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spacecraft that got oh, so close to a landing. we're live from cnn headquarters in atlanta. welcome to our viewers joining us here and around the world. i'm natalie allen and this is "cnn newsroom." thanks again for joining us. we are following a developing story in the u.s. a source tells cnn u.s. president donald trump personally pushed a plan to flood so-called american sanctuary cities with the release of detained migrants. the white house proposed the idea to the department of homeland security to retaliate against democrats who oppose his border wall, but homeland security lawyers apparently killed the plan saying it would likely be illegal. let's get more details on this with senior u.s. justice correspondent evan perez joining us now. evan, what are you hearing about this plan?

>> well, this is a plan that was considered inside the homeland security department. it came from the white house, and at one point even president trump raised it and was pushing for the secretary of homeland security, kristen nielsen, to carry it out. the idea was to alleviate some of the pressure on very full capacity -- very full facilities that had a lot of people in them by essentially bussing immigrants to what are known as sanctuary cities. these are cities in the united states that do not cooperate in turning over illegal immigrants to the homeland security department, to immigration authorities. and so the idea was to punish some of these cities, which are largely democratic leaning. they're not supporters of donald trump, and the idea was to politically punish those places,

including members of congress who don't support president trump's border wall, by essentially flooding them with these immigrants releasing them in those cities. that's something that was not only politically unpalatable to the homeland security department but also the lawyers there felt that it would be likely illegal for them to do that, to carry it out. obviously this is something that has angered members of congress, especially democrats, who feel that essentially immigrants and children were going to be used as pawns as part of a political retribution against the president's opponents and the president's critics on his immigration policy. >> right. to that we had a spokesman for house speaker nancy pelosi whose district is in a sanctuary city saying using human beings, including little children, as little pawns in their warped gang to perpetuate and demonize

immigrants is despicable. we know this isn't going to happen. is this related somewhat to the white house pushing out the head of homeland security? >> well, it's definitely one of the things that was adding to their dissatisfaction by the president as well as his senior advisor, steven miller, who's behind a lot of these very hard line policies. the president looks at these policies as key to his re-election. obviously the idea of a crackdown on immigration is something that is popular with a small segment of the american electorate so he believes this is the way for him to be reelected and so that's what's grinding a lot of these policies and these ideas. kirstjen nielsen, she was in a very tough position because even though she went along with some of the policies, including the separation of families, there were things that be the homeland

security department felt were just too far for them to go along with. and so that -- that led to a lot of the president's dissatisfaction with her and why there's been a purge of some of the officials at the homeland security department. bear in mind some of the lawyers, including the general counsel of the homeland security department, who refused to go along with this plan of bussing immigrants to the sanctuary cities is among the people who steven miller and the white house officials are still trying to get fired from the homeland security department. >> so we know that the white house is rebuilding homeland security so it will be interesting to see what policies they look to try and push through with a new team. evan perez talking with us about this developing story, thanks very much, evan. >> thank you. another story following out of washington, the u.s. attorney general set off a fooir storm

when he said donald trump's 2016 campaign was spied on. william barr hasn't offered any evidence, but that isn't stopping the president from echoing those claims as we learn from cnn's abby phillips. >> i think what he said was absolutely true. >> reporter: president trump latching on to comments by his attorney general that the fbi and other intelligence agencies under president obama may have spied on his campaign. >> there was absolutely spying into my campaign. >> reporter: trump's comments coming after william barr told lawmakers he will investigate the origins into the probe of russian meddling. >> i think spying did occur. yes, i think spying did occur. >> reporter: something trump says is way past due. >> i'll go a step further, in my opinion it was illegal spying, unprecedented spying, and something that should never be allowed to happen in our country again. >> reporter: breathing new life into the fact that the probe was a witch hunt. >> hard to believe that it

happened, but it did. >> reporter: while barr failed to give any information. >> i'm not going to discuss the basis. >> reporter: he added by later backing off the word spying. >> i want to give you a chance to rephrase something you said because i think when the attorney general of the united states uses the word spying, it's rather provocative and in my view unnecessarily inflammatory. >> i'm not sure of all the connotations of that word that you're referring to but, you know, unauthorized surveillance. i want to make sure there was no unauthorized surveillance. >> reporter: on capitol hill democrats are furious. >> let me just say how very, very dismaying and disappointing that the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails. >> reporter: and accusing barf doing trump's bidding. >> the president wanted his own roy cohn and apparently he's got one but it is deeply concerning.

>> reporter: attorney general barr also testified that he would not redact the mueller report for information that was potentially damaging to president trump. i asked president trump about that comment from barr and the president said he was not concerned about that at all. he went on to call the investigation as a whole trea n treasono treasonous. let's talk about these developments with jessica leavenson. jessica, thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> sure. let's begin with the story we're hearing on sanctuary cities and a plan pushed repeatedly by the white house to release immigrant detainees on the streets of sanctuary cities, which would have been a political play against white house adversaries. how do you frame that idea by the white house? >> well, i think it's the white house saying basically if you want to be a sanctuary city,

state h. here you go. you will get an influx of people, they're not going to get what you want and essentially see how is you like it. i think it is a very aggressive move. i think that it is really trying to say essentially to these jurisdictions, put your money where your mouth is. if you're fine with this, live with it and see if that's okay for you. >> right. i pushed back on that plan and said it wasn't able to put these people on buses and do that. the optics wouldn't be very favorable if you don't like his aggressive policies regarding that, correct? >> i would say decade of the century. optics wouldn't be great. i.c.e. was right, this was a problematic move. i think we've seen from beginning with the trump campaign and then with the trump administration some very, very

hard line posturing when it comes to every aspect of immigration reforges and clearly there is enormous animosity towards sanctuary states and sanctuary cities. one of the things the trump administration did is they sued sanctuary cities. if you can't use a courthouse, then you literally can take it to the streets. i think that's what they tried to do here. >> we know the white house is revamping homeland security department after seeing the secretary out the door in the past few days, so what is keeping mr. trump from trying more aggressive policies here? we all know that this is topic a, the situation that he cannot stand going on that he says in this country. >> well, i think that is going to be what everybody is looking at, to see with the change in personnel what is going to happen in terms of president trump's posture towards immigration.

it appears that he might be elevating steven miller who's been one of his advisors who's been the most hard line when it comes to immigration, who's been pushing, for instance, the policy of separating parents at the border. so i think that for the trump administration it often is a battle between president trump's instincts, which is to essentially go as hard as possible when it comes to any type of immigration, either policy or law, and that some of his advisors, particularly legal advisors who are trying to pull back, and i think it will be really interesting to see going into 2020 where i think president trump's eyes will be on not what's going to look good for the swing voters but what does his base want. for his base this is popular to be very aggressive. >> let's pivot to another story making headlines. white house attorney general suggesting mr. bar during testimony about the mueller report and its release saying he believes president trump's campaign was spied on by u.s.

intelligence agencies. he didn't offer any reasons he believes that, but then on thursday the president commented saying it is absolutely true. how serious is his allegation? >> well, allegation is serious, and i think frankly what's more serious is the president of the united states and the attorney general making these allegations without any proof. so it's very serious to claim this, but i think it's deadly serious to be the leader -- the nation's leader and to come forward with these claims without any backing. so if there was some sort of spying, then the question is, of course, you know frr, from who why. we know from the fbi there was a counter intelligence investigation opened up against president trump. we already know there were questions by the intelligence agencies about whether or not he, for instance, could have been compromised. so the allegations are serious but making them without any basis i think is even more serious. >> something we'll continue to

follow. finally, i want to ask you about the president. he made that comment, by the way, while he was meeting with the president of south korea in the oval office, and during that meeting he also mentioned that he would be open, speaking of north korea, to perhaps a third summit with north korea. what would the white house need to have in place looking at what happened in vietnam, not successful with north korea, but this time to assure that something constructive perhaps could come with a third summit? >> i think what the white house would need to do is what they have not done in international summits before which is an enormous amount of groundwork with essentially lower level administration officials. so what typically happens when it comes to these summits is basically the big picture is already hammered out. so it's for the leaders to come in and finalize much of the details. i think that for president trump it would be a huge win to be

able to have some agreement with north korea. i think that he really would love to run on that in 2020. he could say, i made the world a safer place, but it's going to take the type of background work, the type of leg work and the type of consistency and planning that we have not seen from this administration before. >> we appreciate your insights. as always, thank you for joining us. thanks, jessica. >> thank you. president trump once proclaimed that he loved wikileaks. now its founder is behind bars and charged by the u.s. government. we'll go live to london for the latest on the arrest of julian assange. up next, the u.s. and south korea talking about new talks together. mr. trump says it all depends on the north's unpredictable leader. more about it from seoul, south korea, in a live report coming next.

it was seven years julian assange spent his days that long

in a important section in london across the street from tiffany's and the world famous harris department store. no more. certainly he didn't go shopping in that time. the founder of wikileaks arrested thursday. hauled out of his self-imposed exile at the ecuadorian embassy. in court the judge called assange a, quote, narcissist who cannot get beyond his own selfish interests. he was found guilty of breaking his bail conditions and faces up to a year in jail, but assange also faces extradition to the u.s. on one count of conspiring to steal military secrets and possibly other charges down the road. our isa suarez has more. tell us more about how this all went down. after seven years police moved in and took out julian assange. >> reporter: very good morning to you, natalie. that's right. after more than 2,487 days

inside the ecuadorian embassy behind me, julian assange being dragged out of the embassy yesterday by police officers looking tired, looking older, significantly much older and then appearing in court later that day on thursday. seeming confident but also yet again very down at the same time. what happened yesterday, the turn of events that took place happened and all unfolded here at around 9:15. police officers came into the consulate. they met with the ambassador here and that's when they revoked his asylum. they then -- we know that the ambassador then met with julian assange and he tried to introduce them to the police officers but he barged past them and went to his private room. then they were -- he was told exactly what the charges were

against him, the two that you mentioned just before you came to me. one is that charge of skipping bail, that he was accused of -- found guilty of and he could get 12 months in prison and the other was u.s. extradition that you also mentioned. now he resisted arrest and he was -- then had to put -- they had to contain him and drag him from the embassy down the steps of those -- of the embassy and into the van -- police van. it was then that he was told in more detail that he was arrested awaiting to be heard. he appeared then in court, the magistrate's court around 2:15 p.m. yesterday, and he was found guilty of that charge, of the skipping bail charge. and now in three weeks' time, natalie, we will find out more in terms of his fate on what relates to the u.s. extradition

charge. worth bearing in mind though that i've been speaking to extradition lawyers who specialize u.s./u.k. extradition and they said the court will have to look a number of factors in this. one of them they'll consider, i'm sure, will be the health but look at also whether this was politically motivated. now the lawyers for julian assange yesterday sapg they will fight this in every form they're able to. take a listen. >> legally the extradition will be fought in the courts here. that's with every means possible. it will be exposed that this is a politically motivated prosecution and, therefore, a persecution. >> reporter: the editor there saying not only is it politically motivated but also it is persecution. he will find out his fate on may 2nd, natalie.

>> isa soares. julian assange is a an australian citizen. thank you so much, professor, for joining us. i wanted to ask you first. we just heard from one of julian assange's supporters there saying this is politically motivated. it is prosecution and persecution of julian assange. do you agree with that? >> so, i mean, of course that's open to debate, but i think what's really important is that apart from a political statement, i think there was also legal statement because the 2003/2004 u.k. extradition treaty imposes grounds so that

gives us a good idea what will be the argument of julian assange and his lawyers in the court. so on the one hand of course there are very grave concerns about freedom of press. there are very grave concerns about whistle blowers and the right of whistle blowers and the right of the public to know what our governments are up to, right? on the other hand, what the u.s. government has done really cleverly is that they have not charged assange -- mr. assange, for example, with espionage which means it will be quite difficult to actually prove that this is a politically motivated prosecution or even persecution. >> right. they seem to side step that with this charge, the charges referring to illegally obtaining a password to hack into a computer. do you think that limiting the charge there is a way to side

step the very critical questions that you just raised that are really central to this about free speech and what wikileaks is really trying to do? is it something that is vicious or something that is in support of free speech and people's rights to know? >> absolutely. so of course i cannot know the rationale of the persecution in the u.s. but i'm saying they really tried to avoid making the crime look like it's related at the prosecution -- a prosecution of the freedom of speech which, of course, doesn't necessarily change things much. once we know mr. assange's charge is for helping chelsea man

manning while she was downloading the documents that went on wikileaks. of course there is a difference, but at the same time one would say it's bad of the state process. i imagine that's what his lawyers will say or something like that. at the same time, what is really important is that there are restrictions to what the u.s. has tried mr. assange for and what they have prosecuted so the legal restrictions prohibit that the person who has been extradited for one of them frequently gets charged and another one as well. that will also be another important manner. if and that's a big if, if mr. assange gets extradited to the u.s. and also charges on the documents, that will be a very controversial issue. there have been many issues in

u.s. courts. even the u.s. supreme court has already said from 1886 that generally something that ka cannot be done. so that should restrict the room of maneuver that the u.s. argues should have and should he be prosecuted. >> can't even imagine the twists and turns that this case, his story, his saga will be taking in the court system as this plays out. we really appreciate your insights. we hope to talk with you again as it goes on. adena juvela, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. bye. >> bye-bye. back to the drawing board, the u.s. and south korean leaders trying to figure out once again how to open up nuclear peace talks with north korea. we'll go live to south korea.

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retalley eight democrats and they said the plan would likely be illegal and they nixed it. mr. trump is echoing statements by his attorney general that his 2016 campaign was spied on. mr. trump went a bit further and said it was illegal spying but neither of them gave any evidence. wikileaks julian assange was arrested. he was taken out of the ecuadorian exile where he spent seven years of hiding away. the u.s. president has suggested he is open to a third summit with north korean leader kim jong-un, but the ball is in mr. kim's court. that comes as south korea's

leader is pushing for new talks between the two koreas. man jay in. we're discussing the possibility of an important issue, u.s. sanctions. this weekend north korea said it would give, quote, a telling blow." mr. trump said he's willing to keep them in place because they're at a fair level. let's talk about these developments with paula hancock. she is in seoul, south korea. paula, hello. let's begin with the sanctions say they're not going to increase them but how would this be perceived by north korea? >> reporter: natalie, this isn't what north korea wants to hear. they're pushing for sanctions. even though the u.s. president

says he believes sanctions are at a fair level and he's not intending to increase the sanctions, north korea is only interested in hearing that subconditions. something that came from meetings, they don't believe they're going back to that. the hanoi summit ended without any agreement. they believe he will continue along the path that he has set for himself, that he wants to improve the economy. you mentioned that president moon was going to push for another north-south korean summit. when he gets back to seoul he will be pushing for talks or meeting with kim jong-un. the reason for this is because president moon, who's been asked to be the mediator by the u.s. president, these talks have really stalled at this point.

bear in mind president moon stakes a great deal of his popularity on them continuing to talk and on steps being taken towards denuclearization. the one thing we did notice as well which was really the glaring difference between seoul and washington and the way they want to do this. president trump said once again he wants the big deal. he wants complete denuclearization. then he'll look at cutting back on sanctions. south korea is happy to have a step-by-step process and want the momentum to keep going. natalie? >> right. president trump wants that moment where he goes and meets with them was anything but in vietnam. it would be on the table, would it not? >> reporter: that's right. if nothing was achieved in the first two, why go for a third

summit. the two leaders of the u.s. and south korea agreed and said it should be a top down process, that it shouldn't be the working level talks build up to the summit and i try to hammer out details. this is what we've perceived as well from kim jong-un and north korea that they are happy to talk to president trump but the working level talks really don't seem to get anywhere. from the south korean president's view, since the hanoi summit didn't get anything, since hanoi there's been very little going on between the two koreas. they had been improving when it comes to liaison officers, infrastructures, railroads, they had pushed forward into korean infrastructure. that has effectively come to a stand still now. president moon has a lot riding on this. he needs to talk to the north

korean leader, he believes, and then to try to push forward for kim jong-un to meet with president trump. natalie. >> all right. he goes back to south korea sand we'll wait to see what happens. paula, thank you so much. we are getting our first pictures from an attack in queens. so far no claim of responsibility. one government official said we will not bow before terrorists. next, israel came so close to landing a spacecraft on the moon, but not close enough. we'll get reaction from jerusalem on that. also ahead, prosecutors pile on dozens of charges against this man, celebrity lawyer michael avenatti including embezzlement, tax evasion, bank fraud. the latest on his story coming next here.

israel's attempt to land a spacecraft on the moon was going well. you can see them in the control room watching it happen. but then something went very wrong just moments before touchdown. it just didn't happen. cnn's michael holmes is going to pick it up for us from there. he's live for us from jerusalem. michael, crash landing there. this has to be a huge disappointment for the israeli team. >> reporter: yeah, natalie. high hopes, high drama and in the end some high disappointment, indeed, for the people behind what was really an ambitious privately funded $100 million project. from the beginning really this was a case of a little guy, let's say, shooting for the moon or more precisely a soft landing on the moon. they nearly made it with their spacecraft. the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, watched on.

the team did lose contact with the spacecraft in the last moments before the planned touch down. apparently engine problems. the dissent became uncontrollable. one of the project managers said, i'm sorry to say, our spacecraft did not make it to the moon. if they did, israel would have been one of four countries to soft land on the moon after the u.s., china, natalie. >> how important is the space program for israel and will they try again? >> reporter: this was a private endeavor for an up start group that began eight years ago as part of a competition that google had set up. they didn't make the deadline but private funding and chutzpah. they did become the seventh country to get to the moon if

not land successfully on it. google tweeted out that the group will get a million dollars for their efforts, moon shot they call it. plenty of people were catching live. there were school kids at the president's home. those behind the project not letting this less than soft landing put them off. for its path space i.l. says, quote, don't stop believing. we will continue to work hard. but interestingly, then you had the prime minister, netanyahu, saying we will try again. next time it will be better. a sign there may be some government involvement going forward. he said this, quote, i am seriously considering investing now in the space program. we'll see how that pans out, natalie. >> right. if they got so close, why not try again. michael holmes for us, appreciate it much, michael. thanks. sudan is facing an uncertain future after its long-term dictator was ousted in a coup and a military counsel took

over. thousands of protesters had been demanding he step down. activists say they will not rest until the military now hands power over to a civilian government. they plan, a lot of young people are at these protests, to keep the demonstrations going until that happens. a doctor's group says at least 13 protestors have been killed by security and militia services. it isn't clear if they were killed before or after he was removed from power. for 30 years the sudanese people lived under the rule of a president accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. cnn has more for us from nairobi. >> reporter: april 11th, 2019, was the day that sudanese will

remember for a long time. it is the day that omar al bashir, their ruler, leader for three decades was finally forced to give up power. all day they had been celebrating the news until the military council made an official statement on the state television and media announcements. they announced there will be a two-year period of military government. they announced an extended state of his curfew from 10:00 at night to 4:00 in the morning. this changed the mood because the people were saying we got rid of one they have, thief, th giving us another. cartoon people are very disappointed. they have given up one soldier president and a professional organization. >> teachers, even journalists

are calling on people of sudan to stay at the military headquarters until their demands are met. what is the demand? they desperately want a change from military to civilian rule. whether they will get that or not is another question. certainly omar al bashir's departure remains questionable. back here in the united states, celebrity lawyer michael avenatti is finding himself on the other side of the law. he faces 36 charges. he's accused of stealing tens of millions of dollars from his clients. cnn's sara sidner breaks down the case. >> reporter: federal prosecutors here in california announced today a 61 page indictment with 36 counts against attorney michael avenatti. you'll recognize that name, of course, because he became a porn

star who went up against the president, sued the president of the united states. what we see in this indictment is frankly stunning. there are 36 counts that are being brought against michael avenatti including wire fraud, bankruptcy fraud and according to the documents he defrauded his clients out of millions of dollars. the indictment said perhaps he had received that known 2015. he took that money and drained it using it for his own personal use. then failed to tell the client that he had received the monies. >> as it turns out, within months of receiving the settlement proceeds in early 2015, mr. avenatti had drained the entire $4 million of the payment from his trust account using the funds to fund his

coffee business, auto racing enterprise and his own personal lifestyle. >> reporter: michael avenatti defending himself. he hoens in on one particular charge, the charge that he stole millions for any of his clients. he tweets a photo of a signature by the client saying that avenatti did a great job for him. as it turns out, that man's new attorney said that his client was tricked as late as march of this year, that avenatti showed up at his home and that he was fg to get trained. they signed the document so happy with the way he was represented. he didn't know that avenatti had already received those funds in 2015 according to prosecutors.

we're sure to hear more in the coming days. sara sidner, cnn, los angeles. huge crowds turned out in los angeles thursday to honor the slain musician nipsy hussle. mourners jammed the streets to say farewell for a man being remembered not just for his music but his activism. snoop dogg and barack obama sent a condolence letter. a long-time friend of the rapper led part of that letter. >> i've never met nipsy, but i've heard my music through my daughters. after his passing i i had a chance to learn about his transformation and community work. nipsy saw potential. he saw hope. he saw a community that even through its flaws taught him to

always keep going. >> in keeping with his heritage, nipsey hussle's hearse was draped in his flag. he was murdered at the age of 33. in the blink of an eye a photo of president trump puts the media in focus. we'll have that story next. names of my grandparents first. i got a leaf right away. a leaf is a hint that is connected to each person in your family tree. i learned that my ten times great grandmother is george washington's aunt. within a few days i went from knowing almost nothing to holy crow, i'm related to george washington. this is my cousin george. discover your story. start searching for free now at ancestry.com

a unique photo of the u.s. president has gone viral. and as cnn's jeanne moos reports, don't blink or you might miss it. >> reporter: you know how president trump is always saying -- >> fake news media right back there. >> reporter: well now they've gotten into his head. >> it's fake. >> reporter: literally, the press reflected in his eye tormenting him on the south lawn of the white house are you in there somewhere? >> probably. >> reporter: associated press photographer was in the middle of a press pack as the president left the white house. he thought he had taken a regular head shot but later he

reviewed his photos more closely. >> and i look and i was completely surprised. i was like, wow. >> reporter: as beautiful as it is terrifying marvelled buzz feed news. some compared it to the first ever photo of the black hole. some even put the reflected image of the press in the black hole. of course, reactions are in the eye of the beholder. such a fierce, determined look, that's the eye of a leader. ignore the bloodshot spec. that's not the hear in his eye, that's the rope line for the press to stay behind. reminded of blade runner, a futuristic los angeles mirrored in the eye. i've been imagining trump saying, there's something in my eye. ah, it's the enemy of the people. >> fake news, enemy of the people. >> reporter: no amount of visine

is going to help the president from this irritation. the press is the enemy of the pupil. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> how about that one? that's pretty amazing photo. all right, it might be springtime in the u.s., but don't tell it to this very hard working man. this is minnesota where there are snow and blizzard conditions. look right there, that's a trooper getting blown down by wind. he was directing traffic around a truck on the highway when he got knocked down. here he goes again. we're so mean for showing this twice, but here's the good news. the minnesota state patrol said he wasn't injured. he is our hero of the day. that's his springtime job and we hope for warmer days ahead. thanks for watching. "early start" is next for viewers here in the u.s. for everyone else, stay with us. more news with max foster out of london. thanks for watching cnn.

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