so, chris blackwell came back and he's booming the town.i'm happy. that is just beautiful. nice place to grow up? >> it is. >> what's it like being a kid? >> my childhood days were spending at the beach. >> that's good. who gets to do that? >> i guess only me and my friends. >> do you ever take it for granted, do you ever get -- >> yeah, we do. >> you do? >> we do. see, the thing about it, when we really need it, that's the time we can't have it because a lot our waterfront has been gone. we have very little right now. it's okay. we have james bond beach ten minutes walk from here. at least we're one of the lucky ones. but their nutritional needs remain instinctual. that's why there's purina one true instinct. nutrient-dense, protein-rich, real meat number one. this is a different breed of natural nutrition. purina one, true instinct. ♪ ♪ i'm jimmy, this is my definition of fresh since 1983. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> it's inevitable, of course, that next door to golden eye there would be a james bond beach. >> all of the bond movies were conceptualized and

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. good saturday to you.where despite last-minute negotiations and huddles and votes the government is shut down for the first time in more than four years. the art of the deal, the president could not reach the deal with democrats and a few republicans. a few hours ago, they marked the one-year anniversary of his presidency by rejecting a budget bill. >> the president is reacting on twitter this morning, as well, saying democrats "could have easily made a deal but decided to play shutdown politics instead." >> cnn's ryan nobles is live on capitol hill. we've learned that some lawmakers are expected back on the nhill in a couple of hours. >> reporter: that's right. they will return and gavel into session at around 9:00

stone and blackwell are staunch abolitionists and they believe the black men should be in franchise first should be ratified and then women can fight for their votes. susan b and elizabeth cady, going into the constitution, we are going with them or fighting it. with the movement for 30 years and organizations and deeply damaging for the cause and i was sent out, my dissertation topic, going to prove elizabeth cady and susan b were horrible people and so forth. it was so depressing. [laughter] >> my faculty advisor -- you can remember i walked into his office, i want to start thinking what finally worked. i want to look forward to the positive moves, started researching the early 20th century to see what was going on. i started reading newspaper accounts and tripped over these women and nobody noticed them. they were there, too famous to know this. >> you didn't know about them when you started this thing. >> guest: no. i was reading newspapers from the 1900s, and there would be occasional references to events where fancy uber wealthy celebrity socialites were coming out for suffrage, wha

>> ken blackwell's misunderstanding of our world prowess and the leadership that's required. what the president did makes instabli instability across the world and makes troops and people serving united nations and so on more vulnerable. that's a problem. for someone served in the you na united nations, as he claims and not understand the delicacy when an american president uses his perch to make any statement across a whole continent is problematic. it's problematic for our leadership, allies and the list goes on. he was very carelear when he sa we needs to safeguard our borders. when he clearly states and they try to talk about this idea of merit immigration, it's very clear that merit is equivocal to a white america. that's too late. they are fleeing a failed state or it's because of natural dis aster. they are doing right by the law. the government gave them this piece of information, this type of visa. he's creating a class of undocumented people. whether you're talking about removing visas or rescinding daca. >> peter i want you to weigh in as well. i know you have thou

. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. president will have his first state of the union of the address and could be one of his biggest moments in political history. >> the forefront of this speech is immigration. the president set to sell his controversial plan that has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle a little skeptical. the president foreshadowed what he could say in his speech on twitter. blasting democrats overnight over daca and border security. >> the white house is remaining silent on a sex scandal surrounding a top republican party official. talking about steve wynn. he has extend down as finance chair of the republican national committee amaid reports he had women perform dozens of sex acts at a casino. >> let's begin with president trump's anticipated state of the union address. dan merica joins me now. what is the president saying? >> the president plans to use the perch of his first state of the union. remember, he gave a speech earlier to a joined session of congress in member of last year, but this will b

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.day to you. >> we are 30 hours into the government shutdown. >> we are waiting to see how far politicians are going to meet one another, get in front of the microphones to blame one another, but still no sign of a deal. >> remember, those lawmakers are still getting paid despite this shutdown. that is not the case for hundreds of thousands of other government workers. >> senate majority leader mitch mcconnell say democrats have created a hostage situation. minority leader chuck schumer compares dealing with the white house to negotiating with jell-o. >> inside that white house he has been charged by the president with brokering middle east peace, and fixing the opioid crisis, a hefty amount of work. >> jared curb ner does not have full security clearance. some have said if it were not fr his family ties to the president, he probably wouldn't be able to work in the white house. cnn national security analyst is joining us now and she served under two presidents and member of a national s

. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. >>> two days now. days before president trump is going to deliver his first state of the union address in what could be one of the biggest moments of his presidency at the end of the day. a lot of people wondering is going to play politics or try to bridge this divide in our country? >> at the fror front of his speech is immigration. the president is set to sell his controversial plan that has lawmakers on both sides of the aisle skeptical to say the least. trump foreshadowed what he could say in his speech blasting democrats on twitter overnight over daca and border security. >> the white house is still silent this morning on a sex scandal surrounding a top republican party official. steve wynn has stepped now do you as the finance chair of the republican national committee amitt reports that he forced dozens of women to perform sex acts on him at his casino. >> we are learning new details about the bipartisan effort to stop the president from firing special counselor bob mueller in the midst of the r

. >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning to you. we are grateful to have you here. billed as a weekend of looking forward. the president and top republicans huddled at camp david, planning their goals for the 2018 agenda. >> as mr. trump wakes up, the government is still touting its victories from 2017. >> one of the things mitch said and he said it very well was it's going to be tough to beat the year we just left. >> 2017 was the most consequential year in the many years i've been here in congress. >> 2017 was a year of extraordinary accomplishment. >> as both the president and leader said, we had historic achievements in 2017 that we want to build on. >> all of those comments with be debated. the republican leaders did mention 2018 and hope for bipartisan in this year and big immigration changes. but for a party facing a slim majority in the senate, the chance of losing the house, a president with really low approval ratings, there was little mention of how they will get all of this done. cnn's jeremy diamond is live in wash

. >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning to you. this was supposed to be the crucial weekend of meetings with the president and top republicans and going to huddle at camp david to set the goals for the 2018 agenda. >> the strategy session that was overshadow by the president's insistence that he is a stable genius and his attacks against this new tell-all book. >> only because i went to the best colleges -- or college. i went to -- i had a situation where i was a very excellent student and came out and made billions and billions of dollars and became one of the top business people. went to television and for ten years, was a tremendous success, as you probably have heard. ran for president one time and won. and this guy that doesn't know knee at all. by the way, he said he interviewed me for three hours in the white house and it didn't exist. it's his imagination. >> we will talk more about the president's response to that book. >>> there is also this this morning. a key u.s. ally is defending the president against claims he i

ken blackwell, member of the disbanded commission, defended the president's decision to dissolve it but says, this controversy for the abrupt end doesn't lie with the president. take a listen. >> the president disbanded two business councils once he figured it was marred in conflict and had become dysfunctional, and he, in fact, disbanded the business council and what do we have now? a growing economy, 3% clip. we have dow hitting 25,000. what he understood as an entreprene entrepreneur, if, in fact, a have a commission mar in controversy and in fact become dysfunctional because of that controversy -- >> you're acknowledging that this commission -- >> move on. >> so ken blackwell says there a actually a chance this move will actually end up a success for voters fraud efforts. what's your reaction to what you heard him say? >> that, too, doesn't come as a shock. with our without a commission, we know that trump is hell-bent on undermining voting rights in america. he's been consistent about that through the course of the campaign and throughout the course of his administration thus far e

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell.t minute negotiations and votes and some deals possibly, the government is shut down for the first time in more than four years. the art of the deal president couldn't strike a deal with democrats or few republicans and just a few hours ago, they marked the one year anniversary of his president is i bcy. >> and the president said democrats could have easily made a deal but played shutdown politics instead. >> and thousands of activists are getting ready for the second annual now women's march. >> organizers are looking to keep up last year's momentum. live now with the latest is britaynn gingras. tell us what you're doing there. >> reporter: well, you can probably tell how loud it is just here at the poughkeepsie train station. all of these women are gathering because we have a train leaving in about 20 minutes headed to new york city, thousands of women from the area flooding into new york city for this march. not to mention there are dozens of other marches all around this area of th

. >> like many, ashley blackwell has an amazon echo. which offers countless voice activated features when paired with the alexa app. >> one of the latest, drop in. neighboring -- enabling instinct medication between regular devices. >> i could see myself enabling this and forgetting abou>> we a we sent a request through our alexa app and she accepted. then we muted our amazon echo and give a command.>> which unbeknownst to ashley allowed us to listen in on everything she was saying in her bedroom. she can't hear me, but i can hear her. >> dropping may be intended for a two-way conversation, it can turn your echo into an eavesdropping device. >> i can literally press the button and be inside your home and listening to whatever is going on at that moment in time. >> tech security expert knows they you must first give someone permission to use the drop in feature. but they may keep that permission indefinitely and you may not always realize that they have dropped in. he also cautions that like all internet devices, alexa is susceptible to

when the rnc had their mass exodus of black staffers group of high level black republicans, kim blackwell steele, some others sat down with the rnc and said hey look this is what we sean spicer when it came to the transition sean spicer and reince preibus gave it. black republicans always had good relations with the hierarchy of our party but the one difference maker we saw was that when omarosa got involved a lot of that stopped. >> go ahead. >> a lot of it stopped. i mean, myself personally i can show you the text messages of hey, you know, hey we're going to -- we pulled his record he's not -- he. >> why do you think she created in your words. >> she wanted to be the only one in his orbit. if you have somebody there that -- if you look at her resume compared to some of the others, you look at her resume compared to a kay james dina bass or angela sailor someone with real policy expertise, someone with real political -- real true political background and compare it to hers, you know, they're going to have more access, more influence by virtue of the work they've done and by virtue of th

and a lobbying specifically on behalf of the first female doctor in the united states, elizabeth blackwell. hale also campaigned for the first day care center for small children and the first public playground. and she founded a society dedicated to increasing the wages of working women. she invented the term "domestic science" to elevate the status of housekeeping. bookecame editor of ladies in 1837 and spent the next 40 years there. publish american authors writing on american themes. from the perspective of the 21st century, her approach doesn't seem in the least surprising. in the 1830's, however, it contrasted sharply with other popular magazines of the day, which typically were printed articles they had pirated from anguish publications. hale -- english publications. hale believed it should focus on american culture and she orders -- authors like nathaniel hawthorne, washington irving, and edgar allen poe. and edgar allen poe gave her the best backhanded koppelman i've ever heard of anyone. she said mrs. hale was a woman of masculine energy. [laughter] thanksgiving day, a homegrown h

anthony on one side and lucy stone and her husband henry blackwell on the other.ne and blackwell after the civil war are start abolitionists and they believe the black man should be an franchise first, that the fifth 10th amendment, which gives black men the right to vote should be ratified and then women can fight for their own. susan b. and elizabeth cady, if they are going into the constitution, we are going with them or us we are fighting it. the movement for almost 30 years it was deeply damaging for the cause. i was going to be my dissertation topic. i was going to prove they have the movement and so forth. it was so depressing. my faculty advisor had kindly come here today and he can remember that i walked into his office and said i want to start thinking about what finally worked. i want to look forward to the positive view that women got the vote and i started researching the early 20th century to see what was going on. i started newspaper accounts and it tripped over the swimming. nobody had noticed them. they were sort of too famous to notice. >> you di

their piece addresses many of the same issues as the report by our own bob blackwell on how to respond to russia's intervention in the 2016 election and how to respond to the geopolitical challenge that russia poses to u.s. interests around the world. i returned from moscow a few days ago and i was struck by how limited this relationship is. it is less expensive than it was a during the four decades of the cold war. i am struck by how limited our -- different our views of the world are but also, and it comes out in the article, by the case for exploring the possibility of limited cooperation and meeting the challenges posed by north korea's nuclear missile program or trying to reduce conflict in eastern ukraine or syria. with that, let me thank both of you for being with us today. thank you for writing for our magazine. let's start. i will ask questions for a few minutes and then we will open it up to you, our members. let me start with the basic question. is it accurate or useful to describe where we are with russia as second or new cold war? mr. biden: it would be a little bit of an

. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. >> always good tahao have you h.go the president was singing his praises and now steve wynn this wealthy c y casino mogul is in middle of a scandal. >> women

. >> this is "new day" weekend with victor blackwell and christie paul. >> we are always so grateful to have your company. welcome. we want to talk about this morning the global backlash against president trump here. world leaders, organizations, slamming his comments as quote, racist, shameful and outrageous. the african union is demanding an apology from the president after he reportedly asked why the u.s. needs more immigrants from as he described them, shithole countries in africa. world leaders are now calling u.s. diplomats demanding they come in and explain the president. democrats are leading an effort to officially censure the president. >>> we're here with international reactions to the president's comments. what are you hearing this morning? >> it certainly is a swift and harsh reaction, very unusual for african countries or in fact any countries to explicitly criticize a president of the united states because of the economic ties because of the foreign aid that's coming to some african countries, but criticize they have. this from u.n. ambassadors saying it's extremely ap

>>> this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> happy saturday. we're grateful to have you with us. very smart, very stable, maybe, even a genus, that's how president trump is defending himself this morning as he unleashes on his critics. >> just minutes ago the president sent out a trinity of tweets that say attempting to reshape the narrative after the scathing tell-all was released. the president is saying like he is really smart? >> like, a trinity of tweets i like that victor. the president has been very busy on social media starting with the russian collusion story. here's what he wrote, now that the russia collusion after a yea year's study, the democrats and mainstream media are taking out the ronald reagan playbook and screaming mental intelligence. actually throughout my life my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being like really smart. crooked hillary clinton also played these cards really hard and as everyone knows went down in flames. i went from very successful businessman to top tv star to the president of the unite

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul live in washington with you here where today should have beention for president trump. one year in office. the one-year anniversary of his presidency. the party he planned at mar-a-lago is no more at the moment because you're waking up to a government that is shut down. just a few hours

. ♪ >> announcer: this is "new day weekend," with victory black dog we victor blackwell and christi paul for 38 minutes, yesterday, people on the islands, they thought they were about to be hit by a ballistic missile. the chaos and confusion and fear was caused by someone hitting the wrong button. this is the alert that started it all. a text from emergency officials yesterday warning seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. >> there were students who were terrified. they just -- look at them running for cover. this is at one university of hawaii campus. show you another video. people lowring their kids into manhole for protection. can you imagine as a parent having to do that? there were some residents who called their loved ones for what they they thought maybe final good-byes. >> i was afraid. just looking around where do we go? >> we have no place to shelter. if the missile comes. >> first thing i did was call all of my children. i love you today and i told them what was happening because they are not on the island but it was very scary. >> cnn sara sidner is in hawaii. >> report

. >> this is "new day" weekend with victor blackwell and christie paul. >> it is the beginning of martin luther king jr. weekend. dedicated to justice, equal rights, opportunity for many but the president of the united states is facing growing international backlash for comments that a racist. >> the african union is demanding an an polg after he reportedly said he did not need more immigrants from quote, shithole countries. and democrats are now leading an effort to officially censure the president. all of this as the president spends the weekend at his resort. >> we're going to start with abb abbey phillip in washington. the president now has gone to his beach resort but washington still reeling after these comments on thursday. >> reporter: the president's comments are deemed not safe for children after he called these african countries a slur and refurred to haiti by saying that the united states doesn't need more immigrants from countries like this. this issue has once again thrust this question of whether the president himself is racist, whether he repeatedly says racist comment fr

former ohio secretary of state and treasurer ken blackwell and served as the domestic policy adviser.en, thank you for joining us. let me start and i truly don't want to be combative here but how is this anything other than a big waste of time? >> well, it wasn't a waste of time, holly. if you remember back in the spring of last year, the president disbanded two business counsels once he figured that it was marred in conflict and had become dysfunctional and he, in fact, disbanded the business council and what do we have now? 3% clip and we have dow hitting 25,000. we have labor participation rates going in the right direction. i think what he understood, excuse me, what he understood as an entrepreneur you have a commission that is marred in controversy has, in fact, become the dysfunctional cause of the controversy, you move on. >> you are acknowledging this was dysfunctional. >> acknowledging that we have become dysfunctional only because we were tied up in five lawsuits. and, so, if, in fact, your job is to figure out what are the vulnerabilities in a system in a decentralized sys

. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. >> always good tahao have you h. it was just a week ago the president was singing his praises and now steve wynn this wealthy c y casino mogul is in middle of a scandal. >> women are saying wynn forced them to perform sex acts when they worked for him. the board of directors at wynn's resorts says it's forming a special committee to investigate these allegations. here's miguel marquez. >> reporter: preposterous says steve wynn to charges that he ever assaulted any woman. the blistering statement from wynn himself after a bombshell "wall street journal" report that a manicurist in 2005 was forced to lie on a massage table naked while she claims wynn raped her. the "journal" also reporting that wynn paid the manicurist $7.5 million in a settlement. wynn in his statement said the continued work of my ex-wife elaine wynn with whom i'm involved in a terrible and nasty lawsuit in which she is seeking a revised divorce settlement. elaine wynn's attorney told "the journal" that's just not true. wynn the latest high-profile a

. ♪ >> announcer: this is "new day weekend," with victor blackwell and christi paul. >>> this morninghawaiian officials say they are determined to make sure the false alarm that sent the entire state into panic never happens again. >> for 38 minutes, yesterday, people feared that there was a missile flying through the air and about to hit hawaii. it's because of this alert. ballistic missile threat inbound to hawaii seek immediate shelter. this is not a drill. this was a warning sent to people's phones and they showed up on their tvs and played on radio station across the state. >> officials say the panic was caused by someone hitting the wrong button. a federal investigation is going to begin to figure out how one incident to cause this many problems. >> cnn sara sidner is in hawaii and has more details for us this morning. >> reporter: that emergency alert that said there was an incoming ballistic missile to hawaii to seek shelter and that it was not a drill, did send out a sense of panic to folks here. people trying to figure out w t exactly what to do and where to go. knowing that

morgan stanley >>> this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> happy saturdaye grateful to have you with us. very smart, very stable, maybe, even a

trump doesn't have black supporters, and i am thinking about former ohio secretary of state, ken blackwellpoke with me yesterday on the air about this. >> just because you have people of color supporting a racist president or racist comments doesn't mean they are not racist, and the reality is you can always find somebody to support something. at the end of the day, there may be issues around diversity with the administration, but the idea that you have to have a black person at the table to silence racist comments, that doesn't make any sense. if the president is racist, he's racist whether or not he watches what he says is not as important as the policies he enacts. we can look at the policies, look at the muslim and look how he attacks daca, and look how he spoke about mexican immigrants. there's a range of examples that underscore the ways in which this president thinks about race in the 21st century. >> joe, as a republican, do you understand people of color being in the room or perhaps not as much in the room as you were pointing out relative to that one phaemeeting, but being in t r

. >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >> good morning to you. 7:00 is the time. glad you're up early. >>> start of day two of the government shutdown. no sign that lawmakers are any closer to reaching a deal here. >> those lawmakers are still getting paid despite the government shutdown but same cannot be said for the hundreds of thousands of government workers including military personnel who do not know when they will see their next paycheck. >> both houses are back in session in a few hours and a new deal on the table but it looks like it has strong republican support ahead of tomorrow morning's vote. the question is the democrats and whether they are on board. >> in any's abby phillips is live at the white house but we start with lauryn hill. lauren, what about the hill that is coming up for a vote and what is the chance of passing? >> reporter: both sides are still very dug in on capitol hill this morning and no one appears ready to blink. majority leader mitch mcconnell still plans to bring a three-week stopgap measure to the floor an

we have former cincinnati mayor ken blackwell on fallout from all of this, a day after a very big speech on the part of the united states. this was to be, ken, as you know a opportunity for republicans to sort of reset themselves feeling buoyed by the president's performance, maybe they could lock down some. things he wanted to get bipartisan support on like immigration, infrastructure. developments like this normally you know, stall that. they rightly should. you should think about dodging a far bigger bullet, but what do you think? will they still have these gatherings, get together, talk about strategy or what? >> well, first, neil, let me say that my prayers, my family's prayers go out to those who would be affected by this accident. we pray god's tender mercies be upon them. look, it is emotional roller coaster. last night was an emotional high. the president hit the ball out of the park. i would imagine that those who were impacted by this accident will make sure that the proper decorum is followed in terms of taking care of the victims, and then make a decision as to whether or no

this is a bipartisan report authored with robert blackwell who worked under george w. h.w. bush. given all we know and all that's been out there about our conversations about russia for last year and a half or so, why haven't more been done, not on a bipartisan basis but protecting our democracy basis? >> that is a good question. that's what we're addressing here. a year in, every passing week, we see more and more evidence that russia interfered in the election and i would argue even more importantly continues to interfere in our country. so let's forget about this debate about whether they got trump elected or not. the president doesn't want to hear anything about this. and doesn't even accept the premise because he thinks it questions his legitimacy of his election. that was a year ago. right now, as we speak, russia is still interfering in our country. through social media and paid advertising and bots and trying to fan the flames of the division in this country and that's where we're really vulnerable. that's why your question is right, why haven't we done more? w