we also can't forget mr. wolfwolfe, he is one of the reasons i got into journalism, he was a shame -- game changer for journalism going back into the 60's and 70's he was really a northstar for me personally. but the reason wall street remembers him is the seminal work he did in the 80's, and it bonfire of the vanities. it was really a zeitgeist of the 80's and in our finance section, we put a little white hat. rip tom wolfe. jason: next, we check with alan hewitt, who has been working with a lot of issues with harassment. carol: taking a look at ai, bias, and the criminal justice system. >> she has been pretty well known amongst people who are championing fairness in machine learning and ai, but she became more well-known last december when she wrote a medium post about some of the harassment she has experienced in her career. jason: at first blush, people might wonder how a machine can be biased. >> it goes back to the data sets that people use to build these predictive models that they then applied to real-life

we also can't forget mr. wolf. >> so ripe tom wolfe.of the reasons that i got into journalism. game changer for journalism going back to the '60s and '70s and into '80s, creating this thing called new journalism so he was really like a north star for me personally reasons i got here, but, you know, the reason that wall street remembers him is this seminal work that he did in the '80s and it was really a zeitgeist of the '80s. in our finance section we put a little white hat. in white. man check in on we token valley related harassment and diversity. interestingly she looks at a.i. from a different perspective. a.i.: taking a look at and bias and the criminal justice system. it's a really interesting story. ellen.ot more from >> she's been pretty well known among people who are fairnesshampioning in machine learning and a.i., but she became kind more wellow, known last december when she abouta medium post some of the harassment that she had experienced in her career in academia. blush people might think well it's a machine, how can it be

. >> mr. wolf the last time you were here in the audience asked why don't youhy write about miami and you said no call has already done a good enough job for that. without holding you up to it, i really enjoyed your book but i'm wondering did you feel anysu pressure and have you read other authors from miami or were you inspired by them, i'm just curious about the process. >> carl is in a league by himself. i think i have read every word he's ever written. he's brilliant in the social logical sense without making it seem social logical and he writes these thrillers but instead of finding a body on page three, you find a guy who falls down at the strip club and you go on from there. is absolutely brilliant. i don't read many people who have done miami justice because it only look around, they want to write about south beach and are certainly things to be written about south beach, but there's other parts of miami and they tend not to write about them. maybe they have, but i haven't seen it. >> sex p

she's beautiful, but she actually chose to cooperate with the person who wrote what i call a novel, mr. wolfwho wrote fire and fury. most of that is just fiction. i know steve bannon said on some of that stuff. for example, the book says the remarks that trump made at the new jersey golf club which were about charlottesville that steve bannon thought he could be removed under the 20th amendment because of mental impairment. i was interviewing bannon at that time of the controversy when trump was in new jersey and he said he talked to him twice on the phone and edged him on. it was wonderful and he said to retract it, if you do the press will jump on you. a lot of other items are just obviously untrue. just unbelievable. you saw how overjoyed she was and how overjoyed trump was but there's just silly stuff but some people just want to believe these things and they can't figure out the difference between truth and falsehood. >> in your book you talk about how president trump talks to the mainstream generalists, the new york times and the washington post, there's a lot of reaching out to people

mr. ron wolf. >> great to be here.ullseye brief" publisher and founder, adam johnson. >> hey, trish. trish: i want to qualify this, i think some budgets, primarily in blue states, right, like new york and california, have not, shall we say seen the advantage of the tax cuts in the same way only in that people don't have as much of a break in some of those states you look at texas, florida, some of these good red states they are benefiting pretty significantly. what does that mean for midterms in your view? >> well anytime the economy is doing well and you're speaking about it is good for the midterms who help make the economy go. you would thought this would be better for the republicans but what is interesting being, even on friday where you had strong economic numbers, nobody was talking about the economic numbers. every one is talking about all the other rhetoric going on. it is really difficult to get back to talking facts. trish: that is a good point, robert. adam, we've seen that in some of the polling data if yo

mr. netanyahu as "the boy who cried wolf," a reference to the fabled young shepherd who raised so many falserms that nobody believed him. reference to mr. netanyahu's 2002 speech in new york at the u.n. general assembly. that is when he held up a cartoon drawing of a bomb in an effort to convince the world that iran is racing toward a nuclear bomb. the exhibition by mr. netanyayahu was more elaborate. lots of documents, images. but observers say there was very little substance to itit, becaue these were the old allegations addressed.een other observers are saying it is precisely because of these allegations that iran had its secret nuclear weapons program almost two years ago that this nuclear deal is working. observers say mr. netanyahu provided very little argrgument why this nuclear deal should be scrapped. now, all eyes on may 12, to see if mr. netanyahu's efforts will convince mr. trump to scrap the deal. genie: what are the next t steps for iran? as you say, the decision from president trump is looming. reza:: i think iran understands very well that there is a campaign together support

. >> they do, wolf. mr.ump and his team have completely changed their tone on kim jong-un, praising a man they derided not long ago and even offering him security. tonight the diplomatic dance has reached an almost unthinkable point where an american president is offering to protect a brutal dictator. >> i will guarantee his safety. yes, we will guarantee his safety, and we've talked about that from the beginning. he will be safe. he will be happy. his country will be rich. >> that's not something american presidents do, so this is totally extraordinary, something we've never seen before, and i hope we never see again. >> lately president trump has been describing kim jong-un in almost statesman-like terms. >> he really has been very open, and i think very honorable. >> not all that long ago mr. trump was referring to kim as slightly less than honorable. >> little rocket man, he is a sick puppy. >> and in a tweet the president implied strongly that kim was short and fat. how drastically has the dynamic chang

mr. trump turning against michael cohen? i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> we're following breaking news. the wlous is refusing to comment on the reported questions robert mueller wants to ask president trump. the leak listed published by the new york times and infuriating the president who falsely claimed in a tweet the questions did not include any on collusion. and also breaking, the president's former personal doctor is aku -- accusing the white house of robbery. harold bornstein said a white house aide barged floor his new york office and stole mr. trump's medical records. we'll talk about the breaking news much more with senator ben cardin from the foreign relations committee and our reporters and experts are also standing by. first let's go straight to the white house. our chief white house correspondent jim acosta has the latest. the president is clearly irate that these mueller questions have now been made public? >> reporter: that is right, wolf. the anger is no

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mr. trump on recordings of his longtime television show. what does she expect to find? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room". >>> tonight, dramatic new turnover in the president's legal team as mr. trump and the special counsel robert mueller may be headed for an ugly high-stakes showdown. the top white house lawyer is calling it quits and an attorney who represented m eed president clinton during the impeachment process is being hired. i'll get reaction from leon panetta, the former defense secretary to president obama, former chief of staff to president clinton. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. jim, this is another sign the trump legal team is getting more combative. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. president trump's legal team is changing again. this time, it's white house lawyer, ty cobb, who is stepping down. he had advocated caution on the trump's legal team, but a source tells cnn that cobb was clashing with the president over his attacks on the special counsel's invest

mr. secretary, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >>> just ahead, we'll talk more about this unproven claim about an fbi spy inside the trump campaign. why can't the president simply let go of this conspiracy theory? harvey weinstein's accusers are calling it a step toward justice. hey! we didn't have a homeowners claim last year so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. well, that seems fair. we didn't use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otez

mr. speaker. from ng, swimming caribou a motor boat, bear baiting, dog s for black bears, using artificial light. shooting wolf pups and bear cubs in their dens. outrageous practices that were banned under a 2015 rule from the obama administration, which the trump administration has announced it seeks to reverse. this is absolutely outrageous. our national parks and reserves have always had special status. and the trump administration wants to roll that back essentially making them into game parks. it's important for people to reflect on what this means. think about what goes on in yosemite or yellowstone park. would that experience be enriched by having these extreme hunting tactics to eliminate some of the top line predators to be able to have more things to hunt? absolutely not. 300 million people a year visit these national parks. nd the draw is the wildlife. national parks without animals is just scenery. mr. speaker, it is important that people focus on why this is such an outrageous policy. these are low density animals with low reproduction rates. and in alaska there is no conflict with livestock, very

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wolf. that meeting took place on january 9th, 2017. during the transition. and mr.kselberg and his cousin andrew, showed up at trump tower, then went upstairs to see michael cohen. and we are told that the meeting was about u.s. and russia relations and ways perhaps to better that. what's not entirely clear is why viktor vekselberg was present. we know that vekselberg was questioned by the special counsel, by fbi agents who stopped him when he arrived to a new york area airport. fbi agents met him and questioned him. they've also been looking at whether russian money was used through straw donors to donate to the inauguration and to the trump campaign. now, michael cohen wound up getting a contract with viktor vekselberg's cousin, who wound up paying him $580,000 for this contract. that also is something that has been reported on. we have extensively reported on. because of viktor vekselberg's ties to the investment firm that the cousin runs in new york, certainly, wolf, all of this has been something that the special counsel and the fbi has been investigating. >> t

mr. trump should worry that americans will stop believing anything he says. is it the crying wolf argument? >> i think that is something that we have to address across the board. because when we do face that situation and all administrations do, but i do think that we have an ability in our country to in times of crisis to see past some of the political things that may go on at other times during the year. and that when we stand up there and behind that podium or on the world stage confronting those cris crises, that we tend to believe our leaders regardless of political affiliations or our thoughts on them beyond that. >> did the president and rudy giuliani leave sarah sanders out to dry yesterday? do you feel -- are you concerned that eventually what you're telling me may not be true? >> i don't think so. i'll go back to the bob costa interview with rudy. he assumsupported that time lint he talked about which was reiterated by the president. i think not know thanoknowing t interview was taking place, that is a coordination issue and i'm sure everyone in the white house would pre

mr. mueller's questions. >>> lava flow, a volcano erupts on hiawaii's big island. i'm jim acosta, and you're in "the situation room," wolf blitzer is on assignment. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> breaking tonight a source tells me the president's legal team is still in talks about an interview with special counsel robert mueller despite what's being described as rudy giuliani's, quote, s show. the president undermined -- rud undermined after the president said he didn't have his facts straight. after two days of shifting stories we don't have the facts. i'll get reaction today. first the cnn senior white house correspondent pamela brown. a lot of backtracking by the president and, of course, rudy giuliani. >> reporter: that's right. this as we learn that rudy giuliani was given, quote, very little information prior to going on television to discuss the stormy daniels matter according to a source familiar with the matter who said he was not fully red in on the details. a source saying he caused a fire storm, now rudy giuliani said that he coordinated with the president before going on, but then the president came out

mr. cohen have a lot of explaining to do. you've gone through this document. what do you think? >> well, wolf, there's a lot of information in there. we have not verified any of the allegations he's made. we've reached out to a number of the companies and individuals that are reference there had to see if there is any additional detail they might shed on this and if they will confirm or deny these payments. what's interesting and important to keep in mind is that michael cohen has said in that new york court that he's had seven business clients, business and consulting clients since he left the trump organization in january 2017. these might be some of these clients. there's just a lot that we don't know. so we've got the calls out and we'll update you when we learn a little bit more. >> i'm sure we'll be learning a lot more. cara, thank you very much. shimon, thank you very much as well. >>> our senior legal analysts and former u.s. attorney, preet bharara is joining us. what stands out to you from our most recent reporting? if you're investigating these payments, what avenues do you want to

wolf said to me. so i'm saying to you, mr. chairman, it's clear from the uneasiness that members have on this particular committee, that we need not to move forward. i express to you as a new member of this committee who wants to work to everybody and get things done that food is important to everyone. food is not partisan. food is an issue that we all should recognize, as the ranking member just said very clearly, this is a food program for the poor. and we should not take that lightly. we all need to understand that this affects us all. so i say to you, coming from one of the poorest big cities in the united states, philadelphia, where poverty is like 26, 30%, it's clear to me that we are going in the wrong direction. so i ask you, mr. chairman, to deeply consider what action we are taking and this is going to be a benefit to the people of this country. thank you, i yield back. >> mr. costa, five minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i move to strike the last word. this proposal that we've been talking and discussin

the hike was after the michael wolfe book was published and it had been reported rebecca mercer and the mercer family had pulled financial support from mr bannon. he stated to me he wanted me to convey a message from the qatari government to steve bannon. he requested i set up a meeting between him, the qatari government, and mr. bannon to say qatar would underwrite all of his political efforts in return for his support. now this guy, who helped found this basketball league, had a previous business relationship with steve bannon. maybe it's a normal thing, hey, i need to you hook me up with bannon. yes, technically, by the rules of logic. step back from this as a citizen. this is crazy pants, right? this is a lawsuit about qatari guys not coughing up their full promised investment in ice cube's basketball league for aged nba players and in this lawsuit now the qatari government is offering money to make steve bannon their paid agent after he's been fired from the white house? what? yes, this is real. this is our life now. you're not asleep. back to the transcript. i immediately let mr. al-rumaihi know i was against this. quote, i was ap

mrs. pence was a dispute between two doctors who had a strained relationship. the vice president's physician did not respond to multiple requests for a comment. >>> michelle wolfas no regrets about her performance at the white house correspondent's dinner. wolf telling npr in an interview set to air today, i wouldn't change a single word in an interview it will hear today on fresh air. wolf said she did not expect this level of controversy but sure glad she stuck to her guns. >> i'm more surprised on what they're focussing on. because i think i said more controversial things than the actual jokes they're focussing on. i wanted to do something different. i didn't want to cater to the room. i wanted to cater to the outside audience and not portray my brand of comedy. >> at a correspondent's association expressed regret that the jokes overshadowed the dinner's celebration of the first amendment. others say the reaction is overblown given the president's sustained attacks against the news media, including the white house press corps. what do you make of that explanation? >> she was hired to be a comedian to roast the people in that room. that's exactly what she di

mr. trump announces new details of his summit with kim jong-un. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation room. >>> breaking news tonight, the "new york times" is reporting that the homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen told colleagues she was close to resigning wednesday after president trump berated her during a cab nate meeting. also, stormy daniels lawyer michael avenatti joins me live this hour and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, let's go to kaitlan collins with more on the breaking news. what are you finding out? >> to set the scene, there was a cabinet meeting focused explicitly on immigration at the white house yesterday. of course at the beginning of the meeting they let the reporters come in with the cameras, the president speaks, we heard from the president yesterday some comments on north korea and what not. not a ton on immigration, just some. but things got interesting, apparently, when the cameras left the room. the "new york times" first reported this but cnn has confirmed that the president and homeland security secre

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wolf blitzer is off. i am brianna keilar. >>> the president's most high profile lawyer appears to have exposed his client to more legal peril as well as exposing some of mr. trump's most blatantly false claims yet. rudy giuliani revuealed he reimbursed mr. cohen for hush money he paid to stormy daniels. mr. trump insisted weeks ago he knew nothing about the deal. the white house press secretary admits to being caught off guard as she desperately tries to steer clear of multiple bomb shells released by the former new york mayor. i am getting reaction from congressman john ger mend ee, and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. i want to go to cnn chief correspondent jim acosta. this is a legal mess and perhaps a political mess as well. >> reporter: a mess in more ways than one, that's right. the white house back on its heels, insisting they were unaware he reimbursed his attorney for money he paid to stormy daniels until that was revealed by one of his other attorneys, rudy giuliani. asked repeatedly whether the president and other officials had been lying to the american people, the white house opted to admit it was basically in the dark. >> wh

>> well, i'll tell you, wolf, the reason is because we're a little concerned it may far beyond 90 days. and we are highly confident that michael cohen and his attorneys and mr. trump are going to make an effort to prolong this indefinitely. and 90 days will turn into 180 and then 270, and before you know it we'll be looking at this we'll be looking at delay of two or three years. and there's no need for it, and we believe the case should proceed forthwith, and i should be provided an opportunity tadepose the president. >> the judge has already ruled on this. he said 90 days. so what are you offering the judge to help him reconsider his decision in. >> what we've stated in our motion is we will avoid a deposition of michael cohen during this stay period, but that other discovery against other individuals should be permitted to proceed against -- including discovery and deposition of mr. trump and others. the mr. giuliani and mr. trump have made it clear by their statements since the stay order was issued this is not off-limits. they can defend themselves or at least attempt to. they've talked about all kinds of facts which they claim are true which we know a

mr. speaker, today i rise in remembrance of a literary giant and richmond, virginia, native, tom wolfe. he was born and raised in virginia in 1930. a pioneer of the new journalist movement he worked for the springfield union, "washington post," harold tribune, "esquire" and wrote influential novels. r. mceachinin: his interests ranged fwrht rods to influential actors, to the meteoric rise and fall of a fictional new york bond trader. in an interview, his editor at "esquire" said this about him. he has a unique gift of language that sets him apart as tom wolfe. t is full of high per below -- hyperbole, and he has a wonderful ear for how people look and feel. with his passing we lost an prnt and gifted writer. i'm saddened by this great virginian's passing and send my condolences to his friends and family. i yield become. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek ecognition? the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. lamalfa: mr. speaker, i rise tonight to commend our secretary of state, mike pompeo, for his first major foreign

wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> happening now, breaking news. fighting battles in a ram nl -- raxbling speech to the national rival association, president accused robert mueller of trying to hurt mr. >>> beyond the call of rudy. the president and his new lawyer walking back the bombshell statements about the stormy daniels case that have the legal team unrealing and can they undo the damage. >>> if it is fair. president would like to robert mueller about the russia investigation only if, quote, they could prove it is a fair situation. talks to arrange an interview continue as a decision coming soon. >>> and doing really well. the president is upbeat about north korea ahead of his summit with kim jong-un as his administration works with the release of three americans held by the kim regime but his criticizing previous administrations for what he calls a policy of silence on north korea. wolf blitzer is on assignment. i'm jim acosta. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> and we are following breaking news. new fallout in a blistering critique of rudy giuliani's first interview as the trump's new lawyer. a source used an expletive to see how the

mr. trump is actually turning on his long-time fixer who now is under criminal investigation. a lot of people are reading between the lines of this "national enquirer" story. >> wolfbig question has been will cohen turn on trump if he's federally indicted, but it seems trump may be turning on cohen if you read into a tabloid headline the way it seems cohen himself did. tonight new indications the relationship between president trump and his long-time friend and lawyer, michael cohen, may have soured. this week's "national enquirer" cover story reads trump fixer's secrets and lies. until now, cohen, who's also known as trump's fixer, has been one of trump's staunchest defenders. >> one thing donald trump is, he's a compassionate man. he's a man of great intellect, great intuition and great abilities. mr. trump's memory is fantastic and i've never come across a situation where mr. trump has said something that's not accurate. >> but when asked if he thought the story's publication was meant to send a message to him, cohen told cnn, what do you think? a source close to trump tells cnn a story like that wouldn't be published by the tabloid without the president's bles

wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >>> happening now, breaking news. fighting battles in a ram nl -- raxbling speech to the national rival association, president accused robert mueller of trying to hurt mr lawyer walking back the bombshell