although kellyanne conway spoke to that earlier this morning on cnn. then also the president tweeted that the only collision that existed in the election was between hillary clinton and russians. when i asked for evidence of that, there was no evidence presented this. this white house has not presented any evidence of that. president has not. so once again you have the inappropriate political behavior on the part of the white house going on during the course of that campaign. when you have a white house making those kinds of allegations about a defeated opponent, that is just something that's just not normal in the course of events in a political campaign or to have a white house do from the pod tomb briefing room. so i don't know if you noticed this right now, brooke, but there are some kids in halloween costumes going back to the oval office to meet with the president. perhaps there will be some trick or treating going on in the oval office. but i think there might have been a fair amount of that going on in the briefing room a few moments ago, brook

also with us cnn legal analyst. goods to see both of you. >> good to be here. >> we first met in iowa, full part of the kpcampaign mode. did you know? >> i was part of the communication team but not in the research effort. you do opposition research on your opponents. >> clearly unaware? >> yes i was unaware. but i wouldn't be aware because that wasn't my role on the campaign. but this is part of a modern day presidential campaign do opposition research. that's originated during the primary. so not unusual at all given that one of the opponents became one of the nominee for the gop that we then took that research and utilized it. so not a surprise at all. >> not a surprise. you, sir i read some of your notes say kind of hypocritical. >> very hypocritical. and when you step back and look at the whole picture, these politicians, hillary clinton and donald trump, choose to play in the mud, looking to for dirt on their opponents and they now get splashed by it. trump had the high ground for a while saying i did none of

you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. actress rose mcdo you en, one of the first woman spoke out publicly for the very first time. here she was this morning, and let me tell you she is not holding back at all, although she did not call harvey weinstein out by name, rose said she spoke up to give a voice to the voiceless. >> i have been silenced for 20 years. i have been shamed. i have been harassed. i have been ma lined. and you know what, i'm just like you. because what happened to me behind the scenes happens to all of us in this society. and that cannot stand and it will not stand. [ applause ] >> in the face of unspeakable actions from one monster, we look away to another, the head monster of all right now. and they are the same. i came to be a voice for all of us who have been told we are nothing. for all of us who have been looked down on, for all of us who have been grabbed by the mother [ bleep ]. no more. name it. shame it. call it out. >> there she was. two wonderful ladies with me now, maf rest on, and national

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you are watching cnn. thank you for being with me. we begin with president trump escalating war of words with northern and touting u.s. military might after being accused of being lit the wick of war, he's talking country nuclear power. here he is moments ago along his counterpart judges true dole. >> justin trudeau. >> i want to have absolutely perfectly maintained, which we are in the process of doing, nuclear force. but when they said i want ten times what we have right now, it's totally unnecessary, believe me. because i know what we have right now. >> so i've got cnn global affairs correspondent weighing and barbara star. barbara, let me begin with you. we heard from the president denying this report that there was some meeting over the stumper where he wanted to

watching cnn. so many people, 22,000 people went to that concert in las vegas and witnessed this country music festival turn into a war zone as they survive this, they are understand bly in shock and fear, but also blessed to be alive to tell their stories. >> heard a spray of it and we see jason drop his guitar and take off running to the back. and the lights go out on the stage. we knew something was wrong. but then the guy in front of us about 10 feet up goes down, guy to the right of him about 3 feet over goes down, and then we both look behind us, two girls go down. and he says run. and you see the crowd running towards us. >> bullets starting ricochetting off the stage. and like feet from where we were standing. >> there were pauses in it. so every decision that you had to make was a life-threatening decision. >> you had to make split decisions and your life was on the line. and on top of that you are trying to help other people. >> everybody just started yelling get down. so i put the baby o

lee, cnn political commentator, mary katherine hamm. she writes for the federalist. this was a discussion already in progress, but it seems like the president saying that he was going to get rid of these subsidize that helped so many people pay for their health insurance spurred a discussion between patty murray, a democrat, and lamar alexander, a republican. >> alexander and murray had been talking about trying to reach some kind of bipartisan deal for months now. but alexander ended up announcing when graham/cassidy was going somewhere a couple weeks ago, he said the bipartisan talks had to go on hold. when the republican bill ended not going anywhere because republicans didn't have the votes, the talks sort of started up again. and, you know, the wave that this played out at the white house was pretty fascinating because literally within minutes the president was bashing the csr payments saying that the payments lined the pockets of insurance companies. it was during that time it sort of simultaneously that this deal on capitol hill was announced. and then when th

you can catch it right here on cnn. she will have more on that. >> shortly after that, anderson cooper is going to host a special tribute to all of the victims of the las vegas massacre. las vegas lost, its commercial free ac 360 that airs at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >>> and next tropical storm nate as new orleans declares a state of emergency. but first let's take a moment to honor this week's cnn her ho. it's a woman who lost her leg at 17 when she was hit by a drunk driver. but she found a way to lift others up. >> once we lose a part of our body, there are just so many questions, will i ever be able to work again, how will i take care of my children? >> it's strange to learn how to walk. >> it's a new world. >> part of my job is to remind people we are so much more than a body part. we can either lay down and let our circumstance over take us, or we can stand up and take charge. >> and to see more of her story, just go to cnn heros.com. oh, you brought butch. yeah! (butch growls at man) he's looking at me right now, isn't

so let me bring in cnn chief political correspondent dana bash and cnn politics reporter and editor-at-large chris silliza. 32%. that's a new record. >> it is. and not a record that any president or any politician wants to be the proud holder of, and there's no question that just the fact that it means a third of the electorate is supportive of him and the flip side of that, two-thirds is not is a danger zone for this president. look, he has not been somebody who has been driven by his approval rating thus far and he has not made moves to kind of expand his base. in fact, for the most part, what we've seen from this white house and this president is attempts over and over to try to hold on to that core base. unclear if that's going to change moving forward with moves on trying to get tax reform done which is the big -- the big legislative accomplishment, really the only one that republicans on capitol hill said that they care about at this point, but certainly not a good sign for this white house to see those numbers. >> that's how sarah sanders led the briefing with talk about tax reform an

you're watching cnn. i'm brooke bolduan. today vice president mike pence is being publicly questioned about his ethics after he used taxpayer money. he stood for the national anthem, but he and his wife abruptly left after noticing several 49ers taking a knee. president trump tweeted that he asked the vice president ahead of time to leave if any players chose to take a knee, so the question being asked, was this an act of protest or was it a total publicity stunt? some players say the administration is abusing its power to push a personal agenda. >> this is what systemic oppression looks like. a man with power come the to the game and tweets a couple of things out and leaves the game with an attempt to thwart our efforts. it's really disheartening when everything that you were raised on, everything that i was raised on was to be the best person they can be, to help people that need help and the vice president of the united states is trying to confuse the message that we're trying to put out there. >> the move also caught the

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here is the breaking news in to cnn. espn has released a statement saying it has suspended the popular host jemele hill after a string of tweets about the cowboys owner jerry jones and these tweets included, here you go, jerry jones also has created a problem for his players, specifically the black ones. if they don't kneel some will see them as sellouts. if you strongly reject what jerry jones said the key is his advertisers don't place the burden squarely on the players and then in this whole string she later clarified some of her comments, tweeting this. just so we're clear i'm not advocating an nfl boycott, but an unfair burden has been placed on players of dallas and miami with anthem directives. entertainment tonight host who is friendly with jemele hill and has covered sports for years and former nfl player ephriam salaam is back. she does say in one of her tweets a most powerful statement is if you stop watching and stop buying their merchandise. what do you make of this? >> the one thing i know for a fact is whe

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joining me is cnn correspondent polo sandival. that was the opposite of what he said when he was in puerto rico, when you think about how the people of puerto rico would respond to the president's assessment what do you think they would say overall? >> reporter: i think you may see a number perhaps not as optimistic as we saw earlier today. this perfect 10 out of 10 coming from president trump. there certainly is a level of frustration when you leave puerto rico and go into the more rural areas where still people who are in the dark. you're looking at only 22% of the residents in puerto rico that have no leg tris 'tis. when you look at the map you will find those are sobering statistics. the more other numbers that tell more of the story here. there is though promise, yes, we have seen improvements for example, 78% of gas stations are open and full commercial air traffic has been restoried but when you go into those rural communities it certainly is not a perfect 10 situation. particularly when they're dealing with trying to get s

that's according to several cnn sources. when we heard from the chairman of the joint chiefs yesterday, he said he couldn't confirm that. but why would his body be so far away? >>. >> these are some of the questions that people are looking for answers to. it's important to note and interesting to note that the u.s. troops had just rotated in and one considered for a post in trump's national security team for africa has actually said before that niger is a very difficult post for americans, particularly because we don't always have the best relations and intelligence gathering capabilities within the nigerian local population. so i would be very curious to see if this will lead to a different strategy or approach when it comes to how we rotate in our soldiers and how we're communicating with the local nigerian population and how the capabilities are being done and also the french. you know, the french have been there for a long time. we were there and i'm wondering if this is going to lead to any strategic changes. >> karen,

. >> so i've got cnn global affairs correspondent weighing and barbara star. barbara, let me begin with you. we heard from the president denying this report that there was some meeting over the stumper where he wanted to increase the u.s. nuclear arsenal ten fold. you are hearing from the secretary of defense weighing in. what did sent mattis say? >> well, no surprise is agreeing with the president. but let's just say for everybody there was a report from nbc news earlier today. and that's pretty much how the day started at the pentagon. that the president had told military commanders he wanted a ten fold increase in nuclear weapons. that would be significant dra mat lick unprecedented, not too many ways you can describe it. the pentagon's initial reaction was the story was not accurate and they weren't going to address it any more than that. but the president weighing in was very significant because he understand scored some key points that there is a modernization program going on. expansion of ten times may not even be necessary, according to most arms cont

in fact, debated people on cnn who made exactly that point. so he is going to be, they say, oh, he is not providing funding for these insurance and therefore he is responsible for the failure but it is failing. what i hope, brianna, is that donald trump is ne he goene h ge deal with the democrats and you have to -- >> but david -- steven -- as an economist, and you reference what he did yesterday, if he is allowing people to go on short term plans, that are not privy to these protections of preexisting conditions, and as an ekpon mist, how do you then cover the people that essentially those folks need to offset. you are talking about something broken. but isn't that just the president breaking it more quickly? >> see, this is the exact problem with obamacare. all of the sick people are signing up for health insurance under obamacare and healthy people more and more are dropping out. it is a classic case of what is called the dust viral in insurance. i worked at wall street journal for ten years at the time obamacare was being debated. we made

>>> this is cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. las vegas helped to make his name. now wayne newton, mr. las vegas himself, is trying to help the city heal. the legendary entertainer has been consoling a number of the survivors this week. he insists las vegas will not be defind by what happened. wayne newton joins me live from las vegas. it is so nice to see you again though i'm so sorry about the circumstances. >> thank you, brooke. i, too, am so sorry about the circumstances. nice to talk to you again. thank you. >> it's my understanding you've talked to a number of survivors of sunday's shooting. can you tell me a little bit what that was like for you and what they shared with you? >> well, what it was like for me, i'm still numb from it as i think most las vegans are. how does one explain that kind of evil happening? as far as the people who have been injured, those families that have lost a loved one here, the thing that remains constant is the first thing that they bring up in the conversation, is how imm

. >>> this cnn breaking news. welcome back, you are watching cnn on this busy monday afternoon. i'm brooke bolduan. you are watching cnn special coverage on this landmark day, the investigation. the first charges and the first guilty plea now are in the books and they involve these three former trump campaign staffers including the man all of the way to the left here, former campaign chairman paul manafort. what is more, the guilty plea by the man all of the way to the right there george papadopoulos, documents show that he tried to arrange meetings with campaign members and russian officials. the white house moments ago down played his role in the campaign and this image showing him at the table right there, we've spotlighted it with the president of the united states. the white house press secretary stressed none of the events today show that there was any russian collusion with the president. >> it was a volunteer position and again, no activity was ever done in an official capacity on behalf of the campaign in that regard. >> what about the outreach with the campaign officia

you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. hillary clinton giving into to pressure con deemidemning a man gave to her campaign. here's the statement. i was shocked and a palled by the revelations about harvey weinstein. the behavior of women coming forward cannot be tolerated. gwyneth paltrow and gaeangelina jolie, the list continues to grow. the two mega names surfacing claiming they also were harassed by weinstein. not even 48 hours after weinstein was fired from his own company, we are now hearing new bomb shell allegations of rape and more sex abuse. several women coming forward with their allegations to the new york times and also the new yorker, this new yorker piece, he said he spent ten months investigating speaking with three women who claimed he forced them into oral or vaginal sex. you are about to hear a recording secretly captured during an nypd sting operations. the women's voice you are about to hear, a model, and in it you will actually hear harvey weinstein voice and how he admitted to groping her. >> i'm tell

>>> you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. we begin with the chief of staff making a rare public appearance before the white house press core. he said he is not leaving the white house, he is not firing anyone, and it is not his job to control the president, and he said the president's tweets do not make his job more difficult. >> i would just offer to you always i read it all of the time, i read it pretty consistently, i'm not quitting today. i don't believe, and i just talked to the president, i don't think i'm being fired today, and i'm not so frustrated in this job that i'm thinking of leaving. i would tell you this is the hardest job i ever had. this is, in my view, the most important job i ever had. i would offer that it is not the best job i ever had. the best job i ever had as i said many times is when i was an enlisted marine sergeant and infantry man. that was the best job i ever had. unless things change, i'm not quitting, i'm not getting fired, and i don't think they'll fire anyone tomorrow. >> received by some lau

find out how at sanfranciscodignity.com. >>> senator john mccain was speaking to cnn just moments ago, elaborating on the vailed comments he made, and maybe not too vailed, actually, about president trump last night. listen to some. >> reporter: were you addressing the president or bannon or the group in total? >> i think that what is clear is what i was talking about as an environment here of nonproductivity of a reversion to the attitude of the '30s, which was one of the major reasons why we fought world war ii. >> reporter: and then, with regard to, and i'm reluctant to bring this up, but with regard to what the president said about general kelly and his son and president obama not addressing him, is this an appropriate place for the president to be making a comment. you have served in the armed forces. >> frankly, i don't know what to think about that. i think our first objective has to be to honor and serve those young people who have given their lives. >> i want to turn to cnn presidential historians tim notali and douglas brinkley, a history from feprofessor at bry university.

you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. 59 people were brutally murdered in las vegas and hundreds of others have been injured. one of the victims, 28-year-old christopher royval continued to struggle with his experiences after coming home. he wrote about his experiences of being shot at during war. so in one post, let me just read you what he wrote, what's it like being shot at? a question people ask because it's something that less than 1% of our american population will ever experience. especially one on a daily basis. my response has always been the same. not one filled with a sense of pride or ego, but an answer filled with truth and genuine fear/anger. it was never fear, to be honest, mass confusion, sensory overload. what's it like to be shot at? it's a nightmare no amount of drugs, no amount of therapy and no amount of drunk talks with your war veteran buddies will ever be able to escape. he went to las vegas to celebrate his 29th birthday and they got separated somehow during the concert as the

he's our cnn law enforcement analyst. and just to see a scene like that, trying to put myself in the shoes of the police officers and the firefighters, the heroes sitting there with the president of the united states, what did they want to hear in those sorts of situations? >> in this type of situation you want to hear support from the president. and that's exactly what the president did. i mean, you had anywhere from dispatchers and the initial law enforcement officers that respondsed. it was good to hear the kind words from the president. and that always bolsters exactly what's happened. this is what he needs. he's gone and visited the victims. he's visited the first responders. and i think that's a very good thing to do to help bolster because these people are all running on adrenaline right now and still haven't been able to sit down and take a look at this situation. >> let alone sleep or when they try to sleep. it's impossible. i want to ask you about this girmfriend who's being interrogated, or questioned i should

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we are the coca-cola company, and we're proud to offer so much more. >>> you're watching cnn. thank you for being with me. we begin with the chief of staff making a rare public appearance before the white house press core. he said he is not leaving the white house, he is not firing anyone, and it

you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. live pictures inside that white house briefing room. we'll take the briefing as soon as it starts. a surprising turn today in the whole gun control debate days after this las vegas massacre. we're told that a republican-led bill may be introduced today to ban bump stocks, a device used in the massacre that increases the rate at which you can pull the trigger. so let's start with chris sal lizza, cnn politics reporter and editor at large. it is florida republican carlos kur bellow who is introducing the legislation. he said i think we're on the verge of a breakthrough when it comes to sensible gown policy. we have been through mass shootings many, many times. do you think this is a real possibility? >> i think it is a possibility, brooke. i'm skeptical only because of the past. but again, this is not the assault weapons ban which sunsetted in 2004 which would be a huge measure of restricting guns, a particular kind of gun in the country. this is saying let's ban thi

you are watching cnn. thank you for being with me. my colleague chris cuomo is standing by in las vegas on the scene of the deadliest shooting in u.s. history. we begin with the latest in las vegas, the motive is still a mystery, what drove a retired accountant with no criminal history to stockpile 42 guns. bring 23 of the guns into the hotel room here in las vegas to commit murder. and police are also finding hammers, perhaps to smash out the windows on the 32nd floor. and they are finding material to make explosives in his car. plus, the fbi is looking into why he wired $100,000 to the philippines. we're also learning more today about the 59 people who lost their lives. and these are just some of their faces. mothers, fathers, children, a kindergarten teacher, a special-ed teacher, war veterans, police officers, a mom described as the glue to her family, a husband who saved his wife's life, a wife who died in her husband's arms. this senseless attack like so many before it reigniting the gun control debate. the president saying it i

. >> joining me now is cnn white house correspondent sarah murray. has the congresswoman responded to the president's latest zment. >> reporter: briana, the congresswoman did respond on twitter. she's standing by her account i still stand by my account of the call between donald trump and mayesha johnson, that is her name, mr. trump, not the woman or the wife. now a local television affiliate also caught up with the congresswoman. she said the president was crazy. she said the president was insensitive. it's also worth noting that sargeant johnson's mother also confirmed to cnn roughly the congresswoman's account of this call and said it was very accurate. obviously this is all coming in the prodder cbroader context of ambush occurred in niger. he was asked originally by me why it took two weeks -- >> sarah, i'm so sorry to interrupt you. let's listen in to roger goodell, commissioner of the nfl talking about protests. >> we are confident dal wilas w reset the bar even higher. i am happy to introduce charlotte jones barr. the ownership was very suppo

her sisters spoke to a cnn affiliate from australia. the sisters are in the philippines, and that's where they spoke to our affiliate and they spoke to the question of how much she might have known beforehand. take a listen. >> even though she's going to the philippines, steve said marilu, i found you a cheap ticket to the philippines. >> marilou danley is my sister. she's a good person and gentle soul. a mother, a grandmother. a sister. a friend. and i know that she don't know anything. i swear. like us. she was sent away. she was sent away so that she will be not there to interfere with what he's planning. >> reporter: in another part of that interview one of the sisters said that they believe that the shooter, stephen paddock, bought a ticket to, quote, send her away because they believe he was planning the attack and wanted to get her out of the country. so again, that's a claim from her family. what she really knew about his motive is still yet to be determined. and that's what investigators are getting at at this hour. we can also

ask your doctor about victoza®. >>> you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin thanks for being with me. we begin this hour with bombshell from 2016 election. julian a saung confirms that he was approached before the election. and sources confirm what was first report natural disaster t reported in the daily be, that how it can help the firm campaign and a lit ka access the 30,000 emails deleted from hillary clinton private email server. julian a saung added this, and can confirm it was rejected by wikileaks. clinton's deleted emails have no so far not resurfaced and sources are not clear whether alexander nix the ceo of this campaign and analytica was hired by the trump campaign. so let's go through this in detail. we have our panel, and jeffrey

. >> the congresswoman told cnn she wants to set the record straight about what kelly said about her. >> i heard him say that i bragged that i secured the money for the building for the fbi in mir a mar. that's a lie. i feel sorry for general kelly, he has my sympathy for the loss of his son, but he can't just go on tv and lie on me. i was not even in congress in 2009 when the money for the building was secured. so that's a lie. how dare he. my intentions are not important in this today. this has to do with the family that's grieving. it's their intentions. they were hurt. i can only imagine how she feels, and she was distraught that he kept saying my guy. your guy. not your husband, your guy. she said he didn't even know la david's name. so that's -- that was the most painful part. and the other most painful part is she still doesn't know why her husband was missing for 48 hours. >> joining me now cnn's sara murray at the white house. sara, the white house just a short time ago defended john kelly's comments. >> that's right. he was very critical of the congresswoman and i want to ta

i want to bring in cnn's jim acosta to talk about this. he is there at the white house. this is the second medal of honor that the president will have awarded, jim? >> reporter: that's rig,

let's turn now to cnn chief political correspondent dana bash as well as april ryan. the white house correspondent for american urban radio networks and cnn white house correspondent sara murray. so sara, as you listened to this, what was the thing that really stood out to you as the president was standing next to mitch mcconnell after, really, in a way sort of endorsing some of the divide that's been sewn by steve bannon. >> reporter: it's been whiplash for the president to say that he has an outstanding relationship with mitch mcconnell and the big point, maybe i'll go to steve bannon and tell him can you spare some of these republicans. the irony is the republicans on steve bannon's list are not the ones giving the president heartburn right now. the republicans he'll be targeting for the most part are up in 2018 are people who have voted in lockstep with the president's agenda, and he needs these people. i think that's what you are seeing on display right now is the president may get angry about how fast congress moves and they may get angry because they're not adv

i want to bring in cnn's jamie gangel. what do you think? is it likely that the trump administration could tap 93-year-old jimmy carter to help negotiate here? >> with the trump administration i'm never going to say never, but i think it's unlikely. so what president carter said in the interview was that he had spoken to national security adviser h.r. mcmaster who is a friend of his and he had offered his help and he even says in the interview that he got, quote, a negative response, so i don't think that he that the they were interested, but today a senior white house official was asked about the report and he sort of danced around it. he said that they would be willing to have help from anyone who might be able to help, but when asked specifically about president carter, he said there were no further discussions. so is it possible? yes. would these be two unlikely allies? i think yes, too. >> yes. definitely. >> i wonder what you've been thinking, jamie, as you look and listen to senator john mccain making headlines today for his comments

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cnn analyst and former assistant fbi director. i want to also bring in scott mclean, he is outside of police headquarters. first off, tom, can you speak to this? because i was struck so much by the emotion there. we will dissect the time line and some of of the changes there but clearly sheriff lombardo feels like his police department has been doing the best job they can. they have a fluid situation and he is feeling very much under fire. and clearly sensitive as he deals with his police officers who are dealing with mental health issues from guarding those who were killed in the aftermath of this. who put their lives on the line to try to reduce casualties. >> that's true, berianna, but te problem is the difference in the first narrative that came out shoortly after the event and that was that the security guard somehow distracted the shooter and took fire thereby maybe saving more lives on the ground down below. that he had to stop shooting to take him on while he was in the hallway. and to switch that all the way around that s

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i do want to bring in our cnn political analyst. so you hear that explanation, he's upset about the congresswoman listening in on the call. she was someone who had known la david johnson for years. this wasn't just the congresswoman who represented his area. this was someone with whom he had a personal relationship, was a family friend. we just need to make that clear to our viewers. also that john kelly and presumably other aides were on the line as well listening to this phone call. what do you make of his criticism there? >> well, look, i think of that at a minimum as the price of taking the podium. we know that most people in that briefing room from the administration are pointing to an audience of one. you have to assume the president is watching. it's very interesting of course that he made reference to comments about gold star families being sacred at one point and he says that left at the convention over the summer. there's going to be a lot of analysis of that and why in fact that last breach of what was sacred has changed.

see how we're fighting to outsmart cancer at cancercenter.com/outsmart >>> we are back here live on cnn. we just saw arizona republican senator jeff flake announcing to the world that he will not seek re-election at the end of his term on january 2019 and essentially in a blistering critique of the executive branch and, specifically, of president trump. so we have news from caitlan collins, our reporter at the white house. we have jeff zeleny there standing by in the briefing room to see how the white house reacts to this stunning news. but caitlan, first to you, you have heard from a friend of steve bannon. what did they share? >> steve bannon's world is very news with this news that senator flake is not going to run for re-election in 2018. he said that today steve bannon added another scalp to his collection as another establishment domino falls. since steve bannon left the white house, he's been targeting some of these establishment candidates and promising to primary them. these candidates up for re-election who could be down in their home states. one of those we saw most recently

. >> cnn is report thag the attackers are part of the isis affiliated group in the greater sahara. what can you tell us about them? >> this is a newer splinter group that's emermged in the region of late. as i mentioned, that the pentagon didn't really see any kind of transnational terror groups when they first entered the region, but since then it's become a self-fulfilling prophesy in some ways, we have the al qaeda there, a group, a movement for unity and jihad in wes west africa, and now this new islamic state affiliate. so, while correlation doesn't equal causation, there's no denying that there's a plethora of terror groups operating throughout this entire region. >> nick, we really appreciate your perspective on this as you have spent five years covering these operations 689 thank you so much. >> thanks so much. >>> next, all five former presidents will host a fundraiser for hurricane victims tomorrow. president trump not invited. this as both president george w. bush and president obama make some not so veiled comments criticizing him. (burke) at farmers, we've seen almost