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called a liar. and with each passing month, we get closer and closer to judgment day. this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning to you. the president is in paris, leaving behind the turmoil in washington right after the midterms. as washington worries -- his washington worries seem to follow him on the other side of the ocean. >> the "wall street journal" is reporting president trump was involved in hush-money payments on stormy daniels and karen mcdougal know who allegedly had affairs with him. >> acting attorney general matt whitaker has ties to a florida company being investigated by the fbi. the same agency he oversees. i want to show new pictures of president trump and president macron there in france where in a few minutes they're going to have lunch with each other,

french president macron there with president trump. and cnn's international correspondent, melissa bell, outside the palace there. melissa, talk to us about what the two said publicly there before they sit down privately. >> reporter: this is in the context, of course, of the tweet sent out by donald trump. two minutes after air force one had landed in paris here last night talking about the insult that -- the idea that emmanuel macron should be seeking to bolster european defense forces represented to the united states. so this was clearly going to be a subject when the american president, was welcomed moments ago, they're inside having the bilateral meeting. this was always something that was going to be addressed. we were told that macron would be addressing that fairly belligerent tweet head on. this is the way it went before the meeting began. >> i do sure president trump's

view that we need a much better burden sharing within nato, and that's why i do believe that my proposals for european defense are consistent with that because it means more europe was in nato, more capacity, in order to take our part of the burden. i think it's very fair and very important. >> i appreciate what you're saying about burden sharing. you know what my attitude's been, and we want a strong europe. it's very important to us to have a strong europe. whichever way we can do it the best and most efficient would be something that we both want. >> reporter: there was a sense that the french president was really couching his words in terms that the american president would understand, that this was about burden sharing, and it was nothing for donald trump to get upset about. clearly there was a great deal of surprise here in europe when that tweet went out since the idea of the european army, frankly, and that strengthening of european defense capabilities

has, first of all, been on the table for a long time. and second of all, does nothing to take away from europe's commitment to nato. a bit of explanation there before what's likely to be a much testier meeting than the two have had before given their differences of views on so many topics -- trade, iran, syria, all covered in the meeting. we're expecting first lady melania trump to arrive in the next few minutes. the two presidential couples will then sit down to lunch before kicking off those ceremonies to mark the end of world war i. >> all right, melissa, thank you very much. appreciate it. cnn's white house correspondent kaitlan collins is also in paris. the president seems to have set the agenda just before arriving there with this tweet. give us more about what he meant by this and what specifically he was reacting to. >> reporter: you've also got to look at the timing of this tweet. the president waited until just a minute -- few minutes after he landed on french soil to tweet about this even though this is a comment that the french

president made days ago during that radio interview. you heard melissa talk about the tweet. let's look at what it said. president trump still on air force one said, president macron of france has just suggested that europe build its own military in order to protect itself from the u.s., china, and russia. very insulting, but perhaps europe should first pay its fair share of nato which the u.s. subsidizes greatly. so the president there saying this is a very insulting comment that macron made. of course, macron made the comment because president trump made the decision to withdraw from the imf treaty, that nuclear arms control pact that president ronald reagan signed with russia in the 1980s. and in his interview, macron said that who he believes is the greatest victim of that decision by president trump is europe and its security. that's why he made the remarks about making a more robust european military. but president trump clearly took offense to that and is tweeting and brought in something he's

long been bothered by which is nato defense spending. we saw this in brussels when he argued with several world leaders saying they weren't spending enough and, in fact, he didn't think spending 2% of their gdp spending was enough, he wanted to up it to 4%. president trump bringing that up, then he sent another tweet about the reason he's in paris which is to celebrate the 100 years of the end of world war i. he said i'm in paris getting ready to celebrate the end of world war i. he said is there anything better to celebrate than the end of the war? and particularly that one which is one of the bloodiest and worst of all time. you see here dichotomy between what president trump is here for setting this tone of the american-european alliance a his national security adviser has done in the few days he's been here, arriving ahead of president trump. then you see what president trump actually says where he wants to start a fight. he starts a clash. making us have flashbacks to when he was in london meeting with the british prime minister,

theresa may, not too long ago. in the hours before they both were going to sit down at checkers, he gave this interview where me criticized her policies and leadership. president trump is in paris and seems to be setting himself up for a fight with the french president. we'll have to see how the meeting goes today. >> thank you. david aneman with us, author of "a shattered peace: versailles 1919 and the peace we enjoy today." >> we want to talk about the back and forth between macron and president trump. i want to read what the president's reacting to, this interview with europe one radio. this report about the french press, president macron said we have to protect ourselves with respect to china, russia, and even the united states of america. when i see president trump announcing that he's quiting a major disarmament treaty formed after the 1980s missile crisis that hit europe, who is the main

victim? europe and its security. we will not protect the europeans unless we decide to have a true european army. your reaction to that framework from macron? >> it's very clear that the french and much of the rest of the europeans are concerned about the u.s. withdrawal from in inf treat, international nuclear force treaty. this regulates missiles from russia that could in theory target europe. these are the missiles that would directly target paris, france, germany for that matter, and so on. and the french are concerned that if the u.s. pulls out of that treaty and basically all hell breaks loose in terms of intermediate new york force development, that it's france that will be the principal target, not the united states. he kind of feels in some respects the united states or trump has sort of sold the europeans down the river, theft on this particular issue, not to mention a lot of others. this is a great and immediate concern to the french.

this i suspect is one of the foundations by the comment by macron in the europe one interview. now since then, of course, it's interesting that trump would wait a week in order to -- before he makes the tweet. and then just as soon as he arrives on french soil, that's when he unleashes his reply to that. that's -- i think that has to upset the french. >> i know that you have been watching their interactions this morning when they got there, and that happen very public display before they go into this private meeting. i understand that you noticed a couple of things you wanted to touch on. >> yes, what was particularly interesting was the lloyd language. they tried -- the body language. they tried to be friendly, courteous. but if you watched macron's face when he was waiting for trump to get out of the car, it's striking. it wasn't a real smile. it was a fixed face. macron is capable of enormous graciousness and smiling and

effusiveness. when he met angela merkel, great counterpart from germany, there was a warmer sense really. remember, these are the two countries that 100 years ago were at each other's throats. and where millions of people had been killed or made homeless and so on. and yet today, their warmth is very much clearer and much more transparent than the reactions between them -- interactions between them, macron and trump. >> let's expand in beyond the two men here and the larger group of world leaders that the president will be with at this commemoration of the 100th year after the ending of world war i. you write for reuters that certain world leaders are expecting potentially a weakened or maybe a different president trump after the results of the midterm election on tuesday. reconcile what they have expected, what they're noting, and likely the president trump they'll receive. >> well, it is very clear to a lot of them that trump is wounded. it may not be entirely clear to

trump, of course, but i believe that he has to understand that this is not the same -- the same president with the same powers that there were, say, in the last get-together, some months ago. this is a president who suffered a major defeat in the house, who has not made a major inroad in the senate particularly, and whose base of support has been eroded. the europeans are very sensitive to these kind of winds of change. they've had centuries to look at how these domestic issues affect international politics within europe. they've watched the united states carefully. they have to understand that trump is coming here somewhat wounded and perhaps prepared to strike out. frankly, if macron could find any excuse for trump, it would be that -- that trump is feeling wounded, this on the plane was a way of showing that he is still very much in charge. a lot of them don't believe it, frankly. >> you're seeing on the screen the first lady of france who is

awaiting the arrival of u.s. first lady, melania trump, for -- there's a spouses event that will be happening today. this is what we're seeing here. live pictures we'll have for you throughout the morning of the events here. i think the first lady -- >> looks like -- >> mrs. trump's vehicle pulled up. >> go ahead, go ahead, david. you wanted to say something? >> there's an interesting back story. melania trump is from the former yugoslavia, from one of the former soviet republics. some time ago when the three leaders of the baltic states, estonia, latvia, and lithuania met in paris, they told amazing stories about their interaction with trump. president trump said before the press conference in washington, he said, you know, he said, i blame you for the wars in yugoslavia. what he was referring to was the balkans, having no understanding that these three leaders were

actually from the baltics rather than the balkans. and they were flabbergasted. macron has never forgotten this. he told one of the journalists from le monde who was interviewing him for a package on the 100th anniversary, told them the story, and le monde is featured in this morning's newspapers. so it's very -- by the way, he said this is the territory that my wife came from, the balkans. talking to the leaders of the baltic republics, estonia, latvia alithuania. really, most of the europeans have a great deal of difficulty understanding how a person like that could be running the united states and american diplomacy and relations with europe if he doesn't understand that the baltics and the balkans are at the opposite ends of the continent. >> the first ladies going in for their event. you'll remember that back in april the trumps warmly welcomed the macrons to the white house. they now are in paris here.

french one of the six languages that first lady melania trump speaks fluently. so one of their conversations play be in french. >> right. david, quickly, before you go, talk to us about the relationship between the two first ladies and how they might be able to affect publicly whatever happens between the u.s. and france. >> what's not clear, again, from my perspective, is how close -- how much involvement melania trump has in the global politics of her husband. it's quite clear that mrs. macron is very closely tied to what her husband does and says, a great representative of her husband. she travels with him quite a lot. she's very attuned to the diplomatic niceties and the political niceties of france. she's a very -- a mature woman, of course, much older than her husband. it would be nice if the two of them could get along. i'm not so sure that this will

have much impact on what president trump, his attitude toward the french or -- or for that matter macron's attitude toward the americans. >> "a shattered peace:er ha er e versailles and the price we may today." >> we'll tecontinue watching th. we're watching thousands of people evacuate in california. we'll look at the latest pictures coming in here. three massive wildfires burning still out of control in california. plus, the "wall street journal" is reporting that president trump was involved in hush-money payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal at a much greater rate and degree of involvement than he's admitted up to this point publicly. we'll talk about that. (music throughout)

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this morning at least nine people are dead, three major wildfires are raging out of control in california. in the north, the campfire, it's burned nearly 90,000 acres. it's destroyed homes and businesses in the town of paradise. >> in southern california, the hill and woolsey fires, they forced nearly 100,000 people out of their homes. cnn's kaylee hartung is in oak park, california. what are you seeing and learning about the community around you? >> reporter: among the reasons these fires have been so difficult to fight, winds are shifting nonstop creating obviously challenges for the firefighters but creating problems like the one you see behind me. this home destroyed while every other home is standing tall and perfectly sound. winds can move embers, shift behind me.

these can grab embers and do tremendous damage. >> we are evacuating paradise, california. we can't even see, we don't know where the fire is. please, please pray that we get out of here alive a out of here alivelive. oh, my god. >> reporter: paradise remember wiped off the map in california. >> i hope mom's all right. it's so hot. >> hold on -- >> if will be all right. we'll be okay. >> reporter: the camp fire is one of three major wildfires roaring through california this morning. and it's being called the most destructive fire in state history with almost 7,000 structures gone in two days. homes, schools, businesses, and more. the camp fire is also one of the deadliest wildfires according to state officials, killing at least nine people with dozens missing. >> we are a long ways from being

out of the fire-fight. right now offer focus is on life -- our focus is on life safety. there are active rescues continuing to go on, in particular the camp fire in butte county. >> reporter: two major fires in southern california are just miles from the bar where 12 people were killed in a mass shooting in thousand oaks. evacuations were ordered for nearby malibu, the beachside community popular with celebrities. cher tweeted, i'm worried about my house, but there is nothing i can do. my friends' houses have burned. i-95 had a house in malibu since 1972. lady gaga tweeted, i'm thinking about the people suffering from the fires and grieving the loss of their homes and loved ones. i'm wondering if my house will burst into flames. all we can do is pray for each other. god bless you. the woolsey fire has burned down the paramount movie set where parts of "west world" were

filmed in the mountains. we have a brief reprieve from the winds now. they're expected to pick back up tomorr tomorrow. conditions remain extreme. with that, continued uncertainty of the damage the fire could do next. >> certainly thinking of the people there struggling with those stires. -- those fires. >> thank you. to allison chinchar. >> over 6,700 structures with the camp fire have burned, making it the most destructive california wildfire in history in terms of structures. look at some of the numbers -- we beat number two by over 1,000. that goes to show, yes, we're number one, but we beat the previous number one by a lot. there's still going to be a lot of assessments going on today to determine whether or not more structures perhaps have burned that they haven't been able to get to yet. here are the two main fires that

we've been talking about. the camp fire, this is the one in northern california, basically for reference point, between about reading and san francisco. the woolsey fire is in southern california. again, notice with both of these the key component is the containment numbers. they're both low. camp fire at 5%. the woolsey fire at 0% containment. they need the weather conditions to improve so they can get those numbers back up. unfortunately, the weather want? going to cooperate that much. the winds will come down sitely, but they're not going to zero. ea even a five to seven-mile-an-hour wind is enough to push the embers and spread them back out. you have red flag warnings, the pink you see on the map. about 15 million people under the red flag warnings. what does that mean? it basically means you've got a critical or an elevated fire threat for some of these areas that go through here. when we're talking about that, what we mean is we need

incredibly low humidities, all of the dry ground, it's been very dry not just this week but for the last few months. that ground is basically ready for those embers to be able to take off at a moment's notice. at one point that camp fire was spreading the length of a football field every .7 seconds the last few days. >> frightening. thank you very much. families not far from where the fires are burning, the thousand oaks community, calling for tougher gun control after the mass shooting that killed a dozen people. more on how they're coping. a recent study by the cdc says gun-related deaths are on the rise again after years of decline. we have the breakdown for you.

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♪ amaze grace >> reporter: once again a community came together to mourn and to remember those who were killed and those who survived the shooting at the borderline bar in thousand oaks late wednesday. in all, 12 people killed, many at the bar that night had survived the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history last year at the route 91 harvest music festival in las vegas. a 17-year-old navy veteran was one of those who escaped the gunman in las vegas. this time he did not make it. >> i don't want prayers. i don't want thoughts. i want gun control, and i hope to god nobody else sends me any more prayers. i want gun control. no more guns! >> reporter: danny merrell survived the shooting in las vegas and injured her knew while escaping the borderline. the debate over gun control

weighs heavy on her as do thoughts over why she is alive and others she knew are not. >> i had a meltdown in the car after. when we got in the car on the way home, i had a panic attack. like not -- not again, i can't do this again. i don't want to do this again. no one should have to do it once, let alone twice. i think it needs to be harder to obtain a weapon. i don't think we -- i don't think we shouldn't be able to, but there should be more rules in place that you need to go through in order to obtain one. >> reporter: merrell says many local country music fans formed support groups in the wake of the vegas shooting. they often gathered at the borderline, a place given all that has happened, they thought was safe. >> vegas happened, but that's not my home. but you know, now it's even harder. this is your home. >> reporter: home for people like toll like noelle sparks or elena hausle, the youngest, and dan

m manrique, a 33-year-old marine corps veteran all gone. despite the grief, dani says she will go back to the borderline. >> i'm not going to let them win. i'm not going to let them ruin something that i love and love to do. i'm not. i can't do that. >> reporter: jason carroll, cnn, thousand oaks, california. >> we want to give you some context on the scope of gun violence in america. first of all, what defines a mass shooting? the fbi says a mass shooting as defined by law involves three or more people. so with that information, we churched these -- crunched these numbers. according to the gun violence archives last year there were 346 mass shootings. this year we've had 307. look at the number of killed and injured. 2018 may not reach the number of killed last year which was 438. the number of injured, though, is staggering -- more than 1,800 last year, more than 1,200 so far for 2018.

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karen mcdougal during the campaign. his involvement was spelled out in a draft by michael cohen, his former fixer. it would be a violation of campaign finance laws. joining me anchor errol lewis and legal analyst and criminal defense attorney joey jackson. gentlemen, welcome back. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> joey, let me start with you. the articulation of potential violation of law is one thing. but where does this go? prosecution or charging especially a citizen, a sitting president i should say, is a different thing. where do you expect this will go with? >> that's the heart of the matter for sure. let's start with whether or not at least according to what the reports are showing is probable cause to believe that a crime was committed and the president committed it. if so and why do i speak to that, because it raises the

specter of what we call an indictment. we've discussed that a president cannot be indicted. at least that's the current department of justice guidance. there's a process, however, that would provide for the removal of the president. in terms of where it goes, it emboldens the house and, you know, i'm certain that errol will speak to this more, but in terms of the legal process, it certainly emboldens the democrats to move forward with proceedings of impeachment. if we accept the proposition that the president is not above the law, then he needs to be held accountable. he has not been held accountable at least as of late, the last couple of years, because he's been protected by that republican majority. to the extent now that there are teeth to the allegation that the president may have been involved in illegalities and improprieties, i would suspect it goes to the heart of the matter, the house investigationing whether this is the case -- investigating whether this is the case and

moving forward with the impeachment of the president. in the senate there's a majority, and of course, you need 2/3 for remove, but this could lead to impeachment. >> sort of a legal consequence, is this moving near the top of the list that the new democratic majority in the house will explore? >> they will almost certainly explore it for an interesting reason. these are members of congress, these are people who actually understand the campaign finance rules. they live under those same rules, they abide by them. they don't look lightly at violations of them, and the very damning account laid out in the "wall street journal" for which michael cohen among other things is heading to prison. there's apparently an agreement that when the dust clears he's going to spend between four and five years in jail. the reality is with them looking into this and understanding fully what it means to try and evade campaign finance regulations during a campaign, a

lot of very damaging information will come out. whether or not it leads to impeachment or removal or even political problems if the president seeks re-election remains to be seen. >> errol, let's stick with this whitaker storyline for a moment. i want to stay with you about whether the president knows him or not. the president said yesterday and tweeted on his fleet to -- his flight to paris he doesn't know matt whitaker, the man he appointed to head up the department of justice. a month ago he said not only did he know him but he's a great guy. two things here. cnn's reporting and reporting from others that whitaker's been in the white house dozens of times, including in meetings with the president. the two have spoken by phone. and also really how does did help the president to say that he does not know the man he just appointed to be the acting attorney general of the united states? >> yeah. look, it's literally inconceivable that the president simply doesn't know him. not only because he has said that he knows him, not only

because he's been dozens of times into the white house and the oval office and so forth, but because this is such an important and pivotal decision that any president would make. the attorney general is one oey. to go outside of normal protocol -- it would be one thing if this was the deputy who steps up and takes the top position in the normal course of business. but the president changed the normal line of succession. so he clearly knows who this person is. and i think trying to distance himself now is mostly because of the bad press that is coming out because apparently the white house did not properly vet the nominee before he was named by the president. >> joey, let's talk about constitutionality. george conway, husband of kellyanne conway, co-wrote a piece for "the new york times." here's the total, "trump's appointment of the acting attorney general is unconstitutional." is it? >> well, look, he certainly has an argument to that point.

before we get into the understanding of constitutionality or at least in keeping with that discussion, let's remember what president trump has been doing. he's been appointing an awful lot of judges to the federal bench. and in addition to appointing judges to the federal bench, you know, last i checked the supreme court is now solid conservative majority. why do i spoke to that issue? i speak to the issue because when you raise constitutional concerns, it ends up in courts. and to the extent that it's interpreted we can argue all day and night, and i think the president has some cover, you know, in arguing that he made an acting appointment. the congress was not in session at the time. there were elections. he fired one person, you serve at the pleasure of the president. he appointed who he thought was appropriate and proper. i get to the constitutional issue that you have to appoint a principal officer with the advice and consent of the senate. he certainly has a solid senate majority. he's entitled to do that. i think when you get to

interpreting the constitution it takes judges to do that. and when you have a stacked federal bench depending upon who this gets in front of and if it goes to the supreme court, i'm not suggesting the supreme court by nature is political, but people have conservative ideologies and philosophies. i think that the sense of the president appointing judges would be so that they would protect him. if it ends up going that far, you know, i believe that he could certainly be protected there, as well. >> errol, an interesting element on this whitaker appointment. majority leader mitch mcconnell said that he expects that whitaker will be -- a quote here -- a very interim a.g. now, the president says there's no rush to name a nominee for the permanent position. but senate republicans, as we know, have not been quick to check this president or provide that oversight. but historically, when it comes to usurping their role of advise and consent on these nominees, they draw a line. what do you make of this -- this response from mcconnell about

this being a very temporary a.g.? >> look, that's exactly right. look, the senate is going to guard its prerogatives. even more so, i would say, because jeff sessions was a longtime senator and one of their colleagues. they're not going to allow this to turn into some sort of extended appointment as the leader of the justice department. it shouldn't be, it's not legally possible, as joey points out, you can argue one way or the other. at best, this is an interim appointment that lasts something like 270 days. so yes, sooner or later, the senate's going to have to get involved in this. it's unclear that they would approve mark whittaker as a long-term replacement for jeff sessions. not only because of his qualifications and his history, but because there's all kind of questions that are coming about his financial dealings, his statements in the past about whether or not he was going to really just be looking out for the president rather than actually exercising the powers of the office properly. >> and it really goes to the center of the question of do you

know him, do you not, and how he was chosen, and the people that the president had to skip over to get to him. what value would he have in this role other than in the context of what he said about mueller, the validity of the special counsel's investigation and the ways that he would be able to limit it, or an attorney general would be able to limit it? >> well, look, victor, at the end of the day, understand that the president is going to,a point people that he thinks are sympathetic to his point of view. not long ago we were having a discussion by -- about a person by the name of kavanaugh who was speaking about presidential powers as it relates to mueller investigations and whether or not it was proper prerogative, you know, for removal of presidents, could they be indicted or questioned, are they above the law. so the president watches tv as we know, and at the end of the day he's going to attempt to appoint people who are sympathetic. even if this is an interim appointment, the intrimt issue, the -- interim issue, heart of

the issue is the mueller investigation itself. even if this is an appointment for a limited period of time, the hope is that he could be of assistance, whitaker, with getting the mueller investigation off the table, done, conclude united states, a-- concluded and gone. and then who you appoint after that is not as significant because the reason he fired jeff sessions is because he thought jeff sessions should be his personal guy to protect him and should not have recused himself from the investigation. here we are. >> thank you both. >> thank you. >> thank you, victor. the wildfires in california, they could have an impact on sunday's nfl action. we have a previepreview. vince? >> reporter: the los angeles rams and oakland raiders are hoping to play through the deadly fires. we'll tell you how teams are adjusting given the fires and the smoky conditions, as well. ♪

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the raging wildfires in california are impacting several nfl teams as they prepare for their sunday games. >> vince has more on the "bleacher report." good morning. >> how are you? a lot of the players' minds, more than just football for sure. the l.a. rams had to cancel their practice in thousand oaks on friday due to the fires. head coach sean mcveigh says about 20 players and coaches have been evacuated from their homes including coordinator wide phillips. 45 other members of the organization have been displaced. the rams are set to host the seahawks sunday at the l.a. coliseum. meantime, the raiders host the chargers in oakland sunday, and jon gruden's team had to limit practice on friday due to poor air quality. nfl officials are monitoring conditions in los angeles and oakland. as of now, they say that the

games will go about ahead as scheduled. the anaheim ducks held a moment of silence before the game with the wild. they honored the wildfire victims as well as 12 killed in a shooting at a thousand oaks bar on wednesday night. >> our hearts are heavy from the lives lost, and we pray for the victims, their family, friends, and those recovering tonight. the anaheim ducks and minnesota wild join the southern california sports community in saying enough to these senseless acts of violence. >> reporter: so much happening in california. and hopefully we can use sports as an escape, a repit, if you will -- respite, if you will, from everything taking place. >> thank you. president trump's 48-hour trip to paris got off to a, call it a bumpy start, with a tweet slamming his host. you wouldn't know it by looking at the optics, handshakes, thumbs up with the french president. the story behind the scenes coming up in a live report. what's new? thine

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