sometimes he doesn't. >> he says you be not annoying. >> tucker: you can talk to me don lemon says becausehere is not a lot of us out there. here is the translation. us is the people oppressed the any jussie smollett has been oppressed. lemon is letting you know he is in k that group too. yes is he a highlyis paid news anchor w.a his own tv show yet like jussie smollett don lemon is a wholly victim. mad scramble over who is the victim here? who is the victim? what smollett did is not a victimless crime. no such thing as that entire group of people did get slandered byby this hoax. regular people from outside the coastal cities. people with the wrong political beliefs and skin color. smollett and his many defenders savagely attacked these people and not apologizing for doing it instead they are telling you and hearing it everywhere. the real losers are authentic victims who won't be believed the next time. okay. that's fine. what about the innocent americans they just poured venom on for two weeks because it matched some bigoted stereotypes they had been b. america? what about them? no ment

i'm don lemon. robert mueller's investigation is about to end, two years after it began. william barr is about to make that announcement early next week and to receive a report on the special counsel's findings. sources are also saying the attorney general plans to submit a summary of the report to congress soon after the investigation ends. but exactly what information he'll send to capitol hill is unclear. in his confirmation hearings, bill barr testified he would be as transparent as possible with congress and the american public, but in his words, "consistent with the rules and the law." i want to get right to it now. shimon prokupecz is here. you said it's going to wrap up soon. what do we know about the timing and what we may or may not see? >> you make a good point that current attorney general william barr says he will stick to the regulations of the department of

. >> sean: would make make a buc, fake news cnn's don lemon takin. i'll respond coming up next.al also, we'll talk with a conservative activism assaulted on uc berkeley's campus earlier today, caught on tape. what is the background, what is a history, what is the behind-the-scenes? will ask all the right questions is straight ahead. ♪ when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/save and get 2 months free. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sall of you. how you live, what you love. that's what inspired us to create america's most advanced internet. internet that puts you in charge. that protects what's im

i'm don lemon. man, oh, man do we have a lot of stories. from the many, many investigations swirling around this president to the bezos bombshell and what he says was an attempt by the "national enquirer" to extort him. and why jeff bezos believes that the relationship between the enquirer, the white house, and the kingdom of saudi arabia could be at the root of this story. it's very interesting. so we've got a lot more on that in just a moment. so stay tuned. but if it's true that the mueller investigation is getting closer to wrapping up and signs seem to be pointing that way, that doesn't mean the president's worries about investigations are over. from from it. let me explain. there are so many investigations. so many triggers for a presidential meltdown. there's the acting attorney general, matt whitaker, now agreeing to testify, agreeing to do it tomorrow before the house judiciary committee. that is after a back and forth battle with the chairman, jerry nadler, who threatened to subpoena whita

i'm don lemon. here is our breaking news.awyers are trying to get him a lighter sentence tonight in d.c. district court. they argue that trump's former campaign chairman wouldn't have been prosecuted as harshly for his crimes if robert mueller hadn't been aponted special counsel. manafort's team is also pointing out in their sentencing memo that mueller hasn't charged him with any illegal coordination with russian officials in 2016. also tonight the president's former fixer, michael cohen, just hours away from the first of three days of testimony on capitol hill. after years of loyalty to trump cohen is now cooperating with mueller after being sentenced to three years in prison for crimes including some that according to pros

beyond fast. >> sean: fake news cnn's don lemon he claims to be a so-called journalist. he's not. him in person. he's actually a nice guy. back in january, in the immediate aftermath of smollett's hate crime organization, lemon rushed to support the actor. in fact, the cnn host told entertainment tonight that he texted smollett every day following incident. now that the actual facts are coming in, don's trying to spin the story. even blamed me like i'm responsible. i'm apparently running the world and everything else. take a look. >> this is playing out every single moment in cable news. sean hannity's going to eat jussie smollett's lunch every single lunch. the president of the united states is going to eat his lunch. who does the president of the united states watch every night? >> cable news. >> cable news. >> sean: i purposely stayed away from the story to wait for more facts to come in. my sources in chicago almost instantly were warning me be careful or this story. don, everyone knows you hate trump. part of the hate trump media. you pretend to be objective. you're not. why d

i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us.r developments in the russia investigation tonight. so we're digging deep into the this whole hour and we're going to devoted it to all things russia. president trump's long time political ally dirty trickster appeared in washington for a hearing. the no nonsense judge saying she's considering a gag order and telling stone that his case is a criminal proceeding, not a public relations campaign. warning him not to approach his case as if he's on tour for a

i'm don lemon. this is breaking news. negotiators are reaching an agreement in principle they say to avoid another government shutdown. that is a big deal. these are just some of the details that we're hearing. of course we're going to see if this all bears out. the agreement calls for $1.75 billion for physical barriers, physical barriers on the border, specifically, though -- don't say wall. it says bollard fencing. but keep that $1.735 billion in your head. it also calls for 55 miles of new barrier, including in the rio grande valley, and a limit on funding for immigration and customs enforcement detention beds. money for 40,520 beds, okay? so if i.c.e. can find more money, they can use it for more beds. but the big question in all of this, the big question is of course will the president sign on? is he going to allow this? is he going to sign it? we're going to have more on that in just a moment. >>> this is all happening as the president is on the border tonight as a matter of fact. we're keeping a close eye on his r

i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. the russia investigation tonight. so we're digging deep into the this whole hour and we're going to devoted it t

tonight klobuchar will take part in a cnn town hall moderated by don lemon.ne malveaux is live in manchasest are with more. what's going on? >> there's a lot of excitement here. you see the stage just behind me. that's where don lemon will be talking to amy klobuchar but also in this small intimate setting, she'll be hearing and getting questioned fielded from students, faculty, from democratdemocra democratic activists. seeing her up close the last few weeks, get a real impression of how she'll respond. if you ask her about immigration reform, she loves to tell stories about her grandfather who went to ellis island and was rejected and later accepted u.s. citizenship two weeks before world war ii and how that meant the world to her. if you ask her about everybody participating in this democracy, she'll talk about her husband john growing up with five siblings, all six of them in a trailer and piling into a station wagon and having to count off each one of those kids so they didn't leave anybody behind. that everybody has to be included. those are the kinds o

i'm don lemon. thank you so much for tuning. we have new revelations about the lengths president trump reportedly went to, trying to stop one of the investigations threatening his presidency. here's what "the new york times" is reporting. that he called then-acting attorney general matthew whitaker, the man he hand picked for the job, by the way. the man whose main qualifications seemed to be his criticism of the mueller investigation. he called whitaker late last year to ask whether a trump supporter could take charge of the michael cohen investigation in the southern district of new york. the president denies it. >> did you ask acting attorney general matthew whitaker to change the leadership of the investigation into your former personal attorney, michael cohen? >> no, not at all. >> took him a minute to answer, didn't it? so let's face it. it's no coincidence that the president reportedly wanted to try to put jeffrey berman in charge of the southern district of new york, of the investigation of hush money payments during the

i am don lemon. history made today.ump's fixer and former attorney gave explosive testimonies before the house oversight committee, slamming the president as a conman and accusing him of engaging in activities before and after the election. republicans doubling down the attack and reminded him that he's a convicted felon who's soon beginning his prison term for lying to congress. here is some big moments of cohen testimo cohen's testimony. >> i am ashamed. because i know what mr. trump is. he's a racist, he's a conman, he's a cheat. >> let me make sure i understand. donald trump wrote you a check out of

i'm don lemon. we have big news to get to on the mueller investigation tonight involving three key players on team trump. first up, we have paul manafort to tell you about. prosecutors want the former trump campaign chairman to get up to 24 1/2 years behind bars for financial crimes, which would amount to a life sentence for a man who is nearly 70, not in great health. they laid out just how serious his crimes were, saying, quote, manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law. let's not forget he's still facing a separate case in d.c. so that's not the end of it. that has prosecutors say in another court filing they have evidence of trump ally and dirty trickster roger stone communicating directly with wikileaks during the campaign. and there's more. we've learned today that mueller's team has interviewed white house press secretary sarah sanders. hopefully she told them the truth because that's not exactly her forte lately, her style. and they're likely to have asked questions a

i'm don lemon.'s on his way to vietnam right now, but the president can't leave his troubles behind him at home, and make no mistake about this, this will be a week of one big deal after another and many investigations swirling around this president. tonight paul manafort's legal team is attempting to argue for a lighter sentence for the crimes he admitted to in d.c. district court. which may be a tough sell. because let me just remind you of what prosecutors said about the former trump campaign chairman in their massive 800-page filing. okay? they said manafort, quote, repeatedly and knowingly broke the law, they said. his criminal actions were bold, it reads. and he lied to, quote, get this, okay? he lied, to quote, tax preparers, book keepers, banks, the treasury department, the department of justice, national security division, the fbi, the special counsel's office, the grand jury, his own legal counsel, members of congress and members of the executive branch. let's go back through that. rewrite

i'm don lemon. so, you know, i'll bet there are a lot of politicians tonight hoping that no one looks at my yearbook. no one looks at their yearbooks. and the thing is none of this is surprising, and it's probably not surprising that so many politicians are going straight to the trump playbook. fight back, and you can survive anything. even a racist blackface scandal. you don't have to have grown up in the south like i did to know that racism runs very deep in this country. it has from the very beginning. it's a third rail, right? the american society. so it's not surprising that the governor of virginia is refusing to resign. it's not surprising that he is hiring a crisis communicator tonight, something he maybe should have done a long time ago. it's not surprising that he is meeting with prominent black leaders while ignoring calls from just about every top democrat to step down. it's not surprising that he wants to put the whole thing behind him and keep his job, right? never mind that all of thi

"cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now.you were reading that, this came to mind. if you care about what celebrity liar -- and you know what i'm talking about -- you got to equally care about another celebrity liar. a lie is a lie, and a liar is a liar. so you can't say one -- oh, this is awful, this is terrible, which it is. and then say, oh, but he lies because people force him to lie. you know what i'm saying. >> i know what you're saying. >> if you're going to care about one liar, you've got to care about the other. is a rich old guy paying for sex? of course he's not going to say about that because he's a rich old guy who has been accused of paying for sex. >> another layup. i was arguing with niger innis. why doesn't he call out these white supremacists? it's a layup. no-brainer. why didn't he say these kids shouldn't have been trafficked? this is disgusting. i hate this. i hate seeing this. >> can't do it. >> not a word. >> doesn't help him politically. >> the coast guard guy, it is sad when it happens like this. what

don lemon is going to join us in just a moment. you heard from democratic presidential candidate amy klobuchar in cnn's town hall. the senior senator from minnesota, the first female senator from the state, answering questions from the audience for well over an hour. i want to dig in right away on the case she made tonight and go straight to new hampshire. mark preston is there. mark, what a fascinating town hall for a number of reasons. first and foremost because unlike a lot of her democratic competitors in the presidential field she really sort of hewed more toward maybe not the middle but certainly didn't bank left, even when she clearly knew that that would potentially benefit her with democratic voters. what were your impressions? >> no question, dana. she cleared her own path right now through this forest that we see in front of us. and as all these democrats, upwards to perhaps 20 democrats looking at running for president. amy klobuchar this evening made very, very clear what path she's going to follow. she's going to foll

i don't mean to pick on don lemon but he said -- how does don lemon look his viewers in the eye and sayt so gullible that i will believe any story that fits my political narrative no matter how far-fetched it may be. heather: this isn't the first time we do with a hoax type crime. >> so many hoaxes, people willing to feed that appetite. >> people know that so they do this to get the attention. >> to get the attention because they know there's a huge audience for it but the people who fell for this hook, line and sinker, how do they maintain their credibility? heather: legally can anything be done in the future looking at this case and looking at the fact this is in the first time this has happened that can be done? the media specifically. >> i hope the media will be more suspicious. i doubt it, 3 weeks after the covington incident where they jump to conclusions and the legislators have penalties for reporting hoaxes. heather: social media spreading it like that. >> kamala harris billing herself as a president of candidate and she bought it hook, line and sinker. >> how quiet that side h

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i'm don lemon.imes" president trump says he's all but given up with negotiations with congress over his wall calling his talks, this is quote, a waste of time. and suggesting he's going to take action on his own. we've got a lot to say about -- he's got a lot to say about the russia investigation, roger stone and about intelligence -- his intelligence chiefs. he claims that they told him their testimony was mischaracterized. okay, let's bring in maggie haberman with "the new york times." joins us by phone.

don lemon moderates 10:00 p.m. eastern on cnn live from new hampshire. david chalian, thank you very much. >>> coming up next on cnn we're going to dig into the bizarre circumstances around that alleged attack, yes, alleged, against "empire" actor jussie smollett, the brothers who were arrested and then let go from police and just released a statement. we'll share that and hear why my next guest says the whole incident could be a major setback for the lgbtq community. >>> plus, cnn on the ground in syria when the top u.s. commander makes a surprise visit to kurdish allies. what he says about the risk of isis resurging. >>> and later, the friend of the president speculates that the director of national intelligence may be the next cabinet member to go just as the white house is planning a second summit with north korea. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. george has heart failure. and a busy day ahead. george has entresto, a heart failure pill that helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or

i'm don lemon. and i wish i didn't have to talk about this tonight.o talk about the racist part of yet another american politician. another of our leaders who publicly traffic in racism, who proudly wore some of the most offensive symbols in our nation's history. and i wish we didn't have to talk about this on the first night of black history month. maybe it's good we're having this discussion. our history is full of americans who were proud to parade their racism publicly.

i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. we've got a lot more on our breaking news to tell you about now. the house finally passing a compromised security bill tonight. a bill the president is expected to sign tomorrow, but he's really not happy about it at all. he's getting only $1.375 billion for his wall, far short of the $5.7 billi $5.7 billion he demanded before he shutdown the government for 35 days forcing 800,000 federal workers to go unpaid. so what is the president doing? creating a huge mess with his plan to announce an executive action tomorrow that will include a national emergency declaration. an effort to do an end run around congress to get more money for the wall. a white house official says that the president is expected to announce he'll get some $8 billion for his wall. no word on exactly where all that money would come from. but members of the president's own party really, really don't want the president to declare an emergency. >> i continue to believe that this is not

i'm don lemon.th the "new york times," trump says he's all but given up with negotiations with congress over his wall, calling the talks, this is a quote, a waste of time, and suggesting he's going to take action on his own. he's got a lot to say about the russia investigation, roger stone, and about intelligence, his intelligence chiefs. he claims that they told him their testimony was mischaracterized. okay, so let's bring in now maggie haberman with the "new york times," joins us by phone. she just did that interview. maggie, thank you so much for joining us

i'm don lemon. major developments tonight in the russia investigation. so we're devoting this entire hour to an in-depth look at all things russia. first we have our breaking news for you. the president telling "the new york times" he never spoke with roger stone about wikileaks. according to mueller's indictment a senior trump campaign official was directed to contact stone about what wikileaks had on hillary clinton. but maggie haberman of "the new york times" tells me the president insisted the direction did not come from him. we're also learning that mueller's team has seized what they call voluminous and complex evidence from roger stone. this includes several years' worth of information collected from stone's icloud accounts, e-mail accounts and hard drives. also tonight, cnn has exclusive reporting that donald trump, jr.'s three mysterious phone calls before and after the now infamous 2016 trump tower meeting were not with his father. this is according to new information obtained by senate investigators showing the blocked calls were between don j

i'm don lemon. in a new interview with "the new york times" president trump says he's all but given up with negotiations with congress over his wall calling his talks, this is quote, a waste of time. and suggesting he's going to take action on his own. we've got a lot to say about -- he's got a lot to say about the russia investigation, roger stone and about intelligence -- his intelligence chiefs. he claims that they told him their testimony was mischaracterized. okay, let's bring in maggie haberman with "the new york times." joins us by phone. maggie, thank you for joining us here. you and peter baker interviewed the president tonight. he's talking about his long time friend roger stone. give us a headline there. >> sure, the president was number one very praising of roger stone, whom as you know he's known for several decades. he was emphatic he did not speak with roger stone about wikileaks. he was emphatic he did not direct anyone on the campaign to speak to roger stone about what wikileaks mig

and don lemon will be at a town hall tonight at 10:00 p.m. i think this is indoors. it looks like we have our wires sorted out and have toluse with us again. i wanted to ask you something about a portion of your most recent piece reporting that president trump is telling his campaign staff that they have to convince the public that more of the wall is being built. do you get the sense from the president that he believes 2020 is a referendum on his ability to build that wall and fulfill his promise? >> yeah, the president wants to make 2020 basically a repeat of 2016. an election based on immigration and the wall, and he realized he had not built much wall at all because democrats and republicans and congress are not supportive of the idea of putting billions of dollars towards a border wall and for the last two years they have not funded much and not allowed the president to build the wall that he claimed he was going to build during the campaign trail, so he wants to have a promises made and promised kept re-election tour and so he is starti

don lemon, have you ever covered that? robin roberts? anyone else in the hate trump t media?ou talk about the rise in the far left hatred or obsess about the physical attacks on peoplee merely wearing a red maga hat? why? how many of these people support black lives matter? what do we want, dead cops? when do we want them, now? pigs in a blanket, fry them like bacon. it doesn't fit the narrative. those people don't seem to matter if you are att conservative and wear a make america great again hat. it's why we've seen little to no coverage from this vicious assault from earlier this week. trump supporter, activist brutally punched, trying to videotape the whole thing, over his political beliefs. we don't know everything h that happened but we have three witnesses confirm his story. take a look. >> [bleep]! [bleep]! [bleep]! >> you want to hit me? i will shoot you. [bleep] >> get that out of my face. >> i'm with you. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] >> sean: hayden williams is the kid that just got cold cocked in that particular video. we are letting the facts pl

you can watch the town hall with senator amy klobuchar moderated by the very best, don lemon. 10:00 p.m. eastern. >>> meantime, senator kamala harris is hosting her own town hall in a matter of hours. kyung lah is following the senator. good morning. you look good in the snow. you're not used to it, but this is what you get on the trail in new hampshire. let's talk about this. this is her first visit to the state. she's got this combination of small events and large events. i'm interested in what challenges she faces there. >> in part it's actually just getting out there and getting to know people and getting them to know her. her campaign in new hampshire says they know that in the state of new hampshire, that it's not just shaking hands once. it's about shaking hands twice. you've got to get out there and really know the voters of this particular state. and they believe that she is the one who can make the sale. her pitch to voters will be that you've seen her in the senate hearings. she is the fighter, the one who is the future of the democratic party. they may have heard t

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. >> so don lemon?is week, and with the jussie smollett situation that has occurred, my mother and willow and i were very interested in the experience of being openly gay, black and male in america. >> my initial reaction was sadness. >> but not everybody is ready to have a seat at the table. i want to play this for you. will you go to the red table with jada? >> jada might get too much truth out of me. i'm going to have to charge her good money for that. good, good money. >> i'm not surprised. that's my girl right there. yeah. queen's not coming to the table any time soon. >> no? >> no. >>> we have more with jada coming up. could we see her on next season's "the masked singer"? >> you fronted a band. >> i did. >>> and our 25-year flashback with the stars and the cant-miss celeb cameos. >>> plus -- >> i have had such an incredible career. >> we're celebrating diana ross before her epic grammy tribute. >>> and star stumbles caught on tape. j-lo, beyonce, gaga. the epic falls they would like to forget. >>

i'm don lemon. we're so glad that you could join us this evening. we are here at st.college less than one year from the new hampshire primary. it is presidents' day, and across the country democratic candidates are competing

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i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. we've got a lot more on all of the major developments in the mueller investigation, beginning with the big news on one paul manafort. a federal judge ruling tonight that the president's former campaign chairman and lied intentionally multiple times to the fbi to a grand jury and to robert mueller, including lying about his interactions and communications with russian operative konstantin kilimnik, something that mueller said went to the heart of his investigation. so the judge is not buying the claim by manafort's lawyers that he didn't intentionally lie. he just forgot details. so judge amy berman jackson sided with mueller on three of five findings, ruling that manafort intentionally lied about where he got $125,000 to pay for his legal bills. lied about his interactions with kilimnik while he was campaign chairman and later. and lied about another doj criminal investigation which, it's interesting to note, she didn't name. that's a lot of lying. but the judge said mueller did not p

i am don lemon.ael cohen's public testimony about his years as donald trump's personal lawyer and fixer. >> i look forward for tomorrow to be able to tell the american people

i'm don lemon.rom michael cohen's public testimony before the house oversight committee about his years as donald trump's personal lawyer and fixer. >> i look forward for tomorrow to be able to tell the american people my story and i am going to let the american people decide exactly who's telling the truth. >> so here what i say the white house is trying to do. the white house is trying to down play cohen's testimony. it is going to be a moment that makes history. just as big as john dean's congressional testimony that

"cnn tonight with don lemon" starts right now. busy night. >> as you were reading that, this came to mind. if you care about what celebrity liar -- and you know what i'm talking about -- you got to equally care about another celebrity liar. a lie is a lie, and a liar is a liar. so you can't say one -- oh, this is awful, this is terrible, which it is. and then say, oh, but he lies because people force him to lie. you know what i'm saying. >> i know what you're saying. >> if you're going to care about one liar, you've got to care about the other. is a rich old guy paying for sex? of course he's not going to say about that because he's a rich old guy who has been accused of paying for sex. >> another layup. i was arguing with niger innis. why doesn't he call out these white supremacists. it's a layup. no-brainer. why didn't he say these kids shouldn't have been trafficked? this is disgusting. i hate this. i hate seeing this. >> can't do it. >> not a word. >> doesn't help him fliticalpol. >> the coast guard guy, it is sad when it happ

don lemon is moderating tonight. at 10:00 tonight here on cnn. >>> we have breaking news tonight on a vacant post at the top of the trump administration. we now hear that the president may be considering nominating john james for u.n. ambassador after heather nauert withdrew her name saturday. according to a source close to the white house, he sounded out the idea with trusted advisers at mar-a-lago over the weekend, saying he's been very impressed by the iraq war vet and sees him as a rising star. president trump never saw nauert's formal nomination to the senate after choosing her in december. the former fox news anchor has faced questions about lack of experience for the job. she says the last two months have been grueling for her family and she's facing complications over a foreign-born nanny who didn't have a proper work visa. much more on this breaking news in our next hour. >>> still to come, even more twists tonight in the evolving case of "empire" star jussie smollett. what we're now learning from the brothe

i'm don lemon. we're so glad that you could join us this evening. we are here at st. anselm college less than one year from the new hampshire primary. it is presidents' day, and across the country democratic candidates are competing for the chance to defeat president trump. minnesota senator amy klobuchar is pitching herself as the best candidate to win back states that went for trump in 2016. and tonight senator klobuchar will take questions from voters who say they plan to vote in the new hampshire democratic primary. so please welcome, without further ado, everyone, senator amy klobuchar. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you. thanks, don. >> hi, senator. how are you? >> great to be here. >> good to see you. have a seat. >> thanks, everybody. thank you. thank you. >> it is presidents' day. >> happy presidents' day. >> that has a nice ring to it, doesn't it? >> oh, it certainly does. >> you like the sound of that? >> it's great to be in new hampshire, where i appear to have brought my permanent snow globe with me. it was snowing yesterday in iowa where i was and toda

i'm don lemon. what a performance. the acting attorney general, acting attorney general matt whitaker dodging questions, bobbing and weaving, running out the clock. six hours of political theater designed to impress an audience of one, by a man who's only going to be acting a.g. for just another few days and may very well be angling for his next job. so how did he do? white house officials telling cnn, quote, the hearing went as expected. i bet it did. and here's what officials were really expecting to hear. they were expecting to hear whitaker say that he didn't discuss the mueller investigation with trump, and the acting a.g., well, he delivered. >> the question is whether you shared your private opinions of the special counsel investigation with president trump, other white house officials such as john kelly, trump family members, public surrogates such as rudy giuliani at the time that i'm referencing you were a private citizen -- this is before you were hired, so it is not covered by executive