forecast. post time is at 6:50. and my favorite to win, lone sailor, she is -- the horse owned by the same owner that owns the pelicans. so her name is gale benson, she's be busy flying back and forth to nba games. >> my grandfather always said on a sloppy track, dead on the long shot. >> nobody's going to be putting hats in the rain. i can tell you that now. costing way too much money. >> very true. >> thank you. president trump knew about the hush money payment to stormy daniels months before he told the american people. >> we didn't know about it until we knew about it. michael cohen took out lines of credit giving him access to up to $774,000. >> the judge in manafort case

says mueller's aim is to hurt trump. >> robert mueller has impeccable credentials. comey's a republican, rosenstein is a republican s. this a con republican spiconspiracy to rem the president? people and structures under threat of volcanic eruptions on the big island of hawaii. >> this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. good saturday morning to you. serious question plaguing the white house -- how is the public, the press, anyone, expected to take what they say as fact when the story changes based on who's asked and when that person is asked? >> here's one of the reasons the white house is facing a credibility crisis this morning. "the new york times" in a new

report says that despite his strong denials, president trump did know about a hush-money deal his lawyer made with a porn floor several -- porn star several months before he said he did not know. and now we've learned this -- investigators are looking into how that lawyer, michael cohen, built up a $700,000-plus war chest during the campaign as he worked to fix problems for the trump team. >> we'll go to cnn's airmy diamond live at the white house. it seems the administration is struggling to i guess come up with the story everybody can agree on. whether it is the actual truth or not, at least everybody get on the same page. >> that's exactly right. we're entering the third day since rudy giuliani made those comments on fox news, confirming for the first time that the president had in fact repaid stormy daniels. and yet we seem to be stuck still in this web of confusion. let's go back to that wednesday night. rudy giuliani confirming for the first time that the president

had repaid michael cohen for the $130,000 payment. he said later it was a $35,000-a-month monthly retainer. he wasn't just speaking for himself. he said later that he had, in fact, spoken with the president about the whole matter before going on fox news. yesterday the president adding confusion to the matter saying rudy giuliani had to get his facts straight. >> excuse me, excuse me. no, you have -- excuse me, you take a look at what i said. you go back and take a look. yankee stadium see what i said. >> you said no when i asked you did you know about the payment. >> excuse me, excuse me, you look at what we said. >> reporter: we did take a look, and you can, too. check it out. >> did you know about the $100,0$ $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no, no. >> then do you know where he got the money for the payment? >> no, i don't know. >> reporter: the new york types

reporting that the president did -- "the new york times" reporting that the president did know about the payment when he answered that question. and rudy giuliani sought to clear some of this up. he put out a statement saying he was describing his understanding of the president's knowledge. again, this is the president's own newly hired attorney who came in to take care of the situation. yet even he seems to be muddling things or, perhaps, it's the president. >> talk to us about the "wall street journal" reporting this morning regarding michael cohen's finances. >> reporter: that's right. the "wall street journal" has a new report -- there's a question about where michael cohen got a lot of this money. and there's a potential lead which is that in 2016 michael cohen gained access to as much as $774,000 in lines of credit. it was tied to two financial transactions linked to apartments that he owned or it co-signed. now it appears that federal investigators as part of their investigation into him are also looking into that source of the funds. >> all right.

jeremy diamond, appreciate the reporting. thank you. joining mean, contributor adam entis, and legal analyst joey jackson. gentlemen, good morning. >> good morning. >> joey, let me start with and put aside for a moment potentially lying to the american people there on air force one and claiming he didn't know where the money came from for michael cohen. is there any legal exposure here for the president potential when he we learn about the money that michael cohen took out? does it matter when he took that money out? >> you know, a lot of things matter, victor. let's start from the very beginning. what you find fascinating is you have rudy giuliani comments where he contradicts the president in terms of now the president does know. and he also contradicts michael cohen because michael cohen is reimbursed. he makes a connection to the campaign saying what if it would have come out days before the campaign, how damning would that

be? thereaft thereafter, you have the president going out. the president is covering for his attorney. generally, what we attorneys do is we speak for our clients. so now you have that. and on the backdrop of that, you have an indication that there was money taken out by michael cohen and credit lines. there are a number of ways to look at it. in one way, it's fine. people take out credit lines all the time. people do, they borrow money. now the critical issue is what for. then the critical issue becomes if trump knew about it, that's not enough. but it's pretty significant. now the purpose becomes what's the intent, what's the knowledge, was it directly intended to aid or assist the campaign? or in the alternative, was it personal in nature? these are the issues that need to be sorted out by prosecutors in the event it goes that way? >> we find ourselves trying to reconcile all of these desperate pieces of stories from different players. the journal -- the "journal"

reports cohen took out as much as $770,000. he used his equity loan to pay stormy daniels. he says that 130. and rudy giuliani says that president trump reimbursed cohen for more than $100,000, coming up to 420. that's a lot of money for what the president described as the tiny, tiny fraction of legal work that he says that cohen did for him. >> i know. we don't really know the details yet about the discrepancy. you know, i don't know exactly how much cohen gets paid by trump for his work. in the scheme of things, it seems like a lot of money. maybe it isn't. we don't have the full picture yet of what exactly that difference is about, and it's going to take a while i think for us to filter through and try to make sense of. it obviously we're getting conflicting information from all the sides. >> let me get, joe, your response to what we saw in that

statement from wrugrudy giulian yesterday trying to clarify things but not clarifying anything. he wrote first, there is no campaign violation, the payment was made to resolve a personal and false allegation in order to protect the president's family. it would have been done in any event whether he was a candidate or not. i asked our political analyst, errol lewis, this at the top of the last hour. from your legal perspective, does it matter whether this would have been made, whether he was running for office or not? >> of course it matters. it matters to the extent that in you're doing it, does it aid you in the campaign in any way? in that case, it could be. you could draw the dots and make the nexus between an illegal campaign contribution which would become problematic. what i find fascinating, as much the president said rudy came on yesterday, what does he know -- as lawyers, at a minimum, we spin facts. that's our job. we're advocates. that's our job. at a minimum, you know what the facts are. i find it incredulous that now

he's -- the lawyer's putting out a statement to clarify what the lawyer said. now to be clear, what a lawyer says is not evidence. it's what the client says is evidence. but we already know the client denied it, but then the client didn't deny it, so which is it? and briefly, this is troubling to me in the broader sense. what are we facing now? we're facing a president who could potentially testify in an investigation of mueller, will he tell the truth or not? we're facing a president who kobe deposed in stormy daniels. will he tell the truth or not? it's one thing to lie to the american people. it's another when you're deposed in front of a grand jury. this is significant in terms of the whole credibility that you were talking about at the outset of our discussion. >> let's talk about that, too, adam. as we talked about, the president will at some point in his administration have to go to a reserve of goodwill and trust that he's made with the american people, every president does. this episode here, polls show that people aren't really giving

him or making him pay for the affair. what will be the impact of this element? this part of the story? >> yeah. i think the american public is so divided anyways. i'm not sure what impact it's going to have. people on one side that don't like the president are going to see this as proof that they couldn't trust them on anything. others will say that the media's ganging up on him. i had a meeting in white house a week ago with a staffer that was starting to ask pointed questions, whether or not i believed that any information i got from the white house from senior officials was credible. you see it filtering through in the morale of the white house, people working for the president are asking themselves whether their own credibility is really at stake here because they are asking principals for information, they're getting information and providing it to the press, and they're learning themselves at least according to the people i spoke to, they're

learning themselves that they themselves had been misled. >> the question, of course, is the president, yes, is 2.5 years out from election. what does it mean, adam, for republicans who are up in november? >> yeah. i don't know. i mean, this is -- it's hard to tell what impact this will have on the way the electorate is going to vote. obviously we've seen examples of recent gains by democrats. certainly the democrats are increasingly confident that they'll succeed in retaking the house and maybe retaking the senate. it's too soon to say. as you know, things change incredibly fast here. >> they do. thank you both. >> thank you. president trump is keeping the suspense going, it seems, as to where he will be meeting kim jong-un and when. the possible release of the american detainees in north korea also in question. listen to this --

>> we're doing very well with the hostages. we're in constant contact with the leadership. we are this constant contact with north korea. we've actually worked out a time and a place which will be announced shortly. >> where? >> where? >> very soon. >> ahead of the historic summit, the president will meet with south korean president moon jae-in at the white house on may 22nd. the status of three americans detained in north korea, that's still unclear. president trump had hinted earlier that they'd be released very soon. rudy giuliani had said they would be released this week. it is now saturday at 7:12, and we still have no idea. >> no clear indication. let's take you to hawaii and the 350 earthquakes in 24 hours. a neighborhood is surrounded lie fountains of lava. the worst is still to come. also, president trump gave a resounding thumbs up to the

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the fire is the result of 35 earthquakes in 24 hours in hawaii -- 350 earthquakes in 24 hours in hawaii. the roads completely blocked off by a river of lava. people on hawaii's big island are trying to stay out of the way ads lava seems to be destroy ing everything it comes near. >> and earthquakes making trouble, opening cracks in the roads for the lava to fill. and friday's 6.9-magnitude earthquake could be felt on another island more than 200 miles away. a woman said when it was happening, she couldn't believe it and how this was sinking in. still traumatic for the people in hawaii. the big island under a state of emergency. and thousands of people have had to leave their homes. many say they are not receiving any updates on their homes or when it will be safe to return. cnn spoke to a man who lives on the farm in the leilani area. watch.

>> caller: we're holding up good. i'm with 11 people that have been displaced and are homeless and workless right now that were also working on my farm. and it's been a real shocker. the last day we were there, you know, just thursday, we were making a good-bye dinner for one of our friends. we were making the dinner, about to enjoy the dinner, and the cops tell us we have to go. everything changed in a instant. we have five minutes to pack what you think you'll need. i was in the supermarket, one of the scariest places to be. glass feeling, things falling off the shows, yankees going crazy. last -- everybody's going crazy. lasted about 10, 15 seconds. i became hyper aware of the situation. >> where he lives, the leilani subdivision, is at the center of most of the destruction.

the large fissures or cracks have opened up there. at least six of them. and they're releasing more of this lava. there's an even bigger threat on the horizon, we should point out. >> allison chinchar is in the weather center with more. what's the bigger threat? >> the stuff you can't see. the sulfur dioxide gas that's coming out from the fissures where you sea the lava coming out. the gas is also present. even in low doses, sulfur dioxide can cause breathing problems. even in people who have never had a history of breathing problems at all. the concern is there are fire-fighting crews that have registered toxic levels of that. we're not even talking just a little bit of that. there's a lot of that gas there. that's a big concern. other than that, we have the concern for the ongoing earthquakes, averaging one to every 10 to 15 minutes. most of them small, but you've had a couple of large ones mixed in. we've also been talking about additional fissures opening up. we're now up to six. again, more can be expected as

we go through the coming days. you have the build-up. the question is why is this happening, okay. so to get that understanding, you take a look at the volcano itself. underneath the volcano, magma is building up. it's creating a lot of pressure underneath that. that pressure needs to be released somehow. here's the thing -- even far away from this centerpoint which is where the lay lanna estates is -- leilani estates is, about 25 meters away from the main crater of the volcano, you get the fissures or cracks. the pressure that builds up, the magma has to go somewhere. so those cracks, fissures open up, the lava comes out. but also the steam and the toxic gas comes along with it. that is also a concern. we also want to point out, too, that the steam and the gas can be picked up by the wind and taken even farther away than perhaps the lava can. it can in turn end up affecting more people than the lava. but we've also talked about the earthquakes. that's another thing that we need to talk about, too. we had the magnitude 6.9 on friday.

it was only five kilometers or three miles deep. that's incredibly shallow. that's where sides of the aisle why we had people from so far away that could end up feeling it. also because it was shallow, we had a small tsunami, four centimeters or 15 inch rise and change of the sea level change. the other thing is how many of those little earthquakes that beef be -- that we've been seeing, and those will continue the next couple of days. >> feel for those people there. all right. thank you very much. president trump embraced the second amendment at the nra convention yesterday after promising change to gun laws after the parkland massacre. we'll talk to a survivor of that shooting ahead. also, a federal judge has a strong warning for the mueller team. coming up, what this could mean for the special prosecutor's case against specifically paul manafort. with fidelity wealth management you get straightforward advice,

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7:27. it might seem a little early on a saturday -- >> it is. >> but we're happy to be with you. i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. the first nra convention since the school shooting in parkland, florida was held, and president trump attended.

>> your second amendment rights are under siege. they will never, ever be under siege as long as i am your president. >> it was just a little more than two months ago that he said this, though, about gun control -- >> i take the firearms first and then go to court. that's another system. a lot of times by the time you go to court it takes so long to go to court to get the due process procedures, i like taking the guns early. like in this crazy man's case that just took place in florida. he had a lot offic -- go throug court first, go through due process. >> survivor of the massacre at the stoneman douglas high school joins us. thank you very much, cameron, for being with us. we so appreciate your time. president trump there seems to

make a complete pivot to his promise on gun laws in terms of saying, yes, take guns first, go through due process second. yesterday, essentially promising his lighty to the nra. if you could sit down with the president, what would you say? >> i don't necessarily know. he's a professional liar that will say anything to appease whatever crowd he's at. if he's in front of families he might say something in support of common sense reform. but it's like comic-con, you only get a few. those who got membership of the nra free with the purchase of a handgun, they're not showing up and hold could trump accountable for what he needs to talk about. they aren't going to this dog and pony show that trump and pence are going to. it's a celebration really. and i -- i hope they're having fun this year. but the average members of the nra, they don't agree with trump's stance on guns.

they don't agree with board member ted nugent saying that democrats and liberals need to be shot in the street like dogs. this is all a spectacle, trump trying to appeal to a crowd of people who really, really like weapons that shoot bullets fast. >> you said in a tweet, i want to get this out there, you call the nra a hilarious parody of itself. explain what you meant by that. >> in that one i was looking at the fact that the secret service issued something say that there were no firearms to be allowed at vice president mike pence's sfooech nspeech at the nra whic is funny, you'd think if someone at the nra was speaking they'd want as many good guys as possible with guns, right? the hypocrisy is so blatant, and they're embracing it at this point. >> you made the point, majority of people who are possible members of the nra don't feel the same way that the i do die--

that the diehards do who go to the meeting. i want to look at things the president has said. he's called bump stocks a bad idea. he's said on, march 14th, there was a tweet -- today the house took major steps by securing our schools by passing the stop school violence act. he said that he would support raising the age to purchase certain firearms. that he would support expanding background checks, do you believe that the president will do any of these things he has mentioned? >> well, first of all, president trump, he follows the money. and as long as he's getting money from the nra who, in turn, is getting money from the gun manufactures, i wouldn't expect anything common sense any time soon from him. and in regards to the stop school violence act, if you read it, it doesn't say the word "gun" once. the stop school violence act was something that lawmakers who are taking money from the nra are able to hide behind so they can say they took action after the

tragedy at my school. but at the end of the day, the stop school violence act is just a full -- it's a bag of hot air really. >> cameron, help people understand your perspective here. some people might think you want to take their second amendment right away. is that your intention? >> no, i'm in full support of the second amendment. my father has firearms inside our house. the only thing is, my father is trained, he has firearms that cannot mow down 17 people in six minutes. there are certain weapons that do not belong in the hands of citizens, and there are certain weapons that need to be regulated. when people put speed limits on the street and when people made you register cars, nobody said they're trying to take all our cars away. there are certain things that need to be done to make the dangerous things in our country safe. if we need to put regulations on weapons and make sure they are harder to get, easily trackable, and that the cdc could research gun violence, these are all

things that should be no brainers. >> i want to listen to something else that president trump said yesterday. >> we have going to have to outlaw immediately all vans and all trucks which are now the new form of death for the maniac terrorists. they take a truck and run over eight people and wound 16 like what happened in new york and what just happened. it's happening all over. let's ban immediately all trucks, all vans, all cars -- how about cars? let's not sell any more cars. >> cameron, if you could understand that because i know that the audio was a little funny there. he was basically saying, being fa

facetious, it seemed like he was making light of the situation there. >> that's an argument that often see from 12-year-olds in my comments section. there's a very clear difference, president trump, and i think you know what that difference is and you're trying to have little bit of a laugh at our expense. trucks are made to transport things. trucks are made to bring one thing from point a to point b and so on. guns are made for one specific thing, and that is to put bullets in people like what happened at my school. so while trucks could indeed have accidents that harm a lot of people, trucks are also not made to harm people. i shouldn't each need to say that. that's just the childish garbage you normally get from that guy while he's trying to get a laugh from people at the nra convention that are celebrating with the naeps killed my classmates. >> i only have a couple of seconds left. what are you doing -- you say your votes are what president trump will end up listening to. what are you doing to make sure that happens, that he hears you

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♪ a miami police officer has been suspended after he was caught kicking a suspect in the head. the suspect was in handcuffs, on the ground. cnn's rosa flores has the story, and a warning here, the video is disturbing. >> reporter: this cell phone video is difficult to watch. a black man is on his stomach getting handcuffed by miami police when officer mario fijero runs into frame. the video appears to show the officer kicking 31-year-old david swazo in the head. >> ooh. >> reporter: then drops to the grounds and puts him in a headlock. >> it was unnecessary because he wasn't resisting. >> reporter: you'd never know swazo was apparently kicked and headlocked from reading the

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rosa flores, cnn, miami. a federal judge in virginia is questioning the motives of the mueller team. he's presiding over the bank fraud case of trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort. the case was brought to judge elliott by mueller's team. judge elliott says mueller isn't really targeting paul manafort, he is after trump. joey jackson, legal analyst and criminal defense attorney, with us now. the argument sheer that the only reason mueller is going after manafort is to officially make him whistle. he wants to get him to talk or flip. do you believe there's truth to that? >> good morning. you know, i believe that there's two separate issues here. one is what we might believe as people evaluating and looking at that and perhaps the general consensus is that manafort is just a piece of the puzzle. that the real issue is donald trump. and certainly to the extent that

he served as campaign chairman for five months, his knowledge of donald trump, and you do want to get him to flip. that's issue number one. the second issue thorksy, and more important to me is a federal -- a federal judge weighing in and questioning motivations which i don't know to be appropriate. at the end of the day, federal judges serve for life, they are powerful, and they'll tell you what time it is in their courtroom, no question about it. i've been told a time or two. generally what i've been told is about the quality of my arguments or lack thereof, the quality of cases i cite or lack thereof. those are fair game. when you start questioning the motivations, i think it fuels into a political narrative that really should not be in a federal courtroom. >> the judge questioned why michael cohen's investigation was handled over to federal prosecutors in new york. manafort's case, however, was kept with the special counsel. do you have that same question? is that a valid question?

>> it's a valid question, but remember that what manafort's doing is trying to say that because of the power of the special counsel, he's indicted improperly, dismiss my charges. i don't think at the end of the day the remedy if the special counsel did exceed his powers -- i believe he did not -- is to dismiss charges. perhaps it is getting it in front of another u.s. attorney's office or in another district or what have you. be that as it may, you know, prosecutors speak to each other. and so if your real intent is to get the president or to get information behind the president, you make a phone call and say, hey, what are you doing with this case, maybe we could work collaboratively. the other thing i should say briefly, when prosecutors are investigating a case and going in one direction, oftentimes other information about criminality surfaces. you could make at that argument that that happened with manafort. they didn't like the new york case make a referral to the southern district, they kept it as a matter of course.

i don't see anything wrong with that stockily when rod rosenstein said they were doing everything in their power. the federal judges are powerful. they do what they want. >> based on what you saw from the judge, how likely is that he could dismiss the case against manafort? >> zero, quite frankly. i think that they're apples and oranges. i think that there's one thing in terms of the merits of an indictment. you have a grand jury, 23 people, not voting guilt or innocence, but 12, a majority saying that there's enough to indict. and it doesn't make your charges go away. perhaps the judge feels it might be more appropriately placed in another, you know, u.s. attorney's office or in another district. but just to dismiss charges and say, thank you, have a nice day, i don't see that happening at all. crimes are crimes no matter where committed. and you know, it's the u.s. attorney's job to get to the essence of the crimes and to get accountability. i think that's what we'll see

here. whether the judge allows the special prosecutor or allows it elsewhere. >> all right. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. have a great day. >> you, too. if you thought your phone conversations were perfectly private, first, you shouldn't. and then, the national security agency has now tripled its collection of phone records and text messages since 2016 according to a new report. this coincides with reports that there's been an increase in other surveillance methods, as well, raising concerns of potential government overreach into the lives of ordinary citizens. more turmoil in the white house medical unit. this time vice president mike pence's doctor has resigned. there was a, quote, strained relationship there that may have led to her departure. we'll talk about that. stay close.

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vice president mike pence's doctor has now resigned from the white house medical unit. she left a few days after cnn reported she raised concerns about ronny jackson, president trump's new former doctor, and his failed pick to run the va. cnn senior congressional reporter manu raju has details. >> reporter: the sudden resignation of vice pence's doctor to step aside on thursday, just a few days after we reported at cnn about concerns that she had raised privately about dr. ronny jackson, the president's former lead physician. the person he nominated to lead the department of veterans affairs. the second largest department within the federal government. jackson had to withdraw amid all these allegations of misconduct. roughly two dozen or so people came forward and talked to senator jon tester of the senate veterans affairs committee about their allegations and pena was one of them. she wrote three memos last fall

detailing significant concerns about ronny jackson. alleging that he, one point, disclosed a private patient information of karen pence. that is mike pence's wife during an incident that occurred last fall at camp david. she was treated at walter reed hospital. the vice president's doctor wrote a memo saying that jackson may have breached the hippa law and asked that john kelly be made aware of this situation. pena wrote a memo detailing this to send it up the food chain. when jackson found out about this, he allegedly intimidated jennifer pena. he acted in aggressive manner according to pena's memos and pena wanted to resign. these concerns also were brought up the food chain, sent to the president -- vice president's chief of staff as well as john

kelly, the white house chief of staff. now those were reported up the food chain in a different -- in the military and medical food chain but john kelly, the president certainly did not act on that. nevertheless, jackson was nominated. his nomination withdrawn and the president has railed against all these allegations. this came after all that, jennifer pena decided to step aside, will no longer be the vice president's physician and no doubt a lot of questions now asking whether there was any retaliation internally for her speaking out against the president's doctor. manu raju, cnn, washington. dr. oz is getting a presidential appointment. the white house wants to appoint mehmets on to the president's council on sports and nutrition. you know dr. oz from oprah winfrey and his own show addressing health and medical

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whatever. >> remember rosenstein? >> rod rosenstein. >> deputy attorney general rosenstein -- steen. >> no matter someone finally popped the question. >> how do you pronounce your last name? >> there's no right answer to that question. >> no right answer? >> take it from this guy's creator. >> frankenstein! >> my father pronounces it stein. that's how i pronounce it. but i have relatives who pronounce it steen so i'll answer to either one. >> reporter: will he answer to this guy? >> rod rosenstein. >> welcome to the house judiciary committee. >> mr. rod rosenstein. >> please. i don't have much sympathy for all those steens and steins out there. not with a last name like moos. >> moose! >> the ei is pronounced stein. but then this guy's name should be whiner. >> anthony weiner. he's an exception to the rule. sometimes neither choice is

great. you want to be a wiener or a whiner. >> there was some whining on reddit about the special prosecutor. does anyone else read the name robert mueller and pronounce it like bueller. but this is robert mueller, though he sometimes gets the ferris buhler treatment. >> did you talk with robert mueller about his investigation? >> sometimes it takes a stein to know one. dianne feinstein. >> yesterday, mr. rosenstein. >> mr. rosensteen, welcome. >> mr. rosenstein, thank you. >> just like feinstein. >> it's creating a monster. >> dr. frankenstein. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. president trump knew about the hush money payment to stormy daniels