>> thank you. always appreciate it. thanks for international viewers for watching. for you cnn talk is next. for our u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. >> this is the moment that the term house intelligence becomes an oxymoron. >> we see no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. >> it was apparent really from the very beginning. their real object was protecting the president. >> the c.i.a. just got it done, we'll show it. >> this is a sham. these guys are frauds. >> you're not saying that russia was behind this? >> right now we are standing with our uk allies. >> rex tillerson did admit that russia was responsible for this, but we still have not heard that from donald trump. >> the world is watching. i hate to put this pressure on you, rick. >> we need better. we have to bring in real people like conor lamb. >> this has become so much more than congressional race. this is testing the p energy of democrats. >> announcer: this is "new day". >> good morning. welcome to your "new day."

alison is on assignment. good to have you as always, erica hill, with us this morning. big headline, the house intelligence committee abruptly ending is russia investigation. republican members breaking with the u.s. intelligence community and announcing that vladimir putin did not try to help donald trump win when russia interfered in the 2016 u.s. election. the gop report insists there's also no collusion between the trump campaign and the kremlin. democrats on the committee slamming their decision to end the probe. let's be abundantly clear, this report is a partisan report. it's a document that was immediately parroted by the president. >> meantime, poms are open in a high-stakes special election in pennsylvania to fill a house seat in the state's deep red 18th congressional district. that race widely seen as a referendum of donald trump's presidency and comes as president trump travels to

california today for the first time in his presidency. he'll be there to check out prototypes for his border wall. let's bring in our coverage with abby phillips live at the white house. >> good morning, erica. president trump is waking up this morning with something to be happy about as the republicans abruptly closed their probe into russian interference with a conclusion that echos his claim that russians didn't try to help him in that election. now, the 150-page draft report is expected to be shown to democrats on the house intelligence committee today. >> reporter: republicans on the house intelligence committee abruptly ending their russia probe without telling democrats. announcing that they have found

no evidence of collusion between the trump campaign and russia to sway the 2016 election. >> you never know what you never know, but we found no reason to think that there's something we're missing in this regard. we've talked to everybody we believe we need to talk to. >> reporter: president trump touting the announcement in all caps on twitter, but democrats insisting that the investigation was incomplete and that a number of witnesses and documents still need to be subpoenaed. >> they would ask, you know, very conclusive questions like, did you conspire? did you conclude? and if they said no, the republicans were content to leave it at that. that's not conducting an investigation. that's going through the motions. so the fundamental problem from the beginning was that my colleagues viewed their job as protecting their client, the president, rather than getting to the truth. >> reporter: republican tom rooney lamenting that the committee's partisan infighting has gone off the rails. >> we lost all credibility and we're going to issue probably two different reports. >> reporter: the house gop report breaks with the intelligence community's conclusion that russia meddled in the 2016 election to help president trump. >> we're just going to have to show the people they were wrong on this. they just misinterpreted some very key intelligence and drew the wrong conclusions. >> reporter: a spokesman for the director of national intelligence declaring that the agency's stand by their assessment and will review the

findings of republicans. >> starting with personal an mouse that president putin had for hillary clinton, they wanted to do everything they could to hurt her. then when things got serious was then candidate trump, particularly when he became the nominee, they were attracted to him because they thought he would be much better for them. >> reporter: as the house intelligence committee's probe comes to a close, special counsel's robert mueller's investigation is gaining steam. deputy attorney general rod rosenstein defending mueller's probe, telling "usa today" the special counsel is not an unguided missile. i don't believe there's any justification at this point for terminating the special counsel. meanwhile, the white house stopping short of blaming vladimir putin for the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the uk last week. shortly after british prime minister theresa may said it was highly likely. >> the use of a highly lethal nerve agent against uk citizens on uk soil is an outraj.

the attack was reckless, indiscriminate and irresponsible. >> reporter: hours later rex tillerson, secretary of state, going further in a strongly worded statement declaring we have full confidence in the uk's investigation and its assessment that russia was likely responsible. >> now while tillerson has said that the russian attack in the uk is likely to trigger a response, it's still unclear why the white house won't say the same. now, president trump later today is going to go to california, his first trip to that state as president. he's going to be viewing some border wall prototypes while he's there and also meeting with service members. now this visit comes amid some pretty stark legal fights with the state over immigration and sanctuary cities, chris and erica. >> thank you very much. joining us now is michael smerconish, cnn political congressm commentator. you heard chris stewart, michael. the intelligence community,

those three, four agencies just got it wrong. we reviewed their stuff and they just mis-read the intelligence, came up with the wrong conclusions. it's time to wrap this up. there's no problem. you okay with that? >> no. the house intel committee may be completely correct. but we don't know. and i don't think they know. i think the only individual the only group of people who know are mueller and his team of prosecutors. and i think, chris, it is so damn sad because our partisan differences used to extend only as far as the water's edge. you know, we used to be in this country like a couple having a domestic dispute that would turn on an outsider. well, the outsider in this case is russia and we no longer turn on the outsider, instead we're divided by politics. i think it's an attempt at inoculation. it's an attempt to inoculate the administration against whatever might come from the mueller probe. >> so, when you say an inoculation, you mean a coordinated inoculation?

>> yeah. well, air karerica, look at the of the announcement. i saw that all-cap tweet from the president of the united states. that thing seemed to be in the word processer or already saved in his android or his iphone and ready to go. i just don't believe in coincidence. yes, i think the white house knew this was coming and wanted to seize that opportunity. look. i go back and remember the day that mueller on a friday afternoon through rod rosenstein announced the indictment of 13 russian nationals for what they had done to try to alter the outcome of the american election. that caught everybody by surprise. i'm sure it caught the house intel committee members, republican and democratic, by surprise. time and again we have been shown that only mueller knows what's going on. and one last thought, we've still not heard from him on the most essential which is the hack of the dnc server. >> well, you know, that is a key piece. michael is right that we haven't found it in.

michael's other point, there's a pattern of back channelling between the house intelligence committee, the rx on it, and this white house that is undeniab undeniable. this unfortunately has been a partisan exercise from the get-go. representative rooney said we lost all our credibility. we might as well shut it down. he's probably right on that front. where he is wrong is saying that there's no evidence that putin tried to intercede on president trump's behalf. yes, there was a larger effort to create chaos and try to irritate identity politics. but it came with a specific aim towards the end of favoring trump over hillary. and to deny that just hangs a lantern on the fundamental problem of the house committee, which is it's become a basically false partisan exercise not interested in the pursuit of truth. it's a disgrace to the best traditions of our politics. >> michael, what's your take on this kind of theme of being very careful about what we say about

russia? you have this spy caper, novel-type situation going on in the uk. these former spies, theresa may comes out and says we think it's russia. you know, we think that this is what it's about. sarah sanders comes out, doesn't say the word russia, no mention about it from president trump. what do you make of that? >> i think it's scary insofar as there appears to be a no check on russia by this administration. it's hard for me to fathom and imagine a scenario that would draw the condemnation of sarah huckabee sanders and the president against vladimir putin, if not in an instance like this that you're now describing of what just took place in the uk or with regard to the meddling in our election. i mean, i'm mindful of the fact that a republican house and senate voted to impose sanctions on the russians for election meddling and this administration still hasn't gone along with it. >> yeah. i mean, that's right. look, sarah sanders was reading from carefully crafted talking

points that specifically did not include the word russia. hours after prime minister theresa may squarely blamed russia base on their intelligence for trying to kill a citizen on their own soil. that is an effort by the white house. the gap between the white house's talking points and version of reality and the intelligence community assessment and secretary of state tillerson's own statements are stark and we need to drill down further on why the white house is afraid to mention the name russia. at this point, it's becoming an international obvious embarrassment and speaks to some discomfort on their part for con fronting reality. >> i want to move on to the local race we're all watching today, of course, in pennsylvania, you're in philly there. as we're watching the 18th congressional district there, everyone watching very closely obviously to see what's going to happen whether conor lamb can pull out a win here. there are lessons, though, not just for republicans in this outcome but also for democrats, michael. when we look at whether they can learn a lesson from the way lamb

has run his race, where he's not bashing the president, he's talking to the people in his district about what they want to hear and what's important to them, not necessarily national party talking points. >> erica, i don't think you need to wait until 11:00 p.m. tonight to know what the lessons are. this guy is an attractive candidate, conor lamb. he has run a very wise campaign. and frankly, the only thing that's at stake tonight is the razor-thin margin of whether it's going to rick saccone or whether conor lamb will pull an upset victory. but i don't know that in the scheme of things that matters. he's already shown that this is a very wise path and it's a path of pretty much traditional democratic politics. be pro-union, work with the unions, yes, be liberal but don't be out of the box, don't be too far to the left. and it's having great affect. who wins tonight? let me just say this if i may, i don't know if that snow that you're showing on the weather maps is going to extend to the

18th. i suspect that it won't. but, it's still a chilly day in pennsylvania. this is a special election where there's nothing else in the ballot for a position that will vanish in nine months. who wins? emotion wins, passion wins. whoever is the angriest or the proudest is going to go out, not necessarily representing the largest number of voters but those who are most motivated are going to carry the day tonight. >> and traditionally in recent decades that's been the most hyperpartisan. what will be interesting to see is whether that 20-point gap that went for trump in '16, the energy and the most committed is not necessarily the most hyperpartisan but folks who really feel forgotten in this politics. the lesson for democrats is fascinating, too. there's a democratic civil war that's been brewing beneath the surface and lot of criticism of other special elengss of folks who didn't go far enough was the narrative. conor lamb, former prosecutor hugging the unions but walking a more centrist path that fits the district. that's a lesson the democrats

still haven't fully internalized but they might after tonight. >> also will play into if michael is right and this is a passion play at the polls, was lamb's strategy of modulating and making sure that he is sensitive to the district enough to bring out people's animosity towards the president, you know, and come out there and back a democrat? we'll see. let me get both of your take on something, though. gary cohn is out. we know that now. who is going to come? looks like it could be mr. cullow. long-time associate from mr. trump. we know him from tv. he is against the tariffs, by the way. this is not official but this is what the president has supposedly been telling people. do we like the choice, let's start with you smerconish? >> well, i know the president likes this choice because i think being telegenic is of critical importance to the president given his own background and therefore doesn't surprise me at all. kidlow is a smart guy by all accounts and is very skilled at doing what you do, chris.

that matters a great deal to the president and the president needs more effective spoex people for his agenda. i can see this happening. >> sure. look, and he's been a figure in conservative circles and respected in economic circles, but i think the larger irony is this is a president who is obsessed with hating on the media. a third of his tweets, plurality of tweets are about attacking the media yet he can't quit the media because he's obsessed with it and surrounding his own administration, stocking his own administration with folks largely from fox news. you have heather nuard at state. it's not hating the media it's hating media who tries to hold him to account. partisan media he wants more of that on his side. it speaks to the relationship trump has with the media. he loves it when it's a bunch of folks speak his talking points and making him look good. >> larry kidlow is a very compelling guy. he's a big personality. i spent time with him off

camera. remember this dynamic of the last set of lips to be near the president's ear. larry kudlow will be tough to beat in these struggles. what he wants may well wind up being that last word. we'll see. michael smerconish, thank you very much for the pulse down there in pennsylvania. very important today. john avlon. pennsylvania's 18th congressional district is trump country. he won by over 20 points. now, you will hear -- well, but it's a democrat district. that's about registration, not performance. we will take you through why this would be so huge if the young man on your left conor lamb can pull off an upset. we'll ask pennsylvania's former democratic governor next. >> announcer: "new day," brought to you by -- when did you see the sign? when i needed to create a better visitor experience. improve our workflow. attract new customers. that's when fastsigns recommended fleet graphics.

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♪ polls are now open and there's a lot on the line in today's special election to fill a house seat in pennsylvania's 18th congressional district. republicans spending millions in a frantic all-out bid to keep

trump country from turning blue. we are live in pittsburgh this morning with more. jason carol, morning. >> good morning to you. folks have started to line up here. the race is too close to call and if you look at the history here, the race really shouldn't be close at all. it should be a slam dunk for rick saccone, if you consider all the money that was spent on the race, some $10 million. trump has come out here not once but twice. the vice president has been here. don jr. out here as well. kellyanne conway. they spent a lot of money trying to get rick saccone over the finish line, but so far conor lamb, the democratic challenger, has proven himself to be a tough opponent. a lot of people focussed on this race because they're wondering if conor lamb is able to pull off an upset here, that could set the tone for what could happen later in the mid-term elections. that's why so much time, so much money, so much effort has been placed on this race. the white house is playing close attention. they know this is a race that's

very much a referendum on the president. chris, erica, that's why so many people are going to be paying attention to what happens when the polls close out here at 8:00 tonight. chris? >> jason, you are in the place to be. we'll see how it turns out. thanks for being with us this morning, my friend. >> joining us now is ed rendell, former mayor of philadelphia. good to see you, sir. >> good to see you, chris. >> all right, so read the tea leaves for us. how do you see this going? do you think conor lamb can pull off the upset in the 18th district? >> yeah, i think if the enthusiasm level stays where it is with democrats 10, 15% more likely to vote than republicans, i think conor lamb will win. even if he loses by two or three points, it's a shocking result as your commentator said. this is a district that donald trump won by 20 points and even more importantly it's a district where according to the monmouth poll 51% of the voters still have a favorable opinion of donald trump. if they can't win in that

election, if donald trump can't bring out voters who are favorably inclined to him to vote for the republican congressional candidates in this district, what's going to happen to them in suburban philadelphia or suburban cleveland or suburban detroit? they're going to get killed. >> suburban voters have been a concern. we heard some gop local party representatives saying, well, it's a democrat district, maybe by registration. you have an anomaly going on there, it's not just trump they went for, they went for romney, mccain. it tends to turn out at the polls as republican, but let me ask you something. conor lamb made an interesting choice, he's sticking with the people there. he's playing to his district and their concerns. he's not a big anti-trump guy. he hasn't gone after him in this election. is there a concern that while that being moderate may play to the attitudes of the majority of the people in the district, it may not stoke the animosity towards the president the same

way and in a special election for a seat that's the only thing on the ballot that goes away as a position in nine months, do you need to stoke those folks? >> well, i think you just hit on it, chris. i think those people don't have to be stoked. they're so stoked themselves, the anti-trump voters, that they're getting that regardless. and conor lamb is a lesson to us as a party. conor lamb ran as a conservative democrat, certainly a moderate. he is moderate on gun rights. he's for background checks but against assault weapon bans. he's pro life, although he said he would vote to keep planned parenthood up and running. he is a true moderate and he reflects the district. our progressive wing has to understand and i consider myself a progressive. we have to understand that these type of democrats are the ones that can win. only joe manchin can have any hope of winning in west virginia. so, we've got to continue to support and back these type of democrats because they'll be casting the most important single vote.

this is what i tell progressives. conor lamb will be voting for a democratic speaker of the house. and we need a democratic speaker of the house because we can't get our legislation to the floor without controlling who is speaker. speaker controls what bills go to the floor. so progressives out there, if you're out in the district, suburban allegheny voters, get out and vote for conor lamb. he is a good guy. he believes in core democratic values and he's just what the party needs in those districts. >> it's an interesting debate you guys are having within yourselves within the party because it seems that the party is moving to the left. you know, if you look at the names who are coming up who may be relevant in 2020, bernie sanders, even though hes on independent, he rises to the top of the list. elizabeth warren says she is not running but has a big constituency, kamala harris and the cory bookers you have that movement towards the left in the party, conor lamb very different

face, almost a return to the clinton days of centerism. is that where the party is going? >> the party has to be smart and conor lamb's district, yeah, we need someone who has conor lamb's views in suburban philadelphia we don't. we can have more progressive candidates. look, interestingly conor lamb's campaign which has done a great job of not letting this become a nationalized election. they asked one national democrat to come in and campaign for them. only one, joe biden and he speaks to working class democrats as well as anybody does. >> you know, i didn't mention biden. should i have? do you think he's your best bet in 2020? >> i would love to see joe biden stand up and say this country is in trouble. i didn't think i was going to run again, but i'm running again. i'll serve one term. i won't care about what my favorable rating is. i'll do exactly what this country needs to turn it around. and that's my promise to you, one term. do what i think is right, not

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♪ president trump celebrating the decision from republicans in the house intelligence committee to shut down its investigation. in this all caps late night tweet, the house intelligence committee has after a 14-month long in-depth investigation found no evidence of collusion or coordination between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 presidential election. let's discuss with cnn legal and political commentator ken and anna navarro. good to have both of you with us. look, that is one take obviously and what we heard from house intel talking about the fact

that they're done and here is what they found before they let democrats in on it. and is there any way to look at what we're seeing here and have it not be seen through a political lens? >> no. [ laughter ]. no. i mean, everything viewed in this arena is seen through a political lens, but you know, they have spent 14 months on this. one of the challenges and the reason my first answer is no is because it is the house intelligence committee and so much of the information they reviewed is not open to the public. you know, it was news when the republican and democrat memos came out discussing some of the material they had uncovered, but it is very significant that they have shut this down and declared no collusion and we'll see if others follow suit. but certainly there's no --

we're back where we began with a russian interference with the election but that's very different than the notion of colluding with one of the candidates. >> the one that matters here is the mueller investigation, which only seems to be widening at this point. so with these wrapping down, anna, as we look at this, does this really hurt the credibility of both parties here moving forward, especially once we get that investigation, whatever it may find, even just in terms of how in-depth they were? >> look, i think there's a huge difference with how the senate is conducting its investigation, how senator bur and warner are working together. the kind of gravitas and seriousness they have done it with and approached it with and what happened in the house. the house investigation went off the rails months and months and months ago. let's remember about devin nunes sneaking around at midnight.

it's been a tainted investigation, it's been a sham, it's lacked credibility from the get-go. i for one am glad that they ended this sham investigation paid on taxpayer money because it had no credibility. and i think devin nunes is doing his party a favor by ending it this way because, you know, it's such an example of the lack of accountability that republicans are holding this president and this white house on. and i think it's part of the reason why today you may see conor lamb win in pennsylvania because voters out there want a congress that is a check and a balance on this white house, that is a co-equal branch of government not just a rubber stamp looking the other way on everything. good riddance to devin nunes and this investigation. it has been an embarrassment. >> ken, i see you laughing over there. >> erica, yeah, i would -- ana

absolving the senate of political gansmanship i don't agree with. look at dianne feinstein making her own unilateral decision to release a transcript out of the one of the senate hearings in a completely to say unusual fashion would be to understate things. and you're right. the republicans are the majority in the house. and ana is also right that the head democrat and republican on senate intel are working together better than they did over in the house. but that is not to say you don't have senators playing games with all of this. i mean, look at some of blumenthal's questioning. you have senator feinstein throwing out a transcript completely unsupported even by her own party by which i mean not voted on. and defying their ordinary procedures. so, there's a lot of politics and in a lot of this. i would say there's the least amount of politics in the mueller investigation, but with respect to that, erica, i don't agree with your characterization

that that just seems to be widening and widening and widening. i actually think it looks like from the outside that they're checking the tail end boxes, not to say it will end this month or anything. they'll have trials and so forth, but that i think the investigative part of their activity is probably on the backside not just widening forever. >> you think the mueller investigation is on the backside? >> yes. >> look, i think none of us have any way of knowing what -- if anybody has been cryptic about what's going on on this investigation, it's mueller. and i think he's completely -- his investigation is completely unaffected by what this house intel committee report is and what they do. he is focussed on what he is doing and we see that he has gotten, what, indictments over 13, 15 indictments and guilty pleas already. >> i want to ask you and move on to this -- >> yeah, but none of them have to do with russian -- none of

them have to do with russian collusion. they have to do with -- look at paul manafort. i don't even think that's within mueller's jurisdiction and yet he's carrying the prosecution forward. he should have handed it off to other prosecutors or the department of justice. from the outside, it does look like they're on the tail end. when you run an investigation, there's a certain pattern who you ask questions when and so forth. and of course you can always discover new things. but at the same time -- >> ken, in terms of discovering new things, isn't that what determines jurisdiction? >> no, no, no, that is not jurisdiction. jurisdiction is related to russian collusion. >> right. >> or the investigation itself. so that would be the lying to the fbi, for instance, that kind of a charge in the course of the investigation, you're right, erica. but a paul manafort financial charges back from 2011 and 2012, 2013 and so forth, that is not at all related.

and it should -- while they're clearly crimes, they should have been handed to a different prosecutor. and i would also just make the political comment back to your first question, erica, that it is significant that the house intel committee came to the conclusions they came. people can disrespect those conclusions and come to it from their partisan perspective, sort of where you end up depends on where you start kind of an attitude. but the fact of the matter is part of the judgment of the special prosecutor's own conclusions will be cast in the light of the other investigators. so that will affect the public's view of those outcomes. >> but it's not even just a partisan thing. yesterday we had congressman rooney from florida, who is a republican and he is no moderate squish, this network telling erin burnett that this investigation had gone off the rails and questioning its conclusion. so, i think even republicans when they are having moments of sincerity and honesty with

themselves recognize that this investigation has been a sham. >> we still support the intelligence community standing by its findings obviously. when the president looks at this and is tweeting about all this and the intelligence community saying we stand by everything we already told you, ken, is that the president getting ahead of himself? >> well, certainly this president does that sometimes. you know, some of his comments about the role of the intelligence community in the analyzing the russian involvement in the election have been kind of all over the map. i don't think anybody seriously doubts that the russians have attempted not only to affect our elections but other countries as well. and that isn't really in dispute. that isn't what mueller is after. but if we had less, oh, i don't know how to phrase it, cloudiness and a lot of the mud being thrown at the wall about the collusion, we would have a lot more clarity on the russian

role and its impact and a lot more acceptance of the kind of conclusions that are coming out of the intelligence studies about exactly that, which i think is important for our national security going forward. we've got to have faith in not only the quality of our elections but the federal government when they do learn things tells the state so they can protect themselves. that didn't happen. the obama administration didn't do that. and it would be nice to get back to solving those kinds of problems that are real threats going forward. and i think we're working our way there, but it's going to take a while and it's going to be a lot of political hull ba lieu here and there. >> across the board. ana, i want to give you last word here. >> on the donald trump tweet, when he's going all caps lock, i feel like he's screaming at us through twitter. and he's completely unhinged. look, he has been reaching this conclusion from day one. we know the man has spent a lot more time attacking oprah and

alec baldwin than he has saying anything, anything, one word, about the russian meddling in the election and the integrity of our election system, which is the foundation of our democracy. shame on him. >> we're going to have to leave it there. thank you both. silence is acceptance always taken. when they stop talking, you have to go. >> time cues. there's a big tech merger going on that was blocked by president trump over national security concerns. okay. so what is the case against qualcomm? cnn money will give you the facts next.

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chief business correspondent christine romans in our money center with more. she making a better case of national security here than he did with the tariffs? >> he is. you know, this is a real america first thing here. he's blocking a $117 billion merger between two huge chip makers the computer chips touch smart phones to cars. the president ordering singapore-based broad come to end its hostile takeover of qualcomm. the white house says there's credible evidence broadcomm might take action to threaten the national security of the u.s. they're concerned china broadcom is known for cost cutting to slow qualcomm's invest to cause the u.s. to fall behind china in the race to 5g. the treasury secretary steven mnuchin said it was based on solely national security sensitivity. this isn't the first time the administration blocked foreign investment, especially where

tech and china are concerned. last september it ended the check up oifr by a chinese-government backed equity firm. there's only been five times they stepped in and said no to a deal on national security grounds. two of those have been during the trump administration. you can see a new trend here. >> christine, thank you. want to get you to breaking news out of the middle east. the palestinian prime minister survives an assassination attempt after his convoy was attacked. oren lieberman has the breaking details for us. >> palestinian prime minister just entered the gaza strip when a bomb went off by his convoy. we see pictures from palestine tv and number of cars were damaged, some had their siding ripped off in the explosion as well as blown out windows. the ministry of the interior said no one was injured in the attack. this deinvolved into a war of words between the palestinian authority and hamas. the p.a., the palestinian

authority blamed hamas for the action calling it a cowardly act. hamas fired back also condemning the act but slamming the palestinian authority presidency for its condemnation of hamas. so, these groups who have famously not gotten along for more than a decade a very acrimonious relationship you see that on display here again as the palestinian authority prime minister survives an assassination attempt. chris, the timing of this is worth noting. today the white house is scheduled to have a conference or meeting on how to improve the humanitarian crisis in gaza. none of the palestinian factions, not the palestinian authority and no representative from gaza is scheduled to attend that meeting. >> that is interesting also that hamas, you know, condemned this attempt but someone tried to kill the prime minister. no one was hurt, but the attempt very real. thank you very much for the reporting, my friend, as always. so, in utah, you have to see this -- a deadly courtroom shooting caught on video. watch this.

[ gunfire ] all right. what just happened? the man who runs up in the shirt, the suspect was a gang member. okay? grabs a pen, tries to stab the person on the witness stand who looks like he's in a jumper, right? he looks like he must have been in custody. he escapes. a deputy u.s. marshal shoots the man lunging with the pen four time, kills him. the video is from 2014. it was released after this four-year court battle with the suspect's family. a judge ultimately ordering the video be released to the public. i mean, look, the deputy's case was pretty simple. i thought this man was trying to do serious injury or kill the witness. and i don't know how you couldn't think that when you see him grab a pen and lunge at the guy's -- >> literally jumping into the box. >> amazing. these sleepy trials sometimes they change in a second if you're not on your toes who knows what happens. any way, who is charlie?

speculation mounts over the identity of o.j. simpson's, in quotes, friend that he mentioned in his hypothetical confession. there was never any mention in the trial of someone else. so, does he exist? jeffrey tuben knows this case as well as anyone. he weighs in next.

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o.j. simpson's lost interview has social media abuzz about a possible accomplice in the double murder of nicole brown simpson and ron goldman. simpson's hypothetical account includes a reference to a friend named charlie. take a listen. >> in the book, the hypothetical -- >> charlie. >> charlie. this guy charlie shows up, a guy who i had become friends with, and i don't know why he had been by nicole's house, but told me, you wouldn't believe what's going on over there. we go over, get in my car and go over. i think charlie followed this guy in, wanted to make sure there was no problem. he brought the knife. this guy kind of got into a karate thing and i said, you think he can kick my ass. i do remember taking the knife

from charlie. to be honest, after that, i don't remember. >> so is o.j. simpson's friend charlie real? joining us is cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin author of "the run of his life: the people versus o.j. simpson." >> am i allowed to say on tv that makes me want to puke? >> yes. you just did. >> okay. >> important reminder, this is not new, the idea of this hypothetical and the book that he wrote. the reason the interview didn't come out at the time is because of taste, people were appalled by this. >> yes. >> judith reagan lost her job at fox news. she's now back with the interview. for a lot of people, they don't remember that nuance or weren't around for o.j. the first time around. what do you want them to know about the idea that he might have been with somebody else?

>> it's totally preposterous. there was so much hoopla around this case, people forget the actual evidence. the evidence at the crime scene showed without a doubt there was only one perpetrator. size 11 shoes, bruno motley shoes, walking away from the scene, blood trail to the left. o.j. had a cut on his left hand, blood on the gate, blood in the bronco, blood at his home in rocking ham, in brentwood. no evidence of any other person there at all. this fictional charlie was new in this interview in 2006. the internet conspiracy theory has always been jason, his son from his previous marriage was somehow involved. jason was not in the area, completely untrue. o.j. simpson committed this crime by himself. >> i remember at the time psychologists were saying that

charlie was a proxy, was a way for him to help him tell this story. the whole thing was so obnoxious on its face, that o.j. simpson, just for his kids' sake, the idea that he would concoct this kind of bs story about it, try to make money off it, was really so appalling at the time, it wound up cratering the entire episode. >> it's worth remembering for those who tolerated the whole interview, he's sort of toying with judith, teasing the audience, maybe it happened this way. he's talking about the murder of the mother of two of his children as well as ronald goldman. and the idea that he would exploit it in this way and tease people more or less admitting that he was involved really shows you what a sociopath he is. >> reagan was playing it straight. she said i never met him before. who is putting the book out?

>> it was all a rupert murdock production. the tv show was on fox. harper collins was owned by murdo murdock, as it still is. it was a synergy operation that they didn't realize there would be such a big backlash. >> interesting to point out, this isn't about you digit reagan. this crime is about o.j. simpson. she must have had some relationship with him because she was going to put the book out. obviously that's something that put some stink on her at the time. what do you want people to know about this now, now that it's out and they're seeing it? some people will have fresh eyes on the situation. >> for all that this crime was famous for, for celebrity, this was a domestic violence homicide. this was a wife abuser who actually pleaded no contest to abusing nicole a couple years earlier, and his anger built and

his -- the famous 911 calls that nicole made, he's o.j. simpson, i think you know his record. >> and eight different times they had come to the home. one time she came rushing out of the bushes saying he's going to kill me, he's going to kill me. she said to the police, you're not going to do anything, you're going to talk to him and you're going to leave. it's such a window in a problem that exists today. we have a documentary coming out about how domestic violence is underreported and underreacted upon by authorities and the system at large. that played a huge role in the death of these two people. >> absolutely. this is a case about domestic violence. i think as we talk about me too which is not identical but related to this story, it's just a reminder that for all that this was a famous case and created celebrities, it was a story that is so familiar in the united states.

husbands killing their wives. >> and domestic violence at the root of it and not being acted upon in the right way by the system. by the way, plays into our gun discussions, also, if you look about statistics about when guns are used improperly and by whom, look at domestic violence, at the top of the list. jeffrey toobin, one of the greats. >> we're following a lot of news. let's get after it. >> tell me the strongest piece of evidence that supports collusion. because there isn't any. >> they claim there's no collusion, no collusion. they never once looked for collusion. >> they were trying to help trump at some point. they were also trying to thurt our side. >> i don't agree. they were attracted to him because they thought he would be much better fon them. >> it is highly likely that russia was responsible. >> the attack was reckless,

indiscriminate and irresponsible. >> rex tillerson has come out condemning russia. that has not been met at all by the white house. >> a loud boom. it shook the windows. >> a pool of blood everywhere. >> this is the third over the past ten days. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. >> good morning. welcome to your new day. alisyn is on assignment. the one and only erica hill joining me. good to have you. >> nice to be here. >> we begin with house republicans abrupting ending the russia investigation. why is it abrupt after 14 months? they didn't tell the democrats. the gop breaking with the fbi, cia, nsa and director of national intelligence all of whom invift vladimir putin was trying to help donald trump when russians meddled in the 2016 election. the house intel members of the gop say that's not true, all of those people got it wrong. they also say there's no