Elizabeth thomas, deep in the woods of northern california. Theyre gathering as much evidence as possible. This is a very, very small cabin. Scientists and supporters are planning a huge march for science. 150,000 people expected to gather here at the mall and then march to the capitol. Sometimes saturday morning just cant come quick enough, can it . Were so grateful to have your company as always. Im christris christi paul. Im victor blackwell. The white house is setting up a jam packed week as it looks to notch a few big wins, at least one more before they get to the 100day threshold. Theres a push to fund the border wall, even tax reform could be on the table. Were hearing there could be a plan announced next week. As we approach day 100 theres been plenty of promises kept by President Trump, many of them sparking marches around the globe today. Thousands are hitting the streets to mark health day in whats being called the march for science. Heres a look at the marches in sydney, london, geneva, munich and were expecting rallies across the u. S. From the Keystone Pipeline to Carbon Emissions to proposed cuts at the epa, these are fueled by the president s opposition to environmental policies. The message they hope to send to the Trump Administration is, quote, we are not going to be silent. A quinnipiac poll released earlier this month shows 60 of the voters across the country disappear of the way hes handled the environment while only 29 approve of that. Reporter the latest wave of Climate Change demonstrations were set off by a stroke of the president s pen on several executive orders seeking to end obamaera climate regulations. I am taking historic steps to lift the restrictions on american energy, to reverse government intrusion, and to cancel jobkilling regulations. Reporter the commander in chaff rever chief reversed a threemore moratorium and orders meant to curve Carbon Emissions. Then he approved the Keystone Pipeline, previously blocked by the obama administration. Theyll finally be able to complete this long overdue project. Reporter the white house approved that controversy oil project following years of intense debate. It also reversed its position on the Dakota Access pipeline. Delivering a blow to the protesting Standing Rock indian tribe. This week the Environmental Protection agency announced its plan to reduce its workforce through the use of buyouts and early retirements as the agency maintains a hiring freeze. The white house claims the best way to protect the environment is to strengthen the economy. The question to Climate Change, the president was fairly straight forward, we consider that to be a waste of your money. Reporter at stake today is the u. S. s role in the paris climate agreement. The president continues to threaten to pull the u. S. Out of that accord. Hes also opened two drilling for oil in national parks, something not sitting well with environmentalists taking their message to the streets this weekend. Lets broaden this conversation. We have may booufy which is executive director of 350. Org. Bill nye, the science guy. And william hepar who met with President Trump. William, i want to begin with you. First of all, you met with the president. What was that conversation like, what did he tell you . Well, he was very supportive of science. His uncle, john trump, was a physicist at m. I. T. We talked about him and he knew about his work. I dont think science has anything to fear from mr. Trump. You also say that the world is getting greener and people should stop hyperventilating. Flush that out for me, please. Well, you know, theres this myth thats developed around Carbon Dioxide that its a polluta pollutant, but you and i both exhale Carbon Dioxide with every breath. Each of us emits about two pounds of Carbon Dioxide a day, so are we polluting the planet . Carbon dioxide is a perfectly natural gas. Its just like water vapor. Its something that plants love. They grow better with more Carbon Dioxide, and you can see the greening of the earth already from the additional Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere. Bill, tell us what your reaction is to what hes saying there, and whats the most prolific misconception about Climate Change, in your opinion. What he claims to not understand is the rate. Its the speed at which were adding Carbon Dioxide. And i will say, much as i love the cnn, youre doing a disservice by having one Climate Change skeptic and not 97 or 98 scientists or engineers concerned about Climate Change. What you got to get is the speed at which things are changing. But that aside, the science march today is about the economy as well as the environment, although its earth day and i was here for the very first earth day in 1970. If you suppress science, if you pretend that Climate Change isnt a real problem, you will fall behind other countries that do invest in science, that do invest in basic research. Its interesting to note, i think, that article one, section 8 of the u. S. Constitution refers to the progress of science and the useful arts, useful arts in 18th century usage would be what we call engineering or city planning or architecture. So this is a very serious problem. When earth day started in 1970 everybody was concerned about pollution. What happened a few years ago the Environmental Protection agency which was started by Richard Nixon who was a conservative president and he started the Environmental Protection agency for the gre greater good, not for political reasons, and so everybody understand that if we suppress science, the United States will not fair as well on the International Marketplace and we will lose business. Let me take this to may and i hate to interrupt here but i dont want to go past this point. The president says that many of the rollbacks that he is signing through executive order are for the purposes of increasing jobs, growing the economy. May, to that you say what . I say that that doesnt make any sense based on what we know about the clean Energy Economy. If trump and his ilk were serious about this problem, they would actually invest in the technologies of the future, in the sun, the wind, and retooling our Energy Economy and create millions of jobs in the process. A lot has changed since 1970 and one of the scariest things is how were seeing Climate Change as a problem affecting real people right now, from storms to doubts droughts to flooding. This is a problem for this moment in time. Thats why were seeing so many people rising up. Today well see the march for science. Im readying right there after this show, and then next saturday the peoples climate march will take place april 29th. So we invite everyone watching to join and mobilize as much as they can because this issue, if were going to do something about it, we have to change everything. And to change everything, we need everyone. William, you heard bill there talking about your argument regardi regarding Carbon Dioxide. Science is supposed to be definitive for many people. What is not definitive to you about the science of Climate Change that you are a skeptic . Let me point out that science is not like passing a law. You dont have a vote to say how many are for the law of gravity and how many are against. Its based on observations, and if you observe whats happening to, for example, the temperature, the temperature is not rising nearly as fast as the alarmist computer models predicted. Its much, much less, factors of two or three less. So the whole basis for the alarmism is not true. Its based on flawed computer modelling. Thats completely wrong. And you dont vote on that. Say what you will, but you have it absolutely wrong. What happened to that heat, hes cherry picking a certain model. The heat ended up in the ocean. This is not controversial in mainstream science, everybody. So lets really i encourage everyone to look at the facts. Weve got an extraordinary situation here in the United States where Climate Change deniers have managed to introduce the idea that some uncertainty, say 2 , plus or minus 2 , that the temperature of the ocean is somehow equivalent to plus or minus 100 . Everybody, science is political. We use politics to decide where to invest our intellect and pressur treasure but when it comes to Climate Change that is not controversial in the Scientific Community anymore than you made use of the law of graf tags. With some respect, i encourage you to cut this out so we can move forward and make the United States a world leader in technology. We want advanced wind turbines, advanced concentrated energy plants. If we were to do that, we would have at least 3 million new jobs in the United States that could not be outsourced. We would not need to have a military on the other side of the world defending what people call our oil. We could move forward and we could export this technology. We could be World Leaders in this instead of wringing our hands and cherry picking data and pretending that this problem thats obvious to the Scientific Community is somehow not obvious to you. So everybody, lets get to work. My parents were in world war ii. They solved the global problem in five years. The president will have to decide how to move forward on the paris climate agreement, something that was a pact that was joined by 200 nations with president obama a little more than a year ago. The president during the Campaign Said that he would, quote unquote, cancel that, has not done it yet. How would you advise the president if you had his ear on how to move forward on the paris climate agreement . Well, you have to consider many things, i think, on the face of it. It should be cancelled. I could imagine that you might want to consider ties with allies and things like that that perhaps would make that not advisable. But i think it doesnt make any scientific sense. Its just a silly thing. To me its very similar to the munich agreements that mr. Chamberlain signed. Wow. Everybody, bear in mind, this may backfire. If you pull out of an international agreement, other countries may establish what are effectively tariffs on u. S. Produced goods and especially services. The other thing hold on for a second. Mr. Happer, i want to make sure that you are comparing the paris Climate Policy to the appeasement agreement . Its definitely appeasement. How so . How is this comparable to neville chamberlains appeasement of hitler . How is that an appropriate comparison . It is an appropriate comparison because it was a treaty that was not going to do any good. This treaty also will not do any good. Anyone who looks at the results of doing what the treaty says can see that the effect on the earths climate is even if you take the alarmist computer models, trivial. It will not make any difference and yet it will cause enormous harm to many people. I hear your point there but i dont know that that the references there ever serve us well. I want to give may the last word here. Wrap up for us your feelings based on what youve heard thus far this morning. I think it speaks for myself. Weve got a movement thats trying to move the world forward to protect our communities from Climate Change and weve got a conversation thats stuck in the past. If you want to be part of this movement we welcome you, and the only people who are trying to keep us in this outdated conversation is the fossil fuel industry who are protecting their profits. This climate denial only helps exxon, it doesnt help the rest of us. Thankfully we can do a lot better and thats why were marching this weekend and next weekend. The peoples climate march is hosted by your group, 350. Org. Thank you all. Thank you. Appreciate being here. Next, new allegations regarding russias meddling in the u. S. Election. Details of how a russian operative could allegedly have tried recruiting former trump adviser carter page. [ceo] welcome. [heroine] happy to be here. [ceo] so when you take the job, all these benefits are yours. The worlds 2nd most decorated sushi chef. Im trying to get the first. Over here we have quiet spaces for deep thoughts. The latest smart technology. And of course, personal mobility solutions. Functional and pragmatic. Theres nothing more than my vacation. Me so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. Booking. Com gets it. 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His policy against russia in july of 2016 at a prominent Moscow University is one factor and part of what raised concerns in the bureau that he may have been compromised by russian intelligence. The new information adds to this emerging picture of how the russians tried to influence the 2016 election not only through email hacks and propaganda sometimes referred to as fake news but also by trying to infiltrate the trump orbit. The intelligence that was gathered led to that broader fbi investigation into the coordination of Trumps Campaign associates and the russians as fbi director james comey has spoken to. The officials weve spoken with made clear they dont know whether the russians were using him because of the way spies operate. Page could have unknowingly talked with russian agents. He disputes that he has ever collected intelligence for the russians saying at times that he actually helped the u. S. Intelligence community. He told cnn, quote, my assumption throughout the last 26 years ive been going there has always been that any russian person might share information with the russian government as i have similarly done with the cia, fbi and other Government Agencies in the past. Its important to note that within the Trump Campaign carter page is viewed as someone with little or no influence but he was one of several trump advisers european intelligence contacted with russian individuals. We spoke with former kgp spy earlier and asked why carter page could have allegedly been the target. Watch. You take what you can get, and obviously there were relationships there. There was an angle. When i was operating in this country, they asked me to get in touch with all kinds of high level individuals. That wasnt possible, so carter page was most likely a very inviting target. If you look at someone like carter page, i cannot suggesting he did anything wrong, the fbi will figure that out, that would be someone in the intel business called an access agent. Not someone who can tell you about the campaign, what are the issues, where is the party and the president ial candidate going on those issues. Even down to tactical questions, where can we meet people, where do they congregate, when are you going to make an announcement so we know when to release stolen emails. Somebody like that without a senior position still has knowledge that can help an outsider, a russian agent for example, understand the american electoral process. Carter page provided cnn this statement earlier this month on his interactions with the russian operative. He said, shared basic immaterial information and publicly Available Research documents with victor podobny. I provided him with few more than sams from the detailed lecture i was preparing. Hell be live with smerconish today at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cnn. It has gone from repeal and p replace to reject and revive. Its a break through, or is it, on health care in the works among the republicans on the hill. You do today . I grabbed a coffee. Yes, you have to do that. And then i checked out a new art exhibit. So now, you have the match app up open up the missed connections tab for me. Okay. It shows you people youve crossed paths with in real life. Oo, i crossed paths with josh near pine street. Maybe he was at the gallery . Maybe he loves art . Imagine what else you have in common. Hes cute. Id like to find out im on the edge of my seat. Match. Better ways to make a real connection. Start for free today. 27 minutes past the hour on this saturday morning. Im christi paul, good to have you here. Im victor blackwell. Good morning. One week until day 100 for the Trump Administration. Next Week Congress is not only returning to a renewed push from the white house to repeal and replace obamacare, theyll also have five days to keep the government from running out of money on april 28th just ahead of day 100. Were live at the white house. Jeremy, good morning to you. What are you hearing there this morning. Reporter were just a week away now from that 100day marker and what is President Donald Trump trying to do . Hes trying to downplay the importance of that 100day milestone. In a tweet yesterday he wrote, no matter how much i accomplish during the ridiculous standard of the first 100 days and it has been a lot including s. C. , supreme court, media will kill. But of course it was President Trump who set this standard of 100 days for himself during the campaign repeatedly promising to his reporters that during the first 100 days he would accomplish a slew of activity to really fundamentally reform the government and boost the economy and one of those major promises, repealing and replacing obamacare so far has not happened and thats why President Trump during this week coming is planning a series of actions, jam packed schedule of activity on capitol hill where members of congress or already planning to try and stop the government from shutting down, passing a major funding bill. President trump adding several things to their plate. The white house is pushing for Health Care Reform to potentially happen next week. They are also President Trump announcing yresterday that he wants to outline his plans for tax reform. Thats likely going to happen on wednesday. Thats why, as we look at this 100day marker, President Trump is clearly mindful that he has not accomplished many of these promises that he made to his supporters during the campaign, and so as we come closer to that marker, hes doing executive orders and hes going to congress to try and push some activity, clearly at least trying to show some initiative. Jeremy diamond, thank you so much for the update. Lets bring in our cnn political analyst, National Political reporter for real clear politics, rebecca burg and april ryan. Good morning. Good morning. The plate is already full. Theres a deadline on april 28th to keep the government funded and keep it open. The administration set the deadline of getting something done on health care. Why is now the right time, even with the hunt for a victory in the first 100 days, the right time to make an announcement on tax reform . Well, its probably not the right time, to be quite frank, victor. Its a very busy week coming up on capitol hill, but the reason the administration is rolling out all of these things sort of simultaneously in spite of the fact that theyre probably not going to seal any deal or get anything done this week in terms of really any of these things on capitol hill, its because theyre feeling pressure from this 100day mark and feeling a lot of pressure from supporters, from lawmakers to get some win on the board, whatever that is. That is kind of why were seeing this disarray here, because theyre not feeling any particular pressure to pursue a certain policy prescription. Theyre not feeling any pressure from congressional leaders, saying we have the votes for the bill, lets get this done. Its really just this political pressure and so theyre trying to make something happen to pull something out of thin air, but they dont really have the pieces in place to do so at this stage. Talk about these pieces in place. Youre in the white house nearly every day. The president told the Associated Press that the tax cuts will be, quote, bigger than any tax cut ever, whether or not thats true. Is the plan fully formulated . How far along in the process are they . The plan is formulated, victor. Heres the piece. On the face of it of course people want to save money, but when you dig into the details, the devil is there. What happens is you have these individual and business tax rate cuts, but in the long term there is a big cost. And then the president is looking at how the economy grows as to how it will pay for these tax rate cuts. So the devil is in the details. On the face of it. People want their money back but when you go down the road, thats when the problem happens. One of the details, this border adjustment that we know that paul ryan, speaker of the house supports. We dont know if it will be part of the president s plan. Well see if theyre not on the same page how that will move forward in the next couple of weeks. Rebecca, back to you and lets talk about the border wall and potentially being included in the funding legislation thats coming up in the next couple of days. Lets look at what the president told the Associated Press and put it up on the screen here. When asked about if hell sign legislation without funding for the wall he says, i dont know. People want the border wall. My base definitely wants the border wall. My base really wants it. Youve been to many of the rallies, okay . The thing they want more than anything is the wall. The president here speaking about 35 of americans who are his base, and this is just a bare naked political argument, not so much a National Security one anymore. No, its not victor. The and the problem is the white house faces with this proposal trying to get money for the border wall for Border Security as part of this mustpass spending measure is that they really dont have the leverage in this negotiation and thats something that donald trump who fancies himself a deft negotiator would understand. The republicans and the white house wants to avoid a Government Shutdown. They dont have a lot of political capital. Theyre trying to reset their administration, get a win on the board. A Government Shutdown would be the opposite of that so its really unclear what their strategy is here to try to get democrats to agree to come along with this Border Security spending. Obviously weve seen director Nick Mulvaney say well give you Health Care Money in exchange but that isnt really winning democrats over so far. April, is there a deal here that can be made to prevent the shutdown and who blinks first . Do the democrats sign on for funding for the wall or does the president sign on without funding for it. The democrats are saying no way on the wall because of the cost. Many of the fiscal conservatives, there is a major concern with the price of the wall. Its not just democrats. Its the fiscal conservatives that are very concerned with this exploding budget that this country is viewing with some of these proposals this new president has. This wall issue will stick it up. The government president is say will not be a Government Shutdown. Well remember that the president promised that mexico would pay for the wall. Still no dechbltvelopments. He sure did and they said no. The former president said it with colorful language. Well spare you that this morning. Thank you both. Scientists are taking a page from the millions of men and women who came out worldwide after the inauguration. This earth day scientists are hoping to see the same sized crowds. 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Theyre making a very big deal in fact. This stage, this massive stage thats not shadow of the Washington Monument is in the back yard basically of the president s house, the white house right over there. They will be making a lot of noise here from 10 00 a. M. Eastern to about 2 00 p. M. And at that point they will then march to the capitol. I want to show you some of the signs here. The signs are fantastic. What is it for . Earth day. Which is today of course. Chesapeake bay. He actually brought a white board. I love that. And then we have science nile tyson degrasse is going to be here in very big numbers, im sure. Silence is a big thing that weve seen here as well. They are expecting tens of thousands of people here from new york to nepal from washington to hanoi, 604 events around the world for science. Thank you so much, miguel. We appreciate it. That was clever with the white board because then you can change your message as you go. If you think of something a little more clever you can get to it. An attorney for the family of former nfl star Aaron Hernandez says he plans to sue state officials in massachusetts. Why he says he has a case. [ceo] welcome. [heroine] happy to be here. [ceo] so when you take the job, all these benefits are yours. The worlds 2nd most decorated sushi chef. Im trying to get the first. Over here we have quiet spaces for deep thoughts. The latest smart technology. And of course, personal mobility solutions. Functional and pragmatic. 45 minutes past the hour. An attorney for the family of Aaron Hernandez says he plans to sue state officials for negative gans. His body was found near three suicide notes and a bible. For more on those notes and what happens next this this case were joined by cnn correspondent sarah gannum. What are we learning about the contents of these notes and what happens now . Reporter a judge ruling to preserve all the evidence from Aaron Hernandezs jail cell including video of his cell door in the hours before he found, as well as those three suicide notes. Two of them, cnn has learned, to hernand hernandezs fiance and his daughter. Its unclear at this point who the third note was wren fitten. In addition, Law Enforcement officials telling us a bible verse was written in red markings on his forehead and cell wall. We know from the prison that there were parapparently steps taken to block that cell door from the inside. Hernandezs attorney making if request to preserve evidence, saying the family is upset about the way they learned about the suicide notes and the bible versus and overall the handling of what happened. The family attorney saying he expects to sue the prison for negligence because there was no check on hernandezs cell. He was being housed alone in a general population cell. The family through attorneys saying there was nothing to indicate anything like this was possible. In fact, the day before, his attorney expressed confidence in the appeal of his murder conviction in the case of odin lloyd. With hernandezs death now, its possible that murder conviction will be tossed out given that it was under appeal with no result. Hernandezs family has announced theyve donated his brain to science to be studied as part of a program looking at brain damage in Football Players that can cause behavioral problems. Victor. Thank you so much. Still to come, Anthony Bourdains new documentary film highlights the glamour and perils of a famed chef. He joins us next. Needles. Essential for him, but maybe not for people with rheumatoid arthritis. Because there are options. Like an unjection™. Xeljanz xr. A once daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. 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I ran it on my own for about five years as a side job until september of 2013. We hit 1 million in annual revenue with zero fulltime employees. At that time my wife and i agreed that it was safe for me to quit the day job and go full time. Bigger picture for spike ball is to become the next Great American sport. Baseball, basketball, football, the big ones, were getting a lot of their players. During their down time theyre all playing spike ball, so were coming after you. Anthony bourdains new documentary is putting the culinary industry in the spotlight again. His new film showcases the ups and downs of Jeremiah Tower, a critically acclaimed chef he thinks has been overlooked. Bourdain wants to highlight why this should not go unnoticed. The subject of the new film Jeremiah Tower the last magnificent is with us now. Chef, thank you so much for being with us. Thank you. I want to play a clip. Good to have you. Lets play a clip from the trailer together. Lets watch here. When theres Something Wonderful to be done, if youre not right there with me, then get out of the way. Most people would not know who Jeremiah Tower is. He was on the front of magazines. We hadnt seen his kind before. He was a natural. A superstar. A chef. He certainly is considered the father of the american cuisine. We should know who changed the world. We should know their names. The film we know premiered in select theaters last night. How did you team up with Anthony Bourdain . He read the book which was originally california dish and is now start the fire. He read it and said he got a little pissed off at alice waters and decided he would make the film about me and im glad he did. Its a great, great movie. Youre credited with pioneering california cuisine in the 70s at berkeley but theres a lot of controversy surrounding who actually created it. Does the film clear that up . Yes. Tony makes a very strong point about my contribution but actually like all great things, it was team work. It was alice and me and everybody but there was a moment in 1976 when we switched from a little california french south of france bistro and i wrote the menu called the california regional dinner. When i switched all the food from france to using local california ingredients, putting the menu in english, using california wines, and that caught the attention of the National Press and then all hell broke loose. I know you were the executive chef at new york citys tavern on the green. Why did you leave . I have a fatal attraction for the slim chance and tavern was a very slim chance. I left because the owners decided after the New York Times review was not very good that they would take over the food, as they said, quote unquote, to make it perfect. But theyre the same ones who asked me whether lamb had both white and dark meat, so i knew i was in trouble. Is there a lesson from this film that goes beyond the kitchen, goes beyond great food that you think people who watch it can take away . Yes. As Anthony Bourdain pointed out, its also a story of the life of somebody its difficult to talk about myself in these terms. All the things that it takes to be to achieve great success, the ups and downs, the falls and the strengths and the faults and lydia who is the director, certainly, no holds barred, she just played it as she saw it. Cooking is a craft. Owning a restaurant is a business. What was the hardest thing to balance for you . I think the hardest thing was the constant fatigue. To achieve that kind of success in that size of a restaurant, you have to be obsessive, so i was working 80 hours a week. I think the biggest challenge is to keep a smile on your face every day because we had an open kitchen, so there was no possibility of a fight or screaming or anything in the kitchen which was great. So the challenge is to make every day as if its the first one. Thats hard to do when youre exhausted. Yeah, it is. Well, its like you guys. You know what that means, right . Were sitting here at the end of the show at 9 00 a. M. , yeah, we know. Jeremiah tower, thanks so much for being with us. Thank you very much. We appreciate you being here. Before we let you go this morning, our live pictures here on this earth day, weve got pictures here courtesy of nasa and the International Space station. A beautiful picture of earth. Stay close. Well see you back here at 10 00. Dont go anywhere. Smerconish starts now. Im Michael Smerconish in philadelphia. We welcome our viewers in the United States and around the world. Cnn is exclusively reporting that the fbi believes russian operatives tried to use trump advisers to infiltrate his president ial campaign, including former Foreign Policy adviser carter page. He is here to give his first response. And, trying to explain away the outrageous behavior of infowars host alex jones. Lawyers for the provocateur are claiming that he is a performance artist. Why am i not surprised. And what this trial says about our national discourse. Plus, she was supposed to win bigly, but Hillary Clinton somehow fumbled the biggest football of her life. The authors of a best selling book sure to be the first of many are here to dissect how hillarys campaign ended up shattered. And what did bill oreillys exit from fox news and the reaction to it tell us about america in 2017 . A troubling message about our divide. Ill expl
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