politicians, listen to how microsoft president rang the alarm bell talking to our own paula newton. >> i don't think anybody should sit back in 2018 and say, oh, this is a continue weighs of the kinds of things that we've experienced in the past. two the contrary, we are seeing new technology approaches. we are seeing new threats, innovation. we shouldn't wait for the next surprise to wake up later and say we didn't take this seriously enough. >> now, executives from facebook and twitter are expected to testify before the senate intelligence committee next month to answer questions about their rules, protecting elections from misinformation. this all comes just as facebook's recently departed chief security minister says it's too late from online interference, victor, christy. >> he knows everything and donald in terms of the money

trail by allen weisselberg. >> he knows every single financial transaction. >> donald trusted him. he was almost a family member. >> you can say something about about donald trump, will you go down to two years, three years. >> it's called flipping. it almost ought to be illegal. >> there was a safe a safe with secrets about the now president of the united states. there was a case where they had a doorman to silence the story we wanted to tell about an alleged affair. >> there's a lot of interesting information on a lot of important people. >> you want to turn to senator john mccain and his decision to end his cancer treatment? he is a fighter. he doesn't top moving. he's like a shark. he can't stop moving. >> at some point you say the treatments aren't working, otr living and the toll these treatments are taking on my body are greater than the benefits.

>> this is "new day" weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> well, the weekend is bring knowing relief for president trump after some are calling the worst week of his presidency. >> he has been hit by bad headline after bad headline. now we are learning this, details from the old doorman at trump tower says he has name of a child obtained out of wedlock. a contract he signed with the parent company of the "national enquirer" that allegedly paid off karen mcdougal in order to keep her allegations of an affair with trump from being pub learned. >> cnn's ryan nobles, this former doorman says he was not free to speak about this contract, this deal, until now. why is he free to speak now? >> that's right, victor, the fact that he is no longer bound

by an agreement that he signed with ami the parent company of the "national enquirer" not to talk about it. it paid him $33,000 to keep quiet. it came with a penalty of a million dollars if he did tell his story. his attorney telling cnn this week ami lifted that prohibition on him talking. he is able speak object it freely. what he claims dino sajudin cleems claims he had evidence donald trump was involved in an affair that led to the birth of a child. it's important to look out other news organizations looked into this claim and have not upon the it to be credible. but what this tells us is that this could be a crack in this long-term relationship that the president of the united states had with ami, a pattern of holding on to stories that were

potentially damaging about the president or the trump organization that they kept locked literally in a safe and if they allowed this particular individual to come forward and tell this story, could there be other stories out there of this ilk? does it demonstrate a bicker problem and david pecker, the head oami who we know had an immunity deal with authorities to talk about what he knows about the president. victor, christi. the chief officer has an immunity deem. we know that president trump values loyalty. has the white house said anything about these two instances, specifically, which had to seem like betrayials? >> no, they haven't, christi. the president talked and michael cohen the third triumphant that

decided to turn to some exten. he talks how he despises people who flip and subjected flipping should be illegal. so loyalty is important to the president. so he cannot be happy about the fact two of his associates, david pecker and allen weisselberg have zoodecided to cooperate. it could be contained into the investigation into michael cohen. in fact, weisselberg, in particular, we are told it did involve his cooperation and his immunity extended to that point. many legal experts say once begin cooperation with federal authorities, it is open ended and you can be asked questions in the future the question, will robert mueller be interested if talking to either of these two men, could that be included into

his investigation? that's a question we don't have the answer to this morning. >> brian nobles, thanks tore break it down for us. >> a legal analyst and criminal attorney, welcome to "new day" saturday. >> thank you. >> we heard the reporting on this, this deal with the doorman in trump world tower. i want to put the allegations aside for a moment and their credibility. but that this man was, did have a deal a contract with ami and has now been released from it, from a legal perspective who does this help? does it behoove ami to release this man now? >> absolutely, victory. i think that's what's going on here, we don't know the details of why they are doing this, but it is absolutely possible. navenl to me it's likely that pecker or someone within that organization was either told by their legal counsel or by the u.s. attorney's office, you need to back off of these deals because if we're interested if talking to these people about what they know and you try to

keep them quit, that could be viewed as obstruction somerset these deals where if you talk you got to pay us a million dollars, that's problem mating for law enforcement. so i think they're listening to legal advice or hearing from prosecutors, you need to undo these deals and let them tell their stories. >> when the questions started to come to the white house about stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. there were full throated denials from the president's supporters, from his press secretary and then as time went on the truth came out, that the president knew about the payments and the president said they came from me. so when the white house eventually answers questions about this contract with this doorman, they're going to have a struggle convincing people. >> of course, there is a real kweblt correct question here -- credibility question here. we find out the last version

probably wasn't true. beyond that we have to were, i think it's easy to forget sometimes at the core the president denied ever having any affair with stormy daniels. i think the more evidence we've seen now we know not only this paint was made, the president knew about it, it becomes, it starts to challenge any semblance of believably that the core denial that this affair ever happened is believable. i think what is interesting, both with these contracts today and with michael cohen is that the president has obviously built kind of a series of protection around him, folks who are bounds by non-disclosures, photon dynamics see he had attorney/client privilege, we seen various investigations is that law enforcement is taerg those things down piece by piece. so while the president thought he had extrooemt treatment protection. these folks that wouldn't flip on him, things he told his

attorney perhaps weren't recorded and might ends up in the hands of law enforcement, it doesn't seem to portend going forward, so many of his layers of infrastructure around him now appear to be cooperating with law any forcement or they've obtained it anyway. >> paul manafort as we know was found guilty of eight felonies, there was a mistrial on ten of the felonies, there is a separate trial in september. prosecutors want to introduce the famous osstrich and bython jeans into evidence. is this effective? >> i don't think so. i think the prosecution overdid it in the last trial. the judge told them so. at some point you want to distance the defendant. you want to think, he's not leak us, he's this rich guy, he is

breaking the law. you can overdo it. i think we heard from one of the jurors in the first manafort trial, look, we didn't want to fine him guilty, it's because of the evidence. so as a good prosecutor, you focus back on the documents, what he clearly did wrong. you let the jury make the determination. that's what happened in the manafort trial. but he wasn't found guilty because of his taste in clothing. >> there is a contention this week is the contender for the first week of the trump administration thus farch my question is, who has this moved? the people that support the president? do those who do not support the president, where has anybody come down on a different side of the line this week than they have earlier and does this change the president's value moving into november? >> you know, i think this is among the worst weeks of this presidency, not necessarily because of the pr or the

blowback. but in large part it became clear or underscored this president is facing criminal liable. his administration is. you have folks that were so high up in his campaign as well as his personal attorney now both convicted felons. it speaks to a depth. now, i think there is two things. do i think the core base will be moved by this? ? no, i don't. i think the polling thus far anded anext dotal -- annecdotal so far, they will not be moved. people who are never trump are taking this further than previously. i have main stream republicans calling for impeachment or removal, only something we seen from democrats seen further left. so i do think there is some movement. the key to the trump presidency and it longevity is not its

supporters, rather the republicans that go along to get along who maybe haven't liked him and have said that, but who have fallen far short of calling for his removal from office. if those notion continue mofolk that could change the gam. >> thank you both. >> thank you. so, stay close here. because tributes to a living legend are pouring in. we've learned that senator john mccain is not undergoing treatments of brain cancer. we are live from his home state of arizona. stay close.

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pretty much true to mccain's sometime, he's done things the way he wanted to. few look back at the senator's life, lou ayou look at his poli career and he stuck by his guns and what he believed in, even if it wasn't popular. so it seems that this transition is being handled in much the same way the family putting out a statement. in part, i want to read one part. they know he has been battling saying in the years since johner is surpassed survival, the disease render their verdict. so we have seen the senator even as recently as july speaking out on what he is seeing in politics, saying when he agrees with the president or not, still pe speaking out until now. keep in minds we are four days away from his yeck birthday. it's clear this has been a concerted effort with the senator's family as well, his

wife cindy mccain tweeting, i love my husband with all my heart. god bless everyone that cared for my husband along the journey, megan mccain pledging their love an support and reached out with their commentary and feelings and love for the senator. but would you take a look at what he's meant for arizona, where he has run for the senate four times and ran for presidency twice. whether you believe the his beliefs or not clearly loves america and is truly a patriot. can you see that outpoour pouring here at this time, victor. >> indeed, well wishes from around the world, in fact. stephanie, thank you. moments ago, pope francis addressed the sex abuse scandal. he did it in the first papal visit to ireland in more than 40 years. we will tell you what he said. stay close.

>> it feels good to wake up on a saturday morning. >> i'm victor blackwell, good estate morning to you. >> moments ago, pope francis addressed the latest sexual abuse allegations that have come across the catholic church.

he said, i acknowledge the grave scandal caused in ireland by the abuse of minors by members of the church charged with responsibility for their protection and education. >> his visit comes as he just mentioned the clerical sexual aintiefrs across the world look to the church for answers and action. joining us now is cnn correspondent phil black. so we read that excerpt from the pope's remarks. what else did he sa i? >> it's an expectation about what the pope is going to say on this issue in platform it was a reasonably long welcome speech. he got to the issue of clerical sexual abuse eventually, it was buried pretty deep into the speech, he talked about acknowledging the creams committed by members of the church and importantly at the suffering it's caused and in

order to deal with this adequately. let's take listen to what he said at dublin castle a short time ago. >> translator: the failure of the qualities for priests to adequately address these appalling crimes has frankly given rise to a rage that remains a source of pain and shame for the catholic community. i, myself, share those sentiments. >> reporter: so he acknowledged the appalling crimes and the suffering that has caused the outrage that that's caused here as well particularly because of the failure of the church and members of its hierarchy.

he didn't go into detail what the church is doing on that front. as you touched on earlier, that's what the people want to hear the leadup has been its type of words have surpassed action. they want concrete proposals inforced by the pope and the vatican on the global catholic church that prevents this sort of abuse from happening again and crucially punishes those who abused and those who protected the abusers. we haven't gotten that from the pope on this first speech. he will be speaking in the coming days. we hope he will deal with it more forcefully in the opening remarks today. >> all right. phil black, thank you so much. also the pope is going to be taking questions later today. we have more on that during 10:00 a.m. hour. if pope francis is facing the fallout of the catholic church's alleged sins. survivors are bravgly coming forward after that scathing

report out of pennsylvania. >> they are standing with survivors, standing for justice. it's happening bit by bit. here's cnn's rosa flores. >> my husband was sexually abused be apriest. >> i am a victim of clergy abuse. >> reporter: survivors across the nation are pushing for justice after the explosive revelations in the attorney general's report, which showed credible allegations that more than 300 predator priests had sexually abused more than 1,000 children and authorities in multiple states appear to be listening. in illinois the attorney general is meeting with the chicago archdiocese as a direct consequence of the report the attorney general in massachusetts launched a review of the archdiocese of st. louis is there we believe that we have exactly the same issues as they have in pennsylvania. >> reporter: and in cheyenne, wyoming, police have reopened a criminal investigation into a

church official, while investigators won't release the name the diocese restricted the activities of retired bishop joseph hart, citing credible and substantiated claims of sexual abuse. wyoming has no statute of limitations. neither does the vatican. which according to diocese will now determine whether this new evidence is sufficient for disciplinary action against bishop hart. bishop hart denied all allegations of abuse. cnn's e-mails have not been returned. >> there's a lot of sadness in these file cabinets. >> reporter: tammy mcterian from the bishop accountability says prosecution of clergy is rare, leaving survivors injustice in courts. >> not only a place where survivors get what justice they k. it's also the place where pressure is created for positive change. >> reporter: at least $3.8

billion has been paid out is insurance the ''80s across the nation. in lawsuits in claims of allegations of sexual abuse within the catholic church. >> change is not happening because the chur search reforming. change is happening because survivors are coming forward and forcing the church to reform. >> reporter: another form of justice is spreading around the country. at the university of scranton in pennsylvania the snams of three bishops are coming off buildings. in washington, cardinal donald wuerl's name is being removed from a high school named after him, after he was nailed in twa report. wuerl says he did everything he could at the time. from the vatican, an apology from pope francis calling the abuses outlined in the pennsylvania reports crimes. >> the pope's letter i think is safe to say has fallen flat. >> reporter: for survivors who are still haunted by the horrors of the abuse, justice is far from reality. >> all of these different

abuses, they is that i with us. we continually think about it and reabuse ourselves in silence. >> cnn, miami. president trump dealing with the deluge of negative headlines the latest, a former doorman at trump tower claims he has knowledge of a doorman who says trump fautsd a child, he says he is now free to talk about it.

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child he fathered with a house keeper after an affair. these other headlines this week the paul manafort and michael cohen cases, the let's say tough words, that allen weisselberg being granted full immunity. take a look frrk the last few months, might give us a good idea of what president trump is dock right now. with us, leonard lance of new jersey. thank you for taking the time to be with us. >> thank you for having me, christ i. >> sure. i want ask you about the silence we seem to hear from the gop from the headlines this week. why are we not hearing more, except for the president? >> i am certainly not silent. i think we have to protect the mueller investigation. i am the lead sponsor of that legislation in the house of representatives. and i think it's very important for the mueller investigation to continue unimpeded, not impeded

by the white house or by us in congress or by the public and i hope that the mueller investigation will reach its conclusion. >> you did. i want to read a tweet so people understand your position fully. you tweeted this week the conviction of manafort and cohen only bolster my belief the special counsel must impede its investigation unimpeded by the white house, i leave in protecting the mueller investigation. how much republican support have you had to back mueller's process to colleagues? >> we've had support. ly imagine we will garner more support based on what happened this week. >> in light of you taking the lead on that i want to read you a tweet that came out this morning from rudy guiliani the president's lawyer, okay. he wrote, just a few days before a 66-day run-up to election, if

mueller wants to show he's not a part of them. issue a report on collusion and obstruction. they will show president trump did nothing wrong. then we will have to admit that you were fair and we will. >> i rely on the integrity of mr. mueller and i hope he reaches his conclusions as quickly as possible. but i do not intends to rush him in anyway. >> okay. i want to listen, if we could torque president trump. he was in ohio last night and listen to what he said particularly about the mollie tibbetts case. she is the iowa 20-year-old who disappeared and this week her body was found. >> within they found out it was this horrible illegal immigrant, that viciously killed her, all of a sudden that story went down. they didn't want to cover it the

way it should have been covered. but what happened to mollie was a disgrace. >> we also have newt gingrich to axios sent this note. he said if mollie tibbetts is a household name by okay, democrats will be in deep trouble. what is your reaction to the thought process? do you support using mollie tibbetts as a strategy as we head into mid-terms? >> i think that innocence and guilt are individual in this country and not based upon any group and, therefore, i want to treat everybody as an individual, christi and this was ohorrific crime and of course the perpetrator should be brought to justice. but i do not want to paint with a broader brush. >> you don't want to do that, what do you make of fellow republicans who do want to make that as a strategy? >> i think we should reform our immigration laws. i was a republican who signed a

discharge petition in the house to bring to the floor of the house, legislation regarding the daca population. that's a portion of all of. this i hope we can have immigration reform as quickly as possible. certainly, i want to secure our southern border. i do not think the two matters are mutually exclusive. >> a florida congressman david jolly said yesterday actually on cnn he believed there will be an open inquiry in january to examine either corruption or impeachment of this president. do you agree something like that is imminent? >> that may happen in the mid-term. i think we have to await the mueller investigation. i want the mueller investigation to proceed unimpeded. >> you don't know of anyone who is preparing any sort of corruption inquiry?

>> we had a vote on impeachment. it didn't receive any rote in the house. i think we await the conclusion of the mueller investigation. >> real quickly, president trump, of course, had rebuke of jeff sessions, do you think the attorney general needs to step away? >> i support the department of justice, i was the first in the house to say the attorney general should recuse himself in matters related to russia. he did that. if appointment of mr. mueller. >> congressman, thank you for taking the time today. >> the threat of one of the biggest weather events to slam ha. is not over the people who live there has been warned to stay where they are, as dangerous mudslides and torrents of rain from tropical storm wayne move in. you shouldn't be rushed into booking a hotel. with expedia's add-on advantage, booking a flight unlocks discounts on select hotels

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♪ notorious we were talking to representative leonard lance of new jersey. we just asked him how he feels about jeff sessions. if he feels all the public rebuke of the president, jeff sessions should step down. the president just tweeting about that saying jeff sessions saying he wouldn't allow politics to influence him only because he doesn't understand what's happening underneath his command position. highly conflicted bob mueller and his gang of angry democrats are having a field day as real corruption goes untouched. no collusion. >> yes, signed, yours truly, no collusion. the president here is going after jeff sessions. he is suggesting the attorney general would be political or would include political difference if he only understood what was going on in his department. of course the president got that strong response from jeff sessions earlier this week when

he said that he is in control of the department of justice and that he will not allow the attorney political influence to take over the president just tweeting again kwoekt lindsay braham here on every president deserve a attorney general they have confidence in. we will talk to dana rohrbacker who said something last night if jeff sessions is not going to do what the president wants him to do, he should just quit. we will talk about that in the 10:00 hour. all right, tropical storm lane is swamping hawaii with heavy rain, more than 40 inches of rain in some areas and it's expected to get worse today. >> this is a deluge triggering dangerous flash flooding and mudslidesings as you see from the pictures in here the sixth wettest tropical system on u.s. record.

cn this's nick watt is in honolulu. what are you experiencing right now? >> reporter: well, honolulu as the mayor has said has dodged the bullet. the storm has moved west out ought ocean away from the major population center. nearly a million people live here. all these hotels, apartment blocks next to the beach. there was a storm surge, a lot of rain, that could cause major problems. we just heard the flash flood warning on maui has been listed. it's the bigger island further south that bore the prunt of this storm. one weather station reported 44.8 inches of rain. you mentioned the sixth westest storm to hit the u.s. i would imagine by the time this is over it will climb that chart a little bit higher. we have seen one of the strangeest aspects was three brush fires on maui. they have hey, i'm sorr-ow-- hi

it's a blessing in that it lost power. the krad winds pushed it out. the furs, it's been dumping so much rain and you know down there on the bill island. it's saturated. so any more rain will be a flash flood and cause more problems through the the day, back to you in nick watts. thank you so much. china and the united states are launching in a trade war over china's trade practices. we will take a look at how this ac affects you.

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american goods. products such as fuel, steam, automobiles and comb. what does this mean for you, though, as you sit there this morning? well, let's ask our guest here. ambassador robert holiman, he's a trade representative under president obama, currently, he's the president and cea of cnn international. ambassador, thank you so much. we appreciate you being here. >> thank you, it's good to be here? you are welcome the trump administration launched this effort, of course to punish china for what it says are unfair trade practices, stealing intellectual prochlts was there a shift made to try to balance things out? >> well, president trump said that trade wars are good and trade wars are easy to win. i disagree on both. certainly, there are major problems with china that need to be rectified. what we now need to do, having launched this trade war. this is the second round of

tariffs. we are now $50 billion of china subject to tariffs. we are looking at another 200 billion subject to taxes. so the numbers are quite large. what that means is to get the kind of change we need in china, there is a sacrifice that's being asked of the american people by the president that will lead to higher prices, will reduce the productivity of some companies and we'll probably have u.s. companies that make a lot of business in the process. so trade wars, while i would not have gotten into it. they are not easy to win, we should budge our seatbelts for the long hall. >> do you anticipate there will be job losses? >> well, there absolutely will be anticipated job losses, particularly if we add another 200 billion in products to the 25% in taxes. the challenge about a tariff is it shuts down and china has a

lot of problems that need to be rectified, what we're doing is raising the costs on american consumers, american businesses, who do not have ready alternatives for other places to go for their products the challenge is we're trying to get fundament am change in china, with i is needed. they need to open up their economy, allow american high-tech companies and others to be successful there, without having forced partnerships, needing to protect intellectual property. to accomplish that on using taxes on americans to do that. we have to buck him down and recognize getting the fundamental change is not going to be fast, it's not going to be easy, clearly, there will be costs in the american consumers and businesses. >> the people 60 at home watching this today, what effect will they feel long term, whatesque will they feel short term? >> well, it would be great if we

could resolve this quickly. it does not appear we are on that path. they will see two things happen. one they will see the costs of some of their goods go up, particularly as u.s. companies look to see if there is another source of supply than china. secondly, some u.s. companies that have supply chains coming from chosen may have to downsize their plans for future growth. there could be job layoffs, particularly in companies where there are tight mar jens, they don't have the ability to pass the tax on to their consumers. so we will see a lot of dislocation, which is why in this new round of $200 billion of products, we've seen 300-something companies testifying just this week and then the next week, small businesses, large businesses, who are looking at the impact on their work force, productivity and what they will charge their consumers. so this is something that is an important fight.

this is not the way i would have chose on the do it. but it is something that all americans arege go to be asked to pay for and now that we're in this fight. we have to secure the fundamental changes that are needed from china. >> we appreciate you being here, ambassador, thank you. >> thank you. there is more news straight ahead. >> "smerconish" is up next. we will see you in one hour for cnn "newsroom." i'm michael smerconish in philadelphia. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. federal prosecutors grand immunity to two of the closest chums in the michael cohen case. were they about michael cohen or about another focus of the federal probe and he was the first congressman no