working there for 10, 15 years. >> cnn talks with 19 undocumented workers once employed by the trump organization. we are live from the cnn center here in atlanta. i'm cyril vanier. it is great to have you with us. the u.s. hopes the road is now cleared for a new north american trade agreement after a bitter dispute with two close allies seems to have come to an end. the u.s. says it will lift steel and aluminum tariffs on canada and mexico imposed a year ago for national security reasons. canada and mexico are also ending their retaliatory tariffs on u.s. goods. the u.s. president calls it a win. >> hopefully, congress will approve the u.s.m.c.a. quickly and then the great farmers and manufacturers and steel plants will make our economy even more successful than it already is. >> the canadian prime minister justin trudeau agreed, saying getting the new deal ratified is a top priority. >> obviously, these continued tariffs on steel and aluminum and our countermeasures represented significant barriers to moving forward with the new nafta agreement. now that we've had a full lift on th

to save 30% on all the medications we carry. so go directly to petmeds.com now. >>> cnn with new information on what the u.s. believes to be missiles on iranian freighters in the persian gulf. >>> walmart will raise prices on some items because of president trump's tariffs. >>> a fighter jet comes crashing through the roof of a california warehouse after the pilot ejects. >>> big changes are coming to the s.a.t.s, new scores for students that have nothing to do with academics. welcome to "early start," i'm christine romans. >> major changes on how your kids could get into college. i'm dave briggs. happy friday. 4:00 a.m. in the east. half past noon in iran. the u.s. believes iran is using commercial ships in the persian gulf to carry missiles. the government has multiple images of iranian freighters that have been modified. the pictures show large areas of the deck removed to carry the missiles. cnn has not reviewed the intelligence supporting the government. >>> president trump is trying to curb the intensifying conflict with iran. the "new york times" reports the president on w

not going to start today. >> cnn has learned, burr explained the back story of the subpoena and defended his committee's investigation. mitch mcconnell publicly supporting burr even though just days ago the senate majority leader said case closed on the mueller investigation. >>> add james comey's name to the list of people who think president trump obstructed justice. he was asked about the mueller report in a live cnn town hall event last night. the report had several examples of possible obstruction, but attorney general bill barr decided not to bring charges because he could not determine the president's intent. >> do you think he had criminal intelligent based on what you have seen now in the mueller report? >> it sure looks like he did in connection with a couple episodes, the direction to don mcgahn to get special counsel fired is a flaming example of corrupt intent. >> we recently learned mueller and his team -- >> i think he acted in a way that's less than honorable in the way he described it in writing and described it in a press conference and continues to talk as if

with the president of the swiss federation. cnn reported that the white house passed along a phone number to the swiss in case iranian leaders wanted to call the president. >> a source tells cnn today's meeting is an effort to move that along. is iran interested in talking? fred pleitgen live in teheran. fred, good morning, what's the latest there. >> reporter: hi, dave, the short answer to that question that iran at this point in time is not interested in talking to the trump administration. one of the things we heard from iran's supreme leader, he said at this point in time negotiations with the trump administration are out of the question. in fact, he called negotiations with the u.s. poison, and negotiations with the trump administration is double poison because he feels the strategy of maxim maximum pressure that the trump administration is exerting is coercion and that is not something they say they are going to be a part of, at least at this point in time. various other things happening on the ground in iran. the head of iran's latielite revolutionary guard corps. he says he

stacy's life-saving work or to nominate your own hero, go to cnn heroes right now. thanks for watching, everyone. our coverage continues. >>> the u.s. president ramps up his border dispute with mexico, threatening now, to impose tariffs, if mexico doesn't stop the flow of illegal immigration on the border. >>> plus, search operations resume after a boat sinking in budapest, hungary. 21 people still missing. >>> also ahead, the last abortion clinic in missouri. we'll know in the next 24 hours if it will be allowed to continue operations or if it will be shut down for good. the casualty of america's long-running battle on abortion. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. the "cnn newsroom" starts now. 3:01 on the u.s. east coast. president trump's anger over illegal immigration is taking a form of a new threat, tariffs, used as a weapon against mexico. in a series of tweets, president trump said he would impose a 5% tariff starting june 10th, unless mexico stops illegal immigrants from entering the united states. and that will increas

. >>> you're live in the cnn newsroom, i'm ana cabrera in new york, thanks for rolling with me in the 5:00 hour eastern time, sumo wrestling, a meeting with the emperor, a round of golf, all of the above on president trump's agenda in tokyo as japanese prime minister abe rolls out the red carpet while washington boils over with talk of impeachment and other political drama, this state visit may be a welcome distraction for the president. still, there is serious business on his mind at a dinner with japanese business leaders, he brought up the trade agreement he is pushing. it would reduce say the $68 billion trade deficit with japan. >> as you know, the united states and japan are hard at work negotiating a bilateral trade agreement, which will benefit both of our countries. i would say that japan has had a substantial edge for many, many years. but that's okay. maybe that's why you like us so much. but we'll get it a little bit more fair, i think. i think we'll do that. with this deal, we hope to address the trade imbalance, remove barriers to united states exports, and ensure fairness an

>>> you're live in the cnn newsroom. i'm ana cabrera in new york. so glad you're with us this weekend. president trump taking to twitter today to call an elected member of call from his own party a loser. i'm talking about michigan congressman justin amash who this weekend broke with the gop pack on capitol hill. he declared the president should be impeached and laid out a precise argument explaining why. the president's response? he called amash a loser. "never a fan of justin amash" he tweeted today. "a total lightweight." then, "justin is a loser who sadly plays right into our opponents' hands." these tweets are the best insight into the president's thinking and how the white house is handling the various controversies it's facing. there's been no formal press briefing in at least 69 days now. back to this weekend, the justice -- the congressman, i should say, justin amash, who is calling for the president's impeachment, he's the only republican in the house to do that so far. a republican senator told cnn today that it's not time to talk impeachment on his side of capitol

check, uber? >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. today, cnn is learning that attorney general william barr is undertaking a broad effort to investigate how the russia investigation began. and that's our politics lead today. a source telling cnn, this will be a 360-degree review, involving the cia, the fbi, and the office of the director of national intelligence. all looking into the origins of the russia probe. barr is leadi ining this effort along with john durham in connecticut. president trump has of course referred to the law enforcement investigation into russian election interference as an attempted coup. and now the president's hoping for evidence to bolster this false claim, despite all the facts laid out in the mueller report showing russian attempts to penetrate his campaign. and despite the expert opinions of his own political poiappoint that the investigation was justified and that there was no illegal spying on his campaign. >> based upon what i knew in may of 2017, the investigation of russia election interference was justified. >> do you have any evidenc

major blow to centrist political parties, cnn is live across europe with all the latest results. >>> plus u.s. president trump says he's not bothered by missile tests. >>> and later devastation in the u.s. state of oklahoma. we'll bring you the very latest. >>> hello, and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, thank you for joining us. i'm bianna nobilo in london. >>> the political landscape is changing in a way few saw coming. ballots are being counted in the biggest electoral process in the world. the centrist parties on the left and right are losing their dominance. that was the reaction by germany's green party. they were one of several liberal pro eu parties across the block that did better than expected. >> the people in germany, the people in europe, have voted for climate protection and for european solidarity. and that is the signal that is being sent this evening. >> but while nationalists and far right parties are not posting the gains that some feared, they will be making their presence felt in the new parliament. in france, where marie le

. we can help you plan for that. >>> you are live in the cnn newsroom. i'm live this afternoon, alex marquardt. president trump decided getting help from another foreign government getting into an election cycle might not be the best idea, at least for now. that's the president's attorney saying that, announcing late last night he has called off a trip to ukraine, where he was planning to push for an investigation into the origins of the russia probe and to dig up dirt on his boss' potential 2020 rival, joe biden. of course, this is after the mueller report found help was welcomed from russia to get dirt on hillary clinton in 2016. while giuliani's trip to ukraine is now off, that's not to say that he's done going after joe biden. >> you're not going to ukraine. are you just stepping back completely? >> i don't know. i'll play it by ear. i'll see what is going on. i am actually quite confident that the facts with regard to vice president -- former vice president biden are so compelling that there's no way he gets from here to the election without this being investigated. >> okay. >>

george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. from cnn headquarters in atlanta, "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> u.s. president donald trump may feel confident about how the trade war with china is going, but investors are nervous. >> that's right. asian markets closed in negative territory over the latest hike in u.s. tariffs and beijing is expected to retaliate. you see here the neikke, the shanghai kpoz et and seoul all showing negative -- in negative territory. u.s. futures market also. a down day on wall street as well. you see the same playing out there. >> but president trump tweeted "the u.s. is right where we want to be with china." he claimed the u.s. would collect tens of billions of dollars from the tariffs, but his top economic adviser admitted that isn't how it works. >> it's not china that pays tariffs, it's the american importers, the american companies that pay what in effect is a tax increase, and often times passes it on to u.s. consumers. >> fair enough. in fact, both sides will pay. both sides will pay in these things. >> well, u.s. senators from both parties are ex

. >> certain anchor on cnn fake as hell cnn. sleepily eyes chuck todd sleeping -- >> if word, be s, perhaps trump should ease up in public with cursing, other politicians do off mic, remember joe biden calling obamacare bfd. even new york times found it fit to print bs word 14 times in many years but 26 times since, that's no bull. in media buzz michael avenatti, coverage of the economy, tensions with iran and trump's constant clash with the my digestive system used to make me feel sluggish but now, i take metamucil every day. it traps and removes the waste that weighs me down, so i feel lighter. try metamucil, and begin to feel what lighter feels like. over his walking out of a meeting, the president asked top aides to back up his account of the meeting including councilwoman kellyanne conway. >> very calm. >> very calm. [laughter] >> and you have every right to do that. crisis on the southern bored and they have not done nothing, they have not done -- >> i sat down with white house press secretary here in washington. welcome. >> thank you, great to be with you. >> you said you we

>>> you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me. after days of blocking subpoenas and rejecting information requests, president trump just addressed reporters in this wide-ranging and impromptu q&a at the white house this afternoon. and the president discussed everything from his national security adviser john bolton to north korea to even calling the mueller report, which he called a witch hunt for months and referred to it as the bible. and the president responded to the first ever congressional subpoena of one of his family members. sources say about the time the redacted version of the mueller report went public the senate intelligence committee subpoenaed donald trump jr. >> i was surprised. i saw richard burr saying there was no cleegs and he went outside and said there was no collusion. we found no collusion. but i was very surprised to see my son -- my son is a very good person. works very hard. the last thing he needs is washington, d.c. he's now testified for 20 hours or something -- a massive amount of time. the mueller report came out. that's

tax basically. >> yeah. >> china is promising to retaliate. our coverage begins this morning with cnn chief business correspondent and "early start" co-anch co-anch co-anchor christine romans. white house officials are saying that they do not expect a deal today and what happens next? >> you know, it's looking grim. it looks like it was not a bluff, jim and poppy. president trump jacked up tariffs on thousands of goods, dishwashers, frozen fish, baseball caps. right now about half of the products china sells to the u.s., about half of them now carry an import tax. so how did we get here? three rounds of tariffs last year, first the u.s. put tariffs on all foreign steel and aluminum, including from china. then in july the u.s. singled out beijing, slapping tariffs on $50 billion worth of high tech chinese exports. china hit back right away with tariffs on $50 billion in u.s. goods, mainly ag products and that has been devastating for american soybean growers in particular. the biggest round was in september, $200 billion in chinese goods, luggage, handbags and hats, beijing hit back wi

applicable to the privilege here so they are just stonewalling. >> cnn's jeremy diamond is at the white house for us. another big week of subpoenas and deadlines for the trump administration and how might it all play out? >> reporter: that's right. the battle is certainly continuing between the white house and capitol hill, house democrats who are issuing and handling a string of investigations into this administration, issuing subpoenas as well. this week we have a couple of key dates to look forward to. on tuesday a federal judge is expected to rule in theous overnight committee's subpoena for financial records from the president's former accounting firm and then on friday that deadline that you mentioned for the treasury department and the irs to submit those tax returns, the president's tax returns to the house ways and means. as of now the president, of course, has adamantly resist that had, "and we don't expect any change in that pots tour. democrats had also hoped to get the special counsel robert mueller before the house to testify next week but the chairman of the house intelli

under these circumstances. so get these phony investigations over with -- >> let's start there. cnn abby phillip is live at the white house. and so abby, we know sources tell cnn the president was in their word erupted -- that he erupted after hearing speaker pelosi speaking out this morning. let's take some steps back. how did this whole news conference evolve complete with the podium signs and printed handouts? how did it come together. >> reporter: that was the big question. because one report -- when reporters were haste illy called into the rose garden they were greeted by that sign which was a greatest hits of all the president has been saying about the mueller investigation. but sources say this morning after the president heard what nancy pelosi had to say about him, he was livid. he was angry about those comments and you heard him bring it up repeatedly in that press conference. so aides went ahead and started putting together this poster. they had a printout that was also featuring a number of facts about the mueller investigation and the president likes to cite. but that

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and policies just for the sake of getting his name out there through controversy. cnn's boris sanchez is live for us at the white house. so tell us more about the president's sentiments on this and how much further he plans to take it. >> reporter: well, fred, president trump not holding back on twitter, essentially suggesting that congressman amash is doing this for publicity. take a look at the two tweets the president sent out earlier today. he makes the case that amash did not actually read the mueller report because he didn't mention anything about no obstruction. the president has repeated this claim that mueller exonerated him on obstruction of justice when, in fact, mueller did not weigh in on that in the report. he pointed out at least ten occasions where the president tried to interfere in the russia investigation a enyou can see there at the end of the tweet, the president calls amash a loser who sadly plays right into our opponent's hands. it's important to point out justin amash is really an outlier when it comes to republicans' views on the mueller report. many more repu

national. go like a pro. >>> we're life in the cnn newsroom. i'm ana cabrera in new york. the president issuing a sudden and strong warning at iran with very bold language and really no context. the president tweeting a lot today, as he tends to do on weekends with no public event. calling a republican congressman schoolyard names for suggesting impeachment proceedings. and then these words just a short time ago. "if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. never threaten the united states again." tensions have risen lately with the u.s. accusing tehran of putting missiles on ships offshore. the u.s. responding by sending an aircraft group to the region. iran's foreign minister has also been trolling president trump on twitter in recent days. now this is not the only time president trump has warned or outright threatened iran. he wrote this last july. i won't read it all. it's in capital letter, using much of the same language and tone as his warning today. quote, never, ever threaten the united states again. cnn's boris sanchez is at the white house. boris, judging b

injustice. t the muslims that have face -- >>> i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters. "newsroom" starts now. >>> tensions are high with no deal on trade between u.s. and china. china has yet to respond to the latest u.s. tariffs and it is making the markets jittery. >> yeah. asian markets opened down. you can see all the arrows in the red there. the seoul down 6.1%. and u.s. markets suggest a down day on wall street. look at that, you can see the s&p 500 futures lost more than 1%, the nasdaq futures down 1.25% and the dow losing over 1% there. but president donald trump remains confident, tweeting "the u.s. is right where we want to be with china." mr. trump claimed the u.s. would collect tens of billions of dollars from the tariffs. his top economic adviser admitted that is not the case. >> it's not china that pays tariffs, it's the american importers, the american companies that pay what in effect is a tax increase, and often times passes it on to u.s. consumers. >> fair enough. in fact, both sides will pay. both sides will pay in these things. >> all right. let's go live now

united states and around the world. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> our top story, u.s. president donald trump dealing with trouble in at least three points around the world with no indication of what is coming next. >> first in china, which now faces tariffs of 25% of imports to the united states. this after trade talks break down, and no word when those talks will resume. >>> the middle east, the u.s. has deployed additional fire power, the u.s. calling it a deterrent to iran. >>> and also on the issue of north korea, mr. trump, downplaying recent short-range missile launches. and diplomatic efforts are add a standstill. but the president says he is still open to talks. cnn has reporters covering all angles of this story. >> our matt rivers in china. ben wedeman in beirut, following the u.s. system deployment. and anna coren in hong kong for the latest on north korea. >> let's go to matt rivers. it comes down to exactly when china will retaliate and when, at this point. >> reporter: yeah, the when, it's not an if question, you're right, geo

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school administrators not listening to parents, nor teachers. the school's executive director told cnn that the school found no evidence to support these allegations that were made by the parent. in a statement she said, like any school, with more than 1800 students, we receive complaints, all of which we take seriously and investigate promptly. and that is it for me. "newsroom" are brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> thank you. i'm brooke baldwin and this is cnn. breaking news. on two fronts as democrats continue to push for the answers to questions raised in the mueller report. house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler said mueller will not testify next week on capitol hill. there had been some expectation he would show up on may 15th but that we now know will not happen. meantime chairman nadler is doubling down on holding trump associates in contempt if they do not comply with house subpoenas and that includes former white house counsel don mcgahn. so let's start up on capitol hill with our senior congressional correspondent manu raju. and you just talked to chairman nadler.

hitting the 20 year mark here at cnn and thank you so much for being such a great colleague, you are a fantastic reporter and anchor. you always make sense of financial news and you explain what it means and how it's going to affect people. what i really admire you for is that you're always always kind and encouraging and you're a great mom. congrats my friend. >> i did not see that coming. >> i would second all of thousands thoughts. >> that is so sweet. >> i didn't even realize it was my 20 year. i knew it was this month. i wasn't aware. feels like yesterday. >> i had that date circled on my calendar. >>> welcome to my "early start," i'm christine romans, i started here when i was 10 years old. >> happy 20th anniversary with the network. a lot more ahead. monday, may 20th, 4:00 a.m. in the east. just when tensions with iran seemed to be easing. president trump reignited them. he is now leiterally threatenin to exterminate the iranians. never threaten the united states again. let's bring in fred polileitgen live from iran. >> reporter: we saw the recent standoff being toned down

provide an update on the incident. cnn's ed lavandera is live for us in houston. ed, at this point, do you have any indication of how much this gas product has leaked into the channel? >> reporter: well, we were told in the initial hours after all this happened it was some 25,000 barrels of this gasoline blenlds stock is the way it's being described, obviously toxic to marine life. emergency crews have deployed about 1600 feet of boon to try to contain that spill inside that area around the barge. so a great deal of concern. they've also urged residents to stay away from the coast line where other boon has been deployed as well. there is around-the-clock air monitoring testing that continues, and we're told that that will continue and that some residents had been smelling some gas fumes smell on the coastline. but according to officials, the air monitoring testing so far have not revealed anything of great concern, but that testing continues. it is dramatic pictures, fredericka, when you look at what happened yesterday afternoon. in the ship channel these two vessels collided. one of t

are live in the "cnn newsroom." >> i'm alex mar quart quardt. >>> late last night rudy giuliani decided not to make the trip to ukraine that had democrats at a full boil. he told cnn, quote, the meeting would have accomplished little and may be in the hands of those who might misrepresent it. the reversal came just a few hours after president trump told politico he planned to speak with giuliani about the trip. it's not clear what the president may have known about the ukraine plan before it was reported, but it's no secret that he has his sights already set on the current democratic front-runner. the president toll politico he thought it would be appropriate for him to speak with the attorney general bill barr to investigator biden and/or his son hunter who has links to a ukrainian natural gas company. he says he hasn't spoken to barr yesterday. it raises troubling questions, special what lengths is the president willing to go to in order to discredit his political rivals. sarah westwood is with me coming from the white house. it's like we're back in the 2016 race, he's asking

and that is very special to me. [ applause ] >> tom foreman, cnn, new york. >>> you're watching cnn, on this friday afternoon i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being here. potential obstruction of the russia investigation. that is what robert mueller said was a possible goal of people with ties to the trump administration and to congress when they reached out to former trump national security adviser michael flynn. this contact took place a couple of years ago he was deciding whether or not to cooperate with the special counsel. flynn not only helped mueller with his investigation but as we just learned today, he also turned over a voice mail from one of the people, a personal attorney of his for president trump in the process. cnn politics correspondent sarah murray is in washington. and sayre yu, these revelations came thanks to the judge who will be sentencing michael flynn, is that correct? and how do he with get here. >> michael flynn has not been sentenced and one of the earliest and most valuable cooperators in the mueller probe and the judge who will decide flynn's fate has

. the u.s. claims to have images showing iranian commercial vessels carrying missiles but kr cnn has not reviewed the intel. possible obstruction online one, the president's former national security adviser, michael flynn said people connected to the president or congress contacted him to discuss his involvement in the russia investigation in a way that could have affected both his willingness to cooperate and the completeness of that cooperation. this is according to a previously redacted legal filing by the mueller team just made public and new overnight, a federal judge is considering releasing a voice mail recording of at least one of these conversations. it does beg the question among many questions who in congress was trying to influence flynn's testimony. let's begin our coverage with cnn's joe johns live at the white house which could be a very dangerous misunderstanding with iran, joe. >> this is an extremely risky situation, arguably the trickiest since the president took office, sending in a strike group and what it highlights is how military intelligence gets analyzed when th

. >> setting up the next round. abby phillip at the white house. thank you. >>> cnn contributor john dean was former counsel for nixon and national political correspondent for real clear politics and so good to have you with us. john, as we look at the letter from emmet flood clearly unhappy with what he saw from robert mueller, specifically for not writing in the report that the president will not be indicted on obstruction of justice, full stop. where does that go? >> i think the letter is a diversion. i think it was released today because barr has got his own problems, it was addressed to barr and signed by emmet flood and -- and barr has some news problems today. he has been accused of lying by the speaker of the house and others and didn't show up at a hearing and this is a nice technical diversion that doesn't mean much. you can't unwaive once you've waived, as they have done. and his criticism of the report is frankly un -- not well placed because the special counsel went out of his way to be fair to the president in the way he presented the evidence saying the president couldn't d

hear how they've been specifically targeted to try to shut down the movement. >> live here on cnn, in atlanta and all around the world. i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen, "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> and we begin with developments revolving around the mueller investigation. unsealed court documents are now providing a clearer picture of exactly how michael flynn helped the russia investigation. flynn was president trump's first national security adviser and was fired after three weeks. >> cnn has also learned even as flynn was cooperating with the special counsel, he was reaching out to at least one republican critic of the investigation. our pamela brown has this. >> reporter: well, president trump is responding to these latest revelations unsealed court documents that michael flynn cooperated with mueller's investigators in the obstruction probe. and the president is making the false claim that he was never warned about flynn before bringing him on as his national security adviser. president trump on a twitter tirade. complaining against about the origins of the russia

hard. >> oh, boy. >> thanks to our international viewers for watching. for you, cnn talk is next. for u.s. viewers in details on what we know of the intelligence leading to warnings about iran. "new day" continues now. >>> president trump pursuing a back door channel to negotiate with iranian officials. >> they will suffer greatly. >> it's a black box. they won't acknowledge what they are doing. they have no strategy. >> the intelligence we have seen does show a heightened threat throughout the region. >> the white house said no, we would not turn over a wide range of documents. >> there is nothing lawless about the response. >> congress has no right to investigate abuses of power. that's just wrong. >> announcer: this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> good morning. welcome to your "new day." we begin with new details on the intelligence leading the trump administration to warn of an imminent threat from iran. cnn reported last week iranian missiles were being moved onto boats in the persian gulf amid skepticism from allies the "new york times" reports that u.s. in

. >>> you are live in the cnn newsroom. good evening. i'm alex marquardt. president trump says it would be appropriate for him to talk to his attorney general about launching a probe into his potential 2020 rival, the leading democratic candidate joe biden. the predent tls politico, quote, certainly it would be an appropriate thing to speak to william barr about, but i have not done that as of yet. it could be a very big situation. that situation the president is referring to is a suggestion of wrongdoing started by the president's own personal attorney rudy giuliani. giuliani says he is suspicious about work that biden's son did for ukraine and whether it created a conflict of interest for the former vice president. here is randi kaye with more on giuliani's accusations and the holes in those claims. >> the president's lawyer wants to know whether or not joe biden used his political power as vice president to shut down an investigation into a ukrainian company his son hunter biden was working with. >> big story. it's a dramatic story. i guarantee you joe biden will not get to ele

, expected to deliver a dangerous end to the week. >>> beto o'rourke at a cnn town hall last night. he is seeking a national audience for his ideas. the early stages of his campaign featured a more personal touch with up to six town halls a day. the former texas congressman says he can see the u.s.-mexico border from his porch in el paso and does not approve of the attempt to cut aide where many asylum seekers are fleeing violence. >> he wants to cut that. i would double it and focus on violence prevention so no mother has to make the decision of sending her child on a 2,000 mile trek because it is the only choice she has. invest so families can stay there, be prosperous there, help the countries come together and make sure we have partners in the western hepmisphere. >> o'rourke has a lot of ground to make up. joe biden the leading choice of democratic voters, 2-1 over bernie sanders. elizabeth warren is trending up. o'rourke is trending down. a majority of voters not paying attention to the campaign back sanders while voters who are paying a lot of attention favor biden. interesting. ho

around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. "newsroom" starts now. >>> well, tensions between iran and the u.s. appear to be escalating yet again just as things were starting to quiet down. >> in a tweet the u.s. president warned that if iran wants a fight it would mark the official end he says of that country. mr. trump also told tehran not to threaten america again. but he did not provide context. in the meantime the u.s. ally saudi arabia also warning iran against reckless behavior as it calls it but the kingdom says it doesn't want conflict either. listen. >> translator: saudi arabia does not want to warn the region and is not seeking it and will do its best to avoid it. but at the same time if the other party chooses war then we will respond with all strength and determination and will defend itself and its interests. >> this week saudi arabia accused iran of ordering drone strikes on two oil-pumping stations in response to alleged iranian threats countries of the gulf cooperation council have started enhanced sec

around the world. i'm george howell. >> and i'm rosemary church. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> we begin with two very different messages from the white house aimed at the middle east. one message speaks of peace. the other speaks of war. >> for the palestinians talk of economic opportunity if there's peace with israel. but for iran there's this threat from u.s. president donald trump via twitter. "if iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of iran. never threaten the united states again." well, cnn is on the ground covering these stories from across the region. our hadas gold is live in jerusalem and senior international correspondent fred pleitgen is in iran's capital tehran. fred, let's start with you. what is being made of this threat coming from the u.s. president, a man who just days ago said well, i hope there won't be war with iran? now we're seeing this threat via twitter. what's going on here? >> reporter: yeah. and the interesting part of, it rosemary, is it comes as president trump, as you said, at the end of l

describes those terrifying moments to cnn. >>> also ahead this hour, as india works to recovery from cyclone fani, bangladesh is up, and worse. live here, cnn, welcome it our viewers here and around the world, i'm george howell. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> 5:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and we follow the breaking news out of north korea where several short-range projectiles have been fired. all of this happening saturday morning on north korea's north coast near wonsan. anywhere from 70 to 200 kilometers, then crashed at sea. japan says the projectiles did not enter its waters. the u.s., south korea and japan are working together to get to the bottom of what happened here. and also trying to understand is our paula hancocks, live in seoul, south korea, what more do we know about the projectiles, if anything, paula? >> well, george, we're being told by the joint -- the jcs here and the intelligence services that south korea and u.s. intelligence and military are working together, trying to figure out exactly what was launched this saturday morning. they say that they're loo

all around the world. i'm rosemary church. >> i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters. "newsroom" starts right now. >>> and we begin this hour in russia where a fiery plane crash has killed 41 people on board. >> an aeroflot passenger jet caught fire as it made a hard emergency landing at an airport near moscow. social media video shows what the scene looked like from inside the plane. we do want to warn you the footage you see here, it's very difficult to watch. [ screaming ] >> that video from the moment the landing was also captured on camera. you can see the plane first bounced off the runway before coming back down and bursting into flames. >> the russian news agency interfacts reports a lightning strike caused a communications failure, forcing the plane to make the landing. >> our fred pleitgen has been following the story and joins now with more from neighboring finland. >> reporter: some horrifying images coming out of moscow as video seems to show that plane, the superjet from aeroflot airlines, as it is screeching down the runway after making an extremely har

from cnn's washington headquarters. under way right now, there are hawks flying around the west wing, and the president is growing irritated for beating the war drums. >>> what americans will learn about the president's finances who is paying him and who is not and plus, want a pardon? there's a checklist for getting one and praising this president is high on it, and the odd moment when a former bush official briefed republicans in congress on what two psychiatrists told him about the president's mental state. >>> up first, president trump rolls out his plan for dealing with illegal immigration next hour, but it's also facing pushback from congress. officials say the proposal focuses on border security infrastructure. it moves the country towards a merit--based immigration system that gives preferences to highly educated and highly skilled individuals. it does not address the plight of the so-called dreamers brought to the country illegally as children. white house correspondent abby philip is joining us now. abby, what's the goal here? is it to get something through congress, o

launching a criminal probe into what happened. cnn's richard quest covers aviation issues for us and joins us now. richard, what does the video -- lots of images and angles taken -- what does this tell you about what may have happened? >> right. so, important thing to note is that the plane is on fire when it lands. and we know that this flight, which was from moscow to malansk, it takes off, and soon after, it reports there's a fire aboard and it needs to return to moscow. the airport. hasn't gone very fire, a few miles. it turns around. it attempts to make one landing, doesn't -- we believe. these facts are not yet fully confirmed. but then it does make a landing, what you can see is a very hard landing. the plane is on fire. and the only thing we know, of course -- we do not know the reason. some things just to point out, if i may. >> please. >> here, of course, you can see the engine. so, there's the wing. so, the fire is being fueled. that is not just -- i mean, that is actually a ruptured fuel line somewhere in there that is causing this very thick, black smoke. >> and that thi

>>> welcome back. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. tensions grow in washington as democrats continue to push for answers on all of the questions left hanging in the mueller report and today we are learning that we will have to wait even longer to hear from special counsel robert mueller. house judiciary chairman jerry nadler said despite earlier predictions the testimony will not happen next week. meantime there is more tension as we wait to see what former white house counsel don mcgahn does. he's now a private citizen. he has been subpoenaed to testify on may 21st. but we also know that the trump administration has ordered him not to share documents. so will he show up? if he refuses chairman nadler is ready to roll with contempt charges and now threatening to bundle them. let's go straight to our cnn legal analyst michael zeldin who was mueller's special assistant at doj and a former federal prosecutor so happy friday to you. nice to have you on as always. >> thank you, brooke. >> first on the bundling, what -- how does contempt citations by the bundle work and what does

. let's get right to cnn's pamela brown at the white house. tamel pamela, what is the white house saying? >> reporter: we have learned that president trump is asserting immunity in order to block former white house counsel don mcgahn, a key witness in the russia probe, from testifying to congress yesterday. the subpoena deadline from the house judiciary committee was tomorrow and so late this afternoon, white house counsel pat cipollone, sent a letter to jerry nadler, the chair of the house judiciary saying that don mcgahn cannot be compelled to testify, citing a 2014 doj memo laying out the legal argument. pat cipollone also saying the white house is doing this on the advice of the department of justice. now, don mcgahn is a private citizen, he could choose to not follow the white house directive, but sources tell us that don mcgahn wants to do what the white house is telling him to do, because of the committee's interests in his time here at the white house, as white house counsel. but certainly, this sets up just yet another flashpoint in brewing battle between house democrats

ancestry.com >>> it is 6:00 eastern time. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." i'm alex marquardt in this evening for ana cabrera. in just a few hours, the beltway battle begins anew, after a short weekend break. a new workweek in washington is beginning. the president and his white house versus the democrats and their house up on capitol hill. deadlines, subpoenas, and the president pushing back on probes coming at him from literally 20 different directions. here are a few of them in no particular order -- the president's taxes. a powerful house committee chairman has formally issued a subpoena for president trump's tax returns. it's the strongest official demand yet for papers that trump has, of course, so far refused to give up. the speaker of the house could get involved if that subpoena is not honored. then, the attorney general. the house judiciary committee voting to recommend that congress hold him in contempt over his refusal to hand over the full, unredacted mueller report. that same committee might hit other administration officials with contempt charges this week and issue the

that loss. >> thanks for our international viewers for watching. for you, "cnn talk" is next. for our u.s. viewers, "new day" continues right now. >>> the u.s. deploying an aircraft carrier strike group and air force bombers to the persian gulf. >> my first thought was, here we go again. this is the time of escalation at this point. >> president trump saying, flat-out, mueller should not testify. he didn't express those concerns on friday. >> that's up to our attorney general. >> the president is realizing it might not look so good for him, despite his claims to have been fully exonerated. >> this is "new day," with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> good morning and welcome to your "new day." we have some major developments overnight to report to you. president trump dialing up the pressure on two fronts, deploying an aircraft carrier strike group and air force bombers to the persian gulf. officials say this move is meant to deter any iranian military action. national security adviser john bolton says it's designed to send a, quote, clear and unmistakable message to iran after the r

tariff war hurting you personally? >> it's hurting. it's hurting. >> reporter: miguel marquez, cnn, cape porpoise, maine. >> miguel, thank you. and thank you for being with me. i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead" with jake tanner starts right now. >>> another empty chair as congressional oversight falls not on deaf ears, but on no ears at all. "the lead" starts right now. >>> making a show over the no-show. democrats torn after the former white house counsel defies a subpoena and snubs congress today, as the impeachment debate causes more division than the "game of thrones" finale. >>> rebooting beto. the complain trying to put lightning back in the bottle as he prepares for a cnn town hall tonight in a potential make-or-break event. >>> plus, happening right now, thousands of americans protesting historically restrictive abortion bans passed across the country, as a judge claims one state's new law, quote, smacks of defiance. >>> we begin this tuesday with the politics lead. the drumbeat for impeachment growing low ining louder inside democratic party as house speaker nancy pelosi who

vogue thank you so much, our coverage on kront cnn continues right now. thanks for watching. >>> happening now, breaking news. more subpoenas. the house judiciary committee issues subpoenas to two more white house officials, hope hicks who was a communications director and annie donaldson who was deputy counsel. will they become the latest to defy congressional investigators? >>> calls for impeachment after a former white house counsel don mcgahn fails to show up for a house judiciary committee hearing, more and more democrats are calling for impeachment, as the shous speaker schedules an urgent meeting to try to hold the caucus together. >>> last-ditch appeal. the president's lawyers are appealing a federal judge's ruling, upholding a congressional subpoena for records from his longtime accounting firm, as another judge is to hear an appeal against the president and family members against the subpoena seeking back records. >>> and sprucing up state tv. north korea's propaganda machine gets a makeover, as the pink lady who was the tv face of the regime for decades gives way

urged japanese business leaders to invest in american businesses. let's go live to cnn correspondent boris sanchez who is in tokyo. boris. >> hey there, jessica and victor. yeah, plenty to discuss between president trump and japanese prime minister shinzo abe. mainly focused on security and trade. clearly, the two men have a close relationship. abe, definitely one of the world leaders who have made numerous overtures to president trump. remember, president trump recently blamed that abe sent him a very nice letter and nominated him for the nobel peace prize. on a security front both men have a lot to discuss regarding north korea and the recent aggression on the north korean regime testing those ballistic missiles. and the top of china on discussion. and on trade, both sides very far apart. on a brl trade agreement, president trump wants abe to open up japanese agriculture markets to american businesses. conversely, abe wants president trump to step back from the threat of tariffs on auto parts and other japanese parts that could be devastating to the japanese economy. we should poin

committee to try to obtain president trump's tax returns. cnn's abby phillip now takes a look at the stonewall strategy from the white house. >> reporter: today, the white house is sticking a thumb in the eye of congressional democrats, ordering former white house counsel don mcgahn not to turn over documents in response to a house judiciary committee subpoena. white house lawyer pat cipollone telling judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler in a letter, the records belong to the white house and are protected from disclosure to congress, because they implicate significant executive branch confidentiality interests and executive privilege. but the white house not going so far as to assert executive privilege outright. this coming as senate majority leader mitch mcconnell moves to play defense for president trump, calling on democrats to drop their efforts to follow up on special counsel robert mueller's investigation. >> baseless accusations of perjury, laughable threats of impeachment. look, we all know what's going on here. this whole angry barrage that democrats had prepared to un

has led the russia investigation, mueller has never spoken publicly. and now sources tell cnn his team is expressing reticence about testifying before the house judiciary committee in front of cameras. so laura jarrett is the one with the scoop and our cnn justice reporter and what is team mueller saying? what is the holdup? >> reporter: the issue is whether part of the testimony should be behind closed doors or not. we're learning that the special counsel's team has been in direct negotiations with capitol hill over the last several weeks. and what they're really trying to do is protect the special counsel from the political maelstrom that he is will find himself in. of course he's been quiet for the last two years. he hasn't said a word. and so if he does speak in front of the cameras they are mindful that it could be perceived as political, no matter any way you cut it and i think there is a concern there. they've expressed that concern to capitol hill. the question is what are democrats going to do about that because chairman nadler said he wants mueller to testify. he said th

crowning their new king. we'll have all of the best pictures for you. live from the cnn center in atlanta. it's great to have you with us. we want to start with the breaking news we've been following. north korea launching multiple projectiles from its east coast just a few hours ago. that's according to the south korean defense ministry. there's no word if the launch included a missile or something else. whatever it was, they flew for 70 to 200 kilometers before crashing into the sea. the japanese say it did not reach their waters. paula hancocks is tracking the details. >> nothing has been confirmed at this point. there's been a flurry of meetings and phone calls. japan and south korea saying they're going to work together to determine what was launched this morning. there was several projectiles, several short-range projectiles launched. no indication at this point of what it is. it will make a difference. it makes a difference as to what the response from washington is. we've heard from the north korean leader, kim jong-il, that he put a self-imposed moratorium on the intercon