mike pompeo has already been over there and trying to get acclimated. what do you think will change in terms of diplomacy under him? >> i had the chance to sit down with the secretary desk nignate this week. we hope that the confirmation hearings will start up in the next few weeks and we're also hoping for a quick process. i don't want to get ahead of the senate because they have the role of advise and consent. but if he were to become the next secretary of state, one of the areas he will start is listening to folks in the building, having conversations with my colleagues, asking what their priorities are, asking what they need, what kinds of tools that they need to do their job. so i think we'll try to see him do a lot to recognize the professionalism and the importance of what my colleagues do. our foreign service officers are terrific civil servants and our contractors as well. i think that you will see him doing a lot to try to boost morale and recognize the importance of what the state

department does. >> acting undersecretary, heather nauert, thank you very much. we're following a lot of news. let's get to it. >> good morning. well do to your "new day." it is maundy thursday, 8:00 in the east. president trump firing his v.a. secretary, tapping his white house doctor to replace him. the president insists dr. ronny jackson is highly trained and qualified. but if you look at his resume, he has never managed anything significant let alone of the scale of the federal government's second largest department. so how will he justify picking someone to manage hundreds of thousands of employees, hundreds of billions of dollars? and "new york times" reports that john dowd flirted the idea of pardoning michael flynn and paul manafort as the special counsel was building cases against both men. was dowd trying to influence

flynn and manafort from cooperating with the investigation? we begin with abby phillip live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning. another day, another firing here at this white house. this time it is the only obama holdover in president trump's cabinet, david shulkin. replaci with his personal physician here. but there are questions raised about whether he has the management experience necessary to manage this large and troublesome bureaucracy at the v.a. president trump firing embattled veterans affairs secretary david shulkin, the latest in a series of high profile departures in the last month. sources tell cnn that chief of staff john kelly notifying shulkin of his termination in a phone call. before the president made the announcement public on twitter. his departure was expected after damaging revelations that shulkin and his wife used tax payer dollars for a european trip, a trip that at least four

administration officials cautioned him not to take. shulkin claiming he was faultls accus accused. in a surprise move, president trump tapping his white house physician ronnie jack are son as his nominee to head the v.a. white house officials tell cnn it is because the president was pleased with how jackson handled questions praising his health back in january. >> there is no indication that he has any cognitive issues. i told the president if he had a healthier diet over the last 20 year, he might live to be 200 years old. i don't know. he has incredible genes. >> reporter: a source says mr. trurm h trump had been float jackson's name but wasn't taken seriously, this as the white house faces new questions about whether president trump offered to pardon two top advisers at the center of the russia probe in exchange for their silence.

the new yo"new york times" repo that john dowd discussed the idea of mr. trump pardoning michael flynn and paul man for the with their lawyers last year if they were to be criminally charged in the special counsel's investigation. the "washington post" reports that these conversations took place last summer before manafort was charged with financial crimes and before flynn cut a deal with mueller in exchange for pleading guilty to lying to the fbi. the white house dodging questions about pardons reading a statement from the white house lawyer ty cobb. >> no pardons are under discussion or under consideration at the white house. >> reporter: dowd denies having any discussions related to pardons even after reports surfaced back in july that mr. trump was considering granting pardons to those under investigation. >> the president has even required about the ability to pardon himself. >> reporter: as recently as december, the president leaving open the possibility of pardoning flynn. >> i don't want to talk about

pardons for michael fling yet. we' flynn yet. we'll see what happens. >> reporter: president trump this morning is actually reviving a dispute that he has had ongoing with amazon and its ceo jeff bezos. this morning he tweeted i have stated my concerns with amazon long before the election. unlike others, they pay little or no taxes to state and local governments, use you are on postal system as their delivery boy causing tremendous loss to the u.s. and are putting many thousands of retailers out of business. this issue is in the news this week because of reports that president has been talking more and more about this in private. and president trump has actually been very public about his dispute with amazon, with jeff bezos who by the way also owns the "washington post." the president here leading into this and this reporting on amazon yesterday had some impact on their stock prices. >> that is interesting. okay. thank you very much.

let's bring in alex and brian. dr. johnson has great medical credentials. not managerial credentials about and he will be running the second largest agency in the government. so how do you think this confirmation hearing will go? >> we just don't know a whole lot about how he is prepared to answer questions about that experience, the white house and their allies have not been giving particularly deep rationale for this choice. the president obviously gets along with him and thought he did a great job describing the president's health over the summer. but you have not had the preparedness that you would sgoekt a nomin expect. so i think he has a tough confirmation hearing ahead of him and i think veterans issues are particularly charged at this moment and it is sort of an issue where concern crosses partisan and demographic lines in a way that not a lot of issues do. >> you have people running

organizations now where they don't know what the hell the organization did before they got into it, so he has help there, whether it is the secretary of education or housing. so devos, carson. so you have some precedent there. and the gop will swallow pretty much whoever trump puts up there. but you should have to make a case for yourself that you can do this. shulkin had his personal problems. >> he will live 20b be 200 year old. >> shulkin is a doctor too. i misstated that. i was focusing on the management experience. he is a doctor, but he than hospitals. shinseki had multiple commands. so ronny jackson has a ton of experience with the v.a.? he must mean as a clinician. so let's say he means as a clinician. that is not the same as knowing how to manage it.

and the idea -- if their argument is that your management experience has gotten us in trouble, look how the place has famed -- >> that's right, that is logically. >> all i have is logic. >> look, the day -- i remember the day he came out and said that the president is going to live to be 200. >> could. >> could if he had the right diet. a 71-year-old guy with heart disease who likes to eat cheeseburgers and he weighs 14 pounds more than i do? i don't think so. >> he'd have to be drinking that stuff they give the guy in the "black panther." comes out of the special flower. did you see the movie? >> yeah. very funny. so you're watching this and i remember at the time turning and looking at sanjay who was next to me and i go what is he angling for? and then yesterday when the announcement was made, it took me a minute to go, oh, it all

makes sense now. if you think about it, this may be the most brilliant guy to go to the administration. he played his cards wonderfully. >> and i think it is true that there is a track record of appointing people to positions that they don't seem to be trained for, prepared for. i'm not sure that the ben carson con fir hags hefirmation hearin the same way today as it did. >> why? >> there is a different relationship between congress and the white house now. the precedent may hurt him. and new president, there is a cultural of the man should have the team that he wants. i may not love ben carson or betsy devos, but he won the election, he gets his picks. >> but we are -- >> i'm actually not done talking right now. but to my point, i will finish my point -- >> go ahead. >> we're 14 months into the administration. the culture of deference has

worn out to a degree and there are folks on the hill who are concerned about this cabinet department. so i'm not redifficulting that you will be rejected or that he won't do a good job. but he will have to make his case. >> it would be a big deal for them to bump a cabinet secretary. they did it with a judge. senator kennedy went after that judge who was woefully unqualified. >> but the point being to what you were saying earlier, why now is there is a change? is it because of just the accumulation of garbage that we've seen over the last 15 months? because i got to tell you, from the people i talk to the hill, i don't see that there is much change in the republican side as far as deference to the president. they are more than willing still to go along with what he proposes. i don't think that has chained much. i don't think there is anything that will make it change that much. unit somewhere do unless somewhere there is a indictment or link to the

russian hacking, i think that the republicans still love this president. and by and large if you take a look at mitch mcconnell, at ryan, i don't think that -- i'd be surprised if there would be a huge -- you're right, he has to make his case. >> i think if jackson does a tremendous job at his confirmation hearings, he will get republican support. >> but he can't say he's ever running in like that before. >> you're right. and the agenda on infrastructure, on guns, congress has just ignored him in the last couple months which they were not doing in the first year. you are not seeing enormous confrontation, but you are seeing them largely ignore him on a lot of stuff that he is trying to push. >> on stuff that would be unpopular for them. i think there is a give and take there. if it is unpop ular in their district, they will push where they can. but the point you made earlier about them wanting to allow him to have the group that he wants

working with him, there was still that overwhelming desire to make sure that -- and the president has made that point through sarah huckabee sanders in that press briefing room on more one occasion about democrats being the stumbling block and the reason why they can't fill all their positions and the reason why they are not effective isn't because republicans, it is because dems won't give them the people that they want. so unless he drools and passes out and makes a complete fool of himself, i don't think there will be any problem getting this guy in. >> so we'll see. >> let's talk about amazon. the president is going after amazon. yesterday amazon's stock fell by 4%. $31 billion loss. so obviously jeff bezos is at the top of amazon. can you catch us up here? why is the president going after amazon and do they really not pay any taxes? >> i think it is important to put this on two tracks. there is the personal track. the president has expressed

antipathy for bezos and the "washington post" for a long time. a lot of that is the political coverage. his criticism that it pays taxes differently than other retailers, that fits in a line ever criticism that amazon has taken for years. under the obama administration, there was a bipartisan push to change the way internet retailers not just amazon pay taxes on sales sort of across the country. so it is not as though the president is coming from some wildly outside the mainstream position here. but it is intensely personally charged. >> yeah, let's not pretend that this is anything more than the president being upset with the "washington post," please. this is blue smoke and mirrors. >> he says he said it before the election. >> doesn't matter. it's still an impetus that he doesn't like them. where is he going after facebook or -- i don't know. sinclair broadcasting. he doesn't like the mergers of time warner. he will fight that.

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president trump firing veterans affairs secretary dr. david shulkin tapping physician dr. ronny jackson to replace him. the first congressman to call for shulkin's ouster was mike kaufman of colorado, a marine corps veteran who served in both the gulf war and iraq war. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. >> great to have you. why did you think that dr. shulkin was not fit for the job? >> well, dr. shulkin did nothing to change the culture within the department of veterans affairs. and there is a calcified layer at the top at the most senior executive service levels that have failed our veterans year after year after year. and have not been removed. and the congress gave the

administration, the prior administration, the authority to expeditiously remove these people without the same protections as the rank and file. and the prior administration didn't do so. dr. shulkin didn't do so. and so nothing changed at the v.a. and he really needed to go. >> and how about dr. jacks jackson? is he qualified to changes the calcified culture in. >> unless he removes a good number of those people, unless he cleans house, certainly it is my position only the v.a. can be cleaned up by somebody outside the v.a. but if he thinks that he can just -- given his personality he can weigh in, he will change things, that just won't happen. and the v.a. will continue to fail our veterans. >> so am i hearing you right, you are concerned about this appointment from the president? this pick? >> i'd be concerned about any appointment. i just think that unless this

navy officer will be marine corps tough and, you know, go in there and clean house and say you really don't belong here, you've not served our veterans and the taxpayers of this country in terms of this bloated bureaucracy, unless he will really clean house, this is an organization that is over half the size of the united states army. and unless he will be tough, nothing will change. >> so how do you think his confirmation hearing will go? >> well, i think it will probably go well. my guess is it won't be about the privatization of the v.a., it will be about having a v.a. but having a collateral or parallel relationship with community providers under the choice program and getting that to work. i think that will be the focus. i don't think that he will have a hard confirmation process. >> do you think you need managerial experience to run an agency with more than 360,000 people?

>> well, it certainly helps, but i think that dr. shulkin had managerial experience and he failed. and the predecessors before him in my view they failed too. >> so doesn't that bode badly for what is about to happen? >> you know, it will be tough. i'll be frank with you, the odds are not with him. and so unless -- i hope to meet with him soon. and sit down and talk with him. and spell things out. because i'm here to represent the veterans of the united states as a member of congress, as 345 reasthm marine core comb. i'm not here to be a booster for a particular president or party. i'm certainly a republican. but i'm going to lay it out to him what he needs to do. and i think if he fails to clean house, he will fail. >> why do you think the president picked him?

>> i think the president doesn't have a positive chemistry i think with a lot of people. and i think that he is finally settling down on the team, on a set of personalities that he believes have the skill sets to do the job that he has a good rapport with. i think he has good rapport with this navy doctor who has had a stellar career. been quite frankly more hands on than behind a desk. but has had a stellar military career who he has a good rapport with that he communicates well with, that he thinks can do the job. >> do you think it has anything to do with the fact that dr. jackson gave the president a glowing health report? >> probably didn't hurt. but i think if you look at the kind of people that the president has gone with in, you know, whether mike pompeo as secretary of state or whether it is john bolton as his new

national security adviser, and you look at these sort of changes, and general mattis who has been there from the beginning, it is people that he respects, it is people that he communicates well with and he has a good rapport with. on so that is what we're moving forward with and admiral jackson certainly fits that description. >> congressman, we appreciate your perspective. thanks for being here. >> thank you for having me. all right. president trump defending the second amendment after a former supreme court justice calls for its repeal. some conservatives say that is what the gun control movement is about. really? we have the president of the u.s. conceal carry association, they have a reach that goes beyond a million people, let's have a conversation about what we can get done to stop the shootings -- next. so i'm not happy

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about better rules, it is about getting rid of the second amendment all-together? do you believe that? a lot of people do. president trump declared in a tweet that the second amendment will never be repealed as much as democrats would like to see this happen. the president is responding to someone who isn't a democrat, a former supreme court justice, john paul stevens, who was actually appointed by a republican, president reagan, but he did put out an op-ed saying that he thinks that repealing the second amendment would be the fastest way to legal change. and other people have echoed this sentiment as well. but is it real or a distraction from bringing people together to answer the question of how go stop the shootings? joining us now is founder and president of the united states concealed carry association, tim schmidt. welcome to the show. thank you for being part of this conversation. and i hope we can keep having you on because we need to have all sides represented to keep pushing for changes that will keep people more safe. so thank you. >> thank you for the warm

welcome. and i look forward to being a part of the conversation because you're right, we do need to continue to talk and figure this out. >> so i wanted to start with this idea of what we don't believe. everybody wants there to be less violence, less shootings. i'm right about that, right? >> of course. yes, we all want that. we all want safety and security for our families. and this isn't a republican and democrat issue. we all want that. >> and in fair when i was vetting your organization just to make sure what we were getting, but you get blown away by your membership, but you have people from both parties and all different kinds of stripes in there. so the idea of it is just one way or on the other, you don't represent that so i wanted you here. the reason i'm seizing on this second amendment thing, have been been op-eds about it, yes. with there people who want to repeal the second amendment? yes. but is that a main thrust of what is being proposed anywhere in congress? i don't see it. and i feel that it is being used as a device to keep people apart and if you do that, we'll never

get any better solutions. >> that is a great point. and certainly you don't hear a lot about that. but i got to behone honest, whe former supreme court justice talks about that very thing, that is pretty scary. if you look back at world history, gun control starts and edgily it turns into gun confiscation. i'm not saying that that will happen in the united states. but it is a possibility. and it makes people nervous. >> i think the second part is what seizes on me. like if you had to list hey, here's what we want to worry about, here are the laws we're concerned about, that would be very low on your list as possibility, right? because, one, we have the political impractical nature of it. there is a reason that the constitution has been changed so few times. last time we did it was really about prohibition. you need two-thirds of both houses of congress, you need to have 38 of the states legislature. just not going to happen. but if you bring it up, it does scare people. it makes them nervous.

and when you are scared and nervous, you are less willing to reach across to the other side. fair concern? >> exactly correct. and you are less willing to talk about what will really make a change and what will really make an effect be. and unfortunately, so many of the laws that are getting proposed, increasing gun control, changing the age at which you can buy a gun, these are august feel good laws that are completely delusional. they will do very little. what we have here in this country, we have a problem with society. we have a societal problem and we have to address that. we can't think that by just passing more laws it will all of a sudden make criminals follow the laws that we currently have. so we have a long way to go with this issue. but i think you're right, being overly scared with op-eds about repealing the second amendment does not help at all. >> it just keeps people -- all i was dealing with yesterday, once the president echoed it, they were like see there it is. schumer came out and said this is not what we want. you even had one of the parkland

kids say this is not what we want. and that is another device. i was surprised and saddened that people go after these kids. they are just kids who survived a mass shooting. they have strong feelings. you can disagree with them. they can be wrong in terms of what they want. but i've never seen people demonize kids like this that just lived through this. do you endorse what they have been doing to these kids? >> no, of course not. i feel like these kids have been used as pawns on really both sides. i mean, you're right, they are young kids, some of them 13, 14, 15 years old. and of course they will have something to say because they just survived an unbelievably traumatic event. but to shove them in front of the camera, to put them on tv i think that is a disservice. >> you and i qudivide on that. they have earned the right the hard way to be there. a lot are voting age, they need to vote because let's be honest, politicians on this issue, they are not acting out of conscious,

they are acting out of don't defense. the nra is barely a top ten lobbying firm. it is votes, people vote on this issue when they are gun advocates. and if people want different law, they will have to vote on that intention. and until they do, we'll have status quo. so let's shift, this is our first conversation, we'll have plin plenty of hope, but in terms of what is is on the table. societal issues, hardening targets at schools, that is on the table. fair point. but to have it on there to the exclusion of the discussion about access meaning who gets weapons and under what circumstances, 90 plus percent of this country left and right say we need to have better controls on who gets weapons. do you agree? >> so in a perfect world if we could make laws that would have an affect on criminals, sure. but the fact of the matter is that you can pass as many laws as you want, you can say that

you knkt getcan't get a gun unte 50, it won't have any of affect on psychopaths, on criminals getting guns. there are 300 million guns in the united states. if you -- >> if you want to get a gun illegally, you can. it is not that easy. i've done it before journ journalistical journalistically. but let's assume you can. our problem is these mass shooters, not talking about overall gun violence and what we see in urban settings. that is a bigger problem, more complex. these guys almost always get their guns legally. and that is something that you can control. red flag laws would make a difference. waiting periods might make a difference. universal background checks might make a difference because people find easier routes of access when they can. but we can't even get universal background checks done. and i don't understand that. why? >> well, part of the problem is that the federal government has challenge with getting really anything done gekt differencely

abo effectively. >> but you say leave the gun shows out. >> so here is why this is important. because sure you can attempt to pass all of these laws that will make it more quote/unquote are potentially more difficult to get the gun. but what you are doing is making it more difficult for good guys as well. and guns are used roughly 10 to 12 times more often every year to stop crimes, to stop murders and rapes than they are for mass killings. >> but a lot of that statistic goes to guns in the hachbd he h police. but i take your point. it is good to have you on here. you guys have to be part of this conversation. and you will be going forward. tim, i look forward to seeing you again soon. once we get more meat on the bones of where lawmakers are in terms of what they will even consider. >> sounds good. thank you very much. >> thank you, sir. have a great easter. a stern warning from the judge in the at&t/time warner merger. what does he want both sides to do? that is next.

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so the judge in the at&t/time warner trial is

warning lawyers on both sides to speed it up. what does it mean for the high stakes merger involving cnn's parent company? let's discuss with brian stelter and hadas gold. you're in the courtroom every day. why does the judge want this to happen? >> well, it is all about the time line. so let's take a look at how this has all worked out. the deal was first announced a few years ago in october of 2016. then the justice department decided to sue november of 2017. the trial starts in march 2018. but there is a merger deadline of june 21, 2018. and the judge yesterday in court warned if this trial goes in to may, he doesn't think that he will be able to issue an opinion before the merger deadline he said because this is such an important case, it will be more than 200 pages. he said the level of accuracy and detail that he needs, the lawyers need to speed this up.

we are going incredibly slowly. we're seeing maybe two witnesses a day. there a lot of cross-examination and redirect. and it is not going to get done this time. if he is warning about getting into may, that only leaves us about four weeks left and we've barely gotten through i think three witnesses from the justice department and we still need at&t's side. >> so it is your impression that we're not going to meet the deadline? >> unless things really start speeding up. we've heard that both sides are calling somewhere even possibly 30 witnesses each. so the judge told both sides to sit down this weekend and really go through your witness list and make sure that you have witnesses you need and not what you want. and that his tolerance for redundancy is going lower day by day. >> and then what, brian? if it misses the deadline. >> so this is where it gets even more interesting. it is possible that either at&t or time warner could walk away and say he wie say we don't wan anymore. giving the justice department

what it wants which is to not see the merger go through. there is speculation on wall street that maybe time warner could get a better offer elsewhere or maybe being sold off in pieces. this is all speculation though. at&t and time warner could very well say we'll extend the deadline again. we'll go ahead and stay together even longer and try to see this through. i do think this speaks to what it mean for the business climate when you try to do a deal in october 2016 and almost two years later it is in court, and there is opportunity costs. when these things drag out, it hurts businesses and actually hurts the marketplace. that is the concern on the at&t side. but this is how the government believes this should work, that it should -- we should pump the brakes here. pump the brakes on this merger, show things down. and of course that affects other companies as well. >> and tell us about the

president just tweeted about amazon, obviously he seems to have some sort of person am issue with jeff bezos who owns the "washington post" as well. what is the beef? >> this is a an ongoing dispute. maybe we'll see the justice department look in to this. the same antitrust division that is looking at at&t and time warner. it is remarkable that a republican president is so focused on trying to have a hand in the marketplace. this is what we would expect from a democratic president. it is yet another reminder that president trump is a unique kind of creature of washington. not playing by typical republican rules. >> thank you both very much for the update. a new cnn poll could be cause for concern among democrats in the midterm elections. we'll show you the numbers and give you the bottom line next. but first, cutting back on meat and turning to soy, jacqueline howard reports on the latest science and what it says

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51% democrat, 36% republican. and in fact if you look at the post enthusiastic voters, the democrats have a big midterm advantage. of course the overall congressional approval is not good. you know this. 18% is where congress sits right now. doesn't get much lower than this th . but this is about 10 points below of where american s approved of congress the last time house changed hands. and who would do better? democrats win on health care, russia, immigration and gun policy. they died on the budget and economy. and the one clear advantage, republicans on national security. >> so what do you see in terms of what it means for democrats? because the data is only as good as the next step approach. >> well, that is true. and it is clear and you don't have to just rely on polls for this, you can rely on actual

election results over the last year, the enthusiasm in american politics is on the democratic side, no doubt about that. republicans are keenly aware of the headwinds they are facing. but what we see here is that in the same poll where donald trump's approval rating has gone up a bit, so too has the democratic advantage narrowed. it shows you how important the president's approval rating is to republican chances this fall. >> let's talk about dr. ronny jackson who has been the president's pick for v.a. secretary. back in january snl had a good time with dr. jackson's glowing report on the president's health. watch this. >> at the time of examination, the president was 71 years and 7 months young. his resting heart rate was a cool 68. his weight a svelt 239 pounds. he has a gorgeous 44 inch coke bottle waist. legs that, well, they seem to go

on forever. >> oh, my gosh. so how do you think this nomination is going to go? >> certainly not as smoothly as david shulkin's nomination went when he got 100 voting for him in favor. this is i think going to get much more scrutiny in terms of ronny jackson's experience, preparedness for this job, second biggest agency in the federal government obviously. and what his credentials are in the past that makes him the right manaperson to manage the e bureaucracy. i think you will see a ton of scrutiny applied. >> and just being a doctor, shulkin is a doctor too and he ran hospitals. it is not like we need somebody to better diagnose the veterans who are using this. there is home loans, all types offed offed of adjunct education.

t does the precedent of devos and carson help or hurt jackson? >> well, i think right now what you it is an election year these confirmation battles that are upcoming will be tougher than they are at the outset of the president's administration which some of the folks you just said went through that process at the beginning stages. so now you are in a more narrowly controlled republican senate of just 51-49 and are you in an election rear. that complicates things. but remember, when we talk about allrear. that complicates things. but remember, when we talk about all republicans joining with the president, that may be we'lbe. we'll see if any have concern. but democrats running in deep red states that donald trump won by double digits, mondthose sens up for re-election whether they want to be tagged with voting

against helping veterans which is how this would be framed. so there is a calculus here where you can imagine democrats feeling, some, feeling some political pressure to get on board with this as well. >> okay. thank you very much for the bottom line. >> sure. maundy thursday good stuff is coming up. i won't tell you if there is it a connection or not. maundy thursday. >> that is a tease. [ doorbell rings ] janice, mom told me you bought a house. okay. [ buttons clicking ] [ camera shutter clicks ] so, now that you have a house, you can use homequote explorer. quiet. i'm blasting my quads. janice, look. i'm in a meeting. -janice, look. -[ chuckles ] -look, look. -i'm looking.

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time for the good stuff. reminder that good hearts are still alive. so there was a suitcase full of memories, it belonged to a wo n woman's parents. stolen from a car in florida. there was something there very special, a love letter her father wrote to her mom back in 1977. so of course they thought they would never see any of this again. and then chris bowers entered the picture. >> you saw this piece of paper just sort of flickering down the street. and i thought it looked interesting and i picked it up out of curiosity. >> he reads it, posts it on social media. soon enough, sarah was notified. >> this whole thing has been like a -- humanity is still there and people care. that is awesome. >> yes, well said by the woman with the purple hair, the color

of maundy thursday, well done. i'm sure that was intentional. >> entirely. would you like to explain to everyone? >> maundy thursday, this is what this is in the easter tradition for christians. and maundy is from the commandment from jesus' commandment do others what i have done to you like washinging feet. now to a scary moment involving a wild animal. here is a cheetah in a jeep. and by the way there is also another one on the hood. this happened during a safari. the driver looks a tad nervous. he said his guide helped keep him calm telling him not to make any sudden movements or look in the cheetah's eyes. i wouldn't have known not to look in their eyes. >> i stared right in the eye. >> eventually the cheetah moved on and no one was hurt. except that driver was -- had the spots scared out of him. >> as an italian from queens, i would not have been able to

forbear. you do not come in my vehicle and eat my seat and we don't get it on. >> so you would have looked him right in the eyes and punched it? >> i would have used the tiger claw defense mechanism outcating him. >> because you are the king of the jungle. and he would have understood that immediately. >> i'd probably be at the hyena level. >> they are scary. >> yeah, weapon just were just and i totally believe that happened. and somehow i'll toss to john berman. take it away. >> good morning, everyone. john berman meehere. he will speak out loud in front of people. the president of the united states will emerge from his protective cocoon shortly after nearly six days of silence. he heads to ohio to talk about infrastructure and most decidedly not talk about stormy daniels, although the questions about that alleged relationship and coverup