who knows. >> thanks for joining us. i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. "new day" starts now. alisyn camerota live from parkland, florida where students return to douglas high school. have a great day. i >> i have nothing to do with rush shafplt i have no deals there. >> robert mule or asking about business opportunities for donald trump in the 2016 campaign. >> this president could be incredibly compromised. >> just because they are asking doesn't mean they have evidence of it. >> the fact that he has been downgraded tells that he is not in a position to be a significant role of the white house. >> he is a valued member of the team, and he will continue. >> we are getting this blurring of behavior in his private and public roles. >> we're going to take it as it comes along every single day. >> we will feel the presence of

emptiness. >> we are more connected than ever. i don't think anything is going to change. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. this is your "new day". it is weapons, february 28th, 6:00 here on the east coast. i am in new york. alisyn is back in parkland, florida. a very important day there. we will check it in one second. here's our starting line. we have had several major russia revelations rocking the west wing. special counsel bob mueller's team is investigating president trump's businessings with russia, the key part, before the 2016 campaign. also, white house chief of staff stripping jared kushner of his top secret security clearance. a bombshell report in the "washington post" says that at least four countries discussed ways to manipulate kushner by taking advantage of his lack of experience, financial troubles, and intricate business arrangements. and a source tells cnn the

president's communications director, hope hicks, admitting to house investigators, she has had to tell white lies for the president. but a top democrat says hicks refused to discuss her role in drafting a misleading statement about that 2016 trump tower meeting with russians. alisyn? okay. so, chris, i am back here in parkland, florida. i am outside of douglas high school, as you can see over my shoulder, as well as a huge police. because it was exactly two weeks ago that the gunman turned marjory stoneman douglas into a war zone. so just one hour and a half from now, students will return to class for the first time since then. of course they will be without 17 of their friends and teachers who were killed during that massacre. so throughout the morning here, we will be speaking to those students and their parents about whether they feel prepared to go

back, how they're emotionally preparing, and of course what they want to see happen next in the national debate over gun violence that they have sparked since this massacre. legislators here in florida are moving towards trying to this out. their plan is to arm teachers. they want to appropriate millions of dollars to do is so. meanwhile, efforts in congress do not seem to be moving as quickly. some of the students are already here to talk to us. we will bring you that all morning. >> thank you for being there for us. we will be back with you in a second. we have all of this covered this morning. let's begin with abby phillip live at the white house. a lot of headlines they cannot like. >> reporter: that's right, chris. we are learning new information this morning about the president's son-in-law jared kushner and the russia investigation. the special counsel probe appears to be looking into issues beyond the 2016 election, including the reasons behind mr. trump's decision to run for president in 2016.

multiple sources tell cnn that investigators pore special counsel robert mueller have been asking witness back seat mr. trump's business dealings in russia, before the 2016 campaign as he considered a run for the presidency. >> i have no deals there. i don't know anything. i have no investments in russia, none whatsoever. >> reporter: questions from investigators include the timing of mr. trump's decision to run for president, any potentially compromising information the russians may have had about him, and why efforts to brand a trump tower in moscow fell through. mueller's team also focusing on the financing of the 2013 miss universe pageant in moscow. >> if mueller was looking at your finances and your family's finances, related to russia? would that be a breach of what his actual -- >> the russia probe gaining steam as his son-in-law and senior adviser jared kushner

remains uncertain. the "washington post" reporting that foreign officials from at least four countries have discussed ways to manipulate kushner by taking advantage of his complex business arrangements, financial difficulties, and lack of foreign policy experience. the "post" also reporting that white house officials were concerned kushner was naive and being tricked in conversations with foreign leaders. >> jared kushner was also having his own conversations with foreign officials and people in other countries and was not reporting those in the normal channels to white house officials. >> reporter: the story came hours after his top secret clearance was downgraded after months of delays in his background check. >> for him to be carrying forward an important peace plan at the same time he lacks a top security clearance, i don't think that's workable. >> he is a valued member of the team, and he will continue to do the important work he's been doing since he started in the administration. >> reporter: one of trump's closest aides, hope hicks, also

under scrutiny. a source tells cnn that hicks admitted during eight hours of testimony before a house panel that she has had to tell white lies for the president but says she has not lied about substantive issues. committee members say hicks would not answer questions about her time in the white house or her role in drafting a muss leading statement about donald trump jr.'s 2016 meeting with russians promising dirt on hillary clinton. >> anyone that doesn't answer questions. >> this is not exact privilege. this is exaecutive stonewalling. >> reporter: all of as russian interference in the election remains real. they made it clear president trump has not given intelligence officials the authority to disrupt russian hacking at its source despite the threat posed to the 2018 election this year. >> abby, what a morning of news.

on any other day, all of these, four separate headlines, would dominate coverage. today we have to balance all of them. thank you very much for getting us started. let's bring in our best, david gregg ry and john avlon. am i wrong? he said, no, he never asked me to go after russia for the cyber threat. hope hicks said, no, i'm not answering the questions even though i came in under the intention of being open. jared kushner having his clearance stripped and what that must mean. david gregory, donald trump said as president if this guy, mueller, goes after my money, that's too far. i don't know how this isn't crossing that line. if bob mueller is not just looking into financial transactions but back before the 2016 campaign, who was he doing money with, what it could mean. what does that mean?

>> that is the essential question for investigators. you have to ask yourself if there's a fact, right, that russia interfered in our election, wanted to sway the election. don't know if they did, but they wanted to do it. you have a president who has not responded, who has not defended america and stood up for our election system. why not? >> you say fair play to look back there to look back at the money? >> of course it's fair play. anybody looking at this say the greatest area of vulnerability is a financial entanglement that means the russians have something on president trump. that may be speculation. how long of a history do you not look at that as an investigator when you have this event that happens around this candidate. >> john, fair point. trump brought some of this on himself by not opening the books of his business, not turning over his taxes. still, this will rub the people

the wrong way. all the way back then? how far are you going to go? is this another ken starr look into bill clinton? >> at the time they were probably defending ken starr. you have to find the roots of the question of whether the president was compromised. first of all, how come in a world of people that donald trump will attack at the slightest provocation, why has he never said a bad word with putin. and not only has the president never ordered to retaliate or push back on on russia, but he believes putin believes he has free reign. so follow the money, folks. it's basic. it's going to happen. it's appropriate. >> if you're going to follow the momentum, if it is true that the chief of staff withdrew clearance from jared kushner, how does he stay in the white

house? >> it is very hard. you have to ask what has jared kushner accomplished in the white house. first of all, the huge problem you start bringing in your children, right? this is nepotism. that should be on its face a huge problem. if this is somebody the trusts, the question is, what is he doing? has he done other than distract and have huge judgment decisions that are suspect? >> and maybe make vulnerable where other countries were sizing him up because of vulnerable. >> you have to ask how long he can be in this role. he he has to do mideast peace? a lot of tough issues with mexico. i think it's a real blow for him when the president said my chief of staff will make the right decision. he's dealing with his son-in-law. by the way, if kelly could not have made this decision, we would have really seen how

compromised they were because he would be untouchable. >> one of the rules is politics is you never fight the family and win. in this case, kelly seems to be winning this fight. when he floated the top security clearance would be removed, he said, look, jared is doing great work on the middle east, mexico. what did we find out yesterday from the "washington post" report? israel, united arab emirates, mexico and china have all been talking about how they think they can roll and apply pressure to kushner because of his financial dealings. >> because of the rob porter situation. so this is on them. this is something that happened organically from the mismanagement within their own. how do we know for sure kelly is having the upper hand here? how do we know this doesn't come out, and say i'm going to let kushner see this stuff anyway? it's my decision. and you went after my family, you're gone. >> and i think that's possible.

i don't think the president wants ta fight with john kelly right now. if he really wanted it, he could have taken hum out when he was getting hot and arrows were his way about rob porter. there is a lot that seems to make sense. mueller has to prove something big that the candidate for presidency was compromised and he is compromised but a foreign leader and that he made decisions to work with the guy. >> absolutely. >> jared kushner is a blank slate. he has all of these business dealings. anybody would look at him and say, first of all, who brings in his son-in-law with no experience to write some of the billion dollar debt. >> the key distinction we try to remind people although it is getting conflated. criminality, political malpractice. that's down here.

but it might have happened. >> why look at none and say, you know what, this guy is a blank slate. you could see this story being written about almost anything that has nothing to do with whether anybody did anything wrong. >> at the end of the day, you may have -- forget about bringing in the best. forget about cleaning up the swamp. they don't know how to run this white house. they have done things that are shady/stupid. but none of them are illegal. >> it could mean something to a motivated congress. >> right. >> but they don't have the votes. >> but against the back drop of only the best people, guest the west wing running look a well-oiled machine, this is chaos and kremlinology. people are fighting each other in the west wing, bleeding into the public. the chief of staff between the son-in-law and the daughter. we have the communications director yesterday. >> hope hicks. >> hope hicks admitting, among other things -- first of all,

refusing to answer questions about the transition of the white house without invoking executive privilege. and admitting she white lies for the president all the time. the daintiest lie. but it is still a lie. >> is white lie a verb? i white lie. i go to you as a source. notice the implication. obviously you have a weird legal/political vibe with she won't answer questions. that will be how the committee wants to exercise their jurisdiction and their purview here. so if she didn't do it, it was without penalty, as far as we know. what do you make of the the admission we told white lies. we have never heard of any of your people meeting with russians. we don't know about communications. are those white lies in. >> if you are willing to lie about small stuff, how do we know you won't lie about the big stuff. that's why we know there is a criminal investigation going on. let's also remember what the meat of the story is. the campaign manager has been indicted because of fraud.

we know he has extensive ties with russia and their puppets in ukraine. these are big questions when you have financial entanglements with any country, including russia, that raises the prospect of being compromised. you don't see this in electoral politics very often which is why we have to keep our eye on the ball. >> none of this is not normal. so let's not normalize it. let's focus on the facts. >> gentlemen, could not have covered more in less time. alisyn, as you know, you're in the right place this morning, but i needed you here. we have not seen this many headlines come out one investigation at one time. >> it is a big newsday. but i am here in parkland, florida. in app hour from now, the sidewalks, the parking lot will be filled with the 3,000 students referring to marjory

stoneman douglas for the first time since the gunman killed 17 of their friends and teachers. and cnn's dianne gallagher joins me in parkland, florida. what are we expecting today? >> reporter: i think they're not sure. i talked to teachers, alisyn, who said right now they want to kind of all be together. the word i heard most from students was apprehension. they're a little nervous about coming back, but they want to be with their classmates and return to normal, whatever that means. the principal said today is about comfort, not curriculum. >> the first time walking through the gates, hearing the bells ring, there will be a dramatic shift. you will feel the presence on of emptiness. >> reporter: thousands of students returning for the first time that a campus that just two weeks ago they ran away from in terror. >> our lives and lives of our friends are what take priority

now. >> reporter: and while some are ready -- >> i guess there is a certain feeling of, you know, relief that i am going back to school. >> reporter: others aren't so sure. >> how do you comprehend the empty desks? how do you return to normalcy after that? >> reporter: parents also aren't sure what to expect. >> there shouldn't be a playbook to this. we will take it every single day. >> reporter: the school reopening. the killer still had 180 rounds when he dropped his rifle and fleeing the building, blending in with students. the hurricane-proof glass may have prevented him from using a third floor window as a sniper's perch. this week the schedule is shorter. students cannot bring backpacks

and security will be at an all-time high. >> i'm comfortable going back in. but there will always be that sense of anxiety just because it was the place of a school shooting. >> reporter: now a rallying cry for the stone man douglas student body. the wednesday, for at least half a day, the focus is here. >> we're going to come back as a class and we're going to continue on. >> we're more connected than ever, obviously, and i don't think anything is ever going to change. we're going to be a brotherhood until the day we die. >> reporter: and those students are actually going to be returning back to the classrooms they were in when that shooting happened two weeks ago today. alisyn, i talked to one of the teachers. the teacher in that story, mr. levine, we asked what will say

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. so about in one hour, 3,000 students will return to marjory stoneman douglas high school, two weeks after the gunman killed 17 of the people inside. great to see is you guys this morning. thank you so much for being with us before you head in. let's start with the physical

wounds, which i know are quite different than the emotional wounds. you were shot twice. >> yes, i was. >> physically, how are you doing? >> well, i got my staples removed, which is good. the only bad thing is it's itchy. but that's the only problem for right now. >> emotionally, how are you doing right now? >> i'm hesitant to walk into the building, but i know i have to face it head on. at least that's my approach. i want to sleep. at the same time, you know, i kind of want to get this over with. it's a bunch of feelings. >> you're all over the place. there's no play back for this for what the right way to enter this school is. how are you feeling this morning? >> i'm nervous. i feel the same as her. i'm really scared to go in. but i know we have to go. >> you don't really. i'm talking to some students who have decided not to go back

today. they don't know if they can go back. do you feel you have to go? >> i think i want to go back at the same time as all of my friends. i don't want to go in for the first time alone. even though i won't be alone, i want to start the same way my friends do. >> and what do you think is going to happen in there? >> i don't think there is going to be much teaching. i think everyone will just be happy to see each other, especially since we're starting off in the class that everything happened in. >> i want to talk about that. you are going right back into the class where you were when you were shot. >> well, not in the class, because that building is -- >> the whole freshman wing has been closed off and nobody will be going back there. the windows have been taped over, the whole building has been closed. but you are going back to the same class with the same people. >> yeah. >> what's the thinking about that? >> well, i have a lot of feelings about that. that class was the class where my friend was.

>> you lost your best friend? >> yes, i did. >> and how do you plan to cope with that? >> i don't know. i really don't know. i'm going to see how i end up doing with it. as i said before, i'm kind of nervous about going into the whole situation. but depending -- i mean, i don't know how i'm going to feel, to be honest. >> of course you're nervous. there will be a void of 17 people. obviously not just 17 people and random classmates, your best friend. that is kind of forever. >> yeah kprbgts exactly. >> you said you don't want to marjory stoneman douglas to be remembered as the school that had the shooting. how do you want it to be remembered? >> i want it to be remembered as the school that changed something. i don't want it to be just another one. the other ones weren't other ones for the people that were there. but for the rest of the people

in this country, everyone forgot. i don't want this to be forgotten because something needs to change. >> you all have done a great job of keeping it on our radar, keeping it front and center in the country because of the conversation that you have started. so let me bounce things off of you. your state, state legislature is considering a $67 million initiative to train and arm teachers. ten in each school. how do you feel about that? >> i don't feel comfortable with teachers having guns. i think law enforcement should have guns, but i don't think teachers need to have them. and i don't think we have enough money for that either. education already doesn't have enough money. we shouldn't put that toward arming our teachers. >> what do you think? what do you want to see happen? >> i want to see gun legislation, not teachers having guns. that is a bailout. it doesn't do anything. i want actual things to happen.

i want the age to be raised to 21. i want us to not be able to get ar-15s anymore. arming teachers doesn't do anything about that. >> i know that you tweeted out that you want the school to be known as the school that started a revolution. do you believe you all will be leading the charge? >> i hope so. i think the march is a great start. things are looking like they are starting to happen. but i don't know that it will until i actually see change. >> you will obviously have to keep your foot on the pedal. it will be hard. you have to get back to school now. >> the past few days have been hard to keep talking about things. you just want to sit back and relax and it's hard not to do that. >> i get that. what do you want to see happen now? >> i just want to at least have a feeling of being safe. at the moment, yes, i'm going through trauma. but other students, other people in class, they should -- i don't

know what the road is to get there. when you walk into a classroom, no one should look there and be like, okay, where is my escape route. i have done that not only since the shooting but previously because of students that occurred. strengthening background checks, whatever it takes, i want people to feel safe going into a place. not really having to worry but especially at school where we go every single day. >> you deserve that. you deserve to feel safe in your school is. thank you so much for stopping by. we'll talk again. chris, they deserve to feel safe. that is the concern here how they will be able to do that. >> an important place to be on a very important day for the kids and the country. we have another big story as well as well. a major development in the russia investigation. actually, several of them.

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another big headline, stripped of his top security clearance. what does this all mean? why did it happen? what does it nine going forward. it is good to have you, is sir. you're a perfect guest for this morning. we have two things to unpack. what this means for trump with special counsel looking into him and his money, and then kushner. let's start with kushner. kelly pulling the clearance. right move? >> yeah, absolutely. it's been such a strange situation to have so many people in the white house walking around with interim clearances and accessing very sensitive information. of course these are all the fruits of nepotism. because there is a sense that the white house has been reluctant to pull the trigger on denying clearances to people who shouldn't have clearances. we saw it with the white house staffer accused of spousal abuse.

it is hard to explain why you haven't denied jared kushner's clearance. >> it all grows out of the rob porter situation. fine. will he survive is? would he be able to do it without the task of the president? what happens now if the president says i have the process. i need jared to do these things. i will let him see classified information anyway. that's my call? >> i'm not sure we will know that will happen, not unless somebody leaks that. because the president has authority to do it. you know, the white house, or at least the executive office of the president, recently released a memo where they wrote it is just because it is legal doesn't make it right. and i think that would be the case here if the president says we're going to ignore all these security concerns and put very classified information in my son-in-law's hands because of

nepotism. >> i think this is a hoax, a witch hunt and you will never find out anyway. the last part is a key component. if we don't find this out, we may never know. that is an important consideration. in terms of what's happening with trump, he never opened the books on his businesses, never turned over his taxes. did that contribute to these special questions into special counsel looking at his financial dealings even before the campaign? >> i have a hard time to believe that robert mueller is on a fishing trip to see what he doesn't know. there had to have been bread crumbs that led him there. but sit true to say there has been a severe lack of transparency stemming from the president not releasing his tax return the way every other president has done. i signed his financial disclosure report. that report doesn't require you

to disclose business partners, business liabilities, ongoing projects, any of the kind of stuff that could give us a clue as to whether there were serious concerns in a security area because he's vulnerable to blackmail or to leveraging for financial reasons. >> so when trump and his people say he has provided more disclosure than anybody else in history, look at all this paper we let you guys say, you say quantity is not quality? >> no. he produced less information of his predecessors since the ethics and government act. his financial disclosure report was compliant with the law. i signed that. of course they asked to not have him sign it. he would have been the first person out of all the millions of financial disclosure reports to not certify that his report is true. >> what are shaub's big

questions going forward? >> one thing in plain sight is the president has refused to enforce sanctions imposed by a by patterson majority in congress against russia. so russia has faced no consequences as a result of their meddling in our election. we heard yesterday he hasn't directed anybody to proactively go after an effort to stop it from happening again. i think that raises legitimate questions about what are his links to russia? do they have something on him, whether financial leverage orem bearsing information? i think that is fair game for robert mule tore look at. >> all right. important insight. thank you for helping us understand better. thank you very much. all right. another story this morning. what does this mean? $31,000 for an office dining room set. that is the price tag for hud secretary ben carson. under skraoucrutiny because it' lot of damn money.

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united nations diplomat says north korea has been sending supplies to syria to make chemical weapons. that diplomat says north korea is providing the assad regime is providing them with acid-resistant tiles and vials. the report also claims north korean missile experts visited syria in 2016 is and 2017. the fbi and "ncis" on base. sit a sensitive area. 11 people, including marines, were sickened tuesday but they don't know what the substance was is three of the people treated at the hospital for nonlife threatening conditions. they don't know what it was. eight others suffering from itching, naval irritation, one had a bloody nose. the fbi is testing the substance

at its lab in "quantico", virginia. the department of housing and urban development is under scrutiny and rightfully so. $31,000 of your money for a new dining room set for ben carson. this after a top hud employee who says she was pressured by her former boss to find funds to renovate carson's office. take a listen. >> he told me again that $5,000 wasn't enough and that we needed to find more money for the project. at that point i said i can't do that because that is illegal. >> that's helen foster. she alleges she was demoted after resisting that request. a hud spokesman said the carsons were not aware of the $31,000 purchase. all right. back to parkland, florida. very important day there. the kids are going back to school. what's in their head, what's in their hearts? alisyn camerota on scene. >> chris, the activity is

picking up behind me. there is a convey of dozens and dozens of police vehicles behind me right now. they are all headed in this direction. there is a gathering of motorcycle police officers right there at the opening of the parking lot as students start bringing their cars here. pembroke pines police behind me. it is a huge show of force from police from all over this region. we just watched as the teachers and staffers started showing up. a long line of cars stretching down the block here. they are first in to this school. they are getting their classrooms ready for the 3,000 students who will be joining us.

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i am here in parkland, florida outside marjory stoneman douglas high school, and there is a huge police presence here.

dozens and dozens of police vehicles from all of the surrounding towns. hollywood, fort lauderdale, pembroke pines. there's a huge cluster about to go across the crosswalk. i can't tell you what a feeling of solidarity to protect stone man douglas and to show them how much they care about them. it has been an unimaginable two weeks for the community. on sunday, they had a bright spot when boys ice hockey pulled an upset victory and won the state title.

thank you so much for being here. what is it like to see all of these police officers. is it comfortable, upsetting, or what is it like to go back into this situation. >> it is definitely comforting to know we're safe. but knowing why we are safe now is overwhelming. i am fearful of going back to school. >> you're a freshman. you lost friends. >> yes. >> you lost two friends? >> five. >> you lost five friends in this because it happened in the freshman unit. and so what are your feelings? one hour from now? >> i really -- i don't know. i just am still in shock from everything that has happened. and going back to school, i'm just worried that it is going to happen again. >> for sure. i don't blame you. of course the emotional scars of

all of this stay with us forever. matthew, as we said, the one bright spot for everybody is that you won the title. so tell us about that moment. >> it was exciting. and i felt like it was one of those cinderella stories. it was a meant-to-be thing. it was an absolute joy. we ended up putting the murals on the school. >> you did? >> he yeah. >> you guys were underdogs, right? >> we were the fourth seed and beat the first seed in the semis. the second in the championship. >> did you feel pressure to win because everything that had happened? >> no. we didn't feel pressure. we thought it was just like almost a meant-to-be thing.

more or less we just have a fun time. it was a good stress reliever. >> totally. did it feel like -- because you were the underdogs, did it feel like you had divine intervention? >> not really. >> it was just your skill. >> just us playing hockey. >> how are you feeling? >> i'm feeling okay. kind of excited to go back to skaofplt i feel like we need to. and it's time. but it is still a little traumatizing. >> it's overwhelming, right, to see all of this at your school. this is just supposed to be a high school. you're a score. so you want to get back in and get back at it. but for your sister, it's different. >> yeah. i don't know how she is going to do another three more years here. i don't understand that. >> what's the answer to that? >> you've just got to do it. i love all the kids here. i can't imagine switching schools or just going anywhere

else. i still want to be with the people that experienced this with me. >> what have these two weeks been like? what have you two been doing during the first two weeks? >> the first week was funerals, day in and day out funerals and vigils. then we went off to -- it was just a lot of hanging out with friends, everyone being together, coping, and then we went to states. >> full of funerals. that is not something that any of us have in your vocabulary, for a week. have you getting counseling? what is the therapy to get through this? >> i went to grief counseling the first day it was offered, the day after everything happened. and i saw grief counselors. it definitely helped a little. but just being with friends and being with my group of friends. we lost one of the members of our group.

just being with them is the best therapy. >> i understand. and you will have an opportunity to be together today. >> yeah. >> we wish you all strength and we will check back in with you obviously as we have been doing every single day. it is going to be really hard, but you guys have shown the rest of the country tremendous strength. thank you both, stephanie and matthew horowitz for being here. >> miami heat star dwyane wade honored this parkland shooting victim and hit a game winner in the process. so we have all the details of that emotional moment in the "bleacher report" next.

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shooting victim, dwyane wade has the best game of his career. >> reporter: he hadn't had much of an impact, averaging nine points a game. he had one inspirational performance. this brought to you by the new 2018 ford f-150. joaquin oliver lost his life in the parkland, florida shooting. wade riding oliver on his shoes, he went out and had the best game of his season, scoring 15 of the 17 points, including the game winner with five seconds on the clock. he posted thanks for being my angels tonight. the warriors are in d.c. to play the wizards. the skipping the trip to the white house to celebrate the nba title. instead, the warriors visiting the national museum of african-american history and culture with students from kevin

durant's hometown he and steph curry have been outspoken saying they would not go to the white house. president trump rescinded their invitatie aeugation back in sep. no media was allowed. the players wanted to have time alone with the students. pretty cool how they were able to turn a negative situation into a positive. >> great. a moment the kids will never forget. thank you to our international viewers. cnn talk is next. for u.s. viewers, "new day" has news in the russia investigation and a lot of it. let's get after it. >> i really don't see how he could do an effective job wut top secret briefings. >> he's doing a great job, and he will continue in his role. >> four countries are discussing jared kushner might be vulnerable. >> i think we might be seeing the end of jared and ivanka. >> this is a broad claim of privilege i don't think any court would sustain. >> hope hic