primetime" >> the best to you and your mom on mother's day. >> you, too. >> i'm chris cuomo. welcome to "primetime." subpoena friday. the next phase in the fight for tax returns has cometh. what should be any different? we'll ask a member of the committee that issued today's summonses. and the president tried to get mueller's star witness to say trump never obstructed justice. did you hear how don mcgahn responded? you will. and the implications here tonight. plus, after all the cries of no collusion, why would team trump openly solicit help from russia's neighbor for the next election? we have the reporter who broke the astounding story you are going to be hearing about for a long time. it starts tonight. and we honor a fallen hero on what would have been his last day as a senior at the stem school in colorado. kendrick castillo's parents are

heartbroken. they are in pain. but they want you to hear their story tonight and what they think matters should residence nate wi -- resonate with all of us. it's friday night and there is a lot to talk about. let's get after it. next friday at 5:00 p.m. eastern. what's that? that's when the treasury secretary and the irs commissioner have to fork over six years worth of president trump's tax returns that the law says they shall furnish if requested. house democrats escalated the battle for the financials by subpoenaing the treasury secretary, steve mnuchin, and paul reddick, the irs commissioner. what will this mean? is it politics or practicality? long-time ways and means committee member lloyd doggett

is here, democrat from texas. i told you we'd have you back >> thank you, chris. >> let's do this on a friday night. the subpoena, not a surprise. they didn't want to comply. why does this change the calculation instead of creating more of the same? you ask, they say no. now you have to go to court. how does the subpoena matter? >> well, the subpoena is another avenue in addition to the statute -- the 6103 for getting these documents. i think when we don't have compliance next week that it will be necessary to move to how about the treasury secretary and the irs commissioner in contempt. i hope that can be done promptly. we need to move this along, send a clear message that this is not just all talk, smoke and mirrors, but we are serious about getting this information. this is a president. we talk about contempt a lot. this is a president who really holds our constitution in contempt. unless we push back strongly we'll see the steady erosion of

our democracy >> all right, listen. i hear the rhetoric. especially coming from mr. doggett. but your fellow democrats have not proved as dogged as you have in your suggestion of what they should do. there is a lot of foot-dragging over holding mr. barr in contempt. i'm not saying that's the right path. but these things come with implications, ramifications, repercussions. if you hold them in contempt you create more animus and probably less chance of any accommodation. what's your calculus? >> my calculus is the chief of staff for mr. trump said several months ago never. >> said it again recently. mick mulvaney. won't come on the show. i invite him all the time to make the case. he won't take the opportunity but he said you will never see them >> never see them. mr. trump is making it clear that obstruction is his middle name. he will lie, instruct people not

to come. he will do anything he can to keep the facts from coming out. he recognizes that getting knowledge is power and this is really a power struggle about whether the president can assume all the power or the checks and balances that our founders envisioned to protect our democracy will remain in place >> now, i have listened to a couple of different chairs say we think we can get this done expeditiously. where does the confidence come from? you settled two days ago the fast and furious litigation over then a.g. holder being subpoenaed by then house committee members. it was just settled now. what would make this any different? >> well, chris, you raised the right question which is what's the remedy if the abuse continues? we have the possibility of a civil contempt procedure which is what applied there for the former attorney general. it takes a long time. i'm not overly optimistic that it will produce a prompt result. we do have another alternative

you and i have discussed and that's the idea of inherent contempt which has been recognized going back into the last century. it hasn't been used recently. then we haven't had a president like this recently, thankfully -- indeed i don't think we have ever had a president so abusive of the system and eager to assume power >> there is opportunity in the reka kalcalcitrant recalcitrant. >> indeed. >> you guys are being tested and the mettle of the different institutions. but also the malleability, the ability to find ways to create progress instead of just more conflict. are you concerned that just going heavy -- subpoena, subpoena, litigation, litigation -- that you are not seeking maybe the best avenues to compromise that may get you what you want? >> i think it's very clear that this administration will not compromise at all about the tax

returns. i asked for them six times over the past two years. we had obstruction and cover-up. mr. neil waited until april to make the request >> true. >> he has asked not once, twice, now three times for it. we can't even find out -- he asked back in april, is the president still under audit? was he ever under audit? we can't even get a basic question like that. i understand when you're saying the president erects a wall and no one can speak and no documents will be provided, any effort we make appears to be confrontational and overreach. i think we are to a point that we have no choice. he tells people to lie like his former attorney. both of his former attorneys. now he has a fixer effectively at the attorney general's office, his former campaign finance director as the secretary of treasury. we have a group here that is

colluding to protect the president and he's willing to tell any lie and obstruct in any way the whole process. so i think inherent contempt which would involve sending out a summons, essentially like an arrest warrant but not requiring the officials to come to the floor of the congress, assigning it to committee to investigate if there's been any justification for not providing the subpoenaed documents or testimony >> right. >> that's what it will take. we can't let them run out the clock and run out the clock on the truth. >> true. i get the high-minded nature of it but there is practicality which you know well. with all due deference, you have been doing this a long time and you know better than i. i appreciate that fact. i'm saying that the more you look, the more you extend, the more you try, the more will be expe expected. the idea of, well, they did their job so it doesn't matter what they came up with. we know politically that's a

tough sell. as much of a cudgel as it may be you got a break today with don mcgahn. the president clearly wanted the former white house counsel to say, listen, i don't think he wanted to obstruct justice. and he didn't say that. what do you make of the development? >> i'm hopeful about it. i believe there are other people in the trump administration that recognize that they have a broader responsibility to the american people. there are other people that if they face the prospect of significant daily fines or perhaps even incarceration, they are going to decide they don't want to take the risk and they will tell the truth. as president trump said himself included in the mueller report, the facts in that report, in that investigation would end his presidency. he said more than that, but that was the essence of it. that's why he's working so hard to prevent us from getting the

full truth here >> the president called the mueller report the bible yesterday. i think that's going to be a phrasing he's going to come to regret as we learn more about the context >> indeed. >> i heard may 15 is no longer the date. if mr. mueller doesn't testify do you think there is a path forward for oversight? if you don't get him on the record in front of the american people saying here's what i meant with my explanation of obstruction and he explains it in a way that gives an avenue to congress, do you think there is anything more to do here? >> i think there is more to do with or without input. i view his testimony as essential. especially after we had a month of propaganda, misleading comments and downright lies about the nature of this coming out of attorney general barr for mr. trump. we need to hear from mr. mueller. he's not going to be there as a political figure. hopefully he'll be able to

testify as an employee of the justice department. if not, when he ends his employment. i think the questions to him have to be directed strictly to what the law is in his findings and not attempt to pit him on one side or the other. we don't need him on one side or the other. we just need him to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. that will have the effect of really showing what kind of president we have and what he did with reference to obstruction >> what he thought should happen next. that will be key for the american people >> yes. >> congressman, not only is it friday night. but i appreciate it. i know in this environment it is tempting to seek safe harbor and have somebody to nod their head and say do more, go after him. i appreciate you taking pointed questions and defending your propositions on the show. it matters to my audience. thank you. the best this weekend to the mothers in your life. >> indeed. thank you for what you are doing every night in getting more information out to the american people about what's at stake

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rudy giuliani operating like a campaign surrogate now, trying to pressure a foreign power to dig up opo research and using it to push for an official government investigation of a political opponent. that's the part where it gets tricky. rudy giuliani is free to help the president any way he wants for the next campaign. what about that aspect? will it lead to an investigation? that sounds like what the president just yesterday was talking about and calling a crime -- going to a foreign government, trying to get help against your opponent. we have the "new york times" reporter who broke the story, ken vogel. welcome to primetime. good to see you. oh, the irony. it never ends. kudos for digging down on this.

not easy to report on things that happened with ukraine. you get a lot of different stories from the same people. good for you for making sense of it. the cycle of who is blaming whom for working with what foreign power to help their campaign and here we go again. what have you found? >> that's right, chris. we found that rudy giuliani in his capacity, he says, as the president's personal lawyer defending against the mueller probe started digging in to situation in ukraine with the goal of finding information that he thought would prove that the origins of the mueller report and the fbi investigation into russian interference that led to the mueller report were tainted and were influenced by ukrainian officials working with the dnc and hillary clinton's allies to try to inject some of this stuff into the western press and into the fbi bloodstream. he's started meeting with ukrainian officials, one of whom

came to the u.s. and met with him in his office in new york in january and that led, he says, to other potentially tantalizing lines of research that he thought could help trump not just by undermining the mueller investigation which of course now seems like a little bit of a moot point because it's over, but also by potentially yielding some damaging or embarrassing information about joe biden, his son and his involvement in ukraine working for a company owned by a ukrainian oligarch that had been under investigation in ukraine. so rudy is all in on this. he brought in other trump associates to help him in ukraine. he's headed there sunday hoping to meet with the incoming president of ukraine to put pressure on him to continue these investigations. >> i hear the same. now, the first part is going to be only so fruitful, right? the idea of dredging up the past to help deal with mueller, i don't know how much benefit

there is to the president in that. going after joe biden, let's be honest, the questions are not new. there is a lot there. there's a lot been known, but often what is old is new again in politics. what are the potential questions going forward for you on that aspect? >> what we looked for was the intersection between hunter biden, joe biden's son's work for the company owned by an oligarch that was under investigation and joe biden's work as the point person for the obama administration as vice president in ukraine and pushing the ukrainian government to clean up its act, clamp down on corruption. there was a prosecutor who technically had oversight of the investigations including the one into hunter biden's employer who was seen by the western -- ukraine's western allies including the united states as corrupt and has not aggressively pursued these investigations into powerful and wealthy people. biden pressured the ukrainian government to get rid of this

prosecutor. so certainly you have an intersection there. what giuliani says -- i think there is an oversimplification and maybe just flat out wrong that joe biden was pressuring the ukrainian government to get rid of a prosecutor because it would help hunter biden's employer. we found no evidence of that. i want to make it clear joe biden rather seemed to be carrying out this objective of trying to force the prosecutor's ouster to advance this cause of helping ukraine clean up its act and its corruption within its ranks. it actually could have ultimately been to the detriment of the oligarch on whose board hunter biden was serving >> right. it gets complicated. it's about which facts you decide to push hardest. ken vogel, good job for you. you ain't done on this one. i hope you come back here. there will be many chapters of the story in the campaign. that's my guess >> i would love the chance to do

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the president's personal lawyer now using the bar of felony or fine to defend his actions. all's fair in presidential politics or out of bounds. let's d ee's debate it. jennifer granholm, niger innis. this story caught me a little bit by surprise when it first started. niger, man, the president eastern rudy giuliani has argued to me a million times between on camera, on the phone, on text that you can't be digging for bad stuff all the time about your opponent. what hillary clinton did was wrong. you should leave it alone. you shouldn't be doing that stuff. don't just focus on what the trump tower meeting was. now he's doing exactly what he called out. how am i wrong? >> well, you're wrong because

these are two investigations that the ukrainian government already had rolling well before rudy giuliani decided to go to ukraine to encourage them to continue the investigations that they have already started. the ukraine embassy verified that in 2016 in the midst of a presidential election a dnc contractor called that country to get information on paul manafort. now for all the millions of dollars that were spent and the obsession with russia, russia, russia, russia that we have had, the mueller report shows that in terms of criminal collusion it was a big, fat nothing burger >> that's not true. >> here you have a situation -- >> in terms of criminality. >> in terms of criminal collusion there are no indictments by mueller. >> hold on. there is no such thing as criminal collusion.

it's an oxymoron. there is no collusion in law. collusion is behavior. did they find crimes of kpi conspiracy? no. let's bring in jennifer >> fair enough. >> now niger is upset about people going to foreign actors trying to get advantage. now he's upset about it. but it's okay to find out about it by doing exactly that. >> okay. first of all, you cannot get a thing of value which opposition research is considered to be from a foreign entity. that would be an illegal campaign contribution. that's number one. number two, this whole thing -- rudy giuliani, if he hasn't learned anything about the whole past two years about russian collusion that you shouldn't be collaborating, engaging in a conspiracy, asking for foreign help, really, going to the ukraine to beg the new president to pick up an investigation that they had already put away because they want to hurt joe

biden. what does that tell you? it tells you they are freaked out about the prospect of joe biden becoming the nominee. either he's looking back at his old opponent for the presidency or looking forward to his future one. it is wrong. it is wrong to do this. they should have known it already. i would say if anybody should be investigated it should be rudy giuliani who's got clients in the ukraine who apparently, it seems, has been lobbying for them in the united states. this is a mess. joe biden is far removed from it because that investigation was ended and bloomberg and the "new york times" and "the washington post" all today said he did nothing wrong. >> all right. let's look at it this way. niger, going forward, let's look at straight politics for a second. why would you want to make a main entree on the menu who did screwy things in business relationships as a main part of

the campaign? is that really the president's best foot forward to say, well, you can't vote for joe biden, he did screwy things to help his kid's business. we can't have that. does mr. trump really want to go down that road? >> i think it is a brilliant move on the part of rudy giuliani who is doing this on behalf of his client. he's not doing this necessarily on behalf of the u.s. government. he's doing it on behalf of his client >> i'm sure that's what the ukrainians think. >> i hope he gets good chicken kiev over there. it is very important for the american people to know if indeed former vice president biden put in calls to remove a prosecutor or get a prosecutor to ease up -- >> it's been investigated, you know. it's been reported on and investigated >> from what i have read the investigations are ongoing. it's not been closed >> no, they are not.

go take a look at the stories that were written today. bloomberg. the investigation was shut down two years ago >> right. >> it was closed again by the new guy. it's over. this is rudy giuliani raising a smoke screen hoping he's going to get a conversation going about joe biden instead of looking at what the president has done. this is classic rudy giuliani of late, i will say. it's not the old rudy giuliani, but it is such a shape and a stain frankly on him and his character >> let me give you another -- if i could just -- >> hurry up. quick point. >> this is also important because you have to communicate to the american people that the entire world tries to influence the united states. the united states has the same amount of power or more than the roman republic at the height of the roman republic's influence and later empire. the whole world -- allies, enemies of the united states want influence in the united

states and there are all kinds of ties that exist in washington, d.c. among politicians, family and friends. so why not expand the discussion from this obsession on russia to bringing up legitimate questions? >> just remember what you asked for. as we get into the campaign, remember you said this was okay. jennifer, niger, thank you for this on a friday night. if you're watching at home and said, god, it's like they just switched sides, all of the sudden one is saying it's great to pursue the stuff and the other saying there is nothing there. didn't that happen in reverse? yes, it did. we'll track it down and try to keep the facts straight and try to keep it on course of what matters most to you in the upcoming election. now, i urge you to stay with me tonight. here's why. our next guests -- yours and mine -- the parents of the student just killed in colorado. he gave his life to save his friends. how many of us could do that? we can't forget the hero. we can't forget his parents. they want you to remember a few

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of us wouldn't even think of doing let alone pull off. he ran at a gunman in his classroom, no hesitation. him and some of his friends. it cost him his life and saved so many others. he's an only child. his parents spent a lifetime waiting for this moment of his graduation. now this is what they're dealing with. we should honor them and their son now. mr. and mrs. castillo, thank you very much for taking this opportunity to be with us on the show. it means a lot to me and i know it will mean a lot to the audience. >> thank you for having us on. >> so how are you doing? how are you handling this situation so far? >> it's an emotional rollercoaster. you know, we're fine when we're busy and occupied and there is a lot of that right now.

with meeting people and everyone telling us what a hero our son is. we love that. but, you know, i'm not going to lie. i wake up in the morning, sob and cry and i can't believe this event has taken place. both of us are heartbroken that, you know, there's been a piece of our lives that was taken away from us that we'll never get back >> your only son. today would have been his last day of school. what does that mean to you? >> that's correct. i can't even express what that means. you know, it's just a hard cut-off. life stops. it stopped when we found out that his life was taken and he was deceased. all of our everything. you know, you wake up every day. we thought that he would have a

promising future in engineering. you know, going off to college. we were looking to celebrate, have fun. it's turned to tragedy. yeah. that's what it means for us. it's like life has literally stopped. we are -- our purpose has gone away. i don't know. our only child. i just don't know -- i can't even express how i feel. i put on a facade to do things like this to talk to people like you and i try to be brave so i can tell his story, but in the next moment i'm a wreck. so is my wife >> it's to be expected. it's to be expected. are you able yet at all to appreciate that while your son

is gone the test of parenting of what you put inside that kid has been borne out in a way that most of us never know about our kids or ourselves in a moment that was about him choosing whether or not to be for himself or to be for others. he chose being there for others even though he had to know what situation he was putting himself in. what does that mean to you as somebody who is teaching values and teaching what he was about and faith and how to live your life? >> it's everything to me. you know, it's everything to me that -- you know, let me just say this. when you're raising a child you're all in and you're loving him and you spend every minute with him. you're a loving mother like my wife, cooking food and working a hard job to give them whatever

they want. it's not just the material things but the attention, creating their favorite dish when they want it. it almost becomes natural that you don't even realize that you are creating such an incredible person as my son. as i have been telling people today as i have met -- you know, it's community. it's his faith in religion. he's been a catalyst in the schools that he's been in where, you know, it's allowed us to be part of other people's families and the faculty in these schools. i just can't say that enough. there is no doubt in my mind that he leaped into action because of all of those things. he knew he had to protect people he loved. didn't surprise me or my wife >> you never think about something like this happening in a place where really you don't ever worry about him doing anything but his homework. how do you make sense that it

was in a school that he faced the monster that every parent fears? >> you know, the environment in which it happened could have been anywhere. i don't believe that it's just because it was a school. it happened to be in a school. it could have been at a -- you know, we do robotics events, go to car shows, car events that are indoors, the national western stock show and rodeos. the space and the environment does not create the evil that lives in it. that's my belief. we have to create good people in our lives and in society. i think we can put bars on our windows and we can put cameras and alarms on things and we can try to shelter our children and we can do other things, but evil is out there in the world.

it lives everywhere, but there is more good and more love than there is evil. that's really the message i feel that will celebrate my son, our son. kendrick was that example. there is no doubt that there is a huge following for kendrick. because everybody that encountered him and he touched their lives, he became a friend with. a bad thing happened to him. i think we need to focus on working on society one person at a time >> you've got to make good people. you can't just protect yourself against the bad people. i hear you on that. it's a profound truth. i just want to say while i thank you for talking you're next to your wife. i'm not ignoring maria. i know this is too hard for her to talk about and you are the appointed spokesperson for the couple >> it is. >> that's correct.

my wife is -- you know, i was all in with my son just like my wife. mother's day is coming up and a mother has a special bond with her son. i'm here to tell you we had friends over of my son's earlier at our house. it's an open door. we don't lock the door and keep his friends out there and wait for them to come in. they rush in and she feeds them. that's the kind of community we have. her hurt is so deep because, you know, she gives everything to these kids. there comes a time in your life when things that are personal for us -- a beautiful woman buying something for herself becomes less important and she gives it up for her child. that's my wife. that's what i love about her >> you're an example of everything that parents hope to be. i hope you remember that while what happened to your family is

so unfair, you did your job, mom and dad. you put somebody in this world that put others before themselves and they did it in a time of crisis in a way that saved lives even as it cost their own. there is no higher calling of integrity and service than that. thank you for your own community and thank you for talking to me about it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you for giving me the platform to celebrate my son. these lights will go out, things will go away. i never want to forget him. thank you >> he should not be forgotten and parents like me hope the kids i'm raising have a little bit in them of what you are i don't son was all about. god bless. the best for you in coping with the pain that is with you now. i know it's not going away any time soon. god bless going forward. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> i know it breaks your heart.

i know that sometimes you'll say why is he doing this to them? they want you to hear who their kid was. they want you to remember that this isn't just about the numbers of those who die and what's going to happen next. we know that part of it never leads anywhere. maybe it will if we are more open to the reality of what is lost and what it means to people who could be you, who could be me. god if he shouforbid. remember kendrick. remember riley howell. this is not something that doesn't have an answer. it is not something that we can do nothing about. think if you would say that to them. coming up next, we change it up a little bit. lift our spirits in some heavy times ahead. something that you will see that will make you feel old but makes you feel smart, too.

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that phone number. >> that's it? >> maybe. >> an then like -- >> put the phone to your ear. what do you hear? what does it sound like? [ humming ] >> that's a start. >> what's with all the holes though? >> my man d. lemon is here. i thought they were faking it, but i don't think they were >> they weren't faking it. >> ooh, the batphone. >> hello? ty tyra, no, chris isn't here. he'll call you later. okay. bye-bye. now hold on. remember this? remember you used to call in to the radio station. caller number seven. you're like -- >> takes forever. getting your finger stuck in there and having to go back.

they didn't even know what the dial tone was >> oh, man! i wonder how many kids have ever heard a dial tone. i wonder how many kids seriously have ever heard a dial tone >> how about when they where's the reset button? do you remember that? zbl >> yeah, you don't hear it anymore. >> i thought it was a joke at first, but it's actually two teenagers who couldn't figure it out. they're not the first ones. there was one put up in 2018 that's very similar. they pick up the receiver, now let's reset it and then do you press the things? for us it doesn't feel like it was that long ago but it was actually that long ago and then this is what -- if you wanted -- before the cordless here's what you had to do, you'd be talking on the phone, yeah, what are you talking about and you had the long cord -- >> remember the long cord? remember when you got the extended cord? >> for the one that was on the

wall. my grandmother had one that used to wrap around the dining room and go all the way in the other room and she'd forget and have to come back. >> the big deal was if you'd get a phone in your room. if you had a phone in your room you were a made man. >> guess what? when i became a teenager in high school we were on the phone so much we got our own phone number. our parents had their phone number and the kids had their own phone number. >> that's strong. >> let me tell you how old i am. do you know what a party line is? >> sure. >> i -- several people in the neighborhood are on your street all share a phone line and you could pick it up and hear ms. jenkins talking, you'd have to say i've got to call my sister, can you please get off the phone? several people shared a phone, that's how old i am. >> you are old. >> i am. >> good to remember. look how far we've come. >> i look younger than you. >> that's what surgery will do, a lot of injections, a lot of stuff. >> notice, my forehead doesn't

move. >> mine does. see you at the top of the show. out of time. >> bye. some reflections on the week, but here's the deal, i've never made an argument like this before. it's not heavy. it's like the opposite of that. but it's something that i had lost sight of and i hope you don't. argument next. welcome to our lounge. enjoy your stay. thanks very much. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ find calm in over 1,000 airport lounges worldwide.

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we focus on what's wrong, we focus on the negative, and rightly so. but we tend to allow negativity to be a proxy for insight. and that's a mistake because there is more than the dark realities that we pursue. there is light and truth and beauty that forms and transforms. we had two shootings in two weeks at two schools and they left us raw.

and they should. but there was heroism. that should overwhelm the narrative. you just heard from the castillos, their only son is gone, his last day of high school was supposed to be today. he was their everything. that is an unmitigated horror. where is the light? at just 18 kendrick answered the most important question that many take a lifetime seeking. if push comes to shove would i really put myself out there for others, would i risk my life? i wish that he and riley howell the blond tarzan from the week before didn't need to demonstrate character through their own demise. yet dozens of families are whole tonight because of these two and their parents, god willing, i hope they know they did their jobs in the most magnificent way. they raised heroes, selfless, fierce heroes. and that is good and amazing.

there are beautiful moments where no one has to die all around us this time of year. millions of graduating and moving on with destinies large and small. in michigan a mother was looking forward to getting her own diploma, her son was graduating too, same day, different school. what do you think mom did? she skipped her own ceremony. the son's school found out, surprised her, conferred both of them degrees, mom and son walking across that stage together, damn, that's great and it doesn't mean the president lying about puerto rico aid doesn't matter but there's value in both. we can't forget that. here's another. 13-year-old basketball player in georgia, he's great. got no cash. size 18 shoes, not easy to find. mom can't afford sneakers. guess who finds out and steps in? shaq buys the kid ten pairs, including dress shoes which his mom says he hasn't had in years.

in new york a bus driver grabs a kid's backpack just as he's about to step off the bus. car speeds, watch this. imagine if he didn't do it. there are good people doing great things all the time. in the morning i used to call it the good stuff, ordinary and not so ordinary folks doing the extraordinary for others just because they can. and this weekend we have a day dedicated to a slice of humanity that often manifests the best of us in dedication to the rest of us. be good to your mother this sunday. remember the moms who have lost their kids and cherish your own, remember all that we have to be thankful for, we will get after what is wrong. but don't forget to celebrate the light in this world. it's what makes life worth living. thank you for watching tonight, cnn, with d. lemon, right now, "cnn tonight". >> "cnn tonight," happy mama's

day. >> beautiful lady and boy is she proud of your ugly ass. >> you know what, i'll take it. she's proud of you too. she really is. she loves you, and tell christina i said happy mother's day and to your mom as well, two really great women. i'm just surprised you're not a better person being associated and around them all the time. why is it not rubbing off? >> not everyone works out. there is darkness and light. that's why they need me and you. it's our character as opposite from our complexion. >> i'm glad you did that. this week is -- i'm going to start out by talking about what a chaotic week it's been. there have been so many stories, right, this would have been a year's worth of stories in one week we've done on the administration. i'm glad you did people who are doing good things. it's -- that's nice to hear. >> we get absorbed. people tell us all the time, sometimes when we're together, i can't take it i love you guys but i can't take it, i've got to turn it off,