montgomery and the voting rights act was passed. >> i think it's really important that we remember why we are public servants and i think this kind of pilgrimage helps us to remember and to reflect. now it's time to recommit and e rededicate ourselves. >> they will re-enact that famous walk across the bridge today. >> this is a chinese communist tyrant who he is admiring. >> we have now our sitting president openly amusing about wanting to become a dictator. >> they are all beating us. china, japan. ra conda. all right? >> i wanted to tell a story one of the biggest stories i know.

>> "get out" has grossed 250 million worldwide and a best picture contender at the academy awards. >> people are still mostly going to put their money on either three billboards and the shape of water. >> now the question is how will the academy awards address the surge in activism? good morning to you on this sunday! 7:01 is the time. glad you're waking up with us. i'm christi paul. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. >> the president and press we are talking about and policy and punch lines here. we want to talk about the president who is back in washington this morning after he joined the journalist he loves to hate for the gridiron club dinner last night. among the jabs, he made some of his family, some of the administration, the president's remarks, though, touched on some

of the major foreign policy obstacles he is facing. >> cnn's dan merica is live in washington. >> it was an interesting night. >> reporter: you see a side of the president at a dinner like this you don't regularly see. president trump making self-deprecating comments at the gridiron dinner a white tie event that brings together politicians and journalists for bipartisan ribbing and president trump made jokes about his administration and jokes about himself. he each made jokes about his closest aides, advisers and family. saying steve bannon leaked more than the titanic and joked about his son-in-law jared kushner joking it took him longer to get through security. an illusion he just had his security clearance lowered the last week. he even made a joke about his first wife. he said they were saying who would leave first, steven miller, his speech writer or

melania, his wife. a fact or reports that their relationship has soured the last few months. earlier in the day president trump made news of a different variety down at his florida estate in mar-a-lago. he would like to do what chinese president xi jinping did and get rid of term lamimits in his country. take a listen to what he said. >> reporter: those comments drew criticism, as well as laughs. but it's all part of president trump's love really for authoritarians while overlooking some of their human rights and other abuses. >> it's not the first time we have seen that.

thank you, dan, very much. cnn political analyst julian zeleny is with us now as well as cnn national security analyst samantha and cnn international correspondent will ripley. >> we are following up on the comments the president made regarding china and its leadership there. you're there. you know this is not a laughing matter. >> reporter: yeah. this is clearly, even though no official response from the chinese government, they often don't respond to president tr h trump's off-the-cuff marks this has to be discouraging for many people in china that hoped xi jinping would solidify the transfer of peaceful power at the end of his second term but he is poised to grab the power to himself and rule the rest of his life. tomorrow, i'm reporting from tiananmen's surveyor square and no protests there because the

government cracks down on them. even our own cnn feed here in china was blacked out earlier when i was reporting on cnn international by the chinese sensors and i'm blacked out right now as a result of our reporting about this. state media is censored. the social media is censored as well. people who post anything that is critical of chinese government or critical of the abolition of term limits, they are also being -- they are not able to post words such as disagree or emperor. to get the full back being of the president of the united states for a controversial decision that goes against the fundamentals of democracy, very troubling for people on the ground here who had hoped to have the united states by their side and their push for more democracy in this country and not less. >> all righty. will, thank you so much. i know we need to let you go. we appreciate it there. julian, i want to come to you with that. your reaction, not only to what

the president said in a joking manner last night, but to specifically these comments regarding xi jinping. >> like so many of his jokes, they have an itch. i think the joke has an edge, obviously, if you're in china, if you would hear this joke, you wouldn't find it funny. it lends support to a regime which is doing the wrong thing and here in the united states, it has an edge because it's part of an ongoing story, ongoing series of messages we have heard throughout his administration about authoritarianism and his distain in some ways for free institution. so a joke like that, when it comes from president trump, is loaded and it comes in the context of all these other remarks we have heard from him. >> samantha, i want to bring you in because it wasn't just china that the president was talking about last night at this gridiron event, which, of course, does have comedy mixed in. the president was talking about north korea.

here is the quote. he then joked about i won't rule out direct talks with kim jong-un. the question mark here is where did the joking end? was take joke at all? and what do we walk away from with that kind of comment? because this is clearly a nation we are in conflict with. >> certainly. i definitely don't think joking about a country with nuclear weapons is particularly funny and the fact is we don't even know if it was public information or previously declassified that the north koreans called. typically, in my experience, if the north koreans reach out to talk about nuclear talks or coming to the negotiating table that is highly classified and you don't make a joke at about it at a gridiron dinner but we will have to see. i think the real takeaway from

this is i can't keep track of our north korea policy. it feels like every day we are going back and forth between we are open to talking, we are not talking, there should be preconditions, there aren't preconditions. and the most important thing that we can do right now from a national security perspective is have a coherent policy for a change and policy is not made at a gridiron dinner. policy is made when experts travel, let's say, to south korea and have conversations with the head of south korea, japan, china, and others. policy needs to be made in the situation room and not from the podium of the gridiron dinner. >> julian, the president joked about the cast at the white house that a lot of people are talking about the last couple of weeks, actually. his administration's turnover as well. he joked about who would be the next to leave, as we heard there from dan merica and one point i thought did melania trump know that joke was coming, as in who is going to leave first? steve bannon or my wife melania?

what was your takeaway from that? >> well, he just said what many people are thinking in terms of what is the state of this first person marriage after all the stories we have heard and how much of the turmoil in the white house is not simply about the personnel but about the family, itself? i can't imagine she apologize a joke like that. i can't imagine she apologize all of the stories she's had to sit through in the last few months coming from the administration about her husband. but this is the state of the first family so we shouldn't be surprised to hear this kind of joke and we shouldn't be surprised to learn more about this kind of turmoil. this is the president we have and this is the state of the white house in 2018. >> i think the question seems to be you worry that this is some kind of public humiliation at the same time of trying to be funny. sam, let me ask you this.

the president also criticized former president george w. bush yesterday. listen. >> actually, that seemed to be a two-fer. he criticized president bush and the national security institutions of this country. as a former member, sam, of the national skoecurity council, wh do you think? pich >> monday morning quarterback be. i can remember many times when i was in the situation room when president obama said, what could

president bush have done better on iraq or afghanistan? but that didn't mean that president obama didn't articulate a strategy and we have seen president trump blame president bush, blame president obama for what is happening on russia as a dodging mechanism for actually doing anything about the attack that we are currently under. and so president trump likes to blame everybody else rather than take action on these key ongoing attacks and national security threats. >> julian zeleny and smaj vinograd, thank you for being here. >> "the new york times" is reporting this morning that robert mueller's probe is possibly broadening from russian influence in the election to include the united arab emirates. they allegedly funneled money to president trump's presidential campai campaign. >> george nader was an adviser

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on self-deprecating humor last night with a jab at his son-in-law saying, quote. i thought that was one of his funnier lines. >> it was good. kushner has had trouble getting security clearance and now reports of his family business received loans after he met with a private equity billionaire, meaning in his role as a senior adviser to the president. so we want to bring in ken carson, a former editor and chief of the new york observer and a long time friend of jared kushner also. >> ken, thanks for being with us. >> good morning. >> it's been a rough week for mr. kushner and having a security clearance downgraded is one of those issues and his finances are being probed after he met with billionaires from a private equity firm at citibank and both companies have loaned money to kushner's company. i'm wondering all of this talk, you know the man well, so what

are your allegations? >> i mean, everything is being probed. everything is being looked at. jared has cooperated willingly, fully, transparentally throughout. and i think in a couple of months we are going look back and say he came through it. yes taking a long time and a big backlog. i would say jarrett has a more complicated financial picture than most in the white house and has done a lot for a young guy. this is nothing to do about nothing. he has cooperated every time. the idea loans have been made after he met with people this is ridiculous. the whole point he is recused himself from the family's business. he doesn't know who they are meeting with so of course he meets with businessmen in the course of doing his job. this is a lot of smoke and no fire. >> there are four countries, mexico, israeli, united arab emirates, and china who had discussions regarding how kushner could be used for their political leverage. they believe that they can

influence him by taking advantage of vulnerabilities in his business. is there a vul ner ability there? >> no. we should be having discussions how we can manipulate other countries to our goals. it's the job of other countries to do the best they can to advocate for their positions and our job to put in place people who are difficult or impossible to manipulate. this is -- this intense attention that gets paid to jared is quite ridiculous, frankly. there is a story in axios, a five-part play on jared's destruction. "the new york times" the next day ran a three-part editorial on the downfall of jared. it's ludicrous. this guy has survived and survived and survived where no one else has and the reason he has is he stays focused on work. the reason you're talking to me and not jared is because he is focused on results and getting the best outcomes for america and he lets others do the

jousting in the media. >> we would much prefer to talk to jared and we do get. >> not that we don't appreciate you, ken! >> we want to, obviously, not everyone agrees with your point of view and that includes cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. let me play this? >> it just illustrates the problem of nepotism. you can't treat your relatives like they are regular employees. and this crazy round-about way of trying to get rid of them, i mean, it's just -- you know, in keeping with the surreal nature of this whole white house. >> is it perhaps that jared is, you know, too much now damaged goods, i think, and perhaps he should just consider stepping aside and going back to private life and that all would be best for the white house and this administration? >> no way. jared is doing a fantastic job for the people of this country

and if jeffrey toobin was around giving his opinions on cnn in the '60s, he would have been lauding how important that president kennedy had his brother there to trust. just this past week, we had a big scandal in new york city where the mayor hired a school's chancellor and the guy quit less than an hour after he accepted the job or something like that. it was revealed that it was really his wife who had done most of the interviewing and hiring. and everyone thinks that is fantastic, he cooperates with his family the people he trusts. the president needs to have people around him when he trusts and he relies on these people and they are qualified and they have done important, amazing things, and the president benefits from their advice and as long as he does keep them around. >> has he expressed to you in any way thoughts of perhaps just going back to private life? i saw an associate of his that did just that and i was wondering if that is a precursor to his announcement? >> not once, not one time.

>> okay. i want to play something for you from general michael hayden, former nsa director. if you decide on two securities. two things you consider. one is character and one is circumstance. let's listen. >> it's circumstance. all right? there are some people of good character who, because of their circumstances, would choose not to entrust with classified information. that could be too many family members in the old country, that could be excessive debt, that could be complex international financial arrangement. i think it's important to point out here, we are not looking for guilt here. all right? we are just looking as to whether or not this person should or should not have access to information. >> jared is tasked with some pretty important things in terms of communicating and being liaison with mexico and with his work with israeli. so i'm wondering when you talk they are examining, if somebody has excessive debt or somebody

has complex international financial arrangements, he falls in those categories certainly. should he have access to the security clearance and can he do the job without it? >> i'm not an expert on security clearances and what makes someone eligible for one. but the general talked about circumstance and character, so i can't really speak to the circumstances but i can speak to the character. jared's character is impeccable. i happen to think it's a point in his strong favor that he doesn't get on tv all the time and defend himself and do the "60 minutes" close-up interview. he just focuses on his job. this week he's in las vegas giving an important speech about interoperatability of the veterans administration. this is like the hard, sometimes boring work of government that he is really dug in and gotten his hands dirty and is getting results. >> all righty. one quick question. he is frustrated? we keep hearing about the frustration in the white house. he is one that is frustrated? >> you know what? i think i'm frustrated that people who love this guy are

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come from the outside. democrats are very energized across the country and a lot of these sort of outside groups are encouraging people to make small donations. so that has helped him a lot. you know? i think the most interesting thing in this race is the person that is at the center of it is nancy pelosi, not donald trump. both gentlemen are running against her. corner lamb is a very moderate democrat. in probably any other district, he would be a moderate republican. so it's kind of fascinating to watch. either man could win. we have joe biden. i have lived here in the district. we have joe biden coming here on monday and i believe tentatively, president trump is planning to be here at the end of the week. >> let me raise this issue. rick's campaign says that he

supports president trump's new tariffs and i'm wondering is there a kind of sense that the president's announcement of tariffs on steel and aluminum were made in part to boost the gop candidate in the district? >> maybe. i'm not positive. it's not a district that the tariffs would necessarily benefit. most of the industry around here is either health care or the shell industry. the coal industry around and steel industry in this district is pretty much gone. >> a state writer say democrats can't draw much from a win here because their candidate in this race might come out -- might have come out of a lab, they say. we know he is a marine veteran and he talks about juicesus and goes to gun shows and address abortion but for a woman's right to choose and if favor of

tougher background checks but not ready to ban assault weapons. a lot of that would play well to voters in a specific district. expand a little more on what kind of impact a lamb win would really have once you get to washington and to say even a country voting? >> he would very reminiscent of the candidates that won in 2004. pro gun and many pro life. we won a big wave in 2006 in swing districts like the one i live in, in the pennsylvania 18th. their struggle is how far left their party then goes if they win the majority. that is what happened to them by 2010, they were pretty much wiped out. it's interesting to me in this specific race, in this district, connor lamb is the perfect fit but not the perfect fit for every district.

it's like having two republicans run -- like -- >> that is my question, real quickly. if connor lamb wins, is it really a loss for republicans? >> no. if he remains independent, no, because that means that he could be a vote that they could possibly count on important issues that he stands for, such as no gun control. >> all righty. we appreciate your insight so much. >> thank you for having me. >> thank you for being here. still to come this morning, the red carpet, the fashion, the speeches, the oscars kick off tonight, but there will be drama and it won't all be on the stage. we will discuss how the times up and me too movements are stirring up hollywood's biggest night. up to eleven. join the un-carrier right now, and get four unlimited lines for only thirty-five bucks each. woah. plus, netflix for the whole family. on us. prrrrrrr... so, they get their shows... let's go, girl!

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may dominate the evening. >> reporter: this is the first academy awards since this me too times up moochl have sprung up and many are calling a national reck reckoning. we will not see all black dresses but see some time's up pins. the director has come out and she has said they are, quote, standing down at the awards show this year that they don't want to make every single red carpet in hollywood about time's up but they want to be strategic going forward. i actually went to washington, d.c. earlier this week and i spoke to tina chen, michelle obama's former chief of staff who is heading up this legal defense fund and she said that they have had thousands of requests for help but that they have raised some money but it's still not enough. >> let me -- >> we recruited lawyers and a lot of these lawyers and public relations professionals will do this work pro bono and continue to represent people for free, but we also know the need is great and not every lawyer can afford to give free legal services away.

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i said i was going to run this country like a business. that that business is a waffle house at 2:00 a.m.! crazies, everywhere and staff walking out in the middle of their shift and managers taking money out of the cash register to pay off the russian mob! >> it's funny. i was driving by waffle house around 2:00 a.m. this morning! so it really rings funny. >> i know. i know. we are surrendered by waffle houses down here and we surrounded by waffle houses down here in atlanta. hit a nerve. good one. alec baldwin reprising his role on "snl" and taking aim at president trump after a wild week. >> the cast poked fun of russian investigation and departure of hope hicks. >> let's bring in host of

"reliable sources" brian stelter. i usually try not to laugh and i'm trying to be composed but i couldn't hold it in on that one. >> you're making me hungry with the waffle house talk. >> do you have waffle houses up in new york? i wonder how they knew about that. >> not many in new york but i've had my share of waffle house trips when i'm on the road. i was curious about this episode because of that alec baldwin and donald trump back and forth the other way. first, the president misspelled alec agency name as alex and campaigned about his performance on "snl." i was curious if baldwin would be there since he is recovering from hip surgery. there he was. he didn't really address the tweets but a bunch of jokes about the week's news. here is a clip of baldwin playing trump and talking about the tariff story and referring to the new movie "black panther." they are all beating up, chinese, japan, waconda. all right?

waconda is laughing at us. they have flying cars and people in waconda. i announce the steel and aluminum tariffs and people are going nuts about it. i brought back the steel industry by destroying the oil industry and attacking the stock market. play these male trump ch he's cait mckinnon as sessions. >> sessions needs to go. i call him mr. mcgoo everyone loves it. people around here in the white house say, stop i'm laughing so hard. i can't take it any more. i resign.

>> that's very funny, mr. president. but i'm not going anywhere. i'm like skunk stink on the bird dog so i linger. and i just had dinner with all your friends at the department of justice and, wow, your name popped up more than weasel in a pumpkin patch. that's right, mr. president. you can't bully me, any more. for the first time i'm standing up on my own hind legs, okay? >> i don't know who that's worst for. sessions or trump? maybe that's the rare issue the two of them can bond over given all the tension between the president and the ag. it also came up with a gridiron dinner last night, by the way. trump was poking fun in some way at that relationship with sessions. he offered sessions a ride to the dinner and sessions recused himself, of course. getting at that issue trump's out for a while.

>> the ability of snl to to quickly capitalize, work into a comedy skit events that have taken place before in this administration. they have to be so incredibly flexible thenchs get to work on tuesday or wednesday, starting to work on skits for the weekend. in past years you could have it planned by friday. in the trump administration, in the trump age, these requires are rewriting jokes and coming up with new approaches all week long and right straight through saturday evening. i know you all played a clip of the hope hicks spoof earlier. these cut to the core in some cases of what's going on with the white house. these are obviously insulting in some cases to white house aides. some trump loyalists look at this show and they really cringe the same a the president himself was complaining about baldwin. and yet for the other side of the america, half of america that is concerned about all the chaos in the white house, these

shows sometimes are able to express it in a very visceral way. i looked to that hicks thing and thought she must hate that. she's so press shy. and there is she is being lampooned on snl. >> that can't be busy. kate mckinnon is so brilliant in that costume. if she came up over my shoulder -- brian stelter we appreciate it so much. >> be sure to catch him on reliable sources at 11:00 a.m. eastern, of course, on cnn. john king is here taking a closer look at politics why the president seems to be more lonely than ever. we'll be right back. alice is living with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread

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