2016 now admits she has closer ties to the kremlin. >> of course she was a russian spy. certainly cr certainly cr certainly core rob rates what we have seen. >> the fact they're talking and mew clear and missile tests have stopped for now is a cause for optimism. >> i think it's going to work out just fine. see what happens. but i think it will be very good. >> why it did take so long? 11 years, to get to this historic moment. >> we're not going to be played. okay? we're going to hopefully make a deal. if it we don't, that's fine. >> announcer: this is "new day" weekend with victor blackwell. >> good saturday to you. it has been quite a consequential week for president trump. today he's going to one of his

favorite places, a campaign rally. >> the president is holding a reelection rally m michigan instead of attending the white house dinner. he may talk about it tonight. president trump slamming the mueller probe and democrats hours after a russian lawyer who met with trump junior during the campaign admitted she is an informant to the kremlin. >> also a cnn exclusive report finds the national rifle association is bracing for a possible investigation and is saving documents related to its dealings with a kremlin-linked banker. >> abbey, we know how much the president loves his campaign rallies. he's going to friendly territories. but with these major developments in the last couple of days, what do we expect?

>> reporter: it's not clear. it's hard to predict sometimes. but we do know what's been on his mind. this weekend is the, as you mentioned, the white house correspondent's weekend. that's important because the past former presidents have gone to this dinner, toasted the free press, made jokes, but the president, for the last two years has decided to go out on the campaign trail instead. a little bit of counter programming with his core supporters. president trump over the last several days has been busy on a number of fronts, foreign policy and also tweeting and giving interviews about the special council probe into russian interference. now just last night he tweeted again about this, talking about a house intelligence committee report that was issued in the last day that found, according to the republicans on that committee, that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russians.

democrats did dissent from that report but president trump is seizing on it saying this about the house intelligence committee report. house intelligence committee rule that is there was no collusion between the trump campaign and russia. as i've been saying all along, it is all a big hoax by the democrats based on payments and lies. there should never have been a special counsel appointed. witch hunt. much of that tweet is not a surprise tra surpri surpri surprise at all. probe is ongoing. latest in the last day was that the attorney, the russian lawyer who attended that meeting with don junior in 2016 at trump tower has given an interview with nbc saying something interesting and new about her relationship to the russian government. listen to what she said.

>> so she as said in the past she was simply a lawyer who had tried to meet with trump campaign staff to talk about the issue of adoptions, but in the wake of that meeting, we learned, through numerous press reports, that she actually was -- had come -- to promise dirt on hillary clinton. now, it remains unclear what exactly all of this is going to mean, but what it does seem to indicate is that her relationship with the russian government is far closer than she initially let on and far closer than the trump campaign associates let on. it's again, not clear how much they knew about her relationship with the russian government but these new developments raise some big questions about what direction the special counsel probe is going and we also know president trump is -- is trying

to discredit the probe as it continues. >> thanks so much. so cnn politics political analyst rachel with us as well as former white house ethics lawyer for george w. bush. rachel, i want to start with you and get to the timing of this admission that she is an informant. natalia veselnitskaya. >> is there any intention? i would say obviously, the house intelligence committee just put out this report yesterday say tlg was no collusion with president trump and the russians. obviously that investigation, there's some questions about its credibility. it's been done on a very partisan basis and does not have the power to compel testimony. there was a lot of gaps in the investigation. now, why did she come out and do

this now? this is a woman who is very close with putin. one of his cronies, she's not going to do this without his say-so. so you have to wonder, the russians are known for sort of sewi sowing discord. why are they stirring this up again when before they tried to deny they had any involvement in the election. and here she is sort of dangling this bait. >> jeremy, they said this corroborates this is someone working with the russians. here's the question. she put herself to the trump campaign as we understand is as a russian government attorney. she's now saying she was an informant. how much credence does anybody give her at this point? >> think the house intelligence

committee and the other investigators and committees, none of them really believed her when she said she wasn't connected to putin and she was coming here and talking to the trump campaign on her own. one of the other things we learned yesterday from the democrats on the committee, who released their own kind of dissent of a report, from the republicans was that there was in fact follow-up after the campaign. schiff said she wanted to talk about sanctions. in addition, an oligarch with ties to putin also reached out to the campaign. we heard after the meeting broke last year that there was no follow-up and we're now learning more and more that that actually wasn't the case. >> okay. so richard, we mentioned this house intel committee report, this redacted report saying they found no collusion. you saw president trump's tweet about it there. they did say they found fault

for the campaign with that trump tower meeting saying it demonstrated poor judgment. beyond that, not much else. is there any impact to mueller's investigation from this report? >> this report is just the republicans on the committee covering up for donald trump. and everybody knows it. there's obviously collusion. they have the meeting there in the -- with the russians in the trump tower. gentleman jared kushner was there and this woman who arranged the meeting is not a lawyer any more than michael cohen has been a lawyer for donald trump. she's a fix er, she's a spy. and they met with a russian spy. that's what we know at this point and to say there's no collusion is absolutely ridiculous. now whether it was illegal or not, whether crimes were committed by the americans as well as by the russians, that's for bob mueller to determine.

but we know the russians committed crimes in the united states and this woman was not a legitimate lawyer. she's a russian spy and the top people in the trump met with her. that's obviously collusion. anybody in congress that says anything different is just covering for president trump and the voters see right through it. that's what's going to happen in november. >> i want to get to tweet that the president just sent out regarding dr. ronny jackson as he pulled himself out of the running. he says allegations made by john tester are proving false. secret service is unable to confirm in fact they deny any of the phony democrat charges which have absolutely devastating the wonderful jackson family. tester should resign. rachel, any chance you think that could happen? >> absolutely not. what this is is cleanup on aisle

4. white house put this guy forward. president trump wanted somebody he liked personally to be -- to lead the va and basically chose him over vetting and right now they're seeing the serious repercussions of that decision. senate did its work in terms of investigating this guy and found the serious allegations. now these are all out there. his reputation has been tarnished and so what you're seeing now is the white house try to fix this for him. try to put him back in his job. i don't know that they're going to be able to do that. as for tester, this is definitely a warning shot. he's not going to resign. but he is from a red state, montana. that trump carried by a large margin. what the president says in his own state actually matters to constituents who may or may not vote for tester again. so i would say that this -- the battle is on in that regard. >> jeremy? >> i agree. it's interesting. tester's role in all of this because he is from such a trump state. we have already heard from the

president that he said there's going to be a price to pay. i think this is going to be a campaign issue for tester. it's no the going to be an easy reelection for him and it does put a target on his back. we heard some of his republican colleagues criticizing him for the way he handled the allegations, letting them come out and saying it's unverified. at the same time i think republicans were just as uneasy as democrats about this nomination. it's pretty clear he wasn't vetted. at least not sufficiently. fact that the white house wasn't ready to respond to the allegations when the whistle blowers came to the democrats. i think while tester is the one getting the target from the president i think republicans are breathing a sigh of relief this whole mess has passed them. >> i want to do quickly. richard, quickly to the nra allegation or report this morning that they are kind of bracing for this investigation. they're collecting documents,

kind of trying to clean house essentially, make sure they have all of their ducks in a row so to speak when there is this allegation there are direct links from the nra to the kremlin. that the kremlin was trying to fund money through the nra. if there is a connection found, what is the consequence of that for the nra? which is such a powerful lobby group? >> well i think the nra's power is waning anyway. americans are fed up with them and the protection racket they've been running in the republican party. americans are getting fed up with the nra. and the fact that the russians are using them to influence our elections just shows how corrupt this organization is. and this investigation is going to have to go forward. we're going to have to find out what the russians were doing with the nra, but i certainly

wouldn't put it beyond the nra to collaborate with the russians in trying to interfere with our elections. given the nra's past history of being so extremist on gun laws, and being willing to take out anybody by any means, take out anybody who opposes the nra agenda. >> these are just allegations at the moment. nothing has been proven, but again, cnn exclusive report saying the nra is indeed collecting some of its documents related to kremlin-linked banker there. rachel, germany, and richard, we always appreciate you being here. thank you. the president is tweeting talking about withdrawal of nomination of dr. ronny jackson. scott pruitt could now be facing new ethics reviews in addition to the ones already happening right now.

here's a list of the agencies that are looking into some of his actions and decisions in spending at the epa. they include a look at his travel expenses, security team, raises for staff members, those continue, and the inspector general says there will likely be new reviews added to that last. well north korea state media is calling the korean summit a new milestone although president trump plans to meet himself with kim jong-un, he says es a not going to get played. plus the trump administration's travel ban sparking protests, how it inspired one woman to run for office. >> a woman got sick on her flight and the doctor tells the crew to land. they didn't do it and her family is suing. >> why did the pilot make a decision to continue on with the flight when he had a doctor ten feet await on the cabin floor telling him that she needed to land? i'm very proud of the fact

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breaking news, right now, the iranian foreign minister says president trump's demands to change the iranian deal are quote unacceptable. this is iran doubling down, maybe tripling down after the president has insisted for some time now during the campaign throughout his administration that he says the iran nuclear deal is the worst deal in history, the u.s. should not have signed up from it and we heard from mike pompeo the president is unlikely to certify iran is complying. question is if the president does not certify, what will congress do? will they support those snapback sanctions on iran and what could that mean for the program moving forward and the other countries that signed on. we will bring you more as world leaders potentially weigh in throughout the morning. now, let's turn to north

korea. state media is calling summit a quote new milestone. smiles, hugs. they agreed to denuclearize of the korean peninsula but no specifics have been discussed. president trump calls the meeting historic and u.s. officials say they're looking ahead. >> the united states has been played beautifully like a fiddle because you had a different kind of leader. we're not going to be played. >> i don't have a crystal ball. i can tell you we are optimistic right now that there's opportunity here and we have never enjoyed since 1950. so we're going to have to see what they produce. >> joining us now, director of the korea program at the wilson center. jean opened the associated press's pyongyang bureau in 2012. >> hi. >> before we get to the

specifics and meeting, let's talk about what we saw between moon and kim. this agreement now to end the korean war sometime this year, 65 years after a. does he deserve credit and how much. >> he's certainly going to claim credit. let me put this in a little bit of a different perspective. president trump when he was campaigning dangled the prospect of sitting down with kim jong-un. i think he even said he would have a burger with him. perhaps that will be on the menu. when he was campaigning he dangled that prospect and i know the north koreans were paying attention and kept that in mind. there was always that opening there. now what trump did when he took office was unleash this war of words, this fire and fury. and interestingly enough, with the north koreans did was use that to their advantage and use that rhetoric to rational ease

building up the nuclear weapons. president of the united states is threatening us with war. so we did have this year of accelerated testing, and, north carolina got in carolina -- north korea got that to the point where he was happy. he was able to set back and say i've proven i can defend you and we are in nuclear power and now i'm ready to sit down and speak to president trump. so it's really interesting. in a sense, yes, president trump can be given credit for bringing us to this point. but perhaps not the way that he's going to draw that narrative. >> so let's talk about the next step, which is denuclearization. there are many steps, interim steps potentially, but that's what president trump is going for. that is quite possibly what kim agreed to. but what is denuclearize for each member, each party at the

table? has everyone agreed on what that would require of north korea? >> that is the key point here. declaration that they have agreed to at this historic meeting does mention denuclearize. but, we should be clear that north korea has said in its statements that they're talking about a nuclear weapons-free world, in particular, a nuclear weapons-free korean peninsula. that is very different than what the united states is saying, which is the complete and verifiable dismantlement of north korea's nuclear program. there might be a difference in definition here. and that will certainly be part of the negotiations in the month the and perhaps years ahead. >> there was a striking moment at least for me, in watching this news conference yesterday with angela merkel in which

president trump was asked about responsibility as it relates to closing the deal. here's what he said. >> i think i have a responsibility. i think other presidents should have done it. i think gt the responsibility has fallen on the shoulders of the president of the united states. i think i have a responsibility to see if i can do it. >> now, this seems, jean, to be a departure from his usual, calling for the leaders in the region, the powers in those respective regions to take control, have some investment. this, he is saying, i have a responsibility to finish the sentence, get the peninsula to full denuclearize. >> he wants to accomplish something big, something historic. but there is the risk of alienating some major players in this region. if p you negotiate something directly with north korea without consulting or including

the other partners, including china, south korea, and japan and certainly those leaders are very worried about this. this is a -- they are the countries and their people are the ones who are at risk of any conflict or any confrontation. so they certainly want to be part of this process. they're on the one hand, of course the leaders in the people in this region support a resolution to this confrontation, which has gone on for decades. but, they have been living through this for decades, and they also understand how difficult and complicated the issue is and it probably isn't that easily resolved in one meeting. >> japan especially. quite skeptical of these concessions and will remember the concessions to stop down on a testing site and those miss the launches included mid range and intercontinental but not the short range. jean lee, always good to have you.

>> thanks for having me. so president trump is tweeting this morning in defense of ronny jackson amid his professional conduct. he withdrew his nomination to lead the department of veteran as affairs and the president is calling on a sitting senator to resign. >> allegations made by senator john tester against dr. ron jackson are proven fault. the secret service is unable to confirm in fact deny any of the phony democrat charges which have absolutely devastated the wonderful jackson family. tester should resign. great people of montana will not stand for this kind of slander when talking about a great human being. admiral jackson is the kind of man those in montana would most respect and admire and for now reason whatsoever his reputation has been shattered. not fair tester. >> here's what tester has said. that jackson was repeatedly drunk while on tuduty where his

main job was to take care of the most powerful man in the world. that's not acceptable. >> we should say that the deputy white house press secretary said friday that the secret service has done a search and they're trying to prove this allegation that dr. jackson wrecked a car. they say there were three incidents, none of which match the allegation that he wrecked a car, but specifics, as the investigation that we assume is happening in the white house, they welcomed him back. told he will stay in his position there. no intention for him to resign or retire. that there is some investigation to determine if the clinic there was run like a grab and go, as some sources have told cnn. >> yeah. that he was dispensing all kinds of medications. sometimes without even any sort of exam of the person, sometimes dispensing medications that weren't for the person who came to pick them up. obviously, yes, an

investigation, we will assume will be conducted. it is being conducted but it will continue despite the president's tweet this morning. and we should point out the president is leaving the white house today. he's going to michigan. this is a familiar place for him. he's going to be in friendly territory. for the most part. but there's a michigan native who says she's going to run for congress because she wants to check the president's policies. one in particular has her riled up. we'll talk about that. kyle: mom! mom!

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well it was a crucial rust belt state that helped deliver the election for donald trump, flipping from blue to red. >> now he's returning to the state of michigan and hold a rally there tonight in washington township. skipping, of course, the white house correspondents dinner in the other washington. >> one possible challenge for the president maintaining the same enthusiasm in michigan after trade and budget decisions that could hurt voters there. >> not everyone in michigan is in lockstep with the president here. when his controversial travel ban rolled out, it sparked protests. this continues. >> it also sparked one other thing, inspiration. more than 90 muslim american candidates are running for office.

most as democrats and many cite that ban as one of the reasons they want to run. >> this woman is one of them. she she is running for congress in michigan's 11th district. thank you so much for being with us. >> thank you, good morning. >> the 11th district can be dicey. we understand the democratic campaign committee has id'd this as one to flip. was there something other than the travel ban that makes you want to make changes? >> yes. absolutely. i think that people here in district 11, what i really saw on the ground was that people were upset with trump for a number of reasons. they really wanted change. they want to see someone who is ready to support progressive policies and fight for those progressive pro progressi progressive policies and go to washington to push against his

hateful rhetoric. >> what are you expecting from are the president? i know that's a difficult question for us and we've watched every rally. but you're there in michigan. what are you expecting? >> more of the same. pitting the problems of america against have specivulnerable co and making americans believe that somehow others are to blame and that the only way to find those solutions is by really dividing is rather than bringing us together. so i don't expect that he's going to say or do anything that we're not used to. and you know, what we're seeing is that it's nots going to work. and that he's losing his support in the people in michigan and certainly district 11 aren't buying what he's selling anymore. >> your mother, you say, is a lebanese immigrant and she is quote, not a sign waving sort of person. how do you think you became one? >> well, my parents, they came

here as immigrants very simply in search of the american dream. and i'm the product of that american dream. and so i became one because i decided it is my objective and my obligation to protect that dream and protect everything that brought them here and what makes america so great. so if that means everything from protesting at airports and pushing back against donald trump, and going to congress to fight for what i believe in. >> let's talk about the district. right now dave trot is representing. romney won. from my quick search -- krounco me if i'm wrong, except for a place holder, a republican representing some form of this changing district since the johnson administration. so why now, do you think a democrat can win? and your answers thus far have been focussed on trump.

nationally democrats are saying they're going to run on those specific district issues. is it enough to be an anti-trump voice? >> we definitely need to be ready to speak to the issues that people care about. here in district 11, everywhere i go people are concerned about their health care. it was one of the biggest issues that got people motivated and rallied last year. people care about their roads about the infrastructure. quality of our water here. in district 11 and certainly in the state of michigan at large. so, there's a number of things that people are really paying attention to, and these are also all issues that trump doesn't represent. and isn't speaking towards progress and change in the way that we need to see our leaders. so, you know, as soon as donald trump got elected, though i saw something here on the ground in district 11 like i'd never seen it before. of the that was people getting

energized, organized and mobilized. i sat with a woman the other day at a town hall meeting. she said she has never -- she doesn't even necessarily vote every year. and this year, not only is she paying attention, but she's going to town halls, listening to what the candidates have to say. she's just one example of the many in district 11 who are really stepping up and are ready to vote for change in 2018. >> we will say with the president says there tonight. thank you so much for taking the time to be with us. >> thank you for having me. so listen to this. a woman coming back from her honeymoon dies on her american airlines flight. why her family is now suing the airlines.

42 minutes past the hour. there whereas a 25-year-old woman coming back from her honeymoon who died after a medical emergency on her flight. family is suing the airline. >> she died in 2016 after fainting on an american airlines flight. a doctor on board told the crew to land but they kept flying for another 90 minutes. cnn's polo sandoval has the story. >>reporter: a newly filed lawsuit paints a disturbing picture of what happened to this 25-year-old woman aboard a dallas bound american airlines flight two years ago. newly weds were flying home from hawaii. according to the lawsuit, three hours into the flight over los angeles, she started feeling dizzy and disoriented. as the plane flew further thee

took a turn for the worse. the claim alleged a doctor on the flight recommended the plane land immediately to get her to a the hospital. flight continued another 90 minutes. the rest of the way to dallas after the flight crew consulted american airlines' own doctor on the ground. by the time the plane landed she was without a pulse and died three dater later from a blood clot in her lung. family attorney says the airline was negligent in not diverting the flight. why did the pilate mickot conti he had a doctor telling him she needed to land. that my client was in distress and needed emergency medical care. that's what it boils down. >> reporter: also alleging medical equipment on board the plane malfunctioned further complicating potential life

saving effo saving efforts. airline wrote we take the safety of our passengers very seriously and are looking into the details of the complaint. aviation expert says there astil plenty of questions. >> what really we have to ask is what would be the issue or the cost on a diversion. that's something think that this lawsuit will address. why could the plane not be immediately landed? was there a problem in sequencing, getting clearances. >> poll low sandoval, cnn, new york. still to come, president trump skipping the white house correspondents' dinner again this year. did one joke people set the stage for his deliberate absences moving forward?

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elephant that's not in the room. leader of our country is not here. and that's because he lives in moscow, it is a very long flight. you guys are public enemy number one. you are his biggest enemy. journalists, isis, normal-length ties. >> all right. little bit from last year there. white house correspondent's dinner. it is tonight. president trump will not be joining. typically, this is a dinner that's an opportunity for the media, president to kind of poke fun at one another. >> but president trump is once again skipping the event, sending this message to his supporters this weekend, why would i want to be stuck in a room with a bunch of fake news liberals who hate me? i came up with something much better. i'm going to hold a rally and spend an evening with my

favorite deplorables. >> joining us now, some people would say this absence is not a surprise necessarily. do you know what we can expect at his rally in michigan? >> president trump did the same thing last year. he held a rally on the same night as the correspondents dinner. he's going to try to get attention away from this correspondents din he and on to him. probably hear a typical campaign speech. we know he loves these rallies, it's where he feels most at home being cheered on by all of his fans, but it's interesting that statement whesaying we're going be with people who love america, somehow saying the journalists are somehow not -- don't love america in some sort of way. that obviously is not how most of us feel about it. >> more than a suggestion. i mean the president has said

and steve bannon said the journalists are the enemy of the people. let me ask you this. last year there was a full blackout from what i remember. this year we've got sarah sanders and kellyanne conway d attending the dinner. why? >> it's clear that the tensions have thawed a little bit. you're right that last year president trump put a more for kbrum -- amoratorium on the entire staff. junior staffers joining media. media will invite members of the administration, their sources, others to come join them and sat at their tables and have a light ofcamaraderie. so the fact that sarah sanders and kelley an conway ayanne con tensions have gone down a little

bit and it's okay to be seen with the reporter. last night, other people were there. taking photos with the media, including people from cnn. if that doesn't show you that at least behind the scenes at these events everybody can at least in certain points put politics aside and enjoy themselves and perhaps we'll see some of this tonight as well. >> i would think, that this is a point where even if there are tensions they might melt away a little bit because you know what to expect, you know what it is. you have some common laughs, historically, there any other indication in any other administration where there has been a rift so large that the president would unwillingly attend as this president is. >> not in years. i mean the last time a president didn't attend was ronald reagan because there had just been an assassination attempt and he at

least called in to the dinner. that was understandable. president trump we don't expect him to call in. he didn't call in last time. i would honestly be surprised if he shows up to any of the dinners you about i think he might want to because he went to the grid iron dinner which is similar, a few weeks ago with journalists and members of administration where there's jokes, funny speeches, but keep if mind that event is off camera, so his fans and voters couldn't see that. tonight, this is all on camera. >> maybe that's one of the elements that he is dispoliclea about. >> thank you. after 35 years, this 1quartt is back in the studio. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ digging the dancing queen >> all right. 70's and 80's music fans, this is not a drill. abba is back. >> she's excited. me, not so much. swedish pop ground is releasing two new songs for the first time in decades. it started with the project to create an abba show avatars but the band decided to get back to the studio in real life after that. >> hee we hadn't been together in a recording studio since 1982. it just took moments, and we were kind of looking at each

other, because -- and then, straight back, like no time had passed at all. >> the band released a statement saying we may have couple of age but the song is new and feels good. and i, for one, will be listening. >> i'm excited for you. >> i appreciate that. >> tell me sade is going on tour. that will do it. see you back here. shania twain and kanye west said positive things about donald trump. if consumers