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mccain. >> i'm not going to comment on an internal staff meeting. >> the president put his foot down and said you will not apologize. >> i don't understand what environment you're working in where that would be acceptable and you can come to work the next day and still have a job. >> rocks are falling into that causing gas explosions. >> to just let mother nature do its thing. this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning to you. he's a drama machine. that's how one biographer is describing the president's new lawyer this morning and drama is exactly what rudy giuliani is causing for the white house. >> less than one month into his new role, giuliani is contradicting the federal government and his boss calling into question the independence of the justice department. will he have to walk back these comments as he's been forced to

do many times already this month. abby phillip, walk us through exactly what did giuliani say and how does it compare to what the president has said? >> reporter: this all began when giuliani was trying to defend the president against claims he was unduly influenced by his personal attorney michael cohen who had been paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by private corporations, including by at&t, to help them with their lobbying in washington. at&t in particular wanted cohen to help them -- help guide them through this process of getting approval for the aqcquisition o time warner, cnn's parent company. but giuliani, instead of toeing the white house's line on this for months which for months had been that the president was not at all involved in this decision, he said this to the huffington post. whatever lobbying was done didn't reach the president, giuliani said. he did drain the swamp. the president denied the merger. they didn't get the result they

wanted. now the key phrase here is the president denied the merger. the president, we know, has been pretty vocal about this at&t/time warner merger. he's also been vocal about cnn, which is a subsidiary of time warner who he has called fake news. listen to what he said at a recent rally about the issue of this merger. >> at&t is buying time warner and, thus, cnn, a deal we will not approve in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few. >> so the president there seemed to claim that this was about antitrust, about reducing the amount of concentration of power in the marketplace and also back in november, raj shah, the deputy press secretary for the white house also denied in a statement that the president had spoken to anyone at the department of justice about the

merger and he added that no one in the white house was authorized to talk about this merger with the justice department as well. so the question remains right now, is rudy giuliani out on a limb, or did he reveal something that perhaps he wasn't supposed to, which is that the president did have a hand in the decision of the justice department to block this emergencier which is now still in the court of law right now. >> still in legal limbo. abby philip, thank you. rudy giuliani has been on the job for less than a month, but he continues to fumble here causing these controversies. let's count them off. first, revealing the president reimbursed his lawyer for paying off an adult film actress and raising questions about when the president knew about the hush money deal. days later he announced on live television that three americans detained in north korea would be released that day. not only were they not released for almost a week but giuliani jumped an announcement by the

officials who should have announced something like that. last week, giuliani hinted the president would rip up the iran deal and call for regime change, comments the u.s. defense secretary refused to defend and now we've got the merger comments. either giuliani just accidentally told the truth and contradicted the white house or messed up his facts and made his boss look bad again. the president will have to come out and say he's still getting his facts straight. still waiting on a response from the white house. >> rebecca berg with us now. let's pick it up there. do you expect we'll hear from the president about this? >> well, we haven't on many of these issues. oftentimes we'll outsource this to sarah sanders. but we might. we know that the president likes to talk to the press occasionally unexpectedly in some of these informal gaggles before or after events. so we might hear directly from the president on this. of course, the main question here is, is he happy with rudy

giuliani and the message that he is out there promoting, or does the president believe that rudy is fumble iing in his job? and is there some frustration there. we don't know the answer to that yet but they have a really interesting relationship, rudy giuliani and the president. they're sim pat co in many ways. that may give giuliani a longer leash than some other allies of the president. >> we talked to joey jackson, former defense attorney, earlier this morning. and he said there's a real problem with this statement he made that the president denied the merger because the president has said otherwise. the department of justice is to protect the people, not the president or the president's whims. do you think the department of justice has a responsibility to speak up about this? >> that would not surprise me really because this is their reputation on the line. they are supposed to be representing this as an

independent arbiter. affirm the president didn't have a role in this process. i would not be surprised to hear that from the department of justice at some point. just reaffirming that they operated independent of the president on this decision. but, of course, that would only be the case if that is true. and rudy giuliani suggesting that the president did have some role in this. it's possible that rudy does not know what he's talking about on this issue, that he was just riffing, but we don't know yet the full story. so it would make sense at some point for the department of justice to address this. >> this is part of what's interesting, though. giuliani said he came on board specifically to help the president with the mueller investigation. victor just went through f everything through he has spoke own just far, the problems it's created already. but the president has to be greenlighting these interviews that giuliani is doing, isn't he? >> and the president when he was asked about rudy giuliani and what he's been saying in some of these interviews, he was

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let's listen. >> they were saying, he's going to get us into a nuclear war. he's going to get us into a nuclear war. and you know what gets you into nuclear wars? and you know what gets you into other wars? weakness. weakness. >> weakness. that's why i wanted to revisit that. everybody, many, many people asking why is the president, the white house, somebody not apologizing for this comment that the white house is not denying. is there a sense that the president sees an apology as a weakness and that's why we're not hearing one? >> that would be consistent with what we've seen from the president in the past. on the few occasions that you've had some of the press secretaries for the white house apologize or seem to apologize from the podium to the press corps, we've heard reports afterward that the president was upset about that.

you're absolutely right. he doesn't like to show weakness. he doesn't like to suggest that he made a mistake or there was a misstep by his white house and that's likely the case here as well. this is a situation where it just comes down to basic civility and humanity that the president and the white house would apologize in this case. but not seeing that from this president, not seeing that from this white house and, of course, it's been an unusual white house in many ways. this is just another way, i suppose. >> all right. rebecca berg, always good to see you. >> thairnk you. john kelly is backtracking on the comment he made that president trump is embarrassed by the probe. he meant to say the president was distracted by the investigation. listen to what kelly originally told npr. this was an interview that aired on thursday. >> there may not be a cloud but certainly the president is somewhat embarrassed, frankly, when world leaders come in. the first couple of minutes of every conversation might revolve

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we've had a lot of those throughout the day. the 15 fissures that have opened up on the hilo side of the island have stopped with the lava flow but there's still a lot of steam and gas coming out of those fissures. up here at the summit, the question is when will that explosion occur if it occurs. and so we're on pins and needles waiting to see what happens with that. >> authorities told residents they can return to their homes to collect their belongings but they warn they may have to leave again at a moment's notice. allison chinchar joins us with the update. >> this is if you ever wanted to know what the inside of a crater of a volcano looked like but in a safe manner, this would be the way to do it. this is thermal imaging. this is back on april 23rd before all this started. all the bright colors is the lava. notice as i put this into play, the lava starts to shrink. less of the orange, less of the

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know, unfortunately, black people won't be believed unless we have video footage. and we're seeing people share this on social media at rates unprecedented. unfortunately, there's a bittersweetness to it all. in some sense, this is the proof that many people, specifically white people, have needed to understand decades of ongoing racial profiling in this country. and in some sense it's bitter because once again we have to endure black trauma porn. i'm personally as a 26-year-old black gay man who has been throughout my entire life profiled and disgusted in basically terrorized by seeing these images, these ongoing images of black and brown people, specifically being targeted by people carrying out acts of white supremacy as if it is something that is routine and cool and hip. >> you talk about having to provide proof.

i want to just pull up a line from your piece on cnn.com in which you write, listen to black people and give their experiences the same level of belief you'd give others who don't have to provide such traumatic documentation to support their claims. and i wonder, is the outrage, the sympathy, the remorse that some will feel for these specific instances and interactions, is that transferrable to other people who will share their story but don't have video proof? >> well, what we're seeing is that there are many people who have shared these experiences. personally, i was stopped and frisked at my alma mater, the university of pennsylvania, when i attended there in 2010. when i told some of my white peers and colleagues what was going on, a lot of them said they couldn't believe it, as if i could lie about those experiences. people have a problem with listening and believing black people without us having to show tweets and pictures and images. what we're seeing is the media is basically picking up on these

images and sharing them. for some people, it takes that for them to believe it's real. unfortunately, we live in a society where, you know, black people are not given the proper humanity and respect. and that requires trust and belief in their experiences, even though we have had centuries long documentation and prove that there is racial disparity in this country. yet we're still doing show and tell in 2018, which is despicable. >> i want you to listen to kelly feif marshall and tanisha pendergraft who say they were racially profiled last monday when they were leaving an airbnb and a neighbor called police because she said she was scared after they didn't wave to her. >> once the sergeant came, the mood and the energy changed completely. he didn't believe anything we were saying. he didn't believe the airbnb app we had shown. he didn't believe the landlord

we had called and the picture. they called the landlord and got a dmv picture and showed it to us and we all agreed, yeah, that's her. of course they would say that. so at that point it just felt like we were -- yeah, everything was against us. >> i didn't feel served or protected in those moments. >> is there any evidence that police departments across the country are taking into consideration the videos we're seeing, the stories that come out after all of these and changed their degree of empathy and involvement with people who are the subjects of these call to police for simple things as checking out of an airbnb, taking a nap in a dorm room, if they're changing based on what we're seeing and hearing repeatedly? >> unfortunately, i don't think so. we have seen officers across the country have evidence that they have hidden.

they have just thrown out, not taken into consideration. unfortunately what i want to also note is that people are saying -- white people use -- under this idea that they're in fear. but i don't think there's fear. people are taking advantage of the disparities of distrust in the criminal justice system and this is a hate crime. black people are innocent. and in many ways when we see these types of routine acts of napping and humane acts of sitting at a starbucks without purchasing something for two minutes, what we're realizing is that there are white people that are yielding and leveraging their white power and their privilege to basically create these acts to terrorize black people. and if you notice, this whole idea of i'm going to call the cops, that is to incite fear. and it's a way to leverage this power and a way to terrorize black people which in my opinion is a hate crime. i think this is an act of automatic hate that's targeting

people based on their race without any merit or proof, and we have to really start talking about what are the repercussions for white people who choose to abuse their privilege in ways that will wreak terror and harm on people in marginalized communities, especially those who are innocent. that's the conversation. >> we have to remember there's not a single rule for every black person or white person which i think these videos highlight. and so it's impossible to brush any single race, black or white, with one -- >> if we notice the pattern. i wasn't making generalizations but we have to look at the pattern of behavior. >> i hear you on that. >> people are put in positions where they're vulnerable. >> we are low on time here. i just wanted to make sure that we pointed that out. >> it has to stop. no one is thinking that. when we talk about white supremacy, it's very clear that that is a one-way street. no both sides to white supremacy. black people kncannot be --

>> that wasn't my point. >> i understand. >> listen, go to cnn -- >> people using and abusing the systems of police misconduct is in many ways an act of white supremacy. like people calling the police on black people that are innocent and racially profiling. >> here's what i'll do. i will -- >> that is a pattern of behavior. >> go to cnn.com and read his piece so they can get more. >> and follow me on twitter. >> ernest owens, thank you so much. we are now hearing from sarah sanders, white house press secretary regarding a statement that rudy giuliani said to the huffington post. rudy giuliani said whatever lobbying was done didn't reach the press. he's referring to the at&t merger possibility. he went on to say he did, meaning the president, drain the swamp. the president denied the merger. they didn't get the result they wanted. here's why that was important

because the department of justice is supposed to be making these decisions, not the president. well, sara sanders this morning telling cnn that sthe statement from the white house is correct that the department of justice is the one that denied this deal. she's referring to a statement that was made back on november 8th, 2017 by deputy white house press secretary raj shah. and that statement was the president did not speak with the attorney general about this matter and no white house official was authorized to speak with the department of justice on this matter. coming from the white house this morning, contradicting what rudy giuliani has said to the huffington post that the president denied this merger with aet&t and time warner, shes saying that statement from before is correct, that the department of justice denied that deal. we'll be right back.

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the breaking news in from the white house, now responding to rudy giuliani's comments to the huffington post that president trump denied the at&t and time warner merger. >> abby philip with us. what your hearing? >> reporter: good morning. the white house is responding finally to giuliani's comments last night. i asked sarah huckabee sanders to explain the difference between what giuliani said, which is that the president denied the at&t/time warner merger and a statement that was issued by the white house in november that said this. the president did not speak with the attorney general about the matter and no one -- no white house official was authorized to speak with the justice department on the matter. those statements are as opposite as they can be, and sarah

sanders said to me this morning that that original statement saying that the president had no involvement is correct and that the justice department was the one who denied the merger. now i should say here that this is sort of, in some ways, a little bit of a technically. the president made it clear that long ago that he was opposed to this merger. that was pretty well known at the time but the white house had specifically denied that he had any involvement in the decision-making process. that the government went into when deciding to sue to stop the merger. so rudy giuliani when he made his comments last night made them both without toeing the white house line on this and possibly without knowledge of the actual facts behind the situation. remember, giuliani is not a member of the trump administration. he is simply the president's lawyer on the issue of the special counsel, an outside lawyer. and while he's a confidante of the president's, there's no indication he had any knowledge

of what was going on in the government at the time back in november when these decisions were being made. so the white house is making it clear here that what giuliani is saying is not correct as far as they are concerned. they are saying this was a justice department decision and that president trump did not put his finger on the scale in the government to specifically ask for this merger to be denied. >> all right. abby philip, thank you for the clarification this morning. we appreciate it. we have this just in as well. an iranian commander is saying the u.s. decision to pull out from the nuclear deal is threatening israel's security and, quote, could speed up annihilation of israel. >> meanwhile, it looks like the supreme leader of iran is trolling president trump. the ayatollah was spotted at a book fair checking out a farsi edition of michael wolff's book "fire and fury inside the trump

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gina haspel's nomination as cia director is boiling down to essentially one key issue. where does she stand on torture. in 2003, haspel headed a secret cia detention facility where an al qaeda suspect was waterboarded. now lawmakers want to know if she'd do it again. john mccain is calling on his colleagues to reject haspel's nomination. and now senator rand paul is indicating he will not vote for her. >> torturing people is immoral and something we shouldn't do. it's against the geneva convention. it's against american principles, and i'm against that, and i don't think we should reward someone involved with that. >> joining me, david rhodes. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> senator paul wrote a few hundred port words for politic. he said she could declassify some of the tales of that period but she won't. set up his argument and what's

her response? >> what he's referring to is a separate torture program that went on for years. and that was taking detainees and sending them to governments that the cia knew would torture them. a canadian citizen taken to syria. a regime the u.s. now assails and said should be out of power. brutally tortured by the syrians. torture by proxy. egypt has been accused of doing this. many other countries. so paul is acting for her to declassify that information to come clean and she's not doing that. and the really important principle here is that congress has to have oversight over the cia. she can share the details in private. they don't have to be made public but he has a right as a senator to demand to know what the cia is doing and what she did herself during that period. >> let's talk about his vote specifically because rand paul seemingly of late has been a hold out on many issues until he isn't. he wasn't going to vote for mike

pompeo to be the next secretary of state and then the last minute changed his mind. so i wonder is this different for paul? >> we'll see. this is where he damages himself politically. he's an iconoclast. talks about this libertarian and he's been very forceful and i'd applaud him on opposing torture. so will he actually back this up? if he's simply doing this to get attention in the media and then supports her nomination anyway, that does under mine his credibility. but it's unusual. mccain, given his own experience of torture as a prisoner in vietnam, it's understandable. i don't think his vote will be shifting but we'll have to see if rand paul sticks to his guns. >> those skeptical of haspel say she gave the right answers on the legal question, but did not answer about the morality of waterboarding or what some call enhanced interrogations. to what degree is senator mccain's urging of the other

members to reject her nomination weighing on those members? what are you learning about that? >> i think it's really the sort of -- the republicans that are in states that are not blue or red. joe manchin, the democrat from west virginia facing re-election has said he'll support haspel because he's afraid of what he'll face in november. but it's abouting. she was very evasive in her questions. he said torture was immoral. it was wrong, un-american. haspel didn't say that. she gave legalistic answers. it was puzzling because i think declaring torture immoral wouldn't really hurt her chances. i don't know why she was so evasive or talking about these renditions senator paul raised where prisoners were taken to other countries and tortured there, essentially on our behalf. >> we'll see if she gets the numbers. thank you so much. >> thank you. the clock ticking down for the royal wedding.

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know who she is and if she's fit for the royal family. >> she was a woman who has been married. people are fascinated by the fact she is divorced. by her background. her acting. a career woman. how would that work being with someone in the royal family. that's not what we've seen before. >> they also have not seen someone biracial dating a member of the royal family. and some of the conversation is blatantly racist. >> there was one newspaper headline saying straight outta compton, suggesting she was from a gang-ridden neighborhood. >> a journalist recently wrote a book about race, identity and belonging in britain. >> would harry be dropping her off for tea in gangland. >> a whole new issue exploded which was the number of horrific social media racist comments began to flood in from the darkest, vilest corners of the

internet. >> cnn's special report "a royal match -- harry and meghan" airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. >> followed by another special "diana, chasing a fairy tale" at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> in the build-up to the royal wedding next week, lifetime has already made a movie. already. >> of course they have. >> could they just get married first? a movie about the romance. >> but i had a chance to talk with the executive producers. >> they're the modern version of the royal couple. meghan markle is american. an actress. she's very good at being on camera. and harry has always been so many people's favorite. we found actors who are, you know, both convincing, playing the parts they're playing, but also who, you know, who are good actors. we hope it works both as telling this fascinating, you know, can't believe it's true story of

a very famous couple, but we hope it works just on the level of romance. >> the movie turned out well. we think people will have a great time watching it. >> catch the full interview with them tomorrow on "new day" with us starting at 6:00 a.m. eastern. >> now it has to work. there's a lifetime movie. you have to stay together. >> it has to work, yes. we'll see you back here at 10:00 eastern for an hour of newsroom. smerconish is with you right now. ♪ ♪ i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. in a rare interview, white house chief of staff john kelly calls the russian probe an embarrassment for the president and then has to walk it back. but it's clearly affecting the u.s. stature on the world stage. i'll ask general michael hayden about that subject. and the democrats' big lead in the