institutions like european union and nato. in other words, vladimir putin understands us very well. the question is, do we, does donald trump, really understand him? federal agents have secret recordings of the u.s. president made before he took that office. and one involves the silencing of a former playboy model. we'll explain. we'll take you to the state of missouri where there is much sadness. we'll hear from a woman who lost nine family members when their tour boat sank. and the long awaited sequel to the abba musical hit theaters. welcome to our viewer here in the u.s. and all around the world. we're coming to you live from

atlanta. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell. good to have you back. >> "newsroom" starts right now. and our top story, before donald trump became president, his former attorney secretly recorded him talking about a payment to a former playboy model. mcd one of many items th seized from cohen. when mr. trump found out about the tape, he said, quote, i can't believe michael would do this to me. >> and all this of course comes as a welcome distraction for the president following backlash from his controversial summit with the russian leader last week. this story however, it is still unfolding with more details likely to come out.

jessica schneider explains what we know so far. >> reporter: michael cohen secretly recorded multiple conversations with donald trump sources tell cnn. and those tapes are now in the hands of federal investigators. two months before the election, cohen recorded a conversation with donald trump about a payment to mcdug al who claims she had a nearly year long affair with the president right after melania gave birth to barron in 2006. >> i was attracted to him, yeah. he is a nice looking man and i liked his charisma. >> reporter: she said trump tried to hand her cash after their first night together. >> he tried to pay me and i didn't know how to take that. >> did he actually try to hand you money? >> he did. >> reporter: trump denies the affair. mcdug al eventually sold her story for $150,000.

the tabloid never published it. giuliani told cnn that trump didn't know he was being recorded during that discussion. but on the tape, trump and cohen discussed buying the rights to the story from ami, the parent company of the inquirer. trump advised cohen to pay by check. the recording was one of several seized during a raid of cohen's hotel room, apartment and office back in april. there are other tapes that the fbi seized beyond the president that could be embarrassing for the people on the tape and for cohen according to a source familiar with those tapes. prosecutors in new york city are examining possible election law violations related to payments michael cohen made to women who allege sexual encounters with trump. stormy daniels received $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged affair. she has since sued trump over that agreement. daniels' attorney is now urging

cohen to release the recordings. >> if cohen is in fact a true patriot as he wants the american people to believe and as laney davis wants the american people to believe, then michael cohen should release all of the audio recordings. and i will tell you there are multiple recordings. and all of them should be released for the benefit of the american public. >> reporter: for now michael cohen isn't commenting. he has been seen on the streets of new york city, but has stay aed mostly silent at least publicly. he sat down with george stephanopoulos off camera earlier this month signaling his willingness to work with robert mueller stressing his family not the president comes first. and late last nigweek, cohen qud walter cronkite and said it is never more important than it is now to distinguish innuendo from fact. >> the tape of course raises new

legal issues for the u.s. president. let's bring in our legal analyst areva martin from los angeles. thank you for being with us. from what we know about this tape, does it hurt the president? one of his lawyers rudy giuliani says it won't. has he explained that? >> one thing we know for sure is that the president lied to us. this story broke in 2016, the wau "wall street journal" broke a story that trump knew about the negotiated deal between karen mcdug al and ami. when asked about that deal, donald trump, his team, denied any knowledge of it. this tape now of donald trump talking to michael cohen about purchasing or -- trying to acquire that non-disclosure agreement that was entered into clearly, clearly reveals that

the president knew that she was potentially trying to tell her story about an affair that she said she had with the president. so if nothing else, it proves that trump and his administration have not been honest with the american people. >> that is one factor. the other big question is, does the tape reveal whether in the payments made, did the payment violate campaign finance laws? >> and that is a big question. of course rudy giuliani says that the tapes exonerate the president because there is no conversation, there is no mention during the 90 seconds or two minutes of this tape where there is any conversation about the election or about trying to suppress information. but it remains to be seen. we don't know exactly what other information may be available. we know that there were millions of documents seized from michael cohen's office and his home. we don't know what those

documents reveal about what trump and michael cohen were doing leading up to the election. we do know that from this tape, from the deal that ami had with mcdougal and from the payment to stormy daniels, that trump had issues with women coming forward and he didn't want those stories to break before the election. now, before the dots can can be connected by federal prosecutors to prove that payments made by donald trump were indeed to prevent negative information from coming out right before the election, and constitute a campaign violation, it remains to be seen. >> cohen typically secretly recorded meeting. there are other tape beyond this one. but according to our sources, this is the only one of substance with donald trump. the president has waived privilege on this recording according to two sources briefed on the legal discussion. what is the significance of that

move? >> there is some reporting that donald trump and his team waived privilege and that they made this tape available to the media because they were trying to divert our attention away from this horrific week that the president has had, you know, beginning on monday with the press conference where he stood side by side with vladimir putin and pretty much agreed with putin that despite evidence from our national intelligence and our law enforcement agencies that they did not interfere in the 2016 election. it is not certain though why -- it is not clear to me why donald trump wanted this tape released so giuliani's theory that this somehow exonerates the president. >> will cohen, the former fixer to donald trump, be a danger aer to this president? will he couldn't wioperate with? >> i think if he look at the

tweet, it is clear that there has been a shift in the way michael cohen considers the president, a shift in their relationship. back months ago he talked about taking a bullet for the president and being one of his most loyal confidants. we saw with his recent interview with stephanopoulos, he said look, my family, my children first. he hired new legal team. and it is pretty clear that michael cohen is frustrated. he doesn't believe that the president has had his back. he believes that the president is trying to undermine his credibility. and it is not so certain at this moment that michael cohen is going to continue to be loyal to the president. the lawyer that he has hired is a former u.s. attorney in the southern district of new york. and that suggests to some that michael cohen is gearing up to try to strike some kind of deal with the federal prosecutors if and when he is actually charged with any crimes. >> areva martin, as always thanks for helping us

understand. >> thank you, natalie. here in the united states, a woman who lost nine of her family members in a deadly tour boat accident, she is speaking out about the horrifying experience from her hospital bed. >> i couldn't see anybody. i couldn't hear anything. i could hear screams. felt like i was out there on my own. and i was yelling and i was screaming. and finally i said lord, just let me die. let me die. i said i can't -- i can't keep drowning. i can't keep drowning. and then i just let go and i started floating. and i was floating up to the top. i felt the water temperature raise to warm. and i jumped up and i saw the big boat that sits out there, i don't know what kind of boat, it was huge though. and when i saw them, they were throwing out life jackets to people. and i said jesus, please just keep me so i can get to my children. keep me, lord.

>> what a tale she has. while she recovers, vigils have been taking place in branson to more than the 17 people who died. the so-called duck boat was carrying 31 people. >> that duck boat sank in a lake thursday during a severe thunderstorm in that area. miguel marquez has this report. >> reporter: cellphone video capturing the unthinkable. >> it's going under. >> reporter: a tour boat full of families disappearing beneath the swells on missouri's table rock lake. fewer than half the people on board would make it back to shore alive. 17 passengers from ages just 1-year-old to 70, you including the boat's driver bob williams, are now gone. >> one lady lost nine members of her 11 members of her family. so had a chance to talk to her. and difficult to find the right words to say. >> reporter: it is one of the deadliest duck boat accidents in

history. as strong weather rolled in thursday evening, the waters on the lake became treacherous. >> never seen it quite this bad. boats can't get in. boats can't get out. >> reporter: this video from a man who had a ticket for the duck boat and turned back tweeting, we saw high winds and bad weather roll in, so i decided to get a refund and leave with my wife. severe thunderstorm warnings for the area were first issued at 5:45, then again at 6:30 just before the accident. >> welcome aboard ride the duck. >> reporter: still two duck boats continued with their advertised tour. radar shows the fast moving storm heading toward branson hitting the lake with 63-mile-per-hour wind gusts, just as the boats try to turn back at 7:00 p.m. only one made to shore. >> he's going to make it. >> reporter: the first emergency calls for the other came in at 7:09. >> need a water rescue.

north of the showboat. it will be a duck that has capsized. >> if there is somebody out there with a video of this, please send to our county sheriff's office. >> reporter: as investigators pour into branson to find answers, the president of the duck boat company tells cnn this never should have happened. >> was perfectly common. and we had a high speed wind system that just came out of nowhere. obviously we shouldn't be out there in severe weather. we're absolutely devastated. we feel terrible. >> reporter: for so many here, now grieving such sudden loss, terrible is just the beginning. the next step in the investigation is to bring that boat out of the water. it sank just 30, maybe 40 feet off the shore into about 40 feet of water and slid down into 80 feet of water. they hope to bring it out by monday. miguel marquez, cnn, branson,

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welcome back. the trump administration is defending its decision to invite the russian president vladimir putin to washington, d.c. >> u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo says the meeting planned for this fall makes in his words enormous sense. >> i'm happy that the two leaders of two very important countries are continuing to meet. if that meeting takes place in washington, it is all to the good. those conversations are incredibly important. >> but still four days after the helsinki summit, we still don't have a clear picture, an indication of what the two leaders said, what they talked about in private during that face-to-face meeting. >> most of what we know has come from russia.

it points to agreements made between the two leaders, but the u.s. is pushing back on claims that the u.s. would support a referendum in ukraine. >> and following the story in moscow, sam kiley joining us this hour. sam, on this side of the pond, still unclear what the u.s. president discussed with his russian counterpart, but it seems over there president putin is putting forward some details. >> yeah, and i think the interesting thing here, george, is if you go back to pompeo's remarks about the future white house meeting with president putin and donald trump in the fall in the autumn, talking has good thing. then the question is who owns the narrative. when donald trump emerged from the helsinki talks, he was extremely vague. and at that point, you could

anticipate that former head of the fsb, trained intelligence operator like vladimir putin does not forget anything, and then of course on top of that can start tweaking what was said in the absence of any kind of evidence from the russians -- from the american side. so what we've seen so far is a limited little hint from the ministry of defense here in russia saying that both sides agreed to restart the salt talks, talks about weapons nonproliferation. those would have been scheduled to start anyway. the russians are saying they are starting preparations. nothing terribly controversial about that. and then a little bit more controversy leaked out through various means from ambassador briefings by president putin suggesting that there was some kind of an agreement on hu humanitarian repatriation for refugees in syria. and this is good for the trump administration because the official position of the trump

administration, the united states of america, is that a there would be no repatriation of refugees under any area under control of bashar al assad which of course is assumed by the russians. if the russians have any leverage there, it would be only to return refugees into syrian government territory. so that creates a schism, potential friction between the white house and the policy wonks within the united states of america. and ultimately russians are saying that we've got a lot of great new weaponry, so we really need you to talk to us about deescalation more widely. so they are starting to own the narrative. >> sam kiley on the details there live for us in moscow. thank you. now let's bring in head of the russia and you're raise i can y -- eurasia program. you heard what we discussed there. typically we'd hear the u.s. version of events, we'd hear the

russian version of events. and there would be a noticeable difference, right, in what was said and even agreed to. in this case we're not hearing from the u.s. really. and as sam rightly points out, russia owning the narrative here. >> yeah, that is exactly right. that is because donald trump has managed to go back on everything that he said, then tweet something different, then change his mind and therefore the american idea on this has been to keep stern as much as possible. sorry, there is a great deal of feedback here, so hard for me to speak to you. >> it is okay. ear heari we're hearing you fine. always difficult when the feedback comes into these exchanges. but yes, your point quite interesting and search important to hear. let's talk about the backlash that we saw from the helsinki summit. president trump recently insisting though that he has never bacgiven russia a pass.

let's listen. >> no president ever has been as tough as i've been. look at the numbers. look at what we've done. look at sanctions, ambassadors not there. look at unfortunately what happened in syria recently. and i think president putin knows that better than anybody. certainly a lot better than the media. >> so want to make sure you did hear that. president trump saying that he is the toughest on russia. but james, in your view on mr. trump's approach with that nation and with what u.s. intelligence has clearly indicated about russia being an ongoing threat to u.s. democracy, where has the president been tough here, where do you see him as being weak with russia? >> well, america has been tough. the sanctions are greater than they were under the obama era. syria has been bombed more so than it was under the obama era.

but this was not really trump's doing per se especially not the sanctions. so really american policy has been tougher despite donald trump, not because of him. so the russians are laying a great deal of hope into what trump can do to sort of supersede the american system of government and to win out. and they are looking to see if that can be done through means of these summits, by getting him on his own and trying to get what they can out of him as a result of these one-on-one conversations. >> so we're looking at individual wvideo right now, the two leaders standing together. and now i want to show you this cover of "time" where the world is seeing these two leaders together. your thoughts from this image. and as allies look on, what does it mean for western allies? >> again, i can't actually see the image on my skype screen

here, but i do think that there is a fundamental misunderstanding with every american president, but it is amplified with donald trump whereby they believe that they can get on with russia. it happened with bush, with clinton, with obama as well. they all believe that their r d predecessor was incompetent. but there is a reason russia/u.s. relations are bad is because of the nature of russia itself. you can get on with another country if you share interests or if you share values. or both of course. but if you share neither interests nor values, then it will be very, very hard to have a formidable relationship. >> james, just to describe that image, it is president trump's head with president putin's face morphed into it. you will see it for sure on the cover of "time" magazine. it is a sight to behold for sure. james, thanks for your time. >> thank you. >> certainly a creepy cover,

isn't it? >> creepy is the word. another story that we'rele forring of course, a woman mourning a family tragedy after two relatives were killed in a tour boat accident in missouri. >> they lost their great grandmother a month ago and thousand both their gra now both their grandparents. >> more on the lives lost when we come back here.

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accident killing 17 people including nine from the same family. the annual fmphibious boat sank branson, missouri during a severe thunderstorm on thursday. >> there are reports that the gaza cease fire is back on following another outbreak of violence. the israel defense forces say civilians living near gaza can return to a normal routine. this after israel says it hit dozens of targets friday after an israeli soldier died from gunfire near the gaza border. a taped conversation between the u.s. president and his personal attorney allegedly deals with buying the story rights of a former playboy model karen mcdougal. she says she had an affair with donald trump in 2006, that ro d recording made by michael cohen. the tape was seized by the fbi

earlier this year. this story is still unfolding. many more details to come out. and let's talk more about it with kate andrews, news editor at the institute for economic affairs in london and writes a column on u.s. politics for city a.m. a pleasure to have you here on the show. the simple fact here that we know about this, it speaks volumes really. it speaks to the fact that there is a leaker and leads to the question, what is the motive and why the timing? >> thanks for having me, george. so it is still unclear if michael cohen has actively handed over these tapes or if they were discovered as part of mueller's investigation. i've seen some mixed reporting there about exactly how the tapes were acquired. so i actually think that the bigger question is what else are they going to find. a lot of people will now want to know what else has been reported. cohen has made it clear that he had recorded multiple interviews with the president. we have yet to find anything illegal on these tapes. at least there hasn't been any reporting that there is a real

smoking gun. so, you know, there are several questions here. what else has been recorded, what else will be discovered, will anything illegal actually crop up. and if not, to what extent is the humiliation actually damaged the president. and i think that could go in different directions to be quite frank. >> questions have been raised about why this was leaked now, a diversion perhaps from the summit fiasco from this week. and it doesn't really make sense though from one muddy issue to another. >> yeah, i mean it would be a strange way to try to cover up what happened in helsinki and i don't think thinking can cover that up. the president overstepped a red line i think particularly for republicans but really for the whole country undermining u.s. intelligence and security. so nothing will make that go away anytime soon. the problem with this leak is that from his supporter support perspective, it will be seen as a way to humiliate the president and made might make them double down and defend him more.

for others, the question isn't necessarily what is on these tapes about karen mcdougal, but really what else has been recorded. and if there could be a smoking gun in those recordings, not necessarily related to the president's alleged affairs or issues with other women. a lot of voters knew about that kind of thing before they elected him. we have to be honest about this. you kind of knew what you were getting ethically when you voted for donald trump in 2016. what we still don't know is whether or not there were any attempts at collusion between the president and foreign groups, foreign people especially in russia. and that is really surely what people will want to know. >> and generally speaking here, what are the possible positives for this president, what are the negatives really it all depends on what is on that tape. >> absolutely. we have to remember that the economy is growing in the states, growth is up. people are feeling that. they are feeling the bonuses they are getting from their

businesses thanks to the tax breaks. 23 you go to hard on the president with the personal life, and put the ethics aside, i think we all agree the ethics are extremely questionable, but if you put that aside, you want to be careful in the ways that you attempt to humiliate the president but that can backfire. what you want is hard evidence that something illegal occurred and that's what i think the press can really run with. >> but it also shows and you did talk about this a little bit perhaps how donald trump and his associates handle scandal involving his personal and perhaps business affairs. and you have to wonder how much more can people absorb. >> absolutely. and for a lot of people, this will just be another piece of ammunition to use against the president. for other, it will be another reason to turn the tvs off or to put the newspaper down, just another attack on the president which is why evidence is so crucial in situations like this. but i do think we're starting to see a slight change with the president and the white house. and i think it really did happen

at helsinki. i think that was a turning point. so often with the president's scandals, he just says fake news, not true, et cetera, et cetera. but in helsinki, he wasn't able to swing that press conference with the pr slant that he wanted. people really saw through i think what was just an issue of underpreparation and a desire to please the person in the room rather than thinking about the country and our security as a whole. and i think that really affected him. he hasn't been able to give that the slant that he usually is able to do especially amongst his base. so as more of these stories come out, it may be harder and hander for people to believe the president's angle on things. but i think this one is particularly difficult because we knew about his history and his issues and his language around women before the 2016 election. and i think a lot of people have already said that is an issue i've already dealt with, i've already decided i'm a never trumper or i can forgive it and

move on. so until more evidence comes out of these tapes or lack thereof, it would be hard to know how impactful they will be. >> and as you talk about the spin which has already started, we heard from president trump's attorney rudy giuliani saying essentially this is good for president trump, that it exonerates him. but digging deeper, what does it mean for president trump's base, mr. trump at one point even saying that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and they would still vote for him. >> gentlemen, >> yes, i do remember that line. i think he is having to become more cautious about what he can come out and say in such a boisterous and obnoxious way. i don't think that this is good news for the president, these kinds of stories will damage him personally, they will be humiliating. and it has issues in the news today that aren't about the

economy, aren't about job growth, aren't about the things that the president i'm slure th president would like the media to be discussing. so never a good story to come out, but pretty impressive attempt at spin, let's give them credit for that. >> kate andrews, we appreciate your analysis. thank you so much. a husband and wife married 45 years were among 17 people killed in that tour boat crash in missouri. one of their relatives spoke to the media about what happened. >> started calling my brother and sister-in-law's phone and there was no answer, so i called -- they were staying at the windmill. they hadn't seen them. the room was empty. so needless to say as every minute passed, i panicked more and more. my great grand nieces and nephews now have no grandparents. >> a terribly sad story. the 17 people killed on what you see there, a duck boat as it is

called, amphibious vessel that carried 31 people when it sank in a lake during a severe thunderstorm near the popular u.s. tourist town of bran son, missouri thursday. vigils were held friday to mourn the lives lost. still no clear why the boat sank. >> derek van dam is here with us. we kept hearing that the wind came up so quickly. was there any warning? >> it is pretty apparent that the weather was a major factor. maybe not the only factor, but the time line of how the storm evolved is going to be crucial for this investigation going forward in whether or not this event was avoidable. so that is really the key issue here. so was there warning. what you will find in a second was there indeed was a warning in place. these are the graphics. and stay with me because there

is a lot of information here. this tour can last just about over an hour. now, the storm was about 50 miles away when the tour started at 6:00 p.m. the storm that was approaching and threatening the lake and the area was moving at 60 miles per hour. so it was likely that the storm would arrive before the boat was able to return safely to shore. in other words, they should have known that a storm was approaching, listened to the warnings, and prevented the boats from going out in the first place. this is a really interesting time line. what you are looking at is zoomed in radar and severe watch box overlay of southwest missouri. the local time here is at 5:45. the national weather service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch -- or did issue a severe thunderstorm watch at that time, well in advance of that 6:00 p.m. departure of the boat tour. now, fast forward about 45 minutes, you can see the storm

advancing. we're still about a half an hour away from the first impacts of the storm on the duck boat tour company. but the national weather service had issued a severe thunderstorm warning in anticipation of 60-mile-an-hour winds or greater on table rock what i calake. fast forward even further, we saw the first effects of the storm, be wind gusts over 70 miles an hour on the north side of the lake at roughly 6:59. ten minutes later at 7:09, we got the first emergency call for authorities. the point being that the people should have heeded the warnings. there were warnings in place from the national weather service. and clearly there should have been visible warning as well as the storm approached the area. so will we learn lessons from this, prevent a catastrophe like this in the future? time will tell and this will be important as the investigation unfolds over the next days and

weeks. nonetheless, it was a very busy and active severe dare yesterday and that same batch of thunderstorms continues to move to the south and east threatening areas like atlanta, georgia where the cnn world headquarters is located. i'm monitoring right now a line of strong storms just north of the atlanta metro area. they could fire up again later today. and this is on top of extreme heat that is impacting the deep south. dallas could break record highs today. we have triple digit heat in the forecast across much of texas and southwestern parts of the u.s. so lots of weather to talk about. incredible to think about the search and rescue efforts -- or the rescue effort that had to take place there in missouri. >> and still having to bring up the boat. >> that's right. 80 feet at the surface of that lake. >> wow. thank you. still ahead, fighting threatens a fragile truth between israel and gaza milita t militan militants. we'll have a live report from

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welcome back. it appears a ceasefire along the israel/gaza border is barely holding. we've received word an israeli tank targeted a hamas military post in gaza saturday morning. this comes after the israeli military says that civilians living near gaza can now return to their normal routine. israel hit dozens of targets in gaza after an israeli soldier was fatally shot. hamas says three members of its military wing were killed in the air strikes, but it says a truce is now in effect. for a look at how or if the cease fire can hold, ian lee is

joining us from gaza city. you've been covering this story for months. and you certainly can appreciate how fragile it is, but it is a ceasefire at least. >> reporter: that's right. let's just call this gaza call, where you do have the cease fires that we hear from the different militant factions in gaza, but usually afterwards, after they make this declaration, there is some sort of tit for tat, although it usually is low level, nothing where you see someone killed or injured. and we saw this last weekend where we had probably one of the highest upticks of violence we've seen for quite some tile when you had over 200 rockets fired and israel responding with the largest bombing campaign since 2014. they had a ceasefire then. and even after that, there were still a few rockets and a few bombs until it really returned to a somewhat of a calm. but this just underlines how

fragile this whole situation really is where you do have these upticks in violence that could spiral out of control. and many people here yesterday, war was on their lips. they thought that another war could be happening. and we saw from the u.n. special coordinator for middle east peace, he urged everyone to step back from the brink, to not let this turn into a full scale war. and there was a lot of efforts, i got to say, by the egyptians, by the u.n. to talk to both sides, to get them back to this again gaza calm because again we saw first israeli soldier killed since these tensions really began at the end of march. and we heard from the defense minister saying that they were going to hit hard, hit gaza hard if there wasn't calm. so it looks like they dodged a bullet literally, metaphorically, but you know, it is going to take real hard

efforts by the u.n., by the gee egyptians to keep the calm and not let it spiral out of control. >> ian lee, thank you so much. as we mentioned, plastic waste is threatening to choke the oceans and destroy marine life and tranquil beaches the world over. here is what some of it looks like up close. waves of garbage being pushed on to a beach, you can't even see the water. hundreds of people have been working to clean up the trash, but each day brings more and more. they say in five days, they have removed some 60 tons of trash. yes, folks, that is what we do to the oceans. >> and it is that plastic cup, that straw that you use that you just threw away. >> everything manufactured in plastic. >> and that is the result. >> and that is one beach. yeah. after the break, this next

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it was a decade ago the movie musical mama mia was a box office smash and here we go again. >> the sequel of course features the songs of abba, so let's hear it again. neal curry has this. ♪ night is young and the music high ♪ >> reporter: so they did it again. ten years after the original mama mia musical moved from theater to silver screen, sophie returns, the off spring of a holiday romance. the new film tells the back story of the main characters and adds young actors playing fresh faced versions of the senior stars. and croatia is cast in the role

of greece as the football world cup hasn't given enough screen time to the sun kissed vulcan nation. but it is lilly james as the young version of donna who steals the show with a performance of pop classics and some lesser known songs which form the heartbeat of the movie. and the composers of those songs return with cameo paeshappearano lit their fans. ♪ there was something in the air that night ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but a moment the entire cast wanted to share. >> everybody came in that day, all the cast that weren't working and they brought their husbands, wife, children and dogs. i've never seen a set like it. and when she finished the song, applause. it was extraordinary. >> we were sitting there like this is the craziest thing ever, like she is right there singing.

>> my mom was there, she is the biggest cher fan. she introduced me to cher. we watched and my mom was like this is -- >> god, yeah. i can't believe that was our life. >> i thought oh, these people are great actors and i didn't know if they were going to be serious or what they were going to be. but i've never been on a set where people were so easy going and having so much fun. ♪ >> reporter: the first movie sound track went platinum despite the much maligned vocal talents of pierce brosnan. >> i found it easier. they cut my singing down thank god. >> your singing is great. >> thank you. ♪ ♪ young and full of life ♪ >> reporter: this time it is andy garcia who finds himself making an unexpected appearance. >> he just found out yesterday. >> yeah, you're on the chart.

and i said no surprise, i'm singing with cher. >> i like to say why not mama mia. we still don't know who the dad is. >> everyone has an amazing time and we should be so lucky. >> reporter: if he does know, the director is keeping mum about it. or should that be keeping mama. neal curry, cnn, london. let's get the party started. it has started. it has opened in theaters around the world. >> and also an announcement to tell you about that is so shocking, you could say it might raise the deck. take a look. >> still ready to deal with this world on its own terms. >> we're all going to make sure the sanctuary -- >> we're talking about the star of the zombie tv series "the walking dead" says the upcoming season will be his last. >> l it will be his ninth season

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