alec baldwin wanted to be a radio talk show host.he was given a chance to try out at a new york station that i worked at. so i called in. the great one mark levin called in. something really interesting happened. watch. >> sean hannity? >> alec, i wanted to give you the official wabc radio considering you wanted to come on my program and you didn't show up. >> i wasn't supposed to come on your program, sean hannity. i wouldn't dream of coming on your program, sean hannity. i'm here with brian. i'm here with a really talented -- >> you don't tell the truth. >> i'm here with a really talented broadcaster. i wouldn't want to come on your show with a no talent for construction worker hack like you. >> are you the guy who said our vice president, while we're at at war, are you the reckless third wave great hollywood actor -- >> the acid venom spewing, it is sean hannity! >> we only just begun. are you 40 or 50 pounds overweight. >> who is this? oh, mark levin... >> sean: i wish i could play the whole thing. it's completely embarrassing. b

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it alec baldwin insane?y, one of the great clips of all time is him trying to do your job on talk radio and having to read a cookbook because he couldn't put together for a core five sentences on the radio and callers wouldn't call in. >> sean: the history of radio, no callers. what is the number of? it is right in front of you, alec. oh, interesting. >> and he makes fun of you! he couldn't do your job for 5 minutes. >> sean: lose touch -- how do you make fun of the people who worked so hard, every freaking day, and do everything for the country? >> it was obvious in the clinton campaign, when she could slander half the country by calling them a basket of deplorables. in other words, you had to be deplorable to want to vote for donald trump. it is so arrogant. it is really so condescending. >> sean: it's obnoxious. good to see you both. dan, geraldo. another outrageous development in the smollett case. villain of the day, we didn't have time last night. straight ahead. ♪ book now and enjoy free unlimited ope

fronted by actor alec baldwin. now one political analyst says the parodies may be helping the president. details on that ahead. joe biden holding a campaign kickoff rally in pennsylvania over the weekend. politco reports, the trump campaign is rushing to shore up support in the rust belt. how concerned should the president be after some many polls missed the mark in 2016? we'll debate that. >> i don't believe it. i don't. if democrats -- i believe democrats want to unify this nation. that's what our party has been about. that's what it's always been about, unity. is that net carbs or total?... eh, not enough fiber... chocolate would be good... snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. glucerna. everyday progress dad, it's fine. we have allstate. and with claimrateguard they won't raise your rates just because of a claim. that's why you're my favorite... i know. are you in good hands? if you have moderate to sever

i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being here. let's begin with something that is not getting much attention. but should. especially as we get closer to the 2020 elections. as the president continues to say that he wants good relationships with russia even though attacked and is attacking the united states and the attorney general launches an investigation into the origins of the russia investigation before the inspector general is finished with that investigation, at least two counties in florida were hacked in 2016. russia attacks the investigation and continues to do so. alex marquardt is our cnn national correspondent. so what did the florida officials learn. >> you are right this should be getting more attention and we're gearing up for 2020 and still grappling with the after-effect of 2016 and ron desantis is saying two florida counties were breached in 2016 and the reason that is news is because until the mueller report came out, we didn't know that any local governments had been breached in florida i

baldwin and the show seems tired.ny more so i thought it was interesting. if nothing else, this definitely wakes you up when you see it the next morning. here a little bit more of their queen performance as a group. ♪ free court. >>> ready for a fight. on abortion we got the votes now women are screwed ♪ you got the results 50 years ago but no no no i'm still in control ♪ >> you can watch the whole song melania saying women are skitil in control. here is a couple of jokes from "weekend update." one is about the tensions with iran and about these abortion bills. >> amid rising tensions with iran, there were rumors that the white house is now going to send 120,000 more troops to the middle east. but don't worry. president trump set the record straight with this firm reassuring message. >> mr. president, are we going to war with iran? >> i hope not. >> you know it's up to you, right, man? a plan backed by the trump administration nasa has announced it will send the first woman to the moon by 2024. unfortunately, it's aga

i'm brooke baldwin. welcome to a special holiday edition of cnn news room. ♪ >> today on memorial day the nation pauses to remember those who gave the best of themselves during some of the most challenging times in u.s. history. the nation is paying tribute to more than 1.2 million americans who are v made the ultimate sacrifice and died in service since the civil war. with president trump overseas the president layed the wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier over watch by voluntary se sentals every single day. >> present. >> present. >>> we will take you back to the hallowed ground, our lincoln national cemetery in a moment with barbara starr. >>> thousands of miles in japan president trump is showing praise for a dictator and dismissing the views of not only his top aids but u.s. allies. at the center of the latest controversy, kim jong-un. remember how last fall trump claimed the two men, his words, fell in love after the korean leader sent him letters. today the president signalled the bond is be

>>> we're back, you're watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin.th korean who played a role in the failed north korea summit was reportedly executed and another person sent to hard labor in a prison camp. mike pompeo said the u.s. is looking into the reports from the south korean newspaper that the officials were punished because kim jong-un left the february summit empty handed. now to be clear, cnn has not independently verified this report. but the negotiators sentenced to forced labor is the same man who hand-delivered the letter from kim jong-un to president trump last year. >> do you have any confirmation of comment about that? are you concerned about those reports? >> we've seen the reporting to which you're referring. we're doing our best to check it out. i don't have anything else to add to that today. >> cnn brian todd is following this for us. and the notion of executing a top official because of that failed summit, is that even in the realm of possibility, brian? >> broork, it is in the realm of possibility. kim jong-un is a man believe

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. >> senator baldwin. sen. baldwin: thank you mr. chairman. secretary shanahan, president of trump stated in the national security strategy that a healthy defense industrial base is a critical element of national security and that the industrial base is dependent on the ability of the nation's workforce and industries to surge at a time of need. additionally, the department of defense issued an industrial base report last fall which expressed some concerns and i quote currently the industrial base faces an unprecedented set of challenges declined of critical markets and suppliers, unintended consequences of u.s. government acquisition behavior, aggressive industrial policies of competitor nations and of the loss of vital skills in the domestic workforce do you agree -- workforce. do you agree with these statements and concerns? >> i do sen. baldwin: i also believe a solid industrial defense base should be a national priority and from both an economic and security perspective i think we , can no longer afford to be dependent upon the suppliers

it who is the alec baldwin whisper?ye and call me a hayseed. call me a redneck. call me a hillbilly. call me trash. but see what you mean. don't qualify it. >> melissa: it speaks to this whole thing that really got president trump elected, this idea that there are these group of liberals who really believe they are smarter and better than everybody else. and kind of look down on the rest of the population. if you don't agree with them, you are dumb. you are not educated. you are not refined. in terms of president trump and new yorkers, of what people knew about them, if you're in business and finance you know that his skill is marketing. when he was doing straight up real estate, he went bankrupt. when he realized that, rather than owning the assets, you put your name on things and you market, he became very successful. that's what the television show was about. democrats in all these people who pooh-pooh him underestimated how all that marketing talent would translate to politics. as far as not changing, i think that's

i'm brooke baldwin. just an hour to go in the trading day, stocks are falling after president trump upped the ante on threatening tariffs with one of the biggest -- trading partners with the united states, mexico. he said if mexico doesn't stop the flow of migrants the u.s. will slap a 5% tariff on all imports next month. and that number will increase 5% every month until it hits a maximum tariff at 25% in october. top mexican officials swiftly condemned the move. the foreign minister who is on his way to washington said it makes zero economic sense. while adding that stopping central american migrants is not mexico's job. and mexico president wrote an open letter to president trump and i'll read part of it. quote, social problems are not resolved with tariffs or coercive measures. the statute of liberty is not an empty symbol. and with all due respect and you have the sovereign right to express it, your slogan america first is a fallacy. on capitol hill republican lawmakers are voicing concern about the

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. two months after turning in his long-awaited report into russian election inter feerns and potential obstruction by president trump. here he is. robert mueller stepping before the mic and the justice department for the first in what he says will be the very last time. mueller was clear to note that the words in that report were chosen carefully. you could probably say the same thing about his ten-minute statement this morning. the special counsel outlining key findings but also reiterated why his team could not formally charge the president of the united states. and why those claims of no obstruction from bill barr and the white house are, in a word, premature. >> if we had had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so. we did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime. the introduction to the volume two of our report explains that decision. it explains that under long-standing department policy a preside

i'm brooke baldwin.. >>> it's infrastructure week and the president came in like a wrecking ball. "the lead" starts right now. >>> president trump storming out of a meeting with top democrats before he then ambushed the press and flipped out over the mueller report and senator schumer says what happened in that white house meeting will make your jaw drop. house speaker nancy pelosi going with the "bless his heart" approach, saying she'll pray for president trump after accusing him of a cover-up. >>> and senator bernie sanders joins me after unveiling a bold new policy that could impact millions of americans. will it help him catch up to joe biden in the polls? >>> welcome to the

in response, entertainers including amy schumer, christina applegate, alec baldwin, and alyssa milano pledged to boycott movie and television production in georgia if the law goes into effect. milano also called for a sex strike on twitter. meanwhile, filmmakers jordan peele and j.j. abrams vowed to donate 100% of the fees from their new hbo series "lovecraft country" that is set to film in georgia to the aclu of georgia and fair fight georgia. and in tulsa, oklahoma, city officials have formed a committee to oversee the search for mass graves from the 1921 tulsa race massacre. on may 31, 1921, a white mob killed as many as 300 people, most of them black, after a black man was accused of assaulting a white elevator operator. over two days, white mobs set fire to homes, businesses, and churches in greenwood, a thriving african-american business district known at the time as the black wall street. the massacre was largely overlooked by most americans at the time, but local community leaders in tulsa are ramping up efforts to uncover mass graves and seeking to bring public awareness to t

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i'm brooke baldwin. tensions grow in washington as democrats continue to push for answers on all of the questions left hanging in the mueller report and today we are learning that we will have to wait even longer to hear from special counsel robert mueller. house judiciary chairman jerry nadler said despite earlier predictions the testimony will not happen next week. meantime there is more tension as we wait to see what former white house counsel don mcgahn does. he's now a private citizen. he has been subpoenaed to testify on may 21st. but we also know that the trump administration has ordered him not to share documents. so will he show up? if he refuses chairman nadler is ready to roll with contempt charges and now threatening to bundle them. let's go straight to our cnn legal analyst michael zeldin who was mueller's special assistant at doj and a former federal prosecutor so happy friday to you. nice to have you on as always. >> thank you, brooke. >> first on the bundling, what -- how does contempt ci

i'm brooke baldwin. joe biden is staking his 2020 bid in the ability to beat donald trump and restore the soul and character of america. and now his campaign says president trump jabs at biden's intelligence show exactly why trump needs to be defeated next year. as a reminder, this was the current u.s. president yesterday insulting the former vice president on a world stage, citing the words of a dictator. >> kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low iq individual. he probably is. based on his record. i think i agree with him on that. >> cnn chief political analyst gloria borger is with me. and moments ago, biden's deputy campaign manager said, quote, the president's comments are beneath the dignity of the office, to be on foreign soil on memorial day and to side repeatedly with the murderous dictator against a fellow american and former vice president speaks for itself. she goes on, it is part of a pattern of embracing autocrats at expense of our institutions, whether taking putin's word at f

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. after days of blocking subpoenas and rejecting information requests, president trump just addressed reporters in this wide-ranging and impromptu q&a at the white house this afternoon. and the president discussed everything from his national security adviser john bolton to north korea to even calling the mueller report, which he called a witch hunt for months and referred to it as the bible. and the president responded to the first ever congressional subpoena of one of his family members. sources say about the time the redacted version of the mueller report went public the senate intelligence committee subpoenaed donald trump jr. >> i was surprised. i saw richard burr saying there was no cleegs and he went outside and said there was no collusion. we found no collusion. but i was very surprised to see my son -- my son is a very good person. works very hard. the last thing he needs is washington, d.c. he's now testified for 20 hours or something -- a massive amount of time. the mueller r

. >>> later i sat down with actor alec baldwin ahead of the release of his new film about the life and career of john delorean >> do you think you're going to beat the avengers movie at the box office [ laughter ] >> he didn't have a lot to say on that question it was hard work we will have his comments on the state of the media landscape pretty interesting comments on that so comparisons between john delorean and elon musk ♪ feel that? that's the beat of global markets, the rhythm of the world. but to us, it's the pace of tomorrow. with ingenuity, technologies, and markets expertise we create the possible. and when you do that, you don't chase the pace of tomorrow. you set it. nasdaq. rewrite tomorrow. today, life-changing technology from abbott is helping hunt them down at their source. because the faster we can identify new viruses, the faster we can get to stopping them. the most personal technology, is technology with the power to change your life. life. to the fullest. >>> welcome back to "the closing bell." the s&p 500 is creeping closer to another record all-time closing high 2

i'm brooke baldwin. here's the breaking news right now.k former white house counsel don mcgahn's testimony. the legal opinion is expected to come as soon as today. although this is something president trump hinted at in a fox news interview just a couple weeks ago. >> i've had him testifying already for 30 hours. >> is the answer no? >> i don't think i can let him and then tell

i'm brooke baldwin. right now people are in risk of deadly tornados and flooding in oklahoma as people find their homes under water. the rivers are still rising and more storms are expected tonight. ed lavandera is west of tulsa. ed? >> reporter: and these floodwaters started coming up yesterday. there are several dozen homes in the community that are under water. some residents say they've taken on about two to six feet of water. and that dam right now, according to the army corp of engineers, is releasing 275,000 cubic feet of water per second to kind of put that in terms that we might be able to understand or comprehend, that is more than three olympic size swimming pools out of the dam and all of this flowing downstream. is not only a concern for the continued flooding here in the tulsa area but this continues to move toward western arkansas in the fort smith area. >> so ed was in fort smith. and the schools have been forced to shut down because classes were to end on thursday. further north in kansa

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn. we have breaking news on wall street where the dow is trying to recover after falling more than 500 points. if it doesn't climb out of the slump soon it could be the second worst trading day of the year. alison kosik is our business correspondent down at new york stock exchange. and the worst was january 3rd when the do you dropped 660 points and this is not very far off. >> no, it is not. but one thing that did happen yesterday, we did see the dow fall as much as 471 points and then in stunning fashion it made a 180 and ended up only modestly lower and that is on a good headline that the chinese delegation was going to go ahead and come to washington and have talks to try to come to some sort of resolution in the trade war. so that wound up turning things into a positive -- toward a positive direction. i don't think you'll see that today. in fact, some traders telling me that they think what happened yesterday when we saw the turnaround probably shouldn't have happened because the ne

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me.sident trump is frying to pull off something that hasn't been done since ronald reagan, get a major immigration bill through congress but he may suffer the same fates as president obama and george w. bush. the six-part proposal spearheaded by jared kushner would focus on border security and merit-based immigration. but there is another goal here. getting republicans on capitol hill to support it and that is where the problem comes in. cnn has learned that when kushner presented the plan to republican senators earlier this week, some of them were, to quote one senior republican official, underwelcomed saying it lacked substance. trump ally lindsey graham is taking this one step further while unveiling his own immigration proposal senator graham said the white house version was in his words not designed to become law. and that prompt the this response from the white house press secretary sarah sanders. >> we think it certainly is designed to become law. and we think it should. that is wh

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. a major breaking development involving the mueller report. hours after a deadline to turn in redacted portions to congress, we are learning of a remarkable reaction to this report. the numbers are still coming in. now nearly 400 former federal prosecutors have signed this statement saying that president trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice had he not been president of the united states. they write, quote, each of us believes that the conduct of president trump described in special counsel robert mueller's report would in the case of any other person not covered by the office of legal counsel policy against indicting a sitting president result in multiple felony charges for obstruction of justice. we have a professor at nyu school of law with me in new york. laura jarod is in washington. laura, let me start with you. again, this isn't one or two people. this isn't just democrats. this is left, right and 370 plus. >> that's right. it's really a bipartisan group of f

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banning the procedure after six weeks of pregnancy. 50 celebrities including alissa milano, alec baldwin, and christina applegate sent this letter to the governor threatening to boycott filming in georgia. but state representative he ed setzler who sponsored the bill dismisses what he calls hollywood elites. >> georgia's not taking the pulse of hollywood in representing the values of our diverse population. common sense georgians recognize that a child in the womb is worthy of protection. >> reporter: several productions have already signaled they won't film in georgia, including amazon prime's drama "power" and a lionsgate comedy "barb and star go to vista del mar" starring kristen wiig. the potential ripple effect could impact the state's $9.5 billion tv and film industry and more than 90,000 jobs. governor kemp sought tollay concernsast , inio a touting ecomy aome mor studios. >> i've been in the film industry for about 15 years. >> reporter: but makeup artist bridget kreider is concerned about her job and torn between opposing the law and supporting those who are boycotting. >> it is

i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me.e special counsel to talk? "the lead" starts right now. >>> president trump reversing course, now saying the special counsel should not testify before the american people. can the president actually stop mueller from talking? >>> an alarming move. the u.s. sending an aircraft carrier to warn iran and it's just one of many crisis across the globe, as experts worry the president and his top national security team might not all be on the same page. plus, president trump's former fixer, michael cohen, turning in

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i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me.aking development involving the mueller report. hours after a deadline to turn in redacted portions to congress, we are learning of a remarkable reaction to this report. the numbers are still coming in. now nearly 400 former federal prosecutors have signed this statement saying that president trump would have been charged with obstruction of justice had he not been president of the united states. they write, quote, each of us believes that the conduct of president trump described in special counsel robert mueller's report would in the case of any other person not covered by the

i'm brooke baldwin. here's the breaking news right now. a source telling cnn the white house is expected to block former white house counsel don mcgahn's testimony. the legal opinion is expected to come as soon as today. although this is something president trump hinted at in a fox news interview just a couple weeks ago. >> i've had him testifying already for 30 hours. >> is the answer no? >> i don't think i can let him and then tell everybody else you can't. they've testified for many hours. >> as far as you're concerned it's done? zblild say it's done. we've been through this. nobody has ever done what i've done. i've given total transparency. it's never happened like this before. >> let's go to mu knew -- manu raju on capitol hill. first on our reporting, what do you know about this latest refusal to cooperate? >> the white house is going to say that mcgahn should not be forced to testify before the house judiciary committee even though he's facing a subpoena. they're going to make the case they have a couple options they're considering

i'm brooke baldwin. you're watching cnn.aking news on wall street where the dow is trying to recover after falling more than 500 points. if it doesn't climb out of the slump soon it could be the second worst trading day of the year. alison kosik is our business correspondent down at new york stock exchange. and the worst was january 3rd when the

>>> hi there, i'm brooke baldwin and you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. we begin with the president's collision course with the constitution and congress over the mueller report. the house judiciary committee now on a break is expected to vote just this afternoon on whether to hold attorney general bill barr in contempt for refusing to turn over the report on the redacted sections, that is one of the maneuvers underway to get the report's full details. t has been 20 days since the redacted version went public and this counter maneuver to keep things confidential came this morning straight from the white house. the president has invoked executive privilege over the entire mueller report and its underlying evidence and that triggers jerry nadler to a -- accuse the executive branch of sabotaging any negotiations over the report. >> by invoking executive privilege on all of the materials subject to our subpoena, that process has come to a screeching halt. the administration has announced loud and clear that it does not recognize congress as a co-equal branch

you're watching cnn and i'm brooke baldwin. first the most powerful democrat in congress said the president of the united states was engaged in a cover-up. and now house speaker nancy pelosi says president trump is in need of a family intervention. and, quote, not up to the task when it comes to making tough choices for the nation. speaker pelosi taking direct aim at president trump on two things that matter most, his money and his manhood. as a feud between them enter a second day. here now is the speaker in her own words. >> he said it is because of cover-up and i know that that strikes a cord with him. he knew the lower court decision was getting into a territory that he did not want touched and they did not allow the mueller report -- the mueller investigation to go into, the president's personal finances. the president and the white house has a bag of tricks they save for certain occasions. they don't apply to the occasion but they're a distraction, which is his master of distraction. he tried to say it is because i said c

i'm brooke baldwin.now. >>> another empty chair as congressional oversight falls not on deaf ears, but on no ears at all. "the lead" starts right now. >>> making a show over the no-show. democrats torn after the former white house counsel defies a subpoena and snubs congress today, as the impeachment debate causes more division than the "game of thrones" finale. >>> rebooting beto. the complain trying to put lightning back in the bottle as he prepares for a cnn town hall tonight in a potential make-or-break event. >>> plus, happening right now, thousands of americans protesting historically restrictive abortion bans passed across the country, as a judge claims one

i'm brooke baldwin.ing after president trump upped the ante on threatening tariffs with one of the biggest -- trading partners with the united states, mexico. he said if mexico doesn't stop the flow of migrants the u.s. will slap a 5% tariff on all imports next month. and that number will increase 5% every month until it hits a maximum tariff at 25% in october. top mexican officials swiftly condemned the move. the foreign minister who is on his way to washington said it

you're watching cnn, i'm brooke baldwin.a disturbing story out of ohio, ohio state university failed to act as a team -- failed to act as team doctor richard strauss abused 177 athletes and they found that coaches and administration did not speak up about this, for two decades. in 1996 doctor strauss was removed from his role following an investigation. he died by suicide in 2005. and when accusers started coming forward last year, i talked with michael desabatto a ohio state wrestler and one of the athlete as -- abused by strauss and this is what he told me one year ago. >> they were conversations with a group of athletes who were complaining on a regular basis. not only about dr. strauss, but the conditions within lock and tall which forced us to take showers with not only dr. strauss but other university faculty members and professor who had access to our shower facility and on a daily basis were involved in lewd acts that included public masturbation, excessive soaping of their groin area and dr. strauss was one of those

. >> "newsroom" are brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin.s begin with something that is not getting much attention. but should. especially as we get closer to the 2020 elections. as the president continues to say that he wants good relationships with russia even though attacked and is attacking the united states and the attorney general launches an investigation into the origins of the russia investigation before

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