he gave it to don lemon.he media and some of his colleagues only focused on what he said about le bron. howie: le bron says who is the real dummy, someone who puts kids in cages. capri: don lemon is always resisting against donald trump every night on cnn. if the tables were turned. don lemon is giving some trump to trump. people praise donald trump for saying if he has his back up against the wall, he'll fight back. that's what don lemon did. howie: melania trump says it looks like le bron james is working to do good things. the first lady encourages that. "new york times" publisher a.g. sulzberger has an off-the-record meeting with president trump. and then sulzberger pushes back. the fact that he had this meeting does it suggest he cares about the opinion of his hometown newspaper? gillian: the more important thing with this meeting is it underscores what i love to talk. with regard to foreign policy. he believes fervently in the power of his interpersonal skills. if he can just get these people face to fa

he went after lebron james and don lemon because of an interview about an s.t.e.m.s has founded in a community in need, an at-risk community in his hometown of cleveland. neither lebron james nor don lemon started life with a million bucks from their daddy. neither don lemon nor lebron james started life because their daddy got them dressed. these are guys that came out of poverty, that did it on their own, that worked hard as hell, that are smart, that don't lie to the american people on a daily basis and are finding ways to make america great today and do things to contribute to the community they're a part of. i have seen don lemon, who is a friend of mine, do so much for charity work, for philanthropy. lebron james is another one. >> no doubt they are successful people. you bring up so many good points about the character of don, of lebron james, who i admire, i don't know him personally, but trump supporters i've seen on twitter arguing that this isn't about race, he's an equal opportunity attacker, he doesn't just attack people of color. he called steve bannon

lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do. in that cnn interview, james was asked if he thinks the president uses african-american athletes to distract people. >> whenever there is something, he's in trouble, he can't wiggle out of something, he'll bring up the national anthem thing and kneeling or standing. do you think he uses black athletes as a scapegoat? >> at times, at times, and more often than not. i believe he uses anything that is popular to try to negate people from thinking about the positive things that they can actually be doing. >> well, with us now from birmingham, england, is scott lucas, he teaches international politics at the university of birmingham. thank you for being with us. we're going to talk about lebron james in a moment. i want to start with the russia investigation with you. sources close to the white house telling cnn the president is growing concerned the investigation is creeping closer to his son and perhaps his son-in-law jared kushner and p

seriously. >> so maxine waters, don lemon, lebron james.t african american. in the last 24 hours all have been attacked the same way. the president saying each lacks intelligence. your thoughts. >> that's what's disturbing and ultimately, in my estimation racist about the remarks monopoly it's not just that he disagree would people or even that he's rude or even unconventional like being on twitter at midnight. it's the fact when you come after maxine waters, don lemon, you do it in a way that speaks to their intelligence sw there's a long history of people questioning black peoples intelligence sw their capacity to be in the office. judge cureio, the mexican-american judge didn't have the upbability to be ubswr. so there's a long history of him speaking to people's intelligence and intellectual ability sw capacity and to throw in that she's a real beauty. you add that to the comments he made in the whole attacking her looks sw the face lift thing. it was going town the list. rosie o'donnell. it's racism, misogyny sw all mixed into one pers

stay away from attacking lebron james and don lemon. it's a bad move. >> anthony -- >> might be good for don for his ratings. i don't know. >> for another conversation. anthony and joe thank you for being here. >> thanks. >>> coming up, what this outlandish conspiracy theory is really all about. i have a theory. i'll tell you right after the break. in the u.s. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage your siding. and that's very different than living on park ave in sheboygan, wisconsin, where ice dams could cause water damage. but no matter what park you live on, one of 10,000 local allstate agents knows yours. now that you know the truth, are you in good hands? so what do you look for in a vehicle? dependability is top on my list. well then, here's some vehicles that deliver on that. that's our truck! they're our cars! chevy's the only brand to have earned j.d. power dependability awards

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ana, this started with an interview that lebron james did with don lemon that aired on cnn. the interview centered on james' philanthropy, the i promise school that opened in akron, helping underprivileged youth. there was a portion of the interview where don our colleague asked lebron james about president trump. lebron james essentially said he believed that trump uses sports to distract and divide people. the president clearly taking exception to that late last night, tweeting insulting the intelligence of the former finals mvp. today, a very surprising statement from the first lady through her pokes woman stephanie grish am here is the statement now. she writes quote it looks like lebron james is working to do good things on behalf of our next generation and just as she always has, the first lady encouraging everyone to have an open dialogue about issues facing children today. as you know, mrs. trump has traveled the country and world talking to children about their well being, healthy living and the importance of responsible online behavior with her be best initiative. h

lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do. i like mike. that was a reference to michael jordan, who said through his spokesman afterwards that he supported lebron james and the amazing job he is doing for his community. joining me are professor cornel west of harvard and princeton and cnn political commentator paris denard, former black outreach for president george w. bush. professor, i'm wondering what you make of this which is just the latest example of the president criticizing a well-known african american person on intelligence. >> well, i think we need to keep the focus where it belongs because it's clear that president trump doesn't focus on what he ought to. the focus is on first gloria marie james, a mother, a magnificent black woman raise as magnificent son and becomes one of the greatest athletes in the history of modern times who then use his greatness to serve others. 230 very precious students of

don lemon is standsing don lemon is standing by. i mean, look, you can't make it up.epped up. here's what bothers me. he spent so much time taking a sledgehammer to the fbi that now, when they say we have no proof it was the chinese, what do people think? >> ah, well, the hardcore supporters are going to think what the president says. most people know better in this country. they know better. they believe our intelligence agencies. here's this is what -- this is what really flummoxed me all the time is the president has access to the best intelligence in the world and people around him. he did the same thing last week with the white farmers, you see that? the white farmers in south africa. totally wrong, totally bogus story. wiretapped trump tower, totally bogus. it's conspiracy theories that he sees on the trump channel and he pushes it out to his base and it becomes this echo chamber of people who believe it. but if you actually read and you see the fact checks and you. >> noe what's going on, there's no evidence which means it didn't happen. >> don, i literally hav

the other part of it is that he sort of, i guess, hate watches don lemon and he has attacked don lemonn the past. that's part of it. the other part and more pernicious part is that he can't stand the fact that there is an african american who is probably as famous if not more famous, more highly regarded than he is doing something that is actually real and pertinent in the lives of his community. there is no denying that what lebron james did last week was extraordinary. not just opening a school for 240 at risk youth. it's what that school -- what that school does. free tuition. free uniforms. transportation if you live within two miles. job placement programs for the parents of these children. this is the sort of wholistic approach that a functioning u.s. government would be nurturing and fostering, would be celebrating. instead, we have the president of the united states taking to twitter rage tweeting against a private citizen doing good. >> but this is the exact kind of thing ivanka trump should be all over and loving. rick, i want you to help me. you're a republican strategist he

whethers the omarosa, lebron james, nfl players, whether it's don lemon. it is, indeed, a pattern. >> yeah, it is a pattern. she denied it. she said -- >> she said it wasn't about race. >> she said it wasn't about race. he fights back when he's attacked. we've heard all that before. but the one thing that struck me was that i think the president got caught in a little lie here. because she, sarah sanders said, you know, he had a conversation with john kelly. kelly says, you know, there is a problem here. the president knew it was a real possibility that kelly was going to let omarosa go. then remember we heard the audio of the conversation with the president and omarosa saying he didn't know anything about it. >> right. >> i don't like to hear that he said. of course, he knew. he had had a conversation with john kelly about it. sarah sanders just told us. so there you are. one more lie. >> we are right, good to have you back today, what stood out to you in all of this? >> so, i think in looking at this, we have to think, omarosa knows exactly what she's do

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back to you, don lemon.earing what ryan said about respect and the impact that song had and aretha franklin getting her respect, what does she mean and her history and her fight for civil rights and all she has done for black americans mean to everyone in this country today in the context of what they nation is going through right now? >> let's see how i put this in words. i think this is really important to state, especially from the generation that aretha comes from, which is a generation of my mother and my parents. a generation of people who had to walk to school. my mom would have to walk to school while buses to the white schools would pass them. it would be cold and raining. my mother would have to enter through the back of a store or restaurant or sit at a counter that was deemed colored or go to colored bathrooms. it's only one generation ago from me. this was in the 1940s, '50s and '60s. to have someone with the stature of an aretha franklin, with the dignity of an aretha franklin to come out of ji

all he said, he tweets don lemon made lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do. >> anderson, you canss over the facts of what lebron james actually said about the president, which was not positive. i don't understand why he was even talking about president trump in this interview, about his wonderful school. >> because we he was asked a question about him. >> exactly. >> and i don't understand why in past tweets he has gone on the attack about president trump. >> because president trump has said -- has said. >> as a child, then you can say that lebron james is acting like a child because he is saying these things that are petty, that are childish about the president of the united states. so it goes both ways or it doesn't. >> no, no, no, no, no. lebron was telling the truth. it was donald trump who called the black athletes sons of bitches. it was donald trump who mistreated stephen curry and others who hasn't planned on going to the white house. brother paris, let's be honest, it's trump who is using this kind of vicious language. >> vicious language? so if that's vicious -- >> that

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yeah. >> don lemon goes and interviews lebron in cleveland, and they air, they reair the interview ond listen, i don't know if he was watching or not, but the president tweeted, lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do. i like mike. all right? i want to point out don lemon's response, who is the real dummy, a man who puts kids in school or one who puts kids in cages? that's the response. what makes the president feel like he can doing this and specifically attacking levels of intelligence? >> it's absurd. it's like our parents told many of us, when someone is bullying or attacking you it often says more about them than it says about you. this is coming from a place of weakness, insecurity, inferiority. the president is kt aing and behaving -- i'm not saying he is, but he is behaving like a small man who can't respond on substance so he responds with insults and attacks. again it is a bigger problem because he is moving the boundaries of debate removing the guardrails telling americans you can say a

i'm don lemon. and this is day that tells you pretty much everything you need to know about our president, okay? this is how president trump began his day. tweeting -- of course, tweeting, right? about omarosa manigault-newman, former sucy former assistant to the president and not at all coincidently a former reality show tv star on donald trump's apprentice. she was fired from the white house from her job last december and of course is now plugging a book. the president calls her whacky, vicious, not smart, nasty. so why did he hire her, and why did he keep her in the white house for nearly a year? simple as the president says, quote, she only said great things about me. so there you have it. the secret to success in the trump white house for anybody who hadn't already guessed is to praise the president. contrast that to president trump's own behavior just a few hours later at the signing ceremony at fort drum for a national defense authorization act. he couldn't even bring himself to call the bill

earlier james spoke with don lemon about a school for at risk children he is opening in akron.rt. >> he is using sports to divide us. sports has never been something that divides. it's always something that brings people together. >> don lemon tweeted who is the real dummy? a man who puts kids in classrooms or puts kids in cages? he added #be best, a reference to the 50 late's anti-bullying campaign. she was speaking out, praising james saying it looks like lebron james is looking to do good things on behalf of our next generation and that she would be open to visiting the i promise school in akron. >> venezuela's president accused people in ma'am of trying to kill him. soldiers scattered when drones carrying explosives detonated while he was giving a speech. the blast injured several people, but maduro unharmed. >> some parents looking to refill their epipen prescriptions before school starts are discovering it's in short supply. one mother in dallas said she was forced to pay $700 for a brand name version that her insurance does not cover. a nationwide shortage was first repo

i'm don lemon. what does it say about this president that his own press sey said she cannot guarantee there is not a -- >> can you guarantee they will never hear donald trump utter the n word in any context? >> i can't guarantee anything. >> so what does it say that the smarter move is for the president's spokesperson to leave open the possibility that such a tape exists rather than to deny it and say of course, there is no such tape. that's impossible. it appears members of the trump campaign took rumors of such a tape so seriously that they questioned candidate trump about it. the conversation secretly recorded by omarosa. >> i'm trying to figure out the context it was used in to try to figure out a way to spin it. >> i said, well, sir, can you think of any time this might have happened? he said no. >> that's not true. >> he goes how do you think i should handle it? i told him what you just said. >> he's embarrassed. >> the president of the united states went on tweeting when yes give a crazed low

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"cnn tonight" with don lemon starts right now. >> enlisting the truth. that's what i'm going to do at the very top of this show. so i want the audience to bear with me. what you were talking about, that term, chain migration used as a negative, making people think you can just bring everybody in. it's called family reunification is what it is. i think the hypocrisy of the president and the administration to speak horribly about family reunification when the first lady did the same thing. really unbelievable. >> two of his wives. >> yeah. >> two of the three came into the country this way, visas he wants to limit. people he says are unworthy. his own in-laws. we grew up in the same place, don. it's all immigrants. >> unbelievable. enlisting the truth. enlisting the truth. thank you, my friend. we're going to do that. happy birthday. >> thanks, bud. >> this is "cnn tonight." >> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com for a man who claims he wants the russia investigation to go away, this president can't stop talking abou

don lemon, you're here in washington.sident had that disgusting tweet the other day attacking you and lebron james. just walk us through how you reacted when you saw that and what is happened since? >> i didn't really -- i don't follow the president any more on twitter because it's too much and i find his tweets to be outrageous and i find them to be most of the time beneath the dignity of the office. i think that it's tough to sit here on television now and criticize the president. i think that we have more respect for the office than he does, so i didn't really know that he tweeted about me until my phone -- until people started saying, are you okay? oh, my gosh. i can't believe he's doing that and my response was, what are you talking about? and then they sent me a copy of what the president said about me and so i just thought about it for a little while and woke up the next morning and tweeted out what i said. who is -- who's the real dummy? is it someone who puts kids in classrooms as lebron james or someone who puts

lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do. i like mike. >> something that we're not used to as a president to go off on social media. >> look at the president himself. i really don't think he's any smarter than who he's talking about. >> reporter: others say it's racial. the president questioning the intelligence of two african-american men in one tweet. >> it's not a debate at this point. >> he called for the prior president's birth certificate, i want to see his iq test. >> reporter: the controversial the 22 came just hours before air force one touched down in lebron james' home state, ohio, where the president is stopping for gop candidates. >> for the senate we have to get jim. we just have to get him in. because senator brown is not going to vote for our judge. >> reporter: the president was back on twitter tonight, this time taking aim at democratic opponents instead of professional athletes. we're hearing the first lady herself is also not a fan of the president's messa

lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon.o puts kids in classrooms or one who puts kids in cages. #be best, of course refers to first lady's campaign for better character. what was the point you want people to take from this? >> who's the real dummy? i want people to take the truth from this. who's the real dummy. lebron james is -- okay, chris, listen, you're sitting at home, watching the report -- he's not even at home in bedminster. he's watching a report on someone who happens to be black and they're doing something really great for their community and not only changing kids lives but their families as well, changing the trajectories of their future and you call me dumb and him dumb by default. if you can't say anything good don't say anything at all. why did he feel the need? i was aiming to do exactly what i said there, who is the real dummy? somebody who sits down and sees this or someone who's putting kids in classrooms. >> you point out material misstatements and lies by the president and his administration and he ha

james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon.

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why talk about lebron james or our own don lemon? the president does, you know, get involved in a lot of things. >> it would be much better if he left it. >> he could have an opportunity to speak if he really wants to and his attorneys are advising against the president being interviewed by bob mueller but apparently they are still working on questions of parameters, et cetera. do you see, shan, that the president just simply cannot resist, even if his attorneys say don't do it, he can't resist but talk about it face-to-face with bob mueller. >> i think he definitely has a discipline problem in terms of message and i think that's why his lawyers are so worried about him sitting down with mueller. >> why is he so insistent that he would want to. >> i think that's a spin-type issue and they want to set the stage for if mueller, who does not want to litigate all the way to the supreme court, can he subpoena the president or not, if they end up doing the report without trump's input, i think that's great for trump, because he can say, yo

he used the bully bull ppulpit bully. >> you haveebron james and don lemon. high profile african-american men. he has a history of using almost race as a wedge issue. talk about thef implications that. he is just unapologetic about it. it is frustrating to so many people. >> exactly. interestingly, a poll out a month ago showed half o the country asked if the president was racist. said yes. we know the president likes to talk about the culture wars. ialked to republican strategists across the country and they say the culture war rallies up the support of the base theneed in the tough conteco contes contests. >> this is strategic. >> yes. it can ao be larizing. kelly mentioned the district in ohio. this shouldn't be a close race. s to the it is spe political dynamic in the couple try. w in the country. >> it to switch to the other issue. rudy giuliani says it could be cided in the next ten days whether donald trump will sit down with robert mueller. trump is saying i want to talk to ahem go against legal counsel advice. lawyers are saying not so fast. >> most

call or go on line today. >>> don lemon is going to join me right now.s you know "cnn tonight" follows "cuomo primetime" and as you all know don and i are friends. but objectively d. lemon you have a following and fans for a ren. and it ain't because they think you're dumb. here's what the president tweeted. lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart which isn't easy to do. i like mike. who's the real dummy? a man who puts kids in classrooms or one who puts kids in cages. #be best, of course refers to first lady's campaign for better character. what was the point you want people to take from this? >> who's the real dummy? i want people to take the truth from this. who's the real dummy. lebron james is -- okay, chris, listen, you're sitting at home, watching the report -- he's not even at home in bedminster. he's watching a report on someone who happens to be black and they're doing something really great for their community and not only changing kids lives but their families as well, changing

i'm don lemon. huge breaking news out of florida. a big upset in the democratic primary for governor. joining me now to discuss all of this is tom foreman. it's a big upset. what happened? as chris was saying he played the population centers well. nobody thought that gillum could do this. now here we are. >> what we have done here is watched both parties tonight decimate the political center. it's either left or it's right. on this side, andrew gillum here, he edged out. look how close that vote is by comparison. i want you to look where he won. we talked about the population centers. the area where you see that color associated with his win. tallahassee, look at all of those. look where hillary clinton won in 2016. those will all fall into the same slots that he won except for this one here near pensacola. the question is can he get enough support beyond that in the general election because with that close devoid we showed you, if you look at the close divide between these two votes, look at it compared to the republican vote where

i'm don lemon. the white house is reeling in the wake of what may have been the worst day of the trump presidency so far. ok? former trump campaign chairman manfort in jail awaiting sentencing on eight counts of financial crimes that could put him behind bars for the rest of his life. the new york times reported that the president and rudy guiliani have discussed the fallout from a pardon. it comes as michael coen, trump's former fixer and keeper of secrets is out on a half million dollars bond after his charges, over breaking campaign finance laws. keep that in mine. it's important. the president is desperately trying to spin that. what he says is absolute nonsense. i want you to listen to how he answered when he was asked today if he knew about the payments spent to silence karen mcgoogleal and stormy damages. >> later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, what he did and they weren't taken out of campaign finance. that's a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign? they didn

this is cnn tonight and i'm don lemon. the strange and challenging times that we live in, it feels like one word is lost and forgotten. that word is statesman. tonight we have lost a true statesman with the death of john mccain. he is the embodiment of a true leader and he is mournedas a hero and a patriot by the senate and house colleagues on both sides of the aisle. and by his fellow americans, of course. after learning he had cancer, mccain stood on that senate floor, a proud servant of his country and i want to play some of his words which are more important now than ever. >> my service here is the most important job i have had in my life. i am so grateful. so grateful to the people of arizona for the privilege, for the honor of serving here and the opportunities it gives me to play a small role in the history of the country that i love. our system doesn't depend on our nobility. it accounts for our imperfections and gives us an order to our individual strivings that helped make ours the most powerful and prosperous so

i'm don lemon. a big show ahead. not only is one of the president's long time friends flipping on him. he had a secret safe full of evidence. donald trump's friend's name is david pecker. david pecker is a publisher of "the national inquirer," granted immunity by the feds. sources tell cnn that trump knew about the payments he knew about donald trump's hush money payments to silence women who said they had sexual encounters with trump. a friend of the president is telling "vanity fair," and i quote, holy sh-- and you can guess the rest. this is more bad news for this white house. the bare knuckle tabloid reportedly kept a safe full of documents on hush money payments and stories it killed, that's according to the associated press. so just days after trump's former fixer and keeper of secrets michael cohen flipped on him, we're learning that david pecker has flipped too. can you imagine what's going through the president's mind right now? is it any wonder the president has flipping on his mind when he sat down with fo

"cnn tonight" with don lemon starts right now. >> maybe the parade has bone spurs. >> ooh. one, d-lemon? >> okay. i'm going to get you now. remember you were asking me about my background? >> yeah. oh, that's strong. what's in that, cuckoo juice? >> let's get after it. wait a minute. >> see you later. >> let's get after it. >> i'm not anything like that. >> i know. >> you don't need glasses, by the way. >> okay. well, these are prescription. >> sure. >> tell my eye doctor that. >> i will. bye. >> thanks, chris. have a great weekend. this is "cnn tonight," don lemon. we have breaking news in the russian investigation. robert mueller is recommending a sentence of up to six months in jail for former trump campaign staffer george papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi.

"lebron james was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, don lemon. he made lebron look smart, which isn't easy to do." the president added, "i like mike!" an apparent reference to michael jordan. earlier this week, lebron james spoke with cnn's don lemon about a school for at-risk kids he's opening in his hometown of akron. in the interview, james accused the president of using sports to drive people apart. >> he's kind of used sport to kind of divide us. and that's something that i can't relate to. sports has never been something that divided people. it's always been something that brings someone together. >> reporter: during the trump presidency, no nba championship team has celebrated at the white house. this year, the president said james' cavaliers and steph curry's golden state warriors weren't even asked. >> i didn't invite them no, i didn't invite lebron james, and i didn't invite steph curry. >> reporter: the president also rescinded an invitation to the warriors in 2017 after curry said this. >> i don't want to go. that's really it. >> repo

i'm don lemon. president trump admitting tonight he is worried if he talks to robert mueller under oath what he says could be used to bring perjury charges against him. fearing it mueller's team could compare his statements with former fbi director james comey and any discrepancies could be a perjury trap. well, the president is say, quote, even if i am telling the truth that makes me a liar. that's no good. sounds an awful like what the president's attorney rudy giuliani said as well. >> and when you tell me that, you know, he should testify because he's going to tell the truth, that he shouldn't worry, that's so silly because it's somebody's version of the truth, not the truth. he didn't have conversation about -- >> truth is truth. >> no, it isn't truth. truth isn't truth. >> then giuliani later tried and failed to cleanup the mess of his own making claiming sometimes further inquiry can reveal the truth. other times it doesn't. this is far from the first time the president's attorney has tried t

. >> how do you explain the tweet about lebron james and don lemon? >> that's right!watched that interview -- >> i mean, the president has done this before, he's called people of color, he's called them ignorant, he's called them dumb. >> he's called white people that, too. >> he said lebron james is more stupid than don lemon. >> he goes after don lemon and lebron james and mackshine waxi how do you explain that. >> when you call someone's intellect into question, it has nothing to do with race. >> i work with hispanic evangelicals who are pro-life. hispanics care about god, family, jobs, education. top things for us. president trump is delivering on those things so all this other rhetoric of oh he tweeted this. i don't care. >> you don't care? >> i care about god, family, jobs and education. >> you made a great point about that. so as somebody who is driven by her faith and cares about god and family. do any of the personal peccadillos give you pause? the "playboy" model who was paid off, the payments to stormy daniels, the affairs, does any of that give you pause?

i want you to tell don lemon and jim acosta i think they are american heroes.t some of that but then a got a lot of pushback on the other side. but i've been riding for about 20 years and bikers i found are some of the biggest hearted warmest welcoming people. hugely charitable and personalable, their bark is worth than the bike and rough exterior and their politics -- this is not a new phenomenon, cher got booed off the stage at the buffalo chip in 2000 when she said she got an invitation to meet with president bill clinton. so sarah palin and kid rock and leonard skin ard are here this week but this president has figured out to rally the base behind him. >> so interesting to get a window into how everything operates there. very cool. great to hear from those folks who you talked to. thanks so much for the reporting. >> good to see you, friends. >> so remember president trump's claim that millions of people voted illegally in 2016 election? we have a cnn reality check about what's happened since then. >> that was a great piece. >> it was good. add the activia

i'm don lemon. on that note, what president trump what he did today is straight out of a dictator's playbook. revoking the security clearance of former cia chief john brennan is nothing but a blatant attempt to silence a critic. to take away his right to free speech. to purge him. and the reason this white house gave is beyond belief. >> mr. brennan has recently leveraged his status as a former high-ranking official with access to highly sensitive information to make a series of unfounded and outrageous allegations, wild outbursts on the internet and television about this administration. mr. brennan's lying and recent conduct, characterized by increasingly frenzy commentary, is wholly inconsistent with access to the nation's most closely held secrets and fa facilities, the very aim of our adversaries, to sow division and chaos. >> lying? increasingly frenzied commentary? let that settle in, think about that for a minute. this white house is actually attempting to claim, with a straight face, that ly

>> i think he has it out for don lemon with critical coverage coming to the race debate. conversations about that that are really important conversations and, you know, that interview took place on a monday night and stewed about it until late friday night. >> rebroadcast it on friday. >> it's important to point out that don and lebron were talking about and one point i didn't know how lebron james had racial slurs spray painted on his house and be in a position of achievement and brought down with people and underscores everything that the president said about it. >> racial reconciliation. first experience with white people through sports. >> let's hope it's a honey do list of civility. may have worked in ohio. >>> police are calling this one of the most violent weekends in years. 66 shot, 12 killed in 1 city in a matter of a few hours. live with a look at what might have sparked all the violence in chicago. stay with us. nice tells you what you want to hear. but kind is honest. this bar's made with delicious cranberries and almonds. so, guess what? we call it cranberry

this is "cnn tonight," i am don lemon. what does it say about this president that his own press secretary said she cannot guarantee that there isn't a tape of donald trump using the n-word? >> can you stand at the podium and guarantee the american people they'll never hear donald trump utter the n-word on a recording in any context? >> i can't guarantee anything. >> so, what us the it say that the smarter move is for the president's spokesperson to leave open the possibility that such a tape exists, rather than to deny it and say, of course, there is no such tape. that's impossible. it appears members of the trump campaign took rumors of such a tape, recorded while trump was working on "the apprentice" so seriously that they questioned then-candidate trump about it. their conversation secretly recorded by former trump aide omarosa manigault newman. >> i'm trying to figure out the context it was used in to help us maybe try to figure out a way to spin it. >> i said, well, sir, can you think of any time this might have happe

my colleague and friend, don lemon, interviewed lebron james, as you saw extensively on this show last that lebron has built and paid for in akron, ohio. and the incredible work being done for these kids. in that interview, james said the president was trying to use force to divide the country. now president trump insulted the intelligence of both lebron james and of don lemon in a tweet on friday. but the first lady jumped to the nba star's defense, and praised the work that he is doing for children. kate bennett joins me now. kate, you cover the first lady. like no one else does. and you have been on this program with me time and time again, talking about how she is her own woman, she is independent, and she will speak out on issues that are important to her. and educating underprivileged children is important to her. >> reporter: yeah, poppy. i don't know if this was so much a snub of her husband as just a reiteration that she has opinions and she has thoughts and she's going to say them and express them, no matter what the optics might be in terms of whether people see it as snubbi

i'm don lemon. for a man who claims he wants the russia voice to go away, this president can't stop talking about it. from his working vacation in new jersey, he tweeted an angry message with an ominous final same p statement. i don't usually like to do too much with these tweets but this is note bl fable for the sheer of lies packed into it. bear with me. i'm going to take my time here. take a look at this. this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt run by people who are totally corrupt and/oar crooked. phony dossier. fisa disgrace. so many lying and dishonest people already fired. 17 angry dems. stay tuned. the tweets riddled with lies, inaccuracies, distortions and smears. so we're going to correct the record right here. this is enlisting the truth. so, and it gets exhausting, by the way. number one, robert mueller's russia investigation is not a rigged witch hunt. it has resulted in 191 charges, 5 guilty pleas, and a trial that is going on as we speak involving the former head of the trump c