"blackwell" stuck. >> "blackwell" stuck. >> the acting career, not so much., richard meets robert spencer, a hairdresser to the stars. the two become friends -- and more. what was it like to be a gay man, let's say, in the '50s in hollywood? >> i can only say, from what he told me, he was very guarded. >> the partners start a talent-management agency for cabaret singers. spencer does the performers' hair, while blackwell makes their gowns. unlike his acting roles, blackwell's clothes are a hit. >> what he discovered was that his dresses were getting better reviews than the performers. >> next thing you know, hollywood's leading ladies are starting to wear house of blackwell designs. >> he didn't have a style that he would put on everyone. it was very individual. >> actress and fashion model tippi hedren, best known for her role in alfred hitchcock's "the birds," remembers blackwell's early work. >> i liked the look that he gave the women. he would design for that particular person, which is very important. he endeavored to make every woman look marvelous and

i'm victor blackwell. >> thanks for being with us.isti paul. >>> president trump pulled a saturday night reversal and abruptly cancelled the plans to host g-7 summit at his resort in florida. >> republicans and democrats called this a poor choice. cnn

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back to you. >> victor blackwell, thanks for bringing us this story.he history there in little rock. thank you. >>> here's what else to watch today. >>> now to this. matt lauer is fighting back and denying sexual assault accusations in a very personal and graphic letter. and his accuser is now responding to that. we discuss all of it, next. ♪ text and data is just 30 bucks a line for 4 lines. and now you can get it on our newest, most powerful signal. no signal reaches farther or is more reliable. get 4 new lines of unlimited for just 30 bucks a line. it also has the highest growth in manufacturing jobs in the us. it's a competition for the talent. employees need more than just a paycheck. you definitely want to take advantage of all the benefits you can get. 2/3 of employees said that the workplace is an important source for personal savings and protection solutions. the workplace should be a source of financial security. keeping your people happy is what keeps your people. that's financial wellness. put your employees on a path to financial wellness

elizabeth blackwell to get a medical degree of gender power and balance and advocated for women's equal representation. it isn't only about what women will do in medicine but also the influence they will exert she lectured in 1959. today half of our medical students but another go-round is no more secure either is our health. the report found the life expectancy has risen and women are dying at younger ages than international peers. it's kind that has been worsening. in the years it is worse than men and worse than the previous generation. the 2013 study found that doctors enter adulthood greater risk for the development. in 42% of counties women's life expectancy is decreasing. fact, haven't we come a long way from where cervical cancer was the number one cause of cancer and the days when breast cancer and more awareness, haven't we conquered this and aren't we already more flexible, shouldn't women have more power now in medicine and the society at large? one can parse the international differences we know the more toxic environmental is and lack of care and health care as a driver in

. >> and i'm victor blackwell. you are in the cnn newsroom.s under federal criminal investigation. "the new york times" reports federal prosecutors are investigating if giuliani's involvement with ukraine violated federal lobbying laws. >> of course then we have the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine telling members of congress yesterday that the president and rudy giuliani wanted her removed from her job. for nearly ten hours behind closed doors, marie yovanovitch outlined how she believes president trump and rudy giulia

the, norman blackwell, long-standing chairman, due to retire in 2021.really looking to inject new blood at the top. the coo known as a confidant of ceo, and played a critical role in helping the group recover from the financial crisis. recovertill trying to , about 9% held by the u.k. government, still trading below its price. vonnie: thank you for that. imran khan was previously involved in high-profile public offerings, including snap and alibaba. he spoke with jason kelly and carol massar about what went ipo. with wework's delayed >> in one word, corporate greed. i think the key thing is whenever we give someone money, and give them your trust, it is a fundamental thing that people don't appreciate. when investors -- forget about investors, your friends or your parents or uncles give you money, they give you their trust. when you take that money, you have a responsibility. you have a responsibility to live by the trust they give you. i think often time, we saw that he corporate executives don't appreciate the trust that investors give to them. the gr

. >> and i'm boris sanchez in for victor blackwell. >>> gordon sonde lam, the u.s.ssador is one of several who sent text messages discusses the prl's goals in ukraine. this week the messages were handed over to the house by kurt volker the former u.n. ambassador for ukraine. jessica schneider has the details. >> former u.s. special envoy to ukraine kurt volker's statement to lawmakers details rudy giuliani's influence on president trump's perception of you crepe as he tried to convince the president that ukraine's new government was serious about stopping corruption. volker said he met with him in late may. the president said they tried to take me down. the president referring to a theory that it was ukraine, not russia, that interfered in the 2016 election that. was debunked. volker also released statements on how giuliani was determined to push ukraine on joe biden and his son as well as the theory i. volker texted zelensky's aide, heard from the white house, assuming president z convinces trump he will investigate, get to the bottom of what happened in 2016. he s

. >> and i'm boris sanchez, in for victor blackwell. good to see you. >> glad you're here.e pompeo did not immediate yesterday ade subpoena deadline from three separate house committees to hand over documents. on top of that, they have issued a new subpoena, this one for the white house to hand over their documents. >> meantime, there could be a second whistle-blower getting ready to file a separate formal complaint, "new york times" reporting that another intelligence official is concerned about the president's dealings with ukraine. apparently they have more direct information about that phone call with president trump and hi ukrainian counterpart. >>> also "the washington post" reporting the president's phone calls with foreign leaders are an angry-ridden set of events for his staff, who are worried he'll make promises he shouldn't keep. kristin holmes is at the white house. is there any reaction from the white house. >> reporter: we have a state from the press secretary, essential just saying that the subpoenas don't change anything. and i do want to know one thing. eve

. >> i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell this morning a u.s. military raid in northwest syria. >> sources say he detonated a suicide vest as u.s. special forces closed in. we are told his location was based on cia intelligence but we have going to have wait for dna analysis to wait and confirm that it is, indeed, al baghdadi who died. >> he has been in hiding five years and declared the isis caliphate in 2014. >> president trump is expected to make a major foreign policy announcement, according to the white house, at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. last night, he tweeted, quote, something very big has happened, unquote. we want to show you video of syrian activists show part of the raid targeting al baghdadi. cnn cannot confirm the authenticity of this video but take a look. >> you see those -- those big burst of light and the explosions you hear. there is a witness in syria who described to cnn describing several helicopters and war planes and gunfire they said about an hour last night. >> now we have this video from iraqi state tv and they say that i

. >> i'm boris sanchez in for victor blackwell.e hope you're having a great weekend and for the starting fits with people on twitter. >> that is what we are talking about right now. another weekend tweet storm is seen from president trump. over the past 24 hours he has lashed out at democrats with their impeachment inquiry, at the media. the latest target of his attacks a senator from his own party. >> in a series of tweets, the president took specific aim at mitt romney after the utah senator rebuked him on calling on ukraine and china to investigate the bidens. we should point out senators can be impeached and the president called romney a pompous ass and they are upset about a second whistleblower. he slammed the unnamed person for having second. hand information and taunting democrats to keep them coming. >> another republican senator, by the way, is criticizing the president. senator susan collins told the maine newspaper frthe president request to china was completely incidentally appropriate. we have a couple of lines here f

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. >> and i'm boris sanchez in for victor blackwell. you are in the cnn newsroom. plenty of news to get to today. >> that's an understatement. we're glad to have you here. >> thanks for watching. >> several new threads on the impeachment inquiry into president trump this morning. first of all, secretary of state mike pompeo defending the state department for ignoring the subpoena deadline to give congress documents related to ukraine. today in athens, greece, he said the department will, quote, obviously do all the things we're required to do by law. >>> also, the white house has been subpoenaed by congress to hand over their documents on ukraine. we're going to go live to the white house in just a few minutes. >> this is all happening as a second whistle-blower may be getting ready to file a separate formal complaint. "the new york times" is reporting that another intelligence official has concerns over the president's interactions with ukraine, and the paper says this official has more direct knowledge of trump's july phone call with the leader of ukraine and the

. >> and i'm martin savidge in for victor blackwell. >>> lawmakers are gathering on capitol hill forsaturday session. the deputy philip reeker is set today to testify before 11:00 a.m., the stop official to oversee europe and asia. >> if he testifies, reeker would be the latest career diplomat who complied with the house subpoena to appear, specifically going against the express wishes of the white house. >>> meantime 2 million customers in california may have no power this weekend. pg&e said the drastic move may be to prevent, quote, a drastic wildfire. the decision should be made by 8:00 a.m. local time. >>> the houston astros keeping the world series alive. they could tie it up in game four. they will take on the nationals, washington, of course, in d.c. >>> a federal judge has ruled that the impeachment inquiry being held right now in congress is legitimate and this is seen as a major victory for the democrats by a lot of people, significantly undercutting the republican argument that the process is invalid. >> that same judge also oorded the justice department to give congress g

. ♪ >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. ♪ >>> good sundayng to you. we start today with new reporting on one of the key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. "the washington post" says gordon sondland will say that president trump told him what to write denying quid pro quo. >> it is a main focus point of the impeachment process. sarah westwood is at the white house. sondland is expected to say he doesn't know when they told him exactly what to say, he doesn't know if the president was truthful with that? >> that's right. gordon sondland's highly anticipated will come this week on capitol hill. the administration is wanting him to stop testifying and democrats issued a subpoena. "the washington post" is saying he is expected to say that the text message exchange with the top diplomat in ukraine came tep direction of president trump. in that change, bill taylor, the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine, said that it would be crazy to withhold security assistance to ukraine in exchange for help with the political campaign and gordon sondland wrote bac

i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm amara walker in for christi paul.he house of commons is holding the first parliamentary session in 37 years to debate and vote on the prime minister's brexit deal but we don't know if boris johnson has the 320 votes needed to win. we will get a live report in moments. >>> now to washington where there appear to be cracks in the republican support for president trump after hearing mick mulvaney's comments about a quid pro quo with ukraine former ohio governor john kasich believes the president should be impeached. >> if you were asking me if i was sitting in the house of representatives today and you were to ask me how do i feel, should impeachment move forward and should go for a full examination and a trial in the united states senate, my vote would be yes. >> whatever might have been gray and unclear before is certainly quite clear right now. we are not supposed to use government power and prestige for political gain. >> florida representative francis rooney you just heard there went on to say he would not rule out

. >> and i'm boris sanchez in for victor blackwell. you are in the cnn newsroom.o today. >> that's an understatement. we're glad to have you here. >> thanks for watching. >> several new threads on the impeachment inquiry into president trump this morning. first of all, secretary of state mike pompeo defending the state department for ignoring the subpoena deadline to give congress documents related to ukraine. today in athens, greece, he said the department will, quote, obviously do all the things we're required to do by law. >>> also, the white house has been subpoenaed by congress to

. >> and i'm victor blackwell. you are in the cnn newsroom. we start with a report that president trump's personal lawyer rudy giuliani is under federal criminal investigation. "the new york times" reports federal prosecutors are investigating if giuliani's involvement with ukraine violated federal lobbying laws. >> of course then we have the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine telling members of congress yesterday that the president and rudy giuliani wanted her removed from her job. for nearly ten hours behind closed doors, marie yovanovitch outlined how she believes president trump and rudy giuliani smeared her reputation to ukrainian officials. >> at a rally last night in louisiana, the president again defended his call with the leader of ukraine. that call resulted in part in an impeachment inquiry. he also questioned the whistle-blower's motive. watch. >> but nobody thought i'd release the call. probably nobody thought we had a transcript. so when i heard the viciousness -- but here's the worst of all, worse than the whistle-blower. now, th

i'm victor blackwell. >> thanks for being with us.'m amara walker in for christi paul. >>> president trump pulled a saturday night reversal and abruptly cancelled the plans to host g-7 summit at his resort in florida. >> republicans and democrats called this a poor choice. cnn kristen holmes is following the latest for us. what are you learning about why the president made this choice, if anything? >> reporter: this is a very rare move for president trump. he is somebody who prides himself he didn't bow to criticism or pressure. when the acting chief of chief announced this formal summit was going to be held at doral that the president expected backlash but was going to forge ahead. here is a list of the tweets from the president. so there is a lot to unpack here. i want to start with the fact we know it was not just the media and democrats who had called on him not to do this. so many republicans said on camera on the record that this was bad optics. take a listen to senator murkowski from alaska. >> why? just why bring on the contro

critical elections affected by leading members of the council for national policy including kenneth blackwell, the secretary of state in ohio. at the same time he was representing republican interests and there were some investigations into his activities that did not reflect on him well, but this all continued and they were making gradual progress until 2008. barack obama won the election and he won it in a landslide. there were many disturbing things to them about this. barack obama, the council for national policy's worst nightmare. leave aside his identity and look only at his policies. was representing women's rights, supporting marriage equality and advancing environmental regulations energetically and this was anathema but there was also a kind of insult to it because barack obama was a very modern candidate and had one of the most advanced digital campaigns anyone had ever seen so he had a team of young technologists figuring out things about social media and they figured out how to energize certain portraits of the electorate through facebook and other social media feeds. they learne

. >> i'm boris sanchez in for victor blackwell. great to see you this morning. >> you too.ood to have you here. >>> we are following a ton of news. breaking news before we get to some of the fast moving impeachment developments. a gunman is on the run in kansas city this morning after he walked into tequila kc bar and opened fire on people there. >> police say four people are dead. five others were shot as well during this incident. the people who were wounded were transported to a local hospital. we understand that all are in stable condition right now but our affiliate kshb spoke with police a short time ago and here is what they said. >> we got the call about 1:27, i believe when the call came in of a shooting tenth and central area. showed up. there are four people inside of the bar that are deceived and -- deceased and there were five others that were transported to area hospitals. last i've heard, i believe they are all in stable condition. but that is kind of what we are working with right now. detectives are here. they are trying to look at any surveillance. we are

i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm amara walker in for christi paul. >> we start this howl with what appears to be cracks in support from president trump, at least for republicans. former governor of ohio john kasich now says the president should be impeached. this is after mick mulvaney's comments about a quid pro quo with ukraine. >> and this comes after pat rooney said he would not vote out impeaching the president. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell now believes an impeachment inquiry trial is inevitable. >> ait's said the president's personal attorney jug went around and got a visa. kristen, good morning to you. is he feels this loss of support? any indication of that? >> that's a good question. he would be hard-pressed not at to notice it. i want to break this down. this is not all about impeachment. there's a lot of stuff going on here, so be patient with me, but we are starting to see a few cracks in support for the president for the first time. we know that the republican base has really rallied around trump. i want to be clear, he still has a staunch republican base, but, again

. ♪ >> announcer: this is "new day weekend" with victor blackwell and christi paul. >>> we start thisour with the new reporting on one of the key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. "the washington post" says that gordon sondland, the u.s. ambassador to the europe union, will tell congress that president trump told him exactly what to write in the text message he sent to the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine denying quid pro quo. >> the text is a major focal point of house democrats' impeachment probe. soo sarah westwood is joining us from washington. we are should point out sondland is expected to say he doesn't fif the president was telling him the truth when he directed him to send that text message. >> reporter: the white house not commenteding specifically on what "the washington post" is reporting that gordon sondland is expected to tell lawmakers but keep in mind the trump administration did try to block sondland's system this week. we saw the white house declare war on the impeachment proceedings. sondland, according to "the washington post," is expected to tell lawmakers that in

i'm christi paul with -- >> boris sanchez in for vuk tore blackwell. good to see you, christi. >> great to have you. thank you. he's joining us here because we have a lot of updates for you. first of all, we want to start with secretary of state mike mom puello. he did not meet yesterday's subpoena deadline from three separate house committees to hand over documents rew e lated to ukraine. on top of that, they've issued a new subpoena, this for the white house to hand over their documents. >> meantime there could be a second whistle-blower getting ready to file a separate formal complaint about the president. "the new york times" reporting that another intelligence official with even more direct knowledge of the phone call between president trump and ukraine's president has concerns that trump may have committed some misdeeds while speaking with that leader. >>> and finally, the "washington post" reporting this morning that the president's phone calls with foreign leadsers are, quote, an anxiety-ridden event of promises he can't keep. kristen holmes is

critical elections affected by leading members of the council for national policy including kenneth blackwell the secretary of state in ohio. at the same time he was representing republican interests and there were some investigations into his activities that did not reflect on him well, but this all continued and they were making gradual progress until 2008. barack obama won the election and he won it in a landslide. there were many disturbing things to them about this. barack obama, the council for national policy's worst nightmare. leave aside his identity and look only at his policies. was representing women's rights, supporting marriage equality and advancing environmental regulations energetically and this was anathema but there was also a kind of insult to it because barack obama was a very modern candidate and had one of the most advanced digital campaigns anyone had ever seen so he had a team of young technologists figuring out things about social media and they figured out how to energize certain portraits of the electorate through facebook and other social media feeds. they learned

ian blackwell from the snp said he is not convinced the government will extend the brexit process ass.|j doing much, they don't seem to be agreeing on their tactics. i would really like to see the papers presented to the eu, in more detail. we have got the details of what borisjohnson is we have got the details of what boris johnson is proposing. we have got the details of what borisjohnson is proposing. what are you going to do next? we know this man is very comfortable with is going towards a no—deal brexit. he gave us five pages of yellowhammer with some of it redacted and we know there are other pages as well. members of parliament are only representatives of the public, but the public should know what no deal means and they should know what the government knows about no deal. at the same time we know borisjohnson is the master of distraction. he would like a general election, he would like a general election, he would like a general election, he would like not to be held to account by the end of this month. ourjob is to make sure he behaves like a prime ministerand to make sure