a lot to us to talk with you. i have to start, megan, with this moment you said that sparked it all. and i want to read to you. this is from cnn.com. they have written a piece on this. she wrote, i'll never forget the words has changed my life. the words that changed the perspective i had of mize aysel. a friend said to me, i finally got the abs i've always wanted and look at you with that belly fat. how can one comment spark the spiraling of a healthy woman, you ask. the first thing that stood out to me, megan, how close was this friend? because that does not sound like something a friend would say. was she joking? >> she, unfortunately, was not joking. we were best friends at the

time. our relationship, we started to grow apart even before that comment was made but, obviously, after she said those things, the friendship more or less ended. >> and where did you go then after that comment? help us understand how anorexia took force of you. >> it took complete control over my life. it consumed my thoughts. everything, you know, i once loved doing, didn't bring me joy any more. and i began to restrict my diet and i lost a lot of weight and every day was a struggle. >> john, you wrote something here too that is very telling and i think parents, grandparents, anybody can relate to this. you said let me tell you something. when you look into the eyes of the girl you helped raise, that same little girl you taught to catch and throw and ride a bike, the one you read to sleep and encouraged to take on the world

and she can barely look you back, so ashamed is she of herself. as a father you're going to start wondering what, if anything, you could do prevent this. help us understand as a father what this did to you. >> it tears you up. this was my only daughter and my little princess and i was close to megan and to see her pull back and know there is very little i understood about anorexia and what i thought i could do it was killing me inside. at the same time when i'm struggling with this and trying to figure out what to do to help her, also recognize her body was going through normal changes. she was heading into puberty and adolescence and made me uncomfortable as a normal guy and i didn't understand that at the time when she probably needed me most, i was also just

naturally as a dad i was kind of pulling away. >> i know that, you did, megan, you did talk to your mom and did you get into some therapy. did you realize at that point, did the therapy help you realize this isn't about food, necessarily? this really is about a struggle we all go through in terms of trying to figure out who we are. >> absolutely. you know, the teenage years are hard enough and to add anorexia into the mix, it was a living nightmare, you know? >> how did your parents help you? >> as soon as my parents figured out something was wrong, they immediately got me into treatment and they took me to all of my therapy appointments, nutritionists. i saw social workers. i lost track how many people we saw over the years. it wasn't until we finally met

helen la rose that i got into the right treatment program and i was able to gain weight and get my life back. >> what was it in that therapy that helped you get to that point, megan? >> honestly, just eating again. being able to eat and i eventually was able to start functioning normally and it really changed my way of thinking about my relationship with food and about myself. >> and, john, what did you learn about yourself through this whole process and about your relationship with your daughter and your family? >> i learned that fathers really do matter and i don't mean this to say that other family bonds don't matter too. one of the things that helen taught us was to really attack this problem as a family and we did that. but she also taught me that my relationship with megan was very special, father/daughter relationships typically are and that i needed to focus on the

health of that relationship. not just realize mistakes i made. i was too protective of megan as she was growing up but i needed to find a new way of relating to megan as we went through these changes and tried to get her healthy. megan talked about this but she helped us get into a more intensive therapy that really involves the parents on an everyday basis for weeks, if not months, to help the individual start to gain weight and to put calories. the food, even though -- you're right, food isn't the issue, it is the medicine because the lack of calories changed the brain chemistry and how megan continued to think about herself. you have to get thatted into in the system to get the brain chemistry in the right area. >> we thank you so much for sharing. i know it's a hard topic to talk about but it's brave and help people because i know they want you to know you're not alone. there is help out there. that dads matters and words matter and so do culture.

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